The Evening Blues - 11-6-24
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This evening's music features Chicago blues songwriter, singer and bass player Willie Dixon. Enjoy!
Willie Dixon - Nervous
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
-- George Carlin
News and Opinion
Democrats pick apart Trump victory: ‘How do you spend $1bn and not win?’
Democrats across the country were left in disbelief and searching for answers as they confronted the reality of another Donald Trump presidency. Trump’s victory was announced early on Wednesday morning, marking a significant political comeback that has sent shockwaves around the world. As Kamala Harris’s chances of winning dwindled, the vice-president decided not to address her supporters gathered at Howard University in Washington DC on Tuesday night, instead scheduling an address for 4pm ET on Wednesday.
In the meantime, Democratic operatives and strategists and others filled the void, expressing their disappointment and already beginning to pick apart what went wrong for Harris and the Democratic party. The Democratic pollster Paul Maslin argued that Harris did as well as she could have, given the environment and circumstance. Harris “did a really good job”, Maslin told Politico, but ultimately “this race was unwinnable”.
“Trump, rightly or wrongly, his persona and his fundamental attack line against the condition of the country, the Biden-Harris administration and frankly the Democratic party, was in the end unbeatable,” he said.
CNN’s national political correspondent Alex Thompson noted that a former adviser to Joe Biden criticized the Harris campaign, asking: “How do you spend $1bn and not win?” ...
David Sirota, who was a senior adviser for Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign, described Tuesday night as a “very bad night”.
“Some of us spent years warning Dems to take working-class politics more seriously & to not tout neocons,” he said. “We did so in hopes of avoiding this & yet we were vilified as traitors by Dem elites & liberal pundits.
“There’s a lesson here.”
Prof. Mohammad Marandi: Trump Wins 2024! Iran & Hezbollah Ready to Unleash Unthinkable Retaliation!
Netanyahu’s sacking of Gallant likely to precede a shake-up of Israel-US relations
Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to fire his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, removes one of the harshest critics from his own government and empowers members of the far-right and ultra-Orthodox interests in Israel to key positions in Netanyahu’s cabinet.
By all accounts, the key causes for Gallant’s departure lie in domestic Israeli politics: the two men’s disagreements over a hostage deal with Hamas, Gallant’s opposition to blanket exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews from service in the IDF, and over a leaking scandal involving a close aide to Netanyahu.
But Gallant’s departure also comes at a crucial moment: the day of a US presidential election that will determine the nature of continued US support for Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon, as well as leniency toward Israeli policy in the West Bank and a potential escalation with Iran.
In many ways, Gallant’s sacking is the first step to clear the decks for an unclear new relationship with the US – either with a Kamala Harris administration that will probably continue support for Israel in an environment of deep distrust and growing criticism over the deaths of Palestinians, or a highly unpredictable Donald Trump administration that has vowed to back Israel to “finish the job” despite a fraught personal relationship between the two men.
And for the lame duck Biden administration, the firing also erases one of the strongest relationships between Israel and Washington further ensuring that the White House will struggle to restrain Netanyahu or secure a landmark cessation of hostilities before the US presidential inauguration in January. US officials were surprised by Netanyahu’s decision to fire Gallant, who has been one of the most important conduits to the US government via the defence secretary, Lloyd Austin. The two men are said to speak almost daily, and had helped repair some confidence in the relationship after Israel had surprised the US with the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah.
Netanyahu Replaces Fired Israeli Defense Minister With 'Another Genocidal Lunatic'
Palestine defenders on Tuesday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of swapping one "genocidal lunatic" for another after the right-wing leader fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and replaced him with Israel Katz, who was serving as foreign minister.
"Israel just doubled down on prolonging its genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza," journalist and genocide scholar Samira Mohyeddin said on social media following Netanyahu's moves.
Netanyahu cited what he called a "crisis of trust" that "gradually deepened" as his reason for the changes, which came as Israel is waging war on Gaza and Lebanon while bracing for Iranian retaliation for recent Israeli attacks on the Middle East nation.
Israel Katz, a hardliner who wishes for Palestinians to starve to death has replaced Yoav Gallant. (The hardliner who wished for Palestinians to starve to death) https://t.co/7srmxkpXmP pic.twitter.com/z7sY71qxbO
— Abu Bakr Hussain (@KintsugiMuslim) November 5, 2024
"In the midst of a war, more than ever, full trust is required between the prime minister and the minister of defense," Netanyahu said Tuesday, according toThe Jerusalem Post. "This trust has cracked between myself and the defense minister."
Katz, a member of Netanyahu's Likud party, previously held several Cabinet posts, most recently as Israel's top diplomat. He was the minister of energy and infrastructure on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants launched a surprise attack on Israel that left more than 1,100 people dead—at least some killed by fratricidal fire—and over 240 others kidnapped and taken to Gaza.
Two days later, Katz issued an order to "immediately cut off the water supply from Israel to Gaza."
"Electricity and fuel were cut off yesterday," he said. "What was will not be. All the civilian population in Gaza is ordered to leave immediately. We will win. They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave."
Katz's directive followed Gallant's order for a "complete siege" of Gaza.
"There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed," Gallant said. "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly."
These statements by Gallant and Katz are cited in the International Court of Justice's January 26 provisional order for Israel to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza. Israel—which is on trial for alleged genocide at the ICJ—has been accused of ignoring this and subsequent orders issued by the tribunal.
On Tuesday, Israeli state media reported that the Israel Defense Forces has completed its division of Gaza into two parts, and that "there is no intention to allow the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes."
"There are no more civilians left north of Gaza City" thanks to deliberate Israeli policy/tactics, and "no intention" to allow them to return.
There's a phrase for clearing territory of all its people... https://t.co/iGhEJALAog
— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) November 5, 2024
Katz has also come under fire for declaring United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres "persona non grata in Israel" for criticizing the country's war on Gaza, which has left more than 155,000 Palestinians in Gaza dead, wounded, or missing and millions more starving and sick.
While serving as Israel's foreign minister, Katz was also condemned for threatening "severe consequences" for nations that officially recognize Palestinian statehood. Nearly 150 of the 193 United Nations member states recognize Palestine.
Katz also raised eyebrows in 2022 after he made a thinly veiled threat to ethnically cleanse Arab citizens of Israel. Responding to Israeli Arab students who displayed the Palestinian flag on college campuses, Katz said "remember '48," a reference to 1948, when Israel declared its independence amid an ethnic cleansing campaign in which more than 750,000 Arabs were expelled from Palestine to make way for Jewish settlement.
Palestinians call this mass dispossession and expulsion the Nakba, which means "catastrophe" in Arabic.
"Remember our independence war and your Nakba," Katz said. "Don't stretch the rope too much... If you don't calm down, we'll teach you a lesson that won't be forgotten."
"Ask your elders—your grandfathers, and grandmothers—and they will explain to you that in the end, the Jews awaken, they know to defend themselves and the idea of the Jewish state," he added.
In one of his final acts as foreign minister, Katz on Monday initiated the process of annulling a 1967 agreement between Israel and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which Israel accuses of being "infiltrated" by Hamas. The U.N. strongly refutes Israel's accusation.
Prof. John Mearsheimer : Israel Shooting Itself in the Foot
Israel Imposed Evacuation in Much of East Lebanon, But Many Attacks Outside Those Zones
Last week, Israel imposed massive evacuation orders including a lot of heavily populated parts of eastern Lebanon, including an evacuation of the entire ancient city of Baalbek. People started fleeing, and within hours, the missiles started hitting the city and surrounding areas.
But where do the people go? With airstrikes having already damaged the border crossings into Syria, most people are having to go to towns and villages outside the evacuation zones. But are they any safer there?
Not so far they aren’t, as in recent Israeli airstrikes into eastern Lebanon, more are hitting areas outside the evacuation zones than the zones themselves. On Friday, 14 airstrikes were reported in eastern Lebanon, and fully 10 of them were outside of the designated zones.
Iran Says It Won’t Be Deterred by US Bomber Deployment to Middle East
On Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the new US B-52 bomber deployment to the Middle East wouldn’t deter Iran as Iranian officials are vowing there will be a response to Israel’s October 26 attack on Iranian territory.
The US heavy bombers arrived in the region on Saturday as part of a deployment meant as a threat to Iran. The Pentagon said the bombers and other US military assets were being sent to the region to “defend” Israel.
When asked about the US deployment, Baghaei said, “We have always believed that the presence of America in the region is a destabilizing presence” and added that it “will not deter [Iran’s] resolve to defend itself.”
Phil Giraldi : The US War On the Palestinians
Armed Israeli settlers torch Palestinian homes, cars and olive trees across West Bank
Armed Israeli settlers launched a wave of attacks on Palestinian properties in several areas of the occupied West Bank overnight, torching homes, vehicles and olive trees.
More than 20 vehicles were targeted in the central West Bank city of al-Bireh on Sunday night, in what has been described online as a "pogrom", with most set ablaze and left smouldering wrecks.
Video footage posted online showed Palestinians attempting to put out fires enveloping buildings and cars, and roads left charred the morning after.
According to local news agency Wafa, the settlers opened fire at civil defence search-and-rescue workers attempting to extinguish the flames.
Settlers later set fire to a parking lot and scrawled offensive graffiti on walls in the nearby town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, before fleeing.
BREAKING: A horrific night in Ramallah, in the West Bank.
Hundreds of Israeli terrorist settlers launched a brutal attack on the city of Ramallah, setting fire to numerous Palestinian homes and vehicles.
After setting Palestinian homes and cars on fire, they moved to the… pic.twitter.com/KZ6u37JZLh
— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) November 4, 2024
Yahya Sinwar autopsy reveals he had not eaten for 72 hours before his killing
Yahya Sinwar had not eaten for three days before he was killed on 16 October, according to an autopsy carried out by Israeli forensic doctors and carried by Israeli media. Chen Kugel, director of Israel's national forensic institute, revealed that one of Sinwar's fingers was amputated to obtain a DNA sample for verification as he had previously been imprisoned and had a medical record.
Kugel said that Sinwar had survived for several hours before succumbing to a bullet wound that caused severe brain damage. After the autopsy, Sinwar's body was reportedly moved to an undisclosed location, according to Israeli reports.
The details revealed from the autopsy had triggered widespread reactions, with many noting was prove that Israel had launched a "war of starvation" on Gaza and that Hamas members were not "stealing" humanitarian aid or food.
"Sinwar’s autopsy revealed that he and his men had not eaten in the 72 hours before their deaths. Dispelling the myth that the resistance "steals aid". Sinwar is still defeating 'Israel' even after his martyrdom" one social media user said on social media.
Linda Sarsour: Harris's Embrace of Pro-Israel Policies at Odds with Democratic Base
Much more at the link:
Israel, Blackmail & the Presidents
Just days before Election Day, WikiLeaks reported: “Author of book about the Trump White House, Michael Wolff, claims to have 100 hours of Epstein talking about Trump but releases only a one minute fragment.” More along these lines is now atop pages like The Daily Beast with journalistic scoops like “Epstein claiming Trump liked to ‘f—’ his friends’ wives.”
I didn’t realize until recently that Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s stepfather, Samuel Pisar — who Blinken has invoked at high profile events — was not only lawyer and confidant to media mogul and Mossad “super spy” Robert Maxwell but apparently to Jeffrey Epstein himself. Robert Maxwell was of course father of Ghislaine Maxwell who was Epstein’s partner in crime.
It has been largely kept from public view and understanding in numerous ways, but there is substantial evidence that the Epstein network was involved in gathering information on political figures from both parties which could be used for blackmail. The molesting of the girls was often apparently the insidious means, not the ultimate goal. The above referenced Daily Beast piece, to take the most recent example, does not contain the word “blackmail.” ...
Blinken has a very long relationship with U.S. President Joe Biden. In 2002, he was appointed staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when Biden was the chair of the committee and played a critical role in ensuring the invasion. He was Biden’s national security adviser when Biden was vice president. Biden has repeatedly displayed a propensity for touching females — including young girls — inappropriately.
Many have argued that Biden and Blinken have been more supportive of Israeli criminality than any other U.S. administration. What other factors and mechanisms might be at play besides the power of the Israel lobby and alleged strategic imperatives?
Trump Wins, Zelensky Despondent, EU Shocked, Russia Confirms Continue SMO; Netanyahu Sacks Gallant
US Air Force’s Election-Night ICBM Test
Much of significance will happen at the end of Election Day, and a countdown will begin at 11:00 p.m. PDT on Tuesday.
While everyone’s attention will be on who the next U.S. president will be, the U.S. Air Force will test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a dummy hydrogen bomb on the tip from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The missile will cross the Pacific Ocean and 22 minutes later crash into the Marshall Islands.
The U.S. Air Force does this several times a year. The launches are always at night while Americans are sleeping.
This is what nightmares are made of. Between 1946 and 1958 the U.S. detonated 67 nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands, and the result is that the Marshallese people have lost their pristine environment and face serious health problems.
The environment around Vandenberg is threatened as well. Not only did the indigenous Chumash people lose their sacred land to Vandenberg Air Force Base, but also America’s Heartland presently has around 400 ICBMs stored in underground silos equipped with nuclear warheads that are ready to launch at a hair trigger’s notice. Named “MinuteMen III,” after Revolutionary War soldiers who could reload and shoot a gun in less than a minute, ICBMs not only put Americans at risk of accident, but they put all life on Earth in danger.
ICBMs are not viable for national defense. They are a relic of a bygone era having been invented by Nazi Germany, and their presence only escalates the risk of nuclear accidents or conflicts.
Trump WINS Arab-Majority Dearborn; Muslims PUNISH Harris For Gaza BETRAYAL
Los Angeles Times owner cites Gaza war as a reason not to endorse Harris
The billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times has cited the war in Gaza as a reason for vetoing the paper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris for president. In an email sent to the paper’s top editor, president and chief operating officer, Patrick Soon-Shiong identifies Harris’s support for Israel’s year-long offensive in the Palestinian coastal territory, which he terms as “genocide”, as a compelling reason to withhold support from the Democratic nominee.
The email, obtained by the Drop Site News website, confirms a previous suggestion by his daughter, Nika, who posted on social media that the issue reminded her father of his family background in apartheid South Africa and had shaped his decision on candidate endorsement. Soon-Shiong subsequently dismissed Gaza as a reason in an interview with the newspaper. But his email to his senior underlings appears to confirm it.
“Has there ever been a time in our history when our nation is knowingly providing arms to another nation using those weapons to kill children, women, innocent people and target the press, doctors and medical workers?” Soon-Shiong writes. “And policies enabling this are supported it seems by both candidates?” He adds: “We can and must acknowledge concerns for democracy and the Jan 6 episode and the horific [sic] [October 7] Hamas attacks. But how do we ignore the counter issues of the innocents being killed now? Do we accept that indeed genocide is happening and that we stand as a country of willing arms suppliers and yet remain silent?”
Soon-Shiong – a biotech entrepreneur who bought the paper for $500m in 2018 pledging to fight against fake news – also wrote that the publication was seeking to endorse Harris without having met her or her opponent, Donald Trump. “Why is a collection of 6 or so board members filled with such wisdom that we can endorse one candidate versus the other without meeting either face to face?” he wrote. “Are we group thinkers following the crowd? The fact that for the past 3 years we wrote negatives on one but nothing (since nobody knew her) of the other candidate, automatically means that the candidate for which we know little is the candidate we therefore endorse?”
"This Is a Collapse of the Democratic Party": Ralph Nader on Roots of Trump's Win Over Harris
‘Goodbye, America’: celebrities react to Donald Trump’s election win
Celebrities have shared their disappointment and anger over Donald Trump’s re-election as president. The Republican’s Tuesday victory over opponent Kamala Harris sent shock waves throughout Hollywood after the Democratic candidate ran a campaign filled with A-list names including Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Bruce Springsteen and Julia Roberts.
The Don’t Look Up director Adam McKay expressed frustration with how the past year has been handled by the Democratic party. “Who would have guessed lying about Biden’s cognitive health for 2 yrs, refusing to do an open convention for a new nominee, never mentioning public healthcare & embracing fracking, the Cheneys & a yr long slaughter of children in Gaza wouldn’t be a winning strategy?” he wrote. He later added: “It is time to abandon the Dem Party.” ...
The British author Philip Pullman simply wrote: “Goodbye, America. It was nice knowing you.”
Nearly all of US states are facing droughts, an unprecedented number
Every US state except Alaska and Kentucky is facing drought, an unprecedented number, according to the US Drought Monitor. A little more than 45% of the US and Puerto Rico is in drought this week, according to the tracker. About 54% of land in the 48 contiguous US states is affected by droughts.
Even as the country experiences autumn and heads further away from a summer of record heat, the droughts continue to rise. More than 150 million people in the country – and 149.8 million in the 48 contiguous states – are in a drought this week. That is about a 34% increase since last week and an over 150% increase since last month. The drought is also affecting more than 318m acres of crops, a 57% increase since last month, according to the tracker.
That reality is only the latest illustration of global warming and the climate crisis, spurred primarily by humans’ burning of fossil fuels. Last month, it was reported that world’s water cycle was out of balance “for the first time in human history”. Nearly 3 billion people face water scarcity.
Drought conditions are not simply caused by a decrease in rain – but are driven and exacerbated by abnormally high temperatures that can quickly suck moisture from the atmosphere and the earth. The problem, however, is more complicated than simply counting rainy days. Droughts can occur even when there is slightly more rain than usual, depending on the frequency of rainfall. If there is a lot of rain all at once, it’s difficult for the water to be properly absorbed into the ground.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
State Department Spokesman Cracks Joke About Israel’s Starvation Blockade on Gaza
Fifty two nations call for global arms embargo on Israel
BRICS Summit Should End Neocon Delusions
Ukraine - North Korean Soldiers Are "Disguised As Buryats"
‘People do not want to believe it is true’: the photographer capturing the vanishing of glaciers
Rami Khouri: U.S. Voters Are Sick of Foreign Wars. Can Trump Strike a Grand Bargain in Middle East?
Trump Set For MASSIVE VICTORY In Michigan; Harris ABANDONED Catholics
GOP Takes Control Of U.S. Senate
A Little Night Music
Willie Dixon - I Love The Life I Live
Willie Dixon - I Don't Trust Nobody
Willie Dixon - You Shook Me
Willie Dixon - Bassology
Willie Dixon - The Little Red Rooster
Willie Dixon - Spoonful
Willie Dixon - Good Advice
Willie Dixon - I Can't Quit You, Baby
Willie Dixon - I Just Want to Make Love to You
Willie Dixon - My Babe
Comments
Not sure if my maths are right
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but it would seem the R team took the
executive, and both arms of the legislative branches
all in one elective swoop? hmm
So it would seem.
I believe that the best way to describe what is to come is "Katie bar the door!"
It is what it is. But if we can somehow avoid WWIII going nuclear until 1/20/2025, we *may* have a better chance to continue to remain not dead.
We're just down to the willingness of the Pentagon to refuse illegal orders (like a first strike), though. And with all of the evangelical fudamentalist dominionist officers that the Air Force Academy has been pumping out for the past couple od decades, even that is a somewhat problematic hope. They could still decide to immanentize the eschaton, just for shits and giggles...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
I would say the US is already on the path to self destruction
...without out the help of any other nation.
Continuing to live in this culture and environment comes with a lot of risk and dark karma. The clueless population is its own worst enemy. Think of the evil that has been done to the world with their funding. They are not People-who-can-Think.
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
evening pluto...
there is no need for another country to step in to accomplish the demise of the u.s. - as woodrow wilson put it, "never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.”
I have heard sstatements to that effect from third party
sources such as the military summary channel. Not surprising since the Dems no longer stand for anything other than 'winning elections". I wonder if they will continue to use "right to abortion" as a rallying cry now that their decades long failure to try to secure it has born the fruit that inaction generally results in.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
evening el...
my guess is that the dems might de-emphasize abortion in the future, as they will undoubtedly decide that the reason that they lost was that they weren't far right enough.
Yes on the Senate,
soon to be confirmed is the House of Reps.
I just listened to her concession speech. 15 minutes of watching a person speak about the promise of America, the forever promise to fulfill it, while possibly being buzzed on some fine wine.
At least she made it a clear concession, declared her cooperation with the transition team. I had a concern she would be sending some signal that the election was fraudulent, but she did not.
That is the only speech she has given that I watched. Hopefully, it will be the last.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Already had the House and Senate,
but improved their majority margins in both.
thanks, can't look at any more election stuff
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have reached the saturation point already
just assumed that was the case
evening qms...
the house is still not settled definitively. the senate is in republican hands.
a republican sweep seems quite possible, though, at this point. the dems have been solidly rejected this electoral cycle and they are unlikely to figure out how to rehabilitate themselves.
I had just taken a swig of coffee….
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Thanks, Joe. I have a sparkling clean iPad!
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
evening snoopy...
glad to help.
Thanks for the EBs Joe!
Just read Moon of Alabama's commentary on the North Koreans in Kursk narrative. I concur with his evaluation. Even Wyatt from Defense Politics Asia (I believe he's a "former" intel analyst from Singapore's armed forces) thinks the story is not credible. They would be a liability at the front. At best if they were present inside Russia proximate to the Ukrainian front, Kursk etc. they would most likely be used in a support role, most likely in a labor, rather than a combat role, a long way from the front lines. Zelensky's pitch based on this "new threat" to Europe and requests for long range strike weapons doesn't make much sense. If they are at the front in a combat role, for which there is zero evidence, even if they were, what is the connection to long range strike weapons.
I mentioned in a comment on another thread that one of the standby western sources NK News was using a Kyiv Post article as evidence to bolster their argument for this propaganda narrative. Supposedly the head of the North Korean ballistic missile development program was in Donetsk in August to check on reports that North Korean KN-23s had a high failure rate. The article's photographic "evidence" is plainly bogus, and brings to mind, the current observations about Buryats.
North Korean Ballistic Missile Expert Spotted in Donetsk
The BS story was supposedly concocted by the South Korean NIS. The article is dated Oct. 21.
語必忠信 行必正直
evening soryang...
moa's analysis made perfect sense to me. i can't imagine why russia would want or need nk troops, they seem to have plenty of their own.
the whole north korea angle on the propaganda has smelled funny to me from the start.
have a great evening!
Chinese Nationals on Reddit
....have been buzzing over a propaganda version of this story today. Click on "View 23 Comments" to see what they are talking about.
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
Jonathan Cook
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It's time to stop buying into tooth-fairy politics. No one's bringing salvation
Chris Hedges
The Politics of Cultural Despair
Sadly the dem voters think that it was misogyny and racism that kept Kamala from winning when it’s the dems ignoring their base for 30 years and not offering them anything to vote for. This ain’t rocket science.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
This is true!
Nailed it!
Clinton really took us on the downward journey to obsolescence.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Clinton was one of the most destructive presidents
Abandoned the things FDR gave us and offshored jobs and factories, killed welfare, killed bank regulations, killed 500,000 Iraqi children, …..
This guy said it all.
Good gawd. Kamala willingly rehabilitated the fcking Cheneys! And the other Bush neocons who instead of being charged for what they did were given a pardon by Obama. "Let’s just look forward while I continue what Bush/Cheney started."
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
She was reaching out for votes from republicans while
ignoring those who previously associated with democrats like many who are here.
War mongers good and those against genocide bad! Not a winning strategy!
Hey Q…
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Didn’t you say that you got a text asking for money and that there was a match for it? Someone here said it… anyway Lee Fang wrote about it and it looks like it was a scam.
https://www.leefang.com/p/democratic-consultants-deceived-donors
Gotta wonder how many groups like this one are out there? Sure be a shame if we got money out of politics and the money laundering dried up.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
heh...
if we took money out of politics, how would thousands of utterly useless, horrible people make money?
Biden seems bitter
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
Hi bluesters
Hi all, Hey Joe,
I predict both sides will do LOTS of drinking tonight, for completely different reasons.
Well it looks like America might have unburdened itself from what might have been. Not to mention what is and what should never be
I am not one to revel in anybodies pain, but the self-inflicted headshot the Dems gave themselves is pretty dang funny. The pundit and PMC meltdowns are truly a thing of beauty. It was racism and misogyny, not four more years of losing hope for change and getting F'd, not a lack of policy or platform, or a single accomplishment to tout, or a vacuously empty head. It was not refusing to have an unfettered primary process for the third national cycle in a row, or refusing to have uncontrolled press and public conversations, and it certainly was not calling peoplegarbage if you didn't agree with them. No way was it genocide or the economic situation they created. What a bunch of maroons.
The odds of the arrogant narcissist figuring out their faults are low.See Hillary. It is always every one and thing else. It was Russia in 3, 2, 1...
The Dems and media worked years on this. Their result well-illustrate their professionalism, expertise and skills. All their best minds, are incompetent.
Love Willie Dixon, he was the cat's meow. He shook the the world.
Thanks for the news and blues Joe!
happy trails all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
evening dystopian...
heh, the democrats have no one to blame but themselves - but they won't.
when i stepped into the voting booth and filled in the bubble for jill stein, i muttered under my breath, "guess who's speaking now, killer?"
good riddance to the most annoying, arrogant party ever. trump will inevitably screw the citizenry and leave the dems an opening, but they will probably still not have figured out how to be a real party of the people.
i sure hope that somebody figures out how to build a party of the people. the people need one.
have a great evening!