Re: 2016 Presidential Election
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 6:25 am
Old California joke
Q. What's the best thing about Fresno?
A. It's not Bakersfield.
Q. What's the best thing about Fresno?
A. It's not Bakersfield.
What you don't know can't hurt them.
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What part of my posting history makes it seem like I am only civically active once every four years? I'm helping build a coalition of the left with a 40 year plan to build people power. We're five years in.seemslikeadream » Wed Oct 05, 2016 4:07 pm wrote:where did you get that idea...I would never throw my vote away...just to make me feel good ...I would never take the easy way out just to clear my conscience ...it doesn't work that way ..I just don't show up once every 4 years and "do my part"
how much time have you spent on your local elections?
how much time have you spent with the Green Party?
Luther Blissett » Wed Oct 05, 2016 4:05 pm wrote:I'm overjoyed to hear that you're voting Stein.seemslikeadream » Wed Oct 05, 2016 3:54 pm wrote:Tammy Duckworth and Russ Feingold are going to be elected....yes voting does make a difference
to real ordinary people ..living real ordinary lives.......parents trying to raise decent human beings ..it makes a difference
if Illinois and Wisconsin citizens didn't vote Illinois and Wisconsin would look like Kansas
well we all are involve in stuff no one knows about here...so I am sorry that I did not know what you were doing...how was I supposed to know that?Luther Blissett » Mon Oct 10, 2016 9:24 am wrote:What part of my posting history makes it seem like I am only civically active once every four years? I'm helping build a coalition of the left with a 40 year plan to build people power. We're five years in.seemslikeadream » Wed Oct 05, 2016 4:07 pm wrote:where did you get that idea...I would never throw my vote away...just to make me feel good ...I would never take the easy way out just to clear my conscience ...it doesn't work that way ..I just don't show up once every 4 years and "do my part"
how much time have you spent on your local elections?
how much time have you spent with the Green Party?
Luther Blissett » Wed Oct 05, 2016 4:05 pm wrote:I'm overjoyed to hear that you're voting Stein.seemslikeadream » Wed Oct 05, 2016 3:54 pm wrote:Tammy Duckworth and Russ Feingold are going to be elected....yes voting does make a difference
to real ordinary people ..living real ordinary lives.......parents trying to raise decent human beings ..it makes a difference
if Illinois and Wisconsin citizens didn't vote Illinois and Wisconsin would look like Kansas
Especially given that Citizens United gives Wall Street and the corporatocracy a direct path for buying and installing politicians? Yes I've been involved in the Green Party, and proudly voted for a woman president in 2012 in protest of the murder of 16-year old American child Abdulrahman al-Awlaki by the U.S. government, amongst other crimes. But nowhere near as much as I've been involved in organizing, coalition building, protest, art, civil disobedience, and disruption.
How are we going to be able to fight Clinton and make her administration more humanitarian? Most of her supporters do not seem very interested in black lives, indigenous lives, the health of our air, water, and soil, or the lives of non-American women and children. I don't see holding the Democrats' feet to the fire without insurrection, but I do feel rumblings from the Occupy / Black Lives Matter / Sacred Stone Camp / former Sanders supporters cadres. After learning that an Ojibwe friend is at Sacred Stone Camp just yesterday morning I had to watch Clinton give praise to that industry in the debates.
seemslikeadream » Tue Sep 27, 2016 5:23 pm wrote:You might want to look into this Nordic.....that's me and Cynthia McKinney at the Green Party Convention ...you have no idea who you are talking to...so quit fucking judging me....YOU have NO idea...period
I have an idea, SLAD, that you are suddenly flooding the board with new threads and all existing threads with endless repetitions of low-grade Brock-style talking points. And I have no idea what you think this accomplishes on R.I., other than general annoyance.
I shall address one only: Bill Clinton is absolutely fair game. HRC has touted him as her most important economic advisor in the coming administration. He is out there every day campaigning as a surrogate, doing so as former President Clinton and not simply as the supporting husband. HRC played a key and active role in his administration and his campaigns. She constantly harkens back to his era as the golden age she intends to restore, with his help, and she did so again at the debate yesterday. Of course he and his character and his alleged sex crimes are all fair game. For acceptable, political reasons. The same is true of, say, HRC's announced mentor, Kissinger. Or her embrace of endorsements from the Bush regime's fugitive war criminals, including Negroponte and Rice.
Anyway, obviously Trump must be kept out. Fascism is no solution. So instead of wasting your time here, why don't you take these particular efforts to places where you might sway some undecideds or Republicans not to vote for him?
Hint: There as well, negativity about him will work a lot better, because it is true, than bullshit purporting to show why Clinton is a wonderful person who loves children, etc. etc. See your candidate's campaign for tips: It's always hit Trump, hit Trump, hit Trump, and hell rightly so; then, maybe, she trots out the bullshit to take credit for S-Chip and how she helped children a million years ago, or how she heroically rebuilt New York after 9/11.
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Not just here but everywhere even irl. Let's just get along.Agent Orange Cooper » Mon Oct 10, 2016 12:52 pm wrote:this election has turned everyone into blithering idiots
That's too bad. I'm just giving you some friendly advice on how to be more effective, if supporting Clinton is now your thing.seemslikeadream » Mon Oct 10, 2016 4:23 pm wrote:go ahead your choice
I ain't leaving or am I going to stop posting
I have an idea ...leave me alone
2 fucking threads Jack.....2 fucking threads
NOT FUCKING flooding the board
so tell it to the hand
Bill Clinton is absolutely fair game. HRC has touted him as her most important economic advisor in the coming administration. He is out there every day campaigning as a surrogate, doing so as former President Clinton and not simply as the supporting husband. HRC played a key and active role in his administration and his campaigns. She constantly harkens back to his era as the golden age she intends to restore, with his help, and she did so again at the debate yesterday. Of course he and his character and his alleged sex crimes are all fair game. For acceptable, political reasons. The same is true of, say, HRC's announced mentor, Kissinger. Or her embrace of endorsements from the Bush regime's fugitive war criminals, including Negroponte and Rice.
Anyway, obviously Trump must be kept out. Fascism is no solution. So instead of wasting your time here, why don't you take these particular efforts to places where you might sway some undecideds or Republicans not to vote for him?
Hint: There as well, negativity about him will work a lot better, because it is true, than bullshit purporting to show why Clinton is a wonderful person who loves children, etc. etc. See your candidate's campaign for tips: It's always hit Trump, hit Trump, hit Trump, and hell rightly so; then, maybe, she trots out the bullshit to take credit for S-Chip and how she helped children a million years ago, or how she heroically rebuilt New York after 9/11.
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yes, by everyone I do mean everyone. myself included.82_28 » Mon Oct 10, 2016 2:34 pm wrote:Not just here but everywhere even irl. Let's just get along.Agent Orange Cooper » Mon Oct 10, 2016 12:52 pm wrote:this election has turned everyone into blithering idiots