dispatches from the front

Category: Liberals/social democrats

Should comedian Dave Smith “Get the Wall”?

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(from October, 2025)
 
Hot take; it’s a very welcome development that many prominent US conservatives are breaking from Zionism and are becoming outspokenly anti-zionist. Figures like Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Dave Smith, and Tucker Carlson.
The US right has been the bulwark of American support for the genocidal ethno state. This is rapidly evaporating.
 

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Graham Platner and the Uselessness of Liberalism

(from October 18, “democratic socialist” Senate candidate Graham Platner and my impressions of the “No Kings” rally in Portland, Maine. live in Maine. I’m surprised that so many people who regard themselves as leftists are supporting Graham Platner, a “pwogwessive” who spent years as a Blackwater mercenary. Haven’t people learnt anything from the fiascos of Bernie, AOC, Fetterman , Cory Booker, and so many others?