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Steven Brizel's avatar

Douglas Murray is one of the George Orwell’s of this generation and he dismantles fools on the left and right with equal vigor

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ExCAhillbilly's avatar

If I had bet that stupid could not be topped I would have lost my shirt on this issue. Warren and Schumer crying insider trading? Crockett gettin' as racist as a skin head. I put my head in my hands and surrender. I think I'll watch Douglas Murray on Triggernometry, in spite of the commercials

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Hutch's avatar

I listened to the podcast and even though I'm a big fan of Douglas Murray, I thought that Dave Smith came out looking far better than Murray.

Murray just wasn't able to land his points, even though he's right on the merits.

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Hutch's avatar

I'll add, Rogan came off as a twat.

Rogan only weighed in to support Smith, never on Murray's side. So it felt like 2 vs. 1.

Rogan platforms Ian Carroll, Dave Smith, and Darryl Cooper, letting them spout their BS and "just ask questions" without interruption for 3 hours, but can't extend the same courtesy to Israel supporters like Douglas Murray.

(I like debates, but Rogan came off as very partial to Smith. They were even seated next to one another).

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Chilblain Edward Olmos's avatar

I had to stop watching after 15 minutes for this specific reason. Joe should let DM take him to Israel and experience it himself. Of course that ain’t gonna happen…

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Suzie's avatar

“ Someone get this woman a TV show!”

I think that show already exists.

It’s called, “The View”.

She’d fit in perfectly.

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Suzie's avatar

“ U.S. voting machines are subject to hacking and manipulation, meaning that manipulating election results wouldn’t be impossible.”

There were quite a number of people right after the 2020 election who did extensive and forensic research pointing to this fact, who were brutally excoriated, and in some cases sued and/or had their lives and livelihoods totally upended by people from both sides of the aisle for even daring to broach the subject.

It would be a more than a righteous thing to see their efforts back then vindicated for what was more than obvious to a great many people.

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Running Burning Man's avatar

Jazzie Crochet (you know her as Jasmine Crocket), said "We done pickin cotton.” She did not say "we are done picking cotton.” Do not virtue signal by trying to correct that clown's grammar, especially when she speaks in urban ghetto vernacular. It is who she is.

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Suzie's avatar

“ Kristyn Roth, chief marketing officer for the advocacy group Autism Society of America, said that Kennedy’s use of the term epidemic in regards to autism rates is “incredibly irresponsible” but didn’t explain why she finds it such a disconcerting use of language.”

It has become increasingly obvious that more and more individuals and groups who purport to be advocates for one cause or another turn out to be anything but that.

How did we get to such a place? It is a tragedy.

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Suzie's avatar

“ This shows how serious Xi is about stamping out corruption in the military,..”

I imagine Xi’s definition of “corruption” simply boils down to disagreeing with him. That Politiburo is a “tough room”, as the comedians might say.

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Chilblain Edward Olmos's avatar

🛎️🔨

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Suzie's avatar

“ In short, it’s the media’s job to help them believe again.”

Maybe. But first you’d have to literally de-program them from decades of having lived within that insular ideological bubble they’ve erected around themselves.

It’s a mind-game operation, with lots of special rewards and prizes for the most twisted minds among them.

They are merely a tool of even more devious minds to accomplish ever more diabolical ends.

I cannot fathom a cure for these existing media organs. They are thoroughly diseased and in my opinion terminally so. What we have now emerging is the attempt to not just offer an alternative, but eventually replace those captured media organs, although at this stage of its genesis it is imperfect.

But the very fact that more voices can at least speak out and be heard, and actual debate take place, is a dramatic turn in the right direction.

It’s a new, chaotic and disruptive mechanism in its earliest stages of formation. It’s a start, and I feel, in a direction that is showing it has the power and potential to compete against the big boys who’ve been dominating the conversation for far too long.

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Tom Sime's avatar

Most of the time I admire Lee Smith's point of view. But: "Grandmothers, veterans, and clergy... rounded up for exercising their First Amendment rights"? What a whitewash of Jan. 6, and just as inane and tendentious as calling the BLM riots "mostly peaceful."

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Thucydides's avatar

The Lee Smith piece is confusing; he speaks of himself and other like him in the third person, and in a somewhat pejorative manner for example, as having the purpose of "disguising establishment talking points as new right wisdom to herd their audiences into the pen the left built for them. Is this tongue in cheek?

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Thucydides's avatar

I guess the problem is that Lee Smith is at times talking about Dave Smith rather than himself.

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Tori's avatar

I also found it a bit confusing. I also wonder what Smith meant by Rogan's "young audience" when millennials are now in their 30's and 40's and make up a good portion of Rogan's listeners. I thought we were done with infantilizing millennials, or had at least acknowledged it was a poor media tact.

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Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

I thought Douglas was the profound eloquent Savage precise gentleman ambassador that the world needs and it was a complete dismantling of the Dave Smith NPC that have proliferated, Aaron Cohen did a precise Savage has been analysis on Joe in addition

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https://youtu.be/vccd6G95MgE?si=4VGksVHpl-PprJkz

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Curtis B's avatar

Oh, you’re for the guy that was pro Iraq war and never apologized? Love your stuff, but yall are just silly now.

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Tori's avatar

She should definitely have explained why the word "epidemic" in regards to autism is irresponsible and I'm not sure why she didn't, because you can't expect people who aren't touched by it at all to get it: the word portrays autism as an infectious disease, which is both insulting and dangerous rhetoric, and most parents of autistic children, like myself, or people with low level autism, also like myself, understand that just by living it. Autism isn't a disease someone else can catch by touching an autistic person or being sneezed on, nor is it a disease that can be cured, and neither is it a chronic illness. I am a bit disappointed by the wording of this reporting, especially since I hold the Tablet in such high regard. If you want to research or talk about the rising rates of autism and whether there are artificial causes for that rising rate, such as chemicals in our food or water or soft drinks or medicines, that's fine and great, but more nuanced language is required for reporting on this. You don't know the sort of harm it can do, especially with impressionable people who do not have experience with autism and these summary reports are their only connection to it. It's especially gallingly insensitive considering the recent violent police attack on a 17-year-old autistic child that was no danger to them but they essentially tried to execute on sight due to an ignorant person's police call. I think the Tablet could use someone on their team, or find an expert consultant they can talk to, in order to inform them better on these matters going forward if they're going to continue reporting on it as it comes up in the news, especially if it becomes the topic of a Big Story.

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Suzie's avatar

The word “epidemic” can express many more aspects than just merely a medical reference.

Thus Ms. Roth’s taking such umbrage at the term was an emotional exaggeration, which I suspect came from an even more biased origin.

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Suzie's avatar

P.S. I have a grandchild on the Autistic spectrum and personally know dozens of other families in similar situations, and it is more than obvious that it’s incidence has increased exponentially over the last decade at least.

I pray with all my heart that it’s true root causes can be uncovered.

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