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Former Clinton strategist James Carville laments that what Democrats are doing against Donald Trump is "really, really not working."

"Everything we're that throwing is spaghetti at a wall, and none of it is sticking, me included," Carville said.


JAMES CARVILLE: Trump’s more ahead than he’s ever been, more -- fewer people think January 6 was any kind of what it was, an assault on the temple of democracy, our Constitution, whatever you want to say.

It’s going the wrong way. It’s not working. Everything that we’re throwing is spaghetti at a wall, and none of it is sticking, me included. It's hard starting your 80th year, and like everyone else I have an opinion of myself. And the opinion I've come to is I don’t matter.

It doesn’t matter. You can prepare and you can be on TV, you can write pieces, you can have a YouTube channel, you can have a podcast and nothing, nothing!

We’ve got to try to think of something different because what we’re doing in really really not working.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I wonder when SECOND will realize that HE doesn't matter?

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I don't paticulalry care for sparring myself, altho it does sometimes get the motor going in the morning, along with a cuppa.


I do appreciate SECOND'S PSA propaganda. If I want to know what the M$M wants us to think about climate change, Ukraine, and Trump, he does collect all the latest propaganda points in one convenient place.


This is my "think out loud" place, where I'm free to mull over current events, speculate about underlying processes*, or think about solutions to problems that seem important.

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Hehe...

It's your "think out loud place" and my "Political Toilet".

I don't read what Second or Ted post here to know what the Legacy Media programming of the day is because they just repeat the same talking points that I see the youtubers I get news from break down to expose the chronic lies and hypocrisy. But I can confirm that your system is sound since they usually echo the topic of the day, sometimes verbatim.

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* Like societies behaving like giant organisms, with individuals being cells: too small to comprehend the larger whole. With all of same processes of an organism: energy and material consumption, internal circulation of energy and goods, production, cell differentiation (division of labor), cell reproduction, waste disposal. Societies that eat, grow, mature, colonize other areas, change, and shrink into scenescence or die.

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Just wait until AI gets thrown in the mix and human beings become little more than the reproductive organs of our creation.

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Interesting discussions used to be had. Real zingers were posted: observations I would have never noticed, connections I would have never made, predictions that were eerily prescient. I know my limitations, I'm not the most creative thinker, but I appreciate people who are.

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I think we have some interesting conversations still... and I wouldn't be so quick to discount the quality of today's zingers, even if the quantity is a fraction of what it once was.

Yeah. It's sad what happened to all the sites like this when Web 2.0 dropped and everything became consolidated as things always eventually do. I know their are still others like this around, even ones that still have far more activity than we've got here... but they're all probably living on borrowed time. Anybody keeping a site like this up has monthly expenses to keep it running and has to babysit it, even if they're not interested at all in the topic they created a community around.

I could be wrong, but based off of various conversations I've had over the years on the topic, I do not believe that anybody is currently donating to Haken for keeping this place running. Assuming he's not an employee of an Alphabet Agency that's really nice of him to keep doing this. I've been members of other similar sites over the years that got shut down when they still had a lot more going on than we do here. It's kind of like losing a whole bunch of friends when it happens. Maybe you've exchanged emails with somebody and you have good intentions to follow up with them, but I don't think the long-term success rate of that type of virtual pen-pal relationship is very high.

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It's an online diary, of a sorts, and not just for me. I don't put my deepest feelings "out there" but it's nice to be able to write about what I accomplished, or what's been happening to me.

And I like to read about what you and BRENDA are doing, what's happening in your lives. I feel a personal connection. I miss you when the site goes down, and worry about you (pl) if you don't post for a while. I refer to you as "my online buddies" and wush there was a way to extend that IRL.

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I agree with all of that, and the feelings are mutual.

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Thank goodness Haken, whoever he us, has kept the porch lights on for us.

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Yup. I have no idea why you do it buddy, but thanks for letting us all stay well past Last Call.


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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.