Right on, Sam. Someone commented "No Kings, take note - an action with an actual demand that may kick-start a movement and save lives" on my post about our arrests for protesting at the Pentagon. Someone else commented "Go F*** yourself" followed by four paragraphs defending No Kings, but I removed that comment under my no insults rule.
As Chuck Schumer said about the huge turnout for No Kings, this is going to be great for the midterms. Yup.
Tucker's friend and fellow former Fox News star Megyn Kelly is similarly attempting to prop up Vance. On Friday, she credulously reported on anonymously-sourced claims about JD Vance supposedly confronting Netanyahu over the war on Iran, which came from an Axios article co-authored by Barak Ravid, a veteran of the IDF's Unit 8200 who -- as writer Caitlin Johnstone put it last year -- “has made a whole career out of typing out bogus articles about how the US president and the Israeli prime minister are secretly mad at each other.”
“All I can think of is Vance in the White House, in the Oval, with Zelensky,” she said. “He put Zelensky in his place. It sounds like he just did that to Bibi Netanyanu.”
“Good for him! It's delightful to think about someone holding [Netanyahu] to account...”
Excellent Sam. Long live the duopoly! Even Grok says the No Kings protests are heavily funded by George Soros who's no friend of the common man. As you said, their intent is to herd disaffected Dems back into the fold just as Carlson's endorsement of Vance is to do the same with Republicans. The No Kings protest reminds me of the Magna Carta when the right of the king was circumscribed, not in favor of the common man or to give the commoners a voice, rather to make sure the nobility had a measure of protection. In this case, the nobility are those who run the Democratic Party.
Have you ever read your state's election laws? There are hundreds of provisions cementing two-party rule. In order to found a new party, you either have to have tons of money and hundreds of thousands of volunteers or you would need to perform the nearly impossible task of convincing Ds and Rs to repeal these unfair state laws.
This is why many of us think it's reasonable to try to take over the Dem Party - not because we're Schumer Jeffries zombies.
I could try to find a specific write-up, but I suggest that you find Corbin Trent on Substack and read his description of how he's trying to create a unified bloc of progressives within the Dem party.
To what end? So many "progressives" have allegedly tried to push the DNC and it's come to nothing.... I've sensed that there's tons of barely visible ways the duopoly is entrenched and would love to see some breakdowns of that.
But could you not say the same about efforts to create a new party? I supported the Citizens Party in 1980 and have voted Green many times. Those efforts achieved less, in my opinion, than Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders and other progressives.
Most Americans cannot seem to imagine a politics beyond the dysfunctional two party system. Strange, that—especially so considering what the father of our country, George Washington, had to say about parties in his farewell address. To survey our national journey from Washington’s integrity, brilliant common sense and eloquence to the ignorance, rapacious corruption and self-aggrandizing destructive psychopathy of today is damn difficult. One wonders if a transition to the next level of culture is still possible.
Will America ever be able to grow beyond the effects of its original sins, genocidal ethnic cleansing and slavery, and the demoralizing legacies of perpetual war?
It is increasingly apparent that if we cannot learn to focus on our shared interests and work together toward our common goals we will destroy our nation and ourselves. Jung understood that, as his presciently perceptive little sliver of a book, The Undiscovered Self, reveals.
The Russian and Chinese peoples and their leaders seem to have stolen a march toward the next level of culture in the aftermaths of their own individual national political convulsions.
War is so obviously not the answer to our national problems. Has it not become the enemy of “the permanency of our felicity as a people”? Can we yet learn to exclude both “inveterate permanent antipathies to particular nations and passionate attachments to others”?
Lost dreams and found dreams in America. In America.
Holding up Vance as a person with honesty and “moral rectitude” is hilarious to me. That little boy is a chameleon. He’ll be whatever his latest sugar daddy wants him to be.
Rosenstone, Steven J., Roy L. Behr, and Edward H. Lazarus — "Third Parties in America: Citizen Response to Major Party Failure" (1984). — Foundational analysis of structural barriers and voter behavior. And Ralph Nader Radio Hour — "The Politics of Dominance" (June 1, 2024): https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/the-politics-of-dominance
Right on, Sam. Someone commented "No Kings, take note - an action with an actual demand that may kick-start a movement and save lives" on my post about our arrests for protesting at the Pentagon. Someone else commented "Go F*** yourself" followed by four paragraphs defending No Kings, but I removed that comment under my no insults rule.
As Chuck Schumer said about the huge turnout for No Kings, this is going to be great for the midterms. Yup.
Tucker's friend and fellow former Fox News star Megyn Kelly is similarly attempting to prop up Vance. On Friday, she credulously reported on anonymously-sourced claims about JD Vance supposedly confronting Netanyahu over the war on Iran, which came from an Axios article co-authored by Barak Ravid, a veteran of the IDF's Unit 8200 who -- as writer Caitlin Johnstone put it last year -- “has made a whole career out of typing out bogus articles about how the US president and the Israeli prime minister are secretly mad at each other.”
“All I can think of is Vance in the White House, in the Oval, with Zelensky,” she said. “He put Zelensky in his place. It sounds like he just did that to Bibi Netanyanu.”
“Good for him! It's delightful to think about someone holding [Netanyahu] to account...”
See here: https://substack.com/@decensorednews/note/c-234897510
Some of Ravid's past headlines compiled by Johnstone: https://x.com/caitoz/status/1965574545601167746
Excellent Sam. Long live the duopoly! Even Grok says the No Kings protests are heavily funded by George Soros who's no friend of the common man. As you said, their intent is to herd disaffected Dems back into the fold just as Carlson's endorsement of Vance is to do the same with Republicans. The No Kings protest reminds me of the Magna Carta when the right of the king was circumscribed, not in favor of the common man or to give the commoners a voice, rather to make sure the nobility had a measure of protection. In this case, the nobility are those who run the Democratic Party.
Have you ever read your state's election laws? There are hundreds of provisions cementing two-party rule. In order to found a new party, you either have to have tons of money and hundreds of thousands of volunteers or you would need to perform the nearly impossible task of convincing Ds and Rs to repeal these unfair state laws.
This is why many of us think it's reasonable to try to take over the Dem Party - not because we're Schumer Jeffries zombies.
Is there a good write up of this? Thanks.
I could try to find a specific write-up, but I suggest that you find Corbin Trent on Substack and read his description of how he's trying to create a unified bloc of progressives within the Dem party.
To what end? So many "progressives" have allegedly tried to push the DNC and it's come to nothing.... I've sensed that there's tons of barely visible ways the duopoly is entrenched and would love to see some breakdowns of that.
But could you not say the same about efforts to create a new party? I supported the Citizens Party in 1980 and have voted Green many times. Those efforts achieved less, in my opinion, than Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders and other progressives.
Well, the resources poured into say Sanders were enormous.
Just vote against every incumbent & work to establish a viable second party
Most Americans cannot seem to imagine a politics beyond the dysfunctional two party system. Strange, that—especially so considering what the father of our country, George Washington, had to say about parties in his farewell address. To survey our national journey from Washington’s integrity, brilliant common sense and eloquence to the ignorance, rapacious corruption and self-aggrandizing destructive psychopathy of today is damn difficult. One wonders if a transition to the next level of culture is still possible.
Will America ever be able to grow beyond the effects of its original sins, genocidal ethnic cleansing and slavery, and the demoralizing legacies of perpetual war?
It is increasingly apparent that if we cannot learn to focus on our shared interests and work together toward our common goals we will destroy our nation and ourselves. Jung understood that, as his presciently perceptive little sliver of a book, The Undiscovered Self, reveals.
The Russian and Chinese peoples and their leaders seem to have stolen a march toward the next level of culture in the aftermaths of their own individual national political convulsions.
War is so obviously not the answer to our national problems. Has it not become the enemy of “the permanency of our felicity as a people”? Can we yet learn to exclude both “inveterate permanent antipathies to particular nations and passionate attachments to others”?
Lost dreams and found dreams in America. In America.
Holding up Vance as a person with honesty and “moral rectitude” is hilarious to me. That little boy is a chameleon. He’ll be whatever his latest sugar daddy wants him to be.
And we should look more closely at Joe Kent. He was on YouTube asserting that he supported the murder of Gen Qasem Soleimani. He thought that
would force Iran to negotiate
And he praised Trump, not Syria or Russia, for defeating (our) Isis.
Rosenstone, Steven J., Roy L. Behr, and Edward H. Lazarus — "Third Parties in America: Citizen Response to Major Party Failure" (1984). — Foundational analysis of structural barriers and voter behavior. And Ralph Nader Radio Hour — "The Politics of Dominance" (June 1, 2024): https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/the-politics-of-dominance
Thanks. Will listen. But I maintain that such independent political forces have not done things that they can do — like VP.
No Kings feels similar to those huge "pro democracy anti-Netanyahu" demonstrations in Israel. 'Nuff said.
Excellent interview!