Trump represents safety and security to the insecure white American majority.
A lot of white liberals don’t understand how Obama’s election shifted the axis among a sizable number of American whites. Centuries of being trafficked, abused, subjugated, and brutally oppressed was supposed to keep someone like Barack Hussein Obama out of the (seat of power) White House. This is the implicit promise of white supremacy.
Most white liberals are still largely racially segregated. You might have a black friend at work, but how often do you talk about issues like race with them? Probably never. That is because black people are not safe around most white people. This fact is what most white Americans refuse to accept about ourselves. It is not safe, for example, for a black person in the workplace to speak out about how they are mistreated, in the same way it’s not safe for women.
After Obama’s election, black people immediately saw a marked difference in attitudes from white people, including more open hostility towards them, especially in the south. I’m a middle class white Houstonian with a whole Trumper family and I definitely clocked it. I heard the most awful, racist things said about President Obama and his family around the dinner table, at weddings and baby showers, even from strangers in line at the grocery store. Obama “didn’t earn it” because why is he in the White House when I’m still in a trailer? His re-election only fueled the bitterness and resentment among whites. We were losing the country and we were not safe in this new world of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Suddenly, we were being asked to “consider the feelings of others”? But even more humiliating, we were getting fired for being racist!?! What? How dare you!
Donald Trump represents white power and white supremacy. The price of eggs can be $20 and they don’t care as long as he is in power. We could be in WWIII, the economy could collapse, they don’t care, as long as he is in (power) The White House they are safe.
Arm yourselves for revolution. He is never leaving the White House. Stop deluding yourselves.
"Tell the real stories of actual people who are going to die because of Elon Musk". In addition to all those brilliantly targeted suggestions how about adding this - 'Saving these lives costs $4.00 a week on a per capita basis. $4.00!'
I think that making the Republicans own the destruction and decline that they promised and promoted was JVL's initial response to the November election. I continue to think that is the best, perhaps only, way to change things in the longer term. Democrats should absolutely NOT give the Republicans ANYTHING. It's astonishing to me how long it takes people to learn. When was the last time the Democrats got credit for compassionate policies, for policies that led to lower unemployment, better health care for more people, for policies that help people all around the world, etc....? Anybody? I can't think of a single instance in the last 10 years - and possibly longer. So, yes, put Schumer in a closet. Forget about deals that might make voters "give credit" to the Dems. It ain't happening. The only way for the MAGA voters to understand is to make them feel the effects of what they voted for. If the Dems want a future, they need to get out of the way and let it happen. That is such a painful conclusion, but I think it is the only way.
Hard to tell what is the hardest to watch. Elon Musk explaining what great things he is doing; or Chuck Schumer leading the fight against Musk. Watch Jon Stewart!
Sad to see the dismantling of USAID. You can stop the support for transgender books and such stuff, but hard to explain away the feeding providing of medical care to the poorest populations around the world.
Proves how tough we are and that we will no longer be suckers and losers.
"A Lifetime of Sundays" is just excellent. Featured Virginia McCaskey, Martha Firestone Ford, Norma Hunt, and Patricia Rooney. All have a Super Boal win except Ford. Let's hope she gets there next year.
So I have a thought, Did China and Iran buy lots of D and M coins? USAID was keeping Chinese influence moderated in Africa since China can't supply the same amount of food and medicine as we can for 3% of the federal budget. Less than most states percentage of sales tax.
JVL - given your position about using pejorative nicknames for Trump (such as using a lowercase "t" and an uppercase "R"), does that extend to Elon and the young cadre of tech bros currently working to dismantle the federal government? If not, I propose we all start using the phenomenal appellation Jon Favreau recently coined: the DOGE bags.
Brilliant plan. I’ve already called my senators and congressmen. I’d like all 538 to see it. The Ds might actually go do it, and the Rs might just think they don’t want to get caught in the headlights. So who should go do the interviews? Tom Hanks? Oprah? Kamala?
Let's bring the Dem's best messenger off the bench: Pete. He's incredibly intelligent, capable of breaking complex issues down into laymen's terms, and has a razor sharp wit. If we need an elected official, Brian Schatz or Jared Moskowitz are great options. State level? I'd like to see Pritzker's chops, given that he's clearly contemplating a run in 2028, and - once he washes off the stink of praising RFK, Jr. - Jared Polis could be an effective spokesman.
I wholeheartedly agree that Pete is the best messenger.
If anybody praised RFK, I doubt that his "stink" is the only thing wrong with him/her. There are too many other talented young and middle-age Democrats out there to waste our time on people who ever, even once, praised or supported any of the clowns in Trump's 1.0 and 2.0 circuses.
Thrown into discoordinated spasm by Trump's continuous MAGA shock treatments and flooding of the zone with lies and outrages, the country's heart is on the verge of total failure.
Congress and the Senate have one last legal option to shock the country back into Constitutional regularity.
I have been reading, interacting, and agreeing with Josh since a few weeks after he started in the fall of 2000. I agree with him here too as far as it goes, but you need to be prepared for Trump to mint the coin or invoke the 14th, all things Dems wouldn't even pretend to entertain in the past.
Make them do it, yes, but be prepared to get nothing out of the exercise. It's also possible he squeezes enough Rs. They've folded much faster this term. Just ask Secretary Gabbard.
This morning I read a story — either Matty Yglasias or Aaron Rupar, I can’t remember which — that reported that the reason Musk’s interns broke into the treasury’s payment system was to help prioritize payments to give Trump leverage over the debt limit negotiations. The idea being that Treasury would continue paying bonds and sympathetic groups, like soldiers, but not pay other things (like make payments to Democratically lead states for Medicaid?). Does that seem plausible? If so, that removes leverage that Dems would have on the debt ceiling, which is about all the legislative leverage they have.
Trump represents safety and security to the insecure white American majority.
A lot of white liberals don’t understand how Obama’s election shifted the axis among a sizable number of American whites. Centuries of being trafficked, abused, subjugated, and brutally oppressed was supposed to keep someone like Barack Hussein Obama out of the (seat of power) White House. This is the implicit promise of white supremacy.
Most white liberals are still largely racially segregated. You might have a black friend at work, but how often do you talk about issues like race with them? Probably never. That is because black people are not safe around most white people. This fact is what most white Americans refuse to accept about ourselves. It is not safe, for example, for a black person in the workplace to speak out about how they are mistreated, in the same way it’s not safe for women.
After Obama’s election, black people immediately saw a marked difference in attitudes from white people, including more open hostility towards them, especially in the south. I’m a middle class white Houstonian with a whole Trumper family and I definitely clocked it. I heard the most awful, racist things said about President Obama and his family around the dinner table, at weddings and baby showers, even from strangers in line at the grocery store. Obama “didn’t earn it” because why is he in the White House when I’m still in a trailer? His re-election only fueled the bitterness and resentment among whites. We were losing the country and we were not safe in this new world of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Suddenly, we were being asked to “consider the feelings of others”? But even more humiliating, we were getting fired for being racist!?! What? How dare you!
Donald Trump represents white power and white supremacy. The price of eggs can be $20 and they don’t care as long as he is in power. We could be in WWIII, the economy could collapse, they don’t care, as long as he is in (power) The White House they are safe.
Arm yourselves for revolution. He is never leaving the White House. Stop deluding yourselves.
I hope you’re sharing with a democratic senator this strategy
"Tell the real stories of actual people who are going to die because of Elon Musk". In addition to all those brilliantly targeted suggestions how about adding this - 'Saving these lives costs $4.00 a week on a per capita basis. $4.00!'
Y'all are getting along ok right?
I think that making the Republicans own the destruction and decline that they promised and promoted was JVL's initial response to the November election. I continue to think that is the best, perhaps only, way to change things in the longer term. Democrats should absolutely NOT give the Republicans ANYTHING. It's astonishing to me how long it takes people to learn. When was the last time the Democrats got credit for compassionate policies, for policies that led to lower unemployment, better health care for more people, for policies that help people all around the world, etc....? Anybody? I can't think of a single instance in the last 10 years - and possibly longer. So, yes, put Schumer in a closet. Forget about deals that might make voters "give credit" to the Dems. It ain't happening. The only way for the MAGA voters to understand is to make them feel the effects of what they voted for. If the Dems want a future, they need to get out of the way and let it happen. That is such a painful conclusion, but I think it is the only way.
Hard to tell what is the hardest to watch. Elon Musk explaining what great things he is doing; or Chuck Schumer leading the fight against Musk. Watch Jon Stewart!
Sad to see the dismantling of USAID. You can stop the support for transgender books and such stuff, but hard to explain away the feeding providing of medical care to the poorest populations around the world.
Proves how tough we are and that we will no longer be suckers and losers.
"A Lifetime of Sundays" is just excellent. Featured Virginia McCaskey, Martha Firestone Ford, Norma Hunt, and Patricia Rooney. All have a Super Boal win except Ford. Let's hope she gets there next year.
So I have a thought, Did China and Iran buy lots of D and M coins? USAID was keeping Chinese influence moderated in Africa since China can't supply the same amount of food and medicine as we can for 3% of the federal budget. Less than most states percentage of sales tax.
JVL - given your position about using pejorative nicknames for Trump (such as using a lowercase "t" and an uppercase "R"), does that extend to Elon and the young cadre of tech bros currently working to dismantle the federal government? If not, I propose we all start using the phenomenal appellation Jon Favreau recently coined: the DOGE bags.
Brilliant plan. I’ve already called my senators and congressmen. I’d like all 538 to see it. The Ds might actually go do it, and the Rs might just think they don’t want to get caught in the headlights. So who should go do the interviews? Tom Hanks? Oprah? Kamala?
Let's bring the Dem's best messenger off the bench: Pete. He's incredibly intelligent, capable of breaking complex issues down into laymen's terms, and has a razor sharp wit. If we need an elected official, Brian Schatz or Jared Moskowitz are great options. State level? I'd like to see Pritzker's chops, given that he's clearly contemplating a run in 2028, and - once he washes off the stink of praising RFK, Jr. - Jared Polis could be an effective spokesman.
I wholeheartedly agree that Pete is the best messenger.
If anybody praised RFK, I doubt that his "stink" is the only thing wrong with him/her. There are too many other talented young and middle-age Democrats out there to waste our time on people who ever, even once, praised or supported any of the clowns in Trump's 1.0 and 2.0 circuses.
JVL,
Thrown into discoordinated spasm by Trump's continuous MAGA shock treatments and flooding of the zone with lies and outrages, the country's heart is on the verge of total failure.
Congress and the Senate have one last legal option to shock the country back into Constitutional regularity.
Democratic Senators and members of Congress:
Boycott Trump's March 15 Joint Session.
Let the nation see clearly what Project 2025 is.
I have been reading, interacting, and agreeing with Josh since a few weeks after he started in the fall of 2000. I agree with him here too as far as it goes, but you need to be prepared for Trump to mint the coin or invoke the 14th, all things Dems wouldn't even pretend to entertain in the past.
Make them do it, yes, but be prepared to get nothing out of the exercise. It's also possible he squeezes enough Rs. They've folded much faster this term. Just ask Secretary Gabbard.
Republicans don’t so this. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-unitary-executive-presidential-power-theory-driving-2nd/story?id=118481290
After telling us for decodes “small government”, “ businessman president”, “free trade”…….
To tell democrats what to do after decades of preaching falsehood because that is what they were told.
Until republicans drop the cult mantras America will never move forward.
JVL, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for the playbook for elected Democrats. I sent it to my Congressman.
I stated posting the hypocritcy regarding Graham and Catholic charities. Rump and Muskrat exempted loyalist, Graham.
That's the point. Negative consequences for everyone who displeases the king. Perfect set-up for rampant corruption.
This morning I read a story — either Matty Yglasias or Aaron Rupar, I can’t remember which — that reported that the reason Musk’s interns broke into the treasury’s payment system was to help prioritize payments to give Trump leverage over the debt limit negotiations. The idea being that Treasury would continue paying bonds and sympathetic groups, like soldiers, but not pay other things (like make payments to Democratically lead states for Medicaid?). Does that seem plausible? If so, that removes leverage that Dems would have on the debt ceiling, which is about all the legislative leverage they have.