Author: Ward Chanley
Oh, WaPo, don’t you go changing
Ah, yes, Washington Post, please tell me some more how “we should totally uphold the existing class system” is such a well-known “progressive” talking point.
Pete Buttigieg is a conservative. He ALWAYS has been. The DNC is running him to mollify conservative, wealthy idiots, as usual.
That he’s got a D attached to his name, or has a husband doesn’t magically make his politics “lefty.”
Just because you and the rest of mainstream, billionaire-owned media want to paint Buttigieg with a progressive brush, that doesn’t have a damn thing to do with making him an actual progressive.
Americans who have a college degree earn more than Americans who donât. As a progressive, I have a hard time getting my head around the idea a majority who earn less because they didnât go to college subsidize a minority who earn more because they did.
It’s not hard to understand
Look, folks, it’s not hard to understand why Republicans are blocking an unredacted Mueller report from ever being released.
The President has shitty, barely-legal business dealings with Russian oligarchs, and that’s just the shit we’ve known about all along. The reason the Special Counsel investigation sought a couple dozen indictments was because folks lied before Congress, or lied in their testimony before the Grand Jury about those business deals.
They lied to protect the President from facing any legal consequences for fraud and illegal business practices, just like Donald Trump has engaged in for his entire career.
If there was anything, anything at all that was going to serve as the slam-dunk evidence, which they promised all along was coming, of collusion with the Russian government to tamper with the election, Mueller would have indicted people for it.
Stop pretending like we don’t already know what this shit is, and what it isn’t. We know. We’ve always known. We just don’t want to accept that that’s what it is, and people voted for him, anyway, or that Democrats ran a candidate they *knew* wouldn’t get the coronation she wanted, but they expected black voters and progressives to dutifully support Grandma Pinochet anyway. They knew that Obama-to-Trump voters were going to be a thing, and they ran Hillary, and her batshit stupid campaign anyway.
Stop pretending any of these people have your interests in mind. They do not.
Not the Republican party, not the Democrats, and not the media that’s colluded with them both to hype this bullshit.
This year Medicare for All has the greatest support it’s ever had
This year Medicare for All has the greatest support across the country that it has ever had.
If we had a Congress that wasn’t bought-off, that support would translate into political action to save American lives.
No one is suggesting growth is impossible
For those of you telling me that you think Tulsi Gabbardâs apologies for her past hideousness on LGBT issues and toward queer people are sincere, well, thatâs nice for you. But I came out as a baby fag in 1984 right in the middle of an entire society was more than content to let us all die, hearing how their god was visiting his wrath upon the country because I existed. Iâve been down this road before, and I know precisely how conditional so-called âtoleranceâ from christians is really is. Yâall wanna crow about her endorsement from HRC, feel more than free, but I remain suspicious, because hard experience has taught me that itâs fucking stupid to do anything else.
Precisely no one is suggesting that itâs impossible for people to change their minds, and to grow. But if that âgrowthâ is conveniently timed with your run for Congress, and youâre reminding everyone how much youâve âgrownâ now that youâre running for President, well⌠that ainât growth, folks. Itâs political expediency. If youâre smart, youâll trust that thatâs only ever going to last long enough for Gabbard to âevolveâ into something else.
Itâs worth noting that despite fawning praise from zillionaire lobbies like HRC, Gabbard is more than willing to point out that her âpersonal viewsâ havenât changed a bit.
A 2016 profile of the combat veteran published in Ozy suggests otherwise: âShe tells me that, no, her personal views havenât changed, but she doesnât figure itâs her job to do as the Iraqis did and force her own beliefs on others,â noted reporter Sanjena Sathian.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tulsi-gabbard-homophobic-remarks_n_5c3a6030e4b01c93e00a5952
You guys want to trust her? Knock yourselves out.
But donât expect anyone else to do the same.
The problem with capitalism
Like WMD in Iraq…
Like weapons of mass destruction with Iraq and & now the dictatorship of Maduro, what should be lesson of Russiagate? Understand that the capitalist state & corporate media have interests different than from the people. Donât let them manipulate you & never believe them.
Like weapons of mass destruction with Iraq and & now the dictatorship of Maduro, what should be lesson of Russiagate? Understand that the capitalist state & corporate media have interests different than from the people. Don’t let them manipulate you & never believe them.
â Ajamu Baraka (@ajamubaraka) March 25, 2019
If you’re a pro-Israel democrat
If youâre a pro-israel, âhamas are bad guys, tooooo!â democrat, can you please, one of you, explain the difference between Israelâs actions, here, and Trumpâs foreign policy âsolutionâ to dealing with ISIS?
âAll Israeli crossings into Gaza now closed, fishermen blocked from going out to sea Supplies cannot get in, despite population being dependent on humanitarian aid The people are trapped
Firing rockets into population center is war crime. Does NOT justify collective punishmentâ
All Israeli crossings into Gaza now closed, fishermen blocked from going out to sea Supplies cannot get in, despite population being dependent on humanitarian aid The people are trapped. Firing rockets into population center is war crime. Does NOT justify collective punishment
â Ariel Gold đĽđ ×ר××× (@ArielElyseGold) March 25, 2019
Trump: âThe other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families.â
“I don’t call it aid…”
Israel is the seventh or eighth largest arms exporter worldwide. Speaker Pelosi is right that US military aid to Israel isn’t actually aid – it’s political theater so the US will look like it’s doing something meaningful while pretending it can’t see Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
Meanwhile, at the #AIPAC conference, Nancy Pelosi assures attendees that even if the #GolanHeights move causes the US to crumble to the ground, the only thing that will remain is its servitude to #Israel.
There are legitimate problems in Venezuela
There are legitimate issues in Venezuela. They need to be debated and addressed by Venezuelans. It is not our role to send our military and tell Venezuelans how their problems should be solved.
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