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I read a very nice article today. Some people in a town near Iowa City were planning to hold an event for Bernie Sanders, a potluck dinner. Bernie was actually planning to show up, which would have been awesome, but then, you know, he was in hospital and now he’s at home in Burlington, resting up.
Asked if they were still having the event, one of the organizers said “Of course it’s still on. It was never not on.”
I am sure everyone present will have a great time and meet and network with fellow Berners.
I wonder if this is a sign of the new campaign. Small events, organized locally. It could be a very positive development.
As individuals, we often feel powerless – I know I do. I write a daily blog but I don’t know how many people read it and I often feel like I’m shouting into the wind. Also, though, when you get together with 20,000 other people, you’re not really getting everything you can out of each of those 20,000. You’re just a mob, assembled so the newspapers can say the next day “Huge Crowd Attends Bernie Rally” except they seldom say that, because they are fuckers.
So maybe small, local gatherings, for a couple of dozen or a couple of hundred people, might be more effective. Pot luck dinners, Pancake Breakfasts, Garage Sales, Barbecues in the Park, local entertainment, no-name bands, watch parties, beach cleanups, all sorts of stuff.
A few friends from the neighborhood, together, in small gatherings all across the country, might be exactly the right number.

I just went out to the grocery star on this fine and crisp fall morning. I didn’t go to the closest one because, honestly, they are probably the most horrible supermarket in the world. Overcrowded, with a combination of local geriatrics, homeless people, and large crowds from a nearby hotel, which specializes in hordes of Italian kids on school trips. Often out of stock. They tend to have stale, hard rohliky. And, they can be deadly rude.
Also, it was a fine day for a walk through the park. There was a school group, playing a weird game which seemed like a cross between a confidence building exercise and a sumo match, with three couples, one holding the other, and a lot of cheering and counting from the crowd gathered round.
I saw the leaves, so many turned to yellow now.
I saw a woman waiting for the tram, with a very large musical instrument in a black bag, that took up the whole bench.
I looked up, and saw a building with trees on top and thought “Even our buildings are starting to have hairstyles. Everything that we touch is anthropomorphized. Maybe this is a good thing. Maybe not.”
I smelled a cloud of smoke, the kind I love, and noticed it was coming from a young man who was talking on his phone, standing in front of a hotel restaurant, holding a biggish doober wrapped in brown paper.
Just a typical autumn morning in Prague, and that is last night’s blog for today.

This is the best article I have read re Bernie’s health condition. I recommend reading it, of course, otherwise I wouldn’t have linked to it, but the short version is that we Bernie supporters need to do more, because Bernie can’t be expected to do it all by himself.
I agree with that, and hereby pledge to do more.
Of course, some people already think I am obsessed with Bernie Sanders and seldom write about anything or anybody else. I’ve been called a cultist and worse.
But, most of what I write is just argumentative comments on other people’s posts, and this blog which far too few people read.
From now on, expect me to share and/or repost a lot more positive articles, videos, and even memes if the mood moves me. Because he is not dropping out, and we are not going to let him down. We want Medicare4All and, despite their words, we know that none of the mainstream DNC candidates really support it, not in their hearts. We want an environmental new deal, and Bernie’s got by far the most comprehensive program for that. We want a government that works for the people, and we need to be ready to do whatever is needed to bring that about.
Count me in.

I lost my temper on a Facebook thread a few minutes ago and told somebody to fuck off. Perhaps that was a bit rude of me, but he was being quite condescending, so I’m sorry but not sorry and this is certainly not an apology.
He’s somebody I know from poetry sites and, like me, he writes rhyming poetry, so we’ve got something in common. Unlike me, he is a supporter of Elizabeth Warren. I suppose a lot of people are. It’s not just poll numbers. Polls tend to be, as we have seen recently, rigged. Although I think her crowd sizes have been overplayed by the press (and Bernie’s are downplayed), she is getting some decent crowds. Much larger than Hillary Clinton’s. And I have quite a few friends on Facebook who are singing her praises.
Personally, I think she’s a snake, a Republican in Democrats clothing, but if people are willing to make a case for her, I’m willing to debate them without saying fuck off. It’s bad language, it’s a bit too easy, and a discredit to me as a writer that I couldn’t think of a more clever riposte.
But, what he said was that Bernie should drop out after his “heart attack,” and back Warren. I responded by listing the reasons why Warren, IMO, is a poor candidate, and pointing out that Bernie is in good health and has not indicated any intention of leaving the race.
He said I was delusional. He compared me to a Trump supporter. And he said I should “prepare myself for the inevitable.” So, I told him to fuck off.
These are things I heard, I’m sure we all heard, back in 2016. Over and over and over again.
Republicans believe that a lie told over and over and over again will become the truth. Apparently, some centrist Democrats believe the same thing. The truth is that anything repeated over and over and over again will eventually piss people off.
So, Blue No Matter Who people can fuck right off. They are worse than Jehovah’s Witnesses.

This is why I think ‘narrow focus’ is a ridiculous way to conduct an impeachment inquiry. Nancy Pelosi and (unfortunately) Tulsi Gabbard have called for just that.
I guess maybe Tulsi sees it as some sort of moral high ground. Nancy Pelosi has been in power forever and this is not the only time she has had a chance to impeach somebody and whiffed it. It’s clear by now that her main purpose, as a Democrat leader, is to fold to Republicans
They said they want the investigation to focus on Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelenskij. But just today, on the White House lawn, with the microphones on and the cameras rolling, he said “I think both Ukraine and China should investigate Biden.”
That is another incidence of misuse of the office, just a couple days after the first charge. So he can’t say he doesn’t realize that what he just said is illegal. Nobody can be that stupid, right? Well. Yes.
So, it should be added to the list, along with the time he put a bunch of tariffs on China but exempted any companies that do business with Ivanka, all of his pricey golf weekends, soirees at Mar-a-Lago, and then, of course, there’s his taxes. We won’t know until we’ve looked at them, but they should be subpoenaed, along with all his business records.
Just take the whole damn list, from the day he took office and maybe a bit further back because why not (with Obama, they were harassing him over his birth certificate), and be ready to add to it as you go.
That’s the winning strategy. Optimize your chances.

One other thing: what does Trump expect to find out about Hunter Biden that he couldn’t have found out in half an hour on Google? It was all so unnecessary, but he’s in the shit now.