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WBraun

climber
Nov 2, 2017 - 01:45pm PT
You politards are still completely insane ....
Bushman

climber
The state of quantum flux
Nov 2, 2017 - 02:13pm PT
Kirk and crew discover a galaxy far far away
Vader falls hard for Spock's sister
Luke winds up with pointy ears
dirtbag

climber
Nov 2, 2017 - 02:26pm PT
How ‘bout that new tax bill?

It will be a relief if Ivanka, Eric, and Donald jr. (who is a good boy) will not have to pay estate taxes when papa trump barks.
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Nov 2, 2017 - 02:39pm PT
Let’s be excruciatingly clear - it didn’t matter if Hillary was the living embodiment of hell itself or if she had Bernie kidnapped and dismembered in her basement - it was the frigging Supreme Court majority at stake for gods sake.

Keep up this moronic mindset and you’ll personally elect yet more fascists in 2018 and 2020.
monolith

climber
state of being
Nov 2, 2017 - 03:12pm PT
Clinton campaign entered into secret agreement to control DNC operations from August, 2015 to August, 2016.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/elizabeth-warren-dnc-rigged/index.html

dirtbag

climber
Nov 2, 2017 - 03:24pm PT
Who cares. Bernie joined the Democratic Party solely to run for President, then quit.

Loyalty works both ways.
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Nov 2, 2017 - 03:28pm PT
Well, as long as we elect the nice fascist it'll be OK.

The Brave Cowboy is on to something. Let it burn.

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. -- Buenaventura Durruti
monolith

climber
state of being
Nov 2, 2017 - 03:39pm PT
Sanders has always caucused with, and been an important part of, the Dems, so who gives a sh#t if he had to officially join them to run.

Secret agreement to control the DNC? Whoa!
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Nov 2, 2017 - 04:28pm PT
No comment,allowed.
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Nov 2, 2017 - 04:34pm PT
In jest, before the DNC candidate was decided*, I spoke that I might toss a Trump vote out as a cute impotent proverbial wrench in the gears. Yet when it came down to it, I drank that punch. No party is perfect Moose, but when shitheads show up pouring the punch, well, it seems like I never really wanted punch.

And no, Happie, I spoke in estimation of Amurrrica when I made that statement, not of my own politicosocial lilt.


Stale fruit is stale fruit, eventually, even subjectively. Things stink around here, anyone can tell you.

I question the veracity and utility of modern elections, and I wish that I would just speak with my coworkers on the other side of the coin. We all want the same things, really.



I guess the pint is that we should all just go

*dollar democracy
c wilmot

climber
Nov 2, 2017 - 04:37pm PT
. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority


Nothing changed with trump. You people still don't get this
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Nov 2, 2017 - 05:10pm PT
crankster and I voted for Hillary. heh.
Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.
Nov 2, 2017 - 05:11pm PT
Everything has changed with trump. You people still don't get this

fixed it for ya

Now we are the laughing stock...
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Nov 2, 2017 - 05:13pm PT
^Agree with you CFry
10b4me

Mountain climber
Retired
Nov 2, 2017 - 05:27pm PT
Yep!

But, manipulating the system to get HRC ahead of Bernie was no different than Trump's machinations. No moral superiority here.

I've been disillusioned with the Democratic Party long time ago. I vote Democrat only because the Republicans have an agenda that I don't like even more. The third parties are even more detached from reality.

There is no party in the world I would identify myself 100%. Compromise, or be damned.

Not voting for HRC was the ticket for Trump. The purists need to think hard how to justify their actions, given the outcome of the last presidential election.

It's not a game, people. Just watch Trump when he is cornered, and we are getting pretty close to that. Most likely he will start a war.

I am sorry so many of you couldn't see that. But, I do have an advantage as I lived through the similar authoritarian regimes in Poland. I recognized the theme right away. Do you know who was the master of propaganda?

Well said.
monolith

climber
state of being
Nov 2, 2017 - 05:40pm PT
And the purists should consider their selection of Timmy Kaine over Sanders as VP.

Lose with purity seems to be the Dem motto. Well done.
Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Nov 2, 2017 - 07:25pm PT
I recall reading a series of stories about the Spanish Civil War in my 20's, which tended to destroy any illusions I had about the struggle of right vs. left in that horrible cataclysm.

I re-read the book in 2012 before visiting Spain & Spanish climber friends, for the first time.

The title is simply: "The Civil War in Spain." Published in 1962, it was edited by Robert Payne & is now well out of print.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6532153-the-civil-war-in-spain-1936-39.

From the book, I learned, while the communists, socialists, anarchists, Basque, & Catalans, in left-leaning Spain, fought Franco & his Nationalist Fascist forces, Hitler, & Mussolini, they often fought among themselves. While one or the other supposed allies in the leftish faction was fighting or betraying the other, Franco & his allies won the war in many ugly battles & campaigns.

There’s a lesson there, for those of us that learn history & lessons.

I’m sorry that some here don't know, or seem determined to ignore that lesson.

Trump & his allies are bringing Nationalism & Fascism back to popularity in America.

Halford E. Luccock famously said, “When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled ‘made in Germany’; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, ‘Americanism.’”

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Halford_E._Luccock
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Nov 2, 2017 - 07:41pm PT
Lincoln Brigade represent!
Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Nov 2, 2017 - 07:51pm PT
BC! Yeah, there was a Lincoln brigade story in the book too. They also got used & then betrayed by their friends & allies.

(The Russians always betrayed the other leftists at some point, since the outsiders never showed proper ideological purity.)
Contractor

Boulder climber
CA
Nov 2, 2017 - 08:08pm PT
Monolith- True enough!

I held my nose and voted for Hillary but a took a scalding shower and scrubbed my skin raw.

She sucks, her husband sucks, the party sucks!- were better than this.

Craig, move past the Hillary wing!

Here's a peace offering...a rallying for my fellow progressives.


https://youtu.be/biehbIPqV8c
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