People have called me cynical many time when I tell them that your vote changes nothing and that your representative doesn't care about you opinion in any way.
They become more incredulous when I tell them the politicians are truly friends with each other and put on an act in front of the cameras for the media and the public.
I have attended parties in the backroom of the Mayflower where both sides of the isle were there with a bunch of lobbyists, everyone had a great time, the entertainment didn't care which party you belong too, the bartender didn't care who you follow. I met Bill Clinton during a retirement party for a general in that room.
The corruption is truly rampant in the second and third tier players in D.C. Yes your congress critter is corrupt but has already arrived, the hungry critters chasing the next opportunity are the truly immoral corrupt ones that will do anything. This leads to a ground swell of pressure from the wanna be masses to make deals that are compromised.
Of course anyone remotely connected to the white house is corrupt, I certainly saw the eagerness in Kamala to become empress when Biden's frailty became obvious. I found her gleeful pursuit of replacing him to be tragic and low class but its to be expected from a group of swamp rats.
Publicly visible deals and projects are the most favored among the the top dogs but directly profitable information, tips and deals are the most favored by the second and third tier players. Staffers care about getting the Pelosi stock tip more than fixing any social ill.
The highest level most visible players care about pretending to serve the people - like the ACA that was played as a social issue under Obama turns out to be nothing more than another scam impoverishing the people and helping no one but the lobbyists and their clients.
Suffice to say the entirety of US politics is political theater designed to give the impression that the citizen have some say in their government, they do not.
FWIW, I have been under the furniture at cocktail parties (Georgetown cocktail parties, no less!) attended by staffers of a well-known Team D senator, a senator from a fire engine red state, a senator known for wokeness, such as it was expressed at that time. That senator is dead now, for the record.
Behind closed doors, the racial attitudes those staffers expressed would have shocked a Grand Lizard of the KKK. They certainly shocked me, and I never heard human rednecks talk in such a way. And I grew up in a barn.
There are no leftists or progressives in the D party. Sure some say they are, but just look at how they vote in lockstep with the others. Both parties serve the Same donors and corporations which means America is an oligarchy. And democrats were more fascist under Biden.
For sure she’s not right wing or center-right. She’s center-left liberal, imo. Unless you wanna think everyone should be exactly has the same opinion as yours to be categorized as somewhat “left”
Please, stop insulting real "leftists" (which is a word quickly going out of style because it's irrelevant) by lumping us with either of the duopoly factions. Kamala is as "right-wing" as the rest of them in DC. We need some actual socialists/eco-socialists to shake things up there.
I'm using the terms others are familiar with. I personally call folks like Trump and Harris "the fascists" and myself and others like me as "enlightened."
I don’t know what Revolution’s intent is, because I’m not a mind reader, however, I would agree that there are no genuine Leftists/Socialists left in our government. The Dems used to be thought of or at least labeled “Left” because they claimed to be concerned about social justice and societal issues. We know that’s a bunch of garbage after decades of neo-lib/right wing/conservative warmongering and their failure to raise the minimum wage in 40 fucking years. Don’t get me started with their Sword of Damocles Abortion and Roe V Wade agenda. They made billions off of women in fund raising the past 50 years. And never codified it as law. Fuck them.
Yeah. Don’t call Dems Leftists or Communists. Communist nations actually have a lower maternal and infant mortality rate than the USA. Dems are hard core fascist pigs like their Repuke brothers across the aisle.
No, I prefer to not have Harris as our next president but I don't think that it matters because the impulse to communism is not coming from her, she is just playing a role and the real communist drivers are the oligarchs.
I also see Trump as just another distraction, he is a reality TV star. His last time in office resulted in a bait and switch that empowered the deep state and the oligarchs. Trump is just one more liar that has excelled because he is the best liar in his cohort.
Considering how deep Trumps nose is stuck up Israels ass he is 100% on board with the Israel surveillance state and their apartheid and genocidal ways. But then again so is Harris.
Well, of course..Trump was a registered NY Democrat in the '80s and '90s, and still has many of those beliefs today, unfortunately...But the Democrats left him, and he ran more or less on the same principles that were OK in the '80s, but now make you Hitler...but for my family, avoiding armageddon and closing the border are the main issues...and people saying that you're Hitler and trying to assassinate you are not your friend....
Think about this then: Trump had the chance to close the border and build the wall yet he failed, he can build a skyscraper , a huge hotel in multiple different countries but he can finish a wall along the border ?
Why would you think he will finish it this time around ?
Trump's hands were tied fiscally somewhat by Congress and the courts, and he did finish part of the wall, but yes, he should have ignored them and built the wall with military funds, regardless...For which he would probably have been impeached...
Sure thats the lie they tell constantly, first the democrats are blocked by the republicans and it reverses -I have heard 1000 times. He was impeached anyway so what.
He could have ignored them and built the wall anyway but he didn't
Illegal immigration has been going on forever, Reagan famously granted amnesty.
Regardless of the lies, Trump could have deployed the National Guard from every border state to defend the border and didn't. Instead of played the game called "Immigration reform" political theater.
I understand its hard to let go of the hope that he could be upstanding but his selection of Vance should make it clear - war with Iran is more important to Trump than finishing a border wall or stopping the invasion.
My expectations for Trumps next up at bat:
1. Ignore the border wall
2. Not deport anyone, maybe a few flag burners for the optics
3. Threaten and eventually go to war with Iran.
These are the exact things he did in his last presidency.
What Dem “beliefs” of his are unfortunate? That genocide is good as long as the victims aren’t white and Christian? Or that pretending to care about societal needs and instead cutting budgets for mothers and infants resulting in the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in all developed nations? (Yes, Mexico has a far lower mortality rate because they provide prenatal care to all women). Or that a convicted rapist, convicted felon, treason instigator and blackmailer(etc) can still run for president? Yeah. That sounds like both scum-sucking parties.
One thought I came up with is: ask your congress person if they have been to Palestine, if not why not considering you invited a butcher to speak in font of congress congress?
Secondly. Did you clap Netanyahu on the back or roar with pleasure at his speech. IF so then I am sorry but I cannot vote for you.
Thank you. Your writings have played a huge role in opening my eyes. As you say, let’s spread the dissension to friends, family members, neighbors, colleagues, etc…. And build a truly popular anti-imperial movement.
My fantasy is that millions of people vote for anti empire candidates Jill Stein or Cornel West in November to 1) send a message to the corporate duopoly that we are done playing the slightly lesser evil game every 4 years. 2) show others that voting with your conscience is one of many tangible and meaningful non-violent actions that we can take to get off the dead end path on which we find ourselves.
As his state co-chairman, I had The Fantasy in 1988 when Buchanan won the New Hampshire primary. I lost it when they squashed him like a bug. There will be no presidential voting our way out of this. Local and state are all that is left, John ...
I voted for Pat Buchanan in my state’s primary back then. I never considered myself conservative by a long shot but I approved of his anti-NAFTA stance and his propensity to stand up to IsraHell.
Do you what my husband’s last job was before his GM plant closed? Disassembling dies to send to Mexico and China!
Yeah, Pat's comment about Congress being the "Amen corner" for Israel killed his presidential aspirations and destroyed my belief in presidential "elections"
Vote not because your candidate of choice has a chance in hell of being picked by the MIC to be a warmongering puppet, instead vote for your conscience and to send those bastards a message that we know we are being played and won’t play their game any more.
So you’re okay with a Marxist as our next President? A Radical who votes to the left of Bernie Sanders? A DEI hire, they were so proud of, now denying? A grossly incompetent low IQ licking her chops to become the most powerful person on the planet? A possible future President no one really likes that much?
Are you lost? You do realize this isn't a rightwing publication, right? I would like Harris a helluva lot more if she were even slightly radical, marxist, or to the left of Sanders, but sadly none of that is true- everything you stated is weirdo rightwing propaganda. You might want to look somewhere else for validation, you're not going to find it here.
You’re right or, excuse me, Left. I’m leaving before I get consumed with hate and anger. And yes, I do follow some Leftist publications. Just FYI, Kamala’s voting record is to the left of Sanders. You may wanna give her a second looksy.
I read it decades ago while listening to the hearings during the Nixon administration. As well as the writings of Lenin. I wrote for a Socialist publication in college, a was friends with a female professor who had been to Chile during the Allende coup who wrote a book about it, after being detained and her first manuscript was confiscated. I read books on the Chinese revolution as well as several about the Russian revolution. Also books about Che Guevara and Castro and the Chili revolution. I dated a program director for a university free radio station and went with him on several interviews including one with Hall who was running for President on the Communist ticket. I would say I have quite a breadth of inside knowledge into the workings and methods of Communist revolutionary thought.
I might add that it wasn’t till I forced myself to read books and articles from the pro Capitalist “camp” that I began a journey of true learning and understanding eventually realizing that as I was transitioning from youth to adulthood I probably could identify with oppressed peoples because I had felt that oppression as a child growing up. When I became a more balanced adult in the area of political thought, I put away my childish emotions as well as my fear of taking responsibility for my own life.
I also think that small actions, talking, writing, refusing to support people like Jeff Bezos, Facebook, X, or Amazon as much as is possible are small things that could eventually have an impact once enough people are involved. But the money grubbers have been busy destroying the environment, the oceans, so that now our world is burning up and getting drowned in the results of their greed. We need to keep on poking away at their destruction. We need to support each other whenever we can. Which means dumping ideas that any of us are better than anyone else because of our wealth, our skin colour, our religion, our gender, our age or anything else that adds variety to being human.
Many of us have started years ago. Join us in supporting our communities, schools, libraries, clinics, work towards a trauma informed society and societal and individual healing. As the world ends we can each be pinpoints of compassion and decency, like death doulas. Be an ally to those who need allies.
One commonality unites any individual the duopoly flings into the spotlight before us -- the ability to LIE ad libitum, ad infinitum. They're all liars. Go back to Kamala's record in CA, if you need to check out her creds as a member of that club. Of course flagrant liar Bibi -- almost every syllable out of his mouth a lie -- was feted and cheered. Liars flock together for their common good, for the deprivation of anyone who can't match their prevaricative skill. Why would you waste a smile, a tip of the hat, a pleasant or unpleasant good morning on such a despicable beast, much less waste your time casting a vote for any of them. Voting non-duopoly is a bare-minimum act of sedition, although it's far too tame. The actions I really have in mind would all land me in Federal prison.
I live in California and am aware of her abysmal record in this state. Now she is being greeted and promoted as the second coming of Christ. All of a sudden. Our country is in serious trouble.
Remember how unpopular Harris was in the 2020 primary? She had to drop out. If it weren’t for Obama interfering to manoevre Biden (also unpopular) into place with the help of Jim Clyburn, Kamala would’ve gotten nowhere. She was Hilary’s favorite, hence being elevated to VP. Obama and the Clintons dominate the Democratic party, along with their Zionist billionaire supporters like Haim Saban.
You forgot that Kamala put a man on death row so that she can win her case by holding evidence that would have freed him , and Willie brown help her to where she got by means not worth mentioning , and trump a such a lying man and giving away property that belongs to Syria and Jerusalem is a man of awful sins to human kind !
Just to restore a little balance, Trump invested time, and tens of thousands of dollars, in an effort to have the INNOCENT Central Park Five executed.
Still refuses to acknowledge his egregious error, and instead still doubles down, saying that they were guilty, even after DNA evidence proved that they were innocent and horribly mistreated.
Harris and Trump need to be rounded up, and force fed ROUNDUP.
There are also 3 candidates barely anyone heard of, one independent (Pastreich) one for the green party (Stein) and a libertarian (Oliver). Would it make a difference if one of these became president, or if Kennedy were to make it, which I doubt. Behind the screens the wheels of the machine turn on, and I think if you as president don't turn along, you will just be eliminated. Yes we can protest or wake people up, but what can be done about a machine put to work 200 or more years ago - we have just watched how the govt applauds the real president of the US.
Here’s the thang. If you’ve got the chops to be an actual MEDICAL doctor ( not some shitty “doctor of philosophy” or some such) then you’re more intelligent than 99% of people on the planet. Who wouldn’t want that in a leader?
It was just my $600 of "political speech" that year.
I don't really have it in me to worship anybody; and never have.
US voting has always been a national opinion poll, with multiple steps where humans are chosen to "represent" other groups of humans, but with the ability to make choices and decisions, such as the Electoral College.
What's a "Swiftie"? Is that a John Kerry "Swift-Boat" reference, or maybe a new kind of Kleenex?
they will not win, but that doesn't matter and no one will find out if they'd make a difference. (and a relatively small team would probably not be able to overcome an entrenched corrupt system with loads of unelected experienced empire lackeys) imo, it is, however another small paper cut. not voting too, but less, imo (they're used to that and experienced in deflecting from small turnouts).
I think you should read the many accounts of the real life of your elected representatives in the GOP and Dems. Namely they spend 75% of their working time contacting corporations and rich people in “fundraising efforts”.
In plain English they spend 75% of their time propositioning the rich on collecting bribes. The other 25 % of the time they spend is doing the work of selling you out in office, as payback for the bribes. THAT is what you’d better focus on rejecting.
The Greens and many other progressive left parties are active working at all levels to give people a choice of options for REAL progressive politics. Despite the coordinated efforts of the GOP and Dems duopoly that abuses legislative power to make laws to keep them off ballot.
There are over 1,000 Greens in office--so stop this "they only show up every four years" smears. To get our local and state people on the ballot, we're forced to have a national candidate for president. It's the way the system is set up. Greens are working to build grassroots democracy at all levels. Power to the people!
doesn't matter. she won't win. that's not the point. she at least got accidentally arrested in a pro-palestine protest. your rights should not depend on scotus in the first place.
You cannot “give away” a vote you never had. Please re-read Caitlin’s excellent piece you are commenting on. Our votes are POPULARITY VOTES!!! The puppet president has already been chosen FOR YOU.
Fake elections are not “winnable” by anyone not chosen by the MIC.
We Amerikkkans are not the smartest folk on the planet and tend to lap up all the pablum spoon-fed us by the MSM.
Me, I’ve always been “the only rebel child in a family meek and mild” (“Mama Tried” by Merle Haggard). I’ve got a sticker reading Mama Tried on the back of my Jeep 😉
The young woman who framed my portrait of Rachel Corrie was much impressed with it and asked me who it was. I told her who it was and how she was martyred. She asked if she could take a photo of it, and I told her Of course if you promise to tell Rachel’s story when you show it to people.
She promised.
PS Jenny, my backside is very petite…I have 34” hip measurement! 😉
People have called me cynical many time when I tell them that your vote changes nothing and that your representative doesn't care about you opinion in any way.
They become more incredulous when I tell them the politicians are truly friends with each other and put on an act in front of the cameras for the media and the public.
I have attended parties in the backroom of the Mayflower where both sides of the isle were there with a bunch of lobbyists, everyone had a great time, the entertainment didn't care which party you belong too, the bartender didn't care who you follow. I met Bill Clinton during a retirement party for a general in that room.
The corruption is truly rampant in the second and third tier players in D.C. Yes your congress critter is corrupt but has already arrived, the hungry critters chasing the next opportunity are the truly immoral corrupt ones that will do anything. This leads to a ground swell of pressure from the wanna be masses to make deals that are compromised.
Of course anyone remotely connected to the white house is corrupt, I certainly saw the eagerness in Kamala to become empress when Biden's frailty became obvious. I found her gleeful pursuit of replacing him to be tragic and low class but its to be expected from a group of swamp rats.
Publicly visible deals and projects are the most favored among the the top dogs but directly profitable information, tips and deals are the most favored by the second and third tier players. Staffers care about getting the Pelosi stock tip more than fixing any social ill.
The highest level most visible players care about pretending to serve the people - like the ACA that was played as a social issue under Obama turns out to be nothing more than another scam impoverishing the people and helping no one but the lobbyists and their clients.
Suffice to say the entirety of US politics is political theater designed to give the impression that the citizen have some say in their government, they do not.
and if you think I am exaggerating...
https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba
This jives with my experience.
FWIW, I have been under the furniture at cocktail parties (Georgetown cocktail parties, no less!) attended by staffers of a well-known Team D senator, a senator from a fire engine red state, a senator known for wokeness, such as it was expressed at that time. That senator is dead now, for the record.
Behind closed doors, the racial attitudes those staffers expressed would have shocked a Grand Lizard of the KKK. They certainly shocked me, and I never heard human rednecks talk in such a way. And I grew up in a barn.
jibes
"People have called me cynical..." - yep, and that always counts for them as the ultimate dismissal. No further regard for any argument.
So does that mean you’re okay with Kamala, a fringe Leftist, becoming our next President?
There are no leftists or progressives in the D party. Sure some say they are, but just look at how they vote in lockstep with the others. Both parties serve the Same donors and corporations which means America is an oligarchy. And democrats were more fascist under Biden.
Kamala is in no way a leftist, LOL. She's more center-right or right-wing.
For sure she’s not right wing or center-right. She’s center-left liberal, imo. Unless you wanna think everyone should be exactly has the same opinion as yours to be categorized as somewhat “left”
No Democrat is a leftist. Sorry. The majority of them are liberals/neoliberals who are further right.
WRONG! She is a card carrying Squad member who supports Hamas over Israel.
Are you SURE?
Yes.
Please. 😂
Truth
Please, stop insulting real "leftists" (which is a word quickly going out of style because it's irrelevant) by lumping us with either of the duopoly factions. Kamala is as "right-wing" as the rest of them in DC. We need some actual socialists/eco-socialists to shake things up there.
Strange that you want to discard "leftist" but leave "right-wing" in.
I'm using the terms others are familiar with. I personally call folks like Trump and Harris "the fascists" and myself and others like me as "enlightened."
Yeah, but you want others to stop using "left" yet continue with the "right".
I don’t know what Revolution’s intent is, because I’m not a mind reader, however, I would agree that there are no genuine Leftists/Socialists left in our government. The Dems used to be thought of or at least labeled “Left” because they claimed to be concerned about social justice and societal issues. We know that’s a bunch of garbage after decades of neo-lib/right wing/conservative warmongering and their failure to raise the minimum wage in 40 fucking years. Don’t get me started with their Sword of Damocles Abortion and Roe V Wade agenda. They made billions off of women in fund raising the past 50 years. And never codified it as law. Fuck them.
Yeah. Don’t call Dems Leftists or Communists. Communist nations actually have a lower maternal and infant mortality rate than the USA. Dems are hard core fascist pigs like their Repuke brothers across the aisle.
Fuck them all.
Climate change is a hoax. It's a jewish political leftist Bullshit ideal
No, I prefer to not have Harris as our next president but I don't think that it matters because the impulse to communism is not coming from her, she is just playing a role and the real communist drivers are the oligarchs.
I also see Trump as just another distraction, he is a reality TV star. His last time in office resulted in a bait and switch that empowered the deep state and the oligarchs. Trump is just one more liar that has excelled because he is the best liar in his cohort.
Considering how deep Trumps nose is stuck up Israels ass he is 100% on board with the Israel surveillance state and their apartheid and genocidal ways. But then again so is Harris.
Generally true, but there is no way that Trump and cackling Kamala are friends, it's all out war here...
Do we really have to bring up all the photographs of Trump with democrat leaders ?
Party doesn't matter, whats said or shown publicly doesn't matter - that is all for your entertainment.
The right question to ask if they both needed each others help and had to burn the citizens to get that help who would they choose ?
Would Trump choose winning in a deal over principles - read The Art of the Deal to learn
the answer to that question.
Well, of course..Trump was a registered NY Democrat in the '80s and '90s, and still has many of those beliefs today, unfortunately...But the Democrats left him, and he ran more or less on the same principles that were OK in the '80s, but now make you Hitler...but for my family, avoiding armageddon and closing the border are the main issues...and people saying that you're Hitler and trying to assassinate you are not your friend....
Think about this then: Trump had the chance to close the border and build the wall yet he failed, he can build a skyscraper , a huge hotel in multiple different countries but he can finish a wall along the border ?
Why would you think he will finish it this time around ?
He failed to finish the wall on purpose
Trump's hands were tied fiscally somewhat by Congress and the courts, and he did finish part of the wall, but yes, he should have ignored them and built the wall with military funds, regardless...For which he would probably have been impeached...
Sure thats the lie they tell constantly, first the democrats are blocked by the republicans and it reverses -I have heard 1000 times. He was impeached anyway so what.
He could have ignored them and built the wall anyway but he didn't
Illegal immigration has been going on forever, Reagan famously granted amnesty.
Regardless of the lies, Trump could have deployed the National Guard from every border state to defend the border and didn't. Instead of played the game called "Immigration reform" political theater.
I understand its hard to let go of the hope that he could be upstanding but his selection of Vance should make it clear - war with Iran is more important to Trump than finishing a border wall or stopping the invasion.
My expectations for Trumps next up at bat:
1. Ignore the border wall
2. Not deport anyone, maybe a few flag burners for the optics
3. Threaten and eventually go to war with Iran.
These are the exact things he did in his last presidency.
What Dem “beliefs” of his are unfortunate? That genocide is good as long as the victims aren’t white and Christian? Or that pretending to care about societal needs and instead cutting budgets for mothers and infants resulting in the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in all developed nations? (Yes, Mexico has a far lower mortality rate because they provide prenatal care to all women). Or that a convicted rapist, convicted felon, treason instigator and blackmailer(etc) can still run for president? Yeah. That sounds like both scum-sucking parties.
Stop lying to yourself. They ALL SUCK.
🙄
Thank you Caitlin.
One thought I came up with is: ask your congress person if they have been to Palestine, if not why not considering you invited a butcher to speak in font of congress congress?
Secondly. Did you clap Netanyahu on the back or roar with pleasure at his speech. IF so then I am sorry but I cannot vote for you.
Accountability is important.
Well said: this is a corrupt and morally decrepit “leadership”. Never stop underlining that and undermining them.
Thank you. Your writings have played a huge role in opening my eyes. As you say, let’s spread the dissension to friends, family members, neighbors, colleagues, etc…. And build a truly popular anti-imperial movement.
My fantasy is that millions of people vote for anti empire candidates Jill Stein or Cornel West in November to 1) send a message to the corporate duopoly that we are done playing the slightly lesser evil game every 4 years. 2) show others that voting with your conscience is one of many tangible and meaningful non-violent actions that we can take to get off the dead end path on which we find ourselves.
As his state co-chairman, I had The Fantasy in 1988 when Buchanan won the New Hampshire primary. I lost it when they squashed him like a bug. There will be no presidential voting our way out of this. Local and state are all that is left, John ...
https://open.substack.com/pub/doc115/p/the-grandest-distraction-of-all?r=18tk5o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Best of luck, friend
~~ j ~~
Hi Dr. J
I voted for Pat Buchanan in my state’s primary back then. I never considered myself conservative by a long shot but I approved of his anti-NAFTA stance and his propensity to stand up to IsraHell.
Do you what my husband’s last job was before his GM plant closed? Disassembling dies to send to Mexico and China!
Yeah, Pat's comment about Congress being the "Amen corner" for Israel killed his presidential aspirations and destroyed my belief in presidential "elections"
~~ j ~~
It’s my plan. Writing in Jill Stein. Fuck the patriarchy and its Empire.
Vote not because your candidate of choice has a chance in hell of being picked by the MIC to be a warmongering puppet, instead vote for your conscience and to send those bastards a message that we know we are being played and won’t play their game any more.
Pauline, this will be my third time voting for Dr. Jill.
Jill’s on the ballot here in Michigan. I expect her to get a LOT of votes among the highly-populated I-75 corridor with its diverse population.
There is no reason to participate in an selection/election which is complete bs.
It makes no difference they always win and you have clearly shown this. THANKS.
I share the same sentiment. Participating only legitimizes an obviously corrupted process.
So you’re okay with a Marxist as our next President? A Radical who votes to the left of Bernie Sanders? A DEI hire, they were so proud of, now denying? A grossly incompetent low IQ licking her chops to become the most powerful person on the planet? A possible future President no one really likes that much?
Are you lost? You do realize this isn't a rightwing publication, right? I would like Harris a helluva lot more if she were even slightly radical, marxist, or to the left of Sanders, but sadly none of that is true- everything you stated is weirdo rightwing propaganda. You might want to look somewhere else for validation, you're not going to find it here.
You’re right or, excuse me, Left. I’m leaving before I get consumed with hate and anger. And yes, I do follow some Leftist publications. Just FYI, Kamala’s voting record is to the left of Sanders. You may wanna give her a second looksy.
Good grief where did you hear that?
"A Radical who votes to the left of Bernie Sanders?"
Show me the times she did that…I’ll wait.
Both parties are capitalists and they serve the same donors.
Marxism and communism are just made up talking points.
as well as capitalism.
I feel like I’ve dropped into a pit surrounded by…..please, I’ll never enter through these gates again. Let me liiiivve!!!!
youse welcomed no mores. scram.
California is living proof of all her success. The cesspool of the nation with all the resources imaginable to do so much better.
The lesser of two evils is still evil.
Ludicrous. Kamala is no more Marxist than you are. But you might want to pick up Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto and actually read the damn thing.
It’s not very long. Definitely shorter than the Fascist Manifesto of Heritage Foundation’s 2025 plot to take over the world.
Should take you about an hour at most.
Maybe longer cuz big words.
I read it decades ago while listening to the hearings during the Nixon administration. As well as the writings of Lenin. I wrote for a Socialist publication in college, a was friends with a female professor who had been to Chile during the Allende coup who wrote a book about it, after being detained and her first manuscript was confiscated. I read books on the Chinese revolution as well as several about the Russian revolution. Also books about Che Guevara and Castro and the Chili revolution. I dated a program director for a university free radio station and went with him on several interviews including one with Hall who was running for President on the Communist ticket. I would say I have quite a breadth of inside knowledge into the workings and methods of Communist revolutionary thought.
I might add that it wasn’t till I forced myself to read books and articles from the pro Capitalist “camp” that I began a journey of true learning and understanding eventually realizing that as I was transitioning from youth to adulthood I probably could identify with oppressed peoples because I had felt that oppression as a child growing up. When I became a more balanced adult in the area of political thought, I put away my childish emotions as well as my fear of taking responsibility for my own life.
Is this a joke ??
Brilliant! Such an easy cop out. So I guess the answer is yes.
"So you’re okay with a Marxist as our next President?" - asks you.
"So I guess the answer is yes." - answers you to youseself.
Yep, I can see how you're a voter.
God forbid!
Local and state elections can make a difference though - it’s always an option to leave the federal races blank.
I also think that small actions, talking, writing, refusing to support people like Jeff Bezos, Facebook, X, or Amazon as much as is possible are small things that could eventually have an impact once enough people are involved. But the money grubbers have been busy destroying the environment, the oceans, so that now our world is burning up and getting drowned in the results of their greed. We need to keep on poking away at their destruction. We need to support each other whenever we can. Which means dumping ideas that any of us are better than anyone else because of our wealth, our skin colour, our religion, our gender, our age or anything else that adds variety to being human.
Very well said, especially the last sentence!
Many of us have started years ago. Join us in supporting our communities, schools, libraries, clinics, work towards a trauma informed society and societal and individual healing. As the world ends we can each be pinpoints of compassion and decency, like death doulas. Be an ally to those who need allies.
It’s not too late.
Icebox: it isn't about winning and losing. It's about trying to find justice and peace.
One commonality unites any individual the duopoly flings into the spotlight before us -- the ability to LIE ad libitum, ad infinitum. They're all liars. Go back to Kamala's record in CA, if you need to check out her creds as a member of that club. Of course flagrant liar Bibi -- almost every syllable out of his mouth a lie -- was feted and cheered. Liars flock together for their common good, for the deprivation of anyone who can't match their prevaricative skill. Why would you waste a smile, a tip of the hat, a pleasant or unpleasant good morning on such a despicable beast, much less waste your time casting a vote for any of them. Voting non-duopoly is a bare-minimum act of sedition, although it's far too tame. The actions I really have in mind would all land me in Federal prison.
I live in California and am aware of her abysmal record in this state. Now she is being greeted and promoted as the second coming of Christ. All of a sudden. Our country is in serious trouble.
Remember how unpopular Harris was in the 2020 primary? She had to drop out. If it weren’t for Obama interfering to manoevre Biden (also unpopular) into place with the help of Jim Clyburn, Kamala would’ve gotten nowhere. She was Hilary’s favorite, hence being elevated to VP. Obama and the Clintons dominate the Democratic party, along with their Zionist billionaire supporters like Haim Saban.
Totally agree 👍
Same here Vin! 😂
You forgot that Kamala put a man on death row so that she can win her case by holding evidence that would have freed him , and Willie brown help her to where she got by means not worth mentioning , and trump a such a lying man and giving away property that belongs to Syria and Jerusalem is a man of awful sins to human kind !
Just to restore a little balance, Trump invested time, and tens of thousands of dollars, in an effort to have the INNOCENT Central Park Five executed.
Still refuses to acknowledge his egregious error, and instead still doubles down, saying that they were guilty, even after DNA evidence proved that they were innocent and horribly mistreated.
Harris and Trump need to be rounded up, and force fed ROUNDUP.
Hi Mike
Roundup kills vegetation. I suggest cyanide 😁
Well, on the other hand, if they’re human vegetables….
Good morning, Gypsy.
There’s always Zyclon B Biden and Blinkin.
Maybe they can just do a blood transfusion into disgusting Don and Kamalatoe.
Once upon a time I was a nurse.
I’ll happily volunteer to spill/draw the blood.
There are also 3 candidates barely anyone heard of, one independent (Pastreich) one for the green party (Stein) and a libertarian (Oliver). Would it make a difference if one of these became president, or if Kennedy were to make it, which I doubt. Behind the screens the wheels of the machine turn on, and I think if you as president don't turn along, you will just be eliminated. Yes we can protest or wake people up, but what can be done about a machine put to work 200 or more years ago - we have just watched how the govt applauds the real president of the US.
RFK NO no no.
Jill Stein. yes.
Jill Stein will get my protest vote again.
I gave her a t-shirt I had made when she visited Austin in 2016.
Dr. Stein wears a small. ;-D
I gave away 100 of them.
Dark green on light green:
Front: I Vote Green
Back: Jill Stein MD President 2016
I had a bumpersticker made in 2016 that says "Vote Jill Not Hill" which I did, and plan to do again.
Hi Marcy
Here’s the thang. If you’ve got the chops to be an actual MEDICAL doctor ( not some shitty “doctor of philosophy” or some such) then you’re more intelligent than 99% of people on the planet. Who wouldn’t want that in a leader?
Dr. John, I WANT wunna them!
"Dr. Stein wears a small. ;-D" - does she? How cute!
How little it takes to become a groupie. Would you be called a "Steinie" to complement Swifties?
It was just my $600 of "political speech" that year.
I don't really have it in me to worship anybody; and never have.
US voting has always been a national opinion poll, with multiple steps where humans are chosen to "represent" other groups of humans, but with the ability to make choices and decisions, such as the Electoral College.
What's a "Swiftie"? Is that a John Kerry "Swift-Boat" reference, or maybe a new kind of Kleenex?
;-)
Turns out they have their own wikipedia entry now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swifties
they will not win, but that doesn't matter and no one will find out if they'd make a difference. (and a relatively small team would probably not be able to overcome an entrenched corrupt system with loads of unelected experienced empire lackeys) imo, it is, however another small paper cut. not voting too, but less, imo (they're used to that and experienced in deflecting from small turnouts).
"There are also 3 candidates ...". There's also Mickey Mouse, a perennial one, always worth considering, never given a chance.
Or write in Watermelon!
Or just Melon if short on ink.
I think you should read the many accounts of the real life of your elected representatives in the GOP and Dems. Namely they spend 75% of their working time contacting corporations and rich people in “fundraising efforts”.
In plain English they spend 75% of their time propositioning the rich on collecting bribes. The other 25 % of the time they spend is doing the work of selling you out in office, as payback for the bribes. THAT is what you’d better focus on rejecting.
The Greens and many other progressive left parties are active working at all levels to give people a choice of options for REAL progressive politics. Despite the coordinated efforts of the GOP and Dems duopoly that abuses legislative power to make laws to keep them off ballot.
Reject the corrupt duopoly.
There are over 1,000 Greens in office--so stop this "they only show up every four years" smears. To get our local and state people on the ballot, we're forced to have a national candidate for president. It's the way the system is set up. Greens are working to build grassroots democracy at all levels. Power to the people!
doesn't matter. she won't win. that's not the point. she at least got accidentally arrested in a pro-palestine protest. your rights should not depend on scotus in the first place.
Isn't the idea to get shot of the 2 party system?
that is what I have been pondering, too. And there will never be a candidate other than what the masters behind the screen want anyway
As to the Russian bot, I am not sure I would vote anything disney
You cannot “give away” a vote you never had. Please re-read Caitlin’s excellent piece you are commenting on. Our votes are POPULARITY VOTES!!! The puppet president has already been chosen FOR YOU.
Fake elections are not “winnable” by anyone not chosen by the MIC.
US voting has never been direct-election, but always a national opinion poll.
Give your honest opinion. It's all you are able to do.
For sure, these acts of sedition are wonderful. A vote for the Green Party and Jill Stein wouldn't hurt either.
EVERY person in comments is saying the same thing over and over again.
IN my first post here I gave you some ideas BUT not one person has said this is a good idea.
Just endless complaining.
GET off your HUGE backsides US and do something.
Then I’ll be the first, Jenny!
We Amerikkkans are not the smartest folk on the planet and tend to lap up all the pablum spoon-fed us by the MSM.
Me, I’ve always been “the only rebel child in a family meek and mild” (“Mama Tried” by Merle Haggard). I’ve got a sticker reading Mama Tried on the back of my Jeep 😉
The young woman who framed my portrait of Rachel Corrie was much impressed with it and asked me who it was. I told her who it was and how she was martyred. She asked if she could take a photo of it, and I told her Of course if you promise to tell Rachel’s story when you show it to people.
She promised.
PS Jenny, my backside is very petite…I have 34” hip measurement! 😉
Nice story Gypsy.
I know you are a busy woman so I could NEVER imaging a huge backside! How's the canning coming along?
X suspended me. I deleted X. X is a force for Zionism. X is antidemocracy. X is anti-me.
Took you a while. Well done.
Thank you. www.bdsmovement.net
Boycott Divestment Sanction Israel
Going to a doctor nowadays is about as effective as voting nowadays.
Bull's eye, Caitlin! Anyway you look it, Harris and Trump are two poison pills!