I had an exchange this week with the wife of an old Mennonite classmate of mine. In “mourning,” she forward of Jimmy Kimmel's election response loyal readers here may have seen. My response to her follows:
“…for journalism, for justice, for free speech”!? Ukraine and NATO somehow represent “truth, and Democracy and decency”?! NATO?!?!
Maybe Team Blue should have: 1) listened to the protesters regarding live-streamed genocide; 2) had an actual primary rather than pretend all was well with Biden; 3) once the in-house coup was done, held a contested convention instead of a Kamala coronation; 4) not embraced the Cheneys and other warmongering, security-state swamp creatures; 5) not put profits for the MIC and USA hubris over the lives of Ukrainians and Russians; and 6) put duct tape over Biden, Obama and the Clintons' big mouths.
No administration has done more to expose USA hypocrisy on human rights than Biden/Blinken. The global majority sees this plainly while Blue Team apologists (Heather Cox Richardson leading the pack) pretend they are human rights champions. As for climate change, just look at the destruction from the proxy war and the middle east wasteland. Our bombs and missiles. Optimism is not a strategy, nor, as is now proven, is running against someone rather than offering a clear and concise course of action. At least Jill Stein and Chase Oliver brought integrity to the race. Of course, neither was even given any serious reporting by our hallowed mainstream media.
I can't give Team Blue an ounce of sympathy. Full disclosure: I contend both corrupt, bought-and-paid-for parties are disgusting.
I agree with all of your elegantly expressed points on Team Blue and the Biden administration. I just wanted to add that the only pleasure I got from this election is voting for Jill Stein, who only received ~0.8% of the vote, alas; and schadenfreude at Kamala's loss..
I should add, they were among the super-giddy when Kamala was coronated. What surprised me was my classmate when we were freshmen in high school did a report on Ralph Nader. I'd never heard of him and thought over the decades how socially aware my classmate was and how clueless I was. When we visited a few years ago after not seeing each other in 40 years, I recalled how impressed I was and how it stuck with me. He didn't even remember giving such a report! :-)
Tom, Thanks for making the point about war and climate change. Almost no one talks about the impact of war on climate change, global warming, sea level rise, super hurricanes, forest fires and desertification, yet war is one of the greatest contributors to those problems.
Tom, my high school friends have been a huge disappointment. Back in the Vietnam War days I had the impression that all of our group was looking forward to better times to come with the departure of Nixon and then the Church Commission that revealed all the awful about the CIA. Wrong! All that my friends believe is that Trump is evil and they were more than happy to vote for a nobody because she isn't Trump. My conversations with them about the antithesis of liberty and justice for all and Zionism fell on deaf ears, all of them having a liking for Israel and discomfort with Arabs that wouldn't hear of voting for Stein. What gives me hope are my Jewish Voice for Peace friends who are and have been adamant anti-Zionists and true Americans all along. Otherwise, this could be a very lonely and depressing time. My sister and only sibling, married a rabid Zionist taking pleasure in the slaughter going on, so she has been lost to me.
Action, in my picketing, keeps me looking forward. I am damn proud of the American founding principles even if they have never been further from practice than now, so flagrantly violated by support for Israel, but holding those self evident truths close to my heart is invigorating. I makes me smile to think of how little I understood the Pledge of Allegiance when I was in grammar school but how deeply meaningful the words are now and the pleasure I find in literally standing up for them on the sidewalk.
I know how to use logic and the English language. To put this to use as the end of life approaches is gratifying because for the first time I am giving for my country in a very personal and powerful way that puts in the shade what has been a life of ease and plenty that never asked anything of me and about which I was thoughtless for so long. Though my lifelong friends are not with me, I say to myself that, yes, it is possible, if not common, that wisdom comes with age.
Clif, My closest Jewish friend spent many years working in the White Correspondence office--back when, according to her, every letter was answered. I guess its a blessing that she died before this horrific genocide started. She was an active protester of Zionism and war all her life. She would certainly be weeping and gnashing her teeth!
I didn't read the Nation article, but I probably could draft a pretty close translation of Walsh's writing on it. As a confirmed social identity liberal with no understanding of much less concern for actual justice in the world, she'll no doubt blame Harris' loss on her misfortune of having a uterus, i.e. on misogyny. From her privileged life among fellow upper-class liberals, she will be unable to understand at anything more than a superficial level, the frustrations of the significant part of the population who don't share her economic security, or of those who care about perpetual war, genocide, and the causes of global peace and justice.
I imagine in that regard, Walsh herself does represent a significant portion of that public who are mostly concerned about issues of the now-permanent culture war; who were solidly VBNMW and even more excited that in that process they could tick off two social identity boxes.
None of them, I fear, will be willing to sit quietly, do a bit of introspection and with it, look any more deeply at the likely reasons why Americans this time could not get motivated to vote in sufficient numbers for their identity-perfect, 'joyful' candidate. Maybe they should read someone other than Joan Walsh in the Nation.
Only one thing: neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party will never present the American people with "a truly deserving . . . candidate." That would be someone who would cut off the feeding at the trough, which is the only "interest" in which members of Congress, as well as the President and other government officials are interested in. As you see, I'm in full accord with TomG. Don't weep for Kamala Harris; she had nothing to offer except for not being Trump.
The Democrats continue their tone-deaf navel-gazing ways: blaming the voters as Joan Walsh did, and publicity-hungry Hollywood 'elite' all claiming they're leaving. As to the latter, please do. When you can make movies for adults again, you can come back.
Perhaps more than the sturm und drung of some over domestic politics, the bigger issue is what happens in the Mideast between now and January 20th. Larry Wilkerson (Colin Powell's Chief of Staff) expressed again - with Chris Hedges - that Netanyahu's goal is to draw the U.S. into a war with Iran. If that were to happen during the transition - no matter what Trump might or might not support - there's no way the U.S. could withdraw.
I just pray they go to Canada or some EU lap dog country. I don't want more Kamala mourners than we already have here in my adopted home of Ecuador! hahaha
I don't see how they solve the border problem without addressing the sanctions on countries like Venezuela. That's the biggest problem of illegals here in Ecuador. What good is it going to do to fly them back home only to come back out of desperation? Not that the door has to be wide open. There should be a legal process (better than we've had), but I don't see how it can function well when masses keep heading north--walls or no walls. Having lived near the border in Texas, it always seemed to me like we spent way to much time causing the problem and too much money addressing the symptoms after the fact.
Spending "way too much time causing the problem and too much money addressing the symptoms after the fact" is exactly what Governments do, isn't it TomG?
And not just on matters at the Border. But on Everything.
I have the same thought as I give a $20 now and then to the Venezuelan families begging at the entrance to the grocery store where I go. Can anyone believe that US sanctions have any real effect on the leadership in any sanctioned country? Can anyone belief that the US sanctions do not have an effect on the little people? So here those little people come and the response of some governors is to ship them north. It is cruelty that could not be more opposite to the words of Emma Lazarus on the Statue of Liberty.
Good point about having a War with Iran before January 20. Especially if Biden should suddenly have a stroke and Harris becomes Acting President. [Or if he dies and she becomes Actual President.]
In any event, if there IS War between the US/Israel and Iran, when Trump takes office, he will do exactly as he is instructed to do from the same Deep State that is instructing Biden on this ~ and all matters of critical significance ~ matter.
The same Deep State that instructed Trump when he was XLV; and before him Obama, Cheney/Bush II, Clinton, Bush I and Reagan, and Carter, and Beyond.
Brother West comes the closest to the insights the wisdoms of the Indigenous elders I have read over the decades. He never gets quite there but significantly close as close as the parameters of Western academic philosophy allows. Musk has contracts with the American military equipment being used in Ukraine. He may influence Trump to not do the one good thing we hoped for- end that war by making a deal with Putin. Under Trump you can expect deregulation- Lina Khan fired and mergers to go even more rampant-the concentration of wealth to acellerate. It may acellerate to the point where everybody is identifying concentration of wealth as the problem and stop identifying everything else as the problem. That in itself would be a good thing.
You can also expect a recession- every reputable economist I have read says that Trump's tariffs will cause serious harm. And his tax cuts won't help a huge deficit.
All true, but I think the unremarked bond market and the national debt are a combined extinction level event that likely will collapse the US economy. Add in the global derivatives market (at least 8X larger than the world bond market) and it'll be time to trade toilet paper and ammunition for food - if you already have either.
I went and looked to find the source material on the bond problem. Page 19 shows the graph of the maturity dates of the bonds coming due before 2029. This is from the audit of the Federal Debt. https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-25-107138.pdf
With the insights I gained from Jeffery Sachs and retired CIA agents... I would fear for Trumps life if he actually went after reducing NATO or tried to stop the wars in Ukraine. That particular concentration of wealth would do anything put a stop to reducing the industrial military war state.
Having said all that knowbody knows what Trump will actually do. He may not impose the tarrifs he promised, or anything he promised, after all he is an opportunist more than anything else. Ethics nor promises never have gotten in his way.
As i noted in an earlier comment about what Trump would do if War between the US/Israel and Iran started between now and January 20
If he wants to complete this term, Trump will do exactly as he is instructed to do from the same Deep State that is instructing Biden on this ~ and all matters of critical significance ~ matter.
The same Deep State that instructed Trump when he was XLV; and before him Obama, Cheney/Bush II, Clinton, Bush I and Reagan, and Carter, and Beyond.
My sense from merely observing the hectic world I see around me every day is that not only is a time of reckoning coming, but we are accelerating as we approach it. Trump's thinking global warming is a hoax and his intention of opening the spigots for fossil fuel only reinforce my thinking. This election had nothing to do with intelligence or reason. It was all emotion and for the foreseeable future emotion will rule at the very time we so desperately need reason and what would go with it, on both a government and individual level, restraint.
One good thing about this election is that there is no way to contest it, and no one is contesting it. Trump's win was so broad, so sweeping, and so extensive that it is impossible to blame it on Russia and China or anything else other than a complete repudiation of the policies of the Biden administration. Prior to the election Democrats were hesitant to criticize their own party. In view of the results it seems likely that some withheld their vote from Harris or even voted Trump, who knows. The vote was a total rejection of the existing foreign policy, economy, the hypocrisy, you name it. What a relief it's over. Now the hang-over. That will come when the new team has to confront the exact same problems as their predecessors, regardless of what Trump promised.
A redux of that old issue that we have exchanged comments on several times, eh Bill?
About what the American Peoples do and don't "deserve" when it comes to their politicians, their government, and the $1 = 1 Vote way of choosing those politicians to lead that government.
In any event, it will be very interesting to see if Trump has the balls to defy the MICIMATT and the rest of The Deep State, and end America's Proxy War with Russia in Ukraine.
He certainly did everything during his first term to virtually guarantee that Putin's "Special Military Operation" would happen.
And if he has any hope of living out this term, he will do exactly as instructed once again.
Ground work for the SMO started in 1993 when Talbot/Nuland went to Foggy Bottom and took up reneging on Baker's assurances NATO would not move east. It was furthered when Bush Jr (Cheney) stated Ukraine would be in NATO.
Most likely huge amounts of arms went to Ukraine from 2014, and Trump was impeached for trying to slow a tiny bit of one year flow!
I suspect had Hillary been president in 2017 the SMO would have been engaged in 2019.
As to Trump getting the SMO stopped, Putin's demands are comprehensive security east of the Elbe, what they were in Dec 2021, with a large part of Stalin's Ukraine back in Russia!
To do that Trump would not let Pompeo anywhere near the beltway.
You mentioned H. Clinton - Bubba should be mentioned too. His administration was the one that began the march of NATO to the east. Even with all the other damage he did; this one should not be forgotten.
Like i said: If Trump has any hope of living out this term, he will do exactly as instructed by his owners, operators, commanders, and controllers of the MICIMATT and Deep State once again.
That's how Biden survived his term [at least so far]. A lot could happen between now and January 20, 2025, eh?
Thankee, Bill, for cross-linking Caitlin's latest today on BV. Saved me from doing it.
i was particularly struck by the report that the attack on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam was not entirely unprovoked. It is very hard to find any mention of that at all when scanning the MSM/CON and/or searching Google News.
Yup, Cornel West has it right. Both parties are totally corrupt and morally bankrupt. I worked for his campaign. We were asked to listen to people, not to tell them who they should vote for. The goal was to raise awareness, by sharing the West/Abdullah platform along with their goals for their first 100 days in office, that alternatives to our present system are possible, but we will not learn about them by consuming the mainstream media POV. Dr. West described his campaign as "a moment in a movement", a movement that must be sustained always, and not brought up just around election time.
Beautifully written. It is beyond me why Walsh is even writing for the Nation. The late professor Stephen Cohen (husband of the publisher) must be spinning in his grave. Walsh gives humane progressives a black eye and causes working class (those non college educated men and women) to vote for Trump. I can only hope that progressive editors and their employers are beginning to realize why ordinary people despise them and draw the right lessons from this election.
I had an exchange this week with the wife of an old Mennonite classmate of mine. In “mourning,” she forward of Jimmy Kimmel's election response loyal readers here may have seen. My response to her follows:
“…for journalism, for justice, for free speech”!? Ukraine and NATO somehow represent “truth, and Democracy and decency”?! NATO?!?!
Maybe Team Blue should have: 1) listened to the protesters regarding live-streamed genocide; 2) had an actual primary rather than pretend all was well with Biden; 3) once the in-house coup was done, held a contested convention instead of a Kamala coronation; 4) not embraced the Cheneys and other warmongering, security-state swamp creatures; 5) not put profits for the MIC and USA hubris over the lives of Ukrainians and Russians; and 6) put duct tape over Biden, Obama and the Clintons' big mouths.
No administration has done more to expose USA hypocrisy on human rights than Biden/Blinken. The global majority sees this plainly while Blue Team apologists (Heather Cox Richardson leading the pack) pretend they are human rights champions. As for climate change, just look at the destruction from the proxy war and the middle east wasteland. Our bombs and missiles. Optimism is not a strategy, nor, as is now proven, is running against someone rather than offering a clear and concise course of action. At least Jill Stein and Chase Oliver brought integrity to the race. Of course, neither was even given any serious reporting by our hallowed mainstream media.
I can't give Team Blue an ounce of sympathy. Full disclosure: I contend both corrupt, bought-and-paid-for parties are disgusting.
I agree with all of your elegantly expressed points on Team Blue and the Biden administration. I just wanted to add that the only pleasure I got from this election is voting for Jill Stein, who only received ~0.8% of the vote, alas; and schadenfreude at Kamala's loss..
I should add, they were among the super-giddy when Kamala was coronated. What surprised me was my classmate when we were freshmen in high school did a report on Ralph Nader. I'd never heard of him and thought over the decades how socially aware my classmate was and how clueless I was. When we visited a few years ago after not seeing each other in 40 years, I recalled how impressed I was and how it stuck with me. He didn't even remember giving such a report! :-)
Tom, Thanks for making the point about war and climate change. Almost no one talks about the impact of war on climate change, global warming, sea level rise, super hurricanes, forest fires and desertification, yet war is one of the greatest contributors to those problems.
Tom, my high school friends have been a huge disappointment. Back in the Vietnam War days I had the impression that all of our group was looking forward to better times to come with the departure of Nixon and then the Church Commission that revealed all the awful about the CIA. Wrong! All that my friends believe is that Trump is evil and they were more than happy to vote for a nobody because she isn't Trump. My conversations with them about the antithesis of liberty and justice for all and Zionism fell on deaf ears, all of them having a liking for Israel and discomfort with Arabs that wouldn't hear of voting for Stein. What gives me hope are my Jewish Voice for Peace friends who are and have been adamant anti-Zionists and true Americans all along. Otherwise, this could be a very lonely and depressing time. My sister and only sibling, married a rabid Zionist taking pleasure in the slaughter going on, so she has been lost to me.
Action, in my picketing, keeps me looking forward. I am damn proud of the American founding principles even if they have never been further from practice than now, so flagrantly violated by support for Israel, but holding those self evident truths close to my heart is invigorating. I makes me smile to think of how little I understood the Pledge of Allegiance when I was in grammar school but how deeply meaningful the words are now and the pleasure I find in literally standing up for them on the sidewalk.
I know how to use logic and the English language. To put this to use as the end of life approaches is gratifying because for the first time I am giving for my country in a very personal and powerful way that puts in the shade what has been a life of ease and plenty that never asked anything of me and about which I was thoughtless for so long. Though my lifelong friends are not with me, I say to myself that, yes, it is possible, if not common, that wisdom comes with age.
Clif, My closest Jewish friend spent many years working in the White Correspondence office--back when, according to her, every letter was answered. I guess its a blessing that she died before this horrific genocide started. She was an active protester of Zionism and war all her life. She would certainly be weeping and gnashing her teeth!
Press on, Brother!
No, Kamala didn't deserve better. The voters deserved better.
🎯
I didn't read the Nation article, but I probably could draft a pretty close translation of Walsh's writing on it. As a confirmed social identity liberal with no understanding of much less concern for actual justice in the world, she'll no doubt blame Harris' loss on her misfortune of having a uterus, i.e. on misogyny. From her privileged life among fellow upper-class liberals, she will be unable to understand at anything more than a superficial level, the frustrations of the significant part of the population who don't share her economic security, or of those who care about perpetual war, genocide, and the causes of global peace and justice.
I imagine in that regard, Walsh herself does represent a significant portion of that public who are mostly concerned about issues of the now-permanent culture war; who were solidly VBNMW and even more excited that in that process they could tick off two social identity boxes.
None of them, I fear, will be willing to sit quietly, do a bit of introspection and with it, look any more deeply at the likely reasons why Americans this time could not get motivated to vote in sufficient numbers for their identity-perfect, 'joyful' candidate. Maybe they should read someone other than Joan Walsh in the Nation.
Only one thing: neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party will never present the American people with "a truly deserving . . . candidate." That would be someone who would cut off the feeding at the trough, which is the only "interest" in which members of Congress, as well as the President and other government officials are interested in. As you see, I'm in full accord with TomG. Don't weep for Kamala Harris; she had nothing to offer except for not being Trump.
The Democrats continue their tone-deaf navel-gazing ways: blaming the voters as Joan Walsh did, and publicity-hungry Hollywood 'elite' all claiming they're leaving. As to the latter, please do. When you can make movies for adults again, you can come back.
Perhaps more than the sturm und drung of some over domestic politics, the bigger issue is what happens in the Mideast between now and January 20th. Larry Wilkerson (Colin Powell's Chief of Staff) expressed again - with Chris Hedges - that Netanyahu's goal is to draw the U.S. into a war with Iran. If that were to happen during the transition - no matter what Trump might or might not support - there's no way the U.S. could withdraw.
I just pray they go to Canada or some EU lap dog country. I don't want more Kamala mourners than we already have here in my adopted home of Ecuador! hahaha
Where do You want the 11 to 21 million undocumented immigrants Trump has vowed to deport or exterminate to go, TomG?
I was referring to the celebrities and Blue Teamers that vowed to leave if Trump was elected.
i know. i was just curious about Your thoughts on Trump's promises for mass deportations.
I don't see how they solve the border problem without addressing the sanctions on countries like Venezuela. That's the biggest problem of illegals here in Ecuador. What good is it going to do to fly them back home only to come back out of desperation? Not that the door has to be wide open. There should be a legal process (better than we've had), but I don't see how it can function well when masses keep heading north--walls or no walls. Having lived near the border in Texas, it always seemed to me like we spent way to much time causing the problem and too much money addressing the symptoms after the fact.
Spending "way too much time causing the problem and too much money addressing the symptoms after the fact" is exactly what Governments do, isn't it TomG?
And not just on matters at the Border. But on Everything.
I have the same thought as I give a $20 now and then to the Venezuelan families begging at the entrance to the grocery store where I go. Can anyone believe that US sanctions have any real effect on the leadership in any sanctioned country? Can anyone belief that the US sanctions do not have an effect on the little people? So here those little people come and the response of some governors is to ship them north. It is cruelty that could not be more opposite to the words of Emma Lazarus on the Statue of Liberty.
Good point about having a War with Iran before January 20. Especially if Biden should suddenly have a stroke and Harris becomes Acting President. [Or if he dies and she becomes Actual President.]
In any event, if there IS War between the US/Israel and Iran, when Trump takes office, he will do exactly as he is instructed to do from the same Deep State that is instructing Biden on this ~ and all matters of critical significance ~ matter.
The same Deep State that instructed Trump when he was XLV; and before him Obama, Cheney/Bush II, Clinton, Bush I and Reagan, and Carter, and Beyond.
Brother West comes the closest to the insights the wisdoms of the Indigenous elders I have read over the decades. He never gets quite there but significantly close as close as the parameters of Western academic philosophy allows. Musk has contracts with the American military equipment being used in Ukraine. He may influence Trump to not do the one good thing we hoped for- end that war by making a deal with Putin. Under Trump you can expect deregulation- Lina Khan fired and mergers to go even more rampant-the concentration of wealth to acellerate. It may acellerate to the point where everybody is identifying concentration of wealth as the problem and stop identifying everything else as the problem. That in itself would be a good thing.
You can also expect a recession- every reputable economist I have read says that Trump's tariffs will cause serious harm. And his tax cuts won't help a huge deficit.
All true, but I think the unremarked bond market and the national debt are a combined extinction level event that likely will collapse the US economy. Add in the global derivatives market (at least 8X larger than the world bond market) and it'll be time to trade toilet paper and ammunition for food - if you already have either.
That's what Col WIlkerson told Ralph Nader and Chris Hedges
I went and looked to find the source material on the bond problem. Page 19 shows the graph of the maturity dates of the bonds coming due before 2029. This is from the audit of the Federal Debt. https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-25-107138.pdf
With the insights I gained from Jeffery Sachs and retired CIA agents... I would fear for Trumps life if he actually went after reducing NATO or tried to stop the wars in Ukraine. That particular concentration of wealth would do anything put a stop to reducing the industrial military war state.
Having said all that knowbody knows what Trump will actually do. He may not impose the tarrifs he promised, or anything he promised, after all he is an opportunist more than anything else. Ethics nor promises never have gotten in his way.
As i noted in an earlier comment about what Trump would do if War between the US/Israel and Iran started between now and January 20
If he wants to complete this term, Trump will do exactly as he is instructed to do from the same Deep State that is instructing Biden on this ~ and all matters of critical significance ~ matter.
The same Deep State that instructed Trump when he was XLV; and before him Obama, Cheney/Bush II, Clinton, Bush I and Reagan, and Carter, and Beyond.
My sense from merely observing the hectic world I see around me every day is that not only is a time of reckoning coming, but we are accelerating as we approach it. Trump's thinking global warming is a hoax and his intention of opening the spigots for fossil fuel only reinforce my thinking. This election had nothing to do with intelligence or reason. It was all emotion and for the foreseeable future emotion will rule at the very time we so desperately need reason and what would go with it, on both a government and individual level, restraint.
One good thing about this election is that there is no way to contest it, and no one is contesting it. Trump's win was so broad, so sweeping, and so extensive that it is impossible to blame it on Russia and China or anything else other than a complete repudiation of the policies of the Biden administration. Prior to the election Democrats were hesitant to criticize their own party. In view of the results it seems likely that some withheld their vote from Harris or even voted Trump, who knows. The vote was a total rejection of the existing foreign policy, economy, the hypocrisy, you name it. What a relief it's over. Now the hang-over. That will come when the new team has to confront the exact same problems as their predecessors, regardless of what Trump promised.
How is getting 50.7% of the Total Popular Vote a "broad, sweeping, and extensive win"?
That means that 49.3% of Voters voted AGAINST him.
A redux of that old issue that we have exchanged comments on several times, eh Bill?
About what the American Peoples do and don't "deserve" when it comes to their politicians, their government, and the $1 = 1 Vote way of choosing those politicians to lead that government.
In any event, it will be very interesting to see if Trump has the balls to defy the MICIMATT and the rest of The Deep State, and end America's Proxy War with Russia in Ukraine.
He certainly did everything during his first term to virtually guarantee that Putin's "Special Military Operation" would happen.
And if he has any hope of living out this term, he will do exactly as instructed once again.
Ground work for the SMO started in 1993 when Talbot/Nuland went to Foggy Bottom and took up reneging on Baker's assurances NATO would not move east. It was furthered when Bush Jr (Cheney) stated Ukraine would be in NATO.
Most likely huge amounts of arms went to Ukraine from 2014, and Trump was impeached for trying to slow a tiny bit of one year flow!
I suspect had Hillary been president in 2017 the SMO would have been engaged in 2019.
As to Trump getting the SMO stopped, Putin's demands are comprehensive security east of the Elbe, what they were in Dec 2021, with a large part of Stalin's Ukraine back in Russia!
To do that Trump would not let Pompeo anywhere near the beltway.
You mentioned H. Clinton - Bubba should be mentioned too. His administration was the one that began the march of NATO to the east. Even with all the other damage he did; this one should not be forgotten.
Yes, Bill sent Talbot and Nuland forth......
Like i said: If Trump has any hope of living out this term, he will do exactly as instructed by his owners, operators, commanders, and controllers of the MICIMATT and Deep State once again.
That's how Biden survived his term [at least so far]. A lot could happen between now and January 20, 2025, eh?
But with Biden, how would you tell? ;-)
Because Harris didn't become President?
Stupid they all be. Off with their heads
The false vitriol against Trump was/is criminal.
Seems to me the media blitz was all negative on Trump and nowhere do I recall any reason to vote for Harris.
I spend too much time the past two days viewing clips of the vitriol played out by bereft, sorely disappointed democrat voters.
Including last night consoling my weeping "dearly beloved"....... The painful juices are flowing!
The voters deserved better!
Thankee, Bill, for cross-linking Caitlin's latest today on BV. Saved me from doing it.
i was particularly struck by the report that the attack on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam was not entirely unprovoked. It is very hard to find any mention of that at all when scanning the MSM/CON and/or searching Google News.
Yup, Cornel West has it right. Both parties are totally corrupt and morally bankrupt. I worked for his campaign. We were asked to listen to people, not to tell them who they should vote for. The goal was to raise awareness, by sharing the West/Abdullah platform along with their goals for their first 100 days in office, that alternatives to our present system are possible, but we will not learn about them by consuming the mainstream media POV. Dr. West described his campaign as "a moment in a movement", a movement that must be sustained always, and not brought up just around election time.
Beautifully written. It is beyond me why Walsh is even writing for the Nation. The late professor Stephen Cohen (husband of the publisher) must be spinning in his grave. Walsh gives humane progressives a black eye and causes working class (those non college educated men and women) to vote for Trump. I can only hope that progressive editors and their employers are beginning to realize why ordinary people despise them and draw the right lessons from this election.
Thank you, Bill, right on.
There was no real leadership.
Squealing at rallies has no place in politics, governance or more importantly, in international diplomacy.
The moderate Republican Harris/Cheney campaign left a lot of ppl out of the tent.
If Harris wanted to unite the party she would have picked Bernie or AOC, but instead picked a safe dolt.
"Climate" was left out totally.
The Genocide could have been addressed, but certainly not by a major AIPAC candidate.
She side-stepped every question about actual policy in interviews.
The DNC has been running progressively worse dorks every time since Bill Clinton.
"Don't cry for Kamala. Cry for the people most vulnerable to Trump's policies."
Cry for the American people who have no major political influencers on their side.
States that have pledged to follow the winner of the national vote in their state electoral votes for President:
CA, CO, CT, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, ME, MN, NJ, NM, NY, OR, RI, VT, WA.
States that voted for Harris:
CA, CO, CT, DC, DE. HI, IL, MA, MD, ME, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OR, RI, VA, VT, WA.
Which means that if those states keep their word (sic), the only states Harris will win will be:
DE, NH, VA.
A majority of the national vote. An electoral sweep!!!