"Mr. Obama is using his last 18 months to dictate U.S. energy choices for the next 20 or 30 years. This abuse of power is regulation without representation."
Chaffetz (one of our House reps) plz.
Heavily liked comment responding to one of Chaffetz's posts:
That's Racism Classic right there.
Chaffetz (one of our House reps) plz.
Heavily liked comment responding to one of Chaffetz's posts:
Tom Dillon: If the black people don't like us or our country they can go back to where they came and blame the black people who made them slaves and sold them to the white people for money for there own black greed.
That's Racism Classic right there.
One more day until the debates? Predictions? I'm thinking Trump does better than expected. I"m curious at the level of attack they each go on and how far right they're willing to go.
Also ... NeoGAF showed me what a sovereign citizen is. How do these people exist? I spent two hours last night not playing bloodborne looking at youtube videos of these jack asses getting smacked down. Anyone else know about this? I feel RLTTP.
Also ... NeoGAF showed me what a sovereign citizen is. How do these people exist? I spent two hours last night not playing bloodborne looking at youtube videos of these jack asses getting smacked down. Anyone else know about this? I feel RLTTP.
The GOP trying to defeat Trump by talking about the sexist implication of his comments is most likely the dumbest strategy I seen in a minute. The hypocrisy is standard political stuff, but this strategy misunderstands their base (who fucking hate "political correctness"/treating people with respect) and leaves them open to very justified attacks of just horrible comments they've made. GOP strategists seem desperate and confused right now.
Telling Megyn Kelly in so many words she's on the rag sure is worse than not allowing women to utilize health services or get an abortion if they're raped.
Are there any Republican women who are defending Megyn Kelley against Trump? I'm waiting for Anne Coulter to drop "The Bimbo deserved it" or some other vileness. Please note that Fox would not have gone after Trump if he had made a similar crack against Michelle Obama or Hilary Clinton. Hell, the audience loved it when he quipped about Rosie O'Donnell in the debate, because they probably hate or don't care about her.
Scott Walker says the plan to defeat racism is to ignore racism and he thinks transgender soldiers shouldn't serve in the military #WorsethanTrump
How the GOP Can Appeal To Women [The Onion]
*Make it clear that they think everyone, not just women, should receive less health care
*Offer direct, heartfelt apology to any female donors they may have offended
*Clarify that their war on women is really more of a limited-scale combat engagement on women
*Remind voters that they’ve been nothing but nice to their secretaries
*Redesign elephant mascot to feature wider hips and lush, batting eyelashes
*Simply repurpose time-tested GOP strategies for courting Hispanic, black, low-income, and millennial voters
*Deflect attention from party’s opinions on women by reminding voters they have dozens of other equally horrendous views
*Don’t lump all women into one category, but rather acknowledge female voters as individual baby-producing apparatuses
*Emphasize how cutting taxes for large corporations would benefit all women who happen to run large corporations
*Start search for presidential candidate over from scratch
By IWMTB19 Go To PostScott Walker says the plan to defeat racism is to ignore racism and he thinks transgender soldiers shouldn't serve in the military #WorsethanTrump
Trump just said he would take a look at PP and see what's good and bad today as well. Fund what works. IE. what we already have since PP abortions aren't federally funded. He's easily the least scary candidate for the GOP. Says Graham just wants to bomb stuff. Says walker can't fix his own steets etc etc.
What a world we live in.
Speaking of walker
http://www.salon.com/2015/08/11/scott_walker_is_americas_biggest_hypocrite_the_fiscal_conservative_is_giving_450_million_to_wealthy_sports_owners/
For the fucking Bucks.
http://www.salon.com/2015/08/11/scott_walker_is_americas_biggest_hypocrite_the_fiscal_conservative_is_giving_450_million_to_wealthy_sports_owners/
For the fucking Bucks.
By Fenderputty Go To PostTrump just said he would take a look at PP and see what's good and bad today as well. Fund what works. IE. what we already have since PP abortions aren't federally funded. He's easily the least scary candidate for the GOP. Says Graham just wants to bomb stuff. Says walker can't fix his own steets etc etc. What a world we live in.
Has Trump ever stopped a woman (in a vegetative state) from dying for years using unconstitutional laws and then investigating the husband who made the call as a murderer? I thought not, vote Jeb.
Jeb voluntarily talking about Iraq sure seems like a bad call, lol.
A good blurb on the meaning of Trump.
http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/2015/08/trump-candidate-of-truth.html
http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/2015/08/trump-candidate-of-truth.html
Donald Trump cuts through the ideological haze of American politics and exposes its underlying truth, the truth of enjoyment. Where other candidates appeal to a fictitious unity or pretense of moral integrity, he displays the power of inequality. Money buys access – why deny it? Money creates opportunity – for those who have it. Money lets those with a lot of it express their basest impulses and desires – there is no need to hide the dark drives when there is none before whom one might feel shame (we might call this the Berlusconi principle). It's the rest of us who bow down.
As Trump makes explicit the power of money in the contemporary US, he facilitates, stimulates, and circulates enjoyment (jouissance). Trump openly expresses the racism, sexism, contempt, and superiority that codes of civility and political correctness insist be repressed. This expression demonstrates the truth of economic inequality: civility is for the middle class, a normative container for the rage of the dispossessed and the contempt of the dispossessors. The .1 % need not pretend to care.
The freedom from civility, the privilege of enjoying superiority, incites different responses, all of which enable people to enjoy – get off on – this political round.
Some of the underpaid and exploited enjoy through Trump. Not only does he give them permission to express their racism, sexism, and hate, but they are already accustomed to imagining themselves with his power, firing and degrading a wide array of those with whom they disagree. His television shows taught them to do this, instilling in them practices of judgment and dismissal ready to move out of prime time and into the political sphere. Others like the way Trump's brutality, his directness, unsettles and disrupts the branded lies that are the mainstream parties. He's going to screw the same folks who screwed them. The more Trump calls women 'slobs,' 'dogs,' and 'pigs,' the more they (a 'they' which may include some women) like it. The more incendiary his racism, the better. Trump's not afraid to back down – he's not even angry. It's just good business, good sense, a fact. An American id, Trump affirms the obscene impulses it's just too much effort to continue to repress.
Liberals enjoy their outrage. Here Trump confirms for them their rightness in despising the Republican base, itself only seldom anything other than their own disgust with the working class. As they use Trump as a catalyst for their own good feeling, liberals repeat his practices of contempt in another register. Not only is he a candidate they can enjoy hating but he enables them to extend their hate to all the non-millionaires supporting Trump: they really must be idiots.
In a plutocracy, the plutocrats rule. The Republicans don't like Trump because he doesn't hide this point under flag and fetus. For him, flag and fetus are present, but incidental to his politics of truth. Those with money win. Those without it lose. Winners get to do whatever they want. Losers get done to. Trump unleashes the drives US electoral politics more typically attempts to channel along set scripts. This is his politics of enjoyment.
Eh. I got only so much time for representing people's anger and sadness as an enjoyment they are too callow or contorted to acknowledge as such. And that kinda cynically-inflected dialectical-thinking-on-a-roll disappears - violently digs its way - up its own arse after a point.
By dark_prinny Go To PostAfter Reagan, all went downhill.No lies detected.
GOP isn't doing anything as a collective---that was proven once everybody with any kind of name ran for the presidency over there
I was pleasantly surprised by Kasich--enough so that I want to look into his record a bit
I was pleasantly surprised by Kasich--enough so that I want to look into his record a bit
By S@l Go To PostEh. I got only so much time for representing people's anger and sadness as an enjoyment they are too callow or contorted to acknowledge as such. And that kinda cynically-inflected dialectical-thinking-on-a-roll disappears - violently digs its way - up its own arse after a point.
I'm not sure where you feel the text is celebrating the phenomenon. The text is written from a militant point of view.
I wrote the following text a few months ago, sharing it some with American Leftists, as my language and references show. It's called "What Bernie Sanders can learn from François Hollande" (what not to do, in truth). I think it could be nice to share it here. My point is to say to be wary of the way Sanders has been saying "we need to be more like Sweden". I believe it is not enough, and I wanted to remind people of the state of the European Left.
The Presidential race has barely started and already Bernie Sanders' candidacy has been preempted by the words of the Centrist gospel: realism dictates Clinton's upcoming victory. Very much aware of the potency of such a message carried by a more powerful opponent, Sanders has to some extent acknowledged that the point of his campaign will be to speak the truth, promote ideas, and provide balance to the eventual platform of the winner by showing that there are votes from the Left to be fought for.
Slightly more optimistic commentators have argued that Sanders' greatest success will be to invite Americans into a supposedly vibrant Social-Democratic imagination, which Europeans have indulged in for a long time. On Jacobin's website, Bhaskar Sunkara argued that the candidacy should be welcomed with the hope that it reflects an acceptation of socialism as a useful hypothesis, albeit only as a label and not a systemic change. To summarize, in various ways, Sanders' job is to move the center of the public debate leftward. Let's go beyond the prospect of incremental progress in American political culture, and entertain for one moment what forces could be at stake if a Social-Democratic sensibility became a player in American politics, by drawing the lessons of a Socialist-in-name victory in another context, France.
Three years ago, the French Socialist Party won elections that granted them control of both Executive and Legislative powers. François Hollande became the country's first Left-wing President since another François, Mitterrand, who left office in 1995. Drawing inspiration from his spiritual father who won in 1981 on a platform that had anti-capitalist overtones, Hollande famously declared "my enemy is finance" at a turning-point in the campaign against his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy. And very much like his forefather did a few years after being elected, Hollande since then has shown little consideration for his electorate's aspirations.
François Hollande himself has very little advice to give that Sanders would like to hear. The Socialist government offered tens of billions of euros in tax relief to corporations, financing it by partly defunding some public services. It followed principles of austerity policies, reducing spending, and thus hopelessly waiting for investors to redistribute their tax cuts in the form of employment in a context of stagnation. It attacked various workers' protection, such as the number of Sundays an employer can ask an employee to work, or how easy it is to fire one, using Civil law to replace Labor law. An environmental activist was killed by the police. The Ministry of Budget was caught guilty of tax evasion. Since February, Hollande helped the sale of 84 war planes for the benefit of Dassault Aviation to Egypt, India and Qatar.
On the European stage, France, alongside Germany, has imposed to Greece the impossible task of reimbursing 200% of its yearly Gross Domestic Product in a radically short period of time, effectively gutting its public sector. As Thomas Piketty aptly pointed out recently, the dominant countries of the Eurozone even made money out of the Greek debt, borrowing at a 1% rate before lending it to Greece at rates closer to 5%. Also, Hollande (and Matteo Renzi in Italy) supported Jean-Claude Juncker, the Conservative politician from Luxemburg who designed tax avoidance deals for megacorporations doing business in Europe, at the head of the European Commission.
Finance has suffered no blow, and by the own admission of the youngest and said-to-be brightest minister of the current administration, Emmanuel Macron, the understanding of socialism the government believes in is a philosophy that favors the use of private contracts over public laws. Ideologically, modern European social-democracy is not much else than a return to musty principles of classical Liberalism. Politically, social-democracy is a choice of slowly, rather than rapidly, participating in a world race to the bottom of workers' interests.
Arguably, Americans have been participants in a similar story in 1992 and 2008 when great transformational hope nurtured by Progressives was followed by a sense that governments always favor the powerful in proximity rather than the distant resourceless. The seizure of power by a new leadership, no matter its ideas, is insufficient, especially parties which are built around self-serving short-term campaigning, not so much into involving its members in a grander project.
One of the most seductive qualities of Sanders is his willingness to think outside of the box, and hearing talks about the Scandinavian model is refreshing. Truth is, Social-Democrats are not doing so hot there either. In Finland, they are governing alongside free-market Conservatives. In Denmark, they reduced social safety nets, to the satisfaction of Right-wing moralists, but not even of business which has known little to zero growth. In Sweden, they applied reforms similar to those of François Hollande, before losing power in 2006. If Europe is appealing to American Leftists, the discrepancy in starting points when it comes to a more humane society owes more to a history of struggles than it does to the minds of Center-Left experts.
Liberals like to believe that successful reformism happens in a configuration in which the right social movement meets the right leadership, but electoral cycles end up taking most if not all of their time and their financial investment. They make the mistake of letting movements develop spontaneously while they craft electoral strategies with incredible application, when in truth what should be done is exactly the contrary, let the electoral process develop spontaneously, and spend more time innovating in regards to grassroots' activism.
The various tendencies sympathetic towards the premise of Harringtonian Socialism, calling for the subversion of the Democratic Party from within, have been more balanced in their approach, stressing the defense of the Labor movement, but the Democrats they support have failed to pass legislation that would create more favorable conditions towards work-place militancy.
In a context where bipartisan lawmaking in Washington is more and more a pointless prospect, it is time to ask not what laws can be drafted to change game rules, but to address the public at large by telling people only they can forcefully defend themselves. To illustrate such a point, the gravity of the crisis in Baltimore, and the intensity of the protest, following the death of Freddie Gray prompted the State attorney to prosecute the cops involved. It did not happen in New York following the death of Eric Garner, where protests had not yet reached such levels. All Leftist political leaders ought to remember they have to do more than articulate legitimate demands with the political process, they ought to remind people that, as the anthem says, no tribune can be a supreme savior.
Drawing one last lesson from French history, following the general strike of May 68, it should be noted that it was De Gaulle, the Right-wing President, who raised wages by 33%, because he was willing to take that bargain rather than risk a revolution. In the following years, in spite of the tremendous rebound of Left-wing politics, it was a Center-Right politician, Valéry Giscard D'Estaing, who won the elections in 1974 and implemented progressive reforms: unemployment benefits were created, retirement age was lowered down to 60, the right to divorce by mutual consent passed, so did the right to abort, among other things. The deciding force behind such change was not that the electoral casting-call was correct, but that no politician could be successful in the 1970s if it did not listen to the aspirations of the many social movements at play. It is under the same logic that many American Republicans used to be thought of as pro-Labor in a now remote past. In a more favorable future, it would not be the sophistication of libertarian ideas that would prevent that from happening again, were Labor to gain back its rank-and-file membership in one shape or another.
Thus, the question is not how the Labor movement and progressive organizations can help Sanders' campaign in support of a politics of collectiv-ish ideals, but how Sanders can use his opportunity to tell voters to do more than rally behind his voice. How many Ralph Nader voters who wanted a way out of the two-party system eventually got involved in longlasting activism after the elections? The truly meaningful way to measure Sanders' contribution to improving the lives of the oppressed and the exploited will not lie in how Clinton's declarations fluctuate because of opportunistic calculations. It will be in so far it helped the construction or reconstruction of the social Left, by defending the necessity of joining unions and movements such as Black Lives Matter. A truthful campaign would not only answer the question of what should be done, but also how.
This will be no campaign about socialism, but that aspect is okay. In the struggle against exploitation, there is no right model for Statesmen to copy from the top-down. There is sometimes a world of difference between a thing and its name, as the history of pseudo-socialism has tragically displayed. There is no denying Sanders' sincerity, but the core message he should carry is a counter-intuitive one he will probably avoid: it is not time to simply vote for the right ideas or demands, it is time to mobilize and play the long game, getting working-class people to organize, slowly building new institutions where power will truly reside.
By Dipro Go To Postlil'B supports Sanders now, RIP Hillaryhe didn't curse her thohttps://youtu.be/Gh_pS8PW2SM?t=146
"Can somebody... PLEASE... get Ja Rule so I can make sense of all of this..."
But Lil' B is saying some good stuff in that short bit.
By Gabyskra Go To PostI'm not sure where you feel the text is celebrating the phenomenon. The text is written from a militant point of view.
I'm not saying it's celebratory. I just think it's excessively, almost dogmatically on the hunt for ulteriority.
i did the test on isidewith.com and it told me my candidate is Bernie Sanders at 90% followed by Bill's wife
but if i was american i'd vote for Trump
point is, don't trust that site
but if i was american i'd vote for Trump
point is, don't trust that site
Lefties seem to be enjoying this Trump nonsense because they think they're watching the right implode, but I think we should actually be scared that this isn't a fluke and that this unqualified fucknut will end up neck and neck with Hillary in the general election. This man is being rewarded for his outlandish bigoted fuckery every step of the way and people are setting their DVR's to it as if the fate of the country isn't actually at stake. I don't trust voters to do the right thing and I don't believe in the system and I'm horrified at the possibility that what little progress was made in the last six years is a clown show away from vanishing.
By JayEleven Go To PostLefties seem to be enjoying this Trump nonsense because they think they're watching the right implode, but I think we should actually be scared that this isn't a fluke and that this unqualified fucknut will end up neck and neck with Hillary in the general election. This man is being rewarded for his outlandish bigoted fuckery every step of the way and people are setting their DVR's to it as if the fate of the country isn't actually at stake. I don't trust voters to do the right thing and I don't believe in the system and I'm horrified at the possibility that what little progress was made in the last six years is a clown show away from vanishing.
Scott Walker dropped out of college with a 2.6 GPA, thinks taking out English teachers is good preparation for ISIS, thinks legal immigration should be stopped, thinks the ban on transgender soldiers should be continued, thinks Reagan would have done a better job with the Iran deal, said that ignoring racists murdering black people is the best solution to the problem to avoid "escalation," thinks rape victims shouldn't be able to get abortions, throws out birther and "gays are child molesters" dogwhistles frequently, got married on Reagan's birthday and eats all of Reagan's favorite foods on his anniversary, makes Warring G. Harding blush with regards to his corruption... There are plenty of chucklefucks running in the GOP party to be scared of winning an election (Jeb! literally talked about Iraq War 3 yesterday!), Trump is the just the most fun of the chucklefucks.
I'd feel better about it if they were all polling more evenly and not pulling in 26 million viewers on Fox news. The longer this goes on, the less funny it is.
Trumps actual state polling is trash though. He currently doesn't have a path to the nomination, much less the presidency.
By JayEleven Go To PostLefties seem to be enjoying this Trump nonsense because they think they're watching the right implode, but I think we should actually be scared that this isn't a fluke and that this unqualified fucknut will end up neck and neck with Hillary in the general election. This man is being rewarded for his outlandish bigoted fuckery every step of the way and people are setting their DVR's to it as if the fate of the country isn't actually at stake. I don't trust voters to do the right thing and I don't believe in the system and I'm horrified at the possibility that what little progress was made in the last six years is a clown show away from vanishing.
I would say what you denounce is a Clinton supporter point of view, centrists love that kind of strategy.
The issue with the Republicans is that they're driving everyone to the Right. They're changing what's considered center. The whole realpolitik credo of weakening your enemy so you have an easier time fails to capture the fact that it might impact your own agenda.
In France, the Left somewhat helped the far-Right in the 1980s get a headstart in order to beat the Right. Guess where we're at right now? Anti-immigrant sensibility is stronger than ever, and all governments, Right and Left, have anti-immigrant policies...
Also, say a fascist takes power through elections, you don't just back off and accept the result, waiting it out. You protest and more. Don't just say it is dangerous because you can only vote and do nothing. You can do more, politics is not just at the voting booth.
I love Trump's strategy he's peddling to the auto manufacturing sector in the midwest: Let's shut down those plants in Mexico and bring them back to the US! But this time, you'll be making the same $8-9 per hour as the Mexicans are.
By reilo Go To PostI love Trump's strategy he's peddling to the auto manufacturing sector in the midwest: Let's shut down those plants in Mexico and bring them back to the US! But this time, you'll be making the same $8-9 per hour as the Mexicans are.
On the topic, many United Auto Workers locals are supporting Sanders. I expect the union as a whole and the AFL-CIO to support Clinton though, they'd rather buy influence on the likeliest winner than play the ideological game with Sanders. But it's still up in the air for now.
http://seaweedtheanarchist.tumblr.com/post/126657512424/what-about-bernie-sanders-do-you-not-like
My friend just linked me to that and we had a good laugh about it. Also, note that the blog owner is an anarchist AND communist. Derp.
My friend just linked me to that and we had a good laugh about it. Also, note that the blog owner is an anarchist AND communist. Derp.
^........The thing that gets me is the responses to the post, some going full on "Fuck Voting"
Also, thoughts on The BLM movement appearing at the Sanders event? And Lil B appearing on CNN?
Heres an article about the BLM @ Sanders rally for those interested
Also, thoughts on The BLM movement appearing at the Sanders event? And Lil B appearing on CNN?
Heres an article about the BLM @ Sanders rally for those interested
By reilo Go To PostMy friend just linked me to that and we had a good laugh about it. Also, note that the blog owner is an anarchist AND communist. Derp.
That's an old tradition, since the french revolution. The first International of workers had both anarchists and communists together (Marx and Bakunin). Kropotkin, Daniel Guerin, the anti-fascists in Spain... Of course it's an oddity in the US but when you think of the IWW or the CIO before the 1950s, it was definitely part of the political spectrum...
I would definitely agree that Sanders is bad on immigration and is for a flavor of socialism that is "top-down"... Of course such a stance is unreadable and far-leftists tend to cultivate a culture that is hard to understand and sectarian, but if translating some concerns would be of interest, I could.
By MagusKen Go To Post^……..The thing that gets me is the responses to the post, some going full on "Fuck Voting"I think those people are a perfect example of smart-dumb. Just fucking idiotic imo
Also, thoughts on The BLM movement appearing at the Sanders event? And Lil B appearing on CNN?
Heres an article about the BLM @ Sanders rally for those interested
By DY_nasty Go To PostI think those people are a perfect example of smart-dumb. Just fucking idiotic imo
How so?
By MagusKen Go To PostHow so?
I get some of the protests for the Bernie rallies in that, targeting republicans is a giant waste of fucking time. (see Jeb Bush rally and his comments about upward mobility) The movement isn't organized though and each Bernie protest has felt different. This recent one felt misguided. The girl, pictured in the artcle, wouldn't let him speak and accused the crowd of being white supremacists. The girl is a Sarah Palin fan who did this as well. A bunch of the BLM issues are things Bernie supports too. I heard nothing but negativity regarding BLM for days after this specific event. Not the others.
IMO a lot of the current racial tension is the country is due to continued economic warfare. Police brutality is fucked. Body cameras are just a band aid though. Poorer communities of color need to be lifted economically so that cops aren't patrolling their neighborhoods all the time. Drug laws need to be drastically changed. Rules surrounding drugs need to be changed. Like no college grants for those convicted.
Racism and economics in the country have gone hand in hand since slavery.
I HOPE, the movement doesn't die off like OWS did. OWS was another movement I felt had merit but was misguided and eventually attacked because of it. Agitiprop is being used as a substitute for real organization in both instances.
I think BLM has made major progress with Bernie so I don't think their efforts were dumb at all. They worked very well. Sometimes yelling can seem counterproductive, but actually is productive.
Also, Scott Walker is in total desperation mode and seems terrified of Trump. He's presenting himself as the far more racist, sexist, union hating, education hating version of Trump now, but I can't see how this is going to work. Trump doesn't back away from anything and has incredible force of personality that makes up for how dumb his policy recs are. Walker runs away from every question (even on the theory of evolution!) and has the personality of dry white toast. This is going to be like Rick Perry putting on glasses.
Also, Scott Walker is in total desperation mode and seems terrified of Trump. He's presenting himself as the far more racist, sexist, union hating, education hating version of Trump now, but I can't see how this is going to work. Trump doesn't back away from anything and has incredible force of personality that makes up for how dumb his policy recs are. Walker runs away from every question (even on the theory of evolution!) and has the personality of dry white toast. This is going to be like Rick Perry putting on glasses.
I have no real problem with Bernie except that he's unelectable and wouldn't actually be able to get anything done.
By Fenderputty Go To PostBernie Sanders stans on GAF are going to make me hate Bernie in an irrational kinda way.
Trump fanboys are hilarious though, such thin skin, lol.
By Fenderputty Go To PostBernie Sanders stans on GAF are going to make me hate Bernie in an irrational kinda way.
They're the Radiohead stans of election politics. Swear to God.
By Fenderputty Go To PostBernie Sanders stans on GAF are going to make me hate Bernie in an irrational kinda way.
Those Bernie stans that ate up that Breitbart report slandering Shaun King are the worst though, holy fuck.
By IWMTB19 Go To PostThose Bernie stans that ate up that Breitbart report slandering Shaun King are the worst though, holy fuck.
I read the thread but missed that. I'm glad. Im currently impressed with how they're trying to shit on Clinton for the tough on crime stuff which Sandwrs voted yes on.
Then when they get called on it, they say he spoke against it. Which ultimately meant nothing but rather shows he's willing to toe party line when they think he's some anti eatablisent liberal rebel.
Well, it is telling and important that lots of Americans want to protest against the establishment, through an option they think is the best, no matter how truthful that is. I believe a sizeable portion of the population wants big time change, and realize Clinton won't do it with her Wall Street ties. Sadly, people believe in saviors, but that's in the culture. What will matter is movement-building.
I heard an interview with the BLM lady from the Seattle Sanders shutdown. Her parents are Tea Partiers and she disagrees with their politics. Also, she wore that Sarah Palin button when she was with her parents at a rally, At that time, she would have been around 16 years old. So...people change. Her politics /are/ guided by her evangelical Christianity, but you know, Christ tells her that Black Lives Matter.
Bernie Sanders needed BLM, because they forced him, as well as the rest of the Democratic front runners, to acknowledge that black people are getting gunned down in the streets and to make dealing with this part of their platforms. Argue all you want about their methods, the results are there.
People who believed Breitbart/Milo/Glenn Beck about the Shaun King situation should be ashamed of themselves. ASHAMED.
Also, Bernie Sanders fans are ignoring that he's an NRA supporter.
Bernie Sanders needed BLM, because they forced him, as well as the rest of the Democratic front runners, to acknowledge that black people are getting gunned down in the streets and to make dealing with this part of their platforms. Argue all you want about their methods, the results are there.
People who believed Breitbart/Milo/Glenn Beck about the Shaun King situation should be ashamed of themselves. ASHAMED.
Also, Bernie Sanders fans are ignoring that he's an NRA supporter.