You say rampant homelessness, high crime, DA's who won't prosecute, a plague of drug abuse, (ungodly) high taxes, etc etc, like its some sort of Bad Thing? Think of it as a Diverse Lifestyle. Remember Diversity IS our Strength.
Don't forget having an affair with the alcohol abusing wife of his campaign manager, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, and then Newsom checking himself into rehab soon thereafter.
Obviously you haven't seen the videos of the creepy, old pedophile fondle women and little girls and try to kiss the little girls or maybe you have and you think that is acceptable behavior, apparently most Dem/Socs do.
Look what Biden has done to the country, and consider Democrats are perfectly willing to give him another four years. They’ve no qualms with doing the same thing and expecting a different result
In North Korea, people are forced to absorb propaganda. In the United States, half of people willingly take in the propaganda. Here are 5 examples of cults from the past and their modern leftist equivalents including the Kim family: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-become-a-cult-leader
What amazes me are the people who go to rallies to support their candidate. They stand there with glassy eyed adulation. They have to carry tissues to wipe the drool off their chins.
I have heard educated people extoll their candidate. They say he/she is going to do this and going to do that and bring the country together and solve all our problems. Are they CRAZY???
These people they worship are POLITICIANS! The only thing they worry about is how can I screw my enemies and how do I enhance my power and wealth.
This is nothing new. It has been going on since 1776. After reading Washington's letters and those of his contemporaries, I believe he was honest and actually worked for the welfare of this fragile, new country.
Most but not all who followed him into the office of the president were opportunistic scum and to this day that hasn't changed. All you have to do is look at Bill Clinton, the messiah and now the senile, idiot who is in office today.
The people in the know that support and prop up Biden for another term and know he is an incompetent, demented thief are traitors to this country. They are knowingly and willingly endangering this country for their own personal gain and to enhance their socialist party's death grip on our country's fate.
yah Trump rallies are weird and semi-cultish, is Donny really that entertaining of a speaker? Most of what I've witnessed seems pretty off tangent with a few key "greatest hits" sprinkled in. But for > 1.5 hours? And those "muscled" Trump memes and pics - those are seriously weird, like they have actually looked at the Actual Donald Trump, right?? ; P
Every cult warns of some variety of a lurking apocalypse that only the cultists can avoid if they follow their unique path of enlightenment. The 80 or so million family members of the Death to Democracy cult fear the great Satan, if elected in 2024, will order his loyal minions to napalm the entire earth and begin the new whites only master race.Trump will easily succeed where others ultimately failed. Who can forget the horrors of his first term when blue villages were set ablaze? When Democrat leaders were rounded up, tortured to death, and hung in the town square as a warning to his enemies? When dissent and protest were crushed? When the Constitution was butchered beyond recognition? It happened! Remember? He will come back with a vengeance if elected. Get your affairs in order.
Wow seriously Dmang I thought you were talking about the cult Biden administration for a brief moment. The last 3 years have sounded vaguely familiar as to what Biden, Democrats and those left wing radicals have done to our country.
La "familia" Manson: la secta que cometió los crímenes más atroces y ...
Manson targeted impressionable, insecure young women. He convinced them to abandon their families and join his “family”. During chemical drug binges, he love bombed them into obedience. His most devoted followers physically mutilated themselves by carving an X into their foreheads. It all ended in violent bloodshed. Sound familiar?"
It does sound just like what happens to impressionable, insecure girls in high school who decide they are boys and that their families are no good/"abusive" but that the love bombing teachers/administrators trained in GI (and probably the neighbors who virtue signal and Gay-Straight Alliance student leaders) understand their "true authentic selves". Then, it's synthetic testosterone ($$ cha-ching for Pharma and Planned Parenthood) and maybe off to the plastic surgeon for breast removal. We need to try and hang or lock away a few of these surgeons who butcher minors and probably Richard/Rachael Levine - first female Admiral who promotes the cult religion from on high.
And, where is that Audrey Hale manifesto? Why can't we read it?
Well done Yuri! I enjoyed your article. It rings true. I've been dismayed at how some people i know have been so brainwashed (mostly left, some right) about Trump that they see nothing else. It's disturbing. You were correct that they have pulled the wool over peoples eyes.
MSM, SM, etc. applied Blinkers so no one would be 'distracted' from the Narrative. The misleading 'Soundbite'; printing Trump's speeches. I fell for it myself; read a Trump speech; listen to a curated soundbite or string of same. The man was easily made to look daft, deranged, and dangerous.
Whatever you think of their ethics and morals; Trumps opponents across mainstream and social media played a first team varsity game. Where it mattered I don't think our side left the dressing room.
Even so it wouldn't have been even a hill of beans but for the Kung Flu and the President pulling the wool over his own eyes putting the one man in the US with the greatest responsibility for the Kung Flu happening in charge of the US response: Fauci.
President Trump turned the gun on himself and snatched defeat from victory. I only hope those close to him have already, or can before the end of the year, get through to him that it matters not a jot that he thinks he is the Hero in this movie; but that the only person responsible for him losing is himself in the eyes of the squeezed middle, the audience.
Hi Yuri - great article. Have you considered the parallels between Gender Grooming and NXIVM? I think that's even closer than the Charles Manson cult. - LM
I suspect he's their perfect president. He can't think for himself, so whoever is making policy simply brings him the talking points and he repeats them. My guess.
Most readers here won't like this but if you get past the cheap mockery and ageism (and his addicted son), Joe Biden has actually been a pretty good president. We have the lowest inflation rate of any western nation, and the U.S. has regained the respect of the world. Yes, he fell off his bike (after riding 20 miles on it!); but seriously, can you imagine Trump on a bike? He can't even walk down a ramp! Anyway, the only decent Dem. challenger to Biden is Whitmer; Newsom is a narcissistic loser and RFK Jr. is psychotic.
Your name must be Shirley, because Shirley, you can’t be serious. We’re sending truckloads of cash to Ukraine to kill more Ukrainians and Russians, everything costs double what it did five years ago, and it’s becoming clear even to leftist morons that Hunter is far more than just a fuckup son- he’s one of several family members who launder cash for The Big Guy.
Shirley I am. If we don't help our allies, WTF have we become? Putin is out of his f-ing mind, and without Ukraine's brave resistance, he'd be marching into Poland by now. And you're right, everything costs about double what it did five years ago (mainly the result of supply side issues brought on by the pandemic)--but have you checked prices worldwide? Triple, quadrupled and worse! Look it up, Laverne!
I had to scroll for a long time before finding a reasonable comment. I was hoping the Free Press would be a little more centrist in its audience. I like the writing and the attempt to bring diverse but well argued opinions to the fore on some issues. But mostly, I am hooked on “Things worth Remembering”. So I guess I will stop reading the comments so I can keep reading the newsletter.
LOL same. The comments board has become owned by hard right Republicans (cosplaying as "classic liberals"), mostly what seems like a large handful of commenters that comment like it's their job or something ; P It's dispiriting but I have a feeling this board is probably representative of about 20% of the readership, most of the others stay on the sidelines like a lot of us do. And yeah, I've given to mostly skimming the circle jerk now : /
But I do put some blame on Bari and team that often seem to be slanting their editorial narrative to please the vocal commentariat and encouraging more of the same. I would imagine if they published some more right-critical views this dynamic might change but they seem to be cowed by the vocals. While I do enjoy a lot of the op-ed published here (it's not "real" reporting but basically opinion writing - another little gripe I have is that I was expecting more "fact based journalism" along with commentary), it might be getting time to cycle over to another Substack for more fruitful discussions (I have myself on a firm limit of 3 subs per month).
Thank you Gerald, and I agree with you about The Free Press. When I read Bari's independent opinion pieces, I had real hope for this site. But she's been seduced by the Fox/Newsmax/anti-vax crowd, as the comments section clearly shows. A sane open-minded moderate on this site is too often seen as a "lefty" or a traitor. It's too bad.
Biden has presided over a national energy disaster. Our electric grid is headed to ruin and people won't be able to afford electricity. Along with rent, groceries, and fuel. China and Russia are on the march. We're out of ammunition. Over $31 trillion in debt. The only people prospering are crony capitalists, hedge fund cheats and totalitarian tech moguls. Not to mention the corruption and erosion of due process he's unleashed. Biden needs to be slow walked to the gibbet.
So tell me, what do you like best, his creepy whispering or his creepy shouting?
Biden is the worst president of my lifetime, and my lifetime includes Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush, so that's saying a lot. His domestic and foreign policies are not only manifestly disastrous, he exhibits express contempt for half of the population he was elected to serve, making him a terrible leader. All this would be the case even if he weren't demonstrably senile. Lowest inflation rate of any nation, lmao. I don't live in any other nation, so I wouldn't know. Every time I go to the store I find myself despising half the country for voting for this trainwreck. I'm shocked his approval rating is actually as high as 41%.
Respect of the world??? Have you seen leaders of other countries in his presence, how they cringe and appear nervous? The episode with King Charles last month was embarrassing. He doesn't know who or where he is most of the time and has to be physically pointed in the right direction and led around. It's not "ageism" to point out that he is mentally and physically unfit to hold the most important office in the world and belongs in a nursing home. (But ooh, Trump faltered for a nanosecond walking down a ramp one time!)
No interest in looking it up, tool. I know my own daily reality, and under Biden it sucks ass. Under Trump it was thriving. And I have lots of company. Maybe look up the word "lemming."
Well, Biden has the distinction of being the only U.S. president to be held in contempt by unanimous acclamation of the parliament of our closest ally for "Dishonour" regarding his Kabul Bug-Out.
This comment made me LOL- had to check my calendar to see if it was April 1st.
But on a 'serious' note, would love to hear your justification, rationalization, opinion, ( of course I won't expect logic nor reason) on why Biden's Approval Ratings have been so consistently LOW ? And yes, I see they've recently risen just a couple points in last couple weeks. But his entire Presidency?= LOW.
And just for giggles-
" Why- would the Party who stands SO STRONGLY for DEI, have an 80 yr old racist white man who has only been a career politician as their ONLY VIABLE CANDIDATE?????"
Seriously, I read his and other comments and wonder if I am living in the same country or even universe as some of these Biden defenders. You have to have serious blinders on or be in serious denial to think anything is going remotely well under this abomination of an administration.
We're talking about the Gavin Newsom that tried to bribe Rose McGowan into dropping her charges against Harvey, right?
Just to be clear, Democrats want a president who bribes rape victims into dropping charges to protect the rapists who donate to his campaign - that guy?
Nah, let's go with the woman who had fun dictating which aisles of the stores would be closed for COVID, and wouldn't let people travel between their own houses. Let's go with the leader who had the flat out, rock bottom most abusive mad stupid COVID policies. Let's have a leader who says "trust the science" while brazenly lying about the science.
Seriously this article was shocking. It's like every election season Democrats roll out the absolute worst people they have, sing their praises and then make sure each one gets to sit in a government position getting rich while screwing up their duties. And the Democrat voters have learned absolutely nothing.
Remember Kamala, if something happens to Joe, she's in. Of course there was the movie, Dave. Maybe the Dems would try that out to prevent Kamala from moving into the WH.
Newsom had no problem claiming it was too dangerous to open California public schools during Covid while taking his child to an open private school. And of course the French Laundry. He is an absolute fraud.
One of the easiest ways to separate and control people is to instill fear in them. Masks are the perfect vehicle. You can't see the other person, therefore you don't trust them. Gavin is very good at separating people.
Seeing as how Newsome argues purely in Tweets meant to "own" the other side whos argument he's probably never even hear I think a real debate between him and DeSantis is a great idea.
Bring it on. And make it without a moderator given the bias we will otherwise get. Just give each guy a set 2-3 minutes on a topic ( set in advance so that we cover real issues- let each side pick say 5-8 issues ) with his mic shut off when the time expires. Have a segment where one asks another a question and the questioner's mic is shut off while the respondent answers. And no audience so we are not forced to.listen to catcalls .
I so much want a Desantis v. Newsom race. The Republican campaign should consist entirely of filming people who moved from California to Florida telling why they made the move.
dear lord i FLED my home state of 42 years after all the crap he did to it. He was my mayor for years in SF (left soon after when my car was broken into several times and I my home was invaded and robbed while I slept), then watched in horror as he destroy the rest of the state, accelerated by Covid. I had to prep my 8 year old JEWISH daughter that we couldn't go into stores starting in 2022 if Newsom's laws were passed because we were "unclean unvaxxed" Thank god for Omicron which shut down that. And anyone just needs to read his tweets to see what a liar he is!!! He literally tweeted that CA didn't lose people over the last few years: how do you lose congressional seats if you don't loose population, Gavin??? He's a POS and the USA would be in a TERRIBLE place if he wins.
Same here. I'm a third generation California born, who grew up in the Central Valley when it fed the nation, and had enough after 12 years in the North Bay (Sonoma County while the husband commuted to the City). We got out of dodge just in time. The Golden State has become the Iron Pyrite State.
I just watched a piece on the news about San Fran - government workers are being told to work from home and not in the Nancy Pelosi federal building there. It's not safe downtown. Who runs SF? Who's district is the city in? I think DeSantis could tear him up, with facts alone.
We can't forget about Newson (the king of virtual signaling):
- Maskless at the Superbowl indoor when all the kids were still required to wear masks
- French Laundry
- Announced how CA would be the first state to make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for kids to attend public school.
- Had a covid shot (moderna) and suddenly disappeared right after that.
- His kids are attending private school (nice to have school of choice when you have money). Private schools in CA were first to resume in-person class, while the public schools were dominated ( or better, hostage) by Teacher's union, needless to say the learning loss was rampant for kids w/o resources to pay for private school or tutoring.
-Set up a commission for reparations, the group came with an exorbitant amount to be paid off, he quietly (and quickly) dismissed the whole thing.
- Talk about gas companies charging high prices in CA but doesn't mention how much we pay is actually tax. Granted Gas companies are not innocent.. but the state is not either.
- California Covid-19 benefits payouts were probably one of the highest state fraud ever ($9.8 B)
- Homeless everywhere.
- Nominated Linda Darling-Hammond for the Cal State Board of Education - recently they approved a flawed Math framework that will emphasize equity instead of rigor , the framework was used in SF and failed miserably.
-Persecuting parents in Temecula and Chino Chills ( imposing a fine to the school district because of Harvey Milk and because they want to notify parents about transitioning and pronouns)
Yep, wait for this fall when Gretch’s union handlers destroy whatever is left of the MIchigan auto industry with a long strike for absolutely ridiculous demands.
Something I realized recently is to stop looking down my nose at "uneducated" people. There's not much about my college degree that really makes me more knowledgeable or have better opinions than someone working construction all day. What a college degree gives you is expertise in a single field, and the ability to express yourself a bit better in rhetoric. This is more true than ever today with the de-emphasis on test scores for college admissions, and the over-emphasis of DEI as well as connections/recommendation letters. And it used to be just having a family wealthy enough to send you there.
I have received absolute pearls of wisdom from people I have met on the street. Age has allowed me to be smart enough to know I really don't know sh*t.
Interesting stats---it used to be that college education people dominated the Republican party, while the blue collar workers tended to vote for Democrats. After 2015, the shift was dramatic: most college educated white people are progressive Democrats while the multi-ethnic working class has turned to the Republicans. (From Jean Twenge's book, "Generations" pp 380-400 ish.)
Yes, CA is a sh*tshow, in terrible shape. That's what a generation of "progressive" politics has done, ruin the once-shiny future. CA is no longer the future and hasn't been for some time.
The four largest cities in CA: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco all have lower crime rates than Miami even WITH all the stupid B.S. going on with lax prosecution of crime, eliminating bail, etc. SF also had the lowest COVID death rate of any large city (though if you add in fentanyl deaths the numbers don't look so great).
For now, De Santis can coast by claiming how much better Florida is than California but once he's the candidate some of that will start to be peeled away. Florida has the third largest homeless population in the U.S. and is the third largest state in population, so comparatively it's equal to California which is first in population and homelessness. In other words, neither state is really all that spectacular right now.
Let alone, there's the property insurance crisis happening in Florida, while DeSantis is "busy" visiting "99 counties in Iowa" while ostensibly "governing" Florida ; P (Oh, and with the 100 degree Atlantic waters this summer, this hurricane season looks to be... "spectactular.... which should super duper help that issue ; P - Oh well, Disney is having to fleck off the DeSantis Fly so that should compensate ; P)
That's not the point. The point is that Florida is facing a similar crisis of property insurance with hurricane season right around the corner and it's putative governor is running around all 99 counties of Iowa - which he is only able to do based on a rule he got repealed that would have prevented a Florida Governor from actively campaigning during their term.
Good for the goose, good for the gander and all that. But putative? My, my. By that theory we have a putative President. I gather you are perturbed that Governor DiSantis does not know his place. I on the other hand admire people that do not know their place. Maybe I need to give Di Santis more considerstion.
I think Trump won on Hillary Clinton dislike. And while he is long on personality, which I like, I do not think charismatic is an accurate description. I see Archie Bunker similarities myself.
You really have to hate the United States of America, be dumb as a rock, or completely corrupt to consider a Biden vote. Whitmer and Newsome as well.
Sure Trump sucks as a person, but if you put his policies on a sheet of paper with Obama’s name at the top, everyone would have thrived and cheered our collective success.
Plus, yes mean tweets and calling corrupt liars liars in a brazen way is not classy... but they are lairs. And 90% of what we were all supposed to hate even more and be terrified by about Trump now all turn out to be fake setups by the democrats. So maybe what Trump lacks in tact, he gets a bit of credit/vindication for being right about?
TDS is real. Cooler heads must prevail. Please people, don’t look such blatant corruption and incompetence in the face and choose it over a fabricated boogie man bag of goods that you have been sold... All just so that you can stay in the good graces of the members of your Chardonnay Book Club who haven’t squeezed out an independent thought (or wrestled with consequences of their actions) in years.
When this article came into my inbox, I just saw, "Are you really going to make me vote for.. " and my mind filled in Donald Trump. He's not my pick, but there is no way in hell I'm voting for any Democrat after these past five years, not even RFK. Also, anyone who the CIA hates has got to have something going for him.
Ditto! I finish that sentence with Trump as well, because I categorically despise the Democrats and everything they stand for and wouldn't vote for one if you held a gun to my head. Maybe RFK, but it's a big "maybe."
The thing is, I really hated W. In 2004 I couldn't have imagined voting Republican. It's this Soviet thing the current DNC is doing that I just can't abide. Also, the war mongering, but a lot of Republicans are on board with that, too.
Both are potentially corrupt. Trump obviously so - remember his phone calls to the Georgia DA? Listen to the *publicly released audio recording* and just... believe your own ears.
Tired of this ridiculous simping for Trump. Run another damn Republican!
“Find me the votes” is not, “Go out and print up another few thousand mail-in ballots to tip the scales”.
My ears told me that he rightfully didn’t trust the morons in GA to have located all absentee ballots and outstanding precincts. After all, it’s those election officials who were allowing trunks full of ballots to be hidden under tables in counting rooms, and for “water main breaks” to send everyone home so ballots could be counted without oversight in the middle of the night. (No work order for fixing that water main break have ever been produced, btw).
If the American Experiment is to continue, mandatory Voter ID must be enacted... Anyone still touting the “racist” trope on this topic is an idiot whose own racism of low expectations is nauseating.
I will never understand sending the poll workers home, pulling the suitcases out, and resuming counting. I don’t care what excuses were made for that. Just not right. Thanks for bringing this up.
What could possibly shake you out of denial? Do you really expect Trump to be perfectly explicit and say "fabricate or intentionally miscount more votes for me so I win Georgia?" Mistrust of mainstream media - we all have it. It's time to start questioning the trust invested in Trump as well.
Evidence. Evidence that is presented and leveled in an even-handed way that proves the intent of those words and uncovers any sort of mode of action for cheating... Present that and I would throw Trump completely under the bus and put it in reverse. There simply isn't.
Its the same with many of the Mar-A-Lago charges that rely on prosecutorial mind-reading to establish intent. These laughable proclamations would never even see the inside of a courtroom if it wasn't about Trump.
What there is evidence for, and what is completely glossed over, is the litany of lies that we have been fed by the liberals and the media over the past 5-7 years. What there is also evidence for is that our justice system will criminalize the few words of some, while mounds of actual, intent-proving hard evidence piles up against other pockets of the most terrible people on earth, yet the lack of any scrutiny, let alone charges or media coverage, is completely deafening. (ie: So now that we know that there was Ukraine/Biden corruption, does Trump's impeachment for trying to uncover said corruption get expunged?)
At some point, you have to stop believing that the "experts" and propogandists that have proliferated the lies... not start with continuing to demonize the people/topics that have been most lied about. (ie: Everything COVID)
All of this is certainly a symptom of a deeper flaw. I agree with you that we should not make excuses for anyone... but when the 'crimes' you have been told to believe are either completely fabricated, can only be proven to be crimes if you are a mind-reader, or are happening across the board, yet only one side gets called out and charged... then it is those who control that corrupt system who need to be held accountable.
That is where we are. And that is why Trump's popularity grows with each inditement. People can see that these charges are BS, and they want someone to be held to task for being allowed to make such a mockery of our system because of some narcissistic vendettas that have completely abandoned the law and are patently obvious personal vendettas.
If there is nothing there, chum, there is nothing there. Either on the tapes; in the Presidents speech as the Capitol trespass was happening.... or between your ears apparently.
Trump is a conman and a traitor, and those who insist he's still their daddy are just as brainwashed as the woke. Grow up and put country over party like Pence finally did. At least Pence defended the Constitution. All Trumpsters care about is money.
Who did he con? What did he do to warrant being called traitor? Did he take money from the Chinese? Did he risk nuclear war over a nation we don't even have an alliance with because they bribed him to do so?
Please. If you can't stop being silly, please stop parading it in public.
What I am asking is if you are approaching this on the basis of principle. When people are dealing with principles, they define their terms, and condemn all violations of those principles.
Joe Biden has been proven by bank statements to have taken at least $20 million in bribes from Ukraine, Romania, Kazakhstan, and China. He also happens to be our current President, and also happens to be pursuing dangerous and stupid policies in Ukraine, and policies with respect to China that do not seem to be intended to support American interests, which is the sort of thing you expect from someone who has sold out to rival nations.
There is no equivalent with respect to Trump. He did an outstanding job, got closer to peace in the Korean peninsula than any leader since the armistice, and for that matter was properly nominated for two Nobel Peace Prizes for getting 3-4 nations which had been at war with Israel in principle to recognize it.
All you are doing is repeating meaningless propaganda. It works for people who are suffering from similar induced hallucinations, but not for anyone who has the slightest shred of critical intellect, or a sufficient fact base to recognize patent and egregious lies.
My goodness, selling out the Constitution can be wrapped in a lot of words. Even if you were to be solely pragmatic, Trump is too volatile and divisive to be good for the markets or the country. I'm not a Biden fan either, but surely there are better candidates. May the best one win.
You cannot be so arrogant as to think that if Trump weren’t in office that inflation would not be rising world wide?
Economic trends represent more than four year presidency stents. I know this is not in line with riding on Trump but these comments are always hilarious.
I cannot wait for the day when Trump nor Biden are our options for presidency. Corrupt to the core.
OK. Then how about that Supreme Court. A court that actually follows the constitution? Imagine that. That might be Trump’s greatest accomplishment.
It’s a joke for anyone to argue that Trump didn’t have a vastly more successful presidency than the current administration. Trump is a flawed person to be sure, but he certainly was the better choice.
This is where we are today. We listen to the same words, watch the same video clip, read the same thing and...perceive 180 degree opposites.
Specific to the GA phone call. I listened to it as soon as it became available (because conservative stuff always leaks, and only crackhead Hunter leaks leftist stuff). It's the Trump team basically pointing out stuff they consider dodgy about the GA election and tallying the many votes that they consider unlawful as a result. And then saying but you don't need to find that total number of illegal votes, you just need to find 14,000 illegal votes. It's such a nothing call.
Trump won that State. The votes were stolen from him. The Governor and Secretary of State participated in the fraud, even though they were and are nominally Republican.
What serious person would think anyone capable of fraud on this scale would ONLY use it to secure victories for Democrats? Kemp is most likely only Governor for the same reason Biden is President.
I have no intention of voting for Biden. I didn't in 2020 and I won't in 2024. At this point I wouldn't vote for anyone currently running. Whether it does or doesn't turn off the left is irrelevant. The point is hard drugs, i.e. Heroine, Cocaine, Meth are not good for anyone. Do you want to legalize their use?
My issue with Trump isn't actually Trump himself; it's how the left reacts to him. If he becomes the nominee (which he presumtively will be, barring an act of God), he will have been indicted multiple times, possibly be facing jail, and be the ultimate punching bag. His presence on the ballot alone can motive tons of people with no other interest in politics to go vote against him. And if the election is at all close, you can expect rioting over the election results followed by some AI-driven big-tech censorship that will make J6 look like a joke.
Trump was a fairly good president. He was competent at negotiations/treaties, he kept us out of war, he helped put some smart folks on the Supreme Court, and he kept the economy strong until COVID hit. OTOH, he also pushed the jab, eroded gun rights, and did nothing to stem the tide of wokeness/DEI that invaded the private sector or education system from 2016 onwards. He did nothing to protect free speech rights online (which ironically got him deplatformed). He did nothing to address the burgeoning mental health crisis among youth, or attempt to restore the family.
2016-2020 was a HUGE slide downwards in American culture, and while he's not to blame for it, he also did nothing to try to prevent it.
Yea, he has a few personal traits that repulse people. His bragging and narcissism were the worst for me I am not talking about TDS, it is a mental disease that remains untreated because they have not found a cure yet. Not that anyone was working on it LOL. So, I am not a fan of Trump’s persona. Quite the opposite. But I can’t help but notice that his behavior in the last three years mostly instills respect. Yea, this was not a typo. He has been brave, calm, confident and stands his ground. Not many people would be able to keep their wits in his place. Just as he kept them during the four years in WH under constant heckling by democrats. He has some admirable qualities, and I am surprising myself by writing it, but honestly, that’s how I feel.
Me too. I have no loyalty to the person Trump - what I want is a Republican president who can run a strong campaign and fix the problems. The problems I want fixed are not Trump’s legal issues which are irrelevant to me. There is a reason the liberal press reports polls that show Trump way into the lead for the R nomination - they want him to run and be damaged enough that a senile old man can win re-election. Vote for the Republican who can win against Biden without question - that isn’t Trump.
Vivek has said he likes Trump’s policies. He is so confident, that I don’t think he’d have a problem doing that and much more. There’s a reason he’s polling upward.
I don't disagree. I'm just saying, if you want the policies you need to find someone other than T to get there. If you want to burn down the policies to keep T, then you've got whatever is the opposite of TDS.
Like so many people on this thread today, I don't think you read this thing through, HL. With all due respect.
The writer is not asking YOU to consider voting for a Democrat, he knows that by far most of the readership of FP skew conservative - he's merely pointing out the quandary Democrats have in being forced to vote for Biden - since their party is basically going to hand him the nomination on a silver platter and the majority of them think Biden is too old and unfit for office. So who else can they choose from within their party?
He's not asking any Republican to choose from a list of Dem politicians they plainly abhor, right?
You are absolutely correct. I skew more libertarian, but given the left’s recent assaults on freedom and liberty, point taken.
It’s just so sad that these terrible, terrible people at the top of the tickets are our only choices. That the ones with any integrity are so easily cast aside by the DC machine, and that when truths are spoken, even by brash individuals, that it is so easily vilified.
Guess it’s more of a broad-based disappointment in society as a whole, our failure to curb the power of the corrupt, to be appalled when we witness that corruption, and our species’ susceptibility to propaganda. All when a little intuition and curiosity is all it takes to see reality.
The founders of this country would be completely ashamed of our stewardship of their great experiment.
If a majority of Dems believe that Biden "is too old and unfit for office" then they're inflicting the senile imbecile on us tells you all you need to know about their principles, morals and patriotism.
I got to "...and that very strange, seemingly racist Covid thing" and stopped reading. A study performed on 81,000 human genomes is seemingly racist now? Lazy and shameful to reiterate that lie.
Yeah, let’s not ask any questions about COVID whatsoever and all just gloss over it terrified about stepping on the third rail of the Obama-engineered race war.
TFP needs to get over the COVID lab origin and Vax safety/corruption blind spots. They are so obvious to anyone remotely paying attention that isn’t fully brainwashed... and yet, this crew can’t seem to wake up and believe their own eyes. (Which is what Gavin wants to do to all of us.)
Can you believes this? We've been demanding justice for years and increasingly exposing the lies of the COVID policies, and Democrats want to run the absolute worst leaders in the nation when it came to COVID, both in their scientifically baseless draconian rules and in their brazen hypocrisy and privilege in ignoring them.
Unreal. They haven't simply learned nothing, they're doubling down.
The FP gang just need a little time to let things marinate. It was only recently that, despite damning evidence circulating for years, they considered Hunter and “possibly” Joe may have engaged in corrupt business practices while Joe was VP. The FP are much like some airplane passengers who for the entire flight sit frozen in their seats fearing that any movement would upset the balance of the plane leading to catastrophe.
TFP has repeatedly run stories about the rottenness of the CDC and the lab leak origin. They literally just published an article by David Zweig about it. So in that respect I have no idea what blind spot you’re talking about.
All one has to do is listen to RFK Jr. to understand how uniquely qualified he is to be POTUS. He’s the most knowledgeable candidate by far and he trusts the American people enough to give lengthy and complex answers to questions and concerns that effect us all. His interview last night with Tucker was chock full of many things people might call “conspiracy theories” but only because our government is so corrupt and he knows what they’ve done. The truth about Wuhan, covid, Fauci, assassination of his uncle and father, GMOs, Big Pharma/MSM, Ukraine, etc. it’s so crazy in reality that it can seem unbelievable and I WANT to disbelieve him because that would make many in our government truly monsters. But I believe he’s a truth teller. Why else would the Dems and MSM want to silence him? Even TFP undermines him because he thinks we should question the safety of the 60+ childhood vaccines and quotes studies on covid?
> he trusts the American people enough to give lengthy and complex answers to questions and concerns that effect us all
Well, there's your problem. Americans want sound bites to rally for or against. The average test scores in the youth have dropped dramatically in the last decade, and in this era of social media, people have increasingly low attention spans or desire to engage in intelligent discourse (TFP comment section notwithstanding). He's a president for a bygone era.
Sadly true bobbybob, I mean who wants to actually LISTEN to a Presidential candidate speak when they could just get their opinion spoon fed to them by the NYT or Fox News? So much easier!
I like how he links a paywalled NYT article that bylines RFK a bigot as justification for calling him racist instead of linking the non-paywalled research article that he was referring to.
All these writers link to their secular bibles: NYT, WP. They know these are paywalled. They assume the rest of us are equally addicted to fake news and willing to pay for administration approved propaganda.
Respiratory diseases. Where do you catch them? Doctor's waiting rooms; classrooms; on buses; on trains. Enclosed spaces where the viruses/bacteria/etc. can achieve critical mass. Outdoors? Not very likely. SARS CoVid 2 we quickly learned was even weedier. It succumbed to sunlight eight times more readily than expected and we already knew sunlight was the best disinfectant. Wind blows it away. Indoors we have the technology; have had since the turn of the 19th/20th century. The Lusitania, the ship that brought the US into WWI, could completely exchange all the air in itself nine times an hour - in 1906. The Kung Flu was a nothing burger out of the gate; irrespective of HCL and IVM.
Sunlight.
Which wasn't there when all the nihilists were out marching and rioting in the nightime in large groups.
Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?
Holmes: To the curious incident of the super-spreader in the night-time.
Gregory: The super-spreader did nothing in the night-time.
“The Hunter Biden probe could turn up something really devastating (consider Friday’s announcement that the attorney general is appointing a special counsel to probe deeper into Hunter’s various shenanigans)”
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I’m not trying to be rude, but you honestly have to be a straight-up imbecile if you think that is what the Special Counsel is going to do.
This scumbag Weiss just ran out the statute of limitations on all of the tax evasion and money laundering crimes from Ukraine by pretending it takes FIVE YEARS to investigate a gun crime that he has ON VIDEO. He’s just there to block Republicans from getting *personal* bank records because that’s where the final irrefutable proof of Joe Biden’s criminality is.
You do not have to vote for Republicans. That’s fine. I hate them also. But if you vote for a Democrat, at this point, you are a total scumbag.
I was completely with you until you professed your hate for Republicans. At least they are working to untangle the Biden corruption and have been opposed at every step by a so called Justice department and “nothing to see here” lapdog media.
Some of them are good/great but their overall failure to stop what is happening annoys me greatly. I vote for them because the other group is possessed by Satan, but I’m usually not too enthusiastic about it.
Don't hate all republicans, but certainly do have a deep deep dislike, to the point of wanting to puke on guys like Mitch McConnell, Lindsay Graham, Ted Budd, Ted Cruz, Kevin McCarthy.....I could go on but my fingers are seizing up. That said, I hate almost every Democrat with the exception of a maybe 2.
What utter children you lot are going on about who you hate more. Our system is founded on reason and Enlightenment values, but our populace has the intellect and temperament of 11 year olds. God help us.
Hating professional politicians is actually a learned worldview. Anyone aspiring to this business is usually a sociopathic narcissist. Public service should be more like jury duty than a popularity contest.
If we are to keep the system we have, the pay should be no more than the national median wage, with no expense accounting. For all positions, including President. After all, the fame that one accrues in office pays off after the fact, ask Barry and Billy (and Michelle and Hilly, too.)
I agree and posted a similar comment. The author of this post is suffering from delirium. Anyone with eyes can see what AG Garland is trying to do. My opinion is that Speaker McCarthy is doing a good job of investigating the Biden Crime family. He is taking his time and waiting until he has enough to drop a serious investigation that even reasonable minded democrats will be forced to “want to see more and investigate” via Impeachment Hearings. Drip. Drip. Drip. Drip. Drip.
Actually I credit Comer with the quality of the case they have built. He was on the board of directors at a bank for 10 years which is important since these are basically all financial crimes.
But now they will get nothing because there is a Special Counsel.
Comer said in 10 years as a Director he saw 2 Suspicious Activity Reports. The Biden LLCs generated at least 170 of them.
The clock will run out and Democrats will sweep 2024. Whatever you think happened in 2020 they will now be able to cheat openly because challenging/contesting elections is being made illegal as we speak. Nobody is going to contest an election and risk getting prosecuted for racketeering, no matter how sketchy the activity in major cities looks.
Trump will go to prison. Biden will have a monument.
Newt Gingrich on Megyn's Kelly's podcast said that the three equal branches of government provide for an investigation of one branch of another. If the House Republicans can not access what they need, they should simply defund the FBI and then work on impeachment of AG Garland. Gotta agree!
It's not delirium, it's the script they were given to pretend that justice is being done and that Democrats leaders aren't overtly corrupt and lawless.
These dishonest articles are absolutely critical in propping up the Democrat mentality that they are the good guys no matter how much their policies fail and no matter how corrupt their leaders are.
If you and I both know that K Street is providing a “script” on what to say, then so does the author of this article. Hence the delirium.
So I’ll go just a little bit further since this Hunter Biden scandal is so fucking corrupt and pisses me off so much, the author is a moran for playing along with the K Street script. This is where journalists really need to decide if they have integrity or just want a job. I’m confident that some reasonable minded democrats in Congress are scratching their heads about this mess. The cracks in the wall are forming. It’s time for journalists to do their job.
Democrats need to take control of their own party. If Joe Biden is on the ballot, it will be because elites have manipulated it yet again. I still don’t understand how he was the candidate in 2020. If he’s the candidate in 2024 then it will be impossible to believe that we even need a president. He certainly can’t function as one.
We do not need a President because the consent of the governed has been totally hijacked by the unelected parasites and perverts in Washington DC which has a $7 trillion budget.
Profound Kevin. The stench of the “inside the beltway leviathan” can be smelled all the way to Alpha Century. The rot that exists within this eco system is by far the most serious and dangerous threat to these United States.
Pick any Democrat in that parole game and I wouldn’t vote for him or her. They only candidate anywhere that wants to really bring us back and has ideas about how to do it, is Vivek Ramaswamy. So far, he has my vote.
I'd vote for Kennedy/Ramaswamy in about half a second. These are the ONLY two in the game right now that sound deeply informed on the issues they talk about. Everyone is is just regurgitating the last 15 second sound bite they heard on Fox/MSNBC. I think both are honest and open minded enough to learn from each other and help the nation. Just my 2 cents, which taking into account current inflation, is worth about half a cent. Cheers!
If Kennedy could tap him as VP, he could easily slide into the top position after the first term. We need to sense making adults in the White House for a change. I’m not in 100% alignment with either of all of their policies but collectively, they might do some good.
Your republic needs fixing. Not a two-term job; never mind single. Four terms to make it stick: Unity 2024 and it is no matter which order they serve in. I seem to recall they did something similar when setting your young republic on its' feet in the first place.
I’d be down for that. I also think that a ticket like that could bring about some actual unity if they were genuinely willing to work together. I wouldn’t even care who was top of the ticket. I think if candidates were willing to reach across the aisle like that the risk might really pay off in the polls.
I would add that they are the only two that have positive messages and who, the manner in which they are running, seem to actually be trying not to vilify and alienate half the country. I think we need those qualities, as well as the deep understanding of issues that mention, like a man in the middle of the Sahara needs water
We ARE doing a lot of damage, so it's not ridiculous to point out that corporations who pollute should be the ones paying to clean it up. One of the great things about RFK Jr. is that he has devoted himself to holding polluters accountable, yet he does not buy into the climate crisis mindset or dystopian solution set of the WEF types. I recommend taking time to listen to him in long-form interviews; Lex Friedman and Jordan Peterson both did really good ones.
Neither does he. In fact, he would be fine with nuclear as an energy source if it weren't for the environmental harms of nuclear waste. He is an environment lawyer and advocate, after all.
His ideas on legalization and decriminalization are not all that crazy. Besides, it would need to be passed by the congress and I don't think there are enough votes to really change much. Perhaps pot and certain psychedelics, but that's probably as far as it will go.
Current strategy (criminalization) has been in place for a century. Not exactly working well. One would think we would have taken the lessons we learned from prohibition and not repeated the mistake.
I would be for setting up rehab centers and monitoring the drug use. Addicts could come in for their drugs and they wouldn't have to deal with the street. Then the question arises, how will this be paid for? Or, decriminalize drugs and let anyone who wants to buy and use all the drugs they want and would thin the herd. I don't think, other than stopping the manufacturing of Heroine, and that's like stopping the manufacturing of guns, there's any way to eliminate drug addiction, and even if there wasn't heroine, an addictive personality would find something else. But, my main point is, legalizing hard drugs will create more addicts, just as legalizing alcohol has created more alcoholics. No, I don't propose prohibiting alcohol. There's no comparison between alcohol and Heroine.
Pretty much any strategy would be better than the current one. I’m more for letting addicts humanely end their own lives. So rare is it to come back from addiction to lead a sober, productive life that I don’t see a path forward. I’m sure some day scientists will discover better therapies or even a cure, but until then the best thing to do is reduce the peripheral misery. It is staggering to think of the scope of all the negative impacts of the illegal drug trade.
I agree. I have known addicts and alcoholics who've turned their lives around. More alcoholics than addicts. There is nothing that replaces that feeling of smack in the vein. You have to want to stop and fight it everyday.
Kennedy isn’t fit to shine Ramaswamy’s shoes. A two bit con artist who’s never accomplished anything but riding his family name vs someone whose actually created value for the country.
If that's the only interview you read/listened to (assuming you even did), your conclusion is not surprising, given that it was egregiously loaded with her own misinformation and biases against him.
Riding his family name? You mean riding all that political capital which came with his name, which opened the doors of the powerful and influential to him, that he burned through in his crusade for safer vaccines to the point that those formerly open doors on Capitol Hill became closed to him, as the Pharma-paid politicians behind them were afraid to be seen with him or associated with his concerns about Pharma corruption? Is that the "two-bit con" you're talking about?
Or were you talking about his "con" with the Riverkeeper organization...?
If they don’t win the primary, they won’t win. I’m just tired of all the corruption from FBI, CIA, DOJ, DA’s, MSM. We needed a fighter and Trump was our man but he under estimated how deep it went and it is deep! Until we clean house and I mean deep clean we are not going anywhere. Sad affair for America!
Agree. Trump is our gladiator, doomed to be overwhelmed by the lions in the arena. That he tried and keeps on trying is his appeal. But the lions are winning!
Trump is exhausting to me. RFK Jr and perhaps Ramaswamy to a lesser extent still seem very willing to break things in DC and really make some serious changes. I voted for Trump twice, but given ANYONE else with stones even close to the size of Trumps, probably has my vote.
If I may suggest, the leftist frenzy to "get Trump" which has been at fever pitch among legacy media, celebrities, Democrats and leftist bureaucrats these past 7 years is perhaps what's exhausting you? This is certainly their plan.
No doubt that the past 7 years has taken its toll, but both Kennedy and Ramaswamy are both well informed and educated on the subjects that they speak on. Trump just seems like he gets the foot notes from whoever he happens to be close to at the time and then rolls with it. It shows in a glaring way that he's not doing deep dives on a lot of things he talks about. I just think we have better choices. Just my 2 cents.
Vivek... So I was definitely taken in by his rethoric at first. He says some stuff that resounds with me, especially about the crisis of purposelessness we all face. He understands the **** millennials are going through in a way that the other candidates simply can't relate to. However, his plans for tackling it are either unclear or untenable. He's talking about legalizing all hard drugs, making COVID test databases, etc.
It's DeSantis for me. DeSantis has a track record of fixing the education system in Florida, tackling big companies (basically, the new trust-busting, etc). DeSantis is the actual anti-establishment candidate we all hoped Trump would be and has proof of it. That being said, I'd vote for Ramaswamy in a heartbeat over Biden.
“President Biden remains a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency,” the White House physician, Kevin O’Connor, said in February.
The problem isn't Biden. Oh sure Biden's a problem because he's a corrupt, senile imbecile, doing face plants and babbling incoherently on a regular basis when he isn't having his dwarfish Beria sicc'ing the Stasi on some political opponent or ordinary American fed up with this crap. No, the problem is Democrats and their entire corrupt, leftist party of wolves in sheep clothing There isn't one of them who is honest, genuine or sane. They promise to be "different" and "independent" and then, once elected vote their lunatic party line. The entire party is either insane or genuinely evil. And the fact that they peddle the patent bullshit that Biden's healthy sane or honest proves this beyond peradventure.
I was listening to a podcast the other day about just how out-of-touch a lot of Democrats are. For example, there was an interview with Merrick Garland where he was totally unaware that the DOJ was putting parent groups on the terrorist watchlist. The Democratic party is ruled by the extreme far left, while the faces they put before us are doddering old folks.
The FP should issue an apology and retraction for the “And that very strange, seemingly racist Covid thing”. Anyone who looked into that lie for more than two seconds knows that RFK Jr. was in no way being racist unless of course science is now racist which would give us one more accusation to hurl at Fauci but I’d rather live in the truth which is that RFK Jr. is by no means a racist.
"Lis Smith, the savvy Democratic strategist who advised Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 presidential campaign, told The Free Press in an email." - Man, you gotta love the irony of using the term "savvy" in the same sentence as Pete Buttigieg. What was Ms. Smith's "strategy" to get him elected as president? Convince voters that he is not an incompetent grifter that should be "given a chance" to lead? Not sure why we should listen to her if her best judgement was to work with Mayor Pete.
This was a pretty weak look at the potential Dem line up :/. Largely glossing over anything negative for Newsom or Biden. Not saying you have to write a hit piece but a little objectivity would be great. Maybe that’s why the dems are serving up terrible candidates - it’s really against the rules to deviate from the talking points you’re provided.
"And then there’s the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, the Democrat that most influential, wealthy Democrats would actually love to see run for president." - Man, she actually scares me just to look at her. It's always the eyes, and she has those psychotic, megalomaniacal eyes and that soulless blank stare accentuated with that grin that seems like she is thinking about some kind of torture. No, hell no.
Whitmer is a back bencher legislator who won after the GOP had 2 terms, she then won by 11 points agsinst a candidate who had no money and ran no campaign in a state with a bankrupt GOP.
She is no juggernaut and has no message other than she is an anti Trumper.
She shut the state down, increased COVID deaths and trashes the First Amendment.
And the D’s salivate....
Can we please do better that the Cuomo Newsome Whitmer trio?
You can not buy plants (during pandemic) but her husband can put his boat in the water. She is the female version of Pritzker. Both make me want to vomit.
Based on the title, I expected to hear a rationale for begrudgingly voting for Biden. Instead, I learned about this Minnesota congressman who actually speaks some truth about how politicians enrich themselves while in office. And his list of why establishment Democrats have destroyed the public's trust could have been written by any one of the commenters here.
And how will that information actually propel change? If he's anti-Dem establishment, he'll be swept into the Mississippi faster than you can spell it.
None of these are good options with the exception of Manchin. I believe him to be the only Democrat mentioned that I would vote for. And of course, that would be after every Republican candidate dropped out. Bring on Vivek 2024!
Vivek is too young and too inexperienced. If China goes savage on Taiwan, the South China Sea, etc. I want someone with know-how in there. JFK had to learn on the job and it cost him his and almost the free world of its freedom.
Make him a VP pick, or grant him a cabinet position. He has a bright future ahead of him.
So Ramaswamy lacks experience. Who doesn’t? No one has ever gotten the job because they did it before (except the incumbent). Listen to him speak or read his books. He has clarity of thought and an appealing vision of where he wants to take the country and how to get there. And he communicates!
I don't dislike Vivek. If he's the nominee he gets my vote. I agree that there is no true experience for the job, but given the danger China brings, the ongoing Ukraine war, I'd rather have DeSantis with his military resume, 9 years his senior, and Fla. governing experience.
Give VR a VP or cabinet slot. Given the choices, he's not ready yet
He has experience in the corporate world, starting 2 successful companies from scratch. He is smart and credentialed. He speaks with clarity, like DeSantis who I also like but feel is hamstrung by his obsession with woke, as if every problem we face starts with that. VR abhors woke-ism too, but has a more balanced view of what else we need to actually do to unite us. He wants us to be citizens with a shared love of country, forged in service and maintained with a view of our neighbors as equals, not preferred over others by race, gender or any other force beyond our control. Legal immigrants appreciate and love America for what it is and promises, not for what they can get out of us. That is my admittedly still forming view of Ramaswamy.
His experience in the corporate world taught him to turn to experts, gather opinions, and form a plan. A strong cabinet and advisors are critical for any president and Ramaswamy could attract, retain, and effectively use the best advice.
DeSantis speaks out against woke, but he isn't really obsessed with it. He talks about other things too, but Disney and "Don't Say Gay" is all the media want to report.
I think Vivek has already said he will let China have Taiwan. I like him a lot (invested in one of his funds) but I'm afraid foreign policy is his weakness.
No, what he actually said was, AFTER awe ramp up our OWN semiconductor production, he wouldn’t have a strategic reason to defend it but as long as Taiwan is the producer of the majority of semiconductors - we have to protect it.. He just said the quiet part out loud. The part where the US should actually have some strategic reason (instead of being the world’s policeman for free) for why it spends our taxpayers money to defend other countries...
I have heard this argument before. That is why he would appoint a Secretary of Defense with some experience. There is also the entire Pentagon he can go to for advice. Obama didn't even have any real experience as a senator when he became president. Very few presidents have good foreign affairs experience when they get elected.
If DeSantis and Ramaswamy are who they say they are; the weaker defer to the stronger in the final straight. DeSantis for Secretary of State, would that settle your worries about a China v USA confrontation?
Every decision is ultimately made by the president. Again I use the example of JFK's inexperience that cost lives and global respect in the Bay of Pigs, eventually leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis showdown which he won by a very narrow margin.
Let's not take a chance with youth & inexperience. His time will come
Air cover or no air cover, that rag-tag outfit was always going to get shot to bits before it got very far. Only commiting the Corps and the Airborne would change that and then you are looking at a whole different kettle of fish: WWIII.
Anyone who says the economy is great right now hasn’t been in a grocery store in 3 years. Conservatives don’t have to say people’s pay is buying less. People know it! Rich DC pundits telling us the economy is great when we can’t afford milk anymore will not convince us.
Walter Kirn just made a comment about this in his Friday podcast with Matt Taibbi, how the signs of how messed up this country is, are all around and evident to anyone looking. He told a story about how he tried to eat at a local mom and pop diner in Montana that was unfortunately shuttered after going bankrupt. He went back out to his truck and on one side of him was a family living in their car, eating out of cans, and on the other side a woman with a face mask and shield and her phone wrapped in tape. He said in the span of 10 minutes it was obvious things are far, far worse than they were 3 years ago. Carville, that imbecile KJP, and their ilk probably truly believe that things are good because things are good for them and that’s all that matters.
Come on, get real. Everything goes on an expense account, either to the lobbying firm or the Assistant Undersecretary to the Divisional Head. And there are more Black SUVs in DC than taxi cabs.
It's crazy that TFP published that comment about the "economy being close to awesome" without a heavy dose of sarcasm. I just got laid off with 24 of my coworkers. I know lots of people in the same boat. The economy is awesome? WTF are they talking about? At least politicians and political strategists used to put a little effort into their lies, now they just say whatever they want.
No. The headline has this backwards. When a voter thinks about the way Biden’s and Garland’s Justice Department and FBI are persecuting Donald Trump, thereby interfering in the next election; when a voter sees the consequences of having an open border and feels the consequences of Biden’s disastrous, free-spending economic policies; when a voter learns the full, damning details of Biden’s criminally taking bribes from foreign companies and governments; when a voter realizes the dangers of allowing Iran to build a nuclear bomb, of allowing China’s unimpeded hegemony in Asian waters, of backing Palestinian terrorists instead of Israel, of depleting our military in multiple ways; when a voter comes to his/her senses vis-a-vis the inanity of “woke” policies and the foolish elimination of fossil fuel sources; when a voter thinks about the obvious mental deterioration of Joe Biden, and reflects on the fact that he counts our withdrawal from Afghanistan as a success; and when the voter scans the other likely Democrat candidates, such as Newsom and Harris, and realizes that their governing would be every bit as bad; then the real question comes to the fore: “Are you going to make me vote for Donald Trump?” - who, whatever his personal flaws, advocates policies that actually benefit this great country.
If you vote for Joe Biden or Gavin Newsome, may you be forced to house migrants in your spare room like British soldiers in the revolution and may you enjoy the bugs your government allows you eat.
Gavin?! Gavin Newsome as a potential candidate? After what he's done to Cali, you'd want to bring THAT... to the REST OF THE COUNTRY?!
No way man. No way...
PS: I've been working on this article for sometime now and just pushed it out! Comparing Newsome's CA to DeSantis's FL: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-florida-is-better-than-california
You say rampant homelessness, high crime, DA's who won't prosecute, a plague of drug abuse, (ungodly) high taxes, etc etc, like its some sort of Bad Thing? Think of it as a Diverse Lifestyle. Remember Diversity IS our Strength.
Besides Gavin has Really Nice Hair.
His hair contains the Strategic Oil Reserves.
😂😂classic couldn’t have described it better
:-)
LOL
🤣🤣
Diverse Lifestyle must also include dating a 19 year old when your 39.
Don't forget having an affair with the alcohol abusing wife of his campaign manager, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, and then Newsom checking himself into rehab soon thereafter.
But he never actually went...
For some people 39 is the new 19.
yes and 4 is the new 18, so grab a toddler and boogie like the elite!!
I prefer "Smother that girl in chocolate syrup, And boogie 'til the cows come home"
Frank Zappa (Brown Shoes Don't Make It) :-)
And what is wrong with that? Joe Biden wants to date a six year old.
Maybe graduate high school before you comment on politics, lol.
These videos probably don't creep you out but it does me but then I'm not a Dem/Soc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy8Wc0r4qBc
Obviously you haven't seen the videos of the creepy, old pedophile fondle women and little girls and try to kiss the little girls or maybe you have and you think that is acceptable behavior, apparently most Dem/Socs do.
Dpn't worry i'm sure they're just as offended by Donny's many comments sexualizing his own daughter in public ; P
Do you always insult people you disagree with?
And shower with his daughter.
If he can play sax, he's in
He'll have to blow something to get in.
Advantage Forkenspoon. ;-)
Good one HF. I cackled.
but not inhale
Ha, Steve! Have you noticed how NO ONE (certainly not MSM) talks trash about Biden’s “hair plugs”
Dennis Miller bashes Joe Biden's "Hair Plugs," Hair Transplant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zASPqBU2DVA
Dennis Miller At His Best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMO8iWQOUEg&t=470s
All good but FF 6:58
😂😂😂F..k his hair Steven he is a total grease ball!
Canada voted in a guy with nice hair in 2015. Trust us, don't do it!
Justin Trudeau. We need our own Justin.
Haha!
Look what Biden has done to the country, and consider Democrats are perfectly willing to give him another four years. They’ve no qualms with doing the same thing and expecting a different result
In North Korea, people are forced to absorb propaganda. In the United States, half of people willingly take in the propaganda. Here are 5 examples of cults from the past and their modern leftist equivalents including the Kim family: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-become-a-cult-leader
What amazes me are the people who go to rallies to support their candidate. They stand there with glassy eyed adulation. They have to carry tissues to wipe the drool off their chins.
I have heard educated people extoll their candidate. They say he/she is going to do this and going to do that and bring the country together and solve all our problems. Are they CRAZY???
These people they worship are POLITICIANS! The only thing they worry about is how can I screw my enemies and how do I enhance my power and wealth.
This is nothing new. It has been going on since 1776. After reading Washington's letters and those of his contemporaries, I believe he was honest and actually worked for the welfare of this fragile, new country.
Most but not all who followed him into the office of the president were opportunistic scum and to this day that hasn't changed. All you have to do is look at Bill Clinton, the messiah and now the senile, idiot who is in office today.
The people in the know that support and prop up Biden for another term and know he is an incompetent, demented thief are traitors to this country. They are knowingly and willingly endangering this country for their own personal gain and to enhance their socialist party's death grip on our country's fate.
Exploititians?
Worship of government is the new religion.
I disagree. It is a religion as old as man. Do a search on the Nuremberg rallies.
yah Trump rallies are weird and semi-cultish, is Donny really that entertaining of a speaker? Most of what I've witnessed seems pretty off tangent with a few key "greatest hits" sprinkled in. But for > 1.5 hours? And those "muscled" Trump memes and pics - those are seriously weird, like they have actually looked at the Actual Donald Trump, right?? ; P
Every cult warns of some variety of a lurking apocalypse that only the cultists can avoid if they follow their unique path of enlightenment. The 80 or so million family members of the Death to Democracy cult fear the great Satan, if elected in 2024, will order his loyal minions to napalm the entire earth and begin the new whites only master race.Trump will easily succeed where others ultimately failed. Who can forget the horrors of his first term when blue villages were set ablaze? When Democrat leaders were rounded up, tortured to death, and hung in the town square as a warning to his enemies? When dissent and protest were crushed? When the Constitution was butchered beyond recognition? It happened! Remember? He will come back with a vengeance if elected. Get your affairs in order.
Wow seriously Dmang I thought you were talking about the cult Biden administration for a brief moment. The last 3 years have sounded vaguely familiar as to what Biden, Democrats and those left wing radicals have done to our country.
You are correct on all counts.
Ha, DMang, your sarcasm fit for “The Babylon Bee”!
That has to be the easiest job on earth. So much material to choose from.
Thx, Yuri. You've got it.
"The Manson Family = Trans Grooming
La "familia" Manson: la secta que cometió los crímenes más atroces y ...
Manson targeted impressionable, insecure young women. He convinced them to abandon their families and join his “family”. During chemical drug binges, he love bombed them into obedience. His most devoted followers physically mutilated themselves by carving an X into their foreheads. It all ended in violent bloodshed. Sound familiar?"
It does sound just like what happens to impressionable, insecure girls in high school who decide they are boys and that their families are no good/"abusive" but that the love bombing teachers/administrators trained in GI (and probably the neighbors who virtue signal and Gay-Straight Alliance student leaders) understand their "true authentic selves". Then, it's synthetic testosterone ($$ cha-ching for Pharma and Planned Parenthood) and maybe off to the plastic surgeon for breast removal. We need to try and hang or lock away a few of these surgeons who butcher minors and probably Richard/Rachael Levine - first female Admiral who promotes the cult religion from on high.
And, where is that Audrey Hale manifesto? Why can't we read it?
MadreAmorosa, yo no se que Vd. habla Español.
Hablo solamente un poco de la lengua pero - I was quoting from Yuri's excellent article:
https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-become-a-cult-leader :)
Yo estoy perdiendo mi Español.
I returned to the States in 1994 and don't speak it much so I'm losing it.
Well done Yuri! I enjoyed your article. It rings true. I've been dismayed at how some people i know have been so brainwashed (mostly left, some right) about Trump that they see nothing else. It's disturbing. You were correct that they have pulled the wool over peoples eyes.
People put the wool on their eyes in their hatred for Trump. No one did it for them.
MSM, SM, etc. applied Blinkers so no one would be 'distracted' from the Narrative. The misleading 'Soundbite'; printing Trump's speeches. I fell for it myself; read a Trump speech; listen to a curated soundbite or string of same. The man was easily made to look daft, deranged, and dangerous.
Whatever you think of their ethics and morals; Trumps opponents across mainstream and social media played a first team varsity game. Where it mattered I don't think our side left the dressing room.
Even so it wouldn't have been even a hill of beans but for the Kung Flu and the President pulling the wool over his own eyes putting the one man in the US with the greatest responsibility for the Kung Flu happening in charge of the US response: Fauci.
President Trump turned the gun on himself and snatched defeat from victory. I only hope those close to him have already, or can before the end of the year, get through to him that it matters not a jot that he thinks he is the Hero in this movie; but that the only person responsible for him losing is himself in the eyes of the squeezed middle, the audience.
All true and well said. But I think you seriously underestimate the FBIs thumb on the electoral scale.
Thanks for sharing this article, Yuri!
Yuri, in https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-become-a-cult-leader you show that "The Manson Family = Trans Grooming"
A difference is that the Trans/GI cult has normalized, professionalized, and monetized its actions in a way that Manson never did.
Hi Yuri - great article. Have you considered the parallels between Gender Grooming and NXIVM? I think that's even closer than the Charles Manson cult. - LM
It is why NYC is a disaster. Heck, the state is a disaster.
They keep voting in the same fools expecting different results.
Because it’s giving Obama another 4 more years. He’s calling the shots from his DC mansion, probably
dreaming about the men he is having sex with
You are correct
Dead chef?
Maybe chef was WHO he was having sex with....
I suspect he's their perfect president. He can't think for himself, so whoever is making policy simply brings him the talking points and he repeats them. My guess.
Most readers here won't like this but if you get past the cheap mockery and ageism (and his addicted son), Joe Biden has actually been a pretty good president. We have the lowest inflation rate of any western nation, and the U.S. has regained the respect of the world. Yes, he fell off his bike (after riding 20 miles on it!); but seriously, can you imagine Trump on a bike? He can't even walk down a ramp! Anyway, the only decent Dem. challenger to Biden is Whitmer; Newsom is a narcissistic loser and RFK Jr. is psychotic.
Your name must be Shirley, because Shirley, you can’t be serious. We’re sending truckloads of cash to Ukraine to kill more Ukrainians and Russians, everything costs double what it did five years ago, and it’s becoming clear even to leftist morons that Hunter is far more than just a fuckup son- he’s one of several family members who launder cash for The Big Guy.
Shirley I am. If we don't help our allies, WTF have we become? Putin is out of his f-ing mind, and without Ukraine's brave resistance, he'd be marching into Poland by now. And you're right, everything costs about double what it did five years ago (mainly the result of supply side issues brought on by the pandemic)--but have you checked prices worldwide? Triple, quadrupled and worse! Look it up, Laverne!
I had to scroll for a long time before finding a reasonable comment. I was hoping the Free Press would be a little more centrist in its audience. I like the writing and the attempt to bring diverse but well argued opinions to the fore on some issues. But mostly, I am hooked on “Things worth Remembering”. So I guess I will stop reading the comments so I can keep reading the newsletter.
LOL same. The comments board has become owned by hard right Republicans (cosplaying as "classic liberals"), mostly what seems like a large handful of commenters that comment like it's their job or something ; P It's dispiriting but I have a feeling this board is probably representative of about 20% of the readership, most of the others stay on the sidelines like a lot of us do. And yeah, I've given to mostly skimming the circle jerk now : /
But I do put some blame on Bari and team that often seem to be slanting their editorial narrative to please the vocal commentariat and encouraging more of the same. I would imagine if they published some more right-critical views this dynamic might change but they seem to be cowed by the vocals. While I do enjoy a lot of the op-ed published here (it's not "real" reporting but basically opinion writing - another little gripe I have is that I was expecting more "fact based journalism" along with commentary), it might be getting time to cycle over to another Substack for more fruitful discussions (I have myself on a firm limit of 3 subs per month).
Thank you Gerald, and I agree with you about The Free Press. When I read Bari's independent opinion pieces, I had real hope for this site. But she's been seduced by the Fox/Newsmax/anti-vax crowd, as the comments section clearly shows. A sane open-minded moderate on this site is too often seen as a "lefty" or a traitor. It's too bad.
Most comments are like graffiti on bathroom walls: you don’t come just to read them, and you wonder why people would take the time to write them.
No, everything costs double now because of Biden's stimulus bills and printing money and artificially flooding the economy with cash 2 years ago.
Did you just fly in on the saucer from Pluto????
Biden has presided over a national energy disaster. Our electric grid is headed to ruin and people won't be able to afford electricity. Along with rent, groceries, and fuel. China and Russia are on the march. We're out of ammunition. Over $31 trillion in debt. The only people prospering are crony capitalists, hedge fund cheats and totalitarian tech moguls. Not to mention the corruption and erosion of due process he's unleashed. Biden needs to be slow walked to the gibbet.
Check the debt figure. It has grown since the expansion of the limit.
So tell me, what do you like best, his creepy whispering or his creepy shouting?
Biden is the worst president of my lifetime, and my lifetime includes Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush, so that's saying a lot. His domestic and foreign policies are not only manifestly disastrous, he exhibits express contempt for half of the population he was elected to serve, making him a terrible leader. All this would be the case even if he weren't demonstrably senile. Lowest inflation rate of any nation, lmao. I don't live in any other nation, so I wouldn't know. Every time I go to the store I find myself despising half the country for voting for this trainwreck. I'm shocked his approval rating is actually as high as 41%.
Respect of the world??? Have you seen leaders of other countries in his presence, how they cringe and appear nervous? The episode with King Charles last month was embarrassing. He doesn't know who or where he is most of the time and has to be physically pointed in the right direction and led around. It's not "ageism" to point out that he is mentally and physically unfit to hold the most important office in the world and belongs in a nursing home. (But ooh, Trump faltered for a nanosecond walking down a ramp one time!)
Keep drinkin that Kool Aid!
"Lowest inflation rate of any other nation? I don't live in any other nation, so I wouldn't know."
You're right--you don't know. So why don't you look it up? While you're doing that, look up the word "projection."
Meanwhile, enjoy your bike ride with Trump--and your Kool Aid!
No interest in looking it up, tool. I know my own daily reality, and under Biden it sucks ass. Under Trump it was thriving. And I have lots of company. Maybe look up the word "lemming."
Well, Biden has the distinction of being the only U.S. president to be held in contempt by unanimous acclamation of the parliament of our closest ally for "Dishonour" regarding his Kabul Bug-Out.
"Respect", eh?
No way Biden rode 20 miles before that photo op.
MV,
This comment made me LOL- had to check my calendar to see if it was April 1st.
But on a 'serious' note, would love to hear your justification, rationalization, opinion, ( of course I won't expect logic nor reason) on why Biden's Approval Ratings have been so consistently LOW ? And yes, I see they've recently risen just a couple points in last couple weeks. But his entire Presidency?= LOW.
And just for giggles-
" Why- would the Party who stands SO STRONGLY for DEI, have an 80 yr old racist white man who has only been a career politician as their ONLY VIABLE CANDIDATE?????"
C'mon man!.
Seriously, I read his and other comments and wonder if I am living in the same country or even universe as some of these Biden defenders. You have to have serious blinders on or be in serious denial to think anything is going remotely well under this abomination of an administration.
X3. You summarized in a few sentences what I was about to post in a few paragraphs so I'll let you ride with an upvote :)
(Trump on a bike lol).
We're talking about the Gavin Newsom that tried to bribe Rose McGowan into dropping her charges against Harvey, right?
Just to be clear, Democrats want a president who bribes rape victims into dropping charges to protect the rapists who donate to his campaign - that guy?
Nah, let's go with the woman who had fun dictating which aisles of the stores would be closed for COVID, and wouldn't let people travel between their own houses. Let's go with the leader who had the flat out, rock bottom most abusive mad stupid COVID policies. Let's have a leader who says "trust the science" while brazenly lying about the science.
Seriously this article was shocking. It's like every election season Democrats roll out the absolute worst people they have, sing their praises and then make sure each one gets to sit in a government position getting rich while screwing up their duties. And the Democrat voters have learned absolutely nothing.
For real...Gavin is the absolute worst, and then they throw in Gretchen? She is AWFUL. Ugh.
Remember Kamala, if something happens to Joe, she's in. Of course there was the movie, Dave. Maybe the Dems would try that out to prevent Kamala from moving into the WH.
Jerzy Kosinski's Being There .. Peter Sellers for president
I want Mr Smith to go to Washington.
Gretchen Whitmer = Wretched Hitler.
Newsom had no problem claiming it was too dangerous to open California public schools during Covid while taking his child to an open private school. And of course the French Laundry. He is an absolute fraud.
One of the easiest ways to separate and control people is to instill fear in them. Masks are the perfect vehicle. You can't see the other person, therefore you don't trust them. Gavin is very good at separating people.
Just like his talked-about running mate Gretch.
Even the physical and social scientists are corrupt - and to what a degree!
www.spectator.co.uk/article/science-fict…
I thought Gavin’s wife was Harvey accuser as well?
We are moving out of country if he is elected.
He set in motion the ruin of my beloved hometown of SF and as a fourth generation CA has destroyed its motto “Eureka.”
No - they just changed the spelling to “You-Reek-a”…
You-reen-ah!
Seeing as how Newsome argues purely in Tweets meant to "own" the other side whos argument he's probably never even hear I think a real debate between him and DeSantis is a great idea.
Bring it on. And make it without a moderator given the bias we will otherwise get. Just give each guy a set 2-3 minutes on a topic ( set in advance so that we cover real issues- let each side pick say 5-8 issues ) with his mic shut off when the time expires. Have a segment where one asks another a question and the questioner's mic is shut off while the respondent answers. And no audience so we are not forced to.listen to catcalls .
Ah yes, the pompous ass loser debate!
I so much want a Desantis v. Newsom race. The Republican campaign should consist entirely of filming people who moved from California to Florida telling why they made the move.
TX, please get down to Florida and take over the Desantis strategy team before they hammer the final nail in.
Leprosy is way up in Florida. (Really. Check the stats.)
dear lord i FLED my home state of 42 years after all the crap he did to it. He was my mayor for years in SF (left soon after when my car was broken into several times and I my home was invaded and robbed while I slept), then watched in horror as he destroy the rest of the state, accelerated by Covid. I had to prep my 8 year old JEWISH daughter that we couldn't go into stores starting in 2022 if Newsom's laws were passed because we were "unclean unvaxxed" Thank god for Omicron which shut down that. And anyone just needs to read his tweets to see what a liar he is!!! He literally tweeted that CA didn't lose people over the last few years: how do you lose congressional seats if you don't loose population, Gavin??? He's a POS and the USA would be in a TERRIBLE place if he wins.
Same here. I'm a third generation California born, who grew up in the Central Valley when it fed the nation, and had enough after 12 years in the North Bay (Sonoma County while the husband commuted to the City). We got out of dodge just in time. The Golden State has become the Iron Pyrite State.
I just watched a piece on the news about San Fran - government workers are being told to work from home and not in the Nancy Pelosi federal building there. It's not safe downtown. Who runs SF? Who's district is the city in? I think DeSantis could tear him up, with facts alone.
We can't forget about Newson (the king of virtual signaling):
- Maskless at the Superbowl indoor when all the kids were still required to wear masks
- French Laundry
- Announced how CA would be the first state to make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for kids to attend public school.
- Had a covid shot (moderna) and suddenly disappeared right after that.
- His kids are attending private school (nice to have school of choice when you have money). Private schools in CA were first to resume in-person class, while the public schools were dominated ( or better, hostage) by Teacher's union, needless to say the learning loss was rampant for kids w/o resources to pay for private school or tutoring.
-Set up a commission for reparations, the group came with an exorbitant amount to be paid off, he quietly (and quickly) dismissed the whole thing.
- Talk about gas companies charging high prices in CA but doesn't mention how much we pay is actually tax. Granted Gas companies are not innocent.. but the state is not either.
- California Covid-19 benefits payouts were probably one of the highest state fraud ever ($9.8 B)
- Homeless everywhere.
- Nominated Linda Darling-Hammond for the Cal State Board of Education - recently they approved a flawed Math framework that will emphasize equity instead of rigor , the framework was used in SF and failed miserably.
-Persecuting parents in Temecula and Chino Chills ( imposing a fine to the school district because of Harvey Milk and because they want to notify parents about transitioning and pronouns)
Good luck! He is the road to hell for the US.
SF is a shit hole.
Oakland is right behind it.
Newsome is a lunatic.
Steady on; that is offensive... to shit holes.
🤣😂🤣😂
Likewise for the Gretch. I have no intention of returning to my home state as long as she's the gov.
Yep, wait for this fall when Gretch’s union handlers destroy whatever is left of the MIchigan auto industry with a long strike for absolutely ridiculous demands.
Her campaign slogan? “Bitchin’ Gretchen!”
right? Why can otherwise "educated" people only see the Allegory of the Cave here. Turn the F around and look at reality here, bro.
Something I realized recently is to stop looking down my nose at "uneducated" people. There's not much about my college degree that really makes me more knowledgeable or have better opinions than someone working construction all day. What a college degree gives you is expertise in a single field, and the ability to express yourself a bit better in rhetoric. This is more true than ever today with the de-emphasis on test scores for college admissions, and the over-emphasis of DEI as well as connections/recommendation letters. And it used to be just having a family wealthy enough to send you there.
I have received absolute pearls of wisdom from people I have met on the street. Age has allowed me to be smart enough to know I really don't know sh*t.
Interesting stats---it used to be that college education people dominated the Republican party, while the blue collar workers tended to vote for Democrats. After 2015, the shift was dramatic: most college educated white people are progressive Democrats while the multi-ethnic working class has turned to the Republicans. (From Jean Twenge's book, "Generations" pp 380-400 ish.)
Yes, CA is a sh*tshow, in terrible shape. That's what a generation of "progressive" politics has done, ruin the once-shiny future. CA is no longer the future and hasn't been for some time.
The four largest cities in CA: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco all have lower crime rates than Miami even WITH all the stupid B.S. going on with lax prosecution of crime, eliminating bail, etc. SF also had the lowest COVID death rate of any large city (though if you add in fentanyl deaths the numbers don't look so great).
For now, De Santis can coast by claiming how much better Florida is than California but once he's the candidate some of that will start to be peeled away. Florida has the third largest homeless population in the U.S. and is the third largest state in population, so comparatively it's equal to California which is first in population and homelessness. In other words, neither state is really all that spectacular right now.
Let alone, there's the property insurance crisis happening in Florida, while DeSantis is "busy" visiting "99 counties in Iowa" while ostensibly "governing" Florida ; P (Oh, and with the 100 degree Atlantic waters this summer, this hurricane season looks to be... "spectactular.... which should super duper help that issue ; P - Oh well, Disney is having to fleck off the DeSantis Fly so that should compensate ; P)
Psst. California property insurers are pulling out. Something about fires and regs which prevent accurate cost analysis.
That's not the point. The point is that Florida is facing a similar crisis of property insurance with hurricane season right around the corner and it's putative governor is running around all 99 counties of Iowa - which he is only able to do based on a rule he got repealed that would have prevented a Florida Governor from actively campaigning during their term.
Sure it is the point.
Good for the goose, good for the gander and all that. But putative? My, my. By that theory we have a putative President. I gather you are perturbed that Governor DiSantis does not know his place. I on the other hand admire people that do not know their place. Maybe I need to give Di Santis more considerstion.
💯, I live in California, and I don’t know anyone who like King Gavin or would support him..same goes for Kamala-obviously
But he's hot and charismatic. Women love him. Men respect him. Like Bill Clinton, JFK, or FDR. (TBF, Trump also won largely on charisma)
Hot, my ass. He's got all the charisma of a plastic model of a Ralph's vanilla cupcake.
I think Trump won on Hillary Clinton dislike. And while he is long on personality, which I like, I do not think charismatic is an accurate description. I see Archie Bunker similarities myself.
You really have to hate the United States of America, be dumb as a rock, or completely corrupt to consider a Biden vote. Whitmer and Newsome as well.
Sure Trump sucks as a person, but if you put his policies on a sheet of paper with Obama’s name at the top, everyone would have thrived and cheered our collective success.
Plus, yes mean tweets and calling corrupt liars liars in a brazen way is not classy... but they are lairs. And 90% of what we were all supposed to hate even more and be terrified by about Trump now all turn out to be fake setups by the democrats. So maybe what Trump lacks in tact, he gets a bit of credit/vindication for being right about?
TDS is real. Cooler heads must prevail. Please people, don’t look such blatant corruption and incompetence in the face and choose it over a fabricated boogie man bag of goods that you have been sold... All just so that you can stay in the good graces of the members of your Chardonnay Book Club who haven’t squeezed out an independent thought (or wrestled with consequences of their actions) in years.
When this article came into my inbox, I just saw, "Are you really going to make me vote for.. " and my mind filled in Donald Trump. He's not my pick, but there is no way in hell I'm voting for any Democrat after these past five years, not even RFK. Also, anyone who the CIA hates has got to have something going for him.
Ditto! I finish that sentence with Trump as well, because I categorically despise the Democrats and everything they stand for and wouldn't vote for one if you held a gun to my head. Maybe RFK, but it's a big "maybe."
I like to say I wouldn’t vote for a Democrat if you held a government confiscated gun to my head.
The thing is, I really hated W. In 2004 I couldn't have imagined voting Republican. It's this Soviet thing the current DNC is doing that I just can't abide. Also, the war mongering, but a lot of Republicans are on board with that, too.
Both are potentially corrupt. Trump obviously so - remember his phone calls to the Georgia DA? Listen to the *publicly released audio recording* and just... believe your own ears.
Tired of this ridiculous simping for Trump. Run another damn Republican!
“Find me the votes” is not, “Go out and print up another few thousand mail-in ballots to tip the scales”.
My ears told me that he rightfully didn’t trust the morons in GA to have located all absentee ballots and outstanding precincts. After all, it’s those election officials who were allowing trunks full of ballots to be hidden under tables in counting rooms, and for “water main breaks” to send everyone home so ballots could be counted without oversight in the middle of the night. (No work order for fixing that water main break have ever been produced, btw).
If the American Experiment is to continue, mandatory Voter ID must be enacted... Anyone still touting the “racist” trope on this topic is an idiot whose own racism of low expectations is nauseating.
I will never understand sending the poll workers home, pulling the suitcases out, and resuming counting. I don’t care what excuses were made for that. Just not right. Thanks for bringing this up.
What could possibly shake you out of denial? Do you really expect Trump to be perfectly explicit and say "fabricate or intentionally miscount more votes for me so I win Georgia?" Mistrust of mainstream media - we all have it. It's time to start questioning the trust invested in Trump as well.
Evidence. Evidence that is presented and leveled in an even-handed way that proves the intent of those words and uncovers any sort of mode of action for cheating... Present that and I would throw Trump completely under the bus and put it in reverse. There simply isn't.
Its the same with many of the Mar-A-Lago charges that rely on prosecutorial mind-reading to establish intent. These laughable proclamations would never even see the inside of a courtroom if it wasn't about Trump.
What there is evidence for, and what is completely glossed over, is the litany of lies that we have been fed by the liberals and the media over the past 5-7 years. What there is also evidence for is that our justice system will criminalize the few words of some, while mounds of actual, intent-proving hard evidence piles up against other pockets of the most terrible people on earth, yet the lack of any scrutiny, let alone charges or media coverage, is completely deafening. (ie: So now that we know that there was Ukraine/Biden corruption, does Trump's impeachment for trying to uncover said corruption get expunged?)
At some point, you have to stop believing that the "experts" and propogandists that have proliferated the lies... not start with continuing to demonize the people/topics that have been most lied about. (ie: Everything COVID)
All of this is certainly a symptom of a deeper flaw. I agree with you that we should not make excuses for anyone... but when the 'crimes' you have been told to believe are either completely fabricated, can only be proven to be crimes if you are a mind-reader, or are happening across the board, yet only one side gets called out and charged... then it is those who control that corrupt system who need to be held accountable.
That is where we are. And that is why Trump's popularity grows with each inditement. People can see that these charges are BS, and they want someone to be held to task for being allowed to make such a mockery of our system because of some narcissistic vendettas that have completely abandoned the law and are patently obvious personal vendettas.
If there is nothing there, chum, there is nothing there. Either on the tapes; in the Presidents speech as the Capitol trespass was happening.... or between your ears apparently.
You're pathetic
I'm leaving here in six hour's, and if you haven't fired the prosecutor I'm taking the billion dollars off the table. Well sonofabitch they fired him.
It's a primary source. I listened to the call.
Trump doesn't use words like "fabricate." He say "Find me 13,000 more votes!"
Trump is a conman and a traitor, and those who insist he's still their daddy are just as brainwashed as the woke. Grow up and put country over party like Pence finally did. At least Pence defended the Constitution. All Trumpsters care about is money.
Who did he con? What did he do to warrant being called traitor? Did he take money from the Chinese? Did he risk nuclear war over a nation we don't even have an alliance with because they bribed him to do so?
Please. If you can't stop being silly, please stop parading it in public.
He's conned you obviously, but since you seem incapable of an argument that isn't whataboutism that's not surprising.
What I am asking is if you are approaching this on the basis of principle. When people are dealing with principles, they define their terms, and condemn all violations of those principles.
Joe Biden has been proven by bank statements to have taken at least $20 million in bribes from Ukraine, Romania, Kazakhstan, and China. He also happens to be our current President, and also happens to be pursuing dangerous and stupid policies in Ukraine, and policies with respect to China that do not seem to be intended to support American interests, which is the sort of thing you expect from someone who has sold out to rival nations.
There is no equivalent with respect to Trump. He did an outstanding job, got closer to peace in the Korean peninsula than any leader since the armistice, and for that matter was properly nominated for two Nobel Peace Prizes for getting 3-4 nations which had been at war with Israel in principle to recognize it.
All you are doing is repeating meaningless propaganda. It works for people who are suffering from similar induced hallucinations, but not for anyone who has the slightest shred of critical intellect, or a sufficient fact base to recognize patent and egregious lies.
My goodness, selling out the Constitution can be wrapped in a lot of words. Even if you were to be solely pragmatic, Trump is too volatile and divisive to be good for the markets or the country. I'm not a Biden fan either, but surely there are better candidates. May the best one win.
Yeah I really hated 0% inflation. Totally sucked.
You cannot be so arrogant as to think that if Trump weren’t in office that inflation would not be rising world wide?
Economic trends represent more than four year presidency stents. I know this is not in line with riding on Trump but these comments are always hilarious.
I cannot wait for the day when Trump nor Biden are our options for presidency. Corrupt to the core.
We’ll never know will we? But we know for a fact what a disaster the Biden presidency has been. He was the greater if two evils.
There's a word for selling yourself for money.
OK. Then how about that Supreme Court. A court that actually follows the constitution? Imagine that. That might be Trump’s greatest accomplishment.
It’s a joke for anyone to argue that Trump didn’t have a vastly more successful presidency than the current administration. Trump is a flawed person to be sure, but he certainly was the better choice.
Some lines cannot be crossed. Daddy may be a good provider but if he's fucking his daughter he needs to go.
This is where we are today. We listen to the same words, watch the same video clip, read the same thing and...perceive 180 degree opposites.
Specific to the GA phone call. I listened to it as soon as it became available (because conservative stuff always leaks, and only crackhead Hunter leaks leftist stuff). It's the Trump team basically pointing out stuff they consider dodgy about the GA election and tallying the many votes that they consider unlawful as a result. And then saying but you don't need to find that total number of illegal votes, you just need to find 14,000 illegal votes. It's such a nothing call.
Trump won that State. The votes were stolen from him. The Governor and Secretary of State participated in the fraud, even though they were and are nominally Republican.
What serious person would think anyone capable of fraud on this scale would ONLY use it to secure victories for Democrats? Kemp is most likely only Governor for the same reason Biden is President.
Who?
Literally any other R would beat Biden
Trump beat Biden. And obvious NO R can beat Biden if they play the game the same way, can they?
Don't count on that. Have you heard Vivek's latest? Make hard drugs legal. That won't get you any votes.
So you'd vote Biden over Vivek? Doubt it. Not like a position of legalizing hard drugs will turn off the left either.
I have no intention of voting for Biden. I didn't in 2020 and I won't in 2024. At this point I wouldn't vote for anyone currently running. Whether it does or doesn't turn off the left is irrelevant. The point is hard drugs, i.e. Heroine, Cocaine, Meth are not good for anyone. Do you want to legalize their use?
Vivek also thinks voting is a privilege and not a right. You’ll have to pass his government approved test in order to cast your vote.
How about being a taxpayer? Maybe, showing an ID?
My issue with Trump isn't actually Trump himself; it's how the left reacts to him. If he becomes the nominee (which he presumtively will be, barring an act of God), he will have been indicted multiple times, possibly be facing jail, and be the ultimate punching bag. His presence on the ballot alone can motive tons of people with no other interest in politics to go vote against him. And if the election is at all close, you can expect rioting over the election results followed by some AI-driven big-tech censorship that will make J6 look like a joke.
Trump was a fairly good president. He was competent at negotiations/treaties, he kept us out of war, he helped put some smart folks on the Supreme Court, and he kept the economy strong until COVID hit. OTOH, he also pushed the jab, eroded gun rights, and did nothing to stem the tide of wokeness/DEI that invaded the private sector or education system from 2016 onwards. He did nothing to protect free speech rights online (which ironically got him deplatformed). He did nothing to address the burgeoning mental health crisis among youth, or attempt to restore the family.
2016-2020 was a HUGE slide downwards in American culture, and while he's not to blame for it, he also did nothing to try to prevent it.
Long past time to start to crush the left.
They are a cancer.
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Yea, he has a few personal traits that repulse people. His bragging and narcissism were the worst for me I am not talking about TDS, it is a mental disease that remains untreated because they have not found a cure yet. Not that anyone was working on it LOL. So, I am not a fan of Trump’s persona. Quite the opposite. But I can’t help but notice that his behavior in the last three years mostly instills respect. Yea, this was not a typo. He has been brave, calm, confident and stands his ground. Not many people would be able to keep their wits in his place. Just as he kept them during the four years in WH under constant heckling by democrats. He has some admirable qualities, and I am surprising myself by writing it, but honestly, that’s how I feel.
Sorriy, I'm not voting for Trump. If you want his policies, find another guy to carry the load.
Me too. I have no loyalty to the person Trump - what I want is a Republican president who can run a strong campaign and fix the problems. The problems I want fixed are not Trump’s legal issues which are irrelevant to me. There is a reason the liberal press reports polls that show Trump way into the lead for the R nomination - they want him to run and be damaged enough that a senile old man can win re-election. Vote for the Republican who can win against Biden without question - that isn’t Trump.
Vivek has said he likes Trump’s policies. He is so confident, that I don’t think he’d have a problem doing that and much more. There’s a reason he’s polling upward.
The problem, at this point, is that no one knows who that person could be.
And a big portion of the mechanism is dedicated to Trump as a person instead of the policies or the party itself.
TDS is very real.
I have friends that still suffer from this disease.
I don't disagree. I'm just saying, if you want the policies you need to find someone other than T to get there. If you want to burn down the policies to keep T, then you've got whatever is the opposite of TDS.
You’re making good sense.
I agree.
But T’s base may not allow DeSantis to do that.
BDS is catching up, it appears.
Louder!!
Interesting.
Like so many people on this thread today, I don't think you read this thing through, HL. With all due respect.
The writer is not asking YOU to consider voting for a Democrat, he knows that by far most of the readership of FP skew conservative - he's merely pointing out the quandary Democrats have in being forced to vote for Biden - since their party is basically going to hand him the nomination on a silver platter and the majority of them think Biden is too old and unfit for office. So who else can they choose from within their party?
He's not asking any Republican to choose from a list of Dem politicians they plainly abhor, right?
You are absolutely correct. I skew more libertarian, but given the left’s recent assaults on freedom and liberty, point taken.
It’s just so sad that these terrible, terrible people at the top of the tickets are our only choices. That the ones with any integrity are so easily cast aside by the DC machine, and that when truths are spoken, even by brash individuals, that it is so easily vilified.
Guess it’s more of a broad-based disappointment in society as a whole, our failure to curb the power of the corrupt, to be appalled when we witness that corruption, and our species’ susceptibility to propaganda. All when a little intuition and curiosity is all it takes to see reality.
The founders of this country would be completely ashamed of our stewardship of their great experiment.
A strong post. I agree.
If a majority of Dems believe that Biden "is too old and unfit for office" then they're inflicting the senile imbecile on us tells you all you need to know about their principles, morals and patriotism.
I don’t disagree, Bruce.
Then again, I could say the same thing about the other party by the looks of it - and that other guy.
It takes two imbeciles to tangle. And tango.
I got to "...and that very strange, seemingly racist Covid thing" and stopped reading. A study performed on 81,000 human genomes is seemingly racist now? Lazy and shameful to reiterate that lie.
Yeah, let’s not ask any questions about COVID whatsoever and all just gloss over it terrified about stepping on the third rail of the Obama-engineered race war.
TFP needs to get over the COVID lab origin and Vax safety/corruption blind spots. They are so obvious to anyone remotely paying attention that isn’t fully brainwashed... and yet, this crew can’t seem to wake up and believe their own eyes. (Which is what Gavin wants to do to all of us.)
Can you believes this? We've been demanding justice for years and increasingly exposing the lies of the COVID policies, and Democrats want to run the absolute worst leaders in the nation when it came to COVID, both in their scientifically baseless draconian rules and in their brazen hypocrisy and privilege in ignoring them.
Unreal. They haven't simply learned nothing, they're doubling down.
Preach! Well said.
The FP gang just need a little time to let things marinate. It was only recently that, despite damning evidence circulating for years, they considered Hunter and “possibly” Joe may have engaged in corrupt business practices while Joe was VP. The FP are much like some airplane passengers who for the entire flight sit frozen in their seats fearing that any movement would upset the balance of the plane leading to catastrophe.
TFP has repeatedly run stories about the rottenness of the CDC and the lab leak origin. They literally just published an article by David Zweig about it. So in that respect I have no idea what blind spot you’re talking about.
All one has to do is listen to RFK Jr. to understand how uniquely qualified he is to be POTUS. He’s the most knowledgeable candidate by far and he trusts the American people enough to give lengthy and complex answers to questions and concerns that effect us all. His interview last night with Tucker was chock full of many things people might call “conspiracy theories” but only because our government is so corrupt and he knows what they’ve done. The truth about Wuhan, covid, Fauci, assassination of his uncle and father, GMOs, Big Pharma/MSM, Ukraine, etc. it’s so crazy in reality that it can seem unbelievable and I WANT to disbelieve him because that would make many in our government truly monsters. But I believe he’s a truth teller. Why else would the Dems and MSM want to silence him? Even TFP undermines him because he thinks we should question the safety of the 60+ childhood vaccines and quotes studies on covid?
> he trusts the American people enough to give lengthy and complex answers to questions and concerns that effect us all
Well, there's your problem. Americans want sound bites to rally for or against. The average test scores in the youth have dropped dramatically in the last decade, and in this era of social media, people have increasingly low attention spans or desire to engage in intelligent discourse (TFP comment section notwithstanding). He's a president for a bygone era.
Sadly true bobbybob, I mean who wants to actually LISTEN to a Presidential candidate speak when they could just get their opinion spoon fed to them by the NYT or Fox News? So much easier!
"seemingly" racist because the press has misrepresented the comment and publications like TFP promote it.
I like how he links a paywalled NYT article that bylines RFK a bigot as justification for calling him racist instead of linking the non-paywalled research article that he was referring to.
All these writers link to their secular bibles: NYT, WP. They know these are paywalled. They assume the rest of us are equally addicted to fake news and willing to pay for administration approved propaganda.
Or, akin to our government, using their secular bibles to corroborate their stories.
"Political Propaganda" for you. How can I turn everything into race?
Genes are racist!!!
Just to the point - African population was the least affected by COVID - way less than other continents...
Because? I thought S.A.'s figures were... odd. Then Ivermectin entered the chat and the penny dropped.
Nothing like a regular dose of HCL and IVM to ward off Covi—I mean malaria and river blindness.
Respiratory diseases. Where do you catch them? Doctor's waiting rooms; classrooms; on buses; on trains. Enclosed spaces where the viruses/bacteria/etc. can achieve critical mass. Outdoors? Not very likely. SARS CoVid 2 we quickly learned was even weedier. It succumbed to sunlight eight times more readily than expected and we already knew sunlight was the best disinfectant. Wind blows it away. Indoors we have the technology; have had since the turn of the 19th/20th century. The Lusitania, the ship that brought the US into WWI, could completely exchange all the air in itself nine times an hour - in 1906. The Kung Flu was a nothing burger out of the gate; irrespective of HCL and IVM.
Sunlight.
Which wasn't there when all the nihilists were out marching and rioting in the nightime in large groups.
Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?
Holmes: To the curious incident of the super-spreader in the night-time.
Gregory: The super-spreader did nothing in the night-time.
Holmes: That was the curious incident.
I think there are multiple reasons - a lot of sun - vitamin D, ivermectin, probably much less interaction in close places, etc…
The point is that JFJ comments about blacks been more prune for Covid is BS
“The Hunter Biden probe could turn up something really devastating (consider Friday’s announcement that the attorney general is appointing a special counsel to probe deeper into Hunter’s various shenanigans)”
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I’m not trying to be rude, but you honestly have to be a straight-up imbecile if you think that is what the Special Counsel is going to do.
This scumbag Weiss just ran out the statute of limitations on all of the tax evasion and money laundering crimes from Ukraine by pretending it takes FIVE YEARS to investigate a gun crime that he has ON VIDEO. He’s just there to block Republicans from getting *personal* bank records because that’s where the final irrefutable proof of Joe Biden’s criminality is.
You do not have to vote for Republicans. That’s fine. I hate them also. But if you vote for a Democrat, at this point, you are a total scumbag.
I was completely with you until you professed your hate for Republicans. At least they are working to untangle the Biden corruption and have been opposed at every step by a so called Justice department and “nothing to see here” lapdog media.
Some of them are good/great but their overall failure to stop what is happening annoys me greatly. I vote for them because the other group is possessed by Satan, but I’m usually not too enthusiastic about it.
Don't hate all republicans, but certainly do have a deep deep dislike, to the point of wanting to puke on guys like Mitch McConnell, Lindsay Graham, Ted Budd, Ted Cruz, Kevin McCarthy.....I could go on but my fingers are seizing up. That said, I hate almost every Democrat with the exception of a maybe 2.
Ted Cruz does not seem to belong in that company.
What utter children you lot are going on about who you hate more. Our system is founded on reason and Enlightenment values, but our populace has the intellect and temperament of 11 year olds. God help us.
The age of Enlightenment has morphed into the age of ignorance.
Thanks to the failing education system run by unions supported by Dems. It's a circular, never ending problem.
Add in the lack of parental involvement, discipline, accountability, spirituality, and here we are.
Hating professional politicians is actually a learned worldview. Anyone aspiring to this business is usually a sociopathic narcissist. Public service should be more like jury duty than a popularity contest.
If we are to keep the system we have, the pay should be no more than the national median wage, with no expense accounting. For all positions, including President. After all, the fame that one accrues in office pays off after the fact, ask Barry and Billy (and Michelle and Hilly, too.)
No they are not. Mitch McConnell remains the leader for Team R in the Senate. Until that changes, the party is committed to the status quo ante.
I agree and posted a similar comment. The author of this post is suffering from delirium. Anyone with eyes can see what AG Garland is trying to do. My opinion is that Speaker McCarthy is doing a good job of investigating the Biden Crime family. He is taking his time and waiting until he has enough to drop a serious investigation that even reasonable minded democrats will be forced to “want to see more and investigate” via Impeachment Hearings. Drip. Drip. Drip. Drip. Drip.
Actually I credit Comer with the quality of the case they have built. He was on the board of directors at a bank for 10 years which is important since these are basically all financial crimes.
But now they will get nothing because there is a Special Counsel.
Comer said in 10 years as a Director he saw 2 Suspicious Activity Reports. The Biden LLCs generated at least 170 of them.
Do you that believe putting Weiss as Special Councel will prevent the Republicans in the House from continuing the investigating ?
No but it will allow the Justice Department to delay even more and even if they found The Smoking Gun, the Justice Department will not prosecute.
We have to rely on the House Republicans and hope the clock does not run out.
The clock will run out and Democrats will sweep 2024. Whatever you think happened in 2020 they will now be able to cheat openly because challenging/contesting elections is being made illegal as we speak. Nobody is going to contest an election and risk getting prosecuted for racketeering, no matter how sketchy the activity in major cities looks.
Trump will go to prison. Biden will have a monument.
Newt Gingrich on Megyn's Kelly's podcast said that the three equal branches of government provide for an investigation of one branch of another. If the House Republicans can not access what they need, they should simply defund the FBI and then work on impeachment of AG Garland. Gotta agree!
It's not delirium, it's the script they were given to pretend that justice is being done and that Democrats leaders aren't overtly corrupt and lawless.
These dishonest articles are absolutely critical in propping up the Democrat mentality that they are the good guys no matter how much their policies fail and no matter how corrupt their leaders are.
If you and I both know that K Street is providing a “script” on what to say, then so does the author of this article. Hence the delirium.
So I’ll go just a little bit further since this Hunter Biden scandal is so fucking corrupt and pisses me off so much, the author is a moran for playing along with the K Street script. This is where journalists really need to decide if they have integrity or just want a job. I’m confident that some reasonable minded democrats in Congress are scratching their heads about this mess. The cracks in the wall are forming. It’s time for journalists to do their job.
Meanwhile Pelosi and Obama run everything from the backseat while Biden struggles to follow the directions on his card.
And Democrats think the emperor's clothes are SO BEAUTIFUL.
Very true.
The time is narrowing to impeach Garland.
This fall.
After Labor Day.
Which is worse, a scumbag or a skank?
Asking for a Substack friend.
Getting closer to needing to impeach Merrick Garland.
Democrats need to take control of their own party. If Joe Biden is on the ballot, it will be because elites have manipulated it yet again. I still don’t understand how he was the candidate in 2020. If he’s the candidate in 2024 then it will be impossible to believe that we even need a president. He certainly can’t function as one.
We do not need a President because the consent of the governed has been totally hijacked by the unelected parasites and perverts in Washington DC which has a $7 trillion budget.
Washington DC is 95% Democrat.
Profound Kevin. The stench of the “inside the beltway leviathan” can be smelled all the way to Alpha Century. The rot that exists within this eco system is by far the most serious and dangerous threat to these United States.
Hi, I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
95% neocons for sure.
That what Trump also says.
Because it's true. He says true things sometimes.
Btw get your TDS looked at.
And?
Sadly the permanent government of bureaucrats isn’t going anywhere ,since most Americans are conditioned to worship at the altar of the leviathan.
Pick any Democrat in that parole game and I wouldn’t vote for him or her. They only candidate anywhere that wants to really bring us back and has ideas about how to do it, is Vivek Ramaswamy. So far, he has my vote.
I'd vote for Kennedy/Ramaswamy in about half a second. These are the ONLY two in the game right now that sound deeply informed on the issues they talk about. Everyone is is just regurgitating the last 15 second sound bite they heard on Fox/MSNBC. I think both are honest and open minded enough to learn from each other and help the nation. Just my 2 cents, which taking into account current inflation, is worth about half a cent. Cheers!
I would not waste Vivek on RFK Jr. He deserves top of the ticket.
If Kennedy could tap him as VP, he could easily slide into the top position after the first term. We need to sense making adults in the White House for a change. I’m not in 100% alignment with either of all of their policies but collectively, they might do some good.
Your republic needs fixing. Not a two-term job; never mind single. Four terms to make it stick: Unity 2024 and it is no matter which order they serve in. I seem to recall they did something similar when setting your young republic on its' feet in the first place.
I’d be down for that. I also think that a ticket like that could bring about some actual unity if they were genuinely willing to work together. I wouldn’t even care who was top of the ticket. I think if candidates were willing to reach across the aisle like that the risk might really pay off in the polls.
I agree!
I would add that they are the only two that have positive messages and who, the manner in which they are running, seem to actually be trying not to vilify and alienate half the country. I think we need those qualities, as well as the deep understanding of issues that mention, like a man in the middle of the Sahara needs water
Only thing about JFK Jr is he’s a environmental lawyer. I’m tired of all the “we are killing the earth and all going to die”.
We ARE doing a lot of damage, so it's not ridiculous to point out that corporations who pollute should be the ones paying to clean it up. One of the great things about RFK Jr. is that he has devoted himself to holding polluters accountable, yet he does not buy into the climate crisis mindset or dystopian solution set of the WEF types. I recommend taking time to listen to him in long-form interviews; Lex Friedman and Jordan Peterson both did really good ones.
I believe he has totally bought into the climate crisis mindset.
Not anymore. Listen to his recent interviews.
"Totally bought into"? What gives you that impression?
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/on-rfk-jr-s-environmentalism/
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-climate-change
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/robert-kennedy-jr-on-climate-change-140205979.html
Not impressed...https://www.ans.org/news/article-5111/rfk-jr-elon-musk-talk-nuclear-energy/
Is nuclear energy really your top issue?
Realistic policies that ensure people can afford energy and food... yes! Not attached to nuclear but don't think all renewables is realistic.
Neither does he. In fact, he would be fine with nuclear as an energy source if it weren't for the environmental harms of nuclear waste. He is an environment lawyer and advocate, after all.
The most capable ticket for sure.
You need to read Ramasmarmy's latest pronouncements about legalizing hard drugs, then tell me you still want to vote for him.
His ideas on legalization and decriminalization are not all that crazy. Besides, it would need to be passed by the congress and I don't think there are enough votes to really change much. Perhaps pot and certain psychedelics, but that's probably as far as it will go.
Current strategy (criminalization) has been in place for a century. Not exactly working well. One would think we would have taken the lessons we learned from prohibition and not repeated the mistake.
I would be for setting up rehab centers and monitoring the drug use. Addicts could come in for their drugs and they wouldn't have to deal with the street. Then the question arises, how will this be paid for? Or, decriminalize drugs and let anyone who wants to buy and use all the drugs they want and would thin the herd. I don't think, other than stopping the manufacturing of Heroine, and that's like stopping the manufacturing of guns, there's any way to eliminate drug addiction, and even if there wasn't heroine, an addictive personality would find something else. But, my main point is, legalizing hard drugs will create more addicts, just as legalizing alcohol has created more alcoholics. No, I don't propose prohibiting alcohol. There's no comparison between alcohol and Heroine.
Pretty much any strategy would be better than the current one. I’m more for letting addicts humanely end their own lives. So rare is it to come back from addiction to lead a sober, productive life that I don’t see a path forward. I’m sure some day scientists will discover better therapies or even a cure, but until then the best thing to do is reduce the peripheral misery. It is staggering to think of the scope of all the negative impacts of the illegal drug trade.
I agree. I have known addicts and alcoholics who've turned their lives around. More alcoholics than addicts. There is nothing that replaces that feeling of smack in the vein. You have to want to stop and fight it everyday.
Problem is there is Narcan in vending machines now. We don't just let them die.
Please provide a source for your comment.
I don't know which comment you're referring to. Could you quote it for me?
I couldn't care less about that issue.
Which issue is that?
Drug legalization.
Followed by more addiction. If you build it they will come.
Kennedy isn’t fit to shine Ramaswamy’s shoes. A two bit con artist who’s never accomplished anything but riding his family name vs someone whose actually created value for the country.
Says the guy who clearly hasn't listened to a single interview or townhall he's done.
Are you forgetting that Bari interviewed RFK Jr on Honestly? Found him unimpressive to say the least.
If that's the only interview you read/listened to (assuming you even did), your conclusion is not surprising, given that it was egregiously loaded with her own misinformation and biases against him.
Riding his family name? You mean riding all that political capital which came with his name, which opened the doors of the powerful and influential to him, that he burned through in his crusade for safer vaccines to the point that those formerly open doors on Capitol Hill became closed to him, as the Pharma-paid politicians behind them were afraid to be seen with him or associated with his concerns about Pharma corruption? Is that the "two-bit con" you're talking about?
Or were you talking about his "con" with the Riverkeeper organization...?
https://www.riverkeeper.org/news-events/news/riverkeeper/robert-f-kennedy-jr-ends-historic-33-year-run-riverkeeper/
If they don’t win the primary, they won’t win. I’m just tired of all the corruption from FBI, CIA, DOJ, DA’s, MSM. We needed a fighter and Trump was our man but he under estimated how deep it went and it is deep! Until we clean house and I mean deep clean we are not going anywhere. Sad affair for America!
Agree. Trump is our gladiator, doomed to be overwhelmed by the lions in the arena. That he tried and keeps on trying is his appeal. But the lions are winning!
Trump is exhausting to me. RFK Jr and perhaps Ramaswamy to a lesser extent still seem very willing to break things in DC and really make some serious changes. I voted for Trump twice, but given ANYONE else with stones even close to the size of Trumps, probably has my vote.
If I may suggest, the leftist frenzy to "get Trump" which has been at fever pitch among legacy media, celebrities, Democrats and leftist bureaucrats these past 7 years is perhaps what's exhausting you? This is certainly their plan.
No doubt that the past 7 years has taken its toll, but both Kennedy and Ramaswamy are both well informed and educated on the subjects that they speak on. Trump just seems like he gets the foot notes from whoever he happens to be close to at the time and then rolls with it. It shows in a glaring way that he's not doing deep dives on a lot of things he talks about. I just think we have better choices. Just my 2 cents.
Fair enough.
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Vivek... So I was definitely taken in by his rethoric at first. He says some stuff that resounds with me, especially about the crisis of purposelessness we all face. He understands the **** millennials are going through in a way that the other candidates simply can't relate to. However, his plans for tackling it are either unclear or untenable. He's talking about legalizing all hard drugs, making COVID test databases, etc.
It's DeSantis for me. DeSantis has a track record of fixing the education system in Florida, tackling big companies (basically, the new trust-busting, etc). DeSantis is the actual anti-establishment candidate we all hoped Trump would be and has proof of it. That being said, I'd vote for Ramaswamy in a heartbeat over Biden.
Mine too!
“President Biden remains a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency,” the White House physician, Kevin O’Connor, said in February.
The problem isn't Biden. Oh sure Biden's a problem because he's a corrupt, senile imbecile, doing face plants and babbling incoherently on a regular basis when he isn't having his dwarfish Beria sicc'ing the Stasi on some political opponent or ordinary American fed up with this crap. No, the problem is Democrats and their entire corrupt, leftist party of wolves in sheep clothing There isn't one of them who is honest, genuine or sane. They promise to be "different" and "independent" and then, once elected vote their lunatic party line. The entire party is either insane or genuinely evil. And the fact that they peddle the patent bullshit that Biden's healthy sane or honest proves this beyond peradventure.
I agree, and am beginning to turn my ire towards the entire beltway apparatus.
The stench from the beltway eco system can be smelled on Alpha Century.
It’s really time to dismantle the entire thing, in my opinion.
Don't forget that "president" Biden has spent half of his term taking vacation.
Kevin O'Conner is flatly lying and we all know it.
Yes to both!
"The entire party is either insane or genuinely evil."
I don't think they are insane.
Their legions of drooling sycophants are stupid or insane. Their leaders and minions definitely evil.
I was listening to a podcast the other day about just how out-of-touch a lot of Democrats are. For example, there was an interview with Merrick Garland where he was totally unaware that the DOJ was putting parent groups on the terrorist watchlist. The Democratic party is ruled by the extreme far left, while the faces they put before us are doddering old folks.
They just pretend to not know a lot of things. And to believe things they know are false.
The FP should issue an apology and retraction for the “And that very strange, seemingly racist Covid thing”. Anyone who looked into that lie for more than two seconds knows that RFK Jr. was in no way being racist unless of course science is now racist which would give us one more accusation to hurl at Fauci but I’d rather live in the truth which is that RFK Jr. is by no means a racist.
Not to mention the fact that Tucker had RFK Jr. on his X show last night and that should have been mentioned. Just lazy reporting.
Everything in his book about Fauci is well documented. The bibliography in the book is pretty extensive
The book was excellent.
References to choke a horse.
I was being sarcastic about the Fauci thing, referencing when he called himself “the science”…
Got it! LOL at “the science”
I agree.
"Lis Smith, the savvy Democratic strategist who advised Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 presidential campaign, told The Free Press in an email." - Man, you gotta love the irony of using the term "savvy" in the same sentence as Pete Buttigieg. What was Ms. Smith's "strategy" to get him elected as president? Convince voters that he is not an incompetent grifter that should be "given a chance" to lead? Not sure why we should listen to her if her best judgement was to work with Mayor Pete.
But he came up with a very savvy strategy to constantly mention that Buttigieg is gay and a veteran, and it paid off with high single digits!
Eliot Spitzer's rebound affair? (very "savvy" individual)
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/Smith_Spitzer.jpg
https://nypost.com/2022/07/10/lis-smith-details-how-the-ny-post-outed-her-as-eliot-spitzers-lover/
The email just tells us the TFP has investigated and has sources.
Oh the joy.
This was a pretty weak look at the potential Dem line up :/. Largely glossing over anything negative for Newsom or Biden. Not saying you have to write a hit piece but a little objectivity would be great. Maybe that’s why the dems are serving up terrible candidates - it’s really against the rules to deviate from the talking points you’re provided.
Could be.
Good observation.
No one is allowed to challenge the orthodoxy.
please delete
Clean it up pal
That’s jour not jure. And we don’t call people fags. So many inaccuracies.
What have you got against cigarettes and bundles of wood?
"And then there’s the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, the Democrat that most influential, wealthy Democrats would actually love to see run for president." - Man, she actually scares me just to look at her. It's always the eyes, and she has those psychotic, megalomaniacal eyes and that soulless blank stare accentuated with that grin that seems like she is thinking about some kind of torture. No, hell no.
And Newsome looks like a vampire.
Oh, he isn't a vampire?
Newsom serves Patrick Bateman vibes all day/every day.
Whitmer is a back bencher legislator who won after the GOP had 2 terms, she then won by 11 points agsinst a candidate who had no money and ran no campaign in a state with a bankrupt GOP.
She is no juggernaut and has no message other than she is an anti Trumper.
She shut the state down, increased COVID deaths and trashes the First Amendment.
And the D’s salivate....
Can we please do better that the Cuomo Newsome Whitmer trio?
She has that Cruella DeVille look about her. Complete with heavy red lipstick. At the risk of being terribly sexist, she needs to soften her look.
You can not buy plants (during pandemic) but her husband can put his boat in the water. She is the female version of Pritzker. Both make me want to vomit.
And Biden's eyes are, like, completely black now. Have you seen this? Take a look at his eyes and tell me he's not a demon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoTT1rP77Bw&list=PLAA_27K4FIKkb7ZlLIDzSbrQDoxulapFJ&index=50
Once again, Savodnik proves he’s the least thoughtful author at the Free Press. He contributes nothing but word count.
Too harsh.
Based on the title, I expected to hear a rationale for begrudgingly voting for Biden. Instead, I learned about this Minnesota congressman who actually speaks some truth about how politicians enrich themselves while in office. And his list of why establishment Democrats have destroyed the public's trust could have been written by any one of the commenters here.
And how will that information actually propel change? If he's anti-Dem establishment, he'll be swept into the Mississippi faster than you can spell it.
None of these are good options with the exception of Manchin. I believe him to be the only Democrat mentioned that I would vote for. And of course, that would be after every Republican candidate dropped out. Bring on Vivek 2024!
Yes, but Manchin sold out when the big spending was on the line. However he is more palatable than some.
Yes, Manchin was screwed over big time.
It’s gotta still hurt for him to sit down 🥺.
Vivek is too young and too inexperienced. If China goes savage on Taiwan, the South China Sea, etc. I want someone with know-how in there. JFK had to learn on the job and it cost him his and almost the free world of its freedom.
Make him a VP pick, or grant him a cabinet position. He has a bright future ahead of him.
So Ramaswamy lacks experience. Who doesn’t? No one has ever gotten the job because they did it before (except the incumbent). Listen to him speak or read his books. He has clarity of thought and an appealing vision of where he wants to take the country and how to get there. And he communicates!
I don't dislike Vivek. If he's the nominee he gets my vote. I agree that there is no true experience for the job, but given the danger China brings, the ongoing Ukraine war, I'd rather have DeSantis with his military resume, 9 years his senior, and Fla. governing experience.
Give VR a VP or cabinet slot. Given the choices, he's not ready yet
He has experience in the corporate world, starting 2 successful companies from scratch. He is smart and credentialed. He speaks with clarity, like DeSantis who I also like but feel is hamstrung by his obsession with woke, as if every problem we face starts with that. VR abhors woke-ism too, but has a more balanced view of what else we need to actually do to unite us. He wants us to be citizens with a shared love of country, forged in service and maintained with a view of our neighbors as equals, not preferred over others by race, gender or any other force beyond our control. Legal immigrants appreciate and love America for what it is and promises, not for what they can get out of us. That is my admittedly still forming view of Ramaswamy.
His experience in the corporate world taught him to turn to experts, gather opinions, and form a plan. A strong cabinet and advisors are critical for any president and Ramaswamy could attract, retain, and effectively use the best advice.
DeSantis speaks out against woke, but he isn't really obsessed with it. He talks about other things too, but Disney and "Don't Say Gay" is all the media want to report.
Good point. I should read his book.
I think Vivek has already said he will let China have Taiwan. I like him a lot (invested in one of his funds) but I'm afraid foreign policy is his weakness.
If Vivek said let China have Taiwan, that is a MAJOR blunder.....I doubt he said that.
If China controls Taiwan, they control about 65% of the world's semiconductor market share. TSMC alone is 54% of the world's market share.
We're already in a technology war with China that we're losing.
How do you think this would go down?
No, what he actually said was, AFTER awe ramp up our OWN semiconductor production, he wouldn’t have a strategic reason to defend it but as long as Taiwan is the producer of the majority of semiconductors - we have to protect it.. He just said the quiet part out loud. The part where the US should actually have some strategic reason (instead of being the world’s policeman for free) for why it spends our taxpayers money to defend other countries...
I have heard this argument before. That is why he would appoint a Secretary of Defense with some experience. There is also the entire Pentagon he can go to for advice. Obama didn't even have any real experience as a senator when he became president. Very few presidents have good foreign affairs experience when they get elected.
If DeSantis and Ramaswamy are who they say they are; the weaker defer to the stronger in the final straight. DeSantis for Secretary of State, would that settle your worries about a China v USA confrontation?
Every decision is ultimately made by the president. Again I use the example of JFK's inexperience that cost lives and global respect in the Bay of Pigs, eventually leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis showdown which he won by a very narrow margin.
Let's not take a chance with youth & inexperience. His time will come
Air cover or no air cover, that rag-tag outfit was always going to get shot to bits before it got very far. Only commiting the Corps and the Airborne would change that and then you are looking at a whole different kettle of fish: WWIII.
Anyone who says the economy is great right now hasn’t been in a grocery store in 3 years. Conservatives don’t have to say people’s pay is buying less. People know it! Rich DC pundits telling us the economy is great when we can’t afford milk anymore will not convince us.
Walter Kirn just made a comment about this in his Friday podcast with Matt Taibbi, how the signs of how messed up this country is, are all around and evident to anyone looking. He told a story about how he tried to eat at a local mom and pop diner in Montana that was unfortunately shuttered after going bankrupt. He went back out to his truck and on one side of him was a family living in their car, eating out of cans, and on the other side a woman with a face mask and shield and her phone wrapped in tape. He said in the span of 10 minutes it was obvious things are far, far worse than they were 3 years ago. Carville, that imbecile KJP, and their ilk probably truly believe that things are good because things are good for them and that’s all that matters.
Walter knows what’s up. He spends time in parts of America the D.C. silver spooners would never set foot in unless a tornado flattened it.
The Biden administration is genuinely concerned about and invested in the welfare of the country.
That country being Ukraine.
People in DC don’t pay for their own meals and transportation.
They don't go to any stores and aren't coffee shops lol.
Come on, get real. Everything goes on an expense account, either to the lobbying firm or the Assistant Undersecretary to the Divisional Head. And there are more Black SUVs in DC than taxi cabs.
Hey and “we’re winning in Ukraine!”
C’mon man! Can’t you see how this makes life in America so much better? Just look at...uh...um...
Oh yeah...did you hear Trump was indicted again. We’re saving America!
It's crazy that TFP published that comment about the "economy being close to awesome" without a heavy dose of sarcasm. I just got laid off with 24 of my coworkers. I know lots of people in the same boat. The economy is awesome? WTF are they talking about? At least politicians and political strategists used to put a little effort into their lies, now they just say whatever they want.
No. The headline has this backwards. When a voter thinks about the way Biden’s and Garland’s Justice Department and FBI are persecuting Donald Trump, thereby interfering in the next election; when a voter sees the consequences of having an open border and feels the consequences of Biden’s disastrous, free-spending economic policies; when a voter learns the full, damning details of Biden’s criminally taking bribes from foreign companies and governments; when a voter realizes the dangers of allowing Iran to build a nuclear bomb, of allowing China’s unimpeded hegemony in Asian waters, of backing Palestinian terrorists instead of Israel, of depleting our military in multiple ways; when a voter comes to his/her senses vis-a-vis the inanity of “woke” policies and the foolish elimination of fossil fuel sources; when a voter thinks about the obvious mental deterioration of Joe Biden, and reflects on the fact that he counts our withdrawal from Afghanistan as a success; and when the voter scans the other likely Democrat candidates, such as Newsom and Harris, and realizes that their governing would be every bit as bad; then the real question comes to the fore: “Are you going to make me vote for Donald Trump?” - who, whatever his personal flaws, advocates policies that actually benefit this great country.
Spot on.
If you vote for Joe Biden or Gavin Newsome, may you be forced to house migrants in your spare room like British soldiers in the revolution and may you enjoy the bugs your government allows you eat.