How Progressives Blew It
Posted By: 4250Luis, 10/28/2024 7:04:00 PM
It wasn’t so long ago progressives were riding high. They had a moment; they really did. Their radical views set the agenda and tone for the Democratic Party and, especially in cultural areas, were hegemonic in the nation’s discourse. Building in the teens and cresting in the early ’20s with the Black Lives Matter protests and the heady early days of the Biden administration, very few of their ideas seemed off the table. Defund the police and empty the jails? Sure! Abolish ICE and decriminalize the border? Absolutely! Get rid of fossil fuels and have a “Green New Deal”? Definitely! Demand trillions of dollars for a “transformational”
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Trump ally Steve Bannon released from
prison after serving 4 months for contempt
of Congress 7 replies
prison after serving 4 months for contempt
of Congress 7 replies
Steve Bannon was released from a Connecticut federal prison early Tuesday after serving four months behind bars for failing to comply with a subpoena related to the Jan. 6 congressional committee.
“Steve Bannon is a Free Man,” Natalie Winters, who co-hosts the former Trump advisor’s “War Room” podcast, posted on X just after 6 a.m.
The federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Bannon, 70, had been released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., where he’d been since reporting on July 1.
Steve Bannon appears in court in New York, Jan. 12, 2023.
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Steve Bannon appears in court in New York on Jan. 12, 2023.
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How Progressives Blew It
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It wasn’t so long ago progressives were riding high. They had a moment; they really did. Their radical views set the agenda and tone for the Democratic Party and, especially in cultural areas, were hegemonic in the nation’s discourse. Building in the teens and cresting in the early ’20s with the Black Lives Matter protests and the heady early days of the Biden administration, very few of their ideas seemed off the table. Defund the police and empty the jails? Sure! Abolish ICE and decriminalize the border? Absolutely! Get rid of fossil fuels and have a “Green New Deal”? Definitely! Demand trillions of dollars for a “transformational”
Three score years ago this Sunday, one of the seminal moments in modern American politics occurred in the service of a presidential campaign that would suffer a resounding defeat. Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing” broadcast endorsing Barry Goldwater’s unsuccessful candidacy did far more than herald Reagan’s arrival on the national stage. Somewhat paradoxically given its title, Reagan’s speech holds a principled timelessness that makes it as relevant today as it was six decades ago.
Well, I guess we can dispense with the quaint notion that unsecured steel "ballot boxes" deposited around California, Oregon, and Washington are secure. If anyone should hold those beliefs after reading what just happened in the Pacific Northwest, then you should probably have that person held on a 51-50 until they snap out of their delirium.
Overnight in Portland and Vancouver, in what are literally attacks on democracy, "incendiary devices" — IEDs — were used to incinerate "hundreds of ballots" in two ballot boxes overnight in Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, Wash.
Wyoming’s at-large congresswoman, Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman, brushed aside a question this month on whether she plans to run for governor in 2026 but did not say no. During an Oct. 19 interview on the Cowboy State Politics podcast, host David Iverson asked Hageman, “Harriet, are you going to run for governor?”
“I am flattered at the number of people who have talked to me about this, and it’s something that requires an awful lot of thought,” Hageman said. “Right now what we need to focus on is, we need to focus on getting Donald Trump elected in November.”
The Ordeal and Triumph of Mr. Netanyahu
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After the October 7 massacres, the obituaries of the long political career of Benjamin Netanyahu, published both in Israel and in the West, became orthodox. He was considered as politically inert as Donald Trump once was after January 6, 2021. The conventional wisdom speculated not if, but only when he would be forced out of office. Western leaders and the Israeli left, and indeed even the Israeli non-left, as well as American and European pundits, claimed that the laxity of the Netanyahu government was entirely to blame for the grotesque massacre of October 7.
Worst. Nazi. Rally. Ever.
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When Donald Trump’s campaign announced plans for a rally at Madison Square Garden, Democrats and their media allies knew they had a problem. Trump was going to pack the house on their turf. So they wasted no time pushing the tired Hitler narrative and claimed that the choice of venue was an homage to a pro-Nazi rally held there in 1939. It wasn't just liberals in the media pushing this narrative, either. Hillary Clinton accused Trump of “actually re-enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939.”
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said she thinks the Madison Square Garden rally former President Trump is hosting Sunday is a “white flag of surrender.”
“I think he’s waving the white flag of surrender,” Hochul said Sunday on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.” He’s coming back to a city that he knows well. He’s comfortable here. Maybe he’d like to sleep in his own bed.”
Hochul contrasted Trump’s rally with Vice President Harris’s itinerary. She’s campaigning in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania.
Trump will be going to his “known, familiar” environment, but it won’t serve him on the campaign trail, Hochul argued.
HOT TAKES: Much to Democrats' Chagrin,
No Nazis Were Found at Trump's MAGA Square
Garden Rally 5 replies
No Nazis Were Found at Trump's MAGA Square
Garden Rally 5 replies
On Sunday, former President and GOP nominee Donald Trump transformed Madison Square Garden into MAGA Square Garden, as the crowd reached capacity of reportedly over 19,000 people. In attendance was the melting pot of New York: Whites, Italians, Muslims, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, all the colors on the spectrum and then some. Yeah, it's unprecedented. This is the Republican presidential candidate packing out a famous venue in deep blue New York City. For a supposedly fascist, racist, Nazi rally, something has gone horribly wrong. The comparison between Trump's MSG rally and a 1939 Nazi Party rally started with, you guessed it, the Hildebeast:
Twenty thousand MAGA die-hards flooded Madison Square Garden for a sold out rally for former President Donald Trump in New York City.
Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of New York City as Madison Square Garden reached capacity ahead of the 45th president’s appearance in the Big Apple.
The crowd roared with applause as RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson, and Hulk Hogan took the stage.
Follow the Post’s live updates for the latest news on Trump’s speech with the 2024 presidential election days away:
Vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) defended former President Trump’s comments suggesting using military force on Election Day to combat “the enemy within” in an interview with NBC News published Saturday.
“Well, I think what Donald Trump said is that those folks pose a greater threat to the United States’s peace and security because America is strong enough to stand up to any foreign adversary,” Vance told Meet the Press host Kristen Welker. What he said, and I do agree with this, is that our greatest threat is not a foreign adversary because we can handle these guys;
Oh dear, this is going to cause a hot mess of cognitive conflict amid the extreme leftists and cultural Marxists. During his Michigan campaign rally, a litany of Muslim leaders came on stage and gave a passionate endorsement of President Donald J Trump. In 2016 the Cultural Marxists accused candidate Donald Trump of “islamophobia” for announcing a ban on travel without vetting from extremist countries; what they called a “Muslim ban.” Now, on the eve of the 2024 election, at the epicenter of a region containing the highest population of Arabs and Muslims in America,
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Americans should prepare for “unrest’ if former President Donald Trump completes the greatest political comeback in modern American politics, Democrats told the Wall Street Journal on Monday.
The potential for Democrats to perpetrate political violence undermines their narrative that Republicans, and especially the America First movement, are a threat to democracy.
“I think there’ll be some violence. I think there’ll be workplace fights. There’ll be fights at kids’ birthday parties. I think they’ll be protests and will turn violent,” Mark Halperin recently told Tucker Carlson.
Resistance groups, according to the Journal’s Joshua Chaffin and Valerie Bauerlein, believe citizens should be “bracing for unrest” if Trump wins:
Rep. Dingell tells Jake Tapper he might
'have to visit' her in an internment camp
if Trump wins 36 replies
'have to visit' her in an internment camp
if Trump wins 36 replies
Michigan Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell surprised CNN’s Jake Tapper by insisting that former President Trump has shared plans to put people into internment camps if he’s re-elected. Dingell was asked by "The Lead" host on Monday how she felt about various Arab American Michigan voters protesting President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, while other Muslim leaders recently endorsed Trump at a rally.
Although she acknowledged the Muslim and Arab American community is not a monolithic voting bloc, Dingell argued they need to be told Trump would only be harmful to them.
Barbara Pierce Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush and granddaughter of former President George H.W. Bush, spent time over the past weekend in Pennsylvania on the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris as the 2024 election hits the final week before voting.
The scion of the noted Republican family gave PEOPLE magazine a statement to confirm she is working on behalf of the Democratic candidate in the critical swing state.“It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend,” Barbara, 42, told PEOPLE on Tuesday. “I’m hopeful they’ll move our country forward and protect women’s rights.”
Bezos Tells WaPo To Hire More Conservatives
As Paper Loses 200K Subscribers Over Endorsement Debacle 34 replies
As Paper Loses 200K Subscribers Over Endorsement Debacle 34 replies
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has reportedly told the newspaper that it needs to add more conservative columnists in a bid to make the paper more balanced.
The directive comes as the paper has lost more than hundreds of thousands of subscribers over the last several days after Bezos killed the Editorial Board’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.
NPR reported that by midday on Monday, more than 200,000 people canceled their subscriptions, more than 8% of the company’s total number of subscribers.
Bezos has told people at the newspaper that he wants to grow the paper’s reach with conservatives,
Mitch McConnell is Actively Trying to
Defeat Conservative Republicans in Senate
Races this Election 28 replies
Defeat Conservative Republicans in Senate
Races this Election 28 replies
The long political career of Mitch McConnell (R – KY) is winding down in the same manner as previous RINO Senators such as John McCain, Mitt Romney, Jeff Flake, Bob Corker, etc – with betrayal, vendettas, and a repudiation of the conservative base. McConnell, the current Senate Republican Leader is actively trying to defeat incumbent Senate conservatives who are running for re-election, and he is making it clear that his role in his final two years in Congress will be to align with Democrats to thwart President Trump should Trump be elected to a second term.
Vice President Kamala Harris said she would take a cognitive test in response to former president Donald Trump’s insults about her low intelligence, challenging her opponent to do the same.
Harris responded to Trump’s Friday remarks in a nearly three-hour interview with podcast king Joe Rogan, in which the GOP nominee called Harris “a very low IQ person” and said she needs to take a cognitive test.
“Sure, I would challenge him to take the same one,” Harris said when asked by CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell over the weekend whether she’d take a cognitive test.
“This is what he has resorted to,
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz had a love affair with the daughter of a Chinese Communist Party official during his teaching stint in Foshan that was so stormy it drove her to the brink of suicide, The Post has learned.
Jenna Wang, 59, told The Post in a phone interview on Monday that she had fallen head over heels for the now-Minnesota governor when he was a young English instructor in China. A woman in a swimsuit on a beach 3
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz had a love affair with the daughter of a Chinese Communist Party official, according to a new report. (Photo)
Nevada’s Supreme Court on Monday ruled mail-in ballots without postmarks can be counted three days after Election Day.
The Democrats use mail-in ballots to cheat so the Trump campaign and Nevada GOP filed a lawsuit against the Nevada Secretary of State arguing against the state’s law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted after the election.
Nevada state law allows mail-in ballots with postmarks to be counted up to four days after Election Day.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Monday ruled mail-in ballots with postmarks can be counted up to 4 days after the election
Democrats In North Carolina’s Helene
Disaster Area Block Emergency Early Voting Locations 23 replies
Disaster Area Block Emergency Early Voting Locations 23 replies
The havoc wrought by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina brought disaster to homes and families, but that has not stopped Democrats from blocking the approval of emergency early voting sites in the heavily Republican area. The refusal to act forced the GOP-led state legislature to intervene.
Democrat-run local elections boards in McDowell and Henderson counties have failed to approve additional early voting sites in the disaster-stricken area, despite increasing calls for more access to voting. Both counties voted for Donald Trump in 2020.
“Ensuring the right to vote is upheld for western NC citizens devastated by Hurricane Helene should be a non-partisan issue,
MAGA comedian Tony Hinchcliffe sparked fierce outrage after hurling insults against Latinos in a series of purported jokes during his opener at the Trump rally in Madison Square Garden Sunday.
“I welcome migrants to the United States with open arms and by open arms, I mean like this,” the “Kill Tony” podcast host told the crowd — with hand gestures signally “no.”
He added: “It’s wild and these Latinos love making babies too, just know that — they don’t do that. They come inside, just like they did to our country. Republicans are the party with a good sense of Hinchcliffe, 40, cackled after taking the swipe,
TRAGIC LOSS What happened to Graham Dingo
Dinkelman and how did the snake handler
and YouTuber die? 19 replies
Dinkelman and how did the snake handler
and YouTuber die? 19 replies
GRAHAM "Dingo" Dinkelman was a renowned South African wildlife conservationist, snake handler and broadcaster. The popular YouTuber tragically passed away on October 28, 2024, following a month-long battle in hospital. His death was the result of complications from a venomous snake bite he sustained while working with reptiles, a field he was deeply passionate about.
Dubbed the 'South African Steve Irwin', Dingo had amassed more than 100,000 YouTube subscribers and over 600,000 Instagram followers at the time of his passing. Graham Dinkelman was born on June 15, 1980, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
From a young age he displayed a keen interest in wildlife, particularly reptiles.
He attended Maritzburg College,
Nothing says joy like an abortion, am I right? If you cringed reading that, take it up with Vice President Kamala Harris.
On Friday, just 11 days from the election, the Democratic presidential nominee campaigned in Houston in part to boost the Democrat running for the Senate. But she wasn't here only for a Senate race.By talking about abortion and basking in the fame of a celebrity or two, Harris tried to make an example of Texas while peddling a false narrative about joy and freedom to women.
I hope women see through this charade.