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Thank You DNC

I have been watching a few highlights, thoughts, comments, and clips online today about Bernie Sanders and the Democratic National Convention (DNC). As I watched the many speakers I thought to myself "What would I say in my DNC speech?"

I realized though that I would have two speeches - maybe even three - because I'm sure the only way you got to give a speech is tow the party line - looking at you Sarah Silverman. So that means I would have to be "politic." I often do this when writing to elected officials. I will take my fury and temper it. So here are my speeches below.

Politic Speech

"Hello everyone. I am so very honored and touched to be here tonight. I am a patriot and I love my country. As I look out over this crowd I see many who probably feel as I do. We love our country and knowing that Bernie Sanders will not be our next president breaks our hearts.

But Berners know this: We are not alone. We have each other. The spark that Bernie started in has spread with passion across our country. Let us join together and campaign and vote and run for office for the common good. Let us see each other as allies. Let us always remember that we are not alone. We have each other. And we have our beloved country.

Bernie has always talked about issues. So let us continue to talk about issues. Let us, voice, and write, and vote our truths. Let us remember Bernie's compassion and practice compassion for others - and ourselves. Let us give ourselves time to mourn. Then we organize and move on.

Hillary Clinton gave a wonderful speech in 2008. Barack Obama had been chosen to be the candidate over her. She came out on stage and said "keep moving forward." Eight years later, I would like to use that quote for us, for all of us now: "Keep going."

So I look at you all and I say "keep going." Keep discussing and uplifting our progressive issues. Keep Bernie in your hearts. Keep your brothers and yours sisters within reach. This is our country and we will continue to increase its greatness.

For America."


But what I would really like to say is this:

NOT Politic

"Wow. I didn't know we lived in feudal Europe. I thought that's why we fought the Revolution. So WE THE PEOPLE could decide our next president. Thanks a lot for educating me, DNC. Thanks for proving to the world that you are just as corrupt as Republicans. Wow! I mean their machine didn't want Trump, didn't go to the convention, didn't show party unity, and yet the outsider got the nomination! Cool! Who'd a thunk they would have been more democratic in their nominating process than YOU.

I guess money really does change everything.

Look, DNC, it has been proven that you rigged this election. You made sure Hillary Clinton would get the nomination at all costs. Never mind that Bernie, who had no national spotlight on him for decades, began to draw crowds of thousands and fill stadiums. Ignore the fact that he got money sent to him in droves by loyal supporters who felt they were finally being represented. Dismiss all of the claims that state Trump will beat Hillary, but Bernie would win and win big. All you care about is Hillary getting her day. 

Hey, you know what? I love Hillary too. I have loved her and supported her for years. Bernie Sanders has my vote because he actually talks about and cares about the future of the American people, who, BTW, are America. Remember how you talk about America? The sovereignty of this nation lies within its people - not Wall Street.

I know, DNC, I know, you made sure Barack Obama would get the nomination in 2008. Even though Hillary should have by all rights gotten it. She had more delegates and way more experience. I would not be surprised to read or hear that she was pulled into a meeting and told to back off and let Barack win. If she did that, she would be given her turn by the DNC in 2016 to be the nominee. 

You should have been the nominee in 2008, Hillary. You had more to offer and more political clout than a junior senator from Illinois. But the party decided against you and what did you do? You came out on stage in 2008 and supported Barack Obama. You gave a rousing, powerful speech. You classy woman you. You were amazing. And I cried for you because you had been robbed. 

But just because you were robbed does not mean you should rob others.

I'm sorry you feel no one wants you, Hillary. Yes a lot of it is sexist bullsh*t and loathing contempt created by the Republicans for you and your Clinton name has made your walk to the White House difficult. Damn near impossible. However, you did not change with the times. Hillary, if you talked and VOTED like Bernie I would so enthusiastically be supporting you. Being told Trump is evil is not a good campaign slogan. 

 

Yes I want a woman president. However I am eyeing Nina Turner or Tulsi Gabbard. After all, when I take sexism out of the equation and look at all issues, they are the ones I want. 

As for speeches given by robbed candidates, that three minutes of cheering and applause for Bernie told us everything. Do you get it? He didn't have to speak to get support.

I would also like to remind you, DNC and Hillary, that your obvious contempt for Berners does you no good. You won't let us bring our signs into the convention - WTF? You constantly state we are hostile (gee I wonder why), and you insult us hoping that this strategy will move us into "towing the party line." Looking at you, Sarah Silverman and Al Franken. I don't know who told you that calling someone "ridiculous" was a good strategy to get them to agree with you, but they lied. Let me drop some wisdom on you: That doesn't work. When you call people "ridiculous" - especially after they have been so poorly treated - you do nothing to bring them to your side. Take note DNC. Don't treat anyone, especially adults who have spent thousands of dollar and travelled thousands of miles to be heart, in a dismissive fashion. DNC, you will do yourself worlds of good if you offer and olive branch to the Berners, honor their justified feelings. (Remember the apology you released?)  Honor the Bernie camp, ask what you can do now to meet with us and represent us. In short, act like gracious adults. (See above speech.) 

You know how you could have avoided all of this party shattering, DNC and Hillary? Made Bernie the VP. I don't know about other Berners, but I would be so happy right now and would promote Clinton/Sanders like nobody's business. You would have had, as Michael Moore points out, enthusiastic voters. But you let your ego get in the way. You blew it. You didn't listen to the people. Good on you.

Oh no. Donald  just said the DNC primaries were rigged and Bernie was cheated. STOP DOING THINGS THAT MAKE ME AGREE WITH DONALD!

If Donald Trump wins, it will be YOUR FAULT, DNC AND HILLARY. You had a chance to win and win big. You blew it. This Berner will not be your scapegoat.

Oh and if you need money, ask the Clinton Foundation.

(Drops the mic)"


Super not appropriate for prime time speech that would be playing in my mind. 

THIRD SPEECH - REALLY NOT POLITIC

Make f*ck and damn every other word.

Re-Post: Justin Trudeau Would Get My Vote

Hmmmm..... found the below post and it hadn't been published yet. It may be late but it is good. -PAP
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Well go Justin Trudeau! HuffPost wrote about him in this article: Justin Trudeau's Abortion Tweet About Women Is Pretty Refreshing which is reposted below. I totally agree. 

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At a time when it can feel like women's rights are being determined by people who aren't, frankly, affected by them, one Canadian politician is taking a hard line stance — 100 per cent in favour of a woman's choice.

Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau has been under fire as of late for requiring Liberal candidates to clarify their views on abortion, and agree to vote pro-choice on any bills that may come to them on the issue.

A letter from seven former members of Parliament — all of them men — was released this week, calling Trudeau's stance "undemocratic" and asking him to rescind it.
This is what Trudeau tweeted in response:

Trudeau has been unequivocal in his support of women in his campaign.

"I don't know that there is anyone in this country that is in favour of abortions," he said in June. "But what I am very much in favour of is a woman's right to make that determination on her own, in consultation with the medical community, in consultation with whomever she chooses to consult.

A woman should have the option to her right to choose. Sounds pretty straightforward to us.

Pry it from our cold, dead hands

A few days ago the lovely Margaret and Helen posted their wonderful feelings about the GOP and their "no vaginas" on stage during the first debate. As they perfectly pointed out, what are a bunch of men doing talking about women's health. My favorite paragraph with my favorite line is posted below.

"And in 100 years, millions of women have trusted and supported Planned Parenthood much the same way Republicans blindly trust and support the NRA.  So to the Republican Presidential Candidates I say in the only words they seem to understand: You can close Planned Parenthood when you pry it from our cold, dead hands. I mean it.  Really." - Helen from Margaret and Helen

Now do yourself a favor and read the whole post here: On a stage with no vaginas, there were a lot of opinions about vaginas.

Oh Margaret and Helen, I salute you! And fret not ladies, I'm a well armed American and will happily defend Planned Parenthood to the end.

Re-Post: Escape from Duggarville

Well my my. The more patriarchy tries to complain liberalism ruins everything the more it is proved, well wrong. Obviously. Found a very interesting article about Vyckie Garrison - a minir celebrity in the Quiverfull Movment. It's a good read.

 

Escape from Duggarville: How playing the good Christian housewife almost killed me

Article also lead to some other good sites: 

• No Longer Quivering 
• Love, Joy, and Feminism 
• Patheos

Enjoy. 

Everything Old is Trying to Be Again

Our current prejudices - sexism, racism, etc. - often get reflected onto other times and people. Yet there is evidence that this is not the case. (Good grief our cultures on this planet in this time are so varied!) So I really enjoyed the article by Reclusive Leftist titled Oldest depiction of female form shows that modern archaeologists are pornsick misogynists.

Yes the title may make you laugh and the article may make you shake your head. It is very good reading. We must be careful how we look at our past as our judgement may be clouded by our own current thinking. We may not be seeing the truth.

To quote the author:

"This has been the central flaw of anthropology for as long there’s been anthropology. And even before: the English invaders of North America thought the Iroquois chiefs had concubines who accompanied them everywhere, because they had no other mental categories to account for well-dressed, important-looking women sitting in a council house. It’s the same fallacy that bedevils archaeologists who dig up male skeletons with fancy beads and conclude that the society was male dominant (because powerful people wear jewelry!), and at another site dig up female skeletons with fancy beads and conclude that this society, too, was male dominant (because women have to dress up as sex objects and trophy wives!). Male dominance is all they can imagine. And so no matter what they dig up, they interpret it to fit their mental model."

Read the whole article here and enjoy. 

Oldest depiction of female form shows that modern archaeologists are pornsick misogynists.

All Hail Mom!

Stonekettle Station & Negotiating with Hostages

Hello All. A friend sent me a wonderful blog that has gone viral: Stonekettle Station: Negotiating With Terrorists. It is very good and said a lot of things I was thinking, so of course I have linked to it below.

Stonekettle Station: Negotiating With Terrorists

I found this essay wonderful for many reasons. I'll share two: 1.) Author calls people on their fear and hatred of Obama; and 2.) Gives voice to others when thoughtful and polite.

I'll give you an example of 1.).

"Oh, I get it. I understand that frightened people become more and more irrational, especially when they are allowed, encouraged, to feed incestuously on each other’s fear. And I get that they are afraid. I can see it in their faces, I can hear it in their voices. I get that they’re afraid of change. I get that they’re afraid of the future. I get that they’re afraid of the past. And I get that they’re afraid of the present. I get that they’re afraid of losing power and privilege and prestige. I get that they’re afraid of their capricious and childishly vengeful god. I get that they’re afraid of different races and different cultures and different accents and different religions and different sexual orientations and different viewpoints and different politics. I get it, they’ve screamed their small fears over and over and only a dead man could possibly miss it.

I get that they are so consumed with rage and so filled with naked hate and so programmed with their diseased ideology that it poisons their minds like a computer chip submerged in acid. 

I get that they are so utterly terrified of the world that they piss themselves in abject fear at the mere thought of going to the grocery store without a goddamned gun stuck in their pants like an extra oversized prick. 

More than anything, I get that they are afraid of Barack Obama, everything about him, every single thing about the president terrifies them. Obama stalks their feverish nightmares and he is the very symbol of their shameful impotence – so much so that they’ve written him into their precious bible, in a starring role as the devil, the destroyer of worlds. 

I get it. 

And I get that it’s an uncontrollable mindless tic, a raging xenophobia, a political PTSD, and they know that it’s wrong but they can’t seem to do anything about it. 

It’s just how their crippled minds work."

Yes. I for one often think that no matter what Obama does his detractors will scream in hysteria. *sigh* Reminds me how not to behave.

Now for 2.) When a brother Marine wrote to him politely expressing his POV, Stonekettle posted his reply. You can read it here: Negotiating With Terrorists: The Counterpoint.

I think I have found a new blog to follow.