Day: September 30, 2026

“We Are Capitalists”

With the rising tide of DSA and conserv outlets labeling these people as communists the Dems have to try and distance themselves from the label….

I cannot believe that these dimwits took the bait.

Democrats in competitive midterm races are increasingly declaring themselves proud capitalists, worried that Republican accusations of socialism and communism could sway critical swing voters this November, interviews with candidates and a review of campaign materials show. The effort represents an extraordinary moment in US politics, where Democrats who have long operated within a capitalist system as one of the country’s two major parties now feel compelled to emphasize their commitment to a market-based economy on the campaign trail.

dozens of Democrats in tight races are declaring their support for capitalism in social media posts, town halls and TV appearances as President Donald Trump and Republicans intensify efforts to cast them as dangerous radicals bent on turning America into a socialist state. Sixty national, state and local Democratic candidates, including 10 sitting members of Congress, have signed a pledge with a new group, Promise to America, declaring “we are capitalist, not socialist.” “This is the first time in my 50 years in politics that Democrats have had to explicitly declare their support for capitalism,” said Doug Schoen, a veteran party strategist. Trump and his allies have highlighted victories by members of the left-wing Democratic Socialists of America movement and progressive candidates in Democratic primaries to portray the whole party as socialist. “It’s going to be a communist country if they win,” Trump said of the Democrats at a Republican convention in Dallas in September.

Democratic leaders dismiss the characterization as false and designed to distract from the high cost of living, voters’ top concern.

https://www.thestate.com/news/nation-world/national/article317436727.html

When I read this article all I could do was think to myself….”No Shit”!

“We are capitalists”….is there ever any doubt?

Anyone that even considers these slugs as communist are morons….it is that simple.

Once in Congress they cater to the wealthy and gladly accept bribes ….oh my bad…. donations….to further their bank accounts.

Must they state the obvious?

It is more about trying to avoid the negative label of ‘communist’ as the vote draws near….anything they must do to preserve the culture of corruption they will do…..they just want their piece of the special interest pie.

Whatcha think about this ?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

A Crack In The Wall?

As the midterms approach there have been several reports on our Dapper Donny.

With all his antics you would think that Donny’s supporters would eventually realize that he is not working in their best interests.  Each day he, Donny, does or says something that hurts the very supporters that worship the ground he walks on….surely someone will realize they are being duped and duped badly.

Some think his time has run out….(I am not one of them)….

Writing for the outlet on Tuesday morning, columnist Thomas Edsall cited the well-established statistical trends underpinning Trump’s declining support and the growing certainty that the GOP will get wiped out in the midterms. Per a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, his disapproval among voters is more than twice his approval, 66 percent versus just 32 percent, with some other recent polls putting him just south of 30. His support among some of his most crucial demographics, Latinos and independent voters, is also cratering massively.

“Voters, in other words, are showing a growing determination to repudiate the Trump presidency,” Edsall wrote. “Their most direct opportunity to express this determination is electing Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate. At the moment, poll data gives Democrats a strong chance of taking the House and modest but strengthening odds of taking the Senate.”

https://www.alternet.org/trump-approval-luck-running-out/

There are some stories that indicate that the MAGA support may be going the way of the dodo.

After years of unrelenting pressure on us all, there’s now a glimmer of what seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. Bit by bit (albeit not fast enough), the US populace is fitfully and selectively awakening to the problems it caused, or tolerated, or ignored, in welcoming Donald Trump and those who came with him.

Fewer and fewer Americans remain in defiant denial.

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Meanwhile, the hardcore MAGA cult still can’t help itself, can’t reverse course on the most odious characteristics and desires of their leader, so accustomed are they to abasing themselves to his every mad whim. Indeed, the madness at the top continues in ever more dangerous ways — breaking alliances, thrusting up self-monuments, threatening elections, really hurting people.

Trump Supporters Are Beginning to Question What They Enabled

Some conservs are even saying that MAGA is approaching the failed experiment point…..

President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are cratering fast towards a historic milestone, and one that, according to one top conservative analyst, could finally leave MAGA a “failed experiment.”

https://www.alternet.org/sarah-longwell-trump/

Personally I do not see it here in my Red State….the rabid supporter still holds to the misguided BS Donny and his machine have spouted for years.  But that is just here in Mississippi.

Donny seems to get crazier by the week, if not the day, and some are starting to think of a day when Donny takes a powder….With that said there is some belief that Donny may not serve out his full term….

Today the bad thing that feels like it will go on forever—or anyway, for 28 more months—is the presidency of Donald Trump. Is Trump like the national debt, or is he like the Berlin Wall? Trump’s political career has certainly lasted longer than anybody (including me) could have conceived when it began in 2015, and his comeback after the January 6 insurrection was particularly unsettling. But lately I’ve started to consider that our nightmarish political epoch may end sooner than we expect. Even as some worry that Trump will defy the Constitution and run for a third term, I’ve come to doubt that he can finish his second.

My reason for thinking Trump may be like the Berlin Wall is the recent acceleration in Trump’s mental deterioration. Yes, I know that in May Trump passed his Montreal Cognitive Assessment with a score of 30 out of 30 (or anyway that’s what his doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center said). I also know that while that test is said to be pretty good at diagnosing dementia, it isn’t great at detecting mild cognitive impairment. “Mild cognitive impairment” basically means grandpa doesn’t have to check in to an assisted-living facility. It doesn’t mean grandpa should be handed the nuclear codes (which apparently may reside soon inside the Arc de Trump). And mild cognitive impairment can worsen to severe cognitive impairment.

https://newrepublic.com/article/215634/trump-may-not-finish-presidency

I am not buying into this theory…..I think Donny’s ego will not let him walk away even if he is bed ridden ad a drooling shell of his former self.

That is my thoughts….please give me yours.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

“Start Doing Your Damn Job”

We on the so-called Left have been screaming that at the MSM for decades to no avail but now there are others that are trying to get the MSM to actually report the news….

Journalists have always been a fairly morose bunch, and the news they produce reflects that. Communications scholars have found that across many years and countries, coverage of political topics tends to more often be conveyed in a negative or cynical tone rather than a positive one; one study in the mid-2000s found that about half of US, German, Italian, and Austrian campaign coverage conveyed bad news, while as little as 6 percent conveyed good news. By some measures, the situation is deteriorating; a recent study found that the “proportion of headlines denoting anger, fear, disgust and sadness” grew markedly in the US between 2000 and 2019.

Some news consumers have surrendered to the phenomenon and find themselves hooked on “doomscrolling,” in journalist Karen Ho’s memorable term, proceeding between articles asking if the war in Ukraine could be World War III, or whether another world-destabilizing pandemic could be on the way, or if we’ve already passed key climate tipping points. At least some news consumers aren’t too happy about the situation. An international survey from Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism last year found that in almost every country surveyed, trust in media is falling, and more people are saying they’re avoiding news. Why? Because, respondents say, it “has a negative effect on their mood.”

So … why are we like this? Are we journalists just a miserable lot who insist on spreading our neuroses to the rest of the world? Are readers, despite their protestations to the contrary, likelier to click on news that’s negative or dire?

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23596969/bad-news-negativity-bias-media

News consumers should not have to search for hours to find factual news….but we do live in the age of social media and that has crapped all over the news plus the Clinton admin signing a law into being that allowed corporations to own the news.

So I among others scream into the void “Do your damn job”….and wait for the day when news becomes factual again….

There are some that feel that ‘integrity’ should return to the media…..

In the formal rooms of the University Club of Chicago the loudest applause was not reserved for celebrity. It was reserved for refusal.

The refusal to accept an official story merely because it was official and trade editorial independence for access; refusal for leaving wrongdoing concealed because disclosure might end a career and invite prosecution or fracture and upend a life.

The second annual Integrity Media Independent Journalism Awards on Sept. 17 brought journalists, publishers, lawyers, supporters, and whistleblowers into the same room and treated their work not as separate pursuits, but as parts of a shared democratic undertaking against autocracy and authoritarianism.

We attended as members of the wider whistleblower community that the event sought to honor. What stayed with us was not simply the roster of accomplished recipients.

Integrity in Media Is Possible

(Time for a smile here)  That day is not coming any time soon….until then I guess I will continue to scream…(I’m getting tired)….and the void just smiles.

Any thoughts on this?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”