Groan .....
This Tweet is back in the news after Debra Messenger re-Tweeted it.
Hillary is the modern Jesus betrayed by Judas (Bernie Sanders) and crucified for spreading peace and love, the parallels are uncanny
— Master Beto (@MadamClinton) April 3, 2017
I didn't know Jesus wrecked any tables belonging to money lenders. I thought he just told them to "Knock it off".
— Andrew Rowe (@AtomicHarbour) December 15, 2018
Jesus was not a peacefeeler! Are we forgetting that in the Gospel according to Neerus Tandius, Jesus laughed in triumph after being told Pontius Pilate was sodomized to death by an insurgency of zealots who then took over Roman oil? https://t.co/CRHaVZP7Up
— Rafael (@aschops) December 15, 2018
John the Baptist loved Goldman Sachs, that's why he was chillin in the river Jordan preaching about mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps
— Uncle Sham (@elijcampbell) December 15, 2018
Russia Russia Russia!
I can’t keep track anymore of how many serious challenges to Western elites are being eyed as Kremlin plots. Congratulations to everyone who’s taken part in this Russia-blaming elite protection racket: https://t.co/Ba0DnK5oJi
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) December 15, 2018
If this @BBCNews comment is correct UK government now prepared to gag UK media to help protect French government from facing true state of French protest whilst also ramping up attacks on Russia 'far right' FN fake news etc. UK now under @cabinetofficeuk cabal statecraft control? pic.twitter.com/rUFqvt96Nn
— UK Column (@ukcolumn) December 14, 2018
Don’t Laugh — It’s Giving Putin What He Wants
"The BBC has published an article titled 'How Putin’s Russia turned humour into a weapon' about the Kremlin’s latest addition to its horrifying deadly hybrid warfare arsenal: comedy."https://t.co/g9PNeUfVXP
— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) December 16, 2018
Don’t Laugh — It’s Giving Putin What He Wants
This myth needs to ends - #Russia is not a "hostile state", they have not attacked or undermined #UK in any way. The establishment are anti-Russia simply because they defeated regime change in #Syria. https://t.co/VPYZK0zaL9
— OffGuardian (@OffGuardian0) December 14, 2018
This brings back such fond memories
Tenth anniversary of the classic shoe-ing of #Bush in #Iraq . Never forget the #WarCriminal and his crimes. pic.twitter.com/gYPcNwrBsz
— tim anderson (@timand2037) December 15, 2018
In case you missed these videos.
The Nancy, Schumer, Trump and The Rock show.
OVAL OFFICE: Here are the fiery exchanges you missed from today's meeting between Trump, Pelosi and Schumer pic.twitter.com/HFyIqrtm5y
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) December 11, 2018
Democrats are the minority party so why were we subjected to this kabuki theater?
[video:https://youtu.be/MdHtAzFNwjE]
[video:https://youtu.be/f0krkHRBaVI]
Dawg lovers should like this.
WikiLeaks' #Vault7 shows that the CIA has developed a huge range of attacks against iPhones since at least 2008.https://t.co/neRkgWFzcA pic.twitter.com/QFnh0WJ3kA
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 23, 2017
Slow night. How y'all doing?
Comments
I've changed my mind about a revolution.
I've been saying "2019 is the Year of the Revolution".
But we need to start now. I'm going down to the corner and start yelling.
[video:https://youtu.be/W9wfWd_m1u8]
You should start dancing instead
Let me know what corner you are on and I'll be your first follower. We'll be cool ...
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
It's the corner of Peace Way and Revolution Highway
Caregivers should send Debra Messings medical bills
...to the Clinton Foundation.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
It makes total sense as a strategy
Look, they have not even HAD a strategy as near as I can determine beyond GOTV. I attended a local Democrats meeting and that's all they talked about... GOTV. They had no interest in talking policy or issues or anything... GOTV.
So yes, they are going to stoke their zealots to ensure the highest GOTV they can for 2020. The Republicans will do the same. And the other ~45% of us will sit by the sidelines shaking our heads unless we can figure out something else to do.
Still though, some of the replies were priceless
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
No, they don't talk policy at Party meetings.
They talk about GOTV and Vote Blue No Matter Who. At the end they might brag to each other about what cruises they took and wonder why the working class doesn't show up at the meetings.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Kos, himself reaffirmed that policy
I also remember that DNC operatives were pushing that idea that policy did not matter because "most voters vote based upon emotion." This is an insult to ALL voters, especially the so called Democratic base which has suffered horribly in the last decade due to lack of policy on the part of the Democratic party. Given a range choices of reasons why people vote, pocket book issues will top all others, especially in economic hard times.
How do these all knowing consultants explain the loss of over 1,000 seats nationwide under Obama? Perhaps the loss was due to the very lack of policy on the part of the Democrats. But they are still touting that same meme today.
And the "all knowing" Markos Moulitsas still does not get it. To this day, his site continues to promote the Russia, Russia, Russia narrative and the anti-Trump narrative instead of addressing real policy issues.
Below is the exchange in early 2017 in which Markos says policy is meaningless. These freaking consultants spout stuff that they believe to be the truth because they do not want to gore their own lucrative consulting ox.
Any gains by the Democrats in Congress in the 2018 election can be mostly attributed to those who actually ran on progressive policies. But policy officially still does not matter to those in charge of the Democratic party.
Lack of policy is not a new thing for those within the power structure of the Democratic party, but has been going on for some time. For example back in 2014, I sent Markos a very detailed email asking that dkos focus more on policy issues and I got zero response back from him. He and the other neolibs running the party do not care about policy as it affects the rest of us. They have theirs and the current policy (or lack thereof) is benefiting them just fine.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
If you ever care to share
I would be most interested. I'm reviewing what I knew and when I knew it.
In these matters, you've been ahead of the curve.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Sure. It was one of the few emails I saved from there
I was stupid enough to think Markos actually cared about policy and people. But he is just another political operative who only cares about greasing his own palm. Otherwise, I believe he would have taken time to address the issues I raised, one way or another.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Thank you very much
...for reprinting your missive to Marcos here.
A little reaction: This one made my eyes burn:
When you began, you were so forthright about bringing people together. It's your very unique gift to view the world this way, prepared for that possibility. And every day it resets and impulse is fresh again. So basically, you hit him with that first:
Your hindsight on his reaction is spot on. I can see how your words threatened his cash flow. The entire point of that online social laboratory was to divide people along the defined faultline of the duopoly — to play both sides against each other. But when you observed some Democrats were "aliens" dragging the party down — the Blue Dogs, for example — you were dividing within the party. Gulp. Little did any of us realize that the aliens were actually the holy grail, the perfected ideology of neolibralism made flesh.
Hahaha! You snatched off the veil. That was beautiful. And in the very next sentence, you killed it again!
Right? The rest of it takes a melancholy turn for me, as you describe where things are going. I didn't have that kind of clarity at that time. Perhaps you saw the patterns so clearly because you saw it through the historical lens of the Party:
Very abstract. But astute. Markos would have wondered about that observation. Or not. He's not much of a philosopher. Of course, we have now seen the real forces pulling at the country and our lives. They are not trying to hide from us anymore. Or maybe they don't know we can see them.
Never saw then that it was all about money and nothing else.
That was certainly everyone's the big fear! But the reality we face is so much worse. Enslavement from birth. An ugly dystopia.
Good god. You could not have been any clearer. I won't get into your last paragraph and immediate solution, except to say he did not deserve to even read it. I now see these specific nests of useful political rats here and there. Organizing and herding the duped. I don't envy them their fates.
You left him with nothing to say.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Thank you for breaking this down for me
Your analysis clarifies a lot for me as to why Markos never chose to address those issues at dkos. I actually did not see why then, but your analysis and time have brought that clearly into focus for me. I tend to write comments based a lot upon personal intuition. So your analysis helped me to understand why I wrote what I did. Thank you so very much.
One of the big reasons I wanted to be a part of Caucus is that when we first started to organize as an email group before ever setting up a website, most of the original members wanted to focus more on policy instead of partisan politics. This was very appealing to me because of my Occupy experience and later the time spent with the Peace vigil. Those two experiences reaffirmed to me just how much the vast majority of people in this country have in common and that is what terrifies the powers that be.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
So important.
That's why I say: "The people have all the power, right this very minute." Intuitively, you must have known that. Uniting them is the key. They could have all the things they jointly aspire to. The country is too large, however, for some differences. And harnassing a large power is too much of a temptation for megalomaniacs and psychopaths. The nation should probably be broken up into regions to make the world a safer place — and give people more choices in the laws they wish to live under, and those they reject. Then, people who want guns can live in in place where people with guns live. People who don't want guns in their lives can live in places filled with like-minded people. It's a big and wealthy country, especially after its bounties are nationalized and the people are no longer exploited to death.
If only People could see their power. I try to imagine what could bring them to this realization.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
The people failed the democrats and Obama
This is how the kos kids explain why democrats lost all those seats. This is also the explanation for why Hillary lost .. except she didn't really. Only lost because people on the 3 important states voted for Trump after he ran on the issues that democrats used to run on. Hillary couldn't even lie and say that she was going to bring back jobs.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Hillbotism
is officially a cult which has run off the rails with its narcissistic personality just like that of its object of deification. These people are sick.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy