but then he added he liked Wagner. Since then I have my doubts and am pretty, pretty careful about what to think about him ... Watch out if he talks code language with hecate. That's an internal love affair between the two.

There are just so amazing people here that I can't stop being speechless, (which is a good thing).

Assertions that JtC is human are mere CT (cosplay theory).

After the autumn
But the leaves had left.
After the fall?
The lefts had rift?

Just saying. Cuz she agrees.

The comments are chuckle-worthy as well.

the handwriting was on the wall for several years about the direction that things were headed, I think we just noticed it a little earlier than most. We saw how folks were dropping out one by one, giving up, and we scrambled to put something in place to catch them before they left for good. We started as Google Group about a year and a half ago, migrated to a phpBB forum and then moved to another phpBB forum that I built as a temporary home, while I built this site. The whole time, from the start of the Google Group, up until now, our aspirations were what you see here. We had a feeling this would happen, we discussed it regularly, and that's what kept us pushing on.

and the 'Rox v. Sux' Wars of 2014 were no exception.

Of course they weren't really about [Obama] Rox v [Obama] Sux, although that was how they were framed. IIRC, they were really about 'The Corporate Democratic party is the real Democratic Party, and anybody who says otherwise must be thrown off the island!' versus 'America . . . Constitutional Government . . . 1%/99% . . . continuing Bush policies . . . TPP . . . NSA . . . income equality . . . and all the other arguments you see being made by Progressives.

Then came the Edict, then came the bannings and HR strafings, and then some folks who had been banned, or had chosen self-deportation, or had just decided to build an alternative site, generate the beginnings of the Lifeboat that later became c99.

Around the time of that transition, the people being attacked as 'Not True Democrats' shared lots of discussion about 'why this, why now?' Many theories were discussed, but the one that stuck with me, and which I always thought was the best answer, was that dKos was expected to deliver a (or several) solid blocs of ideologically-pure True Believers before the next election, so he had to clear out the dross and make room for a new influx of younger, hipper people (he packaged this as needing to keep up with 'the market'). Well, I think he got his younger, hipper crew -- but didn't realize how non-traditional they would turn out to be.

As for the timing on this Purge, I think it came from above. Like most of us, I have my standard visit-every-day sites, including the Guardian. Up to the end of the first week in March, they had been covering the Primaries about the way I expected them to from past experience, and had been giving Sanders pretty fair coverage. Then one morning I was startle to see a big change in the way that Clinton, and Sanders wee covered. The change was mainly in the language, the style used. Suddenly the language seemed to make Clinton bigger, more important and impactful, further ahead and inevitable, while Sanders was suddenly unimportant, slightly silly, and insignificant. On other sites, Sanders had similarly gone from an interesting, surprising dark horse to someone who had to be mentioned a little at least.

I went to DK and saw the Edict being reacted to -- I had missed it by a day. By the following Sunday (2 days), the Primaries were over and America was now on General Election footing. A few days later, we learned that The Memo had indeed gone out and that Clinton henchman Brock had sent it.

So it really took no predictive powers for the c99 Originals to know that another dKos Purge would come; all they had to do was look at the past. What could not be predicted was when -- for who could forsee that Her Royal Clintoness would decree that Election season would commence halfway through the Primaries, or that the world media would immediately agree?

(Pls excuse typos; I must quit now, and can't proofread.)

to tip, rec and tweet

I just cannot believe that he is in complete agreement with what is going on there now. I just cannot. But who knows.

I really pitied him back then. I'm glad he got out of it. There was just way too much to keep track of. All the histories and grudges and sock puppets and manipulations, and such high traffic.

Things got worse when he quit, though.

that I know of. What he has said is the below, which indicates his primary goal is to prevent a republican Presidency, and I'm sure he feels even more strongly about that now that Trump appears to be the republican nominee. He won't run as an indie and he has always run with the Democrats against the republicans as shown by his 95% voting with Dems voting record. He knows he has a lot of supporters that won't vote Republican and for Clinton to win he will need to try to persuade as many as possible to vote Democrat if he does lose. It would make no sense for him to not get behind Clinton and in effect, he would be going back on his promise to assist the Democratic party.

"Sanders, an independent in the U.S. Senate who is seeking the 2016 presidency on the Democratic ticket, explained in a Q & A session with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that he feels a responsibility to stick to the two party system in the Presidential contest.
"If it happens that I do not win that process, would I run outside the system?", Sanders said in an interview broadcast by CSPAN. "No, I made the promise that I would not and I will keep that promise. And the reason for that is I do not want to be responsible for electing some right wing Republican to be President of the United States".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-independent_us_55ba86...

to rally the troops behind the candidate...

I too hope he simply says, 'Vote Your conscience.'