You just cannot make this shit up.
Fiction is as good as dead.
And so is the Democratic Party if it does not very soon get its head out its ass and move on from the last 18 years or so of neoconservatism-masquerading-as-neoliberalism and utter bureaucratic stupidity on the Debbie Wasserman Schultz level.
Read on.
Please.
Example #1:
Selina Vickers’s weekend trip to Rhode Island was as cheap as she could make it. She shelled out $143.60 for a plane ticket from West Virginia to Providence, where the Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws group was meeting.
She paid $68.07 for an Airbnb in Cranston, a short commute from Providence. Once there, Vickers did what she always did at DNC meetings — she took notes, recorded video and made sure that the party was committing to overhaul its primary rules.
A few days later, Vickers was accused of being a Russia-backed agent of chaos, working to destabilize the Democratic Party from within.
The DNC’s current argument over how to overhaul its primaries process, which has now lasted longer than the United States’ involvement in World War I¹, achieved a special kind of absurdity Monday when longtime DNC member Bob Mulholland asked whether Vickers’s appearances at meetings were paid for by Russians. Mulholland, who often cc’s reporters on his memos about the rules debate, speculated over the weekend that “someone is picking up her expenses” and that this was evidence that “the Putin operation is still active.”
Contacted first by HuffPost, then by The Washington Post, Mulholland conceded that he had no proof that Vickers was being funded by foreign operatives. (Vickers shared her receipts with The Post.) According to Mulholland, he noticed Vickers, neither a journalist nor a party official, and learned from her that she backed Jill Stein’s Green Party presidential bid in 2016.
“She was just a symbol, to me, of what has been happening,” Mulholland said. “What happened in California, over many years, is that there were stories of the Republican Party meeting with Green Party activists, paying their filing fees, and then these people discovering they were being put up as plants. I don’t know what Putin was doing with Jill Stein, but you have to consider that, too.”
Mulholland was referring to a 2015 dinner in Moscow that Stein attended, something Senate investigators looked into after beginning a probe of potential foreign involvement in the 2016 presidential election. Vickers, meanwhile, had no idea what Mulholland was talking about. She told him that she had cast a strategic vote for Stein because she lived in a surely red state and wanted the Mountain Party, a local Green Party affiliate, to keep its ballot access.
“I never told Mr. Mulholland that I was a member of the Green Party,” she said. “In fact, I’m a registered Democrat. I, along with millions of other Democrats, supported Senator Bernie Sanders for president. I had a choice of voting for Clinton, or writing in Bernie — which wouldn’t have done anything — or vote for Jill Stein.”
Vickers said that she also supported the Mountain Party’s candidate for governor over Jim Justice, the Democratic nominee that year who would end up switching to the Republican Party after nine months in office. Vickers ran for state representative as a Democrat this year, coming less than 100 votes away from securing a ballot slot.
At DNC meetings, Vickers represented a vocal and frustrated minority of Democratic activists who remained outraged that the Democratic Party had so many elected superdelegates and that in 2016 those superdelegates frequently voted en masse for Hillary Clinton in states where voters had backed Sanders (I-Vt.).
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“I get frustrated with some DNC members, and sometimes I think they really miss the mark on things, but I appreciate being able to talk to them in person,” Vickers said. “It has helped me personally. I was so frustrated with the superdelegate issue after the convention. Being able to go to the meetings and live-streaming them for others that can’t attend and talking to members about my concerns gives me a way to do something, rather than be at home, disconnected and powerless. I feel that my presence has a positive effect.”
Told about Vickers’s project and her budget-conscious effort to go to every meeting, Mulholland had more questions.
“That convinces me that somebody’s picking up her tab,” he said. “Look: I worked for Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda for 15 years, and in 1977, we got 18,000 pages from the FBI through the Freedom of Information Act. And a lot of people who worked for the antiwar movement were working for the FBI. So I’m always skeptical of these people whose agenda is not in the Democratic Party’s interest.”
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The Providence meeting did not settle the question of superdelegates. The deal crafted in 2016 requires a final decision on superdelegates to be made by June 30; DNC Rules and Bylaws members are likely to make a final recommendation after a conference call, which has yet to be scheduled. The full package will then be adopted and explained in August, when the full DNC meets.
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¹ The United States entered World War I in April 1917 and stayed involved until the surrender of Germany, 584 days later. The DNC’s Unity Reform Commission was created at the party’s 2016 convention in Philadelphia, 689 days ago.
And example #2:
Trump warns voters not to underestimate Corey Stewart
President Donald Trump on Wednesday praised Republican Corey Stewart for advancing through the GOP primary in Virginia, saying that voters shouldn’t “underestimate” the controversial Stewart while labeling Democratic incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine “a total stiff.”
The conservative Stewart has pushed a vehemently anti-immigration stance, has defended confederate civil war monuments and displayed the confederate flag at events.
“Congratulations to Corey Stewart for his great victory for Senator from Virginia. Now he runs against a total stiff, Tim Kaine, who is weak on crime and borders, and wants to raise your taxes through the roof. Don’t underestimate Corey, a major chance of winning!” the president tweeted early Wednesday morning after he landed at Andrews Air Force Base from his trip to Singapore to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
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The connection?
Simple.
Trump won the Republican nomination by calling people derogatory names. Why? Because most of them were easily identifiable assholes, that’s why, so in a very understandable way many, many fairly simple-minded people resonated with that tactic.
He has continued in that vein, including calling Tim Kaine a stiff. Kaine is a stiff. Deal with it. The Dems have as many stiffs to bully and insult as do the Republicans, and Trump damned well knows it. And saying that voters shouldn’t underestimate Stewart ? He is right again. Why? Because he is talking to potential Stewart voters/proven Trump voters.
Preaching to the choir.
Riling them up so that they will go to the polls and vote for Stewart.
Duh.
It worked once…more than once, considering his ongoing survival as preznit in the face of the largest shitstorm of media opposition in the worldwide history of “media” itself…and it’s going continue to succeed unless The Dems get their act together.
Quickly
Hey, look around. It’s 2018 and there is no sure thing in the coming elections. Considering the utter evilness and banality of this man and his entire past plus the media war against him, you would think that an opposition party would be charging into 2018 with guns blazing.
But NOOOOoooo…
The “new” DNC is acting just like the old one.
Sigh…
Add to that the enormous vote of confidence that he is getting from the clickbait media…a sort of profit-mandated conditional surrender, actually…for his little North Korea show, and what do you have?
You have trouble with a capital T, and that stands for Trump.
When the RussiaGate business gets so absurd that a longtime (read “fairly powerful”) DNC member accuses a Sanders supporter who takes notes at its meetings, acting as a sort of amateur watchdog while the decidedly neocentrist DNC huffs and puffs its way through trying to look like it is being fair to more leftist members of the party while actually doing as little as possible for the longest amount of time possible, hoping that the Sanders thing will just quietly go away?
Please!!!
Time for a new script!!!
Fire the director and scriptwriter!!!
This movie is looking just like a sequel to the one produced in 2016.
Trumpland followed by Trumpland Redux.
Nice.
You been had.
WTFU.
Later…
AG
P.S. A group…perhaps better, a cadre…of people on this site have tried everything in their power to discourage criticism of the Democratic Party as it stands today. They automatically downrate such posts and have endlessly attacked several posters as liars, pro-Trump trolls and/or spreaders of Russian propaganda. When effectively rebutted, they simply ignore the rebuttal and repeat the same attacks. This tactic is intended to exhaust the patience of the attacked posters and discourage others from reading or posting similar material. It has worked on a few posters, who have simply given up. It has not worked on me. I initially answered their attacks with attempts at reason. After realizing that this was a total waste of time, I simply stopped replying to them. My comments and articles on this site are my replies. Read what I have to say; consider what they have to say and how it is said, and then make up your own minds. Thank you-AG