Dead campaign walking - Bernie is the only electable candidate we have

It's been brutal (though admittedly satisfying) to watch as Hillary murdered her campaign. From Ms Inevitability to Ms Go back home and take Bill with you. It had to happen though. Old school establishment politicians have had their way with us for long enough, way too damned long actually. We've taken all the fucking we're going to take from that crowd. The political class should just pack their shit and go home now.

She almost pulled it off. Despite herself. One wonders how she ever made it this far. Just grok the low lights:

War, war, everywhere war TPP as 'Gold Standard' Coddling billionaires Throwing people off welfare The craptastic gift of worldwide fracking Exporting jobs thru NAFTA, TPP and similar neoliberal policies/abominations BFF to Wall Street and Bankster Gangsters ‘You can never change hearts and minds’ ‘We have to move to the center’ Watered down or fake progress, if any at all The public and seemingly unembarrassed embrace of heinous war criminals

I mean, seriously:

The Clintons lamely invoke misogyny to counter the contempt that Hillary is finding out there in the hinterlands. There is no doubt a certain amount of that aimed at her, misogyny still being a huge problem, and that is regrettable, shameful and unfair. But most of the contempt, I am personally convinced, has more to do with other unrelated matters. Like history.

The Clintons have cruised by on celebrity for so long that they can't even look back and see where it was that they lost touch. Somewhere decades ago in Arkansas, I'd guess.

In the shallow subculture the Clintons run in, the Davos divas, the private jet/gold-plated yacht set, the billionaire hollow-men, memories are short and the most monstrous acts blithely forgiven.

The 1% have tried their best to cover their asses and make America (and the world) into a safe zone for predatory capitalism and billionaire narcissism. They've used their control of the media and politicians to turn us into a wafer-thin veneer of mindless consumption, bread & circuses, cheap plastic shit and onerous debt slavery. With all their dumbing-down, brainwashing, corrupting, coarsening and cheapening of everything till nothing is sacred, they have cursed us with the American junk culture the rest of us are condemned to swim in: the superficial, celebrity-driven, denial-based shit fest that fraudulently passes for a civilized society.

But there's a deeper society out there, one that still thinks for itself, one still capable of questioning the propaganda, one that hasn't drunk the Kool-Aid, one that's not dazzled and blinded by all the glitz, celebrity and high caliber bullshit – and they are pissed.

The upper classes act like they think we can't see them. They have gotten away with outrageous shit in broad daylight for so long that they've come to think they're invulnerable - that they'll never have to account for their hideous behavior, greed-besotted thievery or crimes against humanity.

No 'Artful Smear.' Clintons Paid $153 Million in Speaking Fees, Analysis Shows Thousands are calling for the public release of speech transcripts

There has been a lot of talk in recent weeks about the speaking fees paid to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and an analysis published Saturday sheds some light on exactly how much Wall Street and other major corporate powers ponied up for the former Secretary of State and her husband, President Bill Clinton.

$153 million, CNN concludes, is the amount the power couple raked in between February 2001 and the launch of Hillary Clinton's presidential bid in May 2015. What's more, the Clintons received an average pay of $210,795 for each of the 729 addresses given during that time period.

During Thursday's Democratic debate, Clinton accused her primary challenger Bernie Sanders of an "artful smear" because of his repeated references to her exorbitant speaking fees, particularly those paid by banking giants such as Goldman Sachs.

According to the analysis, Clinton collected at least $1.8 million for at least eight speeches given to big banks, while the pair earned a total of roughly $7.7 million for at least 39 speeches to Wall Street.

Clinton has glossed over the content of these speeches. When probed by the moderators during the MSNBC debate as to whether she'd release the transcripts, she said she'd "look into it."

But this is the part that should give every Clinton supporter pause, and not just pause but apoplexy: she is loved by neocons — ‘those who continually agitate for war.’

Robert Kagan Thinks America's Problem Is Too Little War

Now if that doesn't shake your windows and rattle your walls, I don't know what would.

Hillary Is the Candidate of the War Machine

There's no doubt that Hillary is the candidate of Wall Street. Even more dangerous, though, is that she is the candidate of the military-industrial complex. The idea that she is bad on the corporate issues but good on national security has it wrong. Her so-called foreign policy "experience" has been to support every war demanded by the US deep security state run by the military and the CIA.

Hillary is done.

Poll Shows Clinton, Sanders in Virtual Tie as 'Dems Nationwide Feel the Bern' Quinnipiac University National poll also shows Sanders beating Clinton in matchups against all Republican candidates.

Bernie came out of Iowa like a lion and we are now overtaking The Machine. Yay for Bernie and the restoration of our democracy! The little guys are going to win this thing. I couldn't be happier or more psyched.

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They have fooled so many for so long they think they'll get away with it forever.

The public embrace of the notorious war criminal, Henry fucking Kissinger is a bridge too far for any thinking and caring human being. The sheer arrogance, hypocrisy, hubris and disastrously poor judgment this displays is mind-boggling. Absolutely mind-boggling!

If voting for the Iraq War and the Patriot Act doesn't disqualify her from the presidency, this almost certainly will. Hillary Clinton Praises a Guy With Lots of Blood on His Hands In lauding Henry Kissinger, the possible Democratic presidential nominee goes far beyond her usual hawkish rhetoric.

Instead of giant heaping helpings of more of the same: blood, bombs & bullshit, and continued domination by the 1%, Bernie offers hope. And not that mythical kind ‘you can believe in’ — the real thing.

Under Sanders, income and jobs would soar, economist says Median income would soar by more than $22,000. Nearly 26 million jobs would be created. The unemployment rate would fall to 3.8%.

Those are just a few of the things that would happen if Bernie Sanders became president and his ambitious economic program were put into effect, according to an analysis given exclusively to CNNMoney. The first comprehensive look at the impact of all of Sanders' spending and tax proposals on the economy was done by Gerald Friedman, a University of Massachusetts Amherst economics professor.

Friedman found that if Sanders became president -- and was able to push his plan through Congress -- median household income would be $82,200 by 2026, far higher than the $59,300 projected by the Congressional Budget Office.

In addition, poverty would plummet to a record low 6%, as opposed to the CBO's forecast of 13.9%. The U.S. economy would grow by 5.3% per year, instead of 2.1%, and the nation's $1.3 trillion deficit would turn into a large surplus by Sanders' second term.

Related: 5 unanswered questions about Bernie Sanders' health care plan

This more sweeping analysis was not commissioned by the candidate, though Sanders' policy director called it "outstanding work." Friedman previously scored the Vermont senator's Medicare for all plan.

Sanders' plan to pour $14.5 trillion into the economy -- including spending on infrastructure and youth employment, increasing Social Security benefits, making college free and expanding health care and family leave -- would juice GDP and productivity. Also, he would raise the minimum wage, as well as shift income from the rich to the middle and working class through tax hikes on the wealthy and corporations.

"Like the New Deal of the 1930s, Senator Sanders' program is designed to do more than merely increase economic activity," Friedman writes. It will "promote a more just prosperity, broadly-based with a narrowing of economy inequality."

Any astute person must conclude that Clinton offers us nothing but more of what we’ve had way too fucking much of.

Dems, stop lying to yourselves about Hillary: Sure, she “gets s*** done” — atrocious s***, that is The argument that Clinton can navigate the nightmare of D.C. better than Bernie is simply wrong

What’s most troubling about the daily invective launched against supporters of Bernie Sanders isn’t that it is mostly wrong but that it functions to obscure a substantive, interesting and historic conflict over the future of the Democratic Party.

The smokescreen at its most basic level is that Hillary Clinton is a pragmatic realist who will be able to work with Republicans, while Bernie Sanders is an uncompromising idealist whose proposal for a socialist utopia is dead on arrival. There is not much explanation as to why Clinton is more likely to reach a compromise with a group of House Republicans led by a man who has consideredAyn Rand “required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff.” But never mind.

The next line of attacks is designed to put Sanders supporters back on their heels: Clinton is a realist, warts and all, because she is a woman: “YOU DON’T LIKE THAT SHE PLAYS THE GAME? THAT SHE HAS TIES TO THE ESTABLISHMENT? FOR ONE THING, THAT’S HOW SHIT FUCKING GETS DONE. FOR THE OTHER THING, THE BIGGEST THING, A WOMAN DOESN’T GET THE FUCKING OPTION *NOT* TO PLAY THE GAME.”

To recap, Clinton voted to invade Iraq, backed job-killing trade agreements, suggested that black women on welfare were “deadbeats” who were “sitting around the house doing nothing,” called for “more police” and “more prisons” and “more and tougher prison sentences for repeat offenders,” and bases not only her campaign finances but her entire social universe on and amid the superrich who she resides among in Westchester and the Hamptons — because she is a realist who can get things done.

A Hillary supporter made this comment to me yesterday:

Get off your high horse. Some times US interests requires condoning human rights abuses etc. It has happened many times before. This is the real world, realpolitik. US is not a country of saints.

My reply:

Yeah, fuck a bunch of human rights, right? People like you give America a bad name.

Enough! Enough with the naysayers, the faint-hearted and the half-assed. Enough with billionaires and warmongers. Enough with being brutally screwed by our so-called leaders. 

Feel the Bern, America! Dare to dream, America.

Dream Baby Dream

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