Cornel West for US President

Jimmy Dore’s cynical, contrived, arbitrary purity standard... Disappointing!

a fairly softball interview, mostly talks about 'Dismantling the Empire', mentions Stop Cop City, Medicare For All, discusses Spoiler Charge, says Democratic Primaries are "Rigged at the Highest Levels" and "That Party Is Beyond Redemption in terms to Listening to the needs of Working People"

source stupidpol thread

the young turks have put this out, I do not endorse them, but I agree, Biden needs to step down and the dems need to run a viable candidate

Status Coup News

{ West is not responsible for Biden’s low approval rating among likely Democratic voters.

It is fanciful to think that those voters will vote for Biden in large numbers if West is not on their ballot as the Green Party presidential candidate in 2024. A convenient fanciful notion is — wait for it — fanciful, no matter how much we might enjoy it. The fact that it is convenient, or even desirable, does not make the notion credible, let alone persuasive.

Voters who hold lukewarm views about Biden’s presidency have several options. Some will vote for him anyway. Others might vote for a third-party candidate (such as West) with whom they more strongly agree. Some voters might decide to “stay home.”

People concerned about West’s Green Party campaign for the U.S. presidency do not think that disgruntled and lukewarm Democratic voters are likely to vote for Trump, or for any of the other politicians currently campaigning to be chosen as the Republican Party nominee in 2024. They fear that Trump’s right-wing base of white religious nationalists, neofascist imperialists, military adventurist and free market capitalists will vote Trump back into power unless disgruntled and lukewarm Democratic voters re-elect Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

But if Biden cannot persuade voters that he deserves their votes, no one should blame West. Instead, we should admit that those voters are free to vote for a presidential candidate whose record squares with their views and values.

They owe Biden no political fealty and are not required to serve the interests of the neoliberal capitalists who run the Democratic Party, whether West runs for president or not. Their voting preferences should be based on their realities, their histories and their hopes. }

you can download the video here https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1693057136001974272/pu/vid/640x360/gEAO1AYrtEnTDASo.mp4?tag=12

"For the past 50 years, I have been facing heavy financial responsibilities to family and friends. I have always made my priceless children a high priority - even with lavish treatments that are not in the records. The wave of IRS audits, fees, liabilities, levees, and liens have always been and are now resolved based on agreements set in place years ago. I do believe that we all should pay our fair share of taxes, especially the top 1%! Like the 63% of my hard-working fellow citizens, I live paycheck to paycheck with dignity and determination!#PeopleOverProfits" https://nitter.net/CornelWest/status/1693672094910058679#m

Interesting Clip, the Biden team are counting on Trump being the nominee, Looking for "Rematch" of 2020, don't want any "Variables"

This Is why Americans don't have Healthcare

map taken from here https://www.basenation.us/maps.html

read more on US military bases around the world

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-military-presence-around-the-world-interactive

Biden could end the embargo of Cuba with a stroke of the pen, but he won't.

This is a thread for everything that exposes Joe Biden for the White Supremacist Corporate Sex Pest that he is.

Please, Keep it factual i.e. from as reputable sources as possible: No Conspiracy Theories.

This quote is from a 93 speech pushing his crime bill, Full transcript here and partial video here

The consensus is: A) We must take back the streets. It doesn't matter whether or not the person that is accosting your son or daughter, or my son or daughter, my wife, your husband, my mother, your parents - it doesn't matter whether or not they were deprived as a youth. It doesn't matter whether or not they had no background that would enable them to have, to become, uh, to become, uh, become socialized into the fabric of society. It doesn't matter whether or not they're the victims of society. The end result is they're about to knock my mother on the head with a lead pipe, shoot my sister, beat up my wife, take on my sons.

So I don't want to ask, "What made them do this?" They must be taken off the streets! That's number one. There's a consensus on that! The Democratic Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, the Democratic President of the United States of America, the Democratic Attorney General, the Republican Leader, the Republican leader of this effort, Senator Hatch, the Republican Senator from Texas, we all agree on that.

Now we can find some “fringe folks” in the study groups on the right wing and left wing, Libertarians and, uh, uh, and “left wingers” in my party who say, "No. That's not what we should do," but politically that consensus has been arrived at. I acknowledge there was not that consensus in the Sixties. There is today.

This thread if for posting interviews; either in video, audio or written format. I'm making this for or the sake of not spamming up up the sub/server

Partial or Full Transcripts of videos/audio is also needed so we can make memes with them 🖌

Rules:

1. Full length or longish videos preferred, but any length ( from tiktok etc. ) is okay
2. Include a few notes / description and maybe a standout quote, maybe link to transcript
3. No Reaction or Commentary Videos, this is for raw unmediated Cornel West

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i hope Disney sues me for this shit 🖕 🤣 🖕

...by a landslide

tldr: The DNC argued in court that they have the right to rig their primaries, and in the end the courts sided with them: the DNC is legally entitled to rig their primaries

{ Jared Beck, the attorney representing Sanders supporters in the class action lawsuit [said this in court]

“People paid money in reliance on the understanding that the primary elections for the Democratic nominee—nominating process in 2016 were fair and impartial,” Beck said. “And that’s not just a bedrock assumption that we would assume just by virtue of the fact that we live in a democracy, and we assume that our elections are run in a fair and impartial manner. But that’s what the Democratic National Committee’s own charter says. It says it in black and white. And they can’t deny that.” He added, “Not only is it in the charter, but it was stated over and over again in the media by the Democratic National Committee’s employees, including Congresswoman Wassermann Schultz, that they were, in fact, acting in compliance with the charter. And they said it again and again, and we’ve cited several instances of that in the case.”

Later in the hearing, attorneys representing the DNC claim that the Democratic National Committee would be well within their rights to “go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.” By pushing the argument throughout the proceedings of this class action lawsuit, the Democratic National Committee is telling voters in a court of law that they see no enforceable obligation in having to run a fair and impartial primary election.

The DNC attorneys even go so far as to argue that the words “impartial” and “evenhanded”—used in the DNC Charter—can’t be interpreted by a court of law. Beck retorted, “I’m shocked to hear that we can’t define what it means to be evenhanded and impartial. If that were the case, we couldn’t have courts. I mean, that’s what courts do every day, is decide disputes in an evenhanded and impartial manner]

if you're wondering how the case turned out here's the wikipedia:

{ Their suit was dismissed by Judge William Zloch of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida for lack of standing.[1] The judge found that none of the plaintiffs had claimed to have donated to the DNC on the basis of promises contained in the DNC charter, and therefore the plaintiffs could not claim to have incurred damages.[1] The court held that "To the extent Plaintiffs wish to air their general grievances with the DNC or its candidate selection process, their redress is through the ballot box, the DNC’s internal workings, or their right of free speech — not through the judiciary." }

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilding_v._DNC_Services_Corp.

see also: https://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/

okay, last one for today

Image Description: A photo of striking Writers, the text reads: "With these strikes going on: Amazon, Hollywood, UPS,etc. I'm in full scale solidarity with Trade Union Workers even when the Leadership is racist and sexist and often side with the bosses. I'm about workers unionism rather than business unionism...

...but when you call a strike you gotta draw a line: Which Side Are You On? Democrats and Republicans all
walking on the bosses side, the same with Cop City..."

I hope ya'll downvoters know you're only motivating me to do more 😄