IWHMN (I will hold my nose and vote for...)

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Saturday June 27, 2015 · 7:22 PM PDT

2015/06/27 · 19:22

I just thought I would throw up an open thread to get a better feel for DKos right now, and also to serve as a reality check on my perceptions. My perception is that Clintonistas and Sandernistas have drawn lines in the sand already that are morphing into trenches. My perception is that there is far more excitement here for Bernie than Hillary. Perhaps it's because I'm just not reading the right diaries, I don't know.

The interesting thing to me, though is that almost to a person all of the Sandernistas play along with the unstoppable Hillary meme and pretty much insist that they will support the Democratic candidate, if it's Hillary...

So, my question, to everybody, but especially to the Clintonistas is... lets just pretend that history repeats itself and Hillary's sure thing vanishes just like last time. I'm very curious, in that scenario, if you take the same pledge as I have and throw your support to the other Dem... or do you sit it out... or do you vote Republican?

I would be honored if you would drop your thoughts or pledges into the comments... or ignore this diary entirely and we'll keep having fun sparring ;)

Vote for Bernardo!

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Friday June 26, 2015 · 5:22 AM PDT

2015/06/26 · 05:22

Disclaimer: I will say again that, if it comes to it, I will hold my nose and proudly vote for Hillary in the General Election before I see another Republican in the White House in my lifetime... That being said, I was dearly hoping that our side would wouldn't "go there" and pledged not to start anything myself. Then, Claire McCaskill went on Morning Joe to try to throw out the first handful of mud...

Well, here's my response... and I do hope that everyone will take it as the good-natured ribbing in which it is intended, and we will all be stronger for the longer task ahead... ;)

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Monday June 22, 2015 · 7:09 PM PDT

2015/06/22 · 19:09

I just thought that this would be a nice concept for an election poster:

Another version below the fold:
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The Bush Brothers

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Sunday May 10, 2015 · 7:54 AM PDT

2015/05/10 · 07:54

The Bush Brothers

The Bush Brothers... Jeb and Eldub.... they're on a Mission Accomplished from God. Read More

Mo Money, Mo Money, Mo Money!! Another blow to Reagan's racist "Welfare Queen"

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Thursday April 02, 2015 · 4:54 AM PDT

2015/04/02 · 04:54

Probably a bit weak to blog a blogger bloging a study, but this deserves attention! Scott Santens in Science reports on preliminary results from the "Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCT)", a study undertaken in Liberia by the Liberian Ministry of Gender and Development with support from UNICEF and funded by the EU and Japan. Final Results are yet to be published but they seem to corroborate other similar studies.

So, what exactly happens when you JUST GIVE poor people money with no strings attached? St Ronny the Racist won elections by having us believe in "Welfare Queens". To this day we are inundated with variations on this meme: "It'll just go to drugs and alcohol", "Can't feed their kids but they can get them cell phones", "But they can afford a weave"...just three off the top of my head.. not meant to be an exhaustive list. We've all heard thousands of them. So, what actually happens when you give money away... pretty amazing things...

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Thursday March 26, 2015 · 5:30 PM PDT

2015/03/26 · 17:30

Last week, before declaring his delusions of presidency, Tom Cruise...er... Ted Cruz famously tried to publicly bully a NASA official into 'stop looking at the Earth and get back to space exploration'....

A week later, the vacuous, political couch jumping twit has the audacity wrap himself in the robes of Galileo and try to pull off a childish/churlish Pee Wee Herman "I know you are, but what am I?!" A lot has been well written in the aftermath, that would embarrass a normal person if they had posited such pocket fluff... but I think there is an important piece of hypocrisy that everyone has missed....

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Monday August 18, 2014 · 6:04 PM PDT

2014/08/18 · 18:04

To preface, I haven't had a lot to say about Ferguson...

Unfortunately, I am wired to be very quick to extreme anger, but just as quickly to internalize and diffuse... not healthy, I admit, and certainly not conducive to solutions. ANY loss of life is tragic and needless, IMHO, but I weigh this against my instincts for self preservation versus laying down my life for others. What is left? Laughter, I submit...

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Wednesday August 06, 2014 · 7:00 PM PDT

2014/08/06 · 19:00

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Wednesday July 23, 2014 · 7:31 PM PDT

2014/07/23 · 19:31

This seemed like a fun, participatory, open thread.... inspired by Bob Swern's Diary: Intercept: "Blacklisted: The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist"

I thought it would be fun to also rip off Jeff Foxworthy's "You Might be a Redneck if..."

So... ;)

Hows about I get started?

YOU MIGHT BE A TERRORIST IF:

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Saturday May 24, 2014 · 5:55 AM PDT

2014/05/24 · 05:55

Probably everybody here grew up reading the comic strip "BC" as a kid, and remembers Thor, the inventor of the Wheel and the Comb.Thor's Wheel is now a featured logo for the late Johnny Hart's home, Broome County, NY's, mass transit system. His wheel always looked like it would be so much fun as a kid, and as an adult I still love all things cycling.

Well, there's the old saying, "If you live long enough, you'll see everything." Look below the Orange Cheeto for some fascinating modern day manifestation's of Thor's Wheel...;)

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Saturday January 18, 2014 · 3:59 PM PST

2014/01/18 · 15:59

I've been very busy lately with not a lot of time for DKos.. that being said, it's been so rewarding when I can stop in and revel in the never ending, unfolding Christie Crime updates! Schadenfreude as thick and tasty as the tomato sauce and cheese that the Donald and Palin so deftly scraped off of their New York Pizza with knife and fork! I suspect I am just as excited as everyone else, not unlike a kid at Christmas...

The whole organized crime, mobster, NY/NJ meme, to me, seems to really resonate to the chagrin of the GOP! (perhaps it's because it REALLY IS sort of a NY/NJ criminal thing...)

Anyhow, I have but one simple request from diarists at Daily Kos as we move forward...

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Friday December 20, 2013 · 6:51 PM PST

2013/12/20 · 18:51

...ah... what the hell... I had fun... ;)

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IWHMN (I will hold my nose and vote for...)

Vote for Bernardo!

Bernie and Orwell

The Bush Brothers

Mo Money, Mo Money, Mo Money!! Another blow to Reagan's racist "Welfare Queen"

Keep on Serving Humanity, NASA... Ted Cruz... Kiss My Asteroid.

If Andy were in charge of Ferguson...

Greed Acres

You might be a Terrorist if...

Thor's Wheel

A modest Chris Chrisite proposal...

Drinkin' in a Badger Wunderland