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Mamdani finally meets Jeffries — and comes up short Their ‘constructive, candid and community-centered’ conversation did not result in an endorsement for mayor. Hakeem Jeffries is a loser. He should resign. He is not change. He is blocking change. On his first round as House Speaker, he lost. So he is, by definition, a loser. Losers lose, and Hakeem lost. So what the fuck does he know? Resign, loser. You are behind the curve and we don't need you. Take your big money donors and go away. Nancy Pelosi is many things. I will name three. Back in the day, she was a hero to the Gay community on AIDS. She is a famed fundraiser who has gotten endless numbers of Democrats elected. And she was arguably the best House Speaker ever. Democrats can thank her as much as Obama for Obamacare and a whole bunch of other stuff. But her time has passed. And Hakeem is basically a weaker version of her, with a Black face rather than a skirt. And so far, all he is is a loser. Everything I read about Hakeem is he wants to go kiss ass and make up with Silicon Valley donors and big money. He is the face of a party that does not know what they stand for. Other than to convince people like me to give them money to stand for nothing and fight for nothing. And lose. Go away, Hakeem. YOU ARE A LOSER. Do you get the message, loser? I'm not a huge fan of Mamdani. But I think I understand what he stands for. And the Democratic Party needs it if we want to have any hope of winning. Millennials in particular - the same people that stood for Obama, and were the energy behind Bernie - want real change. And if it sounds good enough and real enough, a lot of the Zoomer men who voted for Trump and aren't thrilled with what they got may vote Democratic. We tried a version of this in Chicago. And so far no one thinks Mayor Johnson is a success. His poll ratings are dismal. If Mamdani wins we get another try in New York, around a clear and riveting populist agenda. There is a whole crew of seasoned progressives from the DeBlasio days that have actual experience running things that can and probably will step in if Mandani wins. I'm not convinced it will work. But it is a big piece of what my party needs if it wants to have a future. So I hope he wins, and I hope he governs well. The fact that Hakeem won't get behind this sends me a clear message. I won't give a penny to Hakeem or his party. I donate to lots of Democrats, and I will keep doing it. But I hope Hakeem himself fails and quits. He is a loser who loses, and stands for nothing. Go away, Hakeem. We don't need you. Loser! Bill Clinton is not a loser. Nor would I call him a progressive. But he is a great politician who can read the room better than most. So he got right behind Mamdani. One of his old hack political advisers, Doug Sosnik, is one of the guys I like to listen to. He is not a progressive, either. But he is saying the same thing. The economic populism Bernie fought hard for in 2016 and 2020, which was anchored in Millennials, has to be a big part of the mix if Democrats actually want to win and deliver change. I think Clinton and Sosnik are winners who win. Because they know what effective politics is. Jeffries is pissing on his own future. He is weak, and stands for nothing. Nancy Pelosi was always going to be a hard act to follow. But this guy is a loser. He should go away.

Grandma is the reason we should nuke Master Xi if he invades Taiwan. Then again, we should have nuked Moscow when Putin started his genocide. Instead, Trump is letting Putin manipulate the hell out of him. I say let's nuke Master Xi and his pit bull, Putin. After all, as you keep saying, the US loves to nuke people every century or so. 😉 Putin, he's just a garden variety genocide type of guy. 😨 Gotta admit, though. We are giving Putin a run for his money and blood in Gaza. Although in fairness the US is just footing the bill for the Genocide Jew. And we're not killing our own people, like Putin is.

Always love it when you laugh, Sis. MAGA-friendly "manosphere" turns heat on Trump over Epstein scandal Some smart Republican politico predicted a few years back that a tidal wave was coming for the Republican Party. And Republicans had no idea how to stop it. The tidal wave was "youth". Well, they not only stopped it in 2024. They turned it to their advantage. Particularly with young Zoomer men. Again, I think most of that was luck. COVID. Lockdowns. Inflation. Rent. Now Democrats are the ones who feel awash.

Again, hate to be a broken record. AMLO won in a sorta landslide in 2018 because he had a vision that people were attracted to. But also Nieto proved that corporate mainstream governance, Mexico's trickle down, was not working. Sheinbaum won in a true landslide in 2024 because MORENA actually delivered results. Despite the same inflation as in the US. The three-way battle for the Democratic Party As much as something this complex and unpredictable can be summarized in one essay, that article does a really good job. And the question is not which of the three wings are correct. They all are. The question is whether they can form a coalition. And then, if elected, whether they can deliver. I don't blame people who feel Biden did not deliver. You can blame it on all sorts of things, starting with global inflation. But it still is what it is. This is the job of a leader. Someone running for President is going to have to pull it together. So as the article says Democrats will have to grumble until 2028. But hopefully by then a lot of people will be hungry to unify and win. Trump had to do the same thing. Build a coalition. And he barely succeeded, twice. The two obvious wings of the GOP are the old Chamber of Commerce wing, which is alive and well and loving its tax cuts and special interest laws. And the working class/trucker driver/MAGA wing. I would not call low-income people a part of the GOP coalition. But Trump did win the votes of people who make under $50,000 in 2024. Which is a huge indictment of Democratic failures. And an explanation for Mamdani. So if there is a third wing of the GOP coalition it is the "high prices" wing. Which already doesn't like what Trump is doing. Electric bills are up 9 % YTD. Just wait till the Medicaid and food debate gets going. I love this abundance thing. It focuses directly on stuff people want. Abundant housing. Abundant energy. Abundant child care. Better that than abundant democracy, I think. Both Ezra Klein lefties and Mandani progressives want the same thing. Abundant stuff. Affordable stuff. It presents Democrats with at least two huge challenges. The rich and corporations will have to pay. Which is something Biden could not deliver. And Democrats will have to govern well. In Chicago the mayor's approval ratings got as low as a single digit in one poll. Meaning a lot of the Black base that elected him are not happy with how he is doing. The best thing that could happen is Mamdani wins and proves progressives can govern. Which is, again, exactly what AMLO did in Mexico City. And then the nation! I'm not suggesting Mandani should run for President, even if he wins and is wildly successful. I think Bernie proved that his brand of democratic socialism is simply a bridge too far. Including for the working class. We have a long time to figure this out. There are a few threads emerging that excite me. Just get old fucks out of the way. Millennials are being awful polite not to say it that bluntly. And I adore Nancy Pelosi. I even think Chuck Schumer is underestimated as a clever political survivor. But they excite no one these days. And Trump is the same worthless old disgusting piece of shit he has always been. Just older. So some burst of youthful energy will happen. We're seeing the previews right now in NYC. And the other thing is this: JUST BUILD SHIT. Just shut the fuck up and build shit. Build affordable shit. Just shut the fuck up. Really. Environmental blah blah blah just shut the fuck up and build shit. I mean, it really is easier to build homes than bombers, or AI, or nuclear power plants, or a new electric grid. It is not rocket science. So just shut the fuck and build shit. Affordable shit. That is what Zoomers want. And Trump, the faux real estate POTUS, ain't gonna do shit about it.

It sure ain't trust. It's more like I recognize greed when I see it. Paramount wants its merger approved. So in that sense Trump won. All the king's men have to kowtow to him. What's new? The bizarre part of this to me is that it is somehow news that Theo Von is calling out Vance, as outlined below, because Vance gaslighted the public about Epstein on Von's show. As in, who could possibly give a shit? Zoomers, I guess. I think it was a big mistake for Team Harris to ignore the slightly racist maybe recovering drug addicty Rogan/Von manosphere. But the good news is there is no evidence that the love affair between Trump and the bros is permanent. This headline says it all. Theo Von Government Isn't For the People ...Look at Epstein & Gaza!!! I'm with him. Epstein, US-funded genocide in Gaza, Trump building a surveillance state with Palantir. What's not to like about that .............. other than everything? It is clear that four years of Biden, lockdowns, toxic masculinity, and unaffordable rent had an impact on young men who facilitated Trump's comeback. It is way too early to tell what impact four years or Trump will have on the same group. But the handwriting on the wall ain't looking so good for MAGA.

I'd say Tik Tok took Colbert down. It's a shame. Old school linear TV is being replaced by junk on Tik Tok. But that's what the kids want, honey! Partisanship no doubt plays into it, too. But I buy that it was mostly, if not purely, a financial decision.

Do you think Trump understands the word PEDOPHILE? Or RAPE? Or INSURRECTION? The poor little pedophile buddy buddy. Oh how awful. President Pussy Grabber Pedophile Buddy is being attacked again! My heart bleeds for the worthless disgraceful piece of shit that is a shame on America. Oh the poor pedophile buddy buddy! Oh poor President Pedophile. Oh how my heart bleeds! I'm no lawyer. And trying to get in Trump's toxic raping lying brain in suicidal. But when I read that quote my assumption is that Trump is correct. This is a guy who is a disgusting worm who graduated from Roy Cohn U and has spent his life learning how to use the law to cover up for his crimes and rape and general disgusting existence. He probably had someone do the birthday card for him, is my guess. Maybe the signature is his or maybe not. Kudos to the WSJ to tell this worthless disgusting worm of a man that he can take all his bullshit and ingest it and choke on it. What a toxic horrible human being. Every fucking day the media should expose what a subhuman toxic lying worthless piece of shit Donald Trump is. Just like JD the ass kissing loser wants. It is probably cheaper for them to pay the moral worm money when he sicks his Roy Cohn lawyers on them, but refuse to apologize. America is getting the memo. Donald Trump is a disgusting piece of shit. He will forever be a stain on the USA. He is the absolute rock bottom worst of America.

Of course, when the WSJ did exactly that .............................. here we are. Shouldn't JD be ashamed of himself? What purpose does JD even serve? (Trick question. We all know the answer.)

This is a sad example: Talking ‘Trump accounts’ and mocking Democrats, Vance offers preview of how GOP will message the 'big, beautiful bill' Vance is correct, as far as it goes. He didn't talk about the tax breaks to billionaire donors. Or the special interest laws for special interest lobbies in red states, of course. They put enough populist stuff in the bill, like cash for working class babies and no tax on tips, that they can claim it is virtually the same as FDR's New Deal! Have to add that Vance is learning quickly from Trump when it comes to bald-faced lies. He railed against not wanting to pass on "this giant debt volume" to his grandkids. Except for the $3.4 trillion it adds to the deficit to help the needy rich, of course. Meanwhile, Democrats could not agree to tax the rich one fucking penny more to fund an expanded child tax credit that helped tens of millions of working class families and cut child poverty in half for one year. Harris had a great line about her Mom and the kitchen table. But she could not tell stories about how she drew blood from billionaires like Trump - or Kyrsten Sinema - to make sure all those kids were not thrown right back into poverty. I read she was advised not to rattle the chains of populism because some of the rich Democratic donors might get upset. Can't have that!

European envoy warns Trump administration actions are hurting efforts to help abducted Ukrainian children Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the Russian military has forcibly transported about 20,000 Ukrainian children into Russian territory. Are these woke assholes every going to get the memo? They are Europeans, who basically have been living off the good will of the USA for decades. So I guess not! These kids no doubt chose to move to Russia for their own good. Who would want to live in a shit hole like Ukraine that starts wars for no good reason? This is just as bad as all the whining even from Republicans about all those DEI kids in Africa who need pills for so-called "AIDS" or whatever! The able-bodied here in the US need to go out and work for their Medicaid and food. Why should we be giving pills and shit to DEI kids in Africa? America First! THIS IS OUR GOLDEN AGE!!!!!!!!!!!

We may disagree about this. One question I have had is whether we were headed to a world in which Putin and Trump were BFFs. I think the verdict is in. No, we are not. That may be what Trump wants, and where he thought the train was headed. But Putin doesn't see Trump that way. As you just said, Trump has always been his useful idiot. I think that is now clear. Poor Donald won't get the Nobel Peace Prize for his "Peace in 24 Hours" deal with Putin and Ukraine. So sad! That said, Trump does have a true BFF in Bibi, and a bunch of Middle East autocrats. And the genocide is on! Is there a Nobel Peace Prize for that?

This is not exactly a news flash. But Trump does live in some alternative form of reality. There was a funny piece on The Daily Show this week by Jordan Klepper, who has spent years mining the MAGAverse for humor. It was about how Trump went into one of his weaves about his brilliant uncle who taught at MIT, and died decades ago. And how he and his uncle once had a talk about how his uncle taught the Unabomber. Did Trump’s uncle teach the Unabomber? No. Here’s what really happened Again, it is not news that Trump has a tortured relationship with facts and reality. But this helps explain how Zelenskyy was a dictator, until he wasn't. And Putin was kind of the victim, until he wasn't. Probably the key ingredient is that Trump is a genius, he thinks. Which is actually close to being a madman, he thinks. Which may be true, at least in his case. Then he makes up his own alternative reality of facts. But those alternative facts keep changing to whatever he wants them to be. I mean, it's not like Joe Biden was a genius in his prime as POTUS. Klepper put a photo up of both Trump and Biden and everybody laughed. But this is deeply fucked up. Then again, what's new? 🤪

Honestly, I don't get it. And while I know people I can get a read from about what drives MAGA, I really don't think I know anyone deep enough in the insane asylum to explain this to me. You're right that there are so called "leaders" or influencers who used this to gain power or make money. But the part I don't get is why do the people inside the insane asylum believe it, and dwell on it? And of course the easiest answer is, "Duh! Because they're insane." The other overwhelming feeling I have had for a long time is that most people who are Millennials or Zoomers are cynical. And that's not quite fair of me to say. Because the Millennials that worked their asses off for Mamdani are anything but cynics. But my point is that I think that may be one of the drivers here. Cynicism. The people in the insane asylum genuinely see Trump as the anti-hero and bad ass who will go in and own the libs and open the coffins and root out the vampires in the Deep State. So now he is the Deep State. Or at least Pam Bondi is. They are now the government that covers shit up and gaslights everyone. Except this group is probably less Zoomers than older Gen X types. Like I said, I know none of them personally. The phrase I keep thinking is those who live by the sword die by the sword. This is more like those who live by gaslighting die by gaslighting. There is good news in this. If MAGA eats Trump, he can't turn our barking dog into Trump Steaks. One less cruel thing will happen. But the sad part for me is Putin has to be in stitches over this. As in, THIS is democracy? What a fucked up mess!

Exactly. There are the midterms. I view Nancy Pelosi as one of the best politicians of my lifetime. I think she saw the handwriting on the wall, and worked mightily to prevent it. She got Joe Biden out of the way. Had she not, I think there would have been more losses in the House and Senate. We actually gained one House seat. Had we gained a few more, a lot of this could have been prevented. But it was not to be. If Democrats can take back the House, it stops some of the bad shit Trump can do. But as @lookin says, they will still do as much through the executive branch and Trump's handpicked SCOTUS as they can.

No shit! And I agree that I don't know they have it in them. I know I may sound like I am all AMLO, all the time. But implicit in what I am saying is that shit has to change in a really big way. Like AMLO literally created a new political party. Which now basically has a lock on power that the global elites worry is .............. wait for it .................... too authoritarian. But the Mexican working class sure love it. Part of my optimism, which my Dad and siblings share but not most of my nieces and nephews don't, is that leaders can actually make a difference. There was of course Obama and "hope and change." And now Mandani is a local version of the same thing. Trump is a version of the same thing for Republicans. Generally, they love him. Their problem is Republicans account for nowhere near 50 % of the vote. Nor do Democrats, for that matter. My larger point is that Republicans were kind of fucked until Trump came along. McCain lost. Romney lost. So it makes sense that they can't live without him, so they live with him. Did it really have to be this way? That's for historians to fight over. For now we just have to live through it. Assuming we can, and do. I think it is the same with Democrats. Some leader has to come along to change the party. Clinton did that, for both better and worse, in 1992. I'm not sure I would say the same with Obama. In 2000, the Democratic President was from Arkansas and the Senate Democratic Leader was from South Dakota. That could not happen today. The Democratic Congressional leaders are from places like New York and San Francisco. Obama rose to power in Chicago. That kind of sums up the problem, I think. Clinton's party still appealed to the working class. Including in states that we now think of as ruby red. Ruy Teixeira's big thing is the working class. He and John Judis, who know the area well because they forecast it a generation ago with The Emerging Democratic Majority, view the problem at core as being that Democrats lost touch with the working class. So the 30,000 foot level solution is to elevate leaders who will fight for the working class. It is working in Mexico. The thing that scares me the most is the rise of billionaires and autocrats. And that is where both parties are just as much to blame. Working class people got a few crumbs with "no tax for tips". But basically Trump's party is breaking the budget to give billionaires whatever the hell they want. When Democrats had power they could not agree to raise taxes on these people one penny, even though the idea is wildly popular, to fund things that help the working class. That is in part because lots of Democrats either are very rich, or they are afraid of pissing off their rich donors. Who they constantly suck at the tit of. And every attempt to make Democrats not dependent on sucking the tits of the rich has failed. So I get why all my nieces and nephews are cynical. Or, they are the rich ones who like Trump and his tax cuts. What is certain is that by empowering the autocrats and cutting their taxes and fucking the working class and poor on health care cuts and basic things like food, Republicans are NOT giving Americans the change they want. But whether Democrats will ever be able to do it is a very good question. A lot of young people feel that when the Democrats rejected Bernie, that was game over. The rich now control both parties. I don't blame them for feeling that way.

As you note, it is the unitary executive theory. Not the unitary government theory. That said, my Sister In Cock is right that it is a de facto unitary government now. For the most part, the legislative branch and SCOTUS are willing to go along with whatever Trump wants. The caveat is that right now the House and Senate are Republican run. Check back with me in 2027. So the biggest check right now is constant articles about some judge somewhere who actually puts some limit on Trump. At least until SCOTUS says, "Oh, no. Do whatever you want." And it's worse than you think. John Mearsheimer is one example of a smart person saying on foreign policy Trump can do anything he wants. He is systematically destroying alliances that took a century or more to build. On Ukraine at least he is surrounded by Republicans who mostly despise Putin and want to sanction him. So that part of the GOP is still breathing. Then there is the GENOCIDE JEW!!!!!!!! show. The United States and Israel are increasingly associated with genocide. As in, "Want food? Okay. But let me kill you instead." It's happening every day. Mearsheimer argued Trump can pretty much do anything he wants. Bombs away, if Bibi and Trump agree. Which they seem to. And, yes, I know. That's Israeli Jews, not American Jews. Then we get into the Israel Lobby in the US, which Mearsheimer wrote a book about and is all too happy to talk about. So right now there is only one proudly Jewish nation in the world, and it is having a genocide spree. And the US is paying for much of it. Oh, and did I mention Trump has his finger on the nuclear button? The solace in this is that the reaction is clearly growing, just like it did in 2017 and 2018. Can Trump cancel the midterms? Hope not. The polls show even Republicans say they don't want Trump to be King. Mostly they feel democracy is alive and well, though. Trump won fair and square, and they like what he's doing. Although even with that there are more and more Republicans saying they DO NOT like tariffs, or his cruel immigration policy. My conservative Romney-ite nephew who basically supports Trump's policies is a really good read for me on this. A month or so ago I said I'm not even sure if people care about democracy anymore. I don't believe that, but I was curious what he would say. "I think they care about democracy. They just want change." he replied. I agree with him. That is what Trump acolytes said loud and clear, and correctly, in that Frontline video. So the question on the table now is, "is this the change you wanted?" The verdict is out. I will say this about the unitary executive theory and executive orders. Bipartisanship and "meeting in the middle", which I know is what my conservative nephew and I deeply agree on and favor, has been dying for a long time. Obama increasingly used executive orders because it was the only way he could get shit done. As that video shows, Trump took out a lot of Biden's executive orders on Day One. So Trump is taking out all the guard rails, for sure. But he is symptom, not cause. What happens is that every election since 2016 people vote for change. Then they don't like it. And then they vote for change again. My money is on them doing it again in 2026 and 2028. But I do miss the 80's and 90's which were a great time for meeting in the middle and getting big shit done. Win the Cold War, perhaps? Budget surplus, anyone? 😀 Ain't gonna happen with this hot mess. So it's on Democrats, next time they get a shot, to see if they can deliver the kind of change people actually want. At least something like 51 % of them in at least enough states to get a majority of US Senators.

As that PBS documentary @lookin posted argued, we have been here before. Nixon dug his own grave. The coverup is worse than the crime. You and I keep talking about two different audiences. The MAGA folks are basically a lost cause to me. Including my own niece, who I love. The only question is how many of them will actually go vote to defend their hero. This will not help Republicans in the midterms. Which is why Mike Johnson is speaking up. He knows if these people lose faith in the cause he will be Minority leader. Or MAGA will toss him, even. I'm most interested in swing voters. And your point is right. They never should have voted for Trump. But I would rather they vote for my team in 2026 and 2028. My premise is that most Americans care about the rule of law. I think that is true. That PBS documentary spelled it out, in the words of some of Trump's own most ardent media supporters. They considered him dead meat in 2021 and 2022. The lawfare narrative was able to fill the void in part because Garland did pretty much nothing. And Fanny had an affair. I don't think the fact that Trump is a felon helped him. At least not on balance. I do think it was the prices, stupid, in a close race. Had Trump gone to trial and been convicted by a jury, I think it would have hurt him. In a 49.8 % race, probably enough to tip the race. We'll never know.

DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS. YEAH YOU'RE A DUMB DOG BUT I LIKE DOGS. DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS. HE WILL DROP YOU IN A HEARTBEAT. POOR THING! HERE IS A TREAT NOW BE GOOD BUT BE CAREFUL.

There was a nice Politico article today gaming out what might really be going on here. I think the simplest explanation is that Trump and Kash Patel and Co. started a fire they knew was fueled by bullshit to gain power. And they are now learning that bullshit is more combustible and durable than they thought. What a shocker! But I'm beginning to wonder whether the even darker scenario is true: the piece of shit rapist felon is all over whatever they got. And so Trump has to cover it up to avoid an even bigger scandal. As you note, authoritarian leaders are always more than willing to throw their authoritarian followers under the bus to preserve their own authoritarians asses. Has anybody seen Mike Johnson's decapitated head on a stick, hung outside the US Capitol? Or maybe Mike Pence hanging from a noose? Point is, I said using satire above that Johnson should be deported. If this were Hitler, or even a wannabe like Putin, that would be way too nice. Johnson would be dead outside the Reichstag in a pool of blood. The fact that we are seeing Republican leaders break with Trump in real time probably does tell us something about the limits of his power. There is no evidence that they are willing to go down with the ship. But we'll see. I do think my Sister In Cock is correct. Trump is deranged, and only getting worse. We should not underestimate how bad he can get. And how much shit he may try to break. That documentary you referenced looks great @lookin. I only watched about 15 minutes to get the jist of it, and will watch the rest later. But it just confirms one thing I know, and several posters here have discussed. There is a bad guy in this picture who fucked up badly and every Democrat in America should despise as the worthless incompetent piece of shit that he is. His name is not Donald Trump. It is Merrick Garland. Garland had four fucking years to prosecute Trump. That poll is from 2023. For four years there were endless polls that said the same thing. It's not that the rule of law failed. It is that it wasn't really tried. In the end, I think a lot of voters basically said, "You ain't got shit. You are all talk. Don't keep preaching about democracy and the rule of law. You clutched." That said, my own opinion is that Trump, an idiot and felon, is now doing a reverse Biden. Biden and Democrats overplayed the democracy card. In the end a lot of people voted for Trump because of prices, not noble ideas. And his promises on prices. So maybe Trump thinks as long as he is breaking shit, his authoritarian followers will be happy. And as you know, @lookin, many of them will be happy. But we are seeing his coalition fall apart in real time. Some of it is whackos who are more interested in conspiracy theories, anyway. But the price of electricity is up 9 % so far this year, homes are unaffordable. And health care and food will soon be for lots of Trump voters. Sorry. But that shit just ain't gonna fly. Biden was no AMLO. But neither is Trump. It worked for AMLO because he actually knew that working class people are not stupid, and they know when they are better or worse off. Trump didn't get that memo. Like in 2018 and 2020, I think he will reap the consequences of his greed, narcissism, and stupidity. Trump may think he can be King. He actually could be that dangerous, as my Sister In Cock says. So we'll see. But mostly what I see is a very fragile coalition that could not get 50 % of the vote in even one election slowly dying by sinking into its own bullshit.

Rogan is a sad case. I'll say two things that are completely contradictory. I'm a pragmatist. There has been this debate about whether the left needs its own Joe Rogan. I like what Charlemagne The God, who is also a pragmatist, said. "No, we need to go talk to Joe Rogan." Rogan obviously has a broad audience, although I am not part of it. He did back Sanders in 2020. It was a mistake for Harris NOT to make him and White guys like him a priority. White guys like him cost Harris the election. So we should talk to Joe Rogan. That said, and here's the flip flop, I have no idea what Rogan believes in or stands for, if anything. The fact that he could flip from Sanders to Trump says it all. And he of course is not alone. There are millions like him. And this Epstein thing is the kind of thing he seems to feed on. I have never watched his full podcast, for the same reason I'm not a Tik Tok fan. So I am not the best one to judge. But I have watched lots of snippets. He was an Elon fan boy earlier this year. And he had a hard on for how Elon was trying to open the coffins at all these government agencies so we could finally see all the vampires inside. Meanwhile, back in reality, Elon was cutting AIDS funding in Africa. So this is exactly the kind of thing I would expect Rogan would lose faith over. Personally, I would rather believe in the America of Allan Lichtman. His whole keys theory is built on the premise that voters are mostly smart. And they make reasonable judgments based on issues like war and peace and the economy, stupid. I still believe that. Lichtman has been mostly right. In 2024 I think his big mistake is he misjudged the impact of inflation on the economy, stupid. They threw the bums out all over the world. Mexico was a huge exception to the global trend, because AMLO specifically governed FOR the working class. This is from 2020, when Sanders got pushback because Rogan praised him and Sanders touted that: So if Rogan likes the working class it seems like he should be pushing someone like AMLO. Which Bernie kind of is, but too old and too lefty for America. Rogan seems to have no idea what he stands for or what he believes in. What it all boils down to to me is that we need someone like AMLO who can win. And that ain't easy. Sanders came close. But it seemed clear his democratic socialism was a bridge too far. It's not clear yet that Mandani will be able to get elected in a blue city like NYC. The best we can probably hope for is someone more palatable than Sanders emerges in 2028 so that Rogan and guys like him can say, "Yeah, that guys real. That guy stands for something. That's a guy I like." That may sound sexist or racist or homophobic or whatever. But I am with Charlemagne on this, who was a Harris fanboy. In part because she talked to him. Do we want to win, or not?

House Speaker Johnson joins growing number of Republicans pressing Trump administration for more transparency on Epstein case And now the Louisiana pedophile has revealed himself as the Judas that he is. I knew it all along. I looked at that sweet innocent face and thought this is an evil man with something to hide. Pedophile! Judas! Johnson is obviously trying to distract attention from his own pedophilia and evil by parading around as some kind of Christian do gooder. President Trump is trying to restore SAFETY and THE SPIRIT OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST to public life. And now this betrayal? This disloyal worm does not belong in GOD FEARING Louisiana. Not even a shit hole like California. Deport him to a real shit hole like Brussels of El Salvador!

A Political Influencer Could Seriously Win a Seat in Congress The next trend on TikTok: heading to Capitol Hill. Can a dog be elected to Congress? I am thinking this might be a solution to our "barking dog" problem. My Sister In Cock is completely correct that these hard core MAGA people are insane and dangerous. They should be taken as seriously as ............ well .................... raping a child. As the current Epstein MAGA-rhea spell shows. The only point I would add is that the action is always in the reaction, to quote Alinsky. People look at the MAGA-rhea on Epstein and go, Ugh. Americans are now more solidly united around immigration being a GOOD thing than ever. Precisely because Trump is shitting all over the Statue of Liberty. He is shitting all over our trading partners and allies. And survey says this month inflation rose thanks to that. Another broken promise from the cruel rapist liar felon piece of shit. And even Republicans don't like that. So much shit. So many lies. I had another nightmare last night that Donald Trump killed our barking dog - shot him right in the head - to turn him into Trump Steaks to feed hungry Trump voters in red states once the SNAP cuts come down. Would Donald Trump actually do that? He is TACO Don, after all. But why take the risk? I would miss our own special barks either way. But at least if the dog is in Congress, he is probably protected from being turned into Trump Steaks. And we at least get to hear his barking. Perhaps we need to start a campaign.