My sister, wv-ewe, still cannot relax. The Monster-Trump cant die, she says. He’s too evil.

She told me, she’s seen too many Monster movies where in the last scene, the monster’s hand pushes up through grave to the surface…

No dancing for her. She’s…waiting. For the hand.

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Meanwhile our nation burns as ICUs become overwhelmed, with hospital staffs beyond exhaustion across North-Central US and here in West Texas and New Mexico. We’ll return soon to 2,000 deaths per day as #COVID19 again becomes the leading cause of daily deaths in America. Few care https://t.co/vs7qKidl6R

— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) November 9, 2020

Billy_T wrote:

Agree with all of that. Another factor, or two, or three:

Clinton/Obama/Biden/DNC govern like moderate Republicans, but those moderate Republicans no longer exist in the GOP. So what is it they’re mimicking, exactly? A phantom, a mirage, a myth?

Both parties also have their own gravitational pull, and the influence of their “bases,” which alter words and deeds and ideologies. So a “moderate Republican” who actually resides IN the GOP is going to be much, much further to the right than a “moderate Republican” who resides in the Dem Party. They won’t speak or act in the same way. Not ever.

I’d much rather have the kind of society described in Martin Hägglund’s This Life. But if I have to choose between a moderate Republican in Dem clothes, or a moderate Republican in Republican clothes, I’d take the former. And in this election, it was a much easier choice than that:

Moderate Republidem versus fascist POS.

I hope I live long enough to see a true leftist in the White House and leftists controlling Congress, etc. etc. Who then work to change the system entirely: fully realized economic and political democracy.

We can dream.

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Yeah, and predicting the future is impossible. There’s plenty of evidence that the nation will just continue replaying the same ole sorry ass record. Over and over and over. Frankly, there is a MOUNTAIN of evidence pointing in ‘that’ direction.
Look at the Senate. 99-1. I’ll just keep pointing it out, year after year after year. Thats a huge piece of evidence. It just cant be ignored.

And yet, there are also rumblings below the surface. Little rays of progressive light coming thru. An AOC here, a Bernie there. M4A is certainly on track to break through. I kinda think its where Marijuana-legalization was about ten years ago. But who knows.

M4A is such a game-changer though. Marijuana is just not all that important compared to M4A.

But just the fact progressives have to fight another decade to get something the rest of the world has had for ages, says a lot about the Corporotacracy.

70,000,000 Amerikans wanted Trump. Donald Trump. He came within a hair of winning a second term. Thats our country.

And Bernie could not even beat a Biden. So, here we are. Again. Groundhog Day.

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waterfield wrote:

Before there can be any real progressive movement in this country they have to let the following sink in: Over 40 million people in this country think Biden is either a socialist or a communist.

There is a real progressive movement in the country. In terms of what voters want, when polled, they identify with progressive positions, too. It is also true that unlike more advanced democracies (in Europe for example), the USA is still dealing with good old-fashioned red scare tactics. But I will say this. People who warn us about that kind of thing actually reinforce those tactics. Sometimes I even think that’s the point.

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I think its quite complicated. Lots of different political-factions and movements swirling in a vortex of American politics.

Biden/Obama/Clinton/DNC use the same formula over and over to win or sometimes lose elections. They do that because they are moderate-republicans. Thats what they are. So they just do what those people do. And its always the same formula.

The question the progressive movement asks is — Is there another formula that could actually Win? I mean win big. Nationally. Not just a small district like AOC’s etc.

I dont think we know the answer to that question.

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JackPMiller wrote:

<Dave Chappelle Stand-Up Monologue – SNL

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I like Chappelle, but I was not moved by that routine. I wish he had used his platform to suggest we all march on Biden for Medicare-For-All.
That would have been actually useful.

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The Trump administration abruptly fired the leaders of three agencies that oversee the nuclear weapons stockpile, electricity and natural gas regulation, and overseas aid during the past two days. https://t.co/R6HBQlUbBh

— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) November 8, 2020

ferrets:https://portside.org/2020-11-06/nasal-spray-prevents-covid-infection-ferrets-study-finds
A nasal spray that blocks the absorption of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has completely protected ferrets it was tested on, according to a small study released on Thursday by an international team of scientists. The study, which was limited to animals and has not yet been peer-reviewed, was assessed by several health experts at the request of The New York Times.

If the spray, which the scientists described as nontoxic and stable, is proved to work in humans, it could provide a new way of fighting the pandemic. A daily spritz up the nose would act like a vaccine.

“Having something new that works against the coronavirus is exciting,” said Dr. Arturo Casadevall, the chairman of immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who was not involved in the study. “I could imagine this being part of the arsenal.”…

The last few days I’ve been live-streaming ABC News, NBC News and PBS News to follow the election. I wanted to stream Fox but i guess they didnt have a live-stream.

Anyway, this is the first time Ive actually watched the Corporate-Network-Pundits in many many years. I had forgotten what they are like. It…is…APPALLING how they ALLLLLLLLLLLL sound like David Gergin. He’s the smooth, soothing, civil, moderate-republican from PBS. I mean they ALLLLLLLLLLL push moderate-republican/Dem-Centrist strategies. ALLL of them.

I had to turn it off. It was physically painful to listen to it.

My god in heaven. I had forgotten what a propaganda-wasteland TV ‘news’ is.

There’s a reason we have another Biden in office now.

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Lincoln project utterly failed – a higher percentage Republicans voted Trump in 2020 than 2016.

Meanwhile, the DSA @DemSocialists has won 26 out of 30 races this year.

Who are the pragmatists who know how to win, again?

— Katie Halper (@kthalps) November 4, 2020

A man wearing a Puerto Rican flag tosses paper towel over the fence toward the White House. “Never forget,” he said. pic.twitter.com/tZkalqgB2D

— Samantha Schmidt (@schmidtsam7) November 7, 2020

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Laura Ingraham prepares her audience for the likely possibility that the President will lose the election pic.twitter.com/tG50EIHj60

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) November 7, 2020

link:https://reason.com/2020/11/04/jo-jorgensen-heading-toward-second-best-result-in-libertarian-party-history/

“…With votes still being tallied and nails still being bitten in several battleground states, Jorgensen’s vote total currently exceeds the margin between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden in three states: Michigan (+0.87 percentage points, with 90 percent of ballots counted), Wisconsin (+0.51, with 97 percent counted), and Nevada (+0.27, with 87 percent).

Though 1.14 percent marks a steep drop-off from Gary Johnson’s 3.28 percent in 2016….
….The Libertarian is quintupling Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins’ current total of 0.23 percent.”

Dems are losing their minds celebrating a 6,000 vote lead. They are touting these results saying "oh I guess he was electable, fuck you leftists"; a 6,000 vote lead in PA? This is what you guys consider electable? Against a man who killed 230,000+ Americans? This is pathetic pic.twitter.com/Z9ftxNmd1I

— ⌛ (@make_it_better0) November 6, 2020

Move Trump Get Outa the way. #Pennsylvania pic.twitter.com/ab5qFsXB1w

— 💃PissOffTrump💃 (@PissOffTrumpkin) November 6, 2020

..meanwhile at the White House.. pic.twitter.com/nBIAPtj6FP

— M.O.D. (@WallofMax) November 6, 2020