Mikey Likes It!: 2024-11-03

Saturday, November 09, 2024

Idiots of the Week -- politician class

First up, Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Manly Barron" from Thursday.

Now Idiots of the Week. Two. Both politicians.

Idiots of the Week. Plural. This is politicians. First up? Colin Allred. Loser. You sold out your beliefs and values and it didn't get you into office. C.I.'s Thursday snapshot covered this:

Kat's "A few thoughts on Colin Allred's loss" went up last night and she notes Mike's coverage of

Mike's in no mood to comment now on Allred. He told Kat she could cover it and he asked me to cover it. Mike believed in Collin and gave of his own time He went to Texas and spent weeks there going all over the state to campaign for Colin.

And then he left.

He left because Allred attacked transgender people.

As we noted here, Ted Cruz's attacks on transgender kids was actually helping Colin, it's what allowed him to rise in the polls. Ted was getting outrage from Republicans over those commercials. They felt kids was offsides. And Colin stood firm and he rose in the polls. He had a real shot at winning.

Then he attacked trans kids because that was his 'weakness' according to experts.

They never know what they're talking about.

Mike, going door to door in West Texas at the time immediately saw the effect as voters began moving away from Allred because he was suddenly just like any other craven politicians who'd say one thing at one time and something else at the other.

Mike spoke to me about it -- I just listened -- and decided to leave Texas because Allred was going to lose now and because he wasn't going to give his time for a little transphobe.

Mike could have written that. Still hasn't. He bit his tongue for the most part and just moved over to Georgia and Florida.

But that's when Allred lost the race.

And it only got worse for him. Now that Cruz had pushed Allred into this position, they could really attack him and Allred was a weak ass who couldn't respond.

If he hadn't embraced transphobia, he could have been attacking Cruz and Governor Gregg Asshole for their new ads. He could have taped his own commercial stating, "Cruz keeps asking me if I know the difference between girls and boys. But I'm not the one showing girls in commercials and claiming that they were born boys when they weren't. Does Ted know the difference between girls and boys?"

You're useless. I had so much admiration for you and bragged about you and even came into your state where for weeks -- on my own, no money from your campaign -- I worked to get out the vote for you. I block walked. I phone banked. I spoke to groups of people over and over. And people were excited -- Democrats and Republicans. He was standing up to Ted Cruz who infamously fled the state of Texas when they had that hard freeze and little to now power. Colin was taking him on and winning. Ted was running anti-trans ads and they were actually helping Colin because even Republicans were offended by the attacks on trans kids. I know it, I was there. And then Colin did his attack on trans kids.

And that broke my heart. I thought he was the real deal. It broke a lot of hearts because interest in him immediately deflated.

And as C.I. noted, Colin could no longer call Ted out on the issue and Ted -- and now Greg Abbott -- were both running ads attacking Colin -- ads with female athletes who were born female. Colin could have ridiculed him over that but he'd collapsed already. His spine had snapped and he collapsed.

I did not attack him. I noted my disagreement and that I'd be leaving Texas. Betty invited me over to work with her in Georgia to finish out the week and then I joined Wally in Florida to work on getting out the vote there.

Colin is an idiot who lost because he caved. Idiot.

Idiot number two? Gromer Jeffers Jr. (THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS) kind-of-sort-of-half-assed-reports:

Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa announced his resignation Friday, days after state Democrats experienced their most devastating election losses in more than a decade.

Democrats had hoped to make strides in their quest to be more competitive in Texas, perhaps turning the state purple — or even blue.

That's not why he announced his resignation. I hate liars. DMN is known for running an 'ad' calling for JFK to be shot dead. That's what that Dallas paper did. And when JFK visited Dallas, he was shot dead. It's a rag and always will be.

Wednesday, Gilberto slit his own throat when he publicly attacked transgender people. See Greg Owen's LGBTQ NATION report for the basics on that. The fall out and call out was intense. As it should be. And we'd already seen the anti-trans Houston Democrat lose and have a hissy fit during the mid-terms. But there was Gilberto trying to scapegoat trans people.

As the outrage increased, Gilberto, on Thursday, issued an apology or what he called an apology.

If he hadn't said what he said? I mean, apologize for what you said. But he didn't and wouldn't. He tries to half-ass but Texas had already had enough of him. For good reason.

Those are the two political idiots of the week.

Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

Friday, November 8, 2024. As the election gets analyzed, are we not supposed to notice that Black women aren't getting a seat at the table?

A lot of opinions flying around. A lot of nonsense going down.

When I was in high school, there was a boy a class ahead of me. Seemed nice enough. But then people began picking on him because he was gay. And he was gay. Not someone who reads gay but isn't. Not a Jon Cryer mistaken for gay but actually gay. And his daily life suddenly became miserable. And if you looked at what was going on, it was obvious -- or it was obvious to me -- that a guy named David, a quarterback, had started and was leading the attack on Charles. And if you paid attention, it should have been obvious that David might not read gay because he didn't fit someone's stereotype but he was gay and had been screwing around with Charles. Fear or whatever drew him deeper into the clost and he now attacked Charles constantly.

I went to David and told him it needed to stop. And to stop now.

He justified picking on Charles as just having fun -- it wasn't fun for Charles.

I told him I knew they'd been having sex and that he could end the abuse of Charles or I could end him.

He didn't think he could be taken down -- call him Trump-like in his stupidity.

But it only took a week and half and I destroyed him.

And I'd do it again.

I have said repeatedly here than I am not a nice person.

I didn't destroy him by outing him. I destroyed him by destroying everything he thought he had -- standing, sex appeal, wealth, go down the list.

And he tried to kill himself-- well he staged a drama I don't think you inject some medicine for cows into yourself if you're really determined to kill yourself.

I didn't -- and don't -- feel bad.

And his attempt to garner sympathy only made him a bigger joke -- and led to others mocking him in the halls with "MOO!" whenever they'd see him.

He was supposed to be all that. Good looking. Sone of a banker blah blah blah.

And he didn't realize that he wasn't untouchable.

Now I bring that up to note, obviously, that Trump's not untouchable and it can be an interesting four years.

But I also bring it up because that's really the first political cause for me. One that required leaving my own bubble and seeing others in need that didn't look like me or weren't like me in some way. Our only bond was that he was hurting and I felt for him.

If you want to count the work I do for autism, that predates that but I had a member of the family who was autistic.

Before Charles, I never knew anyone who was gay. Never even thought about it.

But seeing this nice kid crying every day as he couldn't get down the hall without facing the mockery David had created -- to hide his own sexuality -- that was probably my adult realization of a number of things.

I have a good life today because I have had an enthusiastic following and a good number of those are gay men.

I say all of that to explain that I'm not walking out on them. I'm not silencing myself while they get attacked.

Right now, a large number of us are figuring out where we stand going forward.

The LGBTQ+ community has my support and I will loudly defend them.

Others? Some of you are probably going to be on your own -- because you brought it on yourselves. If some beggar media type gets tossed in jail, I don't know that I care. If you trashed Kamala, I don't know that I care about you.

But that's what I'm going to be figuring out. For me.

And that's what the rest of us are going to have to figure out.

I posted Chris Hayes' video last night or this morning. I like Chris. I don't have a problem with what he said. And I get that people want to feel hopeful.

But I also get "For me."

I can be decided for me. And others can and should decide for themselves.

But MSNBC really isn't recognizing that. Chris would be a great person to do some roundtables with Black women.

When Tabitha does a new video (TABITHA SPEAKS), I'm right there. And I love what she says. And she'll figure out for herself what she wants to do going forward. She doesn't need a White man telling her what to do. To be clear, that's not a reference to Chris Hayes -- whose biggest 'crime' would be trying to give us all hope. And that's why I would argue Chris could do these needed roundtable.

I don't want to talk about Howard Dean -- we hate each other and he tried to throw me under the bus in the first Barack Obama administration. So let's not really focus on his garbage other than to note that in 2008 he stood back while sexism was targeted non-stop at Hillary Clinton. And he was the DNC chair. So right there, grasp that no one needs to hear Howard The Scream Dean.

But there are a number of others that we could talk about. They're making idiotic and stupid analysis and trying to impose it on us.

Let's deal wit the Jill Stein freaks.

They offer the poplar vote that Jill got nationwide and insist that it wouldn't have made a difference to Kamala. But we don't elect by the popular vote. Our president depends upon who won the electoral college. They also want to lie that Jill didn't steal any votes from Kamala.

Despite the many lies Jill told, she always knew that she wasn't going to win. Even she isn't stupid enough to think she would have won.

Her role was not to garner votes and I'll try to come back to a sub-set there but I want to make this point very clear.

Jill got support from Donald Trump and his MAGA attorneys because she was supposed to suppress turnout. No one thought she'd garner votes.

But what she could do was suppress votes.

And that's what she did.

She attacked Kamala from the left. She ripped into her daily.

She and Beggar Media did everything to attack Kamala. (Beggar media, if you're a drive-by, is DEMOCRACY NOW!, THE NATION, THE PROGRESSIVE, IN THESE TIMES, etc. Useless liars who turn their tricks without ever satisfying a customer which is why they get the cash upfront. Gaza Freaks refers not to people defending Palestinians nor to the Palestinians themselves. It refers to the useless idiots who do nothing to actually help the people of Gaza or to end a genocide. If you wanted to end a genocide, you wouldn't have worked so hard to elect Donald Trump.)

Let's do a quick walk through. Will use racist Amy Goodman's DEMOCRACY NOW!

For the sake of this argument, we can make you a man or a woman but we can't make you a Black woman because Black women didn't fall for it.

People in every other grouping did.

So you're Zac and you're 21 and in college and you tuned it to DEMOCRACY NOW! maybe once a week, maybe five days a week. And you don't know Goody Whore's history of how she subverted past elections and how she lied and you don't know all the stunts she's pulled before -- including getting rich by bankrupting PACIFICA RADIO thanks to closet case Leslie Cagan (I believe Leslie's out as a lesbian, I'm referring to her being a Communist yet, at a PACIFICA board meeting refusing to admit that -- this was a PACIFICA board meeting -- not a McCarthy hearing). You think she's smart and caring.

So already, you're an idiot.

But you're watching her show and, from August 1st until October 30th, all you hear is guests and Amy telling you how bad Kamala is. They usually talk up Jill Stein during this and, of course, Amy did that awful soft ball lying interview with Jill.

That was Jill's purpose and role in the 2024 election.

To be held up as something wonderful -- she's not, her own sons didn't vote for her and didn't want her to run -- as opposed to the awful Kamala.

That was to depress turnout -- intentionally.

And it was intentional on the part of Beggar Media from the start but they really dug in as it went along and Ava and I may cover that at THIRD.

So Zac wants to do the right thing, he wants to be a social justice warrior and make the world better. He knows he's not voting for Trump. He'd thought about voting for Kamala.

But day after day, DEMOCRACY NOW! (and THE PROGRESSIVE and IN THESE TIMES and THE NATION) are telling him how awful Kamala is?

Well he can't vote for that.

And this impacted Rosa. She's got an office job that requires she work nine to five. She's got three kids she's raising as a single mother -- so forget PTO. That's gone just on her kids' doctors visits and illnesses. Vote before work -- during early voting or regular voting? She has to drop the kids off. After work? She's got to get to day care or risk paying a penalty for each minute after six o'clock that she's late.

Rosa really wants to keep Trump out of the White House. But the radio programs and the online sites of various pathetic magazines tell her over and over that Kamala's awful.

So you really think Rosa is going to out of her way to try to vote?

No.

This was Jill Stein's role. And that's why these outlets never offered you the truth about Jill. How she makes money every time a bomb drops on Gaza -- due to her stock portfolio. How she's never accomplished anything. How she is selective in her public outrage over what Arab is being bombed. Her defense of Putin and other War Criminals.

They give her a pass on that and pretend like she's smart -- smart people don't lose every race for office they run for. They pretend like she cares -- people who care don't raise over six million dollars for a 2016 recount only to not spend it on that. They don't then say that they'll be donating the millions unused to a charity and then, years later, are still unable to tell you where that money went.

She's a whore and she's a grifter.

And she was protected by Amy Goodman and others because her role was never to win or even to win some votes. She was supposed to be the saint to Kamala's whore because dualities is all most Americans have been trained to handle -- the either/or.

Naomi Wolf is a joke. But it's a real shame she couldn't have waited a few more years to become a joke. Unlike non-feminist Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf -- were her brain functioning -- could have done a blistering take down of the tropes used throughout as the left -- Beggar Media -- worked to destroy Kamala. Naomi Klein is a politically active woman. Too many people mistake that for feminism. It is not feminism and Naomi may have held a laughable chair but she never did anything for feminism. And, in fact, there are interviews she hopes no one ever sees or remembers from before she became a brand where she was knocking feminism and feminists in that post-90s manner.

That was Jill's role, to destroy enthusiasm for Kamala's campaign in order to depress turnout.

And that's why you saw the never ending efforts to kill joy over Kamala's run.

Tabitha has spoken about the attempts to kill joy over and over on her YOUTUBE program.

You won't see her on DEMOCRACY NOW! or platformed elsewhere because no one wants to acknowledge the effort to kill Kamala's campaign on the part of the left.

But we can't move forward without an honest discussion of what went down.

And that's why Black women need to be front and center right now.

Everyone else fell for the propaganda to one degree or another.

If you're Anglo White or Anglo Latina and you didn't, great job. But you were few and far between.

Black women didn't fall for it.

Black women are also a huge constituency for the Democratic Party.

Which is why is is so laughable and horrifying to watch these White men like James Carville and Howard Dean and others go around with their stupidity thinking we need to hear from them.

James Carville. "It's the economy, stupid." Famous for that as he backed Bill Clinton with the neoliberal campaign that was nothing more than a War On The Poor.

So James is back and saying this was an economy election. And it was to a large degree. He then wants to lie and attack various groups -- the Identity Politics rant that Roland Martin and others have rightly called out.

What did you do, James? I know what I did. I realized that the economy was going to be a loser for the Democrats and advocated at the start of 2023 for some form of stimulus. And I was laughed at and had my head patted by various figures in the DNC party structure.

The economy is better. Joe Biden deserves credit for saving the economy (that's not the only thing he deserves credit for). But people weren't feeling it.

A number were remembering that trifle of a stimulus check they got under Trump. Nancy Pelosi is still whining about Trump's signature on it.

And that has no bearing on anything. She destroyed her own reputation on that issue. There was no stimulus for those we called "heroes" during the pandemic. Her House couldn't deliver.

And the prevailing opinion was that Trump wanted to do a second stimulus and Nancy opposed it.

James, you didn't do s**t on any of that and it got back to me that you were mocking me for suggesting this tiny stimulus check.

A check would have been appreciated. A check could have made an impact on American's lives.

But James thought it was nonsense as did other fools.

So don't come to me now and whine about the economy stupid when, STUPID, you were among those who did nothing to mitigate the issue.

Perceptions are not changed overnight. That's why you need to be smart in your demands at any time.

I didn't write here about it because I didn't want to give ammunition to the GOP.

Dems seemed to think that they could educate people on the economy.

You can't educate someone with statements that are contrary to what they experienced.

Yes, Joe saved the economy and those of us who know about the economy realize that.

Most people don't know economics.

And so James' nonsense this week is bulls**t and he just needs to honestly die. Die and take his lies with him.

He's outlived his purpose and he is no use.

People like him are also trying to blame trans people for the election. I think we addressed Allred's nonsense in yesterday's snapshot.

LGBTQ NATION has a good article and maybe I'll try to write about it Saturday.

But, notice no links here, we are suffering. And I've told everyone in the community -- whether they're writing for one of our newsletters or at their own site -- take time for you.

We need to heal.

And so it's not really me throwing all my time away right now. It's me trying to heal.

And that's what so many of us are trying to do right now.

You ignored us during the general election and you ignore us now. If you continue to do so, you're going to have a huge problem because we are the base -- the real base -- the ones who show up election after election.

And we're busy. We're all Rosa. We all have eight million other things that have to be done -- HAVE TO BE DONE -- every day. But we get out and vote every time.

And our thanks for that? You destroy the first Black woman to run for president on a major party.

And you want to act like it didn't happen, you want to gaslight us.

No.

I'm here to speak for me and the community. And we'll chart our way forward as best we can based on what we're able to do.

And that's true for others. Tabitha, Olay, Danielle, so many others. They need to heal and they need to know where they stand in this party and how this party, in 2024, could do what they did to Kamala.

Some of your causes really aren't that important to us.

The nonsense of an official, for example. That's something you worry about after you elect Kamala. You say, hey, we support ____ and want her to remain.

Instead, you nut jobs came up daily with one reason after another not to vote for Kamala, one reason or another to attack her in public.

You didn't want to address her housing plan, you didn't want to address her Medicare plan and a number of you White bitches wrote articles attacking her over Black women's health issues.

She had never spoken of it!

She had never done this or that!

White bitches, heel.

All you did was yet again sport your racism.

ESSENCE had the interview with Kamala addressing that topic. But you're too White to read ESSENCE and that didn't surprise me which is why we reproduced that part of the interview in a snapshot here.

But, hey, in all your Whiteness why should you be required to actually do some work before you penned your columns claiming she never addressed a topic that she had just spoken to ESSENCE about.

You live in a really White world. And that's how you ignore reality.

And you're doing it again with all these White idiots -- include Bernie Sanders on that list, Roland is right -- who keep having conversations with everyone but Black women.

Black don't crack. We've all heard that. Let me expand on it: Black don't crack cameras either.

So what's your excuse for still denying Black women a seat at the table while pretending to explore what went wrong in this election?

There are outlets that deserve praise and we've linked to them throughout the last months. MOTHER JONES gets a B. They played into some of the nonsense but not all of it. Higher grades would go to THE NEW REPUBLIC and RAW STORY. And my apologies to AMERICAN PROSPECT. I didn't know they were still around. Someone with TAP contacted me when I was first calling out THE NATION -- called me, we're friends -- and that's when I found out TAP was still around. After that we did highlight them. My apologies that we didn't highlight them more. I would also give COMMON DREAMS an A. They started out running with the pack. They were the only ones we called out who actually course corrected. I don't expect perfection, I do expect fairness. So praise for COMMON DREAMS.

Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "MAGA Confused." and "Manly Barron" went up last night. The following sites updated:

Thursday, November 07, 2024

Colin Allred, Tim Walz and other disappointments

First up, Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "MAGA Confused." from earlier tonight.

Second Philomena Cuck.

We need some laughs.

Thanks to C.I. and Kat. Let me note this from C.I.'s snapshot:

Kat's "A few thoughts on Colin Allred's loss" went up last night and she notes Mike's coverage of

And then he left.

He left because Allred attacked transgender people.

Then he attacked trans kids because that was his 'weakness' according to experts.

They never know what they're talking about.

Mike spoke to me about it -- I just listened -- and decided to leave Texas because Allred was going to lose now and because he wasn't going to give his time for a little transphobe.

Mike could have written that. Still hasn't. He bit his tongue for the most part and just moved over to Georgia and Florida.

But that's when Allred lost the race.

And it only got worse for him. Now that Cruz had pushed Allred into this position, they could really attack him and Allred was a weak ass who couldn't respond.

Mike could have trashed Colin. But he didn't do that. He even posted an interview or two that Allred did after Mike had left Texas.

I'm not in the mood to write about it or talk about. I told them I was fine with them covering it -- actually, I asked C.I. too -- and that I'd appreciate if they would. Maybe in a week or two, I'll have something to share. But I will note that as angry as I was, I didn't play like a Gaza Freak and try to tank Colin's chances at winning.

Okay, this:

As the election data continues to roll in, a clearer picture emerges of Donald Trump‘s victory and just how broad support for his candidacy was. Not only did Trump win every swing state, he also swept the blue wall and made inroads in previously Democrat-voting districts. One of those was Blue Earth County in Minnesota, where Kamala Harris‘s running mate Tim Walz lived before he became the state’s governor. Walz spent two decades in Blue Earth County, first as a social studies teacher and football coach, then as its Representative in Congress. Despite going blue in 2020, the county tilted Trump in this contest, awarding the president-elect 49.6 percent of the vote to Harris’s 48.3 percent, per The New York Post.

Like most of us, I was willing to go for anyone in place of Biden. I have no regrets about Kamala's performance. I do think that she made a huge mistake in picking Tim Walz. By the debate, that was clear and I wanted to rip him a new one but didn't because we needed to focus on the election and get people to turn out.

The election is over.

Tim Walz?

Didn't feel one way or the other. Didn't want Josh Shapiro to get it because his vision was 'clouded' at best. Progressives seemed to want Shapiro. Rebecca wanted that governor from Kentucky. And Rebecca was right. As he did media appearances after Tim became the nominee, it was obvious that Andy Beshear came across as a leader. As we watched the left beggar outlets like praise Tim and trash Kamala, it became obvious he shouldn't have picked.

After that debate performance, it became obvious he should be kicked off the ticket.

That was miserable. He looked like some crazy villain on a SCOOBY DOO episode. His remarks were incoherent and he was sweating and dazed making him come across a liar. And everyone tried to lie for him and pretend he did a great job. He did an awful job. He was hideous.

All the vp has to do ahead of the election is be a pit bull in the vp debate.

Not Timmy Walz. No, Little Timmy wanted to be liked.

It was stupid and from that moment on, it became more and more difficult not to notice how he was harming the ticket.

He was so bad that I don't think Shapiro could have been worse. But they should have gone with Beshear or a fighter like Gavin Newsom or James Clyburn.

Nonsense:

Two historians have backed the idea that the Democrats could have focused more on the issues Senator Bernie Sanders leaned on when he ran for the party's presidential nomination.

Sanders, who is registered as an independent but caucuses with the Democrats, identifies as a democratic socialist and has been an outspoken critic of centrist Democratic policies, pushing for a more radical shift to the left.

[. . .]

Appearing on CNN, Leah Wright Rigueur, an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, explained why she thinks Bernie Sanders' voice will be an important one in the Democratic Party's upcoming struggle after losing the election to Donald Trump.

Rigueur said, "One of the things that Bernie Sanders has been saying since at least 2014 has been about how the Democratic party, if it wants to keep these coalitions, needs to talk about bread-and-butter issues. It needs to talk about politics."

Rigueur said that it's not that "cultural politics don't matter," but that both areas need to be a part of the Democrats' platform.

The clip was uploaded to X, formerly Twitter, where it went viral receiving 6.5 million views and 70,000 likes.

Historian Moshik Tempkin, author of Warriors, Rebels, & Saints, echoed Rigueur's view,writing on X, "My most disturbing memory from the 2020 primary is when Bernie Sanders won Nevada, California, and every other state with large numbers of Latino voters, and the Democratic Party's response was to spit in their face and tell them that they didn't matter, only South Carolina did."

Historians or historical dumb asses?

1) Bernie didn't win in 2016 nor in 2020.

2) Bernie's craven drop out in 2020 led to so many of his former supporters -- not just Bri Bri -- slam him. That didn't start this year. That started when he dropped out in March of 2020.

3) It wouldn't have mattered one bit. Nothing Kamala did mattered to so-called progressives. They attacked her and they savaged her. She has a housing plan? Not good enough. She's got a home healthcare plan? Not good enough. It didn't matter. Gaza Freaks attacked her and the so-called progressives followed.

4) Mainly she was attacked by racists on the left and 'left.' That's the biggest issue the Democratic Party needs to address -- the rampant racism -- and, yes, I knot that's mainly coming from the freaks on the fringes.

Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

Thursday, November 7, 2024. In the aftermath of Trump being re-elected, some Karens e-mail to explain the real horror is that Black people are expressing their outrage. Keep it all about you, Karens, keep it all about you, every day, every year.

Olayemi Olurin is an important voice. There are a lot of drive-bys to the public account. None are echoed by the private e-mail account for community members. And that probably goes to the fact that community members aren't drive-bys. Community members have been for years now. They get it. It's these drive-bys who happened by that don't get it.

Olay didn't say anything wrong above.

After "Like Natalie Cole said . . . (Ava and C.I.)" went up yesterday, the following posted:

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And the drive-bys whining are insisting this and that. What it boils down to is 'a war on White people.' Whine on you butt-hurt losers. There are at least two Whie people in the above. IHIP is two Whire women, Lawrence O'Donnell is a White man.

Yes, there are a large number of Black people in what was posted yesterday.

If you're so shocked by what's in that videos, stop complaining to me. I don't live in your token world. I've never pretended to and I've never wanted to amplify that. But mainly, grasp that if what the people saying in the above videos leaves you butt hurt, the people speaking are not your problem. They were never your problem.

Your problem was a garbage media which shelted you from reality. Again, I'm talking about the left media. The beggar media. Panhandle Media. If the people that went up yesterday and this morning shocked you, what they were saying, that's an indictment of DEMOCRACY NOW!, THE NATION, IN THESE TIMES, THE PROGRESSIVE, etc.

About half of the butt hurt whiners boring the public account are also whining about what mean things are being said about White people in the videos.

I am responsible for what I say. The attacks you're needing to feel better about yourself aren't coming from me.

If Tabitha, for example, said something in her video that hurt you? Grow the hell up. When an election did not go Marcia's way and it hurt her deeply, she would ask me if she was going too far? I'd tell her that it was her site, that she was right to feel what she was feeling and she should write what was real to her. I didn't get at first that she was asking to see if I was going to critique her or disagree with her? When I got that, I told her no. And I meant it. What she was feeling? People needed to hear. And what Tabitha or anyone else in a video that goes up here says, people need to hear.

The butt-hurt are all pissy.

And that's what happenes when you're stupid and uninformed.

I don't know why you're coming to me thinking I'm going to feel sorry for you.

I get it, your media failed you. I was looking at comments yesterday attacking Juan Gonzalez for noting the very real racism and sexism at play in this election and I thought how very sad. Maybe if Juan had been on more on DEMOCRACY NOW! or if Amy didn't fix her coverage the way she did, you idiots wouldn't be so shocked at reality today.

Tabitha of TABITHA SPEAKS wasn't invited on DEMOCRACY NOW!. THE PROGRESSIVE, THE NATION, IN THESE TIMES, et al? They didn't interview her.

But Tabitha represented many people across the country.

Today's butt-hurt are shocked by her sentiments. You're only shocked because you're media failed you. There were real issues at stake here -- stream Olay's video at the top -- and there were real people who would be left at risk.

But they weren't given seats at the media table -- again, I'm focused on panhandle media, not corporate media. So, butt-hurt, you didn't hear their arguments until now.

One of you, at least, is being educated finally. A White woman who voted for Jill Stein is dismayed by the videos that posted here yesterday and says she would not vote for Jill now. Good. I'm glad you see the damage that was done. I wish you'd seen it before hand. When it could have made a difference.

I get that your media failed you -- the e-mailer notes that she checked out DEMOCRACY NOW! several times a week and was always visiting THE PROGRESSIVE's website.

You were misled. I get it. I also get that, if you voted, you're an adult and you need to take some responsibility for the decisions and choices you make.

In August, September and October (she early voted), you should have noticed what was going on. You should have noticed that THE PROGRESSIVE -- a rag that found a way to sell and promote every Democratic Party presidential nominee in the past -- was now slamming Kamala and had nothing -- not one column -- praising her. You should have noticed that.

Your stupidity was on full display.

Ava and I spoke for months -- July, August, September, October on through November 4th -- to groups and groups of people. Black women got it immediately. We didn't have to bring it up anytime we spoke to Black women. They were already noting the bias. But so did others. So did Latinas, so did White women, so did some White men.

And we weren't just speaking and then dropping the subject. We wrote about it at THIRD and I wrote about it here -- over and over. I called out COMMON DREAMS. To their credit, they did do a course correction. I didn't see that from any other outlet.

The media -- big and small -- runs in packs. So one outlet does it and the others ape the earlier one. So my hope, when calling out COMMON DREAMS and the others, was that they'd take a look at it and address it. COMMON DREAMS is the only one that did

I love COUNTERPUNCH. I've not noted them once since Kamala got in the race.

Why? Because I expected them to do what they do and I knew it wouldn't please me nor would it help voting. I didn't attack for what they did. They were being true to themselves and we'll go back to noting them -- maybe even this Friday.

But the others? THE NATION wasn't doing what it usually does, THE PROGRESSIVE wasn't doing what it usually does, IN THESE . . .

Some of the drive-bys have read one or two things here and think that I'm objecting to criticques and analsysis. No, I'm objecting to left wing outlets working to elect Donald Trump.

THE NATION only survives on big dollar donations and we don't give it to that rag so that they can attack a Black woman or so that they can elect a fascist.

A whiner -- who was one of the writers of THE NATION's editorial against Kamala Harris -- AGAINST -- says that young people need to be heard and blah blah blah.

I'd loved your e-mail. It confirmed everything I suspected about you and made me feel good about the fact that I'd already started the black balling of you and your cohorts. I hope that editorial feels good as you try to get a real job in media. Better stick to beggar media because I've made your name trash in corporate media already.

I have no problem with young writers and we go out of our way to celebrate them here. But you're not a writer, you're an intern and you used THE NATION to trash Kamala. The abolitionist magazine with is long and glorious history (that Katrina has destroyed) to attack Kamala.

You smug little entitled bastards who will turn around and insist upon reparations -- as long it doesn't come out of your pockets -- used an abolitionist magazine to attack a Black woman and promote a racist.

I don't think you've realized how far from grace you've strayed.

The women and men that so shocked you in videos yesterday? They shocked you because you were hearing for the first time what you should have been hearing all along.

But in your media bubble, you couldn't grasp reality.

As beggar media worked day after day to suppress the vote for Kamala, to lie that there was no enthusiasm for her, you sat there and took it.

I don't have sympathy for you. Your choices have harmed the country. And this wasn't a child watching SESAME STREET. You were grown adults who should have been able to see the double standard imposed upon Kamala.

Yesterday, Linda Sewer was on DEMOCRACY NOW! to air more of her stupidity and to do everything but take responsibility. Linda Sewer (and that's the name she's earned) is going around doing speaking gigs with convicted pedophile Scott Ritter.

Grasp that.

Grasp that DEMOCRACY NOW! was not interested in people who were enthusiastic about Kamala Harris. But Linda Sewer, garbage queen, is the guest Amy Goodman wants to bring on.

Let me quote from Betty:

Gaza Freaks. They're not helping the Palestinians but how they try to pretend to speak for them. Like the Mayor of Homophobe Michigan that DEMOCRACY NOW! had on Monday. He couldn't endorse Kamala. He wouldn't. But don't worry, he speaks for the Palestinians!

But . . .

REUTERS reports, "Palestinians, locked in war with Israel for more than a year, expressed fear at Donald Trump's return to the White House, while the leaders of the militant group Hamas and the Palestinian Authority urged him to act for peace."

We warned you. We told you the Gaza Freaks were missing reality. We told you they were harming the Palestinians.

But so many of you refused to listen or were too busy listening to con artist Jill Stein.

What do you know, the Gaza Freaks who appointed themselves the American speakers for Palestinians in Gaza, didn't know what the hell they were talking about.

Big surprise. They never do. It's the same repugnant crowd that never accomplishes anything as they skip from issue to issue based on where the media attention is.

And this is the garbage that Amy Goodman and others platformed.

Olay's an immigrant. You didn't get them on your beggar platforms.

But they're hugely impacted by this vote. Somehow, for all the claims of going to where the silences are, Amy Goodman couldn't be bothered.

She could and did promote Jill Stein. Constantly. She could and did platform attacks on Kamala and we were supposed to be grateful when she brought on the White woman Naomi Klein -- an American despite being born in Canada years after her father fled the US military -- to say 'hold your nose and vote for Kamala.'

Naomi, shut the f**k up. No one needs a deserter's child telling them how to vote in their own country. But we especially don't need your nonsense 'hold your nose' endorsement.

It didn't build enthusiasm and it was stupid beyond belief.

You claim to care about the climate crisis. But, hey, you claimed about Iraq once upon a time too. You left that issue -- woah, you DESERTED that issue. Guess it runs in the family.

This is the woman, please remember, who wrote a column about Barack Obama's 2008 win where she put thoughts into Black people's heads. She could have crossed the street and asked them what they thought. But instead, as though they were animals in a zoo, she observed them from a distance, unable to hear them, but then wrote a column about what they were thinking.

Do you not get how racist that is?

Go read Betty's "Open letter to Naomi Klein."

Across the country, many, many people were excited by Kamala's campaign. But we weren't allowed to be by beggar media. We weren't represented by beggar media. But White Naomi Klein from Canada got a seat at the table, didn't she? Her racist past ignored. Her half-assed endorsement -- hold your nose -- treated as positive Kamala coverage.

It wasn't.

Yesterday, on DEMOCRACY NOW!, they brought on Ralph Nader who wanted to tell the Democrats what they did wrong in his feeble mind.

Over a million and half Iraqis are dead because of Ralph. And those may be the lucky ones. Imagaine being wounded and disabled or birth defects as a result of that war. And he's responsible for that.

But there he was telling us that Kamala did this and she did that. And Amy Goodman never stopped him for one moment -- remember, in 2000 she promoted his campaign non-stop -- to ask him what about the dangers of a Trump presidency or how do you sleep at night knowing how many Iraqis are dead and injured because of you?

Because that is reality. And he won't own it. Just like Naomi Klein will write a racist piece of garbage where she imposes her White thoughts on Black men's brains because she's such a racist that she won't even speak to them -- why bother, she's White Naomi, she knows best, she even knows about what Black men she's not speaking to think. The power of her Whiteness.

And that's what we saw over and over in Beggar Media for the last three months.

That's not reflected by what we saw on the ground. But then beggar media doesn't want to reflect or inform. It wants only to impose. And they'd decided that they didn't want Kamala in the White House.

Go back and read the whines Beggar media produced -- the ones about Kamala not doing this or doing that or needing to do this or needing to do that.

That was never about Kamala. That was about impotent activists wanting to make demands. And when they couldn't get their way, they were fine with tanking the election. They'd rather do that, they'd rather put Donald back into the White House, then help the American people.

Instead of writing your butt-hurt e-mails to me, you need to wake the hell up and to take accountability for what you did. Yes, panhandle media misled you but you're an adult and you're responsible.

Or, be like Ralph Nader, and two decades after Iraq was destroyed because of his actions, pretend otherwise. Lie to yourself like he does.

The Palestinians are screwed. Immigrants are screwed. Black people are screwed. LGBTQ+ people are screwed. Women of all races and sexualities are screwed.

And that's because Beggar Media worked to tank Kamala's campaign and so many of you bought into it. We didn't buy into it here which is why no community member has e-mailed anything as stupid as you butt-hurt drive bys.

Kat's "A few thoughts on Colin Allred's loss" went up last night and she notes Mike's coverage of

And then he left.

He left because Allred attacked transgender people.

Then he attacked trans kids because that was his 'weakness' according to experts.

They never know what they're talking about.

Mike spoke to me about it -- I just listened -- and decided to leave Texas because Allred was going to lose now and because he wasn't going to give his time for a little transphobe.

Mike could have written that. Still hasn't. He bit his tongue for the most part and just moved over to Georgia and Florida.

But that's when Allred lost the race.

And it only got worse for him. Now that Cruz had pushed Allred into this position, they could really attack him and Allred was a weak ass who couldn't respond.

Mike could have trashed Colin. But he didn't do that. He even posted an interview or two that Allred did after Mike had left Texas.

Kamala didn't go back on any position she'd held since becoming the nominee. But beggar media didn't care. They just trashed her nonstop.

That's your problem. They should have been building enthusiasm. Not only did they not do that, they couldn't even treat her fairly.

These voices that have so upset drive-bys? They're voices you should have been hearing all along.

The fact that you didn't is not my problem.

Friday's snapshot wound down with:

I'm tired and I know you're tired. We've all done everything we could. Or we think we have.

None of us like having to justify ourselves. Having to explain ourselves.

Dana Bash tried to pull that trick on Kamala, remember. 'Trump says you're not Black.' Whether it's your race, your gender, your sexuality, your religion, your ethnicity, whatever. We are a nation of people with various possibilities and traits. And we don't often fit the straight, White, hateful model that Donald Trump represents.

But we do usually have friends and lovers and spouses that care about us but may not grasp how much is at stake this election. It can really be tiring to feel that you are always having to explain yourself to other people or to justify yourself. But if you know even one undecided voter or one voter planning on staying at home and sitting this election out, there's one more thing you can do and that's share your own story with that person. Share what Trump back in the White House means for you, how your life will suffer. Try to enlarge just one person's understanding of how much damage Trump can cause to someone they know.

The fact that you didn't hear our stories before the election is not on us. You need to take that up with the media you consume. And your discomfort over certain videos? If that's the most uncomfortable you feel over the next four years, consider yourself lucky. A lot of people are not going to be as fortunate.

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