With you on the zoning out, it's all over for Bernie now save for the winning in November. He can beat Trump, I just worry that he can't beat Trump + the establishment + deep state + oligarchs + corporate media + electronic voting machines + voter suppression + health insurance industry browbeating employees into line. But in Bernie's favor, there are a lot more poors than all of the above combined!
I'm hoping the "socialismo!!" crap burns itself out now, when there's still nine months till the election. Maybe they're holding something more potent - sex videos with a male pornstar, nondisclosure agreements with Cistercian nuns, a warehouse full of Venezuelan bearer bonds, an autographed copy of "How to Make Friends and Influence People" inscribed, "To my least successful student - keep trying!", or a Jerome Corsi ghostwritten refutation of his early civil rights work by a bunch of embittered Trotskyites - but if calling him a commie and lying about readily available interviews (looking at you, Biden) is the worst he faces, he stands a good chance of being our first Jewish president (after Lincoln, of course).
I think we're past all that now. The neoliberal geniuses who've been orchestrating our politics have pushed every button there is to push, and people who have no clue why now aggressively reject being told what to think. Worst part of this marketing nihilism has been the DNC's insistence on using what worked for the R's the cycle before.
Our professional management class [essentially everyone running both parties] has been stuck between poors (reality) and oligarchs (their job security) for so long they've forgotten that they're living in a bubble of their own construction.
I didn't know Lincoln was our first Jewish President, just that he was our first gay President.
No really, I appreciate it. The more theories I collect, the better the odds of my dying knowing I was right about something. And Babs already had her own folder which, conveniently, was already at the back of the bottom drawer.
Bernie can't win. Bernie won't win. And he'll drag down the downticket people and cost us the House and any chance of the Senate. What on earth you people see in a screaming old man who hasn't accomplished much in 40 years of public life except getting rich on the public dole is absolutely beyond me. We're screwed.
I think that scenario is quite possible but the certainty you express is disturbing. I never trust that degree of certainty, it usually sounds more like the mental state of an individual than the real world, in which the Mandate of Heaven may be shifted by any one of the Ten Thousand Things.
(Even my finding that scenario quite possible is suspect due to mine on biasses, as I don't want Sen. Sanders as the candidate of the party he grimacingly handles with a plastic glove every four years, as he sounds far too certain for my tastes.)(Very often my party likely _deserves_ to be handled only via a plastic glove, but it were untoward in someone gunning to be its standard-bearer to make the attitude obvious.)
The only thing to Sanders' credit is that this is the last election he'll get to ruin. The widow will be the next problem, he's the bloviator, she's the handler & apparatchik.
A jaw-dropping moment for me last night was when I realized Bloomberg believes he’s been performing *well* in these debates. Somewhere along his long, moneyed road he’s just bought his own reality to live in and people to tell him he's right. Remind us of anyone else?
Couldn't agree more. These so called debates are a staged forum for framing the candidates. Turn the lens around to see how dumb the framers believe the audience is. Is this a presidential debate or is it Miss America? Post debate Jim Carville actually made some excellent observations about how the candidates fell short, failing to take charge and redirect the BS questions favorably. Where are the drones when you need them?
I can't imagine anyone I know except my parents voting for Bloomberg in the primary, and my parents are the kind of people who call themselves "independent" as they vote for every single Republican in reach since 1964. So I don't see Bloomberg winning the nomination -- unless direct mail across Los Angeles is a Path to the White House. Last night I finally picked up the stack of mail I've been accumulating for 7-10 days, and there were five -- FIVE (5) -- pieces of junk from Bloomberg. So now I hold him in the same esteem as the cable company. Maybe contempt is the word. I don't think he's got a campaign. I think this is a case of a little guy somewhere who runs a direct-mail agency blatantly scamming a hilariously rich dude.
(For comparison, I have sent money to Bernie, Warren, Amy, and Pete, and the total mail I've gotten from them is: zero. Because, I like to think, they know what the hell they are doing.)
I get texts and direct mail from Bloomberg's campaign. I'm trying to figure out who thinks these forms of communication work. Sanders supporters also send me texts, asking if I can join them canvassing or at rallies. Now if Mike called me in a robo call, then I'd flip like switch in a second!the sound of his voice is so soothing!
With you on the zoning out, it's all over for Bernie now save for the winning in November. He can beat Trump, I just worry that he can't beat Trump + the establishment + deep state + oligarchs + corporate media + electronic voting machines + voter suppression + health insurance industry browbeating employees into line. But in Bernie's favor, there are a lot more poors than all of the above combined!
I'm hoping the "socialismo!!" crap burns itself out now, when there's still nine months till the election. Maybe they're holding something more potent - sex videos with a male pornstar, nondisclosure agreements with Cistercian nuns, a warehouse full of Venezuelan bearer bonds, an autographed copy of "How to Make Friends and Influence People" inscribed, "To my least successful student - keep trying!", or a Jerome Corsi ghostwritten refutation of his early civil rights work by a bunch of embittered Trotskyites - but if calling him a commie and lying about readily available interviews (looking at you, Biden) is the worst he faces, he stands a good chance of being our first Jewish president (after Lincoln, of course).
I think we're past all that now. The neoliberal geniuses who've been orchestrating our politics have pushed every button there is to push, and people who have no clue why now aggressively reject being told what to think. Worst part of this marketing nihilism has been the DNC's insistence on using what worked for the R's the cycle before.
Our professional management class [essentially everyone running both parties] has been stuck between poors (reality) and oligarchs (their job security) for so long they've forgotten that they're living in a bubble of their own construction.
I didn't know Lincoln was our first Jewish President, just that he was our first gay President.
Abe's intersectional as fuck!
C'mon, Buchanan was President before Lincoln
None other than Barbra Streisand (and/or some rabbi she's quoting) weighs in on Lincoln's alleged Jewishness: https://barbrastreisand.com/news/abe-lincoln-jewish/
Thanks. I guess. Going to file this in the back of the bottom drawer of my conspiracy collection.
Not saying I agree with this theory, just passing it along.
No really, I appreciate it. The more theories I collect, the better the odds of my dying knowing I was right about something. And Babs already had her own folder which, conveniently, was already at the back of the bottom drawer.
Bernie can't win. Bernie won't win. And he'll drag down the downticket people and cost us the House and any chance of the Senate. What on earth you people see in a screaming old man who hasn't accomplished much in 40 years of public life except getting rich on the public dole is absolutely beyond me. We're screwed.
To be fair, everything you said applies to Trump, and he won.
"YOU ARE THE VICTIMS OF A HOAX" -- Franz Liebkind, The Producers
I think that scenario is quite possible but the certainty you express is disturbing. I never trust that degree of certainty, it usually sounds more like the mental state of an individual than the real world, in which the Mandate of Heaven may be shifted by any one of the Ten Thousand Things.
(Even my finding that scenario quite possible is suspect due to mine on biasses, as I don't want Sen. Sanders as the candidate of the party he grimacingly handles with a plastic glove every four years, as he sounds far too certain for my tastes.)(Very often my party likely _deserves_ to be handled only via a plastic glove, but it were untoward in someone gunning to be its standard-bearer to make the attitude obvious.)
The only thing to Sanders' credit is that this is the last election he'll get to ruin. The widow will be the next problem, he's the bloviator, she's the handler & apparatchik.
A jaw-dropping moment for me last night was when I realized Bloomberg believes he’s been performing *well* in these debates. Somewhere along his long, moneyed road he’s just bought his own reality to live in and people to tell him he's right. Remind us of anyone else?
"Money is a powerful gentleman." Francisco de Quevedo
Whoa, Bloomberg was being flatfootedly sarcastic.
Whether it was an attempt at humor or he actually meant it, it really fell flat.
Couldn't agree more. These so called debates are a staged forum for framing the candidates. Turn the lens around to see how dumb the framers believe the audience is. Is this a presidential debate or is it Miss America? Post debate Jim Carville actually made some excellent observations about how the candidates fell short, failing to take charge and redirect the BS questions favorably. Where are the drones when you need them?
I can't imagine anyone I know except my parents voting for Bloomberg in the primary, and my parents are the kind of people who call themselves "independent" as they vote for every single Republican in reach since 1964. So I don't see Bloomberg winning the nomination -- unless direct mail across Los Angeles is a Path to the White House. Last night I finally picked up the stack of mail I've been accumulating for 7-10 days, and there were five -- FIVE (5) -- pieces of junk from Bloomberg. So now I hold him in the same esteem as the cable company. Maybe contempt is the word. I don't think he's got a campaign. I think this is a case of a little guy somewhere who runs a direct-mail agency blatantly scamming a hilariously rich dude.
(For comparison, I have sent money to Bernie, Warren, Amy, and Pete, and the total mail I've gotten from them is: zero. Because, I like to think, they know what the hell they are doing.)
I get texts and direct mail from Bloomberg's campaign. I'm trying to figure out who thinks these forms of communication work. Sanders supporters also send me texts, asking if I can join them canvassing or at rallies. Now if Mike called me in a robo call, then I'd flip like switch in a second!the sound of his voice is so soothing!