Why does the MSM and the left knee jerk into “racism “ when things don’t go their way?
Perhaps if they developed policies which were helpful to the regular hard working Americans and not their elites , they might do better at the ballot box.
But these questions assume the left and MSM are honorable, objective and fair folks.
How does Zoomin Toobin still have a job? Loudon is home to Xi Van Fleet and Sean Smith, the dad who police arrested for protesting his daughter's sexual assault by a trans student in a school bathroom. The fact that Loudon still votes majority Dem is stunning.
Should Toobin not be allowed to work ever again? I mean, who here on the Racket News comment section hasn't masturbated in front of their co-workers before?
Your earlier writing on Loudoun was some of the most necessary reporting in years: one of the strongest confirmations of how broken and partisan, and just plain offensive, much of mainstream media has become, and ignored — willed out of existence even — by those who don't want to hear it (or are implicated by it).
The MSM is dominated by Woke Gen Zers who desperately want to impose their Woke stupid ideas on the readers by bias in reporting. Real normal people are rising up against this queering of the public space.
Actually, I think the MSM is populated by shameless careerists who want to maintain access to our sleazy political class & their nice paycheck so they do what they're told.
Rachel Maddow makes a huge sum of money for reading a teleprompter. Corporate America isn't paying that amount of money to "truth tellers,' they pay it for good propagandists who are adept at using their invented on air personality to sell political snake oil to the rubes.
Whatever your feelings about Chomsky may be, and mine aren't very good either, his book, Manufacturing Consent, was spot on.
Journalism, as Matt has pointed out, used to be a working class endeavor but is now the end result of a high priced college degree & is primarily the purview of our betters. Folk like that are the real core of the Democratic Party these days not socialist leftists.
If socialism was the end goal the Dems wouldn't have harpooned the great white Sanders whale twice in exchange for Neo-liberal global corporatists like Clinton & Biden.
The disgruntled black folk & trans folk & gay folk, etc., are, in my opinion, nothing more than useful idiots to be discarded at a later date.
The Israel/Palestine conflict has made that painfully obvious. TPTB loved "decolonization" when it could be applied to demonizing white Republicans but when it was aimed at Israel they discarded that shit like it was just that, a handful of shit.
Like many public intellectual scientists, Chomsky got to his position by his tremendous intellect and contributions to linguistics. I don't agree with him politically, but his science side is very good.
Brilliantly put, and thanks for making the point about the Great White Socialist Whale Sanders. I struggle with why more people don’t see that or point it out.
I'm kind of enjoying Haley coming out as the latest NeverTrumper to accept Dem cash to attempt to hurt Trump. Seriously, the Dems aren't even worrying about a platform to persuade voters to elect Joe. It's all about attempting to seize power through lawfare, changing election laws, keeping him off ballot, slander and libel. Oh, and then there's the vote buying.
I think The Swamp would like to see Haley as the GOP nominee and eventual winner. Their stranglehold on the left is complete, but former neocons on the right are wising up. A Haley 'win' would go a long way toward getting people back in line.
The more RINOs that support Hailey, the more hopefully will get primaried out. What worries me is the likes of Romney and McConnell retiring, they , like Paul Ryan, can do more damage beyond the scenes than in office.
LMAO!! I was so careful to not go there… my better, much funnier half has been calling Ryan that for years.. like “ yo Eddie, who do ya think ya are?” Ryan is such a duplicitous player, yet looks like Mr. Goody Wonderbread Two Shoes… and from Whoooosconciiin no less! I hate these people!
I'm left as they come, but i just can't muster the hate for Romney. Guy did some very decent things, both as governor and in the Senate. If not for him, we poor folks would have been screwed during the pandemic.
That $1200 lump payment and the minimum $800 / wk unemployment came from Romney and Steve Mnuchin, who knew that people suddenly out of work were going to need it fast. The idiot Pelosi wanted to means test it. Dunno what i would have done without that.
I might liken it more to The United States of Chicago.
The abandonment of all past precedent and ethics, combined with the weaponization of the major federal agencies started during Obama's term, with a bunch of his past staff (supplemented with some former Clinton slime), who are still involved in pulling the strings, including Obama himself. The revolution's been going on for 15 years, and it's nearing end stage.
Things definitely took a turn for the worst under Obama, but seriously the process began a lot earlier than that. Ever heard of deep throat? Or Charlie Wilson's war?
I don't see either of those as being close to Russiagate.
I also read recently, and haven't confirmed, that Howard Hunt, while in the CIA in the early sixties, conducted a far more elaborate plan to interfere with the Goldwater campaign offices. They actually had staff planted in the office that sent copies of Goldwater's speeches to LBJ before they were given. In several instances the LBJ campaign sent out positions in advance of Goldwater giving his speech.
Allegedly, when the impeachment hearings started, Sam Irvin refused to allow that story into evidence as it would have dwarfed the Watergate story.
Yes, but there was still a little wiggle room to question. But if Obama has his fingerprints on something . . . YMBR (you must be racist) to challenge whatever it is.
Is it true that some of the wealthiest counties in the country are geographically close to DC? It would be interesting to see someone do a red/blue cartoon on that based on income and voting statistics. Has it always been that way. Maybe so.
'the Dems aren't even worrying about a platform to persuade voters to elect Joe. It's all about attempting to seize power through lawfare, changing election laws, keeping him off ballot, slander and libel.'
Gotta save democracy! The end justifies the means!
Page 6D of today's Springfield, Illinois, newspaper, headline: "No ruling yet on Trump's eligibility." Maureen Groppe, USA Today.
"Given the justices' apparent consensus during oral arguments, it's taking longer than many people anticipated for a decision," said Notre Dame Law School Prof. blahblahblah.
But here's the money quote from the article. Colorado Secretary of State Griswold (sort of funny) "said her office has received few questions from voters about the issue. And she said voters will still be able to express their views on Trump no matter what the Supreme Court decides."
"'In reality, whether Trump is on the ballot or not,' she said, 'the American people will have all the power to save democracy and make their voices heard in the November election.'"
What a scary democracy-saving hag. A secretary of state is really just a glorified file clerk, state-wide. But don't worry, apparently whatever the Supremes rule, Secretary Democracy Savioress will have a work-around.
In days gone by, it used to be relaxing to read the Sunday newspaper.
Is she talking about writing in Trump on the ballot? Because when I looked into that recently, in order for those votes to be counted the candidate still has to jump through some bureaucratic hoops in each state.
Platform? What possible problem could you have with "Orange man bad."
It is genius on multiple levels.
If you say, "ORANGE man bad" you address racism & assorted color revolutions and the odd color of some of our food items, alluding in the subtext to climate & nutrition, etc..
If you say, "orange MAN bad" you address the horrors of sexism & toxic masculinity & America's perverse rape culture.
If you say "orange man BAD" you seize the moral high ground from the racists & rapists & orange folk.
Wait until the Dem Convention in August. The CCP, I mean the Party Potentates of the Dem Party will maneuver Biden aside and pick a candidate to head the ticket. And Trump’s Trials will provide a CV lot of fodder for the clown show that is the MSM.
I believe this is the case as well, though maybe not at the convention itself. They certainly have to wait until after the voters could pick Biden's replacement.
They will have plenty of cover, having the event in Chicago - we just had another "youth" "gathering" in the South Loop that resulted in two shootings with one dead. Will be fascinating to see if such activities during the convention get *any* establishment media coverage.
Suburban Chicago here. I don’t think it will resemble 1968. Progressive rookie mayor Brandon Johnson is no Daley. When the rioting begins, the police will make little effort to stop it. The Dems will have the pleasure of sleeping in the bed they made.
Do you think if Trump wins, even if he would win the popular vote, he will be allowed by the Democratic Socialist Party to take office?
I saw a video clip of Maddow and Hayes expressing their OUTRAGE that the US Supreme Court is not ruling on the immunity issue sooner. The Court is corrupt, obviously! I am not being over the top when I say, these people are vile.
My only solace is that the only people watching these constitutional freaks are their friends and fellow-travelers. I hope.
Alas there is no "socialist" element for miles and miles. It's a thoroughly Wall Street party. You saw how they treated Sanders. The deciders let them do their social justice pantomime so long as it doesn't threaten the money machine.
Who ya got? The only one I'm skeptical of is Michelle Obama. This would cause a major uprising of the temperature on the right, but I think she's got better things to do.
It's not who ya got. It is ballot harvesting. It doesn't matter, there will be ballots coming in from everywhere. Here in Illinois, your absentee ballot can arrive 14 days AFTER the polls close, just so they are "postmarked" on election day.
And if it is Michelle who hates America, but a whole bunch of fragile girls take their life direction from, why should anybody vote for her? Her platform is Biden's reality. We'll see. But it won't matter anyway. The Dems will win, no matter what.
Who ya got as the replacement? Newsome might demur, thinking he doesn't want to pull a Desantis and run before his time. Whitmer is the other one corporate media likes to talk about. Watch out, Mayor Pete could be a dark horse, but only if Biden (at least publicly) goes peacefully.
I better start reading more about Whitmer. For you to even mention her in the same paragraph, much less breath, as Hillary, puts her in a very uncomfortable spotlight. I haven't experienced a national candidate for office as unlikeable as Hillary, not even Cheney or McCain.
I don't know much about her either. Only Dem i think i could vote for as potus would probably be Ro Khanna. The fact that so many Dems seem enthralled with Whitmer makes her suspect to me off the bat.
The big question is what necessary means are the D’s gonna have to take to shine up Chicago for the convention? I have a sense the taken for granted residents who have been witnessing the slaughter of the black male youth obfuscated ,renamed and repurposed as “white supremacy” and garden variety “gun violence” are going to have their grievances aired.
My toughest was 2016, but this is even worse. (If that's even possible?!)
Going No Labels for sure this time, assumingthey filed a ticket. Whoever they put up will be sane, rational, and have a natural lean against the "fringists" who are dragging us down.
I live in Fairfax county, which is similar politically to nearby Loudoun. The idea that wealthy, liberal northern Virginia is a hotbed of confederate leanings is about the stupidest take ever.
Sincere question from a current Midwesterner who used to live in northern VA. -- Is there anybody there in Loudon County who is truly voting FOR Biden (i.e. "I love the guy!), or, is it just all about loathing Trump and voting AGAINST him?
Well, here’s the silver lining… Toobin is back on the air hopefully with all hands on “desk” and CNNs ratings continue to tank to barely a half million viewers…..and I viewed Younkin’s ultimate defeat of Clinton water boy Terry Mc Cauliffe as a sign that not all the outrageous gaslighting by the media was effective. And I see this strategy beginning to backfire in our primaries… people have had enough!
My home in West Virginia is near Loudoun County, and I go to a veterinarian there with my dogs. Much of Loudoun are still “regular” people, connected with a more rurally-inclined life (trucks, hunting, farms not vineyards etc) but it’s quickly transforming into another Leesburg or Fairfax county. I hate it. Expect the election will reflect the continued gentrification.
Loudoun Co was rural before 2000. In 20 years, Loudoun became a suburb of DC. (Clarke Co, for now, has retained some of its rural charm and farms, those that haven't been converted into wineries or breweries.)
But ride down US 29 and you'll see pro-Trump signs (some with Pence's name ripped off). That's rural. And those Virginians are completely ignored by the "Rich Men North of Richmond."
WV (Jefferson Co) is an exurb and has been growing rapidly. And the woke has rolled into this rural county. Fairness WV persuaded Charles Town (a town of 6K+) to ban conversion therapy. Jefferson Co has 4+ solar "farms" planned. The first eyesore was installed to meet the energy needs of growing Loudoun Co. Loudoun's NIMBY is IMBY and your backyard, too.
I live in Loudoun county. I'm not going to waste your coffee time because I don't really have much to say, aside from saying that I have noticed *zero* change in recent years and was very surprised to read this article. Maybe the fever pitch wokeness has worn off, but the entire DC area is as blue as it gets. I don't see what you're seeing.
I know its important to cover all this election stuff, but really why should I care about articles like this? The political system of western liberal democracy is in serious decay. It is dysfunctional and completely corrupt. I see my moral obligation as not participating in and thereby perpetuating a corrupt system.
I think we all know that only a committed imperialist has any chance of taking power in the USA. All this is theater, fake, propaganda to get us to think the political system has any relationship to "democracy". There are many many issues of great importance, Gaza for example, which deserve far more of my attention than the details of a totally corrupt political process the outcome of which is in little doubt. The imperial establishment will install who it wants and that person will follow their orders to the letter. The important news is taking place outside the US and outside the West BRICS, SCO, ASEAN, EAEU is where the cutting edge of human advancement is and there is much positive about it. But hay, the is the USA and we don't give a damn about other civilizations in fact we hate them.
"we don't give a damn about other civilizations in fact we hate them"
Including our own.
We are toast. I can see why you would just not participate. It literally has no effect.
I agree about Gaza. That one is worth my attention. Best live sporting event on earth right now. True blood sport. The consequences of a botched play are for real, and for keeps. And we all, of course, have our favorite team, eh?
I had every intention of sitting it out, and most likely November as well. (I'm a lefty who isn't a Dem, and usually vote 3rd party. Not seeing much there to date worth a vote.) My state votes on Super Tues (MA), and i'm not really sure what the point is in voting, but i had a small epiphany that i should maybe vote for Dean Phillips. No, i don't really want him either. But better than Biden or Trump, and seems like a decent sort of guy. And i can always vote against him in November.
I remember, years back, reading a little blurb in The Farmers Almanac. A pollster asked an elderly lady if it true that she had never voted. She proudly replied, yes. He then asked why not. She responded, "I don't care much for politicians. I think voting only encourages their continuation".
Nova suburban voter here — Fairfax not Loudon, which is even bluer. Youngkin made inroads in Nova (including ultra-blue Arlington & Alexandria) because a.) idiotic school & Covid policy, and b.) retread McAuliffe was/is a DNC stooge/candidate. A lot of Dems, some independents, and MIC-GOP types (plentiful), will undoubtedly “Pick Nikki” (#SloganBarf) & it will likely be her strongest state. Trump will win Virginia tho, albeit more narrowly.
2021 tweet of Youngkin signs in my Fairfax County blue ‘hood:
We left Loudoun County in 2003 after living there eight years. It became rich when Maryland passed an amendment to the tax code authorizing counties to add a 40% surcharge to state taxes. A short drive across the Beltway's bridge brought people and businesses to Loudoun County, which was a sleepy rural county up to then. Dulles Airport had been built there in the late sixties. considered the middle of nowhere. The county government was shaken up in the mid-90s by a good-government coalition of Democrats and Republicans. The parents' revolution was merely a continuation of that. Most people were pragmatic.
9/11 shook things up. I knew the entire cabin crew of the highjacked airliner; my wife was retired and our disabled daughter worked part-time in a vet clinic. Both volunteered at the local Red Cross, which was inundated with donations of money and computer equipment. The blue-haired elderly ladies who staffed the office were drowning. My daughter named herself Head of IT and put together a network and an Excel program to track donations.
Our neighbors were all races and colors. Nobody was particularly political. It is helpful to recognize that Loudoun abuts West Virginia; the libertarian leaning of our neighboring state didn't stop at the border. Our dentist was black, his partner was Chinese. Our pharmacist was Vietnamese, our daughter's physician was Japanese. Ane that's the background.
"After 2021, what happened in Loudoun was pitched as a racist revolt."
Wow, so unusual for the media to use that narrative.
Nevah been done befo!
Why does the MSM and the left knee jerk into “racism “ when things don’t go their way?
Perhaps if they developed policies which were helpful to the regular hard working Americans and not their elites , they might do better at the ballot box.
But these questions assume the left and MSM are honorable, objective and fair folks.
Which is a silly and false assumption.
Designed to trigger an emotional response, rather than cause a desire to dig deeper into the accuracy of the claim. IOW propaganda.
"Why does the MSM and the left knee jerk into 'racism ' when things don’t go their way?"
Samuel Johnson could tell you.
“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
S. Johnson.
How does Zoomin Toobin still have a job? Loudon is home to Xi Van Fleet and Sean Smith, the dad who police arrested for protesting his daughter's sexual assault by a trans student in a school bathroom. The fact that Loudon still votes majority Dem is stunning.
Should Toobin not be allowed to work ever again? I mean, who here on the Racket News comment section hasn't masturbated in front of their co-workers before?
Yeah, I mean, didn't he resign his job to spend more time with his favorite family 'member?'
LOL
He puts the "tube" in Toobin! (And then he puts it in his hands.)
Your earlier writing on Loudoun was some of the most necessary reporting in years: one of the strongest confirmations of how broken and partisan, and just plain offensive, much of mainstream media has become, and ignored — willed out of existence even — by those who don't want to hear it (or are implicated by it).
The MSM is dominated by Woke Gen Zers who desperately want to impose their Woke stupid ideas on the readers by bias in reporting. Real normal people are rising up against this queering of the public space.
Actually, I think the MSM is populated by shameless careerists who want to maintain access to our sleazy political class & their nice paycheck so they do what they're told.
Rachel Maddow makes a huge sum of money for reading a teleprompter. Corporate America isn't paying that amount of money to "truth tellers,' they pay it for good propagandists who are adept at using their invented on air personality to sell political snake oil to the rubes.
Whatever your feelings about Chomsky may be, and mine aren't very good either, his book, Manufacturing Consent, was spot on.
Journalism, as Matt has pointed out, used to be a working class endeavor but is now the end result of a high priced college degree & is primarily the purview of our betters. Folk like that are the real core of the Democratic Party these days not socialist leftists.
If socialism was the end goal the Dems wouldn't have harpooned the great white Sanders whale twice in exchange for Neo-liberal global corporatists like Clinton & Biden.
The disgruntled black folk & trans folk & gay folk, etc., are, in my opinion, nothing more than useful idiots to be discarded at a later date.
The Israel/Palestine conflict has made that painfully obvious. TPTB loved "decolonization" when it could be applied to demonizing white Republicans but when it was aimed at Israel they discarded that shit like it was just that, a handful of shit.
Like many public intellectual scientists, Chomsky got to his position by his tremendous intellect and contributions to linguistics. I don't agree with him politically, but his science side is very good.
Brilliantly put, and thanks for making the point about the Great White Socialist Whale Sanders. I struggle with why more people don’t see that or point it out.
Thanks
Just one of many "Things To make You Go...WTF guys? Do you people have blinders on? It's glaringly freaking obvious, don't ya think?
Good points - i think these folks talk a good game on Socialism but are scared to death of its actual implementation.
Is this the most boring Super Tuesday in history?
I'm kind of enjoying Haley coming out as the latest NeverTrumper to accept Dem cash to attempt to hurt Trump. Seriously, the Dems aren't even worrying about a platform to persuade voters to elect Joe. It's all about attempting to seize power through lawfare, changing election laws, keeping him off ballot, slander and libel. Oh, and then there's the vote buying.
I think The Swamp would like to see Haley as the GOP nominee and eventual winner. Their stranglehold on the left is complete, but former neocons on the right are wising up. A Haley 'win' would go a long way toward getting people back in line.
The more RINOs that support Hailey, the more hopefully will get primaried out. What worries me is the likes of Romney and McConnell retiring, they , like Paul Ryan, can do more damage beyond the scenes than in office.
Who’s afraid of Eddie Munster? 😇
LMAO!! I was so careful to not go there… my better, much funnier half has been calling Ryan that for years.. like “ yo Eddie, who do ya think ya are?” Ryan is such a duplicitous player, yet looks like Mr. Goody Wonderbread Two Shoes… and from Whoooosconciiin no less! I hate these people!
PS and my better half is much more a Republican than me!! He hates him! Almost as much as Liz Cheney!!
I'm left as they come, but i just can't muster the hate for Romney. Guy did some very decent things, both as governor and in the Senate. If not for him, we poor folks would have been screwed during the pandemic.
I thought we did get screwed during the pandemic.
That $1200 lump payment and the minimum $800 / wk unemployment came from Romney and Steve Mnuchin, who knew that people suddenly out of work were going to need it fast. The idiot Pelosi wanted to means test it. Dunno what i would have done without that.
Behind the scenes….
I get that you guys really care about all this stuff, but I'm just here for the lulz now.
Since there's nothing I can do about it, I amuse myself by watching America become the Western Hemisphere's newest banana republic .
I might liken it more to The United States of Chicago.
The abandonment of all past precedent and ethics, combined with the weaponization of the major federal agencies started during Obama's term, with a bunch of his past staff (supplemented with some former Clinton slime), who are still involved in pulling the strings, including Obama himself. The revolution's been going on for 15 years, and it's nearing end stage.
Seems less of a revolution and more of a coup...
Things definitely took a turn for the worst under Obama, but seriously the process began a lot earlier than that. Ever heard of deep throat? Or Charlie Wilson's war?
I don't see either of those as being close to Russiagate.
I also read recently, and haven't confirmed, that Howard Hunt, while in the CIA in the early sixties, conducted a far more elaborate plan to interfere with the Goldwater campaign offices. They actually had staff planted in the office that sent copies of Goldwater's speeches to LBJ before they were given. In several instances the LBJ campaign sent out positions in advance of Goldwater giving his speech.
Allegedly, when the impeachment hearings started, Sam Irvin refused to allow that story into evidence as it would have dwarfed the Watergate story.
Finally. Nixon has now been exonerated.
Jon,
Good thing that's not what I said. 'Beginning' and 'worsening' have actual meaning.
Yes, but there was still a little wiggle room to question. But if Obama has his fingerprints on something . . . YMBR (you must be racist) to challenge whatever it is.
Is it true that some of the wealthiest counties in the country are geographically close to DC? It would be interesting to see someone do a red/blue cartoon on that based on income and voting statistics. Has it always been that way. Maybe so.
The DC area got rich in the last 50 years, as America stopped making anything but money.
I used to get worked up. Then I stepped back, took a good look at every institution infested, and I asked, "What exactly are we saving?"
Now whenever I get twinges of patriotism, I watch a bit of TikTok, like an open sewer, and am cured once more.
'the Dems aren't even worrying about a platform to persuade voters to elect Joe. It's all about attempting to seize power through lawfare, changing election laws, keeping him off ballot, slander and libel.'
Gotta save democracy! The end justifies the means!
Page 6D of today's Springfield, Illinois, newspaper, headline: "No ruling yet on Trump's eligibility." Maureen Groppe, USA Today.
"Given the justices' apparent consensus during oral arguments, it's taking longer than many people anticipated for a decision," said Notre Dame Law School Prof. blahblahblah.
But here's the money quote from the article. Colorado Secretary of State Griswold (sort of funny) "said her office has received few questions from voters about the issue. And she said voters will still be able to express their views on Trump no matter what the Supreme Court decides."
"'In reality, whether Trump is on the ballot or not,' she said, 'the American people will have all the power to save democracy and make their voices heard in the November election.'"
What a scary democracy-saving hag. A secretary of state is really just a glorified file clerk, state-wide. But don't worry, apparently whatever the Supremes rule, Secretary Democracy Savioress will have a work-around.
In days gone by, it used to be relaxing to read the Sunday newspaper.
Which is why I no longer subscribe. I canceled due to Covid/Lecture/Orangeman-bad fatigue.
Is she talking about writing in Trump on the ballot? Because when I looked into that recently, in order for those votes to be counted the candidate still has to jump through some bureaucratic hoops in each state.
Isn't it weird, Colorado Division.. why do we have a creepy photo of the Secretary of State on the official webpage on which we go to do our business?
https://www.sos.state.co.us/
Look CO DNR for example. https://dnr.colorado.gov/
No photos of the Director.
Is it a branch of state government or a personality cult?
Doing your business in or around her office I'd say is both creepy AND disgusting.
Big vote buying !! With our printed or yet to be printed money…
Platform? What possible problem could you have with "Orange man bad."
It is genius on multiple levels.
If you say, "ORANGE man bad" you address racism & assorted color revolutions and the odd color of some of our food items, alluding in the subtext to climate & nutrition, etc..
If you say, "orange MAN bad" you address the horrors of sexism & toxic masculinity & America's perverse rape culture.
If you say "orange man BAD" you seize the moral high ground from the racists & rapists & orange folk.
Like I said. Genius.
And if ya buy that I'll tell ya another.
R
Wait until the Dem Convention in August. The CCP, I mean the Party Potentates of the Dem Party will maneuver Biden aside and pick a candidate to head the ticket. And Trump’s Trials will provide a CV lot of fodder for the clown show that is the MSM.
I believe this is the case as well, though maybe not at the convention itself. They certainly have to wait until after the voters could pick Biden's replacement.
They will have plenty of cover, having the event in Chicago - we just had another "youth" "gathering" in the South Loop that resulted in two shootings with one dead. Will be fascinating to see if such activities during the convention get *any* establishment media coverage.
Shades of 1968?
Suburban Chicago here. I don’t think it will resemble 1968. Progressive rookie mayor Brandon Johnson is no Daley. When the rioting begins, the police will make little effort to stop it. The Dems will have the pleasure of sleeping in the bed they made.
"Enthusiastic base turns out for Democrats in Chicago"
Maybe NBC will have Andrea Twitchell cover it so she can scream “ where are the Police when you need them??”… that was epic.
We are far beyond 1968.
Do you think if Trump wins, even if he would win the popular vote, he will be allowed by the Democratic Socialist Party to take office?
I saw a video clip of Maddow and Hayes expressing their OUTRAGE that the US Supreme Court is not ruling on the immunity issue sooner. The Court is corrupt, obviously! I am not being over the top when I say, these people are vile.
My only solace is that the only people watching these constitutional freaks are their friends and fellow-travelers. I hope.
Alas there is no "socialist" element for miles and miles. It's a thoroughly Wall Street party. You saw how they treated Sanders. The deciders let them do their social justice pantomime so long as it doesn't threaten the money machine.
The Democrats won’t be in Chicago to cause disorder. The Democrats will be in Chicago to preserve disorder.
Who ya got? The only one I'm skeptical of is Michelle Obama. This would cause a major uprising of the temperature on the right, but I think she's got better things to do.
She's already living the life Nikki Haley wants.
Yes. Spend that money. Enjoy the adulation. Speak at events to rousing applause. The attention is intoxicating. Just ask her husband, Barky Obama.
It's not who ya got. It is ballot harvesting. It doesn't matter, there will be ballots coming in from everywhere. Here in Illinois, your absentee ballot can arrive 14 days AFTER the polls close, just so they are "postmarked" on election day.
And if it is Michelle who hates America, but a whole bunch of fragile girls take their life direction from, why should anybody vote for her? Her platform is Biden's reality. We'll see. But it won't matter anyway. The Dems will win, no matter what.
like managing her new-found wealth and even more vacations and additional staff attendants.
My money's still on Michelle Obama.
Who ya got as the replacement? Newsome might demur, thinking he doesn't want to pull a Desantis and run before his time. Whitmer is the other one corporate media likes to talk about. Watch out, Mayor Pete could be a dark horse, but only if Biden (at least publicly) goes peacefully.
Why is everyone so enthralled with Whitmer? She's as unlikeable as Hillary.
I better start reading more about Whitmer. For you to even mention her in the same paragraph, much less breath, as Hillary, puts her in a very uncomfortable spotlight. I haven't experienced a national candidate for office as unlikeable as Hillary, not even Cheney or McCain.
I don't know much about her either. Only Dem i think i could vote for as potus would probably be Ro Khanna. The fact that so many Dems seem enthralled with Whitmer makes her suspect to me off the bat.
Buttigieg was really impressive in handling the East Palestine disaster. Did he ever actually show up?
yes he did, in black patent leather shoes.
Chic!
Moochelle.
Ok, Rush!
The big question is what necessary means are the D’s gonna have to take to shine up Chicago for the convention? I have a sense the taken for granted residents who have been witnessing the slaughter of the black male youth obfuscated ,renamed and repurposed as “white supremacy” and garden variety “gun violence” are going to have their grievances aired.
That's the weirdest part of this election year, i.e. absolutely no drama about who will get the nomination on either side.
The only drama comes from "Will they boot Trump off the ballot/lock him up before the election?"
Edit: I guess there's also some drama with "Will they replace Biden and when?" -- but nothing relating to who gets the votes during the primary.
I would rewrite your sentence slightly: "They will replace Biden but when?"
For now............
Yeah, when the general election starts...I'm going to hide underground until it is over with.
LOL! And yesterday, Nikki Hailey saying she’s not interested in “ No Labels” said…“ I’m not against Trump”… Stupor Tuesday
It's the first time I'm not gonna vote since 1988.
My toughest was 2016, but this is even worse. (If that's even possible?!)
Going No Labels for sure this time, assumingthey filed a ticket. Whoever they put up will be sane, rational, and have a natural lean against the "fringists" who are dragging us down.
I live in Fairfax county, which is similar politically to nearby Loudoun. The idea that wealthy, liberal northern Virginia is a hotbed of confederate leanings is about the stupidest take ever.
I really enjoyed your series on Loudoun, so I'm looking forward to your upcoming coverage.
Sincere question from a current Midwesterner who used to live in northern VA. -- Is there anybody there in Loudon County who is truly voting FOR Biden (i.e. "I love the guy!), or, is it just all about loathing Trump and voting AGAINST him?
Old news. In 2020, Biden bumper stickers or lawn signs were as rare as rocking-horse manure. And I'm in one of the bluest states.
It's "B."
Yes, it will be the same clueless people who think the economy is the best ever!!
For defense contractors, it probably is.
Well, here’s the silver lining… Toobin is back on the air hopefully with all hands on “desk” and CNNs ratings continue to tank to barely a half million viewers…..and I viewed Younkin’s ultimate defeat of Clinton water boy Terry Mc Cauliffe as a sign that not all the outrageous gaslighting by the media was effective. And I see this strategy beginning to backfire in our primaries… people have had enough!
My home in West Virginia is near Loudoun County, and I go to a veterinarian there with my dogs. Much of Loudoun are still “regular” people, connected with a more rurally-inclined life (trucks, hunting, farms not vineyards etc) but it’s quickly transforming into another Leesburg or Fairfax county. I hate it. Expect the election will reflect the continued gentrification.
Loudoun Co was rural before 2000. In 20 years, Loudoun became a suburb of DC. (Clarke Co, for now, has retained some of its rural charm and farms, those that haven't been converted into wineries or breweries.)
But ride down US 29 and you'll see pro-Trump signs (some with Pence's name ripped off). That's rural. And those Virginians are completely ignored by the "Rich Men North of Richmond."
WV (Jefferson Co) is an exurb and has been growing rapidly. And the woke has rolled into this rural county. Fairness WV persuaded Charles Town (a town of 6K+) to ban conversion therapy. Jefferson Co has 4+ solar "farms" planned. The first eyesore was installed to meet the energy needs of growing Loudoun Co. Loudoun's NIMBY is IMBY and your backyard, too.
Ahh....Loudoun. Nice place to visit but glad I live further out.
I'm going to bet that it reverts to its norm and is all in for Biden.
Just so grateful I decided not to buy there and chose Warrenton instead.
Seems like Fredericksburg is creeping you direction though. Yuck.
Ah, Jeffrey “Spanky” Toobin esteemed CNN pundit🤡
Also, how the hell does that depraved imbecile still have a career? It’s as if Me Too was a psyop…
I live in Loudoun county. I'm not going to waste your coffee time because I don't really have much to say, aside from saying that I have noticed *zero* change in recent years and was very surprised to read this article. Maybe the fever pitch wokeness has worn off, but the entire DC area is as blue as it gets. I don't see what you're seeing.
I know its important to cover all this election stuff, but really why should I care about articles like this? The political system of western liberal democracy is in serious decay. It is dysfunctional and completely corrupt. I see my moral obligation as not participating in and thereby perpetuating a corrupt system.
I think we all know that only a committed imperialist has any chance of taking power in the USA. All this is theater, fake, propaganda to get us to think the political system has any relationship to "democracy". There are many many issues of great importance, Gaza for example, which deserve far more of my attention than the details of a totally corrupt political process the outcome of which is in little doubt. The imperial establishment will install who it wants and that person will follow their orders to the letter. The important news is taking place outside the US and outside the West BRICS, SCO, ASEAN, EAEU is where the cutting edge of human advancement is and there is much positive about it. But hay, the is the USA and we don't give a damn about other civilizations in fact we hate them.
"we don't give a damn about other civilizations in fact we hate them"
Including our own.
We are toast. I can see why you would just not participate. It literally has no effect.
I agree about Gaza. That one is worth my attention. Best live sporting event on earth right now. True blood sport. The consequences of a botched play are for real, and for keeps. And we all, of course, have our favorite team, eh?
I had every intention of sitting it out, and most likely November as well. (I'm a lefty who isn't a Dem, and usually vote 3rd party. Not seeing much there to date worth a vote.) My state votes on Super Tues (MA), and i'm not really sure what the point is in voting, but i had a small epiphany that i should maybe vote for Dean Phillips. No, i don't really want him either. But better than Biden or Trump, and seems like a decent sort of guy. And i can always vote against him in November.
I remember, years back, reading a little blurb in The Farmers Almanac. A pollster asked an elderly lady if it true that she had never voted. She proudly replied, yes. He then asked why not. She responded, "I don't care much for politicians. I think voting only encourages their continuation".
Nova suburban voter here — Fairfax not Loudon, which is even bluer. Youngkin made inroads in Nova (including ultra-blue Arlington & Alexandria) because a.) idiotic school & Covid policy, and b.) retread McAuliffe was/is a DNC stooge/candidate. A lot of Dems, some independents, and MIC-GOP types (plentiful), will undoubtedly “Pick Nikki” (#SloganBarf) & it will likely be her strongest state. Trump will win Virginia tho, albeit more narrowly.
2021 tweet of Youngkin signs in my Fairfax County blue ‘hood:
https://twitter.com/StikeDC/status/1453776416663871500
Considering Veep Vivek wants to fire every one of these parasites, of course they are voting for Nimrata.
We left Loudoun County in 2003 after living there eight years. It became rich when Maryland passed an amendment to the tax code authorizing counties to add a 40% surcharge to state taxes. A short drive across the Beltway's bridge brought people and businesses to Loudoun County, which was a sleepy rural county up to then. Dulles Airport had been built there in the late sixties. considered the middle of nowhere. The county government was shaken up in the mid-90s by a good-government coalition of Democrats and Republicans. The parents' revolution was merely a continuation of that. Most people were pragmatic.
9/11 shook things up. I knew the entire cabin crew of the highjacked airliner; my wife was retired and our disabled daughter worked part-time in a vet clinic. Both volunteered at the local Red Cross, which was inundated with donations of money and computer equipment. The blue-haired elderly ladies who staffed the office were drowning. My daughter named herself Head of IT and put together a network and an Excel program to track donations.
Our neighbors were all races and colors. Nobody was particularly political. It is helpful to recognize that Loudoun abuts West Virginia; the libertarian leaning of our neighboring state didn't stop at the border. Our dentist was black, his partner was Chinese. Our pharmacist was Vietnamese, our daughter's physician was Japanese. Ane that's the background.
AKA “Loudmouth County”