I Suppose I Should Not Have Been Surprised
It really didn't take many of the so called 'liberal' blogs to fall in line with the corporate wing of the Democratic party.
They boldly avoid even touching the subject of Hillary's AUMF vote, all is forgiven since she said, oops my bad.
If she hadn't campaigned against people's rights it would have been so much worse, so that one is all good.
If she hadn't campaigned for the prison industrial complex..actually could it be much worse?
Yes and all the money from the richest in the world that bailed them out from being so poor [hahahaha] after 8 years in the White House means nothing at all.
I could go on and on, she makes a booboo, says oops, evolves and it's all good to go. When do the errors stop?
The resounding rallying cry, once again is
But she won't be as bad as..
God, I hope they all have apoplectic fits when she swings wildly to the right once the primary is done [if she wins]. I somehow doubt it, even if she picked Rahm or Debbie as a running mate. I would love to see them spin that as, not as bad as.
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Glad to see you here.
Sorry that circumstances at That Other Place require you to move in order to speak your mind.
But welcome all the same, and hope we can provide a pleasant place.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Hiya
I am waiting until the fun and games of the primary are over, then I'll see just what a joke it becomes
I think it will be boring.
If Hillary is nominated, story after story about Hillaryband Trump. There already is too much Trump, but he apparently is the selling point for Hillary.
We'll see. Some of the Congress races might be interesting.
Let's do all we can to get Bernie nominated. Then we'd be talking about real issues and deep change. Instead of " Not Trump."
More Trump than ever
They have done a wonderful publicity campaign for him thus far
Eventually we tire of the "Republicans are evil" propaganda
setting us up for the steady stream of apologetics when Democrat evil is exposed.
“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
Democrats...
...we don't suck quite as much as those guys across the aisle.
Or at least we pretend not to.
After all, which neoliberal would you rather trust? The one who lies and tells you what you want to hear, or the honest one?
“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
This exactly is the conundrum.
There are very few personality traits I despise more than Liars or Hypocrites.
Yet "My" party expects me to fall in line and vote for one person whom is both of these thing?
If we didn't actually have a choice of one with integrity this time and they didn't disparaged him and basically throw every lie and roadblock in front of his campaign as they could then MAYBE I would have settled yet again.
However this Primary has taught me one solid lesson.
This is absolutely NOT the party I thought I was joining.
Fuck Hillary and the DNC, if Sanders doesn't pull this one off then I guess I will be voting only progressives on the down ballot regardless of party and Jill Stein for President.
Party loyalty works both ways or it doesn't work at all. Something the DNC has apparently forgotten.
Well, if the last two elections were not enough to wake them up maybe this one will, but I doubt it.
How's that saying go? "No man can be shown the truth if his very livelihood depends on him not seeing it..." or some such?
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
The amusing thing is that --
you're supposed to vote for her on the off-chance that maybe she's not lying some of the time, as if the additional perk of lying made her better than the honest neoliberals of the Republican Party, who at least confess their brutality openly. Back before Markos's ultimatum I used to ask the Clinton advocates where the "plan" (she's always got a plan) was for her idea of toppling the 1%. One of them responded that raising the top tax rate a tiny bit was "toppling the 1%" -- as if playing dumb were a prerequisite for entry into the Clinton Club.
“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
off chances indeed
Right, vs the off chance that Trump actually means it about doing away with the carried interest loophole and doing something about the trade agreements and offshoring of jobs, and the off-chance that Trump doesn't really mean it about all his racist and xenophobic remarks.
Dunno that I would vote for him, or what I will do in November if Bernie is not on the ticket, but I do know I am not gonna vote for Hillary.
For FREE....
or practically so... the "news" covers him if he wipes his nose...while Sanders draws 20,000+ people to a rally and they hardly even mention it.
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Good to see you here
Haven't been to DKos in a few days. Can post what I want. A lot less stress. I think you will find the same. Anyhow, big smile from me.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
I'm reserving the right
to return for a bit of schadenfreude either if she loses to Trump (which would be a disaster of major proportions) or if she wins then gets us into a war in the Middle East, or maybe Korea. Plus there are still some good writers there if you ignore the front page politics -- read a great diary which of course sank into the ether about how chemists are working on tests to determine actual cannabis content of baked goods so that proper dosage can be determined (to avoid "Dowding", named for Maureen Dowd who ate an entire cannabis laced candy bar when the actual "dosage" was one small piece). I'm still hoping for saner drug policies in this country, even though that would cost the prison-industrial complex a hell of a lot of money in lost inmates.
I know it probably will make me look bad to some..
But if Hillary wins the nom I HOPE Trump wins.
Sure, partly for Schadenfreude, but the bigger reason is I think both the Dems and Republicans will prevent him from getting anything crazy done and he will be a one term president (If he doesn't get impeached, lol!). Hell, he may actually do some good, as I am pretty sure he won't support the TPP, with Hillary I think exactly the opposite is true.
I honestly don't think we can wait 8 years to enact real change when it comes to the environment, I have doubts about even 4 tbh.
Sure, other things will suck for those 4 years, but I just don't see any other way to wake up the DNC at this point. We either need to make them change or make them irrelevant.
At this point I am leaning towards the latter, I am starting to feel that the rot within our party has reached a level where it may be more work to repair it then to tear it down and start over. It would probably cost us more time than we can afford to change such deeply pervasive levels of corruption, and time is in quite a short supply, both for me, and our planet.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Benefits of Trump winning
Destroys the Republican party elites.
Takes control of the DNC/DLC/Third Way out of the clutches of the Clintons.
Gives us a chance to rebuild the Democratic party into what we believe it SHOULD stand for, and often did, before the Clintons took control & turned it into the DLC.
Not as scared of Trump, honestly, as I would be of Clintons back in the WH. Trump plays the clown - uses his reality TV and knowledge of how to manipulate people obsessed by the celebrity culture - but he isn't the clown/racist he's playing. He was a huge funder of Planned Parenthood for years. His older sister is a judge who advocates strongly for women's issues. Trump has his MBA from Wharton. I'd trust him more than I'd trust the Clintons. Sure, he's a narcissist, but not more than Bill Clinton!
Trump is making a fool of the media - got more than $2 billion in free coverage ( not including the FP of GOS which seems obsessed with him!) and laughing at the coverage - he knows he's playing the clown, and who would be stupid enough to try to make fun of a clown!!!!
Sounds like we are on the same page.
Not that I would ever vote for the asshat, for the same reasons I can't vote for Clinton, but I honestly think he will be less damaging in the long term and may lead to some eventual positive change.
Some people won't call the fire department until they see the flames, no matter how much smoke there appears to be.
Let it Bern or Burn, both are preferable to the status quo continuing.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
I wil write in Bernie Sanders
I don't live in a swing state, but honestly, even if I did, I'd write in Bernie Sanders. I want the DNC/DLC/Clintons to see how many hundreds of thousands of people will write in Bernie Sanders.
As for Trump, don't think he's more dangerous than Clinton. If he wins, he'll do his Etch-A-Sketch, and those reality tv followers won't be able to do a damn thing about it.
Cruz and Kasich TERRIFY me, Trump doesn't. Short term consequences, to gain long term changes to the system.
Yet, still holding out a great deal of hope for Bernie Sanders. Also, wondering what the FBI & NSA will do to Clinton.
the best part of your comment is that you were able to post
it without hillary's #1 harpy, markos, swooping down on you with his ban hammer
btw, agree, totally, with your plan to write-in bernie's name & your overall analysis.
I can't root for Trump winning
to send a message to the DNC -- his winning would give free rein to the crazies who follow him and a lot of innocent people might end up getting hurt. Just look at the attacks on Sikhs recently with the idiots thinking turbans=Muslim.
The evidence post-2000 is quite clear:
There is no virtue in "sending a message" to the DNC. They aren't paying much attention, and to the extent they are, they willfully misinterpret the information.
The only message worth sending is "We're taking this party away from you".
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.
Hey, LA Fem, good to see you here. I think you'll like it.
Phoned in, gotta run, welcome.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
My haiku applies here.
My haiku applies here:
Ides of March decree
Boss Kos' loss is our gain
Bye bye, fatass dicks!
And please permit me to second your welcome to LaFeminista!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Literal LOL
Many will
not vote for her in the general election if she wins the primary. The 1st wave liberal blog owners are making a massive miscalculation on this front.
This is not a primary between two establishment candidates as it was in 2008.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
Their choice
They chose willingly from day 1. Trouble for them is that the internet is still the wild west and something else is always ready to take their place. I think Bernie has sown the seeds of a positive movement and a long lasting one.
Quisieron enterrarnos
They did indeed
Hey, Lafem. Your take on the situation
…and the seeds of total change, brings to mind a comment I saw the other day, attached to a newspaper article.
The writer seemed to encapsulate so many of the far flung voices trying to define why and how everything is different from now on:
I felt compelled to grab his words and paste them to a Stickie.
I am amazed that some Democrats think that things are going to normalize in the Democratic Party, after the election. Incredible. Just today I noticed, in a clinical way, that the two sides can no longer parse one another's words. A linguistic chasm has opened. It never occurred to me before that could happen on such a large scale.
Nice to see you.
Yr friend,
Pluto
Hi Pluto
The only chance we get to change the "Party" is in the primaries once they are over, it but but all we could do, suck on it.
The easiest way to change the party is in the primaries
That's why the party establishment has always fought leftist primary insurgents far more fiercely than they fight the Republicans. Losing to the Republicans doesn't threaten the party leadership's perks and position, just ask DWS. But losing to a Sanders movement would bounce most of them out on their asses.
They won't allow us to change the party in the primaries, as the current presidential campaign shows. If we're going to change the Democratic party, we're going to have to leverage the Sanders campaign infrastructure into a new Left movement outside the Democratic party, and build an independent power base. Once that is strong enough, we can then decide whether to challenge the Wall Street crowd for ownership of the Democratic party, or completely abandon it and try to replace it.
Welcome to the cool blue, LaFeminista. Nice to have you here.
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Analysis is spot on. I tend
Analysis is spot on. I tend to agree and as a Wisconsinite who grew up with Cheney Republicans for my primary 'nuclear' family surrounded by a bunch of Fighting Bob La Follette progressives for an extended family, I can say that one benefit of the GOP in the past (prior to Trump's insurgency) has been to circle the wagons and tribalistically come together, whereas the Democratic Party has invariably found ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by circular firing squads and fairly vicious beating back of "those rabid lefties", the Wisconsin Dems no less so at least prior to the absorption of the Progressive Party members that dominated Wisconsin politics from 1934-1946 (and now again to some extent with their Neo-Third Way candidates in Barrett and Burke).
It's frankly time for a "21st Century" party that drops the fights of yesteryear and recognizes a New Bill of Rights concerning
(1) Women's Rights over their own body (disavowing the entire pro choice pro life straw man argument of days past),
(2) A Rehabilitative model to correctional containment systems such as juvenile detention & prison,
(3) Right to free education through post-secondary levels which protects education generally as a human right to self-achievement rather than simply some means to get a job
(4) internet privacy protections
(5) media ethical overhaul to assure they report conflicts of interest and have criteria to protect what's purported to be Journalism is in fact just that
(6) That the same ethical considerations we expect of our family doctors are applied to politicians concerning money, self-disclosure
(7) That money is fundamentally out of politics
(8) That evidence-based environmental policies that are found to be viable alternatives to current ones are required to be evaluated for enactment at the federal level,with oversight of individual state policies
(9) That unionizing may be done for the Employee Free Choice Act
(10) Voting Rights considerations regarding state suppression of the vote be regulated federally again.
...and so on.
Time for a third (and fourth or fifth, screw it) party vs. rebellion from within. I favor the former.
"About every eight decades, coincident and after the most stressful and perilous events in US history - Revolutionary and Civil Wars, Great Depression, and WWII - a new ... group-oriented & civic-minded generation emerges to change America.
That pretty well sums up
my thinking on the matter. I'm sure his intentions are good, but the idea that Bernie can force Hillary to add or change a few planks in the campaign platform if he doesn't win the nom, just isn't going to work.
The only way that the party can be really changed is to clean out the leadership and a lot of the infrastructure. The idea that a Clinton White House, a Schumer dem senate leader, a Pelosi dem house leader, a DWS or similar replacement at the DNC with a few Bernie flavored promises added to their repertoire is going to mean a damned thing is just ... I don't see it being anything but lipstick on a pig there.
We did all this before in the last decade. The progressive movement was picked off and bought off one by one. One of the weapons is to starve the activist organizations of money over time. And there was no leader of the progressive movement. Now there's a leader. Unfortunately, I think that's needed though I did believe in the Occupy method as well. But I think a leader, and it has to be an exceptional person. has to keep things on track at least for now.
If a new party/movement structure is built, or maintained, i guess that's when the moment of truth comes about -- whether to take over or replace the failing party.
I'm really not ready to hold my nose and get back on the train for the general election. In fact, I made that decision in 2012. I've just been waiting for everybody else to see the writing on the wall
Joanne Leon!
Good to see you here.
“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
Seconded n/t
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
Third it!
Hi, have checked in on your through tweets but not the same as comments. Good to 'see' you!
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
The fight over who owns the brand
is made more significant by the way the entire political system is rigged to disallow a challenge from outside the current two party hegemony. I believe kos made that argument when he used to be about "crashing the gates." But a real challange from the left by Social Democrats would be grand, and would completely rearrange the table.
We should
Start calling ourselves social democrats from here on. With or without the big d democrats. They need us in their coalition. So far they haven't had to exchange anything for it.
Thank for that comment, Pluto.
It really describes what we're seeing.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
You're welcome, RA. It was a little halting. But so sincere.
So many folks are talking about it, trying to understand what's come over them. I've never really had a chance to capture the very moment of change, when one state flips into its opposite.
I find myself grabbing comments and parts of conversations to preserve them. I've even pieced together a pretty interesting evolution of thinking that is starting to push back against the Supreme Court argument. People are not buying into that scary manipulation anymore. They are making some pretty compelling points. Some pretty solid observations. I may just publish that one.
Sounds like an interesting read, Pluto.
That whole Supreme Court thing, dare I say I expected Obama to nominate a, hmmm... how does one put it, ok - not a liberal/progressive justice. I'd like to hear your thoughts on that push back.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
I can't wait to see that, Pluto!
That is sure to be a great read. I'm sorry, but I can no longer do anything but laugh, literally laugh at that argument now...
Nope. Barack Obama just laid that to waste, with his nomination of a "moderate" Republican to replace the hatefully-departed Scalia.
I know, I know; it's all about "11th Dimensional Chess" and him making TurtleDerp "look bad", ha ha! Not really, but I'll let them think they're fooling me, because I know that makes them feel better about their sorry selves....
Ay-yup! Merrick Garland has set us free!!!
No one can use the "SCOTUS" argument now!!!
The blog owners
made the mistake of thinking that the wild west days were over I suspect. The Sanders movement is a part of a larger movement (Occupy, BLM, Some Anons etc) and the blog owners either never saw it coming or just saw it as something ephemeral. They were probably pretty optimistic when Occupy was crushed but, as we are now seeing, a smaller movement may quieten down for a while but the larger, overall movement now has its own momentum.
(I think)
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
Yes the prediction of a coronation
after the nasty things they said about her in 2008, that was when they were telling the truth funnily enough.
I think a lot of
reputations are getting trashed this cycle - and deservedly so.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
Hopefully it sticks
I'll accept no apologies when the see the end game
Blinders are truly wonderful and personal tools.
So nice to see thee here.
I suspect they are incapable of understanding our perceptions and predictions.
The church of ineffable stupidity lives.
Absobloodyloutely :)
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
I see today many are attacking Matt Taibbi
for merely stating the facts of the matter
There are no Democrats except Hillary Democrats at TOP
The place was boring when the fp was full of Trump. Now that the diaries are full of Hillary, it totally sucks. Kos is starting to sound like Trump with his Daily Kos is great. The greatest great there is.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I'll call the medics when he says, it's Yuge
Look at this snarky assed comment to puddytat
Kos made in his "The State of Daily Kos" diary. puddytat for gawds sake!!! He is truly an arrogant jackass.
FEEL THE BERN: "But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." - Thomas Paine
"Here I Stand, I can do no other." - Attributed to Martin Luther, 1521
So much for DBAD
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
"Look at us!"
"We are having all the views! Making all the advertising bucks! Winning all the things!
"So now we can take off the gloves and insult our members in public when they post reasonable things! Yee-haw!
And where the hell is the champaign delivery for the celebratory fountain bath? That was supposed to be here by three. Just can't get good help these days."
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
Bring Puddytat here!
She needs to come to us. I will personally message her with an invitation! I have laid low and participated very little on TOS lately, so it shouldn't create waves!
She needs to be here.
I personally messaged Puddytat over at the GOS
I invited her, dropped a link, and I told her she could friend me at the Book of Face if she utilizes it. Maybe more of us should do that. She would be quite an addition here.
Good work.
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
you could point her at my essay on exactly
the problem she raised in her comment to kos:
http://caucus99percent.com/content/how-clinton-kos-and-rest-triumphalist...
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.
Ooh. Testify.
And you are seeing the reason I have not posted in weeks. I have been back only a few times to check status and to initially rec pro-Sanders diaries.
Why would I do one single thing to put one thin dime in that man's change purse?
Damn.... I swear....
This sums up Markos completely.... it is like it was written FOR him...
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Timbuk 3 – Big Shot In The Dark
You used to be a candle in the wind
Now you're a big shot in the dark
You used to think that love was the answer
Now it's just another big question mark
You used to believe in the power of music
And all that revolutionary stuff
Back when money was the root of all evil
Back before you suddenly grew up
You used to laugh at the men on the chessboard
All those little pawns wanting to be king
You used to say "I refuse to play that game"
Now you think that winning is everything
You used to feel like a babe in the woods
Livin' out of your little gunny sack
You used to be a cry in the wilderness
Now you're just another lumberjack
You had it right the first time
You used to love swimming upstream
Now you like to go with the flow
Take a ride on the big waterslide
And never mind the rocks
Or the whirlpool down below
You used to be a candle in the wind
Now you're a big shot in the dark
You used to think that love was the answer
Now it's just another big question mark
You used to believe in the power of music
And all that revolutionary stuff
Back when money was the root of all evil
Now you just can't seem to get enough
You had it right the first time
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the status of DKos
I felt when I read that diary that he was definitely trying to prove that all is well there and Kosland is a land of happiness and light. I think he feels the defections more than he is going to let on. On the other hand I think the Democratic Party, if they present Hillary as its face to the world, IS going to feel the defections that will definitely take place en masse.
Love your Thomas Paine quote, but the Martin Luther one bothers me because he was the author of Jews and Their Lies and advocated burning down synagogues and Jewish homes. A lot of people don't know that.
"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin
He doth protest too much...
He sounds like Trump. Dkos is great. The purge is great. He's great. 60% of his regulars were Bernie people. Drive them off, and he has 40% of what he use to have.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Markos Moulitsas
is a self-flagellating little turd who makes Napoleon Bonaparte look like a very tall, perfectly reasonable human being.
That diary made me almost piss myself laughing, though I have to confess, I didn't make it past the Mega-Millions of New Eyeballs he thinks he has, according to some Internet aggregator of click-counting. Unbelievable. When I do post there now, I'm still not parsing my words. If that gets me banned, I'm wearing that sucker like the badge of honor it really is.
Yeah, he's really gonna show me...if he bans me, He Wins! LOLOLOL! Yeah, if he bans everybody like me, too, he'll have to keep supplying a never-ending stream of personas to "fight" with the Echo Chamber. There are so many words for that, I think I'll just settle for "pathetic" and leave it at that...
Yeah, he said something similar
to me when I complained that his edict that it was "over" on March 15th gave pretty short shrift to states like California that vote later -- his response was that it's California's fault that we don't have a bigger say in the process. Well, we tried the March primary thing back in 2008 and it wound up stretching out the campaign season for the down-ticket races so much that candidates complained about it -- the longer the campaign season, the more money it costs to run it. I took my own "time out" shortly afterwards.
I am now NR and no mojo
At TOP for an uprate in that diary. 90 days NR but the TU loss is "indefinite". So I logged out and won't log in til I write my flameout. I'm on the wrong team clearly.
I'll wait for the best time.
Please tell us the best time.
I will happily go back to watch that.
How truly petty. I am sorry for your loss. I have seen front pagers write ugly obscene low blows and not receive that punishment.
Well
Christin is still going strong!
Insult to injury.
Another reason to not go there except to testify to flameouts.
I'll cross post
It's not to be missed, though some here have set the bar high.
Imagine my shock...
You know that group picture kos posted the other day, of his "office staff"? You just know "Christin" is one of them. In RL, she's someone who isn't terribly articulate, though. One day, I found myself wondering if she was "mrs. kos", hehehe....
She and rap
Are professional trolls. I've had private conversations with christin and she thinks she's funny and clever and enjoys stirring shit. She'll switch sides occasionally for fun. But she is not there except for attention. Rap has been a troll for 20 plus years at various sites. He doesn't have a real friend in the entire world. His entire life is trolling. Sad really.
I see today many are attacking Matt Taibbi
for merely stating the facts of the matter
Does Matt know about this place?
Let's all tweet him -- it worked for Jonathan Tasini!
“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
change.org has multiple petitions on that subject
It's quite something.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
Wow... welcome....
Glad to see you here...
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Happy enough
But also sad enough about the site that used to be reality based
He sold out somewhere around 2010.
We kicked Joe Lieberman's ass. Big dog summoned the bloggers. They all left with their tails between their legs. That was the last we ever saw of DailyKos
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
The more his ego was stoked the worse it got
Forgot about that
You are right. The tone was changed after that.
Great to read you here!
Yeah, I'm glad you made it.
OMG, I am so sick of the "establishment" telling me, "we're not as bad as them." My head explodes with cognitive dissonance. I want to scream as loud as a I can, "Wanna Bet?" And then launch into a polemic rant about all the republican-lite policies, that have been not just implemented, but actually "championed", by so called democrats.
I look forward to reading more of you here!
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My opinion
I am sick to the back teeth of them rehashing decades old Republican policies and then telling me what progressive means, incrementalism rightwards
Remember McGovern! He lost!
They thrash every real democratic, Democratic pol back to FDR, and declare they are spoilers. The American people are not ready to leave their fictional middle and vote for a radical progressive democratic candidate. More 'victories for compromise' (complicity) and 60=majority rule, that's the ticket.
Being caned is nowhere near as bad
As having bamboo splinters shoved underneath your fingernails. Now be quiet and take your caning like a good boy.
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
Please sir
can I have some more?
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Is it Friday?
The maggots are good today. Those other people would make you eat worms. No respect.
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
At least we use lube
Expecting us not to do this at all is simply unrealistic in our current political climate. Just think how much worse the other guys would do it.
They say that there's a broken light for every heart on Broadway
They say that life's a game and then they take the board away
They give you masks and costumes and an outline of the story
And leave you all to improvise their vicious cabaret-- A. Moore
"This won't hurt a bit"
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
You may feel
a little pinch...
If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind. -R. Hunter/J. Garcia
I'm starting to think that they are adopting the old prison meme
"Blood IS lube."
(I know, pretty disgusting, but it was something I heard repeatedly in my 13 years in the system and sure seems to mirror the attitude, if not the exact words, of our current parties view towards progressives.)
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Anti-whistleblower “Insider threat” paranoia is 100% Obama:
Digby: “Insider Threats — combating the ENEMY within your organization”
Guardian: Chelsea Manning: government anti-leak program a “blank check for surveillance”
Folks ignore this or pretend it’s harmless, yet want to get me into a tizzy about Trump.
Not buying it. Trump isn’t going to bring a totalitarian bent to America. It’s already here.
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