I think it is important to note that the increased use of mail-in ballots was enacted in battleground states in an unconstitutional manner. The constitution clearly says that state legislatures must decide election law. In 2020 election law was changed by courts and governors under assumed emrgency powers justified in the name of fighting covid. Additionally voting hours were extended, drop boxes added, signature verification relaxed. The security of the election was relaxed in multiple ways. Texas joined by other states complained their voters were disenfranchised by these unconstitutional voting security relaxations. The supreme court did not hear the case on standing. There is no doubt that the election changes were unconstitutional. It is no wonder that many feel the election was stolen.
100,000,000 mail-in ballots, what could go wrong…I was allowed to vote 4 times in 2020 Presidential Election…received 1 extra ballot for each of my daughters + 1 extra for a nephew — all of whom had long since left the nest…amusing to think of telling them that they might of voted for Trump!!!
Typical of your ilk. Say whatever you want, and then take no responsibility for your sources. Hence all the chaos about what is/is not. How easy to say, “Trump won the election against Biden “; how impossible to substantiate. (Trump made 60 appeals, All rejected by the laws of this country.) And so the truth has no value, facts are ignored, all that seems to counts to Republicans is to insure they get to keep the money they “earn”, and manage to not give back their share to their country and the people who helped earn it. Trump was fraudulent in that respect too.
So I ask again: where did you get the information that, as you say, “increased use of mail in ballots was enacted…in an unconstitutional manner “ by Democrats? Is this one of the many many blow-hard false words from the mouth of trump who lately announced to his deplorables that his body ( like Jesus’s) is full of wounds. He claims that if he were to take off his shirt ( no, no, please no!), we would be witness to “all my wounds, so many wounds.” And this is the clown you will vote for?
Thank you for what might be a compliment, but in truth, I have never identified myself as being “ a person of superior intelligence” . I DO genuinely believe I make concerted efforts to seek facts, truth….things I truly value. I don’t know where to begin researching the truth of “unconstitutional mail in ballots”. I do KNOW that the fake Republican electorals who tried voting in place of the real ones will be going to jail. Now, THAT is a fact. “ unconstitutional ballots “,not so much.
I grew up here, but lived and worked for years in the NYC media world. I'm astonished that people in Santa Barbara still think the “journalists” of NYT, NPR, etc., are telling them anything remotely resembling the truth. The worst thing is listening to Santa Barbarans regurgitate what they just read in mainstream media. I once asked a group of friends if they really believe the crap they were reciting. “Of course we do!” I tried to list the things that the NYT had omitted or lied about over the years, like the Weapons of Mass Destruction, Bush's involvement in the drug trade during the Central American “conflict” - and they literally turned and left. Later I got an email from one of them saying I was “delusional” to think they were being lied to. And these are smart, accomplished people. But they have become cult members. And like all cult members they believe the worst thing they can do is listen to an opposing opinion because that's that mainstream media has brainwashed them into thinking. It's been really depressing for me to lose respect for so many people. That's why this week, I burst into tears over the news about Julian Assange who is the greatest journalist of our era. It gave me hope to think he may be free, hope that maybe this will be a turning point when people might start listening to other points of view and start thinking for themselves.
Actually Pablosdog, skepticism and subjective self-reference are the enemies of knowing- It was Descartes who instituted "methodological doubt" and his advice was the question and research everything- after rejecting everything he concluded "cogito ergo sum." That has turned into our "I need to see it do believe it" skepticism and is the very reason we can be duped so easily- St. Augustine, by converse, said "I believe it in order that I may come to understand. We must believe first, examine second and compare our findings, not to our own opinions but to the objective standards of reality and the objective moral good- we must make Truth our end, not our own opinions. Proper belief is the golded mean between credulity and skeptism- it is the skeptic who will fall for anything, not the believer.
well said...the Legacy Media is complicit in the mind warp PSYOP being played as part of planned destruction (from within) of Our Republic...
Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of individuals, groups, organizations, and governments…
All Media (save alt media) is owned & controlled & operated to inform the masses with their thinkabouts...all part of Operation Mockingbird…
Operation Mockingbird (paid for w/ your tax$$$)…
Actions of [FAKE NEWS]:
-Aggression (Projection)
-Suppression (Fascism)
-Censorship (Narrative-Dogma)
Actions of [TWITTER, FB, GOOG, YT, REDDIT, etc..]:
-Aggression (Projection)
-Suppression (Fascism)
-Censorship (Narrative-Dogma)
good to see that people are waking up in larger & larger numbers by the day…
PS…also good to hear “Too Big To Rig” coming into vogue...
DAWSON….AND ALL this crap you list happens ONLY WITH DEMOCRATS…..?? “ Fascism “? “ Censorship”. WHERE .???
Republics are according to you the honest guys? which is why none of you wants to admit how horrible a human trumps is…..how he lies, abuses,….you know the list and the drill. THAT IS THE TRUTH, not the dishonest words you write here.
BUT REPUBLICANS….All of you mostly males who have this neat little site to spew your garbage, denying how sick and mentally incapacitated trump is. Each of you rubs the other liar’s back…..what an NEat little club you have, and you can all list nonsense when you try answering my comments. I believe deep in your black souls, I truly believe you know the truth, and this is just a plot to try to get a trump elected so you can all reduce your taxes…THAT IS HIS PROMISE TO YOU, GREEDY BUNCH!
Matt Taibbi's Substack column today “Assange is Free, But Never Forget How the Press Turned on Him” sums up the moral posturing covering up the careerizing depravity of American media - whether covering Eric Early or Julian Assange, it's all about these “journalists” willing to lie for the people in power just so they can sit at the right table.
Hive mind. This is a deep psychological need. Facts or reason are insufficient antidotes. But we should recognize how important it is for many people. (PS: while they accuse us of being a "cult")
Polly, it sounds like your friends should join my CRAP - “Citizen Review and Protest” - Club. Only instead keeping the SB City Council from pissing our money away on Woke crap, we review and get to the bottom of NYT’s fantasy 'news’.
Good article. I have noticed in my own campaign that many liberals have a test question which is who do you think won the 2020 election and if you say anything, but Biden they immediately sneer and turn up their nose that you as a denier. So obviously this is a test question and so I kind of avoid this issue and just hammer on. Do you like inflation? Do you like endless wars? Do you like killing 1 million Christians in Eastern Europe with your tax dollars, do you like six dollar gas, do you like open borders do you like 24,000 homeless illegal alien guys sent into our district in the last three years thanks to Salud Carbajal. Do you like all those things? And do you like child surgeries sex surgeries? So these are my questions for liberals.
Good work, Mr. Early. I hope you keep running and keep hitting the left… even Abraham Lincoln had to run three times before he got anywhere. And you sir, are California’s best hope.
Cole: Do you like dictators like Putin, N.Korea whom trump “ loves”?
Do you like that your candidate for President “ loves Hitler “?
Do you like women abusers being our President?
Do you like a convicted felon being our President?
Do you like that the wealthy Americans’ taxes have been promised they will be reduced, again.?
Do you like that this Trump has not ever paid his fair share of his taxes.
Do you like that he tellls people, he has been so wounded his wounds would show if he
removed his shirt?
Do you like that he tried to overturn the last election, caused an insurrection, instigated those hoodlums to “hang Pence”, caused the death of Capitol police? Do you like that?
Do you like that women have no determination re what happens to their pregnancy, thanks to trump and the S.C.?
And why is it YOUR business if a person wants to change his/her sex? Since when is someone else’s body yours to make decisions for?
WHERE do you think the 24,000 thousand homeless SHOULD GO? If you were President would you just line them up and shoot them? They are needy, hungry, often have small children, have travelled very far to continue to work, eat, live…..why dont you just get a gun the NRA makes so easy to buy and go shoot them? Your fellow Republicans will cheer you.
Unless you are a Native American, YOU are an immigrant OR the child of an immigrant…..
Should your ancestors have been turned away when they wanted entrance into the U.S.?
These are my questions for you heartless Republicans. How did you all get so bad?
I’m a psychic. Nancy 1. Drives a Prius 2. Believes she is a member of at least three marginalized classes. 3. Has both “Free Palestine” and “I’m With Her” number stickers on her car. 4. Has had more than 1 abortion. 5. Doesn’t even live in Santa Barbara. 6. Nancy Freeman is not her real name.
A.West, By “ target “ I mean, you set yourself up for failing. Just as you did by making wild guesses…..probably to get to know about me, to get me to reveal ( that’s O.K. I have nothing to hide ). And I am, these days, at war with the distortions, the lies, the unAmerican approach of the so-called Republicans who…in my perception….have changed their conservative approach ( read “ greedy/selfish ) to sharing their money ( which they earn from living in the U.S.) to the extent that they will say ANYTHING….crazy, wild, grossly unfair or manifestly untrue…. to get into office a loser, a person whose whole life has been cheating and scamming. You can get real facts and information from him BEST by listening to his wild disorganized talking. Then you can read about him from his cousin, a psychologist. You can also learn about his unfitness for office by listening to stations you think are fair….PBS, Or Read NY REVIEW OF BOOKS, or Lawrence Tribe, the top Constitution Law Instructor at Harvard University. I believe these sources do not lie.
How can you possibly object to my mild name calling when trump himself denigrates everything and everyone who is EVEN mildly in his sight? He is so disgustingly gross and totally off the mark with his insults…I thought you Republicans were immune to insults, hence my childish name- calling.
As for caps….give it up. Why should I follow made-up “rules” by the people who engage ONLY in this inane virtual system where people hide their identity
So they can lie carte Blanche without recourse or the need for verification.
I’ve never hated the Republican Party before…..Romney was our Gov. in Mass..An honest outstanding human who served us well. …..but those creatures now in your Party. Green, Boebert , Cruz, Rubio…..you know who they are…..what a shameful lot. Not one iota of integrity in the bunch.
There is one other fact might interest you. Take a look at the men who have become Republican Pres. with those who were/are Democratic Presidents in my political lifetime.The first difference is that the Dem.Pres. were/are all highly educated KENNEDY, CLINTON ( Rhodes Scholar ), OBAMA, BIDEN. And your Republicans: EISENHOWER, ( a military man) REAGAN, ( an Actor ) NIXON ( a lawyer, to his demise ), BUSH, BUSH…..only Nixon had an education possibly equivalent . They were all men NOT PARTICULARLY interested in ideas…. Well-run governments are about humanistic ideas…..ideas to help humans become better humans. This is simply not the way of YOUR present Republican Party. And believe me, Anne, D.J. TRUMP is the absolute worst of them all. Do you know he doesn’t even have a college degree…in today’s world? How in the name of the Presidency is he fit for that office?
you have TDS. You are obsessed with Trump, as the news media has been since before his first run. It's an illness. You are a serious nutjob. Not sure why you want to be on this board except you just like to create chaos, which seems to be the only thing liberals are good at any more. I used to consider myself a liberal. Voted Democrat my entire life. 2012 I voted for 2 black women. But then I started to see what was happening; the left has gone looney, heading dangerously towards communism, and I have serious concerns for our country if the right doesn't get control of it. You should really seek some help cuz you are going to lose your SHIT when Trump is re-elected TRUMP2024!!!!!!! HAHAHAHA
Even the people who recognize the extreme bias practiced by the corporate media have no idea just how dishonest the reporting has become. Besides creating an ignorant populace, the dishonesty in journalism is destroying the lives of innocent citizens and shielding criminals from accountability.
One illegally cast vote cancels my one legally cast vote. Or one illegally cast vote could amplify my one vote just as easily. Too high a price to pay for either option.
Zero tolerance is the only standard, no matter how much it costs. Without 100% honest elections, we are nothing. This is non-negotiable.
Thanks Eric for a well developed article starting with the concern and then supporting your concerns with a well developed set of facts that I am certain had to be truncated to fit the format.
Good read Mr. Early & a perfect example of liberal bias in the media. Unfortunately news is no longer news. Most news stories we read or watch on TV these days is nothing more than a narrative that is anti conservative, pro liberal. There is little truth or integrity in news reporting any more. I still access news stories on line through The Drudge Report & it's amazing how stories are framed with the liberal slant.
The expansive growth of alternative media is sticking a dagger into the heart of the highly biased MSM- legacy- unionized Big Media - or whatever you want to call it. Protect alternative media with your dollars and continued support.
The Fourth Estate must never be captured by forces outside a free-thinking electorate. Even WEF Davos just this year had to admit they no longer "owned the media". Score another victory for freedom of speech.
I read this solid article by Eric Early and the problems with the press and mainstream media is
at critical and deceptive levels concerning now a possible Nuclear Exchange between Russia and the West, mainly the United States. It is ironic that Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said long ago “We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
Lies and the “Big Cover Up” is much much closer than you can imagine and right here in little ole Santa Barbara with your So-Called-Local Leaders.
Good article Mr. Early! I think part of the problem is the self-arrogated godlike status required for the omniscient "neutral." We are finite beings and incapable of neutrality and it should be no real surprise that the arrogant and highly manipulative 4th estate pretends to be neutral in the mode of the banal school teachers who peddled the lie in the first place. Our real job as journalists is to come down on the side of truth against falsehood and propaganda. It is a lie to say this was the cleanest election in history, we all saw with our own eyes what happened in Atlanta and as you mention, the forensic evidence is overwhelming not to mention that are actually people in jail for voter fraud from the 2020 election. I say we need to aim for truth, not neutrality.
Eric Early just ran for the US Senate and lost to Steve Garvey and Adam Schiff. Amazingly, the reason why he lost as well as the other Democrats in the race is because Adam Schiff decided he wanted Steve Garvey as his opponent in the general election, so he spent prodigious sums of money to convince Republican voters to select Steve Garvey as his opponent. For anyone who thinks that was a mistake, think again. Schiff is beating Garvey by over 20 points.
The bottom line is Republicans are so ineffectual in Ca. that you are having Democrats manipulating races to draw Republican opponents in our jungle primary system. You can blame this on the media or anyone else, but in the final analysis the state Republican Party has to own this. They are a mess and every political pundit in the state knows it.
It's not just politicians like former President Trump and Mr. Early who are fodder. Any issue not in alignment with extreme left ideology is also game for slanted reporting. The pandemic. Transgenderism. Israel. Those three leap to mind.
The link to the "peer reviewed evidence" is broken. Please fix it or point me in the right direction because I honestly want to see any proof of any of these claims. To date I have seen none yet. Also, you try to use an argument from authority, which is a fallacy, by stating that millions of Americans know the election was false. Millions of Americans knowing something doesn't add up to fact. I honestly want to see proof or evidence of any kind, but haven't seen anything yet. I don't like Joe Biden, but I think Trump is a narcissist who looks out for himself first.
It’s weird. Immediately after that election, there was lots of stuff to be seen: women pulling boxes of ballots from under tables and running them thru the counter multiple times. People pulling up to ballot drop boxes, inserting multiple ballots, then returning several times to do it again. Phone pings if these ballot mules going to one spot to pick up ballots, then distributing them to multiple drop boxes, being sure to take selfies with the ballots fanned out so they could get paid. A truck full of ballots that was stolen. And now we find out illegal immigrants are being handed voter registration forms as part of their welcone package. But I guess nothing is too suspicious about any of that.
I read the article. What strikes me most about it is that we cannot seem to agree on a way forward. Enfranchisement is critical to a democracy. So let's make the vote process easy and secure. Provide a federal identification card to every citizen free of charge, easy to apply and receive, with certain digital cryptographic identity measures built in. Make mail in voting universal, with a robust security check and easy audit measures. We're the most advanced country on earth and you're telling me we can't get this done?
I strongly disagree that mail in voting is a good idea. Until recently we always went to a polling place. Now when the ballot comes in the mail I feel like they have insecurely used the USPS to send something worth more than money; my choice and my freedom. It sits unsecured in my box until I get home.
I agree 1. Citizens vote, no one else. 2. You don’t become a citizen by strolling over our border. 3. The votes are counted in a way EVERYONE can witness. (Right now I have zero visibility into the counting process) 4. There is one day to vote. 5. Absentee ballots are only available for those over seas, or those unable to get to the polls (not sure how to control that)
Ok. But then make voting day a federal holiday. Polling places need to be extremely well staffed and efficient. Nobody should have to wait more than 1 hour to vote. Transportation to and from voting places needs to be provided free of charge. Even poor people should have the right to vote, so accommodate them if you are against mail in voting. (I am not against it. I think it can be done securely).
"Poor people" can volunteer and get paid to be poll workers. Political parties already provide many of the services you demand for election day.
In the very recent past, we had polling places only a few block away from people's homes. Then local governments wanted to "save costs" and eliminated them, then started outsourcing our elections to LA and then moved on to universal vote by mail, which actually decreased political engagement not increased it.
It triggered only corporate ballot-harvesting, which is NOT political engagement - "voting" today is little more than dialing for partisan dollars.
Justin, why are none of you talking about the phony electoral voters who nearly got away with giving their system FALSE information . No Republicans on this site have the honesty to talk about what we actually do know about the many fraudulent attempts of trump, and his ilk to win against the WILL of the American voters. No one until trump came along ever questioned the honesty of our voters…..he and all of you are discussing a problem which only exists in the mind of a LOSER who can’t accept his valid defeats…..trump got defeated because he is a loser. He never wo. The popular vote. Winning against Clinton was a fluke. There is nothing wrong with our voting system EXCEPT in the minds of you who have lost. Did you notice……when Trump won against Clinton, the Democrats did not do what you losers are doing. Think about it…..We did not point to all those extra Republican ballots, etc. etc. You all sound petty and uneducated.
Justin, A single false ballot undermines everyone's right to vote. Don't buy into this "enfranchisement" arguments that supersedes actual ballot integrity argument. NO ONE prevents anyone from registering to vote honestly .
But these current Democrat-pushed recent election gimmicks have create a very leaky system that has undermined election integrity from the start. Too high a price to pay for this bogus "enfranchisement" argument.
Have you ever volunteered to be a poll worker? How leaky is our own county. My last time volunteering was so leaky and sloppy I could not in good conscience go back again. My complaints to the polling place monitor went unheeded.
If it costs money to get an ID, then poor people are prevented from voting. Until you make every step of the process free, there is a de facto poll tax. Also voting day needs to be a federal holiday.
Justin, How much does it cost to get an "ID"? And why. Again, you still have a cartoon version of both "poor people" and our current extremely generous social welfare system. How did all these "poor people" slip through our massive social welfare network?
Justin, You have a cartoon version about "poor people". Which is quite offensive. Did someone feed you this, or do you actually have examples that "poor people" are universally disenfranchised solely by their economic status?
J: I think Justin is right. We have trouble believing just how important a dollar bill is to someone who is truly poor. Do you throw pennies away? I do - I consider them to be a nuisance. That's something a poor person would never do.
If you look at all the polling on Trump since 2016 he has a ceiling of around 46% of the vote. Which means the best he can ever do is win a plurality of the vote but never a majority. The problem for Trump is a majority of the country would vote for anyone else, even if its Biden. That's on Trump, not the media or anyone else.
The polling indicates Americans are very dissatisfied with the choices they have for president. They don't like either candidate. Many voters are casting their votes on the basis of who they dislike the most. We have probably never seen an election where voters are this unhappy with the choices presented to them.
Yes, the media is atrocious but Trump did everything possible to give ammunition to the media to sink him. Even without the media, he is his own worst enemy. The number one reason he lost the 2020 election is because he motivated more Democrats and independents who don't like Trump to vote in numbers we don't ordinarily see. The fact is he ran behind many down-ballot Republicans all over the country. If there was massive cheating it should have affected their numbers too.
Lou, why can't you acknowledge the success Trump had as president? Best economy in years, most secure border, no wars, monumental progress in middle east peace all while the Democrat party worked to undermine every effort. Trump is a great and historic president and should be celebrated for his accomplishments. His personality is similar to other brilliant businessmen that I have known. Some are threatened by successful men.
Jeff, we can discuss how effective Trump was as president but my remarks were more geared toward his electability. Whatever anyone thinks about him and you certainly are presenting the most favorable case for Trump, the fact remains he was not the most electable of the Republican candidates for president. Today, the election is essentially a jump ball between Biden and Trump, and considering Biden's record and his mental incompetence, that is truly remarkable. It may not make any sense to you but the majority of the population don't share your favorable attitude toward Trump; in fact there are literally millions of people who absolutely loathe him.
As for Nancy Freeman, no I don't think I will hook up with her. She wouldn't like the fact the I am going to vote for him.
I have heard the blah blah blah that Nikki Haley would do better against Biden. That is bullshit. She could only win one state narrowly in the primaries. If she is unpopular with her own party she could not win the general election. Republicans would not be motivated and poor turnout would lose the election.
I think it is important to note that the increased use of mail-in ballots was enacted in battleground states in an unconstitutional manner. The constitution clearly says that state legislatures must decide election law. In 2020 election law was changed by courts and governors under assumed emrgency powers justified in the name of fighting covid. Additionally voting hours were extended, drop boxes added, signature verification relaxed. The security of the election was relaxed in multiple ways. Texas joined by other states complained their voters were disenfranchised by these unconstitutional voting security relaxations. The supreme court did not hear the case on standing. There is no doubt that the election changes were unconstitutional. It is no wonder that many feel the election was stolen.
100,000,000 mail-in ballots, what could go wrong…I was allowed to vote 4 times in 2020 Presidential Election…received 1 extra ballot for each of my daughters + 1 extra for a nephew — all of whom had long since left the nest…amusing to think of telling them that they might of voted for Trump!!!
J. Barton……and your evidence for all these questionable statements you list here is…WHERE?
HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU STATE HERE? Are there any sources we humans can tap into that gives us honest humans the same stuff you list here……hmmmmmm?
We Democrats deal in tangibles; we need proof for your pudding.
You self-identify as a person of superior intelligence; it should be easy to confirm. These facts are pretty well known.
Jeff Barton,
Typical of your ilk. Say whatever you want, and then take no responsibility for your sources. Hence all the chaos about what is/is not. How easy to say, “Trump won the election against Biden “; how impossible to substantiate. (Trump made 60 appeals, All rejected by the laws of this country.) And so the truth has no value, facts are ignored, all that seems to counts to Republicans is to insure they get to keep the money they “earn”, and manage to not give back their share to their country and the people who helped earn it. Trump was fraudulent in that respect too.
So I ask again: where did you get the information that, as you say, “increased use of mail in ballots was enacted…in an unconstitutional manner “ by Democrats? Is this one of the many many blow-hard false words from the mouth of trump who lately announced to his deplorables that his body ( like Jesus’s) is full of wounds. He claims that if he were to take off his shirt ( no, no, please no!), we would be witness to “all my wounds, so many wounds.” And this is the clown you will vote for?
Thank you for what might be a compliment, but in truth, I have never identified myself as being “ a person of superior intelligence” . I DO genuinely believe I make concerted efforts to seek facts, truth….things I truly value. I don’t know where to begin researching the truth of “unconstitutional mail in ballots”. I do KNOW that the fake Republican electorals who tried voting in place of the real ones will be going to jail. Now, THAT is a fact. “ unconstitutional ballots “,not so much.
I grew up here, but lived and worked for years in the NYC media world. I'm astonished that people in Santa Barbara still think the “journalists” of NYT, NPR, etc., are telling them anything remotely resembling the truth. The worst thing is listening to Santa Barbarans regurgitate what they just read in mainstream media. I once asked a group of friends if they really believe the crap they were reciting. “Of course we do!” I tried to list the things that the NYT had omitted or lied about over the years, like the Weapons of Mass Destruction, Bush's involvement in the drug trade during the Central American “conflict” - and they literally turned and left. Later I got an email from one of them saying I was “delusional” to think they were being lied to. And these are smart, accomplished people. But they have become cult members. And like all cult members they believe the worst thing they can do is listen to an opposing opinion because that's that mainstream media has brainwashed them into thinking. It's been really depressing for me to lose respect for so many people. That's why this week, I burst into tears over the news about Julian Assange who is the greatest journalist of our era. It gave me hope to think he may be free, hope that maybe this will be a turning point when people might start listening to other points of view and start thinking for themselves.
Believe nothing…question and research everything. Belief is the enemy of knowing.
Actually Pablosdog, skepticism and subjective self-reference are the enemies of knowing- It was Descartes who instituted "methodological doubt" and his advice was the question and research everything- after rejecting everything he concluded "cogito ergo sum." That has turned into our "I need to see it do believe it" skepticism and is the very reason we can be duped so easily- St. Augustine, by converse, said "I believe it in order that I may come to understand. We must believe first, examine second and compare our findings, not to our own opinions but to the objective standards of reality and the objective moral good- we must make Truth our end, not our own opinions. Proper belief is the golded mean between credulity and skeptism- it is the skeptic who will fall for anything, not the believer.
well said...the Legacy Media is complicit in the mind warp PSYOP being played as part of planned destruction (from within) of Our Republic...
Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of individuals, groups, organizations, and governments…
All Media (save alt media) is owned & controlled & operated to inform the masses with their thinkabouts...all part of Operation Mockingbird…
Operation Mockingbird (paid for w/ your tax$$$)…
Actions of [FAKE NEWS]:
-Aggression (Projection)
-Suppression (Fascism)
-Censorship (Narrative-Dogma)
Actions of [TWITTER, FB, GOOG, YT, REDDIT, etc..]:
-Aggression (Projection)
-Suppression (Fascism)
-Censorship (Narrative-Dogma)
good to see that people are waking up in larger & larger numbers by the day…
PS…also good to hear “Too Big To Rig” coming into vogue...
DAWSON….AND ALL this crap you list happens ONLY WITH DEMOCRATS…..?? “ Fascism “? “ Censorship”. WHERE .???
Republics are according to you the honest guys? which is why none of you wants to admit how horrible a human trumps is…..how he lies, abuses,….you know the list and the drill. THAT IS THE TRUTH, not the dishonest words you write here.
BUT REPUBLICANS….All of you mostly males who have this neat little site to spew your garbage, denying how sick and mentally incapacitated trump is. Each of you rubs the other liar’s back…..what an NEat little club you have, and you can all list nonsense when you try answering my comments. I believe deep in your black souls, I truly believe you know the truth, and this is just a plot to try to get a trump elected so you can all reduce your taxes…THAT IS HIS PROMISE TO YOU, GREEDY BUNCH!
Matt Taibbi's Substack column today “Assange is Free, But Never Forget How the Press Turned on Him” sums up the moral posturing covering up the careerizing depravity of American media - whether covering Eric Early or Julian Assange, it's all about these “journalists” willing to lie for the people in power just so they can sit at the right table.
Hive mind. This is a deep psychological need. Facts or reason are insufficient antidotes. But we should recognize how important it is for many people. (PS: while they accuse us of being a "cult")
Polly, it sounds like your friends should join my CRAP - “Citizen Review and Protest” - Club. Only instead keeping the SB City Council from pissing our money away on Woke crap, we review and get to the bottom of NYT’s fantasy 'news’.
Good article. I have noticed in my own campaign that many liberals have a test question which is who do you think won the 2020 election and if you say anything, but Biden they immediately sneer and turn up their nose that you as a denier. So obviously this is a test question and so I kind of avoid this issue and just hammer on. Do you like inflation? Do you like endless wars? Do you like killing 1 million Christians in Eastern Europe with your tax dollars, do you like six dollar gas, do you like open borders do you like 24,000 homeless illegal alien guys sent into our district in the last three years thanks to Salud Carbajal. Do you like all those things? And do you like child surgeries sex surgeries? So these are my questions for liberals.
Good work, Mr. Early. I hope you keep running and keep hitting the left… even Abraham Lincoln had to run three times before he got anywhere. And you sir, are California’s best hope.
Cole: Do you like dictators like Putin, N.Korea whom trump “ loves”?
Do you like that your candidate for President “ loves Hitler “?
Do you like women abusers being our President?
Do you like a convicted felon being our President?
Do you like that the wealthy Americans’ taxes have been promised they will be reduced, again.?
Do you like that this Trump has not ever paid his fair share of his taxes.
Do you like that he tellls people, he has been so wounded his wounds would show if he
removed his shirt?
Do you like that he tried to overturn the last election, caused an insurrection, instigated those hoodlums to “hang Pence”, caused the death of Capitol police? Do you like that?
Do you like that women have no determination re what happens to their pregnancy, thanks to trump and the S.C.?
And why is it YOUR business if a person wants to change his/her sex? Since when is someone else’s body yours to make decisions for?
WHERE do you think the 24,000 thousand homeless SHOULD GO? If you were President would you just line them up and shoot them? They are needy, hungry, often have small children, have travelled very far to continue to work, eat, live…..why dont you just get a gun the NRA makes so easy to buy and go shoot them? Your fellow Republicans will cheer you.
Unless you are a Native American, YOU are an immigrant OR the child of an immigrant…..
Should your ancestors have been turned away when they wanted entrance into the U.S.?
These are my questions for you heartless Republicans. How did you all get so bad?
I’m a psychic. Nancy 1. Drives a Prius 2. Believes she is a member of at least three marginalized classes. 3. Has both “Free Palestine” and “I’m With Her” number stickers on her car. 4. Has had more than 1 abortion. 5. Doesn’t even live in Santa Barbara. 6. Nancy Freeman is not her real name.
A.West……you’re such an easy target, and your psychic lens must be out of order.
You managed, ( law of averages , even if you were deaf, dumb and blind ) to get only one right out of your 6 paltry guesses.
My real married name is as stated.
i do live in Santa Barbara.
Grateful that I have twin boys but have never had an abortion.
I have exactly ZERO stickers on my car.
I am not a member of a” class”, am a liberal, not “ marginalized “.
I drive a Prius Hybrid, bought new, which in many years has never given me one problem. I recommend them . BINGO, Psychic….!
amazing. I got you to respond without vitriol and you only used caps once. As for being a target, I didn't realize we were at war...
A.West, By “ target “ I mean, you set yourself up for failing. Just as you did by making wild guesses…..probably to get to know about me, to get me to reveal ( that’s O.K. I have nothing to hide ). And I am, these days, at war with the distortions, the lies, the unAmerican approach of the so-called Republicans who…in my perception….have changed their conservative approach ( read “ greedy/selfish ) to sharing their money ( which they earn from living in the U.S.) to the extent that they will say ANYTHING….crazy, wild, grossly unfair or manifestly untrue…. to get into office a loser, a person whose whole life has been cheating and scamming. You can get real facts and information from him BEST by listening to his wild disorganized talking. Then you can read about him from his cousin, a psychologist. You can also learn about his unfitness for office by listening to stations you think are fair….PBS, Or Read NY REVIEW OF BOOKS, or Lawrence Tribe, the top Constitution Law Instructor at Harvard University. I believe these sources do not lie.
How can you possibly object to my mild name calling when trump himself denigrates everything and everyone who is EVEN mildly in his sight? He is so disgustingly gross and totally off the mark with his insults…I thought you Republicans were immune to insults, hence my childish name- calling.
As for caps….give it up. Why should I follow made-up “rules” by the people who engage ONLY in this inane virtual system where people hide their identity
So they can lie carte Blanche without recourse or the need for verification.
I’ve never hated the Republican Party before…..Romney was our Gov. in Mass..An honest outstanding human who served us well. …..but those creatures now in your Party. Green, Boebert , Cruz, Rubio…..you know who they are…..what a shameful lot. Not one iota of integrity in the bunch.
There is one other fact might interest you. Take a look at the men who have become Republican Pres. with those who were/are Democratic Presidents in my political lifetime.The first difference is that the Dem.Pres. were/are all highly educated KENNEDY, CLINTON ( Rhodes Scholar ), OBAMA, BIDEN. And your Republicans: EISENHOWER, ( a military man) REAGAN, ( an Actor ) NIXON ( a lawyer, to his demise ), BUSH, BUSH…..only Nixon had an education possibly equivalent . They were all men NOT PARTICULARLY interested in ideas…. Well-run governments are about humanistic ideas…..ideas to help humans become better humans. This is simply not the way of YOUR present Republican Party. And believe me, Anne, D.J. TRUMP is the absolute worst of them all. Do you know he doesn’t even have a college degree…in today’s world? How in the name of the Presidency is he fit for that office?
Thanks for listening.
you have TDS. You are obsessed with Trump, as the news media has been since before his first run. It's an illness. You are a serious nutjob. Not sure why you want to be on this board except you just like to create chaos, which seems to be the only thing liberals are good at any more. I used to consider myself a liberal. Voted Democrat my entire life. 2012 I voted for 2 black women. But then I started to see what was happening; the left has gone looney, heading dangerously towards communism, and I have serious concerns for our country if the right doesn't get control of it. You should really seek some help cuz you are going to lose your SHIT when Trump is re-elected TRUMP2024!!!!!!! HAHAHAHA
Even the people who recognize the extreme bias practiced by the corporate media have no idea just how dishonest the reporting has become. Besides creating an ignorant populace, the dishonesty in journalism is destroying the lives of innocent citizens and shielding criminals from accountability.
One illegally cast vote cancels my one legally cast vote. Or one illegally cast vote could amplify my one vote just as easily. Too high a price to pay for either option.
Zero tolerance is the only standard, no matter how much it costs. Without 100% honest elections, we are nothing. This is non-negotiable.
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion: https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/caesars-wife-must-be-above-suspicion
This is what zero tolerance in our election integrity must look like.
Thanks Eric for a well developed article starting with the concern and then supporting your concerns with a well developed set of facts that I am certain had to be truncated to fit the format.
Sunshine is the best disinfectant. Keep it up Santa Barbara Currents.
Good read Mr. Early & a perfect example of liberal bias in the media. Unfortunately news is no longer news. Most news stories we read or watch on TV these days is nothing more than a narrative that is anti conservative, pro liberal. There is little truth or integrity in news reporting any more. I still access news stories on line through The Drudge Report & it's amazing how stories are framed with the liberal slant.
The expansive growth of alternative media is sticking a dagger into the heart of the highly biased MSM- legacy- unionized Big Media - or whatever you want to call it. Protect alternative media with your dollars and continued support.
The Fourth Estate must never be captured by forces outside a free-thinking electorate. Even WEF Davos just this year had to admit they no longer "owned the media". Score another victory for freedom of speech.
I read this solid article by Eric Early and the problems with the press and mainstream media is
at critical and deceptive levels concerning now a possible Nuclear Exchange between Russia and the West, mainly the United States. It is ironic that Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said long ago “We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
Lies and the “Big Cover Up” is much much closer than you can imagine and right here in little ole Santa Barbara with your So-Called-Local Leaders.
Howard Walther, member of a Military Family
Good article Mr. Early! I think part of the problem is the self-arrogated godlike status required for the omniscient "neutral." We are finite beings and incapable of neutrality and it should be no real surprise that the arrogant and highly manipulative 4th estate pretends to be neutral in the mode of the banal school teachers who peddled the lie in the first place. Our real job as journalists is to come down on the side of truth against falsehood and propaganda. It is a lie to say this was the cleanest election in history, we all saw with our own eyes what happened in Atlanta and as you mention, the forensic evidence is overwhelming not to mention that are actually people in jail for voter fraud from the 2020 election. I say we need to aim for truth, not neutrality.
Eric Early just ran for the US Senate and lost to Steve Garvey and Adam Schiff. Amazingly, the reason why he lost as well as the other Democrats in the race is because Adam Schiff decided he wanted Steve Garvey as his opponent in the general election, so he spent prodigious sums of money to convince Republican voters to select Steve Garvey as his opponent. For anyone who thinks that was a mistake, think again. Schiff is beating Garvey by over 20 points.
The bottom line is Republicans are so ineffectual in Ca. that you are having Democrats manipulating races to draw Republican opponents in our jungle primary system. You can blame this on the media or anyone else, but in the final analysis the state Republican Party has to own this. They are a mess and every political pundit in the state knows it.
It's not just politicians like former President Trump and Mr. Early who are fodder. Any issue not in alignment with extreme left ideology is also game for slanted reporting. The pandemic. Transgenderism. Israel. Those three leap to mind.
The link to the "peer reviewed evidence" is broken. Please fix it or point me in the right direction because I honestly want to see any proof of any of these claims. To date I have seen none yet. Also, you try to use an argument from authority, which is a fallacy, by stating that millions of Americans know the election was false. Millions of Americans knowing something doesn't add up to fact. I honestly want to see proof or evidence of any kind, but haven't seen anything yet. I don't like Joe Biden, but I think Trump is a narcissist who looks out for himself first.
Thank you, Justin. The broken link has been corrected in the story. Here it is below:https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/03/28/new_peer-reviewed_research_finds_evidence_of_2020_voter_fraud_147378.html#!
It’s weird. Immediately after that election, there was lots of stuff to be seen: women pulling boxes of ballots from under tables and running them thru the counter multiple times. People pulling up to ballot drop boxes, inserting multiple ballots, then returning several times to do it again. Phone pings if these ballot mules going to one spot to pick up ballots, then distributing them to multiple drop boxes, being sure to take selfies with the ballots fanned out so they could get paid. A truck full of ballots that was stolen. And now we find out illegal immigrants are being handed voter registration forms as part of their welcone package. But I guess nothing is too suspicious about any of that.
I read the article. What strikes me most about it is that we cannot seem to agree on a way forward. Enfranchisement is critical to a democracy. So let's make the vote process easy and secure. Provide a federal identification card to every citizen free of charge, easy to apply and receive, with certain digital cryptographic identity measures built in. Make mail in voting universal, with a robust security check and easy audit measures. We're the most advanced country on earth and you're telling me we can't get this done?
I strongly disagree that mail in voting is a good idea. Until recently we always went to a polling place. Now when the ballot comes in the mail I feel like they have insecurely used the USPS to send something worth more than money; my choice and my freedom. It sits unsecured in my box until I get home.
I agree 1. Citizens vote, no one else. 2. You don’t become a citizen by strolling over our border. 3. The votes are counted in a way EVERYONE can witness. (Right now I have zero visibility into the counting process) 4. There is one day to vote. 5. Absentee ballots are only available for those over seas, or those unable to get to the polls (not sure how to control that)
Ok. But then make voting day a federal holiday. Polling places need to be extremely well staffed and efficient. Nobody should have to wait more than 1 hour to vote. Transportation to and from voting places needs to be provided free of charge. Even poor people should have the right to vote, so accommodate them if you are against mail in voting. (I am not against it. I think it can be done securely).
"Poor people" can volunteer and get paid to be poll workers. Political parties already provide many of the services you demand for election day.
In the very recent past, we had polling places only a few block away from people's homes. Then local governments wanted to "save costs" and eliminated them, then started outsourcing our elections to LA and then moved on to universal vote by mail, which actually decreased political engagement not increased it.
It triggered only corporate ballot-harvesting, which is NOT political engagement - "voting" today is little more than dialing for partisan dollars.
We’ve always had polling places within walking distance. If you can’t walk, you request an absentee ballot.
What is the difference between absentee ballot and mail in voting?
Justin, why are none of you talking about the phony electoral voters who nearly got away with giving their system FALSE information . No Republicans on this site have the honesty to talk about what we actually do know about the many fraudulent attempts of trump, and his ilk to win against the WILL of the American voters. No one until trump came along ever questioned the honesty of our voters…..he and all of you are discussing a problem which only exists in the mind of a LOSER who can’t accept his valid defeats…..trump got defeated because he is a loser. He never wo. The popular vote. Winning against Clinton was a fluke. There is nothing wrong with our voting system EXCEPT in the minds of you who have lost. Did you notice……when Trump won against Clinton, the Democrats did not do what you losers are doing. Think about it…..We did not point to all those extra Republican ballots, etc. etc. You all sound petty and uneducated.
Justin, A single false ballot undermines everyone's right to vote. Don't buy into this "enfranchisement" arguments that supersedes actual ballot integrity argument. NO ONE prevents anyone from registering to vote honestly .
But these current Democrat-pushed recent election gimmicks have create a very leaky system that has undermined election integrity from the start. Too high a price to pay for this bogus "enfranchisement" argument.
Have you ever volunteered to be a poll worker? How leaky is our own county. My last time volunteering was so leaky and sloppy I could not in good conscience go back again. My complaints to the polling place monitor went unheeded.
If it costs money to get an ID, then poor people are prevented from voting. Until you make every step of the process free, there is a de facto poll tax. Also voting day needs to be a federal holiday.
Justin, How much does it cost to get an "ID"? And why. Again, you still have a cartoon version of both "poor people" and our current extremely generous social welfare system. How did all these "poor people" slip through our massive social welfare network?
Justin, You have a cartoon version about "poor people". Which is quite offensive. Did someone feed you this, or do you actually have examples that "poor people" are universally disenfranchised solely by their economic status?
J: I think Justin is right. We have trouble believing just how important a dollar bill is to someone who is truly poor. Do you throw pennies away? I do - I consider them to be a nuisance. That's something a poor person would never do.
If you look at all the polling on Trump since 2016 he has a ceiling of around 46% of the vote. Which means the best he can ever do is win a plurality of the vote but never a majority. The problem for Trump is a majority of the country would vote for anyone else, even if its Biden. That's on Trump, not the media or anyone else.
The polling indicates Americans are very dissatisfied with the choices they have for president. They don't like either candidate. Many voters are casting their votes on the basis of who they dislike the most. We have probably never seen an election where voters are this unhappy with the choices presented to them.
Yes, the media is atrocious but Trump did everything possible to give ammunition to the media to sink him. Even without the media, he is his own worst enemy. The number one reason he lost the 2020 election is because he motivated more Democrats and independents who don't like Trump to vote in numbers we don't ordinarily see. The fact is he ran behind many down-ballot Republicans all over the country. If there was massive cheating it should have affected their numbers too.
Lou, why can't you acknowledge the success Trump had as president? Best economy in years, most secure border, no wars, monumental progress in middle east peace all while the Democrat party worked to undermine every effort. Trump is a great and historic president and should be celebrated for his accomplishments. His personality is similar to other brilliant businessmen that I have known. Some are threatened by successful men.
Jeff, we can discuss how effective Trump was as president but my remarks were more geared toward his electability. Whatever anyone thinks about him and you certainly are presenting the most favorable case for Trump, the fact remains he was not the most electable of the Republican candidates for president. Today, the election is essentially a jump ball between Biden and Trump, and considering Biden's record and his mental incompetence, that is truly remarkable. It may not make any sense to you but the majority of the population don't share your favorable attitude toward Trump; in fact there are literally millions of people who absolutely loathe him.
As for Nancy Freeman, no I don't think I will hook up with her. She wouldn't like the fact the I am going to vote for him.
I have heard the blah blah blah that Nikki Haley would do better against Biden. That is bullshit. She could only win one state narrowly in the primaries. If she is unpopular with her own party she could not win the general election. Republicans would not be motivated and poor turnout would lose the election.
Let's talk on Nov 6, 2024 to see if you're right.
Maybe you and Nancy Freeman could hook-up.