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I’ve seen that speculation floating around, and it makes sense given Schumer’s inappropriate closeness with the Street.

Democratic “leadership” does not understand, or does not care, that Wall Street will donate to Democrats only to ensure that they lose–the same with Silicon Valley. 

Wall St. overwhelming went for Obama in 2008 because they believed he would let them off the hook for instigating the crash–he did, and he lost the House in 2010 as a result.

Wall St, like Silicon Valley, will never be satisfied with anything else than completele deregulation and complete immunity from tax obligations, and that’s what Trump is giving them.

Democratic “leadership” is still in denial–or is simply still attempting to escape responsibility for their calamitous failure last November.

Jeffries going cup in hand recently to Silicon Valley was a dido.  

“Leadership” still thinks neoliberal practices and policies will work. Instead they have collapsed the party.

It’s always the same fake narrative: Trump wants to destroy a program or institution, says it needs to be “saved,” then proceeds to burn it to the ground.

The monster had the audacity to commandeer the Kennedy Center stage for a meeting with his fake board of directors, aka obsequious servitors, among them doyennes of lies and cacaphony Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo. Probably he’ll be giving them solo concert evenings soon.

Trump launched into another lie and defamation-filled campaign spech interspersed with drooling recollections of how excited he got watching women dance on Broadway.

Then he took part in a fake photo session where he pretended to be addressing cheering crowds from the presidential box. Except that there were no crowds. His zombie gestures resembled a store-window mannequin, but no department store that wanted to attract customers would put that in their window displays.

He plans to make KC a. non-union house.  Way to go, union leaders who supported Trump.

He wants KC to participate in his campaign to make hate and intolerance the law of the land, rejecting legitimate cultural expression as “woke.”

He also plans to destroy the KC Honors, which already have been degraded in recent years by pandering to corporate cultural parameters. But we ain’t seen nothing yet. He plans to host them himself, and he’d like to hand out Honors to his campaign contributors.

The Democrats, of couse, say nothing, so terrified are they to be identified with any cultural offering besides corporate entertainment product. A fascist billionaire might then call him or her an ‘elitist’!

Props to the Times for getting their hands on a clandestinely-recorded tapes of his “board” meeting, since Trump of course banned the press. But, oh is the Times eager to euphemize and normalize Trump, and his “strong and sometimes surprising” er, views.

 That newspaper’s staff must be completely demoralized.

was confronted yesterday in Washington, D.C., where protestors made themselves heard outside the network’s local headquarters.

They came to the right place.

members of the Democratic caucus need to ameliorate the void at the top by convening a rapid response team, organizing daily conferences to report on the status of the coup and what they are doing to fight it, make a daily tally of Trump’s lies and correct them.

The punctilious passivity practiced by Democrats for so mny years now threatens the country’s survival. Schumer remains trapped in some weird limbo. 

Thom Hartman writes at Common Dreams:

“Chuck Schumer had one job: to stand between Donald Trump and the complete dismantling of American democracy. Instead, he caved — again — handing Trump the power he craved without a fight, without a demand, without even a moment of real resistance. With every cowardly compromise, Schumer isn’t just failing Democrats — he’s enabling an autocrat in real-time.”

so that they can buy off what’s left at fire-sale prices. What originally may have perhaps seemed like a tertiary explanation now seems glaringly obvious as their primary motivation.

Trump inflicted himself on the Kennedy Center today, defiling it with his lies, his defamations, and his ignorance. He was there to inaugurate his new “Golden Age” of electroplate and ash. And of course he spoke imbecilic gibberish:

“They’ve built these rooms that nobody’s gonna use. Rooms underground. And I’ve often wondered, what are the big cubes that they have outside that block the view? They’re cubes with a door in them so they can get down to rooms that nobody’s going to use. And it’s a shame. It’s a shame.”

So he can completely strip Americans of our civil rights, and distract from the catastrophe of his first two months in office.

and now he dares to ask us to vote him in as mayor? Shameless.

Perhaps some corporate media reporters will ask him why he allowed hundreds of thousands of rent-regulated apartments in NYC to be deregulated?

And why he totally sabotaged the Democratic majaorities in Albany?

And about how much damage he did to Medicaid?

Harris’s campaign became a comeback vehicle for every has-been neoliberal Democratic consultant and flack.  They exploited–with her complete complicity, of course–the campaign in a vain attempt to make themselves relevant again. I’m reading news reports from last summer announcing that Kamala was sidelining Biden’s team and instead embracing the over-the-hill comeback brigade. That really was the moment when her campaign’s–and perhaps America’s–doom was sealed. Plouffe, Schumer, et.al. couldn’t even get Democrats to vote for Harris–how many fewer votes did she get than Biden, again? As her campaign progressed, Dems saw her pallin’ around with oligarchs, weakening her economic message, failing to support Lina Kahn, sidelining Walz, never mentioning the climate crisis, and they said, No, not again.