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MissAnneThrope's avatar

ALL of this is spot on, Corbin. The dems betrayed us - THAT is why we hold them even more accountable. Their utter blindness to their complicity in our demise - and acquiescence to this horrific genocide and war! - are sickening. Other than money, (which, granted, can certainly buy influence,) I continue to be confounded by the control AIPAC and Zionism has over our government.

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Bear Kosik's avatar

Thanks! The sclerosis in the Democratic Party has been allowed to spread for 25 years. The response to Gore v Bush was to play possum. Their response to 9/11 giving Bush authority to make war was to lay down again and this time get run over. Obama was flipped to the corporatist dark side faster than a flapjack at a VFW pancake breakfast. They sucked the last bit of democracy out of the nomination process in 2016 to run a deeply flawed candidate. Then the gerontocracy completed its takeover in 2020 and gave us the debacle in 2024. Now the party is going to collapse under the weight of the egos of its senior members instead of seeing them announcing their exit and break away from the safe positions they cling to in order to remain electable.

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Jonnybutter's avatar

I agree with Inconvenient and others below: it's not cowardice, at least among the leadership. Why frame it that way? Schumer is egging Trump on! The old Clinton Dem party type people are not our friends, even a little. They are part of the problem - in fact they are the more immediate problem, the proximate problem.

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An Inconvenient Truth's avatar

"Cowardice", my foot; they are fully and willingly complicit catamites to the War Industry, just as much as - in fact, these days, WORSE than, which I NEVER thought I'd say!!! - the GOP.

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Corbin Trent's avatar

I’m thinking more of the CPC members or the folks that we think of as standing against endless wars. Maybe it’s cowardice maybe it’s something else but I don’t think it’s actually that they’re morally or financially drawn to war. I’m thinking of like your progressive members of the house or Bernie. We saw a stop the oligarchy tour. Where is our stop the war tour.

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Tom High's avatar

Every Congress critter has MIC jobs in their district. They also saw/heard what happened to MLK once he called out our militarism.

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An Inconvenient Truth's avatar

BINGO; our biggest problem by a mile. The only good news is A) the MIC is good for nothing but acquiring currency, and their actual products all suck, and B) those now of recruitment-age are FINALLY falling out of love with the military.

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An Inconvenient Truth's avatar

It seems as though the de facto POINT of the former tour (and "No Kings", which has already been pounced upon for its risibility coming from a group that completely abandoned democracy in its last major candidate) was precisely to preempt the possibility of the latter.

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Apache's avatar

Hello Corbin... Another Excellent Post... Don't forget AIPAC, and the First Loyalty of the 'Israel Firsters'....

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Andrew Bove's avatar

Absolutely! Where is talk of that tour and where’s the street protests! This is more dire than the threat to democracy. Trump deciding war is that with and a threat to the human race. Seriously, the world should be in back to back protests, days of it, relentlessly.

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Robert David's avatar

Is Satan worse than a demon? Don’t defend ANY OF THEM!

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An Inconvenient Truth's avatar

Did I?

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Victoria Pawlick's avatar

It certainly is alarming how many Democrats have collaborated with the Trump regime to allow him to establish an authoritarian dictatorship. You'd think they would look for, and possibly find, their spine if 72% of Dems want aggressive opposition to the Trump/MAGA/Project 2025 agenda to destroy our nation.

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Diane J's avatar

The Rump enabling Dems Need to be voted out and replaced with people who actually support democracy not the spineless twits who either are decades behind reality or Republicans pretending to be Democrats.

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Barbara Skadberg Chavez's avatar

I say enough is enough from Democrats. They need to take charge and vote against all trump's madness. We need more young, passionate people instead

of the old school. At 70, I'm tired of our party caving. It's exhausting and leaves me wondering, will they change?

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Robert David's avatar

War is profitable for a select few of the ultra rich.

Wars are for profit.

Rich Dems will let it happen after they POSITION themselves.

Have you ever known of a poor politician?

Wake up!!

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Jana L Stewart's avatar

It's not cowardice, it's complicity.

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Corbin Trent's avatar

Oh, it’s absolutely complicity for some of these folks more than complicity. It’s collusion with some Democrats. But there are others who are in their hearts and minds fully and holy against not only the war, but the executive branch having so much war power. And yet they do not stand with us at this moment.

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Jonnybutter's avatar

I think there are some from both parties who are merely cowards - they know it's a mistake, but they also know they don't have the votes to stop it. If Zionism etc was a RW phenomenon supported by only the RW party, that would be different. But unconditional support for Israel and war on Iran is a RW phenomenon that *both* parties support.

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Chris G's avatar

While I agree with your ideas for how the Dems could fight back, it just isn’t going to happen. The Corporate funded, AIPAC funded, and Oligarch funded Party will never change. It needs to go the way of the Whigs, and be replaced with a true populist/progressive party.

People like Bernie, AOC, and a few others, are not doing us a favor by sheep-dogging folks into the Party. If Bernie had broken with the party after the Clinton or the Obama/Biden hijacking of the primaries and started a new third party, just imagine the excitement and fundraising he could have accomplished. Instead he killed his own movement and his phoney “Our Revolution” money grab and fell in line like a good boy.

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Ed Nuhfer's avatar

SPOT ON, Chris.

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Ed Nuhfer's avatar

Netanyahu has more governance authority over this country than ANY official actually elected by American voters out of the corrupt offerings provided by two corrupt cartel parties. AIPAC owns both parties. He could starting selling US citizens' homes to Israeli "settlers" and the elected synchophant sheep in CONgress would cower under their desks and bleat, BAAAAAAAAAHH...WEERRE SOOOOO HELPLESSS!!! BAAAAAAAAHHHHH

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Apache's avatar

Hello Ed... Netanyahu has 'Twisted' 5 Successive American Presidents... Netanyahu is trying to now manipulate the USA into another Multi-Trillion $$$ Disaster in the Middle-East.... How Does This Benefit The USA?... How Is This America First?...

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Richard Robinson's avatar

Can anyone wonder why I left the Democrats years ago? Maybe those few Dems could join the Green party and start a trend, if they are not too contaminated by ever being a Dem in the first place. (Assuming humanity survives the current catastrophe.)

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Dave Lindorff's avatar

Makes ll the tlk about the imortance of Democrts "taking back the Houst" net year kind of a joke, no?

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Jacque Knable's avatar

This kind of inaction is why I left the D's years

Much rather be an independent!

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BUT WHAT THE FUCK DO I KNOW's avatar

Like China we need to print our money without debt. So the Federal Reserve Bank Act must go and our Treasury has to be our National Back. Print the money and provide the country with a National Health, Dental and Prescription, everyone gets free total healthcare. No more Insurance companies, no HMO's, no PPO's, no co pay, no deductibles. I'm working on getting my substack But What The Fuck Do I know as soon as possible to explain a plan to give America back to the People. It can be done, and it's all about the money.

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BUT WHAT THE FUCK DO I KNOW's avatar

And Corbin is smarter than me, I've just started watching him, and I really love what he has to say....a real great American. He's teaching me!!!!

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Bruce Dickson's avatar

Dear !$%#, another substack like Corbin's by you could be useful. If Ellen Brown is new to you, I HIGHLY encourage you to read her book and her posts at ScheerPost.com https://scheerpost.com/category/contributors/ellen-brown/

All comments here to Corbin's 6-19 post are weak on workable solutions. Ellen Brown is all about which soutions are workable and which are not. For me she is WAY better than Stephanie Kelton who promotes MMT.

If MMT is new to you, be sure you know about this before starting your substack. Shortest explainer I know of: MMT moves soverign state economics from simple-minded linear equations to what's actually in play, a four-body-problem, juggling inflation, unemployment, industrial investment and taxes😃

800 word explainer. No pay-wall:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mmt-changing-economics-from-linear-equations-bruce-dickson-ctjhc

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BUT WHAT THE FUCK DO I KNOW's avatar

🇺🇸THE PEOPLE DECLARE; AMERICA BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE

We are the rightful owners. The government is our employee. And justice is long overdue.

We, the People of the United States of America, hereby declare that:

• The government is not our ruler, but our employee — hired, funded, and directed by us, the sovereign citizens of America.

• For too long, that employee has acted against our will, against our interests, and in service to corporate and financial masters who have bought the law, corrupted the courts, and captured our democracy.

• The fruits of our labor have been stolen, our families buried in debt, our bodies broken by stress, and our dreams deferred — all the while; a corrupted government, protected by corrupted attorneys, enriched its donors, protected its cronies, and silenced its critics.

• We have been denied the most basic human guarantees: Free health, Free education, housing, and dignity — not because we can’t afford them, but because greed & corruption has stood in the way.

Today, We the People Say:

✅ We are the owners of this nation — not banks, not billionaires, not politicians and not the corrupted attorneys.

✅ The American government is our employee, and our Public Servants will serve us, or be fired, or indicted, convicted and imprisoned.

✅ We grant ourselves the bonus we were always owed:

• Free health care

• Free education

• No more Income Taxes if you earn less than $1,000,000.00

• Debt-free lives

• A stable home and no property taxes on our personal residences.

• A living wage

• Time to raise our children, care for our elders, the children, the poor, the middle class, the rich as well, the sick, our Veterans

• Equal rights for everyone. We are a secular Nation.

• Control of our own futures & spread our happiness and prosperity to the World!

• Like China, America will print our money with no National Debt, & we will retire The Federal Reserve Banking Act.

✅ And we say never again will we be ruled by fear, trapped by excessive debt, or sold off to the highest bidder.

This is not revolution — this is our reward for developing a great Democracy and our hard work.

This is not utopia — this is justice.

This is not theory — this is what happens when the people remember they are the sovereign power in a free nation.

We are not asking.

We are not pleading.

We are restoring what is ours.

And we will never give it back.

AMERICA; FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, OF THE PEOPLE…..

FOR OUR PEOPLE, BY OUR PEOPLE, OF OUR PEOPLE…..

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Bruce Dickson's avatar

!$%#, your reply is all fine except IT'S NOT SOLUTION ORIENTED. I fear you will continue to feel frustrated and victimized until you come to conceive of one or more solutions you believe are workable. What say you on solutons? Focussing on solutions is good for our mental health.

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BUT WHAT THE FUCK DO I KNOW's avatar

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY

First, we need to eliminate income taxes for anyone making less than $1,000.000.00 a year. The I.R.S. agents that oversaw these responsibilities will now investigate and oversee the importation of good being sold to America from foreign countries to advise them of the prices we can pay for each imported item and how much of it can be sold to American importers. This will eliminate the tariff system that taxes all Americans. In addition, they will also research what goods and services need price regulations, starting with the essentials for our everyday needs.

Second, we need to provide everyone with Free National Health Care, Free Dental Care, Free Prescription Drugs. No more Insurance companies, no more HMO’s, no more PPO’s, no more Deductibles, no more Co-Pays. Their employees can work for our new National Health Care System in managing the system.

This is how we manage to pay for these programs.

Like China does, we need to issue money with no National Debt attached to it. The National Debt of China is owed to their banks, but they are state owned banks, so their shell game doesn’t throw the concept of printing money, then borrowing it back doesn’t alienate the central banks of the world, for now! By allowing the banks to loan it out with interest (debt), thereby, still controlling all the banking and business communities in China, a Communist country.

We will retire The Federal Reserve Banking Act and make our U.S. Treasury our National Bank. These changes will immediately bring much needed capital into the hands of everyone in The United States of America, and simultaneously we will be looking to stabilize inflation and stabilize the U.S. dollar, and we will outlaw currency trading, and our U.S. Treasury will set the non-fluctuating exchange rate of U.S. currency between all the nations of the world.

Our goal is to stabilize prices and currencies worldwide, to make life better for all the peoples of the world, peacefully.

Think about this, we need to have Loving Block Brigades who respect everyone's views and puts any of their bigotries aside. On every block in America that believes in our common set of principles, whether that are republicans, independents, democrats or people that just don't vote. Our goal is to win the house, the senate and the presidency, and eliminate the supreme court justices that violated the Constitution by ruling because of their religious beliefs, and obstructing justice by allowing Trump to be protected illegally from arrest for all criminal acts committed by him (Trump). So, we beat them at the ballot box, and anyone that wants our donations to get them into office and signs an agreement that they work for us, and they will do exactly what we want when elected to office or suffer the consequences. Now they do what they want, and to hell with us, and all they give us is Gobbledygook and Rigamarole. It's all about the money in government (our money). I want to give everyone what they need for a great life, by eliminating the unnecessary hardships caused by our greedy and corrupted Elected officials, their corruptors, their corrupted criminal attorneys, and the criminals sitting on the Supreme Court bench. I'm willing to bet the farm and gamble with my own well-being to accomplish this for our American civilization, over the surplus cash of the greedy and corrupted rich, and only a few of the richest of the rich are greedy and corrupted. My podcast will give everyone the truth as I see it, and the ideas to organize behind our great American Civilization together, to live in peace and prosper together, and share it with the world's peoples.

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🇺🇸THE PEOPLE DECLARE; AMERICA BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE 🇺🇸

We are the rightful owners. The government is our employee. And justice is long overdue.

We, the People of the United States of America, hereby declare that:

• IMPEACH AND CONVICT TRUMP & VANCE!

• The government is not our ruler, but our employee — hired, funded, and directed by us, the sovereign citizens of America.

• For too long, that employee has acted against our will, against our interests, and in service to corporate and financial masters who have bought the law, corrupted the courts, and captured our democracy.

• The fruits of our labor have been stolen, our families buried in debt, our bodies broken by stress, and our dreams deferred — all the while; a corrupted government, protected by corrupted attorneys, enriched its donors, protected its cronies, and silenced its critics.

• We have been denied the most basic human guarantees: Free health, Free education, housing, and dignity — not because we can’t afford them, but because greed & corruption has stood in the way.

Today, We the People Say:

✅ We are the owners of this nation — not banks, not billionaires, not politicians and not the corrupted attorneys.

✅ The American government is our employee, and our Public Servants will serve us, or be fired, or indicted, convicted and imprisoned.

✅ We grant ourselves the bonus we were always owed:

• Free health care

• Free education

• No more Income Taxes if you earn less than $1,000,000.00

• Debt-free lives

• A stable home and no property taxes on our personal residences.

• A living wage

• Time to raise our children, care for our elders, the children, the poor, the middle class, the rich as well, the sick, and our Great Veterans.

• Equal rights for everyone. We are a secular Nation. You have the Right to worship your religion, or not believe in a religion, this is a must for America to Prevail as a Democratic Country, with a Democratic Government .

• A Woman’s body belongs to the Woman; The Woman makes every decision about her body.

• Control of our own futures & spread our happiness and prosperity to the World!

• Like China, America will print our money with no National Debt, & we will retire The Federal Reserve Banking Act.

• If an Immigrant is in the USA illegally, and they have no weapons or violence in their history, we must allow them to apply for asylum or citizenship. For over 70 years our Government allowed and caused the immigration issue to become uncontrollable. Humanely & practicable, this is our best solution. Get caught coming over the border illegally now, means 1 year detention, then immediate deportation and no hearing.

✅ And we say never again will we be ruled by fear, trapped by excessive debt, or sold off to the highest bidder.

This is not revolution — this is our reward for developing a great Democracy and our hard work.

This is not utopia — this is justice.

This is not theory — this is what happens when the people remember they are the sovereign power in a free nation.

We are not asking.

We are not pleading.

We are restoring what is ours.

And we will never give it back.

AMERICA; FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, OF THE PEOPLE…..

FOR OUR PEOPLE, BY OUR PEOPLE, OF OUR PEOPLE…..

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Jesus Runs Deep's avatar

Very comprehensive, thank you.

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