#no labels

[robertreich]

No Labels Isn't What It Claims to Be

The “No Labels” Party is not what it pretends to be. It’s a front group for Donald Trump.

Now I understand, if you’re sick of the two major parties, you might be intrigued by a party that claims to be a “common sense” alternative that finds the middle ground.

But if you or anyone in your life is planning to vote for No Labels — or any third party — in 2024, please watch and share this video first.

Here are three things you need to know.

First, No Labels is a dark money group with secret far-right donors. Investigative reporting has revealed that they include many of the same Republican donors who have pumped huge sums of money into electing candidates like Trump and Ron DeSantis. They also include the rightwing billionaire Harlan Crow, who spent years secretly treating Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to a lifestyle of the rich and famous.

If the No Labels Party is backed by Trump donors, in an election where Trump is on the ballot, there’s actually a label we should give to “No Labels.” Clearly, they’re a pro-Trump group.

Second, the premise No Labels is based on — that Donald Trump and President Biden are at equally extreme ends of the political spectrum — is preposterous.

Trump has been impeached twice, found by a jury to have committed sexual assault, is facing 91 criminal charges in four separate cases — two of them in connection with an attempt to effectively end American democracy.

There is no “equally extreme” candidate as Trump!

Finally, the structure of the Electoral College means that as a practical matter, a third party only draws votes away from whichever major party candidate is closest to it. No third party candidate has ever won a presidential election.

And in this particular election, when one of the major parties is putting up a candidate who threatens democracy itself, we cannot take the risk.

Donald Trump has already tried to overturn one election and suggested suspending the Constitution to maintain power. It is no exaggeration to say that if he takes the White House again, there may not ever be another free and fair election.

Democracy won by a whisker in the last presidential election. Just 44,000 votes in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin — less than one tenth of 1 percent of the total votes cast nationwide — were the difference between the Biden presidency and a tie in the Electoral College that would have thrown the election to the House of Representatives, and hence to Trump.

If candidates from No Labels— or any other third party, like the Green Party or the Libertarian Party —  peel off just a fraction of the anti-Trump vote from Biden, while Trump voters stay loyal to him, Trump could win the top five swing states comfortably and return to the Oval Office. And No Labels’ own polling shows they would do just that!

Let me be absolutely clear. Third-party groups like No Labels are in effect front groups for Trump in 2024, and should be treated as such.

The supposed “centrism” No Labels touts is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and fascism.

Please share this video and spread the word.

#youtube #politics #Donald Trump #Joe Biden #No Labels #election #video #videos

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Shenker-Osorio says the left’s enemy isn’t the right, it’s cynicism. The problem isn’t that authoritarians want to erase the division between church and state, or take away our right to control our bodies. The problem is that this minority can get away with these unpopular proposals because the people who disagree with them think nothing can be done to stop them. For Shenker-Osorio, the tonic for this is to switch from the negative framing (“abolish ICE”) to positive ones: “respect all families.” Rather than saying “end the climate emergency,” she wants us to call for “ensuring clean, safe air to breathe and water to drink.” When the right says they want to cut taxes to improve the economy, we counter with, “we’ll raise wages and increase consumption, which is better for the economy.” Shenker-Osorio proposes a three-step method for changing minds. First, identify a shared value (“people who work for living ought to earn a living”). Move on to a problem (“our divisions distract us while rich people pick our pockets and hand the spoils to their corporate cronies”). And then, the solution: “rewrite the rules so that the wealthiest few pay what they owe and all of us have what we need for generations to come.”

-Pizzaburgers: “Everybody hates this idea, so it must be great”

#us politics #manchin-collins 2024 #no labels #problem solvers caucus #pizzaburgers #centrism #anat shenker-osorio

[mrmaxdragonx3]

I feel like we can all agree that labels can either bring people comfort or make people feel like they are being put into boxes. So on that note, I wish you all a good day, and I hope you find comfort with yourselves whether or not you identify with a label.

#positivity #lgbtq #aromantic #asexual #aroace #gay #bisexual #lesbian #pansexual #questioning #nonbinary #queer #queer identity #transgender #no labels #unlabeled #unlabled sexuality #unlabeled gender #lgbtqiia+ #lgbt pride #lgbt #lgbtlove #lgbt positivity

[stuffforme2]

Some people find comfort in labels and some don't.

Some people enjoy using labels like bisexual, Homosexual, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, lesbian, etc.

And others prefer to just say they like women or they like men. They like both or none or like both but not romantically or not sexually or don't like anyone at all.

You don't need to have a label and you don't need to not have a label. It's what makes you comfortable that matters not what makes others comfortable.

#alice oseman #heartstopper #hstv #hstv s2 #school suuuucks #sexuality #homosexual #Lesbian #bisexual #pansexual #asexual #aromantic #my labels #labels #no labels #love

[odinsblog]

False Equivalence

Why does the mainstream media keep depicting lunatic-right Republicans and normal Democrats as equidistant from the center?

With the final passage of the debt ceiling deal, Democrats got off easier than one might have expected, given that it was a deal between a mainstream Democratic president and a Republican House in thrall to the lunatic far right. In drastic contrast to the scorched-earth budget bill initially passed by the Republican-controlled House, the cuts were about par for the course in a divided government; and they spare the country a repeat of this debt-hostage ordeal for two years.

However, much of the media played the agreement as a compromise between two equal extremes. The New York Times story about the House passage of the deal included this astonishing sentence: "With both far-right and hard-left lawmakers in revolt over the deal, it fell to a bipartisan coalition powered by Democrats to push the bill over the finish line, throwing their support behind the compromise in an effort to break the fiscal stalemate that had gripped Washington for weeks."

Think about that for a moment. There is no doubt that Matt Gaetz, Elise Stefanik, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar et al. are far-right by any definition, as white supremacists, Christian nationalists, election deniers, and nihilists on fiscal policy.

But no Democrats in the House can fairly be described as hard left. Those who voted against the deal included moderate liberals such as Joaquin Castro, mainstream progressives like Rosa DeLauro and Jan Schakowsky, as well as self-described democratic socialists including Cori Bush and AOC. But none of them are "hard left," which suggests anti-democratic, any more than Franklin Roosevelt was hard left.

The Times coverage reinforces a narrative of false equivalence that the media keeps repeating, with lazy catchphrases like "partisan bickering." It also plays into the hands of corrupt No Labels and Third Way types, who promote the idea that the best course for the republic is to split the difference between neofascists and a normal mainstream Democratic Party and president.

Big media, obsessed as it is with the appearance of fair and balanced coverage, took years to give itself permission to accurately describe Donald Trump with the impolite word "liar." But its treatment of the two parties as in any sense symmetrical is far more insidious than using euphemisms to characterize Trump’s lies.

Our friend Peter Dreier, whose observations inspired this post, points out that by any reasonable definition, "even the most left-oriented Democrats (AOC, Bush, Bowman, Raskin, Jayapal) are not extremists. They are shades of social democrats. They are pro-union, pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-LGBT equality, pro-Green New Deal, pro-progressive taxation. But the most right-wing Republicans are extremists and reactionaries."

(continue reading)

#politics #false equivalencies #false narratives #media bias #both sides journalism #republicans #the media is complicit #false neutrality #third way #no labels #3rd way

[nodynasty4us]

From the March 4, 2024 article:

Donors to No Labels are starting to fear that the third-party group missed its window for launching a much-hyped presidential bid and are questioning whether to make future financial commitments to the organization.

Those fears have intensified after two high-profile No Labels candidate targets — former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat — passed on the chance to run for president, and as the party’s planned April presidential nominating convention approaches without a clear ticket in place.

“No Labels just missed one heck of an opportunity to potentially be viable, and now I don’t know that they can be viable,” said Jim Teague, the CEO of a Texas oil and gas company and a No Labels donor. “I don’t know who they can possibly get to run that would generate excitement that Joe Manchin would have generated,” he said, adding that it’s “pretty doubtful” he will donate to the organization in the future.

#no labels #2024 #featured

[theplasticdusk]

labels can be overwhelming. let’s just all agree that it’s okay not be forced to label ourselves or explain how we feel to everyone. you don’t own anybody anything🫶🏻just be you

#aroace #ace post #asexual #ace pride #asexuality #ace memes #aroace positivity #aro pride #aromantic #aspec #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #labels #no labels #queer

[sweet-ladys-things]

I was running out of blinkie ideas so I made some for former antis!

I made some for those who don't like labels either

And the just regular proshipper blinkies

#🐇💕 #i ship what I want #no labels #former anti #proship safe #proshippers #proship positivity #proship #proshipping #anti anti #ship and let ship #proshippers please interact #pro selfship #pro shipping #🍖🌈 #⚰️🕊 #pro ship safe #proship blinkies #blinkies

[johnnygoth]

#come2me #johnny goth #music #alternative #goth #acoustic #indie #no labels #SoundCloud

[tkrr]

So, long story short:

Taylor is out as queer. After the GLAAD IG picture stack, you can’t argue that she isn’t. The implication of her being the only “straight” person in a spread of out queer people is clear. Hetlors need to take several seats.

However, in doing it so low-key, it’s clear she’s also chosen the “no labels” route a la Harry Styles; we know Harry isn’t straight, but he’s not going to be specific about it. (Given that there’s no obvious reason to question his former relationship with Olivia Wilde, I’d go with bi or pan, but…)

Whatever is or isn’t going on with Travis Kelce (it didn’t look like a date to me; they could be getting acquainted as friends), it’s clear that Taylor is fine with being known as queer, but is not ready to spell it out. Which is fair; given what she’s shown of her personality to the world, it’s entirely understandable that she might be afraid to get too specific. Maybe she is gay. Maybe she’s some shade of bi. At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is that it’s time to admit that she’s not The Straightest Woman In The World by any stretch of the imagination.

#taylor swift #gaylor swift #gaylor #glaad #at this point hetlors are just in denial #no labels #bi or les #she isn’t telling #yet

[sunflowerfl]

This is something that I wanted to share since not a lot of players talk about sexuality, homosexuality in sports especially not people who are religious like Giroud.

These are Olivier's interview extracts about the subject over the years :

In 2012, he was the first French football player ever to do a front cover for a French gay magazine.

"For me this magazine is like any other, I don't make a difference."

Extract from an interview where he was asked about homosexuality in sports and the coming out of a German football player in 2018 :

"I realised it is impossible for a professional football player to come out."

"There is still a lot of work to be done in football to accept openly gay players, that's an understatement"

2019

"If I was, I don't think I would say it, it's too hard"

It's a taboo subject in changing rooms, both in football and in rugby."

Not every player has to show support for people in the community but as more players come out, I find important to highlight people who do show support especially when they're more of a high profile person in the sport.

#want to make it clear this doesn't have anything to do with gimbappe or kylian just using the tags so people don't miss this post #gimbappe #olivier giroud #giroud #kylian mbappe #football #sports #bisexual #gay #unlabeled #no labels #be respectful in the replies if you want to talk about the subject 😉 #still some CRUMBS in my pocket for the future need some time to post tho

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The job of a convincer is to persuade the pizza eaters to go for the burger. For this, Shenker-Osorio says we should borrow from the right, whose most visible avatars deliberately set out to alienate their unpersuadable opponents. When far right figures say grotesque, unhinged things about “groomers” or “Jewish space lasers” or whatever, they’re trying to trick their opponents into repeating the statement: “Can you believe these bozos want to give teachers AR-15s?” Getting your opponents to repeat your message increases the chance that it will be heard by someone who finds it persuasive and switches from burgers to pizza. By this logic, the left increases its chances of taking power by saying bold things that trigger conservative Red Scare paranoiacs and religious maniacs. When they run around and say, “The left wants to take away your assault rifles, making housing and college free, and replace your 401(k) with a guaranteed pension,” they do our work for us.

-Pizzaburgers: “Everybody hates this idea, so it must be great”

#us politics #manchin-collins 2024 #no labels #problem solvers caucus #pizzaburgers #centrism #anat shenker-osorio

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

The No Labels party is another Republikkkan trick to siphon votes away from Biden.

#no labels #republican assholes

[sherikaterry]

Y'all have annoyed me already. REBLOGGING MY PIC = REPORTED AS SPAM & BLOCKED

#black lesbian love #qwoc selfies #black women #black qwoc #qwoc #black wlwoc #black lesbian #black wlw #no labels #no label lesbian #stud lesbian #lesbian stud #short locs #locs #dreadlocks #masc lesbians #masc lesbian #femme lesbians #black femme #femme4masc #black lesbians #black tumblr #femme lesbian #blackfemmes

[nodynasty4us]

Given the stated goal of No Labels, this makes no sense. They're going to offer a centrist alternative if the far-right Trump is on the ballot, but not if the farther-right DeSantis is? This would seem to suggest that the real goal of the organization is to stop Trump from becoming president. Except that it's abundantly clear that a No Labels candidate would siphon far more votes from Joe Biden than they would from Donald Trump. Anyone who is planning to vote for Trump is going to vote for Trump. It's centrists and anti-Trump Republicans who are going to avail themselves of a No Labels candidate, since that would allow them to vote against Trump without having to vote for Biden. And this brings us to what is clearly the real goal of No Labels. They want to get their foot in the door of presidential politics, and to use this election as a springboard to bigger and better things they envision in the future. But Trump is the only opponent who is hated enough for them to fundraise off of. This is the only scenario in which it makes sense to run against Trump, but not against DeSantis. That means that like a Jill Stein in 2016 or a Ralph Nader in 2000, the No Labels folks are willing to help elect a president they clearly consider to be problematic in service of their own agenda.

Electoral-vote.com

#no labels #nobody #donald trump #featured

[strawberrus0da]

Oh to be non-partnering and wish to platonically share a bed with someone

#rambling into the void #im like a ​kid asking to sleep in their parents bed for the night #except it’s with an imaginary roommate that i’d ask if i can sleep in their room #or im already in there and i fall asleep while they’re watching tv #there alongside the comfort and companionship of another human being #no labels #no strings attached #no getting kicked out after half an hour #idk im dumb #sorry #aromantic #asexual #aromatic asexual #aroace #non partnering