As I mentioned I spend all day listening to podcasts on one device or the other. Here is some of what I hear

This short clip is great. The point she makes is the same one I made about the Democratic Party sliding right to get dissatisfied republican voters. Her point, we should have paid more attention to the people who left the Democratic Party than those who were never tRumpers or left the republican party due to tRump. Again it is the party of the working person not the party of republican lite. Hugs

While I find it easier to follow Sam’s reasoning on some issues, while he is out on funeral leave after his mother died, I am glad it is Emma explaining this. Listen to what tRump was saying about women. He wanted to see Harris in a ring getting beaten by Mike Tyson. He said he would protect women if they liked it or not. So she says two themes, I say three. She says fear stoking by bashing immigrants and misogyny. I say it was them plus racism. The first thing he said about her was she changed to being black for advantage, then started calling a black woman retarded. But if you remember the things he said about women in the 2016 election about Clinton and the grab them by the pussy tape. Sad that so many of our fellow people have these feelings in 2024. Hugs.

in this video both Matts are upset with the culture of democrats in office refusing to do what is needed instead patting each other on the back as infallible. Trump attacked both democrats and republicans who did not follow the ideas he pushed. Ideas that he felt people wanted, and it became true the more he said it. Even when they failed to actually help the lower incomes and did increase greatly the incomes of the upper incomes / very wealthy. They mention that again in 2023 the mean average income was lower than in 2019. Lower incomes are still losing and have been since the 1980s. While harder to listen too it is all about the conditions on the ground vs words used by democrat candidates. Brandon talks about the influencers on podcasts / social media. Matt Bender continues that conservation. Hugs

This video is about Joe Biden and him staying in until the last minute. How there was no primary and no time for Harris to introduce herself to the public. How Biden did not promote her publicly until he dropped out. How Biden kept her sidelines because her age made him look older by comparison. How the democrats need to do more to run to their extremer base like the republicans do. Hugs

In video Emma points out that the covid recovery plan of massive help for the lower incomes made the Biden administration very popular, but when that changed in 2022 for a more austerity program pushed by bipartisan republicans and Manchin / Sinema … or should I say by the republicans and Biden’s need for the feeling of bipartisanship. Once people realized again they wouldn’t be getting the help promised them by the democrats they again felt the democrats left them behind. The lower incomes feel betrayed by the democratic party and they feel used. Paid attention to only every four years and promised table scraps so the democratic candidate can keep the corporate dollars flowing. Hugs

let’s celebrate acts of defiance

by Jeff Tiedrich

Governors are already saying no to Donald Read on Substack

Snippet (NSFW):

“do not obey in advance.”

that’s the sage advice from historian Timothy Snyder.

“Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”

obeying in advance is how fascism wins.

just last month, we saw Dick-Rocket Czar Jeff Bezos — owner of the Washington Post — preemptively kowtow to Donny Convict.

‘please sir, don’t hit me. look, look, I’ve told my editor at the Post not to endorse Kamala. they had one all written, and I told them to shitcan it. see, sir? can we be friends now?’

today, lets check in on some leaders who are already saying no to the coming reign of King Fuckface the First.

Donny Convict hates the shit out of California — and, by extension, he hates its Governor, Gavin Newsom. look at this handsome fucker, with his square jaw and his thick head of hair. he makes Donny seem like a misshapen garden gnome by comparison — and Donny knows it.

inside Donny’s childish, ignorant brain, California is entirely populated by chardonnay-sipping hippie elites who hate his guts — and so when disaster strikes, he’s inclined to deny them federal aid.

there’s also that bit about the big fucking Canadian water faucet.

Donny somehow believes that all of California’s water comes from a massive faucet in Canada. this faucet is so ungodly ginormous that it takes an entire day to turn it. I wish I were making this up — but no, our incoming 47th president actually imagines that the reason California experiences droughts is because Gavin Newsom keeps that big-ass faucet under lock and key and won’t let anyone open it.

oh god oh god oh god he’s so fucking stupid. it hurt my brain just to type that last paragraph.

can we just pause to reflect for a moment on just how insane it is for a country to have a chief executive who believes in such a fever-swamp hallucination? this is a man who will once again be in charge of a nuclear arsenal — and he’s wandering about, babbling incoherently about giant spigots. holy shit.

Donny’s already threatening to inflict preemptive retribution on California as part of his Day One Dictatoring — and Governor Newsom has a message for Donny:

just try it, fuck-o.

California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fierce critic of former President Donald Trump, on Thursday called for lawmakers to convene a special session ahead of another Trump presidency to safeguard the state’s progressive policies. Meanwhile, attorneys general in blue states across the country announced they were also gearing up for a legal fight.

Newsom’s office told The Associated Press that the governor and lawmakers are ready to “Trump-proof” California’s state laws.

no word from Newsom on if he’s ever going to open that big fucking faucet.

Gavin Newsom is not the only governor already taking steps to Trump-proof his state. in Illinois, Governor JB Pritzker is vowing not to put up with any of Donny’s fuckery.

In Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker said on Thursday he would ask his state’s legislators, possibly as soon as next week, to address potential threats from a second Trump term. “You come for my people,” Mr. Pritzker said at a news conference, “you come through me.”

here’s New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul:

The announcements echoed a vow on Wednesday by Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York to “honor” the election results and to try to work with Mr. Trump, but also to fight any efforts to curtail reproductive freedoms, expand gun rights or curb environmental regulations.

At a news conference, Ms. Hochul addressed Mr. Trump directly: “If you try to harm New Yorkers or roll back their rights, I will fight you every step of the way.”

New York’s Attorney General Letitia James is also promising not to tolerate any of Donny’s shit.

“If possible, we will work with his administration, but we will not compromise our values or our integrity, our principles,” she said. “We did not expect this result, but we are prepared to respond to this result, and my office has been preparing for several months, because we’ve been here before, we’ve faced this challenge before, and we use the rule of law to fight back.”

Donny’s plan to round up million of immigrants and disappear them into detention camps hinges on using each state’s local law enforcement to do the rounding-up. Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy say that Donny can stick that plan where the sun don’t shine.

However, plans for using local law enforcement and the National Guard could face roadblocks in states led by Democrats.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey told MSNBC that she would “absolutely not” allow state police to assist in mass deportations if the Trump administration requested it.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has a message for Donny, who has threatened to fire him: go ahead, make my day. (Snip-go see it)

Friday!

I’m in love.

Friday I’m In Love

Brilliant New Ads Put Republicans In Your Bedroom

This is the push the democrats should have made to the people. Ways the republicans plan to invade their personal life. Not even maga men want someone telling them what they can do with their dick. Hugs.

A new ad campaign from the Progress Action Fund shows how your bedroom is impacted with Republicans in charge.

Trump Wins The White House. Again.

By just do something … everything he says is tell them what progressive policies you will push to help them in their lives. That is what the people needed to hear, progressive polices to take the country back from the wealthy and lift up the hurting lowering incomes. Again as he mentions the first openly trans person was elected to the US congress. Democratic candidates need to stop following the right ever more to the right moving to a mythical center and go openly and decisively to the progressive helping the working / low income people that they used to champion. Hugs

Trump Wins.. Again

This video goes over the data and shows how when the democratic candidates shift to the right to appeal to republican voters they lose left wing voters and do not gain the republicans ones. When presented with a choice between full republican and republican lite the republicans go full republican. The data proves that if democrats run to the left and stay there, they win. If democrats run left and then shift right, they lose. Twice a democrat has done that running against tRump, and both times they lost. The people on the left want a clear difference and want a candidate that shows they will fight for policies that are progressive in helping the lower incomes not one who is a little bit for both sides. Left leaning candidates that ran those types of campaigns won their elections, the ones who vocally protected the LGBTQ+ including trans people won. Attacking trans people was not a big draw for the right, those people already had other reasons to vote tRump. But defending trans people was a big draw for the left. Look at how Biden ran in 2020, he openly courted the progressive members of the party, he embraced the LGBTQ+. He implemented Warren and Sanders ideas, and gave Mayor Pete a cabinet position. When he turned to more austerity policies in 2022 he lost support. Hugs

Liberal Redneck – Reaction to Trump Victory

True Facts: Parasitoid Wasps

Great song, better meaning

Teach Your Children …

Thanks to Ten Bears for the reminder that others faced a harder struggle and stood their ground in order to create a more perfect union. I will give myself today to absorb it, to be stunned at how we were so misled. How with all the support, money, and him being him, how did Harris lose. Misogyny comes to mind. But we fought for our rights before. We started at the ground, the grassroots and changed minds along with changing who was in charge. The other side learned our lessons and turned them against us. So tomorrow we go back to doing what we must to change the direction the country is going in, to make sure school boards are filled with people who want kids to learn science, learn to treat those different from them with respect and dynasty. We were on the way to a better world, those that did not want that fought back. Now the shoe is back on our feet. We have to make sure it starts at every level and every state. Make sure we are in the community and seen. Make sure we let people know we will not return to the 1850s or even the 1950s. We remember, let’s make sure everyone else does also. Hugs