David Tobocman

The last part of that quote is so cringe

Let me go on record predicting that JD Vance will divorce his wife (reason: she refuses to accept Jesus Christ as her personal savior), then marry Charlie Kirk's widow, run for president, and lose.

SNAP benefits equal only $2.84 per meal. The average cost of a modest meal is $3.41 (according to Google AI). How can someone "abuse" SNAP?

A Progressive Party on the left lets the Democrats come out the closet as the corporatist-centrist party that they've always been. Without the other to de-authenticate each other’s message, both can draw votes away from MAGA. It’s way to break the coalition on the right that has enabled so much evil

America needs a strategy to break MAGA's voting coalition. I propose three parties -- a Bernie/AOC-led authentic Progressive Party, an uncloseted centrist pro-corporate Democratic Party, and a far-right White Christian Nationalist MAGA party. Let the sorting begin!

America needs an authentic AOC/Bernie-led Progressive Party to the left of the Democrats. Let the Democratic Party out of the closet as the centrist, corporatist party that it actually is. We can break MAGA with this strategy. Something "else" for everyone. Let the sorting begin!

Blatant lies

Legal residents are right now being kidnapped and disappeared for expressing their political opinions in public, sometimes merely in print.

I ask you. Are we there yet?

Hey, maybe Trump does in fact have a grand vision for the economy but he's not telling the people because it would be pitchfork time if we knew

A new Progressive people's party would pull young MAGA and non-voters who are craving something real. Dems can come out of the closet as corporate centrists and all pull "rational Republicans." The country is RIPE FOR IT his voters are waking up to MAGA's bait and switch. Chaos provides opportunity.

It’s a constant and you will see it over and over again. There is no value for human life. It's a messianic death cult and we are all just cannon fodder and collateral damage. Today the Trump regime cut 1B from schools and food banks, food for starving American kids.

This is no cold war. It's on.

Bet your ass

Frank Zappa had a term for what we would one day see empowered in American government if we weren’t vigilant. Called it the Really Big Stupid.

It’s misguided, self-serving, and ultimately lazy to criticize Chuck Schumer and Hakim Jeffries for not staging a revolt. That’s our job.

I'm not seeing Democrats feeling the need to push further to the right in response to the election

And in a twist ending, America loses the Cold War

Retreating from the free world and siding with oppressive autocracies like Russia, China, and North Korea -- was this meant as a facile way to soften Americans up for giving up our personal freedoms at home? What is coming next?

PUKE-O-RAMA

She belongs in the quisling hall of fame

American Reformed Movement is in agreement. That's the biggest denomination of American Jews

“Waste, fraud, and abuse” is their new version of “weapons of mass destruction”
-- anonymous

The impulse to try to squeeze poor people in order to find enough money to fund ANYTHING is just stupid and pointless on its face

"Fascism cannot be fact-checked"
-- Some smart person (not me)

MAGA Outrage Over Tom Hanks’ ‘SNL50’ Sketch Is Understandable, Says Joy Behar: They Made ‘Anyone Who Voted for Trump Look Like a Racist’ Joy Behar understands why Donald Trump supports are outraged over Tom Hanks' appearance on "SNL50" as a MAGA supporter.

They may not all be racists but they all tolerate evil which makes all of them... evil

Keep it up! We will prevail!

Why would voters who strongly favor ethnic cleansing policies here in America oppose them in Gaza? Our We the People problem is about to go international.

Whether Elon Musk is a Nazi or just an anti-semite with a thing for Nazis is immaterial. It's Holocaust Remembrance Day. Never forget what tolerance of evil wrought in that time and understand how easily it can happen again.

In Defense of: Bob Dylan, Singer Reprint of one article from the EstheticLens series

I write about music for Sound Collector these days but I got my start at the Chicago-based Emag, EstheticLens (now shuttered). I have been slowly adding these past articles (there are over 60 of them) to my Substack. Here's my latest (timely) reprint.

Saw Complete Unknown. The movie leaves Dylan mysterious, grumpy, disagreeable, cold, and fucking brilliant. Less about the Dylan biography -- more about the reactions of the people, fans, and world swirling around him in the moment. A very, VERY good period piece that isn't the least bit cornball.