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Submitted by potatohead on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 10:45am

Inside those expensive fund raisers...

Money: well Hill, I see you are spending a lot

Hill: ...what can I say? That crazy old fool started with tape and stickers! Announced in a public park. You guys said we got this, money locked up!

Money: here is some more, but you owe us. We gave you media, early campaign funds, party advantage, and we even set the South up for your big lead, and that wasn't cheap. Yet here we are, and how come you just can't seem to sell it? You are saying all that crap he does now, and you know it's gonna cost even more in the general to smooth that over too. Don't you know people really want all that expensive shit?

We budgeted for the usual, and that damn server, but now this? What else is is going to take? Free sex, drugs? Basic income, for gods sake?

Hill: it's the damn kids. Nobody thought they had it in them. Besides, that fucking bird bumped him for free! And what is with that Disney princess shit! I'm the woman here, come on!

Money: it's more than that, and you know it. Damn, woman! You said you could sell this thing, and you've already had an expensive dry run too. Did we get nothing for that? We kept O and the usual in line. Paid em huge. At least he had a good book. You got squat right now! And don't go on about Bill. He did his part. Now it's your turn.

Bottom line here is you let some old crank get momentum. He wasn't supposed to be competitive, let alone raise more than the budget just for asking! Get on this, or it's not gonna be pretty. Don't think we believe you got this. Sell it hard, or we got a big problem. Expensive one.

Nice foundation there. Would be a shame if something happened to it...

Hill: thanks, as always. Personal donations are up, for what that's worth.

Money: Worth? Jack, we tell you! What's a peasly couple a mill shake down from friends? That isn't squat. All it does, besides buy a bullet point, is remind everyone how much this will cost. That is on you. Should have shut it down long before now.

[Event ends, enter smoke filled room]

Money: this is real now. She has high and growing unfavorables. We can spend till we are broke and it won't pull those up anywhere near enough. And we got a lot of nothing on this guy. All he has to do is ask, and Boom! There goes another 10 million. We are clearly paying the chumps too much. Besides, he really is nice! True believer. Pure. Nice optics, until they aren't. And we thought having one around was no big deal. Now look at this shit! Vermont! Who the hell even knows where that is?

Other Money: we might have to plan B on this thing. Trouble is, he won't take the cash. It's gonna have to be scorched earth...

Money: but Trump! Nobody wants that clown. You think this is expensive? Just you wait! Bernie is a steal compared to Trump.

Other Money: And who likes Cruz? He's a non Starter.

Money: Ok call Hill again. Tell her we got her on this, but lean on her hard. If she can't close the deal, we will have to start working with the right people who can... and you bet your ass that ugly will have her name all over it too.

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Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 10:54am

Money talks

and we all know what walks.

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Submitted by potatohead on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 10:59am

My reply below... hey, where did you get that cool user image?

I kind of want one. Yours rocks!

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Submitted by JtC on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 11:29am

To upload an avatar...

click the "My Account" link in the header, then click the "Edit" link in your profile, that will take you to your account profile page where you can upload an image as your avatar. There are also optional fields you can fill out that will display in your profile.

Submitted by potatohead on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 11:42am

Got that. Where did you get the cool image?

Is that something a user can create or generate somewhere?

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Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 12:18pm

Not any more, unfortunately

It's an old Yahoo Avatar, from back when Yahoo was still promoting and supporting them.

There are other sites that will allow you to build your own avatar, but none of them are as cool.

http://pickaface.net/
http://avachara.com/avatar/ (they oink - "men's" and "girl's")
https://mybluerobot.com/create-your-own-avatar/

Other suggestions can be found by searching for "online avatars".

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Submitted by potatohead on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 10:59am

Bullshit walks!

Totally.

All this transnational politics has a cost and now she's paying it. It was good for Bill. People liked him, and the 90's saw the Internet boom. No worries. Honeymoon phase.

She's long past that, and Obama hosed the timing up big! Came out of nowhere, and he's a good guy, beautiful family, was honest in the tell all book, and they got nothing really. He was gonna be a lock the moment people really started to hear him. So she got pushed aside.

Now there is Bernie! And it's a similar dynamic.

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Submitted by lunachickie on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 11:04am

That BIRD! OMG, the memes just write themselves

Today's big hit is posting the bird video to the song "Surfin' Bird" by the Trashmen....

(aside: I'd borrow that Family Guy clip where Peter Griffin can't live without his Bird record and use it, but I think Seth McFarlane is all in for Shill, so he'd probably sue me....)

Submitted by potatohead on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 11:08am

Total gift!

And it's an expensive one too. Bernie gets a visit from a brave, curious little bird. That's good for a few percent bump, and the money thinks, "shit, there goes another 20 million..."

Beautiful.

I love the AP shot of him looking at the bird, and the bird looking right back, like: "Can you believe it? Look at all these people, and there you are, right in the middle of it all."

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Submitted by lunachickie on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 12:06pm

I almost cried

cuz I believe in stuff like "karma" and Mother Nature, and there it was, looking at this guy from his little perch on the podium. Weren't they in the stadium where the Seahawks play football?

Submitted by Cali Scribe on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 1:46pm

Wrong sport

Safeco is the Mariners (baseball) home. A little gentler sport, unless you're a dove who gets in the way of a Randy Johnson fastball.

Submitted by OLinda on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 11:38am

Seth is for Bernie. nt

Submitted by OLinda on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 11:58am

more on Seth

Hope this isn't too OT for this thread. Since it came up, I'd like to add:

Oct. 15, 2015, NBC:

Seth MacFarlane endorsed Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders' run for president in front of an electric crowd in Hollywood Wednesday.

"Family Guy" creator MacFarlane and supporters attended the $25-a-ticket political rally for Democratic presidential hopeful Sanders at the Avalon night club. With cheering rocking the club, MacFarlane let hundreds of Sanders' supporters know why he thought the Senator won the first Democratic presidential debate.

MacFarlane said that for him, Sanders was the only candidate to correctly answer what the United States' greatest threat to national security is. He said that climate change is a non-negotiable issue and claim that is supported by "like every scientist in the world."

"Of all of our biggest challenges, from social inequality, to healthcare, this is the one that must go immediately to the front of the line," he said. "He's the only candidate, on either side who truly seems to grasp the magnitude of the catastrophe."

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Variety:

Bernie Sanders appeared before hundreds of supporters who filled the Avalon nightclub in Hollywood on Wednesday, with entertainer Seth MacFarlane endorsing the insurgent candidate and introducing him onstage.

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“While it would be way funnier if Trump won, it would be far better for the health of the country if Bernie Sanders was the next president,” MacFarlane said.

MacFarlane also noted that while Republicans have been great about demonizing the term “socialist,” it was Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal that reined in some of the excesses of capitalism. Interspersing his remarks with quips, including one about Bill Cosby, he also said that Sanders “has removed my trepidation from saying aloud that capitalism and Democratic socialism, that not-so-scary word, can and should coexist.”

The event, with about 1,100 people attending, was a low dollar fundraiser where attendees paid $25 per person.
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Submitted by detroitmechworks on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 1:00pm

Normally, I don't care for much of his work...

but there is the occasional diamond in there. This seems to be one of those times.

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Submitted by lunachickie on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 12:02pm

THANKS for letting me know that,

glad to see it! I don't know where I saw that he was--maybe it was an Onion parody, goodness knows it's gotten a lot harder to tell anymore, lol!

Submitted by magicsister on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 12:52pm

Believe it or not,

Seth is backing Bernie! I can't remember which rally he intro'ed him at.

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Submitted by mhagle on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 2:19pm

Seth is all out for Bernie

He introduced him and endorsed him at a rally. You should watch it on YouTube.

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Submitted by GreyWolf on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 11:27am

Announced in a public park ...

bernie rally 2015.png

Submitted by potatohead on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 11:42am

Oh man! That is awesome.

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Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 11:47am

That chokes me up.

To think of where we are today. Yes we. Not me, us!

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Submitted by rwiley81925 on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 12:52pm

"Money...

...doesn't talk it swears.
Obscenity,who really cares?
Propaganda,all is phony." Bob Dylan

Sums up american politics pre-Bernie.

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Submitted by pro left on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 12:52pm

Us

Us and the rest of Mother Natures critters.Long live the birds and the bees, Bernie and Us!

Submitted by detroitmechworks on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 1:01pm

This election seems to DEMAND

sketch comedy.

Because I'm seeing that as a great outline. Now just ramp up the stakes a bit, and make everybody TRUE believers and it writes itself.

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Submitted by potatohead on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 6:38pm

Right?

That was just a quick lark. Bit of fun to enjoy the glow of a nice Bernie day.

But, one could have a field day with it. Mix in a few more players, and it's likely gold!

More seriously, I thought about your tagline...

For sure, "The Stupid Party, Who Thinks You Are Stupid" has gathered a lot of angry and a lot of stupid in one place. We get Trump (buffoon) and Cruz (psychopath) at the top! JFC! They would normally get laughed right off the stage, but there they are, rubbing shit in their hair (h/t to my friend Driftglass for that one), with the media gawking on as if nothing at all is unusual.

I blame a lot of it on that media. Bill Clinton deregulated it, after Reagan had repealed the fairness doctrine. BOOM! We get newstainment and this sense of neutrality, which happens to validate every huckster, moron, bigot, racist and theocrat there ever will be. The thing is, "both sides to every story" means having to put full bat shit alongside someone who could be reasonable. (among many other things, like the horse race framing on everything dodging the real issues people actually need to know about)

For the longest time, I really didn't get it. I mean the both sides bullshit is easy enough to see, and so is the idea of bias. There is always bias, unless many of us work together for a sustained time to limit it and do the work to be objective.

That doesn't happen.

And I think it's OK that it doesn't happen, but the fairness doctrine wasn't about objectivity as much as it was taking the incentive to sell dishonest bullshit. FOX uses that "NEWS" branding, and they consistently underperform at educating people. Their clarity is terrible! People can't tell what is fact and what is opinion. And this has spread everywhere, even NPR and MSNBC, who both do better, but still air a ton of garbage.

And it's not inclusive. The other thing the doctrine did was basically insure that news rooms were not profit items. They were there to inform, and that was a necessary public service good. Public interest traded for access to the airwaves and very nice profit.

So, here we are today, and the establishment media is a mess. They don't do any meaningful economic reporting or opinion from a labor point of view. It's as if poor people and labor don't exist, and when they do exist, they are framed as "those other people" who are somehow the problem.

I blame a lot of that as much as I do teh stoopid. Just sayin'