rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my
friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donrCOt want to cancel Thanksgiving rCo on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyrCOs vote-tabulation systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericarCOs first avowedly socialist state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely tight primary
to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the gubernatorial
primary in Wisconsin.
The long-view rCo and already ubiquitous rCo reaction to this news is to
mark it down as a major blow for the Democratic Socialists of America
and their bid to take over the Democratic establishment. But the more immediate takeaway is two-fold: pollsters are very bad at divining
Democratic primaries rCo and Democratic primary officials are hopeless at tallying votes.
The primary ended in farce early this morning as Milwaukee County
workers reportedly had to recover five USB sticks with vote counts on
them, only for those sticks to apparently be blank rCo or something,
nobody seems entirely sure. But what is certain is that the Wisconsin
polls predicting a comfortable victory for Hong were wildly wrong rCo and
did not take into account the peculiar dynamics of the race. Crowley
only became the clear moderate choice late in the process rCo and
mainstream voters duly flocked to him over Hong, a proud DSA member with
a long record of expressing barmy radical opinions. Polling companies
failed to anticipate or identify those shifts. They made a similar
mistake in not identifying late trends in last weekrCOs Senate primary in Michigan, which ended up being a far narrower victory for the
DSA-aligned rCo but not affiliated rCo candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
But the real story should not be how Hong lost. It should be how on
earth she came so close to being the Democratic choice for Wisconsin in
a very high turnout primary in such an important swing state. Like many
DSA members, Hong has said she wants to abolish the police because law enforcement agencies rCyuphold white supremacy.rCO SherCOs also expressed discomfort at the fact her bi-racial son gives her a rCyproximity to whiteness.rCO She has supported the abolition of the Senate, supported public-owned grocery stores and banks, and opposed ValentinerCOs Day. In 2019, she tweeted the following:
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my
friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
And, on CNN a few weeks ago, she declined to disavow her stated view
that Thanksgiving should be annulled rCo insisting instead that she was a trained chef who knew all about bringing people together (to celebrate catamenia, for instance.)
In comparison to Hong, El-Sayed comes across as Obamaesque in his
political professionalism. And yet she came within a whisker of being
the Democratic nominee for governor in a state Donald Trump won twice.
None of this means the partyrCOs voters are returning to the establishmentrCOs preferred path. No, it suggests that successful
Democratic candidates are now the ones who bridge the gap between the
hard and soft left of their party rCo as El-Sayed just about did in
Michigan, and as the Ojibwe Native American activist Peggy Flanagan did
in her Minnesota senate primary last night. Flanagan is not a DSA
member, but she was the progressive choice rCo backed by Senator Bernie Sanders, the partyrCOs elder socialist statesman. She won by 20 per cent
in a primary cycle dominated by debates about immigration enforcement.
She is now the strong favourite to win against Michele Tafoya, the
Republican former National Football League sideline reporter.
Just a couple of years ago, Republican strategists would have found it
easy to cast Flanagan as a far-left lunatic. Their problem in 2026 is
that, compared to Hong and the popular DSA fringe, she seems to many to
be the reassuringly sensible choice.rCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCi
Freddy Gray
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donrCOt want to cancel Thanksgiving rCo on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyrCOs vote-tabulation systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericarCOs first avowedly socialist state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely tight primary
to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the gubernatorial
primary in Wisconsin.
The long-view rCo and already ubiquitous rCo reaction to this news is to mark it down as a major blow for the Democratic Socialists of America
and their bid to take over the Democratic establishment. But the more immediate takeaway is two-fold: pollsters are very bad at divining Democratic primaries rCo and Democratic primary officials are hopeless at tallying votes.
The primary ended in farce early this morning as Milwaukee County
workers reportedly had to recover five USB sticks with vote counts on
them, only for those sticks to apparently be blank rCo or something,
nobody seems entirely sure. But what is certain is that the Wisconsin
polls predicting a comfortable victory for Hong were wildly wrong rCo and did not take into account the peculiar dynamics of the race. Crowley
only became the clear moderate choice late in the process rCo and
mainstream voters duly flocked to him over Hong, a proud DSA member with
a long record of expressing barmy radical opinions. Polling companies
failed to anticipate or identify those shifts. They made a similar
mistake in not identifying late trends in last weekrCOs Senate primary in Michigan, which ended up being a far narrower victory for the DSA-
aligned rCo but not affiliated rCo candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
But the real story should not be how Hong lost. It should be how on
earth she came so close to being the Democratic choice for Wisconsin in
a very high turnout primary in such an important swing state. Like many
DSA members, Hong has said she wants to abolish the police because law enforcement agencies rCyuphold white supremacy.rCO SherCOs also expressed discomfort at the fact her bi-racial son gives her a rCyproximity to whiteness.rCO She has supported the abolition of the Senate, supported public-owned grocery stores and banks, and opposed ValentinerCOs Day. In 2019, she tweeted the following:
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
And, on CNN a few weeks ago, she declined to disavow her stated view
that Thanksgiving should be annulled rCo insisting instead that she was a trained chef who knew all about bringing people together (to celebrate catamenia, for instance.)
In comparison to Hong, El-Sayed comes across as Obamaesque in his
political professionalism. And yet she came within a whisker of being
the Democratic nominee for governor in a state Donald Trump won twice.
None of this means the partyrCOs voters are returning to the establishmentrCOs preferred path. No, it suggests that successful
Democratic candidates are now the ones who bridge the gap between the
hard and soft left of their party rCo as El-Sayed just about did in Michigan, and as the Ojibwe Native American activist Peggy Flanagan did
in her Minnesota senate primary last night. Flanagan is not a DSA
member, but she was the progressive choice rCo backed by Senator Bernie Sanders, the partyrCOs elder socialist statesman. She won by 20 per cent
in a primary cycle dominated by debates about immigration enforcement.
She is now the strong favourite to win against Michele Tafoya, the Republican former National Football League sideline reporter.
Just a couple of years ago, Republican strategists would have found it
easy to cast Flanagan as a far-left lunatic. Their problem in 2026 is
that, compared to Hong and the popular DSA fringe, she seems to many to
be the reassuringly sensible choice.rCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCi
Freddy Gray
On Aug 12, 2026 at 11:35:17rC>AM EDT, "Julian" <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donrCOt want to cancel Thanksgiving rCo on balance, at least. Come November, however, few Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyrCOs vote-tabulation systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericarCOs first avowedly socialist state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely tight primary
to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin.
The long-view rCo and already ubiquitous rCo reaction to this news is to mark it down as a major blow for the Democratic Socialists of America
and their bid to take over the Democratic establishment. But the more immediate takeaway is two-fold: pollsters are very bad at divining Democratic primaries rCo and Democratic primary officials are hopeless at tallying votes.
The primary ended in farce early this morning as Milwaukee County
workers reportedly had to recover five USB sticks with vote counts on
them, only for those sticks to apparently be blank rCo or something,
nobody seems entirely sure. But what is certain is that the Wisconsin
polls predicting a comfortable victory for Hong were wildly wrong rCo and did not take into account the peculiar dynamics of the race. Crowley
only became the clear moderate choice late in the process rCo and mainstream voters duly flocked to him over Hong, a proud DSA member with
a long record of expressing barmy radical opinions. Polling companies failed to anticipate or identify those shifts. They made a similar
mistake in not identifying late trends in last weekrCOs Senate primary in Michigan, which ended up being a far narrower victory for the
DSA-aligned rCo but not affiliated rCo candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
But the real story should not be how Hong lost. It should be how on
earth she came so close to being the Democratic choice for Wisconsin in
a very high turnout primary in such an important swing state. Like many
DSA members, Hong has said she wants to abolish the police because law enforcement agencies rCyuphold white supremacy.rCO SherCOs also expressed discomfort at the fact her bi-racial son gives her a rCyproximity to whiteness.rCO She has supported the abolition of the Senate, supported public-owned grocery stores and banks, and opposed ValentinerCOs Day. In 2019, she tweeted the following:
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
And, on CNN a few weeks ago, she declined to disavow her stated view
that Thanksgiving should be annulled rCo insisting instead that she was a trained chef who knew all about bringing people together (to celebrate catamenia, for instance.)
In comparison to Hong, El-Sayed comes across as Obamaesque in his
political professionalism. And yet she came within a whisker of being
the Democratic nominee for governor in a state Donald Trump won twice.
None of this means the partyrCOs voters are returning to the establishmentrCOs preferred path. No, it suggests that successful Democratic candidates are now the ones who bridge the gap between the
hard and soft left of their party rCo as El-Sayed just about did in Michigan, and as the Ojibwe Native American activist Peggy Flanagan did
in her Minnesota senate primary last night. Flanagan is not a DSA
member, but she was the progressive choice rCo backed by Senator Bernie Sanders, the partyrCOs elder socialist statesman. She won by 20 per cent
in a primary cycle dominated by debates about immigration enforcement.
She is now the strong favourite to win against Michele Tafoya, the Republican former National Football League sideline reporter.
Just a couple of years ago, Republican strategists would have found it
easy to cast Flanagan as a far-left lunatic. Their problem in 2026 is
that, compared to Hong and the popular DSA fringe, she seems to many to
be the reassuringly sensible choice.rCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCi
Freddy Gray
Mind boggling that the results were so close. :/
On 8/12/26 8:35 AM, Julian wrote:
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donrCOt want to cancel Thanksgiving rCo on balance, at least. Come November, however, few Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyrCOs vote-tabulation systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericarCOs first avowedly socialist state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely tight primary to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin.
The long-view rCo and already ubiquitous rCo reaction to this news is to mark it down as a major blow for the Democratic Socialists of America
and their bid to take over the Democratic establishment. But the more immediate takeaway is two-fold: pollsters are very bad at divining Democratic primaries rCo and Democratic primary officials are hopeless at tallying votes.
The primary ended in farce early this morning as Milwaukee County
workers reportedly had to recover five USB sticks with vote counts on them, only for those sticks to apparently be blank rCo or something, nobody seems entirely sure. But what is certain is that the Wisconsin polls predicting a comfortable victory for Hong were wildly wrong rCo and did not take into account the peculiar dynamics of the race. Crowley
only became the clear moderate choice late in the process rCo and mainstream voters duly flocked to him over Hong, a proud DSA member with
a long record of expressing barmy radical opinions. Polling companies failed to anticipate or identify those shifts. They made a similar
mistake in not identifying late trends in last weekrCOs Senate primary in Michigan, which ended up being a far narrower victory for the DSA-
aligned rCo but not affiliated rCo candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
But the real story should not be how Hong lost. It should be how on
earth she came so close to being the Democratic choice for Wisconsin in
a very high turnout primary in such an important swing state. Like many DSA members, Hong has said she wants to abolish the police because law enforcement agencies rCyuphold white supremacy.rCO SherCOs also expressed discomfort at the fact her bi-racial son gives her a rCyproximity to whiteness.rCO She has supported the abolition of the Senate, supported public-owned grocery stores and banks, and opposed ValentinerCOs Day. In 2019, she tweeted the following:
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
And, on CNN a few weeks ago, she declined to disavow her stated view
that Thanksgiving should be annulled rCo insisting instead that she was a trained chef who knew all about bringing people together (to celebrate catamenia, for instance.)
In comparison to Hong, El-Sayed comes across as Obamaesque in his political professionalism. And yet she came within a whisker of being
the Democratic nominee for governor in a state Donald Trump won twice. None of this means the partyrCOs voters are returning to the establishmentrCOs preferred path. No, it suggests that successful Democratic candidates are now the ones who bridge the gap between the
hard and soft left of their party rCo as El-Sayed just about did in Michigan, and as the Ojibwe Native American activist Peggy Flanagan did
in her Minnesota senate primary last night. Flanagan is not a DSA
member, but she was the progressive choice rCo backed by Senator Bernie Sanders, the partyrCOs elder socialist statesman. She won by 20 per cent in a primary cycle dominated by debates about immigration enforcement.
She is now the strong favourite to win against Michele Tafoya, the Republican former National Football League sideline reporter.
Just a couple of years ago, Republican strategists would have found it easy to cast Flanagan as a far-left lunatic. Their problem in 2026 is that, compared to Hong and the popular DSA fringe, she seems to many to
be the reassuringly sensible choice.rCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCi
Freddy Gray
asian foids smh
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donrCOt want to cancel Thanksgiving rCo on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyrCOs
vote-tabulation systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericarCOs first avowedly
socialist state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely
tight primary to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin.
The long-view rCo and already ubiquitous rCo reaction to this news is to
mark it down as a major blow for the Democratic Socialists of America
and their bid to take over the Democratic establishment. But the more immediate takeaway is two-fold: pollsters are very bad at divining
Democratic primaries rCo and Democratic primary officials are hopeless
at tallying votes.
The primary ended in farce early this morning as Milwaukee County
workers reportedly had to recover five USB sticks with vote counts on
them, only for those sticks to apparently be blank rCo or something,
nobody seems entirely sure. But what is certain is that the Wisconsin
polls predicting a comfortable victory for Hong were wildly wrong rCo
and did not take into account the peculiar dynamics of the race.
Crowley only became the clear moderate choice late in the process rCo
and mainstream voters duly flocked to him over Hong, a proud DSA
member with a long record of expressing barmy radical opinions.
Polling companies failed to anticipate or identify those shifts. They
made a similar mistake in not identifying late trends in last weekrCOs
Senate primary in Michigan, which ended up being a far narrower
victory for the DSA-aligned rCo but not affiliated rCo candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
But the real story should not be how Hong lost. It should be how on
earth she came so close to being the Democratic choice for Wisconsin
in a very high turnout primary in such an important swing state. Like
many DSA members, Hong has said she wants to abolish the police
because law enforcement agencies rCyuphold white supremacy.rCO SherCOs also expressed discomfort at the fact her bi-racial son gives her a
rCyproximity to whiteness.rCO She has supported the abolition of the
Senate, supported public-owned grocery stores and banks, and opposed ValentinerCOs Day. In 2019, she tweeted the following:
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
And, on CNN a few weeks ago, she declined to disavow her stated view
that Thanksgiving should be annulled rCo insisting instead that she was
a trained chef who knew all about bringing people together (to
celebrate catamenia, for instance.)
In comparison to Hong, El-Sayed comes across as Obamaesque in his
political professionalism. And yet she came within a whisker of being
the Democratic nominee for governor in a state Donald Trump won
twice. None of this means the partyrCOs voters are returning to the establishmentrCOs preferred path. No, it suggests that successful
Democratic candidates are now the ones who bridge the gap between the
hard and soft left of their party rCo as El-Sayed just about did in
Michigan, and as the Ojibwe Native American activist Peggy Flanagan
did in her Minnesota senate primary last night. Flanagan is not a DSA
member, but she was the progressive choice rCo backed by Senator Bernie Sanders, the partyrCOs elder socialist statesman. She won by 20 per
cent in a primary cycle dominated by debates about immigration
enforcement. She is now the strong favourite to win against Michele
Tafoya, the Republican former National Football League sideline
reporter.
Just a couple of years ago, Republican strategists would have found
it easy to cast Flanagan as a far-left lunatic. Their problem in 2026
is that, compared to Hong and the popular DSA fringe, she seems to
many to be the reassuringly sensible choice.rCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCi
Freddy Gray
At Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:35:17 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
wrote:
aIAm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my
friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.A
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donAt want to cancel
Thanksgiving u on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyAs
vote-tabulation systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericaAs first avowedly
socialist state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely
tight primary to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the
gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin.
The long-view u and already ubiquitous u reaction to this news is to
mark it down as a major blow for the Democratic Socialists of America
and their bid to take over the Democratic establishment. But the more
immediate takeaway is two-fold: pollsters are very bad at divining
Democratic primaries u and Democratic primary officials are hopeless
at tallying votes.
The primary ended in farce early this morning as Milwaukee County
workers reportedly had to recover five USB sticks with vote counts on
them, only for those sticks to apparently be blank u or something,
nobody seems entirely sure. But what is certain is that the Wisconsin
polls predicting a comfortable victory for Hong were wildly wrong u
and did not take into account the peculiar dynamics of the race.
Crowley only became the clear moderate choice late in the process u
and mainstream voters duly flocked to him over Hong, a proud DSA
member with a long record of expressing barmy radical opinions.
Polling companies failed to anticipate or identify those shifts. They
made a similar mistake in not identifying late trends in last weekAs
Senate primary in Michigan, which ended up being a far narrower
victory for the DSA-aligned u but not affiliated u candidate Abdul
El-Sayed.
But the real story should not be how Hong lost. It should be how on
earth she came so close to being the Democratic choice for Wisconsin
in a very high turnout primary in such an important swing state. Like
many DSA members, Hong has said she wants to abolish the police
because law enforcement agencies auphold white supremacy.A SheAs also
expressed discomfort at the fact her bi-racial son gives her a
aproximity to whiteness.A She has supported the abolition of the
Senate, supported public-owned grocery stores and banks, and opposed
ValentineAs Day. In 2019, she tweeted the following:
aIAm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my
friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.A
And, on CNN a few weeks ago, she declined to disavow her stated view
that Thanksgiving should be annulled u insisting instead that she was
a trained chef who knew all about bringing people together (to
celebrate catamenia, for instance.)
In comparison to Hong, El-Sayed comes across as Obamaesque in his
political professionalism. And yet she came within a whisker of being
the Democratic nominee for governor in a state Donald Trump won
twice. None of this means the partyAs voters are returning to the
establishmentAs preferred path. No, it suggests that successful
Democratic candidates are now the ones who bridge the gap between the
hard and soft left of their party u as El-Sayed just about did in
Michigan, and as the Ojibwe Native American activist Peggy Flanagan
did in her Minnesota senate primary last night. Flanagan is not a DSA
member, but she was the progressive choice u backed by Senator Bernie
Sanders, the partyAs elder socialist statesman. She won by 20 per
cent in a primary cycle dominated by debates about immigration
enforcement. She is now the strong favourite to win against Michele
Tafoya, the Republican former National Football League sideline
reporter.
Just a couple of years ago, Republican strategists would have found
it easy to cast Flanagan as a far-left lunatic. Their problem in 2026
is that, compared to Hong and the popular DSA fringe, she seems to
many to be the reassuringly sensible
choice.??????????????????????????????????????????????????
Freddy Gray
"Oh Lord, here they come again ... RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
Seriously though: since the U.S. of A. doesn't have proportional >representation, a few DSA types in office won't ruin anything, and
might achieve a kind of balance to the rightward march of the Overton
window in USA politics.
And...have you compared the size of the California economy to that--
of (say) Japan, or (say) the UK?
At Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:35:17 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
wrote:
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my
friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donrCOt want to cancel
Thanksgiving rCo on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyrCOs
vote-tabulation systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericarCOs first avowedly
socialist state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely
tight primary to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the
gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin.
The long-view rCo and already ubiquitous rCo reaction to this news is to
mark it down as a major blow for the Democratic Socialists of America
and their bid to take over the Democratic establishment. But the more
immediate takeaway is two-fold: pollsters are very bad at divining
Democratic primaries rCo and Democratic primary officials are hopeless
at tallying votes.
The primary ended in farce early this morning as Milwaukee County
workers reportedly had to recover five USB sticks with vote counts on
them, only for those sticks to apparently be blank rCo or something,
nobody seems entirely sure. But what is certain is that the Wisconsin
polls predicting a comfortable victory for Hong were wildly wrong rCo
and did not take into account the peculiar dynamics of the race.
Crowley only became the clear moderate choice late in the process rCo
and mainstream voters duly flocked to him over Hong, a proud DSA
member with a long record of expressing barmy radical opinions.
Polling companies failed to anticipate or identify those shifts. They
made a similar mistake in not identifying late trends in last weekrCOs
Senate primary in Michigan, which ended up being a far narrower
victory for the DSA-aligned rCo but not affiliated rCo candidate Abdul
El-Sayed.
But the real story should not be how Hong lost. It should be how on
earth she came so close to being the Democratic choice for Wisconsin
in a very high turnout primary in such an important swing state. Like
many DSA members, Hong has said she wants to abolish the police
because law enforcement agencies rCyuphold white supremacy.rCO SherCOs also >> expressed discomfort at the fact her bi-racial son gives her a
rCyproximity to whiteness.rCO She has supported the abolition of the
Senate, supported public-owned grocery stores and banks, and opposed
ValentinerCOs Day. In 2019, she tweeted the following:
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my
friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
And, on CNN a few weeks ago, she declined to disavow her stated view
that Thanksgiving should be annulled rCo insisting instead that she was
a trained chef who knew all about bringing people together (to
celebrate catamenia, for instance.)
In comparison to Hong, El-Sayed comes across as Obamaesque in his
political professionalism. And yet she came within a whisker of being
the Democratic nominee for governor in a state Donald Trump won
twice. None of this means the partyrCOs voters are returning to the
establishmentrCOs preferred path. No, it suggests that successful
Democratic candidates are now the ones who bridge the gap between the
hard and soft left of their party rCo as El-Sayed just about did in
Michigan, and as the Ojibwe Native American activist Peggy Flanagan
did in her Minnesota senate primary last night. Flanagan is not a DSA
member, but she was the progressive choice rCo backed by Senator Bernie
Sanders, the partyrCOs elder socialist statesman. She won by 20 per
cent in a primary cycle dominated by debates about immigration
enforcement. She is now the strong favourite to win against Michele
Tafoya, the Republican former National Football League sideline
reporter.
Just a couple of years ago, Republican strategists would have found
it easy to cast Flanagan as a far-left lunatic. Their problem in 2026
is that, compared to Hong and the popular DSA fringe, she seems to
many to be the reassuringly sensible
choice.rCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCi
Freddy Gray
"Oh Lord, here they come again ... RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
Seriously though: since the U.S. of A. doesn't have proportional representation, a few DSA types in office won't ruin anything, and
might achieve a kind of balance to the rightward march of the Overton
window in USA politics.
And...have you compared the size of the California economy to that
of (say) Japan, or (say) the UK?
On 8/13/2026 6:51 AM, Creon wrote:
At Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:35:17 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
wrote:
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my
friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donrCOt want to cancel
Thanksgiving rCo on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyrCOs
vote-tabulation systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericarCOs first avowedly
socialist state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely
tight primary to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the
gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin.
The long-view rCo and already ubiquitous rCo reaction to this news is to >>> mark it down as a major blow for the Democratic Socialists of America
and their bid to take over the Democratic establishment. But the more
immediate takeaway is two-fold: pollsters are very bad at divining
Democratic primaries rCo and Democratic primary officials are hopeless
at tallying votes.
The primary ended in farce early this morning as Milwaukee County
workers reportedly had to recover five USB sticks with vote counts on
them, only for those sticks to apparently be blank rCo or something,
nobody seems entirely sure. But what is certain is that the Wisconsin
polls predicting a comfortable victory for Hong were wildly wrong rCo
and did not take into account the peculiar dynamics of the race.
Crowley only became the clear moderate choice late in the process rCo
and mainstream voters duly flocked to him over Hong, a proud DSA
member with a long record of expressing barmy radical opinions.
Polling companies failed to anticipate or identify those shifts. They
made a similar mistake in not identifying late trends in last weekrCOs
Senate primary in Michigan, which ended up being a far narrower
victory for the DSA-aligned rCo but not affiliated rCo candidate Abdul
El-Sayed.
But the real story should not be how Hong lost. It should be how on
earth she came so close to being the Democratic choice for Wisconsin
in a very high turnout primary in such an important swing state. Like
many DSA members, Hong has said she wants to abolish the police
because law enforcement agencies rCyuphold white supremacy.rCO SherCOs also >>> expressed discomfort at the fact her bi-racial son gives her a
rCyproximity to whiteness.rCO She has supported the abolition of the
Senate, supported public-owned grocery stores and banks, and opposed
ValentinerCOs Day. In 2019, she tweeted the following:
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my
friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
And, on CNN a few weeks ago, she declined to disavow her stated view
that Thanksgiving should be annulled rCo insisting instead that she was
a trained chef who knew all about bringing people together (to
celebrate catamenia, for instance.)
In comparison to Hong, El-Sayed comes across as Obamaesque in his
political professionalism. And yet she came within a whisker of being
the Democratic nominee for governor in a state Donald Trump won
twice. None of this means the partyrCOs voters are returning to the
establishmentrCOs preferred path. No, it suggests that successful
Democratic candidates are now the ones who bridge the gap between the
hard and soft left of their party rCo as El-Sayed just about did in
Michigan, and as the Ojibwe Native American activist Peggy Flanagan
did in her Minnesota senate primary last night. Flanagan is not a DSA
member, but she was the progressive choice rCo backed by Senator Bernie
Sanders, the partyrCOs elder socialist statesman. She won by 20 per
cent in a primary cycle dominated by debates about immigration
enforcement. She is now the strong favourite to win against Michele
Tafoya, the Republican former National Football League sideline
reporter.
Just a couple of years ago, Republican strategists would have found
it easy to cast Flanagan as a far-left lunatic. Their problem in 2026
is that, compared to Hong and the popular DSA fringe, she seems to
many to be the reassuringly sensible
choice.rCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCi
Freddy Gray
"Oh Lord, here they come again ... RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
Seriously though:-a since the U.S. of A. doesn't have proportional
representation, a few DSA types in office won't ruin anything, and
might achieve a kind of balance to the rightward march of the Overton
window in USA politics.
You're probably right, a few absolutely unhinged people running things
won't make much difference.
Just like allowing a few people to sleep on the street doesn't.
And making shoplifting under $995 doesn't.
And allowing drug addicts to shoot up publicly doesn't.
And taxing the wealth people hold in investments won't.
Mao famously waged a war on the sparrows in China's farmland because he thought they were eating the grain, leading to a widespread infestation
of pests that those sparrows had also eaten. Which destroyed so much of
the food that it made the widespread famine even worse.
Small things.
And...have you compared the size of the California economy to that
of (say) Japan, or (say) the UK?
The golden goose will never die.
At Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:35:17 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
wrote:
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my
friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donrCOt want to cancel
Thanksgiving rCo on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyrCOs
vote-tabulation systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericarCOs first avowedly
socialist state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely
tight primary to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the
gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin.
The long-view rCo and already ubiquitous rCo reaction to this news is to
mark it down as a major blow for the Democratic Socialists of America
and their bid to take over the Democratic establishment. But the more
immediate takeaway is two-fold: pollsters are very bad at divining
Democratic primaries rCo and Democratic primary officials are hopeless
at tallying votes.
The primary ended in farce early this morning as Milwaukee County
workers reportedly had to recover five USB sticks with vote counts on
them, only for those sticks to apparently be blank rCo or something,
nobody seems entirely sure. But what is certain is that the Wisconsin
polls predicting a comfortable victory for Hong were wildly wrong rCo
and did not take into account the peculiar dynamics of the race.
Crowley only became the clear moderate choice late in the process rCo
and mainstream voters duly flocked to him over Hong, a proud DSA
member with a long record of expressing barmy radical opinions.
Polling companies failed to anticipate or identify those shifts. They
made a similar mistake in not identifying late trends in last weekrCOs
Senate primary in Michigan, which ended up being a far narrower
victory for the DSA-aligned rCo but not affiliated rCo candidate Abdul
El-Sayed.
But the real story should not be how Hong lost. It should be how on
earth she came so close to being the Democratic choice for Wisconsin
in a very high turnout primary in such an important swing state. Like
many DSA members, Hong has said she wants to abolish the police
because law enforcement agencies rCyuphold white supremacy.rCO SherCOs also >> expressed discomfort at the fact her bi-racial son gives her a
rCyproximity to whiteness.rCO She has supported the abolition of the
Senate, supported public-owned grocery stores and banks, and opposed
ValentinerCOs Day. In 2019, she tweeted the following:
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my
friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
And, on CNN a few weeks ago, she declined to disavow her stated view
that Thanksgiving should be annulled rCo insisting instead that she was
a trained chef who knew all about bringing people together (to
celebrate catamenia, for instance.)
In comparison to Hong, El-Sayed comes across as Obamaesque in his
political professionalism. And yet she came within a whisker of being
the Democratic nominee for governor in a state Donald Trump won
twice. None of this means the partyrCOs voters are returning to the
establishmentrCOs preferred path. No, it suggests that successful
Democratic candidates are now the ones who bridge the gap between the
hard and soft left of their party rCo as El-Sayed just about did in
Michigan, and as the Ojibwe Native American activist Peggy Flanagan
did in her Minnesota senate primary last night. Flanagan is not a DSA
member, but she was the progressive choice rCo backed by Senator Bernie
Sanders, the partyrCOs elder socialist statesman. She won by 20 per
cent in a primary cycle dominated by debates about immigration
enforcement. She is now the strong favourite to win against Michele
Tafoya, the Republican former National Football League sideline
reporter.
Just a couple of years ago, Republican strategists would have found
it easy to cast Flanagan as a far-left lunatic. Their problem in 2026
is that, compared to Hong and the popular DSA fringe, she seems to
many to be the reassuringly sensible
choice.rCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCirCi
Freddy Gray
"Oh Lord, here they come again ... RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
Seriously though: since the U.S. of A. doesn't have proportional representation, a few DSA types in office won't ruin anything, and
might achieve a kind of balance to the rightward march of the Overton
window in USA politics.
And...have you compared the size of the California economy to that
of (say) Japan, or (say) the UK?
On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:51:29 +0000, Creon <creon@creon.earth> wrote:
At Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:35:17 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
wrote:
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my
friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donrCOt want to cancel
Thanksgiving rCo on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyrCOs
vote-tabulation systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericarCOs first avowedly
socialist state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely
tight primary to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the
gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin.
The long-view rCo and already ubiquitous rCo reaction to this news is to >>> mark it down as a major blow for the Democratic Socialists of America
and their bid to take over the Democratic establishment. But the more
immediate takeaway is two-fold: pollsters are very bad at divining
Democratic primaries rCo and Democratic primary officials are hopeless
at tallying votes.
The primary ended in farce early this morning as Milwaukee County
workers reportedly had to recover five USB sticks with vote counts on
them, only for those sticks to apparently be blank rCo or something,
nobody seems entirely sure. But what is certain is that the Wisconsin
polls predicting a comfortable victory for Hong were wildly wrong rCo
and did not take into account the peculiar dynamics of the race.
Crowley only became the clear moderate choice late in the process rCo
and mainstream voters duly flocked to him over Hong, a proud DSA
member with a long record of expressing barmy radical opinions.
Polling companies failed to anticipate or identify those shifts. They
made a similar mistake in not identifying late trends in last weekrCOs
Senate primary in Michigan, which ended up being a far narrower
victory for the DSA-aligned rCo but not affiliated rCo candidate Abdul
El-Sayed.
But the real story should not be how Hong lost. It should be how on
earth she came so close to being the Democratic choice for Wisconsin
in a very high turnout primary in such an important swing state. Like
many DSA members, Hong has said she wants to abolish the police
because law enforcement agencies rCyuphold white supremacy.rCO SherCOs also >>> expressed discomfort at the fact her bi-racial son gives her a
rCyproximity to whiteness.rCO She has supported the abolition of the
Senate, supported public-owned grocery stores and banks, and opposed
ValentinerCOs Day. In 2019, she tweeted the following:
rCyIrCOm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my
friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.rCO
And, on CNN a few weeks ago, she declined to disavow her stated view
that Thanksgiving should be annulled rCo insisting instead that she was
a trained chef who knew all about bringing people together (to
celebrate catamenia, for instance.)
In comparison to Hong, El-Sayed comes across as Obamaesque in his
political professionalism. And yet she came within a whisker of being
the Democratic nominee for governor in a state Donald Trump won
twice. None of this means the partyrCOs voters are returning to the
establishmentrCOs preferred path. No, it suggests that successful
Democratic candidates are now the ones who bridge the gap between the
hard and soft left of their party rCo as El-Sayed just about did in
Michigan, and as the Ojibwe Native American activist Peggy Flanagan
did in her Minnesota senate primary last night. Flanagan is not a DSA
member, but she was the progressive choice rCo backed by Senator Bernie
Sanders, the partyrCOs elder socialist statesman. She won by 20 per
cent in a primary cycle dominated by debates about immigration
enforcement. She is now the strong favourite to win against Michele
Tafoya, the Republican former National Football League sideline
reporter.
Just a couple of years ago, Republican strategists would have found
it easy to cast Flanagan as a far-left lunatic. Their problem in 2026
is that, compared to Hong and the popular DSA fringe, she seems to
many to be the reassuringly sensible
choice.??????????????????????????????????????????????????
Freddy Gray
"Oh Lord, here they come again ... RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
Seriously though: since the U.S. of A. doesn't have proportional
representation, a few DSA types in office won't ruin anything, and
might achieve a kind of balance to the rightward march of the Overton
window in USA politics.
Nevertheless that rightward march can't countenance a single social
democrat, or anything else really than rightward marchers.
And...have you compared the size of the California economy to that
of (say) Japan, or (say) the UK?
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donrCOt want to cancel Thanksgiving rCo on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyrCOs vote-tabulation systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericarCOs first avowedly socialist state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely tight primary
to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the gubernatorial
primary in Wisconsin.
On 8/12/2026 11:35 AM, Julian wrote:
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donrCOt want to cancel
Thanksgiving rCo on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyrCOs vote-
tabulation systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericarCOs first avowedly
socialist state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely
tight primary to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the
gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin.
Woke 2
The Democratic Party is, I think obviously, undergoing an historic radicalization. Woke 2, a playful framing for what is clearly
unapologetic Marxism, is, if unchallenged, the future. But before we can unpack this new, cooler woke, which promises to jail the rich and steal their things before it targets the white middle class (the rCLbourgeoisie,rCY they call this), we unfortunately do have to jump through the first traditional media hoop: does this very real thing, which all
of us see, actually exist?
YourCOll be happy to hear that NY Mag is on the case, and there is absolutely nothing to see here:
rCLCherry-picking controversial past statements or social-media posts from
a handful of candidates and then inflating their numbers astronomically
is required to sustain any sort of red-wave hypothesis. Are there DSA members (not candidates, but rank-and-file members) who are Marxist, in
the sense of viewing political and economic life through the lens of
class struggle? Yes, there are, much as there are rank-and-file members
of the GOP who by any conventional definition are proto-fascist. That Marxists define the Democratic Party as a whole is ludicrous. And by the way, these allegedly terrifying progressives are winning primaries by appealing to voters in free elections, which was not a tactic favored by Bolsheviks.rCY <https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-gops-big-red- scare-is-really-stupid.html>
While the movement gains strength, itrCOs unclear if the center left is in denial or trying to obscure it all on purpose as we inch toward the
general election. But their argument, at this point common, stands on
two flimsy pillars. First, the position that socialism is not actually ascendant in the Democratic Party. Then, the position that the DSA,
while radical, is merely the leftrCOs own MAGA, on par with a mass of unnamed "rank-and-file" members of the GOP, who are "proto-fascist."
While NY Mag feels no responsibility to actually name these apparently abundant fascists in the GOP, or any of their beliefs, IrCOll just assume theyrCOre talking about Trump, to whom werCOll return in a moment.
Now, is the radicalization happening? NY Mag suggests "just three
members of the Democratic Socialists of America have won congressional primaries," which is distorted to the point I have to say I think their intention must be deception.
At present, there are two sitting members of the DSA in Congress,
including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and living, breathing, walking
"build the wall" advertisement Rashida Tlaib. But there are hundreds of
DSA members in government, which Wikipedia has done a helpful job
tracking. In terms of primary victories, other than the aforementioned
two candidates who are both running and favored to win, Chris Rabb (PA), Melat Kiros (CO), Brad Lander (NY), Claire Valdez (NY), Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY), and Donavan McKinney (MI) are all headed to the general.
Mai Vang (CA), while she didnrCOt win outright, is headed to the general. Oliver Larkin (FL) has a good chance of advancing to the general. Then
of course thererCOs media superstar Abdul El-Sayed (MI), who rejects the term socialist but supports the nationalization of large swaths of the technology industry, and secured a DSA endorsement reserved for
candidates who share the DSA platform. He just won his primary race for Senate.
The DSArCOs national victories, all organized and coordinated under the banner of socialism, would alone constitute a movement. But what few on
the "moderate" left are willing to face are the DSA victories in local politics, which are already transforming our country.
Janeese Lewis George took her primary in DC, and is now running in the general for Mayor this November, while Nithya Raman took her primary in
LA. There is, of course, Zohran Mamdani, who now not only runs New York,
the largest and wealthiest city in our country, but does so with
tremendous support in City Council. There, as in New YorkrCOs State Assembly, nearly the entire DSA slate won. The socialists have secured further victories in cities spanning Los Angeles, where they are
especially dominant, Buffalo, Syracuse, Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis, Jersey City, Louisville, andrCa Poughkeepsie.
Lovely. Now what do they believe?
In order to secure a DSA endorsement, candidates must adhere to the
DSArCOs national policy program. This of course includes all the fan favorites: total student debt forgiveness, reparations, closing all
overseas military bases, and phasing out the use of fossil fuels. But positions that sound so totally insane IrCOm afraid most people assume IrCOm exaggerating when I talk about them include: abolition of the police and prisons, abolition of the Electoral College, abolition of the U.S.
Senate, Supreme Court, and presidency, and the nationalization of all
major industry in the country. The DSA of course demands a national
"wealth tax," which effectively abolishes our right to private property
(a case I made in detail for Pirate Wires). And finally, they promise to draft a new Constitution. What do you think, guys, will Hasan PikerrCOs
Dumb Bitch Politburo let us keep our right to speech?
Wait.
Do you hear that?
ItrCOs the fevered clacking of 10,000 abundance libs furiously typing in response.
"BUT WHAT ABOUT TRUMP!"
Okay, sure. LetrCOs address the giant blonde hairpiece in the room.
Facing the twin horrors of the DSA, including both their stated beliefs
and their clear ascendance within the DNC, self-described "centrists"
and Democratic Party "moderates" face a difficult problem. On paper,
they should be completely opposed to what is by all accounts an authoritarian takeover of their party with clearly the intention of abolishing our current government and replacing it with something
altogether Marxist. But theyrCOve already gone and made opposition to
Trump, the spiritual head of the Republican Party, their entire
political identity. This is how werCOve arrived at the absolute dumbest incarnation of this conversation, which reduces to something like "but
Trump is just as bad."
You donrCOt like Trump or his policies. ThatrCOs fine. But Trump has actually not made any gesture whatsoever in the direction of abolishing every branch of power in the country but his own. This is not real. This
is a liberal rape fantasy.
YourCOre perfectly entitled to not like Trump. To hate him. To truly
believe he is the worst president in history. To believe he is
legitimately dangerous, even. But what you can really not say is that
herCOs radical, or at least not in the sense we speak of in consideration
of the DSA, which is seeking rCo explicitly rCo to abolish our government and replace it with something fundamentally new.
Trump denies the results of the election. Okay. I denied the results of George W. BushrCOs election, along with most Democrats in the country, pretty much throughout his presidency. What else do you have? Tariffs? ThatrCOs just a policy you donrCOt like. Understandably! It may be wrong, but itrCOs not radical. Mass deportation? I get that you love immigration, and think illegal immigration is actually, on net, good for the economy,
and the economy is all that really matters. IrCOm not here to debate that position. But deporting illegal immigrants is actually the law. If you donrCOt like the law, you can change it by winning elections. And
following the law is not a revolution.
Then, I guess people are really dying to know what I think about the war
in Iran. A treat for you: I hate it! I think itrCOs bad! Though I
admittedly have no idea what information Trump is working from, I
generally believe war sucks and we should try our best to never do it.
But in terms of norms, IrCOm having a hard time understanding how this act is "revolutionary" given America has been in some form of war for
literally my entire life.
Rule by executive order is unhealthy, and I agree the culture of our executive drafting magic spells and casting law into the country is out
of hand. You can thank FDR for that, and then Obama who brought that
culture back. But yourCOll notice our courts have routinely intervened to halt executive orders, and when Trump receives a negative ruling he
simply trashes it and moves on to the next Diet Coke. He has not
dissolved the courts. He did not run on a platform of dissolving the
courts. He has not written down his intention to dissolve the courts. He
is not leading a well-coordinated army of young congressional candidates themselves committed to dissolving the courts.
DSA candidates are, right now, running on a platform of dissolving the Supreme Court. If they win, they will not succeed because they do not
yet have the power to succeed. But if the radicalization of the DNC proceeds, this country will not survive.
Trump has done many things I either donrCOt agree with, or canrCOt stand. I hated when he, to my eye, mocked the death of Rob Reiner, which I
consider disgusting and coarsening of our culture in a way that has
helped normalize the kind of bloodlust werCOre seeing most especially, and to the greatest consequence, from the populist left rCo where actual calls for murder, and full-throated defense and celebration of political assassination is now routine. But surely you can believe this man is a terrible human as well as a terrible president, while understanding the distinction between those things and the ascendance of a movement in the
DNC to dissolve the government.
My point here is not even that the DSA is bad (though, holy shit,
theyrCOre really bad). My point is only that the DSA is radical, by which
I mean their goal is not to reform our institutions or to bend our institutions to their will, but to replace them with a new form of government. These are authoritarians, by which I do not mean "guy who
makes me mad." I am actually just looking at their policy proposals and explaining to you who they are, in their own language.
We are well beyond a simple disagreement on tax policy, or immigration.
This isnrCOt a conversation about gay marriage or abortion. We are litigating the actual structure of our government. Face that. And if you side with the people who are seeking to replace our government with something altogether new and explicitly Marxist, you arenrCOt just a guy
we disagree with anymore.
-SOLANA
On 8/13/2026 6:51 AM, Creon wrote:
At Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:35:17 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
wrote:
aIAm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my
friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.A
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donAt want to cancel
Thanksgiving u on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyAs
vote-tabulation systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericaAs first avowedly
socialist state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely
tight primary to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the
gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin.
The long-view u and already ubiquitous u reaction to this news is to
mark it down as a major blow for the Democratic Socialists of America
and their bid to take over the Democratic establishment. But the more
immediate takeaway is two-fold: pollsters are very bad at divining
Democratic primaries u and Democratic primary officials are hopeless
at tallying votes.
The primary ended in farce early this morning as Milwaukee County
workers reportedly had to recover five USB sticks with vote counts on
them, only for those sticks to apparently be blank u or something,
nobody seems entirely sure. But what is certain is that the Wisconsin
polls predicting a comfortable victory for Hong were wildly wrong u
and did not take into account the peculiar dynamics of the race.
Crowley only became the clear moderate choice late in the process u
and mainstream voters duly flocked to him over Hong, a proud DSA
member with a long record of expressing barmy radical opinions.
Polling companies failed to anticipate or identify those shifts. They
made a similar mistake in not identifying late trends in last weekAs
Senate primary in Michigan, which ended up being a far narrower
victory for the DSA-aligned u but not affiliated u candidate Abdul
El-Sayed.
But the real story should not be how Hong lost. It should be how on
earth she came so close to being the Democratic choice for Wisconsin
in a very high turnout primary in such an important swing state. Like
many DSA members, Hong has said she wants to abolish the police
because law enforcement agencies auphold white supremacy.A SheAs also
expressed discomfort at the fact her bi-racial son gives her a
aproximity to whiteness.A She has supported the abolition of the
Senate, supported public-owned grocery stores and banks, and opposed
ValentineAs Day. In 2019, she tweeted the following:
aIAm doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my
friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.A
And, on CNN a few weeks ago, she declined to disavow her stated view
that Thanksgiving should be annulled u insisting instead that she was
a trained chef who knew all about bringing people together (to
celebrate catamenia, for instance.)
In comparison to Hong, El-Sayed comes across as Obamaesque in his
political professionalism. And yet she came within a whisker of being
the Democratic nominee for governor in a state Donald Trump won
twice. None of this means the partyAs voters are returning to the
establishmentAs preferred path. No, it suggests that successful
Democratic candidates are now the ones who bridge the gap between the
hard and soft left of their party u as El-Sayed just about did in
Michigan, and as the Ojibwe Native American activist Peggy Flanagan
did in her Minnesota senate primary last night. Flanagan is not a DSA
member, but she was the progressive choice u backed by Senator Bernie
Sanders, the partyAs elder socialist statesman. She won by 20 per
cent in a primary cycle dominated by debates about immigration
enforcement. She is now the strong favourite to win against Michele
Tafoya, the Republican former National Football League sideline
reporter.
Just a couple of years ago, Republican strategists would have found
it easy to cast Flanagan as a far-left lunatic. Their problem in 2026
is that, compared to Hong and the popular DSA fringe, she seems to
many to be the reassuringly sensible
choice.??????????????????????????????????????????????????
Freddy Gray
"Oh Lord, here they come again ... RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
Seriously though: since the U.S. of A. doesn't have proportional
representation, a few DSA types in office won't ruin anything, and
might achieve a kind of balance to the rightward march of the Overton
window in USA politics.
You're probably right, a few absolutely unhinged people running things
won't make much difference.
Just like allowing a few people to sleep on the street doesn't.
And making shoplifting under $995 doesn't.
And allowing drug addicts to shoot up publicly doesn't.
And taxing the wealth people hold in investments won't.
Mao famously waged a war on the sparrows in China's farmland because he >thought they were eating the grain, leading to a widespread infestation--
of pests that those sparrows had also eaten. Which destroyed so much of
the food that it made the widespread famine even worse.
Small things.
And...have you compared the size of the California economy to that
of (say) Japan, or (say) the UK?
The golden goose will never die.
On 8/12/2026 11:35 AM, Julian wrote:
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donAt want to cancel
Thanksgiving u on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyAs vote-tabulation
systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericaAs first avowedly socialist
state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely tight primary
to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the gubernatorial
primary in Wisconsin.
Woke 2
The Democratic Party is, I think obviously, undergoing an historic >radicalization. Woke 2, a playful framing for what is clearly
unapologetic Marxism, is, if unchallenged, the future. But before we can >unpack this new, cooler woke, which promises to jail the rich and steal >their things before it targets the white middle class (the
obourgeoisie,o they call this), we unfortunately do have to jump through
the first traditional media hoop: does this very real thing, which all
of us see, actually exist?
YouAll be happy to hear that NY Mag is on the case, and there is
absolutely nothing to see here:
oCherry-picking controversial past statements or social-media posts from
a handful of candidates and then inflating their numbers astronomically
is required to sustain any sort of red-wave hypothesis. Are there DSA >members (not candidates, but rank-and-file members) who are Marxist, in
the sense of viewing political and economic life through the lens of
class struggle? Yes, there are, much as there are rank-and-file members
of the GOP who by any conventional definition are proto-fascist. That >Marxists define the Democratic Party as a whole is ludicrous. And by the >way, these allegedly terrifying progressives are winning primaries by >appealing to voters in free elections, which was not a tactic favored by >Bolsheviks.o ><https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-gops-big-red-scare-is-really-stupid.html>
While the movement gains strength, itAs unclear if the center left is in >denial or trying to obscure it all on purpose as we inch toward the--
general election. But their argument, at this point common, stands on
two flimsy pillars. First, the position that socialism is not actually >ascendant in the Democratic Party. Then, the position that the DSA,
while radical, is merely the leftAs own MAGA, on par with a mass of
unnamed "rank-and-file" members of the GOP, who are "proto-fascist."
While NY Mag feels no responsibility to actually name these apparently >abundant fascists in the GOP, or any of their beliefs, IAll just assume >theyAre talking about Trump, to whom weAll return in a moment.
Now, is the radicalization happening? NY Mag suggests "just three
members of the Democratic Socialists of America have won congressional >primaries," which is distorted to the point I have to say I think their >intention must be deception.
At present, there are two sitting members of the DSA in Congress,
including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and living, breathing, walking
"build the wall" advertisement Rashida Tlaib. But there are hundreds of
DSA members in government, which Wikipedia has done a helpful job
tracking. In terms of primary victories, other than the aforementioned
two candidates who are both running and favored to win, Chris Rabb (PA), >Melat Kiros (CO), Brad Lander (NY), Claire Valdez (NY), Darializa Avila >Chevalier (NY), and Donavan McKinney (MI) are all headed to the general.
Mai Vang (CA), while she didnAt win outright, is headed to the general. >Oliver Larkin (FL) has a good chance of advancing to the general. Then
of course thereAs media superstar Abdul El-Sayed (MI), who rejects the
term socialist but supports the nationalization of large swaths of the >technology industry, and secured a DSA endorsement reserved for
candidates who share the DSA platform. He just won his primary race for >Senate.
The DSAAs national victories, all organized and coordinated under the
banner of socialism, would alone constitute a movement. But what few on
the "moderate" left are willing to face are the DSA victories in local >politics, which are already transforming our country.
Janeese Lewis George took her primary in DC, and is now running in the >general for Mayor this November, while Nithya Raman took her primary in
LA. There is, of course, Zohran Mamdani, who now not only runs New York,
the largest and wealthiest city in our country, but does so with
tremendous support in City Council. There, as in New YorkAs State
Assembly, nearly the entire DSA slate won. The socialists have secured >further victories in cities spanning Los Angeles, where they are
especially dominant, Buffalo, Syracuse, Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis, >Jersey City, Louisville, anda Poughkeepsie.
Lovely. Now what do they believe?
In order to secure a DSA endorsement, candidates must adhere to the
DSAAs national policy program. This of course includes all the fan >favorites: total student debt forgiveness, reparations, closing all
overseas military bases, and phasing out the use of fossil fuels. But >positions that sound so totally insane IAm afraid most people assume IAm >exaggerating when I talk about them include: abolition of the police and >prisons, abolition of the Electoral College, abolition of the U.S.
Senate, Supreme Court, and presidency, and the nationalization of all
major industry in the country. The DSA of course demands a national
"wealth tax," which effectively abolishes our right to private property
(a case I made in detail for Pirate Wires). And finally, they promise to >draft a new Constitution. What do you think, guys, will Hasan PikerAs
Dumb Bitch Politburo let us keep our right to speech?
Wait.
Do you hear that?
ItAs the fevered clacking of 10,000 abundance libs furiously typing in >response.
"BUT WHAT ABOUT TRUMP!"
Okay, sure. LetAs address the giant blonde hairpiece in the room.
Facing the twin horrors of the DSA, including both their stated beliefs
and their clear ascendance within the DNC, self-described "centrists"
and Democratic Party "moderates" face a difficult problem. On paper,
they should be completely opposed to what is by all accounts an >authoritarian takeover of their party with clearly the intention of >abolishing our current government and replacing it with something
altogether Marxist. But theyAve already gone and made opposition to
Trump, the spiritual head of the Republican Party, their entire
political identity. This is how weAve arrived at the absolute dumbest >incarnation of this conversation, which reduces to something like "but
Trump is just as bad."
You donAt like Trump or his policies. ThatAs fine. But Trump has
actually not made any gesture whatsoever in the direction of abolishing >every branch of power in the country but his own. This is not real. This
is a liberal rape fantasy.
YouAre perfectly entitled to not like Trump. To hate him. To truly
believe he is the worst president in history. To believe he is
legitimately dangerous, even. But what you can really not say is that
heAs radical, or at least not in the sense we speak of in consideration
of the DSA, which is seeking u explicitly u to abolish our government
and replace it with something fundamentally new.
Trump denies the results of the election. Okay. I denied the results of >George W. BushAs election, along with most Democrats in the country,
pretty much throughout his presidency. What else do you have? Tariffs? >ThatAs just a policy you donAt like. Understandably! It may be wrong,
but itAs not radical. Mass deportation? I get that you love immigration,
and think illegal immigration is actually, on net, good for the economy,
and the economy is all that really matters. IAm not here to debate that >position. But deporting illegal immigrants is actually the law. If you
donAt like the law, you can change it by winning elections. And
following the law is not a revolution.
Then, I guess people are really dying to know what I think about the war
in Iran. A treat for you: I hate it! I think itAs bad! Though I
admittedly have no idea what information Trump is working from, I
generally believe war sucks and we should try our best to never do it.
But in terms of norms, IAm having a hard time understanding how this act
is "revolutionary" given America has been in some form of war for
literally my entire life.
Rule by executive order is unhealthy, and I agree the culture of our >executive drafting magic spells and casting law into the country is out
of hand. You can thank FDR for that, and then Obama who brought that
culture back. But youAll notice our courts have routinely intervened to
halt executive orders, and when Trump receives a negative ruling he
simply trashes it and moves on to the next Diet Coke. He has not
dissolved the courts. He did not run on a platform of dissolving the
courts. He has not written down his intention to dissolve the courts. He
is not leading a well-coordinated army of young congressional candidates >themselves committed to dissolving the courts.
DSA candidates are, right now, running on a platform of dissolving the >Supreme Court. If they win, they will not succeed because they do not
yet have the power to succeed. But if the radicalization of the DNC >proceeds, this country will not survive.
Trump has done many things I either donAt agree with, or canAt stand. I >hated when he, to my eye, mocked the death of Rob Reiner, which I
consider disgusting and coarsening of our culture in a way that has
helped normalize the kind of bloodlust weAre seeing most especially, and
to the greatest consequence, from the populist left u where actual calls
for murder, and full-throated defense and celebration of political >assassination is now routine. But surely you can believe this man is a >terrible human as well as a terrible president, while understanding the >distinction between those things and the ascendance of a movement in the
DNC to dissolve the government.
My point here is not even that the DSA is bad (though, holy shit,
theyAre really bad). My point is only that the DSA is radical, by which
I mean their goal is not to reform our institutions or to bend our >institutions to their will, but to replace them with a new form of >government. These are authoritarians, by which I do not mean "guy who
makes me mad." I am actually just looking at their policy proposals and >explaining to you who they are, in their own language.
We are well beyond a simple disagreement on tax policy, or immigration.
This isnAt a conversation about gay marriage or abortion. We are
litigating the actual structure of our government. Face that. And if you >side with the people who are seeking to replace our government with >something altogether new and explicitly Marxist, you arenAt just a guy
we disagree with anymore.
-SOLANA
On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:06:00 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
wrote:
On 8/12/2026 11:35 AM, Julian wrote:
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donrCOt want to cancel
Thanksgiving rCo on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyrCOs vote-tabulation >>> systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericarCOs first avowedly socialist >>> state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely tight primary >>> to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the gubernatorial
primary in Wisconsin.
Woke 2
The Democratic Party is, I think obviously, undergoing an historic
radicalization. Woke 2, a playful framing for what is clearly
unapologetic Marxism, is, if unchallenged, the future. But before we can
unpack this new, cooler woke, which promises to jail the rich and steal
their things before it targets the white middle class (the
rCLbourgeoisie,rCY they call this), we unfortunately do have to jump through >> the first traditional media hoop: does this very real thing, which all
of us see, actually exist?
YourCOll be happy to hear that NY Mag is on the case, and there is
absolutely nothing to see here:
rCLCherry-picking controversial past statements or social-media posts from >> a handful of candidates and then inflating their numbers astronomically
is required to sustain any sort of red-wave hypothesis. Are there DSA
members (not candidates, but rank-and-file members) who are Marxist, in
the sense of viewing political and economic life through the lens of
class struggle? Yes, there are, much as there are rank-and-file members
of the GOP who by any conventional definition are proto-fascist. That
Marxists define the Democratic Party as a whole is ludicrous. And by the
way, these allegedly terrifying progressives are winning primaries by
appealing to voters in free elections, which was not a tactic favored by
Bolsheviks.rCY
<https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-gops-big-red-scare-is-really-stupid.html>
Oh, my, a tiny bit of sanity. How mystifying.
While the movement gains strength, itrCOs unclear if the center left is in >> denial or trying to obscure it all on purpose as we inch toward the
general election. But their argument, at this point common, stands on
two flimsy pillars. First, the position that socialism is not actually
ascendant in the Democratic Party. Then, the position that the DSA,
while radical, is merely the leftrCOs own MAGA, on par with a mass of
unnamed "rank-and-file" members of the GOP, who are "proto-fascist."
While NY Mag feels no responsibility to actually name these apparently
abundant fascists in the GOP, or any of their beliefs, IrCOll just assume
theyrCOre talking about Trump, to whom werCOll return in a moment.
Now, is the radicalization happening? NY Mag suggests "just three
members of the Democratic Socialists of America have won congressional
primaries," which is distorted to the point I have to say I think their
intention must be deception.
At present, there are two sitting members of the DSA in Congress,
including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and living, breathing, walking
"build the wall" advertisement Rashida Tlaib. But there are hundreds of
DSA members in government, which Wikipedia has done a helpful job
tracking. In terms of primary victories, other than the aforementioned
two candidates who are both running and favored to win, Chris Rabb (PA),
Melat Kiros (CO), Brad Lander (NY), Claire Valdez (NY), Darializa Avila
Chevalier (NY), and Donavan McKinney (MI) are all headed to the general.
Mai Vang (CA), while she didnrCOt win outright, is headed to the general.
Oliver Larkin (FL) has a good chance of advancing to the general. Then
of course thererCOs media superstar Abdul El-Sayed (MI), who rejects the
term socialist but supports the nationalization of large swaths of the
technology industry, and secured a DSA endorsement reserved for
candidates who share the DSA platform. He just won his primary race for
Senate.
The DSArCOs national victories, all organized and coordinated under the
banner of socialism, would alone constitute a movement. But what few on
the "moderate" left are willing to face are the DSA victories in local
politics, which are already transforming our country.
Janeese Lewis George took her primary in DC, and is now running in the
general for Mayor this November, while Nithya Raman took her primary in
LA. There is, of course, Zohran Mamdani, who now not only runs New York,
the largest and wealthiest city in our country, but does so with
tremendous support in City Council. There, as in New YorkrCOs State
Assembly, nearly the entire DSA slate won. The socialists have secured
further victories in cities spanning Los Angeles, where they are
especially dominant, Buffalo, Syracuse, Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis,
Jersey City, Louisville, andrCa Poughkeepsie.
Lovely. Now what do they believe?
In order to secure a DSA endorsement, candidates must adhere to the
DSArCOs national policy program. This of course includes all the fan
favorites: total student debt forgiveness, reparations, closing all
overseas military bases, and phasing out the use of fossil fuels. But
positions that sound so totally insane IrCOm afraid most people assume IrCOm >> exaggerating when I talk about them include: abolition of the police and
prisons, abolition of the Electoral College, abolition of the U.S.
Senate, Supreme Court, and presidency, and the nationalization of all
major industry in the country. The DSA of course demands a national
"wealth tax," which effectively abolishes our right to private property
(a case I made in detail for Pirate Wires). And finally, they promise to
draft a new Constitution. What do you think, guys, will Hasan PikerrCOs
Dumb Bitch Politburo let us keep our right to speech?
Wait.
Do you hear that?
ItrCOs the fevered clacking of 10,000 abundance libs furiously typing in
response.
"BUT WHAT ABOUT TRUMP!"
Okay, sure. LetrCOs address the giant blonde hairpiece in the room.
Facing the twin horrors of the DSA, including both their stated beliefs
and their clear ascendance within the DNC, self-described "centrists"
and Democratic Party "moderates" face a difficult problem. On paper,
they should be completely opposed to what is by all accounts an
authoritarian takeover of their party with clearly the intention of
abolishing our current government and replacing it with something
altogether Marxist. But theyrCOve already gone and made opposition to
Trump, the spiritual head of the Republican Party, their entire
political identity. This is how werCOve arrived at the absolute dumbest
incarnation of this conversation, which reduces to something like "but
Trump is just as bad."
You donrCOt like Trump or his policies. ThatrCOs fine. But Trump has
actually not made any gesture whatsoever in the direction of abolishing
every branch of power in the country but his own. This is not real. This
is a liberal rape fantasy.
YourCOre perfectly entitled to not like Trump. To hate him. To truly
believe he is the worst president in history. To believe he is
legitimately dangerous, even. But what you can really not say is that
herCOs radical, or at least not in the sense we speak of in consideration
of the DSA, which is seeking rCo explicitly rCo to abolish our government
and replace it with something fundamentally new.
Trump denies the results of the election. Okay. I denied the results of
George W. BushrCOs election, along with most Democrats in the country,
pretty much throughout his presidency. What else do you have? Tariffs?
ThatrCOs just a policy you donrCOt like. Understandably! It may be wrong,
but itrCOs not radical. Mass deportation? I get that you love immigration, >> and think illegal immigration is actually, on net, good for the economy,
and the economy is all that really matters. IrCOm not here to debate that
position. But deporting illegal immigrants is actually the law. If you
donrCOt like the law, you can change it by winning elections. And
following the law is not a revolution.
Then, I guess people are really dying to know what I think about the war
in Iran. A treat for you: I hate it! I think itrCOs bad! Though I
admittedly have no idea what information Trump is working from, I
generally believe war sucks and we should try our best to never do it.
But in terms of norms, IrCOm having a hard time understanding how this act >> is "revolutionary" given America has been in some form of war for
literally my entire life.
Rule by executive order is unhealthy, and I agree the culture of our
executive drafting magic spells and casting law into the country is out
of hand. You can thank FDR for that, and then Obama who brought that
culture back. But yourCOll notice our courts have routinely intervened to
halt executive orders, and when Trump receives a negative ruling he
simply trashes it and moves on to the next Diet Coke. He has not
dissolved the courts. He did not run on a platform of dissolving the
courts. He has not written down his intention to dissolve the courts. He
is not leading a well-coordinated army of young congressional candidates
themselves committed to dissolving the courts.
DSA candidates are, right now, running on a platform of dissolving the
Supreme Court. If they win, they will not succeed because they do not
yet have the power to succeed. But if the radicalization of the DNC
proceeds, this country will not survive.
Trump has done many things I either donrCOt agree with, or canrCOt stand. I >> hated when he, to my eye, mocked the death of Rob Reiner, which I
consider disgusting and coarsening of our culture in a way that has
helped normalize the kind of bloodlust werCOre seeing most especially, and >> to the greatest consequence, from the populist left rCo where actual calls >> for murder, and full-throated defense and celebration of political
assassination is now routine. But surely you can believe this man is a
terrible human as well as a terrible president, while understanding the
distinction between those things and the ascendance of a movement in the
DNC to dissolve the government.
My point here is not even that the DSA is bad (though, holy shit,
theyrCOre really bad). My point is only that the DSA is radical, by which
I mean their goal is not to reform our institutions or to bend our
institutions to their will, but to replace them with a new form of
government. These are authoritarians, by which I do not mean "guy who
makes me mad." I am actually just looking at their policy proposals and
explaining to you who they are, in their own language.
We are well beyond a simple disagreement on tax policy, or immigration.
This isnrCOt a conversation about gay marriage or abortion. We are
litigating the actual structure of our government. Face that. And if you
side with the people who are seeking to replace our government with
something altogether new and explicitly Marxist, you arenrCOt just a guy
we disagree with anymore.
-SOLANA
On 8/13/2026 2:25 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:06:00 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>So, it's come to this:
wrote:
On 8/12/2026 11:35 AM, Julian wrote:
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donAt want to cancel
Thanksgiving u on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyAs vote-tabulation >>>> systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericaAs first avowedly socialist >>>> state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely tight primary >>>> to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the gubernatorial
primary in Wisconsin.
Woke 2
The Democratic Party is, I think obviously, undergoing an historic
radicalization. Woke 2, a playful framing for what is clearly
unapologetic Marxism, is, if unchallenged, the future. But before we can >>> unpack this new, cooler woke, which promises to jail the rich and steal
their things before it targets the white middle class (the
obourgeoisie,o they call this), we unfortunately do have to jump through >>> the first traditional media hoop: does this very real thing, which all
of us see, actually exist?
YouAll be happy to hear that NY Mag is on the case, and there is
absolutely nothing to see here:
oCherry-picking controversial past statements or social-media posts from >>> a handful of candidates and then inflating their numbers astronomically
is required to sustain any sort of red-wave hypothesis. Are there DSA
members (not candidates, but rank-and-file members) who are Marxist, in
the sense of viewing political and economic life through the lens of
class struggle? Yes, there are, much as there are rank-and-file members
of the GOP who by any conventional definition are proto-fascist. That
Marxists define the Democratic Party as a whole is ludicrous. And by the >>> way, these allegedly terrifying progressives are winning primaries by
appealing to voters in free elections, which was not a tactic favored by >>> Bolsheviks.o
<https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-gops-big-red-scare-is-really-stupid.html>
Oh, my, a tiny bit of sanity. How mystifying.
Francesca Hong, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib are the
measure of sanity in US politics today.
--
While the movement gains strength, itAs unclear if the center left is in >>> denial or trying to obscure it all on purpose as we inch toward the
general election. But their argument, at this point common, stands on
two flimsy pillars. First, the position that socialism is not actually
ascendant in the Democratic Party. Then, the position that the DSA,
while radical, is merely the leftAs own MAGA, on par with a mass of
unnamed "rank-and-file" members of the GOP, who are "proto-fascist."
While NY Mag feels no responsibility to actually name these apparently
abundant fascists in the GOP, or any of their beliefs, IAll just assume
theyAre talking about Trump, to whom weAll return in a moment.
Now, is the radicalization happening? NY Mag suggests "just three
members of the Democratic Socialists of America have won congressional
primaries," which is distorted to the point I have to say I think their
intention must be deception.
At present, there are two sitting members of the DSA in Congress,
including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and living, breathing, walking
"build the wall" advertisement Rashida Tlaib. But there are hundreds of
DSA members in government, which Wikipedia has done a helpful job
tracking. In terms of primary victories, other than the aforementioned
two candidates who are both running and favored to win, Chris Rabb (PA), >>> Melat Kiros (CO), Brad Lander (NY), Claire Valdez (NY), Darializa Avila
Chevalier (NY), and Donavan McKinney (MI) are all headed to the general. >>> Mai Vang (CA), while she didnAt win outright, is headed to the general.
Oliver Larkin (FL) has a good chance of advancing to the general. Then
of course thereAs media superstar Abdul El-Sayed (MI), who rejects the
term socialist but supports the nationalization of large swaths of the
technology industry, and secured a DSA endorsement reserved for
candidates who share the DSA platform. He just won his primary race for
Senate.
The DSAAs national victories, all organized and coordinated under the
banner of socialism, would alone constitute a movement. But what few on
the "moderate" left are willing to face are the DSA victories in local
politics, which are already transforming our country.
Janeese Lewis George took her primary in DC, and is now running in the
general for Mayor this November, while Nithya Raman took her primary in
LA. There is, of course, Zohran Mamdani, who now not only runs New York, >>> the largest and wealthiest city in our country, but does so with
tremendous support in City Council. There, as in New YorkAs State
Assembly, nearly the entire DSA slate won. The socialists have secured
further victories in cities spanning Los Angeles, where they are
especially dominant, Buffalo, Syracuse, Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis,
Jersey City, Louisville, anda Poughkeepsie.
Lovely. Now what do they believe?
In order to secure a DSA endorsement, candidates must adhere to the
DSAAs national policy program. This of course includes all the fan
favorites: total student debt forgiveness, reparations, closing all
overseas military bases, and phasing out the use of fossil fuels. But
positions that sound so totally insane IAm afraid most people assume IAm >>> exaggerating when I talk about them include: abolition of the police and >>> prisons, abolition of the Electoral College, abolition of the U.S.
Senate, Supreme Court, and presidency, and the nationalization of all
major industry in the country. The DSA of course demands a national
"wealth tax," which effectively abolishes our right to private property
(a case I made in detail for Pirate Wires). And finally, they promise to >>> draft a new Constitution. What do you think, guys, will Hasan PikerAs
Dumb Bitch Politburo let us keep our right to speech?
Wait.
Do you hear that?
ItAs the fevered clacking of 10,000 abundance libs furiously typing in
response.
"BUT WHAT ABOUT TRUMP!"
Okay, sure. LetAs address the giant blonde hairpiece in the room.
Facing the twin horrors of the DSA, including both their stated beliefs
and their clear ascendance within the DNC, self-described "centrists"
and Democratic Party "moderates" face a difficult problem. On paper,
they should be completely opposed to what is by all accounts an
authoritarian takeover of their party with clearly the intention of
abolishing our current government and replacing it with something
altogether Marxist. But theyAve already gone and made opposition to
Trump, the spiritual head of the Republican Party, their entire
political identity. This is how weAve arrived at the absolute dumbest
incarnation of this conversation, which reduces to something like "but
Trump is just as bad."
You donAt like Trump or his policies. ThatAs fine. But Trump has
actually not made any gesture whatsoever in the direction of abolishing
every branch of power in the country but his own. This is not real. This >>> is a liberal rape fantasy.
YouAre perfectly entitled to not like Trump. To hate him. To truly
believe he is the worst president in history. To believe he is
legitimately dangerous, even. But what you can really not say is that
heAs radical, or at least not in the sense we speak of in consideration
of the DSA, which is seeking u explicitly u to abolish our government
and replace it with something fundamentally new.
Trump denies the results of the election. Okay. I denied the results of
George W. BushAs election, along with most Democrats in the country,
pretty much throughout his presidency. What else do you have? Tariffs?
ThatAs just a policy you donAt like. Understandably! It may be wrong,
but itAs not radical. Mass deportation? I get that you love immigration, >>> and think illegal immigration is actually, on net, good for the economy, >>> and the economy is all that really matters. IAm not here to debate that
position. But deporting illegal immigrants is actually the law. If you
donAt like the law, you can change it by winning elections. And
following the law is not a revolution.
Then, I guess people are really dying to know what I think about the war >>> in Iran. A treat for you: I hate it! I think itAs bad! Though I
admittedly have no idea what information Trump is working from, I
generally believe war sucks and we should try our best to never do it.
But in terms of norms, IAm having a hard time understanding how this act >>> is "revolutionary" given America has been in some form of war for
literally my entire life.
Rule by executive order is unhealthy, and I agree the culture of our
executive drafting magic spells and casting law into the country is out
of hand. You can thank FDR for that, and then Obama who brought that
culture back. But youAll notice our courts have routinely intervened to
halt executive orders, and when Trump receives a negative ruling he
simply trashes it and moves on to the next Diet Coke. He has not
dissolved the courts. He did not run on a platform of dissolving the
courts. He has not written down his intention to dissolve the courts. He >>> is not leading a well-coordinated army of young congressional candidates >>> themselves committed to dissolving the courts.
DSA candidates are, right now, running on a platform of dissolving the
Supreme Court. If they win, they will not succeed because they do not
yet have the power to succeed. But if the radicalization of the DNC
proceeds, this country will not survive.
Trump has done many things I either donAt agree with, or canAt stand. I
hated when he, to my eye, mocked the death of Rob Reiner, which I
consider disgusting and coarsening of our culture in a way that has
helped normalize the kind of bloodlust weAre seeing most especially, and >>> to the greatest consequence, from the populist left u where actual calls >>> for murder, and full-throated defense and celebration of political
assassination is now routine. But surely you can believe this man is a
terrible human as well as a terrible president, while understanding the
distinction between those things and the ascendance of a movement in the >>> DNC to dissolve the government.
My point here is not even that the DSA is bad (though, holy shit,
theyAre really bad). My point is only that the DSA is radical, by which
I mean their goal is not to reform our institutions or to bend our
institutions to their will, but to replace them with a new form of
government. These are authoritarians, by which I do not mean "guy who
makes me mad." I am actually just looking at their policy proposals and
explaining to you who they are, in their own language.
We are well beyond a simple disagreement on tax policy, or immigration.
This isnAt a conversation about gay marriage or abortion. We are
litigating the actual structure of our government. Face that. And if you >>> side with the people who are seeking to replace our government with
something altogether new and explicitly Marxist, you arenAt just a guy
we disagree with anymore.
-SOLANA
On Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:14:25 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/13/2026 2:25 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:06:00 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>So, it's come to this:
wrote:
On 8/12/2026 11:35 AM, Julian wrote:
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donrCOt want to cancel >>>>> Thanksgiving rCo on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyrCOs vote-tabulation
systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericarCOs first avowedly socialist
state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely tight primary >>>>> to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the gubernatorial >>>>> primary in Wisconsin.
Woke 2
The Democratic Party is, I think obviously, undergoing an historic
radicalization. Woke 2, a playful framing for what is clearly
unapologetic Marxism, is, if unchallenged, the future. But before we can >>>> unpack this new, cooler woke, which promises to jail the rich and steal >>>> their things before it targets the white middle class (the
rCLbourgeoisie,rCY they call this), we unfortunately do have to jump through
the first traditional media hoop: does this very real thing, which all >>>> of us see, actually exist?
YourCOll be happy to hear that NY Mag is on the case, and there is
absolutely nothing to see here:
rCLCherry-picking controversial past statements or social-media posts from >>>> a handful of candidates and then inflating their numbers astronomically >>>> is required to sustain any sort of red-wave hypothesis. Are there DSA
members (not candidates, but rank-and-file members) who are Marxist, in >>>> the sense of viewing political and economic life through the lens of
class struggle? Yes, there are, much as there are rank-and-file members >>>> of the GOP who by any conventional definition are proto-fascist. That
Marxists define the Democratic Party as a whole is ludicrous. And by the >>>> way, these allegedly terrifying progressives are winning primaries by
appealing to voters in free elections, which was not a tactic favored by >>>> Bolsheviks.rCY
<https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-gops-big-red-scare-is-really-stupid.html>
Oh, my, a tiny bit of sanity. How mystifying.
Francesca Hong, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib are the
measure of sanity in US politics today.
Wrong, there is no such sanity in us politics.
While the movement gains strength, itrCOs unclear if the center left is in >>>> denial or trying to obscure it all on purpose as we inch toward the
general election. But their argument, at this point common, stands on
two flimsy pillars. First, the position that socialism is not actually >>>> ascendant in the Democratic Party. Then, the position that the DSA,
while radical, is merely the leftrCOs own MAGA, on par with a mass of
unnamed "rank-and-file" members of the GOP, who are "proto-fascist."
While NY Mag feels no responsibility to actually name these apparently >>>> abundant fascists in the GOP, or any of their beliefs, IrCOll just assume >>>> theyrCOre talking about Trump, to whom werCOll return in a moment.
Now, is the radicalization happening? NY Mag suggests "just three
members of the Democratic Socialists of America have won congressional >>>> primaries," which is distorted to the point I have to say I think their >>>> intention must be deception.
At present, there are two sitting members of the DSA in Congress,
including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and living, breathing, walking
"build the wall" advertisement Rashida Tlaib. But there are hundreds of >>>> DSA members in government, which Wikipedia has done a helpful job
tracking. In terms of primary victories, other than the aforementioned >>>> two candidates who are both running and favored to win, Chris Rabb (PA), >>>> Melat Kiros (CO), Brad Lander (NY), Claire Valdez (NY), Darializa Avila >>>> Chevalier (NY), and Donavan McKinney (MI) are all headed to the general. >>>> Mai Vang (CA), while she didnrCOt win outright, is headed to the general. >>>> Oliver Larkin (FL) has a good chance of advancing to the general. Then >>>> of course thererCOs media superstar Abdul El-Sayed (MI), who rejects the >>>> term socialist but supports the nationalization of large swaths of the >>>> technology industry, and secured a DSA endorsement reserved for
candidates who share the DSA platform. He just won his primary race for >>>> Senate.
The DSArCOs national victories, all organized and coordinated under the >>>> banner of socialism, would alone constitute a movement. But what few on >>>> the "moderate" left are willing to face are the DSA victories in local >>>> politics, which are already transforming our country.
Janeese Lewis George took her primary in DC, and is now running in the >>>> general for Mayor this November, while Nithya Raman took her primary in >>>> LA. There is, of course, Zohran Mamdani, who now not only runs New York, >>>> the largest and wealthiest city in our country, but does so with
tremendous support in City Council. There, as in New YorkrCOs State
Assembly, nearly the entire DSA slate won. The socialists have secured >>>> further victories in cities spanning Los Angeles, where they are
especially dominant, Buffalo, Syracuse, Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis, >>>> Jersey City, Louisville, andrCa Poughkeepsie.
Lovely. Now what do they believe?
In order to secure a DSA endorsement, candidates must adhere to the
DSArCOs national policy program. This of course includes all the fan
favorites: total student debt forgiveness, reparations, closing all
overseas military bases, and phasing out the use of fossil fuels. But
positions that sound so totally insane IrCOm afraid most people assume IrCOm
exaggerating when I talk about them include: abolition of the police and >>>> prisons, abolition of the Electoral College, abolition of the U.S.
Senate, Supreme Court, and presidency, and the nationalization of all
major industry in the country. The DSA of course demands a national
"wealth tax," which effectively abolishes our right to private property >>>> (a case I made in detail for Pirate Wires). And finally, they promise to >>>> draft a new Constitution. What do you think, guys, will Hasan PikerrCOs >>>> Dumb Bitch Politburo let us keep our right to speech?
Wait.
Do you hear that?
ItrCOs the fevered clacking of 10,000 abundance libs furiously typing in >>>> response.
"BUT WHAT ABOUT TRUMP!"
Okay, sure. LetrCOs address the giant blonde hairpiece in the room.
Facing the twin horrors of the DSA, including both their stated beliefs >>>> and their clear ascendance within the DNC, self-described "centrists"
and Democratic Party "moderates" face a difficult problem. On paper,
they should be completely opposed to what is by all accounts an
authoritarian takeover of their party with clearly the intention of
abolishing our current government and replacing it with something
altogether Marxist. But theyrCOve already gone and made opposition to
Trump, the spiritual head of the Republican Party, their entire
political identity. This is how werCOve arrived at the absolute dumbest >>>> incarnation of this conversation, which reduces to something like "but >>>> Trump is just as bad."
You donrCOt like Trump or his policies. ThatrCOs fine. But Trump has
actually not made any gesture whatsoever in the direction of abolishing >>>> every branch of power in the country but his own. This is not real. This >>>> is a liberal rape fantasy.
YourCOre perfectly entitled to not like Trump. To hate him. To truly
believe he is the worst president in history. To believe he is
legitimately dangerous, even. But what you can really not say is that
herCOs radical, or at least not in the sense we speak of in consideration >>>> of the DSA, which is seeking rCo explicitly rCo to abolish our government >>>> and replace it with something fundamentally new.
Trump denies the results of the election. Okay. I denied the results of >>>> George W. BushrCOs election, along with most Democrats in the country, >>>> pretty much throughout his presidency. What else do you have? Tariffs? >>>> ThatrCOs just a policy you donrCOt like. Understandably! It may be wrong, >>>> but itrCOs not radical. Mass deportation? I get that you love immigration, >>>> and think illegal immigration is actually, on net, good for the economy, >>>> and the economy is all that really matters. IrCOm not here to debate that >>>> position. But deporting illegal immigrants is actually the law. If you >>>> donrCOt like the law, you can change it by winning elections. And
following the law is not a revolution.
Then, I guess people are really dying to know what I think about the war >>>> in Iran. A treat for you: I hate it! I think itrCOs bad! Though I
admittedly have no idea what information Trump is working from, I
generally believe war sucks and we should try our best to never do it. >>>> But in terms of norms, IrCOm having a hard time understanding how this act >>>> is "revolutionary" given America has been in some form of war for
literally my entire life.
Rule by executive order is unhealthy, and I agree the culture of our
executive drafting magic spells and casting law into the country is out >>>> of hand. You can thank FDR for that, and then Obama who brought that
culture back. But yourCOll notice our courts have routinely intervened to >>>> halt executive orders, and when Trump receives a negative ruling he
simply trashes it and moves on to the next Diet Coke. He has not
dissolved the courts. He did not run on a platform of dissolving the
courts. He has not written down his intention to dissolve the courts. He >>>> is not leading a well-coordinated army of young congressional candidates >>>> themselves committed to dissolving the courts.
DSA candidates are, right now, running on a platform of dissolving the >>>> Supreme Court. If they win, they will not succeed because they do not
yet have the power to succeed. But if the radicalization of the DNC
proceeds, this country will not survive.
Trump has done many things I either donrCOt agree with, or canrCOt stand. I
hated when he, to my eye, mocked the death of Rob Reiner, which I
consider disgusting and coarsening of our culture in a way that has
helped normalize the kind of bloodlust werCOre seeing most especially, and >>>> to the greatest consequence, from the populist left rCo where actual calls >>>> for murder, and full-throated defense and celebration of political
assassination is now routine. But surely you can believe this man is a >>>> terrible human as well as a terrible president, while understanding the >>>> distinction between those things and the ascendance of a movement in the >>>> DNC to dissolve the government.
My point here is not even that the DSA is bad (though, holy shit,
theyrCOre really bad). My point is only that the DSA is radical, by which >>>> I mean their goal is not to reform our institutions or to bend our
institutions to their will, but to replace them with a new form of
government. These are authoritarians, by which I do not mean "guy who
makes me mad." I am actually just looking at their policy proposals and >>>> explaining to you who they are, in their own language.
We are well beyond a simple disagreement on tax policy, or immigration. >>>> This isnrCOt a conversation about gay marriage or abortion. We are
litigating the actual structure of our government. Face that. And if you >>>> side with the people who are seeking to replace our government with
something altogether new and explicitly Marxist, you arenrCOt just a guy >>>> we disagree with anymore.
-SOLANA
On 8/15/2026 6:58 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
On Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:14:25 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:The problem is you just can't make sense of it.
On 8/13/2026 2:25 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:06:00 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>So, it's come to this:
wrote:
On 8/12/2026 11:35 AM, Julian wrote:
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters donAt want to cancel >>>>>> Thanksgiving u on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their partyAs vote-tabulation >>>>>> systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be AmericaAs first avowedly socialist >>>>>> state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely tight primary >>>>>> to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the gubernatorial >>>>>> primary in Wisconsin.
Woke 2
The Democratic Party is, I think obviously, undergoing an historic
radicalization. Woke 2, a playful framing for what is clearly
unapologetic Marxism, is, if unchallenged, the future. But before we can >>>>> unpack this new, cooler woke, which promises to jail the rich and steal >>>>> their things before it targets the white middle class (the
obourgeoisie,o they call this), we unfortunately do have to jump through >>>>> the first traditional media hoop: does this very real thing, which all >>>>> of us see, actually exist?
YouAll be happy to hear that NY Mag is on the case, and there is
absolutely nothing to see here:
oCherry-picking controversial past statements or social-media posts from >>>>> a handful of candidates and then inflating their numbers astronomically >>>>> is required to sustain any sort of red-wave hypothesis. Are there DSA >>>>> members (not candidates, but rank-and-file members) who are Marxist, in >>>>> the sense of viewing political and economic life through the lens of >>>>> class struggle? Yes, there are, much as there are rank-and-file members >>>>> of the GOP who by any conventional definition are proto-fascist. That >>>>> Marxists define the Democratic Party as a whole is ludicrous. And by the >>>>> way, these allegedly terrifying progressives are winning primaries by >>>>> appealing to voters in free elections, which was not a tactic favored by >>>>> Bolsheviks.o
<https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-gops-big-red-scare-is-really-stupid.html>
Oh, my, a tiny bit of sanity. How mystifying.
Francesca Hong, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib are the
measure of sanity in US politics today.
Wrong, there is no such sanity in us politics.
--
While the movement gains strength, itAs unclear if the center left is in >>>>> denial or trying to obscure it all on purpose as we inch toward the
general election. But their argument, at this point common, stands on >>>>> two flimsy pillars. First, the position that socialism is not actually >>>>> ascendant in the Democratic Party. Then, the position that the DSA,
while radical, is merely the leftAs own MAGA, on par with a mass of
unnamed "rank-and-file" members of the GOP, who are "proto-fascist." >>>>> While NY Mag feels no responsibility to actually name these apparently >>>>> abundant fascists in the GOP, or any of their beliefs, IAll just assume >>>>> theyAre talking about Trump, to whom weAll return in a moment.
Now, is the radicalization happening? NY Mag suggests "just three
members of the Democratic Socialists of America have won congressional >>>>> primaries," which is distorted to the point I have to say I think their >>>>> intention must be deception.
At present, there are two sitting members of the DSA in Congress,
including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and living, breathing, walking
"build the wall" advertisement Rashida Tlaib. But there are hundreds of >>>>> DSA members in government, which Wikipedia has done a helpful job
tracking. In terms of primary victories, other than the aforementioned >>>>> two candidates who are both running and favored to win, Chris Rabb (PA), >>>>> Melat Kiros (CO), Brad Lander (NY), Claire Valdez (NY), Darializa Avila >>>>> Chevalier (NY), and Donavan McKinney (MI) are all headed to the general. >>>>> Mai Vang (CA), while she didnAt win outright, is headed to the general. >>>>> Oliver Larkin (FL) has a good chance of advancing to the general. Then >>>>> of course thereAs media superstar Abdul El-Sayed (MI), who rejects the >>>>> term socialist but supports the nationalization of large swaths of the >>>>> technology industry, and secured a DSA endorsement reserved for
candidates who share the DSA platform. He just won his primary race for >>>>> Senate.
The DSAAs national victories, all organized and coordinated under the >>>>> banner of socialism, would alone constitute a movement. But what few on >>>>> the "moderate" left are willing to face are the DSA victories in local >>>>> politics, which are already transforming our country.
Janeese Lewis George took her primary in DC, and is now running in the >>>>> general for Mayor this November, while Nithya Raman took her primary in >>>>> LA. There is, of course, Zohran Mamdani, who now not only runs New York, >>>>> the largest and wealthiest city in our country, but does so with
tremendous support in City Council. There, as in New YorkAs State
Assembly, nearly the entire DSA slate won. The socialists have secured >>>>> further victories in cities spanning Los Angeles, where they are
especially dominant, Buffalo, Syracuse, Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis, >>>>> Jersey City, Louisville, anda Poughkeepsie.
Lovely. Now what do they believe?
In order to secure a DSA endorsement, candidates must adhere to the
DSAAs national policy program. This of course includes all the fan
favorites: total student debt forgiveness, reparations, closing all
overseas military bases, and phasing out the use of fossil fuels. But >>>>> positions that sound so totally insane IAm afraid most people assume IAm >>>>> exaggerating when I talk about them include: abolition of the police and >>>>> prisons, abolition of the Electoral College, abolition of the U.S.
Senate, Supreme Court, and presidency, and the nationalization of all >>>>> major industry in the country. The DSA of course demands a national
"wealth tax," which effectively abolishes our right to private property >>>>> (a case I made in detail for Pirate Wires). And finally, they promise to >>>>> draft a new Constitution. What do you think, guys, will Hasan PikerAs >>>>> Dumb Bitch Politburo let us keep our right to speech?
Wait.
Do you hear that?
ItAs the fevered clacking of 10,000 abundance libs furiously typing in >>>>> response.
"BUT WHAT ABOUT TRUMP!"
Okay, sure. LetAs address the giant blonde hairpiece in the room.
Facing the twin horrors of the DSA, including both their stated beliefs >>>>> and their clear ascendance within the DNC, self-described "centrists" >>>>> and Democratic Party "moderates" face a difficult problem. On paper, >>>>> they should be completely opposed to what is by all accounts an
authoritarian takeover of their party with clearly the intention of
abolishing our current government and replacing it with something
altogether Marxist. But theyAve already gone and made opposition to
Trump, the spiritual head of the Republican Party, their entire
political identity. This is how weAve arrived at the absolute dumbest >>>>> incarnation of this conversation, which reduces to something like "but >>>>> Trump is just as bad."
You donAt like Trump or his policies. ThatAs fine. But Trump has
actually not made any gesture whatsoever in the direction of abolishing >>>>> every branch of power in the country but his own. This is not real. This >>>>> is a liberal rape fantasy.
YouAre perfectly entitled to not like Trump. To hate him. To truly
believe he is the worst president in history. To believe he is
legitimately dangerous, even. But what you can really not say is that >>>>> heAs radical, or at least not in the sense we speak of in consideration >>>>> of the DSA, which is seeking u explicitly u to abolish our government >>>>> and replace it with something fundamentally new.
Trump denies the results of the election. Okay. I denied the results of >>>>> George W. BushAs election, along with most Democrats in the country, >>>>> pretty much throughout his presidency. What else do you have? Tariffs? >>>>> ThatAs just a policy you donAt like. Understandably! It may be wrong, >>>>> but itAs not radical. Mass deportation? I get that you love immigration, >>>>> and think illegal immigration is actually, on net, good for the economy, >>>>> and the economy is all that really matters. IAm not here to debate that >>>>> position. But deporting illegal immigrants is actually the law. If you >>>>> donAt like the law, you can change it by winning elections. And
following the law is not a revolution.
Then, I guess people are really dying to know what I think about the war >>>>> in Iran. A treat for you: I hate it! I think itAs bad! Though I
admittedly have no idea what information Trump is working from, I
generally believe war sucks and we should try our best to never do it. >>>>> But in terms of norms, IAm having a hard time understanding how this act >>>>> is "revolutionary" given America has been in some form of war for
literally my entire life.
Rule by executive order is unhealthy, and I agree the culture of our >>>>> executive drafting magic spells and casting law into the country is out >>>>> of hand. You can thank FDR for that, and then Obama who brought that >>>>> culture back. But youAll notice our courts have routinely intervened to >>>>> halt executive orders, and when Trump receives a negative ruling he
simply trashes it and moves on to the next Diet Coke. He has not
dissolved the courts. He did not run on a platform of dissolving the >>>>> courts. He has not written down his intention to dissolve the courts. He >>>>> is not leading a well-coordinated army of young congressional candidates >>>>> themselves committed to dissolving the courts.
DSA candidates are, right now, running on a platform of dissolving the >>>>> Supreme Court. If they win, they will not succeed because they do not >>>>> yet have the power to succeed. But if the radicalization of the DNC
proceeds, this country will not survive.
Trump has done many things I either donAt agree with, or canAt stand. I >>>>> hated when he, to my eye, mocked the death of Rob Reiner, which I
consider disgusting and coarsening of our culture in a way that has
helped normalize the kind of bloodlust weAre seeing most especially, and >>>>> to the greatest consequence, from the populist left u where actual calls >>>>> for murder, and full-throated defense and celebration of political
assassination is now routine. But surely you can believe this man is a >>>>> terrible human as well as a terrible president, while understanding the >>>>> distinction between those things and the ascendance of a movement in the >>>>> DNC to dissolve the government.
My point here is not even that the DSA is bad (though, holy shit,
theyAre really bad). My point is only that the DSA is radical, by which >>>>> I mean their goal is not to reform our institutions or to bend our
institutions to their will, but to replace them with a new form of
government. These are authoritarians, by which I do not mean "guy who >>>>> makes me mad." I am actually just looking at their policy proposals and >>>>> explaining to you who they are, in their own language.
We are well beyond a simple disagreement on tax policy, or immigration. >>>>> This isnAt a conversation about gay marriage or abortion. We are
litigating the actual structure of our government. Face that. And if you >>>>> side with the people who are seeking to replace our government with
something altogether new and explicitly Marxist, you arenAt just a guy >>>>> we disagree with anymore.
-SOLANA
On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:03:05 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/15/2026 6:58 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
On Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:14:25 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:The problem is you just can't make sense of it.
On 8/13/2026 2:25 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:06:00 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>So, it's come to this:
wrote:
On 8/12/2026 11:35 AM, Julian wrote:
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters don-At want to cancel >>>>>> Thanksgiving -u on balance, at least. Come November, however, few >>>>>> Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their party-As vote-tabulation
systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be America-As first avowedly socialist
state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely tight primary
to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the gubernatorial >>>>>> primary in Wisconsin.
Woke 2
The Democratic Party is, I think obviously, undergoing an historic >>>>> radicalization. Woke 2, a playful framing for what is clearly
unapologetic Marxism, is, if unchallenged, the future. But before we can
unpack this new, cooler woke, which promises to jail the rich and steal >>>>> their things before it targets the white middle class (the
-obourgeoisie,-o they call this), we unfortunately do have to jump through
the first traditional media hoop: does this very real thing, which all >>>>> of us see, actually exist?
You-All be happy to hear that NY Mag is on the case, and there is
absolutely nothing to see here:
-oCherry-picking controversial past statements or social-media posts from
a handful of candidates and then inflating their numbers astronomically >>>>> is required to sustain any sort of red-wave hypothesis. Are there DSA >>>>> members (not candidates, but rank-and-file members) who are Marxist, in >>>>> the sense of viewing political and economic life through the lens of >>>>> class struggle? Yes, there are, much as there are rank-and-file members >>>>> of the GOP who by any conventional definition are proto-fascist. That >>>>> Marxists define the Democratic Party as a whole is ludicrous. And by the
way, these allegedly terrifying progressives are winning primaries by >>>>> appealing to voters in free elections, which was not a tactic favored by
Bolsheviks.-o
<https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-gops-big-red-scare-is-really-stupid.html>
Oh, my, a tiny bit of sanity. How mystifying.
Francesca Hong, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib are the
measure of sanity in US politics today.
Wrong, there is no such sanity in us politics.
The problem is that craziness rules. Since himbo.
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