And the Inquirer just endorsed John Fetterman for Senate, who wants to commute the sentences of convicted murderers. As Lieutenant Governor, he was on the Board of Pardons and recommended that those prisoners be released because, as he puts it, “they paid for their mistakes.” Yeah. He’s also good buddies with the Philadelphia DA, who is very soft on crime as well. I’m sure Fetterman thinks that these convicts are going to be oh so grateful to rejoin society that they won’t ever murder again. Right. I won’t be voting for him and I know a lot of other Pennsylvania residents won’t be either. The fly in the ointment is the early voting.
Thanks. I saw that as well. The Inquirer is going way out of its way to defend Fetterman from not only his stance on crime, but his post-stroke difficulties. I read a while ago that Fetterman is being pushed not because he’s going to be a mediocre hack Dem senator. He will. But the game plan is to have his radical Marxist wife (a DREAMER who became a U.S. citizen when she married him) take his place when he quietly resigns because of his health.
I’ll have to research it. The apparent catch is that Josh Shapiro would also have to get elected Governor and if Fetterman resigns, Shapiro can theoretically appoint his wife (or anyone else, say, Dem Conor Lamb, who is not nearly radical enough) to serve out the rest of Fetterman’s term, at which point, she will have to run for election herself.
That wife would be the one I read about, who wants the journalist that pointed out that Fetterman can't seem to understand anything he hears or respond appropriately to pay a price for saying that to the public.
Yes, she’s playing it as if the reporter is denigrating disabled people, in which category her husband may be included now. The reporter had legitimate concerns, as many of us do here in PA, but she’s trying the old Dem identity politics gambit in hopes that it sticks.
This is one of those "are these people really good at this?" moments for me, because their save-the-Senate-seat argument is to say that their candidate is disabled.
You can't criticize John Fetterman, because that's attacking the disabled, so...vote Fetterman!
Yes, and sadly, there are people in this commonwealth who will fall for it, hook, line and sinker. On one hand, I am livid over the whole “my husband is disabled now, so you can’t criticize any of his positions” schtick, and on the other hand, it amazes me how good the Dems are at coming up with these kinds of angles, as you said.
That’s surprising in a good way. Maybe the ordinary Dems in Philly aren’t as brain-dead as I thought in unthinkingly casting their vote for anyone with a (D) after their name. Then again, they are the ones who are suffering the most because of Fetterman’s and the corrupt Philly DA’s soft on crime stances. I’m glad they are at least starting to see the truth because it’s Philly and Pittsburgh that screw things up for everyone else in the state.
That’s great! Keep up the good work! I’m in the western half of the state closer to Pittsburgh. I learned that Westmoreland County to the immediate east of Allegheny County and Pittsburgh had flipped GOP in 2020 and outnumbered the Dems for the first time in maybe ever. And there is a strong GOP presence in lots of neighborhoods surrounding Pittsburgh, which might negate that Dem stronghold. Although, you would think that people would have many second thoughts about the Dems, because, like Philly, the crime here is off the charts.
Yes, your vote DOES matter. Mine was one that was tallied for both the Auditor General and the Treasurer as well, and I hope that this carries through with both Mastriano and Oz being elected.
I am still very suspicious of the mail-in ballots, however. I sure hope that the state GOP learned something from 2020 and will pounce on any questionable vote tallies that crop up. The state courts will be no help - they think it’s OK to count mail-in ballots without signatures.
It was Bill Clinton who did me a favor and turned me into a Republican in 1992. Couldn’t stand him or his wife and the Dem platform, which has gotten more and more extreme over the subsequent decades.
Don't you love when people ("people-shaped things" might be more appropriate for propagandists) are appalled at *depictions* of violence rather than the violence itself? Like when people get mad at whistleblowers instead of the perpetrators of the corruption they're exposing?
You've just reminded me of the time the Los Angeles Times, which used to a newspaper, got an insider at the Department of Children and Family Services to leak a giant set of documents showing that children had died while under county supervision following reports of child abuse. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors was outraged, and took immediate action....
....to prevent people from leaking to the newspaper again.
Yes, they're more focused on the discourse about the thing than they are about the thing, and yes, it's very very telling.
I was literally just blamed for contributing to vaccine deaths by "causing reasonable critics to be lumped in with your angry sarcasm and Qanon beliefs."
Funny thing is, I remember you and I discussed the Qanon psy-op and our surprise that intelligent people like Amazing Polly fell for it. Of course, whoever aimed that ridiculous statement at you would be incapable of understanding such nuances in your thinking.
I don't believe in anything about Qanon, and never even brought it up in the forum. (Vinay Prasad's medicine stack) It's a commonly used slur to dismiss someone believed to be on the "far right," as I'm sure you're aware.
Look, if we’ve learned anything the last 7 years, it’s that the Left always doubles down. The cycle looks something like this: they do something stupid/illegal/evil/ugly. They are accused of same. They feign outrage. They deny, project and deflect, viciously accuse their accusers, with the usual repertoire of ad hominem insults that convey their accusers are the problem to shift the conversation. They lie some more. Then some piece(s) of evidence emerges that plainly reveals the lie. So they either pretend it isn’t legitimate or is insignificant. They lie some more. If the lie gets traction, they keep going until it loses momentum. If they get no traction, they ignore the whole thing and move in to the next lie. They think the population is stupid and lazy, with some justification. But lies catch up to you, nearly always. And at this point people know the game. Look, this is just a cynical strategy of delegitimization of anybody who opposes their destructive agenda. And it’s not going away. We gave to approach this with the same fervor and long term gamesmanship that they do. And we need to be remorseless in victory, like they are. Only when they are soundly defeated can we have any hope for some form of national rapprochement. But that won’t look like our society today. Not all ideas or civilizations are equal. They don’t all deserve to survive. Does anybody really want the Aztecs to make a comeback? How about the Spanish Inquisition? Any takers? Same thing for this destructive Corporate- Commie alliance. The stupid needs to be flushed and it can’t be a half measure. Righteous indignation is appropriate toward these imposters, fools, and sociopaths.
Thing is, you can substitute the word "dems" for "repubs" and back and forth, depending on what year and what's going on, because they're just two wings of the same disgusting vulture-cum-parasitic-raptor class, flunkies for the elitist oligarchs and the war-mongering filthy rich hyperactive eugenicists and oil baron self-important but still useless dregs of high society that contribute nothing but misery... Ooops, did I say something? Excuse me...
Mostly agree. The GOP establishment is better in a couple of areas, but generally is useless, duplicitous and more interested in preserving the status quo/feeding at the trough than helping their constituents.
Yeah, I was thinking, generally, over the whole period of the US and our history... These two parties take turns being utterly useless, lying, fickle slime-bags, in my very sweet and polite opinion... It's long been known how completely senseless a two-party system is, and that's why we can't have nice things...
"Do you have to be a sociopathic idiot to land a newspaper column, these days? What can this idiotic dishonesty possibly hope to accomplish?"
Answer to question 1: Evidence would suggest so. Answer to question 2 requires translation: Yes, we recognize there's a crime problem, and we feel your pain (honestly, we do), but how dare the other side point it out. And really they're making too big a deal of this. We're going to have growing pains and need to make sacrifices as we work toward social justice. Besides, using fear to win an election is *bad* (well, unless we do it).
I refuse to be lectured of the side of the political aisle that said if you were unmasked or unvaccinated, you were literally KILLING people and should be charged with MURDER!!! Because that's not misusing fear or anything. That's just a public service announcement and for your own good.
And this is why so very many of us are so very tired.
I see the point of this argument, but I also have to wonder if they think they can get away with telling people in Philadelphia there isn't really any violent crime. Like, if they're good at it, and know exactly what they're doing, wouldn't they have the ability to sort of....calibrate the lie? To get sort of plausibly close to obvious reality?
It's like watching Karine Jean-Pierre celebrate President Biden's brilliant leadership on the problem of tackling inflation. I really thought that professional liars had to be pretty good at it.
It's times like this that I wish I had spent more time developing my vocabulary. There has to be a word to describe the willful denial of obvious truths, especially by people who know better. We saw it all the time with covid, doctors and nurses advocating the use of cloth masks in public spaces, teachers claiming online learning will work fine, inflation is "transitory", yah right. And while some of them are just professional liars, some of them are lying to themselves as much as they are everyone else.
Margaret Anna Alice has been popularizing the old-fashioned term "Good German". Which is probably racist or something, but hey. Hoffman (quite a piece of work himself) called them True Believers. I dunno.
The skilled professional liars are the ones who have you fooled into thinking that (for example) Elon Musk will save free speech. Top-tier class acts don't come cheap, and they certainly aren't wasting their skills whining about ball games in some old newspaper.
Willful denial is nothing but "neglect"--a steadfast refusal to deal with reality, one's commitments, obligations, oaths or responsibilities. A few days of neglect and most any of the above are long forgotten.
I dunno. I think that, for this guy's readership as he understands it, he can say pretty much anything as long as it follows the party line: in this case, Republican = fascist. These sheeple are so thoroughly hypnotized and gaslit that, as Orwell predicted, they have become adept at simultaneously holding contradictory views without feeling any dissonance. They don't even notice the contradiction.
His editor isn't going to run any direct counters. His readers aren't reading anybody who will contradict him, and if they do by mistake, well they can just stick their fingers in their ears and go NANANANANA. Works just fine.
That sounds like cognitive dissonance and I feel like that term doesn't cover it. For example, I know a couple of doctors and nurses. From the start of the pandemic some were adamant about masks and insisted that masks were needed while simultaneously acknowledging, viral particles are to small to be impacted by a mask. It was crazy talk. I attributed it to fear. They were afraid and desperate to do anything to mitigate their exposure to the virus they feared. They weren't lying, what's worse I think they knew there a flaw in their reasoning, but they couldn't let it go. It was as if some fight or flight level instinct was driving them. It's possible that fear is still the driving factor with people like Bunch, but it's hard to imagine it's fear of covid at this point.
If our midwit liberal journalists were really students of history concerned about the future of "Democracy" instead of a pack of barking dogs who can only play the same lazy & dull game of matching Column A to Column B (with Column A being some event involving either WW2 or slavery/ Jim Crow and Column B being the Republican outrage du jour, e.g. Desantis and the Vineyard or anything to do w voting by mail), they would know that one of the major factors in the collapse of liberal democracy usually involves liberals getting steamrolled by Leftists, who get them to acquiesce to any and every extreme policy, until the inevitable rightwing backlash (or social cataclysm) arrives.
So if our caste of sanctimonious media stooges really had any principles (besides being well-paid conformists) or real concerns for our country and its future, they would be the first ones demanding the Democrats back off from the Social Justice idiocy: NO to opening the borders, to opening the jails, to teaching Gender Theory to children, to dismantling and denouncing all our institutions in the name of "antiracism" etc.
But this would mean standing up to the bullies to their Left, weathering the inevitable bigotry accusations and "Trump!!" hysteria, and would also mean defending America and its history and traditions, when all the Cool Kids only pour scorn on anything that came before the existence of Twitter (and also, of course, it would hurt their careers).
But since the MSM has transformed into regime propagandists, we should cut all cords, end all subscriptions, click none of their links, watch none of their products, give zero cents to the people that hate you.
Maybe if we're lucky these supposed "journalists" will be peacefully euthanized and the world will go on while barely noticing their absence.
Don't look here! There is nothing to see here - not in Philadelphia ! Why are you spoiling our enjoyment of a baseball game ? The Inquirer has always been quick to accuse the "right" of the exact transgressions they ignore on the "left". Don't you know that Philadelphia is "mostly peaceful" ?
The hypocrisy is mind boggling. Again Chris, thanks for exposing this Dishonesty.
Only Nazis would run attack ads with shock imagery. Nazis like Donald Trump, who wants to turn America into The Handmaid's Shrugged, and sells American grandmothers to Russian bomb factories.
"What can this idiotic dishonesty possibly hope to accomplish?"
As the jurors who just acquitted Danchenko just showed us, lying through your teeth will get you a "get out of jail free" card and a fat paycheck in every blue district.
🤣 I lived in PA (Pittsburgh) for 5 years until I moved to rural MD earlier this year. I can tell you both city papers (Post Gazette & Inquirer) are as globalist agit-prop as they come. It’s literally LOL daily at how transparent it is now. They want us to be VERY ANGRY, but must direct that anger only toward whom and what they tell us are today’s current thing acceptable anger targets. We cannot be angry at THEM. We absolutely must NOT be angry at the globalists running this bs charade and inventing endless crisis narratives to divide and destroy us. That’s totally verboten. People in PA have largely seen this for what it is now. The papers have resorted to running all sports headlines in their news alerts because literally NO ONE reads these rags anymore. They’re toast, without any influence. Doug Mastriano would win in a landslide without rigging, but the voting system in PA is obviously shit, so there’s that.
A perfect summation of today’s media. And because of it, I have had to use more Pfizer products to keep the blood pressure under control. That is probably part of their evil plan too🤣
Look into Natto. My wife used It and brought her blood pressure down to normal. It took 4-5 months. Natto contains an enzyme called Natto kinase that has all sorts of good effects. During the same period her little brother took pharmaceutical drugs to try to solve his high blood pressure. It didn’t work at all. He still has it.
It’s just so common now the only antidote is to not read and watch this utter tripe. Alas many still do it seems, although gratifyingly CNNs audiences have dropped so low they have finally realised it might have something to do with what they (CNN) are doing, exit key propaganda pushers cos money is more important than politics in the end. This is how we win (and by win I mean stop this assault on freedom and democracy and restore proper functioning politics and society in the West) by voting with our money and our time is money to them. Ask yourself why Facebook share price has crashed 75%, that shill for the elites driven attempt to create a new Feudalism in the West? It’s because people are leaving. Same for Wokeflixs, people are fed up being lectured by billionaires and their fact checking drones and crucially their philosophy, if it can be called that, well it can’t because it is just a Trojan horse, does not match the majority of the people. That is why people are turning their backs on Woke corporations and politicians. That and the fact they are liars with an agenda, a selfish agenda.
I believe these headlines and stories are having the opposite effect these days. Hopefully more people come to realise that the media they once trusted, all part of the the so-called “trusted news initiative”, a government nudge theory sponsored action to implement PsyOps against its own people, is the opposite of trustworthy, as are the people responsible. Let me give you two examples from Europe: Sweden and Italy. Both recently elected a new government that was a right leaning reaction against the elites mismanagement and push to more centralised control, which in both cases was elites neoFeudalism in socialist clothes. The EU wide mainstream media (picked up by American media) declared these new governments “far right”. They are not. In Italy the socialist press described the new government as right leaning... And this new Italian government is the first democratically elected one for 14 years! The rest have been appointed. The most recent was that champion of elites carnage in the economy, Mario Draghi, former head of the ECB. This is nudge theory in action. This is psychological warfare perpetrated by your government in you. So in many ways I love to see it because I believe people are waking up to it now and when sufficient do how pissed will they be? November can’t come fast enough...
Having lived at the pointyend of violent crime, and having also dealt probation and parole for the system, I learned what works and what does not. I have also surveyed full demographics door-to-door to seek real community opinion.
My conclusion is that people who hurt or kill for gain are psychopathic/sociopathic and can't be unbroken. The only way to prevent repeat offences is to kill them. The same applies to violent rapists and paedophiles. Kill them.
No, the death penalty does not reduce crime. Nobody said it did. If you want to reduce crime, establish a democratic meritocracy and eliminate hierarchies. They are the apex source of crime. America is crime-ridden because it is run by a ruthless elitist hierarchy that impoverishes 40% of the nation, a large minority that is desparate to survive and, mimicking the hierarchy, abandons morality and values.
My surveys showed higher than 80% agree with that summation. Unfortunately, the US cannot reform unless the illusionary party duopoly has been eliminated and that will never happen until after civil war. And even more sadly, Americans may have to wait many months for that to happen.
I've concluded that virtually all media is propaganda now. So, readers always have to look for the bias and then compensate for it. Or just not consume it in the first place. That's the world we have now.
even though he's on the philly inquirer payroll, his real gig is on twitter. and maybe fb, ig, who knows. social media clickbait. i wonder how many hard copies of the paper they even print anymore.
And the Inquirer just endorsed John Fetterman for Senate, who wants to commute the sentences of convicted murderers. As Lieutenant Governor, he was on the Board of Pardons and recommended that those prisoners be released because, as he puts it, “they paid for their mistakes.” Yeah. He’s also good buddies with the Philadelphia DA, who is very soft on crime as well. I’m sure Fetterman thinks that these convicts are going to be oh so grateful to rejoin society that they won’t ever murder again. Right. I won’t be voting for him and I know a lot of other Pennsylvania residents won’t be either. The fly in the ointment is the early voting.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/nbc-fetterman-interview-closed-captioning-20221014.html
IDIOTS!
Thanks. I saw that as well. The Inquirer is going way out of its way to defend Fetterman from not only his stance on crime, but his post-stroke difficulties. I read a while ago that Fetterman is being pushed not because he’s going to be a mediocre hack Dem senator. He will. But the game plan is to have his radical Marxist wife (a DREAMER who became a U.S. citizen when she married him) take his place when he quietly resigns because of his health.
Wondered about that when I saw a tweet calling Gisele a "de facto political candidate and rising star".
https://redstate.com/joesquire/2022/10/17/john-fettermans-wife-is-taking-over-the-campaign-and-its-not-good-n644496
Um, is that "legal"? (Not sure it really matters anymore, but that's not how holding a public office is supposed to work.)
I’ll have to research it. The apparent catch is that Josh Shapiro would also have to get elected Governor and if Fetterman resigns, Shapiro can theoretically appoint his wife (or anyone else, say, Dem Conor Lamb, who is not nearly radical enough) to serve out the rest of Fetterman’s term, at which point, she will have to run for election herself.
This is the article I read: https://jdrucker.substack.com/p/john-fettermans-radical-marxist-wife
That wife would be the one I read about, who wants the journalist that pointed out that Fetterman can't seem to understand anything he hears or respond appropriately to pay a price for saying that to the public.
Yes, she’s playing it as if the reporter is denigrating disabled people, in which category her husband may be included now. The reporter had legitimate concerns, as many of us do here in PA, but she’s trying the old Dem identity politics gambit in hopes that it sticks.
This is one of those "are these people really good at this?" moments for me, because their save-the-Senate-seat argument is to say that their candidate is disabled.
You can't criticize John Fetterman, because that's attacking the disabled, so...vote Fetterman!
I mean....
Yes, and sadly, there are people in this commonwealth who will fall for it, hook, line and sinker. On one hand, I am livid over the whole “my husband is disabled now, so you can’t criticize any of his positions” schtick, and on the other hand, it amazes me how good the Dems are at coming up with these kinds of angles, as you said.
*Bingo*
That’s surprising in a good way. Maybe the ordinary Dems in Philly aren’t as brain-dead as I thought in unthinkingly casting their vote for anyone with a (D) after their name. Then again, they are the ones who are suffering the most because of Fetterman’s and the corrupt Philly DA’s soft on crime stances. I’m glad they are at least starting to see the truth because it’s Philly and Pittsburgh that screw things up for everyone else in the state.
That’s great! Keep up the good work! I’m in the western half of the state closer to Pittsburgh. I learned that Westmoreland County to the immediate east of Allegheny County and Pittsburgh had flipped GOP in 2020 and outnumbered the Dems for the first time in maybe ever. And there is a strong GOP presence in lots of neighborhoods surrounding Pittsburgh, which might negate that Dem stronghold. Although, you would think that people would have many second thoughts about the Dems, because, like Philly, the crime here is off the charts.
Yes, your vote DOES matter. Mine was one that was tallied for both the Auditor General and the Treasurer as well, and I hope that this carries through with both Mastriano and Oz being elected.
I am still very suspicious of the mail-in ballots, however. I sure hope that the state GOP learned something from 2020 and will pounce on any questionable vote tallies that crop up. The state courts will be no help - they think it’s OK to count mail-in ballots without signatures.
It was Bill Clinton who did me a favor and turned me into a Republican in 1992. Couldn’t stand him or his wife and the Dem platform, which has gotten more and more extreme over the subsequent decades.
York County here. The local red vote has been thoroughly rockef.
Except that it was in Philly that the 2020 election went off the rails. Watch 2000 Mules.
Don't you love when people ("people-shaped things" might be more appropriate for propagandists) are appalled at *depictions* of violence rather than the violence itself? Like when people get mad at whistleblowers instead of the perpetrators of the corruption they're exposing?
You've just reminded me of the time the Los Angeles Times, which used to a newspaper, got an insider at the Department of Children and Family Services to leak a giant set of documents showing that children had died while under county supervision following reports of child abuse. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors was outraged, and took immediate action....
....to prevent people from leaking to the newspaper again.
Yes, they're more focused on the discourse about the thing than they are about the thing, and yes, it's very very telling.
😵🤦♀️ Sounds like a great topic for a future article :-)
Geeeezuz.
I was literally just blamed for contributing to vaccine deaths by "causing reasonable critics to be lumped in with your angry sarcasm and Qanon beliefs."
🤣🤣🤣 I'd love to read how you responded to that.
Funny thing is, I remember you and I discussed the Qanon psy-op and our surprise that intelligent people like Amazing Polly fell for it. Of course, whoever aimed that ridiculous statement at you would be incapable of understanding such nuances in your thinking.
I don't believe in anything about Qanon, and never even brought it up in the forum. (Vinay Prasad's medicine stack) It's a commonly used slur to dismiss someone believed to be on the "far right," as I'm sure you're aware.
Yup. All too.
Is "he" still saying anything these days?
I have no idea. I never even knew about it when "he" was saying things 😆
Look, if we’ve learned anything the last 7 years, it’s that the Left always doubles down. The cycle looks something like this: they do something stupid/illegal/evil/ugly. They are accused of same. They feign outrage. They deny, project and deflect, viciously accuse their accusers, with the usual repertoire of ad hominem insults that convey their accusers are the problem to shift the conversation. They lie some more. Then some piece(s) of evidence emerges that plainly reveals the lie. So they either pretend it isn’t legitimate or is insignificant. They lie some more. If the lie gets traction, they keep going until it loses momentum. If they get no traction, they ignore the whole thing and move in to the next lie. They think the population is stupid and lazy, with some justification. But lies catch up to you, nearly always. And at this point people know the game. Look, this is just a cynical strategy of delegitimization of anybody who opposes their destructive agenda. And it’s not going away. We gave to approach this with the same fervor and long term gamesmanship that they do. And we need to be remorseless in victory, like they are. Only when they are soundly defeated can we have any hope for some form of national rapprochement. But that won’t look like our society today. Not all ideas or civilizations are equal. They don’t all deserve to survive. Does anybody really want the Aztecs to make a comeback? How about the Spanish Inquisition? Any takers? Same thing for this destructive Corporate- Commie alliance. The stupid needs to be flushed and it can’t be a half measure. Righteous indignation is appropriate toward these imposters, fools, and sociopaths.
Thing is, you can substitute the word "dems" for "repubs" and back and forth, depending on what year and what's going on, because they're just two wings of the same disgusting vulture-cum-parasitic-raptor class, flunkies for the elitist oligarchs and the war-mongering filthy rich hyperactive eugenicists and oil baron self-important but still useless dregs of high society that contribute nothing but misery... Ooops, did I say something? Excuse me...
Mostly agree. The GOP establishment is better in a couple of areas, but generally is useless, duplicitous and more interested in preserving the status quo/feeding at the trough than helping their constituents.
Yeah, I was thinking, generally, over the whole period of the US and our history... These two parties take turns being utterly useless, lying, fickle slime-bags, in my very sweet and polite opinion... It's long been known how completely senseless a two-party system is, and that's why we can't have nice things...
A benevolent dictatorship is the way to go, as long as I’m the dictator. I think most people would go for that. 😏
I hereby allow you to walk all over my rights and treat me like a talking cow. Oh, wait! Bill Gates already took your job...
*snort*
Let's add the largest monetary fines in history and jail time to our righteous indignation.
I’m partial to heads on pikes, but that just me.
Big time.
I live in the Philadelphia area and Bunch is one of the reasons why I cancelled my newspaper subscription.
I can't imagine paying money for that.
"Do you have to be a sociopathic idiot to land a newspaper column, these days? What can this idiotic dishonesty possibly hope to accomplish?"
Answer to question 1: Evidence would suggest so. Answer to question 2 requires translation: Yes, we recognize there's a crime problem, and we feel your pain (honestly, we do), but how dare the other side point it out. And really they're making too big a deal of this. We're going to have growing pains and need to make sacrifices as we work toward social justice. Besides, using fear to win an election is *bad* (well, unless we do it).
I refuse to be lectured of the side of the political aisle that said if you were unmasked or unvaccinated, you were literally KILLING people and should be charged with MURDER!!! Because that's not misusing fear or anything. That's just a public service announcement and for your own good.
And this is why so very many of us are so very tired.
SO TIRED
Zzzzzzz
I wonder if he’s really that much of a moron, (probably) or is he trying to “get clicks”. Of course that is journalism these days.
Mendacious, yes very. Moronic? No, not really.
Stop letting these people off so easily. They know what they're doing.
I see the point of this argument, but I also have to wonder if they think they can get away with telling people in Philadelphia there isn't really any violent crime. Like, if they're good at it, and know exactly what they're doing, wouldn't they have the ability to sort of....calibrate the lie? To get sort of plausibly close to obvious reality?
It's like watching Karine Jean-Pierre celebrate President Biden's brilliant leadership on the problem of tackling inflation. I really thought that professional liars had to be pretty good at it.
It's times like this that I wish I had spent more time developing my vocabulary. There has to be a word to describe the willful denial of obvious truths, especially by people who know better. We saw it all the time with covid, doctors and nurses advocating the use of cloth masks in public spaces, teachers claiming online learning will work fine, inflation is "transitory", yah right. And while some of them are just professional liars, some of them are lying to themselves as much as they are everyone else.
Margaret Anna Alice has been popularizing the old-fashioned term "Good German". Which is probably racist or something, but hey. Hoffman (quite a piece of work himself) called them True Believers. I dunno.
The skilled professional liars are the ones who have you fooled into thinking that (for example) Elon Musk will save free speech. Top-tier class acts don't come cheap, and they certainly aren't wasting their skills whining about ball games in some old newspaper.
Willful denial is nothing but "neglect"--a steadfast refusal to deal with reality, one's commitments, obligations, oaths or responsibilities. A few days of neglect and most any of the above are long forgotten.
They don't make 'em like Goebbels anymore...
I know, right? What's the world coming to when you can't even get a competent Nazi propagandist anymore?!
As vicious as our opponents are, they are twice as stupid/incompetent. Keep Hope alive, James.
Well said.
I dunno. I think that, for this guy's readership as he understands it, he can say pretty much anything as long as it follows the party line: in this case, Republican = fascist. These sheeple are so thoroughly hypnotized and gaslit that, as Orwell predicted, they have become adept at simultaneously holding contradictory views without feeling any dissonance. They don't even notice the contradiction.
His editor isn't going to run any direct counters. His readers aren't reading anybody who will contradict him, and if they do by mistake, well they can just stick their fingers in their ears and go NANANANANA. Works just fine.
That sounds like cognitive dissonance and I feel like that term doesn't cover it. For example, I know a couple of doctors and nurses. From the start of the pandemic some were adamant about masks and insisted that masks were needed while simultaneously acknowledging, viral particles are to small to be impacted by a mask. It was crazy talk. I attributed it to fear. They were afraid and desperate to do anything to mitigate their exposure to the virus they feared. They weren't lying, what's worse I think they knew there a flaw in their reasoning, but they couldn't let it go. It was as if some fight or flight level instinct was driving them. It's possible that fear is still the driving factor with people like Bunch, but it's hard to imagine it's fear of covid at this point.
If our midwit liberal journalists were really students of history concerned about the future of "Democracy" instead of a pack of barking dogs who can only play the same lazy & dull game of matching Column A to Column B (with Column A being some event involving either WW2 or slavery/ Jim Crow and Column B being the Republican outrage du jour, e.g. Desantis and the Vineyard or anything to do w voting by mail), they would know that one of the major factors in the collapse of liberal democracy usually involves liberals getting steamrolled by Leftists, who get them to acquiesce to any and every extreme policy, until the inevitable rightwing backlash (or social cataclysm) arrives.
So if our caste of sanctimonious media stooges really had any principles (besides being well-paid conformists) or real concerns for our country and its future, they would be the first ones demanding the Democrats back off from the Social Justice idiocy: NO to opening the borders, to opening the jails, to teaching Gender Theory to children, to dismantling and denouncing all our institutions in the name of "antiracism" etc.
But this would mean standing up to the bullies to their Left, weathering the inevitable bigotry accusations and "Trump!!" hysteria, and would also mean defending America and its history and traditions, when all the Cool Kids only pour scorn on anything that came before the existence of Twitter (and also, of course, it would hurt their careers).
But since the MSM has transformed into regime propagandists, we should cut all cords, end all subscriptions, click none of their links, watch none of their products, give zero cents to the people that hate you.
Maybe if we're lucky these supposed "journalists" will be peacefully euthanized and the world will go on while barely noticing their absence.
"Maybe if we're lucky these supposed "journalists" will be peacefully euthanized..."
Does it have to be 'peacefully'? You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
I object to the term "barking dogs" for these nasty little toads... Woof!
Don't look here! There is nothing to see here - not in Philadelphia ! Why are you spoiling our enjoyment of a baseball game ? The Inquirer has always been quick to accuse the "right" of the exact transgressions they ignore on the "left". Don't you know that Philadelphia is "mostly peaceful" ?
The hypocrisy is mind boggling. Again Chris, thanks for exposing this Dishonesty.
Only Nazis would run attack ads with shock imagery. Nazis like Donald Trump, who wants to turn America into The Handmaid's Shrugged, and sells American grandmothers to Russian bomb factories.
Paid for by Friends of Brandon.
"What can this idiotic dishonesty possibly hope to accomplish?"
As the jurors who just acquitted Danchenko just showed us, lying through your teeth will get you a "get out of jail free" card and a fat paycheck in every blue district.
🤣 I lived in PA (Pittsburgh) for 5 years until I moved to rural MD earlier this year. I can tell you both city papers (Post Gazette & Inquirer) are as globalist agit-prop as they come. It’s literally LOL daily at how transparent it is now. They want us to be VERY ANGRY, but must direct that anger only toward whom and what they tell us are today’s current thing acceptable anger targets. We cannot be angry at THEM. We absolutely must NOT be angry at the globalists running this bs charade and inventing endless crisis narratives to divide and destroy us. That’s totally verboten. People in PA have largely seen this for what it is now. The papers have resorted to running all sports headlines in their news alerts because literally NO ONE reads these rags anymore. They’re toast, without any influence. Doug Mastriano would win in a landslide without rigging, but the voting system in PA is obviously shit, so there’s that.
A perfect summation of today’s media. And because of it, I have had to use more Pfizer products to keep the blood pressure under control. That is probably part of their evil plan too🤣
oh, nooooooo. Look into natural remedies, quick!
Look into Natto. My wife used It and brought her blood pressure down to normal. It took 4-5 months. Natto contains an enzyme called Natto kinase that has all sorts of good effects. During the same period her little brother took pharmaceutical drugs to try to solve his high blood pressure. It didn’t work at all. He still has it.
Thanks! My mom is like your wife's brother. Maybe she'll try it. Anyway, good info. ^_^
It’s just so common now the only antidote is to not read and watch this utter tripe. Alas many still do it seems, although gratifyingly CNNs audiences have dropped so low they have finally realised it might have something to do with what they (CNN) are doing, exit key propaganda pushers cos money is more important than politics in the end. This is how we win (and by win I mean stop this assault on freedom and democracy and restore proper functioning politics and society in the West) by voting with our money and our time is money to them. Ask yourself why Facebook share price has crashed 75%, that shill for the elites driven attempt to create a new Feudalism in the West? It’s because people are leaving. Same for Wokeflixs, people are fed up being lectured by billionaires and their fact checking drones and crucially their philosophy, if it can be called that, well it can’t because it is just a Trojan horse, does not match the majority of the people. That is why people are turning their backs on Woke corporations and politicians. That and the fact they are liars with an agenda, a selfish agenda.
I believe these headlines and stories are having the opposite effect these days. Hopefully more people come to realise that the media they once trusted, all part of the the so-called “trusted news initiative”, a government nudge theory sponsored action to implement PsyOps against its own people, is the opposite of trustworthy, as are the people responsible. Let me give you two examples from Europe: Sweden and Italy. Both recently elected a new government that was a right leaning reaction against the elites mismanagement and push to more centralised control, which in both cases was elites neoFeudalism in socialist clothes. The EU wide mainstream media (picked up by American media) declared these new governments “far right”. They are not. In Italy the socialist press described the new government as right leaning... And this new Italian government is the first democratically elected one for 14 years! The rest have been appointed. The most recent was that champion of elites carnage in the economy, Mario Draghi, former head of the ECB. This is nudge theory in action. This is psychological warfare perpetrated by your government in you. So in many ways I love to see it because I believe people are waking up to it now and when sufficient do how pissed will they be? November can’t come fast enough...
Hear, hear. Preach.
Excellent points!
So what is the truth?
Having lived at the pointyend of violent crime, and having also dealt probation and parole for the system, I learned what works and what does not. I have also surveyed full demographics door-to-door to seek real community opinion.
My conclusion is that people who hurt or kill for gain are psychopathic/sociopathic and can't be unbroken. The only way to prevent repeat offences is to kill them. The same applies to violent rapists and paedophiles. Kill them.
No, the death penalty does not reduce crime. Nobody said it did. If you want to reduce crime, establish a democratic meritocracy and eliminate hierarchies. They are the apex source of crime. America is crime-ridden because it is run by a ruthless elitist hierarchy that impoverishes 40% of the nation, a large minority that is desparate to survive and, mimicking the hierarchy, abandons morality and values.
My surveys showed higher than 80% agree with that summation. Unfortunately, the US cannot reform unless the illusionary party duopoly has been eliminated and that will never happen until after civil war. And even more sadly, Americans may have to wait many months for that to happen.
I've concluded that virtually all media is propaganda now. So, readers always have to look for the bias and then compensate for it. Or just not consume it in the first place. That's the world we have now.
even though he's on the philly inquirer payroll, his real gig is on twitter. and maybe fb, ig, who knows. social media clickbait. i wonder how many hard copies of the paper they even print anymore.