Photography Assignment
Submitted by stevej on Sat, 07/30/2016 - 12:03pm
Assignment - getting out of the comfort zone
Diaries
This is a Thing now -- "Democratic" Free Speech Zones
Submitted by jamess on Sat, 07/30/2016 - 10:57am“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.”
― Pat Miller, Willfully Ignorant -- goodreads.com
A Thank You Note to C99
Submitted by Steven D on Sat, 07/30/2016 - 10:11amBear with me for a minute.
I want to acknowledge caucus99percent as a special place, an online community that all of us are fortunate to have discovered and, for many of us, to join as members.
Hillary Can't Beat Trump Without The Progressive Vote
Submitted by capforfun on Sat, 07/30/2016 - 9:28amSo let us, as a movement, extract binding commitments for our support. Of course in order for this to work we can not bluff, we need to be committed to either vote Jill Stein or not vote if she ignores us and yes if necessary be willing to throw the election to Trump.
Bernie Actually Won, Protests Rock DNC & more - Lee Camp and RedActed Tonight's special episiode
Submitted by Alphalop on Sat, 07/30/2016 - 9:02amLee Camp, in his usual excellent style lays out the truth about what happened at the DNC, The Election Fraud Report from Election Justice breakdown and a new Turn your Bern.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0v9tvIYpfU]
Share your thoughts below on what Lee had to say below, he sure introduced plenty of topics to talk about.
The Evidence Mounts: Democratic Party IS The New GOP
Submitted by neoconned on Sat, 07/30/2016 - 8:49am(Paraphrasing Lili Von Shtupp) "Is it twoo that you people have ... dwifted? [Sounds of political camouflage being dishevelled] It's TWOO! It's TWOO!"
It takes a certain kind of privilege to not vote for Hillary
Submitted by BayAreaLefty on Sat, 07/30/2016 - 8:00amThis is an argument we're going to hear for the next several weeks or few months as the general election campaign progresses. The implied (or sometimes explicitly stated; see LoF) privilege is that of a white male. Frequently "affluent" or some variation will also be included.
Open Sesame 07/30/16
Submitted by hecate on Sat, 07/30/2016 - 5:38am
Election days, come and go. But the struggle of the people, to create a government which represents all of us, and not just the one percent—a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial, and environmental justice—that struggle continues. And I look forward, to being part of that struggle, with you.
—Bernard Sanders
I thought that was a good speech. I think it would have been a better speech, without all that lauding ladled onto The Mad Bomber. But then, it wasn't my speech.
I have never agreed with The Cranky Brooklyn Deli Man, on everything. To turn it around: the Deli Man, he does not believe, everything that I believe. But then again, neither does anyone else on the planet.
I think the Deli Man, he is a 
good man. And I think he meant it, when he said:
I understand, that many people, here, in this convention hall, and around the country, are disappointed, about the final results of the nominating process.
I think it's fair to say, that no one is more disappointed, than I am.
The Deli Man, he has now made a Finding. And from that, he has reached a Conclusion. The Finding, it is this:
The Hairball is a bully and a demagogue. The Hairball has made bigotry and hatred the cornerstone of his campaign.
In objective Reality, every word of that is True.
The Deli Man's Conclusion, however, after having made this Finding, it is that people should then vote for The Mad Bomber, to be the president.
I think the Deli Man, he has the right, to come to this Conclusion. If he wants to. But I also think, that just because that is his Conclusion, that doesn't mean that everybody else, has to Conclude so, too.
It is kinda like when the Science Men, they dig up a bone. They all look at it, and then all agree on the Finding: this is a bone. But then come the Conclusions. "This bone, it is from an elephant," pronounces the first Science Man. "Actually," asserts the second Science Man, "it is from a donkey." "It is clear that this bone, it is a Fringe event," propounds the third Science Man. And the fourth Science Man, he Concludes: "This bone does not really exist."
And so it goes. As they say: other voices, other rooms. And all that.
This is maybe not so far from the truth
Submitted by LaFeminista on Sat, 07/30/2016 - 4:45amThe democrat's obnoxious but Insincere attacks on Ralph Nader for Gore's Loss & Bush's Victory, and why we don't give a shit
Submitted by FunLovingProgressive on Sat, 07/30/2016 - 3:43amIt was quite shameful how the Democrats and many liberals viciously piled on Ralph Nader for somehow causing GW Bush to become president in 2000. However they refused to or ignored their own shortcomings that might have caused them to lose. Subsequent events have shown that the Democrats were being hypocrites in their criticism because they themselves have shown not to care enough to learn any lesson and not repeat their own mistakes.
