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@dhmorgan — Did I accidentally hit on something? When I speculated that you might not be an American, it was because your rendition of American politics was, to exaggerate slightly, at the level of “and then the fairies crowned the candidate who was pure of heart”.
But then you came back with a very curious response. “My parents were born in Kentucky and I was born in California where my father was stationed while in the Marines. Q.E.D.”
While I accept that you are every bit as much a “natural born citizen” as Barack Obama, there’s nothing there to say where you went after you were born in California. For example, I have no difficulty saying that I’ve lived my entire life in New York and New Jersey.
My senior Senator is Chuck Schumer, arguably the most loathsome elected official in the United States; my junior Senator is Kristen Gillibrand, a hypocrite and political hack but still an angel of light compared to Schumer. So you see my view of what it takes to get elected to the Senate may be a little more pessimistic than yours.
I hope you’re right, that Mitt Romney’s treacherous grandstanding will not help deliver the Senate (and the Presidency) to the Democrats. Given how quickly politics moves these days, for all we know, four months from now the election may turn on Quemoy and Matsu.
I am frankly disgusted. Not only that someone continues to tell this lie, but that no one pushed back. (Unless I missed it. Bethany pushed back on the “white supremacist” tweet by comparing her grandparents to DT on all things Twitter. Fair enough, but it should have been pointed out that DT obviously didn’t listen to the audio. And that he deleted it. So he only wanted to sound like a white supremacist until someone noticed???) At which point I hit pause with no plans to return. Ever.
I avoid talk of politics these days. But when I do find myself engaged, and someone lies, I feel duty bound to correct them. To bad our esteemed podcast team, who are employed to talk about politics, don’t feel similarly.
I seem to just automatically ignore things like that, since I already know the reality/truth. A lot of people still don’t, so I should probably be more insistent on making sure they get the message at every opportunity. Unfortunately there are some cases, such as my poor benighted mother, who would never believe – probably not even understand – the actual facts.
A point: Heather MacDonald completely ducked or misunderstood the followup she was given about police violence towards black citizens. She went back to the data on shootings, which have been found to be race-neutral. As a previous guest on the podcast, Dr. Roland Fryer of Harvard, has found, the police are much, much more likely to use physical force on black people than white people.
That’s the real problem that we have with policing in the US.
The everyday drip, drip, drip of indignities and unjustified force being used on black citizens has lead to current distrust and resentment of policing. If you have been hassled and mistreated by the police, it’s not an unreasonable leap to think that they might shoot you. It needs to be fixed.
Except that the same factors applied to shootings, would also apply to other non-shooting incidents. The ones where someone gets shot, are just the ones that escalated to that point. But the same “Share of violent crime” factors would still apply, because they mean that any random black citizen a cop happens to encounter is far more likely to be a (violent or non-violent) criminal than any random white person a cop happens to encounter.
I found the Sam Harris podcast (can we pull back from the brink) to be very helpful in trying to understand what is going on. I think he’s correct; we have populations all suffering from PTSD caused by different things. Many Blacks are convinced that the police are harassing them and “hunting them down”; cops feel threatened.
Additionally, there seems to be a lack of understanding by some being stopped by the police that the presence of a gun changes the interaction, and it’s incumbent on everyone to understand that. I keep reading about the “talk” that Blacks have to give their sons; is that the same “talk” I gave my three white sons (and should have given my white daughter)?
While many Black people might feel harassed, I have two comments. 1) many are suffering PTSD from experiences that are not their own. They’ve been told over and over that they’re under threat. 2) thanks to over criminalization, people in some neighborhoods are forced to interact with the police way too much. (I’m thinking Eric Garner) and I’m sure at some point you’re going to feel defensive and bitter.
Anyway, I am no huge fan of Sam Harris, but I considered this podcast helpful and time well spent.
https://samharris.org/podcasts/207-can-pull-back-brink/
HEY GARY MEET ANGELA lol
You have to hear this.
Blacks get the shaft in Minnesota. The Democrat party creates systemic racism. I’m dead serious. They just did a confession session at the University of Minnesota. Definitely watch this.
There is a one hour discussion on YouTube.
I wondered the same thing. The Charlottesville misinformation campaign was so frustrating for those of us who were paying attention. Sometimes I wonder if Trump supporters are waging an uphill battle as we hear people in own party only repeat the soundbites from CNN, etc. When I watch the nightly network news, I find myself saying over and over — but that’s not what he said! To have it repeated here without any correction by people who should know better is concerning.
Apparently Shermichael traces the moment he left the party to soundbites that left out the most conciliatory part of the speech. I’ve noticed many who find serious fault with Trump’s reelection within the party are prone to repeating things he said some four years ago during the campaign and which are either no longer relevant or have since been corrected with more nuanced language. They didn’t support him from day one.
Well, if Shermichael is seeking his 15 minutes of fame, he’s on the right track as the media is delighted to give publicity to Republicans on the Never side. In case there’s any doubt, Erick Erickson just said on his podcast that he had lots of invitations from the political shows when he was against Trump, but the phone stopped ringing when he announced he was a supporter. The hard left is coming for us, and the only person standing in the way is Trump. Lord help us.
Some people still think Sarah Palin said “I can see Russia from my house!”
I can vouch for this.
@rktsci — “police are much, much more likely to use physical force on black people than white people”.
Statistically speaking, do black people behave the same as white people when they are arrested? I suspect not. Are black suspects larger and stronger than white suspects, on average? Almost certainly. More likely to resist violently? Probably.
Do white cops use more force against black suspects than black cops do? Probably the reverse.
The race of the cop is a data point that is often missing. I keep telling people that if you’re ready to talk about abuse of power at all levels, I’m all ears. But to continuously focus on “racism” is not only missing the point, it’s counter productive. Much better for the powers that we keep yelling “racist” to each other and are too distracted to focus on our real problems.
Yes. And more. But just for one example, people need to remember that “unarmed black teenager” Michael Brown was an 18-year-old, 6′ 4″ tall, 292 lb, adult man trying to grab a cop’s gun.
No, there is no third choice, now or ever. In 2024, you will have two choices. Find a conservative who fights the left, not joins them.
I will blame the Never Trumpers.
Republicans like Gary are why we lose ground in the culture and political battlefields every year.
Neither will I, if they support Biden.
Then why are you enthused about John McCain?
The whole who is a RINO and given what has happened to this country since 1988 makes one ask a lot of questions. I just don’t see the right being that good at making things go right. That’s how you got Trump.
Mark Levin was talking about how risky this next election was with Thomas Sowell. His opinion is the country is finished if the Democrat party takes all three branches. I think that’s obviously true because we didn’t wipe out the ACA. I don’t know if there are any clips from the show or if it’s still available. It was on Sunday.
I really think after the tea party was defeated effectively, you can’t look at politics and government in a standard away like Gary does. It took me a long time to come around to that.
I highly recommend the latest American Greatness podcast if you can get it in.
What show does Levin do on Sundays? His regular show, and the associated podcast, runs Mon-Fri.
He has a show on Fox news every Sunday.
Oh, I don’t get Fox News. But I’ll look for a podcast, probably audio-only.
I think he had clips on his radio show last night.
Sowell mentions the same thing on the ricochet podcast.
His radio show is free, live stream and once over, posted as a free podcast.
Re the comments on Levin and Sowell, has anyone noticed that Levin has moved passed Convention of the States to this election as the last chance? I was wondering how long it would take for him to realize the new Neros fiddling while the country burns are the Republican and old school Democrat voters. I realized it was too late for an Article 5 convention when Mueller and Schiff were engaged in their coup.
Why shouldn’t I be very upset about this? This seems extremely stupid.
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