'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,
'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 lawmakers—including Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), and Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.)—apparently 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.
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 lawmakers—including Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), and Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.)—apparently 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 AIPAC’s 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.