Unrelated to this post. I was just listening to your podcast about the evil booster mandates at Western University. You do such fantastic work, Trish, you really do. While I found myself in agreement with most points you and your interviewees made, I took issue with one thing. That concerned the comparison of today's students standing up for their rights NOT to be given forced injections of a substance (that we all now know to be ineffective therapeutics with highly adverse KNOWN side effects) with the students of the sixties and seventies protesting the Vietnam War. While I was admittedly not around then and so cannot vouch for the character of all the students (now elderly people) from that era, I think the more appropriate comparison there is between them and the contemporary students who seek to silence and deplatform those they disagree with, particularly those they think have conservative or right-wing opinions. Like I said, I cannot vouch for all the students of the sixties and seventies, but there seems to be a direct line between their narcissism and penchant for fashionably progressive views and the more active, designing, turbulent, and seditious students of our age who champion the latest leftist trends and despise traditional values. This passage from Christopher Caldwell's excellent book, The Age of Entitlement, is worth quoting here in full, as it pertains to the matter:
They were protesting as much to keep themselves out of the war as to end it. In a diary he kept in 1966, the Harvard undergraduate Steven Kelman recorded the misgivings of a friend, who had said:
I’m against the war, I guess, but I wouldn’t want to fight in any war. . . . My brother had a friend who tried to get a four-F by eating a lot of sugar two days before he went for his physical and not pissing—so they’d think he had diabetes. They gave him the four-F, but that afternoon he fell into a sugar coma and died. . . . I could try freaking out—you know, coming in high on pot or doing the homo routine. But they put that kind of rejection on your record, and that can screw you up for life.
Years later Kelman’s Harvard contemporary James Fallows would recall traveling on a bus to the Boston Navy Yard with draft-eligible classmates, who shouted pro–Viet Cong chants and threw their urine samples into the faces of orderlies. The Harvard students hoped that the “undesirable character traits” they manifested would keep them out of military service. Fallows himself got a medical exemption by dieting down to 120 pounds. As they left, a bus arrived with more draftees, whom Fallows described as “boys from Chelsea, thick, dark-haired young men, the white proles of Boston. Most of them were younger than us, since they had just left high school, and it had clearly never occurred to them that there might be a way around the draft.”
Harris is reckless and foolish as well as criminal with his words. I have no question that Trump is a flawed person, too be kind and he has destroyed many lives. I only wish I could point to anyone in politics that is not self serving and will govern completely free from corruption. The crimes that occurred in the 2020 Biden/Trump election is very well documented in the film "2000 Mules" and even though they have video evidence of the mass drop off of mail-in ballots, It seems we collectively, will never know that truth. Like so many truths we will never know for sure although the evidence is difficult to dismiss as easily as the media and their owners have. Sad for the spirit of democracy, Socrates called it too easy to fail because there was too many stupid people eligible to vote. We are what we read and tune into.
Wonderful, thoughtful journalism as always . I suppose what saddens me , is the fact that our government will be doing the same thing , in my opinion, should anyone threaten the current coalition of the powers that be at election time regardless of who is in opposition. Now , like the US , there will be Canadian politicians going to Taiwan, as an example . Ukraine , has eliminated all opposition . It is disheartening to read just how corrupt those in power can be and what lengths they will take to keep power at all costs.
Western society is collapsing under the weight of “progressivism”. Never in a million years would I believe it if someone told me this was all going to happen 3 years ago.
Great article Trish. I stopped talking politics to my PhD-owning, double masking, Toronto liberal, 4X jabbed brother-in-law about one year ago when he wrote in an email to me, “ I don’t give a shit about Hunter Biden’s laptop.” Democracy for some, but not for the feeble minded like me - who hates Trump but crazily wishes to defend his right to run and even win if that’s the way of the vote. Honk honk.
You are a real democracy defender -- that you dislike Trump but will still fight to the death for honesty and fair treatment -- people like you are the ones I admire. Democracy and free speech are hard work and only will survive if we apply the principals to people we despise. ACLU defended the right of Nazis even to protest because the idea was bigger than that moment.
Harris was a hero in my left liberal progressive days. When I encountered his recent words I was left speechless. Shell-shocked. How could a well educated & celebrated critical thinker possibly think dead children in Hunter Biden's basement (a horrible metaphor that nonetheless underscores a wretched life in reality) was less damning than the Trump University scandal? Where does such monstrous thinking come from? Are there even any handles we can grasp that help us understand it? Just when I think there is nothing left liberal progressives can say or do to outstrip the last exercise in delusional thinking along comes the latest installment. Trying to unravel this Gordian knot in order to understand how & why these people think the way they do often leaves me feeling my brain is going to blow up. It's a tangled knot fueled by a hatred so intense it melts all reasonable dialogue, any ability to reflect critically on one's own worldview. In some crazy way this position that one occupies some moral high ground is all tangled up with a righteous hatred which comes from I do not know where. I'm reminded of Robespierre who truly was the most righteous in the land & look where that landed France! Thank you for once again giving words, or trying to give words that help untangle the Gordian knot of left liberal progressive delusional thinking but must confess I am as confused by it now as I was 10 years ago when I awoke. How does one even begin to dialogue when blocked by such frightening (a personification of evil that batters one's inner spirit) anger fed by hatred that comes from a place beyond my ken. Desmet's mass formation psychosis theory helped but even that fails to explain this most recent version of delusional thinking. Grateful you & other "conspiracy theorists" & purveyors of "misinformation" bring such a refreshing (free of self-righteousness, anger & hatred), sane, reasonable approach to our current contrived socio-cultural crisis
It's a Saul Alinsky tactic to attack our credibility, make us feel we are the crazy ones. It's very effective. However, recent words from the likes of Harari, Fauci, Harris demonstrate the emperor has no clothes
My take on Trump is not that he is a massively flawed individual rather that he believes his own publicity and is as criminally minded as your average mobster with the taste to go with it. The FBI "raid" on his home was completely justified despite Marjorie Taylor Greene believing otherwise. Here is hoping the DOJ can prosecute him to the full extent of the law.
They all believe their own publicity. And they are all, to a man, guilty of criminal behaviour, including their fealty to Raytheon and endless regime change wars that kill and maim young Americans and civilians. The only difference with Trump is his obvious vulgarity. It offends their perception of themselves as elites. But let's agree to disagree as you say. To be clear -- I hate them all -- but their dishonest focus on bringing Trump down, including three years of lies about Russia collusion is a bigger threat than he ever was. In my view.
I have to agree with everything you have written, they are all so easily corrupted. If you want a good politician, they would first need to take a vow of poverty; clothe them, house them and feed them, but no businesses on the side. Take away money with potential to be bought. It would be a good start.
Noted:) Hate is a strong word Trish and I don't share your animosity towards "them all" To me the Democratic Party always seems to choose the wrong leader from a field of some talented and principled contenders it consistently blunders. On the International stage it would be productive for America I think to apply the rules it wishes other nations to abide by to their own engagements. As for Russian collusion none of that made any sense to me it seemed like fiction.
I retract “hate”… it was a bad flourish. I think as a journalist I found the lies about Trump so egregious that I seem like I’m defending him. I’m neutral and do think he was good on trade and FP plus he took the piss out of the management consultants who sold out the working class to China. That is my blind spot… the hollowing out of Americas good manufacturing jobs.
Trumps opponents certainly played the man rather than the ball and it was commendable of him to resist the endless wars the US is involved in but having said it is a shame a person like Tulsi Gabbard isnt in charge instead of Trump or Biden
>>"the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures."
NAH. There is NO democracy in an oligarchic monopoly. As our most esteemed living intellectual wrote in 1997; i.e., John Ralston Saul: "We are witnessing a slow moving corporate coup d'etat." There's no difference between the Dems and the RINO's. They both support the bloated military the only manufacturing really still extant stateside and the capitalist system. With the NDP and the Greens supporting the C-19 mandates, there's NO diff here either, between any of the 4 major 'parties'.
All I say now to my many Trump-deranged friends, who have all declined to read the Molly Ball piece, is this: “Joe Biden was inaugurated, so he’s the president. But I’m not sure he was elected. If Donald Trump had been inaugurated for a second term, I couldn’t be sure he had been elected, either. That uncertainty is a feature of our elections, and it’s intentional.” This approach allows me to speak a general truth without saying that I believe Joe Biden to be an unelected, illegitimate president. To paraphrase Solzhenitsyn (“Live Not by Lies”), lies may be all around us, but we don’t have to let the lies pass through us.
I wish we could all be so sure about the Gore/Bush election. I'm not saying that Gore would have done a better job, but Cheney ran the Iraq war and plainly, Bush was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Gore definitely got a great gig with the climate change platform he starred in, I too believed that the weather patterns and loss of ice etc. was due to climate change. I understand that there are many scientists who state that there is no evidence that human activity is having the effect that the climate change camps say it is, but I don't believe that any scientist can rule that hypothesis out completely or too what degree we are having an effect. All I can say is that the one who got the most votes should have won. We will never know the truth sadly, due to cheating.
Unrelated to this post. I was just listening to your podcast about the evil booster mandates at Western University. You do such fantastic work, Trish, you really do. While I found myself in agreement with most points you and your interviewees made, I took issue with one thing. That concerned the comparison of today's students standing up for their rights NOT to be given forced injections of a substance (that we all now know to be ineffective therapeutics with highly adverse KNOWN side effects) with the students of the sixties and seventies protesting the Vietnam War. While I was admittedly not around then and so cannot vouch for the character of all the students (now elderly people) from that era, I think the more appropriate comparison there is between them and the contemporary students who seek to silence and deplatform those they disagree with, particularly those they think have conservative or right-wing opinions. Like I said, I cannot vouch for all the students of the sixties and seventies, but there seems to be a direct line between their narcissism and penchant for fashionably progressive views and the more active, designing, turbulent, and seditious students of our age who champion the latest leftist trends and despise traditional values. This passage from Christopher Caldwell's excellent book, The Age of Entitlement, is worth quoting here in full, as it pertains to the matter:
They were protesting as much to keep themselves out of the war as to end it. In a diary he kept in 1966, the Harvard undergraduate Steven Kelman recorded the misgivings of a friend, who had said:
I’m against the war, I guess, but I wouldn’t want to fight in any war. . . . My brother had a friend who tried to get a four-F by eating a lot of sugar two days before he went for his physical and not pissing—so they’d think he had diabetes. They gave him the four-F, but that afternoon he fell into a sugar coma and died. . . . I could try freaking out—you know, coming in high on pot or doing the homo routine. But they put that kind of rejection on your record, and that can screw you up for life.
Years later Kelman’s Harvard contemporary James Fallows would recall traveling on a bus to the Boston Navy Yard with draft-eligible classmates, who shouted pro–Viet Cong chants and threw their urine samples into the faces of orderlies. The Harvard students hoped that the “undesirable character traits” they manifested would keep them out of military service. Fallows himself got a medical exemption by dieting down to 120 pounds. As they left, a bus arrived with more draftees, whom Fallows described as “boys from Chelsea, thick, dark-haired young men, the white proles of Boston. Most of them were younger than us, since they had just left high school, and it had clearly never occurred to them that there might be a way around the draft.”
Harris is reckless and foolish as well as criminal with his words. I have no question that Trump is a flawed person, too be kind and he has destroyed many lives. I only wish I could point to anyone in politics that is not self serving and will govern completely free from corruption. The crimes that occurred in the 2020 Biden/Trump election is very well documented in the film "2000 Mules" and even though they have video evidence of the mass drop off of mail-in ballots, It seems we collectively, will never know that truth. Like so many truths we will never know for sure although the evidence is difficult to dismiss as easily as the media and their owners have. Sad for the spirit of democracy, Socrates called it too easy to fail because there was too many stupid people eligible to vote. We are what we read and tune into.
Wonderful, thoughtful journalism as always . I suppose what saddens me , is the fact that our government will be doing the same thing , in my opinion, should anyone threaten the current coalition of the powers that be at election time regardless of who is in opposition. Now , like the US , there will be Canadian politicians going to Taiwan, as an example . Ukraine , has eliminated all opposition . It is disheartening to read just how corrupt those in power can be and what lengths they will take to keep power at all costs.
Western society is collapsing under the weight of “progressivism”. Never in a million years would I believe it if someone told me this was all going to happen 3 years ago.
Great article Trish. I stopped talking politics to my PhD-owning, double masking, Toronto liberal, 4X jabbed brother-in-law about one year ago when he wrote in an email to me, “ I don’t give a shit about Hunter Biden’s laptop.” Democracy for some, but not for the feeble minded like me - who hates Trump but crazily wishes to defend his right to run and even win if that’s the way of the vote. Honk honk.
You are a real democracy defender -- that you dislike Trump but will still fight to the death for honesty and fair treatment -- people like you are the ones I admire. Democracy and free speech are hard work and only will survive if we apply the principals to people we despise. ACLU defended the right of Nazis even to protest because the idea was bigger than that moment.
We will have to agree to disagree
Harris was a hero in my left liberal progressive days. When I encountered his recent words I was left speechless. Shell-shocked. How could a well educated & celebrated critical thinker possibly think dead children in Hunter Biden's basement (a horrible metaphor that nonetheless underscores a wretched life in reality) was less damning than the Trump University scandal? Where does such monstrous thinking come from? Are there even any handles we can grasp that help us understand it? Just when I think there is nothing left liberal progressives can say or do to outstrip the last exercise in delusional thinking along comes the latest installment. Trying to unravel this Gordian knot in order to understand how & why these people think the way they do often leaves me feeling my brain is going to blow up. It's a tangled knot fueled by a hatred so intense it melts all reasonable dialogue, any ability to reflect critically on one's own worldview. In some crazy way this position that one occupies some moral high ground is all tangled up with a righteous hatred which comes from I do not know where. I'm reminded of Robespierre who truly was the most righteous in the land & look where that landed France! Thank you for once again giving words, or trying to give words that help untangle the Gordian knot of left liberal progressive delusional thinking but must confess I am as confused by it now as I was 10 years ago when I awoke. How does one even begin to dialogue when blocked by such frightening (a personification of evil that batters one's inner spirit) anger fed by hatred that comes from a place beyond my ken. Desmet's mass formation psychosis theory helped but even that fails to explain this most recent version of delusional thinking. Grateful you & other "conspiracy theorists" & purveyors of "misinformation" bring such a refreshing (free of self-righteousness, anger & hatred), sane, reasonable approach to our current contrived socio-cultural crisis
Thanks for the kind words…this thinking by Harris and the rest is so very bizarre I am constantly checking myself to make sure I am not the crazy one.
It's a Saul Alinsky tactic to attack our credibility, make us feel we are the crazy ones. It's very effective. However, recent words from the likes of Harari, Fauci, Harris demonstrate the emperor has no clothes
You’re not.
My take on Trump is not that he is a massively flawed individual rather that he believes his own publicity and is as criminally minded as your average mobster with the taste to go with it. The FBI "raid" on his home was completely justified despite Marjorie Taylor Greene believing otherwise. Here is hoping the DOJ can prosecute him to the full extent of the law.
They all believe their own publicity. And they are all, to a man, guilty of criminal behaviour, including their fealty to Raytheon and endless regime change wars that kill and maim young Americans and civilians. The only difference with Trump is his obvious vulgarity. It offends their perception of themselves as elites. But let's agree to disagree as you say. To be clear -- I hate them all -- but their dishonest focus on bringing Trump down, including three years of lies about Russia collusion is a bigger threat than he ever was. In my view.
I have to agree with everything you have written, they are all so easily corrupted. If you want a good politician, they would first need to take a vow of poverty; clothe them, house them and feed them, but no businesses on the side. Take away money with potential to be bought. It would be a good start.
'I See the Future and It’s Hell on Earth,' Warns Trends Forecaster Gerald Celente
Aug 5, 2022 - Stansberry Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3avgtqPKVc8
"Washington Has Been Predicting a Russian Invasion of Ukraine for 8 Years"
February 15, 2022 - "From the Trends Journal 8 years ago (Spring 2014) - Washington was claiming then that Russia was about to attack Ukraine"
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/02/15/washington-has-been-predicting-a-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-for-8-years/
Noted:) Hate is a strong word Trish and I don't share your animosity towards "them all" To me the Democratic Party always seems to choose the wrong leader from a field of some talented and principled contenders it consistently blunders. On the International stage it would be productive for America I think to apply the rules it wishes other nations to abide by to their own engagements. As for Russian collusion none of that made any sense to me it seemed like fiction.
I retract “hate”… it was a bad flourish. I think as a journalist I found the lies about Trump so egregious that I seem like I’m defending him. I’m neutral and do think he was good on trade and FP plus he took the piss out of the management consultants who sold out the working class to China. That is my blind spot… the hollowing out of Americas good manufacturing jobs.
Trumps opponents certainly played the man rather than the ball and it was commendable of him to resist the endless wars the US is involved in but having said it is a shame a person like Tulsi Gabbard isnt in charge instead of Trump or Biden
I worship Tulsi.
Understandable given the alternatives! She is pretty clear eyed
I’m speechless.
Harris set his career on fire long ago--he's a total dick.
>>"the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures."
NAH. There is NO democracy in an oligarchic monopoly. As our most esteemed living intellectual wrote in 1997; i.e., John Ralston Saul: "We are witnessing a slow moving corporate coup d'etat." There's no difference between the Dems and the RINO's. They both support the bloated military the only manufacturing really still extant stateside and the capitalist system. With the NDP and the Greens supporting the C-19 mandates, there's NO diff here either, between any of the 4 major 'parties'.
Sam Harris has been successfully demoralized.
All I say now to my many Trump-deranged friends, who have all declined to read the Molly Ball piece, is this: “Joe Biden was inaugurated, so he’s the president. But I’m not sure he was elected. If Donald Trump had been inaugurated for a second term, I couldn’t be sure he had been elected, either. That uncertainty is a feature of our elections, and it’s intentional.” This approach allows me to speak a general truth without saying that I believe Joe Biden to be an unelected, illegitimate president. To paraphrase Solzhenitsyn (“Live Not by Lies”), lies may be all around us, but we don’t have to let the lies pass through us.
RIGHT.....JOE is an OCCUPANT of the White House. Nothing more.
Wow, just wow. And the other guy says, "fuck the kids in the basement." I want to throw up.
Excellent piece Trish. Check out Dinesh DeSouza’s “2,000 Mules” to see how the election was rigged.
Oh fuck do I have to? If anything was rigged it was Bush beating Gore
Gore in no way won. Gore got a nice consolation prize of Apple stock.
And a lifetime climate grift annuity income
I wish we could all be so sure about the Gore/Bush election. I'm not saying that Gore would have done a better job, but Cheney ran the Iraq war and plainly, Bush was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Gore definitely got a great gig with the climate change platform he starred in, I too believed that the weather patterns and loss of ice etc. was due to climate change. I understand that there are many scientists who state that there is no evidence that human activity is having the effect that the climate change camps say it is, but I don't believe that any scientist can rule that hypothesis out completely or too what degree we are having an effect. All I can say is that the one who got the most votes should have won. We will never know the truth sadly, due to cheating.
YES...Dinesh DeSouza's 2,000 Mules proved 2020 Election Fraud.
Mike Lindell is having the MOMENT OF TRUTH SUMMIT this weekend.
Go to www.frankspeech.com
to find out details....
Thanks Trish