Buh-Bye, Top Tier Cop! The Desperation Is Noticeable For A Party So Phonily Invested In Racial Politics.
No one who's really paying attention should be the least bit surprised, especially those who don't pay attention to the stupid pageantry of the non-stop quadrennial circus, MSM debate/punditry barrage, that Kamala just dropped out. A couple of tweets at the end to cover the obvious.
I'm more interested in the other too many examples of MSM & DNC collusion becoming way too obvious. The corporate donors and owners own the souls of the Democratic Party, and they keep desperately trying to foist these horrendous, vacuous, corporate lackeys upon us, because, Anybody But Bernie. "He's not even a Democrat, he's a socialist, he's got a misogyny problem, a black problem, uh...blah blah blah blah blah," etc etc etc.
I will never forget the headlines in 2016 saying Bernie couldn’t win because he has a problem with black voters. Those same people are now pushing candidates that have zero black support for 2020. While saying Bernie is “too urban”. You can’t make this shit up.
— AshleyStevens (@The_Acumen) November 30, 2019
Here's the rest of the Twitter thread (instead of embedding each tweet):
The 2020 field is so damn problematic and no one is really talking about it because Trump is president. I forgot who initially tweeted about Trump winning in 2016 meant Dems were gonna go full racist to win in 2020. That person deserves a medal. They were right.
I mean if you just take a moment to break down the “top tier” candidates, whew chile, there’s a gold mine of possible thesis papers on the pathology of the white liberal class and their racism problem.
I mean, every single one of them have issues. From Joe “Jim Crow” Biden, to Elizabeth “I lied about being Native” Warren, to Pete “Black people are homophobic” Buttigieg and Kamala “cop” Harris. The field is thick with problematic racism and entitlement.
The “Bernie Bro” narrative is tired and burned out when you’re pushing these top tier candidates. Which, by the way was a reused racist trope Hillary used against Obama in 2007 with Obama Boys. She repurposed it for Bernie, completely erasing his support from Women and BIPOC.
And a couple of comments and her responses:
They were saying that when he was in the 30%'s overall, close to 50% with black voters under 40. Now we have a media golden boy at actual 0% and they pretend it's just fine, fine, fine.
— Brian from Pennsylvania (@AmericasCousin) November 30, 2019
Because black people don’t have agency and can’t think for themselves. We needed the “white bernie bros” to tell us about her. We can’t read and don’t know any black activists in CA that’s been warning us about Kamala.
— AshleyStevens (@The_Acumen) November 30, 2019
The DNC just keep pushing these lies. Maybe this time people ain't buying it. When black folks found out about who Kamala really was they saw the ruse. Same with Petey Boy. The desperation just grows.
And, on the other side of the Duopoly fraud, the Righties can willfully keep telling us to keep our governnment-loving hands off of their Medicare but they're slolwly boiling in their own reticence to wake up to the "socialism" that's already all around them.
When this town in FLA lost its only grocery store the municipality stepped in and created one themselves. This is how it's done, folks.. Just don't tell them that's socialism - they might stop eating all together.
The dynamic synergy of online Left Media just keeps getting more solid, radical and focused. good stuff here, with Krytsal Ball appearing with Michael Brooks's excellent crew (one of whom adds a great story about the conditions that led to a young Karl Marx radicalizing - at 8min, give or take)
So Copmala dropped out because she just didn't have the funds to compete, and "wasn't a billionaire."
Uh, doesn't look like it was money...
Kamala Harris and the other Democrats who have dropped out of the 2020 race spent at least $74 million pursuing their unsuccessful bids https://t.co/a6x4wTCL3A
by @KarlMEvers pic.twitter.com/EwDqOGivDY— OpenSecrets.org (@OpenSecretsDC) December 3, 2019
it took 17 nanoseconds for Kamala Harris to be rebranded as a courageous populist silenced by billionaires. this is only true to the degree that the billionaires who funded her campaign jumped ship for Buttigieg when her poll numbers tanked https://t.co/Xz8eLaesgR
— Virgilcopia Texas (@virgiltexas) December 3, 2019
Kamala Harris did not end her run because she was under-resourced. Her campaign was woefully mismanaged and her policy proposals were underwhelming.
Her campaign raised $36,458,035 (which is way ahead of 10 other Democratic candidates)
— Lara Witt (@Femmefeministe) December 3, 2019
Black people weren't coming out for Kamala Harris in the polls, and yet it takes five seconds of #Khive digging to find an aggrieved professional class white woman claiming black people everywhere have been abused by her rejection. I joke but this shit is honestly pretty creepy.
— Garbage Ape (@GarbageApe) December 3, 2019
The data geniuses at Nate Silver's website once presented this remarkable chart as evidence that Kamala Harris had an extremely strong chance of winning the Democratic nomination pic.twitter.com/KQHWvCh7nK
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) December 3, 2019
Kamala Harris Supporter Insists Her Inspiring Message Of Something Or Other Will Always Live On https://t.co/kSz17K2dDq pic.twitter.com/ODgt8d6bcu
— The Onion (@TheOnion) December 3, 2019
This guy is so obviously barely running on fumes. Couldn't be better for Bernie to point to as the embodiment of disconnected, entitled, insider politics.
The moment Joe Biden is told that Senator Kamala Harris dropped out. The 10 seconds where he doesn't know who she is are adorable. https://t.co/ibvIzkVP5W
— Nate's Liver - Commentary (@SilERabbit) December 3, 2019
They're gonna have to reckon soon enough with a Bernie Sanders Socialist movement that keeps gaining strength.
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Got a puttanesca sauce on, kids antsy and have been brooding
all day reading on the 160th anniversary of John Brown's hanging. Seems there's a good historical fiction book I need to get by an author named James McBride.
Try to see you later...
"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
However
Many black people ARE homophobic. I learned that during my time in the US Army. Some black men refused to let a woman kiss them if she'd ever given a man oral sex. Some wouldn't give women oral sex because "dicks had been in there". Others waylaid and beat up the few gay members of the unit. Perhaps less are homophobic nowadays, but denying that it exists is just plain foolish.
Many people are homophobic.
Period. And a lot of them watch Ellen DeGeneres' show, as well. Go figure.
“The loyal Left cannot act decisively. Their devotion to the system is a built-in kill switch limiting dissent.” - Richard Moser
but she was sooo top tier!?!?!?!?!
Oh Kamala, Gone so soon? She was soooo top tier! We hardly knew thee... But what we knew wasn't good. Sure it was just not enough money, and not the lack of traction. I bet that Mnuchin dude will have some work for her. On that Michael Tracy tweet showing the Nate Silver pentagon graph of support, the problem is that the green pentagon of support was "shown larger than actual size" by about 10 bazillion factors.
The media manufactured appearance of support can only last as long as the billionaire backers play along.
Thanks for sharing the great news.
Good post MfQ.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
I think we'll see a lot
of Obama campaigning for Deval Patrick. I'm already hearing Kamala for VP. Oh, Joy.
Twitter is having fun with Harris dropping out
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
That second tweet is gold
stay salty, #KHive!
I can see only Sanders, Biden, Warren, and Buttigieg to the end. Maybe Bloomberg or Patrick will sputter forward for while, and I don't even want to think about Omnishambles Clinton smarming her way into this race.
I guess we shall see!
M. Le Frog, s'il vous plait
HER, the Inevitable, the Most Qualified, the savviest, the Truthiest, the most honest, the most lovable, the great Pinnacle of Morality and High Purpose*, H. Rodent Clinton will run again.
*High purpose = getting high on purpose, as opposed to contact highs or Skripal highs (Novichok).
She can run ...
but she can't hide.
Warrior Tulsi and the rest of us are calling her out of the shadows. And what do we discover? In the harsh light of day, she is insignificant and ordinary.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
On I don't think Kamala needs to look too far to see
what happened to her campaign. lol..we all know that it was Tulsi's Russian talking points that tanked it.
I'm betting that she is wondering how she could have responded better to Tulsi than calling her an Assad puppet and herself a top tier candidate.
"Tulsi goes on Fox News all the time and therefore she is......."
Fill in the blank for me.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
I'm cracking up ~
oh brother! I'm sure Kamala is really taking Dan Rather's tweet to heart. Keep all Rather pictures, dart boards, and darts out of her hands.
"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
The spin is funny
Some replies.
One tweet said that calling her a cop was racist. Umm..she is the one who said that she is the top cop. Whoboy it's been funny watching how the establishment is trying to cover for her.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
That article...
Even as Charles Pierce is claiming the Democratic race is poorer without Kamala, he doesn’t make the case why except she’s a woman of color who made Brett Kavanaugh cry. Aside from Tulsa’s justified takedown, Harris never articulated a reason for being in the race. She started out vaguely progressive sounding but when Warren took that lane, she seemed to have nowhere to go. And, from what I’ve heard, she seems to be about as bad as HER at running a campaign.
Also to claim she just ruffled too many feathers, please! As I recall, she was the first “hope” the mainstream Dems had (before their flirtation with Beto and now Mayo Pete.) Everything was all lined up. Unfortunately (for her) she was a shit candidate who didn’t have much to run on.
I just am so tired of this idea that we the people let candidates like Kamala down. Bull!
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Great comment
Harris really never explained why she thought she should be president did she? I have vague recollections of someone asking her that question but she didn't answer it. She was the first hope for the democrats when Hillary threw a fundraiser for her at the Hamptons. Oops she just never lived up to the hype.
It's racist to call her a cop? Does this mean that she is a racist then?
I'm sorry, but her laugh grates on me.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
New top tier candidate
giggle
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
snoopy, where do you find tweets from stupid fucks like this?
Yes, I know. You find them on Twitter. But really, that tweet is emblematic of so many stupid ones--so stupid, they might have been written by Adam Schiff or John Brennan.
The people I follow are really smart and they find
those types of tweets and bring them to my attention. Plus I follow people like Neera Tanden just to see what type of talking points she wants us to believe.
One thing I am not seeing with Harris dropping out is that she didn't do it because people were sexist, misogynistic and racist. Yes I am seeing that too. But Harris stated that the number 1 reason she had to drop out is because of money. Warren started this fiasco way early after the primaries were done which is making it one damn long primary season which is going to very expensive for everyone to stay in the race. Why did Warren start her campaign this far in advance? Well for one reason it's a great way to distract us from the other things that Trump and congress is doing. No one is talking about Trump's war on regulations. No more talk about border issues. The ongoing wars of terror, ect...
People are autopsying Harris' campaign from every angle but from the amount of money being spent on this farce primary with the 25 and counting clowns in the democrat's car.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Harris had to quit this month to get her name off CA ballot /nt
I was just going to post the same.
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1201928153985376258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Here is the tweet
Someone asked where her voters were going and somehow thought maybe to Warren.
"All 4% of them?"
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Thanks snoop!
I’m on my mobile and embedding goes a little weird. Lol
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Well this one is married to the "first black prez"
UFB!
https://www.zerohedge.com/
Hillary Clinton Still Refuses To Rule Out Running For President
“I’d have to make up my mind really quickly.”
713
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Here is the video of Her
[video:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgef8szAyqw&ebc=ANyPxKo9Vq9ZrwBu6t2ioWQs9N...
She needs to take her own advice and settle for second place. Again.
The link to the article.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hillary-clinton-still-refuses-rule-o...
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
And at PBS Bernie doesn't exist
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/03/hes-justerased-pbs-2020-seg...
'He's Just...Erased': PBS 2020 Segment Finds Time for Klobuchar, Sestak, and Bullock—But Completely Ignores Bernie Sanders
It was like watching "manufacturing consent in action,' said Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson.
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Good grief
I had to do a search for "Sestak" to remind myself who he is.
Is PBS preparing us for a surprise "encore appearance" by the former candidates at the December debate?
I can just see it now. Twenty podiums are set up, twenty candidates walk onto the stage while Judy Woodruff tells us, "Come on, folks, let's give these guys a second chance. They're not so bad."
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
lol
Well that isn't that far fetched is it? "Hey guys we didn't really get a chance to see what these folks were offering at the other debates cuz there were too many of them to get time to tell you their ideas. Let's give them a second chance away from the shiny objects that distracted you from hearing them then."
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Who will Tulsi dunk on now?
This is bad news for Tulsi.
Having a designated punching bag on the debate stage makes things sooo much easier.
Oh well, at least there is still Pete.
Why not Biden?
Biden needs to be taken down, the sooner the better. It’s inexplicable (to me) why Tulsi doesn’t go after him.
A mercy killing n/t
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
That horrible Tulsi
If Kamala is a dropout
Shouldn't her parents be arrested?
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Her Father essentially disowned her,
So Mum will have to take the heat.
Holiday celebrations in the various Harris households should be very "fly-on-the-wall" worthy.
Oh the woe!
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
"This is dangerous, man."
I think he simply froze (ala Warren) because he saw the pitfalls of an impromptu statement.
As he walks out to the press he mutters, "This is dangerous, man."
For Joe, it's actually a rare moment of clarity.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
I caught that too.
I don’t think were seeing him struggle to recall who she is (I give the guy that much credit, after all, I doubt he forgot who ripped him in debate 1). I think that look was more “omigodomugodomigod...what do I say????”
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Why was he so unprepared though?
Her dropping out shouldn’t have come as a shock to him. She’s been on the ropes for some time.
If he’s ready to be president, he really should not panic over such a simple political task as making a vague, polite statement wishing her well or some such nonsense. If he thinks it’s “dangerous” to say anything, it sounds like he knows he’ll likely drop the ball and say something inappropriate or stupid. Total loser, very close to being as bad as hilz. He definitely makes my skin crawl.
Yep yep yep.
Obviously I’ve never run for office but I always thought you’d have to have at least a sketch of what to say in a situation like that floating around in the back of your head, especially when it’s pretty clear something is about to happen like this. Kind of like how newspapers have obituaries ready for tons of people, just in case. He just seemed really unprepared for a lower tier candidate to drop out and that’s baffling.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
It was dangerous for him to talk to the press?
It's weird that he said that on his way to talking to them. Maybe he has seen the crap he is getting from his talking about his leg hair, loving kids on his lap and cockroaches and he was afraid of giving them more ammo?
These are his own words.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
It's always dangerous for Joe to talk to the Press.
But especially when he's called on to riff spontaneously about the exit of a rival candidate who all but called him a segregationist and who happens to share racial characteristics with that same demographic constituency whose support is critical to the continued viability of Joe's campaign.
The fact that Joe recognized his limitations as a speaker in that moment means that he has finally, after fifty years of politicking, developed a smidgen of self awareness.
Basically, Joe had a moment of personal growth. Nice to see.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
I wondered if he was ensured
the race would boil down to him and Kammie and he would graciously drop out and she would become 46! EASY PEASY!
Hmmmm……… this isn't working out like they told me - oh! better not say that!
"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
Yeah. I also wonder if he was muttering about the big picture.
Like maybe their plan to dilute the primary votes to ensure Bernie doesn't get 50% on the first round might be turning into a slow motion train wreck.
Sorry for anyone getting one of these for Xmas
https://shop.fctry.com/products/kamala-harris-action-figure
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
I wonder how many people
bought the Kamala action figure thinking it was the wrestler? Turns out he is more popular, even though he never spoke (his character was a "Ugandan cannibal") and has been retired for 20 years.
On to Biden since 1973
Money money money mo-ney
MO-ney
Harris drops out, citing a lack of funds.
At the end of third quarter she had $10 million cash on hand. She slashed her operations and focused on Iowa to save money.
At the end of the third quarter Biden had $9 million cash on hand. Unless his fund raising has really taken off in the last two months, he must be running on pocket change he found in the sofa.
To quote a YT personality, "Tick-tick-tick-TICK".
"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
The other elephant in the room is how grotesque the amount
of money is slushing among the candidates. Also how we've been conditioned to so casually be acquainted and accepting of what in reality are enormous sums of money.
Btw, where does all that money not used ($9 million) go??
It shouldn't take long for anyone looking impartially at our election system to conclude that this vaunted Greatest Democracy In The World is a complete farce.
"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
Grotesque
indeed. Wait until we start seeing numbers from the Bloomberg campaign.
Some portion of Biden's $9 million (I don't know how to extract the correct number from the FEC reports) will be money from big donors that's earmarked for the general election. Any such money has to be refunded if you don't win the primary.
Anything left over from your primary funds after you drop out can go to about three places.
You can give it all to the party. That's the old school way of doing it, people would do that when they retired from politics.
You can roll it over into your next campaign. I expect Buttigieg to roll a staggering amount into his Indiana governor's race fund. He'll be able to bury the Republican candidate in spending and pretty much guaranteed to win. Harris, if she has anything left, will roll it over into her next California senate campaign.
Or you can establish a personal PAC that you can continue to milk for the rest of your life. Newt Gingrich was the master at this. And since the money can eventually end up in your pocket, yes these grotesque contributions are indeed bribes.
"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
She'll be back, though ;-(
Here's Krystal Ball's take on the demise of the Harris campaign. Sadly, the comments on this topic elsewhere had many sad folks calling for her to get the VP or AG slots. Her clumbsy campaign argues against putting her on the ticket and her track record against making her AG (Loretta Lynch II?). There are a lot of folks out there who just take a very shallow look at a candidate before going all-in.
Cornel West was asked if the
Cornel West was asked if the diversity in the Democratic Presidential primary has value and matters:
The whole thing is great. Hasan tries to corner him about his Jill Stein vote but he's not having, "I'm not on automatic: it's not just by instinct that I'm gonna vote for anybody."
"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