"It's the inflation, stupid" plus post-COVID malaise doesn't allow the right wag their fingers at the Democrats, leftists to wag the fingers at the Democrats, and liberals to do jeremiads about the racism and misogyny of the United States. Nobody gets to have any fun or make any more from pontificating.
The group I still don't understand are the people who believe a strong further left message would help the Democrats despite the sheer rejection of police reform in the most Democratic areas of the United States.
Oh, I don't think that there is widespread second guessing by most of his voters yet. There are only a few showing buyer's remorse. That being said, if the tariff goes through it will be a disaster.
The Muslims in Michigan seem to have buyer's remorse based on the leader of them begging for Biden to do something about Netanyahu. I've seen reports of big ag kindly asking Trump not to deport their workers. That is a type of buyer's remorse.
Only Israel/Jews have agency while the Palestinians/Muslims have utterly no agency at all. They just merely react to whatever the Jews are doing. This is one of the things that really angers me about the entire moment. It just seems that the Jews in general and Israeli Jews in particular are given a big list of things that we need to do while the Muslims and Palestinians need to do nothing. We are supposed to teach how wonderful Islam is to our children while the Muslims get to go to the bathroom on us and teach their children how we are the demented grandparent that can't get with the times. We have to perform acts of self-flagelation for our alleged crimes against the Palestinians while the Palestinians and other Muslims don't have to reflect at all.
Anti-Semitism is truly the permitted hatred and Jews are expected to just deal with quite a lot of it. Things that would be considered utterly intolerable for every other persecuted group in the world are tolerated or even encouraged against Jews. Jews have been debating and struggling about the Palestinians from before Israel existed. This debate can range from "we are committing sins" to "we must make an agreement" to "smash them all" but it exists. From what I can tell, the number of Palestinians and their allies that dealt with what would happen to Jews without Israel is a zero or a number close to it. The question about the Jews simply doesn't exist in the pro-Palestinian world. It is seen as a distraction. Something to be ignored.
A Project 2025 guy is going to head the FCC and use it to conduct witch hunts against Trump's critics. These cranks, hacks, thieves, and washed out celebrities can cause wreckage beyond imagination.
The Republicans can't even bring themselves to releasing the Gatez report or are in full thrall of Trump's cult of personality. They ain't going to do jack to make it better.
Meanwhile, the aggressively anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic education materials seem to be creeping into Irish schools according to the Jewish Chronicle:
So the latest internet outrage is over casting Israeli Jews to play Jesus and Mary in a Biblical epic because Jesus was a "Palestinian." This is anti-Semitic since they are basically erasing Jews from history.
I realize that we are occasionally given to hyperbole about the untoward nature of politicians, but let me be clear: Matt Gaetz is a sex trafficking drug addicted piece of shit. He is abhorrent. His eyes are permanently rimmed with the red rings of chemical boosters. In person, he smells like overexposed Axe Body Spray and stale Astroglide. The fact that he boasted on the floor to multiple colleagues in the House of Representatives of his methods of crushing Viagra and high test Red Bull to maintain his erection through his orgiastic evenings is perhaps the least offensive of his many crimes against womanhood and Christian faith. The man has less principles than your average fentanyl addicted hobo. He likes them underage and he’s not ashamed about it. Matt Gaetz isn’t just your average extreme Florida MAGA Man, he’s a hypocritical ass with the worst Botox money can buy, pursuing an ever-thinner nose and higher cheekbones at every opportunity like a Real Housewife gone mad for fillers. Every Republican in Washington has an opinion about Matt Gaetz, and 99 percent of those opinions are “Keep Matt Gaetz away from my wife/daughter/friend and anyone I care about.” He is a walking genital, warts included as a bonus. If I was merely attempting to count the number of women I know who have had bad experiences with Matt Gaetz, I would run out of fingers and toes. If you vote for him to be the Attorney General of the United States, you don’t just need your head examined, you need to be committed to a mental institution. The man is absolutely vile. There are pools of vomit with more to offer the earth than this STD-riddled testament to the failure of fallen masculinity.
This could be more of an aesthetic problem than an ideology problem. Liberal ballot measures pass easily even when local voters really hate Democratic politicians. Republican politicians tend to be more aesthetically pleasing in a hotheaded populist when than Democratic politicians, whose aesthetic is aimed more at the educated professional casts. The way forward would be finding politicians that are aesthetically pleasing to less educated voters while not pissing off the winemoms and dulcet toned NPR listeners.
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On “Huffpo reports that Harris internals *NEVER* had her ahead.”
Everybody is big disagreement about what those unforced errors were. The only one that seems like a real big mistake was not appearing on Rogan.
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There were apparently a lot of people who didn't even know that Biden dropped out until Election Day:
https://www.10news.com/news/fact-or-fiction/fact-or-fiction-did-biden-drop-out-search-spiked-tuesday
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"It's the inflation, stupid" plus post-COVID malaise doesn't allow the right wag their fingers at the Democrats, leftists to wag the fingers at the Democrats, and liberals to do jeremiads about the racism and misogyny of the United States. Nobody gets to have any fun or make any more from pontificating.
The group I still don't understand are the people who believe a strong further left message would help the Democrats despite the sheer rejection of police reform in the most Democratic areas of the United States.
On “Open Mic for the week of 11/25/2024”
COVID lockdown critic Jay Bhattacharya going to be head of NIH:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/26/trump-picks-jay-bhattacharya-covid-lockdown-critic-as-nih-director/76608013007/
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From "just say no" to "straight into the veins" within living memory.
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Trump's plans to go after birth right citizenship:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/trump-end-birthright-citizenship-how-to-project-2025-mass-deportation/
On “I Told You So”
Oh, I don't think that there is widespread second guessing by most of his voters yet. There are only a few showing buyer's remorse. That being said, if the tariff goes through it will be a disaster.
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The Muslims in Michigan seem to have buyer's remorse based on the leader of them begging for Biden to do something about Netanyahu. I've seen reports of big ag kindly asking Trump not to deport their workers. That is a type of buyer's remorse.
On “Open Mic for the week of 11/25/2024”
Big Ag begs Trump to spare their workers from deportation.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-farm-groups-want-trump-spare-their-workers-deportation-2024-11-25/
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The Shen Yun dance troop, associated with Falun Gong, is in trouble over disturbing child labor practices:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/nyregion/shen-yun-child-labor-regulator.html
On “ICC Follows Through on Arrest Warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu & Others”
Only Israel/Jews have agency while the Palestinians/Muslims have utterly no agency at all. They just merely react to whatever the Jews are doing. This is one of the things that really angers me about the entire moment. It just seems that the Jews in general and Israeli Jews in particular are given a big list of things that we need to do while the Muslims and Palestinians need to do nothing. We are supposed to teach how wonderful Islam is to our children while the Muslims get to go to the bathroom on us and teach their children how we are the demented grandparent that can't get with the times. We have to perform acts of self-flagelation for our alleged crimes against the Palestinians while the Palestinians and other Muslims don't have to reflect at all.
Anti-Semitism is truly the permitted hatred and Jews are expected to just deal with quite a lot of it. Things that would be considered utterly intolerable for every other persecuted group in the world are tolerated or even encouraged against Jews. Jews have been debating and struggling about the Palestinians from before Israel existed. This debate can range from "we are committing sins" to "we must make an agreement" to "smash them all" but it exists. From what I can tell, the number of Palestinians and their allies that dealt with what would happen to Jews without Israel is a zero or a number close to it. The question about the Jews simply doesn't exist in the pro-Palestinian world. It is seen as a distraction. Something to be ignored.
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Well, this doesn't give Netanyahu much incentive to end the Israel-Hamas war or stop being Prime Minister.
On “Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024”
Objection. Assumes facts not in evidence.
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Gaetz dropped out of the running for AG on his own accord.
On “The Mandate That Wasn’t”
No man has possessed the Mandate of Heaven since the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty in 1912.
On “Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024”
A Project 2025 guy is going to head the FCC and use it to conduct witch hunts against Trump's critics. These cranks, hacks, thieves, and washed out celebrities can cause wreckage beyond imagination.
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Linda McMahon is to be Secretary of Education.
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Sean Duffy to be Secretary of Transportation. We are seeing an administration of cranks, hacks, thieves, and washed out celebrities develop.
On “How Republicans Can Save Trump’s Presidency”
The Republicans can't even bring themselves to releasing the Gatez report or are in full thrall of Trump's cult of personality. They ain't going to do jack to make it better.
On “Open Mic for the week of 11/11/2024”
Defense Secretary nominee Hegseth seems to be after Trump's heart:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/16/pete-hegseth-sexual-assault-accuser-paid/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzMxNzMzMjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzMzMTE1NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MzE3MzMyMDAsImp0aSI6IjBhYTFkOWE3LWQ3YzAtNGJkZi1iODExLWFjZmE3MzMzYWQ4ZiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI0LzExLzE2L3BldGUtaGVnc2V0aC1zZXh1YWwtYXNzYXVsdC1hY2N1c2VyLXBhaWQvIn0.taA1whYLQ3FV4lj5EpmAipAymzU03UcBrTwLwnL2KI8
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Meanwhile, the aggressively anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic education materials seem to be creeping into Irish schools according to the Jewish Chronicle:
https://www.thejc.com/news/world/jews-are-jesus-killers-and-israel-is-uniquely-aggressive-what-irish-pupils-are-taught-dhqmypgo
The anti-Semites of all stripes, right, left, and Islamic, seem to be on the march and nobody seems to want to put any effort to put them down.
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So the latest internet outrage is over casting Israeli Jews to play Jesus and Mary in a Biblical epic because Jesus was a "Palestinian." This is anti-Semitic since they are basically erasing Jews from history.
https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/social-media-outrage-after-israeli-jew-cast-as-jesus-mother-in-netflix-biblical-epic-oprzqyyq
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The very one.
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Ben Domenech on Matt Gaetz:
I realize that we are occasionally given to hyperbole about the untoward nature of politicians, but let me be clear: Matt Gaetz is a sex trafficking drug addicted piece of shit. He is abhorrent. His eyes are permanently rimmed with the red rings of chemical boosters. In person, he smells like overexposed Axe Body Spray and stale Astroglide. The fact that he boasted on the floor to multiple colleagues in the House of Representatives of his methods of crushing Viagra and high test Red Bull to maintain his erection through his orgiastic evenings is perhaps the least offensive of his many crimes against womanhood and Christian faith. The man has less principles than your average fentanyl addicted hobo. He likes them underage and he’s not ashamed about it. Matt Gaetz isn’t just your average extreme Florida MAGA Man, he’s a hypocritical ass with the worst Botox money can buy, pursuing an ever-thinner nose and higher cheekbones at every opportunity like a Real Housewife gone mad for fillers. Every Republican in Washington has an opinion about Matt Gaetz, and 99 percent of those opinions are “Keep Matt Gaetz away from my wife/daughter/friend and anyone I care about.” He is a walking genital, warts included as a bonus. If I was merely attempting to count the number of women I know who have had bad experiences with Matt Gaetz, I would run out of fingers and toes. If you vote for him to be the Attorney General of the United States, you don’t just need your head examined, you need to be committed to a mental institution. The man is absolutely vile. There are pools of vomit with more to offer the earth than this STD-riddled testament to the failure of fallen masculinity.
On “An Election Map that Asks “What if Only Educated People Voted?” and a Follow-up Question”
This could be more of an aesthetic problem than an ideology problem. Liberal ballot measures pass easily even when local voters really hate Democratic politicians. Republican politicians tend to be more aesthetically pleasing in a hotheaded populist when than Democratic politicians, whose aesthetic is aimed more at the educated professional casts. The way forward would be finding politicians that are aesthetically pleasing to less educated voters while not pissing off the winemoms and dulcet toned NPR listeners.
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