Nationwide rallies are spurring "Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez 2028" whispers, and it's already clear: the CIA couldn't do a better job of discrediting the American left
Alexandra Occasional Cortex doesn’t even have credentials, she was a bartender. At least old school socialists used to have intellect. Remember when she left her nyc district during covid lockdowns to go to Miami and got covid at a drag queen show there, despite pushing vaccines she claimed would stop the spread? Sums up progressive idiocy.
She’s a regular working class Joe. An intellectual giant of a longshoreman just like Eric Hoffer. Just the other day all the guys down at the IBEW union hall were gushing over how much they could relate to her.
Please, oh please let the remnants of the Democratic Party run her in 2028. Against Vance. Lol.
03/25/25: My candidate would be that "actress" who single-handedly blew up the Snow White movie-remake trainwreck. The more immature, the better, and even that has to be qualified, becuase if she has a single ounce of maturity anywhere in her makeup, no one has ever seen it. And her political cabinet should be the Disney executives who are busy destroying their franchise.
Perhaps if the writers and producers would have called it snow black it might have sold. Re-imagining classic shows to add DEI stupidity demonstrates is why Hollywood and the big studio's have really, "lost the plot."
03/29/25: They haven't "lost" the plot. Disney et al are Stalinist propaganda outfits that wants to erase the past by erasing the "plot" (of the original film). Toss in their inevitable moral and financial corruption ($36 trillion-dollar federal deficit), and their hapless ineptitude (casting an obnoxious actress), and what happened to Russia in 1991 (collapsed) has happened to America in 2024-25. Fortunately, the saying that "no one learns anything from history" (I doubt that they can even read) has come true once again.
There is really not much point in a rational analysis of AOC's (or anyone else's) electoral chances in the age of Trump and Musk. Whatever happens is going to happen regardless of all the detailed rationality stuff. If you study some of our past crisis elections you'll see what I mean. Not your monkeys, Mr. T., nor mine. Things just have to run their course. It's unfortunate that a nice, well-meaning lady like AOC must get dragged into it, but she probably thinks it's her duty.
Well after ten years of being called Hitler, racist, dictator, clown, crazy, rapist, sexiest, misogynist, bigot, stupid, a child….. he sure knows how to troll.
Call yourself a king and give the TDS ERS something new to call him.
Well, that's just because his initial plan for his third term fell through because of Hillary Clinton being one of the few people in America who couldn't beat Trump at the height of you-can-just-grab-their-pussy.
Trump won't run again. Even if he wanted to, and he doesn't, some federal district court judge will wake up on the wrong side of the bed and issue a nationwide injunction against republicans, and hold Trump in contempt. A district judge somewhere may remove Trump from office this week or next. It could happen!
In your dreams, Idiot!!! None of you Democrat Brain-tards know anything about living under a Constitutional Republic. Were you born in a mountain cave somewhere in Siberia?
No didn't get it! I'm going to complain to our cult HR dept. You should join the cult. All you need is sanity, a red hat and a love for YMCA, the constitution and America. You also need to support women's civil rights unlike the Demobrats. If not, the cult will reject you, you'll have to go back to the fringe 29% cult. They're so angry. No fun!
So, rather than figure out why the country turned away from your fantasy ideology and no longer empathetic toward the raging mental illness of progressives you can only rage with witless stupidity? Come on man!
Well, you better tool up Ryan because if he can stand behind a lectern spewing his bs he’s running.
And yes, it’s going to be one of his delusional cult followers who is going to wake up with the social safety net they’ve been relying on who will take him out.
So far the field is getting awfully busy awfully early. Governor Good Hair declared with his new podcast, Mark Cuban declared when he said he has the 7-step cure for health care, and Rahm Emmanuel declared when he went on Maher's show. I guess he would be Half-Black Jesus's last Hail Mary for glory before sinking off to Martha's Vineyard and the new palatial Hawaiian estate.
instead he starves the premier agriculture state for water to save a tiny, inconsequential fish, while destroying the livelihoods of the farmers in CA. I'll take the guy who prays for rain.
The fact that folks are even discussing 2028 shows that the comfort level for many is still too high. At this rate we will be fortunate to still be here then.
Yeah, didn't Harris tell us this would be the last election if Trump won? All these fool Democrats, thinking they'll be allowed to have a candidate anymore.
Even more ridiculous is that she is reported to have majored in economics at Boston University, although she shows no apparent signs of having learned any.
"[S]he shows no apparent signs of having learned any [economics]"
*That* is not necessarily her fault. Remember, she "earned" her degree c. 2010. I would wager a majority of the graduates in that major don't know economics, either.
No she isn't working class. She's a fraud that pretends to be a "working class" bartender when actually she grew in Yorktown fucking Heights (Westchester NY, not the bronx) and went to Boston and interned for Ted Kennedy during college.
Her actual bone-fides after that of typical shill/CIA hopeful, until she moved to the Bronx, became a bartender for a year, to then run for congress as a "bartender from the Bronx".
The actual left does hate AOC, but not because of her credentials, because she's nothing more than Pelosi/Obama in the making. She's a fraud, and not a leftist.
A little disappointed in your comment. I personally have known quite a few well-read bartenders. Liberal. Democrat. But not educated at BU in Econ? Thank you, Jesus.
Not so much policy as ingrained thinking. Just as long as you spew the right daily talking points embrace any idiotic idea that is floating around the faculty loungers you are expected to get away with being a hypocrite 24x7x365. I think they call that entitled.
My very favorite AOC 'fact check' is that it's not true she's an actress hired at a casting call. She just went to an event where people look for political talent and then got 'hired'.
The “Brains Behind AOC” video correctly states that Ocasio-Cortez was recruited by the Justice Democrats to run for office. However, this fact is presented in the video as if it were an unprecedented act of political malfeasance. In reality, it is quite common for Political Action Committees (PACs) to recruit candidates for office. The Justice Democrats made no attempt to hide this effort and openly discuss their recruitment process on their website and in videos published to their public YouTube page
Honest question: Are there GOP “Brains Behind AOC”?
Reasoning: No Republican in that seat could help us more than AOC does now?
(And yet there's a certain blond demographic that's, like, OMG AOC! Right?! You GUYS! I just LOVE her! She's so cute and sassy, guys. And she cares about the poor and her wardrobe is to DIE for so 7 figures, you guys, I'm about to cry right now I just can't even no I'm SERIOUS....!)
I haven’t once used the word hate! Hate is a strawman argument created and then bowled over by MAGA. I’ve used the word cultist ad nauseam.
Taibbi holds that his viewpoints and his work are consistent. I think his going down the rabbit hole on this supposed “free speech” issue is a gigantic intellectual bank shot meant to justify his shenanigans in Russia for which he’s apologized. But he’s not willing to let it go.
As noted in the New York piece I linked, I’d agree that his focus and editorial decisions have drastically changed after that #MeToo episode.
Also the New York piece was written 3-4 years ago. He had 30k subscribers then. What’s that number now at $5 a month?
Sadly for AOC, the voters who were really passionate about her and Bernie aren't so young anymore -- and they're running headlong into the real world in which government manages to break a lot of eggs but never actually make that omlette.
ACTUAL young voters see her as the embodiment of the failure of the left we've seen over the last decade. I don't blame them.
She's the living breathing emblem of why I no longer vote Democrat even if I held my nose. I hope they do create a Left/Labor Party however, and I'd love to see a left branch break off of the Republican party ... let's call them the Liberal party, because we Liberals sit here to the right of the Democrat nonsense, and the left of the Republican nonsense.
Meh... I've been here in the same political place for 30 years, while the Democrats have blown by me to the left and actually maybe even lapped me twice.
The Twitter Files and Zuckerberg admitting the Feds pressured him on free speech, lockdowns, schools, parks and playgrounds closed and mandatory vaccines don't seem fascist at all to the Dems who indiscriminately use that word to describe the Republican party. Vivid example of how mobs completely lose the ability to think critically. A big human neurological white out. Maybe it was helpful to keep it as we evolved from apes, who also exhibit it.
Exactly - but like Obama, she fronts well, wants nothing but fame, and will do anything - hence the perfect politician for 'our time' - if you're a self-described 'feminist' and easing past 50.
The snide comments on this site aimed at older women, especially college-educated older women, and 'feminists' (whatever the hell the quotes signify) are beyond tiresome. I am over 50 and am a feminist (if by that you mean I believe in equal pay for equal work and the right to do whatever I want with my body without being overruled by the government or some religious freak), and I am not a fan of AOC or Obama. I am and always will be a Bernie supporter because, aside from being a very decent human being, he understands that all that liberal blathering counts for nothing if we don't push for a fair economic system.
Even if you check it out in a source that doesn't particularly like him (Forbes), they give a reasonable account of his net worth based on salary, book sales, social security, and pensions and annuities. Given how long he has been in Congress, and especially when you compare him to his cohorts, he hasn't done all that well.
“…the right to do whatever I want with my body without being overruled by the government …” as in the right to turn down a govt imposed vaccine? Oh wait, you might get fired…
Not sure where I called someone a “name”? And yes I do understand stand what a right is. I’m just saying that what they are advocating (killing babies) is really worse than demanding we take a vaccination and how that’s kind of ironic……
you sorta have more CHOICE to "catch a baby" than you do to get COVID. You can CHOSE NOT to do the thing that gets you pregnant... can't get pregnant by walking around the grocery where as you can get any virus by doing that...
Sorry, but unlike AOC at her age and given the state of the educational system she was subject to, Bernie should certainly have known better, at *his* age and given the educational system *he* had available.
Bernie "Hillary will make a great president!" Sanders went right along with a bunch of woke stuff, such as nixing his original "all lives matter" in the face of BLM, and abandoning his early claim that illegal immigration hurts native workers. This ex-Bernie supporter now realizes that the idea of him leading an *actual* "Our Revolution" against TPTB destroying our country is a howler.
In the last ten years, this long-time, self-styled "independent" has thoroughly revealed himself to be a shepherd for DNC, nothing more. His function is to get the angry to, ineffectively, dissipate steam (much as Substack's function is ;) Unlike AOC though, Bernie is too old to still be be unwitting. So he's now simply up to new tricks doing more of the same. What does he actually get out of it, cosplay thrills? Maybe the Right is correct; in his oncoming dotage, he wanted little more than a summer home.
When this current stealth DNC dog-and-pony show gets "co-opted" around late 2027, their population of the country's latest generation of duped Angry Young Leftists will, of course, merge with the Democrats for an astro-turfed Frankenstein's-monster "majority" in time to deliver the same-old same-old "Leftist" Trojan-horse totalitarian puppets, now led by AOC, just in time for the 2028 election. How convenient. At least AOC still has time to get to a McNamara-esque come-to-Jesus moment -- hopefully a lot earlier.
I quit expecting politicians to be perfect about 30 years ago. I was disappointed he campaigned for Hillary, especially after the crap she pulled, but he saw Trump as a greater threat (I'm not so sure he was wrong given the current state of affairs). Realizing that "all lives matter" is a limpdick response to the justifiable rage people felt after the Zimmerman acquittal and trying to strike a balance between humane immigration policies and protecting the wages of American workers is not being "woke" but decent. (While I don't care for the use of "woke" by either side, I think the rightwing hysteria over "wokeness" is equivalent to three-year-olds having tantrums because they have to share their toys.) And if Bernie was in cahoots with the DNC, as you suggest, I suspect that he would have a lot more power and money than he currently has (think Nancy Pelosi, the Clintons, and the Obamas). I never heard of him getting a six-figure payout for a speech, did you? He also isn't anywhere in the list of top stock traders in Congress. As to AOC, I think she got swept away by the flood of attention and never got to solid ground. But, you may be right, she still has time.
"I quit expecting politicians to be perfect about 30 years ago."
No, but some politicians are willing to fall on their swords. Tulsi Gabbard (despite her resurrection in the Trump admin) did this in the Democratic Party with her public takedown of Hillary's warmongering, with no Trump quid pro quo at the time yet come to light, to my knowledge.
Bernie did nothing of the sort. What IMO he should have said was something like, "Per my campaign statements, I cannot endorse Hillary, but I greatly prefer to her to Trump." And pretty much leave it at that. Because he was (apparently just pretending to be) much different.
"Realizing that 'all lives matter' is a limpdick response to the justifiable rage people felt after the Zimmerman acquittal"
First of all, let me repeat, *Bernie* said 'all lives matter', until he was apparently told not to. And no, it is not a "limpdick" response. IMHO, if you believe this, you really need to read up more. It was an acknowledgement that the stats show that Whites (in fact, more, by sheer numbers) are being killed by errant cops, too; meanwhile, many more Blacks are being killed by uncontrolled illegal guns (usually in crime-ridden neighborhoods) than in encounters with police. But we can't talk about these just-as-real problems, because TPTB declare it taboo and against the dominant narrative whose real purpose is to divide-and-conquer us. The biggest opponents of "Defund the police" were often Blacks in crime-ridden zones. (I live in near one in NYC, and my own is notably worse than average.)
" trying to strike a balance between humane immigration policies and protecting the wages of American workers is not being 'woke' but decent. "
Agreed. But the DNC, and then Bernie falling into line behind them, shut up about it. I don't find that part 'decent'.
"if Bernie was in cahoots with the DNC, as you suggest, I suspect that he would have a lot more power and money than he currently has"
He has a stage image to protect. Otherwise, his life would get far less comfortable. (Bernie at my age had a more wealth than I do, and he has not lived in the inner city as I do for a long time.)
"I think the rightwing hysteria over 'wokeness' is equivalent to three-year-olds having tantrums because they have to share their toys."
I fear your media diet is not very broad. There are plenty of serious complaints out there, if you care to explore them. And no, I am not right-wing, despite modern Dem pols insistence on calling all their non-conformists such.
As a woman over 50 that is not a feminist please keep the snide comments about what a pain in the ass college educated feminists are! Feel free to mention that they have absolutely no sense of humor- ever.
Well, he is a sick old man now. In medical terms, he is "the old old." Like it or not. What would it be like to have another dude in the White House whose brain is largely white out?
I don't mention women in my comment, do I? I employ "self-described feminists" (without any gender reference) in quotes to make clear my comment is about frauds of all stripes: men and women who pretend to care about women's rights.
As for your support for Bernie, I'm not in the least surprised. Have a better one.
She is nothing like Obama, in my opinion. He was a pragmatic and brilliant man who was dead center. Most if not all of the radical left's platform is complaints. Whining all the time about the same tired inflammatory lies. No manageable plans to address the issues the country grapples with. The real issues.
Drone Strike was and is the perfect tool of vested interests, an amoral hack, and manipulative con man. Snowden demolishes the fiction that Drone Strke had a shred of integrity and interest in civil liberties; he expanded and cemented the Cheney-Bush security state. 'Closing Gitmo on day one, if you like your doctor, Libya, ISIS expansion, and destroying the black middle-class are just a few of President Peace Prize's broken promises and failures. The moment he left office the first thing he and his equally cynical and self-interested wife did was cash in big - 400,000 speaking fees, how smart was that? He was the ultimate DEI hire well out of his depth who pursued his passions for golf and handicapping sports while pretending to care about America. Ramming through the ACA and TARP did the impossible and transformed the moribund corpse of the GOP into the Tea Party and ultimately two terms of DJT in less than 24 months. Not only did the Dems get killed in the 2010 federal elections in 2010, they got wiped out at the state and local level, leaving only the most corrupt and entrenched political hacks and no new blood.
Ukraine, COVID and Russia-Russia are the children of Obama's feckless rule. When he left office, he was less popular in the ME than Bush. He possessed a killer smile and was just smart enough to know when to shut-up. When he didn't, the press covered his face plants until he couldn't rescue Biden, Harris. Scolding the 'brothers' confirmed what many minorities woke up to long ago - he's a know-it-all dunce without an original thought in his head. In retrospect my opinion of him has improved - I'm now convinced that HRC would have led us into war with Iran and/or Russia. So there's that.
Agree with most of what you have written here...would add his Feds raided medical marijuana clinics in CA and there was a ban on journalists accessing and writing about BP oil spill in the gulf, then there was support of Syrian rebels. We can criticize every US President and every administration endlessly. He took office during a most difficult economic time, had a steep learning curve, reigned in the budget, created US good will world-wide, deported more illegal aliens than any other President, and accomplished more in his first 100 days than most. The ACA is so far from perfect, but $500,000 life-time benefit maximum and no coverage for pe-existing conditions is history.
It is easy to forget the unholy mess he walked into. Millions lost their homes and jobs, Iraq war fiasco when the terrorist bombing was committed by residents from another country altogether, worldwide recession bordering on depression, bankruptcies and US deficits at record high in US...all caused by George Bush., Cheney and Rumsfeld. They certainly enriched themselves tho! People who lived through it and historians agree Bush was the worst US President in history.
Gen Z is it's very own kind of crazy. The last Generations that had anything even remotely in common are GenX and the first 5 to 10 years of the Millennials. I think it's why they split Millennials in 2... I blame my GenX for that as we were TERRIBLE parents. We took John Hughes far too literally.
I bet it was fun! My older brother, by three years, (law school professor) is the same age as our best family friend's daughter (retired nurse) but have lived completely different lives. One is healthy as a horse and the other on oxygen. Guess which is which. And, yeah, she says she only has herself to blame; glad to hear her take responsibility. Meanwhile, my brother rode his bike from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine. His lung function is exceptional.
We were all raised in the same very small midwestern town but once 18 rolled around and it was 1975, all bets were off. Choices have consequences far beyond ourselves.
I quite agree. The boomers are THE ones who screwed EVERYTHING UP. They are the ones who stopped all the pensions so that they could drive stock prices higher. They are the ones with “future math” convincing everyone a higher minimum wage will create more wealth when all it does is drive prices higher. They are the ones who created the millennial and GenZ mess! And they will be the ones to bankrupt our country social Security system not to mention our country with all the excess spending…ugh I hate them!
"The boomers are THE ones who screwed EVERYTHING UP."
It happened on our watch. That's it. To say that all, or even most, boomers approved what destructive things happened, much less participated in it, is simply ridiculous. In fact, many of us fought AGAINST these kinds of changes, but lost the war.
All the problems you identify were done essentially in stealth. Sometimes with lies and nonsense that prevented successful public discussions and pushback, sometimes completely in secret. And now, TPTB won't teach that history. So you don't even know what happened. Let's up our game and fight them again, smarter this time.
Any campaign against an entire generation (this one, or any other) is clearly divide-and-conquer BS. Please, don't be a useful idiot for the real perps. They laugh all the way to the bank and more, while many of us are now bankrupt, demoralized, frightened, and hungry. Not a story often heard on "the news", as it messes with the inter-generational warfare narrative.
Yes it happened on our watch, and we never saw what was coming. Understandable. I still remember the first tv I ever saw - my engineer-adjacent uncle put one together in his basement. Simply magic to a small child, who never dreamed of the damage yet to be done by the electronic age. Vietnam in our living rooms every night, stability exploded with the bombs, bloodshed in living color.
My father fought in Japan. My mother was home. We children played outside, did our homework, minded the nuns.. I loved both my parents dearly. They were NEVER my friends. I raised my children the same way, minus the nuns. My grandchildren were homeschooled. Best decision my daughter ever made.
yea hate is a bit strong I agree. But they are having all the Fun and we are stuck with the repercussions of that "fun". And then the generation that that they parented is a mess too... so more "fun" . Lets face it they need to have means testing on SS but since they are the "ME ME ME" generation they will bankrupt it and there will be nothing for Gen X... sigh... screwed again by those darn boomers...
As a whole.. GenX is responsible for "my kids are my best friends, and I respect them," which screwed up 2 generations at a phenomenally increased rate.
I 100% disagree with this comment. It’s the boomers that had that attitude of wanting to be their kid’s best friends AND ditching the three R’s in school
So, how do you come up with your astute observations? Do you realize how silly your argument sounds? Surely you have better things to do than cook up some dumbass theory on what’s wrong with a group of diverse individuals. Go back to the basement
You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but as a GenX raised by Boomers, I would love to see how this scenario would play out in court or TV today....
Kid does stupid thing at neighbors house up the street, neighbor grabs kid by the ear smacks him on the ass, or upside the head and scolds him for being a dumbass. Kid NEVER tells his parents because he knows damn well he's going to get a whacking again, and likely grounded for a week without TV.... Yeah... play that story out line by line today, or any time in the past 25 years and tell me the results.
Absolutely true. I was the program director of two child care/early childhood programs from 1989-2007. They were both in wealthy Chicago north shore suburbs. The stories I could tell!
How about AOC and Bernie list 5 things they’ve done to help their constituents in the last week — or — months— or year — or ever. All they do is talk and their talk is primarily platitudes. Have either one of them actually written a health care bill and worked for its passage? No.
Of course he wrote a health bill. He wrote Medicare For All and worked hard and successfully to get the public behind it. Unfortunately, the insurance companies and the AMA have more power than the people.
Or maybe "the people" have seen socialized medicine in the UK, Canada and elsewhere which is great at providing free primary care but not so great in making available cutting edge and innovative medicine. There is a reason cancer patients in the US have higher five year survival rates than those of our cousins with socialized Healthcare. The people might also notice that Medicaid is a broken mess that rations care through low reimbursements and is still not viable and how Obamacare is only popular among those who receive huge subsidies.
I hope you are right about that. However, my 76-year-old sister likes AOC because she thinks she is really smart. That tells you something about many voters. It turns out a lot of leftists like "woke gibberish." It makes them feel virtuous because they can pretend they know what the gibberish means. By speaking that language with a straight face, a politician can fool an awful lot of people.
I can remember watching her first campaign ads and, while I didn't agree with all her proposals, she at least seemed to understand about what it meant to represent everyday folks.
Instead, we got quite the opposite. Who knows how much of it is her wanting to be accepted by the establishment types in D.C., her lapping up social progressive-speak or her not really understanding what actually bothers everyday folks.
Bottom line, though, is she's not the one to carry the torch for populism, regardless of what spot on the political spectrum you put it.
I wish the democrats would actually move left they are right wing corporatetists who haven’t done a thing for the working class of thid nation for at least 50 years
Yes, bringing in 8 million illegals to take jobs from American workers was a great decision by Biden! So far President Trump has done a superb job of making decisions that support the working class.
There is universal agreement that his tax cuts of 2017 strongly supported the middle class and raised taxes on the wealthy. The wealthiest portion of income taxes went up from 40% in 2016 to 46% in 2020.
I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how waving in all and sundry at the border and dumping the costs on the states and municipalities was so awesome for the working classes.
Why is Sean O’Brien a clown? He said what no one else would, that you have to earn our votes, you do not automatically own them because you have a D next to your name
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien called President Joe Biden “definitely the most pro-labor president we’ve ever had and we’ve ever seen” — but he’s still not ready to endorse him.
O’Brien wouldn’t endorse Biden because Biden snd the democrats wouldn’t actually do anything to support the labor movement. Bill Clinton ran on making card check the standard for certification of unionization drives. When Clinton got into office with overwhelming union support his first move was to implement dont ask dont tell about homosexuality in the military. Not one word about card check through his entire term of office. What percentage of the population do you think was served by this ?
That is an interesting statement about Biden being the best for the working class. Interested in hearing a little of your reasoning on that . Can hardly wait…..
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien called President Joe Biden “definitely the most pro-labor president we’ve ever had and we’ve ever seen” — but he’s still not ready to endorse him.
And that’s because SOB knows his Teamsters membership are some of the dumbest mf’ers on earth.
I’d been telling Teamsters in S Florida since the mid 90’s they better start education their rank and file because these clowns are voting for people who are fucking them.
So that is your proof that Biden was the best for the working class? Are you serious? That’s not proof. Give me some tangible stuff, not some union gas bag shooting off his mouth.
The $36 billion for the Central States Pension Fund will prevent benefits from being cut more than in half for more than 350,000 truck drivers, warehouse workers, construction workers and others, according to the White House.
The latest
The bailout was made possible by the American Rescue Plan Act, the $1.9 trillion package passed last year in response to the pandemic.
Financially struggling multiemployer pension plans can apply to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation for assistance.
Before the act passed, more than 200 pension plans were on pace to become insolvent in the near term, according to the White House. Now, those plans are projected to remain solvent through at least 2051.
The $36 billion for the Central Pension Fund is the biggest boost from the program, and the largest ever federal financial assistance for troubled pension funds, according to the White House.
Because they’re uneducated fools who have bought into the flag waving stupidity of Commander Bone Spurs!
I come from generations of working class people and generally try to avoid CPA’s who are the products of the most corrupt profession which has ever existed.
Even more corrupt than politicians.
Perhaps you’d like to explain what the check is on the audit function you clown?
Ok Chris Biden was the best president for the working class in the last 50 years but that doesn’t mean he actually did anything for the working class class . All the previous potus sucked balls and sold the working class and poor folks out to corporate interests. Ever since the democrats railroaded Henry Wallace out of the VP spot in 1944 it has been a sellout
This may come as a shock, but there are an awful lot of working class workers who don't belong to a union and don't get the benefits and wages that they do. Biden did jack shit for them.
Fascists are right wing corporatists, communists are left wing corporatists. Both always end up with a small group of rich powerful people making all the decisions over all the industries in whatever territory they control. Your choices are Lysenko or Monsanto.
Please they are left wing corporatetists. Corporations are not right or left they are out to make a profit. Plus I bet all the major hedge funds and corporations are run by leftest example Disney…. The left just sold out for the money…and power…
SS gutted? It gutted itself. It's run exactly like a Ponzi scheme. That's not hyperbole, it's a mathematical certainty. It will fail when retirees outnumber new payers. Had it been set up as a lockbox, whereby you own what you contribute, it wouldn't have ended like this
401k's, any retirement fund, must operate in such a manner or face prison and mockery (rightfully so). Imagine any program outside of the federal government using a retirement program as a slush fund, abusing decades worth of working class dollars, on the mere promise to pay it back. The headlines write themselves
It's the biggest scam perpetrated on the American public. All courtesy of our kind, benevolent betters
Maybe she can use that photo of her with her feet up in her congressional office wearing designer shoes on her official campaign materials. To show everyone how just like us she is.
Im hoping an actual non violent revolution, as per our fearless minority leader Chucky Cheese Schumer there are no plans st all from the democrats to resist any of draft dodger donnies schemes. So its up to us putzes to figure it out
You should be scared of any revolution that stats out from the left… it ALWAYS ENDS IN dictatorship. The American revolution is THE ONLY revolution to not end that way and I believe that because it was a revolution of the right. Based in freedoms and free commerce these are things of the right…
I watched AOC come out of the gate - fraud and grifter from day one - business major who couldn't get a job at a great company and indifferent to any activity but self-promotion.
I watched her with the sound off - Obama 2.0 - fluff from start to stop. AOC to politics is what Ezra Klein is to journalism - insecure bags of hot air bent on "looking good".
She's actually not astute enough to be a fraud and a grifter. She's the perfect PR firm creation. She has ZERO original thoughts or ideas. Everything she says and does comes from a thinktank.
Then she's actually very competent, isn't she? If she's doing regular electoral politics, you don't "reveal the message" until you get the blade in. Of course, many of the people in this discussion seemed to think that having advanced economics credentials was what mattered, as if Krugie sat at the right hand of God. Hopeless.
She's nowhere near as glib and polished, as others have noted. When the fight is between AOC and Crockett, you know the dems are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
The linked video, at about 30:15, contains a recent AOC verbal slip from the "Fighting Oligarchy" that I thought was funny. The rest of her performance may have been worth critiquing, but she's not easy to listen to.
Turning from the Harris faction to the AOC faction is lurching from one set of airheads to another. If these are indeed the best horses in the stable, the stable itself is desperately overdue for a mucking out. You couldn't announce the intellectual bankruptcy of your movement more clearly.
They need a pretty big shovel. Maybe a front loader. Surely no one will fall for this stunt again. More of the same but in a younger, prettier package. Everyone knows it was just the packaging the Democrats got wrong. It's not that they are smug, love to hear themselves talk (everyone else just hush up) or that they never do anything that would upset or cost their donors (psst, they're oligarchs.) a dime. Bernie could have done something in 2016 or 2020 but just about everyone who followed him straight back to his Democratic captors with his tail between his legs, not once but twice realizes he suffers from Stockholm syndrome and the Democrats or whatever they are calling themselves now, are exploiting him yet again. Bless his heart. They really need to learn a new tune. I don't see that happening.
The Democrats are abusive. Make no mistake. Gaslighting, deflection, vexatious, intimidating, dismissiveness, litigious… All of these things are intended to bully anyone who they feel inferior to or threatened by in any way. People cope differently with this particular kind of narcissistic emotional abuse. Usually it’s a fight or flight thing. Trump went into fight mode. Most of us went into flight mode but Bernie can’t get it in his head that that they don’t care about fixing things or doing the right thing. They are self serving posers trying to stay ahead in the clique. They’re nobles in their own imaginary court that only they know about. It’s too complicated for us mere mortals to understand. That’s why they need Bernie to tell us how they really aren’t as bad as the other guy. For the life of him he can’t believe, though they’ve burned him badly and ridiculed him twice, that they aren’t interested in fixing anything. His solutions are a problem for them but he still feels he needs the support and approval of his abusers. His ideas are closer to Trumps (methodology is different and provenly ineffective to keep rejoining with those you accurately rail against.) ideas than they are to theirs but he won’t leave and he will continue to defend them. It’s become too hard for me to watch.
Though little discussed, much of the problem of Democrats and their lack of competwnt and charismatic leaders can be traced to the Obama years. Obama's midterms were a disaster for Congressional Democrats and for state and local Democrats around the country, ending the political career of young and more moderate Democrats in their tracks. The Democrats may revere saint Barack, but he was a disaster for their bench and the weakness shows in their choice of candidates. A shill and unlikeable Hillary, a Biden who was a hack all his life and showing signs of senility long before the 2020 elections and a Harris who didn't win a vote in the 2020 primary who had to be backdoored as the candidate in 2024. The part is weak and it may take a generation to recover - if it does recover. If Trump is successful in extending the 2017 tax reform, eliminating taxes on social security, tips and overtime, while at the same time rooting out waste and fraud and controlling spending that recovery may take even longer.
Ms. Occasional-Cortex is not the Democrat's problem. She's just one of their many dilettantes. The Democrat's problem is most sane people find what they stand for REPULSIVE and even absurd.
Many of them are so conditioned to resist, they never stop to evaluate their positions. I mean, they're protesting against "BAD" Elon and DOGE, for what? Pointing out and attempting to curb waste and fraud, for most thoughtful voters, is a good thing.
a true American would have notified the group that they were accidentally there and ask to be deleted ..as they would know that they were literally spying on a group they should have no part of.. but then.....
So a Trump hater+ publisher is “accidentally” included in an exchange between cabinet officials during an exchange, that is now interpreted to be the most important threat to
American security since somebody slept with Fang Fang. Oh sorry, Fang Fang is no big deal.
I can't stand Jeff Goldberg, but you're insane. He did exactly what he was supposed to do in that situation as a journalist. The only person to blame was the dipshit that added him to the chat.
Says the guy that posts for the party that has a 29% approval rating, their leader in the Senate raped his niece, & party line says that boys should be in girls locker rooms and, compete against girls in contravention of every known fact of biology & children who are unhappy with the sex they were born should be allowed/encouraged to be sexually mutilated without parental consent.
People like to "eliminate waste and fraud" until _their_ (incoming) waste and fraud is eliminated. Then it's a crucial part of the economy. Clever politicians know how to mix up a nice waste and fraud cocktail with other flavors, but I think the current set skipped their mixology classes.
Out of one crowd of 32,000 people, cell phones were there that also were present at 8 or 9 of Harris' rallies. Buses also. I wonder who is renting the crowds?
Years ago I used to see those 'Activist wanted' ads in the Weekly papers. I always thought it was for petitioners, fundraisers, etc, but now I realize that some of that might be a way of recruiting 'rent a mobs' for events.
Sandy Cortez - AOC's real name - is what Headboard Harris was 20 years ago. An accomplishment free politician, getting appointed to things she can't do herself. She is a walking example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Listen to her for 180 seconds and you'll hear it.
AOC's most impressive accomplishment was getting elected. she unseated one of the most corrupt democrats in congress. Since getting elected, she has done little more than post on tiktok, perhaps because whenever she opens her mouth, pelosi's boot gets rammed in her cake hole. Like Obama, she can memorize a script. Unlike Obama, she has no humor, sense of timing or original ideas.
he could read a teleprompter and manipulate millions into believing he meant what he said. Unfortunately, that is a talent. As for ideas, I was thinking about the government bank competing with large institutions when they weren't lending. The Fed made sure he didn't mention that again.
She is an absolute moron, hard to believe she has a degree in economics as she continues to have a problem with numbers. When she stood against Amazon opening a second headquarters in Long Island City, Queens she said the $3 billion tax abatement over ten years could be better spent on other things. So she does not know the difference between a tax abatement and tax revenue! Also she railed against the “gentrification” of the area since the proposed Amazon jobs average salary would be an average of $150,000! This was a blatant lie since LIC has long been gentrified since studio condos in the area were priced at about $800,000! Being the darling of the MSM nobody questioned the fact that she was dead wrong and that NYC lost out on all those jobs and all those payroll taxes that would have been collected. Trying to shut down ICE and the Police is just really bad politics that no one thinks is a good idea. If she runs in 2028 she will make Kamala look like a genius.
The Gulch in Atlanta would have been ideal for Amazon. It sits right next to Georgia Tech which has the 4h ranked engineering school in the country and dwarfs the engineering enrollments of Cal Tech, MIT, and Stanford combined.
I'm not American so terminology might be the problem here, but I would have thought 'tax abatement' means Amazon was excused from paying a $3bn tax that would ordinarily apply. So, if the $3bn was collected, some of it could be spent on 'better' things. I get that encouraging employment is a good thing (by excusing payroll tax) and that employment has flow-on benefits BUT a tax on employment is a bad old idea, and giving Bezos a chance to pay less tax is really dumb. I think AOC is right to question 'trickle-down economics'. Your tax system(s) haven't served the basics in your society, and it seems to be at the core of your angry, failing democracy.
Ok you may not understand how this corporate welfare works, but in reality it is a trade off. A company negotiates with a municipality because they are about to invest tons of money to build a factory or in this case to occupy an office complex or build it as their headquarters. Also think of this. If they were to build an office building that would also be a huge stimulus to the construction trades with jobs, and payroll taxes of the construction workers and all the other advantages of all their economic activity. Amazon wanted such in Long Island City, which is in Queens which is part of New York City. They negotiated a deal whereby they would get a $3 billion tax abatement for the next 10-20 years. They were supposed to hire thousands of employees who at an average would be paid $150,000. These were high paying jobs. Why would a city agree to this? The stimulus to the local economy, be it in real estate purchases, money spent in the area by these new residents and most importantly the payroll taxes collected from all these employees amounts to a lot of money. So in other words the $3 billion was a corporate tax reduction in exchange for everything else mentioned. the $3 billion was not money the city had. So when AOC says we can use that money in better ways it is not money or tax revenue that the city can spend in other ways, because they don’t have that $3 billion in hand, it is a tax reduction.
All large corporations have tax departments whose job it is to reduce taxes by using all the legal means it can by using the tax code to reduce their taxes by investing in equipment and depreciating that equipment over the years to use one example.
As an example years ago it was reported that General Electric paid zero taxes one year. It was reported at the time that GE had about 400 people working in their tax department. This is what every successful company tires to do. I once had a boss that said, companies don’t pay taxes they COLLECT payroll taxes from their employees. This may be an exaggeration but you get the point.
"It’s an instant entrant in the Hall of Fame of Bad Ideas, on par with a Hitler bobblehead day promotion or training orangutans to pack flatware. " You crack me up, Matt!! Please keep it up!
No other elected official so perfectly captures the progressive combination of credentialed self-regard, fraudulence, and imbecility.
Alexandra Occasional Cortex doesn’t even have credentials, she was a bartender. At least old school socialists used to have intellect. Remember when she left her nyc district during covid lockdowns to go to Miami and got covid at a drag queen show there, despite pushing vaccines she claimed would stop the spread? Sums up progressive idiocy.
She’s a regular working class Joe. An intellectual giant of a longshoreman just like Eric Hoffer. Just the other day all the guys down at the IBEW union hall were gushing over how much they could relate to her.
Please, oh please let the remnants of the Democratic Party run her in 2028. Against Vance. Lol.
Oh they definitely wanted to relate to her!!
What kind of relations???
The kind she's best qualified for.
That's gonna leave a mark.
Sexist bullshit comment. Maga much?
03/25/25: My candidate would be that "actress" who single-handedly blew up the Snow White movie-remake trainwreck. The more immature, the better, and even that has to be qualified, becuase if she has a single ounce of maturity anywhere in her makeup, no one has ever seen it. And her political cabinet should be the Disney executives who are busy destroying their franchise.
03/26/25: Come to think of it, this would be a Biden Presidency remake.
Perhaps if the writers and producers would have called it snow black it might have sold. Re-imagining classic shows to add DEI stupidity demonstrates is why Hollywood and the big studio's have really, "lost the plot."
03/29/25: They haven't "lost" the plot. Disney et al are Stalinist propaganda outfits that wants to erase the past by erasing the "plot" (of the original film). Toss in their inevitable moral and financial corruption ($36 trillion-dollar federal deficit), and their hapless ineptitude (casting an obnoxious actress), and what happened to Russia in 1991 (collapsed) has happened to America in 2024-25. Fortunately, the saying that "no one learns anything from history" (I doubt that they can even read) has come true once again.
Vance? Trump is going to run again in 2028. You didn’t get your cult newsletter?
No, he won't. He believes in law and order and respects the Constitution. Unlike Obama who ran his unelected third term through a walking corpse!!!
Trump believes in Law & Order and the Constitution?
Thanks Squeaky Fromme!
You’ve gone completely off the reservation.
You understand Matt wrote a book titled Insane Clown President?
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5199042-trump-third-term-chances/
Was that before the Insane Clown President mopped the floor with the Dynamic Woman of Color?
You’re a n idiot! Squeaky Fromme, indeed! What the hell does she have to do with the topic or are you just trying to impress us with how old you are!
Insane reference, man.
And you do?
Yes, we knew that.
There is really not much point in a rational analysis of AOC's (or anyone else's) electoral chances in the age of Trump and Musk. Whatever happens is going to happen regardless of all the detailed rationality stuff. If you study some of our past crisis elections you'll see what I mean. Not your monkeys, Mr. T., nor mine. Things just have to run their course. It's unfortunate that a nice, well-meaning lady like AOC must get dragged into it, but she probably thinks it's her duty.
I find it very hard to believe that Trump cares about the Constitution when the White House X account posted "King Trump" when he took office.
Well after ten years of being called Hitler, racist, dictator, clown, crazy, rapist, sexiest, misogynist, bigot, stupid, a child….. he sure knows how to troll.
Call yourself a king and give the TDS ERS something new to call him.
Hilarious
example #439,534,224 of leftists losing their sense of humor
Leftists have no sense of humor but they sure know how to vandalize and burn things down they don't like.
He's trolling the Democrats. Feeding their outrage. They take the bait everytime. They're only happy when they're outraged.
And who was in the White House for that remark? President Corpse?
Are you aware, Mia, that margarine isn't actually low-calorie butter?
at least he knows it is there. He may have even read it, or parts of it. If true this represents a colossal upgrade.
Yes, and he think's he's God, apparently. He excommunicated Schumer from Judaism. What an antisemitic monster.
Well, that's just because his initial plan for his third term fell through because of Hillary Clinton being one of the few people in America who couldn't beat Trump at the height of you-can-just-grab-their-pussy.
Trump won't run again. Even if he wanted to, and he doesn't, some federal district court judge will wake up on the wrong side of the bed and issue a nationwide injunction against republicans, and hold Trump in contempt. A district judge somewhere may remove Trump from office this week or next. It could happen!
Actually, a district judge can't remove a sitting President.
Drugs are bad, son.
Not for want of trying. This has become a troublesome issue and there is some expectation that the Supreme Court will have to deal with it.
In your dreams, Idiot!!! None of you Democrat Brain-tards know anything about living under a Constitutional Republic. Were you born in a mountain cave somewhere in Siberia?
are you being serious?
if so, can you name any other ridiculous lefty psychopathic predictions that have come true?
they have about the same track records as this similarly absurd bullshit: https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/
are leftists capable of any semblance of reality?
Found the moron
No didn't get it! I'm going to complain to our cult HR dept. You should join the cult. All you need is sanity, a red hat and a love for YMCA, the constitution and America. You also need to support women's civil rights unlike the Demobrats. If not, the cult will reject you, you'll have to go back to the fringe 29% cult. They're so angry. No fun!
He's going to tease it to provoke the media. That's what I love about Trump.
So, rather than figure out why the country turned away from your fantasy ideology and no longer empathetic toward the raging mental illness of progressives you can only rage with witless stupidity? Come on man!
Ask Matt Taibbi or the Secy of State!
Matt wrote a book stating the POTUS is both Insane and a Clown.
A lot of the cultists say they’re Christians?
I don’t believe JC’s polling was too good at around the time he was being persecuted and crucified?
https://youtu.be/wo3w5CeWGig?si=ZjqsB16wBYCG525i
Maybe you can enlighten me on why that was?
I wonder if the Trump-Vance ticket will be Vance-Trump in 2028? There's nothing preventing him from being VP.
Ooh, scary! Wanna bet? What you got that I can take from you? Dumbass...
The psychopath Bannon says so!
He’s not in the acceptable wing of the cult?
ok, so you're not being serious.
Bannon. LMAO!
You are hilarious in your cluelessness!
What do these folks not understand about Bannon?
You know why he won't run again?
Because one of his supporters would kill him.
You know why?
Because we take the constitution serious.
So don't worry about all your fictional faux-outrage, we'll take care of him if he really did step out of line.
Well, you better tool up Ryan because if he can stand behind a lectern spewing his bs he’s running.
And yes, it’s going to be one of his delusional cult followers who is going to wake up with the social safety net they’ve been relying on who will take him out.
That is if Mango Mussolini is still breathing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/26/trump-voters-federal-benefits-food/
Doooooood. Your copium is losing its potency. WaPo lololol lololol
You forgot to use all caps when you wrote this. Possibly 16 exclamation marks too.
There's a newsletter?
Dang!
I must have forgotten to sign up.
Didn't you take your 'reality meds' this morning?
I love how I 'belong to a cult' now because I don't like cryptofascists trying to tell me what to say and think.
🙄
🤪
So far the field is getting awfully busy awfully early. Governor Good Hair declared with his new podcast, Mark Cuban declared when he said he has the 7-step cure for health care, and Rahm Emmanuel declared when he went on Maher's show. I guess he would be Half-Black Jesus's last Hail Mary for glory before sinking off to Martha's Vineyard and the new palatial Hawaiian estate.
Not to quibble but "Governor Good Hair" is already taken as a moniker. It's what we called Rick Perry back in the day.
Seriously? I used to live in Texas, I should know that. But I have to say, even framing his "smart glasses," that hair cannot compete with Newsom.
Newsom's done some stupid shit, but at least he never held a stadium rally to pray for rain.
instead he starves the premier agriculture state for water to save a tiny, inconsequential fish, while destroying the livelihoods of the farmers in CA. I'll take the guy who prays for rain.
The fact that folks are even discussing 2028 shows that the comfort level for many is still too high. At this rate we will be fortunate to still be here then.
Yeah, didn't Harris tell us this would be the last election if Trump won? All these fool Democrats, thinking they'll be allowed to have a candidate anymore.
(You should do stand-up.)
Where else would we be?
Mars?
Elon will take us there...
Doh, I had not yet considered that magical phrase, portending a beautiful magical future, "against Vance". Ahhhhhh.
Even more ridiculous is that she is reported to have majored in economics at Boston University, although she shows no apparent signs of having learned any.
"[S]he shows no apparent signs of having learned any [economics]"
*That* is not necessarily her fault. Remember, she "earned" her degree c. 2010. I would wager a majority of the graduates in that major don't know economics, either.
She once commented that the Democrats needed to grab hold of "all three branches of government... the Presidency, the Senate and the House".
No, she didn't. She had a "concentration" in economics... which meant like two or three classes at most.
She is a blight on the reputation of Boston University. I believe she double majored in international relations and economics.
I've never seen someone so deserving of a refund on their college degree in my life.
Yes Squeaky Fromme, Trump understands economics!
The idiot doesn’t even know about civility and basic human decency.
Good luck in the cult!
And yet gas prices are already dropping. . .
No she isn't working class. She's a fraud that pretends to be a "working class" bartender when actually she grew in Yorktown fucking Heights (Westchester NY, not the bronx) and went to Boston and interned for Ted Kennedy during college.
Her actual bone-fides after that of typical shill/CIA hopeful, until she moved to the Bronx, became a bartender for a year, to then run for congress as a "bartender from the Bronx".
The actual left does hate AOC, but not because of her credentials, because she's nothing more than Pelosi/Obama in the making. She's a fraud, and not a leftist.
MAGA can’t talk about fraud.
I didn’t know they had a “magic future-math” curriculum at BU.
Good one, Matt!
A little disappointed in your comment. I personally have known quite a few well-read bartenders. Liberal. Democrat. But not educated at BU in Econ? Thank you, Jesus.
I was a waitress for many years and I guess wrongly believed and believe I have intellect.
Trumps cabinet picks don’t have the credentials for there positions. There loyalists hires. Sums up the rights authoritarian idiocy.
Not so much policy as ingrained thinking. Just as long as you spew the right daily talking points embrace any idiotic idea that is floating around the faculty loungers you are expected to get away with being a hypocrite 24x7x365. I think they call that entitled.
LOL is this true?? That's hilarious.
“elected” is doing a LOT of work there…
She was conjured.
My very favorite AOC 'fact check' is that it's not true she's an actress hired at a casting call. She just went to an event where people look for political talent and then got 'hired'.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/aoc-actress-playing-lawmaker/
The “Brains Behind AOC” video correctly states that Ocasio-Cortez was recruited by the Justice Democrats to run for office. However, this fact is presented in the video as if it were an unprecedented act of political malfeasance. In reality, it is quite common for Political Action Committees (PACs) to recruit candidates for office. The Justice Democrats made no attempt to hide this effort and openly discuss their recruitment process on their website and in videos published to their public YouTube page
Doesn't change the term Conjured... She is a creation like Frankenstein's monster.
Hey, hey, she's the Monkees! People say she Monkees around!
You leave the Monkees alone. They had some very good tunes. I watched the show as a kid and i still love the tunes.
Mary Shelley's creation had a much more pleasant and entertaining personality.
And in no movie renditions has had crazy sanpaku eyes.
That's what reminded me of the story!
Except Frankenstein's monster had a better body (bodies).
She's what used to be called a "leg hire." Before HR made us quit calling it that.
Honest question: Are there GOP “Brains Behind AOC”?
Reasoning: No Republican in that seat could help us more than AOC does now?
(And yet there's a certain blond demographic that's, like, OMG AOC! Right?! You GUYS! I just LOVE her! She's so cute and sassy, guys. And she cares about the poor and her wardrobe is to DIE for so 7 figures, you guys, I'm about to cry right now I just can't even no I'm SERIOUS....!)
Nicely done!
You been listening to Moon Unit Zappa records?
I believe I also read that her brother put her name in for the audition.
Much like Assistant President Trump. No other elected official captures the Neo-Klan combination of infinite self-regard, flatulence and imbecility.
AOC is not Bernie's successor. However Beto O'Rourke comes to mind.
I dunno. Beto seems washed up at this point.
Beto done burned thru a quarter of a billion dollars of OPM in his last few runs…let’s go for the really big bucks
Seriously? The trans-AOC?
OMG ! Thru the portal walks the savior of democrat party.
Beto had a legit inspiring run in 2018, but he completely blew it in 2020 and 2022.
I initally misread "fraudulence" as "flatulence," which also works ...
She truly is an imbecile (an underused word which, btw, I'm quite fond of).
She has more heart and soul in her pinky than you do in your entire inflates self
Oh I thought every democrat and many corporate media pundits called him Hitler up until the election. I must have been hallucinating. - Charlie
Cosmo,
I haven’t once used the word hate! Hate is a strawman argument created and then bowled over by MAGA. I’ve used the word cultist ad nauseam.
Taibbi holds that his viewpoints and his work are consistent. I think his going down the rabbit hole on this supposed “free speech” issue is a gigantic intellectual bank shot meant to justify his shenanigans in Russia for which he’s apologized. But he’s not willing to let it go.
As noted in the New York piece I linked, I’d agree that his focus and editorial decisions have drastically changed after that #MeToo episode.
Also the New York piece was written 3-4 years ago. He had 30k subscribers then. What’s that number now at $5 a month?
perfect!
Sadly for AOC, the voters who were really passionate about her and Bernie aren't so young anymore -- and they're running headlong into the real world in which government manages to break a lot of eggs but never actually make that omlette.
ACTUAL young voters see her as the embodiment of the failure of the left we've seen over the last decade. I don't blame them.
She's the living breathing emblem of why I no longer vote Democrat even if I held my nose. I hope they do create a Left/Labor Party however, and I'd love to see a left branch break off of the Republican party ... let's call them the Liberal party, because we Liberals sit here to the right of the Democrat nonsense, and the left of the Republican nonsense.
Nah. Liberals are still the same self-regarding, irritating, mushy headed dipsticks they always were.
Meh... I've been here in the same political place for 30 years, while the Democrats have blown by me to the left and actually maybe even lapped me twice.
there was a time they would laugh as uproariously as us adults at:
-pregnant men
-men have no physical advantage over women in sports
-men in girls locker rooms and bathrooms
and vomit at supporting hamas.
now those are non-negotiable. you don't agree with those? you're a fascist.
the left has managed to get much worse. not sure how you can't see it.
But for a glorious moment in 2003, their political posturing was accidentally American. This fooled an entire generation of voters.
If you're referring to the invasion of Iraq, I'd say their posturing was not matched by their actual votes in the Senate.
"We were fooled by that big meanie Bush!" was their excuse.
Bruce! Great to see you here from over at TFP. Rock on you consummate keyboard samurai
The Twitter Files and Zuckerberg admitting the Feds pressured him on free speech, lockdowns, schools, parks and playgrounds closed and mandatory vaccines don't seem fascist at all to the Dems who indiscriminately use that word to describe the Republican party. Vivid example of how mobs completely lose the ability to think critically. A big human neurological white out. Maybe it was helpful to keep it as we evolved from apes, who also exhibit it.
Unlike lying, cheating, fraudulent, racist hypocritical white Christian nazi, misogynistic hating MAGA Republicans.
The self-regarding, unwarranted hubris of the left. Writ large.
Deep coming from a MAGAtard.
QED
They did the same thing to the actual Labor Party in the UK. Sir Keir doesn't even know what a worker is.
Amen
Exactly - but like Obama, she fronts well, wants nothing but fame, and will do anything - hence the perfect politician for 'our time' - if you're a self-described 'feminist' and easing past 50.
The snide comments on this site aimed at older women, especially college-educated older women, and 'feminists' (whatever the hell the quotes signify) are beyond tiresome. I am over 50 and am a feminist (if by that you mean I believe in equal pay for equal work and the right to do whatever I want with my body without being overruled by the government or some religious freak), and I am not a fan of AOC or Obama. I am and always will be a Bernie supporter because, aside from being a very decent human being, he understands that all that liberal blathering counts for nothing if we don't push for a fair economic system.
Bernie has done very well for himself considering his only paid employment has been in government.
Even if you check it out in a source that doesn't particularly like him (Forbes), they give a reasonable account of his net worth based on salary, book sales, social security, and pensions and annuities. Given how long he has been in Congress, and especially when you compare him to his cohorts, he hasn't done all that well.
“…the right to do whatever I want with my body without being overruled by the government …” as in the right to turn down a govt imposed vaccine? Oh wait, you might get fired…
JL, Amazing how you anti-vaxxers can't see the difference between a pregnancy and a contagious disease.
Yea but you treat pregnancy LIKE it is a disease instead of a human life. That’s your right but at least admit it…
"you anti-vaxxers" Is that like a Ross Perot "you people"?
So on top of calling people names, apparently you don't understand what a "right" is.
Not sure where I called someone a “name”? And yes I do understand stand what a right is. I’m just saying that what they are advocating (killing babies) is really worse than demanding we take a vaccination and how that’s kind of ironic……
Do you “catch a baby” like you “catch Covid”?
you sorta have more CHOICE to "catch a baby" than you do to get COVID. You can CHOSE NOT to do the thing that gets you pregnant... can't get pregnant by walking around the grocery where as you can get any virus by doing that...
You’re really not helping make the case, here.
https://youtu.be/Q0z_DYA4Jp0?si=iUBX1Nb30d4hYBKd
Bernie’s great contribution was to have student loans nationalized which has continued with policies that led to college gouging and horrendous abuses
Not to mention 80k a year now and….oh wait that’s ok all that debt goes to either the government or the banks!!!! Win-win for the dems!!
"I am and always will be a Bernie supporter"
Sorry, but unlike AOC at her age and given the state of the educational system she was subject to, Bernie should certainly have known better, at *his* age and given the educational system *he* had available.
Bernie "Hillary will make a great president!" Sanders went right along with a bunch of woke stuff, such as nixing his original "all lives matter" in the face of BLM, and abandoning his early claim that illegal immigration hurts native workers. This ex-Bernie supporter now realizes that the idea of him leading an *actual* "Our Revolution" against TPTB destroying our country is a howler.
In the last ten years, this long-time, self-styled "independent" has thoroughly revealed himself to be a shepherd for DNC, nothing more. His function is to get the angry to, ineffectively, dissipate steam (much as Substack's function is ;) Unlike AOC though, Bernie is too old to still be be unwitting. So he's now simply up to new tricks doing more of the same. What does he actually get out of it, cosplay thrills? Maybe the Right is correct; in his oncoming dotage, he wanted little more than a summer home.
When this current stealth DNC dog-and-pony show gets "co-opted" around late 2027, their population of the country's latest generation of duped Angry Young Leftists will, of course, merge with the Democrats for an astro-turfed Frankenstein's-monster "majority" in time to deliver the same-old same-old "Leftist" Trojan-horse totalitarian puppets, now led by AOC, just in time for the 2028 election. How convenient. At least AOC still has time to get to a McNamara-esque come-to-Jesus moment -- hopefully a lot earlier.
Anti-Hip,
I quit expecting politicians to be perfect about 30 years ago. I was disappointed he campaigned for Hillary, especially after the crap she pulled, but he saw Trump as a greater threat (I'm not so sure he was wrong given the current state of affairs). Realizing that "all lives matter" is a limpdick response to the justifiable rage people felt after the Zimmerman acquittal and trying to strike a balance between humane immigration policies and protecting the wages of American workers is not being "woke" but decent. (While I don't care for the use of "woke" by either side, I think the rightwing hysteria over "wokeness" is equivalent to three-year-olds having tantrums because they have to share their toys.) And if Bernie was in cahoots with the DNC, as you suggest, I suspect that he would have a lot more power and money than he currently has (think Nancy Pelosi, the Clintons, and the Obamas). I never heard of him getting a six-figure payout for a speech, did you? He also isn't anywhere in the list of top stock traders in Congress. As to AOC, I think she got swept away by the flood of attention and never got to solid ground. But, you may be right, she still has time.
"I quit expecting politicians to be perfect about 30 years ago."
No, but some politicians are willing to fall on their swords. Tulsi Gabbard (despite her resurrection in the Trump admin) did this in the Democratic Party with her public takedown of Hillary's warmongering, with no Trump quid pro quo at the time yet come to light, to my knowledge.
Bernie did nothing of the sort. What IMO he should have said was something like, "Per my campaign statements, I cannot endorse Hillary, but I greatly prefer to her to Trump." And pretty much leave it at that. Because he was (apparently just pretending to be) much different.
"Realizing that 'all lives matter' is a limpdick response to the justifiable rage people felt after the Zimmerman acquittal"
First of all, let me repeat, *Bernie* said 'all lives matter', until he was apparently told not to. And no, it is not a "limpdick" response. IMHO, if you believe this, you really need to read up more. It was an acknowledgement that the stats show that Whites (in fact, more, by sheer numbers) are being killed by errant cops, too; meanwhile, many more Blacks are being killed by uncontrolled illegal guns (usually in crime-ridden neighborhoods) than in encounters with police. But we can't talk about these just-as-real problems, because TPTB declare it taboo and against the dominant narrative whose real purpose is to divide-and-conquer us. The biggest opponents of "Defund the police" were often Blacks in crime-ridden zones. (I live in near one in NYC, and my own is notably worse than average.)
" trying to strike a balance between humane immigration policies and protecting the wages of American workers is not being 'woke' but decent. "
Agreed. But the DNC, and then Bernie falling into line behind them, shut up about it. I don't find that part 'decent'.
"if Bernie was in cahoots with the DNC, as you suggest, I suspect that he would have a lot more power and money than he currently has"
He has a stage image to protect. Otherwise, his life would get far less comfortable. (Bernie at my age had a more wealth than I do, and he has not lived in the inner city as I do for a long time.)
"I think the rightwing hysteria over 'wokeness' is equivalent to three-year-olds having tantrums because they have to share their toys."
I fear your media diet is not very broad. There are plenty of serious complaints out there, if you care to explore them. And no, I am not right-wing, despite modern Dem pols insistence on calling all their non-conformists such.
Your comments are very interesting. Thanks.
“I believe in equal pay for equal work and the right to do whatever I want with my body without being overruled by the government”
Where were you when the government was mandating that we put vaccines in our bodies?
Which Bernie ? There a lots of Bernie’s .
All occupying the same body, apparently.
As a woman over 50 that is not a feminist please keep the snide comments about what a pain in the ass college educated feminists are! Feel free to mention that they have absolutely no sense of humor- ever.
Well, he is a sick old man now. In medical terms, he is "the old old." Like it or not. What would it be like to have another dude in the White House whose brain is largely white out?
Neither was either brain notable in its prime.
At least Bernie wasn't creepy. Reminds me of an eccentrically blustering grandfather, more cute than dangerous, no longer useful, never my dish.
I’m sure we disagree on most issues, but major props for sticking to your guns.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 the shape shifting “dems/liberals/bernie bros do is amazing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I don't mention women in my comment, do I? I employ "self-described feminists" (without any gender reference) in quotes to make clear my comment is about frauds of all stripes: men and women who pretend to care about women's rights.
As for your support for Bernie, I'm not in the least surprised. Have a better one.
She is nothing like Obama, in my opinion. He was a pragmatic and brilliant man who was dead center. Most if not all of the radical left's platform is complaints. Whining all the time about the same tired inflammatory lies. No manageable plans to address the issues the country grapples with. The real issues.
Drone Strike was and is the perfect tool of vested interests, an amoral hack, and manipulative con man. Snowden demolishes the fiction that Drone Strke had a shred of integrity and interest in civil liberties; he expanded and cemented the Cheney-Bush security state. 'Closing Gitmo on day one, if you like your doctor, Libya, ISIS expansion, and destroying the black middle-class are just a few of President Peace Prize's broken promises and failures. The moment he left office the first thing he and his equally cynical and self-interested wife did was cash in big - 400,000 speaking fees, how smart was that? He was the ultimate DEI hire well out of his depth who pursued his passions for golf and handicapping sports while pretending to care about America. Ramming through the ACA and TARP did the impossible and transformed the moribund corpse of the GOP into the Tea Party and ultimately two terms of DJT in less than 24 months. Not only did the Dems get killed in the 2010 federal elections in 2010, they got wiped out at the state and local level, leaving only the most corrupt and entrenched political hacks and no new blood.
Ukraine, COVID and Russia-Russia are the children of Obama's feckless rule. When he left office, he was less popular in the ME than Bush. He possessed a killer smile and was just smart enough to know when to shut-up. When he didn't, the press covered his face plants until he couldn't rescue Biden, Harris. Scolding the 'brothers' confirmed what many minorities woke up to long ago - he's a know-it-all dunce without an original thought in his head. In retrospect my opinion of him has improved - I'm now convinced that HRC would have led us into war with Iran and/or Russia. So there's that.
Agree with most of what you have written here...would add his Feds raided medical marijuana clinics in CA and there was a ban on journalists accessing and writing about BP oil spill in the gulf, then there was support of Syrian rebels. We can criticize every US President and every administration endlessly. He took office during a most difficult economic time, had a steep learning curve, reigned in the budget, created US good will world-wide, deported more illegal aliens than any other President, and accomplished more in his first 100 days than most. The ACA is so far from perfect, but $500,000 life-time benefit maximum and no coverage for pe-existing conditions is history.
Fair enough. Cheers!
Brilliant man? Alrighty then.....
It is easy to forget the unholy mess he walked into. Millions lost their homes and jobs, Iraq war fiasco when the terrorist bombing was committed by residents from another country altogether, worldwide recession bordering on depression, bankruptcies and US deficits at record high in US...all caused by George Bush., Cheney and Rumsfeld. They certainly enriched themselves tho! People who lived through it and historians agree Bush was the worst US President in history.
Snicker
Nothing more pragmatic than a "kill-list" is there?
Yes, they front well. She is equally photogenic but not half as clever.
Gen Z doesn’t seem to have a ton of respect for millennials, and they’re correct to not have it.
Gen Z is it's very own kind of crazy. The last Generations that had anything even remotely in common are GenX and the first 5 to 10 years of the Millennials. I think it's why they split Millennials in 2... I blame my GenX for that as we were TERRIBLE parents. We took John Hughes far too literally.
GenXers are awesome. It's the liberal boomers who created the monsters.
I'm at the end of the boomers and have always been conservative. It's seems to be those hippies and beatniks who were teens in the 60s that are crazy.
Yes, yes we did. And it was fun..
I bet it was fun! My older brother, by three years, (law school professor) is the same age as our best family friend's daughter (retired nurse) but have lived completely different lives. One is healthy as a horse and the other on oxygen. Guess which is which. And, yeah, she says she only has herself to blame; glad to hear her take responsibility. Meanwhile, my brother rode his bike from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine. His lung function is exceptional.
We were all raised in the same very small midwestern town but once 18 rolled around and it was 1975, all bets were off. Choices have consequences far beyond ourselves.
I quite agree. The boomers are THE ones who screwed EVERYTHING UP. They are the ones who stopped all the pensions so that they could drive stock prices higher. They are the ones with “future math” convincing everyone a higher minimum wage will create more wealth when all it does is drive prices higher. They are the ones who created the millennial and GenZ mess! And they will be the ones to bankrupt our country social Security system not to mention our country with all the excess spending…ugh I hate them!
"The boomers are THE ones who screwed EVERYTHING UP."
It happened on our watch. That's it. To say that all, or even most, boomers approved what destructive things happened, much less participated in it, is simply ridiculous. In fact, many of us fought AGAINST these kinds of changes, but lost the war.
All the problems you identify were done essentially in stealth. Sometimes with lies and nonsense that prevented successful public discussions and pushback, sometimes completely in secret. And now, TPTB won't teach that history. So you don't even know what happened. Let's up our game and fight them again, smarter this time.
Any campaign against an entire generation (this one, or any other) is clearly divide-and-conquer BS. Please, don't be a useful idiot for the real perps. They laugh all the way to the bank and more, while many of us are now bankrupt, demoralized, frightened, and hungry. Not a story often heard on "the news", as it messes with the inter-generational warfare narrative.
Yes it happened on our watch, and we never saw what was coming. Understandable. I still remember the first tv I ever saw - my engineer-adjacent uncle put one together in his basement. Simply magic to a small child, who never dreamed of the damage yet to be done by the electronic age. Vietnam in our living rooms every night, stability exploded with the bombs, bloodshed in living color.
My father fought in Japan. My mother was home. We children played outside, did our homework, minded the nuns.. I loved both my parents dearly. They were NEVER my friends. I raised my children the same way, minus the nuns. My grandchildren were homeschooled. Best decision my daughter ever made.
You “hate” them? Really? What a stupid position to hold. It’s just an age group that is just as diverse as any group.
yea hate is a bit strong I agree. But they are having all the Fun and we are stuck with the repercussions of that "fun". And then the generation that that they parented is a mess too... so more "fun" . Lets face it they need to have means testing on SS but since they are the "ME ME ME" generation they will bankrupt it and there will be nothing for Gen X... sigh... screwed again by those darn boomers...
Wow, an Age War. How refreshing. 'Cause I was tiring of all the race war and free speech vs. Israel war nonsense.
Who’s this “we”?
As a whole.. GenX is responsible for "my kids are my best friends, and I respect them," which screwed up 2 generations at a phenomenally increased rate.
If you say so. I never witnessed this within my peer group.
I 100% disagree with this comment. It’s the boomers that had that attitude of wanting to be their kid’s best friends AND ditching the three R’s in school
So, how do you come up with your astute observations? Do you realize how silly your argument sounds? Surely you have better things to do than cook up some dumbass theory on what’s wrong with a group of diverse individuals. Go back to the basement
You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but as a GenX raised by Boomers, I would love to see how this scenario would play out in court or TV today....
Kid does stupid thing at neighbors house up the street, neighbor grabs kid by the ear smacks him on the ass, or upside the head and scolds him for being a dumbass. Kid NEVER tells his parents because he knows damn well he's going to get a whacking again, and likely grounded for a week without TV.... Yeah... play that story out line by line today, or any time in the past 25 years and tell me the results.
Absolutely true. I was the program director of two child care/early childhood programs from 1989-2007. They were both in wealthy Chicago north shore suburbs. The stories I could tell!
My Best friend of 47 years ran 5 of them in the DC area.... I know probably most of what you'd say....
My two are Gen Z and VERY "normal". Then again, we raised them to be normal. Should add that we are older parents and our kids were never our friends.
agree. Gen X, while an otherwise very good group raised by the worst-ever gen (boomers), have proven to be awful parents.
If the boomers were bad parents, how did X turn out to be a “ good group”? I thought you were a product of your environment.
Lots of gen x had silent generation parents and not boomers as parents
Hmmm, not so sure about “ lots” but, possible
Do not agree gen x are good parents it’s the millennials that are awful. Gen x kids will be last few years of gen z and alpha…
How about AOC and Bernie list 5 things they’ve done to help their constituents in the last week — or — months— or year — or ever. All they do is talk and their talk is primarily platitudes. Have either one of them actually written a health care bill and worked for its passage? No.
Of course he wrote a health bill. He wrote Medicare For All and worked hard and successfully to get the public behind it. Unfortunately, the insurance companies and the AMA have more power than the people.
Or maybe "the people" have seen socialized medicine in the UK, Canada and elsewhere which is great at providing free primary care but not so great in making available cutting edge and innovative medicine. There is a reason cancer patients in the US have higher five year survival rates than those of our cousins with socialized Healthcare. The people might also notice that Medicaid is a broken mess that rations care through low reimbursements and is still not viable and how Obamacare is only popular among those who receive huge subsidies.
Maybe Bernie did. In 2008 or something.
Shows how much you know. Seriously.
I believe they slaughter the chickens rather then break the eggs
I hope you are right about that. However, my 76-year-old sister likes AOC because she thinks she is really smart. That tells you something about many voters. It turns out a lot of leftists like "woke gibberish." It makes them feel virtuous because they can pretend they know what the gibberish means. By speaking that language with a straight face, a politician can fool an awful lot of people.
Elites get the eggs, working class gets the shells...
I can remember watching her first campaign ads and, while I didn't agree with all her proposals, she at least seemed to understand about what it meant to represent everyday folks.
Instead, we got quite the opposite. Who knows how much of it is her wanting to be accepted by the establishment types in D.C., her lapping up social progressive-speak or her not really understanding what actually bothers everyday folks.
Bottom line, though, is she's not the one to carry the torch for populism, regardless of what spot on the political spectrum you put it.
And those eggs are sure expensive!
AOC, Jasmine Crockett, David Hogg...the personification of the modern Democrat party.
Because in order to attract voters, the Democrat party needs to be even further left, cruder, and less likable.
You forgot to mention that cute, little Harry Sisson grifter.
I wish the democrats would actually move left they are right wing corporatetists who haven’t done a thing for the working class of thid nation for at least 50 years
The obvious alternative is Trump and he’s the worst nightmare of the working class.
Biden was the best POTUS for the working class in the last 50 years and even clowns like SOB know this.
disaster of inflation which destroys the working class was Bidens contribution
Yes, bringing in 8 million illegals to take jobs from American workers was a great decision by Biden! So far President Trump has done a superb job of making decisions that support the working class.
There is universal agreement that his tax cuts of 2017 strongly supported the middle class and raised taxes on the wealthy. The wealthiest portion of income taxes went up from 40% in 2016 to 46% in 2020.
Middle cla$$ Joe my a$$.
I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how waving in all and sundry at the border and dumping the costs on the states and municipalities was so awesome for the working classes.
Why is Sean O’Brien a clown? He said what no one else would, that you have to earn our votes, you do not automatically own them because you have a D next to your name
You’re not paying attention either?
SOB IS A CLOWN who’s afraid of his own members.
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien called President Joe Biden “definitely the most pro-labor president we’ve ever had and we’ve ever seen” — but he’s still not ready to endorse him.
O’Brien wouldn’t endorse Biden because Biden snd the democrats wouldn’t actually do anything to support the labor movement. Bill Clinton ran on making card check the standard for certification of unionization drives. When Clinton got into office with overwhelming union support his first move was to implement dont ask dont tell about homosexuality in the military. Not one word about card check through his entire term of office. What percentage of the population do you think was served by this ?
Bailing out the pensions of tens thousands of truck drivers to the tune of $36 BILLION isn’t actually doing anything to support LABOR?
Do you understand that the point of work is to get a paycheck?
Snicker. You mean Obama’s illegal 3rd term.
That is an interesting statement about Biden being the best for the working class. Interested in hearing a little of your reasoning on that . Can hardly wait…..
Because you’re evidently not paying attention.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/07/16/rnc-live-updates-coverage/teamsters-endorsement-watch-00168684
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien called President Joe Biden “definitely the most pro-labor president we’ve ever had and we’ve ever seen” — but he’s still not ready to endorse him.
And that’s because SOB knows his Teamsters membership are some of the dumbest mf’ers on earth.
I’d been telling Teamsters in S Florida since the mid 90’s they better start education their rank and file because these clowns are voting for people who are fucking them.
This is no secret.
So that is your proof that Biden was the best for the working class? Are you serious? That’s not proof. Give me some tangible stuff, not some union gas bag shooting off his mouth.
The $36 billion for the Central States Pension Fund will prevent benefits from being cut more than in half for more than 350,000 truck drivers, warehouse workers, construction workers and others, according to the White House.
The latest
The bailout was made possible by the American Rescue Plan Act, the $1.9 trillion package passed last year in response to the pandemic.
Financially struggling multiemployer pension plans can apply to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation for assistance.
Before the act passed, more than 200 pension plans were on pace to become insolvent in the near term, according to the White House. Now, those plans are projected to remain solvent through at least 2051.
The $36 billion for the Central Pension Fund is the biggest boost from the program, and the largest ever federal financial assistance for troubled pension funds, according to the White House.
Ask the railroad unions how they feel about Biden!
Let me simplify this. The ONLY recent metric or poll which has any relevance is the Nov 5 election. Trump won the working class, hands down.
Because they’re uneducated fools who have bought into the flag waving stupidity of Commander Bone Spurs!
I come from generations of working class people and generally try to avoid CPA’s who are the products of the most corrupt profession which has ever existed.
Even more corrupt than politicians.
Perhaps you’d like to explain what the check is on the audit function you clown?
“Professional ethics” isn’t a check!
It’s bullshit!
Ok Chris Biden was the best president for the working class in the last 50 years but that doesn’t mean he actually did anything for the working class class . All the previous potus sucked balls and sold the working class and poor folks out to corporate interests. Ever since the democrats railroaded Henry Wallace out of the VP spot in 1944 it has been a sellout
$36 Billion to bail out the pension fund of tens of thousands of retired truck drivers?
Saving Social Security in the face of a hurricane of stupidity?
Wtf else do you want him to do?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/08/biden-teamster-federal-bailout-pension-fund/10855066002/
This may come as a shock, but there are an awful lot of working class workers who don't belong to a union and don't get the benefits and wages that they do. Biden did jack shit for them.
And an awful lot of union workers that aren't truckers.
A lot of them vote against their own economic self interest.
They and you(?) think gutting soc sec helps them?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/25/social-security-phones-doge-cuts/
The working class seems to think differently but hey, thanks for mansplaining to the working class
The working class is in the frying pan thanks to CPA criminals like you who do the bidding of Trump and Musk.
Some of them are finding out RIGHT NOW they jumped into the fire AND THEY’LL BE coming after fraudsters like you who should have known better.
Are you talking to me?
Have you ever even talked to someone who works a regular job or do you just see them out your window doing your chores?
You talking to me clown?
I’ve been a truck driver, factory worker, retail clerk, limo driver MY WHOLE LIFE YOU TURNIP.
IF YOU’RE DEFENDING Commander Bone Spurs, look in the mirror you dumb ass.
lol you're a straight psycho. That's why democrats lost, and will lose again. You're their functional PR team.
Why do you think ole JD called Commander Bone Spurs, Hitler?
Boy, me too. LMAO !
Fascists are right wing corporatists, communists are left wing corporatists. Both always end up with a small group of rich powerful people making all the decisions over all the industries in whatever territory they control. Your choices are Lysenko or Monsanto.
Please they are left wing corporatetists. Corporations are not right or left they are out to make a profit. Plus I bet all the major hedge funds and corporations are run by leftest example Disney…. The left just sold out for the money…and power…
"Corporations are not right or left they are out to make a profit." I wish they'd just shut up and do what they are supposed to do.
Obama sucked Biden sucked Trump sucks we have not had a true friend of the working class in the white house in over 60-70 years
Yes, Obama sucked. Biden was somewhat better.
But with Trump you’re jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
wtf do you think is going to happen when Soc Sec is gutted?
SS gutted? It gutted itself. It's run exactly like a Ponzi scheme. That's not hyperbole, it's a mathematical certainty. It will fail when retirees outnumber new payers. Had it been set up as a lockbox, whereby you own what you contribute, it wouldn't have ended like this
401k's, any retirement fund, must operate in such a manner or face prison and mockery (rightfully so). Imagine any program outside of the federal government using a retirement program as a slush fund, abusing decades worth of working class dollars, on the mere promise to pay it back. The headlines write themselves
It's the biggest scam perpetrated on the American public. All courtesy of our kind, benevolent betters
Funny how it was operating perfectly fine until your vengeful hero Leon decided to fuck with it?
Odd how in it’s 90 FUCKING YEAR HISTORY Social Security HAS NEVER MISSED A PAYMENT TO ANYONE!
Please show me another such “Ponzi scheme.”
Because it collected buckets of money from boomers, who would eventually require payment from smaller generations. Ponzi schemes:
- Bring in money from initial investors
- Pay out obligations with new entrants
- Spends the money in the meantime
- Lose the juggling act when not enough new money comes in to fulfill obligations
Please explain how SS differs
It's not partisan, nor is it "Leon's" fault when the plates come crashing down. It's a math equation
GFY and your math equation douchebag!
https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-elon-musk-calls-social-security-a-ponzi-scheme/21926444/
SS is gutting itself with no plan from your beloved democrats
Good the boomers deserve to die in the cold!
How long have you been a dick head?
GFY
Mirrors the population imo. Centrist politics, compromise, middle class - dead or only hiding?
I still like it when they roll out Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters & that cane-waving ol’ coot, Al Green to lead the crowd in disjointed chants. 😂
Maybe she can use that photo of her with her feet up in her congressional office wearing designer shoes on her official campaign materials. To show everyone how just like us she is.
Im hoping an actual non violent revolution, as per our fearless minority leader Chucky Cheese Schumer there are no plans st all from the democrats to resist any of draft dodger donnies schemes. So its up to us putzes to figure it out
You should be scared of any revolution that stats out from the left… it ALWAYS ENDS IN dictatorship. The American revolution is THE ONLY revolution to not end that way and I believe that because it was a revolution of the right. Based in freedoms and free commerce these are things of the right…
Right-wingers are truly deranged lunatics like yourself.
I watched AOC come out of the gate - fraud and grifter from day one - business major who couldn't get a job at a great company and indifferent to any activity but self-promotion.
I watched her with the sound off - Obama 2.0 - fluff from start to stop. AOC to politics is what Ezra Klein is to journalism - insecure bags of hot air bent on "looking good".
She's actually not astute enough to be a fraud and a grifter. She's the perfect PR firm creation. She has ZERO original thoughts or ideas. Everything she says and does comes from a thinktank.
All that can be fixed in post - see Obama, Bill Ayers, etc. Nobody actually gives a fu-k.
How does she make me feel.
The rolled-up sleeves, slacks, hair down, white shirt and 'passion TM' are the entire message.
The media recognize the ideal vessel of the deep state: Obama 2.0.
Then she's actually very competent, isn't she? If she's doing regular electoral politics, you don't "reveal the message" until you get the blade in. Of course, many of the people in this discussion seemed to think that having advanced economics credentials was what mattered, as if Krugie sat at the right hand of God. Hopeless.
She's nowhere near as glib and polished, as others have noted. When the fight is between AOC and Crockett, you know the dems are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
25% helium in that think tank
“Out of the gate”…I see what you did there.
😂
I agree
"I hope that you see this movement is not about partisan labels or purity tests, but about class solidarity." - AOC
Not about labels or purity tests, but about class. Which is a label and a purity test.
Dumb as a box of rocks.
What "movement?"
What movement? It's her, Bernie, the bald chick, the dude that pulls fire alarms and the one who bangs her brother. Oh, and the hamas chick.
Bowel
The bused in, paid movement, of course!
Exactly, the Bernie Movement died the minute he called Joe Biden his friend, possibly when he campaigned for Killary.
Dumb as a box of Kamalas.
Wow…that is a HIGH bar 😂
The linked video, at about 30:15, contains a recent AOC verbal slip from the "Fighting Oligarchy" that I thought was funny. The rest of her performance may have been worth critiquing, but she's not easy to listen to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36chB4I8tZA
What class?
Turning from the Harris faction to the AOC faction is lurching from one set of airheads to another. If these are indeed the best horses in the stable, the stable itself is desperately overdue for a mucking out. You couldn't announce the intellectual bankruptcy of your movement more clearly.
They need a pretty big shovel. Maybe a front loader. Surely no one will fall for this stunt again. More of the same but in a younger, prettier package. Everyone knows it was just the packaging the Democrats got wrong. It's not that they are smug, love to hear themselves talk (everyone else just hush up) or that they never do anything that would upset or cost their donors (psst, they're oligarchs.) a dime. Bernie could have done something in 2016 or 2020 but just about everyone who followed him straight back to his Democratic captors with his tail between his legs, not once but twice realizes he suffers from Stockholm syndrome and the Democrats or whatever they are calling themselves now, are exploiting him yet again. Bless his heart. They really need to learn a new tune. I don't see that happening.
Stockholm syndrome! Love it. Well put
The Democrats are abusive. Make no mistake. Gaslighting, deflection, vexatious, intimidating, dismissiveness, litigious… All of these things are intended to bully anyone who they feel inferior to or threatened by in any way. People cope differently with this particular kind of narcissistic emotional abuse. Usually it’s a fight or flight thing. Trump went into fight mode. Most of us went into flight mode but Bernie can’t get it in his head that that they don’t care about fixing things or doing the right thing. They are self serving posers trying to stay ahead in the clique. They’re nobles in their own imaginary court that only they know about. It’s too complicated for us mere mortals to understand. That’s why they need Bernie to tell us how they really aren’t as bad as the other guy. For the life of him he can’t believe, though they’ve burned him badly and ridiculed him twice, that they aren’t interested in fixing anything. His solutions are a problem for them but he still feels he needs the support and approval of his abusers. His ideas are closer to Trumps (methodology is different and provenly ineffective to keep rejoining with those you accurately rail against.) ideas than they are to theirs but he won’t leave and he will continue to defend them. It’s become too hard for me to watch.
The debate between AOC and Kamala will be a female version of Tyson/Paul
AOC's high, irritating voice versus Kamala's cringe-inducing hysterical laughter.
They are both juice boxes. Empty heads, empty calories, but it says there are vitamins in there, so there must be something redeeming, right???
Capri Suns
wow for a second there I read juicy boxes
A lot of show but no substance. Or alternatively, a circus.
Though little discussed, much of the problem of Democrats and their lack of competwnt and charismatic leaders can be traced to the Obama years. Obama's midterms were a disaster for Congressional Democrats and for state and local Democrats around the country, ending the political career of young and more moderate Democrats in their tracks. The Democrats may revere saint Barack, but he was a disaster for their bench and the weakness shows in their choice of candidates. A shill and unlikeable Hillary, a Biden who was a hack all his life and showing signs of senility long before the 2020 elections and a Harris who didn't win a vote in the 2020 primary who had to be backdoored as the candidate in 2024. The part is weak and it may take a generation to recover - if it does recover. If Trump is successful in extending the 2017 tax reform, eliminating taxes on social security, tips and overtime, while at the same time rooting out waste and fraud and controlling spending that recovery may take even longer.
Ms. Occasional-Cortex is not the Democrat's problem. She's just one of their many dilettantes. The Democrat's problem is most sane people find what they stand for REPULSIVE and even absurd.
Many of them are so conditioned to resist, they never stop to evaluate their positions. I mean, they're protesting against "BAD" Elon and DOGE, for what? Pointing out and attempting to curb waste and fraud, for most thoughtful voters, is a good thing.
Ha! Dems heads exploding over SignalAppgate. Can’t wait for Trump to put Elon+ in charge of cyber security.
a true American would have notified the group that they were accidentally there and ask to be deleted ..as they would know that they were literally spying on a group they should have no part of.. but then.....
So a Trump hater+ publisher is “accidentally” included in an exchange between cabinet officials during an exchange, that is now interpreted to be the most important threat to
American security since somebody slept with Fang Fang. Oh sorry, Fang Fang is no big deal.
I can't stand Jeff Goldberg, but you're insane. He did exactly what he was supposed to do in that situation as a journalist. The only person to blame was the dipshit that added him to the chat.
A triple dupe!
“Victim” of Matt’s grift, Trump’s relentless lying, and Leon funneling the “waste, fraud and abuse” directly into his coffers!
Congratulations sucker!
...you are literally a paying subscriber.
…a hedge.
...or an interesting vantage point to watch the Democratic party implode into nothingness.
If you haven’t noticed, the entire US of A is imploding as right now!
Oh, and the New York Times says the covid virus was probably from a lab leak. But badnabor is a sucker?
CC, give us a break. Put down your bong.
You’re reposting this?
You’re a Doctor? I guess cultists of all stripes!
https://substack.com/@jlnrgn/note/c-102813742?r=cfaw&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Says the guy that posts for the party that has a 29% approval rating, their leader in the Senate raped his niece, & party line says that boys should be in girls locker rooms and, compete against girls in contravention of every known fact of biology & children who are unhappy with the sex they were born should be allowed/encouraged to be sexually mutilated without parental consent.
🙄🤪😂
Leon’s son is now his daughter.
Is that your gripe?
It’s Elon dipshit
People like to "eliminate waste and fraud" until _their_ (incoming) waste and fraud is eliminated. Then it's a crucial part of the economy. Clever politicians know how to mix up a nice waste and fraud cocktail with other flavors, but I think the current set skipped their mixology classes.
By the way, I like the "Occasional-Cortex" moniker.
Shout out to Gad Saad who coined it!
Yeah, the Democratic party brand is damaged. It makes sense they think Occasional Cortex is a possible meal ticket.
RUN, ALEXANDRA, RUN!!!
The Republicans will win the White House AND Congress in 2028 in a landslide unrivaled since Mondale in 1984!
Popcorn sales will go through the roof!
Funny until she's "elected."
Out of one crowd of 32,000 people, cell phones were there that also were present at 8 or 9 of Harris' rallies. Buses also. I wonder who is renting the crowds?
Those of us who pay taxes are paying the rent money, not sure who signs the check.
Years ago I used to see those 'Activist wanted' ads in the Weekly papers. I always thought it was for petitioners, fundraisers, etc, but now I realize that some of that might be a way of recruiting 'rent a mobs' for events.
I thought Headboard Harris had a problem with bussing? Isn't that why she was spicy with Joey B?
Sandy Cortez - AOC's real name - is what Headboard Harris was 20 years ago. An accomplishment free politician, getting appointed to things she can't do herself. She is a walking example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Listen to her for 180 seconds and you'll hear it.
According to the Babylon Bee. She is in trouble because the paid rally attendee’s are going to unionize.
AOC's most impressive accomplishment was getting elected. she unseated one of the most corrupt democrats in congress. Since getting elected, she has done little more than post on tiktok, perhaps because whenever she opens her mouth, pelosi's boot gets rammed in her cake hole. Like Obama, she can memorize a script. Unlike Obama, she has no humor, sense of timing or original ideas.
"Unlike Obama, she has no humor, sense of timing or original ideas."
Oh, jeez. Giving barry WAY too much credit here.
Especially the "original ideas" part...
Exactly. Barry was an empty suit intellectually. See that clip from the his debate with Alan Keyes.
he could read a teleprompter and manipulate millions into believing he meant what he said. Unfortunately, that is a talent. As for ideas, I was thinking about the government bank competing with large institutions when they weren't lending. The Fed made sure he didn't mention that again.
"....toward Sanders, who spoke like a normal person>"
Well maybe if normal people sounded like retarded Brooklyn deli clerks.
Matt tapped into a rich vein of marks.
Congratulations sucker!
If brains were dynamite you and AOC combined wouldn’t have enough to blow your noses.
Veteran?
Keep taking orders from Commander Bone Spurs.
Oooh can I subscribe to your Substack? You sound insightful 😁
Says the chicken hawk Biden voter.
Biden. Now that’s funny.
She is an absolute moron, hard to believe she has a degree in economics as she continues to have a problem with numbers. When she stood against Amazon opening a second headquarters in Long Island City, Queens she said the $3 billion tax abatement over ten years could be better spent on other things. So she does not know the difference between a tax abatement and tax revenue! Also she railed against the “gentrification” of the area since the proposed Amazon jobs average salary would be an average of $150,000! This was a blatant lie since LIC has long been gentrified since studio condos in the area were priced at about $800,000! Being the darling of the MSM nobody questioned the fact that she was dead wrong and that NYC lost out on all those jobs and all those payroll taxes that would have been collected. Trying to shut down ICE and the Police is just really bad politics that no one thinks is a good idea. If she runs in 2028 she will make Kamala look like a genius.
“hard to believe she has a degree in economics”
No, it’s not
Not exactly a ringing endorsement of Boston University
🤣 my ears ringing
Ha! Economics is to math what dungeons and dragons is to history
IMO, she did Amazon a big favor by tipping them off they were going to be a big shakedown target.
NYers were mad at her for tipping Amazon off but it’s exactly what would have happened. And it was absolutely, mindboggling Bezos didn't see it.
Yes and the real shame was that Amazon ran to Virginia!
The Gulch in Atlanta would have been ideal for Amazon. It sits right next to Georgia Tech which has the 4h ranked engineering school in the country and dwarfs the engineering enrollments of Cal Tech, MIT, and Stanford combined.
And they play decent football.
I'm not American so terminology might be the problem here, but I would have thought 'tax abatement' means Amazon was excused from paying a $3bn tax that would ordinarily apply. So, if the $3bn was collected, some of it could be spent on 'better' things. I get that encouraging employment is a good thing (by excusing payroll tax) and that employment has flow-on benefits BUT a tax on employment is a bad old idea, and giving Bezos a chance to pay less tax is really dumb. I think AOC is right to question 'trickle-down economics'. Your tax system(s) haven't served the basics in your society, and it seems to be at the core of your angry, failing democracy.
Ok you may not understand how this corporate welfare works, but in reality it is a trade off. A company negotiates with a municipality because they are about to invest tons of money to build a factory or in this case to occupy an office complex or build it as their headquarters. Also think of this. If they were to build an office building that would also be a huge stimulus to the construction trades with jobs, and payroll taxes of the construction workers and all the other advantages of all their economic activity. Amazon wanted such in Long Island City, which is in Queens which is part of New York City. They negotiated a deal whereby they would get a $3 billion tax abatement for the next 10-20 years. They were supposed to hire thousands of employees who at an average would be paid $150,000. These were high paying jobs. Why would a city agree to this? The stimulus to the local economy, be it in real estate purchases, money spent in the area by these new residents and most importantly the payroll taxes collected from all these employees amounts to a lot of money. So in other words the $3 billion was a corporate tax reduction in exchange for everything else mentioned. the $3 billion was not money the city had. So when AOC says we can use that money in better ways it is not money or tax revenue that the city can spend in other ways, because they don’t have that $3 billion in hand, it is a tax reduction.
All large corporations have tax departments whose job it is to reduce taxes by using all the legal means it can by using the tax code to reduce their taxes by investing in equipment and depreciating that equipment over the years to use one example.
As an example years ago it was reported that General Electric paid zero taxes one year. It was reported at the time that GE had about 400 people working in their tax department. This is what every successful company tires to do. I once had a boss that said, companies don’t pay taxes they COLLECT payroll taxes from their employees. This may be an exaggeration but you get the point.
Trump got the Jolt Cola version of the Trump treatment.
"It’s an instant entrant in the Hall of Fame of Bad Ideas, on par with a Hitler bobblehead day promotion or training orangutans to pack flatware. " You crack me up, Matt!! Please keep it up!
The Hitler bobblehead is apparently sold out.
Ye gave them away with every t-shirt purchase.