Midway through last week’s Republican primary debate, Vivek Ramaswamy started running through conspiracy theories like the frustrated child he is, claiming the Capitol riot was an “inside job” and that the “Great Replacement” theory “is not some grand right-wing conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the Democratic Party’s platform.”
This is right on target, TC. The GOP is made up of enemies of Democracy and supporters of fascism in its worst and more deadly forms. All they want is dumb workers and slaves---and the GOP "core" will be first on the list, although they can't understand that. They have been fooled and fooled and fooled again by the Good Old Boys (GOBs) of the GOP.
I started making tentative plans during the Reign of the Orange Sadist. I decided in 2020 that if he won, we were DEFINITELY leaving. Now in a wait-and-see pattern.
When you say “the greatest injustice of all is the simple existence of Americans who oppose them politically, a situation so traumatic it requires a library of conspiracies to explain(.), athough unintended it sounds like the MAGAts have policies they want. The vast majority just want recognition that they are better than someone else and that they are being held back by unseen forces arrayed against them. There is not a single policy they care about. In fact, they are simply being manipulated by the same kind of oligarchs that fooled them into fighting the last Civil War War. These very wealthy white “christian” males simply want to be unencumbered by laws, regulations, and norms that constrain their accumulation of money and the power it brings. They will buy media to spread any lie or theory that can motivate the under educated to hate and blame someone enough in order to elect the tools that will serve them.
My comment with respect to a Trump Dictatorship is this:
"Go down the list:
Are you liberal/progressive?
Are you a woman?
Are you a person of color?
Are you not a Christian?
Do you believe in Science/Climate Change?
Do you lie anywhere along the LGBTQ spectrum?
If you answer "yes" to one, you have a target on your back. For each additional positive response, the target doubles in size. Those with the biggest targets are in front of the line."
Those wondering what's it's like to be a Palestinian will learn first-hand when Trump becomes dictator on January 21.
Vivek wants a cabinet position in the next Trump freak administration, probably Homeland Security or Labor, anyplace where he can strut his tinhorn power and ruin the lives of millions of people. He'd probably like to be VP, but Trump will choose a woman in order to try to get past most enlightened women's disdain for the abortion policies of controlling men. That she will be white goes without saying.
Tom, I fear Biden will lose Michigan over his position on the Hamas/Israel war. Labor here should love him and many do, but there is a widespread recoiling at the sight of innocent civilians and children being seemingly indiscriminately killed. Minorities identify with that kind of victimization (There seemed to be less coverage of the unconscionable attack on Israel, and that coverage was overtaken by the Israeli response.).
I remain hopeful that Trump's campaign can be successfully sucker punched some time in the next few months.
And there are some, admittedly very few, former Republicans who will have nothing to do with the current party that has become a haven for crazies and, among other transgressions, has debased the language to the point where civil discussion is almost impossible without a definition of terms at every outset and turning point.
The ones who walk the walk as well as talk the talk. I think of them as admirable people, because it's not easy to give up your life and people you thought of as long-term friends.
once again, the scumbags played a very successful (from their diseased perspective) long game over these past ninety years or so. and now that it's come together for them, they have no idea what to do with it. and remember, the designers of that long game were SMART (again, in their diseased way), but they left something out. they left out making sure they retained an inner core of well-educated "strategists" to utilize their power in the most "productive" possible way.
so now, they're stuck with nothing better than this idiotic "great replacement" theory, which was already old and tired by the time of the fucking Draft Riots.
the most interesting about Ramaswamy is trying to figure out what his daily consumption of stimulant drugs consists of; this is important because he's obviously in very very far over his head. I couldn't care less if he dropped dead tomorrow; my problem is trying to keep up with the overwhelming speed with which he spews his "theories," which genuinely do get nuttier on a daily basis. at the very LEAST on a daily basis.
does he seriously think he'd have an easy time if he were trying to seek asylum here?
the answer is no because I don't think he's capable of THINKING in the way we normally define the term.
and as long as I'm here, how about Rudy? in this case, the arc is definitely bending in the right direction for a change.
the only sad thing is how little of that money he'll be able to cough up. I want to see those ladies in their own Mar-a-Lago. but a Mar-a-Lago with TASTE.
I hate to tell you, but the underpinning of the "Great Replacement" theory is more sinister than you are aware. My brother has been deeply involved in all of this trash for the past 50 years. In fact, some of his writing (under a pseudonym, of course) has been a cornerstone of the White Supremacy movement. Despite what tuckered-out says about Democrats being the ones pushing it, those "in the know" say that it's actually the Jews who are behind this. They want to dilute the purity of the white race, while never intermarrying, themselves, and thus destroy the power of the superior European genes in order to gain even greater power for themselves. Just wanted to let you know, FYI.
my best friend's Ukrainian Jewish grandmother, who'd survived several pogroms, was fond of enumerating the splendid qualities of what she called "my Jews."
one day, fairly bursting with pride, she declared: "we even have the best anti-semites."
for many decades, I thought she was correct about this.
St. Ronnie is the reason I left the Republican Party in 1980. I became Democrat-curious when Jimmy Carter was nominated, but supported Gerald Ford in the election of 1976, though as a 16 year old I could not vote. I was genuinely alarmed at the rhetoric from the 1980 RNC. Oh, if we could have those days back, because back then there were still R's willing to govern and work across party lines. But I left, and never looked back.
You know how some say one gets more conservative with age? I was a Bernie Sanders Democrat in 2016, but did work for HRC in the general. At the rate I'm going I'm going to be at the left end of the Democratic Party by the time I'm 70.
Sadly, it turns out that FDR was wrong when he said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Because fear-MONGERING is now what we need to fear most. Fear itself actually is an incredibly useful tool for the wanna be dictator because it doesn’t have to be fear OF the dictator. HE gets to be loved and admired.
I do remember Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank saying something--probably in the '00s--to the effect that bringing in immigrants was how the Democratic party was going to win the demographic contest, and he wasn't the only one.
On the other hand, the late Black Texas Democrat, Barbara Jordan, who made her name on the Judiciary Committee during Watergate, when she ran a commission on immigration reform under President Clinton, advocated greatly reducing the numbers of immigrants, to open up more jobs for Black people, and strict enforcement of immigration laws, which has not happened since the Reagan amnesty of '86, when Senator Kennedy said "This amnesty will give citizenship to only 1.1-1.3 million illegal aliens. We will secure the borders henceforth. We well never again bring forward another Amnesty Bill like this."
It's worth noting that immigration is Big Biz' way depressing and keeping workers' wages down. Meat packers were Black in 1980, making good middle class wages. By that decade's end, meat packers were mostly immigrants, toiling under atrocious conditions where amputations were common, for barely above minimum wage.
It's also worth noting the numbers. From 1990 to 2020 the US population increased by 83 million. Half of that, two New York State equivalents, was from immigration. Going forward, the Census Bureau projects an increase of 75 million, 3.75 NY equivalents, all but 7 million of that from immigration.
Had Barbara Jordan's recommendations been followed, TFG never would have gained the White House. Biden's ratings are worst on immigration, with around 22% approval.
once again, let me recommend Colin Woodard's "American Nations" as providing a much finer tool for trying to account for the precise reasons why, say, a Puerto Rican voting in Chicago is NOT a reliable indicator for the vote of a Tejano. or why a Tidewater aristocrat was going to see the world very differently (and vote for very different reasons) from a Massachusetts Puritan.
what I find to be the weirdest part of this most recent incarnation of theold fekakte "theory" is how you'd expect history to invent new and more sophisticated versions of it. but the opposite seems to be true. it's getting stupider and stupider, with what are supposed to be "the quiet parts" dialed to a constant "11."
they think it's gonna work. I would like to think it won't and god knows, if these "little" fuck-ups keep happening, at some point the Repugs are gonna have to say SOMETHING. or am I still being naive?
Mr. Biden is a coalition builder and a diplomat. He knows that the hard right in Israel has mistreated the Palestineans horribly, but if he took that position, he would lose all influence with the Israelis. We must be patient. Yeah, I know. Good luck with that.
This is right on target, TC. The GOP is made up of enemies of Democracy and supporters of fascism in its worst and more deadly forms. All they want is dumb workers and slaves---and the GOP "core" will be first on the list, although they can't understand that. They have been fooled and fooled and fooled again by the Good Old Boys (GOBs) of the GOP.
And thus why I say that a lot of us are headed to death camps if republicans win in 2025.
Or Canada.
Tom, it would take me a couple of days to get packed up and about 35 minutes to go to Windsor from my house.
Finally! A good reason to live in Detroit! :-)
As opposed to LA? :P
😆
Depends on how fast we drive....
Would we need sponsors? Do they want us, really?
Should have in 2016
I started making tentative plans during the Reign of the Orange Sadist. I decided in 2020 that if he won, we were DEFINITELY leaving. Now in a wait-and-see pattern.
There will be no one to stop him if he finds a path, wish more people would realize the danger.
You mean the soon to be Ukraine of North America?
When you say “the greatest injustice of all is the simple existence of Americans who oppose them politically, a situation so traumatic it requires a library of conspiracies to explain(.), athough unintended it sounds like the MAGAts have policies they want. The vast majority just want recognition that they are better than someone else and that they are being held back by unseen forces arrayed against them. There is not a single policy they care about. In fact, they are simply being manipulated by the same kind of oligarchs that fooled them into fighting the last Civil War War. These very wealthy white “christian” males simply want to be unencumbered by laws, regulations, and norms that constrain their accumulation of money and the power it brings. They will buy media to spread any lie or theory that can motivate the under educated to hate and blame someone enough in order to elect the tools that will serve them.
“.. they are simply being manipulated by the same kind of oligarchs that fooled them into fighting the last Civil War War.” Yep. SMDH.
My comment with respect to a Trump Dictatorship is this:
"Go down the list:
Are you liberal/progressive?
Are you a woman?
Are you a person of color?
Are you not a Christian?
Do you believe in Science/Climate Change?
Do you lie anywhere along the LGBTQ spectrum?
If you answer "yes" to one, you have a target on your back. For each additional positive response, the target doubles in size. Those with the biggest targets are in front of the line."
Those wondering what's it's like to be a Palestinian will learn first-hand when Trump becomes dictator on January 21.
Vivek wants a cabinet position in the next Trump freak administration, probably Homeland Security or Labor, anyplace where he can strut his tinhorn power and ruin the lives of millions of people. He'd probably like to be VP, but Trump will choose a woman in order to try to get past most enlightened women's disdain for the abortion policies of controlling men. That she will be white goes without saying.
Tom, I fear Biden will lose Michigan over his position on the Hamas/Israel war. Labor here should love him and many do, but there is a widespread recoiling at the sight of innocent civilians and children being seemingly indiscriminately killed. Minorities identify with that kind of victimization (There seemed to be less coverage of the unconscionable attack on Israel, and that coverage was overtaken by the Israeli response.).
I remain hopeful that Trump's campaign can be successfully sucker punched some time in the next few months.
Stefanik is sure “saying”… pick me for VP. 🤚 Latest is she’s filed ethics complaint against J6 Judge Beryl Howell.
But Madge Traitor Greene is saying, "HEY!!! Wait just one cotton-pickin' minute!! I'M supposed to be his VP!!!" as she knocks Elise down. LOL!
with TFF's fetish about Harvard, there's no way that, if it came down to the two of them, he wouldn't pick Stefanik.
shitty reason, but who are we talking about?
LOL
And there are some, admittedly very few, former Republicans who will have nothing to do with the current party that has become a haven for crazies and, among other transgressions, has debased the language to the point where civil discussion is almost impossible without a definition of terms at every outset and turning point.
The ones who walk the walk as well as talk the talk. I think of them as admirable people, because it's not easy to give up your life and people you thought of as long-term friends.
Unfortunately, I can count them on one hand: Cheney, Kinzinger, Romney . . . anyone else? I have two fingers left.
Rep. Buck WAS a good pug -- until he voted for Mikey JoJo. Said he was "too busy" to read up on the guy. Nice, Ken, nice.
Stuart Stevens?
But it can be amply repaid by the brighter outlook and new friends your changed perspective brings you.
once again, the scumbags played a very successful (from their diseased perspective) long game over these past ninety years or so. and now that it's come together for them, they have no idea what to do with it. and remember, the designers of that long game were SMART (again, in their diseased way), but they left something out. they left out making sure they retained an inner core of well-educated "strategists" to utilize their power in the most "productive" possible way.
so now, they're stuck with nothing better than this idiotic "great replacement" theory, which was already old and tired by the time of the fucking Draft Riots.
the most interesting about Ramaswamy is trying to figure out what his daily consumption of stimulant drugs consists of; this is important because he's obviously in very very far over his head. I couldn't care less if he dropped dead tomorrow; my problem is trying to keep up with the overwhelming speed with which he spews his "theories," which genuinely do get nuttier on a daily basis. at the very LEAST on a daily basis.
does he seriously think he'd have an easy time if he were trying to seek asylum here?
the answer is no because I don't think he's capable of THINKING in the way we normally define the term.
and as long as I'm here, how about Rudy? in this case, the arc is definitely bending in the right direction for a change.
the only sad thing is how little of that money he'll be able to cough up. I want to see those ladies in their own Mar-a-Lago. but a Mar-a-Lago with TASTE.
I hate to tell you, but the underpinning of the "Great Replacement" theory is more sinister than you are aware. My brother has been deeply involved in all of this trash for the past 50 years. In fact, some of his writing (under a pseudonym, of course) has been a cornerstone of the White Supremacy movement. Despite what tuckered-out says about Democrats being the ones pushing it, those "in the know" say that it's actually the Jews who are behind this. They want to dilute the purity of the white race, while never intermarrying, themselves, and thus destroy the power of the superior European genes in order to gain even greater power for themselves. Just wanted to let you know, FYI.
I know that theory, of course it would be the Jews. Didn't know the authorial source though. Yikes!
my best friend's Ukrainian Jewish grandmother, who'd survived several pogroms, was fond of enumerating the splendid qualities of what she called "my Jews."
one day, fairly bursting with pride, she declared: "we even have the best anti-semites."
for many decades, I thought she was correct about this.
St. Ronnie is the reason I left the Republican Party in 1980. I became Democrat-curious when Jimmy Carter was nominated, but supported Gerald Ford in the election of 1976, though as a 16 year old I could not vote. I was genuinely alarmed at the rhetoric from the 1980 RNC. Oh, if we could have those days back, because back then there were still R's willing to govern and work across party lines. But I left, and never looked back.
You know how some say one gets more conservative with age? I was a Bernie Sanders Democrat in 2016, but did work for HRC in the general. At the rate I'm going I'm going to be at the left end of the Democratic Party by the time I'm 70.
Sadly, it turns out that FDR was wrong when he said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Because fear-MONGERING is now what we need to fear most. Fear itself actually is an incredibly useful tool for the wanna be dictator because it doesn’t have to be fear OF the dictator. HE gets to be loved and admired.
I do remember Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank saying something--probably in the '00s--to the effect that bringing in immigrants was how the Democratic party was going to win the demographic contest, and he wasn't the only one.
On the other hand, the late Black Texas Democrat, Barbara Jordan, who made her name on the Judiciary Committee during Watergate, when she ran a commission on immigration reform under President Clinton, advocated greatly reducing the numbers of immigrants, to open up more jobs for Black people, and strict enforcement of immigration laws, which has not happened since the Reagan amnesty of '86, when Senator Kennedy said "This amnesty will give citizenship to only 1.1-1.3 million illegal aliens. We will secure the borders henceforth. We well never again bring forward another Amnesty Bill like this."
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/public-statement/262303/kennedy-on-86-amnesty
It's worth noting that immigration is Big Biz' way depressing and keeping workers' wages down. Meat packers were Black in 1980, making good middle class wages. By that decade's end, meat packers were mostly immigrants, toiling under atrocious conditions where amputations were common, for barely above minimum wage.
It's also worth noting the numbers. From 1990 to 2020 the US population increased by 83 million. Half of that, two New York State equivalents, was from immigration. Going forward, the Census Bureau projects an increase of 75 million, 3.75 NY equivalents, all but 7 million of that from immigration.
Had Barbara Jordan's recommendations been followed, TFG never would have gained the White House. Biden's ratings are worst on immigration, with around 22% approval.
once again, let me recommend Colin Woodard's "American Nations" as providing a much finer tool for trying to account for the precise reasons why, say, a Puerto Rican voting in Chicago is NOT a reliable indicator for the vote of a Tejano. or why a Tidewater aristocrat was going to see the world very differently (and vote for very different reasons) from a Massachusetts Puritan.
what I find to be the weirdest part of this most recent incarnation of theold fekakte "theory" is how you'd expect history to invent new and more sophisticated versions of it. but the opposite seems to be true. it's getting stupider and stupider, with what are supposed to be "the quiet parts" dialed to a constant "11."
they think it's gonna work. I would like to think it won't and god knows, if these "little" fuck-ups keep happening, at some point the Repugs are gonna have to say SOMETHING. or am I still being naive?
Mr. Biden is a coalition builder and a diplomat. He knows that the hard right in Israel has mistreated the Palestineans horribly, but if he took that position, he would lose all influence with the Israelis. We must be patient. Yeah, I know. Good luck with that.
It ain’t a new thing. Have we been the frog in the warming water!
It’s going to be a very looonnnng year.
Yup.