Because we are at war, while pretending we are not. The war has been declared on us be islamists multiple times in the past 30 years. In that time, they have tried to blow up the WTC, then did it, then outlasted us, beating our "allies" who robbed us blind. They moved immigrant troops here, established CAIR, MSA, etc., infiltrated our military, and captured our universities and media.
Yes. Islam is the ultimate enemy of America and all nations which are not Muslim majority. Islam’s war against the world has been going on since 620 AD.
Yes. To put it another way, the immigrants can easily remain quiet until the time is right. Then, like the soldiers in the Trojan Horse, be everywhere to do damage. A thousand acts of sabotage, strategically placed and timed, and we are undone.
I expect that, like me, they don't hate Muslims but they are aware that a significant percentage of them hate every other community in the World and want to turn, as they declare themselves, the entire world into their Caliphate.
In the UK a poll found 20% of the UK's Muslims had sympathy for ISIS/Daesh and 4% would actively campaign for/with them. That is more than enough to cause huge damage even without the unenthusiastic acquiescence of their co-religionists.
The result being, even if it seems unfair, that no Muslims should be allowed in the 'West' even if, individually, they seem friendly and tolerant.
Using the word “hate,” was once an effective way to give someone pause. It is now only used by those who will not spend the effort to articulate a worthwhile response but want to score some kind of point in their own mind. Such are welcome to that phony sense of triumph. It may be the only reward they are capable of. Most see it for what it is.
It's not just Iran. Not by a long shot. Though temporarily, Saudi Arabia the Sunni stronghold, is making nice with the west and Israel because the Houthi can take out the oil fields of Saudi Arabia any time they want to.
Note that the USA armed the Saudis. But the Saudis are rich, lazy, and not willing to die for the king. Iran, and the other Shia, are rising after centuries of living as the underclass. They are used to privation, living rough, and the Shia have more true believers.
Qatar's emir has a problem. Nobody in his country will fight and die for him either. Too soft, too rich. (Not nobody, quite. But when 130 Saudi soldiers die, it's a huge problem. Saud depends on the 2000 American soldiers for real defense.)
To your last question, I would say the cultures clash a bit, but yes, shared history helps. Houthi are also used like Hezbollah and Hamas as proxies, tho it seems with more care for the Houthi people perhaps. Houthi are a clan. Hezbollah and Hamas are a synthetic clan that makes their leaders rich.
Shia sects (Iran, Qatar, much of Yemen) , Salafi (Saudi, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uighurs, ISIS, Al Qaeda, & the rest of the Muslim Brotherhood organizations) they're all schisms of fanatic medieval drivel howling out of hell for blood, treasure, and enslavement of everyone, filled with righteous hatred, commingled with tribal bigotry, committing rape, torture, deceit, and mass murder as their religious duty. There is no reasoning with any of them, only playing them off on each other, using them as tools (USA, Russia, and I believe China has now entered that game) or placating them in a prisoner's dilemma game (France, protecting Arafat's family and their embezzled money, and i believe France is doing this now with Hamas -- note the recent death of 4 French "diplomats" in Gaza -- they weren't there helping Israel).
Another good summary word. Outside of STEM, our universities are kakistocratic. The center of it is social "science" which needs to be cleaned out. The Humanities have become inhuman teaching hate, division, and revolution.
Pretty much, the "Feds" are far better than we deserve. They try, and they do as good a job as they can. They run the country day to day, and week to week.
“The report finds that recent changes by the Department of Education after September 2020 “make vast amounts of data impossible to fully and accurately resolve.””
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China gave tens of millions to Penn and then Penn created the Penn Biden Center which paid Blinken and Biden both $1 million per year to do nothing except store classified documents there and then close down the operation when the money ran out.
Produces more energy than it consumes. Could be a game-changer. But wait, Department of Killing Migratory Birds and Whales, er, Energy has just issued a report that there were Jews involved in developing the process. Marchers are to report tomorrow at 9:00 on the college quad for their t-shirts and placards along with a rehearsal of vacuous chants. Extra virtue points towards getting on the Dean’s list. Don’t be late.
Aren't some of our aircraft carriers powered by nuclear? Isn't nuclear clean energy, too? (that's about all I know about nuclear fusion so correct me if I am wrong).
Not a nuclear scientist Nuclear Fission versus Nuclear Fusion two very different atomic processes - both create heat - fusion can be created here but the best example of it is our sun (Sol) that is a ball of fusion reaction. Fission is what you will find in all nuclear power plants (including those on aircraft carriers.
Ultimately it comes down to nuclear fission produces nuclear waste in the form of spent fuel rods. Fusion produces Helium as a by product.
Both are effective and breeder reactors can help manage nuclear waste restoring "spent" rods but the by product of that is Plutonium and that's what is used in making nuclear weapons.
Current challenges for Fusion are ignition and containment because it is as hot as the sun (roughly) and there are no materials on earth that would not melt or burn up. Therefore the fusion reaction would need to be contained using magnetism or something along those lines...something called a tokamak is the most promising design.
I think on this fission/fusion point I think we are in agreement. English majors and busybody sociopaths should not write ANYTHING requiring a scientific education....they are "clueless", as we used to say in the '90s.
No that is an arbitrary rule with no rationale invented by busybody sociopaths to justify their existence. You also don’t have to say ‘well’ instead of ‘good’.
Your reply reveals defensive bluster. The word "me" is a pronoun object. The word "my" is a possesive pronoun, "good" is an adjective, "well" is an adverb, and I'm not a busybody sociopath. If you're going to write effectively, get it right.
2. Magnetic bottle (probably tokamak) fusion. A breakthrough relatively high temp (liquid nitrogen) superconductor makes the return on energy 10,000 times better. Steve jurvetson (backed Tesla and SpaceX) is backing it.
There's also an alternative linear fusion bottle that has a nozzle on one end. Rocket.
The problem: "Solving climate change" by producing affordable electricity without burning fossil fuels will mean the climate zealots lose their jobs, their funding and their power.
One of my classmates had a intern job at LBL working in the fusion project. He was quite sure they were two years away...this was 1969. Hope this time is the charm because we are really going to need it soon.
A medium size data center uses 900,000 MWH per year, enough to completely power 100,000 homes. there are hundreds of them. An AI data center will use three times as much. Adding one to the grid is equivalent to a mid size city. The grid isn’t up to the task. The centers will need onsite generation. Not wind and solar. Probably gas turbines, a lot of them. Unless fusion in a package the size of a VW bus becomes available over the next couple of years
Bitcoin mining operations use extraordinary amounts of power too. Which I know because the power grid operator in Texas paid one $31.7 million to not use its allotment for one cycle during last summer's energy crisis
Anyone care to take a guess on the odds of fusion nuclear power clearing regulatory review and bringing a power plant on line before the end of this century?
If The Free Press wanted to do some *real* journalism, they would go out and find all of the Black applicants who applied to Yale Law and were rejected, the year that Hunter Biden was admitted, and interview them.
TFP should do a deep dive on those rejected from the Ivies compared to those who got in. My daughter’s best friend(white, middle class, 2 parent household) with perfect test scores, the valedictorian of a highly competitive high school, whose essay (fantastic)was published in the regional newspaper, played harp and flute for our local symphony and was rejected outright from every Ivy League. She ended up at University of Georgia and starts medical school in the fall. The SEC is going to save higher education!
I agree. Not sure if you are a Georgia fan but I am going to apologize in advance...haha 😀 My husband and son are University of Alabama graduates and our daughter is a senior(Roll Tide 😅). Our son got a wonderful education and has an amazing IT job.
Same here. My daughter wanted a big school in the South (we are in Virginia) and she chose Alabama. It was a great experience for her and she qualified for instate tuitions rates, so it was affordable too.
Good luck to this young woman! I got my two degrees culminating with my MD from the University of Colorado in 1980. I have enjoyed a full and self-employed medical career and kicked the asses off my Ivy League competitors... She will do well so long as she avoids employers who weigh the degree rather than the person!
Heather Mac Donald's 'The Diversity Delusion' contains plenty on that score (albeit not your specific instance) She makes a convincing case that the multi-billion campus bureaucracy is likely to have harmed the interests of as many students of colour as it has helped. A study in 2004 found that, by pushing black student with relatively low SAT scores into the most elite law schools, affirmative action actually had the effect of reducing the number of qualified black lawyers. “As such findings mount, the conclusion will become inescapable: College leaders who embrace affirmative action do so simply to flatter their own egos so that they can gaze upon their ‘diverse’ realm and bask in their noblesse oblige.” https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind
I love it I was being sarcastic because finding the Black Americans who Hunter Biden gypped out of going to Yale Law back in the day would be more of a hit piece.
I was vetted yesterday. I am a paid subscriber who was blocked until I proved who I was by responding to an email to me from TFP. And I wasn’t criticizing TFP or Bari Weiss or her partner. I was criticizing The Conquest Ideology which is responsible for fact that a majority of America University students are anti-Jewish and support Hamas.
IMNSHO, two topics the Free Press avoids like the plague are Islam - and the likely, actually inevitable, consequences on America of more Muslim immigration - and the attack of the Biden administration and leftist (Democrat) lawyers and judges on the Rule of Law and equality before the law. As an American lawyer, I invite you to investigate and report back.
I had a comment critical of one of the Weiss-people dissappear. Simple as that. (Never happened again.) Pray tell me how I would produce evidence that this happened?
Well, your anecdotal evidence doesn't point specifically to being 'Blocked'. While "proof" may be hard to show, at the very least telling the story of why you believe that blocking is taking place might have been in order. It looks like Terence has added more context. But initially he was saying the TFP is blocking people without any context. I was asking for 'proof' because we don't tend to just believe statements out of hand around here.
I can't speak to Terence's specific situation, but I also regularly criticize Bari and Nellie. And when I use a different device than usual (e.g., iPad vs. laptop or phone) to access through email, I get a message telling me I have to sign in.
I assumed it was an occasional site glitch, vs. blocking.
TFP is free from bias, outside influence, political pressure among other things I am too lazy to dwell upon. Some things are worth paying for! You missed the point there, Bud.
"free from bias"??!? When is the last time you saw Bari writing about the 20,000 dead in Gaza? All this site has been for 2.5 months is reporting on antisemitism, even where it doesn't exist.
I am glad you feel that way. There's no place for people who accuse wrongly and lie to forward their agenda about which they are not open . Just accusing falsely. No, the words harsh and insulting do not apply to the "feelings" of a liar.
The word is Dumb - Eric Adams's answer was dumb. Joe Biden can't say anything that is semi-intelligent, nor can the people who write what he says. Vice President Harris might have replaced Dan Quayle as the dumbest Vice president in History. Our experts who go on TV and jabber on about Trump, climate change, and gun violence are all dumb. Kristen Welker, Margret Brennan, Jonathan Karl, and George Stephonopolis are all Dumb. These questions each week show how much our "elite" class has fallen. The Palestinian protesters will never win a contest for being the brightest bulbs. Anyone who downloads something fake for companionship is dumb ( I think Zoe is a little bit too in love with herself to enjoy anyone else).
And last but not least, watching an interview with Donald Trump is the dumbest of them all. I'd vote against him so I would never have to watch the stupidity, vanity, and his incessant whining about anything. There are pockets where this does not reign: The Free Press ( never a dull moment on TGIF, and Bari is excellent), Bill Maher, Jordan Peterson, Scott Adams, and the front office and coaching staff who put together the San Francisco 49ers this year.
She still has 13 months to turn it around ( I pray that is all) but the book is not closed on her, with time there is hope and though hightly unlikely there is still a chance.
Oscar Wilde said that "Marriage was the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience." If we re-elect her, we'll deserve the consequences.
Agnew wasn't a bad VP. He attacked liberals and the media (I repeat myself). He presided over the Senate more than other VPs, who usually showed up only when there was a tie to be broken. When Agnew was County Executive of Baltimore County, MD, years before he became Vice President, he built new schools, increased teachers' salaries, reorganized the police department, and improved the water and sewer systems. The problem was that he was getting a 5% kickback from certain contractors whom he helped get public works contracts. By the time this was discovered, the statute of limitations had run on his state crimes, but he hadn't paid federal taxes on his kickbacks. In 1973, he pled nolo contendere (no contest) to one felony charge of tax evasion and resigned the Vice Presidency. He was best known for calling liberal elites "an effete corps of impudent snobs," accusing them of "pusillanimous pussyfooting" and characterizing them as "the nattering nabobs of negativism." Unlike Kamala, Spiro at least had a good speechwriter.
The media has been part of a vast conspiracy (real, not theory) of libel and slander regarding Trump. The left can't win at the ballot, so Lawfare, slander and libel is all they got left.
That's why I cancelled my NY Times subscription years ago. It wasn't their leftist views; that I could deal with. I cancelled when I realized they were intentionally giving me false information.
Our current liar-in-chief has repeated the Charlottesville lie about "good people on both sides" many times, even though it was long ago debunked. Let's go, Brandon.
Well.....there were these gems (#4 is my favorite):
1. "The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other."
2. "Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."
3. "I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
4. "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret that I have is that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."
5. "Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."
Don't forget the indefatigable Douglas Murray with his delicious supercilious upper crust accent. Hard to find a better champion of Western civilisation.
Many single words swirl around my head but I cannot seem to find one better than Ann Pollak's "Kakistocracy". For one thing, I had never heard of it. For another, it sums up the situation in the US perfectly. Kudos, Ann.
On the issue of the Department of Education site showing donations and the sheer impossibility of the reams of data, both visible and taken down, I cannot but think of the parallel in medicine with the ascendency of electronic health records (EHR). This technology was shoved down the throats of physicians by Barack Obama in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The intent was to improve health care, eliminate medical errors (often attributed to bad physician handwriting), streamline communication and information sharing, and provide vast data on demand. Take your pick. What it did instead is to diminish physician productivity by 20-30%, increase physician burnout and dissatisfaction with many physicians retiring earlier than they originally planned, create novel new means of fraud and waste, e.g. physicians copy-pasting patient notes and charging for visits they did not make and upcoding the complexity of patient interactions, and create intolerable levels of frustration with the interminable clicks necessary for even simple actions. One of the biggest problems with EHR is the computer screens are so 'busy' and full of extraneous data that the important items are often easy to overlook. I have seen more orders missed or in some way mishandled since EHR than I ever saw with paper charts. One of the main reasons I am retiring now is my disgust and frustration with EHR. After years of use, it has become harder, not easier, to use, the glitches remain and it still takes an infuriating number of clicks to get anything done. R. Bosshardt
Well now, since Ms. Gay has been outed as a serial plagiarist, she can now be chosen by Joe "The Plagiarist" Biden as his new vice presidential candidate! Take THAT Kevin Durant?!
Speaking of plagiarism, remember when Melania gave a speech that clearly ripped off Michele Obama's speech?! How embarrassing! To whomever was responsible for that little debacle I ask, Did you really think you were going to get away with that? Did you think people wouldn't notice??
Harvard applications decline. My immediate reaction was the identity of those who chose not to apply. Might it be Jewish high schoolers or non jews who happen to be conservative? The applicant pool will still be huge and one might assume less diverse than ever ( intellectually which of course at a place like Harvard matters little on their subjective diversity meter). The ultimate question is whether the Harvard grads of the future will still be hired in droves by Wall Street, academia , corporate America and of course our ever growing federal and state administrative agencies that seek to tell us what we can say, drive and even eat.
I feel bad saying this but if I were CEO of a major US company I would not hire any graduate of Harvard! There are to many other bright young people to choose from. I did a couple of Ivy League college tours with my very brilliant and hardworking daughter back 10 years ago and even she was appalled!
It is good to see liberals, or former liberals, finally refuting the racism they have supported for so many years. Democrats have always hated Jews and Christians.
Energy: Natural gas is as clean as you can get - we have more of it than any other hemisphere - and yet democrats keep trying to set it aside for 'clean' bullshyte like solar, wind, and EV's which are the most dangerous 'sources' in the world. Tells a story. Fusion is a good step, but we already have cheap, clean energy without much subsidy.
Both parties have little use for Jews other than fundraising or electoral blocs. I was wondering if anyone would pick up on the fact that I didn't say I know a lot of Democrats who don't hate Christians. Especially this time of year, with their unending War on Christmas.
No kidding. They are atheists. I left regular services at my Catholic church because they bowed to politicians which equals corruption. At least a prostitute - the oldest profession - is honest about what they do.
I love how they magically nailed him with a scandal 48 hours after he first threatened to expose what they are doing with the non-citizen occupying settlers they are shipping all over the country.
Fusion energy - if it ever becomes a realistic source of electric generation - is many decades away. Meanwhile we have safe, new gen fission energy that can produce vast amounts of non-carbon electricity. But neither our current federal government nor the completely fraudulent environmental movement is pushing it. Why? The answer is clear. Wind and solar are unreliable sources of energy directly tied to China. Pushing those sources undeniably makes electricity less reliable and more expensive, further destabilizing American society. So not only are our "environmental friends" pushing lunacy, they are actively pushing treason. From the White House, to the Sierra Club nitwits to the blithering media morons, they are all in league to make your life harder, more expensive and fraught with uncertainty. Think about that.
AI & Nuclear Fusion as with any new technologies will have both positive & deleterious results. As for Harvard & other A-listed universities we’ve returned to a time of discrimination only now people of color have the advantage to the detriment of white males, Jews & Asians. It’s a return to the past, 1930’s-1970’s & is flagrant discrimination based on race, gender & religion. I’m a Washington (D.C.) with many fond memories that range from family to Bobby Mitchell & Sonny & riding my bike throughout the city. It’s the memory of the Evening Star where one was exposed to honest, unbiased journalism. Today I won’t venture into the city. It’s just isn’t safe. The city’s crime has invaded the WOKE suburbs. Idiots, imbeciles & morons elect idiots, imbeciles & morons!
I’m surprised that Eric Adams didn’t use his two words to say something like “migration crisis.” This seems to be the year that the chaos at our borders and uncontrolled flow of migrants into the country finally registered for leaders of sanctuary cities like New York. Maybe 2024 will be the year DEI and virtue signaling end? One can only hope.
We have a crisis here in Chicago because a five-year-old died inexplicably in one of the migrant camps here. This after Gubernador Pritzker killed Da Mayor's plan to use some abandoned former chemical site as the new scaled up tent camp. All graded and partially built when the cancellation was announced. Probably a few million went down that rat hole but some well connected person probably unloaded a future Superfund site.
Agree with you, Crankie Frankie. Unfortunately, Chicago’s is a crisis years in the making. The voters of Chicago and Illinois at large continue to demonstrate an inability to make wise choices and our political class continues to offer up unimpressive candidates. Most recently, Chicagoans chose the socialist candidate for mayor over a well known mainstream and more reform-minded democrat, Paul Vallas. All of this followed watching five years of a divisive and incompetent Lightfoot administration. It leaves me and other Illinois residents wondering: when the decline of this once great city will ever end?
If you overlay the vote percentages for Brandon Johnson against the precincts where the most gun violence is recorded there is very good correspondence. I can only assume that means Chicagoans are fans of shootings and carjackings. What other conclusion can be reached? Those voters have been convinced that law enforcement is a source of chaos and malign. This is just one element in an incredible downward spiral.
In other news, the selective admission Chicago high schools (whose students are probably 80% Black) are being wound down because their existence might make other kids who didn't make the cut feel bad about themselves. So in the name of "equity" we remove a path that allows minority kids to excel and maybe score a scholarship to escape their otherwise dismal circumstance. This after Da Mayor pledged not to do this. You just can't make this shit up.
Another great example, Crankie Frankie. Chicago Public Schools’s winding down of selective admission high schools like Whitney Young, Jones College Prep, Walter Payton, etc is a great example of leadership incompetence and the destruction that will be inflicted on our children, particularly minority children, in the name of “equity.” This would be a great story for The Free Press to cover and for Bari to highlight as she continues to push for the end of DEI.
I don't think it does. I think Chicago was the dry run for what is being rolled out nation-wide - Democrats forever. The Colorado case is not even causing ripples in large swaths of the nation.
One word to sum up the past year . . .
Kakistocracy - a government that is ruled by the least suitable, able, or experienced people (Cambridge Dictionary)
I prefer the term I coined Ferretocracy™️ to describe what we have.
It’s good because it rhymes with ‘meritocracy’ but definitely is not the same, and ferrets remind most people of rodents even though they aren’t.
The name "ferret" is derived from the Latin furittus, meaning "little thief".
War.
Because we are at war, while pretending we are not. The war has been declared on us be islamists multiple times in the past 30 years. In that time, they have tried to blow up the WTC, then did it, then outlasted us, beating our "allies" who robbed us blind. They moved immigrant troops here, established CAIR, MSA, etc., infiltrated our military, and captured our universities and media.
War.
Yes. Islam is the ultimate enemy of America and all nations which are not Muslim majority. Islam’s war against the world has been going on since 620 AD.
Hear, hear!
And how is that responsible for our involvement in a stupid war in Ukraine, in which hundreds of thousands have already died?
Ukraine is a proxy war tool to overthrow the government of Russia.
In Syria we used ISIS and Al Qaeda as proxies. Iran is using Hamas as a proxy.
Yes. To put it another way, the immigrants can easily remain quiet until the time is right. Then, like the soldiers in the Trojan Horse, be everywhere to do damage. A thousand acts of sabotage, strategically placed and timed, and we are undone.
Do you and BS hate all immigrants, or just the ones who are Muslim? My money's on all, but especially Muslim?
I expect that, like me, they don't hate Muslims but they are aware that a significant percentage of them hate every other community in the World and want to turn, as they declare themselves, the entire world into their Caliphate.
In the UK a poll found 20% of the UK's Muslims had sympathy for ISIS/Daesh and 4% would actively campaign for/with them. That is more than enough to cause huge damage even without the unenthusiastic acquiescence of their co-religionists.
The result being, even if it seems unfair, that no Muslims should be allowed in the 'West' even if, individually, they seem friendly and tolerant.
Using the word “hate,” was once an effective way to give someone pause. It is now only used by those who will not spend the effort to articulate a worthwhile response but want to score some kind of point in their own mind. Such are welcome to that phony sense of triumph. It may be the only reward they are capable of. Most see it for what it is.
It's not just Iran. Not by a long shot. Though temporarily, Saudi Arabia the Sunni stronghold, is making nice with the west and Israel because the Houthi can take out the oil fields of Saudi Arabia any time they want to.
Note that the USA armed the Saudis. But the Saudis are rich, lazy, and not willing to die for the king. Iran, and the other Shia, are rising after centuries of living as the underclass. They are used to privation, living rough, and the Shia have more true believers.
Qatar's emir has a problem. Nobody in his country will fight and die for him either. Too soft, too rich. (Not nobody, quite. But when 130 Saudi soldiers die, it's a huge problem. Saud depends on the 2000 American soldiers for real defense.)
To your last question, I would say the cultures clash a bit, but yes, shared history helps. Houthi are also used like Hezbollah and Hamas as proxies, tho it seems with more care for the Houthi people perhaps. Houthi are a clan. Hezbollah and Hamas are a synthetic clan that makes their leaders rich.
Shia sects (Iran, Qatar, much of Yemen) , Salafi (Saudi, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uighurs, ISIS, Al Qaeda, & the rest of the Muslim Brotherhood organizations) they're all schisms of fanatic medieval drivel howling out of hell for blood, treasure, and enslavement of everyone, filled with righteous hatred, commingled with tribal bigotry, committing rape, torture, deceit, and mass murder as their religious duty. There is no reasoning with any of them, only playing them off on each other, using them as tools (USA, Russia, and I believe China has now entered that game) or placating them in a prisoner's dilemma game (France, protecting Arafat's family and their embezzled money, and i believe France is doing this now with Hamas -- note the recent death of 4 French "diplomats" in Gaza -- they weren't there helping Israel).
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/who-are-yemens-houthis
Decaying
Doom.
Another good summary word. Outside of STEM, our universities are kakistocratic. The center of it is social "science" which needs to be cleaned out. The Humanities have become inhuman teaching hate, division, and revolution.
Pretty much, the "Feds" are far better than we deserve. They try, and they do as good a job as they can. They run the country day to day, and week to week.
I wish you were right :(
“The report finds that recent changes by the Department of Education after September 2020 “make vast amounts of data impossible to fully and accurately resolve.””
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China gave tens of millions to Penn and then Penn created the Penn Biden Center which paid Blinken and Biden both $1 million per year to do nothing except store classified documents there and then close down the operation when the money ran out.
We also found out Penn hates Jews.
Nuclear fusion. The ultimate litmus test for the climate zealots who want to save the planet.
Produces more energy than it consumes. Could be a game-changer. But wait, Department of Killing Migratory Birds and Whales, er, Energy has just issued a report that there were Jews involved in developing the process. Marchers are to report tomorrow at 9:00 on the college quad for their t-shirts and placards along with a rehearsal of vacuous chants. Extra virtue points towards getting on the Dean’s list. Don’t be late.
Excellent comment. Love the Department of Killing Migratory Birds and Whales.
“No Nukes!” placards and T-shirts are being printed as we speak.
Hold up! the generous Qatari leadership has those placard printers and T-shirt printers on back order. Please check back next month.
Aren't some of our aircraft carriers powered by nuclear? Isn't nuclear clean energy, too? (that's about all I know about nuclear fusion so correct me if I am wrong).
Not a nuclear scientist Nuclear Fission versus Nuclear Fusion two very different atomic processes - both create heat - fusion can be created here but the best example of it is our sun (Sol) that is a ball of fusion reaction. Fission is what you will find in all nuclear power plants (including those on aircraft carriers.
Ultimately it comes down to nuclear fission produces nuclear waste in the form of spent fuel rods. Fusion produces Helium as a by product.
Both are effective and breeder reactors can help manage nuclear waste restoring "spent" rods but the by product of that is Plutonium and that's what is used in making nuclear weapons.
Current challenges for Fusion are ignition and containment because it is as hot as the sun (roughly) and there are no materials on earth that would not melt or burn up. Therefore the fusion reaction would need to be contained using magnetism or something along those lines...something called a tokamak is the most promising design.
They will allow it as long as we are all forced to cross-dress and work long hours in the uranium mines.
Uh, Kev…fusion doesn’t require uranium.
But cross-dressing for sure.
Oh not fission my bad. First ever instance of me being wrong. A sad day.
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Second instance..."First ever instance of MY being wrong". Get it right.
(also fusion isn’t the litmus test it’s fission as fission is readily available and they have not created an excuse for opposing fusion yet)
I think on this fission/fusion point I think we are in agreement. English majors and busybody sociopaths should not write ANYTHING requiring a scientific education....they are "clueless", as we used to say in the '90s.
No that is an arbitrary rule with no rationale invented by busybody sociopaths to justify their existence. You also don’t have to say ‘well’ instead of ‘good’.
Your reply reveals defensive bluster. The word "me" is a pronoun object. The word "my" is a possesive pronoun, "good" is an adjective, "well" is an adverb, and I'm not a busybody sociopath. If you're going to write effectively, get it right.
Hell, Kev—I usually make my first mistake of the day when I have my coffee. That way I get it out of the way early.
Sheesh, I've never been right once. I don't know what you're complaining about.
The more likely fusion game changers are:
1. a NASA project that shows contained lattice fusion works. (The fusion formerly known as cold.)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/lattice-confinement-fusion
2. Magnetic bottle (probably tokamak) fusion. A breakthrough relatively high temp (liquid nitrogen) superconductor makes the return on energy 10,000 times better. Steve jurvetson (backed Tesla and SpaceX) is backing it.
There's also an alternative linear fusion bottle that has a nozzle on one end. Rocket.
See Joe Horton. (Even though already saw your confession, you rousseau-you.)
The problem: "Solving climate change" by producing affordable electricity without burning fossil fuels will mean the climate zealots lose their jobs, their funding and their power.
One of my classmates had a intern job at LBL working in the fusion project. He was quite sure they were two years away...this was 1969. Hope this time is the charm because we are really going to need it soon.
A medium size data center uses 900,000 MWH per year, enough to completely power 100,000 homes. there are hundreds of them. An AI data center will use three times as much. Adding one to the grid is equivalent to a mid size city. The grid isn’t up to the task. The centers will need onsite generation. Not wind and solar. Probably gas turbines, a lot of them. Unless fusion in a package the size of a VW bus becomes available over the next couple of years
Bitcoin mining operations use extraordinary amounts of power too. Which I know because the power grid operator in Texas paid one $31.7 million to not use its allotment for one cycle during last summer's energy crisis
And yet nuclear fission is currently safe, cheap, and effective.
Anyone care to take a guess on the odds of fusion nuclear power clearing regulatory review and bringing a power plant on line before the end of this century?
There is a problem. We don't have enough fuel to do more than fire up the tests.
They don’t they just want us to be as fearful and miserable as them.
If The Free Press wanted to do some *real* journalism, they would go out and find all of the Black applicants who applied to Yale Law and were rejected, the year that Hunter Biden was admitted, and interview them.
TFP should do a deep dive on those rejected from the Ivies compared to those who got in. My daughter’s best friend(white, middle class, 2 parent household) with perfect test scores, the valedictorian of a highly competitive high school, whose essay (fantastic)was published in the regional newspaper, played harp and flute for our local symphony and was rejected outright from every Ivy League. She ended up at University of Georgia and starts medical school in the fall. The SEC is going to save higher education!
Instead of playing the flute your daughter’s friend should have tried being a gangbanger. I think that would have helped.
She is better off..still an exceptionally well rounded person which no Ivy League school could ruin....lucky girl!!
She is very fortunate to have avoided the reeducation camp.
I agree. Not sure if you are a Georgia fan but I am going to apologize in advance...haha 😀 My husband and son are University of Alabama graduates and our daughter is a senior(Roll Tide 😅). Our son got a wonderful education and has an amazing IT job.
Same here. My daughter wanted a big school in the South (we are in Virginia) and she chose Alabama. It was a great experience for her and she qualified for instate tuitions rates, so it was affordable too.
Alas, we are Gators! Our daughter ended up at UF and had a wonderful experience.
Good luck to this young woman! I got my two degrees culminating with my MD from the University of Colorado in 1980. I have enjoyed a full and self-employed medical career and kicked the asses off my Ivy League competitors... She will do well so long as she avoids employers who weigh the degree rather than the person!
Heather Mac Donald's 'The Diversity Delusion' contains plenty on that score (albeit not your specific instance) She makes a convincing case that the multi-billion campus bureaucracy is likely to have harmed the interests of as many students of colour as it has helped. A study in 2004 found that, by pushing black student with relatively low SAT scores into the most elite law schools, affirmative action actually had the effect of reducing the number of qualified black lawyers. “As such findings mount, the conclusion will become inescapable: College leaders who embrace affirmative action do so simply to flatter their own egos so that they can gaze upon their ‘diverse’ realm and bask in their noblesse oblige.” https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind
Kevin why do you put real in quotes. Are you not enjoying TFP?
I love it I was being sarcastic because finding the Black Americans who Hunter Biden gypped out of going to Yale Law back in the day would be more of a hit piece.
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Yes, Free Press History course Now!
The Free Press is no longer free. I am a paid subscriber who is partially blocked.
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Care to give examples, I say outrageous things, criticizing Bari and Nellie regularly. Never censored once.
My comments are always focused on maintaining decorum because I have dignity and empathy.
That made me laugh. Superb sarcasm. I agree about the dignity and empathy though.
My morning laugh out loud.
Who would ever think otherwise
Bruce Miller
I was vetted yesterday. I am a paid subscriber who was blocked until I proved who I was by responding to an email to me from TFP. And I wasn’t criticizing TFP or Bari Weiss or her partner. I was criticizing The Conquest Ideology which is responsible for fact that a majority of America University students are anti-Jewish and support Hamas.
Bruce take it easy! I have been blocked/vetted 3 times..I just sign in e-mail and keep going. It is probably not personal.
Please investigate further and keep us posted.
Lynne
IMNSHO, two topics the Free Press avoids like the plague are Islam - and the likely, actually inevitable, consequences on America of more Muslim immigration - and the attack of the Biden administration and leftist (Democrat) lawyers and judges on the Rule of Law and equality before the law. As an American lawyer, I invite you to investigate and report back.
How are you partially blocked? You are making comments right now...
Didn't realize blocking was a thing here.
until we have evidence, it isn't.
I had a comment critical of one of the Weiss-people dissappear. Simple as that. (Never happened again.) Pray tell me how I would produce evidence that this happened?
Well, your anecdotal evidence doesn't point specifically to being 'Blocked'. While "proof" may be hard to show, at the very least telling the story of why you believe that blocking is taking place might have been in order. It looks like Terence has added more context. But initially he was saying the TFP is blocking people without any context. I was asking for 'proof' because we don't tend to just believe statements out of hand around here.
Without an example I m going to say that is bulls--t.
You would be wrong. But your naivete is adorable.
No examples you lose
I can't speak to Terence's specific situation, but I also regularly criticize Bari and Nellie. And when I use a different device than usual (e.g., iPad vs. laptop or phone) to access through email, I get a message telling me I have to sign in.
I assumed it was an occasional site glitch, vs. blocking.
TFP is free from bias, outside influence, political pressure among other things I am too lazy to dwell upon. Some things are worth paying for! You missed the point there, Bud.
"free from bias"??!? When is the last time you saw Bari writing about the 20,000 dead in Gaza? All this site has been for 2.5 months is reporting on antisemitism, even where it doesn't exist.
Liar. Prove it. I absolutely 100 % do not believe that to be true, and question your agenda.
Of all the people questioning if he is really blocked, your comment definitely comes off as the most harsh and insulting.
Good job if that's what you were going for.
I am glad you feel that way. There's no place for people who accuse wrongly and lie to forward their agenda about which they are not open . Just accusing falsely. No, the words harsh and insulting do not apply to the "feelings" of a liar.
The Free Press could simply request that all such people contact it.
The word is Dumb - Eric Adams's answer was dumb. Joe Biden can't say anything that is semi-intelligent, nor can the people who write what he says. Vice President Harris might have replaced Dan Quayle as the dumbest Vice president in History. Our experts who go on TV and jabber on about Trump, climate change, and gun violence are all dumb. Kristen Welker, Margret Brennan, Jonathan Karl, and George Stephonopolis are all Dumb. These questions each week show how much our "elite" class has fallen. The Palestinian protesters will never win a contest for being the brightest bulbs. Anyone who downloads something fake for companionship is dumb ( I think Zoe is a little bit too in love with herself to enjoy anyone else).
And last but not least, watching an interview with Donald Trump is the dumbest of them all. I'd vote against him so I would never have to watch the stupidity, vanity, and his incessant whining about anything. There are pockets where this does not reign: The Free Press ( never a dull moment on TGIF, and Bari is excellent), Bill Maher, Jordan Peterson, Scott Adams, and the front office and coaching staff who put together the San Francisco 49ers this year.
Vice President Harris might have replaced Dan Quayle as the dumbest Vice president in History
Might?
She still has 13 months to turn it around ( I pray that is all) but the book is not closed on her, with time there is hope and though hightly unlikely there is still a chance.
Waiting for Kamala - the triumph of hope over experience.
Kinda like the guy/gal/person who can’t figure who hopes their 4th marriage is the one that’s gonna be the one.
Oscar Wilde said that "Marriage was the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience." If we re-elect her, we'll deserve the consequences.
Wilde also said: "Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
Ha, unmasked! Ms. Gay has nothing on me!
Beautiful.
She will not turn it around. The only reason she now rates higher in the polls than Brandon is because they are keeping her under wraps.
Aren't you guys forgetting Agnew?
Agnew wasn't a bad VP. He attacked liberals and the media (I repeat myself). He presided over the Senate more than other VPs, who usually showed up only when there was a tie to be broken. When Agnew was County Executive of Baltimore County, MD, years before he became Vice President, he built new schools, increased teachers' salaries, reorganized the police department, and improved the water and sewer systems. The problem was that he was getting a 5% kickback from certain contractors whom he helped get public works contracts. By the time this was discovered, the statute of limitations had run on his state crimes, but he hadn't paid federal taxes on his kickbacks. In 1973, he pled nolo contendere (no contest) to one felony charge of tax evasion and resigned the Vice Presidency. He was best known for calling liberal elites "an effete corps of impudent snobs," accusing them of "pusillanimous pussyfooting" and characterizing them as "the nattering nabobs of negativism." Unlike Kamala, Spiro at least had a good speechwriter.
Dan Quayle was not dumb. That thought was inserted into your brain by leftist media.
Like:
Both sides are good people
Bleach as a COVID remedy
Making fun of physically impaired
Calling Arlington graves 'suckers'
All of the above are bullshit.
The media has been part of a vast conspiracy (real, not theory) of libel and slander regarding Trump. The left can't win at the ballot, so Lawfare, slander and libel is all they got left.
That's why I cancelled my NY Times subscription years ago. It wasn't their leftist views; that I could deal with. I cancelled when I realized they were intentionally giving me false information.
Our current liar-in-chief has repeated the Charlottesville lie about "good people on both sides" many times, even though it was long ago debunked. Let's go, Brandon.
Well.....there were these gems (#4 is my favorite):
1. "The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other."
2. "Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."
3. "I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
4. "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret that I have is that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."
5. "Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."
Don't forget the indefatigable Douglas Murray with his delicious supercilious upper crust accent. Hard to find a better champion of Western civilisation.
I especially liked the Zoe ref. There's something about the name "Zoe," that does that.
“E/acc, according to 23-year-old entrepreneur Augustus Doricko”
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This guy will be the first trillionaire because a glitch in The Matrix is making it so all of our rich people have to have weird names.
The three richest people will be Elon Musk, Augustus Doricko, and Dingman Hornswoggle.
It's like when an oldie comic introduces a new character "Polly Parkson" and immediately you know she has superpowers.
It's too good! Just writes itself!
Hey! Back off dude!
Dirk Diggler got here first!
I was a Dork Pitt fan back in the day!
The hits keep on comin'. I'm done.
Many single words swirl around my head but I cannot seem to find one better than Ann Pollak's "Kakistocracy". For one thing, I had never heard of it. For another, it sums up the situation in the US perfectly. Kudos, Ann.
On the issue of the Department of Education site showing donations and the sheer impossibility of the reams of data, both visible and taken down, I cannot but think of the parallel in medicine with the ascendency of electronic health records (EHR). This technology was shoved down the throats of physicians by Barack Obama in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The intent was to improve health care, eliminate medical errors (often attributed to bad physician handwriting), streamline communication and information sharing, and provide vast data on demand. Take your pick. What it did instead is to diminish physician productivity by 20-30%, increase physician burnout and dissatisfaction with many physicians retiring earlier than they originally planned, create novel new means of fraud and waste, e.g. physicians copy-pasting patient notes and charging for visits they did not make and upcoding the complexity of patient interactions, and create intolerable levels of frustration with the interminable clicks necessary for even simple actions. One of the biggest problems with EHR is the computer screens are so 'busy' and full of extraneous data that the important items are often easy to overlook. I have seen more orders missed or in some way mishandled since EHR than I ever saw with paper charts. One of the main reasons I am retiring now is my disgust and frustration with EHR. After years of use, it has become harder, not easier, to use, the glitches remain and it still takes an infuriating number of clicks to get anything done. R. Bosshardt
I hear you Doc and sympathize greatly. "Coding errors" sheesh
Well now, since Ms. Gay has been outed as a serial plagiarist, she can now be chosen by Joe "The Plagiarist" Biden as his new vice presidential candidate! Take THAT Kevin Durant?!
Why stop there? Ms. Gay for Prezidunce.
They're missing a major opportunity here to have our first female, Black, Gay President.
I'm that in the not-to-distant future they'll figure out a way to do that, and Chelsea Manning for VP.
Speaking of plagiarism, remember when Melania gave a speech that clearly ripped off Michele Obama's speech?! How embarrassing! To whomever was responsible for that little debacle I ask, Did you really think you were going to get away with that? Did you think people wouldn't notice??
Melania is not president, or a senator, or employed by Harvard. Nevertheless, cribbing from someone else's speech is pure high school behavior!
So unprofessional, so cringe worthy, so embarrassing, so sloppy.
Harvard applications decline. My immediate reaction was the identity of those who chose not to apply. Might it be Jewish high schoolers or non jews who happen to be conservative? The applicant pool will still be huge and one might assume less diverse than ever ( intellectually which of course at a place like Harvard matters little on their subjective diversity meter). The ultimate question is whether the Harvard grads of the future will still be hired in droves by Wall Street, academia , corporate America and of course our ever growing federal and state administrative agencies that seek to tell us what we can say, drive and even eat.
I feel bad saying this but if I were CEO of a major US company I would not hire any graduate of Harvard! There are to many other bright young people to choose from. I did a couple of Ivy League college tours with my very brilliant and hardworking daughter back 10 years ago and even she was appalled!
It is good to see liberals, or former liberals, finally refuting the racism they have supported for so many years. Democrats have always hated Jews and Christians.
Energy: Natural gas is as clean as you can get - we have more of it than any other hemisphere - and yet democrats keep trying to set it aside for 'clean' bullshyte like solar, wind, and EV's which are the most dangerous 'sources' in the world. Tells a story. Fusion is a good step, but we already have cheap, clean energy without much subsidy.
Never mind the foot print of wind turbines and fields of solar panels!!?? Where are these minerals used for batteries coming from??? So crazy
Yep, never mind the child slave labor in Africa and western China... Nothing to see there...
Clearly they have never seen a pile-up of all those old used wind turbine blades.
No kidding. Or the TOXIC waste of solar panels that is normally outlawed for general industry.
I know plenty of Democrats who don't hate Jews.
Same here, but the majority still either hates them or discards them which is much worse in my mind.
Both parties have little use for Jews other than fundraising or electoral blocs. I was wondering if anyone would pick up on the fact that I didn't say I know a lot of Democrats who don't hate Christians. Especially this time of year, with their unending War on Christmas.
No kidding. They are atheists. I left regular services at my Catholic church because they bowed to politicians which equals corruption. At least a prostitute - the oldest profession - is honest about what they do.
To h*ll with fusion, Mayor Adams is already an unlimited source of hot air. Lots of potential energy there, if we can scale it.
I love how they magically nailed him with a scandal 48 hours after he first threatened to expose what they are doing with the non-citizen occupying settlers they are shipping all over the country.
Want the perfect metaphor for Adams’ mayorship (if that’s a word)? Watch the entire Sorcerer’s Apprentice in Fantasia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snB8u_G3jVI
It’s dated, but it’s still excellent.
Fusion energy - if it ever becomes a realistic source of electric generation - is many decades away. Meanwhile we have safe, new gen fission energy that can produce vast amounts of non-carbon electricity. But neither our current federal government nor the completely fraudulent environmental movement is pushing it. Why? The answer is clear. Wind and solar are unreliable sources of energy directly tied to China. Pushing those sources undeniably makes electricity less reliable and more expensive, further destabilizing American society. So not only are our "environmental friends" pushing lunacy, they are actively pushing treason. From the White House, to the Sierra Club nitwits to the blithering media morons, they are all in league to make your life harder, more expensive and fraught with uncertainty. Think about that.
One word to sum up 2023? How about
Revealing
As in: I now know very clearly the ones who wear white hats and the ones who wear black ones.
Joe, you can't just drop a tease like that and walk. Who has white, and who has black?
Guaranteed to generate a lot of discussion.
My take on white hat: Dennis Kucinich
Black hat: both Biden and Trump
C'mon, Built--you can't expect me to show my hand. We haven't even placed our bets yet!
I'd use that word for each of the last three years.
AI & Nuclear Fusion as with any new technologies will have both positive & deleterious results. As for Harvard & other A-listed universities we’ve returned to a time of discrimination only now people of color have the advantage to the detriment of white males, Jews & Asians. It’s a return to the past, 1930’s-1970’s & is flagrant discrimination based on race, gender & religion. I’m a Washington (D.C.) with many fond memories that range from family to Bobby Mitchell & Sonny & riding my bike throughout the city. It’s the memory of the Evening Star where one was exposed to honest, unbiased journalism. Today I won’t venture into the city. It’s just isn’t safe. The city’s crime has invaded the WOKE suburbs. Idiots, imbeciles & morons elect idiots, imbeciles & morons!
I’m surprised that Eric Adams didn’t use his two words to say something like “migration crisis.” This seems to be the year that the chaos at our borders and uncontrolled flow of migrants into the country finally registered for leaders of sanctuary cities like New York. Maybe 2024 will be the year DEI and virtue signaling end? One can only hope.
We have a crisis here in Chicago because a five-year-old died inexplicably in one of the migrant camps here. This after Gubernador Pritzker killed Da Mayor's plan to use some abandoned former chemical site as the new scaled up tent camp. All graded and partially built when the cancellation was announced. Probably a few million went down that rat hole but some well connected person probably unloaded a future Superfund site.
Agree with you, Crankie Frankie. Unfortunately, Chicago’s is a crisis years in the making. The voters of Chicago and Illinois at large continue to demonstrate an inability to make wise choices and our political class continues to offer up unimpressive candidates. Most recently, Chicagoans chose the socialist candidate for mayor over a well known mainstream and more reform-minded democrat, Paul Vallas. All of this followed watching five years of a divisive and incompetent Lightfoot administration. It leaves me and other Illinois residents wondering: when the decline of this once great city will ever end?
If you overlay the vote percentages for Brandon Johnson against the precincts where the most gun violence is recorded there is very good correspondence. I can only assume that means Chicagoans are fans of shootings and carjackings. What other conclusion can be reached? Those voters have been convinced that law enforcement is a source of chaos and malign. This is just one element in an incredible downward spiral.
In other news, the selective admission Chicago high schools (whose students are probably 80% Black) are being wound down because their existence might make other kids who didn't make the cut feel bad about themselves. So in the name of "equity" we remove a path that allows minority kids to excel and maybe score a scholarship to escape their otherwise dismal circumstance. This after Da Mayor pledged not to do this. You just can't make this shit up.
Another great example, Crankie Frankie. Chicago Public Schools’s winding down of selective admission high schools like Whitney Young, Jones College Prep, Walter Payton, etc is a great example of leadership incompetence and the destruction that will be inflicted on our children, particularly minority children, in the name of “equity.” This would be a great story for The Free Press to cover and for Bari to highlight as she continues to push for the end of DEI.
I don't think it does. I think Chicago was the dry run for what is being rolled out nation-wide - Democrats forever. The Colorado case is not even causing ripples in large swaths of the nation.
Yay Bari DEI is officially D-E-A-D
If only.
Truly bad ideas die hard.
And they come back around every decade or so.