Oh my God waiting for the midterms feels like an eternity!

[Chernosoth]

There's too many eunuchs in this country.

Besides the surgical choices, many men are born semi-emasculated by absorption of phthalates. Stopping the trans hype is only the first step to recovering the nation's reproductive health.

 

[Holy_Seduction]

‘I'm not certain the nation can survive another round of this…’

The United States Republic has already fallen. It doesn’t exist.

Ours is not the first system of governance which detached from its constitutional moorings or detached from the life of the society whose dutiful allegiance it claimed.

The Weimar Republic in the 30s, the Soviet regime in the 80s, Zimbabwe in the 2,000s, and later, Argentina and Venezuela — their societies managed to stumble along after the system of governance became thoroughly irrelevant and/ir impotent.

That can hinder people from realizing that the regime is little more than a system of rule by fiat. It will be the same in the US.

There will be agendas and meetings. Reports will be read and discussed. Orders can be issued and statements made. These things will be done by official-looking people in government buildings, and seemingly in the line of official tasks.

But any meaningful tie to the working class, or the constitution? Don’t count on it. That thing is effectively defunct. A dead letter.

The grand experiment is over. The shop is boarded up and isn’t reopening. No-minds can chant ‘USA’ all day. It’s gibberish now.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

The United States Republic has already fallen. It doesn’t exist.

Ours is not the first system of governance which detached from its constitutional moorings or detached from the life of the society whose dutiful allegiance it claimed.

The Weimar Republic in the 30s, the Soviet regime in the 80s, Zimbabwe in the 2,000s, and later, Argentina and Venezuela — their societies managed to stumble along after the system of governance became thoroughly irrelevant and/ir impotent.

That can hinder people from realizing that the regime is little more than a system of rule by fiat. It will be the same in the US.

There will be agendas and meetings. Reports will be read and discussed. Orders can be issued and statements made. These things will be done by official-looking people in government buildings, and seemingly in the line of official tasks.

But any meaningful tie to the working class, or the constitution? Don’t count on it. That thing is effectively defunct. A dead letter.

The grand experiment is over. The shop is boarded up and isn’t reopening. No-minds can chant ‘USA’ all day. It’s gibberish now.

The rest of us will keep fighting for America regardless of defeatists like you.

 

[Lazaran]

The rest of us will keep fighting for America regardless of defeatists like you.

I recently helped (in a small way) elect the Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Susan Crawford (and other decent candidates for state office) through donations and some political activism with a network of friend & family who live in the state.

Giving up is what the far right AND the far left want pragmatic progressive Democrats to do.

Fuck that ^.



Also:

We. Told. Them. So.

 

[Holy_Seduction]

keep fighting

Neither you nor the glorious Democratic Party [which is neither Democratic nor Party, but a GOP asset and a direct accomplice in implementing Trump’s plan] ‘fight’ for the country.

You keep saying ‘fight, fight.’ But you don’t, you won’t, and you can’t. You don’t publish meaningful analysis because you can’t, and you don’t want to do analysis. You don’t have the tools needed to do dialectical, material analysis of historical tendencies.

You don’t even attempt to tell us what is your program, how fascism can be stopped, what a program to address it even looks like. You haven’t the slightest idea what it is, why it rises, in what conditions it flourishes, how it functions — nothing. NOTHING.

Which is what your pseudo-left betrayers of the workers did as it came to power.

With the slightest five seat majority in the House and a three-seat Senate majority, you find yourself incapable of doing anything.

The truth is, Democrats don’t want Trump defeated. Senate Minority ‘Leader’ Charles Schumer led a group of Democrats to cast the decisive votes to pass a resolution to fund the federal government for the next six months — on Trump’s terms, of course.

Like a white bellbird seeking a mate, you screech ‘defeatism’ because others refuse to allow you to lead the working class to defeat.

You won’t fight.

The Democratic Party is a weak, cowering, vacillating, shivering, impotent, pusillanimous little weasel. Everything about it is indicative of weakness, and the very presence of its supporters is disgusting to the point of toxic nausea.

In the past week, the Socialist Equality Party published two party statements. Our people disseminated numerous flyers on the 5th. Our people work tirelessly to raise class consciousness, to radicalize and mobilize the whole working class, to connect it to the global working class.

During the first Trump regime, our party demanded Trump’s immediate removal from office when he started picking up Democrats who protested lawfully in Washington.

Did your Party do that? Did your glorious Party defend their own?

Our party issued a call for a National strike to deliver crippling punishment to the ruling class. Did your Party? Did you support our campaign?

When dire circumstances arise be it a situation with refugees, an industrial strike being strangled by a Democratic Party leaning, pro-company union, the SEP arranges emergency interventions to meet with workers, to offer legal council, to broaden strikes and connect strikers with other workers, to assist in the organizing of Rank-and-File Committees, to take stories, write them up and print these where they will be read by a million+ people globally.

Tell us what your glorious Democratic Party in all its resplendence effulgence did! Surely you have Party interventions, do you not? So why not tell us what you do.

No, I don’t mean telling us that you ‘fight, fight, fight.’ I mean telling us what you DO.

Can you do that?

I can point you to many statements prepared by worker committees in countries across the country and beyond. Can you do that?

Let me guess … you ‘fight, fight, fight.’

By the gods, this gets old.

The Democratic Party fails to justify its continued existence. It is a direct accomplice of and asset to the GOP. It has no program of its own, tries to feign proletarian language, and draw workers ready to revolt against Capitalism into itself where their fervor is strangled.

Yet you have the insolence to cast aspersions and to project the dullest, most transparently vacuous lines while mimicking the white bellbird. Because in the complete absence of any program fitting for the times … that is all you’ve got.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Neither you nor the glorious Democratic Party [which is neither Democratic nor Party, but a GOP asset and a direct accomplice in implementing Trump’s plan] ‘fight’ for the country.

You keep saying ‘fight, fight.’ But you don’t, you won’t, and you can’t. You don’t publish meaningful analysis because you can’t, and you don’t want to do analysis. You don’t have the tools needed to do dialectical, material analysis of historical tendencies.

You don’t even attempt to tell us what is your program, how fascism can be stopped, what a program to address it even looks like. You haven’t the slightest idea what it is, why it rises, in what conditions it flourishes, how it functions — nothing. NOTHING.

Which is what your pseudo-left betrayers of the workers did as it came to power.

With the slightest five seat majority in the House and a three-seat Senate majority, you find yourself incapable of doing anything.

The truth is, Democrats don’t want Trump defeated. Senate Minority ‘Leader’ Charles Schumer led a group of Democrats to cast the decisive votes to pass a resolution to fund the federal government for the next six months — on Trump’s terms, of course.

Like a white bellbird seeking a mate, you screech ‘defeatism’ because others refuse to allow you to lead the working class to defeat.

You won’t fight.

The Democratic Party is a weak, cowering, vacillating, shivering, impotent, pusillanimous little weasel. Everything about it is indicative of weakness, and the very presence of its supporters is disgusting to the point of toxic nausea.

In the past week, the Socialist Equality Party published two party statements. Our people disseminated numerous flyers on the 5th. Our people work tirelessly to raise class consciousness, to radicalize and mobilize the whole working class, to connect it to the global working class.

During the first Trump regime, our party demanded Trump’s immediate removal from office when he started picking up Democrats who protested lawfully in Washington.

Did your Party do that? Did your glorious Party defend their own?

Our party issued a call for a National strike to deliver crippling punishment to the ruling class. Did your Party? Did you support our campaign?

When dire circumstances arise be it a situation with refugees, an industrial strike being strangled by a Democratic Party leaning, pro-company union, the SEP arranges emergency interventions to meet with workers, to offer legal council, to broaden strikes and connect strikers with other workers, to assist in the organizing of Rank-and-File Committees, to take stories, write them up and print these where they will be read by a million+ people globally.

Tell us what your glorious Democratic Party in all its resplendence effulgence did! Surely you have Party interventions, do you not? So why not tell us what you do.

No, I don’t mean telling us that you ‘fight, fight, fight.’ I mean telling us what you DO.

Can you do that?

I can point you to many statements prepared by worker committees in countries across the country and beyond. Can you do that?

Let me guess … you ‘fight, fight, fight.’

By the gods, this gets old.

The Democratic Party fails to justify its continued existence. It is a direct accomplice of and asset to the GOP. It has no program of its own, tries to feign proletarian language, and draw workers ready to revolt against Capitalism into itself where their fervor is strangled.

Yet you have the insolence to cast aspersions and to project the dullest, most transparently vacuous lines while mimicking the white bellbird. Because in the complete absence of any program fitting for the times … that is all you’ve got.

It would help if you attacked the Republicans. Attacking the Democrats is pointless.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

He mocks the system, you brainless twit.


But we established long ago that you have no credit, so there's that,

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Think of all that great character that our resident Lit-twits are cultivating from all of this amazing Trumpian Adversity. You know they see the benefits of that and wouldn't waste four years sitting on their collective corpulent asses and bitch endlessly, would they????


Oh wait . . . .

 

[Holy_Seduction]

‘It would help if you attacked the Republicans. Attacking the Democrats is pointless.’

No. It would help nothing to attack either glorious party alone.

The working class must be armed with an understanding of the real nature of fascism—not as an individual aberration but as the product of the historic breakdown of the capitalist system. The enemy is not only Trump and the Republicans. The enemy is the entire capitalist state.

The enemy is Trump and the Republicans, together with the Democratic Party, the union bureaucracy, and the financial oligarchy, which together rule America.

This requires that the fight against fascism must become a conscious fight against global capitalism itself.

This in turn requires a massive, proletarian movement on a global scale, to expropriate the oligarchic expropriators, to establish worker power, to reorganize all of society from serving private profit, to serve social need.

More, this struggle must be global. Just as capitalism has a global program, so the working class must unite and coordinate with workers around the globe for the defeat and overthrow of capitalism.

All this is completely contrary to the interests and intention of the Democratic Party [which again is neither democratic nor party, but a GOP asset and direct accomplice] as the representative of the petit-bourgeoisie investor/banking/finance_company/etc. social class.

So again — what will you do?

Will you stand alone, or join the GOP who lusts for your betrayals of workers as much as you lust for its bourgeois wealth and social prestige?

You can postpone a reply, but you will answer one way or another. Why is that?

It’s because you have nothing to offer the 90%, and because we are using this crisis to win the 90% to our perspective and revolutionary programme.

Perish alone, or join the GOP to delay your demise? Because it is coming. We’re going to make that sure.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

No. It would help nothing to attack either glorious party alone.

The working class must be armed with an understanding of the real nature of fascism—not as an individual aberration but as the product of the historic breakdown of the capitalist system. The enemy is not only Trump and the Republicans. The enemy is the entire capitalist state.

The enemy is Trump and the Republicans, together with the Democratic Party, the union bureaucracy, and the financial oligarchy, which together rule America.

This requires that the fight against fascism must become a conscious fight against global capitalism itself.

This in turn requires a massive, proletarian movement on a global scale, to expropriate the oligarchic expropriators, to establish worker power, to reorganize all of society from serving private profit, to serve social need.

More, this struggle must be global. Just as capitalism has a global program, so the working class must unite and coordinate with workers around the globe for the defeat and overthrow of capitalism.

All this is completely contrary to the interests and intention of the Democratic Party [which again is neither democratic nor party, but a GOP asset and direct accomplice] as the representative of the petit-bourgeoisie investor/banking/finance_company/etc. social class.

So again — what will you do?

Will you stand alone, or join the GOP who lusts for your betrayals of workers as much as you lust for its bourgeois wealth and social prestige?

You can postpone a reply, but you will answer one way or another. Why is that?

It’s because you have nothing to offer the 90%, and because we are using this crisis to win the 90% to our perspective and revolutionary programme.

Perish alone, or join the GOP to delay your demise? Because it is coming. We’re going to make that sure.

I’ll keep opposing Trump and the GOP. I don’t care about the global proletarian movement.

 

[Holy_Seduction]

‘I don’t care about the global proletarian movement.’

Ahh — and there it is!

Thank-you for finally ceding that the vainglorious Democratic Party is not a working class party, but the petit bourgeoisie DP section which, with the GOP bourgeoisie, together form the ruling class alliance.

You say that you will ‘fight’ the big [GOP] bourgeoisie faction. But you won’t.

The self-claimed Democratic Party will never bare its teeth to the GOP, but only its rump. It saves its teeth for the working class for which you admit to having no affections [which puts the matter mildly].

But it is at last admitted, and we agree upon, the fact that the 90% has nothing vested in the Next 9% [after the top 1%] which the GOP asset called the Democratic Party is.

So you choose to go your anti-democratic party way alone. Still, I’m not convinced that you have the strength of your stated convictions.

I suspect that when the proletariat comes for you both — which it will — our glorious, self-proclaimed petit bourgeoisie Democrats will cower behind Trump’s skirt and plead for protection from the 90%.

We, the proletarian class, lead the global struggle against fascism. That places us in a relationship of irreconcilable hostility.

Edit: Sentence mechanics.

 

[Holy_Seduction]

‘I’ll keep opposing Trump and the GOP.’

Doing exactly what? Tell us how, because ongoing support of war, fascism, terrorism and other international crimes and misdemeanors continue unabated, red or blue, administration after administration.

Trump is no external, outside operator. He is the product of US capitalism and expresses ruling class determination to retain power and wealth by any means necessary.

The current crisis represents the violent realignment of US politics political system to conform to the class warfare in US society.

But you won’t hear that from your quarters. Will you. No comprehension, no analysis.

Ode to The White Bellbird:

In a town where the sun shines bright,
Lived a shiny girl who loved to fight,
With a smile so wide and a voice so loud,
She’d rally the folk, all proud and crowd.

“Fight, fight, fight!” was her favorite cheer,
For every problem, she’d make it clear,
“Let’s battle the boredom, let’s tackle the mess,
with courage and cookies, we’ll surely impress!”

She’d wave her hands and stomp her feet,
declaring that winning was oh-so-sweet.
If asked about laws or rights we hold dear,
She’d scratch her head and say, “Let’s have a beer!”

So they cheered and they danced, in the sun’s warm glow. For the little girl’s fights, they all seemed to know, that sometimes it’s fun to just shout and play, as earth dies and burns, comes war and what may.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Doing exactly what? Tell us how, because ongoing support of war, fascism, terrorism and other international crimes and misdemeanors continue unabated, red or blue, administration after administration.

Trump is no external, outside operator. He is the product of US capitalism and expresses ruling class determination to retain power and wealth by any means necessary.

The current crisis represents the violent realignment of US politics political system to conform to the class warfare in US society.

But you won’t hear that from your quarters. Will you. No comprehension, no analysis.

Ode to The White Bellbird:

In a town where the sun shines bright,
Lived a shiny girl who loved to fight,
With a smile so wide and a voice so loud,
She’d rally the folk, all proud and crowd.

“Fight, fight, fight!” was her favorite cheer,
For every problem, she’d make it clear,
“Let’s battle the boredom, let’s tackle the mess,
with courage and cookies, we’ll surely impress!”

She’d wave her hands and stomp her feet,
declaring that winning was oh-so-sweet.
If asked about laws or rights we hold dear,
She’d scratch her head and say, “Let’s have a beer!”

So they cheered and they danced, in the sun’s warm glow. For the little girl’s fights, they all seemed to know, that sometimes it’s fun to just shout and play, as earth dies and burns, comes war and what may.

Bravo

 

[nowisthetime]

This is why people hate MAGAts. Because your dumbass decisions affects OUR pocketbooks.

You all can go ruin your own lives, but when it starts affecting people's MONEY, that is a problem.

 

[Politruk]

Both parties stand to be rejected and dismantled, their material assets and membership lists seized, and their respective leaderships seized and prosecuted.

You won't live to see that!

 

[Politruk]

Lol Congress is terrified enough! They ALL be going down! And the best part, they ALL know it! TRUTH

You don't seem to be predicting an electoral result. You seem to predicting the abolition of Congress.

 

[Politruk]

That meme-promoted argument seeks to retain voters as political hostages to an illicit regime.

The Democratic Party is neither democratic nor party. It is a petit bourgeoisie tendency which makes it implacable enemies of the proletarian class.

A bourgeois government is as legitimate as any other.

 

[Politruk]

The Democratic Party will NEVER have a home in the working class. The 90% is done being Democratic Party cuckolds.

Look, there are only two things an American leftist can reasonably hope to achieve in our lifetime:

1. The creation of a left-progress social democratic (not socialist or Communist) party that can be as big a deal in American politics as the New Democrats in Canada -- a minority party, but a party that matters.

2. That left-progressives should take over the Democratic Party the way the Tea Party/Trumpers took over the GOP.

Either way, we would have a party that really represents the proletariat.

And that's all you can hope for. A proletarian revolution is not going to happen because there just are not enough American proles who even think in those terms. Revolution does not happen just because the people are distressed -- they have to have a vision of something better. And how many Americans in any class think of Communism as something better?

 

[Hel_Books]

Look, there are only two things an American leftist can reasonably hope to achieve in our lifetime:

1. The creation of a left-progress social democratic (not socialist or Communist) party that can be as big a deal in American politics as the New Democrats in Canada -- a minority party, but a party that matters.

2. That left-progressives should take over the Democratic Party the way the Tea Party/Trumpers took over the GOP.

Either way, we would have a party that really represents the proletariat.

And that's all you can hope for. A proletarian revolution is not going to happen because there just are not enough American proles who even think in those terms. Revolution does not happen just because the people are distressed -- they have to have a vision of something better. And how many Americans in any class think of Communism as something better?

Who knows? The next four years may see so many of the people in the USA who are not billionaires suffering . . .

 

[Politruk]

There's no genocide in Gaza.

It ain't no legitimate warfare. A war waged almost exclusively on a civilian population is genocide.

 

[Hel_Books]

BrightShinyGirl said:
There's no genocide in Gaza.

It ain't no legitimate warfare. A war waged almost exclusively on a civilian population is genocide.

Sigh. Hamas is like the Nazi party standing in the ruins of Berlin in 1945.

But the Germans stopped killing and started to rebuild. They didn't kidnap and murder the children from nations surrounding them. They didn't complain that there were civilians buried in the ruins of Berlin. They didn't demand revenge.

Imagine if the German government, today, demanded the return of Gdansk (Danzig) and Kaliningrad (Konisgsberg) and threatened to fire rockets at Poland and Russia if their demands weren't met!

That's Hamas. Watermelons instead of Swastikas, but it's the same story.

 

[Politruk]

Besides the surgical choices, many men are born semi-emasculated by absorption of phthalates. Stopping the trans hype is only the first step to recovering the nation's reproductive health.

What on Earth are you talking about? The effects of human exposure to phthalates do not include emasculation. And there are no more or less trans people now than there ever were -- either you're born with that nature or you're not. And what's wrong with the nation's reproductive health anyway? The "grayby boom" affects every industrialized nation -- and in every one, the obvious solution is immigration.

https://i0.wp.com/leftycartoons.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/10/racism-immigration-population-birthrate-let-in-more-immigrants.png?resize=675%2C655&ssl=1

 

[Politruk]

That's Hamas. Watermelons instead of Swastikas, but it's the same story.

"Watermelons"? That's a classic RW canard about environmentalists -- green on the outside, red on the inside.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

"Watermelons"? That's a classic RW canard about environmentalists -- green on the outside, red on the inside.

The watermelon emoji is widely used on the left to signal support for the Palestinian Arabs since it has the same colors as their flag. If you were online after October 7th you saw it a lot.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

It ain't no legitimate warfare. A war waged almost exclusively on a civilian population is genocide.

Even Hamas’s numbers don’t show that.