W/ over 1M followers, Favreau could've used his platform to advocate for Covid protections, raise awareness about Long Covid, or engage w/disabled community.
Instead, he doubled down, tone-policed, & refused to learn why people are outraged.
#PodSaveJon
I’m sticking w/principles & policies Bernie & Squad were originally fighting for.
The second gatekeepers tell us stop criticizing the Squad & Bernie, you know that it’s nefarious because nobody gets anything done by bowing to power.
@ProudSocialist
@leilacleigh
@PatTheBerner
Dems fight to protect profits of those who keep them in power.
They sue to keep Green Party off ballot bc they want to keep
#Medicare4All
, rent control, public banking, climate change…off ballot.
If Green Party isn’t involved, these issues won't be present at all.
@MatthewPHoh
Our job isn't to protect the Squad.
Our efforts on the streets help give the Squad urgency to fight for the policies they ran on.
I always say I want to be the Squad's excuse when they talk to Mama Bear.
Co-hosts:
@PatTheBerner
and
@leilacleigh
Guest:
@RonPlacone
We need maximum pressure on our representatives to enact
#M4A
.
Thanks to
@SavageJoyMarie1
and
#M4M4ALL
organizers for putting together rallies in over 50 cities on July 24th.
Let's go!!! 🔥✊❤️
Some folks say if you criticize Dems, you’re privileged bc you’ll be fine even if a Dem isn’t elected. But ultimately…you’re privileged if Biden is good enough for you.
Biden isn’t good enough for migrants in cages. Or people who don’t have healthcare.
guest:
@WaitingOnBiden
We have to escalate what our actions are.
Our reps aren’t scared enough to not vote the wrong way.
It is now time for us to turn up the pressure.
Co-hosts:
@PatTheBerner
&
@leilacleigh
Special guests:
@ReddIsAri
&
@ComptonMadeMe
Liberals vs. Leftists
The contemporary Liberal has a conservative ideology; they can't explain what they stand for w/o invoking Trump.
They pretend popular policies will cost elections.
Vote Blue No Matter Who is the whole ideology.
@PatTheBerner
@RonPlacone
@leilacleigh
“Why are white people drafting a plan for Hispanics and Black people?”
Why were members of the Affirmative Action Committee shut out of the West Virginia Affirmative Action Plan?
Thank you to
@paulajean2020
&
@KaylenBarker
for bringing light to overt racism of WV Dems!
Dems sedate us w/platitudes, give us nothing in return, & keep marching further right with Repubs.
Liberals, y’all are complicit. They have comfortable lives. They benefit from this system.
Hosts:
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
Guest:
@ProudSocialist
All 55 counties in West Virginia voted for Bernie Sanders & his policies.
Why do we pretend we need conservatives like Joe Manchin to run cover for the Dem Party?
WVA, like all of the USA, demands progressive policies to move this country forward!
@paulajean2020
@KaylenBarker
LIVE NOW!!!
.
@DrJillStein
joins to discuss Green Party Pres run, campaigning w/platform centered on people, planet, & peace
w/ historically unpopular Biden & Trump, is this the year 3rd Party breaks through our corrupt duopoly?
Liberals like to say Defund is a bad slogan bc to them, a good slogan is something that’s vapid & promises nothing, like “Hope & Change” or “Build Back Better”.
Biden ended up giving more money & military equip to police. He’s demoralized his base.
Guest:
@WaitingOnBiden
#WhyWeMarch
If we aren't fighting like hell for Medicare For All in a pandemic, WTF are we even doing?
It saves money, covers everyone, includes dental, vision & more, without supplemental plans.
The only thing keeping us from Medicare For All is corruption.
📣 LET'S GET LOUD!
"Neoliberalism always leads to a decline in social services, an uptick in military spending. It shuts out all the stuff that makes for the good life. It is the lowest form of politics."
Guest:
@stephensemler
Hosts:
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
This is Biden’s virus now.
"Pay people to get vaccinated & give them sick leave."
"Scientists know we’ll have something that breaks through the vaccine soon. These are known factors the Biden administration is flat-out ignoring. Public policy doesn’t reflect Science at all."
All the humanitarian aid in the world doesn't erase the fact that you're the reason they need it.
Biden is funding genocide and the whole world sees it.
“Bill Maher brings on Ben Shapiro & the worst of the Right, & agrees with them half the time, which normalizes their views.”
A majority of our country supports progressive policies. We don't need to move right to convince people of our ideas.
Co-hosts
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
Dems are enabling a rising fascism. They crush the Left to pave the way for their Republican friends.
They would rather lose to Trump than win with Leftist policies, which they know are broadly popular across the spectrum.
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
@TinaDesireeBerg
@sachapie
It's incredibly disheartening. Possibly stems from general mistrust of Big Pharma & corporate-owned government, but nothing justifies the abandonment of the working class by people who are ostensibly on the Left. These last few years have been heartbreaking & revealing.
Pelosi owes it to the people of the US to finally show up for a job evaluation, a debate.
Congressional insider trading represents capitalism eating democracy.
Whose interests are they guarding when they’re casting their votes?
@ShahidForChange
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
Why isn't everyone taking to the streets?
Capitalism is the problem. Life's getting in the way.
They keep people desperate & working too many jobs.
If you're really affected by all this, you don't have time to protest bc you're struggling.
@iam4M4A
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
There’s nothing we’ve ever gotten through voting.
If you're not coordinating with activists who create movements on the outside to put pressure on government, then you're deeply unserious about challenging power.
Hosts
@PatTheBerner
&
@leilacleigh
@ReddIsAri
&
@ComptonMadeMe
"Democrats have an opportunity right now to basically Republican-proof themselves. They can pass legislation such as Universal Healthcare & people can experience it for 3 years. Then in '24, it's a slam dunk for the next Democratic nominee."
Co-hosts
@PatTheBerner
&
@leilacleigh
J6 gives Dems cover for not doing anything for us, while also whitewashing “sane” Repubs like Liz Cheney, who voted w/Trump 93%.
Want to see a successful insurrection? Dick Cheney getting the Supreme Court to install Bush in 2000.
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
@TinaDesireeBerg
Unbelievable. We give more accurate medical advice than our corrupt
@cdc
and we’re punished for it.
Telling people to get vaccinated AND wear a mask is why
@YouTube
is removing our content.
Any
#COVIDIsAirborne
doctors care to weigh in?
#CovidIsNotOver
Entire Dem Party blaming 2 Senators for positions widely held amongst Corp Dems.
On several occasions, it was Pelosi who was knee-capping Biden’s legislative agenda.
Abdication of Press in covering her is long-standing failure. Insider trading is not new.
@ShahidForChange
"What was the most spoiled election ever for Democrats? It was the 2010 midterms. What happened? They lost 1000 legislative seats across the country.
Where was the 3rd Party that they blame this on? The spoiled elections? No 3rd Party there. This was the Democrats basically
NO show tonight!
❌Just a cold
❌September Flu
❌Allergies
✅COVID
Leila still COVID+ 8 days later. And she needs radical rest.
*In spite of expert opinion of Delta CEO (& Biden Admin's CDC, which is wholly captured by Wall St)
See you all next week!
#CovidIsntOver
#MaskUp
😷
Democrats are so owned they can’t even put a tax on 10 billionaires.
Bernie & Squad must
#HoldtheLine
&
#VoteItDown
. Wield some power.
They need to fight as hard for the people as Manchin & Sinema fight for their donors. The people are on their side.
Guest:
@ProudSocialist
End of pandemic has been completely manufactured by Biden admin & CDC.
Covid kills 10k/month & disables 1000s more
#3
cause of death in US
Leading cause of death in children
"Return to normal!" US is a death cult.
The way to unite the country: enact broadly popular policies. But Dems refuse.
Dems & Repubs in Congress are united. They go to same parties, have same donors. As Dem pols don't work for their base, more people move Right, to an openly racist Party.
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
The Democratic Party doesn’t have a Black agenda.
'When America has a cold, Black people have pneumonia.'
Democratic unity always forgets Black struggle. ‘Now is not the time’ is always the excuse.
Co-hosts:
@PatTheBerner
and
@leilacleigh
Guests:
@ReddIsAri
@ComptonMadeMe
How did it take 33 seconds to wake up Biden at COP26?
Our military is the biggest single contributing factor to climate disaster. What are we even defending anymore?
We have no infrastructure, no healthcare, no living wage, schools are dilapidated.
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
“Sexual assault is not political. It crosses all socio-economic lines, every culture, every political ideology."
"We need to stop making politicians celebrities. They’re not our friends.”
Guest:
@ReadeAlexandra
Co-hosts:
@PatTheBerner
and
@leilacleigh
It’s so funny people said Bernie couldn’t build a coalition. He built a coalition of the Left. Now everyone fucking hates each other.
It felt like the death of democracy when they crushed him, but this union energy's giving us life!
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
@WaitingOnBiden
DEFUND the POLICE
The police didn’t help this situation. This is an element of militarization of police. Police are trained by military units to preserve the units’ personal officer safety/soldier safety above all else.
Guest:
@stephensemler
Hosts:
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
We discuss the sleazy (aka illegal) tactic
@NinaTurner
's opponent Shontel Brown is using to work with SuperPACs.
"Red-boxing" is hinting to SuperPACs via a website how to help (coordinating is illegal).
She literally put the attack points against Nina in a big red box. 😡
These things have actual real world consequences. Imagine if RGB had been under a critical microscope for comments like these. She might have been under pressure to actually step aside before dying & losing the seat.
Without a 4th Estate, w/o truth, we don’t have a democracy.
Our first regular weekend show was scheduled for this Sunday. Unfortunately, Pat had to fly to Utah to say goodbye to a friend before she passes. We'll still have our regular Wednesday show. Thanks for understanding. ❤️
@PatTheSocialist
@leilacleigh
Ukraine War of Propaganda
"Zelensky's Jewish so he can’t be anti-Semitic." Belonging to a group doesn't mean you can’t also enable the persecution of that group.
Media's dishonesty about Ukraine's corruption & inability to win this war betrays the fear of the truth coming out
We need to call out the corruption of a system that persists precisely because so many actors defer to it. Every journalist who ever quotes Nancy Pelosi w/o observing the chasm between her rhetoric and the reality of her policy record.
@ShahidForChange
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
They’re not even trying to win their Party’s power anymore.
Even if you’re out of power, you will be rewarded because you kept the status quo alive.
There’s no incentive to be responsive to their voters.
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
"We're family. You're fired."
Join
@PatTheBerner
&
@leilacleigh
now (5pmPST/8pmEST) as we discuss ongoing strikes, news of the week, and the state of affairs in our "democracy" with
@ProudSocialist
We'll also have fun with our new Hash It Out segment!
LIVE NOW!
Reports surface that Debra Messing is frustrated by disastrous Biden admin -- perfect time to remind everyone that we on Left were "right about everything" & we won't be able to "just vote" our way out of this.
Guest:
@RonPlacone
“You can’t just tell people to get over their institutional distrust. We have tens of millions of people in our country who are uninsured or underinsured. They don’t have a relationship with a doctor they trust.”
co-hosts
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
#WeDemandM4ANow
#M4M4ALL
@andrewperezdc
on IRA
When the oil industry celebrates your bill, that’s a red flag.
Bernie tried to get popular amendments added to the bill, but was shamed by his party.
There’s party unity when Dems dunk on the Left, but when it comes to private equity, it’s go with God.
No universal healthcare
500 Covid deaths/day
No Living wage
500k homeless
WW3 w/2 different countries looms
Priority of Congress: denounce the "Horrors" of Socialism.
On this, both corrupt corporate Parties can agree.
Capitalism is a death cult
Watching fringe Right leverage power to extract concessions from Repub leadership should remind everyone that "Squad" squandered their opportunity 2 years ago.
Force the Vote is an extremely effective strategy for those willing to use it.
Tonight @ 5pmPST
The US is in decline. We need our "reps" to Bring the Ruckus!
The economy, food insecurity, housing, healthcare, gun control, wars...
Who will fight for the policies that got them elected?
Guest: Green Party Candidate
@DelilahforTexas
LIVE NOW!
US successfully convinced citizens we're country of 330 million rugged individuals.
No safety net
No healthcare
No living wage
No regulations
Pull yourself up by bootstraps, use your tools, glory in lower life expectancy!
Time 4 stiff drink!
Covid minimizers put on air of anti-establishment/anti-Big Pharma, when in reality, they're aligning themselves with the billionaire class, shepherding people back to work even when it means mass sickness & death, nothing gets in the way of almighty dollar
70% Dems don't want Biden
No M4All
No Cancel Student Debt
⬆️oil drilling
⬆️deportations
⬆️kids in cages
⬆️$ to Cops
⬆️$ to Military
⬆️Covid deaths
But somehow Dems already blaming Cornel West & 3rd party voters for Biden's impending loss
US "democracy"
WHO SAID IT, RED or BLUE?
"You can't have a President who says 'Believe Science,' but that he would veto Medicare for All."
"Everything media says about Trump is right. But what they don’t do is show you the same shit happening on the Democratic side."
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
Organizers behind the convoy are Far Right actors & Repub Think Tanks. You can’t be responsible for all supporters, but you are responsible for your major funders.
These organizers are not pro-union, pro-labor, or pro-worker safety.
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
Fetterman, who ran as Progressive, has gone full genocide enthusiast, labeling 80% of Dems who want ceasefire as Trump MAGA supporters
What's the political system called where leaders don't represent their constituents?
Sure as hell isn't a democracy
The Dem strategy of ordering us to settle for crumbs will never be enough to combat climate disaster.
Will being just slightly better than Republicans carry them across the finish line at midterms?
How much will that matter when the survival of humanity is literally at stake?
Dems and Repubs are on the same team.
Dems hide behind tradition of norms. That argument is trash.
Dems aren’t cowards; they’re getting exactly what they want.
The media isn’t doing their jobs— they’re letting Dems get away with it.
Co-hosts:
@PatTheBerner
&
@leilacleigh
5pmPST/8pmEST
A majority of Americans want:
Ceasefire
Medicare for All
Free College Tuition
Legalize Weed
Living Wage
Green New Deal
$ out of politics
We don't have a democracy
The only way to be heard is to disrupt the system
Neutral arbiter of truth?
WaPo’s Kessler implied the horrific story of a 10 year-old rape victim was “too good to be true”.
The story has been proven true; Kessler's just moved on without an apology; his piece is still up.
It’s really disturbing.
@andrewperezdc
of
@LeverNews
Excited to welcome
@WaitingOnBiden
to our show tomorrow!
One of the most reliable sources for highlighting the failures of the Biden admin, this account tracks how “nothing would fundamentally change.”
Bad things are still bad when Dems do them.
Rorschach Test: What do you see when you look at the US Covid Map?
A pandemic of the unvaccinated or a failed government?
Co-hosts:
@PatTheBerner
&
@leilacleigh
Green Lantern Theory excuse
Dem voters are propagandized to believe there’s no power in Presidency when it’s a Democrat. When Trump is President, he’s most powerful, evil fascist, able to do everything; when we have Dem majority & WH, we can’t do a single thing.
@WaitingOnBiden
Unbelievable. We give more accurate medical advice than our corrupt
@cdc
and we’re punished for it.
Telling people to get vaccinated AND wear a mask is why
@YouTube
is removing our content.
Any
#COVIDIsAirborne
doctors care to weigh in?
#CovidIsNotOver
As a shock to absolutely no one with a brain, Biden is using this manufactured debt ceiling crisis, which he could have averted during the first 2 years of his regime, to cut the social spending programs which he’s been threatening to decimate for 40 years
LIVE NOW!
SEP Pres ticket
@jkishore
@jerrywhiteSEP
join to discuss their vision for US & path forward for movement of int'l working class solidarity
Reaction to Jonathan Glazer's Oscars speech
WHO downgrades Covid to BSL-2
Biden fully embraces MAGA
TUESDAY SHOW THIS WEEK! 5pmPST/8pmEST
.
@DrJillStein
joins to discuss Green Party Pres run, campaigning w/platform centered on people, planet, & peace
w/ historically unpopular major Biden v Trump, is this year 3rd Party breaks through corrupt duopoly?
If you don't think we're still in a pandemic, you might want to check your news sources.
Join us live every Wednesday at 5 PST for an honest lefty boozy news show that doesn't hide the truth from our viewers.
Mass shootings, crime, homelessness are blamed on mental illness, but we must address root problems that cause these horrific outcomes.
People are treated as cogs in machine that exists to solely to enrich the oligarchy.
The sickness is Capitalism.
1-2k people die each day, ¼ of whom are fully vaxxed.
The death ticker went away when Biden won. They want us back to work.
A month ago, they were canceling Joe Rogan for talking about Covid like this, but now it’s sanctioned by the people in power.
@PatTheBerner
@leilacleigh
Tonight 5pmPST/8pmEST Reports surface that Debra Messing is frustrated by disastrous Biden admin -- perfect time to remind everyone that we on Left were "right about everything" & we won't be able to "just vote" our way out of this.
Guest:
@RonPlacone
"We all know there’s almost no air between Democrats & Republicans when it comes to serving their corporate donors."
“At the end of the day, we can all have good intentions. But what did you do?”
“Midterms are gonna be rough.”
Hosts
@leilacleigh
@PatTheBerner
@ReadeAlexandra
Even Kamala Harris' fiercest supporters are voicing their concerns over her incompetence.
Dem elite had anointed Kamala as the next in line, but there's no dressing up her embarrassingly low poll numbers and her cringe-inducing appearances.
"I’m eager to encourage the Press to show up for work.
The only way to hold accountable career politicians…is not just to critique the incumbents, but also to expose and platform the alternatives."
Guest:
@ShahidForChange
@PatTheBerner
&
@leilacleigh
Strike-breaker Biden sent workers back on job against their will, despite warnings about dangerous, inhumane conditions. Our only hope to fight corrupt US oligarchy is to build multi-ethnic coalition of working class. Bring this country to its knees.
LIVE NOW!
Genocide. Corruption. Economic despair. Mass sickness & death...all happening under "Lesser Evil" Joe Biden
Dems offer no real alternative to Trump. Just more of the same sh!t
Pull up a shovel
& as many drinks as possible
Let's dig in!
LIVE SHOW - NOW!
Many on the Left are screaming WTF? this week as we try to survive our own version of The Hunger Games.
Grab a drink & join
@PatTheBerner
&
@leilacleigh
to discuss AOC, Nina Turner, Nicki Minaj, Gavin Newsom, Norm Macdonald, and more.
Live NOW!
Biden ends Covid State of Emergency in latest blow by admin which has overseen mass infection & death, growing economic instability, more police killings, train bombs derailing, refusal to talk peace w/Ukraine & Russia, & rising fascism
“Bipartisanship just means that the fancy people in Congress are reaching across the aisle to fvck us all.”
“If the Democrats aren’t going to bring
#MedicareforAll
up for a vote during a global pandemic, how are we ever going to get it?”
Co-hosts:
@PatTheBerner
&
@leilacleigh
Let's hope 2023 is the year we can finally put the myth of "good" Billionaire to rest.
No one earns $1B. They steal it from labor of others, while also ravaging natural resources.
Every billionaire is a policy failure
@leilacleigh
@PatTheBerner
This could be our Green New Deal Moon Shot to get us off fossil fuels. Instead Biden asks working people to sacrifice & pay more @ pump because he’s never going to stand up to our own oligarchs whose profits have risen astronomically since way before Russia’s invasion.
LIVE NOW!
Biden, most powerful leader of most powerful country in history, funds/endorses genocide of Palestinians
Clearly healthcare, living wage, & fighting climate devastation are not priorities
Social murder is only agenda item Biden supports
LIVE NOW!!
"F@#% Them Kids!" - Join
@PatTheBerner
&
@leilacleigh
to discuss Biden admin's newest Covid strategy, Democracy in Danger, teachers' strikes, labor unions, January 6th showtime, & Dick Cheney, the newest member of the
#resistance
.
Live NOW!
4 More Years?
Historically unpopular Biden running on:
unconditional support for Israel's genocide of Palestinians
2M Covid infections/day
homelessness up 12%
Worst of the Week: Epstein, Ackman, Clinton, Dershowitz, Mossad
LIVE NOW!
Amidst Climate disasters, Covid, economic despair, hope emerges:
Dr. Cornel West to run for President w/Green Party
Unions grow, strikes work!
Rylee Haught of
@ClimateDefiance
joins to talk group's strategy to disrupt our evil system