It really is time for certain people to shut their mouths and sit
their ignorant asses down. That's THE NATION magazine, that's Amy
Goodman and all the other fake asses who have brought our country to
this point. Kaitlan Collins, Samantha Waldenberg and Tierney Sneed (CNN) report:
President
Donald Trump has been personally involved in discussions inside the
administration over potentially suspending habeas corpus, a legal
procedure that allows people to challenge their detention in court, two
people familiar with the consideration told CNN.
One of
Trump’s top aides, Stephen Miller, confirmed publicly Friday that the
administration was “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus,
adding that it “depends on whether the courts do the right thing or
not.”
Both the private discussions and Miller’s public comments show this is under serious consideration inside the West Wing.
How did we get here?
By betrayal. See "2024: The Year of Betrayal From Inside The Left."
Those of you on the left who worked to suppress turnout for Kamala
Harris even thought you knew it was her or Chump? You need to sit your
ass down.
You've done more than enough harm. You just shut your lying mouth and sit your ass down.
Chump is toying with ditching habeas corpus.
Do
you trashy and closeted Socialists not grasp how serious this situation
is and how you put us here with your organized campaign against Kamala
Harris?
Just shut the f**k up. Unless you're coming
forward to apologize to the country, shut up. That's THE PROGRESSIVE
which is really THE SOCIALIST. They could praise Tim Walz because he
was DSA endorsed but all they did was trash Kamala. Katrina vanden
Heuvel, a 'Socialist' herself (one who went to court to get more of
granddaddy's money, arguing she shouldn't have to pay the estate tax on
all the money her grandfather ripped off from Black artists) put Marxist
Bhaskar Sunkara in as 'president' of THE NATION. JACOBIN is nothing
more than US SOCIALIST WORKER reworked after all the racism and sexism
sunk the previous rag.
Where do left Democrats go?
That's
a really good question. Because for months leading up to the November
election, these trashy closet cases wrote columns, took up radio and TV
time, were all over YOUTUBE -- never once identified as Socialists --
trashing Kamala. The narrative they were creating was: Even Democrats
don't like Kamala.
This didn't happen by accident.
You put us here.
And let's include COMMON DREAMS.
Yeah,
after I called you out throughout August and September for the damage
you were doing, in early October you stopped that s**t.
But you were part of it too.
I'm sick of all of you and your racism. Ava and my "Media: OWNED finds Eoin Higgins owned by bad journalism" opened with this disclosure:
[On July 19th, Eoin Higgins contacted one of us, C.I., via e-mail.
He sent five e-mails over three days. He received a dictated reply or a
summary via Martha to each of his e-mails. That's the only contact
we've had with Eoin.]
Eoin isn't the only one
who's written me. You piss me off enough and I'll start quoting from
all of the e-mails from COMMON DREAMS writers. I have no problem doing
so.
I didn't initiate contact with any of you. Your
b.s. emails in August and September explaining how what you were all
doing, attacking Kamala, how that was "right" according to you?
Those e-mails are so much more interesting than any of the bulls**t you post at your website.
As
it stands, my plan has been to try to live past the 2028 general
election. And if you closet cases who schemed and lied to your readers,
listeners and watchers start trying to defeat the Democrat again, my
plan is to publish in full your e-mails.
You knew what
you were doing. You make that clear in your e-mails justifying the
attacks on Kamala. You make it clear that this is how you're finally
going to take over the Democratic Party.
Well why don't you get honest now?
Didn't you get what you wanted? Isn't Chump in the White House?
But you don't want to be honest publicly about what you did.
One
male COMMON DREAMS writer should especially be nervous because you
spent your e-mail sketching it all out, dropping names on who was
involved when you weren't telling me how stupid I was not to be part of
your 'movement.'
There are so many people who've written over the years to gripe at me, to whine to me, blah blah blah.
And
I try to be nice. Unless you're David Sirota threatening me in an
e-mail, I don't usually even note it here. You don't have control over
your network program? That would certainly crush your audience,
wouldn't it? But have I ever mentioned what you wrote in your e-mail?
No.
But
in 2028, if I'm still alive, if you pull the s**t you did in 2024 to
sink the Democratic Party, you watch your e-mails go public.
And one thing you should immediately do? Rediscover Gaza.
I
don't think, in 2028, people will give you a pass to begin with. But
when they read how you plotted to use concern for Gaza to give your
empty attacks on Joe and then Kamala weight?
When they read
that cold hard truth and then note how COMMON DREAMS and others walked
away from Gaza? That's going to say much more about you and your lying
and whorish nature than anything I ever could.
Not every Socialist
took part in this nonsense. WSWS did what they always do, for
example. And they are highly -- and rightly -- critical of the DSA
branch of Socialism. There are other individuals I would praise but I
just called a friend at a left outlet to ask if he was out as a
Socialist and he's not. He wrote an important column explaining why the
left needed to vote for Kamala. He's not the only one who saw what we
were all up against.
Millions of voters saw what this
country was up against. And we turned out and we voted for Kamala.
That's why Chump didn't get 50% of the vote.
And it's
cute the way some of us can point that out but those of us who are
closeted Socialists refuse to do so because it's to their interest to
slam Kamala for the three month campaign she ran.
Greg Palast's work on the voter rolls makes it clear exactly how close the vote was.
But
they want to ignore that and they want to ignore the organized
Socialist movement against Kamala that hid in the shadows, created a
false narrative and worked to kill voter enthusiasm.
I'm not in the damn mood.
And these same people now pimp David Hogg as an answer.
A body under attack has to defend itself. And it's time for the Democratic Party to start doing that.
Non-Democrats
pose as Democrats and attack our party. Sometimes they'll call
themselves "progressives" and they muddy up that term in the process.
This
site has been up for over 20 years now. It was started to oppose the
Iraq War. Bully Boy Bush now looks like a Dream Date in comparison to
Donald Chump's second term. Never in my life, did I think I would have
to write about the country possibly suspending habeas corpus.
Never.
But here we are.
And we're not here due to the fault of those of us who voted for Kamala Harris.
You're
the ones who put us here, those of you who conspired to defeat Kamala.
You did it with lies. You did it with racism and you did it with
sexism.
And it's way past time that someone took a serious look at it.
You f**ked us all.
Now you want to be 'progressive' (Socialist) and get behind David Hogg who wants to primary 'safe' incumbents?
There's
no such thing. Right now, there is no such thing. Democrats have to
grab control of the House. Have to. In order to save our country, they
have to.
Instead of owning your MASS F**K UP, you same
liars now want to come forward and work to defeat Democrats and we're
supposed to join you in this bulls**t?
Al Gore was
supposed to carry Florida in 2000. That's why various losers told
people to vote for Ralph Nader -- an out of touch man who thought he
would 'reach' women voters by taking on . . . the high heel industry.
We
do not have time to focus on you working to tear down this or that
incumbent Democrat because you don't like their position on gun control
or whatever your issue is today.
Democrats need to have control of a house to launch real investigations.
They can do field hearings all on their own right now and should.
But we need Congressional hearings and we're not getting that if we're not in control of the one house of Congress.
Shania Shelton (CNN) explains:
Lee
Kovarsky, law professor at the University of Texas and expert on habeas
corpus, said it would be a “national historical disaster.”
“The
executive could just detain you, and there would be no recourse,” he
said. “Obviously they would do it to try to detain certain non citizens,
but there’s no reason why it’s limited to them.”
White
House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Friday the
administration was “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus and it
“depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.”
But
the Constitution allows habeas corpus to be suspended only when “in
Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”
Kovarsky said the reason why suspension of habeas corpus is so restricted “is precisely because it’s so severe.”
“You
have no right, to a court, to say that you’re being unlawfully
detained. So in a way, the cash value of your substantive rights is zero
if you don’t have a judge to evaluate them,” he said.
This is where we are and people who put us here should get honest about it. They need to take accountability but they won't.
I can't go to
LGBTQ NATION
without crying over what's happening. But these 'progressives'
responsible from Chump being in the White House aren't bothered.
Dr Carla Hayden has been fired.
Why?
For doing her job.
The White House
has revealed the true reason why they have fired Carla Hayden, the head
librarian of Congress. During her weekly press briefing, press
secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that Donald Trump's administration had deemed that Hayden "did not fit the needs of the American people."
[. . .]
House
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries further condemned the firing, calling
Trump's decision “unjust” and a “disgrace.” Senator Martin Heinrich from
New Mexico issued a fiery statement on Twitter, claiming that the
president was "taking his assault on America’s libraries to a new
level.”
Hayden
had also been leading the "Of the People" initiative to bring more
works from Black, indigenous, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American and
Pacific Islander and other communities of color into the library's
collections. She had often spoken about the awe-inspiring job she had to
help preserve and protect American history.
The nonprofit American Accountability Foundation, a conservative group dedicated to protecting Trump's "America First" initiatives, had been pushing for Hayden's firing, and celebrated her departure as a defeat for the "woke, anti-Trump" bureaucracy.
Let's
be clear about MAGA being racist because they're clear in their videos
-- as Coach D, Karen Hunter, Reese Waters and others have done a great
job this past week exposing -- they dont like people of color. They
applaud the use of the n-word. They get in front of the camera, tape
their own video explaining this -- the United States -- is their
country. They say it's not a country for -- their terms -- "Black" and
"Brown" people.
This is hatred and bigotry. All Dr
Hayden did was honor education. We are supposed to want to learn more.
That's why they have archaeological digs, for example. It's why
historians study various tribes of Native Americans, why a historian
would specialize in the study of one tribe.
Dr Hayden was doing her job.
But
in the racists minds of Chump and his MAGA bigots, any time or
attention take away from a White Straight Male (or a White Gay
Republican Male -- let's be honest) puts the White population at
risk!!!!!
Man the barricades, cock gobbler Pete Hegseth, man the barricades!!!!!
That did mean so much.
It'll
be interesting to see what White person Chump appoints to the
position. Or is Coach D the only one noticing just how White Chump's
Cabinet is?
This
is White supremacy and it was brought to you not just by MAGA but also
by Socialists who call themselves 'progressives' or what have you.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can add plagiarism to his list of things he's been formally accused of.
Trump's
pick for the top Pentagon spot has previously faced allegations of
sexual assault and of having a drinking problem. Now it's being reported
that, while in school at Princeton, he copied other pieces for his
thesis.
The local Daily Princetonian flagged a particular sentence in the senior
thesis authored by Hegseth. In that piece, Hegseth wrote in part, "Bush
looked distracted and somber but continued to listen to the
second-graders."
"This sentence is notable for recapping the precise moment President
George W. Bush was informed of the 9/11 attacks. But it is also notable
because it is nearly identical to one published
by The Washington Post in 2001, two years before Hegseth wrote his
thesis," the bombshell report from Saturday states. "A review of
Hegseth’s thesis by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three
experts on plagiarism, found eight instances of uncredited material,
sham paraphrasing, and verbatim copying. But while the three experts all
said that the passages violated Princeton’s academic honesty
regulations, they differed on whether the violations were serious or too
minor to matter."
He's
just a liar and a hate merchant. Remember, he was mainly known in
college for what other conservatives in classes with Pete considered his
'strange' relationships (with other males) and for having a meltdown
when Halle Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress. All the make
up in the world can't hide that reality for Pete.
Evan Williams (TAG24 NEWS) notes:
The
White House blocked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's pick for Pentagon
chief of staff and moved to select its own candidate for the position.
Hegseth's pick – Marine Colonel Ricky Buria – was vetoed by the President Donald Trump after months of turmoil at the top of the Department of Defense, an investigation by the Guardian revealed.
The White House reportedly told Hegseth that while Buria was a clear break from Joe Kasper, who left the role amid an investigation into high-profile leaks, his limited experience as a junior military assistant made him a liability.
I
could scream for hours. That's all I'm doing right now as I go through
the news. And, one more time, it did not have to be this way. Norman
Solomon, Rashida Tlaib and the rest of those sorry ass Socialists
delivered us to this moment in time.
Tom Boggioni (RAW STORY) reports:
During an appearance on CNN Saturday morning where she was tasked with defendingthe questionable arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka by a mob of armed ICE agents outside of an DHS facility, a spokesperson for the agency stated there are plans to arrest more lawmakers in the coming days.
Speaking
with host Victor Blackwell, Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for
Public Affairs at DHS and former advisor to failed GOP presidential
candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, kept insisting that Mayor Baraka was arrested
for "storming" the facility despite video showing him being taken into
custody outside the chain-link gate.
In
the 20 years and several months since this site started, I have written
something for this site daily. And I've never before been more worried
about our country. I was worried -- rightfully -- before the election
which is why in early 2023, I came out stating I would vote the
Democratic Party's presidential nominee no matter who it was. We
couldn't afford Chump and it was obvious back then. But some people
wanted to f**k around and play. And all they did was destroy our
country.
Betty is right, it will take over a decade for us to recover as a country just in terms of health and science.
You
f**k arounds need to stop you nonsense that you've got an idea! You've
got a thought! And you know so much better than anyone in history!
You've
already gambled with our lives and our democracy. I would think that
damage would be enough to shame you into silence but clearly that's not
the case.
Roger Stone has called Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly a traitor who deserves to die for questioning the president.
On
Thursday, Stone took to X to accuse the Navy veteran, former astronaut,
and current Democratic Senator of treason and called for his execution.
The crime? Questioning Trump’s crypto connections.
That's normal behavior now -- you've normalized it as you worked to destroy our country.
I
love David and his Hoggletts insisting that now's the time to come
together --as they try to divide Democrats. Now. After they've
destroyed the country. They need to shut the f**k up, grab a broom and
start cleaning up the mess that they made.
Naomi LaChance (ROLLING STONE) reports:
Amid a widespread crackdown on immigration and refugee programs, the Trump administration is slated to bring white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees on Monday, multiple news outlets reported. They will now have a pathway to American citizenship.
The move is the first in a "much larger-scale relocation effort," White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told reporters
on Friday. The Trump administration suspended the refugee resettlement
program on his first day in office for his second term and froze funding
for resettlement agencies. In Uganda, as one example, these cuts mean
that food rations for a million people have been cut off.
[. . .]
Elon Musk, the head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, was born in South Africa. He has said in a post on X that a political group is promoting a "white genocide" in the country, a claim that has been widely denied.
"Far-right-wing groups in South Africa actively go to America and
promulgate this idea of a white genocide because, of course, when you
have a high murder rate, white people do get murdered," Gareth Newham,
head of the justice and violence prevention program at the Institute of
Security Studies in South Africa told NBC News in February. White people are likely targeted because they are relatively wealthy, he said.
At the root of the Trump administration's claims is South Africa's recent expropriation law
that allows the government to seize land under certain circumstances.
Thirty years after the end of Apartheid, about seven percent of South
Africans are white - mainly descendants of Dutch settlers - but they own
almost three quarters of the land. So far, no land has been seized.
That
is outrageous. From time to time a drive-by e-mail comes in about how
I'm so angry. Yes, I am. I'm angry at all the pieces of crap on the
left that conspired to defeat Kamala Harris. I'm mad because you were
blind, I'm mad because you were wrong, I'm mad because so many of us
across this land are suffering because of your bulls**t.
This is from Ava and my "Media: OWNED finds Eoin Higgins owned by bad journalism:"
How do you miss that?
So many public details are missed, overlooked and ignored. Again, it reads like a first draft.
He notes Peter Thiel and misses a great deal there as well.
Peter
Thiel co-writes a book -- THE DIRVERSITY MYTH which is bad book that
tries to be like another really bad book from four years earlier, THE
BEAUTY MYTH. Nut job Naomi Wolf is pleased to buddy up to Peter these
days. Years ago, she wasn't quite grabbing onto the notion that
imitation was the sincerest form of flattery. (Her earlier anger over
the copying always made us laugh since Naomi's book ripped off the
lectures of Judith N. Shklar -- a point we've made here repeatedly for
two decades now.)
We bring that up not to just get another dig in at nut job Naomi, but also to point out that the co-writer is David Sacks.
Eion explains Sacks is "an old Stanford friend" of Peter Theil.
That's one way to describe him.
But
the detail that we'd zoom in on and that Eion misses? Sacks is from
South Africa. Grew up there. Came to America as an adult. Goodness.
The book notes how Thiel spent elementary years in South Africa back
when he was a German citizen. And, of course, we know Elon Musk learned
to embrace, love and dry hump racism from his South African father.
But Eion makes no connection.
Three
of Donald Chump's biggest donors are Whites from South Africa and it's
not worth noting? That silence from a few months ago to when the book
was published last month has not aged well. Sacks, for example, is more
than the single-sentence former friend of Thiel's from Stanford
scattered on a few pages. December 5th, Gabrielle Canon (GUARDIAN) reported:
Donald
Trump announced on Thursday that he was nominating the podcaster and
former PayPal chief operating officer David Sacks to be his White House
artificial intelligence and crypto czar, continuing a pattern of
rewarding big donors with political power.
And, of
course, last week found Chump announcing -- in the midst of his attacks
on immigrants -- that Whites from South Africa are now to become
priorities. Camilo Montoya-Galvez (CBS NEWS) explains:
President Trump on Friday directed government officials to prioritize
the resettlement of South Africans of European descent through the U.S.
refugee program, which he suspended during his first day in office.
In an executive order,
Mr. Trump accused the South African government of discriminating
against Afrikaners, an ethnic group in South Africa made up of
descendants of European colonists, mostly from the Netherlands, who
first arrived there in the 1600s.
Until the 1990s, White South
Africans of European descent ruled South Africa, enforcing the brutal
system of apartheid against the country's Black majority.
This week, President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump
appointee and billionaire businessman Elon Musk all attacked South
Africa in a flurry of social media posts.
The South African
government, which is made up of a coalition of diverse political
parties, responded firmly but diplomatically. President Cyril Ramaphosa
said the country would "not be bullied."
By Friday the White House had issued an executive order to
cut financial assistance to South Africa, citing disapproval of the
country's recent change to land policy and for bringing a genocide case against Israel to the International Court of Justice.
At CNN, Eve Brennan and Alejandra Jaramillo added:
South Africa’s foreign ministry called
the order a “great concern” and said it “(lacked) factual accuracy and
fails to recognize South Africa’s profound and painful history of
colonialism and apartheid,” adding that the move seemed “to be a
campaign of misinformation and propaganda aimed at misrepresenting our
great nation.”
“It is ironic that the executive order makes provision for
refugee status in the US for a group in South Africa that remains
amongst the most economically privileged, while vulnerable people in the
US from other parts of the world are being deported and denied asylum
despite real hardship,” the foreign ministry added in a statement
Saturday.
If anyone feels noting the above three stories on South Africa is 'a little much,' maybe they went to school with Eoin Higgins?
Because
the above is not minor. His whole attitude reeks of White privilege.
Such as when he's failing to grasp that Thiel's support of Ron Paul was
not despite of Paul's well known racism but actually because of the
politician's well known racism. Equally true, he never notes the racist
connection of rich supporters of Donald Chump to South Africa. Or
that, for example, Elon leaves South Africa because apartheid is
falling. Instead, he -- and Thiel -- just happen o leave South Africa,
the country that has allowed them to benefit their entire life from
their White skin while discriminating against Black people. The attacks
on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is briefly noted in terms of when
Musk took over Twitter and was appalled by the diversity he sees in the
company's work force. Higgins treats it as a quirk when, in fact, it's a
built-in factory feature of three White men (Musk, Thiel and Sacks)
spending their formative years in an apartheid state that fed and
deepened their bigotry and hate.
Higgins limited vision can't even see that the end of apartheid was relevant in terms of history and activism.
That's
obvious when he goes to attack Generation X and says they didn't have
to fight with their parent growing up and they didn't have to fight for
anything, "Yes, there were movements against US imperialism and support
of dictators in Central and South America. The WTO protests in Seattle
were huge. However, unlike the boomers or the millennials, Gen X did not
experience formative moments like the earthshaking battles of the
Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the Iraq War, or the Great
Recession."
That may be the part of the book where he
comes off the most uneducated and unaware. College students across the
US were huge leaders and participants in the global anti-apartheid
movement. They worked years and years on that. Did no one ever educate
him on the shanty towns built up on campuses all around this country?
It
was an awful book. And we marveled, Ava and I, over every White person
on YOUTUBE, MSNBC and PACIFICA who brought that idiot -- that racist,
Socialist idiot -- on a program to rave over that bad book. Factually
incorrect, poorly written and reeking of White privilege so great that
even the South African wing of MAGA was ignored.
Again, we've got a problem.
And
its not going to be one that hurts the White Socialists. Amy Goodman,
Katty van van, Norman Solomon, Higgins, Rashida Tlaib -- all those White
people aren't at risk. It's Black people. We're again at risk as
Chump rushes to bring in White people who supported apartheid in South
Africa and now see themselves as victims. Oh, how much fun that will be
for us Black people, right? That's what we're saying to each other in
the big meeting, "Let's get a lot more racists in this country -- but
let's not just get them from anywhere. Let's get them from a country
where racial discrimination was legal. That way they'll be really angry
and entitled."
One more time, we did not arrive at
this moment by accident. It didn't have to be this way. The refusal of
those people on the left who worked to defeat Kamala to beg for
forgiveness publicly for what they did, to even acknowledge what they
did, is the rift in the left -- don't say in the Democratic Party
because there is no rift in the Democratic Party. In the Democratic
Party, we are together and we know what needs to be done. I
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