Cedric's Big Mix

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Pockmarked face Tulsi to pretend she's intelligent

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

THOUGH HE CLAIMS TO BE AGAINST DEI HIRES, INCOMING PRESIDENT AND FOREVER FELON DONALD TRUMP-DUMP HAS SELECTED TRASHY GARBAGE (STAGE NAME TULSI GABBARD) TO BE THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE. DOES A TUTOR COME WITH THAT JOB? INTELLIGENCE? TULSI?

WE REACHED GABBARD FOR COMMENT. WHAT FOLLOWS IS A WORD-FOR-WORD TRANSLATION.

US: IS THIS TULSI GABBARD?

TULSI: ARE YOU A BILL COLLECTOR?

US: NO.

TULSI: IS THIS ABOUT THAT SECTIONAL SOFA I NEVER PAID OFF RENT-A-CENTER FOR.

US: NO. THIS IS CEDRIC, WALLY, BETTY, ANN, ISAIAH AND C.I. AND WE'RE CALLING ABOUT YOUR NEW POST.

TULSI: OH! WHAT A RELIEF. AND MY FIRST CONGRATULATIONS CALL!

US: WE DIDN'T CONGRATULATE YOU.

TULSI: OH? WELL, ON THE DOWN LOW, CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT I'M GOING TO BE? DIRECTOR OF SOMETHING OR OTHER. DOES THAT MEAN I MAKE FILMS? I'M OKAY WITH THAT, I JUST CAN'T STAND IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA. OR AT LEAST NOT UNTIL I GET SOME SANDPAPER AND SAND DOWN ALL MY ACNE PIT SCARS. I LIKE DIRECTOR, THOUGH. I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A CRUISE DIRECTOR BUT PLAYED BY FRED GRADY, YOU KNOW?

US: DO YOU HAVE ANY CLUE WHAT YOUR NEW ROLE ENTAILS?

TULSI: IN TAILS? DO I GET A TOP HAT TOO?

US: DO YOU FEEL PREPARED TO SERVE?

TULSI: DRINKS? I WAS KIND OF HOPING WITH THE TITLE "DIRECTOR," SOMEONE ELSE WOULD SERVE SNACKS AND DRINKS.

AS WE CONCLUDED OUR INTERVIEW WITH TRASHY GARBAGE, WE WERE LEFT WITH A SCARY THOUGHT: WHAT IF SHE WAS THE SMARTEST PERSON IN TRUMP DUMP'S ADMINISTRATION?

MEANWHILE KRISTI NOAM IS TRYING TO MAKE FRIENDS AT HER NEW JOB.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Did Kamala never say "working class"? The house pet CNN brought on raised that issue -- wasn't asked, raised it. But she qualified it with "as far as I know." Weasel words because facts didn't matter, it was about getting her attack in.

It's the same nonsense -- and Roland's called this out and Karen Hunter has called this out -- that people are using to water down the Democratic Party.

I know this is hard for Zac and Cody and the other youngsters to believe but Bernie is not a god. He's not even a decent person.

Decent people don't give their lives to public service jobs and end up millionaires. Bernie's got over three million dollars. How did he get the money?

Not by being a threat to the world of corporations.

Here's what the toddlers don't grasp: Bernie talks a good game frequently.

Talks.

Does?

He never does anything. Now back in the day, when he was in the House of Representatives and progressive were rightfully outraged by his failure to ever actually deliver (or fight for that matter). And what we were told back then was that due to being a member of the House of Representatives, he was limited by the fact that he had to run for office every two years. He'd show up in documentaries and Robert Greenwald's 'documentaries' and make statements that he never followed up on. Then he got the Senate. How long are people going to make excuses for him?

I stopped when he chaired a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing. We were there to cover the issue. And the press was there for another issue. The VA was keeping two sets of books. Veteran care was appalling and the wait lists were appalling. So the VA was keeping the true wait time book and the false one that they had been providing to Congress.

And what did Bernie do that morning? Please grasp that veterans were dying due to lack of care. This was a huge scandal. And Bernie insisted, in his opening remarks, that the focus would not be on the emerging story and asked that those on the Committee stay on topic -- the topic being holistic health care.

Veterans are dying and the VA has been caught lying. Lying to our government representatives and president and lying to the people.

And Bernie's more interested in holistic healthcare.

That's when I stopped making excuses for fake ass Bernie.

He might have made a great president in 2020. If he had, it would have been due to the people behind him -- his supporters -- and not due to Bernie.

His remarks this week were racist. Not surprising, he's over 80 years old.

Remember Ralph Nader. Remember him in 2008? Running against Barack Obama and Ralph using terms like "ghetto" and using the term blindly and repeatedly anytime he was asked about any issue effecting Black people? And people thinking Ralph was out of touch and racist. Ralph was only in his 70s.

"Working class"? Kamala did use the term. She was more often using the term "working families."

You might not like it, I might not like it. It was used because it was poll tested and this was done before Zac and Cody even got out of diapers.

Now if we want to have a conversation -- post-election -- about terms, let's do that. But let's be honest about it.

Black women turned out in this election. And no one wants to explore that Danielle, Olay, Tabitha and so many more strong Black women could be a part of this conversation taking place right now -- could be and should be.

But they were taken for granted before the election, taken for granted during the election cycle and are still being taken for granted when we pretend we want answers.

We don't want real answers. Sam doesn't want real answers. He wants to jawbone about conventional wisdom. I have been told Sam is incredibly intelligent. I would love for that to be accurate. But nothing I see right now speaks of anything more than a half-wit.

Currently, the election results are Kamala got 48.1% of the vote and Donald got 50.2% of the vote. You wouldn't know that by the coverage and the hand wringing.

By all means, wring the hands over what Donald's going to do. But this isn't a mandate and it's not a landslide -- and thank you to Lawrence O'Donnell who points this out when everyone else ignores it. Here he is from last night.

Let's also note that currently, only 79% of votes have been counted in California.

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Wednesday, November 06, 2024

Don't let Katrina vanden Heuvel get away with her racism

Like Natalie Cole said . . . (Ava and C.I.)

The results appear to be in so, being good sports, let's say congratulations to our next president . . . JD Vance. Yes, Miss Sassy is the new president. You can't be as grossly overweight as Donald Trump and as old as he is without the health issue coming in to play and then there's the senility.

It's very likely we may see him removed from office due to the senility at which point JD would have the title of president but, make no mistake, JD is the new president.

Donald didn't do any work the first time. He didn't like briefings. He was lazy when he was four years younger.

So congratulations to JD, our youngest president ever.

Let's say thank you to two people. Thank you to Joe Biden for stepping aside. As bad as the results have turned out to be, they would have been even worse if Joe had been on the ticket. After the debate, the media was not going to change their narrative. Thank you to Kamala Harris who ran a strong campaign and did so in a very short manner of time.

Our sympathies for the nation.

It would be great if some last minute development exposed voter fraud on the part of MAGA but that's probably not going to happen.

So we're all screwed.

And let's be clear about who screwed us.

No, we're not talking about MAGA or other elements of the right wing. Certainly, FOX "NEWS" lies and they are a danger. But they're actually far less of a danger then the cheap whores like Glenn Greenwald, Megyn Kelly, et al.

But again, we're not talking about them.

No, we're putting the blame where it rightly goes: The left media.

Now stop your nonsense if you're a right winger and thinking we mean THE WASHINGTON POST, CNN, THE NEW YORK TIMES, et al.

That's not the left media.

The left media is the beggar media who always asking for a hand out, for a donation, pretending they're serving the left.

We're talking about IN THESE TIMES, we're talking about DEMOCRACY NOW!, THE NATION, THE PROGRESSIVE and oh so many more.

We had the votes to win. Where were they?

The grifter Jill Stein got some.

Cornel West got some. Claudia De la Cruz got some.

If you're unfamiliar with those last two, unlike Jill Stein, they were real candidates.

You didn't hear about them because our supposed left media didn't want you to.

It was Jill wall to wall.

They pimped her like crazy.

No surprise, she got less votes than she did in 2016. Because she's a con artist and a grifter. She's opposed to the genocide . . . except for her stock in Lockheed Martin. The American Friends Service Committee notes:

The world’s largest weapons manufacturer, Lockheed Martin supplies Israel with F-16 and F-35 fighter jets, which Israel has been using extensively to bomb Gaza. Israel also uses the company’s C-130 Hercules transport planes to support the ground invasion of Gaza.

Lockheed Martin manufactures AGM-114 Hellfire missiles for Israel’s Apache helicopters. One of the main weapon types used in aerial attacks on Gaza, these missiles have been used extensively in 2023. Some 2,000 Hellfire missiles were delivered to Israel sometime between Oct. 7 and Nov. 14.

Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky manufactures the CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter, used to transport Israeli soldiers into and out of Gaza. On Jan. 8, Sikorsky was awarded $18.3 million from U.S. taxpayers' money for continued work on the CH-53K aircraft it has provided to Israel.

On Dec. 28, Lockheed Martin was awarded a $10.5 million contract for continued support for Israel's fleet of F-35 warplanes.

On Dec. 11, the Israeli Air Force used a Lockheed Martin C-130-J Super Hercules aircraft to drop approximately seven tons of equipment to Israeli soldiers engaging in ground attacks in Khan Younis, located in the southern Gaza Strip. This was the "first operational airdrop" that Israel has carried out since the 2006 Lebanon War.

On Nov. 9, an Israeli missile hit journalists sitting near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The missile was reportedly a Lockheed Martin–made Hellfire R9X missile, a version of the Hellfire that was developed by the CIA for carrying out assassinations. Instead of exploding, the missile shreds its target using blades, allowing for a direct hit without collateral damage. The target in this case was not a military one.

The Israeli military also uses Lockheed Martin’s M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS). Used to fire Elbit Systems’ high-precision AccuLAR-122, the weapon was used by Israel for the first time, since the 2006 war in Lebanon, on Oct. 6, according to the Israeli military.

On an Oct. 17 call with investors, Lockheed Martin CEO, Jim Taiclet, “highlighted the Israel and Ukraine conflicts as potential drivers for increased revenue in the coming years.”

Lockheed Martin is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and has key production sites in Denver, Houston, New Orleans, and San Diego. For more locations, see this map.

For more information on this company (not including these latest developments), see our company profile on the Investigate database.

Josh Fox, at THE NATION last Friday, noted:

Stein says she’s against fracking, but Stein has hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in the oil and gas industry. Did you know that? Did you know that she actually profits off of the oil and gas industry, that she has had investments in the Keystone XL pipeline and multiple fracking companies?

Did you know that she has investments in Raytheon, that she’s had investments in ExxonMobil? Did you know that she has investments in Home Depot—one of the most rapacious companies in the world, guilty of horrific deforestation throughout the world?

How is it that the Green Party candidate hasn’t divested her own personal fortune from fossil fuels? It’s sheer hypocrisy. And so is the strategy of running for president every four years but never showing up for battles like this.

In 2016, Stein defended these investments by saying they are mutual funds and indexed retirement funds.

But that, plainly speaking, is bunk.

Her claims are a slap in the face to the entire fossil fuel divestment movement. It is easier now than ever to have investments that are fossil free; doing so is a huge plank of the environmental cause. Hundreds of real activists were arrested this summer in New York City calling for Citibank to divest as part of the Summer of Heat campaign. For Stein to ignore all this and still attempt to call herself an activist is beyond hypocrisy, it is political malpractice. Shame on you, Dr. Stein! Shame on you for profiting from fracking and oil drilling.

That some of you voted for that whorish grifter is bad enough but that's not the real damage that was done.

The real damage was in suppressing the vote.

In 2008, when Barack Obama ran for president, the same beggar media did everything they could to build him up. FAIR embarrassed themselves after the Hillary Clinton and Barack debate during that year's Democratic Party primary by slapping one of the moderators for asking about Barack's friendship with activist/terrorist Bill Ayers. Ayers -- a nobody, he was arm candy for his wife -- had been underground and, more to the point, when his friendship with Barack came to light, everyone rushed to lie that they knew each other because their kids were friends. No. That was a damn lie. And beggar media knew it was because, although they can't get real jobs, they can do simple math. Bill and Bernardine turned themselves in as Jimmy Carter was finishing his presidency and Ronald Reagan was due to be sworn in. They thought they'd get a better deal under Carter. Their children were already born by that time. ( We're not referring to Chesa but even he was born in 1980.) Barack and Michelle's oldest child was born in 1998. No, the two Ayers boys were not friends and playmates of the Obamas' daughters.

But that's what the beggar media did -- that and a whole lot more.

For a Black man, that's what they did.

And we saw in July, August, September and October what they'd do for a Black woman -- not a damn thing.

While running for the nomination, Barack did many things that went against what he stated he stood for (putting homophobes on stage at campaign rallies, telling Michael R. Gordon of THE NEW YORK TIMES that any US troops he might pull out of Iraq he would send back in based on the security situation, changing his timeline for withdrawal, his advisor Samantha Power telling the BBC that the promise of a withdrawal really wasn't a promise, etc). But that didn't result in beggar media attacking him the way they did Kamala.

Kamala was attacked from day one. Oh, sure, THE PROGRESSIVE or COMMON DREAMS might do a puff piece on . . . Tim Walz. But they considered Tim to be one of their own. Supposedly, that was due to him being a progressive, but speak to Black women and they were wise to the fact that the real difference was that these outlets could get behind a White man but not a Black woman.

Day after day, they could and they did rip her apart.

Naomi Klein thought she was doing a favor going on DEMOCRACY NOW! and declaring that you hold your nose to vote for someone like Kamala.

Huh?

That's how you build enthusiasm? After one guest, in July, was allowed to praise Kamala and be excited about Kamala running, DEMOCRACY NOW! never offered that again until October 31st.

People weren't allowed to be excited about Kamala, no, beggar media wouldn't let them be.

Beggar media wanted to hang Gaza around Kamala's neck.

She wasn't the president. She didn't get to make policy. Most of us knew she wanted a cease-fire and was the first to call on Joe to move towards that. Most of us knew what her family -- including her niece -- thought.

But that didn't matter.

It didn't matter that the Supreme Court was at stake. It didn't matter that reproductive rights were at stake.

Nothing mattered but the Palestinians.

Amy GoodWhoreman brought on, the day before the election, the Mayor of Dearborn.

His city, he insisted, had to think about Palestinians first.

We think a real interview would have required asking this American citizen exactly where on his list of priorities this country landed? We further think inviting on that man, mayor of a city of homophobes, also required asking him: How much is this opposition to Kamala based on her defense of the LGBTQ+ community?

But we're not supposed to ask those question. No, we're just supposed to fetishize an entire population segment despite the fact that this community in question only stopped voting majority GOP due to the Muslim backlash in the US following 9/11. That detail was never passed on to readers and viewers and listeners of beggar media. There are progressive Muslims in Michigan. There are many more homophobic and conservative Muslims in Michigan which is why the first city council in the state to have an all Muslim composition promptly went around destroying LGBTQ+ rights.

But we didn't get told about that, we only got told about these wonderful Disney-like animated creatures who woke up signing and smiling and sniffing the flowers while the birds landed on their shoulders.

How different would reactions have been if the truth had been told?

Again, we didn't get the truth, not from beggar media.

'Ava and C.I.! You just noted THE NATION's piece about Jill!"

We did and that was published only after the groundswell of Katrina vanden Heuvel being called out for her racism. In fact, for a few days there, she shut down all comments to her Twitter feed unless you were pre-approved -- so much for free speech. We were among the ones leaving comments about the racism -- we did that a full week before Josh's piece. We did it when we learned that THE NATION has just published an editorial opposing Kamala Harris -- by their 'interns.'

We don't give money to that rag to hear from their 'interns.' Sorry, but you're learning a trade, you're not in the position to be writing editorials. And what position you'll have in the future is open to debate because we're vengeful bitches.

Norman Solomon knows that. Learned it the hard way this year. That's when the Democrat who was a pledged delegate for Barack in 2008 announced -- COMMON DREAMS carried the crappy column (others did as well) -- that he would be voting for Jill Stein.

He later pulled that back because he learned real quick that those of us who have helped keep beggar media afloat weren't going to do it for racists.

All the lip service in the world to the importance of Black women in US elections. But when a Black woman ran for president, these same outlets wouldn't take a moment to allow joy over this. Kamala is the first Black woman to be presidential candidate for one of the major parties. And, yes, that was historic, and, yes, it did matter to many Black women.

Katrina and Amy are both racists. Sadly, they're not equally blamed because few people even know who Katrina is. Don't worry, Katrina, we plan to increase your public profile. But they knew Amy and they knew her program and they were shocked by the garbage she offered day after day.

Again, they all offered it. All of the beggar media offered insults and put downs of Kamala day after day.

When they weren't being racist, they went with sexist.

This was not our first presidential election to observe and comment on. So it stood out to us that Barack, Joe, John Kerry, whomever didn't have columns (plural) every day telling them what they needed to do. And columns, mind you, written by men.

A reflective left media would have taken several pauses over the three months to ask, "What are we doing? Are we being fair?"

But apparently begging everyone for money takes a huge toll so they don't have time for reflection.

Good news, bums, we plan to help you there, we plan to make sure you have a lot more free time.

By repeatedly trashing Kamala, by refusing to ever feature the people who were excited by her, they worked overtime to defeat enthusiasm for the candidate. Amy Goodman, as we pointed out repeatedly at THIRD, was damn happy to have a Civil Rights pioneer (who was also the widow of another Civil Rights pioneer) on DEMOCRACY NOW! over the years. But when this woman, Myrlie Evers-Williams, endorsed Kamala in September and spoke of how excited she was by Kamala's campaign, Amy couldn't even note the news in a headline.

We weren't the only ones commenting on the racism from leftists. The YOUTUBE program TABITHA SPEAKS did a great segment on it. And Tabitha noted a Latina who was also dismayed by the attacks on Kamala and on those who supported Kamala. In fact, if you were avoiding the White beggars, you'd find many women online lamenting the way Kamala was being treated. And, as we noted for weeks, we heard about it pretty much every time we spoke.

Jill Stein is a con artist. But they could get behind Jill and pretend that she was an answer and an ally. Which is why they didn't report on 'Butchy' Ware -- her little running mate -- being a transphobe and calling for restricting abortion.

These very real issues didn't matter.

Well, Gaza Freaks, we hope you're happy. We hope as the blood continues to be spilled, that the screams of the dead haunt you. That's their blood on your hands. Trump and Netanyahu are good buddies. He's made clear what will happen: A bigger green light for Netanyahu to continue the slaughter.

We can't work with people we can't trust so lots of luck stopping the Trump genocide.

You've already, Gaza Freaks, alienated many people who were on your side. It's only going to get worse for you. Students protesting on campus? Under Trump. Oh, this is the man who wanted to attack non-violent Black Lives Matter protesters.

And Hamas? It's a terrorist organization per the United States government.

We defended the Palestinian people. We never made the mistake that the Gaza Freaks did in defending Hamas. We point that out for a reason: In January, Joe Biden is not the president, Donald Trump is. You do get that, right? You do get that he will probably be exploring what kind of legal consequences he can impose for those openly supporting a terrorist organization.

Might be time to start recalculating your speeches and articles and programs.

What will we be doing?

Probably our usual role: Cleaning up the messes of lazy White people.

We're tempted to walk away. We actually could. We're fortunate in ways that many other Americans aren't. And we've more than put in our time.

But instead, we'll probably stick around online a little bit longer. Probably focus on important issues like climate change, opposing homophobia, fighting for reproductive rights, fighting for real free speech (which includes opposing book bans), fighting for reparations and --

Wait. That last one.

Oh, Katrina vanden Heuvel. We're back to her. She never made a penny herself but her grandfather left her a ton of money -- money she went to court over because she didn't want to pay the estate tax., What a great liberal, right?

That money she has? Her grandfather made it off the backs of Black people. Lena Horne, to name but one, was always clear to us what trash Katrina's grandfather was and how he undercut the pay of Black artists -- he was an agent working on commission -- to get better money for club performances from his favored White artists.

Lena would tell us tales in person and in writing.

Katrina, we're going to be circulating those letters to people who might be thinking about donating to your garbage rag.

But that's not all we'll be doing. We'll spend a lot of time in your state just to make sure everyone knows that your racist grandfather made money off the backs of Black artists and that's how you afford your mansion in Harlem.

Do you get that, Katrina? Do you get how insulting that is to Black people? The money you have is from their work and you use it to live in Harlem. Do you get how bad that looks?

Give us a year or two and see how much worse we make it look as we get the word out on you.

Reparations should start with people like you. You live a rich life thanks to racism. And you can move over to the right wing and they'll embrace you. But do you really think the left's going to embrace you as they realize what and who you really are?

And don't, as you did in 2007, send us an e-mail from you or your assistant, offering us a bribe to shut us up. It didn't work in 2007 when were exposing the sexism at THE NATION under your leadership -- see "The Nation featured 491 male bylines in 2007 -- how many female ones?" -- and it won't work now. And probably after we're done with you, will get to work circulating the #MeToo realities of THE NATION.

Again, we've vengeful bitches.

We're also smart and informed bitches. And we knew all along that enthusiasm was needed for Kamala to win and we registered it when so many left and 'left' outlets pissed on Kamala to avoid praising her, who did hold-your-nose-and-vote-for-her articles and segments. The whole country will now suffer because of your actions, so we believe it's only fair that you suffer as well.

We've got a Friday call, post-election analysis, with other donors you've depended on in the past. How do you think that's going to go?

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Even after that visit to the bathroom, Trump's still at least 1/2 full of crap

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

1990S PROFESSIONAL MODEL STACEY WILLIAMS CAME FORWARD TODAY TO ANNOUNCE CONVICTED FELON DONALD TRUMP ASSUALTED HER IN 1992. THESE REPORTERS -- MUST CREDIT BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- CORNERED TRUMP IN THE MEN'S ROOM AT MUNCH A LUNCH IN TEMPE ARIZONA.

THE FELON HAD ORDERED THE CHILI SOUP WITH EXTRA ONIONS AND EXTRA CHEESE DESPITE THE FACT THAT ONIONS GIVE HIM THE RUNS AND DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE KNOWS ONIONS GIVE HIM THE RUNS.

BRAVING THE WORST ODOR WE'D EVER SMELT IN OUR LIVES, WE INTERROGATED HIM WHILE HE SAT HIDDEN BEHIND A STALL DOOR MOANING, GROANING AND GRUNTING.

WHAT DID YOU DO TO STACY WILLIAMS?

"WHO!" HE HOLLERED.

WE EXPLAINED WHO WHILE HE CONTINUED GRUNTING BETWEEN THE SOUNDS OF SQUIRTY LIQUID HITTING THE TOILET.

"LEAVE ME ALONE! LEAVE ME ALONE! WHY DID I EAT THE ONIONS! THIS ISN'T A CRAP! IT'S A BIRTH! GET ME A MID-WIFE!"

AS HE STRUGGLED TO BREATHE THROUGHT PAIN, THE FELON TOLD US THAT HE DIDN'T REMEMBER HER OR MOST OF THE WOMEN HE ASSAULTED AND THAT IT DIDN'T MATTER ANYWAY.

WHY IS THAT? -- WE ASKED HIM.

"OW! OW! MY CHILI HOLE! STUFF IS STILL COMING OUT AND IT BURNS! IT BURNS! MOMMY! MOMMY! IT BURNS!" GET ME A DOCTOR! GO FIND THE SECRET SERVICE AND TELL THEM TO GET ME A DOCTOR!"

WHY DOESN'T IT MATTER -- WE PRESSED.

"GET ME A DOCTOR!"

ANSWER THE QUESTION -- WE DEMANDED.

"BECAUSE -- OW! -- BECAUSE I CAN'T ASSAULT ANY WOMAN ANYMORE! IT'S NOT JUST THAT MY BIG GUT MEANS I CAN'T SEE MY TINY DICK! OW! OW! IT'S ALSO BECAUSE -- OW! I CAN'T GET IT UP ANYMORE!"

WHAT?

"OW! I CAN'T GET A BONER! I'M 78 YEARS OLD! IT SHOULDN'T BE THAT SURPRISING! I'M AN ELDERLY FAT GUTTED MAN! OW! GET ME A DOCTOR! GET ME A DOCTOR!"

PROMISING TO GET RIGHT ON THAT, WE LAUGHED AS WE WALKED OUT OF THE BATHROOM AND LEFT AN OUT-OF-ORDER SIGN ON THE DOOR.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Naomi Klein.

She was on DEMOCRACY NOW! yesterday and I have no idea why.

I do not need her discussing US elections.

I think with her especially that she's crossing a line.

Years ago, during the days of AIR AMERICA RADIO, she appeared on Al Franken's show. And Al, as usual, didn't know what he was talking about. The issue turned to travel -- specifically entering the US. And had that ever been a problem for Canadian Naomi Klein?

Her answer would have had great importance if she'd answered it -- if she'd answered it honestly. But she didn't. She avoided the issue.

Now the Iraq War was raging and some US service members were self-checking out. Jeremy Hinzman, Darrell Anderson, Joshua Key, Ivan Brobeck and many more.

And they needed support.

And, in Canada where they went, Naomi did support them. She'd sign a petition. She donated to a group.

And for some people that might be enough.

Excuse me for not being satisfied.

Naomi's father left the US due to Vietnam. He was a War Resister. And if Naomi had shared that -- especially on Al Franken's neoliberal show -- it could have made a difference in the way some saw the War Resisters.

Naomi had Canadian citizenship, yes, but being born to parents from the US, she also had US citizenship. So, no, Al Franken, Naomi didn't have trouble entering the United States.

That's the answer and that is why. But she wouldn't say that. She just dodged the question.

This was early 2005 and it would have made a difference.

But she didn't want to tell the truth. So we did here.

And I have never cared for her championing US politicians when elections rolled around.

I'm all for War Resisters and have helped many over the years. But you leave the country, then you leave the country. I've forever noted here that the US should not allow Cuban exiles into the US if the whole point is for them to use our country as a base to attack Cuba.

You're Cuban and you want to live here? Great. Welcome. You're an American now. Let's all get along.

But that's not happening if you're here feeding your resentment against Cuba. And that's true, for me, for any exile. Don't come to this country in order to plot against your country of origin.

Now on Naomi, should she be a US citizen?

I don't believe in dual citizenship. I've made that clear here for two decades. But her mother and her father elected to leave the United States. Why are we now, as a country, saying she's a citizen of the United States? I'm not trying to be rude or mean.

She didn't grow up here. (Her father can't return unless he wants to go to prison.)

I think Naomi is often exceptional. But I also believe in Ellen Goodman. In fact, I believe in the former BOSTON GLOBE columnist even more. She's smarter than so many and has a lot more common sense. She'd started out on the chat and chews -- those public affairs programs where they bring you and you end up weighing on everything.

But no one can weigh in on everything.

And she grasped that and stopped doing the chat and chews as a result.

No one can speak in an informed manner on every topic. When Texas Governor Greg Asshole went after Latino citizens, I noted here that I really wanted to avoid the topic and that I wanted to do that because I knew nothing about it. But then I'm looking around and left media -- independent media -- is avoiding the topic completely. My plan had been to just highlight reports on the topic. I was not qualified to comment on it. But to get qualified -- because no one, not even Juan Gonzalez, was weighing in -- I had to ask Texas community members to do a conference call with me, I had to talk to a member of the US Congress from Texas that I personally knew, I had to speak to one of the women targeted -- her home raided -- and then I still wanted another conference with community members in Texas and bothered poor Sabina with non-stop questions even after that.

So Naomi Klein appears on DEMOCRACY NOW! and she was there to talk about Gaza. And she's informed on that.

But then Amy wanted her to weigh in on the US presidential election.

Why?

She's not an expert on that. She doesn't live in the US. There are Americans who would argue she shouldn't have citizenship (including those who would make the argument -- I did not -- that the minute her father refused US military service and left the country, he should not have been able to pass on citizenship -- Naomi was born long, long after Vietnam). She's not qualified to speak on US electoral politics. She has no knowledge base. She has nothing worth sharing -- her 'tears of joy' on election night piece for THE PROGRESSIVE back in 2008 was nothing but political porn at its worst as she watched from a distance people that she could not hear speaking and people that she had never met became people that she just knew what they were thinking -- just knew it, really, really, really knew it! That's political porn -- the sort that James Wolcott rightly took Peggy Noonan to task for years ago.

Naomi made some general statement before sharing her concern: Kamala had abandoned her base!!!

STFU. Not since your bad book -- now out in soft cover -- where you didn't understand the concepts of twinship even though it went to the heart of your book's argument -- have you looked so stupid.

Kamala abandoned the base!!!!

Just f**k the hell off.

That is not what happened.

I tore Kamala apart over the wording of an answer she gave on Gaza to the media and I got a call from a friend in the administration stating I was attacking the only one defending Gaza. I noted that in a roundtable and I backed off from attacking Kamala. I didn't write about it here. I believed my friend but I didn't make the case for it here -- this was long before the Biden-Trump debate. And I went back and forth on the topic. Talk about it here in a snapshot and maybe risk outing the friend? Didn't want to do that. Nor did it really matter. Kamala was going to advocate in private but it wasn't going to have any real impact because that's all she could do. She was not the president. Nor is she today.

But what ended up happening is that she became the nominee. I'm glad she did. I think she'd be a great president. And I'm willing to hold her feet to the fire the same way I've done every other politician -- and journalist -- in the two decades this site has been up. If she becomes president, I'll hit hard. I don't pull punches. I like Naomi Klein but I don't pull punches on her.

So the Abandon Biden movement already existed. And then he stepped aside. And without taking a breath, it became Abandon Harris. And it became more and more nonsense and bulls**t -- to the point that these Gaza Freaks are now harming Palestinians because Americans are recoiling from the Gaza Freaks. So they trashed her in public and they attacked her for this and that. Including the nonsense of a speaker they wanted at the DNC convention.

Naomi may not know all this happened, she doesn't live in the US. But it happened. And electoral politics not being an area of expertise for her (campaign politics was a field of emphasis for me both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student), she may not understand how political conventions work in the US. I have no idea how they work in Canada. I wouldn't pretend to.

But the reality is that a spot to speak at a convention is a big deal and everyone wants it. An unknown would-be-US-Senator from Illinois got to speak at the 2004 convention -- Barack Obama -- but a sitting US senator, Hillary Clinton, who was not just a former First Lady but someone who repeatedly raised a lot of money for the Democratic Party was initially denied. No female politician or female activist was going to be allowed to speak in prime time. For those too young to remember, this was back in the day when Simon Rosenberg was advocating for Democrats to abandon support for abortion rights and for LGBTQ+ rights. Those of us who did believe in reproductive rights had to demand Hillary get to speak. This was a months long process.

And Hillary was a nationally known Democrat. She had star power.

So you idiots who thought you were going to elevate some woman who held a local office? You're idiots. You could have had six months to attempt that -- you didn't, you had about two weeks -- and it wouldn't have worked. You would been better off getting behind an activist for Palestinian rights -- an activist with a name which means Bella Hadid, for example. Even then, in two to three weeks, you wouldn't have achieved anything most likely. But you would have had a better shot with someone like Bella.

And it wasn't just that your local politician was an unknown on the national stage so she wouldn't have helped get viewers tuned it, it's also the jostling that takes place among the politicians who all want to be on stage and speaking in prime time. They would never had let your local politician onstage for that reason. They wouldn't want Bella on as well but they would have surrendered to the notion because Bella is news and attracts an audience.

But instead of grasping that they were pursuing a losing strategy, they trashed Kamala.

That's all they ever did.

Kamala doesn't have months, you idiots and assholes on the left. She had to assemble a team and get a campaign going in an instant. And she did that.

And she doesn't have time to woo people who say they won't vote for her.

Equally true, for all the lies from Amy Goodman and others, Gaza Freaks are not the base of the Democratic Party. They're not the base of anybody's party. I suspected that in July but we've spoken to groups in every state now except Alaska and Hawaii. And Gaza Freaks are on their own. (Gaza Freaks are not supporters of Palestinians. Supporters of Palestinians would be doing anything to keep Trump out of the White House. Gaza Freaks are purity freaks with infantile yet sterile minds.)

A lot of Republicans do not want Trump. That was clear in the primaries. That's an audience Kamala could pick some voters from. How many? I have no idea.

But if I were managing her campaign, I would've told her to forget the Gaza Freaks. No matter what she did, it was not enough for them. Acknowledging the suffering in Gaza in her convention speech and the need for a cease-fire didn't make the Gaza Freaks stop attacking her.

In a normal campaign, you'd be wasting your time trying to court those crybabies. In a much more limited campaign? She doesn't have the time. She'd be wasting her time based on the reality that nothing she has said has been good enough for these Gaza Freaks.

You have cut yourselves out of the conversation. That is on you.

A campaign is about winning votes. When all you did was attack the candidate, there's no reason for the candidate to try to woo you. Donald Trump's not going before LGBTQ+ audiences, seeking their votes. (Melania will speak to them provided they pay her at least $200,000 -- for her, that's campaigning).

You screwed yourselves out of a seat at the table.

Naomi's yammering away like an idiot because, on this topic, she is one. She doesn't understand electoral politics, she doesn't understand US politics, she doesn't live in the US and she's looking down from a cloud at those of us working our asses off to try to save our democracy and protect our citizens. Guess what, Naomi, we can't exit the US for Canada because we don't have dual citizenship, we don't have your privilege.

I'm not here to let reproductive rights suffer again. Every woman in the US should have the same medical options in every state. That's healthcare. My healthcare is not a 'state's right.' That's bulls**t. Every same-sex couple should have the same rights and that includes full citizenship. That awful case built on lies found the Supreme Court creating two kinds of citizenship -- full citizenship and second class citizenship. If you're straight, you can shop where you want and expect to be treated fairly. If you're gay or lesbian, you can be refused service. I'm not here to let our public education -- the thing that binds us together as citizens (it certainly isn't home schooling) -- fall apart because Trump wants to destroy the Dept of Education. I'm not here to let some racist rewrite history by refusing to allow future generations know about slavery and what a scar it left on our country and how much damage it did to people living under it. I'm not here so that Sabina, in Dallas, TX, a US citizen, has to worry that the police are going to come up to her when she goes to the Mercado on Jefferson and demand proof of citizenship and, if she doesn't have it on her, be pulled off the street.

I'm not here to watch Donald Trump achieve his goal of dismantling our Constitution.

I don't have the luxury of sitting this election out or the stupidity of voting for a con artist like Jill Stein.

I also am fully aware that the Palestinians are screwed if Trump gets back in the White House. 100% screwed.

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