@wokkamile @wokkamile

One quibble is that he appears to repeat the lazy notion of Bernie being unfairly denied the Dem nomination this time. The real cause was Bernie's campaign and Bernie's attitude, not the DNC.

Tell you what. Let's play a game. Name one state that voted during the 2020 Democratic primary where there were NOT documented allegations of serious election day malfeasance on the part of Democratic party election officials.

Just one is all I'm asking for here.

are aware that Rbt Scheer started out in journalism way back in the mid-60s with the liberal firebrand magazine Ramparts which was a thorn in the side to the gov't establishment with its anti-VN War articles and other incendiary pieces calling out the CIA like no other media outlet (the Agency would later get its revenge). Then sometime later he reported for years for the L.A. Times, back in the latter half of its heyday, and did in-depth, interesting interviews with the leading pols of the day.

I view him as more akin in ideology and political attitude to Chomsky Realist Socialist Left, or roughly Bernie, as opposed to some of the Lefty Left voices I see on the internet. So in this interview we hear him refer to Liz Warren as a liberal populist and as someone who as VP with Biden would make the ticket acceptable to vote for. Such a semi-flexible stance (only slightly more conditional than Chomsky's) would not fly here, as Liz Warren is considered a sellout and fauxgressive Republican at her core and Biden even worse.

One quibble is that he appears to repeat the lazy notion of Bernie being unfairly denied the Dem nomination this time. The real cause was Bernie's campaign and Bernie's attitude, not the DNC.

Thanks mimi for brining this interview to my attention and I look forward to checking out Scheer's new podcast.

@wokkamile you laid that turd at the end there.

are aware that Rbt Scheer started out in journalism way back in the mid-60s with the liberal firebrand magazine Ramparts which was a thorn in the side to the gov't establishment with its anti-VN War articles and other incendiary pieces calling out the CIA like no other media outlet (the Agency would later get its revenge). Then sometime later he reported for years for the L.A. Times, back in the latter half of its heyday, and did in-depth, interesting interviews with the leading pols of the day.

I view him as more akin in ideology and political attitude to Chomsky Realist Socialist Left, or roughly Bernie, as opposed to some of the Lefty Left voices I see on the internet. So in this interview we hear him refer to Liz Warren as a liberal populist and as someone who as VP with Biden would make the ticket acceptable to vote for. Such a semi-flexible stance (only slightly more conditional than Chomsky's) would not fly here, as Liz Warren is considered a sellout and fauxgressive Republican at her core and Biden even worse.

One quibble is that he appears to repeat the lazy notion of Bernie being unfairly denied the Dem nomination this time. The real cause was Bernie's campaign and Bernie's attitude, not the DNC.

Thanks mimi for brining this interview to my attention and I look forward to checking out Scheer's new podcast.