Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills): 11/10/24

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Crazy Kari Lake

Isaiah's latest THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Kristi Noem Wants To Be At Home In Homeland Security"

So Kari Lake has lost yet again. Ronald J. Hansen (ARIZONA REPUBLIC) reports that Ruben Gallego won:

By Tuesday afternoon, half a day after Gallego clinched the Senate race, Lake still had not conceded. She has yet to concede her 2022 gubernatorial loss as well.

“Kari Lake is a case unto herself,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.

“She is still refusing to concede the election for governor. It’s just laughable. … The way she comes across, there’s just an arrogance that just turns people off.”

Some of her supporters have rejected the notion of voters who supported both Trump and Gallego. Others can’t fathom how she could lose when Trump won relatively handily. And they point to the money Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s allies denied her in a race she lost by a little more than 2 percentage points.

MAGA crazies. Give them enough space and maybe they'll kill one another. Otherwise, we are so deeply screwed.

Closing with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

Wednesday, November 12, 2024. The failure that is our 'independent' media -- CNN brings on a guest who lies about Kamala and THE MAJORITY REPORT rushes to praise it. Actions have consequences and the same sorry ass 'independent' beggar media ("SEND MONEY! ALWAYS, ALWAYS SEND MONEY!") knows how to beg but it doesn't know how to inform.

You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you
All those pretty lies pretty lies
When you gonna realize they're only pretty lies
Only pretty lies just pretty lies

-- "The Last Time I Saw Richard," written by Joni Mitchell, first appears on her album BLUE, live version above is from this year's JONI MITCHELL ARCHIVES, VOL. 4: THE ASY.UM YEARS (1976-1980).

Pretty men who tell you all those pretty lies, pretty lies, when you gonna realize they're only pretty lies?

For me it was last night when I was about to post a YOUTUBE video of THE MAJORITY REPORT but the Spidey sense tingled. So I streamed first.

Garbage.

No one needs to hear from these idiots. Yes, her pigment was darker but, no, she did not speak for Black women -- just like Bri-Bri never spoke for Black women.

Bri-Bri -- like Sammy Seder and THE VANGUARD BOYZ -- fell in love with Bernie Sanders. With Bri-Bri, she at least came to some sort of sense on Bernie -- though it appeared to take him trashing her for her do come to her senses. I remember when Bernie walked away from Cenk. But he didn't rash Cenk. He didn't give statements about Cenk.

But he went to town on Bri-Bri. What was so different about Joy Gray?

Oh, that's right, she's Black.

THE VANGAURD BOYZ never know what they're talking about. They're young, fine. Hopefully, in ten years, if they're still doing what they're doing, they'll be honest about what they saw with their own eyes.

Sam is not young. And to watch his garbage right now is very difficult for me. Brings up arguments I had with Janeane back when Sam was her co-host.

Is Sam being honest with you? Because he wasn't after the 2004 election. No, he brought on Simon Rosenberg -- a centrist who wanted the Democrats to abandon support for abortion and wanted them to shove gays aside.

I give Rachel Maddow a lot of grief. But as AIR AMERICA RADIO promoted Simon Rosenberg's garbage -- he appeared on multiple shows in a matter of days -- Rachel was the only one who stood up to him.

Sam? Sam fluffed for him and so did Bill Scher. Bill was Sam's co-host that note. And let's note that. Janeane was the reason that show was on the air. If she was off due to whatever reason (usually an acting role), why are you bringing on Bill Scher. I'm sorry, when did AIR AMERICA RADIO ever have a shortage of male on airs?

Never.

I don't want to get lost in the weeds here. We have ignored Sam over and over. An intervention was done and I agreed to give him another look. And I thought, "Well, he has grown a little."

And the campaign started and we got a lot of garbage from Sam.

I ignored it.

I'm not going to ignore this garbage.

Let me tell you what Sam would say in response: If you didn't like what you heard, that's your answer.

When he -- and Bill Scher -- refused to stop Simon Rosenberg when Simon was lying non-stop, that was his 2004 answer.

It is 20 years later, Sam Seder. Grow the f**king hell up.

You're doing garbage in the post-election period again. It's the same garbage -- the same useless garbage that you did -- after the 2004 election.

You're not offering anything of vale, you're not offering insight. All you're doing is what you did then -- served up platitudes and conventional wisdom and passed it off as insight.

The clip he played was from CNN. A professional, acceptable to CNN Black woman was a guest. Right away, know to stop, know to listen very carefully. CNN isn't Roland S. Martin. Roland will bring on a variety of Black women. CNN just wants the one trained to speak in that conventional wisdom.

She was on to critique Kamala which was really about redirecting the Democratic Party.

She didn't know a damn thing and that's why she constantly hedged -- or did no one at THE MAJORITY REPORT notice that?

Did Kamala never say "working class"? The house pet CNN brought on raised that issue -- wasn't asked, raised it. But she qualified it with "as far as I know." Weasel words because facts didn't matter, it was about getting her attack in.

It's the same nonsense -- and Roland's called this out and Karen Hunter has called this out -- that people are using to water down the Democratic Party.

I know this is hard for Zac and Cody and the other youngsters to believe but Bernie is not a god. He's not even a decent person.

Decent people don't give their lives to public service jobs and end up millionaires. Bernie's got over three million dollars. How did he get the money?

Not by being a threat to the world of corporations.

Here's what the toddlers don't grasp: Bernie talks a good game frequently.

Talks.

Does?

He never does anything. Now back in the day, when he was in the House of Representatives and progressive were rightfully outraged by his failure to ever actually deliver (or fight for that matter). And what we were told back then was that due to being a member of the House of Representatives, he was limited by the fact that he had to run for office every two years. He'd show up in documentaries and Robert Greenwald's 'documentaries' and make statements that he never followed up on. Then he got the Senate. How long are people going to make excuses for him?

I stopped when he chaired a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing. We were there to cover the issue. And the press was there for another issue. The VA was keeping two sets of books. Veteran care was appalling and the wait lists were appalling. So the VA was keeping the true wait time book and the false one that they had been providing to Congress.

And what did Bernie do that morning? Please grasp that veterans were dying due to lack of care. This was a huge scandal. And Bernie insisted, in his opening remarks, that the focus would not be on the emerging story and asked that those on the Committee stay on topic -- the topic being holistic health care.

Veterans are dying and the VA has been caught lying. Lying to our government representatives and president and lying to the people.

And Bernie's more interested in holistic healthcare.

That's when I stopped making excuses for fake ass Bernie.

He might have made a great president in 2020. If he had, it would have been due to the people behind him -- his supporters -- and not due to Bernie.

His remarks this week were racist. Not surprising, he's over 80 years old.

Remember Ralph Nader. Remember him in 2008? Running against Barack Obama and Ralph using terms like "ghetto" and using the term blindly and repeatedly anytime he was asked about any issue effecting Black people? And people thinking Ralph was out of touch and racist. Ralph was only in his 70s.

"Working class"? Kamala did use the term. She was more often using the term "working families."

You might not like it, I might not like it. It was used because it was poll tested and this was done before Zac and Cody even got out of diapers.

Now if we want to have a conversation -- post-election -- about terms, let's do that. But let's be honest about it.

Black women turned out in this election. And no one wants to explore that Danielle, Olay, Tabitha and so many more strong Black women could be a part of this conversation taking place right now -- could be and should be.

But they were taken for granted before the election, taken for granted during the election cycle and are still being taken for granted when we pretend we want answers.

We don't want real answers. Sam doesn't want real answers. He wants to jawbone about conventional wisdom. I have been told Sam is incredibly intelligent. I would love for that to be accurate. But nothing I see right now speaks of anything more than a half-wit.

Currently, the election results are Kamala got 48.1% of the vote and Donald got 50.2% of the vote. You wouldn't know that by the coverage and the hand wringing.

By all means, wring the hands over what Donald's going to do. But this isn't a mandate and it's not a landslide -- and thank you to Lawrence O'Donnell who points this out when everyone else ignores it. Here he is from last night.

Let's also note that currently, only 79% of votes have been counted in California.

That's not,: SO IT COULD HAVE BEEN STOLEN!

I don't like that kind of argument. I don't like it because it gives people false hope.

I had no problem with Donald wanting recounts in 2020. I never slammed him for it. I did repeatedly point out that after the electoral college votes, that's it. It didn't matter if 24 hours after that vote took place, he found 80,0000 votes in a close state. The popular vote does not elect the president. The electoral college does. I thought even Donald could grasp that but I was wrong.

So I don't have a problem calling for a recount. That's part of the process.

But I do not believe in false hope. And I also think it's a really easy out to say, "They rigged it!"

Now they may have and I may look like an idiot. But I've seen this game too many times. Bev Harris, remember her? She could prove it, she knew about the voting machines, she knew this and she knew that and she raised so much money and then where did she go? A lot of people were seriously misled by her and lived in denial for a period of time as a result.

When I noted earlier this week that I didn't care for this kind of talk, an e-mail came in saying, "I bet you didn't even check to see if your vote was counted!"

No, I didn't. And not because my vote could still be in the counting process -- I hadn't thought about that when I dismissed going online to check. I've got other things to do and I remember Bev Harris -- briefly an AIR AMERICA RADIO regular on multiple shows. And nothing came of that.

We don't have a lot of time to gather our wits. We have to be willing to fight, if we're going to fight. ("I can do both!" Then do both. I'm not telling you not to. I'm saying I have no proof or even an indication that the vote was stolen. So I have other things to do.)

In addition to the false hopes that would be created by my making 'rigged!' a focus, there's also the fact that it prevents a very serious issue from being discussed: Racism.

I would love to believe that the vote was rigged. The alternative, which is what I believed happened, was that racism and sexism is much, much higher in the US than I'd like to admit.

Ava and I wrote "Media: White supremacy won the 2024 election (Ava and C.I.)" on Sunday.

Racism played a huge part. And that's why I'm really not in the mood for corporate house pets -- as opposed to strong Black women -- being invited to these discussions in the few times that any Black woman gets invited.

And you need to understand, you Sam Seders, that this is the wrong damn time to write off Black women. You're not listening. You're not listening to the hurt and the betrayal. And you're not anticipating what can very easily happen: Black women walk away.

There is so much hurt.

If your eyes were opened you saw it over and over. The standard for Kamala. And Van Jones was right when he noted that Donald just had to appear lawless but Kamala had to be flawless. But it went far beyond what anybody wants to talk about.

And I think that's because a lot of White people want to keep their heads down. That's not going to make us forgive you. We saw what we saw. And we might be forgiving of some of it if you could get honest about what the hell you did.

Sam, THE MAJORITY REPORT was never fair to Kamala. You weren't constantly attacking her the way THE NATION and DEMOCRACY NOW! were. But you also weren't fair. You weren't. promoting Jill Stein which is why it was so troubling to watch you work from her talking points.

Gaza! Gaza! Gaza!

Israel has been one of the US government's closest allies. That's a historical relationship. Should it exist? A number of Americans questioned that after the Israeli government attacked the USS LIBERTY in 1967.

You were part of the stupid chorus of WhyOhWhy when your damn well old enough to know why and it was your job to impart it to your audience.

Those who want a cease-fire could have one kicking by the end of January if they'd voted for Kamala. That would not have solved any issues, by the way.

Let me explain something, if we're older the only thing we have is knowledge and it's our job to share with those younger. Those younger people have more drive and more rush to them. When the two groups work well together, change happens.

In 2006, during a roundtable, I said I wanted to be offline by 2008 and that it was too bad US troops would still be in Iraq at that point. Jim was a college student then and he immediately shared his opinion that there was no way we would still be in Iraq in 2008.

I could have been wrong -- I often am -- but Jim had passion and idealism and so much more on this side. I had what I'd lived through working on various issues. My point was not to tell him, "Don't work on this issue!" My point was to share how things historically worked.

At the time, we had reached a tipping point in public opinion, yes. But we were nowhere where we needed to be. Now everyone went home after the November 2008 election -- UFPJ was the first to close shop -- votes were still being counted but that useless group announced all was well and they were shutting down.

And US troops are still on the ground in Iraq. Still. It's 2024.

Israel is an apartheid state. And the millions of us around the world who worked on dismantling apartheid in South Africa? We know it's not an overnight process.

Dusty Springfield visited South Africa in 1964 four a tour that refused to honor apartheid. Once in the country, the racist government thought they could push her around. Mixed audiences? Oh no. Dusty stood her ground and the issue got a lot more attention as the tour was cancelled and press outlets that didn't usually explain that a minority White population was controlling, suppressing, attacking and discriminating the Black population.

Apartheid didn't end in 1964. Not only that, but a lot of people who didn't have Dusty's courage performed in Sun City.

That's Little Steven's project, Artists United Against Apartheid's "Sun City." Now Dusty really kicked it off for the UK and the US in 1964. But Little Steven's project was especially needed.

Little Steven was joined by Miles Davis, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Darlene Love, Pat Benatar, Bono, The Fat Boys, Peter Gabriel, George Clinton, Bobby Womack, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, RUN DMC, Kurtis Blow, Nona Hendryx, Ruben Blades, Ringo Starr, Herbie Hancock, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Hall & Oates, Gil-Scott-Heron and many others -- Clarence Clemons has to get a shout out.

That was 1985.

And 1986 was when Paul Simon broke the cultural boycott and then lied about it claiming permission and approval he did not have. Yet he went on to win Grammys -- multiple -- for that piece of crap GRACELAND you-call-me-buddy-and-buddy-when-you just shut up, your garbage dumpster. It was the same crap Paul had been doing without Art for years and it was tired and it was garbage but he used Africa to dress it up.

No one was asking the young people in the US to stop protesting genocide or apartheid. But they should have been provided with basic information which did include that you haven't done nearly enough work to take us to where you want us to be. That there are so many ingrained issues and that this is not a one week project.

As non-college students, it was the role of those of us older and more experienced to share perspective.

Now the professional Gaza Freaks -- the ones behind Abandon Biden and then Abandon Harris -- were liars and they have blood on their hands.

They lied and they knowingly lied and your proof there is Abandon Biden started months and months ago. They knew when they started it that the genocide would continue well into the election and they suspected it would continue beyond it.

Time didn't matter to them then. Maybe because of that the fact that they weren't really doing a damn thing in Dearborn or Hamtramck but feeding off the work of students across the country. And the students went home for the summer and nothing got done. No massive protests, no nothing.

To get from point A to point B on this issue was going to require a lot of work and a bit more time.

And the media -- left media like THE NATION, THE PROGRESSIVE, et al -- wasn't honest about that. Nor was the left media honest about the power of the vote.

I'm all for "the power of no." I've used it throughout my life, often gotten better money as a result of it.

But if I really want a role and I say "no" over some issue or condition, I damn well know I might not get my way. I damn well better be ready to live with my decision.

No one bothered to explain that to a number of people.

Certainly not in historical terms.

So you decide not to vote for the person who could help you.

That's your right.

I'd argue you also had the right to note what the result was going to be.

GoodyWhore doesn't care about your rights. She had Ralph Nader on in September and again this month.

It was a different Ralph Nader. He didn't boo-hoo like he did in the past when he'd be on camera. Boo-hoo, the Democrats won't take me calls, boo-hoo I'm not welcome at Public Citizen even though I started the organization. Boo-hoo, no one cares about helping me with my issues. Boo hoo, Johnny Carson no longer invites me on THE TONIGHT SHOW.

That was a fairly standard cry baby whine from Ralph after the 2000 election.

Actions have consequences. Amy GoodyWhore of DEMOCRACY NOW! pimped Ralph in real time -- no, not covered, pimped. And she bring him on repeatedly this year and the only purpose for that would be for him to get honest.

Because of his nonsense, over a million Iraqis died. That's what he delivered to America with his nonsense run. And it destroyed him.

These crazies on the left who have media control do a world of damage. Tomas Young is one example. They really needed him to die to make some sort of political statement that they were too chicken s**t to make for themselves -- they being people like Chris Hedges and Ralph Nader. They egged him and it ended up in a place where he's announcing he's going to end it. He didn't. Better people, smarter people spoke with him and explained that he didn't owe these vultures anything.

He would go on to live another year.

I don't deride or attack anyone for taking their own life. I'm smart enough to grasp that I can't peer into their soul and no their pain. By the same token, I'm not talking people into taking their own life for a media stand -- which is what Ralph and Chris did, let's be clear.

A wounded man in pain and all they can do is encourage it even when looking in Tomas' eyes made it clear that he did not wish to end his life in 2013.

These are the people you have turned to way too often and relied. It doesn't seem to matter to any of you that Serial plagiarist Chris Hedges is brought on by Katie Halper and other assholes to yammer away today and he's treated as a trusted source. Trusted people -- or people worthy of trust are not egging a wounded, young veteran to take his own life. You need to be watching the way these stories are (mis)covered because way too often, you've got a lot of ego on the part of the 'journalist' or 'host' and you're not really getting the actual story.

But actions have consequences

And because one group was selfish, now multiple groups are at risk. The Mayor Dearborn has taken to whining because Black people have started their boycotts of Muslim owned businesses. That's not racism, though the Mayor of Homophobia is trying to pretend it is.

No, your selfish actions were a failure.

That's not in dispute.

You have not helped the Palestinian people one bit with your actions and, in fact, you've harmed them. You've put someone who does not see them as human into the White House and he's now making the most anti-Palestinian man you can think of -- Mike Huckabee -- in charge as the US Ambassador to Israel. Mike Huckabee? He's been out of the public eye so long many of us thought his daughter Sarah, on yet another binge eating marathon, must have ate him.

But, no, he's still around. And it's not just that he hates the Palestinians. It's also that he wants armed war because he believes that's how Armageddon comes about.

So, yeah, you failed big time. Own it.

But that's not the only way you failed.

Immigrants in this country and those that look like immigrants? You going to pray to Allah for forgiveness when others are removed from this country? Women? You going to cry for their rights gone? The erasing of slavery from the history books, you going to cry for that too? The attacks on the Dept of Education, the attacks on very rights and our democracy.

Do you get what your "no" resulted in?

And that's what you filth beggar media forgot to tell you.

Forgot? Refused.

You took Jill Stein's terms and ran with them. Gaza was never the only damn issue. I think you can scroll through COMMON DREAMS' headlines today and grasp that. But that's what you constantly badgered Kamala about. Kamala who wasn't president. She needs to do this for Gaza Freaks and that for Gaza Freaks.

No, she didn't. Nor could she. If Gaza Freaks (supposed activists in the US whose actions only harm the Palestinian people) wanted Israel denounced and verbally savaged, there were just as many people -- probably more, who wanted Kamala to savage the Palestinians. She had three months to campaign. And she had to get voters and, woops, you don't get voters by screaming GAZA GAZA GAZA!

I believe Jill Stein's loser campaign made that clear with its ridiculous results.

Jill was never going to win. That's not why Donald Trump supported Jill. They wanted Jill to chip away at support on the left, they wanted Jill to destroy enthusiasm on the left thereby lowering voter turnout.

Now Zac and Cody were just discovering what their little boy pee-pees could do when Barack ran for office. But Sam can remember, Amy Goodman can remember.

We were told, of his campaign, that it was so important and so monumental and that boys who weren't White were finally going to see that they could be president, that they could be anything in this world.

And Bill Moyers and Amy Goodman and so many others did segment after segment on this.

What about Black girls?

Because what those of us paying attention this go round was that the same media was not offering that. Was not talking about inspiring or important.

And if you want to be really honest, they didn't do it in 2008 -- not for women. DEMOCRACY NOW!, CONSORTIUM and all the others got behind how important it was for a Black man to be president for Black boys. But they attacked and savaged Hillary. And if she brought up her gender, they especially attacked her. That's 2008 during that primary.

And, we saw it again with Kamala. No one got starry eyed in left media over what her win might mean for girls of color.

No one cared.

We're not supposed to notice that though.

And we're not supposed to notice that Sam's found time yet again to attack Kamala.

We're not supposed to notice.

And that's why I'm not in the mood for Sam Seder to amplify garbage from CNN. Not to critique, but to sign off on it. I'm not in the damn mood.

I will note though that Sam's yet again pimping a critique against Kamala.

As I look back on that campaign, the worst day it ever had was October 1st.

That's when a smug JD Vance lied on stage non-stop and Tim Walz suffered from sweat flop and appeared drugged out and insane.

And no one wants to talk about that. You'll didn't want to talk about it when it happened.

"Oh, he looked so nice up there, it's going to win over voters."

I called that lie out on October 2nd, the morning after. There is only one job for the v.p. nominee and that is to bloody the other party. John Edwards understood it. Cheney and Bush were anti-LGBTQ? John Edwards brought Mary Cheney. Lloyd Bentsen telling Dan Quayle, "Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy." Over and over, that's what the VP does. It was considered iffy in 2008 because Joe Biden was going against Sarah Palin and the country had enough sexism by that point so Joe was a bit hamstrung but even Joe delivered.

Tim Walz should have immediately announced he was stepping aside. "For health reasons" -- after that debate, no one would have argued with him on that. That was the worst moment of the campaign.

And now we want to look back on it and all we've got to offer is Kamala did this and this and this?

We don't want to point out that Tim Walz went on stage and looked like a crazy psycho. Not only did he look crazy and out of touch, he scored no points. JD won that debate.

But let's talk instead focus on Kamala and "working class" and lie that she never said it.

And if that's not clear enough to you, Sam Seder, THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY has an article about how Kamala did court the working class:

One week later and the Democratic Party’s self-flagellation continues.

“We don’t listen enough; we tell people what’s good for them,” scolded Senator Chris Murphy on X. “Listen to poor and rural people, men in crisis. Don’t decide for them.”

“No one is listening to anything else you say if you try to talk them out of their lived experiences with data points from some economists,” Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez lectured in a New York Times interview.

“The reason we didn’t win ultimately is we didn’t listen enough to people on the ground,” Representative Ro Khanna claimed on CBS’s Face The Nation. “People like [Representatives] Chris Deluzio, Pat Ryan, who were saying, talk about the economy. Talk about people’s economic struggles,” .

This is, to quote Joe Biden one last time, malarkey.

Kamala Harris absolutely listened to working-class voters. She heard their frustrations about high prices; developed a set of policies designed to improve the affordability of groceries, housing, and health care; and centered them in her speeches and ads.

Working-class voters, however, didn’t listen to her, nor what Donald Trump had to say about prices. He repeatedly pledged to raise prices with tariffs on all imported goods. He even dreamed of a future that resembled the past: a federal government largely funded by sky high tariffs, instead of progressive income taxes.

That's just the opening. And, by the way, Sam Seder, before you dismiss this article that goes against everything CNN's house pet said -- the remarks you praised -- check out the byline -- it's your old buddy Bill Scher writing that article. Your buddy Bill who, on December 10, 2004, co-hosted THE MAJORITY REPORT with you as you let Simon Rosenberg -- a racist, a sexist and a homophobe -- lie and lie and lie. (See "Questions for the questionable Simon Rosenberg" from December 9, 2004 for what was known before the day before that interview took place.)

Black women are hurting right now. Some won't be coming back to activism in the immediate future. There's a healing that needs to take place and it won't happen with lies and distortions. If you honest to God want to talk the election, want to figure out what went wrong, you need to talk to Black women. But, look around, and note that yet again while on the left we say we support DEI, we don't do it on our media. And that's why YOUTUBE programs for the left are so overwhelmingly White. And in 2024, it is damn sorry that I'm having to point that out.

Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Junior Moves Into His New Office" went up last night. The following sites updated:

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

They made their choices, let 'em deal with it

Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Junior Moves Into His New Office" went up just a few minutes ago.

Don't you do it, Joe.

What? Don't you reward the people who have tanked our democracy. RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT:

A group of 60 national, state, and local organizations sent a letter to President Biden on Monday urging him to “hold Israel accountable to U.S. law [by] ending arms sales to Israel to protect U.S. interests, achieve a ceasefire, protect civilians, increase aid access in Gaza, and work towards a stable future for the region.”

The policy, humanitarian, and faith-based organizations — which include Amnesty International, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, and the Quincy Institute, publisher of Responsible Statecraft — expressed disappointment with Biden’s policy of “unconditional support of Israel paired with empty threats,” saying the policy has not yielded any meaningful results and serves to harm America’s global reputation.

Rather than curbing Israel’s actions, the signatories say the Biden administration has enabled it to bomb hospitals, schools, and residential areas, block humanitarian aid, and kill tens of thousands of civilians, journalists, and aid workers, all at the expense of the taxpayer.

The organizations say a letter sent by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Israeli Defense Secretary Yoav Gallant asking Israel to allow humanitarian aid in Gaza “provides an opportunity to course correct U.S. policy” and enforce U.S. law which would require the United States to withhold aid until humanitarian assistance is delivered.

F**k them, Joe. They didn't vote for Kamala. "Oh, they're right wing!" They largely are but they had one of the nastiest 'leftists' -- from JACOBIN -- Branko How Did I End Up With A Mandible Instead Of A Chin Marcetic writing for them. No, they wanted Trump, they got Trump.

They said Trump was better on Gaza and that Jill Stein was better on Gaza. Tell them to go f**k themselves. We Irish know how to help the people in need but we also know how to cut off the beggars who would just as soon stone us as wave to us. F**k them, they made their bed and they lie in it.

Don't forget, long before they became "Abandon Harris," they were "Abandon Biden." Joe, we all deserve better than a bunch of turncoats who vote to destroy democracy. They can deal with Donald, you've got serious issue to address in your final weeks of president.

They didn't want you. They didn't want Kamala. Now they've got tyrant Trump and Mike Huckabee -- that's hilarious. Let's see the Gaza Freaks get anything good out of Trump and Huckabee. And, for the uninformed, Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling (THE NEW REPUBLIC) explains:

This will be the first time that the two-term ex-governor has held a diplomatic post, and the nomination gives little indication that Trump has legitimate intentions to deescalate the war. Huckabee has been a vocal defender of Israel amid its lopsided conflict against Palestine. In June, he came out against a potential ceasefire deal between the two countries, arguing to NewsNation that Hamas should not be negotiated with and that the only solution for the war would be their complete surrender.

“This is like trying to negotiate with the Nazis in World War II. You just don’t,” Huckabee told the network. “You beat them. You defeat them. You eradicate them.”

This is you have. So Abandon Biden and Abandon Harris, make do. You brought this on, live with it.

Closing with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

Tuesday, November 12, 2024. Hiding behind his late life marriage and late life fatherhood Seth Moulton wants to kick others down, Trump's usurping the Senate, Black women are still being shut out of the conversation, and much more.

Let's start with big 'manly' Seth Moulton, a member of the US House of Representative and a long term contestant in WHAT'S MY SEXUALITY? Some argue he settled that question in 2017 when, at the age of 38, he finally found a woman to marry. But most of us said at the time, "Well he is planning to run for president in 2020." And he did. No one wanted him, but he did run.

He launched his attack on trans people last week. That could provide cover for his being gay -- if he was. At least for some people who don't grasp that he could be -- he certainly acts like one -- one of those big puffy chest conservative gay men who insult and trash trans men and women. Here's what Seth said and I'll respond every sentence or so.

I mean, here we are accusing Republicans of being weird and we're the ones who are suddenly requiring people to put pronouns in their email signatures

What's weird about that? It's perfectly normal and even more so if your name is Taylor or Drew or Bailey or Morgan or Alex or . . . Get the point, stupid? Even someone as stupid as you has to grasp that a man named Alex Smith doesn't want to be called "Ms Smith." Even you, you overgrown fat ass, has to grasp that, right.

As for "requiring"? There's no law. Which means it would be the company you work for making the requirement. Companies making requirements of their employees!!!!! OH my goodness, whoever heard of that happening.

I mean, that's kind of weird, to be honest. You know, we went through the whole gay rights movement.

Did you now? Do tell? And where did you lose your Pride virginity, big boy? I don't know about the rest of America but I guess I picture Seth on his knees, in a men's room, working the glory hole.

We went through the whole Civil Rights Movement. We never had to say "Seth Moulton: Straight" or Seth Moulton: "White."

Seth, I would be greatly surprised -- as someone who's met you and spoken with you -- if you ever, once in your life, introduced yourself as "Seth Moulton: Straight." But if you do, I pray that you will record it on your phone and then post it online because I could really use a good laugh.

You didn't go through the Civil Rights Movement, it's before your time. But actually, there were people passing and they did tend to get called out. You wouldn't know that because you're Big Stupid -- that's what the men who served with you called you, "Big Stupid." They called you other names too but let me bite my tongue.

And all of a sudden, we have to change all our values to meet the needs or demands of one very small minority group.

Saying he or she or they makes you change all your values? What values are those? Your refusal to adapt to growing society don't speak well for your post-marriage scenes. Maybe they'll forgive you if you do pig play?

So I think we just have to be able to have a real discussion about this.

The nation's been having that conversation for years now. Where were you? At the bathhouse?

Or maybe you were in hiding, trying to avoid questions about how you, the successful businessman, actually ran Eastern Healthcare Partners into the ground.

Hey, you know what, let's talk about that? Yeah, why don't you finally answer to that? Oh, rushing off already. Well give him my love, tell him I say "Hi!"

WIKIPEDIA notes:

Following Kamala Harris's loss in the presidential election, he expressed opposition to transgender participation in girls' sports, saying that he does not want his daughters "getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete."^[87] Following his remarks, his campaign manager resigned in protest, his comments were condemned by Salem mayor Dominick Pangallo and he faced protest from constituents.^[88] In an MSNBC interview, he refused to apologize and claimed the backlash "[proved] his point".^[89]

Got to work those two daughters in -- but no gay panic, you understand. I've made this point before -- many times -- but I'll make it again. People like Seth don't appear bothered by transgender athletes. They're bothered by male to female trans kids. When a female to male trans kid plays sports -- which is honestly what I've always seen much more of -- these same people like Seth don't give a damn and don't care about it. But aren't they fixed on 'protecting' girls (cis girls) -- Seth's kind of like Donald Trump, he's going to protect them whether they want it or not.

Speaking of whether they want it or not . . . Maureen Dowd's always struggled as a columnist. Always. Facts are hard for MoDo. She's now signed off with Seth in her latest column so it's a good time to point out that the 72-year-old needs to be put out to pasture. That should apply to many columnists getting paid for a job that someone younger could be doing. But it especially applies to Maureen who's always tried to fudge the facts by falling back on pop culture references. At 72, she's really outlived that and it's time for some new blood. 72? What am I saying, she's 73 in January. Get her a gold watch and show her where the exit door is.

She's got a massive ego on her, Dowd, and she thought aligning herself with Sue Mengers was the way to go as the '00s wound down. It only made it clear to those of us in the entertainment community that Dowd was dead. She's had no real importance or traction since then. Nor could she. She is, in fact, as dead as any film on Sue. Remember that? Sue was going to have a big comeback. So sorry. Sue's racism was popular in the seventies but those of us who weren't racist ensured that she never had a comeback -- not in the 80s or the 90s or the '00s when Maureen (and Tina Fey) tried to adopt her. Yes, Bette Midler did star in that play. And, yes, the lie was that the play was a hit -- or some tried to pretend it was a hit.

It was a one act play with only one character so I'm sure it broke even. But hit plays? They don't run less than three months. Bette also starred in HELLO DOLLY which was a hit -- 550 performances.

Every now and then another actress gets attached to an 'upcoming' film about Mengers. But, again, she was a racist and the project tends to hit a wall when that reality pops up. For example? Diana Ross was her client. Diana was dating Ryan O'Neal -- another Sue client. And one film after another that Diana was supposed to be the lead in would get recast with a White actress. Black people learned early on that the ultimate star f**ker Sue Mengers would f**k them over. But I am so very glad that Tina Fey (does 30 ROCK exist without all that racist humor -- excuse me, 'post racist' racist humor?) and Maureen Dowd were able to sit besides Sue Mengers on her throne. My only question? Did Sue provide them with white sheets to wear or did they bring their own?

Need another tidbit? Sue spent decades whining that her 'best friend' Barbra Streisand left her and how that destroyed her and upset her. Barbra had already heard Sue trash everyone else (trash them to Barbra). Some might have been tickled. A) Barbra's not big on gossip and B) when speaking with her manager, Barbra expected the focus to be on her career. But Barbra began to wonder did Sue trash her to Candy Bergen or Ali MacGraw or any of the others that Sue always trashed to Barbra. Barbra decided to trust her with a big secret (that was made up) to see if it got out. It did. Barbra had her answer and fired Sue. And then Sue began whining. I believe this part is in Barbra's book -- the part I'm about to note -- it was in an early version so my apologies if it didn't make it into the book. Barbra told Sue they could be friends and Sue screamed that why would she be friends with Barbra if Barbra wouldn't stay on as her client? So Sue's drama over Barbra leaving was always one big lie -- just like everything else about Sue. Except her feet. Her feet did stink and she ruined many a party by kicking her shoes off.

Donald Trump is the Sue Mengers of the federal government. He's already destroying himself before he gets sworn in. Last time it was the CIA. This time it's Republicans in the US Senate.

From ALL ABOUT EVE -- Bette Davis played Margo, Thelma Reed played Birdie. It's after a performance and Margo's assistant Eve (Anne Baxter) has picked up the costume and headed off from the dressing room.

Birdie: May I be so bold as to say something? Have you ever heard of the word "union"?

Margo: Behind in your dues? How much?

Birdie: I haven't got a union. I'm slave labor.

Margo: Well?

Birdie: But the wardrobe women have got one and, next to a tenor, a wardrobe woman is the touchiest thing in show business.

Margo: Oh, oh.

Birdie: She's got two things to do: carry clothes and press 'em wrong. And don't let anybody try to muscle in.

You know what's touchier than a wardrobe woman? A sitting US senator.

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling (THE NEW REPUBLIC) explains:

After 17 years in the hot seat, McConnell is expected to exit his post at the top of Senate Republican leadership on Wednesday, ending his run as the longest serving Senate party leader in U.S. history.

At the top of the billing to replace the 82-year-old are South Dakota Senator John Thune and Texas Senator John Cornyn, two establishment conservatives and longtime McConnell allies who have not always seen eye to eye with the president-elect.

Meanwhile, a gamut of Trump’s key allies, including Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, and Charlie Kirk, are aggressively lobbying for Florida Senator Rick Scott to take the helm. (Trump, notably, has so far avoided endorsing any of the contenders.) But the overzealous pressure campaign—which is also being pushed along by some far-right social media influencers and their harassment tactics—is on the verge of combusting, according to Politico.

That’s because most of the Senate Republican conference won’t have to face reelection until 2028 or later. On top of that, the vote is by secret ballot, ensuring that no one—from their constituents to MAGA’s top brass—will know if they voted for or against Trump’s candidate.

“Senators do not take kindly to having an army of social media trolls attack them,” one unnamed aide told Politico on Sunday, noting that the effort was only “pissing off senators whose votes Rick needs” to win.

And sitting US senators do not take kindly to anyone outside the Senate -- that includes a president -- attempting to tell them what to do. Now pair that with Kaia Hubbard (CBS NEWS) reporting:

As Senate Republicans prepare to vote Wednesday on new leadership for the upcoming Congress, President-elect Donald Trump is already weighing in with demands for the new majority leader regarding his Cabinet.

After a decisive victory in the 2024 elections, Trump is returning to the White House with a GOP-led Senate at his side. Senate Republican leaders are expected to ease the way for the president-elect's agenda and his Cabinet and judicial nominees. Trump has made it clear that he'd like his nominees to be installed immediately, suggesting that he may want the option to bypass the Senate's advice and consent role entirely.

Please note, that would be the Constitutionally assigned role of advice and consent. For the ignorant -- like Donald Trump -- let's not the Constitution:

Article II, Section 2, Clause 2:

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

When the most recent US senators were sworn in back in January of 2023 -- two years ago -- the median age was 65.3 years.

Wait. We have MAGA drive bys and you know they were homeschooled so let me explain median. Think of it as the midpoint. So half the US Senate, in 2023, was composed of senators under the age of 65.3 and half was composed of senators over the age of 65.3 -- 65.3 is the mid point.

And US senators are very territorial. And that's before you get to over half being over 65. So he wants to bypass them on advice and consent and he wants to be able to determine who will be the next Majority Leader -- something the Senate traditionally does all by itself.

Pushy and stupid, that's Donald Trump.

A Senate campaign? That's much more difficult than a House campaign (except in Alaska which has two senators and one member of the House of Representatives). They work very hard in those runs -- or at least hard for them -- and it being the upper house and it being a six year term, they tend to think they know better than others -- and that's before you factor in the issue of incumbency.

US senators do not like to be pushed around or talked to like their children. But there goes the idiot Trump antagonizing the Senate -- Republicans and Democrats -- before he even gets into the White House.

Where's the popcorn, right?

I went to COMMON DREAMS before I started dictating this snapshot and had a good, long laugh. Independent 'left' media trashed Kamala Harris day after day -- depressing and suppressing the vote. Month after month after month. COMMON DREAMS was one of those and they were the only one that we publicly called out who took a look at it and changed course.

That's the only reason I look at COMMON DREAMS now. I will note something from them if I think it helps this community. Others, I'm done with. But I do actively seek out stuff to note from COMMON DREAMS.

So I go there this morning and I can't stop laughing.

Where's the Jill Stein coverage? Remember Jill was so damn important and independent media had to pimp her like crazy.

There's not one story about the 'hero' Jill Stein today.

Headline after headline of panic. Joe needs to do this or that before he leaves office! This needs to happen! 57 groups call on the White House! Over and over.

I applaud you for taking a look at your coverage before the campaign concluded; however, don't you get now why you should have dropped that s**t?

We didn't need Norman Solomon sharing how he was voting for Jill Stein, did we?

No, we didn't.

If you could go back in time now, do you really think you would still publish those multiple attacks on Kamala Harris that COMMON DREAMS had each day?

This was a serious election. Much was at stake.

But they didn't care. THE NATION, THE PROGRESSIVE, IN THESE TIMES, DEMOCRACY NOW!, etc. They saw their purpose in ripping apart Kamala every day.

And now they're all shocked by what Trump's going to do.

You should have been paying attention in real time. You should have been focused on your own damn country. Your neighbor needs the lawn mowed? Fine. Take care of your own yard and then you can go help. But you take care of your own yard first.

I saw the COMMON DREAMS story about student's protesting Trump already. I had to wonder? How much force will greet their actions when Trump's sworn in?

I have to wonder all the lying Gaza Freak whores who misled young people on what was possible and who directed all the anger at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris -- not at the ICC, not at the United Nations, not at this, not at that -- are going to feel as immigrants are deported. As this country crumbles, I have to wonder.

Today, we look back at Nazi Germany and wonder how? How did it happen?

Our own Hitler happened because Katrina vanden Heuvel, Amy Goodman and others worked overtime to attack the only possible alternative to Donald Trump and to attack her day after day, every day in the three month lead up to the election.

That's why we're here now.

If the official figures are correct, we didn't turn out. Not just in enough numbers, we didn't turn out in the numbers we did in 2020.

We were discouraged from voting and that's the message beggar media put out -- remember that when they ask you to donate next. They have destroyed our country. There are people waking up in fear every day now.

And we don't need to hear Seth -- in the midst of his homosexual panic -- trashing transgender people -- voters who overwhelmingly showed up and voted for Kamala.

We don't need it.

Let me note again, that there are all these roundtables taking place -- THE DAILY BEAST just posted one with Samantha Bee as a co-host.

How stupid are they? How stupid do they think we are?

Black women were shut out during the campaign by the media and that's still the case when the so-called experts want to talk about what happened and what we do next.

Black women? Vote for Democrats. We won't give you a say, we won't listen to you. And when one of you runs for office, we won't call out DEMOCRACY NOW! or any other left platform that trashes the Black candidate every day. We'll look the other way.

That's what it says.

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Monday, November 11, 2024

Cream Puff Ali Albunimah fails the Palestinians yet again

I used to respect Nora Barrows-Friedman. Living in the Bay Area, I was familiar with her work on KPFA's FLASHPOINTS. I'm done with Nora.

I think we need to do this, those of us who supported democracy and Kamala. I think we need to go through our minds listing and explaining what and who betrayed the country. Ali Albunimah is the ugly man -- that face could kill a clock -- who works with Nora and he has the nerve to whine:

It's been almost a week since they lost the election and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have made no moves to stop their genocide in Gaza. This has never been 'just politics' for them, but a deep commitment to the extermination of Palestinians.

Ali, for those who don't know, is a cream puff born in the US. I was born in the US too, my relatives are Irish. If I chose Ireland over the US, I would deserve to be called out but we're all supposed to ignore Ali and his stupidity. Cream puff is too delicate to go to Palestine and fight for actual Palestinians. He's just a wittle bitty cream puff. Weak and insipid.

Why the hell would Joe and Kamala do a damn thing about the genocide?

You Gaza Freaks screwed your own damn selves. Just shut up and stay under your rocks and in your sewers.

The Palestinians are not going to appreciate you, they're going to be dead in even greater numbers and it is Ali's fault.

The Gaza Freaks refused to support democracy. They trashed Kamala and did everything they could to kill enthusiasm for Kamala. That's how Donald got re-elected.

Blood is on their hands because Donald Trump is no friend to Palestinians. I hope some of Ali's pro-Hamas speeches and videos emerge in the Trump administration. He can be deported for supporting terrorism. Ali, is that a surprise to you? Did you not grasp that Trump believes he can even deport US citizens and that the remarks you made in the last year are more than enough for him to deport you. You screwed yourself over while dooming Palestinians to death. Karma would be you being deported to Gaza and the very first day you are there you get shot by an Israeli sniper.

Closing with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

Monday, November 11, 2024. He didn't endorse Kamala, he didn't vote for her but he thinks he can now go on MSNBC and make demands from Democrats? Oh, hell no.

We don't link to trash so forget the garbage interview that Ayman Mohyeldin did with the Mayor of Homophobia Abullah Hammoud. Abdullah -- who wants to be something more than a mayor but, sadly, never will be.

MSNBC, we don't need to hear from Abdullah and we don't want to hear from him. If he's got time to jaw bone, he's got time to address his city's homophobia.

Idiot Ayman tries to put force together contrary facts and pretend that they fit. They don't. Nor do you.

Please note, Black women, that MSNBC can't bring you on for a serious panel about racism -- in the media coverage of the election, in the campaign that Trump ran or anything. But the mayor of a city that has gone homophobic under his watch is someone to celebrate.

We'll he's a man, isn't he. And in the end, isn't that always the most defining qualification for the All Things Media Big and Small when they're inviting guests on.

And I don't want to hear a damn thing about what the US needs to do with regards to Gaza.

Anyone who wanted the Democratic Party to address Gaza? They should have voted for the Democrats.

Instead, a nation of idiots voted against their own interest and have given control to the Republicans.

So go beg Donald. Go beg him. He's your president and he's the one you wanted. So get on your knees, crawl like the dogs you have made yourselves into by refusing to vote for the alternative go Donald and beg.

No, no, no. You don't get to come to the Democratic Party now. Not after you tanked the Democratic Party's chances to be in the White House.

Was it too much for your macho fundamentalist Muslim beliefs to have a woman in the White House?

I don't know. And at this point I don't care.

Here's what I had planned to do today. Note Gaza. We were going to seriously address the ongoing genocide. And then I get all telling me about that interview. And how the host and the guest want to make demands on the Democratic Party. After failing to turn out votes?

Ayman, you're going to have a seriously interesting day because you pissed off above me and your boss' boss will be hearing about your stunt.

As for the mayor?

How dare you make demands on a party you just stabbed in the back.

You know, I can make the case for the Israeli government. I can do that. Whether debate or moot court, I had to make a lot of arguments I didn't believe in. So I could make the case for the Israeli government and you piss me off enough? I will do it. And it will further crater support for Gaza.

So stop you're lying. Just stop lying. Stop your demands of what 'we' have to do. What we, in America, had to do was save our country.

You didn't give a s**t about that, Abdullah Hammoud. No, your last interview had to talking the importance of Palestinians and then the importance that you serve your city.

No where in there .-- and I hope your opponent will make much of this in your next race -- did you ever talk about anything you owed your country or the people in it.

So just take your single-issue on home because no one's buying your lies except the idiots you already had on the hook.

Again, the plan was to address Gaza. Many more pieces of s**t like Abdullah showing up in the media telling us what to do? I'll bury them and their argument

Grasp that we, Democrats, wanted Abdullah and others to vote for Kamala. They didn't want to do that. We wanted it to save our country. They didn't care.

But now, not even seven days after the election, Abdullah thinks he can go on television and make demands about what Democrats should do.

F**k you. Truly. Servant of god Abdullah (that's what the name means), you weren't serving anyone when you helped elect Donald Trump. You weren't using your head either. But you picked a butcher to put into the White House. So go beg your butcher, your man. And see how it works out because, I don't think it's going to.

Then take your ass home back to other rejects and bathe in the blood of the dead that your actions are responsible for.

People in Dearborn feel betrayed? The country was betrayed by Dearborn. Nobody needs to hear from you. Kamala promised to be a leader for everyone, I didn't.

"My only family -- sob sob sob -- unsubscribed from me." Good. Everyone should. You're trash.

As Brett Meiselas points out after going over the various Trump voting expressing regrets now, you can't vote against human rights and expect that your family -- impacted by your vote -- won't respond.

"They sold out their family for a carton of eggs," Tennessee Brando points out below.

And that is correct.

Let's stay with social media for a moment.

Some of us gave money to Trump, some of us on the left. That's me. I'm not pointing at others and acting like I didn't do the same thing.

How did we give money to Trump?

By using Twitter. By enriching Elon Musk in any way or manner.

On Friday, in the post-mortem (the first of three, actually) with other big donors we began the discussion on what worked and what didn't. And Twitter came up.

Elon Musk is not our friend. Do I need to do screen grabs from Twitter of the various MAGA trash using the N-word and putting up photos of Black men on their knees in front of White men?

Those pictures by the way? It's porn. It's from pornography. And it's from gay pornography. Got it. They pretend they're straight but they clearly consumer a lot of 'raceplay' pornography.

Ted Cruz was never concerned about that, was he? He's not limiting porn on Twitter -- because I said photos, let me clear that some aren't photos, some are videos.

This is what Twitter does. It promotes hate. And it enriches Elon Musk.

And it defeats us. As a people, it defeats us.

That's THREADS. No, Zuckerberg is not a saint.

But we're not idiots in Dearborn, are we? No, we're able to look at two things and see the one is awful. We did that when choosing between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. By the same token, we can look at Zuckerberg and Musk and clearly conclude that Elon Musk is a threat to democracy and we don't need to be giving him our money or time.

I'm not asking for a big lift here.

A big lift? That would be asking people to give up AMAZON due to Jeff Bezos actions.

This isn't a big lift. This is asking that those of you who can consider migrating over to THREADS and abandoning TWITTER.

THREADS currently has an estimated 200 million users. TWITTER -- I don't work for Elon, I don't have to use his new name for the company -- is estimated to have 600 million users -- though the internal stats I studied Saturday make clear that only a little over 320 million of that 600 have Tweeted in the last six months.

So let's do our part for our democracy by telling Mr Racist from South Africa that we're not going to help him anymore. It's free labor, grasp that. Free labor for Elon. It's time for us to reject him that same way the wise Black people in South Africa did. Aparethied was falling and he and hideous family suddenly needed to leave.

And let's focus on what we can do. I'm dictating these snapshot -- I dictate them while I work out in the morning -- so I'll be basing it on the feedback I get from this community, on what people in my life that I respect advise and on my own thoughts.

If something I propose does not work for you, I get it. Don't think twice about it. That's true on TWITTER. I'd like to see us all leave but that might not happen. If you're able to, please consider doing so.

This snapshot is where I'm at right now. Others are still mourning and I respect that and I honor it. This is not my, "Get over it and get to work!" You deal with what you need to. You process and you determine when you come back to any activism and whether or not you even do that.

We were sold out and betrayed and I don't expect anyone to just get over that.

Two videos. Karen Hunter and Roland Martin.

Bernie is not our leader. And outlets who mistake his own coded language -- intentional or not -- and overlook the reality of his positions (he's very build a wall when it comes to economics -- or did no one ever tell you), better expect that you're going to lose a lot of people. He may be your Messiah but for a lot of us, he's just another old White man trying to keep us down.

An e-mail yesterday to the public e-mail account was from a drive-by who is so upset that they didn't read the following before the election:

Don't give a dime to the racist NATION magazine

Media: The election winds down

Media: The double standard

Media: Are they trying to elect Donald Trump?

Media: Abusers Donald and JD fit the pattern

Media: The damage done by Dave Zirin and The Gaza ...

The death of corporate media has been widely misre...

Media: Broadcast TV and Jill Stein -- two things t...

Media: Hard Truths and Soft Media

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Media: They don't know any better

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Why or why didn't he read it before he voted. He's a Gaza Freak. He now regrets his protest against Kamala. You know what, it's really too late at this point. He also wishes he'd seen any of the above sooner and wants to know why I didn't promote it on social media?

Oh, I'm sorry. Let's dock my pay for a week -- Oh, wait. I don't ask for money on any of this. Never have, never will. It's not my fault that you didn't stumble on it before, somehow you managed to after.

Missing what Ava and I wrote is not your excuse or justification for not voting for Kamala. There were other people -- many, many people -- especially Black women -- all over the net addressing the topics we covered and similar topics. If you're serious in your e-mail, then what you need to do is expand on who you follow. Most of your news content and public affairs content is exclusively White. Try working on that in 2024 and see if you can't expand your mind.

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