Like Maria Said Paz: The aftermath

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

The aftermath

Matteo Lane's latest comedy special.

News? Malcolm Ferguson (THE NEW REPUBLIC) reports:

Lawyers at the Justice Department just got a sinister warning about a second term under President Donald Trump.

Mark Paoletta, a former Trump administration member and conservative think tank fellow working on Trump’s transition, spelled out the upcoming agenda in a lengthy X post on Monday. He named mass deportations, pardoning January 6 insurrectionists, and declaring war on transgender children as the top priorities. And he made sure to let any DOJ lawyers who may have qualms about that to fall in line.

This is what MAGA idiots have brought on us. It's important to vote. It's important to vote smart. Life's going to be very, very hard for a lot of people. Not me. I will be fine. I won't be touched by this personally -- not me or my kids. Sadly, there are so many people who will be touched by this. Sadly, a number of them actually voted for Donald Trump.

"Media: White supremacy won the 2024 election (Ava and C.I.) " (THE THIRD ESTATE SUNDAY REVIEW):

These idiots are harming the country. And it's much worse on the male side. Their anger issues tend to result in their parents pulling the boys out of school. And that's why so many young males today -- adults -- are so damn lonely. They've never learned to make connections.

And they aren't alone in that. Having watched so much nonsense on CNN, MSNBC and YOUTUBE, there are a lot of people who can't make connections.

This is where we pivot to Chris Hayes' MSNBC program.

Chris spoke with Heather McGhee and Michelle Goldberg. On MORNING JOE and various other programs on CNN and MSNBC, you had these all male and majority male panels that told you what went wrong with the election. Their opinions that were usually nothing more than them promoting their own pet issues. Again, these people weren't on the ground and are reading tea leaves and pretending to know something. Black women overwhelmingly voted for Kamala. And we saw very little Black women. Maybe if the host was a Black woman, there was one Black woman present.

But Chris and his two guests weren't about pimping pet issues but about what happened. And one thing that happened is that people are stupid. We're not going to sugar coat that finding up. As Michelle rightly noted, real news is behind a paywall more and more.

Hell, even the trash bag that is THE NATION magazine is a paywall site and, no, those of us whose donations have kept that rag afloat do not give them money so that they can hide behind a pay wall.

As Michelle noted, people are going on YOUTUBE and they're getting told what they want to be told by vile and disgusting young males who are sexist and, honestly, sexist is too mild a term.

And the news sites are behind paywalls.

Home schooling creates idiots, paywalls create idiots. Hell, Twitter creates idiots and we'll come back to that.

That's how you get all these idiots discovering after the election how tariffs work. And, yes, it is funny to laugh at these idiots they keep getting put on camera saying that China will pay the US-imposed tariffs that Donald Trump wants. It's funny to laugh at them. But it's also bitter sweet because the reality is that should have been conveyed ahead of the election.

That's not the only thing that wasn't being conveyed.

Again, we were in 48 states, on the ground, speaking to voters, week after week. And we heard over and over about the little con game 'independent' media was playing. IN THESE TIMES, THE PROGRESSIVE, THE NATION, DEMOCRACY NOW!, etc played a game where they rigged the election. They trashed Kamala Harris every day while advancing Jill Stein. Jill was never going to get the votes. She's a grifter and a liar and voters don't trust her. But she was to be used over and over to bloody Kamala and to tamp down on enthusiasm.

We heard that over and over from Black woman who did not get taken in by these racist attacks from our so-called 'left' media. They will never forget this. That anger was present before the election and it has only increased since.

These women were not invited by media -- corporate or beggar -- to tell their stories during the campaign and, even now, after the campaign, they're still largely blocked out.

Is there a reason for that? If you really want to know what went down, you need to look at what happened.

If the results are true and accurate, we lost because people didn't turn out. Not because Donald got more votes. He didn't, not according to the published results.

So what happened?

People didn't show up if the numbers are accurate -- excuse us, Democratic Party voters didn't show up.

How could that be?

The most obvious answer is what we noted week after week here:

Beggar media suppressed the vote. They glorified a con artist with no chance of winning named Jill Stein. They glorified her and gave her so much attention. This was Jill's third run. Guess what? Per official results, this wasn't her best run. So why the hell was she given so much attention by beggar media?

Everyone knew she couldn't win. She's got an ugly face, an ugly spirit and she's daft.

But left media got behind her and pimped her. They glorified this trash and they did so to attack Kamala.

From August 1st through October 30th, no Jill Stein supporter was on DEMOCRACY NOW! -- do people grasp that? Do they grasp that Naomi Klein saying 'hold your nose and vote for Kamala' is actually not a campaign slogan but an insult.

White girl loves to insult Blacks and maybe the non-White left can make her address that in the future or maybe she can just shut the hell up about American politics since she was born in Canada and her father can never return to the US unless he wants to go to prison. Facts like that, should have presented White girl from sticking her nose into our election to begin with.

But she whored, just like Amy Goodman, just like so many others.

And as they savaged Kamala day after day -- from the 'left' -- they drove down voter enthusiasm.

"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):

Monday, November 11, 2024. He didn't endorse Kamala, he didn't vote for her but he thinks he can now go on MSNBC and make demands from Democrats? Oh, hell no.

We don't link to trash so forget the garbage interview that Ayman Mohyeldin did with the Mayor of Homophobia Abullah Hammoud. Abdullah -- who wants to be something more than a mayor but, sadly, never will be.

MSNBC, we don't need to hear from Abdullah and we don't want to hear from him. If he's got time to jaw bone, he's got time to address his city's homophobia.

Idiot Ayman tries to put force together contrary facts and pretend that they fit. They don't. Nor do you.

Please note, Black women, that MSNBC can't bring you on for a serious panel about racism -- in the media coverage of the election, in the campaign that Trump ran or anything. But the mayor of a city that has gone homophobic under his watch is someone to celebrate.

We'll he's a man, isn't he. And in the end, isn't that always the most defining qualification for the All Things Media Big and Small when they're inviting guests on.

And I don't want to hear a damn thing about what the US needs to do with regards to Gaza.

Anyone who wanted the Democratic Party to address Gaza? They should have voted for the Democrats.

Instead, a nation of idiots voted against their own interest and have given control to the Republicans.

So go beg Donald. Go beg him. He's your president and he's the one you wanted. So get on your knees, crawl like the dogs you have made yourselves into by refusing to vote for the alternative go Donald and beg.

No, no, no. You don't get to come to the Democratic Party now. Not after you tanked the Democratic Party's chances to be in the White House.

Was it too much for your macho fundamentalist Muslim beliefs to have a woman in the White House?

I don't know. And at this point I don't care.

Here's what I had planned to do today. Note Gaza. We were going to seriously address the ongoing genocide. And then I get all telling me about that interview. And how the host and the guest want to make demands on the Democratic Party. After failing to turn out votes?

Ayman, you're going to have a seriously interesting day because you pissed off above me and your boss' boss will be hearing about your stunt.

As for the mayor?

How dare you make demands on a party you just stabbed in the back.

You know, I can make the case for the Israeli government. I can do that. Whether debate or moot court, I had to make a lot of arguments I didn't believe in. So I could make the case for the Israeli government and you piss me off enough? I will do it. And it will further crater support for Gaza.

So stop you're lying. Just stop lying. Stop your demands of what 'we' have to do. What we, in America, had to do was save our country.

You didn't give a s**t about that, Abdullah Hammoud. No, your last interview had to talking the importance of Palestinians and then the importance that you serve your city.

No where in there .-- and I hope your opponent will make much of this in your next race -- did you ever talk about anything you owed your country or the people in it.

So just take your single-issue on home because no one's buying your lies except the idiots you already had on the hook.

Again, the plan was to address Gaza. Many more pieces of s**t like Abdullah showing up in the media telling us what to do? I'll bury them and their argument

Grasp that we, Democrats, wanted Abdullah and others to vote for Kamala. They didn't want to do that. We wanted it to save our country. They didn't care.

But now, not even seven days after the election, Abdullah thinks he can go on television and make demands about what Democrats should do.

F**k you. Truly. Servant of god Abdullah (that's what the name means), you weren't serving anyone when you helped elect Donald Trump. You weren't using your head either. But you picked a butcher to put into the White House. So go beg your butcher, your man. And see how it works out because, I don't think it's going to.

Then take your ass home back to other rejects and bathe in the blood of the dead that your actions are responsible for.

People in Dearborn feel betrayed? The country was betrayed by Dearborn. Nobody needs to hear from you. Kamala promised to be a leader for everyone, I didn't.

"My only family -- sob sob sob -- unsubscribed from me." Good. Everyone should. You're trash.

As Brett Meiselas points out after going over the various Trump voting expressing regrets now, you can't vote against human rights and expect that your family -- impacted by your vote -- won't respond.

"They sold out their family for a carton of eggs," Tennessee Brando points out below.

And that is correct.

Let's stay with social media for a moment.

Some of us gave money to Trump, some of us on the left. That's me. I'm not pointing at others and acting like I didn't do the same thing.

How did we give money to Trump?

By using Twitter. By enriching Elon Musk in any way or manner.

On Friday, in the post-mortem (the first of three, actually) with other big donors we began the discussion on what worked and what didn't. And Twitter came up.

Elon Musk is not our friend. Do I need to do screen grabs from Twitter of the various MAGA trash using the N-word and putting up photos of Black men on their knees in front of White men?

Those pictures by the way? It's porn. It's from pornography. And it's from gay pornography. Got it. They pretend they're straight but they clearly consumer a lot of 'raceplay' pornography.

Ted Cruz was never concerned about that, was he? He's not limiting porn on Twitter -- because I said photos, let me clear that some aren't photos, some are videos.

This is what Twitter does. It promotes hate. And it enriches Elon Musk.

And it defeats us. As a people, it defeats us.

That's THREADS. No, Zuckerberg is not a saint.

But we're not idiots in Dearborn, are we? No, we're able to look at two things and see the one is awful. We did that when choosing between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. By the same token, we can look at Zuckerberg and Musk and clearly conclude that Elon Musk is a threat to democracy and we don't need to be giving him our money or time.

I'm not asking for a big lift here.

A big lift? That would be asking people to give up AMAZON due to Jeff Bezos actions.

This isn't a big lift. This is asking that those of you who can consider migrating over to THREADS and abandoning TWITTER.

THREADS currently has an estimated 200 million users. TWITTER -- I don't work for Elon, I don't have to use his new name for the company -- is estimated to have 600 million users -- though the internal stats I studied Saturday make clear that only a little over 320 million of that 600 have Tweeted in the last six months.

So let's do our part for our democracy by telling Mr Racist from South Africa that we're not going to help him anymore. It's free labor, grasp that. Free labor for Elon. It's time for us to reject him that same way the wise Black people in South Africa did. Aparethied was falling and he and hideous family suddenly needed to leave.

And let's focus on what we can do. I'm dictating these snapshot -- I dictate them while I work out in the morning -- so I'll be basing it on the feedback I get from this community, on what people in my life that I respect advise and on my own thoughts.

If something I propose does not work for you, I get it. Don't think twice about it. That's true on TWITTER. I'd like to see us all leave but that might not happen. If you're able to, please consider doing so.

This snapshot is where I'm at right now. Others are still mourning and I respect that and I honor it. This is not my, "Get over it and get to work!" You deal with what you need to. You process and you determine when you come back to any activism and whether or not you even do that.

We were sold out and betrayed and I don't expect anyone to just get over that.

Two videos. Karen Hunter and Roland Martin.

Bernie is not our leader. And outlets who mistake his own coded language -- intentional or not -- and overlook the reality of his positions (he's very build a wall when it comes to economics -- or did no one ever tell you), better expect that you're going to lose a lot of people. He may be your Messiah but for a lot of us, he's just another old White man trying to keep us down.

An e-mail yesterday to the public e-mail account was from a drive-by who is so upset that they didn't read the following before the election:

Don't give a dime to the racist NATION magazine

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Why or why didn't he read it before he voted. He's a Gaza Freak. He now regrets his protest against Kamala. You know what, it's really too late at this point. He also wishes he'd seen any of the above sooner and wants to know why I didn't promote it on social media?

Oh, I'm sorry. Let's dock my pay for a week -- Oh, wait. I don't ask for money on any of this. Never have, never will. It's not my fault that you didn't stumble on it before, somehow you managed to after.

Missing what Ava and I wrote is not your excuse or justification for not voting for Kamala. There were other people -- many, many people -- especially Black women -- all over the net addressing the topics we covered and similar topics. If you're serious in your e-mail, then what you need to do is expand on who you follow. Most of your news content and public affairs content is exclusively White. Try working on that in 2024 and see if you can't expand your mind.

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