Some people are peddling the notion that there is no “civil war” among Democrats. Their evidence: Candidates who have won primary races span the ideological spectrum from Blue Dogs to Berniecrats. The flaw in this logic should be clear — internal differences usually get papered over in the face of a common enemy — but there are lots of other indications that all Democrats aren’t using the same playbook. One of the biggest, and perhaps most troublesome for fans of participatory democracy, is Democratic billionaire Tom Steyer’s monomaniacal insistence that candidates should run on a platform of impeaching Trump. As the article makes clear, there’s a big problem with that — it polls terribly. It’s almost impossible to tell a billionaire anything — they all think they’re rich because they’re so fucking smart — but someone should remind Steyer that what you say is a lot less important than what you do, as Trump-criticizing Republicans who vote for his agenda demonstrate daily.
Another day, another round of panicky stories about how the Trumpkins are winning the PR war over the Mueller probe. For the life of me I can’t figure out how the Deep State allowed Trump to live long enough to take office, considering that the NSA knew well before the election that Russia was treating him as an intelligence “asset” — not because of some Deep State conspiracy, but because foreign intelligence agencies around the globe were telling the NSA about the copious contacts between powerful Russians and people in Trump’s orbit.
Kudos to WDEL for finding a national expert to call bullshit on gun-humping fuckstick Sen. Dave Lawson’s proposal to force schools to hire armed guards. The expert points out that this is part of the NRA’s push to put its unregulated products everywhere.
If you doubt the media played a major role in electing Trump — and I don’t see how it’s debatable, given that the “Trump” his fans voted for is a fictional character introduced to the public through the newspaper industry’s raw sewage sluice, the gossip columns — read this Daily Beast account of how gossip site TMZ helped blunt the effect of the Access Hollywood tape.
Indeed, it’s easy to argue that American media — not just the news media, all of it — is a major force in making life on Earth worse than it has to be. Case in point: Who’s the asshole at ABC who green-lighted a reboot of Roseanne Barr’s show? She hasn’t been funny in 25 years, if indeed she ever was, and she’s a mentally ill shitshow besides. She took her demons out for a stroll with another racist tweet, this one about Obama administration official Valerie Jarrett. All the plastic surgery in the world won’t cover up bone-deep ugliness.