When Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) filed her 2022 financial disclosure in May, it was nearly indistinguishable from her 2021 report—and that could be a problem.
That’s because Boebert reported no royalties from the memoir she released last July, My American Life. Congressional guidelines and legal experts said her lack of reported income would violate House ethics rules.
A
Boebert spokesperson told The Daily Beast that the Colorado
conservative and 2020 election denier did not receive any money from her
book deal until January 2023.
“The
book royalties will appear in her 2023 disclosure,” the spokesperson
told The Daily Beast. “This is consistent with guidance from the House
Ethics Committee.”
But that does not actually appear consistent with ethics guidance.
The ethics instruction guide for
2022 congressional financial disclosures makes clear that members must
disclose not only royalties they received, but anticipated royalties as
well—“any royalties currently due from the publisher for completed
sales.”
When
The Daily Beast informed Boebert’s office about the rule, the
spokesperson replied that they had reached out to the Ethics Committee
ahead of filing, receiving a reply on May 11 that “no royalties needed
to be disclosed in the 2022 financial disclosure since there had been no
payment of royalties in 2022.”
The
spokesperson added that the office is consulting ethics experts again,
and would amend the report if needed. If the account of the committee’s
communication is accurate, it would seem unlikely that they’d throw the
book at Boebert.
Still, ethics experts told The Daily Beast that the rules were not complicated and are in place for a reason.
To
me, the most shocking news above is that Lauren wrote a book. Who even
knew she could read? Did she write it herself? In crayon?
Where there is Boe-Boe, there is MTG, the craziest of all the crazies. 1945 reports:
Back in the summer of 2021, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed that about Biden.
"It's
a communist regime. It's been a communist takeover of our country, and
it happened on January 21. And that is who Joe Biden is," Greene said on
Steve Bannon’s “War Room” show. When Bannon asked her what the evidence
was that the members of the administration were “Marxists and
communists,” Greene replied “The evidence? Study history. Simply study
history and you can see how they behave.”
Greene
also alleged in the 2021 interview that the January 6 Committee — which
was a project of Congress and had nothing to do with the Biden
Administration — would ultimately seek to jail herself, Trump, Kevin
McCarthy, and Rep. Mo Brooks. None of that happened, although Trump
could conceivably still face charges resulting from the Committee’s
criminal referrals to the Justice Department.
Now,
two years later, Greene still believes that there has been a “communist
takeover,” apparently a slow-moving one that has gone on for two
years.
Does she get what an idiot she comes off like? How
crazy she sounds? Probably not, she is the QAnon Congress member, after
all.
Thursday, June 15, 2023. Cornel West tries to change the narrative,
Robert Pether remains a prisoner in Iraq, Republican House members try
to stuff anti-LGBTQ+ bills into a military spending bill, and much more.
Later
today, professor, film bit player, out of touch old man and the best
damn rapper since Maya Angelou did BEEN FOUND (with Ashford &
Simpson) Cornel West may announce that he's seeking the GOP presidential
nomination. And Chris Hedges may go around telling everyone that
Cornel already has the nomination!
Make about as much sense has already happened, right?
THE
AIRHEADS were back yesterday, crowing that they were right. They told
us earlier this week that Cornel had the Green Party's presidential
nomination.
He didn't.
But if THE AIRHEADS could get it together, they wouldn't be the airheads, now would they?
Cornel
is one more person seeking the Green Party's primary nomination. As we
told you yesterday, he and Chrissy Lynn Hedges tried to secure the
nomination but were informed there are rules. He's welcome to run for
it but they're going to follow their rules -- like a real political
party.
It's amazing how stupid the YOUTUBERS
are. It truly is. This is where we parted with Jimmy Dore, you may
remember. He had a hard on for Jesse Ventura and, even after 2020, he
couldn't let it go that Jesse was not the Green Party's 2020
presidential nominee.
Now, in case you're like
THE AIRHEADS and you talk about the Green Party without ever doing the
actual work, let me note that Jesse didn't run for the party's
nomination. There were eight candidates in the primaries -- CRAPAPEDIA
will tell you nine -- and Jesse was not one of them. He did get 2% of
the vote at the convention. So he Jesse didn't run. Why was Jimmy Dore
angry?
Because Jimmy Dore -- a non-Green --
was furious that the Green Party didn't just give him the nomination.
Jesse had even said, he wouldn't campaign but he'd gladly take the gift.
Jimmy's
one of the ones who's appalled when the Democratic Party breaks the
rules or rigs their primary. But he doesn't see the hypocrisy in
holding that belief and still slamming the Green Party for not ignoring
their rules, ignoring their candidates and just handing their
presidential nomination to someone -- to someone to lazy to run for it.
They don't matter. They need to do what he says.
And
that attitude explains how the start of this week was one lie after
another about how Cornel was The Green Party's presidential nominee!
It
takes a lot of outsiders sneering at The Green Party for years without
ever doing the basic research to think that their big name is going to
get a party's nomination over a year before the political party's even
had their nominating convention.
The entitlement wafts off these people, reeks.
But,
hey, Chrissy Lynn Hedges told them so it must be true. Just like when
Chrissy Lynn Hedges showed up on the front page of THE NEW YORK TIMES in
October 2001 'reporting' Iraq had WMD and they trained pilots to crash
into buildings and . . .
You know all those lies that Dick Cheney and Bully Boy Bush cited to start the illegal war on Iraq.
So if Chrissy Lynn Hedges says it, they're on board.
If
you're late to the party, last week Cornel West announced he was the
presidential nominee of The People's Party leading many to wonder if
dementia had set in at the age of 70.
The People's Party is not a party. Not a fun one.
It
emerged from the tatters of the Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign. It was
going to be the new party that was going to rescue us all. Yet they
fielded no candidates ever. They had no party convention. They just
Tweeted a lot and talked a lot publicly. At one point, they had their
push to get Jimmy Dore to be their nominee. That's when you should have
figured out that they weren't a real political party.
And
I don't mean that as an insult to Jimmy. I mean that real political
parties put nominees before their members and let their members pick the
nominee.
Donald Trump was a
celebrity and supposedly that was the worst thing in the world and we
should all learn from it and experience matters and blah blah blah.
Reality,
celebrity lets a lot of people make shortcuts and if you can't do the
work required to build a political party, hava an Insta-Political Party
-- step one, just add a celebrity!
While
flapping their gums, the party made racist statements. And held a small
'rally' in February attended by invited right-wing racists -- the push
back against the convicted pedophile they wanted to put on stage did
receive enough negative commentary that they were forced to remove
him.
Along with embracing racism, they also encountered one sexual harassment or assault allegation after another.
These
are not new developments and they were not unknown. We weren't the
only ones to note these things and the Green Party itself had to issue
an announcement back in February that they were not a part of the
People's Party or the 'rally' the People's Party was staging.
So last week, Cornel West proudly announces he is the People's Party's presidential nominee.
BLACK
POWER MEDIA interviewed him yesterday (later this morning, Renee
Johnston will offer her analysis on the exchange -- offer it at BLACK
POWER MEDIA).
What did we learn?
When any rock's kicked over expect to find Chrissy Lynn Hedges underneath.
So,
as Cornel tells it in the video above, Chrissy Lynn talked up the
People's Party to him and then he and Chrissy decided -- with Chrissy
touching base (and genitals?) with the People's Party -- that he and
Chrissy would be the presidential ticket for that party. Cornel the
top, Chrissy the bottom -- the power bottom, if you will. But then,
their two wives learned that the two men had been sneaking around and
put their feet down. Chrissy immediately pulled out leaving Conrel in a
spot -- the wet spot? -- but Cornel talked his wife into it and so he
became a solo ticket.
Cornel explains he's an innocent. No one ever told him about the People's Party and all its issues and problems.
No one ever told him?
If
someone walked up to yuo and said, "HI, I'm the People's Party. Will
you be our presidential nominee?" -- don't you think you'd ask, "What's
the People's Party?" Don't you think you'd do a little homework before
announcing to the world that you were running as their nominee?
Especially if you're so wise and scholarly.
But he's not. He's not wise and he's not in touch with the world.
That
clearly emerges in the interview when Cornel begins speaking to a young
child about how he's in California right now and then starts
(repeatedly) citing some Tony! Toni! Tone! song.
Because.
You know.
How those kids today are into Tony! Toni! Tone!
Repeatedly.
Cites them repeatedly.
As though encouraging the young kid to catch on and go, "Oh, yeah, Tony! Toni! Tne!"
They
release their last studio album in 1996. For those doing the math,
that's 27 years ago. But, sure, Tony! Toni! Tone! is what all the kids
must be talking about today. Forget Lola Brooke or Bad Bunny or anyone
else that kids are actually listening to this year, let's go back 27
years -- an eternity for them -- and talk that.
He's so deeply out of touch.
The other big news?
He can speechify.
He can't answer questions.
Repeatedly, they put questions to him involving what would you do. Repeatedly, he offers a critiue.
There's nothing wrong with being a critic. It's how you can identify problems.
But
Cornel can't offer any solutions. He repeatedly identifies a problem
and gives his take on it. If you're being generous (you shouldn't be,
he's trying to become president of the United States so he should be
able to speak for himself) , his 'plan' is stop spending on bad things.
That's the closest to any 'solution' or 'plan' he ever got.
Is
he running for fourth grade president or president of the United States
because, you understand, one requires that you actually do work.
So
Cornel, 'the intelectual,' refutes the People's Party and claims he
never knew what they stood for and it was all a mistake. Is that his
version of "I didn't inhale?" (Bill Clinton reference -- during his run
for president he admitted to smoking pot in college but insisted he
didn't inhale.) Or is he just saying, "The Chrissy Lynn made me do it!"
I have no idea.
He doesn't come off as a leader.
Jared
Ball presses him on his glorification of Ron DeSantis with that opinion
column for THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and the issues regarding testing --
and how the company that Cornel's a part of is pushing for a more
restrictive scope. I haven't read the column. If I were to, my big
concern would be if he disclosed his ties to that company in the piece
he wrote or co-wrote?
They did
a strong segment, not a fluff segment. Cornel was an embarrassment. I
look forward to seeing Renee's take later today.
If you're late to the party, be sure to stream this video -- the best one on Conrel representing the People's Party.
An international tribunal has found Iraq’s
central bank was to blame for a contractual dispute with an engineering
firm that led to the jailing of Australian engineer Robert Pether,
prompting his family to make a renewed plea that he be freed from the
Baghdad prison cell where he has spent two years.
Pether and his colleague Khalid Radwan were arrested and jailed in 2021 over
a contractual dispute between their employer, Cardno ME (CME), and the
Central Bank of Iraq, which had hired the firm to help build its new
Baghdad headquarters.
[. . .]
A
recently published decision reveals the contractual dispute at the
heart of their arrest was taken to the International Chamber of Commerce
(ICC)’s International Court of Arbitration, which ruled in February in
favour of CME. The decision found the bank was in breach of its contract
with CME and ordered that it pay the engineering firm US$13m, which
covers the outstanding invoices, compensation, legal costs, and the
release of a performance bond provided by CME.
The decision has only just been made public.
Why are Robert and Khalid still being held?
In the US, Leeja Miller addresses the hate merchants in the US and they're attacks on the LGBTQ+ community.
Out Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) is sounding the alarm on how Republicans
added a plethora of anti-LGBTQ+ measures during a markup of the Fiscal
Year 2024 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations bill
on Tuesday.
He said that his GOP colleagues adopted an amendment “to
deny access to medically-necessary care to transgender veterans,
prohibit pride flags from being flown at VA facilities, and even allow
discrimination against LGBTQ+ people” as the bill was being discussed in
the House Appropriations Committee this week.
“Most of the other provisions in this amendment have very little to do
with a MilCon bill,” he said during the committee meeting, and are
instead “about abortion and gender-affirming care, diversity, equity,
and inclusion, and apparently the fear of some cloth, banning pride
flags at our veterans’ facilities across the country.”
If you missed it, crazy Marjorie Taylor Greene was screaming in Congress again.
Like so many nuts (Naomi Wolf), Marjorie has trouble dealing with
basics -- such as registries. So there she was yelling -- on something
she knows nothing about (naturally) -- "I don't want my staff educated!"
Actually,
crazy MTG, you don't want anyone educated. You're an uneducated hick
and you want everyone else to be as stupid and uninformed as you are.
Here's a tip, stop showing your upper arms. That flapping fat is
disgusting. At your age, don't wear a sundress to a Congressional
hearing.
We should love stupid people. They give us so much to write about.
No advertising and no subscriptions? Tucker will be rolling in . . . no money.
Equally true, he did not get 17 million views.
The
Great Glenneth Greenwald has been lying about the numbers as well. But
can we pause that for a moment. Glenneth's jazz hands have been a
problem since he debuted his new talk show -- while his husband lay
dying in a hospital -- so very William Faulkner meets Grace Metalious.
But there's a new problem. Does he have lice or bed bugs? What's with
his inability to stop scratching his upper arms of late?
We'd warn people not to embrace him but, honestly, we can't imagine anyone ever wanting a hug from Glenneth.
At
any rate, Glenneth was tossing around Tweets praising Mother Tucker for
his "explosive Twitter debut" -- yes, it was like diarrhea -- "CNN's collapse continues. Tucker returns with a Twitter show watched by millions."
Oh, Glenneth, if you couldn't lie you'd have to sit there silently.
60 million people did not watch Tucker. 10 million people did not watch Tucker despite Glenneth's claim:
Tucker
Carlson is the most successful host in the history of cable news. Even
in his "stripped-down" Twitter form, he attracted an audience almost no
corporate media employee could get close to. Is it possible this
partially motivates the universal disdain they have for him?
Tucker's got 60 million viewers!
That's what some are lying.
No,
he doesn't. Max Blumethal's wife is both ugly and hippy and that's
enough reason not to note her stupidity. But that transphobic Tweet she
pinned to her feed in February?
People
aren't watching it. The numbers increase but people aren't watching.
You click on her TWITTER feed and start scrolling and doing that will
start her video streaming. It doesn't mean you're watching it. In
fact, you have to make a point to stop if you want to turn on the
audio. Even if you don't turn on the video, even if you scroll past it
quickly, it still counts as a stream. And it does that each time you
visit her Twitter feed.
John Stauber posted Mother Tucker's 'big' show four times last Tuesday to his TWITTER feed.
He
really is a car crash and so he attracts rubber neckers. Let's say
20,000 people visited his feed and scrolled. That means Tucker's video
streamed 80,00 times.
Megyn Kelly, Glenneth, all the usual trash, reposted Tucker's video.
He did not get 60 million viewers. It was -- automatically streamed -- many, many times.
People are not watching Tucker.
At
YOUTUBE, they've put in some measures to try to prevent that sort of
miscount. But if you have a YOUTUBE page and put a video on the home
page and it starts streaming when you go to the home page? That counts
as you streaming it. You might go to another page at that YOUTUBE
account in two seconds, say the "about" page, but the video started
streaming the minute you hit the home page and they're counting that
stream.
Twitter doesn't do that and doesn't care to.
Repeating,
Tucker is not a Twitter star. He was reposted on hundreds of
accounts. The number actually taking the time to watch the video is
very small. And you can argue it's probably around the number of users
leaving comments -- which Glenneth said was 29,000.
Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Crazy is all around no matter where you look
-- some of the left lying that Cornel West is about to be the Green
Party's presidential candidate (they'll decide who to pick in the summer
of 2024) compete with the crazies like Ron DeSantis, Lauren Boebert and
others for the title of most dangerously unhinged.
Let's start with a needed laugh.
Now let's unpack the crazy.
Is there a more divisive figure than Cornel West in the last 24 hours? Maybe -- maybe the YOUTUBING whores who are pimping him.
They
talk about MSNBC, don't they. They sneer and the idiot Ajuma Baraka is
still calling CNN "The Clinton News Network" as though he just coined
the phrase when it was a right-wing smear back in the 90s. He's old and
he's gasping for air. Someone put the old man to bed before he
staggers around anymore going "Cornel! Cornel! If I could get an
erection anymore, I'd beat off to you Cornel."
I've
held Krystal Ball accountable when she went screeching that everyone
had to fall in line behind Marianne Williamson. No, that's not how you
to talk to adults, that's not how you talk to people. You do not boss
people around and tell them how they will vote and who they will vote
for.
No one asked Krystal for that and she did real damage to Marianne's campaign when she pulled that stunt.
Now you've got Graham Elwood and others doing the same.
I'm not in the mood. Not in the damn mood.
Every
few months, your new savior comes along and you try to baptise us. You
don't get that we are not your flock. You better check yourself real
damn quick.
Graham Elwood looks like a crazy
man in his video yesterday. His eyes are popping and bulging and the
left side of his mouth is a drooping snarl. Is that his pokerface? Is
he having an orgasm as he blathers on about Cornel?
I have no idea.
It's
amazing the lies that a Chrissy Lynn Hedges can promote. Again, he's
very good at lying. Wasn't it his article on the front page of THE NEW
YORK TIMES that the Bully Boy Bush administration was waiving around
after 9/11 to insist on war on Iraq? They go on the talk shows and
they'd insist that it wasn't just them saying it, it was THE NEW YORK
TIMES!
THE NEW YORK TIMES!
See
this is what happens with stupid people who don't bother to learn or
don't care to. They have no idea the reality of Chrissy Lynne. They
probably don't even know that Judith Miller, years before her war
propaganda for THE NEW YORK TIMES, wrote for THE PROGRESSIVE.
These people are not your friends.
Your friends don't yell and scream at you to vote for someone. That's not a friend.
They also don't lie to you to try to force you to support someone.
Forget the garbage on YOUTUBE. Cornel does not have the nomination.
Could he get the nomination?
He could.
He's not going to be handed it.
I
called a friend with Green Party leadership last night because there
were e-mails coming in from people freaking out over this issue. People
opposed to the Green Party doing what YOUTUBERS were insisting was
happening: Naming Cornel their candidate for president.
And
I thought I was seeing a ton of e-mails. Apparently nothing like what
party leaders are seeing. After we got off the phone, three hours
later, my friend called back because the complaints were streaming to
leadership over and over as the hours went by.
The
Green Party will have a nominee for president. And they will pick that
nominee at their summer 2024 convention. They have rules in place,
actual rules, that will be followed, rules that they voted on over a
decade ago, rules that are in place.
EIGHT WEEKS after September 11, a pair of Americans entered the
gleaming marble lobby of Beirut’s Intercontinental Hotel La Vendome,
where they were greeted by a group of Iraqi expatriates. The Americans
were reporters—New York Times war correspondent Chris Hedges,
who’d just been put on the Al Qaeda beat, and Christopher Buchanan, an
associate producer of PBS’s Frontline—there to meet a mysterious
Iraqi defector with information about Saddam Hussein’s secret weapons
program. Hedges and Buchanan were ushered to an elegant suite
overlooking the Mediterranean, where they interviewed Jamal al-Ghurairy,
an Iraqi lieutenant general who had fled Iraq. Ghurairy claimed to have
witnessed foreign Islamic militants training to hijack airplanes at an
Iraqi terrorist training camp.
Buchanan had been given the assignment just a few days earlier and
knew very little about the interview’s subject. “It was all very
hush-hush,” he says. “His life might be in danger. I didn’t know much
else.” Buchanan recalls the general as thickset, “fierce looking,” and
having a military bearing. “He looked the part,” he says. Hedges adds
that the general “was definitely Iraqi and struck me as having spent a
lot of time in the military.” The general’s entourage—including Nabeel
Musawi, the political liaison of the Iraqi National Congress (INC),
which had arranged the interview—“were all wearing leather coats. They
were slick and well organized,” says Buchanan. “Very well organized,
very well set up,” Hedges concurs.
The general hadn’t been told he’d be filmed, and it took Musawi
almost an hour to persuade him to go on camera. The general himself then
spent several minutes making sure his face would be blacked out when
the tape rolled. The resulting television interview, for which Musawi
acted as translator, was stilted and brief. It would become only a small
segment of the Frontline piece, which also featured an interview
with another INC-provided defector, Sabah Khodada, a former Iraqi
captain whose identity was not concealed. Buchanan recalls that “as soon
as the lights and camera were switched off, the general began to talk.”
He says the general then spent more than an hour with Hedges in an
adjoining room of the suite while he left the hotel to transmit the tape
via satellite uplink. When Buchanan eventually returned to the empty
suite, he found coffee cups and saucers filled with cigarette butts that
he felt indicated an intense conversation. Hedges says that after the
interview was completed, he “spoke to the U.S. embassy in Turkey”—where
the general had fled after leaving Iraq—“and asked if the general was
credible. They confirmed he had recently been debriefed.”
Two days later the story that spun out on the front page of the New York Times
was as shocking as it was convincing. Ghurairy claimed that as a senior
intelligence official, he had witnessed foreign Arab fighters training
to hijack airplanes at the Salman Pak military facility south of
Baghdad. About 40 foreign nationals, Ghurairy said, were based there at
any given time. “We were training these people to attack installations
important to the United States. The Gulf War never ended for Saddam
Hussein. He is at war with the United States,” the Times quoted Ghurairy
as saying. Ghurairy also claimed a German scientist was working in a
section of the base that produced biological agents. The report noted
the role the INC had in setting up the interview, but no serious
questions were raised about the general’s provenance.
Read
the article in full. But grasp right now, Iraqis are dead because of
Chris Hedges. They're not coming back from the dead. His writing
helped lead to the Iraq War. So the next time his jaundice and bug-eyed
face pops up telling you this or that, just stop a moment and remind
yourself that he promoted the Iraq War, he promoted war on Iraq. He was
stupid? I don't give a damn what his excuse is. I do give a damn that
he has still not taken accountability all this time later. I do give a
damn that the Iraqi people suffer to this day and he can't talk about
them or write about them. I don't give a damn about the moralizing
Chrissy Lynn Hedges who looks down on people who read whatever SHADES OF
GREY. They're the ones he calls out in a book. But, understand, we're
all supposed to look the other way about his role in starting the Iraq
War.
He needs to get down on his knees in public and beg the forgiveness of the Iraqi people.
Not only has that not been demanded of him but a lot of whores promote him as our sainted Chrissy.
Not in the damn mood for that ever.
Again,
the Iraqi people who have died? They aren't coming back and he needs
to take accountability -- publicly -- for his role in that. He's fine
being public about everything else. So take some damn accountability.
And if you can't, just go away. No one needs to hear from you or see
your blood soaked hands. You're disgusting and I'll say so. You know
I've got no problem calling out those with the blood of the Iraqi people
on their hands.
Cornel is the presidential
candidate for the Green Party? No matter what Chrissy says, he's not.
They will not decide that until they hold their convention in the summer
of 2024.
Cornel tried to lie to Katie Halper
-- and Katie was far too gullible -- but if you listen to his awful
interview -- which will not go up here -- you hear that he had a talk
with the Green Party.
Two people with the party told me last night about that conversation.
Cornel wanted to be handed the Green Party's presidential nomination and wanted to make that announcement this week.
He
was told he could campaign for it, anyone can run for it. But, no,
there are rules in place and the Green Party is not the Democratic
Party. They aren't going to gift the nomination or rig the nomination.
Cornel was told that.
He
was not happy about that. And we'll get to the why of that. But he
knows the truth. So when people start coming around lying, they're
cheap whores. You shouldn't trust them.
Up to
the pandemic, I spent February 2003 forward speaking on campuses,
speaking to feminist groups, speaking to labor groups about the Iraq
War. In the early days, it was just about the Iraq War and whatever
question or issue someone might raise. But it quickly became, due to
our focus in the US on electoral politics, about elections.
You
do not owe anyone your vote. It is your vote, you own it. The only
wrong vote is a vote you don't feel good about when you're voting.
Candidates do not own your votes, they have to earn it. Blah, blah,
blah.
We planted that seed over and over. 48
to 50 weeks a year, year after year, as we went all over the country
speaking on one campus after another.
Right now, the YOUTUBING whores want to tell you that oh, the Democratic Party's going to make everyone get behind Joe.
Don't say that when you're doing the same thing for Marianne or Cornel or whomever.
The
reason we can't move forward is because these would-be leaders are
f**king idiots. All they know to do is the very same thing that they
slam the Democratic Party for.
That's going to lead to change?
Hell no.
When
I realized that I was voting Democrat in this election -- barring an
independent run by Robert -- I didn't hide it. I also have not
advocated for anyone else to do the same. That's online, that's in my
real life. But since that is my current plan, I did disclose it so
people could factor that in when I'm writing about whatever.
You
vote how you want to vote. Don't let anyone try to push you around.
If they do, they are showing they have no respect for you.
If
you're voting in 2024 -- or making the decision to vote by not voting
(which is a valid use of your vote if that's what you want to do) --
you're an adult. You don't need anyone telling you who to vote for.
The
amount of nonsense that we're getting from YOUTUBERS -- including
Katie's Roger Waters obsession -- note, she had to bring that into the
interview with Cornel as well -- goes to how stupid they clearly think
we are. "Don't worry, guys, I got this covered. I'm going to get them
to vote for Cornell."
How about you just do your damn job. Which is some form of faux media, as clear as I can tell.
I
compare what they do -- 'politics' -- to the Red Cross. They rush from
one disaster to the next, never really accomplishing anything. But, in
earlier decades, these people were called hitchhikers on the highway of
causes as they flitted from one cause to another, never seeing any
accomplishment because they couldn't stay focused.
The only intelligent discussion on Cornel wanting to be president is the one below.
Later
today, Jared Ball will speak live with Cornel on BLACK POWER MEDIA.
That might be an intelligent discussion. I hope it is.
But thus far, that's the only one.
People who know nothing about Cornel West are insisting you have to vote for him. Are telling you how great this is.
How
is it great, Graham? Because the celebrity of it all has gripped you?
I'm not hearing about issues. I'm not hearing about how it's going to
improve even one life.
So how about you stop hyping and whoring and try to inform people instead of trying to order them around or trick them.
These
YOUTUBERS don't want to educate the masses. They don't want to provide
them with tools. They just want to be able to boss them around.
Apparently, that's a built-in feature of the US political process.
I don't know why the hell anyone would want to tell other people how to vote. To try to boss them around in a free society.
I'm disgusted.
Let's get back to Cornel and reality.
Cornel wanted to make an announcement this week that he would be the Green Party's presidential nominee.
That is not happening.
But he needed it to.
Why?
Because he's an idiot on the world stage. People don't take him seriously as it is and now it's even worse.
How so?
He's
not the People's Party nominee. He doesn't want to be because their
racism, their sexism and everything else has come up since he was
announced as their nominee.
Now to walk away from a political party that just made you their nominee a week ago? That's embarrassing.
It
goes to how unserious you are. "Wait, you took the nomination without
doing any work to research the party you were going to be representing?"
Yes.
Yes, that's exactly what he did.
He's that damn stupid and/or that damn vain.
And that goes to judgment and clearly he has none. He's not fit to be president.
'Uh, I didn't know, I didn't really understand them.'
Then why the hell did you announce you would be their presidential candidate?
In
the world of YOUTUBE whoring, that goes unasked apparently. But you
better believe that in the real world -- especially in the press --
Cornel West is now a joke.
He looks like the idiot supreme.
He
wouldn't have looked a lot smarter if he could have announced he was
the Green Party nominee but he would have had a 'happy ending' to his
embarrassment and he could try to steer your focus to that and not to
the fact that he, an African-American man, was fronting a racist
political party.
YOUTUBERS need to find their
spines and their brains and need to grasp that their role is to inform,
not to tell anyone how to vote, to inform.
As
I've said, I intend to vote in 2024 for the Democratic Party nominee --
whether it's Joe or Marianne or Robert. Or someone who hasn't announced
yet. That's what I intend to do. I have my reasons and may share them
later on. I may not. If Robert does an independent run, I will
seriously consider voting for him. I know Robert and I know he's
serious about this. I've known him for many, many years. I would be
hesitant to vote for Marianne if she ran without the Democratic Party
because I've also known her for many years. But Robert's character is
such that I would consider supporting him if he ran as an independent.
He also has the money to do so.
I am not opposed to voting third party or independent candidates. As I've noted, I voted Green in 2008 (Cynthia McKinney).
But
you need to use your vote how you want to use your vote. It's not
wasted if you're doing what you want. That includes if what you want is
not to vote. That includes if you vote for someone I don't like --
even a hate merchant. November 2024 rolls around and you use your vote
the way you want to, that's all you need to do.
B-b-but
two months later!!!! Unless you're psychic, you can't predict the
future. You can only determine how to use your vote with the knowledge
you have leading up to the election.
Again, don't let people bully you. When they do that, when they use and misuse you, they are showing contempt for you.
They're
just con artists. Grasp that. Grasp that any real journalist looking
at Cornel West should be asking him: "WTF! You're a 70-year-old man who
took the nomination from a political party you're now trying to run
from because you're embarrassed that they're racists with a record of
doing nothing except for sexually harassing women?" Instead, they're
saying "Dr West" in hushed voices and bowed heads -- as though what has
just happened before everyone's eyes did not take place. They're crazy.
The Emperor's got no clothes on No clothes? That can't be; he's the Emperor Take that child away Don't let the people hear the words he has to say
One small voice Speaking out in honesty Silenced, but not for long One small voice speaking with the values we were taught as children
So you walk away and say, Isn't he divine? Don't those clothes look fine on the Emperor? And as you take your leave You wonder why you're feeling so ill-at-ease Don't you know?
Lies take your soul You can't hide from yourself Lies take their toll on you And everyone else
One small voice speaking out in honesty Silenced, but not for long One small voice speaking with the values we were taught as children Tell the truth You can change the world But you'd better be strong
-- "One Small Voice," written by Carole King, first appears on her album SPEEDING TIME
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has spread a right-wing claim that
Starbucks forced employees to take down Pride decorations. A Starbucks
spokesperson denied the allegation and said the company encourages
stores to celebrate Pride Month.
On Tuesday afternoon, Boebert re-tweeted the following
message from Charlie Kirk, leader of the rabidly anti-LGBTQ+
conservative group Turning Point USA: “Starbucks has banned Pride
decorations in its stores halfway through Pride Month, the company’s
workers union has revealed. Leftwing Trans activists claim this means
Starbucks is ‘caving.’ Good! Keep the pressure on, folks.”
Kirk based his claim on a June 13 tweet
from Starbucks Workers United (SWU), a group that seeks to unionize
Starbucks employees. SWU said that workers had complained that the
“company is no longer allowing Pride decorations in-store.”
Starbucks says none of this is true.
In a statement to LGBTQ Nation, the company wrote, “We’re
deeply concerned by false information that is being spread especially as
it relates to our inclusive store environments [and] our company
culture.”
“There has been no change to any policy on this matter and we
continue to encourage our store leaders to celebrate with their
communities including for U.S. Pride month in June,” the company added.
“Starbucks has a history that includes more than four decades of
recognizing and celebrating our diverse partners and customers –
including year-round support for the LGBTQIA2+ community.”
In related news, community member Sabina e-mailed
to urge everyone -- who eats candy -- to be sure to get their Pride
Month skittles at Wal-Mart and remember skittles will be donating a
portion of your purchase price to Pride.
WE'VE GIVEN UP OUR RAINBOW SO THAT THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY CAN SHARE THEIRS.
This Pride Month, we're amplifying stories within
the LGBTQ+ community for all to discover. We begin by showcasing the
designs of five talented artists on our SKITTLES Pride Packs, each with
their own story to tell.
OUR MISSION IS TO SUPPORT THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY BY AMPLIFYING AND
CELEBRATING THEIR STORIES. THAT'S WHY WE'VE PARTNERED WITH GLAAD FOR THE
FOURTH YEAR TO REWRITE THE SCRIPT FOR LGBTQ+ ACCEPTANCE.
We will donate $1 per every SKITTLES Pride pack sold to GLAAD in
support of their ongoing efforts to work through media to combat
anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.*
Very good for Skittles.
Thank
you so much to Sabina who saw the display for Skittles and Pride at her
local Wal-Mart in Dallas, Texas. And applause for Garth Brooks who is
standing strong against bullies who try to tell him what he can or
cannot stock at his bar.
The
hate merchants need to be confronted. Their crazy and hateful words are
impacting others. We have a very big mental health problem in this
country and these hate merchants are inciting violence. Greg Owen (LGBTQ NATION) reports:
Two days earlier, around noon, Abdullah began following the two men, 58
and 40 years old, near the intersection of 18th Street and Hartford in
the Castro.
According to the district attorney, the victims say “the unknown male
suspect was following them on foot while simultaneously aggressively
shouting anti-LGBTQ language. The suspect then threw a glass object at
them causing the 40-year-old male victim to sustain a
non-life-threatening injury.”
The men called 911 and provided a description of Abdullah, who was
spotted a short time later near Mission Dolores Park. After a foot
chase, cops apprehended the assailant and booked him into county jail on
two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of committing a
hate crime and one of resisting arrest.
The
hate merchants are poisoning our world. Which lets me note another
song, Nanci Griffith's "It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go" (first appears
on STORMS).
A cafeteria line in Chicago The fat man in front of me Is calling black people trash to his children He's the only trash here I see And I'm thinking this man wears a white hood In the night when his children should sleep But, they slip to their window and they see him And they think that white hood's all they need
It's a hard life It's a hard life It's a very hard life It's a hard life wherever you go If we poison our children with hatred Then, the hard life is all that they'll know And there ain't no place in (Belfast) for These kids to go
I was a child in the sixties Dreams could be held through TV With Disney, and Cronkite, and Martin Luther Oh, I believed, I believed, I believed Now, I am the backseat driver from America I am not at the wheel of control I am guilty, I am war, I am the root of all evil Lord, and I can't drive on the left side of the road
It's a hard life It's a hard life It's a very hard life It's a hard life wherever you go If we poison our children with hatred Then, the hard life is all that they'll know And there ain't no place in (Belfast) for These kids to go
Hate merchant Tucker Carlson took a moment out from attacking LGBTQ+ members. Graeme Massie (INDEPENDENT) notes
that Tucker's posted a new rant to Twitter where he's lying that the
arrest and current charges against former US President Donald Trump are
the result of Donald declaring -- before he became president -- that the
Iraq War left the Middle East "destabilized."
TUCKER
CARLSON: Seven years later, they have their revenge! Cheeto, my
Cheeto! I am here for you and I will fellatiate you -- in a non-gay way
-- in the town square because anything that will get me attention is
what I'm about, especially now that I'm facing lawsuits and will really
need money.
I'm sure it went something like that, I'm sure.
Let's wind down with the shrimp Doo-Doo Ron Ron Doo-Doo Ron.
DeSantis
apparently has decided on a strategy to cope with the fact that, the
more people know about him, the less they like him. The strategy
consists of sucking up to
every goober in America with sufficient enthusiasm that said goober
doesn't notice how much he is coming to loathe Baby Huey Long. From the
Charlotte News & Observer:
The
presidential candidate was touting Republican successes in last year’s
midterm elections in Florida, and in North Carolina, amid disappointing
results in the rest of the country, when he brought up the recently
renamed installation. “I also look forward to, as president, restoring
the name of Fort Bragg,” DeSantis said to raucous cheers from the crowd.
He added that he would “thank the people that have served there, and
they’re proud of their service there.”
“It’s
an iconic name and an iconic base, and we’re not going to let political
correctness run amok in North Carolina,” DeSantis said as the crowd
continued to cheer.
Sure,
Bragg went to arms against the lawful government of the United States.
Sure, he was one of the biggest boobs in the history of warfare. Sure, he shot his own men like
partridges. Sure, he was such a complete incompetent that he enraged
Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was no bowl of strawberries on his best day.
The Butcher of Fort Pillow purportedly once threatened to serve up
Bragg en brochette.
Braxton Bragg was a slave-owning racist and failed military
leader, sometimes described as the worst general of the Civil War. The
question should be, why would anyone name a military base after him in
the first place? Nevertheless, Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending him.
The
governor is upset that the U.S. military changed the name of North
Carolina’s Fort Bragg to Fort Liberty earlier this month. He called it
“political correctness run amok,” and said he would restore the name if
voters elected him president.
But Braxton Bragg is no
cancel culture martyr. The military base should never have been named in
his honor, not when Camp Bragg opened in 1918, and certainly not now.
[. . .]
By definition, Bragg was a traitor to the United States. He was at best a
middling military leader and, at worst, so inadequate that he helped
cost the Confederacy the war. Celebrate his failures and treachery? How
un-American.
In case the demonstration in
Florida over the weekend confused you, racists and KKK types coming out
to show their support for Little Ronnie DeSanits, that's what this is
about. He panders to racists. Grasp also, the base is now named Fort
Liberty. Of course Ron would be against that, he loathes liberty as
much as he detests democracy.
