The orthodoxy of the people who still control the Democratic Party is this: you’re not supposed to believe in anything other than your own self-enrichment, status advancement and fealty to the party itself — and those who believe in anything bigger or more idealistic are the problem who need to be eyerolled, disempowered and purged.
Once you understand that this is the orthodoxy at the top of the party & its corporate media machine, literally everything about national Democratic politics and The Discourse makes perfect sense.
Every event, every machination, every political storyline is inevitably twisted into a weapon to advance this larger orthodoxy. It is an iron law of American politics — and has been even amid the disintegration of the society and the immiseration of millions of Americans.
I don’t really know what will change it (though there are glimmers of change in a few electoral contests). But at this point I can’t blame anyone for giving up. This orthodoxy is the defining political vector of our lifetimes. It will be studied by future historians…if there is a future.
1. Neera Tanden worked for Bill Clinton and still celebrates Bill Clinton
2. Neera Tanden supported Andrew Cuomo for Mayor of New York
3. Neera Tanden supported Eric Swalwell for Governor of California
4. Neera Tanden hired Larry Summers at her think tank
5. Neera Tanden supported Anthony Weiner
6. . . . Should I keep going?
I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.
250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.
A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.
An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.
The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.
A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.
A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.
Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.
$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.
And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.
And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?
Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.
For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?
Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?
They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.
"When members of Congress come I always say, welcome to Israel, the 436th Congressional District of the U.S."
If a critic of Israel says this, it's antisemitic.
But Ambassador Mike Huckabee can say it and it's a compliment.
https://t.co/TkBTxMtQsF
The guys who most complained about wearing masks during Covid now wear bigger ones to intimidate people and to hide their identities.
Effing cowards and hypocrites . Shame on all of these racist asswipes
For the past week, masked ICE agents have swept through Milwaukee and Waukesha.
There have been at least 39 arrests since the weekend and reports of brutal intimidation tactics like boxing in vehicles, smashing car windows and drawing weapons.