Cleavage
should have been their first clue. He doesn't want to see her boobs.
She's switching to a tank top when she comes home and doing that because
she's hot.
Can you still not put it together?
It's a thin, cotton tank top, she says.
The point is, she's not wearing a bra. Now are you getting it?
He's
not her boyfriend (he's gay) and he doesn't want to see her boobs
flopping around maybe popping out. She can dress however she wants in
her room. But if you're sharing an apartment, you do need to think
about the common areas. And just because you're hot and sweaty doesn't
mean your roommate wants to see your boobs flopping around. That's
something you should have worked out ahead of time.
I've
known a lot of guys who think that boxers -- especially boxer briefs --
qualify as shorts when they're home. That might not fly if you have
roommates.
If you want to do what you want to all over the place, either don't have a roommate or have one who's laid back and chill.
I'm
not discussing Cornel West. I did not call C.I. last night (but wanted
to). I did e-mail the national Green Party to make it clear that I
walk from the party if they give Cornell the nomination -- as various
YouTubers were saying late yesterday was happening. And I will walk.
Anyone who wants it can run for it. Can fun for it. But no one's going
to get it as a gift.
Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Crazy is all around no matter where you look
-- some of the left lying that Cornel West is about to be the Green
Party's presidential candidate (they'll decide who to pick in the summer
of 2024) compete with the crazies like Ron DeSantis, Lauren Boebert and
others for the title of most dangerously unhinged.
Let's start with a needed laugh.
Now let's unpack the crazy.
Is there a more divisive figure than Cornel West in the last 24 hours? Maybe -- maybe the YOUTUBING whores who are pimping him.
They
talk about MSNBC, don't they. They sneer and the idiot Ajuma Baraka is
still calling CNN "The Clinton News Network" as though he just coined
the phrase when it was a right-wing smear back in the 90s. He's old and
he's gasping for air. Someone put the old man to bed before he
staggers around anymore going "Cornel! Cornel! If I could get an
erection anymore, I'd beat off to you Cornel."
I've
held Krystal Ball accountable when she went screeching that everyone
had to fall in line behind Marianne Williamson. No, that's not how you
to talk to adults, that's not how you talk to people. You do not boss
people around and tell them how they will vote and who they will vote
for.
No one asked Krystal for that and she did real damage to Marianne's campaign when she pulled that stunt.
Now you've got Graham Elwood and others doing the same.
I'm not in the mood. Not in the damn mood.
Every
few months, your new savior comes along and you try to baptise us. You
don't get that we are not your flock. You better check yourself real
damn quick.
Graham Elwood looks like a crazy
man in his video yesterday. His eyes are popping and bulging and the
left side of his mouth is a drooping snarl. Is that his pokerface? Is
he having an orgasm as he blathers on about Cornel?
I have no idea.
It's
amazing the lies that a Chrissy Lynn Hedges can promote. Again, he's
very good at lying. Wasn't it his article on the front page of THE NEW
YORK TIMES that the Bully Boy Bush administration was waiving around
after 9/11 to insist on war on Iraq? They go on the talk shows and
they'd insist that it wasn't just them saying it, it was THE NEW YORK
TIMES!
THE NEW YORK TIMES!
See
this is what happens with stupid people who don't bother to learn or
don't care to. They have no idea the reality of Chrissy Lynne. They
probably don't even know that Judith Miller, years before her war
propaganda for THE NEW YORK TIMES, wrote for THE PROGRESSIVE.
These people are not your friends.
Your friends don't yell and scream at you to vote for someone. That's not a friend.
They also don't lie to you to try to force you to support someone.
Forget the garbage on YOUTUBE. Cornel does not have the nomination.
Could he get the nomination?
He could.
He's not going to be handed it.
I
called a friend with Green Party leadership last night because there
were e-mails coming in from people freaking out over this issue. People
opposed to the Green Party doing what YOUTUBERS were insisting was
happening: Naming Cornel their candidate for president.
And
I thought I was seeing a ton of e-mails. Apparently nothing like what
party leaders are seeing. After we got off the phone, three hours
later, my friend called back because the complaints were streaming to
leadership over and over as the hours went by.
The
Green Party will have a nominee for president. And they will pick that
nominee at their summer 2024 convention. They have rules in place,
actual rules, that will be followed, rules that they voted on over a
decade ago, rules that are in place.
EIGHT WEEKS after September 11, a pair of Americans entered the
gleaming marble lobby of Beirut’s Intercontinental Hotel La Vendome,
where they were greeted by a group of Iraqi expatriates. The Americans
were reporters—New York Times war correspondent Chris Hedges,
who’d just been put on the Al Qaeda beat, and Christopher Buchanan, an
associate producer of PBS’s Frontline—there to meet a mysterious
Iraqi defector with information about Saddam Hussein’s secret weapons
program. Hedges and Buchanan were ushered to an elegant suite
overlooking the Mediterranean, where they interviewed Jamal al-Ghurairy,
an Iraqi lieutenant general who had fled Iraq. Ghurairy claimed to have
witnessed foreign Islamic militants training to hijack airplanes at an
Iraqi terrorist training camp.
Buchanan had been given the assignment just a few days earlier and
knew very little about the interview’s subject. “It was all very
hush-hush,” he says. “His life might be in danger. I didn’t know much
else.” Buchanan recalls the general as thickset, “fierce looking,” and
having a military bearing. “He looked the part,” he says. Hedges adds
that the general “was definitely Iraqi and struck me as having spent a
lot of time in the military.” The general’s entourage—including Nabeel
Musawi, the political liaison of the Iraqi National Congress (INC),
which had arranged the interview—“were all wearing leather coats. They
were slick and well organized,” says Buchanan. “Very well organized,
very well set up,” Hedges concurs.
The general hadn’t been told he’d be filmed, and it took Musawi
almost an hour to persuade him to go on camera. The general himself then
spent several minutes making sure his face would be blacked out when
the tape rolled. The resulting television interview, for which Musawi
acted as translator, was stilted and brief. It would become only a small
segment of the Frontline piece, which also featured an interview
with another INC-provided defector, Sabah Khodada, a former Iraqi
captain whose identity was not concealed. Buchanan recalls that “as soon
as the lights and camera were switched off, the general began to talk.”
He says the general then spent more than an hour with Hedges in an
adjoining room of the suite while he left the hotel to transmit the tape
via satellite uplink. When Buchanan eventually returned to the empty
suite, he found coffee cups and saucers filled with cigarette butts that
he felt indicated an intense conversation. Hedges says that after the
interview was completed, he “spoke to the U.S. embassy in Turkey”—where
the general had fled after leaving Iraq—“and asked if the general was
credible. They confirmed he had recently been debriefed.”
Two days later the story that spun out on the front page of the New York Times
was as shocking as it was convincing. Ghurairy claimed that as a senior
intelligence official, he had witnessed foreign Arab fighters training
to hijack airplanes at the Salman Pak military facility south of
Baghdad. About 40 foreign nationals, Ghurairy said, were based there at
any given time. “We were training these people to attack installations
important to the United States. The Gulf War never ended for Saddam
Hussein. He is at war with the United States,” the Times quoted Ghurairy
as saying. Ghurairy also claimed a German scientist was working in a
section of the base that produced biological agents. The report noted
the role the INC had in setting up the interview, but no serious
questions were raised about the general’s provenance.
Read
the article in full. But grasp right now, Iraqis are dead because of
Chris Hedges. They're not coming back from the dead. His writing
helped lead to the Iraq War. So the next time his jaundice and bug-eyed
face pops up telling you this or that, just stop a moment and remind
yourself that he promoted the Iraq War, he promoted war on Iraq. He was
stupid? I don't give a damn what his excuse is. I do give a damn that
he has still not taken accountability all this time later. I do give a
damn that the Iraqi people suffer to this day and he can't talk about
them or write about them. I don't give a damn about the moralizing
Chrissy Lynn Hedges who looks down on people who read whatever SHADES OF
GREY. They're the ones he calls out in a book. But, understand, we're
all supposed to look the other way about his role in starting the Iraq
War.
He needs to get down on his knees in public and beg the forgiveness of the Iraqi people.
Not only has that not been demanded of him but a lot of whores promote him as our sainted Chrissy.
Not in the damn mood for that ever.
Again,
the Iraqi people who have died? They aren't coming back and he needs
to take accountability -- publicly -- for his role in that. He's fine
being public about everything else. So take some damn accountability.
And if you can't, just go away. No one needs to hear from you or see
your blood soaked hands. You're disgusting and I'll say so. You know
I've got no problem calling out those with the blood of the Iraqi people
on their hands.
Cornel is the presidential
candidate for the Green Party? No matter what Chrissy says, he's not.
They will not decide that until they hold their convention in the summer
of 2024.
Cornel tried to lie to Katie Halper
-- and Katie was far too gullible -- but if you listen to his awful
interview -- which will not go up here -- you hear that he had a talk
with the Green Party.
Two people with the party told me last night about that conversation.
Cornel wanted to be handed the Green Party's presidential nomination and wanted to make that announcement this week.
He
was told he could campaign for it, anyone can run for it. But, no,
there are rules in place and the Green Party is not the Democratic
Party. They aren't going to gift the nomination or rig the nomination.
Cornel was told that.
He
was not happy about that. And we'll get to the why of that. But he
knows the truth. So when people start coming around lying, they're
cheap whores. You shouldn't trust them.
Up to
the pandemic, I spent February 2003 forward speaking on campuses,
speaking to feminist groups, speaking to labor groups about the Iraq
War. In the early days, it was just about the Iraq War and whatever
question or issue someone might raise. But it quickly became, due to
our focus in the US on electoral politics, about elections.
You
do not owe anyone your vote. It is your vote, you own it. The only
wrong vote is a vote you don't feel good about when you're voting.
Candidates do not own your votes, they have to earn it. Blah, blah,
blah.
We planted that seed over and over. 48
to 50 weeks a year, year after year, as we went all over the country
speaking on one campus after another.
Right now, the YOUTUBING whores want to tell you that oh, the Democratic Party's going to make everyone get behind Joe.
Don't say that when you're doing the same thing for Marianne or Cornel or whomever.
The
reason we can't move forward is because these would-be leaders are
f**king idiots. All they know to do is the very same thing that they
slam the Democratic Party for.
That's going to lead to change?
Hell no.
When
I realized that I was voting Democrat in this election -- barring an
independent run by Robert -- I didn't hide it. I also have not
advocated for anyone else to do the same. That's online, that's in my
real life. But since that is my current plan, I did disclose it so
people could factor that in when I'm writing about whatever.
You
vote how you want to vote. Don't let anyone try to push you around.
If they do, they are showing they have no respect for you.
If
you're voting in 2024 -- or making the decision to vote by not voting
(which is a valid use of your vote if that's what you want to do) --
you're an adult. You don't need anyone telling you who to vote for.
The
amount of nonsense that we're getting from YOUTUBERS -- including
Katie's Roger Waters obsession -- note, she had to bring that into the
interview with Cornel as well -- goes to how stupid they clearly think
we are. "Don't worry, guys, I got this covered. I'm going to get them
to vote for Cornell."
How about you just do your damn job. Which is some form of faux media, as clear as I can tell.
I
compare what they do -- 'politics' -- to the Red Cross. They rush from
one disaster to the next, never really accomplishing anything. But, in
earlier decades, these people were called hitchhikers on the highway of
causes as they flitted from one cause to another, never seeing any
accomplishment because they couldn't stay focused.
The only intelligent discussion on Cornel wanting to be president is the one below.
Later
today, Jared Ball will speak live with Cornel on BLACK POWER MEDIA.
That might be an intelligent discussion. I hope it is.
But thus far, that's the only one.
People who know nothing about Cornel West are insisting you have to vote for him. Are telling you how great this is.
How
is it great, Graham? Because the celebrity of it all has gripped you?
I'm not hearing about issues. I'm not hearing about how it's going to
improve even one life.
So how about you stop hyping and whoring and try to inform people instead of trying to order them around or trick them.
These
YOUTUBERS don't want to educate the masses. They don't want to provide
them with tools. They just want to be able to boss them around.
Apparently, that's a built-in feature of the US political process.
I don't know why the hell anyone would want to tell other people how to vote. To try to boss them around in a free society.
I'm disgusted.
Let's get back to Cornel and reality.
Cornel wanted to make an announcement this week that he would be the Green Party's presidential nominee.
That is not happening.
But he needed it to.
Why?
Because he's an idiot on the world stage. People don't take him seriously as it is and now it's even worse.
How so?
He's
not the People's Party nominee. He doesn't want to be because their
racism, their sexism and everything else has come up since he was
announced as their nominee.
Now to walk away from a political party that just made you their nominee a week ago? That's embarrassing.
It
goes to how unserious you are. "Wait, you took the nomination without
doing any work to research the party you were going to be representing?"
Yes.
Yes, that's exactly what he did.
He's that damn stupid and/or that damn vain.
And that goes to judgment and clearly he has none. He's not fit to be president.
'Uh, I didn't know, I didn't really understand them.'
Then why the hell did you announce you would be their presidential candidate?
In
the world of YOUTUBE whoring, that goes unasked apparently. But you
better believe that in the real world -- especially in the press --
Cornel West is now a joke.
He looks like the idiot supreme.
He
wouldn't have looked a lot smarter if he could have announced he was
the Green Party nominee but he would have had a 'happy ending' to his
embarrassment and he could try to steer your focus to that and not to
the fact that he, an African-American man, was fronting a racist
political party.
YOUTUBERS need to find their
spines and their brains and need to grasp that their role is to inform,
not to tell anyone how to vote, to inform.
As
I've said, I intend to vote in 2024 for the Democratic Party nominee --
whether it's Joe or Marianne or Robert. Or someone who hasn't announced
yet. That's what I intend to do. I have my reasons and may share them
later on. I may not. If Robert does an independent run, I will
seriously consider voting for him. I know Robert and I know he's
serious about this. I've known him for many, many years. I would be
hesitant to vote for Marianne if she ran without the Democratic Party
because I've also known her for many years. But Robert's character is
such that I would consider supporting him if he ran as an independent.
He also has the money to do so.
I am not opposed to voting third party or independent candidates. As I've noted, I voted Green in 2008 (Cynthia McKinney).
But
you need to use your vote how you want to use your vote. It's not
wasted if you're doing what you want. That includes if what you want is
not to vote. That includes if you vote for someone I don't like --
even a hate merchant. November 2024 rolls around and you use your vote
the way you want to, that's all you need to do.
B-b-but
two months later!!!! Unless you're psychic, you can't predict the
future. You can only determine how to use your vote with the knowledge
you have leading up to the election.
Again, don't let people bully you. When they do that, when they use and misuse you, they are showing contempt for you.
They're
just con artists. Grasp that. Grasp that any real journalist looking
at Cornel West should be asking him: "WTF! You're a 70-year-old man who
took the nomination from a political party you're now trying to run
from because you're embarrassed that they're racists with a record of
doing nothing except for sexually harassing women?" Instead, they're
saying "Dr West" in hushed voices and bowed heads -- as though what has
just happened before everyone's eyes did not take place. They're crazy.
The Emperor's got no clothes on No clothes? That can't be; he's the Emperor Take that child away Don't let the people hear the words he has to say
One small voice Speaking out in honesty Silenced, but not for long One small voice speaking with the values we were taught as children
So you walk away and say, Isn't he divine? Don't those clothes look fine on the Emperor? And as you take your leave You wonder why you're feeling so ill-at-ease Don't you know?
Lies take your soul You can't hide from yourself Lies take their toll on you And everyone else
One small voice speaking out in honesty Silenced, but not for long One small voice speaking with the values we were taught as children Tell the truth You can change the world But you'd better be strong
-- "One Small Voice," written by Carole King, first appears on her album SPEEDING TIME
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has spread a right-wing claim that
Starbucks forced employees to take down Pride decorations. A Starbucks
spokesperson denied the allegation and said the company encourages
stores to celebrate Pride Month.
On Tuesday afternoon, Boebert re-tweeted the following
message from Charlie Kirk, leader of the rabidly anti-LGBTQ+
conservative group Turning Point USA: “Starbucks has banned Pride
decorations in its stores halfway through Pride Month, the company’s
workers union has revealed. Leftwing Trans activists claim this means
Starbucks is ‘caving.’ Good! Keep the pressure on, folks.”
Kirk based his claim on a June 13 tweet
from Starbucks Workers United (SWU), a group that seeks to unionize
Starbucks employees. SWU said that workers had complained that the
“company is no longer allowing Pride decorations in-store.”
Starbucks says none of this is true.
In a statement to LGBTQ Nation, the company wrote, “We’re
deeply concerned by false information that is being spread especially as
it relates to our inclusive store environments [and] our company
culture.”
“There has been no change to any policy on this matter and we
continue to encourage our store leaders to celebrate with their
communities including for U.S. Pride month in June,” the company added.
“Starbucks has a history that includes more than four decades of
recognizing and celebrating our diverse partners and customers –
including year-round support for the LGBTQIA2+ community.”
In related news, community member Sabina e-mailed
to urge everyone -- who eats candy -- to be sure to get their Pride
Month skittles at Wal-Mart and remember skittles will be donating a
portion of your purchase price to Pride.
WE'VE GIVEN UP OUR RAINBOW SO THAT THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY CAN SHARE THEIRS.
This Pride Month, we're amplifying stories within
the LGBTQ+ community for all to discover. We begin by showcasing the
designs of five talented artists on our SKITTLES Pride Packs, each with
their own story to tell.
OUR MISSION IS TO SUPPORT THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY BY AMPLIFYING AND
CELEBRATING THEIR STORIES. THAT'S WHY WE'VE PARTNERED WITH GLAAD FOR THE
FOURTH YEAR TO REWRITE THE SCRIPT FOR LGBTQ+ ACCEPTANCE.
We will donate $1 per every SKITTLES Pride pack sold to GLAAD in
support of their ongoing efforts to work through media to combat
anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.*
Very good for Skittles.
Thank
you so much to Sabina who saw the display for Skittles and Pride at her
local Wal-Mart in Dallas, Texas. And applause for Garth Brooks who is
standing strong against bullies who try to tell him what he can or
cannot stock at his bar.
The
hate merchants need to be confronted. Their crazy and hateful words are
impacting others. We have a very big mental health problem in this
country and these hate merchants are inciting violence. Greg Owen (LGBTQ NATION) reports:
Two days earlier, around noon, Abdullah began following the two men, 58
and 40 years old, near the intersection of 18th Street and Hartford in
the Castro.
According to the district attorney, the victims say “the unknown male
suspect was following them on foot while simultaneously aggressively
shouting anti-LGBTQ language. The suspect then threw a glass object at
them causing the 40-year-old male victim to sustain a
non-life-threatening injury.”
The men called 911 and provided a description of Abdullah, who was
spotted a short time later near Mission Dolores Park. After a foot
chase, cops apprehended the assailant and booked him into county jail on
two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of committing a
hate crime and one of resisting arrest.
The
hate merchants are poisoning our world. Which lets me note another
song, Nanci Griffith's "It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go" (first appears
on STORMS).
A cafeteria line in Chicago The fat man in front of me Is calling black people trash to his children He's the only trash here I see And I'm thinking this man wears a white hood In the night when his children should sleep But, they slip to their window and they see him And they think that white hood's all they need
It's a hard life It's a hard life It's a very hard life It's a hard life wherever you go If we poison our children with hatred Then, the hard life is all that they'll know And there ain't no place in (Belfast) for These kids to go
I was a child in the sixties Dreams could be held through TV With Disney, and Cronkite, and Martin Luther Oh, I believed, I believed, I believed Now, I am the backseat driver from America I am not at the wheel of control I am guilty, I am war, I am the root of all evil Lord, and I can't drive on the left side of the road
It's a hard life It's a hard life It's a very hard life It's a hard life wherever you go If we poison our children with hatred Then, the hard life is all that they'll know And there ain't no place in (Belfast) for These kids to go
Hate merchant Tucker Carlson took a moment out from attacking LGBTQ+ members. Graeme Massie (INDEPENDENT) notes
that Tucker's posted a new rant to Twitter where he's lying that the
arrest and current charges against former US President Donald Trump are
the result of Donald declaring -- before he became president -- that the
Iraq War left the Middle East "destabilized."
TUCKER
CARLSON: Seven years later, they have their revenge! Cheeto, my
Cheeto! I am here for you and I will fellatiate you -- in a non-gay way
-- in the town square because anything that will get me attention is
what I'm about, especially now that I'm facing lawsuits and will really
need money.
I'm sure it went something like that, I'm sure.
Let's wind down with the shrimp Doo-Doo Ron Ron Doo-Doo Ron.
DeSantis
apparently has decided on a strategy to cope with the fact that, the
more people know about him, the less they like him. The strategy
consists of sucking up to
every goober in America with sufficient enthusiasm that said goober
doesn't notice how much he is coming to loathe Baby Huey Long. From the
Charlotte News & Observer:
The
presidential candidate was touting Republican successes in last year’s
midterm elections in Florida, and in North Carolina, amid disappointing
results in the rest of the country, when he brought up the recently
renamed installation. “I also look forward to, as president, restoring
the name of Fort Bragg,” DeSantis said to raucous cheers from the crowd.
He added that he would “thank the people that have served there, and
they’re proud of their service there.”
“It’s
an iconic name and an iconic base, and we’re not going to let political
correctness run amok in North Carolina,” DeSantis said as the crowd
continued to cheer.
Sure,
Bragg went to arms against the lawful government of the United States.
Sure, he was one of the biggest boobs in the history of warfare. Sure, he shot his own men like
partridges. Sure, he was such a complete incompetent that he enraged
Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was no bowl of strawberries on his best day.
The Butcher of Fort Pillow purportedly once threatened to serve up
Bragg en brochette.
Braxton Bragg was a slave-owning racist and failed military
leader, sometimes described as the worst general of the Civil War. The
question should be, why would anyone name a military base after him in
the first place? Nevertheless, Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending him.
The
governor is upset that the U.S. military changed the name of North
Carolina’s Fort Bragg to Fort Liberty earlier this month. He called it
“political correctness run amok,” and said he would restore the name if
voters elected him president.
But Braxton Bragg is no
cancel culture martyr. The military base should never have been named in
his honor, not when Camp Bragg opened in 1918, and certainly not now.
[. . .]
By definition, Bragg was a traitor to the United States. He was at best a
middling military leader and, at worst, so inadequate that he helped
cost the Confederacy the war. Celebrate his failures and treachery? How
un-American.
In case the demonstration in
Florida over the weekend confused you, racists and KKK types coming out
to show their support for Little Ronnie DeSanits, that's what this is
about. He panders to racists. Grasp also, the base is now named Fort
Liberty. Of course Ron would be against that, he loathes liberty as
much as he detests democracy.
REACHED FOR COMMENT, DOO-DOO RON RON TOLD THESE REPOTERS -- MUST CREDIT BULLY BOY PRESS& CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB -- THAT, "THIS WAS REALLY ABOUT ME SAYING TO VOTERS, 'LOOK, THIS IS ME, GIRLFRIEND, THESE ARE MY BOOBIES. MY MOMMY CALLED THEM DIRTY PILLOWS BUT THEY ARE BOOBIES AND ALL FAT MEN HAVE THEM! MINE ARE BIG AND MEATY AND MUCH BIGGER THAN MY WIFE'S. I CALL HER 'TINY TITS' BECAUSE SHE'S BUILT LIKE A BOY, BUT I AM BUXOM!"
TOLD THAT MANY FOUND THE PHOTOS OF HIM "DISGUSTING," DOO-DOO RON RON SAID, "THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE FRONT? THEY SHOULD BE GLAD THAT THEY DIDN'T GET A SHOT OF ME FROM BEHIND! THE SEAT OF MY PANTS WAS SOAKED! AND MY CAKES WERE JUST EATING THEM UP!"
Not every YOUTUBER was producing fan-boi content
over the weekend. For example, the vanity run of Cornel West was
seriously addressed.
What?
You were expecting two White boys b.s.-ing about things they know
nothing about? No, we're not noting that VANGUARD nonsense. For an
outlet that attacks Jimmy Dore constantly, they have no self-awareness,
do they? Joan Walsh is one voice at THE NATION. She's not a voice that
I value and I didn't value her at SALON. But the boys of THE VANGUARD
are a lot like Joan Walsh. The reason I have no use for Joan is that
she generally doesn't know what she's talking about. In the '00s, we
corrected her nicely -- Ava and I -- when, at SALON, she confused Gavin
Newsom and Kamala Harris. It's not easy to do that today and it wasn't
easy to do that back then.
So
I don't like little boy idiots who see their life's goal to be
defending Krystal Ball -- a far worse figure than Joan Walsh -- or
telling lies about Cornel's great big opportunities. The Green Party is
not going to gift the nomination to Cornel West. Nor are they likely
to allow him to share the nomination because they do not want to be
confused -- pay attention -- with a GUTTER PARTY and that's all The
People's Party is. Scandals about where the money went, scandals about
sexual assault, scandals about this, Tweets and efforts to be more
right-wing-than-FOX "NEWS."
The
Green Party has spent years on ballot access. It is very unlikely that
the political party will decide to destroy their work and their image
by getting in bed with a political party with so many issues. Gavin and
Zac need to learn. They need to have an education.
I
don't give a f**k what Chrissy Lynn Hedges whispers. He's a stupid ass
who promoted the false link between Iraq and 9/11 -- and did so on the
front page of THE NEW YORK TIMES. You dumb idiots who refuse to do the
work required and get on board with Chrissy Lynn -- or for that matter
with Oliver Stone and his lobbying for the nuclear industry. Your
stupidity hurts us, grasp that.
Now
if you knew your history, you'd know that the Green Party was offered a
candidate before. No, I'm not talking about the wrestler. And the
candidate was a bigger name than the wrestler and Cornel combined. And
the Green Party said? No.
Because
they are independent party. On the wrestler, he wanted the party to
gift him with the nomination. The Green Party said "no." You want
their nomination, you campaign for their nomination.
Unlike The People's Party, they're a real political party.
Now
The People's Party, please remember, was, like Max Blumenthal's wife,
part of that hideous February action where they got on stage with right
wingers who were racists and who were homophobic and transphobic.
Do
you remember the response from The Green Party? Probably not because
YOUTUBERS don't do a lot of homework. But we posted it here. And their
response was they were not taking part in that 'action.' They issued a
statement to make that clear. They would not go onstage with
right-wingers (and pedophiles -- remember The People's Party planned to
have that convicted pedophile on stage as well).
So, no, you stupid hacks, the Green Party is not gifting Cornel with their nomination.
Tucker Carlson on Thursday tried to distill the meaning of white supremacy in a monologue pandering to racists. (Watch the video below.)
“Is white supremacy liking white people too much?” he asked with a straight face on “Tucker on Twitter.”
Carlson played dumb on
the meaning of white supremacy while he was the prime-time king on Fox
News, before getting the heave-ho in April. He infamously called it a hoax and stoked fear by claiming policies were aimed to replace white people.
This
time, Carlson accused the feds of ignoring child molesters to focus on
the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and attack white supremacists.
“White supremacists are America’s new child molesters,” he said. “We’ve got zero tolerance for white supremacists.”
Never forget what he really is and that people like Glenn Greenwald, Aaron Mate, Max Blumenthal and so many others don't care about racism at all. Which means they don't care about us.
Grasp it, file it away.
They're as bad as that Mother Tucker. (And I really do think the "Mother Tucker" thing C.I. came up with two years or so ago is hilarious. Carlson is a Mother Tucker.)
Friday, June 9, 2023. A lunatic in Congress claims (lies) that the FBI
has stated that they can't protect a witness, no-surprise Tara Always
Changes Her Story Reade is yet again changing her story, the heavens
open with relief as the angels realized there wasn't a snow ball's
chance in hell that Pat Robertson was going to be at the Pearly Gates,
and much, much more.
Well Pat Robertson finally did
something good for America -- he died. Too bad he couldn't have done it
years ago. For more see Kat's "Hate merchant Pat Robertson has passed away." Paul Rudnick notes:
Pat
Robertson has died. He said gay people caused hurricanes and wore
special rings which spread AIDS, and that gay marriage was worse than
murder. He's survived by this poster on the wall of Mike Pence's bedroom
pic.twitter.com/Shf5NThGZk
Let's
go from crazy Pat Robertson to crazy Tara Reade. TWITTER's had to
provide 'context' to a recent reTweet by Tara noting that it's a lie.
Poor Tara, if she were capable of embarrassment or shame, this would be a
very difficult time for her.
But all of her Tweets should come with context since she's so estranged from the truth. For example, Tara's labeled this piece by Froma Harrop to be "slut shaming."
Is she that stupid or is she now on drugs? It's not slut shaming.
Froma does not go into Tara's past relationships or even mention them.
She's very clear that she doesn't believe Tara regarding her allegation
that Joe Biden assaulted her in the nineties. I honestly do believe her
but that's not "slut praising" anymore than Froma's slut shaming her.
People don't have to believe her. Ruth went over this in "Tara Reade threatens to sit on George Takei and squash him"
when Ruth pointed out George Takei not believing Tara was assaulted is
not him slandering her. No one has to believe her and due to her own
credibility issues she's made even more people doubt her.
That's not what I really want to note.
I
also am not eager to point out her latest lie. Per her
'representative' (a woman who can't practice law in the US or in Russia
-- apparently, Tara's such a credit risk she can't get a local attorney
in either country), Tara told US Rep Matt Gaetz that she received
"intelligence" in Russia. She hasn't received intelligence -- or common
sense -- in any place she's lived or traveled. But Tara told Matt --
and according to her 'rep' she said so on THE HILL -- that she's
received "intelligence" that her life was being threatened and he
advised her to stay in Russia.
First off, if
true, let me say two words I'll probably never say again: Thank you,
Matt Gaetz. Now if you could encourage some other whack jobs to leave
the country . . .
Here's the thing though,
Tara's stated already that Matt's the one who warned her. That seemed
suspect but that was her story. Matt warned her and that's why she's
staying in Russia.
Now she's claiming that she got the "intelligence."
Take a moment to laugh and then we'll pick right back up.
I
wish we had time to call out Sabby Sabs and all the other garbage
praising Robbie of THE HILL for bringing nut job Tara Reade on. But we
don't. We will note he's a transphobe and a gay basher and so, Sabby
Sabs, we're not at all surprised to see you praising him.
That's
not why we bring it up. Nor to ask why Tara is obviously unable to get
shampoo in Russia -- but did get a really bad dye job.
No,
we're bringing her up because of the crazy in Congress. And this time
let's zoom in on US House Rep Anna Paulina Luna who Tara can't stop
reTweeting -- Tara loves those homophobes. Anna Lunatic is someone who
needs to be brought before the ethics board. Maybe if Democrats regain
control of the House they do that? This Tweet should never have
happened:
The
FBI stated "they were afraid the informant would be killed if
unmasked"? So the FBI, you insane lunatic, that has protected many
witnesses against the mob, has stated they have a witness that they
can't protect? Goodness that would be front page news . . . if it
actually happened.
But it didn't. And Crazy
Lunatic didn't make that statement on the floor of Congress, she did it
in a Tweet which means she's not protected from lying.
That
lie needs to be hammered and hammered. Merrick Garland needs to issue a
statement noting that the FBI has said no such thing.
These
people just make up crap and then those already struggling with reality
-- people like Tara -- hear it and start repeating it as truth.
If
the FBI told Congress that they had a witness they couldn't protect,
one of two things would happen in the real world: Kevin McCarthy, as
head of the House of Representatives, would be announcing that to the
American people or they all wouldn't be saying a word because they were
briefed on it in a closed session.
But
Lunatic puts it on TWITTER. I do feel some sympathy for Anna Lunatic.
If George Santos weren't in this Congress, she'd be getting a lot more
attention for all of her lies -- including that "Mexican" grandfather
that in fact was German. She's got her string of lies but George always
manages to soak up all the attention. Your day will come, Luna
Lunatic, your day will come.
And,
sadly, seriously sad, we will no longer be noting Bonnie Erbe's TO THE
CONTRARY. It has been a great program and has addressed many important
issues -- I'm sure it will continue to do so. But I was informed last
night about two panelists and I'm sorry I'm not promoting the program
anymore. I had no problem with their conservative fiscal views or other
conservative views. But there is a difference between conservative
views and the views of hate merchants. Applause to Bonnie for her work
over the years and hopefully my walking away will mean some others will
be interested in promoting the show -- the longest running show focusing
on women still in production.
Bonnie was
attacked in 2008 for refusing to join the dogpile on Sarah Palin.
Bonnie has been a brave face and voice for feminism. I applaud her.
But
there is a war going on in this country, a war against the LGBTQ+
community and I will not have this site, this platform do anything to
promote that war. And grasp that this means anyone can be dropped from
getting noted here if I'm dropping Bonnie.
"What could we have done to stop the attacks on the LGBTQ+ community?"
LGBTQ NATION asks that at their site. I have an answer for that and
it's not pretty and probably not anything they want to here. But in
September, those of us who are arm-in-arm with the LGBTQ+ community fled
like fairweather friends and a number of LGTBQ+ members -- especially
sassy young Twinks -- decided to trash the man everyone was fleeing from
instead of standing up. Every tactic that now works for them when they
go after Dylan or whomever, they practiced that back in September and
people were too damn stupid to realize what was at stake. They're using
the same tactics -- that they perfected last September -- to attack
African-Americans -- and if you're struggling to see that, you are the
problem.
I can't go into this right now, it would take hours and hours. I might write about it this weekend.
But
that's the past and I can't change that. But what I can do to stop
attacks right now is not promote or elevate hate merchants.
Let's note whistle-blower Chelsea Manning as we turn to Iraq. Monday April 5th, WIKILEAKS released US military video of a July 12, 2007 assault in Iraq. 12 people were killed in the assault including two Reuters journalists Namie Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh. Monday June 7th, the US military announced that they had arrested Chelsea Manning and she stood accused of being the leaker of the video. Leila Fadel (Washington Post) reported
in August 2010 that Manning had been charged -- "two charges under the
Uniform Code of Military Justice. The first encompasses four counts of
violating Army regulations by transferring classified information to
[her] personal computer between November and May and adding unauthorized
software to a classified computer system. The second comprises eight
counts of violating federal laws governing the handling of classified
information." Manning had been convicted in the public square despite
the fact that she's been convicted in no state and has made no public
statements -- despite any claims otherwise, she had made no public
statements. Manning was now at Quantico in Virginia, under military lock
and key and still not allowed to speak to the press. Paul Courson (CNN) noted [Chelsea] is a suspect and, "He has not admitted guilt in either
incident, his supporters say." She was attacked repeatedly and then convicted and then pardoned. Alonso Matinez (EL PAIS) notes today:
In an interview with the Financial Times, Manning revealed that
she rarely faces hecklers regarding the intelligence leaks, but
occasionally experiences attacks related to her transgender identity.
She expressed her resilience, stating that she has become accustomed to
such criticism and that it no longer greatly affects her.
A
former Miss Iraq, Sarah Idan, has officially announced her run as a
Democrat for US Congress in California’s 30th District in November
2024.
Idan currently lives in Los Angeles and is the
founder of Humanity Forward, a nonprofit bipartisan organisation
“committed to building bridges among Muslims and Jews in order to
surpass borders and promote reconciliation, tolerance, mutual
understanding, and peace”.
The seat is currently held by
Adam Schiff, who will be leaving to run for the Senate. Schiff, who was
the House Intelligence Committee chair in 2021, had welcomed the
US administration's pledge to release a declassified report on who
killed Jamal Khashoggi, calling for the document to be made public
"without delay".
Western oil companies are exacerbating water shortages and causing pollution in Iraq as they race to profit from rising oil prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mahdi
Mutir, 57, worked as a fisher his entire life. For years, Mutir and his
wife woke at dusk, sailing along a thick network of canals in Al Khora,
a few kilometres north of Basra. The harvest was meagre but enough to
provide food for the family of seven.
That changed last year. Now, at the height of the rainy season, Mutir’s boat lies stranded in the mud.
“It
is the water station the Italian company built: they need water for
their oilfields,” Mutir said, pointing at the black smoke rising from
the Zubayr oilfield on the horizon.
To help
extract oil, companies pump large quantities of water into the ground.
For each barrel of oil, many of which are later exported to Europe, up to three barrels of water are pumped into the ground. And as Iraq’s oil exports rise, its water has dramatically fallen.
The
whole world is facing drastic climate change but climate models suggest
that Iraq will be among the worst effected. Back in March, Amr Salem (IRAQI NEWS) reported:
The
United Nations stressed that Iraq is suffering from a real water
crisis, calling for collective action to find solutions to this crisis,
the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported.
The statement was made on Sunday by the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for Iraq and Head of the United Nations Assistance
Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, during her
participation in Iraq Climate Conference held in the southern Iraqi city
of Basra.
“There is an urgent need to find solutions to the water crisis in Iraq,” Plasschaert stated.
Three years ago, the vast marshlands of southern Iraq’s Dhi Qar
province were flourishing. Fishermen glided in punts across swathes of
still water between vast reed beds, while buffalo bathed amid green
vegetation. But today those wetlands, part of the vast Mesopotamian
Marshes, have shriveled to narrow channels of polluted water bordered by
cracked and salty earth. Hundreds of desiccated fish dot stream banks,
along with the carcasses of water buffalo poisoned by saline water.
Drought has parched tens of thousands of hectares of fields and
orchards, and villages are emptying as farmers abandon their land.
For their biodiversity and cultural significance, the United Nations
in 2016 named the Mesopotamian Marshes — which historically stretched
between 15,000 and 20,000 square kilometers in the floodplain of the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers — a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The marshes comprised one of the world’s largest inland delta systems, a
startling oasis in an extremely hot and arid environment, home to 22
species of globally endangered species and 66 at-risk bird species.
But now this ecosystem — which includes alluvial salt marshes,
swamps, and freshwater lakes — is collapsing due to a combination of
factors meteorological, hydrological, and political. Rivers are rapidly
shrinking, and agricultural soil that once grew bounties of barley and
wheat, pomegranates, and dates is blowing away. The environmental
disaster is harming wildlife and driving tens of thousands of Marsh
Arabs, who have occupied this area for 5,000 years, to seek livelihoods
elsewhere.
Experts warn that unless radical action is taken to ensure the region
receives adequate water — and better manages what remains — southern
Iraq’s marshlands will disappear, with sweeping consequences for the
entire nation as farmers and pastoralists abandon their land for already
crowded urban areas and loss of production leads to rising food prices.
The Mesopotamian marshlands are often referred to as the cradle
of civilization, as anthropologists believe that this is where
humankind, some 12,000 years ago, started its wide-scale transition from
a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and
settlement. Encompassing four separate marshes, the region has
historically been home to a unique range of fish and birdlife, serving
as winter habitat for migratory birds and sustaining a productive shrimp
and finfish fishery.
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani on Sunday kicked off an
initiative to plant 5 million trees and palms across the country in an
attempt to alleviate some of the deleterious impacts of climate change, a
statement from his office said.
Iraq has suffered years of
drought, and more than 7 million people have been effected or lost their
incomes from agriculture and fishing, Al-Sudani’s office said. The
war-torn, oil rich country has experienced higher temperatures,
persistent drought, an increase in dust storms and a crop area cut by
half, all impacts of extreme weather caused by climate change.
Real action would be addressing the use of water by the oil industry -- water that's not going to the people.
On veterans' issues, Senator Bill Cassidy's office issued the following:
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. delivered remarks during today’s hearing on examining veterans’ access to long term care.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank
you to our witnesses for being here today to discuss how we can ensure
veterans have access to the long-term care and support they need.
Our
veterans sacrificed for us, so we owe it to them to work to identify
gaps in care and find ways to improve the experience they receive when
they work with VA tofulfill their long-term care needs.
Access to quality long-term care is an important part of honoring our commitment to our veterans.
It’s an issue that affects the veteran, their families, the caregiver, and the community around them.
We
must improve coordination between the VA, community providers, and
other stakeholders so that veterans and their families do not have to
struggle to access the support they earned.
As
the population of aging and disabled veterans increases, VA will need
to ensure high-quality and adequate staffing for VA medical facilities,
clinics, and community living centers, while also expanding its
footprint in the community.
I
support VA’s efforts to honor veterans’ preferences for when, where,
and how they receive long-term care. Veterans should have ultimate
control over their health care decisions from VA.
We
must also focus on caregiver support and recognize the vital role
caregivers play in the well-being of our veterans. We must provide
caregivers with the necessary resources, training, and support to ensure
they deliver the best care.
Our hope is that your testimony will help us figure out how to do that.
I thank you again for your testimony.
Let us honor our veterans' service and sacrifice by making sure they get the best care we can give them.
Also on veterans issues, we're going to note this from Senator Tammy Baldwin's office:
Baldwin Successfully Pushes VA to Reexamine & Pay Earned Benefits to 600 Veterans After Doctor Misdiagnosed Conditions
Doctor who misdiagnosed veterans was terminated from Tomah VA
Baldwin has been advocating for new exams, proper compensation, and an investigation into doctor for 1.5 years
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After more than a year and a half
of advocating on behalf of Wisconsin veterans, Senator Tammy Baldwin
successfully pushed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to identify
and reexamine approximately 600 veterans whose neurological conditions
were misdiagnosed by a doctor at the Tomah VA Medical Center. As a
result of the misdiagnoses, these veterans had been denied proper
benefits, compensation, and treatment. The VA will now work to complete
reexaminations and grant equitable relief for impacted veterans. The
doctor responsible for the misdiagnosis, Dr. Mary Jo Lanska, MD, has
been terminated from the Tomah VA.
Since 2021, Senator Baldwin has been working with multiple Wisconsin
veterans who reported that their traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and
other conditions were misdiagnosed by Dr. Lanska. Senator Baldwin had
been calling on the VA to investigate the pattern of misdiagnoses,
ensure misdiagnosed veterans get a new exam, and get the veterans the
proper compensation and benefits they are deserved.
After Senator Baldwin successfully pushed the VA
to review all of the compensation and pension exams that were done by
Dr. Lanska and reach out to impacted veterans, the VA announced today
that they identified approximately 600 veterans who received an exam
from Dr. Lanska that they plan to order reexaminations of and grant
equitable relief.
“Our veterans served us and we have an
obligation to serve them when they come back home. Unfortunately, many
of our Wisconsin heroes did not get the care at the VA that they
deserved," said Senator Baldwin. “I am glad to see that
after years of working alongside some of our veterans, hundreds of
Wisconsinites who have been wronged by the VA will be getting the care
and benefits that they earned.”
In a March meeting, Senator Baldwin pressed VA Secretary Denis McDonough
to investigate the pattern of misdiagnosis and shared the Wisconsin
veterans’ concerns. In August 2022, Senators Baldwin and Tammy Duckworth
(D-IL) sent a letter
to Secretary McDonough highlighting their concerns about TBI
misdiagnosis at the Tomah VA and pushing for answers about the process
for veterans who may have been improperly diagnosed and not receiving
the benefits they deserve. After hearing from additional veterans, in
September 2022, Senator Baldwin called
on the VA to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the practices
of this doctor to determine whether there is a broader pattern of her
misdiagnosing patients’ neurological disorders that are preventing
veterans from receiving care or benefits they earned.
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Senator
Tammy Baldwin is an out lesbian and this is Pride Month so I'm going to
try to note something from an out member of Congress in each of the
snapshots for the rest of the month. Again, focusing on what we can
do. Again, I recommend LGBTQ Nation's "What could we have done to stop the attacks on the LGBTQ+ community?" which, hopefully, we'll get everyone who cares about equality and fairness brainstorming.
