Unfortunately, a sociopathic infant is what far too many people want. They seriously (I mean seriously) confuse good government with the experience of watching WWE.
I've noticed something interesting on Nextdoor. Although there you find the requisite МАГАт nut-job rants, you have others, whose sympathies become clear over time, asking little questions like "grocery prices are awful high, aren't they?" and inviting comment. So while it seems like the strategy is all WWE all the time in the overt campaign, it calms down and almost comes across as good natured and polite in less radicalized social media, that has enough support for the right to affirm the message on the one hand, and attack anyone interfering with that message as communists, etc. on the other - complaining about and having removed. They also seem to be relatively successful in complaining and having removed anything one might offer, usually as "non-local" - that is, irrelevant - to the discussion, or disrespectful. On the other hand, I started 3 discussions based on Dr Reich's articles on corporate gouging, the high cost of rent, and the high price of groceries that were "hidden because they might violate forum rules." Just something to keep in mind.
IMHO all the chains, Publix, Kroger, Vons, et all support the orange antichrist. All are price gouging. Although Biden was not given authority to sue, California is suing Amazon for price fixing.
Yes, but Biden’s antitrust activities aren’t credited and the general public remains ignorant. The news that Trump requested a billion dollars from the oil and coal cartel was largely and now completely ignored. Trump exaggerates enough so the public ignores what his real message is.
100% of social media, both social and news media, are owned by THE ALT RIGHT. MSNBC sometimes and most INDEPENDENT media are the only ones that give push-back.
Yes, Alan - that was bribery out in the public eye. It needs to be called out. Trump figures he can get away with anything. He needs to be corrected, many times.
I just revised your comment here to point it specifically at corporate grocery chains and the МАГАт driven Ohio General Assembly & Attorney General, then posted it on Nextdoor.com. I'm curious to see how long it'll last before it's suppressed. In the meantime, it should make eyeball contact with several hundred subscribers. I'll keep you posted on how it flies - or whether it even flies in the first place!
My revised version of your comment I'm responding to is now approaching 5000 views on Nextdoor.com and a lively discussion is underway - a total surprise to me!
Not only has it not (yet) been suppressed as I expected, I just got a message from Nextdoor saying:
"Neighbors are really interested in your post!
Trusted neighbors like you are making a difference in the neighborhood. What will you share next?"
Holy cow! I just checked and found I've gotten nearly 2K hits on the version of your comment I revised. It's also garnered a lot of pretty civil discussion, mostly from those that disagree. It's even managed to avoid being complained about and deleted or hidden for one day in a row! It must have been the IMHO I kept in the revision! 😁
If I were a shareholder, I'd sue to recoup profits lost due to high energy costs based on fixed long term contracts. Most of those expenses were manufactured, starting with OPEC. Actually I represented, in antediluvian time, many in the industry. The big fish ate the little fish. The real reason why there are high prices is lack of competition.
How much of your living expenses are for fuel? How much of business expenses are for fuel? You make it sound as if 100% of all expenses are for fuel. If 20% of your expenses are for fuel, and the price of fuel doubles, your total expense only increases 10%.
And you can't talk about the expense for fuel without taking into consideration Climate Change. A gallon of gasoline emits 19.4 pounds of CO2. CO2 lasts for tens of thousands of years in the atmosphere and oceans. It currently costs 50 cents per pound to capture CO2 from the air and bury it as stone. Add that to the cost of gasoline, and it adds $10 bucks per gallon.
China and India are the biggest polluters of the earth. The USA cracked down on industrial pollution in the 70s. Also our crude oil is much cleaner than Asia’s.
Are you aware that the WWE is the trademark of TV "rasslin'?" (I just discovered my typo! My apologies.) It has nothing to do - in this case - with wildlife other than the fake TV "rasslers" hollerin' at each other and their МАГАт oriented fans. Hell, even ol' Kaiser von Schitzinpantz was once featured slamming someone down on the floor on TV once.
Yes, I do but you typed WWF instead of WWE. There was a copyright infringement lawsuit because in 1979 the WWWF was renamed the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). In 2002, following a legal dispute with the World Wildlife Fund, the WWF was renamed World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
You are a communist and I’m not good natured. I have no problem hurting you or other communist because you are enemies of the American people. Hopefully I do get a chance to really cause damage to your life, but if not, you’ll die alone and in misery anyway. So that’s a consolation! Anyway have a great day, pal.
Let’s set it up! I live in Silver Spring, MD. That’s right outside DC. I’m outtagetme1 on IG. DM me there and we can set up a fight for charity.
If not, I would still like to meet your little friend! And btw I’m very intimidated by some guy on Substack, so please don’t threaten me too much!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡
My serious confusion is to THEIR, (the deathcult members), confusion over HIS confusion! He can BARELY SPEAK ENGLISH ANYMORE! At night, he "Sundowns" so incredibly hard that he is INCAPABLE of pronouncing the letter 's.'
I want a president who is able to choose which tie to wear at a six o'clock press briefing.
Is it be because half of our population actually prefer “a sociopathic infant” or perhaps are ones…no amount of convincing some people that Trump is terrible is going to matter.. because terrible is what they want 😐
I recognize it’s going to be terrible for weaklings like you , doc. The gravy train is over, wasteful bureaucracy’s handing out cash to their friends, AKA facism, is coming to an end. It sucks you are going to have to work like everyone else, but hey, such is life.
They are into him for the social aspects. He makes them laugh, he is as imperfect as they are, and his people gather for parties and are made to feel special. It does not occur to them that they are nothing to him.
No, he hates people like you. We aren’t delusional about political leaders. You think I care if it was Trump or someone else? As long as you stupid white liberals pay for your idiocy then it’s all good! I just want people like you to suffer!🙂
Terrible like his first term? Do you forget we already experienced Trump in office and everything was better then, at least what the Office of the President can affect.
You just expressed exactly what is wrong with the Democrat party. You call president Trump an “infant” and “sociopathic”. He’s obviously not an infant, and truly does not display sociopathic behaviors. This is name calling, which is immature behavior. When Republicans speak of Biden, we state actual facts..such as dementia, sniffing children, lying about his past accomplishments etc…which are all observable and proven facts recorded.
Terrible for you, but not for us working class people. Btw, why aren’t you housing illegals? They look awfully hungry, and could use someone to cook and clean for them.
Paul you were just getting nasty in this comment section. Why not go out to Trump rally some place stick your head in the toilet and then flush real hard.
Russell, Exactly, an uneducated fearful, hateful group of people who equate forms of equality with a loss of their PERCEIVED superiority. They cannot comprehend the meaning of The common good.
I absolutely agree. When politics becomes entertainment you don’t have to listen to any empirical data or economists. Because they are all lying, because they’re all liberals, etc., blah, blah, blah. The maga voter disassociates from facts and truth. They can just change the channel or get their fix on you-tube and listen to their favorite influencers, who, btw, are never experts in any field they purport to have inside knowledge of. It also relieves the voter from taking any responsibility for anything, racism, climate change. If the problems in this country are someone else’s then I can just sit back and blame them.
YouTube could be maybe a little too highbrow for some of these cats. Senator Ted Stevens's "internets," aka "that series of tubes," has dissolved into a cesspool.
I’m very depressed. I think the fascists are going to take over. I can’t believe how stupid a significant portion of the population is. I think Trump is going to win again. It’s a nightmare.
Protest votes have a role in U.S. elections, I suppose. But elections, at bottom, are bound by the electoral process and math. The process will not allow the math to add up to 270 for Jill Stein. Thus, pointless to vote for her, or any other Presidential candidate that does not belong to one of the two major parties.
Tom, if you want sane—which is what I want; as a lifelong unaffiliated voter, I care about effective governance. I hate The Politics Industry (great book). To get better outcomes, we need to adjust the system. It’s not enough to vote for someone whose values & aims align best with your own if they simply can’t win, because the system is rigged in favor of hyperpartisan duopoly voters, and particularly in favor of voters from low population states.
The Electoral College has its effect; one way to mitigate its negative effects are for a couple of more states to pass the National Popular Vote (NPV) Interstate Compact, which ensures that whoever earns the majority of votes across the country, nationally, because the winner of the popular vote is who EC votes are allocated to from participating states.
What I’m doing is NOT wasting my one vote. I’m working for pro-voter, pro-democracy electoral reform. I’m working with Dems to get out the vote. And I’m working with a lot of other people to educate people & influence elected officials that specific reforms will reduce polarization and shift the toxic nature of politics and campaigns. Ranked choice voting. Proportional representation. Open primaries.
We have to shift the composition of state legislatures to be more representative. We have to elect people WILLING to institute reforms. Right now, the only major party willing to do that is the Dems. Otherwise, the duopoly seesaw, the constant attack ads, the relentless attempts at minority power grabs, the mind-numbing bullshit continues.
Gov Hochul is not well liked. Outside of NYC, Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo it is a complete mess with private equity suppressing new home building while buying up property and housing stock.
They are only building high-end market rate apartments, or low income subsidized housing as those are the two largest growing demographics, with the low income demographic growing the fastest.
If you do not leave your comfort zone, leave the city, go to rural areas, you will not see the real issues and never understand.
Good point, but his is a point the cultist won't like. When I live in a conservative area I register Republican, and in a liberal area Democrat. That way, I can help choose the most likely candidate to win during the primaries... I then vote my conscience.
You use so much over-used propaganda talk it makes me wonder what country you’re trolling from. You are extremely uninformed about numerous accomplishments by Biden. The media is owned almost exclusively by the ultra right, that’s a fact you can look up. Biden passed $1.2T infrastructure pkg, got 500 million Covid vaccinations to people by having them given at pharmacies and other convenient locations, $369 billion investment in Climate change despite the idiot rescumliCons pretending Climate change does not exist, Cut child poverty in HALF, Capped prescription drugs at $2k per yr for seniors, achieved historically low unemployment, recommitted to the Paris Agreement (regarding Climate Change), Respect for Marriage Act, Electoral Count Act and more!
Jill Stein can talk all she wants because she doesn’t even make the charts so a vote for her truly is a vote to help trump. That you can’t find a difference btwn trump and Biden makes you a rube, easily fooled by the BS.
Adam, Ultimately it’s a good sign that they’re so damn desperate. Trump can’t even speak without slurring his words and stood with a 35 second pause recently…forgot where he was! 😄 The trolls need to do their best to distract. They have nothing.
Agreed! The fact that they try so hard IS telling. And this high AH is so much damn fun! I can scarcely wait for the next installment of his "tomfoolery!"
There is ZERO chance Stein will win. There is ZERO chance anyone will win but Biden or Trump. If your vote helps Trump to win, he will steer us much further away from your vision of the future than Biden will.
So voting Stein does NOT align with yor vision. Voting Biden does. Get it? It's very simple. Even Trumpers understand this which is why they always vote Trump even when they can't stand him.
There is a path between you and the moon but there is zero chance you will be there anytime soon. Stein won't even be on the ballot. If you are not voting for Biden, you are voting for Trump. It is that simple. Obviously, you have trouble with binary logic.
Even if you do nothing at all, you are voting for Trump. And when Trump is back in the White House, destroys our democracy, gives Israel all the money and weapons it wants, completely abandons all Biden has done for the environment, screws over labor by making all unions illegal, etc.etc. whose fault will all of that be? It will be YOURS and yours only. You and all the other morons who are too stupid to make your vote count and actually do something that might prevent all of that. Actually, when Trump is president, he will end all elections and you will not even HAVE a vote anymore.
What do we know about Dirty Don and Honest Joe. No one really knows anyone completely. However, when forced to choose between the two I feel an honest man like Joe supersedes anything offered by a criminal, a bully and an egotistical moron like Dirty Don. Vote for the continuation of normalcy not the fool hearty efforts offered by a stooge on the eve of destruction, (great song.)
I agree, but I think Don gets a pass on being a moron. Maniac perhaps; but Dirty Don's plans, speeches and actions are thoroughly intentional and not the product of a moron! For what it's not worth, he doesn't qualify as an evil "genius" either.
Don, you’re a bitch, and you will be treated as such. You must like Joe because you are like him, feeble, old, weak, stupid, corrupt and a complete liar who’s plagiarized his entire life from other people.
As far as I can tell, the people making that kind of talk are deeply conflicted with their own pornographic mother fkng sexual desires. They have a universal inability to separate fact from fiction. They lack any understanding of the thousands of factors that go into messing up a pregnency, or a person's attractors.
And, what exactly, is wrong with any of that, Southern Belle? I’d rather have a president with an affinity for all cultures, rather than one whose only affinity appears to be for himself, golf carts, and large bowls of ice cream after dinner!
This long time Republican thoroughly agrees! Former President Trump IS a clear and present danger who must not be elected President in November!
At the same time, I hope that several of President Biden's more extreme economic and international relations policies can be implemented in a manner tempered to achiever their desired results without overly damaging the country's economy or the well being of its citizens.
It will not be easy, but focusing on results and real people is far preferable to ideologic purity - no mater how well intended it may be.
Good words Noel. My only quibble would be the part "can be implemented in a manner tempered to achieve their desired results without overly damaging the country's economy". That applies to most things, but not climate change. My whole world view changed once I realized years back how much trouble humanity is in when it comes to human-caused climate change. In my view and in the view of almost all scientists in all scientific fields, it is quite literally a 5-alarm fire. And insidious in that the worst effects are delayed long enough so as not to be obvious to those not in the know. The frog on the stove top analogy is a good one. In the case of global warming, the Biden administration needs to push as hard as it possibly can for the country and the world to take measures as strong as the situation demands to get this emergency turned around. The only limit in my mind is not so much measured in what impact there is on the economy, for near term economic difficulties due to strong action pale in comparison with long term impacts of no action or weak action. No, it should be measured in whether or not the administration can continue to be in power, such that strong policy can endure rather than get thrown out the window as Trump did in 2016, and promises to do if he gets in again. Unfortunately that is where we are, with very strong climate-denial forces at work.
Naming ideas is important, as important as implementing solutions... "Climate Change" I felt from the start was very easy for Repulicans to counter ... the climate has and always "changes." Which is very true. It changes from dusk to dawn, every minute, every hour ... the word Disrupt, Disruption ... much harder to deny humans have effected and disrupted the climate, quality and health of this planet earth. Same with programs named "Free lunches" and Defund the Police ... and many more rediculous names so easily targeted slamming to the matt/counter.
Thanks Jay, I much enjoyed your comments and agree thoroughly with most of them. My background in the hard sciences and mathematics is not at a professional level by any means, but neither is it just average. "Climate Change" is undeniable and has existed in one form or another for literally millions of years. Undoubtedly homo sapiens has contributed to climate change over the past few millennia and even more so recently with industrialization and all that implies.
Yet even without industrialization ice ages have come and gone; continents have rearranged themselves; desserts and barren lands now exist in China, the South West United States, North Africa and the Middle East where once robust civilizations existed. All without a decent smokestack in sight. The geologic records of massive meteor strikes, super volcanoes, earth quake and generated tsunamis are only now beginning to be understood along with deep sea currents whose locations, courses and volume have yet to be accurately modeled, let alone accurately mapped. Even our day to day weather systems and patterns have yet to be fully understood, although much more about them is known compared to some other events I have mentioned.
But assuming for the sake of discussion that man has been responsible for much or most of recent climate change, an assumption I can neither accept fully nor deny, we are still working with terribly incomplete data, and as a practical matter the United States is only one small geologic part of an industrialized planet that is politically controlled by other nations or by no-one at all.
Who tells or compels China or Russia to clean up their industrial pollution (which is far greater than that of the US); or compels South American countries to stop cutting or burning trees in order to increase their food producing agricultural industries via farming or meat production? Who compels North Korea or Iran to stop their researches into thermonuclear weapons?
Once again, I do not deny climate change but, borrowing your example, actions taken by the United State alone is like trying to fight your 5 alarm fire using a few small children in fire hats riding a toy truck and carrying garden hoses. Much more scientific knowledge, resources and complete, global cooperation is required to do the job right! Certainly the U.S. can and I believe will provide an invaluable example, but unless you know which way to point the hoses (and or foam generators) the 5 alarm conflagration will not be extinguished, and a global solution is definitely required!
H.B. I completely agree with your assertion. Yet half of the country will read your words and call you wacko. "Oh stop that!" Your words sound like you are exaggerating, raving, fear-mongering. Yet what you are saying is true. And another will woman will read that last sentence and call me naive; yet another trollish person in my own vicinity will break into my house and what will they do to it; and me?
MSM has to start reporting all the news. Biden is doing a great job. They don’t give him any credit. Lowercased don is an egotistical liar, rapist and hater of Democracy. Most people that I know who are for don are deeply rooted and can’t be changed.
If something doesn’t change little lowercased don will have total control and that is frightening.
Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack covers Biden’s commencement address to the graduating seniors at Morehouse College. Everyone should read this and share it with others who have any questions about who is more presidential.
Yes it was inspiring. It brought me a way to be compassionate toward the trumpanzee too.
They are angry, for the same reason black men are angry. They've been screwed, and so have at least 50% of the rest of the population. They're angry, for good reason.
There's your point of compassion.
But rather than revenge, which is all Drumpf has to offer, Biden offers justice. It's weak tea at this point, looking at how weak the justice system looks. I think when Drumpf is found guilty yet again, people may start to see that there is a reason to hope for justice after all.
Thanks Jen. Trump supporters are angry and blame Biden for the price of groceries and gas. Economic data and Reich calculations are a weak tea compared to the sensational lies that Trump brews.
@ Monica P: This is the third time I've posted this this morning. Start complaining to the NY Times, the "newspaper of record," that has been horrible:
WE don't control the media. Neither does the DNC. In order to repeat our message, WE need to be persistent. DNC REACH provides the means to broadcast the comments. https://democrats.org/reach/
WE can send it...every day as a press release to media outlets. To social media.
WE can channel Taylor Swift, who has millions of followers on Instagram and X. Most Gen Z do not rely on MSM...use Tic Tok, Instagram, Facebook for their news.
Meanwhile millions of unregistered folks trend heavily Democratic. Register Democrats -- save the world.
I agree that Biden is generally doing a great job and that it's appalling so many Americans would prefer an orange douchebag from Queens. I agree that Biden could have handled Netanyahu much better. I also agree that the media should be doing a much better job.
I don't agree about the polls in 2016, however. The polls I followed on 538, showed Hillary consistently level-pegging with Trump throughout 2016, same as Biden in 2024.
Sanders, on the other hand, was always way ahead of Trump.
My greatest concern about Biden is not that he's old (Sanders is old, Trump is old) but that he's said to be old because he's perceived to be weak. His voice is weak, his gait is slow and deliberate, he sometimes appears to be a bit confused. This is not the Joe Biden of 2016, who would have been a shoe-in for the presidency. Maybe he has a sleep disorder, maybe he has early Parkinson's, either way he may have a readily treatable condition.
If he doesn't do extremely well in the first debate, then the DNC must take drastic action. But please let us not fall into the comfortable trap of thinking that the polls don't matter. They do.
Unfortunately, a sociopathic infant is what far too many people want. They seriously (I mean seriously) confuse good government with the experience of watching WWE.
I've noticed something interesting on Nextdoor. Although there you find the requisite МАГАт nut-job rants, you have others, whose sympathies become clear over time, asking little questions like "grocery prices are awful high, aren't they?" and inviting comment. So while it seems like the strategy is all WWE all the time in the overt campaign, it calms down and almost comes across as good natured and polite in less radicalized social media, that has enough support for the right to affirm the message on the one hand, and attack anyone interfering with that message as communists, etc. on the other - complaining about and having removed. They also seem to be relatively successful in complaining and having removed anything one might offer, usually as "non-local" - that is, irrelevant - to the discussion, or disrespectful. On the other hand, I started 3 discussions based on Dr Reich's articles on corporate gouging, the high cost of rent, and the high price of groceries that were "hidden because they might violate forum rules." Just something to keep in mind.
IMHO all the chains, Publix, Kroger, Vons, et all support the orange antichrist. All are price gouging. Although Biden was not given authority to sue, California is suing Amazon for price fixing.
Yes, but Biden’s antitrust activities aren’t credited and the general public remains ignorant. The news that Trump requested a billion dollars from the oil and coal cartel was largely and now completely ignored. Trump exaggerates enough so the public ignores what his real message is.
Right!?! That's should have been a headline for days...
But no, media is complicit in the MAGA lunacy
100% of social media, both social and news media, are owned by THE ALT RIGHT. MSNBC sometimes and most INDEPENDENT media are the only ones that give push-back.
For now!
Yes, Alan - that was bribery out in the public eye. It needs to be called out. Trump figures he can get away with anything. He needs to be corrected, many times.
I just revised your comment here to point it specifically at corporate grocery chains and the МАГАт driven Ohio General Assembly & Attorney General, then posted it on Nextdoor.com. I'm curious to see how long it'll last before it's suppressed. In the meantime, it should make eyeball contact with several hundred subscribers. I'll keep you posted on how it flies - or whether it even flies in the first place!
UPDATE - as promised:
My revised version of your comment I'm responding to is now approaching 5000 views on Nextdoor.com and a lively discussion is underway - a total surprise to me!
Not only has it not (yet) been suppressed as I expected, I just got a message from Nextdoor saying:
"Neighbors are really interested in your post!
Trusted neighbors like you are making a difference in the neighborhood. What will you share next?"
HOODATHUNK ‽
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Holy cow! I just checked and found I've gotten nearly 2K hits on the version of your comment I revised. It's also garnered a lot of pretty civil discussion, mostly from those that disagree. It's even managed to avoid being complained about and deleted or hidden for one day in a row! It must have been the IMHO I kept in the revision! 😁
If I were a shareholder, I'd sue to recoup profits lost due to high energy costs based on fixed long term contracts. Most of those expenses were manufactured, starting with OPEC. Actually I represented, in antediluvian time, many in the industry. The big fish ate the little fish. The real reason why there are high prices is lack of competition.
Many of the owners are, IMHO traitors. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/06/tax-records-reveal-more-contributions-from-publix-heiress-to-dark-money-groups-sponsoring-jan-6-rally/
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN29P1T3/
How much of your living expenses are for fuel? How much of business expenses are for fuel? You make it sound as if 100% of all expenses are for fuel. If 20% of your expenses are for fuel, and the price of fuel doubles, your total expense only increases 10%.
And you can't talk about the expense for fuel without taking into consideration Climate Change. A gallon of gasoline emits 19.4 pounds of CO2. CO2 lasts for tens of thousands of years in the atmosphere and oceans. It currently costs 50 cents per pound to capture CO2 from the air and bury it as stone. Add that to the cost of gasoline, and it adds $10 bucks per gallon.
China and India are the biggest polluters of the earth. The USA cracked down on industrial pollution in the 70s. Also our crude oil is much cleaner than Asia’s.
China Population 2022 1400 Million
India Population 2022 1400 Million
US Population 2022 330 Million
China GDP 2022 $ 18 Trillion
India GDP 2022 $ 3.4 Trillion
US GDP 2022 $25 Trillion
China CO2 Emissions 2022 11.4 Billion tonnes
India CO2 Emissions 2022 2.7 Billion tonnes
US CO2 Emissions 2022 6.3 Billion tonnes
And for the most part, the US buys stuff from China.
China GDP per person $12,800
India GDP per person $2,400
US GDP per person $75,700
China CO2 per person 7.88 tonnes
India CO2 per person 1.7 tonnes
US CO2 per person 19 tonnes
and a lot of those China emissions are caused by US consumtion.
and historically, in most of the past, the US has been the main polluter.
How is the strategy like the World Wildlife Federation (WWF)?
Well, Dumpy and his followers are a lot like the hyenas in "The Lion King." But the acronym being used is the WWE.
Are you aware that the WWE is the trademark of TV "rasslin'?" (I just discovered my typo! My apologies.) It has nothing to do - in this case - with wildlife other than the fake TV "rasslers" hollerin' at each other and their МАГАт oriented fans. Hell, even ol' Kaiser von Schitzinpantz was once featured slamming someone down on the floor on TV once.
https://youtu.be/jkghtyxZ6rc?si=r4aW1mLD7eoPMQjr
Yes, I do but you typed WWF instead of WWE. There was a copyright infringement lawsuit because in 1979 the WWWF was renamed the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). In 2002, following a legal dispute with the World Wildlife Fund, the WWF was renamed World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
I realize that. You notified me. And I corrected it. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. Is there anything else?
Nope.
You are a communist and I’m not good natured. I have no problem hurting you or other communist because you are enemies of the American people. Hopefully I do get a chance to really cause damage to your life, but if not, you’ll die alone and in misery anyway. So that’s a consolation! Anyway have a great day, pal.
Let’s set it up! I live in Silver Spring, MD. That’s right outside DC. I’m outtagetme1 on IG. DM me there and we can set up a fight for charity.
If not, I would still like to meet your little friend! And btw I’m very intimidated by some guy on Substack, so please don’t threaten me too much!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡
My serious confusion is to THEIR, (the deathcult members), confusion over HIS confusion! He can BARELY SPEAK ENGLISH ANYMORE! At night, he "Sundowns" so incredibly hard that he is INCAPABLE of pronouncing the letter 's.'
I want a president who is able to choose which tie to wear at a six o'clock press briefing.
You right, Biden is a fucking idiot!
Is it be because half of our population actually prefer “a sociopathic infant” or perhaps are ones…no amount of convincing some people that Trump is terrible is going to matter.. because terrible is what they want 😐
They can't recognize terrible when they see it.
I recognize it’s going to be terrible for weaklings like you , doc. The gravy train is over, wasteful bureaucracy’s handing out cash to their friends, AKA facism, is coming to an end. It sucks you are going to have to work like everyone else, but hey, such is life.
Yes !
They are into him for the social aspects. He makes them laugh, he is as imperfect as they are, and his people gather for parties and are made to feel special. It does not occur to them that they are nothing to him.
No, he hates people like you. We aren’t delusional about political leaders. You think I care if it was Trump or someone else? As long as you stupid white liberals pay for your idiocy then it’s all good! I just want people like you to suffer!🙂
Terrible like his first term? Do you forget we already experienced Trump in office and everything was better then, at least what the Office of the President can affect.
No, just terrible for you clowns and your grifting way of life.
You just expressed exactly what is wrong with the Democrat party. You call president Trump an “infant” and “sociopathic”. He’s obviously not an infant, and truly does not display sociopathic behaviors. This is name calling, which is immature behavior. When Republicans speak of Biden, we state actual facts..such as dementia, sniffing children, lying about his past accomplishments etc…which are all observable and proven facts recorded.
Terrible for you, but not for us working class people. Btw, why aren’t you housing illegals? They look awfully hungry, and could use someone to cook and clean for them.
Paul you were just getting nasty in this comment section. Why not go out to Trump rally some place stick your head in the toilet and then flush real hard.
Yes.
They want an outlet for their rage.
Drumpf offers revenge.
Biden needs to tap that rage and turn it toward justice.
So true! Ignorance is our biggest problem.
Education has not been a priority in America for some time.
why would anyone want a criminal,maniac pervert who probably sold us out w/ our own 'secret documents'.
Russell, Exactly, an uneducated fearful, hateful group of people who equate forms of equality with a loss of their PERCEIVED superiority. They cannot comprehend the meaning of The common good.
I absolutely agree. When politics becomes entertainment you don’t have to listen to any empirical data or economists. Because they are all lying, because they’re all liberals, etc., blah, blah, blah. The maga voter disassociates from facts and truth. They can just change the channel or get their fix on you-tube and listen to their favorite influencers, who, btw, are never experts in any field they purport to have inside knowledge of. It also relieves the voter from taking any responsibility for anything, racism, climate change. If the problems in this country are someone else’s then I can just sit back and blame them.
YouTube could be maybe a little too highbrow for some of these cats. Senator Ted Stevens's "internets," aka "that series of tubes," has dissolved into a cesspool.
In all fairness: it's 60% of the 35% that are registered "Traitors."
Yep. It’s fad politics. But it works for building the Trump cult.
I’m very depressed. I think the fascists are going to take over. I can’t believe how stupid a significant portion of the population is. I think Trump is going to win again. It’s a nightmare.
Good government? No such thing you stupid faggot.
think they want,they're mentally on the wrong track
Protest votes have a role in U.S. elections, I suppose. But elections, at bottom, are bound by the electoral process and math. The process will not allow the math to add up to 270 for Jill Stein. Thus, pointless to vote for her, or any other Presidential candidate that does not belong to one of the two major parties.
Tom, if you want sane—which is what I want; as a lifelong unaffiliated voter, I care about effective governance. I hate The Politics Industry (great book). To get better outcomes, we need to adjust the system. It’s not enough to vote for someone whose values & aims align best with your own if they simply can’t win, because the system is rigged in favor of hyperpartisan duopoly voters, and particularly in favor of voters from low population states.
The Electoral College has its effect; one way to mitigate its negative effects are for a couple of more states to pass the National Popular Vote (NPV) Interstate Compact, which ensures that whoever earns the majority of votes across the country, nationally, because the winner of the popular vote is who EC votes are allocated to from participating states.
What I’m doing is NOT wasting my one vote. I’m working for pro-voter, pro-democracy electoral reform. I’m working with Dems to get out the vote. And I’m working with a lot of other people to educate people & influence elected officials that specific reforms will reduce polarization and shift the toxic nature of politics and campaigns. Ranked choice voting. Proportional representation. Open primaries.
We have to shift the composition of state legislatures to be more representative. We have to elect people WILLING to institute reforms. Right now, the only major party willing to do that is the Dems. Otherwise, the duopoly seesaw, the constant attack ads, the relentless attempts at minority power grabs, the mind-numbing bullshit continues.
You don't get the point. At some point it is not a protest vote if enough people vote. We all win.
What specific organizations do you work with? I find your approach to be highly constructive.
Gov Hochul is not well liked. Outside of NYC, Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo it is a complete mess with private equity suppressing new home building while buying up property and housing stock.
They are only building high-end market rate apartments, or low income subsidized housing as those are the two largest growing demographics, with the low income demographic growing the fastest.
If you do not leave your comfort zone, leave the city, go to rural areas, you will not see the real issues and never understand.
A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Trump.
So you won't get 'sane', you will get insane. Sorry.
A vote for Stein, RFK , Jr. or others is a vote against both Biden and Trump. Don't kid yourself.
Calvin from Vladivostok.
By any chance, do you have anything logical to say?
Good point, but his is a point the cultist won't like. When I live in a conservative area I register Republican, and in a liberal area Democrat. That way, I can help choose the most likely candidate to win during the primaries... I then vote my conscience.
Biden is NOT a sociopath.
I do hope you understand that Biden lives in a completely different moral universe from Drumpf and his GOP/MAGA-mob.
Tom High from Leningrad?
You use so much over-used propaganda talk it makes me wonder what country you’re trolling from. You are extremely uninformed about numerous accomplishments by Biden. The media is owned almost exclusively by the ultra right, that’s a fact you can look up. Biden passed $1.2T infrastructure pkg, got 500 million Covid vaccinations to people by having them given at pharmacies and other convenient locations, $369 billion investment in Climate change despite the idiot rescumliCons pretending Climate change does not exist, Cut child poverty in HALF, Capped prescription drugs at $2k per yr for seniors, achieved historically low unemployment, recommitted to the Paris Agreement (regarding Climate Change), Respect for Marriage Act, Electoral Count Act and more!
Jill Stein can talk all she wants because she doesn’t even make the charts so a vote for her truly is a vote to help trump. That you can’t find a difference btwn trump and Biden makes you a rube, easily fooled by the BS.
Seeking Reason comment is directed at Tom H
Thanks for playing "Whack that Troll" so well. Too many of the low budget kind coming round here lately.
Adam, Ultimately it’s a good sign that they’re so damn desperate. Trump can’t even speak without slurring his words and stood with a 35 second pause recently…forgot where he was! 😄 The trolls need to do their best to distract. They have nothing.
Agreed! The fact that they try so hard IS telling. And this high AH is so much damn fun! I can scarcely wait for the next installment of his "tomfoolery!"
Whack Whack Whack!
You are not a serious person.
You are still unable to come up with facts! Just rants. You are useless. I’m not wasting anymore time with your troll patrol. Go take your meds.
Wow. You forgot the /s - I hope.
There is ZERO chance Stein will win. There is ZERO chance anyone will win but Biden or Trump. If your vote helps Trump to win, he will steer us much further away from your vision of the future than Biden will.
So voting Stein does NOT align with yor vision. Voting Biden does. Get it? It's very simple. Even Trumpers understand this which is why they always vote Trump even when they can't stand him.
There is a path between you and the moon but there is zero chance you will be there anytime soon. Stein won't even be on the ballot. If you are not voting for Biden, you are voting for Trump. It is that simple. Obviously, you have trouble with binary logic.
Even if you do nothing at all, you are voting for Trump. And when Trump is back in the White House, destroys our democracy, gives Israel all the money and weapons it wants, completely abandons all Biden has done for the environment, screws over labor by making all unions illegal, etc.etc. whose fault will all of that be? It will be YOURS and yours only. You and all the other morons who are too stupid to make your vote count and actually do something that might prevent all of that. Actually, when Trump is president, he will end all elections and you will not even HAVE a vote anymore.
What do we know about Dirty Don and Honest Joe. No one really knows anyone completely. However, when forced to choose between the two I feel an honest man like Joe supersedes anything offered by a criminal, a bully and an egotistical moron like Dirty Don. Vote for the continuation of normalcy not the fool hearty efforts offered by a stooge on the eve of destruction, (great song.)
Folks need to look at the overall picture.Anyone w/ that much controversy MIGHT have a real problem behind it.
Red--Where there's smoke ---and you know the rest.
Normalcy has not good for a long time.
Allen--Maybe not, but it's fun to reflect upon.
I agree, but I think Don gets a pass on being a moron. Maniac perhaps; but Dirty Don's plans, speeches and actions are thoroughly intentional and not the product of a moron! For what it's not worth, he doesn't qualify as an evil "genius" either.
Don, you’re a bitch, and you will be treated as such. You must like Joe because you are like him, feeble, old, weak, stupid, corrupt and a complete liar who’s plagiarized his entire life from other people.
Paul--I love you to.
Honest?
https://youtu.be/ske5NvXgIno?si=bQBQSppxi91ryCRJ
Bonnie--Compared to Trump Joe is a saint.
Art--Now that you have practiced that speech in front of a mirror, how does it make you feel to take the position of ignorance.
As far as I can tell, the people making that kind of talk are deeply conflicted with their own pornographic mother fkng sexual desires. They have a universal inability to separate fact from fiction. They lack any understanding of the thousands of factors that go into messing up a pregnency, or a person's attractors.
WTF??? How could anybody, absolutely ANYBODY, be so bigoted as you???
And, what exactly, is wrong with any of that, Southern Belle? I’d rather have a president with an affinity for all cultures, rather than one whose only affinity appears to be for himself, golf carts, and large bowls of ice cream after dinner!
This long time Republican thoroughly agrees! Former President Trump IS a clear and present danger who must not be elected President in November!
At the same time, I hope that several of President Biden's more extreme economic and international relations policies can be implemented in a manner tempered to achiever their desired results without overly damaging the country's economy or the well being of its citizens.
It will not be easy, but focusing on results and real people is far preferable to ideologic purity - no mater how well intended it may be.
Good words Noel. My only quibble would be the part "can be implemented in a manner tempered to achieve their desired results without overly damaging the country's economy". That applies to most things, but not climate change. My whole world view changed once I realized years back how much trouble humanity is in when it comes to human-caused climate change. In my view and in the view of almost all scientists in all scientific fields, it is quite literally a 5-alarm fire. And insidious in that the worst effects are delayed long enough so as not to be obvious to those not in the know. The frog on the stove top analogy is a good one. In the case of global warming, the Biden administration needs to push as hard as it possibly can for the country and the world to take measures as strong as the situation demands to get this emergency turned around. The only limit in my mind is not so much measured in what impact there is on the economy, for near term economic difficulties due to strong action pale in comparison with long term impacts of no action or weak action. No, it should be measured in whether or not the administration can continue to be in power, such that strong policy can endure rather than get thrown out the window as Trump did in 2016, and promises to do if he gets in again. Unfortunately that is where we are, with very strong climate-denial forces at work.
Naming ideas is important, as important as implementing solutions... "Climate Change" I felt from the start was very easy for Repulicans to counter ... the climate has and always "changes." Which is very true. It changes from dusk to dawn, every minute, every hour ... the word Disrupt, Disruption ... much harder to deny humans have effected and disrupted the climate, quality and health of this planet earth. Same with programs named "Free lunches" and Defund the Police ... and many more rediculous names so easily targeted slamming to the matt/counter.
Noel K. McKeown
Noel’s Substack
just now
Thanks Jay, I much enjoyed your comments and agree thoroughly with most of them. My background in the hard sciences and mathematics is not at a professional level by any means, but neither is it just average. "Climate Change" is undeniable and has existed in one form or another for literally millions of years. Undoubtedly homo sapiens has contributed to climate change over the past few millennia and even more so recently with industrialization and all that implies.
Yet even without industrialization ice ages have come and gone; continents have rearranged themselves; desserts and barren lands now exist in China, the South West United States, North Africa and the Middle East where once robust civilizations existed. All without a decent smokestack in sight. The geologic records of massive meteor strikes, super volcanoes, earth quake and generated tsunamis are only now beginning to be understood along with deep sea currents whose locations, courses and volume have yet to be accurately modeled, let alone accurately mapped. Even our day to day weather systems and patterns have yet to be fully understood, although much more about them is known compared to some other events I have mentioned.
But assuming for the sake of discussion that man has been responsible for much or most of recent climate change, an assumption I can neither accept fully nor deny, we are still working with terribly incomplete data, and as a practical matter the United States is only one small geologic part of an industrialized planet that is politically controlled by other nations or by no-one at all.
Who tells or compels China or Russia to clean up their industrial pollution (which is far greater than that of the US); or compels South American countries to stop cutting or burning trees in order to increase their food producing agricultural industries via farming or meat production? Who compels North Korea or Iran to stop their researches into thermonuclear weapons?
Once again, I do not deny climate change but, borrowing your example, actions taken by the United State alone is like trying to fight your 5 alarm fire using a few small children in fire hats riding a toy truck and carrying garden hoses. Much more scientific knowledge, resources and complete, global cooperation is required to do the job right! Certainly the U.S. can and I believe will provide an invaluable example, but unless you know which way to point the hoses (and or foam generators) the 5 alarm conflagration will not be extinguished, and a global solution is definitely required!
H.B. I completely agree with your assertion. Yet half of the country will read your words and call you wacko. "Oh stop that!" Your words sound like you are exaggerating, raving, fear-mongering. Yet what you are saying is true. And another will woman will read that last sentence and call me naive; yet another trollish person in my own vicinity will break into my house and what will they do to it; and me?
MSM has to start reporting all the news. Biden is doing a great job. They don’t give him any credit. Lowercased don is an egotistical liar, rapist and hater of Democracy. Most people that I know who are for don are deeply rooted and can’t be changed.
If something doesn’t change little lowercased don will have total control and that is frightening.
Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack covers Biden’s commencement address to the graduating seniors at Morehouse College. Everyone should read this and share it with others who have any questions about who is more presidential.
Yes it was inspiring. It brought me a way to be compassionate toward the trumpanzee too.
They are angry, for the same reason black men are angry. They've been screwed, and so have at least 50% of the rest of the population. They're angry, for good reason.
There's your point of compassion.
But rather than revenge, which is all Drumpf has to offer, Biden offers justice. It's weak tea at this point, looking at how weak the justice system looks. I think when Drumpf is found guilty yet again, people may start to see that there is a reason to hope for justice after all.
Thanks Jen. Trump supporters are angry and blame Biden for the price of groceries and gas. Economic data and Reich calculations are a weak tea compared to the sensational lies that Trump brews.
Do you believe Obiden wrote a commencement address? He can’t open a beach chair….
@ Monica P: This is the third time I've posted this this morning. Start complaining to the NY Times, the "newspaper of record," that has been horrible:
editorial@nytimes.com
List of press release agencies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_press_release_agencies
Free sites: https://www.thesmbguide.com/free-press-release-distribution-services
WE don't control the media. Neither does the DNC. In order to repeat our message, WE need to be persistent. DNC REACH provides the means to broadcast the comments. https://democrats.org/reach/
WE can send it...every day as a press release to media outlets. To social media.
WE can channel Taylor Swift, who has millions of followers on Instagram and X. Most Gen Z do not rely on MSM...use Tic Tok, Instagram, Facebook for their news.
Meanwhile millions of unregistered folks trend heavily Democratic. Register Democrats -- save the world.
https://www.fieldteam6.org/
Most of the war machine controls the media.
Thank you for posting this Daniel. I appreciate it and will use it.
I agree that Biden is generally doing a great job and that it's appalling so many Americans would prefer an orange douchebag from Queens. I agree that Biden could have handled Netanyahu much better. I also agree that the media should be doing a much better job.
I don't agree about the polls in 2016, however. The polls I followed on 538, showed Hillary consistently level-pegging with Trump throughout 2016, same as Biden in 2024.
Sanders, on the other hand, was always way ahead of Trump.
My greatest concern about Biden is not that he's old (Sanders is old, Trump is old) but that he's said to be old because he's perceived to be weak. His voice is weak, his gait is slow and deliberate, he sometimes appears to be a bit confused. This is not the Joe Biden of 2016, who would have been a shoe-in for the presidency. Maybe he has a sleep disorder, maybe he has early Parkinson's, either way he may have a readily treatable condition.
If he doesn't do extremely well in the first debate, then the DNC must take drastic action. But please let us not fall into the comfortable trap of thinking that the polls don't matter. They do.
Trump will back out of the debates. The excuses started the day after he accepted.
He can't avoid the debates for fear of looking weak. Let's hope you're right and I'm wrong.
Bob--Trump's an egotistical fool with an image problem, I feel he will never back out.