Saturday, May 7, 2016

H.A. Goodman, Guccifer just gave Bernie Sanders the nomination.

I do not know this person. I found him difficult to watch and harder to listen to so I turned him off very early and went down to comments instead. I notice everyone there seems to be liberal. His followers seem to be Bernie supporters. I look up his name and see he writes for Huffington post. He says nothing new here. Nothing at all. We've discussed all this already and at length. I am showing this video only for two reasons. Three. I liked the comments, although I disagree with their political views, here they are all sincere. And that caused to bear with the rest of H.A. Goodman. Everything he says is rational and agreeable. (Near the end he characterizes Trump a buffoon, I think he's mistaken there.)

It's interesting to me for it showing sincere liberals dealing with this.



Here are the two reasons I'm showing this video. I'm mesmerized by this guy's mouth. His teeth are preternaturally white. More white than his white shirt. These are known as American teeth. Imagine drawing his lips, three distinct loops like swag curtains. 

The picture in the back. This bugs the living p-i-double slalom trails out of me. It interrupts throughout the whole thing creating tension from beginning to end. The painting is reversed. This video is reversed. Flipped. And the oil painting reproduction is flipped with it. The woman is walking the other direction. The sun is on the right side, not the left. This is Monet, and it's flipped in this video. And worse, none of the nearly 200 commenters noticed. Nobody complained. It didn't bug anyone. Except me. This same thing happened with Armand Hammer oil exhibition decades ago. It was promoted in the paper with a double spread of thumbnail oils. Many are famous like this one. I noticed one reversed and mentioned it, then another and another and another. I told this to Toni who insists I am nuts. That I'm making it all up.  So I took the promotional spread with me folded in my pocket when we went and pointed out to her the real paintings that were carelessly flipped in printing. Now respect mah authoritah. But she didn't. 

56 comments:

AllenS said...

Bernie will never get the nomination. The powers that be will make sure of it.

Anonymous said...

It bugs you because you're sooooooo special.

edutcher said...

Could we be looking at a fusion? '68 on one hand and '64 & '72 (year of the ideologues) on the other? We've seen one (self-proclaimed) ideologue flame out, but could the real ideologue make it?

AllenS said...

Bernie will never get the nomination. The powers that be will make sure of it.

A lot of people said that about Trump. Granted, the odds are better on this one, but nobody's people are as passionate as Bernie's.

AllenS said...

I consider the DNC to be far more ruthless than the chickenshit GOPe.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Heaven forbid... I guess there are people of faith amongst Bernie Followers ;)

XRay said...

OT -

No email for you Chip, so forgive the OT. But thought you might find this interesting given your recent cloud photography. A good read on clouds, their naming conventions, and the man who started the Cloud Appreciation Society.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-amateur-cloud-society-that-sort-of-rattled-the-scientific-community.html

https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

Bernie will never get the nomination, the fix has been in for a long time.

ndspinelli said...

There was a time when the political parties put in the chairman post, strong, intelligent people. Look @ the 2 bozos chairing the duopoly.

ndspinelli said...

Allen, You're correct. If Lady Macbeth is indicted, Uncle Joe is put in the spot.

ricpic said...

The painting of the woman with a parasol is a Monet. Is it reversed? Not sure. The still life is by Manet.

Couldn't stand the voice of this "brilliant" child.

AllenS said...

Agree, Nick.

edutcher said...

AllenS said...

I consider the DNC to be far more ruthless than the chickenshit GOPe.

Ruthless, yes, but are they stupid?

ndspinelli said...

Allen, You're correct. If Lady Macbeth is indicted, Uncle Joe is put in the spot.

So much for the stupid question.

ndspinelli said...

If it's Biden, Trump will have to navigate around the grieving father stuff. I think he could do it, but it would be trickier than Hillary.

edutcher said...

First, I don't think even the Demos are that crazy.

Second, the Bernies wouldn't stand for it.

Third, Trump will find a way.

Last, most people don't even know who Joe is, let alone he had a son.

ndspinelli said...

You are a tough person to have a normal, substantive conversation w/, ed.

edutcher said...

You mean because I point out the holes in your argument?

Funny, April has the same problem.

I'm Full of Soup said...

I believe the Biden option too. As AllenS pointed out, the Dems play to win. If they think Hillary is damaged goods and she can't win, they will walk over Bernie and dump Hillary in a flash and put the maroon, Slow Joe on the ticket as Prez.

AllenS said...

If Biden became the POTUS, there would be a laugh-a-day, until we all started to cry.

Rabel said...

Chipper for the win.

Chip Ahoy said...

Ah, much better.

edutcher said...

AJ Lynch said...

I believe the Biden option too. As AllenS pointed out, the Dems play to win.

If the Demos play to win, they'll put up somebody besides Joe.

Maybe George Ramos.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

When I listen to the wretched Hillary supporters, I'm starting to think of Chris Crocker.

Leave Hillary alone! Lol.

Trooper York said...

I think if Hillary is knocked out because of the FBI they will turn to Elizabeth Warren. That will energize Bernie's people. He will have to shut up because the establishment is giving it to a fellow progressive. Match her up with a Hispanic or more likely black politician like Corey Booker or Deval Patrick and it touches all the Democratic bases.

Biden is the candidate of the old line media and conventional wisdom. How many times has he run and lost? They need the enthusiasm of Bernie's shock troops. Why go with another tired old white man? Experience? The experience of saying stupid stuff.

Elizabeth Warren is a smart amoral opportunistic cookie. She avoided being smashed all this time. She can count on the lapdog media to run interference for her. Trump should be able to piece her protective bubble. Ridicule is his best tactic. If he could make her a joke he can win easily. Otherwise she is a much more formidable Democrat.

ndspinelli said...

Yes ed, you are a masturbater, err master debater. Biden paved the way doing his grief tour on the late night shows. He makes cameos on prime time TV shows like Parks and Rec. People know him. Obama trusts him to keep his legacy and certainly does not trust Hillary. ed one of your main problems is your insularity. Another is you allow emotion, not logic, to drive you. Try some mental exercises using the left brain.

ndspinelli said...

Biden on the top of the ticket. Warren VP. Biden vowing to be a one term Prez. I said that when the email investigation started, and I still see that as a possible scenario.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Chip -

I'm serious.

The best damage that can be done to Hillary now is to make t-shirts with Chris Crocker on them saying, "LEAVE HILLARY ALONE!"

If you're up for it or know anyone with a background in graphic design who is up for it, that would resonate like the political/cultural equivalent of a 10-point Richter scale earthquake.

Nothing would rightfully and very humorously humiliate Hillary fans more.

The window is closing. If the the law doesn't get her in time, you would need to act now to make a successful meme out of this in time to have the best impact.

Trooper York said...

The one thing this election has shown us is that conventional thinking is for morons. Nobody thought a reality show host would win the Republican nomination. Nobody thought that a pure socialist almost communist independent would come so close to winning the Democratic nomination. You have to throw conventional wisdom out the window. It is the refuge of shallow thinking pompous pedantic morons.

Trooper York said...

Warren won't take it in the backseat from anyone.....err I mean she won't take a backseat to anyone.

Why should she defer to an old white man? When all of Bernie's legions are hers for the asking? It is the year of the woman. Vagina's rule. She will argue that Trumps women problem will not be easy to exploit with Biden feeling up every teenage girl on a podium with him.

edutcher said...

nd doesn't like being contradicted, but how many people watch the late shows not that Carson's gone and Leno's retired.

Besides, if people know him, they also know him as the creepy, goofy guy who fondles 12 year olds.

Goofy Warren is one of those people who could only get elected in MA, like Slobbering Barney.

I think they'll be going with a young sexy Spaniard - like Raul Grijalva.

Well, maybe Julian Castro, supposedly her running mate now.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Biden is not running.

Warren't not amoral. She's done more about exposing this corruption than anyone short of... Bernie Sanders.

And FFS, everything's relative. Nuns aren't running for president. Compared to Hillary she's a saint.

It's interesting hearing Republicans playing the "who's next?" game, but seriously, I think this time we can take it from here. You guys are doing a good enough job keeping your sentiments and whistleblowing vis-a-vis the anti-Clinton movement up front and center.

But Democrats are the ones who are going to have to be the ones to figure out how to purge the Clintons and Clinton-ism from politics - at least on their side of the aisle. We brought you this mess, and we'd now like to help take that garbage out.

Thanks!

Trooper York said...

I don't agree ed. Our view of Warren is not he lefts view of Warren. She has a good chance of being elected especially if she puts a militant black culture warrior or better yet a reassuring one like Corey Booker.

She hits the ultra liberal beat. The woman beat. The new face beat. The something different beat. She unites their party in a way that Biden does not. The only problem is if Obama tries to force Biden. But I don't think he will. First of all his influence is waning. Especially as he has been a disaster for Democrats. Plus he is lazy. He is not going to work that hard for Biden.

The two big advantages for the Democrats is that Trump has a woman problem and says crazy shit. Why would they want to put up a guy who can be portrayed as having a woman problem and who says crazy shit? I don't see it. Conventional wisdom from the same pundits that have been wrong about everything so far in this election.

Trooper York said...

I think she is amoral in the same sense that Ted Cruz is in their political life. She is the mirror image of the One True Ted. She is the Liberal One True Liz. But she has no problem lying about her race to take advantage of affirmative action. She will have no problem telling lots of lies to further her personal advancement.

She is a politician after all.

Trooper York said...

Hey I have a great idea for her campaign song!

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Lol. Is Biden really all that lazy?

BTW, did I mention how serious I was about the Chris Crocker "Leave Hillary Alone!" idea?

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

She is a politician after all.

Geez, thanks for reminding us.

But Trump isn't. I guess the first time you run it's ok to not be a politician. Every first time candidate is pure. And then, after one term, "poof!"

Please put the magical thinking to rest. Trump is as political as it goes. You somehow think he wasn't playing politics in those boardrooms, in front of the tv screens, while appearing with Oprah or Howard Stern? When going on about walls, etc.?

I hear someone more political than Plato himself. All the snotty little kids you've hired and fired in the bra business? They weren't political?

The Real Hosewives of... (insert name of any random city here) aren't political? Hillary before she ran for any office wasn't political?

Give me a break.

Some people are corrupt and some people less so. We need to stop assuming office-holding experience is the only criterion for that, as much as it corrupts people. Lobbying does, too. Even if it's for one's own company.

Trooper York said...

You are misunderstanding me. Or you have stars in your eyes about Liz Warren. The stars that some morons accuse me of having for Trump.

Trump is definitely amoral in his business dealings. I never said he is not a politician. I just said Warren is one too. She is not a saint. She has progressive opinions that you share. Just as Ted Cruz had right wing positions that many conservatives shared. But she will never let anything stand in the way of servicing her ambition. She believes in racial preferences. She believes that blacks and other minorities should be affirmative assisted and get jobs over white people. Or Asians for that matter. But she had no problem lying to use racial preference to advance herself in her profession. To portray her as some sort of moral paragon is laughable at best.

edutcher said...

Trooper York said...

I don't agree ed. Our view of Warren is not he lefts view of Warren

the Left's view of Warren is what gave the Demos George McGovern in '72.

It's not the Left's view that counts as much as the party bosses and the Wall St crowd.

Booker might be an option, but they might go for another First to energize the base, that's why I think Spaniard rather than black.

If he's Mexican, they can even riff off Los Ninos Hericos and stuff for a dash of racial revenge.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Bernie Sanders came along the moment the "Draft Elizabeth Warren" movement fizzled. His supporters started with her supporters, and they primarily mobilized to get the corruption out of it, which is the same cudgel that actually works against Hillary. All this other racial nonsense and probably even "progressive" talk sounds like the stars you have against her, because as far as we're concerned they're all secondary or far behind the deal of going after the corruption and payola game that the Clintons are at the center of. (At least on our side. Your side is a completely different story).

This is the only thing that's ever worked against Clinton, and substantively well if this year's primary is any guide. So keep getting silly about identity politics issues or progress if you must. Her basic thing however is the same thing that's working much better against Hillary and Bill than anything the right ever threw at them.

(At least as far as I can tell. She may very well be more into distracting causes than Bernie or whoever else is, but not in a major way AFAIK. Just to the extent that she needs to be in Massachusetts.

Kind of like the way everyone from NYC "needs to be" a bit of an a-hole. It just is how it is).

Trooper York said...

I don't agree Ed. They are not going to give up on the "Year of the Woman." They are also not going to go all in on illegal immigration. That is what they would be doing if they put an Hispanic on top of the ticket in this year of immigration politics. VP sure. But not an untested unknown on the top of ticket.

Trooper York said...

We don't disagree Ritmo. I think Elizabeth Warren is a rather pure distillation of the liberal mindset. She didn't want to run against Hillary and the entrenched establishment. But she will accept a gift.

It is not racial nonsense either. She lied about her race to get advantage. She will have to explain that on a different playing field than ultra liberal Massachusetts.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Booker is as bad as Hillary. Maybe even more so.

Ditto this Castro guy.

There are things going on in the left that you need to pay attention to.

Our war against Hillary is expanding in scope, more and more broadly every day. Throwing her allies in as candidates that we will allow to be viable (in terms of popular, uncontroversial support) is a mistake.

We are taking aim at them as associates to the cause that must be defeated.

Clintonism and Clintonites. They all need to go. Half the party (or side of the aisle) feels this way.

I could link to crazy (but popular) left-wing blowhards on this stuff, if you guys want proof. But I would never think to inflict such links on you the way you guys do with Hot Air or whatever.

(Unless you ask for them ;-))

edutcher said...

Have to agree with Ritmo about Bernie, although I think the rest is the stars in Ritmo's eyes.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

She didn't want to run against Hillary and the entrenched establishment. But she will accept a gift.

I perceived that she was newer at this and just much more afraid of Hillary than Bernie was.

But I could be wrong.

As for gifts, sure she could have some bad demons. Or skeletons. Or whatever.

But I still presume (based on immediate intuition - I know, it's not infallible) that she's miles less corrupt than Clinton, and almost as effective as Bernie insofar as a tool for getting rid of them.

Remember, the Bernie faction has a very appreciable degree of identity-politics fatigue, too. We're trying to show that economic issues don't discriminate.

Bernie had an admirable history on civil rights... when it mattered. And down to incarceration disparities today that even the Kochs agree on.

But we are close to done with the victimhood Olympics that the Hillary faction balkanizes itself over.

Just so you know.

We are going with economics. The Hillary crowd wants to distract blacks and Hispanics (and working class whites), keeping them ALL poor - and at each other's throats in terms of respect.

And our side (the non-Hillary side) is beyond that.

It's having some effect. Another unwritten but very important sub-plot on the Democratic side.

Trooper York said...

Corey is your typical slick amoral black politician in the Adam Clayton Powell/Charlie Rangel
mode. But he is bulletproof. Just like Obama. No Democrat is going to attack him. Unless they are another black politician who wants his spot.

But I don't see Corey as going for the top spot. He doesn't have the stature. Same for the Castro guy. I think Obama would block Booker for that matter. He doesn't want another smooth talking black dude to follow him. So he will put Biden in there. That would motivate him.

He won't get off the golf course to block Warren.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

You're probably right about Booker. But getting votes matters. He's still part of the party that the left has no use for - outside of New York. New York seems to be becoming its own Democratic party subset, no offense. Maybe like in Boss Tweed's day. But it is as set apart from the grassroots as Trump supporters and the GOP are.

As for the identity politics olympics, watch Dave Rubin. He interviews Gad Saad, even that Milo guy.

He is on the forefront of popularizing the term "Regressive Left."

That's what we call terrorist-sympathizers and identity politics fanatics.

They're our common enemy. Along with the crony party establishments.

Trooper York said...

Satan is miles less corrupt than Hillary Clinton.

I don't doubt that she is personally financially above reproach.

There might be skeletons. The thing is that Trump will not be afraid to go there. I think the skeleton might be a lesbian relationship of some sort. Not a problem for most people. But she can be sure that Trump would not be afraid to exploit it. The other factor is the lesbian dynamic. I don't know if you have noticed it but lesbian are notoriously nasty after a break up. So if she had a hidden relationship and her lesbian lover is pissed she might come out with all kinds of nasty stuff unrelated to the muff diving.

Of course this is all speculation. Reasonable speculation. Nothing as fully sourced as Rafael Cruz and Lee Harvey Oswald or Hillary's love affair with Bat Boy. But Trump will use it of that you can be sure.

Trooper York said...

I know everyone hates New York but did you notice that both of the presumed candidates sort of hail from New York?

I will repeat that I don't see Corey Booker as a top of the ticket possibility. There are plenty of skeletons in his closet. He can be a viable and happy VP candidate.

There are a few people who might jump in if Hillary falters. You have to think outside of the box. John Kerry? Al Gore? Biden for sure. But lets come up with a woman with a national profile other than Elizabeth Warren.

Trooper York said...

Oprah. I telling you. Make it happen.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

@Balls
...But Democrats are the ones who are going to have to be the ones to figure out how to purge the Clintons and Clinton-ism from politics - at least on their side of the aisle. We brought you this mess, and we'd now like to help take that garbage out.


Hurry!

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

It's not about hating New York. It's about New York's status as a powerful media base and political base and financial empire base that insulates its politicians from the mainstream political views going on throughout the country. Trump is an exception to this, not the rule. He did the very politically savvy thing and figured out what the base wanted. And I don't consider Hillary a New Yorker.

I consider her a cyborg.

Trooper York said...

The Democrats will not purge Hillary of their own accord. It will only happen if she is indicted. And that will not happen because the Justice Department under Obama has been the most corrupt and political it has ever been in the history of the Republic. Hillary will be the nominee. I think the FBI director is going to resign in protest. That still will not stop her.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

If Hillary's a lesbian then the presidential podium will need to be painted to look like a woman.

Because that's the only thing she gets a charge out of, as far as I can tell.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

The Democrats will not purge Hillary of their own accord.

But they can sure as hell weaken her, politically.

I'm coming to terms with the fact that the party is split - has always had two heads. It's a cut-and-paste job of the Boss Tweed types or his Southern Dixiecrat counterparts. And the FDR part that I always thought defined it? That's only one part of it. That's the Bernie part. Maybe the Warren part.

But the Clintons are the corruption wing, obsessed with power (and racial favors) as Tweed and the Dixiecrats were. And they simply need to get the message that they're no longer in charge.

Even if Hillary wins, this message will continue to build and take hold. Bernie's in a position similar to where Reagan was when he tried doing the same thing to the GOP in 1976. Remember that?

Well, except that he's even older than Reagan was at the time. But still very spry!

Trooper York said...

All human endeavors are split that way Ritmo. It goes back to the hunters vs. the gatherers. It is the natural order of things. The problem comes when on faction gets too much power. That is when you go off the rails. Goldwater. McGovern. You need two wings to fly a plane.

That is the choice facing the Republicans. They need both wings. If they are going to win as Republicans. I don't think that is going to happen actually. Someone termed the Trump phenomena as a hostile takeover of the Republican party. I think that is on the money. He is reshaping the dynamic. Making it an up/down or more appropriate a class election. Not a strictly left/right one. The Republican base is not wedded to the conservative doctrine that Ted Cruz espouses. There are older strains of isolationist theory that Rand Paul and Pat Buchanan embody. That Trump is tapping into. That allows him to attack Hillary from what is termed the "Left." But it can be termed as attacking from the bottom. The poor people who end up fighting wars because of the theories of the elitists like Bill Kristol and Jonah Goldberg and Madeline Albright and John Kerry and John McCain and Lindsey Graham.

I think that will appeal to the Bernie voters when measured against Hillary's warmonging which she will mistakenly proffer because she doesn't want to seem to be weak on terrorists.

ndspinelli said...

one has to wonder WTF is going on in the heads of people still feeling the need to continually beat up already defeated candidates.

Methadras said...

Seriously, why are we discussing the virtues of people like Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren? These people are bottom feeding scum bags. The entire lot of them. There isn't an honest person in the bunch. Truly, they are just cretinous pigs who will find any way to separate you from your money to promote their abominable ideology. They are repugnant RMPC statist ideologues. They have zero redeeming qualities. ZERO.

Methadras said...

Trooper York said...

The Democrats will not purge Hillary of their own accord. It will only happen if she is indicted. And that will not happen because the Justice Department under Obama has been the most corrupt and political it has ever been in the history of the Republic. Hillary will be the nominee. I think the FBI director is going to resign in protest. That still will not stop her.


The Maoist Harpy knows exactly where the bodies are buried. That's why no one will touch her. Literally.