We finally know who's fault it is for Ossoff losing - Bernie

I don't know why it took this long to figure it out.
Bernie Sanders and progressives in general were responsible for Hillary losing, and now he's responsible for Jon Ossoff losing.
If only Hillary and Ossoff ran further to the right.

Democrats foolishly believed that college-educated Republicans would vote for a progressive Democrat over a Republican because of their disdain for President Trump and his many mishaps. The unknown Jon Ossoff ran against the known Karen Handel, who once chaired Fulton County Board of Commissioners from 2003 to 2006.

Yes, it was foolish for Ossoff to have run such a progressive campaign.
But then he had to please those radical Bernie fans.

The left-wing, Bernie Sanders-supporting faction of the Democratic Party swallowed the bitter pill of Jon Ossoff’s loss better than most. Progressive congressional candidates and political action committees alike seemed to think that while Ossoff did everything he could in a typically Republican district, their ideas are better suited for future wins anyway.

That is so true. Bernie supporters signed off on Ossoff's campaign.
I saw it myself. Who could forget when Bernie enthusiastically endorsed the progressive Ossoff?

If the anti-Trump fever the media keeps telling us all about cannot break through in Georgia’s 6th District, then it truly is nothing but a phantom that exists nowhere but in the minds of media elites hysterically trying to will President Trump out of existence.
... I mean, seriously, what is it about an endorsement from socialist Bernie Sanders that has become the kiss of death for politicians?

Kiss of death indeed.
The NY Times themselves linked Bernie to the June 14 shooting. He must have been personally involved.
Why shouldn't be the kiss of death? After all, Bernie is hiding something dark.

Sanders and his wife have been trying to ignore the federal investigation since reporters for VTDigger, an online publication, confirmed the FBI’s involvement in April. The original request for an investigation into the potential bank fraud did indeed come from Brady Toensing, an attorney who chaired Trump’s Vermont campaign, and whose January 2016 letter to the U.S. attorney for Vermont put federal agents on the trail...
Now, Senator Sanders and his wife are taking the case more seriously. Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ longtime top political adviser who heads Sanders’ political organization, Our Revolution, confirms to Politico Magazine that Bernie and Jane Sanders have lawyered up.

Hiring a lawyer is a clear implication of guilt. Just ignore the fact the charges come from the Trump campaign.
If this was a political witchhunt by the Trump campaign against Bernie, doncha think the Dems would jump to his defense? They haven't said "boo" so it must be completely kosher. Amirite?

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is another reason to have a war with Russia. And maybe China and Iran.

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Orwell: Where's the omelette?

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@jim p Well said, Citizen!

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or intentional smear job. We report, you decide!

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@Steven D

"Progressive ideals: Threat or Menace?"

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Not Just Trump: How Bernie Sanders' Campaign Also Had Deeply Imbedded Russian Connections
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So Bernie Sanders hired a political consultant with pro-Russia experience, had a mysterious unidentified campaign donation, had numerous Russian agents working on behalf of his campaign, and benefitted from Russian-backed Wikileaks. At a time when a public investigation is centering on the Trump administration, the question begs to be asked: what was Bernie Sanders' role in all this? Was Russia simply using Sanders and his supporters as willing stooges in their effots to bring down Hillary Clinton? Or did Sanders have knowledge of their involvement? Who gave Sanders that mysterious $10 million donation? Why did he refuse to submit his final FEC filing? And why has Bernie Sanders remained silent as the Trump Administration has become more and more corrupt in its dealings with Russia?
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To paraphrase Congressman Adam Schiff, all of these Russian connections might be a coincidence for a person like Bernie Sanders. Or there might actually be an intentional collusion between the two parties. At this point though, this issue needs to be raised. Sanders' silence on any and all Russian-related issues since the election is deepy troubling at a time when his supporters still believe him to be a savior of the party. As groups like Justice Democrats try to undermine the Democratic Party by attempting to primary candidates they don't beleive to be progressive enough, there needs to be a thorough discussion about Sanders' potential involvement with a foreign adversary that direclty infringed upon the sovereignty of our nation. As someone who directly benefitted from Russian interference, both politically and monetarily, Sanders owes us all, not just Democrats, an explanation for everthing that has happened.

At this point, it's the least he can do.

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Was Russia simply using Sanders and his supporters as willing stooges in their effots to bring down Hillary Clinton? Or did Sanders have knowledge of their involvement?
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Have gone insane, haven't they? I don't mean 'insane' as some kind of put down, or to express incredulity, but as in the guy who plants toasters in his garden expecting to get a spaceship tree from it.

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@jim p

the guy who plants toasters in his garden expecting to get a spaceship tree from it.

Know some fundamentalists, do you?

Wink

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...but as in the guy who plants toasters in his garden expecting to get a spaceship tree from it.

Oh my, I literally laughed out loud. But it may have been a reflexive action of my own, past behavior. I remember, as a very young child, pulling seeds out of a slice of bread, planting them in our yard, in hopes of growing a bread tree. Seriously happened. But hey, in defense, I was like 5 or so. I like to think I've wised up Smile

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@ChezJfrey

You've cleared up a great mystery for me Smile Now if someone can only tell me why my sourdough starter turns into something that definitely looks like it might develop an advanced civilization my life will be complete.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

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After you've used its and it's active do you refrigerate it? If it stays at room temperature it exhausts its fuel and 2nd and 3rd generation organisms flourish. Some are quite colorful. I wouldn't use them.

Even if refrigerated a starter needs to be used regularly. Otherwise the liquid separates from the dough. The dough turns into a brick. And the liquid turns gray. If you don't have time to use it, just take it out and dump it into a batch of new flour and water. Then put some of it into the refrigerator when it's active.

Factoid: Sourdough was actually used to seal some log cabins.

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@FuturePassed Sometimes I wish I hadn't learned certain things - mostly about food. This is one of those times.

Sauerkraut is another. So is cheese.

How do these things not make us sick? And how can they all taste so damn good? I mean, they're basically rotten.

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@Deja and they can produce or provide nutrition in and of themselves.

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How do these things not make us sick? And how can they all taste so damn good? I mean, they're basically rotten.

As dervish pointed out, bacteria are just another organism we eat, creating and providing nutrients our bodies need. In addition, certain species of bacteria perform critical segments of our food digestion tasks for us.

Ever get constipation or diarrhea when on a course of antibiotics? This is because the antibiotics kill off the bacteria we need to digest our food. Once the antibiotic is done, the doc should put you on a regimen of yogurt, live sour cream, and all those other tasty rotten foods, to re-establish the bacteria in your guts.

Only a tiny minority of the bacteria out there look to us humans as primary food; we must, of course, avoid these bacteria like the death threats that they are. This is why I recommend starting any culinary bacterial product, like yogurt or sourdough, with a known culture. These are easily and cheaply available, and using them means you know what buggies you're working with. I utterly freaked out when I read one "olde fashioned cookery" type website which recommended thickening milk into yogurt by leaving it exposed to the air! Cat only knows what bugs you're growing there! Nooooo!! Use known bacterial cultures! Stick with the good guys!

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@FuturePassed

The instructions I read told me to leave it on top of the fridge so I did. And what I got was not something I'd want to put in my mouth. I basically put the water and flour in and let it sit on top of the fridge. Every evening I put in some more flour (and maybe water, don't remember) and let it sit some more. By day 3 it was looking pretty ghastly and I abandoned on day 4.

Obviously I need to read up some more. Note, I'm talking wild yeast here not a packaged sourdough yeast starter thingamabob.

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@SnappleBC

Obviously I need to read up some more. Note, I'm talking wild yeast here not a packaged sourdough yeast starter thingamabob.

Use the latter! Or talk to someone with a good, well-established starter culture and bum a start from her!

Some locations' wild yeasts (and bacteria -- sourdough is a bacterial culture as well as a yeast one) just suck. Your locale may be one of them. And it's always better, especially for beginners, to go with a known good culture anyway. When in doubt, throw it out! (And start over, of course.)

Smile

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That takes that whole sense of russian roulette out of the experiment. Plus, I can't tell my friends that I left some sludge on my fridge until stuff was growing in it then tossed it into the oven to make the bread they're eating.

More seriously, I vaguely recall the nutritionist I was reading preferring wild cultures but now I'm going to have to go dig up the why's and wherefores on that. But as you say... maybe for the first go round...

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Or talk to someone with a good, well-established starter culture and bum a start from her!

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And with that, if you'd send Her that interesting sourdough starter, Hillary could at least get these numbers up! Or at least spew even more of the same.

http://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=108514

BioNumber Details Page
ID 108514
Property Percent of human feces that consists of bacteria
Organism bacteria
Range ~30
Units %
Reference J. van Houte, R. J. Gibbons, Studies of the cultivable flora of normal human feces, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1966, Volume 32, Issue 1, pp 212-222 p.220 top paragraph
Comments " [researchers'] mean count of 3.16 × 10^11 would indicate that approximately 30% of human feces consists of bacteria. Comparable concentrations of bacteria have been found in dental plaque and gingival crevice debris (Gibbons et al., 1964 Socransky et al., 1963)."
Entered By Uri M
Date Added Dec 07, 2012 6:07 AM
Date Edited Dec 07, 2012 6:08 AM
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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

@ChezJfrey except if I lived there, I would find myself in jail for practicing magic. Because, sorry Ozma, I just can't leave well enough alone. Smile

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@jim p Are you sure that wouldn't work?

Pete: "Hey, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head, remember that?"
Egon: "That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me..."

77_Ghostbusters.jpg

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@jim p That's what I thought when Hillary said we should respond to cyberattacks just like we respond to military attacks on our cities.

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@jim p  
it’s Teslas you must plant, not toasters.

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To get a Tesla you have to plant a toaster first. The secret is the toaster must be a four slice and the cord needs to be buried as far down as it will reach. I've got two Teslas growing in my marijuana patch right now. If you don't hide them, thieves will come in the night and steal them.

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@CB  
the Great Tesla rises from the toaster patch to bring cheer to all good girls and boys, amirite?

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The People's View still exists? Citizen K didn't spontaneously combust from the heat of his fevered lunacy? That was the site the Obama Administration, the focus of the site-members' idolatry, specifically mocked and urged to dial it down.

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@dance you monster
world.

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@CB Bernie remained silent about the crap Russia narrative? When the hell did that happen? He's been going on about it pretty much weekly, if not daily, for at least a couple of months.

Do people just make shit up and say it?

Here, let me try:

"What about Bernie's unexplained trip to Area 51, and witness reports that he was seen talking to a grey creature with slanty eyes?"

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"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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@SnappleBC That is goddamned wonderful.

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"What about Bernie's unexplained trip to Area 51, and witness reports that he was seen talking to a grey creature with slanty eyes?"

Watch how you talk about my culinary hero Masaharu Morimoto! Smile /s

(Bernie probably loved the sushi that afternoon, too!)

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@thanatokephaloides Does Morimoto-sama have grey skin? I sure hope not!

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--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

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@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal

Does Morimoto-sama have grey skin? I sure hope not!

No, you're right; Morimoto-sensei doesn't have gray skin. His touch of gray is elsewhere!

[video:https://youtu.be/ZeWPT2d43zI]

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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

I did not click on it. Now I can't tell you how glad I am.

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Shermichael Singleton is a CNN political commentator and a Republican political strategist who has worked on the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney and Ben Carson.

In other words, a bitterly anti-progressive (read: asshole corporatist) commentator on a severely right-wing website.

We may as well have had that comment written by Ayn Rand herself.

Any time you see corporatist right-wing commentators advocate "freedom", such as when Singleton did here:

However, what is most concerning about progressive ideology is that it maintains the belief that ultimate good comes from a centrally planned state or in essence the government. Similar to socialism, progressivism advocates for a government built on compulsory force.

what he's really advocating is the freedom of the rich and the strong to crush everybody else.

Continuing with Singleton:

The government cannot possibly know the needs of every single person today, so that the needs of the individual are met for tomorrow. Any more than a socialist system knows how much of a product to produce. The two are arguably one in the same.

One of the biggest problems with progressivism is that they advocate the importance of a centralized nurturing state with a moral goal, but that has never been the role of government. Government, as advocated by progressives, is impossible because it is impossible for a government to know exactly what each individual need or how much of it that they need.

Interesting how the socialist governments of the Scandinavian nations seem to do a pretty damn good job of all the things that Singleton states cannot be done at all.....

EDIT: and that capitalism has never been able to do at all......

Bad

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@thanatokephaloides @thanatokephaloides However, what is most concerning about progressive ideology is that it maintains the belief that ultimate good comes from a centrally planned state or in essence the government.

Well, we could become advocates of left-wing anarchism instead.

To the Barricades!

There, is that better for those distressed rightists?

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"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal

Well, we could become advocates of left-wing anarchism instead.

You mean like I've been for the past 40 years? Wink

To the Barricades!

There, is that better for those distressed rightists?

And here's some extra sauce for Singleton: your video's lyrics in English:

Black storms shake the sky
Black clouds blind us
Although death and pain await us
Against the enemy we must go
The most precious good
is freedom
And we have to defend it
With courage and faith
Raise the revolutionary flag
Moving us forward with unstoppable triumph
Working people march onwards to the battle
We have to smash the reaction
To the Barricades
To the Barricades
For the triumph
of the Confederation

n.b.: The "Confederation" was the left-wing Republican (i.e., non-Monarchist) government of Spain during its Civil War (1936 - 1939).

Note 1: ZhenRen, Cat dammit, where the fuck are you when we need you?
Note 2: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. Smile

I loves me some FAI/CNT! The FAI/CNT poster has inspired a lot of levo-anarchist graphics, like:

A las barricadas!

Diablo

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@thanatokephaloides I can hardly read to the end of those sentences in your block quotes.

"Well, go on," Wolfe murmured. "I never answer questions containing more than two unfounded assumptions."

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"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal

I can hardly read to the end of those sentences in your block quotes.

Not my fault. Singleton actually wrote that crap.

And crap it is in very deed! Bad

"Well, go on," Wolfe murmured. "I never answer questions containing more than two unfounded assumptions."

And the unfounded assumptions -- and outright fucking lies -- were flowing thick and fast in that article. Here's two really noxious examples:

It should be clear to Democrats that the progressive message is not resonating with Independents or blue-collar workers — some of whom are within their base.

progressivism doesn’t resonate with the American people, not now, nor will it in 2018 and beyond.

source

The "unfounded assumption" in these egregious cases is the falsehood that there was any actual progressivism in the 2016 General Election once Bernie Sanders and his many supporters had been neutralized. Perpetual Goldwater Girl Hillary Clinton's economic policies (what little we were ever allowed to know about them, that is) are essentially identical to Singleton's own, viz. laissez-faire capitalism for the richest and most powerful, which means no freedom of enterprise whatsoever for all us non-filthy-rich.

That unfounded assumption did not remove from existence the millions of us who appeared at Bernie Sanders' rallies, contributed our $27.00, and were in fact resonating very well indeed with Bernie's economically progressive message. Even now, Bernie himself may be headed into the veal pen, but he's discovering that this is one place where we are not willing to follow him!

Diablo

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@thanatokephaloides Well, back before he disappeared into the pen, he did say repeatedly he didn't expect us to do what he said.

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"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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Now was it?

So it is probably a good sign that all of their strategy focuses on him as the enemy.

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@OzoneTom .

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As soon as there was any hint of blaming corporate democratic party leadership in particular Pelosi, the defense of Pelosi came fast and furious. Democratic party activists immediately declared Ossoff a moral victory and looked at those numbers in a red district as indicative of a landslide against Trump in future races.

Well, really numbers started to come out-- Trump just barely beat Clinton in that district, and the previous dem candidate spent no money on his campaign and still got more votes than Ossoff. The central command spent literally no money for progressive candidates all of whom did better than Hillary in the districts, and the one guy who got money did worse than Clinton. To a tune of something like $30 million.

I wonder if at some point the rich donors will just go away given the incompetence and move their monies to republican candidates.

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@MrWebster of buying elected officials if they don't get elected?

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After all what's the point of buying elected officials if they don't get elected?

Buying Democrats has another disadvantage. You can't count on them to stay bought!

/s?

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@thanatokephaloides
In ringers running on the DIM tickets since Slick and Al From founded the Turd Way New Democratic Party has been money well spent.

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It seems to me that TPTB's investment In ringers running on the DIM tickets since Slick and Al From founded the Turd Way New Democratic Party has been money well spent.

Of all the times we needed just a little bad faith from our politicians.... sigh......

Sad

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@Amanda Matthews Up until recently, yes. Now they would probably do better to invest in faux-populist right-wingers.

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been doing.

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@Amanda Matthews I mean Republican ones.

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--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

@jim p

Perhaps paying them off to discourage people from voting for them until the Republicans have the majority sufficient to rewrite the US Constitution - definitely, I'd suspect, minus the people's Bill of Rights - to suit the billionaires and corporate interests so that they can pretend to 'legalize' whatever they do by altering a document intended to form the basis of law of the land but which has typically been ignored/its meaning distorted wherever the rights of the non-wealthy/non-White public were concerned.

After that, they can go back to taking turns in the Two-Faced Corporate Party scam, assuming they bother with it anymore and that there's a country left to pick the bones of by then.

Just guessing at one possibility, of course, but one also being considered by better wo/men than I.

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A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

@MrWebster they pay off both sides. They win no matter what.

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over at TOP that was written by Walt starr. His rampage of a diary against Bernie titled "Bernie Sanders needs to SHUT THE F*(% UP AND SIT THE F*(% DOWN!!!!!!!!!" is now in a bit bucket somewhere, but his 38 comments https://www.dailykos.com/user/Walt%20starr/comments I apologize immensely for posting the link but you have to read some of the vile shit to get a true appreciation of how far the derangement syndrome goes. You can just read the subject of these comments without delving into the swamp to see the actual sludge.

This had to be one of the most over the TOP pieces I have ever read! Not only was Bernie responsible for Hillary losing the election, and Ossoff losing his, Bernie was also responsible for the Crusades, the Hindenburg disaster, Hitlers rise to power, the extinction of the dinosaurs and the disappearance of Malaysia flight 370. Anything bad in this world universe was the direct and unquestionable fault of Bernie Sanders.

I'm really not at all surprised to see the Demolosers try to blame this on Bernie. After all they are perfect and couldn't possibly have any responsibility in losing elections. They will never, ever learn from their mistakes. I don't believe there is any hope for them. They are now rallying around Pelosi like she created the universe. I simply don't understand it!

I will admit that Walt starr's diary received a lot of push back but many fully agreed with his absurd diagnosis. You really have to see it to believe. Now some of you might be wondering if ol' Walt starr has been banned for his inflammatory words against the progressive man who nearly won the presidency? Not a chance in hell!!! While others, like Delphine have been banned for who the fuck knows why, not Walt!! No sirree!! He received a slap on the hand with a temporary timeout.

Again, I apologize for posting that link. I was over there looking to see if there was some breaking news on one of Trump's recent scandals and I had to read it. Afterwards, I wished I hadn't!

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“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
George W. Bush

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@reflectionsv37 If it surpasses even PhoenixWoman's masterpiece, that's truly saying something. At least this one got hidden.

I'm actually finding these last few days highly entertaining. Yesterday, a guy I know (who's thoroughly brainwashed by the corporoDem messaging) responded to the suggestion that Pelosi had to go by saying, in effect, that when Pelosi said "Bring it on!," Dem approvals went up. "Just ask Nate Silver," he said.

I had to sit on my hands so as to not type a response. Only problem was, I was then unable to wipe away my tears of laughter.

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@reflectionsv37 can reduce your blood pressure.

Honestly, I'm surprised it took so long for those attacks to pop up. At least they deleted the diary instead of featuring it.

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Don't be surprised, that's my opinion about most "blame Bernie for whatever" talk. He is Outreach Director for the DNC, he is doing his job on TV and all around the country. He is what he is because of decisions made of his own accord, and now he is pretty pretty wealthy (compared to me) because of those decisions. He is a tool of the oligarchy, despite the best words. I am looking for results, not just righteous oratory. Maybe next year.

peace

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@eyo

can slice and dice Sanders better than anyone. The arguments she makes against him cannot be refuted. As a result, his sincerity has been greatly damaged in my eyes. Sincerity is important. Obama's words were so full of shit, he destroyed the brand for the Democratic Party. He did so much damage to the Dem Party that in my book he is tied with Bubba for being worst dem ever.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

@dkmich thanks, I watch her talk as much as possible lately. She sounds crazy as hell, a real nut. But everything she says is true, I mean documented and verifiable mostly. Makes me feel saner. I wish YouTube belonged to the commons, and not the billionaires. oh well.

Do you know why some of her vids become unavailable after just a short time? The last one about Ban the Vote was great, calling for a moratorium until... I don't know yet. I still have the link bookmarked it's not published anymore though. What does that mean? She doesn't want it shared, or YouTube doesn't?

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@eyo I couldn't take more that four minutes of listening to her . . . because, as Spock said to Trelane in The Squire of Gothos, "I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose."

Maybe I bailed to early? Still, nihilism leads to madness. My two cents.

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@SancheLlewellyn thanks for that quote, it made me LOL because "...intellect without discipline... power without constructive purpose" is YouTube exactly isn't it? I loved Spock, still do. One of the last things I watched before closing NetFlix was For the Love of Spock.

I think it took me about five episodes of Debbie before I could sit through an entire segment. Usually I listen to U2be recordings at x1.5 speed, it saves time and keeps my concentration on the words. TYT "reporters" give me same kind of repellent reaction because I grew up on Walter Cronkite, not Cenk Uygur. Opinions are great, but don't tell me how to think while delivering some "news" please. (shakes fist yells at sky).

Anyway, Sane Progressive has a ton of election experience since years, and has documented the shenanigans of 2016 pretty well, I think. Tell me why I should trust the D super-delegates with their hands on the wheel? What occurred right before my eyes in California was pretty bad, almost as bad as Carter conceding before I even had a chance to vote on the west coast. Not sure why Bernie let it go, he must think "more and better Democrats" are the thing now too, no matter how damaging they may also be. That is nuts. The duopoly is dead to me. STOP THE WARS then let's talk.

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@SancheLlewellyn Power without constructive purpose?

Not sure how much power she has, and she certainly has a constructive purpose in my book.

People don't like to listen to people who sound upset or get "shrill" and often assume lack of rationality on that basis. But I care more about the content of what is said than who's saying it or whether I like them.

Most of what she says seems quite sound to me. I'm not into the mystical individualism (sort of Puritanism meets a 1980s feminist-oriented twelve-step group) but everything she says about politics and activism, so far, has been sound.

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"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

@eyo @eyo

But everything she says is true

it's a sign of the times.

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@irishking I think she's great.

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@irishking Not sure why anybody thinks she sounds crazy, apart from the fact that she gets emotional about the fact that we're all being screwed right in the ear.

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"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

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal I said crazy and real nut because of the yelling and ranting during message delivery that's all. I started just shouting along with her after a while, it gives some relief from the pain of knowing what just a few others seem to know too.

The election "system" is totally screwed and it has been for a long long time. Technology is making it worse, less reliable, less secure. Less democracy for the win. U.S. lives under oligarchy now, that is reality. Thanks Debbie for not letting up, keep going.

peace

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@eyo I like it too, actually. I mean, who wouldn't be upset?

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"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

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal @Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal

That and the situation merits a slightly hysterical tone - we are looking at the for-profit end of life on the planet likely within the next decade or less...

I keep thinking of Rider Haggard's King Salomon's Mines, where the old witch, having led the intrepid explorers to the fabled treasure, shrieks with laughter and tells them to eat, drink and breathe of the gold and jewels - as she releases the switch which traps them in the dark, underground chamber from which there is no apparent escape. Greed blinds so thoroughly...

Edit: and of course you already had this covered, just under where I was reading, lol.

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A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

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@dkmich
Only my work deadlines prevent me from checking her YouTube page daily and listening to the next new analysis. It's astonishing how informed, original, organized, and coherent her presentations are, how free of the scripted, expected papering over of actualities. Though that voltage seems to be too high for most I've mentioned her to in what's called real life here.

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Rec'd!!

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Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.

after all. I popped over there, found a hit diary on Jane Sanders, laughed at how the diarist got mobbed by the apostrophe police for the title:

Jane Sander's Lawyers Up

So, lawyers for a person named Jane Sander rode an elevator up?

Posted a recipe and left. Hit and fade.

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@SancheLlewellyn Absolutely kickass! both the Grammar Warrior part of this and the old-fashioned troll-b-gone.

I used to post what I liked to call The Liberal Basie. Kind of halfway between posting a recipe and Rickrolling.

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"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

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Seriously. Hearing them blame anyone but themselves or their shit candidates for their losses is getting old.

When you run a Democrat who acts like a Republican against a Republican, the real one wins every time.

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

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@The Aspie Corner

When you run a Democrat who acts like a Republican against a Republican, the real one [Republican] wins every time.

And always will!

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

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Victoria (toestink) Toensing by chance?

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What's left are those too stupid to know it. The place is totally useless.

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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

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@Amanda Matthews maybe a meme will stick.

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@Amanda Matthews

TOP is 'Gaslight Central' and basically What's left are those too stupid to know it. The place is totally useless.

My only quibble with this statement: there's no light about it. It's all just gas. Smelly fart gas. Bad

Wink

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

@thanatokephaloides

Kinda smells sorta like the sort of swamp gas that's been draining the people all along to me.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

knew that Hillary stood a good chance of losing to Trump. We were strongly discouraged from voicing this opinion at TOP, and often ridiculed for even considering the possibility. But as the Sanders campaign gained momentum, ridicule turned to hostility, and a fear that Sanders did actually have an outside chance of winning the nomination.

The same people, myself included, who predicted Hillary's likely defeat, also predicted that Sanders would be blamed for it if it occurred. It was practically inevitable that Sanders would be blamed. So far, all this was entirely predictable, and more or less normal.

What surprised the hell out of me, was that they would also be blaming Russia for it. Whaa?? I sure didn't see that one coming. Russia?... I mean really? You guys can't be serious! But yes, they were serious, deadly serious, leaving me standing there with my mouth hanging open at the unmitigated gall of this preposterous, and utterly irrelevant accusation.

And then to top it all off, they went and sold this cock an bull story to the entirety of the US msm! Which msm bought it, no questions asked, promoted it and spread it around like manure all over a freshly plowed field. I still find it hard to believe that anyone would credit so much blatant nonsense, but it seems that many people do in fact believe it, probably because all their teevee news "anchors" assure them it is true.

I do not think however, that this crazy Russia-Gate story has made Hillary any more popular or likable than she ever was. In fact it may have made her even less popular. Hillary is a personage of many faces, but the role of "abused victim" does not suit her personality well at all.

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@native In any casual political chat, I can spot whether that person reads the NYT or watches Rachel within minutes.
I am amazed how many intelligent people have swallowed the Russia bait hook, line, and sinker.
I didn't see that coming.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

@on the cusp
warmongering, but I was not prepared for a full-blown alliance between mainstream Dems and the MIC, undertaken in the interests of blocking any of Trump's possible overtures to Russia. The ferocity with which this alliance has attacked Trump, reveals much more about the covert nature of the alliance itself, than it does about Trump.

There can be little doubt however, that the nature of Trump's domestic agenda is viciously destructive. In a very real and painful way, for millions of Americans.

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@native It's just a game thrown out there for the proles to chew on. Bill himself warned the campaign that it was going to lose, but they told him that he didn't know anything, and to pound sand.

Remember this, from Keith Ellison? It's hilarious now.

[video:https://youtu.be/FHkPadFK34o]

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@dervish
at Ellison there... har-de-har-har that guy is out to lunch. Typical behavior really, but they're not laughing now. Instead, they are all running around in circles like a flock of decapitated chickens... leaderless, directionless, and without a clue about what happened to them or why.

Mama Hen Hillary can't help them any more, how sad is that? But still the chicks cluster round her feet for an illusory sense of security. Close your ranks General Moulitsas, the Enemy is at your door! He now wears Russian garb and is determined to sabotage your most cherished beliefs.

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@native
[video:https://youtu.be/WDZkrqM0L4g]

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

@dervish
are not actually mindless. They do engage frequently in what appears to be some sort of mental activity. So I may have over-stated my case. However it would be hard to deny that the connection between the head and the feet of that particular organism has been, at the very least, severely impaired.

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@native She's made too many different excuses, and gone on making them for too long.

Her credibility is in the toilet for everybody except the people who are marching behind her because Trump is terrible. Hard to imagine that that constitutes more than around 35% of the population, but who knows.

54.4% unfavorable, 6 points better than on Election Day. A bump, certainly, but not really what you'd expect from the 24/7 pounding of the Russia did it/Trump is bad narrative since roughly September.

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"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