Day: April 7, 2025

Out With The Worthless

I have been saying for many years that I feel that our Congress especially the Dems are controlled not by you but special interests.

I have been bitching about our do-nothing Congress…..they let special interests run the country while their rhetoric sounds logical their actions are reckless.

One of the worse of the lot is Schumer of the Senate….now people are seeing just how worthless this toad has become.

Calls for him to step aside and get out of the way of any meaningful progress….

Dozen of advocacy organizations on Wednesday joined the growing call for U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down from his leadership position after caving to Republicans on a stopgap spending measure last month.

Given GOP control of Congress and the White House, people across the country saw the looming government shutdown as a rare opportunity for Democratic lawmakers to fight against President Donald Trump’s agenda. However, Schumer (D-N.Y.) led 10 caucus members in partnering with Senate Republicans to force through the spending legislation.

Since then, polling has made clear that voters are frustrated with the Democratic Party and Schumer in particular, and want political leaders to challenge the GOP’s agenda, which is primarily passing more tax giveaways for the wealthy and gutting the federal government—an effort led by Trump adviser Elon Musk, the richest person on Earth.

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“Schumer’s inexplicable surrender and support for a dangerous and cruel MAGA spending bill amounted to a complete dereliction of duty and failure of leadership. For this simple reason, Schumer must step down as Senate majority leader immediately,” added Jones, whose group led the letter with Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) and the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD).

https://www.commondreams.org/news/chuck-schumer-trump

The Democratic Party as a whole is NOT progressive regardless f the BS they feed the public they are basically a conservative party….but the one bright spot is the Progressive Caucus within the House.

There is where a challenger to Schumer is emerging….AOC….she has the right stuff in my book but she needs to be more progressive…..she is staring down Schumer in the next election….

A poll released Friday from the progressive think tank Data for Progress has Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez besting Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, also a Democrat, by 19 points in a hypothetical matchup in the 2028 New York primary for a U.S. Senate seat.

According to the poll, which was was first shared exclusively with Politico, 55% of voters said they would cast a ballot for Ocasio-Cortez or leaned toward supporting her, and 36% said they would support Schumer or leaned toward supporting him, with 9% undecided.

The only subgroup that supported Schumer over Ocasio-Cortez were moderates, who favored Schumer 50%-35%, with 15% undecided. Ocasio-Cortez carried all other subgroups with an outright majority, except for voters over the age of 45, 49% of whom said they would support her or leaned toward supporting her.

The poll—while several years out from the actual race—comes in the wake of Schumer’s decision to throw his support behind a Republican-backed spending bill in early March, a move that roiled his own party and prompted calls for him to step aside from his leadership position in the Senate.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-schumer-poll-ny-primary-2028

I hope she keeps this lead and defeats Schumer for the US Senate needs some new blood the blood it has now is tainted ….new progressive blood would do wonders to help change the downward direction the Senate is sliding.

I know many moderate Dems do not like AOC….and just look where the Senate is and the country as a whole under the ‘guidance’ of these so-called moderates….sorry but there is nothing moderate about these garden slugs.

If you want change then make the change and stop pretend that all can work together….that pipe dream died decades go.

I read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Is This The End Of Empathy?

Have we lost the loving feeling?

2025 has illustrated that the incoming administration has lost all empathy for the citizens and the nation as a whole.

Empathy is not sympathy….

Empathy is shown in how much compassion and understanding we can give to another. ….while Sympathy is more of a feeling of pity for another.

Short and simple definitions.

The thugs in the GOP and now the lackeys in the new administration are illustrating the lack on empathy.

The following is an editorial printed in the The Week magazine.

Kindness is so over. Since Donald Trump re-entered the White House, it has become apparent that America is not simply moving past the excesses of progressivism — the compulsory stating of pronouns, the hawking of anti-racism books for babies, the pretending that “Emilia Pérez” is a good movie — but beyond the idea that it’s good to care for others at all.

On social media, people have rejoiced at the slashing of U.S. food aid and medicine for people suffering genocide and famine. “Frankly at this point out of f—s to give about Sudanese babies,” read one post that appeared on my X timeline. Vice President J.D. Vance has invoked medieval Catholic theology to justify the shuttering of borders to asylum seekers, saying we have a moral obligation to prioritize our nearest and dearest over strangers. Never mind that do-gooding parable of the Good Samaritan stuff.

https://theweek.com/politics/the-end-of-empathy

So far the efforts from DOGE is not sitting well with some Americans….

A whopping 49 percent of respondents said they disapproved of the “job that Elon Musk is doing within the federal government,” while only 34 approved. The degree of animosity shouldn’t be understated either, with 41 percent “strongly” disapproving, while only eight percent “somewhat” disapproved.

When asked about Musk shutting down “federal government programs that he decides are unnecessary,” 52 percent of all respondents disapproved, while only 26 percent approved.

But their feelings of approval or disapproval mean nothing to the power mad sycophants.

Americans use to have empathy for their fellow Americans….but those days are gone it is becoming ‘us against them’….and it is having a negative effect on our society….

We need to rediscover our empathy….it is as simple as that.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Take It To The Streets

After about 3 months of the terrorizing of American by Donny/Elmo (Trump/Musk)  the people have had enough and have taken to the streets.

Protests have pooped up all over the US in response to the heavy handed dealings from the Trump administration and done what could be the start of something that would make this old activist heart leap for joy…..protests!

Demonstrators turned out across the country on Saturday, at more than 1,300 more “Hands Off!” rallies held in all 50 states, to protest the actions of President Trump. In Manhattan, the protest covered almost 20 blocks of Fifth Avenue. In the capital, organizers who anticipated 10,000 participants on their permit for the Washington Monument grounds said the crowd was five times that by afternoon. And in smaller places such as York, Pennsylvania, more than 700 people met at the square honoring the Continental Congress, which met there during the Revolutionary War, USA Today reports. The protesters said they were driven by host of causes.

They rallied to support national parks, small business, public education, health care for veterans, abortion rights, and fair elections, per the New York Times. They opposed Trump’s tariffs, oligarchs, fascism, the deportations of legal immigrants, and Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government. In many places, conditions were not ideal for a demonstration. “Pouring rain, 43 degrees, biting wind, and people are still here in Albany in the thousands,” said Ron Marz at the New York State Capitol. In another sort of chill, per NBC News, Musk had responded to a post saying “Democrat billionaires” were funding the protests and calling for demonstrators to be “held legally accountable for the violence and vandalism.” Musk answered, “They will be.”

Organizers wanted the rallies to be the largest against Trump since he began his second term, per the Washington Post. As of late afternoon, all protests were reported to be peaceful, per USA Today, with almost no counterprotesters showing up. Demonstrations also were held in several European cities. In Chicago, Glynn Tipton, 45, told the Times he turned out for his friends. “I’m a generic white guy, so they aren’t coming for me,” he said. “There’s a lot of my friends who are Jewish, trans, in the military or sick, and they’re not doing OK. It’s OK for me to stand out here, so I should for the ones who are afraid.” Events across the US included:

  • Providence, Rhode Island: An estimated 6,000 people met at a high school and marched to a park, accompanied by brass bands.
  • Stuart, Florida: About 200 people stood on Roosevelt Bridge, about an hour north of Mar-a-Lago. “We all should be speaking out,” said Ann Berger, adding: “We should be respectful and listen to each other, but we need to speak the truth. There’s too much fear going on.”
  • Sedona, Arizona: More than 500 demonstrators marched downtown chanting “Deport Musk.”
  • Columbus, Ohio: Hundreds protested at the Statehouse, including Roger Broom, who said he once was a Reagan Republican but said Trump is tearing the nation apart. “It’s just an administration of grievances,” Broom said.
  • Palm Beach Gardens, Florida: Hundreds lined both sides of PGA Drive, a few miles from Trump’s golf course in Jupiter, where the president was attending a tournament, per the AP. “They need to keep their hands off of our Social Security,” said Archer Moran of Port St. Lucie, who then added, “The list of what they need to keep their hands off of is too long.”

It is a small start let’s make it grow!

I rejoice to see that the spirit of protest is still within the American DNA….continue!

In the spirit of these protests a tune from the past….

Just do what must be done!

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”