I wasn't aware of the informed consent laws in Virginia. He's a very disappointing pick. Next week will be very interesting.

is often quite good. Thanks for posting the clip.

I'm not fluent, but I can speak a little Spanish too - wonder if that would qualify me for some small job in Killary's administration.

Bernie actually had to 'endorse' Hillary in order to not be stripped of his delegate power and to stay in until the Convention to continue the fight for the people. Now, he keeps his message of democracy and a sane, sustainable and caring society going across the country while Hillary flaunts her corporate stripes before The People and more protests, investigations and lawsuits build. As does the Green Party.

Vote against evil.

Edit: Hill's new partner-in-crime looks remarkably like the Grinch, doesn't he? Any relation, do you think? Or is it just his tendencies producing a similar appearance?

Re-edit: it occurs to me, watching the first video, that, (assuming Warren's for real in this area and honestly concerned about a regulated, viable banking system and economy, as seems likely,) that she'd recognize as being entirely predictable that the corporate reaction to the notion of her as VP would entail Wall St. threatening to pull Hillary's funding, initiating Hillary's immediate run-screaming-to-corporate-ReDemlican-choice response, thereby showing her corporate dependencies. Was this perhaps a way to help Hillary display these corporate dependencies without sticking her political neck out for the axe the Clinton's keep grinding and ready for anyone not actively supporting them?

And the fact that Hillary's VP selection believes in controlling women's bodies and health choices merely verifies suspicions about Hillary's tendencies in that area. The Clinton's utter lack of respect for the rules and laws imposed on others by its very nature includes an utter lack of respect for the rights and feelings of others, and this has been demonstrated in numerous ways over the years.

A US President - as with any US public servant paid by the public to work for the public in any position - needs to believe in and work toward democracy, or they are no legitimate President at all of a government intended to be of, by and for the people, with equal rights, treatment and opportunity for all.

And another edit to add that if anyone actually believes that Trump will end corporate coup 'trade bills' if he's convinced that it's in HIS financial self-interest to keep them, you might want to gain a better understanding of the guy. His behaviours are already those of a ignorant sociopathic tin-pot tyrant in - apart from everything else - using financial power and BS to get back at/silence anyone criticizing his behaviours. He does not need to be given the (unconstitutional but previously used) ability to imprison/kill people for political or personal reasons, global power, and control over the world's largest military to exercise and expand these tendencies.

From Sally Kohn, CNN Political Commentator:

It would have been refreshing if the Clinton campaign — and by extension the Democratic establishment — finally recognized that centrist big business-cozy economic policies, military hawkishness and social and environmental incrementalism were not only alienating many Democrats but the American people in general.

Sanders voters are going third party. And so are, say, 42 million people burdened by predatory student debt, as Jill Stein has noted. And so are lots of other people, with or without Sanders.

Lots of other people couldn't give a f**k what happens to this country, they may well also be voting in November. Say hello to Donald Trump.

The Clinton's haven't learned: you can only bend people over a barrel for so long.

One way after another the Dem party is taking people's virtues and turning those virtues against them.

If I'm Black, if I'm Latino, I'm going to face such punishment if Trump is prez (backed by a Tea Party dominated Congress). It's clear that I have to reject the "don't vote for the lesser of 2 evil's" mantra of Jill Stein. I have to go with the dem's. If I'm not Black or Latino, and I am sick of the Lo2E's triangulation, and I want to vote Green, then I have to throw my Black and Latino brothers and sisters under the bus. In order not to do that, I have to vote Clinton, because Lo2E's.

Virtue (I care about the fate of others, as well as my own) becomes vice (so I help elect HRC. The only down-ticket candidates that survive will be HRC-compliant--see below.) That seems to be a pretty good definition of Evil. Don't ever give them enough power that they can create these kinds of scenario's, as Pluto's Republic suggests here.

But I think HRC has another motive for the Kaine pick, a motive that's directed at the Bernie movement, which she wants to make sure is stillborn.

HRC VP pick cuts the legs out from under Bernie. She now shows just how highly she esteems his primary campaign and all that it stands for . Bernie in the Senate gets squat if HRC is prez. But there's more. Hillary has just dealt a death blow to Bernie's initiatives--the Bernie Institute, Our Revolution--whereby he would work within the dem party to help elect progressives in down-ticket races. Those efforts are now useless, as the dem party now openly demonstrates its univocal hostility to anything that's progressive, such as anything that questions the power of money.

From here on in, any truly progressive candidate will have to run third party--a much more circuitous and difficult route into office than it would have been running dem, with Bernie's help on the inside.

After the Kaine VP pick, with all its implications for the political possibilities open, and not-open, for this country, Bernie needs to walk out of the dem convention and take his delegates with him to a third party. He now knows that he has nothing to lose. Third parties are already strong enough to derail HRC's success and HRC's political "vision" is now in full Trump mode.

And Bernie might win.