Nancy Pelosi is emblematic of Democratic leadership ossification

Having been absent from c99 for a while, not for lack of interest but because of life ("Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans"--J. Lennon). I have been a faithful lurker here to read many excellent essays and insightful commentary posted here. I have been aroused from my torpor by some interesting, though not necessarily political news.

Every day--not week, but daily--new developments in the political circus arise to bemuse, madden, and frighten us in any combination. Striking close to home is a YouTube video of a few months ago about one of my favorite targets, Nancy Pelosi, coupled with news about an unexpected victory of Ocasio-Cortez beating down Joe No-show Crowley for NY's 14th congressional district, plus other tidbits too interesting to pass unnoticed.

Without referencing my numerous Hillary-Killary neurological deficits essays (coupled with complete lack of empathy for anyone not name Hillary R {fill in the rest} Clinton), I return to wonderful straw woman N. Pelosi, septuagenarian multi-millionaire Demonratic House minority leader. She's the party leader Repugnants most love to hate (an interesting dichotomy there). Both parties, for the main, are hateful, subservient stooges for mega-donors. But Nancy exudes a certain "charm" such as a pimple oozing pus. Stop! A.E., you've gone too far. Can't you be polite ever?!

Please tell me, in the name of reciprocity, why anyone should give this tottering troubadour (NP) of elitist rights and perquisites? Or for that matter, the majority of Congress Critters? We know what the quid is, but we get none of the pro quo. That's reserved for the Kleptocrats That Be (KTB).

So while I focus on the Demonrats, the party of hate and violence openly stated (as opposed to the Repugnants' covertly shared hate and violence), this is a target-rich environment. For those who have other favored targets, let's hear about them in the commentaries please. As Bugs Bunny used to say "I'm all ears" (ughh).

Ossification means turning to stone. Ossification occurs in the brain and other anatomical organs when deprived of blood supply or supplied with a surfeit of bad metabolites. This is a normal consequence of aging. However, ossification is lethal not only in people but also political ideologies. NP's "we don't need to change" is apropos because of this ossification. The current Dem party is led by septuagenarians who have ossified. Think about Maxine "impeach Trump" Waters, Uncle Joe "young kids make me hot" Biden, even Bernie Sheepdog Sanders and more.

Inciting reference for this essay: Nancy Pelosi slurs words has mini seizures during live speech . Although I disagree with the "seizure" documentation in the essay title, the video does reveal certain definite signs of neurological (not just ideological) disorder. For one, is the large number of brief speech arrests, typical of a nominal dysphasia (word-finding difficulties) and a prominent facial asymmetry (see at 1:43 in video) indicative of left hemisphere subcortical dysfunction.

For those of you who can stomach a large Pelosi Portrait, please note the following two features of her face:
1: decrease in the right nasolabial fold
2: drooping of the right side of the mouth

These are significant, especially when combined with her word-finding difficulty. After accounting for eye-movements as indicators of sub-conscious (often subcortical) mental processes, facial expression remains the most eloquent indicator of internal mental activity. Clearly this is something that shows neurological problems in the left hemisphere.

Note: The AAMA (American Alligator Medical Association) advises not to diagnose people without in depth examination, preferably followed by ingestion of the observed material for more precise understanding.

One of the characteristics of brain ossification is lack of mental flexibility, primarily a prefrontal lobe function. NP is emblematic of this. But so are the DNC and other Blue Party malefactors. They cannot think of a platform other than "We're not Trump" despite 500+ days worth of real ammunition to be used against him and other political troglodytes. This platform served Joe NoShow Crowley little advantage (i.e., none) when he lost to newbie Ocasio-Cortez, who campaigned on a very Sanders-like D.S.A. platform. (Too bad Bernie had to agree to an orchiectomy at the DNC 2016 convention).

For those wanting a New Yorker's sense of this Demonratic disaster, see Lionel Nation's analysis of this race and its consequences (14:53)

For 2020, the Demonratic "bench" of possible up-and-comers (a description particularly fitting to the Camel) seems kind of weak. Well, not to mince words, they have a puny bench. Septuagenarian Liz "Never too late" Warren, comes faux Demonrat Gillibrand, Corey Booker, and a few truly uninspiring but not prominent people, all having the same charisma as Tim Kaine.

Trump owns the Repugnants and will be the candidate in 2020. Barring economic collapse, he will win in 2020. Although himself a septuagenarian, 4-10-20 does not conform to an ossification manifested by the Dims. Although most of his policies are indeed deplorable, he has shown himself adept at out-maneuvering the surveillance state, Lame Stream Media, Clinton criminals, Obama's apostasy.

Speaking of Hussein, here is the real BHO talking to the elites in the E.U. in 2014. Too bad he'd already been re-elected.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44kW03sfKrI]

In summary, the following song epitomizes the current Demonratic establishment, presciently written 50 years ago in anticipation into the apoptosis (programmed political cell death) of the Dims:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwHBvB9NjV8&frags=pl%2Cwn]]

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Jeanne Shaheen, Chuck Schumer, the whole things tottering around with it's diaper around its ankles. I'm tired of being embarrassed.

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for strong-minded people of progressive principles, Bernie Sanders' presidential ship has sailed:

https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/12-ways-bernie-sanders-pro-establ...

Little new ground here, but it is laid out so succinctly and directly that one has to either engage in all kinds of mental gymnastics to overcome it (kind of like the Obama apologists' use of the meme "11 dimensional chess" to minimize the countless numbers of obvious Obama betrayals), or just completely ignore it (picture a child with his hands stubbornly covering his ears yelling out "I can't hear you, I can't hear you!," over and over again), or just outright consciously LIE to one's self or to others.

As people have said on numerous occasions, "denial is not just a river in Egypt" . . . .

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That’s exactly how the denial works in many folks.

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@lotlizard

. . . . so long as they realize that I too a Russian agent, and that I'm am getting paid immense riches by Putin to post his propaganda here.

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@lotlizard "I ain't gonna read none of that Russian propaganda--and you shouldn't either unless you are a Putin Puppet. Trust me. I'm Donna Brazile".

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@SoylentGreenisPeople the US is a military empire that passed in the last 2 years more funds for in INCREASING military than the entire yearly Chinese budget

military, finance, big business, oligarchs, have pulled off a coup here in the USA

politics is important

in fact, politics must be part of dealing with the biggest problem ever, namely Gaia, The New Climate Regime

irony of the most important value is freedom and at the same time hate politicians and governments which are integral to freedom

we have gone so far from our principles that we might never recover. If the repubs sweep the table in 2018 and 2010, our experiment in republican government and democracy could well be finished

Bernie is one of the very, very few who can do what is needed

he is part of the government, but outside the establishment

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@DonMidwest

You have now, by way of your astute and cogent analysis, re-converted me to the cause of Sanders (or "Bernie Christ," as I've come to calling him lately.)

I see now that Bernie will save us.

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@DonMidwest

ME LOSE Clinton line of crap.

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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

@SoylentGreenisPeople the US is a military empire that passed in the last 2 years more funds for in INCREASING military than the entire yearly Chinese budget

military, finance, big business, oligarchs, have pulled off a coup here in the USA

politics is important

in fact, politics must be part of dealing with the biggest problem ever, namely Gaia, The New Climate Regime

irony of the most important value is freedom and at the same time hate politicians and governments which are integral to freedom

we have gone so far from our principles that we might never recover. If the repubs sweep the table in 2018 and 2010, our experiment in republican government and democracy could well be finished

Bernie is one of the very, very few who can do what is needed

he is part of the government, but outside the establishment

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@SoylentGreenisPeople @SoylentGreenisPeople @SoylentGreenisPeople

Because when you read it you’re faced with actual, verifiable FACTS.But they’ll be called lies by people too lazy to check those enumerated factoids simply because it’s an evil RUSSIAN! site.

(NOTE: it pays to verify. Sudan doesn’t belong on this list. See below.)

I believe that you should ALWAYS read what the ‘opposition’ or the ‘enemy’ says because if there’s any dirt to be found, they’re the ones who will find it. All you have to do is some basic research to find out if it’s truth or fact regardless of whether it’s friend or (often imagined) ‘foe’who is making the claim. And with the internet there’s absolutely NO excuse for not doing just that.

Something I’ve never understood is why so many people think that actually doing research ends the minute you get out of school. ‘Trust but verify’ is one big line of BS. In realiry it is ‘Verify THEN trust.

WHOOPS! I’m following my own preaching and i found an untruth in that re: Sudan. See post second post down.

EDIT: see last paragraph.
EDIT EDIT: corrected statement

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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if I can vetify them. I was sort of doubtful on the Haiti claim, but it’s true. It’s in regard to the removal of Aristide.

H Amdt 575 - U.S. Policy on Haiti Substitute Amendment - National Key Vote

Bernie Sanders voted Yea (Amendment Vote) on this Amendment.

Description

Amendment expresses as the sense of Congress that the U.S. should not undertake any military action directed against Haiti unless the President certifies to Congress that a clear and present danger exists to U.S. citizens or that the interests of the U.S. requires such action.

Purpose:
An amendment to express that it is the sense of Congress that the U.S. should not undertake any military action directed against Haiti unless the President certifies to Congress that a clear and present danger exists to U.S. citizens or that the interests of the U.S. requires such action.

https://votesmart.org/bill/3424/us-policy-on-haiti-substitute-amendment#...

I hate hate hate wading through this crap. You can’t just read a damn bill. Oh hell no. You have to sort through all the freaking Amendments as well.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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authorization was asked: Clinton justified his action under the 1973 War Powers Act during the U.S. Involvement in Bosnia-Herzegovina

On 20 August 1998, the factory was destroyed in cruise missile strikes launched by the United States military allegedly in retaliation for the truck bombattacks on its embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya on 7 August. The administrationof President Bill Clinton justified the attacks, dubbed Operation Infinite Reach, on the grounds that the al-Shifa plant was involved with processing the deadly nerve agent VX, and had ties with the Islamist al-Qaeda group of Osama bin Laden, which was believed to be behind the embassy bombings and Operation Bojinka, an alleged large-scale terrorist plot. U.S. action on 20 August also hit al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, where bin Laden had moved following his May 1996 expulsion from Sudan.

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Officials later acknowledged, however, "that the evidence that prompted President Clinton to order the missile strike on the Shifa plant was not as solid as first portrayed. Indeed, officials later said that there was no proof that the plant had been manufacturing or storing nerve gas, as initially suspected by the Americans, or had been linked to Osama bin Laden, who was a resident of Khartoum in the 1980s."[3]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlShifa_pharmaceutical_factory

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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There is no value in experience.

For example, I sure as hell wouldn't send a guy who spent 50 years learning ONLY the intricacies of Dungeons and Dragons to actually go out and plan a military campaign. Unless he'd actually done something with his life, and had activities outside of that limited scope, he's going to lead us to disaster.

He has no idea of what the capabilities of our troops actually are, what they are capable of, what the enemy is capable of, or even how to keep the troops fed.

He spent his time oohing and ahhing over statistics, strategies and tactics, and minimizing and maximizing stats for maximum efficiency. Not once did he have any actual interaction with the real stuff, learning about it instead second hand, from sources that had an obvious agenda.

Politicians are political Game players. That's ALL they do. As a result they can't realize that their game has NO relation whatsoever to reality. All their little numbers, score marks and tallies can't buy a baked potato if it's all that stands between somebody and starvation.

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

WaterLily's picture

Nancy finances her plastic surgery with?

Dog, I can't stand her.

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@WaterLily No not plastic surgery. I want to know who does her embalming.

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...with 5 words:

"Impeachment is off the table."

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

@The Liberal Moonbat

the illegal NSA spying apparatus had been revealed to her by the Bush Administration . . . . and AFTER she had decided to keep her mouth shut about it. (Just what one would expect from the leader of the supposed "opposition party," huh?)

In fact, the public didn't first find out about the NSA activities until the NYTimes' James Risen first revealed them in late 2005. Certainly, it wasn't Nancy who was doing her patriotic duty to inform the American public of mass scale violations of their constitutional liberties. Instead, it took people like Risen, Binney, and Snowden to pull the curtain back for all to see.

The reason impeachment was "off of the table," was likely that, behind the scenes, she and/or too many members of her own party had endorsed and/or been complicit in the very crimes of the Bush Administration for which impeachment should have been sought.

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Would be interested in reading the whole thang.

Anyway, here's Greenwald interview mentioning Pelosi

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

divineorder's picture

I saw this:

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@divineorder Reading the transcript, it's even MORE dismissive than people on twitter were claiming.

Not only does she completely ignore the question, she Instead tries to banter, changing the story to "Look, I'm a Progressive Female TOO! We need more female progressives like ME! Vote for me!"

There's no struggle that a Rich White Woman can't make hers.

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@detroitmechworks

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@detroitmechworks

Nancy Pelosi’s Net Worth in 2018: Napa Valley Vineyard Made Her the Fourth Richest Californian in Congress!\

Well there's that fabulously rich thing, (it's her husband not her, move along) which really really helps the desperately poor-oppressed in SF (unless you're in the right neighborhood and bought your house/apartment in the 1970s) and then for some reason she raises more money than almost anyone else.

It is a puzzlement.

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Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!

Firesign Theater

Stop the War!

@detroitmechworks
Oprah, Michelle Obama, Valerie Jarrett (Well, she claims she's AA although she has lighter skin than I do and 23andme says I'm 0.1% African)

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

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I hope Ocasio-Cortez is prepared for them. Otherwise, she's gonna be lynched by the single party masquerading as two.

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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.

SO WHAT! WHO CARES! WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME! there's enough of us to have that in common. If we don't like the answer throw fruit, throw bottles, throw rocks until they say something we want to hear.

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@Snode "Wazzinit for me". These rich fuckers have been following that rule number one of congressional politics--self-aggrandizement. We don't even get the Pelosi crumbs. If she's a progressive, we're in seriouser* trouble--however this is the woman who famously said "I'm a capitalist."

*seriouser could become a Pelosi-ism in view of her nominal dysphasia.

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@Snode double post

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if Pelosi has had her primary yet? Wasn't someone running against her?

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"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone

@WoodsDweller thanks for asking?
https://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-rep/district/12
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Shahid Buttar - (Party Preference: DEM) 8.5%
Stephen Jaffe (Party Preference: DEM) 5.9%
Ryan A. Khojasteh (Party Preference: DEM) 4.6%
* Nancy Pelosi (Party Preference: DEM) 68.5%
Lisa Remmer (Party Preference: REP) 9.1%
Barry Hermanson (Party Preference: GRN) 2.0%
Michael Goldstein (Party Preference: NPP) 1.4%
* Incumbent
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DEM = Democratic Party
REP = Republican Party
AI = American Independent Party
GRN = Green Party
LIB = Libertarian Party
P&F = Peace and Freedom Party
NPP = No Party Preferred
---
Looks to me like DSA SF did not endorse Jaffe, because of course? I don't know why, I thought he was the Berniecrat. ~shrug~

June 5, 2018 Election
DSA SF has made the following endorsements and statements on initiatives being voted on in the June 5, 2018 election. The chapter has taken no position and made no statement with respect to any other initiative appearing on the June 2018 ballot.

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@eyo

Looks to me like DSA SF did not endorse Jaffe, because of course? I don't know why, I thought he was the Berniecrat

Old White Male, three strikes and you're out in the Democratic Party. That's because they have no real platform, only divisive demographics.

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

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@The Voice In the Wilderness Start with Steny Hoyer. Nadler is no spring chicken either. If I were so inclined (which I ain't) I would research this topic. There's plenty of room in Congress for RICH old white male Democrats.

How about RICH presenile black female Democrats, like Mad Maxine Waters, who unfortunately crushed all opponents in her district's primary and she doesn't even live there (too many poor black women do live there).

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@Alligator Ed
Over at Booman Tribune they are still lambasting "deplorables" and specifically blue collar Midwesterners for HER defeat. In between the front page RUSSIA! essays. Booman actually thinks there's a chance that Mcconnell will go along with a Democratic bill of impeachment.
OK, I'm not a pundit, but IMHO, if McConnell did that he would be "down in some lonesome valley, hanging from a White Oak tree".

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

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was linked in this guy's blog. Have no idea who he is but looks like he writes like a wingnut. At any rate he has the link to the full speech.

https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/06/28/did-obama-really-declare-a-n...

So I went on the whitehouse.gov website and typed the words “Obama Brussels Belgium speech” in the search bar.

Among the links that popped up was one to a speech the POS gave on March 26, 2014, to European youth at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Belgium. Click here for the transcript of the speech.

As I had suspected, the purported NWO video snippet was taken entirely out of context, as shown in the three paragraphs I excerpted from Obama’s March 26, 2014 speech (see below). The words in the very misleading video snippet are colored red.

Leaders and dignitaries of the European Union; representatives of our NATO Alliance; distinguished guests: We meet here at a moment of testing for Europe and the United States, and for the international order that we have worked for generations to build.

Throughout human history, societies have grappled with fundamental questions of how to organize themselves, the proper relationship between the individual and the state, the best means to resolve inevitable conflicts between states. And it was here in Europe, through centuries of struggle — through war and Enlightenment, repression and revolution — that a particular set of ideals began to emerge: The belief that through conscience and free will, each of us has the right to live as we choose. The belief that power is derived from the consent of the governed, and that laws and institutions should be established to protect that understanding. And those ideas eventually inspired a band of colonialists across an ocean, and they wrote them into the founding documents that still guide America today, including the simple truth that all men — and women — are created equal.

But those ideals have also been tested — here in Europe and around the world. Those ideals have often been threatened by an older, more traditional view of power. This alternative vision argues that ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign. Often, this alternative vision roots itself in the notion that by virtue of race or faith or ethnicity, some are inherently superior to others, and that individual identity must be defined by “us” versus “them,” or that national greatness must flow not by what a people stand for, but by what they are against.

I’m the last person to defend Obama the POS. But to take his words out of context so as to portray him as having publicly and brazenly declared a New World Order is being deceptive. Doing so just makes us look devious, and the people who swallowed it hook, line, and sinker look stupid.

~Eowyn

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@divineorder I admit to not reading the entire transcript previously. The quotation in the video is only a small portion of this eloquent fallacious exercise in platitudinous deception, half-truths, and outright lies, distortions and omissions. Perhaps I will parse the flowery verbiage, trimming back the pretty flowers to reveal the ugly, sadistic thorns and spikes deeply within, constructing a bocage of obfuscation.

You are too kind to denominate Hussein as merely an empty suit, but I do agree with the appellation "POS".

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@Alligator Ed @Alligator Ed

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

@divineorder thanks, Lionel is a "Q acolyte", and this essay uses a lot of Q language, if you ask me, I don't know if it was intentional.

I watch most of Praying Medic's videos, for my Q fixation: https://www.youtube.com/user/prayingmedic/videos
prayingmedic scares me. I am not religious, I am not a conservative, I am not straight, I am not anything like him at all... but I can't stop watching. In fact I was kinda disturbed when his channel got disrupted by googs copyright trolls (or whoever it was) but he is back now.

Q is supposed to be the right hand man of President Donald J. Trump.
This is where he posts his insider stuff, gettin' everyone pumped for the mid-terms, and the prison terms: https://qanon.pub/

peace

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@eyo

of a cheezy spy novel. Here’s a whole page of it...

https://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1510/32/1510320845603.png

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!

Firesign Theater

Stop the War!

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Now don't get me wrong. We're going to have imperfect allies. He wants to destroy both parties too.

But too often I find you go for folks who may temporarily have an epiphany, but who are overwhelmingly RW in their essence. In other words when it comes down it they'll run right back to their warped indoctrination and away from where we're coming from.

Like Rand or Ron Paul or any other comfortable, older, white Libertarian, he's right maybe 15% of the time. But basically I don't feel like he's the kind of guy who's going to be gelling at a place like C99. His diatribes are littered with telltale signs i.e. Soros, tryanny, The Constitution, Constitutional Republic, etc.

I'd prefer if we'd be a little more discerning with guys like this. I sure as hell don't think he really understands someone like Ocasio. He's never going to get it, in particular doesn't even have a clue to what socialism is. He only likes her/this insofar as it it challenges the "Deep State," as he titles his video.

And the folks he attracts. Compare the comments there, with that of the Jimmy Dore Show, Tim Black, The Rational National, or any other website like Truthdig, Common Dreams, RSN, etc - and it's completely revelatory.

Here's a sampling:

The dems are grooming this cortez chick...they need something attractive to make communism look attractive...they know people are retarded.

Another deep state commie NOT to elect to Congress

Sounds like a Soros backed candidate. Like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. I was born in New York- and couldn’t leave fast enough.

"Community Organizers" - A fancy word for Communists - Why don't they just say it?

She wants open borders and to stop ICE

Hussein in skirt.

Democrat = Socialist = Marxist = Communist = Progressive = Liberal. No difference.

The knuckle-draggers to which he appeals says something. Most or half of them are probably not reachable.

Otherwise, good to see you. And like you I pop in to read multiple times a day. But I'm balancing a 9 month old on my lap just to get this off my chest.

I'll also say the Ocasio victory was pretty staggeringly amazing, and has big ramifications. Can't elaborate as much as I'd like now (but started to put something together yesterday).

May go to a local DSA celebration of Ocasio volunteers in Elmhurst, Queens tonight just because I'd love to be around and inspired by these local ragtag motherfuckers who just pummeled the Democratic Party.

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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:

THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

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@Mark from Queens and congratulations about your youngin. I am through with diaper duty after rising 4 kids--I actually did do that when not grinding out a living.

It is true that Lionel has RW tendencies as you correctly explain. Is the commentary to his videos or any other videographer indicative of underlying viewpoints? Yes, to a great extent this is true. But one must make use of others whose opinions often diverge from ours. Make allies when suitable--to not do so will freeze the purists into impotent, powerless poseurs of ideology over practicality. Temporary alliances with anti-war Libertarians, for instance, is useful. When it comes to union-busting, I firmly disagree with the so-called "right to work" Libertarian philosophy.

I do consult RW sites to see what they are saying, often informative, sometimes misleading. We, here at c99 have an unusual mix of intelligent commentary, some of it rough-edged indeed. If we had a YouTube site, which I am NOT proposing, it would be interesting to read what the commentary from a larger audience might reveal.

Smile

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lotlizard's picture

I don’t think he has any more rough edges than any of us posters here on C99. And he has a heck of lot more experience actually working in the political and media milieus he comments on.

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@lotlizard

‘Chem trails’ here.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

lotlizard's picture

@Amanda Matthews  
Didn’t particularly resonate, nor did it provoke calls for a topic ban as does, for example, Pizzagate or MRA (men’s rights activism).

That’s more or less true of the occasions when c99ers cast doubt on the official 9/11 story too.

In a big non-partisan tent, it’ll always be the case that what some see as key will be dismissed by others as trash and mere corn-syrupy theory.

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Big Al's picture

republican party leadership/establishment.

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@Big Al like waging peace, cruel kindness, bleeding heart conservative or precision bombing.

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Alligator Ed's picture

@Big Al Perhps when the Never Trumpers are reduced in numbers, we might have something to say bout fellows like Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes, Mark Meadows, etc. Ryan's on his way out, so why waste time on him. We still can write stuff about McConnell, the turtle-faced Senate chief obstructionist, and also Never Trumper, who is famous for obstructing his own alleged party's agenda--ensuring that NOTHING gets done (except to enrich himself).

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gulfgal98's picture

The answer to that is easy...MONEY! Pelosi has the reputation of being a prodigious fund raiser. And Schumer is Mr. Wall Street.

No one in the Democratic party establishment cares about anything other than fund raising. And this is exactly why the Democratic party is incapable of being reformed. They are too corrupt to be reformed.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Cachola's picture

You have offended my intelligence by publishing that video of Obama completely out of context. Did you think noone would look for the complete speech? Shame on you!

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Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

Alligator Ed's picture

@Cachola But did you read the whole transcript and fail to detect the enormous slathering of deceit and hypocrisy? Perhaps I should post an essay parsing Hussein's entire self-serving speech. So, as you correctly note the 19 second video clip was taken OUT of context, did you fail to observe the trees in the forest of lies and deception?

You are within your rights to dislike anyone or any idea not meeting your world view. I do not object. But please re-read the transcript and tell me if you support 80% of what he said as being factual.

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