One Tweet That Shook The World
Well, if this election has taught me anything, it's that it's a whole lot easier to talk the talk than it is to walk the walk.
Mahatma Gandhi said: "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." I wonder just how happy Bernie Sanders is today?
Also, a shout-out to actress Susan Sarandon, greatly reviled for supporting Ralph Nader in the election of 2000, who nonetheless did not let the threat of being further ostracized by the MSM and Hollywood in-crowd deter her from endorsing Jill Stein. Here is the text of her endorsement letter:
** FROM SUSAN SARANDON **
Dear Jill and team,
I've been waiting for any indication that Hillary Clinton's position on the issues that are most urgent to me, has changed. But ...
She does not support the $15 minimum wage.
She shows no support for legalizing marijuana.
She supports TPP.
She has sold fracking and Monsanto.
She supports offshore drilling.
She has no position on the Dakota Access Pipeline.
She opposes the labeling of GMOs.
She opposes the breakup of big banks.
She takes lobbyists' money for campaigning.
She opposes a binding climate treaty.
She supports unconditional military aid to Israel.
I'm therefore very happy to endorse Jill Stein for the presidency because she does stand for everything I believe in.
It's clear a third party is necessary and viable at this time. And this is the first step in accomplishing this end.
Fear of Donald Trump is not enough for me to support Clinton, with her record of corruption.
Now that Trump is self-destructing, I feel even those in swing states have the opportunity to vote their conscience.
Susan Sarandon
One small correction to this letter: Currently Hillary actually opposes TPP. Unfortunately, the expiration date/time on this policy position is likely to be 12:00 AM of Wednesday, November 9, 2016.
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This election has also reinforced the fact
that drama and scandals follow the Clintons everywhere they go.
status quo
Hard to take Bernie's tweet seriously
after stumping for Hellery for 5 months.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Message to Bernie and Jane Sanders
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE.
FYI - Her Heinous and TPP, don't forget it's "as it stands now." Sorry to say, our Windsocks were not strong enough to survive the bullshit, and we have stopped making them.
President Donald Trump. One term, destroys the Republican party, and takes the Democratic party out of the Klutches of the Kriminal Klintons.
Green Party at way, way over 5%
"Currently Hillary actually opposes TPP." Hahaha.
Hellery says TPP fails on 3 tests for her. Come inauguration day, it will easy for her to say "It just met my tests".
Good for Susan Sarandon. Welcome to the party.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
That's her
Public Scoring.
What's her Private Scoring?
Oh you and your Public Private differences!
Thanks Leu2500.
Keep going. In case anyone missed it: Excerpts of Hillary Clinton’s Paid Speeches to Goldman Sachs Finally Leaked
Only a grifter would agree, I think. Government is chock full of her cronies already, need door-stops stat!
Peace
a grifter or a Kossack
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Bernie more than walked
the walk. He left it all on the trail, often making two, three campaign rallies a day, six days a week. Try that at 34, say nothing of 74. Amazing effort!
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Agreed, he walked the walk
Past tense. Just the same, there is an incredible disconnect between on the one hand, saying that the American people are sick and tired of the economic, political and media status quo, and on the other endorsing, campaigning for and zealously promoting a candidate who embodies and exemplifies that poisonous, corrupt and destructive status quo.
"Because... Donald Trump!" is not a good and sufficient justification for doing that, IMHO. Fact is, there always has been, and always will be a Republican boogeyman to panic disillusioned liberal/progressive voters into lining up behind the "D" candidate - irrespective of the fact that he/she is undoubtedly more of a right-wing extremist on most issues than the "R" boogeyman of eight years previously. So pardon me if I'm not overly impressed with Bernie's recent conversion to lesser evil-ism.
It's just too bad that "Bernie Classic" can't take "New Bernie" aside and give him a good talking to. He was making a hell of a lot more sense back in 1989.
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"... and on the other endorsing,
campaigning for and zealously promoting a candidate who embodies and exemplifies that poisonous, corrupt... "
I know this is what 99% of C99 Berners see, but I don't see that.
Maybe I'm blind, but nowhere have I seen or heard Bernie "endorse" Her Highness, and ALL of his speeches - including Philly - suggest otherwise. Maybe I'm pretzel braining to make Bernie into something he isn't, but every speech I've heard, well, these is zero love for - or much support for - HRC.
Granted, he said he would "support the nominee" and he's been good to his word, "campaigning for" HRC. But I look at that as something he could not escape making the choice he made (long before Philly). But, nowhere on his HRC campaign trail has he said, "we Must vote for Hillary." Instead, he has said, "we must stop The Donald." Now, many may take that to mean the same thing, but they don't. Words mean something, and Bernie's words have never indicated that "we Must vote for Hillary." He Does Not support her. That's clear if you hear his speeches. And, he's More than ready to spring Bernie 2.0 on everyone once the HRC honeymoon ends and Her Highness' laundry is showing. Look for Bernie 2.0 around May, June 2017. Coming to a venue near you.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
It's statements like this...
I find so depressing.
If the Dem platform really is "the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party", then that says quite a bit about what an anti-progressive political organization the DP is and always has been. No ban on fracking, no support for universal health care, no change in the blank check support for the Israeli apartheid regime, no pledge to rein in the monstrous defense budget - this is Bernie the Pragmatist's idea of progressive-ism? And it's not like the much-vaunted platform is likely to represent any sort of blueprint for Clinton's policy initiatives in any case.
"Helped lead the fight for universal health care" - highly misleading at best. "Hillarycare" was yet another neoliberal attempt to implement a market-oriented model that would expand the ranks of the insured while of course protecting the profits of the health care industry, which unsurprisingly played a big role in formulating the proposed legislation. Not exactly a bold progressive initiative.
"A fierce advocate for the rights of children"? Like the ones who died of malnutrition and starvation in Iraq as the result of the sanctions Hillary vocally supported? Or the ones she had sent back to Honduras after supporting the overthrow of a democratically elected government by right-wing goons? Or how about all the Palestinian children massacred by the IDF in Gaza and the West Bank? Or the Muslim kids killed or maimed in the myriad number of Middle East wars she has advocated for - and is still doing so?
I just wonder - how exactly can a person of conscience "stand proudly" with a creature like that, and promote her as someone who "will make an outstanding President"? But I guess if you try hard enough, it's possible to rationalize just about anything.
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Oh, no
I'm convinced it's far less than 99 percent on that, at least some. Try as I might, I cannot completely understand that mindset here. The only thing I can figure is that Barack Obama poisoned the well, forevermore, of the notion that some pols can still actually play--and win at--a little something that's come to be known in US politics as "eleventh-dimensional chess". Because Obama always got talked up as someone who was playing it, even when he wasn't, or when he was doing the opposite of whatever playing it would get him in a given situation, and failing.
Pretzels.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Let's just say Bernie
has Hillary right where he wants her. Now all she needs to do is what she does best and the floor is Bernie's. I give her 4, 5 months - May, June - tops - when the mojo swings back to Bernie's Revolution. Hers will be a short "honeymoon" (if she isn't jailed first).
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
agreed, it is going to be fun to watch. He is going to dog her
the entire term.
Yes, words do mean something.
What does "revolution" mean? And "taking our fight to the convention". What do they mean?
Exactly. I've heard hints
Exactly. I've heard hints toward there being nothing wrong with 3rd party candidates but when quizzed about asking people to vote for Hillary, he always states that he can't tell people who to vote for; they have to vote their consciences.
Hillary has no conscience and those with one would never support her.
He'll say something like 'Hillary knows' that something is important but never claims that she'll do it - and he knows that no sane, informed person would ever vote for her.
But every time he says that her feet must be held to the fire to actually try for a public good, it's a public reminder not only that the public good should be served and of some of the ways in which it ought to be - but that trying to fight her into doing the decent thing will get nowhere.
He just warns against Trump, by whom a number of his supporters have been conned. And, like Hilary and her anti-abortion, TPP-supporting VP, Trump/Pence would be a disaster having much the same results. And this is also true of the corporate coup/TPP-supporting Libertarian - leaving non-corporate, non-corporate-coup-supporting Jill Stein.
All this done on (edit: TV) without actually being suicided via multiple gunshots to the back of the head.
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.
yep. It's not so much
what Bernie has said, re. Hillary and his so-called "support," but what he Hasn't said. Bernie has played this as well as anyone could play it given the pair of deuces he was dealt.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
My guess
My guess is Bernie wants to spin the election outcome as a vote for change, not the status quo. I predict that President Hillary will initially fake left by offering jobs to progressives (some will accept out of a sense of duty) who will then be co-opted by the administration.
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
Marijuana legalization is more "urgent" to Sarandon
than Clinton's war crimes and the threat of WWIII?
She's listing Bernie's platform there
is what it looks like to me. Just going down the list, nope nope nope, and so forth. Bernie's platform didn't say shit about Clinton war crimes or threats of World War either. Maybe that was your point to begin with? It takes a while to seep in sometimes, heh.
It is the Green platform that does say
which is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick I think.
Peace
Yeah, let's all trash Susan
for not having a more complete and logically ordered list of Clinton's extensive failings. After all, what's the point of being a moral purist if you can't be hollier-than-thou?
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I can think of a lot of Hollywooders who need to be trashed
for selling out, Susan Sarandon isn't one of them. Also I watched the latest remake of Rocky Horror Picture Show last night and Susan is still, by far, the best Janet, dammit.
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Beware the bullshit factories.
I value Sarandon's opinions
more than Bernie's at the moment.
Strange that war didn't make it to her list.
More importantly, Stein is anti-war.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Nobody gets it right all the time.....
Ms. Sarandon has definitely bashed Her Heinous, hard, for her warmongery:
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That she didn't mention that on this particular list is an incidental omission at worst. Ms. Sarandon definitely knows Her Heinous to be the warmonger she is, and that Jill Stein is far superior to her, and even Bernie Sanders himself, in that regard.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Susan Sarandon
Ye Gods, I [Still!] love that woman!
I caught all manner of holy Hell at TOP for suggesting that Ms. Sarandon was more right on virtually every issue than Her Heinous, and a better actor than Ronnie Ray-Gun into the bargain, and thus would make a better President than either!
Your essay this morning has brought me much comfort. Thank you for writing it!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides