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Eliot Rosewater

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March 24, 2018

I am watching the march on TV, getting ready to go to my local, guess what

GOP, your days are so numbered it isnt even funny


These kids may have not noticed or understood as most of us at that age wouldnt the "russia thing" or whatever, but they noticed when their classmates were being blown to bits.

This is the beginning of a new GREAT world, folks!

March 23, 2018

Fancy some drums?




and later





fast forward first vid to 5:30 and watch the greatest drummer, maybe ever, other than maybe Buddy Rich
March 23, 2018

We need a tutorial on how to spot a poster who is a bot or agent of a foreign or domestic

enemy of the United States. I am talking about whether we are on Twitter or wherever else there is back and forth discussion of politics.

We also need to realize if we are active on social media, ALL social media, we deal with them, all the time!


So, who here is an expert? On how to identify a bot and what are the memes, talking points of the KGB agents or GOP subversives that post on the internet.

I know bots tend to just post information and not back and forth discussion, right? I suppose almost anything that would be active on a message board, for instance, would not be a bot unless it is just posting links or comments that dont respond to someone?

Do people know when FB is manipulating them?

We need to be taught, I need to learn more about this. We all do.

We now know for a fact how anti American agents talked nonstop about you know who and how she cant be trusted. They are doing it again now about other FEMALE democrats.

Will we learn in time?

March 23, 2018

Where do the 20 somethings discuss politics? Millennial social media for politics?

It is painfully obvious the average age on DU is probably over 50, right!

What I know is the millennial generation has been turned on to politics, but might be confused about a few things so I was wondering where are they?

How do we engage them?

March 22, 2018

Anybody think USA at fault for continuing the "cold war?" (bet rump does NOT know what that means)

Without coaching rump wouldn't know what the cold war really was, first of all.

And I have heard from many different circles that we cant blame ole Vlad because it really is the USA that continued the "cold war" and all Putin did was try and keep up, react.


Anybody here think there is anything to the accusation that it is OUR fault?

I dont think it is our fault, wanted to get that on the record.

March 22, 2018

Open primaries, the GOP idea, can only help GOP and other non Democratic Party loyalists.

It is simple, really.

An open primary in a red state (are there any?) wont work in reverse for the blue team because republicans would NEVER allow their field to be crowded by too many candidates thus causing an issue where not one of them gets enough votes to be on the ballot in November. Granted, with the creation of the teaparty/freedumb caucuses by rightwing billionaires, it is more possible now than 15 years ago, but very unlikely.

In a blue state however, TOTALLY different ballgame. Crowding the field with 6 to 8 candidates, which will happen believe it or not, can create the DESIRED outcome of electing a repub or someone who isnt really a Democrat but pretends to be.

I say DESIRED because just look at who WROTE the proposition in California, for instance:


It was authored by State Senator Abel Maldonado,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Maldonado


Abel O. Maldonado Jr. (born August 21, 1967) is an American politician of the Republican Party


Ask yourself, WHY would a republican do this? I know, do you?


March 21, 2018

Wanna have some fun? Go somewhere you know there are Democratic party haters.

Will be especially fun if there are Hillary haters, and then say very positive things about her like:

"Hillary Clinton is one of the most sincere, honest human beings in the history of human politics"

"Hillary Clinton would have been one of the 3 best presidents of all time and would have done more to help average people than any prior president other than Barack Obama and FDR (tie)"

"Hillary Clinton was not owned by Wall Street" (they will practically have their hair on fire with that one)


This is especially fun if you are in a public environment, one example is in public at a restaurant, but there are other examples, where they cant really have a strong reaction without embarrassing themselves.

Then, to top it off as you are leaving the restaurant or wherever it is you are doing this, say:

"And Obama accomplished more before breakfast than your guy has done in 40 years"

(the your guy part is up to them, they can fill in the blank with lots of people, trump included)

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