@QMS
Jill Stein or RFK, Jr. Don't know which one, but I'm not voting for either major party. Am done with that crap!

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on this rainy Friday morning. Rolling the dice, figure Biden is already toast.
What is the DNC plan B? If they pull some really stupid move, then we get
trumped again. Democracy at its worst. I like Jill Stein even as a long shot.
Also RFK, Jr. in spite of his zionist waves and brain worms is a better option
than gen Joe and the circus harpy.

Heading down to Long Island for the weekend in support of MIL. Sometimes
ya just gotta do what needs to be done. The ferry across the sound is fun.
Not so much with the rest of it. Steady libations help.

thanks for the OT!

@usefewersyllables Rather, the various syndicates at the top of the political pecking orders in the US and elsewhere market what I am calling "pseudo-conservatism." Here is how I am phrasing it in the most recent draft of my book:

Pseudo-conservatism is the dominant flavor of today’s pseudo-democracy. Our politics does not maintain lasting traditions or an old order, so it’s not genuinely conservative; how is Donald Trump a tradition? Instead, the sense of an old order has been replaced by a sense of apocalypse, as captured in Frederick Buell’s (2003) book From Apocalypse to Way of Life. This is the “realization that crisis no longer lies somewhere down the road but is already very much in progress in the present.” (151) Pseudo-conservatism is the political scaffolding of the “risk society” of the German sociologist Ulrich Beck (1944-2015), the society obsessed with avoiding hazards. It operates by what Buell calls “accommodationism,” in which “the system as a whole is increasingly structuring itself to profit from the abuses it produces, and very nicely, thank you.” (165)

Pseudo-conservatism, then, is a clinging to old, inappropriate social imaginaries in light of perceived crisis. This is a universe in which innovation remains, but has been reduced to “upgrades,” and so there is no “progressive” opposite to pseudo-conservatism. Pseudo-conservative politics spreads chaos in the name of a foot-stamping claim to order, or it regresses while calling itself progressive. It clings to political marketing. Some prominent versions promote war; others favor laws against abortion; the standard response to the housing crisis is to pass laws against living outdoors while wishing that the unhoused would go somewhere else. Genuine political inquiries trace voiced opinions to sponsoring lobbyists or billionaires.

But, yes, the "Right" is composed of idiots who seem to think that being "more Right than thou" is the only idiocy that matters.

Zerohedgers dance around this. There are still many who think that this would be Just Great. Since they hate all non-right-wingers, it wouldn't be their ox being gored- at least this time. But surprisingly, there are some of them who are belatedly beginning to realize that that level of weaponization of the overreaction to free speech could be aimed at the right wing as well. Niemoller was right...

We'll see if the Constitution really is dead with this one, won't we? Bernie won't block it, since he's now running for reelection and undopubtedly wants that AIPAC money. Thus, I fully expect it to pass, and then get extruded through the house just in time for the undead meat-puppet to blissfully sign it into law. We have slid down the slippery slope far enough to be dangling above the abyss, and this could push us right into it.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/senate-bill-seeks-place-campus-pr...

@humphrey

has now demanded that their congressional lapdogs now kill US funding of the UN in retaliation. It'll be interesting to see if that happens. If it does, the UN should relocate to a BRICS+ country ASAP. That'll fully cement our status as a rogue nation.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israeli-envoy-says-us-must-...

https://apnews.com/article/un-resolution-palestinians-membership-rights-...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on Friday to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine and called on the Security Council to favorably reconsider its request to become the 194th member of the United Nations.

The 193-member world body approved the Arab and Palestinian-sponsored resolution by a vote of 143-9 with 25 abstentions.

The actual results:

An example of up is down and black is white. We get this.

Robert Wood, deputy US ambassador to the UN, told the General Assembly that “unilateral” measures at the UN and on the ground will not advance a two-state solution.

“Our vote does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood. We have been very clear that we support it and seek to advance it meaningfully. Instead, it is an acknowledgement that statehood will only come from a process that involves direct negotiations between the parties,” he said.

I am sure that the Global South fully understands the results.

@on the cusp

I can't see him still being alive by November. I believe that the CIA would love to have the trifecta. The only question is who will put out the hit. I wouldn't put it past the rethugs to do that, just because they know that Biden and the dems will immediately be blamed...

But you're right- i'd be likely to vote for whoever is the most likely non-Uniparty person.

have such an inflated ego, they are insane. Don't they understand the only thing they are good at is following the orders of some donors.
We aren't the sheep---they are.
Yeah, strategy does work in open primaries. The higher the level of government, the fewer primaries, and the surprise losers are the ones the donors targeted for their disobedience.
My vote will not be for a less evil president. It will be a vote that gives the finger to Biden. I will have a few moments of satisfaction from casting my vote for that reason only.
Stein would get my vote if RFK JR. were not in the race. He might have an actual chance. I am waiting to see if the brain worm thing ruins it for him. /s
All but Stein want to keep the US subservient to Israel. It is my wish to sever all ties to that rogue, criminal state, if state is even the correct term for Israel. You and I do not deserve to be punished by the rest of the world for our US Zionists.