Populist Prole

“maybe he sucks to provide his party with an excuse for doing nothing”

It worked fabulously well for Barack Obama:

• Early in when the dems had majorities, he torpedoed the agenda he ran on by catering to the republicans with “reaching across the aisle” bi-partisan bullshit.
• After the 2010 GOP blow-out in the senate and house he could claim he…

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This:

“but their lemming followers who refuse to admit that they were/are wrong about these grifters, and what they really are or became, no matter how much evidence is presented. And then they spend all their energy fighting those who tell the truth instead of those who hide it.”

That would apply to not only to BO, but to both Clinton terms and…[Read more]

First off; forget the republicans/conservatives/teabaggers bitching about how that he was Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders and Karl Marx put together. We all knew these people were fucked up long before the orange shit gibbon gave them a place to hang their red caps on.

I’m talking about those who, when seeing his capitulation in deference RW…[Read more]

It’s not just this mook, it seems to be a new strategy on the part of firebrand republican public figures in general. Smarting from the the shit gibbon losing the election and the death of Rush Limpballs, their governing strategy has been reduced to being snotty, sneering trolls.

You nailed it succinctly those two talking points being a strawman argument.

It sure did seem like the writer of that piece seems to blame corporations very obliquely, as if it were a sound business decision rather than rapacious corporate greed. The use of the automation talking point was another way for the writer to whitewash the issue: That…[Read more]

Nothing more than a “Hey! Look over there!” distraction to prevent us hoi-polloi from connecting the dots, focusing and then and barking up the tree at the burgeoning neoliberal corporate fascism.

It’s infuriating over the years of reading/hearing them gaslight their way out of culpability and tell us they’re not pissing on us, and that’s just rain. The steady drumbeat of talking points of how offshoring was just their reaction to some unstoppable force of nature that they had no choice in, and not the deliberate choice made to just further…[Read more]

I read about his fretting here: Larry Summers Doubles Down On His Inflation Prediction | Angry Bear (angrybearblog.com)

From the piece:

“Oh, he also invokes “Higher minimum wages, strengthening unions, increased employee benefits and strengthened regulations” as further exacerbating this inflationary surge, even though he says these “are all d…[Read more]

Am I reading into this, or does she sound scripted? The talking points, the delivery, the finger. Lots of evangelical preachers do that too; “rhythm & repetition” is what they call it. I think that’s why it works so well put to music.

I’ll bet she didn’t really want to go into that store for a purchase, as to be able to make a statement. Like a…[Read more]

That made my day, thanks.

Going to watch soon as the yardwork is done. 🙂

The die has been cast once the ‘third-way’ put a stake the heart of the last vestige of the party of FDR.

That Common Dreams piece and the rhetoric therein applied to the first two years of Barack Obama’s term. Any suggestion to the party leadership that the party should have made hay while the sun was ( still ) out was curtly dismissed and the…[Read more]

I heard some grousing among co-workers parroting media bullshit about this. Told them basically the same thing: You have rich assholes complaining and bashing the working class, and rich media assholes being their mouthpieces. Without sounding like I was pontificating, I added “You know, I’ve figured something out over the many years. Whatever…[Read more]

Lashing two anchors together and hoping they float.

“Yeah, that’s the ticket!”.

Alternatively, my very RW father left his catholic church because the priest/pastor was too liberal for his tastes.

Like Obama before him, pulling defeat from the jaws of victory. Sure republican obstructionism was very real…after they swept the house and senate beginning in 2010 and the tea party rampage. But before that happened he could have used the bully-pulpit to push the same progressive agenda he ran on: but NO. If he didn’t fuck it up by offering an…[Read more]

Like others have noted, I too discovered the same unmasking of lies through the vicissitudes of life’s timeline.

Unless it’s camo-clad gun humpers with misspelled signs intimidating people at town hall meetings.

Normally this sort of bigoted ignorance used to infuriate me, but this time the ignorance is so epic it just cracks me up. it’s a sure sign “they got nuttin”. If your ( economic ) policies are so unpopular you have to resort to malapropisms in trying to make the other side sound worse, you’re cooked.

I can just see it now, a new slogan on all…[Read more]

Yes. I remember in kindergarten and 1st grade. Late 60s. They were called air raid drills. Had a harsh buzzer that sounded different from the fire drill bell.

I remember one kid asking our teacher why we put our hands over our heads. I still rember her answer: “Bevause it’s easier to fix your hands than your head”.