I’m not sure if the Luntz take is more Shakespearean or more Freudian, but yikes either way.
Check out Jon Stewart’s assessment of Tapper. It’s spot on. I had to turn Jake off today as it was disappointing that he spent the majority of The Lead shilling for his book.
I heard Jon Stewart rightly ripped him. And Jon Stewart was right way back when he went on Crossfire and said they were the problem. It's all those guys (the crossfire types who built their worth through division) who created the spectacle and are now like, what? me? no. High time for a slap.
Albeit a rhetorical slap(s) 😄. That being said I can’t get the scene out of my head from the movie Airplane, where about a dozen people are all queued up to slap the hysterical passenger.
I dunno. Sometimes I suspect there’s something in the drinking water…some have taken stupid to historic lows. Anyway. excellent Substacking from you 😊
Johanna, brilliant insights. Lutz is an opportunist preying on people's fears by legitimizing and agreeing to normalize the lowest common denominator of our primitive tribal impulses and cynically agreeing to toss them into the middle of our political discourse purely for profit. But let's face it. This nation is now on the precipice of autocracy and Trump is the symptom of a bigger problem of citizen disengagement and the systematic undermining of the common good social contract we once took for granted as the path toward building a just society for all. So, time for each of us, to shed our conventional biases and to step up and “be the change.” For more information about the choice awaiting us in the critical and historic November 3rd, 2026 midterms, I hope all of us now engage with and attend meetings with our LOCAL Democratic Party. I'm sure they would appreciate and find strength from your face-to-face input. And, I hope we focus on finding serious, forward-thinking folks to challenge EVERY Republican in every Congressional and State Legislative District across this beautiful, but fragile nation. Find your local Democratic organization at www.democrats.org
It's just funny to me that he goes on Newsom's podcast to say he's a man without a home in a party when he helped build the modern GOP... He just doesn't like the outcome. That said I think anyone who is involved and wants to make progress is someone I would engage, Republicans or Democrats or Independents. Some have reasons for their allegiance, my hope is that it's just first and foremost to our country and not dividing us further.
I’m not sure if the Luntz take is more Shakespearean or more Freudian, but yikes either way.
Check out Jon Stewart’s assessment of Tapper. It’s spot on. I had to turn Jake off today as it was disappointing that he spent the majority of The Lead shilling for his book.
I heard Jon Stewart rightly ripped him. And Jon Stewart was right way back when he went on Crossfire and said they were the problem. It's all those guys (the crossfire types who built their worth through division) who created the spectacle and are now like, what? me? no. High time for a slap.
Albeit a rhetorical slap(s) 😄. That being said I can’t get the scene out of my head from the movie Airplane, where about a dozen people are all queued up to slap the hysterical passenger.
I dunno. Sometimes I suspect there’s something in the drinking water…some have taken stupid to historic lows. Anyway. excellent Substacking from you 😊
LOL.
Johanna, brilliant insights. Lutz is an opportunist preying on people's fears by legitimizing and agreeing to normalize the lowest common denominator of our primitive tribal impulses and cynically agreeing to toss them into the middle of our political discourse purely for profit. But let's face it. This nation is now on the precipice of autocracy and Trump is the symptom of a bigger problem of citizen disengagement and the systematic undermining of the common good social contract we once took for granted as the path toward building a just society for all. So, time for each of us, to shed our conventional biases and to step up and “be the change.” For more information about the choice awaiting us in the critical and historic November 3rd, 2026 midterms, I hope all of us now engage with and attend meetings with our LOCAL Democratic Party. I'm sure they would appreciate and find strength from your face-to-face input. And, I hope we focus on finding serious, forward-thinking folks to challenge EVERY Republican in every Congressional and State Legislative District across this beautiful, but fragile nation. Find your local Democratic organization at www.democrats.org
It's just funny to me that he goes on Newsom's podcast to say he's a man without a home in a party when he helped build the modern GOP... He just doesn't like the outcome. That said I think anyone who is involved and wants to make progress is someone I would engage, Republicans or Democrats or Independents. Some have reasons for their allegiance, my hope is that it's just first and foremost to our country and not dividing us further.