South African Elon Musk is still at war with MAGA and they with him. Maybe they'll pay attention to some details about him now instead of, as they have in the past, blindly embracing while dry humping him? Tom Boggioni (RAW STORY) reports:
Following up on a high-profile opinion piece he wrote for the New York Times calling billionaire Elon Musk a "national security risk," retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré wondered aloud on MSNBC how the U.S. government allowed itself to be put at the mercy of the billionaire.
Speaking with "The Weekend" co-host Michael Steele, the man who was
widely praised for his leadership in coordinating military relief
efforts in gulf states after Hurricane Katrina, listed off the
government's overly extensive reliance on the controversial wealthiest
man in the world.
"Elon Musk has already shown us in the Ukraine
situation, he is not unconcerned about using that leverage to his
advantage against the interests of an ally of the United States, and
getting concessions, and getting whatever he thinks that he needs in
that scenario. How dangerous is that aspect of this?" host Steele
prompted his guest.
"Well, right now, we never want to get into a
single source of intelligence, a single source of communication," the
retired general replied. "I don't know how we got into this mess
contracting with one contractor, SpaceX, doing rockets for us as well as
controlling communications."
Honoré then added, “I don’t know how the US government… We’ve got the
National Reconnaissance Office, we got Space Command, we got NASA…
How in the hell people in Washington have subjugated our intelligence
and our communications to a private company, why the hell did we do
that?”
Honoré concluded by
warning the threat is only “going to get worse,” having previously
alluded to the national security risk posed by Musk’s alleged
communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
As he said earlier in his interview, “I guess this might be the only time I agree with Steve Bannon, [even] he’s questioned Musk’s connections with foreign leaders.”
Prominent right-wing podcaster Steve Bannon took aim at billionaire Elon Musk, saying the world's wealthiest man has "masters in Beijing" during a Saturday episode of his WarRoom podcast.
[. . .]
Bannon, who served as the CEO of Donald Trump's
2016 campaign as well as a White House adviser in his former
administration, and Musk, who donated over a quarter billion dollars to
help get the president-elect across the finish line in 2024, are two of
the Republican leader's top allies. However, Bannon has long been critical of Musk, and routinely criticized his business ties to China.
President-elect Elon Musk has also angered German Chancellor Olaf Scholz who, following Elon's nuzzling the crotch of the far-right Nazi party Alternative for Germany, advised Germans to just ignore Elon ("don't feed the troll"). Meanwhile, on the civil war in the US, Flavio Hickel tells AFP, "I think this most recent war of words between traditional MAGA and
big-tech MAGA was an opening salvo in a long-running battle over the
future of the MAGA movement."
First Lady Donald Trump, busy selecting his inauguration gown, had no comment at present. But will there be an inauguration? January 10th, Chump gets sentenced in New York City for his felony convictions and is weighing whether or not to wear a fitted shift dress with Peter Pan collar paired with knee high boots. Can he pull it off? Can he bring the Jean Shrimpton look back and drag it into the 21st century?
While Chump frets over his outfits and bemoans the fact that Bob Mackie won't return his calls, MAGA Fat Barbie Marjorie Taylor Greene is in the news. Rey Harris (TAG 24 NEWS) explains, "MAGA Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene recently suggested January 6 be made into a national holiday, as MAGA Republicans seek to change the narrative surrounding the Capitol riots." Why not just name it a religious holiday? Didn't it re-virginate Marjorie who, in all the insurrection excitement, couldn't stop scratching down there resulting in a huge scab forming over her introitus?
Those documents
denounce Democrats and demand they be “culled” from Washington, by
violence if necessary, and express the hope that his own death will
serve as a kind of bell clap for a national rebirth of masculinity under
the leadership of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Bobby Kennedy Jr.
Did you miss that stuff?
Yeah, me too!
Most headlines I’d seen in the news report only that he warned of
national decline and bore “no ill will toward Mr. Trump,” in the words
of one of the investigators. That gloss on Donald Trump is, shall we
say, a bit of an understatement, as you can see in these excerpts.
Military and vets move on DC starting now. Militias facilitate and augment this activity. Occupy every major road along fed buildings and the campus of fed buildings by the hundreds of thousands. Lock the highways around down with semis right after everybody gets in. Hold until the purge is complete. Try
peaceful means first, but be prepared to fight to get the Dems out of
the fed government and military by any means necessary. They all must go
and a hard reset must occur for our country to avoid collapse.
We must end the war in Ukraine with negotiated settlement. It is the only way. Focus on strength and winning. Masculinity is good and men must be leaders. Strength is a deterrent and fear is the product.
Stop obsessing over diversity. We are all diverse and DEI is a cancer. Thankfully we rejected the DEI candidate and will have a real President instead of Weekend at Bernie’s.
Consider this last sunset of ‘24 and my actions the end of our
sickness and a new chapter of health for our people. Rally around the
Trump, Musk, Kennedy, and ride this wave to the highest hegemony for all
Americans! We are second to no one.
I encourage you to read the two minifestos all the way through. They’re
not long. I excerpted at least half above. You can find them here.
We may come back to this, we may not. Josh is missing a connection or two. We stopped the excerpt for that reason. I'm not slamming him for it. I would hope most people didn't have to descend into the sewer. When someone dropped me off a zip drive that was supposedly Glenn Greenwald's browsing history (I believe it was), I went over that garbage. I don't want to come back to this story next week, so let me just note one thing here. Josh mentions obesity: "He also rails against the 1%, excessive screen time for kids, wars with no clear strategic purpose, obesity."
That sentence, Josh doesn't appear to grasp that those are MAGA issues. That tiny little MAGA men have spent time on all of those and done so on Twitter. In terms of obesity, they've impotent MAGA males have raged against women that they accuse of letting themselves go fat after marriage. It's the worst thing that can't happen to some MAGA males! The little jerks are usually talking about a woman who gave birth less than a year ago. But they're hateful, tiny nubbed losers so they rail against women.
Josh is right to wonder why the media doesn't want to explore the reality of the psycho who blew a truck outside a hotel.
Donald, this is not the Soviet Union. You can’t change the truth and you
cannot silence us. Remember all your lies about the voting machines,
the election workers, your countless allegations of fraud that never
happened? Many of your lawyers have been sanctioned, disciplined or
disbarred, the courts ruled against you, and dozens of your own White
House, administration, and campaign aides testified against you.
Remember how you sent a mob to our Capitol and then watched the violence
on television and refused for hours to instruct the mob to leave?
Remember how your former Vice President prevented you from overturning
our Republic? We remember.
Good for Liz. Joe Biden made a good selection with the 20 citizens he awarded the Presidential Citizen Medal on Thursday. Rebecca's "the oklahoma trash behind 'i've had it' podcast" notes I'VE HAD IT. She rightly calls them out. We will not be noting I'VE HAD IT HERE anymore. I even noted that on BLUESKY when Rebecca called me about the segment they did whining about Liz Cheney and attacking Liz Cheney.
I assume it was honest, what they really think. We don't need that garbage here. The 2024 election was very important and it was about saving our country. Liz chose the right side and spoke out. She didn't have to. If you missed it, Condi Rice and Bully Boy Bush were both against Chump and they were pressured to say that publicly. They didn't. Because they're cowards. Liz spoke up and I'm never agree with her on policies but I'm not going to pretend that, on democracy, we were in agreement.
I don't know what two White bimbos hosting a podcast think they accomplish with that sort of garbage. With all that's going on -- all that's going wrong -- in their state, it's surprising that the two Karens had time to attack Liz. But then they always make time for the frivilous nonsense. Which is why no longer noting them here won't be a loss to anyone.
Friday, January 3, 2025. Hypocrisy, liars, political closet cases, we're covering so much today.
Let's start with the idiot James Zogby.
He wants to be vice chair of the DNC. Could he be? If the DNC has a suicide wish.
There are so many reasons that this disgusting man -- being backed by people at THE NATION magazine currently -- should not hold that position. It goes beyond his crap in depressing turnout in the 2024 election. It even goes beyond his lies about Hillary Clinton. She was not attacking "ethnics" -- as he lied -- when she referred to Trump's "basket of deplorables." That was an attack on hate merchants and specifically the White supremacists. As she explained in her sentence after "basket of deplorables" pay attention, "They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. "
Is that clear enough?
I'm not in the mood in 2025. A lie is used to slur and attack someone, I'm not supporting the liar that did that. Nor am I supporting the outlet if, they attack someone with a lie and refuse to correct it. Brooke Anderson wrote this and THE NEW ARAB posted this December 9th:
"Some people in the Obama coalition look down on ethnics, including
Europeans. Hillary Clinton called them deplorables," Zoby said,
referring to the 2016 Democratic candidate's infamous "basket of
deplorables" remark, which many saw as a key factor in her defeat by
Trump.
That's James Zogby lying like he always does. He's always been two-faced and he's always hidden who he really is politically.
Hillary was not speaking of 'ethnics.' He's just a liar and he needs to go away.
I'm tired of the hypocrisy. DiFi was too old to serve. And those of us in California made that point in 2018. And our reward for that was national outlets platforming the idiot Amy Siskind. I don't know, maybe she used her rolodex from back when she was supporting John McCain in 2008? But what I do know is that ____ lives in New York. Not in my state. What I do know is that we don't do the elections the way other states do. Amy lied that we were weakening DiFi and that a Republican would end up in the Senate as a result. Because the idiot ____ thought the race would be -- in the general election -- between a Dem and a Republican. Bitch, we're California and get your damn nose out of our election. There's not an automatic Republican slot for US senator on our general election ballot. The way we roll in CA is the top two vote getters end up on the general ballot.
And that's why the 2018 general election for US senator in California had DiFi (a Democrat) on the ballot and Kevin De Leon (also a Democrat) on the ballot.
Idiots like Amy had to stick their nose in our business. And they didn't know what they were talking about and they started this whole 'poor Dianne!' movement. Reality, she was a lousy senator. And I'm not the only one Ted Kennedy told he wanted to "throttle her" in the Alito confirmation hearings as she repeatedly interrupted him (interrupted Ted). And like Ted, I don't think Alito would have been confirmed without DiFi's dithering during the hearing. And that was 2007.
In 2018, DiFi was even worse and she was also 85 years old.
And yet we had Amy Siskind and other idiots -- who don't even live in the state so they can't even vote in the election -- defending DiFi. She would go on to die in office and the only surprise there was that she didn't die of drowning in one of the many pools of urine she regularly left in chairs.
Supposedly, we want new blood.
Supposedly.
And I say "supposedly" because I'm not part of your lie and deceit campaign.
I'm specifically referring to Democratic Socialists of America.
I will gladly say AOC should have been named Ranking Member. But I don't end there because I'm not a damn hypocrite.
That's why I have so many problems with the DSA. They're supporting Zogby. Just like they stayed silent this year when Bernie Sanders ran for another Senate term -- he's 83 years old.
You need to pay attention because the DSA is one of the biggest scammers on the left.
They try to pretend to have ethics but they really don't.
AOC is one of their own so they'll defend her and attack Gerry Connolly and claim it's about age.
I defended AOC on that committee ranking member issue for a number of reasons. Mainly, the Democratic Party does need to be putting fresh people into leadership. I also know Gerry's illness has not made him weaker, he's always been weak sauce.
But DSA will call out on that and use age to beat someone over the head -- someone who is not part of their DSA world. But when Socialist Bernie Sanders -- the do-nothing senator from Vermont -- is running for re-election in 2024 at the age of 83, please note that DSA will -- and did -- call out Joe Biden for being too old to run (he's 82) while ignoring Bernie who is actually one year older.
They could be honest but instead they want to be tricksters.
They're now backing James Zogby for DNC vice chair. They just whined -- and that includes Kyle Kulinski -- about the need for fresh blood (AOC) but now they're backing James Zogby -- while chanting "One of us. One of us." In fact, we've got footage of Kyle and Krystal doing their chant.
"One of us! One of us!"
They want you to chant with them and they hope the chant's loud enough that you won't bother to check out facts. Actual fact: James Zogby is 80 years old.
I'm mad and not in the mood. I will note that not all DSA-ers are liars or hide in political closets. But far too many do.
Kamala Harris was a highly skilled and accomplished politician. She was also a Democrat.
Amy Goodman couldn't use DEMOCRACY NOW! to re-elect Donald Trump the way she did by bringing on Democrats to talk about Kamala. No, she needed to convince her audience that Kamala was awful, that you don't make time in your busy day to go and vote for Kamala. The way Amy did that -- deliberately depressed turnout -- was to bring on leftists who attacked Kamala over and over. And Democratic voters around the country were told over and over that Kamala wasn't worth voting for.
What they weren't told? That these voices attacking Kamala were Socialists.
A Socialist is never going to be pleased with a Democrat. The two are not the same. There may be areas of overlap but the two groups are not the same -- if they were, there wouldn't be a need for two terms. Go read "2024: The Year of Betrayal From Inside The Left." I've noted in that every segment that Amy did on Kamala in August, September and October. She never identifies the people trashing Kamala as Socialists. If she had, her argument would have been far less successful.
And if you're not getting it, when Amy's attacking Kamala on abortion rights and on allegedly not doing enough to rebuke the lie that "they're eating cats and dogs," you deserve the crap ass media that lies to your face and disrespects you by trying to trick you.
The last two days have resulted in e-mails asking why Amy would do that?
Because she's not a Democrat and because she's one of those who wants to burn down the entire system.
Susan Sarandon was very clear in 2016 that she supported Jill Stein for president not because she thought Jill would win (Susan knew Jill wouldn't win) but because she thought a Trump presidency would hasten the demise of our current system.
I think that's stupid, to be clear. I think it's stupid and have had many arguments over the years with friends who are Socialists because I have never shared their belief that a utopian world would arise from the ashes. I think we would see a system far less fair.
But I can respect Susan's opinion. I can disagree with it and I can still respect it.
And on 2016?
Trump was a wild card. Many of us knew he was a liar. But most of us didn't know what a criminal he was. Or how he would become even more criminal -- culminating with his attempt to overthrow the US government in January of 2021.
And there are people who didn't learn how bad he was by November 2020. That's fine too.
But if you were still on board with Trump after January 7, 2021, you had serious problems.
And by the time the 2024 election rolled around, if you were willing to see Donald win the election, you had more than serious problems. If you were rooting for him and helping to elect him -- as Amy was and as Rashida Tlaib was -- then you were a threat to democracy.
I'm not going to put up with it and Democrats shouldn't put up with it.
We were betrayed on the left. And we should not put up with it.
I'll big tent. I'll gladly big tent. That's with Socialists of every stripe. But not if you're a trickster. If I can't trust you, I don't want you in my tent. Politics shouldn't be a con job. And our left media especially shouldn't be lying to us. But those like Amy Goodman -- who doesn't care if she bankrupts PACIFICA, let's remember -- who think they can lie to us need to be rebuked.
I'm not threatened by Socialists. I have many friends who are Socialists. We've highlighted many Socialists here over the years. But I do not like tricksters.
And those of you Socialists in political closets? Shame on you.
If you can't be honest about what you are, do you really think you'll ever win?
People don't like being lied to.
If you're a Socialist, say you are. Don't go on your programs or in your writings pretending you're not. How do you expect to ever popularize Socialism?
Joe Biden was right, WILL & GRACE helped change the way many saw gay men and lesbians.
So those of you in political closets, how are you popularizing Socialism by pretending you're run of the mill Democrats?
You're not. You're attaching a stigma to the label.
And I'm not a Socialist but we've always quoted and cited them here because they're often ahead of the curve on many movements and issues.
They can drag the country to a better place.
But that's not ever going to happen when you repeatedly use trickery. All that does is harm Socialism in the minds of Americans because deceit doesn't win friends.
Years ago, when Bernie was first elected to the Senate (after doing nothing in the House for years), Laura Flanders said she didn't want to read in the paper or hear on TV "independent" Bernie Sanders, she wanted to hear Socialist. And she was right. Too bad, she can't apply it to herself. Because you can't be or truly become something without knowing what's out there.
DSA arose from the ashes of another group. That group never had great impact on the US and we won't even bother to mention them now. But the point is that trickery accomplishes nothing.
And it's no way to grow a base.
Donald Chump used trickery to fool voters and now they're turning on him.
I would hope Socialists could do better than Chump.
So now we have Chump headed back to the White House and the country -- and the world -- is worse off for it.
Pro-Palestinian groups in the U.S. are staring down a new challenge: Donald Trump and Republicans.
The movement has tended to focus
its efforts on who controls the White House and Democrats, whom its
leaders view as more persuadable to soften support for Israel. But 15
months into the war in the Middle East, as the GOP trifecta prepares to
control the White House and Congress, leaders in the movement find
themselves with far less leverage — and much more to lose.
“The
Palestinian rights movement is very clear eyed in understanding that it
is very likely that this Trump administration will mean that things get
much worse for Palestinians,” said Beth Miller, the political director
for Jewish Voice for Peace Action, a left-wing advocacy organization.
“This administration will likely be coming very quickly to try to take down the Palestinian rights movement,” she added.
Support
for Israel is largely bipartisan, but Republicans have led the charge
in criticizing the broader pro-Palestinian movement. A Republican-led
House panel has sunk three Ivy League presidents over allegations of antisemitism around pro-Palestinian protests on their campuses. And last month, the House passed a bill
that jeopardizes the tax-exempt status of any group the Treasury
secretary deems a “terrorist supporting organization,” which movement
leaders fear will chill pro-Palestinian speech.
Yes, there was a world of difference between the two candidates.
And the liars who pretended otherwise owe the country an apology. Actually they owe us all so much more than that.
This wasn't 2016. Trump was a known insurrectionist.
We knew what him getting back into the White House meant.
Rashida screwed over Palestinians. She wouldn't back or campaign for Kamala because she was okay with Chump going back to the White House -- a man she'd twice voted to impeach. Looks like the Socialist overplayed her tiny hand. Don't expect her to own her mistake or to own up to it.
Yesterday, the White House issued the following:
WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden named twenty recipients of the Presidential Citizens Medal.
The Presidential Citizens Medal is awarded to citizens of the United
States of America who have performed exemplary deeds of service for
their country or their fellow citizens. President Biden believes these
Americans are bonded by their common decency and commitment to serving
others. The country is better because of their dedication and sacrifice.
The awards will be presented at the White House on January 2, 2025.
The following individuals will be awarded the Presidential Citizens
Medal:
Mary L. Bonauto
Attorney and activist Mary Bonauto first fought to legalize same-sex
marriage in Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maine before
arguing before the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, which
established marriage equality as the law of the land. Her efforts made
millions of families whole and forged a more perfect Union.
Bill Bradley
Raised in small-town Missouri, Bill Bradley showed a dedication to
basketball that would define his courage, discipline, and selflessness. A
two-time NBA Champion and Hall-of-Fame New York Knick, he served three
terms as a United States Senator from New Jersey and was a candidate for
president, advancing tax reform, water rights, civil rights, and more,
while still today seeking to deepen our common humanity with humility
and heart.
Frank K. Butler, Jr.
As a pioneering innovator, Navy Seal, and leader in dive medicine,
Dr. Frank Butler introduced Tactical Combat Casualty Care to the medical
world that set new standards for tourniquet use not only for injuries
in war, but injuries across daily civilian life. He has transformed
battlefield trauma care for the United States military and saved
countless lives.
Elizabeth L. Cheney
Throughout two decades in public service, including as a
Congresswoman for Wyoming and Vice Chair of the Committee on the January
6 attack, Liz Cheney has raised her voice—and reached across the
aisle—to defend our Nation and the ideals we stand for: Freedom.
Dignity. And decency. Her integrity and intrepidness remind us all what
is possible if we work together.
Christopher J. Dodd
Chris Dodd has served our Nation with distinction for more than 50
years as a United States Congressman, Senator, respected lawyer, and
diplomat. From advancing childcare, to reforming our financial markets,
to fostering partnerships across the Western Hemisphere—he has stood
watch over America as a beacon to the world.
Diane Carlson Evans
After serving as an Army nurse during the Vietnam War, Diane Carlson
Evans founded the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation to ensure female
service members received the recognition they deserve—one of our
Nation’s most sacred obligations. Her duty and devotion embody the very
best of who we are as Americans.
Joseph L. Galloway (posthumous)
From Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, Joe Galloway spent decades sharing
first-hand accounts of horror, humanity, and heroism in battle. Known as
the soldier’s reporter and the soldier’s friend, he embedded with
American troops, rescued wounded soldiers under fire, and became the
only civilian awarded a Bronze Star for combat valor by the United
States Army as one of the most respected war correspondents of his era.
Nancy Landon Kassebaum
The first woman to represent Kansas, Nancy Kassebaum was a force in
the United States Senate. From supporting a woman’s right to choose to
reforming health care, she stood up for what she believed in even if it
meant standing alone, and she reached across the aisle to do what she
believed was right.
Ted Kaufman
For decades, including as a United States Senator from Delaware, Ted
Kaufman has served the Nation with honesty and integrity. A master of
the Senate who championed everyday Americans and public servants, he’s
been at the forefront of consequential debates about the courts, the
financial system, and more.
Carolyn McCarthy
As a nurse, Carolyn McCarthy had an instinct to heal and serve. When
her husband and son were shot on a local commuter train, she became an
advocate so persuasive that she was recruited to run for Congress. She
served 18 years, championing gun safety measures including improved
background checks, as a citizen legislator devoted to protecting our
Nation’s welfare.
Louis Lorenzo Redding (posthumous)
A groundbreaking civil rights advocate, Louis was the first Black
attorney admitted to the bar in Delaware, where he argued against
segregation in the seminal cases of Bulah v. Gebhart and Belton v. Gebhart—laying
the legal framework for Brown v. Board of Education. A towering figure
and a generous mentor, he opened doors of equity and opportunity for all
Americans.
Bobby Sager
A Boston native, Bobby Sager travels the world as a photographer and
philanthropist grounded in family and empathy, wielding his camera and
influence to connect with people in war-torn countries, capture their
hope and humanity, and inspire others to take action and see a fuller
portrait of the planet we all share.
Collins J. Seitz (posthumous)
As a state judge in Delaware, Judge Seitz became the first judge in
America to integrate a white public school, dismantling the doctrine of
“separate but equal” with exacting detail and reverence for the equal
protection clause of the 14th Amendment of our Constitution. His brave
ruling tore down walls of separation to help us see each other as fellow
Americans.
Eleanor Smeal
From leading massive protests and galvanizing women’s votes in the
1970s to steering progress for equal pay and helping the Violence
Against Women Act become law, Ellie Smeal forced the Nation to not only
include women in political discourse but to value them as power brokers
and equals. Her strategic vision over more than 40 years embodies the
American pursuit to create a fairer, more just world.
Bennie G. Thompson
Born and raised in a segregated Mississippi, as a college student
inspired by the Civil Rights movement, Bennie Thompson volunteered on
campaigns and registered southern Black voters. That call to serve
eventually led him to Congress, where he chaired the House January 6th
Committee—at the forefront of defending the rule of law with unwavering
integrity and a steadfast commitment to truth.
Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi (posthumous)
In a shameful chapter in our Nation’s history, Mitsuye Endo was
incarcerated alongside more than 120,000 Japanese Americans. Undaunted,
she challenged the injustice and reached the Supreme Court. Her resolve
allowed thousands of Japanese Americans to return home and rebuild their
lives, reminding us that we are a Nation that stands for freedom for
all.
Thomas J. Vallely
A United States Marine during the Vietnam War, Thomas Vallely has
never given up on peace. Over the course of five decades, he has brought
Vietnam and the United States together—establishing Fulbright
University Vietnam, fostering greater economic and cultural exchange,
and overcoming the perils of the past to seize the promise of the
future. His service remains a symbol of American leadership in the
world.
Frances M. Visco
As president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, Fran Visco has
fought tirelessly and fearlessly to increase Federal funding for breast
cancer research, early detection education, and access to women’s
healthcare. As a breast cancer survivor, she turned pain into purpose,
changed the landscape of breast cancer advocacy, and has become a
powerful symbol of hope for the Nation.
Paula S. Wallace
A lifelong educator and trailblazer of the arts, Paula Wallace dreamt
of a school that would transform how we think about professional
education. By establishing the esteemed Savannah College of Art and
Design and serving as its president, she has guided thousands of
students into creative industries.
Evan Wolfson
By leading the marriage equality movement, Evan Wolfson helped
millions of people in all 50 states win the fundamental right to love,
marry, and be themselves. For 32 years, starting with a visionary law
school thesis, Evan Wolfson worked with singular focus and untiring
optimism to change not just the law, but society—pioneering a political
playbook for change and sharing its lessons, even now, with countless
causes worldwide.
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BLUESKY. I blocked a number of people over the last 24 hours. I didn't follow them, they didn't follow me. But I never need to see them again or their idiotic writings.
Joe chose 20 people to honor. Do I approve of everyone on the list? Hell no. I wonder if most people understand how ____ hurts them to this day every time they buy a soda or a water out of a vending machine? But it's 20 people.
The ones I'm blocking?
These are the ones attacking Liz Cheney. They're attacking and whining that Joe didn't put Rashida on the list instead.
Why the hell would he put Rashida on the list?
More to the point, Liz Cheney stood up to Chump. "Oh, she voted with him in Congress and blah blah and blah."
STFU. I don't need your purity argument. I would have never voted for Liz Cheney if I'd lived in her home state. I've called out her father for years -- and flipped the finger at him when he had the nerve to show up in San Francisco.
But this is 2024 and when people caved and ran and lied, Liz stood up against Chump. And the weekend after the election she didn't join Mika and Joe in the rush to Florida to kiss Donald's ass.
She was attacked for calling him out and he and others in MAGA are still making threats against her.
She's not a Democrat. We don't agree on most policies and never will.
But she did a brave thing -- as well as what she did on the January 6th committee. And she did her part in 2024 to try save democracy. That's no small thing. And she tried to save democracy while Rashida waived back into the White House the man responsible for the insurrection, someone Rashida had twice voted to impeach. But suddenly none of that mattered to Rashida.
And if you can't grasp that Liz Cheney did a good thing, you have serious cognitive issues.
"This is why Kamala lost!" That's what they say -- they being the Socialists on BLUESKY (the ones I've blocked in the last 24 hours) They really got ticked off by Liz. The DSA was claiming credit for Tim Walz. They got him on the ticket!!! They made that claim publicly and repeatedly.
Tim Walz's pathetic debate performance harmed the campaign. You didn't hear about that because your Socialists at THE PROGRESSIVE and on YOUTUBE were liars. And they lied to pretend that Tim Walz didn't look like a crazy man in that debate. Duh-duh-duh. What an idiot. Flop sweat doesn't being to describe it. But he was their fellow so they lied and they continue to lie to this day.
Lie.
Like when Tim Walz became a huge embarrassment because he kept getting caught in one lie after another. But, again, silence from his Socialist protectors.
But they got him on the ticket!!!! However, in the end even that wasn't enough for them. Remember Norman Solomon announcing he wouldn't be voting for Kamala. Then, a week later, when he found out just how much money that statement would cost him, he reversed positions.
I don't like liars. That's why John Nichols doesn't get noted here. It's why I don't note Katha Pollitt's idiotic writings. For those who don't remember Journo-List, Katha was blown away by Sarah Palin's acceptance speech and saw her as a serious threat to the Democrats in the 2008 election.
You know that because you read it in one of her columns for THE NATION?
No, she slammed her in THE NATION. But while she was writing that column, she shared to her cronies -- and it got published when Journo-List got exposed -- that Sarah came off likeable and relatable. Katha was seriously worried.
That was her opinion. But despite being an opinion columnist supposedly paid to share an opinion, Katha lied in her column.
I'm not Amy Siskind. I didn't vote for John McCain. Doesn't mean I embraced Katha's lying. I don't like tricksters.
Related:
The Green Party of Michigan invites you to our Monthly General Membership Meeting!
January 11, 2025
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Some people are bothered that the press release went up here New Year's Eve.
Not sorry. We've noted all but one that they've e-mailed over the years -- for at least 15 years, I believe. The one? Promoting Jill Stein this election cycle.
I don't dislike the Green Party. I have friends with it -- which was how we were able to tell you when the closet case Socialists were lying (hey, Katie Halper, looking at you but not just you) about Cornel West becoming the Green Party's presidential nominee. (No, that never happened, he was never the Green Party nominee, despite the lies from Katie, Chris Hedges and others.)
I am adamantly opposed to Jill Stein who is nothing but a liar and a grifter and anti-vaxer and whose 2016 run left the party in debt and who can still not explain what happened to the millions she raised for that 2016 recount (hint, none of it went to charity).
I don't have a problem with the Green Party. I don't have a problem with people who think the answer is to build a new left party. I'm not threatened by ideas.
But I hate fakes asses and tricksters. Again, Katha and John will not be quoted here favorably. Ever. They're liars and tricksters. As is Norman Solomon. You have to have standards.
