Jeff, I wrote a comment that got buried that NYT has just published a 5000 word editorial that annihilated Orange Turd. Jefferson, who is subbing for Thom Hartmann, just read parts of it on freespeechTV. Would love to hear your take. TY
I just opened the home page. Headlined "D...T... is Unfit to Lead" and with a big pic, it's on the right, about three items down. For context, my scroll bar is about 7 inches long, and I scrolled only 1/2 inch to see it.
I'm not letting the NYT off the hook for its bad acts, but this is a good act and it needs to be recognized as such.
So glad to hear this. Maybe it's moved up as people hear about it and click. Of course, they will be back to all day coverage on Biden Bad this afternoon. Nevermind NATO. Nevermind low inflation report.
Switched off from MSNBC for awhile. Watching Stephanie Miller's show on Free Speech TV, 8-11 Central. Then Thom Hartmann and Randi Rhodes. Steph's show is hilarious and informative--I'm smiling almost the entire time and she and her guests are essential for my sanity these days. freespeech.org
"And what we’ll do is we’ll show up and we’ll do our jobs."
Oh, that would be nice, for a fucking change. You know...you could start doing your jobs NOW if you wouldn't mind. But of course you won't. Covering Biden is BOOOOOOOORING and you all are a bunch of dweebs on the high school paper who want something CRAAAAAAAAZY to keep your whiffle-ball brains entertained.
Fuck. WaPo said "Democracy dies in darkness" and FTFNYT is out here yanking out all the lightbulbs.
Yes, I couldn’t figure out why news outlets would have such little concern about freedom of the press. Then it dawned on me that they can make just as much money printing what Trump tells them to.
Nope. Clearance Thomas forgot to report his all expense paid trip to Moscow. Oops! You can choke on the Supreme Court corruption. Putin's propaganda is in full swing. They are planning a coup if the diaper rash doesn't win. Our media will be there to support him all the way. Fucking grifting whores. It feels like America is on the chopping block. It's being parted out and sold to the highest bidder. We've been sold like human chattel. The elites on both sides can go fuck themselves.
No, Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, who said they were in the middle of the 2nd American Revolution; & it shall remain bloodless……if the left allows it to be!
If Trump wins there will be only one news source. Employees of the current media will be selling apples on street corners if they're lucky. Owners of the media will find out how gated communities can be turned into work camps where everyone wears the same stylish striped outfit. Nobody reads history anymore.
They were too busy giving legal analysis to cover the accomplishments of the president. I think I could probably pass the bar in a handful of states. 🙄
Does Joe Kahn know anything about the Third Reich....is he old enough or a snot nosed trust fund baby.. Well...after he declared himself a dictator with the Reichstags blessing, one of the first tasks he did was to kill many journalists....thats disruptive isn't it???
Hitler went after journalists, priests, communists, labor leaders, etc. right after the Night of Long Knives. Be careful what you wish for Maga cult members and minions…
No they don't have any idea of how destructive a second Donnie Convict term will be. I'm a senior who has Social security and Medicare and have deep concerns about how long that will last. Everything I've worked for would be gone.
I've got a 401k in the company where I've worked for nearly 40 years. I can see it tanking the minute a Trump presidency is announced. And that's just me being selfish. I worry about my family's rights to just existing, especially trans and gay family and friends. I worry about my happily unmarried daughter. I worry about the climate for my great nieces and nephews. I worry about Medicare and SS for my elderly parents....it's like a CONSTANT drumbeat of worry about every fucking thing.
It is a constant low-level (until November) state of depression and worry. I can’t imagine how much worse it will be on Nov 5 if that fucker wins the election.
I feel for you,and I'm the same way,the MAGAs and the Heritage Foundation are so cocky and arrogant they've revealed their plans, I'm hoping it'll actually drive Democratic voter turnout instead,no time for despair or apathy IMO.
Are you aware that Rep Tim Wahlberg from Michigan’s 5th district recently urged the Ugandan govt NOT to back down from instituting the most harsh penalties in the world for homosexuality?
For attempted homosexuality it’s 14 yrs, for actual homosexuality it’s life in prison, for a homosexual act from someone who has HIV it’s the death penalty!! The UN & the USA have spoken against that as a gross violation of human rights & yet we have a U.S. Congressman going over there to some kind of religious gathering & urging them to ignore the UN & USA.
Project 2025 condemns LGBTQ people & recommends prison for them. These religious extremists are just horrible people.
Same here. I don't understand how someone who only wants to save his ass, get revenge and cause so much hurt to millions of us continues to be put up on a pedestal.
He's a textbook malignant narcissist psychopath. That's exactly what they do. They only get worse with age. They are the most abusive head cases on the planet.
Clueless and uninformed just like the demented felon and the rest of the GOP wants to keep them. If his assholiness is able to pull this off, Kahn and the rest of these media snakes will be mostly the blame. It's beyond sickening that we're subjected to this bullshit every damn day. I turned off MSNBC last night since it was so annoying and couldn't even wait for Lawrence O'Donnell who usually tells it the way it should be.
Yes, that’s exactly what it is.If we ever rid ourselves of this hideous Trump snake, laws must be put in place so that this bull sh*t cannot happen again.Our media is complicit in this.They are de facto Putin allies.
It will, but specifically the media outlets that purposefully lied to cater to their audience's biases. Fox Noise and all the resulting right-wing websites when the internet came along. America had NO rules or regulations whatsoever to counter the unintended consequences of the First Amendment.
The way things are it’s not out of the realm . Vlads been drugging and injecting poisons world wide forever ! We all know how tight him and his bum buddy are !
I’ve been saying Sufafed 15 seconds into that disaster. Plus coming face to face with Satan. It would render any good person speechless. I wish he would have let loose with a string of expletives and left the stage,
Not Sudafed, that’s a stimulant, more along the lines of a cold medicine with antihistamines in it to clear a drippy nose, that would slow you down & make you slightly drowsy.
I've read versions of this, e.g., Havana Syndrome. It's inexplicable, especially given how he was speaking after the debate and the next day and the next (my 20-year-old self would never have been able to keep his schedule, including 4 transAtlantic flights in one week). ALL of this (with the entire media in lockstep) seems scripted.
O'Donnell has, for the past two nights, taken the media to task for its distortions. You can watch his highlights reels on YT. And fwiw, I think Joy Reid is accurate, and spends some time debunking inaccuracies.
There's a still a few signs of life from Democrats,AOC,
Crocket, Mouskawitz, Swallwell,etc,I saw a Democratic
Congressman on Fox News last night(oh gawd no,I don't watch Fox,saw it on Miedastouch),Fox anchor;Biden, Biden,Biden,Dem Congressman; Trump,Trump,Trump. Fox anchor; Why are you refusing to answer questions about Biden? Dem Congressman; Because I don't have to answer questions about Joe fuckin' Biden!! (My words of course), your candidate is a convicted felon and rapist and wannabe dictator,that wants to turn this country into a Christofascist dictatorship!! That's why...nice. Debbie Wasserman-Shultz had a pretty great response to a question from a CNN anchor too; 'I'm a little frustrated from the stupid questions you're asking'
Larry had a great bit last night. Hope you all saw it. Played Joe’s meeting and talk with union members early in day. As Larry says, Joe is doing the very things that naysayers are trying to convince people he can’t do. Talking. Clearly. Well paced. Spontaneous. No script nor notes nor teleprompter. Joe had one stutter stall. (Has no one read history or seen The King’s Speech”???? Dolts!). Larry said that this bit of video is available to all media outlets. And they, like him, can get it, play it, and talk positively about it. But they don’t. Why is that?
It’s one of those “we aren’t gonna make it, are we?” days. I hate everyone. Except you guys. ❤️😎
What's it been now,like 10 days?? Trump still babbling like a demented moron about Hannibal Lecter,and the faucets with no water,and pulling a Sargent Shultz 'I know NOOOTHING!! about Project 2025,and yet the lead story is still 'Biden Old',I switched off Stephen Colbert last night and unsubscribed on YouTube, maybe these clowns think Democrats are going to bow down and finally join the babbling idiot cult,I will not,and it's time for 'Bedtime for Clooney' for me too,and Reiner,King and Stewart can piss off too.
I stopped watching CNN a few months back and stopped MSNBC about two weeks ago. Thank god Plex streaming plays Farscape all day so I can run it in the background while I work.
Had to turn off Deadline WH yesterday. Haven’t watched it in weeks & as soon as they started discussing Biden stepping down, I turned it off. The Never Trumper Republicans, especially the Bill Kristols & Steve Schmidts of the world, are howling for Biden to step down
Robert Reich pegged it. This is all about money. Specifically, the (yes) trillions in tax cuts Trump gave away to the rich - they wanna keep that money, and don't give a damned about the rest of us. I could go on - but Reich did it for me. George Clooney? Gimme a break.
I’m 100% sure George Clooney was telling the truth. How do I know? I 100% saw it with my own eyes, and 100% heard it with my own ears. I’m not sure what you and Jeff were smoking debate night. And at this point I assume you must be smoking something even more powerful.
A crushing defeat of Orange Shitler is within our grasp. Stop gaslighting.
George Clooney is just an actor. An actor who can go fuck himself.
Has George, Rob Reiner and the rest of the celebrities who are calling on President Biden to step aside ever worked in government like maybe a mayor, governor or in Congress?
No. They think they have sway over the President of the United States and the jackass pro Trump media are eating it up.
Imo, Clooney and the rest of the arrogant big donors need to learn one BIG truth. Their donations are no bigger a sacrifice than mine. Remember the Widow’s Mite? If not, Google it.
George Clooney is a great actor. I agree Trump is eminently beatable, by any number of candidates. But the Democratic Party has had elections and Biden has the nomination. It is his to give up. With his team and Kamala backing him up, let him keep the top job. He deserves it. No intent to gaslight here. No need to use name-calling. Thanks, Bob.
I don't even know that he and his wife live here a lot any more. Don't they have this Italian mansion that they bought a few years ago that's supposedly out of this world?
If everything goes to shit here, they can always go somewhere in the United Kingdom, where Amal is a citizen or to Italy.
Just another one of those elites who really won't have to live with the horrors of a King Fuckface I reign if he doesn't want to.
Gaslighting is the last verb I’d use to describe Jeff. As one of the members of the Black Caucus (I think) said “I’d rather have Joe Biden as President on one of his weakest days than [the addle-brained orange vonshitzhispants] in charge of destroying our county on
a daily basis.” I’m paraphrasing here. And The Biden-Harris campaign funds cannot be shared with a new outside candidate, as I understand it. Is Mr. Clooney going to fully replace these funds for an unnamed front runner? Think. Think, think, think these things through. I have, and I’m riding with Biden as long ad he’s willing. These celebrities better get on board. Listen to Blumenthal.
Putin, Bannon, Stephen Miler WANT US TURNING ON EACH OTHER. We must be polite, especially in this amazing group. No name calling. It's what BANNON & Putin WORK ON.
agreed. George Clooney hosted that Biden fundraiser at peacock theater a month or so ago. He was with Joe the whole time. He said Joe Biden today was not the same Joe Biden in 2020.
George is deeply concerned and I have to agree with him.
If Biden stays in the race I hope to High God on bedrock he wins and if he wins, we are in the clear, for now.
But the risk assesment is high and we need better odds. So Im OK if another candidate takes over, like Adam Schiff or hell, Lawrence ODonnell....we need to win, this is not a game. This is our lives. It's on the line.
George Clooney is concerned. I understand. He spent a lot of time with Joe when he hosted the Biden fundraiser a month or so ago in Los Angeles at Peacock theater.
He said the Joe Biden today is not the same Joe Biden he knew in 2020.
If Biden can make it and win, that is great ! Go Joe ! we will then be in the clear, for now. If He doesn't we are done.
The risk assessment is very high and I understand where George is coming from.
If another democratic candidate jumps in and slam dunk the election, I am OK with that.
Adam Schiff? hell, Lawrence ODonnell, he does have political experience.
IF. Trump has vowed to keep the tax cuts and Biden not so freaking much. Estimates are Clooney saved over $7 Million due to these tax cuts in 2018 alone. Money talks, and talks and talks.
You have to remember that Clooney has been a big supporter & fundraiser for Biden, just recently held that big fundraiser for him in L.A. with Julia Roberts.
The corporate media (et tu, MSNBC?) is not in the news business. They're in the click business. The media has become the propaganda arm of MAGA world because it's been overtaken by billionaires who would rather burn down the country than be regulated or pay taxes. The good news is that the NYT and WaPo are hemorrhaging readers. Joe Kahn can kiss my non-subscribing ass. We cancelled last week. Buck up, everybody. I understand that there are powerful forces arrayed against us. We're going to win anyway.
What really disturbs me, is this all feels so ORCHESTRATED!
We're rolling along with the usual shit from the usual people until the DEBATE. But polls show, that neither candidate's numbers really changed immediately after that debate...in fact, if anything, Biden's may have gone up a bit based on content.
But Biden's poor showing unleashes the flood of not only the usual shit from the crackpots and the loony-tunes, but also the high-minded patronizing twaddle from Democratic "Influencers', actors, elites, various Congressional members, and others. As soon as one wave goes through, there is another.
It's the feeling of looking around and just waiting to be smacked again by the next wave...who's waiting in the wings to pummel Biden and the rest of us next? When will it stop?
After the Democratic Convention...or is this going to be a thing from now on?
I, for one, believe it is. Again, not about President Biden's age but rather the color and gender of our VP. "They" were okay with her as VP as long as POTUS stayed or appeared healthy, but now? Not so much.
It is orchestrated if you mean the Biden-bashing is a matter of policy. I don't think CNN, Washpo, NYT are coordinating, but their CEOs have the same goal. May I make a suggestion so you don't feel smacked again? Turn away from the news. If something truly important happens, you'll hear about it. The rest is just crazy-making noise.
The same half a dozen MAGA morons have been making the rounds of the Sunday morning 'news' shows for at least 2 years now, asking the same morons the same questions over and over again,which they never actually answer,just go on with their 'Democrat Derangement Syndrome'
I am slogging through Project 2025, alternating with checking my email, and texting with my daughter whose flight is delayed, and my friend who is trying to arrange travel plans for her son, and my political action group Democrats Abroad, while someone is working on my house in the background.
Forget Xanax. I want handfuls of Klonopin, at the highest strength they manufacture. I may be comatose, but at least I won’t be suffering from terminal anxiety!😬
I just wrote that I'm anxious all. the. fucking. time. I feel for you.
Some people have good results with Rescue Remedy; I don't really feel much from it. At night I take 2mg melatonin + Calms Forte (from Hylands), and when I wake up in the middle of the night, I take Sleep Calm (from Boiron). I buy from Vitacost, which has a big supply + good prices, but it's owned by Kroger so it probably has lousy labor practices. (Bc I'm ill and out of work, I have to seek discounts; otherwise I'd buy from my local organic market.)
How the hell are we supposed to get through the next 4 months?
I am going to take a long run in the summer heat, hope to get heat stroke and be in a coma until November 5th when I wake up, cast my ballot (blue up and down).
So far that's a genre that doesn't speak to me, but I appreciate being reminded to read. Thank you.
I recommend, to everyone, the Open Library -- it's free, it requires only an email address and a password, and it provides access to a ***staggering*** number of books. (I'm trying to sell about 700 of my books -- medical debt -- and letting them go is less painful bc at least I can find them at the Open Library.)
Great resource, ty! Libby is free, download the app. Local library has lots of free ebooks. www.gutenberg.org. 70k free books, great for older, no longer available reads. Free.
I was pretty obsessed with 'Westworld' for a time, Michael Cricton I believe,I've watched it about 5 times. The humans really suck,but get overthrown by the bots, utopia and harmony and peace and whatnot you would think but... there's a problem with the bots also IMHO,any technology created by humans, eventually will be imbued with the same flaws humans have,a human resistance movement rises up to overthrow the bots,this cycle actually repeats a few times...it's a very dark statement about humanity and technology,and what I like about good sci-fi,it makes you think...
I feel like the world has gone mad over one piece of shit in a skin suit. I get how this happens in other countries but how does it happen in a democracy? How can one man possibly be allowed to create this much chaos? It’s scary and infuriating.
MEDIA LIES and PROPAGANDA, on cable (Fox) and internet and cellular data networks, has proven to be very good at influencing people's opinions on subjects they're ignorant of. In an uninformed population susceptible to lies and misinformation (again, due to ignorance) this is the result. The main flaw in democracy, an uninformed electorate.
Trump has been a useful idiot/tool who doesn't need to think or understand, he just has to be malleable and supportive of the RWNJ agenda, which is being pushed by and benefits the oligarchy that owns so much of what we consume. They don't want taxes or regulation. Trump wants to be a two-term president/dictator who will never spend a day in prison. And the christo-fascist/white supremacist alliance is a big part of this, and they want to have power over everyone else. It's shocking, but like child abuse, it is vitally important that we don't look away. Thank you for listening to my tED talk.
And understand the 'oligarchy' and 'plutocracy' isn't some un-named,
dark-money group,we know their names... it's Musk, Zuckerberg,Bezos,
Walton,Murdoch,
Koch,Leo and Crowe,ya know,the clowns who own half the wealth of the entire country,and leave Americans fighting for their scraps,the clowns who are using their bought and paid for MAGA courts to subvert democracy,and using their media empires to con Americans into accepting it.
In France and England they've put a stop to their right-wing populist movements,by uniting their various political parties to defeat them at the ballot box. The MAGAs,Christians and Trump realized the GOP was losing the support of the American people at the ballot box,and they think the solution was to divide Americans,and make them turn on each other.
Sadly, you are correct. The Maga cult believe in divide and conquer. These looney toons with their Project 2025 agenda don’t get it— they will be getting crushed like the rest of us by the 1%! Fuck you to these neo-Nazi fascists !
I never thought I would be witnessing the end of the nation my father fought for. It’s like Germany during the rise of Hitler and Nazi nationalism. Elected officials, judges, religious leaders, all throwing their morals out the window to follow a sick, twisted, corrupt, evil, incompetent, traitorous man, vying to be a dictator. Americans should be ashamed and embarrassed for what they’ve allowed to happen! Americans should be fighting tooth and nail for what our fathers died to save!
Left Twitter last year,(It's called X now...NO ONE CALLS IT THAT!!),and left FB a couple of months ago, social media wants your data to manipulate for their 'chaos algorithms', don't give it to them.
The press and other media honchos are so excited to watch our democracy fall into the hands of kooks, fuckwits, assholes and other assorted goblins so they can make more money! The song from Cabaret comes to mind: https://youtu.be/4JDWJzKYfdc?feature=shared
What are you going to do with all that sweet, sweet moolah when you’re rotting in Gitmo?
Kay-El, that Cabaret song popped into my head when I started reading Jeff’s post! It seemed daunting as to how many “money, money”’s I’d need to type to get the point across.
Trump’s memory is the only part of his rotted brain that the owners of the Times should really fear ,he will never ever forget what they’ve said about him prior to this election cycle he’s not letting them slide for backing him now he doesn’t know what gratitude is!
I’ve stopped trying to understand what’s happening with news outlets. I just know they’ve decided together that women do not deserve rights, so they’re out to dismantle the system that allows all Americans the same rights.
They are all disgusting and I don’t waste my time. I know I’m voting straight Democratic Party, encouraging others to do the same. That’s what I can do.
Every time I read what the media is saying through someone else, since I dropped my subscriptions to these overpriced rags, with shit for brains editors, I just cannot believe that they did not read the stories about Khashoggi, or Gershkovich. Hitler supposedly had 400 on his hit list, I mean revenge list. He had a tea party for his administrators and their families at his home, while a hit squad went out and killed every single one of his enemies. I am sure Trump wants to have 400 on his list too since he is such a big fan of Hitler.
Another thing to remember about Hitler, is that even at the END of the war, after he was dead, he STILL had about 30% approval rating among German citizens! Some people will just never, ever, change their minds about their cult leaders
Yes. White Supremacists abound. Living in Germany with brown skin I am so aware of this. Heather Cox Richardson was just saying yesterday when she was talking to Democrats Abroad that you will always have around 30 percent who are this out there group, and then you may have another 15 percent who are disgruntled for special reasons. That was about the percentage that Hitler got 33% got him in, because Hindenburg caved into pressure to appoint him. One of the reasons I am ignoring the media, because I have watched the masses be on the wrong side of an issue, and I usually avoid joining.
Guess it's time to re-write the history books and change "Murderous" Fascists of WW2 to "Disruptive" Fascists of WW2.
It's seems to me that the "You've done a great job, but Fuck off Biden" crowd is winning. I'll give it until after the post GQP convention poll bounce trump will get; before they force the issue. Then we can have two civil wars, one within the democratic party. Then, once that causes us to lose, a second trying to get our country back. Yes, we're fucked.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccckkkkkkkkk.
I know, right?
Just now, MSNBC announced on YouTube that Rep. Jeffries, in press conference, was going to ask President Biden to step aside.
I watched that speech and Jeffries said NOTHING about asking the president to step aside. He said that he’s working with President Biden.
Fucking media!
Reporter: Are you worried Biden is a liability for your most vulnerable members?
Jeffries: No.
Jeff, I wrote a comment that got buried that NYT has just published a 5000 word editorial that annihilated Orange Turd. Jefferson, who is subbing for Thom Hartmann, just read parts of it on freespeechTV. Would love to hear your take. TY
I heard it was buried after a positive boatload of recipes. Seriously. Like #80 online.
I just opened the home page. Headlined "D...T... is Unfit to Lead" and with a big pic, it's on the right, about three items down. For context, my scroll bar is about 7 inches long, and I scrolled only 1/2 inch to see it.
I'm not letting the NYT off the hook for its bad acts, but this is a good act and it needs to be recognized as such.
So glad to hear this. Maybe it's moved up as people hear about it and click. Of course, they will be back to all day coverage on Biden Bad this afternoon. Nevermind NATO. Nevermind low inflation report.
For an opposing viewpoint check Trubscott.
Not surprised. Still boycotting them and have been for years.
The editorial came across loud and clear, big as day, first thing. Full graphics and fully interactive. Not buried in any way.
It’s a great piece, btw.
It seems to be moving up as it gets clicked more. Yay! Course, they will drop this like a hot potato in 3...2......
Yep Jeff
The Press use to report the news, now they are the public relations firms for different plotical and vested interest groups.
And i second the
Ffffffffffffuuuuuuuggggghhhhhh
Most likely NYT lost about half their paid subscribers. Greed is what they are about.
Exactly!
Couldn’t have said it better myself! 😡
Switched off from MSNBC for awhile. Watching Stephanie Miller's show on Free Speech TV, 8-11 Central. Then Thom Hartmann and Randi Rhodes. Steph's show is hilarious and informative--I'm smiling almost the entire time and she and her guests are essential for my sanity these days. freespeech.org
Yes. Big business is not worried about Trump because for a lousy $100 mil, they can get him to sign any executive order they want. That's a bargain!
They can lay a few thousand miles of lead pipes...no pun intended.
No. That’s 1st degree punnery. Totally deliberate. No imPUNity!
That is exactly what I say every goddamn day!
Can we even say it enough.
my sentiments exactly...
What Neal said.
"And what we’ll do is we’ll show up and we’ll do our jobs."
Oh, that would be nice, for a fucking change. You know...you could start doing your jobs NOW if you wouldn't mind. But of course you won't. Covering Biden is BOOOOOOOORING and you all are a bunch of dweebs on the high school paper who want something CRAAAAAAAAZY to keep your whiffle-ball brains entertained.
Fuck. WaPo said "Democracy dies in darkness" and FTFNYT is out here yanking out all the lightbulbs.
Ironic because if Trump wins he won’t have a job. He”ll be thrown in jail. I wonder if he’s heard of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.
I don’t think these guys will be thrown in jail or the paper shut down, they will be turned into trumps own propaganda rag and minions.
I think that's what they're hoping will happen
Yup. Joe Kahn will eagerly embrace his new idiot overlord.
The money's the same color, after all.
What money? You think Whatshisname will PAY them? If anything he'll make THEM pay for the privilege of being allowed to be the State spokespaper.
LOL
Joe Kahn "comes from significant wealth" per the article, so I don't think he'll care one way or another.
It’s apparently happening as we speak!
Bingo!
Yes, I couldn’t figure out why news outlets would have such little concern about freedom of the press. Then it dawned on me that they can make just as much money printing what Trump tells them to.
Real Housewives of MSM.
Propoganda puppets
They can afford pardons,I'm sure they'll be for sale.
Precisely
Roberts will undermine him and move in for the killing of our Constitution while claiming he’s saving Democracy. Is anyone investigating Roberts?
Nope. Clearance Thomas forgot to report his all expense paid trip to Moscow. Oops! You can choke on the Supreme Court corruption. Putin's propaganda is in full swing. They are planning a coup if the diaper rash doesn't win. Our media will be there to support him all the way. Fucking grifting whores. It feels like America is on the chopping block. It's being parted out and sold to the highest bidder. We've been sold like human chattel. The elites on both sides can go fuck themselves.
No, I meant Kevin Roberts as a possible Chief of Rump’s Staff. Sorry I wasn’t clear.
They're both assholes. Cut from the same cloth.
Roberts??? The guy who just put tRump above the law?
No, Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, who said they were in the middle of the 2nd American Revolution; & it shall remain bloodless……if the left allows it to be!
That scumbag.
No he won’t. He’ll be out on appeal till his four years is over.
If Trump wins there will be only one news source. Employees of the current media will be selling apples on street corners if they're lucky. Owners of the media will find out how gated communities can be turned into work camps where everyone wears the same stylish striped outfit. Nobody reads history anymore.
No doubt,one of many tricks Trump learned from his buddy Putin.
They were too busy giving legal analysis to cover the accomplishments of the president. I think I could probably pass the bar in a handful of states. 🙄
Does Joe Kahn know anything about the Third Reich....is he old enough or a snot nosed trust fund baby.. Well...after he declared himself a dictator with the Reichstags blessing, one of the first tasks he did was to kill many journalists....thats disruptive isn't it???
Hitler went after journalists, priests, communists, labor leaders, etc. right after the Night of Long Knives. Be careful what you wish for Maga cult members and minions…
Yep and then next would be any entity with the power to say no to him. Now who would that be x 9?
It's all so obvious. His cult has no idea what will happen if Donny Convict is elected. I'm sick to my stomach. 😳
No they don't have any idea of how destructive a second Donnie Convict term will be. I'm a senior who has Social security and Medicare and have deep concerns about how long that will last. Everything I've worked for would be gone.
I've got a 401k in the company where I've worked for nearly 40 years. I can see it tanking the minute a Trump presidency is announced. And that's just me being selfish. I worry about my family's rights to just existing, especially trans and gay family and friends. I worry about my happily unmarried daughter. I worry about the climate for my great nieces and nephews. I worry about Medicare and SS for my elderly parents....it's like a CONSTANT drumbeat of worry about every fucking thing.
It is a constant low-level (until November) state of depression and worry. I can’t imagine how much worse it will be on Nov 5 if that fucker wins the election.
I agree.
I feel for you,and I'm the same way,the MAGAs and the Heritage Foundation are so cocky and arrogant they've revealed their plans, I'm hoping it'll actually drive Democratic voter turnout instead,no time for despair or apathy IMO.
They want to outlaw and jail anyone who produces pornography...what will the incels do?
Are you aware that Rep Tim Wahlberg from Michigan’s 5th district recently urged the Ugandan govt NOT to back down from instituting the most harsh penalties in the world for homosexuality?
For attempted homosexuality it’s 14 yrs, for actual homosexuality it’s life in prison, for a homosexual act from someone who has HIV it’s the death penalty!! The UN & the USA have spoken against that as a gross violation of human rights & yet we have a U.S. Congressman going over there to some kind of religious gathering & urging them to ignore the UN & USA.
Project 2025 condemns LGBTQ people & recommends prison for them. These religious extremists are just horrible people.
It surely will. He’s so stupid, he knows nothing about economics
Same here. I don't understand how someone who only wants to save his ass, get revenge and cause so much hurt to millions of us continues to be put up on a pedestal.
He's a textbook malignant narcissist psychopath. That's exactly what they do. They only get worse with age. They are the most abusive head cases on the planet.
I don't think the pedestal is as large as were being led to believe.
Lordy I hope not!!!
What bruce said👆
That’s right.
Clueless and uninformed just like the demented felon and the rest of the GOP wants to keep them. If his assholiness is able to pull this off, Kahn and the rest of these media snakes will be mostly the blame. It's beyond sickening that we're subjected to this bullshit every damn day. I turned off MSNBC last night since it was so annoying and couldn't even wait for Lawrence O'Donnell who usually tells it the way it should be.
I just feel like I've been watching the death in America in slow motion.
Yes, that’s exactly what it is.If we ever rid ourselves of this hideous Trump snake, laws must be put in place so that this bull sh*t cannot happen again.Our media is complicit in this.They are de facto Putin allies.
Susan: Stop watching. Keep working to get the truth out there. You’re doing a great job!
I have postcards to write today. Can’t stop trying’
Mine are on the way. Hope to get North Dakota for at least one of the 2 states I’m urging to vote 💙. We’re all in this forever!
More like a suicidal dash to obliteration.
Without a doubt.
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Same 💔
For the last two decades, I have been saying that when the autopsy is done on democracy in America the media will be found to be the cause of death.
It will, but specifically the media outlets that purposefully lied to cater to their audience's biases. Fox Noise and all the resulting right-wing websites when the internet came along. America had NO rules or regulations whatsoever to counter the unintended consequences of the First Amendment.
How are people so stupid that they believe half the stuff that comes before them? It boggles my mind.
I think they will find out that someone drugged Joe before the debate.
Love it! For god's sake, we deserve ONE good rumour to take hold!
The way things are it’s not out of the realm . Vlads been drugging and injecting poisons world wide forever ! We all know how tight him and his bum buddy are !
I’ve been saying Sufafed 15 seconds into that disaster. Plus coming face to face with Satan. It would render any good person speechless. I wish he would have let loose with a string of expletives and left the stage,
Not Sudafed, that’s a stimulant, more along the lines of a cold medicine with antihistamines in it to clear a drippy nose, that would slow you down & make you slightly drowsy.
Maybe. First thing I thought of was Sudafed, but you’re right. Could of been Benadryl,
I've read versions of this, e.g., Havana Syndrome. It's inexplicable, especially given how he was speaking after the debate and the next day and the next (my 20-year-old self would never have been able to keep his schedule, including 4 transAtlantic flights in one week). ALL of this (with the entire media in lockstep) seems scripted.
Yep... coordinated effort.
O'Donnell has, for the past two nights, taken the media to task for its distortions. You can watch his highlights reels on YT. And fwiw, I think Joy Reid is accurate, and spends some time debunking inaccuracies.
I really like Chris Hayes, too
There's a still a few signs of life from Democrats,AOC,
Crocket, Mouskawitz, Swallwell,etc,I saw a Democratic
Congressman on Fox News last night(oh gawd no,I don't watch Fox,saw it on Miedastouch),Fox anchor;Biden, Biden,Biden,Dem Congressman; Trump,Trump,Trump. Fox anchor; Why are you refusing to answer questions about Biden? Dem Congressman; Because I don't have to answer questions about Joe fuckin' Biden!! (My words of course), your candidate is a convicted felon and rapist and wannabe dictator,that wants to turn this country into a Christofascist dictatorship!! That's why...nice. Debbie Wasserman-Shultz had a pretty great response to a question from a CNN anchor too; 'I'm a little frustrated from the stupid questions you're asking'
Larry had a great bit last night. Hope you all saw it. Played Joe’s meeting and talk with union members early in day. As Larry says, Joe is doing the very things that naysayers are trying to convince people he can’t do. Talking. Clearly. Well paced. Spontaneous. No script nor notes nor teleprompter. Joe had one stutter stall. (Has no one read history or seen The King’s Speech”???? Dolts!). Larry said that this bit of video is available to all media outlets. And they, like him, can get it, play it, and talk positively about it. But they don’t. Why is that?
It’s one of those “we aren’t gonna make it, are we?” days. I hate everyone. Except you guys. ❤️😎
I watch baseball. I can only handle so much bullshit!!
I've been watching the weather channel and YouTube concerts.
BB being ruined too
Recorded @Lawrence (The Last Word, MSNBC, 7 pm PST). Nicole Wallace covering Project 25 3/4 of show Tues & Wed. Excellent. That's it for TV news.
What's it been now,like 10 days?? Trump still babbling like a demented moron about Hannibal Lecter,and the faucets with no water,and pulling a Sargent Shultz 'I know NOOOTHING!! about Project 2025,and yet the lead story is still 'Biden Old',I switched off Stephen Colbert last night and unsubscribed on YouTube, maybe these clowns think Democrats are going to bow down and finally join the babbling idiot cult,I will not,and it's time for 'Bedtime for Clooney' for me too,and Reiner,King and Stewart can piss off too.
Kahn should have to sit in the same cell with Trump and all his foul odors and whining.
at minimum he should be arrested for Treason on day one of the newly elected deomcrat president
I stopped watching CNN a few months back and stopped MSNBC about two weeks ago. Thank god Plex streaming plays Farscape all day so I can run it in the background while I work.
So have I (MSNBC; never watched CNN). Down from a 4-hour block to just Lawrence.
Had to turn off Deadline WH yesterday. Haven’t watched it in weeks & as soon as they started discussing Biden stepping down, I turned it off. The Never Trumper Republicans, especially the Bill Kristols & Steve Schmidts of the world, are howling for Biden to step down
Me too. Sick
There's going to even more RINOs,and some probably don't even realize.
Yeah he won’t need them anymore.
Robert Reich pegged it. This is all about money. Specifically, the (yes) trillions in tax cuts Trump gave away to the rich - they wanna keep that money, and don't give a damned about the rest of us. I could go on - but Reich did it for me. George Clooney? Gimme a break.
Are we seriously making decisions based on George Clooney’s opinions?
Fuck
I love him as an actor and despise him as a kingmaker. And I know he has a very nice villa at Lake Comp he can go to if It Happens Here.
Apparently he wants to sell more tequila.
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I’m 100% sure George Clooney was telling the truth. How do I know? I 100% saw it with my own eyes, and 100% heard it with my own ears. I’m not sure what you and Jeff were smoking debate night. And at this point I assume you must be smoking something even more powerful.
A crushing defeat of Orange Shitler is within our grasp. Stop gaslighting.
George Clooney is just an actor. An actor who can go fuck himself.
Has George, Rob Reiner and the rest of the celebrities who are calling on President Biden to step aside ever worked in government like maybe a mayor, governor or in Congress?
No. They think they have sway over the President of the United States and the jackass pro Trump media are eating it up.
Their opinions mean nothing to me.
#BidenHarris2024 🗳️🇺🇸
Clooney is off my watch list just like Charleston Heston back when he headed up the NRA. Buh Bye.
Imo, Clooney and the rest of the arrogant big donors need to learn one BIG truth. Their donations are no bigger a sacrifice than mine. Remember the Widow’s Mite? If not, Google it.
George Clooney is a great actor. I agree Trump is eminently beatable, by any number of candidates. But the Democratic Party has had elections and Biden has the nomination. It is his to give up. With his team and Kamala backing him up, let him keep the top job. He deserves it. No intent to gaslight here. No need to use name-calling. Thanks, Bob.
Clooney's got an axe to grind over his wife representing a group charging war crimes.
I don't even know that he and his wife live here a lot any more. Don't they have this Italian mansion that they bought a few years ago that's supposedly out of this world?
If everything goes to shit here, they can always go somewhere in the United Kingdom, where Amal is a citizen or to Italy.
Just another one of those elites who really won't have to live with the horrors of a King Fuckface I reign if he doesn't want to.
Eggs-actly! they on first plane whilst Ahmerika burns!
I saw a documentary recently about how before 1973 the wealthy would fly to Europe for abortions for their children, mistresses,etc.
It was a common practice.
Lake Como in Italy IIRC.
That’s right. I think he just threw away his career too. Right or wrong i hate has-been celebrities blabbing their mouths about politics
He's been a huge fundraiser for them.
He and Julia Roberts had a huge fundraiser in LA not too long ago, but then George turns around and stabs President Biden in the back.
With friends like that…..
It’s about his weird looking wife. How dumb
'The only people panicking right now about Joe Biden's candidacy are the old,white,WEALTHY liberal elites'
Ron Filipkowski...I agree.
If that’s the case why did Clooney just very recently hold that big fundraiser for Biden in Los Angeles with Julia Roberts??
Gaslighting is the last verb I’d use to describe Jeff. As one of the members of the Black Caucus (I think) said “I’d rather have Joe Biden as President on one of his weakest days than [the addle-brained orange vonshitzhispants] in charge of destroying our county on
a daily basis.” I’m paraphrasing here. And The Biden-Harris campaign funds cannot be shared with a new outside candidate, as I understand it. Is Mr. Clooney going to fully replace these funds for an unnamed front runner? Think. Think, think, think these things through. I have, and I’m riding with Biden as long ad he’s willing. These celebrities better get on board. Listen to Blumenthal.
So smarty pants what’s YOUR plan?
Putin, Bannon, Stephen Miler WANT US TURNING ON EACH OTHER. We must be polite, especially in this amazing group. No name calling. It's what BANNON & Putin WORK ON.
Peace 🙏
agreed. George Clooney hosted that Biden fundraiser at peacock theater a month or so ago. He was with Joe the whole time. He said Joe Biden today was not the same Joe Biden in 2020.
George is deeply concerned and I have to agree with him.
If Biden stays in the race I hope to High God on bedrock he wins and if he wins, we are in the clear, for now.
But the risk assesment is high and we need better odds. So Im OK if another candidate takes over, like Adam Schiff or hell, Lawrence ODonnell....we need to win, this is not a game. This is our lives. It's on the line.
George Clooney is concerned. I understand. He spent a lot of time with Joe when he hosted the Biden fundraiser a month or so ago in Los Angeles at Peacock theater.
He said the Joe Biden today is not the same Joe Biden he knew in 2020.
If Biden can make it and win, that is great ! Go Joe ! we will then be in the clear, for now. If He doesn't we are done.
The risk assessment is very high and I understand where George is coming from.
If another democratic candidate jumps in and slam dunk the election, I am OK with that.
Adam Schiff? hell, Lawrence ODonnell, he does have political experience.
It's 'Bedtime for Clooney' for me.
Those tax cuts end next year I believe...
IF. Trump has vowed to keep the tax cuts and Biden not so freaking much. Estimates are Clooney saved over $7 Million due to these tax cuts in 2018 alone. Money talks, and talks and talks.
You have to remember that Clooney has been a big supporter & fundraiser for Biden, just recently held that big fundraiser for him in L.A. with Julia Roberts.
Rich white men who own the media are creating the story! Jeff, you’re nailing it again. Keep exposing these fuckers.
Right. 👍
Rock On Jeff, we need your voice. 💙
The corporate media (et tu, MSNBC?) is not in the news business. They're in the click business. The media has become the propaganda arm of MAGA world because it's been overtaken by billionaires who would rather burn down the country than be regulated or pay taxes. The good news is that the NYT and WaPo are hemorrhaging readers. Joe Kahn can kiss my non-subscribing ass. We cancelled last week. Buck up, everybody. I understand that there are powerful forces arrayed against us. We're going to win anyway.
What really disturbs me, is this all feels so ORCHESTRATED!
We're rolling along with the usual shit from the usual people until the DEBATE. But polls show, that neither candidate's numbers really changed immediately after that debate...in fact, if anything, Biden's may have gone up a bit based on content.
But Biden's poor showing unleashes the flood of not only the usual shit from the crackpots and the loony-tunes, but also the high-minded patronizing twaddle from Democratic "Influencers', actors, elites, various Congressional members, and others. As soon as one wave goes through, there is another.
It's the feeling of looking around and just waiting to be smacked again by the next wave...who's waiting in the wings to pummel Biden and the rest of us next? When will it stop?
After the Democratic Convention...or is this going to be a thing from now on?
It is orchestrated!!
I, for one, believe it is. Again, not about President Biden's age but rather the color and gender of our VP. "They" were okay with her as VP as long as POTUS stayed or appeared healthy, but now? Not so much.
It is orchestrated if you mean the Biden-bashing is a matter of policy. I don't think CNN, Washpo, NYT are coordinating, but their CEOs have the same goal. May I make a suggestion so you don't feel smacked again? Turn away from the news. If something truly important happens, you'll hear about it. The rest is just crazy-making noise.
The same half a dozen MAGA morons have been making the rounds of the Sunday morning 'news' shows for at least 2 years now, asking the same morons the same questions over and over again,which they never actually answer,just go on with their 'Democrat Derangement Syndrome'
My anxiety is killing me.
Walking outside and then writing postcards to swing states helps keep me sane. Take care of yourself. We need you.
I am slogging through Project 2025, alternating with checking my email, and texting with my daughter whose flight is delayed, and my friend who is trying to arrange travel plans for her son, and my political action group Democrats Abroad, while someone is working on my house in the background.
Dang! I’m relying on trusted smart folks to help me process Project 2025.
Heck- you’re as busy as Joe!
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I need a Xanax.
Forget Xanax. I want handfuls of Klonopin, at the highest strength they manufacture. I may be comatose, but at least I won’t be suffering from terminal anxiety!😬
There isn’t enough alcohol to get me through election night.
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I’ve been taking gummies. They help.
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Thank sky daddy for making weed.
Make mine a double.
Me too
I just wrote that I'm anxious all. the. fucking. time. I feel for you.
Some people have good results with Rescue Remedy; I don't really feel much from it. At night I take 2mg melatonin + Calms Forte (from Hylands), and when I wake up in the middle of the night, I take Sleep Calm (from Boiron). I buy from Vitacost, which has a big supply + good prices, but it's owned by Kroger so it probably has lousy labor practices. (Bc I'm ill and out of work, I have to seek discounts; otherwise I'd buy from my local organic market.)
How the hell are we supposed to get through the next 4 months?
I am going to take a long run in the summer heat, hope to get heat stroke and be in a coma until November 5th when I wake up, cast my ballot (blue up and down).
I feel like every character in Star Wars: I have a bad feeling about this...
'So this is how democracy dies...to thunderous applause??'
Senator Almadala, 'Star Wars'...hold my lightsaber...
I've been reading a lot more sci fi (Ann Leckie's Ancillary Sword right now). It helps, believe it or not. The audio book especially.
So far that's a genre that doesn't speak to me, but I appreciate being reminded to read. Thank you.
I recommend, to everyone, the Open Library -- it's free, it requires only an email address and a password, and it provides access to a ***staggering*** number of books. (I'm trying to sell about 700 of my books -- medical debt -- and letting them go is less painful bc at least I can find them at the Open Library.)
Thanks again.
Great resource, ty! Libby is free, download the app. Local library has lots of free ebooks. www.gutenberg.org. 70k free books, great for older, no longer available reads. Free.
I just finished The Book of Fire; beautifully written, a teeny bit mystery but mostly about loss. It still has a hopeful message.
I was pretty obsessed with 'Westworld' for a time, Michael Cricton I believe,I've watched it about 5 times. The humans really suck,but get overthrown by the bots, utopia and harmony and peace and whatnot you would think but... there's a problem with the bots also IMHO,any technology created by humans, eventually will be imbued with the same flaws humans have,a human resistance movement rises up to overthrow the bots,this cycle actually repeats a few times...it's a very dark statement about humanity and technology,and what I like about good sci-fi,it makes you think...
Pets, nature, friends with no politics talk, games, reading, puzzles.
What Susan New said.
At this point supporting the NYT is akin to sending a donation to the trump campaign.
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I feel like the world has gone mad over one piece of shit in a skin suit. I get how this happens in other countries but how does it happen in a democracy? How can one man possibly be allowed to create this much chaos? It’s scary and infuriating.
MEDIA LIES and PROPAGANDA, on cable (Fox) and internet and cellular data networks, has proven to be very good at influencing people's opinions on subjects they're ignorant of. In an uninformed population susceptible to lies and misinformation (again, due to ignorance) this is the result. The main flaw in democracy, an uninformed electorate.
Trump has been a useful idiot/tool who doesn't need to think or understand, he just has to be malleable and supportive of the RWNJ agenda, which is being pushed by and benefits the oligarchy that owns so much of what we consume. They don't want taxes or regulation. Trump wants to be a two-term president/dictator who will never spend a day in prison. And the christo-fascist/white supremacist alliance is a big part of this, and they want to have power over everyone else. It's shocking, but like child abuse, it is vitally important that we don't look away. Thank you for listening to my tED talk.
And understand the 'oligarchy' and 'plutocracy' isn't some un-named,
dark-money group,we know their names... it's Musk, Zuckerberg,Bezos,
Walton,Murdoch,
Koch,Leo and Crowe,ya know,the clowns who own half the wealth of the entire country,and leave Americans fighting for their scraps,the clowns who are using their bought and paid for MAGA courts to subvert democracy,and using their media empires to con Americans into accepting it.
MONEY
In France and England they've put a stop to their right-wing populist movements,by uniting their various political parties to defeat them at the ballot box. The MAGAs,Christians and Trump realized the GOP was losing the support of the American people at the ballot box,and they think the solution was to divide Americans,and make them turn on each other.
Sadly, you are correct. The Maga cult believe in divide and conquer. These looney toons with their Project 2025 agenda don’t get it— they will be getting crushed like the rest of us by the 1%! Fuck you to these neo-Nazi fascists !
If the NYT had fair and honest reporting there wouldn’t be a need for all this nonsensical garbage. But no.
I never thought I would be witnessing the end of the nation my father fought for. It’s like Germany during the rise of Hitler and Nazi nationalism. Elected officials, judges, religious leaders, all throwing their morals out the window to follow a sick, twisted, corrupt, evil, incompetent, traitorous man, vying to be a dictator. Americans should be ashamed and embarrassed for what they’ve allowed to happen! Americans should be fighting tooth and nail for what our fathers died to save!
you put your email as your name? be careful!
If they are seeking clicks. Stop clicking. Save them for Biden positive articles.
Left Twitter last year,(It's called X now...NO ONE CALLS IT THAT!!),and left FB a couple of months ago, social media wants your data to manipulate for their 'chaos algorithms', don't give it to them.
I'm with you. I'm getting my news here and threads
The press and other media honchos are so excited to watch our democracy fall into the hands of kooks, fuckwits, assholes and other assorted goblins so they can make more money! The song from Cabaret comes to mind: https://youtu.be/4JDWJzKYfdc?feature=shared
What are you going to do with all that sweet, sweet moolah when you’re rotting in Gitmo?
Kay-El, that Cabaret song popped into my head when I started reading Jeff’s post! It seemed daunting as to how many “money, money”’s I’d need to type to get the point across.
Trump’s memory is the only part of his rotted brain that the owners of the Times should really fear ,he will never ever forget what they’ve said about him prior to this election cycle he’s not letting them slide for backing him now he doesn’t know what gratitude is!
I’ve stopped trying to understand what’s happening with news outlets. I just know they’ve decided together that women do not deserve rights, so they’re out to dismantle the system that allows all Americans the same rights.
They are all disgusting and I don’t waste my time. I know I’m voting straight Democratic Party, encouraging others to do the same. That’s what I can do.
I hate these fuckers.
Every time I read what the media is saying through someone else, since I dropped my subscriptions to these overpriced rags, with shit for brains editors, I just cannot believe that they did not read the stories about Khashoggi, or Gershkovich. Hitler supposedly had 400 on his hit list, I mean revenge list. He had a tea party for his administrators and their families at his home, while a hit squad went out and killed every single one of his enemies. I am sure Trump wants to have 400 on his list too since he is such a big fan of Hitler.
Another thing to remember about Hitler, is that even at the END of the war, after he was dead, he STILL had about 30% approval rating among German citizens! Some people will just never, ever, change their minds about their cult leaders
I know. I just watched this piece on DW in English. https://www.dw.com/en/austrian-right-wing-extremist-to-hold-forth-in-berlin/a-69628702?maca=en-newsletter_en_bulletin-2097-xml-newsletter&at_medium=Newsletter&at_campaign=EN%20-%20Daily%20Bulletin&at_dw_language=en&at_number=20240711&r=67371022536962687&lid=3025387&pm_ln=258881
Yes. White Supremacists abound. Living in Germany with brown skin I am so aware of this. Heather Cox Richardson was just saying yesterday when she was talking to Democrats Abroad that you will always have around 30 percent who are this out there group, and then you may have another 15 percent who are disgruntled for special reasons. That was about the percentage that Hitler got 33% got him in, because Hindenburg caved into pressure to appoint him. One of the reasons I am ignoring the media, because I have watched the masses be on the wrong side of an issue, and I usually avoid joining.
They've outlawed displaying swastikas in Germany since the war,now the neo-nazis show their hate by waving Confederate flags.
Guess it's time to re-write the history books and change "Murderous" Fascists of WW2 to "Disruptive" Fascists of WW2.
It's seems to me that the "You've done a great job, but Fuck off Biden" crowd is winning. I'll give it until after the post GQP convention poll bounce trump will get; before they force the issue. Then we can have two civil wars, one within the democratic party. Then, once that causes us to lose, a second trying to get our country back. Yes, we're fucked.
Gawd, I hope not.