I have been coming across that a recommendation for an actual progressive: KimIversen.
According to https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/Kim_Iverson/, Kim Iversen, born March 28, 1980, in Boise, Idaho, “is a nationally syndicated American radio personality best known for United Stations Radio Networknightly syndicated program Your Time with Kim Iversen and Premiere Radio Networksnightly syndication, The Rendezvous with Simon and Kim.” Here is the link to her website: https://www.kimiversen.com. Although Iversen’s videos have been available only for a month,I have now added Kim Iversen’s YouTube home page to the “Recommendations” list. Here are some videos:
While my area’s Detroit, Michigan local news has devoted lots of coverage to death and funeral of former U.S. Rep. John Dingell, whose seat is now held by his widow Debbie, and this is from my congressional district, Michigan #12, Status Coup uploaded numerous video interviews, between Jordan Chariton and numerous workers in the auto industry. I certainly am not seeing any of this content on local news. That is, of course, intended. The first video is two hours. The rest have running times more friendly for Progressives Chat readers to spend some time viewing.
During last Saturday’s [February 9, 2019] “Solid Chat Saturday,” from the live-streaming The Jimmy Dore Show, I sent in a comment thanking the program for the video “NYTimes Journo Melts Down On Joe Rogan’s Show” [published February 4, 2019]—already one the year’s best Jimmy Dore videos (re-posted above)—and praising a particular comedian, Paul Gilmartin, for the term smugnorant applied to New York Times columnist Bari Weiss. (He says it at the mark of 15:40.)
It turns out, as mentioned by Ron Placone, the term smugnorant is now in Urban Dictionary.
I love this term, smugnorant, because it applies not only to Bari Weiss but to just about every single person who spouts opinions aligned with the corrupt, corporate, Democratic Party Establishment. This is the same corrupt, corporate Democratic Party Establishment which pushed for and shoved Hillary Clinton as the 2016 nominee for president of the United States. It still holds the power. There is no sincerity—and no credibility—with their opinions. But, they still express them. And, so, they have earned this label—this term—which I do welcome.
The above video, titled “Jimmy Dore Discusses Presidential Prospects, Smearing of Tulsi,” is a discussion between host Niko House and guest Jimmy Dore.
It was published to YouTube just yesterday [Thursday, February 7, 2019].
Note: There is a second thread today, “The 61st Grammy Awards.” The ceremony is this weekend. If you want to post related comments, perhaps some music videos, it may interest you.
One year from now are the Iowa caucuses for the 2020 elections.
The first contest is scheduled for Monday, February 3, 2020.
I expect Republican incumbent U.S. president Donald Trump will win re-nomination.
The Democratic side is the one somewhat in question.
The declared candidates (as of February 3, 2019): •Cory Booker(04.27.1969, Washington, D.C.) of New Jersey; former Mayor of Newark; junior U.S. Senator of New Jersey •Pete Buttrieg(01.19.1982, South Bend, Indiana) of Indiana; Mayor of South Bend •Julián Castro(09.16.1974, San Antonio, Texas) of Texas; former Mayor of San Antonio; former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development •John Delaney(04.16.1963, Wood-Ridge, New Jersey) of Maryland; former U.S. Representative of Maryland #06 •Tulsi Gabbard(04.12.1981, Leloaloa, American Samoa) of Hawaii; U.S. Representative of Hawaii #02 •Kirsten Gillibrand(12.09.1966, Albany, New York) of New York; former U.S. Representative of New York #20; junior U.S. Senator of New York •Kamala Harris(10.20.1964, Oakland, California) of California; junior U.S. Senator of California •Elizabeth Warren(06.22.1949, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) of Massachusetts; senior U.S. Senator of Massachusetts
I have no interest in any corporate Democrats.
The following video, published to YouTube on January 26, 2019 by The Real News, is about this topic. Its description: “Jacqueline Luqman, Editor-in-Chief of the Luqman Nation talks about potential presidential candidates and how they can serve the black community, realistic goals, and what the black community should demand from them and issues to focus on.”
February is Black History Month. It is also the month of Valentine’s Day.
My first blog entry for February 2019 combines both as a singer—with a powerful and romantic voice—I grew up listening to, from the 1980s, died this past Tuesday, January 29, 2019.
Ingram, born February 16, 1952, in Akron, Ohio, was more prominent during the 1980s. He recorded on Quincy Jones’s album, The Dude, and received a 1981 Grammy nomination for Best New Artist before recording an album of his own. Ingram went on to become a solo artist starting with It’s Your Night in 1983. In 1990, he teamed with producer Thom Bell (who won Grammys’ first Producer of the Year, for 1974) to record Ingram’s sole No. 1 Billboard hit, “I Don’t Have the Heart.” It garnered Ingram a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. That year’s release of Jones’s Back on the Black, which went towin the Album of the Year Grammy for 1990, featured Ingram collaborating with Barry White, Al B. Sure, and El Debarge on “The Secret Garden.” As one of the co-writers, Ingram received a 1993 Oscar nomination for Best Original Song for “The Day I Fall in Love,” from Beethoven 2. One year later, and again as one of its co-writers, Ingram received a 1994 Oscar nomination for Best Original Song for “Look What Love Has Done,” from Junior. James Ingram won two Grammys: 1981 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for “One Hundred Ways,” one of the tracks from Quincy Jones’s Album of the Year nominee The Dude; and 1984 Best Duo or Group R&B Vocal Performance, for his terrific collaboration with Michael McDonald, for “Yah Mo B There.”
