I don't know how many others were throwing things at the radio like I was (mentally), per this interview on NPR Morning Edition, with Wayne State undergrads:
Michigan college students say neither party talks about issues that matter to them
I am so glad you mentioned that. They all sounded like they thought of themselves as VERY smart, but are sadly misinformed and/or out of touch. I hated listening to them but it was also disconcerting. I hope they don't represent the majority of voters their age. Does not bode well for the general election!!!
If Trump wins and the Dems lose the senate, the first order of business will be to build a time machine and send the country back to 15th century, followed by Trump changing his name to Cosmo de' Medici or some shit.
I do hope if you're casting all that juju into the ether just to be witty or for whatever reason -- it's nobody's given right now that the Orange Demagogue is going to win the WH when he shouldn't be the nominee or if the current Dem majority will surrender the majority to the cheating Republicans if all people who believe in democracy aren't so beaten & bludgeoned into listless hopelessness that they don't vote --
I sincerely hope you're giving equal airtime to people giving us clear instructions on how to be better at voting and other bedrock tenets of being a citizen
AS WELL AS airtime for the clear ramifications of what will happen if people just weep into their hankies in despair and are so self-involved in doing that that they don't bother to go vote or just forget till the polls are closed
Really? Nothing I have said to you should cause you to leap to that conclusion. Clearly you are the smartest person in the room and no one here understands you. 👌 please, do continue, we are all awaiting your insights with bated breath.
Uh, this is the comments section at Wonkette. It's the equivalent of an Arby's, not direct action, where folks come for amused breathers from real life.
If you’re just hyperdefensive without reading because you’re more interested in hearing the sound of your own figurative voice than learning something you don’t know about U.S. history and our current place in it, I’m honestly not sure what you’re doing here but … I’m quite sure you could do something more productive to your time than arguing with someone who might’ve pointed out something you don’t know in a (futile?) effort to “prove” to people whom you believe to be your audience that you have the Wittier Clapback (because why and also what is the point)
#ReadToTheBottom
ETA -- oh, you're quoting MARXISM, like that's so relevant right at this historic moment?
Wow. You're so active. And I'm so unserious. And hyperdefensive.
Jjamie is kinda right about your tediousness. Are you like fuming and telling and posting and stuff and not realizing that some of us are coming here to just fuck around? That's kinda cute in a painfully stupid way. AND YOU EMOJIS. so impressed.
But seriously. This is an Arby's. And I'm not arguing with you. Pointing. I'm pointing at you.
Btw If you don't think Lenin--esp What it to be done?--isn't always relevant, you're an ignorant fool. Ignorant.
Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says President Joe Biden must issue executive orders to address the southern border, just days after scoffing at claims the President was considering using his executive authority, calling those orders "election year gimmicks."
***
And he'll be a "tyrant" an hour after he signs them.
Well if Ben Gvir gets his way, and Joe Brandon is replaced with someone who will give zero shits about the Palestinians, he really should devote a park or something to Michigan Arab Americans who really would have made the ethnic cleansing possible.
I fully get it’s possible to be deeply pissed off with how the administration has handled Israel. It’s a horrible situation, I don’t necessarily agreee with the sentiment, at the same time I wouldn’t give Joe Biden his highest marks on that issue specifically.
That being said, this idea of “taking your medicine for four years” is just completely and utterly ridiculous and should be rejected by all serious people. Aside from the incalculable and likely permanent damage he can do to the lives of marginalized people and American institutions if given another term: there’s no guarantee that it will even have the effect of turning more people to the Democratic side.
The least qualified man to ever hold office was given four full years of a presidency and it was a complete and utter disaster and 70 million people voted for him in 2020. If given another term in office there’s no guarantee voting will still be a thing in 2028. There’s currently a well funded effort by actual Nazis to stop it!
Which is why I really don’t think most people push come to shove will actually make that choice in November
That's 8 months away. Ben Gvir won't be in government by then. Should be in a cage under The Hague by then.
President Biden will have made a deal with the Socialists by then. As he and Obama did in 2008 and 2012. As he did in 2020.
Biden doesn't have silly people like Robbie Mook, Donna Brazile or Bob Frum running his campaign. Biden understands that the Democrats win when they make coalition with Socialists, and lose when they don't.
Primaries are the right time to exert pressure on candidates. The General Election is, and will be, different. Biden knows this, and so do the Socialists.
These narratives and protests are at least partially driven by Russian/Trump operatives. I find the protestors too focused on Joe Biden specifically. You'd think Netanyahu would get a shout-out now and then but not really. They will use any wedge and then hump it viciously.
I'm calling bullshit on these people. They don't give a shit about Palestinians, they're just using whatever excuse is handy to take a shot at Biden. They're MAGA-adjacent Dead End Lefties, looking to "burn it all down" and a moderate liberal like Biden is their enemy, while a "chaos agent" like Trump gives them an inner thrill.
Most of these activists keep getting exposed as Arab Republicans. As for that idiot Tlaib, she has the political smarts of a garden slug. Or maybe she just knows if Trump starts the roundups, she'll probably have the means to insulate herself.
I heard variations of “yes I know Trump will be worse for the people I care about and I know that the only way to stop that from happening is to vote Biden, but I won’t because he made me so mad” on The Daily today.
They're MAGAs. Any good faith person concerned about Palestinians would be unhappy with what is going on, but would recognize that (1) Biden actually hasn't provided any additional aid to Israel since 10/7, you might have noticed Congress still hasn't approved aid, (2) Biden's policy toward Israel is no different than standard U.S. policy since 1967, (3) Biden has been pushing for a ceasefire, but has little leverage with Netanyahu, so it's not like a switch can be flipped, and (4) Trump and Republicans are officially on "Team kill 'em all". A good faith person who cares about Palestinians would push for Congress to condition further aid on a ceasefire, but still vote for Biden as better than the horrifying alternative.
Anyone who doesn't vote for Biden clearly is fine with dead Palestinians, full fucking stop.
Anyone who gave one actual shit about Palestinians would call for return of the hostages and surrender. But Hamas is authoritarian grifters. And they have literally become billionaires on blood.
So, Biden literally has done nothing to "assist" this "genocide"--and no, UN resolutions don't count, if you think a UN condemnation is going to get Bibi to say "pull back the tanks, boys" then I have a bridge to sell you--but suddenly we all have to defenestrate the one guy standing between Trump and the White House, and I'm supposed to believe THAT is all on the up-and-up? Sorry, I call bullshit.
Mind you, I'm all for a ceasefire, and believe a lot of people are sincere about it. But this "attack Biden" contingent smells of MAGA and their cats paws.
I'll tell you what a UN resolution would do: it would signal the countries that follow America's foreign policy lead to reverse course on *their* support for this ethnic cleansing campaign. Such as, say, *my* country.
Biden should start appearing in a big long blond wig, spray tan and wear a muscle shirt under his suit. Maybe some collagen injections. I mean the whole idea that Trump is somehow more fit or spry than Biden is completely based on cosmetic treatments, so maybe Biden should just trump Trump on it.
In cahoots with the trump-appointed FBI director? Yeah, that makes about as much sense as any of the other treason-farts that blast out of Comer’s dumb-hole.
Meyers: It seems like Trump is saying Russia can do whatever he wants to NATO countries
President Biden: Not seems like, that’s what he’s saying. The idea that an American president is inviting Putin to invade western countries... It’s bizarre. What are we talking about here?
Ta, Evan. I missed this again. Work.
Why hasn’t Kamala Harris invoked the 25th yet?
By Steve Dooshy’s son
I don't know how many others were throwing things at the radio like I was (mentally), per this interview on NPR Morning Edition, with Wayne State undergrads:
Michigan college students say neither party talks about issues that matter to them
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/27/1234114334/michigan-college-students-say-neither-party-talks-about-issues-that-matter-to-th
"How can one man destroy our democracy. I'm tired tired of hearing that."
Fucking idiots. Alas.
I am so glad you mentioned that. They all sounded like they thought of themselves as VERY smart, but are sadly misinformed and/or out of touch. I hated listening to them but it was also disconcerting. I hope they don't represent the majority of voters their age. Does not bode well for the general election!!!
Yes, they were pretty water-headed. I get they are impatient to see good things happen. They have no understanding how any of this works.
What hasn’t Joe Biden named Gavin Newsom as his replacement yet?
MSM
Not sure it's only THIS White House who owes America some answers right now
"Donald Trump awarded Adam Boehler, Jared Kushners college roommate, $100 Million dollars to procure PPE for our doctors at the outbreak of Covid.
Adam only spent $1 Million dollars.
Who else wants to know where the other $99 Million went as our doctors wore garbage bags?🤚"
https://twitter.com/MadeInTheUSANJ/status/1762472110646005962
Probably need to explain ice cream cone. Or Biden’s persistent oldness
If Trump wins and the Dems lose the senate, the first order of business will be to build a time machine and send the country back to 15th century, followed by Trump changing his name to Cosmo de' Medici or some shit.
I do hope if you're casting all that juju into the ether just to be witty or for whatever reason -- it's nobody's given right now that the Orange Demagogue is going to win the WH when he shouldn't be the nominee or if the current Dem majority will surrender the majority to the cheating Republicans if all people who believe in democracy aren't so beaten & bludgeoned into listless hopelessness that they don't vote --
I sincerely hope you're giving equal airtime to people giving us clear instructions on how to be better at voting and other bedrock tenets of being a citizen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4qcPW55tqU&list=PLPTO3ayPM78f4T5ie3C-y6htzVQGRZo9b&index=1
AS WELL AS airtime for the clear ramifications of what will happen if people just weep into their hankies in despair and are so self-involved in doing that that they don't bother to go vote or just forget till the polls are closed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yzA-Pcbuqs&list=PLPTO3ayPM78f4T5ie3C-y6htzVQGRZo9b&index=2
Instead of just lamenting (unless you're just "doing anxiety venting" over there)
They were being snarky and funny. This happens a lot here at Wonkette. I kindly request you to back down!!
Something tells me you're one of those people so White you couldn't possibly conceive that YOUR voting rights could be at stake
https://www.wonkette.com/p/live-white-house-got-some-splaining/comment/50488118
Just a hunch
Really? Nothing I have said to you should cause you to leap to that conclusion. Clearly you are the smartest person in the room and no one here understands you. 👌 please, do continue, we are all awaiting your insights with bated breath.
Uh, this is the comments section at Wonkette. It's the equivalent of an Arby's, not direct action, where folks come for amused breathers from real life.
But as long as we're posting links: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
Calls to Action are a standard part of political discourse – which, along with the recipes, have historically been a part of the Wonkette mommyblog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtxJnyQM3ro
If you’re just hyperdefensive without reading because you’re more interested in hearing the sound of your own figurative voice than learning something you don’t know about U.S. history and our current place in it, I’m honestly not sure what you’re doing here but … I’m quite sure you could do something more productive to your time than arguing with someone who might’ve pointed out something you don’t know in a (futile?) effort to “prove” to people whom you believe to be your audience that you have the Wittier Clapback (because why and also what is the point)
#ReadToTheBottom
ETA -- oh, you're quoting MARXISM, like that's so relevant right at this historic moment?
Dude, you are resolutely #Unserious 😵😵🙊🙄🙄🙄
Wow. You're so active. And I'm so unserious. And hyperdefensive.
Jjamie is kinda right about your tediousness. Are you like fuming and telling and posting and stuff and not realizing that some of us are coming here to just fuck around? That's kinda cute in a painfully stupid way. AND YOU EMOJIS. so impressed.
But seriously. This is an Arby's. And I'm not arguing with you. Pointing. I'm pointing at you.
Btw If you don't think Lenin--esp What it to be done?--isn't always relevant, you're an ignorant fool. Ignorant.
You are resolutely tedious.
Me or Lecture McLecturepants?
Not you, dear one. The one called "M"
And you are clearly a resolute troll
Maybe if you don't give a damn take your own advice and leave it alone
I do give a damn, especially about people being kind to one another. Not sure you would understand, the personal is the political. I practice this.
Using the Comstock Act to enforce an effective national abortion ban.
And contraceptives.
The horror, the death, and the endless abuse enabled by horrible men who will be able to trap women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxuN3i84FNY
Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says President Joe Biden must issue executive orders to address the southern border, just days after scoffing at claims the President was considering using his executive authority, calling those orders "election year gimmicks."
***
And he'll be a "tyrant" an hour after he signs them.
Holy Mike too busy anointing himself to actually get anything done on the floor of the House.
I thought that triggers an alert on his son’s phone.
Is that what they’re calling it these days?
Covenant Eyes alert!
I wish people would stop prefacing their reporting with "Republican says".
It's literally always lies, and should be identified as such so it can be discredited as it's warranted.
They do it in the television reporting as well. It's immensely frustrating.
Nobody EVER leads with "The President said" or "the Vice President said" or "the Senate Democratic majority said'.
People REALLY need to start leading with reporting what the people who are at least TRYING to save democracy are saying.
Then treasonous, pro-autocratic Republican lies can be put in the proper context.
Here's Rachel from last night ICYMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yzA-Pcbuqs&list=PLPTO3ayPM78f4T5ie3C-y6htzVQGRZo9b&index=2&pp=gAQBiAQB
And Scotus will overturn them as "Executive Overreach" We've played this game before.
1: Scoff Biden for considering EO
2: Say Biden must do EO
3: Go to step 1 aka Rinse and repeat
1. Demand legislation supporting your policies.
2. Refuse to approve legislation when it's written.
3. Biden considers EO to satisfy your demands.
4. Say an EO is executive overreach, and that their should be legislation instead.
5. Go to #2.
The great thing about people who cannot be pleased, is you can ignore them and just do what you think is best.
No. Tyranny only happens if it helps blah people.
Well if Ben Gvir gets his way, and Joe Brandon is replaced with someone who will give zero shits about the Palestinians, he really should devote a park or something to Michigan Arab Americans who really would have made the ethnic cleansing possible.
I fully get it’s possible to be deeply pissed off with how the administration has handled Israel. It’s a horrible situation, I don’t necessarily agreee with the sentiment, at the same time I wouldn’t give Joe Biden his highest marks on that issue specifically.
That being said, this idea of “taking your medicine for four years” is just completely and utterly ridiculous and should be rejected by all serious people. Aside from the incalculable and likely permanent damage he can do to the lives of marginalized people and American institutions if given another term: there’s no guarantee that it will even have the effect of turning more people to the Democratic side.
The least qualified man to ever hold office was given four full years of a presidency and it was a complete and utter disaster and 70 million people voted for him in 2020. If given another term in office there’s no guarantee voting will still be a thing in 2028. There’s currently a well funded effort by actual Nazis to stop it!
Which is why I really don’t think most people push come to shove will actually make that choice in November
I certainly fucking hope not.
You guys are really not handling the whole "uncommitted" thing very well.
I know the media is hysterical.
A huge campaign to reach ... historic norms in Michigan. Hard LOL.
Obama had like 11% uncommitted in 2012.
When there was everything on the Dem menu in 2020 but lunch meats, there were like 20k uncommitted.
It is a nothing-burger. A months-long campaign to gat something like what half Bloomberg got after he suspended his campaign.
I'm talking about November, chief. That's when the election between Biden and Trump is going to happen in this country.
That's 8 months away. Ben Gvir won't be in government by then. Should be in a cage under The Hague by then.
President Biden will have made a deal with the Socialists by then. As he and Obama did in 2008 and 2012. As he did in 2020.
Biden doesn't have silly people like Robbie Mook, Donna Brazile or Bob Frum running his campaign. Biden understands that the Democrats win when they make coalition with Socialists, and lose when they don't.
Primaries are the right time to exert pressure on candidates. The General Election is, and will be, different. Biden knows this, and so do the Socialists.
In 2016 HRC made a deal with the Socialists and lost.
In 2020 Biden told Bernie to fuck right off, said he had nothing to do with socialism or defund the police and won.
You are a cartoon.
Here are the actions of people who belong in a cage:
https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/palestinian-incitement-is-central-to-hamass-sadistic-wars/
An awful long way out to fret about Michigan Arab Americans. Did something more recent occur to cause this worry?
Michigan Arab Americans will be among the first people that Stephen Miller throws onto the deportation barges.
These narratives and protests are at least partially driven by Russian/Trump operatives. I find the protestors too focused on Joe Biden specifically. You'd think Netanyahu would get a shout-out now and then but not really. They will use any wedge and then hump it viciously.
You would think someone would give a shit about actual genocides ...
But it is an op.
I have no doubt that 90% of the people involved are well intentioned. Or that the actions in Gaza need to stop.
How do they not get what a Trump administration would do to them? Astroturfing politics?
Barges that will be torpedoed by Los Angeles-Class submarines, no doubt.
I GET this "uncommitted" thing, but no.
The razor's edge is too thin at this point to fuck around and fuel a narrative.
I'm calling bullshit on these people. They don't give a shit about Palestinians, they're just using whatever excuse is handy to take a shot at Biden. They're MAGA-adjacent Dead End Lefties, looking to "burn it all down" and a moderate liberal like Biden is their enemy, while a "chaos agent" like Trump gives them an inner thrill.
I doubt very much they voted for him in 2020.
Most of these activists keep getting exposed as Arab Republicans. As for that idiot Tlaib, she has the political smarts of a garden slug. Or maybe she just knows if Trump starts the roundups, she'll probably have the means to insulate herself.
I'm pretty sure that its a couple paid mouth pieces creating a tempest in a teakettle.
I heard variations of “yes I know Trump will be worse for the people I care about and I know that the only way to stop that from happening is to vote Biden, but I won’t because he made me so mad” on The Daily today.
They're MAGAs. Any good faith person concerned about Palestinians would be unhappy with what is going on, but would recognize that (1) Biden actually hasn't provided any additional aid to Israel since 10/7, you might have noticed Congress still hasn't approved aid, (2) Biden's policy toward Israel is no different than standard U.S. policy since 1967, (3) Biden has been pushing for a ceasefire, but has little leverage with Netanyahu, so it's not like a switch can be flipped, and (4) Trump and Republicans are officially on "Team kill 'em all". A good faith person who cares about Palestinians would push for Congress to condition further aid on a ceasefire, but still vote for Biden as better than the horrifying alternative.
Anyone who doesn't vote for Biden clearly is fine with dead Palestinians, full fucking stop.
Hamas refuses the ceasefire.
Anyone who gave one actual shit about Palestinians would call for return of the hostages and surrender. But Hamas is authoritarian grifters. And they have literally become billionaires on blood.
1) Not for lack of trying.
2) That's not a point in Biden's favour.
3) The UN Security Council votes beg to differ.
4) They're all being killed *now*.
5 (and this is the most important one)) IT'S STILL THE PRIMARY.
It's not a genocide.
You are a hater.
So, Biden literally has done nothing to "assist" this "genocide"--and no, UN resolutions don't count, if you think a UN condemnation is going to get Bibi to say "pull back the tanks, boys" then I have a bridge to sell you--but suddenly we all have to defenestrate the one guy standing between Trump and the White House, and I'm supposed to believe THAT is all on the up-and-up? Sorry, I call bullshit.
Mind you, I'm all for a ceasefire, and believe a lot of people are sincere about it. But this "attack Biden" contingent smells of MAGA and their cats paws.
Sure, if you don't count all the weapon shipments that took place after the ethnic cleansing campaign began: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/us-is-quietly-sending-israel-more-ammunition-missiles-1.1998649
I'll tell you what a UN resolution would do: it would signal the countries that follow America's foreign policy lead to reverse course on *their* support for this ethnic cleansing campaign. Such as, say, *my* country.
Ding, ding, ding
Were these people that had any intention of voting anyway?
Posted by Yaroslav6969?
Dark Brandon slips in a nice dig on MAGA Mike:
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1762522460694475231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1762522460694475231%7Ctwgr%5E24fa8898fd00e2aaeb1025a14721c95f0d3caaf9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2Fr%2Fentryeditor%2F2667377942publish
OWOUGAA!!
Obamacare don't cover that sick burn.
Biden should start appearing in a big long blond wig, spray tan and wear a muscle shirt under his suit. Maybe some collagen injections. I mean the whole idea that Trump is somehow more fit or spry than Biden is completely based on cosmetic treatments, so maybe Biden should just trump Trump on it.
He should be like Ricardo Montalban and be a serious body builder. Then he can wear the Wrath of Khan muscle tops.
Excellent idea!
Except he isn't that shallow... ;>D
In an entirely predictable move, Comer says that the FBI is in Cahoots with the Biden Crime Family.
https://www.rawstory.com/james-comer-2667375989/
and the sun is shining out of my butthole
In cahoots with the trump-appointed FBI director? Yeah, that makes about as much sense as any of the other treason-farts that blast out of Comer’s dumb-hole.
Well, that's the only reason they can't find anything: the FBI is insulating him.
That he's done nothing wrong is umpossible.
"Innocence is proof of guilt!!"
Lack of evidence of guilt is evidence of the crime of conspiracy.
Senile old man “who can’t even find his pants” secretly criminal mastermind that has bent federal law enforcement to his will. Film at 11.
"Well...yeah....he...ummm...has lucid moments."
The Phil Hartman as Iran-Contra Reagan sketch was a documentary!
And Comer is Putin's sock puppet. A sad and pathetic sock puppet, but a wholly-owned puppet nonetheless.
He’s Putin’s sock something anyway.
Bought cheap at that.
He can announce more progress on a ceasefire and student loan forgiveness that little shits/Zoomers can ignore.
Or understand is temporary/peanuts.
I hope he gets to repeat this:
bidenharrishq
4h
Meyers: It seems like Trump is saying Russia can do whatever he wants to NATO countries
President Biden: Not seems like, that’s what he’s saying. The idea that an American president is inviting Putin to invade western countries... It’s bizarre. What are we talking about here?
https://www.threads.net/@bidenharrishq/post/C32wiKTPnDH
Sorry for the off topic but it's 73 freakin' degrees F here right now in SE WI.
Sitting outside with the dogs in Chicago. It’s extremely bizarre.
70 official, 74 porch degrees here in Chicago. Mebbe snow tomorrow.
Not your usual February
Here?
66 today.
Low tonight of 15.
We're a toasty 39 °F.
Balmy 15⁰F
midwest weather be teasing...
The Spring rollercoaster ride has started early this year. Like, while it's still winter.
we had that last year with a 6 weeks too early monsoon which was just weird.
right now it feels like Spring around here at 69 degrees (65 would be average temp) but we're far below the record of 83 degrees.
Wait for it…
I know. This is all gonna change around 4:00 PM today. We're expecting a 30 degree drop then it'd supposed to be 19 degrees by 8:00 AM tomorrow.
It’s dropped about 15 degrees in Minneapolis in the last hour. It’ll soon be winter again, for a couple days.