The hard part about the left is that they have followers. And the hard part about being on the right is we cannot really understand how that's so. And I think that it may just come down to this: Most of the right (I'm generalizing...) believes in the American system, and they also believe that there is a God and that human beings are made in his image. Some of the left believe this, too. But most now, at least outwardly, do not. And so they turn to their gods--and find all of them in the shape of a hammer and sickle.
I will take the moderate Dems and independents who will cross over to avoid voting for Anti-American, Anti-Semitic Marxists / Progressives. The Left can keep their influencers and those who would follow them. There is no winning them over, anyway, without completely compromising American values. There are, in fact, conservative followers of quality influencers like those in the TPUSA organization, though it was infinitely more powerful with Charlie Kirk at the head. Most of those following Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson are the same who follow Piker. So there is no real loss there. They are evil hearted and don't belong on the right.
I believe there are many moderate dems (many are my good friends), but most of them I know will still vote democratic no matter who is running for office. They identify too much with their party and will not break with party lines, even if it means voting for communism.
DemonicRAT Party , the party of the Civil War, Jim Crow Laws, KKK, Planned Murderhood, Great Society by LBJ, which, once enacted, was written to once again enslave black people.
Now the proud ‘daddy’ of Antifa, BLM, Ice protesters, protectors of illegals, felons, murderers, rapists, felony repeat offenders. And now the Big Tent Party of Communists and Islamists, grifters, every deranged, sexually deviant lifestyle there is…..including pedophilia, child grooming, child mutilation, fentanyl. Dregs of society.
No such thing as a ‘moderate’ demonicRAT. They were evil from the get-go. Their foundation was built on the fires of hell and the planks they stand on are rotted from the sulphuric fumes of hell underneath ALL that they have ever done or said.
So. No. There is no such thing as a moderate demonicRAT. And RINOS are simply demonicRATS in drag. It’s the only way they can win……..if you can call lying/cheating/stealing as ‘a win’.
Are you really so ignorant that you think the political parties of today are the same as in Civil war times? In 1860, the Republicans were Yankee abolitionists and the Dems were the slave-owning plantation lords who ruled the old confederacy. The old confederacy lives on through the MAGAts.
I am an Independent. Have been since the Clinton second term, when NOW refused to withdraw their endorsement, despite his obvious personal disdain for women.
I continued to vote Democrat for years, because I believed in their stated principles - so, I guess you could have called me a moderate Democrat.
But, after years of deep study and research, I have to agree with most of CStone’s declaration.
There is NOTHING moderate in the sexualization or mutilation of children. The push for widespread abortion rights began as thinly-disguised genocide, and has morphed into socially-approved mass murder. Democrats have never been pro-Black, just pro-control of the race. The trans movement is primarily used to attack biological women. Many of the rights I fought for have been eroded by the very Party who took over the movement fifty years ago.
If you stand against the above, you cannot call yourself a Democrat and expect to be taken seriously.
I believe a moderate democrat was like me, as a really can't stand a Limbaugh sycophant Republican. You're just an independant waiting to declare yourself an get your pride and self assurance reclaimed. Not to mention actually have a say in who gets elected.
Many prominent Democrats that we thought of as moderate obediently lined up behind El Sayed as soon as it became evident his chances of winning are high. All they care about is power and defeating Trump.
You want to take about Dems lining up behind El Sayed? Seriously. it only took one vote for the Senate to confirm Preznit Halfwit’s ethically-bankrupt personal ambulance chaser, Todd Blanche, to be Attorney General.
I said one of the options was to stay home. Yes, another option is to vote 3rd party, which is like staying home. I doubt, if you are truly a moderate; truly a capitalist and love the American Constitution that you could vote your conscience with the DSA, BTW.... JD Vance has been villainized in the media. He was actually a moderate Democrat until about 2012. He is still very left leaning as we recently found out with a couple of his interviews. Vance is certainly no far right politician. He is almost too far left for me and I am a moderate, a libertarian
I disagree somewhat … if you don’t vote you cannot complain about who gets elected. But there are lots of other down-ballot races I would vote in - House, Senate, state legislatures, and local and state referenda. If I stay home I miss all of those.
I did not say to "not vote". I said it was an option. You continue to misquote me. Hear what I say, not what you think I would say as an R, since I am not an R
That whiny, priggish, “I will not vote against my own conscience” drivel conclusively proves that your moral center - assuming that you have one - is untethered to reality, so long as you can congratulate yourself on your moral superiority. Not a surprise to hear that from a “professor.”
David, don’t flatter yourself. You don’t know the first thing about me. I am the last person who would do anything self-congratulatory. I believe strongly in showing up to vote because it is my civic responsibility. If I don’t like the D and R candidates I vote for someone else.
Most professors are leftists. Me, not so much.
You might want to refrain from insulting people you know nothing about.
Why is it that a third party can't win? It's because the two major parties have spent decades writing the rules to make sure it can never happen. Personally, this is why I don't support either major party and probably never will. That doesn't mean I don't vote for any of their candidates (sometimes they are the only two choices on my ballot, so I pick the least bad one...which is a terrible way to have my voice heard but it is what it is right now). My plan this midterm is to vote straight Republican, but only because the Dems have gone so far off the rails I can't in good conscience make it any easier for them to win. But I have voted 3rd party for President since 2012. We'll see what happens in 2018. If it's a DSA candidate for the Dems I will vote for the Republican no matter who it is. If not, depending on the candidates, I may very well vote 3rd party again. It's not pointless to vote for who you actually want and I find it dismaying that people are just willing to let the two party machinery continue controlling our government and elections. Nothing is ever going to change if that continues, that is for certain.
Didn’t Trump say that “MAGA is whatever I say it is”?
I think that’s closer to the truth than anything else. My question then is what happens after Trump’s term is done. Does he keep pulling the strings from backstage? I think the answer is yes … if Vance runs for president, he will be expected to continue following Trump’s plans.
Everytime I see a woman with a septum piercing I think of a cow or a pig. A septum piercing is used on those animals so they can be led around and controlled. Which apparently seems to be working with leftist women.
I understand it's a tribal thing. It's how they identify each other to know which tribe they belong to. That could apply to so many different social behaviors.
I don't automatically assume if you voted for Trump or are a conservative that you are MAGA. Even non MAGA can love this country as much, or more, than MAGA.
A secular person’s mind can be blown by the Christian worldview, which says every human being is unique, made in God’s image and His most valuable possession. This includes the soul on skid row stooped over at the waist, half naked, high and addicted to fentanyl.
I have great respect for other people’s religious faiths. I am also in awe of who Jesus was as a person. But to say that I would be in awe of Christianity is not true. My wife has been a practicing Christian for 28 years. I’ve been to her church to watch her sing in the choir, and I think that much of what the pastor says is wonderful. But when he starts talking about Satan, and about how people who are not Christian will not be saved, I tune out.
We are all God’s creations. The idea that God would damn and condemn any of us for not following the correct faith seems illogical to me.
He doesn’t. He condemns those who do not follow His Word.
I know that Hell was created for the beast and his angels. So I too am not certain that He will send souls there, though it seems to me that some deserve it.
But He would not be a JUST GOD if He refused to mete out correct Justice for murderers, rapists and those who are absolutely evil.
Take a look at The Battle is the Lord’s, by Pastor Tony Evans. He wrote it about 25 years ago. One of the lines in the book was “anyone who does not accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior is a child of the devil.”
So this Christian pastor says that God will throw into Hell anyone who is not a Christian.
That means that every Jew, every Muslim, every Hindu, every Sikh, every Buddhist, et cetera, is condemned to Hell.
What kind of God would do this? Whatever God that is, I want to get as far away as possible.
Studying Torah in the original language has put many things to rest for me.
Hell was created for the devil and his angels…..those created beings who chose to go against their own Creator. Not for human souls.
I do believe there will be a separation from the Almighty, the Creator of the Heavens and the earth and all that dwell therein. That will be punishment enough.
Just as those who do heinous crimes need to be separated from law-abiding society….for the welfare of all society.
God Himself will judge them righteously because He and He alone can see what is in a man’s heart. All the discipline I have ever received from my parents and Yehovah have been to lead me to the right path.
There are many well-meaning teachers who mislead misdirect, even manipulate the ‘sheep ‘ . I am old. But on my path I have found Him to be the kindest , most patient, loving gentle Father.
So, while I believe there is a place of torment for the rebellious, I believe it will simply be a separation from Him for what will feel like an eternity.
I may be wrong.
But that’s what I believe.
(Our country has suffered much since abortion was passed, and I believe there will be an accounting for those who push that on society. Murder is not something to laugh about or shrug off. And because it is so heinous in HIS eyes, I believe that is why our nation is in the shape it is in.
Read Deuteronomy 28.
The first half is the “If you will obey Me, I will bless you in the city and in the countryside……..”
The last half is the FAFO
“If you do NOT obey Me, you will NOT be be blessed……”
We are in the “Find out” portion.
It appears to me that is the punishment for disobedience. What happens after our last breath? That is up to Him, and HE has every right to do as HE pleases.
I am convinced that most of the followers on the Left aren't really motivated by the ideology. They simply are angry - angry at the whole US system, the boomer generation that hoarded all the wealth for themselves, and the people who voted for Trump. Their anger was incandescent red before the 2024 election, but now it is white hot after Trump has systematically cut off sources of funding to the NGOs that employ overproduced elites and ensuring their student loans will not go away. And they are angry enough they want to burn the whole US system down to the ground. Well, if you want to burn the whole thing down, you elect radical Communists and Islamists.
They are heavily aligned racially. It's antiwhite, specifically straight white men. The communist/socialist aspect is window dressing. They just want to loot and destroy this nation and white men, through communism or whatever.
"The hard part about the left is that they have followers. And the hard part about being on the right is we cannot really understand how that's so."
Gonna blow your mind right now: A leftist would say exactly the same thing with two words reversed.
If you're not TRYING to understand, you won't, and since your current explanation seems to be "they are poopyheads who hate America," I'm not sure how far along in the process you are. Granted, they haven't gotten any closer than you themselves, but there's no reason to wait for them to start first.
But they hate the government right now. And a lot of people on the hard left always hate the government, even when Dems run it. It seems like whatever their God is, "government" is a poor description of it.
Not mind blowing...more to the point: The left is trying to bring back communism, with literally zero evidence that it's ever worked anywhere it's been tried. Never--not once, has a communist nation been able to claim a happy and contented populace. And, of course, it kills those who are least happy and contented. So, in that sense, whatever the left things with words reversed, is simply wrong.
Perhaps "the left" is trying to bring back Communism, but "the Democrats" - an aggressively pro-free-market neoliberal party - aren't, and the way people conflate them is misleading, often intentionally so.
Even this recent wave of "shocking left wing upsets!" represents a trend in incredibly small number of places with incredibly atypical politics. The reason for that insurgency is because regular Democrats - to our credit - do a terrible, terrible job representing their shit-ass views, because we don't agree with them.
Like, the actual "leftists" are about as influential among Democrats as the "end no-fault divorce and eliminate the age of consent" weirdos are among Republicans - i.e. something we kind of worry about and look askance at and that makes us uneasy to be associated with, but doesn't seem likely to tip any balance of power any time soon.
Now, you didn't SAY that was the position of Democrats, but I think the way discourse ends up flattened in a two party system makes a statement like that suggest that the party is Communist to a degree that requires clarification.
That's a fair point---but it sure is a bell hanging around the D party's neck. Polls, I admit, are often misleading as hell--and more often than not flat out wrong in so many cases. That said, one recent poll has 75% of D's saying they'd vote for a DSA candidate. That's not a small number. I hope it's flat out wrong--but if its' not, it doesn't speak well of the Democrat's. I'd add to that the GOP never welcomed in the "end no-fault divorce" and other crazies as a platform of the party. The D's seem to be doing that. After all, at some point on the political spectrum, if you both agree that America should create universal health care, should tax the wealthy into oblivion, should have govt. controlling nearly all of American life, just how big are the differences?
I don't think most people who vote for Democrats want to have the government control nearly all of American life! I don't think they want to tell people what jobs they can do. I don't think they want to tell people where they can live. I don't think they want to tell people what they can do with their bodies. I don't think they want to tell people what hobbies they can have or what they can read or what they can say. None of that USSR shit.
Yes, there are people out there, on both sides, who are NOT pro-freedom on those issues. I will even accept that there are more on the left right now. But I just think their influence in the party is low, and will wane once people realize what their governance looks like (a bunch of arguing about maximalist solutions that will never be accepted by a majority and thus ending up doing nothing, while pissing people off with divisive rhetoric.)
People say they'll vote for "a DSA candidate" - but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll vote for someone who wants to abolish police or somebody who thinks America deserved 9/11 or somebody who thinks Israel shouldn't exist. It mostly means that the DSA has been very good at branding as of late.
This is kind of divorced from the larger conversation, but I wanted to touch on it, just because I think it would be fun to have a bit of a policy discussion offshoot if you were interested:
Personally speaking I think we should tax the rich a lot MORE, not "into oblivion." Just because I think it's a less economically destructive way to balance the budget than massive spending cuts. Bear in mind that 2/3 of government spending goes to Medicare, Social Security and Defense - there is not much we can cut without taking a ton of money directly out of the economy. Cut everything but the above three line items and you are still in a deficit right now!
I'm not sure if mega-rich people are essential to how our economy functions or not but I'm pretty "Chesterton's Fence" about it. Massively changing how large quantities of money are invested with quantified risk could have effects we can't anticipate and couldn't deal with. The main thing that drives me crazy about the left is that they never want to do anything incrementally, when it's usually the only responsible way to do things.
Maybe you’re right. But everyone in Trump’s orbit has to kiss the ring, or else they’re gone. Look at Marjorie Taylor Greene or Mike Pence. Maybe Vance would be his own man if elected. But Trump is such an egomaniac that I don’t trust anyone who works closely with him. Absolute loyalty to him is part of the job description.
And if you think I’m a DSA member (😂), you obviously haven’t read any of my posts. I go after the DSA all the time.
No it won't It excites them because the Left wants to burn the whole US system down to the ground. They want to watch their enemies burn, and they don't care about anything else.
This is all part of the 4th Turning. Let it happen. Like woke, there will be an eventual backlash to all of this. I want JD Vance to carry on the MAGA movement and there is still a lot of work to do, once Trump exits. Vance has 4 kids that he wants to leave a bright future to as well, which gives him fuel that won’t run out. Having a black /white choice for America allows us to transition from our current Winter season to an eventual Spring. Piker and the DSA serves up to the GOP a great foil. Now MAGA has to do what the Tea Party wanted all along, in order to block the socialist wave. MAGA NEEDS this socialist danger. It pushes us in the correct direction for our younger generations. We must compete for them. And competition brings out the best in everyone.
Look at Sandy Cortez today. She has both baby and POTUS aspirations. And it’s why she said today that ‘woke 1’ was crazy, including the defund the police crap. She is wrapping herself in sheep’s clothing now, to get ready for ‘28. My guess is that Sandy will be either Gavin’s VP nominee, or running as Senator from New York.
It is effective and the Left hates it. Consider their reaction at SOU speeches by Trump when he brings out the victims of liberal policies, like the mothers of raped murder victims. Those words from the victims burn them like hot cinders.
I agree. That way you know exactly who he is and what he stands for. Then he can be publicly shunned. Let him run his mouth, and let the Democrats cozy up to him. Most people find him abhorrent.
Yes, this. University of Washington and the student group who invited Piker to speak could also, then be questioned to whether they agree or disagree with whatever Piker says.
You saw that too!?!?!? I can’t get it out of my head. I still wonder how and where that poor animal is. I saw only ONE person mention it….Greg Gutfeld. I started a conversation right here on Substack but nobody picked up the conversation. Maybe this bastard could have been stopped a long time ago. Too late now!!! His slime has spread and AOC her commie friends are lapping it up.
Back when Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn used to do "America This Week" on Racket's Substack, they zoomed in on it and spent some pretty good discussion time focused on the guy and his later (weak) denials. He is a complete and utter loser.
Remember that? Who does something like that? The poor thing was just trying to come over to him, but he couldn't have it interrupting his podcast. You can get a decent sense of a man's character by how he treats animals and children.
Speaking of being “cancelled”, i am getting lots of Hate on FB for daring to post that Fauci is guilty as shit and is a lethally dangerous sociopathic malignant narcissist - guilty of crimes against humanity.
These people STILL literally worship him - just as Sasha wrote in her recent piece on the Cult of Fauci.
Quite literally if you don’t worship him and dare to say what many of us know to be true, you WILL be cancelled.
You can read them Fauci’s own words, where he admits lying his ass off and how he did not think the policies he pushed would work, and they still think he’s inviolable.
Should the Save Act be reintroduced to include those impervious to facts as disqualifying to vote?
The reason why you are facing fierce resistance is that this isn't just about Fauci. It's about cognitive dissonance. Many of the people defending Fauci are actually defending themselves. They thought they were better educated, intellectually more capable, and morally superior vs. the great unwashed, ignorant masses who were too stupid to understand "the science". Now that more and more information is showing that Fauci played them like fools, they are desperate to avoid having to accept the fact that were the ones that were ignorant. They'll never change their mind about Fauci because then they would have to admit that they were wrong.
Honestly I don’t recognize anything these people promote as culture..in any way.
It is understandable how the Left Cancel culture hurts those seeking to appeal to a broad audience. However, what happens if we STOP PAYING ATTENTION to any of their garbage?
The movies are feeling the pain of a lack of audience, and music seems to be splintering as well.
A more robust INDEPENDENT media is helping; that said, we “normies/common sense” types should IGNORE these people.
Robby Starbuck made it work against Anheuser Busch and many other “pride promoting” businesses. Can’t we do this for supposed (and tired, imho) cultural “icons”? Seems like most of them are about age 13 emotionally, and even less well informed educationally.
I doubt it is a majority. But the GenX generation that parented the GenZs definitely failed to prepare them for this world, coddled and left them vulnerable to this world. My Millennial kids sure do not think or act this way. When I got a whiff that they were being influenced, I shut it down through education
A CNN poll I just reviewed puts the number of DSA adherents at 33% of the Democrat party, or maybe 12% of the electorate. Still too many, but there is an equal number of Democrats, 33%, who WON'T vote for DSA candidates who will stay home on election day or vote for the R. That 60% number is the % of Democrat GenZs
When I was in that cohort, I was also pretty far left. I would have voted for Jerry Brown for President in 1976 if I had had the chance (as much to have Linda Ronstadt as First Lady as anything). Now I am a conservative independent (do not like either party). This is a natural political evolution. I still am drawn to the former Democrats who run on the R ticket (Reagan, Trump) and absolutely detest Establishment GOP, including both Bushes
I disagree with the statement that the right doesn't have the power the left has. Tell that to Chik Fila. After tge CEO said in a Christian magazine that he supported traditional marriage, the rainbow community came after them with a boycott. So conservatives flocked to the restaurant, elevated it to a major brand over night. Then there was Bud Light. The right votes with dollars.
Yes, it's important not to put oneself into a role dependent on idiots. But one needs to fight back against that like JK and SS. Justice is a better currency than $$$.
If incompetents like the Far Left end up running anything, they will crash and burn as leaders. If no one follows them, their enterprise will close down. Competent people should do nothing to validate extremists. Let them hang themselves
Bernie Sanders, AOC, Schumer, will do anything, ANYTHING for votes, power, and money. They won’t stand up to Piker because they want to stay elected and saying something negative about him will get him unelected.
Difference between him and Fuentes, Candace, or this new iteration of Tucker, is that Piker represents the new Dem party “base” (enthusiastic voters and fund raisers). The “right wing” versions of Piker represent some fringe. Republican “base” is squish corporatists (the money raisers), but increasingly more the middle class blue collar (former Dem base). Neither group cares for Fuentes/Owens/Carlson.
As far as the interviewers giving Sanders and AOC “tough” questions: LOL. Asking them to disavow Piker because he applauds 9-11 is handing them prize money. Half the “new” Dem base (radical quasi-Marxist nihilists, manically depressed white female college grads, sexual exhibitionists, and Islamicists) fully agrees with Piker on that one - openly! A “tough” question would be asking if they support Piker’s comments about sending Jewish people back to Auschwitz, acceptability of r@ping women, or denigrating black people. Those would be tough questions, and frankly I’d like to hear what AOC, Bernie, and Schumer have to say about those reported and publicized Piker quotes …
“The difference is that the Democrats are allowing this one guy to get a pass because if they turn on him, he’ll turn on them.”
They fear the very monster they’ve created, and not just Piker, but the whole DSA franchise. They’re sh+##ing their pants and have nowhere left to go but down.
Oh, and BTW, AOC claimed Piker apologized for his 9/11 statement. He has most definitely has NOT! She’s a liar.
The hard part about the left is that they have followers. And the hard part about being on the right is we cannot really understand how that's so. And I think that it may just come down to this: Most of the right (I'm generalizing...) believes in the American system, and they also believe that there is a God and that human beings are made in his image. Some of the left believe this, too. But most now, at least outwardly, do not. And so they turn to their gods--and find all of them in the shape of a hammer and sickle.
I will take the moderate Dems and independents who will cross over to avoid voting for Anti-American, Anti-Semitic Marxists / Progressives. The Left can keep their influencers and those who would follow them. There is no winning them over, anyway, without completely compromising American values. There are, in fact, conservative followers of quality influencers like those in the TPUSA organization, though it was infinitely more powerful with Charlie Kirk at the head. Most of those following Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson are the same who follow Piker. So there is no real loss there. They are evil hearted and don't belong on the right.
Moderate and demonicRAT are oxymorons
No they’re not … I am a moderate Democrat.
No fucking such thing as a moderate Democrat
There are plenty of us. The socialists just have larger megaphones and greater shock value.
I believe there are many moderate dems (many are my good friends), but most of them I know will still vote democratic no matter who is running for office. They identify too much with their party and will not break with party lines, even if it means voting for communism.
No such animal exists.
DemonicRAT Party , the party of the Civil War, Jim Crow Laws, KKK, Planned Murderhood, Great Society by LBJ, which, once enacted, was written to once again enslave black people.
Now the proud ‘daddy’ of Antifa, BLM, Ice protesters, protectors of illegals, felons, murderers, rapists, felony repeat offenders. And now the Big Tent Party of Communists and Islamists, grifters, every deranged, sexually deviant lifestyle there is…..including pedophilia, child grooming, child mutilation, fentanyl. Dregs of society.
No such thing as a ‘moderate’ demonicRAT. They were evil from the get-go. Their foundation was built on the fires of hell and the planks they stand on are rotted from the sulphuric fumes of hell underneath ALL that they have ever done or said.
So. No. There is no such thing as a moderate demonicRAT. And RINOS are simply demonicRATS in drag. It’s the only way they can win……..if you can call lying/cheating/stealing as ‘a win’.
amen
Are you really so ignorant that you think the political parties of today are the same as in Civil war times? In 1860, the Republicans were Yankee abolitionists and the Dems were the slave-owning plantation lords who ruled the old confederacy. The old confederacy lives on through the MAGAts.
When your foundation is hell, the planks are hell, building is hell. Maybe you are just too willfully BLIND to see it.
Aaaannnnnnddddddd……
You’re an idiot.
So I gather you are MAGA?
I am an Independent. Have been since the Clinton second term, when NOW refused to withdraw their endorsement, despite his obvious personal disdain for women.
I continued to vote Democrat for years, because I believed in their stated principles - so, I guess you could have called me a moderate Democrat.
But, after years of deep study and research, I have to agree with most of CStone’s declaration.
There is NOTHING moderate in the sexualization or mutilation of children. The push for widespread abortion rights began as thinly-disguised genocide, and has morphed into socially-approved mass murder. Democrats have never been pro-Black, just pro-control of the race. The trans movement is primarily used to attack biological women. Many of the rights I fought for have been eroded by the very Party who took over the movement fifty years ago.
If you stand against the above, you cannot call yourself a Democrat and expect to be taken seriously.
I am a Conservative Christian.
The ones ‘moderate demonicRATS’ love to hate.
Hey! You earned a follow, I think of myself as one of these as well. I know my existence is being debated on these very pages but I'm sure I exist.
Thanks my friend!
I believe a moderate democrat was like me, as a really can't stand a Limbaugh sycophant Republican. You're just an independant waiting to declare yourself an get your pride and self assurance reclaimed. Not to mention actually have a say in who gets elected.
Not if you think anything J.D. Vance has done, or proposed doing, is anywhere near as harmful as what the DSA proposes.
Many prominent Democrats that we thought of as moderate obediently lined up behind El Sayed as soon as it became evident his chances of winning are high. All they care about is power and defeating Trump.
You want to take about Dems lining up behind El Sayed? Seriously. it only took one vote for the Senate to confirm Preznit Halfwit’s ethically-bankrupt personal ambulance chaser, Todd Blanche, to be Attorney General.
What I would do if it were JD Vance against a socialist would be to vote third party … I will not vote against my own conscience.
I said one of the options was to stay home. Yes, another option is to vote 3rd party, which is like staying home. I doubt, if you are truly a moderate; truly a capitalist and love the American Constitution that you could vote your conscience with the DSA, BTW.... JD Vance has been villainized in the media. He was actually a moderate Democrat until about 2012. He is still very left leaning as we recently found out with a couple of his interviews. Vance is certainly no far right politician. He is almost too far left for me and I am a moderate, a libertarian
I disagree somewhat … if you don’t vote you cannot complain about who gets elected. But there are lots of other down-ballot races I would vote in - House, Senate, state legislatures, and local and state referenda. If I stay home I miss all of those.
I did not say to "not vote". I said it was an option. You continue to misquote me. Hear what I say, not what you think I would say as an R, since I am not an R
That whiny, priggish, “I will not vote against my own conscience” drivel conclusively proves that your moral center - assuming that you have one - is untethered to reality, so long as you can congratulate yourself on your moral superiority. Not a surprise to hear that from a “professor.”
What?
Sorry - not going to engage with your smug, self-congratulatory moral preening.
David, don’t flatter yourself. You don’t know the first thing about me. I am the last person who would do anything self-congratulatory. I believe strongly in showing up to vote because it is my civic responsibility. If I don’t like the D and R candidates I vote for someone else.
Most professors are leftists. Me, not so much.
You might want to refrain from insulting people you know nothing about.
Being an independant allows one to vote their conscience all the time. Or never.
I don't think that makes sense. A third party can't win and so your vote would be pointless. I think much better to pick the lesser of two evils.
And that’s subjective. My evil is probably not the same as yours. May the best evil win. LOL 🫤
Why is it that a third party can't win? It's because the two major parties have spent decades writing the rules to make sure it can never happen. Personally, this is why I don't support either major party and probably never will. That doesn't mean I don't vote for any of their candidates (sometimes they are the only two choices on my ballot, so I pick the least bad one...which is a terrible way to have my voice heard but it is what it is right now). My plan this midterm is to vote straight Republican, but only because the Dems have gone so far off the rails I can't in good conscience make it any easier for them to win. But I have voted 3rd party for President since 2012. We'll see what happens in 2018. If it's a DSA candidate for the Dems I will vote for the Republican no matter who it is. If not, depending on the candidates, I may very well vote 3rd party again. It's not pointless to vote for who you actually want and I find it dismaying that people are just willing to let the two party machinery continue controlling our government and elections. Nothing is ever going to change if that continues, that is for certain.
what is it about jd vance that bothers you?
Nothing about him personally, but he’s Trump’s VP. He’s being touted as the Future of MAGA.
if you haven't already I would suggest actually listening to him speak. I was pleasantly surprised at how well he spoke and how much sense he made.
He’s a smart guy. I just think he’s a bit further to the right than I’d prefer. But I would take him over Stephen Miller or Steve Bannon any day.
MAGA is a grass roots movement, not dependent on a specific person.
Didn’t Trump say that “MAGA is whatever I say it is”?
I think that’s closer to the truth than anything else. My question then is what happens after Trump’s term is done. Does he keep pulling the strings from backstage? I think the answer is yes … if Vance runs for president, he will be expected to continue following Trump’s plans.
that’s it. if he runs for president, he wont be Trumps VP.
Followers? More like Borgish lockstep. It's really hard for The Rest of Us to combat.
Yeah, that's just it. Liberty of the individual is too hard for the left. They would rather be tugged by the nose-ring.
If you want to incite the left, do as I have done and go on any online forum and state “Either you believe in American Exceptionalism or you don’t.”
It drives them insane.
That is a fine idea.
In a few words it simply illustrates the main difference between the left and the right without getting into policy or detail.
Everything flows from that premise.
It is simply US Nationalism v Globalism.
Everytime I see a woman with a septum piercing I think of a cow or a pig. A septum piercing is used on those animals so they can be led around and controlled. Which apparently seems to be working with leftist women.
I understand it's a tribal thing. It's how they identify each other to know which tribe they belong to. That could apply to so many different social behaviors.
Char, I can understand that. I have yet to meet a Constitutional Christian conservative with a septum piercing.
I have yet to meet anyone with a septum piercing who is not a leftist.
That goes for piercings and tattoos generally, except for traditional earrings in women.
I’ve seen plenty of conservative women with tattoos. Not sure about the piercings though.
I don't automatically assume if you voted for Trump or are a conservative that you are MAGA. Even non MAGA can love this country as much, or more, than MAGA.
Not sure … my dad is MAGA and I know many others as well (I am not). I can’t think of a defining visual characteristic.
Someone who is happy and pleasant to be around. 😊
Most of their base actually have nose rings to complement their green hair.
More like Orcs
Ahh to only hope that people will demand refunds of their tickets due to the change of cast. If only ticket sales would plummet, one can only dream….
A secular person’s mind can be blown by the Christian worldview, which says every human being is unique, made in God’s image and His most valuable possession. This includes the soul on skid row stooped over at the waist, half naked, high and addicted to fentanyl.
Amen. Because if it weren't so, then those people would be...how do the leftists put it...? Expendable...
I have great respect for other people’s religious faiths. I am also in awe of who Jesus was as a person. But to say that I would be in awe of Christianity is not true. My wife has been a practicing Christian for 28 years. I’ve been to her church to watch her sing in the choir, and I think that much of what the pastor says is wonderful. But when he starts talking about Satan, and about how people who are not Christian will not be saved, I tune out.
We are all God’s creations. The idea that God would damn and condemn any of us for not following the correct faith seems illogical to me.
He doesn’t. He condemns those who do not follow His Word.
I know that Hell was created for the beast and his angels. So I too am not certain that He will send souls there, though it seems to me that some deserve it.
But He would not be a JUST GOD if He refused to mete out correct Justice for murderers, rapists and those who are absolutely evil.
Do you even believe in Justice?
Take a look at The Battle is the Lord’s, by Pastor Tony Evans. He wrote it about 25 years ago. One of the lines in the book was “anyone who does not accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior is a child of the devil.”
So this Christian pastor says that God will throw into Hell anyone who is not a Christian.
That means that every Jew, every Muslim, every Hindu, every Sikh, every Buddhist, et cetera, is condemned to Hell.
What kind of God would do this? Whatever God that is, I want to get as far away as possible.
I have heard of him.
Studying Torah in the original language has put many things to rest for me.
Hell was created for the devil and his angels…..those created beings who chose to go against their own Creator. Not for human souls.
I do believe there will be a separation from the Almighty, the Creator of the Heavens and the earth and all that dwell therein. That will be punishment enough.
Just as those who do heinous crimes need to be separated from law-abiding society….for the welfare of all society.
God Himself will judge them righteously because He and He alone can see what is in a man’s heart. All the discipline I have ever received from my parents and Yehovah have been to lead me to the right path.
There are many well-meaning teachers who mislead misdirect, even manipulate the ‘sheep ‘ . I am old. But on my path I have found Him to be the kindest , most patient, loving gentle Father.
So, while I believe there is a place of torment for the rebellious, I believe it will simply be a separation from Him for what will feel like an eternity.
I may be wrong.
But that’s what I believe.
(Our country has suffered much since abortion was passed, and I believe there will be an accounting for those who push that on society. Murder is not something to laugh about or shrug off. And because it is so heinous in HIS eyes, I believe that is why our nation is in the shape it is in.
Read Deuteronomy 28.
The first half is the “If you will obey Me, I will bless you in the city and in the countryside……..”
The last half is the FAFO
“If you do NOT obey Me, you will NOT be be blessed……”
We are in the “Find out” portion.
It appears to me that is the punishment for disobedience. What happens after our last breath? That is up to Him, and HE has every right to do as HE pleases.
“He is not, after all, a TAME lion.” C.S.Lewis
Then you are creating a god you can agree with, in your own image, instead of having faith in the one true God that exists.
So the God you say exists only recognizes you and your fellow believers, and everyone else is an unworthy sinner?
Sounds like myside bias to me, my friend. What kind of God would act this way?
Have you ever read the Torah?
More than 40 years ago. Don’t remember very much.
I’m a devout, practicing Catholic.
I am convinced that most of the followers on the Left aren't really motivated by the ideology. They simply are angry - angry at the whole US system, the boomer generation that hoarded all the wealth for themselves, and the people who voted for Trump. Their anger was incandescent red before the 2024 election, but now it is white hot after Trump has systematically cut off sources of funding to the NGOs that employ overproduced elites and ensuring their student loans will not go away. And they are angry enough they want to burn the whole US system down to the ground. Well, if you want to burn the whole thing down, you elect radical Communists and Islamists.
They are heavily aligned racially. It's antiwhite, specifically straight white men. The communist/socialist aspect is window dressing. They just want to loot and destroy this nation and white men, through communism or whatever.
"The hard part about the left is that they have followers. And the hard part about being on the right is we cannot really understand how that's so."
Gonna blow your mind right now: A leftist would say exactly the same thing with two words reversed.
If you're not TRYING to understand, you won't, and since your current explanation seems to be "they are poopyheads who hate America," I'm not sure how far along in the process you are. Granted, they haven't gotten any closer than you themselves, but there's no reason to wait for them to start first.
On the left, we can’t understand how the right fell so hard for such an obvious con man.
He’s the political equivalent of an email from a Nigerian Prince.
How can you not see him as anything other than a two-bit criminal? Do you not notice or care about the billions he has taken for himself?
Their God is government...the socialist way
But they hate the government right now. And a lot of people on the hard left always hate the government, even when Dems run it. It seems like whatever their God is, "government" is a poor description of it.
Not mind blowing...more to the point: The left is trying to bring back communism, with literally zero evidence that it's ever worked anywhere it's been tried. Never--not once, has a communist nation been able to claim a happy and contented populace. And, of course, it kills those who are least happy and contented. So, in that sense, whatever the left things with words reversed, is simply wrong.
Perhaps "the left" is trying to bring back Communism, but "the Democrats" - an aggressively pro-free-market neoliberal party - aren't, and the way people conflate them is misleading, often intentionally so.
Even this recent wave of "shocking left wing upsets!" represents a trend in incredibly small number of places with incredibly atypical politics. The reason for that insurgency is because regular Democrats - to our credit - do a terrible, terrible job representing their shit-ass views, because we don't agree with them.
Like, the actual "leftists" are about as influential among Democrats as the "end no-fault divorce and eliminate the age of consent" weirdos are among Republicans - i.e. something we kind of worry about and look askance at and that makes us uneasy to be associated with, but doesn't seem likely to tip any balance of power any time soon.
Now, you didn't SAY that was the position of Democrats, but I think the way discourse ends up flattened in a two party system makes a statement like that suggest that the party is Communist to a degree that requires clarification.
That's a fair point---but it sure is a bell hanging around the D party's neck. Polls, I admit, are often misleading as hell--and more often than not flat out wrong in so many cases. That said, one recent poll has 75% of D's saying they'd vote for a DSA candidate. That's not a small number. I hope it's flat out wrong--but if its' not, it doesn't speak well of the Democrat's. I'd add to that the GOP never welcomed in the "end no-fault divorce" and other crazies as a platform of the party. The D's seem to be doing that. After all, at some point on the political spectrum, if you both agree that America should create universal health care, should tax the wealthy into oblivion, should have govt. controlling nearly all of American life, just how big are the differences?
I don't think most people who vote for Democrats want to have the government control nearly all of American life! I don't think they want to tell people what jobs they can do. I don't think they want to tell people where they can live. I don't think they want to tell people what they can do with their bodies. I don't think they want to tell people what hobbies they can have or what they can read or what they can say. None of that USSR shit.
Yes, there are people out there, on both sides, who are NOT pro-freedom on those issues. I will even accept that there are more on the left right now. But I just think their influence in the party is low, and will wane once people realize what their governance looks like (a bunch of arguing about maximalist solutions that will never be accepted by a majority and thus ending up doing nothing, while pissing people off with divisive rhetoric.)
People say they'll vote for "a DSA candidate" - but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll vote for someone who wants to abolish police or somebody who thinks America deserved 9/11 or somebody who thinks Israel shouldn't exist. It mostly means that the DSA has been very good at branding as of late.
This is kind of divorced from the larger conversation, but I wanted to touch on it, just because I think it would be fun to have a bit of a policy discussion offshoot if you were interested:
Personally speaking I think we should tax the rich a lot MORE, not "into oblivion." Just because I think it's a less economically destructive way to balance the budget than massive spending cuts. Bear in mind that 2/3 of government spending goes to Medicare, Social Security and Defense - there is not much we can cut without taking a ton of money directly out of the economy. Cut everything but the above three line items and you are still in a deficit right now!
I'm not sure if mega-rich people are essential to how our economy functions or not but I'm pretty "Chesterton's Fence" about it. Massively changing how large quantities of money are invested with quantified risk could have effects we can't anticipate and couldn't deal with. The main thing that drives me crazy about the left is that they never want to do anything incrementally, when it's usually the only responsible way to do things.
Maybe you’re right. But everyone in Trump’s orbit has to kiss the ring, or else they’re gone. Look at Marjorie Taylor Greene or Mike Pence. Maybe Vance would be his own man if elected. But Trump is such an egomaniac that I don’t trust anyone who works closely with him. Absolute loyalty to him is part of the job description.
And if you think I’m a DSA member (😂), you obviously haven’t read any of my posts. I go after the DSA all the time.
That fucker needed to be cancelled when he electrocuted his dog.
Anybody who puts a shock collar on a dog should be fitted with one himself and the button given to his ex
Piker should be allowed to speak. More speech, not less. Even that which I disagree with, which includes this guy.
His words indict him. He's too arrogant to realize that. Let him speak.
His arrogance will be his undoing.
Yes …. And let the left lift him up… it will do them more damage than they realize…some of the stuff Piker spews out will turn a lot of lefty’s off.
No it won't It excites them because the Left wants to burn the whole US system down to the ground. They want to watch their enemies burn, and they don't care about anything else.
This is all part of the 4th Turning. Let it happen. Like woke, there will be an eventual backlash to all of this. I want JD Vance to carry on the MAGA movement and there is still a lot of work to do, once Trump exits. Vance has 4 kids that he wants to leave a bright future to as well, which gives him fuel that won’t run out. Having a black /white choice for America allows us to transition from our current Winter season to an eventual Spring. Piker and the DSA serves up to the GOP a great foil. Now MAGA has to do what the Tea Party wanted all along, in order to block the socialist wave. MAGA NEEDS this socialist danger. It pushes us in the correct direction for our younger generations. We must compete for them. And competition brings out the best in everyone.
Look at Sandy Cortez today. She has both baby and POTUS aspirations. And it’s why she said today that ‘woke 1’ was crazy, including the defund the police crap. She is wrapping herself in sheep’s clothing now, to get ready for ‘28. My guess is that Sandy will be either Gavin’s VP nominee, or running as Senator from New York.
But there should be a response to Piker's speeches, showing the pain and suffering of millions by those evil tyrants who inspire Piker
Yes, and those voices should be allowed to speak as well. Speech I do agree with.
It is effective and the Left hates it. Consider their reaction at SOU speeches by Trump when he brings out the victims of liberal policies, like the mothers of raped murder victims. Those words from the victims burn them like hot cinders.
I agree. That way you know exactly who he is and what he stands for. Then he can be publicly shunned. Let him run his mouth, and let the Democrats cozy up to him. Most people find him abhorrent.
Yes, this. University of Washington and the student group who invited Piker to speak could also, then be questioned to whether they agree or disagree with whatever Piker says.
No one should be silenced. But free speech also means accepting the consequences of one’s speech - including reactions from others.
Agreed. It lets us know exactly who and what they really are and believe.
You saw that too!?!?!? I can’t get it out of my head. I still wonder how and where that poor animal is. I saw only ONE person mention it….Greg Gutfeld. I started a conversation right here on Substack but nobody picked up the conversation. Maybe this bastard could have been stopped a long time ago. Too late now!!! His slime has spread and AOC her commie friends are lapping it up.
Back when Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn used to do "America This Week" on Racket's Substack, they zoomed in on it and spent some pretty good discussion time focused on the guy and his later (weak) denials. He is a complete and utter loser.
Remember that? Who does something like that? The poor thing was just trying to come over to him, but he couldn't have it interrupting his podcast. You can get a decent sense of a man's character by how he treats animals and children.
he zapped his own dog for no reason??
Yup
I want to know where are the PETA morons when you need them?
Perhaps electrocution was a faster way to cook it then eat it.
Is that a pro tip?
Speaking of being “cancelled”, i am getting lots of Hate on FB for daring to post that Fauci is guilty as shit and is a lethally dangerous sociopathic malignant narcissist - guilty of crimes against humanity.
These people STILL literally worship him - just as Sasha wrote in her recent piece on the Cult of Fauci.
Quite literally if you don’t worship him and dare to say what many of us know to be true, you WILL be cancelled.
As per my comment above that facts mean nothing.
You can read them Fauci’s own words, where he admits lying his ass off and how he did not think the policies he pushed would work, and they still think he’s inviolable.
Should the Save Act be reintroduced to include those impervious to facts as disqualifying to vote?
I work at a university, and some of my colleagues still love Fauci. I’m not sure what it is they admire about him. He’s a narcissistic megalomaniac.
The reason why you are facing fierce resistance is that this isn't just about Fauci. It's about cognitive dissonance. Many of the people defending Fauci are actually defending themselves. They thought they were better educated, intellectually more capable, and morally superior vs. the great unwashed, ignorant masses who were too stupid to understand "the science". Now that more and more information is showing that Fauci played them like fools, they are desperate to avoid having to accept the fact that were the ones that were ignorant. They'll never change their mind about Fauci because then they would have to admit that they were wrong.
Me too!!
"the Left’s totalitarian Doomsday Cult"
Nailed it.
Honestly I don’t recognize anything these people promote as culture..in any way.
It is understandable how the Left Cancel culture hurts those seeking to appeal to a broad audience. However, what happens if we STOP PAYING ATTENTION to any of their garbage?
The movies are feeling the pain of a lack of audience, and music seems to be splintering as well.
A more robust INDEPENDENT media is helping; that said, we “normies/common sense” types should IGNORE these people.
Robby Starbuck made it work against Anheuser Busch and many other “pride promoting” businesses. Can’t we do this for supposed (and tired, imho) cultural “icons”? Seems like most of them are about age 13 emotionally, and even less well informed educationally.
Amen!!!! I pay zero attention to any of them. They’re certainly not my culture.
Sasha, spot on! Exposing the hypocricsy of the left is a full time job. With overtime but few benefits. The work never ends. You’re the best!
What do you say to a country whose majority of young adults admire Hasan Piker?
You say goodbye. We're doomed
I doubt it is a majority. But the GenX generation that parented the GenZs definitely failed to prepare them for this world, coddled and left them vulnerable to this world. My Millennial kids sure do not think or act this way. When I got a whiff that they were being influenced, I shut it down through education
The polls I see put it at 60 plus percent.
A CNN poll I just reviewed puts the number of DSA adherents at 33% of the Democrat party, or maybe 12% of the electorate. Still too many, but there is an equal number of Democrats, 33%, who WON'T vote for DSA candidates who will stay home on election day or vote for the R. That 60% number is the % of Democrat GenZs
It's the 18-34 yr old cohort that polls in the 60% range. That's the future
When I was in that cohort, I was also pretty far left. I would have voted for Jerry Brown for President in 1976 if I had had the chance (as much to have Linda Ronstadt as First Lady as anything). Now I am a conservative independent (do not like either party). This is a natural political evolution. I still am drawn to the former Democrats who run on the R ticket (Reagan, Trump) and absolutely detest Establishment GOP, including both Bushes
That's a valid point of view. Hell, I voted for Jimmy Carter in 76! Haven't voted for a dem since
I've taken to recommending the Teacher Therapy channel on YouTube. Most enlightening.
Is that really true? I have kids that age and they don’t even know who he is.
Keep up the good work
I wonder how to debate people for whom facts mean nothing?
Their only purpose or belief is oppose Trump.
They truly are living in 1984.
"Who controls the Present controls the Past.
Who controls the Past controls the Future." --- Orwell
Truly he is their Emanuel Goldstein, and they live in "the Two Minutes Hate".
you can't. Don't even try
That is small time corruption which I oppose.
Has nothing to do with the discussion
The charges were dropped, FFS! Pay attention and try to keep up.
I disagree with the statement that the right doesn't have the power the left has. Tell that to Chik Fila. After tge CEO said in a Christian magazine that he supported traditional marriage, the rainbow community came after them with a boycott. So conservatives flocked to the restaurant, elevated it to a major brand over night. Then there was Bud Light. The right votes with dollars.
Bounced from LinkedIn by Hoffman's goons for posting Dr. Peter McCullough's early treatment protocols for C19. The Left fears the truth.
LinkedIn is a clown show now. They are constantly hounding me to follow their “leaders” like Barack Obama for ex.
Not happening. It was supposed to be a business networking site, not a platform for the unhinged politics of Reid Hoffman.
I dropped Linkedin a year ago.
Any platform where users are encouraged to declare their pronouns should be dropped …
Amen to that.
Please get the numbers correct, - it's Covid1984....
One is free to be an idiot in the USA. They're easy to ignore.
Not when they cancel you and your livelihood depends upon public access.
Yes, it's important not to put oneself into a role dependent on idiots. But one needs to fight back against that like JK and SS. Justice is a better currency than $$$.
If incompetents like the Far Left end up running anything, they will crash and burn as leaders. If no one follows them, their enterprise will close down. Competent people should do nothing to validate extremists. Let them hang themselves
Two words: John Galt.
Bernie Sanders, AOC, Schumer, will do anything, ANYTHING for votes, power, and money. They won’t stand up to Piker because they want to stay elected and saying something negative about him will get him unelected.
Difference between him and Fuentes, Candace, or this new iteration of Tucker, is that Piker represents the new Dem party “base” (enthusiastic voters and fund raisers). The “right wing” versions of Piker represent some fringe. Republican “base” is squish corporatists (the money raisers), but increasingly more the middle class blue collar (former Dem base). Neither group cares for Fuentes/Owens/Carlson.
As far as the interviewers giving Sanders and AOC “tough” questions: LOL. Asking them to disavow Piker because he applauds 9-11 is handing them prize money. Half the “new” Dem base (radical quasi-Marxist nihilists, manically depressed white female college grads, sexual exhibitionists, and Islamicists) fully agrees with Piker on that one - openly! A “tough” question would be asking if they support Piker’s comments about sending Jewish people back to Auschwitz, acceptability of r@ping women, or denigrating black people. Those would be tough questions, and frankly I’d like to hear what AOC, Bernie, and Schumer have to say about those reported and publicized Piker quotes …
Hasan The Piker may run for President in 2028. He is 35 years old, was born in NJ, and he really does speak for the activist Dem base.
Thanks for adding to my anxiety. Now I have to worry about Piker For President lol
Piker, AOC, Bernie, Hunter Biden, - what difference does it make?
The only halfway decent Democrat is Fetterman, and I expect him to run for President too.
I'm watching the show 'Silo' and it reminds me of the current democrat party.
If leftists didn’t have double standards, would they have any standards at all?
haha. sung to the tune of BB king ‘if it wasn’t for bad luck’…
“if it wasn’t for double standards…i wouldn’t haaaaave no standards at all…”
I'm happy that Bernie's "big tent" party includes Piker and other arsonists that will burn the tent down.
The camel’s nose entered the tent years ago; now its entire body is in the tent, and it’s hungry.
Here’s where you totally nailed it:
“The difference is that the Democrats are allowing this one guy to get a pass because if they turn on him, he’ll turn on them.”
They fear the very monster they’ve created, and not just Piker, but the whole DSA franchise. They’re sh+##ing their pants and have nowhere left to go but down.
Oh, and BTW, AOC claimed Piker apologized for his 9/11 statement. He has most definitely has NOT! She’s a liar.
Would that these people would back down, but they won't until they eradicate anything that impedes them...meaning us.