Dean Obeidallah has been hammering on this same theme, that Democrats need to get angry and stand up for the 99%. And not just advocate for the people, but actually put it into law, like FDR and LBJ did. Now, we have to push just to get our Constitution back.
Dean Obeidallah has been hammering on this same theme, that Democrats need to get angry and stand up for the 99%. And not just advocate for the people, but actually put it into law, like FDR and LBJ did. Now, we have to push just to get our Constitution back.
Yes, and citizens united pushed Democrats to focus more on fund-raising and less on hell-raising. Therein lies the problem, and the solution is to reverse that strategy.
The very idea of democracy involves and invokes populism. Populims, populare is the voice of the people. it is how power is obtained,
But all we have seen so far is right wing populism, The Center right has stuffed down, demonized left wing populism, the real populism of the people.
Right wing populism plays to fears, anger, bigotry and you aren't disentitled they convince you that you are,... by use of lies and scapegoats.
scapegoats of races, sex, gender, religion
Clinton and his Third Way neo Liberals turned the Democratic party into the Republican Lite, and they have lost to populist outrage, and their solution is more of the same.
When you are digging your own grave....stop.
The idiots have learned nothing of the last election, it was pure Third Way neo Liberal, Kamala stayed away from cultural war issues, focused on the economy as did Biden to no avail.
There is truth in the Democratic big tent though, America has had with political correctness. Anyone notice that Trump is going after DEI with no blowback or pushback, even intruding into non governmental instutions and corporations.
The problem with the Democratic big tent, it is was full of groups and people demanding attention that their cause was paramount and all others subordinate.
It started when Fredrick Douglas told Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, that women's suffrage would have to wait, the vote of black men was more important, and liberals have been at it every since.
Meanwhile the right puts aside it's squabbles and unites for the cause and wins.
We sorely need a populist like AOC and Sanders, even Warren, but less threatening to the right and more charismatic. AOC has charisma, but she is Latina and female, and after all this is still racist,misogynistic America and we have to deal with reality, not our druthers.
I voted Democratic in the last three elections, just to vote against Trump, but Democrat is not part of my identity. I've tested those online ideological purity tests, and frustrate them every time, and the only way they can peg me is radical
For lack of a label I consider myself a progressive radical.
Take immigration, the stereotypical "liberal" version is come one, come all, welcome to America.
Not so fast I say, there are cultures, and people are viral carriers of cultures, that are inimical to and actually destructive of the liberal, open, western culture.
And they should be recognized, harmless in small quantities, like guests who respect the host until they are large enough to take over the house and neighborhood.
And then there are the Latino's. Ultra conservative, religious, misogynistic, woman demeaning, homophobes, once naturalized and assimilated they are natural conservatives and tend towards theocracy and the authoritarianism of the Republican party.
Take the case of Mayra "Flores, TX 34th, a naturalized citizen that came here illegally, an anti immigrant, misogynistic, theocratic, homophobe.
An honest discussion is needed without intranecine name calling and threats
Regardless, someone's feelings are going to be hurt, someone is going to feel left out.
Trusk controls America, and is remaking it in their own image, not because the Democratic party was too "woke". it is because it has been too timid and corporate, but not corporate enough for the corporations who support the Republican party, Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society and of course the Christian Churches from the Catholic down through 7th Mountain Dominionism, New Apostalic Reformation, to LDS and So. Baptists.
If the Democratic party continues it's Third Way bullshit, it will wind up as any second or third party in Russia, Hungary, Turkey.. for show only.
Who is rejecting potential alies Daniel? Who are these potential allies?
And is potential ally a 5th columnist
Mehmet II besieged Constantinople with the worlds largest cannons made by a Hungarian named Orban, probably Victors ancestor, to no avail. Constantinople fell because an ally did not want to die for the Emperor and showed Mehmet a secret entrance.
Babylon fell to Cyrus because the gates were opened from within.
Richard III fell to Henry VII because Lord Stanley held back his troops.
And nothing,nothing at all will happen, Trump doesn't give a crap about Signal gate, you know my opinion it was a set up a distraction, a bright shiny thing to throw at the crows.
As regards Elon Musk, he will press on doing what he wants to do, he has other plans, like using our country as an ATM to Occupy Mars.
Republicans may sound like they are pushing back , but have you ever pushed a piece of paper.
It is all performance, Trump and Musk will do what they damn well want to do, because they still have a 47% approval and that is their base.
the Nazis received 43.9% of the vote in the March 1933 election, and 92.1% in the November 1933 election. ,Trump is already 3 points ahead of Hitler, even after he has essentially destroyed the government, and maybe that is the reason.
I wish, I do wish Daniel, that with all of this noise, hull a baloo something would happen, but face it almost half of America slobber over this cretin.
The institutions aren't holding anmore than than they did in Germany in 1933, and Hitler had 43.9% of the vote. Trump had 47% and still does.
The institutions are afraid, they have cowed and kissed the ring, foot or ass, even law firms, the media, corporations.
Politicians are spineless critters, the first requirment of being a politician is to be malleable as dough.
Either the system will self destruct, and that will happen but it will take time, or it will be destroyed from without, and then MAGAts will rally the nation under "patriotism" and anyone who resists will be a traitor, or it will be destroyed early on before it is really set in concrete by a mass uprising, but the days of translition, politics, change by votes are over.
yup. I agree. The human brain is perhaps the most habituated organ among Animalia. We joke about lemmings, but we are purposeless lemmings, afraid of critical thinking because it appears to be just too much effort. We are in a resurgence of the reptile brain taking over the tiny bit of fight/freeze/flee reasoning that most 'murkans are addicted to. Norepinephrine is a massively powerful narcoitc produced inside the human endocrine system. It is more powerful than Muck's obvious habituated horny impulses. As a biologist, it appears more and more each day that this is the only way the quantum field can cleanse itself of chaotic bipolarity. Evolution is not ethical or moral. There are been literally a billion different species (excluding viruses) on this planet that have come and gone. We no doubt will be next.
This is the second time this has come up today. Meidas says Fox News just attacked tthem in a media business journal called Semafor.
I see it as potential defamation of trade libel -- I advised Meidas to "sue them when they defame you." Extremely vulnerable. $787.5M in largest ever defamation settlement with Dominion Voting Systems. Must face Smartmatic $2.7 billion defamation claim.
When you sue them, you get millions in free publicity.
Meanwhile Fox shareholder derivitive suit: Plaintiffs the New York City Funds and the State of Oregon in this shareholder derivative action against certain directors and officers of Fox Corporation. In connection with Fox News’ propagation of unfounded, defamatory conspiracy theories concerning the U.S. presidential election of 2020, the action alleges breach of fiduciary duties for: (1) the adoption of an illegal business model by which Fox News pursues profits by committing actionable defamation; (2) the lack of good faith efforts to establish systems or practices for minimizing, mitigating, or monitoring defamation risk; and (3) inaction in the face of red flags of defamation risk.
Dean Obeidallah has been hammering on this same theme, that Democrats need to get angry and stand up for the 99%. And not just advocate for the people, but actually put it into law, like FDR and LBJ did. Now, we have to push just to get our Constitution back.
But all of that was pre-citizens united. It's a different playing field now.
Yes, and citizens united pushed Democrats to focus more on fund-raising and less on hell-raising. Therein lies the problem, and the solution is to reverse that strategy.
The very idea of democracy involves and invokes populism. Populims, populare is the voice of the people. it is how power is obtained,
But all we have seen so far is right wing populism, The Center right has stuffed down, demonized left wing populism, the real populism of the people.
Right wing populism plays to fears, anger, bigotry and you aren't disentitled they convince you that you are,... by use of lies and scapegoats.
scapegoats of races, sex, gender, religion
Clinton and his Third Way neo Liberals turned the Democratic party into the Republican Lite, and they have lost to populist outrage, and their solution is more of the same.
When you are digging your own grave....stop.
The idiots have learned nothing of the last election, it was pure Third Way neo Liberal, Kamala stayed away from cultural war issues, focused on the economy as did Biden to no avail.
There is truth in the Democratic big tent though, America has had with political correctness. Anyone notice that Trump is going after DEI with no blowback or pushback, even intruding into non governmental instutions and corporations.
The problem with the Democratic big tent, it is was full of groups and people demanding attention that their cause was paramount and all others subordinate.
It started when Fredrick Douglas told Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, that women's suffrage would have to wait, the vote of black men was more important, and liberals have been at it every since.
Meanwhile the right puts aside it's squabbles and unites for the cause and wins.
We sorely need a populist like AOC and Sanders, even Warren, but less threatening to the right and more charismatic. AOC has charisma, but she is Latina and female, and after all this is still racist,misogynistic America and we have to deal with reality, not our druthers.
I voted Democratic in the last three elections, just to vote against Trump, but Democrat is not part of my identity. I've tested those online ideological purity tests, and frustrate them every time, and the only way they can peg me is radical
For lack of a label I consider myself a progressive radical.
Take immigration, the stereotypical "liberal" version is come one, come all, welcome to America.
Not so fast I say, there are cultures, and people are viral carriers of cultures, that are inimical to and actually destructive of the liberal, open, western culture.
And they should be recognized, harmless in small quantities, like guests who respect the host until they are large enough to take over the house and neighborhood.
And then there are the Latino's. Ultra conservative, religious, misogynistic, woman demeaning, homophobes, once naturalized and assimilated they are natural conservatives and tend towards theocracy and the authoritarianism of the Republican party.
Take the case of Mayra "Flores, TX 34th, a naturalized citizen that came here illegally, an anti immigrant, misogynistic, theocratic, homophobe.
An honest discussion is needed without intranecine name calling and threats
Regardless, someone's feelings are going to be hurt, someone is going to feel left out.
Trusk controls America, and is remaking it in their own image, not because the Democratic party was too "woke". it is because it has been too timid and corporate, but not corporate enough for the corporations who support the Republican party, Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society and of course the Christian Churches from the Catholic down through 7th Mountain Dominionism, New Apostalic Reformation, to LDS and So. Baptists.
If the Democratic party continues it's Third Way bullshit, it will wind up as any second or third party in Russia, Hungary, Turkey.. for show only.
Why reject potential allies?
Who is rejecting potential alies Daniel? Who are these potential allies?
And is potential ally a 5th columnist
Mehmet II besieged Constantinople with the worlds largest cannons made by a Hungarian named Orban, probably Victors ancestor, to no avail. Constantinople fell because an ally did not want to die for the Emperor and showed Mehmet a secret entrance.
Babylon fell to Cyrus because the gates were opened from within.
Richard III fell to Henry VII because Lord Stanley held back his troops.
One has to carefully vet their allies.
Republicans' calls for probe of Trump officials' Signal chat grow
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3r8d7q0200o
Senate Republicans want Elon Musk to stop talking about Social Security, and the Department of Government Efficiency to leave it alone.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5204263-senate-republicans-elon-musk-social-security/
DOGE cuts spur more Republican pushback
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/12/house-senate-republicans-trump-doge
And nothing,nothing at all will happen, Trump doesn't give a crap about Signal gate, you know my opinion it was a set up a distraction, a bright shiny thing to throw at the crows.
As regards Elon Musk, he will press on doing what he wants to do, he has other plans, like using our country as an ATM to Occupy Mars.
Republicans may sound like they are pushing back , but have you ever pushed a piece of paper.
It is all performance, Trump and Musk will do what they damn well want to do, because they still have a 47% approval and that is their base.
the Nazis received 43.9% of the vote in the March 1933 election, and 92.1% in the November 1933 election. ,Trump is already 3 points ahead of Hitler, even after he has essentially destroyed the government, and maybe that is the reason.
Forest for trees. The point is that these people have had it......Besides the interest in patriotism, they hear it from constiuents and donors.
I wish, I do wish Daniel, that with all of this noise, hull a baloo something would happen, but face it almost half of America slobber over this cretin.
The institutions aren't holding anmore than than they did in Germany in 1933, and Hitler had 43.9% of the vote. Trump had 47% and still does.
The institutions are afraid, they have cowed and kissed the ring, foot or ass, even law firms, the media, corporations.
Politicians are spineless critters, the first requirment of being a politician is to be malleable as dough.
Either the system will self destruct, and that will happen but it will take time, or it will be destroyed from without, and then MAGAts will rally the nation under "patriotism" and anyone who resists will be a traitor, or it will be destroyed early on before it is really set in concrete by a mass uprising, but the days of translition, politics, change by votes are over.
yup. I agree. The human brain is perhaps the most habituated organ among Animalia. We joke about lemmings, but we are purposeless lemmings, afraid of critical thinking because it appears to be just too much effort. We are in a resurgence of the reptile brain taking over the tiny bit of fight/freeze/flee reasoning that most 'murkans are addicted to. Norepinephrine is a massively powerful narcoitc produced inside the human endocrine system. It is more powerful than Muck's obvious habituated horny impulses. As a biologist, it appears more and more each day that this is the only way the quantum field can cleanse itself of chaotic bipolarity. Evolution is not ethical or moral. There are been literally a billion different species (excluding viruses) on this planet that have come and gone. We no doubt will be next.
This is the second time this has come up today. Meidas says Fox News just attacked tthem in a media business journal called Semafor.
I see it as potential defamation of trade libel -- I advised Meidas to "sue them when they defame you." Extremely vulnerable. $787.5M in largest ever defamation settlement with Dominion Voting Systems. Must face Smartmatic $2.7 billion defamation claim.
When you sue them, you get millions in free publicity.
Meanwhile Fox shareholder derivitive suit: Plaintiffs the New York City Funds and the State of Oregon in this shareholder derivative action against certain directors and officers of Fox Corporation. In connection with Fox News’ propagation of unfounded, defamatory conspiracy theories concerning the U.S. presidential election of 2020, the action alleges breach of fiduciary duties for: (1) the adoption of an illegal business model by which Fox News pursues profits by committing actionable defamation; (2) the lack of good faith efforts to establish systems or practices for minimizing, mitigating, or monitoring defamation risk; and (3) inaction in the face of red flags of defamation risk.
BTW Newsmax had to pay $40 million to. Smartmatic