How about just doing what is right and sticking to it?
How about Elian Garcia as an example? Once you establish his father is not a Castro puppet and not a child abuser, who would say a child should not be returned his natural parent? What was the argument about? Too
much calculation and not enough following the northwest star.
OK, my third comment, but maybe not my final, is this: MAGA fails to notice that their idol Putin sends men to get slaughtered in Ukraine, or anywhere he wants to. If that is the "leader" they yearn for, they had better realize there is truly no Christianity to be found under that dictatorship for them to cloak themselves. What a ship of fools.
The white, pseudo-christian males constituting MAGA reveal themselves to be the essence of provincial. This goes for their female cohort as well who enable this myth and delusion.
The Republican Party always has been a sham. If the best Republican president in the past one hundred years remains Eisenhower, he's nearly gone from living memory.
Nixon exposed the inner GOP and they punished him for it. Too soon, Dick. You jumped the queue.
I think for the Dems to become an opposition party they must realize: first, they are at war; second, opposition parties are bomb throwing parties. To be effective they must send their “diplomats” to the back and their militants/soldiers to the front. That means all the Pelosi/Shumer Dems must step aside (retire) and push the AOC/Crocket Dems to the front of the party and NOT backstab them but push and support them with everything they have.
I also think there must be a consolidation of assets. Dems don’t understand how to fight the GOP so they must seek out and hold conversations/teaching sessions with the people who understand the GOP and then create game plans and fully implement across the party (without fail or deviation) those plans.
Finally, the Dems need to understand what “Dance with the one who brung ya” means. They need to STOP chasing the MAGA vote (they don’t like you and they ain’t coming back) and maximize their base votes. Concentrate on getting all those who voted for the couch back to actively voting. And that means that the fight starts years before all elections and continues years after all elections regardless of the level.
Great discussion, but some of what was discussed relies upon the assumption we will have free and fair elections. Dems can’t make DC a state if they don’t have power.
All great ideas but what are you doing to reach out to the leaders of the Dems, DNC, DSCC, DCCC, and make them listen to these ideas. Surely you have connections that can get these meetings. You just talking about this on Substacks does nothing. Your indignation is great but evidently not enough to pull out all the stop, be aggressive to get this message out. Do what your own words you just said and be more "muscular". Make the Dem leaders listen to you. Be relentless like you are asking us on this Substack today to be. Sorry guys you both are great but currently ineffective.
Encountering the AJPM(American Jewish Propaganda Machine)
Mehdi Hasan was fired from MSNBC because of his stance against the omnipresent AJPM They wouldn't dare also fire Ayman Mohedin as well....bad for optics....so they let him stay on But the clandestinely operated AJPM in American politics is a propaganda machine that has been quietly orchestrated to support the Jewish mission The American Defamation League is an arm of the AJPM lobbying for Jewish interests
I myself had an encounter with the AJPM yesterday over on Hopium Chronicles run by pacifist Simon Rosenberg He closely monitors and heavily iron hands his comment section so a free discussion about topics is impossible since he needs to control the narrative Since Simon has strong ties with the DNC Barbara in the comment section thought he could be influential in persuading the DNC to make a statement about the Palestinian crisis
It was at that point that the monitor lashed out at Barbara for her disreputable link to the genocide and chastized her for her careless comment Rosenberg claimed that all the terrorist groups were about instituting Israeli genocide(Holocaust fears relived) while Israel is directly responsible for documented Palestinian oppression and suppression When I agreed with Barbara's position and argued against the genocidal behavior of the fascist Israeli government Rosenberg banned me from posting for a month at which time I asked for my subscription fee refunded
The AJPM is real and rules the DNC and is why the D's wouldn't support the Israeli genocide issue in the 2024 platform I won't donate a dime to the DNC anymore and their stance is in part why their numbers are in the tank(27%) nationally
BTW the Kars for Kids commercial you may have seen is a front for Jewish charities Appears that the wealthy American Jewish diaspora are too cheap to fund their own charities so they surreptitiously ply the American Gentile for money
Cheeto and Pedophile Theatrics Turn Into A Horror Film
The J6 attackers(all pardoned) on the US capital wasn’t enough to get Cheeto to send in the National Guard But now Cheeto’s experimental deployment of the National Guard onto DC streets is a tactic to take away attention from the Maxwell scandal, falsely claiming that manufactured DC crime and homelessness requires the National Guard be federalized along with 100 FBI agents Of course future cities selected will all be Blue American cities Strangely enough no cities in Texas Georgia Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee
Cheeto sent Maxwell “well wishes” and now with a federal judge rejecting release….yet another diversionary tactic…of the grand jury Maxell transcripts The Epstein files will be released and WE the People will find out what Cheeto is hiding Pardons anyone?
Meanwhile “tough on crime” Cheeto hates on America with the pretext of out of control crime while he pardons previously convicted murderers on the streets of Florida and Texas(https://bit.ly/4oLKQy6) mRNA vaccine research contracts are cancelled, and wait for it, the future cancellation of women’s reproductive rights
How bad can this get? Unfortunately it will get worse Protest Protest Protest and form coalitions with neighbors friends relatives family Join Indivisible.org and make your voice heard in order to organize the resistance movement Aug13 join One Million Rising put together by Indivisible to help organize the movement Once coalitions are formed then WE the People can begin to boycott companies and governments across the country to demand that oligarchs/authoritarians do not run this country
And besides talking about it…we need a plan. Who’s talking to democratic/independent leaders to help create a plan. Tired to talk…let’s see/be some action!
My overarching question is this: despite Trump’s obvious cognitive decline, visible insanity and collapsing poll numbers, will any of it matter? This regime has put so many pieces in place that we may never again have free elections.
My parents lived through the depression. My grandparents struggled to raise kids through the depression. When the depression was over my dad went to war, was a pilot in the South Pacific. There was nothing romantic about it. Just like there was nothing romantic about the Civil War. When my dad came home he became an electrician and helped build modern America. My generation of baby boomers fought with Blacks for equality. We wanted that. We fought for women’s rights and equal pay. My dad would be crushed that he risked his life in war for this country to fritter the gains away. Trump is a basic con man. He’s being led around like the demented old man that he is by Christian Nationalists at the Heritage Foundation, Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society, and the Tech Bros, who are pulverizing our government and our constitution because they want to reshape it into a entity that works for them. The Republican lawmakers don’t care that the American government is dissolving because they are making money serving Trump instead of the people who elected them. Many aren’t worried about what is happening. They’re worried about their reelection chances.
Totally agree that Stewart is a blessing.
How about just doing what is right and sticking to it?
How about Elian Garcia as an example? Once you establish his father is not a Castro puppet and not a child abuser, who would say a child should not be returned his natural parent? What was the argument about? Too
much calculation and not enough following the northwest star.
The
OK, my third comment, but maybe not my final, is this: MAGA fails to notice that their idol Putin sends men to get slaughtered in Ukraine, or anywhere he wants to. If that is the "leader" they yearn for, they had better realize there is truly no Christianity to be found under that dictatorship for them to cloak themselves. What a ship of fools.
The white, pseudo-christian males constituting MAGA reveal themselves to be the essence of provincial. This goes for their female cohort as well who enable this myth and delusion.
The Republican Party always has been a sham. If the best Republican president in the past one hundred years remains Eisenhower, he's nearly gone from living memory.
Nixon exposed the inner GOP and they punished him for it. Too soon, Dick. You jumped the queue.
All you Reagan acolytes were fooled by an actor.
I think for the Dems to become an opposition party they must realize: first, they are at war; second, opposition parties are bomb throwing parties. To be effective they must send their “diplomats” to the back and their militants/soldiers to the front. That means all the Pelosi/Shumer Dems must step aside (retire) and push the AOC/Crocket Dems to the front of the party and NOT backstab them but push and support them with everything they have.
I also think there must be a consolidation of assets. Dems don’t understand how to fight the GOP so they must seek out and hold conversations/teaching sessions with the people who understand the GOP and then create game plans and fully implement across the party (without fail or deviation) those plans.
Finally, the Dems need to understand what “Dance with the one who brung ya” means. They need to STOP chasing the MAGA vote (they don’t like you and they ain’t coming back) and maximize their base votes. Concentrate on getting all those who voted for the couch back to actively voting. And that means that the fight starts years before all elections and continues years after all elections regardless of the level.
Great discussion, but some of what was discussed relies upon the assumption we will have free and fair elections. Dems can’t make DC a state if they don’t have power.
All great ideas but what are you doing to reach out to the leaders of the Dems, DNC, DSCC, DCCC, and make them listen to these ideas. Surely you have connections that can get these meetings. You just talking about this on Substacks does nothing. Your indignation is great but evidently not enough to pull out all the stop, be aggressive to get this message out. Do what your own words you just said and be more "muscular". Make the Dem leaders listen to you. Be relentless like you are asking us on this Substack today to be. Sorry guys you both are great but currently ineffective.
Thank you so much for expanding your circle of friends who share their thoughts and expertise.
Encountering the AJPM(American Jewish Propaganda Machine)
Mehdi Hasan was fired from MSNBC because of his stance against the omnipresent AJPM They wouldn't dare also fire Ayman Mohedin as well....bad for optics....so they let him stay on But the clandestinely operated AJPM in American politics is a propaganda machine that has been quietly orchestrated to support the Jewish mission The American Defamation League is an arm of the AJPM lobbying for Jewish interests
I myself had an encounter with the AJPM yesterday over on Hopium Chronicles run by pacifist Simon Rosenberg He closely monitors and heavily iron hands his comment section so a free discussion about topics is impossible since he needs to control the narrative Since Simon has strong ties with the DNC Barbara in the comment section thought he could be influential in persuading the DNC to make a statement about the Palestinian crisis
It was at that point that the monitor lashed out at Barbara for her disreputable link to the genocide and chastized her for her careless comment Rosenberg claimed that all the terrorist groups were about instituting Israeli genocide(Holocaust fears relived) while Israel is directly responsible for documented Palestinian oppression and suppression When I agreed with Barbara's position and argued against the genocidal behavior of the fascist Israeli government Rosenberg banned me from posting for a month at which time I asked for my subscription fee refunded
The AJPM is real and rules the DNC and is why the D's wouldn't support the Israeli genocide issue in the 2024 platform I won't donate a dime to the DNC anymore and their stance is in part why their numbers are in the tank(27%) nationally
BTW the Kars for Kids commercial you may have seen is a front for Jewish charities Appears that the wealthy American Jewish diaspora are too cheap to fund their own charities so they surreptitiously ply the American Gentile for money
Cheeto and Pedophile Theatrics Turn Into A Horror Film
The J6 attackers(all pardoned) on the US capital wasn’t enough to get Cheeto to send in the National Guard But now Cheeto’s experimental deployment of the National Guard onto DC streets is a tactic to take away attention from the Maxwell scandal, falsely claiming that manufactured DC crime and homelessness requires the National Guard be federalized along with 100 FBI agents Of course future cities selected will all be Blue American cities Strangely enough no cities in Texas Georgia Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee
Cheeto sent Maxwell “well wishes” and now with a federal judge rejecting release….yet another diversionary tactic…of the grand jury Maxell transcripts The Epstein files will be released and WE the People will find out what Cheeto is hiding Pardons anyone?
Meanwhile “tough on crime” Cheeto hates on America with the pretext of out of control crime while he pardons previously convicted murderers on the streets of Florida and Texas(https://bit.ly/4oLKQy6) mRNA vaccine research contracts are cancelled, and wait for it, the future cancellation of women’s reproductive rights
How bad can this get? Unfortunately it will get worse Protest Protest Protest and form coalitions with neighbors friends relatives family Join Indivisible.org and make your voice heard in order to organize the resistance movement Aug13 join One Million Rising put together by Indivisible to help organize the movement Once coalitions are formed then WE the People can begin to boycott companies and governments across the country to demand that oligarchs/authoritarians do not run this country
And besides talking about it…we need a plan. Who’s talking to democratic/independent leaders to help create a plan. Tired to talk…let’s see/be some action!
Stuart is 💯 right. Dems should never have been wringing their hands. He’s 💯 correct on what our approach should be.
I’m a dyed in the wool Democrat— voted for them since my first election 40 years ago (!) and we’ve always sucked at messaging.
My overarching question is this: despite Trump’s obvious cognitive decline, visible insanity and collapsing poll numbers, will any of it matter? This regime has put so many pieces in place that we may never again have free elections.
My parents lived through the depression. My grandparents struggled to raise kids through the depression. When the depression was over my dad went to war, was a pilot in the South Pacific. There was nothing romantic about it. Just like there was nothing romantic about the Civil War. When my dad came home he became an electrician and helped build modern America. My generation of baby boomers fought with Blacks for equality. We wanted that. We fought for women’s rights and equal pay. My dad would be crushed that he risked his life in war for this country to fritter the gains away. Trump is a basic con man. He’s being led around like the demented old man that he is by Christian Nationalists at the Heritage Foundation, Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society, and the Tech Bros, who are pulverizing our government and our constitution because they want to reshape it into a entity that works for them. The Republican lawmakers don’t care that the American government is dissolving because they are making money serving Trump instead of the people who elected them. Many aren’t worried about what is happening. They’re worried about their reelection chances.