Mr. Trump Goes to Washington

 

Trump's Best Friend

                                  The American Liberal.

We Didn't Get Where We Are Today Overnight

                                                     January 27, 2011.

Armistice Day

                                         Seen in Crown Heights.

Democratic Party Fails

 

Post-Mortem

 

From what I've seen of the exit polls in terms of demographics, Trump's base experienced attrition, but that appears to have been compensated for by increased support among a variety of groups, including non-white college-educated voters (I confess I did not see that coming). 

Latino men moved 33 points towards Trump. 

Households earning less than $ 100K/yr. (Hillary Clinton's "deplorables"?) continued to shift in Trump's direction. 

Meanwhile, white women have remained among his most stalwart supporters (they know they can probably get an abortion if they need one). 

Given that Trump's share of the popular vote in 2024 was about the same as his share in 2020, and given that Harris's share under-performed Biden's, the defections from Trump's base did not benefit Harris--despite her attempts to woo them with the promise of appointing Republicans to her cabinet and campaigning with radioactive Liz Cheney. I'm guessing those voters sat this one out.

The Duopoly Is A Disaster

We all do what we have to do to live with ourselves. 

In my lifetime, my government has done a great many nefarious things, but this is the first time, that I know of, that it has actively facilitated a genocide. 

For me, this is not a political question that we can agree to disagree about. It is a moral question that demands a specific response: refusal to reward in any fashion the genocidaires. 

The duopoly is a disaster.

Seen in Pittsburgh

 

Where Things Stand

 By Matthew Cooke.

For democrats: that you arrived at the conclusion that Americans must vote for ethnic cleansing - to save ourselves from fascism - is the epitome of moral cowardice.

We're asked to forget that this U.S. backed campaign of terror is a sick, sociopathic war on children - one any normal, well-adjusted human being would never condone in a million years - not without the most powerful communications systems in the history of humankind, seized and controlled for the purpose of manufacturing consent.

Why is it happening - many people ask? The media doesn't answer, not with anything that makes sense. The answer would hurt shareholders.

War is empire's core business. It's been Biden's since he backed the savage invasion of Iraq as a senator, and helped spread lies about their imaginary WMDs, against the obvious concerns of the sane voices in his party, and mountains of evidence to the contrary. It's been America's core business since our founding.

Reality is staring us in the face: the standard bearer of the democratic party, our current president, and his heir-apparent, are tribal warlords.

And our two-winged aristocracy's unconditional support for an alt-right apartheid state is nothing more than a monstrous religious crusade to expand an outpost for our petro-military empire.

Any idea that once the election season is over it will be easier to mobilize resistance against Dick Cheney's chosen representative of empire is equally absurd. They campaigned with the Cheney's and bragged about our "lethal" military industrial complex. Their bosses.

The honest, obvious truth, that all democrats and republicans are struggling with -- as they're bombarded by propaganda on every channel, is the that neither wing of the billionaire / fortune 100-funded duopoly is remotely set up to help lead us toward a sustainable human future. They're off the rails.

And for republicans:

Trump's tell-it-like-he-is / lack of impulse control may be a welcome respite from a highly coached PR spokesperson for empire - he's everything you hate about democrats, times 1000.

Corrupt. Pandering. Irreligious. Elitist. Insincere. Disloyal. And an agent of chaos, division, and instability. He doesn't represent an opposition party. He's a conman who seized an opportunity given to him by neoliberals.

The only thing Trump is good for is feeding the fortune 100 financed, elitist media you hate -- that broadcasts 99.9% gossip, a sin, according to your holy book -- and keeps the 1984-worthy argument going between the left and right, limiting any outside information that would illuminate the stark truth.

Bush and Dick Cheney's massive unpunished war crimes, Netanyahu's Biden-Harris funded genocide, the vile contorting of "anti-Semitism" and Trump's big con -- are all so extreme, they're cartoon caricatures of evil.

You might laugh in horror, until you confront the latest hourly news from Gaza or Lebanon... Shame on us all.

Regardless of who wins this national election, we have our work cut out for us.

If we have any hope of retaining our humanity (the species and the quality) we're going to have to do everything we can to forge a third way -- a mass movement for:

- the breakup of monopolies

- abolishing billionaires

- a digital bill of rights

- mass DE-militarization from the federal to local level

- mass and rapid divestment from fossil fuels and the war machine that feeds it

- abolishing poverty as a whole which includes universal healthcare, reparations and housing for all

Or --- we can just keep clicking and feeding this weapon of mass distraction -- this infinite unwinnable argument between democrat and republican-- two sides of the same road to doomsday.

Vote!

 

Seen in West Philly

 

No Votes For Genocide!

 

Seen in Milwaukee

 

Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down

For some time now, I have sensed creeping Trump fatigue in the electorate. Only DT's hardcore fans want another 4 years of his narcissistic bombast, and that portion of the electorate has shrunk to cult-like proportions. It was all fun and games until Jan. 6, 2021. Then Reality set in. I suspect that many people who are currently telling pollsters that they support Trump won't bother to vote. So, even though they don't deserve it, the Dems should own this election--especially if they can get women and 20-somethings to the polls. But if 2016's "accidental President" manages to cobble together an Electoral College victory in 2024, it will be for reasons such as those described in this article. Either way, it's ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

The Global Impact of Supporting Genocide and Colonialism Exposed

Biden's Legacy. Harris's Legacy. Our Complicity. The Crime of the Century.

 

Dream Bigger, Liberals!

 

Viva Cuba!

 

"Last Black American Poem" by Danez Smith

 

Nikita Gill

 

Globalize the Intifada

 

Murder Most Foul

 

Foreign Policy Matters

 

Distract the public, justify the war machine - Wag the Dog (1997)

Truth!

 

J'Accuse!

 

Make America Glum Again

                                 And wear matching outfits while you do it.

Every Day We Learn of Some New Violation of International Law

committed by the rogue Zionist entity, and the U.S. government sits on its hands.

Moral Decay

 

"The real moral decay of our society is illustrated in the way all mainstream political candidates can openly support war crimes currently being inflicted on people in the global south without being immediately removed from power. The way monstrous war criminals of past administrations can endorse a liberal candidate without causing self-proclaimed progressives to recoil from that candidate in horror. The way you can have the two viable candidates for the world’s most powerful elected position both pledge to continue an active genocide without instantly sparking a revolution."

                                                                        ~ Cait Johnstone

Liberals

 

St. Barack?

 

Red Harry?

                                             It was a different time.

Seen In West Philly

 

Trump Fatigue

                                         CAUGHT IT YET?

Huxley

 

American Liberals

The last item is really key to the psychology that underlies American Liberal politics. Libs want to feel good about themselves and about their country. Who doesn't? At the same time, however, they are unwilling to risk the negative consequences that may come from opposing the immorality of their own government and/or favorite politicians. 

So they put on their rose-colored glasses and tell themselves that the system is basically fair for all--it just needs a little tweaking. 

They shed a few crocodile tears while explaining that the Gaza genocide isn't really genocide because look how the Jews have been victimized in the past (a model non sequitur). 

They resort to the lesser evil argument and then change the subject by gushing over "the statement" Michelle Obama made with her outfit at the DNC. 

They order themselves another Starbucks latte and feel self-righteous about the stand they will be taking against the "vast right-wing conspiracy" when they mail in their ballots in November. 

They are the banality of evil personified.

Consider Where this Leaves the U.S.

 

Politicians

 

And Their Coffee Sucks...

 

Peace Is Not On November's Ballot

                                             Cait Johnstone Explains...

Sorry/Not Sorry to Burst Anyone's Bourgeois-Liberal Bubble

                         Sane Observations from Cait Johnstone.

Chris Hedges from 2022

The Democrats are Now The War Party | CGS

The Truth About Netanyahu

 

Promoting Peace And Stability In The Middle East

Genocide Joe - Biden is Out, but This is the Legacy He Leaves Behind

Prophecy

                                         Photo: Steve Shapiro, 1966.

Biden's Legacy

 

No one forced Joe Biden to run for president — or to facilitate a genocide. His unlikely conversion to economic populism was a triumph for the Left, but he ultimately proved his own worst enemy.

As Marcetic points out, Biden's most popular programs were based upon recommendations made by Bernie Sanders--who, I might add, would have been elected President in 2016 had the DNC not deep-sixed his candidacy. And despite Kamala Harris' shameless promotion of Biden's "many accomplishments" (which she is careful not to name), it was Biden himself who undermined "Build Back Better" by trying to appease Republicans--thereby ensuring that little was ever passed into law. The Clinton-Obama formula of "talk Left, govern Right" is alive and well in the Democratic Party. Harris is cut from the same cloth.

The Logic of "Lesser-Evilism"

 

"Lesser-Evilism" is an attempt to rationalize and justify one's complicity with evil.

Bye Bye Biden

 

Biden described by source as 'seething' at Pelosi

Political Theater 101

 

So the same people who have been telling us ad nauseam for at least the past four years that Donald Trump represents an existential threat to American democracy are now professing to be perplexed why anyone would want to assassinate him. Moreover, they rushed to wish him a speedy recovery.

This should be as clear an indication as anyone needs that Caitlin Johnstone has been right all along.

Inevitably, when supposedly responsible adults play this kind of deceptive game, someone who is young and impressionable will take them at their word--and people get hurt.

U.S. politics are all spectacle. Behind the curtain, pulling the strings, is the military-industrial-complex. 

Howard Zinn

 

"I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game until all the cards have been played."

~ Howard Zinn

I'm Sorry, Joe. Did You Say Something?

 I thought I heard you say something. But maybe that was Donald.

The Dems Have Been Totally Outflanked...Again.

With the image of Trump bloodied but unbowed seared into everyone's consciousness and now rich and famous J.D. Vance at his side, Biden-Harris is toast in November. Dems need to stop whining about how Biden doesn't get the credit he deserves for being "the great President he has been." Rightly or wrongly, that is entirely beside the point. Dems did the same whining about Carter in 1980, and we saw how effective that was. Biden has a 38% approval rate, is obviously in cognitive decline, and--though this doesn't matter to a surprising number of "bleeding heart" Liberals--is an accessory to genocide. He was elected in 2020 not on his merits but because he was not Donald Trump. But 2024 is not 2020. The Dems have to shift gears and make some bold moves--or the election of Donald Trump in November will be theirs to own (though, of course, they'll deny it).

With Captain Biden at the Helm...

                                     What could possibly go wrong?

Message From Gaza 🇵🇸

 

God Help Us All!

 

Joe Biden's refusal to entertain the possibility that he has suffered a loss of mental acuity is sheer arrogance--a familiar trait of his to those who have observed him over the years.

 

Biden will pay for his arrogance at the polls in November, and the rest of us will pay when Donald Trump is sworn in next January.

  

Unlike many Democrats, I am more troubled about entrusting the nuclear football to an accessory to genocide who displays symptoms of senile dementia than about how he is doing in the polls.

 

The Democratic Party elite share Biden's arrogance and top it off with a thick layer of stupidity.

 

God help us all!