This reminds me of the record companies suing Napster. Of course music shouldn't be free, it took a while, but they shut Napster down. And then KaZaA and lockers appeared and harmony did not reign until the advent of Spotify. Once again, music is the canary in the coal mine for disruption, how come others can't see and learn the lessons?
No one likes Joe Biden. He's just the least offensive of those who are left. Furthermore, he couldn't win one damn debate amongst his peers, imagine how well he'll do against Trump...awful!
But it gets worse. Biden has baggage. Let's start with Ukraine. Joe let the Republicans lambaste him for days before he mounted an aggressive defense. Illustrating he does not know how to fight, despite all the malarkey tying himself to Obama, who didn't do so well fighting either. Obama kept wanting the Republicans to be reasonable, to play by the rules, but they refused to. The Republicans had their finger on the pulse of America. Times were hard, people were pissed about paying for others, they wanted someone to stand up for them, and they got him, Donald Trump.
Trump was the beneficiary of all those years on television. But in his campaign he went straight to the public, via Twitter, while the political class and their pundit lackeys kept complaining he just wasn't being decent. Been online recently? Decency is nowhere to be found. Because people are ANGRY! The reason they bitch at you is because they believe you've got their job, you've won and they've lost. And with social media they get a chance to hit back.
Which is what Tik Tok is all about. The hoi polloi get to be stars!
But not in politics.
The DNC and the media won, they needed Bernie to fail so they got candidates to drop out and scared the public into believing Sanders was a commie who loved dictators who was gonna take your money and your health care and leave you in a worse position. Who wants that? NOBODY!
This is why the younger generation hates traditional media, because it's biased. I'm not talking about Trump's fake news, but viewpoint, this Biden/Bernie fiasco has shown that in many ways the left wing press is just as bad as Fox News, only in this case the left is fighting against itself, as opposed to the right wing enemy.
So, "The New York Times" prints a story saying Bernie tied in with a Soviet city but it was all a ruse for spying. Immediately "The New Yorker" says it's not true, days later the "Times" prints a letter from the government official responsible for the program, saying the "Times" had it wrong and there was no spying involved.
They were out to get Bernie.
Never forget these bozos work for corporations, they are not individual hustlers building their own companies. They're beholden to their bosses, they're part of the elite and they don't want to sacrifice.
But the rank and file are part time contractors, they work at the company but are paid by third parties, they've got no recourse, they just want someone to stand up for them.
Joe Biden?
He wants a lower taxes on the rich than Bloomberg! Think about that!
Of course I want to wipe out Trump and have a return to...
We're never going back to normalcy, because the right hates the left just that much, and they're far more organized.
So, the right is hijacked by Donald Trump, and lo and behold, HE WINS! Because Trump was more in touch with the proletariat than the party and the pundits. Think about that. Sure, you might abhor his policies, but Trump is always serving his base. Who is the DNC serving? The elites, they're so far out of touch with their base that they're ripe for the picking, and they will be, it's just a matter of when.
I'm getting older by the minute but I must say I've about given up. I'll vote for Old Joe, but the only difference it will make is getting rid of the Donald.
Are you watching TV, are you reading the news? The broadcasters and writers are GLOATING! They pulled victory from the jaws of defeat! This illustrates their power, it's still there baby, as opposed to the Republicans, who realized Trump was in charge and rallied around him.
So, we've rallied around an aging man who can barely get it out. Just because the DNC and the media decided he was the safest bet against Trump. EVERYBODY knows that safe never works. It oftentimes loses, and at best it stands for the status quo, and the target keeps on moving, you've got to be prepared.
Talk to a professional athlete. Safe is anathema. Safe you're self-conscious, safe you make mistakes, safe you lose. The DNC and the media are overthinking, winners run on instinct. Trump does, but he's got no preparation. Without experience, instinct is worthless.
As far as taking the temperature of the public...the DNC and the media refused to do this, they just made the public's blood boil, to the point people threw in the towel and cried uncle. If you think this is a victory, you probably think everything's kumbaya in Guantanamo.
When I grew up blue bloods had the money, they inherited it.
Today, it's all new money, people worked very hard to make it.
When I grew up, it was all about albums, AM was a joke starting with "Sgt. Pepper."
Today it's all about the single, but the old farts keep crying about the album, as the youngsters ignore them and forge their own way.
When I grew up the enemy was television.
Today the enemy is smartphones. There's never acceptance of the new, it's always flawed with consequences, you've got to do it the old way.
Kinda like print books. You're reading this on a screen. Without screens, I wouldn't be able to reach all of you at once!
Like the musicians who bitch about the decline of major label record deals when today they can make, distribute and hype FOR FREE! The truth is the channel is cluttered, even worse is people don't want to hear their music.
So Elizabeth Warren was the frontrunner, but she caved to the cabal. She thinks the insiders run the game, when the truth is now, more than ever, outsiders rule, insiders find out last, they try to deal with the consequences.
And this election was never about Medicare for all, it was always about Trump, but arguing about health care and commies made good television, no one put the kibosh on it, because no one is in charge.
We need people in charge. This is what Trump has got right. When things are confusing you want an all-knowing seer to take charge and lead the way. Trump promised this, even though he can't deliver it. What do the Democrats do? Endorse an aged guy whose votes are all over the map who can't even fight his way out of a paper bag. Joe Biden someone to believe in? NO WAY!
And the reason Obama won is because he offered hope, a new beginning, to the point where the fact that he was African-American didn't matter. Biden isn't offering hope, and hope is what gets people energized, they want to believe in a better future. As for 2008-2016, income inequality still reigned. Corporations gained even more power. If those are the glory days Springsteen's song is meaningless.
It's not about Bernie, it's about a vision, a viewpoint, the future.
It wasn't supposed to be Bernie, it was supposed to be Elizabeth, but she blew it. And these same media wankers can't stop saying it's criminal that the voters didn't choose a woman, or a person of color. I watched the debates...THEY DIDN'T DESERVE IT! Being a woman or a person of color had nothing to do with it. It'd be like letting Buttigieg start for the Lakers, not everybody can do everything.
So, do I think that income inequality will wane?
It certainly didn't under Obama.
Do I think the corporations will be corralled?
Not by a guy who comes from Delaware.
I think Biden will win, the DNC and the media will breathe a sigh of relief and try and convince the public that everything is okay.
But it's not!
The underlying problems of this country will not be addressed. And this rally around a loser doesn't engender confidence amongst the public. But the DNC doesn't like risk, it learned lessons from 2016 and the RNC, BUT THE WRONG LESSONS!
It's not about ganging up on the insurgent, but examining why the insurgent is doing so well and tapping into that. The DNC has lost the younger generation in one fell swoop. And young people get older every day, what makes you think they'll remain Democrats? What is the party doing for them? Just fighting the evil bully Trump is not enough, you've got to move the needle and deliver something positive. There are losses in change. That doesn't mean you should stay with the status quo!
I'm disgusted. I'm sick of groupthink. In tech, it's one leader with a vision. Elon Musk showed the practicality of electric cars, with more performance than a Porsche. What did the media do? EXCORIATE HIM!
We've seen this movie before. Once again in music. We're going to go electric, someone is gonna win, it might not be Tesla, but it will be somebody. And never forget, Tower Records did not survive and Spotify was not in existence at the turn of the century.
D.C. is like the coronavirus. You can't go there without being infected. The big bitch about Sanders is he wouldn't compromise, wouldn't make sausage. Ever hear of Neil Young compromising? Doesn't happen, he's got a vision, and Neil keeps trying to adjust for the future as his contemporaries play their oldies to the aged.
The familiar is comfortable, but the familiar does not sustain, it's the new that sustains.
Sure, a lot of the public is made up of nitwits. But not all of the populace are idiots, just looking to be entertained. Chance the Rapper did it by himself, do you think the young 'uns won't do it by themselves when it comes to news, do you think the youngsters will just glom on to the institutions of their parents?
Watching the coverage today reminds me of going to school.
You remember school, don't you?
There were rules. Sometimes insensible. But you had to obey them.
The administration was king and you couldn't wait to graduate.
And isn't it funny that those who loved school, who stayed in, did not change the world. The dropouts changed it! Because school was antiquated and couldn't teach them what they needed to know, never mind quickly enough.
Rule-breakers always win in the end. Those who play the game are surprised when the rules no longer apply. But as they whine how they want a return to what once was they become less and less relevant.
Maybe the Orange Menace was just that bad.
Or, maybe the Democrats could have sold a comprehensive plan for the future. The people without medical coverage want Medicare for all. The media could have scared the rich by saying the poor are not being tested for the coronavirus. But instead, it just vilified Bernie's vision of the future by focusing on the past.
This dream will not die. People will not forget. But next time, they will not bother to exercise their power via the system.
Be ready.
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