I have never understood the hatred for Trump? Yes, he is arrogant (my brothers objection) and yes he can be brash (can't we all) but, for the love of God; he was good for our country, The circus in charge now actually HATES America and is destroying it as we speak. UFB
I agree. We're living in a mess. We have no border. Free speech is under attack from a Supreme court Justice and this administration. There are two standards of justice, one for Democrats, like Hunter Biden and one for Republicans, like President Trump. The economy is a disaster and inflation has not improved despite what the WH is saying. The FBI is targeting PTA members, Catholics and Trump supporters as terrorists while those on the terror watchlist walk across our border. I could go on but it would take up the whole page. We have seen what Trump did as President, he did not get us into war, Biden has us in two conflicts. The economy was good, inflation was 2% not 9%. He kept illegal immigrants from overwhelming the border. I am at a loss for why people would never consider voting for Trump. What is it that is going on in our country now that people are okay with?
I've personally never understood a blind adherence to a single political party. People who are not in the least active in political matters and who do no more than cast a vote here and there (and sometimes not even regularly), people who are largely ignorant about what is going on and what their party is doing, are nevertheless absolutists about voting Democrat no matter what. I registered as Republican in 1971 because I needed to register to vote. I've voted Republican more often than not, but there have been times where I've voted for a Democrat or an Independent. It depended on the issue, on the candidate. Also, in the past things were more rational than now and the two main parties worked together to find solutions. I never used to see every single Democrat vote in a bloc like they do now. They appear to be herded into a singular voting decision by their leadership, no dissent allowed. So I am at a point where I can never vote for a Democrat again unless things get back to how they used to be with the two parties. There may be a Democrat candidate I like a lot but I can't vote for that person because I know there will be no possibility of an independent vote any more, not the way it is now.
Ultimately, I see so many people and especially those 35 and under that are disgusted by all politics, by government, and they are increasingly disengaged from all of it. It seems like there is a decreasing number of people who bother to vote. That alone may increase the likelihood of corruption and bad players getting into office.
And not only children. Not allowing families to visit their relatives in nursing homes and having those suffering with Altzheimer's not knowing why they couldn't visit was inhumane to say the least. And then dying without their families being there to comfort them in some way. Horrific.
I couldn't vote for a Democrat for any legislative office because, unlike the GOP, the Donkey Party usually votes in lockstep. The biggest exceptions to this rule are Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema, who are both leaving the Senate after this year. The Democrats are led by their most radical elements. Joe Biden didn't used to be Gung Ho for abortion on demand up to birth, Chuck Schumer used to be for securing the border and Bill Clinton even balanced the budget (with the help of a Republican Congress). Now Biden and company are for transitioning minors, shoveling tens of billions to Ukraine without end, interfering with Israeli politics, DEI (neo-racism), a woke military that can't attract enough recruits, open borders and unlimited spending. Bobby Kennedy wanted to provide a somewhat better alternative but the party fixed the rules so he had to run as an independent. If the Democrat Party has any redeeming features, I'd like to know what they are.
CMCM, you're right. I live in California and I'm not the smartest guy in most rooms, but I remember thinking that too many of my Cali friends were disengaging from politics when the Democrat plan of flooding the US with illegals was working better than most Democrat policies ever do, and I was telling all of them how crazy it's going to get... but like the frog in the water pot, I almost lost track of my own prediction as we went from Gov Reagan to Gov Slick, but after a few car rides from Oregon to SoCal I realized Cali's over, open borders did their job... and the fact that Pierre still feels comfy spewing sociopathic lies about Biden's 3 1/2 years of open border, America's over too, and there's still 6 months before Biden's out and Newsom in for '24 and the finishing touch.
I'm an independent. The problem I have is that there really aren't 2 parties anymore. Republicans vote with Dems. There are a few exceptions who will stand up for what's right for the country and the people but they can't accomplish anything without their Republican colleagues standing with them.
From the beginning, I always thought Trump was funny. I have never understood why other people don't see how funny he is. They take him so seriously. I take him seriously in that I think he did, and can do, a lot of good for the country, but I also see that he has a sense of humor.
TDS was nothing but brilliant in what it was intended to do. The effective indoctrination of "yellow haired man bad" and re-crafting of context around Trump was BOUGHT hook, line and sinker by those minds susceptible to the CON. Have to admit though...it was effective unfortunately. Highly unlikely those minds lost in the TDS abyss are salvageable at this point, but those very same people I believe one day will have a "WTF was I thinking" moment down the line if this commie take over of America executes as intended.
Yes...began long ago didn't it, yet the odd aspect of it all is many were just immune to the hypnosis, and had no problem maintaining it while those around them did not, so what is the DIFF since we all came thru the funnel
Most were in The Truman Show ( Jim Carey ) as Trumans and in The Matrix accordingly. Hollywood warned us with lots of predictive programing over the years. Even called out the covid 19 scam for the last decade or more.
People not paying attention to critical thinking. So sad. It is the difference between humans and .....I was going to say animals but some animals are better critical thinkers and survivalists.
Well pride will quickly be selected against, which is a good thing. It definitely got to be too big, this " over confidence " ( likely by Propaganda design ) especially in the US.
Doesn’t anyone remember that the world wasn’t on fire when he was in office? The economy was booming. Peace deals were happening in the Middle East. The so called elites were/are the most easily seduced by the propaganda and appeal to their belief in their own moral and intellectual superiority. “Orange man bad” and they’ve bought it hook line and sinker. TDS is real.
It is a deep seated programming (or dare I say brainwashing) that seems to defy all reason. Their rationales for TDS are several that they've heard repeatedly on CNN, such as: he's arrogant (alternatively-self confident), brash (outspoken), racist and Hitler-esk. Some of these arguments can be seen in a different light (as in parentheses), but others have no basis in fact. On occasion, I will try to verbally joust with these poor people. When confronted with cold hard facts contradicting their beliefs, they will almost immediately devolve into a fit of angry name calling, which I find amusing, to say the least. In other words, their hatred of Trump is irrational, yet runs so deep into their core, that they cannot even consider that their thinking is erroneous. I have as yet, been unable to find a way to change their minds even a tiny iota.
Exactly. Also, when you try to speak to them about the Biden crime family, they go into a tirade about what a great job he's doing. If you weren't hearing that from the lamestream media, the thought would never occur to you. They live in a delusional world where facts don't matter. They exist on pure emotion and hatred. I actually pity them.
When Trump was President costs were cheaper on Thanksgiving Trump last year gas was under $1.75 a gallon. Today it's $3.40 for regular unleaded in Massachusetts. January 1st, 2024 all my utilities have risen like natural gas prices electricity prices, and insurance prices. And struggling with getting medical supplies and medications as well. Thanks to Uncle Joe Robinhood Biden
I keep asking what ever you fear from Trump why did he not do the fascist stuff last time? “Personally I think Donald Trump would be a disaster as president and I will vote against him”
Trump represents individualism, not conservativism. Their angst stems comes from a social crisis which they're feeling but don't understand. The social crisis is being caused by the proliferation of addictive anti-social electronic devices. The social crisis is quite real and appears to be unsustainable, at least while it remains hidden. If it becomes widely recognized, perhaps it can be mitigated somehow, bringing us back into line with nature. If not, our society is slated for destruction or at least a hard rebalancing where extreme collectivism can steal enough power to balance the ideological scale, which appears to be a requirement of nature. As of now, we're at the mercy of nature since we're unable to correct or confront the problem intellectually.
I'm a little mystified by people like Peter who says that 'I believe Trump would be a disaster as President'.
This is a actually a rare moment in US history when we don't have to 'guess' what we're getting. We've already seen him as President for four years. We know what he'll stand for. If you disagreed with his programs and performance, then by all means pull the lever for someone else. But I will vote for him again because I have a very good idea what he's going to stand for, and I support most of it, bluster and all. And I feel fortunate this is one election we know exactly what we're going to get from each guy.
I was going to say the same thing. How would he be a “disaster?” He was already potus for 4 years, and other than the constant screaming of the pink-hatted protesters, there were no disasters!
Lack of cynicism comment brings up a point I have been making for some time now. Where are all the 60s radicals???? We supposedly did not trust the government, wanted peace, no foreign wars, justice for the working class etc etc. I remember Springsteen in a concert doing Edwin Starr's "War, What is it good for?" and warning you can't trust government. Now all of a sudden the government (it it's Dems) can be trusted on everything? Now the one candidate who stands for peace, no foreign wars, the working class etc etc is our enemy? Maybe they were (and are ) all communists.
What happened to the 60’s radicals? They won. Their ideas captured every institution; their progressivism is now the establishment. Doesn’t make sense to be anti-establishment when you are the establishment.
It’s just that so many didn’t understand where all those great-sounding bromides would lead in real life.
It seems like the 60s radicals who remain above ground have become embedded in the current "establishment" and are blatant shills supporting the very things and people they used to protest. Have any of the Berkeley "free speech" activists said anything about the total lack of free speech at Berkeley these days? All I hear is crickets. Likewise, the 1970s feminists are strangely silent about what has been happening to women lately. More crickets. They were all frauds and fakes, interested not in furthering their various "causes" but rather, focused only on amassing fame, power, and money.
Alex thank you for your excellent reporting! I wish people on both sides of the aisle would understand…you can’t hate Trump and refuse to vote for him and still want to be able to heat and cool your home affordably; afford your groceries; stop the invasion at our southern border; stop the out-of-control crime happening around our country, especially in Democrat-run cities where police have been defunded and bail no longer exists; and keep our first amendment rights that you are so valiantly fighting for. I’m leaving out a lot of other stuff, but you get the point. I have told your story to so many people in hopes that it wakes them up. I pray that people will love their country more than they hate the man the mainstream media tells them to hate. Our lives and our children’s lives depend on it. These are very troubling and scary times we are living in.
EXACTLY! Do you see it now Alex?! The rest of us do. The main problem with the Trump presidency was the chaos caused by those who opposed him (in both parties)! The policies, the “keep them guessing” governing - were successful! He actually has a sense of humor and doesn’t take himself so seriously - I wish people would chill out and see that.
Agree! I'm in California, and due to it being a totally Democrat state I knew my presidential vote in 2016 would not get enough electors on the R side. I got a kick out of Trump because he fought back against the media, unlike doormat Bush. After 4 years of his presidency, I liked a lot of what he did policy wise. So in 2020 I enthusiastically voted for him, although in terms of electors from CA, it made no difference. Trump is brash and mouthy, a very typical New Yorker, actually, but the chaos mainly came from the non-stop hysteria of the leftist media drones. They especially hate Trump because they can't manipulate him and make him cower to their silly whims. He didn't want to be in their insipid club. It got very tiresome. The media is tiresome and it's impossible to take many of them at all seriously. They're like wailing children.
If you punch the ballot for Trump, you're not necessarily voting FOR Trump.
But you ARE voting against Biden, and THAT should dictate your ballot choice, IMO. No, not IMO. It's fact.
Biden has been an unmitigated disaster; Trump's (first?) four years were not a disaster, not even close. (So it makes no sense for Peter T. to think Trump's election would be a "disaster" given what we KNOW about his first term and Resident Biden's past 3+ years.)
This blindness - and TDS - can be explained by a historic example. Forgive me for paraphrasing but I'm sure you'll get the point: I was watching a WW2 television documentary, and the topic was the allied bombing of German cities in 1945 and the continued resistance of the populace. A civilian survivor was being interviewed (the show was probably made in the 1970s) and the question was, the war was over, the Nazis have been defeated, why continue to struggle? The answer was (and here's the paraphrasing), "You have to understand, all we knew for twelve years was what they told us. We thought we were winning. We thought we were the good guys."
As I have maintained for many years, the true cancer among us is not the Democrat Party and is not the Leftists.
It's the alphabet legacy media. If they only reported the news straight, the Democrat Party would be at most a fringe player in American politics.
The American media apparatus needs to be burned to the ground, the earth salted where they stood, and rebuilt from scratch with ALL new players. Until the American media conglomerate is destroyed, the republic will continue on the road to its destruction.
The media has become 100% opinion. And they are all advocates of a particular narrative. There are very few real journalists left, those who report the news as factually as possible and leave innuendo and opinion out of it. Very sad.
I’m seventy and I’ve also been puzzled as to why so many of my 60’s generation caved when it came to COVID. It occurred to me perhaps a good number of them are unhealthy now, saddled with blood pressure meds, diabetes, high cholesterol, carrying a lot of extra pounds, etc, etc. They were quite frightened and gladly went along with whatever they were told to do. Suddenly the ‘government’ was their best friend. My mom was into Adele Davis and Prevention magazine back in the day and loved Jack Lalanne almost as much as she loved Elvis. As a high school student with an interest in biology and health, I read all the books she had and found more.
I carried my health nut phase and doubt that doctors always knew everything into adulthood. Maybe that was why I felt I could say no to the vax (and have never taken a flu shot). Eventually, I had a mediocre case of Omnicron and relied on the food and herbs and broth and ‘protocol’ I’ve used for years. Without that knowledge, and if I had only gone the ‘pharmaceutical route’ all my life, I might have been on board with the vax and all the mandates, too.
I'm 82 and followed the same procedures as you. No shots. Got scolded and ridiculed by my liberal, now ex-, friends. Also had a mild case of Omicron. I've had worse colds coming back in planes from Europe. I was diagnosed with cancer in 2005 (I retired from Los Alamos National Lab and spent time at the Nevada Test Site). I did everything the cancer industry told me to out of fear. When the cancer recurred in 2011, I had more surgery and then declined chemo and surveillance. I take supplements, acupuncture, massage, organic food, etc. It never pays to be smug and it'll probably get me in the end, but it's 12 years later and I'm still on my hinders and not dead by means of chemotherapy.
I'm with you. Became an herbalist43years ago and never looked back. Try frankincense and myrrh essential oil with 1 Oz. Of carrier oil (organic olive oil will do); ratio: 10 drops total of eo to 1oz.olive oil Buena suerte.
I'm 74, so I was very aware of the 60s protests and anti-war. I was anti-war myself because my husband (then boyfriend) got drafted and sent to Vietnam in 1967. I remember the government blathering on endlessly about their "domino theory" about Communism, and how the Vietnam war would prevent that. Of course when my husband came back from his year in Vietnam, I got a lot of first-hand information about what was really going on over there. From the age of 17 I had a good view of governmental lying and fraud, and that has served me well ever since.
One thing I observed over time was that the Communist oriented protest leaders like Bill Ayers realized they couldn't attain power by election, so they slunk quietly into the educational system with a new, long-term plan: to brainwash young minds full of mush. We are now seeing the fruition of that long campaign because there are people in power who have subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) been inculcated with the radical views of the old Communists. We have a couple of generations now who have been subjected and led into that way of thinking. One of the most widely used history texts in America is Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States." Think about that title..."A People's History....". Does anyone even realize where that particular terminology originates?
I'm just grateful I developed a critical eye to all things coming out of my government from my earliest years. That allowed me to see a lot of things for what they really were and are, and to maintain a healthy mistrust of what "experts" say, and it enabled me to have a healthy skepticism of the whole Covid fraud from the very beginning. I had read enough that I already knew about past failures of mRNA technology so I rejected that immediately, and I saw as pretty obvious all the lies that began almost immediately with regard to Covid. Thank goodness I never even considered getting near those damn shots.
The really sad thing I see lately is a deficit of critical thinking in so many people.
I am almost 61 and never feared Covid one iota, granted I was a wee young lass of 57 when I got the 'rona. I feel like the oldsters are a bunch of pussies. How the hell can you be OK with 5 yo's wearing masks for two years at school just to save grandma. Honestly makes me sick to my stomach.
For the guy who said he would never vote for Trump but is totally in agreement with your article criticizing the "lawfare" in New York, how do you reconcile a vote for Biden with your stance against the "lawfare" Biden and his party are supporting and perpetrating. I'm afraid this country can't survive another four years of this administration.
In my opinion, until the Covid Vaccine, the Flu Vaccine qualified as the greatest Big Pharma/Public Health Scam of our lifetimes.
It also set the table for the roll-out of the Covid “vaccines.” For decades, nobody ever questioned the necessity or real efficacy of the flu “vaccines.” Thanks again, “watchdog press.”
Greatest CON and CRIME against humanity hands down the world has ever been put through , and yet it's STILL being allowed. ZERO accountability anywhere to be seen!
Am I going to vote for Trump? I despise seeing anyone being bullied, even him. At this point all I’m certain of is that I won’t vote for the dementia patient currently in office. Or the crew propping him up.
At this point, we need to all be concerned about the lawlessness in our political and judicial system. If we allow one person to be bullied for political reasons, does anyone believe that would be the end of it?
Inflated asset evaluations is the crime. Good! Now the public has standing for suing their local community accessor(s) for taxing based on inflated property values. Maybe we can sue the assessor for everything they have?
Although it's become accepted that young people who opposed the Vietnam War were motivated by insight and knowledge the question never asked is, "what was the source of their insight and knowledge?" How did the hundreds of thousands of young people, at a time when obtaining sound information was difficult and fact-checking was incredibly time-consuming, gain such expertise at the same time they were attending school, working, hooking-up, idolizing rock stars, and getting loaded? And why, given their assumed insight into matters of such importance, did these young intellectuals sit in the classroom and swallow, without question or doubt, the absurdity known as "The Blank Slate Theory?"
The answer: their protest was no more knowledge-based than was the support for the war by their opposition, and damn few people of my generation came into this world with a shred of insight (I know, I sat in class with them and read their propaganda). But, by virtue of the power that was theirs courtesy of demographics (the Baby Boom), these otherwise unexceptional protesters were able to impact both war policy and domestic politics, and ultimately carry the day.
I formed my lowly opinion of my generation over fifty years ago and I've never been given reason to question it. Had my generation really been politically savvy and skeptical the Neo-cons who engineered the Iraq tragedy would've been outed (as they are being today) and stopped, and Dr. Fauci, upon his first dismissal of the lab theory, or the uttering his absurd denial of the efficacy of natural immunity, would have been tarred, feathered, and booted into retirement.
This is very well stated. Thank you. Our generation (I will be 70 next month) just didn’t want to go to a jungle half a world away and get shot for reasons that were murky at best. It’s not like we had some precocious knowledge about geopolitical chess maneuvering. We were just concerned about the length of our skirts and what happened to Miss American Pie while wandering through the tv room as our dads were watching the latest body count on the evening news. We have things to say boomers. It would behoove the younger generation to ask us what we think.
Our soldiers shouldn't have gone to Vietnam precisely because, as LBJ said early in his presidency, American boys shouldn't have to do what “Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.” But the fact that the president, a politician with decades of experience at the national level, so dramatically reversed himself is evidence that the best interests of American boys became, in his mind, less important than other things. But what other things: the Domino Theory; corporate profits; America's image; election victories? Based on what we now know about justifications sold to the public, we have no reason to believe our soldiers died for the Domino Theory. Corporate profits? Three decades before the big troop buildup, General Chesty Puller, a real American hero, warned us that war is a racket, so perhaps it was all about the Benjamins. Or maybe it was America's image, as it's become apparent that lunacy runs rampant among national security specialists. LBJ's political future? Would a president sacrifice lives and treasury to further his personal political interests? Can I enroll you in a flight school at Bagram Airbase, or interest you in a waterfront cottage on the river Don?
Reasons that "were murky at best"... to say the least.
My Vietnam vet husband's observation was that the anti-war protests during the Vietnam war era had more to do about being drafted than about opposing the war for myriad other possible reasons. Has anyone noticed that since the draft was eliminated in 1973, despite all the many war activities since Vietnam, there have been no similar anti-war protests? That says it all. They were cowards opposed to the idea of being drafted, not much more than that. My husband was drafted out of junior college in 1966, and he did not want to go. But the choices weren't good at that time...get drafted, go to jail, flee to Canada. He spent a full war in combat in Vietnam, and returned in one piece. So may that he knew did not. It was not a good time and there were a lot of lies floating around about the reasons for this war. We were glad to see the draft end. Unfortunately, the wars never seem to end. American appears to be a rather warlike nation, despite what we are led to believe.
I saw a T shirt yesterday. It said, "You were a fool to vote for Biden in 2020. You will be a traitor to vote for him in 2024". Given a choice between "really bad" and "not as good as I want", I will go with the latter....again!
Scaredy cat, Lol! Seriously at some point you and many others need to forget about personal characteristics and vote on policy. Clearly Trump policies win. Or just write in Alfred E Newman, “What me worry?” You’re young but I’m sure you remember Mad Magazine!
I think we have to remember that Trump was elected to a second term. He simply wasn't allowed to serve. Americans, for the most part, made the right decision. They voted for him. It was those blue counties, mail-in ballots, mules, state legislators, the establishment, voting machines, etc. that altered the true outcome. The question in November will be, will the Democrats steal another one? My worry is, they will, because the corruption regarding elections hasn't been rooted out.
Probably the most relevant question pending is just this Chris! From what I have seen is Elias the DEM lawyer is busy making sure all those Covid "table setting emergency measures" like drop boxes etc, are "allowable" again in all the KEY swing states
I have another question about the NY "fraud" case. IF the judge found, all by himself, that Trump had committed fraud by some how getting "too high appraisals for the properties", WHY weren't the appraisers who appraised the properties also indicted for fraud, not to mention malfeasance and poor execution of their jobs? I know the answer to this: because the judge and AG were only after Trump, not his "co-conspirators" of course! What has been done to President Trump is an injustice and a travesty of giant proportions!
I have never understood the hatred for Trump? Yes, he is arrogant (my brothers objection) and yes he can be brash (can't we all) but, for the love of God; he was good for our country, The circus in charge now actually HATES America and is destroying it as we speak. UFB
I agree. We're living in a mess. We have no border. Free speech is under attack from a Supreme court Justice and this administration. There are two standards of justice, one for Democrats, like Hunter Biden and one for Republicans, like President Trump. The economy is a disaster and inflation has not improved despite what the WH is saying. The FBI is targeting PTA members, Catholics and Trump supporters as terrorists while those on the terror watchlist walk across our border. I could go on but it would take up the whole page. We have seen what Trump did as President, he did not get us into war, Biden has us in two conflicts. The economy was good, inflation was 2% not 9%. He kept illegal immigrants from overwhelming the border. I am at a loss for why people would never consider voting for Trump. What is it that is going on in our country now that people are okay with?
I've personally never understood a blind adherence to a single political party. People who are not in the least active in political matters and who do no more than cast a vote here and there (and sometimes not even regularly), people who are largely ignorant about what is going on and what their party is doing, are nevertheless absolutists about voting Democrat no matter what. I registered as Republican in 1971 because I needed to register to vote. I've voted Republican more often than not, but there have been times where I've voted for a Democrat or an Independent. It depended on the issue, on the candidate. Also, in the past things were more rational than now and the two main parties worked together to find solutions. I never used to see every single Democrat vote in a bloc like they do now. They appear to be herded into a singular voting decision by their leadership, no dissent allowed. So I am at a point where I can never vote for a Democrat again unless things get back to how they used to be with the two parties. There may be a Democrat candidate I like a lot but I can't vote for that person because I know there will be no possibility of an independent vote any more, not the way it is now.
Ultimately, I see so many people and especially those 35 and under that are disgusted by all politics, by government, and they are increasingly disengaged from all of it. It seems like there is a decreasing number of people who bother to vote. That alone may increase the likelihood of corruption and bad players getting into office.
Sorry. I'll never vote for a Democrat again. What they did to children during c19 is unforgivable.
I now call democrats, COMMUNISTS!!!
According to Xi Van Fleet, author of Mao's America,
my state of Massachusetts is a "communist hell-hole"
I agree after experiencing the medical tyranny during covid.
And not only children. Not allowing families to visit their relatives in nursing homes and having those suffering with Altzheimer's not knowing why they couldn't visit was inhumane to say the least. And then dying without their families being there to comfort them in some way. Horrific.
Yes. WICKEDNESS
I couldn't vote for a Democrat for any legislative office because, unlike the GOP, the Donkey Party usually votes in lockstep. The biggest exceptions to this rule are Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema, who are both leaving the Senate after this year. The Democrats are led by their most radical elements. Joe Biden didn't used to be Gung Ho for abortion on demand up to birth, Chuck Schumer used to be for securing the border and Bill Clinton even balanced the budget (with the help of a Republican Congress). Now Biden and company are for transitioning minors, shoveling tens of billions to Ukraine without end, interfering with Israeli politics, DEI (neo-racism), a woke military that can't attract enough recruits, open borders and unlimited spending. Bobby Kennedy wanted to provide a somewhat better alternative but the party fixed the rules so he had to run as an independent. If the Democrat Party has any redeeming features, I'd like to know what they are.
CMCM, you're right. I live in California and I'm not the smartest guy in most rooms, but I remember thinking that too many of my Cali friends were disengaging from politics when the Democrat plan of flooding the US with illegals was working better than most Democrat policies ever do, and I was telling all of them how crazy it's going to get... but like the frog in the water pot, I almost lost track of my own prediction as we went from Gov Reagan to Gov Slick, but after a few car rides from Oregon to SoCal I realized Cali's over, open borders did their job... and the fact that Pierre still feels comfy spewing sociopathic lies about Biden's 3 1/2 years of open border, America's over too, and there's still 6 months before Biden's out and Newsom in for '24 and the finishing touch.
NOOOOO
I'm an independent. The problem I have is that there really aren't 2 parties anymore. Republicans vote with Dems. There are a few exceptions who will stand up for what's right for the country and the people but they can't accomplish anything without their Republican colleagues standing with them.
People are absokutely brainwashed and we are smack dab in the middle of the.Matrix. wake up the woke, for God's sake. We are about to lose EVERYTHING.
The sheeple are living their lives in blissful ignorance.
Beautifully said.
From the beginning, I always thought Trump was funny. I have never understood why other people don't see how funny he is. They take him so seriously. I take him seriously in that I think he did, and can do, a lot of good for the country, but I also see that he has a sense of humor.
I always ALWAYS thought Limbaugh was funny. The other side never "got him." We can't have someone like Limbaugh and Trump is just like him.
They were friends. Limbaugh said Trump asked his advice when he was considering running
TDS was nothing but brilliant in what it was intended to do. The effective indoctrination of "yellow haired man bad" and re-crafting of context around Trump was BOUGHT hook, line and sinker by those minds susceptible to the CON. Have to admit though...it was effective unfortunately. Highly unlikely those minds lost in the TDS abyss are salvageable at this point, but those very same people I believe one day will have a "WTF was I thinking" moment down the line if this commie take over of America executes as intended.
The last 4 years I've learned with dismay how incredibly gullible most Americans appear to be.
Where has the GOD given independent mind gone?
That’s the first thing the left sought to eradicate through the takeover of the education system.
Yes...began long ago didn't it, yet the odd aspect of it all is many were just immune to the hypnosis, and had no problem maintaining it while those around them did not, so what is the DIFF since we all came thru the funnel
Most were in The Truman Show ( Jim Carey ) as Trumans and in The Matrix accordingly. Hollywood warned us with lots of predictive programing over the years. Even called out the covid 19 scam for the last decade or more.
People not paying attention to critical thinking. So sad. It is the difference between humans and .....I was going to say animals but some animals are better critical thinkers and survivalists.
Especially the ones who believe in their own moral and intellectual superiority.
Z,
And they can't back up either with evidence of it. To the contrary.
Some cannot overcome their pride to see the facts and truth!
Well pride will quickly be selected against, which is a good thing. It definitely got to be too big, this " over confidence " ( likely by Propaganda design ) especially in the US.
Doesn’t anyone remember that the world wasn’t on fire when he was in office? The economy was booming. Peace deals were happening in the Middle East. The so called elites were/are the most easily seduced by the propaganda and appeal to their belief in their own moral and intellectual superiority. “Orange man bad” and they’ve bought it hook line and sinker. TDS is real.
It is a deep seated programming (or dare I say brainwashing) that seems to defy all reason. Their rationales for TDS are several that they've heard repeatedly on CNN, such as: he's arrogant (alternatively-self confident), brash (outspoken), racist and Hitler-esk. Some of these arguments can be seen in a different light (as in parentheses), but others have no basis in fact. On occasion, I will try to verbally joust with these poor people. When confronted with cold hard facts contradicting their beliefs, they will almost immediately devolve into a fit of angry name calling, which I find amusing, to say the least. In other words, their hatred of Trump is irrational, yet runs so deep into their core, that they cannot even consider that their thinking is erroneous. I have as yet, been unable to find a way to change their minds even a tiny iota.
When asked to explain why they are so opposed to Trump they have no rational response. "Orange man bad"!
Exactly. Also, when you try to speak to them about the Biden crime family, they go into a tirade about what a great job he's doing. If you weren't hearing that from the lamestream media, the thought would never occur to you. They live in a delusional world where facts don't matter. They exist on pure emotion and hatred. I actually pity them.
Marxist Propaganda and indoctrination is how they did it. What is that saying about build them up to tear them down. Psych Ops tricks.
Amen
I think it's $1.59 a gallon for regular unleaded gas. Orange man is bad.
Huh? Where do you live if you mean that's what you're paying for gas. The price has been increasing quite a lot here lately.
When Trump was President costs were cheaper on Thanksgiving Trump last year gas was under $1.75 a gallon. Today it's $3.40 for regular unleaded in Massachusetts. January 1st, 2024 all my utilities have risen like natural gas prices electricity prices, and insurance prices. And struggling with getting medical supplies and medications as well. Thanks to Uncle Joe Robinhood Biden
I keep asking what ever you fear from Trump why did he not do the fascist stuff last time? “Personally I think Donald Trump would be a disaster as president and I will vote against him”
Because he is TOO DIVISIVE! I'm not the kumbaya type but for God's sake, we need someone who is not hated on either side, i.e. JFK, Jr.
Trump represents individualism, not conservativism. Their angst stems comes from a social crisis which they're feeling but don't understand. The social crisis is being caused by the proliferation of addictive anti-social electronic devices. The social crisis is quite real and appears to be unsustainable, at least while it remains hidden. If it becomes widely recognized, perhaps it can be mitigated somehow, bringing us back into line with nature. If not, our society is slated for destruction or at least a hard rebalancing where extreme collectivism can steal enough power to balance the ideological scale, which appears to be a requirement of nature. As of now, we're at the mercy of nature since we're unable to correct or confront the problem intellectually.
I'm a little mystified by people like Peter who says that 'I believe Trump would be a disaster as President'.
This is a actually a rare moment in US history when we don't have to 'guess' what we're getting. We've already seen him as President for four years. We know what he'll stand for. If you disagreed with his programs and performance, then by all means pull the lever for someone else. But I will vote for him again because I have a very good idea what he's going to stand for, and I support most of it, bluster and all. And I feel fortunate this is one election we know exactly what we're going to get from each guy.
Exactly. Trump was not a disaster in any way. Biden and his hate America administration have been a disaster for 3 years.
Could not have scripted a more perfect take down of America and yet the average DEM will still vote for IT.
They'll not only vote for it, they'll defend it.
I was going to say the same thing. How would he be a “disaster?” He was already potus for 4 years, and other than the constant screaming of the pink-hatted protesters, there were no disasters!
LOST in the TDS abyss
Lack of cynicism comment brings up a point I have been making for some time now. Where are all the 60s radicals???? We supposedly did not trust the government, wanted peace, no foreign wars, justice for the working class etc etc. I remember Springsteen in a concert doing Edwin Starr's "War, What is it good for?" and warning you can't trust government. Now all of a sudden the government (it it's Dems) can be trusted on everything? Now the one candidate who stands for peace, no foreign wars, the working class etc etc is our enemy? Maybe they were (and are ) all communists.
What happened to the 60’s radicals? They won. Their ideas captured every institution; their progressivism is now the establishment. Doesn’t make sense to be anti-establishment when you are the establishment.
It’s just that so many didn’t understand where all those great-sounding bromides would lead in real life.
Brilliant! Very well stated.
It seems like the 60s radicals who remain above ground have become embedded in the current "establishment" and are blatant shills supporting the very things and people they used to protest. Have any of the Berkeley "free speech" activists said anything about the total lack of free speech at Berkeley these days? All I hear is crickets. Likewise, the 1970s feminists are strangely silent about what has been happening to women lately. More crickets. They were all frauds and fakes, interested not in furthering their various "causes" but rather, focused only on amassing fame, power, and money.
All the 60s radicals control the power structures, now. First they got the culture, now they have the institutions. It's always about power.
We got busy making a life and then got old. I actually switched from liberal to conservative as I got old so I could prove Winston Churchill correct.
Ahh....so you DO have a brain, then!
Alex thank you for your excellent reporting! I wish people on both sides of the aisle would understand…you can’t hate Trump and refuse to vote for him and still want to be able to heat and cool your home affordably; afford your groceries; stop the invasion at our southern border; stop the out-of-control crime happening around our country, especially in Democrat-run cities where police have been defunded and bail no longer exists; and keep our first amendment rights that you are so valiantly fighting for. I’m leaving out a lot of other stuff, but you get the point. I have told your story to so many people in hopes that it wakes them up. I pray that people will love their country more than they hate the man the mainstream media tells them to hate. Our lives and our children’s lives depend on it. These are very troubling and scary times we are living in.
Yeah, keep voting for the guy you’re suing for his tyrannical oppression of your rights. Brilliant!
EXACTLY! Do you see it now Alex?! The rest of us do. The main problem with the Trump presidency was the chaos caused by those who opposed him (in both parties)! The policies, the “keep them guessing” governing - were successful! He actually has a sense of humor and doesn’t take himself so seriously - I wish people would chill out and see that.
Agree! I'm in California, and due to it being a totally Democrat state I knew my presidential vote in 2016 would not get enough electors on the R side. I got a kick out of Trump because he fought back against the media, unlike doormat Bush. After 4 years of his presidency, I liked a lot of what he did policy wise. So in 2020 I enthusiastically voted for him, although in terms of electors from CA, it made no difference. Trump is brash and mouthy, a very typical New Yorker, actually, but the chaos mainly came from the non-stop hysteria of the leftist media drones. They especially hate Trump because they can't manipulate him and make him cower to their silly whims. He didn't want to be in their insipid club. It got very tiresome. The media is tiresome and it's impossible to take many of them at all seriously. They're like wailing children.
BOOM!
If you punch the ballot for Trump, you're not necessarily voting FOR Trump.
But you ARE voting against Biden, and THAT should dictate your ballot choice, IMO. No, not IMO. It's fact.
Biden has been an unmitigated disaster; Trump's (first?) four years were not a disaster, not even close. (So it makes no sense for Peter T. to think Trump's election would be a "disaster" given what we KNOW about his first term and Resident Biden's past 3+ years.)
My question is how could anyone NOT see Biden's presidency as an utter disaster?
This blindness - and TDS - can be explained by a historic example. Forgive me for paraphrasing but I'm sure you'll get the point: I was watching a WW2 television documentary, and the topic was the allied bombing of German cities in 1945 and the continued resistance of the populace. A civilian survivor was being interviewed (the show was probably made in the 1970s) and the question was, the war was over, the Nazis have been defeated, why continue to struggle? The answer was (and here's the paraphrasing), "You have to understand, all we knew for twelve years was what they told us. We thought we were winning. We thought we were the good guys."
As I have maintained for many years, the true cancer among us is not the Democrat Party and is not the Leftists.
It's the alphabet legacy media. If they only reported the news straight, the Democrat Party would be at most a fringe player in American politics.
The American media apparatus needs to be burned to the ground, the earth salted where they stood, and rebuilt from scratch with ALL new players. Until the American media conglomerate is destroyed, the republic will continue on the road to its destruction.
The media has become 100% opinion. And they are all advocates of a particular narrative. There are very few real journalists left, those who report the news as factually as possible and leave innuendo and opinion out of it. Very sad.
I’m seventy and I’ve also been puzzled as to why so many of my 60’s generation caved when it came to COVID. It occurred to me perhaps a good number of them are unhealthy now, saddled with blood pressure meds, diabetes, high cholesterol, carrying a lot of extra pounds, etc, etc. They were quite frightened and gladly went along with whatever they were told to do. Suddenly the ‘government’ was their best friend. My mom was into Adele Davis and Prevention magazine back in the day and loved Jack Lalanne almost as much as she loved Elvis. As a high school student with an interest in biology and health, I read all the books she had and found more.
I carried my health nut phase and doubt that doctors always knew everything into adulthood. Maybe that was why I felt I could say no to the vax (and have never taken a flu shot). Eventually, I had a mediocre case of Omnicron and relied on the food and herbs and broth and ‘protocol’ I’ve used for years. Without that knowledge, and if I had only gone the ‘pharmaceutical route’ all my life, I might have been on board with the vax and all the mandates, too.
I'm 82 and followed the same procedures as you. No shots. Got scolded and ridiculed by my liberal, now ex-, friends. Also had a mild case of Omicron. I've had worse colds coming back in planes from Europe. I was diagnosed with cancer in 2005 (I retired from Los Alamos National Lab and spent time at the Nevada Test Site). I did everything the cancer industry told me to out of fear. When the cancer recurred in 2011, I had more surgery and then declined chemo and surveillance. I take supplements, acupuncture, massage, organic food, etc. It never pays to be smug and it'll probably get me in the end, but it's 12 years later and I'm still on my hinders and not dead by means of chemotherapy.
I'm with you. Became an herbalist43years ago and never looked back. Try frankincense and myrrh essential oil with 1 Oz. Of carrier oil (organic olive oil will do); ratio: 10 drops total of eo to 1oz.olive oil Buena suerte.
Thanks. Topically or interenally?
I'm 74, so I was very aware of the 60s protests and anti-war. I was anti-war myself because my husband (then boyfriend) got drafted and sent to Vietnam in 1967. I remember the government blathering on endlessly about their "domino theory" about Communism, and how the Vietnam war would prevent that. Of course when my husband came back from his year in Vietnam, I got a lot of first-hand information about what was really going on over there. From the age of 17 I had a good view of governmental lying and fraud, and that has served me well ever since.
One thing I observed over time was that the Communist oriented protest leaders like Bill Ayers realized they couldn't attain power by election, so they slunk quietly into the educational system with a new, long-term plan: to brainwash young minds full of mush. We are now seeing the fruition of that long campaign because there are people in power who have subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) been inculcated with the radical views of the old Communists. We have a couple of generations now who have been subjected and led into that way of thinking. One of the most widely used history texts in America is Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States." Think about that title..."A People's History....". Does anyone even realize where that particular terminology originates?
I'm just grateful I developed a critical eye to all things coming out of my government from my earliest years. That allowed me to see a lot of things for what they really were and are, and to maintain a healthy mistrust of what "experts" say, and it enabled me to have a healthy skepticism of the whole Covid fraud from the very beginning. I had read enough that I already knew about past failures of mRNA technology so I rejected that immediately, and I saw as pretty obvious all the lies that began almost immediately with regard to Covid. Thank goodness I never even considered getting near those damn shots.
The really sad thing I see lately is a deficit of critical thinking in so many people.
I am almost 61 and never feared Covid one iota, granted I was a wee young lass of 57 when I got the 'rona. I feel like the oldsters are a bunch of pussies. How the hell can you be OK with 5 yo's wearing masks for two years at school just to save grandma. Honestly makes me sick to my stomach.
For the guy who said he would never vote for Trump but is totally in agreement with your article criticizing the "lawfare" in New York, how do you reconcile a vote for Biden with your stance against the "lawfare" Biden and his party are supporting and perpetrating. I'm afraid this country can't survive another four years of this administration.
In my opinion, until the Covid Vaccine, the Flu Vaccine qualified as the greatest Big Pharma/Public Health Scam of our lifetimes.
It also set the table for the roll-out of the Covid “vaccines.” For decades, nobody ever questioned the necessity or real efficacy of the flu “vaccines.” Thanks again, “watchdog press.”
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/the-flu-vaccine-scam?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Greatest CON and CRIME against humanity hands down the world has ever been put through , and yet it's STILL being allowed. ZERO accountability anywhere to be seen!
Absolutely!
Am I going to vote for Trump? I despise seeing anyone being bullied, even him. At this point all I’m certain of is that I won’t vote for the dementia patient currently in office. Or the crew propping him up.
At this point, we need to all be concerned about the lawlessness in our political and judicial system. If we allow one person to be bullied for political reasons, does anyone believe that would be the end of it?
Inflated asset evaluations is the crime. Good! Now the public has standing for suing their local community accessor(s) for taxing based on inflated property values. Maybe we can sue the assessor for everything they have?
In response to the question posed by Kenneth S.
Although it's become accepted that young people who opposed the Vietnam War were motivated by insight and knowledge the question never asked is, "what was the source of their insight and knowledge?" How did the hundreds of thousands of young people, at a time when obtaining sound information was difficult and fact-checking was incredibly time-consuming, gain such expertise at the same time they were attending school, working, hooking-up, idolizing rock stars, and getting loaded? And why, given their assumed insight into matters of such importance, did these young intellectuals sit in the classroom and swallow, without question or doubt, the absurdity known as "The Blank Slate Theory?"
The answer: their protest was no more knowledge-based than was the support for the war by their opposition, and damn few people of my generation came into this world with a shred of insight (I know, I sat in class with them and read their propaganda). But, by virtue of the power that was theirs courtesy of demographics (the Baby Boom), these otherwise unexceptional protesters were able to impact both war policy and domestic politics, and ultimately carry the day.
I formed my lowly opinion of my generation over fifty years ago and I've never been given reason to question it. Had my generation really been politically savvy and skeptical the Neo-cons who engineered the Iraq tragedy would've been outed (as they are being today) and stopped, and Dr. Fauci, upon his first dismissal of the lab theory, or the uttering his absurd denial of the efficacy of natural immunity, would have been tarred, feathered, and booted into retirement.
This is very well stated. Thank you. Our generation (I will be 70 next month) just didn’t want to go to a jungle half a world away and get shot for reasons that were murky at best. It’s not like we had some precocious knowledge about geopolitical chess maneuvering. We were just concerned about the length of our skirts and what happened to Miss American Pie while wandering through the tv room as our dads were watching the latest body count on the evening news. We have things to say boomers. It would behoove the younger generation to ask us what we think.
Our soldiers shouldn't have gone to Vietnam precisely because, as LBJ said early in his presidency, American boys shouldn't have to do what “Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.” But the fact that the president, a politician with decades of experience at the national level, so dramatically reversed himself is evidence that the best interests of American boys became, in his mind, less important than other things. But what other things: the Domino Theory; corporate profits; America's image; election victories? Based on what we now know about justifications sold to the public, we have no reason to believe our soldiers died for the Domino Theory. Corporate profits? Three decades before the big troop buildup, General Chesty Puller, a real American hero, warned us that war is a racket, so perhaps it was all about the Benjamins. Or maybe it was America's image, as it's become apparent that lunacy runs rampant among national security specialists. LBJ's political future? Would a president sacrifice lives and treasury to further his personal political interests? Can I enroll you in a flight school at Bagram Airbase, or interest you in a waterfront cottage on the river Don?
Reasons that "were murky at best"... to say the least.
Well said. Thank you.
My Vietnam vet husband's observation was that the anti-war protests during the Vietnam war era had more to do about being drafted than about opposing the war for myriad other possible reasons. Has anyone noticed that since the draft was eliminated in 1973, despite all the many war activities since Vietnam, there have been no similar anti-war protests? That says it all. They were cowards opposed to the idea of being drafted, not much more than that. My husband was drafted out of junior college in 1966, and he did not want to go. But the choices weren't good at that time...get drafted, go to jail, flee to Canada. He spent a full war in combat in Vietnam, and returned in one piece. So may that he knew did not. It was not a good time and there were a lot of lies floating around about the reasons for this war. We were glad to see the draft end. Unfortunately, the wars never seem to end. American appears to be a rather warlike nation, despite what we are led to believe.
I saw a T shirt yesterday. It said, "You were a fool to vote for Biden in 2020. You will be a traitor to vote for him in 2024". Given a choice between "really bad" and "not as good as I want", I will go with the latter....again!
Scaredy cat, Lol! Seriously at some point you and many others need to forget about personal characteristics and vote on policy. Clearly Trump policies win. Or just write in Alfred E Newman, “What me worry?” You’re young but I’m sure you remember Mad Magazine!
I think we have to remember that Trump was elected to a second term. He simply wasn't allowed to serve. Americans, for the most part, made the right decision. They voted for him. It was those blue counties, mail-in ballots, mules, state legislators, the establishment, voting machines, etc. that altered the true outcome. The question in November will be, will the Democrats steal another one? My worry is, they will, because the corruption regarding elections hasn't been rooted out.
Probably the most relevant question pending is just this Chris! From what I have seen is Elias the DEM lawyer is busy making sure all those Covid "table setting emergency measures" like drop boxes etc, are "allowable" again in all the KEY swing states
I have another question about the NY "fraud" case. IF the judge found, all by himself, that Trump had committed fraud by some how getting "too high appraisals for the properties", WHY weren't the appraisers who appraised the properties also indicted for fraud, not to mention malfeasance and poor execution of their jobs? I know the answer to this: because the judge and AG were only after Trump, not his "co-conspirators" of course! What has been done to President Trump is an injustice and a travesty of giant proportions!
Let's hope Trump becomes President and cuts off all Fed funds to New York.