Bernie Should Beg For Forgiveness!!!
He should prostate himself before the almighty Democratic Party and plead to be pardoned for daring to fight for the weakest!
He should grovel before the anointed one for daring to take on the DNC!
He should donate a pound of his flesh to the Party grandees and pray to be absolved of all his sins!
He should abandon all hope like the rest of you oiks!
We won, so fuck you!
Oh and by the way
You should get on the bus in the name of #partyunity!
Hillary is not as bad as Trump!
This is the vibe I am getting after this primary season from the winners as I watch the Democratic Party congeal around their choice.
As many on the left know all too well:
If she wins it will be in despite of us.
If she loses the easiest election in living memory it will be our fault for making the primary competitive.
No matter who wins in November we will be given nothing but Lip Service until our votes are needed in 2018.
If we dislike both of the most dislikeable couple of people to ever run for the highest office in the land and yet fail to vote for either we are a disgrace.
You know what
I don't fucking care any more, it's the same bloody song every time, all they want is our cash and votes, after that we can go to hell.
They are starting to point out that if they also get majorities in the House and Senate that somehow recent history will become irrelevant and the Democratic Party will magically change and support progressive policies, like that happened in 2008. My view will be that the lessons from 2010 and 2014 will be that the Democratic party was too far to the left and further re-centring will be necessary.
Last time at least Democrats voted for hope and change, this time they have voted Status Quo or bust.
The only reason the Republican Party is still breathing is because the Democratic Party is still clinging to "we are not as bad as" as a winning strategy. The reality is: that both parties like things just the way they are thank you very much, it keeps the cash registers ringing.
The revolution is here and now, not when one party or the other says it's convenient.
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This year is the trigger.
IF Trump is dumped by the Repugs, he WILL run 3rd party. If Bernie, elects, after the assuredly crooked DNConvention ends, without party blessings, then he will tacitly allow himself to be Green. And, then, he can truthfully say that is working to defeat Donald Trump.
I lost my job in 2007.
Good timing? I was 55 then. Overqualified for everything. Overspecialized, at least my education was subsidized. I see what we have lost. Much talent tossed away. At some point, willing to suck that up for the youngers to have their chance. What a con job.
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ain't that the truth
vote only for non-globalists ... in 24 years of one president after another supporting globalist policies unequivocally should tell someone somewhere something about the ideology.. the results are self evident. It must stop. Bernie and Trump are both non-globalists yet both parties want to get rid of them ... doesn't that raise any eyebrows with anyone about the commonality between those two?
Bless you. [[hug]]
We need Bernie to win the nomination. We also need for the Greens to get on more ballots. If they could get certified in about 10 more states, a Bernie/Stein ticket would have a chance.
Bernie as a Democrat would be better, of course, but I really don't know if sanity will prevail.
My best wishes to you and your family.
BTW, if you need someone to listen to your complaints, and you don't want to drive your family to despair, you could write a rant for the Resilience Group. We are very good listeners.
Again, [[hugs]]
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
Stoke your torches and sharpen your pitchforks
The right wing party and the left wing party have coagulated into the Corporate Party of America. The two party system must be destroyed.
John Adams 1879
Bold added.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
OMFG lol TOP has now gone full tilt neoPUMA
And IMHO it's damn funny too
Just went there (Mia culpa) and there were no less then SEVEN diaries on their wreck list allllllllllll. About how Bernie is now "irrelevant". LOL
anyone have the link to that website that tracks blog stats?
Might be interesting to watch as the GOS berniehates itself into irrelevance
Orwell was an optimist
Desperation and denial of the realities of life
under Hillary income inequality will expand, along with American Imperialism and sense of exceptionalism
neoPuma. Great word. And I totally agree with you
I was in one of those diaries last night calling out people that were telling Bernie and his supporters to FO and calling him all kinds of names.
I wrote upthread that one person came over here to get a screen grab of the comment I posted that showed the Clintons laughing their asses off at us because they are being funded by the same people that stole people's houses and pensions.
How very childish that they feel that they have to troll the web and put other people's comments from another site in to their comments over there.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
He's so irrelevant ...
... that they keep talking about him. LOL.
And that is what is so damned funny
Diary after diary about how horrible Bernie is. And this has gone on now for over a week or longer and the comments are all the same in each diary.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
All from brand-new users?
Their own Greek chorus. But they don't do irony. We do that well here.
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.
Yes, a lot of the people are new users.
I read a Wikipedia page today about DK and it states that in 2015, the site rolled out a new update so that it could attract new users and be easier to work with.
The page wrote about a bunch of FPers who used to write for the site about various topics. I have been a member there since 05 and I remember a lot of those people and they did write about interesting topics like what we find in the EBs.
But those days are long gone as well as the people who used to write for DK.
Meteor Blades joined in 04 and there was interesting information about Armando and how many times he quit, came back, changed his name, ect.
Now Armando basically just makes an ass of himself and trolls a lot of diaries.
I'll try to find the link to the page.
At one time, DK was a progressive website, but it hasn't been since dk5 rolled out.
Now it's an echo chamber of Hillary supporters and anti Bernie diaries where people write the same comments over and over again ad nauseum.
Hey, I wonder if this comment will show up over there too? --
Good lord, imagine my surprise when I saw that.
It was the one where I had put a picture of the Clintons laughing about how they are being funded by the same people who stole their houses.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Here's the Wikipedia page
There were great writers in the past as I wrote and I wonder where they are now and why they left?
Jessilyn Radich, Snowden's lawyer used to write great diaries as did Greenwald and other prominent writers, but after Snowden's leaks went viral, there were a bunch of dicks that would disrupt her diaries and constantly call him a traitor because he made Obama look bad because he extended the spying program. It was funny watching people try to defend what Obama was doing as legal. I don't care how many secret courts make up secret rules that say that the NSA program is legal. It isn't. It's unconstitutional because Congress's job is to uphold the constitution, not go behind its back and make up new laws. The 4th amendment says that we are supposed to be secure in our homes and if they want to spy on us then they need to get a court order for each individual that they want to spy on. Period!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Kos
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
I remember Big Tent Democrat
and just from the writing style knew it was Armando. Heh. Of course, we were not allowed to call him out. That episode may be a pivot point. Towards crass commercialism.
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.
That site has always been nothing more than a Fan Club
for whoever it Kos happens to support (or whoever was paying him to be more exact). Of course the HillBillies are all freaking out. The 'who else they gonna vote for' attitude is alive and well over there.
The place is a parody of what it purports to be. And it's just as nasty, rude, and 'undemocratic' as Reddit or Red State or any other site they continually wag their fingers at and call names. The only thing I think it's good for anymore is the occasional comedy thread like the one KOS started about DWS being'gone'.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
"He's not a Democrat"
was the refrain I often heard at TOP. More recently, there was a gathering at Burlington Airport welcoming Bernie home from the CA primary. While I was there, there was ONE HRC supporter across the street. She charmingly hollered to us, "Bernie is toast" and "he's not a Democrat". Ok then, they can have it their way..in which case Bernie, and by extension I, don't owe you and your candidate shit.
I don't think they understand
the words they're using, nor their implications in the real world.
"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
Where I disagree, kind of, is
Where I disagree, kind of, is that when you say Hillary represents the status quo, it sounds static. The problem for me is that I see the status quo as more of the same, which means continuing policies - and with Hillary expanded policies - contributing to more wars and destruction, for all living beings and our planet, itself.
Have you noticed what Obama has been passing, while we are distracted by this kabuki election season? Distraction and fear mongering are the keystones of tactics to keep their game going. Continued or expanded fracking off the coast of California. Drilling in the Arctic. War mongering with Syria, China and Russia. Doing everything we can to make sure TPP is passed so that it is part of his legacy and, I believe, so that Hillary does not have to own it as hers, considering how unpopular it is. We are so fucked. How can his approval ratings be so high?
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