The Democrats gave us Trump
So you have all sorts of speculation about what is coming out of the Trump administration, including the attack on the Deep State and the jettisoning of Ukraine. Chris Hedges gives us the pessimistic view: Trump aims at personal dictatorship.
The primary question is this: are we to be made into pariahs, again, by people who don't want to resist anyway? We are no doubt going to experience four years of howling about how bad Trump is. He's corrupt and all that.
Here I would like to offer a brief footnote about the "let's leave the country" narrative. Dear wannabe exiles: why would any country accept you? If Trump destroys the US role in the international economic order through prohibitive tariffs, why would any other country want to accept your dollars? Stay here and fight, okay?
(Honestly, I think the most critical problem with Trump is that he might crash the economy, in which case if you can get a job out-of-nation-state, more power to you.)
At any rate, I feel obliged at this time to issue the following warning to all instances of mass panic to be found on, and probably throughout, social media: the Democrats gave us Trump. Oh, sure, they're still jumping in front of every parade, but really, seriously, whose bright idea was it, initially, to suggest the following strategy: "we'll get everyone to vote for Biden in the primaries, destroying all opposition beforehand, even though he's not going to win against Trump this time around. Then we'll switch him out with Harris"? Meanwhile, the mass public was told for two years that this sure loser of a strategy was the only way of opposing Trump. Meaningless war and genocide destroyed the US reputation in the world during Biden, poverty and homelessness went up, inflation ravaged our buying power, and the billionaires went after free speech, destroying lives in the process. Ultimately, the world was treated to the moral example of one of the most violent Presidents of our time, alongside LBJ, Nixon, and W.
They gave us Trump.
Oh, sure, there's no point in defending Trump if individual Democrats really do want to oppose Trump. But there must be a reminder before all such efforts are endorsed: to oppose something, one must actually oppose it, both in word and in deed. Nice-sounding rhetoric will not in itself suffice to rehabilitate the Democrats from having given us Trump.
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Oh yeah, shitlibs want us to believe Trump
came out of nowhere. Channeling Kamala Harris(sorry) it is as if he just fell out of a coconut tree.And nothing to do with the shitlib misleadership class (channeling Black Agenda Report) . And I see bad takes everywhere - even normally better ones like Democracy Now! There was a professor comparing Trump to Orban. No doubt they are buddies and compare notes but Trump is very much made in Murica. Court packing like Orban - yawn, very old here. Though Trump does it in a crude, overt , vulgar way. And there are the obligatory comparisons to Putin. It is as if "Murica can never fail, but can only be failed." shitlibs will never take any responsibility for their failures.
Reg those highly privileged who want to leave USA, paraphrasing a tweet by a Native American professor : y'all stole our lands, genocided us only to want to flee the very sh*thole you created?". This is not to overlook the possibility of brain drain (as you referred to) esp in science fields.
Does anyone making comparisons between Trump and Putin
know who Putin really is?
Putin is smart, but in a lawyer sort of way, capable of great feats of public presentation, in action slow and methodical like a turtle. Russia under Putin appears as a cold, stiff, and humorless country, outsmarting and eventually outproducing the US, that land of empty careerists. The Russians hired Brittney Griner the basketball player: they paid her well, I'm sure, but then imprisoned her on marijuana charges and sentenced her to hard labor.
The international order is like American politics: we need new options.
"The Democratic Party has been focused too much on pleasing people who matter too little in this society." -- Chris Cuomo
Get a load of this crap -
Get a load of this crap - McKinsey. What could have gone wrong?
https://x.com/curaffairs/status/1889837411741606335
"They say genocide, we say Joy"
"No Kuffiyeh"
AOCIA's "tirelessly working for a ceasefire" made the cut (Good job you f*er)
John Bolton - Taylor Swift joint appearance
More consultants (chance of victory increases 2% for each 100 additional consultants)
Working link:
https://x.com/curaffairs/status/1889837411741606335
Poe’s Law example? Satire or for real? I admit I’m flummoxed.
The Harris for President campaign looked exactly like this.
All the way down to the cardinal rule of public speaking that was broken here: when delivering a speech, don't put your speech text on your PowerPoint slides.
In 2020 they shut up and let Trump destroy himself. 2023 and 2024, however, were scenes for the bizarre silence about how to defeat Trump: "oh I know! We'll run the most reclusive President in American history against him, while the bottom half of America struggles to make ends meet! Yeah, that'll work!" These were years of Olympics-level heroism, but put in the service of getting everyone to shut up about what was really happening: in short, clever stupidity. And this time around Trump learned how not to destroy himself. What I expected was a rigged election for Harris, but I guess they couldn't do that, because otherwise they would have, because they didn't have anything else. Meanwhile all the fake polling and burning through $1.5 billion for no meaningful reason didn't paint a smiley-face on what they were doing.
The Democratic level of pointlessness could only have been the act of a great crowd of careerists, each concerned exclusively with their own personal advancement within the system. Here one thinks, most vividly, of Pete Buttigieg's brief Presidential run, in which he mostly appeared to be a student of President Obama's delivery techniques while having nothing to adorn what might have been identified as "style" or "invention." (The reference here is to the canons of rhetoric.) A public speaker with principles (Martin Luther King Jr. comes to mind) thinks up good ways to illustrate those principles in their speeches; a careerist simply finds a technique and hangs whatever is available on that technique.
Trump publicity in 2024 was about the two assassination attempts, one of which was made possible through Secret Service ineptitude, and the other perpetrated by a mercenary with enthusiasm for the war in Ukraine. They gave us Trump.
"The Democratic Party has been focused too much on pleasing people who matter too little in this society." -- Chris Cuomo
Also
Before Harris there was Her Highness HRC, who WANTED to run against Trump, because obviously she was so very superior. If the dems and repubs aren't 2 sides of the same coin, then it's only the difference between 10 cents and a dime.
The partisan divide in America --
-- shows up in the division between "red states" and "blue states," a staple of American Presidential elections since 1992. This, too, is something the Democrats have given us. One recalls that, before Howard Dean became an empty, careerist sellout, he advocated a "50-state strategy" for the Democratic Party back in 2004. But this was anathema to the leadership. Dems do not try hard enough in the red states because they are too busy promoting the supposed difference between themselves and the Republicans.
Because the Dems pretend to be a "big tent" political party while in fact not being such a thing, they are capable of shaping American politics in a way the Republicans can only appreciate as a gift. Last year's big gift was Trump Two.
"The Democratic Party has been focused too much on pleasing people who matter too little in this society." -- Chris Cuomo
100% right
Deans strategy worked, and the dems immediately never tried it again. Obama had a huge dem network while president, and when his 8 years were up he refused to make it available to the party. Why mess with non success? The main thrust of going all out on the presidency is there are 2 possible blocks to getting anything done, by way of the house and senate in republican control. It's why Obama, when he had both in dem hands, he strolled and slow walked legislation until the republicans won. Then well, we can't do anything except collaborate.
Well, I've been watching the Powell Memo fascistic
Big Biz plan gradually unfold for over 50 years. Hunkered down and ready. I've been a canary in a political coal mine for years. LBJ had his corrupt side, and everyone has an opinion. He was responsible for Medicare and a lot of Civil Rights stuff. Become an expat? Why? All of my family is here. All TR-t-t is is the result of a long list. Nixon-Raygun-GB1-Bubba-Cheney/GB2-Obummer-tRump-Byedone-Trump/Borg. Compare it to a chemical reaction. Scared? Nope. Disgusted and pissed? You bet.
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
There is no doubt that the Dims brought this on themselves
and us. Nor do they seem disposed to learn from the debacle. The party has apparently decided that Israel + immigration is the hill on which they intend to die, leaving us despised by both sides "ordinaries" and "basics" to clean up the mess they leave behind.
Voters at every level from grassroots on up have for years been trying to tell these careerists we wanted no more overseas military involvements and secure borders, which is a legitimate part of national sovereignty. I had an acrimonious encounter with a Democratic operative back when I was still registered with the WFP. There was a particularly unimpressive slate of Dim candidates that year, about whom she would only say, Duffus, a, um is "a great candidate". Like I was supposed to take her word for it.
This began in 2016, when the Dim "leadership", you should excuse the expression, decided to deny Bernie the nomination he had fairly won, or was about to win.
Mary Bennett
Yep they did
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There was a good chance that Bernie would have beaten Trump, but it was Her Turn so democrats rigged the primary against him.
Good chance that Bernie would have won the primary in 2020, but it was genocide Joe’s turn.
Watch the video from rising that Joe posted in the blues tonight.
Who would have followed Bernie? I find it hilarious that Trump followed both Obama and Biden.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
As Mark Sleboda pointed out
halfway through this interview:
The change in foreign policy between the Trump administration and the Biden one has been the biggest in modern history. There is no similar freak-out in the foreign policy transition from Obama to Trump. This is a testament, I would argue, to how bad Biden foreign policy was.
If Hillary had won, she would have been a bad President, to be sure. But it's hard to imagine any other President with a foreign policy as bad as Biden's.
"The Democratic Party has been focused too much on pleasing people who matter too little in this society." -- Chris Cuomo