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(Image H/T: Powerline)  The primary season is starting to wind down and Bernie Sanders took a pounding in winning only 1 of the 5 primaries last week – he’s mathematically been eliminated.  And sure, he has raised a whole lot of money outside of the typical donor class but even that isn’t enough.  But like all Socialists, they have no problem in spending all of that other peoples’ money (emphasis mine):

Sanders is biggest spender of 2016 so far — generating millions for consultants

The small-dollar fundraising juggernaut that has kept Bernie Sanders’s insurgent White House bid afloat far longer than anticipated has generated another unexpected impact: a financial windfall for his team of Washington consultants.

By the end of March, the self-described democratic socialist senator from Vermont had spent nearly $166 million on his campaign — more than any other 2016 presidential contender, including rival Hillary Clinton. More than $91 million went to a small group of admakers and media buyers who produced a swarm of commercials and placed them on television, radio and online, according to a Washington Post analysis of Federal Election Commission reports.

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So now we have a bit more info, courtesy of Stacy McCain:

The phenomenon of #TrigglyPuff — Cora Segal, the angry feminist who disrupted an event at the University of Massachusetts this week — deserves extended analysis, and I’ve got a 4,000-word draft in queue, awaiting the final touches. Spending two days analyzing the social significance of this comedic phenomenon was perhaps too much, but that’s my job. You need someone to totally overthink it? I’m available.

Anyway, while working on that brain-straining endeavor, it dawned on me what a small world radical feminism actually is. Cora Segal became notorious in March 2014 for a “Fat Justice” event at Swarthmore College that I blogged about, and here she is two years later, notorious again.

…Like other trolls, her behavior had been problematic for a long time before she — unexpectedly! — had her Internet Famous (Not in a Good Way) Moment.

I followed the Google link Stacy provided and found this “straight from the manatee’s mouth” (reformatted, emphasis mine):

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Under Chavez and his designated replacement Maduro, we can see EXACTLY what will happen if Progressives keep moving us further away from the Constitution and towards Das Kapital:

With Socialism Failing To Provide, Venezuelans Resort To Looting In Order To Survive

Right now, there is a lack of access to television, long distance phone service, and even basic needs like toilet paper. The government owes hundreds of millions of dollars to companies who deal with telecommunications with foreign firms. To make matters worse, the country is experiencing rolling blackouts due to energy shortages. What’s the third wave of this misery brought on by leftist economic policy? Looting. The people are starving, and supermarkets aren’t being stocked regularly. This has lead to widespread discontent and violence. With government failing to provide, the people are beginning to steal in order to survive (via PanAm Post):

On April 26, people took to the streets in three Venezuelan states, looting stores to find food.

And yet we are told that we are supposed to “evolve” towards Socialism, as instructed by Bernie and his ilk?  Just remember that if it was not for Engles and his being a successful Capitalist, Communism would never have been birthed (but proves it has always been parasitical). The details:

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What started off as a rather free form show certainly changed quickly! Grokster Mike and I started off with a WTF (here’s the link) on the Left’s propensity to label any discussion with which they disagree with as “hate speech” – and keep moving on to silence any dissent (and then work to totally destroy those dissenters careers and lives).  Then ‘Grok commenter Kathleen and Henniker tree farmer Steve Forster came on to talk about his victory in getting back his ability to hold weddings (agrotourism) on his private property (and finally defeating the developers that wanted to run him off his lands financially).  We also talked with Grokster Kimberly about Kelly Ayotte and CASA – the bill she has gotten behind that utterly strips due process against college guys and effectively removes colleges out of the American jurisprudence system (so tell me, WHY is a Republican supporting the Obama DoEd in doing this?  A former State’s Attorney General, no less).  While we had a schedule mixup with  Robert Pondiscio of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, we did talk with Gubernatorial candidate and current Executive Council member, Chris Sununu  talked with us about governmental philosophy through the lens of Common Core, Smarter testing, and local control.

And the video:

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Seriously – there are a TON of problems facing the nation that the Congress with which it should be concerned.  A lot of them, IMHO, are functions of what they have already done – and done badly (both from a policy decision and legislation writing standpoint).  And a lot of it is from stepping over Constitutional boundaries (or ignoring them) and getting involved in things that should not be concerning them. Like the Ambassador fromthe Federal Government to NH [Senator] Jeanne Shaheen does here:

.@nflcommish should release results of checked balls. Public has right to know. No credible evidence against #TB12 https://t.co/T3hK90lncF

— Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (@SenatorShaheen) April 27, 2016

Seriously – someone that should be considering the intractable issues of the day, be concerned with protecting our Individual liberties (yeah, I know – Progressive), and then leaving we in Civil Society alone.  But here is Jeanne Shaheen, using “official” Senator twitter feed, making sure that everyone knows THAT A US SENATOR wants to throw her official weight around and tell a private concern what it should be doing.

Absolutely wrong.  This is the appearance of

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(H/T: IBTimes)   This is not looking good.  UPDATE:

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So California has just raised its minimum wage to be $15/hr in a couple of years.  And already small biz owners are really concerned that the risk they took (and in many cases, HUGE risks, relatively speaking) will be wiped out by Government fiat (as opposed to real competition in the marketplace – after all, who can compete against a taxpayer fueled Leviathan?).  And I do ask (even though I’m almost a century late) “WHY should government, driving by the Statist politicians, unions, and special interests, be interfering with the relationship between an employer and employee?  After all, how is that any different than their mantra that no one should get in between you and your doctor?

Oh right – Obamacare.  Sorry – lost my head there for a moment.  While we are about to see some $15/hr fast food employees that are not economically worth that, we are also going to see a whole lot of those workers learn that the real minimum wage is $0/hr.  And this story shows that even manufacturing jobs are not immune to this Government distortion in California (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Ahead of $15 minimum wage, 1 company leaves California for Texas

California’s $15 minimum wage does not go into effect until 2022, but one Santa Fe Springs-based manufacturing company has already decided to leave the state this year to take advantage of cheaper wages in Texas. “This is the last thing I want to do, but I don’t see that I have a choice,” said Fred Donnelly, president of California Composites, which makes parts for commercial airplanes. Donnelly, who has lived in California for almost seven decades, said he is moving his company out of California because of its “dysfunctional” worker’s compensation system, excessive state and local regulations and the forthcoming $15 minimum wage.

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Yeah, I’m betting that the NIMBY and BANANA enviros that hate all energy other than solar are going to watch each other’s heads explode:

CO2 Increasing Food Production And Plant Water Efficiency:

Two new papers in the journal “Nature Climate Change” are pointing out the positive benefits of increased Co2 . The first claims that increased CO2 concentrations account for 70% of the increased greening of the earth and increased plant growing seasons

“We show a persistent and widespread increase of growing season integrated LAI (greening) over 25% to 50% of the global vegetated area, whereas less than 4% of the globe shows decreasing LAI (browning). Factorial simulations with multiple global ecosystem models suggest that CO2 fertilization effects explain 70% of the observed greening trend,”

— Nature Climate Change

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