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Ivan Kaputski

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March 6, 2016

For 50 Years, Kansas Has Chosen the Democratic Nominee with 100% Accuracy.

NATIONAL (VFB) – Today Bernie Sanders continued his resurgent streak, besting his establishment opponent in two of three Democratic Super Saturday caucus primaries.

<snip>The day’s most important takeaway might be Bernie’s win in Kansas. That’s because for the last 50 years Kansas voters have successfully picked the Democratic party’s presidential nominee with 100% accuracy—better than any other state in the nation.

a little more at the link

http://vetsforbernie.org/2016/03/kansas-chooses-bernie-for-president/

March 6, 2016

Stop laughing, Democrats! As the GOP goes down in flames, your post-Bernie civil war is almost here

While the Republicans compare dick sizes and howl at the moon, the fight for the Democratic Party is just starting



<snip>I’m not saying we will see a Democratic debate, in 2016 or 2024 or any other year, when the frontrunner will feel compelled to discuss his or her genital organs. (If Hillary Clinton actually makes a joke about that within the next week, and more or less lands it, I promise not to say anything mean about her for an entire month.) But a more polite version of the Republican knife fight is waiting to happen, and in some ways has already begun. The post-Bernie landscape is fraught with danger for the electoral left, and also with opportunity. You can feel both of those things in the combination of smugness and high anxiety found among Hillary Clinton supporters, who are not content to be victorious but must also seek to prove the unprovable thesis that their Potemkin political party is “progressive” and that their victory points toward the future rather than the past.

To the extent that the Hillary wing of the Democratic Party believes that the war is over and they won and it’s safe to retreat into the ossified institutional politics that have brought them nothing but misery and defeat and have rendered their party nearly irrelevant in most non-coastal states, they are inviting their own version of Trumpian apocalypse. For the insurgents of the Sanders wing, the question now becomes how many of them are willing to turn to the more difficult and less exciting work of rebuilding democracy from the ground up, and taking the Democratic Party back from the lawyers and technology millionaires and Hollywood executives and foreign-policy apparatchiks who have become its principal proprietors. Because presidential campaigns can be great drama, but they also serve to distract us from more important things. They are political theater more than political change.

Since the rich people who bought the Democratic Party from Hillary Clinton’s husband have all but destroyed it, and long ago severed it from any semblance of class-based politics and any coherent ideology beyond “not as mean as the other guys,” the field is wide open. Millions of people of all ages were energized by an oddball candidate who started talking about things no one in American politics has talked about seriously for at least 50 years. “Socialism” suddenly isn’t a bad word anymore, and that’s amazing. But now what? Can those people do what activists on the right did over a period of several decades, electing school board members and county committee members and state legislators on the way toward the Reagan revolution and the Tea Party insurgency? Because those true believers on the right dug in and worked hard and changed political reality. They created the conundrum of the present, when a minority party with a wide range of extreme anti-government and xenophobic views, supported almost exclusively by white people, dominates the political agenda in 39 of the 50 states and holds an unbreakable majority in Congress.

Yeah, I know, let’s back up for a minute. I said “post-Bernie landscape.” Deal with it. I’m not going all “I told you so,” even though I did. There really was an opening after New Hampshire, a moment when we all sensed a potential tipping point that could have happened but didn’t quite. That window slammed shut in Nevada and South Carolina and across the South, and I’m not buying the higher-math hypotheses about how Sanders might make inroads with African-American voters in other regions in a way he spectacularly failed to do in the South, and then might win Michigan or Ohio or Florida and push on toward a big victory in New York that flips the race upside down again. I could certainly be wrong, because wrongness is the order of the day in 2016. But I think the next few weeks are about Bernie’s supporters moving through the stages of the Kübler-Ross model and coming to grips with reality, helped along ever so much by uneasy Clintonite gloating.

more at link

https://www.salon.com/2016/03/05/stop_laughing_democrats_as_the_gop_goes_down_in_flames_your_post_bernie_civil_war_is_almost_here/

Let me say here that I do not agree with this chap's conclusion of the matter but I do recognize the very real certain war in the Dem party which IMO will quickly expand should Hillary win the primary.

March 6, 2016

Got my first hide.

This place is like being in church now. You can't swear any more because the establishment swarm will take it as being "over the top". I swear this hell hole is like a bad parochial play ground with toys and swing sets that try to hurt you. They probably saw my favourite group status.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1414772

Warning: Do not dis the oligarchy on DU!



March 5, 2016

DAILY KOS to suppress the truth.

Negative truths about Hillary will be banned as of March 15.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/daily-kos-democrats-general-election_us_56da0eebe4b0000de404c3af

<snip>Markos “Kos” Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos, a popular liberal web site, wrote a blogpost on Friday asking the site’s community of writers, readers and commenters to begin moderating their criticism of Clinton starting on March 15, in the likely event that Clinton solidifies her hold on the nomination with additional primary wins.

March 5, 2016

Daily Kos Asks Clinton And Sanders Supporters For Unity

<snip>Markos “Kos” Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos, a popular liberal web site, wrote a blogpost on Friday asking the site’s community of writers, readers and commenters to begin moderating their criticism of Clinton starting on March 15, in the likely event that Clinton solidifies her hold on the nomination with additional primary wins.

If Sanders does not turn the tide, Moulitsas wrote, “then on March 15 this site officially transitions to General Election footing. That means, we will focus our attention not just on Donald Trump or his rivals, but also on the Senate, the House, and state-level races.”

“If you want the most liberal government possible, we aren’t going to get that this cycle in the White House, but we can keep building the bench down the ballot so that come 2024, we have lots of great liberals to choose from,” Moulitsas added.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/daily-kos-democrats-general-election_us_56da0eebe4b0000de404c3af

Good luck with that "unity".

March 4, 2016

Bernie rat!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/RatsandMiceareAwesome/permalink/1163012963812899/

Sorry ...f'ing FB https won't let me show the pic here.

March 4, 2016

It's just business



March 3, 2016

Hillary is going to lose to Rump.

Listening to WMNF and reading other news sites I believe this is what is going to happen.

Enough anti establishment Dems will not vote for Hillary and either stay home or vote third party or vote for Rump that Hillary has no chance of winning the GE.

Enough anti establishment Reps will vote for Rump that Cruiz and Rubio will not win the primary but in the GE if Hillary wins the primary Reps will come out in massive droves and vote for Rump.

If it's Rump vs Bernie in the GE many enough anti establishment Reps will vote for Bernie that he will win.

This is what I am hearing all over and I believe it.

January 20, 2016

Activist Brilliantly Pranks Republican Presidential Candidates

The current Republican presidential candidates have certainly been making a lot of people grumpy so far. Elaine Cooper is a fellow South Carolina activist and has decided to show her dissatisfaction with the Republican presidential candidates by crashing campaign events hosted in our state. Elaine got this idea after meeting Senator Ted Cruz. She had an unsatisfactory exchange with him about his wacky immigration ideas, which showed in the corresponding picture she took with him. After that, Elaine decided to try and get grumpy pictures with all the Republican candidates. In one interview she said:
“The idea just felt right, and I knew that I had to go forward and get all the Repubs.”


see the wonderful pictures and the rest of the artricle at link ...A laugh riot!

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/accordingtomatthew/2016/01/activist-brilliantly-trolls-republican-presidential-candidates/

Of course not every presidential candidate made Elaine frown!

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