I’m done. I’m done with the media. My own sanity can’t bear the weight of the gaslighting we are subjected to on a daily basis. Time for me to go touch grass.
Our only hope, really, is that after 8 years just enough people have figured out he's a fucking lunatic that should never get the nuclear codes, whatever the media says about him. Media's not going to help, to put it mildly. But looking at the polls I'm hopeful there's a solid 52% or so who've gotten the message and will vote to keep him out. Crazy that number's not 80% or more, but being a major-party candidate locks in at least 45% of the vote, he'll never drop below that.
Parker, thank you for drilling into this phenomenon. It drives me to screaming when I hear the garbage language and then read about it as coherent policy. Don’t let up!
Charlie Kirk (!) asked the same question of Vance, who suggested getting grand ma and grand pa to help (as if people who have this access don't already). He then criticized the certification process as being too difficult, requiring 6 years of college. A lie. He has learned from the master.
Well that's if the selfish generation of boomers will even do that, or that parents will want to have boomer parents around their kids alone, many of my friends have gone low/no contact and/or would never consider their parents watching their children alone.
My my, Lindsey-we’re certainly painting Boomers with a broad brush. I’m sorry you seem to have lousy parents, or that your friends do. We’re not all selfish and evil. There are lots of reasons why grandparents can’t/won’t take on child care duties. Some of us live far away. Some of us are still employed, believe it or not. And some grandparents, as you’ve noted, have been cut off from their grandchildren.
I’d be happy to help care for grandchildren if I had any-I don’t, and I’m not pressuring my children to produce them since that’s not their job. Believe it or not, many of us Boomers, especially women, despise Trump and are working hard to get Harris elected.
Was that the one where they said "the whole point of the post-menopausal female is caring for grandchildren?" Sorry I've gotten a bit confused, the guy did a LOT of podcasts and it's hard to keep track.
Makes me wonder if Harris/Walz should just start running two-minute ads (an eternity in the world of political ads) which are just Trump "answering" this question? I know, do it split-screen, on the left are dogs, giving that quizzical look they get when you hide the tennis ball.
I was infuriated at the coverage yesterday…well, actually, everyday. Thank you Parker for making plain what too many in the media enable, to an end that is horrific to contemplate.
It’s been less than two days since Trump belched “I can’t imagine New Hampshire voting for Biden (frantic pen-click signal from Hannity) and Kamala (condescending first-name usage compounded by mispronunciation)” and it’s gone completely by the boards, assuming anyone even mentioned it at all.
“The corporate media” comprises a lot of people with a lot of motivations, but they want him back so badly.
So this is how it is. Trump is making himself completely available for any and all questions from media while Harris is sequestered by the Regime handlers to the root cellar with the vegetable in the White House so she does not speak much. That gives people like Parker a rich inventory of lazy Trump content to masquerade as a journalist when she consistently demonstrates with her choice of material that she is a committed anti-Trump propaganda piece for the Democrat party.
But crickets from Harris. Even if they felt the need for journalistic integrity to break from the Democrat Collective Regime, writers cannot criticize any Harris rambling word salads over complex policy ideas because she either has none, or the press never asks her because the press is into the Harris queen deity-making project, or she is unavailable.
But I do love this desperate meme that Parker has taken up. It is very bold... very bold indeed. To make the case that the mass media is in bed with Trump and failing to be critical enough of him... well that is a very tall mountain of persuasion to climb. You would have to be very committed to ignoring the last 8-9 years of absolute Trump Derangement Syndrome and nasty malice by the media to report on every little twitch of Trump... including many made up big lies about him... because it both benefits the Democrats and also feeds the blood and gore craving of the costal liberal and big city vulnerable narcissist single cat ladies and their low-T male lapdogs. You know, the people that luxury virtue signal claiming they are the educated, sophisticated, good and caring part of the population... those stupid and ugly working class people should just stop demanding a seat at their table!
I mean, wasn't that the early criticism... that Trump go too much free press from the media because the media was filled with people obsessed with him?
I think this might be missing from the analysis of elites like Parker... it is often very difficult to step outside a confirmation bias bubble to see things from another perspective. I subscribe to media content like this Substack to combat my own... to seek facts and truth and not just run with some group of like-minded people to get constant validation that I am right.
But she is irritated with Trump and like many in the media has developed a real neurosis centered on constantly thinking about Trump. She keeps writing about him... now with a commitment to blast the media for not reporting MORE about him.
What she misses is that more than half of the nation does not feed on the same twaddle of media criticism about Trump that excites the TDS sufferer. You can see the play with the Harris campaign and the media... the electorate cares less about what she says and does not say... as long as the media keeps repeating her name then the Madison Avenue marketing campaign to plant her into the brains of not-very-objectively-informed-but-emotionally-committed-voters, Harris is gold. I think Parker misses that the media repeating Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.... especially at this time... just gives him more air time.
I listened to his answer about the childcare issue. Here is my take away. He does not have a full plan, but has communicated his ideas and intent. Now, the difference with Trump and Harris is that Trump is trustworthy in terms of what he says he will support and do when in office, vs Harris being an inauthentic hidden agenda candidate like we experienced with Joe Biden. And we know if he would have committed to more details, it would just be weaponized against him by the dishonest Democrat media to claim he is dangerous to children, old people, women, minorities, LGBTQ people, the environment... and will destroy democracy and empower fascism. In other words he will support traditional American family values and support the American working and lower classes that the upper class really hate.
Also, about this "I read things from both sides" bullshit: I could spend my time going to National Review and Wall Street Journal and picking through them to find stuff I hate (wouldn't be hard, I'm sure) but that's not being "open-minded". What's really going on here is that Frank enjoys the buzz he gets from being angry, and he comes to sites like this to refill his anger-tank. Have you ever seen him post a comment saying that Parker actually had a valid point about ANYTHING? I sure haven't and I've wasted more minutes of my life reading his loony-tunes ramblings than I care to admit.
That is not what I do. I read stuff and comnent on what is informative, and what I see as wrong or off to have a conversation. Parker has written some interesting and thoughtful stuff. I don't have to agree with something to value it. Just reading what I already know or believe is boring.
Completely disagree with this, but this is an example of where I am Subscribing to understand the thinking of a leftist on certain topics. I find this activism as a way of life existence a fascinating study in modern human psychology and how it overlays with history and culture. Related that, I keep thinking of all the time, effort and resources that kids on the left spend in outrage and protests, etc., and think about how that time would be otherwise used working to advance a career actually doing productive things. It is even more absurd when looking at the economic class of the average activist-as-a-way-of-life people because they are generally white upper-class, and more often female. https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-ethics-debate-over-recording
Again, your comment doesn't reference anything Parker actually said, it's just you rehashing your tired "Liberals are childless cat ladies" nonsense. This is a consistent pattern with you.
Here's a clue for the clueless: When I make a comment that actually references what someone else has actually said, it usually starts with a quote.
"Commenter Frank suggested that the higher socioeconomic status of some liberals might leave them out of touch with the concerns of working-class Americans."
I don't hate anyone for just voting for Trump, it would take something more than that. Like saying in a podcast that the sole point of post-menopausal women is caring for grandchildren. Now, THAT guy I hate.
I feel like, for members of the press, it's tempting to equate making people on both sides mad with doing the right thing. Journalism itself is under assault on a global level. That said, and as you noted, it might also be the case that they are doubly wrong.
Responding to criticism beckons nuance. In the current political and social media climate, however, there's unfortunately a premium on nuanced analysis.
I’m done. I’m done with the media. My own sanity can’t bear the weight of the gaslighting we are subjected to on a daily basis. Time for me to go touch grass.
Our only hope, really, is that after 8 years just enough people have figured out he's a fucking lunatic that should never get the nuclear codes, whatever the media says about him. Media's not going to help, to put it mildly. But looking at the polls I'm hopeful there's a solid 52% or so who've gotten the message and will vote to keep him out. Crazy that number's not 80% or more, but being a major-party candidate locks in at least 45% of the vote, he'll never drop below that.
Parker, thank you for drilling into this phenomenon. It drives me to screaming when I hear the garbage language and then read about it as coherent policy. Don’t let up!
Charlie Kirk (!) asked the same question of Vance, who suggested getting grand ma and grand pa to help (as if people who have this access don't already). He then criticized the certification process as being too difficult, requiring 6 years of college. A lie. He has learned from the master.
Well that's if the selfish generation of boomers will even do that, or that parents will want to have boomer parents around their kids alone, many of my friends have gone low/no contact and/or would never consider their parents watching their children alone.
My my, Lindsey-we’re certainly painting Boomers with a broad brush. I’m sorry you seem to have lousy parents, or that your friends do. We’re not all selfish and evil. There are lots of reasons why grandparents can’t/won’t take on child care duties. Some of us live far away. Some of us are still employed, believe it or not. And some grandparents, as you’ve noted, have been cut off from their grandchildren.
I’d be happy to help care for grandchildren if I had any-I don’t, and I’m not pressuring my children to produce them since that’s not their job. Believe it or not, many of us Boomers, especially women, despise Trump and are working hard to get Harris elected.
Was that the one where they said "the whole point of the post-menopausal female is caring for grandchildren?" Sorry I've gotten a bit confused, the guy did a LOT of podcasts and it's hard to keep track.
Makes me wonder if Harris/Walz should just start running two-minute ads (an eternity in the world of political ads) which are just Trump "answering" this question? I know, do it split-screen, on the left are dogs, giving that quizzical look they get when you hide the tennis ball.
I was infuriated at the coverage yesterday…well, actually, everyday. Thank you Parker for making plain what too many in the media enable, to an end that is horrific to contemplate.
It’s been less than two days since Trump belched “I can’t imagine New Hampshire voting for Biden (frantic pen-click signal from Hannity) and Kamala (condescending first-name usage compounded by mispronunciation)” and it’s gone completely by the boards, assuming anyone even mentioned it at all.
“The corporate media” comprises a lot of people with a lot of motivations, but they want him back so badly.
So this is how it is. Trump is making himself completely available for any and all questions from media while Harris is sequestered by the Regime handlers to the root cellar with the vegetable in the White House so she does not speak much. That gives people like Parker a rich inventory of lazy Trump content to masquerade as a journalist when she consistently demonstrates with her choice of material that she is a committed anti-Trump propaganda piece for the Democrat party.
But crickets from Harris. Even if they felt the need for journalistic integrity to break from the Democrat Collective Regime, writers cannot criticize any Harris rambling word salads over complex policy ideas because she either has none, or the press never asks her because the press is into the Harris queen deity-making project, or she is unavailable.
But I do love this desperate meme that Parker has taken up. It is very bold... very bold indeed. To make the case that the mass media is in bed with Trump and failing to be critical enough of him... well that is a very tall mountain of persuasion to climb. You would have to be very committed to ignoring the last 8-9 years of absolute Trump Derangement Syndrome and nasty malice by the media to report on every little twitch of Trump... including many made up big lies about him... because it both benefits the Democrats and also feeds the blood and gore craving of the costal liberal and big city vulnerable narcissist single cat ladies and their low-T male lapdogs. You know, the people that luxury virtue signal claiming they are the educated, sophisticated, good and caring part of the population... those stupid and ugly working class people should just stop demanding a seat at their table!
I mean, wasn't that the early criticism... that Trump go too much free press from the media because the media was filled with people obsessed with him?
I think this might be missing from the analysis of elites like Parker... it is often very difficult to step outside a confirmation bias bubble to see things from another perspective. I subscribe to media content like this Substack to combat my own... to seek facts and truth and not just run with some group of like-minded people to get constant validation that I am right.
But she is irritated with Trump and like many in the media has developed a real neurosis centered on constantly thinking about Trump. She keeps writing about him... now with a commitment to blast the media for not reporting MORE about him.
What she misses is that more than half of the nation does not feed on the same twaddle of media criticism about Trump that excites the TDS sufferer. You can see the play with the Harris campaign and the media... the electorate cares less about what she says and does not say... as long as the media keeps repeating her name then the Madison Avenue marketing campaign to plant her into the brains of not-very-objectively-informed-but-emotionally-committed-voters, Harris is gold. I think Parker misses that the media repeating Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.... especially at this time... just gives him more air time.
I listened to his answer about the childcare issue. Here is my take away. He does not have a full plan, but has communicated his ideas and intent. Now, the difference with Trump and Harris is that Trump is trustworthy in terms of what he says he will support and do when in office, vs Harris being an inauthentic hidden agenda candidate like we experienced with Joe Biden. And we know if he would have committed to more details, it would just be weaponized against him by the dishonest Democrat media to claim he is dangerous to children, old people, women, minorities, LGBTQ people, the environment... and will destroy democracy and empower fascism. In other words he will support traditional American family values and support the American working and lower classes that the upper class really hate.
Also, about this "I read things from both sides" bullshit: I could spend my time going to National Review and Wall Street Journal and picking through them to find stuff I hate (wouldn't be hard, I'm sure) but that's not being "open-minded". What's really going on here is that Frank enjoys the buzz he gets from being angry, and he comes to sites like this to refill his anger-tank. Have you ever seen him post a comment saying that Parker actually had a valid point about ANYTHING? I sure haven't and I've wasted more minutes of my life reading his loony-tunes ramblings than I care to admit.
"picking through them to find stuff I hate"
That is not what I do. I read stuff and comnent on what is informative, and what I see as wrong or off to have a conversation. Parker has written some interesting and thoughtful stuff. I don't have to agree with something to value it. Just reading what I already know or believe is boring.
"Parker has written some interesting and thoughtful stuff."
Great, give me an example.
Related to the piece below about the phycology of people with the activism-as-a-way-of-life mindset... https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/caesars-lean-men
Just a few. She is much better when she does not allow her Trump Derangement Syndrome to guide her pen.
https://www.readtpa.com/p/access-denied-frustration-amplified
https://www.readtpa.com/p/elon-musks-legal-warfare-silencing
https://www.readtpa.com/p/beyond-toxic-positivity-lane-moores
https://www.readtpa.com/p/when-pundits-play-both-sides-a-tale
https://www.readtpa.com/p/packaged-and-repackaged
Completely disagree with this, but this is an example of where I am Subscribing to understand the thinking of a leftist on certain topics. I find this activism as a way of life existence a fascinating study in modern human psychology and how it overlays with history and culture. Related that, I keep thinking of all the time, effort and resources that kids on the left spend in outrage and protests, etc., and think about how that time would be otherwise used working to advance a career actually doing productive things. It is even more absurd when looking at the economic class of the average activist-as-a-way-of-life people because they are generally white upper-class, and more often female. https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-ethics-debate-over-recording
Again, your comment doesn't reference anything Parker actually said, it's just you rehashing your tired "Liberals are childless cat ladies" nonsense. This is a consistent pattern with you.
Here's a clue for the clueless: When I make a comment that actually references what someone else has actually said, it usually starts with a quote.
Wait right here, Frank, the New York Times will be by to clean this up.
"Commenter Frank suggested that the higher socioeconomic status of some liberals might leave them out of touch with the concerns of working-class Americans."
Well yes, but more than out of touch. Be honest... it is a dislike that borders on hate.
Pure projection. I don't even hate you, Frank.
Right. You don't hate all those lower class fascists that will elect Trump as your President?
I don't hate anyone for just voting for Trump, it would take something more than that. Like saying in a podcast that the sole point of post-menopausal women is caring for grandchildren. Now, THAT guy I hate.
I feel like, for members of the press, it's tempting to equate making people on both sides mad with doing the right thing. Journalism itself is under assault on a global level. That said, and as you noted, it might also be the case that they are doubly wrong.
Responding to criticism beckons nuance. In the current political and social media climate, however, there's unfortunately a premium on nuanced analysis.
I may or may not have referred to one of the "victims" as Pim Tool. Trying to keep my spirits up among this miasma :(
Crickets for you