How many times have I been low on information but high on opinion? I know I like the sound of my voice; does that count as information?

As in science, history is a process of inquiry and validation, that we use to understand reality both past and present, to help guide our future.

For someone who’s complaining about lies, you really tell a lot of them. I afraid you’re more deranged than the people you’re talking about. I totally disagree with you. You are preaching a lot of intolerant nonsense.

Good discussion. I definitely identify with the political fatigue mentioned here. I look around and find it beyond daunting when I look at the institutions that are captured with toxic ideology. Ultimately we might be able to make small changes locally but as long as academia stays the way it is - I see very little improving or changing. The most frustrating thing about all of this is the large scale cowardice from so many people - most specifically when it comes to race issues. So many people are just terrified of talking about race openly and honestly . White liberals specifically

Yeah, the phrase; suck it up; triggered some 28yo soy-child a couple weeks ago. I’ve never seen so many emotionally unstable, hormonal individuals before 2010. This curriculum has been successful in destroying a nation. We probably have 1.5 generations before a civil war and this weakness is purged.

I am sorry my previous comment wan't clear that is part of why I didn't make it at the time, more on that soon... and much per this show, but most importantly the patholigization of which you speak, the wedge between parent and child, is right in line with plenty of roughly documented think tank planning to dismantle the family, to alienate...

Following from Adelaide Australia ♥️ Are we awake now🕊

I saw the title "the radical center" and liked the sound of that, so I clicked on the video. You gave no introduction, no context, nothing to let me know what the heck you're talking about. Not a good way to gain new viewers. Bye.

XX = XX and XY = XY. An XX can never become XY and vice versa. And forget about non binary. That's the biggest BS ever.

Basically, misogyny colors every role men and women have, and men can't allow women to live full lives without feeling and acting "emasculated". This is the turning point for men, where they should look at what makes men masculine WITHOUT feeling the need to devalue and enslave women. How can you be a man and still consider women to be fully human? Men have a big job ahead of them. Women have already redefined themselves, now men have to redefine themselves. The whole "saint/monster" dichotomy isn't working.

Leslie: "Do you eat cats?" Me, sprays coffee on computer laughing

Outstanding episode. I love love love this podcast and it's actually encouraging. You ladies are the thinking person's The View

Love the new title- great suggestion by a viewer, endorsed by me humbly. ❤ We all need a dose of sanity, and spending time listening to Leslie and the ladies is a real pleasure.

"My light is whiter than yours"

I laugh-cried through all of am I racist. I saw the movie outside of Boston and although it was a small theater it was half full which was a decent turnout imo. All I have to say is my favorite part was matt mistaking a bikers t shirt to say vegetarian when it did not say that. Embarrassing how long I laughed at that.

Yes! The gaslighting of everything is overwhelming and DOES feel abusive.

every Monday (the last two or three at least) the title of these hits me like a literally metaphorical, gastric, analogy bypass truck to the feelings. …I feel like [one of the things that] I'm trying to do lately is do improvised sanity testing on everyone around me (incl. myself?), which is probably not a sane way to live. I'd much rather talk to someone than listen to this, but I'm gonna leave this comment as a note to myself and listen now anyway. Monday's don't suck.

Oh Cari, I've said before and I'll say it again, I could just listen to you all day! If you have your own channel, please list it here so we can follow it❤

One final change idea: Because politics follows culture, one can try to start an alternative cultural organization/infrastructure, which is what Ben Shapiro/DW is doing. But even for him (and he's been quitesuccessful he says he grosses 220mm a year) this is a generational project. It's gonna take time. Next to the big studios, he's small.

Solutions at scale? Top down: Elon-ish money (and courage) can help from the information-ecosystem side, with everything else (including mental health/education) there's the regulatory bodies bc that's who everyone has to be in compliance with. Bottom up: there's social media/going viral/speaking out as you are doing. But yes, you have to work against people's fear. And most people have kids and a mortgage. Bottom line: It's incredibly, INCREDIBLY hard to produce large scale change. However, I want to emphasize how impactful your speaking out has been for me, personally. I've recommended everyone on this podcast to everyone I know! And I want to express my gratitude for that :)

Another Top Sanity Check! Touched on some great points. Why were euro-americans taught to despise their past and how we were all convinced to idolize the exotic cultures of others. Plenty of space to get into hippies, drugs, cults and more... Great chat ladies! See you next week!

You might want to listen to Triggernomitry's interview with Nial Furgeouson who is intimately acquainted with WW2 Churchill etc and Tucker's judgment. It appears that we here are unaware of essential and historical facts.

I saw that-or a similar- article. It was something like “Two parent households are a threat to equality”. Just…. wtf.

I counsel Domestic Violence victims for the agency I work for and her analogy is exactly right. Gaslighting, manipulation, deflection, victim blaming, all of it.. is part and parcel of emotional abuse. I'm a victim/survivor of DV and it's one of the reasons I feel this stuff in my BONES..

Thank you ladies, for another interesting discussion. The fact that most of the characters within the movie, have disabled / blocked their X accounts, shows unwilling to stand behind opinions.

First.

I have heard from I can't remember who that right and left, politically, stemmed from describing legislators based upon their position in some european house, I believe it was british or french...

My family and I just toured the Bureau of Engraving and Printing today in Washington, D.C., and we were informed by our queer (possibly FTM trans) tour guide that they will in fact be removing Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill and replacing him with Harriet Tubman in 2025.

I didn’t watch the Andrew Tate interview because I had no interest. I’ve watched a lot of Tucker interviews and actually enjoy him (and his goofy laugh) except LATELY as the election draws closer he’s getting a lot more partisan-ly nasty-which I don’t care for.

I listened to that interview on Tucker too and I felt as you Leslie. I didn’t find the guy inappropriate. I went back and listened to it a second time after the kerfuffle and still don’t get it. My historical knowledge is limited so maybe that’s why I feel that way?

Matt Walsh is extremely bad at what he's attempting to do - his "targets" do not expose anything they would not publicly say in any other situation, his entire stick is manipulative editing and stupid faces. Tucker Carlson is anything, but credible, enough to see his Russian market clip, that the Tenet Media's benefactors loved so much. And that "historian" guy is a Holocaust denier, period. You claim not to be on the right, yet somehow you praise or defend some of the worst guys the right has to offer...

I recommend listening to Dave Smith's recent interview with Darryl Cooper. Darryl explains his controversial tweet about the Olympics and he basically says that he chose that imagery to explain to gravity of the situation. He said if he compared it to Satan, it wouldn't be as impactful because Satan isn't seen as that bad of a thing in today's culture. But for a lot of people, the Nazis and Hitler are their Satan which is why he chose to make that comparison.

Watching and listening to you ladies slowly venture out of the media bubble you've been in is both entertaining and encouraging.

It seems to me that the ppl complaining about the Cooper interview are the woke right and are projecting... woke like controlling and complaining about who is platformed, and that's what they are doing. I think Tucker is just having conversations... he's letting his guest be themselves and is letting the watcher draw their own conclusions. Given the Tate stuff, I think it would be beneficial for ppl to look further into the ppl Tucker has on... but that is true about anyone you see being interviewed.

I’d shrug it off, maybe chuckle. That’s it.

Robin DiAngelo was paid $15K…minus the 30 bucks she gave Matt’s producer in “reparations.”

Jen, I have noticed that Tucker has fallen prey to this new push among male Millennial influencers about defining masculinity for younger men --- trying to convince them they need to be so-called alpha males, traditional males. Andrew Tate pushes that stuff, and I suspect that is probably why Tucker was taken with him.

Deb, when Tucker got his own show at Fox in 2016, half of his guests were from the left. But several years into the show one his regular liberal guests falsely, outrageously, accused him of sexual harassment and sued him. She was very stupid and annoying. Kathy Areu. After that he stopped having these liberals on. As I recall, the case was ultimately thrown out. And then I think Areu was charged with stealing like $300,000 from her mother --- something like that.

Jen, you'd look great in a turtleneck --- olive green, emerald green, forest green, or a warm brown. Try it out this winter.

Good show today ladies. Good mix of lettuce.

Oh gosh, tossed salad. You guys 😂😂😂

Apropos of this conversation, I note that CNN is blaming J. D. Vance and "his rhetoric" for threats received by hospitals and other facilities in Springfield, OH....this relates to discussions of Haitian immigrants and pet predation. Springfield's mayor is saying something along the same lines. It seems that the topic became topical owing to the testimony of numerous Sprinfield residents in the context of a City Council meeting, which was likely attended by said mayor. That meeting was video recorded, do any news outlet interested in getting at the truth of statements made by Trump/Vance can easily access it. On to topic of Darryl Cooper's assessment of Churchill, his thesis is not new. Pat Buchanin published the same findings 20 years ago, and the historian A.P. Taylor did same years before that. Not saying that any of these parties are right, just that there seems to be room for discussion. James Lindsay's assessment of these remarks as being part and parcel of the rise of Right Woke'ism just seemed dumb and ill-informed to me; and maybe self-serving.

Leslie i dont think you could be more wrong about Tucker. Jennifer and Debra are too mild in challenging you. Tucker is an extemist who manages to wriggle out of any stance people try to pin on him. He is a major sleaze. To know a man look at the type of people he continually associates with.

In regards to Darrell Cooper. It doesnt matter how measured he sounds. Its not about tone but about facts. And his take is ahistorical. It does not line up with known fact. Listen to historians like Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson. They are experts in the era he is talking about. They point out glaring errors in his points.

I watched Tucker segments for a while on Fox, before he started down the Alex Jones path (probably for clicks). He started peddling conspiracies, and then UFO's.. That's when I bailed. Then Fox fired him. And it seems he's gone down hill from there. Shame, because he seems like a nice fella. r/EW

I saw Am I Racist? this weekend. It was funny!

Technically, the right kind of "hate" is good - if it's based on truth, goodness and beauty. 36:00

I'm fond of James Lindsey, but he frequently adopts some bad takes and he's an arrogant SOB sometimes. But, if I were as smart as him, I'd often be arrogant too. I watched that Tucker interview too, although provocative, it wasn't terribly out of line 🐿

It's okay to say you're a Liberal who deliberately behaves conservative . A well rounded liberal arts education in insists there are customs courtesies and culture worth preserving. 🐿

*non-exhaustive list of people I currently do not trust:* carlson cooper maddow gross limbaugh (still alive?) colbert stewart noah hijab dawah harris harris tyson cruise miscavage (sp?) fuentes de generes lemon conway kelly pitt schwarzenegger musk de beauvoir (deceased) wyatt sharpton benjamin trump rao jackson pritzker trudeau pence cortez the ramsays king mandela goodspaceguy murphy king jayapal heisei (imperator emeritus japoniae) reiwa (current 天皇); the current pope, the current dalai lama; whoever is the Russian Orthodox muckymuck; putin zelensky whoever's the president of mexico; xi whoever holds high office in Malaysia, Indonesia, Fiji, the Philippines, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Hungary, Turkmenistan, Croatia, Montenegro, Monaco, Cyprus, Malta, India, Muslim India (Pakistan and Bangladesh and huge swaths of Bharat), Turkey, Finland, Sierra Leone, New Zealand, Spain, Congo (both), the states of Dakota (both), Carolina (both), Rhode Island, Oregon, Washinton; the territories of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, cetera; anyone in important positions of influence in any international organization of any kind; not to forget: several members of my family, several of my neighbors, and several parts of my own mind.