How Democrats Should Campaign In 2024

The Democrats are going about campaigning on Joe Biden's behalf against Donald Trump in the most boneheaded way possible. Painting the latter as either too extreme or racist/sexist/xenophobic is surest way of ultimately losing in 2024.

Democrats need to start running on how much of a real do-nothing president Trump was while in office. They should run on how badly he mismanaged a once in a century disease pandemic and the devestation it'd caused. Just like they should be running upon how he gutted inner city spending, giving us all a crime wave (one which is on the waning end) not seen since the 1980s. Also like that partial government shutdown he caused from late 2018 to early 2019 that lasted for 5 straight weeks.

To put it another way, all the Democrats need to do is run entirely upon Trump's own record as president if they seek to win on November 5.

My Chief Complaint About Meta's Facebook Platform

Recently on my personal Facebook account, I've been getting numerous flipping friend requests from people who are friends of friends. While I personally have no issue on connecting with new people who want to be friends, I'm really uneasy about the rate of it. In my eyes, this is seriously out of control. I'll try to go through them, but it's too many to deal with all at once. Meta needs to implement some kind of mechanism that can do a mass acceptance or denial all at once.

Elon Musk Is Out Of Control On Twitter/X

Honestly, things are getting out of hand on Twitter/X. I can't stress this enough folks, Elon Musk is fully out of control. In his idiotic quest to silence the left is all very castingly a maneuver for so turning the platform into a hotbed for both supporting Donald Trump (yeah, he so is back on again) and promoting White Supremacy. Be it in this instance in elevating a known self-proclaimed "raging anti-Semite[sic][/Judeophobe]" Kevin Woods, the brain behind the hashtag #BanTheADL.

Just to be clear, the Anti-Defemation League does a lot of great work with trying to fight discrimination in just about any form. Yet this work has also earned the ADL some incredibly powerful detractors along the way. Per in many cases, rather said opposition sometimes comes from White Supremacy/Power extremists.

Like none of this is entirely new, but it's a real problem when figures like Musk elevate others like Woods. Just so without paying heedance to the corrosive effects. To fully see him doing this is a grave illustration of what's likely to come with next year's presidential election.

Trump is very likely to get elected in 2024, mostly due to some broader legal technicalities that would get him off the hook criminally wise, and he'll move to solidify the voices of hate's hold on what defines constitutional free speech.

I don't mean this as by what we say online, I mean it as by what may not be done for reining in any voices who threaten harm to us whenever we'd totally call out their venomous hatred out. Their flaming, utterly like in this instance might readily end up becoming reclassified as constitutionally protected free speech; even when legal precedent says otherwise.

Now, picture yourself as a kid at school, and right now you're so getting tortured both physically and mentally by your playyard bully. Yet upon the day you chose to fully stand up for yourself, you'd get expelled thus for even reporting them in the first place. But yet hang on a minute, don't think that that's the end with your bully triumphing as you take your walk of shame. All clearly with them jeering yet as each of your exteachers go off  in harsh repremands. See, all of this would truly be the tip of the iceberg here.

So like you see, that would be the environment we'd be thrown into. One where the voices of hatred can totally post, "N****r! N****r!", with the security of knowing that they'd completely get away with it. Moreover, just about any criticism of this practice, and/or of Trump et al., would thus be reclassified as both sedition and hate speech. Legitimacy in this instance so being irrelevant.

Essentially, this is all basically staging ground for mass intimidation. That of course being the setting for rather ostensibly effecting a full totalitarian dictatorship. Just as for how far this goes is anyone's guess, but it's fully now a question of how to check it before we're driven into a proverbial ditch.

Buckle up everyone, it'll be a bumpy ride.

Donald Trump's Federal Indictment Won't Change His Winning Trajectory

Even with former US President Donald Trump having been indicted for having stolen classified presidential records from the White House, it won't change his full trajectory to victory for the Republicans' presidential nomination and the presidency itself next year. Current US President Joe Biden, even while projecting broader confidence, isn't going to know what'd hit him and the Democratic Party writ-large to knock them well out of power so quickly. Part of the reason would be the total thining out of their base; as well as the Supreme Court gearing itself up to chuck out both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in their full entireties. By the close of 2023, these laws won't even be in effect any further.

The first priority for the Republicans upon taking total congressional control in January 2025 is to repeal both those aforementioned laws from the federal dockets so completely before even passing out tax cuts for the yet wealthiest American individuals and enterprises. Now the reason for doing it in that order is that it will utterly kill off a blue-colored wave election in 2026, and quite fully allow the GOP to continue imposing its will on us with complete impunity. It will also mean that Trump'll have the space he needs to change the Constitution just to his own benefit. His first target: that's the fuller 22^nd Amendment. Ditch that and he (or thus another family member) will be in office forever.

Quite thus then, everything's going to get worse before it gets better. For the faction trying to regain the power which it'd lost is the very same one that tore the whole country apart back during the American Civil War. So granted the issues aren't the very same as then, but yet the attitude and animosity absolutely are.

More specifically, the faction I'm so referring to is that of the old plantation owners, who today are yet mostly corporate titans. Its overtly racialized reactionism and total dedication to White Supremacy is what's broken now back into the mainstream again after being quite sidelined for a good nearly 70 years.

The Netanyahu Government Is Turning Israel Into An Apartheid State

It's gotten to a rather terrible point for Israel in the very sense that even some top members of its military brass are now calling the occupations of both the West Bank and East Jerusalem Apartheid after the territories have gotten placed under civilian control instead of the IDF. This would be especially true now that the government will now fully extend thorough legal recognition to all of the settlements, past, present, and future. Full while simultaneously defending any settler violence exacted upon resident any Palestinian families within the near vicinity.

Nevermind the fact that the Likud-led government thus is quite hellbent upon leading violent pogroms straight up on to all resident Palestinians living in the occupied territories. After finishing annexing the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Netanyahu and his cabinet would quite likely hone their sights right upon the Gaza Strip for its reannexation as well. Plus it's exceedingly well-known that doing all of that is a rather blatant contravention of international law, via the 4^th Geneva Convention along with several UNSC Resolutions, such as 242 and 465. Anything of this caliber has to be curbed immediately, otherwise we'll be looking at a potential bloodbath. Yet not solely on the Palestinian side, as Israeli lives would be lost as well.

No one, neither Jew nor Arab, deserves to be kept in as great of a deathful reprisal cycling as the one between Israel and Palestine. This has fully gone out of control as it is already, and can not continue in any measure.

Why Shaming Republican Candidates For Their Bigotry Won't Work

The Democrats and media are correct in calling out the unequivocally bigoted campaign rhetoric coming from numerous Republicans, but at this point, it's very moot. Now this is by many of these heads openly taking that shame, and turning it into a badge of honor. Some on the left have every incentive to pin this spike in hateful speech on Donald Trump, but they're thoroughly going after the wrong person.

Trump is the figure who's been blurting the quieter part of the Republican Party's numerous coded and bigoted tropes out loud, which had invariably marked a change in tone. But he's not the cause for all of this, especially not the direct one. That honor falls onto greater figures of yesteryear. These are people such as James Buckley and Robert Welch, both of whom had entirely opposed the ending of segregation and the onset of Civil Rights. Doing so starting right back in 1954 with the ruling of Brown v. Board. 

So for all this bigoted horseshit that Republicans have been saying on the campaign trail, it's a clear sign that the party so taking a chapter out of Trump's playbook. But at the same time, it's also a sign that all these new Dixiecans are picking up from where their Dixiecrat ancestors were stymied in the 1960s and 1970s. Trying to get rid of the Civil Rights laws which outlawed Jim Crow. All with its unremittingly mandated segregation and discrimination.

For Republicans, it's not so much about gaining power as a party, it's about a section of America seeking total revenge for what it determines as encroachment on its rights: the White South, specifically of its elites. Some members of this clique have a thoroughly long history of using such bellicose language whenever they don't get their way. To them, it's about preserving a power structure which can actually only run smoothly upon the suffering of non-Whites, especially Blacks. They and Hispanics/Latinos are overwhelmingly targetted for either their dark skin tones, or for speaking in the wrong language, or both. Bear in mind, this is only a small fraction of this group which we're talking about, not the overwhelming majority.

How Democratic Victory Will Be A False Positive In Terms Of 2024

 It's becoming more apparent as the Republicans' messaging falls apart due in part to Donald Trump having fully inserted himself into their primary process with the Big Lie, the Democrats are going to do very well in this Fall's midterm election. At least in respect to holding and even expanding their majorities in Congress. But don't be fooled, for 2024 is going to be a complete blood bath for the Democrats as the effects of the War in Ukraine and a very potentially worse outbreak of COVID-19 with a bungled response will lead to a Republican victory that year. What's worse is that the Dems don't have anybody to succeed Joe Biden if he ultimately chooses not to run that year. If he does choose to run, he's going to get clobbered real badly by whomever the Republicans field against him.

Russia Invading Ukraine Is A Dumb Move

For all the news banging around about Russia targetting Ukraine, no one should be all that surprised about an invasion. This happening was long in the making since 2014.

For Russia itself, this was a dumb move strategically as it's going encourage the growth of something it sought to cease: the further expansion of NATO. It'll kick into overdrive for 2 additional Scandanavian nations' push to join the alliance: Sweden and Finland. At the moment, these are neutral nations, but with actions going as they are, it'd be a non-surprise to see them clamoring to join.

Russia will come out of this in a worse position than when it in. America will use whatever leverage it has with Israel and China, which can cut the former out of the global trade and arms markets. Not only that, the war in Ukraine is exceedingly unpopular among the Russian people. The younger generations are getting information through social media sites like TikTok and Vkontakte rather than consuming the propoganda that's broadcasted on Russian state media.

Ordinary Russians are seeing the body bags that are coming back from Ukraine, and they're pissed off about it. They're beginning to protest against the war, which is scaring the living crap out of Vladimir Putin. As an autocrat, there's nothing more threatening than peaceful protests.

Donald Trump's Increasingly Violent Rhetoric Will Undermine Republicans In 2022

As the 2022 midterm election draws closer, the Republicans are looking less likely to retake Congress. The reason is simple, Donald Trump's increasingly violent rhetoric, which is leaving them dangerously exposed. One example is the recent pledge to pardon all participants in the attack on the Capitol on 01/06/2021. The message that sends is: Be as violent as possible for me and I'll ensure your lack of any accountability.

It's this rhetoric that is  worsening just about everyone's fury of our current system of both government and governance, albeit in the most misguided way possible. By continuing to sow doubt and chaos, Trump is still consistently sending (conscientiously/subconscientiously or not — a very interesting debate at that) overtures to some of the most violent White Supremacy and White Power extremists. He's signaling them that they should be ready to act upon his cue to snuff out any opposition by Americans at-large.

What this means for the Republicans is that their chances of victory on 11/08/2022 are slipping away from them due to the electorate being turned off by Trump's rhetoric. He's doing this by inserting himself as the sole focus of the party's campaign instead of President Joe Biden. Using this as a platform for lying about how 2020 was stolen from him, he's alienating the very swing voters who the party's desparately trying to court for the general election.

Trump is attempting to use the midterm campaign to exact revenge against those who voted to impeach him early last year, and continue to call for him to face any kind of accountability. That drive for exacting revenge in Republican primaries means that the party will field his handpicked extremists as their general election candidates, which will hurt the party itself in the end. This is a final result of the John Birch Society's newest reincarnation, the MAGA movement, taking over the Republican Party.

I'm Writing A Book

I know this is a stark departure from the overall theme of the blog. First off, I should probably apologize about my having gone so AWOL. The truth is I've been job hunting since the beginning of the year, and it's been eating up a lot of my time. I'm going to make it a priority to post more regularly for you all to have decent content.

Secondly, there's some news in terms of book writing. Okay, I'll first start this by answering the question of what the heck happened to the self-help book. That's on indefinite hiatus as I got writer's block with it. I'm currently stuck on page 10 with that one. The actual book writing news is of a new one I started writing in August. That one is currently on page 115. I'm almost at the half-way point with that one.