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Leftists 10 new ideas for Dems
« Reply #2200 on: January 07, 2025, 08:41:47 AM »
"Ten New Ideas for the Democratic Party to Help the Working Class, and Itself."

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/01/05/tohe-democrats-next-agenda/

I love the first one: make private health insurers tie their rates to Medicare rates which equals single payer system basically


"free college for everyone!" or the "working class"   Love the words "free" and "working class"
who is working class ? does that include those on disability or on medicaid and welfare?
professionals are not working class?

make *employers* secure the border - [what !?]

tutorize not privatize education - in other words more money to teachers unions to supposedly provide them OT pay to tutor kids .

 more government control of child and elder care

Fire the [government] contractors    it ain't the government at all who is the problem - it is those outside their full time workers are at fault [but who hires them and why do they hire them to start with - who will do what they do?]

"corporate proof" the care economy   take elder and child care away from the private sector and let DC do it  :-o

And finally "reconstruct the administrative state"
  "But beyond fighting Trump, liberals need a much larger strategy to reenergize the movement for regulation in the public interest. "

Read these and have convulsions at the stupidity the power grabbing the absolute push for more big government but simply as ALWAYS it is change the message (with the same idiotic policies that brought us to the verge of extinction)


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LA still burning
« Reply #2201 on: January 08, 2025, 09:38:54 PM »
https://www.latimes.com/california/live/pacific-palisades-fire-updates-los-angeles

Current headline, five dead, 2000 structures burned.

We've never seen anything like this. Ever.

Not since black lives matter burned 1600 buildings in the Twin Cities, 25 deaths total.

As people see the fire videos in LA maybe they can grasp the scale of the carnage we had here in Tim Walz Minnesota, before it gets memory-holed. Mrs. Walz said she liked the smell, and her husband did nothing to stop it. No one got fired, except those who couldn't escape the burning buildings. The governor got reelected and nearly became first in line to the presidency.

The mayor of LA was also on a short list to be vice presidential pick..Maybe she'll win an award now for her firefighting budget cutting and diversity efforts.

No apologies, no regrets, at least not on her first encounters with the Los Angeles press.

It's not just Democrats in Washington DC who need new leadership. How about America cities?

One thing I like to have when I'm putting out a fire is... water.
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Truly a catastrophic event
« Reply #2202 on: January 09, 2025, 06:31:09 AM »
I am thinking of the fire post earthquake in San Francisco or the Chicago fire as possible analogies.

At least the death toll is very low considering. 

Could have this been avoided ?  I would like to see an objective "autopsy" of the situation at some point.

We know the Left's explanation - Trump and climate change.

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MSNBC: No Dem could have beat Trump?
« Reply #2203 on: January 10, 2025, 07:09:00 AM »
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/biden-interview-trump-harris-presidential-election-rcna186876

"Democracy" was losing all around the world.".??

"only 36% of those polled approved of the job he was doing as president."
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Weird they see government control of your life and rigged and cheated elections as "democracy".

Biden proved Dem policies to be failure. In truth, Democrats would have needed a new kind of Democrat who rejected the most important policies of the Biden Harris Democrat Party in order to change the debate and possibly the outcome, and that candidate could not have won the nomination.

Democrats should have run a Republican. )   Or just support Trump, as apparently some did.  Now called former Democrats.
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Monthly Kamala donors are still being charged
« Reply #2205 on: January 12, 2025, 07:43:20 PM »
Monthly Kamala donors are still being charged. "Victory" Fund. - Politico, Daily Beast

How many of these millions getting screwed right now will want to give again next time around?

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The rich LEFT
« Reply #2207 on: January 22, 2025, 03:49:08 PM »
now screaming the rich are a threat to democracy!      :roll: :roll: :roll:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/22/super-rich-must-stop-meddling-in-democracy-disney-heiress/

while they fly to Davos and spend like demons to democrat politicians and party.




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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #2210 on: January 26, 2025, 07:11:48 AM »
Yes we are told the Dems have a "very deep bench!"

 :wink:

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #2211 on: January 29, 2025, 08:13:10 AM »
here come the daily anti Trump polls:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/americans-sour-trumps-early-moves-204428438.html

everyone in the nation is pissed prices did not come down the second he was in office!

majority are against his executive orders (the select few mentioned in the article)!
he has lowest approval rating in hx !

and MSM will pick this up and trumpet 24/7 .


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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #2212 on: January 29, 2025, 08:19:15 AM »
Agreed that the bombast of "Gulf of America" and military conquest of Greenland did not play well!   That said, on the whole I dispute these polls.

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #2213 on: January 29, 2025, 02:35:41 PM »
"veryone in the nation is pissed prices did not come down the second he was in office!

majority are against his executive orders (the select few mentioned in the article)!
he has lowest approval rating in hx !

and MSM will pick this up and trumpet 24/7 ."

Sorry I did not explain these points that
I was making  with sarcasm and they were not to criticize Trump

The polls are garbage and stupid is what I meant to say and I think they are manipulated by the questions and the samples.   Always MSM finding ways to make DJT look bad.

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #2214 on: January 29, 2025, 02:41:27 PM »
Woof!

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #2215 on: February 01, 2025, 04:08:42 AM »
'If Trump is a Nazi and Trump won the popular vote it means most people think Democrats are worse than Nazis.'

Simple math.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/02/the-week-in-pictures-i-dont-care-margaret.php

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David Hogg
« Reply #2216 on: February 02, 2025, 10:07:23 AM »
https://democrats.org/news/dnc-members-elect-new-slate-of-dnc-officers/

https://democrats.org/news/dnc-members-elect-new-slate-of-dnc-officers/

I can understand through his personal experience his anti - gun position

but I disagree with it along with his other political positions. 

That said I have to (grudgingly) admire his tenacity , ambition, and his achievements - and he is only 24 to 25 yo.

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Re: David Hogg
« Reply #2217 on: February 02, 2025, 12:11:43 PM »
https://democrats.org/news/dnc-members-elect-new-slate-of-dnc-officers/

https://democrats.org/news/dnc-members-elect-new-slate-of-dnc-officers/

I can understand through his personal experience his anti - gun position

but I disagree with it along with his other political positions. 

That said I have to (grudgingly) admire his tenacity , ambition, and his achievements - and he is only 24 to 25 yo.

Hogg is a nitwit that regularly demonstrates he’s not much of a debater, as shown here:

https://x.com/GoodAMLiberty/status/1778415478446137379

I think this is more about the desperation of the Democrat Party—there are all sorts of clips circulating that show their meeting yesterday was more of a DEI circlejerk then a substantive discussion of critical issues like how, despite their ample attempts to stack the electoral among other decks, their party got slapped down at the polls last election, with formerly reliable voting blocs breaking Trump’s way.

But hey, no point of getting in the way of an org antithetic to the needs of the non-costal elites as they misread the room while appointing mercenary nincompoops to leadership roles….

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Dem Party Dumps Voters in Favor of Interest Groups; Polls in Freefall
« Reply #2218 on: February 02, 2025, 07:13:57 PM »
Extended metaphor at the start of this piece, before it digs into the meat of an NYT poll:

https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/02/02/new-york-times-shock-poll-reveals-the-complete-collapse-of-democratic-party-n4936601

ETA: a case in point where a multi-gender formula is laid out re party election guidelines:

https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1885836927112552800
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DNC Chair Ken Martin: “He’s like Stalin, and I say that as a compliment.”
« Reply #2219 on: February 03, 2025, 06:18:06 AM »
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/01/ken-martin-dnc-democrats-00201955

'We go low so the candidate doesn't have to.'

What was once called Minnesota Nice is now called Minnesota passive aggressive.

To sum up the DNC leadership fight and result, 'we will do more of the same and expect a different result'. Some call it insanity.

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #2220 on: February 03, 2025, 06:22:15 AM »
Do I have this right? 

The new Chairman is Ken Martin.  He was Tampon Timmy's chief advisor.  Can't make this stuff up.

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #2221 on: February 03, 2025, 07:13:19 AM »
Do I have this right? 

The new Chairman is Ken Martin.  He was Tampon Timmy's chief advisor.  Can't make this stuff up.
They have clearly embraced the lessons of the last election.

I can’t wait for Hogg to go rhetorically wild. I can imagine the lede already: “antigun activist David Hogg shot himself in the foot while discussing the Democrat party’s new platform today….”

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #2222 on: February 03, 2025, 07:38:49 AM »
Right, in the only state they could point to as a 'success', they nearly lost the Minnesota House and Senate.

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Cognitive Dissonance of the left, business taxes hit the consumer?
« Reply #2223 on: February 03, 2025, 02:11:09 PM »
Did every Democrat just warn us that the tariffs (that never happened) are going to cause consumer prices to rise? But the Tariff is a tax on business and Democrats can't get enough of taxes on businesses. And they don't believe any of those taxes get passed through to the consumer. Does anybody know what changed?

This is like some kind of a Forrest Gump revelation.  Uh, corporations don't pay taxes, people do. Who bleeping knew?

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #2224 on: February 03, 2025, 04:39:15 PM »
Penetrating observation.

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Guttfield Lays out What “Progressives” Don’t Understand
« Reply #2225 on: February 03, 2025, 07:44:27 PM »

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The Left has plenty of great new leaders
« Reply #2226 on: February 05, 2025, 08:00:42 AM »

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Soros funded Democrats upset about Billionaires in government
« Reply #2227 on: February 07, 2025, 04:49:21 AM »
Reads like a Babylon Bee headline.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/06/opinion/soros-funded-dems-suddenly-upset-by-billionaires-in-government/

I keep hearing that voters had no say in this but Trump and musk promised exactly this well before election day and 76 million people got excited about it.

What was the other way to cut spending? Someone point to when that happened. It didn't. Not under Democrat trifecta, not under Republican trifecta. And certainly not under divided government.

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One big problem with the Democratic party, governing
« Reply #2228 on: February 10, 2025, 07:03:19 AM »
Clinton insider, author of primary colors, Joe Klein.

https://josephklein.substack.com/p/still-crazy

Crime in the streets while Democrats worry about pronouns.

Of so many articles written about what went wrong for Democrats and what they need to do next, this is one of the best.

He recognizes that the whole Trump phenomenon is a result of bad Democratic governance and overreach.

He lays out a sampling of basic policy areas where Democrats need to moderate.

He closes by saying, I doubt they can.

(Doug) If you don't think Trump should be called a fascist, if you think the border should be secured, if you favor merit over DEI, and if you favor energy abundance, you probably aren't a Democrat anymore.

And every time a moderate leaves the party, the center of what's left is even more radical.
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James Carville, stunning jackassery
« Reply #2229 on: February 10, 2025, 07:24:39 AM »

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Carville: It's Like There's A Plant In Progressive America To See How Many Jackass, Stupid Things Democrats Can Embrace
Posted By Ian Schwartz
On Date February 8, 2025

James Carville and Al Hunt discussed the recent DNC election on this week's edition of the 'Politics War Room' podcast.


AL HUNT, CO-HOST: I now for the outrage of the week, uh, the November 5th election, if my math is correct, uh, James was 93 days ago and all the congressional contest and all the statewide races are settled except for one, the North Carolina state Supreme court race, which the Democrat won by 734 votes, but the Republicans won't accept defeat, even though a couple of years ago, they won a court seat by 413 votes and the Democrat graciously conceded, but now Republicans in North Carolina who have a habit of doing this are alleging that 60,000 voters, some of whom registered decades ago may not have put their proper ID number on the ballot.

Of course, they have to identify themselves when they cast the ballot. This is the same Republican party that in December stripped the governor from appointing to the state election board, anybody, a move that two former Republican governors say is unconstitutional. I mean, this race was won by Allison Riggs and for the Republicans to keep denying that and keep trying to steal that election is outrageous.

And if Trump, Musk and company need any lessons in how to be authoritarian and a supposedly democratic system, they, they, they really ought to call Raleigh.

JAMES CARVILLE: Wow. I mean, you know, now all the folks have to do is get it close and they'll just take it because we're not wearing our shoes and hand grenades. I get from my outrage.

It needs to partly like dramatic things, like just two things that Democrats have done that are so unmoored to what anyone in the country thinks or feels like it, it, it's almost impossible. The first one is some Democrats and progressives in New York are advocating for bereavement pet leave. Okay.

So in other words, if your cat dies, you get three days of paid leave. Does anyone even know, like in rural America, like where I grew up, how many dead animals in the entire history of the United States? Let me tell you something.

A Senate that has never, ever, ever been honored. Well, Martha Fido died. So I can't bail.

Hey, today. I mean, come on. I mean, please just think of how, and fortunately no one's got overly publicized this, although the right to use it in some places, just how clueless you sound to people who are agrarian, it's like, you know, you're living on a different thing that life and death on a farm is something that happens every six hours.

I mean, my God, then we had the famous DNC chair race of, okay. I don't really, really care. Let me read to you something.

Speaking to the Democratic National Committee, which met to select new leadership this weekend, outgoing chair, Jamie Harrison, attempted to explain the point about rules concerning gender balance for his vice chair race. The rules specified that we have a gender non-binary candidate in office that a non-binary individual is counted as neither male or female, and the remaining six office must be gender balanced, Harrison said. Did I just, did I just read this?

Of course I did. And do you believe this? Of course you do, because that's the level of jackassery that, now, does any Democratic candidate?

No, I don't even know if, if, if Ken Martin himself acts, but they do it. And it's like, there's a, a plant somewhere in quote progressive, unquote America, that just to seize how many jackass, stupid things that they can embrace, it's stunningly stupid. Both of them.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/02/08/carville_its_like_theres_a_plant_in_progressive_america_to_see_how_many_jackass_stupid_things_democrats_can_embrace.html

(Doug). Why can't we have two serious parties to choose from?

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #2230 on: February 10, 2025, 07:42:22 AM »
" this race was won by Allison Riggs and for the Republicans to keep denying that and keep trying to steal that election is outrageous."

For the record, my understanding is this:

a) the Republican candidate feels constrained from commenting on a pending case by judicial ethics;
b) the essence of the complaint is that some 60,000 votes did not meet identification requirements (DL, SSN, etc) 

This seems reasonable to me.

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Insider Lindy Li Dishes on All things Biden
« Reply #2231 on: February 12, 2025, 02:19:11 AM »
This is an incredible interview of Lindy Li, a Democrat Party insider turned outsider when she started speaking about Biden’s cognitive decline. She names names, provides first hand accounts, and has been vilified and ostracized for it. I rarely have the patience to sit through an hour long interview, but I was captivated by her directness and story. This is the first time, moreover, I’ve encountered Shawn Ryan; I’ll be tracking him also moving forward:

https://youtu.be/ZHXVeLVHWuY?feature=shared

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #2232 on: February 12, 2025, 06:30:53 AM »
She should be rewarded with a job on our side - maybe for her courage

and to encourage others who "come forward"  - but of course only if she changes her personal politics. 

like the dems provide for their "whistleblowers"  - they all get rewarded.

She even said in the interview something about she fears getting into trouble for her speaking out.   

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #2233 on: February 12, 2025, 07:16:24 AM »
She should be rewarded with a job on our side - maybe for her courage

and to encourage others who "come forward"  - but of course only if she changes her personal politics. 

like the dems provide for their "whistleblowers"  - they all get rewarded.

She even said in the interview something about she fears getting into trouble for her speaking out.

She’s certainly has a set of stones, and her world has certainly been turned upside down by her principled, though arguably late in the game, choices.

I think she should be welcomed into the fold—there are A LOT of people that have “walked away” from the Dems (w/ Elon, Tulsi, & indeed Trump being cases in point)—and there is doubtless a job out there suitable for her talents. I don’t think swamp-dwelling Repubs have the requisite game, but hopefully some MAGA operatives are thinking about how they can leverage all this “walked away” talent and turn it into a big tent effort to welcome others that are fed up w/ all the Dem gaslighting et al.

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Almost Boiled Rabbit Time?
« Reply #2234 on: February 12, 2025, 08:12:24 AM »
Second post.

There are a couple of embedded vids in this piece that have to be seen, particularly the first, so I haven’t pasted the verbiage here. One point it makes: clearly the words gone out through the usual challenge that “constitutional crisis” is clearly the latest talking point to be bandied, among other bon mots:

https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/constitutional-crisis-is-a-talking?r=2k0c5&triedRedirect=true
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Death Blossom to Death Spiral? The Battlespace is Prepared
« Reply #2235 on: February 15, 2025, 07:57:55 AM »
This is an excerpt from a piece that in my estimation spent too much time explaining a metaphor, albeit one that appears to be ultimately accurate and appears to be coming to pass:

I’ve referred to this controlled siloing process as the Deep State Archipelago, and I see the systematic cutting off of communications and controls from one vector of Deep State power projection to another as one of the key ways in which patriots have prepped the battlespace over the last eight years in preparation for the final hunt … which is now on in full.

In the context of the Deep State, I believe the 2024 election cycle was a Death Blossom, the stage of the game where they began firing blindly (and literally,) revealing themselves and their ultimate aims to the people in a last desperate bid to be rid of Trump and the movement he represents: that's us.

In so doing, they revealed themselves as the collectivist beast we've drawn them as for years.

Death Blossoms are dangerous, but ultimately, they can be weathered.

Death Spirals are different. Decidedly so, and I think we're seeing the Deep State transition from the former to the latter as Trump makes good on his promises, and as the people seize the mass psychological momentum inherent in him doing so.

Put another way, I believe the Deep State is caught in a horror movie of their own making, and I believe they’re starting to realize it.

They are caught in a self-imposed Death Spiral in the place of a former Death Blossom—after all, we were told long ago that ammunition spent was ultimately finite, were we not?—wherein their public attempts to resist the Common Sense deployments of the Golden Age agenda are accelerating the very actualization of that agenda.

Consider the fact that the American public is seeing the System panic at the very prospect of transparency, before we even peek behind the curtain.

This is an untenable position for them to occupy on both an Actual and Narrative level.

On an Actual level, public resistance to Trump’s agenda is triggering a series of legal and constitutional challenges that are and will result in the very precedent setting we’ve been calling for for years, with Trump’s Supreme Court acting as both the ultimate backstop and change engine to codify the long-term transformation of a system that lords over the people to one that once more serves us.

That said, it’s in the narrative where the Establishment truly finds themselves on the back foot, and I believe their public panic pattern is indicative both of their obvious fear at the ultimate endgame of this era and the fact that they know this change process can happen very slowly, and then all at once.

To wit, when we look at the recent targeting and exposure of USAID by the DOGE—the first of MANY exposures to come—it’s much more Narrative than Actual.

Yes, the agency and many more like it are being dismantled, and its workforce spit back into the true American economy where they can either swim in the emergent and revitalized free market or sink to scratch a parasitic living off the increasingly precarious welfare state, but the story of that dismantling is following a death spiral pattern akin to those sometimes seen in the animal kingdom, specifically in ant colonies.

https://badlands.substack.com/p/badlands-news-brief-7b8?r=2k0c5&triedRedirect=true

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A Hogg Wild Grift
« Reply #2236 on: February 15, 2025, 03:23:35 PM »

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That Dadratted Memory Hole
« Reply #2237 on: February 15, 2025, 05:16:01 PM »
2nd post:

“TRUMP’S DRACONIAN CUTS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND UNPRECEDENT … ah, what? Clinton and Gore did it too?”

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1890539598306332754

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Carville on Hogg et al
« Reply #2238 on: February 16, 2025, 08:02:14 PM »

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Gallup: Democrats want the party more moderate, 'leaders' don't
« Reply #2239 on: February 17, 2025, 06:25:13 AM »
Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, 45 percent say they want their party to become more moderate, while 29 percent say they want the party to become more liberal, and 22 percent say they want the party to stay the same.

That represents a significant shift from four years ago, during the first week of President Biden’s term in office, when Gallup last asked the question.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5142843-democrats-shift-moderation-gallup/

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How Marxist want you to Celebrate President's Day
« Reply #2240 on: February 17, 2025, 09:58:34 AM »
The number of self-owns in the press release below or the attached video I sat through so you don't have to (for the sake of all that's sacred DON'T read the freaking comments) is a sight to behold. One of the most bewildering aspects of this bit of "Progressive" business as usual involves the "grassroots" beard they incessantly try to wave in your face despite all the GONGO revelations that demonstrate full well their orgs all are soup to nuts government funded, astroturf bearded, marxist infiltrated, constructs founded on deception, bulwarked by deception, deceptively marketed meta versions of a freaking herd of Trojan horses, and they think so little of us they maintain the fiction long after that herd of horses have left their GONGO gazebos. Yo "Progressives," we don't care if you roll out the front men from ZZ Top or Methuselah himself: it's still the same three commie chords behind those gnarly beards and we know it.

But hey, keep deceiving yourself as the time and energy you pour into that is time and energy you aren't applying elsewhere.

BTW, if you make the mistake of watching the video or reading the comments note the permissions subtext contained in both. They are seeking to connote the situation is so dire that any action embraced as a form of "resistance" is okay, and in fact justified. These gaslighters that find racist and other dogwhistles in every passing utterance or stray sound (your farts are racist microaggressions as only First World flatulance can indicate such protein rich diet!) worry not at all about their tacit calls for anarchy:

The Radical Marxists In Our Midst Are Doubling Down - Happy Not My President Day

SAM FADDIS

FEB 17, 2025

Today is Presidents Day. All across the country activist groups are organizing rallies to protest President Trump’s “seizure” of power and fight against the “oppression” he represents. As usual, the flyers online proclaim that these actions are the work of local Americans spontaneously organizing to save democracy. As usual, this is nonsense, and what we are seeing are actions directed from the center by individuals who want to transform this nation into a Marxist state.

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“ACTION from @50501 movement:

The current administration has clarified that it cares more about profit than people. We as a collective refuse to stand by as they continue to undermine the dignity of our communities. We are not just numbers or consumers. We are the People.

We reject fascism. We reject the oligarchy. We reject the idea that any person’s worth is less than another’s. Together, we are a force for change.

50501 is not just a movement—it’s a national call for justice that’s already making waves. You’ve proven that already. Now, we need you to show up again—for each other, our communities, and a better world.

On February 5th, you showed up for your community in the thousands—and we need you now more than ever. The movement is not over. We are just getting started. On February 17th, 2025, we will unite for the National Not My President’s Day day of action, and we need YOU to be there. We’re asking you again to gather and protest or participate in other ways for our day of action.”

A host of supposed grassroots organizations have put their names on the notices blasted out nationwide, the 50501 Movement, Build the Resistance, No Voice Unheard, and Voices of Florida. All of that is largely window dressing. These actions are the work of a group calling itself Political Revolution. That group was created by individuals connected to Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Socialists of America.


It is hard to imagine a political grouping more out of touch with reality. Americans just roundly rejected the most radical leftist administration in American history. They are heartily sick of open borders, “gender-affirming care” and the madness of DEI. Americans are scared, drowning in debt, and sick of having the government tell them what to do. They want to be able to balance the checkbook, take the kids on vacation this summer, and make their own decisions about how to live their lives and what pronouns to use.

The people organizing these events think all of that boils down to racism, sexism, and transphobia. They were just getting started when Joe and Kamala’s campaign crashed and burned. It doesn’t matter that the American people support Trump and his actions to date. You don't care what the people think when you are a true revolutionary. You are part of the vanguard. It’s your job to tell the people what they CAN think.

“…We witness, with growing alarm, how our constitutional rights are trampled upon, how the authority of the President is being usurped by those who seek to consolidate power for personal gain. Meanwhile, President Trump systematically dismantles the very guardrails designed to ensure accountability across the branches of government.

We see elected officials shrinking from their responsibility to speak out, paralyzed by fear of losing their political opportunities. But amidst this, we are witnessing an unprecedented wave of unity. People from every background and every corner of this nation are coming together to demand accountability and to push back against the erosion of our rights.

On Monday, we call on organizations and activists across the nation to once again stand united. We will not cede ground to fascism quietly. We will fight back against Project 2025 and we will fight for the future of all of our beautiful communities. We not only owe it to our future leaders, ourselves, but to the activists and people who came before us– This is our moment, and the assignment is clear.

We stand firm at a critical moment in history, demanding that the American people be heard and that the White House be governed by the true will of the people—not by a tech billionaire who seeks to buy influence and control.

Together with our partners—Political Revolution, Voices of Florida, No Voices Unheard, Build The Resistance—we are ready to hold the line. Community is our resistance, community is our strength, and peaceful protest will be one of the ways we will ensure we protect it.”

Press release, 50501 Movement

Self-delusion is a powerful thing. Trump was just elected by a multi-ethnic coalition of working people who are sick of a dysfunctional government run by out-of-touch elitists and professional politicians. They want a good house cleaning in DC and a much smaller, cheaper, less intrusive government. Trump and his team show every sign of giving them that.

On the far-left that is intolerable. The radical Marxists in our midst are doubling down on their resistance, and it will only get worse.

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #2242 on: Today at 03:08:12 AM »
I suspect this to be the flatulence of a rhetorical flourish