The Blue Wave Has Begun, And The Donald's Days Are Numbered

With the results this November's elections, especially the upset victory of Zohran Mamdani in the NYC mayoral election, things are really looking up for the progressive Democrats, and looking down for Trump and the MAGA Republicans.  People have had ENOUGH of the latter, along with their neoliberal lapdogs posing as Democrats.  Especially as this government shutdown drags on.

Gee, who woulda thunk it, that starving one's own people and taking away their healthcare and manufacturing chaos for its own sake was somehow NOT a good strategy to win elections? 

The 2026 midterms will clearly be a rout, God willing.

It won't be long before millions of soon to be ex-MAGA folks begin to claim that they had never supported Trump, and even opposed him from the start.  Natch.  But we have the receipts, of course.

No Kings Day Was A Monumental Success

No Kings Day was a monumental success!  Power to the People, right on!  Keep up the great work!

History has been made. And will continue to be made.

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Happy No Kings Day!

Happy No Kings Day!  So far we are having an excellent turnout, be sure to keep it up!

Dear Republicans, We Hereby Accept Your Resignation

Dear Republicans,

Now that the government shutdown that YOU are responsible for has crossed the one-week mark, We the People will take that as evidence that you have resigned from your positions.  You had ONE job to do, and you couldn't even keep the government open.  Because you were so rabidly gung ho about 1) taking healthcare away from vulnerable Americans, and 2) not wanting to release the Epstein files, you failed to see the forest for the trees.  Again.  And we hereby accept your resignation.

Sincerely, 

We the People of the USA

And just in case we didn't make our message clear, well, in the words of your very own fallen idol:  "YOU'RE FIRED!"

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CEASEFIRE NOW!

It has been two years of almost non-stop brutal war since the horrific October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel.  And that war is still going on, with horrific atrocities inflicted on the people of Gaza by the current fascist (or at least fascist-adjacent) Netanyahu/Likud regime that controls Israel.

CEASEFIRE NOW!

And do all of the following:

• Release ALL hostages yesterday! 
• Impeach, remove, and try Netanyahu and his underlings for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and perhaps even genocide as well, before the International Criminal Court.  Yesterday.
• Do the same to any and all Hamas leadership who are still alive.  Yesterday.
• Do NOT build any sort of "Gaz-A-Lago", but rather rebuild Gaza properly and ethically.
• Return to the pre-1967 borders (aka the "two-state solution"), end the illegal occupation since then, and end all illegal settlements.  Yesterday.
• Put Gaza under temporary international control before transitioning it to a new, local self-governing authority that is NOT adjacent to Hamas in any way.
• Abolish conscription completely and transition to an all-volunteer military.  Yes, really.  Yesterday.
• Give unconditional amnesty to all refuseniks (conscientious objectors and draft resisters).
• Implement a generous Universal Basic Income (UBI) for Israelis and Palestinians alike, with NO strings attached (call it "Shekels Without Shackles").
• Implement a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission".
• And finally, give very serious thought to having men on both sides step down and let women take over completely.  (I am only half-joking about this.)

So what are we waiting for?  The USA is in a unique position to pressure both sides (but especially Israel) to implement such things.  (But the Donald and his own fascist regime probably would NOT be keen on this at all, of course.)

P.S.  If anyone thinks we are somehow being antisemitic by opposing the Netanyahu regime, the war in Gaza, and the illegal occupation and settlements, that is clearly false.  We completely oppose any and all forms of antisemitism and any other bigotry based on race, creed, color, national origin, or any other demographic characteristics. 

Trumpty Dumpty's Great Fall Is Coming Sooner Than You Think

Trump's days as president are clearly numbered now more than ever.  He is going off the rails mentally even MORE than usual.  In fact both his mental health AND his physical health are increasingly being called into question.  He is waging wars against his own people as well as abroad.  He shut down the government, again. The ICE Gestapo raids and clampdowns continue to accelerate.  He is manufacturing chaos to distract from the Epstein files and the fact that he is cracking up now.  And his unhinged wannabe king/despot/dictator behavior is increasingly angering and alienating more and more people, including even in his own MAGA base (which is like Scar in The Lion King angering and alienating the Hyenas, basically).

And speaking of kings, don't forget to attend the upcoming No Kings Day protest on October 18th near you!

UPDATE:  Beware of any fake rallies set up by the fascists and their sycophantic lackeys, triple check if it is legit first, and do NOT walk into any such traps!

Excellent Article From Real Left About The Primacy Of Individual Rights

An excellent article from Real Left (formerly known as Left Lockdown Sceptics) makes an excellent case for the primacy of individual rights, and how without individual rights, there can really be no common good worthy of the name.  This is a very important and necessary corrective for a grave and perennial error that has long plagued the political Left (both genuine and phony) for at least two centuries (on and off) to one degree or another.  Namely, the specious idea that group rights > individual rights is essentially a form of moral relativism that ends up hurting not only the individual, but the collective/community as well.

(Quite frankly, this is one of the very, very few things the Left could and should agree with Ayn Rand on.)

If we can't hold onto our hard-won civil and human rights and liberties in a crisis (whether real or manufactured), then we cannot hold onto them at all, as they would thus not really be rights, but mere privileges doled out by the powerful, with more strings attached than a spider's web.

Genuine rights and liberties are NOT conditional, after all. 

Now, this does NOT mean we should endorse hyper-individualism either, as in "I got mine, screw everyone else," or, as Margaret Thatcher said, "there is no such thing as society".  That's the essence of neoliberalism, which is, in a word, evil.  No man or woman is an island, after all.  But affirming the common good need not, and must not, mean trampling individual rights either.  The false dichotomy between individual and community is exactly that, false.

Without the primacy of individual rights (and the rule of law, to back up such rights), any attempt at democracy ultimately devolves to oligarchy, tyranny, and/or most likely of all, ochlocracy (mob rule).  It basically becomes like two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.  Natch.

The key takeaway:  If the genuine Left ever wants to rise again in any way, shape, or form, they had best take heed!  Or else, the phony neoliberal pseudo-left, the right-wing (including the far right and "alt-right"), and/or the "tankies" on the extreme authoritarian far left, will all gladly and eagerly vie with one another to fill in the moral vacuum left by the grave error of hyper-collectivism.  And yes, hyper-collectivism is just as bad as hyper-individualism, if not worse still.  They are two sides of the same ugly coin.

Long article, but definitely worth a serious read.  We ignore it truly at our own peril.

P.S.  In case the reader wants to trot out that old chestnut, we are well aware that shouting "FIRE!" in a crowded theater is not, and should not, be protected as free speech, for example.  Duh!  Indeed, there are nuances and edge cases, to be sure.  But these are essentially the exceptions that prove the rule of (largely) absolute individual rights.