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A Note of Caution After This Election Day — And Before the Next
DIR By: Surly1
Date: November 7, 2019, 8:32 am
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A Note of Caution After This Election Day — And Before the Next
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[html]<header> <h1></h1> <p><strong>Today’s
Democratic success does not portend tomorrow’s Trumpian
failure, because white nationalism has a long winning
streak</strong></p> <div> <div> <div><em>By</em> <div><a
href="
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/>rel="author">JAMIL SMITH
</a> <div> <div> <div><img
src="
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/>data-srcset="
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/></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </header> <figure> <div> <div><img
width="900" height="600"
src="
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/>data-src="
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/>alt="LOUISVILLE, KY - NOVEMBER 05: Apparent Gov.-elect Andy
Beshear celebrates with supporters after voting results showed
the Democrat holding a slim lead over Republican Gov. Matt Bevin
at C2 Event Venue on November 5, 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Bevin, who enjoyed strong support from President Donald Trump,
did not concede after results showed Beshear leading 49.2
percent to 48.8 percent, a difference of less than 6,000 votes,
with 100 percent of precincts reporting. (Photo by John Sommers
II/Getty Images)"
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scale="0"
srcset="
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/>900w,
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/>1200w" /></div> </div> <div> <p>Apparent
Gov.-elect
Andy Beshear celebrates with supporters after voting results
showed the Democrat holding a slim lead over Republican Gov.
Matt Bevin at C2 Event Venue on November 5, 2019 in Louisville,
Kentucky. Bevin, who enjoyed strong support from President
Donald Trump, did not concede after results showed Beshear
leading 49.2 percent to 48.8 percent, a difference of less than
6,000 votes, with 100 percent of precincts
reporting</p> <p>John Sommers II/Getty
Images</p> </div> </figure> <div> <p>Matt Bevin
is the villain who gets caught at the beginning of the action
movie. He’s the flunky, then henchman, the guy whose
demise serves a plot device. He is the assistant bogeyman at
best, the loudmouth whom ultimately proves disposable. We
don’t know yet what will happen at the
end.</p> <p>That the outspoken and brusque Kentucky governor
lost his seat in a narrow defeat to state attorney general Andy
Beshear on Election Night is an unabashed good thing. This is
the guy who, two years ago, more closely echoed <a
href="
HTML https://www.rollingstone.com/t/donald-trump/"<br
/>data-tag="donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>’s remarks on
Charlottesville than perhaps any public official and likened the
moving of Confederate monuments to the actions of genocidal
dictators like Hitler. The president who judged his race as a
bellwether for his own popularity even called him a pain before
the election. “If you lose, it sends a really bad
message,” he told Republicans at a pro-Bevin rally on
Monday night. “You can’t let that happen to
me.”</p> <p>Like the GOP and its television network,
Fox News, Donald Trump <a
href="
HTML https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-kentucky-governor-results-bevin-loss-beshear-908672/">tried<br
/>to pretend</a> as if Bevin’s loss bore good tidings for
the party and for Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, who faces a
contentious re-election race against Democratic challenger Amy
McGrath next year. But like most everything, Trump may also be
wrong about the result being bad for him. It probably
doesn’t mean much of anything for 2020. Nor do many of the
other positive results nationwide for
Democrats.</p> <div> <h4></h4> <div
data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-9326027_25="14874"
data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-9326027_25="14874"
data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-9326027_25="100"
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height="600"
src="
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/>data-src="
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/></div> </div> <h5
data-gtm-vis-has-fired-9326027_25="1">Do the 2019 Election
Results Tell Us Anything About 2020?</h5> <h5
data-gtm-vis-has-fired-9326027_25="1">Trump Brags About GOP
Governor Losing in State He Won by 30
Points</h5> </div> <p>As long as the president still has
his cult of personality and is still selling white supremacy,
and as long as domestic disenfranchisement is pairing with
foreign election interference to silence American voters whom
Republicans don’t like, Trump stands a great chance of
being re-elected.</p> <p>Bevin, like many feckless henchmen,
lost his job due to his own incompetence. He stubbornly refused
to let Kentuckians in on the Medicaid expansion. He signed an
unpopular teacher pension law. He meddled with Kentucky’s
popular and highly successful health insurance exchange. And he
made a host of knuckleheaded mistakes while campaigning. But by
combining Trump’s endorsement with a parroted brand of the
president’s bigotry in a red state, Bevin came close to
winning anyway. Viewed through the lens of 2020, that’s
terrifying.</p> <p>If we look past Trump for one minute, we
can see some truly substantive victories for the left on Tuesday
night.</p> <p>The pro-choice Beshear — who, in
replacing Bevin, is succeeding his father Steve as Kentucky
governor — has vowed to <a
href="
HTML https://theappeal.org/tuesdays-election-boosts-voting-rights-for-people-with-past-convictions/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">immediately
restore the voting rights of 140,000 residents</a> convicted of
nonviolent felonies — <a
href="
HTML https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/on-tuesday-the-right-to-vote-is-on-the-ballot/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">one of
every
four black people in the state</a>. Speaking of which, thanks to
Florida’s Amendment 4, many citizens returning from
incarceration voted in the state for the first time in years, or
ever. There are now six state attorneys general who are African
American. And seeing progressives sweep <a
href="
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/>target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">four key
commonwealth attorney contests in Virginia</a> — in large
part because <a
href="
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/>target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">a racial
gerrymander is now gone</a> — may have flown under the
radar when liberals celebrated a Democratic takeover of its
legislature, but <a
href="
HTML https://www.dailyprogress.com/election/hingeley-unseats-tracci-for-albemarle-commonwealth-s-attorney/article_1e1978b3-09d3-53ae-b5d2-e3cea59f2fa5.html"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">promises
like
Jim Hingeley’s</a> to bring reforms “in the face of
mass incarceration” shouldn’t go unnoticed when
we’re looking for more progressives in prosecutor
roles.</p> <p>Those are progressive achievements worth
recognizing and honoring, but they’re not reasons for the
media to predict Trump’s demise. Even more perilously,
they’re certainly not reason for the left to engage in
self-congratulation or to get complacent about the task ahead.
Trump’s presidency is an ongoing national emergency, and
it should be treated as such until both the candidate and what
he stands for are firmly defeated (and he is removed, physically
and otherwise, from office).</p> <p>Action films are more
predictable than elections. It seems premature to consider
Bevin’s political demise to have much bearing on what will
happen at the end to the archvillain. Still, if there are
warning signs for anyone, they are not so much for Trump, but
for Democrats. There is the danger of self-congratulation at a
moment like this, the temptation to think that they have cracked
some kind of code. If anything, they should take heed from
Bevin’s apparently quixotic struggle to overturn
Beshear’s victory.</p> <p>Kentucky’s Republican
Senate president, Robert Stivers, now claims that the
legislature should decide the race. And Bevin himself is now
asking the state to <a
href="
HTML https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/KYSOS/2019/11/06/file_attachments/1319752/20191106144544124.pdf"<br
/>rel="nofollow" target="_blank">check the voting machines and
absentee ballots</a> after telling his supporters about <a
href="
HTML https://apnews.com/b29352c2c9594e68a4a944e8c2bd4abb"<br
/>rel="nofollow" target="_blank">unspecified election
“irregularities.</a>” If Trump were to lose next
November, that will likely be more predictive of what
we’ll see from the president than any of the tea leaves
that folks are reading about this election and what it means for
2020.</p> </div>[/html]
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It's not Fascism when Republicans Do It? 😉
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 7, 2019, 11:23 am
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"Kentucky’s 🐘 Republican Senate president,
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/>Robert Stivers, now claims that the legislature should decide
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No surprise there.
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BLACK BEAR NEWS: Bloomberg - Tulsi & 9/11
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 8, 2019, 10:34 pm
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Re: 2020 Presidential Election
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 10, 2019, 1:11 pm
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Dear Anthony,
Billionaires are wailing that wealth tax proposals by Elizabeth
Warren and Bernie Sanders are attacks on free-market capitalism
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/>Warren “vilifies successful people”
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/>says Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase.
Rubbish. There are basically only five ways to accumulate a
billion dollars, and none of them has to do with being
successful in a genuinely free market: Profiting from a
monopoly, insider-trading, political payoffs, fraud and large
amounts of inherited wealth.
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😈 Jamie Dimon is worth $1.6 billion. That’s not because
he succeeded under free-market capitalism. In 2008, the
government bailed out JP Morgan and four other giant Wall Street
banks because it considered them “too big to fail”.
That bailout is a hidden insurance policy, still in effect, with
an estimated value to the big banks of $83 billion a year. If JP
Morgan weren’t so big and was therefore allowed to fail, Dimon
would be worth far less than $1.6 billion.
Insider trading is endemic in C-suites, too. SEC researchers
have found that corporate executives are twice as likely to sell
their stock on the days following their own stock buyback
announcements as they are in the days leading up to the
announcements.
Another way to make a billion is to buy off politicians.
The
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/>Trump tax cut is estimated to save 🦕 Charles and the
late 🦖 David Koch and their Koch Industries an estimated
$1 billion to $1.4 billion a year, not counting their tax
savings on profits stored offshore and a shrunken estate tax.
The Kochs and their affiliated groups spent some $20 million
lobbying for the Trump tax cut, including political donations.
Not a bad return on investment.
Other billionaires have made their fortunes extorting investors.
🐍 Adam Neumann persuaded JP Morgan, SoftBank and other
investors to sink hundreds of millions into WeWork, an
office-sharing startup. He used some of the money to buy
buildings he leased back to WeWork and to enjoy a lifestyle that
included a $60 million private jet. WeWork never made a nickel
of profit.
The easiest way to be a billionaire is to get the money from
rich parents or relatives. About 60% of all the wealth in
America today is inherited, according to estimates by economist
Thomas Piketty and his colleagues.
Capitalism doesn’t work well with monopolies, insider-trading,
political payoffs, fraud and large amounts of inherited wealth.
Billionaires who don’t like Sanders and Warren’s wealth tax
plans should at least support reforms that end these
anti-capitalist advantages.
Thanks for reading,
Robert Reich
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Bernie ✨ Rallies in Eastside L.A.
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"When the military intervenes, Jorge, in my view, that’s
called a ‘coup.’ ”" -- Bernie Sanders
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 19, 2019, 1:08 pm
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NOV 18, 2019 OPINION|TD ORIGINALS
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a presidential forum
hosted by Univision in Long Beach, Calif., on Saturday. (Chris
Carlson / AP)
Toward the end of Saturday night’s Democratic forum hosted by
the Spanish language network Univision, moderator Jorge Ramos
posed what can charitably be called a leading question to 2020
hopeful Bernie Sanders. Ramos, who cemented his place in the
public consciousness when then-candidate Donald Trump had him
tossed from a news conference in 2015, noted that Sanders had
called the overthrow of Bolivian President Evo Morales a “coup,”
but that others maintain that Morales was attempting to become a
dictator. So what does Sanders think?
In a Democratic field that seems to grow more crowded by the
month if not the week, the Vermont senator’s answer was nothing
short of revelatory. “I don’t agree with that assertion,” he
said. “I think Morales did a very good job in alleviating
poverty and giving the indigenous people of Bolivia a voice that
they never had before. Now we can argue about his going for a
fourth term, whether that was a wise thing to do. … But at the
end of the day, it was the military who intervened in that
process and asked him to leave. When the military intervenes,
Jorge, in my view, that’s called a ‘coup.’ ”
Since Morales’ forced resignation, the response of leading
Democrats and presidential hopefuls has been one of almost total
silence, even among the party’s putative progressives. As video
emerged of right-wing protesters burning the flag of the
indigenous Wiphala and pro-coup police officers gleefully
cutting it off their uniforms, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,
declined to comment publicly despite the gruesome precedent in
the region. (She has since issued a tepid tweet calling on
Bolivian security forces to “protect demonstrators, not commit
violence against them.”) The same can be said of Rep. Tulsi
Gabbard, D-Hawaii, who has made opposition to U.S. regime change
the centerpiece of her campaign, although her anti-imperialism
has always been questionable at best. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., an
outspoken critic of the U.S.-backed Saudi war in Yemen, could
only muster the following on social media:
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> The drama isn’t just in Washington today. Unrest is growing in
Latin America, and the Trump Administration needs to pay
attention.
>
> In Bolivia, the U.S. needs to support a civilian-led
transition of power at a perilous moment. We can’t botch this
like we did Venezuela.
>
> — Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) November 13, 2019
--- End Quote ---
Given that the U.S. has repeatedly backed coup attempts in
Venezuela, most recently throwing its support behind President
of the National Assembly Juan Guaidó, the last line of that
tweet seems confusing at best and ominous at worst. What, after
all, is the United States’ to botch? By contrast, British Labour
leader Jeremy Corbyn instantly condemned Morales’ removal from
office as an assault on “democracy, social justice and
independence.” Both Trump and Prime Minister Boris Jonson have
officially recognized Bolivia’s interim government.
In the week since, the crisis in Bolivia has grown increasingly
deadly. The Bolivian military has slaughtered dozens of
demonstrators, and over the past two days, hand-picked
president, Jeanine Áñez, has issued a pair of disturbing edicts.
The first is that the Bolivian military will not be prosecuted
for crimes committed in the suppression of protests, providing
it with what members of the socialist MAS party are calling a
“license to kill”; the second is the creation of a “special
government apparatus” to detain MAS lawmakers, who constitute a
two-thirds majority in the Bolivian legislature. Meanwhile,
Argentinian journalists have been chased from the country under
the threat of violence.
Ánez, whose deceptively named Democratic Social Movement Party
won just 4.2% of the vote in the October elections, has called a
New Year’s celebration of the Aymara people “satanic” and has
referred to Morales as a “pobre indio” (a poor Indian). Upon
assuming office, she declared that “La Biblia vuelve al palacio”
(“the Bible has returned to the presidential palace”), bearing
an oversize scripture to re-enforce the point. The New York
Times notes that she has made her speeches “shadowed by an aide
carrying a cross.”
None of this absolves Morales of his apparent illiberalism or
real missteps in office. As his critics in Western media eagerly
observe, he narrowly lost a 2016 referendum to determine his
eligibility for a fourth term, receiving approval instead from
his country’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice. Along similar lines,
the U.S.-backed Organization of American States has reported
irregularities in 2019’s presidential elections, although those
remain in dispute. As “Empire’s Workshop” author and Latin
American historian Greg Grandin recently wrote, “there has never
been a coup in Latin America where the president being
overthrown wasn’t considered ‘problematic.’ (Yes, not even
[Salvador] Allende.)” Indeed, The Economist blamed the Chilean
president directly for Augusto Pinochet’s seizure of power in
1973.
It seems telling, then, that the military asked Morales to
resign after he agreed—likely under duress—to a second election.
And while the current Secretary General of OAS Luis Almagro will
not, former Secretary General José Miguel Insulza has said that
Bolivia’s democratic interregnum meets the political definition
of “un golpe” (a coup).
So why can’t Democrats do the same? Whether the Trump
administration is directly responsible for Morales’ overthrow or
the U.S. is merely the passive beneficiary of a new
market-friendly and increasingly Christofascist regime is,
ultimately, beside the point. (A passing familiarity with
Bolivian history or Operation Condor more broadly point to the
former, to say nothing of the attempts in Venezuela earlier this
year, although I am loath to speculate.) Any presidential
candidate who claims to represent workers and marginalized
communities, who even nominally opposes U.S. imperialism, should
be able to identify a coup as such. If they can’t, why should we
trust them to implement a just and holistic foreign policy?
It’s a basic test that the party has, to date, failed
miserably—one that not only illuminates the threat Sanders
👍 poses to
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"Republicans, and even some Democrats, are out to scare you
about Medicare for All.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 20, 2019, 11:58 am
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Robert Reich✨: 👍 "Republicans, and even some
Democrats, are out to scare you about Medicare for All. They say
it’s going to dismantle health care as we know it and it will
cost way too much. Rubbish.
If you’re a typical American, you're already paying far more for
health insurance than citizens in any other advanced country.
And you’re not getting your money’s worth. The United States
ranks near the bottom for life span and infant mortality. Or
maybe you’re one of the 30 million Americans who don’t have any
health insurance coverage at all.
Any Medicare for All is better than our present system.
But true Medicare for All is far better because it’s based on
the simple and proven idea that we shouldn’t be paying private
for-profit corporate insurers boatloads of money to get the
insurance we need.
It’s time for true Medicare for All. "
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While others may defer to the rich, Bernie won’t, and I believe
he’ll improve the quality of life fo
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Date: November 21, 2019, 1:19 pm
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Ann Bley 👍
The tragedy for our country is that it has taken 3 years to
bring this traitor down, and it is still likely that the senate
will exonerate him. The mandate for We the People is to vote
🦀 Trump and every 🐘 Republican out of office
November 2020.
I vote Progressive and support Bernie Sanders. Even Joe Biden
concedes it’s time for us to take America back, and return our
country to the people.
The momentum is there to shift America towards focusing on
repairing 40+ years of rule by billionaire oligarchs and
corporations.
While others may defer to the rich, Bernie won’t, and I believe
he’ll improve the quality of life for all of us, giving U.S.
Medicare for all, a Green New Deal, a real social safety net,
and worker rights and protections.
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Re: 2020 Presidential Election
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Date: November 22, 2019, 9:31 pm
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He was also involved in killing the so-called “public option”
from the Affordable Care Act.
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Date: November 23, 2019, 12:52 pm
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November 23, 2019 9:28 AM Wendell Potter
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Who’s behind the massive disinformation campaign to kill
Medicare for All?
It’s not just the greedy insurance and pharmaceutical
industries. Recent reporting shows that the for-profit hospital
industry is just as concerned about protecting their investors’
profits―effectively putting the incomes of the rich over
the health of the American people.[1]
And the man behind this propaganda campaign has a long history
with both the insurance and for-profit hospital industry.
😈 Chip Kahn, CEO
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“Harry and Louise” commercials in the 1990s that helped sink the
Clinton health care reform effort.
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He was also involved in killing the so-called “public option”
from the Affordable Care Act.
I’ve known Chip for years. Back when I was part of
communications efforts of the health insurance industry, Chip
was the head of the Health Insurance Association of America.
Now, he’s switched from for-profit insurance to for-profit
hospitals. But he’s singing the same
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In his new role, Chip has taken credit for the creation of the
dark-money group, the
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/>Partnership for Americans Health Care Future
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/>whose membership boasts dozens of health insurance,
pharmaceutical and investor-owned for-profit hospitals who are
funding the anti-Medicare for All campaign.
As you read this, the Partnership is running attack ads on
Facebook targeting Medicare for All in Iowa, New Hampshire and
South Carolina. They are trying to scare Democratic voters
toward supporting candidates who do not back full-blown Medicare
for All.
We know Chip's strategy of fearmongering. And we must defeat it
in order to pass Medicare for All NOW!
Wendell Potter
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/>Medicare for All NOW!
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[1] “Documents Reveal Hospital Industry is Leading Fight Against
Medicare for All,”
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