I might have to tuck in tonight.

If Sanders can pull off CA, that'll be great. Take that AP!

I was sitting in Lizzy McCormack's, downtown Orlando Irish bar--not the best of ideas while TS Colin decided to rain and wind and lightning like crazy. Still there were people out, bellied up to the bar (including a woman I dated for two seconds...which was momentarily awkward).

The hockey game was on, as well as the soccer match replay...saw the news of Clinton allegedly clinching the nomination, and immediately hit Twitter and went on a drunk tweeting rampage. I tweet better when I'm buzzed, though the likes and retweets weren't as prolific as the one I had when I asked Andrew Cuomo why he was supporting an apartheid state after his executive order (out of the nearly ten thousand tweeps that saw the tweet, only one person actually DM'ed me to send an insult, which was not bad at all).

These people couldn't wait a freaking day to call it for Clinton. That really pisses me off. My Facebook feed was full of Sanders people that were just as angry, and the Clinton fans were silent or trying to keep things a bit calm. No football spiking, which I have to say was actually decent of them (one of my cousins is an obnoxious Clinton fan and she held her fire as well). The Democratic Party loyalist friends that I have were pitching the unity kumbaya thing. Too early for that, I think.

Cenk just went on about the Pam Bondi situation down here. She might be in trouble. Actually, she's in trouble. Which is a good thing. I so hope she gets busted.

I've got to get my hungover self up and head to the center of evil, Walmart--because it's the only place in the current suburbia hell that I live now that might have ice cube trays (it sucks not living downtown anymore). I'll be back off and on this thread.

for those of us on the east coast. I'm so torn between hunkering down here with a bottle of something, knowing full well that I have to be to work bright and early; or hunkering down with here a bottle of something and calling in to work in the morning. Either way, I know that tonight is going to be twice as long for those of us on the other side of the country watching for the results. Bern it up!! I have been invoking the FSM and any other entities who support the 99% - if Karma is listening, she's got some ass-kicking to commence!

that's probably going to be the worst news of the night.

these last 24 hrs, between the PR voter suppression debacle, the fraudulent AP and MSM lapdogs outright misrepresenting the nomination process and the looming very serious email scandal about to envelop HRC.

This guy's been pretty good lately, huh?

Facts: 1) Clinton does NOT have requisite pledged delegates for nomination. 2) superdels vote at convention. 3) @FBI investigation ongoing.

— David Shuster (@DavidShuster) June 7, 2016

While we wait for the results just wanted to drop this one out there for anyone who missed it today.

"The Foggy Bottom of Clinton’s Muddy Waters" by Nina Illingworth is one of the most intriguing insights into what might be going on behind the scenes right now in the Democratic Party and the various scenarios of how it may play out (thanks to caerus for bringing this to our attention). Involving Obama being in a tight spot regarding his legacy as it relates to a Clinton presidency. Had a 30-40 minute conversation with Bernie yesterday? After reading this long but very worthwhile piece my initial feeling about what the intent of that conversation could have been about changed. Appears the Obama administration might, instead of simply congratulating Bernie for running and asking him to back HRC, be something altogether different. As in, stick around Bernie; yours is the candidacy onto which we'd like to continue our (perceived) legacy, not an embarrassing, corrupt criminal that will make us look worse. What with all the similar campaign energy, new voter surge, massive rallies and outpouring of individual small donors ans volunteers.

Here are some nuggets among many:

You may, for the time being assume that I’m being hyperbolic if you like; but that isn’t going to do either one of us any fucking good when Trump absolutely destroys the least trusted American politician since Richard Nixon at the polls in November. We are close now, closer indeed than I literally ever thought even possible in this election cycle to seeing a narcissistic, emotionally unstable and openly mendacious, quasi-fascist billionaire winning the highest office in the land – by fucking default.

The simple truth is that Clinton is guilty, just as she has always been guilty and the only goddamn reason you haven’t heard about it is because mainstream, neoliberal media is both too fucking lazy to read documentation and too committed to the Imperialist cause – they’ve openly been campaigning for Hillary since at least last summer. There has literally never been any question of Clinton’s guilt in the mind of any neutral observer who’s actually read about the details involved in the case so far; the only real question has been “will President Obama risk his legacy by protecting Hillary from his own Attorney General?”

In order to truly understand why the fallout from Clinton’s email scandal is and will continue to be utterly catastrophic for the Democratic Party in this election, it first becomes necessary to explore some of the actors involved and aspects of the political situation in Washington at this moment – or frankly, whenever you have a president from one party surrounded by a government utterly dominated by the other...

While Comey himself has shown a willingness to cross the partisan line and see that justice is done in the past, it’s extremely important that you remember precisely who pays the FBI’s bills: a raving pack of incompetent, bigoted fundamentalist pricks who wouldn’t blink a fucking eyelash at framing Clinton for murder to win this election, the Republican Party.

In turn, the Inspector General’s Office is part of the US State Department under John Kerry and the Inspector General himself, Steve A. Linick was appointed to his post by President Obama directly. To say that Linick’s reputation for the investigation of fraud is impeccable would frankly be a significant understatement; Steve has been part of numerous, prestigious government investigative bodies looking into financial fraud/oversight, residential mortgage-backed securities and the US military operation against ISIS in Iraq.

Unfortunately, the FBI’s recommendation to indict would not be binding or a matter of public record, which brings us back to square one in theory – hoping that President Obama does the right thing when presented with evidence of Clinton’s criminal behavior, lies and repeated failure to cooperate with investigators; despite the fact that it would be disastrous for his party. Except, someone (hint either the FBI itself or the GOP from an FBI source) leaked information to a number of conservative websites and commentators that Comey (and possibly additional agents) would be prepared to resign in protest and/or leak details of the case if the administration chose it ignore his recommendation or stall the indictment until after the election. Furthermore, despite the less than credible sources involved there’s actually a pretty damn good chance Comey’s resignation threat is real – in 2004, Comey and a number of officials in the Bush Justice Department threatened to resign over the President’s executive order allowing NSA wiretaps that weren’t even close to legal at the goddamn time; an act President Obama actually praised him for when announcing his appointment as head of the FBI.

How happy was the President when he found out Hillary was lying to him about virtually everything, including the “personal” nature of at least some of the 30,000 emails she deleted? I really couldn’t say definitively, but I somehow doubt tersely ending a press conference in Japan in response to a question about the email server scandal in the wake of the OIG report, while adding “I think these (questions) are better directed to the campaign,” is a particularly good sign for Clinton; especially coming from the normally calm, deliberate and calculating Obama

Owing entirely to the GOP’s shameful politics and behavior during Obama’s Presidency; virtually any accusation levied against Clinton by tendrils of the Republican Party will immediately be perceived as a partisan smear job and largely ignored by seriously people – the President included. The fact that such a damning report has now come out of Obama’s own State Department; despite the presence of one of the most powerful and decidedly mainstream figures in the Party (John Kerry) is an extremely strong signal that all is most certainly not fucking well in Camelot. Clearly, the Hillary Clinton email server scandal can no longer be described as a “vast, right wing conspiracy” to get the former Secretary of State because she’s now being harshly criticized by powerful Democrats; which knocks out another key aspect of Clinton’s defense.

This is of course telling because it proves Clinton was aware that the Blackberry she was normally receiving emails on wasn’t considered secure enough for the kind of emails she was clearly exchanging and frankly just didn’t give a shit – which is a very goddamn serious blow to her claims that she was unaware she was doing anything wrong. Actually, the OIG report even lays out a clear motive for Clinton’s behavior when it reveals that her right hand woman, deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin directly suggested that Clinton should either get on the State email system or give the department her email address. Clinton replied “let’s get separate address or device but I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible,” a clear indication that the former Secretary of State acted with both intent and purpose to hide her emails from government record keepingThis brings us to the second and perhaps most important reason this scandal is playing out in slow motion; because the mainstream elements of both parties are completely fucking terrified of and diametrically opposed to seeing Bernie Sanders become President of the United States....

For the Republicans the logic here is pretty simple – Sanders will come after their big money donors, prosecute all of their rich friends, including some members of the GOP itself and directly attack the party’s attempts to roll back Civil Rights legislation by pushing an agenda of bigotry. Furthermore, Republicans can read mutherfucking polls too; they realize their chances of beating a wounded, potentially even crippled Clinton are far, far better than their odds of actually beating Sanders in the general election with Trump. When you combine this tactical (and completely rational) fear of Bernie with the numerous, already discussed advantages of having the FBI play it’s hand out nice and slow; it becomes incredibly obvious that the Republicans won’t make a move on Clinton as long as Bernie is still in the race.

Oh, by the way – I haven’t even fucking mentioned what happens if any of those 30,000 some odd deleted “personal” emails involve the Clinton Foundation and even so much as hint at a quid pro quo bribing scheme; the short answer is Racketeering charges are absolutely not a fucking joke and all it takes is one email, or even a pattern of contact surrounding donations and Clinton’s decisions as Secretary of State to literally end her career immediately.

There's so much more in this piece but I'm going to have to leave it for now.

What a wild roller coaster this election season has been. One thing is for sure this time around: The Dems have revealed themselves as one and the same with the Repugs, their Neoliberalism is failed RW economic policies designed to protect their 1% donors/masters and they've proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that they won't hesitate to stoop as low as outright voter suppression and fraud.

One more thing: every time Bernie has been neck and neck in the polls he's won. So I'm, "Going to California with an aching in my heart." A good aching.

Best to us.

doesn't have Bernie's name in the top section. Just Trump and Clinton.