Third Estate Sunday Review

Monday, December 02, 2024

Media: Journalistic Malpractice

A lot of stupid has happened since November 5th. The chatting bobble heads have told us one thing and then rushed to tell us some thing different. The left media -- let's be clear -- is an embarrassment. That's THE NATION, COMMON DREAMS, DEMOCRACY NOW!, THE PROGRESSIVE, IN THESE TIMES and so, so many more -- including YOUTUBE programs.

Now those outlets? Yes, they did work to attack Kamala Harris over and over for three months solid and their actions were harmful to the campaign and suppressed turnout. Enough weeks have passed to make clear that they're never going to take accountability. They're going to lie and they're going to look the other way. Taking accountability for their own sexism and racism will not happen. They'll instead pretend like it never happened.

Just like they pretend that they are providing real help and real reporting. The bulk provide nothing and don't even act as an accurate amplifier of basic facts. But aren't they out there begging for more money and aren't they pretending that they work?

They don't work. They don't work for you and they don't work for us. They type and pretend or they speak and pretend but work -- actual work -- requires, get this, work.

They are uniformed and they spread their stupidity wide and far.

We're going to look at three examples of media malpractice.

First, there's an upcoming election on April 1st. What's going on? Accused sex trafficker Matt Gaetz was in the House of Republicans last month. He and Trump expected that he was going to be in the Trump administration next year. Satan Trump had declared his plans to nominate Gaetz to be the Attorney General of the United States on November 13th. Gaetz immediately resigned his House seat.

Rather strange for a number of reasons including he didn't yet have the office. It had not gone to the Senate for approval and it can't. Let's stop there because when we read a portion of this back to smart and educated people we know, they told us we were wrong about something: recess appointments.

We weren't wrong. It's your crap ass left media -- especially on YOUTUBE -- that has promoted a lie because yet again these uneducated lazy talking heads didn't do the actual work.

Matt could not been a recess appointment in November or December or even, pay attention, for the bulk of next month. Why is that?

Satan is not the president. That's not talking recounts or anything else spewing across the internet. That's merely fact. Learn your Constitution, it is your friend. Much more so that the bulk of the idiots on YOUTUBE.

Until he's sworn in, Satan is not president.

He can jawbone all he wants -- like a YOUTUBER -- but he's not president.

Joe Biden is president. Until Trump is sworn in, he can't do anything and that would include recess appoint Gaetz or anyone else to a post requiring Senate confirmation.

So why did Gaetz resign if he wasn't about to become Attorney General? Most pointed out that, had he not resigned, two days later, November 15th, the House Ethics Committee report on their investigations into the multiple charges and claims of Gaetz drugging women, assaulting women -- under age and of age -- and so much more was going to be released. By resigning, he stopped the release of the report or hope to.

He didn't stop the chatter and outraged America -- an outraged America that included Republican in the US Senate. As details began leaking about what was in the House Ethics Committee's investigation report, Gaetz had to bow out before the flesh wound he created on Satan Trump grew deeper.

So Gaetz is gone from Congress and the idiot governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis announced that, to fill Gaetz's empty seat, a special election will take place. The primary will be on January 28th and the general election will be on April 1st -- known statewide as Ron DeFailure's Day.

And here's where the wheels fall off the cart. A Florida state senator. Randy Fine, wants Gaetz's old House seat and Satan Trump has endorsed him -- repeating state primaries are scheduled for January 28th. But Satan's already pimping Fine.

And here's where COMMON DREAMS comes in with yet another stupid and uninformed report.

Is Fine a threat? Satan's endorsement alone is enough to prove to us that he is.

But Fine Tweets:

The “Hebrew Hammer” is coming. @RashidaTlaib
and @IlhanMN
might consider leaving before I get there. #BombsAway

CAIR really compromised its integrity in 2024. And they jumped all over the Tweet as a physical threat to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. It's not. Any sane brain can grasp that. It's the sort of trashy boast a Dwayne Johnson might have made when he was a TV 'wrestler.'

But there's COMMON DREAMS and Julia Conley rushing in to sport their stupidity.

How do we count their stupidity?

First, it's not a threat. It's an ignorant boast from an idiot. They look ridiculous presenting it as a threat of violence. Second, see what we did above when we pasted in the Tweet? There's no link you can click on. As leftists who saw the interference of the racist from South Africa Elon Musk? We're not helping to popularize TWITTER. (See our "I-I-I-I-I-I Ain't Gonna Tweet on TWITTER (Ava and C.I.).") But if you pull up Julia's "Muslim Rights Group Calls for Probe Into GOP Lawmaker's Threat to Omar, Tlaib " at COMMON DREAMS -- published November 28th -- you'll see that they're not bothered by it. Elon has muscled himself into Satan's administration. He is pure evil and a racist -- with Nazi grandparents, a Nazi mother, a South African father and that father's South African parents. So not a threat of physical violence (leaving the left looking like alarmist fools -- a trap that the left fell into over and over from 2017 through 2020) and the article also promotes Elon Musk and his social media. But that's not all. A full feature on Randy Fine, someone who wants to be in the US Congress. COMMON DREAMS uses its name to build him up, to say to the right-wing, this tiny player is a big deal, vote for him.

This moron is going to be running for elected office in an election to be held April 1st and Julia and COMMON DREAMS are writing about him. About him.

Not about Gay Valimont and Stanley Gray. They aren't mentioned in the long, long, too long article -- way too long to go over and over one damn Tweet. But Gay and Stanley are both planning to run for that seat in Congress and they are both Democrats.

If Randy Fine is a problem -- and we agree he is -- and you're a left site that doesn't want him elected, you name the two planning to run against him. And if that number continues to grow, you name every one of them. The primaries next month. And COMMON DREAMS is publicizing the MAGA creep but can't even name the Democrats who have announced or filed to run?

That's journalistic malpractice.

What are you doing with all the money people send you? It doesn't look like you're practicing journalism. The problems we just noted, a high school senior on a student newspaper would know those basics.

Let's move to another example.

Sam Seder is a comic. Not a particularly funny one. He's never had a stand-up career that really paid off. The DSA is the Democratic Socialists of America. They aren't Democrats. They're from a fringe group that, if you go back far enough, were spending the early seventies defending the US war on Vietnam. DSA comes from that rancid ground.

Today, JACOBIN is the bible of the DSA. That would be the same JACOBIN that allowed a podcaster doing a podcast for them to attack Katie Halper. Katie's got 101 problems and we won't pretend she doesn't. However, there was no reason for her to be attacked in that segment. And rational people grasped that. JACOBIN did not. They went with the host attacking Katie. A host who is no longer with JACOBIN and is now known as the grifter she actually always was. Anahit Misak Kasparian is this century's Jeane Kirkpatrick -- the woman raised Socialist who turned on the Democratic Party to become a neocon and advise Ronald Reagan. Ana Kasparian's right-wing grift was evident long before she began attacking transgender people, trafficking in racism and become a defender (and member) of MAGA.

Last week, idiot met idiot on THE MAJORITY REPORT's segment "Harris Campaign Had Volunteers 'Knocking On Republican Doors' During Wisconsin Campaign." What happens when a self-identified DSA idiot calls in?

Journalstic malpractice.

Sam -- and Emma -- let the idiot spout his crazy. He had been block walking -- he didn't use the term and we're pretty sure he's never heard of it -- in Wisconsin ahead of the election. Kamala Harris' campaign, he whined, sent him to Republican areas!!!!

Emma and Sam tried to console him.

With no adults in the room, the viewers were left with the impression something awful had happened -- that this was proof of bad campaign tactics on the part of Kamala's campaign.

No.

You're a stupid idiot if you bought that crap.

Block walking. A campaign and/or political party depends upon volunteers to block walk. We have both done that many times over the years. Has Sam? Emma?

Sometimes, unions will transport people to block walk and actually pay them for it. (We have never been paid for block walking and one of us, C.I., back in college refused the payment the union was attempting to offer at the end of the day.)

With block walking, you're going through a neighborhood. It takes several hours. You go door to door, you explain you're canvasing for whatever candidate or candidates or party. You ask if the person has a few minutes to talk? Some people will say no. Some people will slam their doors in your face. Some will want to talk. Some who do support your candidate, some who do are not supporters of your candidate but are interested in politics and want to have an exchange.

That's block walking.

DSA moron couldn't believe that Kamala's team 'wasted' time and money on this effort.

It's one of the more effective tools, first off. Second, it was a general election. Not every Democrat is going to vote for the Democrat in the race (Jeane Kirkpatrick never voted for a Democrat again after Jimmy Carter beat Scoop Jackson in the 1976 Democratic Party primary) not every Republican is going to vote for a Republican candidate and a lot of people are undecided ahead of an election.

Block walking is a means to try to connect with voters face to face, one-on-one.

You need to down every street in every state.

But even more to the point, Wisconsin? It's an open primary state.

We doubt the DSA idiot or Sam or Emma grasps what that means since they all refused to mention -- let alone address -- that reality.

An open primary state? Anyone can vote in the Democratic Party primary or the Republican Party primary. States with closed primaries? You have to be a registered Democrat to vote in the Democratic primary. you have to be a registered Republican to vote in the Republican primary.

Meaning? Ohio political parties have no concrete information on who is what.

There's no "We have 98% registered Republicans in this neighborhood."

You could try extrapolating from who they voted into office in a district. But that would be a lot of guess work. And many, many streets make up a district.

The DSA idiot is a moron whining about a problem that he basically invented. Learn politics, you damn fool.

And that goes double for Emma and Sam.

They presented misinformation and signed off on it. Because they're idiots.

Stop talking and/or writing about things you are ignorant of.

Your bad media is not helping the left. You advancing lies are actually harming us all.

Before we move to our third example, let's note a COMMON DREAMS article already covered in Friday's "Iraq snapshot," where Jake Johnson wanted to interview know-nothing Ralph Nader -- a man who has refused to apologize for the over one million Iraqis who died because of Ralph's vanity campaign. Jake Johnson wanted to talk to him instead about the Democratic Party -- Ralph is not a Democrat and he's a joke, a tired and old joke. We mention that to note Mike's "Idiot(s) of the Week:"

This week's dishonor goes to an outlet and to a person.

So the winners are COMMON DREAMS and Ralph Nader.

In Friday's snapshot (in full at the end of my post), C.I. notes the various levels of stupidity to this nonsense and how Ralph needs to apologize to the Iraqi people I agree he does. He's partly responsible.

What I will add to what C.I. details in the snapshot is that, Ralph's bad column is entitled "The Energy Gap: Why Democrats Keep Losing to GOP Plutocrats."

Huh?

What election did Ralph Nader ever win?

He's run. In 1996, in 2000, in 2004 and in 2008 -- every time for president. And he never won. He never even came close.

But he's going to tell us why Democrats lose?

Idiot.

He is a War Criminal as much as Bully Boy Bush. He needs to just shut up, find a nursing home and leave the rest of us alone.

Very good point. COMMON DREAMS is burying us with one example of journalistic malpractice after another.

But let's wait one more moment to note Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Part owner of THE NATION and full time ugly, Katty van van presents herself as left. She's not. She was rightly dubbed the peace resister in the '00s because she wouldn't allow her writers to cover War Resisters. She insisted that doing so could result in the government going after their discounted postal rates.

She's always been a fake ass, a White woman living in Harlem in a mansion as a result of her grandfather ripping off Black artists such as Lena Horne. She's always been a fake ass presenting herself as an intellectual while most who went to college with her were busy noting that, while they did research, she slept with the professor. She's always been a fake ass declaring herself a feminist while refusing to publish women in THE NATION -- see our study of who THE NATION published in 2007 under Katty's leadership "The Nation featured 491 male bylines in 2007 -- how many female ones?"

Last week, Katty managed to reach a new low, even for her.

Let's note Trina, "In the snapshot for yesterday (which I'll end this post with in a minute), C.I. rightly calls out the awful Katrina vanden Heuvel for her posting an anti-abortion Tweet. We now know exactly who she is. Kat and Betty also call Katrina out. I think the three women -- C.I., Betty and Kat -- have said it all and nailed it down but I will say I support them and I agree with them."

Katrina remains on Twitter and has not moved to BLUESKY -- note THE GUARDIAN has, NPR has, many people and outlets have. But Katty van van's all about racism and sexism -- as she made clear with the non-stop assaults on Kamala THE NATION published day after day in August, September and October.

And it was from Twitter that she posted this.

No woman needs "forgiveness" from a man for how she decides to handle her own health issues. Right there, you've got Katty van van signing off men control women's bodies. She should be ashamed. But grasp that was the least of it.

This man she reTweeted? He's a Trump supporter. (Didn't vote for him, doesn't live in the country.) He's also a raging homophobe. Read Betty, Kat and the snapshot for more.

This is journalistic malpractice on every level. A supposed left woman from a supposed left outlet is reposting a man who thinks he is in charge of a woman's body, and this man reposted is a Trump supporting homophobe.

She should be sued.

Now let's wind down with, you guessed it, COMMON DREAMS. Yes, them again. Yes, Jake Johnson again. The article is entitled "Is Bernie Sanders Launching a Third Party? 'Not Right Now, No'." One thing you have to understand about COMMON DREAMS is that they have no common sense when it comes to Senator Bernie Sanders. They lust after him so, we're surprised that they have yet to feature Bernie in a tasteful nude pictorial.

There's never a moment of Bernie that COMMON DREAMS doesn't rush to celebrate -- not a single moment in Bernie's long list of one non-accomplishment after another. He's on the verge of serving his 34th year in Congress and yet there are current members of the Congress who will be starting their third year next month and can point to actual accomplishments.

That some idiot thought an 83-year-old man was going to start a new political party was bad enough but that they thought it would be do-nothing Bernie is much, much worse.

And while it would be great if COMMON DREAMS could stop acting like TMZ and also stop pretending Bernie was Drake, that's not the worst of it.

This is:

The senator said the upstart campaign of Independent Dan Osborn—a union steamfitter who launched an unexpectedly close challenge to two-term Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) while shunning the state's Democratic establishment—"should be looked at as a model for the future."

"He took on both political parties," Sanders said of Osborn, who outperformed Vice President Kamala Harris by 14 percentage points in Nebraska and is now launching a PAC aimed at helping working-class candidates run for office.

"He took on the corporate world," Sanders continued. "He ran as a strong trade unionist. Without party support, getting heavily outspent, he got through to working-class people all over Nebraska. It was an extraordinary campaign, and it tells me that the American people are sick and tired of seeing the rich getting richer. They think billionaires dominate both political parties. They want real change, and Dan's campaign raised those issues in a very significant way."

Wow. At last, a path forward for the party! At last, no faux nonsense that's really an attempt to push the Dems to the right.

Oh.

Wait.

That's exactly what Bernie's doing (yet again) and what COMMON DREAMS is enabling them.

Who's the moron from Nebraska? We don't know. We're not Bernie groupies. So we looked him up. And found one unimpressive detail after another as well as the fact that Bernie's yet again lying. We could provide multiple examples but we think Jacob Crosse, at WSWS, did it better than we ever could:

Sanders presents Osborn as a champion of the working class in opposition to both the Democrats and Republicans, when the reality is the opposite. Prior to running for Senate, Osborn was the president of Local 50G of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) in Omaha, Nebraska. Throughout his Senate campaign, Osborn touted his stint as a union bureaucrat to posture as a friend of the working class.

However, Osborn used his role not to fight for the workers against the corporation, but to strangle their struggle and impose a pro-company sellout. During the 2021 Kellogg’s strike, Osborn waged a national chauvinist campaign to keep striking workers in the US isolated from their class brothers and sisters internationally.

In a broadside against Mexican workers, Osborn said in an interview at the time:

A lot of Americans probably don’t have too much issue with the Nike or Under Armor hats being made elsewhere, or even our vehicles, but when they start manufacturing our food down where they are out of the FDA control and OSHA control, I have a huge problem with that.

In a preview of his anti-immigrant Senate run, he campaigned for a boycott of “made-in-Mexico Nabisco products.”

After the workers had struck for 77 days, Osborn helped Kellogg’s push through a contract betrayal that expanded the hated “two-tier” wage and benefits system and led to the closure of the Omaha plant and destruction of 550 jobs.

The Democrats failed to field a candidate and Osborn only narrowly lost his Senate race against incumbent Republican Deb Fischer. In the course of his campaign, Osborn never once pointed out Trump’s fascist politics or condemned him for having tried to overturn the 2020 election. Instead, Osborn solidarized himself with Trump and claimed “Fischer stabbed Donald Trump in the back” for calling on Trump to drop out of the presidential race in 2016.

During and following his campaign, Osborn pledged to work with Trump to “secure the border,” including through the completion of Trump’s border wall.

[. . .]

In addition to Sanders, those endorsing Osborn’s anti-communist, anti-immigrant, pro-bureaucracy campaign include Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara and elements of the trade union bureaucracy, such as United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and Dustin Guastella, director of operations for Teamsters Local 623.

In a November 22 article published in the Guardian, Sunkara and Guastella praised “Osborn’s ideas” and his “class background,” which, they wrote, “was key to his being able to deliver a credible populist appeal.”

Sunkara and Guastella called on the nationalist labor bureaucracies to recruit “talented candidates” and work with “organizations like Osborn’s to get these candidates the funds they need to win elections.”

The “organization” to which Sunkara and Guastella were referring is Osborn’s political action committee (PAC), known as the “Working Class Heroes Fund.” The PAC, which allows anonymous donors, raised nearly $8 million by mid-October, according to the Nebraska Examiner, which noted that Osborn “benefited from roughly $20 million in outside spending on his behalf” during the campaign.

The “about” section on the Working Class Heroes Fund website explains that the purpose of the PAC is provide money for politicians to get elected and unite “the working class across party lines.” In other words, to forge pro-imperialist “national unity.”

Get it?

We're being tricked and lied to over and over by a left media that wants our money, that wants us to donate to them. A left media that rightly calls out Mika and Joe but we'll never, ever own up to their own mistakes. Congratulations to MEDIASTOUCH NEWS which is setting new streaming records and to other YOUTUBERS such as TABITHA SPEAKS, COACH D and Danielle Moodie who are increasing their subscribers due to strong and important work. But the bulk of left media is being produced by idiots who, forget actual research, can't even carry out a basic GOOGLE search. It has to stop and, if it doesn't, maybe it's time for Americans to join together in a class action lawsuit against this continued journalistic malpractice.

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Media: You apparently can't teach common sense to journalists (Ava and C.I.)

Who killed Cock Robin? Forget that fairy tale, who killed MSNBC?

The cable 'news' network is being 'spun off' -- dumped? -- by the parent corporation so they really didn't need an embarrassment last week but they got one -- day after day.

The embarrassment is MORNING JOE. The well known talk show doesn't air 23 our of 24 hours daily on MSNBC -- it just feels that way. Four. That's the number of hours it airs each morning, Monday through Friday. It became a morning staple over the years. The talk show hosts are the married couple Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski with Willie Geist tagging along as the family pet.

Joe and Mika and the whole crew spent years telling you how awful Donald Trump was. Well, the years after the November 2016 election. Prior to that, they flattered and fawned over Donald Trump and helped elect him. Then they went a to a Trump party, things got ugly (Donald would say it was Mika's bad plastic surgery -- he would say that and he did say that). That's when the media whores and their pimp broke up. So imagine the shock at the start of last week when Joe and Mika announced they'd gone to Trump's home over the weekend to patch things up.

Common sense?

They have none which is how the meet-up happened.

But let's stay with the lack of common sense.

Alleged pedophile and sex trafficker Matt Gaetz had to abandon his nomination for Attorney General of the United States; however, please note this came only after the disgusting foursome of Matt Stoller, Lee Fang, Ryan Grim and Glenneth Greenwald championed and defended his nomination.

Glenneth, a transphobe who hates lesbians as a class, went so far as to insist Matt Gaetz had earned the right to be confirmed it on the issue of gay rights alone. He Tweeted, "He was also the key figure in having Florida repeal its ban on same-sex couples adopting (sorry, just facts)."

Glory Hole Glenn is always a liar. That wasn't a fact that he served up, it was a lie.

Glenneth knows his aged fan base swallows any lie he tells and he's no longer important enough for most to bother fact checking. He figured he'd get away with yet another lie.

"He was also the key figure in having Florida repeal its ban on same-sex couples adopting (sorry, just facts)."

What does that say to you? That statement implies that Matt Gaetz ending the ban on gay and lesbian couples adopting.

Lie. Lie. Lie.

Where to begin?

How about the fact that the ban -- pushed by Anita Bryant -- was not on same-sex couples. It was on any gay person.

What a stupid idiot.

He's always hated lesbians and that's why he missed March of 2002 when Rosie O'Donnell came out as a lesbian. Steve Rothaus (KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS) reported that month:

Rosie O'Donnell learned last year that Florida is the only state that flat-out won't allow gay people to adopt. That gays can become foster parents in the Sunshine State, but not permanent adoptive parents.

The TV star and magazine editor -- who lives in Miami Beach with her partner and three children who were adopted in New York -- suddenly realized she would not be allowed to keep the 4-year-old foster daughter entrusted to her by the state of Florida.

"She will soon be adopted by friends of mine. I am not legally able to adopt this child, because I am gay," an outraged O'Donnell writes in the introduction to a book, Too High A Price: The Case Against Restricting Gay Parenting, to be published this week by the American Civil Liberties Union.

O'Donnell decided to out herself and join forces with the ACLU after reading about Steven Lofton and Roger Croteau, a Miami Beach couple fighting in court to adopt their three foster sons. On Aug. 30, 2001, a federal judge in Miami upheld a 1977 Florida law that prohibits gays and lesbians from adopting.

At that same time, only one other state prohibited gay adoptions -- and that was Mississippi -- but, pay attention Glory Glenn -- it prohibited couples adopting -- gay couples -- it did not, like Florida did -- prohibit gay couples and an individual gay man or lesbian from adoption.

"He was also the key figure in having Florida repeal its ban on same-sex couples adopting (sorry, just facts)."

So Glenn the lousy lawyer was wrong -- he was wrong when he said the ban was on same-sex couples. No, you damn fool, you damn liar, the ban was on gay couples and on a single gay man adopting and on a single lesbian adopting. If you're too lazy to read the original law, you could refer to 2004's LOFTON V SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES which argued that there was a difference between a single straight person adopting a child and a single gay person.

Glenn's a liar and a loser.

"B-b-b-but, Ava and C.I., he was right about Matt Gatez being key to the ban being repealed!!!!"

No. He was lying there as well. There are two more lies to cover. One is that Matt was key to the ban being repealed. He's referring to Matt adding an amendment to a bill in 2015. Now, more reality, though Matt has a 'son' who he 'adopted' that many in Florida have thought was his lover, Matt's no friends of LGBTQs and never was. The legislators who served with Matt that we spoke to noted that Matt didn't want the bill to pass -- the one he added the amendment to. He added it, we were told, at the last minute hoping to kill the bill and it almost did kill the bill in Florida's senate (Matt was in the lower chamber). It wasn't seen as a bill that was going to pass -- especially not as the senate received it three weeks before the end of their session..

So there's that lie.

But here's the big lie, Rosie and the ACLU brought the issue to attention in 2002. Matt acted in 2015. Guess what happened between those two events?

In 2010, the courts found the 1977 law to be unconstitutional and it was no longer enforceable (IN RE: GILL).

Oops!

Bitch slapped across his lying face.

You need to stop believing that Glenn tells the truth and you especially need to grasp that he never knows the law.

Common sense should have told you decades ago that Glenneth doesn't know the law but he sure knows how to lie.

Common sense is your friend. Learn to trust it.

Common sense, for example, has long told us that Zac and Cody on THE VANGUARD have huge problems. And last week, at five minutes in, of their "Bernie Sanders Teases COMEBACK in CRYPTIC Post CALLING OUT The Democratic Party" episode you saw that. As usual, Zac was running off the mouth, fanboying, with no facts, no context and no common sense. And it got to the point where Gavin had to disagree with him. It was like when Krystal and Saager disagree on BREAKING POINTS -- uncomfortable but you knew it was coming.

As obvious as hatred spewing out of a MAGA.

If you missed it, MAGA moron Nancy Mace has been attacking Sarah McBride. Both women are in Congress. When Nancy's not obsessed with her own camel toe, she's trying to prevent Sarah from using the restroom. Mira Lazine (LGBTQ NATION) reports:

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) just revealed on X that she is selling shirts to attack Representative-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE), who is the first transgender person elected to Congress.

“The Left wants to NORMALIZE balls in women’s stalls. Hell no. I’m NOT backing down,” she said. “Every purchase will help FUEL MY FIGHT to protect women and girls across America. HOLD THE LINE!”

Where there is hate and crazy, there is always Marjorie Taylor Green who soon had to join Nancy and Conversion Case of the House Mike Johnson in attacking Sarah.

We know they won't care but what the MAGA trash is doing is setting up violence in this country. How those three have acted? You wouldn't let a middle schooler get away with it. This is how they show maturity in Congress. They're hateful, they're trashy and they are an embarrassment to the country -- as anyone with common sense can see.

Common sense would have told Mika and Joe that scraping and bow before Trump would destroy their ratings. And their supplication has, in fact, destroyed their ratings.

After the backlash, Joe and Mika began whispering to the press and -- as unnamed sources -- got the media to state that they did it because Donald hates Joe and is always bringing up Joe's dead intern and how Joe might have murdered her. The murder took place in Florida -- home of Matt Gaetz! And Matt was about to become Attorney General of the United States!!!!

They just knew, they just knew, that the death would be opened up and examined if they didn't kneel before Donald.

There is someone who could have provided some perspective on this topic: Sam Seder.

But though he did cover it on his YOUTUBE program THE MAJORITY REPORT -- he didn't really report on it or provide context or much of anything.

In that regard, he was like the rest of the media -- a collective that refused to ask basic questions but instead flaunted their lack of common sense.

If Joe didn't kill her, why was he worried.

We're not saying he killed her.

We are saying there was a lot more to that rumor.

As we remember the rumor, that we looked up in 2005, after having heard about it on . . . THE MAJORITY REPORT on AIR AMERICA RADIO, Joe wasn't in Florida at the time of his intern's death. So if he didn't kill her, why was he so worried about anyone looking into the death?

Maybe because the rumor was never just that he killed her. He was not present.

The original rumors, as presented by Sam Seder on AIR AMERICA RADIO's THE MAJORITY REPORT, were much more than what the media said last week.

Mr. Scarborough had an intern.

She was found dead in his office. Not his office in D.C. -- Mr. Scarborough was a U.S. House of Representative -- but in his home office. Some rumors said he killed her. He was not in Florida at the time. So some rumors said he hired someone to kill her. Why? Supposedly, she was pregnant with his child and that is what it was all about.

Affair!!!!!

Yes, that was the rumor that was broadcast on AIR AMERICA RADIO's THE MAJORITY REPORT.

If Joe didn't kill her -- and we don't believe he did -- what did Mika and Joe have to worry about?

The only thing would be that the intern and her boss were having an affair.

That is the only reason to worry about a probe into this long ago death.

Why would that matter? Because Joe's sleazy but refashioned himself as someone of character. Because the intern died three months before Joe married his second wife. Because Joe trashed Bill Clinton for years and years over Bill's affair with Monica Lewinsky -- Joe usually managed to work the term "intern" in six or seven times when raging to the media about it.

Joe's a sick man. And MORNING JOE today depends upon America not knowing that. If the audience knew that he was sleeping with an intern -- or even suspected it -- that would knock off some of the varnish he so carefully applied over the years. And if people were examining that, they might examine other things. Like how, as late as July of 2004, Joe was lying and falsely linking al Qaeda to Iraq -- insisting Iraq was who attacked the US on 9/11. Of course, most people have forgotten that long before MORNING JOE, he had another program on MSNBC entitled SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY.

Saturday, Rebecca made a strong case of how Mika and Joe kissing the ring harmed the talk show hosts ("they destroyed their own brand"). But as bad as that was, even worse would be for today's MORNING JOE viewers to be reminded of Joe's real past.

Monday, November 18, 2024

I-I-I-I-I-I Ain't Gonna Tweet on TWITTER (Ava and C.I.)

It's really something to watch the parade of endless Anglo White people across corporate media and on YOUTUBE pretending that the election was not impacted by racism and that we need to do this or that -- usually stop supporting minorities -- in order to win.

Democratic 'strategist' (nut job) James Carville spent last week lamenting that, unlike Bill Clinton with his Sister Souljah moment, Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris hadn't found a Black person to put down and go off on during the campaign.

Back in 2021, Adam Johnson (THE COLUMN) noted:

Over the past couple of years, political and corporate consultant James Carville has been on PBS, MSNBC, CNN, Vox, and an assortment of other outlets with the same message: Democrats have gotten “too woke,” “normal people” “don’t like them,” and they need to “learn how to talk to Middle America.” They have to drop the “far-left nonsense” and appeal to “everyday” people. It’s a message Carville, a Simple Country Political Consultant, has spouted for years, and it frequently leads to viral moments picked up by other outlets, namely right-wing media, complete with centrist and liberal pundits nodding along in agreement. It seems so simple, so folksy, so authentic!

It's racism, that's all it is. And all it's ever been. Woke, old man Carville insists, lost the election. Defund The Police, he insisted, lost the election. Who the hell was running on Defund The Police in 2024? That was in the lead up to the 2019 and 2020. Did the old racist's mind finally collapse.

As noted on Roland S. Martin's show Sunday, losers like Jon Tester weren't running on 'woke.' It doesn't fit analysis for this election. But, again as note on Roland S. Martin's show Sunday (see below), it does fit with Carville's private conversations that always preach racism for a campaign and insist that Black people be knocked around by the candidate.

We watched in horror as another media week passed where White people held media conversations with other White people and the token trained to repeat lies while avoiding the growing Black anger over what the White left did.

They will go to any lengths to avoid this topic. THE BITUATION ROOM, for example, brought on a Latina joke who piddled in the litter box, like a well trained house pet. She and the host Francie Pants talked about how Kamala's campaign -- and Democrats -- failed the immigrant community with deportations and no path to citizenship. What a load of garbage. First off, that puts the onus on Kamala and, second off, it pretends that Donald Trump wasn't calling immigrants killers and talking about mass deportations.

Reality: Latinas and especially Latinas voted against their own interest and did so due to racism.

Their racism and hostility towards a Black woman president was more important to them than the very real danger that Donald Trump represented. Instead of addressing that, they embraced racism while lying to themselves that this wouldn't apply to them.

As we've noted repeatedly for months now, a round up of, for example, Latinos to toss immigrants out of this country is not only targeting 'peaceful' Latinos, it's targeting all of them.

People will be pulled in, American citizens who are Latinos. Because when you racially profile, that's what happens. It happens over and over.

Racism fueled the voters and and 'independent' media encouraged it with their attacks on Kamala daily --at THE PROGRESSIVE, at IN THESE TIMES, at DEMOCRACY NOW!, at THE NATION, at THE MAJORITY REPORT, at . . .

But James Carville wants to attack 'woke' and policies proposed before the last election cycle.

Chloe Berger (FORTUNE) reports:

Musk set up $1 million sweepstakes for those who signed a petition by American PAC, though he was later sued by misled voters who found out the winners were allegedly not randomly selected. His super PAC backing Trump spent about $200 million in supporting the candidate, a source told the Associated Press. Musk alone is said to have spent more than $130 million bolstering Trump.

US House Rep Seth Moulton used that high, squeaky voice of his last week repeatedly to attack trans people. When people rightly objected to Seth scapegoating trans people, he declared that the criticism of him demonstrated the Democratic Party had lost its common sense.

No, it proved that we call out craven politicians who lie -- the sort of craven people who go there entire adult lives unmarried until they want to run for president and don't want voters to think that they are gay.

Grasp that. He was nearing forty and unmarried and apparently happy -- dare we say "gay" -- over that decision. To see the happy couple today is to see the sort of sparks and chemistry one last encountered when Jodie Foster starred opposite Richard Gere in SOMERSBY.

The quickie marriage didn't result in his winning the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2020 and attacking trans people won't help Democrats win in 2026 or 2028.

Dan Merica (AP) notes of Elon Musk's attempt to busy the US election:

The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO provided the vast majority of the money to America PAC, which focused on low-propensity and first-time voters, according to the person, who was not authorized to disclose the figure publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

America PAC’s work was aided by a March ruling from the Federal Election Commission that paved the way for super PACs to coordinate their canvassing efforts with campaigns, allowing the Trump campaign to rely on the near-unlimited money of the nation’s most high-profile billionaire to boost turnout in deep-red parts of the country. That allowed the campaign to spend the money they saved on everything from national ad campaigns to targeted outreach toward demographics Democrats once dominated.

Garbage media -- THE NATION, et al that begs for your money to stay afloat -- elected to spend day after day attacking Kamala Harris and depressing turnout. Black women were repeatedly attacked on social media for openly supporting Kamala Harris. But the problem is trans people?

And the week before? We got old man racist Bernie Sanders telling us it was working class people.

You know what connects this nonsense, all of this nonsense?

Racism.

Some of the racists are asking what they can do now? In the face of Black women saying no to free labor, no to showing up at your protests, no to all you nonsense, some have asked: What can we do -- with the "now" implied.

Golly gee, what could you do?

Isn't it kind of obvious?

Get the hell off of TWITTER.

And why do you have to be told that.

TWITTER is the home of racism, sexism and homophobia.

It is owned by Elon Musk who used all three and the money you help him make to destroy Democratic Party chances in the election.

Why is it that, except for Jamie Lee Curtis, this is a conversation taking place only among Black Americans?

White Americans, you shouldn't have to ask others what you can do. You should just be getting off TWITTER. Do THREADS, do BLUESKY, do whatever, but get the hl off of TWITTER.

Can Bernie do that? Can racist Katrina vanden Heuvel? In fact, how dare you purchase a magazine started by abolitionists and then take to a racist platform like TWITTER.

The best thing the Democratic Party can immediately do to save itself is to get off TWITTER. And it doesn't cost them a damn cent to do this and stand against racism, sexism and homophobia.

But note that we have to make like Little Steven begging people not to play Sun City.

At least those perpetuating racism by playing Sun City got paid for their actions. TWITTER's not paying you crap. And you can't walk away?

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Danielle walked away. BLUESKY works just as well as TWITTER and it comes without the racism, sexism and homophobia. Also you're not putting money into South African racist Elon Musk's pocket.

I-I-I-I-I-I ain't gonna Tweet on TWITTER? Until you can say that, just accept that we all see you as the racist that you truly are.

Monday, November 11, 2024

Media: White supremacy won the 2024 election (Ava and C.I.)

Do we ever get tired of making the hard calls? Do we ever. For example? Saturday a YOUTUBE video went up by a content creator who means well but maybe educate yourself?

It was stated that the GOP had won the presidency, the Senate and it looked like House "and if you include the Supreme Court, it's a what -- quadrifecta."

No. Just no.

The US government has three branches of government. The executive branch is headed by the president, the legislative branch is headed by Congress and the judicial branch is headed by the Supreme Court.

There is no quadrifecta -- is that even a word? There is only a trifecta when it comes to the federal government. Three branches, that's how it was set up and that's how it remains. And a YOUTUBE segment hosted by Robert Reich should not make that mistake -- Reich served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

It's not just wrong in terms of the government, it's also wrong linguistically. Yes, a "trifecta" would be three. But there's no such thing as a "quadrifecta." The term is "superfecta."

Now we're furious over the election results and we feel only marginally better about the commentary which has followed. Take Silly and Billy. Cenk Uygur dubbed THE VANGUARD BOYS that -- and they thought us calling them Zac and Cody was bad. Cenk shouldn't have been weighing in to begin with. We'll come back to that.

Actually, it's the same thing. Zac and Gavin were rejecting Cenk's critique (good) and they wanted everyone to know that they were strong on trans issues (good) and that Cenk was upset with them over this. Huh? On that last one, huh?

Revising history, especially recent history, never works with us.

No, Zac and Cody, you're not champions of trans rights. You're not even really defenders of trans rights. We remember when you two were all in for Marianne Williams and she went on Bill Maher's awful podcast. Bill spewed transphobia. Marianne just sat there. She didn't defend trans people.

Does that jog your memories, Zac and Cody?

We remember it. And we remembered what followed.

Genius!

That's what you two said. Marianne showed genius by refusing to take the bait -- by take the bait, you meant she refused to defend trans people. She just ignored the comments and talked about what she wanted to talk about.

This was genius you both insisted.

How much pot do you two slackers smoke? Do you honestly not remember that? Or do you just pray that after you make these videos everyone forgets what you said?

It's the post election phase and everyone acts as though this is new and the participants are being honest -- excuse us, every chattering fool acts as though this is new.

There's nothing new about what's going on.

And this nonsense chatter? It also has nothing to do with what took place.

This is not about the election or what actually took place. This is about a bunch of liars twisting facts and events -- as they always do -- to try to change the Democratic Party.

The first who should see themselves out of this conversation? Those who were candidates at one time or another but never earned a single vote in the electoral college. That not only nullifies the opinions of Ralph Nader and grifter Jill Stein, it also means snake oil saleswoman Marianne Williamson and Cenk as well.

Those four -- and many others -- failed to make a case to the American people but now want to counsel us?

Just sit down. That especially goes for Ralph. At 90 years old, he's the most successful presidential candidate the Green Party has ever had. But that's not saying much, is it? And that was from his 2000 run. He didn't win. But he helped put Bully Boy Bush in the White House -- a move that resulted in the deaths of over one million Iraqis.

Now Ralph can run. Anyone can. We're not saying that they can't.

We are saying that they are responsible for what happens because of their run.

And when you trot out Ralph at COMMON DREAMS or any of the other outlets 24 years later, he damn well also needs to take responsibility for the deaths that resulted him from his half-assed and idiotic run. Amy Goodman and all the other idiots promoted him back in the day. They don't do accountability either.

But 2024 was a very important election and if spoiler Ralph was going to resurface -- and he did -- it was incumbent upon anyone interviewing him or publishing his columns to note that the Iraqi people paid -- and are still paying -- with their lives for his 2000 run.

To do so was dishonest.

And that's what bother us so much about what's followed the election.

Rebecca rightly noted "batterer philippe reines needs to stfu" because the centrist took to MSNBC or CNN to use the election to attack transgender people. That's what cretins do. Sadly, US House Rep Seth Moulton -- someone we though was not stupid enough to do that -- joined that chorus.

Trans people did not cost the election.

What did?

Before we go further, let's explain for any who don't know: We were on the ground. Week after week. We were face to face with voters. We're not reading the summary of some poll and trying to use it to pimp our personal issues.

Kamala Harris ran a strong campaign. It was not flawless.

Early on, we noted that the campaign needed to get position papers up at the website. We were going to focus on the elderly voters because they were being forgotten and overlooked. We noted online and face to face with DNC officials that the elderly wanted things they could read -- not videos they could stream. Guess what?

The campaign didn't address that.

And if we're idiots we'd do nothing. You know, the way DEMOCRACY NOW! and other s**t hole outlets did.

But we're not idiots. So we typed our own papers. And we had them ready when speaking to seniors.

Seniors were the group that, ahead of the convention in August, were the most vulnerable to voting for the RNC. Why? Many people grow more conservative as they grow older. Seniors also make up a huge number of FOX "NEWS" viewers. And the Dems don't do that well with seniors in recent elections.

But seniors aren't knee-jerk. They have life experience and they can be reasoned with.

We spent much more one-on-one time with seniors. (For more on this topic, see Marcia's "Senior voters .")

You might be a home schooled idiot . . .

if you called your third grade teacher "Mommy."

Seniors have an education. They have the education life has provided and that school has provided.

They also have common sense and that's why they sent their children to schools unlike the crazed idiots today who have children with discipline problems which the parents make worse by pulling them from schools and 'educating' them at home.

Starlet Felicia Day is the best example of the stupidity that home schooling produces. She thinks she's smart enough because of college to weigh in. And she isn't smart enough. Home schooling did not expose her to the world at a time when she needed it. She is grossly inferior to every single one of her peers because she never learned how to interact with others. That's why, for example, she was shocked by pushback when she declared on one of her lousy podcasts that she never watched CAGNEY AND LACEY because it was a show about two lesbians.

CAGNEY AND LACEY was about two women police officers -- one married to a man and the mother of children, the other a woman who dated men (to the point that CBS worried the character was coming off promiscuous -- see Susan Faludi's BACKLASH). These are facts and because Day is such a sheltered idiot, she never grasped that you need to nail down some facts before you weigh in. Instead, the woman was patted on the head as a girl for agreeing with Mommy. No opinions other than ones in her own home was she ever exposed to. Which is also her stupidity today because she was shocked that people would push back at the thought she expressed -- she -- a supposed leftist -- refused to watch CAGNEY AND LACEY because it was about two lesbians.

Not being exposed to peers in her 'home schooling,' the idiot didn't grasp how easy it is to offend someone -- especially when you say something offensive. She knew -- the only thing she did know -- that CAGNEY AND LACEY was a popular show (for the record, neither one of us liked that show) but that's all she knew.

These idiots are harming the country. And it's much worse on the male side. Their anger issues tend to result in their parents pulling the boys out of school. And that's why so many young males today -- adults -- are so damn lonely. They've never learned to make connections.

And they aren't alone in that. Having watched so much nonsense on CNN, MSNBC and YOUTUBE, there are a lot of people who can't make connections.

This is where we pivot to Chris Hayes' MSNBC program.

Chris spoke with Heather McGhee and Michelle Goldberg. On MORNING JOE and various other programs on CNN and MSNBC, you had these all male and majority male panels that told you what went wrong with the election. Their opinions that were usually nothing more than them promoting their own pet issues. Again, these people weren't on the ground and are reading tea leaves and pretending to know something. Black women overwhelmingly voted for Kamala. And we saw very little Black women. Maybe if the host was a Black woman, there was one Black woman present.

But Chris and his two guests weren't about pimping pet issues but about what happened. And one thing that happened is that people are stupid. We're not going to sugar coat that finding up. As Michelle rightly noted, real news is behind a paywall more and more.

Hell, even the trash bag that is THE NATION magazine is a paywall site and, no, those of us whose donations have kept that rag afloat do not give them money so that they can hide behind a pay wall.

As Michelle noted, people are going on YOUTUBE and they're getting told what they want to be told by vile and disgusting young males who are sexist and, honestly, sexist is too mild a term.

And the news sites are behind paywalls.

Home schooling creates idiots, paywalls create idiots. Hell, Twitter creates idiots and we'll come back to that.

That's how you get all these idiots discovering after the election how tariffs work. And, yes, it is funny to laugh at these idiots they keep getting put on camera saying that China will pay the US-imposed tariffs that Donald Trump wants. It's funny to laugh at them. But it's also bitter sweet because the reality is that should have been conveyed ahead of the election.

That's not the only thing that wasn't being conveyed.

Again, we were in 48 states, on the ground, speaking to voters, week after week. And we heard over and over about the little con game 'independent' media was playing. IN THESE TIMES, THE PROGRESSIVE, THE NATION, DEMOCRACY NOW!, etc played a game where they rigged the election. They trashed Kamala Harris every day while advancing Jill Stein. Jill was never going to get the votes. She's a grifter and a liar and voters don't trust her. But she was to be used over and over to bloody Kamala and to tamp down on enthusiasm.

We heard that over and over from Black woman who did not get taken in by these racist attacks from our so-called 'left' media. They will never forget this. That anger was present before the election and it has only increased since.

These women were not invited by media -- corporate or beggar -- to tell their stories during the campaign and, even now, after the campaign, they're still largely blocked out.

Is there a reason for that? If you really want to know what went down, you need to look at what happened.

If the results are true and accurate, we lost because people didn't turn out. Not because Donald got more votes. He didn't, not according to the published results.

So what happened?

People didn't show up if the numbers are accurate -- excuse us, Democratic Party voters didn't show up.

How could that be?

The most obvious answer is what we noted week after week here:

Beggar media suppressed the vote. They glorified a con artist with no chance of winning named Jill Stein. They glorified her and gave her so much attention. This was Jill's third run. Guess what? Per official results, this wasn't her best run. So why the hell was she given so much attention by beggar media?

Everyone knew she couldn't win. She's got an ugly face, an ugly spirit and she's daft.

But left media got behind her and pimped her. They glorified this trash and they did so to attack Kamala.

From August 1st through October 30th, no Jill Stein supporter was on DEMOCRACY NOW! -- do people grasp that? Do they grasp that Naomi Klein saying 'hold your nose and vote for Kamala' is actually not a campaign slogan but an insult.

White girl loves to insult Blacks and maybe the non-White left can make her address that in the future or maybe she can just shut the hell up about American politics since she was born in Canada and her father can never return to the US unless he wants to go to prison. Facts like that, should have presented White girl from sticking her nose into our election to begin with.

But she whored, just like Amy Goodman, just like so many others.

And as they savaged Kamala day after day -- from the 'left' -- they drove down voter enthusiasm.

Voting is not easy in most states. Oregon should be the model for every other state. But in most states, you are going to a polling station, you are standing in line, etc.

For those pressed for time and/or short on funds, you're asking a hell of a lot when you're asking them to vote. And they are leftists and the left media like DEMOCRACY NOW! is trashing Kamala day after day and the best they can offer as an endorsement is 'hold your nose and vote for Kamala,' you're not really encouraged to vote.

There was so much at stake in this election. Yet the left outlets really didn't give a damn with few exceptions (that would include THE NEW REPUBLIC, TAP and RAW STORY).

A huge number of voters did not show up.

We think it was racism and sexism. We think the left media is uncomfortable with any Black woman who doesn't want to play the role of maid or Mammy. We think we saw that over and over with the attacks on Kamala. The coverage she got from THE NATION, et al, was in marked contrast to what Barack Obama received from the same outlets in 2008.

We'd also argue that racism played into the minds of the MAGA supporters.

No one wanted to explore that before the election -- no one in Beggar Media. And now that the election is over, we're seeing White people -- mainly men -- talking about every issue they hate -- issues that had nothing to do with the turn out -- while ignoring the fact that so many Democrats stayed home and did so after three continues months of Beggar Media trashing Kamala non-stop, over and over, every day.

When are we going to have that conversation?

Apparently never. Here's the thing though: Black women noticed this behavior before the election. Even in the silence, even as Katty vanden Heuvel and Amy Goodman try to drop their heads so no one will see them, more and more people are catching on to what went down and how these racists worked to put Trump back in the White House. You can pretend otherwise all you want -- too many people have already caught on to your game and your refusal to come clean only makes you even more racist.

White supremacy won the 2024 election and it do so not just because of crazy MAGA but also because of Beggar Media.

Wednesday, November 06, 2024

Don't give a dime to the racist NATION magazine

Guess what? THE NATION's already feeling the pushback for the racism that led to their 'coverage' of Kamala Harris. Let's make sure everyone knows. Ava and C.I. wrote what I'm about to cross-post early this morning for THE COMMON ILLS. Let's get the word out so people the true story about Katrina vanden Heuvel and how her racist family made their money.

Like Natalie Cole said . . . (Ava and C.I.)

The results appear to be in so, being good sports, let's say congratulations to our next president . . . JD Vance. Yes, Miss Sassy is the new president. You can't be as grossly overweight as Donald Trump and as old as he is without the health issue coming in to play and then there's the senility.

It's very likely we may see him removed from office due to the senility at which point JD would have the title of president but, make no mistake, JD is the new president.

Donald didn't do any work the first time. He didn't like briefings. He was lazy when he was four years younger.

So congratulations to JD, our youngest president ever.

Let's say thank you to two people. Thank you to Joe Biden for stepping aside. As bad as the results have turned out to be, they would have been even worse if Joe had been on the ticket. After the debate, the media was not going to change their narrative. Thank you to Kamala Harris who ran a strong campaign and did so in a very short manner of time.

Our sympathies for the nation.

It would be great if some last minute development exposed voter fraud on the part of MAGA but that's probably not going to happen.

So we're all screwed.

And let's be clear about who screwed us.

No, we're not talking about MAGA or other elements of the right wing. Certainly, FOX "NEWS" lies and they are a danger. But they're actually far less of a danger then the cheap whores like Glenn Greenwald, Megyn Kelly, et al.

But again, we're not talking about them.

No, we're putting the blame where it rightly goes: The left media.

Now stop your nonsense if you're a right winger and thinking we mean THE WASHINGTON POST, CNN, THE NEW YORK TIMES, et al.

That's not the left media.

The left media is the beggar media who always asking for a hand out, for a donation, pretending they're serving the left.

We're talking about IN THESE TIMES, we're talking about DEMOCRACY NOW!, THE NATION, THE PROGRESSIVE and oh so many more.

We had the votes to win. Where were they?

The grifter Jill Stein got some.

Cornel West got some. Claudia De la Cruz got some.

If you're unfamiliar with those last two, unlike Jill Stein, they were real candidates.

You didn't hear about them because our supposed left media didn't want you to.

It was Jill wall to wall.

They pimped her like crazy.

No surprise, she got less votes than she did in 2016. Because she's a con artist and a grifter. She's opposed to the genocide . . . except for her stock in Lockheed Martin. The American Friends Service Committee notes:

The world’s largest weapons manufacturer, Lockheed Martin supplies Israel with F-16 and F-35 fighter jets, which Israel has been using extensively to bomb Gaza. Israel also uses the company’s C-130 Hercules transport planes to support the ground invasion of Gaza.

Lockheed Martin manufactures AGM-114 Hellfire missiles for Israel’s Apache helicopters. One of the main weapon types used in aerial attacks on Gaza, these missiles have been used extensively in 2023. Some 2,000 Hellfire missiles were delivered to Israel sometime between Oct. 7 and Nov. 14.

Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky manufactures the CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter, used to transport Israeli soldiers into and out of Gaza. On Jan. 8, Sikorsky was awarded $18.3 million from U.S. taxpayers' money for continued work on the CH-53K aircraft it has provided to Israel.

On Dec. 28, Lockheed Martin was awarded a $10.5 million contract for continued support for Israel's fleet of F-35 warplanes.

On Dec. 11, the Israeli Air Force used a Lockheed Martin C-130-J Super Hercules aircraft to drop approximately seven tons of equipment to Israeli soldiers engaging in ground attacks in Khan Younis, located in the southern Gaza Strip. This was the "first operational airdrop" that Israel has carried out since the 2006 Lebanon War.

On Nov. 9, an Israeli missile hit journalists sitting near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The missile was reportedly a Lockheed Martin–made Hellfire R9X missile, a version of the Hellfire that was developed by the CIA for carrying out assassinations. Instead of exploding, the missile shreds its target using blades, allowing for a direct hit without collateral damage. The target in this case was not a military one.

The Israeli military also uses Lockheed Martin’s M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS). Used to fire Elbit Systems’ high-precision AccuLAR-122, the weapon was used by Israel for the first time, since the 2006 war in Lebanon, on Oct. 6, according to the Israeli military.

On an Oct. 17 call with investors, Lockheed Martin CEO, Jim Taiclet, “highlighted the Israel and Ukraine conflicts as potential drivers for increased revenue in the coming years.”

Lockheed Martin is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and has key production sites in Denver, Houston, New Orleans, and San Diego. For more locations, see this map.

For more information on this company (not including these latest developments), see our company profile on the Investigate database.

Josh Fox, at THE NATION last Friday, noted:

Stein says she’s against fracking, but Stein has hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in the oil and gas industry. Did you know that? Did you know that she actually profits off of the oil and gas industry, that she has had investments in the Keystone XL pipeline and multiple fracking companies?

Did you know that she has investments in Raytheon, that she’s had investments in ExxonMobil? Did you know that she has investments in Home Depot—one of the most rapacious companies in the world, guilty of horrific deforestation throughout the world?

How is it that the Green Party candidate hasn’t divested her own personal fortune from fossil fuels? It’s sheer hypocrisy. And so is the strategy of running for president every four years but never showing up for battles like this.

In 2016, Stein defended these investments by saying they are mutual funds and indexed retirement funds.

But that, plainly speaking, is bunk.

Her claims are a slap in the face to the entire fossil fuel divestment movement. It is easier now than ever to have investments that are fossil free; doing so is a huge plank of the environmental cause. Hundreds of real activists were arrested this summer in New York City calling for Citibank to divest as part of the Summer of Heat campaign. For Stein to ignore all this and still attempt to call herself an activist is beyond hypocrisy, it is political malpractice. Shame on you, Dr. Stein! Shame on you for profiting from fracking and oil drilling.

That some of you voted for that whorish grifter is bad enough but that's not the real damage that was done.

The real damage was in suppressing the vote.

In 2008, when Barack Obama ran for president, the same beggar media did everything they could to build him up. FAIR embarrassed themselves after the Hillary Clinton and Barack debate during that year's Democratic Party primary by slapping one of the moderators for asking about Barack's friendship with activist/terrorist Bill Ayers. Ayers -- a nobody, he was arm candy for his wife -- had been underground and, more to the point, when his friendship with Barack came to light, everyone rushed to lie that they knew each other because their kids were friends. No. That was a damn lie. And beggar media knew it was because, although they can't get real jobs, they can do simple math. Bill and Bernardine turned themselves in as Jimmy Carter was finishing his presidency and Ronald Reagan was due to be sworn in. They thought they'd get a better deal under Carter. Their children were already born by that time. ( We're not referring to Chesa but even he was born in 1980.) Barack and Michelle's oldest child was born in 1998. No, the two Ayers boys were not friends and playmates of the Obamas' daughters.

But that's what the beggar media did -- that and a whole lot more.

For a Black man, that's what they did.

And we saw in July, August, September and October what they'd do for a Black woman -- not a damn thing.

While running for the nomination, Barack did many things that went against what he stated he stood for (putting homophobes on stage at campaign rallies, telling Michael R. Gordon of THE NEW YORK TIMES that any US troops he might pull out of Iraq he would send back in based on the security situation, changing his timeline for withdrawal, his advisor Samantha Power telling the BBC that the promise of a withdrawal really wasn't a promise, etc). But that didn't result in beggar media attacking him the way they did Kamala.

Kamala was attacked from day one. Oh, sure, THE PROGRESSIVE or COMMON DREAMS might do a puff piece on . . . Tim Walz. But they considered Tim to be one of their own. Supposedly, that was due to him being a progressive, but speak to Black women and they were wise to the fact that the real difference was that these outlets could get behind a White man but not a Black woman.

Day after day, they could and they did rip her apart.

Naomi Klein thought she was doing a favor going on DEMOCRACY NOW! and declaring that you hold your nose to vote for someone like Kamala.

Huh?

That's how you build enthusiasm? After one guest, in July, was allowed to praise Kamala and be excited about Kamala running, DEMOCRACY NOW! never offered that again until October 31st.

People weren't allowed to be excited about Kamala, no, beggar media wouldn't let them be.

Beggar media wanted to hang Gaza around Kamala's neck.

She wasn't the president. She didn't get to make policy. Most of us knew she wanted a cease-fire and was the first to call on Joe to move towards that. Most of us knew what her family -- including her niece -- thought.

But that didn't matter.

It didn't matter that the Supreme Court was at stake. It didn't matter that reproductive rights were at stake.

Nothing mattered but the Palestinians.

Amy GoodWhoreman brought on, the day before the election, the Mayor of Dearborn.

His city, he insisted, had to think about Palestinians first.

We think a real interview would have required asking this American citizen exactly where on his list of priorities this country landed? We further think inviting on that man, mayor of a city of homophobes, also required asking him: How much is this opposition to Kamala based on her defense of the LGBTQ+ community?

But we're not supposed to ask those question. No, we're just supposed to fetishize an entire population segment despite the fact that this community in question only stopped voting majority GOP due to the Muslim backlash in the US following 9/11. That detail was never passed on to readers and viewers and listeners of beggar media. There are progressive Muslims in Michigan. There are many more homophobic and conservative Muslims in Michigan which is why the first city council in the state to have an all Muslim composition promptly went around destroying LGBTQ+ rights.

But we didn't get told about that, we only got told about these wonderful Disney-like animated creatures who woke up signing and smiling and sniffing the flowers while the birds landed on their shoulders.

How different would reactions have been if the truth had been told?

Again, we didn't get the truth, not from beggar media.

'Ava and C.I.! You just noted THE NATION's piece about Jill!"

We did and that was published only after the groundswell of Katrina vanden Heuvel being called out for her racism. In fact, for a few days there, she shut down all comments to her Twitter feed unless you were pre-approved -- so much for free speech. We were among the ones leaving comments about the racism -- we did that a full week before Josh's piece. We did it when we learned that THE NATION has just published an editorial opposing Kamala Harris -- by their 'interns.'

We don't give money to that rag to hear from their 'interns.' Sorry, but you're learning a trade, you're not in the position to be writing editorials. And what position you'll have in the future is open to debate because we're vengeful bitches.

Norman Solomon knows that. Learned it the hard way this year. That's when the Democrat who was a pledged delegate for Barack in 2008 announced -- COMMON DREAMS carried the crappy column (others did as well) -- that he would be voting for Jill Stein.

He later pulled that back because he learned real quick that those of us who have helped keep beggar media afloat weren't going to do it for racists.

All the lip service in the world to the importance of Black women in US elections. But when a Black woman ran for president, these same outlets wouldn't take a moment to allow joy over this. Kamala is the first Black woman to be presidential candidate for one of the major parties. And, yes, that was historic, and, yes, it did matter to many Black women.

Katrina and Amy are both racists. Sadly, they're not equally blamed because few people even know who Katrina is. Don't worry, Katrina, we plan to increase your public profile. But they knew Amy and they knew her program and they were shocked by the garbage she offered day after day.

Again, they all offered it. All of the beggar media offered insults and put downs of Kamala day after day.

When they weren't being racist, they went with sexist.

This was not our first presidential election to observe and comment on. So it stood out to us that Barack, Joe, John Kerry, whomever didn't have columns (plural) every day telling them what they needed to do. And columns, mind you, written by men.

A reflective left media would have taken several pauses over the three months to ask, "What are we doing? Are we being fair?"

But apparently begging everyone for money takes a huge toll so they don't have time for reflection.

Good news, bums, we plan to help you there, we plan to make sure you have a lot more free time.

By repeatedly trashing Kamala, by refusing to ever feature the people who were excited by her, they worked overtime to defeat enthusiasm for the candidate. Amy Goodman, as we pointed out repeatedly at THIRD, was damn happy to have a Civil Rights pioneer (who was also the widow of another Civil Rights pioneer) on DEMOCRACY NOW! over the years. But when this woman, Myrlie Evers-Williams, endorsed Kamala in September and spoke of how excited she was by Kamala's campaign, Amy couldn't even note the news in a headline.

We weren't the only ones commenting on the racism from leftists. The YOUTUBE program TABITHA SPEAKS did a great segment on it. And Tabitha noted a Latina who was also dismayed by the attacks on Kamala and on those who supported Kamala. In fact, if you were avoiding the White beggars, you'd find many women online lamenting the way Kamala was being treated. And, as we noted for weeks, we heard about it pretty much every time we spoke.

Jill Stein is a con artist. But they could get behind Jill and pretend that she was an answer and an ally. Which is why they didn't report on 'Butchy' Ware -- her little running mate -- being a transphobe and calling for restricting abortion.

These very real issues didn't matter.

Well, Gaza Freaks, we hope you're happy. We hope as the blood continues to be spilled, that the screams of the dead haunt you. That's their blood on your hands. Trump and Netanyahu are good buddies. He's made clear what will happen: A bigger green light for Netanyahu to continue the slaughter.

We can't work with people we can't trust so lots of luck stopping the Trump genocide.

You've already, Gaza Freaks, alienated many people who were on your side. It's only going to get worse for you. Students protesting on campus? Under Trump. Oh, this is the man who wanted to attack non-violent Black Lives Matter protesters.

And Hamas? It's a terrorist organization per the United States government.

We defended the Palestinian people. We never made the mistake that the Gaza Freaks did in defending Hamas. We point that out for a reason: In January, Joe Biden is not the president, Donald Trump is. You do get that, right? You do get that he will probably be exploring what kind of legal consequences he can impose for those openly supporting a terrorist organization.

Might be time to start recalculating your speeches and articles and programs.

What will we be doing?

Probably our usual role: Cleaning up the messes of lazy White people.

We're tempted to walk away. We actually could. We're fortunate in ways that many other Americans aren't. And we've more than put in our time.

But instead, we'll probably stick around online a little bit longer. Probably focus on important issues like climate change, opposing homophobia, fighting for reproductive rights, fighting for real free speech (which includes opposing book bans), fighting for reparations and --

Wait. That last one.

Oh, Katrina vanden Heuvel. We're back to her. She never made a penny herself but her grandfather left her a ton of money -- money she went to court over because she didn't want to pay the estate tax., What a great liberal, right?

That money she has? Her grandfather made it off the backs of Black people. Lena Horne, to name but one, was always clear to us what trash Katrina's grandfather was and how he undercut the pay of Black artists -- he was an agent working on commission -- to get better money for club performances from his favored White artists.

Lena would tell us tales in person and in writing.

Katrina, we're going to be circulating those letters to people who might be thinking about donating to your garbage rag.

But that's not all we'll be doing. We'll spend a lot of time in your state just to make sure everyone knows that your racist grandfather made money off the backs of Black artists and that's how you afford your mansion in Harlem.

Do you get that, Katrina? Do you get how insulting that is to Black people? The money you have is from their work and you use it to live in Harlem. Do you get how bad that looks?

Give us a year or two and see how much worse we make it look as we get the word out on you.

Reparations should start with people like you. You live a rich life thanks to racism. And you can move over to the right wing and they'll embrace you. But do you really think the left's going to embrace you as they realize what and who you really are?

And don't, as you did in 2007, send us an e-mail from you or your assistant, offering us a bribe to shut us up. It didn't work in 2007 when were exposing the sexism at THE NATION under your leadership -- see "The Nation featured 491 male bylines in 2007 -- how many female ones?" -- and it won't work now. And probably after we're done with you, will get to work circulating the #MeToo realities of THE NATION.

Again, we've vengeful bitches.

We're also smart and informed bitches. And we knew all along that enthusiasm was needed for Kamala to win and we registered it when so many left and 'left' outlets pissed on Kamala to avoid praising her, who did hold-your-nose-and-vote-for-her articles and segments. The whole country will now suffer because of your actions, so we believe it's only fair that you suffer as well.

We've got a Friday call, post-election analysis, with other donors you've depended on in the past. How do you think that's going to go?

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