Sky News Australia’s Youtube ‘COVID’ Ban MAKES NO SENSE
Saagar expresses his doubts about the recent YouTube decision to ban Sky News Australia for its covid coverage.
Obama Throws LAVISH Birthday Party As Delta Surges
Krystal and Saagar question Barack Obama’s decision to throw a massive birthday party amidst the spread of the Delta variant
83% Have A FAVORABLE View Of Police, Dems Try To FLIP Defund Narrative On GOP
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 83 percent of voters have a favorable view of police officers. Ryan Grim and Kim Iversen discuss. This survey was conducted online within the United States from July 28 – 29 among 948 registered voters by HarrisX. The […]
The Infantilization of Western Culture
By Simon Gottschalk, Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas If you regularly watch TV, you’ve probably seen a cartoon bear pitching you toilet paper, a gecko with a British accent selling you auto insurance and a bunny in sunglasses promoting batteries. This has always struck me […]
The American Right Hits Its Hippie Phase
By Kevin Williamson, National Review As Democrats embrace authority and Republicans push countercultural revolution, we’re reenacting the 1960s with the roles reversed. The Republicans are having a Dionysian moment. Who’d’ve thunk? In ye olden days when American intellectuals wrote provocative books that people read and sometimes fought over […]
Boston Globe Readers Discover The Racist History Of Gun Control
By Cam Edwards Bearing Arms Given the anti-gun attitudes of the editors of the Boston Globe, I was shocked to see a column headlined “The Very Racist History of Gun Control” on the paper’s website this weekend. I’m sure the piece by longtime columnist Jeff Jacoby has caused […]
CANCEL CULTURE To Blame For INSUFFERABLE, Woke, Pseudo Comedy?
Author, Ben Burgis, discusses his new book, “Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique Of The Contemporary Left.”
Will COVID Weigh On Voters In 2022 Midterms?
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Amber Athey share their thoughts on whether vaccinations will impact the results of the midterm elections.
Did D.C. Mayor Pull A Gavin Newsom And Ignore Her Own Mask MANDATE?
Real Clear Politics reporter, Philip Wegmann, discusses Mayor Muriel Bowser reportedly ignoring her own mask mandate.
MSNBC Wine Moms RESCUE Lincoln Project Grifters With MILLIONS
Krystal and Saagar dive into the latest Lincoln Project financial disclosures showing that the MSNBC sponsored grift continues
NYT, MSM Spread Egregious COVID Hysteria FOR PROFIT
Krystal and Saagar debunk the covid misinformation spread by a desperate mainstream media.
DC Mayor CAUGHT Violating Her Own Mask Mandate Within HOURS
Krystal and Saagar look at DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s humiliating violation of her own mask order within hours of it taking effect.
Don Lemon’s DISGUSTING Call For Vaccine Mandates
Saagar goes after Don Lemon for his stunning beliefs about those who have not been vaccinated.
‘The Voluntary Phase Is Over’ | Authoritarianism Is So Hot Right Now
The consent of the governed from which the government derives its just powers is voluntary. Is that voluntary phase over too?
Debating Glenn Loury: Are Racial Disparities Caused by “Culture”?
This week, Briahna Joy Gray debates one of America’s foremost Black conservative public intellectuals, Brown University Economics Professor Glenn Loury. Is there overlap between conservative critics of liberal race politics lefty critics of liberal “woke” culture? Or does the conservative focus on fixing “Black culture” serve the same […]
U.S. Media Polarization and the 2020 Election: A Nation Divided
By Mark Jurkowitz, Amy Mitchell, Elisa Shearer and Mason Walker Pew Research As the U.S. enters a heated 2020 presidential election year, a new Pew Research Center report finds that Republicans and Democrats place their trust in two nearly inverse news media environments. Overall, Republicans and Republican-leaning […]
A divided empire: what the urban-rural split means for the future of America
By David Uberti, The Guardian Cities have long been the backbone of the Democratic party, and rural regions the heartland of Republicanism – yet Donald Trump’s election has exposed these divides like never before. Will US metropolises increasingly turn into city-states? Sitting in a downtown Cleveland coffee shop […]
It Took Decades for America to Become This Divided
By Alan Greenblatt Governing Political polarization has become so familiar and entrenched that we barely think how it came about. The backstory is more than a half-century long, involving race, media and a diverging economy. The outcome in Tuesday’s Senate runoffs in Georgia may end up being close, […]
How to split the USA into two countries: Red and Blue
By Frank Jacobs, Big Think America’s two political tribes have consolidated into ‘red’ and ‘blue’ nations, with seemingly irreconcilable differences. Perhaps the best way to stop the infighting is to go for a divorce and give the two nations a country each Based on the UN’s partition plan […]
America is over: Let’s just split into different countries
When a major daily newspaper like the Philadelphia Inquirer publishes an opinion piece like this, it shows these kinds of ideas really are starting to enter the mainstream. By Chuck Bonfig, For The Inquirer George Washington once wrote, “The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the […]
The left-right split is far bigger in the U.S. than in Europe — and it’s growing
By David Lauter, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — This is the May 7, 2021, edition of the Essential Politics newsletter. Like what you’re reading? Sign up to get it in your inbox three times a week. Anyone who has watched U.S. politics in recent years knows that a widening […]
How to Divide the United States into Two Countries
This article was written in April, 2020, just as the pandemic was taking over, and before the George Floyd riots, Biden election, or January 6. Americans are even more divided now. By Kyle Chan, Medium Author’s note: I was surprised by the amount of attention this Medium post […]
Wesley Yang On The Successor Ideology
By Andrew Sullivan The writer who coined that term – a sort of unifying theory of wokeness – talks with me about the Great Awokening, and how to counter it. Wesley is a columnist for Tablet magazine, the author of The Souls of Yellow Folk, and a newly minted substacker. […]
J&J Opioid Settlement Is A ‘SLAP IN THE FACE’ To Families Impacted By Overdose Deaths
Joe Schrank, program director of The Heavenly Center, breaks down the opioid epidemic settlement with Johnson & Johnson and three major drug distributors.
GOP Congressman Proposes Moratorium On ALL IMMIGRATION, Did Kamala Harris Drop The Ball?
Philip Wegmann, White House reporter for Real Clear Politics, discusses Rep. Paul Gosar’s proposal to put a ten-year freeze on all immigration into the United States.
DECEPTIVE campaign tactics UNCOVERED targeting most vulnerable Americans
Politics is not only the new professional wrestling. It’s the new televangelism as well. Kim Iversen and Robby Soave react to reports of deceptive campaign fundraising tactics used to target elderly voters.
What’s wrong with the cultural elite?
By Simon Kuper, Financial Times ‘Trump voters see a class that talks equality while living privilege and exuding contempt’ Picture a coffee shop in a big city almost anywhere on earth. It is filled with stylish, firm-bodied people aged under 50 drinking $5 coffees. Fresh from yoga class, […]
As The Christian Right Is Declining, They Become Hard-Edged, Says Writer
The content of this discussion seems fairly accurate in terms of identifying general trends in religion in the US. The New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg joins Morning Joe to discuss her new piece ‘The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It.’
“Pro-Police” Republicans Laugh At & Ridicule Police Officers
A split between conservatives and pro-piggishness would be a welcome event. –Republicans and media figures who claim to be “pro-police” widely ridicule and laugh at the police officers who testified on the first day of the House panel investigation the January 6 Trump riots
Rand Paul Demands AG Garland INVESTIGATE Dr. Fauci’s Gain-Of-Function LIES
Robby Soave makes the case for firing Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Charlie Kirk’s DERANGED Response to Simone Biles Explained
Krystal looks at the deranged responses to Simone Biles’ withdrawal from the olympics by Charlie Kirk and others
CDC’S Mask Order Is A COMPLETE CLOWN SHOW
Saagar delivers a sharp criticism of the sudden reversal by the CDC on coronavirus guidelines
Workers REVOLT Against Biden’s Vaccine Mandate
Krystal and Saagar break down the opposition to Biden’s vaccine mandate shown by union workers.
Well, It’s Not Like He Isn’t an Admitted Serial Liar
By Thomas L. Knapp, Knappster US Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) wants the US Department of Justice to investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for allegedly lying to Congress about NIH funding of “gain of function” research. Personally, I have trouble […]
The Telos Press Podcast: Roundtable on the Changing Character of the Public Sphere
By Telos Press In today’s episode of the Telos Press Podcast, David Pan talks with Jay Gupta, Mark Kelly, and Tim Luke about the changing character of the public sphere. Their wide-ranging conversation covers a number of topics, including the ways that social media has fragmented the public […]
Monday Mourning: Sunday Morning Shows Reviewed 7/26
This should be somewhat interesting. Katie Halper and Matt Taibbi have a new program critiquing and reviewing the Sunday morning network talk shows. Defund politicians immediately
How U.S. officials worked to prevent coups, Waco-like sieges in Trump’s final year
President Donald Trump’s last year in office was book-ended by impeachment trials and, marked by a deadly pandemic, economic collapse, racial unrest , and a violent insurrection. “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year” authors Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker join Judy Woodruff with […]
How the Culture Wars Killed Libertarianism
As the social media post in the screenshot below indicates, libertarianism has become merely a WWE arena for different culture war factions to play-fight in. Virtually libertarian factions are now mere appendages to one of the major culture war tribal-sectarian coalitions.
George Packer: How America Fractured and the Way Forward
George Packer, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of The Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal and The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, joins The Realignment to discuss how America fractured into four parts and how it can come back together again.
The Vaccine Aristocrats
By Matt Taibbi Covid-19 cases are rising, but the “Pandemic of the Unvaccinated” blame-game campaign is the worst way to address the problem. Then there was the educated Texan from Texas who looked like someone in Technicolor and felt, patriotically, that people of means – decent folk – […]
“They Want You Dead But They’ll Settle For Your Obedience”
By Peter R. Quinones “I just don’t understand, why does the other side hate me?” The answer to that question has become more clear with each passing day, but you’re not going to like it. It’s politics, plain and simple. Politics has overtaken every aspect of the lives […]
Trump Says U.S. Becoming COMMUNIST Country, BLASTS Media After Losing His Social Media Megaphone
Philip Wegmann, White House reporter for Real Clear Politics, reacts to Donald Trump’s latest attacks on the media.
Cleveland Indians To Become The Cleveland Guardians, Trump Calls Change ‘A DISGRACE’
Kim Iversen and Robby Soave react to the Cleveland baseball team changing their name from ‘Cleveland Indians’ to ‘Cleveland Guardians’.
Schumer BLASTS Trump: ‘He’s rooting for our entire political system to fail!’
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) blasted former President Donald Trump on Monday for recent comments towards Republicans about halting all negotiations with Democrats on the bipartisan infrastructure bill
Biden’s Job Approval PLUMMETS To NEW LOW, Faces Scrutiny Over Inflation, Immigration & CNN Townhall
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 58 percent of voters approve of President Biden as president while 42 percent disapprove. Also, new Gallup poll recorded Biden’s lowest approval yet. Robby Soave and Kim Iversen discuss.
White House LIED About Hunter Biden’s ‘Anonymous’ Corrupt Art Sales
Krystal and Saagar discuss the White House’s involvement in Hunter Biden’s corrupt art sales
Bronies Vs. Furries & The Red Brown Coalition
I’m currently having an interesting debate/discussion with this blogger. Interesting fellow. Check it out: Banned Hipster The idea of elite factions, uprisings and lumpen is quite a bit broader than progressive vs conservative in Preston’s view. Take the good old furry v brony divide. In a civil war […]
When It Stops Being a Laughing Matter
At least the America Stasi pays better than the DDR version did. “I put my emotions behind me to do what I thought was right,” said Jackson Reffitt, whose GoFundMe hit $140,000 after he turned in his own father to the FBI. I find it hilarious that the […]
The West’s cultural revolution is over
Exactly. “Social Justice” is just the latest rendition of social conservatism/bourgeois morality. Social conservatism isn’t static. It changes relative to time and place like anything else. Even the staunchest 1950s-style American social conservative was a flaming liberal compared to a medieval Catholic social conservative or an ancient Roman […]
Ibram X. Kendi is the false prophet of a dangerous and lucrative faith
By Christopher Rufo, New York Post Ibram X. Kendi’s name appears everywhere: in school curricula, corporate training programs, even the Navy’s official reading list. The Boston University prof is a blazing supernova in the constellation of radical-chic race activism. But be warned: His philosophy would jeopardize the bedrock […]
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