Funny. If there was a Republican President, they’d want Scalia replaced immediately.

Politics is so damned transparently without honor, code or even a shred of dignity or respect.

That’s why I say it’s pornography for polite society. Actually, I think watching penises enter various orifices is far less obscene that so much of what occurs in what we call the “Political Arena”.

Far. Less. Obscene.

I’ll say this about the “horserace”…ugh.

If Trump wins South Carolina, which it seems he just may and by more than 15 pts over Cruz, then I just may run the table come Super Tuesday and he’ll be the nominee, even if he doesn’t have the all of the delegates come the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

That said, what’s frustrating is that Dems say Hillary is “more electable”, but in EVERY SINGLE national poll, Trump beats or ties Hillary… ,but Sanders just CRUSHES Trump. It’s not close, something like 12-14 points. And electorally speaking, Sanders keeps New York whereas we’re left to wonder if Trump brings New York into play with Clinton. That would be… HUGE. (sorry)

Secretary Clinton will go on the offensive about the court and women’s rights. And she should. However, Bernie will hit even harder about Citizen’s United and the chance to actually make a difference systemically on all issues and since he’s IN the Senate, he’ll have a front row seat for the circus and he’ll be able to make speeches on the Senate Floor regarding nominees, a place where Secretary Clinton can’t go.

I appreciate Bernie because of his stance on the issues that matter and because I truly believe that he has no personal ambition to be President, but no one else is willing to solve these critical problems in a real way.

He sees many of these issues, Climate Change, Citizens United, mass incarceration, health care as a right as EXISTENTIAL threats to our democracy and the citizenry. Because no other candidate sees them this way (or at all), he had no other choice, but to run.

I’m done triangulating and fucking around with the politics. Politics is pornography for polite society. Actually, there’s more boobs in politics. I’m focusing on actual policy, actual judgment, actual actions, and actual programs going forward.

Based on that, there’s Bernie…. And there’s Hillary as a terribly distant second and mostly because there’s no serious Republicans I could listen to like maybe Buddy Roemer. Heck this crowd makes Kasich seem palatable, the same Gov Kasich who engaged in some of the most disgusting voter disenfranchisement this country’s ever seen.

Well, Waterfield, it’s a little frustrating when folks say that he says he’ll do something, but not how. Just a little, mind you.

That’s just beyond not true. If anything, Bernie’s beating a long dead horse so much so that his audiences repeat his speeches back to him almost with a Rocky Horror Picture Show-esque quality to it.

Free College: This is a misnomer. Bernie has said that PUBLIC Colleges and Universities would be free and that this would be paid for with a transaction tax on Wall Street. Conservatively, the transaction tax right now more than pays for this. Now, is this legislation? Of course not. There would be TONS of details to be worked out likely including things like a means test (the trope of not letting Donald Trump’s kids go to school for free), reining in the massive building boom on Public University campuses, and other issues relating to the COST of education such that the government doesn’t find Public College becoming another entitlement program. This is actually a HUGE idea and critically important and why much smaller economies are able to compete with us when our scale can’t be brought to bear. The money that doesn’t become a mortgage on a person’s future success instead goes straight into the economy, from home-ownership to cars and clothes and movie tix and umpteen services. There is currently over a TRILLION dollars of our economy right now tied up in student debt that would be a massive jump start to the economy if that debt weren’t there. Massive maybe isn’t a big enough word… But the answer to HOW is by employing a transaction tax on financial instruments. For casual investors who are in IRAs, 401ks and long term investment instruments, the tax would be negligible. For agencies who trade millions of stocks per minute and often manipulate the market… well, they’ll actually have to pay. It’s a reasonable cost of doing business.

And that’s just one of many points. No candidate can lay out enough detail that it could compete with legislation because that’s not feasible (unless they’ve already done that in the course of their former duties). Moreover, it will always be necessary for further details to be hammered out in the various committees so it wouldn’t make any sense to have that level of detail when the various committees would just make tons of changes to the fine details, anyway.

I’m not exactly a Bernie Sanders spokesperson, but I listen when I can and I’m happy to answer any policy questions anyone has that I know he’s answered.

Other than Medicaid for All, I don’t think he’s not given a HOW answer to any topic unless it’s not appropriate (like no one can give an answer to “how will you defeat ISIL/ISIS?” when the nature of their existential threat morphs as rapidly as it has). And I don’t think a single HOW answer for transitioning to Medicare for All works on the stump. That would be a “devil’s in the details” kinda thing where it could be great or could suck horribly because most of it would be issues of health policy and logistics and hoping to avoid unintended circumstances.

One of the big differences between Nader and Sanders is that Sanders is actually talking about HOW he’d do it and he’s done the FIRST, most honest part… that is that you simply cannot just elect ANYONE and expect ANYTHING to get done in the current climate of money in politics.

I doubt Sanders wins South Carolina. In fact, I expect him to lose by around 16 points, give or take. But considering he’s down by almost 40 right now, the idea that he can close more than 20 points in less than 10 days will show that he needs very little time to convince people of the validity of his message.

Actually, my longest migraine was 12 WEEKS!!! That was a real doozy. I routinely stayed awake for periods of 3 and 4 days at a time during that one and after 10 weeks, I started hallucinating. Mostly hearing voices. I started ignoring anyone unless I could see their lips move. I didn’t hear anything creepy, just kept thinking my name was being called or that people were trying to talk to me and I couldn’t understand them. It only took a couple of confused looks for me to get it that I was hallucinating and man, did that scare the crap out of me! I only recently admitted that to my doctors and started talking about that because I didn’t have a doctor I felt I could trust with that information.

I know what’s causing it. I have a lesion in my brain caused by a massive Grand Mal seizure brought on my being overmedicated by a Navy doc when I was in Nuclear Field ET A school. I’d been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and the doc didn’t listen that I kept my body real clean and that I was very sensitive to side effects and gave me the max dosage for my body weight and I went toxic 20 days later and had a Grand Mal seizure that caused me to stop breathing in excess of 4 minutes and left a lesion in my brain. When they did the MRI this time, they could still see it, so it’s still there…

Migraine and seizure disorder puts me at a greater risk of all sorts of neuro pathology, stroke, aneurysm, and stuff like that.

You know the funny thing is that when I got to the ER and they were hooking me up, I was kinda laughing with the ER nurse, a guy who recognized me, that I was glad it was a migraine and not a kidney stone because I’m over catheters… just soooo over them… LOL.

Not that I’d prefer a stroke, but you all see where I’m coming from…hahaha.

I’d rather have Bernie Sanders and 500 turds than Marco Rubio and 500 turds…

Actually, that’s more like 501 turds…

Nevermind.

Still Feelin’ the Bern…

Btw, anyone else feel that even 12 years ago Martin O’Malley would have been a fantastic candidate, but that now a rehearsed, camera friendly candidate who’s spouting a populist message ala John Edwards even if it comes across as genuine as O’Malley does just doesn’t resonate?

Watching O’Malley is like listening to a muffled gong. You just KNOW it should be different, but… it ain’t. You just don’t feel it.

I did catch it later and it was hysterical!

I can only hope that decency becomes en vogue and truth a fad…