I am completely with you until you get to the part about forming grassroots organizations. What we need, now, this day, in this climate, is something far superior to the impotent, nutless, weak, Ken Martin-led Democratic National Committee. If they are going to stand for “the left” in the rest of the ways their politicians under their banner supported by our money AND the money of the extremely wealthy, they musk RISK OFFENDING DONORS to be that force which provides the pro-bono work, drive the top-down adoption of legislation protecting workers - all while supporting the ground up efforts as well with MONEY, FUNDING, and most of all, MARKETING to spread a COHERENT PLATFORM MESSAGE.
I’m fed up with emails asking for my $5. What the hell did it buy ANY of us in the last DECADE-PLUS? Seriously? The Democratic Party - at the DNC level - needs new leadership, needs a co-opting by political and rhetorical WARRIORS of a NEW generation and NEW blood. The old ones have failed, yet (go listen to him 2 weeks ago - Ken Martin on YouTube) their leaders are pushing bullshit action in the wrong direction at the wrong time. They have the mantle. They need to pass it on to those willing to show backbone and fight.
I agree but I think some people need reminding that "new" blood doesn't necessarily mean "young" blood. Some of the best voices in the Democratic Party are Liz Warren and Bernie Sanders. But do let's oust Schumer. And Fetterman, the D.I.N.O.
I cut the DNC off and wrote them telling them just exactly why. I told them they could quit with the daily money begs. It lasted exactly 2 days. We need our most eloquent leaders to start acting together while we still have a country to speak for.
This is exactly why I donate to individual candidates and not to the DNC. Why donate to an ineffective organization? Show me something good that it's doing, and I'll think about it.
ken martin got rid of David Hogge....a mistake, we needed him as a youth voice especially since I have come to learn that so many young people loved charlie....
Ken Martin did NOT get rid of David Hogg. It was a procedural error in the voting process that was made at the election and several people complained. The election was redone and Hogg didn't wish to run again. He wanted to focus on primarying Dems he thought weren't good enough.
The Vice-Chairs were supposed to be voted on sequentially so there could be a mixture representing various constituencies. The vote for all the positions was taken in one vote which violated the Rules, iirc. I think some of the losing candidates complained and a revote was declared. David Hogg was so invested in his new primarying "deadbeat Dem organization that he no longer had time for the position. He did get flack from many for working against some incumbents because that's NOT the role of the DNC.
As we saw with Joe Manchin, sometimes a moderate/conservative Dem is the only kind that can get elected in certain very red areas/districts. It is better for trying to get a majority in a legislative body that a moderate Dem is elected than a Republican.
I agree. I like Ed Markey who wants funding, but he’s not showing me the way out of this Trump morass of corruption and clown-show. We need goals not FEC deadlines.
Look more closely. There have been few Senators more stalwart in opposing drumpf and his Nazi gang and in pushing hard, every single day, for environmental progress.
Sure, let's keep kicking ourselves in the teeth so we spend all our time at the dentist instead of fighting fascism with one voice. It's going to take a village, dare I say, to defeat this malignant force and a big, big tent, not just those who pass your purity test. Why not follow Jen's excellent suggestions? Form your own "fed up and can't take it anymore" grassroots group that espouses your views perfectly. It will be welcome in a BROAD coalition of people fighting for our Constitution.
Thank you, Barbara, for bringing this back to the point. Tired of whining grumps. Get busy, you guys. There are thousands of active grassroots organizations out there holding democracy together. Join one, and if your community doesn't have one, got to Indivisible or NoKings- they will help.
“Doing something” given the authoritarian stranglehold on the traditional levers of power will involve getting way outside the proverbial box. The interstate compacts being created by Democratic Governors are a good start. Announcements that state police will be shadowing ICE raids and arresting them for violations of state laws when they engage in illegal actions should come next. Calling up the in-state National Guard to protect blue cites from Trump’s illegal invasions would also be helpful. As Governor Pritzker has now demonstrated these wannabe fascists will actually stop when met with a forceful response. Little of this has much to do with politics as historically practiced in the US, but it’s a lot more likely to be effective than “strongly worded letters.”
The only way to effectively fight back against the trump takedown of the constitution is to have an opposite gov, already part of the gov, fight against trump. we can march around all we want to no effect. of course the # 1 effective tool against the MAGA distortion is the midterm election. as many as possible dems need to be elected...starting with dog catcher !
interesting trump will celebrate the 250th year with a WWE match on the front lawn of the soiled white house....representing his takedown of the constitution.
THANK YOU!! I am so Sick of every email that has a connection to the Democratics asking for money. For me it is NO Action, No Plan, No Money! What is your PLAN, what concrete actions have you taken thus far to stall the MAGA TRAIN barreling down the tracks? Where is your 2026/2028 Plan? (Jennifer Rubin has already written most of it if only you could read) So Quit Whining. I am an Independent rather than a Democratic because of much talk and very little do. I gave to the Harris campaign, and my own two-term representative who does get things done for his constituents, but he is not yet a big player on the National scene. If I see some action and some new leadership I will give again.
Totally agree on Ken Martin. I have been unimpressed by him and preaching against him since he was elected, but especially after he ousted David Hogg. And I have written to Ken Martin, complaining about his wussiness (is that a word?) with no response. David Hogg is needed by the DNC 1,000 more than Ken Martin. Ben Wikler has impressed me very much and He should have been elected.
Other than Nancy Pelosi, why have Democrats always elected party leaders with no spine, no balls, nothing? Look at the entire current leadership.
Me too. I think the DNC made a big mistake. I still follow WisDems because they are an active on-the-ground group, and their newsletters give me info that informs my sense far beyond Wisc borders. I hear more from Ben than I do from DNC. Is it too late for DNC to bring on Ben? Would he be willing? Or are we in the process of creating a nascent new party?
Rick is right: ‘ What we need, now, this day, in this climate, is something far superior to the impotent, nutless, weak Ken Martin-led DNC.’ Only I would replace nutless with ‘gutless’ so as not to piss off the trumpian Thought Police.
I’m from Wisconsin and Ben Wikler is great. He took our no-nothing Dem party and really put some fire into it. Very disappointed in Ken Martin. I, too, refuse to give anymore $ until I see some action. Everyday I ask, “do we even have a party that will stand against the Republicans. And, if so, where are they hiding”? I think grassroots groups are great, but why should we be doing the job of the Democratic Party when we hear nothing from them? I’m tired of rallying and not 1 of our Rep. or Sen. is ever seen or heard from. If they want to continue to have a job, they better stand up and show us some strength and leadership!
When Jen Rubin and Ann Telnaes left WaPo over its censorship, so did I. Target hasn't seen one red cent from me either in at least a year or more. Small things, but if enough of us do them, they add up.
I used to love Amazon, and began using it in 1999.
It was sort of a fun, updated and re-branded Sears Roebuck catalog (showing my age here) for the internet age. Same marketing technique. Everything available to buy in the 50s, 60s and 70s universe right at your fingertips in a BIG catalog. And delivered right to your door!
But Bezos has gone off the rails. Great wealth and power corrupt absolutely.
The hallowed Sears Roebuck, the world's ORIGINAL direct mail retailer, was destroyed by private equity billionaires. Those are the REAL culprits behind the despair found in so many Americans and their communities that lost out in the "globalization" and "digitalization" bonanza. And Trump has manipulated these vulnerable souls to make them believe the culprit is China and immigrants.
Private equity has done even worse things than destroy SR and other businesses. They have bought out then bankrupted hospitals and nursing homes, destroying health and lives in the process.
You are right and I do feel guilty about still subscribing to Amazon Prime and shopping at Whole Foods. I try to reduce my use of both but still... One of these days may I have the intestinal fortitude to forgo both. The one good thing about Amazon Prime is their very east refund policy. Which is essential because so much of what they sell is junk! The manufacturers Jeff Bezos buys from are selling us a lot of poorly made products.
It’s not really all that difficult, in my experience. I, too, loved Amazon initially, but after seeing what Bezos & his greed were doing to smaller competitors, I decided to support them. A bit more $$$, but so much more satisfying…
You're right. But I'm caregiver/roommate for my elderly aunt and getting out to shop is tricky and Amazon simplifies that. I confess to doing shopping for myself also on Amazon. The local choice for many things is Target, which is its own problem.
I would join you on dumping Amazon, except I don’t read physical books anymore. Kindle is the only game in town and I feel like that alone is doing good for the environment since no trees are killed so I can read a couple of books a day. Plus, not everything is available in ebook through the library/Libby/hoopla. Give me another choice and I’ll drop Amazon in a heartbeat. Also, sadly, if you aren’t in a big metropolis, not everything is available locally or available online elsewhere 😩.
I’m so sorry they did that! It’s not right. I don’t believe it’s all roses at all. If you give me another resource for ebooks, I’m happy to go elsewhere. In the meantime, I’m stuck since I often read several books a day.
Again, I do use the library, just not for paper books. They are harder to hold and often have difficult to read fonts. My ebooks all weigh exactly the same thing and are in the perfect font and size for me. Don’t even need a bookmark. Plus, I have about 2k books with me at all times and access to millions more if I have WiFi. No longer have to carry heavy books with me on vacation! I pay $12/month for Kindle Unlimited and read WAY more than $144/year in KU books. I’m 68 years old, so believe me when I say, I’ve held thousands of books in my hands and don’t miss that at all.
We're buying everything we can from Wal-mart these days rather than automatically going to the Amazon web site. Still, we can't cut off our noses to spite our faces when we're elderly and partially disabled and must use delivery for our goods. Amazon needs some direct competition.
Lets help that trump fellow and his bondi girl a bit because if both of them have to count on the patel guy to smoke us out of the woods......
(Because that is what real lefties do.... they try to help where possible!)
Guide on how to recognize a radical antifa Soros sponsored drag queen loving defund the police pizza eating and kid grooming leftie:
Radical lefties like:
- Affordable healthcare for all
- Affordable housing for all
- Solid mental healthcare for all
- Sensible gun control
- Minimum wages
- Unions
- Decent retirement
- One person one vote
- Protection of the environment
- Pollution control (clean air, soil, water)
- Fighting climate change
- Reducing fossil fuel dependency
- Alternative green energy
- Respect for allies
- Fair taxation
Feel free to add identification points so that the bondi girl can recognize us and jail us all without due process and without seeing something resembling a judge.
As an American, I fail to see this as “radical” either. But there is a history of tamped down political discourse. Americans don’t debate policy - they throw it at someone like a weapon.
Gosh, Marc, you named all the things Trump, his regime and MAGAs hate. Apparently, they hate the United States, since all of the things you list are sorely needed by this country.
It should be noted that it's not just Trump, or even just his administration, but rather the ENTIRE Republican party that is responsible for this assault on American democracy. Where's the outrage from the so-called "moderates"? Susan Collins? Crickets. We need to hold Republican politicians, particularly in purple states accountable for their involement in campaign of censorship and oppression. Please consider joining groups like SwingLeft, Indivisible, and Sister District Project (and many others) to help flip states from red to blue.
You said it. Even moderates shouldn't put up with the loss of rights and indignities that are being foisted upon us. For not speaking up, they are complicit cowards.
Exactly. The electoral resistance begins in Virginia with early voting beginning on 9/19. New Jersey also is voting. The Democratic States of America must unite against the Fascist Federal Government and the Fascist States of America. Polite conversation is over.
No squabbling among Democrats should be the dictum. The moment is too critically important to waste that time. That said, we must remain committed to basic human rights, women's rights at the top of the list.
Great column. But I cannot feel any empathy or respect for the New York Times, given their role in our current state of affairs, their contributions to both-side-ism, their repeated and spiteful denigration of President Biden, and their insidious normalizing of everything the GOP and Trump have done over the past 10 years. I canceled my subscription a while back and the Washington Post shortly thereafter. I actually hold them and most of the media outlets in this country accountable as enablers of this regime. They continue to misrepresent the situation through their deliberate use of language that slants, sanitizes, and whitewashes what is going on. The recent, repeated use of "assassination", with its loaded political implications typically reserved for politicians or state leaders, instead of the far less loaded word "murder" is just one example. There are countless others over the past decade. Let us not forget the incessant drumbeat of "likability" and "her emails". They got what they wanted with Trump's election, so now they can deal with the consequences.
Agree 100%. The NYT has normalized, legitimized President Pinocchio since he first became a candidate in 2015--just for clicks. They don't need EVER to publish a photo of him, they don't need running news, just brief factual reports of presidential actions. Until they change I won't re-subscribe. We should not be funding the NYT out of our nostalgia for what the paper once was.
You could say the same about the Washington Post since Jeff Bezos and William Lewis took over. The Graham, Meyer, and Bradlee families would be incensed.
Jennifer, you should PUBLISH real-time snippets from that "lawsuit" Dump filed against the New York Times. It reads like a pamphlet describing the Emperor's beautiful new clothes.
Seriously, a judge would have difficulty reading this and commenting on it without rolling his eyes. The legal beagles who wrote it (no doubt with Donnie Dipwad's help) should lose their license to practice. Mel Brooks couldn't have done a better job....
I cancelled my WaPo subscription long before Jennifer quit. Other main stream news outlets were quit during the pandemic. We have been in decline for years. My brain and body are doing the same thing - quitting. Thank goodness I am old enough to redeem my body but my mind and spirit fight on. We can save our democracy! From ma, on a rainy day in the mid atlantic - we need the rain and it seems fitting for our country, today. Rain and hope :) Thank you.
Democrats should grind the process (coming up with a funding bill) to a halt. Make motions and force votes. Let the terrified Republicans vote against a bill supporting the 1st Amendment. Let the Republicans vote against restoring Medicaid funding. Democrats should not yield the floor. We need a "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" moment.
How to move the democratic party into agreement, even if for a short period of time, is problematic. However, this is a "must" if we want to have any chance of defeating the efforts of Trump and his followers.The cost of fighting within the party is too great and the only way to move the public at large is the unity of the democratic party.
There seems to have been a problem with one issue voters in the Democratic Party. The old saying applies: "Never overlook the good in the quest for perfection." Get back in power in unity, then work on the individual issues. It seems obvious - if we aren't there at all we can effect no changes to anything. This is where we are now in Congress.
I am completely with you until you get to the part about forming grassroots organizations. What we need, now, this day, in this climate, is something far superior to the impotent, nutless, weak, Ken Martin-led Democratic National Committee. If they are going to stand for “the left” in the rest of the ways their politicians under their banner supported by our money AND the money of the extremely wealthy, they musk RISK OFFENDING DONORS to be that force which provides the pro-bono work, drive the top-down adoption of legislation protecting workers - all while supporting the ground up efforts as well with MONEY, FUNDING, and most of all, MARKETING to spread a COHERENT PLATFORM MESSAGE.
I’m fed up with emails asking for my $5. What the hell did it buy ANY of us in the last DECADE-PLUS? Seriously? The Democratic Party - at the DNC level - needs new leadership, needs a co-opting by political and rhetorical WARRIORS of a NEW generation and NEW blood. The old ones have failed, yet (go listen to him 2 weeks ago - Ken Martin on YouTube) their leaders are pushing bullshit action in the wrong direction at the wrong time. They have the mantle. They need to pass it on to those willing to show backbone and fight.
I agree but I think some people need reminding that "new" blood doesn't necessarily mean "young" blood. Some of the best voices in the Democratic Party are Liz Warren and Bernie Sanders. But do let's oust Schumer. And Fetterman, the D.I.N.O.
Exactly. Let's pay attention and support those leaders who will support us. It's the ideas and motivation that count, not the age.
Yes, these old-school guys are treating an existential threat to our democracy as politics-as-usual, as opposed to the revolution it is!
Not all, but some.
Too many!
I live in NYS and will do my best to see Schumer be put out to retirement ASAP!
You need to know what is ACTUALLY happening.
Democrats Are Overperforming Everywhere
Democrats have won or overperformed the top of the 2024 ticket in 43 out of 44 key elections so far this year.
https://blueprint.democrats.org/p/democrats-are-overperforming-everywhere?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=zc69i&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Mainstream media seems to be reluctant to report such gains.
No shit?
Yup. That's why I made the observation.
Me too. Chuckles has been useless for, what, 25+ years? I miss Alfonse D’Amato. He took care of his constituents.
Absolutely. I am almost 81!
I cut the DNC off and wrote them telling them just exactly why. I told them they could quit with the daily money begs. It lasted exactly 2 days. We need our most eloquent leaders to start acting together while we still have a country to speak for.
IMHO anti dem psy ops.
This is exactly why I donate to individual candidates and not to the DNC. Why donate to an ineffective organization? Show me something good that it's doing, and I'll think about it.
Same here! 👍🏻
Me too.
make sure it doesn't go into actblue and they send the $ to the candidate who they think needs it most...
ActBlue sends money to the accounts you donate directly to. Period.
We have NEVER had any problems.
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ken martin got rid of David Hogge....a mistake, we needed him as a youth voice especially since I have come to learn that so many young people loved charlie....
Agree!
Ken Martin did NOT get rid of David Hogg. It was a procedural error in the voting process that was made at the election and several people complained. The election was redone and Hogg didn't wish to run again. He wanted to focus on primarying Dems he thought weren't good enough.
right...people complained about the election...sounds familiar
so, the DNC had a "procedural error' in it's own election ? WTF it's worse than I thought...
The Vice-Chairs were supposed to be voted on sequentially so there could be a mixture representing various constituencies. The vote for all the positions was taken in one vote which violated the Rules, iirc. I think some of the losing candidates complained and a revote was declared. David Hogg was so invested in his new primarying "deadbeat Dem organization that he no longer had time for the position. He did get flack from many for working against some incumbents because that's NOT the role of the DNC.
As we saw with Joe Manchin, sometimes a moderate/conservative Dem is the only kind that can get elected in certain very red areas/districts. It is better for trying to get a majority in a legislative body that a moderate Dem is elected than a Republican.
I do appreciate your response. Still worrisome.
I agree. I like Ed Markey who wants funding, but he’s not showing me the way out of this Trump morass of corruption and clown-show. We need goals not FEC deadlines.
Look more closely. There have been few Senators more stalwart in opposing drumpf and his Nazi gang and in pushing hard, every single day, for environmental progress.
Sure, let's keep kicking ourselves in the teeth so we spend all our time at the dentist instead of fighting fascism with one voice. It's going to take a village, dare I say, to defeat this malignant force and a big, big tent, not just those who pass your purity test. Why not follow Jen's excellent suggestions? Form your own "fed up and can't take it anymore" grassroots group that espouses your views perfectly. It will be welcome in a BROAD coalition of people fighting for our Constitution.
Thank you, Barbara, for bringing this back to the point. Tired of whining grumps. Get busy, you guys. There are thousands of active grassroots organizations out there holding democracy together. Join one, and if your community doesn't have one, got to Indivisible or NoKings- they will help.
“Doing something” given the authoritarian stranglehold on the traditional levers of power will involve getting way outside the proverbial box. The interstate compacts being created by Democratic Governors are a good start. Announcements that state police will be shadowing ICE raids and arresting them for violations of state laws when they engage in illegal actions should come next. Calling up the in-state National Guard to protect blue cites from Trump’s illegal invasions would also be helpful. As Governor Pritzker has now demonstrated these wannabe fascists will actually stop when met with a forceful response. Little of this has much to do with politics as historically practiced in the US, but it’s a lot more likely to be effective than “strongly worded letters.”
The only way to effectively fight back against the trump takedown of the constitution is to have an opposite gov, already part of the gov, fight against trump. we can march around all we want to no effect. of course the # 1 effective tool against the MAGA distortion is the midterm election. as many as possible dems need to be elected...starting with dog catcher !
interesting trump will celebrate the 250th year with a WWE match on the front lawn of the soiled white house....representing his takedown of the constitution.
THANK YOU!! I am so Sick of every email that has a connection to the Democratics asking for money. For me it is NO Action, No Plan, No Money! What is your PLAN, what concrete actions have you taken thus far to stall the MAGA TRAIN barreling down the tracks? Where is your 2026/2028 Plan? (Jennifer Rubin has already written most of it if only you could read) So Quit Whining. I am an Independent rather than a Democratic because of much talk and very little do. I gave to the Harris campaign, and my own two-term representative who does get things done for his constituents, but he is not yet a big player on the National scene. If I see some action and some new leadership I will give again.
Totally agree on Ken Martin. I have been unimpressed by him and preaching against him since he was elected, but especially after he ousted David Hogg. And I have written to Ken Martin, complaining about his wussiness (is that a word?) with no response. David Hogg is needed by the DNC 1,000 more than Ken Martin. Ben Wikler has impressed me very much and He should have been elected.
Other than Nancy Pelosi, why have Democrats always elected party leaders with no spine, no balls, nothing? Look at the entire current leadership.
I am a big Ben Wikler fan!
Me too. I think the DNC made a big mistake. I still follow WisDems because they are an active on-the-ground group, and their newsletters give me info that informs my sense far beyond Wisc borders. I hear more from Ben than I do from DNC. Is it too late for DNC to bring on Ben? Would he be willing? Or are we in the process of creating a nascent new party?
I only donate directly to candidates.
Well, it did “buy” 4 great years of relief with Pres. Biden…
Seems like every 50 years or so we Americans have to do this again: reject autonomy, uplift Democracy. We do get complacent…
Some do. Some don't. The former don't listen to the latter.
Rick is right: ‘ What we need, now, this day, in this climate, is something far superior to the impotent, nutless, weak Ken Martin-led DNC.’ Only I would replace nutless with ‘gutless’ so as not to piss off the trumpian Thought Police.
What we need, now, this day, in this climate, is something far superior to the impotent, nutless, we
I’m from Wisconsin and Ben Wikler is great. He took our no-nothing Dem party and really put some fire into it. Very disappointed in Ken Martin. I, too, refuse to give anymore $ until I see some action. Everyday I ask, “do we even have a party that will stand against the Republicans. And, if so, where are they hiding”? I think grassroots groups are great, but why should we be doing the job of the Democratic Party when we hear nothing from them? I’m tired of rallying and not 1 of our Rep. or Sen. is ever seen or heard from. If they want to continue to have a job, they better stand up and show us some strength and leadership!
When Jen Rubin and Ann Telnaes left WaPo over its censorship, so did I. Target hasn't seen one red cent from me either in at least a year or more. Small things, but if enough of us do them, they add up.
Ditto Amazon and Amazon Prime.
I used to love Amazon, and began using it in 1999.
It was sort of a fun, updated and re-branded Sears Roebuck catalog (showing my age here) for the internet age. Same marketing technique. Everything available to buy in the 50s, 60s and 70s universe right at your fingertips in a BIG catalog. And delivered right to your door!
But Bezos has gone off the rails. Great wealth and power corrupt absolutely.
Stop supporting oligarchs.
The hallowed Sears Roebuck, the world's ORIGINAL direct mail retailer, was destroyed by private equity billionaires. Those are the REAL culprits behind the despair found in so many Americans and their communities that lost out in the "globalization" and "digitalization" bonanza. And Trump has manipulated these vulnerable souls to make them believe the culprit is China and immigrants.
Private equity has done even worse things than destroy SR and other businesses. They have bought out then bankrupted hospitals and nursing homes, destroying health and lives in the process.
You are right and I do feel guilty about still subscribing to Amazon Prime and shopping at Whole Foods. I try to reduce my use of both but still... One of these days may I have the intestinal fortitude to forgo both. The one good thing about Amazon Prime is their very east refund policy. Which is essential because so much of what they sell is junk! The manufacturers Jeff Bezos buys from are selling us a lot of poorly made products.
It’s not really all that difficult, in my experience. I, too, loved Amazon initially, but after seeing what Bezos & his greed were doing to smaller competitors, I decided to support them. A bit more $$$, but so much more satisfying…
You're right. But I'm caregiver/roommate for my elderly aunt and getting out to shop is tricky and Amazon simplifies that. I confess to doing shopping for myself also on Amazon. The local choice for many things is Target, which is its own problem.
Donna, do what works for you. Life is difficult enough. I admire what you are doing.
I would join you on dumping Amazon, except I don’t read physical books anymore. Kindle is the only game in town and I feel like that alone is doing good for the environment since no trees are killed so I can read a couple of books a day. Plus, not everything is available in ebook through the library/Libby/hoopla. Give me another choice and I’ll drop Amazon in a heartbeat. Also, sadly, if you aren’t in a big metropolis, not everything is available locally or available online elsewhere 😩.
Just for the record - Amazon unilaterally decided to give my ebook away for free when it first came out. I had no vote. All is not roses there...
I’m so sorry they did that! It’s not right. I don’t believe it’s all roses at all. If you give me another resource for ebooks, I’m happy to go elsewhere. In the meantime, I’m stuck since I often read several books a day.
Your local library? Get in a walk, meet nice people, hold a paper book in your hands, use a $bill for a bookmark…
Again, I do use the library, just not for paper books. They are harder to hold and often have difficult to read fonts. My ebooks all weigh exactly the same thing and are in the perfect font and size for me. Don’t even need a bookmark. Plus, I have about 2k books with me at all times and access to millions more if I have WiFi. No longer have to carry heavy books with me on vacation! I pay $12/month for Kindle Unlimited and read WAY more than $144/year in KU books. I’m 68 years old, so believe me when I say, I’ve held thousands of books in my hands and don’t miss that at all.
We're buying everything we can from Wal-mart these days rather than automatically going to the Amazon web site. Still, we can't cut off our noses to spite our faces when we're elderly and partially disabled and must use delivery for our goods. Amazon needs some direct competition.
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Lets help that trump fellow and his bondi girl a bit because if both of them have to count on the patel guy to smoke us out of the woods......
(Because that is what real lefties do.... they try to help where possible!)
Guide on how to recognize a radical antifa Soros sponsored drag queen loving defund the police pizza eating and kid grooming leftie:
Radical lefties like:
- Affordable healthcare for all
- Affordable housing for all
- Solid mental healthcare for all
- Sensible gun control
- Minimum wages
- Unions
- Decent retirement
- One person one vote
- Protection of the environment
- Pollution control (clean air, soil, water)
- Fighting climate change
- Reducing fossil fuel dependency
- Alternative green energy
- Respect for allies
- Fair taxation
Feel free to add identification points so that the bondi girl can recognize us and jail us all without due process and without seeing something resembling a judge.
As a European citizen, I have to admit that I fail to see what is "radical" with your above points.
Eh..... Christina..... I'm a Belgian..... a Belgian with a warm heart for the real US (not the US of trump's dictatorial fever dream).
As a U.S. citizen, I and many others of us here agree with you.
As an American, I fail to see this as “radical” either. But there is a history of tamped down political discourse. Americans don’t debate policy - they throw it at someone like a weapon.
Gosh, Marc, you named all the things Trump, his regime and MAGAs hate. Apparently, they hate the United States, since all of the things you list are sorely needed by this country.
Not only that, Charles, but most of those issues are supported by a majority of Americans, if polls are to be believed.
Science-based everything! Also maybe “higher” minimum wages.
It should be noted that it's not just Trump, or even just his administration, but rather the ENTIRE Republican party that is responsible for this assault on American democracy. Where's the outrage from the so-called "moderates"? Susan Collins? Crickets. We need to hold Republican politicians, particularly in purple states accountable for their involement in campaign of censorship and oppression. Please consider joining groups like SwingLeft, Indivisible, and Sister District Project (and many others) to help flip states from red to blue.
We should no longer call people like Collins "moderate." We should call them all what they are. Cowards.
You said it. Even moderates shouldn't put up with the loss of rights and indignities that are being foisted upon us. For not speaking up, they are complicit cowards.
I tend to use "quisling shitstain."
Oh, come on now, give Susan Collins a break. She's already said she's "concerned." What more could you ask for from a United States Senator?
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In one word, 'plenty'. How does she think that she is representing the people of her state or the country?
She's abused that word so much that I try to avoid using it.
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This is a call to action we need to hear and act on!
Exactly. The electoral resistance begins in Virginia with early voting beginning on 9/19. New Jersey also is voting. The Democratic States of America must unite against the Fascist Federal Government and the Fascist States of America. Polite conversation is over.
No squabbling among Democrats should be the dictum. The moment is too critically important to waste that time. That said, we must remain committed to basic human rights, women's rights at the top of the list.
FAFA: First Amendment for All.
DIFA: Democracy is for All
Remember Dems, short and sweet. We tend toward paragraphs…. to be clear and then we lose the point :)
Both are good suggestions, but how about USA, Uncensored Speech is American? Or USAS, Uncensored Speech is American Speech?
Uncensored Speech for All!
How correct you are Jennifer -- excellent list. Let's see if the the blue states and others will institute these as they very well should.
I forgot to say that these legal protections being implemented are consistent with my second award winning book on Donald-- https://www.routledge.com/Indicting-the-45th-President-Boss-Trump-the-GOP-and-What-We-Can-Do-About-the-Threat-to-American-Democracy/Barak/p/book/9781032454771. It is also consistent with my forthcoming third book on DJT that will be published after the 2026 elections--Regime Change, Authoritarian Treason, and the Outlaw-in-Chief: President Donald Trump's Struggle to Kill U.S. Democracy & Realign American Global Power.
Great column. But I cannot feel any empathy or respect for the New York Times, given their role in our current state of affairs, their contributions to both-side-ism, their repeated and spiteful denigration of President Biden, and their insidious normalizing of everything the GOP and Trump have done over the past 10 years. I canceled my subscription a while back and the Washington Post shortly thereafter. I actually hold them and most of the media outlets in this country accountable as enablers of this regime. They continue to misrepresent the situation through their deliberate use of language that slants, sanitizes, and whitewashes what is going on. The recent, repeated use of "assassination", with its loaded political implications typically reserved for politicians or state leaders, instead of the far less loaded word "murder" is just one example. There are countless others over the past decade. Let us not forget the incessant drumbeat of "likability" and "her emails". They got what they wanted with Trump's election, so now they can deal with the consequences.
Agree 100%. The NYT has normalized, legitimized President Pinocchio since he first became a candidate in 2015--just for clicks. They don't need EVER to publish a photo of him, they don't need running news, just brief factual reports of presidential actions. Until they change I won't re-subscribe. We should not be funding the NYT out of our nostalgia for what the paper once was.
You could say the same about the Washington Post since Jeff Bezos and William Lewis took over. The Graham, Meyer, and Bradlee families would be incensed.
Yes, WaPo was the first I cancelled.
I'll admit to being conned into another year's subscription, but it's up in November and it's not being renewed.
More money to several Substack sites, The Guardian, and PBS.
Jennifer, you should PUBLISH real-time snippets from that "lawsuit" Dump filed against the New York Times. It reads like a pamphlet describing the Emperor's beautiful new clothes.
Seriously, a judge would have difficulty reading this and commenting on it without rolling his eyes. The legal beagles who wrote it (no doubt with Donnie Dipwad's help) should lose their license to practice. Mel Brooks couldn't have done a better job....
Lucian Truscott devoted his Sept. 16 Substack to exactly this. If he wasn't wearing a hazmat suit while reading the brief, I hope he was able to detox afterward. https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/whiny-little-bruised-ego-baby-blubbers
I cancelled my WaPo subscription long before Jennifer quit. Other main stream news outlets were quit during the pandemic. We have been in decline for years. My brain and body are doing the same thing - quitting. Thank goodness I am old enough to redeem my body but my mind and spirit fight on. We can save our democracy! From ma, on a rainy day in the mid atlantic - we need the rain and it seems fitting for our country, today. Rain and hope :) Thank you.
FEAFS -Free elections Are Free Speech
Democrats should grind the process (coming up with a funding bill) to a halt. Make motions and force votes. Let the terrified Republicans vote against a bill supporting the 1st Amendment. Let the Republicans vote against restoring Medicaid funding. Democrats should not yield the floor. We need a "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" moment.
Could Democrats just start calling themselves "the CEnTEr" and take away thi word "left" ?? Please?
That’s another way we’ve allowed the Right to define us. That has to stop.
How to move the democratic party into agreement, even if for a short period of time, is problematic. However, this is a "must" if we want to have any chance of defeating the efforts of Trump and his followers.The cost of fighting within the party is too great and the only way to move the public at large is the unity of the democratic party.
There seems to have been a problem with one issue voters in the Democratic Party. The old saying applies: "Never overlook the good in the quest for perfection." Get back in power in unity, then work on the individual issues. It seems obvious - if we aren't there at all we can effect no changes to anything. This is where we are now in Congress.