Reaction: The Dore–West Interview

Last Wednesday [September 6, 2023], The Jimmy Dore Show welcomed guest Cornel West.

The 2024 Green Party presidential candidate had a discussion with the host which turned out heated and, unfortunately, dissatisfying.

Numerous other sources—Revolutionary Blackout, Due Dissidence, Hard Lens Media, The Kim Iversen Show et al.—weighted in. (I think the best take came from Garland Nixon.) I did not find myself in disagreement with much. But, I am looking at this, perhaps, differently.

I have to admit…I was never invested in Cornel West. It does not mean I was not willing to consider him. It just means that I was not getting excited. (I am not moved by anyone.)

The presidency, and the campaigning, requires unique talent and skill in an individual. One certainty has to sustain all the way from the announcement of a candidacy throughout all steps to the general election (win or not).

It would be good if Cornel West, and all the key people in his campaign, shore up his weaknesses to get him to become focused—especially on the issues at the forefront—as well as organized and strong.

Labor Day 2023

A new blog topic will be scheduled for next week, Monday, September 11, 2023.

‘Debate Debrief with Vivek Ramaswamy’

Following last week’s first debate for the 2024 Republican Party nomination for U.S. President, Glenn Greenwald interviewed candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

This was on Rumble. So, embedding a video from that source is apparently not possible here.

I will first include a link to the Locals page in which one can read the transcript. 

Debate Debrief with Vivek Ramaswamy

Following is a link to the Rumble platform of this video. If one is near a television, it is syncable to television. Otherwise, it is fine with a device such as a computer, laptop, etc.

https://rumble.com/v3bbaej-system-update-show-137.html

‘Justice’ No More

Justice Democrats—the organization apparently intent on getting actual progressives elected through the Democratic Party (supposedly for better change for The People and that party)—is effectively over.

I never bought into Justice Democrats because, after the 2016 Democratic National Committee’s rigging of the presidential nomination for Hillary Clinton (who bought the DNC), and against Bernie Sanders (and against every person who voted the nomination to Bernie Sanders), I repudiated the Democratic Party.

This recent news of Justice Democrats folding is expected. The precious few, like Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, who electorally succeeded…they politically failed. Deliberately.

I look at today’s Democratic Party as a scam operation. A so-called political party which has a seemingly endless number of figures who are con artists. One of them was Justice Democrats.

The above video was from last week. Sabby Sabs reports vital information on the organization that was Justice Democrats. It was a con before it officially began. 

That type of con is/was designed to persuade people who voted the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination to Bernie Sanders…to still be willing to vote in general elections for the Democratic Party. They did not succeed with persuading me.

Birthday Week

My birthday is this Wednesday, August 16, 2023.

I turn 52.

As a present to myself, I free myself from having to come up with a site-related topic for this week.

X

Twitter is no more.

It is now, as one can see above with its logo, X.

My response:

Coming Soon (But Not in August)…

The last two weeks included political topics which, in part, are about the electoral arena—specifically with regard for third-party support and that of a rising bellwether state.

This week is an alert.

I feel like not engaging much this early with numerous Election 2024 topics because, frankly, I don’t personally look forward to next year’s elections. I am not, let’s say, inspired.

I will address Election 2024, closer to a year out, in the Fall. This would be most likely in October 2023.

I am guessing my decision will not be controversial for the readers here at Progressives Chat.