jon stewart

from the Daily Bern

Interesting. If you have been following along, recently Sanders' message was beginning to sound like he was expecting a Hillary nomination, and his role would become leading the fight for "platform change". It sounded like he was preparing us for his concession, or at least that was my take on it.

Now this, fresh off the daily Bernie email machine......

"Then we’re going to have a contested convention where the Democratic Party must decide if they want the candidate with the momentum who is best positioned to beat Trump, or if they are willing to roll the dice and court disaster simply to protect the status quo for the political and financial establishment of this country."

I like the sound of that.

Philly Bern- 7/25/2016

To those of us among the 500,000 who were in DC in '70 or '71 for the Vietnam war protests; well, we need something like that again.....


Philadelphia -- You wouldn't know it from reading or watching or listening to the corporate media, or even, incredibly, to most of the alternative media, but a huge grass-roots campaign has sprung up promoting a mass four-day demonstration in Philadelphia during the July 25-28 Democratic Convention. The promoters of this campaign so reminiscent of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago are backers of Bernie Sanders who totally reject the idea of seeing their candidate, Bernie Sanders -- or themselves -- just rolling over at the end of this year-long effort and endorsing Hilllary Clinton.
to the street! 

The FU vote

Donald is riding the “Fuck You!” movement. He is the choice of millions and millions who are simply so sick of the political establishment–what I call (but they don’t) the Bipartisan Oligarchy–that they just want a grenade to roll under its tent. They want to frag both political parties, as in alienated angry US soldier fragging (killing) their gung ho young officers to express their feelings about service in Vietnam. (Better Google that, youngsters.)

Let’s call them Trump’s FU Voters. They are huge in number, hate politicians with a passion, don’t give a rat’s ass about the Koch Brothers or MoveOn, might not even like The Donald, but see him as a statement of rage and discontent, as way of giving the finger, a huge middle finger, to all the hacks and flacks and whores and pimps of both the Republicans and Democrats who have delivered America into the hands of the 1%, the professional political class who are perceived as the enemy.

   --John Stauber

Europe Nation- no more windmills

....once again, following economic catastrophe, fascism is crawling back onto the surface of European politics because a dissolving common currency has made the politicians trying to save it economically impotent. Add to the economic fire an influx of refugees and let the scapegoating begin.

In the Netherlands Geert Wilders’ ironically named Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom) is leading in the polls for the upcoming 2017 parliamentary elections. The PVV’s platform includes, among other things, “the abolition of the senate, shutting down of all Islamic Schools, withdrawal from the EU, the abolition of the European Parliament and no cooperation in any EU activities, repeal of the carbon tax, taxes on the Islamic headscarves and prohibition of the Koran,” and “no more windmills” or funding for durability or CO2 reduction.”

welcome-to-fortified-europe

Stupidity

Why do you support?

"Why do you support? Or will you refuse to give your support? Will you say, "No"? These are the paramount questions at this moment in history, and in the life of the United States. We all must answer them. Our honor, our humanity, and our souls lie in the balance."
   --Arthur Silber

"You can either choose to participate in the game, and in so doing know that you have actually gone out and chosen to put in power a person who is going to help destroy, or seriously damage, the lives of you and your family, and a lot of other families, for no good reason whatsoever … or you can choose not to participate, because your principles, or your intelligence, or your soul won’t let you."
   --C. J. Hopkins

choice 

what about Lonnie Mack?

Wolf Blitzer and the other CNN anchors mourned Prince for three solid days.....but no-one on the airwaves shed Tear One for Lonnie Mack, who died the very same day.
the-death-of-prince-and-the-death-of-lonnie-mack