The recent ballot access challenges, political investigations, and canceled primaries are just an extension of a phenomenon we should have seen coming twenty years ago
That's exactly right. Putin recently stated in a speech: "The US elections are fraudulent. Democracy is doing the will of the people". The voice of the people in the US and the west is drowned out by the "cha-ching!" of a trillion cash registers opening in the minds of those "governing".
Let's be clear: the reason Putin understands it is because Putin plays the same game, but is able to do it without the current Democratic "legitimacy dance." And if your concept of democracy boils down to "Whomever gets the most votes wins," then it really doesn't matter whether you get the most votes because you are the most popular candidate or because people aren't allowed to vote for anyone else; you still win "democratically."
So, to edit Putin: ACTUAL democracy is doing the will of the people as freely expressed by those people in open and readily verifiable elections.
But again, this works on both sides. I believe that the GOP didn’t even produce a platform in 2016? I used to say I voted for a party platform, but can’t anymore.
That is correct. For the most part the Republican leadership is off course, Trump came in and actually said he would do what most people want to see. Leadership hates that. We don’t really have clear choices any longer. Sad! Lack of truthful & balanced news media causes most problems in society.
Well I guess that’s my point. I’d like to see every Pres candidate have a platform in writing, or sign on to their party’s platform. Also, Trump could not have won in 2016 without the GOP vote, so…As for his spoken agenda and fealty to it, that’s a book.
They pretended to support him because they never thought he would win. Both parties were sure that Hillary had it in the bag so they sat back..They will never do that again. The Uniparty stands together against The People.
Trump had a platform in ‘16 and had one in ‘20 and ‘24. The problem is MsM does everything they can to distort , destroy and manipulate it to the American public. The only way to understand what Trump’s about is to listen to his speeches and read his website otherwise all the general public knows is he’s a nazi, supposedly raped a woman in a dressing room and broken every law in the country. And it’s the same players like reed hoffman that put Carroll up to lying about her case. Hoffman paid for the lawsuit. Trump has got to be the most persecuted man in the world. And the bottom line is the boarder was safer than it’s ever been in my lifetime. I had more disposable income than I had in decades. More people, all people were employed with better incomes than ever before. And we were safer than we’ve been for years. Trumps first speech after taking the oath was “today we are not handing the country over to a different party we are returning the country back to you the American people.” And that’s exactly what the establishment don’t want him to do because they want to be in power endlessly to do to us what they wish while stealing every cent they can from us. That’s why people will vote for Trump again and again. Because they’re sick and tired of being screwed out of our money, our freedom and our country.
The RNC tried and failed to keep Trump from getting the nomination in 2016, even canceling primaries in states Trump was likely to win. However, the never-Trumpers dissipated their efforts by failing to unite behind a single candidate, and the RNC could not count on the MSM to act as their volunteer PR outfit.
Hillary's loss to Trump, one of the most repellent people I've ever seen shows that the elite's attempt at control via narrative won't work. There was simply no way to polish the turd that was HRC and her campaign. They offered nothing that any common person wanted, besides not being Trump.
I think the elite realize this, which is why they are using lawfare against Trump. And while I think Trump is awful, he makes the Democrats insane, and that's not a bad thing.
It is clearly working now and has since 2016. IT was an abberation that he won and they have since taken steps to ensure it won't happen again. Of course in 2020 even with those steps, they BARELY beat him. Which means we still can overcome their op.
Than HRC? Hell, half of Sanders' appeal was that he wasn't HRC.
I have read that Trump's margin of victory in Michigan was less than the number of voters who otherwise voted a straight Team D ticket but then either voted for Trump for president or left the "president" portion blank. People went out of their way not to vote for her.
He is a "true believer" in the soviet way. He had no shot, but was popular with the very people leading us in the "wrong" direction. He would get their votes, but far fewer than Hilliary got.
I remember watching a documentary about Nader's run for president years ago. One of the people on his campaign said the democrats were "the meanest motherfuckers on the planet." It was true then and is still true today.
Me too! I even went to one of his rallies in Long Beach when he ran against Bush. My parents nearly disowned me for voting for him. Imagine if he had actually won?
Mr. Kat--I liked the (ages ago) SNL routine called WHAT IF ELEANOR ROOSEVELT COULD FLY? (Snark can be a good thing.)
We--meaning all those involved in subscription journalism--from put your money where your mouth is subscribers, to SUBSTACK and the actual journalists themselves, are building the healthy American national dialogue we deserve. Everyone involved should be proud.
The American psyche has been under assault for five decades. Part of the psyop's (LIE) tactic is the trap of "them vs. us" ping pong knee-jerk emotionality where the focus is making villains of other struggling Americans and pointing the spotlight away from the actual evil mtr'fker's dismantling the Republic. (As illustrated by Matt's hard work in this report today.) My long winded-- aimed at myself as well--l point: Americans --as is the psyop's goal-- are more than a little beaten up. I've had to ask myself if "yeah but--what about--knee jerkism" isn't a abdication of my responsibility as a citizen of the Republic, and a convenient side stepping of the harsh manufactured hyperreality attempting to bring the free peoples of the world to their knees? "We the people" are the responsible agents in this goat roping. It ain't them. It's us. And Matt is absolutely correct about the distain the elite hold for US!!
The real fight is obvious. Like the printing press that broke control of literacy and spiritual pursuit and blew consciousness wide open to the common man, tech has hurled us all into a new age. Expanded human consciousness (why slaves were denied access to education) is the first fear of totalitarian monarchists and slavers. The grift being perp'd by criminal finance and the D.C. political hog trough is transparent to reality. And you can't fight ever evolving human consciousness. But you can through fascist/totalitarian means cripple it and criminalize it. Hence the desperation of the DNC/CCP/WEF/EU Davos tyranny, the rise and capture of tech by the bureaucratic surveillance state and the assault on civil liberty. Europeans and free peoples across the world are are fighting back!! "We the people" see it -- now we're beginning to believe it.
Because of OUR mutual commitment to transparency and demand for a healthy truth/fact based American/world reality WE are beginning to escape the psyop and are ever more capable of creating the vision necessary to put real solutions on the table. Of -- what the fascists fear most-- healing the willfully fractured American psyche and further expanding the agency and empowerment of the Republic's citizens.
Stay strong. Stay clear. No matter what are who is trying to convince you otherwise: You've GOT CONSTITUTION.
(And thank you RACKET NEWS for another top of the line report on American reality.)
The Bolsheviks of the DNC have altered Democracy to fit their totalitarian Leninist agenda. Some folks like to refer to it as Cultural Marxism, but no matter how you define it, it's pure totalitarianism disguised as "muh Democracy."
No one will really care about this much, but I'm going to tell it anyway. The American Library Association--of which I am a long-time member-- voted in a candidate for our current president who did not state she was a socialist during her campaign (campaign to be president of the American Library Association). She won and that day tweeted that she was a socialist and a lesbian. For the first time in the American Library Association's history, we have whole state library agencies leaving the American Library Association because it is now seen as promoting cultural Marxism. The state of Georgia has filed a bill in the state legislature to cut ties with the American Library association and in that bill a reason given is that the American Library Association is a Marxist association. States that have cut ties already include Texas and Florida.
The American Library Association has been a solid rather staid organization. We read and recommend books. We give book awards. In all my years I never knew if a president of the American Library Association was a democrat or republican. This president was inartful in her self-characterization, but she is one person, whose term is up in a year.
It was very odd. But she is from NYC area /teaches at Queens College. Maybe didn't realize how poorly saying she was a Marxist would be received from the vantage of a national organization. So far Montana, Texas, Florida, Alabama have left the American Library Association because they now see it as "Marxist". Georgia has a bill filed in its legislature to quit as well.
Other states are considering cutting ties. American Library Association is like the National School Board Association. A professional organization that had created guidelines for decades is now under scrutiny.
There was an article recently in either the Free Press or Public about the representation of progressive ideas and memoirs of Democratic Presidentsversus conservative ideas and memos of Republican Presidentd. It’s not 100 to 0 but it’s damn close. That’s what I’m talking about. Librarians do make decisions, and if representing only one side of the country’s political opinions of citizens, then they’re no different than the media.
I am 75 and get lost between words but I remember 1964 and the GOP Convention. My father detested Ronald Reagan. My father was a reader and read many languages including Yiddish I was 16 and failing school but they said I was a genius at Linguistics.
I just watched A Time for Choosing Ronald Reagan 1964 on youtube.
I went to English Protestant school. Reagan called liberal democracy America's worst nightmare.
I grew up in Montreal . My father loved liberal democracy and taught me to love America and the New Deal. That America is no more. 1964 was Civil Rights, Voting Rights and Philadelphia Mississippi and America chose Reagan and Fred C Koch founder of The John Birch Society.
That is the history I remember and I knew how to fact check 70 years ago.
You can't be for liberal democracy and win in the South
I live in Quebec we had a revolution. Race, gender and religion are no longer legal identities they are human fantasies. We are rich and prosperous after centuries of illiteracy and poverty under church rule.
In Quebec healthcare, education and welfare are HUMAN RIGHTS not American privileges.
Moe, what are you talking about? Canada is now a totalitarian hell hole that seizes people's assets for daring to challenge the Trudeau dictatorship. Do try to keep up, you are way behind the times in more ways than one.
But it’s not like they’ve succeeded in seceding from the rest of the country- so how exactly is Quebec any different from the rest of Canada? What revolution are you talking about exactly?
> In Quebec healthcare, education and welfare are HUMAN RIGHTS not American privileges.
To paraphrase [an internet feline](https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/fundamental-humans-rights-unless), all fundamental rights are rights of non-interference. The right to speech, to association, to bodily integrity, and so on not obligate anyone else to act for you, merely to leave you unimpeded. No one must listen when you speak, or agree, or associate with you if they chose not to.
"Rights" to Healthcare, Education, and Welfare are different. These require that others do things for you. Healthcare does not just appear, someone has to perform it, someone has to pay for it. These are not rights but the forced transfer of value from one party to another.
This is true but Quebec has a social contract that states the laicity of the state and the rights of the pre-Dead is paramount and the pre-born are in the hands of the creator.
Noam Chomsky is a left wing Libertarian who believes the state has no business legislating private morality. Reagan in his Time for Choosing speech said the government has no business legislating Public morality. Reagan said The New Deal was America's worst nightmare.
America is not United. Isn't it time for some thing other than a one state solution. Houston is half as populous as Quebec and Quebec can leave Canada in a month of a referendum and Greater Houston and the Gulf Coast doesn't look anything like Texas. It looks like America a terribly unequal unjust and unfair place to live.
Looks can be deceiving. Visiting for a short time tells you nothing.~ In America we have the RIGHT to pursue Happiness, but we have to catch it ourselves~ Benjamin Franklin . We all have the same chances, it is all in the way we have to seek it.
I am autistic. I didn't choose to be unable to focus on the task at hand or get lost between my ears. I didn't choose to have a PhD vocabulary and be a linguistic genius and a genius in logic at seven but be unable to use a pen or pencil properly or be unable to tie my shoes. I was able to survive because I could speak as well as anyone on television or radio I just couldn't learn how to sign my name.
I went to the same Protestant Schools in the same Jewish Ghetto as Kamala Harris. I recognized her accent. I too grew up near the Jewish General Hospital. When I was growing up it commanded great respect. It is not the accent of money it is the accent of wisdom and education. I could not believe my reaction when I heard Kamala speak. I recognized her ghetto and ran to Wikipedia. Sure enough Kamala's mother was an immigrant and a renowned PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL.
P.S. I also look pretty normal although losing the sight in one eye less than a decade ago has left me rather unbalanced because of my diminished depth perception. I once loved being a professional portrait photographer.
My wife is a PhD who once upon a time received a scholarship from the University of Chicago when it believed in education not the fantasy of economics.
We did not live in Hyde Park. We chose a nearby ghetto where we understood Obama wasn't one of us but by far the lesser of two evils.
I am Canadian. John Ralston Saul understands press freedom . Democracy has died in your darkness. Money doesn't speak it drowns out intelligent discourse.
We call it home and we find it to be just fine. Just as I am sure you do there. Don't believe what you see on TV, or read in the internet/books/newspapers. It is pretty warm right now down south, come see for yourself. You will have a great time I am sure.
I have been there but I was a stranger from a strange land and they spoke their truths because I am not the man or his thugs. Only one thing unites Texas and is hatred and diminution of the other. They call it faith and patriotism.
(Race, gender and religion are no longer legal identities they are human fantasies.)-
Think you should look around at how your current PM and media have been running the country.
As an asside, my father-in-law is a Quebecer, from Cape Breton Island. Came to the USA for work and opportunity when he was 16 around 1964. That America and World is truly only a shadow.
FYI- Senator Goldwater was the insurgent 1964 GOP nominee, backed by the JB Society.
Cape Breton is part of Nova Scotia (New Scotland) it is not part of Quebec . This of course or might be satire trying to convince me that all Americans are idiots.
I know who Goldwater was, my father hated the bastard.
Let's start calling what it is today (Fred C Koch's John Birch Society).
gREW UP AN ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS WHERE LITERACY WAS PRIZED ABOVE WEALTH. i WATCHED WHAT IT DID WHEN THEY BECAME aMERICANS.
Cape Breton is still very religious and very Catholic and a planet away from Quebec its barely part of Nova Scotia. It is a wonderful place. The people will welcome you. It is an 20TH CENTURY Irish fishing village in Canada WITH A FLOURISHING MIDDLE CLASS. Cape Breton was a small Island but now you can drive to Sydney and take the ferry to NFLD. Sydney is where the boat takes you to Newfoundland another wonderful place I visited because I was never afraid of strangers because as The Doors once sang People are strange when you're the stranger..
No need for a 2 state solution. We have a 50 states with multiple counties solutions. Some things that make sense in NYC, don't make sense in rural Alabama and likewise. For example it is hard to have a boat, a 4 wheeler, and a pickup truck in NYC (where you going to store and use them), and it is relatively hard to get a good bagel in Dothan AL. I bet there are still a few dry counties in AL too.
Most of us down south have no desire to FORCE people in NYC to live a certain way. We really don't much care what they do up there.
I know Alabama. I am white tall and erudite. I naturally commanded great respect as did my wife a Dr of Philosophy in Educational Administration with a demonstrated competence at the highest level. I am of course an idiot and never learned how to tie my shoes or read simple instructions.
I could thrive in Alabama except I am an imbecile at playing let us pretend I am not a redneck. Alabama has its fair share of genius butt and that is one mighty large butt more than its fair share of illiterate incompetent land owners.
I just got the numeo numbers for world cities. New York is the bench mark at 100 and is number 32 in terms of affordability in Noth America.
There are Zero Canadian cities where the average income doesn't exceed the average cost of living. That is the difference between real liberal democracy and oligarchy.
The ballot box rules in Canada not the banks and the corporations.
Money isn't speech it comeswith strings attached it is called he who pays the piper calls the tune or as in the constitution property rights. If my name is Koch and I bought the GOP and created the John Birch Society I own the Supreme Court even I died in 1967.
William F. Buckley famously read the John Birch Society out of the conservative movement in 1962. It still exists (I am a little surprised to find) but is a ghost of its former self.
Elite rule is stronger in Canada than in the more democratic US. In both countries, elites wanted the Metric System shoved down the throats of the recalcitrant masses. The elites got their way in Canada, but the people were able to resist in the United States.
I REMEMBER THE lizard . I EVEN SUBSCRIBED TO nATIONAL REVIEW i* WAS A VERY ANGRY AND LONELY 60 YEARS AGO. i RECOVERED. hOW IS THE jOHN bIRCH Society NOt THE FOCUS OF ORANGE COUNTY POLITICS IN 2024.
My eyes are old and my body feeble but your country is insane.
Reagan rode the John Birch Society to the governor's mansion and old Bill the lizard tongued NAZI has been in the ground so long the body is no longer protected from the worms by the alcohol he consumed by the case.
William F Buckley Sr was a Franco Fascist and his children burned crosses in front of Jewish summer resorts for fun and to please the Texas Oil Tycoon and Nazi bastard.
It was William F Buckley Sr who attempted to have America invade Mexico when Mexico dared suggest IT OWNED ITS OWN DOMESTIC RESERVES OF OIL AND SEIZED FOREIGN OIL . aLBERTA PRIVATIZED pETROcANADA AND OUR TRAITORS (CONSERVATIVES) SAID LET aMERIKA HAVE OUR OIL THEY ARE GOOD LANDLORDS AND WILL PROTECT US FROM THEIR OWN INSATIABLE GREED.
We are a nation of justice not of laws. If laws are unjust they are no longer laws. That was John Birch Society (Koch ) money that was seized and the the justice system provided the proof necessary to find the seizure had merit. We are far more fearful of the Amerikan KKK (GOP) than we are of Russia's red, white and blue for good reason. WE fly the flag of Ukraine next to the fleur de lys and maple leaf. Montreal was the first place America occupied in 1775-1776. We are grateful Benjamin Franklin the greatest OF PATRIOTS who ever lived WHO led the occupation and wished us God speed as America left us to own devices. Sadly the British stabbed us in the back and you stole much of our land under Jay's betrayal of Canada to her former American colonies. JAY'S TREATY 1796
I learned this poem in school long long ago.
It is worth a listen.
You might even read an analysis. It is great satire worthy of Hollywood and California.
Ode to a Louse Robbie Burns
eVEN IN 1776 mONEY YELLED AND HUMBLE FOLK LIKE Benjamin WERE FORCED TO LISTEN TO USELESS IDIOTS.
wHEN i WAS BORN IT WAS CALLED tHE fEAST OF sT jOHN TJHE bAPTIST. iT IS OUR nATIONAL holidAY And called Quebec National Holiday. Our society is run by our ethical and moral philosophers under the direction of our ballot boxes and it a joy for me I was born a Jew and was shunned in 1948. When I die I want the day named for my Patron Saint; Benjamin "the scoundrel" Franklin. Franklin conceived of PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS like schools, libraries, post offices and hospitals and the electrical storage battery which because I lived in Chicago I call the Tesla.
Like Sinclair Lewis’ “Dodsworth”, Fred Koch was a pro-Soviet businessman who saw the USSR as the “New Frontier”, and worked on various projects together with the Soviet government. His outlook on Communism soured after many of the people he worked with were murdered by Stalin. He became a founding member of the John Birch Society, though the founder was Robert Welch. However, his sons were libertarians, not conservatives. One even ran for Vice President on the Libertarian Party ticket, opposing the Republican ticket led by Ronald Reagan. As isolationists and free-traders, the Koch brothers’ influence on the Republican Party was limited.
Calling William F. Buckley a “Nazi” eventually cost Gore Vidal more than a million dollars. Buckley, who fought hard to rid the conservative movement of anti-Semitism, didn’t take kindly to the accusation.
Benjamin Franklin had made himself independently wealthy by his early 40’s, retiring from business to dedicate himself to science and invention, and public service. I don’t think he ever visited Canada.
The American invasion of Canada in 1775 failed, it is said, because the British Empire had just made a deal with the Catholic Church, giving it special privileges, and the Church decided to stick with the devil it knew.
I agree enterally. It is time for a two State Solution. I love America but it threatens the real democracy we have in Quebec. We have a one two and a multistate solution in Canada. We call it democracy. We can vote to end the Canadian experiment whenever we want to with a trip to the ballot box and demand we write a new constitution for Quebec alone. So can Alberta, Ontario or British Columbia. We control Quebec Highways not Ottawa. Ottawa must deal with America and the Koch money fomenting protests at a border controlled in Wichita Falls Kansas by a family descended from the man whose money founded The John Birch Society.
He who pays the PIPER calls the tune even at Harvard and the Naval Academy.
He WHO funds our 15% of truckers who protest US border restrictions from Orange County California? Prime Minister Francois Legault controls the Highways of Quebec all Trudeau can do is get on his knees and beg in Washingtoon or Washington ease restrictions at the border just like every other idiot like yourself and I.
Trudeau's job is to keep Canada together and Quebec is a REAL liberal democracy where only living things have rights. Institutions like corporations, churches and even governments have only the privileges we the people see fit to grant them. We can change our constitution in a month by demanding our elected representatives in Ottawa and Quebec City put an end to Canada's Canadian experiment without a shot being fired.
In 1775-1776 Benjamin Franklin led the occupation of Montreal. He believed in liberal democracy. He left Quebec without firing a shot from his headquarters in Old Montreal. He is a national hero in Quebec. He also conceived of the Tesla with his electrical storage battery and his ALL MEN are Created Equal by the Creator. He was not a Christian Doominionist or even a Christian.
America doesn't work for everybody especially we the people.
What says the Admiral of Idiocy?
Benjamin Franklin led the occupation of Montreal in 1775-1776 from his headquarters in Old Montreal. He lefytbecause he believed in liberal democracy. He left without a shot ever being fired. Montreal is not American it wasn't in 1775 and in 2024 we wish to remain a liberal democracy. We can end the Canadian Democracy in two months because the ballot box speaks and bullets only bring fear and silence.
Benjamin Franklin design the Tesla he conceived of the electrical storage battery and PUBLIC SERVICE. He was not a CONSERVATIVE serving the John Birch Society in Withita Falls Kansas. Fred C Koch died less than sixty years ago after Reagan was purchased for 30 pieces of silver.
In 1964 Reagasn called liberal democracy America's worst nightmare.
He was paid to put end to the greatest College and University Systtem that ever existed. Fred C Koch elected him GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA.
Thank God for Berkley and Kamala Harris a gifted public intellectual who grew up in Montreal in the Heart of Montreal Jewish Intellectual Community where science begins new everyday and ideology belongs with yesterday garbage.
There are no answers in yesterday's ideologies for tooday's real problems. That is what John Ralston Saul said 30 ago when wrote The Collapse of Globalism and the Re-Invention of the World. John Ralston Saul two time elected head of PEN Intrenational is still saying it and Francis Fukiyama who wrote the End of History is still saying his Conservative Mea Culpas.
My father in Law was Navy and wanted to be a Navy Admiral he was a scholar and a brilliant scientist who chose his parents rather poorly in Chicago in 1912. I loved America once upon a time; but I remember 1964 and the GOP convention and America has nothing to unite it other than its propaganda and mythology.
Conservatism is about top down governance. The same as it was in 1789.
Fred C Koch founded the John Birch Society in 1958 and today it is the Republican Party after it paid Ronald Reagan 30 pieces of silver so he could be California Governor.
Give me a break. America is corrupt from its head to its tail. What do you expect ooligan grease.
Moe: As for Reagan’s “Time for Choosing”, I’m afraid your memory is playing tricks on you. It can be found here:
“This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.”
Reagan does not attack “liberal democracy“, but modern liberalism; that is, elite rule from Washington, based on pervasive regulation and high taxes.
Pervasive regulation is why, when the Federal government told social media what to censor, they leaped to obey. The Feds have almost unlimited power to destroy them.
I can assure you I am 100% human. I speak more my heart than from my head. I wish Americans learned real history. Most Americans lived in poverty until the early 1950s and I was reading in 1951. I am deeply disappointed in a country I still love.
In my opinion (which is not worth very much because I have no idea how this will turn out) but I see that the DNC have made a HUGE mistake. How will they get out of this? I don't know bit maybe there is a possibility that Biden get sick (so they will say) and appoint a new candidate?
No mistake. The only poll that matters is the vote harvest. The great 40% plurality who could care less and most likely don't even know who they vote for. So we can't ask them ahead of time, and we can't do an exit poll of them. So we will have to wait a few weeks to find out. Imagine that......
Its fascinating how important signatures are when trying to get on a ballot, but are of no interest to the media, to the courts, and to incumbent D's and R's when they are on mail-in ballots.
I had the exact same thought. A mail-in ballot vote for Biden counted in so many states regardless of when it was posted, when it was received, if it had a signature, if it didn't have a comparison signature, if it was illegible, etc. etc.
It is very troubling; I honestly don't know how to categorize what happened or how to process it. Election law enforcement seems to be arbitrary and in many cases, impossible to litigate.
It took thousands of years. Maybe tens of thousands of years to have secret verified ballots and we thew it all away in 20 years. The people who win are the rich. This is because they can use the propatainment to shape our vote. If you think it doesn't work, why do you think there are commercials on TV and product placement in movies???
Once a ballot is removed from an envelope it is impossible to verify. The act of verification actually ties a voter to their vote, so to verify it would be to eliminate the secret ballot. Which ironically mail in ballots do. The Democrats don't seem to really think we live in a Patriarchy, because they would never allow mail in ballots if they did. But their efforts are focussed towards using government to collect mail in ballots in heavily populated urban areas (more bang for the buck) which are natural D party strongholds (see the blue dots in a sea of Red counties).
If you spend $100 in a city, or $100 in the county, which place would you connect with the most people? Then keep in mind that Zuckerburg spent $3000 PER VOTE to get Biden to make up Hilliary's losses and win in the places that mattered (cities).
Signatures are also extremely important when trying to recall rogue Democrat District Attorneys. LA County invalidate 30% of the signatures on the attempt to recall Gascón.
67 YO guy here who was going to vote for Bernie in 2016. When the Dems screwed him I voted for Trump, which I thought was ridiculous, but he ended up winning.
Turned out he was the best President of my lifetime.
Not sure why people think Trump was a good president. Because the stock market was going up on unprecedented years of Fed 'QE' (money printing), helping lay the ground for our current inflation crisis? Because he did another Wall Street bailout? Upper class tax cuts? Because he caved and helped arm Ukraine? He also bombed Syria and occupied it with troops that are still there? I still have rotting factories in my city, I thought Trump was going to bring jobs back. Trump looks all to familiar, just another US president mis-managing our imperial decline when serious disciplined structural changes are required.
I was born in 1980 and I haven't had a single good president in my lifetime.
China is only an “adversary” because the DOD needs an “enemy”, preferably one with an ancient complex culture, people of a different race, “non Western values” and determined to take a stand against our Hegemony. Our Leaders are traitors to democracy.
There is always a conflict between nations who seek wealth and power.
The Chinese have used their population control/cheap labor to entice American corps to relocate manufacturing to the mainland to their advantage in economic espionage/theft of intellectual property and to the detriment of American labor.
Got nothing to do with "ancient complex culture" or "race" or "Western values" or any other bullshit woke narrative.
China seeks power and influence over the same countries/world policies that we do.
Our corrupt bureaucracy, the Uniparty, Corporations and our DOD have become the only Real enemies Americans need to fear. They brought us the Vietnam war, the Iraq War, the Afghan war, the Kennedy Assassinations, the Ukraine war, the Covid Plandemic, the Covid Killer pseudo “vaccine”, the lockdowns, the Fear Porn, the censorship of Truth, the destruction of millions of small businesses, the closing of hospitals during a “pandemic”, the censoring of RFKJr in his present campaign and nearly every other Evil we face today! Its not “woke” to say that our Elite uses race, gender, culture and diversity as dividers..its just a fact! If we were really supporting democratic ideals worldwide against tyranny I might agree with you but WE are the Tyrants now and those who profit from it in our institutions are fully prepared to impose full tyranny here and its happening as we write.. have you had your 6th booster??
Just a FYI...yeah, most of your rant is kinda, almostly true. But even if it was all 100% accurate, (instead of 40 -50% ), you're still missing one huge thing:
The Chinese have their version of your all-powerful Cabal. Or are you stupid enough to think only Americans do evil stuff?
The tax cuts were great for lower income workers; they were not merely "upper class tax cuts".
And Trump brought a long overdue economic confrontation with China. What other leader would've had the cojones to do that? The insipid Biden has kept those policies, after Trump more-or-less singlehandedly proved the concept.
I used to give him credit for the three Justices added during his term, but less so these days...
Tax cuts in the US always skew the benefits to the wealthy. Look at Reagan's lowering of the top marginal tax bracket from 70% to 29% and then spending like a drunken sailor on the military. It tripled the national debt. CEO compensation went from ~33X the average worker to ~400X the average worker. Trump's tax cuts were a naked giveaway to the rich, because trickle down economics has done so much for the US in the previous 40 years.
I was born in '64 and it's the same for me. I just missed Kennedy who was killed likely because he was a good man. Reagan was the knife they used to cut the social fabric in the west and still has my vote for the president who did the most damage to the US and the globe in my lifetime. There are probably Young Republicans furiously auto-erotic asphyxiating about St. Ronnie as I type this.
I base my judgements on presidents by their policies, execution of those policies and their leadership skills... not their previous employment history.
You may want to judge them on the history you've so obviously avoided reading. GHW Bush was involved in the JFK hit. His dad got his bank taken by the USG for being the Nazi's banker. Ronnie set us on the path of unsustainable debt, fun little forever wars and exponentially-growing inequality. And what actual good policies did GHWB have? Read, my brother.
You say you "agree completely" yet their previous employment was your first argument why they were not "good presidents". Call me skeptical.
As for their accomplishments... we'll have to agree to disagree. Reagan & Bush accomplished loads in their 12 years - both domestic and international - Reagan in particular. I was born in 1963 so I lived thru it as an adult and don't rely on today's "historians".
"Upper class tax cuts" is a tired talking point. Look it up for christsakes. Under Trump, the lower your income, the greater the percentage your tax break was.
One problem is that people trying to make a point switch back and forth between relative percentages and absolute figures.
For example, in California about 50% of the budget comes from 1% of the population. So if there were a 5% flat tax cut, people would be saying "half the cut went to the top 1%" to make it sound terribly unfair. Or even "half the population got nothing" (because half don't pay any taxes to begin with, so 5% of nothing is nothing).
But if there were a flat 5% hike, silence - nobody wants to point out that half the new revenue came from the top 1%, and the bottom end of the scale had no hike at all.
So, even if a cut produced a higher percentage reduction for lower income people, it will generally save absolute higher dollar amounts for the higher income people who pay for more of the budget, and thus try to fan unmerited resentment.
Some tax changes really do disproportionately benefit the rich, even in percentage rather then absolute terms. Those changes are not the ones I'm discussing here, though.
I support progressive taxation, with higher marginal rates as taxable income goes up. But I also support honesty and good numerical understanding. And there are plenty of real things to resent, without making up bogus ones.
You can't talk dollars when it comes to tax cuts. Obviously, ANY tax cut for someone making $1,000,000 annually is going to swamp a tax cut for someone making $30,000.
We are agreed; I was just elaborating more on why, for anybody who might be following the thread.
The press should discuss tax cuts in terms of percentages (eg: how many percent for the $1m and the $30k taxpayers). But misleading headlines like "most of tax cut went to the rich" are unfortunately common.
Well now the stock market is at all time highs and they call that Bidenomics. Which it actually is. Just like cheap money, the influx of tens of millions of illegal (even cheaper) laborers will reduce wages in the USA for the next 20 years at least which is what stock market valuation is all about (long term profitability). If you think it is all short term, what do you think Apple stock would sell for tomorrow if everyone knew ABSOLUTELY FOR SURE that in exactly 5 (or 10) years it would be worth zero? The huge influx of illegal labor and the unwillingness of the powers that be in both parties to actually stop it or even think about deporting them makes the long term wage stagnation highly likely. Just as the long term wage stagnation accompanied the 10-30 million illegals that have been in the country since 1980.
Biden let them in, but the R's in congress kept funding the activities that made it happen.
I'll tell you about the poor illegals. And why despite building the wall they are tolerated.
If there is one thing our technocratic elite hate, it is organized labor. They want the working class to work for dirt and be grateful.
Having a large number of poor immigrants coming in used to a low standard of living is a godsend for the elites. They can have a housekeeper, groundskeeper, nanny, and dog walker all happy to be there. And it splits the working class along racial lines, defeating any organization or common cause.
The claim works better when you explain how Trump is better.
Things like not entering into new wars, attempting talks with North Korea, increasing civic participation/consciousness, vaccinating the populace against a pandemic . . .
I was right there with you until vaccines. I loathe Trump but would have nominated him for a Nobel prize if he'd been allowed to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula. The elite sent John Bolton who gleefully destroyed that chance. John Bolton is the personification of US foreign policy; all war, all the time.
Last one is a knock against him, only wiggle room is the first product of "Operation Warp Speed" didn't roll out until the day after he lost reelection.
The “vaccine” is now estimated to have killed 17 MILLION people Worldwide and maimed or sickened hundreds of millions more! Trump was played by the DOD and Fauci and Birx and, of course, still wrongly believes he “saved a hundred million lives”! You cannot vaccinate into a pandemic but the mRNA was NEVER a vaccine to begin with! It is, as Dr Joseph Ladapo, Surgeon General of Florida last week pointed out, a gene mutation device! Its unspoken purpose: sterilize and slow down population growth! Read “Wuhan: The Coverup”
I voted for the Nader/LaDuke ticket in 2000. I knew the DNC would do everything in its power to prevent a third party from threatening its hegemony again.
Matt, are you planning to cover CJ Hopkins’s triumphant acquittal at his thoughtcrimes trial on Tuesday?
I urge EVERYONE to immediately read the speech CJ delivered in court:
One of the most significant speeches on totalitarianism ever delivered, it is truly historic, legendary stuff and should be required reading for all. I hope CJ will be turning his experience into a play or at the very least a one-act that can be performed all over the world as “The Crucible” of our time and a reminder to what remains of free humanity for centuries to come.
I know you are a firm defender of free speech against censorship as well as a faithful friend of Substack, Matt, so I invite you and your readers to sign my thank-you card to Substack founders Hamish McKenzie, Chris Best, and Jairaj Sethi in the comments of this post:
They got plenty of hate for resisting pressures from the censorship bullies to compromise their commitment to free speech, so let’s shower them with some love and gratitude for choosing their principles over principal.
Yay!!!! You just made my day with the news CJ was acquitted! We have to appreciate free speech wins when we get them. And we need to keep Matt out of the dock and the IRS off his doorstep. What are we going to read if they disappear him?!
Thank you for posting the CJ Hopkins link. The EpochTV link was helpful supported by the translate German -> English. The rise of the Leftist Progressive Totalitarianism is introducing an Orwellian society that determined to topple every democratic form of government in the West.
Excellent! Centrist Democrats are no different than the GOP. Both Parties are corporatists which is a clear definition of Fascism. Democracy and Capitalism are antithetical to each other and I wish Taibbi and other progressive writers would begin to focus on this educational point. One is a political system and the other an economic one-they are not the same. Reminds me, today, of the difference between Zionism, a political ideology, and Judaism which is a religion. Same confusion about different systems of ideology and beliefs and the practices they promote.
I live in a urban city with the uber rich in small enclaves and the working class in the rest. My fellow working class, black or white or brown, all have the same issues.
You fall right into the "divide and conquer" trap set by the Woke Democrats when you racialize things. They want us all at each other's throats and I refuse. I am for equality and believe racism is an "absolute value" sort of thing. There isn't "reverse racism". Racism is racism. And while I think that every white American ought to feel what it's like to be on the receiving end of racism to kill any atavistic instinct to visit it on others, I reject racism in all its forms. And I am a 60 year old white guy who's been on the receiving end in the past. As a smart commenter said, this isn't about race, it's about class. Don't believe the hype! (Thanks Flavor Flav!)
"These people reordered the geography of the world, blithely moved whole manufacturing sectors from one continent to another, started moronic wars that pointlessly killed millions and created millions more refugees, bailed out corrupt banks while whole regions went into foreclosure, and failed to accomplish much but a growing sense of foreboding and decline despite decades of promises to the contrary. Still, they feel sincere rage at the idea that they should have to earn votes."
That's the best example of the kind of insight Taibbi brings to bear on the corrupt.
«the best example of the kind of insight Taibbi brings to bear on the corrupt»
That's just cheap rhetoric: the oligarchs don't really “feel sincere rage at the idea that they should have to earn votes” they simply realize that much of their wealth depends on their "sponsored" politicians winning and so they rather coolly invest their money to ensure that random people do not interfere with their business decisions.
Did you see the way oligarchs Wasserman Shultz, Plaskett & Goldman treated Matt and Mike Schellenberger in their testimony? And you don't think these Marie Antoinettes feel rage? In the words of the Big Guy, c'mon man!
Those are not oligarchs, they are the well-compensated public relations consultants of the oligarchs. Congress mostly does posturing. It is the oligarch class, not politicians, who "reordered the geography of the world, blithely moved whole manufacturing sectors from one continent to another, started moronic wars that pointlessly killed millions and created millions more refugees, bailed out corrupt banks while whole regions went into foreclosure".
The role of Congress is to act as talking heads to "sell" (with the help of the main media) to the middle class (the opinion of the lower classes is not important) the policies decided by the oligarchs.
"These people..." aren't the oligarchs. These people are the leadership of the Democratic Party. They may take direction from the oligarchs but they're the public facing political leaders and they are so arrogant as to believe what they say should be followed cheerfully.
In the end, we still hold the last great power in this country. Oligarchs will be just fine either way but Dem pols? They seethe at any rebuke from the prols.
For others, no. Dem pols like Obama and Clinton aren't "aparatchik" nor are they "oligarchs". They're just arrogant assholes who think they're "aristocrats".
This morning I signed up to canvass for getting RFK jr on the ballot in Minnesota. In the process, I was notified that I was not a registered voter. I have been registered to vote since 1970. I have been registered in Minnesota since 2010. What is going on?
Yes. When I filled in the form from Kennedy's people, a prompt came up that told me I was not a registered voter. I went to the Minnesota registration site and filled in the form. I was told it may take a while to receive a reply.
I just checked with the county about my registration which shows me in their system but the state attorney general site showed I was not registered. I may be a clerical error in 2011 in which my birth date was incorrectly entered. I should hear back from the state by next week.
Silicon Valley: After living/voting in the same precinct for over 10 years, my wife and I (both previously registered Green) were dropped from the rolls without notice. The Registrar had "no answer" for us. Then went to work at a voting machine company (Redwood?)
This is one of the anti-democratic side effects of wealth inequality. The rich are now so obscenely rich that they can literally buy elections. Granted, that's easy in the US because 99.9% of our government are cheap corporate whores on the take for some quick corporate cash. Individuals like Bill Gates now have more money, (power), than nation states, and they're using it in the worst ways. It is this that creates unelected bodies like the WEF, the WHO (~82% of the funding for the WHO comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation) that intend to be our overlords after their Great Reset.
Now you're doing a pair of pieces dear to my heart, as an Independent and third party voter. I love to mention that i'm a third party voter, and cue the screeching "you might want to revisit Bush v Gore!" My answer is the same every time - 12x more Democrats in Florida voted for Bush than voted for Nader. The response is generally woosh, and further pile ons.
I mention that I'm an Independent - "Independents are just Republicans embarassed to admit it." Ok, but you're fucked then and Dems should throw in the towel right now, as Indies are 40% of the electorate and Repubs another +/- 30%.
And of course, the perennial "a 3rd party vote is a vote for Trump". Actually, first of all, no, it's a vote for the candidate that i voted for. And second of all, you seem to be making the assumption that i somehow really think that Biden is better than Trump. Not so, I'm a double hater and we're a thing this election.
Just for fun, here's a list of some of the write in votes on the NH R&D ballots.
Who is the "we" who should have seen this coming, and what would the "we" have done? But anyways, democracy and its processes in America have always been disputed, and rightly so, as it's a facade. The managerial trick is to convince the people they have a voice, is it not? It will be easier when the AI oracles become the new facade, which in practice, at the human level, will likely be little different from the faceless European and Russian bureaucracies of the past.
a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
noun: US Democracy
a system whereby rich people serially fellate other rich people for money, status and power, all the while funneling public money to the rich people they are fellating. The fellatees then return a portion of the public money to the fellators to keep this virtuous cycle "humming".
Wow! Matt, the only meaningful stories are about transformation. This article is great because it tells us how you’re changing. You’re on a journey, and you’re taking us with you. You’re becoming a wiser man, with keener sight, which makes you a better writer and, more importantly, a more compelling soul.
Agree. I've been wondering for some time whether Matt would delve more deeply into the effects of having the scales fall from his eyes re the Democrat Party. Revisiting, reflecting on, and revising one's views/beliefs are rare actions these days.
In addition, about seeing the apparatus regardless of party. Like Trump or hate him, we are only seeing the apparatus because of him exposing it either directly or indirectly.
The irony of the "Democratic Party" turning anti-democratic is precious. The party became completely anti-Democratic when the DNC announced no primary debates -- even as Biden kept framing Trump as "a threat to democracy" -- which is quite Orwellian.
And to your point about 2004, Kerry has now joined the Biden campaign. Meanwhile, Move-On has announced a $32 million investment in re-electing Biden by "generating enthusiasm" for him. Good luck on that!
The Democratic Convention will be a coronation of Biden -- no dissent, no opposition. Nobody will be allowed to state that the emperor has no clothes.
The devolution of the Democratic Party is disgusting and depressing. But maybe this is what the doctor ordered -- Trump gets back in the White House and maybe sanity and true democratic values will return and a revived party will rise from the ashes. One can hope, I suppose.
I will vote for Trump but as far as him getting into the White House and turning the ship around, so to speak....I hold little hope.
For starters, the Left and the Democratic Party (but I repeat myself) have Rent-A-Riot on speed-dial. Is there anyone left with eyes who cannot see they control a machine that magically pulls strategically-timed riots out of its ass---protesters and rioters appear within minutes, armed, organized, and equipped. If Trump wins, we will see riots and I fear they will make the Floyd Summer of Fiery Love look like a tailgate party in comparison.
Once Trump is actually sitting in the Oval Office, pen in hand, his orders will be ignored. The array of forces against him have had since 2016 to refine their tactics and to make it even more difficult for Trump to actually execute his policies than they did in his first term.
Actually, the Dems are a globalist party, which is center left with a whiff (or maybe more than a whiff) of totalitarianism thrown in. Fixed it for you, rtj.
You are behind the times. The Left is no longer "pro-labor," it is pro-alphabet people and anti-nationalist. As are the globalists. If you are "pro-labor," vote Trump.
Remember superdelegates? Or the two candidates magically disappearing from the primary ballot just before Super Tuesday last time? After early voting had already started, thereby disenfranchising their own voters?
For decades now, I'm been watching most of my Dem-voting friends become more and more rabidly pro-fascism, while dutifully repeating the party line that the blame for all our problems lies with Republicans, stupid working-class people (all of whom are racist/homophobic/transphobic and sided with Van Halen during the big split with David Lee roth - surely) and pretty much anyone who wasn't the DNC nomenklatura they desperately wanted to please (and hoped to ascend to be) at all costs.
These DNC cultists happily repeat the Psalms about "defund the police" while supporting more police, more authoritarianism, more censorship, more oppression. They cry about omnipresent racism in movies and television shows (that are barely creative works, seriously) but the thought of actually doing something to improve day to day life for any fellow human never enters their Suburban Caucasian (like Yuppie so... Suckie?) minds - they participate in the Two Minutes Hate, they're one of the Good Guys.
Confronting them with some of these obvious questions like "How is it that you're against the war in Afghanistan and/or Iraq but you still support the Dems who voted for it???" would usually elucidate some non-answer about Bush and Diebold and a rigged election, or muttering about Republicans and obligatory notions of Hitler. It was as if the part of their brains which once held a cogent thought about their opinion on these issues (and those whose votes ostensibly made them happen) had been plastered-over with incoherent word-salad along the lines of "Democrat good, Republican bad; if you not with us you against us."
And now here we are, and it has only gotten worse on both "sides" if we can even call them that. This is what happens when people are gaslit and propagandized and pushed into the depths of despair on a massive scale - for profit. It's the bloody Stanford Prison Experiment where all the "progressives" are tripping over each other to get picked to be guards. Our system exists to keep a handful of so-called elites super-wealthy and in total control, while everyone else serves them and dies poor and afraid, with hate in their hearts for The Others.
Superb screed. Particularly: "How is it that you're against the war in Afghanistan and/or Iraq but you still support the Dems who voted for it???" Cue sound of shitlib head exploding.
This sounds like a semantics squabble as both uniparty, monopoly, oligarchy seem the same to me. It is all about consolidation of power in the hands of very few, very wealthy, very arrogant and self-entitled white male supremacists even tho a few women and maybe a darker skin here and there may be included. They all act as proxy for the ruling white male supremacists with there hegemony and imperialist, population reduction agenda.
"Uniparty" means "one party." We have two dominant parties, not one.
"Monopoly" means one entity dominates. We have two. That's called a "duopoly."
"Monopoly" is also a board game from Hasbro, who not only produces that game but now owns half of my childhood as they keep buying all the other companies. I was kidding, equivocating, about "monopoly" and "Monopoly" being the same thing.
Oligarchs need not be arrogant or white male supremacists. I think you're confusing all the things you dislike with one another. (Hint: they're also not Nazis!) Anyway, the accusations of "semantics squabble" seems to stem from your deep confusion about what words mean. I suggest dictionary use!
We are going to disagree here. I am totally familiar with your definitions which are dictionary correct but my focus is functional behavior and these structures do work the same in the Big Picture. I did not mention Nazis but that ideology does promote white supremacy and totalitarian control. The Oligarchy shares total control by a very few. And the two party system does not offer real differences--only their affect and level of boisterousness in how they present publicy, a very superficial characteristic.. And yes, I,too, played Monopoly as a child. Remember that game was created to actually teach the foibles of Capitalism
The dirty little secret about Democrats is that they don't believe in democracy.
Seriously. They don't even pretend it's about coming up with a platform that persuades a majority of the eligible citizens to vote for.
It's changing voting laws, lawfare, slander/libel, etc. It's about winning elections through tactics, but not because people want them.
That's exactly right. Putin recently stated in a speech: "The US elections are fraudulent. Democracy is doing the will of the people". The voice of the people in the US and the west is drowned out by the "cha-ching!" of a trillion cash registers opening in the minds of those "governing".
Frightening that Putin not only sees it clearly, but says it. Too bad very few voters will hear what Putin says because no media will print it
Nothing wrong with outside validation to what we already know.
Let's be clear: the reason Putin understands it is because Putin plays the same game, but is able to do it without the current Democratic "legitimacy dance." And if your concept of democracy boils down to "Whomever gets the most votes wins," then it really doesn't matter whether you get the most votes because you are the most popular candidate or because people aren't allowed to vote for anyone else; you still win "democratically."
So, to edit Putin: ACTUAL democracy is doing the will of the people as freely expressed by those people in open and readily verifiable elections.
What's frightening about that?
That the people who live here cannot see it..
But again, this works on both sides. I believe that the GOP didn’t even produce a platform in 2016? I used to say I voted for a party platform, but can’t anymore.
I might suggest that the GOP didn't win that election, Trump did, and he was pretty clear about what his agenda was going to be,
I think it is crystal clear that the GOP had nothing to do with Trump's win.
That is correct. For the most part the Republican leadership is off course, Trump came in and actually said he would do what most people want to see. Leadership hates that. We don’t really have clear choices any longer. Sad! Lack of truthful & balanced news media causes most problems in society.
Well I guess that’s my point. I’d like to see every Pres candidate have a platform in writing, or sign on to their party’s platform. Also, Trump could not have won in 2016 without the GOP vote, so…As for his spoken agenda and fealty to it, that’s a book.
They pretended to support him because they never thought he would win. Both parties were sure that Hillary had it in the bag so they sat back..They will never do that again. The Uniparty stands together against The People.
Trump had a platform in ‘16 and had one in ‘20 and ‘24. The problem is MsM does everything they can to distort , destroy and manipulate it to the American public. The only way to understand what Trump’s about is to listen to his speeches and read his website otherwise all the general public knows is he’s a nazi, supposedly raped a woman in a dressing room and broken every law in the country. And it’s the same players like reed hoffman that put Carroll up to lying about her case. Hoffman paid for the lawsuit. Trump has got to be the most persecuted man in the world. And the bottom line is the boarder was safer than it’s ever been in my lifetime. I had more disposable income than I had in decades. More people, all people were employed with better incomes than ever before. And we were safer than we’ve been for years. Trumps first speech after taking the oath was “today we are not handing the country over to a different party we are returning the country back to you the American people.” And that’s exactly what the establishment don’t want him to do because they want to be in power endlessly to do to us what they wish while stealing every cent they can from us. That’s why people will vote for Trump again and again. Because they’re sick and tired of being screwed out of our money, our freedom and our country.
True. He supposedly broke all of these laws, yet Mueller couldn't find one smidgen of evidence. They have had to make stuff up & railroad the guy.
I remember it was so exciting fighting for "planks" thinking that meant something.
I believe 2020 was the no-platform year. The platform is always meaningless so I thought it was kind of honest.
Ann22: Here’s the 2016 Republican Platform —
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/2016-republican-platform-full-text_n_578bce03e4b03fc3ee513eb9
What you’re thinking of is when they reused the 2016 platform in 2020.
Ah. That could be. Thank you!
The RNC tried and failed to keep Trump from getting the nomination in 2016, even canceling primaries in states Trump was likely to win. However, the never-Trumpers dissipated their efforts by failing to unite behind a single candidate, and the RNC could not count on the MSM to act as their volunteer PR outfit.
The MSM was running their own op to make sure the R party couldn't win by nominating Trump.
Considerable truth to that. The MSM was promoting Trump in 2016 as he was seen as the easiest for HRC to beat following her anointment and coronation.
To be fair, Trump probably would not have beaten any reasonably foreseeable Team D candidate in 2016 other than the eminently unlikeable HRC.
Hillary's loss to Trump, one of the most repellent people I've ever seen shows that the elite's attempt at control via narrative won't work. There was simply no way to polish the turd that was HRC and her campaign. They offered nothing that any common person wanted, besides not being Trump.
I think the elite realize this, which is why they are using lawfare against Trump. And while I think Trump is awful, he makes the Democrats insane, and that's not a bad thing.
"the elite's attempt at control via narrative won't work. " It worked in 2020.
It is clearly working now and has since 2016. IT was an abberation that he won and they have since taken steps to ensure it won't happen again. Of course in 2020 even with those steps, they BARELY beat him. Which means we still can overcome their op.
Correct.
And in '22.
I can't think of a single Democrat who would have been better.
Than HRC? Hell, half of Sanders' appeal was that he wasn't HRC.
I have read that Trump's margin of victory in Michigan was less than the number of voters who otherwise voted a straight Team D ticket but then either voted for Trump for president or left the "president" portion blank. People went out of their way not to vote for her.
He would have gotten even fewer votes.
Bernie Sanders
He is a "true believer" in the soviet way. He had no shot, but was popular with the very people leading us in the "wrong" direction. He would get their votes, but far fewer than Hilliary got.
They take turns to keep people from noticing. These elites work together against the People.
THIS. The total inaction at the border is proof.
I remember watching a documentary about Nader's run for president years ago. One of the people on his campaign said the democrats were "the meanest motherfuckers on the planet." It was true then and is still true today.
Nader voter in the house.
Me too! I even went to one of his rallies in Long Beach when he ran against Bush. My parents nearly disowned me for voting for him. Imagine if he had actually won?
Don't forget, they're also greedy motherfuckers.
I can remember Susan McDougal decided jail was safer than talking against them. We all know now that even jail can't protect you from them today.
It's not just Democrats. As we should all be aware by now, Democrats don't have a monopoly on vote blocking. Entendu parler d'un Kari Lake?
But this is about the Democrats. Whataboutism not welcome on this topic.
Whataboutism is an idiotic and hypocritical attempt to deflect from the truth.
Mr. Kat--I liked the (ages ago) SNL routine called WHAT IF ELEANOR ROOSEVELT COULD FLY? (Snark can be a good thing.)
We--meaning all those involved in subscription journalism--from put your money where your mouth is subscribers, to SUBSTACK and the actual journalists themselves, are building the healthy American national dialogue we deserve. Everyone involved should be proud.
The American psyche has been under assault for five decades. Part of the psyop's (LIE) tactic is the trap of "them vs. us" ping pong knee-jerk emotionality where the focus is making villains of other struggling Americans and pointing the spotlight away from the actual evil mtr'fker's dismantling the Republic. (As illustrated by Matt's hard work in this report today.) My long winded-- aimed at myself as well--l point: Americans --as is the psyop's goal-- are more than a little beaten up. I've had to ask myself if "yeah but--what about--knee jerkism" isn't a abdication of my responsibility as a citizen of the Republic, and a convenient side stepping of the harsh manufactured hyperreality attempting to bring the free peoples of the world to their knees? "We the people" are the responsible agents in this goat roping. It ain't them. It's us. And Matt is absolutely correct about the distain the elite hold for US!!
The real fight is obvious. Like the printing press that broke control of literacy and spiritual pursuit and blew consciousness wide open to the common man, tech has hurled us all into a new age. Expanded human consciousness (why slaves were denied access to education) is the first fear of totalitarian monarchists and slavers. The grift being perp'd by criminal finance and the D.C. political hog trough is transparent to reality. And you can't fight ever evolving human consciousness. But you can through fascist/totalitarian means cripple it and criminalize it. Hence the desperation of the DNC/CCP/WEF/EU Davos tyranny, the rise and capture of tech by the bureaucratic surveillance state and the assault on civil liberty. Europeans and free peoples across the world are are fighting back!! "We the people" see it -- now we're beginning to believe it.
Because of OUR mutual commitment to transparency and demand for a healthy truth/fact based American/world reality WE are beginning to escape the psyop and are ever more capable of creating the vision necessary to put real solutions on the table. Of -- what the fascists fear most-- healing the willfully fractured American psyche and further expanding the agency and empowerment of the Republic's citizens.
Stay strong. Stay clear. No matter what are who is trying to convince you otherwise: You've GOT CONSTITUTION.
(And thank you RACKET NEWS for another top of the line report on American reality.)
But, Trump’s team is not innocent in the “rigging the election” at least so far for the primaries. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/04/trump-rewriting-gop-rules-00109842
All rules are rigged in politics. Hello..............
Trump is *not* rigging the general election.
Only Dems do that.
Stop trying to equivocate and mis-direct.
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Ah...so this isn’t really news. It’s commentary only.
Oui, nous l'avons entendu. Le system est pourri jusqu'a la moelle. J'espere de la justice sera rendue pour Kari Lake.
Oui je suis d'accord c'est pourri jusqu'à la moelle mais en ce moment on combat le totalitarisme démocrate.
Bien dit! Et ça a l'air tellement cool en Français!
Mais, ce n'est pas la France! 😀🥸
We're still standing VT--Just going through a little spiritual reorganization. :)
The Bolsheviks of the DNC have altered Democracy to fit their totalitarian Leninist agenda. Some folks like to refer to it as Cultural Marxism, but no matter how you define it, it's pure totalitarianism disguised as "muh Democracy."
No one will really care about this much, but I'm going to tell it anyway. The American Library Association--of which I am a long-time member-- voted in a candidate for our current president who did not state she was a socialist during her campaign (campaign to be president of the American Library Association). She won and that day tweeted that she was a socialist and a lesbian. For the first time in the American Library Association's history, we have whole state library agencies leaving the American Library Association because it is now seen as promoting cultural Marxism. The state of Georgia has filed a bill in the state legislature to cut ties with the American Library association and in that bill a reason given is that the American Library Association is a Marxist association. States that have cut ties already include Texas and Florida.
I care about this a lot, because this is where the rot in schools comes from.
The American Library Association has been a solid rather staid organization. We read and recommend books. We give book awards. In all my years I never knew if a president of the American Library Association was a democrat or republican. This president was inartful in her self-characterization, but she is one person, whose term is up in a year.
Kathleen that’s bizarre. Why make an announcement at all?
It was very odd. But she is from NYC area /teaches at Queens College. Maybe didn't realize how poorly saying she was a Marxist would be received from the vantage of a national organization. So far Montana, Texas, Florida, Alabama have left the American Library Association because they now see it as "Marxist". Georgia has a bill filed in its legislature to quit as well.
Other states are considering cutting ties. American Library Association is like the National School Board Association. A professional organization that had created guidelines for decades is now under scrutiny.
Yeayah, but a lot of damage can be done in one year.
I'm afraid you are right.
There was an article recently in either the Free Press or Public about the representation of progressive ideas and memoirs of Democratic Presidentsversus conservative ideas and memos of Republican Presidentd. It’s not 100 to 0 but it’s damn close. That’s what I’m talking about. Librarians do make decisions, and if representing only one side of the country’s political opinions of citizens, then they’re no different than the media.
How can they when the DNC decides who will run. They've made a huge mistake this time.
Yes, no Democrat primary.
They disenfranchised their voters.
Welcome to the United Banana Republic of America!
that's the way they like it!
I am 75 and get lost between words but I remember 1964 and the GOP Convention. My father detested Ronald Reagan. My father was a reader and read many languages including Yiddish I was 16 and failing school but they said I was a genius at Linguistics.
I just watched A Time for Choosing Ronald Reagan 1964 on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY&t=646s
I went to English Protestant school. Reagan called liberal democracy America's worst nightmare.
I grew up in Montreal . My father loved liberal democracy and taught me to love America and the New Deal. That America is no more. 1964 was Civil Rights, Voting Rights and Philadelphia Mississippi and America chose Reagan and Fred C Koch founder of The John Birch Society.
That is the history I remember and I knew how to fact check 70 years ago.
The South is conservative as it was in 1789.
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/img/words/f1773-conservative-1.png
The South is religious as it was in 1789.
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=religion
It is time for a two state solution
You can't be for liberal democracy and win in the South
I live in Quebec we had a revolution. Race, gender and religion are no longer legal identities they are human fantasies. We are rich and prosperous after centuries of illiteracy and poverty under church rule.
In Quebec healthcare, education and welfare are HUMAN RIGHTS not American privileges.
Moe, what are you talking about? Canada is now a totalitarian hell hole that seizes people's assets for daring to challenge the Trudeau dictatorship. Do try to keep up, you are way behind the times in more ways than one.
Quebec is different! Read and learn?
But it’s not like they’ve succeeded in seceding from the rest of the country- so how exactly is Quebec any different from the rest of Canada? What revolution are you talking about exactly?
> In Quebec healthcare, education and welfare are HUMAN RIGHTS not American privileges.
To paraphrase [an internet feline](https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/fundamental-humans-rights-unless), all fundamental rights are rights of non-interference. The right to speech, to association, to bodily integrity, and so on not obligate anyone else to act for you, merely to leave you unimpeded. No one must listen when you speak, or agree, or associate with you if they chose not to.
"Rights" to Healthcare, Education, and Welfare are different. These require that others do things for you. Healthcare does not just appear, someone has to perform it, someone has to pay for it. These are not rights but the forced transfer of value from one party to another.
Thanks Efferous
This is true but Quebec has a social contract that states the laicity of the state and the rights of the pre-Dead is paramount and the pre-born are in the hands of the creator.
Noam Chomsky is a left wing Libertarian who believes the state has no business legislating private morality. Reagan in his Time for Choosing speech said the government has no business legislating Public morality. Reagan said The New Deal was America's worst nightmare.
America is not United. Isn't it time for some thing other than a one state solution. Houston is half as populous as Quebec and Quebec can leave Canada in a month of a referendum and Greater Houston and the Gulf Coast doesn't look anything like Texas. It looks like America a terribly unequal unjust and unfair place to live.
Looks can be deceiving. Visiting for a short time tells you nothing.~ In America we have the RIGHT to pursue Happiness, but we have to catch it ourselves~ Benjamin Franklin . We all have the same chances, it is all in the way we have to seek it.
I am autistic. I didn't choose to be unable to focus on the task at hand or get lost between my ears. I didn't choose to have a PhD vocabulary and be a linguistic genius and a genius in logic at seven but be unable to use a pen or pencil properly or be unable to tie my shoes. I was able to survive because I could speak as well as anyone on television or radio I just couldn't learn how to sign my name.
I went to the same Protestant Schools in the same Jewish Ghetto as Kamala Harris. I recognized her accent. I too grew up near the Jewish General Hospital. When I was growing up it commanded great respect. It is not the accent of money it is the accent of wisdom and education. I could not believe my reaction when I heard Kamala speak. I recognized her ghetto and ran to Wikipedia. Sure enough Kamala's mother was an immigrant and a renowned PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL.
P.S. I also look pretty normal although losing the sight in one eye less than a decade ago has left me rather unbalanced because of my diminished depth perception. I once loved being a professional portrait photographer.
My wife is a PhD who once upon a time received a scholarship from the University of Chicago when it believed in education not the fantasy of economics.
We did not live in Hyde Park. We chose a nearby ghetto where we understood Obama wasn't one of us but by far the lesser of two evils.
I am Canadian. John Ralston Saul understands press freedom . Democracy has died in your darkness. Money doesn't speak it drowns out intelligent discourse.
We call it home and we find it to be just fine. Just as I am sure you do there. Don't believe what you see on TV, or read in the internet/books/newspapers. It is pretty warm right now down south, come see for yourself. You will have a great time I am sure.
I have been there but I was a stranger from a strange land and they spoke their truths because I am not the man or his thugs. Only one thing unites Texas and is hatred and diminution of the other. They call it faith and patriotism.
Do members of the community have a right to defense from foreign enemies provided by the community in the form of the state or by some other means?
How about clean your own house? Among developed countries Canada is descending into darkness more rapidly than any of its peers.
(Race, gender and religion are no longer legal identities they are human fantasies.)-
Think you should look around at how your current PM and media have been running the country.
As an asside, my father-in-law is a Quebecer, from Cape Breton Island. Came to the USA for work and opportunity when he was 16 around 1964. That America and World is truly only a shadow.
FYI- Senator Goldwater was the insurgent 1964 GOP nominee, backed by the JB Society.
Thanks Bill,
Cape Breton is part of Nova Scotia (New Scotland) it is not part of Quebec . This of course or might be satire trying to convince me that all Americans are idiots.
I know who Goldwater was, my father hated the bastard.
Let's start calling what it is today (Fred C Koch's John Birch Society).
gREW UP AN ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS WHERE LITERACY WAS PRIZED ABOVE WEALTH. i WATCHED WHAT IT DID WHEN THEY BECAME aMERICANS.
Cape Breton is still very religious and very Catholic and a planet away from Quebec its barely part of Nova Scotia. It is a wonderful place. The people will welcome you. It is an 20TH CENTURY Irish fishing village in Canada WITH A FLOURISHING MIDDLE CLASS. Cape Breton was a small Island but now you can drive to Sydney and take the ferry to NFLD. Sydney is where the boat takes you to Newfoundland another wonderful place I visited because I was never afraid of strangers because as The Doors once sang People are strange when you're the stranger..
No need for a 2 state solution. We have a 50 states with multiple counties solutions. Some things that make sense in NYC, don't make sense in rural Alabama and likewise. For example it is hard to have a boat, a 4 wheeler, and a pickup truck in NYC (where you going to store and use them), and it is relatively hard to get a good bagel in Dothan AL. I bet there are still a few dry counties in AL too.
Most of us down south have no desire to FORCE people in NYC to live a certain way. We really don't much care what they do up there.
Thanks Orev,
I know Alabama. I am white tall and erudite. I naturally commanded great respect as did my wife a Dr of Philosophy in Educational Administration with a demonstrated competence at the highest level. I am of course an idiot and never learned how to tie my shoes or read simple instructions.
I could thrive in Alabama except I am an imbecile at playing let us pretend I am not a redneck. Alabama has its fair share of genius butt and that is one mighty large butt more than its fair share of illiterate incompetent land owners.
I just got the numeo numbers for world cities. New York is the bench mark at 100 and is number 32 in terms of affordability in Noth America.
There are Zero Canadian cities where the average income doesn't exceed the average cost of living. That is the difference between real liberal democracy and oligarchy.
The ballot box rules in Canada not the banks and the corporations.
Money isn't speech it comeswith strings attached it is called he who pays the piper calls the tune or as in the constitution property rights. If my name is Koch and I bought the GOP and created the John Birch Society I own the Supreme Court even I died in 1967.
William F. Buckley famously read the John Birch Society out of the conservative movement in 1962. It still exists (I am a little surprised to find) but is a ghost of its former self.
Elite rule is stronger in Canada than in the more democratic US. In both countries, elites wanted the Metric System shoved down the throats of the recalcitrant masses. The elites got their way in Canada, but the people were able to resist in the United States.
I REMEMBER THE lizard . I EVEN SUBSCRIBED TO nATIONAL REVIEW i* WAS A VERY ANGRY AND LONELY 60 YEARS AGO. i RECOVERED. hOW IS THE jOHN bIRCH Society NOt THE FOCUS OF ORANGE COUNTY POLITICS IN 2024.
iT IS HOME TO KEVIN MCcARTY?
FRED C kOCH FOUNDED THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_C._Koch
HIS cHILDREN ARE IN CHARGE OF THE GOP.
What the fuck are you trying to say?
My eyes are old and my body feeble but your country is insane.
Reagan rode the John Birch Society to the governor's mansion and old Bill the lizard tongued NAZI has been in the ground so long the body is no longer protected from the worms by the alcohol he consumed by the case.
William F Buckley Sr was a Franco Fascist and his children burned crosses in front of Jewish summer resorts for fun and to please the Texas Oil Tycoon and Nazi bastard.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/bozell-buckley-right-violence/
It was William F Buckley Sr who attempted to have America invade Mexico when Mexico dared suggest IT OWNED ITS OWN DOMESTIC RESERVES OF OIL AND SEIZED FOREIGN OIL . aLBERTA PRIVATIZED pETROcANADA AND OUR TRAITORS (CONSERVATIVES) SAID LET aMERIKA HAVE OUR OIL THEY ARE GOOD LANDLORDS AND WILL PROTECT US FROM THEIR OWN INSATIABLE GREED.
We are a nation of justice not of laws. If laws are unjust they are no longer laws. That was John Birch Society (Koch ) money that was seized and the the justice system provided the proof necessary to find the seizure had merit. We are far more fearful of the Amerikan KKK (GOP) than we are of Russia's red, white and blue for good reason. WE fly the flag of Ukraine next to the fleur de lys and maple leaf. Montreal was the first place America occupied in 1775-1776. We are grateful Benjamin Franklin the greatest OF PATRIOTS who ever lived WHO led the occupation and wished us God speed as America left us to own devices. Sadly the British stabbed us in the back and you stole much of our land under Jay's betrayal of Canada to her former American colonies. JAY'S TREATY 1796
I learned this poem in school long long ago.
It is worth a listen.
You might even read an analysis. It is great satire worthy of Hollywood and California.
Ode to a Louse Robbie Burns
eVEN IN 1776 mONEY YELLED AND HUMBLE FOLK LIKE Benjamin WERE FORCED TO LISTEN TO USELESS IDIOTS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsC-Aumx4dk&t=26s
i HAD A DREAM,
wHEN i WAS BORN IT WAS CALLED tHE fEAST OF sT jOHN TJHE bAPTIST. iT IS OUR nATIONAL holidAY And called Quebec National Holiday. Our society is run by our ethical and moral philosophers under the direction of our ballot boxes and it a joy for me I was born a Jew and was shunned in 1948. When I die I want the day named for my Patron Saint; Benjamin "the scoundrel" Franklin. Franklin conceived of PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS like schools, libraries, post offices and hospitals and the electrical storage battery which because I lived in Chicago I call the Tesla.
Like Sinclair Lewis’ “Dodsworth”, Fred Koch was a pro-Soviet businessman who saw the USSR as the “New Frontier”, and worked on various projects together with the Soviet government. His outlook on Communism soured after many of the people he worked with were murdered by Stalin. He became a founding member of the John Birch Society, though the founder was Robert Welch. However, his sons were libertarians, not conservatives. One even ran for Vice President on the Libertarian Party ticket, opposing the Republican ticket led by Ronald Reagan. As isolationists and free-traders, the Koch brothers’ influence on the Republican Party was limited.
Calling William F. Buckley a “Nazi” eventually cost Gore Vidal more than a million dollars. Buckley, who fought hard to rid the conservative movement of anti-Semitism, didn’t take kindly to the accusation.
Benjamin Franklin had made himself independently wealthy by his early 40’s, retiring from business to dedicate himself to science and invention, and public service. I don’t think he ever visited Canada.
The American invasion of Canada in 1775 failed, it is said, because the British Empire had just made a deal with the Catholic Church, giving it special privileges, and the Church decided to stick with the devil it knew.
Nah fuck that. It’s not time for a two state solution it’s time to unite around the things we have in common.
I agree enterally. It is time for a two State Solution. I love America but it threatens the real democracy we have in Quebec. We have a one two and a multistate solution in Canada. We call it democracy. We can vote to end the Canadian experiment whenever we want to with a trip to the ballot box and demand we write a new constitution for Quebec alone. So can Alberta, Ontario or British Columbia. We control Quebec Highways not Ottawa. Ottawa must deal with America and the Koch money fomenting protests at a border controlled in Wichita Falls Kansas by a family descended from the man whose money founded The John Birch Society.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/31/rightwing-activist-christopher-rufo-ties-scientific-racism-journal
This from The Guardian.
Don't tell me about democracy in America
He who pays the PIPER calls the tune even at Harvard and the Naval Academy.
He WHO funds our 15% of truckers who protest US border restrictions from Orange County California? Prime Minister Francois Legault controls the Highways of Quebec all Trudeau can do is get on his knees and beg in Washingtoon or Washington ease restrictions at the border just like every other idiot like yourself and I.
Trudeau's job is to keep Canada together and Quebec is a REAL liberal democracy where only living things have rights. Institutions like corporations, churches and even governments have only the privileges we the people see fit to grant them. We can change our constitution in a month by demanding our elected representatives in Ottawa and Quebec City put an end to Canada's Canadian experiment without a shot being fired.
In 1775-1776 Benjamin Franklin led the occupation of Montreal. He believed in liberal democracy. He left Quebec without firing a shot from his headquarters in Old Montreal. He is a national hero in Quebec. He also conceived of the Tesla with his electrical storage battery and his ALL MEN are Created Equal by the Creator. He was not a Christian Doominionist or even a Christian.
America doesn't work for everybody especially we the people.
What says the Admiral of Idiocy?
Benjamin Franklin led the occupation of Montreal in 1775-1776 from his headquarters in Old Montreal. He lefytbecause he believed in liberal democracy. He left without a shot ever being fired. Montreal is not American it wasn't in 1775 and in 2024 we wish to remain a liberal democracy. We can end the Canadian Democracy in two months because the ballot box speaks and bullets only bring fear and silence.
Benjamin Franklin design the Tesla he conceived of the electrical storage battery and PUBLIC SERVICE. He was not a CONSERVATIVE serving the John Birch Society in Withita Falls Kansas. Fred C Koch died less than sixty years ago after Reagan was purchased for 30 pieces of silver.
In 1964 Reagasn called liberal democracy America's worst nightmare.
Watch him speak from his stone cold heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY&t=671s
He was paid to put end to the greatest College and University Systtem that ever existed. Fred C Koch elected him GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA.
Thank God for Berkley and Kamala Harris a gifted public intellectual who grew up in Montreal in the Heart of Montreal Jewish Intellectual Community where science begins new everyday and ideology belongs with yesterday garbage.
There are no answers in yesterday's ideologies for tooday's real problems. That is what John Ralston Saul said 30 ago when wrote The Collapse of Globalism and the Re-Invention of the World. John Ralston Saul two time elected head of PEN Intrenational is still saying it and Francis Fukiyama who wrote the End of History is still saying his Conservative Mea Culpas.
Thank you Admiral Glorp Golp
My father in Law was Navy and wanted to be a Navy Admiral he was a scholar and a brilliant scientist who chose his parents rather poorly in Chicago in 1912. I loved America once upon a time; but I remember 1964 and the GOP convention and America has nothing to unite it other than its propaganda and mythology.
Conservatism is about top down governance. The same as it was in 1789.
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=conservative
liberal democracy is 20th century and the opposite of conservative.
In 1964 in his time for choosing speech Ronald Reagan called liberal democracy America's worst nightmare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY&t=648s
Fred C Koch founded the John Birch Society in 1958 and today it is the Republican Party after it paid Ronald Reagan 30 pieces of silver so he could be California Governor.
Give me a break. America is corrupt from its head to its tail. What do you expect ooligan grease.
https://bcfoodhistory.ca/ooligan-grease-by-gale-smith/
Moe: As for Reagan’s “Time for Choosing”, I’m afraid your memory is playing tricks on you. It can be found here:
“This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.”
https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/reagans/ronald-reagan/time-choosing-speech-october-27-1964
Reagan does not attack “liberal democracy“, but modern liberalism; that is, elite rule from Washington, based on pervasive regulation and high taxes.
Pervasive regulation is why, when the Federal government told social media what to censor, they leaped to obey. The Feds have almost unlimited power to destroy them.
Bot check.
I can assure you I am 100% human. I speak more my heart than from my head. I wish Americans learned real history. Most Americans lived in poverty until the early 1950s and I was reading in 1951. I am deeply disappointed in a country I still love.
Okay then Chinese sock puppet account. No good actor would suggest a two state solution. Pound salt.
It sounds good "in theory".
Who does? This is not meant to be entirely a rhetorical question.
It's doublethink- they're absolutely certain that they do, and that what they're doing is protecting it. (Cue Mandy Patinkin https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=you+keep+using+that+word)
They're about to nominate a guy who 75% of the country disapproves of. Meaning 50% of his own party. That's a losing strategy.
I'm a lefty, but seriously, why should I vote for a party that isn't even TRYING to win? It's insulting.
I will be surprised if Biden is the nominee.
If he is I will conclude that the fix is in.
I have no doubt he’s the nominee after what Assange showed us in 2016
In my opinion (which is not worth very much because I have no idea how this will turn out) but I see that the DNC have made a HUGE mistake. How will they get out of this? I don't know bit maybe there is a possibility that Biden get sick (so they will say) and appoint a new candidate?
No mistake. The only poll that matters is the vote harvest. The great 40% plurality who could care less and most likely don't even know who they vote for. So we can't ask them ahead of time, and we can't do an exit poll of them. So we will have to wait a few weeks to find out. Imagine that......
They would still have the Kamala problem.
you just gave me the shivers.
I forgot that. Maybe she will turn out well!!!!!!!
So true! Capitalization matters :D
Its fascinating how important signatures are when trying to get on a ballot, but are of no interest to the media, to the courts, and to incumbent D's and R's when they are on mail-in ballots.
I had the exact same thought. A mail-in ballot vote for Biden counted in so many states regardless of when it was posted, when it was received, if it had a signature, if it didn't have a comparison signature, if it was illegible, etc. etc.
The fact election laws were changed by various Governor's diktat is absolute proof the 2020 election was unconstitutional.
It is very troubling; I honestly don't know how to categorize what happened or how to process it. Election law enforcement seems to be arbitrary and in many cases, impossible to litigate.
Day before the election? Sorry, the issue is not yet ripe for litigation.
Day after? Sorry, the election's over, the issue is moot.
Day of the election? Court's closed. Go away. And, plus, your evidence is not really evidence. Just go away or we'll have you removed. GUARDS!
That’s how they pulled it off, yes.
It took thousands of years. Maybe tens of thousands of years to have secret verified ballots and we thew it all away in 20 years. The people who win are the rich. This is because they can use the propatainment to shape our vote. If you think it doesn't work, why do you think there are commercials on TV and product placement in movies???
Once a ballot is removed from an envelope it is impossible to verify. The act of verification actually ties a voter to their vote, so to verify it would be to eliminate the secret ballot. Which ironically mail in ballots do. The Democrats don't seem to really think we live in a Patriarchy, because they would never allow mail in ballots if they did. But their efforts are focussed towards using government to collect mail in ballots in heavily populated urban areas (more bang for the buck) which are natural D party strongholds (see the blue dots in a sea of Red counties).
If you spend $100 in a city, or $100 in the county, which place would you connect with the most people? Then keep in mind that Zuckerburg spent $3000 PER VOTE to get Biden to make up Hilliary's losses and win in the places that mattered (cities).
Zuck Bucks. He spent heavily in my area, around Philadelphia. Amazingly, this was not illegal!
Signatures are also extremely important when trying to recall rogue Democrat District Attorneys. LA County invalidate 30% of the signatures on the attempt to recall Gascón.
Ha! So true!
67 YO guy here who was going to vote for Bernie in 2016. When the Dems screwed him I voted for Trump, which I thought was ridiculous, but he ended up winning.
Turned out he was the best President of my lifetime.
Not sure why people think Trump was a good president. Because the stock market was going up on unprecedented years of Fed 'QE' (money printing), helping lay the ground for our current inflation crisis? Because he did another Wall Street bailout? Upper class tax cuts? Because he caved and helped arm Ukraine? He also bombed Syria and occupied it with troops that are still there? I still have rotting factories in my city, I thought Trump was going to bring jobs back. Trump looks all to familiar, just another US president mis-managing our imperial decline when serious disciplined structural changes are required.
I was born in 1980 and I haven't had a single good president in my lifetime.
We didn't get into any new wars and he rightly engaged with China as an adversary.
Low bar, I know, but compared to the clowns before and after...Trump was better.
Border was under control as well.
As we should expect of our government.
But, but, but...the Border Patrol was whipping innocent immigrants!!!
…. while on a horse …….
4 years of harassment
2 Impeachment trials
& a Democratic Congress for 2 years
It’s a miracle that he got anything done...
But he did!
China is only an “adversary” because the DOD needs an “enemy”, preferably one with an ancient complex culture, people of a different race, “non Western values” and determined to take a stand against our Hegemony. Our Leaders are traitors to democracy.
Huh?
There is always a conflict between nations who seek wealth and power.
The Chinese have used their population control/cheap labor to entice American corps to relocate manufacturing to the mainland to their advantage in economic espionage/theft of intellectual property and to the detriment of American labor.
Got nothing to do with "ancient complex culture" or "race" or "Western values" or any other bullshit woke narrative.
China seeks power and influence over the same countries/world policies that we do.
Hence, adversary.
Our corrupt bureaucracy, the Uniparty, Corporations and our DOD have become the only Real enemies Americans need to fear. They brought us the Vietnam war, the Iraq War, the Afghan war, the Kennedy Assassinations, the Ukraine war, the Covid Plandemic, the Covid Killer pseudo “vaccine”, the lockdowns, the Fear Porn, the censorship of Truth, the destruction of millions of small businesses, the closing of hospitals during a “pandemic”, the censoring of RFKJr in his present campaign and nearly every other Evil we face today! Its not “woke” to say that our Elite uses race, gender, culture and diversity as dividers..its just a fact! If we were really supporting democratic ideals worldwide against tyranny I might agree with you but WE are the Tyrants now and those who profit from it in our institutions are fully prepared to impose full tyranny here and its happening as we write.. have you had your 6th booster??
Jesus, son, lay off the coffee.
Just a FYI...yeah, most of your rant is kinda, almostly true. But even if it was all 100% accurate, (instead of 40 -50% ), you're still missing one huge thing:
The Chinese have their version of your all-powerful Cabal. Or are you stupid enough to think only Americans do evil stuff?
Read some history and lighten up, Francis.
The tax cuts were great for lower income workers; they were not merely "upper class tax cuts".
And Trump brought a long overdue economic confrontation with China. What other leader would've had the cojones to do that? The insipid Biden has kept those policies, after Trump more-or-less singlehandedly proved the concept.
I used to give him credit for the three Justices added during his term, but less so these days...
Tax cuts in the US always skew the benefits to the wealthy. Look at Reagan's lowering of the top marginal tax bracket from 70% to 29% and then spending like a drunken sailor on the military. It tripled the national debt. CEO compensation went from ~33X the average worker to ~400X the average worker. Trump's tax cuts were a naked giveaway to the rich, because trickle down economics has done so much for the US in the previous 40 years.
Top 1% grew faster under Obama than any time in history. Yes, socialism pays!
In terms of total dollar amount, tax cuts will favor the rich simply because they're the ones paying the vast majority of taxes in the first place.
CEO compensation is unrelated to taxation rates, so why mention that in this context?
I was born in '64 and it's the same for me. I just missed Kennedy who was killed likely because he was a good man. Reagan was the knife they used to cut the social fabric in the west and still has my vote for the president who did the most damage to the US and the globe in my lifetime. There are probably Young Republicans furiously auto-erotic asphyxiating about St. Ronnie as I type this.
You had good presidents for the first 12 years of your life...
An actor and a CIA head? Good Presidents? What are you smoking.
I base my judgements on presidents by their policies, execution of those policies and their leadership skills... not their previous employment history.
You may want to judge them on the history you've so obviously avoided reading. GHW Bush was involved in the JFK hit. His dad got his bank taken by the USG for being the Nazi's banker. Ronnie set us on the path of unsustainable debt, fun little forever wars and exponentially-growing inequality. And what actual good policies did GHWB have? Read, my brother.
Oh yes, I agree completely. And you do not want to go down that path with Reagan and Bush based on their actual accomplishments in office.
You say you "agree completely" yet their previous employment was your first argument why they were not "good presidents". Call me skeptical.
As for their accomplishments... we'll have to agree to disagree. Reagan & Bush accomplished loads in their 12 years - both domestic and international - Reagan in particular. I was born in 1963 so I lived thru it as an adult and don't rely on today's "historians".
Are you smoking crack rocks?
"Upper class tax cuts" is a tired talking point. Look it up for christsakes. Under Trump, the lower your income, the greater the percentage your tax break was.
One problem is that people trying to make a point switch back and forth between relative percentages and absolute figures.
For example, in California about 50% of the budget comes from 1% of the population. So if there were a 5% flat tax cut, people would be saying "half the cut went to the top 1%" to make it sound terribly unfair. Or even "half the population got nothing" (because half don't pay any taxes to begin with, so 5% of nothing is nothing).
But if there were a flat 5% hike, silence - nobody wants to point out that half the new revenue came from the top 1%, and the bottom end of the scale had no hike at all.
So, even if a cut produced a higher percentage reduction for lower income people, it will generally save absolute higher dollar amounts for the higher income people who pay for more of the budget, and thus try to fan unmerited resentment.
Some tax changes really do disproportionately benefit the rich, even in percentage rather then absolute terms. Those changes are not the ones I'm discussing here, though.
I support progressive taxation, with higher marginal rates as taxable income goes up. But I also support honesty and good numerical understanding. And there are plenty of real things to resent, without making up bogus ones.
You can't talk dollars when it comes to tax cuts. Obviously, ANY tax cut for someone making $1,000,000 annually is going to swamp a tax cut for someone making $30,000.
We are agreed; I was just elaborating more on why, for anybody who might be following the thread.
The press should discuss tax cuts in terms of percentages (eg: how many percent for the $1m and the $30k taxpayers). But misleading headlines like "most of tax cut went to the rich" are unfortunately common.
Well now the stock market is at all time highs and they call that Bidenomics. Which it actually is. Just like cheap money, the influx of tens of millions of illegal (even cheaper) laborers will reduce wages in the USA for the next 20 years at least which is what stock market valuation is all about (long term profitability). If you think it is all short term, what do you think Apple stock would sell for tomorrow if everyone knew ABSOLUTELY FOR SURE that in exactly 5 (or 10) years it would be worth zero? The huge influx of illegal labor and the unwillingness of the powers that be in both parties to actually stop it or even think about deporting them makes the long term wage stagnation highly likely. Just as the long term wage stagnation accompanied the 10-30 million illegals that have been in the country since 1980.
Biden let them in, but the R's in congress kept funding the activities that made it happen.
I'll tell you about the poor illegals. And why despite building the wall they are tolerated.
If there is one thing our technocratic elite hate, it is organized labor. They want the working class to work for dirt and be grateful.
Having a large number of poor immigrants coming in used to a low standard of living is a godsend for the elites. They can have a housekeeper, groundskeeper, nanny, and dog walker all happy to be there. And it splits the working class along racial lines, defeating any organization or common cause.
How many lives were destroyed during Trump's presidency?
I wrote in Bernie.
Jon: Could you please enlighten us as to what Trump did apart from giving tax breaks to the rich? We could use some links from you.
The claim works better when you explain how Trump is better.
Things like not entering into new wars, attempting talks with North Korea, increasing civic participation/consciousness, vaccinating the populace against a pandemic . . .
I was right there with you until vaccines. I loathe Trump but would have nominated him for a Nobel prize if he'd been allowed to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula. The elite sent John Bolton who gleefully destroyed that chance. John Bolton is the personification of US foreign policy; all war, all the time.
Last one is a knock against him, only wiggle room is the first product of "Operation Warp Speed" didn't roll out until the day after he lost reelection.
I made the GP comment. Personally, I can't stand Trump. I was just trying to be helpful.
And "after he lost reelection" is still while he was in office. Just sayin'.
The “vaccine” is now estimated to have killed 17 MILLION people Worldwide and maimed or sickened hundreds of millions more! Trump was played by the DOD and Fauci and Birx and, of course, still wrongly believes he “saved a hundred million lives”! You cannot vaccinate into a pandemic but the mRNA was NEVER a vaccine to begin with! It is, as Dr Joseph Ladapo, Surgeon General of Florida last week pointed out, a gene mutation device! Its unspoken purpose: sterilize and slow down population growth! Read “Wuhan: The Coverup”
By Bobby Kennedy Jr
I voted for the Nader/LaDuke ticket in 2000. I knew the DNC would do everything in its power to prevent a third party from threatening its hegemony again.
Matt, are you planning to cover CJ Hopkins’s triumphant acquittal at his thoughtcrimes trial on Tuesday?
I urge EVERYONE to immediately read the speech CJ delivered in court:
• “The Verdict”: https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-verdict
One of the most significant speeches on totalitarianism ever delivered, it is truly historic, legendary stuff and should be required reading for all. I hope CJ will be turning his experience into a play or at the very least a one-act that can be performed all over the world as “The Crucible” of our time and a reminder to what remains of free humanity for centuries to come.
I know you are a firm defender of free speech against censorship as well as a faithful friend of Substack, Matt, so I invite you and your readers to sign my thank-you card to Substack founders Hamish McKenzie, Chris Best, and Jairaj Sethi in the comments of this post:
• “On Fearing Freedom—Plus Thanking Substack for Standing up to the Censorship Bullies”: https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/on-fearing-freedomplus-thanking-substack
They got plenty of hate for resisting pressures from the censorship bullies to compromise their commitment to free speech, so let’s shower them with some love and gratitude for choosing their principles over principal.
Yay!!!! You just made my day with the news CJ was acquitted! We have to appreciate free speech wins when we get them. And we need to keep Matt out of the dock and the IRS off his doorstep. What are we going to read if they disappear him?!
Thank you for posting the CJ Hopkins link. I may have missed it otherwise.
Same. An incredible speech. And to deliver it to the tribunal holding his liberty in its hands?
Bravery beyond words.
💯💯💯
Thank you for sharing the CJ link. Reading that made my day!
Thank you for posting the CJ Hopkins link. The EpochTV link was helpful supported by the translate German -> English. The rise of the Leftist Progressive Totalitarianism is introducing an Orwellian society that determined to topple every democratic form of government in the West.
Excellent! Centrist Democrats are no different than the GOP. Both Parties are corporatists which is a clear definition of Fascism. Democracy and Capitalism are antithetical to each other and I wish Taibbi and other progressive writers would begin to focus on this educational point. One is a political system and the other an economic one-they are not the same. Reminds me, today, of the difference between Zionism, a political ideology, and Judaism which is a religion. Same confusion about different systems of ideology and beliefs and the practices they promote.
Excellent comment. Puts a finger on the problem of money in politics, among other ills, does it not?
Absolutely. But must add the white male supremacist core to their ideology.
Oh ffs.
Class war is the problem not fucking racism.
I live in a urban city with the uber rich in small enclaves and the working class in the rest. My fellow working class, black or white or brown, all have the same issues.
And white supremacism is not one of them.
You fall right into the "divide and conquer" trap set by the Woke Democrats when you racialize things. They want us all at each other's throats and I refuse. I am for equality and believe racism is an "absolute value" sort of thing. There isn't "reverse racism". Racism is racism. And while I think that every white American ought to feel what it's like to be on the receiving end of racism to kill any atavistic instinct to visit it on others, I reject racism in all its forms. And I am a 60 year old white guy who's been on the receiving end in the past. As a smart commenter said, this isn't about race, it's about class. Don't believe the hype! (Thanks Flavor Flav!)
You said it sistah! LOL
Money quote-
"These people reordered the geography of the world, blithely moved whole manufacturing sectors from one continent to another, started moronic wars that pointlessly killed millions and created millions more refugees, bailed out corrupt banks while whole regions went into foreclosure, and failed to accomplish much but a growing sense of foreboding and decline despite decades of promises to the contrary. Still, they feel sincere rage at the idea that they should have to earn votes."
That's the best example of the kind of insight Taibbi brings to bear on the corrupt.
Thanks for all ya do, Matt.
«the best example of the kind of insight Taibbi brings to bear on the corrupt»
That's just cheap rhetoric: the oligarchs don't really “feel sincere rage at the idea that they should have to earn votes” they simply realize that much of their wealth depends on their "sponsored" politicians winning and so they rather coolly invest their money to ensure that random people do not interfere with their business decisions.
Did you see the way oligarchs Wasserman Shultz, Plaskett & Goldman treated Matt and Mike Schellenberger in their testimony? And you don't think these Marie Antoinettes feel rage? In the words of the Big Guy, c'mon man!
Those are not oligarchs, they are the well-compensated public relations consultants of the oligarchs. Congress mostly does posturing. It is the oligarch class, not politicians, who "reordered the geography of the world, blithely moved whole manufacturing sectors from one continent to another, started moronic wars that pointlessly killed millions and created millions more refugees, bailed out corrupt banks while whole regions went into foreclosure".
https://blissex.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/poliusabossesofsenate.jpeg
The role of Congress is to act as talking heads to "sell" (with the help of the main media) to the middle class (the opinion of the lower classes is not important) the policies decided by the oligarchs.
Taibbi wasn't writing about the oligarchs. You brought that in.
Taibbi was very rightly talking about the Democratic party and their leadership.
Your drive-by snipe completely missed the point.
"These people..." aren't the oligarchs. These people are the leadership of the Democratic Party. They may take direction from the oligarchs but they're the public facing political leaders and they are so arrogant as to believe what they say should be followed cheerfully.
In the end, we still hold the last great power in this country. Oligarchs will be just fine either way but Dem pols? They seethe at any rebuke from the prols.
Isn't the correct term "Aparatchik"?
For some, absolutely.
For others, no. Dem pols like Obama and Clinton aren't "aparatchik" nor are they "oligarchs". They're just arrogant assholes who think they're "aristocrats".
This morning I signed up to canvass for getting RFK jr on the ballot in Minnesota. In the process, I was notified that I was not a registered voter. I have been registered to vote since 1970. I have been registered in Minnesota since 2010. What is going on?
Wow. You got a notice?
Yes. When I filled in the form from Kennedy's people, a prompt came up that told me I was not a registered voter. I went to the Minnesota registration site and filled in the form. I was told it may take a while to receive a reply.
I just checked with the county about my registration which shows me in their system but the state attorney general site showed I was not registered. I may be a clerical error in 2011 in which my birth date was incorrectly entered. I should hear back from the state by next week.
voting doesn't matter...vote counting is all that matters (to paraphrase ...)
Or as Mayer Rothschild said "Give me control of a country's money supply and I care not who makes the laws".
How are you liking all that Democracy(TM) Don? Thank you for your efforts to get Bobby on the ballot in MN.
Silicon Valley: After living/voting in the same precinct for over 10 years, my wife and I (both previously registered Green) were dropped from the rolls without notice. The Registrar had "no answer" for us. Then went to work at a voting machine company (Redwood?)
Follow the money and #TagTheSponsor. Swamp Uniparty donors like Reíd Hoffman are funding Warmonger Nikki Haley. Democracy is when Democrats win: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/tag-the-sponsor-dc-swamp-donors-candidate
This is one of the anti-democratic side effects of wealth inequality. The rich are now so obscenely rich that they can literally buy elections. Granted, that's easy in the US because 99.9% of our government are cheap corporate whores on the take for some quick corporate cash. Individuals like Bill Gates now have more money, (power), than nation states, and they're using it in the worst ways. It is this that creates unelected bodies like the WEF, the WHO (~82% of the funding for the WHO comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation) that intend to be our overlords after their Great Reset.
Now you're doing a pair of pieces dear to my heart, as an Independent and third party voter. I love to mention that i'm a third party voter, and cue the screeching "you might want to revisit Bush v Gore!" My answer is the same every time - 12x more Democrats in Florida voted for Bush than voted for Nader. The response is generally woosh, and further pile ons.
I mention that I'm an Independent - "Independents are just Republicans embarassed to admit it." Ok, but you're fucked then and Dems should throw in the towel right now, as Indies are 40% of the electorate and Repubs another +/- 30%.
And of course, the perennial "a 3rd party vote is a vote for Trump". Actually, first of all, no, it's a vote for the candidate that i voted for. And second of all, you seem to be making the assumption that i somehow really think that Biden is better than Trump. Not so, I'm a double hater and we're a thing this election.
Just for fun, here's a list of some of the write in votes on the NH R&D ballots.
https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-primary-election-results-write-ins/46541337
It reminds me of the drug wars, actually.
"Come on, everyone's doing it; first one's free!" vs "this is your brain on drugs [cue eggs frying]."
How is any of that bandwagon sloganeering supposed to make me choose? And what about the war on eggs?
Remember PJ O'Rourke and his then-girlfriend showing a carrot - this is your dick. Then putting it in boiling water - this is your dick on drugs.
For vapid slogans though - Just Say No has to be the most moronic.
In the 70s, PJ O'Rourke wrote the hilarious National Lampoon article titled "How to Drive Drunk, High On Drugs, While Getting Your Wingwang Squeezed".
PJ O'Rourke being anti-drug is like R Kelly being anti-pedophelia. C'mon man! And yes, I know PJ got all Reaganed-up in the 80s, but again, c'mon man!
PJ was making fun of the ads. Said that if you really want to make a point, make it about your dick.
Thanks for the link to NH ballots. People deserve the government they vote for.
“Still, they feel sincere rage at the idea that they should have to earn votes “
This is why Matt Taibbi is a one-man media powerhouse
The zingers. Well researched etc but it is the zingers that do it
I come for the zingers, stay for the trenchant analysis. And the comments!
AND ... he's on a roll lately!
Who is the "we" who should have seen this coming, and what would the "we" have done? But anyways, democracy and its processes in America have always been disputed, and rightly so, as it's a facade. The managerial trick is to convince the people they have a voice, is it not? It will be easier when the AI oracles become the new facade, which in practice, at the human level, will likely be little different from the faceless European and Russian bureaucracies of the past.
"Democracy" as it is practiced, is primarily an exercise in buck-passing.
That "buck passing" is known as bribery when foreign governments do it.
Or "the voters chose Biden but Biden isn't responsible to the voters".
DEMOCRACY
noun: democracy
a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
noun: US Democracy
a system whereby rich people serially fellate other rich people for money, status and power, all the while funneling public money to the rich people they are fellating. The fellatees then return a portion of the public money to the fellators to keep this virtuous cycle "humming".
That's pretty funny. And pretty much right
You had me until AI oracles.
That is actually the plot of the exciting Netflix series "Travelers". Great show.
And don't forget what both US political parties have done to Julian Assange.
Yet another reason I'm voting for RFK Jr.
Wow! Matt, the only meaningful stories are about transformation. This article is great because it tells us how you’re changing. You’re on a journey, and you’re taking us with you. You’re becoming a wiser man, with keener sight, which makes you a better writer and, more importantly, a more compelling soul.
Agree. I've been wondering for some time whether Matt would delve more deeply into the effects of having the scales fall from his eyes re the Democrat Party. Revisiting, reflecting on, and revising one's views/beliefs are rare actions these days.
In addition, about seeing the apparatus regardless of party. Like Trump or hate him, we are only seeing the apparatus because of him exposing it either directly or indirectly.
The irony of the "Democratic Party" turning anti-democratic is precious. The party became completely anti-Democratic when the DNC announced no primary debates -- even as Biden kept framing Trump as "a threat to democracy" -- which is quite Orwellian.
And to your point about 2004, Kerry has now joined the Biden campaign. Meanwhile, Move-On has announced a $32 million investment in re-electing Biden by "generating enthusiasm" for him. Good luck on that!
The Democratic Convention will be a coronation of Biden -- no dissent, no opposition. Nobody will be allowed to state that the emperor has no clothes.
The devolution of the Democratic Party is disgusting and depressing. But maybe this is what the doctor ordered -- Trump gets back in the White House and maybe sanity and true democratic values will return and a revived party will rise from the ashes. One can hope, I suppose.
I will vote for Trump but as far as him getting into the White House and turning the ship around, so to speak....I hold little hope.
For starters, the Left and the Democratic Party (but I repeat myself) have Rent-A-Riot on speed-dial. Is there anyone left with eyes who cannot see they control a machine that magically pulls strategically-timed riots out of its ass---protesters and rioters appear within minutes, armed, organized, and equipped. If Trump wins, we will see riots and I fear they will make the Floyd Summer of Fiery Love look like a tailgate party in comparison.
Once Trump is actually sitting in the Oval Office, pen in hand, his orders will be ignored. The array of forces against him have had since 2016 to refine their tactics and to make it even more difficult for Trump to actually execute his policies than they did in his first term.
The Democratic Party is not left, they're center-right with an ID politics smokescreen. We have no left party.
Actually, the Dems are a globalist party, which is center left with a whiff (or maybe more than a whiff) of totalitarianism thrown in. Fixed it for you, rtj.
In the US you seem to have a problem with left and right!
There is no left in the US.
One party is right wing and the other party is facist.
Grow up and learn.
Define left
Exactly what is left about globalism? Surely you're not going to try to make a case for it as pro-labor.
You are behind the times. The Left is no longer "pro-labor," it is pro-alphabet people and anti-nationalist. As are the globalists. If you are "pro-labor," vote Trump.
The world has changed, but alas, you have not.
As for Kerry, they should make him SoS and kick out Blinken.
Damn dude. Best comment yet I've seen on this thread.
"turning"?
Touche! They turned anti-democratic long ago, as Matt pointed out.
Remember superdelegates? Or the two candidates magically disappearing from the primary ballot just before Super Tuesday last time? After early voting had already started, thereby disenfranchising their own voters?
For decades now, I'm been watching most of my Dem-voting friends become more and more rabidly pro-fascism, while dutifully repeating the party line that the blame for all our problems lies with Republicans, stupid working-class people (all of whom are racist/homophobic/transphobic and sided with Van Halen during the big split with David Lee roth - surely) and pretty much anyone who wasn't the DNC nomenklatura they desperately wanted to please (and hoped to ascend to be) at all costs.
These DNC cultists happily repeat the Psalms about "defund the police" while supporting more police, more authoritarianism, more censorship, more oppression. They cry about omnipresent racism in movies and television shows (that are barely creative works, seriously) but the thought of actually doing something to improve day to day life for any fellow human never enters their Suburban Caucasian (like Yuppie so... Suckie?) minds - they participate in the Two Minutes Hate, they're one of the Good Guys.
Confronting them with some of these obvious questions like "How is it that you're against the war in Afghanistan and/or Iraq but you still support the Dems who voted for it???" would usually elucidate some non-answer about Bush and Diebold and a rigged election, or muttering about Republicans and obligatory notions of Hitler. It was as if the part of their brains which once held a cogent thought about their opinion on these issues (and those whose votes ostensibly made them happen) had been plastered-over with incoherent word-salad along the lines of "Democrat good, Republican bad; if you not with us you against us."
And now here we are, and it has only gotten worse on both "sides" if we can even call them that. This is what happens when people are gaslit and propagandized and pushed into the depths of despair on a massive scale - for profit. It's the bloody Stanford Prison Experiment where all the "progressives" are tripping over each other to get picked to be guards. Our system exists to keep a handful of so-called elites super-wealthy and in total control, while everyone else serves them and dies poor and afraid, with hate in their hearts for The Others.
Superb screed. Particularly: "How is it that you're against the war in Afghanistan and/or Iraq but you still support the Dems who voted for it???" Cue sound of shitlib head exploding.
Amen!
Diebold , when denying elections was cool
the uniparty is a monopoly that creates more monopolies.
It's not a uniparty or a monopoly.
It is a duopoly controlled by oligarchs and their concerns.
Hasbro is a monopoly that creates more Monopolies.
This sounds like a semantics squabble as both uniparty, monopoly, oligarchy seem the same to me. It is all about consolidation of power in the hands of very few, very wealthy, very arrogant and self-entitled white male supremacists even tho a few women and maybe a darker skin here and there may be included. They all act as proxy for the ruling white male supremacists with there hegemony and imperialist, population reduction agenda.
Let me help.
"Uniparty" means "one party." We have two dominant parties, not one.
"Monopoly" means one entity dominates. We have two. That's called a "duopoly."
"Monopoly" is also a board game from Hasbro, who not only produces that game but now owns half of my childhood as they keep buying all the other companies. I was kidding, equivocating, about "monopoly" and "Monopoly" being the same thing.
Oligarchs need not be arrogant or white male supremacists. I think you're confusing all the things you dislike with one another. (Hint: they're also not Nazis!) Anyway, the accusations of "semantics squabble" seems to stem from your deep confusion about what words mean. I suggest dictionary use!
Uniparty" means "one party." We have two dominant parties, not one.
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Many of us argue that we have two wings of one party.
We are going to disagree here. I am totally familiar with your definitions which are dictionary correct but my focus is functional behavior and these structures do work the same in the Big Picture. I did not mention Nazis but that ideology does promote white supremacy and totalitarian control. The Oligarchy shares total control by a very few. And the two party system does not offer real differences--only their affect and level of boisterousness in how they present publicy, a very superficial characteristic.. And yes, I,too, played Monopoly as a child. Remember that game was created to actually teach the foibles of Capitalism