My love for Kamala grows daily

Second only in the pantheon of my love for DWS is the Camel--c'mon, you know who I mean. You know, the next chosen one for 2020, should HRC croak before then.

My latest Hillary pic--she's all dressed up with pink hat befitting her Heinous

Now as you here at c99 know, Killary is the Queen of the Universe. Oh, shit, she lost! Well, try again.
In the event of additional physical/mental/moral incapacity rendering Hillary Goddam Clinton unable to run for president for the 3rd time, I am pleased to announce my early support for the Camel (one hump or two?)

I was attracted to her virtues by her impartial rendering of justice in the Golden State. Note, rendering means tearing asunder (rhymes with plunder). Just ask Steve Mnuchin (say that fast 3 times with M&Ms in your mouth).

But I digress. As some of you may remember, I previously offered paeans of praise (or is that pagans of praise?) here at c99.

Installment 1: eminently qualified DemonRAT.

Installment 2: The Camel humping to please.

In furtherance of my affection for KH, I have an intimate picture of Kamala dining on a Berniecrat:

I also discovered the first of her campaign posters:

Stay tuned as Kamala bravely battles Booker T. Booker for the 2020 crown. Not wishing to be a sexist, it behooves me to endorse the Camel. I cannot be labelled as a racist because...well, you know.

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We have followed this creep since Hillary's campaign. I had not noticed him before the last election.

In case you missed it

Former Clinton Adviser: Sanders and His Followers Are ‘Detrimental to the Democratic Party

A former top Hillary Clinton adviser made it clear on Monday that he will not come around to welcoming Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) and his supporters into the Democratic Party.

In an 11-tweet rant, Peter Daou, a strategist and internet director for Clinton's presidential run in 2008, railed against Sanders and his followers, writing that they are "detrimental" to the Democratic party.

Daou began with a jab at Sanders' popularity before diving into the latest actions that provoked his ire. The Clinton supporter accused Sanders of being a "destructive force." He added that Sanders and his "diehard followers" are targeting rising stars in the Democratic Party, including Sens. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) and Cory Booker (D., N.J.).

Daou also accused Sanders supporters of continuing to use "rightwing" talking points against Clinton.

(Note to former people who were at dailykos. I am not highjacking this thread. See in the thread above he did mention Kamala Harris as one of the targets of the ass holes on the left. Obviously this is a snark. A lame attempt at a joke. When I finished this comment I did a search on Peter and Kamala and came up empty but here it was in the article about his exceptional tweets. Could this be used in the case against the DNC rigging the primary for Hillary over Bernie? Not only did they rig the primary, they are trying to rig the movement to change the democratic party. )

I wanted to let you know how wonderful he is. And maybe a heads up when he shows up in someplace new.

From his web page. Each link is a short image.

Advising includes AARP. What is their agenda???? Are they an advocate, or an insurance company??

Well, the tabs do not have a separate link, so I will just give the link to his web page after I tell you about his Advising

Advising
Peter has crafted digital strategies for the UN Foundation, AARP, Action Against Hunger, Planned Parenthood, Intel, Department of Energy, Urban Initiative, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Clinton Global Initiative, and Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, among others.

Here is his web page. It has this info along with the graphics of organizations.

Peter Daou . com

Media
Browse a selection of articles and clips referencing Peter’s political activism over the past two decades.

There are many of these. Did anyone save the web site Hillary is Wonderful?? I think it was Praise for Hillary. The first tab was Republicans, and started off with three accolades from Henry Kissinger. Maybe Peter was the genius who put that up.

Here are a couple of examples

New York Times
Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, viewed Shareblue more as a necessary voice in a world teeming with conservative radio, television and internet outlets that fire up the Republican base. Of Mr. Daou, he added, “He has a great sense of what’s moving around and where in the depths of the Twittersphere.”

Oh, I might have seen him on Salon.com back when Glenn Greenwald was there

Washington Post
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton pulled off a major coup in her evolving relationship with the liberal blogosphere. She hired Peter Daou, author of the Daou Report (a blog on Salon.com) and the director of blog operations for the 2004 presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry.

And Peter sure used the internet to connect with us, the disenfranchised democrats

ABC News
Campaign Internet strategists say the political engagement in cyberspace is reshaping the landscape. “It’s good for our democracy,” Peter Daou told ABC News. “You use the tools as a means to engage with people and to connect with them, and have them connect with one another.”

That is enough of these. You can find more on the web page

There is actually a direct link to this tab

Writing

There are some samples on the page. This Dec 1, 2016 article may indicate that Peter was involved in the new democratic slogan SOSDD Same old Shit Different Day , or A Better Deal, or whatever it was

The Way Forward for Democrats: Your Message Works, Fight HARDER for It

I’ve spent 15 years as a progressive activist working within the Democratic Party. In the aftermath of November 8th, I’ve shared some of my thoughts on the way forward in two tweetstorms, compiled below.

First, I want to dispense with all the hand-wringing and overwrought analysis of Hillary’s Electoral College loss. The reality is painfully simple: Her public image was viciously and relentlessly attacked by right, left and media and the damage ultimately proved too much to surmount. Despite one of the greatest character assassinations in political history, she’s still on track to win the popular vote by a convincing margin.

And finally this one. While there is a direct link, I don't know if you deserve to get it. But you can get it from his web page

Music
Peter’s discography includes more than 500 recordings, from experimental jazz to deep house. Listen to highlights of his work.

I wonder if he does the same old shit over and over again like he advises the democratic party to do?

I did a search to see if Peter had come to the rescue of Kamala Harris, but didn't see it. For sure he is still working for the democratic establishment.

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After all, he did say Bernie is destructive of the Democratic Party. That some high praise!

Kidding. I do get Daou did not mean that as a compliment.

If a lone indie from Vermont who caucuses with. and campaigns for, Democrats and opposes Republicans is destructive of the Democratic Party, what does that say about the fragility of the Party?

Not to mention that Democrats never seem to run out of either whine or victim cards.

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@DonMidwest Media Bias/Fact Check:

Notes: The Washington Free Beacon is an American politically conservative political journalism website that publishes news and opinion commentary. It has a very strong right wing bias and often publishes misleading headlines that do not match the content of stories. Has published a completely fake story. (7/19/2016) Updated (6/23/2017)

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-free-beacon/

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

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@DonMidwest

Advising includes AARP. What is their agenda???? Are they an advocate, or an insurance company??
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@Alligator Ed

Advising includes AARP. What is their agenda???? Are they an advocate, or an insurance company??

Actually, AARP is an advocacy group which has permitted insurance companies to brand their products with their name and logo in exchange for large donations.

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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

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@thanatokephaloides Big donors eventually dictate policy. Look at the DemonRATs--or better, just don't.

Bad

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@Alligator Ed

That was my point, Alligator Ed. If AARP was the insurance company themselves, they'd have more say over policy and advocacy than they do now.

My Dad used to say: "The insurance companies own the national debt; therefore, they get what they want!" And he's right. As the one US sector owning more of the national debt than China, their power becomes quite formidable ipso facto.
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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

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You just don't GET it. You Bernie [insert derisive expletive/slander here].
You really need that new tee shirt..."I'm with -> Her TOO". That will set you right.
You know we have 3 years to groom her and promote her. She needs to be sold (with the proper brand and messaging) and hard too.

You know what era we live in. You need to "Love Big Brother"

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@Arrow Or big sister in this case.

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

"Anyone who does not support Kamala Harris is sexist and racist."

Bolding is mine.

Apparently, people can no longer simply oppose the policies of center right and rightist politicians. Is the hatred Dembots spew at Jill Stein misogynistic and anti-Semitic?

What's the deal with passing over Kirsten Gillebrand, I wonder? I thought she would be next.

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@HenryAWallace and sexist too!

Margaret Kimberly bags on Kamala:

https://www.blackagendareport.com/kamal_harris_new_obama

According to recent press reports, California’s newly elected senator Kamala Harris has begun her turn on the rich people’s casting couch. Harris won’t have to run for Senate re-election until 2022, so the quick once over from the high and mighty means only one thing. America’s oligarchs in the Democratic Party are considering her for the job at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2020.

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

@HenryAWallace She seriously lacks charisma, star power, whatever you want to call it, not to mention other more invisible qualities like character, judgment and sense. Nor does she have anything like Warren's work ethic. Her level of competence is that of a small town mayor where local nabobs make decisions and the mayor does lots of events. As a Clinton groupie, she now lacks a patron. I believe that Chuckie Schemer despises her as a dumb WASP chick, and I would not be at all surprised to see Andy Cuomo run against her if he decides he can't win a presidential nomination.

Also, the Demonrats needed someone to offset the appeal of Tulsi Gabbard. The two women do look enough alike that they could be confused in the minds of people who don't follow politics.

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@HenryAWallace She is white. Too bad. Another one of Wall Street's Senators unfairly blocked from the Presidency. Hillary, quick, throw Kirsten a crying towel.

Oh, what's that? You still want to have the keys to the White House. Poor Hillary, you forgot to take them when you and Bill cleaned out the silverware drawer on your way out the back door.

Cray 2

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Glenn Greenwald today tweeted an Atrios post on the article in the Atlantic by David Frum

Norms

In which the leaking of Trump's calls with Australia and Mexico's leaders was a violation of a social norm. From Atrios

“Leaking the transcript of a presidential call to a foreign leader is unprecedented, shocking, and dangerous,” argued The Atlantic’s David Frum. “It is vitally important that a president be able to speak confidentially—and perhaps even more important that foreign leaders understand that they can reply in confidence.”

Atrios quotes Frum's Atlantic article

“Leaking the transcript of a presidential call to a foreign leader is unprecedented, shocking, and dangerous,” argued The Atlantic’s David Frum. “It is vitally important that a president be able to speak confidentially—and perhaps even more important that foreign leaders understand that they can reply in confidence.”

National leaders should indeed need to be able to trust that their discussions with one another will remain secure. But we are far from the point where foreign leaders assume transcripts of their calls with Trump, let alone future presidents, will end up on the front pages. Many have been quick to assume that this leak will have a chilling effect on U.S. relations with other countries, without stopping to ponder the likelihood that some foreign leaders might be relieved to learn that factions within the U.S. government are taking extraordinary steps to weaken this particular president.

If there are norms worth fretting over here, they aren’t the ones that govern whistleblowing, but the ones that should govern what U.S. political leaders do when the president is too incompetent to serve. It is because of their cowardice—their refusal to uphold norms they were elected and appointed to guard—that these transcripts leaked in the first place.

Frum is now senior editor at The Atlantic

I recall some talk about him over the years, so I went to his twitter feed.

It was strange. Not sure what to make of it.

In the quotation above he is using "social norms" to argue against whistleblowers.

Frum, a lifelong republican, voted for Hillary and has been attacking Trump. He seems to me to be part of the effort to change the direction of the republican party.

Why is he an Sr. Editor of The Atlantic? Is this another move by the establishment blob to link democrats and republicans in a new coalition to maintain neo liberal economics?

There was a lot of interesting stuff on the wikipedia page on him. Jewish parents. Born in Toronto. Speech writer for W Bush. On Board of Directors of Republican Jewish Coalition. On board of Smart Approaches to Marijuana. Law degree Harvard 1987. Ed page editor of WSJ 89-92. Columnist Forbs 92-94.Sr. fellow Manhattan Institute, contributing editor of Weekly Standard, ..

From wikipedia

Frum served as special assistant to the president for economic speechwriting from January 2001 to February 2002. Conservative commentator Robert Novak described Frum as an "uncompromising supporter of Israel" and "fervent supporter of Ariel Sharon's policies" during his time in the White House.[14] Frum is credited with inventing the expression "axis of evil", which Bush introduced in his 2002 State of the Union address.[16] During Frum's time at the White House, he was described by commentator Ryan Lizza, as being part of a speechwriting brain trust that brought "intellectual heft", and considerable policy influence to the Bush Administration.[17]

He has denied that he originated "axis of evil" slogan

Frum left the White House in February 2002. Commentator Robert Novak, appearing on CNN, claimed that Frum was dismissed because his wife had emailed friends, saying that her husband had invented the "axis of evil" phrase. Frum and the White House denied Novak's allegation.[20]

2003 sr fellow American Enterprise Institute and a kind of firing in objection to republican efforts in health care.

Joined Gulliani campaign foreign policy expert. Daily Beast and in 2014 The Atlantic.

NPR marketplace from 2007 to 2011

A big time anti Russian guy with a 2014 article criticizing Edward Snowden and his call in to Putin where he criticizes Putin. So here Frum showed his animosity to whistle blowers.

A winding path through many places and at age 57 he will be around for a long time.

And like Hillary, against BDS, thus supporting Israel.

Published 2013 on Daily Beast which he has been associated with

What's BDS Really About?

David Frum

02.06.13 11:00 AM ET
A calming voice on the Brooklyn College debate about boycotting Israel.
Israel is a big boy. And so too, I like to think, are all those impressionable college students who know a load of bull when they hear it. BDS is not about a serious boycott movement. It's about denying the Jews the right to a state of their own. As broken as this record is, read the literature. It's not a two-state movement--it's a one-state movement and that one state is not Jewish

That is enough. Might be of some interest to some of you here at C99%

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in the murky waters of the US deep state. A step or two further and he'd be in clear over his head. He's a neocon Zionist to the bone, who has lately taken to dressing himself in neoliberal drag. No wonder he likes Hillary so much. Justin Raimundo gives him a well-deserved thrashing in this article from 2012, entitled The Reinvention of David Frum.

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The politicians are too.

If either didn't have a government enforced monopoly on entertainment or public discourse...

Oh wait, they don't... but they're doing everything they can to shut all other avenues of discourse down, so don't panic. You'll soon get to watch "Leave it to Ronnie" and like it too, CITIZEN!

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4zYlOU7Fpk]

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

This short piece by Alligator Ed inspired me for the first time to look up two creeps, Peter Daou and David Frum. I had never even considered looking them up.

As I went fairly quickly through links about them, I asked myself what in the F**k is going on? Strange stuff is happening and not sure what it means, who they are aligned with, etc. It isn't just my inability to comprehend, but it is a full court disinformation and pivoting effort to create diversions so people won't realize what is going on and that there has been a coup already.

But just a few minutes ago an excellent article by Glenn Greemwald about the strange ways power is protected and rationalized in the case of the deep state. Could put in several quotations, but here are just a few

That the U.S. has a shadowy, secretive world of intelligence and military operatives who exercise great power outside of elections and democratic accountability is not some exotic, alt-right conspiracy theory; it’s utterly elemental to understanding anything about how Washington works. It’s hard to believe that anyone on this side of a 6th Grade civics class would seek to deny that.

First 3 paragraphs of the article

DURING HIS SUCCESSFUL 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump, for better and for worse, advocated a slew of policies that attacked the most sacred prongs of long-standing bipartisan Washington consensus. As a result, he was (and continues to be) viewed as uniquely repellent by the neoliberal and neoconservative guardians of that consensus, along with their sprawling network of agencies, think tanks, financial policy organs, and media outlets used to implement their agenda (CIA, NSA, the Brookings/AEI think tank axis, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, etc.).

Whatever else there is to say about Trump, it is simply a fact that the 2016 election saw elite circles in the U.S., with very few exceptions, lining up with remarkable fervor behind his Democratic opponent. Top CIA officials openly declared war on Trump in the nation’s op-ed pages and one of their operatives (now an MSNBC favorite) was tasked with stopping him in Utah, while Time Magazine reported, just a week before the election, that “the banking industry has supported Clinton with buckets of cash . . . . what bankers most like about Clinton is that she is not Donald Trump.”

Hank Paulson, former Goldman Sachs CEO and George W. Bush’s Treasury Secretary, went to the pages of the Washington Post in mid-2016 to shower Clinton with praise and Trump with unbridled scorn, saying what he hated most about Trump was his refusal to consider cuts in entitlement spending (in contrast, presumably, to the Democrat he was endorsing). “It doesn’t surprise me when a socialist such as Bernie Sanders sees no need to fix our entitlement programs,” the former Goldman CEO wrote. “But I find it particularly appalling that Trump, a businessman, tells us he won’t touch Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.”

What’s Worse: Trump’s Campaign Agenda or Empowering Generals and CIA Operatives to Subvert it?

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@DonMidwest An article in Business Insider about HR McMaster left me terribly baffled.

On one hand McMaster is purging Iran war hawks like Cohen-Watnick and on the other hand is he is purging centrists, aka HillBots. WTF is this all about?

BTW, Business Insider is fond of the term "conspiracy theorists", a dead-on clue the rag is pro-Deep State all the way.

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From Digby centrist David Atkins, over at DLC propaganda center Political Animal:

The obvious problem, of course, is that in targeting black candidates Booker, Harris and Patrick specifically, Cooper only gives further fuel to those who claim that Sanders-aligned economic progressives have racist motivations–or at least that they are tone-deaf and poor allies on matters of identity and social justice. That the writers of these critiques tend to be predominantly white and male certainly doesn’t help, either.

(emphasis added)

Atkins gives us additional assistance in straightening out the left from centrist Political Animal contributor Martin Longman of Booman Tribune fame:

Regardless of the motivations, it’s self-defeating for the democratic socialist left to take this particular tack: as our own Martin Longman pointed out, economic populists will not win the the argument within the party if they openly antagonize not only the wealthy donor base but also older and minority voters.

Ah yes. Gotta keep the wealthy donor base happy! Don't piss off senile old Baby Boomers and "minority voters", who we are obligated to assume are still With Her.

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/08/05/bernie-kamala-and-the-lefts-war-...

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@Meteor Man The elites can't be bothered to hide their contempt for us any more.

They've got their Versailles, all over the place, and nothing bad could ever possibly happen to them...

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0iAcQVIokg]

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@Meteor Man In the linked article comes such cognitive dissonance that is hard for even my cynical brain to comprehend.

On the other hand, there is a substantial faction of establishment players who, rather than seeking to repair and mitigate the causes the conflict in the Sanders-Clinton primary, are eagerly hoping to perpetuate it. They see the young, insurgent, aggressively anti-Wall Street wing as illegitimate interlopers, easily propagandized dupes, and overprivileged “alt left” bigots. The large number of women and people of color who are part of the Sanders coalition are erased and dismissed in often ugly ways. The influential partisans in center-left think tanks and media organizations who take this position seem to believe that democratic socialists will simply disappear into the woodwork if they are aggressively dragged and marginalized, allowing them to resume conducting business as usual within the party. This would be a mistake: like the Dean and Obama waves before them, Sanders Democrats have been sweeping into leadership positions in state and local Democratic organizations all across the country, and have no intention of going away quietly.

No argument against that from me. This paragraph denotes a reality not publicly admitted nor desired by the Elites. So far so good.

Then the author goes off the rails before finally concluding that DemonRATs should model themselves after or be led by Chuckles and No-changes Nancy. What the fuck!

With thanks to LSM for the apropos artwork.

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winning the argument within the Party, but it looks to me like they might be winning it everywhere else.

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At least there are only a handful of Dems where I live, so only the 5 or 6 widows that comprise the Democratic Party in my county will be the only ones who might possibly try to shame me.

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@on the cusp Hmmm. Wonder why? s/

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It is funnier/ironic that the Democratic Party (Club) is run by a Brit. She is legal here via having married a local. I assume she is a citizen.
We swung to blood red here.
Crazy place, crazy times.

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