it'll run cold for only about 9 months,. According to Reuters that's how long it will take for the troops to deploy to Poland.

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As you know, Hillary also worked closely with the other departments of the Obama administration during her time as SOS giving 45 speeches about how the TPP was the gold standard of trade agreements.
But after she left the state department she has now decided that she opposes it "as it is written now". Her supporters tell me that if Obama doesn't get it passed before he leaves office, then she won't pass it if she becomes president.
There is a good chance that she has had a change of mind on how fracking is no longer safe and will prevent fracking companies from polluting out lands and water.
Ouch! A monkey just flew out of my.......

I attended the local Our Revolution in Astoria, Queens.

There were about 25 or so folks in the back of a bar that had multiple tv screens set up just for the occasion. Was headed up by a local Dem guy from a law group next door who had lent their offices to the Bernie campaign, which became our local hub for the NY primary, and a Bernie team member who had worked for the campaign for over a year. There were volunteers, a Labor for Bernie shirt and folks who were just supporters wanting to see what's next.

My purpose in going was to see not only what Bernie would say and how people would react to it, but to gauge the feeling among the supporters gathered there, on how they would be voting, what people thought of the voter suppression and voter fraud and how we should proceed. I left more on the disappointed side, save for the views of a Socialist Alternative friend and historian who made a short impassioned speech saying that we need to discuss and make possible progressive inroads at the local level, ala Fiorello LaGuardia.

After exchanging pleasantries with the law group fellow who I had met a few times during the campaign I asked what his feeling was about voting Green Party. He was dismissive and changed the subject. To my surprise that wouldn't be the only of such encounters.

Across the table from me was a nice guy who told me he hadn't volunteered or canvassed like I had but that he donated money and supported on social media. He told me he worked for the MTA and said all the right things, commenting positively on the OWS shirt I was wearing and mentioned how he both went there to support and was indignant about the way it was swept away by brute force. Said he had come to America in 1971 as a boy and has never seen it so bad and that the Occupiers were doing us a service, and wants to be involved to do something about it. I wanted to talk about the way the election was rigged, the votes suppressed and voting results stolen. He thought it was probably so but didn't seem to know the extent of it, or much about the thuggery at the fascistic DNC. I said because of all this and how corrupt and the antithesis of everything Bernie stood for that Clinton is, that I'd be voting Green Party....He began with the Trump fear. It was the same later with another guy who said he was tired of "these Bernie or Bust" people, after speaking all the right things about corrupt gov't, social justice, etc.

Here was the kicker for me though. At the end after the two hosts and a member of NY Bernie tech teams had spoken, another asked if he could get up to address the crowd. He began by saying how he'd never been involved in politics before but at the beginning of the Mayoral campaign in 2013 he aligned with DeBlasio, piqued by his rhetoric. He said he was also involved in gay politics. I recognized him and leaned over to my friend, and said that he was big Hillary supporter, having seen his Twitter feed.

He went on to say that his involvement in politics led him to become the leader of the Stonewall Democrats, and then talked about a certain race in which we need the good guy to win, etc. It was a rah-rah speech to motivate us to get involved. He then lofted praise on us, saying "you won this district." To which, the jig was up and he admitted that for someone who supported Hillary he was very impressed. Others gasped and I let out an unconstrained short boo. A fucking Hillary supporter at the inception of Our Revolution, as inspiration to get involved with continuing Bernie's mission? Huh?

I left torn between the obvious need for galvanizing all the incredible energy and commitment generated by Bernie to take over all levels of gov't, and the more treacherous creeping reality of the veal pen scenario as an enticing appeasement after having been beaten and bruised by the Neoliberal thug counterparts of the Right Wing menace, which has masterfully divided and conquered the 99%. The Duopoly Strikes Again.

At this moment I'm more apt to put my energies into outside social movements. But we'll see. Howard Zinn's life's work tells me that's where it's at.

I live in NY-21 where the retired seat of a lukewarm (some would say Blue Dog, but I wouldn't) Dem was filled by a KochBros/ Turdblossum-funded Republicon. Mostly becuz we were outspent, but also becuz our Dem candidate wasn't in it to win it.
A similar scenario this year with, like you say, Repub vs. Repub, with a Green on the side. Truth be told my views are more in line wirth the Green candidate, Annette's nephew, Matt Funicello, but he has no chance of winning in this red state district.
But, here's the thing... how does an out-of-state Repub get on the Dem party line for a House seat in NY State? How does the state Dem party allow that? And, granted, we allowed HRC to carpetbag a Senate seat here, but that's not the same as a local House seat. Please toss $3 to Teachout in NY-19. She's a true prog in a close race and could use $3. Thanks!
Wonder how Dems are getting their asses handed to them Down Ballot? Becuz we don't run any Dems.

Room or pat-on-the-head, color-inside-the-lines stuff. Not exactly revolutionary.

I've said before that, regardless of where it goes, Tim Canova's new organization, launched with a swipe at Our Revolution, has a much better name: Progress for All.

Something smelled off about OR from the start. It may do some good, but it sure looks like a co-opting project. I'm staying on the sidelines with that one; Movement for the 99% and Brand New Congress look more promising to me. Where they all go remains to be seen, of course.

so, given a choice between two candidates who will be awful I've voted for a better alternative even though I know she won't win. But I would rather have my vote counted as opposed to not voting at all.

Signed one petition, and suddenly bombarded with campaign propaganda from Kamala Harris and I'm not even in her state...finally stopped answering any surveys or petitions because I agree, they just want your e-mail address and more so your cash.