Well the eight are part of a regional rump party, so *Jazz hands.* And a few of these are in unreconstructed terrain.
Ah well, Dems in Disarray at least provide a great fount of Internet clout. Meanwhile the party in unitary control of government is clownfucking us into wars, visiting deprivation on the people and championing Miasma, Pestilence, Calamity and Destitution.
Promote their opponents; all House reps are up for election this year.
In Moscowitz's case, he already beat a DSA challenger in a primary, and gloated to Hasan Piker about it. Because apparently being an establishment Dem means never missing a chance to show your whole ass to left-wingers.
<Personally, I think that it’s kind of a bad idea to conflate the government of Israel and the actions of the IDF and the West Bank settlers with “every Jewish person on earth” and that doing so is more likely to engender antisemitism than the opposite, but that is actually the exact sentiment that Gottheimer is upset at Hasan Piker for holding to begin with.>
Much like I prefer "contraception" over "birth control", I think we should make a concerted effort to use "the government of Israel" instead of just "Israel". Never use "the Jews". Even "Netanyahu's government" or "Netanyahu's Israel" would get the point across as to whom is committing the atrocious acts that go far beyond "Israel defending itself".
I'll add, that it's not "Americans" bombing Iranian girls' schools, it's the American government.
And suddenly the motivation comes into focus. This is Lieberman Revenge Syndrome, a crippling malady that renders the victim unable to see past his bitterness and fury with his own party for having implicitly or explicitly rejected him.
Would it be smarter of the centrists to appropriate issues like universal health care, while still condemning the extreme positions of DSA like abolishing the Senate and doing away with all police and prisons?
Doesn't matter. Not enough of them have the style and panache that allows them to defeat sadopopulism. And the rightwing media human centipede just makes up more shit to wiggle in credulous Americans' faces and go "Booga booga!"
They don’t want universal healthcare either. They’re Liebermans who won’t even allow a public *option* to be discussed because they know how popular it would be and just delay the inevitable obsolescence of their private-sector donors.
OT: The OF will destroy all of our US that doesn't specifically celebrate the OF.
"Workers at the Kennedy Center removed limbs from the sculpture “Blue,” by Joel Shapiro, on Wednesday.
Mr. Shapiro died in 2025. His daughter, Ivy Shapiro, who is president of his foundation, said in an interview that she thought her father would have been “alarmed” that the sculpture was being taken down from its intended location.
“In Joel’s mind, it was one of his greatest site-specific commissions, which celebrated joy, freedom and creativity,” she said.
Ms. Shapiro declined to discuss what she was told about the Kennedy Center’s reasoning for removing the sculpture. Her father had given it to the center as a gift, but she said that it was now owned by the foundation, and that she would like to see it installed at another public site."
Newt Gingrich: "Socialism takes power from you. They take care of the powerful. They take care of the guys with connections. And they rip off the rest of us."
"Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) and Jared Golden (D-Maine) on Tuesday voted for a procedural resolution known on Capitol Hill as a “rule,” ensuring its adoption by the House, just as it appeared to be on the verge of failure due to Republican infighting.
“The decision by two of our colleagues to blindside the entire House Democratic Caucus and join with the Republican majority to pass a procedural rule on the brink of failing represents a significant breach of trust,” Jeffries said Tuesday evening in a joint statement with his top deputies, Reps. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.). “It is an action that necessitates a serious response, and we have asked the Committee on Caucus Rules to take this up in short order.”"
Let’s just be honest here, the voters who object to “socialism” in the American context (which really just means bringing our public services in line with *the rest of the modern world*) oppose it because it means THOSE PEOPLE might get to share in things that “real American taxpayers” want all for themselves. That’s who these Dems have in mind with this vote, and those voters will just vote R anyway because these Dems share a party with other members who don’t abjectly hate THOSE PEOPLE and believe they should have a humane quality of life. So it’s a wasted vote to court bigots who hide their bigotry behind the palatable complaint of “muh property/capital gains taxes.”
This is the actual stab-in-the-back, GOP bootlicking that is intolerable to me. Fuck these two. Golden is on the way out so he doesn't give a shit about the caucus.
A pair of House Democrats voted to rescue the Republican legislative agenda Tuesday as GOP leaders faced an internal revolt, an extremely rare crossing of party lines that pushed a key procedural vote through a closely divided chamber.
Democratic Reps. Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington voted with most Republicans to set up debate on a series of GOP-led bills, including a resolution condemning socialism that party leaders want to use to hammer Democrats on the campaign trail.
OT:
"A USPS whistleblower says the agency is rushing Trump's anti-mail-voting order into place in secret–and defying court orders to do it.
We won’t let them stop us from making our voices heard this November…
A USPS whistleblower says the agency is rushing Trump's anti-mail-voting order into place in secret–and defying court orders to do it.
We won’t let them stop us from making our voices heard this November…
𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀. 𝗜𝘁. 𝗢𝗻. 😎✨"
https://bsky.app/profile/jerasikehorn.bsky.social/post/3muizv2zkp22d
VOTE!!!
Well the eight are part of a regional rump party, so *Jazz hands.* And a few of these are in unreconstructed terrain.
Ah well, Dems in Disarray at least provide a great fount of Internet clout. Meanwhile the party in unitary control of government is clownfucking us into wars, visiting deprivation on the people and championing Miasma, Pestilence, Calamity and Destitution.
Promote their opponents; all House reps are up for election this year.
In Moscowitz's case, he already beat a DSA challenger in a primary, and gloated to Hasan Piker about it. Because apparently being an establishment Dem means never missing a chance to show your whole ass to left-wingers.
Dammit!! I got to *Jazz hands* and got sweet and sour sauce on all of my stuff.
Bad news: The Crew hate s&s sauce.
<Personally, I think that it’s kind of a bad idea to conflate the government of Israel and the actions of the IDF and the West Bank settlers with “every Jewish person on earth” and that doing so is more likely to engender antisemitism than the opposite, but that is actually the exact sentiment that Gottheimer is upset at Hasan Piker for holding to begin with.>
Much like I prefer "contraception" over "birth control", I think we should make a concerted effort to use "the government of Israel" instead of just "Israel". Never use "the Jews". Even "Netanyahu's government" or "Netanyahu's Israel" would get the point across as to whom is committing the atrocious acts that go far beyond "Israel defending itself".
I'll add, that it's not "Americans" bombing Iranian girls' schools, it's the American government.
𝘐𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘦, 𝘎𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘗𝘖𝘓𝘐𝘛𝘐𝘊𝘖 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮, 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘑𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳, 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺.
And suddenly the motivation comes into focus. This is Lieberman Revenge Syndrome, a crippling malady that renders the victim unable to see past his bitterness and fury with his own party for having implicitly or explicitly rejected him.
That is a great name for it. I remember that whole shitshow.
Would it be smarter of the centrists to appropriate issues like universal health care, while still condemning the extreme positions of DSA like abolishing the Senate and doing away with all police and prisons?
Doesn't matter. Not enough of them have the style and panache that allows them to defeat sadopopulism. And the rightwing media human centipede just makes up more shit to wiggle in credulous Americans' faces and go "Booga booga!"
I believe they don’t make that distinction although I’m sure they’re amenable to corporate welfare.
They don’t want universal healthcare either. They’re Liebermans who won’t even allow a public *option* to be discussed because they know how popular it would be and just delay the inevitable obsolescence of their private-sector donors.
If enough of them lose to progressives despite the donations, then others might get the message.
OT: Haakon VIII has been crowned King of Norway. TrumpCo furiously taking notes.
https://www.dw.com/en/norways-new-king-haakon-viii-takes-oath-in-parliament/a-78606923
Like we said as kids in our neighborhood, Trump is King Shit of Turd Island.
Biden is an ice cream socialist
OT: The OF will destroy all of our US that doesn't specifically celebrate the OF.
"Workers at the Kennedy Center removed limbs from the sculpture “Blue,” by Joel Shapiro, on Wednesday.
Mr. Shapiro died in 2025. His daughter, Ivy Shapiro, who is president of his foundation, said in an interview that she thought her father would have been “alarmed” that the sculpture was being taken down from its intended location.
“In Joel’s mind, it was one of his greatest site-specific commissions, which celebrated joy, freedom and creativity,” she said.
Ms. Shapiro declined to discuss what she was told about the Kennedy Center’s reasoning for removing the sculpture. Her father had given it to the center as a gift, but she said that it was now owned by the foundation, and that she would like to see it installed at another public site."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/arts/design/kennedy-center-sculpture-removal-blue.html
Destroying art by a guy named Joel Shapiro. Must be a sop to the Fuentes wing of the party.
The sculpture:
https://substack.com/profile/157455618-wobbly/note/c-328174920?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2lqtj6
Installed? They're going to destroy it.
I’m fucking livid about this. He’s destroying our public monuments.
Blue = Democrats
OT: Spite.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3mujyfzdk4k2o
Trump has harmed Kennedy almost as much as Ted Cruz's father.
They were the right height and everything!
See also: Saruman
Alexa,
What does it mean to be "lacking self-awareness"?
Acyn
@Acyn
Newt Gingrich: "Socialism takes power from you. They take care of the powerful. They take care of the guys with connections. And they rip off the rest of us."
Newt was the OG “every accusation is an admission” pol.
He's right about one thing, Socialism takes power from him and people like him and justly gives some of it to the people.
I see this as the usual propaganda, a scare tactic.
Is it wrong that I hate vichy traitor Democrats worse than MAGA Republicans?
No.
Hakeem boldly refers action to a committee!
"Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) and Jared Golden (D-Maine) on Tuesday voted for a procedural resolution known on Capitol Hill as a “rule,” ensuring its adoption by the House, just as it appeared to be on the verge of failure due to Republican infighting.
“The decision by two of our colleagues to blindside the entire House Democratic Caucus and join with the Republican majority to pass a procedural rule on the brink of failing represents a significant breach of trust,” Jeffries said Tuesday evening in a joint statement with his top deputies, Reps. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.). “It is an action that necessitates a serious response, and we have asked the Committee on Caucus Rules to take this up in short order.”"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jared-golden-hakeem-jeffries-rule-vote_n_6a9775e5e4b0a45256171635
Clearly he cannot control his team like Pelosi could. This wreaks of disrespect.
It's the least he can do.
And so he did it.
Let’s just be honest here, the voters who object to “socialism” in the American context (which really just means bringing our public services in line with *the rest of the modern world*) oppose it because it means THOSE PEOPLE might get to share in things that “real American taxpayers” want all for themselves. That’s who these Dems have in mind with this vote, and those voters will just vote R anyway because these Dems share a party with other members who don’t abjectly hate THOSE PEOPLE and believe they should have a humane quality of life. So it’s a wasted vote to court bigots who hide their bigotry behind the palatable complaint of “muh property/capital gains taxes.”
i assume Suozzi is pronounced 'scuzzy'.
It's pronounced "ashurnagurnaburkikkiqui."
This is the actual stab-in-the-back, GOP bootlicking that is intolerable to me. Fuck these two. Golden is on the way out so he doesn't give a shit about the caucus.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/01/two-house-democrats-vote-to-salvage-gop-agenda-01060168
A pair of House Democrats voted to rescue the Republican legislative agenda Tuesday as GOP leaders faced an internal revolt, an extremely rare crossing of party lines that pushed a key procedural vote through a closely divided chamber.
Democratic Reps. Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington voted with most Republicans to set up debate on a series of GOP-led bills, including a resolution condemning socialism that party leaders want to use to hammer Democrats on the campaign trail.
Rahm Emanuel can go jump into Lake Epstein.