The special election of Ohio’s 11th Congressional District has a scheduled primary in August.
On the Democratic side, former state senator Nina Turner is trying to win nomination for the seat formerly held by Marcia Fudge, who is now in Joe Biden’s presidential administration serving as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Due to Turner having been connected to Bernie Sanders, predictably the corrupt, corporate, party-establishment figures—including the likes of Hillary Clinton and Jim Clyburn—are trying to make sure nomination for Turner does not happen. So, their approved candidate is Shontel Brown, chairwoman of Cuyahoga County Democratic Party.
Now, if this was 2016, 2018, or even 2020, I might be inclined to kick in a donation to possibly help Turner. That I would be really, really, really wanting to do that. But, we are past that point.
The problem is the…Party.
I see the Democratic Party as a sham. And, from those who remember my April 26, 2021 blog topic [The Three G’s], they are: Gaslighters, Gatekeepers, and Grifters.
That is what what the Ds have to offer: Gaslighting, Gatekeeping, and Grifting.
The Ds don’t move me to want to support and vote for them.
The Ds repel me.
The Ds move me to make a point to not support and vote for them [especially in general elections].
So, I am saying “No” to the Democratic Party, in its entirety, and this means the same to Nina Turner.
I am also saying “No” to Jamarl Thomas.
“Recommendations” Updates
Last week, I made changes to the “Recommendations” list. So, count this Update as Week #02.
Gone is Jamarl Thomas.
What moved me to this decision was after he welcomed last week a particular guest, activist Lauren Steiner, on Sputnik’s Fault Lines. (I posted video of this in last week’s comments section.)
The co-host and guest talked about fighting amongst the left in a way which made [Thomas and Steiner] sound like they were not sufficiently briefed—or they were, possibly willfully, out of touch. What went down—The Young Turks’s Ana Kasparian’s and Cenk Uygur’s McCarthyite-like smears against journalist Aaron Maté and fellow content creator and comedian Jimmy Dore (and Kasparian having blackmailed Dore with a lie that he sexually harassed her more than seven years prior)—is serious. I wasn’t at all pleased, and certainly not appreciative, of that Thomas–Steiner discussion.
This compelled me to look over Thomas’s Videos page on YouTube. It now lists numerous simulcasts of his talk-radio program Fault Lines (which he co-hosts with Shane Stranahan). One can find those same installments on the YouTube Videos page of Fault Lines. The program is on weekdays. Each runs three hours. Independent of his day job, Thomas’s other Videos content isn’t particularly strong enough for me to keep him recommended.
One positive thing about Jamarl Thomas is this: My de-listing him is, at this point, not for comparably egregious reasons for which I made the same decision with Secular Talk’s Kyle Kulinski.
Replacing Jamarl Thomas on “Recommendations” is Primo Radical.
Since Primo Radical established its YouTube channel in 2015, and its content has been posted in the comments section by Progressives Chat regulars, I sense this will be a good choice.
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