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  • Democrats are losing the propaganda war

    10/05/2017 9:04:53 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 18 replies
    The Outline ^ | September 12, 2017 | Emmett Rensin
    Liberals are getting crushed by the right’s agitprop, and Verrit will not save them. Democrats, and the center-left more broadly, are obsessed with numbers games. They are animated more than anything by facts, by a consensus reached among themselves that they possess an exclusive monopoly on empirical reason. They blurt out facts and stats among one another, devoid of any context but the conviction that if God is not on their side, then reason is, and so long as that’s the case they’re bound to win. It is no surprise, then, that when the world’s most thankless Clinton hype man,...
  • REBUTTAL: No Vox, White Men are NOT a Bigger Threat than Islamic Terrorists…

    10/03/2017 6:43:15 PM PDT · by EdnaMode · 13 replies
    Louder With Crowder ^ | October 3, 2017 | COURTNEY KIRCHOFF
    If someone with a psych degree can add a new term to the list of disorders, I’d be much obliged. Let’s call it “Virtual Empathy Overload Syndrome” and define it as “Someone who can’t read another hot take and/or virtue signaling attempt, be it in the form of a solidarity avatar, hashtag, or asinine essay from mush-minded twits desperate for strangers to know Just How Much They Care(TM).” Because I’m suffering from it and need some kind of pill. Or a special bathroom. That’s how it works, right? Bake me a cake or I’ll sue. Not helping is Vox’s latest...
  • “They have no allegiance to liberal democracy”: an expert on antifa explains the group

    08/25/2017 11:29:23 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 23 replies
    Vox ^ | August 25, 2017 | Sean Illing
    When Donald Trump used the phrase “alt-left” to describe the anti-neo-Nazi protesters in Charlottesville last week, most people had no idea what he meant. I’m actually not sure he knew what he meant. “What about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the ‘alt-right’? Do they have any assemblage of guilt?” Trump said during a rambling press conference. If the alt-left exists, it’s probably best represented by “antifa” (short for “anti-fascist”) — a loose network of left-wing activists who physically resist people they consider fascists. These are often the scruffy, bandana-clad people who show up at alt-right...
  • Vox: North Korea Backed Down Because of... Charlottesville?

    08/15/2017 6:45:07 PM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 11 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | August 15, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick
    "Kim Jong-un blinked and backed off some of his threats. So is it possible that some of the President’s amped up rhetoric worked?" That was John Berman today at CNN's Newsroom blurting out that perhaps President Donald Trump should get credit for North Korea backing down on its threat to hit Guam with a missile. Unfortunately for Berman, he broke an important taboo among the left that Trump should never be given credit for any positive achievements.So how to explain that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un apparently blinked? Well, Vox has come up with a highly creative, if laughable, solution. The...
  • Mueller Prepares Comey, McCabe To Testify AGAINST POTUS

    08/03/2017 7:48:45 AM PDT · by davikkm · 146 replies
    thegatewaypundit ^ | Joshua Caplan
    Special Counsel Robert Mueller is leading one of the biggest witch hunts in American political history. According to a new report by VOX, the witch hunt just got worse, as Mueller has notified former FBI Head James Comey and former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe that they should be prepared to testify against President Trump. VOX reports: Shortly after the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller in May, Acting Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe told several of the highest-ranking managers of the bureau they should consider themselves possible witnesses in any investigation into whether President Donald Trump engaged in...
  • A basic income really could end poverty forever

    07/17/2017 9:00:32 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 77 replies
    Vox ^ | July 17, 2017 | Dylan Matthews
    I first heard the term “basic income” in the socialist magazine Dissent in 2005. I was a 15-year-old leftist with a taste for weird, radical plans to restructure society: say, having the government buy up majority stakes in every company and then distribute them equally to every American; converting all companies into worker cooperatives; trying a planned economy where the planning is done by decentralized worker and consumer councils rather than a government bureaucracy. Basic income, wherein the government gives everyone enough cash to live on with no strings attached, struck me as an idea in that mold: another never-going-to-happen...
  • Surrender or antisemite

    07/10/2017 8:28:43 AM PDT · by Rashputin · 47 replies
    Vox Popoli ^ | July 9, 2017 | Vox Day
    Surrender or antisemite Those are the options being presented by the Israeli ambassador to Hungary. I have no doubt that Hungary will rightly choose the latter. The Israeli ambassador in Budapest has called on the Hungarian government to end its campaign against Jewish billionaire George Soros, which he claims is stoking antisemitic sentiment. The Hungarian government has recently rolled out a nationwide billboard campaign, urging Hungarians to stand firm against the ruinous influence of the Jewish financial speculator.George Soros is well known for his involvement in the open borders campaign, with his Open Society organisation essentially acting as a front...
  • Vox Writer: Special Elections Results Mean 'Republicans Are in Trouble'

    06/22/2017 7:23:34 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 20 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | June 22, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick
    HOORAY! We lost again!!! A reliable source of humor after Democrats lose elections is Vox writer Matthew Yglesias. A month ago Yglesias was celebrating the loss of the democrat in the Montana special congressional election by declaring his loss to really mean a win for democrats. Yglesias continued mining this political comedy vein by declaring that the loss of Jon Ossoff in the George 6th Congressional District special election, after the party blew over $30 million on his campaign, really means that the "Republicans are in trouble."
  • Participation Trophy: Vox Hails Montana Democrat Loss as ‘Great’

    05/26/2017 8:29:13 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 14 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | May 26, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick
    HOORAY! We lost!!!That is becoming the laughable mainstream media theme about many special elections since President Donald Trump's victory last November. We saw this happen in early March when Politico hailed Democrat performances in special elections despite the fact that there was no net change. The latest iteration of celebrating participation trophies, and likely to be repeated by MSM sources,  comes by way of the May 26 edition of Vox in which Matthew Yglesias declared that the loss by the Democrat candidate in the congressional special election was beyond mere good news for the Democrats. In fact the Vox headline acclaimed that Republicans'...
  • Vox Hypes Big Money in Congressional Race

    03/28/2017 7:47:51 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 2 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | March 27, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick
    Do you remember the time not so very long ago when, according to Democrats and liberals, big money in politics was the most evil thing about our political system? Well that was then. Starting most noticeably during the presidential campaign last Fall when Hillary Clinton outspent the Donald Trump campaign by about two-to-one, Democrats and liberals have developed newfound respect for big money in politics to the extent they now actually brag about it. The latest example is Vox hyping big campaign spending in a March 27 article by Jeff Stein whose very title positively exults that Georgia Dems normally raise...
  • Meet the 16-year-old Canadian girl who took down Milo Yiannopoulos (vox alert)

    02/24/2017 5:50:14 PM PST · by Ennis85 · 51 replies
    Vox ^ | Feb 24, 2017 | German Lopez
    The story of Milo Yiannopoulos’s fall from conservative grace ended when a conservative blog posted video footage of him making comments that seemed to rationalize pedophilia. But it started when a 16-year-old high school student in Canada decided Yiannopoulos was embraced much too closely by mainstream conservatives. The teen was moved to dig up footage on Yiannopoulos when she heard that he’d been invited to speak at the highest profile gathering of conservatives each year in America, the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). She defines herself as “very socially liberal,” but leans right on economics and foreign policy. Yiannopoulos,...
  • Dr. StrangeTrump: Vox Compares Kubrick Film to Trump Administration

    02/18/2017 12:42:58 PM PST · by PJ-Comix · 20 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | February 18, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick
    Talk about a stretch! Or, better, make that a streeeeeeetch. Vox has started a new type of movie review in which they take a film  and try to correrelate it to current events. Since Vox, like the rest of the MSM, is absolutely obessed by President Trump, it is no big surprise that they will apply their TDS to the reviews starting with the current movie: "Dr. Strangelove." To read the review by Alissa Wilkinson you would think Stanley Kubrick's classic dark comedy should have been named "Dr. StrangeTrump or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Donald."...
  • What’s So Strange About Trump’s White House Portrait? Experts Explain.

    01/26/2017 3:50:55 PM PST · by goldstategop · 150 replies
    Vox ^ | 01/26/2017 | Jacob Gardenswartz
    During his inauguration address on Friday, Donald Trump released an image that had nothing to do with crowd size or marchers: his official White House portrait. The picture, which features prominently in the White House website’s biography of Trump, depicts the President in front of what appears to be a green-screen image of the White House. In his characteristic red tie, Trump leans forward, no smile, with an aggressive — arguably menacing — stare. The image struck us as unusual, so we reached out to some professional photographers and presidential scholars to help us unpack why. The photo is odd,...
  • After Decrying Fake News, Journalists Are Still Binging On Fake News

    01/23/2017 1:50:08 PM PST · by markomalley · 4 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 1/23/17 | Sean Davis
    If you thought the results of the 2016 election would cause members of the news media to do a bit of soul-searching about the tenor of their coverage, you were wrong. If you thought they might want to understand why their hysterical attempts to take down Donald Trump were all for naught, you were mistaken. And if you thought they were interested in understanding why media trust numbers just hit record lows, you were delusional.After spending weeks post-election complaining about the rise of so-called fake news and attributing Hillary Clinton’s loss to its proliferation, a large number of members of...
  • Donald Trump canceled his planned press conference on how he’ll extricate himself from his business

    12/15/2016 6:48:11 PM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 29 replies
    Vox ^ | December 12, 2016 | Libby Nelson
    President-elect Donald Trump’s businesses provide an unprecedented opportunity for conflicts of interest and even corruption. And he just canceled the news conference where he was supposed to tell Americans how he’d deal with them. On November 30, Trump said that he’d announce his plans for the Trump Organization, his sprawling business empire, on December 15, promising he would be “leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Now that press conference has been canceled, according to Bloomberg Politics’ Kevin Cirilli, Caleb Melby, and Ben Brody. Unnamed...
  • We missed what was so effective about Donald Trump’s campaign speeches

    12/11/2016 9:59:47 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 60 replies
    Vox ^ | December 6, 2016 | Mike Conczal
    I’ve started to rewatch Trump rallies from the month before he was elected president. I’ve seen some of them before, but that was always with the presumption he was unlikely to win. Now I watch them trying to figure out how he did it, and how the Democrats can rebuild their economic message out of this mess....
  • Trump’s secretary of labor pick...pro-immigration Republican Trump campaigned against

    12/08/2016 2:44:33 PM PST · by Pinkbell · 20 replies
    Vox ^ | December 8, 2016 | Dara Lind
    (Snip) As an executive in a low-wage industry dominated by “low-skilled” workers (many of them immigrants, and often unauthorized immigrants), Puzder has been an outspoken supporter of low-skilled immigration to the US — and of immigration reform that would legalize unauthorized immigrants who are already here. (Snip) Puzder is a leading member of the GOP’s pro-immigrant wing — which Trump ran, and won, against In early 2015 (before Trump entered the race), Puzder participated in a press call warning the Republican candidates for president to follow Jeb Bush’s “lead” on immigration. “People vote with their hearts ... our values dictate...
  • Donald Trump's infrastructure plan wouldn't actually fix America's infrastructure problems

    11/21/2016 9:00:54 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 25 replies
    Vox ^ | November 18, 2016 | Brad Plumer
    Donald Trump loves the idea of infrastructure. He brings it up all the time. He wants to make an infrastructure bill a priority in his first 100 days as president. And Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have said they’d love to work with him on this."We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals," Trump promised cheering supporters on election night. "We're going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none. And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it."The...
  • Reverse Voxsplaining: Drugs Vs. Chairs

    08/30/2016 9:54:48 AM PDT · by OddLane · 3 replies
    Slate Star Codex ^ | August 29, 2016 | Scott Alexander
    EpiPens, useful medical devices which reverse potentially fatal allergic reactions, have recently quadrupled in price, putting pressure on allergy sufferers and those who care for them. Vox writes that this “tells us a lot about what’s wrong with American health care” – namely that we don’t regulate it enough: The story of Mylan’s giant EpiPen price increase is, more fundamentally, a story about America’s unique drug pricing policies. We are the only developed nation that lets drugmakers set their own prices, maximizing profits the same way sellers of chairs, mugs, shoes, or any other manufactured goods would.Let me ask Vox...
  • 3 reasons the American Revolution was a Mistake

    07/03/2016 10:50:12 AM PDT · by GuavaCheesePuff · 107 replies
    Vox ^ | July 1, 2016 | Dylan Matthews
    This July 4, let's not mince words: American independence in 1776 was a monumental mistake. We should be mourning the fact that we left the United Kingdom, not cheering it. Of course, evaluating the wisdom of the American Revolution means dealing with counterfactuals. As any historian would tell you, this is a messy business. We obviously can't be entirely sure how America would have fared if it had stayed in the British Empire longer, perhaps gaining independence a century or so later, along with Canada. But I'm reasonably confident a world in which the revolution never happened would be better...