#trump dumpsters

[odinsblog]

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

—Upton Sinclair

[tomorrowusa]

Don't risk a rerun of the 2000 election.

In the first presidential election of the 21st century many deluded progressives voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.

Their foolishness gave us eight years of George W. Bush who plagued the country with two recessions (including the Great Recession) and two wars (one totally unnecessary and one which could have been avoided if he heeded an intelligence brief 5 weeks before 9/11).

Oh yeah, Dubya also appointed one conservative and one batshit crazy reactionary to the US Supreme Court. Roberts and Alito are still there.

Paul Waldman of the Washington Post offers some thoughts.

Why leftists should work their hearts out for Biden in 2024

Ask a Democrat with a long memory what the numbers 97,488 and 537 represent, and their face will twist into a grimace. The first is the number of votes Ralph Nader received in Florida in 2000 as the nominee of the Green Party; the second is the margin by which George W. Bush was eventually certified the winner of the state, handing him the White House. Now, with President Biden gearing up for reelection, talk of a spoiler candidate from the left is again in the air. That’s unfortunate, because here’s the truth: The past 2½ years under Biden have been a triumph for progressivism, even if it’s not in most people’s interest to admit it. This was not what most people expected from Biden, who ran as a relative moderate in the 2020 Democratic primary. His nomination was a victory for pragmatism with its eyes directed toward the center. But today, no one can honestly deny that Biden is the most progressive president since at least Lyndon B. Johnson. His judicial appointments are more diverse than those of any of his predecessors. He has directed more resources to combating climate change than any other president. Notwithstanding the opposition from the Supreme Court, his administration has moved aggressively to forgive and restructure student loans.

Three years ago the economy was in horrible shape because of Trump's mishandling of the pandemic. Now unemployment is steadily below 4%, job creation continues to exceed expectations, and wages are rising as unions gain strength. The post-pandemic, post-Afghan War inflation rate has receded to near normal levels; people in the 1970s would have sold their souls for a 3.2% (and dropping) inflation rate. And many of the effects of "Bidenomics" have yet to kick in.

And in a story that is criminally underappreciated, his administration’s policy reaction to the covid-induced recession of 2020 was revolutionary in precisely the ways any good leftist should favor. It embraced massive government intervention to stave off the worst economic impacts, including handing millions of families monthly checks (by expanding the child tax credit), giving all kids in public schools free meals, boosting unemployment insurance and extending health coverage to millions.

It worked. While inflation rose (as it did worldwide), the economy’s recovery has been blisteringly fast. It took more than six years for employment rates to return to what they were before the Great Recession hit in 2008, but we surpassed January 2020 jobs levels by the spring of 2022 — and have kept adding jobs ever since. To the idealistic leftist, that might feel like both old news and a partial victory at best. What about everything supporters of Bernie Sanders have found so thrilling about the Vermont senator’s vision of the future, from universal health care to free college? It’s true Biden was never going to deliver that, but to be honest, neither would Sanders had he been elected president. And that brings me to the heart of how people on the left ought to think about Biden and his reelection.

Biden has gotten things done. The US economy is doing better than those of almost every other advanced industrialized country.

Our rivals China and Russia are both worse off than they were three years ago. And NATO is not just united, it's growing.

Sadly, we still need to deal with a far right MAGA cult at home who would wreck the country just to get its own way.

Biden may be elderly and unexciting, but that is one of the reasons he won in 2020. Many people just wanted an end to the daily drama of Trump's capricious and incompetent rule by tweet. And a good portion of those people live in places that count greatly in elections – suburbs and exurbs.

Superhero films seem to be slipping in popularity. Hopefully that's a sign that voters are less likely to embrace self-appointed political messiahs to save them from themselves.

Good governance is a steady process – not a collection of magic tricks. Experienced and competent individuals who are not too far removed from the lives of the people they represent are the best people to have in government.

Paul Waldman concludes his column speaking from the heart as a liberal...

I’ve been in and around politics for many years, and even among liberals, I’ve almost always been one of the most liberal people in the room. Yet only since Biden’s election have I realized that I will probably never see a president as liberal as I’d like. It’s not an easy idea to make peace with. But it suggests a different way of thinking about elections — as one necessary step in a long, difficult process. The further you are to the left, the more important Biden’s reelection ought to be to you. It might require emotional (and policy) compromise, but for now, it’s also the most important tool you have to achieve progressive ends.

Exactly. Rightwingers take the long view. It took them 49 years but they eventually got Roe v. Wade overturned. To succeed, we need to look upon politics as an extended marathon rather as one short sprint.

Republicans may currently be bickering, but they will most likely unite behind whichever anti-abortion extremist they nominate.

It's necessary to get the word out now that the only way to defeat climate-denying, abortion-restricting, assault weapon-loving, race-baiting, homophobic Republicans is to vote Democratic.

[sleepy-bebby]

Well tbf with what went on during the Twitter verification fiasco…

[omg-whathaveidone]

And the NO SH*T SHERLOCK award goes to the US Justice system. Truly made in the USA where a scam artist, grifting, serial rapist can be under 3 indictments and still roam the country conning more idiots into giving him more money. Truly astounding how colonialism never freaking ends....white power seems to never freaking end....it just never ends!!! I don't know how much more disgust and outrage we can handle especially when the rest of us are literally dying out here under the threat of law and order just trying to be ourselves. 🔥☄️

[sleepii-moth]

i am well aware that there is more than one person running for the democratic party in the presidential election but unless someone usurps biden in popularity (which i honestly kind of doubt will happen), people really need to understand that ultimately the election is going to result in one of three things:

1, democrats refuse to vote, therefore donald trump or another most likely equally as bad person will win

2, democrats split the vote between other canidates in the democratic party which results in none of the dem candidates getting enough votes to beat a Republican and the same outcome as 1 happens

or 3, democrats work together to vote for the most popular canidate (who i think will most likely be biden) and a democrat is elected

and im gonna be honest, if 1 happens im gonna start biting people. yall NEED to vote, voting is LITERALLY the most basic most liberal ass thing you can do as a leftist right now, and if you are refusing to vote right now im like actually mad at you, its really not that hard yet some people STILL dont wanna do as if NOT VOTING WASNT PART OF WHY TRUMP WAS ORIGINALLY ELECTED. JUST VOTE.

[because-imma-lady-assface]

I'm just a girl, standing in front of Sebastian Stan, asking him to just take a normal fucking role for once.

[generousglitterbarbarian]

Fixed.

[misterlemonztenth]

03-28-24 | I'm praying a deluge of votes will wash this louse out of our hair on Nov. 5. Let's "Make it So!" via picassoutine. misterlemonztenth.tumblr.com/archive

[atypical-snowman]

This shit is so fucking stupid. Of all the evil shit he’s pulled, this is what gets him arrested. Look at this, he’s such a fucking moron I’m kinda mad about it.

[i-scavenger]

Stolen, broken into box of Maga crap found in a escalonia.

[odinsblog]

Filed under: “But it’s different when Trump does exactly the same thing”

LMAO, allegedly “edgy” 🙄 Libertarian white guys like Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro and Elon Musk are all in reality, just racist hypocritical Republicans who like smoking weed and think they’re the cool kids because they have money now

The aforementioned red flags poll

(source)

I am objectively and measurably less intelligent for having watched even two minutes of the Joe Rogan Experience. It was like watching “What If Beavis & Butthead Did Politics” but dumber

[notesfromachair]

Imagine What?

In the last few weeks more than a handful of friends, family and acquaintances have told me in many different ways that they could never have imagined what passes for politics and news in the U.S. these days. As is usual for these types of conversations, talk kept going back to the former US president, meaning the guy before Joe Biden, and the deviously gluttonous way in which he manages to…

[carlops]

(via GIPHY) a floating turd

[sambargestuff]

Alabama's IVF Ban is Kind of Good Maybe?

[jim-fetter-illustrations]

Barbie Dream Dumpster set Trump fans are going wild over.....

Don't ask me why,...... but the "Barbie Dream Dumpster" doll set is for real, and a whole lot of Trump supporters are buying it apparently, it Comes with full accessories that a dumpster diver would use to scavenge their treasures in the dumpster and a realistic little plastic functional dumpster.

And people wonder what the hell is going on in America,.......... business as usual from what I see,........... sheesh!

[garudabluffs]

Letters from an American

September 2, 2022

Among all the Republican backlash over Biden’s speech, today, veteran CNN White House reporter John Harwood said:

“The core point he made in that political speech about a threat to democracy is true. 

“Now, that’s something that’s not easy for us, as journalists, to say. We’re brought up to believe there’s two different political parties with different points of view and we don’t take sides in honest disagreements between them. But that’s not what we’re talking about. These are not honest disagreements. The Republican Party right now is led by a dishonest demagogue. 

“Many, many Republicans are rallying behind his lies about the 2020 election and other things as well. And a significant portion—or a sufficient portion—of the constituency that they’re leading attacked the Capitol on January 6th. Violently. 

“By offering pardons or suggesting pardons for those people who violently attacked the Capitol, which you’ve been pointing out numerous times this morning, Donald Trump made Joe Biden’s point for him.” 

Shortly afterward, Harwood announced he was no longer with CNN. 

A source told Dan Froomkin of Press Watch that Harwood had been told last month he was being let go, despite his long-term contract, and that he used his last broadcast to send a message."

READ MORE https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-2-2022

20 Comments "What's also scary is the fact that so many networks did not broadcast Biden's important speech."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/09/02/biden-speech-network-coverage-independence-hall/. It is killing me (and the U.S.) that so many fail to see that it's not politics as usual any more but instead one party trying to govern versus the other party dead set against democratic governance. Without sufficient press coverage of this it will be even harder to keep our democracy.