tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post8655894341494133441..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: The Times Is the Pits (and the Pendulum)Karen Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-18436477201763416802016-04-05T22:58:48.562-04:002016-04-05T22:58:48.562-04:00A great great speech from Bernie after being decla...A great great speech from Bernie after being declared winner in Wisconsin and was praised on CNN for not attacking Hillary although they still cut him off after a while.<br />But everything he said was an attack on who she supports. I wonder what she will have to say tomorrow morning on CNN.<br />Very exciting.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />cnNPearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-251751112370434662016-04-05T16:09:48.440-04:002016-04-05T16:09:48.440-04:00Karen....here's my comment to Charles Blow.......Karen....here's my comment to Charles Blow....got many recs because I happened to up so late and was 1 of the very 1st comments! But I am wondering how worthwhile it is to post to Blow's column lately. <br /><br />my post:<br />It must be repeated to sink in to our thick American heads. Other countries have greater voter turnout because they schedule voting on a holiday, or make voting day a holiday, or have voting over a few days. Plus there's no difficulties in registering, it's automatic in many places at a certain age.<br /><br />The child care provisions of many advanced societies remove that impediment to voting. Here, the necessary publicity about long lines, needing half of a work day to vote make people avoid voting. So many ways to make voting either harder or easier, and the USA makes it harder.<br />The Gop has expressed a clear aim to suppress voting. <br /><br />also<br /><br />NYT Roger Cohen today is equating the influence of the elites on the US with similar in other countries. He's thus downplaying the extreme influence here of the rw on both our parties. He could instead explain how voting rights are better protected abroad, and how their public election funding protects their majorities against Koch type big money influence. But then he might look too 'left wing'. <br /><br />And a recent op ed re Citizens United--finally--focused more on 'foreign influence from multi national corporations on our politics---than it did on American big money poisoning our elections and democracy.Meredith, NYCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-30331432767991066082016-04-05T14:34:14.935-04:002016-04-05T14:34:14.935-04:00Bernie Sanders Has Already Won His Revolution
He ...Bernie Sanders Has Already Won His Revolution<br /><br />He has convinced more Americans to proudly claim radical left positions<br /><br />http://time.com/4280924/bernie-sanders-revolution/?xid=emailshare Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-88023993734761976912016-04-04T22:06:56.079-04:002016-04-04T22:06:56.079-04:00I've cut back greatly on Times commenting myse...I've cut back greatly on Times commenting myself so more power to you, Meredith. Congratulations too on getting top recs on your Blow offering. Repost here if you would like.<br /><br />Yes, Pearl, I think Bernie is finally throwing at least some caution to the winds and relishing getting under Hill's skin. He has got enormous leverage over both her and the party at this stage. For him to endorse her without her agreeing to campaign on at least some of his proposals would be the height of folly and a slap in the face to his supporters. Anything to make it uncomfortable for her if/when she is crowned.<br /><br />I also hope he gives any left-over campaign cash to charity and not to the DNC. It would be fine if he shared some of it with some of progressives primary-ing centrist Dems.Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-1302249128750872112016-04-04T21:43:04.829-04:002016-04-04T21:43:04.829-04:00Let us hope Bernie does well tomorrow but mainly t...Let us hope Bernie does well tomorrow but mainly to torture Hillary and expose her ugly side more and more. Especially with a debate when hopefully Bernie will strike a nerve or nerves hard..Otherwise it is up to how people view the issues in such an ugly river of filth.<br />We have to give it all we have and inspire his supporters, mostly the leaders of the future.<br />You went all out Karen, with your current article and much appreciated.Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-92020739971312923622016-04-04T18:07:55.721-04:002016-04-04T18:07:55.721-04:00Let me be the 1st to congratulate Karen on her vir...Let me be the 1st to congratulate Karen on her virtuoso witticisms in pulling all this together. But piling on the horror metaphors and pictures, while maybe fun at first, also gets to be rather repugnant pretty quick. Depends on your taste I guess. So that’s mine. <br /><br />Getting to be a bit much as I read down the blog---horror, fear, torture, grim, grand inquisitor, S&M, burial, death, charnel. What a thesaurus –how much can I stand of this, especially after the horrors of the daily news in all it’s obnoxious facets? I haven’t yet become calloused enough to double down on it. <br /><br />Maybe it does our politics justice and Karen’s outrage is apt ---but we have to be able to stomach this stuff. Maybe would be more effective to step back a bit to keep at least more objectivity, less emotion and outrage, thus less ugliness and pushing our faces into crap. <br /><br />I am deciding that it’s important to keep commenting to the Times, as unpleasant as it’s getting. It richly deserves reader’s disgust, which is increasing. Krugman is getting stomach turning at this point, it's embarrassing---he's running away with his emotions. I'll try to keep my comments targeted to refute the Times nonsense with some contrasting facts and examples they ignore. We can't get too demoralized and furious, or we can’t do it any more---then the rw achieves its purposes. <br /> <br />I’m thinking that commenting to defy the powers that be now, is sort of like attending a street protest, say for Occupy or against police injustice---you go to just lend your body to the crowd, one small part of the bigger picture, you are there in order to swell the multitude, and register your input for the TV cameras, or for the Times and readers. We have to hold our nose and keep our heads. <br /><br />I think I'll read some Robert Reich and Bill Moyers, anyway.<br /><br /><br />Meredith NYCnoreply@blogger.com