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Schumer and Jeffries insist that they’re powerless: the same refrain the Democras make year in and year out, equally when they’re in the majority.  

Jake Johnson at Common Dreams quotes progressive organizer  Aaron Regunberg. “‘Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are architects of the crisis that allowed Trump’s fascism to arise and succeed.” The Democratic Establishment engineered two defeats against Trump via their efusal to insist that Democrats be Democrats, and now the shit has hit the fan.

When the Republicans lost everything in 2008, did they whimper that they were helpless?

Schumer and Jeffries should have resigned their leadership positions after the last election, given the disastrous non-campaigns they waged. It is only constituent pressure that has now forced them to get off their duff, and apparently they’re sore about it. We’re not having any of it. They can get ready to be sore for the foreseeable future. 

They had been appointed by President Biden to six-year terms.

If Trump is going to impose his war on woke on the Kennedy Center, it behooves America to turn its back on a citadel of culture that has succumbed to racism, hate, and indoctrination.

It took about two days for the Kennedy Center to fall unconditionally to Trump. He is chairman, and the board is now defiled by tobacco lobbyist Susie Wiles, VP enabler Usha Vance, et.al.  The cowardly KC brass have allowed Trump not only to pillage their institution, but to gain credibility in the process–even at the complete cost of their own. Not an iota of resistance. And no more bipartisanship on the board. It’s all Trumpists, none of them remotely qualified to do anything else but destroy another American institution.

“IF ONLY YOU WOULD ACT INSTEAD OF TALKING,

YOU WOULDN’T ALWAYS END UP ON YOUR ARSE”

—Arturo Ui

They have rubber stamped one unfit and dangerous Trump cabinet nominee after the other. They work for Trump, not for America, or rather, they work against America.

won’t ask billionaires Musk and Trump why they are ensuring starvation in the Sudan.

Why isn’t anyone but Lawrence O’Donnell keeping this issue front and center?

while the Democrats sat on their hands. The moment that Murdoch launched Fox Propaganda the Dems should have been preparing a response.

The late Robert Parry on his great Consortium News blog begged the Dems year after year to respond to the peril of the GOP brain-washing media apparatus. They did nothing.

Why is there not even a You Tube channel for the Democratic party? There they could recap what they are doing day by day to save America from Trump, Musk, and the GOP. They could tally and rebut every lie told by a Republican that day.

As Amanda Marcotte writes in Salon: “At every turn, Musk makes money only because he grabs onto technologies that were invented at taxpayer expense. . .Musk’s ingratitude is breathtaking. It also fits the larger pattern of tech billionaires spitting venom at the middle-class workers who did the real labor in creating the products these capitalists profit so handsomely from.”

Canada has the right idea: floating the possibility of 100% tariffs on Tesla. The corporate media has pretended that the oligarchs are invincible and have unique super powers. They’re not.  They don’t. The ideas that they’ve borrowed/stolen/inherited from other people or the U.S. government can be developed by others.

by confirming Trump’s unfit and dangerous Cabinet appointees.

No,  now that they’ve capitulated to Trump they won’t face primary challengers, but they’ve given Democrats all the ammunition they need to defeat them–if they mount real campaigns, instead of what we saw last November.