logikv9 posted:

NJ is great because it's located next to everything interesting, the food is good, and also we helped making chris christie a national punching bag

etalian posted:

you elected him

logikv9 posted:

it was between him and jon corzine and corzine sunk his chances after nearly dying, being awful, and calling christie a fat gently caress before it was socially acceptable to do so

there was also some third party dude who stole some votes and faded back into obscurity

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First of all, the Patriots’ leader William “Preacherman” Fesperman was one of the best human beings I have ever met. He was originally from North Carolina before he moved to Chicago. However, many of the Panthers left the group when we built alliances. Some didn’t like the Patriots, some just didn’t like white people in general. They were heavy into nationalism. To tell the truth, it was a necessary purging, except for these niggers took themselves out of the organization. The Rainbow Coalition was just a code word for class struggle. Preacherman would have stopped a bullet for me, and nearly tried. Once, I was in a meeting up in Uptown, and I decided to leave by myself. I immediately determined that the police were following me. I made the mistake of leaving alone.

The cop called out “You know what to do,” and I put my hands up against the wall. Preacherman came outside and saw what was going on, and in the cold of winter brought the men, women and the children outside. The cops put me in the car and they totally surrounded it, demanding my release. The cop called someone and they must have told him to let me go. I’ll never forget looking at all those brave motherfuckers standing in the light of the police car, but staring in the face of death. Looking back, was there enough basis for unity? Hell, yeah!

When I went to Uptown Chicago, I saw some of the worst slums imaginable. Horrible slums, and poor white people lived there. However, two organizations prepared the way for the Rainbow Coalition, without them there wouldn’t have been a chance of forming one. Rising Up Angry (rua) and join Community Union. The uptown neighborhood was prime recruiting zone for white supremacists. Most of the cats who were in the Patriots also had at least one family member in the Klan. Cats like Mike James and Jewnbug, and Tappis worked hard to fight that mentality. Mike James and rua drove a wedge in that bullshit, that white supremacist bullshit, their groundwork was just amazing, out of this world. When did you first meet the Young Patriots? It was at the Church of the Three Crosses. There was a meeting, and it was the one recorded in the movie American Revolution II. After the crowd left, the Patriots were still there. We asked the Minister if he could let us have his office. We asked the Patriots if they could work with the Panthers and they said yes. I didn’t even tell Fred for the first three weeks of meeting with these cats. It wasn’t easy to build an alliance. I advised them on how to set up “serve the people” programs—free breakfasts, people’s health clinics, all that. I had to run with those cats, break bread with them, hang out at the pool hall. I had to lay down on their couch, in their neighborhood. Then I had to invite them into mine. That was how the Rainbow Coalition was built, real slow. Then I contacted Cha Cha Jimenez from the Young Lords.

Fred Hampton got the idea of the Rainbow Coalition right away. He had been involved with the naacp as a youth, so he already had worked with white people, knew they weren’t all bad. It seems to me that a lot of the real intense government repression didn’t happen until the Black Panthers started building coalitions. Once the party departed from the “hate whitey” trip and got serious about building real politics, we were a threat—plain and simple. The FBI were always watching us. But the Rainbow Coalition was their worst nightmare. It was Daley’s worst nightmare too.

Zoq-Fot-Pik posted:

Let's be real here, MA is easily in the top 10 states but only because it isn't quite a totalitarian hellhole yet.

paranoid randroid posted:

i hate fuckin Fight Song so god drat much, unironically

if you handed me hard data showing that Fight Song lost the election for HRC, id throw it back in your face and shout "UH, DOY, IDIOT"

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

MA's problem is that it has a lot of Dems who'd be Rs in another state, albeit "moderate" Kasich Krew Rs. There's also a lot of corruption. DeLeo has basically named himself Speaker for Life and Rosenberg, despite decent progressive credentials, is dirty to his elbows too. It's hard to mount a credible progressive challenge to either (and it may not be necessary in Rosenberg's case, but until we do we'll get poo poo like this.

Zoq-Fot-Pik posted:

Let's be real here, MA is easily in the top 10 states but only because it isn't quite a totalitarian hellhole yet.

etalian posted:

NJ is the spawning ground for some of the lovely most incompetent dem leadership in the whole country. fishmech

Main Paineframe posted:

the results of gallup's "most admired man" and "most admired woman" polls have come in

Obama beat out Trump to take the most-admired man title for the ninth straight year

Hillary Clinton won the most-admired woman title for the fifteenth straight year

GlyphGryph posted:

Haha, apparently posting a TIL about the Rainbow Coalition on Reddit is not allowed because it's considered an "inflammatory submission about race"

paranoid randroid posted:

im completely unsurprised by this revelation

Main Paineframe posted:

the results of gallup's "most admired man" and "most admired woman" polls have come in

Obama beat out Trump to take the most-admired man title for the ninth straight year

Hillary Clinton won the most-admired woman title for the fifteenth straight year

paranoid randroid posted:

im completely unsurprised by this revelation

Main Paineframe posted:

the results of gallup's "most admired man" and "most admired woman" polls have come in

Obama beat out Trump to take the most-admired man title for the ninth straight year

Hillary Clinton won the most-admired woman title for the fifteenth straight year

jBrereton posted:

Imagine losing so disastrously and still being admired more than an incredibly talented gymnast who, let's face it, would have stormed the election too.

jBrereton posted:

Biles/Phelps 2020 dream ticket for the Dems? just thinking here

paranoid randroid posted:

Biles/that one Muslim fencer that put Trump on blast

VP debate is her swordfighting Pence

Baloogan posted:

jBrereton posted:

I think Phelps would just obviously have the potential to crush his old head without any need for épées + similar.

LinYutang posted:

Hillary Budget 2016:

Glass confetti
Fight song
Sensual pantsuit anthem
Campaigning in upper Midwest
two factor authentication to protect emails

UHD posted:

this terrible shitfucking year is nearly over

what are your new years resolutions, demgoons

mine is to get more involved in my community and environmental causes in general

and to guillotine unbelievers

I don't have a guillotine though you can't just buy that poo poo at home depot so idk when that will happen