I am an American citizen. I am not a group or demographic. I am a single person with a single vote with my own history, ethnicity, hopes, dreams, concerns, faith and beliefs. I am not garbage, misinformed, uneducated, racist, fascist or Nazi. I ask the media to please have just a modicum of respect when you speak about me and my vote.
You and your vote get to choose between two ever widening extremes every four years..isn’t it about time you fixed that broken system? You never know the rest of the world may even respect you ..again
If you want the media to have respect for you and your vote, then it's incumbent upon you to state who you are (not what you're not), and to state who you voted for and why. It's difficult to have respect for someone if you don't know who they are, or what they stand for.
@@istvanglock7445That's the whole point. It doesnt matter who you are and who you voted for. The point is that they are an American voter and shouldn't be judged about the way they voted. Having read the original comment again ... this person is saying they are not garbage, misinformed, uneducated, a racist, Fascist nor a Nazi .... I think the way Harris, Biden et al have been talking about President Trump and his voters, it doesn't take too many brain cells to work out which way THIS particular contributor cast their vote, does it?
The Democrats have a new amazing strategy where they'll tell half the population that "you're terrible people" and then be baffled they didnt win the election 😂
Trump won in Reading Pennsylvania the birthplace of Taylor Swift, the very person who backed Kamala Harris and encouraged her fandom to vote for her. How iconic. 😊
@@tudormiller887 And Reading is overwhelmingly African American. As a black man myself, I was really proud of how we turned out for him on Tuesday. Good to see my people finally wake up smh.
Apart from that, expecting perfectly sane people to believe a man can be a woman if he says he is, insults people’s intelligence. If they are dishonest about such fundamental knowledge, then what else will they be dishonest about?
The democrats and corporate media can't let go of identity politics. They say Latino men didn't vote for Harris because they are chauvinistic. So why did Latino men just elect a woman president of Mexico?
Harris does not appear as a whole person, Lionel nails it again. It makes me think that’s what happens when you define yourself and align yourself with identity politics. The danger is failing to find yourself.
Harris was perfectly capable of bringing her whole person on camera back in 2019 when she was running to the left of Bernie Sanders. She was hiding herself in 2024, hoping that a short election process would be enough to pull it off.
Seems like the Dems went into this propping up the campaign on the built in excuse that if Harris lost, then they could blame it all on -ists and -phobes. Such an approach undermines any leadership qualities she does have because it depicts a campaign expecting to lose.
First from someone who lives in the southern states the biggest problem with the blacks that they had was she is not a black American but for trade herself more as one not as a Jamaican in Indonesian but more as a black American which she was not that hurt her a lot
Obama also did not help in basically shaming black American males because they weren't supporting Kamala as if they did not have their own political views that should have been respected more so from someone who was not a black American himself
Yes president Trump didn't do so hot when he lost and had to come out and give his speech but last night after waiting over 6 hours and it being very late in the evening come on I sent somebody out to the people and told them she wasn't coming out but they had waited over 6 hours standing in a room they deserved better than for her to just go home
Democrats are great with name calling but the bottom line is they are very weak on policies she was very weak on her policies she basically said I'm just going to keep doing what buttons been doing well considering nobody like what biting had been doing she should have never said that and expected to win
Trudeau is done. He has no hope in the next election, not even his uncle Klaus at the WEF would be able to rig it for him. But he should have been done years ago if my fellow Canadians had the brains god gave a goat.
1. Freedom for what? Elon to fire anyone who uses their freedom to unionise? Please remember that freedom can also mean freedom from want or worry. Like how to pay a medical bill. 2. Freedom for whom? Trudeau and Starmer are strong supporters of Ukraine. Trump may be Ukraine's nightmare.
“You can’t lecture people into being on your side.” Brilliant and concise analysis-this should have been self-evident to the DNC, but they doubled down on this failing strategy at every turn.
Electing a convicted sexual abuser and convicted fraud that attempted a coup and your response is "they lectured me so I'm going to vote for a fraud, rapist, traitor"... you are the one failing, at being an American.
I have noticed it too, I think it comes straight from academia where the "noble and wise" professor is dictating what the "truth" is to the ignorant students.
Lionel outlined all the reasons for voting for Donald Trump, but still couldn't actually say it. Perhaps, as a very intelligent political analysis, she just needs to look behind the Democratic propaganda. I hope she watched the Joe Rogan podcast, Trump is not perfect, far from it, but I do think his heart is in the right place - for the American people 😀. Obviously, once he is inaugerated, we will see how things turn out, may you live in "interesting times" - we are certainly in for an interesting 4 years (one thing is clear though, the Republicans have a very strong bench which bodes well) 😂.
Starmer got in here because he wasn't the Tories and he avoided saying what he was going to do in power (we now know what that is!). KH tried the same tactic in the US election and it backfired.
The problem was the whole of Kamala's campaigning was just "me good, him bad", rather than standing up and saying, "look we screwed up the economy for the last four years, now here is how im going to fix it"
I think the economy is where it is because of the UN's promotion of its ludicrous "lockdown and masking" advocacy, and the fortune spent on the gene therapy jabs. Obama started this with the massive printing of bank notes in 2009. Neither Trump or Biden had the ability (or incentives) to grasp the nettle instead of spending next year's income today. My eyes are on Milei, and I am anxious the survival of the West is reliant on Musk, Trump to rein in the massive debt that is currently being paid back using inflation to rob the economy of its future earnings before they've been warned.
It was worse, she said she would fix the problems, on day one, that she had been a part of for the prior 1400 days and tried to gaslight everyone into believing they weren't even problems in the first place. I find it hard to believe Democrats actually thought she was legitimate, if they did.. they are completely lost.
Harris was not only not a very impressive person, but she was afraid to tell the people about her far left beliefs. I'm not sure the voters were fully aware of her far left beliefs, but they did notice that she refused to answer question in the rare instances she was pressed.
@@SimonPJohnson You have made a statement without a shred of evidence to support. What far left tenants do you ascribe to President Trump. And we was president for 4 years. What far left policies did he pursue? Trump like all of us has weaknesses. But one of them was not deception. He stated his policies openly. If you listen to the interviews during the campaign, Harris did not state clearly what her policies were. And commonly in her interviews avoided actually answering questions.
@dennisweidner288 What a strange thing to say about Trump. Neither side has any policies. Some people cared, most didn't. Harris couldn't get her own base to turn out. Harris had nothing to offer me, as a classic Liberal. The Democratic party will learn nothing from this loss. The amount of cope they are doing is insane. Stop looking at Trump and look in the mirror.
@@Chriscraft50 Well you are partially right about Harris, she refused to talk openly about policies, but she any thing but a classical liberal. She is socialist. Trump in contrast did talk about policy in lengthy interviews. In contrast to the tightly controlled Harris, Trump just as in 2016 made his policy positions crystal clear, including: 1. Reduce the government regulatory burden 2. Set the energy industry free 3. Reduce taxes and preventing taxing unrealized gains 4. Recreate a southern border 5. End the campaign against law enforcement 6. End the insanity of allowing boys to compete in girls' sports 7. Fuller support for Israel and a realistic policy toward Iran. 8. Ending woke insanity 9. Expanding the use of tariffs. 10. Ending he politicization of he justice system and he prosecution of political opponents 11. Prioritizing he military. 12. Protecting the Supreme Court and the Senate veto. 13. Opposing amnesty for illegal aliens. 14 Exposing the dishonesy of he legacy media. 15. The need for election security 16. The importance of NATO masking their suggested military contributions. 17. Action against sanctuary cities and states. 18. Protection of first amendment rights (free speech and religion).
@@dennisweidner288 Dennis, you seem to have misread Simon's post! He didn't accuse Trump of "left policies". Look at it this way: Even if Kamala was centre right, and Trump was somewhat to the right of that (both hypothetical), then you could say she was "slightly left of Trump". He means that many Republicans regard ANYONE slight more moderate as "far left" or "communist" - and I must say I have seen a lot of similar scare tactics from the GOP. It smells like McCarthyism.
For me the gamechanger was Trumps Team. Having so many people I respect join him is exciting. I could see JD or Tulsi as president in waiting. Vivek, Kennedy, Musk, Rogan. Cant wait to see what they achieve together.
Isn't it ironic that the Dems obsession with destroying Trump drove the best talent toward him. Shows how bad Dems are right now. I would like to see Vance/Tulsi 2028. Tulsi would cement the Dem voters who switched to Rep this cycle....Tulsi/X for 2032.
Both parties need to do this we seem to get into this situation where a couple of septuagenarians are battling each other, so all power to developing younger talent. Biggest failure of this last election cycle was Biden not giving up the reins. The Democrats are paying dearly for it now.
Watching this in Sydney, Australia. It was so disturbing to watch the responses of journalists here, especially from our ABC, as the election results came out. The hatred of Trump was palpable. In the end, I had to conclude no conscious thought had been given about either candidate, just raw hatred and fear of Trump. I felt, like Lionel Shriver, an emotional relief at the decisiveness of the outcome. Real, and clear.
I stopped watching the ABC and legacy media a while ago. Thank goodness for X. I’m horrified about the misinformation bill and how it will kill free speech here.
I don't like Kamala - she was a bad candidate - but there is a simple reason people/media say bad, even hateful, stuff about Trump. And that is because the bad/hateful stuff he has said publicly and "privately" on many occasions is simply not the behaviour of a president. No previous (Republican) president would have said or tolerated the hateful, obscene, stuff he comes out with!
I agree. I live in Denmark, and we have the lowest support for Trump in Europe. Our media are openly and proudly biased on this. No one ever mentioned the covert censorship and the (open and happy) calls for censorship. No one mentioned Identity Politics. The Danish Media has a reckoning coming too. They will relearn real journalism or perish.
I have a conversation between Lionel Shriver and Douglas Murray to thank for ‘seeing the light’. I was naively liberal or uninterested until that episode. I value their contributions to a considerate society.
@@ryue65 I woke up to the woke too. I used to take things at face value. It’s now hard for me to understand why people don’t understand why people voted for Trump. I think it’s time they started listening to the other side to snap out of their brainwashing.
Lionel Shriver's analyses of Kamala Harris are spot on, and I believe the majority of the American voters are smart enough to see the same despite the deceptive reporting by most of the corrupt US news media, thank God!
@FlanaFugue the mainstream media is still using identity to name call Don's supporters... all the usual names. Besides that the sitting president called half the country garbage..
The Democrat politic has pretty much revolved around identy politics as has the anti Trump rhetoric. For a good few years that has gained a lot of traction particularly through the media. I think much of the public has grown bored and tired of it and are no longer intimidated or influenced by accusations of sexism, racism etc and their main weapon has been neutralised. Hopefully they will realise and we can get back to politics being about important things again.
Bored, tired of it? More like extremely pissed at being turned into targets to attack at every turn in the name of their evil ideology based on narcissism writ large, collective style. A party of bullies.
Wait, are you saying that mandating that people need to except men can get pregnant or they will be deemed as a homophobic doesn’t resonate with the vast majority of the population? That putting tampon dispensers in male bathrooms wouldn’t go over well with the vast majority of the population? Huh, who would have thought?
oh let's not forget, they also don't know what a woman is and anyone that dared to slap them rightfully down for probably the most ridiculous moronic position to take in American history, got hysteria, hate, and names blasted at them from the dem party as a whole, while most of the country was looking at them jaws dropped to the floor thinking, they have lost their damm minds. Am I shocked they lost in a historical landslide? LOL hell no
I hope Trump’s resounding election win will signal to our Prime Minister in New Zealand that he can tackle identity politics, the radical trans lobby and the phoney biased media and in doing so he will be standing up for the majority of New Zealanders. Btw - when will we hear the response to the Cass Review…
@@sue.F The identity politics is integral to the insidious Wokism that has been peddled incessantly by the American/Western academia. The sooner it is eradicated the faster its spread is stopped in all the Lilliputian societies including Aotearoa/New Zealand.
I wouldn't bet on it. Peters is more in Trump's age demographic and shares his values, so hopefully will push this agenda through until he is replaced as Deputy Prime Minister mid-term by Act's woketard Seymour. Winston Peters was defending Trump's victory (his third Presidential win - the second was, of course, stolen, as we all know) against the Greens today in the House. Speaker Gerry Brownlee was lukewarm. Also the Hipkins is hyping up the "tariff threat", which was his fault for ostracizing the US.
The Cass review!! Yes!! America needs to take down the mirage that is Gender Affirming Care. They need to take WPATH, the HRC, the AAP, and Stonewall to task.
The Trans ideology was manufactured by the left in an attempt to fight overpopulation. Kamalalala even stated in her campaign that she was going to work hard to “fight overpopulation”. How exactly does one fight overpopulation, without sounding genocidal? The trans movement and the push for abortion are just two examples of their plan to curb population growth. It’s the other unspoken plans they had, which should alarm the rest of us. Pure evil.
Why does Lionel think that another Trump term is unsettling? She doesn't explain. She says he is unpredictable, but all you need to do is listen to what he wants to achieve. That is what you can predict, always allowing that it may not always be possible. At least, that is what we found during his first term.
He is definitely unpredictable in the foreign policy realm, which is a very good thing. Note how many conciliatory messages our enemies issued after his victory. That's why Putin invaded Ukraine only after Biden had taken office, knowing his response would be weak. Now Putin has a real dilemma. The man who caused him to avoid that adventurism is coming back. He needs to make a deal and get out ASAP.
Abortion was never a real issue for most. Many women will live their entire lives without ever needing to even consider it but they do need to buy groceries and get to where they want to go. When times are tough the economy will always be the biggest issue.
I’m not sure Harris would have been that predictable. She’d be insecure enough to try a random show of strength to prove her credentials, especially in foreign affairs. There are very hawkish people around her who would egg her on and she hasn’t the experience to challenge them.
@@franciscomap75 Putin is a done deal. I'm picking trump will sort this out within 6 months. broker a deal which is fair and then tell which ever side won't agree that america will fully back the other side. if russia won't stop, then us will fully support ukraine. If Ukraine wont agree, threaten to withdraw support to them. It will end quick smart, and the only reason that it hasn't is that the backers of Biden were making so much money off prolonging the conflict
She was probably raised on sesame street and she took the wrong cue ... that show was brillian if you could read between the lines and appreciate the dissenters on the balcony
Someone wanted the dumbest candidate available. It backfired slightly, but surprisingly little. Maybe because she won all no-ID and no-photo-ID states. Those states are hard to flip.
So basically it was a choice between a "warts and all" adult versus an adolescent who was still trying to figure out who she was and what she believed in.
ha. correction; she wasnt trying to figure out anything. she is too light headed, flimsy and completely uninterested in knowledge. she has no interest at all in , well anything. i once said i never saw a presidential candidate that knows nothing about everthing. as shriver said, she should never have got as far as she did. she truly was a dei vice president pick. walz wasnt mentioned but he was worse in some ways.
I think Harris knew very well who she was and what she believed in. She also knew that revealing that would be disastrous for her campaign. But not showing us was also disastrous.
abortion is being resolved at state level even during this election 9 states had a vote on abortion measures abortion is being resolved grassroots up not imposed from above
Are you saying that Donald Trump, by abolishing the Roe vs Wade, has in fact codified abortion rights into US legislation? Who would have thought that democracy might work when you let the states vote?
@@user-pi4qo3zc2e Without Roe v. Wade, the democratic process probably would have concluded later in the 1970s that abortion should be legal. Roe v. Wade interrupted that process, and we still see the repercussions of that.
Ooooh. That sounds too much like democracy to me. 🙄 Wouldn't it be better to have 9 Ivy League oracles deciding these things for us after solemnly reading the intestines of a chicken?
Only in lala land could someone who 4 years ago failed to get past the 1st nomination stage actually be deemed to be a viable Presidential candidate. Why are the Democrats surprised at the outcome.
An outstanding analysis and commentary. Every Harris supporter should listen to this commentary. Perhaps the most terrifying thing about this election is the reality that some 45% of the voters gave their vote to Harris. What does that say about the electorate?
Doubt it -- incredible amounts of money (stateside and internationally) are incentivizing these amoral shysters. These cultists won't give up their time at the pig trough -- nor will they give up power without a terrible fight. We're in for a long slog.
electing a criminal who has stated he wishes to "terminate" the Constitution, who attempted a coup... throw out the Nation with the bathwater, is that it?
21:00 "They never learn that contempt is bad politics. And it doesn't work to lecture people." They have to learn that??? Those are universal human givens. People who don't think they should abide by that kind of basic human rules are at best narcissists.
You are missing the most important question, where are the millions upon millions of voters that voted democrat in 2020 which have now disappeared from the vote count? Have they all died?
2016 should have been a wake up call for the dems, but they doubled down with identity politics. Why would 2024 be any different? Now though, people are bone-deep sick of it, particularly men who are really only beginning to awaken as a political group. There will be a wailing and a gnashing of teeth.
Well, it sort of worked in 2020; Biden ran on a message of only "I'm not the racist, sexist Donald Trump." That message is now worn out, per Aesop's Fables.
Disagree with intro. Harris would have continued Biden's open border, high spending, clueless foreign policy - how is that the "safer" option? I'm tired of people pretending that Trump didn't have four years already, and that there's a possibility he's going to do completely crazy things.
Understatement of the year 2024: Kamala realizing late in her campaign : 'wE goT to Do BeTTeR wiTh mEN'😂😂😂😂😂 They don't realize they are almost a decade too late.
💯 telling people working 3 minimum wage jobs who can´t afford neither groceries nor rent that they have massive amounts of privilige, that they are not needed and toxic, that they are ists and phobes just because they know what a woman is, all this added another thousand of trump voters every time they did that they were basically campaigning for trump. i´m not american but i´m a lifelong lefty and appaled how incredibly politcally unsavvy the american "left" is. instead of focusing on the working class, on the ever widening gap between rich and poor, they focused on luxury problems. well done america, you played yourself.
Love Lionel just disappointed that she had to wait until DJT had won until she expressed joy If she wants to end wokery all she has to remember is that all it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to say nothing.Advice for the future-don’t let other people do the hard yards
Every time l watch Kamala Harris talk, l felt uneasy and a sense of discomfort for her, and that she’s not authentic. Lionel Shriver brilliantly articulated all my confused feelings. Brilliant lady.
wow, this is the first time i'm listening to lionel shriver speak and i'm extremely impressed. makes me want to watch more interviews and read her books! she sounds so passionate and genuine
Lamés extent of suitability for the job via his experience is thinking 'gunboat diplomacy' is a game he plays in the bath between his battleship and his rubber duck..
Absolutely bang on! I am from uk, moved to usa 6 years ago, and have had gut problems ever since. Im on anxiety medication to try and curb it. I KNOW its either the food or the water. I dont think its the water but not 100%. I am now eating only organic raw produce that i prep myself. My hubby had to learn how to actually cook! Fortunately i was taught by my grandma and my mum. Hes now going carnivore as he is concerned about his health. I cannot wait for rfk to take a sledgehammer to the fda. I hope he shows no mercy. Btw, i alwats assumed i had a zinc lined stomach until i moved to usa, i NEVER ever had an upset stomach in my life. I was 50 years old when i moved to usa. Most processed food i actually cant eat as it just tastes weird to me, especially sweet foods. Like theyve been dipped in vegetable oil or something. How anyone eats hershey chocolate is beyond me. I now have my favourites shipped in at exorbirant cost or make my own. Did you know even the wheat is different in usa? Its literally all bad news. Rfk needs to try and fix it and get tge nation off meds, eating properly and moving again.
Re: abortions There is a group within the Democrat Party who believe that a woman’s right to choose an abortion should be right up to the moment of birth, not as Ms Shriver states abortion until the fetus is viable. This is not where most Americans from both parties are.
It's wild how health is a state issue, and yet women unthinkingly swallow this nonsense. I've also heard people parroting the idea that women with ectopic pregnancies will be left to die! An ectopic "pregnancy" is where the ovary is fertilized within the body but not in the uterus. It is not a viable pregnancy and it would be second degree homicide should anyone deny such a woman access to having the foetus removed
This is complete misinformation! The only time this would be allowed is when the fetus is dead/dying and the life of the mother is at risk. See the growing list of mothers in this situation who have been dying in states with draconian abortion bans. These mothers wanted these babies. Abortion is health care. Abortion as a woman's choice about her body always has a time limit (usually 6-12 weeks).
@@hsmd4533 Let me explain. There are abortions that are ELECTIVE surgery. This is when the woman chooses to terminate a pregnancy. Democrats (and all pro-choice groups) have always supported restricting this to the period of gestation before 12 weeks as this is when the fetus is mostly a bundle of cells. This is the limit for elective abortions in all pro-choice countries. There are also abortions that are EMERGENCY surgeries: to reduce risk of lethal complications after a natural miscarriage, to save a woman's life when her late-term fetus is already dead, etc. These are the only abortions permitted after 12 weeks. Not giving women these life-saving health care measures is resulting in their deaths. Not very pro-life to let women die who could have been saved. Between 80-90% of Americans supported keeping Roe vs Wade. The state ballots just showed a majority also supporting pro-choice.
I fear for Donald Trump's safety, there's no limit to what some crazy people will do to stop him becoming President, as we've already seen twice at least.
'[Government] inefficacy is a protection for the rest of us.' As cynical as that sounds, I have to admit that it's true of many Western governments at present. I know we think we want government to be efficient and effective but that presumes that it's obeying our wishes rather than acting in its own interests and at the behest of those who are powerful enough to influence it.
I love listening to (and reading) Shriver. She has the insight and vocabulary to describe exactly what most of us feel about Harris. I recall seeing Harris on a chat show where she was asked if she can shoot a gun. You could see her mind working and thinking that being able to shoot sounds powerful - so she said yes. She then regretted that when the interviewer pressed her with "what do you shoot, a handgun or a rifle?". She was now visibly panicking - she stammered "a handgun" and tried to close down the conversation topic with a maniacal laugh - but the interviewer then asked - "do you own a gun?" Now she was terrified, what should she say? She said something like "yes, but I have no more to say on this". She is a person of no substance or conviction.
Trump and his group (Vance, Vivek, Gabard, RFK jr,etc) simply outworked the Harris campaign. They were in front of people everywhere, even supposed skeptics. Kamala had very few public appearances, and very little interaction with skeptical press. Her campaign “team” seemed to be mainstream media, which is drawing less and less viewers. Plus, I think voters were getting tired of the Democrats continual dehumanizing of Trump voters, linking them with Hitler, nazis, and garbage.
Everyone could see that Trump wanted the job. He and his team and surrogates were working for your vote. They didn't hector you for it. Harris, by contrast, didn't work for it. She spent a month hiding from the media, from voters. Then, when she finally did start talking, she and her team and allies didn't quite match the Hitlerian rhetoric with their own work ethic. You'd think an existential threat would merit more and better interviews, answers, and speeches. It didn't happen. Why? Because she's an empty suit.
Excellent work by interviewer. This non-American progressive male (in Tokyo) largely agrees with Lionel Shiver. Personally dislike Trump, but am not unhappy with the defeat of hectoring.
I don't think anyone (including Harris) has any idea what she would have done if elected. Harris' answers were always vague, but that doesn't make her safe, especially if her intent was, as suggested, only to avoid alienating her audience.
Agreed, quite the opposite. Harris would be a disaster for the country and could possibly have meant the end of Republicanism. I thank God for alternative media sources like X. Thanks to Elon. There still is hope.
Question: women's right to their own bodies is great. However, why does that right stop when it comes to illicit drugs? Either you own your own body or you don't. It's not a principle that you can cherrypick from. It's disingenuos.
Always voted Democrat. After listening to Harris it was clear she was NOT a Stateswoman. In fact she made me very uneasy. It was a disgrace that the Democratic Party put forward Biden and Harris in this election. Until the Democrats sort themselves out they will not get my vote.
Make no mistake, if Harris had won, it would actually have been Obama’s 4th term…. But I suspect even he thought she was useless and could have been a loose cannon if allowed to let rip with her true inner far- left ideals a la AOC ..😮
Trump Fatigue is always a risk. Interestingly, after the Mueller investigation and Vindman Impeachment fizzled out I seem to remember a kind of calm settling in. "We tried to discredit him; we tried to oust him. We don't have another dirty trick ready to go." While the next scheme was being contemplated, there seemed to be a breather....then came Covid. It would be nice to see a Trump presidency that wasn't incessantly embattled. Just a fair shot at doing the job.
A female Republican is more likely to be the first female president. She will have passed the merit test that Republicans are likely to demand in the primaries; and then she would pass the DEI test that appeals to so many in the Democrat party. She'd get the both the Good Reason and the Bad Reason votes.
Always a treat to hear from Lionel. So level headed. Can't stand the presenter's voice though. Halfway through and just muting it when she speaks. Back on when it's Lionel. Let us hope that this is indeed the end of identity politics and all the nonsense that comes with it!
I am an American citizen. I am not a group or demographic. I am a single person with a single vote with my own history, ethnicity, hopes, dreams, concerns, faith and beliefs. I am not garbage, misinformed, uneducated, racist, fascist or Nazi. I ask the media to please have just a modicum of respect when you speak about me and my vote.
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Well said
You and your vote get to choose between two ever widening extremes every four years..isn’t it about time you fixed that broken system?
You never know the rest of the world may even respect you ..again
If you want the media to have respect for you and your vote, then it's incumbent upon you to state who you are (not what you're not), and to state who you voted for and why. It's difficult to have respect for someone if you don't know who they are, or what they stand for.
@@istvanglock7445That's the whole point. It doesnt matter who you are and who you voted for. The point is that they are an American voter and shouldn't be judged about the way they voted.
Having read the original comment again ... this person is saying they are not garbage, misinformed, uneducated, a racist, Fascist nor a Nazi .... I think the way Harris, Biden et al have been talking about President Trump and his voters, it doesn't take too many brain cells to work out which way THIS particular contributor cast their vote, does it?
The Democrats have a new amazing strategy where they'll tell half the population that "you're terrible people" and then be baffled they didnt win the election 😂
And many are doubling-down on that sentiment AFTER the election. They must be getting a head start on losing the election (in 4 years less 2 days).
Trump won in Reading Pennsylvania the birthplace of Taylor Swift, the very person who backed Kamala Harris and encouraged her fandom to vote for her. How iconic. 😊
@@tudormiller887 I think you mean ironic.
@@tudormiller887 And Reading is overwhelmingly African American. As a black man myself, I was really proud of how we turned out for him on Tuesday. Good to see my people finally wake up smh.
Apart from that, expecting perfectly sane people to believe a man can be a woman if he says he is, insults people’s intelligence. If they are dishonest about such fundamental knowledge, then what else will they be dishonest about?
Not wanting men competing in women's sport is not 'great', it is merely common decency and common sense.
It's a great achievement to restore that sense of decency.
Do we know what a woman is?
Men are not competing in women’s sports. Stop trying making it an issue.
@@user-fu9jg8ms2v Where do you live? Did you watch the 'women's' boxing in the Olympics?
@@user-fu9jg8ms2v What is a woman?
The democrats and corporate media can't let go of identity politics. They say Latino men didn't vote for Harris because they are chauvinistic. So why did Latino men just elect a woman president of Mexico?
They also voted way more for Hillary.
@@theYoungPilots True! That's pretty remarkable for a country like Mexico. 👍🇲🇽
@@gypsylee333 She won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College Vote in 2016. Kamala lost both.
Maybe they think the sexist ones left Mexico and came here.
It’s literally all Democrats can see.
Harris does not appear as a whole person, Lionel nails it again. It makes me think that’s what happens when you define yourself and align yourself with identity politics. The danger is failing to find yourself.
Temet Nosce, Greek for Know thyself.
Harris was perfectly capable of bringing her whole person on camera back in 2019 when she was running to the left of Bernie Sanders. She was hiding herself in 2024, hoping that a short election process would be enough to pull it off.
@@rollyon9415 Has Lionel found herself? She seems confused.
Seems like the Dems went into this propping up the campaign on the built in excuse that if Harris lost, then they could blame it all on -ists and -phobes.
Such an approach undermines any leadership qualities she does have because it depicts a campaign expecting to lose.
Ecce Homo
I agree with Lionel Shriver. We all hope for the cessation of identity politics and its corrosive effects upon social cohesion.
She seems to be a puppet for the democratic party.
First from someone who lives in the southern states the biggest problem with the blacks that they had was she is not a black American but for trade herself more as one not as a Jamaican in Indonesian but more as a black American which she was not that hurt her a lot
Obama also did not help in basically shaming black American males because they weren't supporting Kamala as if they did not have their own political views that should have been respected more so from someone who was not a black American himself
Yes president Trump didn't do so hot when he lost and had to come out and give his speech but last night after waiting over 6 hours and it being very late in the evening come on I sent somebody out to the people and told them she wasn't coming out but they had waited over 6 hours standing in a room they deserved better than for her to just go home
Democrats are great with name calling but the bottom line is they are very weak on policies she was very weak on her policies she basically said I'm just going to keep doing what buttons been doing well considering nobody like what biting had been doing she should have never said that and expected to win
Kamala would've circled the wagons with Trudeau and Starmer which would've been a nightmare for anyone who cares about freedom!
100%. This will have a brake effect across the western world
Trudeau is done. He has no hope in the next election, not even his uncle Klaus at the WEF would be able to rig it for him. But he should have been done years ago if my fellow Canadians had the brains god gave a goat.
1. Freedom for what? Elon to fire anyone who uses their freedom to unionise? Please remember that freedom can also mean freedom from want or worry. Like how to pay a medical bill.
2. Freedom for whom? Trudeau and Starmer are strong supporters of Ukraine. Trump may be Ukraine's nightmare.
@@christopherbrown8205 America started the Ukraine war and now you act like you're on the side of freedom. Liberalism rots the brain.
oh yes indeed
“You can’t lecture people into being on your side.” Brilliant and concise analysis-this should have been self-evident to the DNC, but they doubled down on this failing strategy at every turn.
Shrieking harpies never figure out that only works on their spouses and their children. Not the world at large.
Electing a convicted sexual abuser and convicted fraud that attempted a coup and your response is "they lectured me so I'm going to vote for a fraud, rapist, traitor"... you are the one failing, at being an American.
But you can insult and lie to get them on your side. Focus on Trump too when you critique Harris for being dignified.
@@tedtalksrock Wow!!! I literally read your comment right as she was saying it lol... Weird lol.
I have noticed it too, I think it comes straight from academia where the "noble and wise" professor is dictating what the "truth" is to the ignorant students.
Thank you my Black and Latino brothers! Good decision. No men in girls sports!
@@dougsherman1562 So Latinas & black women overwhelming voted for Kamala ?
First time listening to Shriver. She is the sort of women we need in public life.
Not vacuous airheads like Kamala or AOC.
It's a long time since the best minds of any country have gone into politics.
Check out the rest of her podcasts. She's great.
Or people promoted because they have the right tick box perspective.
Lionel outlined all the reasons for voting for Donald Trump, but still couldn't actually say it.
Perhaps, as a very intelligent political analysis, she just needs to look behind the Democratic propaganda.
I hope she watched the Joe Rogan podcast, Trump is not perfect, far from it, but I do think his heart is in the right place - for the American people 😀.
Obviously, once he is inaugerated, we will see how things turn out, may you live in "interesting times" - we are certainly in for an interesting 4 years (one thing is clear though, the Republicans have a very strong bench which bodes well) 😂.
Shriver voted for Biden in 2020.
Yes please throw out identity politics! It's not real human rights activism. Let's go back to MLK and some of his statements if need be.
Lionel Shriver is a woman who changed her name to "Lionel". But sure, she hates identity politics... let that sink in.
Agree that Harris was a hollow candidate.
Both Biden and Harris. It has seemed clear to me that they were mere puppets.
Who?
@@NerdlySquared Kamalalala will be relegated to the dustbin of history. The sooner we forget her, the better for our country and society.
Someone finally explaining what went wrong without labeling half of America sexist, racist, fascist, etc.
Starmer got in here because he wasn't the Tories and he avoided saying what he was going to do in power (we now know what that is!). KH tried the same tactic in the US election and it backfired.
The problem was the whole of Kamala's campaigning was just "me good, him bad", rather than standing up and saying, "look we screwed up the economy for the last four years, now here is how im going to fix it"
absolutely
I think the economy is where it is because of the UN's promotion of its ludicrous "lockdown and masking" advocacy, and the fortune spent on the gene therapy jabs.
Obama started this with the massive printing of bank notes in 2009. Neither Trump or Biden had the ability (or incentives) to grasp the nettle instead of spending next year's income today.
My eyes are on Milei, and I am anxious the survival of the West is reliant on Musk, Trump to rein in the massive debt that is currently being paid back using inflation to rob the economy of its future earnings before they've been warned.
It was worse, she said she would fix the problems, on day one, that she had been a part of for the prior 1400 days and tried to gaslight everyone into believing they weren't even problems in the first place. I find it hard to believe Democrats actually thought she was legitimate, if they did.. they are completely lost.
Yes, it was analogous to 'Project Fear' in the Brexit referendum.
But in fact the economy is doing fine.
Incredibly level-headed, sanguine and erudite assessment of the overall situation. Hope to hear more from the great Lionel.
Harris was not only not a very impressive person, but she was afraid to tell the people about her far left beliefs. I'm not sure the voters were fully aware of her far left beliefs, but they did notice that she refused to answer question in the rare instances she was pressed.
Far left beliefs as in slightly to the left of Trump’s…
@@SimonPJohnson You have made a statement without a shred of evidence to support. What far left tenants do you ascribe to President Trump. And we was president for 4 years. What far left policies did he pursue? Trump like all of us has weaknesses. But one of them was not deception. He stated his policies openly. If you listen to the interviews during the campaign, Harris did not state clearly what her policies were. And commonly in her interviews avoided actually answering questions.
@dennisweidner288 What a strange thing to say about Trump. Neither side has any policies. Some people cared, most didn't. Harris couldn't get her own base to turn out. Harris had nothing to offer me, as a classic Liberal. The Democratic party will learn nothing from this loss. The amount of cope they are doing is insane. Stop looking at Trump and look in the mirror.
@@Chriscraft50 Well you are partially right about Harris, she refused to talk openly about policies, but she any thing but a classical liberal. She is socialist. Trump in contrast did talk about policy in lengthy interviews. In contrast to the tightly controlled Harris, Trump just as in 2016 made his policy positions crystal clear, including:
1. Reduce the government regulatory burden
2. Set the energy industry free
3. Reduce taxes and preventing taxing unrealized gains
4. Recreate a southern border
5. End the campaign against law enforcement
6. End the insanity of allowing boys to compete in girls' sports
7. Fuller support for Israel and a realistic policy toward Iran.
8. Ending woke insanity
9. Expanding the use of tariffs.
10. Ending he politicization of he justice system and he prosecution of political opponents
11. Prioritizing he military.
12. Protecting the Supreme Court and the Senate veto.
13. Opposing amnesty for illegal aliens.
14 Exposing the dishonesy of he legacy media.
15. The need for election security
16. The importance of NATO masking their suggested military contributions.
17. Action against sanctuary cities and states.
18. Protection of first amendment rights (free speech and religion).
@@dennisweidner288 Dennis, you seem to have misread Simon's post! He didn't accuse Trump of "left policies". Look at it this way: Even if Kamala was centre right, and Trump was somewhat to the right of that (both hypothetical), then you could say she was "slightly left of Trump". He means that many Republicans regard ANYONE slight more moderate as "far left" or "communist" - and I must say I have seen a lot of similar scare tactics from the GOP. It smells like McCarthyism.
For me the gamechanger was Trumps Team. Having so many people I respect join him is exciting. I could see JD or Tulsi as president in waiting. Vivek, Kennedy, Musk, Rogan. Cant wait to see what they achieve together.
Elon for Department of Labour!
Isn't it ironic that the Dems obsession with destroying Trump drove the best talent toward him. Shows how bad Dems are right now.
I would like to see Vance/Tulsi 2028. Tulsi would cement the Dem voters who switched to Rep this cycle....Tulsi/X for 2032.
Both parties need to do this we seem to get into this situation where a couple of septuagenarians are battling each other, so all power to developing younger talent. Biggest failure of this last election cycle was Biden not giving up the reins. The Democrats are paying dearly for it now.
@@nicolasolton Elon is a terrible, terrible boss. We don't want him running anything.
Watching this in Sydney, Australia. It was so disturbing to watch the responses of journalists here, especially from our ABC, as the election results came out. The hatred of Trump was palpable. In the end, I had to conclude no conscious thought had been given about either candidate, just raw hatred and fear of Trump. I felt, like Lionel Shriver, an emotional relief at the decisiveness of the outcome. Real, and clear.
Same.
I stopped watching the ABC and legacy media a while ago. Thank goodness for X. I’m horrified about the misinformation bill and how it will kill free speech here.
@@maureenelliott4986 trump terrifies fake people in positions of power.
I don't like Kamala - she was a bad candidate - but there is a simple reason people/media say bad, even hateful, stuff about Trump. And that is because the bad/hateful stuff he has said publicly and "privately" on many occasions is simply not the behaviour of a president. No previous (Republican) president would have said or tolerated the hateful, obscene, stuff he comes out with!
I agree. I live in Denmark, and we have the lowest support for Trump in Europe. Our media are openly and proudly biased on this. No one ever mentioned the covert censorship and the (open and happy) calls for censorship. No one mentioned Identity Politics. The Danish Media has a reckoning coming too. They will relearn real journalism or perish.
I have a conversation between Lionel Shriver and Douglas Murray to thank for ‘seeing the light’. I was naively liberal or uninterested until that episode.
I value their contributions to a considerate society.
Two great minds.
@@ryue65 I woke up to the woke too. I used to take things at face value. It’s now hard for me to understand why people don’t understand why people voted for Trump. I think it’s time they started listening to the other side to snap out of their brainwashing.
@@scarba apart from they all seem to think the killing of thousands and thousands of brown skinned people is absolutely fine
Wow Lionel sums up the situation amazing and sums up all the views I hold far more eloquently than I could!
What an amazing lady!
Lionel Shriver's analyses of Kamala Harris are spot on, and I believe the majority of the American voters are smart enough to see the same despite the deceptive reporting by most of the corrupt US news media, thank God!
Insulting millions of Americans is not a good look for Democrats. Maybe next time, try to appeal to Trump voters.
Don’t be ridiculous, name calling, segregating and stern pretentious lectures will pay off next time guaranteed 😆
I’m not sure but I got the impression that Shriver doesn’t think much of Kamala Harris.
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@@keithedwinsmith9416 You think? 🤔 🤣🤣
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A party who thought they could call half - or more - of the country 'garbage' and win the election ... lost?! I'm shocked.
@@FlanaFugue Biden
@@FlanaFugue Biden did. How clueless are you?
@FlanaFugue the mainstream media is still using identity to name call Don's supporters... all the usual names. Besides that the sitting president called half the country garbage..
@@FlanaFugue duh lemme think, because the president of an entire party declared it, ya think maybe?
The Democrat politic has pretty much revolved around identy politics as has the anti Trump rhetoric. For a good few years that has gained a lot of traction particularly through the media. I think much of the public has grown bored and tired of it and are no longer intimidated or influenced by accusations of sexism, racism etc and their main weapon has been neutralised. Hopefully they will realise and we can get back to politics being about important things again.
Spot on sir/ma'am.
You know the media is going to double down on the insanity. They already started
Bored, tired of it?
More like extremely pissed at being turned into targets to attack at every turn in the name of their evil ideology based on narcissism writ large, collective style. A party of bullies.
Wait, are you saying that mandating that people need to except men can get pregnant or they will be deemed as a homophobic doesn’t resonate with the vast majority of the population? That putting tampon dispensers in male bathrooms wouldn’t go over well with the vast majority of the population? Huh, who would have thought?
oh let's not forget, they also don't know what a woman is and anyone that dared to slap them rightfully down for probably the most ridiculous moronic position to take in American history, got hysteria, hate, and names blasted at them from the dem party as a whole, while most of the country was looking at them jaws dropped to the floor thinking, they have lost their damm minds. Am I shocked they lost in a historical landslide? LOL hell no
I hope Trump’s resounding election win will signal to our Prime Minister in New Zealand that he can tackle identity politics, the radical trans lobby and the phoney biased media and in doing so he will be standing up for the majority of New Zealanders. Btw - when will we hear the response to the Cass Review…
@@sue.F The identity politics is integral to the insidious Wokism that has been peddled incessantly by the American/Western academia. The sooner it is eradicated the faster its spread is stopped in all the Lilliputian societies including Aotearoa/New Zealand.
I wouldn't bet on it. Peters is more in Trump's age demographic and shares his values, so hopefully will push this agenda through until he is replaced as Deputy Prime Minister mid-term by Act's woketard Seymour. Winston Peters was defending Trump's victory (his third Presidential win - the second was, of course, stolen, as we all know) against the Greens today in the House. Speaker Gerry Brownlee was lukewarm. Also the Hipkins is hyping up the "tariff threat", which was his fault for ostracizing the US.
The Cass review!! Yes!! America needs to take down the mirage that is Gender Affirming Care. They need to take WPATH, the HRC, the AAP, and Stonewall to task.
The Trans ideology was manufactured by the left in an attempt to fight overpopulation. Kamalalala even stated in her campaign that she was going to work hard to “fight overpopulation”. How exactly does one fight overpopulation, without sounding genocidal? The trans movement and the push for abortion are just two examples of their plan to curb population growth. It’s the other unspoken plans they had, which should alarm the rest of us. Pure evil.
Get rid of identity politics
what even is identity politics? Haven’t white and christian identity politics been around for A LONG TIME?
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San Francisco got kicked where it is supposed to have balls.
YES!
@@Trying911 explain
Why does Lionel think that another Trump term is unsettling? She doesn't explain. She says he is unpredictable, but all you need to do is listen to what he wants to achieve. That is what you can predict, always allowing that it may not always be possible. At least, that is what we found during his first term.
He is definitely unpredictable in the foreign policy realm, which is a very good thing. Note how many conciliatory messages our enemies issued after his victory. That's why Putin invaded Ukraine only after Biden had taken office, knowing his response would be weak. Now Putin has a real dilemma. The man who caused him to avoid that adventurism is coming back. He needs to make a deal and get out ASAP.
Abortion was never a real issue for most. Many women will live their entire lives without ever needing to even consider it but they do need to buy groceries and get to where they want to go. When times are tough the economy will always be the biggest issue.
I’m not sure Harris would have been that predictable. She’d be insecure enough to try a random show of strength to prove her credentials, especially in foreign affairs. There are very hawkish people around her who would egg her on and she hasn’t the experience to challenge them.
@@jacksonmiked I’m sorry but this administration has to be hawkish, Putin is literally on the March
@@franciscomap75 Putin is a done deal. I'm picking trump will sort this out within 6 months.
broker a deal which is fair and then tell which ever side won't agree that america will fully back the other side. if russia won't stop, then us will fully support ukraine. If Ukraine wont agree, threaten to withdraw support to them.
It will end quick smart, and the only reason that it hasn't is that the backers of Biden were making so much money off prolonging the conflict
@jacksonmiked - a Harris win would have seen DEI policies take over all aspects of US society.
@@franciscomap75 Nonsense. You watch too much mainstream media propaganda.
@franciscomap75 No they didn't. Ukraine is being used by the west as a crash test dummy.
Harris reminded me of a sock-puppet from an Eighties children's TV show, giggling, mouth open, talking garbage.
She was probably raised on sesame street and she took the wrong cue ... that show was brillian if you could read between the lines and appreciate the dissenters on the balcony
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Someone wanted the dumbest candidate available. It backfired slightly, but surprisingly little. Maybe because she won all no-ID and no-photo-ID states. Those states are hard to flip.
So basically it was a choice between a "warts and all" adult versus an adolescent who was still trying to figure out who she was and what she believed in.
Very warty tho
ha. correction; she wasnt trying to figure out anything. she is too light headed, flimsy and completely uninterested in knowledge. she has no interest at all in , well anything. i once said i never saw a presidential candidate that knows nothing about everthing. as shriver said, she should never have got as far as she did. she truly was a dei vice president pick. walz wasnt mentioned but he was worse in some ways.
I think Harris knew very well who she was and what she believed in. She also knew that revealing that would be disastrous for her campaign. But not showing us was also disastrous.
abortion is being resolved at state level even during this election 9 states had a vote on abortion measures
abortion is being resolved grassroots up not imposed from above
Are you saying that Donald Trump, by abolishing the Roe vs Wade, has in fact codified abortion rights into US legislation? Who would have thought that democracy might work when you let the states vote?
@@user-pi4qo3zc2e yes
@@user-pi4qo3zc2e Without Roe v. Wade, the democratic process probably would have concluded later in the 1970s that abortion should be legal. Roe v. Wade interrupted that process, and we still see the repercussions of that.
@@user-pi4qo3zc2eTrump did nothing with regard to abortion. The Supreme Court overturned Roe and sent it back to the individual states.
Ooooh. That sounds too much like democracy to me. 🙄
Wouldn't it be better to have 9 Ivy League oracles deciding these things for us after solemnly reading the intestines of a chicken?
I totaly agree with her! Plz no more identity politics and RIP the green new deal & woke agenda!
Only in lala land could someone who 4 years ago failed to get past the 1st nomination stage actually be deemed to be a viable Presidential candidate. Why are the Democrats surprised at the outcome.
An outstanding analysis and commentary. Every Harris supporter should listen to this commentary. Perhaps the most terrifying thing about this election is the reality that some 45% of the voters gave their vote to Harris. What does that say about the electorate?
Believing a candidate doesn't believe in anything because they dont talk about policy duringbthe campaign is the mistake the UK made with Keir Starmer
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Harris does have beliefs: acquire power at any cost, maintain power at any cost, scruples be damned, and move things far left.
ok, she does not hold political views that can be aired outside the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zimbabwe. Fair enough.
Had it up to here with identity politics and I sincerely hope that this is the beginning of the end for the woke mind virus.
Doubt it -- incredible amounts of money (stateside and internationally) are incentivizing these amoral shysters.
These cultists won't give up their time at the pig trough -- nor will they give up power without a terrible fight.
We're in for a long slog.
electing a criminal who has stated he wishes to "terminate" the Constitution, who attempted a coup... throw out the Nation with the bathwater, is that it?
21:00 "They never learn that contempt is bad politics. And it doesn't work to lecture people."
They have to learn that??? Those are universal human givens. People who don't think they should abide by that kind of basic human rules are at best narcissists.
Democrats and leftists think they have (moral) superiority.
You are missing the most important question, where are the millions upon millions of voters that voted democrat in 2020 which have now disappeared from the vote count? Have they all died?
Nailed it. Harris was always a hollow person, with no strong values
Lionel Shriver is the first commentator I have come across that is honest and fair on Kamala’s capabilities and why she lost.
First time hearing Shriver. What a breath of fresh air in political discourse. More of her, please.
Have you read her books? She is an excellent author.
Awesome interview. Absolutely nailed the whole problem of a DEI appointment.
2016 should have been a wake up call for the dems, but they doubled down with identity politics. Why would 2024 be any different? Now though, people are bone-deep sick of it, particularly men who are really only beginning to awaken as a political group. There will be a wailing and a gnashing of teeth.
Well, it sort of worked in 2020; Biden ran on a message of only "I'm not the racist, sexist Donald Trump." That message is now worn out, per Aesop's Fables.
Disagree with intro. Harris would have continued Biden's open border, high spending, clueless foreign policy - how is that the "safer" option? I'm tired of people pretending that Trump didn't have four years already, and that there's a possibility he's going to do completely crazy things.
I didn't know Lionel Shriver until this week. I have to say, she's got some gonads. Good for her.
She has a fierce intellect and is fearless in speaking her mind.
She’s awesome. Even if you disagree with her view point, she’s direct, clear, articulate and funny.
Understatement of the year 2024:
Kamala realizing late in her campaign : 'wE goT to Do BeTTeR wiTh mEN'😂😂😂😂😂
They don't realize they are almost a decade too late.
💯 telling people working 3 minimum wage jobs who can´t afford neither groceries nor rent that they have massive amounts of privilige, that they are not needed and toxic, that they are ists and phobes just because they know what a woman is, all this added another thousand of trump voters every time they did that they were basically campaigning for trump.
i´m not american but i´m a lifelong lefty and appaled how incredibly politcally unsavvy the american "left" is.
instead of focusing on the working class, on the ever widening gap between rich and poor, they focused on luxury problems.
well done america, you played yourself.
excellent & well expressed analysis & comments, voices such as Lionel Shriver are sorely needed in this debate 👏
Love Lionel just disappointed that she had to wait until DJT had won until she expressed joy
If she wants to end wokery all she has to remember is that all it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to say nothing.Advice for the future-don’t let other people do the hard yards
Facts
She has been speaking up for many years now.
Every time l watch Kamala Harris talk, l felt uneasy and a sense of discomfort for her, and that she’s not authentic. Lionel Shriver brilliantly articulated all my confused feelings. Brilliant lady.
This woman said a Trump presidency is unsettling. In which way? Seriously... You can not be serious...
I think he said something about hanging generals.
In 2028 they will vote for Tulsi. Female and First Nations native, not because of that though, but because of MERIT.
Who?
Totally agree,she will be the first female pres
Another type of DEI is not acceptable….She will have to prove herself with merit only. And I think she will agree with same.
Or Vance, or DeSantis…good options, the Dems, not so much.
Nope
This gal nailed it.
wow, this is the first time i'm listening to lionel shriver speak and i'm extremely impressed. makes me want to watch more interviews and read her books! she sounds so passionate and genuine
@@farawaykin you will not be disappointed with her books
and educated and articulate
If you enjoyed this, Abominations is a must-insightful, sharply witty, and in parts deeply moving.
DEI = Didn’t Earn It
Not surprisingly given the source, the best commentary on the election I've heard so far.
She's never been impressive - even when she was in California politics. I totally agree with Lionel. Thank you.
This election demonstrates that owning the media cannot overcome an empty headed candidate and flawed ideology.
He won, Kate. Get over it.
Keir Starmer should take note....... I am just conservative, not a right wing extremist.
This woman had Harris down pat.
Lionel's description of Harris can be used EXACTLY, word for word, to describe David Lammy our foreign secretay.
Lamés extent of suitability for the job via his experience is thinking 'gunboat diplomacy' is a game he plays in the bath between his battleship and his rubber duck..
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What hasn't been spoken about here is the tremendous opportunity to improve the health of Americans through the efforts of RFK
Absolutely bang on! I am from uk, moved to usa 6 years ago, and have had gut problems ever since. Im on anxiety medication to try and curb it. I KNOW its either the food or the water. I dont think its the water but not 100%. I am now eating only organic raw produce that i prep myself. My hubby had to learn how to actually cook! Fortunately i was taught by my grandma and my mum.
Hes now going carnivore as he is concerned about his health.
I cannot wait for rfk to take a sledgehammer to the fda.
I hope he shows no mercy.
Btw, i alwats assumed i had a zinc lined stomach until i moved to usa, i NEVER ever had an upset stomach in my life. I was 50 years old when i moved to usa. Most processed food i actually cant eat as it just tastes weird to me, especially sweet foods. Like theyve been dipped in vegetable oil or something. How anyone eats hershey chocolate is beyond me. I now have my favourites shipped in at exorbirant cost or make my own.
Did you know even the wheat is different in usa?
Its literally all bad news. Rfk needs to try and fix it and get tge nation off meds, eating properly and moving again.
I'm excited about that.
I agree with so much of what this lady says!!!❤❤
Re: abortions There is a group within the Democrat Party who believe that a woman’s right to choose an abortion should be right up to the moment of birth, not as Ms Shriver states abortion until the fetus is viable. This is not where most Americans from both parties are.
5795 Well stated !
It's wild how health is a state issue, and yet women unthinkingly swallow this nonsense.
I've also heard people parroting the idea that women with ectopic pregnancies will be left to die!
An ectopic "pregnancy" is where the ovary is fertilized within the body but not in the uterus.
It is not a viable pregnancy and it would be second degree homicide should anyone deny such a woman access to having the foetus removed
This is complete misinformation! The only time this would be allowed is when the fetus is dead/dying and the life of the mother is at risk. See the growing list of mothers in this situation who have been dying in states with draconian abortion bans. These mothers wanted these babies. Abortion is health care. Abortion as a woman's choice about her body always has a time limit (usually 6-12 weeks).
@@prof.jezebeli don’t understand your last sentence.
And is it your position that Democrats are in favor of restrictions on abortion?
@@hsmd4533 Let me explain. There are abortions that are ELECTIVE surgery. This is when the woman chooses to terminate a pregnancy. Democrats (and all pro-choice groups) have always supported restricting this to the period of gestation before 12 weeks as this is when the fetus is mostly a bundle of cells. This is the limit for elective abortions in all pro-choice countries. There are also abortions that are EMERGENCY surgeries: to reduce risk of lethal complications after a natural miscarriage, to save a woman's life when her late-term fetus is already dead, etc. These are the only abortions permitted after 12 weeks. Not giving women these life-saving health care measures is resulting in their deaths. Not very pro-life to let women die who could have been saved. Between 80-90% of Americans supported keeping Roe vs Wade. The state ballots just showed a majority also supporting pro-choice.
I fear for Donald Trump's safety, there's no limit to what some crazy people will do to stop him becoming President, as we've already seen twice at least.
What a spectacular, balanced and thoughtful woman Lionel is.
More of her please.
'[Government] inefficacy is a protection for the rest of us.'
As cynical as that sounds, I have to admit that it's true of many Western governments at present. I know we think we want government to be efficient and effective but that presumes that it's obeying our wishes rather than acting in its own interests and at the behest of those who are powerful enough to influence it.
What intellectual qualities does Harris possess?
"....the emptiness, the flimsiness...." - that's what we've got with Starmer.
As a leftist who's left the Left, it's so refreshing and reassuring to hear someone articulate exactly how I feel.
So spot on! Says everything I have been feeling/thinking. Who is this woman being interviewed? Smart. Very, very smart.
A famous author, who has faced a lot of cancel culture for writing about people not from her ethnic/cultural background.
Great show - Great Interview and Great Guest.
I love listening to (and reading) Shriver. She has the insight and vocabulary to describe exactly what most of us feel about Harris. I recall seeing Harris on a chat show where she was asked if she can shoot a gun. You could see her mind working and thinking that being able to shoot sounds powerful - so she said yes. She then regretted that when the interviewer pressed her with "what do you shoot, a handgun or a rifle?". She was now visibly panicking - she stammered "a handgun" and tried to close down the conversation topic with a maniacal laugh - but the interviewer then asked - "do you own a gun?" Now she was terrified, what should she say? She said something like "yes, but I have no more to say on this". She is a person of no substance or conviction.
Trump and his group (Vance, Vivek, Gabard, RFK jr,etc) simply outworked the Harris campaign. They were in front of people everywhere, even supposed skeptics. Kamala had very few public appearances, and very little interaction with skeptical press. Her campaign “team” seemed to be mainstream media, which is drawing less and less viewers. Plus, I think voters were getting tired of the Democrats continual dehumanizing of Trump voters, linking them with Hitler, nazis, and garbage.
@@ron88303 Especially Vance
Everyone could see that Trump wanted the job. He and his team and surrogates were working for your vote. They didn't hector you for it. Harris, by contrast, didn't work for it. She spent a month hiding from the media, from voters. Then, when she finally did start talking, she and her team and allies didn't quite match the Hitlerian rhetoric with their own work ethic. You'd think an existential threat would merit more and better interviews, answers, and speeches. It didn't happen. Why? Because she's an empty suit.
Excellent work by interviewer. This non-American progressive male (in Tokyo) largely agrees with Lionel Shiver. Personally dislike Trump, but am not unhappy with the defeat of hectoring.
She articulated my own intuitions perfectly.
One of the best interviews I've seen about the election, well done Spectator
Listening to Kate's Democrat-leaning reasoning, I do wonder if she wouldn't be a better fit for The Guardian...the women's page beckons, Kate.
"Harris would be safer for the country." Is Lionel Schriver bonkers?
no, that´s why she said that
Yeah that was a curious statement from such an intellectual person
@hsmd4533 Listen to the entire statement in its context.
I don't think anyone (including Harris) has any idea what she would have done if elected. Harris' answers were always vague, but that doesn't make her safe, especially if her intent was, as suggested, only to avoid alienating her audience.
Agreed, quite the opposite. Harris would be a disaster for the country and could possibly have meant the end of Republicanism. I thank God for alternative media sources like X. Thanks to Elon. There still is hope.
She didn't offer accomplishments, gravitas, or inspiration. She's the unfinished product of a machine. And now...she's finished.
Question: women's right to their own bodies is great. However, why does that right stop when it comes to illicit drugs? Either you own your own body or you don't. It's not a principle that you can cherrypick from. It's disingenuos.
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A most interesting hypocrisy.
In England upto the Stewart period suicide was illegal - because your body belonged to the state. Suicide was legally theft
@@celiacresswell6909 Yes, and I believe the Crown could then claim your property and lands for itself.
@@MalachiWhite-tw7hl never underestimate the weirdness of people
How can it be about race when Obama was elected twice? 😂
This lady has hit the nail on the head,
I think she hit her head on something anyway.
Always voted Democrat. After listening to Harris it was clear she was NOT a Stateswoman. In fact she made me very uneasy. It was a disgrace that the Democratic Party put forward Biden and Harris in this election. Until the Democrats sort themselves out they will not get my vote.
I'm an enthusiastic Trump supporter, but I'm still apprehensive for the inevitable nonstop sh*tshow that will be the next four years
the media needs to keep it going for clicks. It is a symbiotic relationship.
Make no mistake, if Harris had won, it would actually have been Obama’s 4th term…. But I suspect even he thought she was useless and could have been a loose cannon if allowed to let rip with her true inner far- left ideals a la AOC ..😮
Trump Fatigue is always a risk. Interestingly, after the Mueller investigation and Vindman Impeachment fizzled out I seem to remember a kind of calm settling in. "We tried to discredit him; we tried to oust him. We don't have another dirty trick ready to go." While the next scheme was being contemplated, there seemed to be a breather....then came Covid. It would be nice to see a Trump presidency that wasn't incessantly embattled. Just a fair shot at doing the job.
Harris does not have the chops for the job,simple.
They were already off the rails without applying the brakes!!!!!
Shriver’s analysis is absolutely SPOT ON in every aspect.
She openned with , "which one of the candidates I despise the most"!
Imagine Condoleesa Rice ran for President on the Rep side. I could easily see her winning. It's not about gender or race.
She also plays a mean piano.
A female Republican is more likely to be the first female president. She will have passed the merit test that Republicans are likely to demand in the primaries; and then she would pass the DEI test that appeals to so many in the Democrat party. She'd get the both the Good Reason and the Bad Reason votes.
I can’t say I know who this woman is but she is spot on. 🤯
She's a great writer. She wrote "We have to Talk About Kevin," among other things.
Always a treat to hear from Lionel. So level headed. Can't stand the presenter's voice though. Halfway through and just muting it when she speaks. Back on when it's Lionel. Let us hope that this is indeed the end of identity politics and all the nonsense that comes with it!
Lionel, if you get held up in DC airport on Thanksgiving bring your cranky self to our house. My wife, children and grandchildren will love you.
Thank you to all Americans that have help to have finally stopped the insanity of the Biden-Harris Administration..!!
Just feck off now. It wasn't "insanity".
Absolutely spot on!!
we are all Puerto Rican today!
because we are all Trump voters today? 🤣