When I was a kid, JFK was assassinated. I was at a Pasadena private school with students from almost entirely Republican families. A teacher asked my class who was a Republican - every hand but from two of us went up. I was one of the two. The assassination news was given to us during recess. A number of my classmates cheered and applauded.
Fast forward to 911. I was living in NYC. The plane went right over our apartment building, so low the workmen on the roof jumped to the ground. A lot of the footage you saw was shot on that roof by a NYT videographer who was our neighbor. We, thankfully, were away in Canada, although we had to get a rental car and drive back immediately because my husband was needed at Newsweek. The weekend after, I went to a large birthday dinner party for my fiction and humor editor at The New Yorker, Dan Menaker. I adored Dan, but I had to leave early because I found the talk at my table too upsetting - it was all people in media and publishing and I couldn't take the way they laughed off the carnage and the towers falling. I did not vote for Bush and was against our Middle Eastern policies but the people who died were just going to work or traveling on a plane.
Some time later, a friend of mine who was a longtime friend of Berry Berenson, who was on that plane, made public fun of Berry's sister, the model Marisa for being so distraught on 9/11, calling her a drama queen. All I could say was “Can you imagine having to see a family member die like that on tv?”
The heartlessness of the Left right now is nothing new. I saw it after 911 and in Republican children back in 1963. We just have to go forward carrying Charlie Kirk in our hearts and not let the toxicity going on right now keep us from honoring the good Charlie did.
Encourage "Ukraine" to attack the heart of Moscow? We shall very much part company here. Otherwise a good article. Ukraine cannot even win a game of tiddlywinks. So who are you asking to be the surrogate stand-in for 'Ukraine"?
Time to sever the Russian heritage "Ukraine" from the kleptocrat Kyiv "Ukraine, like the severance of Czech Republic from Slovakia - no fuss, no bother, just common sense acceptance that post-Soviet lines were badly drawn in haste.
A good report. I do wonder if the SB Current requires all writers to provide data proofs for their stories? Because it seems such requirements would hamstring most articles.
Mr. Eringer’s style is such that you simply must assume he’s onto something and you follow along breathlessly to see what happens next. If such data proof requirements were in place, none of this great exciting writing would be possible.
Writers need space and freedom to weave and create the world as they see fit to conjure their message, whether it’s purely factual or a mix of opinion, facts and conjecture.
Editors can ruin certain pieces by not recognizing these particular modes and styles, and over editing to create what the editor believes is the correct content and style. Thankfully with Mr Eringer’s work this does not happen.
Huh, you know about furries Robert? That's unexpected- although, I think there is more millenial furries, not Gen Z no Gen Z has, young men who are "gooners."
hmmm…another collection of whimsical musings addressing world events, but once again we must disregard the musings that it’s time for Ukraine to strike Moscow. Really? World War III is a desire? When Putin made the decision to go into Ukraine, for the military incursion, it was for two stated reasons; 1. De-Nazify Ukraine and 2. to demilitarize Ukraine.
Most people know don’t remember that Ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries and government in the world. It’s a Deep State playground. It’s their laundry room. Unfortunately, those that are still asleep to the facts cannot see. ..
Why was POTUS framed re: Russia collusion? To protect truth re: Hillary/DNC Russia collusion Why was POTUS impeached re: Ukraine? To protect truth re: Biden/UKRAINE collusion? Blame 'opponent' for what they themselves are guilty of, with assist from DNC media push (echo submitted 'talking points'…generate false narrative?). Why did [Schiff] actively leak knowingly false statements during-post classified sessions to MSM? Why did [Schiff] illegally surveil [phone] members of WH legal team, media, and Congress? Fact: UKRAINE is the single largest Clinton Foundation donor. Coincidence?
“Victor Pinchuk, a steel magnate whose father-in-law, Leonid Kuchma, was president of UKRAINE from 1994 to 2005, has directed between $10 million and $25 million to the foundation. He has lent his private plane to the Clintons and traveled to Los Angeles in 2011 to attend Mr. Clinton’s star-studded 65th birthday celebration.”
“Between September 2011 and November 2012, Douglas E. Schoen, a former political consultant for Mr. Clinton, arranged about a dozen meetings with State Department officials on behalf of or with Mr. Pinchuk to discuss the continuing political crisis in Ukraine, according to reports Mr. Schoen filed as a registered lobbyist.”
“I had breakfast with Pinchuk. He will see you at the Brookings lunch,” Melanne Verveer, a Ukrainian-American then working for the State Department, wrote in a June 2012 email to Mrs. Clinton.
Once again Mr Eringer is on the mark. Now that the left has deemed speech/hate speech as violence. The gauntlet has been thrown down. If Antifa, blm, lefty loonies... block my path of travel and scream "racist, Nazi, fascist..., in my face or at me and my loved ones, that is violence and I can now protect myself with a bat, car, or any other weapon at my disposal. I can do this because their speech "offends me", therefore "Knives out", Right Nancy, Pocahontas, Hakeem...,?
One has only to watch Jeessie Waters' piece from 09-15-25 showing black pastors spewing there racist hate and all their black congregants cheering them on. They are, Jasmine Crocket's pastor, Frederick D. Haynes III from (get this) Friendship West Baptist Church, and Pastor Howard-John Westley from Alfred Street Baptist Church. Such vitriol and hate is right up there with Barry OblameO's Pastor, Jeremiah Wright. We can see that it is "Intuitively obvious to the most casual of observers" that the Left/DEMOcRATS are where all the hate and violence is coming from.
So many important issues raised; thank you. With regard to the listing of companies leaving California (which is important), I strongly suggest that a list of companies moving to California be kept and published.
When I was a kid, JFK was assassinated. I was at a Pasadena private school with students from almost entirely Republican families. A teacher asked my class who was a Republican - every hand but from two of us went up. I was one of the two. The assassination news was given to us during recess. A number of my classmates cheered and applauded.
Fast forward to 911. I was living in NYC. The plane went right over our apartment building, so low the workmen on the roof jumped to the ground. A lot of the footage you saw was shot on that roof by a NYT videographer who was our neighbor. We, thankfully, were away in Canada, although we had to get a rental car and drive back immediately because my husband was needed at Newsweek. The weekend after, I went to a large birthday dinner party for my fiction and humor editor at The New Yorker, Dan Menaker. I adored Dan, but I had to leave early because I found the talk at my table too upsetting - it was all people in media and publishing and I couldn't take the way they laughed off the carnage and the towers falling. I did not vote for Bush and was against our Middle Eastern policies but the people who died were just going to work or traveling on a plane.
Some time later, a friend of mine who was a longtime friend of Berry Berenson, who was on that plane, made public fun of Berry's sister, the model Marisa for being so distraught on 9/11, calling her a drama queen. All I could say was “Can you imagine having to see a family member die like that on tv?”
The heartlessness of the Left right now is nothing new. I saw it after 911 and in Republican children back in 1963. We just have to go forward carrying Charlie Kirk in our hearts and not let the toxicity going on right now keep us from honoring the good Charlie did.
Encourage "Ukraine" to attack the heart of Moscow? We shall very much part company here. Otherwise a good article. Ukraine cannot even win a game of tiddlywinks. So who are you asking to be the surrogate stand-in for 'Ukraine"?
Time to sever the Russian heritage "Ukraine" from the kleptocrat Kyiv "Ukraine, like the severance of Czech Republic from Slovakia - no fuss, no bother, just common sense acceptance that post-Soviet lines were badly drawn in haste.
A good report. I do wonder if the SB Current requires all writers to provide data proofs for their stories? Because it seems such requirements would hamstring most articles.
Mr. Eringer’s style is such that you simply must assume he’s onto something and you follow along breathlessly to see what happens next. If such data proof requirements were in place, none of this great exciting writing would be possible.
Writers need space and freedom to weave and create the world as they see fit to conjure their message, whether it’s purely factual or a mix of opinion, facts and conjecture.
Editors can ruin certain pieces by not recognizing these particular modes and styles, and over editing to create what the editor believes is the correct content and style. Thankfully with Mr Eringer’s work this does not happen.
Huh, you know about furries Robert? That's unexpected- although, I think there is more millenial furries, not Gen Z no Gen Z has, young men who are "gooners."
Great insights as usual Robert. Keep up the good work fighting the good fight.
Pretty much a damning list.
Supervisor Nelson from the 4th Dist. commented on the tragedy.... of Kirk.
Who else in south county elected officials spoke out against it?
It says a whole bunch about backbone of lack thereof.
hmmm…another collection of whimsical musings addressing world events, but once again we must disregard the musings that it’s time for Ukraine to strike Moscow. Really? World War III is a desire? When Putin made the decision to go into Ukraine, for the military incursion, it was for two stated reasons; 1. De-Nazify Ukraine and 2. to demilitarize Ukraine.
Most people know don’t remember that Ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries and government in the world. It’s a Deep State playground. It’s their laundry room. Unfortunately, those that are still asleep to the facts cannot see. ..
Why was POTUS framed re: Russia collusion? To protect truth re: Hillary/DNC Russia collusion Why was POTUS impeached re: Ukraine? To protect truth re: Biden/UKRAINE collusion? Blame 'opponent' for what they themselves are guilty of, with assist from DNC media push (echo submitted 'talking points'…generate false narrative?). Why did [Schiff] actively leak knowingly false statements during-post classified sessions to MSM? Why did [Schiff] illegally surveil [phone] members of WH legal team, media, and Congress? Fact: UKRAINE is the single largest Clinton Foundation donor. Coincidence?
“Victor Pinchuk, a steel magnate whose father-in-law, Leonid Kuchma, was president of UKRAINE from 1994 to 2005, has directed between $10 million and $25 million to the foundation. He has lent his private plane to the Clintons and traveled to Los Angeles in 2011 to attend Mr. Clinton’s star-studded 65th birthday celebration.”
“Between September 2011 and November 2012, Douglas E. Schoen, a former political consultant for Mr. Clinton, arranged about a dozen meetings with State Department officials on behalf of or with Mr. Pinchuk to discuss the continuing political crisis in Ukraine, according to reports Mr. Schoen filed as a registered lobbyist.”
“I had breakfast with Pinchuk. He will see you at the Brookings lunch,” Melanne Verveer, a Ukrainian-American then working for the State Department, wrote in a June 2012 email to Mrs. Clinton.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-charity.html
the hole runs deep… https://x.com/fnowisthetime/status/1968011122751226219?s=61
Once again Mr Eringer is on the mark. Now that the left has deemed speech/hate speech as violence. The gauntlet has been thrown down. If Antifa, blm, lefty loonies... block my path of travel and scream "racist, Nazi, fascist..., in my face or at me and my loved ones, that is violence and I can now protect myself with a bat, car, or any other weapon at my disposal. I can do this because their speech "offends me", therefore "Knives out", Right Nancy, Pocahontas, Hakeem...,?
One has only to watch Jeessie Waters' piece from 09-15-25 showing black pastors spewing there racist hate and all their black congregants cheering them on. They are, Jasmine Crocket's pastor, Frederick D. Haynes III from (get this) Friendship West Baptist Church, and Pastor Howard-John Westley from Alfred Street Baptist Church. Such vitriol and hate is right up there with Barry OblameO's Pastor, Jeremiah Wright. We can see that it is "Intuitively obvious to the most casual of observers" that the Left/DEMOcRATS are where all the hate and violence is coming from.
So many important issues raised; thank you. With regard to the listing of companies leaving California (which is important), I strongly suggest that a list of companies moving to California be kept and published.
Berney