GloriaMundi

…that last bit did make me laugh out loud!

…for the very first time… that contra his own rhetoric, he is not winning.  Empty rafters at the rally in Tulsa, being laughed at online because his organizers got punked by a bunch of kidz who swept up tickets for an event they had no intention of going to, not to mention poll after poll showing him in the tank… he is losing, badly,…[Read more]

…and hey, all it took was a prolonged national uprising to get some attention to the issue.

Hmmm.

…apart from actual threats or hate speech.  It is also a perfect illustration of the dangers of censoring via algorithm.

Aside from that, I do agree with the artist that we erase history.  In particular, few Americans seem to know the outsize role that Russia played in defeating Germany in WWII.  But then Americans are ignorant of history, an…[Read more]

…of course they would proffer “unionize” as a topic to be blacklisted.  They’re pitching it to management.  They know their audience.

@bubba

Chris Hedges has been pointing out for a few years now that the USA is a tinderbox waiting to go off.  He quoted someone whose name I forget, that when watching pre-revolutionary societies, sometimes nothing happens for 20 years… and then suddenly, “20 years happens in one week”.

I believe that is what we are seeing now.  Who knows w…[Read more]

@artfromark

Not sure what happened but it should work now.

…but you are right about the wording.  Also I think there is an attempt to keep the message narrowly focused on the murder of George Floyd, i.e. the one incident, rather than the broader issue of police misconduct up to and including murder.  And these protests are broadening as we speak.  People are not just sympathetic to the boot on the ne…[Read more]

…he was already a gaffe machine, and now he’s a senile gaffe machine.  Of course his “gaffes” are when he says what he really thinks.

…pretty awesome all around!

…another one, that is, in the wake of the pandemic, which is also an inflection point IMO.

As far as the pandemic, people now see that major change can occur without the sky falling in.  Who knew?  Apparently we’ve all been so brainwashed that we believe we cannot make major changes without everything falling apart.  Now, whatever one’s po…[Read more]

@gzeush

You say that while we cannot win by force against our militarized police,  “We win by winning over the people and making them shun the police.”

The other side of that is, we win when the police and/or military joins us, or at least when they refuse to fire on the crowd.  Loyalty is a funny thing, it can turn on a dime, it’s happened b…[Read more]

Regarding whether or not this man’s death should be considered as due to the corona virus:  Ultimately we all die of something, since we are mortal.  But it is still worthwhile knowing what that something is in each case.  In this man’s case it was the corona virus.  Whether he had other conditions that made him more susceptible does not mat…[Read more]

In general, yes they do.  Former Presidents are called “Mr. President” or “President (last name)”.  Whatever was the highest office they last held, they are referred to by that honorific.  So Sanders is addressed as Senator Sanders, and Biden is addressed as Vice President Biden or Mr. Vice President.  Bill and Hillary Clinton are President Cli…[Read more]

…after the 2016 election, when they blamed Bernie and his followers for their ignominious defeat to a huckster reality show host.

Now they are showing us what sore winners they are.  They engineered a primary victory for Biden by coalescing into a united front such as has never been seen before in the party — and having successfully done…[Read more]

…I did not vote for Trump.  But I could not vote for Clinton, either.  It did not matter anyway in the state I was in, so it was an easy decision to leave the presidential choice blank.

At the moment I do not intend to vote for Biden.  And I would never, ever vote for Trump.  So unless Biden does something truly dramatic to reach out to pro…[Read more]

My level of contempt for the party is so high it is off the charts.  No way can I vote for Biden when we could have had Bernie.  In over 50 years of watching politics, never have I seen the Democratic Party come together so smoothly, so effortlessly and so effectively as when they decided they had to stop Bernie at all costs.  Where the hell wa…[Read more]

IMO the Democratic establishment wants Bernie to drop out before the convention, so they can replace Biden at the convention with someone who might be able to win against Trump.  If Bernie was still in it, that would be much more problematic.  That is why Whoopi went on the attack, using establishment frames before her demands/questions, b…[Read more]

…from someone who had a good deal of responsibility for the Sanders campaign in South Carolina, and whose efforts obviously failed badly.

“Gilliard acted as the deputy state political director for South Carolina.”