Professional Left Podcast Episode 831: Carousel of Past Dem Presidents At The DNC Remember!

"Study the past, if you would divine the future." -- Confucius.

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Ridin' With Harris

As we mentioned once or twice on our podcast, we had planned on Ridin' with Biden to the end.  Without reservation.  However, as we also made clear, if President Biden felt that stepping aside was in the best interest of the party and the country, that was also be just fine with us because we trusted his judgement.  Whoever leads the ticket has our vote.  

Period.  Full stop.

However, as the Guardian of Inconvenient History and the co-host of the "No Fair Remembering Stuff" podcast, I have no plans to ever forget the shameful, public "Dump Biden" pile-on by Hollywood celebrities, our Never Trump "allies", the Pod Save rug rats, the wealthy donors -- who resorted to what amounted to down-ticket extortion to pressure Dems in tight races to come out against Biden, and most egregiously of all, the entire corporate media, including CNN, MSNBC and, leading the jackal pack, The New York Fucking Times.  

Like the Grinch's heart on Christmas Day, my list of "fuck you forever" backstabbers, fair-weather friends, moth-eaten "insiders" and jumped-up toddlers with outsized platforms grew three sizes over the past few weeks.

I'm all-in for Kamala Harris and whoever she chooses as her running mate.  

But I will also never forget how so many people with so much money and clout publicly did my president dirty when he asked for their help.  

I Am The Liberal Media!

Grandpa Joe Continues To Promise To Do Shots With Reagan Until Bipartisanship

From the Washington Post:

Transcript: Jonathan Capehart interviews Joe Biden

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So how do you get and deal with, for example, the need for universal health care? How do you deal with fundamentally altering the education opportunities for people? Make taking advantage of the opportunities that exist? Unless you can you know sort of heal the soul here. I mean, people get it. And by the way, Republicans get it as well as Democrats and independents. This is not who we are.

A colleague of yours who is a columnist, [New York Times columnist] David Brooks, conservative columnist, talks about, you know, every society is held up by the moral fabric of that society. That the kind of the basic American creed: decency, honor, the notion that we leave nobody behind, that things are bigger than just you, etc...

Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to run way ahead n the Beltway Bubble/David Brooks/Meet the Press/Joe Scarborough primary.

Behold, a Tip Jar!

Grandpa Joe Continues To Promise To Do Shots With Reagan Until Bipartisanship

Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to run hard in the Beltway Bubble/David Brooks/Meet the Press/Joe Scarborough primary:

In New Hampshire, Joe Biden predicts that once President Trump is out of office, Republicans will have “an epiphany” and work with Democrats toward consensus.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 14, 2019

Of course, as we out here in the Real World know perfectly well (and as I may have mentioned once or twice or 5000 times over the past 14 years) our political climate has been irreversibly wrecked by the Republican Party for at least the next generation, at this point the very best we can hope for is to contain their madness and mitigate the damage they can do.  Which means the rest of us in the not-crazy majority need to start running hard against the entire Republican party as an entity and stop wasting our limited time and energy pretending that figuring out the Trump voter is some great mystery, and that once we crack their code and begin communicating with them in their native language something something "Bipartisanship!"

As we out here in the Real World know perfectly well here, there is no hope of salvaging the tens of millions of reprogrammable Republican meatbags who sincerely believe that people like you and me are Marxist nitwit social justice mobsters, climate charlatans and race hustlers who are completely divorced from reality.  That damage is done and it will be fucking up our politics for decades to come.

What the rest of us can do is demand that our candidates and our media stop insulting our intelligence and trying to curry favor with a nonexistent Center, gutless "independents" and a few dozen Never Trumpers by lying about what a dungheap of bigots and imbeciles the Republican Party actually is and how exactly it got that way.

Behold, a Tip Jar!