I also do not support Musk, and others in his camp.
It's weird how Democrats want 100 percent loyalty or someone's a fascist right winger.
I protested Trump for years.
"that have turned you former so-called leftists into a bunch of raving goddamn fascists (e.g. pandemic conspiracies); but, yeah, I'm the enemy because vaccines, or imperialism, or whatever. Here is some advice: go fuck yourselves. And if you are thinking of leaving another indignant, self-righteous comment, may I suggest you print it out instead, douse it in gasoline, stick it up your ass, and set it on fire."
It makes me more sad, you can call me names and tell me to fuck off, but the weird insistence that the economy is okay and use the abused phrase "conspiracy theory" which is used to shut down any thinking in reference to the pandemic is just more disappointments. It's odd how you got so angry. Usually when people get this mad, a nerve is struck.
Is this how you treat anyone who disagrees with you? I had posted links to your website for years in a positive fashion.
You seem so caught up in Trump who does suck, you ignore the failures of the Democratic party to the max.
But hey one reason people have jumped to the right, is the cancellation, the closure, the shutting down on the left. Some seemed to have lost even the ability for rational disagreement and debate. You go straight to name-calling, cutting insults. I know the status of a deaf disabled woman is lower than an architect but sheesh give it a rest. I suppose I could play the same game and yell F you too but what would it accomplish?
Your reading comprehension must not be much better because I am not a Trump supporter but I know now in the leftist world of cancel anyone who disagrees [I mean you had to go for the verbal daggers to shut up someone who questions the two party system] it not surprising. I do not support Trump, I wrote an article even warning what could come years ago.
I voted for Democrats even on state ballot, but I suppose for questioning the system I must be labeled as right of Attila the Hun and called names. BTW this is not the actions of someone who is actually listening and engaging with someone. Its funny you assumed I supported Trump when I wrote on the ghost dance? WRONG. I had agreed with you at the time. Are you so stupid to think I wrote that as a Trump supporter?
As for your loved politicians and the working class, all we have to do is look at Western north Carolina, and East Palestine Ohio to see how the working class really got treated.
Oh you call me a fascist or whatever you want a former leftist, do we even really have a left now?
One thing people got tired of are the endless cancellations and being "shut-down". I guess now one is a raving fascist for not supporting Kamala and Biden. Sad, some of us wondered what happened to the anti-war, anti-establishment, left. Even Bernie said The Democratic party betrayed the working class. By the way, I suppose many of us are used to being told to Fuck off, I mean it seems to be the new Democratic way. "CANCEL anyone who offends us."
I am in shock, that you still haven't heard of "died suddenly", still lining up for boosters even now? Makes me wonder if some are living under a rock. You still think Fauci is a good man too and don't know what gain of function means? Then we have nothing in common. What message do you really have?
"But who does the biowarfare industrial complex report to? I think the answer is pretty obvious: capital. That’s the conversation that no one wants to have.
The left is unable to have this conversation because they worship all aspects of the biowarfare industrial complex (masks, lockdowns, useless treatments, deadly vaccines, quarantine camps, and totalitarianism in general). It’s their new God and they will do anything to save it. Thus they avoid any self-reflection which would reveal that they are actually just lackeys for capital at this point."
I wrote for years on how the left had turned totalitarian, and well well it's not just the money why people checked out....[and sadly Mr. Operation Warp Speed, aka the Orange one will betray them too.
But it's an easy out for your kind to just shout conspiracy theorist, and close out the truth.
Hey I learned a lot from your website so this reaction is just another disappointment. When people won't examine the other side and only see the world in Democrat vs Republican, they are very limited indeed. I do not support Trump but see your mind is in such a box, you can't even concieve of people who question the two party system. You don't even get how both parties serve the oligarchy.
I do expect the poverty and suffering to get worse. DOGE is a con, and they criminalized homelessness and did Supreme Court rulings that take the gloves off, but just because I question the Democratic party you deem me just worth of being told to "fuck off" Well you do have the cancelling others thing down I suppose. You can shut me down by pure vitriol, good job!
Economic pain did bring Trump back to office, you can say inflation isn't higher ad nauseum get out your graphs, we surely need more of them but all any of us in the real world have to do is look around and wonder why shit costs 50 percent more. I find that weird, such a strange insistence but then you probably still believe Covid came from some bat soup and it really was about being alone "together" or some bullshit like that, and phrases like the fourth industrial revolution and internet of bodies would have your eyes glaze over because they don't talk about those things on NPR.
Hey come up with more insults, the ODD one made me laugh.
Maybe tell people on the left, the working class got sick of being thrown under the bus, but then I am just a fat disabled woman, why listen to her? Its funny me how liberals who claim they care about the marginalized are always the first to try and shut them up. But hey you got more kids to give puberty blockers to instead of paying attention to the economy, and can keep insisting the economy is great and all the whiners need to shut up even though at least William Barber admits white poverty is a problem and poverty for all colors is worsening. After all I am supposed to shut up and keep my "woe porn" to myself.
I don't support Trump, I think both parties suck, I miss the days where there was sanity and there weren't assholes claiming to be liberals wanting to give myocarditis to teenagers and who supported world war III and became bootlickers to the ruling class.
Anyhow thanks for the interesting articles from before. I don't know what happened to you. Maybe some Republicans are on to something about TDS, like Goldstein in the book 1984 but they think trillionaires are going to save the world.
I'm not sure what you support now, seems to be a confusing mess. Some of us noticed too how some of the ideals of the left, hmm I'll pick a neutral one, like anti gmo foods switched to the right wing. I certainly do think the right wing will save anyone either, they got Thiel and Musk while the left has Soros.
I know politics can be like religion, a lot of Democrats consider anyone with an independent thought out there to be a heretic today. Have at it. Just seems like you were a different person from before, but then the world has changed. Some seem to support those changes, I don't. Go read some Whitney Webb to figure out what I am talking about or learn what the fourth industrial revolution is. You're a smart guy, I notice you seem to have a lot of pride in that but those are some basics someone should not be missing out on especially if you are going to write a blog talking about political and sociological developments.
There is essentially no difference between changing an organism's genome through a tool like CRISPR, through irradiation, or through selective breeding. Specific changes could potentially be problematic, but that's true in all cases.
Covid vaccines produce an immune response much like an actual infection, and this is detectable after the fact through sequencing a recipients atibodies/TCRs. Since this is the purpose of a vaccine, I can't imagine what you mean by saying that it sucks.
Nuclear power, like vaccines and gene editing technology, is less a necessary evil than a positive good
You’re missing the point. The point is, Kamala did not offer a focused alternative to Trump‘s circus. Her “joy and freedom” campaign did nothing to address the list of real problems you offer, largely drawing on Bernie’s list of real problems that have still not been addressed. You may not have dismissed real economic pain – – and you’re quite right that Trump will do nothing for it – – but she seemed oblivious to it, which is unforgivable in a democrat. It made her invisible, and 7 million Democrats stayed home who should’ve been roused to vote by a more activist message. Kamala’s bragging about her Glock and her 99 CEO supporters had no real resonance whatsoever.
There was nothing Harris could have said or done against the unmitigated deluge of propaganda that brought out the worst in people against her and Biden, who was not a flawless president, albeit he advocated for and signed a tremendous amount of legislation that strengthened our economy and will help the US for years to come.
What if it wasn’t “the economy, stupid”. What if it was all the other bullshit my party peddled?
After the election the Democratic Party (my party) must rethink many of its policies as it ponders its future.
To be entrusted with power again Democrats must start listening to the concerns of the working class for a change. As a lifelong moderate Democrat I share their disdain for many of the insane positions advocated by my party. We are no longer the patriotic, sensible party of FDR and JFK.
Democrat politicians defy biology by believing that men can actually become women and belong in women’s sports, rest rooms, locker rooms and prisons and that gay kids should be mutilated in pursuit of the impossible.
They believe borders should be open to millions of illegals which undermines workers’ wages and the affordability of housing when we can’t house our own citizens.
They discriminate against whites, Asians and men in a futile effort to counter past discrimination against others and undermine our economy by abandoning merit selection of students and employees.
Democratic mayors allow homelessness to destroy our beautiful cities because they won't say no to destructive behavior. No, you can’t camp in our city. No, you can’t shit in our streets. No, you can’t shoot up and leave your used needles everywhere. Many of our prosecutors will not take action against shoplifting unless a $1000 of goods are stolen leading to gangs destroying retail stores. They release criminals without bail to commit more crimes.
The average voter knows this is happening and outright reject our party. Enough.
Hmm. Return to the New Deal economics is his basic point. Welfare payments have grown from 1% of GDP in 1950 to over 6% today and grown faster than virtually any other area of the federal budget including SS, Medicare, defense and military. So we are more progressive, better safety net than under Roosevelt or Johnson by far. Whatever injustices you see now we’re far worse in 1940 or 1950 or 1968. Not sure exactly what your argument is. Don’t want capitalism? Want European model with even more safety net snd stricter labor laws and the resultant much slower economic growth and fewer opportunities for moving up the economic ladder? Ask the European underclass if they are happy. Not so much.
Occams razor: Yes, it's egg prices. But, MAGA knows nothing about economics. They blame whoever is in power. When prices don't go down they'll turn left. Rinse repeat. Thatcher said, There Is No Alternative to Neoliberalism. Putin is a capitalist. Pikketty variety solutions may be the only way.
Biden was the first president in years to actually push back against the economy of Reagan, Thatcher, and Milton Friedman. Support of unions, child tax credits, caps on Rx costs. The public was oblivious instead voting for a union busting, redlining tax cheat. The c chickens voted for Col. Sanders.
“Recall that in the run-up to the election, we were told over and over again by the entire media apparatus and the pundits that the economy was in far, far worse shape under Joe Biden than under any president in modern history. That we were in a second Great Depression. That no former president had ever presided over such an economic catastrophe”
I call that a straw man…that’s what the Roger Ailes/ Rupert Murdoch/ Sinclair aligned media world said, and AP, CNN and the rest helped by reporting that they said it, but there was plenty of reporting and talk about the “soft landing”, strong jobs reports, lessening inflation numbers, and rising incomes…if you bothered to tune in to media that reports facts. Social media algorithms amplified the false narrative of a bad economy and too many of our fellow citizens were too incurious to explore the discrepancy between reality and what their earbuds were saying. In so saying, I acknowledge we end up agreeing that culture war and propaganda were primary drivers of the outcome…and “culture war” is a euphemism for racism, misogyny, Xsto-Nationalism, and anti-science sentiment.
Love the unleashed style. Fuck the scolds.
Whew, righteous rant my man!
Thanks for this Geoff!!
Trump won due to his constant lying.
I didn't vote for Trump.
I also do not support Musk, and others in his camp.
It's weird how Democrats want 100 percent loyalty or someone's a fascist right winger.
I protested Trump for years.
"that have turned you former so-called leftists into a bunch of raving goddamn fascists (e.g. pandemic conspiracies); but, yeah, I'm the enemy because vaccines, or imperialism, or whatever. Here is some advice: go fuck yourselves. And if you are thinking of leaving another indignant, self-righteous comment, may I suggest you print it out instead, douse it in gasoline, stick it up your ass, and set it on fire."
It makes me more sad, you can call me names and tell me to fuck off, but the weird insistence that the economy is okay and use the abused phrase "conspiracy theory" which is used to shut down any thinking in reference to the pandemic is just more disappointments. It's odd how you got so angry. Usually when people get this mad, a nerve is struck.
Is this how you treat anyone who disagrees with you? I had posted links to your website for years in a positive fashion.
You seem so caught up in Trump who does suck, you ignore the failures of the Democratic party to the max.
But hey one reason people have jumped to the right, is the cancellation, the closure, the shutting down on the left. Some seemed to have lost even the ability for rational disagreement and debate. You go straight to name-calling, cutting insults. I know the status of a deaf disabled woman is lower than an architect but sheesh give it a rest. I suppose I could play the same game and yell F you too but what would it accomplish?
Your reading comprehension must not be much better because I am not a Trump supporter but I know now in the leftist world of cancel anyone who disagrees [I mean you had to go for the verbal daggers to shut up someone who questions the two party system] it not surprising. I do not support Trump, I wrote an article even warning what could come years ago.
I voted for Democrats even on state ballot, but I suppose for questioning the system I must be labeled as right of Attila the Hun and called names. BTW this is not the actions of someone who is actually listening and engaging with someone. Its funny you assumed I supported Trump when I wrote on the ghost dance? WRONG. I had agreed with you at the time. Are you so stupid to think I wrote that as a Trump supporter?
https://fivehundredpoundpeeps.blogspot.com/2020/06/when-bottom-falls-out-trump-has.html
As for your loved politicians and the working class, all we have to do is look at Western north Carolina, and East Palestine Ohio to see how the working class really got treated.
Oh you call me a fascist or whatever you want a former leftist, do we even really have a left now?
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/there-is-no-political-left-what-appears
One thing people got tired of are the endless cancellations and being "shut-down". I guess now one is a raving fascist for not supporting Kamala and Biden. Sad, some of us wondered what happened to the anti-war, anti-establishment, left. Even Bernie said The Democratic party betrayed the working class. By the way, I suppose many of us are used to being told to Fuck off, I mean it seems to be the new Democratic way. "CANCEL anyone who offends us."
I am in shock, that you still haven't heard of "died suddenly", still lining up for boosters even now? Makes me wonder if some are living under a rock. You still think Fauci is a good man too and don't know what gain of function means? Then we have nothing in common. What message do you really have?
I agree with this quote from this link
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/the-difficult-conversation-we-need
"But who does the biowarfare industrial complex report to? I think the answer is pretty obvious: capital. That’s the conversation that no one wants to have.
The left is unable to have this conversation because they worship all aspects of the biowarfare industrial complex (masks, lockdowns, useless treatments, deadly vaccines, quarantine camps, and totalitarianism in general). It’s their new God and they will do anything to save it. Thus they avoid any self-reflection which would reveal that they are actually just lackeys for capital at this point."
I wrote for years on how the left had turned totalitarian, and well well it's not just the money why people checked out....[and sadly Mr. Operation Warp Speed, aka the Orange one will betray them too.
But it's an easy out for your kind to just shout conspiracy theorist, and close out the truth.
https://fivehundredpoundpeeps.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-modern-left-has-turned-fascist-for.html
Covid is sadly why many flip flopped back to Trump.
Covid by the way was the biggest money clean-out ever, and closed millions of small businesses but I'm sure you don't have that puzzle piece either.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2021/04/06/meet-the-40-new-billionaires-who-got-rich-fighting-covid-19/
Hey I learned a lot from your website so this reaction is just another disappointment. When people won't examine the other side and only see the world in Democrat vs Republican, they are very limited indeed. I do not support Trump but see your mind is in such a box, you can't even concieve of people who question the two party system. You don't even get how both parties serve the oligarchy.
I do expect the poverty and suffering to get worse. DOGE is a con, and they criminalized homelessness and did Supreme Court rulings that take the gloves off, but just because I question the Democratic party you deem me just worth of being told to "fuck off" Well you do have the cancelling others thing down I suppose. You can shut me down by pure vitriol, good job!
Economic pain did bring Trump back to office, you can say inflation isn't higher ad nauseum get out your graphs, we surely need more of them but all any of us in the real world have to do is look around and wonder why shit costs 50 percent more. I find that weird, such a strange insistence but then you probably still believe Covid came from some bat soup and it really was about being alone "together" or some bullshit like that, and phrases like the fourth industrial revolution and internet of bodies would have your eyes glaze over because they don't talk about those things on NPR.
Hey come up with more insults, the ODD one made me laugh.
Maybe tell people on the left, the working class got sick of being thrown under the bus, but then I am just a fat disabled woman, why listen to her? Its funny me how liberals who claim they care about the marginalized are always the first to try and shut them up. But hey you got more kids to give puberty blockers to instead of paying attention to the economy, and can keep insisting the economy is great and all the whiners need to shut up even though at least William Barber admits white poverty is a problem and poverty for all colors is worsening. After all I am supposed to shut up and keep my "woe porn" to myself.
I don't support Trump, I think both parties suck, I miss the days where there was sanity and there weren't assholes claiming to be liberals wanting to give myocarditis to teenagers and who supported world war III and became bootlickers to the ruling class.
Anyhow thanks for the interesting articles from before. I don't know what happened to you. Maybe some Republicans are on to something about TDS, like Goldstein in the book 1984 but they think trillionaires are going to save the world.
I'm not sure what you support now, seems to be a confusing mess. Some of us noticed too how some of the ideals of the left, hmm I'll pick a neutral one, like anti gmo foods switched to the right wing. I certainly do think the right wing will save anyone either, they got Thiel and Musk while the left has Soros.
I know politics can be like religion, a lot of Democrats consider anyone with an independent thought out there to be a heretic today. Have at it. Just seems like you were a different person from before, but then the world has changed. Some seem to support those changes, I don't. Go read some Whitney Webb to figure out what I am talking about or learn what the fourth industrial revolution is. You're a smart guy, I notice you seem to have a lot of pride in that but those are some basics someone should not be missing out on especially if you are going to write a blog talking about political and sociological developments.
What raving lunacy is this?
Someone who knows both parties suck.
Very true, and one of the main ways they both suck is in their tendency to demonize vaccines, GMOs, and nuclear power.
covid vaccine does suck, mRNA is a failure, the classics did some good.
GMOs are bad news, and does affect food quality
Nuclear power necessary evil, for electricity but understand the problems with nuclear waste.
There is essentially no difference between changing an organism's genome through a tool like CRISPR, through irradiation, or through selective breeding. Specific changes could potentially be problematic, but that's true in all cases.
Covid vaccines produce an immune response much like an actual infection, and this is detectable after the fact through sequencing a recipients atibodies/TCRs. Since this is the purpose of a vaccine, I can't imagine what you mean by saying that it sucks.
Nuclear power, like vaccines and gene editing technology, is less a necessary evil than a positive good
You’re missing the point. The point is, Kamala did not offer a focused alternative to Trump‘s circus. Her “joy and freedom” campaign did nothing to address the list of real problems you offer, largely drawing on Bernie’s list of real problems that have still not been addressed. You may not have dismissed real economic pain – – and you’re quite right that Trump will do nothing for it – – but she seemed oblivious to it, which is unforgivable in a democrat. It made her invisible, and 7 million Democrats stayed home who should’ve been roused to vote by a more activist message. Kamala’s bragging about her Glock and her 99 CEO supporters had no real resonance whatsoever.
There was nothing Harris could have said or done against the unmitigated deluge of propaganda that brought out the worst in people against her and Biden, who was not a flawless president, albeit he advocated for and signed a tremendous amount of legislation that strengthened our economy and will help the US for years to come.
Cant think of anything? I can.
What if it wasn’t “the economy, stupid”. What if it was all the other bullshit my party peddled?
After the election the Democratic Party (my party) must rethink many of its policies as it ponders its future.
To be entrusted with power again Democrats must start listening to the concerns of the working class for a change. As a lifelong moderate Democrat I share their disdain for many of the insane positions advocated by my party. We are no longer the patriotic, sensible party of FDR and JFK.
Democrat politicians defy biology by believing that men can actually become women and belong in women’s sports, rest rooms, locker rooms and prisons and that gay kids should be mutilated in pursuit of the impossible.
They believe borders should be open to millions of illegals which undermines workers’ wages and the affordability of housing when we can’t house our own citizens.
They discriminate against whites, Asians and men in a futile effort to counter past discrimination against others and undermine our economy by abandoning merit selection of students and employees.
Democratic mayors allow homelessness to destroy our beautiful cities because they won't say no to destructive behavior. No, you can’t camp in our city. No, you can’t shit in our streets. No, you can’t shoot up and leave your used needles everywhere. Many of our prosecutors will not take action against shoplifting unless a $1000 of goods are stolen leading to gangs destroying retail stores. They release criminals without bail to commit more crimes.
The average voter knows this is happening and outright reject our party. Enough.
Excellent! You've managed to say so many things that needed saying that I can never manage to put into a coherent argument. Thanks
Damn! I have never seen you here before but this was effing on target. A little long but on the money.
Plus one for this column.
You’re not wrong, and I’m now subscribed. Truth hurts those who recognize on some level they are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Hmm. Return to the New Deal economics is his basic point. Welfare payments have grown from 1% of GDP in 1950 to over 6% today and grown faster than virtually any other area of the federal budget including SS, Medicare, defense and military. So we are more progressive, better safety net than under Roosevelt or Johnson by far. Whatever injustices you see now we’re far worse in 1940 or 1950 or 1968. Not sure exactly what your argument is. Don’t want capitalism? Want European model with even more safety net snd stricter labor laws and the resultant much slower economic growth and fewer opportunities for moving up the economic ladder? Ask the European underclass if they are happy. Not so much.
Yes! I just had an exchange like the one you described with some people over this very topic. The “economic” explanation is absolute hogwash.
Occams razor: Yes, it's egg prices. But, MAGA knows nothing about economics. They blame whoever is in power. When prices don't go down they'll turn left. Rinse repeat. Thatcher said, There Is No Alternative to Neoliberalism. Putin is a capitalist. Pikketty variety solutions may be the only way.
Biden was the first president in years to actually push back against the economy of Reagan, Thatcher, and Milton Friedman. Support of unions, child tax credits, caps on Rx costs. The public was oblivious instead voting for a union busting, redlining tax cheat. The c chickens voted for Col. Sanders.
“Recall that in the run-up to the election, we were told over and over again by the entire media apparatus and the pundits that the economy was in far, far worse shape under Joe Biden than under any president in modern history. That we were in a second Great Depression. That no former president had ever presided over such an economic catastrophe”
I call that a straw man…that’s what the Roger Ailes/ Rupert Murdoch/ Sinclair aligned media world said, and AP, CNN and the rest helped by reporting that they said it, but there was plenty of reporting and talk about the “soft landing”, strong jobs reports, lessening inflation numbers, and rising incomes…if you bothered to tune in to media that reports facts. Social media algorithms amplified the false narrative of a bad economy and too many of our fellow citizens were too incurious to explore the discrepancy between reality and what their earbuds were saying. In so saying, I acknowledge we end up agreeing that culture war and propaganda were primary drivers of the outcome…and “culture war” is a euphemism for racism, misogyny, Xsto-Nationalism, and anti-science sentiment.
Thank you for your astute analysis and plain truth. Too many people only see and hear what they want.