Ijust read that the Senate Democrats have consented to speedy (i.e. Rubber stamped) confirmations of Trumps nominations.
The reason being that the Republicans have threatened to go into recess, and will Trump will get disappointments anyway, but there will be hostility between Trump and the Senate democrats and the Senate Republicans and Democrats (laughs because here is already hostility). The Senate doesn't have to go into recess because there is the nuclear option, and now that the government is in total control of the Republicans they can rewrite the rules in the house and senate and kill the filibuster.
So all the Democrats are doing is buying time to protect themselves, a forlorn hope if ever there was one, because all they will be doing is smoothing the waters for smooth sailing of the journey to a theocratic, fascist dictatorship.
What do people do when they lose a war. They surrender, or they go underground and continue the fight.
Politicians are not known for moral courage. We've heard of Vichy France, welcome to Vichy America.
'Sick Joke': Progressives Roundly Reject Idea of Rahm Emanuel as DNC Chair
Just more of the same. when will people understand that "centrist" democrats are republican lite. they can't take money from corporations and represent their constitutuents wishes. also,
Legislation that would have handed President-elect Donald Trump sweeping power to investigate and shutter news outlets, government watchdogs, humanitarian organizations, and other nonprofits was defeated in the House of Representatives on Tuesday after a coalition of progressive advocacy groups and lawmakers mobilized against it, warning of the bill's dire implications for the right to dissent.
But 52 Democratic lawmakersтАФincluding Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), and Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.)тАФapparently did not share the grave concerns expressed by the ACLU and other leading rights groups, opting to vote alongside 204 Republicans in favor of the bill.
this bill was a thinly disguised "don't criticize israel bill" and
AIPAC was once again interfering in our governance.
Adam Schiff is the reason why the Democrats lost control of the 118th Congress, Rep Sean Mahoney of NY was in charge of the DCCC, the House Committee to elect Democrats. NY lost four seats in 2020, and that shifted control of the house to the Repulicans.
He and Schiff,who never saw a microphone he didn't want to fellate, ran off to Paris,Junkateering when they should have been home fighting for their seats.
Because of that, NY lost four of what should have been safe seats.
Biden rewarded Sean for his faithful service and losing the house by appointing him as Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Co=operation and Development (OECD)
Most politicians are professionals, that is how they make their money, over half of congress are millionaires, google millionaires in congress. They have no talents, no skills, most are lawyers and not good ones either, otherwise they would be making 6 figure salaries, instead of $174,000 a year as a rep.
They are flotsam on the waves, and float with the tide.
There are principled pols, but after a term in Congress they quickly lose their principles as they are lobbied, rewarded and feted.
Rahm Emanuel is the reason that we have Trump. It goes back to when he was Obama's Chief of Staff and he nixed, with Nancy's help, single payor, When he left the White House, with the Democrats help, he became mayor of Chicago and then sided with the cops as they persecuted the blacks, but joined Betsy DeVos's campaign to privatize education, by converting the Chicago system into Charter Schools.
Years ago, I considered American politics, Kabuki Theater, that Demos and Pubs were two sides of the same coin, and we the people were being taken for a ride, that it was all an act.
Then Trump stepped on stage and I left those thoughts behind. At least at the Federal level,not the state, those thoughts are coming back.
I still have faith in Governors Inslee, Newsom, Prisker, holding my breath and waiting for Shapiro of PA and Maura Healy of Massachussets, those two have not made the same committment as Inslee, Newsom and Prisker as to resisting the dictatorship of Trump
I'm very pleased to see that Ms. Paula Dean is just as appreciative of your comments as I am, WF, while hopefully that is the case with many others at this site. Your reference to 'Vichy America' is a tour de force, while I now look forward to quoting you re: that term, and this as we here in Australia continue to dissect this result - indeed one which effects us 'down under' just as much as it does the USA, and not only as this relates to 20% tariffs!
Thanks Marcus, when America sneezes, Australia catches a cold, as does much of the world. That is about to change in then next year.
America will experience the Trump effect, it will spiral down until it is one of Trumps shithole countries. TheChinese Yuan will replace the dollar, if China doesn't screw it up with their imperialistic, and inferiority caused, ambitions
China has a massive inferiority complex, America an undeserved supriority complex., I expect a 180 degree swamp
Trumpism with its racist, religious underpinning and the "I want the world plus 5%.now billionaires, will kill the very thing that made America the worlds leader, it' s diversity and social freedom, a demoralized and intimidated, fearful America where one lives in actual fear of their neighbor and the government, is not a productive nation.
I am loathe to call the ruling class, capitalists, because a capitalist invests in the means of production.
The Musks, the Thiels, the Dimons, the Bezo's are not investing capital into producing anything but profits, they are simple using money to organize resources into a money making and power,same goes for the tech industry.
Capitalism and communism are archaic early 20th Century terms, and we are hooked on them still use them because we are lazy and those are the only conceptual tools we have.
It is like living in a 2 dimensional world., that's all we know, so that is all we see.
The world described by Karl Marx and Adam Snith, no longer exist, but telling that to those that have been nurtured on them is harder than weaning a baby from the teat.
As they say, when the only tool you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.
I like your references to the two CC's being archaic terms, William, while I'd now argue that we inhabit post cap. and com. worlds as these relate to the 'nouveau capitalism' that was spawned in our now post neoliberal world, with this having been fully nurtured by technology as it relates to the 'processing culture' which we all now labor under etc. Trump will of course assist to further consolidate all of this (despite his total ignorance of bitcoin), with the economic stratification in your country set to become far worse as it pertains to widening inequalities etc. Suffice to say that one can only continue to quote the great Pablo Casals: "The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step". With best and thanks again!
We live in a 2.0 or 3.0 world and are using 1.0 concepts to discuss, bloviate, argue and we think fight, we really aren't, we are just making ourselves feel empowered or something.
We need new, accurately descriptive concepts, even post capitalism or nouveau (neo capitalism) does not work, We are way past all of those concepts now, and that is why we find ourselves treading water, and flailing our arms, to no effect.
We are fighting phantoms, will o the wisps. we are Romans quarreling over which god is more important Priapus or Scabies, while Jewish agitators are preaching the story of Yeshua in the market place.
By the way this is no stab at the Jews or a trope. Considering what Rome did to the Jews, how they plundered them and enslaved them to build the Coliseum and temples,and that massacred them and went to the extreme of posting a hole legion around Masada and building aramp which can still be seen to the top to wipe out Jewish resistance,
I think it was brilliant on the part of the learned Jews, the Pharisees, to come up with a scheme to do internally, what they couldn't do externally and destroy Rome, a power built on militarism, by preaching pacific ism and damn it worked, but it took almost 400 years, from Rome to go from offensive to defensive, but that was what the Jewish heresy of Christianity did.
Fucking smart, bravo,bravo. and it is still doing it's work today, convincing fools to bow in submission. Although that was not part of the plan, no one can read the future and there are always unintended consequences.
Ruth, the context is the bill giving the executive branch the ability to designate any nonprofit or advocacy group as a terrorist organization. this bill was strongly supported by aipac because they wanted all pro palestinian groups or opinions banned. this law is on its surface completely unconstitutional yet 52 democrats (jewish or aipac recipients) voted for it. it is shameful.
yes i despise the lobbying efforts of all big business; it should not be allowed. we can all write ad nauseum about the corruption therein, especially when they actually write the laws and our "representatives' just rubber stamp them.
and no, I am not anti-semitic. one can be opposed to genocidal actions without being a bigot.
Fork AIPAC! They are a vicious thorn in the side of every administration. I wish them ill. And before you call me "antisemitic", it's only their actions I deplore and NOT the people involved.
I agree. Intelligent people are able to describe actions without denigrating the perpetrators or labeling them in some offensive way. Although we need to be careful of denotations and connotations. Some who see themselves as victims may impute pejorative implications to seemingly neutral observations.
The problem is money in politics and it is not a new problem.
The Republican party was formed in Ripon, WI from the bones of the Whig party, it was financed by big money from the east. At first it was a coaliton of abolitionists and financial powers..
The Democratic party was the party of slavers, plow boys, share croppers and labor in the north they were called Copper heads
And so it stayed until LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and his Great Society Program.
Although I was in the military, I often visited my family in north east, Lousiana.
My uncle was a racist Southern Baptist preacher, and I asked him point blank in 1964, why he voted for Democrats. At that time the entire south was Democratic.
After that the racist southern Democrats bolted to the Republican party, and into the arms of the corporations, the financiers, the money powers.
That left the Dems with blue collar voters, and a big portion of the blue collar voters were in the south, but the major portion were in the great lake states
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania an the western side of NY.
If it weren't for NYC , New York would be red.
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The Great Migration was a period of mass migration of African Americans from the South to cities in the North, Midwest, and West, including those on or near the Great Lakes, that took place between 1916 and 1970:,
Manufacturers in the north actually recruited and advertised for African Americans to move to cities like Flint, Michigan and to great lakes cities. Cheap labor
In the quest for ever more profit (reducing variable expense, meaning labor), by the time that Bill Clinton came to office, they came up a plan NAFTA and a new version of GATT, that gave them tax breaks and the incentive to ship factories to Mexico, (maqilladoras. Ironic in that Mexican standard of living has improved so have wages and regulations, and these companies now ship their factories to Asia.
The blue collar workers, now part of the middle class, in those states lost their jobs, and towns became shells and husks, factories fell to rust and decay, and the workers haven't forgotten that it was Bill Clinton and the Democrats.
The once solid blue states are now purple states, with the exception of Ohio, and it appears in the future Pennsylvania, which is now Ruby Red.
It is said that only (anti communist Republican) Nixon could go to China and meet with Mao, and by the same token only a Democrat (Bill Clinton) could sign NAFT and GATT, and Obama tried to compound that error by pushing to pass the TPP (Transpacific Partnership Program)
The only beneficiaries of NAFTA, GATT, TPP are corporations and the billionaires, the victims were the working class, blue collar, miiddle class who,unlike the rest of America, has long memories when it comes to who is responsible for their economic distress.
Clinton was well rewarded for selling out, He left the WH broke and in debt, and was gifted a non profit called the Clinton Global Initiative and now he and Hillary are worth millions.
By the way his CGI is responsible for the mess in Haiti. Here is why, Shoe manufacturers moved in to take advantage of cheap Haitian labor, however the laborers became wealthy, in comparison to their neighbors and those not lucky to get a job.
People line up to get a job, but no jobs were available, jealousy did the rest, civil unrest because of disparity in income and lifestyle. and here we are.
William, I am often amazed by how well informed you are. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I have learned almost as much from you as from Heather Cox Richardson and Robert Reich.
yep-unfortunately,brains make it easier to rationalize the irrational
Ijust read that the Senate Democrats have consented to speedy (i.e. Rubber stamped) confirmations of Trumps nominations.
The reason being that the Republicans have threatened to go into recess, and will Trump will get disappointments anyway, but there will be hostility between Trump and the Senate democrats and the Senate Republicans and Democrats (laughs because here is already hostility). The Senate doesn't have to go into recess because there is the nuclear option, and now that the government is in total control of the Republicans they can rewrite the rules in the house and senate and kill the filibuster.
So all the Democrats are doing is buying time to protect themselves, a forlorn hope if ever there was one, because all they will be doing is smoothing the waters for smooth sailing of the journey to a theocratic, fascist dictatorship.
What do people do when they lose a war. They surrender, or they go underground and continue the fight.
Politicians are not known for moral courage. We've heard of Vichy France, welcome to Vichy America.
not to mention that they're floating
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel
'Sick Joke': Progressives Roundly Reject Idea of Rahm Emanuel as DNC Chair
Just more of the same. when will people understand that "centrist" democrats are republican lite. they can't take money from corporations and represent their constitutuents wishes. also,
Legislation that would have handed President-elect Donald Trump sweeping power to investigate and shutter news outlets, government watchdogs, humanitarian organizations, and other nonprofits was defeated in the House of Representatives on Tuesday after a coalition of progressive advocacy groups and lawmakers mobilized against it, warning of the bill's dire implications for the right to dissent.
But 52 Democratic lawmakersтАФincluding Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), and Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.)тАФapparently did not share the grave concerns expressed by the ACLU and other leading rights groups, opting to vote alongside 204 Republicans in favor of the bill.
this bill was a thinly disguised "don't criticize israel bill" and
AIPAC was once again interfering in our governance.
Adam Schiff is the reason why the Democrats lost control of the 118th Congress, Rep Sean Mahoney of NY was in charge of the DCCC, the House Committee to elect Democrats. NY lost four seats in 2020, and that shifted control of the house to the Repulicans.
He and Schiff,who never saw a microphone he didn't want to fellate, ran off to Paris,Junkateering when they should have been home fighting for their seats.
Because of that, NY lost four of what should have been safe seats.
Biden rewarded Sean for his faithful service and losing the house by appointing him as Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Co=operation and Development (OECD)
Most politicians are professionals, that is how they make their money, over half of congress are millionaires, google millionaires in congress. They have no talents, no skills, most are lawyers and not good ones either, otherwise they would be making 6 figure salaries, instead of $174,000 a year as a rep.
They are flotsam on the waves, and float with the tide.
There are principled pols, but after a term in Congress they quickly lose their principles as they are lobbied, rewarded and feted.
Rahm Emanuel is the reason that we have Trump. It goes back to when he was Obama's Chief of Staff and he nixed, with Nancy's help, single payor, When he left the White House, with the Democrats help, he became mayor of Chicago and then sided with the cops as they persecuted the blacks, but joined Betsy DeVos's campaign to privatize education, by converting the Chicago system into Charter Schools.
Years ago, I considered American politics, Kabuki Theater, that Demos and Pubs were two sides of the same coin, and we the people were being taken for a ride, that it was all an act.
Then Trump stepped on stage and I left those thoughts behind. At least at the Federal level,not the state, those thoughts are coming back.
I still have faith in Governors Inslee, Newsom, Prisker, holding my breath and waiting for Shapiro of PA and Maura Healy of Massachussets, those two have not made the same committment as Inslee, Newsom and Prisker as to resisting the dictatorship of Trump
"The DNC is the formula for the destruction of the Democratic Party. Look at their record." --- Ralph Nader
Thanks as always for your erudite, thoughtful, and informative comments, Herr Farrar, while as a non-American, they are always very appreciated by me.
Gern geschehen mein Herr
I'm very pleased to see that Ms. Paula Dean is just as appreciative of your comments as I am, WF, while hopefully that is the case with many others at this site. Your reference to 'Vichy America' is a tour de force, while I now look forward to quoting you re: that term, and this as we here in Australia continue to dissect this result - indeed one which effects us 'down under' just as much as it does the USA, and not only as this relates to 20% tariffs!
Thanks Marcus, when America sneezes, Australia catches a cold, as does much of the world. That is about to change in then next year.
America will experience the Trump effect, it will spiral down until it is one of Trumps shithole countries. TheChinese Yuan will replace the dollar, if China doesn't screw it up with their imperialistic, and inferiority caused, ambitions
China has a massive inferiority complex, America an undeserved supriority complex., I expect a 180 degree swamp
Trumpism with its racist, religious underpinning and the "I want the world plus 5%.now billionaires, will kill the very thing that made America the worlds leader, it' s diversity and social freedom, a demoralized and intimidated, fearful America where one lives in actual fear of their neighbor and the government, is not a productive nation.
I am loathe to call the ruling class, capitalists, because a capitalist invests in the means of production.
The Musks, the Thiels, the Dimons, the Bezo's are not investing capital into producing anything but profits, they are simple using money to organize resources into a money making and power,same goes for the tech industry.
Capitalism and communism are archaic early 20th Century terms, and we are hooked on them still use them because we are lazy and those are the only conceptual tools we have.
It is like living in a 2 dimensional world., that's all we know, so that is all we see.
The world described by Karl Marx and Adam Snith, no longer exist, but telling that to those that have been nurtured on them is harder than weaning a baby from the teat.
As they say, when the only tool you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.
I like your references to the two CC's being archaic terms, William, while I'd now argue that we inhabit post cap. and com. worlds as these relate to the 'nouveau capitalism' that was spawned in our now post neoliberal world, with this having been fully nurtured by technology as it relates to the 'processing culture' which we all now labor under etc. Trump will of course assist to further consolidate all of this (despite his total ignorance of bitcoin), with the economic stratification in your country set to become far worse as it pertains to widening inequalities etc. Suffice to say that one can only continue to quote the great Pablo Casals: "The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step". With best and thanks again!
We live in a 2.0 or 3.0 world and are using 1.0 concepts to discuss, bloviate, argue and we think fight, we really aren't, we are just making ourselves feel empowered or something.
We need new, accurately descriptive concepts, even post capitalism or nouveau (neo capitalism) does not work, We are way past all of those concepts now, and that is why we find ourselves treading water, and flailing our arms, to no effect.
We are fighting phantoms, will o the wisps. we are Romans quarreling over which god is more important Priapus or Scabies, while Jewish agitators are preaching the story of Yeshua in the market place.
By the way this is no stab at the Jews or a trope. Considering what Rome did to the Jews, how they plundered them and enslaved them to build the Coliseum and temples,and that massacred them and went to the extreme of posting a hole legion around Masada and building aramp which can still be seen to the top to wipe out Jewish resistance,
I think it was brilliant on the part of the learned Jews, the Pharisees, to come up with a scheme to do internally, what they couldn't do externally and destroy Rome, a power built on militarism, by preaching pacific ism and damn it worked, but it took almost 400 years, from Rome to go from offensive to defensive, but that was what the Jewish heresy of Christianity did.
Fucking smart, bravo,bravo. and it is still doing it's work today, convincing fools to bow in submission. Although that was not part of the plan, no one can read the future and there are always unintended consequences.
Prince of peace, the peace of slavery.
Why single out AIPACтАЩs lobbying efforts? Why not pharma, oil, or gun lobbies?
Ruth, the context is the bill giving the executive branch the ability to designate any nonprofit or advocacy group as a terrorist organization. this bill was strongly supported by aipac because they wanted all pro palestinian groups or opinions banned. this law is on its surface completely unconstitutional yet 52 democrats (jewish or aipac recipients) voted for it. it is shameful.
yes i despise the lobbying efforts of all big business; it should not be allowed. we can all write ad nauseum about the corruption therein, especially when they actually write the laws and our "representatives' just rubber stamp them.
and no, I am not anti-semitic. one can be opposed to genocidal actions without being a bigot.
If you say so.
Fork AIPAC! They are a vicious thorn in the side of every administration. I wish them ill. And before you call me "antisemitic", it's only their actions I deplore and NOT the people involved.
I agree. Intelligent people are able to describe actions without denigrating the perpetrators or labeling them in some offensive way. Although we need to be careful of denotations and connotations. Some who see themselves as victims may impute pejorative implications to seemingly neutral observations.
What a bunch of gutless wonders
The problem is money in politics and it is not a new problem.
The Republican party was formed in Ripon, WI from the bones of the Whig party, it was financed by big money from the east. At first it was a coaliton of abolitionists and financial powers..
The Democratic party was the party of slavers, plow boys, share croppers and labor in the north they were called Copper heads
And so it stayed until LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and his Great Society Program.
Although I was in the military, I often visited my family in north east, Lousiana.
My uncle was a racist Southern Baptist preacher, and I asked him point blank in 1964, why he voted for Democrats. At that time the entire south was Democratic.
After that the racist southern Democrats bolted to the Republican party, and into the arms of the corporations, the financiers, the money powers.
That left the Dems with blue collar voters, and a big portion of the blue collar voters were in the south, but the major portion were in the great lake states
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania an the western side of NY.
If it weren't for NYC , New York would be red.
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The Great Migration was a period of mass migration of African Americans from the South to cities in the North, Midwest, and West, including those on or near the Great Lakes, that took place between 1916 and 1970:,
Manufacturers in the north actually recruited and advertised for African Americans to move to cities like Flint, Michigan and to great lakes cities. Cheap labor
In the quest for ever more profit (reducing variable expense, meaning labor), by the time that Bill Clinton came to office, they came up a plan NAFTA and a new version of GATT, that gave them tax breaks and the incentive to ship factories to Mexico, (maqilladoras. Ironic in that Mexican standard of living has improved so have wages and regulations, and these companies now ship their factories to Asia.
The blue collar workers, now part of the middle class, in those states lost their jobs, and towns became shells and husks, factories fell to rust and decay, and the workers haven't forgotten that it was Bill Clinton and the Democrats.
The once solid blue states are now purple states, with the exception of Ohio, and it appears in the future Pennsylvania, which is now Ruby Red.
It is said that only (anti communist Republican) Nixon could go to China and meet with Mao, and by the same token only a Democrat (Bill Clinton) could sign NAFT and GATT, and Obama tried to compound that error by pushing to pass the TPP (Transpacific Partnership Program)
The only beneficiaries of NAFTA, GATT, TPP are corporations and the billionaires, the victims were the working class, blue collar, miiddle class who,unlike the rest of America, has long memories when it comes to who is responsible for their economic distress.
Clinton was well rewarded for selling out, He left the WH broke and in debt, and was gifted a non profit called the Clinton Global Initiative and now he and Hillary are worth millions.
By the way his CGI is responsible for the mess in Haiti. Here is why, Shoe manufacturers moved in to take advantage of cheap Haitian labor, however the laborers became wealthy, in comparison to their neighbors and those not lucky to get a job.
People line up to get a job, but no jobs were available, jealousy did the rest, civil unrest because of disparity in income and lifestyle. and here we are.
William, I am often amazed by how well informed you are. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I have learned almost as much from you as from Heather Cox Richardson and Robert Reich.
And I admire Heather Cox Richardson, she obviously has an eidetic memory and such a well organized mind, I can't believe she is human.
Exactly, William.