algernon
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algernon replied to the topic Iowa precinct chair hung up on when calling state party while live on CNN in the forum General Discussion 11 months ago
One thing for sure, this is weird.
This is way beyond what could be explained by all the Russians lurking in shadows, in corners.
It can’t be Martians either, because all the fantasies about canals and lost cities have been proven false.
I hate to say it, but the signs suggest that this is inter-galactic election interference. The US should…[Read more]
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algernon replied to the topic Michael Bloomberg Is the Rich Man’s Donald Trump in the forum President 11 months ago
Donald Trump is reality TV rich, with Trump hotels and resorts.
You betcha Trump is rich in $ too.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree and his son, the one with the beard I think, is an avatar of compassion caring deeply for Russian orphans. OK, maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned apples.
Trump’s whole family, and his cabinet and his senior…[Read more]
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algernon replied to the topic The DNC is much much worse than any "commie" threat to our elections in the forum General Discussion 11 months ago
I got an app to fix that!
Not only that, but I’m giving away the app for free!
Everyone is using it so if you don’t, you’ll just be missing person.
So download the app today!
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algernon replied to the topic ATTENTION IOWA: Please Check with BernieSanders.com on Monday BEFORE Going to Caucus in the forum General Discussion 11 months ago
Wouldn’t that be disruptive to supporters of all candidates?
This doesn’t make sense if there’re more than two candidates, the fixer and the loser. But there are more than two candidates so it makes sense only if there’s a ridiculously impossible conspiracy between all the others, their campaigns, their supporters, against one. Which is a far f…[Read more]
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algernon replied to the topic Google and Prosecutors Fight in Court over User Data in Marielle Case in the forum Foreign Affairs 11 months ago
Google owns.
Facebook owns.
Microsoft and Apple own.
The five eyes own.
But I’m worried about Huawei, in case I might be surveilled. That’s because I believe everything I last read, or heard, so don’t suffer from contradictions.
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algernon replied to the topic Des Moines Register poll scrapped after apparent mishap in the forum Latest Breaking News 11 months ago
Polls are used to lead public opinion. It hasn’t always been this way, but it sure is this way now.
You can no more trust the persons/corporations conducting the polls than the persons/corporations presenting the polls as definitive statements of political reality. Unfortunately, its all bought. Intended to produce a result. Even more unf…[Read more]
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algernon replied to the topic $50M lawsuit against Queen of Warmongers moving forward after Clinton’s lawyer accepts legal docs in the forum General Discussion 11 months ago
Hopefully this’ll nab her a couple more appearances on Tucker.
For which purposes, let’s continue to pretend that Tucker isn’t actually Tucker.
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algernon replied to the topic Delaney withdraws from Race in the forum General Discussion 11 months ago
mush
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algernon replied to the topic What road should progressives take? in the forum General Discussion 11 months ago
I don’t think what is “progressive” is defined by a “path”. There may be many paths.
To take an obvious example, Bernie Sanders is widely praised for his consistency – and derided for it by those on the right – and this consistency is in advocating for the same “progressive” or “leftist” or “communist” or however labeled ideas over decades, up…[Read more]
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algernon replied to the topic Prince Andrew told to 'stop playing games' over Epstein inquiry in the forum Latest Breaking News 12 months ago
I believe that that the US authorities in this prosecution have agreed with the Palace not to demand compliance.
Am I wrong? If so, then any cooperation is gratis, and there’s no ground for complaint if no cooperation is forthcoming.
The Epstein murder is an especially interesting thing, considering the stratospheric lifestyle of already known…[Read more]
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algernon replied to the topic Rocker Neil Young Officially Becomes a U.S. Citizen–to Vote Against Trump in the forum General Discussion 12 months ago
In a back corner of my mind I wish he hadn’t, but in truth it’s a long time since Neil Young ceased to be Canadian and embraced the USA.
Can’t really blame him, the USA made a creative heaven for the business he’s in. One thing nobody can take away is the USA’s contribution to music. As for his vote, it might cancel out Kanye West’s in a o…[Read more]
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algernon replied to the topic BULLSHIT ALERT! Joe Biden Says He's "Fighting to Expand Social Security". THAT'S A LIE! in the forum General Discussion 1 year ago
Well, there are always official records of words spoken, votes taken and so on.
“Centrists” don’t have much to cover their backs in that regard, because as “centrist bi-partisan moderates” their only purpose has ever been to supply the needed votes for the right wing oligarchs to win, time after time, whatever Rep/Dem provided the fig leaf on the…[Read more]
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algernon replied to the topic Trump's Racist Demagoguery Only Works, Says Sanders, Because Too Many Americans Feel Establishment Has 'Failed Them' in the forum All Things Bernie / Our Revolution 1 year ago
I was talking about conditions where racist demagoguery works, not about denying any conditions however widespread including exceptions that lead to individuals becoming outright explicit tiki-torch brandishing racists.
Trump is a white nationalist racist, recognized world over as leader of a white nationalist movement,…[Read more]
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algernon replied to the topic Trump's Racist Demagoguery Only Works, Says Sanders, Because Too Many Americans Feel Establishment Has 'Failed Them' in the forum All Things Bernie / Our Revolution 1 year ago
Racist demagoguery works, when it works, because the people it targets have been taught to be racists from their earliest years, from their immediate and surrounding culture – such that their racism is a normal condition and not considered ‘racism’, or to exist at all. Given that these conditions exist, racist demagoguery can still only work o…[Read more]
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algernon replied to the topic Boris Johnson Reminds us We're Not Alone in Bad Leadership in the forum General Discussion 1 year ago
Boris Johnson has yet to show that he could even approach the vulgar monstrousness of Donald Trump.
He could be at best an acolyte – almost by definition – and he’d be just another hungry mouth waiting on his master, salivating just as all the rest.
eta: with Bolsonaro Trump may well have met with an equal in monstrousness. Beholden to the…[Read more]
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algernon replied to the topic Holy Cow Batman, How The Worm Has Turned! in the forum General Discussion 1 year ago
This is the guy who tried to oust Obama by saying he was a Kenyan Muslim infiltrator, not really an American at all, and who was a core instigator in the incendiary racist “birther conspiracy”. This is the guy who’s wife got on national TV and proclaimed that Trump was spot on in his accusations. But she really doesn’t care. Do you?
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algernon replied to the topic IMF Head Gives 'Stark Message' of Looming Inequality-Fueled Global Financial Disaster in the forum Economics 1 year ago
One place you can’t go for answers is the IMF. The one and only purpose of the IMF is to stabilize the international capitalist system.
That’s way too narrow a purview. In the world today are other, and larger and qualitatively more important concerns, such as basic human rights to an affordable single payer health care plan, and to clean w…[Read more]
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algernon replied to the topic
John Ashcroft – Oh Sweet Evil in the forum Smorgasbord 1 year ago
Jeez, I’ve got to subscribe to all these different groups to reply. It’s like there’s something overly ambitious here?
bitchen aside, I do like John Ashcroft and even backward his melodious voice has much to teach the aspiring singer.
Ashcroft has had a trouble free life and is respectably rich and admired for his achievements, although he…[Read more]
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algernon replied to the topic "Let's Be Clear About Who Is Rigging What": Bernie Sanders Denounces Trump Effort to Divide Democrats in the forum General Discussion 1 year ago
If Bernie Sanders is to unite Democrats, the time is now or never. He will never have another chance like this.
Unity comes with love with them, not hate against them.
Trump would never understand.
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