I was watching a C Span interview with MTG and Thomas Massie yesterday, and Mike Johnson has been endorsed by the whole of House Democrat leadership, in their view because his betrayal of the trust placed in him will patently work to demotivate and deflate honest Republican voters, and hand the House back to lunatic Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries.
We learned today that the CIA 100% opposed President Trump, spied on him, and withheld information from him.
There IS a Deep State. The Deep State wants Hakeem Jeffries running the House, Trump in jail, and Forever Wars blossoming everywhere as a beautiful and magnificent source of continual easy profit. I personally am persuaded by the argument made in “Everything is a rich mans trick” that in no small measure the CIA has been coopted by the War Racket to drum up business by starting wars.
Certainly, Ukraine is both big money for us—and Big Money no doubt pays big money to keep the wheels greased—and an absolute horror for Ukraine, which never should have allowed this war to start or continue.
The war on sanity continues, but increasingly the propagandists are having to shift from Agitation Propaganda—“you should be upset about this today”—to Integration Propaganda, which is “there is nothing to see here and pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”; and the latter is hard to achieve without COMPLETE control, which the left wing militarists and fascists do not, yet, have.
Who actually believes Ukraine can defeat Russia? It’s running out of able bodied men to fight. Money and ammo can’t fix that
I was never convinced by the argument that Russia will plow through Ukraine and on into the Baltics and Poland.
Putin was assured NATO would not expand, but that’s all it’s done for years. Now, Blinken wants NATO on Putin’s front door. We/the west have been provoking Putin, and now we see it’s the Forever War strategy. Qui bono? Not American taxpayers. We have driven Russia into the arms of China and Iran. So stupid. The risks are unthinkable.
The policy in Ukraine makes ZERO sense for Ukrainians. The logic of the war is not the logic of their well being. Not only has a lot of physical destruction occurred but hindreds of thousands have died, and lost the rights of voting and public dissent in the process.
The logic is entirely oriented around MONEY. Money for Zelensky, money for American politicians and mostly money for the War Racket. They can create their own demand, cant they? And its easy. All it takes is time, patience, some money, and the callousness of a sociopath.
“The logic is entirely oriented around MONEY. Money for Zelensky, money for American politicians and mostly money for the War Racket”.
It’s not just money for Zelensky, I suspect his life may depend on remaining an effective pawn of the US warmongering machine. His rise mirrors in many ways that of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam. In 1954 the CIA instituted a plan to elect a “popular leader” who could defeat Ho Chi Minh’s threatened communist takeover of south Vietnam. Diem was a pudgy 54-year old Roman Catholic aristocrat who spent the previous 3 years in exile at a Catholic seminary in Lakewood New Jersey as an avowed opponent of Ho Chi Minh. After his election in 1955, the US sent over $3 billion in aid during the next 8 years to make him popular with the South Vietnamese, but his popularity began to wane because of corruption and persecution of political enemies. No longer useful as a pawn, President John F. Kennedy all but green lighted Diem’s assassination by CIA backed South Vietnamese generals in the back of an armored personnel carrier in 1964.
Three weeks after Diem's demise, Kennedy was assassinated. According to Walter "Mac" McIntosh, a retired CIA operative who has been a lifelong student of Vietnamese affairs from the time he arrived in Saigon in 1963, "JFK had no plans to engage American ground forces in direct combat with Vietnamese Communist insurgent forces”. Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson had no such reticence and sent increasing numbers of U.S. ground troops into Vietnam throughout his presidency, 54,000 of whom would return in body bags. Perhaps Johnson was cowed into deploying troops by all those “best and brightest” Harvard boys JFK had brought to the White House. Maybe he was smitten by the potential riches he stood to gain. Or, perhaps he suspected that two assassinations within 3 weeks was no coincidence. Lucky for the deep state Blob, we now have a president too senile to consider the implications of his executive actions and does whatever he is told to do.
The GRAYZONE ran a NATO propaganda film outlining its excitement at being able to rebuild the Ukraine as a surveilled 15 minute city in what sounded like a CCP style "workers paradise." The tactic matches that of the recent NATO/EU/WEF desire to seize and shut down the livelihoods of Dutch farmers and build a "modern" cross border city of the same design. Hmmmmmmm--A puppet government, war, chaos, a destroyed economy and a propagandized beaten and confused general population. Sounds familiar.
Unsaint Finbar — “lost the rights of voting and public dissent in the process.” More unintentional humor: like submitting to Putin would bring a restoration of freedom and democracy!
It is. But the dumb Democrat voters have totally eaten up the narrative omg Putin is the devil and must be defeated and we must help Ukraine. We must sent them as much aid($$$) to let them win.
I've never ever seen so many democrats brainwashed.
And this is different from their anti-Israel views...how?
The protestors are demanding "Free Palestine," "From the River to the Sea," and "Intifada Revolution" without caring in the slightest that their demands mean the loss of MILLIONS of Jewish lives.
I agree. A cousin in Oklahoma called me the other night, and I could not believe what I was hearing. She and her husband are completely unmoored from any history of this issue, are terrified of Putin/Russia, and are so filled with hate and fear of Trump. I couldn't even begin to talk to them. They were just...crazy. There were no actual facts involved. Totally irrational.
there are brainwashed republicans in there, too, about this narrative. my mother is one of them. she is part of the old republican guard who still believes the BBC and WSJ are trustworthy news sources and no matter what i try to tell her about them having falling to the legacy media propaganda machine a while ago, she tunes me out.
Yep. Numbered accounts, dirty money and payoffs. I've heard that rumor more than once from more than one source.. As I recall Gonzalo Lira held that opinion. The Taibbi report on HSBC and BOA laundering cartel cash is old news. The perps walked away unscathed and moved on to greener pastures. Got the time:
It’s for both Dems and also Republicans. Take your partisan blinders off when it comes to Ukraine. The recent $61B package for Ukraine will benefit workers & their families in both Blue & Red states. It’s a sickness.
This article shows the 117 production lines in 71 US cities who will benefit. There is a map too showing those locations:
Putin has had a lot of trouble just with the Ukraine, although he never committed his whole Army. What sane person would think he COULD think taking on the WHOLE of Europe—including the former Eastern Bloc—was a good idea?
NATO exists to keep countries that do not need to be spending on war, spending money on war.
Do you know that a part—a LARGE part—of the treaty stipulates all member nations are REQUIRED to spend a percentage of their GDP on the War Racket? The only POSSIBLE justification for this is Russia. So, can it be any wonder the War Racket is working to stir up trouble with Russia to keep people who are not threatened in any way by anyone, militarily, from asking why the hell they keep spending so much on weapons?
Seen from this perspective, that of greedy sociopaths, all this is perfectly and obviously logical.
Biden's red line is like Obama's line in the sand, when he told Syria if they used nerve gas on his populace the US would strike Syria. Assad used nerve gas and Obama did nothing. What an asshole! Obama proved that the US was nothing more than a paper tiger.
I have a coworker who is Ukrainian. He told me last week that if he needs any official paperwork, like a passport, he will now have to go all the way back to Ukraine to get it done. He is fairly certain if he goes back, he won't be able to leave.
I don't know how true that is...but HE believes it to be true, which is telling, to me.
It is true. Ukraine has cut off consular support for Ukrainian men of fighting age living abroad. Men of fighting age in Ukraine are required as of last month to carry documents verifying their draft registration.
Fighting age is 18 - 60. 60!!!!! And the citizens of Ukraine had their March, 2024, elections canceled.
Fro. What I read the draft boards could be bought off. And early on the border was open to women and children but not men. So some of the border guards were likely taking bribes. Imagine that. Corruption in Ukraine.
He suggested that it may be because they are largely police. So they are kept on (and out of the fighting) to maintain power. If you gotta force your population to fight, you need loyal people who can fight better to be around to force them.
I think we all knew the CIA opposed Trump in all ways possible, but its become at this point undeniable even for the doubters.
Whats ODD is that many CIA, and presumably FBI and NSA and others employees of secretive Federal agencies, seemingly GENUINELY believed the story about Russian collusion that Hillarys team concocted. They were deceived. They genuinely thought Trump was a traitor and that breaking the law was not just justified but necessary. No choice.
Here is the thing: in the world if professional liars, you can never be sure who you are REALLY working for. 2016-2020, and both begire and after, for all intents and purposes our intelligence agrncies may have been working for the Chinese. Or the War Racket. Monied interests of all sorts. Just not for the well being, freedom, and prosperity of non-elite Americans. Not in the defense of democracy.
The problem with the intelligence agencies is that there is no plausible rationale - either they bungled the intelligence (were duped) or they are knowingly lying. Or both.
If anyone wants to hear a very comprehensive and deeper dive about the level of CORRUPTION - on BOTH sides Washington Politicians, listen to Rep Victoria Spartz- Congresswoman, born on Ukraine- against the U.S. Funding of Ukraine on the PDB podcast- Episode 403 from earlier this week. "The U.S. is heading toward the very thing she came from - Marxism is being pushed at all levels. "
Those with morals, integrity, and have the will of the People as priority will NEVER get the spotlight- Only the opposite- demonization for attempting to Expose the corruption. Just saw that Tulsi just did Joe Rogan- haven't watched yet. Would LOVE to see Trump pick her.
Spartz is a standout. I believe she was going to leave Congress at the end of her term but decided to stay as there was too much at stake. Cheers to her for not jumping ship like too many of her colleagues.
Also Lily Tang Williams who is running for a Congressional seat in New Hampshire is another compelling immigrant candidate with strong convictions. She grew up in Communist China; also worried about what she sees in the U.S. and the parallels between what she left her home country for. She appeared on Colion Noir's podcast recently. I never heard of Colion before but it seems his focus is preserving 2nd Amendment rights. He is a great interviewer, the rare breed who actually allows his guests to speak.
Thx for the suggestion-- I'll check it out. Fast forwarded thru Rogans pod w Tulsi & was disappointed that he did mist of the talking and what he said was quite repetitive. The PDB podcast that hosted Tulsi was much better. I believe I've heard Colion Noir before but it's been a while
Lol (right?). I cant do anything about the slack jawed, empty faced True Believers who commit daily acts of moral and intellectual suicide.
But I choose to believe that among the traditionally indoctrinated but basically sane folks out there, Comprof does more harm for the radical left wing causes they (them: this being contains multitudes, of pansexual bats) espouse.
If you dont look too hard, everything the Hard Left (which is all Democrats who are not talking about holdingvtheir noses and voting for someone else) pushed has superficial plausibility. But at any degree of detail it falls apart in every way.
Comprof could not write a position paper on something. They just snipe and distract and darken. Who wants to be allied with that?
110% chance he's the kid at school that no one wanted on their team. You can see it in his posts.....comes off as being about half a thought away from pulling a Max Azzarello.
No, he has a pet goat named FiFi for that. He told me months ago, it is the only sex he gets and it is kinda awkward because he has to stop and run around the front to kiss her.
All my life, and I’ve been on this planet for a long time, it’s been Russia, Russia, Russia. Hide under your desk. They’re the bad guys. But in reality the bad guys have always been within . It’s kayfabe.
Yes. Did you watch “Everything is a rich mans trick”? I think he underestimates the sincerity of Communists, but is probably right viewing the CIA as a virtual partner with them. 90% of that movie I believe.
Allen Dulles was likely involved in the hit against JFK and then the cover up (Dulles was also on Warren Commission). The Kennedy bros were making too much noise about dismantling the CIA, and JFK naming an airport after him wasn’t enough.
Brian, I just want to say that every time I see your avatar I'm reminded I have the same shirt. Mine is all old and beat up. I'm a Deadhead too and sure miss Jerry ;)
Thanks. Love the 'Steal your Base' on the baseball T's! For live music, this has been my go-to for shows of the past. My favorite is to stream a show that I have on an old tape. https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?sort=-publicdate
Mike Johnson did the right thing getting aid passed for Taiwan and Israel, but especially for Ukraine. Greene and Massie are wrong. Greene has always been a wingnut, but I had respected Massie.
Dude, you’re becoming a broken record. Same tales day after day. To me, boring.
But it seems you’ve got maybe a dozen or so fans here. Maybe start writing your own Substack? You might get a few subscribers. Note that the chances TFP gives you a shot as a writer for them are about zero (not that TFP couldn’t stand some new writers).
I will permit myself to comment that, knowing nothing else, one could infer much about your overall perceptual powers from your suggestion that I “get a substack” when it is over every post I make.
Indeed, as do others who comment in TFP. e.g., Bezminov, Euphoric Recall, and others. But they do not litter this comment section with continuous and repeated blather.
As I said, he has his won Substack, Moderates United. According to that (on his profile page) he also has two other places where he writes his musings:
He has his own Substack, “Moderates United”. If you click on his name and see his Substack profile, you will find that he posts essays on it almost daily and a lot of those essays are copy/pasted into these TFP comments almost verbatim. Or vice versa, he posts in the comments and then copy/pastes into his Substack. And you’re right, it’s always the same thing over and over and over. But he has his TFP commenter fans and they think he’s amazing and should be hired by TFP as a regular columnist.
I would love for someone to do a "deep dive " on Jake Sullivan. Rep Victoria Spartz this week on PDB podcast says that he is pulling the strings for puppet Joe Biden. Patrick Bet David looked up a short bio of him. Sounds like he is and has been the ring leader of where our Govt is taking this Country.....
Unsaint Finbar — With their majority so reduced, the House Republicans are now in a de facto coalition government with the Democrats. The fact they can get anything done at all will probably help the Republicans on Election Day.
However, their weakness on aid to Ukraine has already cost them the support of some of their most faithful supporters: Ukrainian Americans.
Unsaint Finbar — “ an absolute horror for Ukraine, which never should have allowed this war to start or continue.” Given the seriousness of the subject, perhaps I shouldn’t be laughing so hard. Evidently you forgot Russia started the war by invading Ukraine.
True, early on, when the Russians were groping for any kind of justification for the war, no matter how preposterous, a top Putin adviser insisted Russia had to attack, or Ukraine would invade Russia! But not even you could swallow that. I think.
You dont know, or dont remember, the actual history, do you? An honest answer would be, at a minimum, “Im sure I could know more”, but you would not have adopted that supercilious tone if you were CAPABLE of learning anything.
I stand by my comment, as it is based on an informed view of the history. If you want to stand firm on your ignorance, well it will certainly make the people who manipulated you into your views happy.
You know, I'm starting to think Unsaint already clandestinely works for TFP, else how is his comment the first post up almost every time now? And also the most important comment of the day? It's easy for me to see how Bari and he were already in league, trying to keep TFP together.
Well, Im doing my best to use her also. Its pretty rare to get a podium in a moderately moderate audience. Im banned on the Left and have never seen any reason to preach to the choir. Agreeing the loudest and the most is not really my style.
Please don’t conflate “important” with “most liked”. I’ve come to understand that early gets the most views and, often “likes”. It’s happened to me, even with my usual pedestrian comments. It is the way the App works. It’d be good if we could collapse threads to see original comments.
What is the purpose of highlighting the utter Internet stupidity about Trump’s son, Barron? He’s barely 18, just leaving high school, and I’m not sure the kid has ever said a public word. That was bull shit story. Whatever you think of Trump, that kid should not be fodder for your keyboard idiocy.
Exactly! Waited until he turned 18 for plausibility that they don’t target children. Really really disappointing to see such mean nonsense directed towards a young person whose only sin is who his father is. He hasn’t even had time to be young and stupid on his own! Bari, I thought you were better than that
TFP should have a letters to the editor address. However, this BBS is giant letters to the editor. I think Bari ignores our comments and refuses to answer our posts. She doesn't have to answer all of us but she certainly can see which way the wind blows here and respond to the general consensuses.
Instead of an offensive article on an 18 year old kid, how about an article on the murderous violence in the inner cities and how our swinish politicians choose to ignore it. In just the last 10 years, tens of thousands of blacks have been murdered in the inner cities, many of them kids.
There is not a peep in the major news outlets or, I choke went is say this, "our leaders". Sure the news reports some of the murders but it has become so commonplace for the most part they ignore it. The media should be hammering all those scum bags in Washington to do something about this atrocity. And that is what it is an atrocity.
What do we get from all of our politicians and the media "The Sound of Silence"!
The proposed Congressional hearing to which NPR CEO Katherine Maher has been summoned is a theater. Everyone knows that URI Berliner wrote truthfully and that Chris Rufo reports accurately about her. Anyone who ever listened to NPR knows it’s a far left atrocity.
Congress would be doing right by the country by defunding both NPR and PBS. There is zero need for that hearing.
We desperately need a public hearing summoning the WPATH practitioners and the excellent science reporters on the Cass Report.
This is urgent . The Cass Report is unimpeachable that there exists no credible evidence that transing minors is good for them, and it raises serious reason to question anyone who claimed that there was evidence to the contrary. In other words the WPATH activist have lied intentionally to further their dangerous agenda, sterilizing and harming thousands of already troubled youth.
I think we should put an "over/under" on when the left will change their minds about "transitioning" minors and say...."it was Trump's idea, we were always against it." I say December 31 of this year. Over/under anyone?
We have had quite a few show their true colors, recently. Since so many of these folks got their jobs for their ideals and gender/skin color, turns out that many of them are not very smart of clever.
I begin to despair that there is any chance at Congressional oversight. Of anything. How such a prestigious institution could let itself sink so low is very telling of where the Republic is now.
Congress is not doing its jobs well. However they do hold hearings on all sorts of issues of the day, such as the recent one with Columbia University president . Pressure has to be applied. Ignoring the scandal will not make it go away. The lawsuits are important but not adequate to stop the practice of gender affirming care for minors.,
But the hearings are nothing more than window dressing. Congressional power is the power of the purse. All of the hearings in the world do not matter unless funding is cut.
So true. A hearing airing the travesty would allow them to take “ trans care” out of ACA( Obama snuck it in which turned on the money flow that spurred the massive growth of the pediatric gender clinics - industry)
The margin is so thin though that they cannot pass anything. Oddly enough for all the we the citizenry are powerless in national elections it is us that keeps the margin razor thin by preventing a decisive victory.
The evidence that there simply is no evidence to support transing minors as well as fraud committed by the WPATH ppl , that if this is aired publicly they will be forced to shut down the industry. By ignoring the scandal they are hoping it will go away an$ blow over. It won’t
Now that Dems have got Johnson in their pocket, I don't expect any hearing on WPATH files or Title IX or any of it. Trans is the liberal sacred cow. They literally worship at the trans altar, with creeds, high priests and priestesses, and holidays throughout the years. Sacrificing children is part of their rituals.
As for NPR, I'm wondering why anyone shows up at Congressional hearings anymore since Hunter Biden skipped it and nothing happened to him. Why doesn't Maher just skip it if Hunter can?
The public has to insist they deal with this insanity I’d sterilizing and butchering kids.We have to urge the talking heads to stop telling the sensational horror stories of the detransitioners, and focus on the Cass Report and WPATH files. These arrogant trans cultists have zero evidence to support this travesty. The public is paying for this so we are all complicit.
Maybe there is a hierarchy of who can defy a congressional subpoena?? Criminal adult sons of a crooked president can get away with it.A mockery made worse by the lawfare against Trump
I think it will be the tort lawyers who bring them to heel. Actually the insurance carriers forced to defend the suits. But it will start with lawyers filing suit.
While I believe adults should be allowed to do as they please with their own bodies, I don't believe there is any convincing study that shows a benefit from medically "transitioning" anyone of any age. In this regard, much of the medical and psychiatric professions have been taken over by ideology rather than by science.
I have to say after being a loyal reader of the Free Press today’s offering was about as bad as it gets! The college campus’s debacle is the only news lately and I’m so sick of reading about spoiled progressive students🤮 Also the article about Barron Trump just crosses the line for me, I know many conservative Republicans and have never heard such stupidity exit their mouths. I will add my two cents in about doing an investigative article about Title IX.
I do a good deal of work for small mountain town PDs and FDs. Those places are generally pretty conservative. I have heard many discussions about Trump and Biden and whatnot. Never heard a single person mention Barron.
I am increasingly feeling like we are being Punked. Or that TFP purposely wants to drive off anyone that doesn't already loath Trump. There have been lots of well done journalism around here. So I am confused how stuff like this makes it through.
The piece about Barron Trump is beneath you at the Free Press. You just throw that out there as if it’s fact. Since people believe the free press, you have now created a bunch of new people who believe that nonsense about Barron Trump becoming the new Cesar. You should post an apology.
That the Free Press ‘covered’ Barron says they are bored and are beginning to run out of good ideas - spreading themselves too thin over so many email blasts
TFP has become the Democratic Party Rehabilitation Project; it's not that they've run out of good ideas, it's that they need to deflect from the crap that's really going on in their name. It's been four years since St Floyd of Fentanyl was used to tear this country apart, now we're starting to see the left gear up to use Gaza for another summer of rioting. That's no coincidence going into another election year.
My kid sent me a tiktok of protestors at UofA and the pro-Israeli right and the pro-terrorist left were both chanting FJB. Good to see he was finally able to "unite" the country in something! (maybe this is why the Uniparty wants to ban the app?).
Probably only Rosie O'Donnell fans and Trump haters liked her video -- everyone else thought it was unseemly rubbish. I don't like Trump, and I thought it was unseemly rubbish.
And I doubt anyone but hardcore Trump fans believe Barron is a second Caesar. He might, of course, like many a political child, try riding on his papa's coat strings. But that's different.
Meanwhile back at the fk'n ranch the planned destruction of the U.S. dollar continues, middle American teeters on the brink, the looters at BlackRock have the Congress send more tax dollar treasure to their well placed allies and political operatives in the Marxist left and the musical chair war Presidency promises the music will never stop.
I would say that is not a liberal thing (the Dem party is not Liberal anyway) its a human thing. Plenty of Conservative have forgotten or give passes to the crappy things their side has done as well. They just haven't had the power to do most o it in quite a while.
Broadly speaking, certainly! Of course even there, there are machoistic people who don't agree with the lunacy, yet still remain there. Why, I don't know...I would leave those cities to their fate.
But Ollie will compare them to J6 anyway, despite them having 90% of everything in common with BLM.
And that's the problem with TFP, "moderates" who are not moderate.
It's great that you did a hit piece on NPR guys, except the most dning accusation of NOR was that they don't employ a single Republican for balance.....and neither does TFP
There are extremely, insanely rich people in China. The notion of a society where all share equally in the benefits of that society is the myth of Marxism, communism, and socialism. It is the false advertising used to convert followers to the cause. Every single one of them results in very rich people at the top and every one else at the bottom. That is why they lament the 1% here. But the difference is the right idea can catapult you into the 1% here. Witness Gates, Jobs, et al.
CCP isn't really Marxist. Under Mao, there was some element of Marxism being enforced on the (dying of starvation) masses while the economy itself was centrally planned. However at this point, CCP is basically a realization of economic ideas of Fascism as initially conceived by Giovanni Gentile in 1920s Italy -- that corporations are extensions of state power, and only through the fusion of state and corporate power can a nation be strengthened.
Fascism was a rejection of the capitalist notions of prioritizing profit, and a rejection of the Marxist ideals of a centrally planned economy with no corporations at all. It was "capitalism for a greater good" -- in Gentile and Musolini's case, that greater good was the nation if Italy, in Xi Jianping's case, the nation of China, in Larry Fink or Tim Cook's case, social justice and preventing climate change.
Oliver, today’s FP is just wacky. Why on earth would you all share that article about Barron Trump? Where the hell is Bari?!! I slipped through a mirror and ended up at The National Enquirer. We don’t need these daily updates when you have nothing to say so you dream stuff up.
If I hear once or twice a week from TFP that's fine. This daily stuff is too much and too dumb. J6 lasted a few hours, and this vile, Jew-hating temper tantrum on campuses isn't remotely comparable. It's gross to even suggest it.
Didn't think I'd ever say this, but Marjorie Taylor Greene comes off as being one of the most sane people in Washington. I don't care if she believes in jewish space lasers or not, the chic calls balls and strikes, is willing to totally break shit and comes off as a heterodox street fighter. I like it a lot.
The Free Press didn’t even mention the shooting! 4 police officers dead in the 10 items they decide are worth mentioning. . Hard to find any information.. Appalling.
I knew that would happen as soon as they posted his picture. Told my wife that the progressive media black hole would disappear that for eternity.....which it has.
Terry Clark Hughes Jr. was a felon possessing a firearm, which is against the law in every state. He is a black man and several reports I have read also stated that gunshots came from inside the house where two females were later found. The media black hole is real in certain circumstances because there have not been any calls to DO SOMETHING...ANYTHING about guns.
Be prepared for the CIA's press toadies to begin a full on smear campaign against anyone opposing Mikie Johnson. MTG, Boebert, Massie, Gaetz and a few other House members are all that stand in the way of 10 year war funding legislation for Ukraine our bought and paid for congress is trying to ram through. It will not only provide them the blood money they so crave but will also serve as a predicate for impeaching Trump if he tries to cut it off as president.
She, Gosar, and Bobert are the right's answer to the Squad. Unhinged extremists who make a mockery of the party and push common sense voters away. The only difference between them and the Squad isn't they're lunatics in real life too.
How about the UNC frat bros protecting the flag from pro-Hamas loonies? This guy’s smirk is hilarious. He knows they’re all giant sissies who won’t do shit unless they’re safely in a mob with dozens of their fellow keffiyeh and K95 mask-wearing shitbags.
I read somewhere that a GoFundMe page has raised over $200,000 for these guys. Apparently they are planning on having an enormous ripper on campus. Now THOSE are the types of people I'd hang out with on campus.
Read the GoFundMe page. It's hilarious. A snippet -
"But amidst the chaos, the screaming, the anti-semitism, the hatred of faith and flag, stood a platoon of American heroes. Armored in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fueled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist horde"
Yeah that’s amazing. It was up to $37k around 11am yesterday then at 1pm it was $75k. That’s gonna be a party! They can probably drink premium beer for a change 😆
As the tweet states, the Chads may just save the country. Ironically different chads saved the country in Florida in 2000.
Cal Poly - My god, where do such dumb ass people come from. Trillium - Generations of irrational stupid people. Have they not heard of birth control to stop over populating the world. Plus how much waste have they produced and these fools think they are special. Yep, just as special as the Russians destroying Ukraine.
Biden's red line is like Obama's. Just a metaphor and not really a red line. Plus China may be the new JV Team like ISIS was to Obama.
Why has the FP gone to tabloid material with Barron ? Give it a Friggin rest. We know you are left of center, but really, get out of the gutter and leave Pelosi, Shift, Schumer and the rest there. Even the reference to doting mother. Oh, you mean a parent that cares about their kid versus having them out gang banging or joining we hate Jews groups? Yeah, that's really bad on Melania.
NPR CEO is exactly like Biden's cabinet leads, An activist concerned with supreme control of all news and your life. We the powerful will dictate to you what can and can not be done. You are welcome.
Yes, and there’s this in the Baron story: “But it also reveals something more serious about the deepest desires of today’s online right.” Painting with a broad brush there. Would a similar conclusion be that the outside agitator groups of pro-Hamas protests reveal the deepest desires of today’s online left.
I consider myself as someone who gets fed a lot of pro-right stuff in my media consumption. And I had never heard any of this Barron stuff. So I don't know how prevalent it can actually be.
Would say, if they are far anything, not worth the worry. Plus I would hazard a guess the far left out numbers the far right. Sorry to compost if he’s reading, I said guess so go back to sleep.
What exactly is the online right? Some posts on X? Where is this online right spilling out into real life, like we see happening with pro-Hamas Tik Tok and what's happening on college campuses right now?
The piece on Baron Trump is beneath you Free Press. Bari Weiss everyone who had their hand in that piece needs to find a new gig. If you approved that piece you should state as much so we can all reevaluate our subscription choices.
What the heck is this about Barron Trump? The kid is 18 years old. So according to the elites in our society, somehow the average 18 year old, even though technically an adult in the eyes of the law, should not be held to an adult standard, but somehow since Barron is 18 it's ok to whatever now?
I still remember when the media went after the Bush twins since they were over 18 and were applauded, but were roundly chastised when people would report on the Obama Girls once they were adults.
Barron becomes fair game if he publicly opens his mouth about anything. Until that time, if it ever happens, he needs to be off limits.
Jan 6th style reenactments on campus? You mean summer of 2020-CHAZ-CHOP STYLE reenactments. “Occupy”-style-reenactments. Maybe we’ll see everyone involved thrown in prison to await trial for a a couple years and publicized one-sided congressional Hollywood productions about how evil every single democrat is as an existential threat to “democracy.” Maybe a random cop will falsely claim “shots fired” then kill someone with a real bullet. Someone outside the camp will have a heart attack two days later and will be counted among those who died at the hands of violent, treasonous insurrectionists...maybe having been beaten to death with a fire extinguisher. No? I don’t remember anyone on Jan6th taking land and holding it for days after kicking out the authorities and making demands on behalf of a terrorist organization all under a foreign flag with the stated overall purpose of destroying America, which they all said they hated. I don’t remember that. There did seem to be a lot of video showing compliance, walking inside pathways marked by velvet ropes, shaking hands with cops, offering them water…maybe that’s the comparison?
lol y’all need to recalibrate and account for 2016-2022 before you knew, or would accept, the media machine was wholesale lying to you and manipulating everyone. Can you even do it at this point? You’ve done great since then and have been performing a valuable service, but the scars of years of manipulation still obscure your (honestly, “our”) view.
Yes I definitely agree this whole shit show got more of a CHAZ/CHOP vibe. At the end of the day, it's just the same bunch of agitators moving from Occupy Wall Street to Antifa to BLM and now this. Summer break can't come fast enough so all these toddlers will go home and stop making a scene. In another year or two they'll find something else to throw tantrums about. Regular mob hysteria masquerading as protests is now a permanent feature of America.
I distinctly remember the Occupy Wall Street babies also requesting luxury items like melatonin when asked by reporters what they needed. Now it's not longer request but a demand for humanitarian aid. Two years from now, whatever they'll be mobbing about in the future, they'll expect taxpayers funded spa treatments and an all-inclusive vacation at a resort hotel to recover from their trauma for having to bear the emotional labor of protesting.
I was watching a C Span interview with MTG and Thomas Massie yesterday, and Mike Johnson has been endorsed by the whole of House Democrat leadership, in their view because his betrayal of the trust placed in him will patently work to demotivate and deflate honest Republican voters, and hand the House back to lunatic Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries.
We learned today that the CIA 100% opposed President Trump, spied on him, and withheld information from him.
There IS a Deep State. The Deep State wants Hakeem Jeffries running the House, Trump in jail, and Forever Wars blossoming everywhere as a beautiful and magnificent source of continual easy profit. I personally am persuaded by the argument made in “Everything is a rich mans trick” that in no small measure the CIA has been coopted by the War Racket to drum up business by starting wars.
Certainly, Ukraine is both big money for us—and Big Money no doubt pays big money to keep the wheels greased—and an absolute horror for Ukraine, which never should have allowed this war to start or continue.
The war on sanity continues, but increasingly the propagandists are having to shift from Agitation Propaganda—“you should be upset about this today”—to Integration Propaganda, which is “there is nothing to see here and pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”; and the latter is hard to achieve without COMPLETE control, which the left wing militarists and fascists do not, yet, have.
Interesting times.
Who actually believes Ukraine can defeat Russia? It’s running out of able bodied men to fight. Money and ammo can’t fix that
I was never convinced by the argument that Russia will plow through Ukraine and on into the Baltics and Poland.
Putin was assured NATO would not expand, but that’s all it’s done for years. Now, Blinken wants NATO on Putin’s front door. We/the west have been provoking Putin, and now we see it’s the Forever War strategy. Qui bono? Not American taxpayers. We have driven Russia into the arms of China and Iran. So stupid. The risks are unthinkable.
The policy in Ukraine makes ZERO sense for Ukrainians. The logic of the war is not the logic of their well being. Not only has a lot of physical destruction occurred but hindreds of thousands have died, and lost the rights of voting and public dissent in the process.
The logic is entirely oriented around MONEY. Money for Zelensky, money for American politicians and mostly money for the War Racket. They can create their own demand, cant they? And its easy. All it takes is time, patience, some money, and the callousness of a sociopath.
“The logic is entirely oriented around MONEY. Money for Zelensky, money for American politicians and mostly money for the War Racket”.
It’s not just money for Zelensky, I suspect his life may depend on remaining an effective pawn of the US warmongering machine. His rise mirrors in many ways that of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam. In 1954 the CIA instituted a plan to elect a “popular leader” who could defeat Ho Chi Minh’s threatened communist takeover of south Vietnam. Diem was a pudgy 54-year old Roman Catholic aristocrat who spent the previous 3 years in exile at a Catholic seminary in Lakewood New Jersey as an avowed opponent of Ho Chi Minh. After his election in 1955, the US sent over $3 billion in aid during the next 8 years to make him popular with the South Vietnamese, but his popularity began to wane because of corruption and persecution of political enemies. No longer useful as a pawn, President John F. Kennedy all but green lighted Diem’s assassination by CIA backed South Vietnamese generals in the back of an armored personnel carrier in 1964.
Three weeks after Diem's demise, Kennedy was assassinated. According to Walter "Mac" McIntosh, a retired CIA operative who has been a lifelong student of Vietnamese affairs from the time he arrived in Saigon in 1963, "JFK had no plans to engage American ground forces in direct combat with Vietnamese Communist insurgent forces”. Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson had no such reticence and sent increasing numbers of U.S. ground troops into Vietnam throughout his presidency, 54,000 of whom would return in body bags. Perhaps Johnson was cowed into deploying troops by all those “best and brightest” Harvard boys JFK had brought to the White House. Maybe he was smitten by the potential riches he stood to gain. Or, perhaps he suspected that two assassinations within 3 weeks was no coincidence. Lucky for the deep state Blob, we now have a president too senile to consider the implications of his executive actions and does whatever he is told to do.
The Maidan Revolution was in 2014 not in 2004.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/The-Maidan-protest-movement
That Britannica article you link to is very good and very accurate. Thanks for that.
The GRAYZONE ran a NATO propaganda film outlining its excitement at being able to rebuild the Ukraine as a surveilled 15 minute city in what sounded like a CCP style "workers paradise." The tactic matches that of the recent NATO/EU/WEF desire to seize and shut down the livelihoods of Dutch farmers and build a "modern" cross border city of the same design. Hmmmmmmm--A puppet government, war, chaos, a destroyed economy and a propagandized beaten and confused general population. Sounds familiar.
Unsaint Finbar — “lost the rights of voting and public dissent in the process.” More unintentional humor: like submitting to Putin would bring a restoration of freedom and democracy!
Democrats believe it. They believe of we give enough money they can win it
Nah. Ukraine is just a money laundry for the dems.
It is. But the dumb Democrat voters have totally eaten up the narrative omg Putin is the devil and must be defeated and we must help Ukraine. We must sent them as much aid($$$) to let them win.
I've never ever seen so many democrats brainwashed.
Imagine the kind of mind that can accept the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people for a cause that is a lie. It’s just evil.
Same as the Covid vaccine lies, the “gender affirmation” lies…
Many Dems are so vile they don’t mind innocent people dying just to support a narrative
Liberals are just insane. Mental disorder. Trump syndrome. They're lost. The problem is they are dangerous.
And this is different from their anti-Israel views...how?
The protestors are demanding "Free Palestine," "From the River to the Sea," and "Intifada Revolution" without caring in the slightest that their demands mean the loss of MILLIONS of Jewish lives.
I agree. A cousin in Oklahoma called me the other night, and I could not believe what I was hearing. She and her husband are completely unmoored from any history of this issue, are terrified of Putin/Russia, and are so filled with hate and fear of Trump. I couldn't even begin to talk to them. They were just...crazy. There were no actual facts involved. Totally irrational.
Fanatics act on emotion not facts.
I believe it
nothing you can do but ignore them
there are brainwashed republicans in there, too, about this narrative. my mother is one of them. she is part of the old republican guard who still believes the BBC and WSJ are trustworthy news sources and no matter what i try to tell her about them having falling to the legacy media propaganda machine a while ago, she tunes me out.
I have no doubt
"I've never ever seen so many democrats brainwashed."
You haven't been looking very hard.
All you have to do is watch the Dem/Soc national convention. You will see thousands of the braindead. They are all glassy eyed, chin droolers.
One look at the vote and there's no doubt in my mind that it's a $ laundry for dem and repub pols and their donors.
For the Military Industrial Complex, yes.
Yep. Numbered accounts, dirty money and payoffs. I've heard that rumor more than once from more than one source.. As I recall Gonzalo Lira held that opinion. The Taibbi report on HSBC and BOA laundering cartel cash is old news. The perps walked away unscathed and moved on to greener pastures. Got the time:
DEBT SLAVERY AND THE CARBON CREDIT COUP
https://youtu.be/_trBBunj2WI?si=o52xJcS0e6aTPCOn
It’s for both Dems and also Republicans. Take your partisan blinders off when it comes to Ukraine. The recent $61B package for Ukraine will benefit workers & their families in both Blue & Red states. It’s a sickness.
This article shows the 117 production lines in 71 US cities who will benefit. There is a map too showing those locations:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-is-sending-61-billion-to-ukraine-much-of-it-will-pass-through-the-us-economy-first-162914531.html
How does paying for Ukraine pensions and Ukraine administrative costs benefit any US state?
Perhaps Ukraine needs to have a draft of men under the age of 27.
The benefits to the States are Defense Industry jobs. I’m not arguing it’s right. I’d like to see us pull back from this, as a country.
Item #93 on the long list of stupid shit Democrats believe 🙄
Yes 🤣
Trump is a Russian asset
Global warming will melt the icecaps in 2012, I mean 2020, I mean…
Masks save lives and the vaccine stops the spread
An unborn baby is like a tumor
Hamas are freedom fighters
If we give Iran enough money thrill stop pursuing nukes
We liked the USSR but Russia is a threat to the world
Believe all women
Afghanistan withdrawal was a success
Brian Sicknick was killed by Trump supporters on J6 along with four other Capitol police officers
2020 summer, on the other hand, was Mostly Peaceful
Trump called Charlottesville Klan marchers “very fine people”
Trans women are women
MTG said “Jewish space lasers” caused fires
SCOTUS made abortion illegal
To be a good person, I can put a sign in my yard and still be a 💩 in real life
“Bowe Bergdahl served with honor and distinction”
The scary thing about this list is that much of the Free Press staff prob believes most of them.
Mark, you forgot one:
“Epstein didn’t kill himself”
“Believe all women” - if they used to be men.
That's amazing. We need this on a t-shirt
!!!!!
It sure has worked well with education and homelessness.
Putin has had a lot of trouble just with the Ukraine, although he never committed his whole Army. What sane person would think he COULD think taking on the WHOLE of Europe—including the former Eastern Bloc—was a good idea?
NATO exists to keep countries that do not need to be spending on war, spending money on war.
Do you know that a part—a LARGE part—of the treaty stipulates all member nations are REQUIRED to spend a percentage of their GDP on the War Racket? The only POSSIBLE justification for this is Russia. So, can it be any wonder the War Racket is working to stir up trouble with Russia to keep people who are not threatened in any way by anyone, militarily, from asking why the hell they keep spending so much on weapons?
Seen from this perspective, that of greedy sociopaths, all this is perfectly and obviously logical.
And now we see that China is resupplying Russia weapons to fight Ukraine.
Biden will have to decide if he wants to sanction China for this or establish another red line.
Biden's red line is like Obama's line in the sand, when he told Syria if they used nerve gas on his populace the US would strike Syria. Assad used nerve gas and Obama did nothing. What an asshole! Obama proved that the US was nothing more than a paper tiger.
100%
And he was happy to set forth that perception.
I have a coworker who is Ukrainian. He told me last week that if he needs any official paperwork, like a passport, he will now have to go all the way back to Ukraine to get it done. He is fairly certain if he goes back, he won't be able to leave.
I don't know how true that is...but HE believes it to be true, which is telling, to me.
It is true. Ukraine has cut off consular support for Ukrainian men of fighting age living abroad. Men of fighting age in Ukraine are required as of last month to carry documents verifying their draft registration.
Fighting age is 18 - 60. 60!!!!! And the citizens of Ukraine had their March, 2024, elections canceled.
Another thing he mentioned is there are apparently thousands of military trained men that for some reason are not being forced into service.
Fro. What I read the draft boards could be bought off. And early on the border was open to women and children but not men. So some of the border guards were likely taking bribes. Imagine that. Corruption in Ukraine.
He suggested that it may be because they are largely police. So they are kept on (and out of the fighting) to maintain power. If you gotta force your population to fight, you need loyal people who can fight better to be around to force them.
If he is draft age, it’s true.
Notice that Biden & his buddies haven’t even attempted a ‘negotiation’ - this Administration is evil.
This is the result of weak leadship.
I think you give them too much credit. This is the result of having NO meaningful leadership. Not in the White House. Not in Congress.
1000%
The Maidan Revolution was in 2014 not 2004. Russia moved to secure Crimea in response.
I disagree NC. Russia, China and Iran hate the US and that is what binds them together.
100% this!
This story is worth resharing: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/breaking-james-okeefe-releases-undercover-video-cia-contractor/
I think we all knew the CIA opposed Trump in all ways possible, but its become at this point undeniable even for the doubters.
Whats ODD is that many CIA, and presumably FBI and NSA and others employees of secretive Federal agencies, seemingly GENUINELY believed the story about Russian collusion that Hillarys team concocted. They were deceived. They genuinely thought Trump was a traitor and that breaking the law was not just justified but necessary. No choice.
Here is the thing: in the world if professional liars, you can never be sure who you are REALLY working for. 2016-2020, and both begire and after, for all intents and purposes our intelligence agrncies may have been working for the Chinese. Or the War Racket. Monied interests of all sorts. Just not for the well being, freedom, and prosperity of non-elite Americans. Not in the defense of democracy.
The problem with the intelligence agencies is that there is no plausible rationale - either they bungled the intelligence (were duped) or they are knowingly lying. Or both.
They work for themselves and for self preservation.
If anyone wants to hear a very comprehensive and deeper dive about the level of CORRUPTION - on BOTH sides Washington Politicians, listen to Rep Victoria Spartz- Congresswoman, born on Ukraine- against the U.S. Funding of Ukraine on the PDB podcast- Episode 403 from earlier this week. "The U.S. is heading toward the very thing she came from - Marxism is being pushed at all levels. "
I saw that she voted against the aid package. A shame she can't be a VP pick.
Those with morals, integrity, and have the will of the People as priority will NEVER get the spotlight- Only the opposite- demonization for attempting to Expose the corruption. Just saw that Tulsi just did Joe Rogan- haven't watched yet. Would LOVE to see Trump pick her.
I like her too. I think she could handle the 3 a.m. call.
Spartz is a standout. I believe she was going to leave Congress at the end of her term but decided to stay as there was too much at stake. Cheers to her for not jumping ship like too many of her colleagues.
Also Lily Tang Williams who is running for a Congressional seat in New Hampshire is another compelling immigrant candidate with strong convictions. She grew up in Communist China; also worried about what she sees in the U.S. and the parallels between what she left her home country for. She appeared on Colion Noir's podcast recently. I never heard of Colion before but it seems his focus is preserving 2nd Amendment rights. He is a great interviewer, the rare breed who actually allows his guests to speak.
Thx for the suggestion-- I'll check it out. Fast forwarded thru Rogans pod w Tulsi & was disappointed that he did mist of the talking and what he said was quite repetitive. The PDB podcast that hosted Tulsi was much better. I believe I've heard Colion Noir before but it's been a while
Be prepared to be interrogated by Compost2.00001. He's going to need details on all the above :-)
Lol (right?). I cant do anything about the slack jawed, empty faced True Believers who commit daily acts of moral and intellectual suicide.
But I choose to believe that among the traditionally indoctrinated but basically sane folks out there, Comprof does more harm for the radical left wing causes they (them: this being contains multitudes, of pansexual bats) espouse.
If you dont look too hard, everything the Hard Left (which is all Democrats who are not talking about holdingvtheir noses and voting for someone else) pushed has superficial plausibility. But at any degree of detail it falls apart in every way.
Comprof could not write a position paper on something. They just snipe and distract and darken. Who wants to be allied with that?
Well according to what we're reading today, Chinese multi-millionaire Marxist agitators would like to be allied with that.
Which is why Commie Prof is constantly posting Marxist, anti-USA nonsense.
Nah.
He's busy posting antisemitic talking points and links nobody will visit.
Just make sure to ignore every word and every comment fRoM oUr ReSidEnT lEfTy TeEn
I think it is a bot or someone's AI experiment.
Bot's don't write in upper and lower case though, right?
I did not know that. Thanks for the info.
You mean he wants you do the research because he is to lazy to get educated on issues. Yep, sounds right for him.
110% chance he's the kid at school that no one wanted on their team. You can see it in his posts.....comes off as being about half a thought away from pulling a Max Azzarello.
I bet he trolls Baron on X.
Anytime he gets a like on his Substack comments, he masturbates.
Fortunately, (?) that rarely happens.
Eeekkkk!
No, he has a pet goat named FiFi for that. He told me months ago, it is the only sex he gets and it is kinda awkward because he has to stop and run around the front to kiss her.
🤣
All my life, and I’ve been on this planet for a long time, it’s been Russia, Russia, Russia. Hide under your desk. They’re the bad guys. But in reality the bad guys have always been within . It’s kayfabe.
Yes. Did you watch “Everything is a rich mans trick”? I think he underestimates the sincerity of Communists, but is probably right viewing the CIA as a virtual partner with them. 90% of that movie I believe.
The CIA was founded by Allen Dulles to protect his rich friends in business.
Seems like it is still “on message.”
Allen Dulles was likely involved in the hit against JFK and then the cover up (Dulles was also on Warren Commission). The Kennedy bros were making too much noise about dismantling the CIA, and JFK naming an airport after him wasn’t enough.
I agree.
He had the motive and means.
And he also Chaired the Warren Commission.
The book, The Devils Chessboard, provides all of the details.
Brian, I just want to say that every time I see your avatar I'm reminded I have the same shirt. Mine is all old and beat up. I'm a Deadhead too and sure miss Jerry ;)
Those were some fun concerts for sure.
You can get a new one at liquidblue.com.
Thanks. Love the 'Steal your Base' on the baseball T's! For live music, this has been my go-to for shows of the past. My favorite is to stream a show that I have on an old tape. https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?sort=-publicdate
Bush I was in that mix too.
Yes
"CIA has been coopted by the War Racket to drum up business by starting wars."
Yup....since the 1950s -- see IKE's farewell speech, see Vietnam, see the JFK assassination, see Watergate, see every fricking thing ever.....
Mike Johnson did the right thing getting aid passed for Taiwan and Israel, but especially for Ukraine. Greene and Massie are wrong. Greene has always been a wingnut, but I had respected Massie.
As an aside, I listened to some of the 5-minute videos on Praeger U about past presidents and really enjoyed them. Very informative. Thanks!
Dude, you’re becoming a broken record. Same tales day after day. To me, boring.
But it seems you’ve got maybe a dozen or so fans here. Maybe start writing your own Substack? You might get a few subscribers. Note that the chances TFP gives you a shot as a writer for them are about zero (not that TFP couldn’t stand some new writers).
Just sayin’.
The collapse of America, and the fact that many Americans are appluading it openly, bores you?
Duly noted.
As I wrote, same old tale. Get a Substack. I’m bored by your writing. Not history or current events. Your comments add little to knowledge.
speak for yourself RBM! I think there are more than a dozen of us who truly value Unsaint's posts!!
I will permit myself to comment that, knowing nothing else, one could infer much about your overall perceptual powers from your suggestion that I “get a substack” when it is over every post I make.
Indeed, as do others who comment in TFP. e.g., Bezminov, Euphoric Recall, and others. But they do not litter this comment section with continuous and repeated blather.
As I said, he has his won Substack, Moderates United. According to that (on his profile page) he also has two other places where he writes his musings:
“My other sites are www.moderatesunited.blogspot.com and www.goodnessmovement.com”
He has his own Substack, “Moderates United”. If you click on his name and see his Substack profile, you will find that he posts essays on it almost daily and a lot of those essays are copy/pasted into these TFP comments almost verbatim. Or vice versa, he posts in the comments and then copy/pastes into his Substack. And you’re right, it’s always the same thing over and over and over. But he has his TFP commenter fans and they think he’s amazing and should be hired by TFP as a regular columnist.
I would love for someone to do a "deep dive " on Jake Sullivan. Rep Victoria Spartz this week on PDB podcast says that he is pulling the strings for puppet Joe Biden. Patrick Bet David looked up a short bio of him. Sounds like he is and has been the ring leader of where our Govt is taking this Country.....
Unsaint Finbar — With their majority so reduced, the House Republicans are now in a de facto coalition government with the Democrats. The fact they can get anything done at all will probably help the Republicans on Election Day.
However, their weakness on aid to Ukraine has already cost them the support of some of their most faithful supporters: Ukrainian Americans.
Unsaint Finbar — “ an absolute horror for Ukraine, which never should have allowed this war to start or continue.” Given the seriousness of the subject, perhaps I shouldn’t be laughing so hard. Evidently you forgot Russia started the war by invading Ukraine.
True, early on, when the Russians were groping for any kind of justification for the war, no matter how preposterous, a top Putin adviser insisted Russia had to attack, or Ukraine would invade Russia! But not even you could swallow that. I think.
You dont know, or dont remember, the actual history, do you? An honest answer would be, at a minimum, “Im sure I could know more”, but you would not have adopted that supercilious tone if you were CAPABLE of learning anything.
I stand by my comment, as it is based on an informed view of the history. If you want to stand firm on your ignorance, well it will certainly make the people who manipulated you into your views happy.
You know, I'm starting to think Unsaint already clandestinely works for TFP, else how is his comment the first post up almost every time now? And also the most important comment of the day? It's easy for me to see how Bari and he were already in league, trying to keep TFP together.
Unsaint posts comments everybody likes. Me included.
If true, Bari owes me money!!’
Hey, never thought of that. Maybe she's just using you, for free. Anyway, you and a few others make it all worthwhile.
Well, Im doing my best to use her also. Its pretty rare to get a podium in a moderately moderate audience. Im banned on the Left and have never seen any reason to preach to the choir. Agreeing the loudest and the most is not really my style.
Please don’t conflate “important” with “most liked”. I’ve come to understand that early gets the most views and, often “likes”. It’s happened to me, even with my usual pedestrian comments. It is the way the App works. It’d be good if we could collapse threads to see original comments.
Yes, yes, of course. The attention is so nice. All my friends have passed on, before me.
What is the purpose of highlighting the utter Internet stupidity about Trump’s son, Barron? He’s barely 18, just leaving high school, and I’m not sure the kid has ever said a public word. That was bull shit story. Whatever you think of Trump, that kid should not be fodder for your keyboard idiocy.
River Page, Oliver Wiseman: don’t be assholes.
What if somebody stole his diary? Would he become untouchable to the lefties? Asking for a friend that showered with her daddy.
“don’t be assholes.”
Too late.
Exactly! Waited until he turned 18 for plausibility that they don’t target children. Really really disappointing to see such mean nonsense directed towards a young person whose only sin is who his father is. He hasn’t even had time to be young and stupid on his own! Bari, I thought you were better than that
TFP should have a letters to the editor address. However, this BBS is giant letters to the editor. I think Bari ignores our comments and refuses to answer our posts. She doesn't have to answer all of us but she certainly can see which way the wind blows here and respond to the general consensuses.
Instead of an offensive article on an 18 year old kid, how about an article on the murderous violence in the inner cities and how our swinish politicians choose to ignore it. In just the last 10 years, tens of thousands of blacks have been murdered in the inner cities, many of them kids.
There is not a peep in the major news outlets or, I choke went is say this, "our leaders". Sure the news reports some of the murders but it has become so commonplace for the most part they ignore it. The media should be hammering all those scum bags in Washington to do something about this atrocity. And that is what it is an atrocity.
What do we get from all of our politicians and the media "The Sound of Silence"!
Maybe a calm statement/request to:
“To get in touch, contact tips@thefp.com. “
Lonesome - I’m not always with you but here I agree. Is DMing Substack owners a thing?
I'm always calm. Well, sometimes calm.
I'm sorry, I don't know what DMing is.
Direct Message. Apparently not possible on Substack to authors. But can be done to subscribers.
Thanks.
The proposed Congressional hearing to which NPR CEO Katherine Maher has been summoned is a theater. Everyone knows that URI Berliner wrote truthfully and that Chris Rufo reports accurately about her. Anyone who ever listened to NPR knows it’s a far left atrocity.
Congress would be doing right by the country by defunding both NPR and PBS. There is zero need for that hearing.
We desperately need a public hearing summoning the WPATH practitioners and the excellent science reporters on the Cass Report.
This is urgent . The Cass Report is unimpeachable that there exists no credible evidence that transing minors is good for them, and it raises serious reason to question anyone who claimed that there was evidence to the contrary. In other words the WPATH activist have lied intentionally to further their dangerous agenda, sterilizing and harming thousands of already troubled youth.
This must be dealt with as Europe is doing
I think we should put an "over/under" on when the left will change their minds about "transitioning" minors and say...."it was Trump's idea, we were always against it." I say December 31 of this year. Over/under anyone?
All true about NPR, but it will be fun sport to watch Katherine Maher squirm in the hot seat.
I’ve got my popcorn and bourbon ready.
Doesn’t get any better than watching a lefty king pin grilled about ideological purity.
The defenses will be pretzel twisting and hilarious.
We have had quite a few show their true colors, recently. Since so many of these folks got their jobs for their ideals and gender/skin color, turns out that many of them are not very smart of clever.
The more we can expose the better.
Let the facts speak for themselves.
I begin to despair that there is any chance at Congressional oversight. Of anything. How such a prestigious institution could let itself sink so low is very telling of where the Republic is now.
Congress is not doing its jobs well. However they do hold hearings on all sorts of issues of the day, such as the recent one with Columbia University president . Pressure has to be applied. Ignoring the scandal will not make it go away. The lawsuits are important but not adequate to stop the practice of gender affirming care for minors.,
But the hearings are nothing more than window dressing. Congressional power is the power of the purse. All of the hearings in the world do not matter unless funding is cut.
So true. A hearing airing the travesty would allow them to take “ trans care” out of ACA( Obama snuck it in which turned on the money flow that spurred the massive growth of the pediatric gender clinics - industry)
The margin is so thin though that they cannot pass anything. Oddly enough for all the we the citizenry are powerless in national elections it is us that keeps the margin razor thin by preventing a decisive victory.
Prevent a decisive victory? In which elections?
The evidence that there simply is no evidence to support transing minors as well as fraud committed by the WPATH ppl , that if this is aired publicly they will be forced to shut down the industry. By ignoring the scandal they are hoping it will go away an$ blow over. It won’t
Now that Dems have got Johnson in their pocket, I don't expect any hearing on WPATH files or Title IX or any of it. Trans is the liberal sacred cow. They literally worship at the trans altar, with creeds, high priests and priestesses, and holidays throughout the years. Sacrificing children is part of their rituals.
As for NPR, I'm wondering why anyone shows up at Congressional hearings anymore since Hunter Biden skipped it and nothing happened to him. Why doesn't Maher just skip it if Hunter can?
The public has to insist they deal with this insanity I’d sterilizing and butchering kids.We have to urge the talking heads to stop telling the sensational horror stories of the detransitioners, and focus on the Cass Report and WPATH files. These arrogant trans cultists have zero evidence to support this travesty. The public is paying for this so we are all complicit.
Maybe there is a hierarchy of who can defy a congressional subpoena?? Criminal adult sons of a crooked president can get away with it.A mockery made worse by the lawfare against Trump
I think it will be the tort lawyers who bring them to heel. Actually the insurance carriers forced to defend the suits. But it will start with lawyers filing suit.
While I believe adults should be allowed to do as they please with their own bodies, I don't believe there is any convincing study that shows a benefit from medically "transitioning" anyone of any age. In this regard, much of the medical and psychiatric professions have been taken over by ideology rather than by science.
I have to say after being a loyal reader of the Free Press today’s offering was about as bad as it gets! The college campus’s debacle is the only news lately and I’m so sick of reading about spoiled progressive students🤮 Also the article about Barron Trump just crosses the line for me, I know many conservative Republicans and have never heard such stupidity exit their mouths. I will add my two cents in about doing an investigative article about Title IX.
Agree this was a shoddy excuse for journalism
I do a good deal of work for small mountain town PDs and FDs. Those places are generally pretty conservative. I have heard many discussions about Trump and Biden and whatnot. Never heard a single person mention Barron.
This was the first I'd heard this stupidity about Barron as well.
I am increasingly feeling like we are being Punked. Or that TFP purposely wants to drive off anyone that doesn't already loath Trump. There have been lots of well done journalism around here. So I am confused how stuff like this makes it through.
I just scrolled past the Baron Trump article to the comments.
Thanks for the heads up.
As I expected.
That article was a waste of ink.
How about an article of the ever senile joe's sex addict, drug addled daughter?
Now that would be interesting for sure.
And the end of thst article says the Maidan Revolution was in 2004. It was not. It was in 2014. It was why Russia.entered Crimea.
The piece about Barron Trump is beneath you at the Free Press. You just throw that out there as if it’s fact. Since people believe the free press, you have now created a bunch of new people who believe that nonsense about Barron Trump becoming the new Cesar. You should post an apology.
The better way to approach that "story" would have been to leave the kid alone. Period.
Agree 100%
That the Free Press ‘covered’ Barron says they are bored and are beginning to run out of good ideas - spreading themselves too thin over so many email blasts
TFP has become the Democratic Party Rehabilitation Project; it's not that they've run out of good ideas, it's that they need to deflect from the crap that's really going on in their name. It's been four years since St Floyd of Fentanyl was used to tear this country apart, now we're starting to see the left gear up to use Gaza for another summer of rioting. That's no coincidence going into another election year.
'Can't wait for the Democrat Chicago Convention this summer - for sure it's going to be a 1968 redo - start popping the popcorn..
My kid sent me a tiktok of protestors at UofA and the pro-Israeli right and the pro-terrorist left were both chanting FJB. Good to see he was finally able to "unite" the country in something! (maybe this is why the Uniparty wants to ban the app?).
🤣🤣🤣 the Left and Democrats are eating themselves...🍿🍿🍿
Yup, I’ve got my bourbon ready as well.
What next? A story about how Trump farts in the courtroom? Oh, that’s out there. Olly— get on it!
Probably only Rosie O'Donnell fans and Trump haters liked her video -- everyone else thought it was unseemly rubbish. I don't like Trump, and I thought it was unseemly rubbish.
And I doubt anyone but hardcore Trump fans believe Barron is a second Caesar. He might, of course, like many a political child, try riding on his papa's coat strings. But that's different.
I suspect hard-core Trump haters believe it enough to fear it as well.
Meanwhile back at the fk'n ranch the planned destruction of the U.S. dollar continues, middle American teeters on the brink, the looters at BlackRock have the Congress send more tax dollar treasure to their well placed allies and political operatives in the Marxist left and the musical chair war Presidency promises the music will never stop.
"can I suggest that, going forward, we have more of this and fewer January 6–style reenactments on campus"
No, Ollie, these are BLM-style reenactments. Everything about them has precedent on your side, not mine, you willfully blind hypocritical bigot.
The liberal mind has the convenient ability to forget their most unflattering and stupid efforts. Must be nice to live in that smog.
Or just lie about them.
I would say that is not a liberal thing (the Dem party is not Liberal anyway) its a human thing. Plenty of Conservative have forgotten or give passes to the crappy things their side has done as well. They just haven't had the power to do most o it in quite a while.
Baron Trump? But nothing about Hunter Biden. This delusion is an illness.
It is definitely a New York / Los Angeles thing.
Broadly speaking, certainly! Of course even there, there are machoistic people who don't agree with the lunacy, yet still remain there. Why, I don't know...I would leave those cities to their fate.
Cognitive dissonance, yes. This liberal effort is beyond that.
Double the final clause. No, triple it, quadruple..., 10 times!
You know who the “external actors” AREN’T?
Republicans, conservatives, MAGA supporters.
But Ollie will compare them to J6 anyway, despite them having 90% of everything in common with BLM.
And that's the problem with TFP, "moderates" who are not moderate.
It's great that you did a hit piece on NPR guys, except the most dning accusation of NOR was that they don't employ a single Republican for balance.....and neither does TFP
Riddle me this: how is “multi-millionaire Marxist” a real thing, especially living in China???
There are extremely, insanely rich people in China. The notion of a society where all share equally in the benefits of that society is the myth of Marxism, communism, and socialism. It is the false advertising used to convert followers to the cause. Every single one of them results in very rich people at the top and every one else at the bottom. That is why they lament the 1% here. But the difference is the right idea can catapult you into the 1% here. Witness Gates, Jobs, et al.
CCP isn't really Marxist. Under Mao, there was some element of Marxism being enforced on the (dying of starvation) masses while the economy itself was centrally planned. However at this point, CCP is basically a realization of economic ideas of Fascism as initially conceived by Giovanni Gentile in 1920s Italy -- that corporations are extensions of state power, and only through the fusion of state and corporate power can a nation be strengthened.
Fascism was a rejection of the capitalist notions of prioritizing profit, and a rejection of the Marxist ideals of a centrally planned economy with no corporations at all. It was "capitalism for a greater good" -- in Gentile and Musolini's case, that greater good was the nation if Italy, in Xi Jianping's case, the nation of China, in Larry Fink or Tim Cook's case, social justice and preventing climate change.
Oliver, today’s FP is just wacky. Why on earth would you all share that article about Barron Trump? Where the hell is Bari?!! I slipped through a mirror and ended up at The National Enquirer. We don’t need these daily updates when you have nothing to say so you dream stuff up.
If I hear once or twice a week from TFP that's fine. This daily stuff is too much and too dumb. J6 lasted a few hours, and this vile, Jew-hating temper tantrum on campuses isn't remotely comparable. It's gross to even suggest it.
You know who the real “threat to democracy” is?
Academia
Didn't think I'd ever say this, but Marjorie Taylor Greene comes off as being one of the most sane people in Washington. I don't care if she believes in jewish space lasers or not, the chic calls balls and strikes, is willing to totally break shit and comes off as a heterodox street fighter. I like it a lot.
Yeah, and cajones bigger than any guy’s. That’s why they hate her. She embarrasses them.
word.
Evans, any coverage of the Charlotte shooting and killing of 4 cops? Gone quiet, which means the shooter’s ethnicity is inconvenient.
The Free Press didn’t even mention the shooting! 4 police officers dead in the 10 items they decide are worth mentioning. . Hard to find any information.. Appalling.
I knew that would happen as soon as they posted his picture. Told my wife that the progressive media black hole would disappear that for eternity.....which it has.
Terry Clark Hughes Jr. was a felon possessing a firearm, which is against the law in every state. He is a black man and several reports I have read also stated that gunshots came from inside the house where two females were later found. The media black hole is real in certain circumstances because there have not been any calls to DO SOMETHING...ANYTHING about guns.
🤣🤣
The reports of her insanity have been greatly exaggerated
Ya gotta love a little crazy in todays world. :-)
Be prepared for the CIA's press toadies to begin a full on smear campaign against anyone opposing Mikie Johnson. MTG, Boebert, Massie, Gaetz and a few other House members are all that stand in the way of 10 year war funding legislation for Ukraine our bought and paid for congress is trying to ram through. It will not only provide them the blood money they so crave but will also serve as a predicate for impeaching Trump if he tries to cut it off as president.
It’d be interesting to see what Mike Johnson’s bank account looks like these days…
I like Thomas Massie a lot too.
A man that runs a farm.
She, Gosar, and Bobert are the right's answer to the Squad. Unhinged extremists who make a mockery of the party and push common sense voters away. The only difference between them and the Squad isn't they're lunatics in real life too.
How about the UNC frat bros protecting the flag from pro-Hamas loonies? This guy’s smirk is hilarious. He knows they’re all giant sissies who won’t do shit unless they’re safely in a mob with dozens of their fellow keffiyeh and K95 mask-wearing shitbags.
https://twitter.com/exjon/status/1785491441420300686
I read somewhere that a GoFundMe page has raised over $200,000 for these guys. Apparently they are planning on having an enormous ripper on campus. Now THOSE are the types of people I'd hang out with on campus.
Read the GoFundMe page. It's hilarious. A snippet -
"But amidst the chaos, the screaming, the anti-semitism, the hatred of faith and flag, stood a platoon of American heroes. Armored in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fueled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist horde"
That is fantastic. Sign them up for a Hollywood movie deal (oh wait, this isn't the kind of story Hollywood wants to tell!)
Yeah that’s amazing. It was up to $37k around 11am yesterday then at 1pm it was $75k. That’s gonna be a party! They can probably drink premium beer for a change 😆
As the tweet states, the Chads may just save the country. Ironically different chads saved the country in Florida in 2000.
And not afraid to show their faces.
Cal Poly - My god, where do such dumb ass people come from. Trillium - Generations of irrational stupid people. Have they not heard of birth control to stop over populating the world. Plus how much waste have they produced and these fools think they are special. Yep, just as special as the Russians destroying Ukraine.
Biden's red line is like Obama's. Just a metaphor and not really a red line. Plus China may be the new JV Team like ISIS was to Obama.
Why has the FP gone to tabloid material with Barron ? Give it a Friggin rest. We know you are left of center, but really, get out of the gutter and leave Pelosi, Shift, Schumer and the rest there. Even the reference to doting mother. Oh, you mean a parent that cares about their kid versus having them out gang banging or joining we hate Jews groups? Yeah, that's really bad on Melania.
NPR CEO is exactly like Biden's cabinet leads, An activist concerned with supreme control of all news and your life. We the powerful will dictate to you what can and can not be done. You are welcome.
Yes, and there’s this in the Baron story: “But it also reveals something more serious about the deepest desires of today’s online right.” Painting with a broad brush there. Would a similar conclusion be that the outside agitator groups of pro-Hamas protests reveal the deepest desires of today’s online left.
Good rule of thumb is don't ever read what a leftist thinks about the right.
Anthony, exactly why I am not renewing TFP.
TFP should be reminded that word of mouth is great but word of mouth telling friends to not spend the time or money, is detrimental.
I consider myself as someone who gets fed a lot of pro-right stuff in my media consumption. And I had never heard any of this Barron stuff. So I don't know how prevalent it can actually be.
Would say, if they are far anything, not worth the worry. Plus I would hazard a guess the far left out numbers the far right. Sorry to compost if he’s reading, I said guess so go back to sleep.
What exactly is the online right? Some posts on X? Where is this online right spilling out into real life, like we see happening with pro-Hamas Tik Tok and what's happening on college campuses right now?
Here they are: https://twitter.com/TheMaineWire/status/1747296402781475132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1775855077787378027%7Ctwgr%5Ed2541f8b736cbeb77fcf7403b2060cf15bb2d348%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themainewire.com%2F2024%2F04%2Fcontroversial-bill-targeting-unauthorized-paramilitary-training-passes-through-maines-house-with-single-vote-majority%2F
Speak Bigly and carry a Feather Duster.
Or a VERY strongly-worded letter from the Wokescold Committee.
That made me giggle. And man did I need one.
The piece on Baron Trump is beneath you Free Press. Bari Weiss everyone who had their hand in that piece needs to find a new gig. If you approved that piece you should state as much so we can all reevaluate our subscription choices.
Seeing as how Biden is just Obama's hand puppet, I think we all know how much stock to put into any of his red lines.
What the heck is this about Barron Trump? The kid is 18 years old. So according to the elites in our society, somehow the average 18 year old, even though technically an adult in the eyes of the law, should not be held to an adult standard, but somehow since Barron is 18 it's ok to whatever now?
I still remember when the media went after the Bush twins since they were over 18 and were applauded, but were roundly chastised when people would report on the Obama Girls once they were adults.
Barron becomes fair game if he publicly opens his mouth about anything. Until that time, if it ever happens, he needs to be off limits.
Some people just suck.
I agree. Then compare that with the treatment of the "kids" disrupting campuses.
Jan 6th style reenactments on campus? You mean summer of 2020-CHAZ-CHOP STYLE reenactments. “Occupy”-style-reenactments. Maybe we’ll see everyone involved thrown in prison to await trial for a a couple years and publicized one-sided congressional Hollywood productions about how evil every single democrat is as an existential threat to “democracy.” Maybe a random cop will falsely claim “shots fired” then kill someone with a real bullet. Someone outside the camp will have a heart attack two days later and will be counted among those who died at the hands of violent, treasonous insurrectionists...maybe having been beaten to death with a fire extinguisher. No? I don’t remember anyone on Jan6th taking land and holding it for days after kicking out the authorities and making demands on behalf of a terrorist organization all under a foreign flag with the stated overall purpose of destroying America, which they all said they hated. I don’t remember that. There did seem to be a lot of video showing compliance, walking inside pathways marked by velvet ropes, shaking hands with cops, offering them water…maybe that’s the comparison?
lol y’all need to recalibrate and account for 2016-2022 before you knew, or would accept, the media machine was wholesale lying to you and manipulating everyone. Can you even do it at this point? You’ve done great since then and have been performing a valuable service, but the scars of years of manipulation still obscure your (honestly, “our”) view.
Yes I definitely agree this whole shit show got more of a CHAZ/CHOP vibe. At the end of the day, it's just the same bunch of agitators moving from Occupy Wall Street to Antifa to BLM and now this. Summer break can't come fast enough so all these toddlers will go home and stop making a scene. In another year or two they'll find something else to throw tantrums about. Regular mob hysteria masquerading as protests is now a permanent feature of America.
I distinctly remember the Occupy Wall Street babies also requesting luxury items like melatonin when asked by reporters what they needed. Now it's not longer request but a demand for humanitarian aid. Two years from now, whatever they'll be mobbing about in the future, they'll expect taxpayers funded spa treatments and an all-inclusive vacation at a resort hotel to recover from their trauma for having to bear the emotional labor of protesting.