This is the full Tucker Carlson Summit interview with republican candidates. I’ve seen full interviews of Tim Scott, Asa Hutchinson and Mike Pence, part of Vivek, and now I’m watching Nikki Haley.
I’m shocked that Tucker didn’t ask Haley about her support of Ukraine. Perhaps it’s because she gave interviews in Iowa before the Summit and discussed Ukraine.
Friend in one of our sister churches came here from the Czech Republic as a young girl, she trained professionally and for the Olympics in ice skating and has coached several, including Olympic contenders, since. But I haven’t connected with her in a while, our paper wrote a story on her before I’d met her.
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No opinion, handicapping only — interesting Stirewalt column on the race ahead and when we’ll (maybe?) know something more than we do now. This is definitely an unpredictable election, I’d say.
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The 18 Days That Will Decide the GOP Nomination
Mark your calendars for February 2024.
~ In a little more than a month, we will move into the next phase of the Republican presidential nominating contest with the first debate among the serious(ish) contenders.
An August 23 debate is a little later start than the last time Republicans had an open seat to fill. It was August 6, 2015, when the combatants gathered in Cleveland for their first showdown. But that was a lot later than in the previous two cycles when the contests began in May of the year before the election.
Those two were aberrations, though. The practice of holding televised primary debates started in 1980 with a gathering in January of that year. In the next three cycles with the nomination up for grabs, 1988, 1996, and 2000, the first debates took place in October of the year before.
Debates are important for what happens on stage—or at least white people think happened on stage—but their most important role is in focusing the minds of voters on the task at hand. The bulk of what the candidates have been doing until the debates begin is about donors, the media, and the perceived kingmakers in early-voting states.
With the debates, they move from pseudo-events to something closer to the real thing. This produces a change in the candidates, but also the psychology of the electorate.
The first period of the contest began at the conclusion of the 2022 midterms and the effort to spin the results for or against frontrunner Donald Trump. After more than eight months of positioning, posturing, fundraising, and organizing, we are now finally almost ready to start phase two.
And now that we finally have a date for the Iowa Republican caucuses, we know how long the second phase will last. It will be 145 days—about 21 weeks—between the first debate on August 23 and that cold Iowa night when strangers gather in school gymnasiums and volunteer fire departments to caucus.
What will happen over those five months or so is no less predictable nor any less fascinating than the migration of the monarch butterflies or the running of the shad. Voters will herd themselves into categories. The term “lanes,” the abuse of which is appropriately lamented, should more rightly direct our thinking not about the candidates but rather the electorate.
Picking a candidate demands trade-offs and compromises. While it is certainly true that candidates spend a lot of time chasing voters, we can’t forget the social psychology at work on the other side. Like consumers scrolling through a selection of air fryers on Amazon, voters will be sorting themselves out based on the limited, if still expansive, choices put before them.
This is when voters decide who they want, who they can live with, and who they absolutely will abjure. Even if they are not making conscious choices, those attitudes are taking shape all the while. It starts with the most engaged, opinionated, activist voters, and proceeds all the way down to the most persuadable, least ideological likely voters still in the mix. …
~ … That span from February 6 to February 24, when South Carolina votes, will be the moment the Republicans sort themselves out. That’s phase three.
You can see how the increments of time contract. Nine months from midterm to debate, five months from debate to Iowa, three weeks from Iowa to Nevada, and then 18 days from Nevada to South Carolina.
The pressure on the remaining candidates will be intense, but so will the pressure be on voters. With three contests done, South Carolina will have the chance to either set the race as a two-person contest or ratify the eventual winner. If Trump (or anyone) has won two of the three and rolls into South Carolina with a head of steam, Palmetto State Republicans can end it there. If there is less clarity from the early races, South Carolina can anoint a Trump rival to go the distance.
And the distance is not far. Just nine days later comes Super Tuesday, including California, Texas, and Georgia. In all, 35 percent of delegates will be awarded that day alone. In all but the most far-fetched scenarios, that is when the race will end.
How voters sort themselves in the 18 days before South Carolina will set the parameters of the possible on Super Tuesday, and Super Tuesday will decide the winner. Fifteen months, incalculable man hours, and hundreds of millions of dollars will all have gone into creating that little space on the calendar when the fate of the party, and maybe the health of the republic, will be decided. ~
dj: That Wimbledon victory is particularly incredible b/c Vondrousova was not even seeded, the first unseeded person to ever win the Wimbledon title.
For such a small nation, the Czech Republic has a lot of women who do very well as professionals.
On the men’s side, look for Djokovic to win another title. It should be an incredible match with Alcaraz, but Djokovic still has too much mental strength for the young guns…
“Failing the New York State teachers’ exam really paid off — especially for a Queens man who learned this month he’s getting a $2 million windfall over it.
Roughly 5,200 black and Hispanic ex-Big Apple teachers and once-aspiring educators are expected to collect more than $1.8 billion in judgments after the city stopped fighting a nearly three-decade federal discrimination lawsuit that found a certification exam was biased.
It’s the largest legal payout in city history.
As of Friday, 225 people who failed the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test used for teacher licensing from 1994 to 2014 had already been notified they’re getting settlements of at least $1 million, according to an analysis of Manhattan federal court records.
Court rulings found the exam violated civil-rights laws, allowing far more white candidates to pass.”
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“One Brooklyn principal said the city was “crazy” to settle the case.
“The standards are the standards,” he said. “It shouldn’t be based on what would be easy for blacks or whites. To hire people who are not qualified and change the requirements because a certain group didn‘t pass the test is bulls–t.”
The class-action suit dates back to 1996 when it was filed on behalf of Elsa Gulino and three other teachers against the former Board of Education, which once ran the city’s public schools before it was disbanded by the state Legislature to give that power to the mayoral-controlled Department of Education.
The plaintiffs targeted both the state and city, but an appeals court ultimately let Albany off the hook since the city is the teachers’ employer — even though the city argued it had no control over the testing.
The case has had a winding road through the court system, including repeated trips to appellate courts.
A 2003 trial ended in the city’s favor, but the tests were ruled discriminatory in 2012 by the third Manhattan federal judge to handle the case.
The city Law Department insisted it pursued all legal avenues before finally deciding to bring the longstanding case to a close.
“Over decades, we challenged court rulings holding the city liable for a teacher certification test created and mandated by the state,” said agency spokesman Nicholas Paolucci. “Unfortunately, the city did not prevail against these mistaken court decisions that unfairly burden city taxpayers with costly judgments.”
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“More than 90% of white test-takers passed the 80-question multiple-choice and essay Liberal Arts and Sciences Test between March 1993 and June 1995 — one version of which had questions such as asking teachers to explain the meaning of a painting by pop artist Andy Warhol.
But black applicants on average scored passing grades only 53% of the time, and Latinos had an even lower passing rate, just 50%, according to the lawsuit.
The failures resulted in full-time teachers getting demoted to substitutes and prevented aspiring educators from getting hired.”
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“Some became career subs, others found teaching jobs outside the city, and the rest left the profession.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs brought in experts who testified that much of the discrepancy in scores could be attributed to some of the questions being culturally biased in favor of whites.
In 2012, Manhattan federal Judge Kimba Wood ruled that requiring teachers to pass the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because it wasn’t a proper indicator of better-performing teachers.
She sided with the plaintiffs, who said the test had an illegal “disparate impact” on blacks and Latinos and that the city’s school system was liable for making hiring decisions based on its results.
The city argued it was simply following teaching licensing requirements mandated by the state and didn’t have any authority over the tests.
It’s spent decades fighting the case, causing the costs further mount.”
“Tucker Carlson hosted a candidate forum at the Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 14. Politico described it as the “Tucker stress test,” and many 2024 GOP candidates failed. The former Fox News host outright brutalized them. You could argue that Mr. Carlson was the grim reaper to many candidacies this week.
On the other hand, some folks, like Tim Scott, Asa Hutchinson, and Mike Pence, didn’t have a shot at winning the nomination anyway. Asa Hutchinson got cornered on transgender issues, which the former Arkansas governor felt wasn’t significant. Carlson reminded him that it’s one of the top cultural debates today.
Yet, Mike Pence was the one who got spit-roasted, especially on the war in Ukraine, where the former vice president’s position about a lack of military equipment on the ground got vivisected in front of the audience. One attendee at the forum observed that Pence’s long-shot candidacy was probably over after this disastrous event, one that was once the former Indiana governor’s core audience (via Politico):
Most of the Republican field arrived at a packed convention center Friday for an annual forum traditionally billed as a chance for candidates to pitch themselves to Iowa’s influential evangelicals. Instead, several were subjected to a combative stress test conducted by the ousted Fox News anchor whose 9 million-strong Twitter following demonstrates his continued sway over the GOP.
One candidate Carlson did not have the opportunity to grill on stage was former President Donald Trump. The GOP field’s frontrunner skipped the event, citing a scheduling conflict — a move that angered the head of the hosting organization, The Family Leader, a large and politically active organization of evangelical church leaders.
It also offered second-place Ron DeSantis and lower-ranked candidates like Sen. Tim Scott, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy an opening to make further inroads in Iowa.
[…]
In the most contentious interview of the day, Carlson laced into the underdog candidate over his position on the war and his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and called for hanging Pence for certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Carlson — a fierce Trump defender who later soured on the ex-president — challenged, interrupted and contradicted the soft-spoken Pence at nearly every turn. As a result, the devout Christian candidate faced hostility and jeers at a summit that would have once provided him with a friendly audience.
[…]
The heated exchange continued throughout the 25-minute interview, with Pence later tweeting that his remarks were taken out of context. A Pence spokesperson declined to comment further on the exchange.
The tense back-and-forth underscored both Pence’s difficulty in the race and the ongoing shift in the Republican Party, whose traditionalists believe the United States should defend Ukraine and move away from Trump’s influence.
But it is clear that influence is here to stay.
“Tucker Carlson is good at what he does. I think some of Pence’s responses — for a vice president to get boos, audible boos, from the audience? That’s a big deal,” Mike Demastus, pastor of the Fort Des Moines Church of Christ, said after the event. “I even heard one pastor friend of mine say, ‘His campaign’s over.’”
From the article above: “Carlson — a fierce Trump defender who later soured on the ex-president — challenged, interrupted and contradicted the soft-spoken Pence at nearly every turn. As a result, the devout Christian candidate faced hostility and jeers at a summit that would have once provided him with a friendly audience. ”
I disagree with this. I watched the entire thing. The audience actually clapped for Tucker’s questions more than once and were audibly dissatisfied with Pence’s answers. That’s on Pence, not Tucker. Tucker was tough but not unfair. Also Pence was visibly angry, and that cost him. You could tell he doesn’t like Tucker. Pence made his worst comment after Tucker pointed out the many problems in American cities, saying ‘I’ve heard your routine before [Tucker]. That’s not my concern. That’s not my concern.” It was not out of context; it was the WRONG answer, Mr. Pence.
My only criticism of Tucker’s interviews was on Nikki Haley—why on earth didn’t he ask her about Ukraine. Arguably, she has the most radical take on Ukraine since she has advocated admitting them to NATO.
Fortunately, I doubt either one will be on the ticket this time. But between Pence and Haley, I think Haley is by far the slicker politician.
I can’t wait for someone to come along and clean up this mess and tell us what Mike really meant….
Tucker: "Every city in America has become worse over the past few years… Your concern is that Ukraine don't have enough tanks… Where's the concern for America in that?"
I agree that "it's not my concern" was not Pence saying he doesn't care about the welfare of Americans. But the full video, which everyone who I saw commenting on it posted, shows Pence basically unable to offer any sort of specific answer to that question.
In which Jennifer Rubin writes a piece in the Washington Post on Friday that is based around the massive mistake that Business Insider made—and then corrected—on Tuesday. “Does she have editors?” was just emphatically answered. pic.twitter.com/HeigB7gL2c
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 15, 2023
And here’s Jennifer Rubin, three days later, still running with it in the Washington Post. She doesn’t know anything, or care that she doesn’t know anything—and nobody at the Post seems to mind. pic.twitter.com/WkwJlfMdw1
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 15, 2023
Like the old, pro-corporate, pro-war republicans, Pence lacks a robust domestic agenda. If those words were out of context, I’d like to hear what he actually meant when he said ‘That’s not my concern’. Exactly WHAT is not his concern? It was not a slip of the tongue as he actually said it twice. He sounded like he was auditioning for the opportunity to become the country’s next war president.
I thought Vivek Ramaswamy did very well in the interview. I wouldn’t mind seeing him in the VP slot with Trump. I’m starting to lean toward Trump over Desantis at this point. But it is early days yet.
I am very curious about what Pence was referring to when he said that. The rest of what he says there shows that America’s welfare is his concern, so I wonder what he was referring to as not his concern. I hope he will clear it up.
I think I just may have figured it out. What gets lost in the verbiage was Carlson’s question – “America is falling apart and your concern is Ukraine doesn’t have enough tanks?” – to which “That’s not my concern” could apply.
Democrats however refuse to close the border to smugglers and traffickers, so there’s no end in sight. But hey, what’s a couple hundred thousand dead Americans matter, when we have millions of illegal invaders to replace them right.
Replacement theory is alive, well, and pushed by Democrats.
“Police Boss Garry McCarthy Loses Daughter to Chinese Fentanyl and Mexican Drug Gangs”
“Former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy—now the police chief of suburban Willow Springs–is one tough man, a cop’s cop, relentless, hard shoes shined, looking for lawbreakers the way a natural born linebacker searches for ball carriers, relentlessly. A true crime fighter.
But even the strongest among us are weak for our children.
And a year ago last May, his daughter Kyla McCarthy joined the ranks of more than 100,000 young Americans murdered by the synthetic opioid fentanyl.
It is the deadly poison made by the Communist government of China and shipped easily here to our hemisphere, to our wide-open border with Mexico.
And it is all put together by the vicious Mexican drug cartels to kill our children. The Biden Administration tells us the border is secure, but they know that’s a lie and parents know it.
This is not just a cop story. It is a father’s story. An American’s story.
“It’s a story that you’ve heard 100 times,” said McCarthy on the Chicago Way podcast that I co-host with WGN AM executive producer Jeff Carlin. I’m including a link here so you might read this and listen to his words.
“She was a four-sport athlete in high school, a natural athlete who didn’t really work at it She once turned an unassisted triple play in high school softball and then led off the next inning and hit a triple off the fence. She gets to third base and everybody’s going crazy and she looks at me in the stands, then looks at her (finger) nails. She says, ‘How long is this game gonna be? I want to go get my nails done.’ And I was ready to jump out of the stands because, you know, I was the classic overachiever. I was an athlete, but I didn’t have her skills, I had to work hard to do it.
“So, she gets into a car accident when she was a junior in high school. Her ankle got pulverized on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. The short story is they loaded her up with Oxycontin. And she suffered through 18 years of addiction.”
It was last May 29 he was having lunch when his ex-wife (Kyla’s mother) called. She was worried because she couldn’t reach her daughter and they speak almost every day.
He called a friend, a police boss in the Bronx who sent out a couple of detectives.
“They got into her apartment and they overdosed from fentanyl. Her and her boyfriend…you send people to prison and they become better criminals. And it’s pretty much the same thing with rehab. Sometimes you send people to rehab and they hook up with other people who have the same problems, and they just keep doing the same things and this is the result. I’ve had a lot of tragedy in my life, trust me. But this one takes the cake. May 29th. And the guilt is overwhelming.”
“You know what really pisses me off is the fact that this year in this country there were 110,000 overdoses. And just to be clear in our 10 year active war in Vietnam, we lost 58,000 Americans, and here we are last year the number as 110,000. And the vast majority is fentanyl and we don’t control our borders, it’s killing our kids.
“The precursors come from China to Mexico, right?, they get put together by the cartels and the pain is distributed in this country across the southern border. And nobody is doing anything about it. So I’m, I’m angry about it and I wanna do something about it, but at this point, you know, it’s it’s overwhelming and there’s not a lot that I could do certainly. Except try and make sure that my my other daughter and and my son don’t fall into the same trap.
In many 12-step addiction programs the key is recognizing the problem. We know what the problem is:
China sends poison to the borders and the government of the United States has given up control of the borders to the narco-traffickers. The news media ignores the issue lest the news reflect poorly on President Joe Biden, who was to have been in charge of the borders. But he has lost all control.
Is this a function of Biden on the payroll of the China Communist Party? Or a host of other reasons including China’s brazen insolence in sending over the spy balloons and we did nothing for days as the surveillance balloons collected data. They are still collecting data. China and the Mexican drug cartels have killed more than 100,000 young Americans and we do nothing. The data they collect involves our will to live.
“We’ve had Chinese drugs coming into this country and killing people. What is the point of a narcotic that kills people? And they think they’re getting high. They disguise it as other things. It’s really clear to me that this is a major attack on the United States. They’re killing our children. The drugs are disguised as gummies. They disguised them as Sweet Tarts and all these various things to sneak them into the country and and people are dying and that and you know it’s all over the news but yet nobody seems to wanna take the bull by the horns and stand up and say OK this is an attack on the United States.”
“The politics of it, we are weak right now. We are weak to the world. I hate to say it, but this administration is.””
“Remember when Democrats and the media claimed Biden would restore our cherished norms? How’s that working out?”
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Axios Tries to Water Down Biden’s Explosive Temper Towards Aides and Staff
Biden Slammed for Refusing to Acknowledge His Seventh Grandchild
Biden Skips NATO Leader Dinner Due to Workload Despite Just Coming Off Beach Vacation
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Look at what he’s done to our military.
Biden Calls Up Inactive Reservists for “Operation Atlantic Resolve” – i.e. Ukraine
‘Sure Let Our Adversaries Know’: Anger Boils Over After Biden Reveals in Live Interview That America is Low on Ammunition
Nearly 40% of U.S. Attack Submarines are Out of Commission
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Is this normal?
Little Girl Squirms as Biden Nibbles Her Shoulder and Tries to Kiss Her During Finland Trip
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No one believes anything about this.
Secret Service Ending White House Cocaine Investigation
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Faith in our institutions is disappearing.
Trust in Institutions Continues Near All-Time Lows, Military and Medical Drop
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Is there any wonder why?
Government Seeks Stay Of Injunction Against Censorship Collusion With Big Tech
FBI’s Wray and Rep. Massie Battle Over 1/6 Pipe Bomb Investigation, Bank of America Providing Gun Purchase Records
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People who speak out get targeted.
“DOJ Indicts Man Who Claimed He Gave FBI Info About Biden Family Ties to China
Wray: No Evidence for Garland to Target Protesting Parents, But FBI Made Threat Tag to Identify Them”
🚨 HERE IS FOOTAGE OF A TOP DEMOCRAT TRYING TO MEET WITH 14-YEAR-OLD BOYS FOR SEX! Exposing The Elite Pedophile Rings is Not A “Conspiracy Theory”… IT’S A NECESSITY ⚠️ pic.twitter.com/0Xw1WX5LiS
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This is the full Tucker Carlson Summit interview with republican candidates. I’ve seen full interviews of Tim Scott, Asa Hutchinson and Mike Pence, part of Vivek, and now I’m watching Nikki Haley.
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I’m shocked that Tucker didn’t ask Haley about her support of Ukraine. Perhaps it’s because she gave interviews in Iowa before the Summit and discussed Ukraine.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/nikki-haley-doubles-down-on-ukraine-side-steps-abortion-during-iowa-visit/ar-AA1dTPSh
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Too much from which to choose . Read at your leisure if you want some eye opening info…
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/infiltrators-saturday-july-15-2023?publication_id=463409&isFreemail=true
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A Czech woman (Marketa Vondrousova) won the Wimbledon Final!!!
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Congrats, Ty and her countrymen & women 🙂
Friend in one of our sister churches came here from the Czech Republic as a young girl, she trained professionally and for the Olympics in ice skating and has coached several, including Olympic contenders, since. But I haven’t connected with her in a while, our paper wrote a story on her before I’d met her.
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No opinion, handicapping only — interesting Stirewalt column on the race ahead and when we’ll (maybe?) know something more than we do now. This is definitely an unpredictable election, I’d say.
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The 18 Days That Will Decide the GOP Nomination
Mark your calendars for February 2024.
~ In a little more than a month, we will move into the next phase of the Republican presidential nominating contest with the first debate among the serious(ish) contenders.
An August 23 debate is a little later start than the last time Republicans had an open seat to fill. It was August 6, 2015, when the combatants gathered in Cleveland for their first showdown. But that was a lot later than in the previous two cycles when the contests began in May of the year before the election.
Those two were aberrations, though. The practice of holding televised primary debates started in 1980 with a gathering in January of that year. In the next three cycles with the nomination up for grabs, 1988, 1996, and 2000, the first debates took place in October of the year before.
Debates are important for what happens on stage—or at least white people think happened on stage—but their most important role is in focusing the minds of voters on the task at hand. The bulk of what the candidates have been doing until the debates begin is about donors, the media, and the perceived kingmakers in early-voting states.
With the debates, they move from pseudo-events to something closer to the real thing. This produces a change in the candidates, but also the psychology of the electorate.
The first period of the contest began at the conclusion of the 2022 midterms and the effort to spin the results for or against frontrunner Donald Trump. After more than eight months of positioning, posturing, fundraising, and organizing, we are now finally almost ready to start phase two.
And now that we finally have a date for the Iowa Republican caucuses, we know how long the second phase will last. It will be 145 days—about 21 weeks—between the first debate on August 23 and that cold Iowa night when strangers gather in school gymnasiums and volunteer fire departments to caucus.
What will happen over those five months or so is no less predictable nor any less fascinating than the migration of the monarch butterflies or the running of the shad. Voters will herd themselves into categories. The term “lanes,” the abuse of which is appropriately lamented, should more rightly direct our thinking not about the candidates but rather the electorate.
Picking a candidate demands trade-offs and compromises. While it is certainly true that candidates spend a lot of time chasing voters, we can’t forget the social psychology at work on the other side. Like consumers scrolling through a selection of air fryers on Amazon, voters will be sorting themselves out based on the limited, if still expansive, choices put before them.
This is when voters decide who they want, who they can live with, and who they absolutely will abjure. Even if they are not making conscious choices, those attitudes are taking shape all the while. It starts with the most engaged, opinionated, activist voters, and proceeds all the way down to the most persuadable, least ideological likely voters still in the mix. …
The rest here:
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did it again.
The rest here:
https://thedispatch.activehosted.com/index.php
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ha, interesting typo in that copy above:
~ Debates are important for what happens on stage—or at least white people think happened on stage ~
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And bottom line = South Carolina
~ … That span from February 6 to February 24, when South Carolina votes, will be the moment the Republicans sort themselves out. That’s phase three.
You can see how the increments of time contract. Nine months from midterm to debate, five months from debate to Iowa, three weeks from Iowa to Nevada, and then 18 days from Nevada to South Carolina.
The pressure on the remaining candidates will be intense, but so will the pressure be on voters. With three contests done, South Carolina will have the chance to either set the race as a two-person contest or ratify the eventual winner. If Trump (or anyone) has won two of the three and rolls into South Carolina with a head of steam, Palmetto State Republicans can end it there. If there is less clarity from the early races, South Carolina can anoint a Trump rival to go the distance.
And the distance is not far. Just nine days later comes Super Tuesday, including California, Texas, and Georgia. In all, 35 percent of delegates will be awarded that day alone. In all but the most far-fetched scenarios, that is when the race will end.
How voters sort themselves in the 18 days before South Carolina will set the parameters of the possible on Super Tuesday, and Super Tuesday will decide the winner. Fifteen months, incalculable man hours, and hundreds of millions of dollars will all have gone into creating that little space on the calendar when the fate of the party, and maybe the health of the republic, will be decided. ~
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Sorry, I had too many political science classes back in the day, the strategy of these elections as they unfold still intrigues me.
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I had noticed that “white people” typo, too, and laughed a bit at it. 🙂
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And it wasn’t even mine this time!
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dj: That Wimbledon victory is particularly incredible b/c Vondrousova was not even seeded, the first unseeded person to ever win the Wimbledon title.
For such a small nation, the Czech Republic has a lot of women who do very well as professionals.
On the men’s side, look for Djokovic to win another title. It should be an incredible match with Alcaraz, but Djokovic still has too much mental strength for the young guns…
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Wait! We haven’t watched it yet!
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Spoiler!
Oooops. 🙂
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Gee, why is public education so expensive?
“Black, Hispanic NYers who failed teacher’s test strike $1.8B in NYC settlement”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/nyc-bias-suit-black-hispanic-teachers-and-ex-teachers-rich/
“Failing the New York State teachers’ exam really paid off — especially for a Queens man who learned this month he’s getting a $2 million windfall over it.
Roughly 5,200 black and Hispanic ex-Big Apple teachers and once-aspiring educators are expected to collect more than $1.8 billion in judgments after the city stopped fighting a nearly three-decade federal discrimination lawsuit that found a certification exam was biased.
It’s the largest legal payout in city history.
As of Friday, 225 people who failed the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test used for teacher licensing from 1994 to 2014 had already been notified they’re getting settlements of at least $1 million, according to an analysis of Manhattan federal court records.
Court rulings found the exam violated civil-rights laws, allowing far more white candidates to pass.”
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“One Brooklyn principal said the city was “crazy” to settle the case.
“The standards are the standards,” he said. “It shouldn’t be based on what would be easy for blacks or whites. To hire people who are not qualified and change the requirements because a certain group didn‘t pass the test is bulls–t.”
The class-action suit dates back to 1996 when it was filed on behalf of Elsa Gulino and three other teachers against the former Board of Education, which once ran the city’s public schools before it was disbanded by the state Legislature to give that power to the mayoral-controlled Department of Education.
The plaintiffs targeted both the state and city, but an appeals court ultimately let Albany off the hook since the city is the teachers’ employer — even though the city argued it had no control over the testing.
The case has had a winding road through the court system, including repeated trips to appellate courts.
A 2003 trial ended in the city’s favor, but the tests were ruled discriminatory in 2012 by the third Manhattan federal judge to handle the case.
The city Law Department insisted it pursued all legal avenues before finally deciding to bring the longstanding case to a close.
“Over decades, we challenged court rulings holding the city liable for a teacher certification test created and mandated by the state,” said agency spokesman Nicholas Paolucci. “Unfortunately, the city did not prevail against these mistaken court decisions that unfairly burden city taxpayers with costly judgments.”
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“More than 90% of white test-takers passed the 80-question multiple-choice and essay Liberal Arts and Sciences Test between March 1993 and June 1995 — one version of which had questions such as asking teachers to explain the meaning of a painting by pop artist Andy Warhol.
But black applicants on average scored passing grades only 53% of the time, and Latinos had an even lower passing rate, just 50%, according to the lawsuit.
The failures resulted in full-time teachers getting demoted to substitutes and prevented aspiring educators from getting hired.”
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“Some became career subs, others found teaching jobs outside the city, and the rest left the profession.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs brought in experts who testified that much of the discrepancy in scores could be attributed to some of the questions being culturally biased in favor of whites.
In 2012, Manhattan federal Judge Kimba Wood ruled that requiring teachers to pass the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because it wasn’t a proper indicator of better-performing teachers.
She sided with the plaintiffs, who said the test had an illegal “disparate impact” on blacks and Latinos and that the city’s school system was liable for making hiring decisions based on its results.
The city argued it was simply following teaching licensing requirements mandated by the state and didn’t have any authority over the tests.
It’s spent decades fighting the case, causing the costs further mount.”
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As expected. Most don’t stand up to scrutiny.
“A Lot of the 2024 GOP Field Didn’t Fare Well Against the ‘Tucker Stress Test'”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/07/16/tucker-carlson-cut-down-the-2024-gop-field-with-a-sickle-this-week-n2625777
“Tucker Carlson hosted a candidate forum at the Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 14. Politico described it as the “Tucker stress test,” and many 2024 GOP candidates failed. The former Fox News host outright brutalized them. You could argue that Mr. Carlson was the grim reaper to many candidacies this week.
On the other hand, some folks, like Tim Scott, Asa Hutchinson, and Mike Pence, didn’t have a shot at winning the nomination anyway. Asa Hutchinson got cornered on transgender issues, which the former Arkansas governor felt wasn’t significant. Carlson reminded him that it’s one of the top cultural debates today.
Yet, Mike Pence was the one who got spit-roasted, especially on the war in Ukraine, where the former vice president’s position about a lack of military equipment on the ground got vivisected in front of the audience. One attendee at the forum observed that Pence’s long-shot candidacy was probably over after this disastrous event, one that was once the former Indiana governor’s core audience (via Politico):
Most of the Republican field arrived at a packed convention center Friday for an annual forum traditionally billed as a chance for candidates to pitch themselves to Iowa’s influential evangelicals. Instead, several were subjected to a combative stress test conducted by the ousted Fox News anchor whose 9 million-strong Twitter following demonstrates his continued sway over the GOP.
One candidate Carlson did not have the opportunity to grill on stage was former President Donald Trump. The GOP field’s frontrunner skipped the event, citing a scheduling conflict — a move that angered the head of the hosting organization, The Family Leader, a large and politically active organization of evangelical church leaders.
It also offered second-place Ron DeSantis and lower-ranked candidates like Sen. Tim Scott, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy an opening to make further inroads in Iowa.
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In the most contentious interview of the day, Carlson laced into the underdog candidate over his position on the war and his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and called for hanging Pence for certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Carlson — a fierce Trump defender who later soured on the ex-president — challenged, interrupted and contradicted the soft-spoken Pence at nearly every turn. As a result, the devout Christian candidate faced hostility and jeers at a summit that would have once provided him with a friendly audience.
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The heated exchange continued throughout the 25-minute interview, with Pence later tweeting that his remarks were taken out of context. A Pence spokesperson declined to comment further on the exchange.
The tense back-and-forth underscored both Pence’s difficulty in the race and the ongoing shift in the Republican Party, whose traditionalists believe the United States should defend Ukraine and move away from Trump’s influence.
But it is clear that influence is here to stay.
“Tucker Carlson is good at what he does. I think some of Pence’s responses — for a vice president to get boos, audible boos, from the audience? That’s a big deal,” Mike Demastus, pastor of the Fort Des Moines Church of Christ, said after the event. “I even heard one pastor friend of mine say, ‘His campaign’s over.’”
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Mike Pence is either very uninformed, has been misled and bought it, or he’s lying.
Even the liberal press has reported this is true.
“Ukraine Raids Holy Site Amid Suspicion of Orthodox Church Tied to Moscow”
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/orthodox-leader-in-kyiv-ordered-under-house-arrest-by-ukrainian-court
“Orthodox leader in Kyiv ordered under house arrest by Ukrainian court”
Just go away Mike.
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From the article above: “Carlson — a fierce Trump defender who later soured on the ex-president — challenged, interrupted and contradicted the soft-spoken Pence at nearly every turn. As a result, the devout Christian candidate faced hostility and jeers at a summit that would have once provided him with a friendly audience. ”
I disagree with this. I watched the entire thing. The audience actually clapped for Tucker’s questions more than once and were audibly dissatisfied with Pence’s answers. That’s on Pence, not Tucker. Tucker was tough but not unfair. Also Pence was visibly angry, and that cost him. You could tell he doesn’t like Tucker. Pence made his worst comment after Tucker pointed out the many problems in American cities, saying ‘I’ve heard your routine before [Tucker]. That’s not my concern. That’s not my concern.” It was not out of context; it was the WRONG answer, Mr. Pence.
My only criticism of Tucker’s interviews was on Nikki Haley—why on earth didn’t he ask her about Ukraine. Arguably, she has the most radical take on Ukraine since she has advocated admitting them to NATO.
Fortunately, I doubt either one will be on the ticket this time. But between Pence and Haley, I think Haley is by far the slicker politician.
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I can’t wait for someone to come along and clean up this mess and tell us what Mike really meant….
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How fake news spreads….
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Bingo. Nailed it.
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Like the old, pro-corporate, pro-war republicans, Pence lacks a robust domestic agenda. If those words were out of context, I’d like to hear what he actually meant when he said ‘That’s not my concern’. Exactly WHAT is not his concern? It was not a slip of the tongue as he actually said it twice. He sounded like he was auditioning for the opportunity to become the country’s next war president.
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I thought Vivek Ramaswamy did very well in the interview. I wouldn’t mind seeing him in the VP slot with Trump. I’m starting to lean toward Trump over Desantis at this point. But it is early days yet.
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I am very curious about what Pence was referring to when he said that. The rest of what he says there shows that America’s welfare is his concern, so I wonder what he was referring to as not his concern. I hope he will clear it up.
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I think I just may have figured it out. What gets lost in the verbiage was Carlson’s question – “America is falling apart and your concern is Ukraine doesn’t have enough tanks?” – to which “That’s not my concern” could apply.
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I feel for the guy.
Democrats however refuse to close the border to smugglers and traffickers, so there’s no end in sight. But hey, what’s a couple hundred thousand dead Americans matter, when we have millions of illegal invaders to replace them right.
Replacement theory is alive, well, and pushed by Democrats.
“Police Boss Garry McCarthy Loses Daughter to Chinese Fentanyl and Mexican Drug Gangs”
https://johnkassnews.com/police-boss-garry-mccarthy-loses-daughter-to-chinese-fentanyl/
“Former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy—now the police chief of suburban Willow Springs–is one tough man, a cop’s cop, relentless, hard shoes shined, looking for lawbreakers the way a natural born linebacker searches for ball carriers, relentlessly. A true crime fighter.
But even the strongest among us are weak for our children.
And a year ago last May, his daughter Kyla McCarthy joined the ranks of more than 100,000 young Americans murdered by the synthetic opioid fentanyl.
It is the deadly poison made by the Communist government of China and shipped easily here to our hemisphere, to our wide-open border with Mexico.
And it is all put together by the vicious Mexican drug cartels to kill our children. The Biden Administration tells us the border is secure, but they know that’s a lie and parents know it.
This is not just a cop story. It is a father’s story. An American’s story.
“It’s a story that you’ve heard 100 times,” said McCarthy on the Chicago Way podcast that I co-host with WGN AM executive producer Jeff Carlin. I’m including a link here so you might read this and listen to his words.
“She was a four-sport athlete in high school, a natural athlete who didn’t really work at it She once turned an unassisted triple play in high school softball and then led off the next inning and hit a triple off the fence. She gets to third base and everybody’s going crazy and she looks at me in the stands, then looks at her (finger) nails. She says, ‘How long is this game gonna be? I want to go get my nails done.’ And I was ready to jump out of the stands because, you know, I was the classic overachiever. I was an athlete, but I didn’t have her skills, I had to work hard to do it.
“So, she gets into a car accident when she was a junior in high school. Her ankle got pulverized on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. The short story is they loaded her up with Oxycontin. And she suffered through 18 years of addiction.”
It was last May 29 he was having lunch when his ex-wife (Kyla’s mother) called. She was worried because she couldn’t reach her daughter and they speak almost every day.
He called a friend, a police boss in the Bronx who sent out a couple of detectives.
“They got into her apartment and they overdosed from fentanyl. Her and her boyfriend…you send people to prison and they become better criminals. And it’s pretty much the same thing with rehab. Sometimes you send people to rehab and they hook up with other people who have the same problems, and they just keep doing the same things and this is the result. I’ve had a lot of tragedy in my life, trust me. But this one takes the cake. May 29th. And the guilt is overwhelming.”
“You know what really pisses me off is the fact that this year in this country there were 110,000 overdoses. And just to be clear in our 10 year active war in Vietnam, we lost 58,000 Americans, and here we are last year the number as 110,000. And the vast majority is fentanyl and we don’t control our borders, it’s killing our kids.
“The precursors come from China to Mexico, right?, they get put together by the cartels and the pain is distributed in this country across the southern border. And nobody is doing anything about it. So I’m, I’m angry about it and I wanna do something about it, but at this point, you know, it’s it’s overwhelming and there’s not a lot that I could do certainly. Except try and make sure that my my other daughter and and my son don’t fall into the same trap.
In many 12-step addiction programs the key is recognizing the problem. We know what the problem is:
China sends poison to the borders and the government of the United States has given up control of the borders to the narco-traffickers. The news media ignores the issue lest the news reflect poorly on President Joe Biden, who was to have been in charge of the borders. But he has lost all control.
Is this a function of Biden on the payroll of the China Communist Party? Or a host of other reasons including China’s brazen insolence in sending over the spy balloons and we did nothing for days as the surveillance balloons collected data. They are still collecting data. China and the Mexican drug cartels have killed more than 100,000 young Americans and we do nothing. The data they collect involves our will to live.
“We’ve had Chinese drugs coming into this country and killing people. What is the point of a narcotic that kills people? And they think they’re getting high. They disguise it as other things. It’s really clear to me that this is a major attack on the United States. They’re killing our children. The drugs are disguised as gummies. They disguised them as Sweet Tarts and all these various things to sneak them into the country and and people are dying and that and you know it’s all over the news but yet nobody seems to wanna take the bull by the horns and stand up and say OK this is an attack on the United States.”
“The politics of it, we are weak right now. We are weak to the world. I hate to say it, but this administration is.””
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The podcast link, if you’re interested.
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/thechicagoway/chicago-way-w-john-kass-garry-mccarthy-on-losing-his-daughter-to-chinese-fentanyl/
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“But muh norms” they squeal….. while killing them….
Links galore at the link below….
“Biden isn’t Restoring Our Norms Week at Legal Insurrection
All the news you may have missed.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/07/biden-isnt-restoring-our-norms-week-at-legal-insurrection/
“Remember when Democrats and the media claimed Biden would restore our cherished norms? How’s that working out?”
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Axios Tries to Water Down Biden’s Explosive Temper Towards Aides and Staff
Biden Slammed for Refusing to Acknowledge His Seventh Grandchild
Biden Skips NATO Leader Dinner Due to Workload Despite Just Coming Off Beach Vacation
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Look at what he’s done to our military.
Biden Calls Up Inactive Reservists for “Operation Atlantic Resolve” – i.e. Ukraine
‘Sure Let Our Adversaries Know’: Anger Boils Over After Biden Reveals in Live Interview That America is Low on Ammunition
Nearly 40% of U.S. Attack Submarines are Out of Commission
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Is this normal?
Little Girl Squirms as Biden Nibbles Her Shoulder and Tries to Kiss Her During Finland Trip
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No one believes anything about this.
Secret Service Ending White House Cocaine Investigation
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Faith in our institutions is disappearing.
Trust in Institutions Continues Near All-Time Lows, Military and Medical Drop
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Is there any wonder why?
Government Seeks Stay Of Injunction Against Censorship Collusion With Big Tech
FBI’s Wray and Rep. Massie Battle Over 1/6 Pipe Bomb Investigation, Bank of America Providing Gun Purchase Records
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People who speak out get targeted.
“DOJ Indicts Man Who Claimed He Gave FBI Info About Biden Family Ties to China
Wray: No Evidence for Garland to Target Protesting Parents, But FBI Made Threat Tag to Identify Them”
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Another pedophile Democrat gets outed…..
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