{"id":175778,"date":"2020-12-01T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/01\/we-are-doomed\/"},"modified":"2020-12-01T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T00:44:00","slug":"we-are-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/01\/we-are-doomed\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Doomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">      Just interviewed the head of a major progressive group who said that the       Biden transition team reached out after the Tanden nomination to say       &#8220;aren&#8217;t you happy, we met your demands, we brought in a movement leader&#8221;     <\/p>\n<p>    \u2014 Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_)     <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EoinHiggins_\/status\/1333829707217952768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2020<\/a>  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">      Biden-world isn&#8217;t being cynical with this pick, they actually believe that       they are throwing a bone to progressives because they imagine progressives       like Neera Tanden. Team Biden really thinks they are picking lots of       progressives.       <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5OgJvuJFKe\">https:\/\/t.co\/5OgJvuJFKe<\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>    \u2014 Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller)     <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewstoller\/status\/1333433280910200833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2020<\/a>  <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>  It appears that senior staff in the Biden campaign have the political acumen   of Little Orphan Annie, because they think that picking Neera Tanden is a   favor to liberals. <\/p>\n<p>This actually explains a lot. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  The Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party   establishment), now largely alumni of the Obama administration, honestly   believe that your life story is your politics, which explains why they pushed   the hapless Amy McGrath so hard.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McGrath was literally the worst political campaigner that I have ever seen in my life <\/p>\n<p>  Neera Tanden is not, and has never been a progressive, she&#8217;s been a party   apparatchik, and the thoroughly despised overseer of a Podesta brothers&#8217;   lobbying shop that masqueraded as a think tank. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-color: black; border-image: none; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 230px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/P23urlg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/P23urlg.jpg\" width=\"220\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>This could very well be the stupidest person on the face of the earth. Perhaps we should shoot him.<sup>*<\/sup><\/i><\/div>\n<p>  Biden and his Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> are going to lead the Democratic Party   into an electoral catastrophe that will make 2010 look like Johnson in 1964. <\/p>\n<p>  Midterms are base elections, and they think that kicking the base in the nuts   is doing said base a favor.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">What, you&#8217;ve never seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091877\/\"><i>Ruthless People<\/i><\/a>?  Great movie.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just interviewed the head of a major progressive group who said that the Biden transition team reached out after the Tanden nomination to say &#8220;aren&#8217;t you happy, we met your demands, we brought in a movement leader&#8221; \u2014 Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) December 1, 2020 Biden-world isn&#8217;t being cynical with this pick, they actually believe that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,588,578,594,374,406],"class_list":["post-175778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-fail","tag-incompetence","tag-joe-biden","tag-politics","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}