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Kiptoe

Have any of you ever heard of the saying “ you won’t work a day in your life if you love what you do”? Well that's how Kiptoe made himself a living off of mural paintings.

His real name is Matt Dean, and he lived in New Hampshire until he decided to take a big risk and move to LA to pursue his dream of painting murals around the world. As a multi-talented artist he is most known for his mural arts and sticker creations. He only makes stickers to share his painting in a small, iconic and cheap way. Kiptoe also takes all of his art projects and vlogs them, to then post them onto youtube. With a total of 754k subscribers, he makes all of his creations, and editing alone.

You’re still not sure about who he is? Kiptoe is a freelancer artist inspired by things like comics, sculptures, movies and by his own life experiences. His art has been viewed by such people that it allowed him to collaborate with private clients, small and large businesses but also be involved in the entertainment industry. You might know some of them, like the famous Fortnite video game and Walt Disney entertainment. In addition, he has painted his work in countries like Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, France, Spain, Germany, Mexico, Finland, England, Lebanon, and across the USA.

Kiptoe’s favorite medium is spray painted so here are three of his top viewed mural paintings straight from his YouTube channel. Beginning with “Venice Beach Dragon” with 3.5M views. “Risk” and “Three Saints” nearly equal 1.9M views.

To start off, “Venice Beach dragon” Made in only 1 day in Venice Beach Walls, was painted over a bunch of tagged graffiti, to remember the building that had been knocked out, and filled with them.

The mural has KIPTOE spelt across from it, with a dragon attempting to cross through all of the letters.

According to Matt Dean, the theme for this one is Life. The letters are the bad and evil, people that are trying to put down the dragon, especially in the center where there is visible tension and tearing. Let’s call them obstacles. Whilst, the dragon keeps its perseverance and stays strong through it all, it finally makes it out of the obstacles and continues to fulfill its own life.

“Risk” a mural made in cali Colombia in 2017, for Matt’s Policromia Tour.

It is a man wrapped in a kraken creature, only to continue fighting and never giving up. It is based on the phrase “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” but flipped to express the opposite; taking risks to challenge your limits.

Three saints was a big game changer for Matt since at the time it was the biggest mural he had done. Made in Pico-Union, Los Angeles in 2017.

There’s three saints demonstrated with personified identities to help us through our lives.

Protection, which is the guardian warrior basically protects us from danger and predators, through birth and adolescence.

There’s love, which is represented by the lion, which lets us find out who we truly are and accept our good or bad in our lives and learning to love ourselves to we can learn to love others, so it can be possible to create a heart to heart connection.

Lastly, guidance, as the man, develops when we become more mature, and gain wisdom. Like the eagle we soar high above and help those going through their first stage.

With all three of the most famous projects made by Kiptoe let’s take a look at one that caught my eye.

Let’s analyze “amor infinite” made in pereira, colombia in 2017. Using saussures theory, this mural is very metaphorical. As we can see it is a woman and a man wrapped around each other with evil looking wolves surrounding them. This signifies that metaphorically, the humans in the center represent the strong love they share for each other, and the wolves are only trying to separate them but their bond is too strong to do so.

Lastly, the visual communicator that I picked today, communicated important lessons through his artwork. Kiptoe uses stories and animations to make his paintings come to life. In addition, his murals add life to the world, especially when it’s to decorate boring places. He was able to make all of these murals, with his passion because that’s what he loves to do, and in addition also gets paid for it, which isn’t really what he cares about but that keeps him motivated to create more beautiful art works. So “if you do what you love you will never work a day in your life”.

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sosussomeo · 5 years

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Today’s festivities.

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cordellandbrown · 1 month

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suntzumonkfoo · 3 years

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I was gonna mumble something but my MIND!

SHEESH! Ya know?

*Hack!* Yuck

fuck it

thumb s gone limp.....I'm liquid. Shit... sounds like I'm golfing with Trump

What?

Shut up I'm gibbering nonsense you non sense of humor having...Holy Quran grabbing maniac with a lowly status

Oh wait. I'm not talking. Walking with a walky talky standing tall as I flock along with the rest of the insurance risks I'm a legislative lingo Bingo! We go there at night a ghost in a nightmare

I call the Hammer at anytime or place as long as I'm slipping on a slipper or lying there whimpering

Some sympathy?

Yes I'm an Impish twit who limps cause he thinks it hip a fairy like like a swagger I'm serious I prance about merrily through varied states of everything holy and very terrifying streets mold me

I'm not leering at you I'm staring at stars

That's not Covid

I got SARS

A naturalist.

With a list of unnatural species I recently breathed in in my creases and mucus lined membranes

Who can say if I make it?

Meh.

I'm waving at you like a maniac

You stare and mainly stay in character

How American

How hilarious

Smart and funny is something so money

Sexiness in the mix is a hex I need on my fiction

Reality vision I mean I am an intermission

Accidents waiting to happen like Steve Urkel

But hopping up quick

Mopping up this mess

I'm waiting to zap in and make a display of bad manners right before I go to get my manicure

I'm curing my Ham and I'm slathering mayonnaise on a ...

Wait that's not a sandwich. I'm sorry, Don. I wasn't even awake! I was at a wake drunk what a mistake

Ya....

I was talking with my eyes opened wide...

I was smoking something irradiated it made me behave in a way I may I have mainly pains me to say anything I'm painting a picture...

It's raining

talking surprisingly eloquent for a maniac

I'm reasoning out my attributes and my blood saturated cats and I'm...

What's? The cats are bloody. I don't know. They're fucking cats. I didn't study Cat Theory

I studied stealing

Anyway I was blathering on about some impermanent permean mass extinction event like when perms went out in the 80s

Don't call me a jerk cause I call out entire countries for vermin from Vermont to Europe one thing stays current

💲 Currency 💲💲

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Currency is a current event it's been current since men were fucking neanderthal women in Germany 40000 years ago

It's a fairly fair system but it gets twisted men are a mystic ape with an evolutionary fate

some creep from their country does

There was an empty pause

I meant it as a joke but in 21 it was an obviously dumb thing to say fueled by the bum who sells me hairspray spraying me in face

Not a bad taste

.Most ain't Casper I'm telling ya they're wacked out of their minds on some made up pretentious disaster that never happened

But it's kinda nice now KNOWING the whole 🌎 crazy or at least the few who grace me with their smiling faces as they pass me in the halls of the Mall I live in a

Mall?

He'll I'm the crazy one. Sorry. Just smelled my tummy. I smell crummy.

I'm writing this as run up to my run of incredible legible level 10 sellable pickle relish that I just felt in my head it's a mellow vinegary taste

I was in a hurry

Obviously I'm not in a hurry now

I scurry at a pace laid back for such a vermin as me

I'm from Vermont and I'm sure not your not New to my Hampshire ways you heard?

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blackfreethinkers · 4 years

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The first thing Aria DiMezzo wants to make clear about the giant phallic hieroglyph that someone spray-painted on the side of her car on Saturday night — along with a homophobic slur — was that it was poorly drawn.

The second thing she wants to make clear about the graffiti, which appeared just hours after FoxNews.com ran a story about DiMezzo headlined “ ‘Transsexual Satanist anarchist’ wins GOP nomination for sheriff in NH county,” is that she thought it was hilarious.

“It’s not a hate crime,” DiMezzo said with a smirk. “It’s a gender reveal!”

She is clearly enjoying this very chaotic moment she has created in New Hampshire politics, one that has left DiMezzo — who campaigned on a platform of “F the Police” and does indeed identify as a transsexual Satanist anarchist — as the Republican nominee for sheriff in Cheshire County, in the southwest corner of the state.

“A lot of people are telling me I need to take this more seriously,” she said as she sat on a friend’s porch on a recent day, anxiously chain-smoking Newports. “If I had taken it more seriously, I wouldn’t have won the nomination. Leave the trolling to the pros.”

And what a troll job it has been.

DiMezzo, who is a Libertarian, said she was unable to get on the ballot for her party, so instead she registered as a Republican for the primary. She did it mostly to be a pest, but she was also wondering if she might lure voters into a trap that would prove a point about a problem with our political system — namely, that people will blindly vote for any candidate on their party’s ticket.

“I ran unopposed, but if people were paying attention, I should have gotten 25 votes and lost to a write-in candidate,” said DiMezzo.

Instead, she received more than 4,000 votes.

Many of those voters are now rather mad, lashing out at DiMezzo online, though it would be hard for them to claim that she duped them by simply hiding herself and her beliefs.

Since moving to Keene from Mississippi two years ago, drawn by a loose collective of Libertarian activists known as Free Keene, DiMezzo has been hard to miss. She ran for sheriff as a Libertarian two years ago, and for City Council last year with a platform to legalize magic mushrooms and “Eat the rich.”

And for this year’s campaign for sheriff, her lawn signs clearly feature the anarchist symbol of an “A” inside a circle, as well as the phrase “F the Police.” (Her campaign website is effpolice.com.)

“Plus I’m a 6-foot-tall tranny with bright red hair and tattoos who drives around town in a red convertible,” she said. “I’m very hard to forget.”

She said she has avoided the temptation to read the 14,000-plus comments on the FoxNews story — “I don’t hate myself enough to do that” — but that the reaction in Keene, a college town that leans left, has been mostly positive.

As she was being interviewed on the porch, a man who was walking down the street with a young boy did a double-take when he spotted her, then shouted out “You’re a star!”

For those who are unhappy to discover that they voted for a troll, she said they have only themselves to blame. “This is the consequence of your actions,” she said. “I gave you the rope and you hung yourself. Four thousand people put me into the highest law enforcement position in the county without knowing a thing about me, which is ultimately an argument for anarchism.”

Marilyn Huston, the Cheshire County GOP chair, did not respond to a call seeking comment. But in an article in the NH Journal, Huston was quoted as saying DiMezzo “does not fall in with the Republican message" during an interview where Huston reportedly referred to DiMezzo as “he” repeatedly.

DiMezzo shrugs her shoulders at all such things. “A trans person should be able to run for office without ruffling feathers, but whatever,” she said.

Now that she’s won the nomination, DiMezzo insists that this is more than just a stunt, that she does, in fact, want the job, and is planning to actively campaign against the incumbent sheriff, Democrat Eli Rivera, who is seeking a fifth term in November.

“I don’t expect to win. And if I do, I suspect that the deputies will quit as soon as I’m sworn in,” she said. “If not, I’m going to give them three options. You can stay at the station and play Xbox. You can go out and police the police. Or you can go home.”

As for the giant, poorly-drawn penis — a tire was also slashed, along with the soft-top on her convertible — DiMezzo said she has no desire to figure out who did it. Several people have raised the possibility that she did it herself, which she brushed aside; she suspects it was some teenagers, acting out some role they think they’re supposed to play.

It made her laugh, yes, but it also caused her to make a big change to her wardrobe: She now goes everywhere with a handgun clearly strapped to her hip.

What she didn’t do was call the police.

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#8 Boy-Crazy Stacey: Chapter 9

And now, a very pointless babysitting chapter from Kristy. And it features David Michael, Karen and Andrew. As a kid, I really liked Karen; I read the Little Sister books first and I thought she was so cool and got to do so many fun things. Now, as an adult, I absolutely hate her. She’s an obnoxious, annoying little brat who gets away with murder no matter what she does.

From interacting with other adult BSC fans, it’s kind of funny how so many of us feel this way. We liked Karen as children but as adults, we absolutely cannot stand her. Seriously, Karen sucks.

It's a letter from Kristy to Stacey and Mary Anne! Which only means one thing...it's a completely pointless babysitting chapter that has nothing to do with the rest of the book! And, on top of that, it involves Karen. Nooooo, is Ann trying to torture us?

Kristy tells Stacey and Mary Anne it was a babysitter's nightmare when she was taking care of Karen, Andrew and David Michael that morning. Which is the only time a BSC member ever admits to having a disastrous time babysitting Karen. Because after copious amounts of BSC Kool-Aid, it would have said, "Wow! I had a really adventurous time with Karen, Andrew, and David Michael today! And all because of Karen's wild imagination! She's so funny and cute, I wish I had a wacky imagination like she did! Oh, and David Michael and Andrew suck because they aren't Karen." Kristy tells them they should never, ever, ever, EVER let little kids wash a car by themselves, and they should make it a BSC rule.

Well, yeah. Geez, Kristy. I thought you were the queen of babysitting...

Stacey says everyone's babysitting. In addition to Kristy and the two girls in Sea City, Dawn is babysitting her old clients in California and Claudia sat for a few families at the mountain resort in New Hampshire where her family's staying. Um, girls? You're on VACATION! Vacation = FREE TIME!!! Can't you get away from babysitting for just a little bit?

So Kristy's left in charge while Watson the Millionaire and Elizabeth go to an estate auction and Sam and Charlie go off to visit some friends in their old neighborhood. Hey, they need to keep themselves occupied while Stacey and Janine are gone! And yes, Charlie and Janine are in a secret relationship. It’s a running joke on LJ’s bsc_snark. They hook up during BSC meetings and laugh about what dorks their younger sisters are.

Anyway, David Michael announces he's entering Louie in Linny Papadakis' dog show. So wait...a kid is running their own event without a BSC member? Shocking. Then again, it's an early book, so it isn’t like the kids are using to participating in weekly pet shows/talent shows/plays/marching bands/interpretive dance performances. Karen decides to stay behind with Andrew, because he's afraid of any dog but Louie. Besides, they don't take too kindly when he tries getting a game of Wiggle Puppy going.

Watson the Millionaire gives them the job of washing the 'emergency car,' his old black Ford that he keeps in a shed. This is how you know Watson the Millionaire is loaded - he's got enough cars that he has one just for emergencies. In the garage, he's got a sports car and a "fancy new car" and the Thomases' middle-class station wagon. Who knows what the "fancy new car" is. Anyway, Watson the Millionaire won't get rid of his Ford and he keeps it around just in case, though Kristy's only seen him drive it once.

He drives it into the driveway for them, then he leaves with Elizabeth in the sports car and Sam and Charlie drive off in the station wagon. David Michael leaves with Louie, so Kristy, Karen and Andrew get their bathing suits on and gather the supplies for washing the car.

Right after they start, David Michael comes home crying, with Louie following him. Turns out at the dog show, a big dog chased after Louie, who ran away and cut his paw. Kristy leads them inside and tells Karen and Andrew to come with her. But Karen wants to stay outside and tells Kristy she and Andrew can wash the car themselves. Ok, that right away should have been a warning sign for Kristy. But instead, Kristy decides they can do it themselves and since the car's black, no one will notice if they don't get it completely clean. So Kristy lets Karen and Andrew stay outside and makes them promise to be good and not open the car windows or spray each other with the hose or empty the sponges out in the garden. Karen and Andrew promise and she goes inside with David Michael. You can all see where this is heading.

Kristy calls the vet to see if she makes house calls and of course she doesn't. Since this is 1987 and it’s the days before cellphones, she starts calling around Sam and Charlie's friends' houses to see if she can get a hold of Charlie to drive David Michael and Louie to the vet. While she's playing phone tag, she sees Karen and Andrew come inside and run back out a few times but she doesn't think anything of it. You'd think someone familiar with Karen and her evilness "overactive imagination" would be suspicious.

She finally gets a hold of Charlie and he says he'll be home right away. Kristy then goes outside to check on Karen and Andrew and finds them there with the Ford, which is now silvery and gleaming. Uh oh...

When Kristy asks how they got the car to look like that, Karen says the sponges were no good, so they used what Watson the Millionaire uses to make the pots shiny and she and Andrew hold out pieces of steel wool. Kristy freaks out and says, "Your dad wanted the Ford clean, not naked!" Way to go, Kristy. Though I have to add, we always hear over and over again about how Karen’s gifted and she skips a grade because she’s so intelligent. How did a smart kid like Karen not realize she was scraping paint off the car when she was “cleaning” it with steel wool?

Charlie comes home and brings David Michael and Louie to the vet. Elizabeth and Watson the Millionaire then come home happy, showing off two crystal champagne flutes they got at the estate auction. Watson the Millionaire asks how the car washing went and Kristy shows him what happened. Watson the Millionaire turns pale and Kristy apologizes profusely for not watching Karen and Andrew. Watson the Millionaire in turn scolds Kristy (and since this is Watson the Millionaire, it's pretty weak) for not keeping an eye on the kids.

And again, since this is Watson the Millionaire, Karen gets off with no punishment for stripping his car. He says it's actually a good thing, because he was thinking of painting the Ford purple. Karen in turn begs them to let she and Andrew paint it and thankfully, Watson the Millionaire and Elizabeth say no way in hell. And Kristy hits it home by saying, "When chickens have lips." I always thought that was funny.

Imagine if Karen and Andrew painted it? It would end up looking like Fozzie's car, after Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem were through with it!

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The New York Times is literally a propaganda outlet and Timothy Egan is a deceitful chode. His every word drips with the anxious desperation of the Democrats who know their goose is cooked.

Watching “Succession,” the HBO show about the most despicable plutocrats to seize the public imagination since the Trumps were forced on us, made me want to tax the ultrarich into a homeless shelter. And it almost made a Bernie Bro of me.

That’s the thing about class loathing: It feels good, a moral high with its own endorphins, but is ultimately self-defeating. A Bernie Sanders rally is a hit from the same pipe: Screw those greedy billionaire bastards!

Sanders has passion going for him. He has authenticity. He certainly has consistency: His bumper-sticker sloganeering hasn’t changed for half a century. He was, “even as a young man, an old man,” as Time magazine said.

But he cannot beat Donald Trump, for the same reason people do not translate their hatred of the odious rich into pitchfork brigades against walled estates.

Because powerful oligarchs that own their government murder them with impunity when they do.

>March 7 was a bitterly cold day in Detroit, and a crowd estimated at between 3,000 and 5,000 gathered near the Dearborn city limits, about a mile from the Ford plant. The Detroit Times called it "one of the coldest days of the winter, with a frigid gale whooping out of the northwest". Marchers carried banners reading "Give Us Work, "We Want Bread Not Crumbs", and "Tax the Rich and Feed the Poor". Albert Goetz gave a speech, asking that the marchers avoid violence. The march proceeded peacefully along the streets of Detroit until it reached the Dearborn city limits.

>There, the Dearborn police attempted to stop the march by firing tear gas into the crowd and began hitting marchers with clubs. One officer fired a gun at the marchers. The unarmed crowd scattered into a field covered with stones, picked them up, and began throwing stones at the police. The angry marchers regrouped and advanced nearly a mile toward the plant. There, two fire engines began spraying cold water onto the marchers from an overpass. The police were joined by Ford security guards and began shooting into the crowd. Marchers Joe York, Coleman Leny and Joe DeBlasio were killed, and at least 22 others were wounded by gunfire.

>The leaders decided to call off the march at that point and began an orderly retreat. Harry Bennett, head of Ford security, drove up in a car, opened a window, and fired a pistol into the crowd. Immediately, the car was pelted with rocks, and Bennett was injured. He got out of the car and continued firing at the retreating marchers. Dearborn police and Ford security men opened fire with machine guns on the retreating marchers. Joe Bussell, 16 years old, was killed, and dozens more men were wounded. Bennett was hospitalized for his injury.

> All of the seriously wounded marchers were arrested, and the police chained many to their hospital beds after they were admitted for treatment. A nationwide search was conducted for William Z. Foster, but he was not arrested. No law enforcement or Ford security officer was arrested, although all reliable reports showed that they had engaged in all the gunfire, resulting in deaths, injuries and property damage. The New York Times reported that "Dearborn streets were stained with blood, streets were littered with broken glass and the wreckage of bullet-riddled automobiles, and nearly every window in the Ford plant's employment building had been broken".

The United States has never been a socialist country, even when it most likely should have been one, during the robber baron tyranny of the Gilded Age or the desperation of the Great Depression, and it never will be. Which isn’t to say that American capitalism is working; it needs Teddy Roosevelt-style trustbusting and restructuring. We’re coming for you, Facebook.

Yeah, just look how well that’s worked out, you fucking idiot.

The next month presents the last chance for serious scrutiny of Sanders, who is leading in both Iowa and New Hampshire. After that, Republicans will rip the bark off him. When they’re done, you will not recognize the aging, mouth-frothing, business-destroying commie from Ben and Jerry’s dystopian dairy. Demagogy is what Republicans do best. And Sanders is ripe for caricature.

The same Republicans that got their breakfast ate by the dottering windbag cheetoman? The same Republicans that are unpopular with over half the fucking country? The same Republicans which have shown majority support for Sanders’s policies in the past? Those are the Republicans you’re talking about, right, Timothy, you fucking asshole?

I’m not worried about the Russian stuff — Bernie’s self-described “very strange honeymoon” to the totalitarian hell of the Soviet Union in 1988, and his kind words for similar regimes. Compared with a president who is a willing stooge for the Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, a little vodka-induced dancing with the red bear is peanuts.

Nor am I worried about the legitimate questions concerning the candidate’s wife, Jane Sanders, who ran a Vermont college into the ground. Again, Trump’s family of grifters — from Ivanka securing her patents from China while Daddy made other promises to Beijing, to Don Jr.’s using the White House to leverage the family brand — give Democrats more than enough ammunition to return the fire.

This is fun. Due to a complete lack of incriminating conduct, little Timmy has to invent wrongdoing to libel Jane Sanders. I suppose he’s relying on his readers being too stupid to read the article that he himself links, another NYT hitpiece that desperately tries to paint Ms Sanders as a shady character without anything in the way of tangible proof.

>Federal prosecutors have not spoken publicly about their investigation, though late last year, Ms. Sanders’s lead lawyer said he had been told it had been closed. And while doubts remain about the contribution pledges claimed by the college, the lawyer has said that neither Ms. Sanders nor her husband was even questioned by investigators, indicating a lack of significant evidence of a crime.

>After Ms. Sanders’s ouster, the college’s troubles worsened. It abandoned a promising effort she had undertaken to sell some of its new land to improve its finances, interviews show. A few years later, when it did begin selling, it was to a consortium that secretly included at least one member of its board, raising conflict-of-interest questions.

>There is little question that the college’s 2016 demise can be traced to Ms. Sanders’s decision to champion an aggressive — critics say reckless — plan to buy the land. But with potential students put off by the lack of a campus, and with many such colleges struggling at the time, her move was the academic equivalent of a Hail Mary. Her allies said she never had a chance to fulfill her vision.

>“Jane made an audacious gambit to save the college,” said Genevieve Jacobs, a former faculty member. “It seemed to be a moment of ‘change or die.’”

>In interviews and emails, Ms. Sanders expressed frustration at her dismissal and the college’s failure to continue her rescue plan.

>“They went a completely different direction in every way than what we had proposed and decided upon as a board — with the bank, with the diocese, the bonding agency,” she said. “They didn’t carry out any of the plan. It was very confusing and upsetting at the time.”

The TL;DR seems to be: Jane Sanders tried to save a struggling school with an audacious but risky plan that ended up being aborted when she was let go by by a board, some of the members of which may have had a stake in seeing it fail. At the very least, a much more complex situation than the aspersion of “running it into the ground.”

Trump bragged about sexual assault, paid off a porn star and ran a fraudulent university. He sucks up to dictators and tells a half-dozen lies before he puts his socks on in the morning. A weird column about a rape fantasy from 1972 is not going to sink Bernie when Trump has debased all public discourse.

No, what will get the Trump demagogue factory working at full throttle is the central message of the Sanders campaign: that the United States needs a political revolution. It may very well need one. But most people don’t think so, as Barack Obama has argued. And getting two million new progressive votes in the usual area codes is not going to change that.

“Ah jeez, ah fuck, he has no sexual indiscretions that I can dredge up and his Feminist polemic against pornography and the rape culture that it engenders is old news, and if I actually reported on it honestly people might actually read it and support his ideas. Oh, well, you see, despite the incredible groundswell of support for just such a thing, Barack Obama, the man that gave the banks trillions of dollars and then allowed the state apparatus to function as their gestapo-cum-storm troopers, says we don’t need one!”

Timothy Egan wants to dismiss “two million new progressive votes” after doing a little gaslighting. His Democrat masters don’t want people to remember that it was Obama’s promises of Hope and Change after 8 years of Republican tyranny that generated a record breaking voter turnout. They would also like you to forget that 2016 was a 20-year low in voter turnout. Do you think those things are related, Mr Egan? Do you think that there might be some connection between Obama taking advantage of the desperation of millions of people, betraying them, and then those people not fucking showing up next time, causing your party to lose to the dimwit that they themselves boosted to the position?

Give Sanders credit for moving public opinion along on a living wage, higher taxes on the rich and the need for immediate action to stem the immolation of the planet. Most great ideas start on the fringe and move to the middle.

But some of his other ideas are stillborn, or never get beyond the fringe. Socialism, despite its flavor-of-the-month appeal to young people, is not popular with the general public. Just 39 percent of Americans view socialism positively, a bare uptick from 2010, compared with 87 percent who have a positive view of free enterprise, Gallup found last fall.

“Just” 39 percent of Americans, up 4% from 2016. This is ignoring for the moment that due to Americans’ piss-poor education system they have no idea what “Socialism” means aside from “more government.” Looking at the breakdown of results, it seems as though they just asked people off the top of their head what they thought about X, no definition or elaboration given. Unsurprisingly, when you look at the actual numbers on specific issues, you can see exactly why Egan has to play this deceptive bullshit: of respondents 18-34, 52% have a favorable view of “Socialism,” as opposed to 47% supporting “Capitalism.” This is in sharp contrast to the 35-54 and 55+ cohorts. 65% of Democrats have a favorable view of “Socialism.” Those with a “Liberal” ideology are even more in favor at 74%, Timothy Egan, you massive shithead.

What’s more, American confidence in the economy is now at the highest level in nearly two decades. That’s hardly the best condition for overthrowing the system.

"The highest level in nearly two decades.” That’s faint fucking praise right there.

You can see the tremendous fucking crater caused by the crash in 2007/8, a reversal of a whopping -81 points from the previous year. With many economists forecasting recession beginning either this year or the next, we’ll see how long the confidence lasts.

So-called Medicare for all, once people understand that it involves eliminating all private insurance, polls at barely above 40 percent in some surveys, versus the 70 percent who favor the option of Medicare for all who want it. Other polls show majority support. But cost is a huge concern. And even Sanders cannot give a price tag for nationalizing more than one-sixth of the economy.

A ban on fracking is a poison pill in a must-win state like Pennsylvania, which Democrats lost by just over 44,000 votes in 2016. Eliminating Immigration and Customs Enforcement, another Sanders plan, is hugely unpopular with the general public.

“Medicare for all is really unpopular, except when it isn’t.”

Hmm, you know? Hmmm.

As for fracking, from his own link:

>A November poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Cook Political Report found that only 39 percent of Pennsylvania swing voters saw a fracking ban as a good idea, even as nearly 7 in 10 of those same voters said they supported the idea of a “Green New Deal” for the environment.

Democrats are whinging on the jobs “lost” to a fracking ban as though it exists in isolation. 39% might support a fracking ban, but 70% support the GND, which could potentially offset the “job loss” with industry that has the potential not to leave their state as a fucking environmentally ruined horror show. I haven’t run the numbers on this, but not living in a cesspool of polluted air and water tends to be pretty popular, Timbo.

More shellgames from Mr Egan regarding abolishing ICE.

> Only 1 in 4 voters in the poll, 25 percent, believe the federal government should get rid of ICE. The majority, 54 percent, think the government should keep ICE. Twenty-one percent of voters are undecided.

That sounds bad. Maybe it’s not such a good ide

>But a plurality of Democratic voters do support abolishing ICE, the poll shows. Among Democrats, 43 percent say the government should get rid of ICE, while only 34 percent say it should keep ICE.

Oh.

Sanders is a rigid man, and he projects grumpy-old-man rigidity, with his policy prescriptions frozen in failed Marxist pipe dreams. He’s unlikely to change. I sort of like that about his character, in the same way I like that he didn’t cave to the politically correct bullies who went after him for accepting the support of the influential podcaster Joe Rogan.

Democrats win with broad-vision optimists who still shake up the system — Franklin Roosevelt, of course, but also Obama. The D’s flipped 40 House seats in 2018 without using any of Sanders’s stringent medicine. If they stick to that elixir they’ll oust Trump, the goal of a majority of Americans.

Democrats lose with fire-and-brimstone fundamentalists. Three times, the party nominated William Jennings Bryan, the quirky progressive with great oratorical pipes, and three times they were trounced. Look him up, kids. Your grandchildren will do a similar search for Bernie Sanders when they wonder how Donald Trump won a second term.

“Failed Marxist pipe dreams.” Aaaaay lmao. You should also have an inkling something is wrong when you have to go all the way back to FDR to find someone that supports your point. Talk about “poison pills,” Obama proved himself to be as much of a snake as the rest, and the effects of that resonated in 2016 when the Dems ran on a platform of “that’s a nice country you have there, you wouldn’t want Trump to get elected, would you?” How did that work out? You ran one of the most unpopular politicians in the country—after very blatantly rigging the primaries against Sanders to do so—against one of the most unpopular capitalists in the country, and lost, dipshit!

Ironically, I think Timbob’s closing statement will prove true, though not in the way his clown ass intends. Shills like Egan are doing everything they can to try and poison public perception against Sanders and his policies, who only proves increasingly popular as time goes on, so much so in fact that the DNC is already biting its nails and muttering to itself about ways it can try and cheat his supporters again.

In conversations on the sidelines of a DNC executive committee meeting and in telephone calls and texts in recent days, about a half-dozen members have discussed the possibility of a policy reversal to ensure that so-called superdelegates can vote on the first ballot at the party’s national convention. Such a move would increase the influence of DNC members, members of Congress and other top party officials, who now must wait until the second ballot to have their say if the convention is contested.

They deny it in the article, claim that changing the rules would be “bad sportsmanship,” but one would be a fool to believe them. If anything, their ambivalence towards relying on Superdelegates would make me even more nervous at this stage. Politico wants it to seem like the DNC is bent on playing fair, but more likely than not they have no intention of changing the convention rules because they believe there’s no need. With Warren’s flagging support and the luke-warm response to Biden, I doubt they’re overcome with optimism of beating Sanders in an honest primary. With all the shenanigans from last time’s primaries in mind, it’s likely that the machinery to rig the results their way is already in place—the primary could already be over before it even begins.

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