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A spot where John (who is not your lawyer) talks about the issues of the day from a Left-ish perspective. Expect hot and/or cold takes on politics, civics (remember civics?), culture, history, and more!
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My Top Six Choices for the Veepstakes 2024!
It's probably only a day before Kamala Harris announces the results of her #veepstakes and I give you my choices for who I think makes the most sense politically! The conventional wisdom is that the choices will be most likely:
Governor Ben Shapiro (D- PA), Senator Mark Kelly (D- AZ), Governor Timothy Walz (D- MN), Governor Andy Beshear (D- KY), Secretary Pete Buttigieg (D- MI), Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-IL). Here, I explain why I think the conventional wisdom is all wrong. Who do I have for number one? Why? Who do I have last? The answers might surprise you? Or not!
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Governor Ben Shapiro (D- PA), Senator Mark Kelly (D- AZ), Governor Timothy Walz (D- MN), Governor Andy Beshear (D- KY), Secretary Pete Buttigieg (D- MI), Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-IL). Here, I explain why I think the conventional wisdom is all wrong. Who do I have for number one? Why? Who do I have last? The answers might surprise you? Or not!
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Why "Personnel is Policy" is so troubling, and how "Project 2025" goes back farther than you think.
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Today, John goes to the next section of Project 2025, "Chapter 3: Central Personnel Agencies: Managing the Bureaucracy," co-written by Donald Devine, a hold-over from the Reagan Administration. They don't want to "manage" the bureaucracy, so much as spoil it; turning it into a corrupt shell of what it once was. You can find the entire Project 2025 here (so you can read it for yourself): static....
Biden Out! Harris In! What Now!?
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It's been one hell of a week in American politics, as Biden decides not to seek re-election, endorses Harris, Harris secures the Democratic Delegates she needs for the nominations, and then raises over $100 million. Phew. John dissects why it happened, where we stand, and where we might be going from here, and also, why Project 2025 is still important to unravel. Thanks for watching!
Project 2025, Vought Industries, and the Office of Management and Budget
Просмотров 14Месяц назад
John continues his march through the Project 2025 Manifesto by looking at the chapter on the "Executive Office" by former Russell Vought (we're not making this up), the former OMB Director under Donald Trump. Come for the lazy bullet points, stay for the fascistic take over of bureaucracy!
Mental Health Break!
Просмотров 4Месяц назад
John took a mental health break yesterday and wants to remind you all that it's ok to not be ok! Take some time to smell, or just admire, the flowers. Hope you're all ok! Normal service will resume in due course! Mental Health Hotline, US: mentalhealthhotline.org Mind.co.uk (mental health help in the UK): www.mind.org.uk/need-urgent-help/using-this-tool/
Project 2025 and the Office of the White House
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Project 2025 takes aim at the Office of the White House with some mostly "inside baseball" suggestions for how to reorganize the office. It may be interesting if you're a West Wing freak, but otherwise, you might find it kind of boring... except... EXCEPT... there are a few suggestions that are a little... dodgy and kind of unethical. John explores those as well as indulges in some pedantic and...
French Lessons - What can today's elections in France teach us?
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With today's shock elections in France, where the far-left coalition of the New Popular Front managed to gain more seats than the Centrist Machinists, and the far-right National Rally, John looks at whether there are any lessons that the Left here in the United States can learn. Do we need coalitions to take down the Right? Or can we go it alone?
The Forward to Project 2025: Introduction to Fascism?
Просмотров 41Месяц назад
This week, as John begins his long slog through the entire Project 2025 manual, "A Mandate for Leadership," he picks out some choice passages from the Forward by the President of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin D. Roberts, Ph.D. What to they think the two biggest threats to America are? What country is surprisingly not mentioned in the Forward? Which two Presidents get name-checked? And how fasc...
Project 2025: The Scope of the Project
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In this episode, John takes a quick look at last night's UK elections, glances at the Biden interview on ABC, and then scans through the Table of Contents to give a sense of just how much of the Federal Government the Project 2025 team is trying to change with its manual. Buckle up, everyone- it's gonna get bumpy. You can check out a copy of the Playbook here: static.project2025.org/2025_Mandat...
Worst.Campaign.EVER! The Tory UK Election Campaign of 2024!
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On US Independence Day, we take a look at how, regardless of the result, Rishi Sunak and the Conservative (and Unionist) Party ran what is possibly the worst political campaign in the history of the Western World. We hit all the major strategic blunders and what lessons they might have for us on the Left. Jon Oliver on this UK Election: ruclips.net/video/tkAqwHiAR-g/видео.htmlsi=I-Q-6tqFSPlSqJG...
What is Project 2025 and why we care!
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(Edit: My apologies to everyone listening: for some reason I got it in my head that it was "Project 2525" and not "Project 2025." Hopefully it wasn't too distracting!) Today, John looks at what Project 2025 is, who's behind it, and why we should care. He touches a little bit on why it should truly bring everyone on the Left together, no matter what. Here is the Project 2025 Handbook: static.pro...
Cass Redux and Dealing with THAT Debate
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John discusses the latest intensive analysis of the Cass Review, performed by Professors from Yale, University of Southern California, and Drexel University (among others), finding that, surprise, surprise, the Review was shoddy and poorly researched and composed. John's very relieved they echoed a lot of his concerns. You can find the new report right here: law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/doc...
Keep Calm and Beat Trump!
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In the first of hopefully daily video podcasts that look at what's going on in politics today between now and the election, John takes us back to the important thing: we have to beat Trump.
Cass Backwards: Analyzing the Cass Review on its Own Terms.
Просмотров 583 месяца назад
Examining the British Cass Review from a legalistic perpective. We examine the text of the Review on its own terms, finding inconsistencies, weasel words, and outright contradictions in what was supposed to be an "independent" and "evidence-based" investigation into medical services provided to trans children and adolescents. Spoiler alert: it plainly wasn't. Other analyses of the Cass Review i...
I don't think anyone on the left is seriously suggesting Shapiro being Jewish is a problem in the first place. Certainly they aren't in the places I've been seeing. Lots of commentary about how he's very much on the ideological unconditional support for Israel train, but as we saw with the Uncommitted movement, that's a criticism that is (legitimately!) levelled whether or not the person doing it is a Jew. I do suspect that the people making those criticisms would _not_ be brought into a rift-healing by the fact that he's called Netanyahu the worst leader in Israeli history - most of them have been calling the focus on Bibi a deflection from the Israeli state's _institutional_ anti-palestinian bias. I therefore think they'd regard that remark from him the same way: an attempt to suggest that replacing one man should resolve their objections and make what's happening in Gaza acceptable.
I ... Disagree
Good video. I'm in agreement that Biden was pushed aside too quickly by the donors and democratic elites. He's truly been one of our greatest presidents in the past 25 years. But at the same time I do see how Kamala is captivating the base. Her messaging and speeches are so far on point. And so has her political instincts. We will see if this carries through to the convention and onwards. Also, her poll numbers right now can't be trusted because she was previously out of the spotlight and behind the scenes. They could easily go much higher once she's out campaigning.
Thanks. The reminder for self care is always appreciated
That aside about grammar around the three-minute mark almost makes me want to go through the whole thing with a red pen and some "see me"-style remarks. Almost.
I _said I was sorry!_
LOL
I… don't actually agree with regard to the British parliament. I can see why it would _look_ like that lesson but I cannot overstate the extent to which Labour is _not_ a left party any more. They've been purging left MPs, they've accepted a bunch of defectors from the Tories, including appointing several of them to their new cabinet, and in general they are now to the right of where the Tories were a decade ago. The Liberal Democrats are to the left of Labour now, and being essentially a centrist party is _in their name._
I absolutely get your point on that... I kind of think that if you take the French Parliamentary Chart, for example, anyone in the Macronist section and left, to me, has to be included in "The Left" for purposes of the next decade or so, at least until this fascist wave abates. I think Labour needs to abandon its Rightward tilt. That said, I would trust it to abandon the Two-child benefit cap far before the Tories ever would. And I'd expect them to actually TRY to renationalize rail, even if it takes them far too long. (The LD proposal falls short of that IIRC). What gives me hope for Britain is that if you added the votes for Green + SNP + PC + LD + Corbynist/Indies + Labour you'd get far more than Conservative + Reform, no matter what the Murdoch press would say.
@@keepleft801 yeah. I fear, though, that Labour has too large a margin to be willing to form a not-fascist coalition, and gained it in a way too reliant on FPTP for them to go for the electoral reform that would make one possible at the next election. Labour's fundamental attitude is, and has been for decades with the exception of the couple of years Corbyn led it, "we can be as right-wing as we like; it's not like the left will vote Tory".
Can we leverage soft Republicans?
Here's hoping!
Don’t know why I can’t “like” this, but I do!
3:57 "project 202525"?! It's jumped ahead a further 200,000 years! I'm so sorry.
The pressure, I tell you! The pressure was too much!!!
The accurate and important information is somewhat undercut by repeatedly calling it "project 2525" rather than "project 2025", implying it's 500 years away
I know!!! I felt so bad about that! It was a total brain fart!
The left in America ls toast. There will be retribution by the right.
But Rishi is such an Everyman! How did it go wrong?
Thanks for putting this message out there.
Love this, thank you
So you believe that people can be born in the wrong body?
For some value of "wrong". People can be born in bodies that do not align with what their minds expect or would be comfortable with. They can also be born in bodies they're perfectly comfortable with but assigned social roles and categories on the basis thereof that don't fit them, and such people have every right to reject those roles and categories.
@@DaraelDraconis " People can be born in bodies that do not align with what their minds ..." You have no understanding of how cognition works. The body is first and cognition represents reality. Gender is the Cognitive Structure that represents biological sex, which is why 99.9% of the people have no problem with their gender. Because of trauma and shame, some people reject their body and they convince themselves that theyt are the other gender. Absolutely ridiculous.
Hormones, puberty blockers, haven't existed for ever. Face it, it's the end of gender ideology
Hormones have existed as long as humans have. _Supplementary_ hormones - hormone replacement therapy - haven't, sure, but that's not what you said. For that matter, most medicines haven't existed forever. Yet you're only campaigning against the ones that help trans people. Weird, that.