Fareed on why Harris lost
Measured take with three central reasons they blew it. If only all liberals were this introspective. Feels better to scream and call everyone racists though.
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Came here to see if there was an argument outside racism, misogyny, xenophobia, sexism, etc.
It’s so boring.
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My own personal opinion:
Calling everyone a racist is where the American liberal movement jumped the shark. The welfare state, tax and spend policy, socialism, guns, military spending, foreign policy, amount of government in your life, and even immigration … all that shit is debatable among rational adults. But the culture wars and "you're a racist/homophobe/transphobe/xenophobe if you don't agree with me" and all the other speech policing and identify politics crap is precisely what chased centrists like me to the right; and it's what caused us all to recognize in them their fascism.
A wise old poster once said in these very forums: "if everything is racist, then nothing is racist." Of course, he's 800 years old, so I expect him to be wise.
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Adam Carolla has the joke: “there has never been a better time to be an actual racist.”
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Harris knew what it took to win. That's why she went maga build the wall frack and drill
Nobody believed her because she was lying
Ern was here talking about his new party of moderates but he missed the new bi partisan party that won
because hes hopelessly partisan like the rest
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the Tug's liberal cabal of nit wits can't argue their way out of a wet paper bag.
all they do is react.
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Great points. Leftards think most of us posting on the Tug are racist bigots but when pressed can't say why. The real answer is that leftards consider any support for a closed and secure border to be racist xenophobia, that if you think people should be hired or admitted to colleges based on merit and that DEI is actually racist and unconstitutional you are a racist and failure to fully support the tranny agenda is bigoted. But, none of our leftards will actually come out and say that they fully support the dementia patient/Headboard agenda or which part of that agenda they don't support and why. Soccer duck claimed that we can't know what the Headboard's position is on the tranny agenda.
https://instapundit.com/
QUESTION ASKED: Will Trump’s new cabinet be good for Israel?
Trump has pleased Jewish supporters with three early Cabinet-level appointments. Trump chose New York Representative and House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik to be his ambassador to the United Nations. There, Stefanik plans to advance “America First peace through strength leadership on the world stage.”
Stefanik has repeatedly spoken in support of Israel and Israeli hostages since October 7. However, she truly stood out and won many Jewish fans with her tough questioning of university presidents during the House’s campus antisemitism hearings last academic year. Given that Israel remains the United Nation’s idee fixe, and the institution remains awash in antisemitism, Stefanik should be well prepared for her new position.
Trump’s second appointment is also a New Yorker. Trump has tapped former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin, a Jewish Republican, to be his Environmental Protection Agency Administrator. Before New York’s Jewish Democrats — particularly the Orthodox — crossed over to vote for Trump this month, they voted for Zeldin when he ran for governor of New York as a voice of moderation, back in 2022. Zeldin posted on Twitter/X, “We will restore US energy dominance, revitalise our auto industry to bring back American jobs, and make the US the global leader of AI. We will do so while protecting access to clean air and water.”
The third Cabinet-level appointment, by far the biggest name so far, is reported to be Florida Senator Marco Rubio for Secretary of State. Rubio has represented Florida’s sizeable Jewish community in the Senate since his election in 2010. The New York Times characterised Rubio as “a foreign policy hawk, taking hard lines on China and Iran in particular.” Rubio is also knowledgeable about foreign policy, fluent in all the issues he would have to handle as Secretary. Finally, it’s worth noting that unlike others who could have been named as Trump’s Secretary of State, Rubio is not an isolationist and would immediately reverse Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s intense hostile-to-Israel energy. America’s allies abroad should be cheered by Rubio’s selection.
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There are still consequential positions like Secretary of Defense and Attorney General that remain unclaimed, but Trump is off to a strong start with his nominations. American Jews who supported Trump over concerns about antisemitism and Israel should feel comfortable that Trump sees them, and their concerns should be addressed by the incoming administration. Change is coming.
Worst. Hitler. Ever.
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There is disagreement on the right over Israel. I personally support supporting them. Let's wrap this shit up and start building the Gaza Resort Trump Tower
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I don't think it's a big disagreement. Most of the right supports Israel's right to exist and thinks that our funding of Iran was a huge mistake. We wouldn't need to be supplying Israel with weapons if we didn't help arm Hamas and Hezbollah. There is a fringe out there like Tucker and Candace Owens that seem to have caught some anti-Jew fever but I don't see a lot of it in Republican candidates for national office.
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We should support Israel by simply getting out of their way. That’s all that is needed to wrap this shit up.
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Then fuck 'em. I have almost become a one-issue voter, like my Miami Cuban forebearers were. Tough on Islamic extremism and unconditional support for Israel, which is one and the same.
Anybody who can't see what is at stake there is a nuclear level dumb fuck who deserves to be dropped by helicopter into the middle of Somalia.
And the people who can't fucking see straight don't quite understand, miraculously, that supporting Palestinian Arabs is directly supporting homophobia, xenophobia, sexism, transphobia, religious discrimination and outright chaos and lawlessness. They fucking throw gay men off of buildings over there in accordance with the law (that is after secretly taking turns butt fucking the guy in an act of amazing cognitive dissonance).
I'm quite serious when I say this: I have been making a mental checklist of the people in my circle who are on the wrong side of this issue. They are permanently outside the creepy circle of trust and there's no coming back. Seriously. I won't associate with people that stupid unless I'm stuck with them by blood. And if it's any further out than aunts and uncles, fuck them too. I don't need dumb fuck cousins in my life.
