We. Are. Many. The Mold Has Now Been Cast: We're Gonna Win.
As Bloomberg continues to freefall like a hocked loogie arched from the back of the throat of a black teenage prisoner from inside The Tombs onto the streets of downtown Manhattan, the current panicked DNC flailing that's resulted in behind the scenes pressure by the Obama Bros Inc to get as many lame milquetoast candidates to both drop out and to endorse the walking dead zombie Biden looks to be the clearest signal that we just might finally and welcomely be witnessing the Democratic Party in its last throes.
The DNC has haplessly been running a Flavor of the Month IdPol celebrity contest for over a year. In an incredible stroke of irony after all of the identity signaling fanfare with #MeToo and Black Lives Mattering forming the platforms upon which they've been pontificating, they suddenly find themselves very cynically cornered in a tight spot, having wound up with two sexist, misogynistic, racist old white men as its de facto face. And this latest cynical ploy of pressuring any and everyone to endorse Biden (which in and of itself are just dull trophies with which the deprived media fawn over but doesn’t quite mean anything to anyone else, if it ever did), on the false presumption that his dying campaign is somehow going to be revived after winning a very conservative state in which the mainstream Dem candidate always over-performs and in which his own party has less than zero chance of winning in the GE, is just another perfectly clear example of how unhinged and zany this whole thing has become.
Folks, it doesn’t really get much better than this.
On the day of the biggest primary yet there's still lots of residue all around us from a wild past 48 hours, which has included MSM pundit resignations, campaign suspensions, public protests at candidate's campaign events, endorsements and no doubt lots of sinister arm-twisting threats. Without bothering over the specifics of any of that crap the sum total has had the effect of erasing all doubt and should be the clearest signal yet to the citizenry that the Democratic Party is unabashedly attempting groping, in collusion with the DNC and MSM, to end Bernie Sanders campaign. Anyone who had previously been inclined not to believe that or to look the other way about it can no longer ignore what's now been made crystal clear. It's no longer debatable whether anyone thinks there's no such thing as a "Democratic Party establishment" being "against" its most popular candidate.
Biden's tiny flicker of hope from winning SC has been way over-exaggerated and is being manufactured. The MSM needs this kind of sensationalism to keep the horse race entertaining. But he’s going nowhere. His litany of constant speech gaffes, abysmal record, overwhelming evidence of sexism/misogyny, inability to excite and commit voters, and apparent onset of dementia all make him a laughingstock as a plausible contender. He's an empty husk being propped up. The voters know it too.
All of this will come into play in a big way, if not in the next few days, at the convention in Milwaukee this summer, should Bernie have a clear majority and not plurality. If nothing else the American public has had a pretty consistent track record for rallying around an outsider, especially when it’s perceived that that person is being cheated or ganged up against. Few things Americans like rooting for more than the perceived underdog. The outsider People’s Choice prevails over the insider Political Pundits’ choice. And upon realization that it’s also the political parties, Wall St and corporate America who are also piling on against him, that only intensifies their support.
So let's examine some of the evidence...
There was this moment at Bernie's 17k rally in Tacoma that is worth pondering for the gravity of it:
When he walked out into such an overwhelmingly thunderous standing ovation in front of that mammoth crowd (with reportedly another 6k outside) it appears visible that something flicked on inside his head - "damn, we really are going to win this thing!" It's these kinds of moments movements like ours need, because the forces are so heavily arrayed against us that you begin to wonder when everybody else were also going to see the same thing resulting in the same epiphany we were. Thanks to Twitter as an antidote to the continuing MSM #BernieBlackout people are getting to see this stuff.
Next, there's little bit of news that seems to haven't gotten much attention. But to me it has massive reverberations. Because it speaks to the kind of bold leadership for which Bernie's come to be well known and respected.
Succumbing to grassroots pressure, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg both announced Wednesday that they would not attend the Israel lobby's meeting this year, making them the latest two Democratic presidential candidates to decline an invitation to address the conference.
Jewish-led group IfNotNow credited its #SkipAIPAC campaign—which it's leading with MoveOn, Indivisible, and the Working Families Party—as well as years of public pressure from defenders of Palestinians' human rights—with convincing Buttigieg and Klobuchar to skip the conference.
"This is a watershed moment and a major victory against the bigotry that AIPAC has legitimized for decades," said IfNotNow co-founder Dani Moscovitch. "Even moderates in the Democratic Party are now refusing to attend a conference by a right-wing lobby that allies with bigots just to shield the Israeli government from any consequences for denying the Palestinian people freedom and dignity."
This is all because of Bernie. In a nationally televised debate from 2016 he invoked the dignity of the Palestinian people as well as criticized the RW Israeli government, a shocking but long overdue statement by a American politician, who have been disgracefully enthralled to anything Israel wants to do, including conducting open air concentration camps in Palestine. Just a couple of nights ago he renewed his commitment, by adding that Netanyahu was a racist.
Which is why this is happening:
Newsweek Why Muslim Voters Love Bernie Sanders
And then how 'bout dem #BernieBruh?
Common Dreams Rising Number of Democrats Say Sanders Most Likely to Beat Trump as Senator Surpasses Biden in Black Voter Support
The poll, conducted Feb.19-25, found (pdf) that a rising number of Democrats believe Sanders (I-Vt.) has the best chance of beating President Donald Trump in November.
While that question was not asked of registered Republicans, a plurality of all other respondents (26%) said Sanders is "most likely" to beat Trump in the general election, compared with 20% who said billionaire businessman and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 19% who said they "don't know," and 17% who said former Vice President Joe Biden.
Among registered Democratic voters, 29% selected Sanders as most likely to defeat the president compared with 21% who chose Bloomberg, 20% who named Biden, and 14% who said they "don't know." All the Democratic candidates except Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) were listed.
As Reuters noted Wednesday, "That was a big change from a month earlier, when 27% of respondents gave Biden the edge, and just 17% thought Sanders could beat Trump."
Bernie Sanders Earns Support From Black Women Activists Like Barbara Smith, Isra Hirsi
Dream Defenders, a youth-led racial and economic justice organization, is one of several minority-led groups trying to make the case that an older white man is the best candidate to represent their interests. The group’s codirector Rachel Gilmer says that 90% of its membership voted to endorse Sanders and that she thinks the media’s focus on “Bernie bros” is part of an intentional “erasure” of the Vermont senator’s supporters of color.
Gilmer moderated the following conversation with four other black women activists — Combahee River Collective cofounder Barbara Smith, who helped coin the term “identity politics”; poet and organizer Aja Monet; climate activist Isra Hirsi; and mental health advocate Kenidra Woods — about their support for Sanders and “what it means to be a left black feminist in 2020.”
Even the mainstream guys are coming around, 'We Are Not That Stupid': Rev. Al Sharpton Says Black Voters Won't Be Fooled by Red-Baiting Attacks on Sanders ("The civil rights movement always was targeted by those that would use the Red Scare. They accused Dr. King of being a communist. We've been down that road before.")
And in a direct blow to fascist billionaire Bloomberg's racist Stop & Frisk terrorism in NYC, "Sanders Wouldn't Just Legalize Marijuana, He'd Help Minorities 'Start Businesses' to Sell It"
#Bernie now leads the field among black voters, the Democratic Party's base.
Check out this great #BernieBruh video by @BenjaminPDixon pic.twitter.com/RvY3SKERCH
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) February 26, 2020
Yo! Bum Rush The Show
NEW: @BernieSanders adds stop in Southern California on Sunday and will he joined by hip-hop legend Chuck D of Public Enemy. The campaign releasing this special poster to promote the event. pic.twitter.com/VKU761GwVo
— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) February 27, 2020
Chuck laid down this jam in Nov '16 about the DNC cheating Bernie:
What other evidence is there that we are we going to win?
Well, they've already ignored us with the #BernieBlackout, they've laughed at us,
they're still fighting us but they're just about to be rolled...
#AskBloomberg hashtag was the very best thing that happened to me today — until I saw this video clip pic.twitter.com/i1qODMFkvr
— ChuckModi (@ChuckModi1) February 19, 2020
and then we win.
This is a wake-up moment for the American power establishment.
Many in this elite are behaving like aristocrats in a dying regime — including in media.
It’s time for many to step up, rethink, and understand the dawn of what may be a new era in America.pic.twitter.com/tr2jpTD7YY
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) February 23, 2020
Witness these few media moments that literally reflect the moment of establishment meltdown and reluctant acceptance:
Obama's guy can't front on the goods. If Bernie's got more delegates he gets nomination.
The Democratic Party should be on notice: if you even think about using superdelegates to take the nomination from someone who has the plurality of delegates going into Milwaukee, we the people will not take it lying down. pic.twitter.com/MWY2vWqZZQ
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) February 20, 2020
Check out the weasely Paul ("Look at those marvelous suits on these Wall St CEO's!") Krugman. These losers who have been making a living off discredited Neoliberalism for decades don't know what just hit them - so far out of touch are they from the citizenry in their Ivory Towers. Richard Wolf, comfortably confident as the Truth-Telling Buddha of Socialism that he is just watching Late Stage Capitalism immolate, just smoked the silly Neoliberal shill. This is just beautiful comeuppance.
Robert Reich Op-ed WaPo, "Calm down, establishment Democrats. Bernie Sanders might be the safest choice. (“Moderate” candidates won’t be electable if they can’t speak to middle- and working-class frustrations.)
But, what about Bloomberg?
Mousy Monotone Mayor Mike Is. Going. Nowhere.
Everybody in the world got to see again in the #WineCaveDebate just what a farce he is (and also how rigged these dopey debate spectacles are, by the DNC prohibitively charging obscene prices to attend ensuring only their top donors can get in).
He's the embodiment of everything loathsome about authoritarian American Exceptionalist capitalism. Most transparently he's attempting the most cynical and brazen flouting of the electoral process by buying an obscene preponderance of advertising while conversely doing the minimum of campaigning (and then only when offering attendees four star catered food and wine) for the express purpose of outright tiling the election away from Bernie Sanders. This is a ll a grand scheme at the behest of pearl-clutching Neoliberals cowering away flustered in corporate boardrooms, news editorial rooms, political backrooms, Wall St cigar-stained oak-panelled rooms, and clandestine surveillance state bunker rooms to thwart the evil socialist and his rabble from taking their money.
The fucker deserves as much sabotage as he's getting. And his ass isrighteously getting sabotaged. I love this.
And now black voters are standing up (literally) to oppose Bloomberg:
Black Democrats turn their backs on Bloomberg at church before Super Tuesday votes
Bernie's been through this bullshit before with another rich asshole.
Bernie vs. ‘Richie Rich’: The 2006 Race That Prepared Sanders for Bloomberg
For months, the wealthy businessman flooded the airwaves with gauzy ads painting himself as an experienced executive who could deliver real change to Washington, D.C. Only then did he train his fire on Bernie Sanders, denouncing the veteran congressman’s “partisan hatred” and his socialist plan for government-run health care.
Sanders activated his loyal network of small-dollar donors and built out a robust campaign infrastructure. He played tough behind the scenes but kept his public remarks focused on his well-worn message of economic equality — drawing a not-so-subtle contrast with his self-funded rival. “Together, we will help make government work for all of the people, and not just the wealthy and the powerful,” Sanders pledged.
The opponent in question was not Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and former New York City mayor who is running against Sanders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. It was Republican Rich Tarrant, the millionaire software executive who unsuccessfully challenged Sanders for Vermont’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2006.
Though the races differ in scale and consequence, those who took part in the 2006 contest — the most expensive in Vermont history — say it offers clues as to how Sanders may take on Bloomberg in the coming weeks or months. “It will be class warfare, and it will be vicious,” predicted Dave Carney, a veteran GOP operative who consulted for Tarrant that year.
According to those who advised Sanders at the time, Tarrant’s challenge shaped the way the senator campaigns to this day. Though Sanders was no stranger to tough races, he had never faced such a well-financed opponent, nor one willing to go quite so negative. By Election Day, Tarrant had spent nearly $7 million of his fortune on his long-shot bid — a portion of it on misleading television ads portraying Sanders as sympathetic to child molesters and terrorists.
“Bernie has been through the experience of going up against somebody with unlimited resources,” said Tad Devine, a former Sanders political consultant who produced ads for him that year. “The question is: Is Bloomberg gonna do what Tarrant did?”
It’s actually not what @BernieSanders wrote in 1970’s. But never mind @MikeBloomberg campaign lies, all the fellow parents I asked today said they would trust Sanders more than Bloomberg with our toddler kids. Just saying. https://t.co/QhYwkzITz7 via @mediaite
— David Shuster (@DavidShuster) February 25, 2020
— Len Young (@LenYoung27) February 27, 2020
Join the winning team. pic.twitter.com/qsa9xJPZBy
— Bloomberg Staff for Bernie (@DavidAgStone) February 27, 2020
As for all that talk of "superdelegates" plotting and scheming, and there being a brokered convention and all, I say...
Former Obama top guy David Plouffe says in the clip above with Chris Hayes that they won't fuck around, for fear of losing the party for generations as a result.
But if they do I'm happy and confident to know that we have the fiercest and most fearless elected official, Seattle city councilwoman Kshama Sawant, on our side. She's already put out the call in February for a Million March in Milwaukee - just in case.
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Caitlin quote
link
I still think it'a being set up
For Hillary to win nomination in 2nd round if convention is deadlocked in 1st. They'd have to be complete idiots to nominate Biden.
Of course the same applies to Hills, but she isn't brain dead yet.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
I don't know
Her written deposition was so vague that she will have to give one in person. How much is she going to "remember"?
" In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "
Hills electoral vote count
If Hills is being set up to be the nominee, the Dem establishment better do an electoral college vote count. Not only would HRC lose the same states as she did in 2016, but I think she would lose Minnesota and New Hampshire this time.
I've had this on the backburner for a few days and I have to
admit that just looking now at some polls I've had a major pang of nervousness and confusion about them.
I still think Bernie will win. But I've never seen such wildly fluctuating polls over the course of 48 hours. Something's fishy. The betting odds for the nomination just a week ago favored Bernie by 40pts over Biden, and two days ago still by 20pts. But today it's Biden by 22pts. 60pt swing in a week? Seems like the worst kind of speculative stock market fixing.
Either way I remain sanguine. It's the end of the Democratic Party this year. I'm pretty certain of that.
It's like the imminent arrival of an eclipse. And it's absolutely gonna happen one way or the other. So rejoice, comrades. It may be bumpy. But this is the moment we've been waiting for since the brazen betrayal of corruption and collusion of 2016. There's a civil war going on inside the Democratic Party.
Bernie Sanders' real obstacle is not Trump. It's the Democratic establishment
Right now the Dem Party is like a bruised and bloodied prizefighter on the ropes, just lashing out in desperately wild but directionless abandon, as a last breath attempt at holding on.
We've got to be cool enough to deliver the knock out punch, because they're on the ropes.
Bernie is.
"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
Vote 4 Biden!
Because what America truly needs right now is another Bob Dole.
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?
Heck, Dole might be an improvement
I've long hypothesized that EVERYTHING since might've turned out far, far better if only Dole had been elected in 1996: Red Team would've been dissuaded from Gingrich/Atwater-style politics of hideousness, Blue Team would've been dissuaded from Clintonomics, Dubya would've been elbowed out of Election 2000....
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
we wil know tonight
How bad the DNC rigged the primaries against Bernie.
If there are monumental clusterfucks in Texas and Cali, it will be obvious that the game is over.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
We may not know tonight.
States with early voting or heavy mail in ballots will need time to add in these late to the tally. The massive full court press for Biden, unfortunately, has changed the polling significantly, but has not been a factor on the mail in and early voting.
Her won CA by a huge double digit margin as of east coast bedtime in 2016. When the early voting and mail in ballots were added the margin dropped to single digits. Hold your despair with possibly troubling early returns, things might look substantially better by later tomorrow and Thursday.
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."
- John Maynard Keynes
Passing the torch...
My guess is that Hillary saw the writing on the wall when her white knight Bloomie fell off his horse at the debates, while Warren struggling and Klobuchar going nowhere left her without a viable candidate to back.
So a frustrated Clyborne (usually a reliable Hillary ally) stepped in and endorsed Obama-backed Biden, which then gave permission for the rest of the Hillary leaning part of the establishment to follow suit. Finally Hillary herself hopped on the Biden bandwagon, signaling her capitulation when McCauliffe and DWS endorsed.
So it seems the torch of Dem establishment power has finally passed from the Hillbots to the Obamabots, who now assume Hillary's 2016 role of kneecapping Bernie.
And any Hill loyalists in the Dem establishment media who might still doubt that there is a new sheriff in town need not look any further than the empty chair where Chris Matthews used to sit.
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 Welcome Their Hatred”
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqUWFENIVho]
Sanders stands before the Black Gates of Mordor and Sauron whispers words of doubt in his ears. He turns to his friends and gives a half-smile. "Not me, Us". And charges.
Here's looking forward to watching Barad-dûr crumble to dust and the Black Gates thrown down.
"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
Yes, the fluctuation boggles the mind, i'm not yet sold on the
newest polling as they must be making assumptions not weighted in solid data. From my best figuring, Bernie can afford to lose the southern states provided Bloomberg takes a good share of delegates; i'm concerned about Warren reaching above delegate thresholds in a few of these: CA, CO, MN, and TX, i figure the other's are baked in already.
Best hope's for a total 150 delegate lead after today, will of course still be happy with winning the big states and having any delegate victory.
Thanks for the thread.
Our future is in the hands of the universe.
I'm hoping the odds are in our favor.
"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
"Go to Hell if you think the DNC is rigging the primary!"
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Brazile tells GOP chair to ‘go to hell’ for saying DNC would ‘rig’ convention against Sanders
Umm...
Brazile out at CNN after WikiLeaks reveals she gave debate questions to Clinton camp
You were saying, Donna?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
And people believe Donna Brazile
because.......................
"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
Rising discusses how the democrats want Trump over Bernie
and how the GOP would have been just fine if Hillary had won. It's at the end of the video. We knew that though didn't we?
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziIxaiCF5k4&list=TLPQMDMwMzIwMjCZYvMK2r3...
Their show was really excellent today if you haven't had a chance to watch it yet.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
We've known this for months!
So do all of Sanders' supporters. We've just been waiting for them to show their hand. They laid it out for us - thankfully.
"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 will make it a point to view it tonight.
Very busy and long day.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I want to take this opportunity to thank Mark
for his positive, upbeat diaries. I miss OPOL's voice tremendously and Mark - buddy - you are filling that gap. Thank you, my brother.
"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
Hear, hear, RA!
Well, here's hoping.
Have not voted yet; might do it on the way home, or else after chores.
This shit is bananas.
After picking up the boy from school, feeding and playing a bit
with them I went into the kitchen and logged onto the Bernie caller site. On the front page it says they've made over 13 million calls to date.
Just made 20 calls to Minnesota. Some already voted for Bernie, others were planning to on their lunch break, and then the always expected hangups.
One black woman in her late 50's admonished me when asking for her support by saying that no one supported her, and how could she be expected to support anyone else, and hung up. Another was a Warren supporter who sounded too stiffly in her camp, remarking that he will vote his conscience. Oh well.
Call Voters in North Carolina, Texas, California, and Washington
"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
Hey Mark, I'll have to make this quick
I'm on my way to work, but had to say fucking awesome post!!! Want you to also know that I've met some amazing people canvassing for Bernie here in California and believe we have ALL built something truly amazing. I'll be thinking about you today. Peace, Love, and Solidarity my New York friend!
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Let's see...
The experiment of Steyer spending $200 million and getting zero delegates seems to mean nothing, because Bloomberg is going to get 200 delegates for spending three times as much, apparently because he's a much more effective oligarch.
Warren has gotten 5% of delegates awarded so far and is poised to lose her home state, but the polls tell us that is going to win 10% today, even though her campaign is fading.
The polls tell me that a man who can't speak in complete sentences, has won one primary in 32 years, hasn't advertised or campaigned in any of the states in play today, is going to win 400 delegates because reasons.
Maybe so, but I'm a little skeptical.
"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
I'm just saying...
Revolution Calling...
[video:https://youtu.be/TjjqQmza0Kw]
C99, my refuge from an insane world. #ForceTheVote
I Hope You're Right!
Woke up in such a good mood, and a fabulous-weather day here in Boston. Then I looked at these (new and updated!) polls-- WTF???? And then after 2 hours of NPR, I became very despondent-- all Biden, Biden, Biden because he can WIN, and Bernie is TOO EXTREME!!!! Get ready for the big screwing-- let's meet in Wisconsin!
Semper ubi sub ubi
Yes, we are bound to meet up
in Milwaukee.
The final battle.
Make '68 Chicago look like a playground.
Do not screw with us.
We have the numbers
elites can no longer ignore.
I found the Democrat Strategy Video
C99, my refuge from an insane world. #ForceTheVote
I recognize that skateboard!
Didn't it used to be mayor of New York?
"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
That's awesome
Did it really happen that way? If not then that poor guy getting dunked in the lake.
Winner.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Well of course Pete is a hypocrite
You already knew that didn't you?
Hopefully someone will ask him how he squares this with his endorsement of ByeDone. This is what I love about the primary. People will say one thing just to get elected, but once they have no chance they turn completely around.
Warren is going after Bernie for raising taxes on the middle class. She knows damn well that it's so people won't have premiums, deductibles and copays. What a shit she has become. Oh yeah and Herheinous is doubling down on her comments against Bernie. "Of course I stand by what I said after the election."
Skanks. Too harsh?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Skanks. Not at all too harsh.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Democrat party elites
being the smart guys they are, you know...the smartest guys in the room, should already know they shouldn't steal our Bernie votes, bury them, and let the superdelegates vote instead. They probably know...no?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2020_Democratic_Party_automatic_de...
Smart or stupid
They don't care if they win or lose. Only the status quo keeps the gravy train of corporate cash flowing.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Biden has won Virginia and North Carolina
Was that predicted? How does that affect the situation? Seems like the Southern Black community is going overwhelmingly for the establishment candidate, just like they did in 2016.
Edit: And now he's won Minnesota and is looking to win Massachusetts and Maine. This is not looking good. It would help if Warren dropped out -- she's a distant third in her own state. But that won't happen.
"Not me. Us."
Hanky-Panky
Wherever and whenever the ballots are entrusted to ANY kind of black-box machine, be it an electronic voter or an optical scanner, hanky-panky is always possible. And in circumstances like these, where the Establishment is DESPERATE to stop Bernie, it's a virtual certainty.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Absolutely. Shorting Sander's strongholds of voting machines
is so obvious, yet they are doing it right in our face. Doing some invisible computer hanky panky that will never be punished even if they are caught is a certainty.
Yep even here in MN
We have paper ballots, but they get read by an electronic machine. Even in my little middle-of-nowhere township.
This shit is bananas.
So it looks like the DNC has chosen their own
blithering idiot to go up against the RNC’s blithering idiot. Their takeaway seems to be that A-muricanz love them some idiots.
The prospect of Thing 1 and Thing 2 trading idiocies across a stage is more than I can take. Maybe instead of debates, the whole thing will take place on Twitter with each candidate’s fans ridiculing the other. Which would be OK with me. I’m not on Twitter.
BTW I’m writing in Bernie for Prez. ‘Cause fuck ‘em!
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"