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Quixote1818's JournalDan Fogelberg's "Tribute" To Donald Trump written years ago.
This was written and directed at Donald Trump back in 1993. Dan died of prostate cancer in 2007.
This was another really great political song from the same Album "River of Souls" not one of his better known albums.
I think Bernie should borrow Robert Reich's book title for his campaign: Saving Capitalism
He could give Robert Reich credit but if he started saying we want to save capitalism over and over and gave the same context as he has been giving such as the money has been moving from the middle class to the 1% because the so called "free market" has been hijacked to only work for the top 1% I think a lot more independents and even moderate Republicans would be open to looking at what he is saying. I think he still has a chance but if it had been me running his campaign I would have suggested something more inline with Reich's title. Lets face it, Bernie doesn't want to get rid of Capitalism, he wants it to work for everyone by using a few Gov programs to level the playing field so Capitalism works better for everyone not just the 1%.
As for time changes, which would you prefer?
I feer there will be gun violence at a Trump rally sooner or later
If these rally's keep becoming volatile and he keeps suggesting its okay for his supporters to be violent, someone like the guy who cold cocked the black man when he wasn't looking and said he might need to be killed is going to pull out his gun and start killing people.
The comment sections show the rage that is building right now by Trump supporters. It's rising to a fever pitch.
Never in a million years would I have imagined this type of thing occurring in the country I grew up with. This is extremely sad and eye opening.
Listen to Reagan’s Press Secretary Laugh About Gay People Dying of AIDS
For anyone pretty young, this will give you an idea what was going on back in the 80's with Reagan and AIDS.
Video / Audio of the Press Conference at link that will give you shivers
By Mark Joseph Stern SLATE
On Oct. 15, 1982, at a White House press briefing, reporter Lester Kinsolving asked Press Secretary Larry Speakes about a horrifying new disease called AIDS that was ravaging the gay community.
“What’s AIDS?” Speakes asked.
“It’s known as the ‘gay plague,’ ” Kinsolving replied.
Everyone laughed.
“I don’t have it,” Speakes replied. “Do you?” The room erupted in laughter again. Speakes continued to parry Kinsolving’s questions with quips, joking that Kinsolving himself might be gay simply because he knew about the disease. The press secretary eventually acknowledged that nobody in the White House, including Reagan, knew anything about the epidemic.
“There has been no personal experience here,” Speakes cracked. The room was in stitches.
On Dec. 1, 2015—World AIDS Day—Vanity Fair debuted a short documentary by Scott Calonico about this now-infamous exchange. Calonico has finally unearthed audio of the galling colloquy between Speakes and Kinsolving. Their exchange—and the accompanying laughter—is as horrifying now as it must have been to those dying of the disease in 1982.
More: http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/12/01/reagan_press_secretary_laughs_about_gay_people_dying_of_aids.html
Someone should have taken Trump down with chloroform along time ago! Bill Burr comedy act
Watching the Chicago Trump Rally Chaos I was reminded of this Bill Burr video:
Hillary's comments on Nancy, Ronald and AIDS
First I want to disclose that I am a Bernie supporter though I will support Hillary full throttle if she gets the nomination. As I start to write this I am not even sure what I am about to write because I am trying to sort this out as it's just sort of bizarre and hard to believe. I have a lot of old emotions bubbling up and I guess I just need to write about this and see what it is I am feeling. It's strange because if there is one thing I was extremely aware of growing up in the 70's 80's was that Reagan completely and utterly failed in every possible way on AIDS. I am a straight man but was raised by two very liberal parents who both taught at the local University and I remember several poignant discussions about Reagan's prejudices leading his staff to joke about AIDS and the millions of folks who (mostly gay and drug users) were dropping like flies at the time and nothing was being done.
My oldest sisters best friend died of AIDS and sadly we saw him just a week before he died. That whole experience is seared into my mind. I remember Mom literally almost falling down in tears after we saw him and his partner who was much younger than he was. I don't want to give his real name so I will just call him "John" for now. I just remember my Mom crying because she was very upset about "John" but even more upset about his young partner who she described over and over as "doomed" as she was absolutely crushed at seeing such a deer friend of our family and his loved one dying in front of our eyes. There are few instances in my life I remember seeing her so torn up.
I also remember several instances in college when professors would talk about AIDS and religious right nuts would argue with the professors suggesting God had sent AIDS to kill off all the gays and drug users. I will never forget the look on one of my professors faces as he rolled his eyes in complete and utter disgust. This kind of crap was coming out of the Reagan and the Republican party and it was everywhere!
So even as a kid in HS and College I remember all too well the fucking crap Reagan the Republicans and all their ilk were pulling to delay any progress on AIDS so millions of folks who they despised would die horrible deaths. I remember the anger in my parents voices toward Reagan over this. So what strikes me is how on Earth Hillary could get this so wrong? It's why this strikes me as sort of a Freudian slip on her part. People who cared deeply about those dying of AIDS were focused like a laser on the failings of the Reagan Administration, so for her to get that wrong tells me that this issue simply was not important to her at the time. Perhaps she has changed but this really makes me wonder if that Berry Goldwater girl blood was still somewhat running through her veins at the time. Her answer is a real window into her soul around the time all this was going down.
Perhaps she didn't lose anyone close to her from AIDS and I can understand how that would prevent her from being as strongly impacted as my family and I were, but still, watching all those folks die as Reagan sat by and his Press Secretary laughed at those dying; as many people suggested they had it coming, was flat out evil! It just boggles my mind how anyone who does politics for a living could get this so wrong.
I will still of course support Hillary if she gets the nomination but I hope she learns from this. When there is a disease holocaust going on in front of our eyes, how can someone not be deeply touched and moved into action, and in Hillary's case be so oblivious to the fact that the Reagans were the enemy of AIDS victims? How was she not aware of how deeply painful this was to the gay and lesbian community among so many others? I am willing to give her a pass on a lot of things other Bernie supporters won't because I agree with Thom Hartmann that Hillary is basically running a pretty typical dirty campaign that is considered okay by most in politics but how she got this wrong just kind of floored me and I had to say something. I will probably always look at her a bit differently now; with a little more distrust.
Hilary's comments on Nancy, Ronald and AIDS
First I want to disclose that I am a Bernie supporter though I will support Hillary full throttle if she gets the nomination. As I start to write this I am not even sure what I am about to write because I am trying to sort this out as it's just sort of bizarre and hard to believe. I have a lot of old emotions bubbling up and I guess I just need to write about this and see what it is I am feeling. It's strange because if there is one thing I was extremely aware of growing up in the 70's 80's was that Reagan completely and utterly failed in every possible way on AIDS. I am a straight man but was raised by two very liberal parents who both taught at the local University and I remember several poignant discussions about Reagan's prejudices leading his staff to joke about AIDS and the millions of folks who (mostly gay and drug users) were dropping like flies at the time and nothing was being done.
My oldest sisters best friend died of AIDS and sadly we saw him just a week before he died. That whole experience is seared into my mind. I remember Mom literally almost falling down in tears after we saw him and his partner who was much younger than he was. I don't want to give his real name so I will just call him "John" for now. I just remember my Mom crying because she was very upset about "John" but even more upset about his young partner who she described over and over as "doomed" as she was absolutely crushed at seeing such a deer friend of our family and his loved one dying in front of our eyes. There are few instances in my life I remember seeing her so torn up.
I also remember several instances in college when professors would talk about AIDS and religious right nuts would argue with the professors suggesting God had sent AIDS to kill off all the gays and drug users. I will never forget the look on one of my professors faces as he rolled his eyes in complete and utter disgust. This kind of crap was coming out of the Reagan and the Republican party and it was everywhere!
So even as a kid in HS and College I remember all too well the fucking crap Reagan the Republicans and all their ilk were pulling to delay any progress on AIDS so millions of folks who they despised would die horrible deaths. I remember the anger in my parents voices toward Reagan over this. So what strikes me is how on Earth Hillary could get this so wrong? It's why this strikes me as sort of a Freudian slip on her part. People who cared deeply about those dying of AIDS were focused like a laser on the failings of the Reagan Administration, so for her to get that wrong tells me that this issue simply was not important to her at the time. Perhaps she has changed but this really makes me wonder if that Berry Goldwater girl blood was still somewhat running through her veins at the time. Her answer is a real window into her soul around the time all this was going down.
Perhaps she didn't lose anyone close to her from AIDS and I can understand how that would prevent her from being as strongly impacted as my family and I were, but still, watching all those folks die as Reagan sat by and his Press Secretary laughed at those dying; as many people suggested they had it coming, was flat out evil! It just boggles my mind how anyone who does politics for a living could get this so wrong.
I will still of course support Hillary if she gets the nomination but I hope she learns from this. When there is a disease holocaust going on in front of our eyes, how can someone not be deeply touched and moved into action, and in Hillary's case be so oblivious to the fact that the Reagans were the enemy of AIDS victims? How was she not aware of how deeply painful this was to the gay and lesbian community among so many others? I am willing to give her a pass on a lot of things other Bernie supporters won't because I agree with Thom Hartmann that Hillary is basically running a pretty typical dirty campaign that is considered okay by most in politics but how she got this wrong just kind of floored me and I had to say something. I will probably always look at her a bit differently now; with a little more distrust.
Need help finding an image of the Bernie sign torn in half but fixed by a Bernie supporter
The other day I came across this image but a Sanders supporter fixed it to say something like "And now the neighborhood has Healthcare, free college etc. etc. Can someone send me a link to that fixed image?
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I just had this emailed to me by a co-worker and want to respond with the other sign.
Thanks!
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