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You do know that the only populous New Mexican counties - around Santa Fe, Taos and Albuquerque - show up, as they should with a highter percentage of dedicated funding? By putting Harding County in relation to Albuquerque, you've screwed your graph.
Almost like you should stop being "bipartisan " and start obstructing like an opposition party. Or are you going to negotiate again by making the first move? Which has brought us to this disaster.
I'm not sure what the political benefit of making America germ city is going to be. Clearly, the Dems, every day, should have advertisements featuring people who took polio vaccines, measles vaccines, Covid vaccines, etc. And make up a slogan like: don't make America a shithole country.
whatevs - blocking you
Whether this is true or not of Breton, surely our Ubu Rois is best thought of as an agent
he himself never shot into a crowd. In fact, no surrealist ever did anything more than write about shooting into a crowd. As the writers of "A cadavre" put it, Breton's very imagination betrays the surrealist as an agent provacateur.
one is forced to admit that the United States is the most surrealist country in the world. So it makes sense that eventually, Ubu Roi would be installed in the White House. But there is an ideological codicil to Breton's phrase - as his most virulent critics (Georges Bataille among them),point out
In accordance with Breton's famous definition of the surrealist act - "the simplest surrealist act consists in taking up revolvers and going down the street, shooting at hazard all you can into the crowd" -
Although looking at your feed, I admire your committment and causes. So I should footnote that. As Lincoln fired McLellon as a general because he wanted to win the Civil War, in this Civil War we need to fire our loser generals. Out w/ Schumer, in with Mamdani. Out w/ Jeffries, in with AOC.
Be part of the solution, you say? Wonderful. Now, just send that message to those parts of the un-solution that go by the name of the dnc, the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate, and other collaborators and/or vegetables. Do more than better - do something!
The prob with handing Dems a weapon is they usually shoot themselves in the foot with it. Pritzker, though, seems cut from a different cloth, God bless him. He seems like he knows how to use a weapon.
However, a curious thing happened as the century went by. In the sphere of psychology, the will gradually lost any status it had as a psychological object. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2025/08/from...
In the early nineteenth century, there was a great romantic fashion for the “will” in the moral, or ideological sphere. The will seemed like a way out of the dry materialism and sensualism of the 18th century philosophes.Conveniently, it also had a hero – Napoleon.
Again and again, though, liberals did not understand that they were framing questions that just had no standing in ultra-right circles. This continued in the Obama era, and the Biden era. A fundamental misperception of what the Other was all about.
one of the things that used to drive me crazy in the Bush era is liberals asking well, how do Republicans propose to solve poverty, or whatever issue was on the table. They don't! They never did! They think money is not just what you earn, but a signal marker of your moral worth!
So, the gender preferences of our shooters are now news? I'm expecting the next one to be headlined: white cis-male kills seven. Or whatever the casualty count. We are in the midst of a national sickness that is getting worse.
It is distraction. But it is not Trump's distraction, it is the Dem leadership's distraction - from a Dem voter base that is by a vast majority disgusted with Dem inaction. To baptize Dem inaction as "refusal" to be distracted takes gaslighting to the next level.
I am beginning to think that the people who are trying the policy of distraction are Dem establishment types who never really oppose Trump but do like to say he is distracting us from things that, if he did them, they would write strong letters to him. Distraction Dems. A sad cohort.
Not of course that the GOP will admit that its main man is basically saying cops suck. Nobody asks him, and if somebody did, he would say something idiotic, but it is the only justification except for - I want to destroy American opposition to my shit. The real answer.
Which brings up the question: why are we paying cops so much? And why are police unions so powerful? Two questions that are not going to be addressed by the Dem party or its Yglesias groupies ever.
One thing about Trump's send troops to fight crime thing should be underlined: underneath, Trump is sending the message that cops suck at fighting crime. And he is right! Spending all that money on police departments and letting police unions run the streets is a loser deal.
My suggestion to the DNC is: fire your advisors, your pollsters, hangers on, etc.. Hire 100 novelists - send them out through the country - and take their reports. Not that the DNC is pervious to taking suggestions outside the circe lf campaign grifters. Its Chaits all the way down in DC.
I wish this guy the best. Unfortunately, Schumer's braindead idea is to get Janet MIlls to run, creating a donor opportunity and another loss by the Dems. He's got to break through the ice, here.
There are two movements in the Dem party right now. One is the continued ossification of the Dem elite brain. The other is youthful movement, vitality, out there in the country, from NYC to Seattle. I do wonder: can the Dems regrow a brain?
Nothing seemed to be "up" to Biden. See what a president can do who wants to grab the spotlight. Maybe Biden making several speeches about the way the supreme court justices were bribed might have been "up" there with things he could do. But -- it wouldn't be bipartisan! it might disturb the donors!
For this, we would need a real opposition party. We don't have one at the moment. As evidence, look at the record of the Biden DOJ on Supreme Court justices being bribed, Trump committing treason, or even Musk's numerous corporate crimes, such as looting his own company. Crickets.
It was wild when we discovered Clarence Thomas was on the take during the Biden administration and the Democrats did ... nothing. No impeachment,no hearings, nothing from the doj, nothing from Biden. Just another station on our way to non-democracy - a bipartisan effort!
oh oh. Hannity is the Third Way Democrats measure of how America, the America of the Baileys, are feelin'. Just when they wanted to embrace the transphobe guy, Hannity shakes his finger. I figure there will be a memo any day now warning against confrontation, instead of bipartisanship.
True, that. This is a guy who can take a snapshot of data without understanding trends and dynamics at all. Sad for him. Sad for the losers who trust him.
I don't think Schumer and Jeffries are just being transactional - I credit them with beliefs. Beliefs that are closer to Ronald Reagan's than FDR's - or LBJ's or Jimmy Carter's. The problem with not having a centrist party is that the centrists have glommed onto the Dem party. To its loss.
I think they should say whatever they fucking want to. If something is heteronormative, say it. Similarly, if Trump's problem is that he fucks around and pays off the women he fucks, use the word "fucks". Use the available vernacular. And not some DC pointyhead's idea of vernacular.
Bolton suggested that Chelsea Manning be executed for his release of classified material. Perhaps he should think back on that. www.nationalreview.com/corner/bolto...
Why is that not surprising? If Garland was being paid by Trump he could not have done any more damage.
And when that barista speaks of the "liquidation of the rentier class", Nichols has a heart attack. Keynes! Marx! class warfare! why can't we be nice to Third Way's funders?
But they don't include the one word that really sets Third Way's nerves on edge: small donor. How they hate them! readsludge.com/2025/03/04/t...
The money that some DNC mook paid Third way for this shit is, well, triggering.
New challenge: to make up a post per day this week employing all those words and phrases. I'm culturally appropriating the third way's triggers. And in my small way, stuffing it up their ass.
Ah, the same peeps - I'm pretty sure I can ven diagram this - who complained about cancel culture and the "restraint" on free speech now want their own cancel culture. These peeholes will remain peeholes until they collapse in retirement in houses near Mar a Lago.
Trump doing something good! He'll screw it up somehow, but the precedent of government intervention in interstate and multi-national companies should not be lost. It is a blow against neo-liberal and neo-classical econ policy. Excellent.
And aren't socialists for a national and workers share of interstate and multi-national companies? I am. Trump is setting a very good precedent. Wresting control of the nation from Trumpists does not mean restoring corporate control to corporations. The taboo has been broken.
Hey hey! So, the GOP is reinventing 1950s socialism. I don't admire the racism or the fascism, but I do admire the common sense of actively intervening in these interstate, multinational monsters. Democrats now have a precedent! Lets carve out workers' reps on the boards.
Well, then, KH was clearly out of her mind, since peeps across the political spectrum don't think Trump is unacceptable. Just Ds do. In fact, he has more support in the GOP than Bush had. So, maybe clear your head of Schumerist shit. The Baileys are fictions.
You are a rightwinger who'd like Dems to be rightwingers. I get that. I think you should concentrate on the GOP, which is more your type of party, but which at the moment seems to be all about banning free trade and letting the government centrally plan investment. Maybe not your cup of tea?
Ah, the founders, those slaveholders - hard to say. But the progressives who were the SCOTI of the Truman through Nixon years would have def called out the dictatorial bent of this administration.
The neo-lib notion that the stock market is a great "signal" cause of course efficient markets rule is being thrown into the toilet, once again, by the meme stock market, where the bets are all on the greater fools buying this shit in the short term.
Good point. So, people outside of Minneapolis should not have the power to deny DFL's endorsement of Fateh. Its like people in Albany deciding to overturn the primary for Mamdani. It is wrong, it sucks, it is a symbol of why the Dem party establishment has no leadership, no charisma, & no backbone.
Wow, that is the lesson he derives from Trump's first 7 months? Ezra Klein view of politics as boyscoutery lacks any contact with the sum of realities that make up the front page of the NYT every day. No wonder the opposition party, the Ds, is so pathetic - its always the Baileys with them.
The last - an economy that responds to a climate crisis which is going to explode in all our cities as temperatures climb to 130 in heat waves - is not even on the agenda. Have to do massive infrastructural things. Have to ally with China about solar power. Etc.
Dem elites have a problem. You cant have Gilded age economic inequality and socially democratic programs. The plutocrats will simply liquidate those programs when they feel like it. Exhibit A: YESTERDAY. TODAY. TOMORROW. We don't need nudgery, but limits on wealth, universal healthcare, enviro econ.
It is odd that in the U.S., as globalization became a slogan, as metros became truly multi-ethnic, there was a provincialization of left politics and culture. The only real multi-national platform was academic. And that is now falling into the abyss.
To join the left meant, from 1900 to around 1989, that you would join a recognizable party or organization. We definitely need an international again. The only international on the scene is business - the multi-national corporation. Multi-national workers movements have disappeared.
Exactly. I think of the "left" in terms of an ideological position that used to have a home in a militant international labor movement - and now has been de-institutionalized. That is why what is left so often boils down to opinons, an individual mindset, rather than a movement and institution.
True. On the other hand, I don't think Noah Smith writes for Bloomberg any more. Maybe some Bloomberg exec decided this racist piece of crap needs to go. Although more likely, they just needed space for some nepo-hire in the columnist slot. Anyway, Noah Smith def is not a bluesky poster, thank god.
They don't represent the average starving child? Your point being that Israel should concentrate on starving the average child, since they might otherwise survive, and not those already doomed by Israel's destruction of Gaza's medical infrastructure. Eichman would be delighted!
The NYT owner must be in despair. Not a single NYT story about the mayor's race in almost ten days. Aren't there any racists out there with something juicy about Mamdani? And how to edge around the Trump - Cuomo alliance? It is sad for them.
Fandos has the right profile for this, the Bari Weiss segment, of NYT's history. A rich Ivy league kid, check, family's money is in real estate - much like Weiss's spouse and former NYTer Nelly Bowles - and a right-centrist of the just askin' questions type. That kid has a future! Unfortunately.
– it occurred before occurrence could rightly occur, around 12 billion years ago. This is a different paradise than the one in Genesis. Here we must go to Calvino’s old Qfwfq, who tells the story in Cosmicomics. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2025/08/vaca...
Paradise closed, as we all know, a long time ago – learned bishops in the 17th century reckoned that the event happened 6000 years ago. We, who are more scientifically minded, have put the freedom from trouble or perplexity a bit earlier than that
There's no "uh" in AI, which is a huge mistake.
It in effect made slavery Constitutional. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2025/08/from...
has formally brought us back not only to the days of Jim Crow, but, in many ways, to the days of the fugitive slave act. The Dred Scott decision essentially created a special Constitutionally protected group - slaveowners - and gave them rights exceeding the rights of non-slaveowners.
I think that the SCOTUS decision ending Roe v. Wade has had aftereffects in the States that haven't been fully understood, by which I mean the form of the SCOTUS decision - creating a cookie cutter country in which one's rights depend on the state one lives in
Affordable housing? Taxes on the rich? Not like the GOP, who will point at themselves and say, we've cut medicare, medicaid and SS, the latter of which we are considering privatizing. Country club dems will sigh: the GOP is doing what we should do. Lets be led by Mamdani Dems.
If we take Brod at his word, Kafka left that letter already knowing that Brod would refuse to do as instructed. Brod had told Kafka this two years before, when Kafka first showed him the letter. And what funny instructions!
limitedinc.blogspot.com/2025/08/writ...
Louis Maggiolo was a French schoolmaster who headed an inquiry, in the 1870s, into the history of schooling and literacy in France. Literacy is a hard item to mold into a statistic: what is it? How do you prove you have it? Maggiolo ended up using the signature as an index of literacy.
They will need to investigate and prosecute any ICE agent who has violated the law. No more of the Obama fuckery that allowed the CIA to skate for torture under Bush. If they can't act like grownups, the Dems will become the enemy.
This is unmitigated bullshit. Reinstate Jessie Gender. Also WISHING BAD THINGS DOES NOT MAKE THEM HAPPEN, see: the fucking world.
No one includes the Biden justice department who oversaw this shit for 4 years. Thanks for the memories, there, President "best-since-FDR".
And I remember the subsequent Democratic administration let the ringleader slide. Impunity for the powerful - long a signature of the Obama and Biden DOJ - has led us to this fall off the cliff.
The thing about Newsom is he is a quick study. He put his oar in the "lets torture trans people" thing, the Yglesias Chait thing, and found out that was a buzzkll. The he put his oar in the Trump fuck off I'm going to use California power suck it thing, and found that works.
It says a lot that most Dem politicians are in the upper middle to rich category. They share the country club attitudes of the GOP, but want to put in a scoop of philanthropy for those not pulling in the seven figures. Which is exactly why opposition to Trump is so weak.
Actually surprised that his approval is so low, considering that the opposition, the Dems, have absolutely failed this moment. An opposition of "strong letters" and considering who they can take civil rights from - trans people, or maybe just be generally racist? An opposition party would be nice.
The crime problem in D.C. is abt. unfairness. The criminals at the top, in the Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches, have been making out like bandits, while the bandits in the bottom have barely kept their heads above water. I say: the bandits at the top must be made to share their plunder!
"Autonomy at scale". I love it. Another tech-crunchy phrase that sounds nice and means nothing. This is exactly how Musk made his billions, and is still pumping Tesla's next trillion dollar move - to really get into the taxi business. Yellow cab watch out! But the stock market ringers love it.
Is China's military threat to territory that isn't strictly the U.S.'s - like planet Earth - but that the U.S. claims anyway? Cause threat in the normal sense - to say Hawaii or Alaska - there is none.
The Ds seemed, astonishingly, to pass on say impeaching Thomas for brazen acts of bribery just a year ago. So I'd love to see Dems going maximal, but we need a new crew and leadership going into 2026. The old leadership is tired and rotten.
That's what the moderates told Lincoln.Just give up Sumter! Otherwise you are no better than the slaveowners! Turned out to be bad advise.
I nominate the Harvard Business School! This will be a match of the champions!
Though I find Peterson's politics abhorrent, I do feel that his daughter's treatment of him makes Goneril and Regan look like exemplary daughters. What did he do to deserve Mikhala?
There is every reason that Dems should vote against giving a SCOTUS seat to a conservative. This is a f-ing lifetime seat - why would you give it to someone who is going to veto progressive legislation? My complaint is not about Bork - it is about Dems voting for Scalia. Disgraceful.
He doesn't want to understand it. He wants to throw it out there. Really, the Dems that borked Bork are my Dems: tough motherfuckers who take no prisoners. When they made politics a game where the Dems in the Senate gym could find common ground with their GOP collegues, they lost their soul.
Seriously what happened to Dems playing to win? The scandal is putting the other conservative assholes on the court.
The one eyed man is king in the kingdom of the blind
Don't put nodlinger on the court Dems. Sincerely voters
What does the Sienna poll show about Schumer?
Or, alternatively, if Clinton had not run a Schumer-eque campaign, based on nonsense like this : “For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.”
Not that this will be evident to the establsihment Democrats, who are pretty much hopeless. But young lefty politicos should take note. Everything we were told we couldn't have during the era of Obama, as it turns out, we could have. Just take it.
I do hope people are noticing that Trump's "deal" with NVIDIA establishes a precedent for the state exercising its right to nationalize or partially nationalize any corporation. Tip of my hat to the right - they have gone where no left-leaning politico dared to step.
by, for instance, censoring evidence of Kafka going to a brothel has been exposed – and then there is the case of the letter. See more here: limitedinc.blogspot.com/2025/08/sham...
On the other hand, Brod’s editing of Kafka’s manuscripts has been attacked, his heavily religious interpretations of Kafka’s work has been ridiculed as something like kitsch by people like Walter Benjamin, his attempts to make Kafka seem like a saint
By now, there is a quite a literature about Brod and Kafka. It is, to say the least, interesting. On the one hand, what Brod reports about Kafka from direct experience is often quoted as a sort of oral testament of Kafka’s, a Gnostic gospel.
Back in the Bush era, Brad Delong regularly called for subscribers to withdraw from WAPO, a paper which contributed significantly to making the 2001-2008 period one of the worst in U.S. history. Fast forward to today: the paper is now a sort of Trump toilet. So predictable.
Luckily, what Matt von Swol is absolutely convinced about has no relevance or interest to anybody I know, or know of, or care about, or have a vague inkling of, at all. He could be absolutely convinced he is Joan of Arc for all I care. Another loony. Most of the country is not loony. So, fuck him.
But how about some MAGA billionaire who sees threatening people in the streets? They are so scared! some of those peeps get their ketamine illegallt! We can just grind up these poor people, make patties out of them, and let the rich eat them so they will feel ever so much safer!
Wheelies! My, the only response left is to nuke DC. Totally justified! Why the sight of wheelies in itself nullifies those pesky statistics and makes us trust that we are in the good hands of sweaty suburban spineless white guys.
Biden, unfortunately, did not know a dangerous threat to America when it instigated a riot on Jan. 6, 2021 that invaded the capital. Trump instigated it, and Biden's DOJ spent four years looking away from that fact. Cause we don't want to be "divisive". Lets be divisive now, for God's sakes!
Guess what, you will get the same thing. So, your wish is to fuck yourself. Good luck with that.
Great question. Perhaps this can be traced to the moment when the Country Club instead of the Union hall became the fave venue for Democratic politicians.
So, I guess now the Dem leadership, under Schumer, will have seen that waiting for Republicans in the Senate Gym to help him modify Trump's moves doesn't work, and they will all arrange a press convo with the mayor of D.C. Or, alternatively, they are in that gym right now - bipartisaning!