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casio cortez at the university of chicago last week called it a fight against the billionaires of their time conservative talking heads called her a marxist liberal influencers called burns a sage neither side noticed that the two of them seem to be doing the same thing the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence has produced three identifiable forms of american nationalism running in parallel clarence thomas and the originalists on the right have the conservative one the founding is fixed meaning the constitution is a colorblind charter anything else is corruption burns and the meacham schiff lepore center have the liberal one the founding is a moral seed history is its gradual flowering the current crisis is a test of fidelity to the original ideals and now continue reading posted in are you revolted enough yet congress of the united states constitution of the united states election 2026 politics president donald john trump no comments 9 june 2026 trump is not the problem congress is 0359 by jeff hess i ve struggling to get back into the flow in these dangerous times the copy below is from public historian and john hopkins professor tad stoermer i m presently reading his just on 2 june published a resistance history of the united states and my head is spinning as i unlearn 99 9 percent of what i thought i knew about politics and both conservative and liberal nationalism as i iron out the technical kinks and relearn wordpress i ll continue to do what i can locally support and carry forward our fight to take back the country that we thought we had inherited donald trump is not george iii what insisting that he is does to american opposition today there are people right now writing in places like the new york times telling you donald trump is george iii the parallel sounds clever it sounds learned it gives readers a tyrant a sacred text and a line from jefferson to quote back at the monster it also does real harm to their ability to understand what is happening in front of them stacy schiff who won a pulitzer prize and knows how to tell a story is telling a whopper this week in a piece about the declaration of independence she runs the declaration s grievances against george iii one by one against trump george iii refused assent to wholesome laws trump attacks state regulation george iii quartered troops trump deploys federal force into american cities george iii kept swarms of officers to harass the continue reading posted in are you revolted enough yet president donald john trump no comments 16 february 2025 jake takes 55 minutes to get there but he is correct 0500 by jeff hess i regularly watch jake s videos and i nearly always agree with him this video bothers me not because he s wrong but because he buries the lede and i fear a great number of viewers will never hear the important message so i ve clipped the video to start at what i think is the important bit also i left three comments on the video as i watched first so jake have you ever noticed the text to number on every podium at trump rallies second i would point you to this john steinbeck quote third finally on woke historically the word s oldest recorded use was around 1938 bonuses so many bonuses bonus no 1 the non player congress bonus no 2 george conway on defiance of court orders we have basically a criminal regime bonus no 3 musk or us bonus no 4 elon musk s mass government cuts could make private companies millions posted in election 2024 music social justice advocacy video no comments 14 february 2025 jon stewart nails why i am a little d democrat 0500 by jeff hess so i m still in the fight and i want don t want to let the perfect become the enemy of the good but from where i sit outside of bernie sanders elizabeth warren and jamie raskin i m not seeing much good in the democratic party at the national level i think that here in ohio the resounding defeat of senator sherrod campbell brown by bernardo moreno 2 857 383 to 2 650 949 with moreno winning 80 of ohio s 88 counties is a near perfect example of why democrats are losing and without a serious course correction may go the way of the whigs posted in are you revolted enough yet bernie sanders election 2024 jon stewart ohio politics sherrod brown no comments 12 february 2025 everything is impossible until it is done nelson mandela 0500 by jeff hess i m not a big d democrat but i have three times solemnly sworn to support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic i first took that oath in 1975 and i hold it in my heart today senator bernard sanders has taken a similar oath more than a few times solemnly swearing i will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same that i take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which i am about to enter so help me god too many american oligarchs and their minions are not interested in supporting anything but themselves they want to rule not represent we re in an existential fight people bonus no 1 what republicans really mean when they blame dei bonus no 2 ranking member jamie raskin opening remarks at antitrust subcommittee hearing posted in are you revolted enough yet bernie sanders congress of the united states constitution of the united states economy election 2016 election 2024 politics president donald john trump supreme court of the united states no comments 10 february 2025 crisis in america 2026 will be too late 0500 by jeff hess in the past i have used phrases like let the tumbrels roll and referenced phrygian caps but after watching the discussion between george conway and sarah longwell i must say that i agree with conway the guardrails are gone we the people in the streets is all that remains november 2026 is too far away representative jamin ben raskin d maryland is championing a hopeful response posted in are you revolted enough yet election 2024 podcast president donald john trump the bulwark no comments 7 february 2025 demonize downsize and privatise 0500 by jeff hess posted in election 2024 president donald john trump no comments 6 february 2025 you sir can kiss my patriotic behind 0500 by jeff hess posted in life the universe everything no comments 31 january 2025 the best jon stewart in my memory 0500 by jeff hess so there is way too much to even begin commenting on here i have watched a lot of jon stewart and i have loved 95 percent plus of what he has said but in my limited memory this is his best interview and best discussion enjoy posted in are you revolted enough yet election 2024 elizabeth ann warren indexed politics no comments 24 january 2025 what s a progressive democrat to do 0500 by jeff hess so this morning i started watching the above video and stopped at the 28 14 time mark asking myself the question in the headline for the record i am not a big d democrat i grew up in the party and my family s political roots are firmly grounded in the suffrage and union movements but that changed for me around the middle of the first clinton administration when democrats for a reason i can not understand decided to take a different direction away from the party s roots in short neo liberalism sucks bilge water i did not vote for clinton in 1996 and president james earl carter remains the only democratic presidential candidate for which i have voted twice and i didn t vote for president joseph robinette biden at all all of that prologue brings me to my subscription to jacobin and the article i m reading this morning bidenomics wasn t ambitious enough but the solution isn t just more welfare by dustin guastella i found the whole cogent and empowering but this bit was particularly thought provoking guastella writes populism despite the fondness that many on the left had for build back better in some ways much more ambitious policies were found in biden s inflation reduction act infrastructure investment and jobs act and chips and science act all of which offer hints at what a new economic model might look like for one thing a bigger emphasis on productive investments would directly provide more and better jobs for workers in struggling parts of the country while welfarists on the left assume that the economy has a natural inclination away from manufacturing jobs the belief that the united states cannot rebuild its industrial base is just that a belief and faith in that belief is increasingly strained as the results of biden s comparatively modest investments makes clear these measures brought hundreds of thousands of new manufacturing jobs online with more to come unfortunately it s nowhere near enough as amtrak remains clogged expensive and often unusable with derailments and equipment failures bridges in much of the country continue to rust and rot school buildings need retrofitting new buildings need to be built and local transit systems are in a near permanent crisis all these problems are stuffed with the potential for jobs they require a ton of industrial materials to be manufactured and assembled these jobs could be manned by union labor and provide family sustaining wages and because they provide income that is because they are productive investments they will have a far greater social effect than simply subsidizing consumption put another way the left must make the case for making things there is a reason why socialists have always been so obsessed with production right now the left approaches crises like inflation in a surprisingly laissez faire way the assumption being that the government has no means to do anything about prices what do you think posted in are you revolted enough yet election 2024 indexed life with dogs politics president donald john trump sarah glidden video no comments 22 january 2025 from 11 september 2018 0557 by jeff hess posted in video no comments 18 april 2023 bibb and roynane gift packaging riches to haslams 1435 by roldo bartimole who sez we need a massive land bridge from the mall to the lakefront steve litt there is one of the biggest corrupt schemes in the works to provide an easy access to lakefront land this rivals the chagrin highlands dealing in dirty politics mayor justin bibb has legislation ready to create another body that escapes the public scrutiny required and allows elected officials to hide off in the dark it s the north coast development authority we can expect all the openness and honesty we get from the gateway economic development corp total pr only bibb and county executive chris roynane are aboard with the guidance of the greater cleveland partnership the shadow government that propels public investment that propels private interests can the cleveland and gund foundations be far behind council president blaine griffin is all for it and brings along a mostly pliant city council first in line will be tennessee oligarchs dee and jimmy haslam owners of the browns the relish taking over the entire lakefront for private development downtown councilman kerry mccormack is already all for it it never seems to change you know how well this has been greased not only from litt s typical glowing words but the state of ohio as i m writing has proposed 62 million toward the land bridge and the pd reported noted that the state pols couldn t say who proposed this little gift will someone check the haslam s political contribution it is so typical of our cleveland politicians they bend so easily with no seemingly even somewhat reasonable reason the lakefront dealing quickly with the help of the pd and litt is put on the front burner it is something that must be done now quickly don t look so no one takes a clear eye view and asks why i ve been reading a book by matthew desmond poverty by america not poverty in america but by and he makes a very strong case that nationally our government rewards the wealthy and burdens the poor he makes the case that we reward the rich at the expense of the poor the rush to serve the haslams is a perfect example of how it works on the local level forget the real needs of the community serve the desires of the oligarch interlopers this has been going on for as long some 55 years as i ve been reporting here this will rival the chagrin highlands as corrupting deal making the haslams also want a renewed browns football stadium the stadium deal shows how generous the city and its politicians are to these homegrown oligarchs cleveland charges the haslams 250 000 a year rent the city of cleveland must pay the property taxes on the stadium land we have to remember that our retired officials mayor michael white and county commissioner tim hagan went to columbus where with republican legislators in command relieved all from paying any property tax on the structures the county now doesn t even list the property value for the public to determine how much of a gift giving it is annually however the city of cleveland which charges 250 000 in rent pays this year 796 202 08 in property taxes on the land now what landlord do you know that charges one third of what is paid for only property taxes oh yes the game is rigged as of this year the three sports facilities worth at least 100 million each have paid no property taxes for 26 years it would be a tidy sum if the county listed the value of the exempted facilities i d know however you can bet that the figure is close to or more than a half billion dollars in property taxes not paid for 26 years and growing and worse the taxes to pay for them are regressive sales taxes and worse still the promoters white and hagan most prominent in promos pictured happy children who were to enjoy the benefits of the property taxes the pols in 1990 promised no tax abatement but they dishonestly went for tax exemption this is exactly how we get poverty by our elected officials posted in are you revolted enough yet roldo bartimole 13 comments 20 december 2021 alice cooper jackknife johnny 1978 0300 by jeff hess while writing this morning i m listening to alice cooper s album from the inside when the record was released on 17 november 1978 we had only been back in san diego for 110 days and i would not buy the album until the following march when by best bud stg2 duane weaver and i would attend the concert i still have the concert t shirt from that i ll be cremated in from that show the song that made me stop and write this post was jackknife johnny while i am technically a vietnam veteran saigon fell while i was still in gunner s mate a school in great lakes illinois i was never in country i came as close as i ever wanted to the hellhole that was vietnam on that cruise when we rescued a boatload of refugees fleeing that country i served with many men who were there and i ve come to see first hand the damage done by that political cluster fuck in conversations 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