Netflix’s
“Emilia Pérez,” a musical film about a Mexican cartel kingpin who fakes
his death in order to transition into a woman, scored a massive 13 nominations when
Oscar contenders were announced last month. But growing scrutiny of
social media posts from the film’s star could jeopardize its Oscar
chances.
Karla Sofia Gascón, who is the first openly transgender woman to
be nominated for best performance by an actress in a leading role, has
become the center of backlash online after users resurfaced deleted
posts in which she appears to comment on Muslims, George Floyd and
diversity at the Oscars.
In January, Gascón issued an apology via Netflix,
but controversy has continued to follow the star, prompting some to
speculate whether that will impact the film’s overall momentum ahead of
the 97th Academy Awards, which are scheduled for March 2.
On Thursday, Deadline published
an interview with director Jacques Audiard, who called Gascón’s
purported old posts “inexcusable.” Hours later, Gascón posted to
Instagram addressing his remarks.
"Following
Jacques interview that I understand, I decided, for the film, for
Jacques, for the cast, for the incredible crew who deserves it, for the
beautiful adventure we all had together, to let the work talk for
itself, hoping my silence will allow the film to be appreciated for what
it is, a beautiful ode to love and difference," she wrote. "I sincerely apologize to everyone who has been hurt along the way."
She's
lying and NBC should have noted that. She didn't decide that. She got
sidelined. NETFLIX refused to pay for her to come and promote the film
due to the scandal and this was all reported last week in the press.
I
am not going to make this a daily beat here. And I don't want to
dogpile. But it is a legitimate news story and if she lies and it goes
unchecked, I will note it here.
She's
harmed the film and she should never have been nominated -- I panned
her performance here based on her performance, I had no idea she was
trans when I did.
The
only thing we ever need to hear about Karla again is that she's been
case in the lead in THE CAITLYN JENNER STORY. I think the whole world
could accept someone as hateful as Karla playing Jenner.
Friday, February 7, 2025. Elon Musk remains a menace, CNN lies in a
so-called 'report,' what if AOC was the 2028 Democratic Party's
presidential nominee and, oh, yeah, about political closet cases who
pretend to be Democrats.
Has Elon Musk’s DOGE dream taken the wrong fork in the road?
Two
key court decisions on Thursday have thrown a harsh spotlight on the
buccaneering billionaire and his flippant attitude toward the law.
They have also cemented the new arena in which the “Deep State” establishment that Musk and President Donald Trump so detest is launching its belated counterattack against the biggest threat to the status quo in generations.
The decision by a Boston judge to block Musk’s grandstanding buyout plan on Thursday came as another district judge in Washington, D.C., limited DOGE’s access to the Treasury Department’s payments system.
The two judges standing in the way of DOGE’s whirlwind cost-cutting programs are both appointees of former President BillClinton. It seems the resistance will begin not on the streets, but in the courts.
Elon
Musk? Given everything by Chump who apparently fears his pimp will
smack him up otherwise. When Elon glares, Chump knows he has to hit the
street and get to work. And the work Chump's given Elon everything. --
all our private information. That's our "papers." It's not the
1700s. That's our "papers" and that's a violation of the 1rth
Amendment. And last night on MSNBC, Joy Reid explained the type of
people trolling through our private information.
Rachel Maddow notes the racist Elon hired has resigned after being exposed as a racist.
A racist? Of course, Elon would hire a racist -- that's what Elon is. And what else is he?
A security risk. Determined to be so by our own government. And yet given access to our private and personal information.
Elon
can't legally be president. Because the racists was born in South
African (where, during apartheid, he learned to benefit from and enjoy
racism). That's his birth country, where he spent two decades. Then he
moved to Canada because his mother was born there. Dual citizenship.
Wait, we're not done. He then became an American citizen.
Now,
let's be clear, this was not, "Give up your prior citizenships and you
can become an American citizenship." No. It was just another merit
badge. Iraq's Constitution, written in 2005, rightly forbids officials
and elected leaders from that sort of scam.
But not a problem in the US, apparently.
And
no one had a second thought about someone with a minimum of triple
divided loyalties would be given the private and personal information of
the American people.
Chump put Elon in charge and the two of them together have violated Americans' right to privacy.
This is the sort of issue that leads people to nod and then it festers and festers.
Good journalism could speed up the process.
But we don't have good journalism.
We do have CNN.
People are posting that video and commenting and basically being as inept and stupid as CNN.
Maybe
we should do an origin story before we get into the video? It help
explain our take on the above and on the topic after the CNN video.
20
yeas ago, the internet was newer (newish?) and some thought we were
going to tackle the media -- which has sold the illegal war on Iraq --
and make it better. And some did try. I said early on that you're
going to cut off Cokie Roberts' head and just find 20 more sprout up. I
tend to think I called that correctly.
But
back in the day, NPR was covering the 2004 election. Bully Boy Bush and
Dick Cheney were the GOP side while John Kerry and John Edwards were
the Democratic side.
NPR brought on Robert
Kagan to 'evaluate.' Kagan is a neocon and was a Bully Boy Bush
supporter and some people objected online and to the NPR ombudsperson.
Now there were strong objections made. And that's fine.
The ombudsperson dismissed them. And that's because the wrong objections were made.
It zoomed in on what NPR didn't tell you -- but should have -- and what the ombudsperson didn't tell -- but should have.
Robert Kagan was brought on to evaluate the two campaigns.
That had been covered.
What had not been covered?
Who Kagan was married to.
Victoria Nuland. Today, a pretty familiar name. Back then, no one apparently knew.
At
that time, she was Dick Cheney's right arm. So you had the husband of
Dick Cheney's assistant coming on NPR to evaluate Dick Cheney's
opponent. And no needed -- REQUIRED -- disclosure was made.
So when I say I don't like political closets, that's what I'm talking about and have been talking about here forever.
Now
back to the video. Here's a transcript I'm copying pasting -- it's
from the closed caption and it's ot perfect but I'm not honestly in the
mood to sit here and fix it. You should be able to follow along and if
you can't, e-mail your representatives to demand better closed
captioning service:
Jason Carron: Days before the last presidential election,
Donald Trump was the invited guest as the Great Commoner Restaurant in
Dearborn, MI. Albert Abbas says he extended that invitation, a decision
he is now reflecting on. Given all that has happened in the last 24
hours, many in the community are a lot at a loss for words.
Albert Abbas: Last night was a very rough night for most of us.
Jason
Carron: Abbas is Arab American and one of a number of Democrats who
voted for Trump. Abbas says he hoped Trump would do more than President
Joe Biden did to help Palestinians suffering in Gaza.
Donald Chump: The US will take over the Gaza Strip.
Jason
Carron: But after Trump said Palestinians should leave Gaza so it can
be redeveloped, Abbas says not only does he feel betrayed, he's hearing
from a number of people angered over his past support of Trump.
Albert
Abbas: People were really, really frustrated and I don't think there's
anyone to blame. At the end of the day, as Arab Americans or Muslims,
we really didn't have much of a choice.
Jason
Carron: Dearborn, a Detroit suburb, is home to the largest Arab
American population in the United States community, which helped Trump
carry the critical swing state. He won 42% of the vote in Dearborn
versus Vice President Harris with 36% and Jill Stein with 18. In 2020,
Biden handily carried the city with 69%. Faye Nimmer voted for Trump in
2024 out of frustration over the previous administration support of
Israel. Now she is troubled by the president's proposal to move
Palestinians out of Gaza.
Faye Nemer: I mean, it's-it's very concerning and it's infuriating.
Jason Carron: You're infuriated but standing by your decision for now to have voted for Trump.
Faye Nemer: Correct.
Jason Carron: And what would move that needle for you to say, "You know what? I made a mistake."
Faye Nemer: Palestine is the red line for this community.
Jason
Carron: Nimr says she suspects Trump is bluffing and is using his
proposal as some sort of negotiating tactic. That's the same sentiment
shared by Omar Czar.
Amer Zahr: First, this is clearly not going to happen, right?
Jason Carron: And real estate broke Ali Al Farajala.
Ali
Farajalla: A lot of people are calling me and texting me and saying,
"Hey, you know how, how did your vote work out? You know, how is that
third party vote?"
Jason Carron: Both were so-called protest voters. Neither supported Trump or Harris. Are there any sort of second thoughts now about having
Ali Farajalla: Absolutely not. And I'll still do it again and again and again.
Amer
Zahr: I didn't vote for Trump, so a protest vote, I don't know. I would
say it was a targeted vote of conscience to say that the children of
Gaza have to mean something. Their death has to mean something.
Jason Carron: And
while Arab Americans here were divided in the past, going forward, one
point is uniting them opposition to Trump's proposal to move
Palestinians out of Gaza.
Wayne
County Commissioner Sam Baydoun: The community will be unified. I will
tell you this, the Palestinian people would rather die and live in a
demolition site than to be ethnically cleansed and being sent out of Gaza
to Egypt or Jordan.
What did you think?
I thought: "What a bunch of liars."
We've
got other things to do so let's just take on one of the people in the
video above -- one besides Jason who clearly does not know how to do
journalism.
Albert. He voted for Chump. Yes. But that's not all he did. He
campaigned for Chump. Took himself to FOX "NEWS" and to FOX AND FRIENDS
WEEKEND. He trashed Democrats to various outlets. He didn't just vote for
Chump.
Why be so modest?
You did what you set out to do.
Just voted
from Chump, hardly.
So we're in lie mode?
CNN has locked us down in lie mode?
You know I don't play that game, right?
You know I'm not going to let Albert lie to the country.
Albert's a homophobe.
And, let's be clear, Dearborn and Hamtramck, you've got a lot of gutter trash.
You think we're going to forgive you?
Really? Because some on the left want to baby you because you're "Palestinian"? (Albert's Lebanese American.)
CNN might lie for you, trash, but I'm not going to.
Albert, did you forget you were quoted there? Wallowing in your homophobia and trying to hide it behind children?
You're a bigot. You're a trashy bigot.
And
you also decided to vote for Chump before Harris was even the nominee.
You told friends you were going to when Joe Biden was still in the
race. You told people you weren't for voting for Biden back before
October of 2023. I know that because I did the work that Jason and CNN
didn't. I made the phone calls that they should have.
And like most homphobes in the US, you were never going to vote for a Black woman.
And
before any on the left want to rush to rescue him, check out his 2020
school board campaign -- which he lost! -- for his anti-union talk.
Yeah, homophobe, anti-union. These are the ones that refused to vote
for Kamala. Own what you did. You destroyed the country.
And
just as Americans hearing Robert Kagan talk smack about John Kerry had
the right to know that Kagan's wife was working for Dick Cheney -- the
rival ticket -- CNN viewers had a right to now that the 'Democrat' was
an anti-union, homophobe who'd already left the party before October 7,
2023. He'd left before that.
To
defeat Kamala Harris last November, it was important that voters turn
out in lower numbers. Democrats have the public. If they show up,
Democrats win. We also all knew it was going to be a close election.
So
we could have rallied on behalf of our country. But instead Gaza
Freaks in the media -- liars one and all -- worked to destroy enthusiasm
for the ticket. They did that the way Amy Goodman did -- kine of like
CNNs report above -- bringing on Democrats who aren't Democrats.
The
theme was "even Democrats don't like her." So you got Naomi Klein (who
should not have US citizenship -- she was born in Canada and only many
years after her father deserted the US military during Vietnam) -- to
say hold your nose and vote for her. What a ringing endorsement. From a
non-identified Socialist. And that was one of the kinder moments.
Usually the "Democrats" (unidentified Socialist -- one time an
unidentified Communist) just attacked her.
And they pimped -- over and over -- the lie that Democrats were lukewarm on Kamala.
With
all the attacks and all the encouraging people to stay home and not
vote and all the encouraging them to vote for Jill Stein -- and this
came from the left -- Kamala still got 48.4% of the popular vote to
Chump's 49.9%. She had a three month campaign and she came that close.
And she could have made it across the line if Socialists weren't in poltical closets.
I had no idea how extremely unaware people were of this.
AOC
is a Socialist. She's had problems with the DSA and maybe she's
breaking with them, maybe she's not. But if she runs in 2028 for the
presidency, I would vote for her.
I
am not, however, going to waste three months of my time ahead of the
election trying to do teach-ins on what Socialism is and what it means
to AOC.
FOX "NEWS" will be ripping her apart.
"Well, they always rip us apart!"
Yes, they do.
But
the difference here is that FOX "NEWS" could be ripping her apart for
being a Socialist and there is no rebuttal because of the fact that
people watching are saying, "She lied about it."
And then the reason why really don't matter at all. She lied? End of support.
Now
we've been talking about this here because it's important. I've been
noting on BLUESKY as well. If I had more time we'd go into BLUESKY but
thank you to two people in the last 48 or so hours.
Rashida
Tlaib is a Socialist. That's why her sister slammed Democrats in her
nonsense attack this week. It wasn't "my party" or "our party" let us
down -- it was Democrats.
And
when this reality is noted, people -- bright people on the left -- tell
me I'm wrong, ttell me I don't know what I'm talking about.
I'm
not the one saying I won't vote for AOC for president due to her being a
Socialist. Actually, I should say that I would vote for her in the
primaries. I've already said I'm voting for the nominee in the general
election no matter who they are.
But
there are people who would not be supporting Rashida the "Democrat" if
she wasn't. You're not helping your cause. You need to step out of the
political closet and start honestly discussing what that means for
America. Let's move to an e-mail:
You
are making s[**]t up. You don't like Tlaib so you call her a
socialist. I like Cortez and I would vote for her but you trying to run
off voters before she even announces so they run off and do not vote
for her. These women are Democrats, not socialists. Your lies won't
work on me. I am opposed to Socialists and Socialism so you picked the
wrong one to lie to. I would never, ever vote for a socialist to be
president. You are lying to smear Cenk and Kyle and Justice Democrats.
So you'd vote AOC or you wouldn't? Because she is a Socialist.
In the 2018 midterm
elections, two members of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) were
elected to the House of Representatives: Rashida Tlaib in Michigan’s 13th district, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in New York’s 14th district. To mark the occasion of the most socialists entering the House for the first time in a single year, I wrote in these pages, “the 116th Congress
will consist of two socialists and four hundred and thirty-three
representatives of other persuasions. It’s a start.”
And indeed it was. In November 2020, both Tlaib and Ocasio-Cortez handily won re-election, and have been joined in the 117th Congress by two more DSA members: Cori Bush from Missouri’s 1st district and Jamaal Bowman from New York’s 16th district.
That raises the democratic socialist numbers from two to four out of
four hundred and thirty-five. (At this rate, doubling the socialist
delegation every two years, it’d only take six more elections before
socialists in 2032 would become a majority in the House — exponential growth is a wonderful thing.)
Is that clear enough for you? A DSAer writing about other Socialists at IN THESE TIMES.
I'm
not in the mood for us losing in 2028 because some political closet
case choose to run and then it implodes when the well known (to most of
us, anyway) secret becomes public and their closet is used to say
they're a liar and that there must be something wrong with Socialism for
them to hide it.
I'm
not the one conning you, e-mailer. But you say you'd never vote for a
Socialist? Then join the crusade to get them out of their political
closets.
I've
said before that I don't have a problem with Socialists, Communists,
etc. I do have a problem with tricksters. I have a real problem there.
If AOC got the nomination, I would vote for her. I'm voting for the Dem nominee in 2028 no matter who it is.
And
it could be AOC. And she could be great. But if she's the nominee,
we're not going to win if we're hiding. I'm a Democrat. And Kamala
Harris pleased me and many other Democrats. If a Democrat is the
nominee, I don't want Amy GoodWhoreman parading her usual line up of
freaks that 'forget' to mention that they aren't Democrats and they're
not critiquing the nominee as a Democrat, that they're Socialists.
The e-mailer probably thought he was ripping me a new one. He wasn't. All he was doing was making my point for me.
He loves AOC and Rashida. He wants AOC to be president. He will never vote for a Socialist.
AOC
could very well be the nominee -- and I would vote for her. But you
need to be laying the ground work now. People need to know she's a
Socialist now. It doesn't need to be hidden away for something FOX
"NEWS" and the GOP can use to tank the party.
The
party can't be controlled from the shadows. That's what it will look
like if political closet cases don't start getting honest. AOC also
needs to get honest about what she believes in.
Actually, Fatty, you're in no position to lecture anyone about anything.
I
have an overweight aunt. That's the only reason I know who Ricky
Gervais is, to be honest. She hates him and has for years because he
does jokes about fat people -- mean jokes. And the first time she
pointed him out to me, I asked, "Has he put on weight?" No, But he
apparently thought he was thin and made fun of overweight women.
Someone needs to tell him he's fat.
Someone
also needs to tell him that the Grammys aren't his business. Not only
has he never been nominated for one -- and never will be -- but it is
equally true that the Grammys are awards handed out in the US. Not the
UK. Maybe see yourself across across the North Sea and out of this
conversation, Gervais?
Because it truly is none of your business.
Equally
true, no one has ever begrudged winners having their say -- however
they wanted to -- in their speeches. That is their right. Unless
you're a fat and ugly petty person.
More
to the point, you may have fooled the British (maybe you did not) with
your bad TV show THE OFFICE. It was nothing but a rip off of
Christopher Guests' films -- to the point that you should have to pay
him royalties. But you didn't fool us. We hate your show. Sure some
freaks watched NBC's awful sitcom but not many.
It
was never a top ten hit. Season one, it was the 102nd most watched
show in prime time. Season two? The 67th. Season 3? 68th. Season
four? 77th. Season five? 52nd. Season six? 41st. Season seven?
53rd. Season 8? 78th. Season 9? 88th.
MY MOTHER THE CAR was a bigger hit than your crap ass show. Garbage like it and MY NAME IS EARL ruined NBC Thursday nights.
And nothing you've done film wise has registered in the US.
Tina
Fey may like you but, look around, no one likes Tina Fey anymore and
they never liked her that much to start with. All she's got is this
last round of TV commercials.
Thursday, February 6, 2025. Rashida's lousy sister attacks Kamala
Harris again and THE WHITE MAJORITY REPORT's Sam and Emma grab their
White sheets, hop their horses and head off into the night to burn a
cross on the yard of Black America.
Warning,
I'm in the pantry tossing out trash -- better keep your eyes open so
you don't get hit in the head with a Nabisco box as you watch me get rid
of all the Saltines.
The game
Donald Chump plays on the left is to lie and lie and then lie again
while insisting that what we saw happen didn't really happen.
We fight that from Chump and I'll be damned if we'll take that same gaslighting from our supposed peers on the left.
I
try to be supportive. I'm not in the mood anymore. If White Emma and
White Ana want to go to town on each other in the future, I think I'll
just grab the popcorn. Ana's trash.
She's
always been trash. She was a Socialist passing herself off as a
Democrat as was Cenk as is Kyle Kulinski. Ana and Cenk are now on board
with Chump because that is often the march of Socialism in the US.
Can't get what you want (destroying capitalism) as a left warrior?
Switch over to the right.
We never praised Ana, we always knew she was trash.
But what's Emma?
Why the hell have I defended her when she won't defend Black women.
She's
so unimportant I'm not even going to try to remember her last name.
And I certainly won't rush to defend her when she's attacked.
She
put on her big girl panties when she and Sam -- putting on his big girl
panties -- yesterday on THE MAJORITY REPORT felt the need to take their
messaging from Rahsida Tlaib's sister and blame Kamala for this and for
that.
Rashida's trashy sister doesn't like Rashida being called out so she lied and then Sam and Emma joined her.
They
grabbed their big girl panties and they grabbed their White sheets,
hopped their horses and went off to lynch the Black woman..
Because we must never ever blame Rashida.
Don't ever blame Rashida!!!
You know what I say to that? F**k you, Sam Seder.
I'm not one of your damn groupies. I am sorry I let Janeane talk me into giving you a second chance.
Rashida helped put Donald Chump back in the White House.
That's reality.
Here's more reality: I won't be lectured to by the likes of Sam Seder.
For those who don't know, Sam ripped a woman apart. On air.
It was 2004 and she had supported Ralph Nader in 2000.
He
ripped her apart. He made her cry. She came on the show -- THE
MAJORITY REPORT on AIR AMERICA RADIO -- to discuss music. And Sam
viciously attacked her on air.
Now Janeane
doesn't like it when I talk about how Sam stabbed Janeane in the back.
Like most women, she tries to put it behind her.
But here I'm talking about a singer-songwriter, Ani di Franco. And Sam ripped her apart on air and made her cry.
So excuse the hell out of me, Sam Seder, but you're the last damn person to tell anyone that they shouldn't blame Rashida.
I have never attacked the Nader voters of 2000. I voted for Al Gore.
Yes,
I believe Ralph owes the Iraqi people an apology for his vanity run
that helped put Bully Boy Bush in the White House. But that's Ralph.
I have repeatedly stated that on election day, you make the best choice you can. You can't predict the future.
So
if you voted for Nader, that was who you thought was the best choice
and I'm not mad at you and I've never been mad at you. If you are a
friend of mind, I have sometimes wanted to scream at you. Not for
voting for Ralph but because you want to act ashamed of it now and want
me to take away your guilt.
You made the best decision you could. Don't blame yourself.
2024?
It was unlike any other election.
Donald Chump had led an insurrection against this country and our government (he's still doing the latter). We all knew it.
Donald Chump had destroyed ROE V WADE and we all knew it.
Donald Chump was a threat to every minority group in the country and in the world and we all knew it.
We
saw the damage of his four years in the White House. We saw his
disregard for the law. We heard his hatred. We saw his KKK Madison
Square Garden rally.
This was all known.
So, no, Rashida doesn't get a pass.
She's a liar. She's trash. And she's garbage.
Now,
yes, I get it. She was the front person. They needed a
Palestinian-American. Norman Solomon had already attempted to take Joe
Biden down. The Socialist was a joke and his efforts were a joke. No
one gave a damn. But if he and DSA could get a front person to hide
behind, a Palestinian-American, it might work. That would give some
heft to their continued plan to attack and destroy Joe Biden.
She and her sister played the role.
And this is on them.
It's
not going away no matter how many whores work on whoring. She is this
decade's Ralph Nader. She will be blamed forever more. And she earned
it.
As
Tabitha notes in the video above, this is what they campaigned for --
this is what Rashida campaigned for. This is what the Gaza Freaks
wanted.
If they really cared about
Palestinians, they would have listened to what Chump was saying, they
would have grasped the need to rally around Kamala. (And many
Socialists did grasp that. The further you got from DSA, you would find
Socialists stressing the importance of voting for Kamala if only for
the dangers of Chump. Bill Ayers, for example, perfectly grasped what
was at stake.)
Instead of handing out those
hard truths, Sam Seder -- who again decimated, destroyed Ani Di Franco
on air in 2004 because she voted for Ralph in 2000 -- wants us to know
it's Kamala's fault.
'She had the bad message! So did Joe!'
The bad message for who?
For White American Jews who believe their hatred of the Israeli government makes them deep thinkers?
Or
maybe it was a bad message for Palestinian-Americans who didn't want to
face the fact that, yes, when you attack a concert, you are a
terrorist. A concert and the concert goers are not a government. So
Hamas -- which is not all Palestinians -- carried out a terrorist
attack.
The corrupt apartheid government of Israel then launched an attack that was a genocide.
And we could -- and I did -- call that out.
Collective punishment is illegal. But some of the excesses of the Gaza Freaks went too far.
And Sam never wanted to tell that hard truth.
In
fact, it appears in retrospect -- as various people rush forward to say
that Rashida cannot be criticized and must not be criticized! -- that
we babied the Gaza Freaks.
Don't give me that Kamala had a bad message.
What
she had was a bunch of Socialists sticking their nose into the
Democratic Party and making demands that they had no right to make. 'WE
MUST HAVE A SPEAKER AT THE CONVENTION!' Are you Democrats? 'NO, WE
ARE DSA!!!' Then hit the road.
People like
Sam lied over and over and he wasn't the only one. But he's too damn
old to pretend he didn't know that a cease-fire wasn't coming November
6th.
And right here is where I was going to explain on Palestine and what we could do and how we could fight but . . .
No.
No,
I'm tired of my Black ass trying to rescue everyone -- Emma, Gaza
Freaks, go down the list -- when these same people don't do a damn thing
for Black people.
Not one damn thing.
They don't even listen to us.
Sam's White Jew Who Hates The Israeli Government is his idea of complex and thoughtful.
He has no idea of the Black experience.
And he doesn't want to know and neither does Emma.
Again, TABITHA SPEAKS.
When
did THE MAJORITY REPORT ever cover all the attacks -- by Gaza Freaks --
on Black women that have taken place non-stop the moment Kamala became
the nominee?
Oh, that's right they never did.
They
bring on a fat Black guy every now. and then They like a fat Black
guy, Crackers do. It lets them appear 'hip' to have a token around who
kisses their damn ass. And note that's all he does. He just kisses
their ass. He doesn't challenge them. He doesn't provide leadership.
He's just the Alfonso Ribeiro to their Rick Schroder, there to prop up a
mediocre White man.
Where are the Black women on THE (WHITE) MAJORITY (WHITE) REPORT?
They've refused to bring us on. They've refused in the lead up to the election and after to give us a seat at the table.
Why?
Because we're not buying their s**t.
And
they know we won't say, "Oh, Massa Sam, you be so smart. Why wees
wouldn't know a thing if we didn't have yo mighty, mighty White brain to
tell us about our lives."
Kamala was attacked in August, September and October as a DEI hire.
A successful attorney, a US senator and a vice president.
And she's a DEI hire .
We
noticed you didn't defend her. We noticed that Amy Goodman twice aired
Donald Trump's attack on her Blackness -- only one time bringing on
someone to comment. The Goody Whore let Trump attack her twice on air
-- in full. Then she brought on the Socialist who we no longer note.
And we never will again. He was the Black man brought on to minimize
the actual attack. And like a good Bojangles, he danced and shucked
with Miss Amy Goodman.
We saw what happened. Black women saw what happened. And we have seen that only Black women have addressed it.
Saltines ignore it. Saltines don't want to own it.
And that's why it's getting very hard for some of us to be around Saltines.
There
are times when I have to remind myself that I know many caring and
thoughtful White people. They don't have YOUTUBE programs usually but
tthey do exist.
I have to do
that because what I see on YOUTUBE is a bunch of garbage. A bunch of
White people who want to lecture us, not listen to us.
Reparations?
I'm not stupid enough to think that we'll see them in my lifetime.
The country that enslaves us and terrorized us?
The Sam Seders want to act like that's in the past, that's what their ancestors did.
Really?
Because what Black woman saw was a hugely qualified woman be ripped apart by the left over and over and over and over.
So, Saltines, you really need to just shut the f**k up before you tell us again what you think Kamala did wrong.
Those
Black women who are on vacation? I support you and encourage you to
take care of yourselves. I say that over and over here. And one of the
reasons that I say that is because I'm trying to participate and all I
keep seeing seems to be one White YOUTUBER after another yet again
ignoring, silencing and rendering Black women invisible.
The whole point of the Socialist attack on Kamala was to defeat her.
B-b-b-but if everyone who voted Green and who voted for purple M&Ms had voted Kamala, I don't thing she would have won!!!!
Shut the f**k up. You're either an idiot or a liar.
Elections depend on turnout.
When
Amy Goodman was dragging Communist Aunt Jemima and Socialists by the
hundreds on her show to slam Kamala for three months in a row -- in the
lead up to the election, she knew what she was doing. That's why she
doesn't say, "I should note that this guest is not a Democrat. I know
my audience is stupid -- I told Danny Schechter years ago that my
audience was too stupid for economics -- so I know I should tell you
these are not Democrats slamming Kamala."
But
if she'd done that, a lot of viewers would have dismissed the
criticism. Democrats aren't calling for the overthrow of the current
system. We want to improve the system, we want to make it fair for
everyone. Socialists and Communists -- unless they state otherwise --
by the very nature of their ideology believe in overthrow -- Communists
want it quickly, Socialists think they can move slower (to trick
people?) -- and we should go into this more later in the snapshot but
that's going to have waot until Friday.
Elections depend on turnout.
Democrats
have the numbers. They always do. The issue has always been about
turning out the voters. Often, the issue has also been about ensuring
that the right to vote was a universal right.
Instead of attempting to rally turnout, Amy and others worked to suppress it.
SHE'S A JOURNALIST! SHE HAS TO BE FAIR AND CAN'T CHOOSE SIDES!
That's what some people believe.
But Amy's spent her career arguing against objectivity, insisting she's a activist journalist.
And I'm not complaining over honest coverage.
I'm
complaining over her lying and bringing on guests who -- like Aunt
Jemima or any of them -- offering their Socialist critique of a Democrat
and being allowed to hide in their political closet.
And hand on heart, I am grieving for our country right now. A lot of Black women are.
But
a White American Jew who hates Israel like Sam or Amy know everything,
right? So why should they listen to Black women, right? They know
everything.
They don't get what Betty's talking about in "They attack Black history and now they attack the end of apartheid"
-- that one of the most inspiring wins in global struggles, the Blacks
of South African overturning apartheid, is being attacked decades later
by Donald Chump. They don't get Marcia's "Chump's erasing Americans in our own country"
because they're White and no matter what Chump does, they're still seen
and recognized and heard. They don't get that, as Ann points out in "Remember that you matter," across the nation, a conversation is taking place about where we, Black people, fit in this country now.
They act as though what elements of the left did was okay.
As
I started pointing out in September, what was taking place -- with
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Amy Goodman's attacks on Kamala -- was the
reality that a number of White people on the left were unable to see a
Black woman as anything other than a maid or a Mammy.
And that's a reality that White YOUTUBERS still won't cop to.
We
saw it. Black women saw it. We saw attacks on Kamala -- from the left
-- like we had never seen take place before in a presidential election.
COMMON
DREAMS attacked Kamala near daily for two months. Whatever she did, it
wasn't enough. And what's most interesting there was that they felt
right attacking her and telling her what to do. I've never seen that in
any election before. We didn't do it to John Kerry. We didn't do it
to Hillary Clinton. We didn't do it to Barack Obama. But with a Black
woman, we constantly threatened and attacked her.
And we didn't have to be correct.
As
a Black woman, I do subscribe to ESSENCE. And when my copy came in
with Kamala on the cover, I wrote about it here -- even scanned the
cover and posted it in the snapshot -- and noted that this should be big
news but probably wouldn't be because ESSENCE was a magazine White
America ignores.
That's how you got COMMON
DREAMS, TRUTHOUT and others telling you that the problem was Kamala
wasn't speaking about the health of Black women.
Even though -- wake up, Saltines -- that was covered in ESSENCE. And it was covered elsewhere as well.
But why let facts stop you when you -- in all your Whiteness -- really just want to try to boss around a Black woman?
Because
that' what was about. A Black woman exercising her strength and
showing leadership was too much for the segments of the left who reduces
every Black woman to a maid or a Mammy.
And
that's what Sam and Emma did. They tried to boss around Black women.
The disrespect that they showed Kamala is the same disrespect that they
show all Black women.
And it gets old. And it hurts.
So I fully understand any Black woman still sitting this out and who plans to sit it out for some time to come.
It really isn't worth the hurt. I get it.
What I will be doing here and offline is working on electing Democrats and highlighting issues.
I'm
done with Gaza. The freaks (Gaza Freaks are US citizens -- often with
no connection to the region) don't want to listen so they can't be
helped. And I don't need Rashida telling us that we all need to pull
together after she spent months working to divide the left.
The Gaza Freaks also, as Tabitha notes, repeatedly told us to take their names out of our mouths.
Message received.
I'll
work on and cover the attacks on immigrants (and those suspected of
being immigrants). I'll work on and cover the attacks on Civil Rights.
I'll work on and cover the attacks on LGBTQ+ Americans.
And I'll do that as long as I can stomach the disrespect.
Because it's three months after the election and White YOUTUBERS still don't give a damn about Black women.
Again, TABITHA SPEAKS.
Transcript:
Tabitha holds her finger up indicating pause.
THIS IS HOW IT STARTED.
GAZA
FREAK: And let me make one thing very, very clear. We are going to do
everything in our power to make sure Kamala Harris doesn't win. 'Vote
for -- If you want Donald Trump to win say that' -- Bitch! I will vote
for Satan if I have to.
Tabitha holds up her finger indicating pause.
THIS IS HOW IT'S GOING
SAME GAZA FREAK: Remember, no one's free until we are all free.
And we can't protect ourselves if we can't protect each other. This is
the time for all the minorities, all the movements, all the working
class to come together. Really build power and fight against the
fascism that's been here but finally popping its head out and being loud
and proud about it. And unless we do something, really come together,
it's going to get really bad.
And
that's what White YOUTUBERS like Sam are doing. They're like the Gaza
Freak in the video above, they think they can tell us what to do.
Neither the freak nor Sam bothered to listen to us but damned if they
don't think, "We know better than those Black women."
See
how that works out for you. And if this is the first you're seeing
where Gaza Freak verbally attacked us in the lead up to the election,
you need to ask why that is.
The White
YOUTUBERS can attack Black women and they can and will attack Kamala.
But when it comes to the Gaza Freaks, White YOUTUBE just sees bunnies
with rainbows shooting out their asses.
Reese Waters isn't buying White YOUTUBERS' nonsense either.
Sam and Emma, if you won't listen to us, kiss our collective Black ass.
Now
the plan for today was Elon Musk. We were going to address how he
profits from attacking South Africa and various other things. And I'm
sure someone's going to whine in an e-mail to the public account that
'So much is going on and you're talking about this!'
You
better believe I am. Racism is real and racism is how Chump got back
in the White House. Racism is targeting immigrants, racism fuels
Chump's attack on our education system, we had to listen to a full week
and counting of Chump blaming a plance crash on "DEI." He is fueled by
racism and I'm really not seeing White YOUTUBE register that.
So
this is an important issue whether you think it is or not. Sam and
Emma donned their White sheets and attacked Kamala again fro the crime
of being a strong Black woman. Rashida set out to defeat Kamala Harris
and yet Sam and Emma want to excuse her.
I'm not in the mood for their racism and I'm not going to take part in revisionary history.
We know what we saw.
It was a lynching carried out by the right and big part of the left here in the US.
So
before you feel the need to start trashing Kamala again, White YOUTUBE,
you better grasp that we're on to you. And calling out your lies and
attacks on a Black woman is something that has always been part of our
mission statement here. Coretta Scott King dies and the 'left' NEW YORK
TIMES ignores her to make the tragedy of the week the death of a White,
minor playwright. Coretta dies and we get a cover story on Coretta.
Playwright Wendy dies and is covered on the same day and what do we
get? Cover story on the frotn page. Editorial -- from the editoiral
board (Gail Collins writing about her friend) and how many columns?
But Coretta was just a blip.
Jackie O dies and it's columns an columns, news stories and feature stories.
Coretta
dies and it's one new story. (And weeks later, a paragraph in a column
after I have yelled and screamed at an NYT columnist.)
We called that out and we were the only ones doing so online. BLACK AGENDA REPORT didn't. FAIR didn't. Nobody did.
And
that's why, when Black women are discriminated, it will always be our
duty to call it out -- because we know the bulk of the online world is
just going to look the other way and say nothing.
In
other words, Sam and Emma, that's mighty white of you. Last century,
that was used as a compliment among Whites, "That's mighty White of
you." But even back then, we were reclaiming the language, even back
then. So when we said, "That's mighty White of you," we weren't saying
it as a compliment. We saw through you then and we see through you now.
Sounds
like a good cast. While Laura Dern and Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum
were good last time (and every time), Bryce Dallas Howard does not
belong in an action film and is not believable in one. Chris Pratt? It
was the last time I enjoyed him but that I'm-an-overgrown-manchild
shtick has gotten old. Vince Vaughn would do a better job trying to
pull it off again that Chris Pratt has done.
He and The Rock have both painted themselves into a corner. Too many roles all the same with the same performance.
We
know Scarlett can do an action film. She really can do anything.
She's probably the most versatile of any actress in her age range. I
think we got a little too laid back with her during The Avengers films.
She's been amazing in comedy and in dramas. And I love that film that
people want to hiss "ISN'T SCIENCE." LUCY is a great film. I don't
care how much of our brain that we do or do not use. It wasn't a
documentary. It's a great film.
I'm not a Chrissy Teigen fan. And she has frequently gotten on my nerves. But I'll happily say 'good for her' for this:
Chrissy
Teigen is defending Selena Gomez after her tearful video about the
Trump administration's mass deportations led to a response video from
the White House.
"I love her," the Cravings author told TMZ of
Gomez on Monday night (Feb. 3). "Empathy should never be frowned upon
or made fun of, and the fact that the White House has enough time to
even make a statement or a video about it is f-ing preposterous and
disgusting and lame and loser behavior."
Gomez's
original video featured the "Rare" singer in tears, promising to do
what she she can to help undocumented Mexican nationals in the midst of
the immigration raids. "I'm so sorry. All my people are getting
attacked, the children," Gomez said through sobs in the since-deleted
video that can be seen here.
"I don't understand. I'm so sorry, I wish I could do something but I
can't. I don't know what to do. I'll try everything, I promise."
So
good for Chrissy. Now five of you e-mailed to say you watched THE
WICKED LADY (see "Weekend box office and a Faye Dunaway masterpiece") and loved it. Wasn't Faye Dunaway great? I really
do believe that if it weren't for all the drama around MOMMIE DEAREST,
THE WICKED LADY would've gotten a lot of praise from critics. But
they'd already trashed MOMMIE DEAREST but weren't able to kill it. And,
as C.I. will tell you, when 'the water cooler set' decides to go after
someone, they go after them over and over and over again.
And
on C.I., I was griping that I couldn't find anything to watch of late.
She knows I love the Brit com THE VICAR OF DIGBY and the French and
Saunders specials -- Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are a British
comedy team. She asked if I'd ever watched MURDER MOST HORRID?
Nope.
AMAZON PRIME has both seasons (24 episodes total) and it's a comedy
anthology series. Each episode is about a murder. I just started so
I'm only 1/2 way through season one but I am really loving it. It's
very funny.
Wednesday, February 5, 2025. Keith Edwards talks the self-coup,
protests begin taking place around the country, anger builds towards
South African native Elon Musk, can you criticize Glenn and Matty while
hiding in a political closet, Socialism, and so much more.
In the video below, Keith Edwards talks the self-coup.
"We
can complain about it," whines Senator Pete Welch in a clip in causing
Keith to ask, "That is your answer for all of us? Complain about it?"
A movement to oppose the early actions of President Donald Trump’s
administration is taking off online, with plans to protest across the
U.S. on Wednesday.
The movement has organized under the hashtags
#buildtheresistance and #50501, which stands for 50 protests, 50 states,
one day. Many of the protests are planned at state capitols, with some
in other cities.
The movement has websites and accounts across social media. Flyers circulating online decry Project 2025,
a hard-right playbook for American government and society, and include
messages such as “reject fascism” and “defend our democracy.” In a
coffee shop just a block from Michigan’s Capitol, organizers of a
planned action there Wednesday pushed together tables, spreading out
poster boards to write messages that read “No Deportations Ever!” and
“Workers Unite!”
On Feb. 5, there will be 50 nationwide protests in all 50 states.
Orchestrated by the 50501 Movement, the protests will occur in all 50 states for just one day.
The protests are in opposition to Donald Trump's presidency and will be carried out in order to "fight fascism."
In Louisiana, residents will take part in the 50501 Movement protests outside the Louisiana State Capitol Building in Baton Rouge on Feb. 5.
The protest movement is against President Trump's
actions during his first two weeks back in office. After a plethora of
controversial executive orders and pardons for the Jan. 6 rioters, the
50501 Movement has organized to combat President Trump's position in the
White House.
Snowy streets, heavy coats and runny noses accompanied the ringing
cries and subsequent honks Tuesday as about 70 people gathered outside
the federal courthouse in downtown Spokane to protest the unusual
involvement by billionaire Elon Musk in the early workings of the second
administration of Donald Trump.
Toting signs that read, “We didn’t vote for this chaos” and “Elon”
slashed through by a diagonal line, as well as “Send DOGE to Mars,”
protesters came to the Thomas S. Foley U.S. Courthouse on Tuesday
afternoon.
“I’m here for my grandchildren and all future generations,” said Kim
Harmson of Spokane. “I’m outraged. You can’t normalize this.”
Joanna Ellington, of Valleyford, said she saw an interview Monday
night where U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, suggested that anyone
who was not comfortable with the actions of Musk, who has been appointed
the head of the newly created Department of Governmental Efficiency,
to locally organize.
So, Ellington said she started calling those mostly older residents who she knew could immediately respond.
“We believe in the rule of law,” Ellington said. “What has happened
is unprecedented and illegal and very concerning to me. I decided to
have it now because of the actions in the Treasury Department. I just
wanted to make sure that Spokane voices were being heard.”
BLUESKY notes some of this week's protests.
No, people do not like Elon. Senator Patty Murray's office issued the following:
Murray: “We should all be deeply concerned about
what it could mean to give Elon Musk and his cronies free rein at VA—I
am already hearing that DOGE may have barged into VA today. Musk and
his associates already have the personal financial information of every
veteran receiving disability or education benefits because of their
illegal data mining at the Department of Treasury. Will they now look
at private health records of veterans? What else will they do that
could put the health and safety of our veterans at risk? If Vought and
Musk push to cut veterans benefits and limit healthcare eligibility as
Project 2025 has outlined—would Doug Collins stand up to them?”
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray
(D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and a senior
member and former Chair of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee,
released the following statement after voting no on the nomination of
Doug Collins to serve as Secretary of Veterans Affairs:
“Right now, the Trump administration is illegally withholding
funding from communities across America, and they are ransacking and
effectively gutting entire federal agencies—this kind of lawlessness is
putting our economy, national security, and future at risk.
“Today I voted NO to confirm Doug Collins as VA Secretary
because at this point I have not seen a single cabinet secretary stand
up to Trump’s illegal power grab. We should all be deeply concerned
about what it could mean to give Elon Musk and his cronies free rein at
VA—I am already hearing that DOGE may have barged into VA today. Musk
and his associates already have the personal financial information of
every veteran receiving disability or education benefits because of
their illegal data mining at the Department of Treasury. Will they now
look at private health records of veterans? What else will they do that
could put the health and safety of our veterans at risk? If Vought and
Musk push to cut veterans benefits and limit healthcare eligibility as
Project 2025 has outlined—would Doug Collins stand up to them? If this
administration continues to press VA doctors, nurses, and support staff
to resign—will Collins push back? I cannot confidently say he would.
“I had a productive meeting with Mr. Collins prior to his
hearing and we will need to work together on many issues, including
getting the Electronic Health Record system fixed, but I cannot vote to
confirm him as Trump dismantles government and breaks the law. As I work
with Mr. Collins to support our veterans, I will also be pressing him
to follow the laws as intended by Congress.”
Senator Murray was the first woman to join the Senate Veterans’
Affairs Committee and the first woman to chair the Committee—as the
daughter of a World War II veteran, supporting veterans and their
families has always been an important priority for her. Senator Murray
has fought throughout her career for increased benefits for veterans,
housing assistance, better access to veterans’ clinics throughout
Washington state, and more accountability from the VA.
Advocating for women veterans in particular has been a longtime focus
for Senator Murray, and as Chair of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs
Committee in 2010, Senator Murray passed her landmark Women Veterans Health Improvement Act into law. Murray has worked to permanently authorize the VA child care pilot program to increase access to free, quality child care for veterans during their appointments, make much-needed improvements to the women veterans call center, and fix a loophole that
left veterans footing the bill for medically-necessary emergency
newborn transportation that VA should be covering. Murray introduced and helped pass the Deborah Sampson Act,
legislation to address gender disparities at VA that established a
dedicated Office of Women’s Health at VA and required every VA health
facility to have a dedicated women’s health primary care provider, among
other things. Murray also helped to pass the MAMMO Actto expand access to high-quality breast cancer screening and treatment services for veterans. Senator Murray leads the Veteran Families Health Services Act, comprehensive
legislation that would expand fertility treatments—including IVF—and
family-building services for servicemembers and veterans who are unable
to conceive without assistance, and she has sought unanimous consent to pass the legislation on multiple occasions. Last March, Murray applauded VA’s move
to expand IVF services to eligible unmarried veterans and eligible
veterans in same-sex marriages, and allowing veterans to use donated
gametes in IVF services.
Senator Murray has been conducting oversight on the flawed Electronic
Health Record system rollout in Washington state since the Trump
Administration first negotiated the contract with Cerner (later acquired
by Oracle), and at every point in the process since then. Murray has consistentlypushed VA on its failed implementation of EHR—conducting oversight, holding the administration accountable, and calling on VA to halt deployment of EHR until they get it right in Washington state. In March 2023, Murray introduced comprehensive legislation that
would require VA to implement a series of EHR reforms to better serve
veterans, medical personnel, and taxpayers. In the Fiscal Year 2024
funding bills, Senator Murray negotiated and passed as Chair of the
Appropriations Committee stronger language to hold VA and Cerner
accountable for the rollout of the EHR system, and in May 2024, she sent a letter urging
VA to consider feedback on the system from providers and veterans in
Spokane and Walla Walla and reiterating that VA must not move forward on
the rollout of EHR until the myriad issues that have plagued the system
in the locations where it has been launched are fixed.
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And we'll note this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing,
and Urban Affairs (BHUA), delivered remarks at the Department of the
Treasury, responding to Elon Musk’s takeover of government payment
systems.
Transcript: Press Conference - We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! February 4, 2025 As Delivered
Senator Elizabeth Warren: In the building behind me, Elon Musk is
seizing power away from the American people. We are here to fight back.
A few months ago, Elon Musk spent $280 million to buy an election for
Donald Trump. Now Elon Musk is here to collect on his investment. He is
here to seize power for himself. We are here to fight back.
Musk has grabbed control of America’s payment system. This is the
system that makes sure that your grandpa gets his Social Security check
on time. This is the system that makes sure that your mom’s doctor gets
paid for her Medicare exam. Elon wants the power to turn that off as
Elon Musk decides. Elon Musk wants the power to say that your grandpa,
who frankly is a cranky old guy and sometimes disses Elon on X, doesn’t
get his Social Security check on time. Elon Musk wants the power to say
that your mom’s doctor is not doing it the way I would, so the doctor
doesn’t get paid. Elon Musk wants the power to decide whether or not
every road repair in America goes forward, whether or not every Head
Start Center in America opens, and whether or not every military base,
anywhere in the world, operates according to Elon. Elon Musk wants
everyone in America to be at the mercy of Elon Musk. We are here to
fight back.
Now, no one elected Elon Musk to nothing. Not one Democrat in America
voted for Elon Musk. Not one Republican in America voted for Elon Musk.
Not one Independent in America voted for Elon Musk. Not one Libertarian
voted for Elon Musk. Damn, not one vegetarian in America voted for Elon
Musk. And yet, Elon Musk is seizing the power that belongs to the
American people. We are here to fight back.
This is no longer business as usual. We will speak out. We will
rally. We will power a movement all across this country. Elon Musk wants
power and we will fight back.
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Trump and MAGA have ushered in the age of stupid as Lawence O'Donnell noted last night on MSNBC.
None
of this nightmare had to happen. America had the choice between Donald
Chump and Kamala Harris. There is and was a huge difference between
the two.
But
here we are. And we better be doing everything we can think of to
avoid 2028's candidate being attacked the way some on the left attacked
Kamala Harris.
That means getting ready for nominees. No, I'm not referring to 'fantasy football' garbae like 'We should run Jon Stewart!'
Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expressed concerns about the Party's
messaging and internal dynamics. In the wide-ranging interview,
Ocasio-Cortez also described her relationship with the party as "weird"
and pointed to a "power struggle" within its ranks.
"I
think structurally, overall, the Democratic Party has this confused
message," AOC said during a passage of an interview with the Latino USA
podcast hosted by Maria Hinojosa. "We're supposed to be a party of the
working class, and I think working-class people have not been seeing
government work for them, despite a lot of the things that the Biden administration did do."
Ocasio-Cortez
went on to argue that what she described as the party's inconsistent
messaging contributed to its loss in the 2024 presidential election,
adding that while Democrats are a coalition, the party is undergoing an
internal battle over its direction:
"I
have a weird relationship with the Democratic Party. I don't believe in
a two-party system, but I also understand the Democratic Party is a
coalition and if we want the party to change, the balance of the
coalition has to change. But right now, you open the hood on the
Democratic Party, what you have is, I think, a bit of a power struggle
over the last couple of years"
I
will vote in 2028 for the Democratic Party's presidential nominee no
matter who it is. But crap like the above? It means I would not vote
for AOC in the primary.
Yes,
she does "have a weird relationship with the Democratic Party." That's
because she's a Socialist, not a Democrat. Now Socialists of the SEP
will immediately object because they don't want her and think she's
weak. But she is a Socialist.
And
I'm really not in the damn mood to have to do this near weekly. Be a
Socialist, be a Democrat, be a Communist, if you're stupid enough then
be a swing voter who wrongly self-labels "independent" and you're
stupid, cruel and hateful be MAGA.
But don't lie and hide in a political closet.
Betty
Friedan hid in a political closet and when she died you could either be
honest or be part of the lie. Gloria Steinem is a Socialist. I have
no idea why she couldn't admit in her prime -- she lied to me, for
example -- but now that she's supposedly moved on to her final chapter, I
have no idea why she can't be honest. It's always left to others to clean up the mess that closet cases make.
Upon the organization's founding, Harrington and the socialist feminist author Barbara Ehrenreich were
elected co-chairs. After the merger, the DSA became the largest
socialist organization in the United States, with a membership of
approximately 5,000 ex-DSOC members and 1,000 ex-NAM members.[13]
There
is the Democratic Party. I am a Democrat. We are not Democratic
Socialists. Most on the left in the US are not DSA (Approximately
80,000 people nationwide are DSA -- I spoke with a Green Party official
who's a friend and he states that they have a larger number of members
and notes that they got over 800,000 votes nationally for president --
those are not all dues paying members but, yes, the Green Party probably
does have about ten times the number of members that DSA has.)
I'm
not in the mood if AOC's the nominee in 2028 to go around defending
our Democratic Party nominee from right-wing charges of "Socialist!" If AOC is our nominee, I'm not in the mood to do
teach-ins in the months before the general election on what a Socialist
-- Democratic Socialist or other -- is.
These
are conversations you have now so that when a general election rolls
around you can say that this has already been addressed at length.
She and other DSAers need to stop hiding in political closets and start participating in the public square.
WIKIPEDIA notes, "The
dominant position in DSA regards the abolition of capitalism and the
realization of socialism as a long-term goal, therefore the organization
focuses its immediate political energies on reforms within capitalism
that empower working people while decreasing the power of
corporations." Abolishing capitalism is not going to fly with the bulk
of voters.
And
that may be why DSA -- that and it's tiny membership of less than
90,000 people in a country with over 300,000,000 people may be why they
don't want to be honest and would rather hide in political closets.
AOC could be a great president.
But part of leadership is leading and leading in the here and now.
In
other words, address this. Don't wait until September 2028 when FOX
"NEWS" and others are broadcasting every hour on the hour, "AOC wants to
abolish capitalism -- that means she wants to take away your property
and that means . . ."
Socialism
is something you need to be explaining now. And you need to be
explaining your brand of Socialism because, again, there's DSA, SEP,
PSL, etc.
You
already lie to the American people with terms like "Justice
Democrats." We can't win with liars. AOC and others need to come out
of the closet. Bernie never made it to the finish line. He never moved
beyond a candidate in the primaries and that's in part because (a) some
people feared socialism and (b) some people didn't know he was a
Socialist.
AOC has here
problems and issues with other DSAs. That's fine. She may be planning
to leave them. That's fine. What's not fine is sticking us, in the
fall of 2028, with having to note just get-out-the-vote but also to
reassure voters in a panic about what she stands for and supports.
Abolishing capitalism is not a winning plank in 2028.
Most
people are not going to support it. Some won't support it arguing what
would replace it? Gore Vidal and I often argued over his opinion that
we needed to redo the Constitution. I disagreed. I did not believe we
would have anything fair replacing it and I argued that the concessions
we have as a result of amendments after The Bill of Rights took forever
to be added. So I can certainly identify with any panic that the
thought of abolishing capital would cause. In addition to people like
myself who would want a plan on what would replace capitalism, there are
people who would say no. Reasons for the include, the "American dream"
which leads so many -- too many? -- to believe that we're all a lotto
ticket way from our big pay day. Then there are those who just fear
change.
That
I have to waste my time explaining this ticks me off. But Kyle
Kulinski and Cenk wanted to create "Justice Democrats" -- a group of
Socialists -- and try to trick the American people.
No.
Say
what you are or stay out of the election. And I'm not in the mood for
any closet case candidate that doesn't grasp how their baggage could
bury us all.
We have to win in 2028.
We can't afford nonsense.
Again,
if AOC wants to come out publicly as a Socialist or explain that she's
turned on Socialism, run for the Democratic Party's presidential
nomination. But don't do it hiding in a closet. We can't risk 2028.
Yesterday, I posted a 'Bluie' -- is that what they call it? From BLUESKY. Like a Tweet from Twitter?
It was Ken Silverstein interviewing Eoin Higgins. I made the headline Ken. Here's the Bluie.
He's
done, apparently, a good take down of Glenneth Greenwald and Matt
Taibbi. Apparently. If I do a take down of them -- and I have many
times -- I don't leave myself open to a take down from them.
Note this passage of the interview:
KS: It is.
EH:
Where he loses me is that liberals are evil and the right is fine, or
at least not as bad. And it's like, no, that's not what's going on here.
When it came to Trump, Glenn and Taibbi both thought the Russiagate
stuff was insane, and I can relate to that, but it reinforced the idea
that liberals are the problem here, they’re the Deep State, or whatever
terminology they would use, and that animus towards liberals became the
most important thing.
I
criticize liberals and the Democratic Party all the time. One reason is
that I don't care about Republicans in that way, is that I'm not
expecting anything from them. Somewhere along the way, Glenn lost that
and he probably justifies a lot of like what he does now by saying, I
used to be allied with these people and they betrayed the principles
that I believed in, so fuck them, and there’s probably some of that with
Taibi as well.
Eoin, you do criticize Democrats and liberals all the time.
And, really, isn't that the actual problem?
No, I'm not saying Dems can be criticized. They should be. I'm not even tone policing. I've always speak in your own voices.
But, if you're a Democrat, you probably read what Eoin said one way.
In the eyes of the far left, "liberal" is a dirty word and it is synonmous with "Democrat."
Eoin wants you to know that he criticizes the right wing including the GOP and that he criticizes Democrats.
And Socialists, Eoin?
Eoin
is a Socialist. I wouldn't be promoting a book rightly calling out
Glenneth and Matt while I myself hid in a political closet.
Eoin,
who often contributes to COMMON DREAMS, does not criticize Socialists
-- whether he's passing them off as progressives or whatever.
We need to know that if we're going to be news consumers.
Yes, Socialist Eoin will slam everyone on the right and, on the left, he will slam Democrats.
We
saw those people near daily on DEMOCRACY NOW! -- how many times did Amy
Goodman bring on members of Uncommitted, for example?
We
aw them and we saw them passed off as people who were fair and
objective and we were led to believe we were all on the same page and
wanting the same thing.
I don't applaud Chump's
attempt to destroy our system of government so hold your breath waiting
for me to applaud Medea Benjamin's plans to overturn our government.
We
are where we are now because, in the fact of the worst assault on our
democracy, the left couldn't pull it together. We had Socialists
attacking Kamala from their political closets.
I'm not in the damn mood.
You want to call out Glenn and Matt? Do so. I have repeatedly.
But
everyone reading this knows where I stand politically. 20 plus years,
it's not hard to find that I identify as a feminist first and then as a
Democrat.
People in political closets passed
themselves off as Democrats and THE NATION and DEMOCRACY NOW! and THE
PROGRESSIVE et al went out of their way to ensure that took place.
Because a bunch of Socialists slamming Kamala could not create the
illusion that "even Democrats are agaisnt her." The lie and the closet
were both necessary to topple our nominee.
I'm
not standing for that again. I will vote in 2028 for whomever the
party's nominee is. If we survive to 2028, I will do that.
And
it could be AOC and I could see voting for her. But not if she's
hiding who and what she is. It's not our job to try to sell her in
October 2028 while also having to explain to the country what a
Socialist is. If she wants to run, she needs to be starting that
conversation right now.
Otherwise?
The
party that welcomed Rashida was never welcomed back by Rashida who
stabbed the Democratic Party in the back becoming the 21st century's
Zell Miller in the process. And, yes, Rashida, there was a difference
-- a huge difference -- between Chump and Kamala. Last night in "Rashida! I must speak to Rashida Tlaib!," Mike noted:
Last
week, United States President Donald Trump published a message directed
at the student protesters who participated in last year’s
pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
It was a warning. And it was aimed specifically at the immigrants among the protesters.
“To
all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put
you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you,”
Trump was quoted as saying in a White House fact sheet.
“I
will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on
college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never
before.”
What?
What!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wait, you mean Donald Chump isn't a friend to Palestinians! Or to those who support Palestinians!!!!
Oh, no!!!!!!
D-d-d-does Rashida know?
Where is Rashida?
Where is she!!!!
I need to talk to Rashida Tlaib!!!!
Can someone help me find Rashida!!!!
Socialist
Rashida screwed over the Democratic Party. Didn't bother her too much
because she's not a Democrat. Maybe that will bother you? The fact
that she lied about being a Democrat. The fact that she believes in
dismantling our way of life?
I don't know where it ends. But I do know she was dead wrong. And now a lot of Palestinians are going to die because of her.