tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post6253594061060851107..comments2024-03-28T21:32:41.763-05:00Comments on driftglass: My Response To Ta-Nehisi Coates' "My President Was Black" driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-88080181849806265002016-12-18T20:57:33.694-06:002016-12-18T20:57:33.694-06:00Yeah, actually, you do have a lot to say. Yeah, actually, you do have a lot to say. Herb_Sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05171563879870669486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-86688955626783137612016-12-16T21:00:22.622-06:002016-12-16T21:00:22.622-06:00Doug, you're right that America has been an on...Doug, you're right that America has been an ongoing experiment. But the GOP is now totally committed to destroying the Federal Government except for national security/oppression functions. That means essentially they are committed to an authoritarian oligarchy. To be implemented under a senile psychopath President that they will have little nominal control over. If they can get him impeached within six months they get their preferred patsy Pence. Of course, once the total dismantling starts happening then all bets are truly off for what happens to this country. That's what the stupid GOP shits just don't get; massive repression results in massive reaction and unpredictable consequences. The next several years are going to be dangerously wild.Jimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13891331049535299222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-50725796416152591732016-12-16T18:40:13.988-06:002016-12-16T18:40:13.988-06:00Begging the author's pardon, but Obama will ch...Begging the author's pardon, but Obama will choose which fights are his to take up and which aren't. He has faced more in the last eight years than any of us can imagine, and has earned that right. <br /><br />He'll have my back regardless, even if it's just golf.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02753739198386729717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-18538955975400422692016-12-16T14:12:55.125-06:002016-12-16T14:12:55.125-06:00duquesnepdx: "the destruction of the system t...duquesnepdx: "the destruction of the system to a degree that no one can ever rebuild it."<br /><br /> We've been rebuilding it since they got off on the wrong foot at the beginning and forgot to include the bill of rights, so this isn't a fundamental change of goal, it's just a worsening of working conditions and a bunch of new clean-up tasks to occupy the next Democratic administration's attention through as much of their eighteen months of a favorable congress as possible. Hopefully, most of us will survive it. And all of those who do are gonna have to fight like hell, and hopefully that fight will end up being the tales of glory they get to tell their grandchildren.<br /><br /> -Doug in Oakland dinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-59217920562300120812016-12-16T06:44:26.576-06:002016-12-16T06:44:26.576-06:00“I fear, I am integrating my people into a burning...“I fear, I am integrating my people into a burning house.”<br /><br />~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr<br /><br /><br />Brother Duq'pdx - you ain't never lied.drbopperthphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09065040490038194712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-67804474024485539682016-12-16T05:43:24.767-06:002016-12-16T05:43:24.767-06:00Regarding the Krugman article from 2010, Bill Clin...Regarding the Krugman article from 2010, Bill Clinton was a big advocate of the theory that much unemployment was structural. He would point to the want-ads. <br /><br />Today, structural unemployment shows up in the statistics as part of the low men's labor-force participation rate. SamBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08130666912654402454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-19809815739401177142016-12-16T04:56:49.158-06:002016-12-16T04:56:49.158-06:00I really don't have a lot to say. Coates' ...I really don't have a lot to say. Coates' article is a must read, though I'm not sure why he didn't just go write the book that he's obviously going to write at some point. But, as always, you stole the march on the political points years before anyone else was really looking at the issue.<br /><br />Gaming the system to allow 80k votes to eclipse 2.8M votes is an impressive little feat. It's not only Obama's legacy that is going to suffer as a result, but the Great Society and New Deal initiatives that we take for granted. Ryan is going to burn the house down after he strips out the copper piping and wires, and laugh at the flames.<br />McConnell will bring any bill to the floor that makes the Dems cry, and refuse to vote on any bill that Dems might like. And Derp Fuhrer will probably have Pence forge his signature on bills, while rage tweeting about all of the traitorous pigs who won't kiss his ass.<br /><br />I don't have any hope of anything better. I have no hope that the Dems can successfully block legislation, because getting Dems to work as one unit is like herding cats. All we can look forward to is the destruction of the system to a degree that no one can ever rebuild it.<br /><br />Thanks, Brother Driftglass. Please keep up the fight.duquesne_pdxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10741121985491756399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-40619852190306823882016-12-16T01:17:15.098-06:002016-12-16T01:17:15.098-06:00There is something everyone but Obama is responsib...There is something everyone but Obama is responsible for over any faults, failures or unrealized policy.<br /><br />He barely had a congress for 14 months.<br /><br />That is on votes who couldn't get off the couch (or whatever) to vote midterms.<br /><br />There is much more that could have been accomplished if he has a congress to work with.<br /><br />He told us,<br />"you have a drink with Mitch McConnell". and " play golf" with the sniveling teary eyed BoehnerRobthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-24180018618737686962016-12-15T22:34:48.946-06:002016-12-15T22:34:48.946-06:00Yep, you called it.
One of the last major officia...Yep, you called it.<br /><br />One of the last major official POTUS initiatives is expanding Presidential powers over drone strike policy, because even as a lame duck it's all about being helpful ... & for once the "Neville Chamberlain" meme count in the pestilent catacombs of the Lowry/Malkin/Limbaugh Axis Of Weevils stands at a resounding nil.jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-70784839214608733902016-12-15T17:49:50.867-06:002016-12-15T17:49:50.867-06:00Groucho Marx observed - political analysis repeats...Groucho Marx observed - political analysis repeats itself:<br /><br />In this instance - the first time written by Driftglass and not distributed widely.<br /><br />The second time written by someone else and feted.<br /><br />Tragic and farce elements - together again.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17034212831921524046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-50597398977581501132016-12-15T16:25:57.921-06:002016-12-15T16:25:57.921-06:00He is still the best elected head of the executive...He is still the best elected head of the executive branch of our Federal Government in 20 years. <br /><br />He had his faults, but as Peter Fonda said in Easy Rider: "We blew it."...and I'd add an emphasis on the WE. trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04718897286384990852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-29221143507112697792016-12-15T16:16:02.916-06:002016-12-15T16:16:02.916-06:00And proving once again why I said from the first t...And proving once again why I said from the first time I read you that you are the best blogger in the known world.<br /><br />Salute!Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-70403848867188850622016-12-15T16:12:26.265-06:002016-12-15T16:12:26.265-06:00Instead, Obama kept chasing the magic compromise p...Instead, Obama kept chasing the magic compromise pony.<br /><br />Did he get any political capital or credit from Comey?<br /><br />No.<br /><br />Did he help sabotage his own legacy by appointing Comey, who used his office for partisan ends?Lit3Bolthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10407681812425172672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-74867235334816009942016-12-15T14:46:26.714-06:002016-12-15T14:46:26.714-06:00Lost original looonnnggg post - TNC can bite me - ...Lost original looonnnggg post - TNC can bite me - you and a bunch of others were first - don't need to read his derivative stuff.drbopperthphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09065040490038194712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-90721515895732052252016-12-15T14:44:58.908-06:002016-12-15T14:44:58.908-06:00The Coates piece is heartbreaking and mandatory.The Coates piece is heartbreaking and mandatory.Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.com