MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2025
Also, the madness will emerge: We've now established a basic fact about JD Vance:
With revolution now underway, there's nothing he won't say and do.
Yesterday, he established that point on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. That Fox Business / Fox News Channel show is becoming the place for the revolutionaries to go to say whatever they want the peasantry to hear.
Bartiromo serves as a willing enabler; yesterday, Vance was untrammeled. For starters, he said he expects "a lot of indictments" in the wake of Tulsi Gabbard's discovery of President Obama's now-famous act of treason.
“I absolutely want to see indictments, Maria," Vance said at one point. "...I don’t know how anybody can look at that and say that there wasn’t aggressive violations of the law."
Bartiromo didn't ask him to get specific; the messaging was thereby delivered. But for our money, the moral squalor was fully revealed when the vice president extended his lord and master's ugly, unfounded talking point about the Epstein matter:
VANCE (8/10/25): I have to say, Maria, I laugh at the Democrats who are now all of a sudden so interested in the Epstein files. For four years, Joe Biden and the Democrats did absolutely nothing about this story. We know that Jeffrey Epstein had a lot of connections with left-wing politicians and left-wing billionaires. And now President Trump has demanded full transparency from this, and yet somehow the Democrats are attacking him and not the Biden administration, which did nothing for four years.
MARIA: Was it the right move for [Rep. James] Comer to send subpoenas to the Clintons?
VANCE: It absolutely was...Democrat billionaires and Democrat political leaders went to Epstein island all the time. Who knows what they did, but it's totally reasonable to ask these questions.
...And of course, we know that Clinton—or allegedly, he went to the island 26 times, 28 times? Totally appropriate for Comer to ask what was going on at that island.
It would be totally reasonable for some competent authority to review and report on the Epstein files. That said, here's what this revolutionary figure did:
First, he said that President Trump "has demanded full transparency," failing to note that President Trump could release the bulk of the materials in question right now, if he so chose.
Bartiromo didn't mention that point. Then, the real squalor occurred:
Belatedly inserting "allegedly," the revolutionary repeated the wholly unfounded claim his lord and master has thrown out two separate times.
Citoyens, there is no evidence—none at all—that Bill Clinton ever went to the island even once. But President Trump ginned up a pleasing claim about the (wholly invented) number of times Clinton went there, saying "supposedly" at one point.
Hapless journalists ran as fast as they could to repeat and broadcast the baseless claim. On Deadline: White House, Nicolle Wallace played the tape of the president making the invented claim without offering a word of comment.
Yesterday, there was a revolutionary figure, asserting the invented claim on this "cable news" program! Belatedly, he threw the word "allegedly" in, swapping out Trump's "supposedly.".
As with the Haitian immigrants eating the pets, so too here. All in all, our assessment would be this:
JD Vance will say and do anything in these revolutionary times.
What happened to Vance in the years of his childhood and youth? In the years when he was forced to grow up with the abusive treatment performed by the most dysfunctional family ever described in this nation?
We advise you to pity the child, but to tell the truth about the adult—in this case, about the adult who my have resulted from the mistreatment of the child.
We're linking you here to reports in Mediaite because finer news orgs, like the New York Times, tend to avoid reporting on moral squalor of this unmistakable type. (Or on the horrible family history which may help explain its existence.)
The finer orgs avert their gaze. But here you see the type of moral squalor which will emerge in times of revolution—and although they won't say so at the finer orgs, we're currently living in a time of revolutionary fervor.
General Washington's famous conquest triggered an age of revolution. The French revolution followed soon after, with Marie Antionette jeered in the streets, then executed by public beheading.
Eventually the Russian revolution occurred. Back in the 1960s, revolution was in the air across the sea in Chairman Mao's China. Today, an angry revolt from below is taking place right here in this land.
At times of revolutionary fervor, various kinds of moral squalor will be there for all to see. Also, the madness will emerge.
At the New York Times, they're constantly trying to disappear the current madness. But over the weekend, the sitting president nuttily posted this:
Trump Vows He’s Going to ‘Stop Violent Crime’ In DC With a Single Press Conference
President Donald Trump announced a press conference to occur Monday that he promises will “essentially, stop violent crime” in Washington, D.C.
In a Saturday Truth Social post, the president blasted D.C. as one of the most “dangerous” cities in the world while announcing his press conference.
“On Monday a Press Conference will be held at the White House which will, essentially, stop violent crime in Washington, D.C. It has become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World. It will soon be one of the safest!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT,” Trump wrote.
The presser is scheduled for 10 a.m. today. In a burst of craziness-adjacent fervor, the sitting president said the press conference "will stop violent crime in D.C.!"
No, that doesn't seem to make sense. In fairness, the presser will only do that "essentially."
The Crazy seemed to lurking right here in that post. Then he added this:
Trump Tells Homeless They’re Being Booted From DC ‘IMMEDIATELY’ As Part of His Crime Crackdown...
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Sunday to once again tease a White House press conference that he’s promised will “stop violent crime.”
On Sunday, the president said his press conference on crime in Washington, D.C., will occur at the White House, and he unveiled some vague plans, including shipping the homeless out of D.C.
“We’re having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House. I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before. The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital,” he wrote.
“The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong. It’s all going to happen very fast, just like the Border. We went from millions pouring in, to ZERO in the last few months. This will be easier—Be prepared! There will be no ‘MR. NICE GUY.’ We want our Capital BACK. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” the president wrote.
He's going to stop violent crime in D.C.! Also, he's IMMEDIATELY going to ship that city's homeless population FAR away. It's going to happen VERY FAST.
Is something wrong with the sitting president? (He was once widely described as a very genial host.) We've asked the question again and again, noting that some such state of affairs would of course be a human tragedy, as such things always are.
Within the press corps' finer precincts, that question, by common agreement, imply cannot be asked. In order to maintain the illusion, crazy-adjacent Truth Social posts are only discussed at Mediaite. If you read the New York Times, these bouts of The Crazy don't happen.
Does Blue America understand the situation it faces? Do those of us in Blue America understand the various ways we ourselves have brought this angry moral squalor down upon our heads?
We'd say the answers are no and no. We'd also say that revolutionary fervor is in the air—that a revolution is underway, and we don't know where it goes next.
As is always the case at such times, JD Vance is rich in moral squalor—and the madness is there, again and again, for everyone to see.
What's the source of this revolutionary fervor? We'll examine that question all week. Tomorrow, we'll try to return to Pete Hegseth's pastor(s), with miles to go before we get to sleep.
We're posting at 8:49 a.m. The press conference to end all violent crime is currently scheduled for 10.
Tomorrow: Religionism speaks
BalasPadamOkay, Democrat squealing, and more Democrat squealing.
It's boring, but it's a good, hopeful, very positive sign. It means that swamp-draining goes well.
Keep draining the swamp, Mr. President, keep draining the swamp.
Mao thinks he's special, because he loves child rape, but he isn't. Every standard-issue Right-winger loves child rape. It's a totem for them, like being anti-vaccine.
Padam"Mr. President, keep draining the swamp."
PadamWith Ghislaine's help. Don't forget Ghislaine. She's in a minimum security prison now, with the freedom of movement to help drain the swamp, making sure everything is done on the up and up, no secret deals for political favors.
Why is Mao such a sick bastard after promoting illegal wars decades ago, he now is protecting child rapists. Sick little freak.
PadamWhy is Mao such a sick bastard after promoting illegal wars decades ago, he now is protecting child rapists. Sick little freak.
PadamPoor Bob Somerby.
BalasPadamNo matter how hard he tries, he just can't distract his readers from the fact that the Republican Party is an international pedophile ring.
I'm not willing to call Bob a failure, since there are scores of people who can't identify the Republican voter who isn't a bigot, after insisting they actually existed.
what 9:34 - you are dumb on a monumental scale.
PadamHow does name-calling refute anything @9:34 said?
Padam12:06 seeks to top 9:34's level of dumbness.
PadamI'll spell it out for you. The line of argument: "I assert X; prove me wrong!" is monumentally stupid, especially when the "X" asserted is transparently bogus.
PadamAhem…9:34 is engaging in a little hyperbole to make a point. Surely you can recognize that, AC and Dogface.
PadamSo I guess you agree that not all Republicans are racist pedophiles. If so, what do you see as 9:34's "point"?
Padam9:34 is spot on.
PadamSomerby has been desperately trying to distract from the Trump/Epstein issue.
A significant amount of Republicans are involved in cases concerning sexual predation of minors.
Republicans are bigots, it is one of their defining traits.
"Republicans are bigots, it is one of their defining traits."
PadamI guess if you just keep repeating and repeating and repeating this then it must be true.
Let's unpack the argument. Obviously, some percentage of humans are bigoted pedophiles. Obviously, some of that percentage are Republicans and some are Democrats. 9:34 wants to argue that the incidence of bigoted pedophiles is higher in the Republican camp than in the Democratic camp. But 9:34 presents no evidence to support this assertion. Instead, 9:34 says, in effect, "Prove me wrong!" This method of argument is monumentally dumb. It's simply a method of avoiding the burden of having to provide some evidence to back up the assertion made.
PadamDG,
PadamYou say that method of argument is monumentally dumb, but it works. Checkout how many people in this country actually believe we have an illegal immigration problem. Or that Biden cheated to win the 2020 Presidential election, or that Haitians are eating our pets, etc.
All assertions, without an iota of evidence, but all with a healthy amount of people believing them anyway.
Are you ready to apologize about it being a monumentally dumb way to argue?
anon 12:06 - "you ask " how does "name calling refute anything @9:34 said?" My assertion that 12:06 is monumentally dumb does not refute anything that 9:34 says here. But that he is monumentally dumb should be pretty obvious to anyone. DG has described the dumbness of 9:34's contention. I would add that anon 9;34 himself constantly name calls his targets. He does this constantly, over and over again, ad nauseum.
PadamHere, I would add that anon 9:34 contends that TDH tries, unsuccessfully, to distract his readers from the "fact" that the Republican Party is an "international pedophile ring." First, he provides zero evidence that this is true. Second, there is no evidence that TDEH is trying to "distract" his readers from this "fact." If I called you a "pedophile" with no evidence, that would be dumb - and a heinous slur.
The last sentence of anon 9:34's post is on the unintelligible side. He seems to say that "scores of people" insisted there was a Republican who was not a "bigot." Anon 9:34 is the person who ad nauseum posts various ways of claiming all Republicans, or Trump voters, are "bigots." He never provides an explanation, rational or otherwise of the basis for this slur - (undoubtedly because there is no way he could).
3:02. You're right, of course. I apologize.
PadamIf AC/ MA says the Republican Party isn't an international pedophile ring, despite the official actions the Republican Party takes to cover-up pedophilia, who am I to argue?
Padam"Somerby has been desperately trying to distract from the Trump/Epstein issue."
PadamHow would we know that this is the case?
Somerby most likely feels that in order to write about Epstein, (or any subject) he has to have something interesting or instructive to say about Epstein (or that other subject).
How do we know why Somerby writes about X instead of Y (unless he tells us)?
anon 3;34, ok, which "official actions" has the "Republican Party" taken to "cover up pedophilia" - and while I'm asking, what actions have you taken, official or otherwise, to cover up pedophilia?
PadamAnyone who thinks Trump is anti-crime is suffering from years of being raped by Republican politicians, as a child.
BalasPadamVance: "President Trump has demanded full transparency from this (Epstein files)"
BalasPadamIf only Trump were in a position of power to make the desired transparency a reality.
Vance went on to emphasize that “a lot of Americans want answers. I certainly want answers.”
BalasPadamIf only President Trump had the power to order that these answers be provided. Maybe he should run for president, then if he got elected he would have that power because he would be the head of the executive branch, which includes the DOJ, where the files are held.
How about it, folks? Should President Trump run for president so that, if elected, he would have the power to order the release of the Epstein files? Thoughts?
If Trump runs for election to be President of the United States of America, I don't think I can vote for him due to his long history of business failures and the fact that he stole from a children's cancer charity.
PadamHe also gave me the creeps when he talked about how hot his teenage daughter looks.
I have a deluded grandfather, hooked-on the idiocy of Fox News. He's not a perfect Trump clone, because he's not addicted to Adderall, but If Trump won't run, maybe I can convince him to do so.
PadamKeep me posted.
The key fact about Trump's announced war on crime in DC is that rates for both violent crime and property crime are at a 30 year low. Somerby doesn't mention that at all. I find myself wondering why this fact has escaped Somerby.
BalasPadamIt is important because it suggests that Trump's crime prevention campaign is not about crime but is serving some other purpose. Yes, it is another distraction from the Epstein files, but might it not be an excuse to put troops on the street? And if so, for what purpose?
Also, note the way homelessness and crime and littering are all being conflated. Criminalizing normal human behavior may be a step toward Trump's plan to incarcerate and relocate anyone he wants, without cause. He is already doing that with people he calls illegal immigrants (including citizens and legal residents). Might this not be a step toward disappearing anyone he wants?
Somerby does apply the word "revolutionary" to Vance. That is odd, given that there is no revolution in progress, but rather a power grab by Trump who wishes to make himself a dictator. Yesterday, he was showing off his MAGA 2028 hats to another dictator. But Somerby calls Vance a revolutionary, without explanation or evidence. Vance isn't the guy kicking the homeless out of DC. Vance is the stooge acting as VP but taking endless vacations to milk his office before he himself is kicked out again, trying to pretend that anything he says or does matters to anyone. That is not what a revolutionary is, so why does Somerby call him that?
There is the obligatory paragraph about pitying Vance because of his childhood, in which Somerby appears to believe the lies Vance told about it. But then Somerby accuses the left of moral squalor, without ever explaining what he means by that phrase or why it is being applied to Democrats, who have done of the bad behavior arising from the right:
"Does Blue America understand the situation it faces? Do those of us in Blue America understand the various ways we ourselves have brought this angry moral squalor down upon our heads?"
I don't believe Somerby understands anything about Trump's intentions or the destruction of our nation and its democracy. His own description of our "situation" resembles nothing real. What is this moral squalor of which he speaks? He never says, but we in Blue America are responsible for it, even though we are not in power and have nothing to do with things like kicking the homeless out of DC, hiding and covering for Trump's involvement in sex trafficking with Epstein, or stealing from our government and now taking bribes under the cover of implementing tariffs and waivers for chips.
Somerby applies the word revolutionary to Vance but "moral squalor" to Blue America under the guise of criticizing Trump's regime. Trump exemplifies every form of moral turpitude but we on the left are the bad guys? Only in the coming authoritarian society in which up is down, good is bad, and the president speaks for the people from the White House roof (unintelligibly) while building a huge ballroom, because he can, in which no one will dance.
Hear! Hear!
PadamYou really should read more carefully. Our Host does not "accuse the left of 'moral squalor'" as you claim. He accuses the left of enabling JD Vance's moral squalor.
PadamIf you can't grasp the difference, you can't be helped.
Here is Somerby in 2015 doing just that:
Padam“We liberals are the problem now too! We’re lazy and we aren’t very smart. We exude a moral squalor.”
http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-problem-is-us-as-we-liberals-emerge.html?m=1
He has never to my knowledge retracted this.
Now, as to today’s post, it makes little sense to me that by barely losing an election here and there that the left has “enabled Vance’s moral squalor.” His moral squalor exists independently of anyone else. No one made republicans exude a moral squalor, nor did anyone “make” them authoritarians and frankly fascists in thrall to a fuckface.
You only had to go back a decade to find some support?
PadamSupport? He said it. He meant it. I assume he still feels this way, Dogface.
PadamI'd say that the "moral squalor" that Somerby attributes to Blues (e.g., lazy, dumb, performative virtue signalling) is qualitatively different from the "moral squalor" he attributes to Vance (obsequious lying).
PadamWhy are you trying to differentiate between two purported meanings of “moral squalor” Dogface? Moral squalor is moral squalor.
PadamI think Somerby used the term a decade ago to mean "lazy, dumb, performative virtue signalling" and he used the term in today's post to mean "obsequious lying." Is the use of the term to mean different things in different contexts so difficult to understand?
PadamVance isn't lazy, dumb, or performs virtue signaling?
PadamSays who, Somerby?
In TODAY's post Somerby used "moral squalor" to refer to Vance promoting falsehoods in service to his master. He didn't say, one way or another, whether he felt Vance was lazy, dumb, or performed virtue signalling. Why is this hard to understand?
PadamAs a long-time reader, I think Somerby faults Blues for many things, such as being lazy, dumb, virtue signaling, and lacking the courage to report on and confront the garbage coming out of Red media. It is in that sense that Somerby would, I believe, apply the term "moral squalor" to Blues.
PadamBut this is different in kind from what he criticizes Vance for today. Vance says Clinton went to the island 28 times. Vance is a lawyer trained to double-check before making such slanderous accusations, so it's difficult to believe that he is not deliberately lying by suggesting Clinton committed the vilest of crimes. Vance feels he has a privilege to commit this slander, however, and is willing to be a lying lickspittle in service to a wannabe despot. This is a qualitively different kind of "moral squalor."
Exactly this.
PadamThe Democratic Party wants to raise taxes on the rich, while the Republican Party wants to round up their enemies and ship them off to gulags.
There is a bigger difference between the parties than the "both-sides" media has been letting on.
"Somerby applies the word revolutionary to Vance but "moral squalor" to Blue America under the guise of criticizing Trump's regime."
BalasPadamIt's a shame you didn't read Somerby's column with more care before posting 8 paragraphs in response.
In this post Somerby uses 'moral squalor' six times.
Three times clearly apply to Vance;
twice more where it is kind of a free-floating miasma;
and once where it not a descriptor of Blue America but something Blue America has brought down on itself by (presumably) screwing up so badly that pukes like Vance are now in positions of power.
But he does not use it to describe Blue America, as you assert.
Aw, heck, Anon 11:43! I didn't mean to step on your reply to Nonny Moose 11:08. I didn't see it until after I had posted my own.
PadamSigned, me.
Padam11:43 your stance has been debunked, maybe you can now drop your smugness.
PadamVance is in his position of power because a cadre of billionaires instructed trump to put him on the ticket. He beat Tim Ryan, one of the most milktoast Democrats coming out of the MW who probably listened to every piece of worthless advice TDH has given to Dems in the past 20 years.
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BalasPadamAs a card-carrying idiot-Democrat I want as much crime in DC as possible. Trump's plans to eliminate crime in DC must be resisted and defeated!
We commit crimes that will not end crimes. Trump 2028!
PadamSpeaking of MAGA deranged fucking idiots, why do you accept a fake reality for decades? Why don't you ever demand the truth instead of bragging about your feelings being the real truth? Shame on you losers.
PadamHannah Arendt. “The Origins of Totalitarianism,”
Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the felon's Senate Approved Crackpot (mostly billionaire) cabinet. Talk about jaggoffs and weirdos.
Introducing HHS Secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr. -
PadamTrump's former surgeon general blasts Kennedy for 'tepid' response to CDC shootings
Dr. Jerome Adams said HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “failed” in his response to the deadly violence.
RFK Jr cancels $500m in funding for mRNA vaccines for diseases like Covid
Is Trump doing too much or too little? Bob paraphrases: "Trump Vows He’s Going to ‘Stop Violent Crime’ In DC With a Single Press Conference." OTOH MSN reports, "Trump to Deploy National Guard to D.C., Take Over City’s Police Department"
BalasPadamThe felon, business fraud, rapist and orange chickenshit still under indictment in 3 separate jurisdictions is worried about violent crime? Go fuck yourself Dickhead.
PadamLess than five years after urging rioters to "kill" police at the Capitol, a former Jan. 6 defendant is working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice, which has been dramatically remade under the second Trump administration.
Not to mention all the violent offenders in Jan 6 insurrection the orange chickenshit pardoned on his first day.
You can't make this shit up.
Then there's this:
Padam"here are two very fun facts.
the first is that crime in Washington, DC is at a 30-year-low.
the second — and more fun — fact is that the average homeless person on the streets of DC has thirty-four fewer felony convictions than the current president of the United States.
nonetheless, United States President Cookedbooks McHushmoney has decided that DC’s homeless population is a ginormous factor in the imaginary crime wave that definitely isn’t a thing, and he’s given them about ten seconds to get the fuck out of his sight."
"...it’s so easy to solve the world’s problems when you have no clue what you’re talking about.
screaming at the homeless to GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE RIGHT NOW will totally work, because everyone knows that the best way to solve the problems caused by late-stage capitalism is to yell really loud until they magically go away.
who is Dear Leader thanking for their attention? the homeless?
I don’t think the homeless are following Donny on his crappy app. I’m pretty sure that the unhoused are more concerned with figuring out their next meal than in keeping up with the Mad King’s insane social media ravings."
"...but wait, Donny’s tough-on-crime clown show is about to get stupider — because right now there are about a hundred and twenty gobsmacked FBI agents going to their superiors, ‘I’m sorry, I’m supposed to be doing what now?’
the what is dispatching who to where? I know what all those words mean, but when you put them together in that order, they makes no sense.
In recent days, the administration has authorized up to 120 agents, largely from the FBI’s Washington Field Office, to work overnight shifts for at least one week alongside D.C. police and other federal law enforcement officers in the nation’s capital, according to the people familiar with those efforts, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss specifics of a staffing plan that has not been made public.
hang on, the dudes who knock on your door because they just wanna ask a few questions are being reassigned to do … to do fucking what, exactly?
The deployment of FBI agents to deal with local crime puts agents from the bureau’s counterintelligence, public corruption and other divisions with minimal training in traffic stops out on the streets in potentially dangerous encounters, diverting them from their typical jobs at the bureau.
that’s an insane waste of resources, because—
FBI agents generally do not have authority to make traffic stops, and the people said the agents’ roles could include supporting the other agencies during traffic stops.
are you telling me that FBI agents aren’t even authorized to fight street crime? so what’s going on? are all these experts in forensics and data analysis just standing around, scratching their asses and trying not to get in the way of the actual police?
so, whose brilliant idea was this?
you know exactly whose idea this was: the dumbest fucking ignoramus ever to crap a diaper in the Oval Office..."
Pathetic felon response to Big Balls getting punched in the face. You can't make this shit up.
PadamFuck you fascist David
PadamCDC shooter believed COVID vaccine was harmful; union says misinformation put staff at risk
PadamNation Aug 10, 2025 12:26 PM EDT
A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, killing a police officer.
The 30-year-old suspect, who died during the incident, had also tried to get into the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street and opening fire, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Not one fucking word from Prince Orange Chickenshit about this though.
"Get these filthy poors out of my sight!"
PadamBoth, David: Trump is doing too little and too much. He's a performative dictator, just like he was a performative businessman. He only played a businessman; he's never actually done anything.
PadamAs others have pointed out, the crime is way down. However, Trump saw some homeless people, conflated them criminals, and offended his royal visage.
Now he's throwing a temper tantrum. He wants to "evict" them out of DC. Well, some of them live there and want to continue living there. His Royal Highness is not entitled to his whims, as much as he's offended by the sight of poverty that he and his ilk create.
The fact that you're not offended by Trump's ill-tempered, impish behavior speaks volumes, David.
David, do you consider yourself to be more of a jagoff or weirdo?, or both? You definitely have fucking fascist covered.
PadamReplace Wall Street with the homeless.
PadamWin-win.
It might be fair to call the Trump administration revolutionary in the sense that Trump has ignored and broken all of the restraints on the presidency and redefined the roles of congress and the judiciary, in violation of our nation's constitution. Don't people go to jail for that? When Trump starts using federal troops and the FBI to accomplish his goals, doesn't that make him part of violent crime? I think so.
BalasPadamHow does Somerby think the left created Trump's moral squalor when we didn't even vote for him and are not abetting him now. We aren't the ones signing up to be ICE agents -- I seriously hope the homeless will apply for those jobs. That signing bonus will allow them to rent apts in a nice neighborhood and get their lives back on track.
A good portion of the homeless are not wired for work. i.e. They are homeless.
PadamSomerby doesn' think the "left created Trump's moral squalor."
PadamHe thinks the left's political and moral ineptitude allowed Trump and his moral squalor to attain the presidency.
Right, 1:09. Only the left has agency, amirite?
PadamGOP voters had 20 other choices in the 2015 primaries, but they chose Trump. The voters chose Hillary in 2016, but the electoral college won him the election
Trump’s moral squalor was on full display during his first term, and then while Biden was president. Republican voters picked him again. He barely won, with less than 50%, in 2024.
1:13,
PadamJust fyi, nothing you said contradicts anything I said.
"He thinks the left's political and moral ineptitude allowed Trump and his moral squalor to attain the presidency."
PadamMy theory is Bob Somerby is a simpleton who never heard of voter suppression, so he should leave his political theorizing to people who pay attention to what is happening in the real world.
He thinks the left's political and moral ineptitude allowed Trump and his moral squalor to attain the presidency.
PadamPrecisely. And Bob is right on this account.
Fuck that shit Ilya, these motherfuckers torched every rule they could since Goldwater had his ass handed to him. How were Dems supposed to play when the other side has no rules?
PadamBecause the Democratic Party didn't have the 2000 Supreme Court shot to death in public after they coronated George W. Bush as President, they are doomed to lose elections for the foreseeable future.
PadamServes them right.
He's "taking the Capital back", from the blahs.
BalasPadamPrince Orange Chickenshit calls it "liberation day" for Washington D.C., the city his party denies statehood to. Perfectly Orwellian.
BalasPadamNothing helps the homeless more than scooping them up and gassing them. Believe it was called "the final solution" back in the day.
PadamSteven Pinker is innocent.
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