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The new incoming Democratic Senators -- they'll have to do this again when Alaska's Mary Peltola and Mississippi's Scott Colom are certified winners! Left to right: Sens. Julia Stratton (IL), Abdul El-Sayed (MI), Adam Hamilton (KS), Josh Turek (IA), James Talarico (TX), Peggy Flanagan (MN), Annie Andrews (SC), Roy Cooper (NC), Chris Pappas (NH), and Sherrod Brown (OH):
It's great to be a Democrat!
(Photo: Sen.-elect Julian Stratton, Bluesky)
Operation Epic Quagmire: Hormuz toll booth, no win situation --
Trump handed the Iranian regime a weapon with FAR greater utility than a nuke. He legitimized the weaponization of the Strait of Hormuz and turning it into a toll booth to demand reparations payments anytime they want. A nuke is useless in comparison because the moment you use it, you’re toast.
— Sanho Tree (@sanho.bsky.social) November 10, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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If the U.S. can’t win. And won’t admit that it lost. That leaves ongoing, lower-level hostilities, with dueling blockades, the occasional tanker explosion, and expensive U.S. military operations to protect a shipping corridor, until the unsustainably of all that becomes too much to bear.
— Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) November 10, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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Whiskey Pete Hegseth's impeachment is coming for "only following orders" --
Yeah, that's how you prosecute war crimes, Whiskey Pete. You start with the people who ordered soldiers to violate the law and then you work your way down the chain of command to prosecute the ones who pulled the trigger. So glad you're starting to get how this works. Enjoy jail!
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) November 10, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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When have we heard that before? 🫠
— Susan McPherson (@susanmcp.bsky.social) November 10, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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Forewarned is forearmed, and how to fight him --
“Anyone who was hoping that Trump would play the role of a lame duck and not an angry one has been put on notice.” Me on Trump going for broke. as.ft.com/r/fed89fd1-5...
— Edward Luce (@edwardluce.bsky.social) November 10, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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NEW: President Trump, with the clock ticking and congressional investigators closing in, plans to govern even more imperially, hell-bent on stretching executive power, targeting enemies, pardoning allies, and daring the courts and Congress to slow him down.
— Axios (@axios.com) November 10, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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Imperative: If and when Trump treats any/all oversight like a dead letter, Dems will have to wield the spending power aggressively to force Trump/WH to comply. @brianbeutler.bsky.social and I went long on all the tactics Dems can deploy to boost Congress's power: newrepublic.com/article/2177...
— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) November 10, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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MAGAt suckers left holding the Malignant Fascist's crypto bag --
“.. May 2025, the cost to get into one of Trump’s meme coin dinners: ~$59,000 .. November 2026, post midterms, the rough cost to get in now: $700.” @washingtonsun.com www.washingtonsun.com/economy/trum...
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) November 10, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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Interactive dinosaur, Chuckupis Schumercentrist, greets new Dem Senators --
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) November 10, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Please walk through that door, Sen. Van Hollen --
if chris van hollen runs and ousts chuck schumer as leader there will be a 60+ senate democrat majority in 2028
— union person (@junlper.beer) November 9, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Schumer's using the lame duck to rush a GOP bill opposed by Jeffries, most of the incoming Dems, NAACP, Earthjustice, Sierra Club, ACLU, Detention Watch Network, and Public Citizen. It's an inexcusable break with coalition, party, and caucus. It's incompatible with him remaining in Dem leadership.
— Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) November 10, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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Getting closer to 56 for Dem Senators --
Mary Peltola has widened her lead against Dan Sullivan in Alaska's Senate race, per her campaign. Peltola is now leading by 2,517 votes, after new vote drops from the Anchorage and Chevak areas. She outpaced him by 68% to 30% in these areas.
— Jen Bendery (@jbendery.bsky.social) November 9, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Sen. Josh."The Runner" Hawley's hypocritical nonsense --
A fast from 12 to 1 isn't a sacrifice; it's just a late lunch. Conservative Christians *really* don't like to be inconvenienced--especially by Jesus's commands not to judge, retaliate, deprive the poor, or pray in public.
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) November 9, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Progressive Senator-elect Dr. Annie Andrews (SC). Awesome --
The Democrat from South Carolina
— Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) November 10, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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One of the few Republicans with some moral clarity (see also Epstein-Trump files), Rep. Thomas Massie, introduced his resolution to impeach the foul Secretary of War Defense "Whiskey Pete" Hegseth yesterday. From NPR:
Rep. Thomas Massie has reintroduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, setting up a vote in the House of Representatives in the next two days.
The Kentucky Republican's resolution accuses Hegseth of high crimes and misdemeanors and lists eight specific charges against him.
The allegations include:
-- 3 charges for illegally waging war against Iran in violation of the War Powers ResolutionMassie's impeachment resolution is here (pdf).
-- 1 charge for ignoring laws designed to minimize civilian casualties
-- 1 charge for overseeing "extrajudicial killings" in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean with strikes on alleged drug boats
-- 1 charge for suppressing free speech, brought in connection to the effort to punish Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., for a video telling service members they can refuse illegal orders
-- 1 charge for the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro without congressional authorization
-- 1 charge for illegally waging war against Yemen in violation of the War Powers Resolution
As the accompanying article notes, concerning the outgoing House and Senate,
There could be sufficient votes to impeach Hegseth in the House, with the support of all Democrats, Massie, and a handful of Republicans. However, it is unlikely to clear the higher Senate threshold for convicting and removing Hegseth from office — which requires two-thirds of the Senate.
It remains to be seen what the outcome will be in the next, 120th Congress which takes power on January 3, 2027, with the Senate in Democratic control. But the effort to remove this dangerous, white nationalist loon from the highest position in the U.S. defense establishment short of the President will at least trigger a Senate trial, which will lay out the strong case for removal, and command lots of media attention.
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Just in time for Veterans Day, a statue of the draft-dodging Malignant Fascist (a.k.a. Cadet Bone Spurs) appeared on the National Mall yesterday, showing him rubbing his foot (maybe after miles of rallies and fundraisers which all ended in his humiliating defeat in the mid-term elections?). Our glorious Commander-in-Chief leading us into another quagmire in Iran. Click to enlarge images.
Last night, Jimmy Kimmel roasted Republicans washed over by the Blue Wave Monsoon, which is suddenly being questioned by Dementia Don Snoreleone, and the insanity to come from the ever-more desperate regime -- like the appointment of PeeWee Goebbels, the Dana White Bungle, and the MF's bizarre interview on "60 Minutes." Wait for the closing vid on "Trump's Church."
The current talk about impeaching the strutting, incompetent Defense Secretary and former Fox weekend couch potato "Whiskey Pete" Hegseth is starting to gain momentum with current Dem leader Hakeem Jeffries saying he's a "hard yes." However, there's another cabinet official who has also done terrible damage to the rule of law and national security and that's the execrable hack, Attorney General Todd Blanche. As former DOJ official Harry Litman notes, the Malignant Fascist's former criminal defense attorney is still acting in that capacity. From Litman's article in The New Republic:
"On Saturday, Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate members of Congress for the offense of proposing to impeach his attorney general. He branded the talk “extortion at the highest level” and announced, 'I am ordering the Department of Justice to look into this criminal act, immediately!'
We can expect the department to fall into line dutifully, because Attorney General Todd Blanche has already demonstrated his eagerness to convert federal prosecution into a weapon against the president’s enemies, wielded without regard to the facts, the law, or the commission of any crime. He said as much yet again Sunday in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash that should be played back to him at an impeachment proceeding.
That practice stands atop the list of Trump 2.0’s manifold abuses of democracy and departures from constitutionalism and the rule of law. It follows that Blanche stands atop the list of Trump officials whom the incoming Democrats must aim to remove from office.
It is high time to impeach Todd Blanche." (our emphasis)
In the CNN interview that Litman cites, Blanche also stated that, in the event of legal proceedings, he / the DOJ would act as personal lawyers to the hideous new White House Chief of Staff Stephen "Pee Wee Goebbels" Miller, a clear perversion of what the job of Attorney General involves. After consigliere Blanche's role in trying to establish a slush fund for January 6 criminals and the MF himself, disbarment talk about Blanche was starting to spread. Both impeachment and disbarment would be an excellent coda to a disgraceful career.
November 3 wasn't only a Democratic blowout at the Federal and gubernatorial level. It was also an historic gain of State legislative seats by Democrats, the largest in 62 years. This is where a lot of legislative work that affects peoples' lives happens.
The blue wave crashed through statehouses across the country Tuesday — carrying political and policy ramifications that will reverberate for years.
Democrats flipped more than 500 state legislative seats and won control of at least a dozen legislative chambers, establishing new governing trifectas in Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nevada. They captured legislative chambers in Texas, Georgia and North Carolina — states long dominated by Republican lawmakers. And they picked up even more legislative seats in deep blue strongholds like New York, California and Illinois.
The victories give Democrats an opening to pursue long-stalled agendas on housing costs and public education, along with new leverage in fights over taxing wealthy people and corporations and regulating artificial intelligence. Their gains will also reshape the country’s redistricting wars — and test whether Democrats can turn their backlash-fueled victories into changes voters can feel in their daily lives.
“We had a generational opportunity to shift the power in our states and to affect change and we did just that,” Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee President Heather Williams said. “We ran the table. It’s amazing.”... (our emphasis)
Keep an eye on what goes on in the States over the next two years, and if and how Democrats govern the majority party they are.
Operation Epic Quagmire / Iran has all the cards --
Iran has no plans to negotiate with the United States unless Washington takes practical steps to meet Tehran’s seven conditions, which Iran set out in a June interim agreement with the United States, a senior security official tells Iranian state media.-Al Arabiya
— Shipwreck (@shipwreck75.bsky.social) November 9, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Psychopath Trump election-denying begins; forewarned is forearmed --
Trump: "Does anybody really believe that this 'Election' was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting 'dumps' were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote. It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 9, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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Don't let Trump get up off the ground, dammit! --
Me: You just won a historic victory; Trump is weaker than he’s ever been; please don’t do 2019-2021 all over again. Dems: what if we used the power we won in our historic victory to try 2019-2021 again?! www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler.bsky.social) November 9, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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"You should have owned stock" (and done insider trading and other grifts ---see below!) --
DOUTHAT: Your net worth went up by $3 billion TRUMP: So did everyone’s DOUTHAT: My net worth did not go up by $3 billion TRUMP: You should’ve owned stock. I have a lot of money. Far more than I ever thought I’d have
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 8, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Huang's Nvidia Chinese spy affair and Trump --
The Huang affair has finally blown up: -NVDA/Huang gifted Trump <$25 million> for his ballroom -NVDA Huang agreed to pay Trump 15% of sales of certain chips to China -Trump gave Huang the “National Medal of Science” -Huang on AF1 for last China trip This is a story about corruption
— Tom Hearden (@followtheh.bsky.social) November 9, 2026 at 7:38 AM
There is nothing a wealthy CEO, autocrat or dictator can do which will cause Trump to condemn them. This buffoon has wrecked our national security and set our country back years.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) November 8, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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just speaking for myself here, but if I were forced to admit in a company-wide email that I got honeypotted by a Chinese spy I don’t think they’d wait for the results of an internal investigation to fire me
— batman or halo (@milesklee.bsky.social) November 8, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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"Whiskey Pete" Hegseth's day is coming --
It was not a good idea to put a weekend Fox News morning host in charge of the U.S. military.
— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) November 9, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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Solution: impeach and remove him so he can represent Trump, et al. --
The attorney general is not in the Constitution and defendants in impeachment trials, including presidents, are defended by their own personal attorneys. The United States is not a party to the proceeding.
— Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) November 8, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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Letting the air out of transphobia --
the thing about this I think is that a lot of casual transphobia does not survive contact with an actual trans person. people get hopped up on online bullshit stories, but faced with a real life human being, all the air goes out of it
— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper.com) November 9, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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On Wisconsin! --
The biggest win for any governor since 1998. The biggest D Assembly majority since 1992. The first fully post-Gerrymander election results in the first Democratic trifecta in 16 years. My takeaways on this remarkable wave election in Wisconsin: www.therecombobulationarea.com/p/8-takeaway...
— Dan Shafer (@danshafer.bsky.social) November 9, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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Better late than never 😏--
Upsets and close races across the Deep South have convinced national Democrats that they need to “play to win.” https://www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/democrats-southern-strategy-midterm-results-warnock
— The Washington Sun (@washingtonsun.com) November 9, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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In summary ... --
The midterms, perfectly summarized:
— Veterans Against Trump (@vetsat.bsky.social) November 9, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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Israeli President Issac Herzog has asked opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to form a new government, after assessing that far-right Likudnik and accused war criminal Bibi "Bomb Bomb" Netanyahu likely doesn't have the support to form a majority in Israel's Knesset parliament. From the Associated Press:
"Complex coalition negotiations still lie ahead, but it marked a significant step in the former military chief’s effort to oust Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, after elections held in a deeply divided country. Israel remains scarred by the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, and the multifront wars they triggered.
'I hope with all my heart that whatever government is formed will lead to unity, connection and healing among all segments of our people — for our very existence depends on it, and we have only one country,' Herzog said at the ceremony at the presidential residence in Jerusalem.
The announcement doesn’t guarantee that Eisenkot will become the next prime minister. He has up to six weeks to form a coalition government by securing alliances, a daunting challenge because the Oct. 27 election gave neither his bloc nor Netanyahu’s a clear majority in parliament."
Herzog consulted with the various parties that make up the Knesset and determined that Eisenkot had enough support from a majority to form a new government. The trick will be to navigate support from Arab parties who criticize Israel's policies for a two-state solution. If successful, it would mean the end of Netanyahu's long time in power, and likely legal jeopardy for him with his domestic corruption charges. Even though he and Eisenkot have some views in common, the end of the Netanyahu era in itself would be uplifting for the region and the world. It's another endorsement by the corrupt and unhinged Malignant Fascist that didn't pan out so well.
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Emperor Trump the First clearly got the wrong idea from his utter rejection by the voters in the mid-term elections. His out of control narcissism, his failure to understand the voters' economic situation, his idiotic trade wars, his brutal deportation policies, and the war of choice against Iran that forced prices to climb, led to his humiliating defeat and now to his delusion. Let him double down on unpopular positions and see what happens next, and in 2028 and beyond.
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House Democratic leaders are placing an early emphasis on healthcare as they discuss their immediate priorities upon the swearing-in of the new Congress on Jan. 3.
Early votes in the House next year are expected to focus on boosting Medicaid and restoring an enhanced tax subsidy that is designed to lower the cost of Affordable Care Act health plans for millions of enrollees.
Democrats are also promising swift action on legislation to stop the war with Iran and to reverse some of President Donald Trump’strade tariffs.
“We’re going to get out of the gate fast,” said New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader who is in line to become the next House speaker.
The legislative flurry carries enormous stakes for Democrats as they seek to translate their sweeping victories in the midterms — their numbers will exceed 250 in the 435-member House — into achievements that deliver on their promises to lower the cost of living.
Passing those bills should not be a problem with such a large Democratic House majority. Getting them signed into law most certainly could be.
A 60-vote threshold in the Senate looms for the legislation, as does a potential presidential veto. Trump on election night posted a photo on his social media site of a red hat with a simple message on it: “VETO”.
Following those early votes, Jeffries said five working groups are developing plans to put forward bills that would lower costs in areas such as housing, energy, groceries and caregiving.
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., said Democrats will at some point take up legislation dealing with artificial intelligence and data centers. He is part of a group of lawmakers working on a document that will lay out some of the priorities for Jeffries to consider.
“House Republicans last year made a conscious decision to let the AI industry run wild, and that was a bad decision politically and a bad decision on policy,” Lieu said. “Two things will change next term. We will hold public hearings on AI. We will pass legislation, reasonable guardrails on AI, and specifically data centers.”...
Once again, the highest duty of the Democrats in the Senate is to kill the filibuster rule, otherwise their agenda won't get out of Congress and onto the Malignant Fascist's desk. Put him in the position to veto popular legislation, then see if the remaining MAGAt Republican Senators will join with Democrats to override the vetoes. Democrats might find that enough Republicans have grown spines since their historic blowout losses to override the MF on issues that are in the public interest. Meanwhile, Democrats will be showing they're in Congress to work for the people.
This week, eight public health officials who advise an arm of the United Nations will consider whether the U.S. can still say it’s eliminated measles.
For Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the longtime vaccine skeptic who’s helmed America’s response to the thousands of cases that have erupted since last year, it will be a legacy-defining decision.
The Pan American Health Organization’s answer would seem obvious, with measles ripping through Pennsylvania, New York in a state of emergency and more than 7,000 infections reported nationwide since January 2025. But the officials will have to determine that a single chain of transmission has continued for at least a year to take away measles-elimination status.
If not, Kennedy will get more time as he attempts to show that his agency can curb the spread of measles, a disease that can only be contained when the vaccination rate is at least 95%, even as he seeks to downsize the childhood vaccine schedule, discourage school vaccination mandates and promote his discredited belief that vaccines cause far more injuries than the government has acknowledged.
The potential loss of measles elimination status comes as Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement is fighting to maintain its political relevancy, and its favored position inside the Trump administration, after sweeping Republican losses during the midterm elections. Losing the status could also weigh Kennedy himself down, whether he wants to keep working for Trump, as he says, or whether he decides to revisit the presidential ambitions he put aside two years ago to take the health secretary job.
“It is hard to believe the White House is not already weighing whether continued defense of Secretary Kennedy’s approach and the ongoing fallout from related policy changes makes sense for another two years,” said Jerome Adams, surgeon general during Trump’s first administration, who has called for Kennedy to be removed from his post due to his handling of public health. [snip]
America was once the world leader in containing measles, having won its elimination status in 2000 and secured it with a vaccination rate close to the 95% required to maintain herd immunity. But the world’s most contagious disease began spreading globally again after vaccination rates declined during the Covid pandemic.
Measles vaccination rates have continued to decline since Kennedy took over the health department. Coverage in kindergarteners is now only 92.4%... (our emphasis)
Bobby Brainworm's "Making America Healthy Again" -- one of the all-time sickest (yes) gems in the Pantheon of Irony.
As Republicans faced a nationwide drubbing in Tuesday's midterm elections, supporters streamed out of a Dallas ballroom where they'd hoped to toast a win for US Senate candidate Ken Paxton, a favorite of President Donald Trump.
In the hotel bar, Michael Little, a 59-year-old businessman and three-time Trump voter, stared at the president's image on a television screen. "People are pissed off at Trump. Trump has cost us," he said, capturing a sentiment rippling through the president's Make America Great Again movement after the Republican Party's worst electoral defeat in decades.
Across the coalition, some supporters who once viewed Trump as MAGA's greatest asset are beginning to question whether he's become its biggest liability.
The midterm losses amounted to more than a repudiation of Trump. They were a referendum on the political and cultural movement he built. A defining force in American politics that began as a campaign slogan during Trump's 2016 presidential run now faces a potentially existential reckoning after voters disillusioned with soaring fuel prices, the Iran war and Washington corruption delivered Democrats decisive congressional majorities.
Trump's first major response to the midterms came on Friday. Instead of changing course, he doubled down on the movement's core. He promoted Stephen Miller, the main architect of the administration's hardline immigration crackdown, to chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles. Wiles was seen as a stabilizing force inside an often chaotic White House.
The move was celebrated by some of MAGA's most ardent influencers, who saw it as a return to the anti-immigration agenda at the movement's roots. "Exactly the energy we need," right-wing influencer Benny Johnson posted on X to his 4.1 million followers. "Solid move. It's Miller Time."...
Too much "Miller Time" and the already gutted MAGAt Republican Party/ cult will drink itself to death (we hope). Doubling down on the policies of the past two years, especially the vile anti-immigrant enforcement actions ("thuggery") of DHS/ ICE, is a recipe for continuing electoral disaster. We're sure voters from California, Arizona,Texas, Florida, Kansas, and Iowa will be delighted to hear that the Malignant Fascist and PeeWee Goebbels got the electorate's message on November 3.
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From Heba Gowayed, an associate professor of sociology at CUNY Hunter College and Graduate Center, writing in The Guardian on how Democratic "centrists" are not going to produce the changes needed -- like shutting down big money -- that the public demanded in the blue tsunami election:
"The victories were a clear rebuke of Trump’s politics, but also a referendum on the Democratic party’s own centrism that is complicit in the violence of masked men hunting immigrants, the funding of a genocide and the denial of healthcare to citizens of the world’s wealthiest country.
Constants do not produce change. It was a Democratic party committed to 'centrism' that lost the House in 2022. A promise to maintain the status quo did not win Kamala Harris the 2024 presidency. And while some want to point to centrist victories in this blue wave, what is newsworthy is how Democratic politics have, in the last two years, shifted towards progressives and socialists, in campaigns powered by people and their small donations rather than big corporations and their money."
The entire article is compelling and well worth the read.
The post- mid-term period is off to a good start. This looks like an epic Dementia Don bungle that ex-Chief of Staff Susie Wiles might have nipped in the bud (maybe letting this happen was her final eff you to the sub-moron?) that the corporate media is completely ignoring:
In what has to be a sign for the coming chaos, trump announced this morning that was offering the post of White House Press Secretary – the second most visible position in the White House – to the CEO of the Unlimited Fighting Championship (UFC), for . . . reasons. Trump offers UFC chief Dana White press secretary job
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said: “I am pleased to announce that the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States.”
“We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left,” Trump wrote. “Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other. Dana, please take the job!”
Read that last sentence again: “Dana, please take the job!” That sounds very much like trump didn’t talk to Dana White first. If he had, CEO White would probably have explained to trump that he was asking the wrong Dana White. The most likely scenario is that people around trump were telling him Dana White would be a good choice – but they meant THIS Dana White:
Dana W. White served as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. In this role, she was the principal staff assistant and advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense for communications, news media relations, public outreach, engagement, public affairs and visual information. Ms. White served as the Pentagon Chief Spokesperson for both the Department of Defense and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.
Trump, however, seems to have thought they meant his friend Dana White...
Only the incredibly stupid, unserious Malignant Fascist would think for a moment that his staff meant the UFC's Dana White. But now that the bungle has played out in public, the White House has to act like the MF meant the unqualified, undoubtedly shocked UFC Dana White all along; we're expecting UFC White will decline the job formally on Monday when he comes to the White House to play along with the charade. Of course, this kills the qualified Dana White's chances for the job. Sad!
What an epic, epic shitshow.
UPDATE: Of course, now that the idiocy is being exposed, the MF lamely says it was all a joke. Riiiight! We think we all know what the joke is.
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