Tragically the national media are our narrators and there isn't one among them who is worth listening to. It's up to us, through Lucian and Heather and Charlie Pierce at Esquire, Joyce Vance, TCinLA, Bob Hubbell and our own conversation to create a responsible narrative and drive it home!
If the Ds don't run that statement right up to election day they are nuts. One of if not the biggest example of misogyny. JD Vance and Tucker Carlson waxing philisophical on male replacement theory. It don't get any better than that.
Think I'm switching my Post sub to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Bezos gets enough of my money for the fiction I watch on Prime. I don't need to read it too.
Ditto to Will Bunch. HeтАЩs the only reason I keep the Inquirer though itтАЩs so spare I refer to it as a pamphlet. So glad I dumped the rest even after 65 years.
Here are other excellent Substack newsletters that I rely on: Hopium Chronicles, LUCID (Ruth Ben-Ghiat), The Status Kuo, Mary Trump, Democracy Docket (Marc Elias), and Chop Wood, Carry Water (Jessica Craven).
With those six to inform and guide us, Kamala to lead us, and Beyonc├й providing the soundtrack it is going to be a rough ride but a big party at the end. Go Kamala!!
Before I follow your recommendations, Mr Salvati, I would appreciate if you would state exactly what and who you read every day and what your qualifications are for dispensing such sweeping advice.
ЁЯееЁЯееЁЯее I agree with you completely, but as we're a mostly *cough* older group here, we tend to forget that the under-30 crowd have their own narrators, the biggest being TikTok. Since Sunday, 'Kamala is Brat'/Operation Coconut has become one of biggest viral trends in TikTok history, which makes me wonder if the already encouraging numbers for that demographic in the Times/Siena poll aren't under-reported.
I don't understand half of what I see on TikTok, but it sure is fun to dive in and see how much they're loving on Kamala. And how the flat-footed "Dump & Chump" campaign are powerless to counter it.
I say let's join the kids and start dropping coconut emojis wherever we are online! ЁЯееЁЯееЁЯее
I agree with you 101%. The words NYT/Sienna poll mean crappy math to me. More importantly it means that the rule that journalists report them news but do not create it are violated. I actually do not subscribe to papers that endorse candidates. Just like the courts I just think our journalism has gotten so corrupted. Have a balance of opinions is not like writing an article that is balanced. Balanced does not mean treating the two sides as equal. Most Americans do not know what Biden accomplished because they have no idea what government is and does and what it should be, and how far we strayed from that since Reagan. When a poll is reported on it should be by an independent organization and the full methodology should be clearly explained with every poll published. How do they get their samples. I do not care at all about any results if I do not know the questions, how they got their samples, and the responses. No one I know has responded to any poll coming at them online, or on their phone. So, unless they went door to door how is this a valid sampling? I do not care what demographics they have, they do not have the sample of people who are less eager to give out their personal info in some random poll. Given that, who is responding? They miss this whole sample. Also, while I support Harris because she is the candidate, I am not "enthusiastic," I am in a wait and see mode. When I hear that people were not going to vote until they heard that she was the candidate, I think unless they are infinately wealthy they just don't have a clue about why they should be enthusiastic to vote so that Trump does not get in. As Judy Dempsey points out in Carnegie Endowment for Peace this week, Biden has a historical memory of why the US and Europe are allies that younger voters and politicians do not even know or understand. Biden has this same memory of US political history because he has been right there.
Biden has been a tremendously respected leader by the countries in NATO and that matters because as he pointed out, he has been leading us to support our allies without going to war ourselves. The USA is viewed as an imperial nation by the world. I know a lot of Europeans who would love to see the US military leave the continent. At the same time they are in no shape to replace the US military, which many will agree acts as a deterrent to even more roughshod action by Putin and others. Also, I do believe I am reading that Russia is weakening. Putin has been trying to hold on for Trump victory, which would be a victory for him (not Russia since the people are suffering for his ego), but a loss of autonomy for Ukraine. Biden has taken on the other largest nuclear power and is the main reason that Ukraine has not yet lost to Russia. Zelensky is an amazing leader, but he could not have done it without Biden who has respected his sovereignty and followed his lead, but with the caution of experience trying to use intelligence as the main tool of warfare. I get my news in the US and my other home in the EU from a variety of sources, but I am growing more and more critical of the kind of journalism that I am experiencing and it has caused me to drop my subscriptions to many sources, even those that are free. I am appreciative to Andra Watkins of the How Project 2025 Will Ruin YOUR Life Substack for teaching me so much about the thinking of the Christian Nationalists and The New Apostolic Reformation Churches think and particularly to understand their ideas of the end of the world for sinners versus themselves, or why they accept the racism while considering themselves Christian. No one in my family supports Trump, not even my devil's advocate nephew. There are a few people who think that there is not a lot of difference between Dems and Repubs, and that both are corrupt. That is a different discussion. The hope is for those who feel there is not a lot of difference and both are corrupt, will Harris be the shinning light of uncorrupted difference to make them vote. Some will, some won't. Let us hope it is enough.
But I hear Joyce Vance through national media -,namely MSNBC. There is credible national media - but itтАЩs not Fox, an entertainment license- but only if you find lies and cruelty entertaining.
VP Harris has lit the electorate on fire. I sincerely hope that she controls the narrative for the balance of the race.
Tragically the national media are our narrators and there isn't one among them who is worth listening to. It's up to us, through Lucian and Heather and Charlie Pierce at Esquire, Joyce Vance, TCinLA, Bob Hubbell and our own conversation to create a responsible narrative and drive it home!
There are still a few. Paul Krugman is great and Will Bunch alone is worth the price of entry for my subscription to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
You suppose there's any polling data, that might show voters being swayed who are also cat owners ?
I'm always telling you folks that you're an incredibly smart bunch here, and I respect Lucian more than any person I've ever read.
Picking on women who are also cat owners, and by extension their friends and family, has surely got to have an effect on this race!
Much love to all of you, I I am greatly encouraged.
Corky in KC
Plus the whole childless cat lady thing is just another ignorant ridiculous statement. JEEZZZ!!
Incredibly ridiculous that so many are now calling Vance тАЬweird.тАЭ Hard to disagree.
If the Ds don't run that statement right up to election day they are nuts. One of if not the biggest example of misogyny. JD Vance and Tucker Carlson waxing philisophical on male replacement theory. It don't get any better than that.
My Threads feed is loaded with pics of people and their cats. I rarely read Threads, but this I am enjoying.
I ordered a "Childless Cat Ladies for Kamala" car bumper magnet today.
I was sure that Biden lost the cat lady vote during the debate when he compared Trump's morals to those of an alley cat- an insult to alley cats.
Child free cat women here - yes we are fired up to work for Harris and kick some misogynist butt!
This just in: https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/jd-vance-brainstorming-ways-to-alienate
No disrespect to others of real worth meant, but both are columnists and I fear only we and we of like minds read them, others not so much.
Hear, hear! Will Bunch is terrific. Definitely worth subscribing to the Inquirer.
I am a big fan of Paul Krugman's writing! He's very good.
Think I'm switching my Post sub to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Bezos gets enough of my money for the fiction I watch on Prime. I don't need to read it too.
Ditto to Will Bunch. HeтАЩs the only reason I keep the Inquirer though itтАЩs so spare I refer to it as a pamphlet. So glad I dumped the rest even after 65 years.
Here are other excellent Substack newsletters that I rely on: Hopium Chronicles, LUCID (Ruth Ben-Ghiat), The Status Kuo, Mary Trump, Democracy Docket (Marc Elias), and Chop Wood, Carry Water (Jessica Craven).
And Timothy Snyder and Anne Applebaum and Dan Rather, and Heather Cox RichardsonтАжтАж.Robert ReichтАжтАж
Timothy Snyder is one of the most insightful people writing and teaching I've come across in a long time.
Also try Above the Law.
With those six to inform and guide us, Kamala to lead us, and Beyonc├й providing the soundtrack it is going to be a rough ride but a big party at the end. Go Kamala!!
I agree. It would be great if Joyce prefaced any remark about JD with the caveat "No relation, thank God" in her writings.
Before I follow your recommendations, Mr Salvati, I would appreciate if you would state exactly what and who you read every day and what your qualifications are for dispensing such sweeping advice.
ЁЯееЁЯееЁЯее I agree with you completely, but as we're a mostly *cough* older group here, we tend to forget that the under-30 crowd have their own narrators, the biggest being TikTok. Since Sunday, 'Kamala is Brat'/Operation Coconut has become one of biggest viral trends in TikTok history, which makes me wonder if the already encouraging numbers for that demographic in the Times/Siena poll aren't under-reported.
I don't understand half of what I see on TikTok, but it sure is fun to dive in and see how much they're loving on Kamala. And how the flat-footed "Dump & Chump" campaign are powerless to counter it.
I say let's join the kids and start dropping coconut emojis wherever we are online! ЁЯееЁЯееЁЯее
I agree with you 101%. The words NYT/Sienna poll mean crappy math to me. More importantly it means that the rule that journalists report them news but do not create it are violated. I actually do not subscribe to papers that endorse candidates. Just like the courts I just think our journalism has gotten so corrupted. Have a balance of opinions is not like writing an article that is balanced. Balanced does not mean treating the two sides as equal. Most Americans do not know what Biden accomplished because they have no idea what government is and does and what it should be, and how far we strayed from that since Reagan. When a poll is reported on it should be by an independent organization and the full methodology should be clearly explained with every poll published. How do they get their samples. I do not care at all about any results if I do not know the questions, how they got their samples, and the responses. No one I know has responded to any poll coming at them online, or on their phone. So, unless they went door to door how is this a valid sampling? I do not care what demographics they have, they do not have the sample of people who are less eager to give out their personal info in some random poll. Given that, who is responding? They miss this whole sample. Also, while I support Harris because she is the candidate, I am not "enthusiastic," I am in a wait and see mode. When I hear that people were not going to vote until they heard that she was the candidate, I think unless they are infinately wealthy they just don't have a clue about why they should be enthusiastic to vote so that Trump does not get in. As Judy Dempsey points out in Carnegie Endowment for Peace this week, Biden has a historical memory of why the US and Europe are allies that younger voters and politicians do not even know or understand. Biden has this same memory of US political history because he has been right there.
https://carnegieendowment.org/europe/strategic-europe/2024/07/is-europe-ready-for-a-new-transatlantic-era?lang=en&utm_source=ctw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=buttonlink&mkt_tok=ODEzLVhZVS00MjIAAAGUiv2uEgeRzp6WfnbusXeD_-4DCwAXKSN26atbUSHWTZovrlqUyyFWl-AzmHIJU4qBGUqs748jkEoc5ipVYqr9L4lss2jKO1auONWP5ULNucQ
Biden has been a tremendously respected leader by the countries in NATO and that matters because as he pointed out, he has been leading us to support our allies without going to war ourselves. The USA is viewed as an imperial nation by the world. I know a lot of Europeans who would love to see the US military leave the continent. At the same time they are in no shape to replace the US military, which many will agree acts as a deterrent to even more roughshod action by Putin and others. Also, I do believe I am reading that Russia is weakening. Putin has been trying to hold on for Trump victory, which would be a victory for him (not Russia since the people are suffering for his ego), but a loss of autonomy for Ukraine. Biden has taken on the other largest nuclear power and is the main reason that Ukraine has not yet lost to Russia. Zelensky is an amazing leader, but he could not have done it without Biden who has respected his sovereignty and followed his lead, but with the caution of experience trying to use intelligence as the main tool of warfare. I get my news in the US and my other home in the EU from a variety of sources, but I am growing more and more critical of the kind of journalism that I am experiencing and it has caused me to drop my subscriptions to many sources, even those that are free. I am appreciative to Andra Watkins of the How Project 2025 Will Ruin YOUR Life Substack for teaching me so much about the thinking of the Christian Nationalists and The New Apostolic Reformation Churches think and particularly to understand their ideas of the end of the world for sinners versus themselves, or why they accept the racism while considering themselves Christian. No one in my family supports Trump, not even my devil's advocate nephew. There are a few people who think that there is not a lot of difference between Dems and Repubs, and that both are corrupt. That is a different discussion. The hope is for those who feel there is not a lot of difference and both are corrupt, will Harris be the shinning light of uncorrupted difference to make them vote. Some will, some won't. Let us hope it is enough.
But I hear Joyce Vance through national media -,namely MSNBC. There is credible national media - but itтАЩs not Fox, an entertainment license- but only if you find lies and cruelty entertaining.
Yes, and forward those Substacks widely.
I should have aded John Ganz and Kareem Abdul Jabbar
We must not let P01135890 define Kamala Harris!!