tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post860092591821523822..comments2024-03-27T18:00:02.032-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Great ExpectorationsKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-60746587931484794062016-08-02T20:50:59.088-04:002016-08-02T20:50:59.088-04:00Yes, JayOttawa, you are right. Hillary is so awful...Yes, JayOttawa, you are right. Hillary is so awful and people on both sides hate her so much the two headed duopoly - the oligarchy - had to put up someone so heinously terrifying, that people would be herded into voting for Hillary. It is not that I am convinced our votes actually are counted, but it must look like they are.<br /><br />And yes, Neil, I agree with you the Counterpunch article, it is as if the two parties have switched positions. If I actually believed Trump would stick to his message after being elected I might not be so worried - but I don't - maybe the racism part would stick but he will fold on all the issues important to progressives.<br /><br />So the truth is, we are screwed either way. Both parties will end up doing the same thing in terms of attacking the middle class, the poor and the environment. They will both sign the TPP and the TTIP. We should definitely go down fighting and vote for Jill Stein. <br /><br />And another thing - I don't want Bernie on the Green ticket now. Anyone who wastes their vote writing Bernie in is a fool. Use your protest vote to actually make a difference in terms of financially supporting the opposition by helping the Greens to get matching funds and to register your dissent. If a third of the country would actually vote for the Independent parties, it would certainly get the media coverage. Valerienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-55831033371354182522016-08-01T19:13:13.978-04:002016-08-01T19:13:13.978-04:00re Karen: "Does Hillary's ghostwriter rea...re Karen: "Does Hillary's ghostwriter really think that by verbally juxtaposing domestic social problems with military might, people will then all join together in one big patriotic blob?"<br /><br />I think the appeal of this speech was limited to Hillary's true believers; I can't imagine she persuaded anyone else. <br /><br />A political speech like this one by HRC is intended for the moment, to give the listener a good feeling about Hillary’s competence to be president. As you noted, a transcript of the speech does not stand up under scrutiny outside the moment it was spoken. That is the difference between oral and written communication. See Mark Twain on the Spoken Word vs. the Written Word:<br /><br />"Spoken speech is one thing, written speech is quite another. Print is a proper vehicle for the latter, but it isn’t for the former. The moment "talk" is put into print you recognize that it is not what it was when you heard it; you perceive that an immense something has disappeared from it. That is its soul. You have nothing but a dead carcass left on your hands..." - read more -<br /><br />http://davidvanalstyne.com/pg-marktwainspokenvswritten.html<br /><br />Virginia Postrel, in a piece on Trump, wrote, "The right words can cast a spell, even if they don’t really make sense. "We are going to do something so good and so fast and so strong, and the world is going to respect us again, believe me," Trump told supporters after his win in New Hampshire, letting them fill in the blanks with their own desires." <br /><br />I don’t pay much attention to the typical political speech.Neilhttp://www.nosue.org/2016-election/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-30260356018620383662016-07-31T17:52:29.823-04:002016-07-31T17:52:29.823-04:00I watch non of it, Philadelphia, but I tuned into ...I watch non of it, Philadelphia, but I tuned into Cleveland for the shock value. SO thank you for this overview. USA! USA! USA!Ste-vonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-50500810853637538222016-07-31T03:19:10.738-04:002016-07-31T03:19:10.738-04:00I don't watch any of the news shows (let alone...I don't watch any of the news shows (let alone sit through the mind-numbing Convention speak) anymore. I just come here for the best commentary in the country.<br /><br />And Karen, your prose rocks.<br /><br />I feel sorry for people who don't have the opportunity to read you every day.<br /><br />Oh, and I'm with Jay on the sheep-dogging bit. I'm just sorry that all those sad Bernie Sis' and Bro's were st(r)uck in Philly after working so hard to raise the travel money they couldn't get from Bernie's donated millions. I want my $5 back.<br /><br />Love you!<br /><br /><i>This is highly unskilled obfuscation. Does Hillary's ghostwriter really think that by verbally juxtaposing domestic social problems with military might, people will then all join together in one big patriotic blob? Fight terrorism with hard work while acknowledging desperation and inequality and too many threats, be afraid, and then blame it all on the "paralysis in Washington" so beloved by the extreme centrists and the same multinational lobbyists who recycled a very small portion of their own corporate welfare to fund the spectacularly orchestrated Clinton Coronation.<br /><br />It was no big surprise that after many of us gagged on Hillary's expectorations, she herself reportedly went on to party late into the night at a private shindig hosted by Lady Gaga, the rock star queen of the identity politics which barely holds the morally bankrupt Democratic Party together.<br /><br />Before serenading Clinton, Gaga had given another exclusive concert in neighboring Camden, New Jersey, one of the poorest cities in America. It benefited not the poor, but one of Hillary's Superpacs.</i>Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-50053186353830454602016-07-30T15:46:25.922-04:002016-07-30T15:46:25.922-04:00I'm with Jay-Ottawa! I think Donald is runnin...I'm with Jay-Ottawa! I think Donald is running to lose and that was the plan all along. Run someone so obnoxious that even Republicans would balk. I can well imagine Hill and Bill and Donald sitting around Jeffery Epstein's pedo-island estate and and cooking up this scheme that got Hill the White House and Donald the most massive ego boo EVER! "All you have to do is get up there and be yourself, Donald! Everything will proceed from there."DMCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-59044424915069283092016-07-30T10:12:14.384-04:002016-07-30T10:12:14.384-04:00Along the lines of gagging on a maggot, when Obama...Along the lines of gagging on a maggot, when Obama was hugging Hillary, he sure looked like he was sucking on a lemon to keep from ralphing onto Hillary's white pantsuit. <br /><br />Someone else who's choking and gagging on all this is Margot Kidder. She's got a projectile hurl going in 'My Fellow Americans: We Are Fools'. <br /><br />http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/29/my-fellow-americans-we-are-fools/annenigmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-76202756050889553992016-07-30T10:10:43.970-04:002016-07-30T10:10:43.970-04:00@Jay -
See this piece on CounterPunch July 29, 2...@Jay - <br /><br />See this piece on CounterPunch July 29, 2016 by David Rovics<br /><br />The Republicans and Democrats Have Now Switched Places<br />http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/29/85299/<br /><br />"Very simply: all of the changes to the DNC platform are meaningless words until they become laws. And most of them can’t become laws because implementing them would run right up against the goals of the TPP/TTIP — "barriers to trade" in neoliberal speak — which the current president and his party leadership actively support..."<br /><br />"...What I seem to be witnessing is the two parties completing a 100-year process of mutual inversion, or whatever the term may be..."<br /><br />"...Trump wants to end taxation for people who earn less than $50,000 a year, close military bases around the world and use the savings in the military budget for domestic purposes. He wants to heavily tax imports in order to keep jobs in the US, and he opposes TPP and other neoliberal trade policies that he accurately says are bad for the US working class. He talks about the working people as if they exist. Every day. He positions himself as critical of the elites with which he is intimately familiar, while also blaming nonwhite people for all the world’s ills in many different forms..."<br /><br />"...And the Democratic Party establishment? They talk pro-immigrant bullshit while deporting millions, they talk about peace while making war, they talk about civil rights while administering over a nation at war with its black and brown populations, they talk about working families without even mentioning the idea of rent control ever — which is banned statewide in 48 out of 50 states, many of which are usually controlled almost completely by Democrats..."<br /><br />"...Trump is now the Democrat, and Clinton the Republican..."Neilhttp://nosueorg.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-18550789964036955052016-07-30T08:13:02.506-04:002016-07-30T08:13:02.506-04:00Correction: SHEEPdog one, SHEEPdog two.Correction: SHEEPdog one, SHEEPdog two.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-17101712023771965002016-07-29T23:12:01.328-04:002016-07-29T23:12:01.328-04:00As we all know, HRC has a high disapproval rating....As we all know, HRC has a high disapproval rating. She's not likely to endear herself to more millions in the months ahead, but––never forget––she has the Party, the women (well, lots of them), the Pentagon, the big corps and Wall Street in her corner. Those forces will be working above and below board for her election. Surely, that's got to help tremendously.<br /><br />In the other corner is Trump. He too has a high disapproval rating, quite possibly larger than HRC's by a wide margin. Does it ever cross anyone else's mind that Trump is where he is to throw the fight? Trump is a gift for HRC, which is strange. Since HRC won't attract many more votes to her cause, it's DT's job to alienate millions from his own cause. <br /><br />Bernie was birddog one; Trump is birddog two. No matter how hated HRC is, Trump will work overtime at alienating an increasing number of the electorate from the Republican column. Meanwhile, the Republican Party is backing Trump only half-heartedly. Mainline Republicans have nothing to fear from an HRC administration; she will protect their interests better than Trump will. Once in office, she will be quick to sign off on the Grand Bargain Obama never quite concluded.<br /><br />Trump knows what's expected of him. Besides, does he really want the burdens of the job he's running for? He's in this for the entertainment value. Never mind whether he's up to the demands of the job as president; is he the workaholic he's got to be as president? Whether dark interests have approached him on the matter or not, I believe he must throw the fight. He'll simply keep issuing outrageous statements to prove he is a loose cannon. He wants to be recognized as the greater of two evils with a badass style. The lazy narcissist will have his way: lots of face time and no need to love or work for years for millions of Americans starting in November. He will succeed by adopting the ways of a looser.<br /><br />The powers-that-be must have the more manageable HRC in the White House. That includes the Republican power brokers and Trump himself. He'll swing a lot and have fun jabbing away at HRC during the general campaign; but in the end he'll take a dive. She will be elected by a landslide thanks to the millions who at the last minute will turn away from Crazy Donald to enter the voting booths with clothespins on their noses. Bernie diehards will have good reason for another cry.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-61665205619883454442016-07-29T20:56:14.999-04:002016-07-29T20:56:14.999-04:00I feel so sorry for Bernie's delegates. They h...I feel so sorry for Bernie's delegates. They had to hustle to raise $6000 or more to get to the convention in order to support Bernie's 'fight to the finish', only to find he hadn't just capitulated but climbed aboard the Hillary bus before they even got there. <br /><br />Every time some speaker mentioned how Hillary never, ever gives up, never quits, I kept thinking of Bernie. He folded like a cheap tent. I bet he regrets it now. <br /><br />At his age, he should have taken that once in a lifetime opportunity to take his supporters into a third party candidacy run or at least a serious write-in effort and hope for a 4 or 5 way split (Trump-Clinton-Sanders/Stein-Johnson) and shake up the whole election by having no one able to win the electoral vote.annenigmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-31306029422946674292016-07-29T17:09:48.198-04:002016-07-29T17:09:48.198-04:00"Great Expectorations"! Very funny!
I n..."Great Expectorations"! Very funny!<br /><br />I never watch these things, relying on someone else's work (cough-Sardonicky-cough) to spare me the frustration and blood pressure elevation. But I did watch a lot of it via live feeds from several Bernie delegates last night. I caught on that the H supporters and $50/seat-fillers were advised to chant "U.S.A.!" whenever Bernie's delegates started "No more war!". <br /><br />I'll bet the delegates are so relieved to be able to come home after that experience of a lifetime. I hope they are able to get some good rest before continuing their work in their communities.Elizabeth Adamsnoreply@blogger.com