I so wanted to throw my remote control at the television today.

This is just a rant with no links. I'm sorry.

So I'm listening to Thom Hartmann's radio show on TuneIn app on my phone between noon and 1 p.m. EDST today. Thom devoted the first hour of allowing callers to call in and thank Bernie Sanders. Each caller was supposed to call with a quick thank you to Bernie, each caller was identified by area code, and they could give their name and location if they wanted to.

In the middle of that hour, Thom noticed Bernie talking at a mic outside the White House (after Bernie met with President Obama) and started playing Bernie's speech.

So I immediately turned on the TV to CNN to see and hear Bernie. As always, Bernie was just terrific. He talked about what our country needs to do, which you all already know what's needed, and said he was holding a rally tonight in DC, and will be campaigning for the election being held next Tuesday.

Bernie said one of his major issues of the DC campaign is fighting for statehood with representation of residents. He said Vermont and DC have approximately the same amount of residents but that Vermont has two Senators and one Representative.

Bernie finished his speech and turned and walked back into the White House while reporters were yelling questions at him.

Ashley Banfield on CNN then did what every "anchor" does, she repeated what Bernie just said, but I already knew what he said because I listened to him. Duh. But at least her recounting of his speech was pretty decent, I think.

Then Ashley threw it to some young woman at the White House, who dramatically set her body stance to begin speaking. We were making of fun of how silly she looked. But then she spoke. She called today Bernie's last hurrah, and then had the audacity to say, "I'm surprised that Bernie didn't take any questions."

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. She said a few more horrible and wrong things, but I was too angry to remember all of them.

Hillary didn't take any questions for over 180 days but yet this stupid woman with a mic standing at the White House was "surprised" Bernie didn't take any questions, especially when Bernie most always takes questions, over and over and over again for over a year.

I've calmed down now, but I just can't stand the traditional media anymore.

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WASHINGTON — President Obama on Thursday formally endorsed Hillary Clinton and called her the most qualified candidate to seek the White House, imploring Democrats to come together to elect her after a bruising party primary.

In a video posted on Mrs. Clinton’s Facebook page, Mr. Obama said, “I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/us/politics/obama-hillary-clinton-endo...

So in other words he's saying, hey, I pulled one over on all of you. Remember you voted for me to be president? Well, yeah, I wasn't qualified, only Hillary was.

What a stupid, stupid comment he made.

I guess FDR was a piker.

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well, big words, nice and civil, wishy-washing over something apparently everybody is forgetting.

He said that Sanders has brought the young people into the process of voting and triggered their enthusiasm. I can only say that I have met more old people, fifty up to eighty years old, who are all going to support Sanders, because for the first time there is a consistent socialist democrat candidate, who takes the 'little people's" need to be treated equal very serious. Equality, not according to their gender or race divided into a little bit more equal than the others, no, equality for all all in the same manner.

I am old and a woman, I don't vote for Hillary, because she has proven that she tries to deal with people on the basis of gender and race and "opportunities" differently without really seeking the equality she claims to be after. I was waiting for Elizabeth Warren to show her true colors. I liked her but am not happy she endorses Clinton. Why? What for? No courage?

I don't get those Democrats, really.

I don't know how I would go forward, if I were Bernie. He should run as indipendent and build a coalition with the Green Party and the Socialist Democrats. I don't know how this is practically done in this awful system. If I were Bernie, I would build my cabinet, announce the people he would be working with as a President, and run with the whole bunch up front as an independent. He shouldn't be shy to go into coalitions with people from very diverse corners of the existing small party spectrum.

Tell people precisely what you are going to do and then stick with it, no matter what.

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...Dick Cheney is even more qualified to be president. Just sayin'...

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I want my two dollars!

Steven D's picture

Yes indeed.

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"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott

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I guess Sanders' arguments have fallen on deaf ears. As expected. Soldier on. Let them have a conniption over his refusal to concede. Let everyone vote and then count each one (and that includes the convention). Keep pointing out the machine that has been working for the annointed (and against any challengers) one since the last election. That's the Sanders way!

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“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”

"So in other words he's saying, hey, I pulled another one over on all of you."

Remember - he wasn't even in office yet when in 2008 he announced that the was holding over many Bushies for his administration. In case you forgot, it was the day immediately after the election which put him into office.

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Bush quit the job as soon as he could, I guess...Obama started his 'transition' government, and that was the last we heard of Dubya, until those paintings came out.

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X

The problem is, there aren't enough of them to elect a president.

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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.

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but msm is announcing Liz Warren is going with hilly? Someone please throw me a life vest. I'm d(r)owning.

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question everything

I am not in the crowd that says oh fall in behind Hillary. What she and her camp do not want to face is the fact that there are many of us who are as adverse to her as Republicans are and that likely includes millions of new voters

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How can I vote for her? To cast my one and only vote for Hillary Clinton, I would have to ignore:

* Her $250,000 an hour speeches to Wall Street firms.
* Her total support for the Trans Pacific Partnership (until this year).
* The pay-to-play scheme between Hillary's State Dept and foreign governments who donated to the Clinton Foundation.
* Her lies. From white lie weasel words to flat out whoppers.
* Her votes on the PATRIOT Act and the invasion of Iraq, a foreign nation that had done us no harm.
* Henry Kissinger. 'nuff said.
* Honduras. 'nuff said, again.
* Her refusal to support marriage equality until the polls made it clear that a large majority of Americans supported it.
* The fact that she and a number of subordinates are currently the subject of an FBI investigation.

These are just the first few off the top of my head, after thinking for about 5 minutes. I can't pretend that all of this, and so much more, does not exist. How is so very easy for Hillary supporters to pretend it's not there?

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change this again:

Her total support for the Trans Pacific Partnership (until this year).

You did better than I could because so many things would pile up in five minutes that I wouldn't be able to type them all, especially as one just leads to a new one.

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If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

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hasn't even been held yet --

THE FBI PRIMARY!!

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When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said “How well he spoke”.
When Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said “Let us march”.

she stole the election to be the presumptive nominee of the Dem's for POTUS !

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I just can't do it.

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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"

And yet the media and establishment and their enthusiasts keep not hearing it. MANY PEOPLE WILL NOT VOTE FOR HILLARY. What about that don't they understand?

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Beware the bullshit factories.

That is why the media blitz of lies. They are ordering us into The Collective.

There are many studies of the effectiveness of the media to sway people's thinking and actions. If it didn't work, advertising would be nearly non-existent.

And remember: Obama's 2008 campaign won some advertising industry awards conning us into electing a "moderate 1985 Reagan Republican" by making us think he was a liberal Democrat. Of course, McCain and Palin made that job fairly easy.

Those same advertising people are now working their vile magic on the voters to "convert" them for Hillary. It just isn't working very well yet. They know that if they keep it up long enough, they will get what they are after.

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that by November they will have scared enough people to death over Trump that we will be begging to vote for her...and for some (maybe enough) it will work. Then there are always those fun-loving, craaazzzyyyy guys...Diebold and Co.

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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

some Hillary supporter had the nerve to tell us we'd best get onboard the Hillary Love Train.

Um sorry. I don't do train wrecks, but I hope the rest of her supporters enjoy their ride.

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(Edited to add the word "her")

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watching any corporate media, even local, is just aggravating if you recognize the slant and the narratives and the bullshit and the propaganda. The sooner you reject it and stop watching completely, the better. It only takes a few minutes watching cnn or msnbc on election day to remind you that almost nothing they say or show has any connection to reality. Truth doesn't serve their interests, nor does information.

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what I call the nightly propaganda. I know right now it will just make me want to throw the remote and scream, so I just won't watch any of it. I used to watch Al Jazeera but now that's gone, and even it had a Corporate spin to it many, many times.

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Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur

News wise, our "Public" TV was politicized in order to survive during the cheney regime - whatever it might have been before that. For news, you pretty much have Democracy Now, and if you're lucky, some non commercial local alternatives.

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I thought he said he would NOT be campaigning in DC but he did support statehood for them. He said he was still waiting for CA. He cannot control his supporters, and he knows it. If Bernie or anyone else expect any kind of support whatsover, they are going to have to come up with a really spectactular deal that includes Bernie's and his agenda and not on some crappy platform.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

DC, at least that's what I heard. In fact, he's holding a rally in DC tonight.

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I must not have heard properly.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

just to be funny.

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A corporate turd is always linked with a golden parasite. . . . Chute. Parachute. Golden Parachute for those in charge. And they do their best to maintain their active nest feathering.

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has not been a reference point for me and never will be.

He is part of the system. "Period."

This is his system, not mine.

Peace and love be with you, reader.

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I cannot recall seeing Obama say anything about election fraud. Maybe someone else has and I just missed it, but I think it would have made at least a little noise. The convention is not over, so once again trying to subvert the fact that half of the people of the US voted for or tried to vote for Sanders. Obama must be in a real rush to hit the speaking circuit. Bet he gets paid more than HRC...man, you know.

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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

The First Family is reportedly moving to a eight-bedroom, nine-and-a-half-bathroom home on Belmont road in the exclusive Kalorama neighborhood. The 8,200 square-foot house, which Wasingtonian has photos of here, is owned by Joe Lockhart and his wife Giovanna Gray.

http://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/real-estate/news/a6326/obama-ka...

Yeah... I'm going to listen to two multi-millionaires, Hillary and Barack, tell me whom I should "unite" with and whom to vote for.

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pension. He will need to do a couple $300,000 speeches a month to keep food on the table.

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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 hope he follows in Jimmy Carter's footsteps more than Bill Clinton's.

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His philosophy is much, much closer to Bill's. I have no idea how he squares that as the Clintons are racists to the core.

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If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

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have any difficulty sleeping at night. The lot of them would laugh out loud at Banquo's ghost.

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We were just an unanticipated speed bump. Didn't take them long to roll out the grader...

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You should only listen to both sides when one side isn't totally full of shit. -Jim Jefferies

They chanted it at Bernie's campaign in California. The CNN people there must have cringed.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvwgXtjf1TA]

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That its 180 days + since Hillary had a press conference.

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I got the links from KossacksforSanders:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/hillary-clintons-private-_b_10...

http://thefederalist.com/2016/06/09/the-precedent-for-hillary-a-special-...

Please let me hear from smarter people than me about this.

My optimistic interpretation: Obama has to link himself closer to Hillary so that a special prosecutor has to be called in. Otherwise, he's under a lot of pressure to block Loretta Lynch from prosecuting. BTW he's meeting with her this afternoon too.

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when Democrats are shown to be less honorable than Republicans (your second link).

I would like to get an estimate of how much the many, many, many investigations in the last 25 years have cost the American taxpayers. Maybe in could be calculated in the number of services that could have been funded if we didn't keep electing the ethically challenged.

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If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

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the media sucks. Can't even stand to listen to NPR anymore what with their chair throwing lie, etc.

Journalism is dead.

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Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons

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are going to support Hillary, I only know it ain't gonna be me. This is probably my last Presidential Election (if I make it that far) and I'm going out in style.

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They are slipping.

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Another Refugee from the Great Orange Purity Troll

Frank Zappa was telling people back in his early Mothers of Invention days to shut off their TVs. It took me about 15 years to figure out why he felt that way, but I eventually weaned myself off the electronic tit. It remains for my wife to wake up, for my kids are already well along the path of eliminating television from their lives.

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And I never trusted Gore after the way he treated Zappa despite claiming to have listened to his music. If Gore actually listened to Zappa, he'd have been much more interesting.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRnNDkHb0MU]

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

In 1999, Diva Zappa (Frank's youngest child) released a comedy single called "When the Ball Drops" about her "hunt for someone to make out with on the Millennium". [Staff (December 28, 1999). "Tipper Gore Plays Drums for Diva Zappa". Spartanburg Herald-Journal.] Tipper Gore played drums on the recording [Staff (December 28, 1999). "Tipper Gore Plays Drums for Diva Zappa". Spartanburg Herald-Journal.] and Kristin Gore sang backup vocals.["Diva Zappa: Two Gores and a Record". Wilmington Morning Star. 1999-12-29. Retrieved 29 March 2011.]

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