Biden Vs Trump is The Media’s Fault

The Media, the DNC, and all of the Democratic establishment is 100% to blame for the next 4 years of Donald Trump.

They did EVERYTHING they could to make sure that Bernie didn’t get the nomination. Barack Obama made phone calls to everyone who dropped out of the race the DAY BEFORE Super Tuesday and endorsed Biden. 

Biden has only done 1 interview since Super Tuesday. At his rally’s, he only speaks for about 7 minutes, and in those 7 minutes, he generally has major issues communicating, or keeping the same train of thought. The media is hiding this, and they act as if it’s impolite to bring it up when questioning if this is the right guy for the job. 

Every cable news channel has been hammering the point that “Joe Biden is electable, he can beat Trump. Bernie is not electable, his ideas will never happen.” This has been going on for weeks on end. Even some print outlets I one time had a great deal of respect for are writing pieces that are so slanted in the favor of Biden, that it’s not even funny. 

Elizabeth Warren and most of the TV news pundits have been pushing the “Bernie Bro” narrative since 2016, and basically creating a vision of Bernie AND all of his supporters as “toxic, misogynist, racist white guys who don’t know how to unify”. 

So yes, MSNBC, CNN, The Root, CBS, ALL OF YOU are at fault WHEN Donald Trump gets re-elected. You can’t shit on us for YEARS and then expect us to fall in line behind the guy that says he has no empathy for young people. You can’t expect us to fall behind the guy who said he attempted to cut social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and every other government program 4 times. You can’t expect us to get behind the guy who was anti-bus integration. You can’t expect us to get behind the guy who was proud to vote for the Iraq War, said he was CONVINCED because of the EVIDENCE in 2003, only to turn around in 2020 with Lawrence O’Donnell to say he NEVER believed there were weapons of mass destruction and the only reason he voted FOR the Iraq War was to….stop the Iraq War(WTF?)

And none of this even mentions the fact that he is obviously experiencing a sharp mental decline. So, all you #VoteBlueNoMatterWho people, good luck without the Bernie Bros. I mean, we’re mean on Twitter which is the end all be all for politics apparently, so why would you want us anyway? 

Lastly, this race isn’t over yet. I am just simply issuing a warning to the Democratic Party. Young people are NOT going to vote for Joe Biden. Do with that information what you will.

I Miss Nuance

I miss when people had nuanced approaches to thought, and when people allowed for more grey area. Today, nuance and grey area is a thing of the past, and everything is black and white. Makes it pretty impossible to have any sort of civilized discourse.

Why do I bring all of this up? Today, Harvey Weinstein was found guilty for various sex crimes and harassment allegations. I think everyone with any decency would say this is a good thing. I also think Bill Cosby is equally guilty, and the fact that he is locked up is also a good thing. 

The reason I bring up nuance and grey area, is because the narrative I have been seeing online since the unfortunate passing of Kobe and Gigi Bryant has been this: When a black man gets accused of a crime or violation of a sexual nature, certain black women are quick to shame them, but they never say anything about powerful white men who do the same thing. When making this statement, most people pick one of two sides. 

Side A: Oh, so you think because nobody (black) vilifies Harvey Weinstein, then black men should be able to get away with these crimes too? (Team Gayle/Oprah)

Or Side B: Oh, so you must only want to see black men go to jail for this activity but you’re cool with it when white men do it? (Team 50/Snoop)

See what I mean? No nuance allowed. However, I have a completely different take that I don’t think I’ve read on the internet before.

Both things are probably false. 

Shocking, I know. But think about it. Do you think Snoop and 50 Cent REALLY think what Weinstein did is OK as long as black men get away with it too?

Or do you think they are saying “Hey Oprah and Gayle, we know that when black men act in inappropriate ways towards women it’s not cool, but how come you NEVER talk about when white guys do it?”

This is my position. Do I think the R. Kelly’s, Russell Simmons’and Bill Cosby’s of the world deserve to be dragged in the media by everybody? Damn right I do. Do they deserve to go to jail? Of course (assuming the overwhelming amount of allegations against Russell Simmons are true, he hasn’t gone to court for any of it as of yet). 

But to think that they deserve punishment doesn’t mean you have to ignore other people’s bad behavior. You can walk AND chew gum at the same time. And if some people notice that all of your attacks are only focused on one side, and they say something, that doesn’t mean that they are by default defending the people Oprah and Gayle are talking about (exception Snoop Dogg, the nigga literally said ‘Free Bill Cosby’. I want to believe this was more out of emotion and that he doesn’t ACTUALLY want Bill free.)

Nuance used to be so cool. I miss it. Bottom line, ALL rapists and people who engage in sexual harassment or other types of misconduct are trash. Doesn’t matter there skin color. However, focusing all of ones energy into one particular group rather than all of the offenders, has several consequences, most of which I believe are unintended. Only focusing on black accusers will make your mostly white audience feel (if they don’t already) that black men are dangerous. Especially if someone the majority of America (black and white alike) trusts and thinks highly of. That person’s voice matters. 

So again, to be perfectly clear, I am all for dragging these terrible men in the media and I sincerely hope that they all get the punishment they truly deserve. All of them. Not just the ones who look a certain way. 

ALL.

Young Voters Are Very Smart

I love millennials and generation Z people. I really do.

You guys seem to get it. When it comes to politics, we really know what’s going on. More than our parents ever did, more than that know-it-all cousin who you get into political and/or religious debates with at Thanksgiving, and more than most news sites apparently. 

I say this because it seems like ever since Donald Trump got elected, the Democratic side of the spectrum have been non-stop pumping up identity politics and respectability politics over policy. Now, while most of the right wing ignores or flat out vilifies anyone who isn’t white, a man who identifies as such, is straight and is a Christian, the “left wing” (heavy Dr. Evil air quotes here) has been using the struggles of racial/sexual/gender minorities for cynical purposes. 

Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren are perfect examples of this. They LOVE using the “woman” card whenever it’s convenient, or whenever it places the person they are debating in a situation where if you disagree then you look misogynistic. However, my question to them is, how does your being a woman get me Universal Health Care and tuition Free College? How does the fact that you are a woman (and that fact alone) fix the climate crisis? How do your ovaries and vagina help to end the wars?

This is the type of stuff millennials and gen-z’rs are focused on. We know there is realistically only ONE candidate who will fight for these things unapologetically. Everyone else in the running for the Democratic nomination has folded in one way or another on all of those key issues. And I’m isolating the young voters for a reason. Older voters seem to care more about how a politicians makes them feel rather than the work they do. All of the democratic media websites focus on how old and white Bernie is, and how racist and sexist America is because we won’t choose a woman or person of color for our nominee.

OR……

Maybe because the oldest white guy in the race has POLICY PROPOSALS AND PLANS that will actually help to fix the issues in minority communities WHILE ALSO helping out rural white communities.  Some people see this as a negative (cough The Root cough), whereas us youngin’s see this as smart strategy. No President will be able to do anything for minorities if white people don’t help get him elected. It’s just a fact. So, purposely pushing policy agendas that ONLY focus on helping black and brown people and ignoring the rest of workers is simply unintelligent. It seems that the Gen-X and Millenialcrowd gets this, which is why we put all of our hope into the oldest white guy running. His policy ideas will help all the communities democrats claim to care for, while everyone else will just make you (older voters) feel good because…it just does. 

Besides, who wouldn’t want to see Nina Turner in the White House standing next to Bernard in some capacity talking that talk that you only hear at black churches? 

#FeelTheBern2020

Yo DNC Let Me Holla At You

Hey DNC. We need to have a talk.

Look, before you try to lie to me, let me just tell you what I already know about you upfront. I know that both Donna Brazile, whow as DNC chair at the time, and Senator Elizabeth Warren both stated during the 2016 primaries that you guys rigged the election in favor of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. How was that done? According to Donna Brazile’sarticle in Politico:

“Before I called Bernie Sanders, I lit a candle in my living room and put on some gospel music. I wanted to center myself for what I knew would be an emotional phone call. I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process, as a cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted online had suggested. I’d had my suspicions from the moment I walked in the door of the DNC a month or so earlier, based on the leaked emails. But who knew if some of them might have been forged? I needed to have solid proof, and so did Bernie. So I followed the money. My predecessor, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had not been the most active chair in fundraising at a time when President Barack Obama’s neglect had left the party in significant debt. As Hillary’s campaign gained momentum, she resolved the party’s debt and put it on a starvation diet. It had become dependent on her campaign for survival, for which she expected to wield control of its operations. Debbie was not a good manager. She hadn’t been very interested in controlling the party—she let Clinton’s headquarters in Brooklyn do as it desired so she didn’t have to inform the party officers how bad the situation was. How much control Brooklyn had and for how long was still something I had been trying to uncover for the last few weeks. By September 7, the day I called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart.”

The debate schedule heavily favored Clinton, who was of course already wildly famous due to being Secretary of State, a Senator from New York, and the First Lady in the 90’s. Bernie Sanders however, was relatively unknown to people outside of Vermont, or those who don’t run in political circles. So by scheduling the debates during times when they knew nobody would watch them, which essentially assured that Bernie’s ideas wouldn’t easily be heard by people who may have never heard of him or his policy proposals. 

Then of course you had the bias media reporting of how many delegates each candidate had won. How was it bias? The media reported how many pledged-delegates Bernie Sanders had won, while simultaneously reporting how many pledged AND non-pledged delegates Hillary Clinton won. Non-pledged delegates are also called Superdelegates. And the vast majority of them had pre-pledged their support for Hillary Clinton, therefore skewing the numbers dramatically when being reported in the mainstream news. You can read more about that here. 

But this LATEST move, holy shit DNC, you really showing out with this one. 

Michael “Stop and Frisk” Bloomberg gave about $318,000 to the DNC one day, and gave over $800,000 to the Democratic Grassroots Victory fund, which is also affiliated with the DNC, in the same day. What happened after that? The DNC removed the threshold for how many individual donors one needs to qualify for the debate, thereby allowing Michael Bloomberg to participate, even though he doesn’t have many individual donors. Why all of a sudden would you change that rule, which happens to strongly favor the guy who just gave you guys over $1 Million? Did you think impeachment would distract us? We already knew the outcome before you started the trial. Still think you can use the Russia card? People stopped caring about that a long time ago. We’re paying attention. And we don’t like what we see. So once these results come in from Iowa, if anything looks even a little bit suspect, prepare for holy hell. 

#TomPerezResign

Hillary Might Support Trump Over Bernie Sanders

Hillary Clinton is trying to give us another 4 years of Donald Trump.

Well, that seems to be her goal anyway. By going out of her way to smear Bernie Sanders, still claiming he ruined her campaign by exposing her as super duper corrupt participating in democracy and running against her in the 2016 Democratic Primary, and saying (with absolutely no evidence) that he encourages his supporters to be sexist and misogynistic against Elizabeth Warren and formerly Kamala Harris, she is helping to fuel the non-sense that Elizabeth Warren started last week. 

I have huge problems with this. First of all, regardless if we acknowledge (and this blog definitely DOES) that Hillary and the DNC heavily swayed the primary in her favor through various methods in an unfair attempt to defeat Bernie, the bottom line is she won the primary. She “beat” Bernie Sanders. 

And then she lost to Donald Trump.

She is STILL blaming Bernie for her loss to Donald Trump, even though he did 39 events on her behalf AFTER he “lost” the primary. 

She said he was a Russian on Howard Stern. She still continues to push the narrative that only men like Bernie Sanders and that all of the men who like Bernie Sanders hate women. This terrible excuse for a democrat also said that she wasn’t sure if she would support Bernie Sanders over Trump in the general. Donald Trump. The guy you said made your “skin crawl.” The guy who harasses women and brags about it. The man who vociferously attacked your husband during debates. You aren’t sure if you’ll support Bernie Sanders, the most liked Senator in the country (despite Hillary saying that nobody likes him, which is hilarious because…again, you lost to Trump) over THAT guy? 

I’m only doing this article to show you guys why I did NOT vote for her in 2016. This is who she is. And now that many of her advisors are working with Elizabeth Warren, and the sleaze ball attacks at Bernie have all come within two weeks’ time, it’s ALMOST like there’s some sort of coordination between the Democratic Establishment, the Media and Elizabeth Warren’s campaign. I mean, Bernie is showing as the CLEAR front runner in Iowa for the caucus, so it couldn’t be that the corporate democrats are starting to panic and resort to dirty politics to try and screw him again, could it?

Nah, I’m sure it’s not that. I’m sure it’s more likely than Bernie Sanders has been faking his record for the past 40 years and has been standing up for all marginalized people just so that he can turn right around and be the opposite person….WHILE HE’S RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. 

Yeah, that’s it. 

The MidWest Coast Podcast

Hello everyone! 

My friend Corey and I re-launched our podcast, titled “The MidWest Coast Podcast” this year! I will continue blogging for those who enjoy reading, but for those who want political and cultural content in audio form, check us out! 

You can Find Us in the Following Places:

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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-midwest-coast-podcast/id1200977618

We put out 3 new episodes this year, the first basically just being a fun “welcome back” type of vibe, and the next two digging more into political issues. Subscribe and share, and thank you for listening!

Iran Attacks USA Military Base

What’d I tell you? 

It’s ALREADY getting ugly. A few days after the President of the United Empire of the World States of America, Donald Drumpf ordered an Air Strike in Iraq that killed Lt. Gen. Quassem Soleimani of Iran, they launched a counter attack on a US Military Base in Iraq. 

All of you “pro-military” right wingers should be furious at Trump, because now he’s about to send more of your sons and daughters to die in the Middle East. How do we know that? Because a Ukrainian passenger jet (AKA a commercial flight with civilians) crashed and all 176 passengers passed away, which US intelligence is now blaming on Iran. 

Per the Washington Post via The Root: 

“Now it is with ‘high confidence’ that U.S. officials believe that the aircraft was shot down by an Iranian missile. According to an official who spoke anonymously with the Washington Post, U.S. authorities believe that an Iranian anti-aircraft SA-15 surface-to-air missile hit the plane, which was carrying some 82 Iranians.”

Now, I don’t know about you guys, but I smell B.S. Do I believe that Iran shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet with civilians traveling right after Iranian Pres. Hassan Rouhani said they won’t attack civilians? I will need some evidence, which as of now has not been presented. So, I will continue to assume the USA is lying about that until further notice. 

Also, Iran says they aren’t going to abide by the Iran Nuclear Deal anymore. Mind you, we pulled out almost as soon as Donald the Dump got in office, and Iran continued to follow the deal due to most European nations still participating. Not anymore. So because of the exit of the deal and the murder of a top official, we are yet another step closer to nuclear war. 

Making America Great Again, one terrible decision at a time.