DonCoquixote
DonCoquixote's Journalone of the best cartoons ever
because unlike many, it is wrapped in the truth, and nothing more.
Of course though, the Taoist in me sees this as a Yin and Yang, which implies reality is not either side of this coin, but the center. However..in Taoism, yin would be symbolized by the dark, which is the feminine principle, the more subtle ways , the slower but firm ways. Whereas Yang is Brash, loud, bright, but also destructive (think that bright orange of Donald's hair.) So I would reverse the jacket colors..
And note that Taoism is not black and white, but balance. This nation, indeed, this world, has had way too much masculine Yang, which Trump does make a fine symbol of. We need a lot more yin, and Hillary does offer that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang
I am trying not to hate
But this election has reminded me how utterly angry I was whenever an affluent white self-labeled liberal would lecture me on my experience as a Latino, or other people about begin black. Some people can have ignorance, and if they are the good people they think they are, they can listen, learn, and a problem is fixed. But there is also arrogance, a remedy for which there are no medicines. They do not want to admit that maybe the reason our left did fall so hard is because they are the same people who let the unions fall because they had dirty hands. Or, they were also the people for whom Unions could no no wrong, even as they excluded brown people from them.
I have some very rude news for the sorts of people that tried to turn the Convention into a WWE act, liberalism, will be saved all right, indeed, we will take it farther than even the old gray heads you worship meant to, but that is because the work, and oh yes, a good portion of the power, will be taken by the sort of people you expect to keep pouring your coffee at Starbucks. Oh yes, there will be a revolution, but it will not be on YOUR terms, with you becoming the leader like some Dances with Wolves/avatar/tarzan fantasy of the great white king.
about the disruptors
OK, let me be clear about something, I do think that many of the people trying to make mayhem with the booing are disgusting. They certainly did not care about Sanders, as Sanders did try to call for calm and decency. They are the same drama school kids that helped Bush win in 2000, and if they had their way, they would go off to Whole Foods/Starbucks/insert pretentious yuppie place here and celebrate over some expensive dish most people cannot afford.
However, when I hear talks of throw them out or never let them in the party again, I also need to step back. We can afford to show ourselves to the American people, with all the odd ends and dangling parts, because we, unlike the GOP, have actual substance. Yeah we can trot out Big Dawg and Sarah Silverman and others to deliver well deserved zingers, zingers that, unlike the tired attempts at humor by Trump and his Fox news Acolytes, can be delivered with honest confidence, not whining about how somehow the world moved and why the world you grew up in aint the world that is, and how Trump will make it so again.
The worst thing we can do is make these fools martyrs. We can show that for all their antics, we will wash over them like a wave that breaks the big rocks into sand. If we have to respond to them, do a Sarah Silverman and mock therm, because they have, a,mong many many other flaws, a bad sense of humor. Victory is determined by whop has reason to smile at the end, and we do.
as someone that hates DWS
and was happy to see her finally get fired before she tanked yet another election, let me be clear..
YOU BoB types are bastards who do not even CARE that Bernie wanted to take the high road and help keep TRUMP out! You got very angry when race was mentioned, showing that you had no serious desire to talk to people and instead wanted to keep your privileged right to yell at them!
B O B
go
to HELL
and take Jill Stein with you!
Because I know that you will look at my Puerto Rican skin completion and know that you will enjoy advantages over me. You want to fight the power?, than stop thinking that this is some pulp fiction like Tarzan were naturally the natives will follow the white person leader. Gandhi said "how very unlike your Christ you Christians are."
How very unlike Bernie you BoB are. Yes I am happy to see DWS get cleaned out, but rest assured, there is a faction of the far left that does not give a damned if the GOP wins the white house forever that also needs to get washed out!
Of Vladimir and Debbie
OK, let's go ahead and say, for the purposes of argument, that indeed, Vlad is backing Trump. It is not at all hard to believe, considering the way that Trump refuses to publish his Tax returns, and that he has already offered many positions that Mr. Putin would prefer to Hillary's. Throw in the warm relationship Trump has with Russian banks, the similar styles on governing (as in let the thugs smash some heads, and the picture become clear. Throw in Wikileaks, where a suspected RAPIST named Julian Assange get rich and famous by tweaking Clinton and Obama, and the fact that someone whose admitted behavior is sexist (balking at using a condom, outraged that he could be prosecuted by the mere word of a woman) and you can easily imagine someone gladly publishing information from a dubious sorts to get his revenge and amusement.
Let us grant, for the sake of argument, ALL OF THAT, every nasty toxic bit. After all, these days are stranger than fiction, and often resemble the bad fiction that no publisher would dare to publish.
What does that change about DWS.
NOTHING.
Now, let's totally leave aside the whole email thing with Hillary; that matter has been so abused and speculated about by all sides that no one can pull a pail out of that well without it being full of fecal matter. Even before James Comey did his whole "I could not get her, but she is guilty I tell ya" that matter was so stirred that it will take years to get any clear proof, which means you cannot "lock her up" after the chance to properly investigate matter has gone with the wind. Grant that. If anything else, would not that tell DWS and her associates that any email correspondence had to be kitchen clean?
The magazines just did a big damned story about the fact Hillary HAD an email server was a scandal, did DWS never think that her email would be looked at?, that the media would comb over everything that got fished up with a fine toothed comb? If you are going to talk about something that could make the news, do you have to do it with something as insecure as email? Hell, to bust La Cosa Nostra, the FBI had to bug several dozen places and get lucky with finding someone like Gotti that could not stop bragging. The DNC just published email like a bunch of Teenagers, and said things like the hot button issue of Sanders being a Jewish athiest. Debbie, you of all people should have slapped down someone who even thought of playing with that book of matches.
Of course, Debbie did not care. Just like when she got ridicule for trying to game the debates to hide Bernie. Even if that was NOT her intent, she should have responded to it. When she went and tried to support Bibi coming to congress as if he were the real president, she first supported, then backed off. Do not say the fact she backed off is the same as not knowing it was a bad thing to do in the first place. When she went to bat for payday lenders, she knew it was bad, she did it anyway. There has been no sense of even tact; look, let's say DWS wanted to be Machiavellian, well, even the Borgias knew you had to use tact, and that if you just charged through mistakes with not intention of correcting them or even offering half-hearted apologies, sooner or later you would be taken down.
Add to this that DWS knew, or should have known, that these actions would not stay uncovered. She could have gotten ahead of the emails by resigning beforehand. Add to this the fact that Debbie is still being given authority, instead of being told to "take a vacation" or at least lay low? One would think that after wrecking one Hillary campaign in 2008, and doing damage in 2016, Hillary would not feel obligated to stand by her.
But there is the damage. DWS can be fully aware of the danger, be it Putin, Assange, trump, or anyone else pouring blood in the water for the sharks. She can be fully aware that she has failed before, in 2008, and the mid terms. She can do all of this and STILL CHARGE FORWARD, because not only does she not think she did no wrong, but those in charge of keeping order in the party do not care.
Now, I am firmly aware that the Greenwalds and other weasels will try to exploit this. We know many of them have fantasies that trump will make things so awful that finally the lumpen proletariat will obey them, or that an ascendant Russia (where many of them get those nice RT paychecks) will make us obey them. None of that at all changes who we will vote against, and we know that failure to vote for the democratic candidate is saying "yes Donald, come into office, park that truck right over my front lawn." However, we are not going to kake ourselves immune from ratf**king if we let the mice run into our kitchen, taking a nice email dump of turds on your food, and expecting us to thank them for it.
Yes, DWS, and those with her, need to be made an example of. Hillary needs to tell people that the days of feasting on her damned tab are over. I say this as a supporter, someone who knows she needs to win this. We have a hard enough time with the people aiming at us from the front, we cannot prop DWS and hope she did not have yet one more scandal to be popped at a crucial time.
PS : references about Julian, another person who got lucky with the internet and has a messiah complex. He is NO hero here.
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2010/12/the_perils_of_charging_rape.html
As much as Trump scares me
There is one person we need to fear more than trump,
Whoever the powers that be pick to be his "advisor." There are kings on throne, and Viziers behind the thrones.
it is one thing to dislike "first amendment zones"
It is another to not want the convention to be a carnival of sorrows like the GOP has been, where even Ted Cruz has to duck the crowds, and people outright call for violence.
Let me put it to you another, if violence breaks out, and someone gets sent to the hospital or morgue, will you pintificate about how this is a good thing? I hope you are not given the opportunity to answer that.
way to win people
language like "teenage" does not help one's cause.
And I do notice that when you speak of Tom and Tim's qualifications, you are silent about the others, not even a half-hearted "well of course Becerra or Perez would be a good pick too." As if they are not qualified.
But here is where the problem comes in, yes, it is easy to talk as if one is being logical, but those "giddy, blushy, flushy, tingly, and happy dancy" emotions are often the very things that get people out to poll, especially in those purple states that are controlled by GOP political machines, ones that have had plenty of experience making voting very difficult for democrats, and in the case of Florida, experience in outright stealing votes. Many people had to already compromise by putting away Sanders, but picking some to the right is just one more bit of sand kicked in by a faction, note I say a faction, of Clinton voters that has no shortage of "giddy, dancy, etc" emotions when they talk of Hillary's ascent. As to others, consider that part of the reason Hillary won is that she promised minority voters that she would continue the momentum generated by Obama, to actually empower minorities and put them in positions of power. Yes, call it the race card if you want, but picking another white conservative male will say, very loud and clear, that she is not interested in continuing the progress Obama made, which will be a blatant betrayal of those that gave her the win.
That is not teenage mentality, that is remembering what Hillary used to get to her position, and the fact that she needs to keep delivering it if we are going to win this election. No, we do NOT need a repeat of Joe Lieberman in 2000 that did lots of damage. Most teenagers were not around then, but I, not a teenager, remember how a lousy choice opened so many wounds that flies like Nader and Limbaugh were able to lay their eggs in. as we watched the election get eaten by maggots.
to all those poor souls watching the GOP
So that DU can know what is happening without enduring the sheer torture, I salute you. Du owes you a purple heart. Hopefully, this shitfest can someday join "triumph of the will" and "birth of a nation" as films we preserve solely to remind people that STUPIDITY never sleeps.
"The sleep of reason produces monsters" -Francisco Goya.
why the low polls in Florida (hint: D-W-S)
Part of the reason there are lower polls in Florida is that the GOP has a built in advantage and support structure. Several forces coagulate in the state, forming a barrier
A) Old Dixie types that remember when Florida was half the size, making them big fish in a little pond
B) Northern Yuppie types who love Florida because it lets them get away with crap more civilized states would not allow
C) Angry transplants who blame the Democrats for the decline of their hometowns
Now, as the last two elections show, this CAN be beaten, especially as this state is filled with
A) Left leaning latinos who know perfectly well that trump is out for their necks
B) Right leaning latinos who are still mad Trump moved over Marco and Jeb.
But, the GOP in Florida have an ever reliable ally, the one that helps pick weak sauce former GOP as democrats, who fold quicker than cheap chairs even when the election a razor thin and full of corrupted results. One who protects her "Friends" in the South Florida GOP, even if and especially if it means stepping over leftists to do it. One who is possibly running for Governor in that state next year, who knows she will need her "friends" to beat the GOP boy Adam Putnam, one of the few GOP in Florida who does not reek of sleaze (for which he is mocked by his party.)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz; The architect of two failed gubernatorial campaigns, several botched congressional runs, and many other elections. She will NOT risk alienating her friends, especially now that Jeb is out of the way, meanign she does nto have to keep hitting the easy target to prove she is a democrat.
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