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  • What most people don’t understand is that the filibuster is an abomination that was created by accident. Once it was discovered, it was used for a century to undermine all civil rights legislation. The Senate loved this because the secretly racist Senators could rely on the openly racist ones to target bills they didn’t really want to support anyway.

    Over time they strengthened the filibuster while also making it easier to deploy. At this point all that is needed to have a filibuster is for a staffer to email intent of the filibuster in order for it to be in effect. What typically happens is the filibustering party will email the intent to filibuster on a Friday and then everyone who doesn’t support the bill goes home for the weekend and the bill dies.

    A super majority requirement in the Senate was never the founders intent. They had tried the super majority requirement in the articles of confederation and it was an abysmal failure.

    The filibuster is a tool of oppression and gridlock, and should be abolished.








  • My media diet was mainly MSNBC, Sunday talk shows, the times and the post and magazines like the Atlantic and Harper’s. I’d also read Jacobin on occasion and watch Amy Goodman. When we dropped cable (because of Fox News) we started watching youtube and went through a bunch of different channels before settling on Majority Report, Hasan, Breaking Points, Secular Talk, TYT, and a bunch of others.

    My SO really liked Secular Talk and I found Kyle Kulinski to be crass and obnoxious but when I fact checked him, I found that he was never wrong. And then he made me laugh really hard one day and I think that broke my Kyle dislike.

    A few years ago a family member recommended the IHIP podcast and we immediately loved it. They weren’t too into politics yet but once they did, they really caught fire.

    Not a fan of TYT anymore because of Cenk and what’s her name selling out. We’ve recently started to realize that the people we enjoy and trust the most are the ones who take no corporate money. Imagine that.

    As far as missing AIPAC is concerned, I was aware of them, but I bought into the propaganda. I would probably still be buying it if Israel hadn’t lost their minds and gone full mask off.




  • The move off MSM is happening. I think AIPAC screwed up by targeting Hasan Piker. Most people had no idea who he is and it was puzzling seeing him being attacked by the GOP, the Democrats and the MSM. I think this caused a lot of people to look him up to see what the hubub was about. And then when they find a guy who is reasonable, articulate, handsome and funny they started to understand how they’re being manipulated.

    Then when you have people like Neera Tanden, a long time Democrat operative, and Sarah Longwell, a never Trumper Republican operative spending a lot of time gratuitously attacking the left flank and Hasan in particular it becomes more obvious that big money is actively manipulating the electorate.

    I’ve been a politics junkie for at least 3 decades and I never took much stock in the idea that Israel was manipulating us from multiple fronts in order to take more land in the Middle East and destroy the Palestinians, etc… But after this year, I feel like I’ve been duped for most of my adult life. I don’t think I’m the only one, either. The Zionists have almost gone full mask off at this point and now they are desperately trying to control the narrative and it seems the more they try to control it, the more attention they draw to themselves and their heinous actions.

    I should also point out that the political consultant class, which Tanden and Longwell are part of, see populist movements of any type as a threat to their business model. They cannot allow the people to think they can select their own candidates and use their own labor to get them elected. Because doing that means fewer consulting gigs and less money from ad buys for the consultant class.

    Right now people are able to communicate with each other and organize more effectively than ever before because of the internet and already we are seeing the Epstein class attempt to manipulate the conversation. They’ve been pretty effective on centralized platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Reddit. I suspect Youtube will be next by shutting down independent media.

    But the good news is that this election has demonstrated clearly that the people can pull together and overcome the resources of the Epstein class, for now.



  • This last election has demonstrated that people who pay attention tend to be left of the “centrist” democrats. You know, those Democrats who fight against the accomplishments of FDR and MLK jr by attacking and undermining progressives and DSA members. This election has also shown that progressives and DSA candidates can successfully primary centrist democrats and win general elections, even with the Democratic party attacking them.

    I suspect there will be a wave of so-called centrist democrats finding themselves primaried out of existence in the next cycle. Especially if they keep this shit up. I’m looking forward to seeing these guys get booted out for their betrayal.