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brush's JournalI dunno if it's a myth. My career was as an art director in publishing and I painted and showed work...
as a member of a co-op gallery in NYC.
I see what you're saying. Perhaps it's because the US is complicit in supplying the weapons used by...
Netanyahu in his war crimes against Muslims/Arabs. If the US supplied weapons to both sides, there would be "mutually assured destruction" as there is in the stand off in the nuclear arena.
What it seems though is Israel is the designated watch/attack dog of the US and western powers over the oil region in the ME and is therefore supplied with much superior weapons than what the Arab nations have...air superiority and all the rest...intimidation.
IMO, that's how it stands.
Please. What's going on in Gaza is genocide.
It's evident Netanyahu wants Gaza cleared of Palestinians, whether by killing them all by bomb strikes, troop gunfire, starvation or another Nakba...whatever it is, he wants them gone from the enclave.
That realty may nof be to the definition/liking of some, but it's what's going on.
If your position is the same as mine, you didn't make that very clear.
One person's genocide is another's ethnic cleansing.
Who are you kidding? It's both and it's making Israel a pariah nation whose PM has to be careful that his plane doesn't travel over non-aligned nation's air space when traveling so as not to risk arrest in case of a plane emergency landing that may lead to an arrest for genocide/war crimes/ethnc cleansing.
Guess the definition of genocide and war crimes depend on the person denying its existence is viewing the reality of starving Palestinians continually being gunned down by IDF troops as they gather for food aide is wearing rose-colored glasses.
My top 10 list of recent republican fascists/proto-fascists endangering our democray.
1. trump, TSF himself. No one does it better as he seeks you know whose approval.
2.The SCOTUS 6, IMO one unit, corrupt as all hell and craven too for giving TSF immunity.
3. Musk, whose money bought TSF the '24 election (and BTW didn't know WTF he was doing with all the DOGE firings and damage. Even trump had to show him the door.
4. Vance, the sidekick who's going-along-to-get-along-feint is only there to mask his itch to invoke the 25 Amendment.
5. Rubio, the one and only Lil' Mario whose memory of who nicknamed him is apparently very short and his stand on principles even shorter as they are the same as trump tells him they are.
6. RFK Jr., brain worm from bear steaks is eating away his mind and the HHS mission to protect the nation's health.
7. Kristi Noem, the dog killer who wants to deport as many immigrants AND NOW AMERICANS too as fast as possible with no due process. That's the ticket.
8.Manchin, the creep who kept snatching the football away from Dems agenda at the last minute like Lucy does the ball from Charlie Brown.
9. Sinema, the tutu wearing phony who worked hand-in-hand with Manchin to foil Dem's legislation like clockwork orange a-hole...oops, that's a whole other list...or is it? She helped make TSF possible.
10. Comey, we haven't forgotten what you did to Hillary with that last minute hoodoo of making public the misinformation on Anthony Wiener's laptop that you had to withdraw just before the '16 election because it was misinformation...damage was already done though,as intended.
You're all welcome to add, subtract, change the order, add comments or whatever. Have at it.
Wish someone in the music industry would organize a concert like "We are the World" or "Farm Aid"...
like back in the day featuring anti-trump headliners like Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Joan Jett, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Chicks, Bono and the group, and others...maybe as big as Woodstock.
Late one night in Berkeley years ago I drove into IHOP's parking lot and baseball great Reggie Jackson...
was there. I was driving my Jaguar Mk ll, 3.8 sedan, and Reggie being a car guy and I nodded to each other as he checked out the car.
Around the same time my girlfriend and I and another couple at the "Both And" jazz club in San Francisco, jazz great Grover Washington Jr. was playing there and on a break, he joined us as our friends knew him. Nice guy.
Later and more current, '06, I was manning my golf club's booth at Michael Jordan's tournament in Vegas and Julius 'Dr. J' Irving walked pass on the fairway after his ball, and we both nodded to each other.
Shook hands with Barack Obama campaigned in Vegas in '07 at a campaign rally. Tall, smiling and fired up.
I nearly bumped into NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg going into Yankee Stadium for a game in the early 2000s. He was with his security detail.
Football great Jerome Bettis, 'The Bus', was there and is a very good golfer.'
Boarding a flight in the '80s I encounter Jesse Jackson sitting in the first class seats. We nodded to each other as I kept going to my coach seat.
I met 3-Star General Daniel 'Chappie' James, stationed at Davis Monthan AFB, at my AME church in Tucson, Az.
Apparently you don't know the DNC is about nuetrality and raising money for all Dems...
running for office around the country. Helping Dem candidates set up offices, get literature printed, hire staff, compiled email lists, web sites social media...the things candidates need.
Again, DNC staffers, ESPECIALLY THE VICE-CHAIR, are supposed to remain neutral, work to help all the candidates...progressives, center-left, moderates etc. Not favor ones he prefers and use Dem email lists to help his preferred candidates.
If he wants to help his preferred candidates with his PAC money, he should resign from the DNC immediately and do that. And btw, use the PAC money for candidates and not expenses and his big salary.
Do you understand?
CNN just, I mean 5 minutes ago, reported that all his ratings are...
in the tank and falling fast with the tarriff foolishness, the Hegseth debacle, Monk, Bondi having that judge arrested, snatching people off the street with no due process (even republicans like Joe Rogan), repugs not holding townhalls, trump's nonsense ramblings in interviews, trump defying the Supreme Court, street protests, just the sheer chaos of his proto-fascist admin... his ratings are just sinking so bad that no president in history has done well in the mid-terms with such poor results this early in his term, not even 100 days n=yet.
CNN also reported that Democrats finally have issues to run on and have a favoribility rating up four points.
You might want to go to CNN. I don't usually watch CNN but MSNBC was covering the Pope's funeral.
What you're saying is no longer true.
Pritzker's got a good chance. We Dems should have an energetic primary...
as we have a deep bench with the likes of Gov. Whitmer of Mich., Gov. Newsom of Calif., Gov. Moore of Maryland, former VP Harris. Sen. Schiff of Calif., Sen. Booker of NJ, AOC also as she's of age now, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Rep. Jasmine Crockett too, and others.
Whew! That's quite a list, but like I said, we have a deep bench.
Let's hope the proto-fascist-in-chief hasn't firmly established his brand of authoritarianism by th '28 primary season come about.
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