Ron DeSantis EXPOSED Republican's Plot To Steal Elections

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYb_5eapeM4

 

US college students voice concern over Charlie Kirk’s idolization

"I do feel a level of sympathy for [Kirk's] family. But when I ask my close friends, we all agree that he was horrible; we don't agree with anything he stood for," John said. "It's hard to juxtapose. On one hand, obviously political violence is not something we should support. On the other hand, how can I feel sympathy for him when he had no sympathy for me?"… 

"America just isn't a good place to be in any more."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/charlie-kirk-killing-colleges

 

'Our Genocide': How do Israelis feel about the war in Gaza? | On the Ground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMyyVaiY4V8

 

Trump or Harris? NPR asks Pittsburgh area voters how they feel : NPR

"I am a registered Republican, but I don't like the extreme right of the party," Runco said. "I'm a little frightened by Project 2025 and how that will influence or is influencing the party." 

Runco spent 20 years in a Christian ministry and generally opposes abortion, but feels it is sometimes medically necessary...

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/g-s1-14193/harris-trump-election-voters-pennsylvania

World leaders think Trump is ‘laughing fool,’ John Bolton says | The Hill

"Well, I think the hard men of history, like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, understand what their job is for their respective country. I don't think Trump understands what the job of the presidency is for ours," he said. 

"And I will say, having been in the room with him, in meeting those people, having listened in, on his phone conversations, I don't think they are really friendly with Donald Trump," he continued...

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4439620-john-bolton-world-leaders-trump-laughing-fool/

International polling: Support for U.S. rebounds under Biden

The Pew Research Center found that international attitudes toward the United States rebounded after Joe Biden replaced Donald Trump in the White House.…

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/international-polling-support-us-rebounds-biden-rcna99438

How Minds Change (with David McRaney) - YouTube

David McRaney is a science journalist, host of the "You Are Not So Smart" podcast, and author of several books, including his latest, "How Minds Change."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4k34HV-bNs 

Amy Coney Barrett Is In Over Her Head

…When the decisions come down, Barrett is frequently missing in action. As the junior justice, she does not get assigned blockbuster opinions, but she is free to write concurrences and dissents. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh wasted no time making their mark on the court through concurring opinions explaining their votes. These separate writings aim to give a reasoned defense of the justices' stance ​​and to distinguish their intellectual projects from the conservative herd. 

Barrett has chosen a different tack: silence. This term, she has joined a number of important 6–3 and 5–4 decisions that shifted the law rightward without a sentence of explanation. The justice wrote nothing in Dobbs to tell us why she overruled Roe. She wrote nothing in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, a brutal 5–4 assault on tribal sovereignty. Nothing in West Virginia v. EPA hobbling climate regulations; or Kennedy v. Bremerton allowing Christian prayer in public schools; or Carson v. Makin forcing public funding of religious education; or Vega v. Tekohundermining Miranda warnings; or the brutal habeas decisions that let states execute innocent people…

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/07/amy-coney-barrett-abortion-supreme-court-blunders.html

Abortion in the Founders' era: Fact-checking Alito's history - The Washington Post

In the 18th-century United States and England, abortion was common enough that there were slang terms for it, like "taking the cold," "taking the trade" and "bringing down the flowers." It was less-effective and more dangerous than it is now; women seeking abortions often died from infected wounds or poisons. And it was generally unregulated, except for a few instances in England and one in colonial Maryland mentioned by Alito in the draft opinion. In the late-18th and early-19th centuries, no states had laws against any form of abortion...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/15/abortion-history-founders-alito/

 

Opinion | The hidden agendas behind the Alito draft abortion ruling - The Washington Post

…Under Alito's draft, abortion restrictions must only have a "rational basis" to pass constitutional muster. Permissive as this is, it will still present questions: Would it be rational for a state to prioritize fetal life over the life of the mother? Does protecting the fetus take priority over serious risk to maternal health? Is it rational for a state to prohibit contraceptive methods, such as intrauterine devices or morning-after pills, which prevent implantation of a fertilized embryo? Can a state prohibit in vitro fertilization because it involves the destruction of such embryos?…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/12/alito-draft-opinion-myths/

Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade Quotes Infamous Witch Trial Judge With Long-Discredited Ideas on Rape — ProPublica

Justice Alito's leaked opinion cites Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century jurist who conceived the notion that husbands can't be prosecuted for raping their wives, who sentenced women to death as "witches," and whose misogyny stood out even in his time...

https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-roe-wade-alito-scotus-hale

The most extreme lines from Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked opinion on Roe v. Wade.

In several passages, the justice adopts the most radical rhetoric of the anti-abortion movement...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/the-most-extreme-lines-from-justice-samuel-alitos-leaked-opinion-on-roe.html

Opinion | Alito’s Case for Overturning Roe is Weak for a Reason - POLITICO

The conservative Supreme Court majority is more focused on politics than law...

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/03/alito-case-roe-wade-weak-law-supreme-court-00029653

Republicans view Putin more favorably than they do leading Democrats - The Washington Post

…Russian President Vladimir Putin operates within a well-established political framework. He is an autocrat with near-unilateral control over his country. Russia has elections, but no one is under the impression that the results will be allowed to pose a threat to Putin's power. Personal freedoms are constrained significantly; opponents of Putin's regime have a habit of succumbing to sudden illness and accidents. Yet American Republicans view him slightly more positively than they do leading Democratic officials…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/23/republicans-view-putin-more-favorably-than-they-do-leading-democrats/

Trump damaged Russians' opinion of America, exiled Putin critic says

...The handover of power and the Capitol riot, "dealt a blow to the reputation of America as the moral leader in the world, particularly in the eyes of the Russian public," Mikhail Khodorkovsky told NBC News in an exclusive interview in London...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-damaged-russians-opinion-america-exiled-putin-critic-says-n1259122

Will America’s disregard for science be the end of its reign? | Big Think

From America's inception, there has always been a rebellious, anti-establishment mentality. That way of thinking has become more reckless now that the entire world is interconnected and there are added layers of verification (or repudiation) of facts. 

As the great minds in this video can attest, there are systems and mechanisms in place to discern between opinion and truth. By making conscious efforts to undermine and ignore those systems at every turn (climate change, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, politics, etc.), America has compromised its position of power and effectively stunted its own growth. 

A part of the problem, according to writer and radio host Kurt Andersen, is a new media infrastructure that allows for false opinions to persist and spread to others. Is it the beginning of the end of the American empire?
https://youtu.be/S58vlJwhwDw 

What Does America’s Coronavirus Response Look Like Abroad? | NYT Opinion - YouTube

People around the world react, even weep for us, because they are so much better off. 

The United States leads the world in Covid-19 deaths, nearing 150,000 lost lives. The unemployment figures brought on by the pandemic are mind-boggling. The Trump administration's slow and haphazard response has been widely criticized. But what does it look like to young people around the world, whose governments moved quickly and aggressively to contain the coronavirus? We wanted to know, so we reached out to quite a few and showed them charts, facts, photos and videos illustrating the U.S. response. Spoiler: They were not impressed. 

Many advanced economies, from Germany to Singapore, directly supplemented salaries to save jobs. Other nations with fewer resources started mass testing at the first sign of an outbreak. Many countries mandated universal lockdowns — and successfully flattened the curve. In some parts of Europe, you could be fined for straying too far from your home. And Vietnam, a nation of 95 million people, has not seen a single Covid-19 death. This Opinion video is a follow-up to a popular video we produced last year, which asked young Europeans to respond to American policies such as health care and parental leave. Many comments suggested we produce a sequel. Well, here it is — the Covid-19 edition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwkvTBgTO7A&feature=youtu.be

Trump-Biden debate stokes global perception of a United States in decline, mired in chaos - The Washington Post

The first U.S. presidential debate Tuesday night — run through with interruptions, personal insults and chaotic exchanges — has reinforced the perception in many foreign capitals that the Trump presidency has undermined U.S. democracy to an extent that it has become difficult to recognize. “The spiteful debate mirrors a country that is no longer even capable of having a dignified discussion,” read a scathing editorial published by Switzerland’s right-leaning, German-language Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper Wednesday morning.....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/09/30/trump-biden-debate-global-reaction-us-decline/

Trump’s Former Russia Adviser: U.S. Increasingly Seen as ‘Object of Pity’

Trump’s former Russia adviser told CNN Tuesday that the world increasingly sees the United States as a nation to pity and that its global standing is eroding. “We are increasingly seen as an object of pity, including by our allies, because they are so shocked by what’s happening internally, how we’re eating ourselves alive with our divisions”" said Fiona Hill, a witness in the impeachment hearings. “We’re the ones who are creating all this. It’s not the Russians or the Chinese or anyone else,” she stated outright. “We are doing this to ourselves.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-trump-russia-adviser-fiona-hill-us-increasingly-seen-as-object-of-pity

Here's What Voters Thought Of The 2020 Presidential Conventions | HuffPost

Two new HuffPost/YouGov polls reveal what the viewers judged each party’s message to be. ....
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/poll-rnc-dnc-trump-biden_n_5f4e8f27c5b69eb5c03558c8