MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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The far left is NOT on Democrat's "side", they're on their own "side". (Neither are Trump nuts of all varieties on the side of the GOP, they too are basically out for #1. I think there's already a parliamentary system of 4 parties in this country, it's just that no one wants to admit it. Andrew Yang's Forward party should steal the majority moderates and let you nut cases on the left and right slug it out to win a line here or there in each congressional bill)
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/16/2022 - 8:02pm
Who woulda thunk it - I mean giving progressives 1/3 the platform seats in 2016 helped them write a progressive platform - so they could piss off to North Dakota to fret about pipelines and sit out the fall campaign (platform not enough of a gesture to "hold their noses" apparently, and Bernie's lukewarm "drag me to the finish line" didn't seem to include his followers nor a Bernie-style campaign onslaught either. "Going through the motions" seems the right term, while Cornel, Bill (the global warming guy) & the others were simply AWOL, and Sirota is even too petulant for that.
https://www.salon.com/2019/03/20/democrats-cant-afford-another-ugly-prim...
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/16/2022 - 9:29pm
Ha, i just realized good candidate Biden won Wisconsin by 20k votes, bad candidate Clinton lost WI by 23k plus saw 110k-120k more votes go to 3rd party candidates than Biden did (40k total) thru whatever mechanisms and zeitgeist (still waiting for someone to audit those ES&S voting machines, as Jennifer Cohen keeps pushing). What a difference a bit of woke liberal pique makes in a swing state.
[Gore won WI by 5k, Kerry by 11k, Obama by 400k+ and 200k+ in 2008/2012
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/17/2022 - 12:21pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 05/19/2022 - 4:16pm
Don't know if this is wise or not (and it'll likely get ignored anyway) but at least tries out-of-the-box:
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 05/19/2022 - 4:50pm
yessiree, I think that is exactly what should be done! and yes, too many voters don't get that the diff between earned income and unearned income, which is the whole shebang to understanding almost everything going on right now class-wise (all colors of skin involved can I add?), while at the same time many more are seeing that light (hence all our current "gambling" problems such as losing everything all at once among other things..).
by artappraiser on Thu, 05/19/2022 - 4:58pm
Woke Black professor at Georgetown, with 44K+ followers, bitching about the evil Obama
thank god for the brave young white guy willing to stick up for him, that's rare:
by artappraiser on Thu, 05/19/2022 - 9:51pm
and here's Marianne and The Jaobin aghast at the evilness of Pete Buttigieg:
to the ramparts! off with their heads!
by artappraiser on Thu, 05/19/2022 - 10:36pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 05/19/2022 - 11:41pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 05/20/2022 - 10:52pm
In reply to the above, Professor Emerita at University of Maryland's Merrill College of Journalism. Specialty areas science, health and environment journalism and women in the media.-
by artappraiser on Fri, 05/20/2022 - 11:10pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 05/20/2022 - 11:42pm
Shor's full comments in the last day
by artappraiser on Fri, 05/20/2022 - 11:57pm
Biden would have had a Hillary problém without COVID, which let him not campaign with no excuses. And let him stay out of the news, while more people stuck at home could see Trump act like a buffoon. Hard for Fox to pummell Biden without appearances. Hard for Biden to put his foot in his mouth, and he became much more careful. 3rd time(+pandemic)'s the charm.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 05/21/2022 - 12:54am
Yglesias vs. Taibbi:
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/22/2022 - 9:37pm
It's awful when Biden does nothing about baby food shortage, and then "authoritarian" when he steps in to handle.
And then it's awful "government regulation" that caused the problem (under Biden, or from before?), and so on.
It's like one of these board games where every square on the path is "It's Biden's fault, take a card".
Of course the Woke equivalent to The Hyde Act and packing the courts is what exactly? Who have they gotten elected, what's the Woke equivalent to Falwell Ministires with its college and Focus On The Family offshoot, and....?
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/23/2022 - 1:01am
Cultural Power Won’t Save Progressives
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/23/2022 - 8:51pm
Prime example in the news, this was quick, one day after leaked emais
Insurance company State Farm tells the Washington Examiner it no longer supports a program by GenderCool, an organization that promotes education around LGBTQ issues, that allowed for 'distribution of books in schools' following reports of leaked emails
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/24/2022 - 4:27am
Basically saying the same thing, less the stuff about corporations
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN My Lunch With President Biden May 22, 2022
Lunch was off the record so he can't say what Biden said. But praises Biden in several ways..Especially nice debunk of the Biden senile smear by lauding how he's unified the western world, really on top of things. But very worried about the U.S. itself, especially the Trump right and feels the far left feeds them and that the left also derails the good Biden tries to do to counter the Trump right and catch 10% of GOP voters. Thinks the country's fate really does hang in the balance, reminds him of the old really bad days in Lebanon
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/24/2022 - 4:54am
(Note: not Fox News but The Nation and it's a Marxist saying this)
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/24/2022 - 8:25am
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/24/2022 - 9:15am
Senators Collins & Manchin statement on guns, from NYTimes update on Uvalde shooting:
May 24, 2022, 6:42 p.m. ET1 minute ago
NUFF SAID!
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/24/2022 - 7:11pm
TRUE
It gets rid of one of the most devastating arguments by pro-gun people: "you don't even enforce the gun laws we already have." Cynically - you don't even have to be an advocate for more gun control; you just have to stop pandering to those who argue that gun felons need loser bail conditions and lenient if any prison sentences because they are victims of systemic racism or poor background or untreated mental health troubles or some such. You'll get more votes, easy peasy.
by artappraiser on Wed, 05/25/2022 - 1:44am
Inside New York's hipster wars
Why the city’s clash of cultures between progressive Brooklyn and transgressive Manhattan marks a new era in American politics.
Twitter events this morning, tweets from New Statesman article
by artappraiser on Fri, 05/27/2022 - 2:05pm
This kind of organizing?
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/30/2022 - 12:13pm
this looks promising NOT !
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/30/2022 - 6:04pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/30/2022 - 6:10pm
Great point and looks to me now as an artifact of a world gone a bit insane pandering to protestors:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/01/2022 - 1:30pm
It was this and many did not want to partake of the ritual >
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/01/2022 - 1:52pm
On Congressman Bobby Rush's black lives bullshit, Twitter thread by "SWS Chicago, transferred to a single page with the Reader app, 4 hrs. ago:
tweets added after the thread was transferred:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/01/2022 - 11:06pm
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/01/2022 - 5:34pm
her team is clearly and interestingly playing the non-partisan policy Yglesias/Shor advice with this tweet, but don't know if its's going to work given that she has such a strong partisan image already:
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/05/2022 - 4:56pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/05/2022 - 10:05pm
I think their current president is largely an old Communist with Putin ties, yet the Czechs voted him in rather overwhelmingly (forgiving him his decrepit age as well). Somehow enough people have tolerance for whatever wing bullsh*t.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 06/06/2022 - 12:59am