@Wink

Kos meet-up in Atlanta a few years back. They seemed to regard politics as one big party. They sounded very “pragmatic.”

pay attention becuz I knew it was going to be the same ol' lame ol'.
As we've all learned over the last year or two, the Dim party doesn't give a damn about winning as much as it cares about the $$ they can pick from our pockets.
Certainly ain't any different here in NY. For a long time after I bailed from the local party here I thought the problem was "my" local party. Who were more interested in attending cocktail parties than "electing more and better Democrats." I didn't realize then that that was S.O.P. for the entire Dim party, across the board, top to bottom. Sad.

Rotten Clinton was no
@dance you monster
Eleanor Roosevelt. Not even close.
I can see why the current Establishment wing of the party hates her.
She got things done.

From the wiki:

Tammany Hall's influence waned from 1930 to 1945 when it engaged in a losing battle with Franklin D. Roosevelt, the state's governor (1928–33) and the United States president (1933–45). In 1932, Mayor Jimmy Walker was forced from office when his bribery was exposed. Roosevelt stripped Tammany of federal patronage. Republican Fiorello La Guardia was elected mayor on a Fusion ticket and became the first anti-Tammany mayor to be re-elected. A brief resurgence in Tammany power in the 1950s under the leadership of Carmine DeSapio was met with Democratic Party opposition led by Eleanor Roosevelt, Herbert Lehman, and the New York Committee for Democratic Voters. By the mid-1960s Tammany Hall ceased to exist.

As you noted in the essay, ceasings to exist in NY can be expedient and temporary. And many of the current crew of Dem politicians will seldom hesitate to tell us how awful FDR was.

@Azazello @Azazello

by sucking it out of workers, consumers, public funding and the life-blood of the planet.

And the propaganda cons a surprising number of people into thinking that the results of this banditry are legitimate and 'earned fair and square', that they belong exclusively to the billionaire perps as 'their money', no part of which should even be expected to cover the additional tax burden then thrown onto those already bled dry.

Of course the economy is drained and shriveled toast because of these financial and human rights vampires.

https://www.rt.com/business/427638-dollar-reserve-currency-jim-rogers/?f...

US has largest debt in world history, dollar to lose status as No.1 currency – Jim Rogers
Published time: 24 May, 2018 11:17
Edited time: 24 May, 2018 14:00

The US dollar is becoming less appealing for investors as American debt continues to soar and the greenback is printed to cover it, investor Jim Rogers said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

The American currency will lose the status of main reserve currency much sooner than 2030, Rogers said at the Valdai Club’s discussion session, held as part of SPIEF.

“Dollar is going to be higher than now because the turmoil is coming. Then, it is going to be overpriced and people will look around and say, ‘America’s got the largest debt in the history of the world. It’s printing money as fast as it can,’” the investor said.

People will look at what Brazil, Russia, China, India, Iran and other developing countries are doing, Rogers said. “They are forming a competing currency right now,” he added. So, the dollar alternative will come from the countries that “have been bossed by the US, and they don’t like it, but have enough power to do something about it.”

Rogers went on to say that organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank “have never been right about anything” and should be abolished, since they have been politically dependent on the United States for decades.

Speaking separately to RT, the businessman said that sanctions and trade wars are the biggest threat to the world’s economic stability. “The world has learned throughout history that closing off is not good, opening up is good,” Rogers said.

Reality exists, independent of acceptance or recognition.

When you wreck an economy or a world, your money's no good any more, no matter how many billions or trillions of data-dots you may have accumulated.

Edited for the traditional letter-typo, typically leaping up to wave at me while I'm waiting for the comment to post... must be from Russian!!!

Especially since he's naming names now.
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@gjohnsit

and still keep it secret from the public... but they Persist!

they can't help it

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez endorsed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's re-election Thursday, angering some on the left who say the party leader is violating his own pledge to stay out of primaries.

Perez's highly unusual involvement caught even Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the DNC deputy chairman, by surprise.

"The Democratic Party should not intervene in the primary process," Ellison said through a spokesperson. "It is our role to be fair to all contestants and let the voters decide."