The insanity is at an all time high, and of course we can't have an election result on the same night as the election cause reasons. I should be interesting still. I watched Rogan talk with JD Vance. The democrat party should be very afraid of this guy. His skill as an orator is in the vein of a William Jennings Bryan or a Roosevelt. And he appears to be just a normal family man. It's about friggin time we had a statesman to at least pretend to represent the people.
I also watched him on Rogan (and Tim Dilons podcast too). He's great, he can speak like a normal person, doesn't sound rehearsed, seems like a pretty decent guy without Trumps bravado. All the things people find off-putting about Trump he doesn't have. Add to that how skillful he is in dealing with hostile corporate media.
The Democrats seem to have no one on the bench for after 2024 while the Republicans seem to have a good roster of people coming up, not only Vance but also Ramaswamy or even de Santis who didn't do well in the primaries but has proven himself a very effective governor.
I'm so angry by that Abby Phillip quote -- and that softball by Brian Stelter that led up to it. Why do we not trust media? Well, it's not because the Svengali Trump has hypnotized stupid people into believing lies. We distrust you because:
- You get stories just plain wrong. Like wrong on the facts. And you get them wrong on the facts because your biases lead you to comforting, not challenging, conclusions. And because you are a striving class that desires to curry favor with those who hold power and set Narrative.
And you nearly always get stories wrong in ways that help Democrats and hurt Republicans. You'll believe Adam Schiff, but Devin Nunes is just a partisan politician, right? How badly did you guys fuck up Russiagate? And GET AWARDS FOR IT??!
- You frame stories in ways that support your politics. You leave out context. You include mostly the quotes that support your perspective on a issue. If another view is included, it's often buried well down to indicate what you think of it.
I mean, how did you actually report on accusations that Trump was in cahoots with Russians without taking a GIANT STEP BACK and tell yourself and your readers: "Trump's campaign opponent wants you to believe this, so maybe there's some political calculations involved. Judge accordingly, as will we."
- We see you for what you are: activists. You're not in the business to report. You're in the biz to advance your political projects. To tell us how to feel about issues. To be relentless, preening moral scolds, and it's fucking TIRING. It's always racism, xenophobia, misogyny. It's always structural. Systemic. It's larceny in one's heart. It's some ISM we didn't even know we were committing until you pointed it out to us so you could enjoy the social credit and self-satisfaction of saying, "You're a bad person. Do better."
Journalism is a trade. It's not hard. Stick your head out the window, look around, and tell us what you see. That's it. If you want to wag fingers and lecture and pontificate, join the writing staff of The Daily Show or Jimmy Kimmel or the Bulwark go into talk radio.
- You are unprincipled. The latest gaffe with President Biden is a fine example. Does Trump get the media making ABSURD EXCUSES like "he has a stutter," and "there was an apostrophe there, I heard it." Does Trump get the media excusing his mental lapses or have utter incuriosity about him the way you've been doing with Biden? If Trump holds his tie while drinking water, you think it's time to invoke the 25th amendment.
Republicans do anything that you can contort into something worthy of critique, you're all over it. Dems do it -- and suddenly the world becomes passive tense. Things just happened to them to put them in those circumstances, and now "REPUBLICANS POUNCE."
- You are cowards because you are beholden to Narrative and what it can do for your careers. And we see it. You won't report on the ways activist teachers and influence groups are changing school curricula. You won't report on the damages of riots done of the name of "racial justice" or "fighting settler colonialism" because you have zero intellectual curiosity into how others may reasonably see them as wrong or at least flawed. How noble does BLM look to you now? What did you do to Nick Sandmann?
- You engage in bad-faith fact-checking. If you have to mention that someone, with otherwise excellent credentials, has their information amplified by conservative outlets, then that tells us you're engaged in partisanship that thinks "conservative" and "right-wing" are self-invalidating. WHICH THEY AREN'T.
- You are shrill doomsaysers. Everything is all or nothing with you. Democracy Dies in Darkness. He's a fascist Nazi who hates humanity. "Should we secure our border?" sure sounds like a political question. But in your filtering, it resolves to "But people will die!" Because that's the choice, right?
- There are no political disagreements with you. Questions are settled, Good Values are known, and it's just a matter of implementing them through an enlightened and talented technocracy. Hey, if we just censor people, we can get important things done. Like making them feel "safe" online. Like taking the vaccine that's making Big Pharma enormous profits, which they can then donate to your favorite politicians' campaigns.
We don't distrust media outlets because of who they endorse. We distrust them because we see what you're doing. We see you as what you are: propagandists.
“Trump has personal faults. His opposition has institutional faults, which are much more serious and difficult to remedy.” — The Spectator’s Daniel McCarthy
I have not voted for Trump to date. I have voted 3rd party in both elections he previously ran in because of his personal faults. But, to this guys point, voting Trump really is the only way I can vote this year. The left has become so unhinged. They take a story and make up or exaggerate the rest as they go. Insulting the intelligence and integrity of 50-ish% of the voting population is going to be the fatal flaw for these entitled, arrogant pricks. This years vote cannot be wasted on a 3rd party who will be lucky to get 3% of the vote.
I've voted trump 3 times now and after the current election cycle, I don't really regret the choices. in 2016 I couldn't vote for Hillary. I was a deplorable after all and the clintons are criminals. (I voted for Bill Clinton twice.) In 2020, something seemed off about Biden, he seemed broken, and of course we didn't know for sure, but the laptop proved to be a real item. This year, it's pretty obvious that Kamala is not capable of being president. She can not make a good accounting of herself, and if she can't do it, and the media can't do it it probably can't be done.
"Republicans keep saying Kamala Harris speaks in 'word salad' because she speaks in an intellectual, nuanced manner" Ally Sammarco, she's apparently a real person, looked at her picture.....amazing!
Sammarco is the main Harris constituency of affluent, mentally ill white women. And really this "intellectual" (as opposed to intelligent) thing is hugely unpopular because it comes across as elitist when you use "big words" to say the most banal things over and over again. It's trying to fool dumb people into think she's smart. This sort of logorrhea is endemic in the social sciences and it really only works in that bubble.
So the problem is…can anyone guess? I can’t QWHITE see it.” — The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill, on only 36% of white men supporting Kamala Harris - sorry Jemele, only 36% of white mrn SAY they are supporting Kamala. Just imagine Kamala in the same room as Putin or Xi. Do that, and even if you hate that bad orange hair man, at least he can handle them. Instead of hand them our country.
'“These are deplorable people. Anyone in 2024 that is willing to vote for Donald Trump is deplorable, and it’s a morally indefensible position.” — Marc Lamont Hill, a CUNY professor and Kamala Harris surrogate'
I guess he missed the memo that the current term is "garbage". Keep up, Marc!
Scuze my French, but what the F**k is wrong with Mark Cuban? He has had Twitter Spats with Elon Musk and others in defense of DEI. The owner of an NBA team located in Texas... you would think he would have the sense to not piss off his NBA customers. However, there is something sinister in NFL and NBA owners pushing the woke agenda and siding with Democrats. I think it is connected to the globalist corporatist agenda where the cost of American professional sports entertainment has exploded and the domestic audience market is saturated, and NBA team owners like Cuban want to sell their team's entertainment and brand to a global market... where if successful Cuban can make more billions so he might by wealthier than Musk one day before he dies of complications from more Botox and face lift surgery.
And this gets us back to the key principle of everything in politics... just follow the money.
This is one of key reasons I reject almost every Democrat candidate... as the species is clearly the type of looter charlatan that peddles political influence and power for more wealth derived from their corporatist masters like Mark Cuban. Trump isn't that species and that is why they want to assassinate him... because of all the money they risk not being able to loot.
'An Esquire story about how two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station suddenly found themselves stranded with no ride home after the Columbia shuttle exploded in 2023.'
Hey Brad, I think you meant 2003.
Unless I missed a whole lot of space news in the intervening 20 years...
"You never see Trump around strong intelligent women." That statement was definitely true during his debate with Kamala.
The insanity is at an all time high, and of course we can't have an election result on the same night as the election cause reasons. I should be interesting still. I watched Rogan talk with JD Vance. The democrat party should be very afraid of this guy. His skill as an orator is in the vein of a William Jennings Bryan or a Roosevelt. And he appears to be just a normal family man. It's about friggin time we had a statesman to at least pretend to represent the people.
I also watched him on Rogan (and Tim Dilons podcast too). He's great, he can speak like a normal person, doesn't sound rehearsed, seems like a pretty decent guy without Trumps bravado. All the things people find off-putting about Trump he doesn't have. Add to that how skillful he is in dealing with hostile corporate media.
The Democrats seem to have no one on the bench for after 2024 while the Republicans seem to have a good roster of people coming up, not only Vance but also Ramaswamy or even de Santis who didn't do well in the primaries but has proven himself a very effective governor.
Of the four candidates in the top two tickets, he's the only one who can construct a complete sentence.
Color me naïve, but that seems like an important skill for such high office.
I'm so angry by that Abby Phillip quote -- and that softball by Brian Stelter that led up to it. Why do we not trust media? Well, it's not because the Svengali Trump has hypnotized stupid people into believing lies. We distrust you because:
- You get stories just plain wrong. Like wrong on the facts. And you get them wrong on the facts because your biases lead you to comforting, not challenging, conclusions. And because you are a striving class that desires to curry favor with those who hold power and set Narrative.
And you nearly always get stories wrong in ways that help Democrats and hurt Republicans. You'll believe Adam Schiff, but Devin Nunes is just a partisan politician, right? How badly did you guys fuck up Russiagate? And GET AWARDS FOR IT??!
- You frame stories in ways that support your politics. You leave out context. You include mostly the quotes that support your perspective on a issue. If another view is included, it's often buried well down to indicate what you think of it.
I mean, how did you actually report on accusations that Trump was in cahoots with Russians without taking a GIANT STEP BACK and tell yourself and your readers: "Trump's campaign opponent wants you to believe this, so maybe there's some political calculations involved. Judge accordingly, as will we."
- We see you for what you are: activists. You're not in the business to report. You're in the biz to advance your political projects. To tell us how to feel about issues. To be relentless, preening moral scolds, and it's fucking TIRING. It's always racism, xenophobia, misogyny. It's always structural. Systemic. It's larceny in one's heart. It's some ISM we didn't even know we were committing until you pointed it out to us so you could enjoy the social credit and self-satisfaction of saying, "You're a bad person. Do better."
Journalism is a trade. It's not hard. Stick your head out the window, look around, and tell us what you see. That's it. If you want to wag fingers and lecture and pontificate, join the writing staff of The Daily Show or Jimmy Kimmel or the Bulwark go into talk radio.
- You are unprincipled. The latest gaffe with President Biden is a fine example. Does Trump get the media making ABSURD EXCUSES like "he has a stutter," and "there was an apostrophe there, I heard it." Does Trump get the media excusing his mental lapses or have utter incuriosity about him the way you've been doing with Biden? If Trump holds his tie while drinking water, you think it's time to invoke the 25th amendment.
Republicans do anything that you can contort into something worthy of critique, you're all over it. Dems do it -- and suddenly the world becomes passive tense. Things just happened to them to put them in those circumstances, and now "REPUBLICANS POUNCE."
- You are cowards because you are beholden to Narrative and what it can do for your careers. And we see it. You won't report on the ways activist teachers and influence groups are changing school curricula. You won't report on the damages of riots done of the name of "racial justice" or "fighting settler colonialism" because you have zero intellectual curiosity into how others may reasonably see them as wrong or at least flawed. How noble does BLM look to you now? What did you do to Nick Sandmann?
- You engage in bad-faith fact-checking. If you have to mention that someone, with otherwise excellent credentials, has their information amplified by conservative outlets, then that tells us you're engaged in partisanship that thinks "conservative" and "right-wing" are self-invalidating. WHICH THEY AREN'T.
- You are shrill doomsaysers. Everything is all or nothing with you. Democracy Dies in Darkness. He's a fascist Nazi who hates humanity. "Should we secure our border?" sure sounds like a political question. But in your filtering, it resolves to "But people will die!" Because that's the choice, right?
- There are no political disagreements with you. Questions are settled, Good Values are known, and it's just a matter of implementing them through an enlightened and talented technocracy. Hey, if we just censor people, we can get important things done. Like making them feel "safe" online. Like taking the vaccine that's making Big Pharma enormous profits, which they can then donate to your favorite politicians' campaigns.
We don't distrust media outlets because of who they endorse. We distrust them because we see what you're doing. We see you as what you are: propagandists.
“Trump has personal faults. His opposition has institutional faults, which are much more serious and difficult to remedy.” — The Spectator’s Daniel McCarthy
I have not voted for Trump to date. I have voted 3rd party in both elections he previously ran in because of his personal faults. But, to this guys point, voting Trump really is the only way I can vote this year. The left has become so unhinged. They take a story and make up or exaggerate the rest as they go. Insulting the intelligence and integrity of 50-ish% of the voting population is going to be the fatal flaw for these entitled, arrogant pricks. This years vote cannot be wasted on a 3rd party who will be lucky to get 3% of the vote.
I've voted trump 3 times now and after the current election cycle, I don't really regret the choices. in 2016 I couldn't vote for Hillary. I was a deplorable after all and the clintons are criminals. (I voted for Bill Clinton twice.) In 2020, something seemed off about Biden, he seemed broken, and of course we didn't know for sure, but the laptop proved to be a real item. This year, it's pretty obvious that Kamala is not capable of being president. She can not make a good accounting of herself, and if she can't do it, and the media can't do it it probably can't be done.
That quote struck me as well.
I was going to vote third party this year, but now I'm going to vote for Trump because that's the only way to vote for RFK Junior.
"The stakes literally are life and death for every woman in America. It’s not hyperbole, it’s not an exaggeration."
I'd tell my wife that I'm going to miss her, but I don't want to get overly sentimental.
"Republicans keep saying Kamala Harris speaks in 'word salad' because she speaks in an intellectual, nuanced manner" Ally Sammarco, she's apparently a real person, looked at her picture.....amazing!
Sammarco is the main Harris constituency of affluent, mentally ill white women. And really this "intellectual" (as opposed to intelligent) thing is hugely unpopular because it comes across as elitist when you use "big words" to say the most banal things over and over again. It's trying to fool dumb people into think she's smart. This sort of logorrhea is endemic in the social sciences and it really only works in that bubble.
So the problem is…can anyone guess? I can’t QWHITE see it.” — The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill, on only 36% of white men supporting Kamala Harris - sorry Jemele, only 36% of white mrn SAY they are supporting Kamala. Just imagine Kamala in the same room as Putin or Xi. Do that, and even if you hate that bad orange hair man, at least he can handle them. Instead of hand them our country.
Some of these pundits, most notably Joy Reid, shoehorn absolutely everything into a racist prism. It's their specialty..
At some point even a platinum race card is maxed out. This stuff stopped working on most white people some time ago.
'“These are deplorable people. Anyone in 2024 that is willing to vote for Donald Trump is deplorable, and it’s a morally indefensible position.” — Marc Lamont Hill, a CUNY professor and Kamala Harris surrogate'
I guess he missed the memo that the current term is "garbage". Keep up, Marc!
"Deplorable" is so 2016.
Yes. Now it’s fashionable to call them “garbage.” The party of tolerance and Be Kind strikes again.
The problem with the fascist label is that it fits Biden by definition:: the merger of the administrative state with private industry
Just clicked subscribe due to the awesomeness of your clips-filled recaps.
Gee, can't remember the last time I ate a tampon. And they're the smart ones?!
Scuze my French, but what the F**k is wrong with Mark Cuban? He has had Twitter Spats with Elon Musk and others in defense of DEI. The owner of an NBA team located in Texas... you would think he would have the sense to not piss off his NBA customers. However, there is something sinister in NFL and NBA owners pushing the woke agenda and siding with Democrats. I think it is connected to the globalist corporatist agenda where the cost of American professional sports entertainment has exploded and the domestic audience market is saturated, and NBA team owners like Cuban want to sell their team's entertainment and brand to a global market... where if successful Cuban can make more billions so he might by wealthier than Musk one day before he dies of complications from more Botox and face lift surgery.
And this gets us back to the key principle of everything in politics... just follow the money.
This is one of key reasons I reject almost every Democrat candidate... as the species is clearly the type of looter charlatan that peddles political influence and power for more wealth derived from their corporatist masters like Mark Cuban. Trump isn't that species and that is why they want to assassinate him... because of all the money they risk not being able to loot.
The Columbia Shuttle exploded in 2003, not 2023. Probably a typo?
Yes, good catch - thanks!
That's what I'm here for, to spot the misinformation ;)
'An Esquire story about how two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station suddenly found themselves stranded with no ride home after the Columbia shuttle exploded in 2023.'
Hey Brad, I think you meant 2003.
Unless I missed a whole lot of space news in the intervening 20 years...
Yes, thank you - fixed
What is a red hat?
It's a reference to the red "Make America Great Again" hats
I first read it as the OS RedHat. LOL.
I suppose with the takeover by IBM it's only a matter of time before it's called "Blue Suit" instead.