Trump's dementia, Trump's violent threats, that asshole from Heritage who threatened violence, the SC Gov. candidate who says some people need killing, Project 2025, Agenda 47 should all be covered by every media outlet every day above the fold or in the A block. None are. Why? Because the corporate media and the DC punditry want to keep Trump and the Republicans relevant and the only way they can do that is to ignore the real story and obsess about Biden's health. It's Hillary's emails all over again.
I am hoping that they might consider covering it during the Republican National Convention, but it seems that the NYT owner wants to tank Biden in one way or another, and WaPo's new right wing editor-in-chief does too.
So totally accurate — WHERE is the coverage of Trump’s pronouncements that in any way rivals coverage of Biden tripping over a consonant here and there, as any stutterer does. …
And. . .Biden trips on stairs sometimes. Disqualifying. Fell off his bike when foot tangled with the pedals. Disqualifying. (Untangled foot, got up and rode away. Doesn’t count.) “Frail” whatever that means. Slender? Fair skin without bronzer?
You have really nailed it, Peter. That leaves grass roots efforts from TRUE patriots to get the word(s) out. Ask everybody that you e-mail information to, to forward it and ask those recipients to do the same
NC, SC make about as much difference as ND/SD, but at least they have good BBQ and the Blue Ridge Mountains can't be beat. Both full of lunatic MAGAs and some of the worst of the worst in Congress. But OK, either way, he still has no business as a governor.
Jay Jacobs and Kathy Hochul won't let NYC forget. The four Dem seats NYState party chair Jacobs lost in 2022 turned the House over to the GOP. Governor Hochul pulled the plug on promised, much-needed NYC congestion parking fees.
Jay Jacobs, the single most malignant force in Democratic politics in NYS. One last curse left behind by Andy Cuomo... Hochul's decision on congestion pricing is going to cost her re-election. All because a couple of congressman in safe blue seats were whining on behalf of rich people who drive into the city in their luxury cars. Oh, and cops and firemen that live on Long Island or New Jersey. Don't believe any of the bullshit about working people.
I am currently reading the Education section of Project 2025, and my Democrats Abroad voting support group will be discussing Project 2025 as a book club.
Where do you live, Linda? I live in Ecuador and Democrats Abroad here is the only group with integrity that I'm aware of. They facilitate my voting every year.
I am just reading through the education section of Project 2025 and taking notes. Will be meeting with a group here in Germany to discuss it. I find that Democrats Abroad is top notch too.
I am so pleased to hear this about Democrats Abroad. My Uncle Tom Fina (not a real uncle, just one of my fatherʼs best friends, was one of the founders, in Milan, I believe, when he worked for the State Department many years ago.
Be prepared to meet Betsy De Vos in full flower. A Muslim's or Jew's tax dollars in a blue state going to vouchers to Christian Schools in the red states. Block grants to states without any accountability because paperwork is so expensive. Restrictions on what teachers can call kids. Removal of accreditation requirements to get funding for post-secondary education.
I am looking at how round about they are in what they are saying, or in this case, Lindsey M. Burke, and how redundant she is being. This is the only section I have actually read yet, and I appreciate others going through it and telling us the between the lines parts, because even though I know a lot about education, I am not knowing all of the possible abuses they could be considering.
That’s why I read it first. Actually, I read the section on Homeland Security but the saves of my underlining and comments failed, so I’m going to have to do it again. My recollection is a constant harping on Open Borders.
I read education first because Law Prof. Joyce Vance said that is what she is going to start with. She had suggested a book club on Project 2025, and I have a group that is reading it, but also articles discussing it. I will look at the Homeland Security, but I am interested in seeing what is planned for the other Depts.
Same reason I looked at it, and looking forward to Vance’s take. I plan on looking at more sections. But I will say the “bullet points” we see on other sections seem better statements of the danger. Simply saying “Eliminate the Dept of Education” has loads of folks saying “why not? I don’t know what it does.”
Yes. That is why I like reading other people's takes on it. However, reading the entire ed article, you get that they basically are saying, everyone who is rich can go to college, and otherwise we have set up ways for the banks and other grifters to lend you money, for an education in college that is no longer even really accredited by the old standards. Big no nos in education are what they call CRT and gender affirming care. Also, everyone is going to be paying for Christian Homeschoolers like the Duggar family of Shiny Happy People, and sexual molestation of girls, to get big bucks from the government to home school. Suggesting that anyone should get what the state pays now per pupil, like $22,000 per each child they have to educate them, well let us tie that into having women breeders to raise some money for the family. So, you have 18 children or whatever the Duggers had, multiply that by 22,000 and you have your yearly income. In addition to "Home schooling" the children you have to make sure wife stays pregnant and breeding so your income does not go down. Once a woman can no longer have children where will she be? Probably exterminated or serving others. This is going to lead back to the Mormon multiple wives situation where you can have economies of scale of children. For the youth, I would like to point out that if they are not wealthy there is going to be no money for college. They also want to get rid of programs that help get high schoolers college ready. I can go on.
Doesn't life begin with the first breath? How else could we have a concept like 'still birth.' Doesn't life begin with a breath and end with one? I understand the complexity raised by fetuses who might be viable if put into incubators etc, but their lives don't begin until they breathe.
It has actually come around to brain activity, but your point is made … It does NOT start when the DNA from egg and sperm come together to make a new and unique cell that will hold the genetic template for a new person. A blue print for a building is NOT a building!!!
Various structures of our bodies contain stem cells. And they have the potential to grow new parts — and just about EVERY cell contains a full contingent of our DNA, as does the first tiny zygote…What parts of us, if cut off from the whole, constitute a “person”? Does drawing blood go against these ideas of “personhood” founded at the moment the egg and sperm join and mix their DNA?
Not to mention, abortions that late in pregnancy are most likely to be for fetal nonviability or health of the mother. Not because the pregnant woman took 5 or 6 months to make up her mind to have the baby or not.
I might add that women that late in pregnancy are more likely to be married and intentionally pregnant.
Agenda 47 and Project 2025 should be called the Willy Nilly Projects. It’s every man, woman, and child for themselves. They’re steaming in racism, fascism, and sexism. They want to get rid of government as we know it. To hell with education at the public school sectors. Nope, everyone should get a voucher, using taxpayer funds to send their kid to private schools. It will be at these schools that your kid gets indoctrinated in Christianity. Oh yay! Let me barf. Poor and disabled kids will have to fend for themselves because they’ll take away free lunches for them as well as cut their programs completely. A pox on these billionaires/millionaires (all mostly white men). It can’t come soon enough.
And yet the Democrats (that’s us, mostly) continue to argue about who should be our candidate while the actual issues that should be the determining factors in this election are ignored.
AND STILL, the Democrats are far better at actually governing than they are at campaigning ..
Can all the REST of us get that message out to voters — Talk to voters about the Democratic record in office, not just that damned bickering … Show people how effective Biden and his team have been and will be again, even if he does NOT last the whole four years.
Reagan had Alzheimers in office!! I don’t advocate it, but his administration hid it and kept going … [maybe that’s why they keep insisting the Dem’s are doing it now —they constantly project their sins onto their opposition].
Dems are good governance people. Let the world KNOW!
The Democratic battle cry is "you are free to do your thing and I am free to do my thing!! And, let's care about other people because it's good to do the right thing!!" In these jingoistic red-meat days, that is just not sexy. Compare that to the Maga "lock her up!" "round up anyone not like us!" "F*CK your feelings!" And it's just not as appealing to a debased lizard brain. That is our struggle. The NYT dropped another corker calling the new British PM "the boring choice". Jesus! Just living a nice life in relative safety and freedom IS BORING, AND WE LIKE IT THAT WAY!
THE NYT is now like a parasite that can only affix it's mouth parts to feed upon flesh that is torn, inflamed. They have to have inflammation or it will be revealed that they are irrelevant! Can't have that!
iI actually hate that I tend to agree with you about the NYT. I have been a journalist for more than forty years, and my Dad for forty years before me … I have held that paper in some high esteem {not the top of my list, but considered a dependable and trustworthy source} until the Iraq debacle, and since then…down, down, down it went.
Hold on there, Stevie. I've been voting for 55 years and I've only voted for 1 Democrat in all that time. In 2020 I voted for Joe Biden and no matter who the Democrats nominate this year, I'll vote for them. I was a founding member of the Libertarian Party and those people that they are calling Libertarians and libertarians, are most definitely not either, big L or little l libertarians.
This is a refreshing and factual take on the current crop of LiBeRtaRiAnS. A bizarre pack of mostly hucksters and certainly narcissists. Not to my liking and not to be taken seriously.
Hi Bonnie, My point is that the people we are both referring to aren't classical libertarians, nor are they the Libertarians that founded the Libertarian Party in Colorado Springs in 1980. Neither are the people now calling themselves Republicans. How the hell did we ever get to this awful place? Ludwig von Mises is rolling over in his grave right now.
I love Biden, but after seeing the debate, I don’t trust his consciousness and vitality. I don’t think he or Trump could pass a serious mental acuity test.
When Franklin Roosevelt got the New Deal legislation passed including Social Security, public works infrastructure spending and most importantly banking regulations passed, there was a huge revolt from the conservative Republicans in government. The Supreme Court reversed much of the New Deal legislation and Senator Robert Taft, the leader of the Conservatives in the Republican Party denounced the New Deal as socialism. The legislation was incredibly popular, sweeping FDR into a second term in office by an overwhelming majority. But the resistance from the right, made up of wealthy industrialists among others, continued. The Social Security Act was challenged 3 times, but the Supreme Court eventually ruled that it was constitutional. There was so much resistance to the New Deal in the court that FDR tried at one point to increase the number of jurists to "load the court". This effort failed but much of the New Deal was allowed to proceed anyway. Nonetheless, the resistance was formidable politically.
Project 2025 includes goals like defunding public broadcasting and other items considered "socialist" by the right wing of American politics. There are some who would still argue that Social Security is unconstitutional. Recent rulings by the current Supreme Court imply that issues like contraception may well be challenged by the court and that is one of the tenants of Project 2025 as is no fault divorce and a national ban on abortion without exceptions. Defunding commissions like the SEC and the FDA among others are also goals.
It is clear to me that the resistance FDR felt in the 1930s to the expanded role of government, to include providing protections to the American public, are still foremost in the minds of those right wing elements. Like abortion, those resistant do not give up. They are like dogs who grab on and cannot let go. Today we see the very real result of this effort. Most of the things Project 2025 projects are not popular with the general public. Trumpism is not a majority desire in our country. But, like in FDR's time, what is popular or even demanded is not necessarily what ends up winning.
Vote and insist that everyone you know votes. Point out the negatives of this project to those you know who admire Trump. Do they really want contraceptives to be declared illegal? Do they really want divorce to be made far more difficult? Perhaps they would not be happy with new erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra contested by judges who adhere to the new Supreme Court decision limiting the processes of the FDA. Or perhaps it's ok with them that these drugs are no longer vigorously tested because the FDA gets dumped by a new Trump administration. I think people would think twice about electing these kinds of officials if it affected them personally.
Scary times. But take heart. The far right in France got royally busted 2 days ago in their elections, after everyone thought they would win. The moderates and leftists joined together to defeat them prominently. It can happen here too. It doesn't matter who is at the top of the Democratic Party's ticket in November. What matters is that Trump and the far right are defeated.
Very well said. The New Deal was anathema to the white right, and it got worse in the mid-1960s when those civil rights and social programs were expanded to include (theoretically at least) people of color. We've been living in the backwash of the Nixon-Reagan reaction ever since.
Nixon/ Reagan?? The Nazi funded coup was attempted in 1939 and several US congressmen and Senators (Robert Taft was one) were busted and tried. Misstrial decalared and Truman had all the evidence put away in the National Archive. I would think that most of us here would already be up to speed on that with Rachel Maddow's ULTRA podcast.
Ronnie Raygun was the calming face of GE theater to soften up the nation to trickle down economics and the military build up of the Cold War, from which GE, the largest military contractor in the world would become a world power in it's own right, as the industrialists who used Hitler tried.
So you don't think the backlash against advances in rights for people of color and women in general had anything to do with it? Where do you think GE et al. were going to get the votes?
Senator Robert Taft was busted and tried for his paticipation in carrying out a coup to overthrow the government of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA for Adolph Hitler, in 1939. All the documentation is in the National Archive. His progeny is working dilligently right now to finally pull off that NAZI/Fascist coup. Do you understand!?!?? The tRump is their new face.
Reading your whole article in Salon, I see the idea of Freedom Cities — on federal land — left up to the states? There go our national parks and protected lands and wilderness areas.
So much is at stake — so much — literally…LITERALLY….our whole way of life.
Yes, that is what we are up against and we will dither away our only chance to stop it by questioning Biden, as we are instructed to do by Vladimir Putin. Got it?
It’s gotten so I am totally paranoid about this whole process. How do we know who we are dealing with on these threads? Out there infuencing the press, writing letters, texting, X-ing, on our social media? The chaos agents are out this time around in full force, and their avatar, the Big Orange Doofus, is at it full bore ..
Me, too … Absolutely CHILLING that Donnie is saying stuff like this out loud and it is not being TALKED about in the press, while we go on ad infinitum about Joe’s blips.
Loved (from the article) "Another motorist pulled up alongside me and said, “I just had to stop to laugh at you.”
Some weeks ago, I actually saw one on the street. Didn't know what it was but it reminded me of my friend who designed and built two 3-wheeled motorcycles. One, known as the Star Trike, is a model of the Starship Enterprise. The other is a bunch of large, angular steel pieces welded together, intended to make the trike safer for the driver (close to but not quite like an actual car) that bears a bit of resemblance to the Tesla truck. Wonder if Tesla designers broke into my friend's garage?
This is probably a contrarian take. But, is it maybe helpful that President Biden is in the news all the time. Even if it’s for the fact that there’s this debate over replacing him. Previous to this it was Trump in the news all the time being horrible. That didn’t help to sink him in the polls.
I’ve always heard the old saw that any publicity is good publicity. Is that maybe true?
As usual, the Dems are out in the garden, smelling the wonderful flowers. They know the wind driven fires are a few hills away. Why spoil a beautifel morning? By the time they see the flames and scream FIRE!!! it will be way too late.
They have been resting on the laurels of the legislative victories back in the 60s and early 70s. The threat has been in plain sight since the Welch and Koch funded John Birch Society and W. F. sneerface Buckley's National Review in the 50s. Rust never sleeps. The fascist right of the US has been working diligently, 24/7 since they failed to pull off the coup in 1939. Will they succeed this time?
yep. The manifesto states it as " "The next Administration should ensure that USAID’s goal in service of its mission is to help protect and propel all members of society—women, children, and men—from conception to natural death. " So much for turning off life support to brain dead people, btw. Not to mention turning it ON when there is hope of recovery, since "natural death" suggests an end WITHOUT tech support. The phrase "from conception to natural death" is used several times.
And Freedom Cities. On National Forests (after carefully raking them to prevent fires?). National grasslands (ditto) National Parks? Assume they find a spot. They will have to provide JOBS because there aren't any in the middle of wilderness. They will have to provide hospitals, schools, roads, sewage systems, water and electricity enough to support a "city." Lets hear it for cutting Federal spending.
Of course, private enterprise could provide all that. From scratch. So what would they then charge to buy a house in the new city in order to cover their costs?
It didn't occur to me that the "Freedom Cities" were for immigrants. I assumed they were for wholesome young white Christian families who of course can't live in real cities because those cities are overrun by gangsters of color and woke liberals, yadda yadda yadda.
Aha, thanks! I had no idea Trump had talked about this before, but then I avoid listening to him talk about anything. I'm struck by how polite Politico is in this story: "A former celebrity real estate developer and TV personality, Trump has a long history of outlining audacious new initiatives that are heavy on imagery and light on details. The latest offerings come with a few explanations for how they will be executed."
Trump's dementia, Trump's violent threats, that asshole from Heritage who threatened violence, the SC Gov. candidate who says some people need killing, Project 2025, Agenda 47 should all be covered by every media outlet every day above the fold or in the A block. None are. Why? Because the corporate media and the DC punditry want to keep Trump and the Republicans relevant and the only way they can do that is to ignore the real story and obsess about Biden's health. It's Hillary's emails all over again.
I am hoping that they might consider covering it during the Republican National Convention, but it seems that the NYT owner wants to tank Biden in one way or another, and WaPo's new right wing editor-in-chief does too.
So totally accurate — WHERE is the coverage of Trump’s pronouncements that in any way rivals coverage of Biden tripping over a consonant here and there, as any stutterer does. …
Gad, how infuriating.
The money behind the traditional media is all pro-Trump.
And. . .Biden trips on stairs sometimes. Disqualifying. Fell off his bike when foot tangled with the pedals. Disqualifying. (Untangled foot, got up and rode away. Doesn’t count.) “Frail” whatever that means. Slender? Fair skin without bronzer?
There is no rhyme or reason, except to create controversy where none should exist — and oddly, ignore it where it is completely apparent!
Trying not to be a flat-out conspiracy theorist here …
Is it simple as claiming Trump is full of shit isn't news and doesn't sell?
TRUMP LIES. Big deal. BIDEN STUMBLES. It's news, all based on the needs of corporate quarterly reports.
You have really nailed it, Peter. That leaves grass roots efforts from TRUE patriots to get the word(s) out. Ask everybody that you e-mail information to, to forward it and ask those recipients to do the same
"SC Gov. candidate"
Correctly, NC. Even MAGAt candidates hardly ever come more extreme than current NC lieutenant gov Mark Robinson.
https://www.vox.com/politics/24092798/mark-robinson-north-carolina-governors-race-2024
NC, SC make about as much difference as ND/SD, but at least they have good BBQ and the Blue Ridge Mountains can't be beat. Both full of lunatic MAGAs and some of the worst of the worst in Congress. But OK, either way, he still has no business as a governor.
Yes, well, plenty of people probably think New York and New Jersey are interchangeable too. The Hudson River is visible from both.
More than a few people think that New York is only New York City, they don't know that we upstaters even exist.
Jay Jacobs and Kathy Hochul won't let NYC forget. The four Dem seats NYState party chair Jacobs lost in 2022 turned the House over to the GOP. Governor Hochul pulled the plug on promised, much-needed NYC congestion parking fees.
Jay Jacobs, the single most malignant force in Democratic politics in NYS. One last curse left behind by Andy Cuomo... Hochul's decision on congestion pricing is going to cost her re-election. All because a couple of congressman in safe blue seats were whining on behalf of rich people who drive into the city in their luxury cars. Oh, and cops and firemen that live on Long Island or New Jersey. Don't believe any of the bullshit about working people.
Peter, I lived in Buffalo for 25 years. I hear you, loud and clear.
My mother in law is from Buffalo. She says that NYCers used to think she was from Canada (when she moved to NYC after college in 1951).
Since the MSM won't get off the Biden bullshit, we need to raise pure Hell about Project 2025 and Trump.
I am currently reading the Education section of Project 2025, and my Democrats Abroad voting support group will be discussing Project 2025 as a book club.
Where do you live, Linda? I live in Ecuador and Democrats Abroad here is the only group with integrity that I'm aware of. They facilitate my voting every year.
I am just reading through the education section of Project 2025 and taking notes. Will be meeting with a group here in Germany to discuss it. I find that Democrats Abroad is top notch too.
I am so pleased to hear this about Democrats Abroad. My Uncle Tom Fina (not a real uncle, just one of my fatherʼs best friends, was one of the founders, in Milan, I believe, when he worked for the State Department many years ago.
Be prepared to meet Betsy De Vos in full flower. A Muslim's or Jew's tax dollars in a blue state going to vouchers to Christian Schools in the red states. Block grants to states without any accountability because paperwork is so expensive. Restrictions on what teachers can call kids. Removal of accreditation requirements to get funding for post-secondary education.
I am looking at how round about they are in what they are saying, or in this case, Lindsey M. Burke, and how redundant she is being. This is the only section I have actually read yet, and I appreciate others going through it and telling us the between the lines parts, because even though I know a lot about education, I am not knowing all of the possible abuses they could be considering.
That’s why I read it first. Actually, I read the section on Homeland Security but the saves of my underlining and comments failed, so I’m going to have to do it again. My recollection is a constant harping on Open Borders.
I read education first because Law Prof. Joyce Vance said that is what she is going to start with. She had suggested a book club on Project 2025, and I have a group that is reading it, but also articles discussing it. I will look at the Homeland Security, but I am interested in seeing what is planned for the other Depts.
Same reason I looked at it, and looking forward to Vance’s take. I plan on looking at more sections. But I will say the “bullet points” we see on other sections seem better statements of the danger. Simply saying “Eliminate the Dept of Education” has loads of folks saying “why not? I don’t know what it does.”
Yes. That is why I like reading other people's takes on it. However, reading the entire ed article, you get that they basically are saying, everyone who is rich can go to college, and otherwise we have set up ways for the banks and other grifters to lend you money, for an education in college that is no longer even really accredited by the old standards. Big no nos in education are what they call CRT and gender affirming care. Also, everyone is going to be paying for Christian Homeschoolers like the Duggar family of Shiny Happy People, and sexual molestation of girls, to get big bucks from the government to home school. Suggesting that anyone should get what the state pays now per pupil, like $22,000 per each child they have to educate them, well let us tie that into having women breeders to raise some money for the family. So, you have 18 children or whatever the Duggers had, multiply that by 22,000 and you have your yearly income. In addition to "Home schooling" the children you have to make sure wife stays pregnant and breeding so your income does not go down. Once a woman can no longer have children where will she be? Probably exterminated or serving others. This is going to lead back to the Mormon multiple wives situation where you can have economies of scale of children. For the youth, I would like to point out that if they are not wealthy there is going to be no money for college. They also want to get rid of programs that help get high schoolers college ready. I can go on.
Doesn't life begin with the first breath? How else could we have a concept like 'still birth.' Doesn't life begin with a breath and end with one? I understand the complexity raised by fetuses who might be viable if put into incubators etc, but their lives don't begin until they breathe.
It has actually come around to brain activity, but your point is made … It does NOT start when the DNA from egg and sperm come together to make a new and unique cell that will hold the genetic template for a new person. A blue print for a building is NOT a building!!!
Various structures of our bodies contain stem cells. And they have the potential to grow new parts — and just about EVERY cell contains a full contingent of our DNA, as does the first tiny zygote…What parts of us, if cut off from the whole, constitute a “person”? Does drawing blood go against these ideas of “personhood” founded at the moment the egg and sperm join and mix their DNA?
How much more can we muddy this water?
Gad.
Not to mention, abortions that late in pregnancy are most likely to be for fetal nonviability or health of the mother. Not because the pregnant woman took 5 or 6 months to make up her mind to have the baby or not.
I might add that women that late in pregnancy are more likely to be married and intentionally pregnant.
Agenda 47 and Project 2025 should be called the Willy Nilly Projects. It’s every man, woman, and child for themselves. They’re steaming in racism, fascism, and sexism. They want to get rid of government as we know it. To hell with education at the public school sectors. Nope, everyone should get a voucher, using taxpayer funds to send their kid to private schools. It will be at these schools that your kid gets indoctrinated in Christianity. Oh yay! Let me barf. Poor and disabled kids will have to fend for themselves because they’ll take away free lunches for them as well as cut their programs completely. A pox on these billionaires/millionaires (all mostly white men). It can’t come soon enough.
And yet the Democrats (that’s us, mostly) continue to argue about who should be our candidate while the actual issues that should be the determining factors in this election are ignored.
Can’t like, but agree.
AND STILL, the Democrats are far better at actually governing than they are at campaigning ..
Can all the REST of us get that message out to voters — Talk to voters about the Democratic record in office, not just that damned bickering … Show people how effective Biden and his team have been and will be again, even if he does NOT last the whole four years.
Reagan had Alzheimers in office!! I don’t advocate it, but his administration hid it and kept going … [maybe that’s why they keep insisting the Dem’s are doing it now —they constantly project their sins onto their opposition].
Dems are good governance people. Let the world KNOW!
The Democratic battle cry is "you are free to do your thing and I am free to do my thing!! And, let's care about other people because it's good to do the right thing!!" In these jingoistic red-meat days, that is just not sexy. Compare that to the Maga "lock her up!" "round up anyone not like us!" "F*CK your feelings!" And it's just not as appealing to a debased lizard brain. That is our struggle. The NYT dropped another corker calling the new British PM "the boring choice". Jesus! Just living a nice life in relative safety and freedom IS BORING, AND WE LIKE IT THAT WAY!
THE NYT is now like a parasite that can only affix it's mouth parts to feed upon flesh that is torn, inflamed. They have to have inflammation or it will be revealed that they are irrelevant! Can't have that!
iI actually hate that I tend to agree with you about the NYT. I have been a journalist for more than forty years, and my Dad for forty years before me … I have held that paper in some high esteem {not the top of my list, but considered a dependable and trustworthy source} until the Iraq debacle, and since then…down, down, down it went.
This is a sad day. But you are close to right …
Hold on there, Stevie. I've been voting for 55 years and I've only voted for 1 Democrat in all that time. In 2020 I voted for Joe Biden and no matter who the Democrats nominate this year, I'll vote for them. I was a founding member of the Libertarian Party and those people that they are calling Libertarians and libertarians, are most definitely not either, big L or little l libertarians.
This is a refreshing and factual take on the current crop of LiBeRtaRiAnS. A bizarre pack of mostly hucksters and certainly narcissists. Not to my liking and not to be taken seriously.
Hi Bonnie, My point is that the people we are both referring to aren't classical libertarians, nor are they the Libertarians that founded the Libertarian Party in Colorado Springs in 1980. Neither are the people now calling themselves Republicans. How the hell did we ever get to this awful place? Ludwig von Mises is rolling over in his grave right now.
Right. While the decision making Dems are playing the worst game of "Squirrel!" I have ever witnessed. I'm staying steady with Biden.
I love Biden, but after seeing the debate, I don’t trust his consciousness and vitality. I don’t think he or Trump could pass a serious mental acuity test.
You have been asleep at the wheel.
Same!
You too
Piss up a rope pal
My take on Project 2025:
When Franklin Roosevelt got the New Deal legislation passed including Social Security, public works infrastructure spending and most importantly banking regulations passed, there was a huge revolt from the conservative Republicans in government. The Supreme Court reversed much of the New Deal legislation and Senator Robert Taft, the leader of the Conservatives in the Republican Party denounced the New Deal as socialism. The legislation was incredibly popular, sweeping FDR into a second term in office by an overwhelming majority. But the resistance from the right, made up of wealthy industrialists among others, continued. The Social Security Act was challenged 3 times, but the Supreme Court eventually ruled that it was constitutional. There was so much resistance to the New Deal in the court that FDR tried at one point to increase the number of jurists to "load the court". This effort failed but much of the New Deal was allowed to proceed anyway. Nonetheless, the resistance was formidable politically.
Project 2025 includes goals like defunding public broadcasting and other items considered "socialist" by the right wing of American politics. There are some who would still argue that Social Security is unconstitutional. Recent rulings by the current Supreme Court imply that issues like contraception may well be challenged by the court and that is one of the tenants of Project 2025 as is no fault divorce and a national ban on abortion without exceptions. Defunding commissions like the SEC and the FDA among others are also goals.
It is clear to me that the resistance FDR felt in the 1930s to the expanded role of government, to include providing protections to the American public, are still foremost in the minds of those right wing elements. Like abortion, those resistant do not give up. They are like dogs who grab on and cannot let go. Today we see the very real result of this effort. Most of the things Project 2025 projects are not popular with the general public. Trumpism is not a majority desire in our country. But, like in FDR's time, what is popular or even demanded is not necessarily what ends up winning.
Vote and insist that everyone you know votes. Point out the negatives of this project to those you know who admire Trump. Do they really want contraceptives to be declared illegal? Do they really want divorce to be made far more difficult? Perhaps they would not be happy with new erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra contested by judges who adhere to the new Supreme Court decision limiting the processes of the FDA. Or perhaps it's ok with them that these drugs are no longer vigorously tested because the FDA gets dumped by a new Trump administration. I think people would think twice about electing these kinds of officials if it affected them personally.
Scary times. But take heart. The far right in France got royally busted 2 days ago in their elections, after everyone thought they would win. The moderates and leftists joined together to defeat them prominently. It can happen here too. It doesn't matter who is at the top of the Democratic Party's ticket in November. What matters is that Trump and the far right are defeated.
Very well said. The New Deal was anathema to the white right, and it got worse in the mid-1960s when those civil rights and social programs were expanded to include (theoretically at least) people of color. We've been living in the backwash of the Nixon-Reagan reaction ever since.
Nixon/ Reagan?? The Nazi funded coup was attempted in 1939 and several US congressmen and Senators (Robert Taft was one) were busted and tried. Misstrial decalared and Truman had all the evidence put away in the National Archive. I would think that most of us here would already be up to speed on that with Rachel Maddow's ULTRA podcast.
Ronnie Raygun was the calming face of GE theater to soften up the nation to trickle down economics and the military build up of the Cold War, from which GE, the largest military contractor in the world would become a world power in it's own right, as the industrialists who used Hitler tried.
So you don't think the backlash against advances in rights for people of color and women in general had anything to do with it? Where do you think GE et al. were going to get the votes?
Senator Robert Taft was busted and tried for his paticipation in carrying out a coup to overthrow the government of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA for Adolph Hitler, in 1939. All the documentation is in the National Archive. His progeny is working dilligently right now to finally pull off that NAZI/Fascist coup. Do you understand!?!?? The tRump is their new face.
Reading your whole article in Salon, I see the idea of Freedom Cities — on federal land — left up to the states? There go our national parks and protected lands and wilderness areas.
So much is at stake — so much — literally…LITERALLY….our whole way of life.
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Yes, that is what we are up against and we will dither away our only chance to stop it by questioning Biden, as we are instructed to do by Vladimir Putin. Got it?
It’s gotten so I am totally paranoid about this whole process. How do we know who we are dealing with on these threads? Out there infuencing the press, writing letters, texting, X-ing, on our social media? The chaos agents are out this time around in full force, and their avatar, the Big Orange Doofus, is at it full bore ..
Me, too … Absolutely CHILLING that Donnie is saying stuff like this out loud and it is not being TALKED about in the press, while we go on ad infinitum about Joe’s blips.
EXACTLY! That is what Putin has instructed.
I’d lay odds you’re right. We know he’s got his people working on riling up the chaos.
trump's incessant lying coupled with his wandering ranting makes for gobbledegook, all right. Good choice of words, Lucian
You are so very welcome in my inbox Lucian. Ever grateful.
Thank you, Luc T. Keep it up! Writing is hard work.
"State's Rights" has always meant slavery. Owning the Libs has turned into owning the Women.
There is a great (not good) review of the Tesla truck at sfgate.com if anyone needs some relief.
Thanks for the grin!
Loved (from the article) "Another motorist pulled up alongside me and said, “I just had to stop to laugh at you.”
Some weeks ago, I actually saw one on the street. Didn't know what it was but it reminded me of my friend who designed and built two 3-wheeled motorcycles. One, known as the Star Trike, is a model of the Starship Enterprise. The other is a bunch of large, angular steel pieces welded together, intended to make the trike safer for the driver (close to but not quite like an actual car) that bears a bit of resemblance to the Tesla truck. Wonder if Tesla designers broke into my friend's garage?
A laugh in every sentence! Thanks for the link, Greg.
This is probably a contrarian take. But, is it maybe helpful that President Biden is in the news all the time. Even if it’s for the fact that there’s this debate over replacing him. Previous to this it was Trump in the news all the time being horrible. That didn’t help to sink him in the polls.
I’ve always heard the old saw that any publicity is good publicity. Is that maybe true?
I wish it were, but this harping is drawing him as a turnip. That is not going to get him elected.
It probably WOULD help to sell tickets to see him at a rally; it probably WOULD help to sell a new book, if he wrote one.
But it’s not gonna help to get him elected. That old saw was about commerce, not politics.
"You're not going to like it: A national ban on abortion, "Freedom Cities," and concentration camps for undocumented immigrants"
You can't name a single thing that is trump that I like.
So that begs the question “are we noble or idiots?” or both?
All three....
As usual, the Dems are out in the garden, smelling the wonderful flowers. They know the wind driven fires are a few hills away. Why spoil a beautifel morning? By the time they see the flames and scream FIRE!!! it will be way too late.
They have been resting on the laurels of the legislative victories back in the 60s and early 70s. The threat has been in plain sight since the Welch and Koch funded John Birch Society and W. F. sneerface Buckley's National Review in the 50s. Rust never sleeps. The fascist right of the US has been working diligently, 24/7 since they failed to pull off the coup in 1939. Will they succeed this time?
IS IT TOO LATE TO WAKE UP???
Maj General Smedley Butler blew the whistle- “War Is a Racket”. Got to love the Marines
yep. The manifesto states it as " "The next Administration should ensure that USAID’s goal in service of its mission is to help protect and propel all members of society—women, children, and men—from conception to natural death. " So much for turning off life support to brain dead people, btw. Not to mention turning it ON when there is hope of recovery, since "natural death" suggests an end WITHOUT tech support. The phrase "from conception to natural death" is used several times.
And Freedom Cities. On National Forests (after carefully raking them to prevent fires?). National grasslands (ditto) National Parks? Assume they find a spot. They will have to provide JOBS because there aren't any in the middle of wilderness. They will have to provide hospitals, schools, roads, sewage systems, water and electricity enough to support a "city." Lets hear it for cutting Federal spending.
Of course, private enterprise could provide all that. From scratch. So what would they then charge to buy a house in the new city in order to cover their costs?
It didn't occur to me that the "Freedom Cities" were for immigrants. I assumed they were for wholesome young white Christian families who of course can't live in real cities because those cities are overrun by gangsters of color and woke liberals, yadda yadda yadda.
Clearly, I misunderstood what I had read somewhere else. Just search on 'freedom cities trump' and found this Politico article from March 2023. Have deleted my comment so no one else will be as confused as I was. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/03/trump-policy-futuristic-cities-00085383
Aha, thanks! I had no idea Trump had talked about this before, but then I avoid listening to him talk about anything. I'm struck by how polite Politico is in this story: "A former celebrity real estate developer and TV personality, Trump has a long history of outlining audacious new initiatives that are heavy on imagery and light on details. The latest offerings come with a few explanations for how they will be executed."