Just what we don't want.

"Vote for me, my husband will do part of my job."

Seriously, a businessman? I mean, Hillz, do you even know why Lieberman was a bad pick for Gore? The VP is supposed to appeal to the base. With Lieberman, it became "the guy who deleted the fuck words from music and the guy who deleted the fuck words from video games".

Okay, I'll admit there aren't many possible choices she could have. I can think of a few, but most of them are so far downticket that they've never been on the national stage. A few are even things like tribal presidents. (Cecilia Fire Thunder comes to mind.)

It is so depressing to me to think about having to deal with the Clinton scandal machine for the next 8 years if she wins the nomination. All of the national media focus will be on the latest scandal and it will be much easier to bury the issues that are literally threatening our lives, such as climate change and health care.

Because the Democratic base has always lusted after a @$#!? BUSINESSMAN to be on the ticket as VP! WTF is wrong with this woman?

Fucketyfuckfuckfuck, fuckety....She has no judgement whatsoever at this point.

why does that name make my skin crawl?

Seriously, I'm not one to keep up on the trending celebrity of the week or who's the top whatever. But I recently saw a Facebook video where some guy was bleating about something or other. Unfortunately I can't recall what it was, but he struck me as your basic obnoxious alpha-male wannabe.

IIRC my internal dialog was something like "who the hell is this shithead?" I think his name was Mark Cuban. I remember looking him up and learning that he was famous for being a rich obnoxious 'Thuglican't.

I honestly don't think nominees have all that much say in their running mate. I mean nobody can tell me Ike actually liked Dick Nixon or Kennedy admired LBJ. So I'm not worried about the blowhard from that video ever being a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Besides, isn't he supposed to be besties with Rump?

Hey! You know what's even better than that? As a businessman for president!

My god, she & her team are so stupid!

He's a little too honest for her, but since she's after the Jeb! vote, it can only be one guy: Mitt Romney.

He'd probably accept, too.

Summers, Wolin, Sperling, Gensler, Geithner.
These were Robert Rubin's fixers during the Clinton administration, a filthy gang of corporate front-men and swindlers who lit the fuse that triggered phase one of the economic implosion. It was Rubin, Clinton's Treasury Secretary, who first devised the scheme to unshackle the Wall St. beast and free the monster from its regulatory cage.
Under Rubin, Neal Wolin became the point man responsible for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the corporatist wet dream that repealed Glass-Steagall and greenlighted the merger of commercial banks holding insured deposits with investment banks, brokerage firms, and insurance companies, giving birth to the financial Frankensteins that became "Too Big to Fail".
Neal Wolin was confirmed as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury on May 19, 2009, by President Obama.
Derivatives, you say? Gary Gensler was instrumental in the deregulation of derivatives under Bill Clinton. He's now in charge of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under President Obama.
Gene Sperling was part of the crew that demolished Glass-Steagall. He's now an advisor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
Geithner, of course, was the Big Cheese at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and faithful disciple of Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers in the Clinton Treasury Department from '99 to '01.
And finally, Summers was named head of the National Economic Council by...you guessed it...President Barack Obama.
So there we have it. A team of criminal con-artists, the living symbols of a debunked economic theory that delivered a catastrophic financial failure, are Obama's go-to guys in the quest for "reform".

And in 2016: Enter The Queen of Chaos. We're fucked if this woman becomes president.

Bernie may win California, but I doubt it. If he does, it will be a squeaker. Too many non-white people in California and they love Hillary and hate Bernie. I expect something more like the 80% she got in Alabama.

I really respected, Digby (Heather Parton) and Atrios (Duncan Black), have now bowed to the DNC Hillary party Gleichschaltung.

Since last week Digby, like TOP, is now virtually all Trump, all the time.

And Atrios (Duncan Black) at Eschaton now says:

Do you really believe this shit?

It's my fault for reading too much of the internet, but I read so many stupid arguments on behalf of Your Favorite Candidate that I can't believe that a) people are stupid enough to make them and b) people are stupid enough to think that they'll persuade anybody.

Especially when this primary has been over for more than a month. Yes Sanders is still in it, as Clinton stayed in it in 2008, and I don't think that latter fact means that either he or his campaign are off limits for criticism (any more than I think Clinton's inevitable nomination implies that she or her campaign are off limits). But mostly I don't get what people are arguing about anymore. Clinton won. It's over. I'd say stop trying to persuade people to vote for Your Favorite Candidate (whoever that is), except nobody is much interested in doing that anyway. They're just interested in being right on the internet, even though people are mostly embarrassingly stupid about the whole thing. Butthurt and derp don't win elections. Butthurt and derp aren't going to help you persuade people when it might actually help.

Engaged people, the type that spend time blathering about politics on the internet, know why they made their choice. You aren't going to change their minds. More than that, there's no point in trying. Can someone send out that batsignal or something and let people know the primary is over? We have a winner.