djean111

@ohiobarbarian

73.  Exact opposite of everything you said.  That age brush is a wee bit worn and sloppy.  And inaccurate.  I had been hoping people here were well past the “identity politics” that the DNC loves so dearly.

Happy!  Over at Reddit, speculation was that Cenk would pick Warren, so this is great!

@gamemeat

I am pretty much with you.  The h-1b visa thing shows a lack of care for workers in the US, really.  I don’t think there is any chance whatsoever of Gabbard getting the nomination, though.  Personally, “electability” is not on my list of what I want in a candidate.  And I will stick with Bernie.  Bernie or Green, depending on how thin…[Read more]

Eh.  As Ohio Barbarian says, the US has been facilitating stuff like this all over the world for many many years.  The Freepers wer absolutely positively sure that Obama was going to declare martial law and declare himself a dictator and put people who disagreed in FEMA camps.

Google is collecting information on millions of people in order to “assist” in diagnoses, treatments, and making more profit by recommending more tests.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-is-slurping-up-health-dataand-it-looks-totally-legal/

On another front – the US telling Thailand it cannot ban some pesticides?  Bill Gates is a huge investor…[Read more]

I am getting the feeling that in 2016 Bernie would have gotten a lot more endorsements, but people and groups were afraid of Hillary and her vengeful nature.  This time, I hope Bernie gets LOTS of early endorsements to drive home (hopefully, but the Shaft Bernie plan may already be in play) the fact that Bernie and his issues are popular and that…[Read more]

Kind of weird looking at polls and predictions and asshole reporting and delegate schemes and portents this time.    For me, either I get to vote for Bernie, or I do not vote for the person running as a Democrat at all.  Used to be it was well, who will the Democrat I vote for be this time, because hey, they have a decent platform.  That all tur…[Read more]

For fuck’s sake – Patrick worked for/may still work for Bain Capital – researching ways to “help” the poor and make a profit.  I would have to look it up, but last I heard he decided that poor neighborhoods really need fitness clubs.

I don’t think Gabbard expects to “win” – she has already won this thing with Hillary, and now the publicity is priceless, and Hillary looks as bad as she actually is.  Double tap!

Hillary did not NAME Gabbard – but perhaps Hillary would like to share with us if she meant Klobuchar or Harris or Williamson, then….

My grandson and his friends – millennials – are, like myself, not remotely interested in any “unity” bullshit unless Bernie gets the nomination.  Today’s Democratic Party does not mean well for us – it means to help its owners and sponsors at our expense.  I feel absolutely no kinship with the DNC/Democratic Party; it is merely a mechanism for g…[Read more]

For the hospital to go to that much trouble, maybe they are working on a scheme to sue employers, or else they are afraid Bernie will win and cancel medical debt, so they are trying to get what they can, now.  Richest country on Earth.  Best health care that is basically not affordable for so many.

Hey, maybe it is from 2017, but IMO kinda relevant, now that we are on the threshold of 2020 and it looks like the DNC/Democratic Party/Hillary want to do the very same fucking thing again.  And it is still true, and very heartening to be reminded that it is not just us.  Thank you!  (I am pretty sure she blamed that protester’s remark on Putin.)

Have the Bernie supporters accepted the pledge to vote for the blue no matter who?  I left of my own volition; between the nasties and the loooooong-winded tedious  Canadian and the hilariously pretentious “rich” name-dropper – “Oh, I was having lunch with Barack Obama and the Pope  and Elon Musk yesterday, and they assured me….”  the place is…[Read more]

@ohiobarbarian

When I asked if I could be a programmer, my supervisor pretty much patted me on the head and said well, you have to take this logic test.  So I aced it.  Then they said oh, we have a policy that husbands and wives cannot work in the same group.  The reason they let me take the test was because they were sure I would fail.  And sev…[Read more]

I worked as a clerk at State Farm in the mid 60’s.   I don’t know what exactly the official policy was, but in practice – if a married man was caught seeing one of the clerks, she was fired, he was transferred.  Saw that happen twice.

Feminist movement stuff – also, when I got married and we moved to the Illinois office, my supervisor told me, at…[Read more]

On the other hand, this may be a feint intended to make Warren look progressive.  Maybe I missed it, because I cannot stand to watch her for very long – but did Hillary take the same shots at Bernie?