The Common Ills: Josh Hawley has rubbed himself raw

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

'MANLY' (MANNISH) U.S. SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY USED THE CONGRESS' TIME TO ADDRESS HIS BIGGEST PROBLEM -- PORN. HE SPOKE OF "HAND OVER FIST" CONJURING DISTURBING IMAGES OF HAWLEY EXHAUSTING HIMSELF AS HIS LIMP AND TINY ROCKET REFUSED TO ERECT. IN ADDITION, SOUNDING LIKE HE WAS OFFERING DISCOUNTS TO ANYONE WHO SIGNED UP FOR HIS ONLYFANS PAGE, HAWLEY SPOKE OF "SWEETHEART DEALS."

REACHED FOR COMMENT BY THESE REPORTERS -- MUST CREDIT BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- HE DECLARED THAT HE WAS TOO PRESSED FOR TIME TO NOTE THIS IN CONGRESS BUT, YES, HE DID HAVE DIRTY SOCKS AND SOILED UNDIES THAT HE WOULD GLADLY SELL TO FANS "JUST LET ME KNOW HOW MUCH JOSHY MUSK YOU WANT ON THE PRODCUT -- 1 DAY WITHOUT SHOWERING? TWO DAYS? 34 DAYS? JUST LET ME KNOW."

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Another candidate has suspended her campaign.

Marianne Williamson has suspended her campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination and notes:

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you don’t win:)…

I appreciate greatly all the incredible people who accompanied me on our political journey over the last ten months. While the level of our failure is obvious to all, a level of success is real nonetheless. We articulated deeper, more authentic truths than those regularly acknowledged by the political establishment. And I’m not only glad we did that; I’m proud of it. We spoke for those most ignored in America today and whose wounds are most in need of healing. I wish I could have reached them. I know we would have provided hope.

I will never be able to fully express my gratitude to those who supported the campaign - as donors, as volunteers, as team members, and more. I hope the blessings you have shown me will be reflected in your life many times over. There are memories of support and kindness that I will cherish going forward, carrying an emotional fragrance that will linger in my heart forever.

In the final analysis, I think the only real failure in life is that which we fail to learn from. I have learned so much already and I know that I will learn more. Processing this experience will be an ongoing journey and forgiveness will guide me as I move through it. I will not allow the mental torment of all the woulda shoulda couldas to tie me to the past, but rather I will keep my eye on the larger story. In ways I cannot yet see, none of this will have been in vain. There are hidden gifts that have only just begun to reveal themselves.

Among those gifts are seeds I know we dropped into the hearts of many - those who will in their own time, in their own way, carry our ideas forward. Although as of today we are suspending our campaign, our platform - with its deep dive into so many issues - will remain on Marianne2024.com. I hope future candidates will take what works for them, drinking from the well of information that we prepared. My team and I brought to the table some great ideas, and I will take pleasure when I see them live on in campaigns and candidates yet to be created.

I wish I could give a personal hug to every person who encouraged me on this journey. So many had faith and believed in what was possible. While we did not succeed at running a winning political campaign, I know in my heart we impacted the political ethers. As with every other aspect of my career over the last forty years, I know how ideas float through the air forming ever new designs. I will see and hear things in different situations and through different voices, and I will smile a small internal smile knowing in my heart where that came from.

I am wishing you all the love in the world, with a thanks more sincere than you can possibly imagine. May love yet prevail, in our hearts and in the world.

The list of potentials gets smaller and the list of real potentials -- real meaning, this isn't a deluded vanity campaign, gets tiny. On the Republican side, it's coming down to Donald Trump (unless the courts do the right thing and bar him from running due to his violations of Article 3 and the 14th Amendment) and Nikki Haley. On the Democratic Party side, it's now Joe Biden. Joe visited NYC and, Brett Wilkins (COMMON DREAMS) reports, it was a visit that got attention:

Around 100 Jewish American and allied activists were arrested in New York City Wednesday after they blocked President Joe Biden's motorcade route to protest U.S. complicity in Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinian people and to demand an immediate Gaza cease-fire.

The group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) led the Upper East Side demonstration, during which activists sat down in the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street, where the president was attending a nearby fundraiser.

"As Jewish New Yorkers we want to make crystal clear that President Biden is not welcome in our city while he continues to fund and arm the Israeli government's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza," saidJVP's Jay Saper.

I know nothing about Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia but they have the nomination for the Party for Socialism and Liberation (Claudia for president, Karina for vice president) which, in the past, has run real candidates. The Green Party is in shambles and that's evidenced by the fact that Jill Stein trying to get the nomination. Jill Stein is AGAIN trying to get the nomination.

One of the complaints from those anticipating a Donald and Joe match up has been the age issue.

Jill's no spring chicken.

She turns 74 this May.

She has no real accomplishments to speak of -- unless you consider her dropping her anti-vaccine stance when the press discovered it while she was running for office -- I believe that was in her failed Senate run and not during one of her disastrous attempts at the presidency. Jill fights for what she stands for . . . at least until she's expected to actually stand for it.

And, yes, we said "attempts at the presidency."

The Green Party is dead will be the announcement if, this summer, they announce Jill Stein as their candidate.

She was their failed candidate in 2012 -- one who refused to question Barack Obama's sending US troops back into Iraq even though Tim Arango had reported this for THE NEW YORK TIMES just before the presidential debates started. Poor Jill, she had more important things than war or pointing out reality. She needed to get a new hair do and she needed more photos of herself and she needed waste everyone's time.

She did that in 2016 again.

She's a disaster and something of an idiot. It's gotten worse, her public speaking, so bad in fact that she might need to see a doctor.

Does that sound like a party offering a real difference between the duopoly?

No.

A real difference would be the Green Party getting an actual candidate -- not an old nag or hag that they've run twice already and who is over 70s year old. 35. That's the youngest you can be. And yet do nothing Jill thinks her twice that age, failed ass needs to mislead the Green Party again.

Joe Biden should have put himself out to pasture. No question. But Greens, if you run a 74 year old failure, you don't have any room to scold any other parties. She's failed twice. She's led to the party into great debt with those failures. She's done nothing but whine in the last years -- I only ate a dinner in Russia! -- and she's not an activist. Her 'activism' most recently was trying to force Cornel West down the throat of the Green Party. I don't think she realizes how hated that's made her.

She and others at the top of the Green Party, tried to steal the nomination for him. And rank-and-file pushed back. Cornel for any other failures, was smart enough to see what was happening and cease his campaign for the Green Party nomination.

That Cornel didn't grasp the process of the Green Party is not surprising. He announced his pursuit of the presidency by announcing he was the candidate for the People's Party and then a week later, he wasn't. Oops. Turns out you actually do need to do some work to run for president and that includes checking out the party whose nomination you've accepted -- in fact, better to do that checking before you accept their nomination.

But Jill knew the process and she didn't just ignore it, she tried to break it and would have been able to if the rank-and-file hadn't pushed back so hard and said NO! They weren't dropping their process of how people had to campaign for the party's presidential nomination and they weren't changing their schedule (again, it will be decided this summer at the party's convention).

Then there's the whole Peter Daou thing. This is not to trash Peter or even about Peter -- my remarks. This is about the fact that Jill's told one conflicting story after another about Petere. She's claimed this and she's claimed that. If she can't even get her story straight about her 'friendship' with a political strategist, she needs to bow out. Instead, she's using media attention to make it appear that she's the party's nominee.

The party has no nominee and won't until the summer convention.

If Jill is the nominee, we all need to wipe our hands clean of the Green Party and face reality that it is not trying to build the party and that it's just a bunch of egomaniacs at the top who need their egos stroked.

Did someone say Junior?

Yeah, Little Junior remains to do nothing.

He keeps pointing to his popularity polls. Among the uneducated and likely non-voters, he does have some sort of appeal still. He keeps pointing to his 'popularity' as his reason for running.

Running?

$306.

That's the cost for his campaign basically. United Airlines can fly him from New Hampshire to Utah for $306.

He's qualified for Utah's ballot and, since the end of last month he's claimed he's qualified for New Hampshire.

In a dream world where he can win both states that would be what, ten electoral votes?

Just 260 more and he can be president.

Donald Trump says if he gets the nomination, he's not taking Junior on his ticket.

Junior dropped out of the race of the Democratic Party nomination.

He declared himself an independent making an independent run.

But no one told him that required work and our socialite just does not like to work.

So now he's flirting with the Libertarian Party as well as flirting with conducting fraud state by state. Since he clearly can't meet the requirements for ballot access in the majority of the states as an independent candidate, his admitted plan currently is to start 'political parties' so he can meet that threshold instead.

However, it is fraud -- legal fraud -- to do what he's talking about. The qualifications do not say 'create a fake political party.' He can't meet the legal criteria to get on the ballot as the independent candidate ha has publicly announced himself so he wants to commit fraud state by state. If he does that, I hope he's prosecuted to the full extent of the law and he should be.

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