(D)ude: Man! California
Delegate Bernadette Gomez admitted last night to MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff that,
if pressed to decide between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, she would cast
her ballot for Jill Stein and the Green Party.
(M)an: Dude! There
were a lot of tears shed last night by Bernie Sanders supporters and delegates.
In fact, Bernie Sanders held back a lot of tears last night. And it’s
understandable! His presidential campaign was unlike any other in American history.
Bernadette Gomez and all the Sanders delegates must be addressed directly. Jill
Stein and the Green Party are not Bernie Sanders surrogates. They are an
unstable group at best, with a history of supporting Brexit, for example, and
then backing off their support at the last minute of that anti-European Union
and nationalist movement abroad.
D: Man! Likewise,
Jill Stein wants to not only pardon the former Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. government
contractor Edward Snowden, but give him a cabinet appointment in her administration
if she is elected president. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. came under the scrutiny
of the American Civil Liberties Union and Privacy International in 2006 for its
involvement in the U.S. government’s electronic surveillance of the program SWIFT.
M: Dude! SWIFT? Society
for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication? Wasn’t the defense,
intelligence consulting, and engineering firm Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. found to
go against the European Union’s European Commission during the administration
of George Walker Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld?
D: Man! Yes! SWIFT
is a co-operative organization. According to the International Co-operative Alliance,
“a co-operative
is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common
economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned
and democratically-controlled enterprise.”
M: Dude! Wasn’t
SWIFT founded in 1973 in Brussels?
D: Man! Yes, according
to Margaret Rouse and Dominic Barbusci, this is what SWIFT necessitates,
“Founded
in Brussels in 1973, the Society for the Worldwide Interbank Financial
Telecommunication (SWIFT) is a co-operative organization dedicated to the
promotion and development of standardized global interactivity for financial
transactions. SWIFT's original mandate was to establish a global communications
link for data processing and a common language for international financial
transactions. The Society operates a messaging service for financial messages,
such as letters of credit, payments, and securities transactions, between
member banks worldwide. SWIFT's essential function is to deliver these messages
quickly and securely -- both of which are prime considerations for financial
matters. Member organizations create formatted messages that are then forwarded
to SWIFT for delivery to the recipient member organization. SWIFT operates out
of its Brussels headquarters and processes data at centers in Belgium and the
United States.”
M: Dude! The
Republican Party has nominated a commercial thug to oversee the plundering of
international economies. Donald Trump has been assigned to tear cultures apart
in the pursuit to end political correctness and democratic principles. The
Republican Party is infiltrated with like-minded thugs brought into the
political forefront by the television industry’s construction of a celebrity reality
universe where Trump haggles plus a parallel universe where tele-evangelists
dictate what lifestyles do or do not take into account Christianity.
D: Man! Rupert
Murdoch has replaced Roger Ailes as Fox News Chair. Together the two men
constructed a perverse political universe on television and radio. Rupert
Murdoch and Roger Ailes resurrected the John Birch Society and spread
neoconservative divisiveness around the world through mixed media. Look how
England’s Theresa May was elected PM as a result of voters not having taken
Brexit, or Britain’s exit from the EU, seriously. And then Theresa May chose a controversial
pop figure and EU-sceptic Boris Johnson as her Secretary for Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs.
M: Dude! Bernadette
Gomez and the Bernie Sanders delegates at this year’s Democratic National Convention
should keep in mind how voters in the United Kingdom are devastatingly facing the
effects of Brexit. They are constricted within their borders now and their health
care coverage is being disputed across international lines. Fortunately, the
United States and voters like California Delegate Bernadette Gomez mustn’t compromise
their vote in disappointment. Minutes after his historic speech, Bernie
disclosed in detail to supporters in an email how the next cycle of the revolution
is going to be launched. This is how he addressed the continuation of the
revolution (that can only be if we stand by Hillary Clinton as our next
president—Remember that Hillary Clinton is listening to Bernie Sanders and her
campaign is working side-by-side with Bernie’s campaign to keep US moving forward
so that we can finally fly),
Sisters and Brothers,
Our campaign has always been about a
grassroots movement of Americans standing up and saying: "Enough is
enough. This country and our government belong to all of us, not just a handful
of billionaires."
I just finished speaking at the
Democratic National Convention, where I addressed the historic nature of our
grassroots movement and what's next for our political revolution.
I hope that I made you proud. I know
that Jane and I are very proud of you.
Our work will continue in the form of a
new group called Our Revolution. The goal of this
organization will be no different from the goal of our campaign: we must
transform American politics to make our political and economic systems once
again responsive to the needs of working families.
We cannot do this alone. All of us must
be a part of Our Revolution.
When we started this campaign a little
more than a year ago, the media and the political establishment considered us
to be a "fringe" campaign. Well, we're not fringe anymore.
Thanks to your tireless work and
generous contributions, we won 23 primaries and caucuses with more than 13
million votes, all of which led to the 1900 delegates we have on the floor this
week at the Democratic convention.
What we have done together is
absolutely unprecedented, but there is so much more to do. It starts with
defeating Donald Trump in November, and then continuing to fight for every
single one of our issues in order to transform America.
We are going to fight to make sure that
the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party becomes
law. This means working for a $15 federal minimum wage, fighting for a national
fracking ban, and so many more progressive priorities.
The political revolution needs you in
order to make all this happen and more.
Thank you for being a part of the
continued political revolution.
In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders
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