This does not pass my smell test:
Protesters who claimed affiliation with the Black Lives Matter movement stormed the stage during a rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in Seattle on Saturday, taking over the microphone and forcing Sanders to leave without ever speaking.
Moments after Sanders took the stage at Westlake Park, two women and one man climbed the stage and confronted the Democratic presidential candidate, demanding a chance to speak.
Etc. They claim to be upset with Seattle police, and they complain Sanders is not been sympathetic enough with their alleged group.
Anyone can “claim affiliation” with anything. I have only one question.
Why aren’t these activists targeting Hillary Clinton?
I’m not alone in my suspicions:
“I am disappointed that two people [there actually appear to have been at least three] disrupted a rally attended by thousands at which I was invited to speak about fighting to protect Social Security and Medicare,” Sanders said in a statement put out afterwards. “I was especially disappointed because on criminal justice reform and the need to fight racism there is no other candidate for president who will fight harder than me.”
This marks the second time, after the Netroots Nation event, that Democratic presidential candidates have faced a major disruption due to Black Lives Matter. Notably, though, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has yet to encounter any problems with the movement’s protesters.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Clintons are funding this ostensibly independent movement.
In unrelated (!) news, Donald Trump’s crude sexism has everyone gasping.
Atlanta (CNN)Donald Trump’s feud with Megyn Kelly escalated Friday night when he said the Fox News host had “blood coming out of her wherever” at this week’s Republican debate, resulting in swift condemnation from conservatives and a major political event pulling its invitation to him.
Again, this does not pass my smell test, but if Trump is not a serious candidate, it is pure political genius. No legitimate Republican candidate would ever talk like that, but the remark will nonetheless be attributed to “the Republicans.”
And best of all, Trump makes the sleazy Bill Clinton look like a gentleman.
What country are we in? Venezuela?
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37 responses to ““BlackLivesMatter activists” target Bernie Sanders?”
Rumor has it that they are Soros funded. Soros is a Clinton backer.
Trump is a Clinton friend.
Trump has proved politicians are for sale. Trump is now a politician. I wonder how much he costs.
Read the comments in some of the links I left here: http://classicalvalues.com/2015/08/black-socialists-at-war-with-bernie-sanders/
“I was especially disappointed because on criminal justice reform and the need to fight racism there is no other candidate for president who will fight harder than me.”
Rand Paul.
It may be that it’s easier to shove Sanders aside—I don’t believe he yet has a Secret Service detail, whereas Clinton is pretty thoroughly cocooned.
“I don’t believe he yet has a Secret Service detail, whereas Clinton is pretty thoroughly cocooned.”
I think you’re right, and I think that from a legal standpoint this is of constitutional dimension. She has an unfair advantage, which is not being discussed or even mentioned:
http://www.secretservice.gov/faq.shtml
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Who is the Secret Service authorized to protect?
By law, the Secret Service is authorized to protect:
The president, the vice president, (or other individuals next in order of succession to the Office of the President), the president-elect and vice president-elect
The immediate families of the above individuals
Former presidents, their spouses, except when the spouse re-marries
Children of former presidents until age 16
Visiting heads of foreign states or governments and their spouses traveling with them, other distinguished foreign visitors to the United States, and official representatives of the United States performing special missions abroad
Major presidential and vice presidential candidates, and their spouses within 120 days of a general presidential election
Other individuals as designated per Executive Order of the President and
National Special Security Events, when designated as such by the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
How long do former presidents receive Secret Service protection after they leave office?
In 1965, Congress authorized the Secret Service (Public Law 89-186) to protect a former president and his/her spouse during their lifetime, unless they decline protection.
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Hillary has been given an unfair advantage, and no one gives a shit.
Bernie is not slated to get Secret Service protection; rather, he is scheduled for a Vince Foster.
I wonder. We knew about Obama well before the election. IIRC we started doing posts here on him in Dec of 2007 and were seriously heavy on the subject. By April 2008 we had covered a LOT of ground.
It didn’t make a bit of difference.
It will be obvious to everyone no later than October of this year that the fix is in. I don’t think it will matter.
why does my message about BLM and bernie not appear?
Yep – I just made a comment that it might involve a particular word – and my comment didn’t appear – the word starting with soc and ending with ist is an old ban on WP. It puts you right in the queue to be approved.
They weren’t banning that word – it was the one starting with cia and ending with lis.
sucklist
And the cheap and cheesy prize goes to…
that s word. (one word post of that word did not appear, shoddy paraphrase did)
Suckist? we need a good euphemism / portmanteau for it. suckolist?
Heh – Or go phonetic – social list. (Which is what most of them think they should be on.)
I suspect even sociallist works – just double the L.
Now that I know what the magic woid is I can say this and expect it to post. *quack quack*
The appeal of Bernie in some circles is he’s a genuine, home-grown kind of suckolist, not a crypto, is she or isn’t she, kinda-sorta, corporate shill suckologist like Her Hillarityness!
And I’m wondering if there’s a big, fat Sore ass behind all this.
Speaking of Sucklingpigazoids in this election cycle, I’m looking for a good, insulting nick for Jeb Bush. hmmmm…
The left loved calling W “Shrub”. I want something equally short, blunt, derogatory, mocking and ugly-sounding, with at least a vague phonetic connection to both jeb, and shrub.
Ladies, gentlemen, and all other conceivable categories, I give you
Chub. Chub Bush? How about it?
Groundcover? (Sorry, my work involves websites/newsletters for plant nurseries and when you get below shrub…well…)
There was a time when “Progressive Republicanism” was the thing. Think Teddy Roosevelt. I think Teddy had a lot of admirable qualities, but his grasp of economics isn’t one of them. There’s always been a vaguely s0californian trend in the party,nothing new.
While I’m thinking of it, anyone else remember Carl Oglesby? Did he ever have a point?
His view would place the Bushes as an essential go-between of the Northern and South / western strands.
And George P. will have to be Sprout, or Twig.
For want of a better place for this –
Something I’ve been wondering about president Barack; how to describe his personality? I come up with terms like lugubrious, pedantic, condescending, humorless and boring. Question is, was he always like that? Imagine the Choom Gang, or any group of stoners. You want to hang out with this guy? He’s like a total buzz kill, dood. There’s only two possible answers – he was the supply, had such a good line on the primo buds, dewd they put up with him, or he’s a complete mooch. A leech who attached himself to the cool dudes and wouldn’t let go just to get high.
man mountain how about “juan” bush?
“No legitimate Republican candidate would ever talk like that, but the remark will nonetheless be attributed to “the Republicans.”
Um, he made the remark and he still has 25% support from “the Republicans.” Clearly “the Republicans” don’t care about the remark or (more likely) they passively agree with/enjoy the comment.
You have to give it up for Simon and Eric. They hate Soros, who put his money where his mouth is and did more to bring down totalitarian communist regimes in Eastern Europe than their two asses have ever done.
Along with BIG STRONG MOUNTAIN MAN “Man Mountain Molehill,” I’m sure they love playing make believe in their backyards with their guns fantasizing about fighting off an army of Obama Ferguson EPA thugs. But you have to think, it could just be penis envy on their part. On hand you have a person who actually waged war (although he didnt use guns, so it doesn’t count) against totalitarian regime, and on the other, you have a couple guys who . . . blog . . . about . . . stuff.
What was that word salad exercise in free association about, again?
How about “Shaved Bush” in order to bring up an image.
“All the Bushes shave”, you say? All the better.
TheAJ,
Soros has done particularly well against cannabis Prohibition.
He works with Ariana Huffington – who I have had conversations with.
None the less I’m not much into the general world view of the people he backs.
“The forces of a powerful ally can be useful and good to those who have recourse to them… but are perilous to those who become dependent on them.”
Niccolo Machiavelli, “The Prince”
Given Jeb’s physiognomy and energy levels, I suggest “Stump.”
Soros shorting the pound for a cool billion.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-george-soros-shorted-the-pound-etching-his-name-into-financial-history-forever-2010-6
I’d rather reserve Stump for Trump.
If nothing else, after his presidential campaign fails he can be the host / subject of a great new game show, “Stump The Trump”.
The excitement builds as contestants compete by trying to get Teh Donald to admit he doesn’t know the answer to a question.
Mountain Mole –
So not only is Soros is greater Anti-Communist than any of ya’ll, he’s also a greater Capitalist.
I can understand the penis envy
If you wanted empirical proof that MI-6 / James Bond / license to kill don’t exist, it’s that soros is still breathing.
Hey AJ, you on Soros payroll or Hillary’s?
I’d be careful, very careful crossing any of that bunch. Juanita Broderick, Paula Jones, Jennifer Flowers, and Mary Mahoney all found out the hard way what can happen when you know too much, not to mention Vince Foster and Ron Brown. But then you’re too young to even know who I’m talking about. Just for fun though, look up Mary Mahoney. She was the inspiration for the Starbuck’s cup that Bill sent to Monica as a warning.
After that you might want to delve into the details of Soros exit from Hungary.
This is the relevant portion of the transcript (from the 20 December 1998 broadcast of 60 Minutes):
Quote:
KROFT: (Voiceover) To understand the complexities and contradictions in his personality, you have to go back to the very beginning: to Budapest, where George Soros was born 68 years ago to parents who were wealthy, well-educated and Jewish.
When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, George Soros’ father was a successful lawyer. He lived on an island in the Danube and liked to commute to work in a rowboat. But knowing there were problems ahead for the Jews, he decided to split his family up. He bought them forged papers and he bribed a government official to take 14-year-old George Soros in and swear that he was his Christian godson. But survival carried a heavy price tag. While hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to the death camps, George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on his appointed rounds, confiscating property from the Jews.
(Vintage footage of Jews walking in line; man dragging little boy in line)
KROFT: (Voiceover) These are pictures from 1944 of what happened to George Soros’ friends and neighbors.
(Vintage footage of women and men with bags over their shoulders walking; crowd by a train)
KROFT: (Voiceover) You’re a Hungarian Jew…
Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.
KROFT: (Voiceover) …who escaped the Holocaust…
(Vintage footage of women walking by train)
Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.
(Vintage footage of people getting on train)
KROFT: (Voiceover) … by — by posing as a Christian.
Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Right.
(Vintage footage of women helping each other get on train; train door closing with people in boxcar)
KROFT: (Voiceover) And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.
Mr. SOROS: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that’s when my character was made.
KROFT: In what way?
Mr. SOROS: That one should think ahead. One should understand and — and anticipate events and when — when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a — a very personal experience of evil.
KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.
KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.
Mr. SOROS: Yes. That’s right. Yes.
KROFT: I mean, that’s — that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?
Mr. SOROS: Not — not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don’t — you don’t see the connection. But it was — it created no — no problem at all.
KROFT: No feeling of guilt?
Mr. SOROS: No.
KROFT: For example that, ‘I’m Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.’ None of that?
Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c — I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn’t be there, because that was — well, actually, in a funny way, it’s just like in markets — that if I weren’t there — of course, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody else would — would — would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the — whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the — I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.
The bottom feeding piece of shit learned early about taking away property of others. It was a lesson well learned and explains why he can rob billions from taxpayers through currency speculation without feeling any guilt. It also explains why he creates chaos in the world. He’s a sociopath.
And you like this guy, AJ?
“Behind every great fortune is a great crime”
Have a Koch and a smile.
I’d like the Kochs to buy the world.
A Koch, a smoke and a joke.
Things go better with the Kochs.
Frank:
You have issues. And you seem to believe anything you read on the internet. Please do not procreate.
That is all.
The AJ, “you seem to believe anything…”
No, au contraire I presented exactly what Soros said on national TV. He indicts himself as he exposes his pathology. As to Mary Mahoney, the facts speak for themselves. She was a former intern managing a Starbucks who was murdered execution style. She resigned her internship because she felt uncomfortable in government service and she had inside knowledge of corruption. After her murder, which was after the Lewinsky scandal broke, Bill Clinton sent a Starbucks cup (which he claimed had been purchased earlier) to Monica.
Refute the facts I’ve stated, or get lost.
The AJ, read this and deny it:
https://littledixiedynamite.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/the-mysterious-murder-of-mary-mahoney/
When he testified to the grand jury, President Clinton acknowledged giving Monica Lewinsky several gifts, stating that ‘it was a right thing to do to give her gifts back.'(190) He acknowledged giving her gifts on December 28, 1997,(191) just three weeks before the civil deposition. During the criminal investigation, the President has produced seven gifts that Ms. Lewinsky gave him. He testified to the grand jury that Ms. Lewinsky had given him ‘a tie, a coffee cup, a number of other things I had.'(192) In addition, the President acknowledged that ‘there were some things that had been in my possession that I no longer had, I believe.’(193)
http://ineedcoffee.com/bill-clinton-coffee-achiever/
From the Starr report. This is where he admits to giving it to Lewinsky, the Starbucks cup, I mean.
They talk about black power. But this man had it.
Note the audience. He owned them.