And in a stunning example of Trump's white male grievance-focused movement, he has chosen the first woman to be White House chief of staff in American history:
Her dad was an alcoholic and she was key in getting him into rehab, which he acknowledged. The more I read about her, the more I like her. Well, I am willing to forgive her for working on the Romney campaign.
She does look kinda butch... A blonde Thatcher... Maybe she could arm wrestle VP whore... That would be great entertainment.
Speaking of VPs... A side benefit of all this is Tampon Tim is probably neutralized... I would have said neutered but he already is... Failed VP candidates seldom go on in politics.
So fuck off tampon Tim. I hope the next time you play with your shotgun you shoot yourself.
A day or two ago I read someone (you?) speculating that the Republicans would be the first one to put a woman in the White House. I find that plausible.
100%, if they run a woman she would be good looking and tougher than nails. Conservative women know how to shut down the 5th wave feminism blue hair lesbian crowd.
Texeira just published a list of guidelines for democrats to win in the future… and it’s basically a copy of the MAGA platform. He should rename his substack from the liberal patriot to the retarded shill. So what you’re saying is… you want Dems to do the exact opposite of the madness they’ve been pushing over the past decade… with your full throated support?
He's had to endure what Fukuyama did - writing a book that ended up spectacularly and entirely wrong. Even as people still push the narrative that he has now realized was in error.
I’ve subscribed, then unsubscribed from his Substack about a dozen times. He sometimes seems fair (for a minute), but quickly reverts back to the DNC-approved dogma, and I lose patience. I’m out of patience now.
Thanks for your IMPUTATION about my motivation. Have you ever tried not being so judgmental when you don’t know someone? Perhaps you have more time to spare each day, but 24 hours is not long enough for me, and I’m forced to determine whose writing is worth it. Boy, I bet we all wish we could be as discerning and thoughtful as you. To paraphrase J.D. Vance. “Can you hear yourself?”
The only way the Dems listen to Tex is if he relabels his ideas to "TRANSforming the Party". Without the word TRANS in everything, those soy drinkers will never swallow it.
I need to butt in here. Big fan of both Yuri and Ruy TEIXEIRA. The list at the end of Ruy’s latest “Liberal Patriot” post bemoaning the Dem’s crack-up is characteristic of what he has stood for, for years. Ruy is one of my favorite democrats, he’s a classic liberal, who loves what the Dems used to stand for (think Sam Nunn & Daniel P. Moynihan). He’s at the AEI, sort of an outcast.
He’s not copying Trump; he’s telling his former compatriots they need to get back to their roots, and cut out all the postmodern woke crap, and be real Americans again. Go and read his stuff, and then tell me he’s not main stream American.
They are sooo dull, but that doesn’t obviate the fact they are just awful narrow minded midwits, check that, dimwits. “But I several degrees from top educational institutions!” Yeah, makes it official….you’re a narrow minded dimwit….
I've been trying to explain to my children (and myself, frankly) how stunning this week has been. Trump took on every political dynasty in American politics we've endured for thirty years - Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden - and beat them, one by one. He also managed to reinvent the party of Ronald Reagan in his own image, and in that party find room for a man (RFK Jr.) who brings with him the mojo of the most famous American political dynasty of all. When Trump won in 2016, my kids were much younger, and the only thing I could do to try and explain what happened (in their terms) was to say "This is as crazy as if we woke up and found out one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was elected President, and what's more it was Michelangelo." Now I find myself returning to the same analogy, only adding to it "...and then Michelangelo laid down his nunchucks to become the preeminent politician and statesman of our era." Pretty soon we're gonna have to take a break for a few years. I can't stand all this history happening all at once. Plus I have yardwork to do, and all this joy and schadenfreude is distracting.
Same! We live in Deep Blueworld, where everyone around us is lamenting THE RISE OF THE ORANGE HITLER, so I've been busy telling my daughter the other story. Seems to be going well.
the Gen-Z crowd showed up for Trump. Everyone lamenting about how lame the youth are and how liberal they are, dont hang around alot of young adults. When i visited my son at FSU in october i was asking all the kids at the tailgate, and at the bars the night before Trump or Harris?? It was 90% Trump, even the girls. All of my sons friends were Trump, there girlfriends also. Gen Z is moving right, they got screwed by covid, and arent down with all the trans shit. They never have seen fox news, cnn or the alphabets. They watch danny duncan, the nelk boys,theo vonn, and the paul brothers. They listen to rogans podcast and are big UFC fans. As the boomers die off( the worst generation in history) the dems are losing ground fast. All they'll have left is there base of shrieking karens, soy boys, and the trans weirdos. The regular folks have spoken, and it feels good to have some sanity in charge again, not a bunch of cross dressing freaks and pissed off lesbians.
I just had a moment of thunder/lightning hopefulness!! Now, let's move on to DEFUND THE UNIVERSITIES and have people pull the plugs to their endowment donations!!
In the new nightmare authoritarian fascist America, kids will be able to get a whole set of action figure Hitlers in ALL the colors of the rainbow - orange, yellow, red, blue, etc. - all with action grip. Special Elon sold separately.
Been reading on X how many Dems think they will be sent to camps, and interracial marriages and birth control will be outlawed, etc. It’s wild and shocking.
On a liberal Substack, someone commented “I’m a 71 yo man and am furious that Trump will endanger the life of my wife, daughters, and granddaughters.” I asked how his wife’s life can be endangered (I assume she’s not a spring chicken anymore). I got comments like “troll,” “trump shill,” “you don’t understand the big picture,” “because she won’t have access to abortion,” etc. (Remember the man is 71 yo.) Some people on the left live in an alternate universe where facts don’t matter, only feelings do.
“They. Have. No. Idea.” And. They. Never. Will. There is no self-reflection. No introspection. No willingness to admit failures. No learning from mistakes.
It’s Jonestown level brainwashing and it’s happened to a few of my friends. They need to be studied. Their capacity makes me wonder if they are related to lemmings
I'm worried about Rosie O'Donnell. She was at anxiety level 7 on Nov 4, and surely reached 10 on election eve. She mentioned that she'd need something stronger if you-know-what. The question is, did she get her meds in time?
They are the party of oxymoronic ideology. They are the fascists. Eight long years of being cancelled, screaming Trump's literal Hitler and " from the river to the sea" kill the Jews! Theft is retribution. Inflation reduction=exponential inflation. Free speech=more censorship. Science=boys can be girls. Feminism=men in girls locker rooms and tampons in boys bathrooms. Collage=education.
We want freedom and we're not buying your dystopic fever dream.
I really thought the blinders would fall off when the government stormed a guy's house guns ablazing to execute his pet squirrel.
I don't think they have the coping skills to survive the real world.
And now Biden quietly and calmly says he's handing over"the democracy" to literal Hitler and his Nazi supporters. It might break their little minds beyond repair. Bette Midler says she's going to drink Drano because Trump won. Jimmy Kimmel is preparing to go to jail.
“I don't think they have the coping skills to survive the real world.” You got that right. Confirmed when I read that Georgetown University was setting up quiet spaces with cocoa, Legos, milk and cookies for students traumatized by the election outcome. Students. At Georgetown. Good Lord. What do they do when their driver is late, or Door Dash doesn’t deliver, or Dad forgets to Venmo? They have no clue about the real world. And that--is truly terrifying.
The female relative we hosted for the weekend before the election (enjoyable time, by the way) is now taking her anger and frustration over the election out on me by sending links to articles in The New Republic and Huffpost to let me know what a Nazi I have become. I am not responding, because nothing I say, and no article critical of her position I might pass on, will make any difference.
Yes, I'm reminded of this conversation the wonderful Dear Leader Brandon had with Don Lemon during the Covid vaccine insanity/mandates. Brandon knew.
Biden: "You got the vaccination? Are you okay? I mean, you seem…" "No, it works." Or you, you know — or the mom and dad, or the neighbor, or when you go to church, or when you're — no, I really mean it.
There are trusted interlocutors. Think of the people — if your kid wanted to find out whether or not there were — there's a man on the moon, or whatever — you know, something, or, you know, whether those aliens are here or not — you know, who are the people they talk to beyond the kids who love talking about it?"
Right? In all those post-mortems, I'm waiting for the one who says, "Maybe we're just really, really bad at politics." That's the person they should put in charge of their reform. But I'm not holding my breath. Hysterically enough, I've now seen several mentions of Bill Clinton actually trying to call attention to failing strategy in the past several weeks, only to be told (just like in 2016) the data doesn't support his old-man-gut-feeling-that-actually-won-two-presidential-elections-in-living-memory. I just can't take it. I've had too many laughing jags the past two days. I might pass out. It's too much.
Or maybe they know, but are still testing to find out what their "tribe" allows them to say?
To develop an example from Australian media (admittedly, government owned)...
Leigh Sales, a high-profile (and standard but not rabid leftist) Australian political journalist and TV host, published this very long piece on the Saturday before the election.
It's all about race - until right at the end she acknowledges that, "Like the rest of the country, most Americans living in Arizona think the country is trending in the wrong direction. The big issues for the border state are immigration, cost of living and housing affordability — all issues on which the Democrat is vulnerable, given it's her party that has held the White House for the past four years".
Then she has the piece below published as they are still counting votes. It was written either before Election Day, or during it. It’s not the result of long consideration or rumination over all aspects that may come out in the next few days or weeks – she knew this going in (and it was all blindingly obvious anyway).
Economic pain, the obsessions of the Democratic base, the transition from Biden are now top 3 – as they obviously were to Sales before, but she couldn’t talk about them.
Racism and sexism come in at #4, get 3 lines and no evidence. Obama’s smashing wins and the movement of Black, Hispanic & Asian voters to Trump tend to give a lie to the racism argument. Sexism? Have a look at candidate quality.
Democrat campaign misjudgements and voter motivation come in #5 & 6 – again, it seems these were known to her but not able to be talked about before.
So – apart from being far too easy on Biden, and on Harris as a poor candidate (what do you mean, “she was never meant to be the nominee”?), Sales had a tolerable handle on the actual reasons for the defeat well before now.
So why couldn’t our experienced, courageous, hard-hitting combative ABC journalist heroine talk about them before? While she was obviously a supporter, what possible difference to any US vote could the opinions of an Australian political commentator, writing in Australia, have? None.
No - her problem was how she knew she would be perceived in her "tribe" if she'd told the truth as she saw it, before the election. And they're all now testing the waters to find out what is allowed to be said in the approved narrative, so they can fall back into line.
Max Planck said in paraphrase, "scientists don't ever change their minds, they grow old and die"
Overwhelming evidence of discovery is unseeable when the claims are extraordinary and destructive to the existing paradigm. The undeniable is denied.
Marx's paradigm of oppression and oppressor will never go away. It certainly didn't originate with Marx. The story is as old as Cain and Abel. We need a correct understanding of sacrifice to see the truth. The truth shall set you free.
Apologies but to bring up Jonah Goldberg one last time, to then forever ignore, this is a man who wrote Liberal Fascism, laying out in detail how the left leans into fascism. Then watches in real time these last four years how they do exactly that. Lockdowns, mandates, censorship, lawfare, imprisoning political opponents, on and on. AND, saw the previous Trump administration do exactly none of that. And yet he won’t (can’t) see it. Just incredible. Okay now we can go back to ignoring him. Had to get that out.
And in a stunning example of Trump's white male grievance-focused movement, he has chosen the first woman to be White House chief of staff in American history:
https://archive.is/kxeiq
Such misogyny! A campaign of HATE!
Waiting for Mark Cuban to come out of hiding and comment. His ego is one of the biggest losers of this election.
She’s Pat Summerall’s daughter…
Missed that!
Damn that's interesting. I don't follow sportsball at all but that is still interesting. Daughter of a football jock.
This will of course be turned into a put down of some type, because they can't tolerate that he could do something they would otherwise support.
They will. They'll call her a subservient little handmaid or something.
Because when they do that it’s not misogynistic. It’s principled. Or something like that.
Her dad was an alcoholic and she was key in getting him into rehab, which he acknowledged. The more I read about her, the more I like her. Well, I am willing to forgive her for working on the Romney campaign.
Look what they did to Sarah Palin.
And Tulsi
Indeed.
She's white, so doesn't count
what's the equivalent of "Uncle Tom" for white women?
According to Mark Cuban, Trump is afraid of strong women and won’t surround himself with strong, intelligent women. Here’s the proof!
She does look kinda butch... A blonde Thatcher... Maybe she could arm wrestle VP whore... That would be great entertainment.
Speaking of VPs... A side benefit of all this is Tampon Tim is probably neutralized... I would have said neutered but he already is... Failed VP candidates seldom go on in politics.
So fuck off tampon Tim. I hope the next time you play with your shotgun you shoot yourself.
Tim Walz? What was the about? Buellar? Buellar?
She looks like she takes no prisoners.
Or maybe she takes them and then plays with them like a cat does...
Somewhere, deep in the bowels of a Chinese prison, Tampon Tim’s ChiCom handlers are receiving a .38 caliber dose of lead poisoning.
A day or two ago I read someone (you?) speculating that the Republicans would be the first one to put a woman in the White House. I find that plausible.
100%, if they run a woman she would be good looking and tougher than nails. Conservative women know how to shut down the 5th wave feminism blue hair lesbian crowd.
"The female face of fallocratic supremacism" as a certain someone might say?
As opposed to the prior failocracy!
I noticed they did hit on her already with the moniker “Ice Queen.” So maybe she’s not a “normal woman” whayever that is.
"Donald Trump Flips Most Hispanic County in America"
https://www.newsweek.com/starr-county-texas-most-hispanic-county-donald-trump-1981230
Texeira just published a list of guidelines for democrats to win in the future… and it’s basically a copy of the MAGA platform. He should rename his substack from the liberal patriot to the retarded shill. So what you’re saying is… you want Dems to do the exact opposite of the madness they’ve been pushing over the past decade… with your full throated support?
Easier to just vote for Trump.
or in 2028 JD Vance
He's had to endure what Fukuyama did - writing a book that ended up spectacularly and entirely wrong. Even as people still push the narrative that he has now realized was in error.
Fukyomama - the end of Hissyfit...
Fukyomama invented the airplane just so he could kamikaze!
I have no problem with his book, it reflected time & place; but what he is saying and doing now is disappointing, sad.
I’ve subscribed, then unsubscribed from his Substack about a dozen times. He sometimes seems fair (for a minute), but quickly reverts back to the DNC-approved dogma, and I lose patience. I’m out of patience now.
He´s a Senior Fellow, not a Jolly Good Fellow .....
Thanks for your IMPUTATION about my motivation. Have you ever tried not being so judgmental when you don’t know someone? Perhaps you have more time to spare each day, but 24 hours is not long enough for me, and I’m forced to determine whose writing is worth it. Boy, I bet we all wish we could be as discerning and thoughtful as you. To paraphrase J.D. Vance. “Can you hear yourself?”
Just keep digging. You clearly can’t hear yourself.
The only way the Dems listen to Tex is if he relabels his ideas to "TRANSforming the Party". Without the word TRANS in everything, those soy drinkers will never swallow it.
I need to butt in here. Big fan of both Yuri and Ruy TEIXEIRA. The list at the end of Ruy’s latest “Liberal Patriot” post bemoaning the Dem’s crack-up is characteristic of what he has stood for, for years. Ruy is one of my favorite democrats, he’s a classic liberal, who loves what the Dems used to stand for (think Sam Nunn & Daniel P. Moynihan). He’s at the AEI, sort of an outcast.
He’s not copying Trump; he’s telling his former compatriots they need to get back to their roots, and cut out all the postmodern woke crap, and be real Americans again. Go and read his stuff, and then tell me he’s not main stream American.
This has been a public service message.
They are sooo dull, but that doesn’t obviate the fact they are just awful narrow minded midwits, check that, dimwits. “But I several degrees from top educational institutions!” Yeah, makes it official….you’re a narrow minded dimwit….
I've been trying to explain to my children (and myself, frankly) how stunning this week has been. Trump took on every political dynasty in American politics we've endured for thirty years - Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden - and beat them, one by one. He also managed to reinvent the party of Ronald Reagan in his own image, and in that party find room for a man (RFK Jr.) who brings with him the mojo of the most famous American political dynasty of all. When Trump won in 2016, my kids were much younger, and the only thing I could do to try and explain what happened (in their terms) was to say "This is as crazy as if we woke up and found out one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was elected President, and what's more it was Michelangelo." Now I find myself returning to the same analogy, only adding to it "...and then Michelangelo laid down his nunchucks to become the preeminent politician and statesman of our era." Pretty soon we're gonna have to take a break for a few years. I can't stand all this history happening all at once. Plus I have yardwork to do, and all this joy and schadenfreude is distracting.
Same! We live in Deep Blueworld, where everyone around us is lamenting THE RISE OF THE ORANGE HITLER, so I've been busy telling my daughter the other story. Seems to be going well.
the Gen-Z crowd showed up for Trump. Everyone lamenting about how lame the youth are and how liberal they are, dont hang around alot of young adults. When i visited my son at FSU in october i was asking all the kids at the tailgate, and at the bars the night before Trump or Harris?? It was 90% Trump, even the girls. All of my sons friends were Trump, there girlfriends also. Gen Z is moving right, they got screwed by covid, and arent down with all the trans shit. They never have seen fox news, cnn or the alphabets. They watch danny duncan, the nelk boys,theo vonn, and the paul brothers. They listen to rogans podcast and are big UFC fans. As the boomers die off( the worst generation in history) the dems are losing ground fast. All they'll have left is there base of shrieking karens, soy boys, and the trans weirdos. The regular folks have spoken, and it feels good to have some sanity in charge again, not a bunch of cross dressing freaks and pissed off lesbians.
I am a boomer and all the people
boomers around me voted Trump, you just called us the worst, WTH
I just had a moment of thunder/lightning hopefulness!! Now, let's move on to DEFUND THE UNIVERSITIES and have people pull the plugs to their endowment donations!!
In the new nightmare authoritarian fascist America, kids will be able to get a whole set of action figure Hitlers in ALL the colors of the rainbow - orange, yellow, red, blue, etc. - all with action grip. Special Elon sold separately.
Reminds me a very old joke… why does Barbie wear a steel bra?
Because GI Joe has Kung Fu grip.
😂😇
Elon…the man who makes his bread and butter off the gOvErNmEnT.
Don’t you mean fixing up what the government screws up?
LoL!
I had a warm feeling seeing people in Pasadena taking down their Harris/Walz yard signs with sad faces.
Did you honk and flip them off while laughing maniacally? That’s what I would’ve done
Been reading on X how many Dems think they will be sent to camps, and interracial marriages and birth control will be outlawed, etc. It’s wild and shocking.
On a liberal Substack, someone commented “I’m a 71 yo man and am furious that Trump will endanger the life of my wife, daughters, and granddaughters.” I asked how his wife’s life can be endangered (I assume she’s not a spring chicken anymore). I got comments like “troll,” “trump shill,” “you don’t understand the big picture,” “because she won’t have access to abortion,” etc. (Remember the man is 71 yo.) Some people on the left live in an alternate universe where facts don’t matter, only feelings do.
Well, if they can ignore basic human biology and create a bazillion genders out of thin air, among other things, they DO live in an alternate reality.
Trump is a part of that group 😉.
“They. Have. No. Idea.” And. They. Never. Will. There is no self-reflection. No introspection. No willingness to admit failures. No learning from mistakes.
It’s Jonestown level brainwashing and it’s happened to a few of my friends. They need to be studied. Their capacity makes me wonder if they are related to lemmings
Remember when they were accusing us of being in a cult?
"They need to be studied." LMAO
You mean yesterday? And 5 minutes ago ?
Isn’t that George Carlin?
I dunno. 🤷♀️ Maybe. ? Sorry George if I stole it
Btw any accounting of the whereabouts of De Niro ?
I'm not a New Yorker -- is Bellevue still a mental hospital?
Now it’s a precinct for NYPD.
I'm worried about Rosie O'Donnell. She was at anxiety level 7 on Nov 4, and surely reached 10 on election eve. She mentioned that she'd need something stronger if you-know-what. The question is, did she get her meds in time?
She became heterosexual, from what I’ve heard.
I checked. Your hopes are dashed.
I know…I was kidding! Gotcha!🤣
Lemme guess - she's dating Mark Cuban. He looks just like her.
Perhaps she might call 1900 FENTY?
I'm so bad - 100% LoL!
Stronger, like 9mm stronger?
Maybe. You never know with those people.
On the streets as an aged Travis Bickle?
Who gives a fuck?😂
So many to name
I recommend Canada --- 72 cents on the US dollar. He can afford to live there. Canadians can't.
We don’t need anymore loony lefties thank you. We’re still trying to get #TrudeauTheTyrant out before he ruins the country even more.
They are the party of oxymoronic ideology. They are the fascists. Eight long years of being cancelled, screaming Trump's literal Hitler and " from the river to the sea" kill the Jews! Theft is retribution. Inflation reduction=exponential inflation. Free speech=more censorship. Science=boys can be girls. Feminism=men in girls locker rooms and tampons in boys bathrooms. Collage=education.
We want freedom and we're not buying your dystopic fever dream.
I really thought the blinders would fall off when the government stormed a guy's house guns ablazing to execute his pet squirrel.
I don't think they have the coping skills to survive the real world.
And now Biden quietly and calmly says he's handing over"the democracy" to literal Hitler and his Nazi supporters. It might break their little minds beyond repair. Bette Midler says she's going to drink Drano because Trump won. Jimmy Kimmel is preparing to go to jail.
The drama is killing me, lol
“I don't think they have the coping skills to survive the real world.” You got that right. Confirmed when I read that Georgetown University was setting up quiet spaces with cocoa, Legos, milk and cookies for students traumatized by the election outcome. Students. At Georgetown. Good Lord. What do they do when their driver is late, or Door Dash doesn’t deliver, or Dad forgets to Venmo? They have no clue about the real world. And that--is truly terrifying.
I blame it on Veganism. A Protein defficient diet damages nerve synapses.
Do these students have no shame?
Legos, milk, and cookies... kindergarten students?
The female relative we hosted for the weekend before the election (enjoyable time, by the way) is now taking her anger and frustration over the election out on me by sending links to articles in The New Republic and Huffpost to let me know what a Nazi I have become. I am not responding, because nothing I say, and no article critical of her position I might pass on, will make any difference.
I'm still left scratching my head on how Brandon scored nearly 15 million more votes in 2020. The most secure election in history!
Because he's the most impressive leader in the history of the world, obviously!
Yes, I'm reminded of this conversation the wonderful Dear Leader Brandon had with Don Lemon during the Covid vaccine insanity/mandates. Brandon knew.
Biden: "You got the vaccination? Are you okay? I mean, you seem…" "No, it works." Or you, you know — or the mom and dad, or the neighbor, or when you go to church, or when you're — no, I really mean it.
There are trusted interlocutors. Think of the people — if your kid wanted to find out whether or not there were — there's a man on the moon, or whatever — you know, something, or, you know, whether those aliens are here or not — you know, who are the people they talk to beyond the kids who love talking about it?"
Source: https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/01/biden-don-lemon-cnn-video/
It's like hearing the voice of embodied Wisdom itself, rolling down from the mountaintops.
Absolutely 🤣
Yes. This election makes that one look all the more suspect.
A person could be excused of thinking Biden pulled Obama along with his long political coat tails in 2012
Or....
Here, Chris. In case you haven't seen this work of art yet. I've watched it 10 times today. Gotta watch the background faces. Magnificent. https://x.com/Liberal_Lampoon/status/1854347439861322045
I found this one this morning and have listened to it HUNDREDS of times today. I call it "We're Losing Our Democracy."
https://x.com/i/status/1854215735138263171
LMFAO! Definitely “15 minutes of hate”!
Also this: https://x.com/i/status/1854320812272034154
That is awesome!
I wish I could “like” this more than once - tremendous.
Democrats are so stupid and so utterly conceited that they cannot possibly conceive a world where it is all their fucking fault they lost.
Right? In all those post-mortems, I'm waiting for the one who says, "Maybe we're just really, really bad at politics." That's the person they should put in charge of their reform. But I'm not holding my breath. Hysterically enough, I've now seen several mentions of Bill Clinton actually trying to call attention to failing strategy in the past several weeks, only to be told (just like in 2016) the data doesn't support his old-man-gut-feeling-that-actually-won-two-presidential-elections-in-living-memory. I just can't take it. I've had too many laughing jags the past two days. I might pass out. It's too much.
James Carville maybe? He’s had some pretty scathing critiques of Dem strategy…
You are correct.
That chart makes me sad - the blue splotch between TN and NC could represent thousands of missing people.
that spot is probably Asheville, NC...very 'woke'...
I think we're missing possibly a few thousand non-Dems.
Or maybe they know, but are still testing to find out what their "tribe" allows them to say?
To develop an example from Australian media (admittedly, government owned)...
Leigh Sales, a high-profile (and standard but not rabid leftist) Australian political journalist and TV host, published this very long piece on the Saturday before the election.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-02/kamala-harris-paths-to-win-us-election-over-donald-trump/104540990
It's all about race - until right at the end she acknowledges that, "Like the rest of the country, most Americans living in Arizona think the country is trending in the wrong direction. The big issues for the border state are immigration, cost of living and housing affordability — all issues on which the Democrat is vulnerable, given it's her party that has held the White House for the past four years".
Then she has the piece below published as they are still counting votes. It was written either before Election Day, or during it. It’s not the result of long consideration or rumination over all aspects that may come out in the next few days or weeks – she knew this going in (and it was all blindingly obvious anyway).
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-06/democrats-kamala-harris-challenges-against-trump-in-us-election/104567702
Economic pain, the obsessions of the Democratic base, the transition from Biden are now top 3 – as they obviously were to Sales before, but she couldn’t talk about them.
Racism and sexism come in at #4, get 3 lines and no evidence. Obama’s smashing wins and the movement of Black, Hispanic & Asian voters to Trump tend to give a lie to the racism argument. Sexism? Have a look at candidate quality.
Democrat campaign misjudgements and voter motivation come in #5 & 6 – again, it seems these were known to her but not able to be talked about before.
So – apart from being far too easy on Biden, and on Harris as a poor candidate (what do you mean, “she was never meant to be the nominee”?), Sales had a tolerable handle on the actual reasons for the defeat well before now.
So why couldn’t our experienced, courageous, hard-hitting combative ABC journalist heroine talk about them before? While she was obviously a supporter, what possible difference to any US vote could the opinions of an Australian political commentator, writing in Australia, have? None.
No - her problem was how she knew she would be perceived in her "tribe" if she'd told the truth as she saw it, before the election. And they're all now testing the waters to find out what is allowed to be said in the approved narrative, so they can fall back into line.
They know - they just won't say.
Well said.
Max Planck said in paraphrase, "scientists don't ever change their minds, they grow old and die"
Overwhelming evidence of discovery is unseeable when the claims are extraordinary and destructive to the existing paradigm. The undeniable is denied.
Marx's paradigm of oppression and oppressor will never go away. It certainly didn't originate with Marx. The story is as old as Cain and Abel. We need a correct understanding of sacrifice to see the truth. The truth shall set you free.
Science progresses one funeral at a time.
Shhhh. Don’t interrupt them.
Best analogy…. Only thing missing is her face diaper. …. 🧐😉
Apologies but to bring up Jonah Goldberg one last time, to then forever ignore, this is a man who wrote Liberal Fascism, laying out in detail how the left leans into fascism. Then watches in real time these last four years how they do exactly that. Lockdowns, mandates, censorship, lawfare, imprisoning political opponents, on and on. AND, saw the previous Trump administration do exactly none of that. And yet he won’t (can’t) see it. Just incredible. Okay now we can go back to ignoring him. Had to get that out.