"But this latest iteration of what appears to be “a broader strategy of Trump’s to sue the pants off media companies” is absurd, argues Eli Lake in his most recent column. And, if successful, it could “potentially create a backdoor way suing to regulate political speech.”
For years the democrat left has engaged in lawfare against Trump, which was supported, faciltated and promoted by the main stream press (WaPo, NTY, etc) in an attempt to subvert democracy. For years democrat left has attempted to regulate political speech, and free speach. So it is astounding to read Lake's concern that Trump's lawsuits could “potentially create a backdoor way suing to regulate political speech.”
Newsflash to Lake, in America we have the right to bring a lawsuit, whether you like it or not.
I'm getting tired of the growing left wing bias of the Free Press.
Re: Matt Gaetz- He was investigated and cleared . He wasn’t having sex with underage girls, but his accuser and extortionist who lost his political campaign was. And he went to prison. Gaetz was a player. He was young, single and never pretended otherwise. Big deal. I find it ironic that half of his gleeful detractors have suddenly become puritans. Why is there no outrage leveled at Ilhan Omar, Eric Swalwell, Gavin Newsom, Ro Khanna, John McCain, Cindy McCain, Kamala, Doug Emhoff, Arnold Swarzenegger, Scarborough and Brezinski, Willie Brown, Debbie Dingell, Rafael Warnock, Keith Ellison, Ben Cardin…Given their track records ranging from being married to her brother and getting caught in her own with her campaign manager by her second husband, funneling 500k of campaign finance dollars into her married lover’s weed startup( and finished), others ( married)sleeping with Chinese spies, others beating the shit out of their wives and girlfriends, others knocking up their Nannies AND hitting women, another serially cheating on his wife and while married, gets engaged to another woman 30 years his junior,and two who cheated with their married lovers thirty years their senior.And one who’s staffers were engaged in anal sex on the Senate floor , recorded it and not only shared it with other staffers, but put it on an online porn site.
None of them were attacked so virulently, nor did they step down and all of them are corrupt as hell. But Gaetz!!!
Republicans are about to shut down the government, on the orders of (unelected) President Musk and can't even settle on a reduced "compromise" bill within their own caucus. But The Free Press is running it's 1000th column about "why the Democrats sucked and lost the election" and not a word about what's actually happening in government, as influenced by the Trump transition team and his completely captive GOP - and perhaps some musings about how it was Musk driving this "rebellion" that "President-Elect" Trump only seemed to play catch up on a full day later. Might be worth exploring this dynamic, seems like it might be kinda important that Trump seems to be playing second fiddle to Musk in setting Party priorities! ;p
A Russia joke circulating after the fall of the Soviet Union,… “What now is the way forward, comrade?”. Answer. “Well, there is the fantasy and the reality”, “the reality is a space craft will land and aliens will approach the Kremlin and show us the way”. “Yes, And now the fantasy?” “The fantasy is that we can find it out by ourselves”..
IDK, but if the brand is built on privileging a dystopian, multivariate, identity soup a large majority of Americans don’t support, how do you unscramble the egg?
I'm disappointed to see TFP backhandedly defending media people who defame and level craftily worded false charges and distort prior events in the course of doing a hit job on their most hated pol...usually in this last decade - Trump. All you folks need to do is don't distort, don't use the "wrong" words, don't stretch some partisan Judge's offhand remark into a "ruling" that suits your personal hate and don't make stuff up and lastly, remember innocent until proven guilty. Nowhere has the Constitution been amended to equate "allegations" with convictions. Do that and you needn't worry about "freedom of the Press". If falsely sued, you'll win and Trump will pay your costs.
to win my free lifetime subscription, i had my AI IT department write a program that cancels and yresubscribes to The Free Press every microsecond. Although that does not guarantee i will win the Free Subscription, it makes me competitive with the brokers who seem to wind up with every face value priced ticket to every damn concert, play and sporting event on the planet and then mark them up 10,000%
Eli still harping on Trump. Get over it dude. Trump won. Live with it, like I had to with 8 years of the nauseating Obama and 4 more with senile Biden.
Damn Democrats... they exploit the legal system to trample on 1A rights and to destroy their political opposition and yell that we are a land of laws, and the system will determine justice. But Trump suing organizations is a threat to 1A rights.
The lack of self-awareness for their blatant hypocrisy would be almost breathtaking if we did not already know that the Democrats consider the voting public a bunch of ignorant low-lifes.
I don't agree with your premise that Dems were shocked by Trump's win. I, and many of my Democratic friends (and I live in DC and worked for a dozen years in politics) never thought she had much of a chance, and the polls never had her rising up high enough to overcome the Electoral College disadvantage. Only a handful of my Polyannish friends were surprised by the outcome, and none of us were in shock.
One of the main reasons for my doubts was that this country doesn't like dynasties and one-party rule, and a Harris win would have put a Democrat in the White House for four of the past five cycles. So it's hard to run as a change agent when you have that legacy around your neck. And yet, Harris still came within a whisker of winning-- if less than 200,000 votes shift in a couple of swing states, she wins. So making any overarching conclusions about why Dems lost should come with a whole lot of caveats and cautions. We just don't know (yet) why so many swing state voters who came out for Biden in 2020 decided it was better to stay home and allow Trump to get elected than to show up and vote for Harris. And we may never know (if biases are at play, who is going to admit that to a pollster?).
ABC wouldn't settle with Donald Trump of all people, for $15 million no less, unless there was something they really wanted to keep hidden from discovery. Let's recall that after 2020, Fox had to do its reckoning too about the Dominion voting machines.
ABC was a shill for the dems. Stephanopolous said TEN TIMES in an interview that Trump was a convicted rapist (not accused, but convicted) which was patently false. Then he doubled down on it in a late night talk show. That checks all the boxes for a lawsuit, and ABC cut their losses with a settlement.
How about everyone calm down with the "death of the first amendment" rhetoric.
Yeah, I was afraid Dems would do this: Stick to their denial guns and keep losing the electorate and the culture. They are just hemorrhaging voters across the racial, age and gender divides. I think the problem is that they've at this point simply invested too much emotional work into their lies, gaslighting and narrative; pride refuses to let them admit they were wrong, say they fucked up, and change. This morning, I saw my first Substack post that claimed Elon helped Trump "cheat" and win the election illegally. Yeah. We're goin down that road on the Left now. Why not? If Trump can lie in 2020, the Left can lie now. Clearly the Left no longer believes in democracy. Pack the court, lie about Biden, remove a primary, lie in media, etc. They have lost all credibility. They've gone down every other road: Racism, sexism, paternalism, yellow journalism, etc. So why not this?
totally agree. The democrats of yesterday are the republicans of today. The dems of today are unhinged leftists. Ruy can write whatever he wants but I don't see how or why the democratic party needs to be resurrected, it's just got a new name now, IMHO.
Might I suggest, rather than the provincial “millionth subscriber gets a free lifetime pass, etc.” that you make it a lottery for all your subscribers? The early ones took a huge chance on you, so why elevate the late to the game non-risk taker with a basket of goodies? Be the change makers you guys say you are!
"But this latest iteration of what appears to be “a broader strategy of Trump’s to sue the pants off media companies” is absurd, argues Eli Lake in his most recent column. And, if successful, it could “potentially create a backdoor way suing to regulate political speech.”
For years the democrat left has engaged in lawfare against Trump, which was supported, faciltated and promoted by the main stream press (WaPo, NTY, etc) in an attempt to subvert democracy. For years democrat left has attempted to regulate political speech, and free speach. So it is astounding to read Lake's concern that Trump's lawsuits could “potentially create a backdoor way suing to regulate political speech.”
Newsflash to Lake, in America we have the right to bring a lawsuit, whether you like it or not.
I'm getting tired of the growing left wing bias of the Free Press.
Re: Matt Gaetz- He was investigated and cleared . He wasn’t having sex with underage girls, but his accuser and extortionist who lost his political campaign was. And he went to prison. Gaetz was a player. He was young, single and never pretended otherwise. Big deal. I find it ironic that half of his gleeful detractors have suddenly become puritans. Why is there no outrage leveled at Ilhan Omar, Eric Swalwell, Gavin Newsom, Ro Khanna, John McCain, Cindy McCain, Kamala, Doug Emhoff, Arnold Swarzenegger, Scarborough and Brezinski, Willie Brown, Debbie Dingell, Rafael Warnock, Keith Ellison, Ben Cardin…Given their track records ranging from being married to her brother and getting caught in her own with her campaign manager by her second husband, funneling 500k of campaign finance dollars into her married lover’s weed startup( and finished), others ( married)sleeping with Chinese spies, others beating the shit out of their wives and girlfriends, others knocking up their Nannies AND hitting women, another serially cheating on his wife and while married, gets engaged to another woman 30 years his junior,and two who cheated with their married lovers thirty years their senior.And one who’s staffers were engaged in anal sex on the Senate floor , recorded it and not only shared it with other staffers, but put it on an online porn site.
None of them were attacked so virulently, nor did they step down and all of them are corrupt as hell. But Gaetz!!!
Republicans are about to shut down the government, on the orders of (unelected) President Musk and can't even settle on a reduced "compromise" bill within their own caucus. But The Free Press is running it's 1000th column about "why the Democrats sucked and lost the election" and not a word about what's actually happening in government, as influenced by the Trump transition team and his completely captive GOP - and perhaps some musings about how it was Musk driving this "rebellion" that "President-Elect" Trump only seemed to play catch up on a full day later. Might be worth exploring this dynamic, seems like it might be kinda important that Trump seems to be playing second fiddle to Musk in setting Party priorities! ;p
A Russia joke circulating after the fall of the Soviet Union,… “What now is the way forward, comrade?”. Answer. “Well, there is the fantasy and the reality”, “the reality is a space craft will land and aliens will approach the Kremlin and show us the way”. “Yes, And now the fantasy?” “The fantasy is that we can find it out by ourselves”..
IDK, but if the brand is built on privileging a dystopian, multivariate, identity soup a large majority of Americans don’t support, how do you unscramble the egg?
I'm disappointed to see TFP backhandedly defending media people who defame and level craftily worded false charges and distort prior events in the course of doing a hit job on their most hated pol...usually in this last decade - Trump. All you folks need to do is don't distort, don't use the "wrong" words, don't stretch some partisan Judge's offhand remark into a "ruling" that suits your personal hate and don't make stuff up and lastly, remember innocent until proven guilty. Nowhere has the Constitution been amended to equate "allegations" with convictions. Do that and you needn't worry about "freedom of the Press". If falsely sued, you'll win and Trump will pay your costs.
to win my free lifetime subscription, i had my AI IT department write a program that cancels and yresubscribes to The Free Press every microsecond. Although that does not guarantee i will win the Free Subscription, it makes me competitive with the brokers who seem to wind up with every face value priced ticket to every damn concert, play and sporting event on the planet and then mark them up 10,000%
Eli still harping on Trump. Get over it dude. Trump won. Live with it, like I had to with 8 years of the nauseating Obama and 4 more with senile Biden.
Damn Democrats... they exploit the legal system to trample on 1A rights and to destroy their political opposition and yell that we are a land of laws, and the system will determine justice. But Trump suing organizations is a threat to 1A rights.
The lack of self-awareness for their blatant hypocrisy would be almost breathtaking if we did not already know that the Democrats consider the voting public a bunch of ignorant low-lifes.
They just can’t get over the fact that they’re just “Democrats” now….the Party is over.
The Honestly episodes with Michael Moynihan moderating are meh. I have found myself skipping over those.
I don't agree with your premise that Dems were shocked by Trump's win. I, and many of my Democratic friends (and I live in DC and worked for a dozen years in politics) never thought she had much of a chance, and the polls never had her rising up high enough to overcome the Electoral College disadvantage. Only a handful of my Polyannish friends were surprised by the outcome, and none of us were in shock.
One of the main reasons for my doubts was that this country doesn't like dynasties and one-party rule, and a Harris win would have put a Democrat in the White House for four of the past five cycles. So it's hard to run as a change agent when you have that legacy around your neck. And yet, Harris still came within a whisker of winning-- if less than 200,000 votes shift in a couple of swing states, she wins. So making any overarching conclusions about why Dems lost should come with a whole lot of caveats and cautions. We just don't know (yet) why so many swing state voters who came out for Biden in 2020 decided it was better to stay home and allow Trump to get elected than to show up and vote for Harris. And we may never know (if biases are at play, who is going to admit that to a pollster?).
...find a buyer. Not a seller. Tiktok needs to be purchased by someone in the US, not sold by them.
I do to
ABC wouldn't settle with Donald Trump of all people, for $15 million no less, unless there was something they really wanted to keep hidden from discovery. Let's recall that after 2020, Fox had to do its reckoning too about the Dominion voting machines.
ABC was a shill for the dems. Stephanopolous said TEN TIMES in an interview that Trump was a convicted rapist (not accused, but convicted) which was patently false. Then he doubled down on it in a late night talk show. That checks all the boxes for a lawsuit, and ABC cut their losses with a settlement.
How about everyone calm down with the "death of the first amendment" rhetoric.
Yeah, I was afraid Dems would do this: Stick to their denial guns and keep losing the electorate and the culture. They are just hemorrhaging voters across the racial, age and gender divides. I think the problem is that they've at this point simply invested too much emotional work into their lies, gaslighting and narrative; pride refuses to let them admit they were wrong, say they fucked up, and change. This morning, I saw my first Substack post that claimed Elon helped Trump "cheat" and win the election illegally. Yeah. We're goin down that road on the Left now. Why not? If Trump can lie in 2020, the Left can lie now. Clearly the Left no longer believes in democracy. Pack the court, lie about Biden, remove a primary, lie in media, etc. They have lost all credibility. They've gone down every other road: Racism, sexism, paternalism, yellow journalism, etc. So why not this?
This is the real reason Dems lost: https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/democrats-did-this-to-themselves
~
Michael Mohr
"Sincere American Writing"
https://michaelmohr.substack.com/
totally agree. The democrats of yesterday are the republicans of today. The dems of today are unhinged leftists. Ruy can write whatever he wants but I don't see how or why the democratic party needs to be resurrected, it's just got a new name now, IMHO.
Might I suggest, rather than the provincial “millionth subscriber gets a free lifetime pass, etc.” that you make it a lottery for all your subscribers? The early ones took a huge chance on you, so why elevate the late to the game non-risk taker with a basket of goodies? Be the change makers you guys say you are!
And are all those 1 million subscribers paying? I saw somewhere payers were around 136,000. So maybe the lottery should just be for those who pony up.
The things Gaetz supposedly did are just rites of passage in Congress.