Hillary's trust issue: breaking her commitment to debate not helping her
It’s widely reported that when Hillary wanted to add a debate with Bernie earlier in the primaries, when things weren’t going well, Bernie’s price she agreed to included a debate in California.The San...
View ArticleHillary's political challenges against trump
Democrats tend to think of the race as between a very experienced leader, Hillary, and a narcissitic amateur buffoon, trump. If the election had only Democrats vote, she’d win.Hillary supporters want...
View ArticleIf you missed it, the biggest military corruption scandal in decades
The company that has the most business servicing Navy ships in much of the world, owned by a Malaysian man, has been found to be massively corrupt and to have penetrated the US Navy heavily.Several...
View ArticleWe need fewer diaries about trump, and more diaries about trump voters
I know of thousands of terrible people.Neo-nazis. Klan members. People who use date rape drugs on women. ISIS supporters.Here’s something they all have in common: they’re bad, but they aren’t dangerous...
View ArticleWhy I am not planning to give Hillary any money against trump
This diary is not planning to say anything to attack Hillary.I’m a strong Bernie supporter. I think he has under a 1% chance of winning the nomination, and if she does I plan to vote for her and spend...
View ArticleThe most important election of the next decade, likely
No, not Hillary and trump.In 2010 a covert Republican effort to take state governments worked very well, with surprisingly few resources since state elections were not normally big money races. That...
View ArticleMan, I want Elizabeth Warren as president.
I just watched the latest speech of hers I’ve seen, to the American Constitutional Society.xYouTube VideoIt’s a great speech and I think we need a lot more attention to what she said about the...
View ArticleHistorical topic: The Reagan campaign's treasonous actions to get him elected
Republicans after Eisenhower just can’t seem to win the presidency without great wrongs.(Eisenhower won without scandal by him (Nixon, his VP, had the scandal), but wasted no time approving the...
View ArticleWhen black and blue is a good thing
It’s past time for Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter to ally.They’re both for the same thing ultimately: opposing innocent people being harmed. They’re just focused on different innocent...
View ArticleStates should adopt ranked voting
There is an issue with our two-party system. It prevents fair representation for voters with preference for third-party views.Libertarians have long said the two-party system doesn’t give them a fair...
View ArticleA historical note on the DNC leak CT
For a moment, imagine the worst conspiracy theory about the DNC leak — that not only is Putin behind it for the purpose of choosing our president, but that trump is behind the action of Putin.I post...
View ArticleA danger of trump I haven't seen discussed
Know how to move the Democratic Party to the right?Move the Republican Party to the extreme right.That’s how elections work. They’re about winning. Now, Democrats are pretty much ‘the left’ and...
View ArticleMomentum
I’ve been saying I think Hillary’s chances are very good — that I see almost all downside for trump, who would join him who already hasn’t, and people falling off as he looks worse and worse under...
View ArticleI'd like to see Hillary questioned on the history of Iraq Sanctions during...
(Edit: clarifying note, I’m asking about this policy as a US policy, and it'd be the same question had it been another president than Bill Clinton.As far as I know, Hillary had nothing to do with the...
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The ugly passing of the DARK bill on genetically modified food labelling
[Edit: the original graphic to the diary was a list of some concerns about GMO unrelated to the safety of GMO foods, to show some of the issues the votes are not being based on.It became clear the...
View ArticleEvery time trump is asked a question, it should be followed with, "was that...
I’ve lost count of how many times trump has thought he has a get out of jail free card by saying long after he tells a lie, that he was being sarcastic.The latest I just saw — now he’s saying it about...
View ArticleTimeless political and related quotes from Sinclair Lewis
I was looking up a quote and found a page of his quotes, and it’s remarkable how timeless so many of the political issues are.I think it’s a useful perspective to see these things said, many of which...
View ArticleLetter showing how the Republican Party has changed
I’d like to share this letter I received to raise money for turning the Senate Democratic — but it’s from a longtime Republican former Republican Congressman.We forget we used to have two parties that...
View ArticleOh, by the way, Brazil is having a coup-like impeachment to remove the...
Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky and others are calling attention to the coup-impeachment:www.commondreams.org/…The process is a legal impeachment. But observers say it’s a corrupt legislature using trumped...
View ArticleAmazon forums deleting posting histories
Amazon has forums, including a “politics” forum.Recently, they banned many users.The first ban duration is: permanent.That itself is quite wrong and not clearly stated in the rules, but there’s...
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