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Happy Birthday Karen! I hope your special day was amazing.
The thing that pisses me off about the Corey Booker filibuster is all the progressives who probably sat this one out or voted for Stein have been screaming “do something” did the past three months and now someone has they’re calling it performative. Fuck every last one of those people. Fuck them. Fuck their parents. Fuck their kids. And fuck their pets.
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A couple of quick points.
Rod as usual you were right. The lefties are out calling Bookers filibuster performative. They want action but not that action and can’t tell you what type of action. I have a friend who I used to respect before all of this and now I just see him as sorry. He absolutely wouldn’t vote for Kamala then went silent after shit started hitting the fan and is now moving the goal post again. It’s the Dems fault and they are imploding as planned blah blah bullshit.
Next- Happy Birthday Karen. You have the brightest soul in podcasting. Never change. Also so happy you are watching Solo Leveling. So far it’s the best anime of 2025. You should also check out The Apothecary Diaries Shangri La Frontier, Wisteria: Wand and Sword and Reincarnated as an Aristorcrat I think you’ll enjoy all of these if you haven’t seen them yet. O my bad also Kiaju # 8 second season starts later this year.
It’s nice to see the filibuster used for good, for a change… for too long it has basically been a tool of preventing equality and fair treatment under the law. Seeing Booker turn that history on its head and overturn the Thurmond’s racist record that preceded it,
I felt good watching the last hours of Booker’s speech. People are so quick to say that this or that won’t do anything, and I’m starting to think that they tell themselves that so that *they* don’t have to do anything, since it won’t matter anyway.
You’ve been right to keep pointing out that it’s weird the way that Dems supposedly can’t do anything right. Yet people feel it when the things get undone. It’s not just the party messaging, but if the people don’t show enthusiasm for the incremental wins, they strip the politicians of the impetus to go further. Obama got what he could with the ACA, but there was always the hope that it could go even further. And then he flat out told us, the citizens, that if we wanted things to happen, we needed to organize and give him the mandate. Instead, we want to sit back and complain that they aren’t doing anything. Meanwhile, the other side is giving mandates left and right. They’re showing up at schoolboard meetings on CRT, they’re calling in about DEI, they’re running for and winning local positions to set the agenda.
Strategists have been on shows recently pointing out that you don’t blame the voters (customers) for lack of interest in politicians (product). I think that analogy is super flawed, since in this case, you’re going to get one or the other, so why let them give you the worse product? Why are so many people letting citizens off the hook? Because they don’t want them to feel bad or something? You two are telling it like it is, the country got what it voted for (or chose to let others vote for). People in the hood complain that officials only come around when they want the vote. Well, we’re supposed to be GOING to their town halls and hearings and calling their offices and doing all of the steps to hold them accountable.
Hopefully, a strategist will emerge that starts convincing progressives (I won’t limit this to our community) to 1) start celebrating the small wins so we can build some momentum, and 2) stay engaged, press the leaders and get results.
I found the 25 hours speech inspiring. It’s more a show thing, but this is what can be done right now, and it got lots of positive coverage. And it seems very hard to do.
Happy birthday, Karen! Aries Queens unite!!
I agree with everything you are saying about politics and feel sorry for the people in the US, who didn’t cause this situation but have to feel the consequences.