Eli Lake reviews ‘Vultures 1’ and toasts to ‘the asshole,’ Kat Rosenfield on books as status symbols, Beyoncé goes country, and more Free Press Lonely Hearts.
My name is Kevin. I live in Georgia and I hate whites. I am trying to find a girl who works for the government who has the authority to hire outside contractors. I’m looking for approximately $700,000 and some sex.
Note: I edited this to correct a mistake I made, which was completely wrong in one sense, but very revealing in another. I appended a more accurate commentary at the end.
The largest story in a generation is the CIA led manipulation of our elections, as described in some detail by Mike Benz in his recent interview with Tucker Carlson. I was wondering if the Free Press would cover it. Given the name of this site, a large bombshell about centralized management of the press would seem to be an obvious story, but I have reluctantly concluded that this site is basically managed mild opposition. To complete batshit crazy, it creates the alternative of mostly not crazy in the obvious ways. It's sad. Disappointing.
The core takeaway from the Benz interview--which is on Tucker's site, and which everyone should read or listen to-- is that whether or not actual voter fraud happened in 2020, that agents of our own government used techniques honed in many decades of Cold War--that were used to overthrow hostile regimes and install our own puppet regimes--in effect to overthrow Donald Trump.
Add to this a propaganda operation run in large measure by six former CIA Directors called the Atlantic Counsel, and what you have is fascism. Our democracy may already be gone, and will certainly be gone by the next election, if members of our government do not start exercising some basic ethical behavior, righting blatant wrongs (and illegalities, but someone with no moral compass will reliably lack any concerns about legality in a system they control), and if the American public does not begin waking up on a larger scale.
Things certainly can get MUCH worse, but my God what does it take to wake people up, that their government is not protecting them, even if it does take their money from them every paycheck?
On NATO:
I am going to lay a line or two of facts on you, then a very interesting piece of logic.
NATO was created specifically to counter the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations. Neither have been a threat since 1991 or so, when the whole thing fell apart. No war or threats of wars have occured since. One could count the stuff down in the Balkans, but those were very small scale operations that didn’t require a standing military.
Russia has been not been a threat for a very long time, and given the huge losses they have already taken in the Ukraine, it is obscenely stupid to think Putin could calculate ANY advantage whatever in doing something that would mobilize the whole of Western AND Eastern Europe against him.
A key element in the North Atlantic Treaty, apparently, is that each nation allocate a certain percentage of their GDP to military expenses. America has promised 3.49% I think it was, Germany something like 2%, France something like 2% or whatever, etc. Put another way, the 3.5% of 25 trillion, which was our GDP in I think 2022—works out to a national Defense Budget of $875 billion, and this BY TREATY. It’s required of us, in principle, by NATO.
So what we have is a binding international treaty which requires all signatory nations to commit to minimum annual “defense” expenditures, even though there is no common enemy against whom a strong defense is likely ever to be needed.
Conclusion: could we not plausibly claim NATO exists to defend DEFENSE CONTRACTORS and their allies? What could be more congenial to an industry than an international treaty dictating a percent of the economy be allocated to weapons of war, in perpetuity? And with a such a deal, would it not make sense to scare up some conflict somewhere from time to time to keep people from asking too many questions?
But if you think about it, HAS NATO served any purpose since 1991, and the end of the Cold War? That was THIRTY THREE YEARS AGO.
Could it not even be argued that NATO was a continuation of the Cold War by other means? That NATO become important to military contractors in lobbying their own national legislatures for more money, by locating the demand outside the national borders?
Can anyone love Kanye? He's a traveling road show of obscenities. If our "culture" is going to survive, we need the broken windows theory applied to public decency. The Dutch do anything goes better- it stays in one place. The U.S. can't handle it. Very large prostitutes slither around in broad daylight in Oakland parking lots, in front of little kids. If you're not grossed out, you're robbed. Award shows, in behavior and dress, are in the toilet. Fashion is confused with freakishness. We need standards. We're confusing liberty with license. Increasingly, I see this current storm as rooted in the abandonment of integrity.
Damn, surprised to read the hostility and loathing of today's articles from TFP- I really don't give a rat's ass about Kanye, Beyond, Taylor either but have to admit it's nice to have some "fluff" every once in a while.
Not sure what I pay now for Netflix, Amazon Prime, the Indy Pods I subscribe to. I really have to SIFT through what i want to hear, watch , read. And for $8/ month for TFP, I can easily tolerate pieces like these. AND, I really liked reading the letters from 3 young, smart, articulate peeps, brave enough to write about who they are and what they're looking for. Keep those emails coming Suzi- maybe one of us has a son, daughter, neighbor, niece/ nephew, co-worker.....that would be the PERFECT MATCH !!!
It’s kinda amazing how dumb some of these comments are. If you don’t like the fluff, skip the read. I doubt Bari and team are spiking a in-depth expose of Hamas in favor of publishing this.
Not sure why you want to advertise in the comments section that you’re a humorless scold.
I am really enjoying reading the Lonely Hearts. I am not actually looking for love, but the mini- essays are actually funny and interesting. Keep publishing them!
Eli's ranting about Kanye being an "anti-Semitic edgelord" peppered with childish name calling is disgusting. Kanye's comments are awful, but they often sound more like the rantings of a person having a manic episode due to Bipolar disorder, for which it's well documented that Kanye suffers from. Him saying that "The Rothschild's are out to get him" sounds more like a person suffering from psychosis, which is a symptom of bipolar mania, rather than true anti-Semitism. Eli leaves this important context out of his article, all to whine about he feels personally victimized as a Jew. Shame on him, and shame on TFP for printing an article that trashes a clearly mentally ill person.
When someone rants as an antisemite, or anti-anything, for no reason other than their own hatred, they should be shot in the kneecaps (ok, maybe not), but at least boycotted. Not praised. Fuck Kanye West.
I appreciated seeing the friendship ads in the "lonely hearts" section--I'm not looking to date, but I understand that platonic relationships are very important in life, and it can be hard to make new friends as an adult, especially in a polarized culture. So if TFP is able to foster RL connections among like-minded people, I'm all for it!
The world of caring what others think of me left me long ago, but in certain parts of the country, it defines people. I can't fathom what the life of a Poser is like.
As a young man reading a biography of James Madison, I saw he had a closet of blue and back suits. He was consistent, and I modeled my fashion on being conservative and not caring what others thought. Books are an exercise of the brain, and I have over 500 of them. I drink richly of history, business, and philosophy. In my twenties, I also discovered the Teaching company and learned about various subjects.
Learning is fun, but sadly, Posers seek the affirmation of others and remain intellectually as deep as puddles. They need Kanye or TikTok to inform them how to think. What a pathetic life. Bari, it would help if you had Kat or Suzi interview Brian Johnson and his Heroic platform to help save some of these Posers from an unfulfilling life. People can get saved, but it will take some work. Thanks for sharing different cultural outlooks; they fascinate me.
Country generally sings about love not sex. Beyoncé doesn’t get that plus the profanity is just ridiculous. Pat Moynihan would call this defining deviancy down.
My name is Kevin. I live in Georgia and I hate whites. I am trying to find a girl who works for the government who has the authority to hire outside contractors. I’m looking for approximately $700,000 and some sex.
fultoncountyblackpanthers@gmail.gov
TFP wastes an issue pretending to be People magazine.
I’m trying to hang in there, Bari, but….
Note: I edited this to correct a mistake I made, which was completely wrong in one sense, but very revealing in another. I appended a more accurate commentary at the end.
The largest story in a generation is the CIA led manipulation of our elections, as described in some detail by Mike Benz in his recent interview with Tucker Carlson. I was wondering if the Free Press would cover it. Given the name of this site, a large bombshell about centralized management of the press would seem to be an obvious story, but I have reluctantly concluded that this site is basically managed mild opposition. To complete batshit crazy, it creates the alternative of mostly not crazy in the obvious ways. It's sad. Disappointing.
The core takeaway from the Benz interview--which is on Tucker's site, and which everyone should read or listen to-- is that whether or not actual voter fraud happened in 2020, that agents of our own government used techniques honed in many decades of Cold War--that were used to overthrow hostile regimes and install our own puppet regimes--in effect to overthrow Donald Trump.
Add to this a propaganda operation run in large measure by six former CIA Directors called the Atlantic Counsel, and what you have is fascism. Our democracy may already be gone, and will certainly be gone by the next election, if members of our government do not start exercising some basic ethical behavior, righting blatant wrongs (and illegalities, but someone with no moral compass will reliably lack any concerns about legality in a system they control), and if the American public does not begin waking up on a larger scale.
Things certainly can get MUCH worse, but my God what does it take to wake people up, that their government is not protecting them, even if it does take their money from them every paycheck?
On NATO:
I am going to lay a line or two of facts on you, then a very interesting piece of logic.
NATO was created specifically to counter the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations. Neither have been a threat since 1991 or so, when the whole thing fell apart. No war or threats of wars have occured since. One could count the stuff down in the Balkans, but those were very small scale operations that didn’t require a standing military.
Russia has been not been a threat for a very long time, and given the huge losses they have already taken in the Ukraine, it is obscenely stupid to think Putin could calculate ANY advantage whatever in doing something that would mobilize the whole of Western AND Eastern Europe against him.
A key element in the North Atlantic Treaty, apparently, is that each nation allocate a certain percentage of their GDP to military expenses. America has promised 3.49% I think it was, Germany something like 2%, France something like 2% or whatever, etc. Put another way, the 3.5% of 25 trillion, which was our GDP in I think 2022—works out to a national Defense Budget of $875 billion, and this BY TREATY. It’s required of us, in principle, by NATO.
So what we have is a binding international treaty which requires all signatory nations to commit to minimum annual “defense” expenditures, even though there is no common enemy against whom a strong defense is likely ever to be needed.
Conclusion: could we not plausibly claim NATO exists to defend DEFENSE CONTRACTORS and their allies? What could be more congenial to an industry than an international treaty dictating a percent of the economy be allocated to weapons of war, in perpetuity? And with a such a deal, would it not make sense to scare up some conflict somewhere from time to time to keep people from asking too many questions?
But if you think about it, HAS NATO served any purpose since 1991, and the end of the Cold War? That was THIRTY THREE YEARS AGO.
Could it not even be argued that NATO was a continuation of the Cold War by other means? That NATO become important to military contractors in lobbying their own national legislatures for more money, by locating the demand outside the national borders?
Can anyone love Kanye? He's a traveling road show of obscenities. If our "culture" is going to survive, we need the broken windows theory applied to public decency. The Dutch do anything goes better- it stays in one place. The U.S. can't handle it. Very large prostitutes slither around in broad daylight in Oakland parking lots, in front of little kids. If you're not grossed out, you're robbed. Award shows, in behavior and dress, are in the toilet. Fashion is confused with freakishness. We need standards. We're confusing liberty with license. Increasingly, I see this current storm as rooted in the abandonment of integrity.
Damn, surprised to read the hostility and loathing of today's articles from TFP- I really don't give a rat's ass about Kanye, Beyond, Taylor either but have to admit it's nice to have some "fluff" every once in a while.
Not sure what I pay now for Netflix, Amazon Prime, the Indy Pods I subscribe to. I really have to SIFT through what i want to hear, watch , read. And for $8/ month for TFP, I can easily tolerate pieces like these. AND, I really liked reading the letters from 3 young, smart, articulate peeps, brave enough to write about who they are and what they're looking for. Keep those emails coming Suzi- maybe one of us has a son, daughter, neighbor, niece/ nephew, co-worker.....that would be the PERFECT MATCH !!!
How cool would that be!
“Just as Taylor Swift has completed her transition from country music to the Queen of Pop, Beyoncé has done the same in reverse”
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I always thought the Taylor Swift conspiracy was weird and didn’t care that much about it.
Then I saw someone on Twitter who was trying to debunk it and they explained that George Soros bought her music but he did not own it anymore.
So I looked into it and George Soros paid like $200 million for her music. She then re-recorded her music and got the rights back and so he sold it.
So essentially George Soros gave Taylor Swift $200 million for her music rights and then she got her music rights back for free. Ummmmmm……
So now I still don’t care about the conspiracy but kinda think it’s a conspiracy.
It’s kinda amazing how dumb some of these comments are. If you don’t like the fluff, skip the read. I doubt Bari and team are spiking a in-depth expose of Hamas in favor of publishing this.
Not sure why you want to advertise in the comments section that you’re a humorless scold.
OFf topic: I bloked two people and still receive their comments. Why?
I am really enjoying reading the Lonely Hearts. I am not actually looking for love, but the mini- essays are actually funny and interesting. Keep publishing them!
Eli's ranting about Kanye being an "anti-Semitic edgelord" peppered with childish name calling is disgusting. Kanye's comments are awful, but they often sound more like the rantings of a person having a manic episode due to Bipolar disorder, for which it's well documented that Kanye suffers from. Him saying that "The Rothschild's are out to get him" sounds more like a person suffering from psychosis, which is a symptom of bipolar mania, rather than true anti-Semitism. Eli leaves this important context out of his article, all to whine about he feels personally victimized as a Jew. Shame on him, and shame on TFP for printing an article that trashes a clearly mentally ill person.
Beethoven, Mozart, The Beatles: musical geniuses.
Kanye West: NOT a musical genius.
When someone rants as an antisemite, or anti-anything, for no reason other than their own hatred, they should be shot in the kneecaps (ok, maybe not), but at least boycotted. Not praised. Fuck Kanye West.
I appreciated seeing the friendship ads in the "lonely hearts" section--I'm not looking to date, but I understand that platonic relationships are very important in life, and it can be hard to make new friends as an adult, especially in a polarized culture. So if TFP is able to foster RL connections among like-minded people, I'm all for it!
Next week we'll have a coloring contest from the BLM coloring book. Winner will get tickets to a Shakira sleep-over
The world of caring what others think of me left me long ago, but in certain parts of the country, it defines people. I can't fathom what the life of a Poser is like.
As a young man reading a biography of James Madison, I saw he had a closet of blue and back suits. He was consistent, and I modeled my fashion on being conservative and not caring what others thought. Books are an exercise of the brain, and I have over 500 of them. I drink richly of history, business, and philosophy. In my twenties, I also discovered the Teaching company and learned about various subjects.
Learning is fun, but sadly, Posers seek the affirmation of others and remain intellectually as deep as puddles. They need Kanye or TikTok to inform them how to think. What a pathetic life. Bari, it would help if you had Kat or Suzi interview Brian Johnson and his Heroic platform to help save some of these Posers from an unfulfilling life. People can get saved, but it will take some work. Thanks for sharing different cultural outlooks; they fascinate me.
Rap is annoying noise. The lyrics may be clever but it is not musical.
Country generally sings about love not sex. Beyoncé doesn’t get that plus the profanity is just ridiculous. Pat Moynihan would call this defining deviancy down.