In case you're wondering about DNC elites possessing self refection. From the one of the handful of people who led us into this moment with his consequential decisions of the past four and a half years of Biden and Harris picks.
Remember when he said 'Maybe we're meant to go into authoritarianism' a couple years ago? I never forget.
I see optimism of the flood of new and wrong info that did not correlate to my past writings that she could lose that there was an eerie sense and while I saw signs on the roadways when got back they did not materialize so much on lawns clouded me on my last post back there. One long street that had a bunch of Biden signs in 2020 has been almost dead quiet. So the PA Dems definitely lied about signs they couldn't keep up demand. In past talking to some canvas coordinators they said the campaign was being stingy with giving away too many signs. You know it makes me think about this past Monday where I volunteered to chauffeur people who came in from NYC to help canvas. A man I was talking to who volunteered his time to help organize coming from out of state said he hoped some people would take some of the signs that were still available. But I guess that's the thing, they were still available and trying to off set them. Driving some of the people around I was in more swingy parts of Lehigh Valley and they seemed shell shocked by the normalcy of Trump flags, banners, and multiple signs on people's lawns. So seeing more of those than Harris I should have just not gone on twitter and look for some hope. When I'd talk with multiple people over past couple months I seemed to be one of the rare cautious reads of the race. Anyway a lot of words to say it is all so very tragic and we haven't even begun what that will look like. What will begin in a few months that will reverberate for years. Biden was the death blow overall. I need a long break politically, cause the weight of the world without a pause will not help me in what I need to do and who I remain to be.
I have seen the glory of the Selzer poll...where do the vibes go from here?
trails of thought....
Well Harris finally heard my pleas & is coming for a rally tomorrow in Allentown just found out a couple hours ago. It's one up on Trump also. I will be driving around canvasers from out of state. Hope traffic be ok 🧐
Also just got back being away and there is lots of new signs🧐
I don't know if I'm glad to be proven right on how the past couple years there has been signs of big business, wealthy elite vultures, the press, and tech overlords to push Trump on us. The last couple weeks it's never been clearer.
There is a swell of signs in my area since was away, momentum is high and ground game is hard and the annihilator is running on his base being aggrieved to vote covering up his weaknesses. At least Harris campaign isn't taking anything for granted the way Hillary did and even Biden in 2020. Our problems with a win are still ever present and deadly for humanity and all life on this fragile planet. But fucking let's at least not add this problem to the wreckage.
Trying not to doom or have hopium though obsessed with libbing out last couple days seeing Iowa Selzer poll. Whatever happens let's keep the momentum to building a better world because the other side is hell bent on making a worse one.
"Now we are a 150 feet from the promised land."
I wanted the opportunity to feel was these people have in store for me. You can describe a megachurch or a Halloween haunted house but it is an entirely another thing to experience it in person. I wanted to feel the sensation of being submerged into listening to the people who are dictating a dark future and the people surrounding you eating it up, cheering it on. It was at capacity so I only got to stand in line for an hour. The crowd did feel like people anticipating a savior. And the man who blurted out as we moved up in the street "Now we are 150 feet to the promised land," confirmed that. The photo is from when we were told no one else was being taken in and it was the end of the road. I admit I feel a lot of anger and disgust at his supporters at times but besides the well off and wealthy I mostly just felt sorry for them. Not that they are all being hoodwinked but that for anyone to look at what he is selling and be 'That's good! Sign me up!' What a waste. Life has to be mean more than that to you right?
I feel trapped in an existential and material battle as an artist in this time period. An era in the culture that wants to take artists down swiftly and expect them to put up no resistance or there will be bloodshed of these artists' livelihoods, dreams, hopes, prospects. You know what keeps artists going. The narrative getting shoved and pounded is that artists are inconvenient. As if artists never really meant anything and never have, the machines will take care of that now. Get back to work peasants, climate change debris ain't going to clean itself up.
Those possibilities presented over ten years ago of the digital landscape are being stomped out I cannot believe how much I let myself miss. Yet once the ruling tech vultures and capitalists saw people were enjoying too much art, interesting thoughts, and connections, they couldn't let that continue. You can't connect ideas, art, and helpful back and forth supporting others out and informing them of ways to make the world better! They have money to make and they demand loyalty to all your time and attention working to make them more money asap. I think a very difficult thing in this moment is while artists have the strength of imagination to intellectually go Battle Royale against this disaster, I don't believe many have the actual willpower to fight fight.
The internet and social media needed to be monetized to death and made unusable and make everyone who inhabits these terrains feel bad and hopeless. There are a couple social media accounts I have that I am able to curate that escape this plight for now. I worry that the right will scorch and whittle away those sections of Instagram they have not infiltrated. The AIDS Memorial page still up is pretty amazing that is allowed with how things are being pushed. It's also more independent, alternative accounts. Like an internet version of those eclectic old thrift, vintage, book, odd and oddity shops that got pushed and gutted for gentrification. Also independent artists and creative people doing their talented thing, cutting past all the doomerism so they can make, live, share and connect. Generative AI is a house of cards but that will take awhile. Tech freaks aren't going to write themselves out of existence and funding.
There was a very good tweet awhile back of mentioning how convenient the machines can get the luxury of writing poetry.
What are we even doing when reproductive rights isn't a red line, that it is acceptable to watch disappear and banned nationally and the people supporting Harris for this are labeled genocide enablers and psychopaths? People don't understand that this current form of the left of 2015-2024 (there is no manger just fracturing, tense and loose threads) is unsustainable and ready to break apart completely and fold onto itself. The irony poisoning, doom pilling, 'the liberals are the actual great evil,' any electoralism is just fascism apologia empire staning is not where people are in the real world and it just won't hold. People aren't looking to jump in or let political infighting into their already busy and chaotic lives. Now neither will people who don't want to be talked down to like everything is actually ok which I know people get turned off by everything is great actually and stop complaining Dem messaging optics.
Yet you are not a coward caring for other rights eroded here and voting cause of that, voting cause you don't want Trump back in is not weak shit. Saying he's not going to be worse certainly is though. Did you fall on your head and get amnesia? Whatever is in these politician's hearts or not it doesn't matter only ground movement and its influence matters. Then people say well it will just be swallowed, defanged and co-opted and sure there is risks but if the risk ain't any form of power or influence than what are we even doing? Just hanging out in the twitter drafts and dog piling. When women who you need to help run these movements are busy bleeding out on the floor your going to tell them that was their noble sacrifice? Some women are going to say that to themselves? The worst is seeing women talk like reproductive rights ain't shit to fight or vote for. Hello people this is the coalition issue of our time, organize.
Incredibly dark and dangerous for the left/progressives to be so divided and organizer types publicly feuding and dog piling on decaying platform run by a nazi. Saw a leftists tweet about how he wasn't voting because of Gaza yet saying how he didn't feel abortion was so important in contrast to the genocide in Gaza!!??? OPEN THE SCHOOLS!!! (Yet I'm not surprised seeing some leftist men doing this. In a separate tweet incident a prominent enough writer in these circles I like who talked about working for abortion rights in past says Gaza is his red line also) And I'm telling you it needs to be studied how liberal and/or moderate men are being more helpful on reproductive rights seeing it as a non negotiable. I'm sorry I say this as a die hard lefty but I see it online, is it that I'm too online? These are not bots but at least CHAT GPT would understand the consequences.
What was worse a woman in the first tweet example was agreeing with him that abortion and reproductive rights that it felt so small and inconsequential for a hypothetical ????
I thought man we are so cooked.
That we weren't out in the streets after Roe was taken away with general strike calls is one of the greatest failures of missed political call to actions in the 21st century. Was talking to a woman recently about this and she was baffled emotionally of the lack of organizational response in mass protest, but then thought out loud maybe it was a better grown up decision because of other failed long term mass protests but I said no it's ok to admit that this was a massive failure and she agreed.
There was one group who had more militant protest actions in the beginning after Roe was struck down, but one member of it had a lot of odd controversy and the group was disavowed swiftly and publicly by multiple orgs. Yet nobody did any kind of militant action again. It's unforgivable.
It's eerie politically being back in my bellwether corner of PA. I've recently learned I despise living in a place that is a harbinger of elections. Driving to get pizza last night a whole long stretch of houses that had all Biden and anti Trump signs four years ago have nothing on the lawns. Now they are political ghost towns. There's only a handful of weeks left so it would be hard to see that changing suddenly. Was that even true that requests for Harris-Walz signs were flying out the doors that they couldn't keep the orders up? Is everyone just so fucking exhausted and burnt out they don't have that kind of energy to put up a sign? Biden and the Democrats burned a lot of goodwill with telling people everything was fine and getting back on track and stop complaining. Harris has...I wish it were Walz. That is a person made for the moment. With Harris it's similar to Biden in 2020. He just found himself there in this place unfortunately winning the nominee. Many people wondered if he understood the complexities of the moment and challenges because he was so overly and naively optimistic in an egotistical way. He was a political creature of another time. Harris just gave Trump a political ad gift with a stupid gaffe saying there is nothing she would have broken with Biden with on The View (???) and also some other nonsense on Colbert. She is not hated like Hillary but she flounders trying to define herself. But we were suppose to whistle past the graveyard carrying Biden’s corpse? Getting in the other night there was large Harris billboard that made me feel good and some houses I saw in the dark have new Harris-Walz signs yet other houses have new Trump signs. Two creepy ‘Pennsylvania is Trump country’ signs on the roadway. I hate being in this moment and I hate being here in this moment. And yet I am still going to canvas this weekend. I feel I cannot stand back even if the worst is to happen even if the eeriness is settling in. I can’t live with myself to be a coward and tune out. Nor let myself be stewing in my house, cowering, afraid of what these people have in store for us. Yet on the other hand a place in Wales cut off from all this disappointment and political malpractice would be lovely.
"Is that all there is, it that all there is my friend? Then let's break out the booze and have a ball if that's all there is."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kamala-harris-presidential-campaign-became-a-grim-slog.html
I was always fearful how consequential Biden would end up being if he were the nominee and you are seeing that play out.
"And it looks like we might have made it. Yes, it looks like we've made it to the end."
https://archive.is/8Rt9b (to bypass paywall)
I thought Harris had overcome her bad political instincts but first impressions I never forget because they always reveal themselves again and again and again.
"But what they do have is a hegemonic liberalism that will get us all fucking killed."
And yet, what I'm suppose to lay down and die and give up? I could but I won't.
I'm canvasing still...and why I am fighting is to stop more disaster and hemorrhaging because it still fucking matters. Read some blurb by a prominent hetro dox type academic art world actor I have weariness of. He said to not really care about politics. Yes, a man who will never find himself in a position to be forced into giving birth. To be forced to give birth to the man who raped them and to be forever tethered and terrorized by him. Nor be on the receiving end of race riots and anti immigrant purges. Neither a man who will be a part of those who will be regular protesters and political dissidents that will be targeted. With the goal to round them up and brought to black ops sites to be tortured and/or disappeared. A man not personally affected by anti LGBTQ rage and risk living as criminalized. Nor be a person at risk to die of an overdose in their grandparent's home because they cannot afford rent or healthcare and never got out of their family lineage of poverty and desolation. So no I will not take political real world advice from art academic men who say to be above politics. Thanks stay in your lane I guess.
So the October Surprise is helping Israel carry a war and a genocide out across multiple countries in the Middle East that also includes Iran. I knew how much Biden would absolutely fuck this up when October 7th happened. I remember vividly the dread I felt watching the news and thinking of not just the mass destruction and collective punishment of Palestinian lives that would occur, but selfishly (I’ll admit that) Biden helping to cost us the election. With his ghoulish and evil foreign policy advisors in tow of course.
Biden’s disastrous campaign people coupled with Obama luminaries…we almost could have made it, I believe we could have. I think I have mentally resigned. Yet I have been prepared for everything since pre election night 2016. I never believed that Trump would just go away. Jan. 6th was the least surprising thing. I think what surprised me was how much Jan. 6th doesn’t matter to people. That’s eerie and I am not a patriotic person in the slightest. I will never put country over people. Nation states are never more important than human lives. So even with that I was disturbed. Eight or nine people died connected directly to that day and they are people in the GOP involved in the plotting who are still there working in the government. I know in some countries this kind of corruption is very normal but it’s new to me and I would like to not be desensitized. I know a large number of the public are desensitized to him but I will never allow myself to be.
Been pretty good at mostly avoiding politics for a week however it's still unnerving, in almost month you know? Eight years still the same political stranglehold again hoping you get out this time, right? The momentum of Obama could never be matched because of the unique set time, circumstances and conditions in the culture and the political climate. Who Obama was also could not be ever replicated either. Yet you felt the synergy (or could at least observe it), it was exciting, it was building, and then the speech and after has never felt the same.
I canvas, talk to others who organize and canvas but I feel I am the only one more cautious besides one other person. I observe a lot of different fractions of people on social media and that gives me caution also. I watch around my area signs, flags, banners, stickers, shirts, and I feel unease. When I go back if I don't see more Harris signs up I think I might just go into some resignation even if I'll still canvas. I went up to an older white man in the CVS parking lot over a week ago to let him know I liked his Harris Walz cameo hat. I asked him how he has been feeling and he surprised me responding ‘you can’t help but feel optimistic now.’ I apologized and said I guess I’m more of a cynic but I said the boat has oars again which he appreciated. I can’t believe this will be the third election and there is still a question. 2016 I thought he could very well win I fretted on and off since he came down on the escalator. 2020 I went back and forth but I held a lot more caution and doubt until nearing the end. This time I don't know honestly. His support never seems to abate, people want to continue the reality show, the pain dial must be kept on high.
I went to see Walz speak and for hours there was a truck with Trump flags protesting up and down the street. When we got out of the rally the truck was joined by three other cars. People crossing the street flipped them off and cursed at them while they beeped their horns proudly. Imagine committing hours to this on a beautiful day? It’s religion to these people. To them Trump is some form of divine intervention. I just want to know how should I proceed through the years because even if he loses it will be another election he didn’t lose and I believe he still has people who would die storming the capitol for him all over again.
I’m sorry people hate this kind of language and sentiments but there are a segment of people who love Trump that would be willing to hunt us (the liberal/left/anti-Trump) for sport and I refuse to not admit that. Though a larger fanbase of his will watch you get dragged off, beaten and disappeared because you are the enemy now. They’ll say ‘so and so were ok but they should have kept their mouth shut’ and go back to scrolling angrily at their phones. He's promoting a literal framework that was a nazi purge what the fuck do some of you think is going on?
Israel detonating people in coordinated mass attack is now business as usual. It's difficult or impossible to see that the world was not turned into something evil and dark that can't be put back yesterday. Everyone in the future could be possibly detonated randomly because governments and private corporations deem it a necessity. The chorus of people saying 'well don't be a bad person and you have nothing to worry about!' have no clue. The bodies and souls Israel and the US is allowing to be altered and destroyed is a turn in the 21st century. We are still a post 9/11 world and perhaps always will be. How succinct Thompson was when he wrote: The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
MSNBC historians quiet over this when it comes to deconstructing and forewarning authoritarianism. One prominent writer in those circles but not on the circuit who used to write about real things on the ground and the impossible and hope, selfish silence is angering. *You can’t claim to love and despair over what is happening to the environment and not condemn the environmental implications of Gaza’s genocide and the US’s thumbs up of it. All of these people were also not surprisingly Biden dead enders who had us circling the drain for a while. We are all sitting ducks while you keep sipping your coffee, plug and vent on twitter and get your TV slots, columns, fellowships, book deals and panels. Can't they see a possible "October Surprise" to get Trump over the finish line coming out of this?
* (updated note Oct. 25, 2024, I did see they actually are now speaking and posting others suffering in Gaza. Randomly came across form a person I follow responding to them on twitter. I don't know if it's new I had seen for awhile it had been quiet but want to amend that they actually do care and that matters and matters to correct, but I will leave it up as it is a reflection of my own thoughts at the time as a diary entry of sorts.
Well I mean, they have nothing in terms of an argument or a coherent worldview or a useful praxis but what they do have is they are speaking on behalf of a hegemonic liberalism that's going to get us all fucking killed. I agree, don't talk to them, but because they're a distraction from the real fucking problem, which is that fascism arises from the collapse of institutional legitimacy of liberal institutions.
That's how we got fucking Trump, that's how we get what's coming next after him that's gonna be even worse. Because if you think there's not gonna be more ecological and economic catastrophes in the future that liberalism is wholly unequipped to deal with, and that that failure isn't gonna lead to fascism filling that fucking hole, then you've got another thing coming.
And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide.
And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly.
On the other side of them, we have people who are saying in full fucking voice, "No, we have the resources to save everybody, to give everybody a decent and worthwhile existence, and that is what we want." And that is the fucking real difference between these two, and you can tell that to the next asshole who tells you that they're actually two sides of the same coin.
Matt Christman from Chapo on post Charlottesville episode, 8.17.20217, that I think of always all this time later. The fears from past that became the vision of the future.
When I went to canvas today is when I heard that once again the vortex of violence that surrounds Trump ricochetted back around. The nazi running twitter posted why is no one trying to assassinate Biden/Harris. Had my first nasty direct one on one encounter canvassing but out of a 100 people not surprised knew would occur sooner or later. An entitled older white woman who is definitely looking to vote for the annihilator to stomp all over your rights in this upcoming election and onward. Besides that was pretty decent shift. Her look of a disbelief kind of anger painted on was memorable because I can't imagine living with that kind of rage and fear everyday. A paranoia that changes anything open, sincere, and humbling about you. Fervent. Vengeful. Self righteousness. Persistent. Aren't you just tired already? Isn't it exhausting? Yet it sustains them, keeps them going. Nourishes and saves them. Trump is not merely politics it's devout religion. The dissidents are all anxious at the altar once again of another election waiting for what will happen.
I'm the only one who is more cautious besides another canvas coordinator I talked to a couple weeks back. Even if he loses some times it feels like in important ways he has won, something has shifted sharply and deeply in the last nine years. And even if Trump loses the problems run deeper. That this is his third election running, the 'it's going to be close' messaging, don't people see how much a problem there still is? There are tens of millions of people who don't believe he lost, who don't care about Jan. 6th, who will follow him off a cliff and push their family and friends off it as well just to have him be king. I remember when Biden was first elected there was an article asking 'Will this be the age of the Biden Republican?' because they were basing it off the old 'Reagan Democrat.' I never felt that and the politics of those time periods were not comparable. How much did someone get paid for that? Every political writer dreams to be the oracle.
I wonder if I could know in advance would I want to, probably be tempting, at this point maybe. Was hoping to be in a physical state of not being reachable during the election night yet...circumstances you can't do anything about. The past few years plans past a month out feel like a cruel joke and dreams and hopes are things you keep their temperatures mild and tepid to not get carried away. That has been the big change in me that feels permanent. I don't think of the future as a given or guarantee, a reality to get attached to, to get rushed with excitement with. Art ideas are the one exception and some times even then I feel a disconnect and anxiety. Yet taking things day by day is its own death of a small and thousand dull cuts.
We'll never make it out of this world alive, so what is there in the mean time.
The blood libel against Haitian immigrants sprinting from online to real life consequences has Satanic Panic vibes and the 2016 clown sighting panic cobbled together in a fascist trench coat. In my opinion this also has the scent of being pre manufactured talking point. As taking racist bullshit on the internet and passing it around the right wing outrage social media personalities and news outlets to catch on. I don't think anyone expected the Stephen King clown to do well against an experienced prosecutor so they needed a distraction in case it brought momentum toward Harris and it even is in battle with Taylor's endorsement news cycling. The UK race riots a month back were a sort of a preview for what can likely happen here very soon that goes beyond who wins or loses in November. Can we ever win when the other side is intent on crushing us all and the Democrats have decided maybe we can compromise?
I'm so exhausted but I see signs, flags, t-shirts, bumper stickers and it feels they are just getting started. That we will be sport soon enough. I spotted an older white man wearing "We the People, Means Everyone" down my street today and I literally parked as fast as could to get out of my car and tell him I really liked his shirt. That was nice recognition. I have no idea why politics like this makes me so outgoing and my social anxiety falls away from my usual wanting to hide. I think because this is too important and I want to tap people in 'I'm here to support you' to not be alone nor afraid, even if I am, we are here. We live here too. This is our place also. Stop making us feel we have to be afraid and tremble, as if you deserve all the respect. We are not going anywhere.
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."
Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history -- which is no doubt true -- but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a war-time economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.
That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
- Hunter S. Thompson "When war drums roll" September 17, 2001
The horror of foresight. The tragedy of prophecy.
So I guess we are off of or have been lifted off a lift raft to a canoe or rowboat. One of the most thin skinned mother fuckers around to dunk on and trounce what should have happened years prior on top of being evil and he still could get in. If it's won it's from the blood, sweat, and tears poured out across the states of the volunteers not Biden's leftover team haphazards. 'Concepts of a plan', jeez. Though was great the top off of the night. Thank you Taylor.
It will also be 9/11 today when this is published but I have no profound thoughts on this. Nothing that hasn't been said and a thousand times better and sadder that it feels like an afterthought after all this time. We did the worst and moved on and no lessons learned or greater human lessons or reckonings. Such is life many times. Maybe that has always been our warning for the 21st century and it's manifested in the mold of him.
Strange to reflect on almost a year of the genocide and knowing when I saw reported the Oct. 7th massacre that Biden was going to fail in a very real and consequential way. Prior I had known about his long history of Zionist love since his senate years. I recalled his disregard for the Palestinians when the capital was moved during Trump's presidency and people were pleading if he could amend it. Biden's refusal to engage with Palestine at all during his early presidency that this was not an issue his administration were looking to deal with. The only exception in some crumbs was telling Bibi to cut it out when Israel bombed that building that held the AP News office. Yet this has somewhat exceeded my expectations.
Though in another view I think it's just the horror of it happening with so much protest in the face of it all. The screaming 'No stop this madness!' physical and psychological manifesting, the desperation, pleas, marching, encampments, disruptions that have not moved Biden in the slightest is what has exceeded my expectations. That his administration heads don't care to help politically in any way. That he cannot help himself politically then nor help Harris now. And she has shown up to this point she cannot and/or will not break despite everything in the face of this position being disastrous and risky to dismiss.
Not even Uncommitted results nor Pelosi's recent gestures have been able to move political optics operators in DC. To fucking help Harris. For this hampering young and black voters. To risk Michigan, to risk PA, for what? It's not like Israel is even providing us with weapons to protect and infrastructure or food sources to get by. Oh right it's a colonial power that must be kept in place to be the surveillance of the Middle East in the guise of caring about Jewish people, culture, religion, and history. Israel's exploitation of Jewish people's history and trauma is grotesque and has made for truly vile opinions of supremacy over Palestinians. Endorsing their extermination, as well as indefensible actions, and people's souls who espouse language of genocidal rhetoric that have also had them go on to partake happily in carrying out genocide. An IDF was caught on camera raping a Palestinian man in prison and was welcomed on Israeli TV. This is a deeply bankrupt society of supposed human values and ideals of democracy and the charade is gone. How could this be fixed? The car crash of human history, the angel of history, the rhyming of history, the loop of history. Time and lessons lost and crumbled into the dust bins because people like easy answers.
There are millions of people who know better not even that far or deep down but going to roll the dice across the political spectrum because they believe it doesn't matter if Trump gets in. Incredible. All across the political spectrum they don't believe the worst things to come. The women, the young women especially who will give up their bodily autonomy on a national level is the most tragic. I dread a battle between reproductive rights voters and people who will hold their vote because of the genocide in Gaza. Likely some in those groups who think arguing out loud to each other in the public sphere why they are right and the other is wrong is a good and worthwhile endeavor. I saw it a few months back (before debate debacle) on Reproductive Freedom For All's Instagram page. I think one of the issues that reproductive rights and abortion faces with it continually being shuffled around awkwardly on the left (except in feminist spaces) is because it is seen as a Democratic Party issue. Somehow abortion and reproductive rights has escaped being seen in the context of real life material realities on the left. I don't know how this gets fixed because I have not seen more framing and urgency even two years after Roe. Besides the voting it seems that the movement is still missing something big on an organizational level. I see reproductive rights talked more in liberal spaces with more urgency strangely than in the left sphere. I hate to come to that observation and conclusion but I have. Even stranger? Men in liberal, moderate and some conservatives seem more comfortable with this issue than some of the men on the left who act like they are going to wield the revolution with their bare hands in the streets. Some of the women as well. And as I said the most tragic the young women who will risk and give themselves away. Who don't know what is ahead and in store who won't have the tools and support they need to really fight. They are caught in the fantasy and concept of a struggle they have never known. The fascists are waiting and they will pull it all out from under. A small collective group banding together in dystopia will not have the training and medical training and facilities needed on a mass scale when the shit hits the fan in this regard.
Wow Germany. Almost a hundred years but you decided to celebrate welcoming fascism back early. Macron is doing a coup that he thinks he can get away with (because he didn't expect the left to get it together) when all of his terms combined have been mass protests throughout about his government.
We still have our American disaster here and you don't need to worry he can do whatever he wants and nobody is going to do anything about it except maybe the electoral college. Things that would have been career ending for anyone and everyone else are not. The press picks him back up and claps him on the back saying 'It's ok Donny keep going! Don't put us in camps with all the people you plan to deport!' For his fans everything is a feast. Dedication to an annihilator. Dedication to such scum. But that's considered impolite and divisive to say you are horrified how this can be supported.
However the liberals and left are all supposedly irredeemable human scum and pedos and groomers ready to kill and eat your children after they turn them trans and abort them. Don't worry about this right wing rhetoric it won't lead anywhere just normalize it and go back to sleep. Because if they really believed this, what would be the forgone conclusion? Despite the right wing media having been training their audience on these messages from mere suggestions to absolute truths. Pumped into their brains 24/7 at accelerating speeds. Can't you see that would mean walking right into a Germany like scenario from almost a century ago? If Germany can’t learn why would we who are less educated and aware of our own history? Yet the worse many are even less interested. They just need that reset button that the annihilator is asking to press on in exchange for their vote.
Very anti climatic and a huge blunder morally and politically ignoring Uncommitted. The shunning is inexcusable. Nine years of the horror vortex that won't close and people keep getting sucked in as it gets furthered normalized is what we are trapped with having to have yet another election rematch. Your favorite dipshit comedian podcaster who wants you to think he’s just a cool down to earth guy but he’s a popular entertainer who has now shown he is a collaborator. I don't care about the Sanders interview. Wanting fame stroked and money in the bank not concerned about his audience’s well being but he puts off the air that you could be friends only if. You could get a spot on the couch, you could sit at the lunch table, just that kind of guy. Carlin would hate feckless egos like him and Joe. (Carlin would really hate all of this, everything.) Many moderate news outlets are all aboard once again trying to shove Trump as not only normal but the next president, show him some respect and get in line. Oh and guess who is all aboard helping along and endorsing? The one and only roadkill chef-sex pest-health care crisis-political tragedy RFK Jr.! What a topsy turvy almost two months since the crisis. A month since my prayers of April 2019 answered. Two more months to go. How will it go.
I was hoping to stay a little while longer in the coconut tree that I hung out in feeling relief since we got off the sinking ship.Yet I wonder even if the boat has oars again are we still on a life raft of sorts? I don’t know I haven’t been able to read this election for the past two years. I try to tap in and it’s blank. I see multiple outcomes and none I can land on unlike the last few election cycles.
However the most lethal army in the world is not what the common man is interested in or the swing median voter is hoping for. While not perfect and still a politician I am Walz pilled. This is politics though and no gods no masters is always at the core of my outlook whatever the vibes, and whatever jokes along the way with everyone else in my political alignments to get by in the rising tides.
The Uncommitted have no obligation to any of this. Free Palestine.
So finally after the past two years I have had to hear about this great campaign Trump has been running and he's just inevitable folks strap in, the mirage has broken in the media. And yeah what a fucking loser old weirdo freak and his caravan gang of even bigger loser weirdo freaks trying to shove in grotesque and violent policies that Trump is forced to publicly back away from. It had felt the news media including social media, corporations, commentators, and even celebs were working to push us into a regressive backslide. Now the boat has oars again.
The turns of political fates. My prayers for the past year have finally been answered. People all over the spectrum are jolted and last I checked 60 million dollars in small grassroots donations. They listened and saw and finally woke up and course corrected. However that will turn out ultimately we fought but it's the first time in months I have felt some hope here politically besides special elections focus on abortion. Gaza changed the head winds for me. I can sleep without dread for the first time in weeks. By the way to those on the right happy for the Handmaid's journey you like to force us into, the concentration camps, and queer people death penalized get some new material from your bland and stupid Let's Go Brandon branding and merchandise.
I am unburdened and relieved.
Jesus when I said take the wheel I didn't mean for you to steer it off an unknown cliff. It's not even been a week. Covid is a very hungry virus indeed. But don't worry this is part of the normal summer waves to a pandemic that was declared over repeatedly. Don't worry you don't remember because people can't remember much these days. We have shut a door on this issue because the capitalist class says the peasants don't care if we shove them back into normal routines even if that will and has caused mass damage. The elites always bet on the malaise and disinterest of the public because it's a winning horse.
It's strange to watch a moment that would be so easy to win, to politically crush and label what the other side is offering and correctly mark their visions as abhorrent, dishonest, vile, evil. All those are good and correct words. It literally is a path to violence as there have been at least two high profile examples that will not be left as footnotes in the history books on American political history in this time period of 2021-2024. Where we don't have to continue being warped and pulled into the vortex of violence that surrounds Trump. Yet the Democrats at the ancient behest of their insulated circles have no idea what to do because they can't diverge from the script.
This idea of tone it down because the Stephen King clown almost was assassinated when him, some of his supporters, and the henchmen in the GOP have called for and have caused targeted political violence for years is insane. Somehow the real problem is the Democrats and the left pointing out the violence and talk of it. It’s simply not nice to explain or confront that the right wing media and the GOP politicians have endlessly been posting on their social media accounts for years promoting outright violence. Calling for the destruction and execution of Democrats, liberals, leftists and any causes, beliefs or ideas tied to them. But sure we are the real problem and the divisive ones.
I will call it like I see it and refuse to cower in silence when violence is being enacted by abortion bans, attacks and criminalization of queer and trans people especially kids. Fuck you that we have to tone it down. I'm not submitting to a landscape of Project 2025 being taken on a national tour because it's already being carried through on state levels.
This young man who carried out the attempted assassination of Trump was a conservative and it makes me think of how responsible the GOP is for him. In that I mean through all the distortions, disregard, and accelerationist and doom rhetoric and visions why wouldn’t this young man find this an outlet to some final conclusion of life and existence.
It's so crazy out here I can barely concentrate despite watching this all play out. Maybe we are fucked. I'm watching people navigate and there is so much denialism and accusations of sabotage, the recent one by none other than George Clooney who somehow wants Biden and all the Democrats to lose even though he hosted a fundraiser for Biden raising millions of dollars. Even though had made an angry call when the administration threatened the ICJ because his wife was part of the ruling that Israel is committing war crimes, and he's probably had to bite his tongue for months supporting him because of the grandeur stakes of Trump and all the theocratic fascist lined up.
People I've been communicating with or haven't returned back in touch seem to not get what is happening and there needs to be boldness and bravery just what the French did in unconventional times they said fuck no and did what seemed inconceivable. They fought betting that the majority do not want fascism. They swung for the fences. They have a history though and actual left political bodies in their government. The will the fucking will power only in a matter of weeks! If it all gets swept away here I don't see how the Democratic Party survives not just merely being purged but the voters wanting to vote and believe in them. If this is the best they can do, who gets excited for that? Maybe something can be turned watching some party figures choice of words and public calls for the man to already end his dying campaign, because we are all dying here, we want a fight to not make that final in November.
Wow France 👀
It's been a shock for the past twelve hours watching it all streaming in live and watching the reactions of people celebrating, jumping, hugging, crying in joy. My own excitement. The jokes and celebrations on twitter are infectious of this moment and I feel grateful to watch even from afar. No matter how Musk has dismantled the platform he can't truly destroy what makes it. You can't kill spirit. When the past week has been bleak here politically it's great to witness the French were like not so fast nazis. One young mustached man in a sea crowd of people outside waiting and then cheering as the election results came in began crying in joy and it was the greatest thing to witness someone feel not all hope is lost.
How are we going to get people to believe in us when they aren't being honest with themselves or to us? Every fucking down ballot is on the line. You made it to the presidency you don't get to have that underdog story anymore. You don't get to cosplay Dark Brandon to the public anymore.
Whatever the obvious issues this family has of all their political power highs, trauma, obfuscation of ‘everything’s actually fine’ don’t take it out on us. All of you step aside and get out and workshop it in family therapy in Delaware. The first lady doesn’t need to be approached as if she is a fragile China doll closed in by bubble wrap underneath her thousand dollar wardrobe. They make everyone look compromised. What an awful legacy to leave by staying in.
How much tragedy do you think we had in us America? On your birthday no less.
Abortion and reproductive freedom is working class consciousness. Literally economics, personal freedom and self determination. How has the left missed this? Reproductive issues are the most kitchen table issue of working class persons & their families life! Pass it on please. Buckle up to change the narrative before the Handmaid's Tale is implemented.
I can't believe so much could be lost in this country and the world (and the winning coalition issue of our time) because his family members and close knit advisors have no skills to help anyone but make themselves feel better and buffer their own self preservation and egos in American history. Staying in as if they are not through writing some great comeback story. Lost in a tunnel vision of fantasy and faux heroism. And the complete gaslighting by so many of the political class and press, mainstream and small is well I did not not expect that but watching it live is a sight for sore eyes to behold and cry out loud for if I had any energy for that because I don't. Not going to waste my energy getting in panic attack mode even though I have to rethink some things now I was planning.
I'm never on twitter anymore except a brief peak .05% of the time so maybe someone else has pieced this together. The recent overturning of the Chevron Doctrine by the Supreme Court is setting up the framework of a Christian theocracy and this all we need to understand going forward. The gutting of federal agencies and regulations will make this much easier to implement. Think of it simply. A USA where the ten commandments will be on public transportation and a mandated prayer that you will be required to participate in before your flight takes off. Those are the tame things in what they have planned. It's happening here. The eugenicists that have also overtaken public discourse and influence will be glad to take away vaccines and those medications for the undesirables. I wonder what Octavia Butler would say.
I guess I just don't have much expectations these days in the political landscape to have a response to the event last night that proved fears are valid and evil lives on alive and well as it gorges and demands second helpings from the media, corporations, and elites. Trump is feasting and elated. Demanding more and more extractions of money, favors, brides, threats, blackmail, schemes to keep him breathing. I refuse to give myself a panic attack when I have many other things to grapple with unrelated that are already giving me near panic attacks.
Hope and politics are a bad mix. Yet we have to live here and get up in the morning. It's a real unsolvable dilemma.
I swear if some on the fucking OP-ed authoring online left are working on writing another damn think piece ignoring abortion as a working class issue🤬…
ABORTION IS KITCHEN TABLE ISSUES! It is economics! It’s the MOST kitchen table issue ever. Attaining and acquiring reproductive freedom is freedom and liberation from the government ruling over your life and the lives of those you care about. That provides self determination and dignity for people’s own choices and to live life on their own terms not the ruling class’s and certainly not the government dictating it.
Isn’t this a part of working class consciousness? I think the working class would like that message. Why can't some people push this through their class first filter instead of whining about it being a culture war issue? I don’t trust your analysis if that is what you have concluded about abortion and reproductive rights from the past two years. I don’t think your advice is something full and foundational in the long term ignoring this. But sure act like you know because of where you are published and who you know on the circuit. The worst is not that you are charlatans because that's not the problem, you're not. It's worse, you're cowards.
Just in some sort of state of acceptance and sorrow for what appears to be Bowman losing tonight to the crypt keeper Zionist. Looks like something right out a TV show coded as the bad guy fitting with his racist rhetoric that a sizable slice of liberal moderate democrats who love voting in primaries also secretly agree with. The 90s lives on in their minds. I laugh when conservatives paint and accuse NYC and California being liberal beacons on the hill. They know so little, we don't have to agree but honesty would be a good starting point. What Bowman needs are people who agree with most of what he says but are not interested in primaries. I'm just amazed how people throw away the future all the time. The malpractice and neglect. The indifference. Doesn't it just shatter your whole heart? Only mine.
The artist Paul McCarthy (not the Beatle Paul McCartney) was interviewed a couple months back about his process and he talked about how he is the first person he thinks of when he is making something otherwise he wouldn't be making art he'd be making entertainment. That struck a deep chord in me. Not only because I thought 'man you are singing my song' but how much people interact with art in the last decade has felt like a customer on demand exchange that I have been observing uncomfortably online. The entitlement is astounding.
'You have to entertain and please me and if you don't I will not only complain but I will go to you personally through social media and/or company/label/management site/account/email and demand you cater to me. You can’t run I’m your audience. You can’t hide I own you because I indulge your work and I call the shots around here.'
It's insidious and it seems to get worse over time. Like I'm sorry you didn't like the experience or the feelings of what happened during or after you consumed an artistic output but that's a well known possible side effect. There is so much rage about, people even petition at times. It must be a nightmare working in TV or in comics where this is the most prevalent and especially sci-fi and fantasy genres. Just write some fan fiction and leave artists alone they don't have to answer to you. If it were me I would say you can criticize all you want and rip it to shreds but get the fuck out of my house with your demands to cater. Not that I’m being asked or anyone has been knocking on my door, maybe that gives me this perspective because my house has been so quiet. I’ve never made art with anyone else in mind at the end of the day and that will always win out at the end of the day.
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