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So, no, Kamala Harris’s former support for the stupidly-named Defund the Plice is not going o hurt her–as long as she doesn’t play defensive.

CEO-whisperer Andrew Ross Sorkin was on some cable show relaying that the kingpins of finance are now supporting Harris but wish that she would move to the center. There was, of course, no follow-up, because there almost never is.

News flash: She is at the center. All the policies Biden and she proposed have overwhelming public support, including from Republicans.

Wall Street is way right of center, and its chieftains pump out boilerplate misinformation via mouthpieces like Sorkin.  The chieftains are almost entirely consumed with concern for their short-term financial enrichment, no matter how much damage that enrichment does to American society, our environment, the continuance of the human species. They do understand, however, that Trump will destroy the national and international economies if he gets in again, and will severely diminish their wealth, even if he did enact more tax cuts for them.

The corporate media and neoliberal Dems such as the Clintons and Obamas are certainly never going to admit that Trump won, in part, by running to the left of Hillary on economic issues. (remember how Hillary said that combating economic injustice wouldn’t do anything to combat racism and sexism?) Of course, it was all a feint, but then his entire campaign was a sham and it is today. 

We’re also not going to hear a lot from the corporate media, Wall st. touts like Sorkin, and the Democratic establishment about how the Dems embrace of neoliberal economic policy harmed the country and harmed the Party.

Biden understood, and charted a new way forward for the Party. Unlike Clinton or Obama, he actually delivered to a large degree on his progressive pledges. The reasons for Biden’s (alleged) unpopularity are the corporate media’s refusal to discuss his achievements and his own refusal to respond to the clamorous defamation of Trump and his camp.

His rhetorical tactic is to act as if  democracy was a burden we should thank him for removing from us.

for appointing an Attorney General, Merrick Garland, who began enforcing anti-trust regulations, which no Democratic or Republican president had done since Reagan. Media consolidation has devastated our communications landscape, but the behemoths just want ot keep on gobbling up everything in sight.

The mogul class in general hated Biden as well for not turning the Treasury Department into an adjunct of Wall Street, and for making clear that he believed in progressive taxation.

Thus we had the perfect storm for the audacious and cconcerted effort by the media giants to make Trumps’s insanity and senility somehow be ignored and Biden’s fatigue and mild cognitive decline instead be foregrounded.

In a 1964 interview with Playbill, Baldwin was asked,

“Does our  theatre reflect the truth about 1964 America?”

Baldwin replied: “We see in the theatre what most people think Democracy is, but Democracy is not that simple. Unfortunately, the only virtues most Americans seem to respect are youth and ignorance. It is a crime to grow up, and ‘culture’ is a dirty word. Remember that other country where ‘culture’ was a dirty word? They exterminated 6 million people.”

It’s extraordinary the way that MAGA, which has now completely subsumed the Republican party, has weaponized its cult members against their own survival.

One of the many ways that Trump is such an existential menace to this country is his attack on public health, his declared intention to penalize schools that require children to be vaccinated against polio, et. al.

I wonder what he thinks of a woman running for president?

Will Vance try to strip the franchise from women–or only childless women?

but his demagogic gestures. I am convinced that Trump studied old clips of Hitler and his accomplices as he honed his gestural persona, if we can even call that pastiche, i.e. garble, that. Oh, that upraised finger daring to implicate some scapegoat or other! And put us all on our back feet.

And, naturally, Trump is back to insulting Amerian Jews.

The Nazi legacy as claimed by MAGA should be decried to the hilt by Harris.

First, the City keeps the Tony Dapalito recreation center closed for four years without any significant repair work, depriving New Yorkers from all over the city of an essential resource. Now it says it must be demolished because the cost of repairs is too high.

As usual with any information released by City Hall regarding land use–Bullshit.

As Andrew Berman notes at VillagePrservation.org, “The city just okayed a vastly larger sum for restoration of a  recreation center in Bronxville  than what they say Tony Dapolito would need. “

are doing everything they can to destroy their children’s futures by advocating for an uninhabitable planet Earth, and yet Vance thinks that they should be allowed extra votes and thus further accelerate humanity’s demise due to the fact that they have hose children.