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JHB

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31. That's similar to my take...
Mon Aug 10, 2015, 08:15 AM
Aug 2015

One of McCain's rationales for picking Palin was that religious conservatives liked her. Johnson would have been about 16 at the time, and only a couple of years later she went to a religiously-oriented college, first majoring in business administrations, then switching to theology. She's described herself as a church lady. So a very religious conservative-favoring person probably didn't have much use for white progressives back then.

Later, she becomes radicalized at some point and joins BLM by last November (news reports from a Black Friday protest quote her as an organizer, so it's not as if she popped up at the event Bernie was at), but still has no use for white progressives.

It's hardly out of the ordinary for someone who has radically changed on some points to still grind an axe about old foes. And it makes a whole lot more sense than the Republicans (or Hillary, depending on the theory du jour) planting an operative in BLM months before Bernie declared a run, just for the chance that he would come to Seattle and appear at an event that they'd be able to disrupt.

Just because ratfucking exists doesn't mean everything is ratfucking.

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Apparently a fundy? Cosmic Kitten Aug 2015 #1
Appears so Dwayne Hicks Aug 2015 #2
BLM did NOT apologize. That was a teenager unaffiliated with them. HooptieWagon Aug 2015 #3
BLM didn't apologize pugetres Aug 2015 #4
A Palin Supporter!!!!! emsimon33 Aug 2015 #5
I wouldn't expect any Black people to go for Caribou Barbie - LiberalElite Aug 2015 #7
She doesn't seem "loose" to me jmowreader Aug 2015 #29
Well, except for Glen Rice KamaAina Aug 2015 #40
Kind of an interesting comment Blue_In_AK Aug 2015 #6
I think it just shows melman Aug 2015 #8
He needs a restraining order on her. She appears possibly crazy. glinda Aug 2015 #10
More like an authoritarian leader wannabee. They don't care what they sell, so long as they can Marr Aug 2015 #20
Bidding war? Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #14
Ya think?? hifiguy Aug 2015 #23
How can that be? Yesterday, I read on DU she was a Super Double Secret Background agent for Hillary Brother Buzz Aug 2015 #9
yeah, 'cuz Hillary doesn't like any Republicans a-TALL MisterP Aug 2015 #13
Apart from the special events. And family. Octafish Aug 2015 #17
Imagine The Donald calling his favorite Senator in the middle of the night... cherokeeprogressive Aug 2015 #19
A Happy Day. Octafish Aug 2015 #21
Dinner parties with disliked industry vendors are both a part of my job description and something I LanternWaste Aug 2015 #37
Here's what's insulting: Goldman Sachs helping call the TPP shots at State Octafish Aug 2015 #39
Marissa Jenae is obviously not unduly burdened with intelligence. n/t backscatter712 Aug 2015 #11
+1 L0oniX Aug 2015 #27
and a fundamentalist. Warren DeMontague Aug 2015 #12
An update on the apology that wasn't from BLM (and no, they weren't paid operatives either) markpkessinger Aug 2015 #15
Gosh. Octafish Aug 2015 #16
I'd be pretty embarrassed if I'd been supporting this O'Keefian fuckwit all day. Marr Aug 2015 #18
They seem to have disappeared in the last few hours since her background was revealed. hifiguy Aug 2015 #24
I have to agree with you. Marr Aug 2015 #25
Some are beyond embarrassment. Comrade Grumpy Aug 2015 #36
Someone check her in the WA voter database at this link Lee-Lee Aug 2015 #22
Color me not surprised. TDale313 Aug 2015 #26
screw loose, but also highly manipulatable...just like all those bbgrunt Aug 2015 #28
Jumping the gun a bit perhaps dreamnightwind Aug 2015 #30
That's similar to my take... JHB Aug 2015 #31
Thanks for that background. joshcryer Aug 2015 #32
OK but... dreamnightwind Aug 2015 #38
...more opinions... L0oniX Aug 2015 #33
I think it's simpler. lumberjack_jeff Aug 2015 #34
Then she is out of her mind. Betty Karlson Aug 2015 #35
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