One of the advantages of refusing the Democratic nomination for president is that his decision to do that has left President Joe Biden in the position of being above the political fray and being able to act for the good of the whole country.
I always said Biden would address the courts in his second term, but now that there is to be no second term, we can view these last 5 months as his Second term. It is great that he is freed up from campaigning to run the country. Harris is freed up from running the country to run her campaign. It is very symbiotic.
I am so thankful for President Joe Biden . His love for this country....for each of us....His love for "freedom" which he has promoted here as well as encouraged throughout the world....the expansion of NATO.....improved relationships with friends: old and new throughout the world. WHAT AN AMAZING LEADER!!!!!
I prefer not to argue on our HCR's wonderful Substack but you sir are ridiculous. A single policy that helps the middle class?
1. Bringing down the costs of life important drugs for everyone.
2. Supporting Unions
3. Improving and supporting education and childcare.
4. Stopping the hidden costs that airlines and other big business add on after you purchase. ex: Spirit charges $98.00 for a flight to New Orleans and then adds $150.00 per checked in bag and $65.00 for carry-on bag. That is just 1 small example of the many hidden cost businesses have been allowed to get away with and no one in government besides our Joe noticed or cared.
Why is the border open? Do you follow the House Congress actions or just listen to your MAGA BS? House Congress chose not to vote for the border closing. The Republican lead House Congress. And then they closed to go on vacation.
But- don't worry- tRUMP has promised you that you do not even have to vote again. He has promised that he and his gazillionaire buddies have it all fixed already. So don't bother voting.
James, Biden is far from perfect. Agree that he has not protected enough biological women on sports teams which this new fangled policy has allowed trans women into girls shower stalls and some of us understand this crazy newfangled illogic. I’ve been a feminist supporter all my life and I’m not about to pull back on my principles in the face of these crazy Frankensteinian notions. Social media has done grave harm. We allow any perverse crap on social media to pollute the minds of young children while Tik Tok in China is only allowed educational programming. We need similar restrictions or our democracy ends. And I fully agree that he has not paid adequate attention to border issues although Trump so shrewdly commanded his House MAGA todies to stop border legislation so do not use border it was Trump that stopped immigration reform.
You mention FBI searching for stolen documents that Trump refused to give up. They didn’t belong to him. He should stand trial as a traitor would in wartime, found guilty and dispensed as a traitor would be in wartime. So please don’t preach to us. Joe Biden on balance has led in government fairly well. You are a hack troll with nothing better to do and further, your lack of intelligence and probably education shows. Begone, Satan.
The stolen documents and information he revealed to enemies should mean he doesn't get Intelligence reports until he returns them. He shouldn't be allowed to take any government office until the court cases are decided, either.
Having browsed through the drivel that you write, it is hardly surprising to see you state that we live in a fantasy land. Go back to your sandbox and play with your friends.
Robin, he does what I do on Fox News. They retain an active comment section and I frequently do battle with them. Sometimes I try to reason with them but most of the time, they are unable to perceive reason so I go for the insults. Sometimes I get inspired to write a piece on my blog. So this guy I understand. He is me in reverse.
Another idiot response. You can't cite a single example. As Christopher Hitchens said, that which is cited without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
You cite the late, great Christopher Hitchens and then claim that Bill is "another brain dead leftist"???!?
I'll give you one thing James, you are quite the study in the human capacity for contradiction.
As for your juvenile insinuation that by fulfilling his Presidential duties by executing the law to promote justice, especially toward the brave and beleaguered transgender community, he is somehow not "protecting girls", I both question your Betty Crocker-esque view of what a "girl" is, and send you back to that American philosopher Cindy Lauper to see that "Girls just want to have fun!"
It wasn’t anti-Trumpers who attacked the Capitol, Mr. “Looking for a Civil War.”
Polling doesn’t mean a damn thing.
My plan is to keep my head low, be an activist, and fight if that becomes necessary. I am not a mob cultist like the MAGAs. I do not need a obscenely large flag on the back of my pickup truck/boomer cart in order to validate my worldview.
He does not hate you! That is not Joe, so while many think, The MAGA Maggots are a rot on American fruit, this is about Donny-John, feeding manure, fertilizing with lies (54 miles and we paid!) And yes there is fertilizer for hate…do you know that the US economy depends on new labor, much of which is immigrants seeking jobs, and the MAGA guys are much more likely to commit crimes than immigrants! We could have passed a great conservative immigration reform bill but no…and you know why! the Orange Lard said “no!” And the Johnson’s House caved.
Dear Jimmy, I'm far too civil to ever try to "bully" you from this site, but if I was to offer to return the $ you contributed to be a member, would you go away?
It appears that your subscription was paid by Putin, James. As I observe your comments over time, I realize Putin has made a poor investment. You provide others, so much more informed than you, good opportunities to deflect your attempts at seeding propaganda. Thanks for the service.
What a stupid comment. Why did Putin invade Ukraine while Biden was president? Because he knew Biden wouldn't do a damn thing about it. Putin was a lot more afraid of Trump.
BTW - it might time to put down the bong and read a little history. The Trump Putin connection was invented by the Clinton campaign as James Brennan CIA director briefed Obama in the summer of 2016.
Yo.. James.., get down on your knees and pray dude. Pray. Like.., what have you got to lose. I just noticed one of your neighbors in their brand new 64 foot center-console Cigarette (boat) with 4 six-hundred horsepower Mercury Racing outboards (52$$ thousand each) cruising down the Biscayne Bay on a "poker run" together with at least 60 or 80 other 'go-fast' boats. They're mostly Trumpers like you.., and they don't seem to be doing bad in this TERRIBLE economy. Some of my friends were amongst them too, waving, laughing, dousing themselves with frozen margaritas and Coppertone. So.., JAMES... just what the hell is your problem. An while I'm at it here James.., let me ask you: Are you a "christian".., a "muslim".., "hindu".., Buddist.., catholic..(I think they're considered christians ..?).., maoist.., floridian.., beer drinker.., ? Like just wtf are you? Human? Bot? I'm just curious cause the point of view you expressed might imply you live in a vacuum. This current administration has accomplished a lot. We've never had it so good.
Hi James - I've read your comments and responses to others' posts and I'm wondering, do you really believe what you're writing or are you just poking a hornets' nest. I would love to know. Thank you.
Yes I believe EVERY word I wrote. Feel free to challenge factually. If I'm wrong I'll admit.
What I hate is propaganda. That's what's most put out here. The current lie
is that Joe left for the good of the country and he is a hero.
He was forced out by the threat of the 25th amendment by Obama, Pelosi, Harris and Schumer.
Even worse the Democrat elite installed their own candidate who never got a single VOTE.
As for the hornets nest? This is a public site and I'm a paid member. What do the members think? They seem to believe they are entitled to endless confirmation bias. Sorry to break up the kumbaya circle, but if you criticize others, you deserve it back.
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Everyone, you can communicate directly with Substack Inc at "tos@substackinc.com. IMO the 'report' function is a dust bin.
Can you name the policies from your prefered President that protected our girls from sexual harrassment, improved our standard of living, brought down taxes for anyone other than the wealthy?
Sorry you do not understand that the name is not what matters it is the behavior and the beliefs. Can you list some beliefs you have about how things should be?
According to J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s pick for Vice President, childless women who own cats are unfulfilled and unhappy.
1. Republican men don’t like cats.
2. Women prefer the company of cats than conservative men.
3. Conservative men don’t understand how a cat can be better company to a woman than one of their own.
Therefore, Republican MAGA men should be TNR: Trapped, Neutered, (castration involves removing both testicles, which removes the main source of testosterone and controls sexual behaviors like aggression, roaming , and spraying) when released.
Billl..!!! get out of the schnops! It's not "cats" ferr crissakes.., the word is COUGAR. Haven't you ever been on a "couch"with a with a real, live "cougar"? Well!!.. yer in for the ride of yerr life.., find one.
This is great to see President Biden still working full steam ahead purposing a law that would restrict a President from being above the law and applying a law on the term limits on the Supreme Court. President Biden purposed a 3rd law about the code of ethics that would limit donations that the justices could receive. I believe Senator Whitehouse has a bill on the code of ethics that is ready to be voted on. Unfortunately the Mega Republicans
of congress are in authoritarian mode and their only concern is to get convicted felon Trump elected. Everything else is irrelevant which means no bills will pass until after the election. Harris has a great advantage here to address Bidens current policies on our judicial system during her campaign. Weather you realize or not their both working together to save our Freedom and our Democracy.
On a personal note. Biden is still a shrewd leader of this country and is always thinking ahead. He's a pro with 40 years of experience and you can't take that away from him.
What impresses me about President Biden now is that he is laying the foundation for a liberal / reformist turn. This enables Vice President Harris to run as a moderate while the liberalism flourishes. Brilliant.
I agree, but I also think it's important to understand what it means to run as a moderate. For me, a real moderate POTUS must be open to new ideas AND know how to separate the wheat from the chaff. To do that, the moderate POTUS must surround themselves with a great team, those team members must surround themselves with a great team, and so on.
The reason Biden's administration has been so successful is because he has injected his moral leadership throughout his administration, meaning he has everyone singing from the same "treat others the way you would want to be treated if the shoe was on the other foot" hymn sheet. And Kamala has the same hymn sheet.
The reason Trump's administration was such a disaster is because he injected his immoral leadership throughout his administration, meaning he had everyone singing from the same "do unto to others before they do unto you" hymn sheet.
That brings me to what I think of as the phony moderates, people who want to compare Democrats to Republicans and split the difference. That's what I see in people like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. That approach only makes sense when both parties are acting like grownups. If I was an elementary school teacher, and I realized one of my former students is now in a leadership role in the Republican party, I'd be embarrassed and asking myself where I went wrong.
Translation: The hard part becomes possible after you get the easy part right, and getting the easy part wrong makes the hard part impossible.
I'd like to see Buttigieg "groomed" to succeed Blinken for when Blinken is ready to retire, in 2034 or so. I love Pete - smart, well-spoken, thinks on his feet, always well prepared, decent family man, etc. And he gives off such a great vibe, whether he's serious or jesting.
I hope there is a place for him in the Harris administration…Secretary of Families, of Labor, maybe VP…he was my candidate for President way back when, so I am biased…yes I have the Pete Bumper Sticker to prove it!
As a member of the radical middle, who dreams, thinks, try’s, learns, pays attention, I see lots of energy and bombast of the left that I admire…I wished for Clinton vs Sanders as the real American ticket, shunting Donny-John off the conversation
To Which he brought NOTHING!
But centrist are integrators, listeners but have real strength in clarity of values and convictions.
Truth, Justice-for community, children, education, voting, serving, fairness, forgiveness…these are strong! And we believe in evidence and in our proactive to learn and get efficacy…not slogans, not cheap lies, but “what works is What Works!”
The moderate middle is wide and strong, a valley with ridges and fridges up in the hills, who are fun to watch, have to dinner but rarely offer much new.
Well, I am a phoney moderate in that I have had one foot on the liberal side and one foot on the conservative side. I do try to split the difference in many cases, trying to reconcile the two views into, hopefully, a new-and-improved policy stance.
Imagine yourself in a checkout lineup in the main isle of a busy grocery store. Every checkout is open, every line is long, and everyone's attention is on two people. One is a 5-year-old lying on the floor, arms and legs flaying in the air, yelling an screaming at the top of his lungs because he wanted a chocolate bar and his mom said no. The other person is his mother. Do you split the difference?
I see the other side as well. I remember reading a CNN article written by a reporter who visited with Congressional Republicans after their meetings with Pete Buttigieg soon after his appointment as Secretary of Transport to ask them how it went. They all said the same thing. They all said how refreshing it was to leave a meeting with a Democrat feeling like they were actually being listened to. I'd be shocked if I heard them say that about Bernie Sanders.
The problem is that the entire Republican party has adopted the 5-year-old's "I'm right, you're wrong, and this conversation is over" approach. They want their metaphorical chocolate bar and they have zero interest in splitting the difference.
The 5-year-old has already decided he's the most important person in the world. The only thing his mother can do is to agree with him while giving him the bad news, which is that he's tied for first place with everyone else, and she needs to give him a timeout long enough for him to recognize and accept that reality.
That mother has one foot on the child's side and one foot on the parent's side. Having one foot on the liberal side and one foot on the conservative side doesn't make you a phony moderate. A phony moderate is someone who refuses to acknowledge that all the grownups are on one side, and all the grownups on the other side have been purged from the party.
That's how I see it. If I'm wrong, then it's because of something I need to be made aware of because, at this moment, I can't see it.
James, well said. It doesn't work with people throwing tantrums, playing the victim, and insisting on having their way. Years ago I voted for certain Rs here in Oregon. Now I won't vote for any.
Agreed. Well stated and provoking a good chewing of the cud. Alas, I am a phoney moderate because my reaction to a toddler throwing a tantrum would be anything but moderate. 😉
James, I generally agree. One point: I see Senator Manchin as a moderate. While he supports regulations protecting the environment and mitigating human effects on climate change, he won't abandon his voters and stands in the way of policies that would curtail hydrocarbon-based energy mining faster than the economy and technology advances can absorb. To me that's common sense moderation.
No! Moderates are for things, have energy, do not sit on a fence, but live in a wide valley where they harvest the best and produce actions, make things happen…Conservatives say they look to the past but they Don’t!
Biden is a moderate—Learns what works and then imagine and do better…what has Senator Manchin done? he’s blocked most actions when he could. This make him an anchor at best.
Ryan, please look at Manchin's voting record and the range of issues with which he's been involved. He's no obstructionist. Just like classic Republicans should not buy the MAGA fearful message, Democrats shouldn't buy into the Progressive and undeserved disgust thrown at Manchin.
Maybe I've misjudged Manchin, but why is he always playing the spoiler? You haven't said anything that makes me think badly of him. I think badly of him because he gives me the impression he wants the Biden administration to trust Republicans without seeming to be willing to acknowledge how much Republicans have proven themselves to be untrustworthy.
I think there's lots of evidence to support the idea that the Biden admin's success is due to their willingness to listen to the legitimate concerns of others, but that's a two way street. My bias is toward assuming Manchin's outlier status is due to his unwillingness to listen to the Biden admin's legitimate concerns.
I see Joe Manchin and his people still flattening mountains with no money being set aside for those people's future. When their pot becomes empty they won't have a pot to pee in. much less a window to throw it out fro,. I truly feel for all those people in their little part of America. Manchin country - Such a tragedy, and it's going to be born by every taxpayer. This won't be like the tobacco settlement. Screw joe Manchin an 'the company store'.
Jerry, if I read your comment correctly (¡an increasingly larger if these days!), then I agree with you. Senators Manchin and Sinema vote with the Democratic majority two-thirds of the time, at least in 2021. Much of politics is stake-holder management. NOT committing political suicide by accommodating the people who sent one to Congress, is NOT a betrayal.
"Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, immediately endorsed Biden’s proposals, meaning that she is willing to be bound by our historic understanding that presidents are not above the law."
Symbiotic and Symbolic....Who better to champion a "no one is above the law" proposal than a former prosecutor?
You have defined Biden's work till next January. He is developing policies that Kamala Harris and the new Congress can pass immediately to strengthen the guardrail of democracy of America. We owe Biden our future.
What concerns me- actually scares me to death - is that the R’s are already putting in place electors in swing states who are election deniers and will not certify the election in those states, if the vote goes for Harris. They are literally planning to steal the election. The challenges to those certification will ultimately go to the Supreme Court and it’s a foregone conclusion what their decision will be. The vote has to be overwhelming for Harris to have a chance.
This action is very troubling, and needs to be as well-known as Project 2025 is becoming. Election deniers have no place in American politics, and the fact that they are still a force to be reckoned with needs to be trumpeted from the rooftops wherever they still infest their towns, counties, cities, and states.
Yes. This is scary. It is happening, Maybe why Trump said on Thursday that he did not need votes, and on Friday that he needed Christians to vote for him, one last time.
Watching C-Span's "Washington Journal" this a.m., a call-in show, the topic was whether one approves, does not approve, or is not sure of Supreme Court reform. Most callers appeared to support reforms. Some did not. No one, at least that I recall, was "not sure," indicating a polarizing issue. One caller had an interesting idea of also having an age cut-off as well; that made sense to me.
Biden said he has unfinished work before he stepped down. He can use this fall to formulate policies for his unfinished work that Kamala Harris can implement. She needs them to win. SCOTUS revision is one. Another must is the bipartisan border control bill Trump stopped.
No. But you appear to be. Biden cannot be "forced out" by anyone, including Obama, Pelosi, Harris, and Schumer. He alone had the power to stay in or out, and if he had chosen in, nobody on Earth had the legal ability to force him out of the race.
It was his decision to leave. I'm sure that decision was informed by Pelosi et al and party funders. But Biden already locked up the delegates in the primaries. The delegates were legally required to cast their votes for him at the convention, so if he kept running, he would become the official nominee no matter what anyone else thought, said, urged, or cajoled. That he chose to retire is a testament to him accepting the realities of age and mental sharpness. Unlike your guy, who believes his gold toilet is the throne of an emperor.
As for Heather, she is one of the most intelligent popular historians I've ever read, with a mind that's like Planet Earth to your small, dirty snowball slowly melting in the gutter.
Just skip over this individual/bot's posts. He's just clogging up bandwidth, and has nothing worth note to say. The replies to his posts are often worth reading, however.
Pulitzer Prize journalist Sy Hersh reported yesterday what is an open
secret, ” the official told me, with approval of Pelosi & Schumer, “Obama called Biden after breakfast and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment”
In the face of irrefutable evidence, that's the best you can do?
Are you a moron? Unlike here there is evidence and facts. I know this is too much for feelings based leftists, but Its tinme to grow up and face the real world.
James…I know you hate this but Biden has been, and continues to be one of the best presidents of my 65 years! And his selfless action was amazing and related his love of country! He is real, genuine, lives his values, made the hardest decision.
The MAGA Maggots hate him for this because they hate real Christian values. And their ‘Orange Lard’ will never be able to do this…fire himself.
I know he was forced out by those Dems and their big money backers. Biden has gotten agenda through that no one else could, so it isn't over until it's over. You are probably right. However, SCOTUS and their corruption needs to be discussed by the press, something they have not been doing, because they have done all their reporting on Biden's age. In fact, I see Biden being forced out by the SHITTY press more than anything else. THE NYT is the shittiest rag of them all. I put Sulzberger in a category with Murdoch. Still, now they have stopped reporting on Biden's age and have nothing to say about Trump because they don't want to offend him, so he is out of sight, out of mind. Perfect time to get the public aware that SCOTUS is not just business as usual. I have given AOC money for taking it on, the money I won't be giving Dick Durbin, who is acting older than Biden ever did, and sitting on the couch. Biden will be president fully until the day he steps down, because I never bought into the he is currently too old. However, do you remember Mikey Johnson saying he would not pass the budget or give money to Ukraine. Well, Biden got it done. So, there we go. Now that he has stepped down, since he accepted being forced out, I am going to accept it too. However, anyone who thinks Biden, or the Democrats are leftist has never met a leftist. Come to Germany where there is a party called Die Linke. I have occasional conversations with my mom's friend who belongs to that party. You can find any member of that party and you will know that they don't support Ukraine because that would be supporting American imperialism. No one, even the left of the Democratic party is actually left. I also have occasional conversations with a neighbor who is American left. The left does not support "the system" any more than the right does. So just because Democrats have allowed others to sloppily use The Left to characterize them does not make it so. The Left does not support Biden, nor Trump. In fact, they are about overthrowing the government not being part of it. That would make them more like Trump followers than Biden followers.
Hi Linda, cheers for you. We need to base our left/right thinking on something. I don’t follow any ideology I like to feel that I think issues for myself so I don’t have any strong following even on my blog. Better to write about cats which I just did.
As much as I criticize the MAGA republicans, omg, I also reserve some criticism for democrats because we have sold ourselves a bill of goods that can be successfully used against us. I want to win elections that is the only goal not unlike republicans. Yet we puss and fight each other. About Germany, your other nation is inches away from a new post Nazi populist government and I predicted this when Angela Merkle opened borders and allowed millions to migrate in. And she said at the time that this was because of German guilt not realizing what she was seeding for the future which is now. Anyone with good history learning knows that no people desire this massive shift in population.
I could continue my diatribe but I must get to my activities now.
Bill, how does 20% get to be taking the nation away. That is not inches. I am very aware of where I am living, and that is in both countries. Germany is not one monolith. However, in both of my countries I am worried about the factors that lead to the rise of fascism. As well as elsewhere. Letting in immigrants did not make the AfD rise to power. Probably being part of a fascist regime for longer than the west has made the East more susceptible. The messages that Russian bots are sending to Germany and the USA support Putin's agenda, but not the well being of Germany. Germany needs immigrants and is working on making it easier for people to move here. After hundreds of years of monarchy, the easterners in Germany had 15 years of democracy in the Weimar Republic, and then fascism under Hitler, and fascism under the DDR government until 1990. So, there is not the history of democracy that the west has. Still, many in the East also resist the Russian bot messages. Germany has a shortage of workers and guess what, Germans are not having a lot of children. The USA has more balance because more people come in, that is what helps it have the strongest economy in the world. I would say a lot of disinformation online is making both countries more susceptible to disinformation, and as Timothy Snyder says, having a few people own most of the information space is not what we had envisioned in 2000 when things were really being developed with social media.
Sy Hersh, former NY TImes & AP Journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
reported yesterday: “On Sunday” the official told me, with approval of Pelosi & Schumer, “Obama called Biden after breakfast and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment”
No one is denying the story.
Obama, Pelosi, and Schumer installed Harris. No vote. Nothing.
The word is Obama wanted an open vote at the convention, but he was overruled.
Wow, James! Dude...chill! This is just a forum for anyone, including you, to express yourself. You are doing that in aces with repetition. But you are also diminshing your own stance with your venom. Express your ideas, yes. But I challenge you to withold the venom you direct to others who are here for the same purpose.
Accept it man. You, we, them... we are all a part of the same world.
Now I'll shut-up and listen to your retort... waiting...
I did with facts. From Britannica: ":Seymour Hersh's later work, however, has been controversial and widely panned by journalists for promoting conspiratorial claims that hinge on dubious anonymous sources or speculation.
Examples of controversial claims made later in Hersh's career include allegations that Turkey, not Russia, was behind a chemical weapons attack in Syria, and that Trump authorized an airstrike in Syria in response to Russia's alleged use of chemical weapons, even while knowing Russia did not use such weapons.
His work, increasingly, has become popular with Russian state-controlled media. Like the aforementioned stories, his most recent article alleging a U.S. attack on a Russian-owned pipeline has seen heavy Russian promotion,
If you believe Joe Biden wasn't pushed out you are naive. His funding raising dried up, every major figure in the Democratic called for him to step down, and his medical health was obvious.
There is absolutely NOTHING supporting your position.
As for the Russian smear. Good luck. Who should I believe Sy Hersh or you?
"The Republicans appear to have gone out of their way to pick a ticket that would offend women." To which she said, “Critical Cat Theory (CCT): Conservative men don’t like cats. Conservative men are upset that women would prefer the company of cats instead of them. Conservative men just don’t understand how a feline could be better company than a misogynistic creep.”
Cats are a study in consent. Cats model independence, bodily autonomy, and boundary setting; they will definitely enforce consequences for violations.
Controlling people (conservatives?) don't like cats because the cats can't be controlled, they can't always make the cat do something it doesn't want to do, and omg what are the women learning from cats?
CCT are my late mother’s initials and if she could she’d step out of the grave to defeat Trump, who is an anathema to all she believed.
That said I have a concern with Critical Cat Theory, which is that it might well lead us to being controlled by toxoplasma gondii. When mice, a secondary host to this parasite which causes toxoplasmosis, are infected, they lose their instinctive fear of cats, the primary host.
Given this, we have to wonder whether we are mimicking cats’ independent behavior, or merely doing their bidding.
Either way, though, if it leads to Trump’s defeat, I’m okay with it.
I realized when I was in my early 20s (half a century ago) that any man who didn't like cats wasn't going to like me. So when I would meet an interesting looking guy, I'd find out immediately find out if he liked cats. That really cut down on the number of creeps I dated. And now I see that same criteria holds true for the voting booth.
Disrespect and disregard for women is so unrealistic.
My mom's father gave her land to manage when she was in her late teens. When she came to him with a question or concern, he would tell her, "This land is yours. If you make a profit, it is yours, if you have a loss, it is yours."
She rented a house on her property to a white family which she discovered stole the fertilizer needed for the crop. My mom stayed with the family....worked beside them and she made a profit with them.
My mom and dad farmed. They were partners together. They mutually respected one another. When I was 12 years old and my brother was 10 years old, my beloved father died due to cancer. During those difficult days, as he spent time in the hospital, my little brother and I stayed with our older sister. My mom stayed by my father's bed on a cot, caring for him. Only once did a cousin insist she return home to rest...fearing she would die of exhaustion before he died.
Does this sound like the description of a woman that Vance could possibly comprehend?
Such a man does not deserve to hold the honored position of Vice President. Our country requires leaders who will fairly and respectfully govern all of us.
Nor does his mentor, DT who has a history of treating women with disrespect, deserve to hold the sacred office of President of the United States of America!!!!!
I had an old Biden/Harris sign, which I modified and put on my lawn yesterday. I used tape to remove Biden's name and wrote in "Childless" Dog Lady for . . ." I have a standard poodle as my current companion, after decades of belonging to cats. He is the most catlike dog I have ever known, so it's kinda perfect.
Cats are freedom fighters. Just try to tell one what to do. In this they model an approach for resistance to autocracy. Hence the saying "Like herding cats".
It seems to me that supporting the family unit IS important; that the family (i.e., a stable parenting home) and the extended family are integral to society. As a life-long bachelor without children, I do feel my life fell short of my values.
What bugs the scheiße out of me, however, is the contempt shown by Senator 'shady' J.D. Vance et al. toward fellow citizens who choose not to be parents. It is cheap political theater, now a commonplace in our click-bait culture.
Speaking of Rachel Maddow - did anyone else watch her show last nite, Monday 29? Rachel said that on a Friday night, before tRumps Saturday announcement that Floridians only needed to vote this 1 last time, that on the Friday, tRump told his MAGA Cult base not to worry to vote at all. He said the fix was in - no votes needed. TERRIFYING.
yes, I saw that. And that Peter Theil owns JD, and Mellon has given hundreds of millions to the GOP ticket. It will be interesting to see who wins the AZ primary where Theil-owned Blake Masters is a candidate.
This is why Trump is so confident: "At least 70 pro-Trump conspiracists are election officials in key battleground counties — and they are poised to make a giant mess on Election Day" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692/ I'm pretty sure that there are attorneys on the democratic side already to take any state election officials to court if they refuse to certify their county's results, as was the case in several states after the 2022 elections.
"Before 2020, local election officials seldom voted against certifying results. But in 2022, conservative officials in North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania and New Mexico refused to do so. Some admitted to refusing to certify for political reasons. In all the 2022 cases, the election results eventually were certified, sometimes under a court order.
Election law experts say that these disruptions reveal a weakness in the American electoral system, which relies on thousands of local officials to certify the totals in their counties and municipalities before their results can be aggregated and tallied for state and federal elections.
Local elections officials “could create chaos” all the way up the chain by refusing to certify, said Alice Clapman, a senior counsel in election law at the Brennan Center for Justice. “And in that chaos you have more room for political interference.” Five legal experts described to ProPublica scenarios in which legislatures, courts, secretaries of state or governors could use a failure to certify at the local level to exert partisan influence." https://www.propublica.org/article/election-officials-refused-certify-results-few-held-accountable
"Cochise County, Arizona, provides a prime recent example. In November 2022, the county’s board of supervisors voted against certifying the county’s general election returns, citing vague concerns that the county’s voting machines could not be trusted. But later, one of the supervisors admitted that their refusal to certify was really a protest against the election in nearby Maricopa County, where a ballot printing error ignited a firestorm of conspiracy theories that the glitch resulted in mass election fraud.
The board’s refusal to certify threatened to disenfranchise every voter in Cochise County. Arizona law required state officials to begin gathering county returns no later than December 8. This left them with no choice but to complete the process without the county’s 47,000 votes if the board did not certify in time. In the end, the dispute concluded only after a state judge ordered the board to certify the results without delay, explaining that the board had no discretion to refuse to certify the results under Arizona law.
Cochise County was not an isolated incident. During the 2022 election cycle, rogue local officials in Otero County, New Mexico; Esmeralda County, Nevada; Berks, Fayette, Lancaster, and Luzerne Counties, Pennsylvania; Surry County, North Carolina; and Mohave County, Arizona all refused or threatened to refuse to certify valid election results based on claims rooted in election denialism — the false idea that the 2020 election was stolen and that widespread fraud continues to pervade our election system." https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/election-denial-cant-overcome-election-certification-protections
LOL all i can say with that. "Greater conservativism predicted more negative evaluations of cats and an overall preference for dogs over cats, even after controlling for relevant demographics." from a University of California Press 2021 analysis. Cats rule with women, too. That go for truck ownership too? Ram 1500s and so on?
Dunno. Owned by two cats and a 2019 Chevy Silverado 1500 which will roll over 100,000 miles today as I drive to Los Gatos, CA to help my wife’s aunt and uncle finish their move out of the house they sold and begin their trek to relocate in Oregon.
I have a bachelor of science degree, and it would offend me if someone told me that because cryptozoologists insist they are scientists, all scientists are like cryptozoologists, whereas cryptozoology is the opposite of real science.
I identify as a progressive, but I feel I need to say something when someone implies that because neoconservatives insist they are conservatives, all conservatives are like neoconservatives, whereas neoconservatism is the opposite of real conservatism.
The ideal team is comprised of real progressives and real conservatives. They are alike in that they are always openminded and skeptical, except the former are more openminded and less skeptical, and the latter are more skeptical and less openminded.
For example, there are three conservative SCOTUS justices doing their best to preserve the status quo, and six neoconservatives doing their best to end the 250-year-old American experiment. The former were appointed by Democrats, and the latter were appointed by Republicans.
I'm not always right, but I do think it's always important to respectfully share conflicting perspectives.
And let's not gloss over how twisted and aberrant they are.
To quote American psychologist Mary. L Trump, niece of our Donald -
"It’s weird to worship a fascist game show host while pretending to be a Christian. It’s weird to complain that childless cat ladies are the real problem facing America; it’s weird to believe in “menstrual surveillance...... .”
These people are not just dangerous, they are a very long way away from normal.
It seems Dems have decided to call the fascists "weird". This is not enough. They are nazis wanting to take away many basic rights that were fought for over generations, wiped away in a few short years by FASCISTS! We must call this out. Weird is not strong enough.
I think "weird" is a way of mocking the very strange Donald and the Couch Stain while not freaking people out. Yes they are fascists, yes they are a threat, and rather than being endorsed by a major political party both should be at minimum relegated to a circus side show.
But for those too stupid to see, too ignorant to get a vaccination (I followed a Prius for miles yesterday, with a drumpf bumper sticker and a cartoon Fauci with a clown nose-cognitive dissonance much?), weird might just work.
It's why I always call the guy dumpty, as in fat egg shaped idiot falling off his border wall and cracking apart.
Jen, I agree. And while I can't claim credit for this as I saw it elsewhere, but refer to their ticket as "Couch Humpty and Dumpty". I tried last night to rewrite the verse (Couch Humpty and Dumpty sit on a wall/ pondering policies sure to appall./To subjugate women and empower men/to let Dumpty be president, again and again.)
I'm sure others can do better than this -- where are the Ogden Nashes out there?
Absolutely agree! The words, “weird”, “crazy”, ”insane”, “unhinged”, are all wishy-washy euphemisms for “fascist”. Let’s haul out the standard definition of fascism to drive home to folks that Agenda 2025 is an exact blueprint for it. Let’s drive home what life in a christo-fascist regime will really be like, in video clips targeted to red and swing states.
I was recently called out by a fellow commenter on one of the social media sites for calling Trump and MAGAs “fascists”. They challenged my understanding of the word and wanted me to use ”authoritarian” instead. I replied that I have been around enough years to know what a fascist is and I’ve been calling Trump one for longer than most others around me would admit he was one. So no, I’m not changing my tone or descriptors for political correctness or so as not to offend MAGAs with a “loaded” term. It’s loaded for a reason and is exactly the right term for Trump. He is an authoritarian, but worse than that, he is a fascist authoritarian who only serves himself or people from whom he seeks a favorable transaction. He is a fascist, which to me encapsulates all the other less “loaded” terms people ascribe to him.
I guess it depends on whether weird evokes a smile or not for a particular person. Personally I don't think smiles are in order when dealing with people wanting to be fascist dictators of our country.
Terry, you're correct, but it appears to be part of a multi-prong strategy to attack them, and the thin--skinned MAGAs are objecting to it. The Dems are also attacking MAGA for ProjeQt 20245, SCOTUS, women's rights, the felon redux, and a whole litany of other issues which also stick. The word "weird" weirdly works, in my view, as perhaps it causes a bit of self-reflection ("Am I weird?")
And yet laughing at those fascists really REALLY gets to them in a way that anger and fear only feeds them. I say Laugh! Laughter will burn them up and give us both relief and power.
Yes, but they are ALSO weird. Deadly dangerous, insidious, vastly evil, but also, weird. Hannibal Lecter? Kimberley Guilfoyle? Sharks? Electric-motor boats? How can you describe this any other way than weird?
I always said Biden would address the courts in his second term, but now that there is to be no second term, we can view these last 5 months as his Second term. It is great that he is freed up from campaigning to run the country. Harris is freed up from running the country to run her campaign. It is very symbiotic.
Biden unchained‼️‼️
VermontGirls57,
I am so thankful for President Joe Biden . His love for this country....for each of us....His love for "freedom" which he has promoted here as well as encouraged throughout the world....the expansion of NATO.....improved relationships with friends: old and new throughout the world. WHAT AN AMAZING LEADER!!!!!
My sentiments as well. Every single day my heart swells with gratitude for Joe Biden and all he has done during this pivotal moment in our history.
And all he will continue to do. We are very fortunate, the world is very fortunate, for his leadership.
He had a 38% approval rating and his OWN party didn't want him.
What is your point?
Please stop labeling everyone you disagree with as "stupid." It is so tiresome.
James, approval ratings vs results. You pick
Approval ratings are reflection of your performance.
What results are you talking about? 18 Million illegal immigrants coming across the border? Core inflation up 30% Groceries, gas, rent/housing?
spike in crime? feckless foreign policy.
That's his polling was the worst in modern history and why his party wanted to dump him
Can you cite a single example of "LOVE" for freedom?
Love for each one of us? You mean the 50% of the country, he hates? MAGA?
Where is the love for the them? They get the FBI at their doorstep? Censored by social media? Called White Supremacists?
Can you name a single Biden policy that helps the middle class? Taxes? Higher.
Border? Open. Inflation? Destroys standard of living? Can't define what a girl is?
Won't protect girls.
You live in some kind of fantasy land.
SINGLE, POWERFUL EXAMPLES:
1. Freedom-- A woman's freedom to have an abortion an choose her own reproductive health options..
2. Middle class help-- job creation through the Inflation Reduction Act.
3. Inflation-- currently running at only 3.1% and falling due to Biden policies.
4. order-- Illegal border crossings have dropped over 50% in 2024
One additional: a solid commitment to the truth and reality.
And as Anne Applebaum says "evidence-based conversations", which leaves out James A.
I prefer not to argue on our HCR's wonderful Substack but you sir are ridiculous. A single policy that helps the middle class?
1. Bringing down the costs of life important drugs for everyone.
2. Supporting Unions
3. Improving and supporting education and childcare.
4. Stopping the hidden costs that airlines and other big business add on after you purchase. ex: Spirit charges $98.00 for a flight to New Orleans and then adds $150.00 per checked in bag and $65.00 for carry-on bag. That is just 1 small example of the many hidden cost businesses have been allowed to get away with and no one in government besides our Joe noticed or cared.
Why is the border open? Do you follow the House Congress actions or just listen to your MAGA BS? House Congress chose not to vote for the border closing. The Republican lead House Congress. And then they closed to go on vacation.
But- don't worry- tRUMP has promised you that you do not even have to vote again. He has promised that he and his gazillionaire buddies have it all fixed already. So don't bother voting.
James, Biden is far from perfect. Agree that he has not protected enough biological women on sports teams which this new fangled policy has allowed trans women into girls shower stalls and some of us understand this crazy newfangled illogic. I’ve been a feminist supporter all my life and I’m not about to pull back on my principles in the face of these crazy Frankensteinian notions. Social media has done grave harm. We allow any perverse crap on social media to pollute the minds of young children while Tik Tok in China is only allowed educational programming. We need similar restrictions or our democracy ends. And I fully agree that he has not paid adequate attention to border issues although Trump so shrewdly commanded his House MAGA todies to stop border legislation so do not use border it was Trump that stopped immigration reform.
You mention FBI searching for stolen documents that Trump refused to give up. They didn’t belong to him. He should stand trial as a traitor would in wartime, found guilty and dispensed as a traitor would be in wartime. So please don’t preach to us. Joe Biden on balance has led in government fairly well. You are a hack troll with nothing better to do and further, your lack of intelligence and probably education shows. Begone, Satan.
The stolen documents and information he revealed to enemies should mean he doesn't get Intelligence reports until he returns them. He shouldn't be allowed to take any government office until the court cases are decided, either.
Having browsed through the drivel that you write, it is hardly surprising to see you state that we live in a fantasy land. Go back to your sandbox and play with your friends.
Oh look…it’s James
the “intellectual”
😂😂😂😂😂
VermontGirl. Yes, look, love the quotes around intellectual.
I'm surprised that someone who reads HCR could be so misinformed
Depends on what the word “reads” means
Robin, he does what I do on Fox News. They retain an active comment section and I frequently do battle with them. Sometimes I try to reason with them but most of the time, they are unable to perceive reason so I go for the insults. Sometimes I get inspired to write a piece on my blog. So this guy I understand. He is me in reverse.
I'm not sure he's here to read, since he seems more to be a provocateur lobbing bombs to see who will try to catch them.
Yeah, I'll pass. He's just making up "alternative facts," and expecting us to argue. Best to ignore him, as there's no reasoning with him.
Another idiot response. You can't cite a single example. As Christopher Hitchens said, that which is cited without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Another brain dead leftist.
You cite the late, great Christopher Hitchens and then claim that Bill is "another brain dead leftist"???!?
I'll give you one thing James, you are quite the study in the human capacity for contradiction.
As for your juvenile insinuation that by fulfilling his Presidential duties by executing the law to promote justice, especially toward the brave and beleaguered transgender community, he is somehow not "protecting girls", I both question your Betty Crocker-esque view of what a "girl" is, and send you back to that American philosopher Cindy Lauper to see that "Girls just want to have fun!"
I understand you. I breach Fox News and splat splat on them as you are doing here.
Here is an example of what I wrote earlier — it’s MAGA who hates us.
MAGAs are not 50% of the country. And MAGAs are not rational humans. They should be censured and shamed.
Trump is ahead in current polling, won over 50% of the vote in 2016.
and 47% of the 2020. What in the hell are you talking about.
Your plan is censure 50% of the country? How in the hell do you do that?
Are you looking for civil war?
Trump won 45 % of the vote in 2016; Hillary won 48 %.
It wasn’t anti-Trumpers who attacked the Capitol, Mr. “Looking for a Civil War.”
Polling doesn’t mean a damn thing.
My plan is to keep my head low, be an activist, and fight if that becomes necessary. I am not a mob cultist like the MAGAs. I do not need a obscenely large flag on the back of my pickup truck/boomer cart in order to validate my worldview.
He does not hate you! That is not Joe, so while many think, The MAGA Maggots are a rot on American fruit, this is about Donny-John, feeding manure, fertilizing with lies (54 miles and we paid!) And yes there is fertilizer for hate…do you know that the US economy depends on new labor, much of which is immigrants seeking jobs, and the MAGA guys are much more likely to commit crimes than immigrants! We could have passed a great conservative immigration reform bill but no…and you know why! the Orange Lard said “no!” And the Johnson’s House caved.
Your post speaks for itself.
Leftists want civil war. Its not just about defeating Trump, its about criminalizing and jailing opposition.
This is how you get to civil war.
This guy again.....
Yes, I'm a member of the site and won't be bullied by people like you.
Dear Jimmy, I'm far too civil to ever try to "bully" you from this site, but if I was to offer to return the $ you contributed to be a member, would you go away?
It appears that your subscription was paid by Putin, James. As I observe your comments over time, I realize Putin has made a poor investment. You provide others, so much more informed than you, good opportunities to deflect your attempts at seeding propaganda. Thanks for the service.
What a stupid comment. Why did Putin invade Ukraine while Biden was president? Because he knew Biden wouldn't do a damn thing about it. Putin was a lot more afraid of Trump.
BTW - it might time to put down the bong and read a little history. The Trump Putin connection was invented by the Clinton campaign as James Brennan CIA director briefed Obama in the summer of 2016.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dni-releases-cia-documents-hillary-204337457.html
STOP LYING about it. YOU ARE PUSHING DISINFORMATION.
Please do some reading. Start with "Autocracy, Inc" by Anne Applebaum.
Yo.. James.., get down on your knees and pray dude. Pray. Like.., what have you got to lose. I just noticed one of your neighbors in their brand new 64 foot center-console Cigarette (boat) with 4 six-hundred horsepower Mercury Racing outboards (52$$ thousand each) cruising down the Biscayne Bay on a "poker run" together with at least 60 or 80 other 'go-fast' boats. They're mostly Trumpers like you.., and they don't seem to be doing bad in this TERRIBLE economy. Some of my friends were amongst them too, waving, laughing, dousing themselves with frozen margaritas and Coppertone. So.., JAMES... just what the hell is your problem. An while I'm at it here James.., let me ask you: Are you a "christian".., a "muslim".., "hindu".., Buddist.., catholic..(I think they're considered christians ..?).., maoist.., floridian.., beer drinker.., ? Like just wtf are you? Human? Bot? I'm just curious cause the point of view you expressed might imply you live in a vacuum. This current administration has accomplished a lot. We've never had it so good.
Hi James - I've read your comments and responses to others' posts and I'm wondering, do you really believe what you're writing or are you just poking a hornets' nest. I would love to know. Thank you.
Yes I believe EVERY word I wrote. Feel free to challenge factually. If I'm wrong I'll admit.
What I hate is propaganda. That's what's most put out here. The current lie
is that Joe left for the good of the country and he is a hero.
He was forced out by the threat of the 25th amendment by Obama, Pelosi, Harris and Schumer.
Even worse the Democrat elite installed their own candidate who never got a single VOTE.
As for the hornets nest? This is a public site and I'm a paid member. What do the members think? They seem to believe they are entitled to endless confirmation bias. Sorry to break up the kumbaya circle, but if you criticize others, you deserve it back.
As I have read on the 25th amendment , it’s only the cabinet that can bring it forth. Definitely not former politicos
NOT "censored by social media". Whoever you are on this Platform you are bound by CONTRACTUAL duties an "Author" & separately as a "Reader" under Substack Inc's choice of law & mediation venue at JAMS-SF. You whoever you are do NOT have to participate but, I reserve all my contractual rights.
I have reported your contract Terms of Service (TOS) violations & will continue to do so until Substack Inc's counsel calls me or Substack Inc comes to the Mediation at their favored venue in San Francisco which has at least 3 Mediators who can handle digital platform contractual disputes including a SF Judge that handled one such case to a Jury verdict
Everyone, you can communicate directly with Substack Inc at "tos@substackinc.com. IMO the 'report' function is a dust bin.
Nice line of BS!
Are you denying that Brennan meet with Obama? Are you denying that
the Clinton campaign employed Steele to create a dossier? Are you denying
that the dossier was bullshit?
Leftist hate facts and the truth. Good luck
Only the people of Heather's site have no idea that
-Steele Dossier started with Clinton
-Clinton campaign paid $100,000 fine for hiding in their FTC statement
- Steele admitted the dossier was unverifiable
- There was no secret pipeline between Trump & Putin (Alfa Bank)
- That the FBI spied on Trump via FISA warrants based on Steele dossier
and on and on.......
Can you name the policies from your prefered President that protected our girls from sexual harrassment, improved our standard of living, brought down taxes for anyone other than the wealthy?
I am very interested in your examples of FREEDOM.
Religious freedom?
Thank you.
Have a great day!
Nice try, Ivan.
You are too stupid too believe?
What is your point? That Trump supporters are all communists? What a dumb claim.
Ah, yes -- the inevitable childish insults. Apparently you have learned well from tfg.
Sorry you do not understand that the name is not what matters it is the behavior and the beliefs. Can you list some beliefs you have about how things should be?
(Ode to Greg Leichner who wrote on topic below)
According to J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s pick for Vice President, childless women who own cats are unfulfilled and unhappy.
1. Republican men don’t like cats.
2. Women prefer the company of cats than conservative men.
3. Conservative men don’t understand how a cat can be better company to a woman than one of their own.
Therefore, Republican MAGA men should be TNR: Trapped, Neutered, (castration involves removing both testicles, which removes the main source of testosterone and controls sexual behaviors like aggression, roaming , and spraying) when released.
There, fixed it — no pun intended.
And some cats are so bad, they cannot be released. Certain Orange Alley Cats need to be carefully watched and release is not an option.
In that rare instance, euthanasia is an option.
Don't forget the ear tip--complete with comically large bandage
LOL ~ good one Robin!!
And, once again, for the folks in the back, BEAR! Over a MAGAt male, absolutely every time.
You describe a bunch of INCEL dudes...and they always have a gun handy.
Because they have nothing else to shoot with?
BAHWAHAHA!
That is hilarious and makes total sense.
Thanks.
Bill you said it for me….. yours truly a childless( by CHOICE) cat woman. My husband also loves me! Meow!
Billl..!!! get out of the schnops! It's not "cats" ferr crissakes.., the word is COUGAR. Haven't you ever been on a "couch"with a with a real, live "cougar"? Well!!.. yer in for the ride of yerr life.., find one.
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😂😂😂 Bill, you just made my day! 😂😂😂
Likewise, KAMALA unchained! Harris for President 2024. Old Con don Old for prison 20 - 24!.
Yes ma’am!
VOTE 💙💙💙💙
This is great to see President Biden still working full steam ahead purposing a law that would restrict a President from being above the law and applying a law on the term limits on the Supreme Court. President Biden purposed a 3rd law about the code of ethics that would limit donations that the justices could receive. I believe Senator Whitehouse has a bill on the code of ethics that is ready to be voted on. Unfortunately the Mega Republicans
of congress are in authoritarian mode and their only concern is to get convicted felon Trump elected. Everything else is irrelevant which means no bills will pass until after the election. Harris has a great advantage here to address Bidens current policies on our judicial system during her campaign. Weather you realize or not their both working together to save our Freedom and our Democracy.
On a personal note. Biden is still a shrewd leader of this country and is always thinking ahead. He's a pro with 40 years of experience and you can't take that away from him.
What impresses me about President Biden now is that he is laying the foundation for a liberal / reformist turn. This enables Vice President Harris to run as a moderate while the liberalism flourishes. Brilliant.
I agree, but I also think it's important to understand what it means to run as a moderate. For me, a real moderate POTUS must be open to new ideas AND know how to separate the wheat from the chaff. To do that, the moderate POTUS must surround themselves with a great team, those team members must surround themselves with a great team, and so on.
The reason Biden's administration has been so successful is because he has injected his moral leadership throughout his administration, meaning he has everyone singing from the same "treat others the way you would want to be treated if the shoe was on the other foot" hymn sheet. And Kamala has the same hymn sheet.
The reason Trump's administration was such a disaster is because he injected his immoral leadership throughout his administration, meaning he had everyone singing from the same "do unto to others before they do unto you" hymn sheet.
That brings me to what I think of as the phony moderates, people who want to compare Democrats to Republicans and split the difference. That's what I see in people like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. That approach only makes sense when both parties are acting like grownups. If I was an elementary school teacher, and I realized one of my former students is now in a leadership role in the Republican party, I'd be embarrassed and asking myself where I went wrong.
Translation: The hard part becomes possible after you get the easy part right, and getting the easy part wrong makes the hard part impossible.
My hope is that Pres. Harris will keep Pres Biden’s appointees such as Blinkin, Austin, Buttigieg, etc.
I'd like to see Buttigieg "groomed" to succeed Blinken for when Blinken is ready to retire, in 2034 or so. I love Pete - smart, well-spoken, thinks on his feet, always well prepared, decent family man, etc. And he gives off such a great vibe, whether he's serious or jesting.
I hope there is a place for him in the Harris administration…Secretary of Families, of Labor, maybe VP…he was my candidate for President way back when, so I am biased…yes I have the Pete Bumper Sticker to prove it!
‼️THIS‼️
As a member of the radical middle, who dreams, thinks, try’s, learns, pays attention, I see lots of energy and bombast of the left that I admire…I wished for Clinton vs Sanders as the real American ticket, shunting Donny-John off the conversation
To Which he brought NOTHING!
But centrist are integrators, listeners but have real strength in clarity of values and convictions.
Truth, Justice-for community, children, education, voting, serving, fairness, forgiveness…these are strong! And we believe in evidence and in our proactive to learn and get efficacy…not slogans, not cheap lies, but “what works is What Works!”
The moderate middle is wide and strong, a valley with ridges and fridges up in the hills, who are fun to watch, have to dinner but rarely offer much new.
Well, I am a phoney moderate in that I have had one foot on the liberal side and one foot on the conservative side. I do try to split the difference in many cases, trying to reconcile the two views into, hopefully, a new-and-improved policy stance.
Imagine yourself in a checkout lineup in the main isle of a busy grocery store. Every checkout is open, every line is long, and everyone's attention is on two people. One is a 5-year-old lying on the floor, arms and legs flaying in the air, yelling an screaming at the top of his lungs because he wanted a chocolate bar and his mom said no. The other person is his mother. Do you split the difference?
I see the other side as well. I remember reading a CNN article written by a reporter who visited with Congressional Republicans after their meetings with Pete Buttigieg soon after his appointment as Secretary of Transport to ask them how it went. They all said the same thing. They all said how refreshing it was to leave a meeting with a Democrat feeling like they were actually being listened to. I'd be shocked if I heard them say that about Bernie Sanders.
The problem is that the entire Republican party has adopted the 5-year-old's "I'm right, you're wrong, and this conversation is over" approach. They want their metaphorical chocolate bar and they have zero interest in splitting the difference.
The 5-year-old has already decided he's the most important person in the world. The only thing his mother can do is to agree with him while giving him the bad news, which is that he's tied for first place with everyone else, and she needs to give him a timeout long enough for him to recognize and accept that reality.
That mother has one foot on the child's side and one foot on the parent's side. Having one foot on the liberal side and one foot on the conservative side doesn't make you a phony moderate. A phony moderate is someone who refuses to acknowledge that all the grownups are on one side, and all the grownups on the other side have been purged from the party.
That's how I see it. If I'm wrong, then it's because of something I need to be made aware of because, at this moment, I can't see it.
James, well said. It doesn't work with people throwing tantrums, playing the victim, and insisting on having their way. Years ago I voted for certain Rs here in Oregon. Now I won't vote for any.
Agreed. Well stated and provoking a good chewing of the cud. Alas, I am a phoney moderate because my reaction to a toddler throwing a tantrum would be anything but moderate. 😉
You put that so well. Thanks 🙏
James, I generally agree. One point: I see Senator Manchin as a moderate. While he supports regulations protecting the environment and mitigating human effects on climate change, he won't abandon his voters and stands in the way of policies that would curtail hydrocarbon-based energy mining faster than the economy and technology advances can absorb. To me that's common sense moderation.
No! Moderates are for things, have energy, do not sit on a fence, but live in a wide valley where they harvest the best and produce actions, make things happen…Conservatives say they look to the past but they Don’t!
Biden is a moderate—Learns what works and then imagine and do better…what has Senator Manchin done? he’s blocked most actions when he could. This make him an anchor at best.
Ryan, please look at Manchin's voting record and the range of issues with which he's been involved. He's no obstructionist. Just like classic Republicans should not buy the MAGA fearful message, Democrats shouldn't buy into the Progressive and undeserved disgust thrown at Manchin.
Just one of several websites:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-congress-votes/joe-manchin/
Maybe I've misjudged Manchin, but why is he always playing the spoiler? You haven't said anything that makes me think badly of him. I think badly of him because he gives me the impression he wants the Biden administration to trust Republicans without seeming to be willing to acknowledge how much Republicans have proven themselves to be untrustworthy.
I think there's lots of evidence to support the idea that the Biden admin's success is due to their willingness to listen to the legitimate concerns of others, but that's a two way street. My bias is toward assuming Manchin's outlier status is due to his unwillingness to listen to the Biden admin's legitimate concerns.
I see Joe Manchin and his people still flattening mountains with no money being set aside for those people's future. When their pot becomes empty they won't have a pot to pee in. much less a window to throw it out fro,. I truly feel for all those people in their little part of America. Manchin country - Such a tragedy, and it's going to be born by every taxpayer. This won't be like the tobacco settlement. Screw joe Manchin an 'the company store'.
Jerry, if I read your comment correctly (¡an increasingly larger if these days!), then I agree with you. Senators Manchin and Sinema vote with the Democratic majority two-thirds of the time, at least in 2021. Much of politics is stake-holder management. NOT committing political suicide by accommodating the people who sent one to Congress, is NOT a betrayal.
My thoughts exactly 💯
Yeah, kinda like a "one-two" punch situation.
"Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, immediately endorsed Biden’s proposals, meaning that she is willing to be bound by our historic understanding that presidents are not above the law."
Symbiotic and Symbolic....Who better to champion a "no one is above the law" proposal than a former prosecutor?
You have defined Biden's work till next January. He is developing policies that Kamala Harris and the new Congress can pass immediately to strengthen the guardrail of democracy of America. We owe Biden our future.
What concerns me- actually scares me to death - is that the R’s are already putting in place electors in swing states who are election deniers and will not certify the election in those states, if the vote goes for Harris. They are literally planning to steal the election. The challenges to those certification will ultimately go to the Supreme Court and it’s a foregone conclusion what their decision will be. The vote has to be overwhelming for Harris to have a chance.
This action is very troubling, and needs to be as well-known as Project 2025 is becoming. Election deniers have no place in American politics, and the fact that they are still a force to be reckoned with needs to be trumpeted from the rooftops wherever they still infest their towns, counties, cities, and states.
This is the Rolling Stone article cited by Maddow: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692/
This is as dangerous for the upcoming election as Project 2025 is for the future.
Yes. This is scary. It is happening, Maybe why Trump said on Thursday that he did not need votes, and on Friday that he needed Christians to vote for him, one last time.
At what point is this a criminal enterprise! And at what point are they arrested?
DOnt they have to swear to uphold the Constitution and whatever election workers are sworn to do?
Watching C-Span's "Washington Journal" this a.m., a call-in show, the topic was whether one approves, does not approve, or is not sure of Supreme Court reform. Most callers appeared to support reforms. Some did not. No one, at least that I recall, was "not sure," indicating a polarizing issue. One caller had an interesting idea of also having an age cut-off as well; that made sense to me.
Me too.
Biden said he has unfinished work before he stepped down. He can use this fall to formulate policies for his unfinished work that Kamala Harris can implement. She needs them to win. SCOTUS revision is one. Another must is the bipartisan border control bill Trump stopped.
What are you talking about? He was forced out by Obama, Pelosi, Harris, & Schumer.
They INSTALLED their own candidate who didn't get a SINGLE VOTE;
Are you people delusional? With a Republican Congress, HOW exactly is he getting
his agenda through?
Biden became a lame duck president when he was forced out. Heather is either the stupidest
or most partisan historian who ever lived. Can you name a single lame duck president that
got controversial agenda through an oppositional Congress?
This is ALL too stupid to believe. But then its just another day in leftist wonderland.
"Are you people delusional?"
No. But you appear to be. Biden cannot be "forced out" by anyone, including Obama, Pelosi, Harris, and Schumer. He alone had the power to stay in or out, and if he had chosen in, nobody on Earth had the legal ability to force him out of the race.
It was his decision to leave. I'm sure that decision was informed by Pelosi et al and party funders. But Biden already locked up the delegates in the primaries. The delegates were legally required to cast their votes for him at the convention, so if he kept running, he would become the official nominee no matter what anyone else thought, said, urged, or cajoled. That he chose to retire is a testament to him accepting the realities of age and mental sharpness. Unlike your guy, who believes his gold toilet is the throne of an emperor.
As for Heather, she is one of the most intelligent popular historians I've ever read, with a mind that's like Planet Earth to your small, dirty snowball slowly melting in the gutter.
Just skip over this individual/bot's posts. He's just clogging up bandwidth, and has nothing worth note to say. The replies to his posts are often worth reading, however.
Can you say troll? The question becomes for what entity?
Russia, China, Iran....take your pick.
Indeed.
Oh, I know, but it's fun to kick the trolls occasionally.
Okay. As long as you don't take them seriously. They really aren't, just keeping their name before the public for likes.
They're too vile to take seriously. I mostly scroll right past, stop occasionally to sharpen my claws.
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Might be time to leave the BUBBLE.
Pulitzer Prize journalist Sy Hersh reported yesterday what is an open
secret, ” the official told me, with approval of Pelosi & Schumer, “Obama called Biden after breakfast and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment”
YES he was forced OUT.
No one is DENYING the story.
You are a troll? You believe shit that isn’t true! This smacks of MAGA munching…kind-of funny.
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Are you a moron? Unlike here there is evidence and facts. I know this is too much for feelings based leftists, but Its tinme to grow up and face the real world.
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You sure tend toward name calling. Like your 3rd-grade bully hero.
List one thing you believe the government should be doing.
I didn't vote for just the Biden ticket - I voted for the Biden/Harris ticket.
Go away, noisome troll.
Who made you the CENSOR police? I know leftist love to control speech.
This is a public forum, I'm a paid customer and I'll say whatever I please.
BTW - In what world do you get to criticize people and be immune from a reply?
The answer? In a snowflake, leftist universe.
The left hates free speech. It always has.
Please ignore James A, the self-declared intellectual.
I like people,who are the intellectual of One…DonnyJohn, the Orange Lard, is another…
James…I know you hate this but Biden has been, and continues to be one of the best presidents of my 65 years! And his selfless action was amazing and related his love of country! He is real, genuine, lives his values, made the hardest decision.
The MAGA Maggots hate him for this because they hate real Christian values. And their ‘Orange Lard’ will never be able to do this…fire himself.
If his presidency was SO great why did he have 38% approval rating? His own party
didn't want him? They forced him out.
I know he was forced out by those Dems and their big money backers. Biden has gotten agenda through that no one else could, so it isn't over until it's over. You are probably right. However, SCOTUS and their corruption needs to be discussed by the press, something they have not been doing, because they have done all their reporting on Biden's age. In fact, I see Biden being forced out by the SHITTY press more than anything else. THE NYT is the shittiest rag of them all. I put Sulzberger in a category with Murdoch. Still, now they have stopped reporting on Biden's age and have nothing to say about Trump because they don't want to offend him, so he is out of sight, out of mind. Perfect time to get the public aware that SCOTUS is not just business as usual. I have given AOC money for taking it on, the money I won't be giving Dick Durbin, who is acting older than Biden ever did, and sitting on the couch. Biden will be president fully until the day he steps down, because I never bought into the he is currently too old. However, do you remember Mikey Johnson saying he would not pass the budget or give money to Ukraine. Well, Biden got it done. So, there we go. Now that he has stepped down, since he accepted being forced out, I am going to accept it too. However, anyone who thinks Biden, or the Democrats are leftist has never met a leftist. Come to Germany where there is a party called Die Linke. I have occasional conversations with my mom's friend who belongs to that party. You can find any member of that party and you will know that they don't support Ukraine because that would be supporting American imperialism. No one, even the left of the Democratic party is actually left. I also have occasional conversations with a neighbor who is American left. The left does not support "the system" any more than the right does. So just because Democrats have allowed others to sloppily use The Left to characterize them does not make it so. The Left does not support Biden, nor Trump. In fact, they are about overthrowing the government not being part of it. That would make them more like Trump followers than Biden followers.
Hi Linda, cheers for you. We need to base our left/right thinking on something. I don’t follow any ideology I like to feel that I think issues for myself so I don’t have any strong following even on my blog. Better to write about cats which I just did.
As much as I criticize the MAGA republicans, omg, I also reserve some criticism for democrats because we have sold ourselves a bill of goods that can be successfully used against us. I want to win elections that is the only goal not unlike republicans. Yet we puss and fight each other. About Germany, your other nation is inches away from a new post Nazi populist government and I predicted this when Angela Merkle opened borders and allowed millions to migrate in. And she said at the time that this was because of German guilt not realizing what she was seeding for the future which is now. Anyone with good history learning knows that no people desire this massive shift in population.
I could continue my diatribe but I must get to my activities now.
Bill, how does 20% get to be taking the nation away. That is not inches. I am very aware of where I am living, and that is in both countries. Germany is not one monolith. However, in both of my countries I am worried about the factors that lead to the rise of fascism. As well as elsewhere. Letting in immigrants did not make the AfD rise to power. Probably being part of a fascist regime for longer than the west has made the East more susceptible. The messages that Russian bots are sending to Germany and the USA support Putin's agenda, but not the well being of Germany. Germany needs immigrants and is working on making it easier for people to move here. After hundreds of years of monarchy, the easterners in Germany had 15 years of democracy in the Weimar Republic, and then fascism under Hitler, and fascism under the DDR government until 1990. So, there is not the history of democracy that the west has. Still, many in the East also resist the Russian bot messages. Germany has a shortage of workers and guess what, Germans are not having a lot of children. The USA has more balance because more people come in, that is what helps it have the strongest economy in the world. I would say a lot of disinformation online is making both countries more susceptible to disinformation, and as Timothy Snyder says, having a few people own most of the information space is not what we had envisioned in 2000 when things were really being developed with social media.
I NOT PROBABLY RIGHT. I'm right.
Sy Hersh, former NY TImes & AP Journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
reported yesterday: “On Sunday” the official told me, with approval of Pelosi & Schumer, “Obama called Biden after breakfast and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment”
No one is denying the story.
Obama, Pelosi, and Schumer installed Harris. No vote. Nothing.
The word is Obama wanted an open vote at the convention, but he was overruled.
That's why he was so late to endorse Harris.
Again….
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Are you going to call my MOM too? There is nothing worse than
a leftist snowflake. It must be brutal to hear the truth.
This is a public site. I'm a paid member. I'll say what I please. You aren't going to police my speech. This isn't Russia.
BUZZ OFF.
Oh boo fucking hoo, James A. I'm a paid member too, and I can report your obnoxious comments any time I want. Hahahahaha--you're weird.
Wow, James! Dude...chill! This is just a forum for anyone, including you, to express yourself. You are doing that in aces with repetition. But you are also diminshing your own stance with your venom. Express your ideas, yes. But I challenge you to withold the venom you direct to others who are here for the same purpose.
Accept it man. You, we, them... we are all a part of the same world.
Now I'll shut-up and listen to your retort... waiting...
Feel free to debate any I've written?
I did with facts. From Britannica: ":Seymour Hersh's later work, however, has been controversial and widely panned by journalists for promoting conspiratorial claims that hinge on dubious anonymous sources or speculation.
Examples of controversial claims made later in Hersh's career include allegations that Turkey, not Russia, was behind a chemical weapons attack in Syria, and that Trump authorized an airstrike in Syria in response to Russia's alleged use of chemical weapons, even while knowing Russia did not use such weapons.
His work, increasingly, has become popular with Russian state-controlled media. Like the aforementioned stories, his most recent article alleging a U.S. attack on a Russian-owned pipeline has seen heavy Russian promotion,
Its simple. NO ONE IS DENYING the story.
If you believe Joe Biden wasn't pushed out you are naive. His funding raising dried up, every major figure in the Democratic called for him to step down, and his medical health was obvious.
There is absolutely NOTHING supporting your position.
As for the Russian smear. Good luck. Who should I believe Sy Hersh or you?
Enough said.
Yep. Enough said.
Yes ma’am 👊🙏
"The Republicans appear to have gone out of their way to pick a ticket that would offend women." To which she said, “Critical Cat Theory (CCT): Conservative men don’t like cats. Conservative men are upset that women would prefer the company of cats instead of them. Conservative men just don’t understand how a feline could be better company than a misogynistic creep.”
Cats are a study in consent. Cats model independence, bodily autonomy, and boundary setting; they will definitely enforce consequences for violations.
Controlling people (conservatives?) don't like cats because the cats can't be controlled, they can't always make the cat do something it doesn't want to do, and omg what are the women learning from cats?
CCT are my late mother’s initials and if she could she’d step out of the grave to defeat Trump, who is an anathema to all she believed.
That said I have a concern with Critical Cat Theory, which is that it might well lead us to being controlled by toxoplasma gondii. When mice, a secondary host to this parasite which causes toxoplasmosis, are infected, they lose their instinctive fear of cats, the primary host.
Given this, we have to wonder whether we are mimicking cats’ independent behavior, or merely doing their bidding.
Either way, though, if it leads to Trump’s defeat, I’m okay with it.
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I realized when I was in my early 20s (half a century ago) that any man who didn't like cats wasn't going to like me. So when I would meet an interesting looking guy, I'd find out immediately find out if he liked cats. That really cut down on the number of creeps I dated. And now I see that same criteria holds true for the voting booth.
Me, too, Shirley. If they didn't like cats it was a dealbreaker. Same for horses and dogs.
CCT - brilliant! Cat ladies with AND without children are united for Kamala!
This Kat once had conjugal relations with a republican woman but I made sure to wear a prophylactic.
And I want to fulfill my duties and desires as a man cat.
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ALL ladies are united for Kamala 💙😎
Ladies with and without cats are united for Kamala. Harris for President 2024; Old con Don-Old for prison 20 - 24!
Meow to that
Did you ever? "Cats and Dogs Unite for Kamala Harris for President" July 30, 2024 8:30 pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2217221154175/WN_nRVkZTxlQQGz5uvaeYHLYw?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#/registration
My two dogs just registered for the call.
They understand the assignment, too.
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Yay, your two dogs, Emily! I may have my two cats register on this call since I can't seem to get on the human zoom calls even when I register!
Woofers and Meawers Unite to Dump the Trump
Thank you, Frank! I hear there is a Million Meow March on the move for Harris, too! Canines need to Answer the Call!
This is a segue for my Substack. https://danielsolomon.substack.com/p/pet-owners-unite
Morning, Lynell! Great link!
Totally enjoying the fun. Thanks to all the Kamala voters.
Morning, Ally! All's well? We need rain big time here in my neck of the woods. Seems everyone around us got a bunch; we didn't.
All is well. Long travel day and helping Karyn’s aunt and uncle move to Oregon.
And they were already riled up at the possibility of women picking the bear…
Greg Leichner,
Disrespect and disregard for women is so unrealistic.
My mom's father gave her land to manage when she was in her late teens. When she came to him with a question or concern, he would tell her, "This land is yours. If you make a profit, it is yours, if you have a loss, it is yours."
She rented a house on her property to a white family which she discovered stole the fertilizer needed for the crop. My mom stayed with the family....worked beside them and she made a profit with them.
My mom and dad farmed. They were partners together. They mutually respected one another. When I was 12 years old and my brother was 10 years old, my beloved father died due to cancer. During those difficult days, as he spent time in the hospital, my little brother and I stayed with our older sister. My mom stayed by my father's bed on a cot, caring for him. Only once did a cousin insist she return home to rest...fearing she would die of exhaustion before he died.
Does this sound like the description of a woman that Vance could possibly comprehend?
Such a man does not deserve to hold the honored position of Vice President. Our country requires leaders who will fairly and respectfully govern all of us.
Nor does his mentor, DT who has a history of treating women with disrespect, deserve to hold the sacred office of President of the United States of America!!!!!
I had an old Biden/Harris sign, which I modified and put on my lawn yesterday. I used tape to remove Biden's name and wrote in "Childless" Dog Lady for . . ." I have a standard poodle as my current companion, after decades of belonging to cats. He is the most catlike dog I have ever known, so it's kinda perfect.
Love it , Linda !! 🐩🪧😂
Last night’s discussion while watching the four-legged kids play….
GOP neighbor: Kathy, you need to take down your Biden/Harris sign.
Me: Nope ! I’ve circled Harris and Dark Brandon is looking over (stickers 🕶️on either side of “her”) I’ll take it down when my new ones arrive.
Rolling on the floor and laughing hysterically.
Cats are freedom fighters. Just try to tell one what to do. In this they model an approach for resistance to autocracy. Hence the saying "Like herding cats".
CCT is spot-on.
It seems to me that supporting the family unit IS important; that the family (i.e., a stable parenting home) and the extended family are integral to society. As a life-long bachelor without children, I do feel my life fell short of my values.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/29/2258999/-What-s-in-a-name-JD-Vance-has-had-many-of-them
What bugs the scheiße out of me, however, is the contempt shown by Senator 'shady' J.D. Vance et al. toward fellow citizens who choose not to be parents. It is cheap political theater, now a commonplace in our click-bait culture.
Or they say the quiet parts out loud because they have a trick up their sleeve. This is what Rachel Maddow thinks. https://youtu.be/of9OP_a6MNg?si=T7CHdsXmZd9YOVoN.
Speaking of Rachel Maddow - did anyone else watch her show last nite, Monday 29? Rachel said that on a Friday night, before tRumps Saturday announcement that Floridians only needed to vote this 1 last time, that on the Friday, tRump told his MAGA Cult base not to worry to vote at all. He said the fix was in - no votes needed. TERRIFYING.
yes, I saw that. And that Peter Theil owns JD, and Mellon has given hundreds of millions to the GOP ticket. It will be interesting to see who wins the AZ primary where Theil-owned Blake Masters is a candidate.
This is why Trump is so confident: "At least 70 pro-Trump conspiracists are election officials in key battleground counties — and they are poised to make a giant mess on Election Day" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692/ I'm pretty sure that there are attorneys on the democratic side already to take any state election officials to court if they refuse to certify their county's results, as was the case in several states after the 2022 elections.
"Before 2020, local election officials seldom voted against certifying results. But in 2022, conservative officials in North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania and New Mexico refused to do so. Some admitted to refusing to certify for political reasons. In all the 2022 cases, the election results eventually were certified, sometimes under a court order.
Election law experts say that these disruptions reveal a weakness in the American electoral system, which relies on thousands of local officials to certify the totals in their counties and municipalities before their results can be aggregated and tallied for state and federal elections.
Local elections officials “could create chaos” all the way up the chain by refusing to certify, said Alice Clapman, a senior counsel in election law at the Brennan Center for Justice. “And in that chaos you have more room for political interference.” Five legal experts described to ProPublica scenarios in which legislatures, courts, secretaries of state or governors could use a failure to certify at the local level to exert partisan influence." https://www.propublica.org/article/election-officials-refused-certify-results-few-held-accountable
"Cochise County, Arizona, provides a prime recent example. In November 2022, the county’s board of supervisors voted against certifying the county’s general election returns, citing vague concerns that the county’s voting machines could not be trusted. But later, one of the supervisors admitted that their refusal to certify was really a protest against the election in nearby Maricopa County, where a ballot printing error ignited a firestorm of conspiracy theories that the glitch resulted in mass election fraud.
The board’s refusal to certify threatened to disenfranchise every voter in Cochise County. Arizona law required state officials to begin gathering county returns no later than December 8. This left them with no choice but to complete the process without the county’s 47,000 votes if the board did not certify in time. In the end, the dispute concluded only after a state judge ordered the board to certify the results without delay, explaining that the board had no discretion to refuse to certify the results under Arizona law.
Cochise County was not an isolated incident. During the 2022 election cycle, rogue local officials in Otero County, New Mexico; Esmeralda County, Nevada; Berks, Fayette, Lancaster, and Luzerne Counties, Pennsylvania; Surry County, North Carolina; and Mohave County, Arizona all refused or threatened to refuse to certify valid election results based on claims rooted in election denialism — the false idea that the 2020 election was stolen and that widespread fraud continues to pervade our election system." https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/election-denial-cant-overcome-election-certification-protections
This needs to be published. This needs to be seen, heard and understood by all voters.
When tRump says , Don't bother voting we have it fixed, he is not kidding!!!
This is very alarming, sends up lots of red flags.
Alarm bells have been screeching for a number of years now, haven't they?
LOL all i can say with that. "Greater conservativism predicted more negative evaluations of cats and an overall preference for dogs over cats, even after controlling for relevant demographics." from a University of California Press 2021 analysis. Cats rule with women, too. That go for truck ownership too? Ram 1500s and so on?
Dunno. Owned by two cats and a 2019 Chevy Silverado 1500 which will roll over 100,000 miles today as I drive to Los Gatos, CA to help my wife’s aunt and uncle finish their move out of the house they sold and begin their trek to relocate in Oregon.
I have a bachelor of science degree, and it would offend me if someone told me that because cryptozoologists insist they are scientists, all scientists are like cryptozoologists, whereas cryptozoology is the opposite of real science.
I identify as a progressive, but I feel I need to say something when someone implies that because neoconservatives insist they are conservatives, all conservatives are like neoconservatives, whereas neoconservatism is the opposite of real conservatism.
The ideal team is comprised of real progressives and real conservatives. They are alike in that they are always openminded and skeptical, except the former are more openminded and less skeptical, and the latter are more skeptical and less openminded.
For example, there are three conservative SCOTUS justices doing their best to preserve the status quo, and six neoconservatives doing their best to end the 250-year-old American experiment. The former were appointed by Democrats, and the latter were appointed by Republicans.
I'm not always right, but I do think it's always important to respectfully share conflicting perspectives.
Similar to being Jewish and automatically being considered a Zionist. 2 completely different beliefs.
The sad thing is, so many republican women are echoing that trope. So sad.
do not forget Bears !
And let's not gloss over how twisted and aberrant they are.
To quote American psychologist Mary. L Trump, niece of our Donald -
"It’s weird to worship a fascist game show host while pretending to be a Christian. It’s weird to complain that childless cat ladies are the real problem facing America; it’s weird to believe in “menstrual surveillance...... .”
These people are not just dangerous, they are a very long way away from normal.
It seems Dems have decided to call the fascists "weird". This is not enough. They are nazis wanting to take away many basic rights that were fought for over generations, wiped away in a few short years by FASCISTS! We must call this out. Weird is not strong enough.
I think "weird" is a way of mocking the very strange Donald and the Couch Stain while not freaking people out. Yes they are fascists, yes they are a threat, and rather than being endorsed by a major political party both should be at minimum relegated to a circus side show.
But for those too stupid to see, too ignorant to get a vaccination (I followed a Prius for miles yesterday, with a drumpf bumper sticker and a cartoon Fauci with a clown nose-cognitive dissonance much?), weird might just work.
It's why I always call the guy dumpty, as in fat egg shaped idiot falling off his border wall and cracking apart.
Jen, I agree. And while I can't claim credit for this as I saw it elsewhere, but refer to their ticket as "Couch Humpty and Dumpty". I tried last night to rewrite the verse (Couch Humpty and Dumpty sit on a wall/ pondering policies sure to appall./To subjugate women and empower men/to let Dumpty be president, again and again.)
I'm sure others can do better than this -- where are the Ogden Nashes out there?
Absolutely agree! The words, “weird”, “crazy”, ”insane”, “unhinged”, are all wishy-washy euphemisms for “fascist”. Let’s haul out the standard definition of fascism to drive home to folks that Agenda 2025 is an exact blueprint for it. Let’s drive home what life in a christo-fascist regime will really be like, in video clips targeted to red and swing states.
Yes! This is very serious business. We can’t minimize it!
I was recently called out by a fellow commenter on one of the social media sites for calling Trump and MAGAs “fascists”. They challenged my understanding of the word and wanted me to use ”authoritarian” instead. I replied that I have been around enough years to know what a fascist is and I’ve been calling Trump one for longer than most others around me would admit he was one. So no, I’m not changing my tone or descriptors for political correctness or so as not to offend MAGAs with a “loaded” term. It’s loaded for a reason and is exactly the right term for Trump. He is an authoritarian, but worse than that, he is a fascist authoritarian who only serves himself or people from whom he seeks a favorable transaction. He is a fascist, which to me encapsulates all the other less “loaded” terms people ascribe to him.
I agree with Jen.......weird works where fascist does not.
Weird is more effective than fascist, which seems overly reactionary to people barely paying attention. I applaud the change in emphasis.
As do I, Tim. Hit them with everything we've got. Using that term doesn't exclude all the other pejoratives we can hang around their heads.
I guess it depends on whether weird evokes a smile or not for a particular person. Personally I don't think smiles are in order when dealing with people wanting to be fascist dictators of our country.
It works for the supporters.
Terry, you're correct, but it appears to be part of a multi-prong strategy to attack them, and the thin--skinned MAGAs are objecting to it. The Dems are also attacking MAGA for ProjeQt 20245, SCOTUS, women's rights, the felon redux, and a whole litany of other issues which also stick. The word "weird" weirdly works, in my view, as perhaps it causes a bit of self-reflection ("Am I weird?")
And yet laughing at those fascists really REALLY gets to them in a way that anger and fear only feeds them. I say Laugh! Laughter will burn them up and give us both relief and power.
Yes, but they are ALSO weird. Deadly dangerous, insidious, vastly evil, but also, weird. Hannibal Lecter? Kimberley Guilfoyle? Sharks? Electric-motor boats? How can you describe this any other way than weird?
Yes weird and probably mentally ill.
I agree, Terry.
Yes, Terry, they are Nazis.