Carbon market is open for business: Well, Washington’s carbon market has been open, but it’s now bustling. With the Climate Commitment Act intact after a failed repeal effort on the November ballot, prices for carbon allowances have shot up. Polluting companies must reduce their emissions or buy carbon allowances if reduction isn’t in the cards. At the first allowance auction after the election, the state raked in nearly $272 million. According to the Seattle Times, the state sold “5.3 million 2023 and 2024 allowances at $40.26 each and 2.2 million 2027 allowances at $26 each.” An allowance accounts for one metric ton of emissions from a respective year. Polluting should be costly. Reduce your emissions or pay the price before the planet makes us reap all that we’ve sown.
This about sums up the state of things: Donald Trump was named Time’s Person of the Year for 2024. Sigh. I’d seen a lot of people rooting for France’s Gisèle Pelicot for Person of the Year. Pelicot discovered her husband had been drugging her and inviting strangers to rape her for years. Instead of keeping the case and her privacy under wraps, Pelicot made her trial public. She did so to shift the shame from her to her rapists. But how could a woman’s standards-altering bravery triumph when we could heap a convicted rapist in more laurels?
President-elect Donald Trump has been named Time magazine’s “2024 Person of the Year,” the magazine announced Thursday. https://t.co/rbBIbYRzrB pic.twitter.com/41XLmP1BDS
— ABC News (@ABC) December 12, 2024
Biden goes big: On Thursday, Biden commuted the sentences of around 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others of non-violent crimes. The 1,500 commuted sentences were all prisoners who were sent home during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent the spread of the virus and made to serve the rest of their time at home. Republicans in Congress have threatened to send those on home release back to prison.
It’s a deal! Seattle Art Museum’s security guard union reached a deal with the museum on Wednesday after more than two years of negotiating and striking for 12 days. The contract sees wages increase from $21.68 to $23.25 per hour plus 4% wage increases from 2025 through 2027. Yay! Go kiss someone next to a Thaddeus Mosley sculpture.
BREAKING: After 28 months of contract negotiations and a 12 day strike, the Seattle Art Museum and @samvsounion have reached a tentative agreement pic.twitter.com/w2NPcFIayv
— Guy Oron (@GuyOron) December 11, 2024
Sex trafficking sting ensnares assistant principal: Yuck. The Renton Police Department conducted a sting operation in September where they posed as 14- and 15-year-olds and connected with potential offenders on social media. One of the seven men arrested in the sting was Alex Diaz Rios, an assistant principal at Seattle Public Schools’ TOPS K-8 school. SPS placed him on leave when they learned of his charge. Diaz Rios has since resigned.
Hold on to your panniers: There’s a new bike bridge in town, baby. The new bike bridge in Montlake that crosses Highway 520 will open on Saturday. With the bike bridge comes a pedestrian pathway, too, and the 3-acre Montlake lid. Years of construction and congestion in that hellscape of an intersection may finally pay off. There will be opening ceremonies on Saturday at 11 am.
The weather will be wet.
Yeah, okay, buddy: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol defended his decision to declare martial law last week, saying he was trying to “prevent the collapse” of democracy. He said he won’t resign, vowing to “fight to the end.” Critics want Yoon impeached; they say his martial law order was a sign of insurrection.
Shocker: 2024 will likely be the hottest year on record, continuing the trend of every year becoming the hottest year on record.
CEO hit list: The New York Police Department warned US healthcare CEOs about a heightened risk to their lives in the wake of the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s top executive. As suspected killer Luigi Mangione wrote in a notebook seized by police, “What do you do? You wack the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention. It’s targeted, precise, and doesn’t risk innocents.'” The NYPD’s bulletin warned of copycat attacks, citing social media posts highlighting the names of CEOs and their salaries. Additionally, physical “wanted” posters featuring information about different healthcare CEOs have been spotted around New York. Since the killing, corporations have been beefing up security for their top dogs. Critics have suggested that if they wanted to really be safe they’d stop the predatory practices which have enraged the public.
Inbox: ‘Wanted’ posters of healthcare CEOs wheatpasted around lower Manhattan ahead of today’s Goldman Sachs Financial Services conference.
“Those who would steal from us have names, faces, and addresses. Justice will only come from the working class,” per anon communique. pic.twitter.com/vPZCanaPx7
— Talia Jane ❤️🔥 (@taliaotg) December 11, 2024
Overdose deaths are down: Overdose deaths in the United States fell by 17% between July 2023 and July 2024 according to the Centers for Disease Control. White House Domestic Policy Council Advisor Neera Tanden said that “it’s the largest decrease in deaths ever seen in the United States,” according to CBS News. Many moves by the Biden administration have played a role in the decrease such as “making treatment more accessible… cracking down on drug cartels and drug production” and expanding access to naloxone, the medication that reverses opioid overdoses. While this is progress, there will still be around 100,000 overdose deaths this year.
Drugs and CEOs: “I want to experience ego death.” “I want to get my company through a public offering.” “I want to find God.” Read all about the CEOs paying for a guided shroom trip to make them better executives and, maybe, better people. The guy who runs the retreat, a former oil and gas CEO, has rebranded his personal definition of CEO to mean “conscious, empathetic, and open.”
Something for your Thursday: Hey, why don’t you chill out and watch the Grateful Dead Yule Log for an hour or seven?
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“Critics have suggested that if they [greedy “healthcare” industry CEOs] wanted to really be safe they’d stop the predatory practices which have enraged the public.”
nah. it’s
Vastly more
Profitable to just
Surround them with
24/7 Security. besides
when Cruelty is the Point*
where’s the Joy
in seeing people
get Good Outcomes?
nope.
Not in
the Cards.
maybe try
Venezuela?
“2024 will likely be
the hottest year on record,
continuing the trend of every year
becoming the hottest year on record.”
Bart Simpson: this is the
Hottest Summer
of my Life!
Homer: this is the
Coolest Summer of
the Rest of your Life.
like ten or so years ago.
our Comedians get it
Right more Often
than our weath-
ermen (or
women).
*right,
wormmy?
@31, @43: So, how did your repeated calls for elimination of Israel help prevent Trump’s election? How did manic obsession with Gaza — a terrorist-infested flyspeck with no real relevance to American voters — help the Democrats? Do tell.
@49 So you went from posturing as an international law expert to defending the unlawful actions of a rogue state. Beware of whiplash, don’t hurt yourself.
Israel is still occupying since 1967 (and even annexed) Syrian territory (2/3 of the Golan heights), which it doesn’t want to let go against the will of virtually the entire international community of nations so expecting Syria to forget about it is a tall order. Surely an auto-proclaimed Mideast history expert would know that. But do keep on amusing the peanut gallery
@9
Time Person of the Year 2008: Barack Obama
Time Person of the Tear 2012: Barack Obama
Nuf said…
@52 Only a racist POS would resume Gaza to a “terrorist infested flyspeck” while literally condoning on a daily basis the murder of its inhabitants. Your disdain for the American voter is also very apparent as very many do care about the lives of innocents wherever they may be and many have expressed concerned for the people of Gaza so it likely played a significant part in this election. Xina has a 1000 times more ethical fiber than you’ll ever have, which is admittedly not very difficult since you are just a terrible person
@50: In case xina doesn’t see that, I’ll correct the matter by saying that none of that is true. She only debated whether “cis” was a slur or not. No transphobia and she clearly didn’t vote for Trump.
@46 The guy who shot him is also homeless according to some of the reporting.
“I am I am assuming everyone involved is problematic because they were fighting in the street.”
So if you are attacked in the street, would you not defend yourself in the street? So you are asserting the right to defend yourself ceases when you step into the public and if you are attacked in public you just have to take a beating until you are seriously injured or die.
Voters like you would join the attackers of this man in victimizing him a second time. You impose upon him the legal duty to not effectively stop the attack upon himself, until he was seriously injured or dead, by denying him the right to use deadly force against his attacker if attacked in public.
Absent the gun, the guy who was attacked lacks the means to engage in self-defense that rapidly ends the threat to him before he suffers serious injury, suffers serious injury, or dies. That is particularly true given that he is outnumbered and taken to the ground. So yes its a guns are good story. Without that tool, the attackers kill the victim, not the other way around. None of the outcomes here were good, but the outcome we got is less bad than the one that would of occurred without the man having a gun to defend himself.
.
@53: lol, it’s Syria’s war. If the Syrians are tired of losing it, they should sue for peace.
Unfortunately, peace will mean Syria has to abandon its decades-old goal of obliterating Israel. 😄 That’s a pretty ask of the Syrians…imagine NOT wiping out a whole state full of Jews right next door, the mind recoils! 🤣🤣🤣
Something tells me the new governors of Syria are going to struggle with the idea of peace with Israel just as much as the old ones did! 😂😂😂 The militiamen at the Umayyad Mosque are already promising to march on the Aqsa Mosque. Sadly, they’ll have to do so without the benefit of an air force, ha ha ha!
(They’ve also promised to march on the Quba Mosque, so watch out Saudi Arabia! Might want to set up an alliance with Israel sooner than later, ha ha!)
@50: https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2023/06/14/79035827/slog-am-trump-indicted-local-trans-woman-harassed-by-far-right-cormac-mccarthy-died/comments/31
Rich (remember him) closed down the comments. He actually closed the comments, which then spilled into the next day. Her deleted statement/screed was anti trans, just like Raindrop is/was. But you are intimately aware of that, aren’t you?
@35, “The ICC did issue warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for attacking civilians.”
Not according to the former U.S. State Department officials that handled human rights cases in international tribunals for the U.S. that was interviewed on PBS’s Amanpour and Company at length. He stated he had read the case and that the charges related to the warrants were all related to allegations of starvation, not use of force.
If the Prosecutor hasn’t filed and indictment, then wouldn’t that be because they have not factually established a basis to indict? You can’t file a charge unless you have first developed facts to support what you file, unless you want to get run out of court.
You can’t have a warrant without an allegation of an arrestable offense.
@53, Absent a peace treaty that specifies a warring party must give back captured territory, there is no obligation in international law to surrender captured territory.
So Israel is still legally occupying the Golan, which they took in a defensive counter-attack, AFTER Syria ATTACKED THEM, lawfully, until a peace treaty in place where the parties to the treaty specify something different.
Maybe the new government that emerges in Syria, if one emerges, will offer terms that will induce Israel to sign a peace treaty. Those terms may, or may not, involve Syria getting the Golan back. Likely not, since it would be strategic and tactical madness.
@60: Well, we won’t know the contents of the warrants until they are unsealed. The court may do so upon motion by either party or sua sponte. In the meantime, the best source of information about the contents of the warrants is most likely the court’s own press release, which identified two suspected instances of civilian targeting as one of the bases for the warrants. As for your former State Department officials, it’s highly unlikely they have read the warrants either, unless they have joined the court and are spilling its secrets 😉 MOST of the suspected crimes relate to starvation, but it is not accurate to say that direct targeting of civilians is off the table.
As for the absence of an indictment, that is a normal and unsurprising feature of ICC prosecutions. Your instincts as an American are steering you wrong here. The ICC is an inquisitorial court, not an adversarial court like you are used to in America. The court itself participates in the investigation of possible crimes. That is the stage we are at now. We will learn the results of the court’s investigation as part of the Article 61 hearing, when the charges will be unveiled alongside the evidence to support “substantial grounds to believe that the person charged committed the crime.” (Actually, if you want to be pedantic, we will learn the charges shortly in advance of the Article 61 hearing, per Rule 121(3)).
@55: Gaza is physically twice the size of Seattle, hence “flyspeck” on the global scale. It has spent the past year being known primarily as a haven for an armed gang, which had abducted civilians out of a neighboring country, and held them (and/or killed them) there. Hence, “terrorist-infested.”
See? My description neither mentioned nor implied any race, ethnicity, etc. at all. You added that yourself, presumably because you lack any valid basis for objecting to my description, and partly because you regard name-calling as the most classy of the (very, very) few argumentative options available to you.
“…Gaza so it likely played a significant part in this election.”
While I have it on good authority that “Gaza Isn’t Driving Votes,” if you want to take responsibility for another four years of Trump, go right ahead; I certainly won’t try to stop you.
xina has repeatedly and explicitly called for the elimination of Israel. I’m guessing you secretly admire her for saying the quiet part out loud?
@’avaragebob”
you cannot
shame the shameless
just like you cannot shame a neocon
in one eye and
right back out
the other one
cuz the Cruelty
IS the whole
fucking
Point.
a short conversation
from Kurt Russell’s
‘Tombstone,’ one
of thee Best of
All Westerns:
Wyatt: “What makes a man like Ringo, Doc?
What makes him do the things he does?”
Doc: “A man
like Ringo has got
a great big hole, right
in the middle of him. He
can never kill enough, or steal
enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.”
Wyatt: “What does he need?”
Doc: “Revenge.”
Wyatt: “For what?”
Doc: “Bein’ born.”
@52
so how did
your Endorsement
of Genocide pan out?
did you get the donold
Elected? talk is, he Won.
congrats.
@57, https://law.justia.com/cases/washington/supreme-court/2003/72910-7-1.html
The State Supreme Court, that voters elect, found when Renaldo Redmond was attacked in a public school parking lot where he had a legal right to be, “the jury should be instructed that the law does not require a person to retreat when he or she is assaulted in a place where he or she has a right to be.”
So the right to self-defense does not end in public. The State Supreme Court does not even require retreat when attacked in public. A democratically driven right via the way an elected legislature has written the law, and the way our elected courts have interpreted them.
57,Not sure how many times you need to hear this but I think the presence of guns on both sides of this altercation exacerbated the problem and have negatively impacted the lives of everyone involved. American gun culture is a blight on our society that makes everyone less safe. I understand that you disagree and I’m ok with that. I don’t need to argue endlessly about it.
@64: According to Bernie, I have not endorsed genocide. Please refer any such questions to him.
“Israel is still legally occupying the Golan”
False. Respecting the territorial integrity of any state is basic international law as mandated by the UN charter.. UN resolution 242 also told Israel to withdraw from all territories occupied in 1967.
this said I have many other things to do before correcting the litany of false statements uttered by CompletelyBlind
@68: lol, the resolution also instructed the Arab states to recognize Israel’s right to exist. 😉
Egypt and Jordan both did and they got their territories back. Syria never did, so they don’t get to go crying about their territory now, ha ha ha!
It’s like I told you at @58. Syria can quit anytime they get tired of losing. They just gotta leave that pesky little Jewish state alone, ha ha! It sounds like such a small thing, but I guess for some people it’s really, really hard! 😉
@50 I most certainly did not vote for Trump and my stance re: trans women is that feminists are not trans women (or men)’s problem. Feminists are not putting anti-trans legislation in place. Feminists are not murdering trans people. Feminists simply believe that women, born women, who identify as women, have the right to call themselves women and pregnant women and lactating women and to fight for the rights of girls and women and none of that is anti-trans. Thanks for playing.
Demanding that Israel stop committing genocide and that the United States stop arming and funding said genocide and that Israel is not a state because it exists on stolen land where Palestinian people already existed when Israel was “gifted” by Britain (who had no right to gift it) has nothing to do with Trump getting elected.
I am still 100% against the genocide and all of the hundreds of billions of AMERICAN TAXPAYER DOLLARS used to carry it out. We are not the United States of Israel. If the United States did not arm and fund Israel, Israel would not be able to eradicate everyone around them. AIPAC is an illegal organization buying our government. Israel’s lobbying PAC should be a foreign entity, not an American one.
Israel selling off Palestinian land in illegal settlement sales in the United States (see New Jersey and elsewhere) is serious bullshit.
But hey, why give a shit about genocide, am I right?
Why give a shit that hundreds of billions of AMERICAN TAXPAYER DOLLARS that could be used the help natural disaster victims in the United States, that could house the homeless in the United States, that could feed the hungry in the United States, that could do any number of things for the people IN THE UNITED STATES PAYING THE TAXES is being given to Israel to slaughter and starve millions of people, am I right?
Fuck you.
@56 thanks you.
Xina: you are a transphobe and an anti-semite. Try as hard as you like to rewrite history with your unhinged word salads.
It seems old Rich did you favor by deleting all “said screeds”. I guess it’s just a case of “she said, they said” now.
@70: “Feminists simply believe that women, born women, who identify as women, have the right to call themselves women…”
Do persons identified at birth as male have the right to call themselves women?
@73: Xina is what you get when progressives forget to sanitizetheir bigotry 😂
@73 — the Patriarchy
Appreciates you as do
bibi and his fellow War
Criminals. whatever you
can do to further unbend the
moral arc of the Universe the fuck
Away from Justice will be Appreciated by
your fellow pro-Genociders, Neolibs and Cons
gathered here to
usher in the
Demise
of tS.
whoa the trolls are busy today.
yes a person born male who is trans and identifies as a woman can call themselves a woman.
why do trans people insist on erasing girls and women by demanding EVERYONE call themselves a “pregnant person,” etc.?
girls and women have already been erased for centuries and they don’t need to be erased by trans people. girls and women born with vaginas and who are female at birth have a right to exist as girls and women and need not be told that referring to themselves as such is transphobic.
TERF is a slur. feminists are not responsible for the problems trans people are facing. just like girls and women, the biggest threat to trans people are cis heterosexual males. but keep on with your bullshit.
and it’s fucking hilarious how anyone believes anything that is said in the SLOG comment section affects anything or anyone outside of this echo chamber. i never asked for any of my comments to be erased. how would you even know if they were?
i am firmly anti-zionist and i stand with all jewish people who are also anti-zionist. the largest number of zionists in the world are CHRISTIANS. that’s fucking fact.
i’m going to go enjoy my weekend now. buh-bye.
@77: “i am firmly anti-zionist”
Anti-zionists are bad people. 😃
@77: Thank you for answering my question. I’m still unclear as to whether you allow “feminists” to advocate for the rights of trans women or not. Going on a multi-paragraph rant about the supposed perfidy of trans people didn’t do much to rehabilitate your reputation here on trans’ issues, though.
“i never asked for any of my comments to be erased. how would you even know if they were?”
Um, if you go to the URL @59, you can read commenters discussing the erasure of one of your comments, and the Stranger then abruptly closing the thread in which you had made your comment. One of those commenters describes your deleted comment as having consisted of “… a list of TERF talking points.”
I also find it really, really hard to believe that you had a comment deleted, and yet you neither noticed nor cared.
Have a nice weekend.
@78 sure. what’s
Wrong with a little
Massacre cum Land
Grab cum War Crimes?
Nothing! and you
pro-Genociders
are Marvelous
role models
for future
Fascists.
🛴
🛂
🛑!
🚍
thumpf
thumpf
🆘
🚓
🚑
🚔
🎄
👍
@79
“I
also
find it
really, really
hard to believe
that you had a com-
ment deleted, and yet
you neither noticed nor cared.”
–@our Master
Projectionist, pro-
Jecting, Masterfully.
well
done.
p.s. so
Sorry re
your wee
sockbott 🛴.
@80: I’ve never had a Slog comment deleted, so I’m not exactly sure how my statement about xina’s deleted transphobic comment is my “projection.” I’m guessing you just like to accuse me of projection. (Perhaps your long-expressed desire to have all of my comments deleted has caused you to engage in projection?)
You either didn’t notice — or have decided to ignore — that xina’s comments in this thread didn’t actually provide any support for trans’ persons’ rights. That puts your hyperbolic reaction to @73 into a very interesting light.
@80
word on the
Street is🛴Pulled
thru somehow — some
chabotts’re Indestructible
tho may need Reprogramming
we can only Hope.
🔕🔁🔄😥🤬👻⛷
@81 — weak sauce but
perhaps you place more
Value on your words be-
ing indelible than she
your little
“Gift” for
Invective
being so
innately
fatuous
btw — you’re Still projecting
b. there ya Go
Again, wormmy!
ALWAYS with your
fucking Purity Tests!
give it a Rest
Oh, and What
about Kashama!?
you haven’t mention
her in like maybe
an Hour or two.
you
runnin’
a little Late?
uh-oh.
cover your
Eyes wormmy: it’s
that damn G word again!
from The Chris Hedges Report
Enduring the Trauma of Genocide
(w/ Gabor Maté)
While the trauma that Palestinians continue to face in Gaza is sustained, brutal and seemingly never-ending, the universal susceptibility to trauma unites humanity as much as it divides the self.
Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned physician and expert in trauma and childhood development, illustrates this point articulately on the latest episode of The Chris Hedges Report through attempting to make sense of the psychology, trauma and reason behind the actions of Palestinians, IDF soldiers, WWII survivors, Nazis and even himself.
Hedges begins the show by asking Maté to describe the trauma that Palestinians currently face, as they struggle to survive the constant shelling and murder delivered by Israel for over a year now.
But even Maté struggles to make sense of it all: “This weekend, 40 members of a single family were killed. So when that child is orphaned, it means that their whole support system is gone. So you know what? I can’t tell you. I can only extrapolate from what I’ve seen and imagine something unfathomable.”
Hedges and Maté do not only reckon with the psychology of the victims of genocide, but also grapple with how “ordinary men” become willing, ruthless, executioners under the rule of totalitarian regimes.
Hedges, not sure if these seemingly normal people commit atrocities as a result of trauma or because they are not “morally sentient,” is asked by Maté, “Well, why would somebody become morally insentient?”
The doctor goes on to describe how humans achieve a healthy moral compass. Rather than be taught morality or indoctrinated into it, people gain moral sentience “because [caretakers] treat you well, because they see you, they understand you, they love you, they embrace you.
They promote the development of moral faculties, which is a natural human process given the right conditions. So the lack of moral sentience is actually a sign of trauma.”
Maté’s analysis connects back to the Palestinian resistance itself, and the atrocities they often commit in pursuit of liberation from their occupiers.
Hedges, who knew the co-founder of Hamas, Dr. Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, tells Maté that when he pressed al-Rantisi on the act of suicide bombing, the Hamas leader justified his stance with statistics as a way to “morally evade” the subject.
Maté simply, yet wisely, explains that Rantisi, who witnessed the Israelis execute his uncle at the age of 10, did not receive the aforementioned “right conditions” that would have equipped him to recognize these moral contradictions.
“I think what happens is that one of the impacts of trauma is it can close your heart, and when your heart is closed, you don’t see the humanity of the other. And this has happened in a big way in Israel now.”
–by Chris Hedges; Dec 13, 2024
Oodles more on the horrors
of PTSD & missing or disappeared
parents aunts & uncles Families Homes
Any kinda support systems, w/famine disease …
and the generational
perpetuation of Violence
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/enduring-the-trauma-of-genocide-w?
@73: She is neither. Mere discussions of the trans related topics, terms we use, experiences we share are not “phobic”. I’m perplexed by your hostility. We’re all good people here.
@72: my pleasure!
@83: If you want to quote from persons who disagree with Bernie on the use of the word “genocide,” please go right ahead. It doesn’t bother me at all when you stridently disagree with Bernie, even on the topic you’ve chosen to comment upon more than any other.
What do you think of Bernie’s criticism of your use of “genocide,” specifically that you’re encouraging anti-Jewish sentiments by so doing? Does Bernie’s criticism of you on that point mean nothing to you?
@84 — see: @83.
@85
so Bernie’s
Infallible?
on what
fucking
Planet?
only on
Uranus.
see
also:
@83. so
Sorry you
had to en-
Dure it. don’t
Know if there’s
hope/Salvation or
Not, but I’m pullin’ for
ya, wormmy! hell, we All are.
good luck!
p.s.
Nice
Twist/
Deflection
on your Culpability
get Better
so’s you won’t
Need To anymore.
again:
good Luck!
@85: “so Bernie’s
Infallible?”
You’ve copypasted far more material from him here than I ever will. I do not recall you ever having questioned the validity of so much as one word of it in the past. Therefore, your sudden decision to start questioning his judgment comes as quite a surprise. He’s a widely-published author, yet you’re completely ignoring his guidance on the use of words.
As you have yourself repeatedly raised the possibility the Israeli war in Gaza may incite anti-Jewish actions worldwide, I thought you might have an interest in Bernie’s concern that use of the word “genocide,” to describe that war might incite anti-Jewish actions here at home. Yet, you have not addressed his concern. At all.
Why do you suddenly not value his opinion?
like the
Opposite
of the proverbial
Stopped Clock, Bernie’s
got my A-okay to be Incorrect
your
dogged
Demands
that my Fealty
MUST Extend to
Bernie’s EVERY Po-
sition is as Laughable
as your claims of Infallibility.
now bugger
Off & have
a nice day
wormmy.
(I think I see
an Apple over
there with Your
Name upon it! en-
Joy!)
@88: I never claimed Bernie was “infallible,” and in fact, I have questioned the apparent disconnect between his words and actions more than have you. Nor have I ever claimed anyone should show “fealty” to him — although, again, you’ve never disagreed with him in the past, not even once, not even a little, so maybe that word does accurately describe your (former?) attitude toward him.
I was merely wondering, given your own self-described “Fealty” to him on absolutely every other issue, why you seem to have completely ignored his judgment and guidance on the very topic which consumes so much of your commentary here.
And again, if you want to completely ignore a published author’s guidance on the use of words, and a Jewish American elected leader’s worry about inciting anti-Jewish sentiments and actions via (what he considers) intentional misuse of words, that’s fine by me. It just seems odd, somehow…
@89 too tedius
didn’t Bother
ttdb
oh
wormmy
you’re Still here?
speaking of
Progressives
nyt:
The Texas Millennial
Trying to Rebrand
the Democrats
“We can’t bring a policy book to a gunfight,” said Representative Greg Casar of Texas, the incoming chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Ever since they lost big in November, Democrats have talked about how much their party needs to change.
Representative Greg Casar is living it.
Last week, Casar, a 35-year-old Democrat from Austin, Texas, was elected as the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, becoming the youngest person ever tapped to lead the group of liberals at a moment when his party is struggling with younger voters. He’s also the first leader from Texas, a state Democrats find perennially vexing.
Casar, a former union organizer, will be tasked with leading progressives through a challenging period, one that has some Democrats blaming them for tugging the party too far to the left.
He believes it was centrists like Joe Manchin, the former Democrat and departing senator from West Virginia, who caused the party to water down policies that could have galvanized working-class voters. But he says progressives need to shift their message, too.
We should be clear that the Republicans are playing a game by targeting and scapegoating a group of vulnerable people in order to make it sound like, in Middle America, that is all the Democratic Party works on and cares about.
Instead of fully diving into the culture war fight with the Republicans, I think we should be more clearly calling out the Republican game and connecting the dots for the everyday voter.
–by Jess Bidgood; Dec. 13, 2024
lots more
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/us/politics/democrats-texas-greg-casar.html
so
there
Is hope.
Til
The
‘d’nc
Puts its
Arse on the
fucking Scales
no more Algores
no more Hillarys
no more Kamalas
we need
a Fire-breathing
Dem telling Us Truth
Not capitulating to corporate Am.
with Every breath ~ carpe fucking Deim
or deim fucking carpe.
@90: I already replied to that comment, in the thread where you first posted it. Please do try to keep up.
While you’ve declared Bernie to be 100% correct on everything you’ve voluminously quoted from him, but 100% incorrect when he says we should not use the word “genocide,” to describe Gaza, because it could incite anti-Jewish actions here at home, what if you’re wrong about his last point? What if your constant abuse of the word, “genocide,” has a chance of inciting anti-Jewish actions here at home? What does your constant abuse of the word, “genocide,” accomplish which justifies the risk of encouraging such anti-Jewish actions?
Or do you just not care if your words get innocent persons hurt?
“Or
do you just
not care if your words
get innocent persons hurt?”
so
sayeth
the commentator
justifying the ‘Genocide
that Ain’t!’ exposing Jews
PLANETWIDE to Backlash A-
Gainst bibi’s ‘little Massacre’ of
100,000 Palestinians his Landgrab
and your
(and your sockbot’s)
[‘Thumpus’? Truly, worm-
my?] utter Glee re the matter
and your
Denial that
that might Ever
BE. ‘it’s just anti-Semi-
tism!’ you beseech seem-
ingly ignorantly but really
’tis just the World’s reaction
to bibi’s keep-outta-Prison gam-
bit. refusing/denying Justice has its
Costs.
but keep
Spinning re-
ality, wormmy
it’s
truly
All’s
you
Have.
I could just throw up over how fucked we are that the Orange Turd is Person of the Year in Time Magazine!
And that its Turd Reich of the Billionaires, by the Billionaires, for the Billionaires is out to hurt, economically destroy, and murder everyone who is NOT all of the following:
1.) Insanely wealthy
2.) Corrupt as fuck
3.) White
4.) Republican
5.) Male
Hundreds of millions of us will be dropping like flies soon, thanks to the Orange Turd and its MAGA tools.
Like a page out of Stephen King’s 1978 bestseller, The Stand, ‘those who died quickly’ will be the lucky ones.
I predict that WWIII will strike the dystopian hellhole that USED to be the United States soon.
Our benighted country’s allies are likely to say ‘fuck it’ and point all nuclear warheads at US for being so destructive, greedy, and stupid overall as a nation caught up in hateful ideological propaganda. And wildly celebrating RepubliKKKan voters batshit for the Turd’s return to the White House will be feeling it, too, when their social safety nets are gone. The Church of MAGATurd and “thoughts and prayers” aren’t going to save their ignorant asses.