Friday May 29th I watched Katy Tur as "liberal" guest on Bill Maher, sitting next to her was Kevin McCarthy former speaker of the house.
Kevin,l as is custom for right wingers,filibustered and dominated the conversation, spouting bullshit rationalizations, Katy as is typical for liberals sat there like a deer in the headlights.. This goes on every week, with right wing filibuster and liberal guests being run over.
What's with the liberal mentality? No wonder we are in deep shit., If you can't fight, you are going to get your ass whipped.
There are liberals who don't shrink from the fight, like Mike Nellis, Cenk Uygur, Stephanie Miller, etc. etc. but Maher doesn't put them on any more--Since Covid forced him out of his studio, he's become a libertarian jerkwad.
Nellis, Uygur, Miller are not politicians, nor are they on MSNOW or any corporate media.
Maher is a typical libertarian, narcissist, and selfish. He is really no different than Trump.
COVID cost him the weekly adulation he sorely needs, as did masking. it also cost him money..
He has one obsession, which brings into question, his own personal life. Trans, in particular transwomen. Hardly a week goes by when he doesn't have something to say about transwomen. in fact right wing guests know how to push his button, in their favor.
Brings to mind Shakespeare,"the lady doth protest too much", could it be because his girlfriend Ann Coulter has an Adam's Apple. I've read that Ann was originally Alan, and is now a vehement transphobe,.
Reminds me of al of the vehement homophobes, that were subsequently outed ad being gay, like that Senator from Idaho, Larry Craig, claimed he wasn't gay because he didn't suck, only was sucked.
It’s a long story of Americans adoring the “life-styles of the rich and famous!”
While YOU were reading People Magazine, flirting with fascism and voting for hate, the “rich and famous” Epstein Class of billionaires were UP TO NO GOOD doing the following:
raping your daughters;
giving up secrets to foreign adversaries (blackmail);
Bunkers for billionaires deserves maximum exposure, but is getting none. Zuckerberg is building a luxury bunker in Hawaii. Medium.com (a paywall) has run articles on billionaire bunkers, nothing in Meidas, KOS or any other "liberal" pub or site.
America has clearly lost its way. We have been deteriorating for the last half-century. While we can point to the ideology of Republicans as consistent with the change, Democratic presidents have done little to turn things around. Citizens United should have been Obama's #1 priority. It wasn't. In my mind, the only thing that separates the two parties is that Democrats devote more time and energy to governing, whereas Republicans devote more time and energy to ruling. Ruling is so much easier and wealth-enhancing for the rulers.
Put differently, America today reflects a widespread moral failure, and too few people seem motivated to repent our sins of commission and omission, reform our ways, and restore our democracy. It sure seems like this November is where we either embrace fascism or restore democracy and bring this current regime to justice.
I'm glad to see Thom make this connection. Corporations are entities designed to take ever-greater profits at the expense of everything else, until the world and everything in it have been stripped of their value. They are like doomsday machines with no off switch.
But it should be noted that fascism and communism are not precise opposites; fascism is a racist political philosophy supporting imperial capitalism. Communism is an socialist economic philosophy supported by a dictatorship that could be fascist, but usually isn't.
Henry David Thoreau: “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”. Once again, Thom absolutely nails it. Too many politicians across the board knowingly and loudly take swings at the fringe results of the abuse du jour while steadfastly ignoring its cause. The root isn’t whatever “ism” has manifested, it’s concentrated wealth and the attendant concentration of power. Today’s wealthy powerful utterly own one major political party and utterly cow, and own, a huge proportion of the other. Bernie, AOC, Warren, and more, and a raft of new candidates, know better. They deserve our enthusiastic support. The corporate, AIPAC-owned others are an impediment we can’t afford or justify.
As for the Supreme Court, let's get rid of it. They will always have a bias, there is never any impartiality and giving nine unelected people that much power can only lead to ruin. Let lower court rulings stand. There are enough of them so that rulings are averaged out (hopefully).
Our Fascist Corporate Overlords "are" latter day King Leopold II's for whom we gather and extract the equivalents of rubber, palm oil, and ivory.
That is, until the robots come for our careers en mass, at which point we become expendable. That's why DT wants mail order guns, so we can take it out on one another.
Kinda makes us not unlike The Congo Free State in Conrad's time.
Could be we've never been better than a "Heart of Darkness."
The Republicans recognized a salient truth, one ignored by the Democrats. The ruth was voiced by LBJ . He described a political tactic used to distract the working class: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you".
It's just blacks, but as Trump has demonstrated, minorities of every class, religious, economic, social, sexual and immigrants.
The same ugly part of humanity that a certain little corporal with a toothbrush mustache use to rise to power.
That butt hole James Carville and mainstream Dmes, and many liberals as well, want us to belive that it is the economy stupid, while the Republicans press on with the culture war
In Texas thare is the Matthew 25 Christian, Talarico, running for Senate, he is being attacked from the right, by the likes of Stephen Miller, as a soy boy, and even transgendered, and sadly such attacks will work in Texas.
Texas runs on toxic masculinity, and it is not restricted to white men either, Latino's are very dominant in that sphere.
Friday May 29th I watched Katy Tur as "liberal" guest on Bill Maher, sitting next to her was Kevin McCarthy former speaker of the house.
Kevin,l as is custom for right wingers,filibustered and dominated the conversation, spouting bullshit rationalizations, Katy as is typical for liberals sat there like a deer in the headlights.. This goes on every week, with right wing filibuster and liberal guests being run over.
What's with the liberal mentality? No wonder we are in deep shit., If you can't fight, you are going to get your ass whipped.
There are liberals who don't shrink from the fight, like Mike Nellis, Cenk Uygur, Stephanie Miller, etc. etc. but Maher doesn't put them on any more--Since Covid forced him out of his studio, he's become a libertarian jerkwad.
Nellis, Uygur, Miller are not politicians, nor are they on MSNOW or any corporate media.
Maher is a typical libertarian, narcissist, and selfish. He is really no different than Trump.
COVID cost him the weekly adulation he sorely needs, as did masking. it also cost him money..
He has one obsession, which brings into question, his own personal life. Trans, in particular transwomen. Hardly a week goes by when he doesn't have something to say about transwomen. in fact right wing guests know how to push his button, in their favor.
Brings to mind Shakespeare,"the lady doth protest too much", could it be because his girlfriend Ann Coulter has an Adam's Apple. I've read that Ann was originally Alan, and is now a vehement transphobe,.
Reminds me of al of the vehement homophobes, that were subsequently outed ad being gay, like that Senator from Idaho, Larry Craig, claimed he wasn't gay because he didn't suck, only was sucked.
Like Bill Clinton's a blow job isn't sex.
Thank you, Thom, for remembering how we got here!
It’s a long story of Americans adoring the “life-styles of the rich and famous!”
While YOU were reading People Magazine, flirting with fascism and voting for hate, the “rich and famous” Epstein Class of billionaires were UP TO NO GOOD doing the following:
raping your daughters;
giving up secrets to foreign adversaries (blackmail);
stealing your future by moving jobs off-shore;
cheating on their taxes by
hiding their illicit money off-shore; and now
stealing your elections!
It’s too bad you were NOT paying attention then!
“Woke” is NOT the problem now!
Bunkers for billionaires deserves maximum exposure, but is getting none. Zuckerberg is building a luxury bunker in Hawaii. Medium.com (a paywall) has run articles on billionaire bunkers, nothing in Meidas, KOS or any other "liberal" pub or site.
America has clearly lost its way. We have been deteriorating for the last half-century. While we can point to the ideology of Republicans as consistent with the change, Democratic presidents have done little to turn things around. Citizens United should have been Obama's #1 priority. It wasn't. In my mind, the only thing that separates the two parties is that Democrats devote more time and energy to governing, whereas Republicans devote more time and energy to ruling. Ruling is so much easier and wealth-enhancing for the rulers.
Put differently, America today reflects a widespread moral failure, and too few people seem motivated to repent our sins of commission and omission, reform our ways, and restore our democracy. It sure seems like this November is where we either embrace fascism or restore democracy and bring this current regime to justice.
I'm glad to see Thom make this connection. Corporations are entities designed to take ever-greater profits at the expense of everything else, until the world and everything in it have been stripped of their value. They are like doomsday machines with no off switch.
But it should be noted that fascism and communism are not precise opposites; fascism is a racist political philosophy supporting imperial capitalism. Communism is an socialist economic philosophy supported by a dictatorship that could be fascist, but usually isn't.
Musk put the fix on changing votes and nothing is being done to stop it
Henry David Thoreau: “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”. Once again, Thom absolutely nails it. Too many politicians across the board knowingly and loudly take swings at the fringe results of the abuse du jour while steadfastly ignoring its cause. The root isn’t whatever “ism” has manifested, it’s concentrated wealth and the attendant concentration of power. Today’s wealthy powerful utterly own one major political party and utterly cow, and own, a huge proportion of the other. Bernie, AOC, Warren, and more, and a raft of new candidates, know better. They deserve our enthusiastic support. The corporate, AIPAC-owned others are an impediment we can’t afford or justify.
As for the Supreme Court, let's get rid of it. They will always have a bias, there is never any impartiality and giving nine unelected people that much power can only lead to ruin. Let lower court rulings stand. There are enough of them so that rulings are averaged out (hopefully).
Our Fascist Corporate Overlords "are" latter day King Leopold II's for whom we gather and extract the equivalents of rubber, palm oil, and ivory.
That is, until the robots come for our careers en mass, at which point we become expendable. That's why DT wants mail order guns, so we can take it out on one another.
Kinda makes us not unlike The Congo Free State in Conrad's time.
Could be we've never been better than a "Heart of Darkness."
#VOTE
The Republicans recognized a salient truth, one ignored by the Democrats. The ruth was voiced by LBJ . He described a political tactic used to distract the working class: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you".
It's just blacks, but as Trump has demonstrated, minorities of every class, religious, economic, social, sexual and immigrants.
The same ugly part of humanity that a certain little corporal with a toothbrush mustache use to rise to power.
That butt hole James Carville and mainstream Dmes, and many liberals as well, want us to belive that it is the economy stupid, while the Republicans press on with the culture war
In Texas thare is the Matthew 25 Christian, Talarico, running for Senate, he is being attacked from the right, by the likes of Stephen Miller, as a soy boy, and even transgendered, and sadly such attacks will work in Texas.
Texas runs on toxic masculinity, and it is not restricted to white men either, Latino's are very dominant in that sphere.