of the content over there today...

I can do without the fawning, Kow-towing, and ass-kissing that is emanating from his sycophants.

I looked up Markos' worth, and he is wealthy- multi millionaire. No wonder he is wants to end all the discussions- it will dry up his revenue stream. Do not get me wrong we need money to live, but when you sell yourself for it then that is not a good thing. He might want to go into another line of work (prostitute), at least he can understand and feel better about his job.

i am gob smacked by so called Democrats who love Obama, despite his turning the page on BushCo, and going after whistleblowers, journalists, activists, and supporting TPP. He has endorsed and expanded BushCo's wars both outside and inside our borders.

My conclusion is this: whether it is fear or power or denial that drives the decision-making of people endorsing Hillary and celebrating Obama's 8 years, it doesn't matter. While I believe we must act local to save the world, we have to do it with a global view: how our decisions affect the humans and all other creatures on the planet. That's what we have in our power to do. And, as long as we can fend off the vampires from completely ruling the internet, we use social media.

I've said it from the beginning, when people starting complaining that Bernie wasn't getting mainstream media coverage: GOOD. in fact GREAT news. the system is vulnerable. we don't need the mainstream media. and hey! people are receptive to better ideas that involve justice and fairness.

one last thing: Daily Kos does not "belong" to Markos. If he were the last man standing there, who'd go? It exists because we go/went there and gave our energy and content. he also asks for contributions and has lifetime members (some of whom have been among the banned)... so ownership is one thing. but it isn't exactly true in virtual space.

Same way David Brock was once their biggest foe, he's now working for them. The Clinton machine is pretty powerful when you are running in those circles it has influence.

Hillary's Hit List

As one of the last orders of business for a losing campaign, they recorded in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet the names and deeds of members of Congress. They carefully noted who had endorsed Hillary, who backed Barack Obama, and who stayed on the sidelines—standard operating procedure for any high-end political organization. But the data went into much more nuanced detail.
“We wanted to have a record of who endorsed us and who didn’t,” said a member of Hillary’s campaign team, “and of those who endorsed us, who went the extra mile and who was just kind of there. And of those who didn’t endorse us, those who understandably didn’t endorse us because they are [Congressional Black Caucus] members or Illinois members. And then, of course, those who endorsed him but really should have been with her … that burned her.”

On one early draft of the hit list, each Democratic member of Congress was assigned a numerical grade from one to seven, with the most helpful to Hillary earning ones and the most treacherous drawing sevens.

Will she do anything to keep Sanders out including winning by Superdelagates?

It reached the point where Hillary—in a stale, sterile conference room at the DNC headquarters—asked uncommitted “superdelegates” to give her their word, privately, that they would back her if it came to a vote at the convention, even if they weren’t willing to take the political risk of coming out for her publicly ahead of time.

Unlike the regular delegates who were elected in state party primaries and caucuses, the superdelegates, a group of lawmakers, governors, and other Democratic officials, could support whichever candidate they wanted at the convention. As a last resort, Hillary pleaded with them to simply refrain from adding their names to Obama’s column. Bill would make that pitch, too, in phone calls and when he crossed paths with lawmakers. Please, just don’t endorse Obama, he cajoled.

Not saying Kos is bought but the Clinton machine is built like a mafia enterprise and resistance is unpleasant.