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Brilliant new Bill Curry article at Salon today

Submitted by Gerrit on Tue, 03/15/2016 - 12:14pm

Bill curry has always been out front of the posse catching up to El Diablo Hillario in the dusty deserts of the post-industrial wastelands. He's not only smart as a whip, but he has seen the Clinton Machine in flagrante delicto up close. Do not form mental images inside your head...too late, eh? Smile He's so close to El Diablo he can almost touch the tails of the rear-most horses. He provides a brilliant take on the view from there today. And takes a good swot at the overreach of the 538's of her MSM colluders. It even has a Jack Sparrow quote. Extract and link below.

Some Encouragement for Tomorrow - "Here Comes Bernie!"

Submitted by Gerrit on Mon, 03/14/2016 - 11:40am

On the night of the Iowa primary back some 1,000 or so years ago, over at TYT, Cenk lost his mind repeatedly as Bernie closed the gap. He would suddenly holler, with great joy, "Here Comes Bernie!" Five Thirty Eight ate some humble pie in Michigan last week and here we are again. The predictions at 538 are grim, all based on polling aggregates. Yet...check out this extract from an article at HuffPo

Occupy Trump - Badgers and Hogwarts Houses ( renamed from Response to a Critique)

Submitted by Gerrit on Mon, 03/14/2016 - 8:35am

John Lennon said that life is what happens to us while we're busy making other plans. We're having a primary where the coronation got interrupted by an insurgent. That was unexpected, but it quickly became clear that the insurgency could grow into a Democratic schism. One side is corporatist, neo-con, and neo-liberal. The other side is progressive, democratic socialist, and peaceful. "All we are saying is give peace a chance."

On the other side of the American divide, their ideological madness is splitting the GOP into a racist, corporatist, and global side and a racist, christian-dominionist side. The leader of the christianist side is, ironically, Drumpf, with the yet more dangerous Cruz at his heels. Cruz is a traditional racist, a lawyerly blower of dog whistles. Drumpf,on the other hand, is a Freudian carnival of ego gone amok. As the Democratic sides separated into a catholic and protestant side, Drumpf's drumbeat of racist incitement overwhelmed not only the GOP primary race, but the entire 2016 election. The bitter harvest of ancient hate and a decade of racist incitement against one of the most accomplished of all American presidents is in. Now. In real time. Spring may be in the air, but in the American psyche, it's fall and the bitter harvest is in. Drumpf's race-baiting is now the defining feature of the 2016 election. Life happens while we are busy making primary plans. So, what does all of this mean for Bernie?

A Campaign Manager's Perspective on the anti-Trump Protests

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Mon, 03/14/2016 - 7:47am

A lot of people lately have been commenting on how the anti-Trump protests could hurt Bernie Sanders' election chances. I thought I would share my views on this issue from the perspective of a campaign manager. Caveat: this is not my *moral* opinion on how things are or how they should be. This is my political opinion of the effect of anti-Trump protests on Sanders' electoral viability.

A few points about the situation:

Poll Aggregates for the Ides of March Dem Elections

Submitted by Gerrit on Sun, 03/13/2016 - 4:25pm

I took screenshots of the HuffPo poll aggregates for the five states in play as of today, Sunday, 13 March 2016. I place them in order of descending hope Smile The south, sigh, remind me to write one day about the psychology of the oppressed by the genius Algerian resistance teacher, Frantz Fanon.

Occupy Trump - some speculation

Submitted by Gerrit on Sat, 03/12/2016 - 4:14pm

Could 1968 replay in 2016? On the GOP side this time.

Update: It's happening as my article indicated: Drumpf's Kansas rally got disrupted by peace warriors protesting his racism and threat to democracy. Go Occupy Trump!
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/12/donald-trump-cancels-cinc...

Chicago 1968.jpg

Herr Drumpf has a rally scheduled for Cincinnati, OH, tomorrow, Sunday afternoon. Media speculation is swirling on the Cinci rally. Is it still on? Would it be cancelled? Would the security arrangement be complete? Or suffice? Here's the Guardian saying it is still on/off/on/off:

The big question is whether the young peace warriors of Chicago have inspire the compatriots in Cincinnatti to try the same tomorrow? Circumstances differ, of course. I have no insight into the state of play among peace warriors there, but it wouldn't surprise, eh? And then the question becomes, what thereafter? Could the following scenario unfold?

Marvellous Bernie and Jesse Jackson Town Hall

Submitted by Gerrit on Sat, 03/12/2016 - 1:28pm

If you have the chance, please watch this weekend's Rainbow PUSH Coalition town hall with Bernie and Rev'd Jesse Jackson, Sr, held today. It is special: watch these two old friends and the town hall interact. It is marvellous, like an old barbershop quartet singing in harmony. Smile I think I've managed the link. Let me know if I screwed it up. Bernie's intro is around 45 mins in, then follows 10 mins or so of celebration and the two get into it around 60 mins.

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