"I fear she will be tested early by a foreign adversary and stumble badly, whether it’s in stopping Iran from building a nuclear weapon or China from blockading Taiwan or Russia from seizing a portion of a Baltic country. I fear she will capitulate too easily to her party’s left flank, especially when it comes to identity politics, economic policy or polarizing cultural issues. I fear she’ll have no domestic policy ideas that don’t involve mindlessly expanding the role of government. I fear she’ll surround herself with mediocre advisers, like her embarrassingly bad veep pick. I fear she won’t muster the political will to curb mass migration. And I fear that a failed Harris presidency will do more to turbocharge the far right in this country than to diminish it."
Said Bret Stephens, endorsing Kamala Harris, in "Kamala Harris Has an Unexpected Ally" (NYT).
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The Trump Hate CULT causes mass Cognitive Dissonance.
Remember until 2016, Burt Stevens posed as a "True Conservative" who believed in "smaller government" and the Republican party. I can remember all his lectures about how "we" had to be "pragmatic" and nominate Romney because "the only thing that mattered was stopping the Democrats". Now, this the 3rd Leftwing Democrat he's supporting for POTUS.
Isn't it funny how all these "House Conservatives and R/W'ers" at the MSM have turned out to be liberal Democrats in disguise!
As for his wishy-washy endorsement, Democrats and Leftists just don't care. They hate Trump. Case closed.
With friends like these...
And there is no "far right". If there's a "Far Right" - who is "The right"? And who is "the far left"? I get so tired of the lies and abuse of language. Its nails on a chalkboard.
So it's not that he can't see the problem...
He's an idiot if he thinks Harris & friends want to slow the immivasion one bit.
All of this doesn't matter because of the diatribe people have been fed, and taught to think, about Trump.
And (if)when Kamala wins against trump by one vote, all problems will still be because of Trump, the Nazis, the Deplorables, Guns, Religion (only Christians, though), the Rich, disinformation, Musk, misinformation, the Supreme Court (but only when decisions go against Leftist Orthodoxy), gas guzzlers, country bumpkins...
So nuclear annihilation is better than four years of Trump. You convinced me to vote for her, Bret!
Is Stephens no longer Jewish?
Is he promoting a suicide pact? Probably he’s just fed up with deceiving everyone and wants to assert the real goal.
Suicidal and Proud.
I'm beginning to ponder the possibility that she, her boss, and their entire political apparatus are not interested in stopping Iran from building a nuclear weapon. They are not interested in stopping China from blockading Taiwan. They're not interested in stopping Russia from seizing a portion of a Baltic country. That she will capitulate too easily because that is, in fact, her job.
We are supposed to pretend the first Trump Administration never happened and then assume his second will be worse than all those other things plus the events that have already happened in the Biden/Harris administration.
Relax! Ms Harris will not be the acting President.
Incredible. Trump ran the country well during his term, Stephens predicts consequential failures if Kamala is elected, and he still calls on us to vote for her.
Not one word about diminishing the far left. I guess he ran out of column inches.
Neocon.
War Machine pays.
my comments are disappearing again.
Earlier we were talking about the anti-patriotic death-to-America left that dominates academia and the culture. According to Stevens, the best way to put a cap on that project is to elect Kamala.
An "unexpected ally". Those are NYT words. Need anything else be said?
This endorsement might make some sense if Stephens is reacting to the "If you don't vote for me then you ain't Jewish" approach Republicans are taking.
Bret Stephens, putting the “D” in TDS.
It's almost like the Stephens tribe is even more of an enemy than the Democrats are. I can't wait for these disgusting people to vanish, like smoke up a chimney.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
Makes me wonder - IS Trump Hate that fierce - or are these media people being threatened?
He is afraid that Harris is so incompetent that things to go to shit so bad his endorsement will look like the thoughts of a fucking idiot. Got it, Bedbug.
Bret conserves conservatism most conservatively. He is the poster boy for Stockholm Syndrome.
How did neoconservatives who desire to project US power all over the globe end up supporting a candidate who might give up Taiwan or the Baltic states?
Once you start working for WaPo or the NYT the temptation to go native is too strong to resist. What your co-workers fear is what you come to fear. Also hard to resist: the opportunity to hobnob with the high muckety-mucks in Davos.
The governance spectrum is from least ("right", libertarian) to most ("left", authoritarian), the left-right nexus is leftist in practical terms.
Vacuous is the perfect word for Word Salad Harris.
"I fear"? Geezus, man, where've you been? There's no there there; never has been. Her old sugar daddy, Willie Brown, told us that years ago, before she became a senator. Chance the gardener would be a step up intellectually.
The far-right is anarchist. The far-left is totalitarian.
I don’t get it.
Bret Stephens fears his wife will start using Chat GPT against him if he doesn't vote for Harris.
Since it's behind a paywall, please someone list why in spite of these doubts he's still voting for her. Presumably, DT will introduce a nuclear holocaust or something...
It read like a Trump commercial to me. Bret calls himself a "Reaganite". I call him an idiot who has guzzled the leftie kool-aid.
- Krumhorn
"I really would rather have just sat out Election Day. But Jan. 6 and election denialism are unforgivable. And as my friend Richard North Patterson likes to say, 'Donald Trump is literally bleeping crazy.'”
There it is. Make of it what you will.
These are his "reasons,'" Chest:
"I really would rather have just sat out Election Day. But Jan. 6 and election denialism are unforgivable. And as my friend Richard North Patterson likes to say, “Donald Trump is literally bleeping crazy.” And what crazy brings in its wake is JD Vance, whom I find worse than Trump, because he’s just as cynical but twice as bright. And what it also brings in its wake is Tucker Carlson and the Hitler defenders he likes to platform."
And then later on, he says,
"But I won’t fear that she’ll refuse to recognize the result of the next election should she lose it. And I won’t fear that Tim Walz is a cunning stooge who will always do the boss’s bidding no matter how unconstitutional it might be. And I won’t fear learning that an Arnold Palmer is now a reference to something other than lemonade and iced tea and a big golf swing."
If I remember correctly, Bret left his first wife and his Jewish faith at about the same time.
Praising with faint damn.
Yeah, that wasn't Kook-Aid that Bret has been swallowing.
Typo, but strangely appropriate on my part.
Darn it, I guess I should have waited to see who Bret Stephens endorsed before going out to cast my vote here in Florida on the first day of early voting today. Oh, well, I guess Kamala and the Democrats will have to win without me, because I didn't vote for a single one of them.
Not fear; facts.
doctrev dreams of Holocaust Teil Zwei.
Idiocity. J6 has come and gone. The rest of that threatening stuff is on-going. I almost feel sorry for a journalist to have exposed his poor critical thinking skills so publicly. Almost.
Shocker! Bretbug is voting libtard. Who doubted this? I guess New York is safe for Kamala. Finally!
He certainly has the intelligence to be a Harris supporter.
"...whether it’s in stopping Iran from building a nuclear weapon...".
Stop. There is nothing more to say. IF this happens, and there's a very good chance Iran will get this done before a next President is in office, then that changes the entire landscape of the world.
That Bret Stephens would list this as he might a list of things that annoy him about someone's personality is eye-opening.
The hate some people have for Donald Trump over the security of the civilized world is just not rational.
Makes me wonder - IS Trump Hate that fierce - or are these media people being threatened?
Epstein's island was pretty clearly a Mossad operation. When Sean "Diddy" Combs was throwing his debauched orgies, it's plausible he was (knowingly or unknowingly) acting as a cat's paw for our own intelligence agencies. Would be interesting to see who his "party planners" were. Chinese spies have penetrated our government quite deeply, many of them attractive sexpots like Eric Swalwell's former concubine. There are probably comparable "kompromat" operations being run by British MI6 as well as the Russians. And quite plausibly there are freelance private organizations and individuals doing the same thing, sometimes for money, sometimes for power, sometimes for both. Who'd be surprised to learn that George Soros has a stable of whores to entice those he wants to control?
Our government controls rivers of money and the most powerful military the world has ever seen. Of course every important nation and every other major center of power and influence are always going to try to gain leverage over us like this. Nobody ever does anything about it, because our security and intelligence agencies are themselves either compromised by playing the game, or running the game, and have been for decades.
That meme showing the far-off Earth from space, with an arrow saying "You are here, paying taxes to pedophiles" is pretty much the distillation of where we are now.
As has been noted many times over the last several years: ALL the masks are off now. So many "muh principles"-FakeCons and Fake "True Republicans" etc.
Every single person who used terms such as those were precisely what many of us claimed them to be: democraticals.
But orange hair man will be worse… or something.
No way he keeps his soft gig and cool kids membership if he endorses Trump.
"I fear that Harris is every bit as vacuous behind the scenes as she seems to be on the public stage.
Stephens claims to be a journalist. Why doesn't he go find out for himself what Harris is really like? I get that Harris isn't granting interviews, but couldn't he interview her past acquaintances and co-workers?
Of course he could. He's just not really curious. He's pretending to be a journalist the way Harris pretends to be a lawyer and politician.
He makes no sense in any language
English Spanish Hebrew
This guy has host spent valuable NYT real estate telling readers they should vote for Trump.
has just
No one but The Faithful gives a shit about the NYT.
Open Border... Millions of Illegal Entrants.... No Voter ID... Low confidence in vote integrity/honesty.... Crime... Inflation... War ...Corruption... Censorship.... Public Debt.... Covid lies....
---> But Jan 6th!
Got it.
Bret Stevens's article/piece really angers me.
DJT does things (behavior/speech) I do not like in a president. I get called GOPe whenever I voice those points, so I now just keep quiet on that front.
But there are many variables in choosing a president. I self identify conservative and am strongly voting for DJT this week and do not even consider the modern day D party an option for my vote. In my eyes, my options are vote R or do not vote.
I am at off the charts level of anger at people like Bret Stephens and the Bulwark. FO. Pound Sand. Rot in Hell.
So, no Jewish Americans are voting for Harris? Wasn’t Trump himself upset with American Jews because they haven’t voted for him in sufficient numbers?
Thanks! What I suspected.
Voting for Democrats after the last 3.5 years is a sign you are in a cult. Or a teachers union , university faculty, or government employee.
No one can list positives, only anti Trump propaganda. Unless you are a party apparatchik, like so many trolls=then you do as your master tells you. Literal 'step and fetchit'.
Harris is on team hamas
This quote is classic never-Trumper -
"So I’d rather take my chances with a president whose competence I doubt and whose policies I dislike than one whose character I detest."
These are his "reasons,'" Chest:
"I really would rather have just sat out Election Day. But Jan. 6 and election denialism are unforgivable.”
As rational thinking people.
“And as my friend Richard North Patterson likes to say, “Donald Trump is literally bleeping crazy.””
Nuclear codes folks…
“And what crazy brings in its wake is JD Vance, whom I find worse than Trump, because he’s just as cynical but twice as bright.”
Precisely.
“And what it also brings in its wake is Tucker Carlson and the Hitler defenders he likes to platform."
Now that should make Americans sit up and notice.
The enemy from within!
She might think about opining on the size of dead golfer's penises.
He’s looking for retribution, like Trump.
Demand purity!
He's been threatened with firing if he endorses Trump, so he endorses Harris bitch-slappingly.
In her one adversarial interview (on Fox), Harris already laid this groundwork. Any problems extending over the past 10 years, are all laid at the feet of Trump. His fault, says Kamala. When it was pointed out by Baier that this encompassed the Biden/Harris administration in office, Harris responded that the mere fact that Trump exists, and communicates opinions, is all the proof that is needed for assigning blame. She is the unserious candidate. Stephens? Pffft.
The Deplorables, you say?
So why are Muslims in Michigan voting for Trump?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/14/hamtramck-donald-trump-arab-american-muslim
“They will vote against Harris’: Arab Americans in Michigan desert Democrats over Gaza. Hamtramck, population 28,000, has new Trump campaign office weeks from election in hopes of gains in swing state.”
saying and doing are two different things. But youre smart Inga, you know this.
IOW, "She's wretched beyond words! I endorse her!" Might be chuckle-worthy when it's some distance in the rear-view mirror. Ask me on 8 Nov.
It really is Trump Derangement Syndrome at its zenith, with people like Stephens. To imagine that a nuclear event somewhere, or the hostile takeover of an established Democracy by another country, are things that are overshadowed by the Jan 6th protest. Trump did nothing but exercise his constitutional right and duty to contest the election results. He did nothing more than other Democrats candidates have themselves done in the past - for example, in 2016. Stephens reveals himself as an unserious opinion writer.
vacuum also needed for suction power
You had me at DEI.
There is a core of the Democrat party that wants Iran to get nukes. They think it will make them feel safe so they will stop causing problems. I think they will use their test bomb on Israel, since why waste a perfectly good bomb.
A little on-the-ground intelligence: I considered voting early today, running errands. I went by the early voting polling place: The parking lot was full, with overflow vehicles lining the streets outside the facility, people parking and walking in. Very busy indeed. I'll go back by later in the week.
Well the Don getting out his message in his last days to his trumpeters" boy that Arnold is some man,you should see his penis" This fella seems to have an ongoing issue with men and women's private parts,,I know he can just grab em because he's a star but really ARNOLD? C'mon man if you are fortunate enough to have kids you want them watching this fella spounting his locker room spiel>. WTF The trumpeters loved it! Now that's entertainment...I wonder what Ms LIndsy says about that and I don't know ,separate bedrooms with Melody for years? Locker rooms steaming up!
Great call-back!
is he then jew on trembling knees?
TDS is real!
Her mind is cluttered with crap but people will tell her what to do.
why would inga think all arab/Muslims prohamas?
No sentient Jew should vote for Harris since she and Biden have been arming Iran and MURDERING Jews. What in the world is wrong with you Inga?
Yep.
Bret spent decades lying. Then Trump got him to pull the mask off.
FOAD, Bret
Elaine Takes Over The Peterman Catalog
The Urban Sombrero.
Oh, and before you mention it, I will: Where do you think the term "Genocide Joe" comes from? It comes from Joe Biden arming Israel (and Iran) to shoot each other. If you were a human being, you'd be concerned about that.
There was a time when Bret Stephens endorsing a Communist cipher like KH would have been "surprising", but that was long ago. He has been sucking Gail Collins' dick for years now, they don't even have to pay him any more. He is wholly-owned.
It might be nice to believe that this is an example of Straussian "secret writing" and that Stephens is telling his followers who they should really vote for without losing his job at the Times, but he's not smart enough or principled enough to do that.
Hell of an endorsement Bret!!! I am sure Trump will use it well.
Inga asks
“So why are Muslims in Michigan voting for Trump?”
Because they know that a smart enemy is better than a stupid friend.
What could be more important than that list of fears?
Signaling that I'm a good white ally?
Kamala only demo lead is among the well-educated elite. That lead has never wavered. If Yale Vance had lost that senate seat, he'd most likely would be on television making up excuses for Kamala right now.
Look what that stupid friendship with the Biden/Harris administration done to the Ukraine. How many young men have been killed? Do you really wish that fate for the Arabs in the Middle East? Time for peace. You Democrats have made enough money off of war.
Nice to see the inevitable "worse than Trump" meme already coming out: "And what crazy brings in its wake is JD Vance, whom I find worse than Trump, because he’s just as cynical but twice as bright."
If that's not waiving the white flag for 2024, I don't know what is.
Paint me a picture of the kind of person that is influenced by this endorsement…
Airheds are gonna airhead. And when you had a senile hack and an airhead as VP it was easy for the Obama posse to control both of them. But frankly Bret, I don't give a tinkers toot what you think.
Question for the audience here, one I am basically reluctant to g***le. How would the nation handle the election if the R presidential candidate was no longer "available"? I would love to vote early, in person, in a reasonably safe R state, but I am afraid my vote would be lost if a nutjob succeeded. Am I worried about nothing?
If Trump were killed Vance becomes the candidate for all practical purposes- you simply cast your vote for the Trump electors in whatever state you reside and those electors will cast their votes in December for Vance.
The electors would have to decide who to vote for. That's their job. The likely result if Trump won would be the Congress would elect the President, one vote per state. They will very consciously ignore this part of the 12th amendment: The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. Well, maybe not. Depends on whether the electors vote before or after a deep state agent aka nutjob succeeds.
Inga -- Stephens is a former conservative whose Jewish identity and support for Israel defined his political opinions. There are plenty of Jewish-Americans who will vote for Harris, but they don't share what was once a critical viewpoint for Stephens.
Harris might be able to run a campaign based on the male gaze, historically.
Oh, yeah talking about genitalia is far worse than being the people throwing Americans into gulags like the Biden Administration has done.
Like one could expect anything different from an NYT clown. 🤡
Dink… shares the opinion of other inhabitants of Brokedick Mountain.
An enemy of our enemy can be our friend.
Narayanan
why would inga think all arab/Muslims prohamas?
10/21/24, 3:38 PM
Because Inga, and her ilk have so much hatred for Trump and anyone who supports him that it blinds them to any logic, reasoning or understanding.
Shes a jew hater
Stephen’s livelihood depends on him endorsing Kamala. That’s the only reason.
He won't have to fear the Epstein list being released and his benefactors going to prison.
Bret Stephens has ALWAYS been a squirrely little shit. He and Max Boot were among the biggest boosters of war in the Middle East, but inexplicably never enlisted even though they were of prime military age when 911 attacks and the Iraq war occurred.
He's a squirrely little shit not because he and Boot say what they say because they value Israel more than the U.S. (I think he probably sincerely, if stupidly, believed that we could impose democracy on the Middle East and as a result they'd all vote Republican) but because he thinks that his personal contribution of being a "thought leader" is so important than it would be a terrible loss if he, and not those stupid, knuckled-dragging young men from flyover country, were to serve in the military. His unearned senses of superiority has always oozed out of every column he wrote.
I'm totally unsurprised that he's making "The Conservative Case for the Far Left" because he's always been a repulsive suck-up--and why shouldn't he be? That, not talent, got her where he is today.
Bret dont have enough sense to empty a boot, his bibi derangement was nearlt as pronounced
“We have to go back to 1798!”
Trump
Your side is all for men in women's locker rooms and men in women's sports.
Trump was talking to adults - not kids - and joking about the size of a schlong. No one but the left are melting down.
So he's dumb as a rock. Good to know.
"an unexpected ally"
what a complete fake and fraud the NYT is.
Nice to see the inevitable "worse than Trump" meme already coming out: "And what crazy brings in its wake is JD Vance, whom I find worse than Trump, because he’s just as cynical but twice as bright."
How can that be? The NeverTrumpers have insisted over and over and over again that if *Anyone Other Than Donald Trump* was running, they'd be 10+ points ahead right now.
Johnny Carson made a joke about Arnold Palmer's wife making his putter stand up. If you are insulting Johnny then you are pure evil!
Sounds like the statement of a hostage, rather than a honest endorsement. Imagine what anyone who doesn’t believe that Jan 6 was worse than Sept 11 would take away from it. He’s given them no reasons to vote for Kamala Harris, and plenty of reasons to vote against her.
"I really would rather have just sat out Election Day. But Jan. 6 and election denialism are unforgivable. And as my friend Richard North Patterson likes to say, 'Donald Trump is literally bleeping crazy.'”
Well, Stephens's friend is a Martha's Vineyard libtard Party member out of Berkley. Democrat pieces of shit flock together.
"Is Stephens no longer Jewish?"
So Stephens and Nate Silver are damning Harris with faint praise. Assuming that you are not named Silver without being Jewish (unless you are a pirate or a porn star.) then there are cracks in the "temple wall".
Well that's a backhanded compliment in my book. Seems almost a non-endorsement disqualifier.
We're asking for principles, not "purity", from like-minded people. We're not interested in "conservatives" who share the principles and ethics of democrat Party members. It's sleazy for people/politicians to proclaim themselves members of a group which they don't belong and secretly desire to eliminate.
Blowing on his balls to make his putter flutter, I think it was
Oh no, both candidates are election deniers!
‘Let’s say this loud and clear: without voter suppression, Stacey Abrams would be the governor of Georgia, Andrew Gillum is the governor of Florida.’ — Kamala Harris, in her keynote speech at the NAACP convention Sunday.
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/hillary-clintons-bad-habit-of-questioning-election-results-has-spread-to-all-democrats/
Or maybe it is just that Harris was for denying elections before she was against it.
Blowing on his balls to make his putter flutter, I think it was
Kamala taking a knee to massa Brown's willy for social... her progress. Women second.
Bret. There's a curtain. Vote your brain.
Inga is quoting the Guardian lol.
How many defamation lawsuits are they up to now??
How much did their serial liar Moiria Donnegan have to shell out?
How many leftwing transurrectionist incel pedophiles did they defend that are now in prison just s they could royally fail at pøwening J.K. Rowling?
Maybe you should start quoting Gawker and Rolling Stone tomorrow.
I think that this might be a case of "malicious obedience."
The problem is that it would be just too much work to retail what got her into the position she is in.
"Because they know that a smart enemy is better than a stupid friend."
+1
Muslims in Michigan are punishing the Democrats because it is the Democrats who gave Israel the munitions and fighter jets that they are using to carry out their program of assassinations.
I see that Netanyahu is angry because Hezbollah shot missiles at his houses and tried to kill him. Bibi has ordered how many assassinations in the past few months alone? As the IRA famously said to Maggie Tatcher after a failed assassination attempt: "We only have to get lucky once, you have to be lucky every time."
There is a reason that civilized countries don't use assassination as part of their foreign policy.
"Demand purity!"
LOL
Think about how stupid one would have to be to think that is what I was getting at in my comment!
Poor P-Inga.
It would be nice to think those that want Iran to get the Bomb just want Iran to feel safe. It's been pretty clear for a year now that they want Iran to get the Bomb because they think *Israel* is the problem and Iran having the Bomb will keep the Israelis in line.
"Vacuous" shares the same root as "vacuum", as in sucking.
ill probably get canceled but dinky d has let us know the bad parts of his psychology.
So happy Trump got rid of so many rinos. Bush, Romney, Cheney, Ryan, McConnell, krystol, Jennifer Rubin. In addition the Clinton mafia.
Leaders are paid for their backbone.
Question for you Tim. How many assassinated Hamas/Hezbollah members were part of a recognized national government? I'll give you a hint- the answer lies between -1 and 1....
Every single Hezbollah/Hamas fighter is, under the Geneva Convention, adhered to by only Western signatories, is an unlawful combatant with no rights to be treated as a POW by any state actor.
Armies of old used to fall apart when their leader- leading them in battle- fell in combat. The more likely outcome today is that the troops would unleash their inner demons if their leaders back home were assassinated. Holding troops back from exacting any kind of revenge they want to exact is an essential part of leadership today in Western armies.
I associate myself with that. The US Civil War is an example.
Serious Questions (that probably were Already Asked)..
HOW LONG??
How Long, before the DNC ousts her and replaces her with someone else?
WHO would they pick? Biden? Hilary!? a player to be named later?
HOW would they do this switch? the OBVIOUS WAY (especially if it's HILARY!) is for Kammy to TRAGICALLY DIE
If you tell me that you prefer someone that you believe is incompetent to run the country to someone who has a personality you dislike, then you are telling me that you are not a patriot who puts the country first, but a self-centered child.
Careful. There are some pretty strong and passionate defenders of just those types of people as part of the effort to lay the blame for all republican party failure theater over 30 years at the feet of Trump...and no others.
Too late to change ballots anywhere. If, for some reason, Kamala were to gather a majority of the electoral vote- leading Democrats and the DNC could come together and urge the electors to vote for a person of their choice. They couldn't ORDER them to do so, but they could certainly urge.
The danger with this would be- the election would be thrown into the house if not enough electors did so. And 26 or more state delegations are Republican controlled. And it's likely to remain that way after the election.
"Seems"
And what do you glean from that statement, Inga? What is your interpretation of those words. What significance is that date to you?
So, Stephens appears to think that Trump is an excuse to stop thinking. Not very rational. In fact, transparently stupid. Joe Epstein in WSJ did a better job of explaining why he wasn't going to vote for either Trump or Harris, but it was still a "plague on both your houses" argument. Harris voters have a baseline of "she doesn't really mean it" spiced up with "they won't let her do it."
I don't live in that world. We have to choose. Kamala on a good day is more dangerous than Trump on a bad day.
No Reaganite would vote for Harris. Harris is not a Reaganite. Stephens is confused. Let me try a little ancient wisdom: if you want peace, prepare for war. Failed empire police actions like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Ukraine drain our resources and reduce both our global influence and our military strength. Add the "woke" armed forces to the brew and we are on the edge of collapse. This is no time to elevate a shrill, empty, and foolish figurehead to the presidency. San Francisco Democrats should stay in San Francisco.
too late to LEGALLY change ballots anywhere.. But that doesn't mean Much.
So Stephens is hoping that Harris undergoes the same transformation as Reagan did in that famous SNL with Phil Hartman portraying Reagan as amiable grandfather figure in public but once behind closed doors, became a steely-eyed Cold War warrior that was a combo of Alexander Haig and G. Gordon Liddy? Except a version with an extreme "progressive" agenda? Why would a "conservative" hope for that?
Stephens prostitutes himself so that he can remain at the NYT. I've heard him speak about this. When asked why he would work at the NYT given that paper's anti-Israel bias, he said that he wants to be at the NYT because it's still the most important newspaper in the world. Very principled of him.
Way to shoot your credibility in the foot.
Isn’t that amazing. The amount of lying to yourself and cowardice about your job to go there is staggering.
So, at heart Bret Stephen's reason for endorsing Harris is "Tucker" and "Hitler"?
Not even "Trump is Hitler," but some guy on the internet had some fringe tweeter with unorthodox views on his podcast?
Sadly, that is reason enough for some people to vote for Harris.
Oh, please. Is this based on her record as a prosecutor? She seems to have been a good prosecutor, not prone to automatic ideological actions, according to this description, which is what we want in any public servant. Donald Trump has nothing to recommend him, least of all his narcissistic, malicious and sociopathic personality and stunted, childish thinking. He was a poor president, most of his claimed achievements either nonexistent boasts or the result of his predecessor's eight years in office, leaving the nation in pretty good shape all ready for Trump...to fuck up.
What a Cuck.
"Gail: As for all your other worries, they’re broad enough that I guess I’ll say … wait and see. This is a smart, experienced woman who’s come up through the ladder of government and politics, always making stuff work."
What fucking planet is Gail from? There's no support for this ridiculous take. She's such a hack and everything she says here is campaign propaganda. It's just so over-the-top phony I can hardly tell if she actually believes any of it.
"Bret: Wait, one more point, if you don’t mind, before getting to the other races. The other reason I’m voting for Harris is that I think this election may be the last chance for Reaganite conservatives like me — the ones who are for lower taxes, free trade, deregulation, free speech (including for those who don’t agree with me), a strong military and the defense of embattled allies like Ukraine — to drive a stake into the heart of Trumpism. If he wins, we’re going to be saddled with an isolationist and nativist conservative movement for generations to come.
It's fine if you don't think that Trump has the correct policies on every issue, but so many so-called media conservatives seemed to be more worried about the state of their movement than the state of the country. Trump did many actual conservative things in his administration - things GOPers claimed to believe in and there is little chance that Kamala will do any of that. She's an Obama puppet and it's really not that hard to see the strings.
And if Bret wants "lower taxes, free trade, deregulation, free speech, a strong military and 'defense of Ukraine" then why would he vote for Kamala? She's not good on any of those. Trump isn't the best on free trade and Ukraine is muddled, but 4.5/6 is far superior. Ukraine is odd since the Biden/Harris admin is been mildly supportive along with Republicans in Congress, but they don't seem that interested in Ukraine actually prevailing. Harris will be an extremely weak leader as Bret acknowledges, but apparently it doesn't matter.
At least Bret isn't adopting Harris's policy positions while pretending she's going to be great like Liz Cheney and David French.
Reagan said that ''a half a loaf is better than none'' so maybe Bret isn't staying as true to the Reagan conservatism as he wants everyone else to do.
A good prosecutor? I guess if we don't count intentionally keeping people behind bars longer than they should have been for free labor and hiding known issues with the state labs convicting potentially innocent people with bad evidence that they knew could not pass constitutional muster, then yeah - her staff did fine.
Kind of like "So other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the theater?"
Terms like "far left" and "far right" are so subjective as to be meaningless. It all depends on where you think the center is. Try getting 100 Americans in a room to agree on that.
There is a vast underground of voters who say Kamala out loud but check Trump quietly. Most likely, it's because their professional or personal relationships would be endangered otherwise. To them, Trump is truly an 'existential threat' - to their jobs, friends or families.
You and logic don't meet up often, do you?
Think PM is entirely correct. Too many enthusiastic clappers at two recent Trump events at supposed enemy territory, business community within Democratic stronghold cities: Economic Club of Chicago, with standing ovations at beginning and end of interview, and Al Smith Dinner, with warm welcome, and then friendly laughter and much applause throughout his monologue.
This 'endorsement' is so very sad. Just vote for no one on the presidential line. You live in NYC. Your vote (really YOUR vote) means nothing, Mr. Stephens. I live in Upstate NY, but on the presidential ticket that means I can always vote Weird Party.
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