“After Council Member Kshama Sawant decided to give up her long-held City Council office,”

… She campaigned in Michigan for Trump, with her stated purpose to “punish” Harris by denying the Democrats the presidency.

It appears she has succeeded.

I hope Sawant supporters everywhere, but especially at the Stranger, will take their appropriate amount of pride in their long enablement of her.

"Our endorsement has never carried more heft and girth. We promise to protect you from the loathsome choices of the Seattle Times Editorial Board in perpetuity. "

Jesus Christ, fuck you all.

@1 you apparently can't count because even if Harris won Michigan she'd still have lost the election. So assuming for the sake of argument Sawant actually had anything to do with the Michigan result it was still irrelevant. Do yourself a favor and get over her.

@3: And, as expected, the very same persons who once described her greatness now say she’s utterly ineffectual at advancing her political agenda.

Thank you for agreeing with her critics; we started saying that exact same thing, a long time ago.

What took you so long?

Kshama Sawant is a horrible person.

We’ve got a lunatic for president, but I guess the purity of the democratic socialist's is intact.

dear kristofarian
[Bernie’s always so Formal],

this is Bernie’s latest
Missive* to Me:

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

First, it was the white working class,
and now it is Latino and
Black workers as well.

While the Democratic leadership
defends the status quo, the
American people are angry
and want change. And
they’re right.

Today, while the very rich are doing
phenomenally well, 60% of Ameri-
cans live paycheck to paycheck
and we have more income
and wealth inequality
than ever before.

Unbelievably, real, inflation-accounted-for
weekly wages for the average American
worker are actually lower now
than they were 50 years ago.

Today, despite an explosion in technology and worker productivity, many young people will have a worse standard of living than their parents.

[marinade in That
for a moment]

And many of them worry that Artificial Intelligence and robotics will make a bad situation even worse.

Today, despite spending far more per capita than other countries, we remain the only wealthy nation not to guarantee health care to all as a human right and we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

We,
alone among
major countries,
cannot even guarantee
paid family and medical leave.

Today, despite strong opposition from a majority of Americans, we continue to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu government’s all out war against the Palestinian people which has led to the horrific humanitarian disaster of mass malnutrition and the starvation of thousands of children.

Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?

[only when it Hits them where it
Counts, Berine – in the
fucking Wallet ~ til
then, then
Nope].

Will
they understand
the pain and political a-
lienation that tens of millions
of Americans are experiencing?

Do they have any ideas
as to how we can take on the
increasingly powerful Oligarchy
which has so much economic and political power?

Probably not.

[Not
Their
Problem].

In the coming weeks and months
those of us concerned about grassroots
democracy and economic justice need to
have some very serious political discussions.

Stay tuned.

--Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

thank Gawd we Never elected
THIS GUY ^ in the 1st fucking
Place, eh? The “D”NC’s
Got it under Control
Tho. Trust Them.

And Welcome Back
To the Whitehouse,
Mister “president.”

will it be a
Schweep!?

*Bernie sent This
to Me TODAY.

can you Believe it?

@4

my
how
Good
your are
at the Cutting

here's another election
nite takeaway from
one of my
Faves

at the Chris Hedges Report

The Politics of Cultural Despair

It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what the Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.

In the end, the election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair over the loss of 30 million jobs in mass layoffs.

Despair over austerity programs and the funneling of wealth upwards into the hands of rapacious oligarchs. Despair over a liberal class that refuses to acknowledge the suffering it orchestrated under neoliberalism or embrace New Deal type programs that will ameliorate this suffering.

Despair over the futile, endless wars, as well as the genocide in Gaza, where generals and politicians are never held accountable. Despair over a democratic system that has been seized by corporate and oligarchic power.

Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party, along with the establishment wing of the Republican Party, which allied itself with Harris, live in their own non-reality-based belief system. Harris, who was anointed by party elites and never received a single primary vote, proudly trumpeted her endorsement by Dick Cheney, a politician who left office with a 13 percent approval rating.

The smug, self-righteous “moral” crusade against Trump stokes the national reality television show that has replaced journalism and politics. It reduces a social, economic and political crisis to the personality of Trump.

It refuses to confront and name the corporate forces responsible for our failed democracy. It allows Democratic politicians to blithely ignore their base - 77 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of independents support an arms embargo against Israel.

The open collusion with corporate oppression and refusal to heed the desires and needs of the electorate neuters the press and Trump critics. These corporate puppets stand for nothing, other than their own advancement.

The lies they tell to working men and women, especially with programs such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), do far more damage than any of the lies uttered by Trump.
--by Chris Hedges; Nov 06, 2024

oodles more of this brlliant, big-pic little essay:
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-cultural-despair

@7: “my
how
Good
your are
at the Cutting”

Thank you! Are you now beginning to understand* how I swiftly cut straight through your nonsense, no matter how much of it you pile up, or from so many sources?

*For only those values of “understand” which can possibly apply to you.

so
Bernie
Sanders
the Independent
JEW from Vermont
whose policies Americans
Adore is nothing but "nonsense"?

oh
wormmy!
how Far you've
fallen. but congrats!
on your trumpfian Victory:

you've
Earned it!

now, kindly,
bugger t
f off.

from Democracy Now:

Robin D. G. Kelley
on Trump’s Election Win:
“We Can’t Keep Relying on the Democratic Party”

We speak with historian Robin D. G. Kelley about the roots of Donald Trump’s election victory and the decline of Democratic support among many of the party’s traditional constituencies.

Kelley says he agrees with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who said Democrats have “abandoned” working-class people. “There was really no program to focus on the actual suffering of working people across the board,” Kelley says of the Harris campaign.

He says the highly individualistic, neoliberal culture of the United States makes it difficult to organize along class lines and reject the appeal of authoritarians like Trump. “Solidarity is what’s missing — the sense that we, as a class, have to protect each other.”

oodles:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/7/robin_dg_kelley?

Or we can just listen
to the Wormtongue.

@10: I once lived in Vermont. Yes, Bernie is a local hero there. Everyone understands he has the right views and does a good job. Here’s a couple of things persons not in Vermont may not understand:

The Democrats choose not to nominate a candidate to oppose him. This is because he tends to caucus with him, but also because if they split the general election vote with him, then Vermont’s REPUBLICAN governor may win the senatorial seat he has long coveted. (Said governor is an old-school Republican, pro-choice and all that, but he would still caucus with the Rs.)

So, local-hero and all-around great guy Bernie continues in the Senate from Vermont, but only because the Vermont DEMOCRATS graciously allow him to do so. There is no guarantee they will continue to do so, and if you want them to continue doing so, you might not want to antagonize them. Just sayin’.

@12

yeah
Wormtongue
you're Always juss sayin'

here's what They're
"just saying" over
to the nyt:

Devastated Democrats Play
the Blame Game, and
Stare at a Dark
Future

In interviews, lawmakers and strategists tried to explain Kamala Harris’s defeat, pointing to misinformation, the Gaza war, a toxic Democratic brand and the party’s approach to transgender issues.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/us/politics/democrats-kamala-harris.html

the top two
Readers’ comments:

The only reasonable response I’ve read here is from Bernie Sanders and yet they keep ignoring him and his points. It’s infuriating to listen to other democrats pretend the issues they care about the most are going to get them elected.
--Josh; Queens, NY

Harris voter here. I really wanted her to win.

But if you lose the senate, house, electoral college, and popular vote, and you think the lesson is that half the country is racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and stupid, then that is the wrong lesson to take away from this election.

Democrats have to seriously look back at themselves and a party as a whole, understanding how important the economy really is to Americans, and the certain bit of moral flexibility which comes into play when people are struggling to afford basic necessities.

It wasn’t Israel and Gaza that lost us the election, but the bank accounts of over half the country living paycheck to paycheck. Being the VP of the country during this time put Harris in a particularly hard position, and the voters are looked for a change.
--Luke; Minnesota

oodles:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/us/politics/democrats-kamala-harris.html#commentsContainer

@13: The higher the turnout, the better the Democrats do. So maybe the lie about how there’s no difference between the two parties needs to be corrected wherever it is heard?

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this "Just In!" :
from Democracy Now!
Breaking the Sound Barrier

Biden
Can Make
Every Lame Duck Day
Count by Stopping the Killing Now

Donald Trump will become President of the United States on Monday, January 20th, 2025. Until that time, though, President Joe Biden remains in the Oval Office.

Biden spoke to his cabinet and staff Thursday in a Rose Garden address: “Now we have 74 days to finish the term, our term. Let’s make every day count. That’s the responsibility we have to the American people.”

There is much Biden can and should do in this “lame duck” period, before disappearing over the horizon in one final trip aboard the presidential helicopter, Marine One (unless he takes the train to Delaware, as he proudly did throughout his Senate career).

He has a narrow window in which to act, and could do significant good, repairing some of his own mistakes and blunting some of what Donald Trump has pledged will begin on Day One.

First and most importantly, Biden should suspend all arms shipments to Israel. Period.

Not one more bomb, not one more bullet. Israel’s mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza is increasingly described as outright, livestreamed genocide.

The Israeli military is now forcing the entire population of the northern quarter of the Gaza Strip to leave for the south.

This follows the release of “The Generals’ Plan,” drafted by retired Israeli military officers, calling for the systematic denial of humanitarian aid in the north, which has been labeled ethnic cleansing.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported this week, “The army has begun the stage of cleansing the northern Strip while it prepares to hold onto the area for a long time to come.”

Israel is using US taxpayer-funded arms to decimate Palestinians in Gaza, in clear contravention of US and international law.

The people of Gaza are trapped, under siege, surrounded by the Israeli army and navy, with armed drones, helicopters and ...

--by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan;

tonnes more:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/7/amygoodman_column_11_07_2024

smokin' Joe's
Legacy can soon go
from the Democratic Spoiler who
Handed it All to eltrumpfster - an RBG-
sorta gambit - to the Man who Slowed bibi

nutnyahoo's
little Genocide
Down, somewhat

it
Ain't
Too Late
quite Yet Joe to
DO the Right Fucking Thing.

@16: Yeah, making the last thirteen months All About Gaza just worked so well for everyone in the United States (and the world), you guys really need to double down on it now.

What would Sawant do?

a shitstain
you are to
tS's pages
Wormtongue.

bugger
off.

@18: The erudition, sophistication, and respect with which you support your (and the Stranger’s) positions never fails to impress.

Please keep up your great work! :-D

"The
Cruelty
IS the Point."

--@Wormtongue

oh and first runner-up:
(re Israeli Genocide)

'There
is no Excuse
for Terrorism.

Fucking
Ever.'

--@also wormmy
lightly paraphrased
& yet 100% Accurate

(see: "tensorna" and its
insidious comment history)

@20: You're the one here who persistently fails to quote yourself saying the things you loudly claim to have said. You might want to demonstrate some ability with your own words, before you start your cliff-face ascent of paraphrasing anyone else's words.

nah. they can
either read my
history or not but
I pity those tasked
with consuming yours

if you're truly
Desperate I spose
I might scare up a few
more reviews of youse, wormmy

your
rebuttals
of which're
Brilliant I am
Certain even tho
I Seldom take the
time to peruse them

[your 'vile pro-
jections' being typ-
ically just too Much]

let me
know perhaps
I'll be forced to set by
this miserable Machine & a little
precipictical distraction might prove Welcome

@22: "nah. they can
either read my or not..."

"they" didn't repeatedly and confidently state you'd written certain things, then repeatedly and utterly fail to provide so much as a single example of your having written those things. That was you, on both ends.

"I pity those tasked
with consuming yours"

You read my comments, even (or especially, as here) when you loudly claim you haven't. So we should pity you, then? (Hey - that may actually be the most accurate comment you've ever posted here!)

Please keep us updated on Biden's upcoming suspension of all arms shipments to Israel.

Period.

Biden spoke to his cabinet and staff Thursday in a Rose Garden address: “Now we have 74 days to finish the term, our term. Let’s make every day count. That’s the responsibility we have to the American people.”

There is much Biden can and should do in this “lame duck” period, before disappearing over the horizon in one final trip aboard the presidential helicopter, Marine One (unless he takes the train to Delaware, as he proudly did throughout his Senate career).

He has a narrow window in which to act, and could do significant good, repairing some of his own mistakes and blunting some of what Donald Trump has pledged will begin on Day One.

First and most importantly, Biden should suspend all arms shipments to Israel. Period.

Not one more bomb, not one more bullet. Israel’s mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza is increasingly described as outright, livestreamed genocide.

The Israeli military is now forcing the entire population of the northern quarter of the Gaza Strip to leave for the south.

This follows the release of “The Generals’ Plan,” drafted by retired Israeli military officers, calling for the systematic denial of humanitarian aid in the north, which has been labeled ethnic cleansing.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported this week, “The army has begun the stage of cleansing the northern Strip while it prepares to hold onto the area for a long time to come.”

Israel is using US taxpayer-funded arms to decimate Palestinians in Gaza, in clear contravention of US and international law.

The people of Gaza are trapped, under siege, surrounded by the Israeli army and navy, with armed drones, helicopters and ...

--by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

tell us again
Wormtongue how
all this Terrorism we're
raining down on Palestine
is totes Justified and a little
Retribution is Good for the Soul.

if I happen to
skim your "Vile Projections"
(thanks & HT, Catalina Val duRay!)
& vomit all over my laptop it'll be mine own fault.

@24: So, did Biden suspend arms shipments to Israel, or not?

my gott
but you're
a Time thief.

pass.