Electrolyte Orchestra

I hadn’t heard this, thanks.  Truly courageous and principled – no wonder the Dems hate it.

I wondered how many others hadn’t paid their dues and found this article. It outlines the bureaucracy surrounding the dues and a party point system.

DCCC dues

This guy was Bush’s 2004 strategist, i.e, at the very least approved the Swift Boat campaign.  Tells us all we need to know about him, and ABC that they would hire him. Quite possibly the dumbest take I’ve ever seen.

He’s so stupid he doesn’t realize that his logic means virtually every man who’d like a job anywhere is a sexist. He singles out…[Read more]

It is definitely a problem, not just for a Sanders presidency, but for the concept of structural economic change away from oligarch control. We have quasi-monoploies now that, say what you will, do operate smoothly. Fundamental change is messy. The immediate response will be disruption of markets, layoffs, recession, etc.

To truly change society…[Read more]

Did CNN and the DNC merge and launch their new slogan?

Something has always troubled me with ‘woke” and you are on it. The term is mostly used to criticize others for ignorance of identity issues only. Truly woke would mean also understanding the degree to which we are all under the oligarch yolk. An understanding that even if every person on the planet were woke on all identity issues, 95% of the…[Read more]

I think Pence is the closest thing to “The missiles are flying, Gentlemen … Hallelujah, Hallelujah” that we have.

I agree it was a set-up. Her campaign coordinated with CNN two days before the debate to release a smear stemming from a 13-month conversation.

CNN /her DNC strategists probably pushed her to do it.  “You’re numbers are dropping, you need to do something bold. Bernie’s now ahead in Iowa, we need to attack his strengths.”

This from Shaun King…[Read more]

Yes, Abby wasn’t quick-witted enough to rephrase the prepared question.  While Warren is answering, you can see Bernie look down and shake his head slightly, then immediately pop back up and listen to what she is saying because he knows he can’t dwell in his disappointment in her and will have to answer whatever she is saying at that moment.…[Read more]

Yes. If you are going to cherry-pick stats, at least make sure they are accurate.
It was a scripted, lawyerly parsing to make the women on stage look good and the men look bad. I’d bet someone else came up with it as part of this week’s Warren-plays-the-gender-card gambit.

They’re really going after Medicare or All.  Biden says expand Obamacare, Kloubacher says Dems won’t go for it so why try and that its a pipe dream. Warren says her plan won’t raise taxes by a dime, but will provide everything anyone could want.  They’ve come back to Bernie to answer everyone else’s critiques on M4A.

It appears this Brianne person is the appointed attack dog against Sanders. Bernie was the first asked about the new trade deal with Mexico and Canada. “You’re against the new trade agreement Trump will sign tomorrow saying it isn’t good enough and only provides modest improvements, yet it will help farmers and manufacturers in Iowa. Isn’t modest…[Read more]

He should stop bringing up issues and voting records. Those provide too much ability to compare and contrast. The point of a primary is for the other candidates to unite behind the  DNC choice. Focus instead our DNC-version of electability which is whatever we say it is and whose only conclusion is that Bernie should drop out yesterday.

Besides,…[Read more]

Well, Mike Pompeo justified by saying an attack was imminent.

Such a great phrase, it requires immediate deadly response and can’t be proven. It’s the international diplomacy version of a black man reaching for his waistband. Once uttered, there is no further need to question motives.

Imminent attack – I wonder how Mike would feel if he were the…[Read more]

“I’m 13% victim !”

So JPR is now contemplating shunning Gabbard?  Smells like a purity test to me. There are only a handful of progressives in office, why are we picking nits?

Replace Biden with Bernie in that OP and then put that question to the establishment Dems.

Grab some popcorn and watch hypocrisy in action.

Operation Just Because

Weaponizing space is a bad idea.  China has demonstrated they can destroy a satellite in orbit. Others can or will be able to soon.  It won’t take many “space battles” to render the lower atmosphere much less useful from the debris.  Many applications, like GPS and weather satellites, may be casualties.

Let me guess, they will find some mistakes were made, but not enough to charge, fire nor even reprimand anyone. Just enough so that both sides can point at the report and say’ “See, we were right, vote for me.”

This is getting tiresome. That is probably the point, outrage fatigue.