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I don't think that the person who pushed Marianne Williamson should be snipping at AOC for "suddenly" criticizing Democrats, but whatever:  

 

 From INN's Substack : Krystal and Kyle largely cover the US political horse race on their individual shows, inadvertently helping the Democrats define the policies that their base might want, but everyone on the inside knows the corporate donors will never allow them to enact. They still want to play within this system and win personally, but don’t appear to be as concerned about the financial health of the rest of the country. They get called “the far left” by people like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, completely marginalizing everyone who think Krystal and Kyle are centrists at best (like me and LOTS more independents). They are definitely corporate apologists - Krystal even more than Kyle. Kyle’s subscriber base is largely progressive lefty Democrats (amazing there are any remaining at this point!) - holdouts from the Bernie Sanders days who are still blind to how much the party loathes them. Somehow, these people still believe in the viability of federal electoral politics to...

  So many people predicted that those who supported the Democratic primary challengers would shift to Biden once it became clear he would be the nominee (due in no small part to the DNC essentially ignoring the existence of challengers). In that sense, this isn't that surprising. What's sad is that Krystal Ball (and those like her) will do this again and again every presidential cycle, while simultaneously fretting about what Democrats aren't doing for voters and pushing pseudo-populism.  Anyway, here's another look at the true unemployment rate for what it's worth.

 Sabby has her doubts about the "independence" of Krystal and Saagar (and by extension, Kyle) while watching the same video Due Dissidence covered: They so desperately wanted this to be a "Democrat vs Republican" and "Biden vs Trump" debate (and IMHO, a viral one) but to his credit Link Lauren did not bite. 

 

 Krystal Ball went from populism to "Vote Blue No Matter Who" in record time:

 The reality is this: "for any non-status quo candidate to have a chance, they should run outside the Democratic and Republican parties. Anyone running inside hoping to 'change the party from within' will either be absorbed or ousted."  Most of the American left learned this after two attempts by Bernie Sanders to run for president (some of us suspected even before the 2016 and 2020 Democratic primaries, but the elections confirmed it).  There is, however, a group that (for various reasons) can't let go. They simultaneously boost the insider strategy while turn away in disgust when offered third party solutions. They have declared Marianne Williamson the heir to Bernie Sanders (even when he has embraced Joe Biden). Now, some of them have put out videos saying that Williamson is being ignored . On the contrary, whatever the media's doing isn't making people ignore a person who ran for office in 2020; in fact, people know and they don't prefer her to B...

 Well, let's be honest: they don't say those words. But in their segment about the DNC being more accepting of dark money, they basically admit these two things:

 As Status Coup notes, there was a very significant victory for Amazon workers recently . It's important to note two things here: the Amazon workers managed to unionize without backing of the usual movers and shakers , and Status Coup was hands down gave the most coverage to this story (a distance second would be Krystal Ball of The Hill and Breaking Points).  Another important thing to note, as a byproduct, is that with this victory, all sorts of people and groups are now standing in celebration with Chris Smalls and others, most notably AOC.  Status Coup , Kyle Kulinski and Krystal Ball were quick to point out that despite AOC's...jaundiced account, there are Amazon workers that live in her district and she had ample opportunities to promote what was happening via her social media. And to show that even the ones who called AOC out on her political hesitancy are not immune, Sabby Sabs from RBN pointed out that when they (and others like Jimmy Dore ) were criticizing AO...

  Very true . So, the solution to the socio-economic problems caused by a pandemic that was exacerbated by Donald Trump's time in office is to bring the country back to a time where citizens were so frustrated over their situation that they voted Trump into office? It's almost like the Democrats want to create a GOP boogeyman to run against instead of championing popular policies.  On a personal note: can we get Richard Wolff, Chris Hedges and Cornel West in a room together? For two hours at least? 

Let me start by putting it like this: if you're going to call a group out, make sure you are consistent. Because if one of your cousins or ex-coworkers is making the same claims as some jerk you're attacking, you're not serving your cause that well. Jimmy Dore went after some " Democratic Strategist " and Joy-Ann Reid for smearing Tulsi Gabbard. Kyle Kulinski gave his take as well .  Both Dore and Kulinski were right in addressing these smears.  Gabbard is sitting congresswoman, she has an impressive military record, and she sits on a number of important committees. If she was really part of some Russian plot she'd be bagging groceries in Hawaii by now. The "pro-Democratic Party" media is at best The Shaft ; they want the political affiliations to be different but not the policies. Gabbard's campaign (and yes Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang could also be plugged in here) are the antithesis of the status quo and the people who sign Reid's ...