I just want to say that I'm enjoying this channel like I used to enjoy PBS, before they turned to mildew and scum. Thanks for all of your Honestly difficult conversations and pieces. Lying, as well as lying by omission is not kind. It is not diverse. It is devisive and cruel. It is shameful and treasonous for anyone who calls themselves News to participate in these propaganda campaigns.
This is a guy who, by no success or achievement of his own, made it to the highest office of Canadian Politics. It's an embarrassment. Wag the dog. Obvious nepotism. Any moderate Canadian could see this mess coming from kms/ miles away. My guess is when this is over, Vanity Fair will interview him where he will confess that even big boy Prime Minsters can get sad and "that's ok". Bari, if you are reading this, you make me feel less alone....thank you!
Bari and Nellie, not sure if anyone else has addressed this below, but I find it simultaneously wonderful and disconcerting that you now have 150,000 subscribers. On the one hand you are filling a niche, and people are responding to the quality of your efforts. On the other hand, money changes people. By my quick, and perhaps not accurate calculation, you two are now earning $7.5 million this year! That's a lot of Ramen. And your income is likely to grow even more, because the quality of your product is pretty high. I worry about the effect, over time, that wealth like this might start to have on your approach to your jobs. On the one hand, your income is none of my *%^$%@#! business. On the other hand, if it leads to a deterioration of Common Sense we will all be the poorer. Does part of this money get "invested" in honoraria for the guest columns we see appearing from time to time. Are you using some of it to start a fund to revive local newspapers in America? Or to finance a home for recovering journalists? Again, none of my business, but I worry for your souls...
Thank you for ending your piece with that amazing story about the Swiss researchers helping paralyzed people walk again. The darkness of all the cultural bad news needs that kind of light at the end of the tunnel!
I wasn't going to say something last week, because I was not sure if Nellie's update was posted before of after this information on the RNC's party. So, I expected something this week.
The subject: RNC says Jan. 6 rioters engaged in "legitimate political discourse"
No comments at all on this? No mention in the update?
Really? Storming the capital? Barging in on people's offices and ransacking their files?
How about that guy in the Air Force helmet with ties?
How about the threats to get certain people (Pelosi, Pence, etc.)?
Common Sense says that is not legitimate political discourse. Or are we saying that now?
Was this brought up?I have not read through every post (btw, finding some things I don't like about substack: lack of search, lack of ability to go back and look at my posts to see if anyone responded.... if Bari is making them some money, she should have some input on improving it).
If this was not brought up, are we now saying that this is okay? That common sense says this? C'mon folks.
congrats at 150,000, just for fun I checked the NYTIMES is only at 7.5 million subscriptions. Think about what you accomplished on your own and computer to a paper with vast resources , a historic name, and wide ranging topic coverage. You as an army of one are building a news source that could one day match the legacy media. Great work and keep it up. We need free speech and assembly now more than ever.
Love your reporting on what’s really happening at ground level. There is a noticeable increase in reporting about the ineffectiveness and damage caused by lockdowns, masking of school children, vaccine mandates, to name a few. Add a dose of inflation’s negative economic impact felt by every household and you have real disillusionment setting in for our political leadership. Team Biden has had ample evidence to use to pivot, yet there is no evidence that they see the realities as well as the majority of polls indicate. It’s almost too late. Another reason Biden may go down in history as the most hapless president in history. Mistakes at every turn. Afghanistan. Foreign affairs. Energy policy. Managing as if he won in a landslide and has the majority wishing for progressive change. And we are only one year into his administration. Not much to brag about. The state of the union address will be another opportunity to pivot. Lets see if he is astute enough to do so.
So much talk about Joe Rogan spreading “vaccine disinformation”. Zero specifics on exactly what that disinformation was. I listened to both 3hr podcasts. (I doubt that Neil and Joni did) Hundreds of bits of compelling info. Was there one incorrect thing amongst hundreds that were correct?
Great to hear how many mentions Common Sense is getting in other media. This week on The Five, the article on the Canadian Truckers protest was referenced as a source for anyone wanting to know the Truckers’ pov. Followed by, “It seems like Bari Weiss’s team are the only ones asking the protesters why they’re protesting.”
Justin Trudeau doesn’t personally know a truck driver and he doesn’t want to. Three weeks into the protest it’s obvious he can’t even imagine having a conversation with one.
The Locke case, actually the coverage, is driving me crazy. *WHO CARES* that the gun was legal or that he wasn’t named in the warrant. He was there and pointed his gun at the cops. That’ll get you shot.
Yes, no-knock warrants are problematic, almost inviting tragedies like this; focus on that.
Concerning the discussion on American power between Bret Stephens and Matt Taibbi: I was shocked to hear in 2022 pure isolationist arguments that were “confined to the dustbin of history” - as Marxists used to say - by WWII. There are especially two arguments that will come back to haunt Mr. Taibbi: that Putin would welcome Ukraine becoming a democratic, rule of law, non-corrupt and prosperous country, and that all that Putin wants is a guarantee that Ukraine will not become a NATO member. I actually subscribe to Matt Taibbi’s TK because he addresses issues of obvious journalistic interest that the legacy media simply refuses to touch. However, I can’t understand how somebody can publicly discuss foreign policy issues and claim that Putin wants nothing more than this assurance, when Putin’s own ultimatum to the US clearly states many other far-reaching conditions for NATO and the US, all the way to US troop withdrawal from W Europe and Asia. Blissful ignorance, ideological blindness or more? Mr. Taibbi made in a recent article the shocking assertion that the 2014 Maidan revolution in Ukraine was “really an American-backed coup”, a lie offensive to anybody from the former Soviet block, carbon copy of Putin’s propaganda.
Great comments on Trudeau. If he did not exist, and an American satirist conjured up the identical character doing and saying the same in(s)ane things, she’d be vilified as anti-Canadian.
I just want to say that I'm enjoying this channel like I used to enjoy PBS, before they turned to mildew and scum. Thanks for all of your Honestly difficult conversations and pieces. Lying, as well as lying by omission is not kind. It is not diverse. It is devisive and cruel. It is shameful and treasonous for anyone who calls themselves News to participate in these propaganda campaigns.
This is a guy who, by no success or achievement of his own, made it to the highest office of Canadian Politics. It's an embarrassment. Wag the dog. Obvious nepotism. Any moderate Canadian could see this mess coming from kms/ miles away. My guess is when this is over, Vanity Fair will interview him where he will confess that even big boy Prime Minsters can get sad and "that's ok". Bari, if you are reading this, you make me feel less alone....thank you!
Bari and Nellie, not sure if anyone else has addressed this below, but I find it simultaneously wonderful and disconcerting that you now have 150,000 subscribers. On the one hand you are filling a niche, and people are responding to the quality of your efforts. On the other hand, money changes people. By my quick, and perhaps not accurate calculation, you two are now earning $7.5 million this year! That's a lot of Ramen. And your income is likely to grow even more, because the quality of your product is pretty high. I worry about the effect, over time, that wealth like this might start to have on your approach to your jobs. On the one hand, your income is none of my *%^$%@#! business. On the other hand, if it leads to a deterioration of Common Sense we will all be the poorer. Does part of this money get "invested" in honoraria for the guest columns we see appearing from time to time. Are you using some of it to start a fund to revive local newspapers in America? Or to finance a home for recovering journalists? Again, none of my business, but I worry for your souls...
Thank you for ending your piece with that amazing story about the Swiss researchers helping paralyzed people walk again. The darkness of all the cultural bad news needs that kind of light at the end of the tunnel!
I wasn't going to say something last week, because I was not sure if Nellie's update was posted before of after this information on the RNC's party. So, I expected something this week.
The subject: RNC says Jan. 6 rioters engaged in "legitimate political discourse"
No comments at all on this? No mention in the update?
Really? Storming the capital? Barging in on people's offices and ransacking their files?
How about that guy in the Air Force helmet with ties?
How about the threats to get certain people (Pelosi, Pence, etc.)?
Common Sense says that is not legitimate political discourse. Or are we saying that now?
Was this brought up?I have not read through every post (btw, finding some things I don't like about substack: lack of search, lack of ability to go back and look at my posts to see if anyone responded.... if Bari is making them some money, she should have some input on improving it).
If this was not brought up, are we now saying that this is okay? That common sense says this? C'mon folks.
congrats at 150,000, just for fun I checked the NYTIMES is only at 7.5 million subscriptions. Think about what you accomplished on your own and computer to a paper with vast resources , a historic name, and wide ranging topic coverage. You as an army of one are building a news source that could one day match the legacy media. Great work and keep it up. We need free speech and assembly now more than ever.
Love your reporting on what’s really happening at ground level. There is a noticeable increase in reporting about the ineffectiveness and damage caused by lockdowns, masking of school children, vaccine mandates, to name a few. Add a dose of inflation’s negative economic impact felt by every household and you have real disillusionment setting in for our political leadership. Team Biden has had ample evidence to use to pivot, yet there is no evidence that they see the realities as well as the majority of polls indicate. It’s almost too late. Another reason Biden may go down in history as the most hapless president in history. Mistakes at every turn. Afghanistan. Foreign affairs. Energy policy. Managing as if he won in a landslide and has the majority wishing for progressive change. And we are only one year into his administration. Not much to brag about. The state of the union address will be another opportunity to pivot. Lets see if he is astute enough to do so.
So much talk about Joe Rogan spreading “vaccine disinformation”. Zero specifics on exactly what that disinformation was. I listened to both 3hr podcasts. (I doubt that Neil and Joni did) Hundreds of bits of compelling info. Was there one incorrect thing amongst hundreds that were correct?
Great to hear how many mentions Common Sense is getting in other media. This week on The Five, the article on the Canadian Truckers protest was referenced as a source for anyone wanting to know the Truckers’ pov. Followed by, “It seems like Bari Weiss’s team are the only ones asking the protesters why they’re protesting.”
Love what you all do, Nellie!
What`s «TGIF»?
Justin Trudeau doesn’t personally know a truck driver and he doesn’t want to. Three weeks into the protest it’s obvious he can’t even imagine having a conversation with one.
The Locke case, actually the coverage, is driving me crazy. *WHO CARES* that the gun was legal or that he wasn’t named in the warrant. He was there and pointed his gun at the cops. That’ll get you shot.
Yes, no-knock warrants are problematic, almost inviting tragedies like this; focus on that.
Concerning the discussion on American power between Bret Stephens and Matt Taibbi: I was shocked to hear in 2022 pure isolationist arguments that were “confined to the dustbin of history” - as Marxists used to say - by WWII. There are especially two arguments that will come back to haunt Mr. Taibbi: that Putin would welcome Ukraine becoming a democratic, rule of law, non-corrupt and prosperous country, and that all that Putin wants is a guarantee that Ukraine will not become a NATO member. I actually subscribe to Matt Taibbi’s TK because he addresses issues of obvious journalistic interest that the legacy media simply refuses to touch. However, I can’t understand how somebody can publicly discuss foreign policy issues and claim that Putin wants nothing more than this assurance, when Putin’s own ultimatum to the US clearly states many other far-reaching conditions for NATO and the US, all the way to US troop withdrawal from W Europe and Asia. Blissful ignorance, ideological blindness or more? Mr. Taibbi made in a recent article the shocking assertion that the 2014 Maidan revolution in Ukraine was “really an American-backed coup”, a lie offensive to anybody from the former Soviet block, carbon copy of Putin’s propaganda.
Great comments on Trudeau. If he did not exist, and an American satirist conjured up the identical character doing and saying the same in(s)ane things, she’d be vilified as anti-Canadian.
Bret Stephen needs to listen more and speak less. Matt schooled him and his idiotic war mongering.