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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.

“Mahmoud is one of the most upstanding people I have ever met,” a Jewish Columbia student writes at the Zeteo substack. If Trump can get away with this, he can get away with arresting any American whose protests don’t meet with his approval.

Maria Bartiromo is endlessly rewarded for her perpetual, brazen, ludicrously false lying–which should have gotten her fired when Carlson was. Now Trump has even rewarded her with a seat on the Kennedy Center’s thoroughly degraded board, where her squawking and smacking will no doubt be appreciated.

Since Biden had gone even more silent that he was as president, will a single Democrat start correcting the revisionist narrative hawked by Trump and handmaidens like Bartitomo?