Corden parodies the new movie IT

The People's Budget

You've seen the Dump and Repugnantan budget that guts social programs to give tax cuts to the already rich. So take a few minutes to see what's in The People's Budget from the Congressional Progressive Caucus and compare them. It's obvious which budget cares for all of us and moves our country forward in a humane and responsible way. If this budget represents your values and concerns, please support it here.

Sanders introduces Medicare For All

Continuing the last 2 posts, Sanders introduces a Senate Bill to achieve medial coverage for everyone. The choice is simple: Care for people or continue to let them suffer and die to pay off the insurance and drug companies. Which side of history do you want to be on?

Healthcare is a right

Continuing the last post, here's the recent add on Medicare For All. There are still 30 million people uninsured in the US. And if the Repugnantans have their way they'll add 30 million more. So maybe the US should join every other major country in the world and insure everyone as a right. It will not happen as long as Repugnantans control Congress and the White House. So get busy working to change that if you have any semblance of humanity and want to see this dream become a reality.

Canadian doctor schools Repugnantan Senator

The Repugnantan repeats myths about the Canadian public healthcare system and the Canadian doctor explains the facts. As usual, the Repugnantan has no grasp of reality and refuses to accept it when it's irrefutable.

Dump himself is evidence that white men are not superior

A good one from Borowitz today:

White House Rejects Supremacist Label: “No One Has Done More Than Trump to Prove White People Are Not Superior”

WASHINGTON: Upbraiding the ESPN anchor Jemele Hill for calling Donald Trump a “white supremacist,” the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said on Wednesday that “no one has done more than President Trump to prove that white people are not superior.”

“It’s grossly unfair that Ms. Hill sought to portray Donald Trump as an upholder of white supremacy, when everything he says or does directly undermines that whole concept,” Sanders said. “Anyone who thinks that Donald Trump is on some mission to make white people look good hasn’t been paying attention.”

Sanders urged the ESPN anchor to “do her homework” on Trump before making baseless allegations. “Read his tweets,” she said. “Listen to his speeches. If you still think Donald Trump is trying to prove that white people are superior, I tip my hat to you.”

Ending on a personal note, Sanders said that she was “a hundred-per-cent sure” that her boss is not a white supremacist. “Donald Trump cannot even spell the word ‘supremacist,’ ” she said.

Germans are patriotic

Just not in the superficial and ineffective way Americans are. Germans express it in ways that pragmatically care for each other.

Draft Bernie for The People's Party

Schultz interviews the head of this movement, Nick Brana. Brana makes a good point, that even though some Dims are signing on to co-sponser Bernie's Medicare-for-All proposal, it just isn't going to pass. And it won't even pass if/when the Dims take over the House and Senate, because some like Harris in CA give lip service to the idea but doesn't even support a like Bill in her home State of California. Brana is right that the only way to get this sort of progressive legislation passed is with the founding of a new Party that would garner support and votes.

Are you a bad guy?

A simple test:

Commons transition and P2P primer

From the P2P Foundation with a link to the booklet by the above name. This short video explains that “the commons are a self-organized system by which local communities manage shared resources with minimal or no reliance on the market or the state.  P2P means collaboration, ‘peer-to-peer’, ‘people-to-people’ or ‘person-to-person.’  P2P is a type of non-hierarchical and non-coercive social relations that enables a transition to a fairer economy for people and nature.”

Besides introducing the commons & P2P, the booklet suggests five practical guidelines, with examples, for achieving a transition to a commons/P2P-based society:

1.  Pool resources wherever possible;

2.  Introduce reciprocity;

3.  Shift from redistribution to predistribution and empowerment;

4.  Subordinate capitalism; and

5.  Organize at the local and global levels.