Representative Pelosi just wrote that "America is great when America is good". She's not the first to say it, but she sure said it at the most relevant time.
The cruelty of the AIDS policies made me think about Dr. Fauci who became a real hero and saved so many lives after being vilified at the beginning of the outbreak.
Stephen Miller said at a recent funeral "We are the storm!" echoing Joseph Goebbels' speech, The Storm Is Coming. It too was all about how Aryan men were being "robbed". Filth and lies.
If we are to regain some of our decency, it has to come from holding our Nazis accountable and prosecuting them when it is possible. Thanks for the history, Thom. See you in the streets.
Thanks Alis. I suspect the only way for this country to reverse course is for white people to feel personal financial pain. Pain at the grocery store, healthcare exchange, paying their utility bills and kids tuition. Sadly maybe a recession is necessary to vote the Nazi's out.
We've had a "rolling recession" as long as I can remember. Location, location.
IMHO we won the vote but wuz screwed. Psy ops. Did Trump admit that Musk stole Pennsylvania?
Voter preclusion should be illegal. Voter intimidation is a state crime, but if based on race or national irigen could also be a civil rights violation.
On the money, Mr. Hartmann. The nation is "Race Sick"
[Likely, it's a reaction to White men's peen size. Maybe it does matter, after all?]
And don't forget ripping out Black women's reproductive organs. To wit:
A "Mississippi appendectomy" is a euphemism for the unbidden, unapproved, often coerced sterilization of Black women in the United States, especially in the South, from the 1920s through the 1980s. It refers to a procedure falsely presented as an appendectomy, but was actually a hysterectomy or tubal ligation performed without informed consent.
Targeted population: Primarily poor Black women, especially in Mississippi and other Southern states.
No consent: These procedures were often performed without the patient’s knowledge or consent, sometimes while the patient was under anesthesia for unrelated surgeries.
Rooted in eugenics: The practice was part of a broader eugenics movement aimed at controlling the reproduction of people deemed "undesirable" by the state.
Many victims suffered lifelong physical and emotional consequences, and the practice contributed to deep mistrust of the medical system among Black communities.
Thank you Thom! We need to see more and more examples of these atrocities
...and too many people believe Fox News speaks only the truth - they give examples that are true much less than 45% of the time....
Another similar problem:
I asked the following question on Google: Do AI assistants misprepresent news 45%.
The answer was: "Yes, a recent study found that 45% of AI assistant responses to news-related queries contained at least one significant issue, including misrepresentation, serious sourcing problems, and major accuracy issues. The study, involving public service broadcasters in 18 countries, highlighted that these errors are systemic and occur across different languages and AI platforms. "
1. We need a big tent. "Democrats Won Big Because They Won Over Trump Supporters"
It wasn’t just about superior turnout. Party switchers played a significant role in Virginia and New Jersey. By Nate Cohn, NYT.
2. Many Congressional Republicans privately admit Trump is nuts.
I keep posting. According to Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) Trumpepstein may cause an "Epstein bomb" causing over 100 Republican members to "jailbreak" from Trump.
trump is the leader of a cult, the cult was always there, he just gave it voice, and it is about 40% of the population. The elections in NY, NJ, and VA reflected that fact,.
Muslims aren't going to convert to Judaism. MAGAts aren't going to become "woke"
There were demographics, like young men, especially black and Hispanic, and also Muslims, who did vote for Trump in the last election, but have since had a taste of what they voted for, but they aren't really Republicans.
MAGA is an identity, Republican is an identity, Democrat is an identity, people just don't switch identities
I doubt seriously, that Republicans jumped ship last Tuesday, the undecided, independent vote is larger than acknowledged.
Beware of big tents, they get too big and the next thing you know, those whom were outside the tent, and outside the moat, are no inside the tent and controlling the center ring.
This happened when the Democratic Leadership Council/New Democrats took control of the party in Clinton's time, it stopped being the party of the people and became the party of the plutocrats.
Acceepting converts is not the issue Daniel. I converted not because of words, ads, propaganda but a life altering experience.
MAGAts aren't going to convert. I was not a hide bound ideologue, like MAGAts. I was a run of the mill conservative.
The Republican party is no longer the Republican party it is the party of Trump, MAGAts.
Look at every election, there is a hard core of 40%, at least,and that 40% is MAGA. NYC is no different. MAGA knew that Silwa had no chance, but followed Trump's endorsement and voted for Cuomo.
What I am saying is don't waste your time and money trying to convert Muslims into Jews, which is what you are doing.
Old guard Republicans, are now Never Trumpers and Independents and will again be Republican/Libertarians. , if America doesn't slide into a full blown dictatorship.
Here is the real enemy, peddling forlorn hope, lulling people into believing that all we have to do is find some legal ruse, reason, excuse and convert true believers.
Here is a fact that you and those like you don't want to deal with, that at least 40% of the population is lost and gone forever, they belong to a cult, that cult is part of their identity, and if belonging to the cult means physical disadvantage, it is worth it to see their hated enemy skewered and crying. Nothing is more satisfying to them than owning the lib.
You are not going to convert them Daniel..
What will it take to convert you to a Muslim, a Jihadi, a MAGAt?
Answer me that and you find an answer to converting Trump humpers.
I asked you to find an answer to converting Trump humpers and you respond "Apparently you have no fucking idea".
You are correct I don't have a fucking idea how to convert Trump Humpers, but apparently you do, since you mentioned that Republicans voted Democrat on NOv 4th, I would like to know how you know it, as I have not seen any stats, but you brought up the subject, I asked you how, and you tried to throw it back on me. How very Marco Rubio of you.
IMHO 5-6 House Republicans is all we need to get the ball rolling.
When Hitler ran for President in the spring of 1932, receiving 36.8% of the vote in the run-off election against the incumbent Paul von Hindenburg, who won with 53%.
In the Russian October Revolution, when the Bolsheviks seized power, their support was significant in key areas but did not constitute a national majority. In the November 1917 Constituent Assembly elections, the Bolsheviks received about 24% of the total national vote.
Historians estimate that public support for the American Revolution among the colonists varied, with approximately 40 to 45 percent of the white population
This is the tragedy of our country. Unfortunately the darkness of the human heart will rear its ugly head if allowed to do so. The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 are case in point. It breaks my heart. But I will never cease fighting against it.
You know, every time I read or listen to these stories, I want to go to war against these storm troopers. It makes me mad that I, as someone who served my country for over two decades, have to bear witness to the same cruelties that I was sent to other countries to quell. But people keep telling me that I can't physically stop these troops, or shoot an RPG at one of their vehicles because it's against the law. Yet, they get to push people to the ground, sometimes breaking bones, kidnap people, undocumented and citizens alike, and shoot into cars for little to no reason anyone can fathom, and they're allowed to do that with little recourse. How is that right in anyone's book?
What is it going to take to stop this madness? Do we have to go to war on the streets of the United States against storm troopers who are already using combat tactics on unarmed civilians?
We condemn the cruelties in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan by giving arms and bombing rebels in Sudan. Why aren't we doing something like that here at home? This is no different than trying to stop the Azimov Brigades and ISIS, and any of the other terrorists I spent a good part of my adult life fighting against.
We need more than outrage in the independent news cycles. Words and strongly worded letters aren't getting the job done. There's no reason why ordinary people should be afraid of this. Fight fire with fire. Maybe kidnap a few storm troopers and put them in concentration camps? Bury a few of their heads in the pavement and 'accidently ' break some bones? I'm just thinking out loud but I can't be the only one with these thoughts.
There are other ways to go to war besides resorting to violence. Were it to devolve to a shooting war not only would we not stand a chance of winning but Trump would use it as the excuse to impose martial law.
Don't I know it. As I said, I was just thinking out loud. Violence should always be the last resort but things are getting bad. A judge in Chicago is starting to take the ICE commander to task finally. I hope she can make things stick so the thought of violence remains just a thought. I have been in violent situations when I was in the military and it's never like the movies, so I don't use those words lightly. But, due to my background, my thoughts are all over this. Here's to the civilians taking care of business so the warriors don't have to step in.
Yep, I'm all about that 'We the people' thing. I do what I can from where I am and push a little to get others to do the same. I'm trying to be patient but when I see video of a 67 year old white man with his face in the pavement and learn that they broke six of his ribs by kneeling on him, just for exercising his first amendment rights, I get a little upset. Especially when he's not the only one they have hurt for literally nothing other than some verbiage they didn't like. I never liked bullies.
It's hard to have positive thoughts about bullies, no matter how kozmic I might be at the moment. One of the greatest errors I see arising out of all of this is the readiness people and institutions have acquiesced to power. Once you start bowing to it the more it will demand of you, and the harder it will be to stop surrendering ground, until there is nothing left. Dark times indeed.
Indeed. I try to be optimistic most times but this is starting to get to me a little. I don't want the U.S. to end up looking like Tajikistan or some other 'Stan country I've been to where the oligarchs and warlords own everything and the rest of us are scraping by just barely. I've been there in the dirt poor category and it's not a good place to be. Food insecurity is no joke. Worrying about whether your neighbor, whom you barely speak to, will rat on you to a government official for a few extra coins to buy some bread with is stressful. That's what Afghanistan and Israel were like when I was there years ago. We're nearly there here.
What do you mean the Azov brigades. It is not the Azov brigades that are committing war crimes and terrorism in Ukraine, they in fact are fighting the Orcs that are committing acts of terror, slaughtering civilians, including children raping women. (Orcs are what the Ukrainians call the invaders) for instance the Bucha massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre
These are facts I didn't learn in school or college. Unfortunately, I had to see it up front and personal when Reagan in the White House. These practices are disgusting and inhumane.
"From eugenics and AIDS denial to border kidnappings, the same cold logic endures: if the victims suffer enough, the powerful can call it order….."
I don't know whether MAGAs realize that MANY of THEM are in targeted groups. Approximately 15% of the general population falls within the low IQ strata, people who could not for example pass the AFQT, the Armed Forces Qualifying Test or are funcionally illiterate and presumably can't perform competitive work.
These are "takers" not "makers" to the overdogs. Many, if not most are WASPS.
I once worked for SSA, which had stats on the disabled population, especially those who met or equalled the mental listings of impairments based on retardation. 12.05 Intellectual Disability: Intellectual disability refers to significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive functioning initially manifested during the developmental period; i.e., the evidence demonstrates or supports onset of the impairment before age 22.
The required level of severity for this disorder is met when the requirements in A, B, C, or D are satisfied.
A. Mental incapacity evidenced by dependence upon others for personal needs (e.g., toileting, eating, dressing, or bathing) and inability to follow directions, such that the use of standardized measures of intellectual functioning is precluded;
B. A valid verbal, performance, or full scale IQ of 59 or less;
OR
C. A valid verbal, performance, or full scale IQ of 60 through 70 and a physical or other mental impairment imposing an additional and significant work-related limitation of function ;
OR
D. A valid verbal, performance, or full scale IQ of 60 through 70, resulting in two of the following:
1. Marked restriction of activities of daily living; or
2. Marked difficulties in maintaining social functioning; or
3. Marked difficulties in maintaining concentration, persistence, or pace; or
4. Repeated episodes of decompensation, each of extended duration.
There is an equivalent listing for kids.
SSA has stats that show high rates in certain parts of the country. Most are Republican districts.
So...if victims of HIV were morally defective, what about people who meet the criteria as "retards"?
The politically correct social movement, has a lot to do with the creation of MAGA.
Unable to vent their spleen in public, they stuffed and seethed, The frustration and anger boiling up, until a savior stepped forward and gave them license to be "all they are"
Meanwhile blacks were calling each other nigger, and gays were calling each other queers and Joe the redneck racist plumber was seething because if he could use the words he was chastised and ostracized.
It is disgusting and horrible that we scapegoat and refer to each other in demeaning terms, but the practice is as old as humanity itself. And restricting speech, even socially, exacerbates the problem.
Many native American tribes refered to themselves as the people such as the Navajo, who call themselves Dine, which means the people, and they referred to the people in the Chaco Canyon region, as Ancient Enemy or Anasazi.
If you consider your tribe people, then those outside the tribe are not people.
Even name calling starts in kindergarten if not before.
I don't have a solution, because this need to otherise, to scapegoat, to minimize is not a problem, because problems have solutions, it is a difficulty and a difficulty can only be ameliorated, it's harmful effects minimized, compensated for.
That wasn't morality being legislated Daniel. Those folk being enfranchised, still had their own personal sense of morality.
Rest assure there were and still are, (like Clarence Thomas) who gained their rights, who would deny others their rights because of their personal sense of morality.
I think this is about consciousness. The consciousness of the human race needs to grow, expand, etc. It cannot be forced. I watch and note that Project 2025 and MAGA seems to favor and put forward a version of Christianity we today refer to as Christian Nationalist. Though I do not identify today as Christian, I respect the Christian church I was raised in and am grateful I was never taught that I am a sinner while emphasizing that the Christ taught unconditional love. A podcast I listened to, which was an interview with the leader of the church Hegseth affiliates with, in very plain language told the Jewish podcaster Jews are not welcome in our government and leadership positions. More "anti-Christian" speech has been labeled terrorist behavior. POTUS embracing and promoting the seeking out and possibly detainment of Americans who share ideas labeled by our government as "politically incorrect" is particularly worrisome. We are not moving forward and ahead in our understanding to the best of our spiritual teachings. This looks like consciousness in retrograde to me and it seems to celebrate the behavior you describe.
Julie I am constantly frustrated by people who say we need to do this, we need to do that, and the consciousness of the human race needs to grow.
I need a new body and a billion dollars.
We deal with the cards we are dealt. There has been no change in the human condition, it's way of thinking, it';s fears, it's needs, since we lived in a cave or on a savannah.
The only difference is technological advancement.our fears and needs our wants are more complex, as our means of fulfilling them.
We are the same people that burned witches, only now we burn Jews, oh that is past tense, now we burn immigrants and trans.
We are the same people that cheered and jeered as men fought each other in the coliseum, , only we are more "civilized"and do it in stadiums, and smarter as well. Coliseum fights were free, now they are a huge source of profit.
We really don't know what the early version of what we cal Christianity was.
It was a heretical Jewish sect, and only became a religion because of Constantine.
As to what it believed and practiced, we don't know, as the thing we call the New Testament has been scrubbed, translated, mistranslated, interpolated, time and again,from Aaramic and Greek to Latin, then French, Spanish, German and English.
The Bible is full of contradictions and horrors, and in case you think that this Jesus did not do away with the old testament. In fact he said: "Do not think I have come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it". The law is Leviticus. 613 of them.
You can find anything in the New Testament, not to mention the old testament, to justify any behavior or need.
I would like to think that we can evolve, but there is no historical evidence for it.
This ain't no Christian nation. Nor has it ever been one. If one is working in opposition to Jesus's teachings there is no basis for calling oneself, let alone a country, Christian. Something about "Do unto others... "
Then there's Gandhi's quote “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
That goes back to my great-grandfather's generation. He designed much of the hardware for the America's Cup yachts but spent most of his career working in mechanical engineering and chemistry. It was his brothers who designed, built and raced the boats themselves. There was also L. Francis, who was a well-known designer, and more recently Halsey, who also designed yachts and crewed America's Cup yachts. Where did you come across them?
L Francis was impressive but unfortunately the closest I ever came to him was being invited on board an H-28 (though I have what may have been crypto memory of the Ticonderoga, a 72' ketch). If you have nothing else to do, check out his father, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff.
The Framers specifically rejected the Christian nation notion. We need to thoroughly educate our youth on the topic of our Constitution and the founding of our nation.
Conservatives can't stand their own fear, so it comes out as hate. Their fear comes from what they don't understand, which is anything and anyone that is outside their common experience. Not only do they fear what they don't know, but they don't want to ever know it. Thus, they are immune to reason and resistant to compromise. Eventually, through continual exposure to the people they fear, they can accommodate, if not entirely accept, those people. But any bigoted firebrand can lead them to revert to their original state of hate.
I say "conservatives" because this is an emotional process that precedes MAGA by a few thousand years. Maybe even better would be to call them "preservatives" as in preserving their race, culture, or power from having to be diverse, equal, or inclusive.
"We have to call this what it is: cultural — and sometimes physical — genocide by design."
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It's amazing to me that there is such a resistance to admit this, as the war on American cities got to this point, with almost a half a century of "Culture War" rhetoric and militarization, and the media who reported all of it still acts surprised.
Of all the cultures in America, we must continue to pretend that the one using this tactic is the one "under attack." While the most diverse communities are prowled by heavily armed, violent masked men in unmarked cars, terrifying their citizens.
Excellent comment, Jed. They told us what they were going to do---we should have known HOW these psychos were going to do it.
The actual cosplay involved, the hiding, the gear, and the numbers (money & people) is astounding.
It makes me admire the Resistance even more. Recording, shouting, whistles,, blocking, mocking and demonstrations are working. Not so easy to recruit, with the shaming.
Trump and the Republicans and conservatives now have custom built "quick reaction groups," specifically for military occupation and pacification of the cities they are intentionally attempting to incite violent riots in, by doing the most outrageous and terror inspiring actions... By anonymous masked invaders.
The effects these masked raiders have on our communities is intolerable, and the remedies will probably excuse military invasion.
There is nothing these communities can do about it, except what they are doing, and these groups are now saying they can't even do that.
But the culture doing it... They just continue their victimology fueled culture wars.
While one could call these policies that are biased against racial and other social subgroups as genocide, I think that their real purpose today is to build political influence based on people's ignorance and insecurities using notions of sin, evil, and appearance to amplify distinctions between party candidates. Ronald Reagan's own son was gay, while the president widely condemned it as a perversion/sin accepted by liberals.
Many people today still view gender dysphoria and homosexuality as sins, and therefore, their evil is a matter of choice. It says so right there in the Old Testament - sorta. Also, the few mentions in the NT were written 2,000+ years ago. Those texts have been retranslated dozens of times as they were written down in different languages by somebody - often monks - who might take liberties with the text they were drafting before Gutenberg came along.
Most people in the times of the Apostles were ignorant shepherds, farmers, and craftsmen. Even today, most college graduates are ignorant of modern genomics. The global Mapping the Human Genome project only reported out in 2003!
Modern biological and medical researchers are producing evidence that gender dysphoria and homosexuality are birth anomalies like Stephen Colbert's one ear that sticks out, or Barbara Streisand's big nose. There has always been physical evidence that transgender is real. Aside from the occasional hermaphrodite born with both male and femail genitalia, there have been reports in peer-reviewed medical journals by surgeons who have discovered anomalies like a partially-formed womb while removing an abdominal tumor on a male adult patient.
Today, we have a president and a Supreme Court who are clueless about modern science. They still assert that "legal gender" is determined by the presence or absence of a penis and scrotum at birth - period. Of course, many birth anomalies are covert and not overt. In most cases, gender identity confusion is due to hormonal or neurotransmitter malfunctions. That is why there are medical protocols for treating gender dysphoria. There is also evidence that some people "grow out of" these covert conditions after puberty. That is why most sex-change operations are delayed until adulthood. But, hey, widespread ignorance is free for exploitation by power-hungry politicians
Their conservative brains have something to do with genetics as well. Everything is cut and dry, black and white to them. They don't do nuance. They make fast decisions based on their "gut" feelings. There is poor communication between their "fight or flight" and judgement systems.
We are supposed to leave them alone to be who they are, and we would, but they seem incapable of doing the same for others.
Step back, allow for a moment, yourself to disassociate with any identity even as a homo sapiens sapiens.
Assume that you are an observer on a UAP, looking down at the planet as if you were on a safari. Besides being amused at the antics of the hominids that populate. you see the earth as a living creature, Gaia.
And the hominids crawling on Gaia’s head as a pest, a constantly and geometrically multiplying.
In the meanwhile, torturing and murdering each other in the name of silly ideologies, and in a constant scrabble and conflict for resources (like money) and thus social status.
Gaia is not defenseless against this scourge of two legged lice, that are constantly digging into her scalp, and causing open sores.
She first created bacteria, like yersina pestis (black plague) but it didn’t do it’s job, then small pox, that too didn’t do it’s job, the lice built up an immunity or invented serums that would inoculate, now she has moved on to viruses which are not alive as we define it, but none the less replicate and mutate, but even that doesn’t do the job.
Gaia’s hail Mary pass, is that the lice are committing slow motion suicide, by befouling the environment in which they live
That which started out as a turtle crawl, has morphed into a greyhounds run
The only question now is how much more time, do we have to enjoy this safari.?
When the evangelically raised Angie on IHIP talks about religion in the Heartland, she always mentions the problem is they think they are better than everyone.
And even worse is, too many of them act out that degeneracy on small children and youths.
Have they no decency....
Representative Pelosi just wrote that "America is great when America is good". She's not the first to say it, but she sure said it at the most relevant time.
The cruelty of the AIDS policies made me think about Dr. Fauci who became a real hero and saved so many lives after being vilified at the beginning of the outbreak.
Stephen Miller said at a recent funeral "We are the storm!" echoing Joseph Goebbels' speech, The Storm Is Coming. It too was all about how Aryan men were being "robbed". Filth and lies.
If we are to regain some of our decency, it has to come from holding our Nazis accountable and prosecuting them when it is possible. Thanks for the history, Thom. See you in the streets.
I've been sayin' that if the Nazi party is illegal in Deutschland, it should be illegal here, too.
And anyone who legitimizes proposals of exermination for any group should be sanctioned.
Thanks Daniel. Bob Dylan sang, the executioners face is always well hidden.
Thanks Alis. I suspect the only way for this country to reverse course is for white people to feel personal financial pain. Pain at the grocery store, healthcare exchange, paying their utility bills and kids tuition. Sadly maybe a recession is necessary to vote the Nazi's out.
We've had a "rolling recession" as long as I can remember. Location, location.
IMHO we won the vote but wuz screwed. Psy ops. Did Trump admit that Musk stole Pennsylvania?
Voter preclusion should be illegal. Voter intimidation is a state crime, but if based on race or national irigen could also be a civil rights violation.
Think you are right in case of the ones dozing, G2. They need to be told over and over NONE OF THIS HAD TO HAPPEN.
Shock and awe---that's the Republicans' rotten specialty.
On the money, Mr. Hartmann. The nation is "Race Sick"
[Likely, it's a reaction to White men's peen size. Maybe it does matter, after all?]
And don't forget ripping out Black women's reproductive organs. To wit:
A "Mississippi appendectomy" is a euphemism for the unbidden, unapproved, often coerced sterilization of Black women in the United States, especially in the South, from the 1920s through the 1980s. It refers to a procedure falsely presented as an appendectomy, but was actually a hysterectomy or tubal ligation performed without informed consent.
Targeted population: Primarily poor Black women, especially in Mississippi and other Southern states.
No consent: These procedures were often performed without the patient’s knowledge or consent, sometimes while the patient was under anesthesia for unrelated surgeries.
Rooted in eugenics: The practice was part of a broader eugenics movement aimed at controlling the reproduction of people deemed "undesirable" by the state.
Many victims suffered lifelong physical and emotional consequences, and the practice contributed to deep mistrust of the medical system among Black communities.
Race Sick.
Thank you Thom! We need to see more and more examples of these atrocities
...and too many people believe Fox News speaks only the truth - they give examples that are true much less than 45% of the time....
Another similar problem:
I asked the following question on Google: Do AI assistants misprepresent news 45%.
The answer was: "Yes, a recent study found that 45% of AI assistant responses to news-related queries contained at least one significant issue, including misrepresentation, serious sourcing problems, and major accuracy issues. The study, involving public service broadcasters in 18 countries, highlighted that these errors are systemic and occur across different languages and AI platforms. "
CORRECT!!!
1. We need a big tent. "Democrats Won Big Because They Won Over Trump Supporters"
It wasn’t just about superior turnout. Party switchers played a significant role in Virginia and New Jersey. By Nate Cohn, NYT.
2. Many Congressional Republicans privately admit Trump is nuts.
I keep posting. According to Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) Trumpepstein may cause an "Epstein bomb" causing over 100 Republican members to "jailbreak" from Trump.
Massive Congressional visits November 18.
https://www.instagram.com/flare.usa/p/DP_mdOyjdiG/
Visit CongressionalRepublicans.
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/851451/
I think that if we play our cards right, many can be convinced by the election outcome to come forward.
trump is the leader of a cult, the cult was always there, he just gave it voice, and it is about 40% of the population. The elections in NY, NJ, and VA reflected that fact,.
Muslims aren't going to convert to Judaism. MAGAts aren't going to become "woke"
There were demographics, like young men, especially black and Hispanic, and also Muslims, who did vote for Trump in the last election, but have since had a taste of what they voted for, but they aren't really Republicans.
MAGA is an identity, Republican is an identity, Democrat is an identity, people just don't switch identities
I doubt seriously, that Republicans jumped ship last Tuesday, the undecided, independent vote is larger than acknowledged.
Beware of big tents, they get too big and the next thing you know, those whom were outside the tent, and outside the moat, are no inside the tent and controlling the center ring.
This happened when the Democratic Leadership Council/New Democrats took control of the party in Clinton's time, it stopped being the party of the people and became the party of the plutocrats.
We don't want MAGAts inside the tent, do we?
Actually, WE ACCEPT CONVERTS You are an example of one...
We don't need them to convert,. just stop this bullshit.
Acceepting converts is not the issue Daniel. I converted not because of words, ads, propaganda but a life altering experience.
MAGAts aren't going to convert. I was not a hide bound ideologue, like MAGAts. I was a run of the mill conservative.
The Republican party is no longer the Republican party it is the party of Trump, MAGAts.
Look at every election, there is a hard core of 40%, at least,and that 40% is MAGA. NYC is no different. MAGA knew that Silwa had no chance, but followed Trump's endorsement and voted for Cuomo.
What I am saying is don't waste your time and money trying to convert Muslims into Jews, which is what you are doing.
Old guard Republicans, are now Never Trumpers and Independents and will again be Republican/Libertarians. , if America doesn't slide into a full blown dictatorship.
Here is the real enemy, peddling forlorn hope, lulling people into believing that all we have to do is find some legal ruse, reason, excuse and convert true believers.
Here is a fact that you and those like you don't want to deal with, that at least 40% of the population is lost and gone forever, they belong to a cult, that cult is part of their identity, and if belonging to the cult means physical disadvantage, it is worth it to see their hated enemy skewered and crying. Nothing is more satisfying to them than owning the lib.
You are not going to convert them Daniel..
What will it take to convert you to a Muslim, a Jihadi, a MAGAt?
Answer me that and you find an answer to converting Trump humpers.
Apparenty you have NO FUCKING IDEA.
I asked you to find an answer to converting Trump humpers and you respond "Apparently you have no fucking idea".
You are correct I don't have a fucking idea how to convert Trump Humpers, but apparently you do, since you mentioned that Republicans voted Democrat on NOv 4th, I would like to know how you know it, as I have not seen any stats, but you brought up the subject, I asked you how, and you tried to throw it back on me. How very Marco Rubio of you.
Every empire perfects its cruelty and then writes hymns about its mercy.
America keeps finding new names for the same sickness, calling it order, purity, or deterrence. Each one a sermon to help monsters sleep well.
The machinery of suffering will not stop until enough of us refuse to oil it with silence.
IMHO 5-6 House Republicans is all we need to get the ball rolling.
When Hitler ran for President in the spring of 1932, receiving 36.8% of the vote in the run-off election against the incumbent Paul von Hindenburg, who won with 53%.
In the Russian October Revolution, when the Bolsheviks seized power, their support was significant in key areas but did not constitute a national majority. In the November 1917 Constituent Assembly elections, the Bolsheviks received about 24% of the total national vote.
Historians estimate that public support for the American Revolution among the colonists varied, with approximately 40 to 45 percent of the white population
Hope Hope Hope for us to speak up!
This is the tragedy of our country. Unfortunately the darkness of the human heart will rear its ugly head if allowed to do so. The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 are case in point. It breaks my heart. But I will never cease fighting against it.
You know, every time I read or listen to these stories, I want to go to war against these storm troopers. It makes me mad that I, as someone who served my country for over two decades, have to bear witness to the same cruelties that I was sent to other countries to quell. But people keep telling me that I can't physically stop these troops, or shoot an RPG at one of their vehicles because it's against the law. Yet, they get to push people to the ground, sometimes breaking bones, kidnap people, undocumented and citizens alike, and shoot into cars for little to no reason anyone can fathom, and they're allowed to do that with little recourse. How is that right in anyone's book?
What is it going to take to stop this madness? Do we have to go to war on the streets of the United States against storm troopers who are already using combat tactics on unarmed civilians?
We condemn the cruelties in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan by giving arms and bombing rebels in Sudan. Why aren't we doing something like that here at home? This is no different than trying to stop the Azimov Brigades and ISIS, and any of the other terrorists I spent a good part of my adult life fighting against.
We need more than outrage in the independent news cycles. Words and strongly worded letters aren't getting the job done. There's no reason why ordinary people should be afraid of this. Fight fire with fire. Maybe kidnap a few storm troopers and put them in concentration camps? Bury a few of their heads in the pavement and 'accidently ' break some bones? I'm just thinking out loud but I can't be the only one with these thoughts.
There are other ways to go to war besides resorting to violence. Were it to devolve to a shooting war not only would we not stand a chance of winning but Trump would use it as the excuse to impose martial law.
Don't I know it. As I said, I was just thinking out loud. Violence should always be the last resort but things are getting bad. A judge in Chicago is starting to take the ICE commander to task finally. I hope she can make things stick so the thought of violence remains just a thought. I have been in violent situations when I was in the military and it's never like the movies, so I don't use those words lightly. But, due to my background, my thoughts are all over this. Here's to the civilians taking care of business so the warriors don't have to step in.
Democracy can't be a spectator sport. If it isn't driven by civilians we've already lost.
Yep, I'm all about that 'We the people' thing. I do what I can from where I am and push a little to get others to do the same. I'm trying to be patient but when I see video of a 67 year old white man with his face in the pavement and learn that they broke six of his ribs by kneeling on him, just for exercising his first amendment rights, I get a little upset. Especially when he's not the only one they have hurt for literally nothing other than some verbiage they didn't like. I never liked bullies.
It's hard to have positive thoughts about bullies, no matter how kozmic I might be at the moment. One of the greatest errors I see arising out of all of this is the readiness people and institutions have acquiesced to power. Once you start bowing to it the more it will demand of you, and the harder it will be to stop surrendering ground, until there is nothing left. Dark times indeed.
Indeed. I try to be optimistic most times but this is starting to get to me a little. I don't want the U.S. to end up looking like Tajikistan or some other 'Stan country I've been to where the oligarchs and warlords own everything and the rest of us are scraping by just barely. I've been there in the dirt poor category and it's not a good place to be. Food insecurity is no joke. Worrying about whether your neighbor, whom you barely speak to, will rat on you to a government official for a few extra coins to buy some bread with is stressful. That's what Afghanistan and Israel were like when I was there years ago. We're nearly there here.
What do you mean the Azov brigades. It is not the Azov brigades that are committing war crimes and terrorism in Ukraine, they in fact are fighting the Orcs that are committing acts of terror, slaughtering civilians, including children raping women. (Orcs are what the Ukrainians call the invaders) for instance the Bucha massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre
You mean "Azov."?
Yeah, them guys. The wannabe Nazis with the swastika tatts and other memorabilia.
These are facts I didn't learn in school or college. Unfortunately, I had to see it up front and personal when Reagan in the White House. These practices are disgusting and inhumane.
"From eugenics and AIDS denial to border kidnappings, the same cold logic endures: if the victims suffer enough, the powerful can call it order….."
I don't know whether MAGAs realize that MANY of THEM are in targeted groups. Approximately 15% of the general population falls within the low IQ strata, people who could not for example pass the AFQT, the Armed Forces Qualifying Test or are funcionally illiterate and presumably can't perform competitive work.
These are "takers" not "makers" to the overdogs. Many, if not most are WASPS.
I once worked for SSA, which had stats on the disabled population, especially those who met or equalled the mental listings of impairments based on retardation. 12.05 Intellectual Disability: Intellectual disability refers to significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive functioning initially manifested during the developmental period; i.e., the evidence demonstrates or supports onset of the impairment before age 22.
The required level of severity for this disorder is met when the requirements in A, B, C, or D are satisfied.
A. Mental incapacity evidenced by dependence upon others for personal needs (e.g., toileting, eating, dressing, or bathing) and inability to follow directions, such that the use of standardized measures of intellectual functioning is precluded;
B. A valid verbal, performance, or full scale IQ of 59 or less;
OR
C. A valid verbal, performance, or full scale IQ of 60 through 70 and a physical or other mental impairment imposing an additional and significant work-related limitation of function ;
OR
D. A valid verbal, performance, or full scale IQ of 60 through 70, resulting in two of the following:
1. Marked restriction of activities of daily living; or
2. Marked difficulties in maintaining social functioning; or
3. Marked difficulties in maintaining concentration, persistence, or pace; or
4. Repeated episodes of decompensation, each of extended duration.
There is an equivalent listing for kids.
SSA has stats that show high rates in certain parts of the country. Most are Republican districts.
So...if victims of HIV were morally defective, what about people who meet the criteria as "retards"?
Ya, Daniel, they brought that word back too. TRump and Kid Rock should look in the mirror on that one.
The politically correct social movement, has a lot to do with the creation of MAGA.
Unable to vent their spleen in public, they stuffed and seethed, The frustration and anger boiling up, until a savior stepped forward and gave them license to be "all they are"
Meanwhile blacks were calling each other nigger, and gays were calling each other queers and Joe the redneck racist plumber was seething because if he could use the words he was chastised and ostracized.
It is disgusting and horrible that we scapegoat and refer to each other in demeaning terms, but the practice is as old as humanity itself. And restricting speech, even socially, exacerbates the problem.
Many native American tribes refered to themselves as the people such as the Navajo, who call themselves Dine, which means the people, and they referred to the people in the Chaco Canyon region, as Ancient Enemy or Anasazi.
If you consider your tribe people, then those outside the tribe are not people.
Even name calling starts in kindergarten if not before.
I don't have a solution, because this need to otherise, to scapegoat, to minimize is not a problem, because problems have solutions, it is a difficulty and a difficulty can only be ameliorated, it's harmful effects minimized, compensated for.
We've come a long way in my lifetime.
They used to say you can't legislate morality, but that's what we did.
How have we legislated morality? Laws have been passed since Hammurabi, restricting activities that he felt were immoral.
But how has morality been legislated?
We had a civil rights revoution beginning in 1964. Voting rights. Employment rights. Women's rights. Etc. All due to legislation.
That wasn't morality being legislated Daniel. Those folk being enfranchised, still had their own personal sense of morality.
Rest assure there were and still are, (like Clarence Thomas) who gained their rights, who would deny others their rights because of their personal sense of morality.
I think this is about consciousness. The consciousness of the human race needs to grow, expand, etc. It cannot be forced. I watch and note that Project 2025 and MAGA seems to favor and put forward a version of Christianity we today refer to as Christian Nationalist. Though I do not identify today as Christian, I respect the Christian church I was raised in and am grateful I was never taught that I am a sinner while emphasizing that the Christ taught unconditional love. A podcast I listened to, which was an interview with the leader of the church Hegseth affiliates with, in very plain language told the Jewish podcaster Jews are not welcome in our government and leadership positions. More "anti-Christian" speech has been labeled terrorist behavior. POTUS embracing and promoting the seeking out and possibly detainment of Americans who share ideas labeled by our government as "politically incorrect" is particularly worrisome. We are not moving forward and ahead in our understanding to the best of our spiritual teachings. This looks like consciousness in retrograde to me and it seems to celebrate the behavior you describe.
Julie I am constantly frustrated by people who say we need to do this, we need to do that, and the consciousness of the human race needs to grow.
I need a new body and a billion dollars.
We deal with the cards we are dealt. There has been no change in the human condition, it's way of thinking, it';s fears, it's needs, since we lived in a cave or on a savannah.
The only difference is technological advancement.our fears and needs our wants are more complex, as our means of fulfilling them.
We are the same people that burned witches, only now we burn Jews, oh that is past tense, now we burn immigrants and trans.
We are the same people that cheered and jeered as men fought each other in the coliseum, , only we are more "civilized"and do it in stadiums, and smarter as well. Coliseum fights were free, now they are a huge source of profit.
We really don't know what the early version of what we cal Christianity was.
It was a heretical Jewish sect, and only became a religion because of Constantine.
As to what it believed and practiced, we don't know, as the thing we call the New Testament has been scrubbed, translated, mistranslated, interpolated, time and again,from Aaramic and Greek to Latin, then French, Spanish, German and English.
The Bible is full of contradictions and horrors, and in case you think that this Jesus did not do away with the old testament. In fact he said: "Do not think I have come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it". The law is Leviticus. 613 of them.
You can find anything in the New Testament, not to mention the old testament, to justify any behavior or need.
I would like to think that we can evolve, but there is no historical evidence for it.
Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure they would like what they saw. Assuming, of course, that the mirror didn't break from the horror of it all.
You’d think none of this could occur in a Christian nation. You’d be wrong.
This ain't no Christian nation. Nor has it ever been one. If one is working in opposition to Jesus's teachings there is no basis for calling oneself, let alone a country, Christian. Something about "Do unto others... "
Then there's Gandhi's quote “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
Oh, I know - I just like poking fun at the allegation. And I agree with Mahatma. (Do you, perchance) design sailing vessels?)
That goes back to my great-grandfather's generation. He designed much of the hardware for the America's Cup yachts but spent most of his career working in mechanical engineering and chemistry. It was his brothers who designed, built and raced the boats themselves. There was also L. Francis, who was a well-known designer, and more recently Halsey, who also designed yachts and crewed America's Cup yachts. Where did you come across them?
It was L.F.H. I was most aware of, through a general interest in classic boats. I have his book “The Complete Cruiser”. A most influential fellow.
L Francis was impressive but unfortunately the closest I ever came to him was being invited on board an H-28 (though I have what may have been crypto memory of the Ticonderoga, a 72' ketch). If you have nothing else to do, check out his father, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff.
The Framers specifically rejected the Christian nation notion. We need to thoroughly educate our youth on the topic of our Constitution and the founding of our nation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8-I2nK0qRQ
An Accidental Empire
Part I: The Gasp
We will gasp until we are given
breath. Not money, but dignity.
America is not silent. It is gasping.
Not for spectacle, not for slogans—but for air that
feeds equality. For the breath of dignity. For the quiet assurance that one’s
life matters beyond its market value.
This gasp is not accidental. It is the ritual sound of
a people deprived of measure—not of wealth, but of worth. We have been taught
to equate dignity with dollars, and in doing so, we have flattened the soul of
the republic. The metric replaced the meaning. The market replaced the mirror.
Woodrow Wilson, the intellectual president, lit the
fire—not with the CPI of inflation, but with the Committee on Public
Information. It was the first national myth machine, designed to sell a war but
ended up selling a worldview. From Washington to Madison Avenue, the spell of
persuasion became the gospel of consumption. Marketing was born—not as
persuasion, but as cultural architecture. It became more powerful than
government, more enduring than law. It sold not just products, but identity. It
shaped not just desire, but the very conditions of dreaming.
We became a people who inhale metrics and exhale
performance.
We do not
live—we simulate value. We do not vote—we consume democracy. We do not
breathe—we gasp.
This is not anarchy. It is ritual disaffiliation. A
slow forgetting of the covenant. A flattening of minds, as Masha Gessen warns,
where imagination is not suppressed—it is erased. Not by terror, but by trivia.
Not by censorship, but by saturation.
And yet, the gasp remains. It is the sound of lost
meaning. The ember that holds the flame to come.
Conservatives can't stand their own fear, so it comes out as hate. Their fear comes from what they don't understand, which is anything and anyone that is outside their common experience. Not only do they fear what they don't know, but they don't want to ever know it. Thus, they are immune to reason and resistant to compromise. Eventually, through continual exposure to the people they fear, they can accommodate, if not entirely accept, those people. But any bigoted firebrand can lead them to revert to their original state of hate.
Not "Conservatives." MAGA.
Yeh, but MAGA is just an expression of conservatism
Wiilliam F. Buckley, Jr, a racist and antisemite, is as much a godfather of MAGA as Reagan and George Wallace.
I say "conservatives" because this is an emotional process that precedes MAGA by a few thousand years. Maybe even better would be to call them "preservatives" as in preserving their race, culture, or power from having to be diverse, equal, or inclusive.
How about "reactionaries"? Ovedrdogs? "Pigs?"
I thought about "reactionaries", but "conservatives" is more familiar to people nowadays.
That's absolutely the process, Jeffrey, and it is how their brains work. Well done.
"We have to call this what it is: cultural — and sometimes physical — genocide by design."
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It's amazing to me that there is such a resistance to admit this, as the war on American cities got to this point, with almost a half a century of "Culture War" rhetoric and militarization, and the media who reported all of it still acts surprised.
Of all the cultures in America, we must continue to pretend that the one using this tactic is the one "under attack." While the most diverse communities are prowled by heavily armed, violent masked men in unmarked cars, terrifying their citizens.
Excellent comment, Jed. They told us what they were going to do---we should have known HOW these psychos were going to do it.
The actual cosplay involved, the hiding, the gear, and the numbers (money & people) is astounding.
It makes me admire the Resistance even more. Recording, shouting, whistles,, blocking, mocking and demonstrations are working. Not so easy to recruit, with the shaming.
Thank you, alis.
It is infuriating to watch.
Trump and the Republicans and conservatives now have custom built "quick reaction groups," specifically for military occupation and pacification of the cities they are intentionally attempting to incite violent riots in, by doing the most outrageous and terror inspiring actions... By anonymous masked invaders.
The effects these masked raiders have on our communities is intolerable, and the remedies will probably excuse military invasion.
There is nothing these communities can do about it, except what they are doing, and these groups are now saying they can't even do that.
But the culture doing it... They just continue their victimology fueled culture wars.
While one could call these policies that are biased against racial and other social subgroups as genocide, I think that their real purpose today is to build political influence based on people's ignorance and insecurities using notions of sin, evil, and appearance to amplify distinctions between party candidates. Ronald Reagan's own son was gay, while the president widely condemned it as a perversion/sin accepted by liberals.
Many people today still view gender dysphoria and homosexuality as sins, and therefore, their evil is a matter of choice. It says so right there in the Old Testament - sorta. Also, the few mentions in the NT were written 2,000+ years ago. Those texts have been retranslated dozens of times as they were written down in different languages by somebody - often monks - who might take liberties with the text they were drafting before Gutenberg came along.
Most people in the times of the Apostles were ignorant shepherds, farmers, and craftsmen. Even today, most college graduates are ignorant of modern genomics. The global Mapping the Human Genome project only reported out in 2003!
Modern biological and medical researchers are producing evidence that gender dysphoria and homosexuality are birth anomalies like Stephen Colbert's one ear that sticks out, or Barbara Streisand's big nose. There has always been physical evidence that transgender is real. Aside from the occasional hermaphrodite born with both male and femail genitalia, there have been reports in peer-reviewed medical journals by surgeons who have discovered anomalies like a partially-formed womb while removing an abdominal tumor on a male adult patient.
Today, we have a president and a Supreme Court who are clueless about modern science. They still assert that "legal gender" is determined by the presence or absence of a penis and scrotum at birth - period. Of course, many birth anomalies are covert and not overt. In most cases, gender identity confusion is due to hormonal or neurotransmitter malfunctions. That is why there are medical protocols for treating gender dysphoria. There is also evidence that some people "grow out of" these covert conditions after puberty. That is why most sex-change operations are delayed until adulthood. But, hey, widespread ignorance is free for exploitation by power-hungry politicians
Perfect, Tom.
Their conservative brains have something to do with genetics as well. Everything is cut and dry, black and white to them. They don't do nuance. They make fast decisions based on their "gut" feelings. There is poor communication between their "fight or flight" and judgement systems.
We are supposed to leave them alone to be who they are, and we would, but they seem incapable of doing the same for others.
Step back, allow for a moment, yourself to disassociate with any identity even as a homo sapiens sapiens.
Assume that you are an observer on a UAP, looking down at the planet as if you were on a safari. Besides being amused at the antics of the hominids that populate. you see the earth as a living creature, Gaia.
And the hominids crawling on Gaia’s head as a pest, a constantly and geometrically multiplying.
In the meanwhile, torturing and murdering each other in the name of silly ideologies, and in a constant scrabble and conflict for resources (like money) and thus social status.
Gaia is not defenseless against this scourge of two legged lice, that are constantly digging into her scalp, and causing open sores.
She first created bacteria, like yersina pestis (black plague) but it didn’t do it’s job, then small pox, that too didn’t do it’s job, the lice built up an immunity or invented serums that would inoculate, now she has moved on to viruses which are not alive as we define it, but none the less replicate and mutate, but even that doesn’t do the job.
Gaia’s hail Mary pass, is that the lice are committing slow motion suicide, by befouling the environment in which they live
That which started out as a turtle crawl, has morphed into a greyhounds run
The only question now is how much more time, do we have to enjoy this safari.?
Can a citizen's arrest be made of Clarence Thomas because of color? Does Kavanaugh say this is OK?
I just ask that some party to a SCOTUS case file recusal motions.
People who think they are superior to others are in their own souls pathetically degenerate.
When the evangelically raised Angie on IHIP talks about religion in the Heartland, she always mentions the problem is they think they are better than everyone.
And even worse is, too many of them act out that degeneracy on small children and youths.
You nailed it in a sentence, Jean.