Tag: Political Attitudes

The Continuing Saga Of MTG

I have been watching and writing about the 180 turn by conservative firebrand, Georgia’s MTG….and new over the weekend has come with a bit of surprise.

MTG and Uncle Don have been sniping at each other for about a month and now he, Donny, may soon be rid of the thorn in his butt.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a once-loyal supporter of President Trump who has become a critic, said Friday she is resigning from Congress in January. Greene, in a more than 10-minute video posted online, explained her decision and said she’s “always been despised in Washington, D.C., and just never fit in.” Greene’s resignation followed a public fallout with Trump in recent months, reports the AP, as the congresswoman criticized him for his stance on files related to Jeffrey Epstein, along with foreign policy and health care.
Trump branded her a “traitor” and “wacky” and said he would endorse a challenger against her when she ran for reelection next year.

Greene said her last day would be Jan. 5, 2026. The White House did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment Friday night. Greene had been closely tied to the Republican president since she launched her political career in 2020. In her video, she underscored her longtime loyalty to Trump except on a few issues, and said it was “unfair and wrong” that he attacked her for disagreeing. “Loyalty should be a two-way street and we should be able to vote our conscience and represent our district’s interest, because our job title is literally ‘representative,'” she said.

Greene swept to office at the forefront of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement and swiftly became a lightning rod on Capitol Hill for her often beyond-mainstream views. As she embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory and appeared with white supremacists, Greene was opposed by party leaders but welcomed by Trump. He called her “a real WINNER!” Yet over time she proved a deft legislator, having aligned herself with then-GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, who would go on to become House speaker. She was a trusted voice on the right flank, until McCarthy was ousted in 2023.

More news on this front….https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qx1lenvjo

I will be sorry to see her go for she was the only thing in the GOP that was interesting.

I seldom agreed with her on much but at least she took a stand and it has cost her.

She could have been the voice of reason (I know it is hard to say that) maybe even led the anti-Trump movement….

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Trump acolyte-turned-nemesis who bested him over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, stunned the political establishment again. In what should have been her hour of triumph, the Maga star abruptly announced that she was quitting the House of Representatives.

Everyone seemed surprised but one man was very happy. “I think it’s great news for the country,” Trump told ABC News. “It’s great.”

It was also great news for a president having the worst month of his second term. Trump’s approval rating is in freefall. Democrats romped to victory in elections. Unthinkably, even the Republican party is finding a spine, defying him on the Epstein files, Senate filibuster and congressional redistricting in Indiana.

They know that every day takes Trump a little further away from his epic comeback victory in 2024 and a little closer to the status of a lame duck. Watching the limelight and cameras shift from the Oval Office to his would-be successors may be too much for him to bear.

But Greene’s departure shows all that may be wishful thinking for now. In one timeline, she could have used the Epstein win as the foundation of an anti-Trump resistance in the Republican ranks. The party has spent the past decade demonstrating that cowardice is contagious; perhaps the courage to reassert congressional autonomy would be too.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/marjorie-taylor-greene-anti-trump-republican-analysis

After her ‘come to Jesus’ moment and decided that Donny was not all that she decided to resign…..but why?

Greene resigned for various reasons, but in her lengthy statement, she cited Trump’s recent attacks against her, the recent 43-day government shutdown and the failure of both parties to lower the rising costs of living in America behind her decision to step down.

“I have too much self-respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms,” Greene wrote, in part. “And in turn, be expected to defend the president against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me.”

She continued, “No matter which way the political pendulum swings, Republican or Democrat, nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman. The debt goes higher. Corporate and global interests remain Washington’s sweethearts. American jobs continue to be replaced, whether it’s by illegal labor or legal labor by visas or just shipped overseas. Small businesses continue to be swallowed by big corporations. Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars always fund foreign wars, foreign aid, and foreign interests.”

Forgive me but I am not buying this excuse….there is something more to this situation than we know….but what is it?

I am not saying I disagree with her statement….just why did it take so long to come to that decision?

There is something more afoot with this….could it be a presidential aspiration?

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s surprise decision to leave Congress in January has prompted an obvious question: So what’s next? In her announcement video, the Georgia congresswoman insisted her decision is all about her disillusionment with politics and is not a “4-D chess game,” per the Georgia Recorder. Not everybody is so sure.

  • Time, quoting five sources, reports Greene has told allies she is considering a presidential run in 2028. Two of the unnamed sources say Greene has spoken to them directly about it.
  • It’s way too early to suss out her prospects, but the story suggests she could follow the model of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the last campaign: “a candidate capable of siphoning off votes from the GOP nominee, positioning her to leverage that political capital into a possible role within a future Republican administration.”
  • Greene’s move comes after her very public rift with President Trump, whom she has accused of betraying his base on a range of issues. Though the president publicly disowned Greene and called her “wacky,” he sounded a somewhat different note on Saturday. Trump told NBC News he would “love” to see Greene revive her political career after January, though he added that “it’s not going to be easy for her.” In the meantime, he said, “she’s got to take a little rest.”
  • Some Democrats see a 2028 Greene run as a realistic possibility as a post-Trump Republican party begins to take shape. “If you’d asked me three months ago, I would have said JD Vance is going to be the nominee of the Republican Party, and now, I think, it could be Marjorie Taylor Greene and it could be Marco Rubio and it could be someone we aren’t even talking about,” Rep. Ro Khanna tells the New York Times. “They have gone from a consolidation around Trump to a serious consideration of a post-Trump future.”
  • Vanity Fair was wondering about Greene’s future days before her resignation announcement. Greene was asked directly three times in the interview whether she was planning a 2028 candidacy. She provided indirect answers the first two times, including, “I have never said I was running for president.” Asked the third time, she responded, “Uh, I am not considering running for president. I’m literally trying with every soul in my body to just do this current job.” That will no longer be a concern in two months.

MTG has generated more press  lately than she has over her tenure of hateful politics…..

I still think there is more shoes to fall.

Thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Put An End To Gerrymandering

The hot topic for about a month now has been the off-season gerrymandering by Texas and others are planning this technique to guarantee wins at the ballot box.

The state of Louisiana and their plan is before the Supreme Court as I type….so gerrymandering is back on the news table (for now)….

Can this silliness be stopped?

That is a question that was asked of some leading politicos  (please read the whole article and let us know your thoughts)….

Across the democracy reform movement, a growing debate has emerged over how, if at all, reformers should respond to the escalating gerrymandering battles unfolding in states like Texas, California, and beyond.

Last week, Fix.us convened a provocative discussion thread featuring academics and practitioners, surfacing a wide spectrum of views on this contentious issue.

Given the profound implications for democratic integrity in the United States, The Fulcrum is hosting a curated roundtable to explore the strategic, moral, and civic dimensions of partisan redistricting. We invited leading voices in the reform space to share brief reflections (250 words or fewer) in response to one or more of the following questions:

  • What principles should guide reformers when one party engages in aggressive gerrymandering?
  • Is retaliatory redistricting ever justified in defense of democratic norms?
  • What national reforms could meaningfully end the gerrymandering arms race?
  • And finally, what concluding insight might help illuminate the tensions and possibilities of this moment?

Below are the initial responses we received. Some in direct answer format, others as narrative reflections.

Response from: Joe Leadem, founder of www.thesaveamericaproject.org

Question: What national reforms would meaningfully end the gerrymandering arms race?

Answer: In this country, we are told that we are a “representative” democracy. We are not.

Our elected officials do not really represent voters: they represent themselves, their big funders, and their political parties. This is at the heart of all our problems, including gerrymandering, which has become a go-to strategy for keeping power.

If you agree with this line of thinking, then the solution is to elect real representatives who will do their best to represent citizens. Is that even possible? How might we do it?

(please read on there some interesting thoughts)

https://thefulcrum.us/democracy/gerrymandering-in-the-us-2673957832

My thoughts are more radical and I will present them soon here on IST.

Please if you read the article/interview let us have your thoughts on the political game…..a game that does more damage than it corrects.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo

Is It Too Late?

There is lots of talk on social media (so I am told) that we are losing the democracy that we all care so dearly about….the GOP has worked tirelessly for over 50 years to take the people out of any decision making situations

Now with Donny in charge their true colors are exposed and they can move as quickly as possible before the next election.

The one thing that makes democracy so desirable is….the people….

When the ancient Greeks came up with the concept of democracy, they envisioned a form of government in which the power rested with many, and not just a monarch or some other potentially despotic tyrant.

That’s quite literally what “democracy” means — “rule by the people.”

Of course, “the people” only meant Greek free men. After all, who knows what kind of craziness women, slaves and non-citizens would have come up with if they had been given a say in running ancient Greece.

Therefore, it is a bit unfair to criticize Republicans as “threats to democracy.”

Sure, when viewed through the lens of modern democracies, that label is certainly valid. After all, they are methodically trying to destroy the type of democracy that took more than 200 years to establish and improve in the United States until it was mostly inclusive (with more work to be done all the time).

However, the GOP very much embodies the spirit of the ancient Greeks by constantly trying to limit who gets a say in the government… and it ain’t “the people.” At least not if they vote for stuff Republicans don’t like.

Take Missouri, for example

Last year, voters there emphatically backed Proposition A, a ballot initiative that increased the state’s minimum wage, indexed it to inflation, and required employers to provide paid sick leave.

While these are the kind of policies Republicans like to dismiss as “socialism,” the people in the deep-red state (Donald Trump won it by 18 points in 2024) liked them quite a bit and passed the initiative by a wide margin.

As it turns out, they shouldn’t have bothered, or gotten excited about a minimum wage increase that was going to benefit a quarter of the state’s workers. That’s because Republican legislators in the Missouri General Assembly swiftly passed a bill to reverse the changes.

The GOP Is Working Overtime to Take the People Out of Democracy

Such tactics as gerrymandering….where the party picks its voters not the voters picking the party…..and now we have a full body assault on voting.

So the question now is….is it too late to repair the damage that the GOP and Donny are doing to this country?

Will the voter finally see what many of us have seen coming for many years?

Can this democracy be saved?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Is There A GOP Internal War Brewing?

Little by little the news is that there is trouble brewing within the GOP….some say it is for the soul of the party….there also seems to be cracks forming in the undying support for Donny and his brand stupid.

GOP Townhalls are becoming contentious….the people are staring to fight back against the policies of the party….

Shouts of “Vote him out!” echoed through a packed Nebraska town hall on Monday as Rep. Mike Flood struggled to defend President Trump’s policy and tax bill—and faced an audience ready to challenge every word. About 750 attendees made their dissatisfaction clear during the event at Kimball Hall in Lincoln, descending into heckling and loud boos as the Republican attempted to explain provisions of the so-called “big, beautiful bill,” particularly its changes to health care and Medicaid. As audience members questioned how the Republican could vote to take health care away from Nebraskans, Flood sought to address what he described as misinformation about the bill, per ABC News.

He tried to walk through health care aspects, emphasizing that the bill’s Medicaid changes wouldn’t affect disabled individuals, seniors, pregnant people, or anyone considered vulnerable. A key flashpoint was the bill’s stance on Medicaid coverage for working-age adults. “If you are able to work, and you’re 28 years old and you choose not to work, you don’t get free health care in America. If you are in this country illegally, you do not get free health care in America,” Flood said, drawing a vocal negative reaction.

Discussion turned heated again as tax policy came up. While Flood highlighted provisions like no tax on tips or overtime and pitched the law as a middle-class tax cut, audience members instead called for higher taxes on the wealthy and repeatedly chanted, “Tax the Rich!” Flood pushed back, contending that taxing high earners, as proposed by Democrats, would not fill budget gaps and would hurt job and business growth. But he “was continuously drowned out by the raucous crowd,” per ABC. “How much do the taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?” one attendee asked, per CNN, drawing cheers from the crowd. Another said Flood was complicit in a “fascist machine.”

Well that guy was about as popular as a turd in a punchbowl.

All that does not mean the MAGA idiots will disappear just that is some sort of tug of war going on with the young Republicans…..

Young Republicans are split over the future of the party, with two warring factions seeking to position themselves as the true MAGA warriors ahead of a weekend vote for control of the party’s youth arm.

On Saturday, young party members will converge in Nashville, where they’ll decide between two slates to lead the Young Republican National Federation: Grow YR, led by current YRNF Chair Hayden Padgett, and the insurgent Restore YR campaign, led by New York State Young Republicans Chair Peter Giunta.

The brawl between the two slates is both personal — including interpersonal clashes and squabbles over hotel loyalty points and committee assignments — and ideological, with both sides looking to prove their loyalty to President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. But the fight is also a microcosm of a schism ready to burst in the party at large, which is already delicately trying to chart a course for its post-Trump future.

Restore YR, which is seeking to unseat the current leadership in an effort to “restore trust, opportunity, and unity,” has won the endorsements of hardcore MAGA firebrands like Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), longtime Trump ally and convicted felon Roger Stone, Florida GOP Chair Evan Power, and Turning Point Action Chief Operating Officer Tyler Bowyer, who was one of several “fake electors” in Arizona in 2020.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/02/maga-future-young-republican-national-convention-00488361

I feel it should go further than the ‘young’ Repubs…..thinking conservatives need to redraw the lines of the party…..this MAGA crap is killing the nation and its people.

What do you think should be the focus?

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“lego ergo scribo”

Democrats–Lacking Inspiration

For a couple of months I have been posting on why I think the Dems are nothing but a fart in a hurricane.

They have said that they will change directions to come more in-line for the working masses….and yet I have seen nothing but some banter and a few lame-ass ideas.

What do many party members think?

Many Democrats see their party as weak or ineffective, according to a new poll that finds considerable pessimism within their ranks. Republicans are more complimentary of their party, though a small but significant share describe the GOP as greedy or generally bad. The poll conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in July reveals warning signs for both major parties as the political focus shifts to elections in New Jersey and Virginia this fall and the midterm contests next year, the AP reports

Respondents were asked to share the first word or phrase that came to mind when they thought of the Republican and Democratic parties. Overall, US adults expressed a dim view of both parties, with about 4 in 10 using negative attributes such as dishonest or stupid. But nearly nine months after Republican Donald Trump won a second presidential term, Democrats appear to be harboring more resentment about their party than do Republicans. Democrats were likelier to describe their own party negatively than Republicans. Republicans were about twice as likely to describe their own party positively.

Democrats say: “They’re spineless,” Cathia Krehbiel, 48, of Indianola, Iowa, said of her party’s leaders. “I just feel like there’s so much recently that’s just going abhorrently wrong. And they speak up a little bit and they roll right over.” Overall, roughly one-third of Democrats described their party negatively in the open-ended question. About 15% described it using words like weak, or apathetic, while an additional 10% believe it is broadly ineffective or disorganized. Only about 2 in 10 Democrats described their party positively, with roughly 1 in 10 saying it is empathetic or inclusive. An additional 1 in 10 used more general positive descriptors. Jim Williams, a 78-year-old retiree from Harper Woods, Michigan said he typically supports Democrats but is disappointed with the party and its murky message. He feels much worse about the Republican Party, which he said “has lost it” under Trump’s leadership. “All he does is bully and call names. They’ve got no morals, no ethics. And the more they back him, the less I like them,” the self-described independent, said of Trump.

Spineless pretty much sums it up for me.

But yet Donny’s poll numbers are sliding downward so one would think that Dems numbers would be on the rise, right?

You would think but not so fast….

A greater share of voters view the Democratic Party unfavorably than at any point in the past 35 years of Wall Street Journal polling—63%. The Journal‘s latest poll, conducted this month, found that 33% of respondents hold a favorable view of the party. The other side also is in negative territory, though the results were better, with a majority of voters viewing President Trump unfavorably by a 7-point margin and the Republican Party coming in 11 points under the break-even point. Even when respondents disagree with Trump on issues, they have more faith in the GOP to resolve them in Congress than in Democrats, per the Hill.

Democrats have planned town halls during the House recess to build opposition to Trump, with an eye toward winning big in next year’s midterm elections as they did in his first term. The Journal suggests its poll indicates possible problems with that strategy. More voters identified as Democrats than Republicans at that time. That’s flipped since, though the GOP lead is only 1 percentage point in the new poll. Democrats still have a 3-point advantage when voters are asked if, should the election be held today, how they’d vote in a congressional race. But in 2017, Democrats led on that question by 8 percentage points.

The poll found Trump with an approval rating of 46%; it was 40% at the same point in his first term. A Gallup Poll released last week put Trump at 37%, which is his low point for this year and pushing his worst showing ever at the end of his first term, 34%. On a series of issues, Gallup found the president’s approval ratings in the 30s and 40s, topping out at 42% on dealing with Iran and falling to 29% on the budget.

But yet another poll states a confusing stat….

More Americans now identify with the Democratic Party than with the Republican Party, reversing the trend of the past two years, according to a new Gallup poll. The shift — a common phenomenon following a presidential election — is largely due to political independents reassessing their loyalties.

The Democrats’ renewed advantage also comes despite the fact the party suffers from an all-time low favorability rating among the public. The results are based on quarterly telephone interviews of at least 3,000 U.S. adults. They have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points. Here is a breakdown of the results.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article311549201.html

These types of contradictory statements is why I tell people not to trust polls….they are a momentary snapshot and are not valid next week.

I still have not seen any substantive work done by Dems that would give anyone a vote of confidence in their sincerity to make change.

Do you see anything?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Rise Of The New Confederacy

“The South shall rise again”….has been the war cry of the racist and now it appears that it has happened and all with the help of the Supreme Court, especially John Roberts….

Back in 2011 there was a prediction, a look forward, if you will….

The tactics by the GOP are working the system to return to the 1950s and give racist their wish of a new confederacy…

This is an article from 2011….

The South’s alternative vision of the good society was defeated in the Civil War, and our 20th-century history can be told as a narrative of halting progress toward greater tolerance and equality. The major plot points include regulations on corporations in the early 1900s; women’s suffrage in 1920; a social safety net in the New Deal; the Supreme Court’s rejection of Jim Crow laws in 1954; the civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960s; the gay rights victories since the 1970s.

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For the Confederacy that now dominates the GOP, truth is solid and fixed and divinely embedded in the structure of the universe. Humanity’s responsibility is to accept and believe the truth rather than test ideas against actual experience. The Confederacy’s obsession with ​“originalist” interpretations of the Constitution – a twin of biblical literalism – is the classic example: truth must be eternal, universal.

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The new Confederacy rejects that process wholesale. Its leaders and authorities are the spiritual descendants of the conservative Christians and charismatic radio preachers who broke away from religious modernism in the 1920s and 1930s. For these leaders and their followers, faith justifies – and verifies – itself. You don’t believe an idea because it’s true. It’s true because you believe it.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-confederacy-rising

Now fast forward and to the court….

This mess we find our country in is all Chief Justice John Roberts’s fault. There are many other actors contributing to our current situation, but Roberts has been the most consequential of them. His actions lead to the conclusion that he wants to dismantle the “Second Founding” and return to a Confederate/Jim-Crow-style apartheid system.

Roberts has been working his entire career to undermine the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, which were ratified after the Civil War. These amendments are also known as the Reconstruction Amendments. They are considered a “Second Founding” because they reoriented the Constitution from primarily promoting states’ rights to emphasizing individual rights and federal power in protecting those rights.

In 2013’s 5-4 Shelby County v. Holder decision, Roberts concluded that racism was a thing of the past. Racial discrimination in voting, according to Roberts, simply wasn’t a major problem anymore. This landmark case — by glibly pretending that racism is no longer a factor in elections, while allowing states-sponsored voter suppression and intimidation — reveals Roberts’s own latter-day racism.

When the history of the Trump era is written, John Roberts will be featured as the man who used Trumpism to finally win what southern racists call the “War of Northern Aggression.”

(whowhatwhy.org)

This ought to, if read, should offer up some interesting comments….we shall see.

I Read, I Write, You Know

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This Is Trumpism

For well over a decade there has been a wealth of articles and studies trying to explain Trump and all his biases and hatred…..I have posted most of them for I would like to make sense of this modern day phenom.

Right on cue there is yet another ‘explanation’….

It’s high time commentators stopped trying to shoehorn the American polity into a paradigm that doesn’t fit. Donald Trump’s brand of government is as new and unique as it is volatile and disturbing. Sometimes, history neither repeats nor rhymes. Sometimes, a whole new species bursts onto the scene.

What we’re seeing today with Trump isn’t dictatorship. Dictators control their countries. They don’t rely on the opposition party to pass budgets; they dictate where money is spent. They don’t get bludgeoned every hour in the press; they dominate the media. And they don’t have their key initiatives stymied in the courts; they control the judiciary.

Nor is this Nazism. Nazis don’t make Nazi salutes at rallies and then try (with mixed success) to downsize the government. Nazis make Nazi salutes at rallies and then go kill a bunch of innocent people. Nazis, moreover, don’t just slap tariffs on their neighbors. Nazis invade their neighbors.

This isn’t fascism, either. Fascists enforce a coherent vision of government through a murderous, totalitarian regime. They don’t flail around pursuing incoherent and contradictory policies that get blocked as frequently as they get implemented.

Sure, there are similarities between Trump’s presidency and these historical forms of government. Trump’s rhetoric, for example, is often lifted from the lips of history’s worst tyrants. His abuses of executive power, moreover, often resemble certain dictatorial techniques. But, overall, these political pegs don’t fit into the American hole. Having similarities with something is different from being the same thing. Both the mouse and the elephant have four legs and a tail.

No, what we have in America today is different. It’s new. It’s unprecedented. What we have in America today is Trumpism.

https://thefulcrum.us/donald-trump-leadership-style

I disagree that this a form of leadership….to me his government is a rudderless ship that is precariously close to the rocks of disaster.

On another hand….I personally think that Little Donny is not all there with his decision making capabilities…..the country is slow simmering on collapse and he spends too much time worrying about his golf game….but that aside this a meme going around about dementia.

Donald Trump is dealing with dementia during his second term as president, at least according to psychotherapist and author Dr. John Gartner.

Dr. Gartner has noted numerous symptoms Trump may be suffering from including his inability to “even finishing a sentence,” RadarOnline.com can reveal.

After previously claiming “there is absolutely no doubt” Trump has dementia, Dr. Gartner explained his reasoning to MindSite News in a new interview.

He said: “When we’re diagnosing dementia, what we need to see is a deterioration of someone’s own baseline of functioning. What we see that a lot of people don’t appreciate is that when Donald Trump was younger in the 1980s, he was actually quite articulate. He spoke in polished paragraphs; now he has difficulty even finishing a sentence.

“His thoughts were logical and related: now they’re tangential. He goes off on these ramblings where he is confabulating things – weird things in which he’ll talk about Venezuelans and mental hospitals, and then he’ll talk about sharks and batteries or the late, great Hannibal Lector and Silence of the Lambs.”

https://radaronline.com/p/trump-dementia-obvious-signs-suffering-from-alzheimers/

***Please understand that I am not claiming this is the definitive explanation only that it is being passed around….and I include it as an FYI for my visitors.***

Then we have some of his supporters….I know some that are claiming that they were duped for their vote….all I can do for these people is bust out in raucous laughter…they we told over and over and they chose to disregard the facts and vote for a person that lied to them on ever level.

I guess the old saying ‘Can’t Fix Stupid” is accurate to the nth degree.

Any thoughts you would like to share?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Democrats, The Joke That Just Keeps Giving

It is regular for me to talk down the Dems in Congress and elsewhere….to me they are as useless as tits on a boar.  They have rhetoric and that is about it….there is no fire in their bellies to actually work for the people they pretend to speak for.

Every election we get a plethora of ideas that they say they will fight for and then when the election is over they go back to the silliness of bi-partisanship.

It is not working and yet they hang onto the pipe dream.

So far all they have done is talk….one Dem senator broke the filibuster record….he talk for 25 hours and all he did was set a record nothing has changed since his long boring speech.

Dem loyal are starting to see just how useless the Dems in Congress have become….and the survey shows their disdain for these spineless toads….

Active progressive and Democratic-leaning voters are interested in seeing primary challengers to Democrats who represent the “status quo” and are “failing to meet the moment,” according to a survey from the group Our Revolution, which polled more than 4,100 voters meeting that description between April 18-20.

According to survey results published Wednesday, 92% want primary challenges to status quo Democrats who aren’t generating enough grassroots energy—and 96% support “transforming the party from within,” which Our Revolution defines as electing Democratic challengers who reject corporate political action committee (PAC) money and are “ready to take the fight directly to [President Donald] Trump and his enablers.”

Our Revolution, a progressive political organizing group launched as a continuation of Sen. Bernie Sanders‘ (I-Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign, said in a statement Wednesday that the results reveal a deep frustration with Democratic Party leadership.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/our-revolution-primaries-democrats-david-hogg

Even when the Dem loyal tell them it is time to abandon this moronic centrists BS….they still are stuck in the center where nothing of substance ever gets done.

A survey taken by Harvard’s Center for American Political Studies and Harris between April 9-10 found that 72% of Democratic voters supported politicians like Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), “who are calling on Democrats to adopt a more aggressive stance towards Trump and his administration and ‘fight harder’,” rather than leaders who are willing to “compromise” with President Donald Trump.

Just 28% of Democratic voters said they support a so-called “moderate” approach. Across the political spectrum, 53% of respondents said they favored politicians who are willing to work with Trump—down two percentage points from the Harvard/Harris March survey.

Dems are such monumental losers….but why?

One indication is the youth vote…..they young do not trust Dems to get the things they promise done.

The Dems over the past 20-25 years has lost the support of the working class no matter how much crap they promise they still screw them every time…

The Dem shave their hands full between now and 208 to prove the working class that they have their best interest at heart.

Can they convince them that they will fight for their desires?

The problem is the party is in the hands of the old farts that are nothing but fat cats…..there needs to be a shake up…..and possibly that is on its way….

David Hogg was elected as one of five vice chairs of the Democratic National Committee earlier this year after promising to win back young voters who had drifted to the GOP—but some Democrats are angry about what he has planned. The 25-year-old says a separate group he heads, Leaders We Deserve, will spend $20 million in primary battles in safe Democratic districts to combat a culture of “seniority politics” and elect younger lawmakers who will take on President Trump more effectively.

  • “People say they want change in the Democratic Party, but really they want change so long as it doesn’t potentially endanger their position of power,” Hogg told the New York Times this week. “That’s not actually wanting change. That’s selfishness.” “This is going to anger a lot of people,” he said of the effort, predicting there would be a smear campaign against him.
  • He was right about the anger. Axios spoke to House Democrats who called Hogg’s plan “counterproductive,” saying it would divert money and attention from the party’s effort to retake the House. “What a disappointment from leadership,” said Democratic Rep. Hillary Scholten, who represents a swing seat in Michigan. “I can think of a million better things to do with $20 million right now.”
  • Democratic strategist James Carville, who helped Bill Clinton get elected in 1992, called Hogg’s plan the “most insane thing I ever heard,” Fox News reports. On CNN, he said, “I’m not part of the hip generation. I’m not very au courant. But I actually thought our job was to beat Republicans? How quaint, how quaint of me.” On NewsNation, the 80-year-old called Hogg a “contemptible little twerp” and said he should be sued, the Independent reports.
  • Hogg, who started out in politics as a gun control activist after surviving the 2018 Parkland school shooting, told the Times that the goal is to “make room for a new generation to step up and help make sure that we have the people that are most acutely impacted by a lot of the issues that we are legislating on.” He said age isn’t the only criteria, naming 85-year-old former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and 80-year-old Rep. Jan Schakowsky as two effective older lawmakers who deserve to be re-elected. “More than anything, it is: Do you want to roll over and die, or do you want to fight?” he said. “And too many people look at our party right now and feel like we want to roll over and die.”

I am with Hogg on this….please get rid of the do-nothing old farts and return the party to the people.

We need a firebrand one with guts and vision…..I waited to see how the DNC would react…..and now the wait is over….

The Democratic National Committee is going to force David Hogg to decide: Get out of the primary game or lose his DNC post.

During a member call on Thursday, DNC Chair Ken Martin is expected to announce a proposal to change the party’s rules to mandate all DNC officers stay neutral in all Democratic primaries, according to a person directly familiar with the plan and granted anonymity to describe private discussions. The move comes after Hogg pledged last week to spend millions of dollars funding challenges to “asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats in primaries, igniting a firestorm inside the DNC.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/dnc-gives-david-hogg-an-ultimatum-00307113

Just as I thought….the DNC has no intention of updating their party….they want to stick to the spineless tactics they continue to embrace.

The party needs a transfusion for their blood now is stale, old and tainted and they will do everything to keep it that way…..they remain the impressive losers they have been for 40+ years.

The people of this nation deserve a party that works for them and not the parasites from K Street.

82% want the Democratic Party to stop accepting “Big Money” from billionaires and corporations, 70% said they are not confident Democratic leaders will do what’s needed to stop Trump, and 72% support moving away from a “cautious, centrist approach” in confronting Trump and the far right.

Heed the words of the faithful and stop what you are doing or we will find a better place for our support.

Even Dem governors are calling the party out for their lack of guts….

JB Pritzker gave the keynote address at the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner Sunday night, and the Illinois governor was not pulling punches—against his own party. Instead of listening to their actual constituents, Pritzker said, Democrat lawmakers heed the words of “a bunch of know-nothing political types, … flocking to podcasts and cable news shows to admonish fellow Democrats for not caring enough about the struggles of working families.” Pritzker spoke to an audience of more than 800, the largest the dinner has seen since 2020, NBC News reports. Past presidential hopefuls have been known to attend the dinner, and Pritzker is widely seen as a potential 2028 presidential contender, the AP reports.

“Those same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on our defense of Black people, of trans kids, of immigrants, instead of their own lack of guts and gumption,” the governor, a billionaire heir to the Hyatt fortune, continued. (California Gov. Gavin Newsom, also seen as a 2028 contender, recently swung to the right on trans issues and called the case of wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “distraction” from the issue of Trump’s tariffs, but Pritzker didn’t name names.) Pritzker, who is Jewish, also criticized Trump’s deportation efforts against students who have participated in pro-Palestinian protests. “Stop tearing down the Constitution in the name of my ancestors,” he said, to a standing ovation. Pritzker did not comment on his 2028 prospects, saying in an interview that he has not yet decided on whether to seek a third gubernatorial term in Illinois.

There has been much written about the troubles the GOP has been having with their town halls…..don’t be fooled the Dems are having a similar problem….

A Washington state Democrat came under fire during a town hall after backing a bill that would require voters to prove their citizenship when casting a ballot.

On Thursday, U.S. Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez walked into a town hall attended by hundreds of her constituents in Vancouver and was met with resounding boos.

Voters were upset she’d voted for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act and other pieces of legislation.

The second-term congresswoman struggled to speak over the disturbances during the hour-long event, according to KOIN 6.

Attendees told the outlet they wanted their representative to know they were outraged, even though Gluesenkamp Perez had told them the bill wouldn’t pass in the Senate.

“Americans believe that only US citizens should be determining the outcome of American elections. And any idea that I am standing to disenfranchise people is patently false,” the representative said at the meeting.

Anna Brouns, who lives in the congresswoman’s district, said: “I came here to hear what she has to say. Unfortunately, it always sounds like the same thing.”

She said she wants the representative to be angrier than she is and get more done.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/democrat-booed-washington-state-b2739695.html

It took a UK paper to bring this story to the US…..why is that?

Apparently the party cannot see how pathetic the voters view them for they are too dam,n busy counting all that special interests cash that is thrown at them.

If you have any thoughts please by all means voice them.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

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”

Do They Realize It Is A War?

In this case I am talking about the Dems….I have been watching DC to see just how these people will handle the Trump Admin and so far I am very unimpressed.

Lots of words and such and their actions have been muted. I know they are the minority at this point but at least they could fight for those they pretend to care about…us normal peasants they have ignored for several decades.

Sorry but they to do more than they have so far…they are fighting for the very soul of them nation….and I fear for it’s survival at this time.

After this past disastrous election I asked a question….

Will Democrats Ever Learn?

Two months later the question remains unanswered.

Everyone I know is complaining about the Democrats. They’re weak. They’re divided. They’re letting themselves get steamrolled. And on and on.

In this case, “everyone” is right. Even allowing for some degree of shock at the sheer scope of the onslaught in these first few weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidency, they should have found their sea legs by now. And not for the shallow purpose of “winning the day,” but for a very real one: Millions of Americans have a foot—or a leg—caught in Trump’s ideological bear trap, and they need a political party that will fight this illegal and indiscriminate rampage with everything at its disposal to help people pry themselves loose.

Naturally, we should have realistic expectations about what a minority party can achieve as far as parliamentary maneuvers. But you know what happens as soon as I type a sentence like that? I imagine too many elected congressional Democrats just nodding in agreement and exhaling in relief. The truth is simple: Far too many Democrats don’t want to think of themselves as fighters. This is a self-conception that has some deep historical roots; but far more importantly, it’s a potentially self-fulfilling prophecy of passivity that will have grave consequences for tens of millions of Americans, and for the Constitution and the republic, if they don’t get over this fast and come to terms with the reality they are in.

The historical roots go back to the late 1970s, when this new thing called “movement conservatism” was afoot in the land. Movement conservatism’s intellectual roots go back to the 1950s; but it wasn’t until the 1970s, when the “religious right” began to assume its form, that this movement started electing a critical mass of politicians and having a big impact on the country’s political culture.

https://newrepublic.com/article/191334/democrats-respond-trump-musk-purge

Somewhere there has got to be some balls in the party.

There are those like me that think we need to find some charisma in our Dem leadership….as it is now there is very little….

The Democratic race to succeed President Trump in 2028 could be shaping up to be an outsider’s race. 

Down in the dumps after their devastating loss to Trump — the ultimate outsider — in November, Democrats increasingly are saying they must consider all options as they chart the way forward. That means looking beyond candidates to people who don’t fit the traditional bill, they say. 

Billionaire business mogul Mark Cuban? Let’s take a look.

What about sports commentator Stephen A. Smith? I’m interested, say Democratic consultants and strategists.

Their sharp eyes are also considering politicians who don’t look like politicians. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.)? Definitely a possibility.

“In modern political history, there’s never been a time that’s more favorable for someone not of the system to rise in Democratic politics,” said Joel Payne, a veteran Democratic strategist who added that these potential candidates “have a bigger lane now more than ever.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5175423-democrats-eye-outsider-candidates/

While I agree I fear that the Dems will just another high dollar man to lead.

They have a new leader (DNC) with big words….they have a Progressive Caucus that tries but their numbers limit to what they can do….this is a war then fight like it is….but again they will preserve their place at the table by letting the special interests do their thinking for them.

And that is a sure way to lose the war and a best way to lose a nation.

Which do you want?  A nation in ruins or one that the Constitution is the foundation.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”