This Was Never Supposed To Happen- Bernie Leads Michigan

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Tuesday March 08, 2016 · 6:56 PM PST

2016/03/08 · 18:56

Just this morning, Hillary Clinton had upwards of a 22 point lead in Michigan. Nate Silver gave her a 99% chance of winning, not just by a bit, but heavily. At the time of this posting, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is up by 5 points with 40% reporting. That lead is likely to fluctuate over the evening, to be sure. The total votes haven’t been counted yet.

Here’s the thing: this was never fucking supposed to happen. Everyone outside of the Sanders Camp had predicted a rout in Michigan. Or, at least, a very convincing win for Hillary Clinton. This is yuuuuge. To be perfectly honest, if Clinton wins tonight by a couple of points after every vote is counted, she gave Sanders yet one more reason to stay in the race. If the numbers stay relatively the same, that would be a 26 point swing in Bernie’s favor in one fucking day. Check yo’ rec list. It was there.

Hillary was supposed to win this state in a landslide. You won’t hear that tomorrow from your local media outlets. Just like you didn’t hear anything about Kansas or Nebraska or Oklahoma. Any time Sanders wins a state, it was, in spite of the polling, supposed to happen. Ya know what’s happening? There’s people all over the country that are sick and fucking tired of the way the establishment is running shit. We’re not just tired, we’re bent.

Bernie Sanders: Not Me, Us.

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Sunday February 28, 2016 · 9:10 AM PST

2016/02/28 · 09:10

Kinda looks familiar, don't it?In

Sometimes things get lost in the mix. With Rep. Gabbard’s resignation from the DNC, South Carolina, and Clownface von Fuckstick taking three out of four primaries, looking back at what candidates say is playing second fiddle with one string. However, it’s vitally important to understand who your candidate is and where their political ideology comes from. Hillary Clinton on NPR in an interview with Scott Simon in 1996:

SCOTT SIMON: I mean, did you ever back in the ’60s, between when — I believe you were a Goldwater girl —
HILLARY CLINTON: That’s right.
SCOTT SIMON: — and whenever you became politically –
HILLARY CLINTON: That’s right. And I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with. I don’t recognize this new brand of Republicanism that is afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects. I am very proud that I was a Goldwater girl.

There’s your “progressive who can get things done”. A proud Goldwater Republican. The first Presidential candidate to implement the Southern Strategy. Yes, I’m fully aware that Secretary Clinton was a teenager when she campaigned on behalf of Goldwater. I’m also fully fucking aware that she remained proud of her roots when asked about them 32 years later.

When are we, as Democrats, going to realize just how much we’re getting played? Hillary Clinton celebrates her conservative roots. DWS has handed the GOP win after win in the last three elections. Democrats ran so far to the right of Obama in 2010 that they were nearly indistinguishable from their Republican counterparts. What the fuck, friends and neighbors?

We can do better. And we can get there by electing Bernie Sanders our next President.

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Sunday February 21, 2016 · 8:14 AM PST

2016/02/21 · 08:14

I guess I’m a bad Democrat. Or a fake Democrat. Or a Democrat that doesn’t simply bow and spread when called to do so. I require reasons to vote for a candidate. Shitty of me, but it’s how I operate. Yeah, it marginally influences my actions based on whether there’s an (R) or (D) next to the name of a candidate, but only marginally. The last decade has proven that most people with an (R) should be wearing rubber pants in a secure room far from society, so it’s a pretty easy call. The issue I’m having is with the people who have a (D) next to their name. Which is why I’m writing this...whatever the fuck it is.

Here’s what I would like from Camp Hill- tell me why I should vote for your candidate. Give me specific policy positions. Talk to me about your candidate’s plan for climate change. Let me know how she plans to deal with an obstructionist GOP house and senate without compromising everything that makes a Democratic program Democratic. I don’t want to hear a fucking word about inevitable. I don’t want to hear a fucking word about race or gender. I don’t want to hear a fucking word about “her turn”. I want to be convinced that your candidate is better than my candidate based on merit and policy positions.

I have honestly never seen this argument put forth. I have seen many people sneer, take cheap shots, underestimate Bernie Sanders, and gloat over tiny victories that should have been landslides. The simple fact remains that in the only state that has had an up/down vote, Sanders crushed Clinton by 22 points.

Let’s be real for a moment: if your only argument for supporting Sec. Clinton is the Supreme Court, you have a weak ass argument. If you think she’d get anything accomplished while President that Sanders couldn’t, it’s because it would be so watered-down and toothless as to have no impact whatsoever. The GOP is consistent on many things, and hating anyone with the last name Clinton is on the top of that fucking list. Point to one fucking thing that says “this legislation supports the Democratic Party’s platform” with the name Clinton attached to it.

I don’t want hackneyed talking points that Hillary Clinton has co-opted from Sanders. His platform is now her platform. We all knew that was going to happen, and we all know it’s cynical bullshit. I want, from Clinton supporters, a concrete reason to vote for this candidate. Thus far, I’ve never been given one.

Make you case, friends and neighbors.

I Know It's Crooked, But It's The Only Game In Town

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Saturday February 20, 2016 · 2:34 PM PST

2016/02/20 · 14:34

Terrible candidates who get elected produce terrible results while in office. Decent candidates who get elected produce decent results while in office. Great candidates either get assassinated or buried in obscurity for the sheer audacity of speaking truth to power. We’re at that moment right fucking now. Why any Democrat would claim “I’m With Her” is beyond me to reason. This site must be filled with immensely wealthy Americans with a staunch desire to make sure that our corrupt political system never fucking changes.

Democratic leadership in the last several years has failed us on a gargantuan scale. The Third Way/New Democrat platform has failed us for the last three decades. What it has done is elevate a small number of people to positions of wealth and power that the rabble will never fucking know or realize. We don’t have a 50 state strategy. We don’t run candidates that galvanize constituents and make them want to vote. We’re broken.

There is one candidate that wants our system to change. There is one candidate that gets what is going on. I know that there are people here that are deeply invested in winning at all costs. As an average citizen, I say Fuck You .

I say fuck you because you can lose and still win. As long as you get a tiny victory in your centrist position, you get to take money from us. In donations, because GOP=baaaaaaaaad. In donations to worthwhile organizations that desperately need our money and support because there’s only a handful of politicians that have stood up to defend them- and it ain’t Hillary Clinton.

We, as Democrats, or more to the fucking point, as a party ruled by Third Way/New Democrats, put forth soulless, cynical, disingenuous, horrible fucking candidates year in and year out because that’s all we’ve known for thirty fucking years. Why is that acceptable? Why is that something that we’re okay with as a party?

This isn’t a call to sit out the election. This is a call to action. This is a simple request to Democrats to ask themselves why you/they’re fucking Democrats in the first fucking place.

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Friday February 19, 2016 · 4:01 PM PST

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Saturday February 13, 2016 · 9:55 AM PST

2016/02/13 · 09:55

It’s possible that I simply got a decent night’s sleep the night of the New Hampshire primary and just didn’t notice a giant space/time wormhole opening up and transporting me to Bizarro World. I had a few celebratory drinks over Sanders’s flat out incredible, 22 point victory that night. You know, the one you hafta go back to John F. Kennedy to find. So I coulda missed something.

Because every day that has followed has been just bug fuck nuts. Democrats are applauding and defending Henry Kissinger. Pointing out that John Lewis was incorrect about his statements regarding Clinton and Sanders during the Civil Rights Era is a brutal attack on a legend and hero. Democrats have been supportive of the DNC allowing lobbyist and PAC money to boost their struggling candidate. Takedown pieces on Sanders are good journalism, but any criticism of Clinton by simply fucking citing her record is a smear tactic used by interwebz bullies. And the Cubs are the pre-season favorite to win the World Series.

We’ve all seen some shit like this before, but not an all out assault of this level in over 40 years. The blatant fucking hypocrisy, scare tactics, the outright lies, the gender shaming coming from a feminist icon, the embrace of money as speech- it’s all so gawddamn crazy. And reminiscent of everything that led up to the 1968 Democratic Convention. And because we’re the stupid country, we’re letting it happen again.

The Clinton campaign is everything about politics that people just fucking hate. And because the game is so heavily rigged in her favor, she still might wind up the nominee. A nominee for Democrats who vacations with Henry Kissinger. Who unleashes surrogates to say anything, regardless of whether or not it’s true, to bully and shame women and people of color into voting for her. A nominee that will use every political dirty trick to get elected- vote count or will of the people be damned. And Democrats, regular, everyday Democrats, are happy about this. Go to any length to defend it. Gleefully repeat every lie, every allegation, every piece of shit flung in Bernie Sanders’s direction.

This is Bizarro World. We need this to end. We need to elect Bernie Sanders. One way or another, this darkness got to give.

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It's Been 56 Years Since A Democrat Walked Away With New Hampshire Like Bernie Sanders Did Tonight

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Tuesday February 09, 2016 · 9:14 PM PST

2016/02/09 · 21:14

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., lifts his arms in celebration as he speaks at a rally, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, at the Moda Center in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Troy Wayrynen)

Seriously. The last time any candidate won the New Hampshire primary like Bernie Sanders won tonight’s primary, Jack Kennedy was running for office. No one has come close since. Lawrence O’Donnell made a decent point earlier when he said Hillary Clinton doesn’t gain in polls.

Friends and neighbors, we have a shot to make this real. Do the damn thing.

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Monday February 08, 2016 · 7:21 AM PST

2016/02/08 · 07:21

I’m sick and fucking tired of the bickering about the transcripts of speeches Hillary Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs. Why the shit should anyone care about the context of the speech? She’s by far one of the most intelligent and nuanced individuals on the planet- it’s not like she was going to walk up to the lectern and say “Thanks for asking me to be here, how can I make your lives easier?”. That would never, ever fucking happen. I’m 99.9% convinced that there’s nothing even remotely nefarious in the context of those speeches. Likely, most of them are necessary discourses to a largely male audience on the real, factual changes that need to be made in terms of how women are treated in the power structure.

So, for a com-fucking-pletely obvious reason, I’m over the transcripts. The words aren’t why anyone, Hillary Clinton included, is paid six figures to speak to Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments, or a dozen pharmaceutical conglomerates over the course of a few years. They’re all, to the last speaker, paid for access after the fact. It’s a naked form of bribery that either works or doesn’t- “Here’s hoping Hillary remembers the time we paid her nearly a quarter mil to tell us anecdotes about a childhood fishing trip”.

The content isn’t the issue. Being distracted by the content, and the clever tap-dancing around releasing the text is exactly what anyone in that position would want to shift the conversation to when asked. Sure, it reeks of Nixon, and you know it’s shady, but when it’s all said and done, this time at least, the words don’t matter. Here’s what matters.

To the immediate right, much smaller than I’d hoped, is a list of speeches given by the candidate running for President on the Democratic ticket who is claiming that she, and she alone can wave a magic wand against the kind of influence that money can buy. If we were talking about a candidate for the GOP, and I posted the exact same list with a different name on the top, every single person here would declare them to be corrupt, bought and paid for, accepting legal bribes, and demonized.

This can no longer be a conversation about what was said at a paid gig. We all need a reality check from time to time. And this particular reality check comes in the form of whether or not you can distance yourself from reality enough to say- with a straight fucking face, that every single power broker and politician except Hillary Clinton would take that money in exchange for a political favor down the road.

C’mon. Be honest. If this list belonged to Ted Cruz or Trump or, especially Bernie Sanders, everyone would be having a fucking field day with it. Every single diary on the wreck list would be about rampant corruption, bribery, a candidate who is a wholly-owned subsidiary of corporate America. “How could we possibly elect someone who is this deep into the clutches of everything we’re fundamentally opposed to as Democrats?” would be the conversation. But, for the sole reason that it’s Hillary Clinton, and no one else, a good portion of the country is willing to ignore this dissonance within their own minds. Because inevitable? Because ready? Because Albright?

It’s time to be honest and serious. Part of that is admitting this is a damnable thing to have so much corporate influence in politics in general, and on our side specifically. Bernie Sanders isn’t in the employ of these interests. Bernie Sanders wants this kind of shit to end.

My Conservative Cousin Is Now A Sanders Campaign Volunteer. In The Hoosier State.

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Saturday February 06, 2016 · 8:41 AM PST

2016/02/06 · 08:41

My cousin is an ER doc who works in a very busy hospital in Indianapolis. He lives in a very affluent suburb near Indy, and has been an establishment conservative for all of his adult life. He has also been fairly active as a volunteer and donor to political campaigns starting when we were 16 (he’s six months older than me) and knocked on doors for David MacIntosh. He donated heavily to Mitch Daniels’s campaign. We argue a lot when I’m forced to leave California to spend time with my Hoosier kinfolk.

Since my dad passed last September, I’ve made three trips to the auld home place and talk to my ma more often than, well, necessary, really, but it’s good to check in, yeah? Anyhoo, while on the phone with her yesterday, she dropped this on me: “Your cousin, name withheld, surprised the shit outta your aunt and me earlier this week when he told us he’s supporting Bernie Sanders. Not only that, but he’s in touch with the campaign as to how he can volunteer.”

”Bullshit”, says I. “He’s Romney with less personality and about as progressive as Jim Inhofe.” So she started explaining his rationale. Remember, folks, this is a conservative who spent his first five years as a medical professional interrupting someone who dared called him “Mr.” instead of “Dr.” until he gained a grain of humility. So endorsing and volunteering for a progressive candidate in Indiana is pretty fucking big.

He said, and I called him up to verify this, that he was voting for, donating to, and volunteering for Bernie Sanders because, as an emergency room doctor, he’s fed the fuck up with our health care system. He works 12-16 hour shifts treating people who use the ER as their primary care facility, he often can’t treat people for 45 minutes to hours down the road because insurance paperwork needs to be filled out beforehand, and he’s fully aware that most of the people he’s seeing on a daily basis are likely to continue this pattern indefinitely unless someone does something to change that reality on the ground.

I asked him why he wasn’t taking the more pragmatic approach that Hillary Clinton is offering. He responded that having spent his entire career as an ER doc, the plan that Hillary has put forward may eventually help the next generation of health care professionals, but the system is broken now. What about the critics who say he’ll never get any serious healthcare reform passed? His answer deserves a blockquote.

”I’m not a god damn idiot. I don’t think for a second this will happen overnight. But I will dedicate all of my free time and resources to local and national elections to change the political landscape by 2020 so we can make this vision a reality”

That’s fucking huge. And that’s the Sanders campaign at it’s core. Knowing that there’s an enormous amount of ground to cover, but being willing to fight every day for real, systemic change. My conservative cousin has had a political awakening, and he sure as hell feels the Bern.

Has The Whole Fu**ing World Gone Mad?!?

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Thursday February 04, 2016 · 4:27 PM PST

2016/02/04 · 16:27

The tap dancing on Hillary’s Iraq vote is impressive. It’s like Danny Kaye and Gregory Heins had a baby, then injected that baby with feet steroids, then put the roided out baby in a growth chamber, and fed it the souls of every other fucking tap dancer on the planet. I have never seen the English language that deftly manipulated since that one time Mark Twain and I got drunk at Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s house after leaving a party Bill Buckley Sr. threw. Fuck’s sake!

Look, you can spin this shit worse than Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, it’s bullshit. There’s a fucking up/down list of the votes. I understand that it was a crrrraaaaaaazzzzy time. Everyone was freaking out. The drums of war were banging harder than Jenna Jameson trying to set a Guinness Book record. It’s easy to get confused, manipulated, lied to, and coerced into a vote. You know, unless you have a fucking conscience!

This is by far the biggest “go to sleep, little peasant” election I’ve participated in thus far in my life. And believe me, I’ve been involved in some serious fucking “go to sleep” elections. Hell, I ended up working for John Kerry, you know, the guy who gave Ben Carson all of his charisma and, apparently, all of his librium as well. But I’ve never seen such a concerted fucking effort on the part of a campaign ran by Democrats to (and I’m borrowing a phrase from Team Clinton here) “wave a magic wand” to erase our fucking memories.

I know that there are ardent and faithful supporters of Hillary Clinton here. I know that this will piss them off. It should. Your candidate is a cynical representation of everything that is wrong with American politics. If she had an (R) next to her name, the entire site would line up to condemn this professional political insider who will literally say anything to anyone at any time for a fucking vote. But because she’s a Democrat, all fucking bets are off. Win. Just win. Doesn’t fucking matter who you sold out to. Doesn’t matter how many times you severed pieces of your soul in order to get there.

Yes, the republicans are fucking terrible. Super easy to agree on that. What is equally terrible is splitting a part of your soul every time you listen to outright bullshit from the Clinton campaign and place it in an inanimate object in the hope that someday, somewhere in the far off future, your kids or grandkids or great-grandkids will be able to access it to fundamentally change the way politics work in this country. You heard me. Hillary Clinton’s campaign is a Horcrux.

The Science of Democratic Socialism- Part 1

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Wednesday February 03, 2016 · 11:33 AM PST

2016/02/03 · 11:33

This article originally appeared at The Morning Nightcap. I am the author, so I hereby give myself permission to reblog it here. Cheers.

“The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.”- Neil deGrasse Tyson

I grew up watching Cosmos, NOVA, and Bill Nye. I remember exactly where I was when the Challenger blew up on live tv. I remember trying to convince my parents to send me to Space Camp. And as a parent now, I see very little interest in discovery and innovation in the elementary school where my kids attend. Not only is that depressing, I believe it’s deliberate. While modern technology is expanding every day, and the internet, to quote Ben Affleck in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, is “a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another”, we have largely stopped looking up. An entire generation is now looking down at a screen to tell them what to think, how to eat, where to shop, and how to study.

There are several answers as to why this is the case, but the majority of them can be directly linked to one simple thing- funding. The United States ranks 35th worldwide in mathematics and 26th worldwide in science- according to a recent Pew Research study. NASA is all but dead. There’s no legitimate reason, in the US, to want to be a scientist anymore unless you want to develop things that destroy. And why? Again, because there’s no fucking money for innovation anymore. Science has become political. So much so that President Obama had to say this during this year’s State of the Union Address:

“Sixty years ago, when the Russians beat us into space, we didn’t deny Sputnik was up there. We didn’t argue about the science or shrink our research and development budget, we built a space program almost overnight and twelve years later, we were walking on the moon.”

Senator Jim Inhofe infamously threw a snowball on the floor of Congress because there was snow on the ground in Washington, DC that day. “Fuck you, science! There’s snow in the winter! Case closed!”. And he was applauded for that behavior. Not by anyone with two brain cells to rub together, but by a growing segment of anti-intellectuals that would deny even the most fundament tenets of science in exchange for votes and funding from the Koch Brothers. And to what extent? The Russians are absolutely kicking our asses in space while we bicker about climate change and whether or not fracking is harmful (it is) or just a little tickle we occasionally give to fault lines, and they love it (it isn’t, and they don’t).

This will be the first in a series of articles where I explore the history of government funded science, research, innovation, and exploration.

Science succeeds, and this country succeeds, when we all chip in to allow government to pave the way for private industry.

This minimizes the risk for private businesses, increases their rewards, and creates jobs in bold and new industries. That, friends and neighbors, is Democratic Socialism.

Change Is Hard Work, So Give Up Now And Focus On the Broncos/Panthers Game

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Monday February 01, 2016 · 9:47 AM PST

2016/02/01 · 09:47

Dear Little People,

It is with the utmost sincerity and all due respect that I write to you today. It has come to my attention that you silly little fucks have been sorely distracted by this trifle of a Democratic primary. I’m here to remind you that Donald Trump said something stupid, that Ben Carson is sleep-walking his way to a fifth place finish, Ted Cruz is a crazy coo-coo bird who likely engages in self-abuse while reading Atlas Shrugged in a pool of delicious, Canadian maple syrup (because syrup from Vermont has no chance of winning), Sarah Palin said something stupid, too, don’t forget that, and the Super Bowl is this weekend.

These are the things you should focus your attention on. You may think it’s cute to pretend like you’re involved in the largest political grassroots movement in for fucking ever, but I don’t think it’s cute at all. I’m a Very Serious Person. Change is hard. Waaaaaaay too fucking hard for some dewey-eyed neophyte like you. Change takes generations. It’s not like you can get to the gawddamn moon in less than a decade, you dolt. That could never happen. Change is an arduous, soul-crushing, grinding process that is designed by us Very Serious People to be counterintuitive. Because fuck you.

It is with that in mind that I encourage you, Very Seriously, to focus on what really matters. You know, people running into and away from each other in relationship to the movement of a football. Talk about how this might be Peyton Manning’s last game. Or that Cam Newton is disrespectful and overrated. Talk about Trump, Palin, Jeb! Bush’s slide into obscurity. Hell, talk about the Dixie Chicks- they’re touring again. While you’re at it, read fact and data free editorials from Very Serious People about the ridiculous ideas that Bernie Sanders is promoting. Sure, they’ve been a part of the Democratic Platform for nearly a century, and Hillary Clinton supported them 25 years ago, but the point is that now she doesn’t, and she’s Very Serious. She knows that her ideas were shit when she promoted them, which is why she doesn’t promote them any more. She has experience. And that experience has taught her that you don’t have to worry about rising or sinking tides if you never get in the fucking boat in the first place. That’s pragmatism right there.

Above all, simply stand aside and let the growups handle this one. We know better than you. Our superior Serious Brains understand that watered down legislation with no chance of positively effecting your quality of life is the only course of action to take. Anything else would require dedication and work, and that’s for suckers. Serious People have fundraisers to attend at questionable financial institutions. Serious People know that it’s way easier to let lobbyists write the legislation for you, because doing the work yourself is something a dolt would suggest.

So, phone it in, America. We’ve got you covered. Well, not we, specifically. There’s an exchange you can sign up for, and it might cost you a bit extra or save you some money depending on which provider you go through. We really don’t understand the process- that’s why we let the Serious People with a profit margin to attain do the work.

Change is hard. Go back to sleep.
Best Regards,
A Very Serious Person

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My Conservative Cousin Is Now A Sanders Campaign Volunteer. In The Hoosier State.

Has The Whole Fu**ing World Gone Mad?!?

The Science of Democratic Socialism- Part 1

Change Is Hard Work, So Give Up Now And Focus On the Broncos/Panthers Game