So where is the nearest "We hate Trump because he's not a (D)"

protest?

I await the opportunity to take my selfie next to the sea of signs saying "keep the sequester," "pass the TPP," "drone more Yemenis," "fight Russia," "prosecute whistleblowers," and "Goldman Sachs doesn't deserve an (R) President" (among other things)...

I will be thoroughly enjoying the mass outrage at the possibility that President Donald Trump, who hasn't done anything yet, will repeal our right to buy insurance at $2200/ year which we can't afford to use and which we're mostly buying to avoid an also-expensive mandate penalty. But I'll probably be enjoying it from the safety of my own home. This is like "Torches of Freedom" or something like that.

Oh and check out this expression of white-hot rage. It expresses all you need to know about politics: (D) good, (R) bad, and the far left? Fkn retarded.

You? Where will you be?

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          I repent my wayward ways, and I promise to be a good Democrat from now on. I can not deny the logic of, "Every politician takes corporate money because that’s the cost of doing business in American politics · · ·" how could I have been so stupid as to not understand this basic truth.

          Bowing and scraping as I exit stage right.

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@PriceRip someone whose rage far exceeds quota.

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The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

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@UntimelyRippd

In the town where they invented the sundae...

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@boriscleto mybe gelatos, requiring carding. I avoid ice creams now. My grocery folk recognize me but have to card now. My liquor store does not require a card.I heart NY!

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I guess I'll be fkn retarded as I'll never be an (R) or (D).
Never.
Proud to call myself far left.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

No time to go to or watch the circus acts. I read some of the the white hot rage rant you linked to but it's just the same old shit you can read at top. The person that wrote it is probably a poster there as well, if he isn't he should be cuz he would fit right in. but then what do I know I'm just a fkn retard.

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The guy totally misses the point of the anger people have towards Booker.
Sure Booker spoke out against Sessions. That's a no brainer, but that didn't hurt any of his donors or the elite class.
There's the difference.

But the large Bernie Bro/Zealot/Never Hillary cult made it clear that anyone who didn’t worship at the altar of Saint Bernie Sanders wasn’t a “real progressive” and therefore wasn’t worthy of their support unless they cleared an impossibly high bar. And they joined forces with an already established wing of far left purists for whom any Dem politician who rates less than 100% in their purity scale of select issues is a “neoliberal” and therefore justifies them to throw away their votes on crackpot third-party candidates so they can preen to everyone how “radical” or “revolutionary” they supposedly are and to try and shame people who consistently vote Democrat as ignorant and brainwashed sheeple.

Here it is again, the put down of the people who consider themselves leftist progressives. In my opinion, the people who consider themselves that are against the illegal wars, the things that Cass wrote above and letting bank CEOs escape prosecution after they committed deliberate fraud that caused unimaginable pain and suffering to millions of people all over the world when they lost their homes, probably most of their possessions and pensions that they needed to live on after working and paying into them for many years. Or decide that those same people's banks should be given up to $16 trillion fucking dollars while the people who lost their homes had to jump through hoops while trying to save their homes while those CEOs were telling their employees to screw them anyway.
True leftist progressives feel that people who live in countries that have the resources that the corporations want are just as entitled to their lives as they are.
People who think that the obama administration was scandal free are being willfully blind to what he did to people in this country with his economic cowardness and what he did to the people in the Middle East, Honduras, Ukraine and Africa.

So basically this douche bag is upset because I and others who thought that what Bill, Barry, Hillary and most democrats were neoliberal or neoneoconserevatives didn't vote for Hillary because she was going to continue to do the same things as Bill and Barry did.
Tuff. I have a conscience and it wouldn't let me vote for Hillary. I'm also proud to call myself far left.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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@snoopydawg The only reasonable response to such an article:
"Well, go on," Wolfe murmured. "I never respond to a statement containing two or more unsupported assumptions."

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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@snoopydawg Was he being paid by the buzzword?

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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Progressivism in America is confused, like Chris Christie looking at a full plate of salad. The battle lines have been redrawn, agendas have been reset, and it can be hard to tell who’s on our side anymore. 2016 made it abundantly clear that our noble desire for social justice has been seized and manipulated to force us to support corporate crony war hawks like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton; progressives who were reluctant to jump on board the Clinton train were threatened with the loss of Roe v. Wade, gay marriage and equal rights for all races. Many eventually succumbed to this psychopathic act of political bullying, and understandably so.

http://www.newslogue.com/debate/287/CaitlinJohnstone

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

Not because he's not a D, but because he won't be representing the 99%.
I suspect in a parallel world, I would be protesting Hillary as much as Trump over the next four years.
Trump's cabinet choices do not give me the confidence that I should just stay at home and shrug my shoulders.

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but it's focused entirely on Donald Trump now. They're working themselves up into a frenzy about it. Most of which is utterly devoid of introspection. Half the time they don't even know what they're so pissed off about. It's mostly a kind of inchoate fear mixed with resentful hostility. Could be they're against racism, or against Russia, or against sexism, or against the deplorables, or who knows what. But whatever it is they think Trump stands for, they're against it -- and they mean to make that fact known. Well whoop-de-do.

Me I will be hiding behind, or under if needs be, my desk. I want no part of this belligerent crowd. Nor do I want any part of the current neolib/neocon Deep State that eggs them on... all unawares as they seem to be, that such a bipartisan alliance even exists. They didn't get their gal elected, so to hell with an orderly transition of power. They don't like Trump or what he stands for, therefore he doesn't deserve to be president. So let's all us liberals screech and yowl and throw eggs at him. It's a great occasion for blowing off steam. Because the Center is right and the Right is wrong, as every faithful tv viewer has been instructed to believe. Never mind who owns the tv shows. As for the Left... well, the Left has abandoned the field of battle. Skedaddled more or less, or else been drowned out, so no need to worry about them.

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Over at TOP there's white-hot rage aplenty,
but it's focused entirely on Donald Trump now.

Rather than the folks it should be focused on: the DLC types (and their gazillionaire masters) who foisted Her Heinous on us rather than the Dem candidate who could have and would have mopped the floor with The Chump. Yes, that's typical TOP.

As for the Left... well, the Left has abandoned the field of battle. Skedaddled more or less, or else been drowned out, so no need to worry about them.

"Drowned out" is most accurate. We did not "skedaddle"; we were erased. Ginormous rallies for Sanders were categorically ignored while lackluster events supporting Her Heinous got hour after hour of traditional media coverage.

And we of the hard Left are still here, we're still queer, and we're still not going any fucking where. Regardless of what that sellout Sammy Leonard might "think".

Diablo

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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

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@thanatokephaloides @thanatokephaloides They also foisted Trump on us. A point that seems to be constantly flushed down the memory hole by Clintonites and some others.

It was Clinton 2016 and the DNC who instructed the media to participate in the "Pied Piper" strategy of "elevating" Trump's campaign, because he supposedly would represent a cakewalk for Hillary right to the White House. So the corporate press gave Trump more earned media than I have ever seen a candidate receive. Like a multimillion-dollar in-kind donation.

In campaign terms, this is roughly like standing over a blazing fire and pumping pure oxygen at it for several hours.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

... on my twitter feed are the women's march which is getting flack for not including Hillary as an honoree, and the LGBT dancing near the house of VP Handmaid's Tale.

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-- Virtually, etc. B)

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@BruceMcF Good. And why should it? It's not about Her, as much as She would like it to be.

Besides, she'll be busy at the inauguration. Funny, that. /s

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Yeah that medium article was a disaster.

So tired of hearing people who have no concrete principles or values try to tell others what they should stand for.

I'm sorry you don't find it wrong the endless slaughter of innocent civilians done by Democrats or Republicans...guess I'm a Purist (tm)

I'm sorry you don't find our toxic capitalist system oppressing and depriving millions upon millions in this country of resources they need to survive... guess I'm a Purist (tm)

I'm sorry you don't find the continual destruction of our environment a massive problem, and continually push forward things such as fracking... guess I'm a Purist (tm)

I mean hell let's go farther. Why vote Democrat at all according to those who whine about Purity? I mean, imagine saying you're voting for a Republican instead and they go off on their rant...couldn't you just then say "hey stop being a purist, you have to compromise". Why vote Democrat at all then if you have no values to begin with? If your values are so utterly negotiable why the fuck do you care how someone else votes? Definitely the top of my list of things I hated about this election cycle.

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@riverlover ROTFLMAO

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

seats at the dismantling of what remains of the american new deal. Obama was no FDR, that doesn't mean Trump is.

It's a great shame and a great and tangible loss, as we watch congress line up the policy and legislation required to make this monstrous change that will enable their buddies to steal public assets as the gubmint welshes on the ss trustfund bonds (recall, that's trump's schtick, renegotiating the terms of his debt, was one of his campaign promises). It's also true it would have been forestalled for a while had her been elected.

The reality is the democrats ran a crap candidate who pulled out a popular win against a republican crap candidate who unexpectedly pulled out the EC win. What more does anyone need to see before it dawns on them that our democracy had already been lost before these crap candidates were paraded out in front of us voters to choose between? How is it that neither major party could find a candidate who was genuinely fit to be potus? But with the installation of the gotp in the congress and the executive, tptb can rest and enjoy the show in lieu of the necessity of showing their hands as they had to do while Obama was potus.

I've written before that in 2007-8 I was a Hillbot, but in 2016 rejected her, as I rejected the dynastic ambitions of the Bush-Clinton cabal. Today, as I grieve the likely loss of what remains of the new deal (meaning, social security for the disabled and the elderly, medicare and medicaid healthcare programs and access to healthcare, public education, environmental protections, reproductive rights, minoritys' right not to be assaulted and/or killed for the amusement of the majority, and worker protections) I am none-the-less grateful that her is not being inaugurated.

Now we all get to watch as the gotp congress installs a new dystopian nightmarish life for workers: they will show us just how nasty and brutish and (blessedly) short modern life can be.

But I disagree with your fundamental premise. imo it's appropriate to protest this turn of events. It's appropriate for people to finally make a stand against tptb, and against the rape-bully-kill-n-steal culture represented by the gop, as well as against the tacit complicity to that culture represented by the feckless dems. I'll join the local protest tomorrow.

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@annominous we also need to be very aware of "Democratic" attempts to co-opt all that fear and loathing by making themselves look better. I can't help but feel that Shillary and her minions told Trump to "go for it," hack away at that social safety net, get it completely obliterated and maybe THEN we can come back and "save" some small pittance of it and get elected again, the neo-liberal "consensus" will be saved! Why waste all that fear and grief if they can put it to good use for themselves?

Sad day today. If I could start drinking now I would.

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Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur

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that her and her minions have given tacit approval to destroy the social safety net?

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@annominous So they (the Dems) can "win" next time -- thereby keeping all power within control of the 1% while making some people feel like they're on "the right side."

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@WaterLily ty

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@annominous
Bill Clinton was the first to talk about privatizing social security. He was working on it when the Monica thing broke and distracted everything.

And then there is this from wikileaks: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/18/politics/presidential-debate-debt-economy/

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@gustogirl keep whining about Trump when the dems were already using a wrecking ball against the 99%?

Now, the whining is about his appointments because they are wealthy. BO served the wealthy well even though they weren't appointees. Oh, and some of Trump's appointees are from Wall Street!!! The horror!!! Just like BO's appointees and advisors (formal and informal)were from Wall Street.

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@gustogirl Thanks gg, your reply helped.

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@lizzyh7 I'm about to start drinking. Have the afternoon off (have NOT watched any of the coverage or been anywhere near social media), and a friend and I are going to grab a late lunch, a cocktail (maybe 2!) and a movie. Smile

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@lizzyh7 Certainly that's what they're doing. You have a good eye.

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--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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@annominous But have to wait for gall bladder to settle down now. But us scientist-trained should be pros at that? Evil eyebrows.

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@annominous Oh, they found one. They found him and then they purged his supporters from the party. And from the voter rolls generally. Then they convinced him, doesn't matter how, to run around the country being their moral alibi. Which worked on some of his supporters, and, apparently, didn't work on a lot more.

Given that a lot of his supporters were independents originally, I suppose it's not surprising that the standard party line didn't work on them, even delivered by him.

If his movement had really seen him as a saint, they would have lined up behind the Hillmeister when he told them to.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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@annominous
It's appropriate for people to finally make a stand against tptb, and against the rape-bully-kill-n-steal culture represented by the gop, as well as against the tacit complicity to that culture represented by the feckless dems.

The problem is--I don't believe that that's what these protests are about. I'd be curious, if a study were done, how many people at these protests would explain that they were here to protest the powers that be and both the parties that work for them. In any case, I'm pretty damned certain that, regardless of the protests' intent, that's not how they will be portrayed in the mainstream press, or over much of social media.

The closest we've come to the kind of protest you describe is Occupy.

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--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal Democrats talk in vague terms of how all the good things accomplished under Obama will be reversed under Trump, without talking specifics. Do they even know what these good things are themselves? Maybe the bright ones will look it up on the Obama Accomplishments website; Lilly Ledbetter or something. On the other hand, the great regression occurring under Obama is easily accessible to anyone.

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@Cassiodorus I can't for the life of me understand how the press always manages to interview the most incoherent people at these protests. Maybe they do pre-interviews and select the worst.

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@Cassiodorus They have to talk in vague terms, because otherwise they'd have to admit that they're protesting because they're mad that Hillary didn't win. Like that would have been so much better. That's the partisans. The others are probably just pissed at having been put through that shitshow of an "election," but they're directing all their ire at Trump because he's the one who won.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

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i see the word "purity" and i know i'm dealing with
someone whose rage far exceeds quota.

Or whose brains fall well short of it.

Wink

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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

in my city, military base city.

Show of force. Very noisy, scaring the birds.

edited to add:

Listening to djt's inauguration speech over the internet. He just rickrolled us all once again, as he vowed to "never ever let you down".

Plus, he promises "to eradicate terrorism from the face of the earth." "No room for prejudice". "We will be protected by god". "The time for empty talk is over, now arrives the hour of action."

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~annominous

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@annominous

Translated, "Gott mit uns" is "God with us," and was previously found embossed on German Wehrmacht belt buckles. It did them about as much good as will Trump's statement that, "We will be protected by god."

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@annominous ROTFLMAO!

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal

Yes, it surprised me that trump would rick roll us (the entire US !, the entire WORLD !) during his inaugural speech. imo absolute proof that the whole democratic process is nuthin but theater now. (Found on You_Tube posted by Shannon Carter whom I don't know).
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeaD_h2hvdE]

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@annominous PEEOTUS simply becomes PeeOTUS.

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,and maybe to race and gender, but never to principles and values.

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@gjohnsit

So 'purity' only applies to political parties, and maybe to race and gender, but never to principles and values.

And sugar.
And salt.
And heroin.
And cocaine.

Wink

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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

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is that the corporate Democrats will manage to find another pool of R-lites to lose elections across the country in 2018, thus ensuring an ultra-right drift of the US for the next decade or two. But Debbie Wasserman Schultz will remain.

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proposal for a Grand Bargain in speeches to Goldman Sachs, and on at least one college campus (that I know of).

As Republican Senator Rob Portman stated (at one of Pete Peterson's annual shindigs) about three years ago--85% of the B-S proposal has been passed piecemeal.

Bear in mind, Medicare has constantly undergone 'changes' which cost shift to the beneficiaries, a fact which we dutifully noted at EB. The only proposals which have not been enacted, are the radical cuts to Social Security, which were recommended in "The Moment Of Truth."

Don't forget, cuts to couples' Social Security benefits were passed in the Democratic-controlled Lame Duck Session in 2015--with majority Democratic Party vote, signed by a Dem President. We (my spouse and I) are not happy camper's--we'll eventually be affected by a loss [projected by experts] of between $50,000 and $60,000 dollars over our lifetime, as will millions of other American couples.

During the campaign, FSC basically spouted empty and vague platitudes--nothing more.

Mollie


"Every time I lose a dog, he takes a piece of my heart. Every new dog gifts me with a piece of his. Someday, my heart will be total dog, and maybe then I will be just as generous, loving, and forgiving."
____Author Unknown

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."--Will Rogers

“I believe in the redemptive powers of a dog’s love. It is in recognition of each dog’s potential to lift the human spirit and therefore–to change society for the better, that I fight to make sure every street dog has its day.”
--Stasha Wong, Secretary, Save Our Street Dogs (SOSD)

The SOSD Fantastic Four

Available For Adoption, Save Our Street Dogs, SOSD

Taro
Taro, SOSD

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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

@Unabashed Liberal they've been fudging the official inflation rates so that in real terms, we get poorer as we get older.

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to the Dem Party Leadership team (Bernie aside), and MSM reporting, says as much.

In 2018, Democrats have 10 Senate seats to defend in states that just voted for DT.

And, numerous articles are already speaking of 'O's' role in restructuring/rebuilding the DNC, which points to the fact that the Party will veer sharply to the right, not the left. (IMO)

Mollie


"Every time I lose a dog, he takes a piece of my heart. Every new dog gifts me with a piece of his. Someday, my heart will be total dog, and maybe then I will be just as generous, loving, and forgiving."
____Author Unknown

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."--Will Rogers

“I believe in the redemptive powers of a dog’s love. It is in recognition of each dog’s potential to lift the human spirit and therefore–to change society for the better, that I fight to make sure every street dog has its day.”
--Stasha Wong, Secretary, Save Our Street Dogs (SOSD)

The SOSD Fantastic Four

Available For Adoption, Save Our Street Dogs, SOSD

Taro
Taro, SOSD

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@Unabashed Liberal Too bad, so sad.
If Good Lord wanted them to have a political party, He'd have given them some principles and the gumption to defend them.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

@Unabashed Liberal I was so hoping BO would just disappear into the corporate world. How do we get rid of these parasites who have wrecked the dem party?

How can the actives in the dem party possibly believe that BO, Pelosi, HRC, BC, Shumer, etc., should be in leadership positions?

I got an ask yesterday from the DNC about renewing my 'membership' (I haven't given them $$ in years) -oh, we want to re-build, blah, blah - I responded, "Don’t make me laugh. You people destroyed the democratic party."

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The title alone makes zero sense.

ha. His LinkedIn profile states he is a camera assistant. I can't wait for his first feature length film. Well. I can wait.

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Apres Sans moi, le deluge.

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implemented a geometric mean formula into the CPI--which lowered the benefits of all federal transfer programs (Social Security, SSI, etc.) by approximately 2%.

Of course, 'O's' so-called Grand Bargain would have lowered the CPI by an additional 3%.

I not only expect Democrats to work with Repubs to accomplish this (cuts, via a new CPI formula), I believe that the corporatist Dems/conservadems will also push for the deepest cuts--such as, cutting the PIA of Social Security beneficiaries--which will greatly reduce their monthly stipend, raising the eligibility age, etc.

Personally, I'm not willing to give any politician a pass, when it comes to slashing (what's left of) our Social Safety Net.

Mollie


"Every time I lose a dog, he takes a piece of my heart. Every new dog gifts me with a piece of his. Someday, my heart will be total dog, and maybe then I will be just as generous, loving, and forgiving."
____Author Unknown

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."--Will Rogers

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Where are the pictures?

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John Maynard Keynes, 1930

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@Kurt from CMH it's raining cats and dogs and I am hiding indoors.

It would have been fun though!

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"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama

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I'll be listening to Amy Goodman, I shared her broadcast on my Facebook page.

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To thine own self be true.

riverlover's picture

@MarilynW Am a scientist, still learning about $$$ exchanges. Never an econ course in my life. Still learning. Wink

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

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Wall-to-wall Democrats, newly possessed of the clairvoyance that allows them to see the world for the next four years with an accuracy that would stun America's leading psychics, have decided to march, arm-in-arm, down the streets of Washington DC shouting: "We want the TPP! We want the TPP!" Meanwhile a cadre of hardened veterans of civil disobedience have chained themselves to the White House and have promised to leave only if more whistleblowers are prosecuted.

Haha, just kidding.

Here's a feed:

https://www.facebook.com/BuzzFeedNews/videos/1380841211936893/?hc_ref=NE...

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"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama

Politico revealed Hillary's choices for her cabinet if she were to be elected. Just a bunch of neoliberal free market corporatists.

When the first protests started right after results were known, puzzled me at least as to why the protesters were aggrieved that one republican beat another. After the Wikileaks revelations like her wanting Wall Street to regulate Wall Street, how could any first call her a centrist, and secondly a democrat.

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shaharazade's picture

I was feeling kind of guilty about not attending the Women's march tomorrow but as a nihilistic purist woman and a far lefty fucking re#*#d I have nothing to contribute. The main organizer of this Portland march is some kind of Hillbot/Puma and want's no other groups to be included. The scheduled Saturday labor march is separate and will meet up with the marching women after the pro-labor rally. I heard the labor organizer talking on local radio this morning and he did not sing Obama's praises.

Man that was one nasty illogical rant. Is it BBB?

My fb feed is filled with people mourning Obama and Joe's leaving as they were such classy psycho killers. What are the odds that Cory Booker,Chuck,Nancy or any of these Third Way Dems. will obstruct the worst evil ever? Will they put the prescribed remedies for abuse of power they took off the table during the Bush regime back? Hell no, then they would have no cover for their own stinking agenda of more bloody war, economic disparity and global 'oligarchical collectivism'.

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Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal's picture

@shaharazade Why would they obstruct what they just helped put into office?

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

shaharazade's picture

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal I was talking to all the Resist Trump people who still believe that the Demorat's are the answer and antidote for what's going on in this country and the world. All day I've heard what a great president Obomber was. He bombed Syria again on his way out the door. I was being snarky as these people seem oblivious to what the Democratic party is about. I saw a picture of the Clinton's hanging out with their buddy Bush at the inauguration. The article was about how well Hillary was taking being cheated out of her coronation.She has dignity and like Obama is classy.

How does it help to demonstrate against Trump and for the Democrat's? The Democratic are complicit. Yes of course why would they obstruct what they have put in office. I'm just tired of ordinary people of good spirit who believe in identity politics that offer nothing but power mad, symbolic figureheads who mean us all and the planet harm. They don't call this a duopoly for nothing. I hope that all of the people who are so rightfully disgusted by this election will open their eyes and take a good look at what the political party they have placed their trust in is about.

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@shaharazade Hi, Shaz.
It's more important now than ever before in my lifetime to seek out like-minded people. I'll be writing about this soon--though I'm damned if I'll hijack my own Open Thread a second week in a row! I'll just have to do two essays this week.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal
Here's to your health and warmth.
"We are now looking directly into the very best gangrene a democracy can buy."

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thanatokephaloides's picture

So the corporate press gave Trump more earned media than I have ever seen a candidate receive. Like a multimillion-dollar in-kind donation.

In campaign terms, this is roughly like standing over a blazing fire and pumping pure oxygen at it for several hours.

While pouring gasoline on it at the same time! Smile

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

@thanatokephaloides

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dfarrah

asterisk's picture

@dfarrah Or Unlearned media. When Trump strayed from the straight and narrow Truth, the unLearned Media never seemed to notice the difference.

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thanatokephaloides's picture

@dfarrah

It was unearned media.

And worth every penny......

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

jwa13's picture

I am the proud owner of a (pretty significant) pre-existing condition. With Obamacare, now that the Repugs have eliminated the Obamacare provision for State co-ops in my home state - Colorado - I pay about $800 PER MONTH (~ $10,000 per annum) for INSURANCE (NOT healthcare) coverage - coverage which provides me with a $5,000 deductible, PER ANNUM. What this means in real life is that on an annual basis, I will pay out $15,000 prior to receiving any but the most basic healthcare (e.g., "wellness checkups") at all. In the event that I suffer a major "incident", or recurrence of the "pre-existing condition", suicide looks like the best option to salvage remaining family members from financial destruction.

Which insurance bottom-feeder is offering this $2,200 annual premium? Perhaps I should check them out --

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When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said “How well he spoke”.
When Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said “Let us march”.

Cassiodorus's picture

@jwa13 @jwa13 and live in a major market (in my case southern California) to get the $2,200 deal -- and then you need to be paying it all on a wage around $25,000/ year. You probably wouldn't be able to afford the rent out here on the wage unless you were paying it to your parents and your parents purchased their property before the real estate inflation of the 1980s.

At any rate it's clear "Obamacare" has made us all poorer.

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"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama

hellinahandcart's picture

My mother used to say, "Never ask a liar a question."

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jwa13's picture

via credit card. The credit-card companies ALWAYS give you that day's exchange rate, and only take a minuscule exchange fee off the top.

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When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said “How well he spoke”.
When Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said “Let us march”.

hellinahandcart's picture

LOL!

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photo with the Dem Party shills who've set up his new media network. I suppose that is will be one of his 'tools' to keep the Dem Party, and the Party Leadership, under his wing--so he can take our country back! (snark intended)

Biggrin

('His,' in the sense that this media organization was set up on January 4, 2017--it includes 4 Dem insiders/shills, including Pfeiffer, one of his strategy and communications advisers, and two of O's speechwriters.)

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