Vote early -- vote often --

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 2:03pm

(just kidding)

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/2/1847042/-Daily-Kos-Democratic-...

Seriously, life is too short to be waiting around forever for the Presidential savior who doesn't come. Why wait? Organize for yourselves. So here is my serious question: what would the US equivalent of the Zapatistas look like? Where is our Chiapas?

I suppose if the poll were a complete farce we could vote for either Beavis or Buttigieg. I guess at this point that I'm hoping that the Bernie workers make great friendships, ones that don't fall apart if Bernie decides to endorse a neoliberal again.

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Submitted by Anja Geitz on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 2:38pm

This is hilarious

If Tulsi is the nominee against Trump, I will interpret that as a sign for me to find a cave somewhere and hold out for the apocalypse. Of all the “serious” dems running, she is the one person I can’t tolerate. It would take some heavy nose holding for me to give her my general election vote. Any of the others, I’ll vote for gladly. I suspect I’m not alone. If this suspicion is correct, that is what separates her from Booker, Klobuchar, and Gillibrand . . .

Hmmm...well, if everyone over at the Orange insane asylum did hide in a cave, think of benefits they'd bestow on political discourse in their absence?

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 2:53pm

"I elect my Presidents"

@Anja Geitz "because I find their personalities tolerable. Policy? What's that?"

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“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 2:58pm

The hold the nose comment was the best part

@Cassiodorus

Can you imagine anyone of those knuckleheads over there actually voting for Tulsi to *gasp* beat Trump!

There's a dilemma I'd like to see on film.

Hahahahaha!!!

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Submitted by JekyllnHyde on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 2:40pm

Markos Couldn't Resist Commenting on Bernie's Fundraising Haul

I detect a bit of envy in his voice!

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Submitted by Hawkfish on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 2:46pm

First thing I’m going to do

@JekyllnHyde

when the FEC data comes out on the 20th is figure out exactly how many of Beto's donors are not the TX DNC (and how much they gave). I’ve still got all my tools from 2016...

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We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 2:53pm

You'd think with the money Markos makes

@JekyllnHyde

He'd find a better hairdresser.

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 4:44pm

I was thinking Suit

@Anja Geitz

I'm not really up on men's fashion wear, but is brown velvet suede in now?

I see that the most important issue for the anti Bernie kids is ~~climate change, wealth inequality, endless wars~~ his damn taxes! Good lord. One person said that in the past candidates released their taxes after they became the nominee. I don't know if this is true or not, but still. This is the Hill people are going to die on? Whether Bernie has scudded on his taxes?

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

Submitted by Bollox Ref on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 6:44pm

No sane man would wear a suit like that

@snoopydawg

Has to be an awful jacket.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Wed, 04/03/2019 - 12:50am

Meow.

@Anja Geitz

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The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

Submitted by Bollox Ref on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 6:38pm

Does the fraud

@JekyllnHyde

manically wave his arms around like last week's dolce gusto, Robert Francis O'Rourke?

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Submitted by Shahryar on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 3:25pm

hope I didn't get a virus by looking at that poll

here's why I am not a big Bernie supporter.

Imagine it's 1968. Bernie Sanders says it's time we turned over some of the fighting in Vietnam to Saudi Arabia...or India.

Do you vote for him? I wouldn't.

Submitted by eyo on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 3:40pm

Well the comments made me puke, D-Contagions

@Shahryar Bernie leads with 33.3333333333333%! LOL when the DNC "rules" are finally released in October, the threshold will be 34%, right? golly gee

I clicked [Show Results] and then read the comments until his fugly ui made my eyes bleed, and then refreshed the results once more. hit me Seems like Tuesdays are cynical comments everywhere days... or is TOP like that all the time? Not too many vocal Bernie supporters visible, fear of kos I guess. Immunize orange plague, silence = clicks. heh

good luck

Submitted by polkageist on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 5:43pm

I haven't been to KOS for a long, long time.

@eyo
But I went there and found that I can still log in. So I did and voted for Bernie and I think my vote put him at 34%. He is at 34% anyway and I want to think my vote did it.

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-Greed is not a virtue.
-Socialism: the radical idea of sharing.
-Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 6:31pm

See Caucus99percenters?

@polkageist An individual can make a difference!

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“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon

Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 5:14pm

This goes well your comment I think

@Shahryar

Aloha to Hawai’i Army National Guard soldiers deploying to Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/Evxgs2ky8f

— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) April 2, 2019

I didn't listen to the whole video, but from what I heard Tulsi is sad that her old national guard unit is being deployed to Afghanistan without her. After some of their 4th deployment some of them are going to hang it up because it's been hard on their families being without them. How about how hard it is for some Afghan families whose sons and husbands we've killed for no reason? Well besides the opium, oil, gas and other natural resources...

Yuck and done. First off the guard shouldn't be deployed overseas for a made up war and secondly it's past time to bring all the troops out and home!

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 5:26pm

This is the best political commentary

@snoopydawg
have seen in eons. Gets to the heart of the matter.
Thanks snoop.

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 7:55pm

I watched the entire video

@snoopydawg Her commentary was definitely heartfelt about the sacrifices that those being deployed make and the sacrifices their families make. When Tulsi was deployed to Afghanistan, she was married to her first husband who had been her childhood sweetheart. When she returned, the marriage was over, so she knows how hard deployments are for those deployed and their families.

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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

Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Wed, 04/03/2019 - 12:53am

The guard shouldn't be deployed outside of the

@snoopydawg @snoopydawg
territorial US, ever. It's a violation of the whole concept. It would have made "the Founders" throw the fuck up.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 3:51pm

There's one neoliberal he may not support:

Not even a week has passed since Lucy Flores... reignited the controversy surrounding Joe Biden's long history of creepily caressing women during public events. Yesterday, a second accuser came forward with a story about how Biden had rubbed his nose against hers... during a fundraiser in Connecticut.

The allegations have elicited intense blowback for Biden... just as he was reportedly about to launch his campaign.

The Biden team, with its future now in jeopardy, have settled on a culprit: Vermont Senator and presidential rival Bernie Sanders. Several around Biden think advisers to Bernie Sanders are at least partly behind the anti-Biden campaign. One prominent backer thinks Biden will run, and "is ready to kill Bernie."

But the campaign season is still young — and filled with neoliberals.

Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 4:50pm

And hilarity ensues

@Pluto's Republic

One prominent backer thinks Biden will run, and "is ready to kill Bernie."

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Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 9:32pm

ensues

@Raggedy Ann

And hilarity ensues

"And Hillary ensues", did you say?
/s
[ducking]

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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 4:58pm

I'm sure that Joe has evolved through the years

@Pluto's Republic

and doesn't think the same way now about the caudrey of youngsters waiting to beat up his mother and wife.

Here's his speech on the crime bill. I'm not sure whose speech was worse. His or Hillary's?

Joe Biden will be the most racist candidate in the race if he announces. This video is vile. pic.twitter.com/w1WIIJElGY

— Polly Tickal (@PollyTickal) April 2, 2019

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 5:39pm

Here's a different straw poll from Markos Makesitso's

2020 Democratic Nominee Poll by Markos Makesitso

Welcome to the first of many polls I’ll be putting out on a weekly basis. As a reminder, polling this early in the election season is always to be taken with a grain of salt, as even the most well intentioned poll can only capture a snapshot in time, and rarely factors in election fraud. My request to you is that you share these polls far and wide on social media so that we get an accurate sample of the full electorate. My one caveat, which should be obvious by now, is that I ask you to please ensure you’ve blocked all known progressives and Bernie Sanders supporters before sharing the poll. Check back each week for an analysis on the prior week’s polling results and to participate in a new poll.

LMAO. I love this guy.

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 04/03/2019 - 12:25am

Didn't anyone catch the spelling here?

@snoopydawg

This is what makes it so funny.

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

Submitted by Bollox Ref on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 6:21pm

What a sad world....

A self-selecting straw poll (on a site run by a petty, petulant pottymouth), that has become some sort of gold standard.

Nah. Can't do it. Haven't logged in for three years. Good on those that can.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 6:34pm

Yeah --

@Bollox Ref It's like actual voting -- the best you can do is to tweak the noses of the elites.

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“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon

Submitted by Bollox Ref on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 7:01pm

Just remembered that I was banned anyway

@Cassiodorus

so........ it's all redundant.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 7:59pm

Well, I logged on and voted

My vote was for Others along with a comment that I hope dkos would count my vote for Tulsi Gabbard.

Rhetorical question. How can a candidate ever get the needed percentage in a poll when they are not even listed in that poll? Yeah, I know......

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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

Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 10:29pm

Did you take some time to read comments?

@gulfgal98

The things they say about Tulsi would have gotten them banned if they said it about Herheinous. This is what makes them such hypocrites about the whole sexist and misogynistic crap they pulled last time.

Lmao... I recently read a diary there about how sad it is that Warren and Kamillary aren't higher in the polls. She of course said it's because people refuse to vote for a woman for president. This is such nonsense. Hollary got 3 million more votes than Trump so how does that stand up to scrutiny? People Voted For Hillary. It's no ones fault except hers that she went to play with the rich people instead of the ones she needed to vote for her in the states she lost. This is not rocket science.

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.