Opinion Editor
@Newsweek
. Author: "Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy" & "Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women"
I am so thrilled to share that you can now pre-order my new book, "Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women," which comes out on April 2. I cannot wait for you to meet the incredible Americans who shared their stories with me.
“I would never rape you because you do not deserve it.” - Jair Bolsonaro
“If I see two men kissing in the street, I will hit them.” - Jair Bolsonaro
“I would not be able to love a gay son. I would rather he die in an accident." - Jair Bolsonaro
Congratulations to Brazil’s new President Bolsonaro. It’s great to have another U.S.-friendly leader in South America, who will join the fight against dictatorships in Venezuela and Cuba, and who clearly understands the danger of China’s expanding influence in the region.
This is my grandad, Willy Ungar, on his wedding day. A survivor, he lost his whole family to Hitler. Then God sent my grandmother and her huge Indian family, who adored him. On Sunday I'll be celebrating his 99th birthday with him. Here's to beating the Nazis. Life is a miracle.
I just don't know how these people making $100K a year look people in the face who change seniors' bedpans for a living or drive a truck or work the railroad or stock grocery shelves or deliver their Amazon packages and say, "You, yes you, give me $10K." I just don't get it.
The New York Times spent thousands and thousands of words and dollars to uncover the truth about Tucker Carlson: that he uses his platform to talk about the class divide and immigration depressing working class wages, views any Democrat would have proudly endorsed 15 years ago.
My God, just when you think they can't go lower: A bodega owner who defended himself from an ex-con is in Rikers on $250K bail. It's not enough to let career criminals loose—if you don't submit to their attacks, YOU will go to jail. The absolute depravity.
Being part of elite liberal media means calling it "fascism" when the working-class folks who brought the food to your door during the plague so you could sit at home in your pajamas typing "STOP THE SPREAD STAY HOME" on Twitter dare to speak up for themselves against your edicts
We're in this cycle where stuff ordinary Americans know is true—COVID is endemic, lockdowns hurt the most vulnerable, Hunter lost his laptop—is vociferously denied by politicians and journalists and censored by Big Tech, and when the truth comes out, the elites change the subject
I ride the subway a lot. Not a week goes by that a mentally ill person doesn't get on and terrorize the entire car—especially women, especially Asians. Usually the men just sit there and pretend it's not happening. It's a disgrace that working New Yorkers have to live like this.
Trump says immigrants are taking "Black jobs."
Reality check: There are no Black jobs, because there is not any kind of racial requirement for employment. Black people have all kinds of jobs from vice president to hedge fund bro to journalist and so on.
During a Democratic primary debate in 2019, the candidates were asked to raise a hand if they supported decriminalizing illegal border crossing. Nearly every single one did—including Joe Biden. Now they want you to pretend they didn't go ahead and immediately do it.
I simply cannot fathom the moral rot in someone's soul that leads them to win an award for a movie about the Holocaust and with the platform given to them, to accept that award by saying, "We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness."
Being rich means being a better person, get it?
We don't have a political divide, we have a class divide. So many in the elite cannot fathom that their fellow Americans aren't bad people, they just don't have enough disposable income for vanity morals.
.
@StephenAtHome
: "Today, the average gas price in America hit an all-time record high of over $4/gallon. OK, that stings, but a clean conscience is worth a buck or two. It’s important. I’m willing to pay $4/gallon. Hell, I’ll pay $15 a gallon b/c I drive a Tesla"
Claudine Gay is not some mistake Harvard made. A serial plagiarist with no moral compass is the apotheosis of higher ed. Our universities aren't institutes of learning but places where affluent progressives confer plaudits on each other—then render everyone else second class.
After decades of being abandoned by the Left, workers across the world organized the most effective working class protest in recent memory demanding the right to work on their own terms. The response from liberal elites like this Harvard prof/CNN contributor? "Slash their tires."
The convoy protest, applauded by right wing media as a "freedom protest," is an economic and security issue now. The Ambassador Bridge link constitutes 28% of annual trade movement between US and Canada. Slash the tires, empty gas tanks, arrest the drivers, and move the trucks ✔️
What's wild about this call is there is nothing about the American people—it's all how proud the Obamas are of Harris and how grateful and excited she is. It's a performance of celebrity friendship replacing politics, policy, or any thought of the struggling American electorate.
I’m so proud of my girl, Kamala. Barack and I are so excited to endorse her as the Democratic nominee because of her positivity, sense of humor, and ability to bring light and hope to people all across the country. We’ve got your back,
@KamalaHarris
!
"Critical race theory—which isn't real—turned the suburbs 15 points" is the new "Why is the working class voting against their economic interests"—the kind of sneering view that casts your political opponents as impenetrably stupid rubes who've been hoodwinked by your competition
The scenes of cops clearing Intifada Revolutionary wannabees from campuses are the starkest images I've ever seen of the hard work and discipline of America's working class juxtaposed against the self indulgent narcissism and oppression envy of the credentialed privileged caste.
If you spent your whole life trying, you couldn't come up with a better illustration of woke progressivism as smokescreen for class that perpetuates inequality than the progressive avatar at the pinnacle of conspicuous consumption being feted with a cheeky slogan across her back.
The NYT spent the weekend trying to convince you that there is a moral equivalency between three-years-olds snatched by butchers who murdered their parents and people who tried to commit such atrocities but weren't as successful. However much you hate the media, it's not enough.
This "disfigured woman" is a car bomber who, having blown herself up in a an attempt to kill Israelis, demanded that Israelis pay for her plastic surgeries. This is how The New York Times covered her release.
It is possible to admire President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people's bravery, resilience, and fortitude in the face of a malevolent, godless foe while also recognizing that his interests are not our interests, his fight is not our fight, and his requests should not be granted.
"Twitter is awash in Republicans outraged about our allies in Afghanistan who we should have evacuated before we left. But it is Trump—and his advisor Stephen Miller—who are the reason so many Afghan interpreters are stuck in Afghanistan," writes
@funder
:
Nearly every legacy media outlet in the country eagerly swallowed a blood libel peddled by baby mutilating butchers just weeks after they committed a massacre because it allowed these "journalists" to recast Jews as the perpetrators instead of the victims. Just let that sink in.
Oof. Looks like both Rep. Omar and Rep. Tlaib shared this awful Carlos Latuff cartoon in Instagram stories yesterday. In 2006, Latuff came in second in Iran's International Holocaust Cartoon Contest, which is a thing that exists, in case you thought the TL couldn't get any worse.
Being pro-Trump has lost its taboo, even in Dem circles. The tides have turned, the has vibe shifted; the sincerity that was lame and cringe is now retro, hot. Hipsters for Trump! Gangsters for Trump! Your parents’ favorite band is back on the radio! Normies of the world, unite!
When they ask for "context" to understand 40 babies slaughtered, decapitated, and set on fire in their cribs, they are asking you to relinquish your humanity.
These animals executed a woman and her babies and are now torturing her husband and using him to create a Sophie's Choice for Israel so they can survive to do it again. We will never forgive or forget those who defended these animals or cast doubt on the pure evil they manifest.
Hamas just released a video of Yarden Bibas in captivity weeping over his murdered wife and babies. You can find it online, I won’t post this psychological warfare.
These are not human beings.
We will never forgive and never forget those who on October 7 flipped from "Believe all women" to "Surely these noble freedom fighters who told us they mass raped Jewish women were lying."
"I saw this beautiful woman with eight or ten of the fighters beating and raping her.
"She was screaming, 'Stop it—I’m going to die anyway from what you are doing, just kill me!'"
They were laughing. The last one shot her in the head.
Savages.
For years, certain people demanded we replace due process with "Believe all women." These same people, when presented with evidence of the mass rape of Israeli women, now demand "context." Believe all women became don't believe the confessions of rapists—if their victims are Jews
Justice Amy Coney Barrett is literally the feminist dream come true. It's so funny to me to see these so called feminists cosplaying as sex slaves, acting out a dystopian fantasy to protest an actual feminist icon because she happens to be conservative.
Oh wow this hero - Abdul Aziz, a father of four - ran towards the murderer, trying to draw his attention away from the other worshippers. Unbelievable bravery and selflessness. Wow.
I can't get past this line: "Radio is essentially dead aside from NPR." Talk radio is thriving. 8 in 10 Americans listen to the radio. But because the vast majority of talk radio is conservative and its audience is working class, it simply does not exist to leftist journalists.
NEW - WaPo's Taylor Lorenz: "Pretty much the entire digital media ecosystem that myself and a lot of other millennial journalists came up in has been completely hollowed out."
Elite liberal media types want Joe Rogan banned for the same reason they call anti-mandate truckers fascists—both speak for millions of working class people who were abandoned when liberals got rich and woke. Rather than confront this, they silence or smear anyone who exposes it.
Justin Trudeau is the face of liberal authoritarianism. He flies around the globe lecturing people about climate change & human rights—meanwhile at home, he has political prisoners languishing in prison for the crime of taking part in nonviolent protests like the Freedom Convoy.
It's nice to see bipartisan support for Jews but this congressional bill to expand the definition of antisemitism is bad for the U.S. and bad for Jews. This country was literally founded on the idea that there should be no government reprisals for speech, including hate speech.
Have you noticed the Democrats aren't upset about inflation or the open border or the exorbitant cost of housing—only Biden's inability to lie about these problems convincingly? It's the same problem they have with Kamala Harris—and it gets to the heart of who the Democrats are.
A white millionaire lecturing a Black man about racism, a man whose grandfather was illiterate, a man who was stopped by police 7 times in a single year because he got a new car, is peak wokeness.
It's astonishing that someone who makes $174,000 a year isn't embarrassed to ask working class taxpayers to pay off her law school debt. At least they're honest: $50,000 in student loan forgiveness is a bail out for highly educated elites, and the Squad are their patron saints.
Rep.
@RashidaTlaib
: "I worked full time, Monday through Friday, and took weekend classes to get my law degree. And still, close to $200,000 in debt. And I still owe over $70,000 and most of it was interest."
This Muslim woman in a hijab who intervened to protect an Orthodox Jewish family from anti-Semitic abuse, *after* the man hurling the abuse *at a child* threatened to punch someone for trying to stop it, is a hero. I'm in awe of her courage and her valor. Eshet chayil mi yimza.
Around noon I witnessed appalling anti Semitic abuse towards this Jewish Family on the northern line. Fair play to other passengers who stood up to him. If you recognise the guy please report to
@metpoliceuk
Maybe have a little humility before you tell a working class person that it is the human right of a mentally ill drug addicted person wearing no pants to scream in their face and wildly gesticulate at them every other day while they try to get to work so they can feed their kids.
I was once pretty woke. I get asked a lot what started my unwokening. It was a 2018 Yale study that found that white liberals—unlike white conservatives—dumb down their vocabulary when talking to people of color. I remember thinking: And we call them the racists?!
Can you imagine being a person who gets paid to sit in their homes and write things for a living smearing people who drive 16 hour shifts, destroying their bodies so the rest of us can eat? Have some goddamn respect. Have some humility for the ease of the life God gave you.
I was thrilled to get to talk with
@TuckerCarlson
last night about how the media has abandoned the working class and uses wokeness to wage a culture war that benefits elites. He asked where we go from here? I said Americans need to relearn how to respect people we disagree with.
This is a public service.
@AOC
is not only standing up for herself - which is hard enough when you're a woman - but she's actually standing up for the press by demanding that we do our job right. Bad form,
@thehill
,
@POLITICO
,
@nypost
.
I actually didn’t say this, so while I know “brown women cursing” drives clicks, maybe you accurately quote the whole exchange instead of manipulating people into thinking I said this sentence instead of just the word “zero.”
American journalists once saw their jobs as demanding justice from those in power on behalf of the little guy. Today, elite journalists at leading newspapers see their job as representing state power and demanding to know why the little guy would dare resist government overreach.
The Washington Post is contacting people whose donation info was leaked and who gave as little as 40 dollars to the truckers to ask them why they did so
Email provided to me by a source
Riding in an Uber in DC, the driver, an immigrant from Africa, asks me what I do. I say journalist. He says, "You'll never guess the only thing I listen to." I say, "Steve Bannon's War Room." He whips out a photo of himself and Bannon smiling in a gas station. "How'd you know?!"
I heard testimony tonight from a Nova festival survivor who escaped and hid from the terrorists in a bike shop bathroom in Be'eri. On the other side of the door she heard Hamas torturing people for hours—men, women, children, the elderly. She heard people screaming, people
"White Rural Rage" is leftist elite cope. They abandoned the multi racial working class and now call them racist to justify it. It's a slander on this great nation. Really enjoyed doing Steve Bannon's War Room!
AOC wouldn't condemn Hamas's butchery from her personal Twitter until she found an Israeli saying vile things to compare it to. Rep Tlaib refused to condemn the butchering of babies—while Harvard students blamed Israel. I'm glad to see it all. These are the death throes wokeness.
In the lead up to what we're told every day is the most important election of our lives, the New York Times hasn't run a single OpEd by someone voting for Trump, as far as I can tell (correct me if I'm wrong). What an absolute failure on the part of the former paper of record.
Would love to know who
@IlhanMN
thinks is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel, though I think I can guess. Bad form, Congresswoman. That's the second anti-Semitic trope you've tweeted.
When faced with a journalist doing ACTUAL JOURNALISM, asking the President of the United States to clarify what he meant when he said the U.S. would meet a chemical attack "in kind," Colbert's response is to mock the reporter for not being cool and advocate violence against him.
I'm happy to cede the word woke. Just tell me what to call views like Defund the Police or open the border or SATs are white supremacy, which flatter affluent liberals at the expense of working class people of all races. I will debate these views in whatever terms are acceptable.
Note how the
@nytimes
isn't just minimizing Susan Sarandon's blatantly antisemitic comments but turns her anti-Jewish racism into virtue. Whenever you think these sociopaths can't go any lower, they always manage to surprise you. However much you hate the media, it's not enough.
As a Jew, the thought of women's hair coming out of a concentration camp fills me with such deep and intense horror. What the Chinese are doing to the Uyghyrs is unconscionable, from reeducation to forced detention to forced sterilization and now this. We can't look away.
“If this highly suspicious, 13-ton shipment of human hair indeed turns out to be linked to the Uyghur concentration camps, then this is a new low — even for the Chinese Communist Party..." -- NSC spokesperson John Ullyot
It's not just ridiculous to have an entire convention based on vibes. It is an utter OUTRAGE. The American people deserve to know how you're going to improve their lives materially. "Celebs love me and Trump is bad" is not gonna cut it! My take on Harris's DNC speech
@TheFP
:
“It is an insult to have an entire convention and not have any policy... Instead, all we get is ‘for the people’ and we're supposed to take that on faith. ”
@BUngarSargon
reviews Kamala's DNC speech tonight on The Free Press
#LIVE
.
4 times ACO was asked how Israel should handle Hamas after its brutal atrocities. She didn't have a single answer. If you're calling for a ceasefire and have NO ALTERNATIVE response in mind, you're saying there should be no price for spilling Jewish blood in the most heinous way.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spends almost three minutes trying to explain her calls for a "ceasefire" after Hamas terrorists brutally massacred innocent Israelis and it does not go well
Legacy media used to use its massive resources to expose government corruption; now they use them to protect the administration from embarrassment and criticism, to expose anonymous Twitter accounts, to smear the competition as racists if they dare expose the class divide.
On
@CNN
,
@VanJones68
makes a really important point: A lot of young people with big debt, in real pain, see in
@BernieSanders
their champion. If it's over for Sanders, it's crucial for the winning campaign not to crow but to turn to them, embrace them, and address that pain.
If both sides have a rhetoric problem, how come only one person is getting shot? A third of Democrats wish Trump was killed; they project their own bloodlust onto MAGA—and then, because victimhood is currency to them, they envy the status of the victim of their rhetoric.
If you're having trouble understanding how some on the far Left—including some US Congresswomen—can't distinguish between the butchers of babies and those trying to stop them, it's because the woke mind virus replaces right v. wrong with a racialized view of powerful v. powerless
But if you're part of the ruling class like the NYT, you don't want anyone exposing the vast chasm separating you from the people you pretend to represent. So having uncovered that Tucker talks endlessly about the class divide, they color caring about inequality as "racism."
Just six years after the feminist movement made flirting at the office into the civil rights cause of our time, they turned around and asked, "Does driving nails into women's vagina's really count as rape?" — because the victims were Jews.
My favorite Roger Stone story is that he was released on $250,000 bail so now he's back home, while Kalief Browder's bail was set at $3,000 which he could not pay, so he spent 3 years in jail for a crime he did not commit and then took his own life. Rest in Power.
Canada is now officially arresting dissidents. A country that considers itself a democracy arresting people for the crime of organizing a mass grassroots nonviolent protest should horrify each and every one of you. Surely we can all agree on that, whatever side of this you're on.
It's pretty amazing that liberal elites started out by smearing the striking truckers as fascists—and ended up cheering on actual fascistic measures against them. They called the truckers a threat to democracy—then cheered when their civil liberties were stolen from them.
I am deeply grateful to
@brianstelter
for having me on
@CNN
to talk about the failures of the liberal mainstream media. Real kudos to CNN, which spent the week analyzing some of this on other shows, too.
Noa Argamani is a blatant example of what to the Left doesn't exist—an innocent Israeli—so her horrific abduction was erased and her rescue is mourned. Meanwhile, the "journalist" and "doctor" who held 3 other Israelis hostage are recast as the true victims "targeted" by Israel.
Jared Kushner, just back from Saudi Arabia, tells
@MariaBartiromo
on
@FoxNews
that Saudi leadership is still interested in joining the Abraham Accords. This is huge—further proof that support for Israel's war against Hamas is how you AVOID WWIII, contrary to what you have heard.
If you told me 10 years ago that it would be the Right protecting women's sports and the Left selling women out, I would not have believed you! Just 17% of Americans believe trans athletes should be allowed to compete against women and girls—why are the Democrats defending this?
There's a parallel between Chris Cuomo's downfall and Andrew Cuomo's: It was sexual misconduct, not sending seniors to their deaths, that brought down Andrew—and it was advising Andrew on sexual misconduct, not failing to report the deaths of seniors, that brought down Chris.
There's a lot to criticize about the campus protests, but the real outrage is that the Democrats' entire economic platform is an upward transfer of wealth from hard-working working-class Americans into the bank accounts of people paying $90,000 a year to LARP in midriff kafiyas.
President Biden: "Today, my Administration is approving $6.1 billion in student debt cancellation for 317,000 borrowers who attended the Art Institutes."
It's just so appalling. Remember how they made "economic anxiety" into a dogwhistle? They literally made it racist to bring up how many Americans are struggling, how precarious even middle class American lives are today. Wokeness is a smokescreen for liberal class privilege.
If only the perpetrators of this violence were carrying signs and flags and screaming at their victims about why they were attacking them, Vox might be able to crack this impenetrable code, figure out this riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma!
The
@TheBabylonBee
got it right: VP Harris has chosen Tim Walz as her running mate. It's a dark day for American Jews. There was only one reason to have passed over Josh Shapiro: The Democrats would rather lose with antisemitic progressives than win with moderate normies.
First they shipped the jobs overseas, then they opened the border to mass immigration, now they sue companies that try to hire Americans. They have dropped all pretenses and are now literally suing companies for the crime of prioritizing American workers. Just let that sink in.
The dustup over Joe Rogan is not about "misinformation." It's about the class divide—the pajama set believing they have the right to dictate from the safety of their homes the beliefs of the people who braved the plague—who they hold in contempt. Thank you
@kilmeade
for having me
We don't know enough to judge what happened to Jordan Neely, but lots of people who don't live in New York and lots of people who don't ride the subway have a lot of opinions on this and they need to take a seat. It's working class New Yorkers who have to face down this violence.
Justin Trudeau is the face of liberal authoritarianism. He loves to fly around (in a private jet!) lecturing people about climate change and human rights while he imprisons political opponents and freezes their bank accounts. Thanks
@LizMacDonaldFOX
for having me on
@EveningEdit
!
Of all the choices, J.D. Vance stands out as the pick of a candidate deeply serious about enacting a lasting populist vision for America. Trump gave up demographic points for a pro-worker anti-war partner in policy—someone to take his vision to the next generation. A great pick.
I've spoken to many liberals in the past few weeks who mistakenly believed that Rittenhouse killed Black men. While most media outlets didn't outright say it like the Independent, they managed to convey the impression with phrases like "white supremacist." Our media is so broken.
"Get caught with an illegal gun, get released without bail. Shove an elderly person to the ground, attack someone because they are Asian, a slap on the wrist. But defend yourself and your business from a man who attacks you, and Bragg sends you to Rikers."
This takes subterfuge. They have to hide the fact that Tucker is the most watched show by Democrats. It takes chutzpah. The NYT didn't run a single oped by a Trump voter in the run up to the election, yet complains that the leftists Tucker has on ALSO care about class—the horror!
It's the 7th night of Chanukkah. There have been 10 anti-Semitic attacks this week. Five Jews were stabbed with a machete tonight celebrating the holiday of lights. America, it's time to decide who you want to be.
The Democrats are calling Trump & Vance "weird" to hide the fact that all of Trump's positions—from immigration to trade to entitlements to gay marriage to abortion—have over 60% support among the American people. That's who the Democrats really think is weird—average Americans.
To Democrats, Trump is an extremist. But to his supporters, he's a liberal—and they love that about him. On abortion, on trade, on immigration, on gay marriage, Trump's positions were the positions of Democrats in the 90s. Thank you so much
@RealTimers
@billmaher
for having me!
All these college educated lefty blue checks out here dunking on Mayor Adams for daring to point out that when they stay home in their pajamas, working-class New Yorkers lose their income. This is how they do it: police his language to erase the existence of the working class.
A lot of people are waking up to the fact that our universities are pro-Hamas woke mind virus factories. The thing to keep in mind is nearly every journalist in America is university educated, many at elite universities, where they were inculcated into that exact same mindset.
Why does no one ever make any demands of Hamas? Why does Qatar still have the status of a major non- NATO ally when it's harboring Hamas leadership? Why did we just renew the lease on an airbase in Doha for the next 10 years? Why does the Left have nothing to say about Hamas?
"How much of an elitist do you have to be not to give a damn about the cruelty of demanding we blue collar workers who didn't go to college chip in to pay off student loans that we didn't take out?" asks
@metal_gear88
about the plan to
#CancelStudentDebt
:
"I am a dual citizen of the United States of America and Israel," Hersch was forced to say just before Hamas murdered him with zero fear that there would be any repercussions from the US.
It's supposed to mean something to be an American. We all let this boy and his family down
The evil jihadi psychopaths have released a video of Hersh filmed just before they’re executed him.
They made this poor boy recite a propaganda script before begging for his life.
A student at Smith got a janitor put on leave and a security officer tarred as racist, both of whom make less than her $78,000 yearly tuition, because she insisted on eating in a deserted dorm she wasn't meant to be in. Wokeness is a smokescreen for class.
If you blamed violent attacks against Asian Americans on Trump calling covid the "Chinese virus" but you can't see how congresswomen accusing Israel of terrorism might result in Jews being attacked by pro Palestinian mobs, you either can't think or you have a problem with Jews.
The "dirty little secret" is not that Americans saved last year because they didn't go out to restaurants and their homes increased in value. The dirty little secret is that American journalism is produced by & for people who go to expensive restaurants and own expensive homes.
Inflation airhead: NBC's Stephanie Ruhle says the "dirty little secret" of people complaining about paying higher prices for food and fuel for their homes is they can afford it just fine. According to her, people should have been saving during the pandemic and stocks look good.
Violence and crime, economic issues and housing are Black Americans' top issues, according to Pew's latest. More Black Americans have "no issues" than named racism as their top issue. Something to keep in mind while watching MSNBC or reading the NYT...