George Takei: Vote blue no matter who

[Amimnoch]

I absolutely love the way he speaks.

[scscholar]

1. Star Trek was great...

but that was almost fifty years ago! He's just milking it now.

[Amimnoch]

7. Hmm, isn't that about how long ago Bernie's

Civil right's activism was?

Interesting.

[scscholar]

9. I think I just got Berned

[Amimnoch]

10. Nah not really.

Just a jest. I actually hold him in very high esteem for his early activism, and would never seriously denigrate it.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. Huh? Asshole thing to say about the great Takei

[Biaviians]

2. George I love you and Brad but absolutely not.

[840high]

3. .+1

[OnyxCollie]

19. Voting blue got internment camps.

Identity politics FAIL.

[Buzz cook]

21. You do know that

George Takei was in an interment camp?

Your comment is a joke in very poor taste..

[OnyxCollie]

25. It's not a joke.

"Voting blue" meant voting for anti-Asian planks in the Democratic platform. (Anti-Asian sentiment was expressed by both parties, actually.) When the Japanese were interned, the White House and both houses of Congress were "blue."

Japanese Americans wouldn't have the chance to "vote blue" until 1952.

The internment was no more a military necessity than the threat of Saddam's WMD. What was a threat was the Japanese's skill in farming; wages for Japanese workers were creeping up on the wages for Caucasian workers.

Once the Japanese were interned, farm corporations struck a deal with the government to harvest the crops in the field; dummy corporations would be subsidized by the government to spare the farm corps from any risk. These dummy corporations would then sell back to the farm corporations at a very low price. Any other expenses encountered would be billed to the Japanese. (Farm corporations had liens against the crops, a consequence of the Japanese suffering decades of legislative hurdles to make their living expenses very costly.)

The congressional report, Personal Justice Denied, explained the internment as war-mongering racists gone wild, with a failure of everyone to stop them.

Oops! Our bad. These things happen.

No mention of the objective monetary incentives received by farm corporations (Financial loss to the Japanese was estimated to be between $800 million and $2 billion in 1983 dollars.)

Simply "voting blue" because they're "the good guys" is a joke in very poor taste.

[Buzz cook]

28. Yes a bad joke

Which party wants internment camps? If you say democratic you're just a troll.

[OnyxCollie]

29. Which party *had* internment camps?

If you can't say Democratic, you're just a liar.

[Buzz cook]

30. "Had" spanky

You're just like the idiots that say the democratic party "is" the party of the KKK.

Sorry time passes on, believe it or not it's no longer the 1940s

[OnyxCollie]

31. You missed the point, genius.

It wasn't about race, it was about economic exploitation. Race was the excuse given to the rubes who might not approve of an illegal and unconstitutional power grab by the government on behalf of big corporations.

We're all "Japanese" now.

BTW, when is Hillary going to release those transcripts of her Goldman Sachs speeches? I'd love to hear what promises she made in exchange for a quarter of a million dollars. If Hillary is elected President, can we expect her to follow in Obama's footsteps by failing to prosecute any big banks that engage in massive fraud?

[Buzz cook]

32. Now you're trying to teach history?

Graduate from high school first.

[OnyxCollie]

33. OMIGOSH, YOU GOT ME!

HOW WILL I EVER RECOVER?

You're boring. I'm done with you.

[Silver_Witch]

4. No more voting Blue No Matter Who

I will vote for the best candidate - period - and always!

[Cary]

6. And what does that mean?

It's a nice, glittering generality.

And it's code, isn't it?

[brush]

8. Code for voting for the Dem nominee not for Trump.

[Cary]

11. Silver Witch said something else

[brush]

13. So she did. I only explained what "vote blue no matter who" means.

Bernie or Hillary in the general to stop Trump.

[Cary]

14. Listening to Trump talking about debt,

the man is an idiot. He is a narcissist. Anyone who would vote anything but blue has a screw loose somewhere.

[cantbeserious]

12. Bernie Or Bust For This Citizen

eom

[chknltl]

16. +1 nt

[chwaliszewski]

20. +2

[jhart3333]

22. I'm in

[TrueDemVA]

26. Count me in as well

No more DINOs!

[retrowire]

17. Next time you hear "vote blue no matter who "

Just remember that Kim Davis was a Democrat.

[Cassiopeia]

18. Easy for you to say at 79

At 39, it might be better to take my medicine now and look forward to 2020.

[Wibly]

23. Bottom line

If the Dems want people to vote Blue no matter Who, then they had better produce a nominee who is not tied into Goldman Sacs, does not have a history of foreign policy blunders (Iraq and Libya), does not have a history of flip flopping and pandering, and is actually a candidate people can get behind in a big way.
Sorry but, this argument that people should vote against their own principles and self interest just because there is a big scary Trump out there, does not wash.
Trump can be big and scary, but if he doesn't have Congress and the Senate behind him, he'll be mostly bluster.

No, I'm not saying I would vote Trump, but it doesn't mean I would vote Clinton.

[McKim]

24. No Can Do, Family Values Says Vote Sanders

I really can't vote for Hillary. Here above my computer is a portrait of my brother in law who died in Vietnam for a lie in 1967 at the age of 22. When I see his face I am reminded that should Hillary be selected, we will have many more wars and interventions. Many more young Americans will die and many many more in the Middle East will die and their countries will be destroyed. Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan, enough already. We know war at this household and it is not pretty.

[oldandhappy]

27. Ahhh George, you live in fantasy land.

clinton is not going to fight for all those things. Please get involved and lend your name to building a permanent structure for the Sanders issues .