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:
- Don't give a dime to the racist NATION magazine
- Media: The election winds down
- Media: The double standard
- Media: Are they trying to elect Donald Trump?
- Media: Abusers Donald and JD fit the pattern
- Media: The damage done by Dave Zirin and The Gaza ...
- The death of corporate media has been widely misre...
- Media: Broadcast TV and Jill Stein -- two things t...
- Media: Hard Truths and Soft Media
- Media: The stupid on the right and the stupid on t...
- Media: They don't know any better
- Media: The embarrassments of the 2024 presidential...
- Media: We usually get our twists and turns from TV
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.