If you’re a progressive Democratic Party voter, you’re constantly told to shut up and vote for whatever centrist wins the nomination. “Vote Blue No Matter Who” is what the party believes and practices no matter who … hold on, I’m getting an update. It turns out that if a social democrat wins the nomination for, say, mayor New York, corporate Democrats like Kirsten Gillibrand get to beat him like a rented, red-headed mule. I used to have a dog that was scared of his own farts. He was braver than most elected Democrats.
Sometimes left-leaning Democrats get elected anyway, at which point it becomes the job of corporate Democrats to undermine them in every way possible. The indispensable Karl Stomberg puts it quite eloquently in his essay for Delaware Call calling out Delaware’s no-change agents and listing – it’s a long list – all the ways they are working for secrecy for themselves and against the public interest.
If you’re a betting person, you’ll never go wrong banking on the cravenness of the people running U.S. institutions. The University of Virginia tried to sidestep its DEI programs by changing the name, but super-genius Stephen Miller – if he’s not a super-genius, why’s his head shaped like a light bulb? – wasn’t fooled. The administration demanded the resignation of the school’s president, who stepped down so the administration wouldn’t strip the school of federal funding.
Anyone who thinks Trump’s bombing of Iran was anything but kayfabe in service of showing what a “peacemaker” he is should check out what diarrhea-mouth said a couple of days ago: He claims he agreed to let Iran bomb the U.S. base in Qatar, and now he’s claiming he stopped Israel from targeting their Supreme Leader. As the reporter for TPM notes, our useless mainstream media hasn’t deigned to even take notice, let alone connect the dots.
Speaking of the world’s worst people, Jeffrey Bezos got married in Venice. Everyone else in Venice was not pleased. As protested pointed out with a sign that covered a big chunk of Piazza San Marco, if you can rent Venice for your wedding you can afford to pay more taxes.
The floor’s yours.