We've been saying for a very long time now that Hillary's opposition to the TPP is largely bullshit. She urged her delegates to oppose anti-TPP language in the party platform. She picked pro-TPP Tim Kaine as her VP. And now longtime Clinton friend Terry McAuliffe may have accidentally let the truth slip out:
https://www.periscope.tv/w/1nAJEbDDrBaxL
The above link is a live periscope feed so don't know how long it will last.
No way this party is united. #JillStein2016
Note: feed stopped but there is recording of protest just click to watch
This is going to be a short essay; really a call to attention to something I don't think I'm seeing here. There's coverage on Twitter and live coverage by TYT (tons more video coverage by TYT here). Everything seems fluid with respect to the delegate protests, the way the DNC is stifling it and a litany of other stories and examples of how this is being done.
Nothing can ruin a decent person's day faster than when a lowly commoner starts acting like he deserves to be treated as a human being. Such a bother!
This is from Facebook and I think it says it all:
Dee Whigham was a 25-year-old RN from Shubata, MS. Whigham worked at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Dee Whigham as they try to make sense of this terrible tragedy. She will be remembered at Forrest Health as an excellent nurse who was well-loved by her patients. I know Dee will be missed by her co-workers, supervisors, and the Forrest Health family.
--Evan Dillard, Forrest Health
Everything happens in a context. The actions of Bernie sanders are in one of the most unique contexts in history.
Bernie made a conscious decision to join the Democratic Party knowing more about what it was than we have come to learn now. He knew he had to bite the bullet more than once to try to accomplish something and his accomplishments are beyond anyone's in this day and age.
I see that Dems are suddenly galvanized by the concept of Russian hackers intruding into the DNC servers and subsequently allowing the fruits of the hack to be published and disseminated among the great unwashed, whose unsophisticated naivety will naturally cause them misinterpret the day to day pragmatic business of auctioning off the boards and directorates of government institutions to the highest donor and see sinister manipulations in the Escherish financial structure of wiring money to
