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Orwell’s Rabbit's avatar

I just want to say that all you guys at Tablet are, IMHO, some of the best journalists in today’s scene. You are usually a day or two ahead of others, and you don’t insult our intelligence by pretending to be 100% impartial (which the others aren’t, but they *will* pretend!). Plus there’s a little bit of snark, where appropriate, like the Pirate Wires guys, who are another one of my favorites.

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Steven Brizel's avatar

As long as the Democrats stay mired in identity politics they will remain in the political desert with respect to presidential elections and continue to lose voters

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jerry kleiner's avatar

How long did the Democratic Party and Mainstream media think it could fool the American public? How long did they think that success would simply rely on blaming Trump for everything and fear mongering the public with name calling labels like Nazi, Fascist, Uneducated, Garbage and the like. Calling Trump a liar when at the same time lying to the public repeatedly, "inflation is temporary and fleeting" "the border is secure" "Biden is in great health" and the list goes on. Bidens presidency will go down in history as one of the worst presidency in modern times replacing Carter for first position. Your critical race theory, DEI, WOKE, and all the rest of the rot that you forced down the throats of American people. Telling us to hate our country, telling white children they are oppressors, and black kids oppressed, having biological men competing in women's sports and the list of nonsense goes on and on. And then trying to silence your critics by calling them racists or ignorant. Foreign policy that was all wrong in every area. Embolding and enriching Iran, Appeasing the anti-Israel faction of your party, the appalling afghan departure. I could go on and on.

This election was not only an indictment on the Dems but it was also an indictment on mainstream legacy media. You behaved as extensions of the Dem. Party. Your bias supported the lies, you shielded Harris and Biden from tough questions and interviews, This electorate was completely sick of you as well. No longer did you act as neutral journalists. Your headline attacks were always on Trump, non-stop attacks. Wasted 4 years on Russian collusion alone.

Even now, instead of realizing that you lost because you offered nothing to the American people, you blame other reasons. Biden should have dropped out earlier, Harris should have done more interviews.

The party is in shambles because you showed you would sell your mothers to get elected. You had no moral compass at all. You are not the Democratic party of old. you have changed in the worst of ways and you aint going to fix it soon. Meanwhile, you so called liar Trump is putting a cabinet together to live up to his promises as he did last time. He may lie about the size of his rallies and he may be an egomaniac but guess what? He actually does or tries to accomplish all that he promises which IMHO means everything.

papa j

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Suzie's avatar

Well said! 👏👏

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Matt L.'s avatar

I listened/watched Lichtman explain himself to Chris Cuomo last night. He said his projections did not come true for the following reasons:

1. Disinformation from right

2. Misinformation from right

3. Racism

4. Misogyny

Just like 51 former intel officers, Lichtman uses dis/mis info terminology rather than just saying ‘false information’ and then telling us what he thinks is/was false, and evidence backing those assertions. Lichtman is also a massive war hawk and fretted about Ukraine. What a complete fraud.

I’m lukewarm on the Rubio pick. The MIC in this country wants the USA in a shooting war w/ Iran and that is a LOSER proposition. Trump better beware those former war pigs he surrounds himself with. Be strong against Iran but don’t be fooled. They have the bomb already, it’s just the MIC-captured Old Media dragging it out for the past 2 decades saying ‘they almost have it’ to help the Defense spending continue $ on, unabated.

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Steven Brizel's avatar

Lichtmsn clearly relies on legacy media and appears to have woke ideological biases

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Suzie's avatar

I am not lukewarm on a potential Rubio pick.

I am a hard NO.

That wicked Department needs to be gutted utterly, top to bottom, and that’s gonna take some huge courageous stones by whomever Trump does end up picking.

Rubio ain’t it.

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@jennibgaither's avatar

Do you have links to evidence for this? “historic levels of inflation caused by the Biden administration’s climate change agenda that has transferred trillions in middle-class wealth to Democratic Party donors and clients as well as the People’s Republic of China.” Not trolling, I would like to use this in the useless online debates I’m in.:)

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Current Resident's avatar

There are two sources I would use:

For government handouts, see BEA Table 2.1. Personal Income and Its Disposition, line 23. This shows "other government transfer payments." That's where you'll see COVID stimulus checks worth $2.6T in 1Q21 alone.

For inflation, see two BLS data series - CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and CPI-U/Less Food and Energy. The monthly data show prices are 21% higher than four years ago. The WSJ does good work disaggregating the components. Recently, car insurance has been through the roof while gas prices have come down.

With regard to the climate agenda, I think it's worth pointing out that Biden/Harris spent $7.5 billion to build seven EV charging stations. I read somewhere that it might be eight, but you get the idea.

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Steven Brizel's avatar

Go shopping and see what a box of cereal, a container of milk and a bottle of orange juice contains snd then look at the scarcity of many items in the locked down sections of any pharmacy

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@jennibgaither's avatar

I’m sorry, I’m not making the connection.

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Steven Brizel's avatar

The price of food and scarcity of retail goods are two important indicators of inflation

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@jennibgaither's avatar

I meant the connection between his climate policy and inflation.

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Steven Brizel's avatar

Climate policy or viewing climate change as an indispensable element if policy is what can and should be called a luxury belief especially given the dubious scientific evidence that supports the climate change hypothesis which may rival Malthus and ZPG as not being supported by facts but rather a cultural Marxist attitude against economic growth

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Steven Brizel's avatar

Climate policy as enforced by Biden is dangerous to our national security and requires us to be dependent on imports from Iran Venezuela and other third world dictators when we could be self sufficient Americans should not not be penalized for demanding social mobility in cars fueled by gasoline air conditioning or heating in their homes

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Suzie's avatar

Check out this website:

https://www.climatedepot.com/

“Climate Change” policy is the biggest money laundering scam in the world, wrecking economies and peoples lives around the world.

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Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

I see a scroll article I read a scroll article, well written as always.

In case you were wondering what free Palestine would look like

https://youtu.be/86CdiLSUALI?si=-bkddf_c-_lJ3Vt7

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Steven Brizel's avatar

Heather MacDonald had a withering critique of the global grifters who are the movers behind climate change at City Journal

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Sean's avatar

"Huckabee has expressed interest in buying a vacation home in Israel, specifically in a West Bank settlement."

Huckabee always refers to the area as "Judea". Just say'n :)

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