Friday, November 11, 2024. White priv seems to be the only thing they refuse to check as Katrina vanden Heuvel and her merry band of fellow racists lead THE NATION further astry.
If it doesn't apply to you, let it roll down your back.
I'VE HAD IT. Often a good podcast. A video from it went up yesterday while I
was dictating the snapshot because I had pm on the time stamp and not
am for the one that was supposed to go up before the snapshot. As I was dictating the snapshot, I learned it was past the half
hour and nothing had gone up. So I asked what was new and learned I'VE
HAD IT was new.
That video
was a disappointment and I'm glad to explain why. Two White Women
discussing politics? Love it. Can be great. Discussing
entertainment? No problem. We can all use a break.
Hiring someone to hang your Christmas lights?
I
would not have okayed that had I know that was the topic -- the title
did not make clear what the topic was. I would've said, "Find another
Cher interview and post it so everyone knows about her new book that came out this week" or I would've said, "Find a new Cynthia Erivo music video" since WICKED comes out today. Instead, I okayed the video I hadn't seen and there were complaints on the video being posted here. My apologies. I understand and it shouldn't have been posted, my apologies.
What made it so irritating to so many -- I still haven't streamed it
myself -- was that the two women are tired of being over talked to --
ok. But not ok when they're talking about workers they are hiring.
Ladies,
you're White and you came off entitled and if a butt crack was shown by
one of the workers on or around your house, "Oh the horror!" Grow the
hell up. It wasn't that funny when Dan Aykroyd did it on SATURDAY NIGHT
LIVE -- the humor was always in Gilda Radner and Bill Murray's reaction -- and it wasn't the end of the world when Karen on WILL & GRACE
had to 'deal' with it -- she also sprayed the worker with perfume.
Karen's a hilarious character but she's not a role model, nor is she
meant to be. You came off highly entitled. And like a Karen, in
fact.
Again, I did not
stream it before it posted -- or since -- it shouldn't have gone up
here. I don't mind something not on politics but it struck many as offensive -- as they explain it in e-mails and also in the roundtable last night for
the gina & krista round-robin -- it shouldn't have gone up here. It
was very elitist. If you think the country needs to hear you complain
about the labor -- complain and mock -- you're hiring for your personal
projects, I'm sorry ladies, you are wrong, they don't.
I've
got a great staff and a wonderful housekeeper. I've noted that many
times before. If I didn't have such great support? I wouldn't say a word about it. I'd just never bring up the topic. There are
real problems in this world and "We Are So Back" wasn't about real
problems.
It may have been an effort to be light and humorous. Making fun of people who work for you? That's really never a good look.
So that's one White woman issue. The other is much more serious.
Dog
Face Katherine Krueger. I guess she's being published with her garbage
article in THE NATION because she met Katrina vanden Heuvel at the
ladies' auxiliary for the KKK?
The
last thing THE NATION needed, quite honestly, was another slam piece on
Kamala Harris. The only thing THE NATION needed even less? Another
White woman writing.
There's
a reason Black women are blocked out of THE NATION. I guess we're not
supposed to notice that Patricia J. Williams -- the most popular female
columnist they ever had -- was Black. And that they have no regular
Black woman columnist now. More to the point, Patricia arrived at THE
NATION before Katrina -- I believe Katrina was still sleeping with her
professor. But one night, she had her torch burning and her sheet
covering her face and Katherine had her torch and her sheet, and the two
embraced and promised to always spit on Black women.
And that's how racist Katherine Krueger gets published in THE NATION.
She
didn't get there by brains or qualifications. Her pre-election days
were spent -- you know this, right? -- trashing Kamala Harris.
And
her election 'analysis' was to praise US House Rep Rashida Tlaib, "She
bucked her Party’s leadership, because she refused to ignore the needs
of her constituents -- which in this case meant opposing a genocide."
That, racist Kath, wants you to know is how she got more votes in
Dearborn than Kamala!
No, dear, she got more votes in Dearborn due to racism.
The Gaza voters in Dearborn are racists and they are homophobes.
It's a shame that so-called left outlets don't want to tell that truth to their readers.
And it's a shame that the reality there -- as it is exposed -- only further lowers support for the Gaza Freaks.
They're liars. America doesn't like liars. They're racists. They're homophobes.
Reality, Rashida couldn't get elected to the US Senate. She can't win a state race, let alone a presidential one.
But
Katherine hates Black women -- we know her type, don't we?, the ugly
dog faced racist -- and she pretends like Rashida accomplished.
Maybe
Rashida did. It was her and her sister that started off the movement
to keep people from voting for Joe Biden. Then they turned it
against Kamala.
F Donald Trump? Didn't Rashida say that a few years back.
Hey, big girl, let's hear you do that now?
Or do you realize that you're on your own?
You thought some Democrats refused to defend you before?
Honey, that was before you worked to tank an election.
Black
women are especially clear on how we owe you nothing. Not one damn
thing. Your refusal to stand with Black women? We register it. So
you're on your own now. No one gives two s**ts about you.
You stabbed the entire party in the back. You will most likely face a real primary in two years.
You were brave! You were strong!
You were pathetic and you stabbed the Democratic Party in the back and you stabbed Black women in the back.
You
stabbed your country in the back as well. Look at your hands. In a
matter of months, they'll be soaked with blood because you worked to put
Donald Trump into the White House -- a man who hates Arabs.
You
have the blood on your hands. You tried to punch above your weight and
were just exposed as a narcissistic idiot who wanted to play politics
with people's lives and you played and you lost.
I
don't have any respect for Rashida. I defended her here so many
times. Not only did we not walk away from her when she was under
attack, we doubled up our support for her.
It was solidarity and let's stand together for the good of our country -- stand together for the good of our country? Clearly, Rashida's never shared that same thought.
When you make that clear, you're on your own.
So now she's the same as baldy.
Chris Rock's a friend, true.
But
anyone who would've been slapped like that? If I saw baldy Anya
defending the attacker, praising it, I would have been as outraged as I was. A
sitting member of the US Congress taking to Twitter to praise violence
at an awards show? That idiot is beyond crazy and isn't fit to serve in
the US Congress.
And that's why we don't care about her and don't cover her. Again, Chris Rock is a friend of many, many years.
So Rashida's dead to me and Anya's dead to me.
But leave it to racist Katherine to treat Rashida as a hero.
NATION readers have never been told about the vacation many Black women are taking currently. They have no clue.
Apparently,
Katrina wants to keep it that way because she published a racist column
from Katherine as opposed to one by Olay, Danielle Moodie, Tabitha B or
any number of Black women who could explain what's going on.
Boiled
down? Dearborn and Hamtramck -- racist and homophobic communities --
stabbed Kamala Harris in the back. Black women have marched and spoken
and phone banked and done everything needed for everyone. But we're not
doing your pink hat marches to DC now or your Gaza protests or whatever
else. You can't do a damn thing on the left without Black women. And
now we're going to work on Black issues. And you can consider us on
vacation. Some may never come back -- and more power to them. You have
spat on us and you have abused us and we're done. We'll work on our
causes. Otherwise, some of us are done -- for a month, a year, four
years, forever -- and others of us will work on some issues --
especially ones that intersect with our community.
And
that's an interesting story for the left -- even if THE NATION magazine
prefers to publish more drivel from the White racist woman than
actually explore the aftermath of this election.
I
don't know any Black woman that wants the Palestinians to die (I don't
know any Black woman who doesn't believe that the Gaza Freaks have
sentenced the Palestinians to death with their actions). But we'd been
there at the protests for Palestinians. And our thanks for that was a
hissy fit from uninformed idiots.
We've
shown up every election cycle and worked to help everyone. But racists
-- especially White women -- didn't want Kamala to be president so they
created one obstacle after another and held her to a standard that they
have never held a man to. They think we didn't notice that.
Which is only even more insulting because we're not stupid but we get now that they wish we were.
So
Donald orders Rashida dragged off the floor of Congress and disappears
her? I don't think you're going to see a lot of support from Black
women. You're not going to see us whooping with joy. But we gave and
we gave. And when you had a chance to celebrate Black women, you
instead spat on us.
And we're not stupid like the college students you've fooled.
Meaning,
we were never dumb enough to think Gaza would be settled in an
election. We fought apartheid, we fought for Civil Rights, we fight police abuse. We
understand long battles. We also got that Kamala would be better on
Palestine.
We're forever
supposed to support you. Oh, Rashida said something with her foul mouth
again and now it's our job to rush forward and defend her or Ilham's in
trouble for this so we have to speak out or . . .
It
gets old and we don't play. Some White women may want to be doormats, we've
got a little more pride in ourselves and our community.
Again, this is a pretty important story. Racists like Katrina and Katherine apparently don't want it told.
By
the way, Katherine is on BLUESKY. She got on months ago and stopped months ago. She's a
racist so she's forgotten the account and returned to X. BLUESKY is the
better off for it since death threats was all she had to offer.
If
you're wanting to read her avant racista writings check out out
October's "Kamala Harris' Deeply Demoralizing Campaign" -- but only if
you enjoy the rants of White women racists.
"At
the most loathsome end of this spectrum, some liberals are descending
into pure unfiltered racism, seemingly clamoring for Arab and Latino
voters to be deported and for Gaza to be leveled as a hateful form of retribution for the election result."
No,
dear, we just don't feel its our job to fight for people who (a) didn't
care about us and (b) were too stupid to fight for themselves. That's why the Black communities in Dearborn and Hamtramck are boycotting Arab or Muslim businesses. You didn't want to vote for the Democrat? Well we don't want give your our money.
It's so easy for the White racist women Like Kath. In fact, it's been far too easy which is why they can vote for Trump or, like Kath, they can attack -- for months -- a qualified Black woman candidate. They never think they have anything to lose because the nation has always bent to their Whiteness.
Thanks to the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, President-elect Donald Trump may now have an extra tool at his disposal to effectively destroy any organization that mobilizes against him.
H.R. 9495 could feasibly be used against some of the groups that vocally opposed Trump during his first administration, like the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign, the NAACP, Planned Parenthood
and the Southern Poverty Law Center among others. It could also
potentially be used against nonprofit news outlets like ProPublica,
Mother Jones, the Texas Tribune and the Center for Investigative
Reporting.
Kath, that's thanks to you and your kind who worked to destroy enthusiasm and support for Kamala Harris with one attack after another.
Katrina published Kath because, apparently, THE NATION magazine is short when it comes to covering White opinion and since the corporate media won't cover White opinion, THE NATION has to pick up the slack?
Is that the lie Katrina, Kath and THE NAION want to put out there?
Here's ABC NEWS.
Three Black women being interviewed about the election and explaining what they saw. Despite all the money we have given THE NATION over the years, ABC NEWS is the one offering more view points and more diversity.
That tells you all you need to know about how racist THE NATION magazine has become under Katrina vanden Heuvel.
The racism at THE NATION magazine is a very real problem and it goes to Katrina vanden Heuvel who would render us Mammies or Maids if she had her way.
She's a racist and her actions bear that out. She is THE COLOR PURPLE's Miss Millie come to life.
THE NATION magazine did not -- and does not want to -- explore the very real issues at play this election cycle.
Kamala Harris would have been the first woman of any race
and the first South Asian person to have been
elected president of the most powerful nation in
the world. Rather, she lost the election, as
well as the popular vote, to Trump, whose
coalition transcended racial and gender lines in
unprecedented ways as he made notable inroads
with people of color and netted a larger share
of women’s votes. The nation was provided an
opportunity to allow a biracial Black woman to
move us forward beyond several years of Trump’s
racist, sexist, and toxic style of grievance
politics with a broad agenda steeped in hope,
concern and access. However, America,
particularly the majority of White Americans,
said: “No thank you.”
From
the minute she was selected as Vice President,
Harris immediately found herself in the
political fire. Several Republican members
of Congress referred to Harris as a “DEI hire,”
which is a reference to diversity, equity, and
inclusion, but in this instance, an assumption
that Harris became the nominee only “because of
her ethnic background,” as Republican
Representative Glenn
Grothman dishonestly declared.
Far
right wing conservative activist Tom
Fitton reveled
in fierce neo-birtherism,
by inferring that Harris’s Jamaican and South
Asian parents resulted in her being unable to
run for president.
The
former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne
“alternative facts” Conway attacked Harris
as lazy, commenting , “She does not speak well;
she does not work hard; she doesn’t inspire
anyone.”
Republican
Representative Harriet
Hagemen of Wyoming declared,
“Intellectually, [she is] just really kind of
the bottom of the barrel.” The fact is that
the Vice President is more accomplished and
likely more intelligent than any of her
critics. A September survey from The
Associated Press/NORC Research Center
showed 38
percent of voters think
being a woman hurt Harris’s chances of winning,
and only 13 percent of voters said the same
about the GOP nominee.
The
claim that sexism and racism are present in the
race was
amplified last
month as Rep. Maxwell
Frost (D-Fla.)
said he thinks they “still exist” in U.S.
politics, citing the presidential race as an
example. I think it is an issue with a lot of
different voters across this country, and it’s
something that our country — you know, we’ve
come a long way as in terms of women’s
suffrage,” The Florida Democrat said in an
interview. “We’ve come a long way in terms of
making sure of equity in this country, but
there’s still a lot of this bigotry in this
country in terms of sexism, in terms of
racism. And we still have to work at
getting over that.” “Those things are still
here,” he continued. “They still exist in a lot
of communities, and we still have a lot of work
to do here.”
Being candid, there are two, perhaps, the major reasons
why Kamala Harris did not prevail, no matter how
effective a campaign she ran: racism and sexism.
For the second time this century, Americans
rejected a woman to lead the nation. If they
weren’t ready to trust a woman for the job, they
were even more apprehensive to trust a woman of
color. The truth is that no honest person can
dismiss the fact that being a woman of color has
been a political handicap for Harris. Many
Americans have never been comfortable with Black
women in leadership positions.
It is not accidental that we have had only two Black women
elected to the US Senate: Kamala Harris and
Carol Mosley Braun of Illinois. Laphonza Butler
was appointed by California Senator Gavin
Newsom. Just last week, two states, my home
state of Delaware, elected Lisa Blunt Rochester
and Maryland selected Angela Alsobrooks, two
Black women, as senators bringing the total
number of Black women who have served in the US
senate to five.
As THE NATION grows ever more racist with each day and as it offers the text equivalent of the garbage and no-thought required remarks of THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP, I have to wonder who is stupid enough to continue to donate money to the rag?
As we head into the weekend, you may catch an NFL game. I want to
reflect on that for a moment. Before I started MeidasTouch, I was a
litigator, and in 2017, I served as the lead lawyer for NFL quarterback
Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick peacefully took a knee to show respect for
unarmed Black and brown people who were killed by police.
At first, the NFL supported Kaepernick taking a knee. But then, in
September 2017, Donald Trump gave a speech in Huntsville, Alabama,
saying, “Get that son of a bitch off the field,” and claimed
Kaepernick’s protest was anti-American. MAGA forces attacked Kaepernick,
arguing that his protest insulted the National Anthem and the military.
Kaepernick never played in the NFL again.
The
same people who attacked Kaepernick and LeBron James—telling Black
athletes to “shut up and dribble”—are now encouraging NFL players to do
Donald Trump’s idiotic YMCA dance. A propaganda campaign is underway to
turn the NFL and all professional sports into a political arm of Trump.
This is straight out of the fascist playbook.
Let’s not forget that Donald Trump encouraged people on January 6 to
use the American flag as a weapon to assault police officers. Trump
sells American flags with his name printed on them. He even replaced the
National Anthem with the “January 6 Choir Song” during the election.
All the while, the media gave Trump a total pass, even encouraging his
propaganda at professional sports events.
Colin Kaepernick’s
refusal to submit or cave to the threats he faced in 2017—and in the
years since—reminds me that heroes can rise from unlikely places. It
also reminds me that resistance to authoritarian forces is not
guaranteed. Kaepernick potentially lost hundreds of millions of dollars
for standing up for what he believed in. Will others today be willing to
make the same type of sacrifice, or has the idol worship of
billionaires who exploit people become the fluorescent light drawing us
in like mosquitoes to a zapper?
We knew who Satan was and we knew what he was capable of. So those of you who chose to vote for him at the ballot box or to vote for him with your daily attacks on Kamala Harris (THE NATION, DEMOCRACY NOW!, THE PROGRESSIVE, IN THESE TIMES, et al), you're on your own. You can pretend all you want that you're not responsible but you are and you're racists. Being on the left does not mean you cannot be a racist -- as your own actions have made clear.
The country is going to suffer. And it is not racism on the part of the Black community that has so many saying we're on a vacation now (and not doing your free labor for you anymore) or that we're not doing business with you. This is a political response to the actions that you took, the racism that put into action. You're like someone who supported Bully Boy Bush and we're not interested in supporting your or helping you.
The country needed saving and instead of working on that issue, you elected to elect Trump -- by actually voting for him and especially by your never-ending attacks on Kamala and your inability to ever stop yourself and say, "Wait, I've never made these kind of demands on a White male presidential candidate. Why am I doing this to her?"
In other news, Matt Gaetz is done. Despite the support of groomers like Marjorie Taylor Greene and JD Vance, the man America now knows for his 'interactions' with underage females is no longer a nominee for Attorney General.
Far from the nonsense of THE NATION magazine, in the real world, Senator Cory Booker issued the following:
Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced legislation aimed
at promoting ethical conduct and accountability for ethics violations
within the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. Representative Daniel Goldman
(D-NY-10) introduced companion legislation in the House earlier this
year.
Numerous allegations of ethical improprieties and undisclosed
conflicts of interests and gifts, along with refusals to recuse by
Supreme Court justices have eroded the public’s trust in the Court and
increased demand for more transparency and accountability in the
nation’s highest court.
The Supreme Court Ethics and Investigations Act is a
critical first step towards improving ethical standards among the
justices and holding justices accountable when they commit ethics
violations. Specifically, the bill would establish two new offices
within the Supreme Court:
An Office of Ethics Counsel that would provide regular ethics
training and advise justices on ethics issues, including disclosing
gifts and deciding when to recuse from cases.
An Office of Investigative Counsel that would investigate potential
instances of ethical impropriety by justices and report the findings to
Congress.
“There is no reason that the Justices who sit on the highest court in
the country should be held to ethical standards that are lower than
those of any employee in our federal government,” said Senator Booker.
“There’s a crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court. Public trust in
the institution is at its lowest point in decades as a result of alleged
ethical lapses and conflicts of interest. By creating a mechanism to
investigate and hold justices accountable for ethics violations and
establishing an Ethics Counsel to provide consistent advice on issues
like recusal, gifts, and disclosures, this bill is a critical step
towards restoring the credibility of the Court in the eyes of the
public.”
“Our nation’s highest court continues to face an unprecedented crisis
of legitimacy, in part because there is no enforceable code of ethics
nor accountability as required of all other federal judges,” Congressman Dan Goldman said. “I
am thrilled that Senator Booker is leading the charge in the Senate to
pass my ‘Supreme Court Ethics and Investigations Act.’ This legislation
is a sorely needed step to hold Supreme Court Justices accountable and
restore Americans’ faith in the Court.”
“Americans should be able to have faith in the integrity of the
highest court in the land, but the justices rely on each other for
ethical guidance, and have no one checking their work,” said Senator Hirono.
“This legislation will help to address these issues by establishing
offices to provide professional advice to justices on ethical matters
and to investigate complaints made against them or their spouses. The
American people should be able to trust that justices arrive at
decisions fairly and objectively, and the Supreme Court Ethics and Investigations Act will help to hold the highest court in the land to the highest level of ethical accountability.”
“The Supreme Court’s lack of enforceable ethical standards degrade
and detract from its credibility and trust. This measure takes an
important step forward in making the Supreme Court more accountable to
the American people by establishing internal offices to advise justices
on ethical issues and investigate potential wrongdoing. Basic
transparency and accountability—along with an enforceable code of
ethics—is urgently needed to restore sinking public confidence in the
Court,” said Senator Blumenthal.
“It’s no surprise that repeated allegations of Justices accepting
lavish paid vacations and other conflicts of interest have decimated
public trust in our nation’s most powerful court. Since the Court has
decided to disregard its ethical obligations, Congress must step in to
hold Justices accountable,” said Senator Welch. “This
legislation is a necessary step toward increasing transparency and
accountability in the Supreme Court and restoring public trust in this
vital democratic institution.”
This legislation is endorsed by the following organizations: Fix the
Court, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW),
Accountable.US, End Citizens United (ECU), Project on Government
Oversight (POGO), P Street, Court Accountability, and Demand Justice.
The Supreme Court Ethics and Investigations Act is
cosponsored by U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Laphonza Butler
(D-CA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Peter Welch
(D-VT).
A resolution proposed by Rep. Nancy
Mace of South Carolina misgenders transgender women and targets
Rep.-elect Sarah McBride of Delaware, who is set to become the first out
transgender member of Congress.
The
resolution seeks to ban transgender women from using female restrooms
inside the Capitol, barring both House members and employees from “using
single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their
biological sex [sic].” “Biological sex” is not an accurate nor a
scientific term, but is used by opponents of transgender people to
dehumanize them and deny their equal access to society.
Rep.-elect McBride responded in a statement
and on Twitter/X: “This is a blatant attempt from far right-wing
extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to
what Americans are facing. We should be focused on bringing down the
cost of housing, health care, and child care, not manufacturing culture
wars. Delawareans sent me here to make the American dream more
affordable and accessible and that’s what I’m focused on,” she added.
There is no data of any kind to support the claim that inclusive bathrooms undermine anyone’s safety. Thousands of school districts
around the country allow transgender students to use facilities based
on their gender identity. These policies make schools more safe by
ensuring privacy and safety for all students. Charlotte Clymer,
trans writer and DC-based advocate, noted, “It remains very unclear how
this rule would be enforced, and when Rep. Mace was asked that exact
question last night, she refused to offer anything in the way of a
direct answer.”
“What I
find most interesting about all this is that trans women have been using
women’s restrooms in the Capitol and the House and Senate office
buildings and the White House and the Pentagon for many years now,
including during all four years of the Trump Administration,” Clymer
continued. “Under Donald Trump’s leadership, trans women were permitted
to use women’s restrooms in federal buildings in D.C. and there was
never any issue.”
GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate
Ellis responded: “Every member of Congress is elected to represent their
constituents and states, and it should go without saying that they
deserve the same rights and respect as every other member of Congress,
including from their colleagues. The people of Delaware have spoken and
have chosen an outstanding public servant to work on concerns they care
the most about, including the cost of health care, child care, and
housing. Everyone in Congress might try focusing on solutions to improve
people’s lives and leading with kindness, and see what progress you
might make for every American.”
Rep.
Mace’s claims that she supports protecting women and girls conflict
with her public stance with her own colleagues accused of rape and
assault. Rep. Mace has endorsed the nomination of her former House colleague Matt Gaetz
for Attorney General, despite accusations that Gaetz had sex with
underage girls, showed photos of women he had sex with to colleagues on
the House floor, and accusations that Gaetz participated in sex
trafficking. Mace also refused
to speak out against president-elect Donald Trump even after he was
found liable for raping E. Jean Carroll, has been credibly accused of
sexual assault by more than a dozen women, and has admitted to forcing
himself on women.
