You've got post-mortem now complaining of the Dems' campaign
All kinds of things -- most specifically telling the Muslims to go away:
Genocide. Running with Liz Cheney. Not appealing to young men. Empty promises. Sending Bill Clinton to Michigan to insult Muslims, and sending out Barack Obama to insult Black males. No serious promises, no serious interviews, running Joe Biden until it was too late for anyone to challenge him and then swapping him out for an unpopular VP. Sure.
(And here one remembers the cherry-picked stats whereby the Dems claimed the economy was good while they were the ones that made it bad. Kudos to Stephen Semler.)
Did any of the intellectuals of the obvious who noticed this stuff, Bernie Sanders et al., consider that there is no point in complaining about the Democratic Party? They do not do dialogue. They do not listen: see e.g. Cenk Uygur. The whole routine with Jaime Harrison and the DNC telling RFK Junior to go away last year should have taught you that. The Democrats present you with candidates and an agenda, and you are granted two choices: 1) accept, or 2) reject. They do what they do; you do what you do. Why would they need you? They have money. They have their scary fairy tales about Donald Trump, which you believe. They don't need you.
So, yeah, just stop. Please stop. For the most part you had three types of voter in this election. 1) The Vote Blue No Matter Who, living in a prison of their own device:
2) The traditional red state voter: they like God, guts, guns, and Trump. I don't know if this type needs further explanation.
3) The swing voter: they're persuaded mostly by a) is the economy good, and b) are there other big things which stick out (in this case, genocide).
So Type Three voted for Trump this time around, and this explains why Harris didn't win any swing states. The Muslims of Dearborn, Michigan voted for Trump to punish Harris, as the Harris campaign spent seven figures trying to destroy Jill Stein. And that's all that happened.
As I pointed out fourteen months ago: if the people who fed the Trump-phobes their talking points were really as afraid of Trump as the Trump-phobes were themselves, they wouldn't be running Joe Biden/ Kamala Harris against him in the first place. But they didn't, so, no, they're not afraid of Trump. They do what they do to preserve their careers, and not for any reason one might reasonably count as political. The real question is about the rank-and-file Democrats. Why do they bother? Their party exists to lie to them, which is what they do, over and over again, with media stenographers of power in tow. They lied to you about Russiagate, they're still lying to you about the economy, and they change their lies about Ukraine with great regularity.
Apparently Jill Stein is in conference, these days, with Kshama Sawant about building a new party. Question: why should anyone, ANYONE, wait for those two to organize said party before acting? We are not going to "defend democracy" by voting with a party which has rigged its last three Presidential primaries.
I used to organize little kids to play a game called Blob. That was back in the day before online gaming, so Blob is something you play on a big grassy playground. You can find its description in The New Games Book, first published in 1976. Blob is like tag, except that when the person who is "it" touches you, you hold hands with that person, and then go after the other people in the game, until they too are tagged. The game ends when everyone is holding hands with someone else.
It's past time for America to organize its own game of Blob, without the permission of Democratic or Republican Parties.
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Democrats sowed the wind
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
From Hosea, I forgot the exact chapter and verse.
Democrats reaped the whirlwind. As for RFK, I had hoped to vote for him. He is, unfortunately a better lawyer than politician. Which is why Trump, or rather, Trump's backers, are dangling cabinet post! czar in charge of FDA! in front of him. Not because they actually intend to honor any promise he might been made, but because they do not want his very successful law firm bringing anymore suits against Big Food. The Monsanto trials Are. Not. Going. To. Be. Allowed To. Happen. Again.
Mary Bennett
About the "Muslim vote"
That is one faction which is important in one state. This why abandoning Howard Dean's 50 state strategy was so unforgivably stupid. Of course they are in conference with Stein. They want that 50 states ballot access. RIP, Green Party.
Mary Bennett
One simple reality is that
....the two party system is an unstable outlier that defies the laws of physics. Like a two-legged stool that cannot stand naturally — two-party governments require a lot of artificial "propping up" — which leads to chronic corruption or croneyism.
The places in the world where you will find these primitive, propped-up, two-party governments are on small isolated islands around Africa, the Caribbean, and near the nuclear-testing zones of the South Pacific. Some of these Islands are popular domiciles for exiled oligarchs and stand-alone banks. There are also a few failed states with two-party governments located in the undeveloped regions of the world. Thery often have retired military or mafia-type leaders, with names like 'Baby Doc.'
The sterilizing lack of diversity in a two party nation leads to socially-paralyzing polarity, xenophobia, and eventual extinction.
And then, you have the United States.
The simplest answer is always a great place to look for enlightenment.
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Here one thinks of the 1936 Soviet Constitution
So that's a one-party system for you.
The Democratic Party of today thinks it runs a one-party system. The leadership thinks it can do anything it wants, and the rank-and-file has to suck it up because what are they going to do, vote for Republicans?
Well, this year, like in 2016, they voted for Republicans.
“The loyal Left cannot act decisively. Their devotion to the system is a built-in kill switch limiting dissent.” - Richard Moser
Why did Kamala lose?
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'For the liberal progressives: if you're upset about an election loss but not a genocide, you need to check your beliefs'
But shitlibs still insist that Kamala lost because of misogyny and racism…not Palestine or the effing economy.
Maybe instead telling people who had family being killed in Gaza that she was speaking she should have sat down with them and listened to them.
Ahh well, Sam doesn’t have an ounce of pity for the Kam. She says that she got what she deserved. I gotta smart dawg.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
Well one thing might be cool about that
So they endorsed Harris, Harris lost, and now they have a wad of cash to spend on lawyers to sue the Zionist billionaires.
“The loyal Left cannot act decisively. Their devotion to the system is a built-in kill switch limiting dissent.” - Richard Moser
Some tweets
I posted a greyzone video of this guy talking with Aaron and Max that’s worth watching.
Of course this shitlib restricted the replies.
Guess this shitlib missed the fact that Trump isn’t president?
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
It's insane --
I mean, it's not as if Harris actually stood for anything, which is why the billionaires were all cutting her checks.
So what's the market for Trump Derangement Syndrome therapy look like?
“The loyal Left cannot act decisively. Their devotion to the system is a built-in kill switch limiting dissent.” - Richard Moser
Did you see my comment on this in the OT?
One doc has been telling us what he has been seeing in his office since Kamala lost and lots of people are losing their minds. I’m sad that people get so wrapped up in politics that they risk their mental health.
I fell down the fear propaganda rabbit hole during Bush, but I climbed back up when Obama continued doing what Bush did and the media didn’t report on it…that’s why I hold Rachel in such contempt. She’s making people mentally ill for the money.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
I see it!
https://caucus99percent.com/comment/626080#comment-626080
Perhaps we could get the State of California to require MSNBC to attach health warnings to their broadcasts?
Someday a movie will be made about this historically-bad bout of decisionmaking. It will be titled "The Triumph of Ego." From HOT SPOT over on Twitter/X:
https://x.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/1855334517269053861/photo/1
“The loyal Left cannot act decisively. Their devotion to the system is a built-in kill switch limiting dissent.” - Richard Moser
A former prosecuter has a fundamental problem
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understanding convicted 'criminals' options
among other issues - not the presidential type
IMO
question everything
"Blob" has also been called "Amoeba"
or "Amoeba Tag". (There are a number of games with the same name, but not all of them with the same rules.)
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Thanks.
“The loyal Left cannot act decisively. Their devotion to the system is a built-in kill switch limiting dissent.” - Richard Moser
lol….
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Imagine the outrage if they were on Russian TV.
It’s been very obvious that Israel owns the government and yet Americans don’t seem to have a problem with it.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
Jonathan Pie on the election
https://youtu.be/x0eq7VNCcYY?si=DGyLw580Z-DsUVua