Those as frustrated as I am by all of this can look into Hopium, run by Simon Rosenberg. It's a group that targets specific campaigns to facilitate post carding, donations, etc. Rosenberg's take is very positive on the Dems chances this year. They were very involved in the Suozzi campaign. Their slogan is "Do more. Worry less".
The only thing that keeps me sane is writing postcards to get more Dems to the poles. Hand wringing doesn’t work for me anymore. Clever memes on Facebook don’t distract me anymore. There seems to be no bottom to the Trump-Johnson evil. VOTE BLUE! 🗳️💙🇺🇸
I agree! I let my brother, a staunch Republican, whom I have placated by not speaking about politics with him for years, know that this year is different. No longer am I going silently about my politics! This year I am working for my local Democratic headquarters to do all I can for the Blue team! I am writing postcards rather than spending sleepless nights fretting. I am voting a straight ticket, and being vocal about it, for the first time in my entire life.
This is not a business as usual year. This year the vote is not between candidates, rather it will determine the very future of the World!
Republicans from their crazy, lying, cheating leader right through their spineless, do-nothing Congress, down to my own state’s (Florida!) Governor and legislators to my county’s (Sarasota) supervisors and even school board and hospital board members, have soiled and muddied every possible office with their prejudiced, anti-american, let’s be dictators attitudes and actions. I for one am no longer willing to sit by as they destroy everything good in hopes of having sane discussions about policy and politics. Too long I have quietly gone about my business of working for the poor and downtrodden waiting for the sane among the Republicans to take back the thoughtful processes they once represented as members of the GOP. There is absolutely nothing “grand” about it any more.
I am well past dumbfounded by their outright lawlessness and am taking up arms against them in the only way I know how — not with guns and violence, but with words and deeds for the side of freedom and democracy! I literally can no longer rest as these felons continue to burn down my house! Please join the fight in the name of all that is good and decent! Get out the vote to end this reign of terror!
I believe that we need to do more than just vote. I believe that large demonstrations have powerful effects. Organization and demonstration is what needs to happen and I believe that those in both parties would participate. Where do we start?
The Speaker of the House just sent the House home, despite the readiness of many Republicans and all Democrats to act on aid for Ukraine and the southern border. Johnson is obstructing the ability of the House to act and doing the bidding of the man who tried all his insane brain could think of to steal the 2020 election. You are entitled to your opinion, but you are uninformed.
Don't feed the troll. His questions are disingenuous as anyone who truly believes in facts already knows. "Trans of kids?" Seriously, just another hate monger. Ignore him.
Obstructing? The whole democratic system was built for obstruction - its what the founders wanted. Are you a child? What did the Democrats do for four years under Trump? Give him everything he wants. Hell no. That's their right. The voters get to decide if they like it.
As for the election - lets see, did the Democrats and media lie about Hunter Biden's laptop?
That alone could have swung the election. How about fours years of a phony Russian collusion investigation? Did that alter the election?
What's coming to light now about the CIA targeting 26 Trump campaign officials in 2016
in a bump campaign IS CHILLING. Its illegal and immoral. There is a binder floating around that should make Democrats very nervous.
And what about the "LAWFARE" meant to alter the election.
Despite the obstructionist agenda if the repuglitans, maybe you can recall these bills that biden managed to pass? This means they were bipartisan, which translates to mean he actually is governing.
1. American Rescue Plan
2. Infrastructure law
3. Chips and science act
4. Respect for marriage act
5. Safer Communities act
6. Toxic exposed veterans pact act
7. Inflation reduction act.
All while repugltan hate groups banned abortion and books.
James, you seem to think coming here with your pithy comment will change some minds here.
Newsflash, we here don't operate like you do. We operate on TRUTH, something magas are allergic to. I only wish the block button worked, so I wouldn't have to even see your garbage comment.
I could careless whether I change minds. Heather can't be allowed lie or omit unchallenged.
Why did not make a single mention of the special counsel report on Biden willfully taking and disclosing highly classified documents? At the same time he directed his FBI to go after Trump for the same Trump for the same charges.
Nothing about Fani Willis? She is accused of taking kick backs from her boyfriend?
Her boyfriend paid for 5 luxury vacations and she claimed that she reimbursed in cash?
No paper trail? No receipts? Nada?
Nothing about the CIA targeting 26 Trump associates in 2016 in a bump campaign?
"M" "S" "M" kinda sums it up for me. Hahahaaa.., but, I've got another gattdammned axe to grind. I'm beating this out on my Mac, which has Apple News..so that's where I go majority of the time for my NEWS fix. Only trouble is I quit subscribing to AppleNews because it seemed like just ANOTHER leaking faucet on my PayPal account. Trouble is..., every friggen gottdammned thing (news bit) thatI'd really like to know more about is RESTRICTED to Apple News subscribers.. Like WTF (really applies here). I'm 80 gottdammned years old (young!!!) and really don't have fooken time to fook around allover the internet for news. Sorry. It just kinda pisses me off.
You have a very strange notion of 'truth,' James. Who won the 2020 presidential election? Is climate change real? Should the government be in charge of women's health decisions? Has corporate tax reduction ever led to more jobs or less deficit? Is horse medicine an effective treatment or preventative for Covid? Should we care for the repercussions of burn pits so many veterans experience?
The right's standard answers to those questions get halfway 'round the world while the truth is still lacing up its boots.
Simon's too confident, too much enamored of the Dem campaign status quo.
He really thinks -- he's written it -- that Republicans are simply "imploding," as if we can all just knock on doors, write post cards, make phone calls, and all that evil will pass.
Those comfortable with Dem campaign status quo have no idea of the extent of malignancy behind all that dark money that's set up the billionaire classes since the Powell memo first set out to grow the wealth gap in America -- to offshore the millions of working-class jobs, to privilege the social media hate algorithms, dehumanize the schools, push their Handmaid's Tale unto American women, arm all the nut jobs for Trump's stochastic terrorism, and ally with mass murderer Putin.
Many Dem elites, like dear Simon, have zero contact with any humanities, and so cocoon in their over-confident status quo.
Maybe. But what you’re describing is not something that most is us can tackle other than changing the political class election be election. You eat an elephant bite by bite.
Upping humane literacy helps us better stay in touch with -- and help -- people.
By that I mean the exact opposite of what the billionaire classes did first to enable them to get away with offshoring those millions of jobs.
And, first, through the then-new Heritage Foundation, an enlarged Hoover Institution, and a new ALEC, the billionaires and commercial predator classes killed humanities, both K-12 and "higher." America had -- still has -- the novels, films, songs, and other arts in touch with how Americans hurt, and where they hurt. Our rich wanted all that out of the public vocabulary. Wanted us all anesthetized (as our elites are today). No humanities.
It's not just having a few names to drop, either Bonny. More, it's the will and skill to make apt connections, to analogize. Abilities to do this require learning, effort, modeling by our betters. Zapping humanities forecloses on this.
America faces huge effort by Republicans to make America into the serfdom Putin, his bejeweled priests, and oligarchs got in Russia. Trump, his ideologue, theocratic speaker of the House, Gaetz, Boebert, Gosar, Jordan, Stefanik, and various white trash aim to reduce the U.S. similarly.
Humanities aren't just dressing, Bonny, aren't just consumer pleasures. They can keep us vitally vigilant, aware of each other as individuals in monstrosities our monsters otherwise pursue.
I we are to really self-govern, then we have to run the county. We hire alleged professionals to act as our agents and take actions on our behalf, but the overall direction of the Ship of State is is supposed to be in our hands. Maybe Ike was the last Republican president who gave a #### about Constitutional Preamble stuff. Cared more about the common good than capturing absolute power.
Don't get me started... his one memorable quote about government being here to help undid all the progress that FDR and others made - and started this whole ugly mess from which we are just starting to recover.
And how did his senility in office compare to Biden's? Was the Contra-Iran deal classic corruption or not? From his vantage point on the shining hill what would he think of the cesspool Trump calls our nation?
I'll give you points for chutzpah holding RWR up as a symbol or the rightness of the right.
Eisenhower's farewell address calling out the Military-Industrial complex is proof of his concern and caring about the common good over party or absolute power.
As I think you know, JL Graham, there is much more to this than Republican malfeasance and anti-American behavior. There has been an ongoing attempt to overthrow a democratically formed Republic and establish an authoritarian regime. This has been going on for decades and it has been carefully coordinated and implemented. There has been billions and billions of dollars spent within politics and beyond. Again, I'm suggesting that there is a greater and more powerful center of power to this endeavor to create an authoritarian regime.
The turf battles may revolve around religion, white supremacy and xenophobia, but I think it is clear (at least to me) who is behind this and who stands to gain from the establishment of an oppressive plutocracy. I think the end game is the establishment of huge fiefdoms under the control of extraordinarily wealthy, greedy, and self-serving mega-billionaires who hope to economically ensnare 99% of the world's inhabitants, in serving their insatiable greed. Those who don't willingly comply will be eliminated.
Even a cursory look at politics and elections in the US reveals that the name of the game is money and lots of it. Our system of electing the people's representatives is for sale to the highest bidder. And the highest bidders provide a vast network of supplemental and supporting actors, including the media, PACS and so-called policy institutes.
In recent years, government officials, appointees and agencies have come under the influence of the wealthy. The Supreme Court and every lower court has been methodically compromised by right-wing sympathizers who basically have been hired to upend the legal system and thwart the basic tenets of the Constitution. The Justice Department and its network of agencies, including the FBI and the Secret Service have been infiltrated by anti-American sympathizers.
It is appropriate to look back on history, but the fact remains, more money in fewer hands, combined with the nearly infinite multiplier of social media and you have the makings of the most lethal weapon to democratically formed governments ever seen in history.
Start working on GetOutTheVote Blue Wave 2024 right now. Contact your local Democratic committee, individual campaigns, progressive initiatives. Be part of the ground game. Sweat-equity democracy.
Share these “Letters” with family members - immediate and extended - friends and acquaintances - but do it cautiously - moderation in many, if not most or all areas of life, can be both wise and smart … There is strength in numbers!!!
It’s said that ‘cream rises to the top or surface’ … that oftentimes can be extended to truth, right and good as opposed to lies, wrong or bad!!!
Tragic, as I am finishing this I hear the sad news that Alexei Navalny has died …
Blessings on his memory. May his death embolden those of us who witnessed his strength, and may those who knew him personally and loved him be comforted by his courage.
Is it reasonable to charge elected MAGA reps with intent to deceive Americans in deliberately repeating the same fabricated lies regarding the 2020 election now proven baseless in so many courts? Freedom of speech should not be an exploited privilege of elected leaders when abused to manipulate their constituents. IMHO.
Just realized that I misread this response. Agonizing doesn’t solve anything either, nonetheless, the remainder of my original response is the same. Peace
We Dems have been asleep at the wheel for a looooong time. So it will take us a loooong time to fix this. We've been trying to play nice while first the republicans (thanks, Newt) and now the even more vile trumpers spit in our faces.
So we have to get off our butts and vote blue.... for a loooong time. The only way they will change is through pain. And that pain needs to be inflicted in the form of lost elections. No committee assignments for any election deniers. Etc, etc.
I agree pain will help cause change and there's plenty of the former (pain) right now. For total transparency, I am a staunch Independent. I don't think any one political party is going to fix the current mess we've allowed to develop. (I also don't think a 2-party system serves us well). We have to hold those currently in office accountable, full stop. It feels like the Senate is doing it's job, but the House is not, and I really don't think it's strictly because the senate majority is D and the house (slim) majority is R. I think it's because the "collective we" aren't making ourselves heard by the people we put in office (even if they aren't the ones we individually vote for). Now, a word to the part of the "collective we" who chose the route of not voting..... look where that's gotten us and the US (of A). Register and VOTE. Do NOT follow the current House of Rep.'s example. Frankly, it's unAmerican! Do (always) hold those currently in office accountable.
Agreed on this thoughtful post. I do not mean to hold the Dems blameless. They have kowtowed to big money as well.
Term limits. Much stricter rules on trading stocks. Public office is NOT the place to get rich. If you don't like that, tough spit. Don't run. So we have a lot of work to do and in the end it is indeed our fault for electing all of these people.
Yes, Kimberley, but let's not leave out his murder of Alexei Navalny.
Let's not leave out, either, his alliance with all the long-jewelry-accessorized, long-skirted, bearded Russian Orthodox priests who aim for the same subjugation of women, gays, teachers, and others as the current speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and all its too many virulent, illiterate white trash.
It’s time for a complete purge of republicans in Congress. They have consistently proven that they are incapable of governing. Every day that MAGA Mike is allowed to sit in the Speaker’s chair is one more day of disfunction.
Almost my whole family are/were Republicans and some are MAGAts. I lived it. Corrupt, racist, disloyal, untrustworthy, vindictive, mean, liars. I saw it in the '70's.
I was raised in Nebraska where we had Tom Osborne, Chuck Hagel, Mike Johanns, Doug Bereuter and Kate Orr as some of our Republican elected officials. They were all public servants and not political hacks like Trump and most of the Republicans in the House.
They have been replaced with mean spirited MAGAs whose only goal is to keep Republicans in power. The new crop of Republicans don't give a fuck about their constituents unless they give them money. In other words, power hungry greedy bastards.
I was raised in 33 different homes in probably as many countries. We had Ping, Brandt, DeGaul, Dutschke, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Trudeau, Franco, Pinochet, etc. None of those seemed Republicans to me, and I was not part of them. My first Republicans were when I married into a deep South family (USA) and I tried to belong there, because they were "soooo nice". But, I never did and my opinions were tolerated, at best, or laughed at when they "Racesplained" to me about "our Southern Blacks". Why did I not "get it". And, quite frankly I didn't need to belong, because I had a strong sense of self, of being something very different, even alien to these folks. The years after Academia, and moving around another 30 times, across the world helping people solve problems, only confirmed my understanding that others needed someone who had insight into the broader picture, and how change could be tolerated. It was midway through this second period (so to speak) that the true face of Republicanism as it grew more openly and systematically racist, and unkind to those that didn't want the cool aid, that my "family" also changed, pulled together and rejected me, my openness to learning, authenticity and appreciating the beauty of difference. So, at 70 I was somewhat rewarded by having 24 friends from all over the world join me in a celebration of friendship. They are like I am, outsiders to categorization, discrimination, indoctrination. This all, so you might be more aware of why I detest the Mango Muffins and MAGAts. They, like so many of my "family" have sought refuge and belonging with a maniacal cult, and have lost any connection with the beauty of our Universe or the need to learn real things.
What a wonderful blessing to have 24 truly like-minded souls from around the world to celebrate your turning 70! I have not lived in so many places as you, Bruce, but I have experienced the difference between living in the north and living in the south. And I have struggled with living among very nice people who clearly have "lost any connection with the beauty of our Universe or the need to learn real things" or "appreciate the beauty of difference" as you so aptly phrased it. I applaud you for courageously standing in your truth, something I am trying to do more openly myself. Your comment has inspired me to be more vocal about my beliefs, as these times and the decisions we all make this year are indeed crucial to the future of our world.
Thank you, Bruce for sharing your journey with us. I have lived in New England, the West Coast, NC, Taiwan and Mexico - not as extensive as you of course but many different cultures and attitudes. Exposure to more of the world and it's cultures can open minds and hearts - both of which are sorely needed in the USA, in the world.
Too many friends and a few family turn a blind eye, ignoring the years of infiltration by machine-like politics grabbing position in as many elected and appointed positions as they can ALEC style. They concentrate on opposition to everything the opposition can get any credit for (even if it is exactly what they would do if they were the ones getting the credit.
They will try to claim credit for the obvious benefits of things they never will vote for, as in infrastructure, and are now seeming to back total destruction of public education as they try to "piratize" everything.
The last thing their leaders want is anything near equal rights for everyone, as they use what ever fabricated reasons they can to manipulate and silence most opposition (other than to use just enough chosen angry outcries to fuel over the top responses they want to "justify."
They really do remind me most of the tactics Mussolini and Hitler used to provoke large portions of the population to subjugate or eliminate what ever targets they could derive the most power from abusing.
HCR is also not honest. Once again she recycles the absurd talking point about the "rules-based international order" that the United States has violated at will while shoving it down the throats of other countries.
We have free speech in this country, we get to say what we want civilly and move forward by hashing it out. Unfortunately, HCR blocked me on facebook because I’m voting for RFKJR and talking about him to this crowd. That hurts.
When someone listens to RFKJr and takes his anti-vax insanity seriously, children die. This Kennedy has been shunned by his own family for the BS he spreads. He is certifiably nuts. He lies as much as Trump.
And John, since we don't have ranked choice voting - your vote for RFKJr is a truly, clearly a vote for Donald Trump. Any vote other than voting for the Democratic ticket is a vote for Trump and FASCISM. Not voting Blue is a vote for Project 2025. I assume your next post will be featuring the beautiful elements of that "document".
John, I believe that responses to those who vote different from us should be respected. Unless it is #45 who is an exception. If we aren’t respectful the divide becomes deeper. I happen to believe that RFKJR would not represent all people if he were voted in. You can believe that though.
I have a very dear friend who supports RFK Jr, and I'll say to you what I said to her last July:
I just watched the video in which RFK Jr. said (I'm paraphrasing)"...there's an argument that Corona virus was bio-engineered to attack whites and blacks while sparing Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese." because I wanted to hear and see exactly what came out of his mouth rather than go by any partisan interpretation. https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews/
He didn't say the argument persuaded him, but he did go on in the video to talk about the bio engineering and Chinese financing of the lab work in a way that made it clear he thinks it's possible.
So at the House hearing today he was asked the simple binary question whether he believes that Jews and Chinese have some special immunity, and he wouldn't say yes or no. He said he was citing some study, and the questioner asked again if he believed it, and he went into a song and dance about being slandered without ever saying what he believes. That's some evasive bullshit right there.
Fortunately this is something we can know: I am 100% Ashkenazi Jew, and I got Covid at least once, maybe twice. Whoever posited this theory in the first place, it is cockamamie bunk. If RFK Jr. doesn't believe it, it's super disingenuous for him to go spreading it around as if it were credible; if he does believe it, he's an idiot.
What a sick tool you seem, some want real progress while you try to spawn antipathy to all who are trying to keep building a more honest and trustworthy structure and implementation of a government imagined in our Declaration of Independence.
We try to fix our past mistakes while others try to bury them, and hide the worst of what they do. How are you trying to fix anything?
One of the cardinal points of the post-WWII international order is the principle of non-interference and respect for national sovereignty, which the United States famously and routinely violates, meddling in the internal affairs of other countries all over the world.
Clay Higgins didn't even graduate from high school. He was a rouge cop that was fired from his jobs numerous times because he crossed the line. He beat the shit out of people. He made terroristic threats to a judge last week. Fuckwad Johnson believes he's Moses. With a mindset like that what could go wrong.
I love it that Laura 'dipshit' Trump will be in charge of the RNC. Fox in charge of the hen house. Agent Orange is going to hell. But, not without taking the entire Republican Party with him. There is plenty of time to destroy what's left of it before November. King Shitpants is holding the blowtorch and MAGAQ's has the gas cans.
Actually, bruce, Republicans are incredibly competent at taking over the government. Their full strategy was outlined in the Powell Memo in 1971, and they set tactics to accomplish each part of that strategy, while Democrats complained, and dithered, and were disdainful of the tactics.
You are right about Republican party Powell memo long term strategizing to take power. (Which is now pushed by Leonard Leo's The Teneo Network.) But you are wrong about Democrats 'dithering.' While Republicans sought to *take* power for unmitigated capitalist, racist, and religious extremist interests. Democrats thought they could *win* power by protecting Americans' civil rights and providing them essential and emergency services. The majority of Democrats continue this. The Democratic Party's
tragic error was in embracing the Clintons' neoliberalism and nepotism, and misreading an element of the Left wing of the electorate. Many nominal progressives abandoned the 'united we stand' tactics of the labor movement and civil rights movement. And instead sold generations of potential Democratic voters on purity tests, pipe dreams, and Pied Pipers. Helping elect Trump in 2016 and spawning the MAGA Left who deride Democratic reform and believe that electing Donald Trump will accelerate a socialist revolution. That the wreckage is an acceptable price for the phoenix of a workers paradise.
*Powell Memo
"Strength lies in organization, in careful long-range planning and implementation, in consistency of action over an indefinite period of years, in the scale of financing available only through joint effort, and in the political power available only through united action and national organizations."
The Powell Memo lives on in Leonard Leo's The Teneo Network which he describes as "a Federalist Society for everything that's messed up in America." By which he means equality before the law, equal representation, caring for the general welfare - and all the constitutional obligations and institutions of government.
Does it have to be Clinton’s against the Dems? (They) did pretty good with the power they had. And Gore would have done even better if the cheating hadn’t reached the zenith in 2000.
100% agreement!!! The Democratic leadership Council has MUCH to answer for in pulling the Dems out of alignment with their traditional base (Unions, progressives, etc., and even worse, creating the circumstances that has caused so many people who used to be democrats to go Independent or even lean further rightwards.)
I am so confused. First is said ‘it’s’ the Republicans , tax breaks and alt right, stacking the courts and slowly putting Republican control into gov and state hands. Then it’s the Dems with usual stances of helping out the marginalized , unionization, progressiveness. Some further insinuated a black man put into presidency caused the backlash which doubled downed the racism and subsequent MAGA movement . The latter is FAULT? I beg to differ !
Is this NOT the necessary ongoing struggle to push back Republican’s balance focus? Which still promotes slave labor, keep the poor/disenfranchised /neglected in place all the while the money going to the top who are the richest controlling their imbalanced interest ?
‘Their ‘track record vs the Dems…..hmmmmm🤔..the fact the Dems have had to and SUCCESSFULLY I add clean up the mess rendered by every previous Republican tenure as the last four years exemplifies….
I’m pretty sure where I stand. I’m pretty sure the cracks revealed are self evident that this “all men are created equal “ has NOT a been settled yet….
Further more…I want to tell you about Wayne and Obie.Wayne is now retired closing in on his middle 90’s and still a wealth of knowledge having layed ..laid?…block in our rural tradesmen rich neighborhood …all his life . He did our first foundation at 71 , our second several years later and our last at a nimble 85.Obie discovered us in his 75th year, a sawyer all his life and rather adopted us teaching woods a ship and how to render lumber which built the three houses atop aforementioned foundations from our woods . The two sawmills stlll produce . Obie passed away at 92 we still miss his expertise .
So stop the ‘old age’ inadequacy/problem further giving extension to the blather Republicans plant (and place).
Let’s get this job done . 1) lift our fellow man out of repression 2) give our sisters BACK their needed health care , 3) children quality food 4) good accurate education, 5) supply adequate oversight for housing that meets too long neglected 6) environmental protection now a major factor resulting in our 7) world’s climate changes by 8) taxing the rich a fair share …and 9)
💙💙VOTE ALL THE COMPLICIT OUT💙💙
(#10 is mental health recognition ,red flag laws, to stop sick and demented people from ranting, shootings ( off their mouth with lies, conspiracy, or con games ) included .
There have always been Democrats who 'kept the faith' and honored the party's progressive drive. Among the electorate (Nominating Obama rather Hillary and Biden instead of Bloomberg.) And this is reflected in Congress - from James Clyburn to Jamie Raskin.
I don't buy into DNC missteps 'causing' people to decide to leave the party - rather than reform it. Petulance rather than Politics. That's on them. Racist right wing religious extremists remade the GOP in their own image. By becoming the GOP base. They made the smart choice.
DLC is (or was) a completely different critter than the DNC. DLC was promoting neoliberalism, which was not a friend to the traditional bases of the Democrat
Bruce- How would we know whether they are competent or not since they don't do anything but whine and lie and race home for weeks at a time with their tails between their legs.
They've elected two speakers each one is as you say, incompetent and totally beholden to Trump.
Run the country? Republicans apparently only know how to run roughshod over the Constitution and the country.
We need to get the votes out, and end this national nightmare. Michael Johnson, with his pointy ears and evil grin, looks like a goblin, sent to do Satan's bidding.
Newly elected Rep. Suozzi of New York, speaking at his celebration Tuesday night, summed it up:
"They should stop running after Trump and start running the country."
Those as frustrated as I am by all of this can look into Hopium, run by Simon Rosenberg. It's a group that targets specific campaigns to facilitate post carding, donations, etc. Rosenberg's take is very positive on the Dems chances this year. They were very involved in the Suozzi campaign. Their slogan is "Do more. Worry less".
The only thing that keeps me sane is writing postcards to get more Dems to the poles. Hand wringing doesn’t work for me anymore. Clever memes on Facebook don’t distract me anymore. There seems to be no bottom to the Trump-Johnson evil. VOTE BLUE! 🗳️💙🇺🇸
I agree! I let my brother, a staunch Republican, whom I have placated by not speaking about politics with him for years, know that this year is different. No longer am I going silently about my politics! This year I am working for my local Democratic headquarters to do all I can for the Blue team! I am writing postcards rather than spending sleepless nights fretting. I am voting a straight ticket, and being vocal about it, for the first time in my entire life.
This is not a business as usual year. This year the vote is not between candidates, rather it will determine the very future of the World!
Republicans from their crazy, lying, cheating leader right through their spineless, do-nothing Congress, down to my own state’s (Florida!) Governor and legislators to my county’s (Sarasota) supervisors and even school board and hospital board members, have soiled and muddied every possible office with their prejudiced, anti-american, let’s be dictators attitudes and actions. I for one am no longer willing to sit by as they destroy everything good in hopes of having sane discussions about policy and politics. Too long I have quietly gone about my business of working for the poor and downtrodden waiting for the sane among the Republicans to take back the thoughtful processes they once represented as members of the GOP. There is absolutely nothing “grand” about it any more.
I am well past dumbfounded by their outright lawlessness and am taking up arms against them in the only way I know how — not with guns and violence, but with words and deeds for the side of freedom and democracy! I literally can no longer rest as these felons continue to burn down my house! Please join the fight in the name of all that is good and decent! Get out the vote to end this reign of terror!
"...well past dumbfounded..."
So descriptive! I cannot believe what my cohort says and thinks about the coming election. They are completely gone...
May all Trump’s MAGA Republicans rot in hell. Soon.
I was hoping Covid would have whittled the numbers down a bit. I'm bad.
Yes. Do more. Worry less!
I believe that we need to do more than just vote. I believe that large demonstrations have powerful effects. Organization and demonstration is what needs to happen and I believe that those in both parties would participate. Where do we start?
Stay silent? What should brag about? Inflation? The border? crime? trans of kids? foreign policy after foreign policy FUBARS?
Enlighten all of us?
Is there a reason why BIDEN's approval rating is a 37% and sinking?
The Speaker of the House just sent the House home, despite the readiness of many Republicans and all Democrats to act on aid for Ukraine and the southern border. Johnson is obstructing the ability of the House to act and doing the bidding of the man who tried all his insane brain could think of to steal the 2020 election. You are entitled to your opinion, but you are uninformed.
Don't feed the troll. His questions are disingenuous as anyone who truly believes in facts already knows. "Trans of kids?" Seriously, just another hate monger. Ignore him.
Obstructing? The whole democratic system was built for obstruction - its what the founders wanted. Are you a child? What did the Democrats do for four years under Trump? Give him everything he wants. Hell no. That's their right. The voters get to decide if they like it.
As for the election - lets see, did the Democrats and media lie about Hunter Biden's laptop?
That alone could have swung the election. How about fours years of a phony Russian collusion investigation? Did that alter the election?
What's coming to light now about the CIA targeting 26 Trump campaign officials in 2016
in a bump campaign IS CHILLING. Its illegal and immoral. There is a binder floating around that should make Democrats very nervous.
And what about the "LAWFARE" meant to alter the election.
Despite the obstructionist agenda if the repuglitans, maybe you can recall these bills that biden managed to pass? This means they were bipartisan, which translates to mean he actually is governing.
1. American Rescue Plan
2. Infrastructure law
3. Chips and science act
4. Respect for marriage act
5. Safer Communities act
6. Toxic exposed veterans pact act
7. Inflation reduction act.
All while repugltan hate groups banned abortion and books.
James, you seem to think coming here with your pithy comment will change some minds here.
Newsflash, we here don't operate like you do. We operate on TRUTH, something magas are allergic to. I only wish the block button worked, so I wouldn't have to even see your garbage comment.
I could careless whether I change minds. Heather can't be allowed lie or omit unchallenged.
Why did not make a single mention of the special counsel report on Biden willfully taking and disclosing highly classified documents? At the same time he directed his FBI to go after Trump for the same Trump for the same charges.
Nothing about Fani Willis? She is accused of taking kick backs from her boyfriend?
Her boyfriend paid for 5 luxury vacations and she claimed that she reimbursed in cash?
No paper trail? No receipts? Nada?
Nothing about the CIA targeting 26 Trump associates in 2016 in a bump campaign?
Just bitching about Republicans.
American Rescue Plan
2. Infrastructure law
3. Chips and science act
4. Respect for marriage act
5. Safer Communities act
6. Toxic exposed veterans pact act
Please use facts on this site.
"M" "S" "M" kinda sums it up for me. Hahahaaa.., but, I've got another gattdammned axe to grind. I'm beating this out on my Mac, which has Apple News..so that's where I go majority of the time for my NEWS fix. Only trouble is I quit subscribing to AppleNews because it seemed like just ANOTHER leaking faucet on my PayPal account. Trouble is..., every friggen gottdammned thing (news bit) thatI'd really like to know more about is RESTRICTED to Apple News subscribers.. Like WTF (really applies here). I'm 80 gottdammned years old (young!!!) and really don't have fooken time to fook around allover the internet for news. Sorry. It just kinda pisses me off.
Be sure to get your friends involved in a movement to make change for future generations! My mom is 97 and I have her talking about it...
Awesome resolve! Thank you, Carol Ann!
Thank you
Evil? Is this joke? Sending money to fund a war that cannot be won - leading to the deaths
of thousand of men, woman, and children in Ukraine - so you can feel virtuous IS EVIL.
Troll alert. Nothing better to do than spread despair and hate.
Ignore
In other words spreading truth
There is nothing leftists hate more than the truth
If I was a leftist the truth would cause me a lot of despair. Especially for my snowflake ears.
You have a very strange notion of 'truth,' James. Who won the 2020 presidential election? Is climate change real? Should the government be in charge of women's health decisions? Has corporate tax reduction ever led to more jobs or less deficit? Is horse medicine an effective treatment or preventative for Covid? Should we care for the repercussions of burn pits so many veterans experience?
The right's standard answers to those questions get halfway 'round the world while the truth is still lacing up its boots.
Dear Gawd James, you wouldn't know truth if it slapped you upside your head.
Bucha...
Thank you
Simon's too confident, too much enamored of the Dem campaign status quo.
He really thinks -- he's written it -- that Republicans are simply "imploding," as if we can all just knock on doors, write post cards, make phone calls, and all that evil will pass.
Those comfortable with Dem campaign status quo have no idea of the extent of malignancy behind all that dark money that's set up the billionaire classes since the Powell memo first set out to grow the wealth gap in America -- to offshore the millions of working-class jobs, to privilege the social media hate algorithms, dehumanize the schools, push their Handmaid's Tale unto American women, arm all the nut jobs for Trump's stochastic terrorism, and ally with mass murderer Putin.
Many Dem elites, like dear Simon, have zero contact with any humanities, and so cocoon in their over-confident status quo.
Maybe. But what you’re describing is not something that most is us can tackle other than changing the political class election be election. You eat an elephant bite by bite.
Upping humane literacy helps us better stay in touch with -- and help -- people.
By that I mean the exact opposite of what the billionaire classes did first to enable them to get away with offshoring those millions of jobs.
And, first, through the then-new Heritage Foundation, an enlarged Hoover Institution, and a new ALEC, the billionaires and commercial predator classes killed humanities, both K-12 and "higher." America had -- still has -- the novels, films, songs, and other arts in touch with how Americans hurt, and where they hurt. Our rich wanted all that out of the public vocabulary. Wanted us all anesthetized (as our elites are today). No humanities.
It's not just having a few names to drop, either Bonny. More, it's the will and skill to make apt connections, to analogize. Abilities to do this require learning, effort, modeling by our betters. Zapping humanities forecloses on this.
America faces huge effort by Republicans to make America into the serfdom Putin, his bejeweled priests, and oligarchs got in Russia. Trump, his ideologue, theocratic speaker of the House, Gaetz, Boebert, Gosar, Jordan, Stefanik, and various white trash aim to reduce the U.S. similarly.
Humanities aren't just dressing, Bonny, aren't just consumer pleasures. They can keep us vitally vigilant, aware of each other as individuals in monstrosities our monsters otherwise pursue.
Ann...they don't know how to do either!!
Republicans run the country? Surely you jest. They cannot.
I we are to really self-govern, then we have to run the county. We hire alleged professionals to act as our agents and take actions on our behalf, but the overall direction of the Ship of State is is supposed to be in our hands. Maybe Ike was the last Republican president who gave a #### about Constitutional Preamble stuff. Cared more about the common good than capturing absolute power.
Amen to that. I'll say it again: Dwight David Eisenhower was the last Republican occupant worthy of the Oval Office. That is an indisputable fact.
He was the last honestly elected Republican. It's too bad he fell for The Red Scare and the Dulles brothers' very bad ideas.
It was a different time. He was a fundamenlly decent man. You cannot say that about any of the MAGgots
Ronald Wilson Reagan won 49 out of 50 states for reelection.
Don't get me started... his one memorable quote about government being here to help undid all the progress that FDR and others made - and started this whole ugly mess from which we are just starting to recover.
And how did his senility in office compare to Biden's? Was the Contra-Iran deal classic corruption or not? From his vantage point on the shining hill what would he think of the cesspool Trump calls our nation?
I'll give you points for chutzpah holding RWR up as a symbol or the rightness of the right.
Eisenhower's farewell address calling out the Military-Industrial complex is proof of his concern and caring about the common good over party or absolute power.
As I think you know, JL Graham, there is much more to this than Republican malfeasance and anti-American behavior. There has been an ongoing attempt to overthrow a democratically formed Republic and establish an authoritarian regime. This has been going on for decades and it has been carefully coordinated and implemented. There has been billions and billions of dollars spent within politics and beyond. Again, I'm suggesting that there is a greater and more powerful center of power to this endeavor to create an authoritarian regime.
The turf battles may revolve around religion, white supremacy and xenophobia, but I think it is clear (at least to me) who is behind this and who stands to gain from the establishment of an oppressive plutocracy. I think the end game is the establishment of huge fiefdoms under the control of extraordinarily wealthy, greedy, and self-serving mega-billionaires who hope to economically ensnare 99% of the world's inhabitants, in serving their insatiable greed. Those who don't willingly comply will be eliminated.
Even a cursory look at politics and elections in the US reveals that the name of the game is money and lots of it. Our system of electing the people's representatives is for sale to the highest bidder. And the highest bidders provide a vast network of supplemental and supporting actors, including the media, PACS and so-called policy institutes.
In recent years, government officials, appointees and agencies have come under the influence of the wealthy. The Supreme Court and every lower court has been methodically compromised by right-wing sympathizers who basically have been hired to upend the legal system and thwart the basic tenets of the Constitution. The Justice Department and its network of agencies, including the FBI and the Secret Service have been infiltrated by anti-American sympathizers.
It is appropriate to look back on history, but the fact remains, more money in fewer hands, combined with the nearly infinite multiplier of social media and you have the makings of the most lethal weapon to democratically formed governments ever seen in history.
Yup. The MAGA vision of our future is a return to medieval fiefdoms, complete with overlords and starving serfs.
They don’t. They recess at the most critical moment and get paid to do so. What is wrong with this picture/action or lack there of!
I certainly don't think they should get paid. Even when in session, they shouldn't be getting paid for doing nothing.
Republicans are running the country.
Ruining…not running.
Nice Julie. I too thought it was a typo. Many other did as well.
Julie you are correct. How are we going to impeach Johnson/spineless?
Into hell. I am not willing to get on that train. How do the majority of Americans stop this disaster? There must be something that can be done
Don't agonize. Organize.
Start working on GetOutTheVote Blue Wave 2024 right now. Contact your local Democratic committee, individual campaigns, progressive initiatives. Be part of the ground game. Sweat-equity democracy.
Share these “Letters” with family members - immediate and extended - friends and acquaintances - but do it cautiously - moderation in many, if not most or all areas of life, can be both wise and smart … There is strength in numbers!!!
It’s said that ‘cream rises to the top or surface’ … that oftentimes can be extended to truth, right and good as opposed to lies, wrong or bad!!!
Tragic, as I am finishing this I hear the sad news that Alexei Navalny has died …
Blessings on his memory. May his death embolden those of us who witnessed his strength, and may those who knew him personally and loved him be comforted by his courage.
😭 such sad news about Alexei
Oh no!
That is very sad indeed.
Is it reasonable to charge elected MAGA reps with intent to deceive Americans in deliberately repeating the same fabricated lies regarding the 2020 election now proven baseless in so many courts? Freedom of speech should not be an exploited privilege of elected leaders when abused to manipulate their constituents. IMHO.
I agree Berry
Just realized that I misread this response. Agonizing doesn’t solve anything either, nonetheless, the remainder of my original response is the same. Peace
Right on!!
We Dems have been asleep at the wheel for a looooong time. So it will take us a loooong time to fix this. We've been trying to play nice while first the republicans (thanks, Newt) and now the even more vile trumpers spit in our faces.
So we have to get off our butts and vote blue.... for a loooong time. The only way they will change is through pain. And that pain needs to be inflicted in the form of lost elections. No committee assignments for any election deniers. Etc, etc.
I agree pain will help cause change and there's plenty of the former (pain) right now. For total transparency, I am a staunch Independent. I don't think any one political party is going to fix the current mess we've allowed to develop. (I also don't think a 2-party system serves us well). We have to hold those currently in office accountable, full stop. It feels like the Senate is doing it's job, but the House is not, and I really don't think it's strictly because the senate majority is D and the house (slim) majority is R. I think it's because the "collective we" aren't making ourselves heard by the people we put in office (even if they aren't the ones we individually vote for). Now, a word to the part of the "collective we" who chose the route of not voting..... look where that's gotten us and the US (of A). Register and VOTE. Do NOT follow the current House of Rep.'s example. Frankly, it's unAmerican! Do (always) hold those currently in office accountable.
Agreed on this thoughtful post. I do not mean to hold the Dems blameless. They have kowtowed to big money as well.
Term limits. Much stricter rules on trading stocks. Public office is NOT the place to get rich. If you don't like that, tough spit. Don't run. So we have a lot of work to do and in the end it is indeed our fault for electing all of these people.
What happened to all the Republicans who for decades were staunch anti-communists and not they support a murderer dictator?
Putin isn't a communist. He's an the autocratic head of an oligarchy.
Yes, Kimberley, but let's not leave out his murder of Alexei Navalny.
Let's not leave out, either, his alliance with all the long-jewelry-accessorized, long-skirted, bearded Russian Orthodox priests who aim for the same subjugation of women, gays, teachers, and others as the current speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and all its too many virulent, illiterate white trash.
It’s time for a complete purge of republicans in Congress. They have consistently proven that they are incapable of governing. Every day that MAGA Mike is allowed to sit in the Speaker’s chair is one more day of disfunction.
Amen!
Exactly Mike!
Over a hill
Did you mean ruining ?
Right into the ground!
TFFG is running the country with his lies!
If they were, we were be running elsewhere
Republicans Not Competent
Republicans are not honest. Most of those of the last few decades have been corrupt as hell, and the few with any scruples tossed out.
Almost my whole family are/were Republicans and some are MAGAts. I lived it. Corrupt, racist, disloyal, untrustworthy, vindictive, mean, liars. I saw it in the '70's.
I was raised in Nebraska where we had Tom Osborne, Chuck Hagel, Mike Johanns, Doug Bereuter and Kate Orr as some of our Republican elected officials. They were all public servants and not political hacks like Trump and most of the Republicans in the House.
They have been replaced with mean spirited MAGAs whose only goal is to keep Republicans in power. The new crop of Republicans don't give a fuck about their constituents unless they give them money. In other words, power hungry greedy bastards.
I was raised in 33 different homes in probably as many countries. We had Ping, Brandt, DeGaul, Dutschke, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Trudeau, Franco, Pinochet, etc. None of those seemed Republicans to me, and I was not part of them. My first Republicans were when I married into a deep South family (USA) and I tried to belong there, because they were "soooo nice". But, I never did and my opinions were tolerated, at best, or laughed at when they "Racesplained" to me about "our Southern Blacks". Why did I not "get it". And, quite frankly I didn't need to belong, because I had a strong sense of self, of being something very different, even alien to these folks. The years after Academia, and moving around another 30 times, across the world helping people solve problems, only confirmed my understanding that others needed someone who had insight into the broader picture, and how change could be tolerated. It was midway through this second period (so to speak) that the true face of Republicanism as it grew more openly and systematically racist, and unkind to those that didn't want the cool aid, that my "family" also changed, pulled together and rejected me, my openness to learning, authenticity and appreciating the beauty of difference. So, at 70 I was somewhat rewarded by having 24 friends from all over the world join me in a celebration of friendship. They are like I am, outsiders to categorization, discrimination, indoctrination. This all, so you might be more aware of why I detest the Mango Muffins and MAGAts. They, like so many of my "family" have sought refuge and belonging with a maniacal cult, and have lost any connection with the beauty of our Universe or the need to learn real things.
What a wonderful blessing to have 24 truly like-minded souls from around the world to celebrate your turning 70! I have not lived in so many places as you, Bruce, but I have experienced the difference between living in the north and living in the south. And I have struggled with living among very nice people who clearly have "lost any connection with the beauty of our Universe or the need to learn real things" or "appreciate the beauty of difference" as you so aptly phrased it. I applaud you for courageously standing in your truth, something I am trying to do more openly myself. Your comment has inspired me to be more vocal about my beliefs, as these times and the decisions we all make this year are indeed crucial to the future of our world.
bruce, you can consider many of us in the forum as friends as well.
Wow. Bruce You have had quite the journey and experiences.
Thank you, Bruce for sharing your journey with us. I have lived in New England, the West Coast, NC, Taiwan and Mexico - not as extensive as you of course but many different cultures and attitudes. Exposure to more of the world and it's cultures can open minds and hearts - both of which are sorely needed in the USA, in the world.
Same in Michigan. Our Republican Governor Milliken was terrific. Now it's about oil and greed.
Yikes
Too many friends and a few family turn a blind eye, ignoring the years of infiltration by machine-like politics grabbing position in as many elected and appointed positions as they can ALEC style. They concentrate on opposition to everything the opposition can get any credit for (even if it is exactly what they would do if they were the ones getting the credit.
They will try to claim credit for the obvious benefits of things they never will vote for, as in infrastructure, and are now seeming to back total destruction of public education as they try to "piratize" everything.
The last thing their leaders want is anything near equal rights for everyone, as they use what ever fabricated reasons they can to manipulate and silence most opposition (other than to use just enough chosen angry outcries to fuel over the top responses they want to "justify."
They really do remind me most of the tactics Mussolini and Hitler used to provoke large portions of the population to subjugate or eliminate what ever targets they could derive the most power from abusing.
I am reading the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich now. The parallels to MAGA are terrifying.
Dan. Scarier than Sh__
As companion to that, Dan, Rachel Maddow's "Prequel."
HCR is also not honest. Once again she recycles the absurd talking point about the "rules-based international order" that the United States has violated at will while shoving it down the throats of other countries.
You again? Go away.
Please do not feed the troll
We have free speech in this country, we get to say what we want civilly and move forward by hashing it out. Unfortunately, HCR blocked me on facebook because I’m voting for RFKJR and talking about him to this crowd. That hurts.
When someone listens to RFKJr and takes his anti-vax insanity seriously, children die. This Kennedy has been shunned by his own family for the BS he spreads. He is certifiably nuts. He lies as much as Trump.
And John, since we don't have ranked choice voting - your vote for RFKJr is a truly, clearly a vote for Donald Trump. Any vote other than voting for the Democratic ticket is a vote for Trump and FASCISM. Not voting Blue is a vote for Project 2025. I assume your next post will be featuring the beautiful elements of that "document".
My free speech says you are full of crap.
John, I believe that responses to those who vote different from us should be respected. Unless it is #45 who is an exception. If we aren’t respectful the divide becomes deeper. I happen to believe that RFKJR would not represent all people if he were voted in. You can believe that though.
Only a non smart person goes where he is not wanted.
I have a very dear friend who supports RFK Jr, and I'll say to you what I said to her last July:
I just watched the video in which RFK Jr. said (I'm paraphrasing)"...there's an argument that Corona virus was bio-engineered to attack whites and blacks while sparing Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese." because I wanted to hear and see exactly what came out of his mouth rather than go by any partisan interpretation. https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews/
He didn't say the argument persuaded him, but he did go on in the video to talk about the bio engineering and Chinese financing of the lab work in a way that made it clear he thinks it's possible.
So at the House hearing today he was asked the simple binary question whether he believes that Jews and Chinese have some special immunity, and he wouldn't say yes or no. He said he was citing some study, and the questioner asked again if he believed it, and he went into a song and dance about being slandered without ever saying what he believes. That's some evasive bullshit right there.
Fortunately this is something we can know: I am 100% Ashkenazi Jew, and I got Covid at least once, maybe twice. Whoever posited this theory in the first place, it is cockamamie bunk. If RFK Jr. doesn't believe it, it's super disingenuous for him to go spreading it around as if it were credible; if he does believe it, he's an idiot.
What did you say about RFK?
Many of us here have been blocked on various sites. C'est la vie or perhaps it's C'est la Gare.
LOOK‼️
It’s John “I know nothing about everything” Schmeeckle.
Please do not feed the troll
I blocked Schmeeckle on this site, so why am I still seeing his posts? Anything more I can do?
I’ve not had any luck with blocking on this site.
Fortunately there are plenty of reasonable voices on this site to drown out “the schmeeckles.”
Blocking doesn't seem to do much here on Substack. I've blocked several trolls, including Schmeeckie, and I still see their stuff.
I did the same, numerous times. I also contacted Substack and never got a response. (twice)
So I am replying in kind to him: I find him a useless waste of space, so I respond with a useless waste of space.
Your comment is rude
Just callin’ ‘em as I see ‘em John.
What a sick tool you seem, some want real progress while you try to spawn antipathy to all who are trying to keep building a more honest and trustworthy structure and implementation of a government imagined in our Declaration of Independence.
We try to fix our past mistakes while others try to bury them, and hide the worst of what they do. How are you trying to fix anything?
"What should we do?"
https://earthwarning.org/index.php/what-should-we-do/
Hahahahahahahaha
Please do not feed the troll.
I'm not feeding the troll, I'm laughing at it.
One of the cardinal points of the post-WWII international order is the principle of non-interference and respect for national sovereignty, which the United States famously and routinely violates, meddling in the internal affairs of other countries all over the world.
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Clay Higgins didn't even graduate from high school. He was a rouge cop that was fired from his jobs numerous times because he crossed the line. He beat the shit out of people. He made terroristic threats to a judge last week. Fuckwad Johnson believes he's Moses. With a mindset like that what could go wrong.
I love it that Laura 'dipshit' Trump will be in charge of the RNC. Fox in charge of the hen house. Agent Orange is going to hell. But, not without taking the entire Republican Party with him. There is plenty of time to destroy what's left of it before November. King Shitpants is holding the blowtorch and MAGAQ's has the gas cans.
Let’s give them a fantastic “send off” this November!
Good one Lisa! Accuracy, love it 🫶
Actually, bruce, Republicans are incredibly competent at taking over the government. Their full strategy was outlined in the Powell Memo in 1971, and they set tactics to accomplish each part of that strategy, while Democrats complained, and dithered, and were disdainful of the tactics.
You are right about Republican party Powell memo long term strategizing to take power. (Which is now pushed by Leonard Leo's The Teneo Network.) But you are wrong about Democrats 'dithering.' While Republicans sought to *take* power for unmitigated capitalist, racist, and religious extremist interests. Democrats thought they could *win* power by protecting Americans' civil rights and providing them essential and emergency services. The majority of Democrats continue this. The Democratic Party's
tragic error was in embracing the Clintons' neoliberalism and nepotism, and misreading an element of the Left wing of the electorate. Many nominal progressives abandoned the 'united we stand' tactics of the labor movement and civil rights movement. And instead sold generations of potential Democratic voters on purity tests, pipe dreams, and Pied Pipers. Helping elect Trump in 2016 and spawning the MAGA Left who deride Democratic reform and believe that electing Donald Trump will accelerate a socialist revolution. That the wreckage is an acceptable price for the phoenix of a workers paradise.
*Powell Memo
"Strength lies in organization, in careful long-range planning and implementation, in consistency of action over an indefinite period of years, in the scale of financing available only through joint effort, and in the political power available only through united action and national organizations."
The Powell Memo lives on in Leonard Leo's The Teneo Network which he describes as "a Federalist Society for everything that's messed up in America." By which he means equality before the law, equal representation, caring for the general welfare - and all the constitutional obligations and institutions of government.
https://www.propublica.org/article/leonard-leo-teneo-videos-documents
https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority
One of the best critiques of Leo's drive for clerical fascism comes from the independent Catholic Reporter. Self identified
as "Throughout its history, NCR has been a voice for the marginalized, including women, LGBTQ communities, refugees and immigrants."
https://www.ncronline.org/news/leonard-leo-architect-conservative-supreme-court-takes-wider-culture
Does it have to be Clinton’s against the Dems? (They) did pretty good with the power they had. And Gore would have done even better if the cheating hadn’t reached the zenith in 2000.
100% agreement!!! The Democratic leadership Council has MUCH to answer for in pulling the Dems out of alignment with their traditional base (Unions, progressives, etc., and even worse, creating the circumstances that has caused so many people who used to be democrats to go Independent or even lean further rightwards.)
I am so confused. First is said ‘it’s’ the Republicans , tax breaks and alt right, stacking the courts and slowly putting Republican control into gov and state hands. Then it’s the Dems with usual stances of helping out the marginalized , unionization, progressiveness. Some further insinuated a black man put into presidency caused the backlash which doubled downed the racism and subsequent MAGA movement . The latter is FAULT? I beg to differ !
Is this NOT the necessary ongoing struggle to push back Republican’s balance focus? Which still promotes slave labor, keep the poor/disenfranchised /neglected in place all the while the money going to the top who are the richest controlling their imbalanced interest ?
‘Their ‘track record vs the Dems…..hmmmmm🤔..the fact the Dems have had to and SUCCESSFULLY I add clean up the mess rendered by every previous Republican tenure as the last four years exemplifies….
I’m pretty sure where I stand. I’m pretty sure the cracks revealed are self evident that this “all men are created equal “ has NOT a been settled yet….
Further more…I want to tell you about Wayne and Obie.Wayne is now retired closing in on his middle 90’s and still a wealth of knowledge having layed ..laid?…block in our rural tradesmen rich neighborhood …all his life . He did our first foundation at 71 , our second several years later and our last at a nimble 85.Obie discovered us in his 75th year, a sawyer all his life and rather adopted us teaching woods a ship and how to render lumber which built the three houses atop aforementioned foundations from our woods . The two sawmills stlll produce . Obie passed away at 92 we still miss his expertise .
So stop the ‘old age’ inadequacy/problem further giving extension to the blather Republicans plant (and place).
Let’s get this job done . 1) lift our fellow man out of repression 2) give our sisters BACK their needed health care , 3) children quality food 4) good accurate education, 5) supply adequate oversight for housing that meets too long neglected 6) environmental protection now a major factor resulting in our 7) world’s climate changes by 8) taxing the rich a fair share …and 9)
💙💙VOTE ALL THE COMPLICIT OUT💙💙
(#10 is mental health recognition ,red flag laws, to stop sick and demented people from ranting, shootings ( off their mouth with lies, conspiracy, or con games ) included .
You got my vote!
There have always been Democrats who 'kept the faith' and honored the party's progressive drive. Among the electorate (Nominating Obama rather Hillary and Biden instead of Bloomberg.) And this is reflected in Congress - from James Clyburn to Jamie Raskin.
I don't buy into DNC missteps 'causing' people to decide to leave the party - rather than reform it. Petulance rather than Politics. That's on them. Racist right wing religious extremists remade the GOP in their own image. By becoming the GOP base. They made the smart choice.
Dems shouldn’t have dissed Bloomberg so cruelly. Big tents include a lot. Just ask repubs, who welcome the devil in a blue dress or no dress at all.
DLC is (or was) a completely different critter than the DNC. DLC was promoting neoliberalism, which was not a friend to the traditional bases of the Democrat
Wow! This long article is well worth reading. I had no idea about Leo's power.
Oh my proof read , Pat 🙄🤦♀️ thanks for your patience folks🫶
Bruce- How would we know whether they are competent or not since they don't do anything but whine and lie and race home for weeks at a time with their tails between their legs.
They've elected two speakers each one is as you say, incompetent and totally beholden to Trump.
Incompetence can destroy as well as evil intent. They have both.
Beholden to …should be an automatic OUST! 💙VOTE FOLKS💙
Run the country? Republicans apparently only know how to run roughshod over the Constitution and the country.
We need to get the votes out, and end this national nightmare. Michael Johnson, with his pointy ears and evil grin, looks like a goblin, sent to do Satan's bidding.
Like they care one bit about the country?