Wotta maroon.
♲ br00t4c - 2024-12-12 00:23:11 GMT
John Fetterman Becomes First Senate Democrat On Truth Social#FettermanFirst #Democrats #Politics #SenateDemocrat #TrumpPardon
#democrats
Dear #Democrats:
If you don't like Biden's pardon decision, then don't vote for him.
Yes, I know that you already didn't vote for him so STFU.
In a nation of misogynist bigots, there is no savior.
♲ br00t4c - 2024-11-24 02:49:26 GMT
▶ Is This The Dem's Savior In 2028?#MajorityReport #UnlimitedAccess #VantagePlan #PoliticalSavior #Democrats
They're too busy infighting.
♲ br00t4c - 2024-11-14 04:08:15 GMT
Democrats Are Letting a Vital Chance to Protect Workers Slip Away#WorkerRights #WorkplaceProtection #Democrats #PoliticalAction #CrucialAppointment
The #Democrats lost all swing states at the #election
But they thought they could win with #Harris. I think they are lost in their own #EchoChamber. With all the Hollywood-Stars voting for Harris they lost the #support of the poor people and their needs.
🗽 🇺🇸 😱🤑
#usa #vote #politics #Hollywood #Democracy #entertainment #president #government #news #WhiteHouse #swingstate #trump #Problem #poverty
German Bundestag bans public funding to any organization that boycotts #israel or questions the right of Israel to exist. The resolution was supported by a broad coalition that included the Greens and the "liberal" Free #Democrats
I am sure they have no problem supporting groups who back militant settlers in occupied west bank.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/11/07/18870628.php
#Bundestag #Genocide #Germany #Fascism
Trump Wins, Cory Doctorow Has Cancer
Cory will be OK, but I'm worried about the USA.
If Trump accomplishes half of what he says he wants to accomplish, we're in big trouble.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/06/us-second-trump-term-threat-rights-us-world-0 President Trump vs human rights
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/05/carcinoma-angels/ from Cory about his cancer
https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5181315 The Dow Jones jumps over 1,300 points after Trump wins the election
This vindicates all the things I wrote about the Democrats screwing up, but that's small comfort now.
First the Democrats were the party of slavery.
Then they were the party of racial segregation.
Then, for a short time, they were the party of labor rights and black civil rights.
Then Bill Clinton took over, and they became, and still are, the US equivalent of Tony Blair's New Labour Party.
So what should progressives do? Migrate to the Green Party en masse? Start a new Progressive Party? Try to do to the leadership of the Democratic Party what Trump did to the Republicans?
I favor a new Progressive Party that would be built around the few real progressives in Congress. The new party should be a labor party. It should be a populist party, fighting the wealthy elite (Musk, Bezos, the mega-corporations, etc.). It should advocate buying locally produced products over imports. It should advocate more local production, especially of semiconductors and other items essential to economic survival. It should advocate international partnerships and treaties designed to end discrimination against certain ethnic and national groups (e.g., Russia should stop trying to end Ukraine, Israel should stop trying to end Palestine, Turkey should stop trying to end the Kurds, all former colonial empires should stop trying to "assimilate" indigenous people, etc.). It should stop attempts to worsen the on-going climate catastrophe. It should oppose government involvement in anything to do with sexuality and reproduction. It should oppose misogyny. Most of all, it should oppose rewarding greed.
Why did Trump win?
I would say, he appealed to blue collar workers more than the Democrats. Think about what that says about the Democrats.
He also appealed to misogynists who can't stand the idea of a female President. Why weren't we expecting this?
He appealed to all kinds of xenophobes, including racists and Christian Nationalists.
#election #politics #trump #democrats #democratic-party #xenophobia #misogyny #progressives #progressive-party #progressive-politics #ultra-wealthy #musk #bezos #racism #genocide #human-rights #christian-nationalism #conservatism
https://thefulcrum.us/election-2024/trump-is-a-threat-to-democracy
If #Trump wins, should #Democrats turn over the keys to the White House?
Austin Sarat
..."Faced with the prospect of a Trump presidency, some, out of desperation, might urge Biden to turn the tables on Trump and refuse to transfer power to him. In this scenario, Biden would resign, and Harris would be sworn in as president. There would be no constitutional problem if he were to take this step.
Harris would then face the horrible possibility that her oath of office and promise to defend the Constitution against “all enemies, foreign and domestic” might require her not to transfer power to someone who has already said he might terminate the Constitution. Doing so is the kind of nuclear option that Walzer says good politicians must consider when circumstances warrant it.
Constitutional implications of refusal
On the surface, exercising this last option would dishonor the Constitution’s Electoral College system and the millions of Americans who had voted for Trump. But Harris might do so believing, as former Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson said 75 years ago, “the Constitution is not a suicide pact.”
Proponents of this option might argue that until a new constitutional convention undoes it, the incumbent president has a duty to respect the existing Constitution and its guarantee of some form of republican government for the individual states. “Republican government,” in constitutional terms, does not refer to a political party but rather to government through representative institutions and respect for political rights.
The National Constitution Center explains that the guarantee clause requires the United States “to prevent any state from imposing rule by monarchy, dictatorship, aristocracy, or permanent military rule, even through majority vote.” The clause contemplates that the vote of a majority cannot itself authorize “monarchy,” “dictatorship,” “aristocracy” or “permanent military rule” in the states.
And if that is true for the states, it is also true for the federal government. The guarantee clause would be drained of all meaning if the federal government itself were not itself a republican form of government."...
#Democrats exposing themselves for the #slaveOwners they really are:
Trib Live did not mention the name of the meat packing facility. However, a resident of the tiny town said the focus should be on Fourth Street Foods, a food manufacturer that produces frozen food products for the processed foods industrial complex. These foods are sold in major retail stores throughout the US.
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Lam was charged with criminal homicide, solicitation to commit homicide, conspiracy, and tamping with evidence after paying a hitman $65k to kill Boyke Budiarachman, the man who Lam bought the staffing company from.
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Trib Live explained how Lam believed Budiarachman, who sold him the staffing company of 500 temporary workers [migrants], was "sabotaging" it, forcing him to "make biweekly $8,000 additional payments to ensure his employees remained working at the meat packing plant, where Budiarachman worked as a human resources employee."
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Apparently, there's a lot of money to be made in this alleged labor #trafficking system of migrants, as shown in the Trib Live report.
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One resident told the ex-WSJ journo: "What we're witnessing in #Springfield is modern-day slavery."
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Look past the cats and dogs, focusing on the staffing companies and #factories that are using these #migrants. That's the story of the century.
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Also, this is all happening because of foreign policy pushed by the #StateDepartment.
from #consortium-news
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/16/the-chris-hedges-report-betrayal-of-the-liberal-class/
nice conversation between #Jimmy-Dore and #Chris-Hedges about The betrayal of the liberal class
#Kamala-Harris the #DNC #Democrats (not „the lesser evil but the more efficient evil“)
For the first 30 minutes or so I see the same resignation and political cul-de-sac as in #Germany
and hence in Germany as a vasall of the #US it has to follow the same rules... they cannot look for a way out
link w/o yt:
https://invid.ambag.es/watch?v=s2JUR9WVIq4
The Pragmatic Phase
The smarter #clowns are now fully aware that #history did not, in fact, end, and that the pendulum is rapidly swinging back in their faces. So they’re attempting to recapture all the centrists and conservatives that their #globalist #overreach cost them and stave off a complete #collapse of their “neoliberal rules-based world order” by switching to their phase they describe as “pragmatic realism”.
The American public deserves a sober and realistic debate about the nature and salience of the U.S. interests at stake in #Ukraine. The American electorate also deserves to be told the truth: that Ukraine is highly unlikely to succeed in expelling Russian forces from its territory, even with the continuation of strong support from the West. Trump’s readiness to seek a negotiated settlement is not capitulation: it is pragmatism.
Trump’s skepticism toward nation building and the promotion of democracy abroad also resonates with the isolationist posture of early America. To be sure, Americans from the founding era onward believed that they were embarking on a unique experiment in building republican government, an experiment that they were ultimately destined to share with the rest of the world. Yet the founders and their successors were appropriately doubtful of the United States’ ability to engineer political change abroad and therefore understood that they needed to spread democracy primarily by example. As then Secretary of State John Quincy Adams famously stated in 1821, the United States “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”
So, too, did successive U.S. presidents appreciate the need to operate in the world as it is, working with democracies and nondemocracies alike in the pursuit of U.S. interests. Even as President James Monroe warned Europe’s great powers in 1823 against any “future colonization” in the Western Hemisphere, he acknowledged and accepted Europe’s political preferences. It was the policy of the United States, he asserted, “not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it.”
Trump took this ideological variant of isolationism too far during his presidency, exhibiting a fondness for autocrats such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jung Un while giving a cold shoulder to the leaders of allied democracies. But Trump’s approach to grand strategy does exhibit due caution to the promotion of democracy abroad. He correctly traced the United States’ overreach in the Middle East to the “dangerous idea that we could make Western democracies out of countries that had no experience or interests in becoming a Western democracy.”
#Trump’s brand of U.S. statecraft has deep roots in the American experience and, like the original version of isolationism, has something for almost everyone, giving it broad appeal across the American electorate. Democrats dismiss his “America first” agenda as strategic delusion at their own peril. Instead, they should preempt it by embracing its best elements.
#Democrats need to find the middle ground between an expansive liberal internationalism that is no longer sustainable at home or abroad and the dangerous isolationist excesses that would likely accompany Trump’s return to the presidency. That middle ground entails standing by Biden’s multilateralism and his investment in old alliances and new partnerships, moves that have resuscitated U.S.-led collective action and restored the nation’s image as a team player. At the same time, the United States must avoid the bouts of strategic overreach, such as in Afghanistan and Iraq, that encourage the electorate to gravitate toward isolationist alternatives.
In Ukraine, that middle ground requires working to broker a cease-fire and focusing on ensuring that the 80 percent of the country still under Kyiv’s control is secure, prosperous, and stable. With Ukraine up against relentless aggression from a much larger neighbor, that outcome would qualify as a success by any reasonable measure. In the Middle East, Washington should seek to end the violence in Gaza and then lay out a pathway to Palestinian self-determination and normalization of Israel’s relationships with its neighbors. The United States should stand up to Chinese ambition, but also avoid unnecessary provocations that could lead to an irreversible geopolitical rupture. Washington should work intently to cooperate with Beijing to tame rivalry and advance joint efforts to tackle global challenges.
The United States cannot afford to run away from the world, as it did during the long era of isolationism. But it can no longer seek to run the world, which it has neither the power nor the domestic consensus to do. Instead, Americans need to learn to live in a world of ideological diversity and multiple conceptions of order, working alongside other centers of power, democracies and nondemocracies alike. Pragmatic realism should guide U.S. statecraft.
#ClownWorld always seeks to #control the entire #debate. So, now that events have escaped their control, they’re resetting the boundaries of the public discourse in an attempt to permit the less dangerous ideas entry while continuing to prevent any comprehensive discussion of the real causes, problems, and potential solutions.
Notice, in particular, the assumption that Americans “need to learn” whatever it is that Clown World is preaching at the moment. Thirty years ago, Americans “needed to learn” that they had a responsibility for pushing democracy, free movement, and independent central banks everywhere around the #world. Now, they are being told that they “need to learn” the limits of what they can do.
But what Americans really need to learn is that they are #not #free and that they do not need any #foreign #rulers telling them what to do.
I'm pleased relieved to see democrats finally playing hardball.
Harris refuses to give Trump the satisfaction of going into the "issue" of her race
#Trump can't make any porous border issue stick against Democrats because of all the Democrats who voted in favor of deporting Dreamers. But this is also a reminder to the #VoteBlueNoMatterWho crowd that Who remains nonetheless important, even after #Manchin 's exit. Surprised that Dems muzzled their pro-Palestine constituency? You also need a reminder about the still-powerful AIPAC Wasserman-Schultz faction.
In short, you guys need to get real for a change.
#Democrats
#satire : '#KamalaHarris loves #Palestinians so much she wouldn't let them speak ... This is why she is the #peacecandidate'
"After ten months of destruction, #Gaza has seen its first case of #polio in 25 years, which has left a baby who was born at the start of the war paralysed. The #Democrats have therefore focused on the urgent matter of ensuring Palestinians can’t speak at their conventions. I mean someone had to silence these monsters…"
https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/kamala-loves-palestinians-so-much
#USElection #Genocide #Polio #Inhumanity
But she’s “bringing back the joy”!
"Watching crowds gather to cheerfully support a person carrying out an ongoing, live-streamed #genocide while pretending she has nothing to do with it is one of the most vile things I have ever seen."
PS. Having terrible time watching my wife's excitement about her speeches during the DNC convention. Had to put headphones on and go to what is left of my balcony garden.
#KamalaHarris #USElections #uselections2024 #Democrats #DemocraticParty #DNC #Gaza #Palestinians #Palestine #Genocide
"With eyes and cameras now turned toward the DNC in Chicago, as more and more polls reveal that even red-leaning battleground states are moving toward the Harris Walz ticket, Trump is feeding his craziest wolf and letting that poor beast howl at every opportunity."
~ Brian Tyler Cohen
#Biden #Democrats #DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Trump
https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/buckle-up
Who is speaking at the DNC tonight? Full speaker list and schedule
https://www.nbcchicago.com/dnc-chicago-2024/who-is-speaking-at-the-dnc-tonight-full-speaker-list-and-schedule/3525559/
#democrats #chicago #convention
Trying same shit over again expecting different results.
♲ Ham on Wry - 2024-07-23 05:17:35 GMT
The #Republicans and criminal #trump are already claiming that #KamalaHarris isn’t from America.Lol … and we already know how that same tactic backfired when they tried it with #BarakObama
But Biden is also a lame duck with new powers given him by SCOTUS
♲ Stanley Nerdlinger - 2024-07-21 18:33:59 GMT
#Trump gets to run against a female former prosecutor 🤣
#democrats #biden #kamalaharris #election2024
