Bernie at the Democratic Convention: Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now
The lies of corporate politicians are the foundational cause of every crisis America is facing. Let us not talk falsely now is Bernie’s message to the despised political establishment, to the depraved economic establishment, to the degenerate media establishment, to the degraded military establishment, it’s his message to everyone in power, to everyone in authority at every level of society, to the police and the judges, to business owners and employers, to every American trapped in this twilight struggle for survival as the pursuit of corporate profit strangles the economy and the GOP casts the shadow of fascism across the entire political system.
Let us not talk falsely now.
Bernie has said that throughout all of his years in public service, he’s said it in the House of Representatives, he’s said it in the Senate, he said it when Glass-Steagall was being repealed, when the Patriot Act was being passed and the invasion of Iraq was being plotted and the bailout of Wall Street was being perpetrated. He’s been saying it in every primary state, and every Democratic voter, every Republican voter, every Independent voter needs to listen to him.
Why?
I’ll tell you why.
The hour is getting late.
That’s why.
The consequences of economic injustice are pounding on the doors of America, they’re pounding on the doors of Europe, they’re pounding on the doors of Asia, they’re standing on the doorstep of the world with catastrophic climate change and resource wars and genocide and famine lined up right behind them. Your name is on their list of victims, my name is on their list of victims, everyone’s name is on their list of victims.
John F. Kennedy . . .
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Hillary people like to talk about Reality. Well here’s some Reality for them—political revolution is the only way to prevent violent revolution, which would inevitably trigger reactionary violence and unleash the chaos and carnage of counterrevolution and civil wars across this country and across this world.
Hillary supporters are in no position to be lecturing anyone about Reality. They expect us to believe in the amazing powers of the Incremental Change Fairy, who dwells in the Magic Kingdom of Centrism, where hundreds of millions of dollars in blatant bribes have no effect on anyone at all, where Triangulation is the Only Way and politics is pay to play and the destruction of the Middle Class just happened to fall out of the sky one day.
We’re told Hillary will get things done. Well we’ve seen how Hillary gets things done, and we’ve seen who she gets things done with.
No reason to get excited, the thief he kindly spoke . . .
there are many here among us, who know Dodd-Frank is but a joke.
Bernie has been up on the Watchtower his entire life in public service, he called out a warning when the riders of NAFTA were approaching, when the riders of Glass-Steagall repeal were approaching, when the riders of the Patriot Act were approaching, when the riders of regime change in Iraq were approaching, when the riders of the Wall Street bailout were approaching, when the riders of the TPP were approaching. He called out warning after warning from up on the ramparts, while those more and better Democrats I’ve heard so much about took turns lowering the drawbridge to let the damn riders in.
Let us not talk falsely now.
The hour is getting late.
Bernie is taking that message to the contested convention in Philadelphia. The Democratic establishment needs to hear it, the delegates need to hear it, Hillary Rodham Clinton and her bought-and-paid-for superdelegates damn well need to hear it, and they’re going to hear it whether they want to or not.
Kos talks about the math.
Hillary people talk about the math.
Well THIS is the math that matters . . .
Too many people have been exploited. Too many innocents have died in wars for profit. This election can empower us to put an end to all of it.
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Well said, Rusty!
He also called out the warning when the riders of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 came calling.
Look who voted NO to the monopolization of the Fourth Estate by Big Corporations:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/104-1996/h25
One of only a handful who had the foresight to oppose yet another disastrous Clinton action.
Hi Haikukitty
Yes, and the Telecommunications Act too.
I wanted to include all of Bernie's warnings, but this diary would have been longer than War and Peace. I didn't want to break the blog and get banned here on my very first day.
Thank you for the link, and thank you for reading my diary and commenting.
And he's been a fierce opponent of TPP
the trade agreement from hell.
Thanks for posting this important bit of uncomfortable reality. Our planet is dieing, our people are starving for truth, and the MIC gives us circuses for entertainment, and bright shiny to distract us from truth.
We are broken, I fear, almost beyond repair. We have an uphill battle of epic proportions before us. Turn this behemoth country around, the hour is indeed late.
"When the powerless are shut out of the media, we will make the media irrelevant" ~Anonymous~
The TPP is an atrocity.
IT IS ABJECT TREASON
And they are all on board.
We are facing genocide: they are grabbing the lifeboats: climate change has been known for forty years.
Here's some reality about the TPP
“Today’s alarming fourth-year trade data on President Obama’s U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA) arrived just as the Obama administration has started its hard sell to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). And that is a real problem for the White House” [Lori Wallach, HuffPo]. “The Korea deal served as the U.S. template for the TPP, with significant TPP text literally cut and pasted from the Korea agreement. And the Obama administration sold the Korea deal with the same “more exports, more jobs” promises now being employed to sell TPP. And since then, our trade deficit with Korea more than doubled as imports surged and exports declined. The increase in the U.S. trade deficit with Korea equates to the loss of more than 106,000 American jobs in the first four years of the Korea FTA, counting both exports and imports, according to the trade-jobs ratio that the Obama administration used to promise at least 70,000 job gains from the deal.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-wallach/new-data-show-us-trade-de_b_9...
Very important points.
Thank you, JuliaW.
Brilliant essay.
You are spot on. The hour is, indeed, late. Let's not talk falsely, the truth-teller laments. America needs President Bernie Sanders. The alternative just might be downfall.
"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
Hi Raggedy Ann
Reality is Reality, I just express what we're all seeing in my diaries.
But thank you, I appreciate your kind words.
Thanks Rusty. Nice rant. There will be blood...
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
Thank you, ZimInSeattle.
If Hillary isn't corrupt as hell, there's no such thing as corruption.
Good God, she reeks of it.
thanks, I was looking for this (re: super dels)
this is a big part of the problem that Bernie faces. Look at these people! The deck is stacked.
Says here they make up only 9% of the supers
http://truthinmedia.com/report-lobbyists-among-democratic-superdelegates/
I've seen the list of superdelegates
there are those lobbyists, then there are crooks who are called "DNC Members". Plus members of Congress. All establishment types.
sorry - i really only hit the send button once and waited
..and barefoot servants too.
Great piece. I loved the thoughts and the composition. We gotta find a way outta here...out of this mess. Bernie is still fighting, and so am I! And, the wildcat is growling!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Bernie's a fighter, for REAL change.
Hillary, the DNC, and the Democratic establishment are finding that out.
Thank you, Lookout.
He's back to an old problem: the media
One of Bernie's top media supporters, Thom Hartmann, has been consistently pushing the idea that if Bernie doesn't win the nomination, we should all shift to becoming Hillary Shills to prevent a GOP White House. I doubt Bernie would even have a campaign without Hartmann's hosting a "Brunch With Bernie" segment for several years. Now that Bernie needs what little true media support he has enjoyed more than ever, I find myself questioning how much good Hartmann now does for Bernie with his "Vote Blue Anyway" meme.
The station where I hear Hartmann's show (KPFK) is itself struggling to survive. In order to pitch fund raising, they have cut the airtime they once gave Hartmann. I thus can't hear as much as I want about Hartmann's latest developments, especially now that it's clear Hillary thinks she's won the nomination. I've written about supporting my adult relatives through Obama's "booming" economy (now faltering if the recent uptick in first time unemployment applications is accurate). I can't afford to subscribe to anyone, not just someone who isn't seeing the neocon forest for the Clinton trees.
I have scraped up another donation for Bernie, and will send it off later today. It's about all I can do. We of the working class are having to make Sophie's Choices with our dwindling spare cash.
changed punctuation to split a run-on sentence.
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
Good points
I agree with you.
I am becoming skeptical of Hartmann because of how he clearly is supporting HRC/DNC. It's clear he wants to keep the party together. He just seems to be falling into line and it's disappointing and disheartening to me personally. His show is where I listened to Bernie for so many Fridays. Lately, Hartmann seems to be admonishing Bernie supporters. I've begun weaning myself from him more and more, although I know I'll still listen albeit on a day's delay where I am. He's keeping cred with me because he talks about climate change alot.
If you miss one of his shows, they are usually on YouTube
the same day or the following.
I don't have any stations down here that carry him so that is where I usually catch it.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
He's turning into just another Trumpophobe
So terrified of the wacky loose cannon on the R side that all reason, common sense, and moral standards are jettisoned.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Damn, That is sad...
I have been busy with the wife's graduation and family coming into town for the last couple weeks so I haven't been as on the ball with my political reading/watching time lately.
Lets just say it's a could think I already shave my head or there would be bald patches from me tearing my hair out at the number of otherwise "Smart" democrats so unwilling to look at the longer term ramifications of a Clinton presidency.
The single fact that it would probably solidify the 3rd wayers hold on the DNC for at least another generation is enough reason alone to go all #AnyoneButHillary on the DNC's ass...
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Well said
Beware the bullshit factories.
Thank you, Timmethy 2.0
Hello Rusty. Nice to see ya.
My hope is after the election the ruling class will hold off on more elections for a couple months so some of the left might be able to focus on something other than electing politicians.
That's my hope and I'm sticking to it. I know, impossible dreams are impossible but it's just a dream.
But we'll only have a couple months before the "hope and change" slogans begin again, so we'd better hurry!
hurry!
Yeah, now in the late spring and early summer, rotten vegetables aren't in particularly great supply....
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
The urgency of the matter is why
he needs to run third party if he isn't heard. Not to mention, it will give him a position of strength to speak from. Pretty please will not cut it. I don't want platform concessions, I want Clinton gone.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Hear, hear dk!
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
I agree.
Bernie has to go third party if the convention anoints Hillary.
No, he already said he wouldn't.
Going back on that would make him just another lying politician out for personal power.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
He has said that.
But the convention is almost three months away yet and a lot can happen between now and then. If he's shoved aside at the convention and decides to go third party the vast majority of his supporters will consider it justified.
That's not entirely true.
You would be correct if the other side of that agreement -- the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (DWS), Hillary Clinton et al., had held to their side of the bargain and permitted a fair, level-playing-field primary campaign.
They did not. The ways in which DWS biased the primary in favor of Hillary Clinton are legion to myriad, but this website is replete with documentation of the same. Ask and ye shall receive.
And their proactive refusal to do so nullified the entire bargain; Bernie has no more obligation to hold his end when the other side did not uphold theirs. Please allow me to re-emphasize: Bernie has no obligation to support Hillary Clinton. He has a greater obligation to the revolution he advanced so well in his campaign to do the contrary.
If he fails to do that, then and only then would it be considerable that he would be "just another lying politician out for personal power".
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
That's how I see it.
Bernie has options. He will do what's in the best interests of the 99%, he owes nothing to the "Democratic Party".
I agree that
he should never endorse Clinton. But he did give his word that he would not run as third party or independent. Because Hillary is a serial liar, that is no excuse for Bernie to break his word, or so my parents taught me. Now,it's entirely different if he were to endorse someone else ...
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Bernie gave his word, and I honor him for that
HOWEVER..., I did NOT give my word that I would not urge Bernie to run as an Independent if the DNC betrays We the (Democratic) People, nor did I indicate by word or deed that I would not urge others to join me in drafting Bernie to run as an Independent, even if over his protestations.
If that amounts to coercing an honorable man like Bernie to run for president, I'll have to plead guilty (but without any pangs of conscience since it would be for the Greater Good of all of us to have Bernie as president). I'll apologize for that in nine years after a successful eight years in office for Bernie.
If Bernie endorses Hillary, I will NOT follow blindly and vote for Hillary. Not even Bernie can get me to vote for her (or Biden, if the DNC stoops so low as to insert him at the last minute as a replacement for Hillary if she's indicted). As Bernie said in one of his interviews recently, it is up to Hillary to win over his supporters. He can't snap his fingers and expect we will follow his lead.
Fuck you, Moronic Media, for trying to put words in Bernie's mouth to force him to promise something he knows darn good and well he cannot promise on behalf of his supporters! It would destroy his credibility as the only politician who actually does his best for and on behalf of We the People. They've been trying to coerce both Bernie and Jane to declare Bernie's support for Hillary if he does not get the nomination, or give up his bid for the Democratic nominee since Bernie declared, and I'm sick of Moronic Media's manipulation on behalf of Hillary!!!
Moronic Media just wants something sensational to write about "if" the first woman, and a Clinton no one trusts at that, is elected because they smell blood and know that less than six hours after a Hillary win the Rethuglicans would be stampeding for microphones and cameras to declare they will impeach Hillary and/or investigate her life for more crimes clear back to her birth if they have to in order to oust her from office, and no one would talk about anything else for four years. That puts Moronic Media in organized cahoots with multiple corporations to keep people distracted from the passage of TPP (and world-wide fascism if it passes), TBTF banks who will continue to rob us blind, the religious right who will continue to pursue their aims to overturn Roe v Wade, the military-industrial-mercenary complex as they keep on with their "wars" against little criminal gangs in pursuit of control of oil wells in the Mideast. Et cetera.
The next five+ months will be inordinately interesting, I think. The late-night comics, Lee Camp, Samantha Bee, and John Oliver will almost certainly have enough material for some great comedy routines. If pollution or world war doesn't get us, we can laugh ourselves to death.
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960
but wouldn't endorsing Hillary make him a lying politician?
I expect, should that woman get the nomination, that Bernie will give a speech that includes "on her worst day she's a thousand times better than the Hairball!"
and then what? We vote for Hillary? Not likely! But Bernie will have said he wants us to, so what does that do to your opinion of him?
Ah well...cross that bridge when we get there, I suppose.
my opinion of him
Not much, actually, as I consider any such statement to have been made under duress, and therefore void. Void in both the legal sense and in the coding sense.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
I trust him to know what to do in the moment
and I am going to trust his thinking in this. He's right so much of the time and this is threading a needle.
needle
To paraphrase a certain J. Christ, this is threading a needle with a whole camel!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
I trust him to know what to do in the moment
and I am going to trust his thinking in this. He's right so much of the time and this is threading a needle.
Not after all the obvious bullshit chicanery
and vote disruption/disenfranchisement that was clearly and always beneficial to Clinton.
I could see "accidental disenfranchisement" again and again if it sometimes benefited Sanders. But it never has.
Team Hillary Clinton--the New England Patriots of American Politics. Fuck all of them--they've demonstrated they don't want Bernie--why the hell should he get behind them? He made that pledge under the assumption that the voting is above board and it sure as hell isn't. And not for nothin', but it hasn't been since at least the 2000 election.
Time to rip that mask off too, Bernie. I expect nothing less from the champion of the underdog.
Actually, if you want to go all Clinton Lawyer speak...
What he actually said was he wouldn't run as an Independent if I am recalling correctly.
If he merged with the Greens, he technically wouldn't be running as an independent.
But regardless, I am sure when he made the agreement he probably assumed the Democratic Party would also play "Fair".
They have been anything but, so pardon my French but fuck em....
If they Nominate Hillary the Democratic Party as a whole will end up on my "Dead to me" list.
I will support individual progressives that still run under the party banner, but any loyalty I would have had to the party as a whole will be completely nullified.
There has NEVER been a candidate in my voting lifetime that has better epitomized what the Democratic Party has (claimed) to stand for and yet they solidly rejected him.
That alone shows that they really have ZERO interest in actually pursuing a progressive agenda, they have just been paying lip service for decades to woo the progressive vote.
Unfortunately for them, they accidentally showed their hand to the table, and many of us don't like the fact that it has 5 aces in it....
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Just in case Bernie doesn't do that
Jill Stein has to be the backup plan to get rid of the Clintons. Trump can not be President. The first crisis will put him in over his head and things will start spiraling out of control.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Trump has to be stopped
and so does Hillary. They would both be a disaster.
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What you said.
It feels great . . .
being able to point out that Hillary would be a disaster without having packs of Hillbot Hyenas howling at me.
Thumbs-up for the fantastic alliteration.
And the sentiment.
Alliterators are always acceptable
Because bans bode badly
Hillbot Hyenas... FANTASTIC Alliteration!!!
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960
Thank you, NonnyO.
The Green Party is incapable
of running field operations at the national level. Or communications. Or fundraising.
FDR 9-23-33, "If we cannot do this one way, we will do it another way. But do it we will.
Yes of course.
This is why the Jill Stein campaign doesn't depend upon the Green Party. All they're useful for is a ballot line -- let's hope that the GPUS gatekeepers have the wisdom to avoid denying said ballot line to something good.
The ruling classes need an extra party to make the rest of us feel as if we participate in democracy. That's what the Democrats are for. They make the US more durable than the Soviet Union was.
She has no government experience but neither has Trump.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Yet....
Can you imagine how fast we could expand their infrastructure and impact if we did indeed merge the Bernista's with the Greens?
I think we could take a lot of seats in 2018 and have a solid base built in time for the 2020 cycle to mount a challenge.
I don't believe that this is at all unattainable. Just look at the progress we made in 10 months.
Imagine what we can do over the next 2 and 4 years.....
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Actually that's the charm of things.
Political revolutions are only helped by a political vacuum. The Sanders political revolution must be our February Revolution.
The ruling classes need an extra party to make the rest of us feel as if we participate in democracy. That's what the Democrats are for. They make the US more durable than the Soviet Union was.
To be fair, it never bothers our neocon-neolib hegemons *now*
when things spiral out of control, as long as suffering doesn’t strike their clientele. On the contrary.
They know how to capitalize on every huge mess they create. This gives them an incentive to create more crises.
To them a crisis represents a string of “opportunities,” in the by now all-too-familiar disaster-capitalism, “never let a good crisis go to waste,” Shock Doctrine sense.
The new movement needs to learn to turn the tables.
Jill Stein
needs help getting signatures on petitions to put the Greens on the ballot in November of this year. A couple of states they're still working on have deadlines in June. The rest are in July and August.
If we need the Greens to be a viable option, we need them on the ballot.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
The platform is a joke.
Democrats in office have been ignoring it for decades.
Twain Disciple
That's true.
Yes! The platform is a pack of lies,
set out in pretty colors and bows to entice the gullible or the blind that the Dem establishment is any different from the other Party. Once the election/coronation is done, so are the promises.
"When the powerless are shut out of the media, we will make the media irrelevant" ~Anonymous~
Hi Big Al!
I think Bernie has an idea or two about what to do next, about how to expand our political revolution beyond the electoral system into every form of activism for social and economic justice. His ability to inspire and energize millions of people can make it happen.
Rather enjoyed this version as well
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I like that version
Thank you for posting it, Vayle.
I know most folks -- rz included -- rocks teh jimi, but i
myself will take this one (saw these guys on this tour). booker t's organ jam is great sub for rz's harmonica, and nobody post-jimi really groks the function of the over-driven amp like mr. young.
sadly, the version he played at the bob d 30th anniversary show seems to have vanished from youtube.
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.
Excellent version.
Thank you, UntimelyRippd.
btw, i'm not super jazzed by the bsg version standalone,
but i remember watching that episode, and hearing those chords slowly emerge in the background, thinking, wait ... is that ... is that? ... and the dramatic scene just builds and builds with the crescendo of music under it and over it and all through it, and it was awe-inspiring.
bear mccreary is remarkable. the opening music for BSG, black sails, and outlander are all outstanding.
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.
Kara Thrace Returns...
Starbuck: Hi Lee.
Lee: Kara?
Starbuck: [laughs] Don't freak out, it really is me. It's gonna be okay, I've been to Earth. I know where it is, and I'm gonna take us there.
Fluid pull back from the vipers, through a small transparent gaseous cloud to the fleet pulling back further with Cylon base stars in view and then pulling even further back as we speed past planets and nebulae to get an exterior view of the galaxy, rolling and panning quickly back in to Earth.
I love that scene.
Hear, hear.
Excellent essay.
#StillSanders.
America is hearing Bernie
And the more he speaks truth to power, the more America is going to listen to him.
Thank you, Eagles92.
Yes, I've been hearing "discussion" of income inequality
on MSM, NPR, etc - pretty ridiculous discussion, true, but before Bernie's campaign, no one in the mainstream media was even admitting there was such a thing. He's already changed the conversation so much.
Yes he has.
And he's just getting warmed up.
And so are we.
Political Revolution is busy being born, the corrupt political establishment is busy dying.
One of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite movies:
"Get busy livin', or get busy dyin.'" (Shawshank Redemption).
The Political Revolution is on the right side of that equation.
It's a great movie in so many ways.
of american authors whose books will never be taken "seriously",
stephen king is in a class by himself.
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.
riffing on dylan:
"he not busy being born is busy dying."
don't know if dylan got it from somewhere else.
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.
Stephen King's knowledge of music is expansive.
Especially of "protest" music.
He weaves it into almost all of his stories. Wouldn't doubt that line is an homage to Dylan!
Stephen King's knowledge of music is expansive.
Especially of "protest" music.
He weaves it into almost all of his stories. Wouldn't doubt that line is an homage to Dylan!
That was downright OPOL-esque in its righteousness
One Pissed Off Liberal would recognize a brother/sister in words and pictures and justified wrath and vision. This resonated.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
We go way back.
OPOL is an inspiration to so many of us.
Thank you, 2andfro.
I love OPOL, and frankly,
This was different, in a good way (and resonated more!).
Loved it. Thanks, Rusty!
"When the powerless are shut out of the media, we will make the media irrelevant" ~Anonymous~
Thank you, Lisa.
Thanks Rusty 1776 this is a good one!
I was amazingly inept & posted this diary as a comment somehow.
But I got that sorted out and have high hopes that I'll be able to post my next diary in the right place without any unexpected detours.
Thank you, shaharazade.
Bernie actually has a decent shot at getting the most delegates
The most pledged delegates that is. I've been keeping my own spreadsheet to try out different primary results in the remaining states. Since I live in California, I'm mainly concerned about what results are needed in California. Right now, if Bernie got 50% of the vote in all the remaining states except for California, he would need 81% of the vote in California to win the whole thing. After each primary, I'm going to readjust the numbers to see what California results are needed assuming he gets 50% in the remaining states. Surely he will end up needing a lot less than 81% here. Even so, given that Independents can't vote in the Republican primary but can in the Democratic one and given that Trump has already won the nomination and that Hillary dislike is big here, Bernie will do well.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Actually my spread sheet assumes Bernie will get 42% in the VI
If Bernie gets 50% in all states except for California and got 42% in the Virgin Islands he would need to get 81% of the vote in California to win the whole thing. Too many offshore banksters live in the Virgin Islands for me to give that to Bernie.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Bernie's up in 6 of 9 upcoming states
Closing in Cali & NJ.
With news reports like the FBI interviewing Clintons aides etc., running up to the California Primary, I can see a resounding win in California. But a win in NJ is vital. My entire Westchester 4 Bernie team is already in NJ. We canvassed last Saturday and Wednesday. Our Latino Outreach team will be doing voter Reg the next 2 weekends (the deadline is May 17th). We're coordinating with south western Ct volunteers to car pool them to NJ for Canvassing.
Westchester 4 Bernie is utilizing every possible resource at its disposal to get volunteers into NJ.
FDR 9-23-33, "If we cannot do this one way, we will do it another way. But do it we will.
My numbers
[everyone has a spreadsheet] are based on a 4 point loss in NJ and 20 point loss in DC. I don't know if we can do much about DC but folks who are working NJ say that there is a solid chance of an actual [close] win there. Good. He needs to get 60% in WV, Oregon, Montana, and both Dakotas, along with a bit over 50% everywhere else. Every vote counts.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
He has some good states coming up
and needs a big win in California. I think progressives and Independents are going to come through for Bernie in CA and give him a YUGE win there.
Yuuuuge win
Beware the bullshit factories.
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I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960
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