2018 is coming. Brock is simply Lucy, setting up the football for all of us Charlie Browns in 2018 (and even 2020). How many will fall for it?

I want to know how to oppose Trump without supporting the "Lucy" neoliberal Democrats. The Tea Party folks got this down to an art form by primary-ing their enemies. I'm all for it, but I suspect it may take an electoral disaster in 2018 before it can happen.

Bernie asking us to vote for Killary. So sad that Hartmann has yet to pull his head out. At one point a week or so before the election he said something to the affect of Killary having a stellar record as SoS. I about vomited. Someone really needs to set him straight. Until there is a complete cleansing of the Dem establishment, there will be no hope for that party.

They need regular infusions of the blood of the young to stay alive. He sounds desperate. I guess the pigs blood isn't working any more.

Brock does fancy himself being a champion of media 'reform' (meaning that he gets to control the message, not that it actually be 'reformed' or anything).

I think my mouth may taste like vomit for a full week after reading this... reading it in small chunks to avoid spewing any.

I'm sure you're aware that Brock is having a giant convention on Innauguration night - bringing all the superfunder humans together for a night of summer camp to sing cumbayah and write cheques around the SuperPACs campfires...

edit: so Brock has actually heard of the fairness doctrine. Too bad he doesn't believe in it.

getting in that car!

David, First let me say Go F**k Your Hand!

You are the as***le that singlehandedly led the effort to get Trump elected you own that mark in history and it will never be erased! Live with it!

We Sanders supporters are Progressives, and we aren’t looking back at that soiled panty whore of a party, you and your NeoLiberal Third Way idiots inhabit with the nearly unblemished losing streak it has had since 2000. The Sanders Campaign of 2016 was the last chance at retaining this democrat of 42 years, I #DemExit’d after the convention, and voted for the only woman candidate in the race, Dr Jill Stein…

The mere fact that your Social Media Troll Army chose to call Progressives names such as Sexists, Racists, Misogynists, Homophobes, Berniebros, and others, you know them all, you made the list to use, assured that Hillary “The Mad Bomber” Clinton would NEVER have my vote! It just shows how out of touch with reality you, the Clinton’s, and the DemocRATic Party are in thinking after such a barrage of insults that we would “Be With Her.”

Enjoy President Trump! He’s your doing, we Progressives have moved on and are looking toward 2018 and 2020 as Independents with an eye on forming a viable new party. We may support a Democratic Candidate if that support is earned but we aren’t supporting any DemocRAT. The party is dead and you killed it!

And who is David Brock? Am I the only one that doesn't know?

second mom would say, "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!!!!!" I’m getting super fed up with the backroom attacks on Bernie. Bernie is a very smart person. He’s a political Independent who has publicly served this country for decades. He KNOWS the power structure/bozos first-hand. He also knows how dangerous these power hungry yahoos are! He’s not selling out, etc., etc. Who wrote that terrific response? He/she deserves major coverage. REC'D!!!!!!

Like most that have posted in discussion sites or forums for many years I eventually learned over time the best known way to deal with trolls, their Sock additional personas, or astroturf posters (ie trolls of the paid variety) was to simply not feed them

It can be fun to watch them writhe in hunger, left with naught but their unfulfilled desire to accomplish (depending on the type of troll) their chronic need to be noticed, disrupt, annoy, anger or create varied mischief.

However the subspecies known as the "Brock Sock" I also wanted to identify, so others could avoid and starve them not only of negative attention but their pay in the service of one that would only try to use such astroturf misinformation tactics to gain power. I knew that because Hillary is what she is, people would have died in war and poverty to feed the worst troll of them all - Herself.

A war loving, cynical sociopath, that could, and would not hesitate to bomb civilian areas killing young foreign women and children with weapons like her beloved cluster bombs in the end if it served even her slightest need to increase her power, personal wealth, or simply just to "look tough" on the world stage had she gained such a powerful office as President of the United States.

Also being the very special person she is, she would have been able to chuckle while talking about it, with a side discussion regarding the joys of being a new grandmother during a talk show interview afterward, because unlike relatively harmless internet trolls, a true power mad sociopath such as herself, does such things as casually as one might order toast for breakfast.

Almost forgot, as promised, here is the graphic I used to identify Brock Socks once uncovered to others, so they too could ignore them, denying them yet more troll kibble.

Just go on the WaPo, pick any Trump-related article (easily 80% are Trump-Putin) and counter one of the Hillbots with the truth. Well, you will immediately be called a Russian troll, your information sources will be questioned, and they'll criticize your "colloquialisms" as if they were learned in Russian spy school. They will call Trump "Trumpy" or "Trumpkins" with Hillary-like contempt. It's so obvious that Correct the Record lives on post-Clinton. Only a psychopath like Clinton would continue spewing her crazy lies about, contempt for, and hatred of enemies past and present who gummed up Her> coronation. She really is an evil piece of protoplasm who just won't quit.

BTW, the Clintons are going after Comey for dereliction of duty. They got a Justice Dept. Special Prosecutor to investigate his decisions related to her emails and their timing before the election.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-election-clinton-idUSKBN14W2NT

-that presided over weaponizing child porn for political ends. I don't know if I'm worthy to address someone of such stature, but I feel the need to try. This was the part that really got to me:

Now, if I may, let me speak directly to your supporters: If you voted for Senator Sanders, you almost certainly realize that Trump is a very real threat to our way of life, our shared values, and our constitutional democracy. We are all now small-d democrats. What was said in the heat of a campaign cannot drive us apart in the face of such an overwhelming threat.

Let’s focus on our areas of agreement. Now is not the time for factionism. The real dividing line going forward in our party is not about ideological direction. It’s the question of whether to resist and oppose, or accommodate and appease.

No, David Brock. No. Nooooooo.

Trump was not the only candidate on offer that was a real threat to our way of life, OUR ideals (apparently not shared by you and your troll factory), and our "constitutional democracy". News flash, Mr. Brock. When people are disenfranchised in the MILLIONS, victims of Democratic Party election fraud, you don't get to call it a democracy. You can't whitewash that fraudulent Primary with any amount of "ROOSHINS!" paint. You can't "TRUMP!" it away.

Get this through your thick skull, Mr. Brock: we are NOT all small-d democrats. What was said in the heat of a campaign was only malignant and vile when it came from your direction, and it HAS driven us apart, and rightly so. It is only natural for normal decent people to recoil from your modernized Nazi propaganda. Now IS the time for "factionism". Now IS the time to either clean house, or burn it down and build a new one. The very, very real dividing line going forward is not in "our" party, it is between us, and YOUR party. The Backstabbing Party. The Party of Lies. -And it is COMPLETELY about ideological direction. YOUR party is the party of the 1% (or less). WE ALREADY HAD ONE OF THOSE. WE DIDN'T NEED ANOTHER ONE.

But sure, let's focus on our areas of agreement, why don't we? OF COURSE we don't want to accommodate and appease. OF COURSE we want to resist and oppose -

YOUR BULLSHIT, THAT IS. "Too stiff a jab"? Really? We call that knifing someone in the back. Do not kid yourself. If you were ever to square off and try any verbal or policy pugilism with Senator Sanders, he would spread you out like a sheet. Your only chance in that arena, ever, has been to strike from ambush, like a feral pig.

Areas of agreement? Let's start with the fact that all of you Great Donkey Brahmins just screwed the pooch so bad, that we have actually got Donald Bloody Trump in the Oval Office. I think we're all in agreement about that. Congratulations. That "Cheating the Jewish Socialist out of the nomination" thing y'all did? Pure fucking genius. That SUBVERTING THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE thing? Proof positive that y'all should be rewarded. And you should be. Something that would properly honor the legacy of all you neo-liberal elitists forever.

Maybe all of you Sainted Lord-High Servants of the Great Donkey could all volunteer to stick your heads up on spikes. That would be a nice and fitting memorial. That kind of self-sacrifice would be so inspirational. It might even bring back all those young people that your crew has traumatized into being turned off to politics forever. Think of it, David! Self-beheadings against Trump! Such a symbolic gesture! It could really bring us together, I think. Could we all agree about that?

And just consider the possibility, that maybe the Republicans would see that, have a change of heart, and follow your fine examples. Both Parties, the entire Duopoly, practicing top-level self-beheadings. Visions of Unity like that bring tears of joy to my eyes.

It's so good that we're talking again.

Oh, and David, stop calling yourself a journalist. That word has a fairly specific definition in English, and that's not what you do. But I do wish you well in your ongoing attempts to learn our sometimes difficult language.