Thomas Friedman on the Future of America and the World: The Post-Election Dissection (Part 1)

Tom, too many ums and ahs.

When he said New York Times Humiliation and Dignity columnist, I honestly thought he was referring to his own humiliation for getting it dead wrong on the Iraq war and Mohammed Bin Salman, amongst many other things.

Why people vote for him? Simple answer stupid! Because the alternative Kamala Harris is Worst!

Thomas Friedman is so clever and insightful and not at all completely stupid and a walking joke making the NYT look even stupider than it is. No, let's all listen to what this genius says. Does he have an audience that takes him seriously? Who the heck could they be?

I would listen to Friedman to see if he has added some new non sense to his repertoire but to listen to that woman , as well , is way too much. Last time I watch her moderating Neil Ferguson she had to be shut up at least once if not twice by the historian ! Insufrible. And I have just seen they will include Jeremy Bowen so I will not watch the debates again. Some people should not have a platform specially BBC people.

Keep whistling past the graveyard & you will LOSE in 2028 via a 🗜️ on🗳️fraud in 4 county’s Bucks,Pa/Maricopa Az/Clark Nv/Wayne Mi. Then the Census Dominos fall. -10/11 election votes make -10 Wisconsin or -11 Arizona not needed in the GOP MAP.

Thomas Friedman is not intelligent and if you think he is, then you're either a Zionist-Jew or not intelligent.

The future of America is fascism. Uumm,umm,umm,umm,umm,umm,ummmm,umm,umm,umm,umm.

This guy is literally why the Democrats lost. He has zero understanding of what Americans want or why they voted for Trump.

I hope he never learns or gains understanding. That way people like him can continue to lose.

How is this charlatan still getting airtime ?

Britain is now no longer a world power and has little relevance in world affairs. All it is is an unsinkable aircraft carrier for the USAF. And Trump will cancel that. The only country to suffer under Trumps excesses will be the USA. The rest of the world will ring fence the USA and it will shrink to isolationist insignificance very rapidly. The 90 year era of the USA will be over. Only 50% of global trade is now in USD$, down from 90% ten years ago and the only thing that is healthy there is the Stock Market, and thats headed for a 40% correction. Large fund manages are cashing out of stocks like Warren Buffett and Blackrock, and into a basket of currencies that are safe offshore. So now is the time to leave and find a better country of live in.

Trump won it all despite the witch hunt he was the target 🎯 of

Sorry Thomas it’s not what you think about the election being a mandate….it’s what Trump and his supporters think that it was a complete mandate

Million less voted in this election, than during a pandemic

I think failed his osn senate loyaaly test

"Defund the police" from 2020, what election are you talking about?

Friedman forgets that Trump won in spite of most the media against him and political persecution. Friedman is out to lunch but that is very good for the US. As Napoleon said: "when the enemy is wrong do not distract him".
Friedman is another example of how you can hiperarticulate and at the same time with his common sense completely unhinged, but I suppose that is what happens to all elitist swept away by the people.

I don't agree with over 68% of the postulations here, but it's a great preview

Musk used Starlink, to get rid of votes

Proof beyond doubt that America is divided & wont recover. Government fails its people. Shame on you

Wrong...

Typical mainstream media guy. Years of biased media in America has been offset by podcasts both on the left and right. Believe it or not Americans understand things more in depth than the elite media will admit. In particular Americans are very savvy at reading their politicians and can see how owned they are by big donor money. The media still plays “make believe” when it comes to politicians. Kamala never wrote a book or a serious op ed, and nobody was buying her lack of intellect and experience.

Friedman is an enormous gullible useful idiot. Which is to say, he doesn't have the first clue what he's talking about, let alone where the world is headed.

I don't think any discussion of US politics is complete without recognizing the strength of partisan, particularly right wing, media. The majority of Trump voters have been propagandized into disbelieving their own eyes, and the left has been led to believe that people are rational rather than tribal.

Umm,uh,aaà,ummm, so many fillers, I am about to leave.

Then why Americans don't ever listen to what Chinese say

So Friedman didn't notice Biden was senile until the debate? He's full of ...

This guy is such an establishment chump. Zero. Credibility

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Crap. Anyone who refuses to acknowledge that Kamala and waltz are the stupidest POTUS&VP candidates of all time is a hack.

He got it all wrong and he still does, yet he insists on explaining the situation to us, the "ignorant populace".

RESPECT THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE !

Delusional.
I have all your & Malcolm Gladwell books. Your version of neo-liberalism is flaccid & unwanted.
You should um, uh your way back to Bethesda. The McDonald’s franchises are fighting in Ukraine and your climate change diversion is your latest grift. What a joke, can’t believe I ever listened to a word you wrote…at least you & all your uni-party friends got rich.

Thomas Friedman is a Democrat who's backed all the policies that have, in the last 4 years, led to the majority of Americans rejecting: open borders, energy depletion, massive wasteful spending, foreign policy failures, woke culture & the corruption-weaponization of government on political opponents!

Thomas Friedman positions himself as a global influencer, despite holding no official role, particularly in relation to the Middle East—a region plagued by a century of conflict and suffering. Millions of Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims have endured genocide, ethnic cleansing, and subjugation, stripped of their land and rights.

Trump's endurance can be summed up by his quasi-religious appeal. It doesn't matter how many lies he's told, how many laws he's broken, or how much bigotry he shows, his followers feel existential threats from every corner and their fears are answered with fire and brimstone that would surely impress preachers from another age. He cuts through the mucky muck of a thousand voices and his ascent to saviorhood is assured. It's remarkable the human propensity to assuage fear of the unknown.

The Oligarchic Blood Lines, The Corporatistic Money Lines and The Ascensionslistic Power Lines are in search of an integrally greater ...Sense, Science, and Salience.... of ...Law, Order, and Teleos.... coming forth and going forward.

What about the disastrous foreign policy of the Biden administration? Isn’t that supposed to be an area of your expertise?
This man is a dinosaur.

Defund the police was never a real thing in real life. And the very few places where it was were reversed. This guy is a clueless asshat.

Voters in America just gave the country to a complete insane malignant narcissist and his legions of complete lunatics ….. good luck America and good luck world …… what’s coming it is going to be catastrophic in a myriad of fronts ….

The “defund police” vs. beat and kill policemen????
Your take is off.
Tom! You used to be right. But you are missing the boat

The interviewer is TERRIBLE. Saying that the side that lost was "delusional" is an unprofessional, ignorant (of statistics, polling and politics) and kindof insane take. She seems to take the ex post facto outcome of the election as always-determined, and then go back and criticize a political party for trying to win. That's insane. (I don't mean to straw man her argument - if she was saying something different, it was not communicated to me).

Thomas L. Freed-man? Isn't he the guy that just loved the Iraq adventure circa 2002-2005 or thereabouts?

What about the disastrous foreign policy of the Biden administration? Isn’t that supposed to be an area of your expertise?

Yeah he lost me right at the beginning when he said dems lost bc the woke agenda and defund the police. When Harris never mentioned any of those things lol

Whenever Kamala laughed people ran away. They did not want that to. Be president of America.

Kamala was not a strong candidate! Biden was forced to appoint Kamala and the dems failed.

No one is further removed from reality than Friedman. Very silly.

How many conservatives regret that the Senate didn’t convict Trump in his impeachment hearings. Party over Country. The start of the downfall of our Constitutional Republic.

Friedman? Hard core Zionist. He is wrong, break down the data of progressive voters. It's not certain community. It all about Democrats ' Israel first policy'.