Hi Arthur:

Suppression of votes and Felon Musk money contributed to the loss.

Buy voter suppression has been the Republican Party playbook for decades, as well as receiving billions of dollars in dark money.

Look at the billions AIPAC spends on their candidates from both parties.

Ceteris paribus.

You seem to be old enough to remember 1968. If so, you witnessed millions of antiwar progressives and peace Samaritans stay home in disgust on Tuesday 5 Nov 1968 because of Democratic Party support for the brutal Saigon regime.

The same happened on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024. Antiwar progressives were revolted by the Democratic Party support for the brutal Likud regime in Jerusalem.

Look what the Democrats lost between 2020 and 2024: 6,265,888 supporters.

Did Steve Kornacki render an explanation for that?

I too almost stayed home on 5 Nov 2024, but Jimmy Carter's last wish was to vote for Kamala Harris, so my entire family and I voted for her to defeat Dummkopf Trumpf and honor Jimmy Carter.

For the Democrats, 1968 = 2024.

On Tuesday 5 Nov 2024, 76,535,898 cretins inflicted this upon us, themselves, and the United States of America.

Israel slaughters nearly 72,000 Muslims in Gaza but somehow cares about 30,000 Muslims allegedly being slaughtered in Iran?

Thanks for not *Killfiling* me, Corky!

@4 Benjamin Netanyahu made several trips to the US in 2024 and 2025.

He would unofficially meet with candidate Dummkopf Trumpf in Florida while officially meeting POTUS Joe Biden.

When Netanyahu visited the US after Trumpf won, I predicted Bibi would not see his so-called good friend Joe Biden in nearby Delaware, just a short drive or flight from Wash DC.

I was correct.

MIT graduate Benjamin Netanyahu played the Biden Administration like a fiddle in 2024. Then, like so much used Kleenex, he discarded Joe Biden and the Democrats who helped Israel so much over the decades.

I hope the Democratic Party succeeds on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026 without the crucial progressive bloc of antiwar volunteers and peace Samaritans.

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz lost without them on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024, just like Hubert Humphrey and Ed Muskie on Tuesday 5 Nov 1968.

One of the hideous results of American taxpayer money and US political support:

*** US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Publicly Supports Alberta Separatism ***

"Good-for-nothing mega-oligarch US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has weighed in on a separatist movement in Alberta, saying the western Canadian province is a "natural partner for the US".

"Alberta has a wealth of natural resources, but they won't let them build a pipeline to the Pacific," Bessent told an American right-wing commentator in an interview on Thursday.

"I think we should let them come down into the US, and Alberta is a natural partner for the US. They have great resources. The Albertans are very independent people."

Islamophobic AIPAC darling Congressman Randy "the Hebrew Ham Sandwich" Fine (R-FL) blames Ilhan Omar for the attack.

You can't make this up.

The ungracious and ungrateful Benjamin Netanyahu did not specify how many IDF soldiers lost their lives over the "embargo," or precisely when it ostensibly happened. The "Crime Minister" did not directly name Joe Biden, but bleated that the "embargo" ended as soon as Dummkopf Trumpf seized power on 20 Jan 2025.

Amos Hochstein, one of Joe Biden's top aides, immediately refuted the ICC-indicted war criminal's innuendo, calling him out as a liar:

"Netanyahu is both not telling the truth and ungrateful to a president that literally saved Israel at its most vulnerable moment," Amos Hochstein said.

Hochstein posted on social media: "After more than $20 Billion military support, largest in Israeli history, two aircraft carriers rushed to the region, deterring a massive regional war, defeating Iran missile and drone attack twice, defending Israel at most vulnerable moments, after SAVING countless lives of Israelis " only acceptable response to US president Biden and American people is THANK YOU."

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Between the winning 2020 and losing 2024 elections, Democrats lost 6,265,888 votes. The 2024 Democratic Party lost the progressive antiwar bloc over its unqualified support for Israel and its brutal pogrom against the Palestinians. On Tuesday 5 November 2024, these peace Samaritans stayed home rather than vote for Dummkopf Trumpf or Jill Stein.

Sources:

///// Attacker's Brother: "He's a "piece of s**t" /////

"The miscreant accused of attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) during a Tuesday evening town hall meeting in Minnesota is a "piece of s**t" with lifelong anger issues who has been fixated on the Somali-born lawmaker " and the Somali diaspora in general " for years, his younger brother reported.

"I'm not surprised this happened," Anthony James Kazmierczak's brother in a phone interview from his home in North Carolina. "Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists."

Unlike the sniveling decomposing cowardly aspartame-addled pedophilic draft dodger who never worked a day in his life, Ilhan Omar fearlessly turned to confront her white bread imbecilic assailant head on.

Chief US District Judge Patrick Schiltz may order Deputy US Marshals (DUSMs) ensure the future "personal appearances of Lyons or other government officials."

Dummkopf Trumpf's face on toilet paper is obviously more appropriate:

Since June 2025, the diabolical Trumpf junta has deployed Army National Guard personnel to six cities -- Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, Memphis TN, Portland OR, and Washington DC"wasting $496m of taxpayer money.

The continued deployment of the National Guard at its current size as of the end of 2025 would cost $93m per month, while deploying 1,000 National Guard troops to a city in 2026 would cost between $18 million to $21 million per month, depending on the city's cost of living, the CBO reports.

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On 26 Nov 2025, just a few blocks from the White House, a lunatic opened fire on two West Virginia Army National Guard Soldiers, killing one and critically wounding the other.

In all of the tumult and riots of the 1960s when US Army National Guard Soldiers were deployed to restore order in Los Angeles, Detroit, Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, and Birmingham, there are no reports of any Soldiers being killed or wounded.

Besides trying to intimidate the American population with this idiotic military deployment of US Soldiers on American soil, this colossal waste of money could be better spent in so many other ways to benefit the American people. Dummkopf Trumpf's profligate nature and wasteful policies are simply destroying the American economy while enriching the oligarchs, White House insiders, and military contractors.

"The plan, which was contrived without any consultation with Palestinians in Gaza, promises to rebuild Gaza from scratch and includes residential towers, data centers, seaside resorts, parks, sports facilities, and an airport."

Our friend's sister, a pencil-thin starving artist, has been living in the shadows of Spain for a few years.

Thanks to the generosity of this former empire and dictatorship, she'll transition into the formal economy, as will tens of thousands of other people, and receive some of the benefits of Spanish residency: universal healthcare.

She is too far behind to add to the Spanish pension system, which is ranked higher than America's, but her life will improve nevertheless.

Wish we could say such things here.

Hardworking American taxpayers, who don't enjoy universal healthcare like the residents of Israel, Germany, Taiwan, or Canada, in fact suffer medical bankruptcies every year, are subsidizing brutal ICE and IDF oppression in two countries: America and Israel.

Innocent people are getting killed.

How the heck did we end up here?

Thanks for posting, Corky.

One test of a song is if the lyrics can stand by itself as a poem.

This one does.

Too bad Clarence Clemons left us 20 years ago, he might have played that instrumental solo.

But the harmonica is the poor man's instrument and harkens us to resistance, prisoners keeping up their morale or hoboes sitting around campfires struggling to survive the Great Depression.

The Superbowl is a week away and someone performing this would be perfect there.

The ICC issued international arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin.

But we know this is an unjust world, so these two monsters, and others, will get away with their crimes.

And we live in a Judeo-Christian country that regards Muslims or Arabs as disposable people, something that is an impediment or an obstruction, much like the Apaches or the Sioux in the 19th century.

"Get rid of them! Call them terrorists! Savages! How dare they attack and fight back against extermination! And look, three Palestinian oligarchs live in luxury in Qatar! Palestinians aren't allowed to have criminal oligarchs living safely and comfortably like Larry Ellison, Felon Musk, Miriam Adelson, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Steve Witkoff, or Jared Kushner!"

"Finish the job in Gaza already, General Custer! Bezalel Smotrich, the Settlers, and the real estate people are getting impatient!"

Defense contractors have done superbly for themselves with the sinister Trumpf junta.

And what we don't see?

The hi-tech Israeli spyware in the ICE vans conducting warrantless surveillance on all of us.

Thank you hardworking American taxpayer, you have funded the engine of our oppression while making others fabulously wealthy.

And getting innocent people killed along the way.

The vintage era "party line" from a time long ago.

Let's listen in, shall we?

"Say, how's the killing going over there? Good, good. Business is a little slow, but it'll pick up in Spring. I lost another 1,000 dummies yesterday. The media's doing a fine job distracting everybody everywhere. Listen, don't hit the Iranians too hard, I need their Shaheed drones. Steve Witkoff is a perfect tool. Yeah, ain't he? Jared Kushner too, a wonderful son-in-law to have. But Bibi and AIPAC want the Ayatollahs gone. Damn right, what's taking so long? Remember who your real boss is. But I moved the aircraft carrier there. Hey, I thought I was his real boss! Why do you like Zohran Mamdani so much? He'll have me arrested if I come to UNGA in NYC. Hee-hee, how's the corruption trial going? No pardon yet? Hey, what's that awful tumor on your hand? ICE has learned well from the IDF. Nobody's watching Melanoma's stupid useless expensive movie. Who?"

Compare the compassion, charity, and common sense of the Spanish government with the cruelty and cold-blooded callousness of the US, Israeli, and Russian governments.

Night and day.