I'm glad to hear Shapiro is spending his own money to help Trump try to squirm out of legal troubles. I hope he keeps giving and giving until he is as broke as Trump. Keep throwing your money down that rathode, genius.
“There’s far less a demand to see annoying white men put in their place.” Except in my head where this sort of thing is welcomed and encouraged. I think that’s why they’re coming at TikTok, maybe.
Republicans are willing to consider steep cuts to so-called "entitlement" programs like Social Security and Medicare (and women's healthcare), but are unwilling to raise taxes on the entitlements enjoyed by the wealthy. Democrats need to do a better job showing the contrasting hypocrisy of Republican lawmakers.
Shapiro and Walsh also serve the interests of those who have always been enfranchised in America. Sister Souljah represented those who were meant to be its chattel.
Jesse Jackson had been contentious too at the time because of his controversial remarks (especially about Jews) so I am not surprised that Clinton (one of the most shrewd politicians whom has ever existed) was able to parlay this debate into a benefit. Clinton understood these dynamics well too (and of course we all have to keep in mind the moribund state of the Democratic Party and the wide institutional support for conservatism in the dark ages of the 1980s and 1990s). Mondale getting mopped in 1984 I think especially spooked people. And they didn't even need to use Lee Atwater to his full power unlike the horrific 1988 campaign. Jackson lost in both those contests. And of course then as now, conservatism ruled large swathes of land which are empowered by the Senate and Electoral College.
The upshot is that since then the Democrats have demonstrably moved leftward on almost everything, to the point where we are no longer viable in many states. This is also why the Blue Dogs are generally extinct; you just have Manchinenema types who pout and preen for their moment in the spotlight in fucking the party. Ultimately, to keep the Senate portion of the party liberal you are going to have slim majorities because there's so many thinly populated rural conservative and/or unreconstructed states.
There can never be clarion calls for Republicans to tone down their rhetoric. Due to the people whose interests they serve, whatever they say is perfectly fine. And in the end there is always Murc's Law to fall back on.
The cruelty is the point, and they like spoon feeding it with references to ‘Sister Souljah’ in a lame effort to make themselves seem culturally ‘hip’ and ‘relevant.’ And the lazy media platforms their deranged ‘ideologies’ as viable alternatives to actual policies and governance because… both sides. And don’t get me started with Bret Stephens, former contributor to the ultra rabid Wall Street Journal ‘opinion’ pages, now mainstreamed by the ‘liberal’ New York Times. A condescending, insulting, bitter hack who left Twitter because some ‘elitist’ professor called him a ‘metaphorical bedbug.’ He can dish out the cruelty, but god forbid someone call him out on his awfulness with a fairly benign metaphor.
You have to love the idea of a guy who rakes in millions sitting on his ass recording his rancid unsubstantiated opinions to inflame popular opinion suggesting that my father-in-law who spent his working life pumping gas should have to continue to work at that until he dies.
Somehow, the party of the country club elites has recast itself as the champions of the working folks, but you can see that they forgot to put a camo T-shirt on their deep-rooted sense of entitlement.
The Sister Souljah moment sparks pleasant memories of the time GANGSTER RAP threatened Rochester, NY.
Ice-T was riding high on his cover-the-little-ones'-ears hit, "Cop Killer" When he was booked at a local venue, the usual suspects weighed in. Would blood flow in our peaceful community? Would our young people lose respect for the law? We're in danger of losing a whole generation this time!
To my surprise, cooler heads prevailed and the show went on. Mr. Ice more or less agreed not to play the incendiary song. The venue in question was not in Rochester's urban center. It was out by the lake, and was frequented by lots of white suburban kids.
No guns were drawn during the performance, and everyone had a good time. The PO-lice stood around with nothing much to do, but think about how to spend their overtime pay. When it was time for the encore, Ice-T said, "ahh-fuckit" and kicked into "Cop Killer." The audience applauded. The lights went up and everyone filed out. Some may even have stopped to buy T-shirts. The little white kids' moms were waiting in the parking lot, and drove them back to the burbs.
All political stunts. Like that whole NWA at Cobo Hall kerfuffle in '89, all because people hated that Coleman Young was mayor of Detroit and black at the time.
Part of the problem here is Democrats simply do not drive a message home. Trump last week made comments about cutting social security, which prompted Shapiro to come out with "work until you die, I assume everyone's job is as cushy and lucrative as mine is!" It was in the news cycle for about a day, before we all got distracted by Trump's "bloodbath" comments, or as Steve Bannon put it, they "flooded the zone with shit". Why would any GOP moderate have to denounce cutting social security when if you wait a day, it's over?
Now imagine how the Right would react if Biden had said "maybe we need less cops, actually"--EVERY outlet would report on it, and create news if they ran out of it, to keep it in people's consciousness for weeks, highlight a Republican's over the top comments in response ("Greene just said Biden murdered a cop himself, and she has proof!") which would keep the original controversy going, the House would launch hearings addressing "whether Biden's anti-cop policies have increased crime?"
Here we have Trump saying he'd cut social security (before backtracking) and popular (!0 podcaster Shaprio doubling down, which invites a chance to push a public demand that Trump and every other Republican opine on when, exactly, workers should be allowed to retire and should social security be available for them, DEFINITELY putting the public debate on favorable ground for Democrats, and yet....here we are, letting another opportunity wither away because Trump said some dipshit thing again, as he does, every damn day.
Well who controls the news cycle? Republican-owned media. And that same media are also part of a human centipede that feeds talking points directly to Republican politicians. There's never been a strong central organization because also the Democratic coalition is incredibly diverse. Couple that with Democrats running in conservative areas, and it's no wonder most Democrats and Democrat-aligned orgs are freelancing.
Sadly, the truest and most prescient thing Bannon ever said was about the strategy of flooding the zone with shit. That has become the centerpiece not only of GOP/Trumpanista PR, but also policy.
Bannon gave away their prime tactic, one which you'd hope our side could learn to adjust to (e.g., don't take their bait, focus on the issues most damaging and unpopular for Trump and don't lose sight of them, drive the media's news cycle and don't be a passive consumer of media).
Robin DiAngelo is someone I never heard of until reading Mr. Robinson's post. Who knows, by this May, she could be Public Enemy Number One. If not her, then someone else, or some looming threat, hitherto unknown and unremarked.
That's the funny thing here--the vast majority of people--including the vast majority of Democrats--don't know what "Robin DiAngelo" or "DEI" or "CRT" is, because we're not in this right wing scare bubble. It's like in 2009 when Republicans couldn't stop talking about ACORN and Saul Alinsky.
Very good. I loved every word. You should write for Wonkette.
Let me rephrase that as a haiku, because that is a thing we are doing now:
I loved all of this
You should write for Wonkette, SER
They miss good writers
:)
Fuck Ben Shapiro
And the racism he rode in on
I'm glad to hear Shapiro is spending his own money to help Trump try to squirm out of legal troubles. I hope he keeps giving and giving until he is as broke as Trump. Keep throwing your money down that rathode, genius.
“There’s far less a demand to see annoying white men put in their place.” Except in my head where this sort of thing is welcomed and encouraged. I think that’s why they’re coming at TikTok, maybe.
Republicans are willing to consider steep cuts to so-called "entitlement" programs like Social Security and Medicare (and women's healthcare), but are unwilling to raise taxes on the entitlements enjoyed by the wealthy. Democrats need to do a better job showing the contrasting hypocrisy of Republican lawmakers.
Shapiro and Walsh also serve the interests of those who have always been enfranchised in America. Sister Souljah represented those who were meant to be its chattel.
Jesse Jackson had been contentious too at the time because of his controversial remarks (especially about Jews) so I am not surprised that Clinton (one of the most shrewd politicians whom has ever existed) was able to parlay this debate into a benefit. Clinton understood these dynamics well too (and of course we all have to keep in mind the moribund state of the Democratic Party and the wide institutional support for conservatism in the dark ages of the 1980s and 1990s). Mondale getting mopped in 1984 I think especially spooked people. And they didn't even need to use Lee Atwater to his full power unlike the horrific 1988 campaign. Jackson lost in both those contests. And of course then as now, conservatism ruled large swathes of land which are empowered by the Senate and Electoral College.
The upshot is that since then the Democrats have demonstrably moved leftward on almost everything, to the point where we are no longer viable in many states. This is also why the Blue Dogs are generally extinct; you just have Manchinenema types who pout and preen for their moment in the spotlight in fucking the party. Ultimately, to keep the Senate portion of the party liberal you are going to have slim majorities because there's so many thinly populated rural conservative and/or unreconstructed states.
There can never be clarion calls for Republicans to tone down their rhetoric. Due to the people whose interests they serve, whatever they say is perfectly fine. And in the end there is always Murc's Law to fall back on.
"...thinly populated rural conservative and/or unreconstructed..." is spot-on.
The cruelty is the point, and they like spoon feeding it with references to ‘Sister Souljah’ in a lame effort to make themselves seem culturally ‘hip’ and ‘relevant.’ And the lazy media platforms their deranged ‘ideologies’ as viable alternatives to actual policies and governance because… both sides. And don’t get me started with Bret Stephens, former contributor to the ultra rabid Wall Street Journal ‘opinion’ pages, now mainstreamed by the ‘liberal’ New York Times. A condescending, insulting, bitter hack who left Twitter because some ‘elitist’ professor called him a ‘metaphorical bedbug.’ He can dish out the cruelty, but god forbid someone call him out on his awfulness with a fairly benign metaphor.
You have to love the idea of a guy who rakes in millions sitting on his ass recording his rancid unsubstantiated opinions to inflame popular opinion suggesting that my father-in-law who spent his working life pumping gas should have to continue to work at that until he dies.
Somehow, the party of the country club elites has recast itself as the champions of the working folks, but you can see that they forgot to put a camo T-shirt on their deep-rooted sense of entitlement.
The Sister Souljah moment sparks pleasant memories of the time GANGSTER RAP threatened Rochester, NY.
Ice-T was riding high on his cover-the-little-ones'-ears hit, "Cop Killer" When he was booked at a local venue, the usual suspects weighed in. Would blood flow in our peaceful community? Would our young people lose respect for the law? We're in danger of losing a whole generation this time!
To my surprise, cooler heads prevailed and the show went on. Mr. Ice more or less agreed not to play the incendiary song. The venue in question was not in Rochester's urban center. It was out by the lake, and was frequented by lots of white suburban kids.
No guns were drawn during the performance, and everyone had a good time. The PO-lice stood around with nothing much to do, but think about how to spend their overtime pay. When it was time for the encore, Ice-T said, "ahh-fuckit" and kicked into "Cop Killer." The audience applauded. The lights went up and everyone filed out. Some may even have stopped to buy T-shirts. The little white kids' moms were waiting in the parking lot, and drove them back to the burbs.
All political stunts. Like that whole NWA at Cobo Hall kerfuffle in '89, all because people hated that Coleman Young was mayor of Detroit and black at the time.
100%
Part of the problem here is Democrats simply do not drive a message home. Trump last week made comments about cutting social security, which prompted Shapiro to come out with "work until you die, I assume everyone's job is as cushy and lucrative as mine is!" It was in the news cycle for about a day, before we all got distracted by Trump's "bloodbath" comments, or as Steve Bannon put it, they "flooded the zone with shit". Why would any GOP moderate have to denounce cutting social security when if you wait a day, it's over?
Now imagine how the Right would react if Biden had said "maybe we need less cops, actually"--EVERY outlet would report on it, and create news if they ran out of it, to keep it in people's consciousness for weeks, highlight a Republican's over the top comments in response ("Greene just said Biden murdered a cop himself, and she has proof!") which would keep the original controversy going, the House would launch hearings addressing "whether Biden's anti-cop policies have increased crime?"
Here we have Trump saying he'd cut social security (before backtracking) and popular (!0 podcaster Shaprio doubling down, which invites a chance to push a public demand that Trump and every other Republican opine on when, exactly, workers should be allowed to retire and should social security be available for them, DEFINITELY putting the public debate on favorable ground for Democrats, and yet....here we are, letting another opportunity wither away because Trump said some dipshit thing again, as he does, every damn day.
Well who controls the news cycle? Republican-owned media. And that same media are also part of a human centipede that feeds talking points directly to Republican politicians. There's never been a strong central organization because also the Democratic coalition is incredibly diverse. Couple that with Democrats running in conservative areas, and it's no wonder most Democrats and Democrat-aligned orgs are freelancing.
Sadly, the truest and most prescient thing Bannon ever said was about the strategy of flooding the zone with shit. That has become the centerpiece not only of GOP/Trumpanista PR, but also policy.
Bannon gave away their prime tactic, one which you'd hope our side could learn to adjust to (e.g., don't take their bait, focus on the issues most damaging and unpopular for Trump and don't lose sight of them, drive the media's news cycle and don't be a passive consumer of media).
Robin DiAngelo is someone I never heard of until reading Mr. Robinson's post. Who knows, by this May, she could be Public Enemy Number One. If not her, then someone else, or some looming threat, hitherto unknown and unremarked.
That's the funny thing here--the vast majority of people--including the vast majority of Democrats--don't know what "Robin DiAngelo" or "DEI" or "CRT" is, because we're not in this right wing scare bubble. It's like in 2009 when Republicans couldn't stop talking about ACORN and Saul Alinsky.
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