I seriously think BOTH our running grandpa should take a cognitive test. By a non-partisan, unbiased agency. Not, like, their respective doctors. Remember when Trump's fat, drug-addicted, less-sexy-than-Gerard-Depardieu doctor told us Donny was in great shape, despite clearly being morbidly obese? Not that guy. Nor Joe's doctor, who's probably paid to say things like, "He's not senile, he just has a cold," because you know, be honest, we ALL act like that when we have the grippe!
I mean some seriously unbiased dude or dudette. Not sure who that would be. And not anyone from a hospital who still thinks 'gender affirming care' has more science behind it than the established age of the universe.
The fact that the Mainstream media kept feeding us lies about President Biden had more to do with hating Trump than admiring the current and not future president.
Tanya Gold is spot on with her views of pretentious overbearing nothingness of these restaurants that do us a favor by taking mucho dinero for pequeno comida. However, The Bear is not so much about the food as the people who make it.
Gavin Newsom is a shallow hypocritical little person whose policies will make California into the tenth biggest economy in the world, which sounds great until you realize that it is number five at the present time. His myrmidons pass well meaning laws that are not well thought out or through, costing California's citizens lots of wasted money. Oodles! The gas tax is about $1.50 gallon whereas the average is about 30 cents elsewhere. Its roads are the worst that I've ever driven on. Companies and its citizens are leaving wholesale. When you see an ad of television for fast food, there is always a disclaimer that prices are higher in Alaska, Hawaii and California.
The current Biden administration is reminiscent of Germany in the mid 1930’s.
The US government has vilified groups of people based on skin color, sex and political affiliation. White conservative males are the new Jewish population of the 1930’s Germany. We are blamed for all of the perceived problems in the country and must be punished.
Just like 1930’s Germany, the leader of the country has the entire government apparatus behind him and has propagandized the airwaves. Joseph Goebbels would blush at what is occurring in the United States.
Over half of the population is hesitant to share their true opinions for fear of retribution from employers or losing friends and family. They go along to get along. Because the ordinary citizens of Germany ignored the death camps, millions of innocent people were slaughtered. The academic community is now openly calling for the destruction of Israel and the Jewish population while a large portion of the ordinary citizens of the US are ignoring it all, including the POTUS.
I’ve seen this movie before and many people died before it was over. Hopefully, we’ll have a new director soon and the ending will be happily ever after.
JoeyL, you said it perfectly, Nellie drank the kool aid a long time ago and her views respect a time that we are trying hard to put in our rear view mirror!!
Nellie, I love your writing and you get me me to see the value of policies I might dismiss out of hand, but how you could like someone as disingenuous as Gavin I can't understand. He hurt so many students while knowing how harmful his actions were. His kids were not in lock down. I had and still have a front row seat as a high school teacher and mother of teens during the lock down. So many are still suffering and my daughter is one. He did real damage and he doesn't care. There is a reason many in the state wanted to recall him. He does not care who he hurts, only that he holds power. He is so transparent. What is wrong with us that we have him as our govenor?
So far, the best news from last week is that we've finally beaten Medicare. I really don't know that means, but it sounds like something we've been trying to do for a long time.
It is funny. We all, including my liberal Biden voting friends, knew for months what we "learned" last week. It led me to think, they just want to put on a show to distract. This pause is the tension before the plot twist (Biden swap) which will inspire their people and hopefully defeat Trump. We knew this was the purpose of a June debate, and would lead to a new candidate who is unlikely to be Harris. We believe this plan has been in play for months, so I am forced to believe that the current news about contenders throwing their hat in the ring. I believe this is all fake because every media outlet spit the same script at us. Just like the xenophob, new normal, covid, vax, facist, supremist, blah blah blah. We all see it now so it does not work, so what do they do next?
Bari. Been a fan since your resignation oped at the NYT. Would be interesting to have some writings about what it was like. After seeing all of the media coordination it is not hard to see a conspiracy, but are we just experiencing single minded group think from simps with no principles or integrity?
It's no secret that Bari and Nellie are liberals, but TFP is still a great addition to the media. There are plenty of left-wing and right-wing sites that are echo chambers. TFP isn't perfect but it's an improvement over the MSM. There is fluff but there is also a good deal of solid reporting.
Thanks for today's collection of especially valuable pieces, and also for stating the value of a news or opinion outlet that cuts across political interests and doesn't balk at taking a contrarian line. Apropos of which, this:
"When the legacy media encounters an inconvenient fact—Biden’s age, say, or Hunter’s laptop, or the lab leak, or the complexity of puberty blockers, or the riots of the summer of 2020—it likes to take some time to process the problem.
Reporters need to discuss the issue over dinner, wring their hands about what to do, get yelled at for possible thought crimes by a righteously angry intern, mull some more, get yelled at again by another intern. To have more drinks, more meetings."
Makes me wonder what the interns were thinking. If they were thinking like me, they might have thrown up. You journalists are supposed to want to find the truth. You're supposed to be above the fray. You're supposed to be the conduit for the truth to flow to the public.
Reading those words also made me wonder WTF is being taught in the universities' schools of journalism. Because if one of the professors described the "profession" as above, I would head out to the lawn to start the protest. Seriously, how different are those words than what was spoken by the journalists in the Soviet Union? I mean what do the reporters mentioned above do to resolve their dilemma? Call the DNC? How is that any different than calling the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
Jeez, go read about Woodward and Bernstein and Watergate. Contrast their tenacity, curiosity, focus, and drive to get the truth out to the public ASAP with the description of the "legacy media" given to us.
“As an aside, this is in part why The Free Press is necessary. If there’s a conspiracy of silence around a topic, that’s what we want to puncture. We’re not driven by which side gains or loses from our publishing the truth. We side with the truth, convenient or inconvenient, popular or unpopular. And we’re grateful to you for supporting that mission. —NB”
Also
“Are things any better in the battleground states? Not according to post-debate internal Democratic polling leaked to Puck. It shows a bloodbath in the states that matter, with the president dropping by about 2 points in “core” battlegrounds.”
Seems like charged language saying things are looking bad and being a “bloodbath.” Are you leading the reader somewhere? Why isn’t it great that people are finally coming to the conclusion that our president is debilitated? The election will be the democratic way to winnow out the better candidate and Trump is the better candidate.
Of course the answer to this mystery is your bias against Trump. You need to drop “get rid of Trump at all costs” from your mission. It’s not stated, but comes out in obvious ways in your reporting. You are close to being an unbiased news source. You are certainly better than legacy media.
But don’t toot your own horn when you can’t even clear that very low bar you’ve set for yourself in the same story.
Ms. Bowles, can I ask if this means you are voting for Trump? Or, in your opinion, do Trump's foibles, both real and imagined, still pose a greater threat than Biden's condition and the liberal-media-complex that continues, in so many different ways, to declare that the naked emperor is wearing such beautiful robes?
Not sure what Ms. Bowles is doing but I am voting for Trump, and so will you as you watch the lying Dem party try to make a nice, senile but clueless old man eligible to run for a second term...if you do not...then you should move to Cuba...love it when Dem fools like Goldman reads the Dem talking on national TV about how many lies that Trump tells. (I never heard one) while Biden, can't sip his pants up with out Dr Jill holding his hand....the Dems have lied their way to a long time in the penalty box...but I guess you wanted to know what Nellie thought...
Voting from Trump? So am I. Just curious - Nellie was part of the problem for a long time, and in an earlier comment I remarked how it seems she hasn't yet admitted she WAS part of the problem, nor does it seem she's done the reflection to understand how she was part of the problem. That lack of introspection I think deprives her opinions of the anchor that will prevent her from swinging back when conditions change. It makes her beliefs a response to circumstances rather than an anchor through which she addresses circumstances.
I seriously think BOTH our running grandpa should take a cognitive test. By a non-partisan, unbiased agency. Not, like, their respective doctors. Remember when Trump's fat, drug-addicted, less-sexy-than-Gerard-Depardieu doctor told us Donny was in great shape, despite clearly being morbidly obese? Not that guy. Nor Joe's doctor, who's probably paid to say things like, "He's not senile, he just has a cold," because you know, be honest, we ALL act like that when we have the grippe!
I mean some seriously unbiased dude or dudette. Not sure who that would be. And not anyone from a hospital who still thinks 'gender affirming care' has more science behind it than the established age of the universe.
The fact that the Mainstream media kept feeding us lies about President Biden had more to do with hating Trump than admiring the current and not future president.
Tanya Gold is spot on with her views of pretentious overbearing nothingness of these restaurants that do us a favor by taking mucho dinero for pequeno comida. However, The Bear is not so much about the food as the people who make it.
Gavin Newsom is a shallow hypocritical little person whose policies will make California into the tenth biggest economy in the world, which sounds great until you realize that it is number five at the present time. His myrmidons pass well meaning laws that are not well thought out or through, costing California's citizens lots of wasted money. Oodles! The gas tax is about $1.50 gallon whereas the average is about 30 cents elsewhere. Its roads are the worst that I've ever driven on. Companies and its citizens are leaving wholesale. When you see an ad of television for fast food, there is always a disclaimer that prices are higher in Alaska, Hawaii and California.
The current Biden administration is reminiscent of Germany in the mid 1930’s.
The US government has vilified groups of people based on skin color, sex and political affiliation. White conservative males are the new Jewish population of the 1930’s Germany. We are blamed for all of the perceived problems in the country and must be punished.
Just like 1930’s Germany, the leader of the country has the entire government apparatus behind him and has propagandized the airwaves. Joseph Goebbels would blush at what is occurring in the United States.
Over half of the population is hesitant to share their true opinions for fear of retribution from employers or losing friends and family. They go along to get along. Because the ordinary citizens of Germany ignored the death camps, millions of innocent people were slaughtered. The academic community is now openly calling for the destruction of Israel and the Jewish population while a large portion of the ordinary citizens of the US are ignoring it all, including the POTUS.
I’ve seen this movie before and many people died before it was over. Hopefully, we’ll have a new director soon and the ending will be happily ever after.
I hardly think Kimberly Guilfoyle is a pro for Newsom.
Indulge an Intern yelling at mentor? Just say good bye and good luck. Problem solved..
“Suddenly” the MSM notices Biden’s cognitive decline and they still can’t figure out why so many people don’t trust them.
JoeyL, you said it perfectly, Nellie drank the kool aid a long time ago and her views respect a time that we are trying hard to put in our rear view mirror!!
Nellie, I love your writing and you get me me to see the value of policies I might dismiss out of hand, but how you could like someone as disingenuous as Gavin I can't understand. He hurt so many students while knowing how harmful his actions were. His kids were not in lock down. I had and still have a front row seat as a high school teacher and mother of teens during the lock down. So many are still suffering and my daughter is one. He did real damage and he doesn't care. There is a reason many in the state wanted to recall him. He does not care who he hurts, only that he holds power. He is so transparent. What is wrong with us that we have him as our govenor?
Gavin Newsom? Does he know how to tell the truth?
California is a world power? They wouldn't be without hydrocarbons.
So far, the best news from last week is that we've finally beaten Medicare. I really don't know that means, but it sounds like something we've been trying to do for a long time.
It is funny. We all, including my liberal Biden voting friends, knew for months what we "learned" last week. It led me to think, they just want to put on a show to distract. This pause is the tension before the plot twist (Biden swap) which will inspire their people and hopefully defeat Trump. We knew this was the purpose of a June debate, and would lead to a new candidate who is unlikely to be Harris. We believe this plan has been in play for months, so I am forced to believe that the current news about contenders throwing their hat in the ring. I believe this is all fake because every media outlet spit the same script at us. Just like the xenophob, new normal, covid, vax, facist, supremist, blah blah blah. We all see it now so it does not work, so what do they do next?
Bari. Been a fan since your resignation oped at the NYT. Would be interesting to have some writings about what it was like. After seeing all of the media coordination it is not hard to see a conspiracy, but are we just experiencing single minded group think from simps with no principles or integrity?
It's no secret that Bari and Nellie are liberals, but TFP is still a great addition to the media. There are plenty of left-wing and right-wing sites that are echo chambers. TFP isn't perfect but it's an improvement over the MSM. There is fluff but there is also a good deal of solid reporting.
Thanks for today's collection of especially valuable pieces, and also for stating the value of a news or opinion outlet that cuts across political interests and doesn't balk at taking a contrarian line. Apropos of which, this:
https://thefamilyproperty.blogspot.com/2024/06/quite-contrarian.html
"When the legacy media encounters an inconvenient fact—Biden’s age, say, or Hunter’s laptop, or the lab leak, or the complexity of puberty blockers, or the riots of the summer of 2020—it likes to take some time to process the problem.
Reporters need to discuss the issue over dinner, wring their hands about what to do, get yelled at for possible thought crimes by a righteously angry intern, mull some more, get yelled at again by another intern. To have more drinks, more meetings."
Makes me wonder what the interns were thinking. If they were thinking like me, they might have thrown up. You journalists are supposed to want to find the truth. You're supposed to be above the fray. You're supposed to be the conduit for the truth to flow to the public.
Reading those words also made me wonder WTF is being taught in the universities' schools of journalism. Because if one of the professors described the "profession" as above, I would head out to the lawn to start the protest. Seriously, how different are those words than what was spoken by the journalists in the Soviet Union? I mean what do the reporters mentioned above do to resolve their dilemma? Call the DNC? How is that any different than calling the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
Jeez, go read about Woodward and Bernstein and Watergate. Contrast their tenacity, curiosity, focus, and drive to get the truth out to the public ASAP with the description of the "legacy media" given to us.
“As an aside, this is in part why The Free Press is necessary. If there’s a conspiracy of silence around a topic, that’s what we want to puncture. We’re not driven by which side gains or loses from our publishing the truth. We side with the truth, convenient or inconvenient, popular or unpopular. And we’re grateful to you for supporting that mission. —NB”
Also
“Are things any better in the battleground states? Not according to post-debate internal Democratic polling leaked to Puck. It shows a bloodbath in the states that matter, with the president dropping by about 2 points in “core” battlegrounds.”
Seems like charged language saying things are looking bad and being a “bloodbath.” Are you leading the reader somewhere? Why isn’t it great that people are finally coming to the conclusion that our president is debilitated? The election will be the democratic way to winnow out the better candidate and Trump is the better candidate.
Of course the answer to this mystery is your bias against Trump. You need to drop “get rid of Trump at all costs” from your mission. It’s not stated, but comes out in obvious ways in your reporting. You are close to being an unbiased news source. You are certainly better than legacy media.
But don’t toot your own horn when you can’t even clear that very low bar you’ve set for yourself in the same story.
Ms. Bowles, can I ask if this means you are voting for Trump? Or, in your opinion, do Trump's foibles, both real and imagined, still pose a greater threat than Biden's condition and the liberal-media-complex that continues, in so many different ways, to declare that the naked emperor is wearing such beautiful robes?
Not sure what Ms. Bowles is doing but I am voting for Trump, and so will you as you watch the lying Dem party try to make a nice, senile but clueless old man eligible to run for a second term...if you do not...then you should move to Cuba...love it when Dem fools like Goldman reads the Dem talking on national TV about how many lies that Trump tells. (I never heard one) while Biden, can't sip his pants up with out Dr Jill holding his hand....the Dems have lied their way to a long time in the penalty box...but I guess you wanted to know what Nellie thought...
Voting from Trump? So am I. Just curious - Nellie was part of the problem for a long time, and in an earlier comment I remarked how it seems she hasn't yet admitted she WAS part of the problem, nor does it seem she's done the reflection to understand how she was part of the problem. That lack of introspection I think deprives her opinions of the anchor that will prevent her from swinging back when conditions change. It makes her beliefs a response to circumstances rather than an anchor through which she addresses circumstances.