Some leftists on Twitter reacted to Ryan Newman’s horrific crash at the Daytona 500 in Florida by celebrating the accident because Newman is a Trump supporter.
The NASCAR driver is hospitalized in a serious condition after his car flipped and burst into flames in a 190mph crash. Newman was leading the race when the accident happened.
While most normal people reacted to the crash by expressing concern for Newman’s health, some leftists on Twitter immediately rushed to politicize the tragedy.
“#ryannewman is a huge Trump supporter. Shit like this happens when one supports the anti-Christ. No what I mean?” commented one individual.”
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#ryannewman is a huge Trump supporter. Shit like this happens when one supports the anti-Christ. No what I mean? #Karma #Dayton500 https://twitter.com/NASCARONFOX/status/1229577113491136512 …FOX: NASCAR✔@NASCARONFOXHere is the final lap of the Daytona 500 in which Ryan Newman’s car was flipped at the line.
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In one instance, Twitter even suspended someone who reacted negatively to a leftist celebrating the crash.
@TwitterSupport This loser can tweet that Ryan Newman had some bad karma and deserved to potentially die in an accident because he is a Trump supporter?! But I can’t tweet what I did in response?! Liberalism is a DISEASE of the mind. Twitter should be ashamed of themselves!!
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Another user tweeted “Ryan Newman is a Trump supporter” alongside an emoji of someone holding their arms to their side.
A user called @Trump_Is_A_Turd said she hoped Newman would die if he was a Republican.
Wow. Praying for Ryan Newman. That was a horrible crash at #Daytona500. It’s really sickening to see some leftists use Ryan’s endorsement of @realDonaldTrump to say that he deserved the crash or worse yet possible death. This insanity is out of control. Please pray for Ryan.
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“i do hope ryan newman is ok but it’s hilarious how it’s only NOT ok to bring politics into it when it’s a trump supporter. give me a fucking break,” tweeted another individual who was presumably keen to “bring politics” into a life threatening accident.
i do hope ryan newman is ok but it’s hilarious how it’s only NOT ok to bring politics into it when it’s a trump supporter. give me a fucking break.9:05 PM – Feb 17, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacySee Daltemsz’s other Tweets
Others blamed Trump’s presence at the race for the crash.
“@realdonaldtrump put a curse on the #Daytona500 #NASCAR race track. Evil follows him wherever he goes and whatever he touches,” tweeted one.
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@realdonaldtrump put a curse on the #Daytona500 #NASCAR race track. Evil follows him wherever he goes and whatever he touches.1059:02 PM – Feb 17, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy124 people are talking about this
“Trump brought the Black Clouds of rain yesterday & those Black Clouds stayed to the end,” said another.
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However, numerous other people reacted to the insensitive tweets by urging leftists not to politicize the accident.
Of course, none of this is shocking. As we highlighted earlier this month, countless leftists reacted to Rush Limbaugh’s announcement that he had lung cancer by expressing joy and gratitude.
It would be characteristic of a TWEETER on mindless TWITTER to TWEET “no what I mean” as if that gibberish spew carried any meaning, at all, instead of epitomizing just how mindlessly stupid you can be, and still get to show all the world just how stupid one is on TWITTER, a platform designed for those who wish to remain stupid but still get to post on the internet, by TWEETING your ignorance for all the world to see.
Incidentally, based on Twitter’s revenue and profits from the last three years, Twitter was worth $4.4 billion as of Sep 5, 2018.
Catering to stupid in America is a good bidness, for sure, as TWITTER clearly demonstrates.
Wow! Just wow…you want to read all about the haters? Just wait until Bernie takes the Democratic nomination. You’ll be reading made up things about him that will make your ears, eyes and nose, bleed. Already your man in the tan has called him a “Communist”. Yup…so there’s your baseline from the right. Let the games begin.
As an accused “Leftist” on this blog and a self-avowed “humanitarian”, I, for one, was thankful and moved to joy to see Ryan Newman walk out of that hospital holding the hands of his two young daughters. His support of the president is his choice. I see it as a mistake. But I would not denigrate him or anyone else for their choices, unless it caused great harm to me or my family. Live and let live.
A caveat: You do know, Paul, that your Herr Gropen-Fuhrer uses Twitter as his personal mega-phone to appeal to his base, right? “Catering to stupid in America is a good bidness, for sure, as TWITTER clearly demonstrates” Classic, Paul, classic. My laugh this Sunday morning.
Ah, Chas, dear Chas, how you can so deftly sling absolute **** to literally warp and twist the warp and weft of the fabric of reality itself with your specious, absurd and ridiculous post above here where you accuse me of being both a Republican, a Conservative, and a Trump supporter all in one with your smarmy and unctuous and patently false assertion of and characterization of, with no rational or evidentiary basis, I might add, Trump as “my” Herr Gropen-Fuhrer uses Twitter as his personal mega-phone to appeal to his base, right?“
In making the false claim, Chas is doing what simple country folks call “funnin’ with us,” which translates as “the smart city dude (here, substitute Chas Cornweller) thinks we’re a bunch of A-HOLES,” which is the case here with our dear friend and fellow loyal Cape Charles Mirror correspondent Chas Cornweller making these patently ridiculous and totally unsupported claims that I am a Republican (I’m not), I am a conservative (wrong again, Chas, but that is so Chas of him, isn’t it, to be wrong that way?), I am a Trump supporter (Chas is on a “being wrong” roll here, which is an art he has turned into a virtual, science), and that I have a clue as to what Trump might do on TW@ITTER since I don’t TWEET, nor bothger with TWEETS, as a rule, because likie “no what I mean,” I find them too stupid and lame to spend a drop of emotional energy on.
This thread is largely an exception to where I actually wasted maybe twenty seconds analyzing from all possible intellectual and philosophical directions the “no what I mean” TWEET before concluding, NO, I haven’t a clue as to what they mean, and therefore, to me the TWEET was stupid., Chas, simply that, and it was not so far as I could tell from a Trump supporter, but I’ll submit to your judgment on that if and when you are ever able to logically and rationally present the same in language we pre-ANTHROPOCENE can understand and comprehend – KNOW what I mean?
And Chas, you do know that your Herr Gropen-Fuhrer Hillary Clinton uses TWITTER as her personal mega-phone to appeal to her base, right?
According to statistics, Hillary has 26,767,052 followers on TWITTER, which goes to show conclusively that catering to stupid in America is a good bidness, for sure, as TWITTER clearly demonstrates.
And then there is your CULT LEADER Nancy Pelosi with 3,984,771 TWITTER followers.
And barmy Bernie Sanders, the Communist, as you call him, has
10,766,029 TWITTER followers in his cult.
So you were saying something about TWITTER being for idiots, Chas?
And speaking of “classics,” and political hacks using TWITTER as their personal mega-phones to appeal to their base bases, and catering to stupid in America being a good bidness, for sure, as TWITTER clearly demonstrates, we can’t forget Democratic Socialist US Senator from New York City Charley “Chuck” Schumer, @Nancyspoodle, with his vast posse of 2,100,838 TWITTER fans who adore Charley “Chuck” so much and cling to his every bit of pidgeon gibberish he spews forth to them in his TWEETS on TWITTER.
What were you telling us about Bernie? You are a Fool, if there ever was one. What are you and those like you going to do when the games really begin? Call the UN for help?
Folks from the left, folks from the right. Who cares which ? Sick haters come in all shapes and sizes, with a big or a small mouth. The solution is simple. Remember that age old debate ? If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound ?
As in, tweets are real easy to ignore and delete. Just Do It ?
Me ? I love and trust engineering and safety measures. I met Ryan Newman a long time ago in the pits one day. He seemed like a heckuva guy. An engineer. Not a reckless thrill seeker.
All that energy, speed and momentum, and he walks out 2 days later. Safety personnel at his side like 30 seconds later. WOW ! What a tremendous demonstration of design, ingenuity, care and concern. KUDOS to NASCAR
With respect to this TWEET above, where the TWEETER writes “no what I mean,” in an April 24, 2019 article entitled “Sizing Up Twitter Users – U.S. adult Twitter users are younger and more likely to be Democrats than the general public. Most users rarely tweet, but the most prolific 10% create 80% of tweets from adult U.S. users” by Stefan Wojcik and Adam Hughes, we learn about TWITTER political demographics, as follows:
Twitter is a modern public square where many voices discuss, debate and share their views.
Media personalities, politicians and the public turn to social networks for real-time information and reactions to the day’s events.
But compared with the U.S. public overall, which voices are represented on Twitter?
To examine this question, Pew Research Center conducted a nationally representative survey of 2,791 U.S. adult Twitter users who were willing to share their Twitter handles.
The design of this survey provides a unique opportunity to measure the characteristics and attitudes of Twitter users in the United States and link those observations to actual Twitter behaviors, such as how often users tweet or how many accounts they follow.
The analysis indicates that the 22% of American adults who use Twitter are representative of the broader population in certain ways, but not others.
Twitter users are younger, more likely to identify as Democrats, more highly educated and have higher incomes than U.S. adults overall.
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So, to me, that is the profile of this TWEETER above here who TWEETED out “no what I mean” – he or she is a highly educated Democrat with a higher income than U.S. adults overall.
And here is another point from that survey:
A large majority of tweets come from a small minority of tweeters.
In addition to teasing out these differences between Twitter users and the population as a whole, this analysis also highlights the sizable diversity among Twitter users themselves.
The median user tweets just twice each month, but a small cohort of extremely active Twitter users posts with much greater regularity.
As a result, much of the content posted by Americans on Twitter reflects a small number of authors.
The 10% of users who are most active in terms of tweeting are responsible for 80% of all tweets created by U.S. users.
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So there is another assumption we can make about this TWEETER who TWEETED out “no what I mean” – he or she is one of the ALPHA TWEETERS who lead the pack of TWITTER-ites, instructing them through TWEETS how and what they should think about anything.
Getting back to the analysis, and this is interesting with respect to that “no what I mean” TWEET, we have:
Individuals who are among the top 10% most active tweeters also differ from those who tweet rarely in ways that go beyond the volume of content they produce.
Compared with other U.S. adults on Twitter, they are much more likely to be women and more likely to say they regularly tweet about politics.
Most Twitter users engage modestly; the 10% who tweet most often focus more on politics and are mostly women.
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Hmmmmm!
Dang Paul…you are so easily triggered. I was poking fun (“funnin’ with us” as you said) at your comment earlier about you know who using twitter and the comparison to “Catering to Stupid in America is good bidness, for sure, as TWITTER clearly demonstrates.” Now, who was ‘funnin’’ with THAT statement? And I’ve read your posts. Laboriously. And I will tell you something maybe you don’t know. You DO support Trump. You support a lot of his political agendas. I could give two shakes about that. Who folks vote for is their personal choice and lawful right. This is still America…correct?
I, for the life of me, still cannot understand why you become so defensive whenever someone says a contradictory word about your stance. If you will notice, I am not defending my earlier comment. I don’t need to. Those that understand, understand. Those that are offended, are offended. I make no conciliatory remark to either. I let my words fall where they may. For better or worst. Here in America, it is protected by the 1st Amendment. (So Far). And you sir, are entitled by all rights and privileges afforded me and everyone on this blog (and every blog!) the same. But, Paul…simmer down now. I am not slinging ****, I am slinging T**th. And you know it. And if you don’t that’s on you, not me.
Two things here I want to clear the air on. In twisting and warping reality, you tend to lead the pack. No disrespect, you just do. An example forthwith: I did not and do not call Bernie Sanders a “Communist”. That’s your man-baby in the White House’s words. Secondly, I do not and not for one second see anyone nor believe that anyone in Cape Charles or anywhere else on the Eastern Shore is an A-Hole as you refer to cover the fact, I outed you as a Republican. I apologize if I am incorrect in assuming you are a Republican. But you are no conservative either. You sir, are Neo-Con. A Johnny-come-lately vocal nutcase skittering onto the scene of demonizing progression and change that would better the state and well-being of the average American citizen. You and your diatribes are in the same vein as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and the rest of the new right’s mega-vocal pieces. A new dawn is coming. And Trump ain’t on that train. So, to heed the words of a fellow free thinker: “And don’t criticize what you can’t understand. Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old road is rapidly aging…Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand for the times, they are a-changing.” Folks like you are not as numerous and therefore not as powerful as you think. The star you’ve hitched your wagon to is a soon-to-be rapidly fading demagogue. And if you’ve seen the movie “A Face in the Crowd” or read Sinclair Lewis’ “Elmer Gantry” you know where all this ends up. The people that will feel the pain of failure the most…will be people like you. Elderly, retired, medically and socially dependent on the system. Broke, abandoned and full of delusion of what America could have been, should have been, but instead…bought, sold and junked, left to rust. The new order is coming, and it doesn’t include the Oligarchs. It doesn’t include the Billionaire class solely running the show. It doesn’t include endless wars of imperialism, subsidy entitlements for corporations, militant posturing as the world’s policemen. It doesn’t have time for nor room for lies, deflections and manipulations. So, if that is twisting and warping the fabric of truth, then mark my words. America is at the cross-roads (as we have been here many, many times) and the choice you make today, will define the future of tomorrow. I hardly expect you to heed this statement. In fact, I expect more of the same from you. You don’t listen, you attack. You don’t discuss or debate, you go on the offense. Facts are just an obstacle for you to climb over. You project back onto anyone you disagree with outlandish retorts of distortion or downright falsehoods (again, show me where I called Sanders a communist. Show me.) i.e. (“And barmy Bernie Sanders, the Communist, as you call him”) So…is that statement pre-ANTHROPOCENE enough for you? Please, don’t be angry. Take it as constructive criticism. You can do that, can’t you?
And to answer your question about Twitter being for idiots…I’d say it’s for people too caught up in social media with too much time on their hands giving out WAY too much information on their private lives for data mining purposes and media manipulation. But hey, if that’s what you want out of life…knock yourselves out. To each their own. (See Bill of Rights, Amendments 14, 15, 19, 21, 24, and 26). We all have rights. So far. Peace.
Chas, the one thing that is for sure with your posting is that when you go off on a rip like the one above, which incidentally, I thought was HILARIOUS, you go all the way around the barn to get to where you’re going, and then some, and that is a natural fact!
There are a lot of words in there, my dear friend and fellow NEO-CON Chas Cornweller (I’ll be one for you so long as you are one for me back, all for one and one for all), so I am not sure how many people will have the endurance such as I had, and the stomach, to read your incredible screed all the way through, word for word, as I did, and let me say, dear friend Chas, that I find your writing style oddly reminiscent of H.P. Lovecraft and Edger Allen Poe, but nonetheless, I would encourage as many as possible to make the journey, as it were, through the pathways of your tortured mind as you recreate for us exclusively here in the Cape Charles Mirror a modern-day Cthulhu, populated by modern-day incarnations of the High Priest of the Great Old Ones, and the Great Dreamer, and the Sleeper of R’lyeh, with Donald Trump as your Azathoth (great-great-grandfather), and Kelly-Anne Conway as Cthaeghya (half-sister), with Nctosa and Nctolhu (twin daughters) and Yog-Sothoth (grandfather; Charley “Chuck” Schumer @Nancyspoodle), and Shub-Niggurath (grandmother; Nancy Pelosi @Cowboyone).
For those too young to see the relationship, the original Cthulhu was a fictional cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft and first introduced in the short story “The Call of Cthulhu”, published in the American pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928.
Considered a Great Old One within the pantheon of Lovecraftian cosmic entities, the creature has since been featured in numerous popular culture references, and here we have our dear friend and masterful fabulist Chas Cornweller bringing the creature to life right here in the pages of the Cape Charles Mirror, to our universal delight, I might add.
As Lovecraft depicts Cthulhu as a gigantic entity worshipped by cultists, so does our own Chas masterfully portray Trump as a gigantic entity worshipped by cultists, especially after Trump appeared before huge adoring crowds in India.
In the original, since revived by Chas in his screed above, Lovecraft had described Cthulhu’s appearance as looking like an octopus, a dragon, and a caricature of human form, and in my estimation, our Chas has done the same with Trump!
Well done, Chas!
Against all odds, and they were formidable, I might add for the at-home viewing audience, with Chas being accused of being a “Leftist” on this blog, while in actuality, he really was a self-avowed “humanitarian,” Chas Cornweller has re-created for us in the pages of the Cape Charles Mirror a new Cthulhu Mythos, to delight us for ages to come.
And getting back to the truly important existential question raised by our dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller @ February 27, 2020 at 1:28 pm, “So…is that statement pre-ANTHROPOCENE enough for you?,” the correct answer, the honest answer, the only true answer is NO, Chas, because what you said in your polemic, by the way, a very good example of the genre, is based on passion and unbridled emotion, not reason, and not fact, and thus, cannot be classed as truly “pre-Anthropocene,” because “pre-Anthropocene” means the AGE OF REASON, dear friend Chas.
The style of your polemic actually dates it to pre-Age of Enlightenment thinking, which was based on dogmatism and superstition.
To help you out here, Chas, to help you comprehend what I am trying to tell you here, recall that in his “Advancement of Learning,” Francis Bacon, whose works were a powerful factor in producing the more critical intellectual attitude that characterized the pre-Anthropocene and differentiated it from the Anthropocene, the Age of Un-reason and just plain idiocy that we are mired in today, the age of TWEETING on TWITTER because people can no longer communicate with words in sentences of more than about 33 characters, held that the primary sources of error in human reasoning such as what you are exhibiting above included blind acceptance of popular ideas, such as if one does not blindly accept the teachings and dogma of the Democrat party, then one must be a Conservative Republican Trump supporter, which is binary thinking, along with failure to employ critical observation, such as totally missing the fact that I don’t have a television, and I don’t watch television, and I don’t listen to talk shows on the radio, so outside of your fertile imagination, dear friend Chas, I am hardly a Johnny-come-lately vocal nutcase skittering onto the scene of demonizing progression and change that would better the state and well-being of the average American citizen, nor is what I say in the same vein as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and the rest of the new right’s mega-vocal pieces, since by not listening to any of them as you so religiously do, I am clueless as to what they are saying, and thus, do not repeat what I never heard in the first place, which takes us to intellectual impatience on your part, dear friend Chas, which promotes on your part hasty acceptance of tenuous conclusions, such as I support Trump, when in fact what I really support is OUR Constitution.
In his “Organum,” Chas, and surely, you can’t have forgotten this, Bacon dealt, as you will recall, with the sources of the type of fallacious thinking you are exhibiting above here in an allegorical fashion, therein describing inherent weaknesses of human reason as “idols of the tribe, where as we see so clearly today with the TWITTER TWIBE of TWEETERS, observation, memory and concentration unavoidably lag, with every individual in the tribe (think Democrat party) constantly beset by the tendency to subordinate reason to emotion, which is a chief characteristic of the ANTHROPOCENE AGE.
Thus, by analysis, we can clearly discern that when you ask me above, “So…is that statement pre-ANTHROPOCENE enough for you?,” the correct answer, the honest answer, the only true answer can be NO, Chas, because what you said in your polemic, by the way, a very good example of the genre, is based on passion and unbridled emotion, not reason, and not fact, and thus, cannot be classed as truly “pre-Anthropocene,” because “pre-Anthropocene” means the AGE OF REASON, dear friend Chas.
“It doesn’t include the Billionaire class solely running the show.”
Buwahahahahahahaha, so says the man whose party is putting up Bloomberg!!! WHO BOUGHT HIS WAY INTO THE RACE.
Buwahahahahahahahahahaha.
I also am laughing at your comment about the “New Order”
Hey Chas? Historically, who is the FIRST up against the wall when a new order takes over?
I’ll give you a hint……Kerensky.
Hell hath no fury like a left-leaning liberal humanitarian scorned and that is a fact!
If you don’t agree with them word for word, they are ready to flay the skin off your back with the sharp side of their tongue as a humanitarian act.
But hey, since we already knew that, let’s go to something we all might not know about, since it is not a common term, and that is “what in the hell is a NEO-CON, anyway,” and for that answer, all we need do is to go back to the Democratic Socialist Manifesto entitled “Resistance Rising: Socialist Strategy in the Age of Political Revolution – A summary of Democratic Socialists of America’s Strategy Document – June 2016,” that our dear friend and fellow Cape Charles Mirror correspondent Chas Cornweller lifted the term from, which Manifesto starts as follows:
2016 was a game changing year for leftists and progressives.
We are finally reemerging as a vital and powerful force after an extended period of stagnation and demoralization, and we face a political landscape more favorable than perhaps at any time since the 1960s.
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To name but a few electoral examples, in Greece the left-wing Syriza party came to power in 2014, in Spain the left-wing Podemos party emerged from antiausterity protests in 2014 and only two years later it was the third largest party in the country.
Even more surprising were the rise of Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the British Labor Party in 2015 and the phenomenal success of Bernie Sanders’ “political revolution” during the 2016 United States’ presidential election.
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The section of that Manifesto dealing with the esoteric and really quite outdated topic of NEO-CONS, is as follows:
The Rise of Neoliberalism
Starting in the 1970s, however, in a movement that would become known as neoliberalism, economic elites in these countries began mobilizing politically to lower taxes for the rich and corporations, to eviscerate democratic decision-making both in the workplace as well as at the ballot box, to slash spending on essential social services such as education and social security, to deregulate industries across the economy and to open up flows of capital across national borders.
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By labeling me a “NEO-CON” (BOO, HISS) in his diatribe above, our dear friend Chas Cornweller, whose multitudinous writings many people compare favorably with the literary output of Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961), is saying that I am one of those economic elites mobilizing politically to lower taxes for the rich and corporations, to eviscerate democratic decision-making both in the workplace as well as at the ballot box, to slash spending on essential social services such as education and social security, to deregulate industries across the economy and to open up flows of capital across national borders, which labeling of myself is patently ridiculous, but hey, it does make for a sense of drama such as Dashiell Hammett, an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories who was also a screenwriter and political activist, like our dear friend Chas Cornweller. was able to create with such enduring characters as Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse).
Getting back to the Democratic Socialist Manifesto on NEO-CONS, we have:
These “reforms” enabled corporations to evade virtually all forms of accountability either to the workers they employed or to the communities in which they operated.
In the United States neoliberalism was aided by racialized attacks on social service provision in which African American and Latino recipients of welfare and other anti-poverty programs were portrayed as an “undeserving poor” whose lifestyle was being subsidized by (white) taxpayers (even though whites constituted the largest group of welfare beneficiaries).
The success of neoliberalism across the United States and Europe differed based upon the relative strength or weakness of left-wing political parties and trade unions – leaving working people in traditional bastions of social democracy such as Sweden relatively better off than working people in countries such the United States where trade unions and the Left have been weak historically.
But by the early 2000s the historic gains made across these countries in the post-World War Two period had been rolled back dramatically.
This, combined with the fall of Soviet and East European Communism and the marketization of the Chinese economy by the early 1990s, led most pundits and politicians to proclaim the ultimate triumph of neoliberalism: “there is no alternative” to the free market became the mantra of policy makers around the world.
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Now, note how long ago that all really is, and how out of date, as well, especially with the meteoric rise of barmy Bernie Sanders, the champion of the Democratic Socialists who is poised on the brink of being our next president, which takes us back to the Democratic Socialist manifesto that forms the basis of barmy Bernie’s political philosophy, to wit:
Insurgent Responses to Neoliberalism
Given the profound and sustained defeats suffered by the Left and progressive movements during this period, by the mid- 2000s socialists and progressives in the United States and Europe could boast of virtually no examples of successful resistance to neoliberalism.
Many turned their eyes to South America, which during this time was practically the only democratic leftist political stronghold in the world.
Only a few short years later, however, the situation in Europe and the United States looked completely different: the Left had finally galvanized significant support in the electoral arena, and had pulled the terms of political debate significantly leftward through creative social movement organizing.
These electoral successes have been paralleled by, and to a large degree made possible by, the rise of a new generation of progressive social movements committed both to thoroughgoing critiques of capitalism, racism, sexism, xenophobia and other forms of oppression, as well as to the creation of an ecologically sustainable, democratic and egalitarian future.
To take the United States as one example, the progressive offensive against neoliberalism began in earnest with the Occupy protests of 2011 and the resistance to Governor Scott Walker’s anti-labor offensive in Wisconsin, which put the issue of inequality at the center of U.S. political discourse and cultivated a new generation of activists that have been crucial in more recent movements.
In the wake of Occupy, powerful new movements arose to challenge brutal immigration policies (The Dreamers), the shamefully low federal minimum wage (Fight for $15), the epidemic of police brutality and structural racism (Black Lives Matter) and inequality (the Sanders Political Revolution) to name a few.
These movements have opened up space for a serious discussion of capitalism, male dominance and racism in our society that has not existed in decades, and which provides unique opportunities for the growth of a democratic socialist movement that emphasizes the interconnectedness of all of the struggles and the structural character of the reforms needed to make real and lasting change.
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Yes, people, there we have the makings of a true political thriller right here in the pages of the Cape Charles Mirror, thanks to the sheer inventive genius of our own Chas Cornweller!
So all I can say at this juncture is stay tuned to this same station for another installment of whatever it is our dear friend Chas will provide us next.
And actually, our dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller is getting our American history somewhat confused here, because the NEO-CON (New confidence game) was a very specific period of our history, as was the Teapot Dome Scandal before it, and the NEO-CONS were those who were pushing the SCAM, or CON, the SCAM being that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction so that we could then invade Iraq, were a distinct group of people, as were the Keating Five.
As to who the NEO-CONS actually were as people, here is the list:
Sens. Baucus (D-MT), Bayh (D-IN), Biden (D-DE), Breaux (D-LA), Cantwell (D-WA), Carnahan (D-MO), Carper (D-DE), Cleland (D-GA), Clinton (D-NY), Daschle (D-SD), Dodd (D-CT), Dorgan (D-ND), Edwards (D-NC), Feinstein (D-CA), Harkin (D-IA), Hollings (D-SC), Johnson (D-SD), Kerry (D-MA), Kohl (D-WI), Landrieu (D-LA), Lieberman (D-CT), Lincoln (D-AR), Miller (D-GA), Nelson (D-FL), Nelson (D-NE), Reid (D-NV), Rockefeller (D-WV), Schumer (D-NY), and Torricelli (D-NJ).
82 Democratic Representatives are members of that group, as well, to include Sanford Bishop (GA-02), Joe Crowley (NY-14), Ted Deutsch (FL-22), Eliot Engel (NY-16), Gene Green (TX-29), Steny Hoyer (MD-05), Ron Kind (WI-03), Nita Lowey (NY-17), Stephen Lynch (MA-08), Carolyn Maloney (NY-12), Bill Pascrell (NJ-09), Collin Peterson (MN-07), Adam Schiff (CA-28), Brad Sherman (CA-30), Adam Smith (WA-09), and Ed Markey (D-MA).
It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with him after this long-running FARCICAL IMPEACHMENT CIRCUS he was the star of to see the name of the smarmy and unctuous Disneyland Democratic congressman Adam Schiff included in that list of Democrat NEO-CONS (new con artists) who were pushing that SCAM that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction so that they could rig an excuse to invade Iraq.
Pushing SCAMS seems to be a part of Adam’s nature.
Putting the 2002 NEO CON (New Con Job) in its proper place historically, it is the CON JOB to get us into a war that came after the GREAT LBJ CON JOB, otherwise known as the Tonkin Gulf incident in August of 1964, which got us mired down pretty firmly in the mud of VEET NAM, where the incompetent LBJ couldn’t get us back out, and it is the CON JOB that came before the GREAT BARACK OBAMA CON JOB that has us now firmly mired in the humanitarian mess Obama and his queen Hillary Clinton made in Syria in 2011.
These recurring CON JOBS like the 2002 NEO-CON which came after the GREAT LBJ CON JOB, otherwise known as the Tonkin Gulf incident in August of 1964, which got us mired down pretty firmly in the mud of VEET NAM, where the incompetent LBJ couldn’t get us back out, are what The Who were talking about in that song where they clearly said “SEE THE NEW BOSS, SAME AS THE OLD BOSS!”
DON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN, is what they said!
How come nobody listened?
Because if they had, if they has heeded what The Who were trying to tell us back then, about not getting fooled again, as LBJ had fooled us, the CON JOB that is now known as the GREAT BARACK OBAMA CON JOB that has us now firmly mired in the humanitarian mess Obama and his queen Hillary Clinton made in Syria in 2011 could never have happened.
Whew!!!! Word salads to the left of us, word salads to the right of us, all boiling down to “you suck, no YOU suck”.
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What thread are you reading, Mr. Otton?
One in your imagination?
Over and out.
And here, Mr. Otton, I have the very distinct pleasure (cue crowds cheering wildly) of being the one to inform you that the Ancient and Honorable Order of the S.F.T.P.O.G.I.I.A. has by unanimous acclaim chosen you as their MAN OF THE YEAR, and it is a special honor because you are the first internet celebrity to be so honored.
Heretofore, the award has always gone to some celebrity in either the television talk show game, you know, savvy political commentators like Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and the rest of the new right’s mega-vocal pieces, or stand-out radio celebrities like Rush Limbo who is said to have broken down in tears when he first read our work in the Cape Charles Mirror, unabashedly proclaiming to all within earshot that he had been trying and failing for years to achieve what you were so naturally able to produce as your work product here at the Cape Charles Mirror, and I personally think that that endorsement was a big factor in your favor in getting that award and the recognition among your peers that comes with it, along with a very handsome walnut wall plaque with your name on it and the year you were a winner, and that plaque will join all those others in what is known up here as the Walk of Fame!
So, well done, Mr. Otton!
That is a rare distinction among mortal men, and you so clearly deserve it.
Perfect example of the typical ideologue, no matter which side of the aisle is home.
Your snark betrays your imaginary wisdom.
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