It's time for the Dems to get off the 'LGBTQ' train. Oil. I get it. We support Trans kids. Who doesn't? But can the Dems stop yelling about an issue that affects less than 0.01% of the US population and talk MORE ABOUT HOW WE ARE HELPING 99% OF EVERYDAY AMERICANS? GET OFF IT WITH THE GODDAM LGBTQ BS. EVERYONE IS TIRED OF IT/ NO WOMAN WANTS TO SHARE A BATHROOM WITH ANY MEN! MEN'S BATHROOMS ARE DISGUSTINGLY SMELLY. EW. YOU THINK I WANT TO WALK INTO A A BOTHROOM WHERE MEN ARE PEEING IN A URINAL? NO I DO NOT!
Well, that's an opinion completely at odds with your other post on this same page. What on earth made you write this? Democrats are VERY capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time. We can talk about and legislate about more than one thing at once. I have seen nor heard about ANYTHING for the 99% of Americans, suffering because of "goddam LGBTQ BS." Not a thing. You might also check your math if you really think that LGBTQ issues only affects one one-hundredth of a percentage of Americans.
Also, I was a busboy for many years at a sit-down restaurant and an all-you-can-eat buffet and had occasion to have to clean bathrooms of both sexes. There was regularly a short straw drawing to see which one of us were going to have to clean the women's restroom. This was in the 70s, so there really wasn't the regular use of rubber gloves, and in the women's room, we were faced with used tampons tossed on the floor of the stalls when there was a container for them in each stall, unflushed toilets, lipstick and makeup on the mirrors, and best of all, plates of empty shrimp shells left on the floor beside the toilet -- implying that someone took the all-you-can-eat motif with them into the bathroom. The men's rooms were men's rooms, but you never found any of the kind of debris you found in the women's rooms.
Dems aren't yelling about anything like you're making it out to be. The only places you hear this kind of stuff is in right-wing media. Right-wing media is bad for your psyche.
I'm glad you've opened this up for discussion. I believe Joe Biden to be a good guy as well, with some sharp folks in his administration, and do pray for his good health & that of his wife, Jill. They've managed to get through some impressive & beneficial to all, legislation. Not just for the wealthy or corporation's benefit. And after 4 years of trump & his administration's daily drama, lying, cheating, scheming for their & their friends (benefit,) agenda, I am thankful for the relative drama free, current government & thank them. Now if we could only eliminate the real "drama queens" in Congress....Gaetz, Boebart, Greene, Jordan, Santos, & the rest of the maga so called "freedom Caucus," (which is the antithesis of that word) we'd all breathe a collective sigh of relief & President Biden & his administration could manage to get the intended work of good governance done.
Thanks, Bonnie. I think the right will always have these fringe characters, but at the moment, they have hijacked control of the entire party. The GOP needs to either reinvent itself or fade away.
I'm going to read up on Nagorno-Karabakh because sadly I had not heard of this before listening to your latest podcast with Cliff Schecter. Where else can I go to learn more about it? Thanks, again, Greg.
Biden has accomplished more great legislation than any other Potus in my lifetime. I support Joe all the way - 100%! Anyone who does not support Joe is crazy. Look at how he handled heckling from MTGreene during his 'State of the Union'. He nailed her. Biden knows where the fight is and how to win it.
Joe needs to put her front and center; however, I have a feeling that most right-wing nuts really don’t want her ascending to the presidency. Hope the critics don’t include Dems. I feel that we will see lots more of her if they win…
I assure you, there are approximately 8,576,265 articles about other folks who could step in if Joe stepped down.
Kamala has been hit by the rightwing hate machine, aggressively, for a while now. Being VP, an inherently blah job, doesn't help right now...but it will later on, when she's front and center in '28.
What people need to do is pay better attention to what Biden has accomplished in the past two plus years and tune out the bullshit. In a vacuum of straight news, say, if Walter Cronkite were still alive and giving us the evening news, Biden would be one of the most accomplished presidents of this century. I haven't done a one-to-one comparison, but I think he's even surpassed Obama for legislation and getting things done. Bush Jr. and that other one don't even rate. To listen to the right-wing, Biden's done nothing, and in fact, has taken us backwards. It would be funny if I thought they had a sense of humor at all, but they don't. Their form of humor is to tear down every Democrat, especially Biden, with playground taunts and lies they make up, and for some reason, that crap STICKS. Joe Biden has been an American institution for over 50 years! WTF?
Always remember that the Repub's main goal is to CONQUER the US and turn it into a white, Christian nation, where women have no rights and civil rights for others would be pushed back 100 years. Govenor Huckabeast in Arkansas just loosened child labor laws, for gods' sake! I was still trying to wrap my mind around THAT WOMAN being elected governor, and here she is, carrying out the agenda.
Until January 2029, Biden should be our president, and people need to get off the "drag Kamala Harris through the mud" train, because she should be our vice president.
Huckabeast is a perfect name for her. Daughter of one of the most corrupt Governors ever. She signs these bills under the guise that they will help people. And on the surface, it could be viewed that way. But dig down and you see the danger of this legislation. Here's an excellent article by Bess Levin in Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/sarah-huckabee-sanders-child-labor-laws. She also signed the LEARNS act into law which will be just as devastating to the children of Arkansas: "Public schools educate over 90% of students in Arkansas, but now they will be forced to compete for public tax dollars against private schools that don’t have to follow the same rules," said Sen. Greg Leding (D-Fayetteville). "Private schools will be able to discriminate against students with disabilities or of different faiths, and the Republicans in this legislature have decided to finance that with your tax money. Our goal as policymakers should be to ensure that every kid everywhere has the same access to the same excellent education.” https://www.thv11.com/article/news/politics/gov-sarah-sanders-signs-arkansas-learns-law/91-ce857587-74e5-4d34-925d-a39e0cba7a04
So, instead of following child labor laws, Arkansas and other places of the same red-state mindset are simply changing the laws. Problem solved! They're not trying to drag us back to the 1950s, but the 1850s -- but, yes, we should worry about drag queens and CRT in grade schools, to, you know, protect the children!
Yes, but there’s something really disgusting on the timing of all of this. These laws will be challenged in the courts then they will go to appeals courts and then will be filed with the Supreme Court. How do you think those religious zealots will rule? Then other States can pass the same laws citing the Supreme Court’s rulings. They have been laying this groundwork for decades. Huckabeast is a very useful pawn who is trying to take us back to the Industrial Revolution. Their screaming about drag queens, crt, etc...is just a distraction. She will be looked upon as a HERO of the right wing all while tearing down Humanity. Very Pro-Life (absolute sarcasm).
I've been trying to pinpoint what year they want it to be, and I think it's during the first McKinley Administration. Business booming, president a tool of big business, no regulations, US dabbling in Empire, Black voters purged from the rolls in the South. He's their guy.
She's awful. Truly the worst. Kat Abughazaleh talked about her old man's creepy kids' indoctrination program on the podcast a few weeks ago. They want kids to go to their weirdo Christian fundamentalist brainwash academies. The ones who aren't working in the mines, that is.
Since I’m old enough to have been your & everyone else’s babysitter; I do take umbrage at Ageism. Biden is the perfect anecdote to years of mind numbing cruelty. It’s like we had an abusive stepfather w tяump & Biden is the comforting social worker who swooped in to protect us. Plus, the guy has more experience in politics than the lot of them. The GOP likes to call that DeepState; which is a term that needs to be redefined & ran through all the administrations beginning w the Military industrial Complex of the Korean War , JFK’s orchestrated murder (I’ll refrain on my personal analysis of Johnson) the faulty Warren Commission, through Watergate & Nixon & right up to exCIA operative George H Bush. Sadly, Liz’s dad should also be included. But back to Joe; he knows the game well & hopefully good Catholics & others around the World are praying for his next term to finish the job. It takes a lot longer than 4 yrs to clean up Republican’s destroyed hotel room like messes.
Do you teach @ a large public institution & come into contact w: literally hundreds of middle class parents? Is: people who vote?
I never said Dems should not support LGBTQ persons. But d
Frankly it’s 90% of what I hear as their messaging & I’m tired of it.
Ok already - we’re adens & we support LGBT ! Enough already! Time to talk about things the other 99.9 % of the country worry about- ie: supporting public education so middle class kids can get jobs. Support unions & the Workinv Class.
I believe you're saying something similar to what Billy Ray said on The Five 8 last month. LB referred back to it this week, with a Steve Bannon quote. Identity politics front and center hurts Dems in national elections. We have to protect the vulnerable while also making the election itself about something bigger. Which, given Joe's phenomenal success, should be easy.
Dems have shown ourselves to be insane at times. Let's pray we don't screw up now, of all times. Let's pray for our excellent President's health!
From your lips to God’s ear!
It's time for the Dems to get off the 'LGBTQ' train. Oil. I get it. We support Trans kids. Who doesn't? But can the Dems stop yelling about an issue that affects less than 0.01% of the US population and talk MORE ABOUT HOW WE ARE HELPING 99% OF EVERYDAY AMERICANS? GET OFF IT WITH THE GODDAM LGBTQ BS. EVERYONE IS TIRED OF IT/ NO WOMAN WANTS TO SHARE A BATHROOM WITH ANY MEN! MEN'S BATHROOMS ARE DISGUSTINGLY SMELLY. EW. YOU THINK I WANT TO WALK INTO A A BOTHROOM WHERE MEN ARE PEEING IN A URINAL? NO I DO NOT!
Well, that's an opinion completely at odds with your other post on this same page. What on earth made you write this? Democrats are VERY capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time. We can talk about and legislate about more than one thing at once. I have seen nor heard about ANYTHING for the 99% of Americans, suffering because of "goddam LGBTQ BS." Not a thing. You might also check your math if you really think that LGBTQ issues only affects one one-hundredth of a percentage of Americans.
Also, I was a busboy for many years at a sit-down restaurant and an all-you-can-eat buffet and had occasion to have to clean bathrooms of both sexes. There was regularly a short straw drawing to see which one of us were going to have to clean the women's restroom. This was in the 70s, so there really wasn't the regular use of rubber gloves, and in the women's room, we were faced with used tampons tossed on the floor of the stalls when there was a container for them in each stall, unflushed toilets, lipstick and makeup on the mirrors, and best of all, plates of empty shrimp shells left on the floor beside the toilet -- implying that someone took the all-you-can-eat motif with them into the bathroom. The men's rooms were men's rooms, but you never found any of the kind of debris you found in the women's rooms.
Dems aren't yelling about anything like you're making it out to be. The only places you hear this kind of stuff is in right-wing media. Right-wing media is bad for your psyche.
Oh duck off. Most women do BOT want to share the bathroom w/ men
Likely, we have and didn’t know it. Most trans types likely value privacy, as should we all.
So much hinges on his health. It's scary, when you stop and think about it.
I'm glad you've opened this up for discussion. I believe Joe Biden to be a good guy as well, with some sharp folks in his administration, and do pray for his good health & that of his wife, Jill. They've managed to get through some impressive & beneficial to all, legislation. Not just for the wealthy or corporation's benefit. And after 4 years of trump & his administration's daily drama, lying, cheating, scheming for their & their friends (benefit,) agenda, I am thankful for the relative drama free, current government & thank them. Now if we could only eliminate the real "drama queens" in Congress....Gaetz, Boebart, Greene, Jordan, Santos, & the rest of the maga so called "freedom Caucus," (which is the antithesis of that word) we'd all breathe a collective sigh of relief & President Biden & his administration could manage to get the intended work of good governance done.
Thanks, Bonnie. I think the right will always have these fringe characters, but at the moment, they have hijacked control of the entire party. The GOP needs to either reinvent itself or fade away.
Call me insane if you want, but I'm all in for Joe Biden! (Thanks, Greg for this uplifting newsletter)
I'm going to read up on Nagorno-Karabakh because sadly I had not heard of this before listening to your latest podcast with Cliff Schecter. Where else can I go to learn more about it? Thanks, again, Greg.
I just found this and haven't looked closely, but it appears to be good:
https://www.crisisgroup.org/content/nagorno-karabakh-conflict-visual-explainer
Up with Joe!
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Biden has accomplished more great legislation than any other Potus in my lifetime. I support Joe all the way - 100%! Anyone who does not support Joe is crazy. Look at how he handled heckling from MTGreene during his 'State of the Union'. He nailed her. Biden knows where the fight is and how to win it.
Amen!
I'm all in on Biden but have yet to hear much on a back bench. Are there any names out there? I fear the press has damaged Harris too much.
Joe needs to put her front and center; however, I have a feeling that most right-wing nuts really don’t want her ascending to the presidency. Hope the critics don’t include Dems. I feel that we will see lots more of her if they win…
I think Joe will win, serve for another year, and then retire, handing her the job.
I assure you, there are approximately 8,576,265 articles about other folks who could step in if Joe stepped down.
Kamala has been hit by the rightwing hate machine, aggressively, for a while now. Being VP, an inherently blah job, doesn't help right now...but it will later on, when she's front and center in '28.
What people need to do is pay better attention to what Biden has accomplished in the past two plus years and tune out the bullshit. In a vacuum of straight news, say, if Walter Cronkite were still alive and giving us the evening news, Biden would be one of the most accomplished presidents of this century. I haven't done a one-to-one comparison, but I think he's even surpassed Obama for legislation and getting things done. Bush Jr. and that other one don't even rate. To listen to the right-wing, Biden's done nothing, and in fact, has taken us backwards. It would be funny if I thought they had a sense of humor at all, but they don't. Their form of humor is to tear down every Democrat, especially Biden, with playground taunts and lies they make up, and for some reason, that crap STICKS. Joe Biden has been an American institution for over 50 years! WTF?
Always remember that the Repub's main goal is to CONQUER the US and turn it into a white, Christian nation, where women have no rights and civil rights for others would be pushed back 100 years. Govenor Huckabeast in Arkansas just loosened child labor laws, for gods' sake! I was still trying to wrap my mind around THAT WOMAN being elected governor, and here she is, carrying out the agenda.
Until January 2029, Biden should be our president, and people need to get off the "drag Kamala Harris through the mud" train, because she should be our vice president.
Huckabeast is a perfect name for her. Daughter of one of the most corrupt Governors ever. She signs these bills under the guise that they will help people. And on the surface, it could be viewed that way. But dig down and you see the danger of this legislation. Here's an excellent article by Bess Levin in Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/sarah-huckabee-sanders-child-labor-laws. She also signed the LEARNS act into law which will be just as devastating to the children of Arkansas: "Public schools educate over 90% of students in Arkansas, but now they will be forced to compete for public tax dollars against private schools that don’t have to follow the same rules," said Sen. Greg Leding (D-Fayetteville). "Private schools will be able to discriminate against students with disabilities or of different faiths, and the Republicans in this legislature have decided to finance that with your tax money. Our goal as policymakers should be to ensure that every kid everywhere has the same access to the same excellent education.” https://www.thv11.com/article/news/politics/gov-sarah-sanders-signs-arkansas-learns-law/91-ce857587-74e5-4d34-925d-a39e0cba7a04
So, instead of following child labor laws, Arkansas and other places of the same red-state mindset are simply changing the laws. Problem solved! They're not trying to drag us back to the 1950s, but the 1850s -- but, yes, we should worry about drag queens and CRT in grade schools, to, you know, protect the children!
Yes, but there’s something really disgusting on the timing of all of this. These laws will be challenged in the courts then they will go to appeals courts and then will be filed with the Supreme Court. How do you think those religious zealots will rule? Then other States can pass the same laws citing the Supreme Court’s rulings. They have been laying this groundwork for decades. Huckabeast is a very useful pawn who is trying to take us back to the Industrial Revolution. Their screaming about drag queens, crt, etc...is just a distraction. She will be looked upon as a HERO of the right wing all while tearing down Humanity. Very Pro-Life (absolute sarcasm).
The most important thing we can do is expand the Court.
1/ Arrest the J6 collaborators in Congress.
2/ Expand the Court.
3/ Protect voting rights.
4/ Admit DC and PR as states.
Let's go, Jack Smith.
I've been trying to pinpoint what year they want it to be, and I think it's during the first McKinley Administration. Business booming, president a tool of big business, no regulations, US dabbling in Empire, Black voters purged from the rolls in the South. He's their guy.
She's awful. Truly the worst. Kat Abughazaleh talked about her old man's creepy kids' indoctrination program on the podcast a few weeks ago. They want kids to go to their weirdo Christian fundamentalist brainwash academies. The ones who aren't working in the mines, that is.
As usual, I agree with all of this. Thanks, Steve.
Since I’m old enough to have been your & everyone else’s babysitter; I do take umbrage at Ageism. Biden is the perfect anecdote to years of mind numbing cruelty. It’s like we had an abusive stepfather w tяump & Biden is the comforting social worker who swooped in to protect us. Plus, the guy has more experience in politics than the lot of them. The GOP likes to call that DeepState; which is a term that needs to be redefined & ran through all the administrations beginning w the Military industrial Complex of the Korean War , JFK’s orchestrated murder (I’ll refrain on my personal analysis of Johnson) the faulty Warren Commission, through Watergate & Nixon & right up to exCIA operative George H Bush. Sadly, Liz’s dad should also be included. But back to Joe; he knows the game well & hopefully good Catholics & others around the World are praying for his next term to finish the job. It takes a lot longer than 4 yrs to clean up Republican’s destroyed hotel room like messes.
Well put re: the trashed hotel room. That's what they do: make a mess with no regard for who they hurt or who has to clean it up after. Vile.
I hope Joe keeps it up!
Do you teach @ a large public institution & come into contact w: literally hundreds of middle class parents? Is: people who vote?
I never said Dems should not support LGBTQ persons. But d
Frankly it’s 90% of what I hear as their messaging & I’m tired of it.
Ok already - we’re adens & we support LGBT ! Enough already! Time to talk about things the other 99.9 % of the country worry about- ie: supporting public education so middle class kids can get jobs. Support unions & the Workinv Class.
I believe you're saying something similar to what Billy Ray said on The Five 8 last month. LB referred back to it this week, with a Steve Bannon quote. Identity politics front and center hurts Dems in national elections. We have to protect the vulnerable while also making the election itself about something bigger. Which, given Joe's phenomenal success, should be easy.
It’s the only thing that I would recommend copycating Reagan on…
Reagan also hated the Russians and was not afraid of them. So: two things. : )