@mimi
I saved you 57 minutes of superfluous 'babbling' with this comment, you are welcome.

Presidential Debate's transcript

And I guess these are videos from the debate.
Gimme a break, four hours long?

@Centaurea

A video compilation of Gabbard's performance at the June 26th debate:

/https://youtu.be/XO20Pek16fo

@dkmich

that Chuck Todd of the Chuck and Rachel Show got more time than 50% of the candidates on stages.

All I want is for Warren to tank. As someone pointed out, the MSM will hype Warren until she serves her purpose which is to sink Bernie. Then they'll turn on her and support Biden.

@leveymg

and convincing that these wars have hurt America and do the Mideast no good at all. Even Tweety thanked Gabbard for her public service by challenging the Neocons. That, after John Delaney humiliated Rachel Maddow on Russia, Russia, Russia.

Delaney gunned down Maddow in a rapid-fire statement that in his hundreds of campaign stops, the voters have not been talking about Mueller. Bullseye. She could be seen crying blood, furiously crossing items off her list of follow-up questions she couldn't ask after being publicly executed.

Beto, an empty RFK imitator, beat himself, with a little help from Castro.

Altogether, a pleasant evening. I am a little more hopeful. That Pale Blue D is still there on the wall, though. Gotta get rid of that symbol of 2016 after tonight, when we'll see more of it again.

@laurel

Wow. I love your expression, "faugressive candidates," and I hope you use it far and wide. Great comments.

Bernie's effect on the 2016 election and the country itself was clearly evident in each and every passionate opening statement. By expressing our values and feelings in the form of tangible proposals and then launching them into a formal political process with the visibility of a major presidential run, Bernie uncorked the needs, desires, and frustrations of a huge (yuge!) portion of the country, and it all spilled out in splendid excess -- immense arenas packed with cheering Americans, most of them very young and energetic, and blocks and blocks of people waiting for hours to get in to hear a white-haired, gruff-voiced old man speak to us where we are and tell the truths we still hold.

It took the establishment by surprise when they thought they finally had the media under complete control, a seamless web of propaganda creating the public reality, the public mind. What they learned is that the people have long been restive despite the manufactured consent and remain so. So they poured their creative energies into controlled opposition websites and organizations and faugressive candidates. They want to stop this thing before it ever gets out of hand again. So they are doing everything they can to defeat candidates like Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard while promoting those who will pass for progressive while remaining firmly in the global capitalist corral. They undermine all forms of independent media and deplatform progressive voices.

So it's highly unlikely that they will allow Bernie or Tulsi to emerge as winners of this primary. They are as serious about this as they are about torturing Chelsea Manning and disabling Julian Assange. They will do whatever it takes to eliminate truth-tellers.

I think it will require some form of guerilla warfare for all who would stand up for the people. Some way to outsmart the establishment.

@laurel

Well done!

The thing that will show if the election is fair this time is if the media brings back exit polls. They stopped doing them last time because the numbers weren't adding up to the results.

"According to the exit polls Bernie is ahead of Hillary. Wait..what? Never mind."

Bernie's effect on the 2016 election and the country itself was clearly evident in each and every passionate opening statement. By expressing our values and feelings in the form of tangible proposals and then launching them into a formal political process with the visibility of a major presidential run, Bernie uncorked the needs, desires, and frustrations of a huge (yuge!) portion of the country, and it all spilled out in splendid excess -- immense arenas packed with cheering Americans, most of them very young and energetic, and blocks and blocks of people waiting for hours to get in to hear a white-haired, gruff-voiced old man speak to us where we are and tell the truths we still hold.

It took the establishment by surprise when they thought they finally had the media under complete control, a seamless web of propaganda creating the public reality, the public mind. What they learned is that the people have long been restive despite the manufactured consent and remain so. So they poured their creative energies into controlled opposition websites and organizations and faugressive candidates. They want to stop this thing before it ever gets out of hand again. So they are doing everything they can to defeat candidates like Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard while promoting those who will pass for progressive while remaining firmly in the global capitalist corral. They undermine all forms of independent media and deplatform progressive voices.

So it's highly unlikely that they will allow Bernie or Tulsi to emerge as winners of this primary. They are as serious about this as they are about torturing Chelsea Manning and disabling Julian Assange. They will do whatever it takes to eliminate truth-tellers.

I think it will require some form of guerilla warfare for all who would stand up for the people. Some way to outsmart the establishment.

@laurel But your name reminds me of one of my favorite recent songs, so I thought I'd post it as an interlude:

[VIDEO:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n0v4kP8gHc]

Lyrics:
I used to dream of daisychains and nothing but the sun
And my pleasure seeking soul, she always had me on the run,
but I caught her in the moment and I asked her why she spun,
she said when I slow down the whole thing catches up.
And I mostly am a wanderer, when I am lost im found,
and i chose to leave the ocean where my sisters all abound,
cause the river she would call to me, her lonely drifting sound,
She'd say we're mostly made of water, we will trickle lazily down

But I'll admit that Anastasia I was following your wild ways,
They had me running to the grave,
We learn of freedom and then we scream it as we barrel down the interstate
Figure we're dying anyway,

So when you ask me where I'm going, I'm not going anywhere,
I'm walking out beyond the wreckage, wreath of laurel in my hair,
I'm walking out beyond the shackles of this heavy load I bear,
Till all my nights are holy reverie, and my mornings are a prayer.

And we will grow in the heart of this age, we will push up through the pavement,
I've seen a garden that grows in a glass jar,
I've seen the monolith lit from within,
And I've seen trees growing over the tree line,
They grow twisted and tough in the wind,
I've seen a garden that grows in a glass jar,
I've seen the monolith lit from within,
And we will grow in the heart of this age, we will push up through the pavement,
I've seen a garden that grows in a glass jar,
I've seen the monolith lit from within,

So when you ask me where I'm going, I'm not going anywhere,
I'm walking out beyond the wreckage, wreath of laurel in my hair,
I'm walking out beyond the shackles of this heavy load I bear,
Till all my nights are holy reverie, and my mornings are a prayer.

Bernie's effect on the 2016 election and the country itself was clearly evident in each and every passionate opening statement. By expressing our values and feelings in the form of tangible proposals and then launching them into a formal political process with the visibility of a major presidential run, Bernie uncorked the needs, desires, and frustrations of a huge (yuge!) portion of the country, and it all spilled out in splendid excess -- immense arenas packed with cheering Americans, most of them very young and energetic, and blocks and blocks of people waiting for hours to get in to hear a white-haired, gruff-voiced old man speak to us where we are and tell the truths we still hold.

It took the establishment by surprise when they thought they finally had the media under complete control, a seamless web of propaganda creating the public reality, the public mind. What they learned is that the people have long been restive despite the manufactured consent and remain so. So they poured their creative energies into controlled opposition websites and organizations and faugressive candidates. They want to stop this thing before it ever gets out of hand again. So they are doing everything they can to defeat candidates like Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard while promoting those who will pass for progressive while remaining firmly in the global capitalist corral. They undermine all forms of independent media and deplatform progressive voices.

So it's highly unlikely that they will allow Bernie or Tulsi to emerge as winners of this primary. They are as serious about this as they are about torturing Chelsea Manning and disabling Julian Assange. They will do whatever it takes to eliminate truth-tellers.

I think it will require some form of guerilla warfare for all who would stand up for the people. Some way to outsmart the establishment.