Not only that, but when finally forced to face the extremely obvious lies, they react in anger at the people who expose the lies, accusing them of racism. They're upset not that they were conned but that their fantasy was disrupted.
If they treated Jason Arday like they do other white people, then they would have been perfectly capable of seeing through the bullshit from the beginning and this whole sad story could have been avoided.
>The “rhetoric” coming from both sides of the conflict over the Strait of Hormuz has “caused considerable confusion and doubt,” CNN’s David Goldman understatedly observed. Yet, at present, “The evidence is clear,” he conceded: “Iran is losing much of its control over the critical waterway.”
>One month ago, the number of commercial ships transiting through the strait via the U.S. approved route along the Omani coast was close to zero. Today, however, over 80 percent of the vessels that have made it through the strait are taking the U.S.-authorized lane. And even though the United States has not responded with kinetic force to every Iranian attack on commercial traffic in the strait, sometimes to the consternation of America’s Gulf partners, that has not dissuaded countries like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates’ tankers from making “dark traffic” runs on the strait.
>CNN could not independently verify Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s claim that “combined oil transits through the strait and rerouted around the waterway totaled around 15 million barrels per day,” which approaches the pre-war average of 20-million barrels. But it couldn’t gainsay the experts. As one industry analyst conceded, “It increasingly looks like Iran has at least partially lost control of the strait.”
>The Iranian regime is feeling the pain. As Hot Air’s Duane Patterson explained, the economic conditions on the ground inside the Islamic Republic are catastrophic. “Iran’s economy is currently experiencing around 90 percent inflation, and it turns out the worst may be yet to come,” he wrote. Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior fellow Miad Maleki concurs. “Nearly every part of Iran’s oil economy,” he wrote, “owes massive, growing sums to each other, with no real money moving through the system to pay any of it back.”
>The gas lines are growing, and the petrol that Iranians are allowed to buy may soon be rationed. Iranian authorities are triaging their resources by prescheduling hours-long blackouts. The regime is ramping up executions and cracking down on dissent as the prospect of economic collapse brings with it the risk of renewed civil unrest.
>Perhaps that’s why it’s not just probable but likely that the Islamic Republic will attempt to “widen the war,” as the Wall Street Journal reported. “Alarming weaker Gulf countries like Kuwait, Iran’s leaders are increasingly talking about offensive operations on enemy territory,” its dispatch revealed. “The intelligence, including intercepted communications, showed the Revolutionary Guard sending commanders to areas controlled by Yemen’s Houthis to plan for a stepped-up confrontation with Saudi Arabia in coordination with Iraqi militias that also are backed by Iran.”
>The regime has to shake up the present dynamic somehow. On the present course, Iran is headed toward insolvency, disorder, and an internal conflict between the regime and Iran’s captive citizenry. Trump’s inconstancy may yet steal defeat from the jaws of victory. But for the first time in months, something like victory for the United States is once again within sight.
Daily pot smokers almost always say the same thing: “I’m fully functional and people are shocked when I tell them I smoke weed every day.”
Well, the surprise comes from the fact that most people never assume daily drug use in others unless they see you in the act.
But they are absolutely noticing your lack of engagement, hazy thinking, generally lazy demeanor, and tendency to go on “profound” tangents no one else cares about.
And the thing is, they think that's just you. They think you’re dumb or at the very least generally a little off.
You’re not getting away with it like you think you are.
AOC is not very bright or well-informed but she has developed that preternatural sense common to women who grew up as young pretty girls that allows them to be charming even in the absence of wit.
To be clear, I don't want AOC to run because she is an idiot, is unqualified, her politics are the shallow sophomoric dreams of an edgy teenager who just learned about Marx, her obsession with celebrity and online/media attention is pathetic and unbecoming of someone who wishes to be a leader (yes, just like Trump), and she is absolutely unquestionably an idiot (again, like Trump). I hope the primaries dash her pathetic dreams.
But she's not unnattractive (unlike Trump) and has behind her a skilled social media team that is highly adept at creating and then heroically destroying strawmen on her behalf. Her base laps it up and asks for seconds.
That base will shrink as soon as she ages out of being imaginary girlfriend material. Then all they’ll be left with is the empty teenage brat rhetoric.
The more people on the Left convince themselves that America is some irredeemable, racist hellhole and that climate change means the world is ending any day now anyways, the less and less they're willing or even capable of raising emotionally well-adjusted kids.
When I look at the people in America having kids today, I think you can broadly put them into a few categories:
- kids from single-parent, welfare-dependent households that offer little to no structure or discipline. Theser kids will unfortunately mostly grow up to be as dysfunctional as their parents.
- children (usually only one) born to perpetually aggrieved, upper-middle class progressive parents who will have a feckless father and Karen mother. These kids will grow up to be either entirely jaded - worn out to the point of not caring about much of anything by their insane parents - or constantly looking for an excuse to lose their minds in order to prove how special they are.
- children from Christian parents who could very well be pretty flawed parents but will nonetheless raise their kids to be independent and have a sense of optimism. Theses will be the ones just looking to get an education, a job, and raise a family.
There was for a long time another category of parents who I was your most typical: working- to lower-middle-class parents who would have 2.5 kids, maybe raise them to be a bit religious but not be super serious about it, make sure they graduate high school, and encourage them to go off, get a job, and do likewise. These people just aren't having kids anymore.
There are always exceptions, but that leaves mostly the three above categories.
>A Democratic Midwestern governor moves quickly to save his party from socialism.
The day before Tuesday’s stunning Democratic gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin, Governor Tony Evers traveled the state to stump for his preferred candidate, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley. It was unusual that a sitting governor got involved in a partisan primary for his successor, but in this case, the circumstances of Evers’s involvement are almost too incredible to believe.
Effectively, Evers, a relatively moderate Democrat, stood up to the socialist wave overcoming his party, and he did so armed with only a soup ladle. Francesca Hong, a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America and a backbencher in the state legislature, had shot to the front of the gubernatorial field, imperiling the Democrats’ chances of winning against Republican Representative Tom Tiffany in November. Every legitimate poll had Hong walking away with the race, leading by double digits, and in some cases doubling the vote of her next-closest competitor.
Republicans clearly wanted Hong to be the Democrats’ candidate. Past tweets of hers expressed crackpot theories, including the idea that Thanksgiving and virtually every other holiday should be canceled, that police and prisons should be abolished, and that being in a place with too many white people made her uncomfortable. Hong actually believed all the lunacy that your uncle on Facebook is trying to convince you Democrats believe.
“She’s not ready for prime time,” Crowley said of Hong. “And the fact that she’s been asked very simple questions and the way that she’s responding to those questions makes the news even more should cause all of us to pause."
Nonetheless, Hong was coasting on a socialist momentum within the Democratic Party that had birthed U.S. Senate candidates including Graham Platner in Maine and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. And in the past few weeks, Hong’s nomination seemed inevitable.
It was, until Evers stepped in and reversed the race in a way that may never have been seen in modern politics. In order to stop Hong and face down the socialist wing of his party, Evers convinced Crowley, who had dropped out of the race weeks before, to reenter the contest and become the “establishment” candidate. And for weeks, it looked as if the effort was going to fall short, given Hong’s huge polling lead. And yet, on Election Day, it appears that Democrats all over the state decided to side with Evers in preventing Wisconsin from becoming a national laughingstock.
Democrats suddenly snapping out of an ideological delusion in favor of electability isn’t entirely unprecedented. In 2019, after Bernie Sanders was barreling toward the presidential nomination, lesser candidates such as Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar quickly dropped out of the race and threw their support behind the establishment candidate, Joe Biden, who went on to defeat incumbent President Donald Trump.
But Evers’s last-minute switcheroo was even bolder, as he exhumed the dead corpse of a previous candidate in order to topple the socialist front-runner. He didn’t need candidates dropping out to coalesce establishment voters; he actually added more candidates to the race to do so. And in the span of about a week, he apparently turned an entire state against an extreme candidate. (And it wasn’t just the state — national figures including Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Elizabeth Warren all declined to endorse Hong, treating her as if she were a Steve Bannon underwear calendar.)
Evers’s emergency machinations should go down as one of the bravest political coups in American history, in one of the most chaotic elections the nation has seen. In the words of Saturday Night Live’s Stefon, this race had everything, from sex scandals to candidates tanking their campaigns with fiscal mismanagement. And it was all capped by a candidate dropping out of the race, then jumping back in and winning the nomination just weeks later.
Evers is darn near the last governor you’d expect to strike so swiftly and decisively. He plays the part of soft-spoken, aw-shucks Midwestern governor to perfection (even though he is occasionally prone to public profanity).
And yet, while Republicans may be angry that the Democrats have a more viable candidate to run against Tom Tiffany, there is something admirable in anyone who stands up to the creeping influence of socialism and expanded government control of our lives. Republicans rooting for Hong were playing a dangerous game — while Tiffany was polling ahead of Hong, we have now seen just how wrong polls can be. Hong could have beaten Tiffany; then the state’s residents would have been stuck with a lunatic as their governor. At least now Badger State residents can know that their next governor will be a sane person.
And for that, whether on the left or right, they should thank Tony Evers for throwing himself on the socialist grenade.
I'm so sick of candidates for major offices with either no governing experience (Trump, Hong, etc.) or little experience in terms of time and none in terms of actual accomplishments (Obama, AOC, etc.).
H.W. Bush was director of the CIA and the VP for 8 years. Clinton was a state AG for two years and then governor for ten. These people had real experience governing and running large institutions.
I feel like it's become so common place for political candidates who have no resume whatsover that we don't even notice anymore.
Harris was VP for 4 years, sure, but she was famously sidelined the whole time and the one thing she was given credit of responsibility for - the border - well the less said the better. Before that she was a one term senator with no major legislation to her name.
Vance is seen as one of if not the leading Republican candidate for 2028. Again, sure a 4 year VP... for a dumpsterfire of an administration and before that a one-term senator with no major legislation to his name.
If you were interviewing for a CEO position, you wouldn't consider the unpaid interns application. So why the hell are we doing that for governors, senators, and the president?
Jason Arday, who spent years as the toast of the teachers’ lounge as Cambridge University’s youngest-ever black professor, finally lost his job when Cambridge was forced to acknowledge his many blatant lies.
A book he claimed to have published, Being Young, Black and Male: Challenging the Dominant Discourse, was never actually published. Contrary to his claims, he is evidently not a visiting professor at the University of Glasgow, Ohio State University, or Nelson Mandela University, nor an honorary professor at Durham University.
His 2015 Ph.D. thesis appears to have included more than 100 instances of flagrant plagiarism. There are additional allegations that papers he published in 2018 and 2021 likewise contain substantial plagiarism.
He claimed he ran 600 miles in six days; he said he ran 30 marathons in 35 days, some of it while suffering a hairline fracture; he claimed he personally raised $7.4 million for charity; he said he appeared in a BBC childhood documentary series that aired in 1964 and whose participants were born in 1956 or 1957 (he was born in 1985); he said he was threatened at knifepoint by a masked man who demanded he resign as professor (the university found no evidence); he boasted that a charity that does not send volunteers overseas had sent him overseas; and he claimed someone once mailed a severed pig’s head to his parents’ house, leading to a police investigation of local butchers in which one was found to have sold a “whole hog” the morning of the package delivery (police have no record of any such event, and the butchers named by Arday say the authorities never contacted him).
THIS IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO A FULL SUMMARY OF HIS BLATANTLY OBVIOUS LIES.
So, what do you think? Do you think something like this happens at one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world entirely in a vacuum? Or do you think higher ed is so ideologically captured that it's become a complete farce?
But hey, maybe Arday can get 51 former intelligence officials to issue a public statement vouching for his legitimacy.
The DSA’s new platform, unveiled earlier this month, calls for sweeping changes to our system of government and shredding the Constitution. Those include abolishing the Senate, the presidency, and the Supreme Court. Those institutions would be replaced with an “executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress."
Say goodbye to an independent judiciary. Judges will finally always rule the way our enlightened overlords see fit.
They want to write an entirely new constitution that declares America to be a "democratic socialist republic". A lot of communist states declared themselves to be socialist republics, and none of those socialist republics were democratic. Wanting to eliminate checks and balances shows the regime they want to create.
They claim to be for democracy, but they say the President should be chosen by Congress, so they don't want there to be presidential elections that the people can vote in anymore. So their model is a one party state which could become a dictatorship if the DSA president decides to centralize their power.
Obviously, if these people somehow managed to gain majority power they would work on entrenching their power so they don't have to ever lose elections again. They might say you have to be a socialist to run for office. Then you have to be a socialist that is part of DSA. Then you have to agree with the party line.
History repeats itself. You do not have to look very far to see where this kind of revolutionary talk ends.
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It’s a short but nice hike up (and plenty of other good trails to hike in the area) and just staggering when you see it in real life. It seems so unreal that a giant (and it is gigantic) rock could balance like this. Well worth a visit.
Fauci testified before Congress on March 11, 2020, that the mortality rate of Covid was between 1 and 3 percent, or that Covid-19 was ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu.
But one month before his testimony, Fauci wrote in his diary about a conversation he had with former CDC director Tom Frieden in which they both agreed that the case fatality rate was “more like 0.2-0.3 % rather than 2.0%.”
Fauci is a liar whose lies cost this country immeasurably. He was a self-obsessed narcissist.
It was obvious 6 years ago to anyone who has spent a little time observing fallen human nature. Fauci loved the fact that so many people treated him as a scientist, a prophet, and an oracle (remember that just this year, Georgetown U had him play the role of a blind prophet). It was obvious in his inordinately long press conferences, when he was pretending to know all kinds of things when he didn't have a clue. It was obvious in his increasingly arbitrary guidance around what was "safe" and "not safe". It was obvious how one minute masking would do nothing, the next it would do everything. How one day herd immunity would be achieved at 60% vaccinated, then 75, then 80.
So it became that rioting doesn’t spread the virus but going to the beach or church does. And those who adored him in 2020 will forever pretend he did nothing wrong.
But you don't have to be one of those people. You can admit you were wrong.
And yes, the far Left (such as the DSA) is just as bad, if not worse than MAGA.
If either party could just get their shit together and nominate a sane, professional politician (Shapiro for Dems, Rubio for Republicans, among a few others on both sides), they would absolutely clean up against the alienating figures on the other side (AOC on the Left, Vance on the Right, among many others on both sides).
And, no, AOC is not moderate, she is not reasonable, she is not electable. She endorses DSA members, constantly badmouths America and Western society in general (going so far as to deny the very concept of Western culture and values at the Munich Security Conference), and talks to everyone who disagrees with her like a bratty teenager who just got told "no" by her parents.
And to all those who will zero in on me citing Rubio as a good candidate, I'm not saying I like him. I'm saying he's an articulate adult who doesn't go out of his way to shit talk opponents or take the most extreme position on any given issue, and the bar is now so goddamn low that that makes him pretty appealing to most Americans.
It's so endlessly depressing. JUST BE NORMAL!
I subscribed to the Free Press for the first three years of publicaiton and commented on articles often. After Trump was reelected, I felt they became kind of directionless. I also became disenchanted with the commenters who seemed to defend Trump tooth and nail over everything. Also, their prices went up and I couldn't justify $10/month.
There seems to be more than a few subscribers in this sub, so how is it today? Do you find they still regularly publish interesting pieces? Is the comment section still ride or die for Trump?
I know, because I get those DMs after almost every post.
I post about politics on a few subs, all of them fairly niche. Things almost never get heated. Users express opinions, sometimes forcefully, but - and I know this might sound unbelievable - no one has ever accused me of fellating Donald Trump.
But this sub stands out in that any time one of my posts get any traction, I get DMs from at least a few people throwing the most juvenile insults at me, the online equivalent of this guy.
I clearly have strong political opinions, but the reason I enjoy sharing them on this and other subs is because I enjoy debate and reading other people's opinions. And I understand that ultimately NONE OF THIS MATTERS. No election is getting swayed by a Reddit post.
I'll never for the life of me understand letting someone else's political opinion on Reddit get you so upset you decide you need to tell someone to kill themself in a DM. It happens with commenters here quite often.