I addition to being vile, wapo abd Emmanuel are just fucking wrong, proof point? Gd Andy beshear, reelected by wider margins in a deep red state in a trump year AFTER defending trans rights!!!! Fuck these morons, they’re why we’re in the toilet and why anyone would work for or read wapo anymore, after bezos has proven he’s willing to push his ideology and meddle, is fucking beyond me.
I love my Governor Andy. I can’t say it like he does, but he can defend trans people without getting sucked into the details the right wants to dwell on. Instead, he pivots to building a caring society where everyone can live their best life. A message of unity.
I hate Emmanuel with the fury of a thousand suns. Ever since he served Obama and glibly coined the term “the professional left” which meant anyone (like Elizabeth Warren) who wanted to rein in Wall St. or anyone who wanted universal healthcare, I have been somewhat gleefully cheering on people like Zorhan Mamdani or AOC who is everything Rahm is not. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s about fucking time for moderates to hold THEIR noses and vote for progressives the same way we’ve been holding our noses to vote for milquetoast centrists for the last 60 years.
Rahm Emanuel is not a "milquetoast Centrist"—he is as rabid a Right-Winger with a "D" after his name as The Qween of Neoliberal Evil Hillary Rodham Clinton is!
The ability of Emanuel to continue to get positive press after decades of being a gigantic fucking asshole is amazing.
(Quick tangent because I always have to bring up the dead fish story when Emanuel is the topic of discussion because I'm friends with Alan Secrest, the pollster that Emanuel infamously sent said fish to. According to Alan, Emanuel was funneling business from DCCC to the firm he had ties with instead of to Alan and others. Whereas Emanuel claims it was just about Alan making a mistake on a race they were working on together.)
So yeah, Rahm's been a corrupt asshole for decades and there's no reason to want him to be the nominee. He'd be an awful president even if he managed to win. He'd continue and probably make worse the Democratic Party's consulting grift problem. He'd hire all the wrong people. He'd gleefully give concessions to Republicans while actively shitting on the left at every turn. He'd just be awful in every way. I wish his media connections would fuck off along with him.
Don't forget Emanuel's explicit endorsements of genocide. What a load of horseshit. To win, democrats just need to become maga. Great solution. Why is it so impossible for them to move towards actually progressive policies? I think it's money.
Thank you Noah. A couple of "fond" memories here in Chicago; his closing 50 public schools in poor Black neighborhoods and then covering up the police murder of Laquan McDonald. He should stay in the private sector.
This isn't mainly about "Rahm's Gulag", but it talks about how Blacks are discriminated against in Chicago and includes the new Youth Detention Center....
I think “Jeff Bezos has decided he likes Trump and wants Trump to rule us like a king” is the wrong take. Jeff Bezos likes his money and realized that with Trump in power he is less like to lose his money if he strokes Trumps ego and seem supporting to his administration. In the past Bezos did actions that looked more progressive, because that was how he could keep more of his money.
I addition to being vile, wapo abd Emmanuel are just fucking wrong, proof point? Gd Andy beshear, reelected by wider margins in a deep red state in a trump year AFTER defending trans rights!!!! Fuck these morons, they’re why we’re in the toilet and why anyone would work for or read wapo anymore, after bezos has proven he’s willing to push his ideology and meddle, is fucking beyond me.
I love my Governor Andy. I can’t say it like he does, but he can defend trans people without getting sucked into the details the right wants to dwell on. Instead, he pivots to building a caring society where everyone can live their best life. A message of unity.
I hate Emmanuel with the fury of a thousand suns. Ever since he served Obama and glibly coined the term “the professional left” which meant anyone (like Elizabeth Warren) who wanted to rein in Wall St. or anyone who wanted universal healthcare, I have been somewhat gleefully cheering on people like Zorhan Mamdani or AOC who is everything Rahm is not. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s about fucking time for moderates to hold THEIR noses and vote for progressives the same way we’ve been holding our noses to vote for milquetoast centrists for the last 60 years.
Rahm Emanuel is not a "milquetoast Centrist"—he is as rabid a Right-Winger with a "D" after his name as The Qween of Neoliberal Evil Hillary Rodham Clinton is!
The ability of Emanuel to continue to get positive press after decades of being a gigantic fucking asshole is amazing.
(Quick tangent because I always have to bring up the dead fish story when Emanuel is the topic of discussion because I'm friends with Alan Secrest, the pollster that Emanuel infamously sent said fish to. According to Alan, Emanuel was funneling business from DCCC to the firm he had ties with instead of to Alan and others. Whereas Emanuel claims it was just about Alan making a mistake on a race they were working on together.)
So yeah, Rahm's been a corrupt asshole for decades and there's no reason to want him to be the nominee. He'd be an awful president even if he managed to win. He'd continue and probably make worse the Democratic Party's consulting grift problem. He'd hire all the wrong people. He'd gleefully give concessions to Republicans while actively shitting on the left at every turn. He'd just be awful in every way. I wish his media connections would fuck off along with him.
Maybe he could just James Carville as his running mate? Those two Clinton NeoLib Quislings are as alike as peas in a pod....
Don't forget Emanuel's explicit endorsements of genocide. What a load of horseshit. To win, democrats just need to become maga. Great solution. Why is it so impossible for them to move towards actually progressive policies? I think it's money.
Thank you Noah. A couple of "fond" memories here in Chicago; his closing 50 public schools in poor Black neighborhoods and then covering up the police murder of Laquan McDonald. He should stay in the private sector.
yeah; he’s horrible.
Didn't Rahm Emanuel also try setting up a "secret prison" for Black juvenile delinquents in the middle of Chicago the LAST time he was Mayor there?
I don’t remember that but it’s possible.
This isn't mainly about "Rahm's Gulag", but it talks about how Blacks are discriminated against in Chicago and includes the new Youth Detention Center....
https://placesjournal.org/article/chicago-inside-out/
Thank you!!
Could it be that a large majority of voters actually support human rights?
Food for thought, Dems.
Huzzah! Well said. Nobody is going to vote for an imitation like Raymond Emanuel when they can vote for JD Vance and get the real thing.
ROTFL! That may be the first, last, and ONLY time anybody has called J.D. Vance "the real thing" about anything!
I think “Jeff Bezos has decided he likes Trump and wants Trump to rule us like a king” is the wrong take. Jeff Bezos likes his money and realized that with Trump in power he is less like to lose his money if he strokes Trumps ego and seem supporting to his administration. In the past Bezos did actions that looked more progressive, because that was how he could keep more of his money.
I don't think these analyses are in conflict. Bezos has decided that trump ruling as a king is the best way for Bezos to make money.
He absolutely is not.