Video News Open Thread: Jill, Hill, Trump, Johnson, and even a little Bernie
Submitted by elenacarlena on Fri, 08/05/2016 - 3:33pm
Welcome to Video News! My apologies for no official DNC video news open thread yesterday. But Oreo the Diabetic Pootie had a crisis at 3 AM yesterday, so Ginger and I were up half the night. Oreo and Ginger seem to have recovered in full, so we have resumed normal function.
Gratuitous Oreo and Ginger photo:
Corporate interests will always win the "lesser of two evils" outcome. That is because the major party candidates are too beholden to big money.
When will this stop?
The fear of Trump is driving people towards the conclusion that corporate America wants - a compliant, corrupt, and establishment politician in Hillary Clinton.
Live blog Bernie Sanders call
June 16, 2016
Most of Bernie's speech was a list of what we want and fought for. What we want our country to be and to do. The only surprising thing for me was that he wants his supporters to run for political office: school boards, county commissioners, however we can get our feet in the door. I applaud this and agree strongly. That is what it will take for real change. From the bottom up, which is how change happens.
This year's presidential primaries were the most interesting in memory.
Simultaneously they brought much needed discussion to long-avoided issues, while at the same time exposed just how farcical and corrupt our political system is.
Hillary is currently polling behind Donald Trump in the most recent Fox News poll, and the latest Washington Post poll confirms the picture, with similar numbers.....and, according to Lawrence O'donnell, "Her Numbers Never Go Up."
I'm not actually sure. I got a message from admin that my comment "tip jar" was a violation.
Here's the link:
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/5/12/1525836/-Trump-Outflanking-Tri...
I'm going to paste the content here in case it disappears. I'd appreciate it if anyone can tell me if it's still visible to anyone but me.
This is short, but I don't see any reason to layer this analysis with anything more than this:
If presumptive republican nominee Trump (after his win tonight and Cruz dropping out) goes after the democratic anointed nominee (Clinton) tomorrow, the Democratic establishment may end up on that road as yet not traveled: the nomination of an insurgent candidate: Bernie Sanders.