That's Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Manly Barron" went up Thursday. Barron Trump's such a little priss pot.
I cover the grifters. That would include Rudy G. Once
known (falsely) as "America's Mayor," Rudy G is now scum trash that the
whole world laughs at. He's back in the news again -- not for his hair
dye running down his face. Molly Crane-Newman (New York Daily News) reports:
“The
notion that your client doesn’t have any knowledge of where his assets
are located is farcical,” Judge Lewis Liman scolded Giuliani’s legal
team.
Here's a video report.
He thought he could evade the law. He thought he could ignore the court. He can't. This isn't even something Trump can pardon him for. This is a civil court conviction. There is no pardon for that.
The grifter needs to pay up and, since he is in contempt of court, he actually needs to be behind bars until he complies wit the court's orders.
Friday, November 8, 2024. As the election gets analyzed, are we not
supposed to notice that Black women aren't getting a seat at the table?
A lot of opinions flying around. A lot of nonsense going down.
When
I was in high school, there was a boy a class ahead of me. Seemed nice
enough. But then people began picking on him because he was gay. And
he was gay. Not someone who reads gay but isn't. Not a Jon Cryer
mistaken for gay but actually gay. And his daily life suddenly became
miserable. And if you looked at what was going on, it was obvious -- or
it was obvious to me -- that a guy named David, a quarterback, had
started and was leading the attack on Charles. And if you paid
attention, it should have been obvious that David might not read gay
because he didn't fit someone's stereotype but he was gay and had been
screwing around with Charles. Fear or whatever drew him deeper into the
clost and he now attacked Charles constantly.
I went to David and told him it needed to stop. And to stop now.
He justified picking on Charles as just having fun -- it wasn't fun for Charles.
I told him I knew they'd been having sex and that he could end the abuse of Charles or I could end him.
He didn't think he could be taken down -- call him Trump-like in his stupidity.
But it only took a week and half and I destroyed him.
And I'd do it again.
I have said repeatedly here than I am not a nice person.
I
didn't destroy him by outing him. I destroyed him by destroying
everything he thought he had -- standing, sex appeal, wealth, go down
the list.
And he tried to kill himself-- well
he staged a drama I don't think you inject some medicine for cows into
yourself if you're really determined to kill yourself.
I didn't -- and don't -- feel bad.
And
his attempt to garner sympathy only made him a bigger joke -- and led
to others mocking him in the halls with "MOO!" whenever they'd see him.
He was supposed to be all that. Good looking. Sone of a banker blah blah blah.
And he didn't realize that he wasn't untouchable.
Now I bring that up to note, obviously, that Trump's not untouchable and it can be an interesting four years.
But
I also bring it up because that's really the first political cause for
me. One that required leaving my own bubble and seeing others in need
that didn't look like me or weren't like me in some way. Our only bond
was that he was hurting and I felt for him.
If you want to count the work I do for autism, that predates that but I had a member of the family who was autistic.
Before Charles, I never knew anyone who was gay. Never even thought about it.
But
seeing this nice kid crying every day as he couldn't get down the hall
without facing the mockery David had created -- to hide his own
sexuality -- that was probably my adult realization of a number of
things.
I have a good life today because I have had an enthusiastic following and a good number of those are gay men.
I say all of that to explain that I'm not walking out on them. I'm not silencing myself while they get attacked.
Right now, a large number of us are figuring out where we stand going forward.
The LGBTQ+ community has my support and I will loudly defend them.
Others?
Some of you are probably going to be on your own -- because you brought
it on yourselves. If some beggar media type gets tossed in jail, I
don't know that I care. If you trashed Kamala, I don't know that I care
about you.
But that's what I'm going to be figuring out. For me.
And that's what the rest of us are going to have to figure out.
I
posted Chris Hayes' video last night or this morning. I like Chris. I
don't have a problem with what he said. And I get that people want to
feel hopeful.
But I also get "For me."
I can be decided for me. And others can and should decide for themselves.
But MSNBC really isn't recognizing that. Chris would be a great person to do some roundtables with Black women.
When
Tabitha does a new video (TABITHA SPEAKS), I'm right there. And I love
what she says. And she'll figure out for herself what she wants to do
going forward. She doesn't need a White man telling her what to do. To
be clear, that's not a reference to Chris Hayes -- whose biggest
'crime' would be trying to give us all hope. And that's why I would
argue Chris could do these needed roundtable.
I
don't want to talk about Howard Dean -- we hate each other and he tried
to throw me under the bus in the first Barack Obama administration. So
let's not really focus on his garbage other than to note that in 2008
he stood back while sexism was targeted non-stop at Hillary Clinton.
And he was the DNC chair. So right there, grasp that no one needs to
hear Howard The Scream Dean.
But there are a
number of others that we could talk about. They're making idiotic and
stupid analysis and trying to impose it on us.
Let's deal wit the Jill Stein freaks.
They
offer the poplar vote that Jill got nationwide and insist that it
wouldn't have made a difference to Kamala. But we don't elect by the
popular vote. Our president depends upon who won the electoral
college. They also want to lie that Jill didn't steal any votes from
Kamala.
Despite the many lies Jill told, she
always knew that she wasn't going to win. Even she isn't stupid enough
to think she would have won.
Her role was not to garner votes and I'll try to come back to a sub-set there but I want to make this point very clear.
Jill
got support from Donald Trump and his MAGA attorneys because she was
supposed to suppress turnout. No one thought she'd garner votes.
But what she could do was suppress votes.
And that's what she did.
She attacked Kamala from the left. She ripped into her daily.
She
and Beggar Media did everything to attack Kamala. (Beggar media, if
you're a drive-by, is DEMOCRACY NOW!, THE NATION, THE PROGRESSIVE, IN
THESE TIMES, etc. Useless liars who turn their tricks without ever
satisfying a customer which is why they get the cash upfront. Gaza
Freaks refers not to people defending Palestinians nor to the
Palestinians themselves. It refers to the useless idiots who do nothing
to actually help the people of Gaza or to end a genocide. If you
wanted to end a genocide, you wouldn't have worked so hard to elect
Donald Trump.)
Let's do a quick walk through. Will use racist Amy Goodman's DEMOCRACY NOW!
For
the sake of this argument, we can make you a man or a woman but we
can't make you a Black woman because Black women didn't fall for it.
People in every other grouping did.
So
you're Zac and you're 21 and in college and you tuned it to DEMOCRACY
NOW! maybe once a week, maybe five days a week. And you don't know
Goody Whore's history of how she subverted past elections and how she
lied and you don't know all the stunts she's pulled before -- including
getting rich by bankrupting PACIFICA RADIO thanks to closet case Leslie
Cagan (I believe Leslie's out as a lesbian, I'm referring to her being a
Communist yet, at a PACIFICA board meeting refusing to admit that --
this was a PACIFICA board meeting -- not a McCarthy hearing). You think
she's smart and caring.
So already, you're an idiot.
But
you're watching her show and, from August 1st until October 30th, all
you hear is guests and Amy telling you how bad Kamala is. They usually
talk up Jill Stein during this and, of course, Amy did that awful soft
ball lying interview with Jill.
That was Jill's purpose and role in the 2024 election.
To
be held up as something wonderful -- she's not, her own sons didn't
vote for her and didn't want her to run -- as opposed to the awful
Kamala.
That was to depress turnout -- intentionally.
And
it was intentional on the part of Beggar Media from the start but they
really dug in as it went along and Ava and I may cover that at THIRD.
So
Zac wants to do the right thing, he wants to be a social justice
warrior and make the world better. He knows he's not voting for Trump.
He'd thought about voting for Kamala.
But day after day, DEMOCRACY NOW! (and THE PROGRESSIVE and IN THESE TIMES and THE NATION) are telling him how awful Kamala is?
Well he can't vote for that.
And
this impacted Rosa. She's got an office job that requires she work
nine to five. She's got three kids she's raising as a single mother --
so forget PTO. That's gone just on her kids' doctors visits and
illnesses. Vote before work -- during early voting or regular voting?
She has to drop the kids off. After work? She's got to get to day care
or risk paying a penalty for each minute after six o'clock that she's
late.
Rosa really wants to keep Trump out of
the White House. But the radio programs and the online sites of various
pathetic magazines tell her over and over that Kamala's awful.
So you really think Rosa is going to out of her way to try to vote?
No.
This
was Jill Stein's role. And that's why these outlets never offered you
the truth about Jill. How she makes money every time a bomb drops on
Gaza -- due to her stock portfolio. How she's never accomplished
anything. How she is selective in her public outrage over what Arab is
being bombed. Her defense of Putin and other War Criminals.
They
give her a pass on that and pretend like she's smart -- smart people
don't lose every race for office they run for. They pretend like she
cares -- people who care don't raise over six million dollars for a 2016
recount only to not spend it on that. They don't then say that they'll
be donating the millions unused to a charity and then, years later, are
still unable to tell you where that money went.
She's a whore and she's a grifter.
And
she was protected by Amy Goodman and others because her role was never
to win or even to win some votes. She was supposed to be the saint to
Kamala's whore because dualities is all most Americans have been trained
to handle -- the either/or.
Naomi Wolf is a
joke. But it's a real shame she couldn't have waited a few more years
to become a joke. Unlike non-feminist Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf -- were
her brain functioning -- could have done a blistering take down of the
tropes used throughout as the left -- Beggar Media -- worked to destroy
Kamala. Naomi Klein is a politically active woman. Too many people
mistake that for feminism. It is not feminism and Naomi may have held a
laughable chair but she never did anything for feminism. And, in fact,
there are interviews she hopes no one ever sees or remembers from before
she became a brand where she was knocking feminism and feminists in
that post-90s manner.
That was Jill's role, to destroy enthusiasm for Kamala's campaign in order to depress turnout.
And that's why you saw the never ending efforts to kill joy over Kamala's run.
Tabitha has spoken about the attempts to kill joy over and over on her YOUTUBE program.
You
won't see her on DEMOCRACY NOW! or platformed elsewhere because no one
wants to acknowledge the effort to kill Kamala's campaign on the part of
the left.
But we can't move forward without an honest discussion of what went down.
And that's why Black women need to be front and center right now.
Everyone else fell for the propaganda to one degree or another.
If you're Anglo White or Anglo Latina and you didn't, great job. But you were few and far between.
Black women didn't fall for it.
Black women are also a huge constituency for the Democratic Party.
Which
is why is is so laughable and horrifying to watch these White men like
James Carville and Howard Dean and others go around with their stupidity
thinking we need to hear from them.
James
Carville. "It's the economy, stupid." Famous for that as he backed
Bill Clinton with the neoliberal campaign that was nothing more than a
War On The Poor.
So James is back and saying
this was an economy election. And it was to a large degree. He then
wants to lie and attack various groups -- the Identity Politics rant
that Roland Martin and others have rightly called out.
What
did you do, James? I know what I did. I realized that the economy was
going to be a loser for the Democrats and advocated at the start of
2023 for some form of stimulus. And I was laughed at and had my head
patted by various figures in the DNC party structure.
The
economy is better. Joe Biden deserves credit for saving the economy
(that's not the only thing he deserves credit for). But people weren't
feeling it.
A number were remembering that
trifle of a stimulus check they got under Trump. Nancy Pelosi is still
whining about Trump's signature on it.
And that
has no bearing on anything. She destroyed her own reputation on that
issue. There was no stimulus for those we called "heroes" during the
pandemic. Her House couldn't deliver.
And the prevailing opinion was that Trump wanted to do a second stimulus and Nancy opposed it.
James,
you didn't do s**t on any of that and it got back to me that you were
mocking me for suggesting this tiny stimulus check.
A check would have been appreciated. A check could have made an impact on American's lives.
But James thought it was nonsense as did other fools.
So
don't come to me now and whine about the economy stupid when, STUPID,
you were among those who did nothing to mitigate the issue.
Perceptions are not changed overnight. That's why you need to be smart in your demands at any time.
I didn't write here about it because I didn't want to give ammunition to the GOP.
Dems seemed to think that they could educate people on the economy.
You can't educate someone with statements that are contrary to what they experienced.
Yes, Joe saved the economy and those of us who know about the economy realize that.
Most people don't know economics.
And so James' nonsense this week is bulls**t and he just needs to honestly die. Die and take his lies with him.
He's outlived his purpose and he is no use.
People
like him are also trying to blame trans people for the election. I
think we addressed Allred's nonsense in yesterday's snapshot.
LGBTQ NATION has a good article and maybe I'll try to write about it Saturday.
But,
notice no links here, we are suffering. And I've told everyone in the
community -- whether they're writing for one of our newsletters or at
their own site -- take time for you.
We need to heal.
And so it's not really me throwing all my time away right now. It's me trying to heal.
And that's what so many of us are trying to do right now.
You
ignored us during the general election and you ignore us now. If you
continue to do so, you're going to have a huge problem because we are
the base -- the real base -- the ones who show up election after
election.
And we're busy. We're all Rosa. We
all have eight million other things that have to be done -- HAVE TO BE
DONE -- every day. But we get out and vote every time.
And our thanks for that? You destroy the first Black woman to run for president on a major party.
And you want to act like it didn't happen, you want to gaslight us.
No.
I'm here to speak for me and the community. And we'll chart our way forward as best we can based on what we're able to do.
And
that's true for others. Tabitha, Olay, Danielle, so many others. They
need to heal and they need to know where they stand in this party and
how this party, in 2024, could do what they did to Kamala.
Some of your causes really aren't that important to us.
The
nonsense of an official, for example. That's something you worry about
after you elect Kamala. You say, hey, we support ____ and want her to
remain.
Instead, you nut jobs came up daily
with one reason after another not to vote for Kamala, one reason or
another to attack her in public.
You didn't
want to address her housing plan, you didn't want to address her
Medicare plan and a number of you White bitches wrote articles attacking
her over Black women's health issues.
She had never spoken of it!
She had never done this or that!
White bitches, heel.
All you did was yet again sport your racism.
ESSENCE
had the interview with Kamala addressing that topic. But you're too
White to read ESSENCE and that didn't surprise me which is why we
reproduced that part of the interview in a snapshot here.
But,
hey, in all your Whiteness why should you be required to actually do
some work before you penned your columns claiming she never addressed a
topic that she had just spoken to ESSENCE about.
You live in a really White world. And that's how you ignore reality.
And
you're doing it again with all these White idiots -- include Bernie
Sanders on that list, Roland is right -- who keep having conversations
with everyone but Black women.
Black don't crack. We've all heard that. Let me expand on it: Black don't crack cameras either.
So
what's your excuse for still denying Black women a seat at the table
while pretending to explore what went wrong in this election?
There
are outlets that deserve praise and we've linked to them throughout the
last months. MOTHER JONES gets a B. They played into some of the
nonsense but not all of it. Higher grades would go to THE NEW REPUBLIC
and RAW STORY. And my apologies to AMERICAN PROSPECT. I didn't know
they were still around. Someone with TAP contacted me when I was first
calling out THE NATION -- called me, we're friends -- and that's when I
found out TAP was still around. After that we did highlight them. My
apologies that we didn't highlight them more. I would also give COMMON
DREAMS an A. They started out running with the pack. They were the
only ones we called out who actually course corrected. I don't expect
perfection, I do expect fairness. So praise for COMMON DREAMS.
That's Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "MAGA Confused." and it went up earlier tonight.
We could have had Kamala. Instead, we're stuck with Trump because of beggar media and grifter Jill Stein.
Palestinians are still going to die, probably at a greater rate than before, but at least Jill Stein made enough money this election not to have to dip into her $14M estate to pay her own bills. Congratulations, suckers! You got played, again. pic.twitter.com/wdzsXorNqP
Jill Stein supporters who already voted are now coming on here and claiming they have buyers remorse because they didn’t research her stupid ass or her VP before casting their ballot. pic.twitter.com/fz0nNOxc9W
She was a grifter who was getting help from Trump, she was a grifter whose stock portfolio is filled with the makers of bombs and bullets killing Palestinians. Every drop of blood is another dollar for her.
I'm a Green. I didn't vote for her. She's a con artist and she's also too damn old and my party should have gone with someone younger not the elderly failure they'd already run twice.
Thursday, November 7, 2024. In the aftermath of Trump being
re-elected, some Karens e-mail to explain the real horror is that Black
people are expressing their outrage. Keep it all about you, Karens,
keep it all about you, every day, every year.
Olayemi
Olurin is an important voice. There are a lot of drive-bys to the
public account. None are echoed by the private e-mail account for
community members. And that probably goes to the fact that community
members aren't drive-bys. Community members have been for years now.
They get it. It's these drive-bys who happened by that don't get it.
And
the drive-bys whining are insisting this and that. What it boils down
to is 'a war on White people.' Whine on you butt-hurt losers. There
are at least two Whie people in the above. IHIP is two Whire women,
Lawrence O'Donnell is a White man.
Yes, there are a large number of Black people in what was posted yesterday.
If
you're so shocked by what's in that videos, stop complaining to me. I
don't live in your token world. I've never pretended to and I've never
wanted to amplify that. But mainly, grasp that if what the people
saying in the above videos leaves you butt hurt, the people speaking are
not your problem. They were never your problem.
Your
problem was a garbage media which shelted you from reality. Again, I'm
talking about the left media. The beggar media. Panhandle Media. If
the people that went up yesterday and this morning shocked you, what
they were saying, that's an indictment of DEMOCRACY NOW!, THE NATION, IN
THESE TIMES, THE PROGRESSIVE, etc.
About half of the
butt hurt whiners boring the public account are also whining about what
mean things are being said about White people in the videos.
I am responsible for what I say. The attacks you're needing to feel better about yourself aren't coming from me.
If
Tabitha, for example, said something in her video that hurt you? Grow
the hell up. When an election did not go Marcia's way and it hurt her
deeply, she would ask me if she was going too far? I'd tell her that it
was her site, that she was right to feel what she was feeling and she
should write what was real to her. I didn't get at first that she was
asking to see if I was going to critique her or disagree with her? When
I got that, I told her no. And I meant it. What she was feeling?
People needed to hear. And what Tabitha or anyone else in a video that
goes up here says, people need to hear.
The butt-hurt are all pissy.
And that's what happenes when you're stupid and uninformed.
I don't know why you're coming to me thinking I'm going to feel sorry for you.
I
get it, your media failed you. I was looking at comments yesterday
attacking Juan Gonzalez for noting the very real racism and sexism at
play in this election and I thought how very sad. Maybe if Juan had
been on more on DEMOCRACY NOW! or if Amy didn't fix her coverage the way
she did, you idiots wouldn't be so shocked at reality today.
Tabitha
of TABITHA SPEAKS wasn't invited on DEMOCRACY NOW!. THE PROGRESSIVE,
THE NATION, IN THESE TIMES, et al? They didn't interview her.
But Tabitha represented many people across the country.
Today's
butt-hurt are shocked by her sentiments. You're only shocked because
you're media failed you. There were real issues at stake here -- stream
Olay's video at the top -- and there were real people who would be left
at risk.
But they weren't given seats at the media
table -- again, I'm focused on panhandle media, not corporate media.
So, butt-hurt, you didn't hear their arguments until now.
One
of you, at least, is being educated finally. A White woman who voted
for Jill Stein is dismayed by the videos that posted here yesterday and
says she would not vote for Jill now. Good. I'm glad you see the
damage that was done. I wish you'd seen it before hand. When it could
have made a difference.
I get that your media failed
you -- the e-mailer notes that she checked out DEMOCRACY NOW! several
times a week and was always visiting THE PROGRESSIVE's website.
You
were misled. I get it. I also get that, if you voted, you're an adult
and you need to take some responsibility for the decisions and choices
you make.
In August, September and October (she early
voted), you should have noticed what was going on. You should have
noticed that THE PROGRESSIVE -- a rag that found a way to sell and
promote every Democratic Party presidential nominee in the past -- was
now slamming Kamala and had nothing -- not one column -- praising her.
You should have noticed that.
Your stupidity was on full display.
Ava
and I spoke for months -- July, August, September, October on through
November 4th -- to groups and groups of people. Black women got it
immediately. We didn't have to bring it up anytime we spoke to Black
women. They were already noting the bias. But so did others. So did
Latinas, so did White women, so did some White men.
And we
weren't just speaking and then dropping the subject. We wrote about it
at THIRD and I wrote about it here -- over and over. I called out
COMMON DREAMS. To their credit, they did do a course correction. I
didn't see that from any other outlet.
The media --
big and small -- runs in packs. So one outlet does it and the others
ape the earlier one. So my hope, when calling out COMMON DREAMS and the
others, was that they'd take a look at it and address it. COMMON
DREAMS is the only one that did
I love COUNTERPUNCH. I've not noted them once since Kamala got in the race.
Why?
Because I expected them to do what they do and I knew it wouldn't
please me nor would it help voting. I didn't attack for what they did.
They were being true to themselves and we'll go back to noting them --
maybe even this Friday.
But the others? THE NATION wasn't doing what it usually does, THE PROGRESSIVE wasn't doing what it usually does, IN THESE . . .
Some
of the drive-bys have read one or two things here and think that I'm
objecting to criticques and analsysis. No, I'm objecting to left wing
outlets working to elect Donald Trump.
THE NATION only
survives on big dollar donations and we don't give it to that rag so
that they can attack a Black woman or so that they can elect a
fascist.
A whiner -- who was one of the writers of
THE NATION's editorial against Kamala Harris -- AGAINST -- says that
young people need to be heard and blah blah blah.
I'd
loved your e-mail. It confirmed everything I suspected about you and
made me feel good about the fact that I'd already started the black
balling of you and your cohorts. I hope that editorial feels good as
you try to get a real job in media. Better stick to beggar media
because I've made your name trash in corporate media already.
I
have no problem with young writers and we go out of our way to
celebrate them here. But you're not a writer, you're an intern and you
used THE NATION to trash Kamala. The abolitionist magazine with is long
and glorious history (that Katrina has destroyed) to attack Kamala.
You
smug little entitled bastards who will turn around and insist upon
reparations -- as long it doesn't come out of your pockets -- used an
abolitionist magazine to attack a Black woman and promote a racist.
I don't think you've realized how far from grace you've strayed.
The
women and men that so shocked you in videos yesterday? They shocked
you because you were hearing for the first time what you should have
been hearing all along.
But in your media bubble, you couldn't grasp reality.
As
beggar media worked day after day to suppress the vote for Kamala, to
lie that there was no enthusiasm for her, you sat there and took it.
I
don't have sympathy for you. Your choices have harmed the country.
And this wasn't a child watching SESAME STREET. You were grown adults
who should have been able to see the double standard imposed upon
Kamala.
Yesterday, Linda Sewer was on DEMOCRACY NOW! to
air more of her stupidity and to do everything but take
responsibility. Linda Sewer (and that's the name she's earned) is going
around doing speaking gigs with convicted pedophile Scott Ritter.
Grasp that.
Grasp
that DEMOCRACY NOW! was not interested in people who were enthusiastic
about Kamala Harris. But Linda Sewer, garbage queen, is the guest Amy
Goodman wants to bring on.
Gaza Freaks. They're not helping the Palestinians but
how they try to pretend to speak for them. Like the Mayor of Homophobe
Michigan that DEMOCRACY NOW! had on Monday. He couldn't endorse
Kamala. He wouldn't. But don't worry, he speaks for the
Palestinians!
But . . .
REUTERS reports,
"Palestinians, locked in war with Israel for more than a year,
expressed fear at Donald Trump's return to the White House, while the
leaders of the militant group Hamas and the Palestinian Authority urged
him to act for peace."
We warned you. We told you the Gaza Freaks were missing reality. We told you they were harming the Palestinians.
But so many of you refused to listen or were too busy listening to con artist Jill Stein.
What
do you know, the Gaza Freaks who appointed themselves the American
speakers for Palestinians in Gaza, didn't know what the hell they were
talking about.
Big surprise. They never do. It's the
same repugnant crowd that never accomplishes anything as they skip from
issue to issue based on where the media attention is.
And this is the garbage that Amy Goodman and others platformed.
Olay's an immigrant. You didn't get them on your beggar platforms.
But
they're hugely impacted by this vote. Somehow, for all the claims of
going to where the silences are, Amy Goodman couldn't be bothered.
She
could and did promote Jill Stein. Constantly. She could and did
platform attacks on Kamala and we were supposed to be grateful when she
brought on the White woman Naomi Klein -- an American despite being born
in Canada years after her father fled the US military -- to say 'hold
your nose and vote for Kamala.'
Naomi, shut the f**k
up. No one needs a deserter's child telling them how to vote in their
own country. But we especially don't need your nonsense 'hold your
nose' endorsement.
It didn't build enthusiasm and it was stupid beyond belief.
You
claim to care about the climate crisis. But, hey, you claimed about
Iraq once upon a time too. You left that issue -- woah, you DESERTED
that issue. Guess it runs in the family.
This is the woman,
please remember, who wrote a column about Barack Obama's 2008 win where
she put thoughts into Black people's heads. She could have crossed the
street and asked them what they thought. But instead, as though they
were animals in a zoo, she observed them from a distance, unable to hear
them, but then wrote a column about what they were thinking.
Across
the country, many, many people were excited by Kamala's campaign. But
we weren't allowed to be by beggar media. We weren't represented by
beggar media. But White Naomi Klein from Canada got a seat at the
table, didn't she? Her racist past ignored. Her half-assed endorsement
-- hold your nose -- treated as positive Kamala coverage.
It wasn't.
Yesterday,
on DEMOCRACY NOW!, they brought on Ralph Nader who wanted to tell the
Democrats what they did wrong in his feeble mind.
Over a
million and half Iraqis are dead because of Ralph. And those may be
the lucky ones. Imagaine being wounded and disabled or birth defects as
a result of that war. And he's responsible for that.
But
there he was telling us that Kamala did this and she did that. And Amy
Goodman never stopped him for one moment -- remember, in 2000 she
promoted his campaign non-stop -- to ask him what about the dangers of a
Trump presidency or how do you sleep at night knowing how many Iraqis
are dead and injured because of you?
Because that is
reality. And he won't own it. Just like Naomi Klein will write a
racist piece of garbage where she imposes her White thoughts on Black
men's brains because she's such a racist that she won't even speak to
them -- why bother, she's White Naomi, she knows best, she even knows
about what Black men she's not speaking to think. The power of her
Whiteness.
And that's what we saw over and over in Beggar Media for the last three months.
That's
not reflected by what we saw on the ground. But then beggar media
doesn't want to reflect or inform. It wants only to impose. And they'd
decided that they didn't want Kamala in the White House.
Go
back and read the whines Beggar media produced -- the ones about Kamala
not doing this or doing that or needing to do this or needing to do
that.
That was never about Kamala. That was about
impotent activists wanting to make demands. And when they couldn't get
their way, they were fine with tanking the election. They'd rather do
that, they'd rather put Donald back into the White House, then help the
American people.
Instead of writing your butt-hurt
e-mails to me, you need to wake the hell up and to take accountability
for what you did. Yes, panhandle media misled you but you're an adult
and you're responsible.
Or, be like Ralph Nader, and
two decades after Iraq was destroyed because of his actions, pretend
otherwise. Lie to yourself like he does.
The
Palestinians are screwed. Immigrants are screwed. Black people are
screwed. LGBTQ+ people are screwed. Women of all races and sexualities
are screwed.
And that's because Beggar Media worked
to tank Kamala's campaign and so many of you bought into it. We didn't
buy into it here which is why no community member has e-mailed anything
as stupid as you butt-hurt drive bys.
Mike's in no mood to comment now on Allred. He told Kat
she could cover it and he asked me to cover it. Mike believed in Collin
and gave of his own time He went to Texas and spent weeks there going
all over the state to campaign for Colin.
And then he left.
He left because Allred attacked transgender people.
As
we noted here, Ted Cruz's attacks on transgender kids was actually
helping Colin, it's what allowed him to rise in the polls. Ted was
getting outrage from Republicans over those commercials. They felt kids
was offsides. And Colin stood firm and he rose in the polls. He had a
real shot at winning.
Then he attacked trans kids because that was his 'weakness' according to experts.
They never know what they're talking about.
Mike,
going door to door in West Texas at the time immediately saw the effect
as voters began moving away from Allred because he was suddenly just
like any other craven politicians who'd say one thing at one time and
something else at the other.
Mike spoke to me about it
-- I just listened -- and decided to leave Texas because Allred was
going to lose now and because he wasn't going to give his time for a
little transphobe.
Mike could have written that. Still hasn't. He bit his tongue for the most part and just moved over to Georgia and Florida.
But that's when Allred lost the race.
And
it only got worse for him. Now that Cruz had pushed Allred into this
position, they could really attack him and Allred was a weak ass who
couldn't respond.
If he hadn't embraced transphobia, he
could have been attacking Cruz and Governor Gregg Asshole for their new
ads. He could have taped his own commercial stating, "Cruz keeps
asking me if I know the difference between girls and boys. But I'm not
the one showing girls in commercials and claiming that they were born
boys when they weren't. Does Ted know the difference between girls and
boys?"
Mike could have trashed Colin. But he didn't do
that. He even posted an interview or two that Allred did after Mike
had left Texas.
Kamala didn't go back on any position
she'd held since becoming the nominee. But beggar media didn't care.
They just trashed her nonstop.
That's your problem.
They should have been building enthusiasm. Not only did they not do
that, they couldn't even treat her fairly.
These voices that have so upset drive-bys? They're voices you should have been hearing all along.
I'm tired and I know you're tired. We've all done everything we could. Or we think we have.
None of us like having to justify ourselves. Having to explain ourselves.
Dana
Bash tried to pull that trick on Kamala, remember. 'Trump says you're
not Black.' Whether it's your race, your gender, your sexuality, your
religion, your ethnicity, whatever. We are a nation of people with
various possibilities and traits. And we don't often fit the straight,
White, hateful model that Donald Trump represents.
But
we do usually have friends and lovers and spouses that care about us
but may not grasp how much is at stake this election. It can really be
tiring to feel that you are always having to explain yourself to other
people or to justify yourself. But if you know even one undecided voter
or one voter planning on staying at home and sitting this election out,
there's one more thing you can do and that's share your own story with
that person. Share what Trump back in the White House means for you,
how your life will suffer. Try to enlarge just one person's
understanding of how much damage Trump can cause to someone they know.
The
fact that you didn't hear our stories before the election is not on
us. You need to take that up with the media you consume. And your
discomfort over certain videos? If that's the most uncomfortable you
feel over the next four years, consider yourself lucky. A lot of people
are not going to be as fortunate.
Donald
Trump won Dearborn and made significant gains in Hamtramck compared to
2020 amid anger in Arab American and Muslim communities about deaths in
Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen. The two cities, which have the highest
percentage of Arab Americans among all cities in the United States,
were courted by Trump and his campaign as the former president visited both places in recent weeks.
A recent school board meeting at which about 1,000 people gathered in Dearborn, Michigan,
to pressure district officials to censor books with LGBTQ+ themes was
in most ways similar to hundreds of other recent book ban hearings
across the US.
Speakers
alleged the books “promote mental health issues” and “self harm”, while
the school district and liberals were seeking to “indoctrinate
children”. Gay people, they said, were “creeps and pedohiles”, and gay
lifestyles were equated with zoophilia.
“American values and the American way is not child pornography,” one angry parent told the Dearborn public school board.
But the speakers were not the white, rightwing conservative Christians usually behind efforts to censor literature in public schools. Instead, the heated audience was almost all Muslim Arab Americans.
The
mayor of that city was promoted by Mother Jones magazine and by Amy
Goodman on Democracy Now! -- neither outlet reported on the homophobia
in Dearborn.
Hamtramck? From Wikipedia:
On
June 13, 2023, the city council introduced a resolution prohibiting the
display on city property of all flags but the American flag and
“nations’ flags that represent the international character of [the]
City,” which many interpreted as an indirectly targeted ban of the rainbow flag on city property and sidewalks, which had previously been the source of controversy among some residents.[88] Following three hours of public comment, the council passed the resolution unanimously.[89] Mayor Amer Ghalib opposed displaying the pride flag, but former mayor Karen Majewski had supported displaying it.[90] The council also voted to remove two commissioners of the Hamtramck Human Rights Commissioner for flying the rainbow flag.[91][92][93] The move was criticized by senator Stephanie Chang, U.S. representatives Shri Thanedar and Rashida Tlaib, and Detroit mayor Mike Duggan.[94][95]
In
response to a decision by the city council, multiple activist groups
organized into a coalition opposing the flag restrictions. The founding
group consisted of individual activists, AntiTransphobe Detroit,
Michigan General Defense Committee, and the Hamtramck Queer Alliance.
Notable speakers at the event were Dana Nessel, Rev. Strickland, Grace
of AtA, and Josh of HQA.[96]
The Michigan Gaza Freaks chose not to respect the country that they live in and not to respect humanity.
Betty
has long called out our race for homophobia. Because of the
actions of her and others, that homophobia is not as prominent anymore in the Black community. But
left media decided to coddle homophobes when they should have been
calling them out. They are hateful people. Vile. And that's why they
didn't vote for Kamala. They'll get theirs. The group that they got in
bed with is the same group always screaming Sharia law is coming to the
US. The next wave of panic, they'll find out that they burned bridges
and we don't help homophobes.
The
results appear to be in so, being good sports, let's say
congratulations to our next president . . . JD Vance. Yes, Miss Sassy
is the new president. You can't be as grossly overweight as Donald
Trump and as old as he is without the health issue coming in to play and
then there's the senility.
It's very likely we may see him
removed from office due to the senility at which point JD would have the
title of president but, make no mistake, JD is the new president.
Donald didn't do any work the first time. He didn't like briefings. He was lazy when he was four years younger.
So congratulations to JD, our youngest president ever.
Let's
say thank you to two people. Thank you to Joe Biden for stepping
aside. As bad as the results have turned out to be, they would have
been even worse if Joe had been on the ticket. After the debate, the
media was not going to change their narrative. Thank you to Kamala
Harris who ran a strong campaign and did so in a very short manner of
time.
Our sympathies for the nation.
It
would be great if some last minute development exposed voter fraud on
the part of MAGA but that's probably not going to happen.
So we're all screwed.
And let's be clear about who screwed us.
No,
we're not talking about MAGA or other elements of the right wing.
Certainly, FOX "NEWS" lies and they are a danger. But they're actually
far less of a danger then the cheap whores like Glenn Greenwald, Megyn
Kelly, et al.
But again, we're not talking about them.
No, we're putting the blame where it rightly goes: The left media.
Now stop your nonsense if you're a right winger and thinking we mean THE WASHINGTON POST, CNN, THE NEW YORK TIMES, et al.
That's not the left media.
The left media is the beggar media who always asking for a hand out, for a donation, pretending they're serving the left.
We're talking about IN THESE TIMES, we're talking about DEMOCRACY NOW!, THE NATION, THE PROGRESSIVE and oh so many more.
We had the votes to win. Where were they?
The grifter Jill Stein got some.
Cornel West got some. Claudia De la Cruz got some.
If you're unfamiliar with those last two, unlike Jill Stein, they were real candidates.
You didn't hear about them because our supposed left media didn't want you to.
It was Jill wall to wall.
They pimped her like crazy.
No
surprise, she got less votes than she did in 2016. Because she's a con
artist and a grifter. She's opposed to the genocide . . . except for
her stock in Lockheed Martin. The American Friends Service Committee notes:
The world’s largest weapons manufacturer, Lockheed Martin
supplies Israel with F-16 and F-35 fighter jets, which Israel has been
using extensively to bomb Gaza. Israel also uses the company’s C-130
Hercules transport planes to support the ground invasion of Gaza.
Lockheed
Martin manufactures AGM-114 Hellfire missiles for Israel’s Apache
helicopters. One of the main weapon types used in aerial attacks on
Gaza, these missiles have been used extensively in 2023. Some 2,000
Hellfire missiles were delivered to Israel sometime between Oct. 7 and Nov. 14.
Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky manufactures the CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter, used to transport Israeli soldiers into and out of Gaza. On Jan. 8, Sikorsky was awarded $18.3 million from U.S. taxpayers' money for continued work on the CH-53K aircraft it has provided to Israel.
On Dec. 28, Lockheed Martin was awarded a $10.5 million contract for continued support for Israel's fleet of F-35 warplanes.
On Dec. 11, the Israeli Air Force used a
Lockheed Martin C-130-J Super Hercules aircraft to drop approximately
seven tons of equipment to Israeli soldiers engaging in ground attacks
in Khan Younis, located in the southern Gaza Strip. This was the "first
operational airdrop" that Israel has carried out since the 2006 Lebanon
War.
On Nov. 9, an Israeli missile hit journalists sitting near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The missile was reportedly
a Lockheed Martin–made Hellfire R9X missile, a version of the Hellfire
that was developed by the CIA for carrying out assassinations. Instead
of exploding, the missile shreds its target using blades, allowing for a
direct hit without collateral damage. The target in this case was not a
military one.
The Israeli military also uses Lockheed Martin’s M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS). Used to fire Elbit Systems’ high-precision AccuLAR-122, the weapon was used by Israel for the first time, since the 2006 war in Lebanon, on Oct. 6, according to the Israeli military.
On an Oct. 17 call with investors, Lockheed Martin CEO, Jim Taiclet, “highlighted the Israel and Ukraine conflicts as potential drivers for increased revenue in the coming years.”
Lockheed
Martin is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and has key production
sites in Denver, Houston, New Orleans, and San Diego. For more
locations, see this map.
For more information on this company (not including these latest developments), see our company profile on the Investigate database.
Stein says she’s against fracking, but Stein has hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in
the oil and gas industry. Did you know that? Did you know that she
actually profits off of the oil and gas industry, that she has had
investments in the Keystone XL pipeline and multiple fracking companies?
Did
you know that she has investments in Raytheon, that she’s had
investments in ExxonMobil? Did you know that she has investments in Home
Depot—one of the most rapacious companies in the world, guilty of horrific deforestation throughout the world?
How is it that the Green Party candidate hasn’t divested her own personal fortune from fossil fuels? It’s sheer hypocrisy. And so is the strategy of running for president every four years but never showing up for battles like this.
Her claims are a slap in the face to the entire fossil fuel divestment movement. It is easier now than ever to
have investments that are fossil free; doing so is a huge plank of the
environmental cause. Hundreds of real activists were arrested this
summer in New York City calling for Citibank to divest as part of the
Summer of Heat campaign. For Stein to ignore all this and still attempt
to call herself an activist is beyond hypocrisy, it is political
malpractice. Shame on you, Dr. Stein! Shame on you for profiting from
fracking and oil drilling.
That some of you voted for that whorish grifter is bad enough but that's not the real damage that was done.
The real damage was in suppressing the vote.
In
2008, when Barack Obama ran for president, the same beggar media did
everything they could to build him up. FAIR embarrassed themselves
after the Hillary Clinton and Barack debate during that year's
Democratic Party primary by slapping one of the moderators for asking
about Barack's friendship with activist/terrorist Bill Ayers. Ayers -- a
nobody, he was arm candy for his wife -- had been underground and, more
to the point, when his friendship with Barack came to light, everyone
rushed to lie that they knew each other because their kids were
friends. No. That was a damn lie. And beggar media knew it was
because, although they can't get real jobs, they can do simple math.
Bill and Bernardine turned themselves in as Jimmy Carter was finishing
his presidency and Ronald Reagan was due to be sworn in. They thought
they'd get a better deal under Carter. Their children were already born
by that time. ( We're not referring to Chesa but even he was born in
1980.) Barack and Michelle's oldest child was born in 1998. No, the
two Ayers boys were not friends and playmates of the Obamas'
daughters.
But that's what the beggar media did -- that and a whole lot more.
For a Black man, that's what they did.
And we saw in July, August, September and October what they'd do for a Black woman -- not a damn thing.
While
running for the nomination, Barack did many things that went against
what he stated he stood for (putting homophobes on stage at campaign
rallies, telling Michael R. Gordon of THE NEW YORK TIMES that any US
troops he might pull out of Iraq he would send back in based on the
security situation, changing his timeline for withdrawal, his advisor
Samantha Power telling the BBC that the promise of a withdrawal really
wasn't a promise, etc). But that didn't result in beggar media
attacking him the way they did Kamala.
Kamala was
attacked from day one. Oh, sure, THE PROGRESSIVE or COMMON DREAMS might
do a puff piece on . . . Tim Walz. But they considered Tim to be one of
their own. Supposedly, that was due to him being a progressive, but
speak to Black women and they were wise to the fact that the real
difference was that these outlets could get behind a White man but not a
Black woman.
Day after day, they could and they did rip her apart.
Naomi
Klein thought she was doing a favor going on DEMOCRACY NOW! and
declaring that you hold your nose to vote for someone like Kamala.
Huh?
That's
how you build enthusiasm? After one guest, in July, was allowed to
praise Kamala and be excited about Kamala running, DEMOCRACY NOW! never
offered that again until October 31st.
People weren't allowed to be excited about Kamala, no, beggar media wouldn't let them be.
Beggar media wanted to hang Gaza around Kamala's neck.
She
wasn't the president. She didn't get to make policy. Most of us knew
she wanted a cease-fire and was the first to call on Joe to move towards
that. Most of us knew what her family -- including her niece --
thought.
But that didn't matter.
It didn't matter that the Supreme Court was at stake. It didn't matter that reproductive rights were at stake.
Nothing mattered but the Palestinians.
Amy GoodWhoreman brought on, the day before the election, the Mayor of Dearborn.
His city, he insisted, had to think about Palestinians first.
We
think a real interview would have required asking this American citizen
exactly where on his list of priorities this country landed? We
further think inviting on that man, mayor of a city of homophobes, also
required asking him: How much is this opposition to Kamala based on her
defense of the LGBTQ+ community?
But we're not supposed
to ask those question. No, we're just supposed to fetishize an entire
population segment despite the fact that this community in question only
stopped voting majority GOP due to the Muslim backlash in the US
following 9/11. That detail was never passed on to readers and viewers
and listeners of beggar media. There are progressive Muslims in
Michigan. There are many more homophobic and conservative Muslims in
Michigan which is why the first city council in the state to have an all
Muslim composition promptly went around destroying LGBTQ+ rights.
But
we didn't get told about that, we only got told about these wonderful
Disney-like animated creatures who woke up signing and smiling and
sniffing the flowers while the birds landed on their shoulders.
How different would reactions have been if the truth had been told?
Again, we didn't get the truth, not from beggar media.
'Ava and C.I.! You just noted THE NATION's piece about Jill!"
We
did and that was published only after the groundswell of Katrina vanden
Heuvel being called out for her racism. In fact, for a few days there,
she shut down all comments to her Twitter feed unless you were
pre-approved -- so much for free speech. We were among the ones leaving
comments about the racism -- we did that a full week before Josh's
piece. We did it when we learned that THE NATION has just published an
editorial opposing Kamala Harris -- by their 'interns.'
We
don't give money to that rag to hear from their 'interns.' Sorry, but
you're learning a trade, you're not in the position to be writing
editorials. And what position you'll have in the future is open to
debate because we're vengeful bitches.
Norman Solomon
knows that. Learned it the hard way this year. That's when the
Democrat who was a pledged delegate for Barack in 2008 announced --
COMMON DREAMS carried the crappy column (others did as well) -- that he
would be voting for Jill Stein.
He later pulled that
back because he learned real quick that those of us who have helped keep
beggar media afloat weren't going to do it for racists.
All
the lip service in the world to the importance of Black women in US
elections. But when a Black woman ran for president, these same outlets
wouldn't take a moment to allow joy over this. Kamala is the first
Black woman to be presidential candidate for one of the major parties.
And, yes, that was historic, and, yes, it did matter to many Black
women.
Katrina and Amy are both racists. Sadly,
they're not equally blamed because few people even know who Katrina is.
Don't worry, Katrina, we plan to increase your public profile. But
they knew Amy and they knew her program and they were shocked by the
garbage she offered day after day.
Again, they all offered it. All of the beggar media offered insults and put downs of Kamala day after day.
When they weren't being racist, they went with sexist.
This
was not our first presidential election to observe and comment on. So
it stood out to us that Barack, Joe, John Kerry, whomever didn't have
columns (plural) every day telling them what they needed to do. And
columns, mind you, written by men.
A reflective left media would have taken several pauses over the three months to ask, "What are we doing? Are we being fair?"
But apparently begging everyone for money takes a huge toll so they don't have time for reflection.
Good news, bums, we plan to help you there, we plan to make sure you have a lot more free time.
By
repeatedly trashing Kamala, by refusing to ever feature the people who
were excited by her, they worked overtime to defeat enthusiasm for the
candidate. Amy Goodman, as we pointed out repeatedly at THIRD, was damn
happy to have a Civil Rights pioneer (who was also the widow of another
Civil Rights pioneer) on DEMOCRACY NOW! over the years. But when this
woman, Myrlie Evers-Williams, endorsed Kamala in September and spoke
of how excited she was by Kamala's campaign, Amy couldn't even note the
news in a headline.
We weren't the only ones commenting
on the racism from leftists. The YOUTUBE program TABITHA SPEAKS did a
great segment on it. And Tabitha noted a Latina who was also dismayed
by the attacks on Kamala and on those who supported Kamala. In fact, if
you were avoiding the White beggars, you'd find many women online
lamenting the way Kamala was being treated. And, as we noted for weeks,
we heard about it pretty much every time we spoke.
Jill
Stein is a con artist. But they could get behind Jill and pretend that
she was an answer and an ally. Which is why they didn't report on
'Butchy' Ware -- her little running mate -- being a transphobe and
calling for restricting abortion.
These very real issues didn't matter.
Well,
Gaza Freaks, we hope you're happy. We hope as the blood continues to
be spilled, that the screams of the dead haunt you. That's their blood
on your hands. Trump and Netanyahu are good buddies. He's made clear
what will happen: A bigger green light for Netanyahu to continue the
slaughter.
We can't work with people we can't trust so lots of luck stopping the Trump genocide.
You've
already, Gaza Freaks, alienated many people who were on your side.
It's only going to get worse for you. Students protesting on campus?
Under Trump. Oh, this is the man who wanted to attack non-violent Black
Lives Matter protesters.
And Hamas? It's a terrorist organization per the United States government.
We
defended the Palestinian people. We never made the mistake that the
Gaza Freaks did in defending Hamas. We point that out for a reason: In
January, Joe Biden is not the president, Donald Trump is. You do get
that, right? You do get that he will probably be exploring what kind of
legal consequences he can impose for those openly supporting a
terrorist organization.
Might be time to start recalculating your speeches and articles and programs.
What will we be doing?
Probably our usual role: Cleaning up the messes of lazy White people.
We're
tempted to walk away. We actually could. We're fortunate in ways that
many other Americans aren't. And we've more than put in our time.
But
instead, we'll probably stick around online a little bit longer.
Probably focus on important issues like climate change, opposing
homophobia, fighting for reproductive rights, fighting for real free
speech (which includes opposing book bans), fighting for reparations and
--
Wait. That last one.
Oh, Katrina
vanden Heuvel. We're back to her. She never made a penny herself but
her grandfather left her a ton of money -- money she went to court over
because she didn't want to pay the estate tax., What a great liberal,
right?
That money she has? Her grandfather made it off
the backs of Black people. Lena Horne, to name but one, was always
clear to us what trash Katrina's grandfather was and how he undercut the
pay of Black artists -- he was an agent working on commission -- to
get better money for club performances from his favored White artists.
Lena would tell us tales in person and in writing.
Katrina, we're going to be circulating those letters to people who might be thinking about donating to your garbage rag.
But
that's not all we'll be doing. We'll spend a lot of time in your state
just to make sure everyone knows that your racist grandfather made
money off the backs of Black artists and that's how you afford your
mansion in Harlem.
Do you get that, Katrina? Do you
get how insulting that is to Black people? The money you have is from
their work and you use it to live in Harlem. Do you get how bad that
looks?
Give us a year or two and see how much worse we make it look as we get the word out on you.
Reparations
should start with people like you. You live a rich life thanks to
racism. And you can move over to the right wing and they'll embrace
you. But do you really think the left's going to embrace you as they
realize what and who you really are?
And don't, as you
did in 2007, send us an e-mail from you or your assistant, offering us a
bribe to shut us up. It didn't work in 2007 when were exposing the
sexism at THE NATION under your leadership -- see "The Nation featured 491 male bylines in 2007 -- how many female ones?"
-- and it won't work now. And probably after we're done with you,
will get to work circulating the #MeToo realities of THE NATION.
Again, we've vengeful bitches.
We're
also smart and informed bitches. And we knew all along that enthusiasm
was needed for Kamala to win and we registered it when so many left and
'left' outlets pissed on Kamala to avoid praising her, who did
hold-your-nose-and-vote-for-her articles and segments. The whole
country will now suffer because of your actions, so we believe it's only
fair that you suffer as well.
We've got a Friday
call, post-election analysis, with other donors you've depended on in
the past. How do you think that's going to go?