https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwKK-EKIIGM

#TennesseeBrando

#Kentucky's Dem Governor Gives Us REAL HOPE

Gov. #Andy Bashear shows Dems how it's done.

'Hate's always wrong. love always right'' --- Andy Bashear

At least one Democrat is saying explicitly that the party should fight back against Trump and Musk by refusing to help Republicans reach a government funding deal.

“Look, if we have to take steps to be able to hold them accountable,
use the leverage that we have to force it,
I cannot support efforts that will continue this lawlessness that we’re seeing when it comes to this administration’s actions,”
Sen. #Andy #Kim
(D-New Jersey) said on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”

“And for us to be able to support government funding in that way
only for them to turn it around to dismantle the government,
that is not something that should be allowed."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/09/democrats-government-shutdown-trump-musk/

Wayne Osmond, Singer and Guitarist With the Osmonds, Dies at 73 https://www.inbella.com/836766/wayne-osmond-singer-and-guitarist-with-the-osmonds-dies-at-73/ #Andy(19272012) #Deaths(Obituaries) #England #EntertainmentNews #Mormons(ChurchOfJesusChristOfLatterDaySaints) #music #MusicalInstruments #OsmondBrothers #PopAndRockMusic #SaltLakeCity(Utah) #utah #Williams

Registration Consternation https://foxtrot.com/2024/11/03/registration-consternation/ #Andy, #Computers, #Government, #Roger, #uspol

https://www.eucup.com/850353/ “YOU GOT SENT OFF FOR WHAT!?” | Ruben Dias vs legendary City defender | Counterparts #2026FIFAWorldCup #2026WorldCup #2030FIFAWorldCup #2030WorldCup #Andy #best #cb #CBS #City #CityVs #defence #defender #Dias #FIFA2026 #FIFA2030 #FIFAWorldCup #FifaWorldCup2026 #FIFAWorldCup2030 #Legends #ManCity #ManCityGoals #ManCityHighlights #ManCityV #ManCityVs #ManchesterCity #MCFC #Morrison #PORTUGAL #RúbenDias #Rubin #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #WorldCup2030

J D #Vance’s speech at the Republican National Convention was all but indistinguishable from the claims of the #John #Birch #Society in the 1970s.

Senior Birch leader #Gary #Allen (father of Axios executive editor Michael Allen) wrote in his 1971 book, "None Dare Call It Conspiracy", that
a group he called the “#Insiders,” consisting of “power-seeking billionaires,”
sought to squeeze the middle class “to death by a vise.”

This would be done by pursuing a strategy of tension:

the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations would channel money to Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, and a whole sordid host of New Left organizations to stir up trouble in the streets
“while the Limousine Liberals at the top in New York and Washington are Socializing us.
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A DICTATORSHIP OF THE ELITE DISGUISED AS THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT.”

The hidden hand of the Insiders, he said, lay behind the radical tumult of the late 1960s and early 1970s, all at the expense of the American middle class.

Crucially, although "None Dare Call It Conspiracy" included anti-capitalist elements,
it was still profoundly hostile to socialism and communism,
-- with Allen at one point arguing that both ideologies were simply different terms for monopoly capitalism.

Bircherite producerism did not prevail in the 1970s,
either within the contested space of American right-wing politics or national policy.

“Woke capital” is used essentially in the same way as “the Insiders,”

and not just by J. D. Vance.

#Andy #Olivastro, the director of coalition relations at #Heritage, defined it as “a top-down anti-democratic movement . . . on the part of some of the biggest and most important names in American business . . . to change the definition of capitalism itself.”

The only major distinction between “woke capitalism” and the Insiders is that Allen insisted that the core goal of the conspiracy was power as such,
whereas “woke capital” is more interested in ensuring liberal and left-wing social policy.

Nonetheless, today’s right-wing critics of neoliberalism are fundamentally embedded in the same political tradition.

Thankfully, Vance, one of the most unpopular vice-presidential candidates of the past fifty years,
is a poor messenger for his Bircherite economic politics.
https://jacobin.com/2024/07/vance-trump-gop-john-birch

Donutso https://foxtrot.com/2024/09/08/donutso/ #Andy, #Food, #Roger

Going thru mementos and here is my Dad in Seventeen Magazine November 1963. #Andy

New Jersey’s controversial ballot design that gives party-backed candidates an advantage will be scrapped in the June primary, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi granted the preliminary injunction sought by Rep. #Andy #Kim and two Congressional candidates to
eliminate the so-called #county #line, a feature unique to New Jersey elections that’s given local party bosses inordinate influence over elections.
In 19 of 21 counties in the state, candidates backed by county political parties appear in a single column or row, placing them more prominently on the ballot and giving them a nearly insurmountable edge.

The judge ordered the use of #office #block ballots for the June primary, where candidates are placed together by the office they are seeking.

His ruling applies to all offices on the ballot.

The decision is likely to be appealed, but until then it takes away a key tool wielded by political bosses in the state.

And while its impact is limited in the Democratic Senate primary since first lady Tammy #Murphy has dropped out, it will upend contested primaries across the state
— including the House race for the seat held by Democratic Rep. Rob #Menendez.

His father, Sen. Bob Menendez, is under indictment and will not run in the Democratic primary but is considering an independent run in November if he is not convicted of corruption charges.
#newjersey #ballot
#Countyline
#officeblock
#AndyKim
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/29/new-jersey-ballot-judge-senate-andy-kim-00149763

Hi, it’s Mark Hamill. Will you give me a minute to tell you why I’m supporting #Andy #Kim for U.S. Senate?
https://forwardblue.us/l/FIt9Rq

When our democracy was attacked on January 6, Andy Kim was there picking up the trash left by Trump’s mob.

Now, he’s running against Bob Menendez – the Senator indicted again on corruption charges – because Americans deserve better than the broken politics we see around us.

Andy’s running to restore integrity to the U.S. Senate. But dark and powerful forces are conspiring to destroy his grassroots campaign and silence the will of the voters!

Andy won’t be able to win his race without your support. Will you join Andy Kim and Forward Blue to defend democracy and save our Democratic majority? https://forwardblue.us/l/FIt9Rq

I know that we’ll win if we stand together,

Mark Hamill