Just FYI, we are SICK of the legacy Democrats & most of the DC pundits & consultants!! I’m an old white woman from rural SW New Mexico. I think you underestimate the level of how much we despise the old guard, with their old ideas, their attachment to the money of the oligarchs, their inability to stop giving Israel a blank check to slaughter an entire population.
They had better change or else be ready to suffer a terrible defeat. During late 2023 thru Election Day 2024, I gave many thousands to the DNC, DLCC, DCCC, & individual Dem candidates.
Since Nov 5 thru today I have not given, nor will I give to any of those legacy entities, not a penny. I’m giving to Voters of Tomorrow, Leaders We Deserve, Zohran Mamdani, Deja Foxx, Kat Abu, AOC, Maxwell Frost, etc
From an Australian perspective I am continually surprised by the negativity Americans attach to the word 'socialism.' Socialism is not communism. In Australia we have universal health care but no-one calls it socialist. We think it is a basic right. This also applies to education and affordable housing, although there is much work to do to create more access to affordable housing.
The anti-socialist vibe goes back to the late 1800s when miners in the Rocky Mts., steel workers in Ohio/Pennsylvania, garment workers in northeast cities were spurred by socialist organizers.
Tit-for-tat violence ensued, but it was the unionists blamed for the violence.
In the 1920s, the "Red Scare" was the Naivist reaction against the Bolshvic uprisings in Russia, seeing every immigrant as a Socialist.
Comes the 1950s, the Communist (Socialist) fear, lead to the paranoia that "Godless hoards" would destroy America.
That said "Socialists" is a crude term used to denote "Anti-White America."
For an encapsulation of the early 20th-century anti-union, anti-immigrant, anti-Black reality,
check out the John Sayles film "Mattewan" based on real events of workers organizing in the coal fields of West Virginia.
Maybe the ever present warning of “this is playing into trumps hands” is what is actually playing into trumps hands?
The LA ICE protests, Mamdani, trans issues, usaid cuts, etc etc….
What if, instead of preemptively trying to muzzle these movements, argue for both sides, divide, critique it before they do, there was an effort to explain, understand and justify, like what we’ve been affording to Trump voters for a decade now.
Mamdani has more experience in government than Trump did when he became president. His ideas are basically wanting to use taxpayers money to make their lives better, Trump (the tax dodger) is using tax payer money to make his life better and other people’s worse.
The LA Ice protests, in fear of “playing into trumps hands” a handful of shit stirrers got more attention than the thousands of citizens trying to defend their community and being horribly attacked by law enforcement officers and then held to a higher standard of professional behavior.
Everyone thought defending trans rights was “playing into trumps hands”, but maybe everyone spending so much time discussing the right to deny tran’s rights (while ignoring stuff that affects everyone, like the scotus ruling to allow more fecal matter in drinking water) was “playing into trumps hands”.
Defending USAID cuts was going to be “playing into trumps hands” but people in other countries are dead, people here are out of work, we are less influential everywhere, and tons of tax payer money has been essentially lit on fire.
The people fighting Trump aren’t the ones playing into his hands, it’s the people who are warning them against it.
Undue focus on Musk's opinions gives him undeserved agency. His perspective, that of a multi-billionaire who is American by naturalization, is irrelevant to the vast majority of us, and based wholly and only on his own self-interest. Mr. Sykes, please weigh carefully whether your attention to Musk is supportive of our democracy or not.
Now that the Big Beautiful Bill has survived another step in the process, I am torn between two thoughts. One is hoping everything associated with Trump is defeated. 2. is seeing the 49.8% of the people who voted for this get exactly what they deserve. (the result of their votes) Even though Republicans are now really fretting about the 26 elections, the pull of serving up everything that Trumps wants is more powerful.
Trump has opened a new chapter in international thuggery. Given his proclamation that he not only rules the country but he also rules the world, he is now exporting his wielding of extortion and blackmail and deploying into not only the local politics of Israel but into their criminal justice system.
One hand washes the other. Netanyahu handed Trump on a silver platter not merely the opportunity to bask in glory by having our military perform the coup de grace on Iran’s nuclear program but to extricate himself, in doing so, from his blatantly humiliating stunt to hold a military parade for his birthday.
So this is now payback time for Trump to return the favor - which is precisely what Trump is doing by threatening Israel with the consequences of his wrath unless they drop the corruption charges against Netanyahu.
The world will now have the opportunity to witness to what extent Israel may shine as heroes in their struggle against Iran and Hamas but display themselves as cowardly victims in submitting to the will of Donald J. Trump.
A couple of months ago, at least $2 billion had flowed to Trump's companies. The ethical mess is obvious. Trump is getting rich (or richer) as a business partner with foreign governments, prompting him to pay back his partners with policy decisions designed to help them - the very definition of corruption.
Elon Musk is no friend of America, he is no friend of humanity and the harm he did with his DOGE crap is irreparable (you can bring the dead back to life) but in this case he is absolutely right.
"It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future."
This will destroy 100s of thousands of jobs, make our country less secure and our air and water dirtier. In short it is stupidity personified.
What BS 😂😂😂
I find it interesting that Dems will be condemned as being anti-semetic with this candidate...
Yet MAGAts have proven-over-and-over to be "pro-Israel,' yet "the Jews will not replace us."
As Ricky Ricardo would say, "Lucy, 'splain this to me."
Is anyone pursuing an Emoluments challenge? We can't normalize this behavior.
The Trump DOJ certainly won't.
Just FYI, we are SICK of the legacy Democrats & most of the DC pundits & consultants!! I’m an old white woman from rural SW New Mexico. I think you underestimate the level of how much we despise the old guard, with their old ideas, their attachment to the money of the oligarchs, their inability to stop giving Israel a blank check to slaughter an entire population.
They had better change or else be ready to suffer a terrible defeat. During late 2023 thru Election Day 2024, I gave many thousands to the DNC, DLCC, DCCC, & individual Dem candidates.
Since Nov 5 thru today I have not given, nor will I give to any of those legacy entities, not a penny. I’m giving to Voters of Tomorrow, Leaders We Deserve, Zohran Mamdani, Deja Foxx, Kat Abu, AOC, Maxwell Frost, etc
From an Australian perspective I am continually surprised by the negativity Americans attach to the word 'socialism.' Socialism is not communism. In Australia we have universal health care but no-one calls it socialist. We think it is a basic right. This also applies to education and affordable housing, although there is much work to do to create more access to affordable housing.
Jan,
The anti-socialist vibe goes back to the late 1800s when miners in the Rocky Mts., steel workers in Ohio/Pennsylvania, garment workers in northeast cities were spurred by socialist organizers.
Tit-for-tat violence ensued, but it was the unionists blamed for the violence.
In the 1920s, the "Red Scare" was the Naivist reaction against the Bolshvic uprisings in Russia, seeing every immigrant as a Socialist.
Comes the 1950s, the Communist (Socialist) fear, lead to the paranoia that "Godless hoards" would destroy America.
That said "Socialists" is a crude term used to denote "Anti-White America."
For an encapsulation of the early 20th-century anti-union, anti-immigrant, anti-Black reality,
check out the John Sayles film "Mattewan" based on real events of workers organizing in the coal fields of West Virginia.
GREAT SCRIPT, GREAT ACTORS, TRUE STORY!!!
Thanks Christopher.
What about his court order payment to EJean Carol?!
Maybe the ever present warning of “this is playing into trumps hands” is what is actually playing into trumps hands?
The LA ICE protests, Mamdani, trans issues, usaid cuts, etc etc….
What if, instead of preemptively trying to muzzle these movements, argue for both sides, divide, critique it before they do, there was an effort to explain, understand and justify, like what we’ve been affording to Trump voters for a decade now.
Mamdani has more experience in government than Trump did when he became president. His ideas are basically wanting to use taxpayers money to make their lives better, Trump (the tax dodger) is using tax payer money to make his life better and other people’s worse.
The LA Ice protests, in fear of “playing into trumps hands” a handful of shit stirrers got more attention than the thousands of citizens trying to defend their community and being horribly attacked by law enforcement officers and then held to a higher standard of professional behavior.
Everyone thought defending trans rights was “playing into trumps hands”, but maybe everyone spending so much time discussing the right to deny tran’s rights (while ignoring stuff that affects everyone, like the scotus ruling to allow more fecal matter in drinking water) was “playing into trumps hands”.
Defending USAID cuts was going to be “playing into trumps hands” but people in other countries are dead, people here are out of work, we are less influential everywhere, and tons of tax payer money has been essentially lit on fire.
The people fighting Trump aren’t the ones playing into his hands, it’s the people who are warning them against it.
YES 👏. A thousand times YES. 👏
Undue focus on Musk's opinions gives him undeserved agency. His perspective, that of a multi-billionaire who is American by naturalization, is irrelevant to the vast majority of us, and based wholly and only on his own self-interest. Mr. Sykes, please weigh carefully whether your attention to Musk is supportive of our democracy or not.
It’s not! That MOFO should be Dr naturalized & deported to S Africa. He obtained his citizenship under false pretenses. Liar
Kakistocracy comes with a convicted felon and one on Ketamine.
Now that the Big Beautiful Bill has survived another step in the process, I am torn between two thoughts. One is hoping everything associated with Trump is defeated. 2. is seeing the 49.8% of the people who voted for this get exactly what they deserve. (the result of their votes) Even though Republicans are now really fretting about the 26 elections, the pull of serving up everything that Trumps wants is more powerful.
Those Big Beautiful subsidies for Space X and Tesla may about to blowup like one on Elon's rockets. What shame. :)
Sundays with Charlie are the best.
Trump has opened a new chapter in international thuggery. Given his proclamation that he not only rules the country but he also rules the world, he is now exporting his wielding of extortion and blackmail and deploying into not only the local politics of Israel but into their criminal justice system.
One hand washes the other. Netanyahu handed Trump on a silver platter not merely the opportunity to bask in glory by having our military perform the coup de grace on Iran’s nuclear program but to extricate himself, in doing so, from his blatantly humiliating stunt to hold a military parade for his birthday.
So this is now payback time for Trump to return the favor - which is precisely what Trump is doing by threatening Israel with the consequences of his wrath unless they drop the corruption charges against Netanyahu.
The world will now have the opportunity to witness to what extent Israel may shine as heroes in their struggle against Iran and Hamas but display themselves as cowardly victims in submitting to the will of Donald J. Trump.
Extortion in broad daylight? Mafiosi?
A couple of months ago, at least $2 billion had flowed to Trump's companies. The ethical mess is obvious. Trump is getting rich (or richer) as a business partner with foreign governments, prompting him to pay back his partners with policy decisions designed to help them - the very definition of corruption.
And his reaction along with the potted plants in congress and a complicit supreme court, "so what"
Elon Musk is no friend of America, he is no friend of humanity and the harm he did with his DOGE crap is irreparable (you can bring the dead back to life) but in this case he is absolutely right.
"It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future."
This will destroy 100s of thousands of jobs, make our country less secure and our air and water dirtier. In short it is stupidity personified.
So says the guy on ketamine who has gotten plenty of subsides from the government.