What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
At this point, clinching the Democratic nomination is mathematically impossible for Bernie Sanders, but he continues to mislead supporters. The Sanders’ campaign sends out daily emails promising supporters he can secure the nomination if they donate just a few more dollars.
Bernie Sanders Continues to Ask Supporters for Donations Despite No Path To Victory
What an asshole, this one.
Total fucking schmuck.
Like, seriously, the direct opposite of mensch.
The revolution will continue until morale improves.
Bernie Sanders Will Concede When Hell Freezes Over | Vanity Fair
What an egotistical, self-important Nader-shitbag this guy turned out to be.
It’s incredibly frustrating for people who’ve been working in mainstream Democratic Party politics to hear their party described as something other than a party for “working people.” Clinton won the votes of millions of working-class Americans, primarily people of color, throughout the 2016 primaries; and in the 2012, 2008, 2004, and 2000 election cycles there’s been a pronounced tendency for lower-income voters to back the Democratic candidate and higher-income ones to back the Republican.
A lot of the people who’ve fought for those things agree with Sanders that they didn’t go far enough in important ways, or even that key people in the party didn’t push hard enough or strong enough for them. But a lot of Sanders’s rhetoric seems to simply erase these battles, as if the whole party were just sitting on its hands until Bernie and his political revolution came to town.
One sentence from Bernie Sanders’s speech last night that really enrages Democratic leaders – Vox
Exactly.
Bernie is an arrogant, self-important asshole who just keeps getting douchier and more obstructionist (i.e. working AGAINST the progress he supposedly is working for fervently towards) every single day.
A former consultant for Donald Trump and longtime ally Roger Stone charged Monday that Huma Abedin, a top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, could be a “terrorist agent.”
Roger Stone: Huma Abedin, top Clinton aide, could be ‘terrorist agent’ – Washington Times
bigot.
Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage says he will vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, in one of the most dramatic signs yet that Republican national security elites are rejecting their party’s presumptive nominee.
Exclusive: Armitage to back Clinton over Trump – POLITICO
hmmmm
The tragedy in Orlando has officially made Sanders completely irrelevant.
Bernie Sanders insults the Orlando dead by continuing his campaign / LGBTQ Nation
hmmm
The runner-up in the Democratic presidential primaries was in Burlington, Vt., ahead of a simulcast speech to supporters.
…Sanders, who opposed the Brady Bill that expanded background checks and waiting periods…
Why Bernie Sanders missed the Senate Democrats’ 14-hour gun filibuster – The Washington Post
hmmm
Senator Sanders and Secretary Clinton met in Washington on Tuesday evening and had a positive discussion about how best to bring more people into the political process and about the dangerous threat that Donald Trump poses to our nation.
hmm
Declassified internal CIA reports released Tuesday describes the systematic torture of [a] detainee to die in CIA custody.
Barbaric Conditions That Led to a Detainee’s Death Are Laid Bare in CIA Reports | VICE News
sigh….
A group of F train riders stopped a man from harassing two women in hijabs the morning after the Orlando shooting.
“After some back and forth, one man said, “This is New York City. The most diverse place in the world. And in New York, we protect our own and we don’t give a fuck what anyone looks like or who they love, or any of those things. It’s time for you to leave these women alone, Sir.”
F train straphangers stand up to man harassing two Muslim women – NY Daily News
cool.
A 200+ page document that appears to be a Democratic anti-Trump playbook compiled by the Democratic National Committee has leaked online following this week’s report that the DNC was breached by Russian hackers. In it, Trump is pilloried as a “bad businessman” and “misogynist in chief.”
This Looks Like the DNC’s Hacked Trump Oppo File
hmmm
Daily News Hillbilly-in-Chief Trae Crowder following the massacre in Orlando. In an impassioned and powerful appeal to stop the “archaic lunacy” of religious and gun fanaticism, Crowder breaks it down to its most granular level on whether you’re on the side of love or hate.
Liberal Redneck: Nothing funny about the Orlando massacre
Yup.
Clinton has the edge in the states that matter most, according to POLITICO’s inaugural Battleground States polling average.
Battleground boss: Clinton leads Trump across swing-state map – POLITICO
hmmm
Now this latest and most deadly attack has targeted a group that has spent the last few decades learning how to organize, fight for, and protect its rights. Perhaps, then, the next chapter of LGBT history might not be just about the struggle to gain equality for ourselves, but also how we might help lead this country towards a collective right to participate and live free of fear and terror, and ultimately toward a common-sense, permanent ban on weapons designed for mass slaughter.
Like it or not, this history and this obligation have been thrust upon us, and we must now rise to its challenge. For if there is one group in this country with more will, more experience, and more tenacity than the NRA, it is the LGBT community.
George Takei: How the LGBT Community Can Lead America to a Sane Gun Policy
hmmm
A Democratic senator on Wednesday launched a filibuster to force a vote on gun control legislation three days after 49 people were killed at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida…
Dem senator frustrated by inaction on guns begins filibuster – Washington Times
hmmmm
“It doesn’t surprise me that he might be gay. And it doesn’t surprise me that he was leading two totally different lives and was in such deep conflict within himself. …I hope people can truly understand that this is one insane person that did such a tragic thing.”
Omar Mateen called friend, TV station during attack, officials say – CNN.com
hmmm
The Orlando massacre reminds us that there’s an enormous amount we don’t know about gun violence — what causes it, what its consequences are for surviving families, how to stop it. You can blame our ignorance on the National Rifle Assn. – and on the federal officials the NRA has intimidated away from this crucial field of public health for 20 years.
Amen.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that “nobody wants terrorists to have firearms” after a blistering attack from Democrats on Congress’s inaction to pass legislation.
Spineless, hypocritical asswipe.
If so, that’s excellent news for Donald Trump.
Does Bernie Sanders want to be the Ralph Nader of 2016? – The Washington Post
2 things…
1.) Bernie’s failure to condemn these hateful acts casts him as an arrogant, ambitious man who cares very little for values like equality and justice.
2.) Does he want to be Nader and give the election to the conservative right rather than support the candidate closer to his own positions? Based on his actions it certainly appear so. ..And that betrays the so-called support he holds for many of the positions he staked out over the course of campaign.
The first woman to lead a major-party presidential ticket practiced her speech to keep her composure as some supporters wept.
Clinton reflects on the emotion of her historic moment — and rips into Trump – The Washington Post
hmmm
A leftover from the commonwealth’s Jim Crow days costs residents big money.
Richmond is ripping off its residents – The Washington Post
Sigh…
“I can’t believe I’m endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, but I am,” Larry Pressler said.
Former GOP senator endorses Clinton after Orlando shooting | TheHill
hmmm
House Democrats are pleading for the House to consider three pieces of gun legislation filed in response to Charleston massacre
Democrats shout down Paul Ryan after Orlando shooting moment of silence – CBS News
Sigh…
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