Populist Prole

True. I wouldn’t want her “help” anyway.

Highly recc’ed for visibility.

Question #6 needs to be screamed from the highest mountain over and over and over again;

“Why do you probe the costs of reform while sidestepping the higher price tags of the status quo?“

The dirty secret establishment hacks do somersaults to ignore.

….Aaaaaand as usual, the MSM treats this like another tiff of celeb trash-talk.

All the media blurbs on my homepage just keep referring to a “spat” between Biden and Bernie: it’s all they want to talk about. They give nary a shit of the substance of the “spat”, and even much less of the issue that drives it.

+1

Another one I think of is:

“If one is accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression”.

I’d like to know too. I’ve been a unionized employee for decades and I haven’t noticed any “love” for employer based HC on an institutional level…other than the fact it’s better than going bare.

A few RW dolts I work with have been throwing the “government bureaucracy” buzzword around in synchronicity ( having obviously being “coached” from RW…[Read more]

It added jobs? Where?

The US went from a ( small ) trade surplus with Mexico to a burgeoning trade deficit from 1993 onwards.

The “giant sucking sound” of US jobs lost to Mexico portended by Ross Perot did indeed occur.

“Health care industry”.

What an insidiously awful dystopian term.

It’s a parasitic sector of the economy.

Again, a sector of the economy, not “the economy”.

Surest sign the ‘pubs know they’re licked unless they put their thumbs on the scale.

The twisted thing is that the police are allowed to lie in order to get information.

Anybody else lies, it’s obstruction of justice or perjury.

All the best.

Look to yourself, but return here when you can.

I agree. I believe they are feigning surprise or dismay as to stagnating wages, ostensibly to give them some measure of plausible deniability.

In this way, they believe they can have their cake and eat it too: Their gains are further solidified ( yet again ) while claiming they’re not culpable, because they’re “surprised”.

That’s the culmination of the corporatist’s narrative whereby the citizen has been replaced by “the consumer” as to who all the cogs are in the great big wheel. This spin has been so drum-beaten into the pols and media’s heads that the assumption was that “the consumer” can/will/always exist, even in a vacuum.

It’s just that they’ve been so…[Read more]

I guess that she figures, that by now, since she’s being exposed as more and more of an establishment neoliberal, that, what the hell; might as well let the cat out of the bag and be done with it.

Now with Trump being seen as a demonstrative loon, she’s got the cover and that the whole “not Trump” angle has new life breathed into it.

I got a bullet hole in my roof that way, about a dozen New Year’s ago. Some idiot yahoo nearby. If I was outside on the patio during the 4th of July instead of inside on New Years…and the trajectory fell 20 feet short, it would have been a hole in my head.

Yeah, all the time…back in the day. My favorite was “Thunderbird 2”.

A lot of optimism then.

God & Guns

Brilliant!

“The latest anti Bernie screed is that there will be massive job losses under Medicare 4 All. Insurance cubicle dwellers and their bosses will be out of work and out of luck. Boo Hoo.”

Indeed. Interesting turn of events it will be to see karma in action. I’d bet my bippy that those cubicle dwellers and their bosses gave nary a damn when the…[Read more]

BUT BUT BUT!!!. “We need corporate money in order to compete with the republicans” ( and the fact we have to become republicans in the process is just a minor unintended side-effect )