The DNC Plans to Skip over the Scandals and Bring it Home.

Our Media Overlords decide what will be an issue in the American political theater, and what will not. They have embedded their talking points today. The silent consensus is that the nation has already moved on from the leak of the Democratic Party's email.

They're right. Corruption in the Democratic Party is not news. It's redundant. Duopolies, by their very nature, are structural mechanisms that inherently generate and hide corruption. In practice, a two-party system can easily evolve into highly profitable form of good cop, bad cop.

Americans get sucked into this two-party kabuki every time, replacing the priority of their own interests with The-Designated-Outrage-Du jour. This time it was particularly easy. Even disenfranchised Democrats instantly rolled over for the awesome Donald-Trump-Fear. Which is irrational, if you think about it logically. Perhaps USians can't recognize the obvious kabuki because they think the two-party system is sacred and was designed by Jesus when he wrote the US Constitution. Who can know for sure?

Nevertheless, this time it really is different; you can feel it in the air.

The Democratic Party Pivot to "Unity"

Clearly, the Democratic elite know they are in brand new territory. They've known that since January, at least, which accounts for their fevered behavior all year. They are scrambling to stop this 'Revolution-in-Self-Awareness' that's been steadily blooming in the hearts and minds of the people. The Party definitely doesn't want that at their convention, so they are going to use psyops (psychological operations) to suppress it.

Their plan for the Convention is to pretend that Hillary Clinton is actually the real Bernie Sanders. She will come out fighting for real™ change™ in America — both economic and social. She will even be waving her arms. [face/palm]

There is also a new, pre-emptive theme for the Democratic National Convention that emerged rather suddenly. The default theme will be UNITY! [Cue music, "We are the world…"] Hillary will be carrying a golden torch and leading the Unified Democratic Party into her signature, Fight for Change™.

I know. It's a sickeningly obvious ploy, but the Party Bosses are pretty sure the seamless extravaganza will gaslight the reluctant Dems (more psyops) and bring them back into the fold. It's always worked before, right?

Here's how they are polishing that turd over at the Washington Post, the night before the Demoncratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

The challenge for Clinton and her newly minted running mate, Sen. Timothy M. Kaine (Va.), will be to avoid becoming cheerleaders for the status quo and instead infuse that hopeful tone into an argument for change that could galvanize a frustrated and divided electorate.

Democrats promise four nights of speeches and entertainment that will highlight the core theme of Clinton’s campaign: “Stronger together.” The program will alternate among political heavyweights led by President Obama and former president Bill Clinton, celebrities such as Katy Perry and Lena Dunham, and everyday Americans whose aim will be to make Clinton appear more appealing and approachable.

And filled with change.

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Lily O Lady's picture

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"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"

lunachickie's picture

After what we've seen in the last 36 hours, they can polish all the turds they want.

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They can even put them in the punchbowl.

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"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"

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What's she supposed to be an example of, again (other than a Hillary fan)?

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

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Successful as she is as actor, writer, producer, and director, she also never saw a sexual controversy that she didn't jump aboard and grandstand about - always taking The Woman's Side, Right Or Wrong (or, more specifically, ASS-uming The Woman's Version Is Always Right). This has gotten her negative publicity now and then, but she only seems to care that it keeps her name in the public eye.

Of course she's a Hillbot - what else could she possibly be?

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as there does not seem to be an educated understanding of the issues) with HRC's history of harassing women who had the effrontery to have sex with her husband? Or very notably the many videos of HRC screaming at or patronizing women who dare ask her a questions when she laughs off questions from males?

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WaterLily's picture

"You know what, dear ..."

Who the EFF, in good conscience, can support this harpy?

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There are a number of instances that are quite telling; I think the one with Ashley Williams of BLM is probably the one that got the most attention.

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Getting "A Woman" elected President is more important to her than who that woman is, what her history is, what she has done to other women, etc.

Fucking hypocrite.

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IF she is elected, she will set the cause(s) of women back 100 years or more. With the example that Obama has set, we probably won't get another black president for a very, very long time. The same will happen for women IF HRC is elected.

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Every time I see her confronted by a woman she pulls that attitude on them.
And the stories told by people who worked for her or the secret service agents all say how bitchy she talks to her underlings.
After she puts this woman down she laughs and thinks she is funny.
No wonder Bill says this.
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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

of the narcissistic solipsistic overprivileged people who are hillary's biggest fans. Like attracts like. She fits the perfect model of the clinton scold who uses cheap illogic served with condescension and snideness to cover for the affirmative arguments they cannot make.

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I will not show a picture of the two cheeks of my naked buttocks here.
Needless to say, what comes from between them is perfectly recognizable in the two party system.
I'd had enough many years ago. Fortunately, I live in a state that doesn't require party registration (yet).
The time of humans on this great marble we call earth, is becoming more and more apparent to be very limited. Humankind has all but guaranteed it's own demise. Frack it!
Neverclintontrump

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

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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?

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I love your avatar. It made me literally laugh out loud this morning.

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Thought it would be appropriate for next week.

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Democrats promise four nights of speeches and entertainment that will highlight the core theme of Clinton’s campaign: “Stronger together.”

the television news media colluded against us. why give them any ratings and eyes for advertisements? if anything newsworthy comes of it i'll read about it the next day.

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There is no news that is so new it can't be read the next day.

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After that, I'm much more interested in knowing what's happening outside. I hope there are good live-streams of all the protests.

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Keep on carrying the torch ...

[video:https://youtu.be/9oub-NKb7Fk]

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Lovely music.

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Hillary

... filled with change.

??? No, no! Large donor cheques, stock certificates, direct transfers, fine, but change? Why bother with that?

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

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Yours, mine, children's lunch money, seniors' survival pittance - all of it STOLEN.

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Weird+News+Pinata.jpg

The over-sized pinata reminds me of a Trojan Horse...and of, course, HRC by extension.

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I don't think that one is by Armani though.

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“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu

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much as I dread the Republican Convention. A plague on both their houses!

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The only time I dreaded a Democratic Convention. Guess who headed the (G)reed (O)ver (P)eople one that year?

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Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.

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seriously at least.

For example, here is one from the SF CBS affiliate that was pretty well written.

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Some of the most interesting emails to read are those exchanged by DNC staffers as they decide how to respond to media inquiries, and then their off-the-record and deep background responses to numerous national media outlets. The emails contained off the record correspondence with reporters at the Washington Post, Politico, and the Wall Street Journal, among others.

but not the networks (ABC, CNN, MSNBC, any others?)

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It left me hungry for more.

But, this story goes nowhere that I can see. Primary election irregularities are state issues, but more importantly, the primaries are candidate preference polls taken by the Parties. They are not legally binding. The Party is free to ignore them and nominate a different candidate.

The shenanigans were done by a private club, the Democratic Party. It was not a public election. However, there are structural antitrust issues in this political club system, which conspires to block all competition (additional political parties). This results in grave harm to the American people, from whom remedies are withheld. Yet challenging the fundamental injustice of the Party system is unthinkable to Americans. Thus, they indemnify all the corruption derived from the system. In any event, the elections, political parties, and candidates are effectively owned by the super-wealthy, at the Federal level.

The source of the overall electoral dystopia comes from the archaic and hopelessly dated US Constitution, which was written with the rights if slavers in mind. The people do not wish to address this patchwork of dysfunction and pull it into the 21st century. Thus, the systemic corruption and corporate abuse that comes from it belongs entirely to the people.

And there we are.

How you doin' Alphalop?

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The people do not wish to address this patchwork of dysfunction and pull it into the 21st century.

Every time the people start talking about how they'd like to TRY to address that particular dysfunction, they are told that "NO NO NO, WE CAN'T DO THAT BECUZ REPUBLICANS!!!"

So before you leave the impression that nobody gives a shit, not now and not ever and nevermore....

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http://foavc.org/

every time the people start talking about how they'd like to TRY to address that particular dysfunction

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lunachickie's picture

and then our precious freedumz will be GONE!

Nevermind that it doesn't work like that...

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Cameron's theme for why the Scots should stay in the UK two years ago? And how are Scottish voters feeling about having voted against independence now, post Brexit?

There might be a lesson or two in here somewhere.

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Part of it was because of how Reagan ignored the AIDS epidemic and I had recently lost my brother to it. Bush had been his VP at the time and I also held him accountable for the thousands of people who had died while Reagan did nothing to address the epidemic by getting the pharmaceutical companies involved in finding a treatment for it. He instead listened to the Falwells and said that abstinence was the better option even though children and straights were also being infected.
I don't know how much attention I paid to their platform during the campaign.
But we have seen the damage that Clinton did to the people in this country. Welfare reform and the crime bill was immediately seen as damaging, but his other policies weren't apparent at how damaging they were until Bush was in office and we saw what deregulating the banks did to people who owned homes and what happened to their pensions.
Many of his other bills weren't obviously apparently damaging like NAFTA and others until factories started closing, hundreds of thousands of people lost their jobs and the jobs weren't there for people who had spent their careers at one jobs.
The policies he put in place are still hurting people today. We saw thousands of people get kicked off food stamps, the crime bill has seen the private prisons explode and we've seen how putting more cops on the streets has been detrimental to blacks.
So we do know how dangerous it will be if they get back into the WH.
The banks have financed their entire careers and they paid them back during Clinton's first term.
The bank, corporations and many other industries have given them tons of money and they have even more favors to pay back if Hillary becomes president.
They stole this election and they are betting that the n us being too afraid of Trump to not vote for them
But they are ignoring our anger and that many people have said that there is no way that they will vote for Hillary, but Jill instead.
And the blame falls on the DNC for running a shitty candidate and supporting her over Bernie.
Period!

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If enough Berners switch to Jill in Florida, Trump might win. But unlike 2000, there are the Libertarians. Now that I think about it, it makes sense. Its amazing how far Bernie got given how late it became clear that Elizabeth Warren was not running. That took about 2 months off the Bernie campaign. I don't blame her, it was the alignment of planets.

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The political revolution continues

WaterLily's picture

Party of Two.

Eye-opening.

(While somehow -- unsurprisingly at this point -- still managing to denigrate Bernie. Because it's Politico, after all).

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Will ruin their career if they carry on this disgusting charade.

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Isn't he head of the Dem Party? And the person who kept DWS on in spite of her ineptitude? I would think he has some 'splaining to do, no?

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Was that "Stand By Me"? (Adapted from Steven King's "The Body")

Been so long since I seen it, not sure if I am remembering the right movie, lol!

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Our Media Overlords decide what will be an issue in the American political theater, and what will not.

All of it is pretty depressing. The only thing I want definitively answered is will he tell them to fuck off and run with Jill Stein? How much shit can he take, and does he owe to it anybody including himself. His staying within the party will accomplish nothing. He is a piranha, a Jonus. Hillary and the power brokers hate him, and his traditional allies are terrified of the Clintons. He will get nothing from everyone. He negotiated and came up empty handed in my opinion. His 4 pm talking spot puts him right back where he started with debates at midnight on Christmas.

I'm not going to watch a minute. It is a bad reality show, and I do not want to see it.

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n/t

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WaterLily's picture

I know there's been a lot of rat-f#ck!ng already with the details and schedule, so any confirmation of anything at this point is helpful. Especially since he's the only one I'm interested in tuning in for.

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everywhere you turn.

Pitiful, isn't it?

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as being 'prime-time.'

I commented at another thread that I suspected that the articles that I'd found/posted earlier, were just poorly written.

From Politico:

Sanders gets prime-time speaking slot at Democratic National Convention

Other speakers include Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Obama, Biden and DREAMer Astrid Silva.
By DANIEL STRAUSS 07/15/16 01:38 PM EDT

The other pieces mentioned that Monday's 'gavel' time will be 3:00 p.m., EST. It is 4:00 p.m., EST, on other days.

This headline indicates that Michelle, Bernie, and the third speaker will give 'keynote' addresses during evening hours (IMO).

Find the 'gavel' times, here.

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according to Berners I follow on FB... fwiw

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What's odd is that of all the Berners I follow, not one of them has said such a thing.

They sure love mixing up the confusion, don't they? First they got rid of DWS because they panicked, and now they're trying to spin THAT as a concession to Bernie. What laughable bullshit.

Now this "time change". Unbelievable. If I have to turn my TV on at 8am and suffer through the whole damned day tomorrow, I will. Anyone who wants to see Sanders or hear him live is going to find a way, either while it's live, or after the fact. The DNC is just making it worse for themselves with their panic.

You can just imagine them moving Sanders off prime time, though. If they've truly done that, then they're afraid of him, that he's up to something.

I think he is, too. Always have. I hope he can pull it off, whatever it is.

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Am I the only one...

looking forward to watching the oldest political party on the planet implode on live TV?

It's gonna be epic!

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"They are scrambling to stop this 'Revolution-in-Self-Awareness' that's been steadily blooming in the hearts and minds of the people"

Beginning with Occupy Wall Street after Obama played footsies with all the Wall Street fat cats, the anger has been simmering ever since.

Cue Bernie as a real progressive candidate. Cue the ratfuckery that went on and what you got was untold millions of people wanting to know what happened to their votes. Class action suits. #DemExit, and third party candidates polling better than I ever remember.

Oh, yeah. This time it's different. This time it's personal.

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Great Orange Propaganda site saying 'darn, long time no Pluto.' If you ever want to hear crickets over there raise the point that our entire foreign/military interventionism thus entire century has been a complete utter failure. It really is not a place to deal with the actualities of power these days. Great to see some clear thinking again. Thanks!

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as a "concession" to Sanders following WikiLeaks DNC emails disclosure:

(CNN) — The head of the Democratic National Committee will not speak at the party's convention next week, a decision reached by party officials Saturday after emails surfaced that raised questions about the committee's impartiality during the Democratic primary.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose stewardship of the DNC has been under fire through most of the presidential primary process, will not have a major speaking role in an effort "to keep the peace" in the party, a Democrat familiar with the decision said. The revelation comes following the release of nearly 20,000 emails

One email appears to show DNC staffers asking how they can reference Bernie Sanders' faith to weaken him in the eyes of Southern voters. Another seems to depict an attorney advising the committee on how to defend Hillary Clinton against an accusation by the Sanders campaign of not living up to a joint fundraising agreement.

Wasserman Schultz is expected to gavel the convention in and out, but not speak in the wake of the controversy surrounding the leaked emails, a top Democrat said.

"She's been quarantined," another top Democrat said, following a meeting Saturday night.

This is seen as a concession to Sanders, who has been furious at Wasserman Schultz for what he believed was favoritism to Clinton.

The Democrat familiar with the decision said it was done in hopes of preventing chaos on the convention floor among Sanders supporters.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/22/politics/dnc-wikileaks-emails/

Stronger Together and all that.

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the platform is just words on paper that will never be enacted. at least denying DWS from speaking is an action, small as it is.

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I mean you need to hide the party chair? Maybe the problem is deeper then you are willing to admit.

I will never, never, never vote for Hillary or support the DNC, at least in its current version

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No way is the spin on this true. No effing way.

DWS being pulled from the speeches isn't a concession to Sanders.

What a goddamn lie CNN is spinning. DWS is being pulled from the speeches because the Democratic Party is in full-blown panicked Damage Control mode and this was someone's bright idea that "Hey! Let's minimize the embarrassment and yank Little Debbie outta Prime Time".

Yeah, that'll help,..good old trusty Clinton News Network. doing what it can to make Hagatha look Preznitial...

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You've got it. Wanting to avoid the embarrassment of the reaction of Sanders delegates when DWS took the podium is NOT making a concession to Bernie. It's an effort to maintain the unity facade.

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If that's true and she had knowledge about the email to ask him about his religion to attack him about him being Jewish and she was either okay with it or didn't say anything about it says a lot about her.

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He is of Jewish heritage, not faith. They thought they could hang the atheist out to dry.

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but what they can lead to might not be. This could turn into a unity story so much will depend on how hard Sanders and his supporters drive the wedge inside the convention. (and outside to a lesser degree)

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with who, unifying, exactly?

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on whether the progressives will come on board and support Clinton. Now that it is 100% certain that the primary was rigged (as opposed to 99%) the question becomes how many progressives will the DNC leaks stop voting for/supporting Clinton.

Things have moved on a bit since the original comment - apparently Sanders said that he is still supporting Clinton despite the leaks - this may be enough to take the sting out of any potential rebellion.

Important to remember that the unity discussion is/was a big one even if most of us here are against the idea.

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Just embraced the unity while talking with Jake Tapper. Blew off the DNCleaks scandal, and talked about getting $$Hillary elected.
It seems pretty clear to me that Bernie is NOT going to 'act up' at the convention, and allow himself and his 'movement' to become the easy scapegoat for $$Hillary's failure.

Many of us thought that we were watching the political suicide of the GOP...but somehow the utter incompetence, negligence and contempt of the DNC has managed to put the next 6 years at risk for real liberals/progressives.

Democrats, once again snatching defeat from the mouth of victory.

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Can I throw up now? Been doing so since 1980. Rec'd!

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Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.

that right Rick James is wearing when he punches Charlie Murphy in the forehead?

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"Stronger together," that sounds too much like mixing bleach and ammonia. Maybe seems like a good idea, but actually will send you to the hospital.

And anyway, The Hairball, he now has a patent on all things "strong." As well as "tough."

I suppose the Bomber can transform into the Deli Man like how those shapeshifters work in Fringe. Kinda creepy.

Good piece. ; )

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