Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Truest statement of the week

Stein has said, we are in “a very dire situation that will be continued under both Democrats and Republicans. So we say there is no lesser evil in this race.” So I suppose that is her answer. How comes it that she so outrageously denies reality. Is she blinded by the light of her 1 percent campaign? Is she blinded by the lure of the press coverage she gets when she says such things? I don’t know. But now we have another, and I think a more honest, albeit no less disturbing answer to why from an exemplary activist who is arguably Stein’s most savvy and accomplished supporter. 

You may remember Kshama Sawant, Seattle’s socialist city council member from 2010 to 2024. I won’t review her history. It suffices to say she has been a singularly successful left candidate and has been on the progressive, radical, and revolutionary side of issue after issue. She has been courageous, brilliant, and committed. One need not have liked her every move or her every allegiance to feel that she has been exemplary in numerous ways. 

But according to news reports Sawant recently went from Seattle to Michigan to campaign for and with Jill Stein at a Stein Rally in Dearborn. Sawant is highly knowledgeable. She is no one’s fool. She did not say vote for Stein to express your conscience. She did not say vote for Stein to show you are radical. She did not say vote for Stein to build the Green Party. No. Sawant said, “We need to be clear about what our goals are… We are not in a position to win the White House. But we do have a real opportunity to win something historic. We could deny Kamala Harris the state of Michigan. And the polls show that most likely Harris cannot win the election without Michigan.” And in case that didn’t express her intent clearly enough, she added we are “fighting to defeat Harris, not just symbolically but in reality.” Michigan “is ground zero to punish Kamala Harris and defeat her…. We need to break the two-party system, and we need to begin that by breaking this election for the Democrats in Michigan.” Back in June, Trump made his oddly similar feelings about Stein known. “I like her also, Jill Stein, I like her very much.,,, You know why? She takes 100% from them.” I guess Trump could now say the same about Sawant.

 

== Michael Albert, "Seriously? Stein? Sawant? Suicide?" (ZNET). 

 

 

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Let's thank all who participated this edition which includes Dallas and the following:


The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Trina of Trina's Kitchen, 
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.

 

And what did we come up with? 

 


Peace.

 

-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.

Media: Are they trying to elect Donald Trump?

As we go around the country speaking about the need to vote in this election and the need to vote for Kamala Harris, we encounter a lot of people who don't seem to feel that what's at stake is being properly conveyed by the media.  They don't doubt Kamala's grasp on the importance of the election but they do doubt the media's.  
 
 
 
 
For example, on Saturday, speaking in Atlanta, Georgia, Democratic Party presidential nominee Kamala Harris observed:



So so much is on the line in this election.  And this election is not 2016 or 2020.  The stakes are even higher for obvious reasons -- including because, just a few months ago, the United States Supreme Court basically told the former president he is effectively immune no matter what he does in the White House. And just think about this, right.  Before that ruling just a few months ago, at least there was some possibility of threat of consequences for misbehavior, for breaking the law.  But just imagine now Donald Trump with no guard rails.  He, who has vowed that he will be a dictator on day one.  He who calls Americans who disagree with him "the enemy from within." Understand where that comes from in history.  And says he would use the American military to go after American citizens.  He who has called for the "termination" of the Constitution of the United States of America.  And let us be very clear, someone who suggests that we should terminate the Constitution of the United States should never again stand behind the seal of the President of the United States of America.  Never again.  Never again. 



That's pretty clear cut.

And she gets it.

But so many people -- especially in swing states -- that we speak with doesn't feel the media gets it and specifically does not feel that the 'independent' media (THE NATION, DEMOCRACY NOW!, IN THESE TIMES, THE PROGRESSIVE, COMMON DREAMS, et al) gets it.  They are already spinning from the defectors of the left.  They complain, for example, about 'feminist' Naomi Wolf is promoting racist Jack Posobiec, snake oil, becoming anti-choice and so much more, about 'leftist' John Stauber becoming a Laura Loomer acolyte and his constant attacks on transgender people, on and on.  They feel let down by 'independent' media.


And they should.

Left outlets have failed with regards to accountability.  Did you promote John Stauber when he was a leftist?  Then you are required to alert people to the change and to call him out.  We promoted him for years.  We stopped promoting him and explained why.  (We've both also been banned by him on Twitter.  One of us -- Ava -- just for pointing out that, despite his asinine Tweet, Cher did not do drugs in the sixties.)  It's a big tricker for us with Naomi in that we warned against her all along.  We noted how she stole her first book from Judith N. Shklar's series of lectures.  We noted how her third book revealed -- did she not read what she wrote -- that her 'friends' raped a woman while she was at their frat house and she never reported them but joined in the morning after giggles.  We noted what a mess her books after that were.  We never took on the book that had to be pulped -- and honestly felt sorry for her over that -- but we noted her pill addiction and the reality that she wasn't a feminist.  She's going for Donald Trump in 2024 and, honestly, we don't see how a real feminist never found a woman to support for president -- not Hillary in 2008, not Hillary in 2016, not Elizabeth Kirsten, Amy, et al in 2020 and not Kamala in 2024.  We've long noted her fake assery and she's probably the person under 70 that we've called out the most over the years.  

But it's amazing how THE PROGRESSIVE, for example, longterm promoter of John Stauber, refuses to write about what happened to him and turned him into a nutcase who see George Soros money everywhere.


What we are recommending to people we speak with is POST-LEFT WATCH -- a TWITTER account by leftists that calls out those who became racists, homophobes, sexists, transphobes and whores. 


They call out all the liars, whores and idiots.  Like Lee Fang of whom they note, "Person who did the Twitter Files is complaining about people being handed scoops."



POST-LEFT WATCH is doing important work and we applaud them for it.
 

We wish we could applaud 'independent' media.  For example, an article last week?  We really, really wanted to applaud it.


Sasha Abramsky is what used to be called "tore up from the floor up."  Though born in 1972, he looks 20 years older than he is.  Life has apparently been very hard on him and we're about to join life in the pile-on.




After months of talking around the obvious, the Democrats have realized that it might be a good idea to call a fascist a fascist.

Throughout the campaign, the Democrats have talked around the obvious—that, in his rhetoric and in his calls to violence against his perceived enemies, Trump has adopted full-throated fascist messaging. And Trump has done so without provoking even a peep of indignation from the GOP leadership in Congress.

The Democrats have labeled him “weird” and “authoritarian,” denounced him for being “erratic,” and called him out for his increasingly incoherent babbling. Butonly in the last week, as Trump’s campaign trail message has gotten ever darker, have both Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and vice presidential nominee Tim Walz come out and said their opponent is a fascist.


The Democrats have labeled him “weird” and “authoritarian,” denounced him for being “erratic,” and called him out for his increasingly incoherent babbling. Butonly in the last week, as Trump’s campaign trail message has gotten ever darker, have both Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and vice presidential nominee Tim Walz come out and said their opponent is a fascist.




Sasha surely knows that politicians -- even strong leaders -- know that they can't get too far out ahead of the people.  The press will destroy you, among other things.


You plant seeds, you move slowly and, as the seeds sprout, you continue to move forward and plant more.  

That amplifies the issue and allows others to take cover if they're not willing to stick their necks out just yet.

You know, people like Sasha.

"Huh?  Ava and C.I. he wrote the article!"

Yes.  
 
 
Yes, he did.

It's a bit like him writing an article saying smoking cigarettes causes cancer and we should all stop . . . only to learn that he himself smokes.

After reading his article about how awful it was that Harris and Walz and other Democrats weren't using the term "fascist" until recently, we spent a half hour going through Sasha's TWITTER feed.

You know what we found?

Sasha has only used the word "fascist" in one Tweet -- the Tweet promoting the article we're talking about.

He's castigating others for not having used the term?  Does he not grasp that he himself hasn't been using the term?


 He's also doing nothing to promote Kamala's campaign.  

Oh sure, in July, he served up four Tweets about Kamala -- and he actually wrote one all by himself as opposed to just reTweeting.

 
After that?

Nothing.  Nothing in August.  Nothing in September.  Nothing in October.   Just  2 Kamla HQ reTweets in July, 1 Tweet directing people to his article on Kamala and 1 Tweet directing people to Joan Walsh's article on Kamala.  That is his Kamala 'coverage.'

(He did Tweet about Walz once.)

50 Tweets and reTweets from July to present.  How many times did the term "fascism" appear in those Tweets?


Again, none until is article on the topic was published at which point he Tweeted "My Nation column on Democrats finally calling a fascist a fascist." and provided a link to his own article.

Maybe we should Tweet this article and explain, "Our column on Sasha Abramsky finally calling a fascist a fascist"?


Maybe we could rewrite his entire article?  Let's try three paragraphs where we make his silence the focus:


Astoundingly, despite -- or maybe because of -- Trump's  increasingly demented rhetoric, hiss base has solidified around him, and he is riding as high in the polls today as at any time since Harris became the Democrats' nominee. This isn’t politics as normal; it’s a vastly dangerous departure from the norms and rhythms of democracy, and, because the GOP and the conservative media ecosystem have so wholeheartedly bought into the Trump cult, it’s happening without much of the public being aware just how radical this shift is.

Belatedly, Sasha has  realized that it might be a good idea to call a fascist a fascist. After Trump said that the military should be used against his enemies, Sasha finally called Trump out for being a fascist. That's right, last week, Sasha finally said the obvious.

Sasha should have done this months ago, instead of letting Trump rehabilitate himself in the political imagination of millions of Americans. He should have defined this terrible man, this man who, like so many despots throughout history, revels in the language of violence and intimidation, as what he is.


Not only did Sasha not call Donald a fascist, he and the bulk of his cohorts at THE NATION -- and elsewhere on the left -- write articles or broadcast segments insisting Donald and Kamala are basically the same.  Amy Goodman and company did that last week when they pretended to address immigration issues. 

Reality on immigration: The left has lost.  They can work on winning but don't think that's going to happen in a month or in two months.

Immigration is a scary topic by its very nature.  Immigrants are presented by the media as "the other."  We are taught in this country to fear the other.  When you can define someone as the other, you can do whatever you want.  We've done a lousy job on the left.  In part, we've done a lousy job because we let the right define immigration.  Where are our counter-proposals?  Where are our articles with facts and figures?  

Now that's not our beat.  We've tried to cover it from time to time over the years but we have other things that are our focus.  Seems like THE NATION -- with all the writers they have on staff -- could have assigned someone to the issue.  Or THE YOUNG TURKS -- flush with Jeffrey Katzenberg money -- and still interested in pretending to be left -- could have had someone on staff who made that their beat.

Didn't happen.

And while left outlets regularly avoided immigration every week, FOX "NEWS" spewed lies about immigrants on an hourly basis.

Kamala has to appeal to the electorate that our media -- All Things Media Big and Small -- (mis)informed and created.  

She didn't create the field.  She had to hit the ground running a few months ago and she knows she has to defeat Donald Trump in the election.

But a lot of idiots act as though they don't even know that.


Act as though they don't even know that and, worse, write as though they don't even know that.


That would include writers like Julia Metraux at MOTHER JONES who  is incapable of actual thought so she writes garbage slamming Kamala.

Kamala, she wants you to know, does not say the right things about disability!!!!!


Donald Trump has hidden 'concepts' for healthcare and his Project 2025 would do away with Medicare but dumb idiot Julia Metraux is attacking Kamala at left wing site.


We have watched this unfold.  We know that we have to elect Kamala Harris for our country to survive. 

And we marvel over the journalistic lice (nod to Joan Crawford) on the left who keep attacking Kamala.



Here's some reality, there has never been a presidential election year where the so-called 'independent' media like THE NATION, THE PROGRESSIVE, IN THESE TIMES, DEMOCRACY NOW! and the rest have done so little positive coverage of the Democratic Party nominee.  Not even in 2000, when so many tried to elect Ralph Nader.  Yes, even when the presidential nominee was Al Gore, they went out of their way to note this or that aspect.  They don't do that with Kamala.  Black women especially are noting this new purity standard that exists for Kamala.  And there will be hell to pay for it.

 

We're lucky, we have money. So we don't need to go on disability.  But some people do and they often have to through months of not working in order to qualify.  Six months is not uncommon.  This is a situation which predates Kamala as vice president, as senator, as prosecutor.  It's a situation that needs to be addressed but obviously education on the topic is required -- especially for the idiot writing for MOTHER JONES -- because most Americans don't know the hoops required.  It's almost as difficult as getting a higher disability rating in the VA.  Did we lose you?  Well, we've covered that topic here repeatedly but if you counted on THE NATION, for example, we don't believe they've ever written about the need for an electronic, integrated medical record that starts when you enlist and follows you to the VA.  


So Kamala talks -- in a townhall -- about issues related to disability ratings and MOTHER JONES'  answer is to tut-tut and attack.  You stupid, stupid idiot.



This was not an informercial for ACA.  This was a townhall with people asking questions that were on their mind.


And your answer is to have a fit that she didn't give a 15 minute lecture?


You are so deeply stupid and you shouldn't be paid for your writing.  You should instead be forced to get a real job.  And maybe when the cuts to funding come in, you will be forced to get a real job.  Or maybe, at least, be forced to stop writing in such a way that it reads like you ripped off Betsy Ladyzhets article for SICK TIMES that was published over three weeks before 'your' own writing.


2025 will hopefully be the year Kamala is sworn in as president.  But 2025 will be a hard year for beggar media regardless.  Give, give, give.  They ask over and over, forever begging, forever insisting that you need them, that they keep you informed.  2024 is an election year and they've done everything that they can to keep you uninformed.  They've done everything they can to destroy enthusiasm for Kamala's historic run.  They've elevated people in another region of the world as more important than the people who suffer in this country and the people who will be targeted if Trump gets back into the White House.  The war on Civil Rights and education doesn't matter to them, the attempt to destroy LGBTQ+ rights doesn't matter to them, the attack on Latinos doesn't bother them, the attack on women's health does not bother them, the assault on overtime pay doesn't bother them.  No issue, apparently, is important but what happens in Gaza.  

Grasp for a moment what Trump plans to do with Latinos.  He wants to round up immigrants.  That means he has to arrest them in the first place.  How does that usually happen?  It generally involves profiling.  Oh, how we on the left especially miss Michael Ratner's strong voice today. So since our country shares a border with Mexico, Latinos will be targeted with profiling.  Latinos -- American citizens and others -- will be stopped on a regular basis.  It will be "let me see your I.D." over and over.  And some will be deported by mistake under Donald Trump's plan and, yes, he plans to break up families again with deportation.  As former US President Barack Obama explained in a speech in Nevada on Saturday, "He wants you to believe that if you elect him, he will just round up whoever he wants and ship them out and all your problems will be solved."  But that doesn't seem to matter too much to in left media.  For them, it's all about the Palestinians.  Here's a tip for the Gaza Freaks: You haven't seen anything yet.

Put Donald back in the White House and you'll see what happens when a US president actively seeks out a genocide. And have you noticed that while Amy Goodman can't leave her status as a Gaza Freak behind, other Americans have.  Because they're dismayed that our country's at risk and our lives are at risk and the Gaza Freaks are only focused on Gaza.  Good luck, under a Donald Trump presidency, building up a successful movement to save the Palestinians -- especially after you've turned off the bulk of Americans with your refusal to see the needs of those of us in this country as even just a little bit important. There's a saying that God don't like ugly.  Equally true, Americans don't like selfish. It's a reality the beggar media can't see but one we encounter in every state we visit as we speak to group after group about the importance of the 2024 election.  




Things Donald Trump Will Never Tell The American People

dancing with himself

 




1) "In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows. The vast majority of those infants had congenital anomalies, or birth defects." -- Deidre McPhillips (CNN).  

2) "Donald Trump, 78, ranted at a town hall Sunday in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, that he is “not close to 80”, a sign that the Harris campaign’s increased focus on his age and cancellation of several interviews in recent days has been getting to him." -- Oliver O'Connell and Joe Sommerlad (INDEPENDENT)

3) "Bradley Peniston, the executive editor of the military defense publication Defense One, has written an editorial warning of former President Donald Trump's ambitions to potentially use the American military on the country's own citizens. Peniston begins by citing Trump's recent declaration that he could use the military to take care of what he described as 'the enemy within' the country that includes politicians such as Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)."  -- Brad Reed (RAW STORY)


4) "Donald Trump came under fire Monday after not condemning an armed gunman who was arrested for allegedly threatening FEMA workers trying to help North Carolina victims of Hurricane Helene. Trump also continued to spread lies about FEMA and the federal government’s response to that devastating and deadly event." -- David Badash.


5) "If you challenge them, they’ll fall back on one answer. It does not matter what it is. housing, health care, education, paying for the bills, One answer: Blame the immigrants." former President Barack Obama speaking in Nevada on Saturday about Trump and Miss Sassy JD Vance.

 

6) "Social Security could be drained of cash in just six years if Donald Trump becomes president in 2025, a report by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget warned Monday." -- Adam Nichols (RAW STORY).

 

 7) "More economists believe that inflation will rise at a higher rate under former President Donald Trump than it would under Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a survey by The Wall Street Journal." -- Rich Johnson (NEWS NATION).


8) "Former Defense Secretary James Mattis was so worried that former President Trump would order a nuclear strike against North Korea that he slept in gym clothes in case of an emergency overnight call and spent private time at the National Cathedral praying that war could be avoided, according to revelations in a new book by journalist Bob Woodward." -- Leo Shane III (ARMY TIMES).

 

9) "Former President Donald Trump's mental acuity faces increased scrutiny after a strange conclusion to his Monday town hall where he danced to music for 30 minutes, along with his refusal to release his medical records -- two of the latest examples of what Vice President Kamala Harris and her allies have described, with increased frequency as Election Day nears, as signs of cognitive decline in the 78-year-old former president." -- Sara Dorn (FORBES).


10) Donald Trump --  as noted at the top with Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Dancing With Himself" -- has no rhythm and should never attempt to dance in public.



Wildest whopper yet from Donald Trump?

diaper duty

 

Convicted Felon Donald Trump -- pictured above in Isaiah's latest THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Diaper Duty"  getting a diaper change from Miss Sassy JD Vance --  lies so often and so much that it really is difficult to pick out his worst lie.  But we do feel comfortable picking out his wildest lie.

Possibly concerned about his ever increasing utters that were formerly his ManBoobs, Donald has begun telling small crowds that Kamala Harris, if elected president, plans to ban cows.


No.



Much of Donald Trump’s 2024 pitch is rooted in fantasy. The former president, for example, wants people to believe the economy is dreadful, despite reality. He wants voters to believe crime rates are soaring, despite all evidence to the contrary. He expects Americans to believe conditions at the U.S./Mexico border are getting worse, even as they get better. He insists that the White House is failing to respond to natural disasters, even as other Republicans set the record straight.

But there’s another dimension to this that often goes overlooked: The Republican’s fantastical pitch also includes preposterous claims about Kamala Harris’ agenda for the future.

To be sure, given the unusual circumstances surrounding the vice president and how she became the Democratic nominee, Harris did not initially have much of a policy blueprint. But as the campaign has progressed, she and her team have crafted a credible governing vision and presented it to the electorate.

It does not include a ban on cows.

2024 passings

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1) "bad news (settlers shot a child in the back and adan canto has died)" -- Rebecca covers the passing of THE CLEANING LADY and DESIGNATED SURVIVOR star.

 

 2 and 3) "David Soul and Glynis Johns have passed" -- two passings -- one you knew from STARSKY & HUTCH, the other you knew from MARY POPPINS.


4) "Mary Weiss, The Leader of the Genre?" -- Elaine notes the passing of the leader of The Shangri-Las. 


5) "The death of Norman Jewison and the death of Taraji P. Henson's career" -- Stan notes the passing of film director Norman Jewison.

 

 6) "Melanie: Queen of the Music festivals ," "Thank you to Melanie (Jess)," "Jon Stewart to return to the desk," "Melanie, REACHER, young voters," "When are they going to arrest Kari Lake?," "We lose Melanie and Dexter King but are still stuck with Jonathan Turley?," "my top five melanie albums," "Ugly Chaya Chachi Ratchik," "Where's Florida's "Don't Say Southern Baptist" law?," and "Melanie, Mary Weiss, Green Day" -- remembering singer-songwriter Melanie.


7) "Norman Jewison and Melanie" -- Ruth notes Melanie and director Norman Jewison's passing. 


8) "Chita Rivera" -- a trailblazer's life is noted by Elaine.  


9) "Carl Weathers" -- Stan covers the actor and the athlete's passing.

 

10) "Richard Lewis" --  Ruth notes the passing of a stand up comic and actor.

 

11)  "Eric Carmen" -- Kat notes the passing of a singer-songwriter.

 

12)  "Louis Gossett Jr." -- Stan notes a passing of a breakthrough and Academy Award winning actor.

 

13) "I do Barbara Rush" -- Betty notes a passing of a golden age actress.

 

14) "Joe Flaherty" -- Stan notes a passing of a comic actor. 


15) "Robert MacNeil" -- Ruth notes a passing of a news anchor.

 

 16)  "meg bennett" -- Rebecca notes that passing of an actress and writer.

 

17) "David Sanborn" -- Kat notes the passing of a saxophone legend.

 

18) "Dabney Coleman" -- Stan notes a character actor who became a star.

 

19) "Charlie Colin" -- Kat notes the passing of an alternative rocker.

 

20)  "morgan spurlock, demi moore" -- Rebecca notes the passing of a filmmaker.

 

 21) "Rev. James Lawson" -- Ann notes the passing of a pioneer.

 

22) "Donald Sutherland" -- Stan notes the passing of a true original. 


23) "The media is full of liars" -- Ann notes the passing of Martin Mull and how the media had to fudge the truth.


24) "Robert Towne" -- Stan notes a passing.

 

25) "Media: Reality versus the lies the media loves to spread" -- Ava and C.I. note Dr Ruth's passing -- and the reality of her so-called 'ally' status.

 

26)   "shannen doherty" -- Rebecca notes the passing of the TV actress.

 

27) "Bob Newhart" -- Marcia notes the passing of the TV sitcom star.

 

28) "Richard Simmons" -- Ruth notes the passing of the fitness guru.

 

29)  "Obituaries -- thoughts on Sheila Jackson Lee and others" -- Elaine notes the passing of Sheila Jackson Lee -- exposed as a crook in Greg Palast's THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY -- and why we cover the deaths we cover.

 

30) ''Gena Rowlands" -- Stan notes the passing of a legendary actress.

 

31)  "Taco Spaghetti in the Kitchen" -- Trina notes the passing of game show host Peter Marshall. 

 

32) "Donahue" -- Kat notes a passing of a daytime TV pioneer.

 

33) "James Darren" -- Kat notes the passing of an actor and singer. 


34) "Weekend Box Office and James Earl Jones has passed" -- Stan notes James Earl Jones' passing.

 

35)  "Martha Stewart, Taylor Swift, Tito Jackson" -- Kat notes Tito Jackson's passing.

 

36) "Maggie Smith" -- Stan notes the passing of the British actress.


37)  "John Amos" -- Stan notes the passing of the American actor.


38)  "Kris Kristofferson" -- Kat notes the passing of an actor, songwriter and singer.


39) "Ethel Kennedy" -- Ruth notes the passing of an activist. 


40) "Libby Titus" -- Kat notes the passing of a songwriter.


41) "Liam Payne" and "Liam Payne" -- Betty and Kat note the passing of boy band singer Liam Payne.

 

C.I. explains how the 'left' media covers Kamala Harris

Reposting this from C.I.'s "The only thing crazier than Donald Trump? Leftists or 'leftists' trying to re-elect him:"

 

Sadly, the corporate media does a better job than our so-called 'independent' media does.  I spent time writing eight paragraphs calling out a dumb bitch at MOTHER JONES.  Then I realized it's our topic -- Ava and my topic -- at THIRD where we'll also be noting Sasha's nonsense.  


I am so sick of it.  I am so sick of supposed left sites working overtime to depress turnout in this election so that Trump ends up with four more years.  You are all pathetic -- THE NATION, DEMOCRACY NOW!, et al -- and you will find out what it's like to exist on a real budget because funding dreams and goals are not going to be met in 2025.  Not after all the crap you have pulled in 2024.  No, a lot of you are going to have to get real jobs and do actual work for a change.


The typical piece of garbage they write goes like this:


Vice President Kamala Harris spoke today in Georgia and explained that Americans love and need M&Ms and one of the first thing she'll be doing as president, if elected, is funding M&Ms for all Americans.

However, as everyone knows, we don't all eat M&MS and she was silent on Snickers! Junior Mints, Hershey bars were all omitted!  In her four minutes on M&Ms in her speech, she never once mentioned the 150 year Chocolate War or how the British took over the chocolate industry early on in the 19th century.  She seemed to think that her paltry offer of M&Ms for all wiped the slate clean.


That's the kind of garbage our 'left' and 'independent' media keeps serving up.  For now.  I mean they're not independent.  They count on donations and it's not the five or ten dollars you give each month.  They need the big money and that's going to be denied to them after their performance this year.  So they'll find out what it truly is like to be "independent."  They won't be able to count on big donors because we've all seen the crap they did with our money this year. 


In the past, John Kerry on M&Ms would have resulted in, "John Kerry today in California spoke about the need for M&Ms for all Americans and that's long overdue.  The plan includes . . . "


Instead, we're getting little bitches who are really bad online cash master that can't understand why people won't give them money after the little bitches have insulted and degraded their audience.

 

(Cash masters are men -- and women -- who insult followers into humiliation and make their money that way.  They're all over TWITTER, INSTAGRAM and ONLY FANS.  If you need more information about that, DM Glennyth Greenwald who is big time into being humiliated and degraded.)


There are very real issues at stake here.  And it's appalling to watch the so-called left work so hard to elect Donald Trump.  Because that is what they're doing.

 

Video of the week: Dave Bautista Shreds Trump’s Masculinity

 

What do you know, Jill Stein has a supporter!

Just not one worth having as explained in TABITHA SPEAKS below.




Tweet of the Week

 

This edition's playlist

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1)  Cher's CLOSER TO THE TRUTH.

 

2) Chase Rice's GO DOWN SINGIN'.

 

3) Diana Ross' THANK YOU

 

 

4) Beyonce's COWBOY CARTER.

 

5) Joni Mitchell's JONI MITCHELL ARCHIVES -- VOL. 3: THE ASYLUM YEARS (1972 - 1975).

 

6 Ben Harper's BOTH SIDES OF THE GUN

 

7) Aretha Franklin's A ROSE IS STILL A ROSE.

 

8) Pretenders' RESTLESS.

 

9) Laura Nyro's CHRISTMAS AND THE BEADS OF SWEAT.

 

 10) Ben Harper's BOTH SIDES OF THE GUN.

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights

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This piece is written by Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude, Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix, Kat of Kat's Korner, Betty of Thomas Friedman is a Great Man, Mike of Mikey Likes It!, Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz, Ruth of Ruth's Report, Marcia of SICKOFITRADLZ, Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends, Ann of Ann's Mega Dub, Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts and Wally of The Daily Jot. Unless otherwise noted, we picked all highlights.

 

"The only thing crazier than Donald Trump? Leftist..." -- most requested highlight by readers of this site.

 

Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Dancing With Himself" and "Isaiah's latest THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Diaper Duty" -- Isaiah's two comics from last week.


 "Kat's Korner: Chase Rice's GO DOWN SINGIN' and Cher's CLOSER TO THE TRUTH" -- Kat's latest album review.


 "Iraq snapshot,"  "Iraq snapshot,," "Iraq snapshot" "Iraq snapshot,"  "Idiot of the week and more," "Fakes like Trump and Aaron Rodgers," "JD Vance is disgusting," "Going home, I have a line I don't cross," "Miss Sassy loses his crowd appeal,""michael kosta (yea!) and the lack of accountability (boo!)" "good for gwen walz," "elon musk is not 'an american',"  "kavanaugh can be impeached," "Trump's getting more bizarre as he limps along in his campaign," "A video I liked,"  "Kamala!!!!!," "The power of Kamala," "Kamala polls and endorsements," ":Sleepy Donald does not understand the law," "Every word out of his mouth is part of a lie," "Trump the petulant child," "Trump continues to lurch around the stage," "Lies are a many splendored Trump," "Ron DeSantis is such an idiot," "Pete's right," "Disgusting Junior," "JD The Mental Moron Vance," "MegHam McCain," "Accountability," "Racist Jill Stein," "Mark The Perv Robinson," "Only JD dare kiss that face," "There is a huge difference between the two," "The Crooked Court has a stupidity issue as well,"  "Hitler and Trump -- separated at birth,"  "Trump's hero," "Stank Ass Trump just gets stankier,"  "THIS JUST IN! TRUMP IS HITLER'S CLONE!,"  "Who wants Tubby in the drive through window?," "Who thought it was safe to let Trump handle food?," "Don't eat at McDonalds - Trump proves they don't do food safety training," "Trump has forever soured me on McDonalds " "THIS JUST IN! TRUMP'S MCDONALD'S HIJINX!" and "Does treason come with that order of fries?" -- news coverage in the community.

 

"Campbell's Tuna Noodle Casserole in the Kitchen,"  "One-Pot Chicken Chow Mein," "Sheet-Pan Cashew Chicken in the Kitchen," "Ground Beef Mummy Bread in the Kitchen" and  "Fiesta Chicken Instant Pot in the Kitchen" -- Trina serves up some recipes.

 

 

"music: the eagles, coldplay, stevie nicks," "What the hell happened to Tori?," "Liam Payne,""Joni Mitchell, Cher and more," "Libby Titus," "Stevie Nicks and Nate Bargatze (and disgusting Donald)" and "Liam Payne" -- Rebecca, Kat and Betty cover music.

 

 "ELSBETH and MATLOCK," "VENOM: THE LAST DANCE," "Sitcoms,"  "The weasel Seinfeld" and "Weekend Box Office" -- TV and movie coverage in the community.

 

 

 

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