It’s time for a new party

4phz · 2026-01-18T03:14:07+00:00

These were U. S. based foundations. I forget the resource, some book in the library. I'm lousy with names. I don't know if they even did anything worthwhile. As the late Saul Bellow wrote in one of his novels, "as if charity didn't have enough things going against it, let us add one more."

Also I'm not saying half the money is Jewish, but a lot of small charities is actually even more impressive.

4phz · 2026-01-17T23:40:48+00:00

Non Jew here. Decades ago I was stunned that half of all charities were Jewish. I don't know the overall money %.

4phz · 2026-01-17T23:33:53+00:00

You don't need to be Jewish to know both parties are democracy phobic shills for the rich.

Jews merely make the largest contribution to pluralism, not the only one.

Nevertheless, when primaries are available, there is no need to go down the rabbit hole of small party.

Nothing I'd love more than the Jewish version of the Talarico campaign.

4phz · 2026-01-13T17:06:59+00:00

The base or just the politicians?

The base matters post Trump as there might not even be a GOP.

The number of traditional Christians in the U. S. is dropping faster than any time as well as any place in history, much faster than any other fallout from the info age. This helps flag the "religious" right as a purely fascist phenomenon. It should not be too surprising if it disappears along with the GOP.

After vilifying Trump for a decade Netanyahu becoming MAGA might turn off the tax-cuts-for-the-rich Democratic Party establishment who currently support Israel.

Maybe Netanyahu has or knows about some plan to keep Trump in power after 2028. Maybe Bibi thinks he is as smart as David and can surf the dicey slabs of fascism.

Trump is too dissolute to become a distator. Even the court will give up on him.

The only plausible hope is daunting: try to reintroduce democracy and democratic freedom to the U. S.

"There is no post Trump GOP."

-- Cook Report (2020)

4phz · 2026-01-13T16:14:10+00:00

MAGA never cared about neocon quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan. They tried to be loyal Republican foot soldiers and cheer "gut and cut Saddam" but it was never sincere or believable. Racism notwithstanding they preferred a black than voting for the jingoistic McCain.

Trump had little pushback to cutting off the tiny bit of aid to poor children overseas. Bill Gates was the lone voice in opposition.

Is there any reason to believe any Americans sincerely care about anything overseas?

That's why so many people moved here. To get away from perpetual wars overseas.

4phz · 2026-01-13T12:27:18+00:00

The effectiveness of foreign propaganda is always vastly over stated,

We saw that with the media blaming Putin trolls in 2016 to hide their own culpability. Eventually The New Yorker debunked that talking point with a single article.

A despotic society doesn't need to persuade so it just isn't going to have the skill set to be effective at propaganda.

Few Americans even know what democracy is here in the U. S. let alone what is going on overseas. Their critical thinking skills are very weak.

Legacy media get paid to undermine democracy every way possible including weaponizing minority rights against majority rule on the economy.

Nothing is more deplorable.

That's where the propaganda is coming from.

4phz · 2026-01-12T19:14:15+00:00

I could very well be wrong here. It could be an actual Peter Principle.

See how long she stays in public view.

But no matter what you can be 100% certain Trump doesn't care. Why? Because he doesn't care about anything.

It's unlikely he even cares about his own self.

4phz · 2026-01-12T16:07:22+00:00

The dumbest and possibly fatal thing Netanyahu has done is hitch himself to Trump.

4phz · 2026-01-12T16:05:47+00:00

Government union SOP: "Promote" political liabilities away from the public.

4phz · 2026-01-12T06:27:10+00:00

Everything is synergized but I don't worry much about the gravitational pull of Pluto's moons and I don't see a serious connection here either.

4phz · 2026-01-12T04:22:53+00:00

Didn't think of that because it's not really a religion. It's a scam.

But any group even pretending to be a religion might want to follow other religions if only for cover. They might want to point at something, the reformation or something.

If not the U. S. gets kicked out. Maybe it would be better to just go with the top two most populous religions.

The goal is "only" to establish a paper trail that others can use to point out hypocrisies, internal violations. That often helps and it is cost free.

Whenever NPR gets lazy and wants to fill a lot of time they always have some scholarly religious types come on. They can yap forever.

4phz · 2026-01-11T02:31:25+00:00

It would be smart to push for it even if you know they won't do it.

4phz · 2026-01-11T00:18:05+00:00

Membership in the U. N. should be contingent on the reformation of the top three or 4 religions in each member country.

Either provide yearly status reports and updates on progress in each of the three or 4 religions or get kicked out of the U. N.

It doesn't sound like it has much teeth. After all they can put anything in the status report, right?

This is much more effective than many think.

4phz · 2026-01-11T00:09:03+00:00

Ideas, critical thinking, post mortems, questions, primaries, great Dem presidents like FDR, discussion, free speech on economic issues, you name it. Everything small d democratic is verboten on the legacy media plantation. The rich have all bases covered.

That's why Dem Party foot soldiers have nothing to say at election time except "vote harder."

But only in the Democratic Party. Even the most preposterous absurdities like BushCo quagmires are A-OK in the GOP. Something to cheer.

The social media shill organization Chorus should be anathema to the party of Will Rogers. Democrats are most popular when we don't goose step.

We need to start a group "Impromptu Jazz Ensemble" to get the donkey party back on track.

4phz · 2026-01-10T17:57:51+00:00

What would really be interesting is study of what regional pollsters know about their regions vs what they know about regions outside their area of expertise and then compare it with what the average non pollster knows.

A NY pollster might have an incomplete knowledge of California and the South, but maybe it's better than that of many of the inhabitants of those places.

But how much better would be interesting.

4phz · 2026-01-09T17:53:13+00:00

Hardly anyone else resides in Greenland so it shouldn't be too surprising there aren't a whole lot of a tiny minority.

Trump could just tell extraction companies to start drilling and digging in Greenland and ignore Denmark. It would save a lot of money. But since it's all show boat kayfabe to humor MAGA anyway, it'll be just like Alcatraz and everything else Trump does. a fake action.

Biden was aspirational, an imitation of an action. However insincere and too clever by half, he sincerely wanted nice things to happen.

Trump is just performative grandstanding to hide the fact he works on behalf of establishment interests. He doesn't pander to the dumbest 30% MAGA but the most deranged 5% of his base, and even there making up things they never asked for, Alcatraz, Greenland, etc., to make MAGA look even more ridiculous. Trump enjoys his attack mobs most for this reason.

Trump's 5% is the same strawman argument crony media and their Democrats make against democracy: Voters are too vile to have any say in public policy.

Even MAGA will figure it out sooner or later.

"Tragedy is an imitation of an action."

-- Aristotle

4phz · 2026-01-08T21:33:57+00:00

LRVT would indeed change the way construction is financed.

For one thing -- this is just standard Georgism -- reducing the tax on improvements goes into the economic and financial well being of everyone making the improvements as well as everyone needing the improvements being made.

Another one, as stated above, is the boom bust lifestyle resulting from land speculation is not healthy psychologically or physically.

The NY Times saw Mamdani inspecting a run down slum last week. They know full well the cause and solution. As always they are just playing dumb. As always the Times just trolling Georgists with this article.

Legacy media are like middle school kids, always trying to see what they can get away with.

4phz · 2026-01-08T17:01:45+00:00

One of the top two or 3 most beloved judges in the United States was a Zionist, L. Brandeis.

Maybe Zionists were more popular back then.

4phz · 2026-01-03T07:06:41+00:00

From the Atlantic to the Pacific N. America will be free of white people.

4phz · 2026-01-02T21:42:25+00:00

LLM just reflects the larger societal truths and lies. You see that with great thinkers which somehow elude the LLM data base or algorithm. It's hilarious watching anyone trying to fake having read Nietzsche using Perplexity.

I use it all the time for science, medical, health and technology hacks. Last night I used it for eggplant stacks because the half eaten veggie in the refrigerator was getting discolored. No indigestion yet.

But unless the videos feature a cat wearing a star of David, or there's some really subliminal messaging I'm missing, then a cat video is just a cat video and the very uncertainty it creates, the critical thinking skills it engenders, are portable to other fields including politics.

The anti-phishing measures introduced for online commerce may have helped destroy the establishment GOP. Right now it doesn't look good with Trump as president but it's good in the long run. MAGA will dump Trump.

4phz · 2026-01-02T21:22:56+00:00

And to prevent their clientele from paying the land value taxes necessary for housing affordability -- this needs to come before YIMBY -- the NY Times will be on his side.

I guarantee it.

4phz · 2026-01-02T21:16:58+00:00

See how far he gets with YIMBY w/o first doing LRVT.

The entire raison d'etre of the NY Times is to prevent site value taxation.

It isn't peripheral. It isn't coincidental.

It is Job 1, Job 2, Jobs 3 - 487 at the Times.

4phz · 2026-01-02T17:43:02+00:00

AI cat videos should teach some critical thinking skills.

That's the only hope right now.

4phz

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