Populist Prole

I remember this from one of my friend’s right-wing friend a few years ago:

Bitching about labor day, which is quite ironic since over the years it’s been morphed into just another monday day-off/sale “holiday”. Whining about how without the businesses, there would be no labor and why didn’t they have a day to recognize that. I said “well y’know…[Read more]

Spot-on Maedhros.

It’s the elephant in the room they’ve knocking themselves out to ignore.

You did what you ( think ) you had to do. I get it, though I do not agree with it. But please tell me you’re not losing your marbles like Joe to the point of believing these people are throwing straight dice.

I get it. It’s about saving face now in light of those who were so disappointed. Hoping we’ll believe you’ll get something in return for…[Read more]

Great comments so far.

I can just imagine a slogan out of desperation soon from the Biden/Harris camp:

“Biden: He doesn’t suck. At least, he doesn’t suck as much as Trump…in some ways“.

I think it’s just his way of injecting plausible deniability into charges of obsequious capitulation to the DNC machine. As if he did so in good faith.

Nobody knows what they in the “deep state-ish” division within the DNC machine actually told him as far as his options were. Whether or not they brought him into a room and “had a talk”, but one…[Read more]

“I’ll bet when Biden tries a stunt to kill Social Security, he’ll have all the support he needs, from Obama, to the neo-cons, to the “serious thinkers”, to the Kasich and Bloomberg types, that his stunt won’t flop.”

No doubt he’ll be hailed as a wise for being “a pragmatic centrist” who has “to make tough decisions” by “reaching across the ais…[Read more]

I’m dismayed. We need more like him.

His book ‘Bullshit Jobs’ is spot on. Highly recommended.

Pulled me me outta’ my malaise-y blahhs. I actually feel great now. Schadenfreude? You bet your asses. 🙂

The man’s penchant for bizarre behavior is boundless.

“to rile up his base”

Who will vote for him anyway and who have long since reached their peak numbers. Everybody else, of whom he needs some of to push him over the 50 percent mark, will be repulsed.

I don’t get it either.

The nefarious work of “radical left” frogmen, no doubt.

N2Doc: “Par for the course. Only the Maga cult members believe what he says.”

Exactly. Not only that, based on my interactions with Trump fanatics, even if they didn’t believe what he says, they’ll just reach into their bag of go-to talking points and pull out a single issue they like him for. Most times it’s guns, flag-waving bravado, or gawd.…[Read more]

He’s so young and could have shared so much more intelligent insight as time went on. I have his book ‘Bullshit Jobs’ and I can heartily recommend it. It’s spot on.

My only disagreement is one of anecdotal observation. In the book, the holders of BS jobs feel a sense of sheepish guilt at the pointlessness of their jobs. In my observations, the…[Read more]

But it’ll be DOA in the US, as in dead as a doornail on arrival.

Three things:

• The neoliberal “meritocracy” others have noted, is too inveterately entrenched in the present system we have
• The paradigm of increased productivity raising wages has been bastardized by the uber-capitalism practiced here. Most of the productivity gains of the last…

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Oh they’ll make a deal alright, but they’ll do so in bad faith.

As local rock band playing clubs used to quip during their set:

“You might love us, you might hate us, but we don’t care ’cause you already paid us”.

Scratching my head on this one. Sounds like “Switch & Bait”, in that order.

I like this of Jacobin’s view the democratic party:

“…a party that is perennially generous in relation to elite donors and wealthy professionals and parsimonious toward its electoral base.”

Perfect summation in fewest words.

I think the death angle is quite applicable here. Anybody alive from the last election cycle to now through the next will be more than wise to the DNC chicanery. The last panel in the cartoon depends on nobody being able to connect the dots.

I’ve been hyper-thinking about all this the last few weeks and I’ve come to the conclusion that Biden-Harris would actually be worse than if we had Clinton-Kane.

A, because Biden is even further to the right, right out of the box, and especially considering the odiousness of his would be ( will be ) cabinet. B, because they are riding a wave of…[Read more]

Though I was seething with anger upon reading it. I remain as resolute as ever…moreso….to not vote for any corporate democrat. If that means Trump gets in again, it’s their fault. I want them to go down in flames like they did in 2016 more than I want to see Trump defeated.

Sure, I can see it now….

Sanders: “President, if this administration doesn’t provide even a modicum of quid pro quo to the people that elected you hoping you’ll move the country in a more progressive direction, they’re going to…”

Biden ( or more likely, Biden’s handlers ) reply, steely eyed and scoffing: “They’re going to what”. Sinister…[Read more]