9 thoughts on “Here’s your long overdue open thread

  1. Zach, thanks.

    “THE VALEANT MELTDOWN AND WALL STREET’S MAJOR DRUG PROBLEM:

    By 2015, C.E.O. Michael Pearson had built Valeant Pharmaceuticals into a nearly $90 billion colossus. Today, the company is under investigation for price gouging, and major Wall Street players are feeling the side effects. Pearson’s fall (which came with a $9 million severance package last week), exposes more than the dark side of the the health-care system—it indicts some of finance’s biggest players.”

    http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/the-valeant-meltdown-and-wall-streets-major-drug-problem

    1. No, but the news reports seem to be suggesting ignoring the local (state) issues and conveniently focusing on and demonizing TRump to further build upon the fear of NOT voting for Clinton. That’s the best that they can actually say about Clinton anyway. She’s not Trump. Even that is questionable when you do a bit of actual history searching.

      1. I can see those being major points, we run a lot of campaigns that way. I would like us to focus on some other areas as well. On a positive note I saw where the delegates voted to get rid of non binding Super Delegate votes. The DFL in MN passed a similar resolution in their convention. So the activism exists!

  2. This post link could have followed my recent comment at the Dems-Local thread, but backs everything I’ve said for a couple of years here, that to get any progressive, even plain vanilla democratic action out of the DPW, forget it. There is no major party of the people at this point. No War but Class War.

    Grab a cup of your favorite beverage and expand your normal attention span.

    From Kshama Sawant:

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/06/party-crashing-and-political-revolution-with-the-dnc-just-weeks-away-whats-next-for-our-movement/

  3. Just watched MSNBC, which now reports that Hillary Clinton is the “presumptive nominee,” saying that the Associated Press has somehow declared that Sanders has but 1566 delegates (the mass media has always counted superdelegates who pledge their support to a candidate, along with pledged delegates who are bound to the proportional statewide vote), while Clinton has now (?!) passed the 2,283 threshold, crediting Clinton with 2,384 delegates. NBC news then immediately fell in line with that story.

    Superdelegates are not counted, by their own Democratic Party rules, until the convention.

    Tomorrow, June 7th, is the last Super Tuesday vote, and as of yet–today, on June 6th–we have not come anywhere close to this 2,383 count.

    So much for democracy.

    1. Yeah I thought that was rather convenient timing to send a “you needn’t bother trying, Sanders supporters” message.

    2. MSNBC doesn’t surprise me, great way for them to stop being viewed as a liberal network! The Associated Press, I am disappointed in. As much as I wish we had more local newspapers and a wider variety or writers, the Associated Press is a professional organization and instead are acting out of desperation to be one of the first sources in breaking a story. If they would have called it 2 months ago that is 1 thing, but calling it the night before the biggest state votes in the country and that Super Delegates are non biding until the convention, is a poor decision.

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