Author | Lightnews

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 44m

I don't think those three have any trouble with racism. Its all transactional.

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 2h

I think Democrats have been soft on the real crime wave, which has to do with rich people getting away with treason (trump), stock fraud (Musk) and sex trafficking (Epstein's network). Stop crime, stop the plutocrats that do crime - and also, that fund idiot non-profits to destroy Dems.

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 2h

You have absolutely no idea where voters - outside Georgetown - are. You get your ideas from polls, not from any experience in your soft little lives. Really, disband your group, spiritually recharge, try to do some good before you die. But I know you won't.

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 2h

Hey, wonder if you'd comment about third way's apparent lean towards Cuomo. Is that you choice, too?

1

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 2h

Including the campaign industry and lobbying "think tanks"like Third way to hell, lllc.

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 2h

I do luv how they clothe their plutocratic ideology in mere coldblooded tech talk. They would love to be ultra progressive and even not torture trans folks - but alas, it is tactics, you know. Trying to appeal to Trumpites. They are just waitin' for a chance to be 3rd way-ers!

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 2h

Blue no matter how far right doesn't equal blue no matter how far left. So, basically, it is rightwing Clintonism - we are all Sista Souljah now. Well, the party is up for taking, so lets take it away from these losers and go back to the old social democracy days. Unapologetically.

1 1

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, 750 thousand less? Anyway, glad you are so plugged into Iraq's progress. Are you closely watching who is the governor of Basra district? After all, after spending a trillion there and causing the death of a million, it is sweet that Americans are just rivetted to what's happening there.

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 3h

Don't insult Johnny like that! The Nouvelles philosophes were more like the Monkeys, and BHL is their drummer.

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 6h

And of course there was the precedent of an unconstitutional grab of power when Cheney claimed that as VP he was neither in the white house nor Congress, and thus not subject to Congressional oversight. Trump's people learned from Cheney. www.cbsnews.com/news/cheney-...

2 3

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 6h

When CIA operative Valerie Plame's husband spoke out about the lack of any evidence Saddam was buying uranium ore in Africa - another Cheney lie - his people leaked her name. There was a famous trial about it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_a...

Plame affair - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

1 4

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 6h

Here's the lie graf: ''He cultivated ties to terror, hosting the Abu Nidal organization,'' Mr. Cheney said. ''He also had an established relationship with Al Qaeda, providing training to Al Qaeda members in the areas of poisons, gases, making conventional bombs.'' Etc. All lies that he promoted.

2 3

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 6h

Ah, yes, the years of Cheney, when bipartisanship and debate were the hallmarks of Bush's regime. Here's Cheney, lying his ass off in 2023, and calling Dems supporters of terrorism. www.nytimes.com/2003/10/11/w...

Cheney Lashes Out at Critics of Policy on Iraq (Published 2003)

www.nytimes.com

1 2

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 6h

Too bad she didn't go with Jimmy Carter instead of her husband. Then she might have recognized apartheid, as he did. Then again, having grown up in a suburb that was 99 percent white and had the neighborhood covenants to prove it, she might not have noticed.

6

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 6h

It is an instance of the general longing, among foreign policy people in D.C., for another cold war. This one with China! Biden practically sacrificed his presidency to this, continuing tariffs Trump had set, even as inflation was soaring. So stupid.

2

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 6h

Hilary knows her own algorithm. Millions of Blue Maga peeps will chant along. Sad sad times.

3

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 7h

I really want it to be the party that doesn't ever ever listen to Matt Yglesias. He can finally go over to the republicans and say things like, why can't we all be moderates like Bush and Cheney and Romney? Please, MY, the GOP is waiting with open arms. Oh, and they hate trans folks just like you do

4

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 8h

Looking at the Cheney news - fucker's dead! - on bluesky, I realized that the five people that Harris was trying to appeal to by becoming besties with the war criminal are on bluesky! The entire demographic. Also, the million or so peeps who hate the bastard are on bluesky.

1 1

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 8h

Ask an Iraqi if he now seems like a moderate.

1

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 8h

It'll be the Kissinger wash, led of course by Democrats big tenting so that the big tent contains the smelly corpse of a war criminal. Clinton, Schumer, the AIPAC squad - the teariness will be heartbreaking - for those who actually want an opposition in the U.S.

1

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 8h

yeah, I remember the woman who voted for Trump 93 percent of the time when she was in the house. A shitty family, and a really shitty war criminal VP.

1 2 5

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 8h

Dick Cheney tried pretty hard to be a threat to our republic himself. A piece of shit war criminal who has died way too late for a million Iraqis.

2 5

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 8h

And in a moment shall be quite abash't.

Sorry you died, motherfucker.

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 8h

The Lord hath heard, the Lord hath heard my prai'r
My supplication with acceptance fair
The Lord will own, and have me in his keeping.
Mine enemies shall all be blank and dash't
With much confusion; then grow red with shame;
They shall return in hast the way they came

1

rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 8h

I do want everybody to go to heaven. And cast off the blood they shed. But as an earthling: so sweet that the devil finally took Dick Cheney home! In the words of Psalm 6
Ith' mid'st of all mine enemies that mark.
Depart all ye that work iniquitie.
Depart from me, for the voice of my weeping

1