Is Anyone Else Tired of This Shit?
So this morning I got an email from Hillary Clinton's e-beggars asking me to donate to her campaign. I replied by asking in no uncertain terms why I would even bother donating to a candidate who is so blatantly against my own best interests.
Later on I got this email:
Subject Line: Trump’s disgusting history with women
This weekend, the New York Times published a huge cover story that looked at how Donald Trump has spent decades treating women. The Times detailed how Trump kissed a 21-year-old Miss Universe contestant on the lips without her permission. How he would publicly mock female executives for being overweight. “You like your candy,” Trump told one of them.
And when the chair of the Republican Party was asked about the report, his response was chilling: “People just don’t care.”
Voter, I have had it with Republicans dismissing, demeaning, and disempowering women. I do care deeply about this, I'm pretty sure you do as well -- and we’re the ones who will make sure Donald Trump never becomes president.
It’s not going to be easy -- but I know we’re up to the task. Are you in, Voter? Chip in $1 now, and let’s show Trump and the Republicans exactly how strong we are.
Seeing as I am sick and tired of this shit, here's my response to them:
Tell me you're kidding. I asked you why I would even bother supporting a candidate that is so blatantly against my interests and this is the response I get? You actually want me to donate to a candidate I have absolutely no intention of supporting? I'm pretty sure I have much better things I could be spending my money on, if I had any, that is.
You see, you can hold up the boogeyman that is Donald Trump all you like, but nothing you say will ever convince me to support a candidate as odious and self-absorbed as Hillary Clinton, especially now that she has shown her true self by dumping her faux-progressive pow-wow and courting Republican politicians and donors telling them that she represents their values better than Trump. But why should I be surprised by any of this? After all, she was open to cutting Social Security and other services before Bernie Sanders came along. No doubt she'll be open to it now that she thinks he's done for. She doesn't care for the environment either despite her claims to the contrary.
I could go on and on about how she doesn't give a damn about the average voter, but it's obvious neither you nor her really give a damn.
Do me a favor and take me off your damned mailing list. I refuse to get in line.
You see, I could have been MUCH harsher than I was here. In fact, I was more than a little tempted. But that isn't who I am.
In other shitty emails, I got a list of Recommended screeds over at the Great Orange Shitcan. Wanna see what was at the top? That's right, this:
Ralph Nader isn't content with just giving us George W. Bush, now he wants to give Trump a boost
True to form, Kos and his merry band of gate crashers turned establishment hacks still blame Ralph Nader for the 2000 clusterfuck. Yeah. Never mind the fact that the Supreme Court practically appointed Bush president. Or the fact that over 300,000 Democrats also voted for Bush that year. Or the fact that Al Gore ran away from his own issues or his own voting base for that matter. It's all Nader's fault. At this point, the Great Orange Shitcan can drop dead. In case you're curious, here's the rest of the list:
Donald Trump will be greeted by 100 naked women outside the Republican National Convention
Cartoon: N.C. Zoo
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Trae Crowder: The liberal redneck the whole country needs to know
Cornerstone pastor (now former pastor) in Arkansas arrested on 70 counts of child porn
It was like talking to a wall
NY Times drops the mic on Trump's interactions with women: 'He kissed me on the lips'
British comedian: 'Trump, America's answer to a question nobody f@#%! asked'
What's the matter with Kansas? Republicans.
Sign if you agree with the League of Conservation Voters: We must stand up to Big Polluters' attacks on the EPA. sponsored
Donald Trump is a shameless and compulsive liar. So why isn't he being called out on it?
86-year-old woman's obituary says to vote for Donald Trump is to be a 'f***ing dumb ass'
Trump says it's 'so low' to talk about what he did in the 1990s
Philly police busted scanning thousands of license plates in vehicle disguised as a Google Maps SUV
Sheriff Joe found in contempt of federal court over racial profiling
Listen to this bizarre audio of Trump posing as his own publicist to brag about money and women
As I said, I'm sick and tired of this shit. I'm tired of having to listen constantly to how Trump is this big boogeyman who's gonna wreck everything unless we all get in line and support Hillary Clinton, a candidate who was nominated 4 years ago behind closed doors by people who said flat out: "Fuck the voters. Hillary Clinton is the nominee for 2016."
Bernie Sanders: Because fuck this shit.
See you around,
Aspie
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Fuck Donald Trump
Fuck Hillary and DWS and The DNC.
Feeling The Bern on The Row!
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
At this point, what The Donald might do
as POTUS or Commander-in-Chief is pretty much unknown. OTOH, on the basis of $hillary's 30-year history in various capacities, and on-the-record statements, WE KNOW EXACTLY what she would do -- and it ain't pretty.
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When Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said “Let us march”.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, ...
... bomb, bomb Iran/Iraq/...
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
I dare someone to post that picture of Bill
The one where he says he likes a lot of women.
I won't because I still have friends over there that I keep in touch with and I don't want to get banned. Yet.
But I think that would be funny as hell to drop that picture in the diary.
Bill's treatment of women isn't all that great either.
Plus there's his flying around with Epstein who would bring in underaged girls for their sex parties. Even if Clinton didn't participate, he still knew about it. That has sleeve all over it.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
I'd love to see that. I'd also love to see record of the lives..
of women Hillary ruined after Bill had affairs with them. From what I understand there were more than a few.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Don't have that one...
but this might get a rise:
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?
Same message, different picture
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
I just read that POS diary
Not all of the comments yet, but there are quite a few people giving Kos shit for the diary. And getting recs for them.
Thanks for the link to it.
I'm sure that the Hillarybots are going to hit back at them and then suck up to Kos.
I would like to know what actually happened to him. Back in 06 he wrote a diary about why Hillary isn't qualified to be president and now he's supporting her over the candidate that represents what the democrats used to stand for.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Hence why I now call them the Great Orange Shitcan.
I have to wonder what they think they have to gain from all of this.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Here's his opinion piece from 2006
I don't think that she has changed anything that would make her a better choice since then. So what has changed in Kos's life?
Here's what he wrote in 06
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/05/AR200605...
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
This certainly hasn't changed
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
I think he sold out. He is my #1 hypothesis for who's a
$Hillary. Why get the site all spiffy to attract new young users, only to kick most of them right out again? Big HRC payday in between?
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Yes, I'm very tired of it all.
My response to both the HRC email and the email from The Daily Hillary would be:
Fuck Off!! (in the best MM F-bomb style).
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Another factor ...
another thing that sunk Gore was Bill Clinton. If Clinton had been able to keep 'Lil Billy in his pants, Gore would have had a much easier road to the presidency. Sitting VP. Good economy. Relative peace. It could've been a slam dunk if Clinton hadn't brought disgrace and shame upon the Democratic Party.
The NYT story about Trump and women
has already been debunked. It is so much easier to spread lies than truth. isn't it?
Woman in NYT piece about Trump's mistreatment of women fires back
Bet none of them are covering this about a huge HRC supporter:
‘The Wire’ actor Wendell Pierce charged with battery, reportedly for attacking Sanders supporter
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
I am trying to train my email spam filter to catch Kos
I got an Emergency email from some female Dem entitled "Losing in 24 hours". More heartening beg letters.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Gmail will do this for you
Just click on the stop sign and it will start filtering it.
Those emails also have an unsubscribe link (buried at the bottom) and the Clinton campaign appears to be honouring it. At least they did a few months ago...
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