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(but it's required)OMG! 1st no Blue Wave. Bad enough, but w/Trump’s threat 2use SCOTUS 2stop the votecount the shit has really hit the fan. What is the basis 4this? R we now a banana republic? Trump is treating r election like he is
(Wednesday, Nov 4. 2020 05:02 AM)merely a contestant in a reality show. Trump doesn’t seem 2know the diff. I now almost hope the masses overrun the Whitehouse & drag the SOB out. Game end. Long-term? Pack the courts, term limit SCOTUS justices after which they demote2 traffic court. Restore blue slips & the filibuster for judicial appts.Lindsey Graham, in a forum Friday night, said “I care about everybody. If you’re a young African American or an immigrant, you can go anywhere in this country. You just need to be conservative, not liberal.”
(Sunday, Oct 11. 2020 01:17 PM)Translation: If you are a young African American or an immigrant, you “can go anywhere” in this country as long as you’re not uppity & you don’t object to a metaphorical if not a physical knee on your neck. Conservatives will never give a fair shake to uppity dark-skinned people who don’t support entrenched white power. http://bit.ly/34ODUb1Former Trump Employee Noel Casier been trying 2get story out since 2016. HRC declined 2use, few have published fearing lawsuits. Time may now be ripe 4viral. Trump daily crushes/snorts Adderall till he pees/poops his pants,
(Sunday, May 17. 2020 08:29 PM)then tempers mood 2b functional w/Valium. Noel worked 6yrs on Apprentice & did his beauty contests b4 that. Here is Noel’s nightclub bit: https://youtu.be/_kvsYCT9ZaM Excellent Nicole Sandler interview: https://youtu.be/CQB_SQyn85I
Greg Olear: https://gregolear.substack.com/p/full-disclosure-an-interview-with I posted 2u FB page but no response.halginsberg
(Sunday, May 17. 2020 07:34 PM)Thanks Shade. Really interesting stuff. Yes, we need to figure out how to keep the cleaner air we now have. But we won’t. Great hearing from you.In China, drops in pollution due 2 isolation likely saved 53k-77k lives. If true, this is many times more than the stated dths from COVID-19. That said, published dth rates in China & their causes aren_t reliable
(Sunday, May 17. 2020 07:28 PM)Also, isolation may have led2 other dth from suicide/malnutrition/lack-of-meds & is not sustainable. COVID-19 can also do long-term damage2 organs, resulting in early dths later. 1 would need accurate total dth rates over time & 2compare pre to post-COVID. Still, something 2think about. shorturl.at/fGPT9Shade
(Tuesday, Mar 17. 2020 12:10 PM)When Trump & the Republicans start talking about actually implementing what is essentially Andrew Yang’s $1000/mo to everyone, it tells me that there is a real fear inside the halls of power that the economy is a house of cards and is danger of total collapse.Shade
(Tuesday, Mar 17. 2020 11:26 AM)Bernie blew it during the debate by not making the case to Biden that if there had been Medicare for All in place for some time already, we’d now have less paper pushers & more doctors & health care providers in our health care system. This would have made handling the health-care demand spike of COVID-19 more manageable. Biden kept saying there would have been no difference.Shade
(Tuesday, Mar 17. 2020 11:23 AM)I’ll answer my own question. Republicans are dominated by old fat white guys, who are prime kill targets for the senior deleter virus. So in this case of COVID-19, Republicans are going to have a harder time supporting Darwinistic capitalism.As a Liberal, I dont understand why it isn’t the Repub position that we do nothing 2prepare4 COVID-19. Shouldn’t they be decrying that it wastes far too much $$$ 2isolate ppl from the productivity of their work?
(Monday, Mar 16. 2020 02:03 AM)So ppl get sick. It’s only 4awhile. Most will survive & be fine. We spend far too much $$$ on the last mo of life. The ppl who will die dont have long 2live anyway. This virus will get the job done quick. COVID-19 is the senior deleter, the boomer flu. Good economic riddance. In capitalism, only the strong & fit survive. It’s inconsistent for Repubs 2say anything else.Shade
(Saturday, Aug 10. 2019 03:28 PM)Better now put JE’s jailers in protective custody & on “suicide” watch too else we might have a Jack Ruby type incident. Everything about JE, his past, & ongoing activities smells to high heaven. Ties to the oligarchy, organized crime, deep state, etc. Anything might now happen.halginsberg
(Saturday, Aug 10. 2019 02:38 PM)To me the biggest red flag is that he was “allowed” to kill himself. I don’t think it’s that hard to prevent a suicide in a jail if you want to.I’m not generally a big conspiracy nut, but I find it awfully convenient that Jerry Epstein has been found dead of an “apparent” suicide. Especially since JE was already supposedly on a suicide watch.
(Saturday, Aug 10. 2019 02:30 PM)Suicide watch my ass, I think it more likely the “deep state” or organized crime ordered the “suicide” due to the big names Epstein might expose. Bipartisanship is still alive in the U.S. Bipartisanship corruption that is. This is one for the history books, but it will probably pass by w/o much notice.Shade
(Thursday, May 16. 2019 11:25 AM)Bill Press
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In case you missed it: We’ve had a great 14 year run of daily shows, but it’s time to transition. The last daily show will be May 31, but don’t worry! My voice will still front and center as we enter the 2020 election. Big news coming soon! 3h Bill Press
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(Sunday, May 12. 2019 08:54 AM)Sorry I’ve been slow to post lately. I’m very busy in my new job as MD State Organizer for Our Revolution. Will try to be a little more regular here.aji chili lover
(Saturday, Apr 27. 2019 11:31 AM)Hola! Bird lives! long thyme gone
worlds in collision people in
confusion, partly due to excessive
intake of cnnnbcfaux et al, don’t
worry just ride on the wings of
yer own inspiration and fly high
above the mad mob…Hola Hal
you don’t seem to get around much any more, what’s shakin’?
Shade doing the yeoman’s work,
good to see this leftover site still
is open for witty repartee and
provocal expressionisms. Thank
you all for being, wake up and liveBird
(Tuesday, Apr 9. 2019 10:32 AM)Do u still do radio?
Man does ksco suck.
Have u ever heard Georgia? Oh god.Good on Newsom for quickly scaling back boondoggle bullet train that could only appeal to a few big-shots who likely would still rather fly even if the boondoggle ever did get built. By time it was finished, we’d have a
(Sunday, Feb 17. 2019 04:53 AM)$500B infrastructure that would then carry almost no-one unless we then banned air travel. Good luck with that. Also Newsom nixing the twin-tunnel delta project in favor of a more ecologically sound smaller sgl tunnel that still could be used in wet yrs to recharge S. CA ground water, etc (in prep for drought yrs), but that wouldn’t be so large that it could be hi-jacked to strip excessive amts of N. CA water in drought yrs.Bernie Sanders’ State of the Union Response
(Saturday, Feb 9. 2019 03:02 PM)The master speaks. Much better response than Stacy Abrams gave. Too bad he’s 77yrs old. As our next POTUS, Bernie would be as likely to die in office as is the “healthy” junk-food eating Trump. Can’t have that. LOL
https://youtu.be/RAmMIeZawC4Rep AOC challenged the House Oversight Committee to a “lightning round game”, shedding light on the US financial system & political corruption that goes all the way to the top.
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(but it's required)OMG! 1st no Blue Wave. Bad enough, but w/Trump’s threat 2use SCOTUS 2stop the votecount the shit has really hit the fan. What is the basis 4this? R we now a banana republic? Trump is treating r election like he is
(Wednesday, Nov 4. 2020 05:02 AM)merely a contestant in a reality show. Trump doesn’t seem 2know the diff. I now almost hope the masses overrun the Whitehouse & drag the SOB out. Game end. Long-term? Pack the courts, term limit SCOTUS justices after which they demote2 traffic court. Restore blue slips & the filibuster for judicial appts.Lindsey Graham, in a forum Friday night, said “I care about everybody. If you’re a young African American or an immigrant, you can go anywhere in this country. You just need to be conservative, not liberal.”
(Sunday, Oct 11. 2020 01:17 PM)Translation: If you are a young African American or an immigrant, you “can go anywhere” in this country as long as you’re not uppity & you don’t object to a metaphorical if not a physical knee on your neck. Conservatives will never give a fair shake to uppity dark-skinned people who don’t support entrenched white power. http://bit.ly/34ODUb1Former Trump Employee Noel Casier been trying 2get story out since 2016. HRC declined 2use, few have published fearing lawsuits. Time may now be ripe 4viral. Trump daily crushes/snorts Adderall till he pees/poops his pants,
(Sunday, May 17. 2020 08:29 PM)then tempers mood 2b functional w/Valium. Noel worked 6yrs on Apprentice & did his beauty contests b4 that. Here is Noel’s nightclub bit: https://youtu.be/_kvsYCT9ZaM Excellent Nicole Sandler interview: https://youtu.be/CQB_SQyn85I
Greg Olear: https://gregolear.substack.com/p/full-disclosure-an-interview-with I posted 2u FB page but no response.halginsberg
(Sunday, May 17. 2020 07:34 PM)Thanks Shade. Really interesting stuff. Yes, we need to figure out how to keep the cleaner air we now have. But we won’t. Great hearing from you.In China, drops in pollution due 2 isolation likely saved 53k-77k lives. If true, this is many times more than the stated dths from COVID-19. That said, published dth rates in China & their causes aren_t reliable
(Sunday, May 17. 2020 07:28 PM)Also, isolation may have led2 other dth from suicide/malnutrition/lack-of-meds & is not sustainable. COVID-19 can also do long-term damage2 organs, resulting in early dths later. 1 would need accurate total dth rates over time & 2compare pre to post-COVID. Still, something 2think about. shorturl.at/fGPT9
Republicans in power, just what do they deliver?
Corey Robin concludes in The Reactionary Mind that working and middle-class white men1 derive tangible benefits from conservative governance and therefore are acting rationally when they vote for plutocratic business off-shorers like Republican Mitt Romney. Historians Mark Lilla and Sheri Berman have retorted that Robin really believes that less affluent Republican voters are victims of a “false consciousness” that prevents them from seeing that their economic interests conflict directly with those of the ruling class. Lilla and Berman deride this supposedly absurd Marxist explanation for otherwise inexplicable proletarian voting patterns. Is Robin right or are Lilla and Berman, despite their unpleasant tone, onto something?
Robin identifies conservatives by two salient characteristics: 1) their need to order hierarchically individuals within every group and 2) a strong often violent reaction to any challenge to an existing hierarchy. Describing the benefits that accrue to some non-wealthy individuals in a conservative society, he writes: “In the family and the factory, fathers and foremen get to play the part of a lord.” He notes further: “Conservatives also court those talents that can be demonstrated on the battlefield and the barricades. That’s one of the reasons it attracts outsiders from the Irish-born [Edmund] Burke to the immigrant neoconservative. Far from hiving off oppressor from oppressed, I argue that the right succeeds by turning paupers into princes and beggars into Bonapartes.”2
I take this to mean that in a hierarchical society non-elite men may benefit in two ways. First, a tiny number of them or their children do succeed spectacularly. Second, even the less successful can still lord it over their families and, if they become mid or even low-level supervisors, subordinates. This explains, says Robin, working-class conservatives.
Robin has a point but so do those who see false consciousness at work. While less affluent Republicans may gain from living in a hierarchy even if they’re just a few notches from the bottom, they also have no idea just how much better the rich have it. Moreover, to the extent that they believe that they or their children will climb the income latter, they are likely mistaken.
Since the 1930s, Americans have seen their quality of life improved because of Democratic policies and laws. During the Great Depression, government programs, funded by very high marginal taxes on the wealthy, rescued millions from ruin. Over the ensuing 40 years, union-friendly laws resulted in livable wages and the promise of a comfortable retirement for most working Americans. In recent years, the conservative movement has cut the top tax rate by over 50%, reduced the number of government employees, and marginalized organized labor. The results have decimated the American working and middle classes. In short, poor, working and middle-class Republican voters are not necessarily irrational but they’re hardly fully rational political actors either.
1The voting behavior of this cohort is of particular interest because its members, who are mostly Republican, seem to vote counter to their economic interests. http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/11/05-america-white-working-class-jacobs↩
2http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/feb/23/reactionary-mind-exchange/↩