I've been offically warned and flagged at TOP
for posting this:
Why Hillary Isn't Sweating the Wisconsin Loss to Bernie
Maybe a banning or time-out or whatever is coming next. Who knows?
It's re-write of yesterday's post,It's not your Democratic party, it's her Democratic party , though toned down a bit. Still too offensive for the delicate fee-fees of the Clinton supporters.
Yes, I am trolling them. Because why the F not.
Text below (without the links except to the Cenk video) for those who are interested.
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It's simple really. She owns the Democratic Party apparatus, lock, stock and both barrels.
I could explain Hillary Clinton's "money laundering" scheme, which allows her billionaire and millionaire donors to increase their donations to her campaign far in excess of the legal limit on individual contributions (all perfectly legal thanks to the Supreme Court), in elaborate detail, but since Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks has already done all that work for me, I'll let him do the heavy lifting:
Clinton's Big Money supporters, in addition to what they contributed to her various Super Pacs and her campaign, were/are able to funnel up to an additional $1,320,000 per married couple, or $660,000 per person, to the DNC and Hillary's campaign in 2015 and 2016 by making additional contributions to those 33 state Democratic Party organizations.
If you watched the video, I hope you caught the part where Cenk explains that under last August's agreement, which was put in place long before you and I had any say in who would the Democratic nominee, Hillary basically bought the support of the super delegates in those 33 states. The way this deal works, the super delegates are all getting kickbacks in the form of contributions laundered through the DNC. Again, this is all perfectly legal, despite the transparent similarity to a payola scheme.
Yes, this story is almost ancient history now in our 24/7 news cycle, now, but it's one we shouldn't forget. This deal goes a long way toward explaining how Clinton scared away any other major establishment candidate from entering the race (cough - Joe Biden -cough) or anyone but Sanders from mounting an insurgent campaign (cough - Elizabeth Warren - cough).
By January 2014, Obama's largest Super Pac in 2012, Priorities USA Action, had already been transformed into Hillary's Super Pac. By August, 2015 nearly all the big donors and state parties (along with their super delegates) were effectively in her pocket. Last August, Bernie Sanders badly trailed Clinton in the national polls and most Democrats just assumed she was the only viable and electable candidate the party could field.
In short, that deal secured the support of a significant number, if not a majority, of the super delegates for Hillary. In essence, she purchased them with the help of the DNC and the 33 state parties that cast their vote for Clinton long before we cast our votes. It explains everything you need to know as to why super delegates are vowing to support Hillary regardless of the outcome of their state's primary or caucus election results.
Such arrangements, whereby the fealty of powerful individuals to their sovereign could be bought through the payment of money, land or other "favors" used to be called Feudalism. But we don't have kings and queens in America, anymore, at least not in the legal sense. However, what we have is a sham "democracy," i.e., a Potemkin facade of a democracy, where the majority don't get to decide who runs for office, the rich, powerful and well-connected do.
It's one of the reasons that Bernie's campaign is a historic event in American history. Despite all the money and alleged skullduggery and flat out corruption by the movers and shakers of the ironically named "Democratic Party" directed against a virtually unknown, self-described Democratic Socialist is unique in this era of Oligarchic control of the political process. Powered only by the enthusiasm of his supporters and their small, but far more numerous donations, Bernie has pushed, arguably, one of the most powerful, establishment backed candidates in my lifetime to spend far more money, time and effort to secure the Democratic nomination than she ever anticipated, a nomination which she no doubt once believed would be locked up the day after the results of the Iowa Caucuses were counted.
Well, as Cenk says, it's "her party," even though the candidate who now appears just as, if not more, electable versus any Republican is her opponent. Of course, we are witnessing the same drama play out on the Republican side, with a full court press by the Republican establishment to do anything to stop Donald Trump, even if that means getting into bed with the loathsome Ted Cruz.
And people wonder why so may Americans feel shunted aside by our two party system with its pay to play immorality that does everything to benefit top of the economic food chain, and tosses a few scraps every once in a while to the rest of us. And then they wonder why the rate of individual American citizens who register to vote increasingly do so as independents. Indeed, voters registered for either party has sharply declined.
Well, the high rollers who bet big on Jeb! and other establishment figures on the GOP side of this duopoly lost their money. Hillary Clinton is counting on the bet her big money donors made on her to pay off, even should she she fail to win a majority of ordinary delegates after the primaries are over. So far, it has, even as she limps to the finish line exposed as a candidate all to prone to go negative and, sadly, a perpetual gaffe machine.
Well, I’m sure her advisers and supporters are working hard to fix those relatively minor issues with how she presents herself at times. And I wish them all the luck in the world. Otherwise, her party will be in serious trouble in down ticket races in the general election, even if she squeaks out a win for herself. What can I say, but Go Trump! His nomination at the GOP convention is the best hope her party has of winning back the Senate and regaining ground in the House.
Comments
Congratulations! Steven D.
You can take it as a compliment whenever you're warned at TOP.
Too much reality for the reality-based community will get a warning every time!
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
The surreal community
I'm just shaking my head as I read the drivel, must be drugs in the water
You should be proud
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
I like "perpetual gaffe machine"
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
Their poor
little fee-fees are HURT, dammit--you're raining on their parade, how dare you? ; ->
And yes, what everyone else said upthread. It's an honor and a privilege for them to diss you these days, at least IMO. Damn, I really gotta work on that, I haven't had a warning in months...
I have got to stop going over there
It's going to bankrupt me. Every time I get pissed off with some of the Hill-shilling, I end up donating to Bernie. Granted, it's not large sums, but it's really starting to add up! (I just checked my Act Blue donations - my spouse would gasp, but since we have separate banking accounts it's all good. )
Think off-center.
George Carlin
Just reading it here and reddit....
Just reading about it here and at reddit is hurting the bank account. Luckily, my husband is all aboard the Bern Train. All he said was to make sure we have enough for the bills and food. After that, I am ok. If this keeps up, I might max out before Cali.
War, War Never Changes - Fallout Series
I keep posting the
Cenk video or the Counterpunch article on every comment Peters and Stabenow make. Bunch of crooks.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Campaign contributes are Bribery.
So you got bojo'ed over at TOP. It's a compliment, believe me. I don't do diaries, just comment. I joined TOS back in 2008 when the greenhorn was challenging shrill. It was nothing like it is now. One thing I noticed was that Markos was a Repukelican when he did his military duty. His mother is from El Salvador. He got slammed as a kid for that fact. He changed his voting affiliation to Democrat cos the open minded, nice, service members were registered Democrats. Bush-Cheney stealing the election in 2000 blew him out of the water. So being a computer geek, he started the GOS. The reaction from a lot of progressives, liberals, socialists, hardcore lefties surprised him. He's still a former R who is now a D.
I don't consider the Bernster's take on the issues in this campaign, radical. I'm a Boomer (b. 1952). Unions were a fact of life. VoTech schools and cheap college were the norm. JFK issued the command to get to the moon in 10 years. We did it in less than that. NASA was funded by the military (Navy and Air Force). It was a reaction to Sputnik (USSR). Every taxpayer dollar funneled into NASA paid for itself many dollars over. The military wasn't corrupted like it is now. People were covered by their employers, or had the coin to get medical issues addressed. The private business sector didn't worry about taking care of their employees. The smart ones just did. They knew they would get rewarded which happened.
Poverty and racial issues were honestly addressed by the corporate media aka evening news broadcasts. The visual technology was B&W. The content was the focus. These media companies had to follow regulations back then (god forbid).
Yikes, this comment is turning into a diary. Burn**Bernster**Burn!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
I sort of expected it
More like daring them to ban me. Guess I need to do a LOTR satire instead.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Comments, Diaries, Markos, et al.
I respectfully request that this change. Your writing and your clear passion for fairness and justice would make for some very fine Diaries.
Exactly as much as his beloved Hillary Clinton. To wit: an acceptable Turd Way "Dem" south of the 37th Parallel and east of the 102nd Meridian, still a mid-grade R outside of that zone.
You want to call yourself a Dem to my face, you advocate for modern analogs of what real Dems in continuously-loyal States advocated for in 1975. (Read: Bernie.) Today's Turd Way is to the right of Richard Fucking Nixon in domestic policy terms, and they are Richard Fucking Nixon with respect to foreign policy!
As I said above, yes, please, soon!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
I am a 1952 boomer.
I travel around the world now, cheap trips, otherwise, would not happen, and in addition to the US government's stray from FDR, my parent's influence, and then from mine, JFK and LBJ, I have to explain to people what happened, and let us all hope for the best.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Is there a skull and crossbones in your future?
Like the song goes:
Bang! Bang! Markos' great banhammer
Came down upon his head
Bang! Bang! Markos' great banhammer
Made sure that he was dead
inactive account
Not as yet
I hadn't been over there in a while actually, but today I guess I was feeling mischievous for some reason.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Markos? go suck a sock
Markos? go suck a sock
Markos? He is CIA
DKos a false flag
But rally round
you simpleton fools
you've each and all been had
Markos isn't for better leaders
He's for more and more of the same
Follow the money you simpleton fools
Markos helps rig the game
Markos? just go rake in your cash
go grab as much as you can
for your time is ending soon
you'll be going from being a player
to being a played buffoon
Markos? go suck a sock
Would that get me banned? I'm feeling a bit left out lately.
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
edscan lives ! ? ! ?
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.
no, just dennis, though edscan will never die
the internet is forever right? so edscan will always be with us.
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
I, for one, would welcome Our edscan Overlord.
Were he to find his way here.
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
I miss no ex DKer more than I miss edscan
The edku was pithy, radical, hysterically funny much of the time, and pretty misunderstood, particularly at the very end.
I'll aspire forever to be that short-winded and still get my point across, hehe....
I find thumb much as you describe
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
edscan
Now, who is edscan? No snark, honest question.
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
Edscan was a sort of DK oracle
Who got banned for CT or some such thing. Used to write in free verse kinda, iirc. Before my time there.
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
edscan?
Who or what is edscan?
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
You may want to expand on that a bit.
Some folks here may not recall that . . .
AI program run amok?
banned dkos person from way back
you can google edscan actually, quite a history there. big dkos scandal. well loved person.
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
I defended edscan.
Awesome dude.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I remember people talking like that
about ed. If he was AI run amok, we're all screwed. AI is always honest, isn't it?
Here's some edscan for ya:
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.
Kos is a third-way tool
whose only job is to host paid bloggers for the DNC/Third Way in their continued effort to sell out the middle class and promote wars for resources at the benefit of international corporations. He doesn't give a fuck about his own children.
If you do not understand that being part of the "establishment" is a slur in the minds of 99% of the U.S. population then you are completely out of touch and probably are one.
Just went over to recommend it and to add a couple of comments.
Great job again Steve. Your mischief comes from the right place.
In my email inbox this morning was this abomination, in the subject line of the Daily Kos Recommended digest
Those sleazy Neoliberal corporatist pricks. So sick of their over-the-top Sanders-bashing. They've completely sold their souls, have no compunction maligning their own members' recommendations. Subir has been doing amazing work, and getting great traction, of which a few others are too. But they don't show up in their bogus email blast. You should see the rest of the list. Nah, you don't even want to waste your time. Makes me angry and am thinking of writing something up there about it.
What a fucking joke.
("thirty three and a third" at TOP).
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
You know what I've noticed a lot today,
in response to all these hatchet jobs (at least on social media)? I've noticed a lot of people responding (to paraphrase) with something resembling a comment like this:
I've seen a *lot* more of that since Sanders won Alaska/Hawaii/Washington, and it's ramped up since Wisconsin.
When I watched Bernie's speech last night, he brought a tear to my eye more than once. He was so hoarse he could barely speak. I can only hope like hell that I'm not seeing things and that he's going to continue gaining momentum. The Kitchen Sink brigades better be careful in the meantime--they're liable to run out of sinks to throw before NY....
Hi, Steven D, I'm feeling a little mischief myself. I'm cross
posting this essay at TOP. Liftoff at 8 pm eastern. I'm hoping not to get banned before 6/8 because I'm planning an epic 'opening my veins while partying' for that date, and I'd like it to be the cyber equivalent of televised. For that, I'll probably have to publish simultaneously at both sites. You are all invited.
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I really thought I was gonna get axed last week
I spent a couple years doing community service for the site, so it's possible that I'm seen as having a small stockpile of mojo or I'm seen as not getting 'nuff eyeballs to merit the effort to purge. At any rate, I'm happy to have a here to retreat to.
There was a comment over there last night about how disgusting comments are over here according to that commenter... I nearly cut it to paste, but was tired and couldn't quite figure where I'd feature it, so I let it alone. The point was that we're nasty about HRC. I really do not see it that way. I see us as being real.
'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
what is their problem?
Having a candidate - ANY candidate - use this maneuver to lock in super delegates should be a concern of any loyal Dem. Even if they love the person who did this, it is very worrisome and the opposite of a standard Democratic goal, which it to get big money out of politics. By giving this a pass, they are saying they are cool with Citizen's United as long as we have the big money. Try running on that platform. Ooops - they are.
Having super delegates in general
is fucking undemocratic. Ironic isn't it that the Dems have a much higher percentage of them than the Republicans?
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Having super delegates is one thing
Buying their votes before the campaign begins is quite another.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Yes!
I've been screaming about this. Hillary claims to hate citizen's united AND YET the party is doing everything it can to EXPAND it's reach. I added up the known SuperPAC money for her as reported by Open Secrets and got 8 SuperPACs supporting her plus two other entities which are technically not SuperPACs but seem to be operating similarly (Hillary Victory Fund is technically not a superPAC, but sure taking in money like one). From what's reported to date there (and I don't know when reporting deadlines are to know how current it is), by my count, those organizations have collected $260,000,000 on her behalf. More than a QUARTER BILLION dollars in money OUTSIDE of her campaign. And there are at least two of those superPACs which are publicly claiming that they are coordinating with the campaign, and it sure seems like all of them are working at least partially in concert.
Anyone catch last night tRump accusing Cruz's superPAC of coordinating with his campaign? I got a chuckle out of that. Think he'll let that alone should he be up against Hillary? (I still think Bernie gets the nom).
'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
I tipped, rec'd, and commented.
They're imploding over there. It's a sight to see!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Congratulations!
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Trolling TOP should be called....
"Flying the Jolly Roger"
Because it's more an act of Rebellion than it is an act of immaturity, which trolling usually is...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXoZsgNHquM]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Flying ye Jolly Roger
I was going to say that we Americans need a Pirate Party like they have in Iceland, Sweden, France, and several other places.
Then, I discovered that we actually have one, albeit in nascent state!
Methinks this might be an option for Anarchist types like myself, and Pyrate types like you, rather than the corrupt Dems of today!
(Guaranteed bojo at TOP!)
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Says they're active in Oregon... but no contact info...
Shame, really. Looks like a fun Idea, but needs a better logo. The sail is so... tame.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
tame sails
And no skull-and-bones, either! Some Pyrates!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
The guy who owned Free Speech Zone
Jason Emerson, was a member of the Pirate Party. I had him friended on FB for awhile several years back. Last I heard from him he'd gotten his EMT certificate.
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
This guy
http://docudharma.com/2009/05/who-is-jacks-smirking-revenge
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
Blatant dishonesty
I was going to make a snarky comment along the lines of how dare you even suggest such a thing but the thing that jumps out at me about HRC these days is just how blatantly she games the system and breaks rules and just expects everyone to turn a blind eye. She doesn't even bother with backroom deals any more, just flagrant in-your-face deals. Amazing.
Hillary can break rules because Trump can
and she isn't as bad as Trump is, so mentioning she's breaking rules means you like Trump, you Trump loving McCarthyite!
There is no denying that she is a quick study
So, I am sure that her greedier Id is taking notice and taking notes.
Wow! I love this.
Wow! I love this. Congratulations on the opprobrium from the deluded, huddled, and muddled oligarch fan base. As FDR said, we can "welcome their hatred." In many ways it saddens me that it's coming from some new and unexpected places, but that is their choice.
Wear your warning like a badge of honor. Maybe you'll
get an upgrade to time out or banning! They don't like it over at TOP when the Establishment is shown to be in no uncertain terms completely corrupt and undemocratic. Imagine how their heads will explode when even their cheating in this election won't stop Bernie from being nominated.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
ZiminS
Your sig line is what worries me because it is true, and I think time is running out.
This election could turn out really good for the Green Party
Depending on how much help they get from the corrupt DNC establishment.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Anyone catch this comment by Quill?
Excellent! This is how I think of Hillary too
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Yea...
Great one...
I can see that being quite true...
I spent a number of years in a service business and developed a fairly accurate read of which customers were going to be the nasty ones...
Hillary has all kinds of warning flags that would get me the hell out of there quick...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Welcome to the club, Steve! I was banned 8 mths ago...
Fuck Markos! And fuck MB and elfling too... and fuck the entire DailyKos staff for not standing up to Markos for his anti-democracy censorship.
(((../\..)))
Censored
The nature of free speech at TOP is censorship. May as well be a republican site.
I appreciate your work and voice, so I'm glad you're here where I participate.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Go for the Full Monty!
Get banished with extra style points.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
I'm surprised it took that long
Looks to me like constructive criticism, trying to make her
a better candidate. She does need to fix how she presents herself. Her unforced errors are making Bernie more electable all the time.
Other than that, you were "just" reporting on a Cenk video. But I suppose if Cenk hadn't been mostly chased off the site already, Kos would ban him. And his little staff, too.
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I see BBB is taking his usual victory laps over there… n/t
BBB is a character who seems "off" to me
Perhaps he is AI? Or just an asshole.
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.
I recc'd
both your diary and Tip Jar over there. Fight on, Brother!
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” - John Steinbeck
They are getting awefully
desperate over there. .
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” - John Steinbeck