The Young Turks, Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin

Progressive politics.  Yes, they are the bane of the Democratic party.  Love them or hate them.  I love them.  I love progressive politicians.  I think lady Ocasio-Cortez is awesome.  I don't think she gets as much credit as she deserves.  She is extremely smart.  I can see why her constituents vote for her.  I like Bernie Sanders, rooted for him in the primaries of 2016.  Since I am an independent voter in my state I don't vote in primaries. I love progressives because they have such an innocent view of the world and what they feel like our country should be doing.  When you talk to progressives they are so enthusiastic about politics it really becomes contagious, at least for a little while until reality comes crashing down, the issue I have with progressives is progressive media.

Some of the people doing progressive media are morons.  Cenk Uygur, in my opinion, is the Marjorie Taylor Greene of the progressive wing.  I watch his shows and I see him on Twitter and I think.  Is this guy really this stupid?  He like Greene takes it a little too far.  Anna on the Young Turks SEEMS like she is the more reasonable and she should try and scale him back some.  Look, I agree with some progressive policies.  I believe in medicare for all, I believe in climate change and we need to work on fixing the problems so we don't leave our children poisoned and choking because of our carbon footprint.  So, while I agree with progressive policies the ONE thing I do hate is that they cant do math.

In 2020 when Joe Biden won the election.  Progressives EVERYWHERE thought they were going to get his entire agenda passed.  Do the math guys, the house is Democratic.  Anything can make it through the house.  The senate is TIED.  Its 50/50 and two democrats don't vote along party lines so its actually 48/52.  So Progressives thinking they are going to get ANYTHING in this political climate where you have 50 senators (The GOP) firmly against EVERYTHING and two wishy-washy Democrats who for better or worse give you that tie.  You will not get voting rights, you wont get Build Back Better and you wont get Medicare for all.  Its NOT going to pass.  Do the math.  If you are in a bar with 10 guys who want to kick your ass and you have ONE other person who is on your side; what do you think the outcome is going to be?  The chances are you are walking home with some damage done.  That's the way the senate stands, you have 50 guys (and girls) who want to kick your ass, you have 48 guys and girls firmly on your side and two that are going to turn on you in a second.  The numbers are not on your side.

What are the options?  elect more Democrats.  If Democrats HAD the super majority and they still didn't get anything done then absolutely Progressives and Democrats have the right to bitch.  But they don't.  Any progressive who thought just by voting for Biden and securing a tie in the senate would get their dreams achieved; they were either not paying attention or they are just as nuts as Greene, Gaetz, Boebert and Cawthorn.  The GOP doesn't need to attack Democrats.  Progressive media demoralizes Democrat supporters more than Fox News or any right-wing media ever could PERIOD.  The Young Turks, their show Damage Report and especially Cenk Uygur would rather burn it all down and turn this country into an autocracy because they don't get what they want in a senate where the numbers don't add up.  They would rather give it to Republicans where they would lose any chance at any progressive policy being passed in their lifetimes.  Instead of getting on the tubes and saying "Hey you know what, we need to get these numbers up because fuck the other side who are literally bat shit crazy at this point." and instead they say "Democrats are garbage." They discourage Democrat voter turnout more than the Republicans could with these bullshit voter laws.  Republicans win because even the batshit crazy ones who know they aren't getting a wall, they know they aren't getting gay marriage overturned and know they will not get a Muslim ban still hit the airwaves and support the Republican party.  Progressives want to complain that they get the blame.  Well if they don't start WORKING with the Democratic party, that they are supposed to be a member of, and instead help the GOP turn the United States into a dictatorship and and an autocratic hell on earth, where they would be the first ones imprisoned because of their beliefs I might add, then yes they are part of the problem and they deserve at least a majority of the blame.

When it comes to Joe Manchin, I don't blame Joe.  Literally.  Joe has never changed and is just as consistent on his views as Bernie is.  Joe Manchin has ALWAYS been a center of the road to right leaning Democrat.  He is that good old boy southern Democrat of yesteryear who works during the week and goes to the bar on Friday and shoots some pool, smokes some Marlboro's and throws back a few beers.  If you had a thought and an inkling that he was going to pass ANY kind of progressive policy you are out of your minds.  His state is red.  His governor in 2017 joined the Republican party so Joe, while frustrating, is understandable.

Kristen Sinema does not get a pass.  She ran as a progressive and ran on progressive policies and WON running on progressive policies.  So while she is serving her GOP masters she has turned on her constituents.  She supports ZERO progressive policy that comes through the Senate.  She has been caught on tape turning against her own party and voting against her own constituents best interests.  I predict before her next election Kristen will change parties.  Like Tulsi Gabbard she will become a Republican and she will still lose by ten points or more.  She will lose no matter what party she associates with because she is an opportunist.  She is a weasel.  She will go with the wind and wherever it blows.  She is wishy-washy, she is a flip flopper and she is not in there to serve the public's best interest but rather her own.  Her next election will be a blood bath and then she will be gone.

Can Democrats win the mid-terms? Do the Republicans really want to win

 

This November we have quite the show coming.  The mid-term elections.  Now, the next two election cycles are going to be shit shows.  There is no getting around it and right now the Democrats have just as much hope of winning as they do losing.  This has several factors, whether we devolve into a Civil War here at home or if Putin decides to nuke us.  I'm personally still praying for a giant asteroid.  But anyway, who wins; who loses? Whoever wins, we all lose.  Now I know that sounds cliche but its true.

The Democrats have need to get their eyes on the ball here and start attacking the misinformation that the GOP utilizes to enrage their followers.  CRT (Critical Race Theory) being taught in ANY K-12 school is not a thing.  Its an elective in COLLEGE where all who are participating are of legal age to decide whether they want to study it or not.  The final letter in CRT is "Theory" which means just that.  Its not a fact, its a theory and a fascinating one at that.  Parents have ALWAYS had the choice and been able to determine what their children learn in the classroom.  This has never been taken away from them.  The GOP wants you to believe you dont.  They think the ONLY thing your children need to learn is a man is a man, a woman is a woman, a woman's place is in the kitchen pregnant, god is great, and the pledge of allegiance.  Thats a mildly over simplification of it but thats the basics of it.  They dont want your children to have free thought or expression unless it fits into their dogmatic view of the world at large and thats not going to work much longer.  Things change as the graveyards start to get full.  Which means the days of Closeted, Homophobic, Xenophobic, White, and Sex crazed Republicans is coming to an end and it doesn't matter how many election laws they try to pass nor does it matter how many stupid slogans they come up with.  Republicans dont have policies that benefit their followers.  They keep them angry by telling them the world doesnt care about them.  They keep them angry by telling them that the rest of the country is teaching their kids to be gay.  They are keeping them angry by telling them that Democrats hate America.  They keep them angry by telling them Democrats hate babies and want to abort the world.  They have kept them angry the last 40 years by saying Democrats want to take their guns.  They keep them angry by telling them that they are marginalized and they keep them angry by appealing to their innermost racial tendencies and saying that we have an invasion at the southern border.  They want you to think they have the cure for everything that they deem wrong with the world.  They dont.  They want you to think they alone can fix it.  They cant.  This country was founded on the principles of balance.  Equality.  Opportunity.  That is what most of our ancestors came to America for; Opportunity.  It was not for opportunity for ourselves and nothing for the other guy.  The GOP needs to STOP covering for the angry tangerine ie Donald Trump and if they want to continue defending him, STOP CALLING YOURSELVES PATRIOTS, partisans protect and cover for a twice impeached former president.  Patriots protect a country.  The GOP needs to stop trying to make and rig elections work in their favor and instead work for their constituents.  Come up with policies and not slogans.  Come up with REAL policies that benefit the people and not their politicians and donors.  The Democrats need to do a better job calling them out on their BULLSHIT.

Now the Democrats have real problems as well.  They have the White House, they have the House and they have a tie in the senate.  Start using that.  Cant pass a reasonable bill or a popular bill? Start a website and post the names of EVERY Republican AND Democrat who kills it.  Tell the people what they wont have and what they are missing out on because that Republican or the two GOP pets wont pass it.  Democrats need to start doing what their GOP counterparts do so well.  Demonize the other side.  They need to turn it into a blood bath.  The Democrats CANNOT hope and pray that the outrage and anger over Donald Trump lasts. Outrage goes away, anger goes away unless you do like the GOP and keep it going with every news cycle.  Progressives need to stop promising things that they know they cant deliver.  No progressive with a straight face can tell me they honestly thought Medicare for all was going to pass.  They cannot with a straight face tell me they thought the Green New Deal was going to pass.  If they do they are just as nuts as the other side.  If they do they obviously cant do math.  Progressives need to align with the GOP because they do 80% of the GOP's work for them and attack the Democrats RELENTLESSLY which causes divisions among the supporters.  Progressives need to focus on reality, they need to focus on whats reasonable and they need to get MORE Democrats in the senate to negate Manchin and Sinema and make those two idiots IRRELEVANT,

The next two election cycles are important because they will determine what kind of country you want to live in.  In 2016 the GOP and Donald Trump won because they had their followers believing they were the silent majority and that motivated them and gave them NIL results to the point now the GOP and their followers are now the most vocal but they are vocal in all the wrong ways.  There truly is a new silent majority and I dont think Republicans are going to like it.  The situation in America has really become black and white.  There is no more grey area.  Do you want to support a party that tried to overthrow a free and fair election to put the loser back in power with ZERO evidence and dozens of court cases lost?  Do you want to live in an autocratic nightmare where the president can fire anyone he wants up to AND including his own Vice President?  Do you want to live in a country where a woman is told her decisions regarding her OWN body are null and void?  Do you want to live in a country where the parents of gay and trans kids can be locked up for child abuse?  Do you want to live in a country where we are allowing ourselves to be poisoned and choked out by our own carbon footprint?  Do you want to live in a country where we are technologically inferior to even our own geopolitical enemies?  DO YOU WANT TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE YOUR OWN REPRESENTATIVES AND PEOPLE YOU BASICALLY HIRE TELL YOU TO YOUR FACE THEY DONT CARE WHAT YOU WANT OR WHAT YOU THINK?  If you answered yes to any of those, then you need to vote Republican and you cant bitch when it backfires on you horribly.

The Rights Love affair with Hunter Biden

 
The American right has a love affair with Hunter Biden.  It is their biggest scandal yet.  Whether its his big executive position at Burisma or its accused child sex trafficking star of the house Matt Gaetz getting the laptop introduced as part of the congressional record or just some hot late night talking points on Fox News or Qanon websites.  They all love this tidbit of information.  Now, they say it shows corruption.  It does not.  They claim its a viable piece of information to get President Biden impeached.  It is not.  

No one is claiming that Hunter did not work for Burisma or didn't pay his taxes.  We all know what Hunter Biden has done.  The issue is NO ONE BUT THE RIGHT CARES.  Hunter Biden being given a position that he was woefully unqualified for is not corruption.  It shows the deeper problem that the children of the rich and powerful get treated differently because they have pull.  Hunter Biden IS NOT the first child of a politician or celebrity to get a position in a big corporation because of who his father is or to use his fathers position to get something of value.  The most recent example of this was actually Ivanka Trump.  Ivanka had trademarks in China, 41 of them in fact, that were fast tracked after her fathers election in 2016 as per this Forbes article.  They were approved 40% faster than those that she applied for BEFORE her father was president.  

Children of famous people and celebrities have always received preferential treatment OVER people who are vastly more talented and qualified for the job, it happens.  Then comes the e-mails with "the big guy" that is personally the most retarded thing I have ever heard and is the farthest thing from a there-there that I have ever seen in my life.  

Why is this story not covered as well outside of right-wing media then it should be?  Because Hunter does not work in the government, he sits on no councils, he is not involved in any committee, he is not a special envoy to the middle east and he isn't a "special advisor to the president."   As far as I know Hunter has been to the White House, what?  ONE time.  Hunter Biden is NOT the first child of a politician or celebrity to have severe personal problems either.  I personally don't car about Hunter Bidens laptop.  I don't care if Hunter Biden is having sex crazed orgies or cocaine crazed house parties as long as he isn't doing it in the White House.  

So how can Hunter Biden overcome these problems and the bad press associated with them?  Its very simple.  Hunter Biden NEEDS to become a Republican.  Register as a Republican, vote Republican and run in Republican elections.  He would become a right-wing hero if he gets up there and blasts his father and he will be right at home.  According to Madison Cawthorn the GOP has drug crazed sex parties ALL the time.  So pull up a chair Hunter.  Join Matt and Madison and snort a line or 2 off of a prostitutes breast.  I see a bright future ahead of you in Republican politics.