There's a strange feeling in the air. The crazy left wing comments you highlight that used to scare me, now just make me chuckle. Their power is gone. I guess I shouldn't get too comfortable, but it sure feels like the days of Stelter, Joy Reid, etc., mattering to anybody are numbered...
I'm not an American but I feel a huge sense of relief that these crazy people are no longer in charge and hold a lot less power. I hope that this cultural change makes it to Europe, although looking at the UK for example there is a risk that it goes in the other direction first.
I wasn't very clear in my post. I meant it comes out in the political press, not in general since everyone who follows alternative media had a suspicion that this was going on - of course without the access there was no proof. Those with the access to the White House denied it publicly. I don't think NYT or WaPo or CNN or MSNBC ever reported on Bidens senility between 2021 up until the debate even though it was clearly going on while it was going - or if they reported it than only to vehemently deny that there was a problem. But I might be talking out of the echo chamber located in my ass ;)
“If this teenage white student at this private Christian school had instead shot and killed unarmed Black and brown adults MAGA would celebrate her. This is where we are in America. Where we’ve always been, sadly.” — Daily Beast’s Wajahat Ali
From context clues, I will guess that "Waja" is Swahili for "Ass".
Wajahat literally inverted the reality. It is the woke who were unhappy the assassination attempts on Trump were unsuccessful. It is the woke who back Hamas. It is the woke who indicted Penny. It is the woke who lionized Mangione or cold blooded murder.
Joy Reid would do anything for a paycheck. Despicable. She gets paid the big bucks to spew vitriol and create maximum division amongst the American people. She obviously lacks a conscience.
I dunno. I find it hard to believe some of these talking heads are such good actors. What I wouldn't give to get an actual peek inside their heads to see if they're true believers, or totally cynical money grubbers.
We can only hope that at least one or two will eventually have a change of heart and write a tell-all book.
I love how well the comment from Wajahat Ali meshes with the comment from Auron MacIntyre. Ali has this very weird strawman image that all MAGA people are not only garden variety racists but they would cheer murder of black/brown people, never mind that there are a lot of black/brown MAGA supporters. He truly doesn't understand the other side. Also ties nicely into the "cult" comments by Lindy Li, the names she got called including misogynistic and racial slurs by Democrats are quite telling. Maybe they assume everyone is as filled with hate as they are, and the "we're the nice and compassionate and kind side where love trumps hate" facade falls pretty quickly if you don't agree with them on 100% of everything even if it's the opposite of last weeks allowed opinion.
That doesn't seem to count in this case, but it's not surprising that Ali didn't even research it. I'm not sure if it's because it was on Bluesky and not X that Ali felt he could post that, it's truly sickening when people react to a tragedy like that.
In the German City of Magdeburg there was a terror attack with a Saudi immigrant driving into a Christmas Market killing and injuring people. The first takes on this from a lot of people were quite telling, first reaction was to say "oh just wait for the evil right wingers to use this tragedy as political fodder" and then it came out that the attacker might have supported the right-wing party and liked Elon Musk they promptly blamed them for it, claimed the attacker hates Muslims (that's why he drove into a Christmas market and not a mosque). The first reaction to horrific acts for a lot of people seems to be "how can I use this to make those I hate look bad?". It's despicable.
The interesting thing about the Rittenhouse story is that many of the dipshits never reported he shot black people, it's a nice trick where they aren't technically lying, just withholding information that frames the situation differently - so they said he shot people around a BLM "protest". Same with the NYT headline (paraphrasing) "Man who choked rider on subway acquitted". Factual but not truthful.
Each side tends to have a cartoon mental picture of the other side, but in today's world the Democrats' cartoon seems to have gone full-on Looney Tunes or maybe Yellow Submarine.
David samuels is 100% correct. I have no interest in EVs, and will never own one, but i own tesla stock because of Musk, period. I will buy stock for anything he is involved with that goes public.
I've always been a really big fan of Musk. Long before he ever got involved in politics. First learned about him in like 2013, ended up reading a couple biographies.
I love underdogs, and he's always been an underdog. Hell, he's still an underdog. Yeah, he's the richest individual in the world, but people don't seem to understand that the vast majority of his wealth is tied up in his companies. And most people have no idea how close he came to losing everything during Tesla's early days.
I also greatly admire work ethic and his is insatiable. Over and over and over again he's been told he'd never be able to accomplish something only for him to do exactly that. The guy works his ass off. He's a machine.
I think some of the Musk worship can also go a bit far at times but I would never bet against him and his accomplishments are legit, it can't be luck that he succeeds against the odds time after time. I always find it hilarious when people with zero or negligible accomplishment shit on Musk on social media (including X which makes it even funnier) with zero sense of irony. My feed on LinkedIn is filled with people who absolutely hate Musk or Trump, coming from the type of people who act like they're moral and great because they hate and publicly denigrate the right people.
There's almost something cute or quaint about the Social Justice cargo cult that is our liberal political class still going on about the competence of the MSM and their ownership of truth, the moral majesty of Joe Biden or spouting some old racial chestnuts like "If this were a white murderer, MAGA would be applauding!" all sung in the key of "Everyone who's not us is a dumb bigot"—it reminds me of those unreconstructed hippies you'd meet in the 70s or 80s who were still going on about fighting the Man and having a groovy time with their old lady.
They're starting to sound like people who've just emerged from a time capsule!
But I guess our liberal politicians and journalists will always have the Summer of Floyd for their Woodstock—that was when they wielded the bigotry accusation like Hendrix wielding his axe and everyone bowed down to their moral superiority. Good times!
Time always keeps moving forward, even if some people prefer to live in the past.
The more Dems/the Left rage at dissenters and engage in the petty tribalism of reputation destruction, deplatforming, cancellation, etc, -- the more they risk being seen as insincere and self-absorbed in their politics. And the more it appears their moral positions are mostly in service to building their reputations, the less power they will have as the cultural and political police.
Have to admit I agree with David Frum for once. Its the only thing that makes the tacit (and sometimes explicit) approval of our urban blight make sense.
California spending 6.5 billion on Medicaid for illegals is just endlessly depressing, but then the thought of 'bear-macing' NH Democrat Annie Kuster is somewhat restorative......
I really do not understand how after the election and the clear decline of all the left media that has gone bat shit crazy spewing their lies and cognitive dissonance, why it continues.
What in hell is wrong with our economic system that the owners of these media businesses would allow them to continue their downward trajectory... doubling down on what is causing their decline?
If the majority public owners of these media businesses are such that they don't care about the financial outcomes, I think this is evidence that the majority public ownership needs to be challenged and required to change.
Warner Brothers Corporation owns CNN. Comcast owns MSNBC.
The top three owners of both are Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street. Combined they own about 23%. Other investment institutions follow. This means that Wall Street owns the controlling interest by a wide margin. All these Wall Street firms together walk and talk as the same duck... seemingly demanding the stations spew a propaganda stream to advance their WEF Agenda 2030 which required the destruction of the Western working class.
I am of the mind that this needs to stop... the fate of the Western world will require new legislation that treats Wall Street as a single entity as they own shares of each other, with respect to the media, and limits the amount of ownership it can hold.
Well, viewership of those cable outlets is down something like 30% – 40%, and reportedly MSNBC is for sale; and outlets like WaPo and NYT are starting to backpedal a little bit, so market forces are at work.
“Elites literally can’t imagine what people who shop at Walmart think, what they value, how they live their lives.” — The Blaze’s Auron MacIntyre or as William Gibson observed much earlier “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
“Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now” — The Hill headline
“This is interesting. I don’t expect Democrats to have the cojones to try it, but I see no fault in the reasoning.” — MSNBC’s Joy Reid, regarding the idea that Congress has the power to prevent Trump from taking office
There's a strange feeling in the air. The crazy left wing comments you highlight that used to scare me, now just make me chuckle. Their power is gone. I guess I shouldn't get too comfortable, but it sure feels like the days of Stelter, Joy Reid, etc., mattering to anybody are numbered...
I'm not an American but I feel a huge sense of relief that these crazy people are no longer in charge and hold a lot less power. I hope that this cultural change makes it to Europe, although looking at the UK for example there is a risk that it goes in the other direction first.
Yes, in my mind it's become "Quotes of the Weak".
Lolol
I think it’s pretty cool that the political press was basically incurious about who’s been running the country for the last 4 years.
It's always interesting how this comes out when it's already to late to do anything about it, the same with e.g. vaccine injuries or Covid origins.
Many observers were pointing out that Biden was only a figurehead for years.
I wasn't very clear in my post. I meant it comes out in the political press, not in general since everyone who follows alternative media had a suspicion that this was going on - of course without the access there was no proof. Those with the access to the White House denied it publicly. I don't think NYT or WaPo or CNN or MSNBC ever reported on Bidens senility between 2021 up until the debate even though it was clearly going on while it was going - or if they reported it than only to vehemently deny that there was a problem. But I might be talking out of the echo chamber located in my ass ;)
MiniTrue, you are right on the money.
“If this teenage white student at this private Christian school had instead shot and killed unarmed Black and brown adults MAGA would celebrate her. This is where we are in America. Where we’ve always been, sadly.” — Daily Beast’s Wajahat Ali
From context clues, I will guess that "Waja" is Swahili for "Ass".
Wajahat literally inverted the reality. It is the woke who were unhappy the assassination attempts on Trump were unsuccessful. It is the woke who back Hamas. It is the woke who indicted Penny. It is the woke who lionized Mangione or cold blooded murder.
Joy Reid would do anything for a paycheck. Despicable. She gets paid the big bucks to spew vitriol and create maximum division amongst the American people. She obviously lacks a conscience.
I dunno. I find it hard to believe some of these talking heads are such good actors. What I wouldn't give to get an actual peek inside their heads to see if they're true believers, or totally cynical money grubbers.
We can only hope that at least one or two will eventually have a change of heart and write a tell-all book.
I love how well the comment from Wajahat Ali meshes with the comment from Auron MacIntyre. Ali has this very weird strawman image that all MAGA people are not only garden variety racists but they would cheer murder of black/brown people, never mind that there are a lot of black/brown MAGA supporters. He truly doesn't understand the other side. Also ties nicely into the "cult" comments by Lindy Li, the names she got called including misogynistic and racial slurs by Democrats are quite telling. Maybe they assume everyone is as filled with hate as they are, and the "we're the nice and compassionate and kind side where love trumps hate" facade falls pretty quickly if you don't agree with them on 100% of everything even if it's the opposite of last weeks allowed opinion.
At least one of the shooter's victims was Hispanic, so Ali's comment doesn't mean shit.
That doesn't seem to count in this case, but it's not surprising that Ali didn't even research it. I'm not sure if it's because it was on Bluesky and not X that Ali felt he could post that, it's truly sickening when people react to a tragedy like that.
Remember, these are the same dipshits that reported that Kyle Rittenhouse shot black people in Wisconsin.
In the German City of Magdeburg there was a terror attack with a Saudi immigrant driving into a Christmas Market killing and injuring people. The first takes on this from a lot of people were quite telling, first reaction was to say "oh just wait for the evil right wingers to use this tragedy as political fodder" and then it came out that the attacker might have supported the right-wing party and liked Elon Musk they promptly blamed them for it, claimed the attacker hates Muslims (that's why he drove into a Christmas market and not a mosque). The first reaction to horrific acts for a lot of people seems to be "how can I use this to make those I hate look bad?". It's despicable.
The interesting thing about the Rittenhouse story is that many of the dipshits never reported he shot black people, it's a nice trick where they aren't technically lying, just withholding information that frames the situation differently - so they said he shot people around a BLM "protest". Same with the NYT headline (paraphrasing) "Man who choked rider on subway acquitted". Factual but not truthful.
Each side tends to have a cartoon mental picture of the other side, but in today's world the Democrats' cartoon seems to have gone full-on Looney Tunes or maybe Yellow Submarine.
David samuels is 100% correct. I have no interest in EVs, and will never own one, but i own tesla stock because of Musk, period. I will buy stock for anything he is involved with that goes public.
I've always been a really big fan of Musk. Long before he ever got involved in politics. First learned about him in like 2013, ended up reading a couple biographies.
I love underdogs, and he's always been an underdog. Hell, he's still an underdog. Yeah, he's the richest individual in the world, but people don't seem to understand that the vast majority of his wealth is tied up in his companies. And most people have no idea how close he came to losing everything during Tesla's early days.
I also greatly admire work ethic and his is insatiable. Over and over and over again he's been told he'd never be able to accomplish something only for him to do exactly that. The guy works his ass off. He's a machine.
I think some of the Musk worship can also go a bit far at times but I would never bet against him and his accomplishments are legit, it can't be luck that he succeeds against the odds time after time. I always find it hilarious when people with zero or negligible accomplishment shit on Musk on social media (including X which makes it even funnier) with zero sense of irony. My feed on LinkedIn is filled with people who absolutely hate Musk or Trump, coming from the type of people who act like they're moral and great because they hate and publicly denigrate the right people.
There's almost something cute or quaint about the Social Justice cargo cult that is our liberal political class still going on about the competence of the MSM and their ownership of truth, the moral majesty of Joe Biden or spouting some old racial chestnuts like "If this were a white murderer, MAGA would be applauding!" all sung in the key of "Everyone who's not us is a dumb bigot"—it reminds me of those unreconstructed hippies you'd meet in the 70s or 80s who were still going on about fighting the Man and having a groovy time with their old lady.
They're starting to sound like people who've just emerged from a time capsule!
But I guess our liberal politicians and journalists will always have the Summer of Floyd for their Woodstock—that was when they wielded the bigotry accusation like Hendrix wielding his axe and everyone bowed down to their moral superiority. Good times!
Time always keeps moving forward, even if some people prefer to live in the past.
The more Dems/the Left rage at dissenters and engage in the petty tribalism of reputation destruction, deplatforming, cancellation, etc, -- the more they risk being seen as insincere and self-absorbed in their politics. And the more it appears their moral positions are mostly in service to building their reputations, the less power they will have as the cultural and political police.
Lindy Li knows her shir.
WaPo wants truth? That needs to start with an apology for lying about everything Trump for nearly ten years.
Wow, someone at The Atlantic said something semi insightful. I'm sure it was just an accident.
Excellent comments here Brad!!!
Some of the headlines from news sources are unconscionable!
Actually made me laugh!
Reading T Gabbords story about quiet skies was very eye opening!
She is now the Queen of Hearts!
Have to admit I agree with David Frum for once. Its the only thing that makes the tacit (and sometimes explicit) approval of our urban blight make sense.
California spending 6.5 billion on Medicaid for illegals is just endlessly depressing, but then the thought of 'bear-macing' NH Democrat Annie Kuster is somewhat restorative......
I really do not understand how after the election and the clear decline of all the left media that has gone bat shit crazy spewing their lies and cognitive dissonance, why it continues.
What in hell is wrong with our economic system that the owners of these media businesses would allow them to continue their downward trajectory... doubling down on what is causing their decline?
If the majority public owners of these media businesses are such that they don't care about the financial outcomes, I think this is evidence that the majority public ownership needs to be challenged and required to change.
Warner Brothers Corporation owns CNN. Comcast owns MSNBC.
The top three owners of both are Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street. Combined they own about 23%. Other investment institutions follow. This means that Wall Street owns the controlling interest by a wide margin. All these Wall Street firms together walk and talk as the same duck... seemingly demanding the stations spew a propaganda stream to advance their WEF Agenda 2030 which required the destruction of the Western working class.
I am of the mind that this needs to stop... the fate of the Western world will require new legislation that treats Wall Street as a single entity as they own shares of each other, with respect to the media, and limits the amount of ownership it can hold.
Well, viewership of those cable outlets is down something like 30% – 40%, and reportedly MSNBC is for sale; and outlets like WaPo and NYT are starting to backpedal a little bit, so market forces are at work.
“Elites literally can’t imagine what people who shop at Walmart think, what they value, how they live their lives.” — The Blaze’s Auron MacIntyre or as William Gibson observed much earlier “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
“Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now” — The Hill headline
“This is interesting. I don’t expect Democrats to have the cojones to try it, but I see no fault in the reasoning.” — MSNBC’s Joy Reid, regarding the idea that Congress has the power to prevent Trump from taking office
Because J6 worked out so well for Republicans?