Our neighbors over at JPR seem to hate Kamala Harris as much as our FRiends do.....

[brooklynite]

I consider Kamala Harris completely useless.

Skamala Harris is nothing but a neoliberal con artist,

I also believe that she is not African American. Maybe #she too should get a DNA test.

SV is claiming she had over 20K at her announcement rally in Oakland. Who the Hell paid for all those people??

Barack Obama in a dress.

https://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/who-is-democratic-senator-kamala-harris/

[Orangepeel]

1. Shocker.

[guillaumeb]

2. One of the reasons that I stopped posting at JPR.

The same nonsense as many far right sites.

[MineralMan]

4. I never posted there.

Who those people were was obvious.

[guillaumeb]

5. There are a few serious writers,

but the constant name calling is tiring.

[MineralMan]

7. Really?

Who? I don't read there, either.

[guillaumeb]

8. I should have said "were".

But I left over 2 years ago.

[WeekiWater]

74. Over a year ago I was directed to JPR by a post on a friends Facebook page.

The piece they shared was extremely well put together and really spoke to me. I don’t recall the name but I read some of their other essays and they were great. I led me to some other writers there who were also very thoughtful and thought provoking.

Outside of those few people I realized it wasn’t a home for me and that is what I was looking for. I read a lot of different news sources but seem to like to plant my feet in one place when it comes to commenting and participating. JPR is overwhelmed with people I wouldn’t surround myself in my personal life or online. It’s a shame because the pieces I read were really good. I don’t know if those people are there anymore.

Sounds like you had a similar experience.

[guillaumeb]

75. You put it much better than I did. eom

[obamanut2012]

26. That's so 2010

Leave MineralMan alone. Especially since no one knows you, or where you might pist or have posted.

[WoonTars]

31. Huh?? What's "pist"?

It's a valid question though, right?

[Cha]

72. Not really.

[Rob H.]

39. I think a cursory glance at FreeRepublic confirms that Freepers are worse

Other people need to sign up and post there for four years just to be sure.

[progressoid]

64. Right.

Even if they were the same, the sheer number of freepers is staggering. I meet FreeRepublic type people every day in real life. They infest our country in every corner. Not so much with JPR types.

[ismnotwasm]

41. And you know this...how?

[Rob H.]

70. A person can learn a lot even if they don't join a site just by lurking

For instance, there’s a member on this very site who said of Bernie, “No wonder so many of his followers are nuts.(the more opportunistic ones are misgynists {sic}, racists, and yes, anti-semites)” on a now-defunct website founded by another DU member. They were even laugh-out-loud stupid enough to post it on said festering cesspool/troll farm of a site under the same pseudonym they use here.

[lunatica]

43. Lots of DUers have waded in over the years and checked back here

Is there something wrong with that? It sounds like you think so.

Lots of DUers also listen to Fox News.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

59. Most didn't hang around for 80 thousand posts.

[Rob H.]

69. They also don't post this in their GBCW post over there

...and then come and join up here:

”I've also been called a troll, a liberal, a DUer, and much, much worse. I'm none of those things.”

(Emphasis added.)

[obamanut2012]

25. They always were like that

[backscatter712]

63. I only stuck around for a day or two over there.

The batshit got overwhelming.

[guillaumeb]

73. Agreed. eom

[Squinch]

3. How many are still there these days? 17? 18? They'll make a big difference.

[Andy823]

27. I think a lot of them

Are back here, and I am willing to bet they start their same old "BS" when the primaries start. Good old divide and conquer, along with some scorched earth attacks on democrats again.

[Blue_true]

37. They likely won't alert stalk like in 2016. Was that nerve whacking or what?

It was like walking on eggshells and trying it to break anything.

[lunatica]

44. I believe I was alerted on twice relatively recently

Supposedly for saying something against some Democratic representative. I got warned to stop.

[FSogol]

6. JPR still exists?

I'm surprised.

[elleng]

9. Silly.

Why go there?

She is not 'African' American, and she called herself AMERICAN. Fine with me if AAs want to accept her into that tribe.

[brooklynite]

10. I go there for the same reason I go to FR...

It's useful to know what people who aren't like me are thinking.

[elleng]

11. Enjoy!

[Delphinus]

14. I am glad

you can do this - I can barely read the newspaper without my blood pressure going through the roof.

[Ms. Toad]

24. +1

And beyond that, why give them free rent in GD here?

[still_one]

30. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[UniteFightBack]

12. And who may I ask is to their liking and has had a perfect life? nt

[Cha]

18. Gee.. I wonder?

[NBachers]

52. Thanks for creating some levity where it's sorely needed. I've noticed the creeping intrusions are

becoming more and more visible these days. Mini-stalking is expanding, getting ready for the bigger putsch.

[Cha]

53. You're

, Bachers!

[Apollyonus]

46. Do you really have to wonder?

[kimbutgar]

13. Whatever happened to discussionist?

They used to be as crazy as jpr. That said I’ll pass on both!

[BlueTsunami2018]

32. It's still there, it's just a far right cesspool now.

At first it was like half and half with a small amount of actual discussion but mostly sniping from both sides. Then almost all the liberals left and it became what it is now, a disgusting haven of racists and other idiots.

MrScorpio used to do a q&a with them every so often that was interesting.

The best user there was a guy named Satan. He could have given Rude Pundit a run for his money. Brilliant person.

[kimbutgar]

34. +1

[Wounded Bear]

15. Well, she's not technically "African-American" right?

Although she probably has some African genes from her Haitian side.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

42. Her Dad is Jamaican, her Mum is from India

So I don't know if she considers herself "African-American" at all.

Decades ago, I was working at a private club and I made the mistake of referring to our kitchen help as "African American," and they set me straight right away. "We are not African. We are from Haiti. Please do not confuse the two." I was told. So I no longer use the term "African American" unless I know that is how someone wishes to identify.

[Apollyonus]

47. The Jamaicans and Haitians also came from Africa during the slave trade

and since both Jamaica and Haiti belong to the "Americas", Jamaicans are African-American.

Nevertheless, Senator Harris has the facial features and especially eyes of her South Indian mother who was an Iyengar.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

77. As I said

THEY didn't identify themselves that way. It's not my place to tell them otherwise how to self-identify.

[Cha]

54. "... the majority of Jamaicans are of African descent.. "

"The first Africans arrived in Jamaica in 1513 as servants to the Spanish settlers. These Africans were freed by the Spanish when the English captured the island in 1655. They immediately fled to the mountains where they fought to retain their freedom and became the first Maroons.

Whole boatload of Google telling all about it..

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=ZktRXISxL-nk0gLX0KOQBw&q=jamaicans+came+from+africa&btnK=Google+Search&oq=jamaicans+came+from+africa&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i22i30l3.2794.9637..10071...0.0..0.195.3583.0j26......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131j0j0i10j0i22i10i30j0i13i30.KFqGBwHAHis

[yardwork]

17. Are they still looking for the pizza pedophiles?

[Cha]

19. Probably.. why let a stupid CT go?

[yardwork]

22. Are they still obsessing over Hillary's health?

The most gullible people on the internet self-selected into that little site and believed every ridiculous story the Russian troll farms put out.

The trolls themselves probably couldn't believe how gullible the people on JPR were.

[Cha]

35. Or maybe they just like pushing propaganda no matter how Idiotic?

At least they're over there in one lump.. where they can foment their vile & vicious CTs.. so the Reality Base can tend to getting back our Democracy.

[Cha]

20. I consider them beyond "completely useless".

[GulfCoast66]

21. I looked there maybe 3 times in 16.

It was obvious that the only people the were of 3 types.

1. Democrats who support Trump cause of his racist tendencies.

2. Bernie or bust kinds who wanted someone under a liberal label who would support the racist policies of Trump. They wanted a 1930s progressive. Like Huey Long. Or a 1910s progressive like Woodrow Wilson.

3. FR types looking for good trolling territory.

3 or 4 times looking and I was done. Certainly never posted there.

[RhodeIslandOne]

23. Haven't their Russian overlords rounded them up yet?

How's Manny? LOL.

[brooklynite]

62. Manny "retired" from the Board about two months ago...

...since then, it's been stumbling with a much flimsier software platform.

[still_one]

28. Why would I hold any credence to those who refused to vote for the Democratic nominee in 2016, and

some over there had no hesitation expressing racist and sexist views.

No thanks.

[Scurrilous]

29. They seem nice...

[Cha]

56. lol

[BlueTsunami2018]

33. What's the mattress meme with Senator Harris about?

I see it in various forms all over Facebook but there’s no explanation.

[Blue_true]

38. She is an attractive woman.

Some are trying to put out the meme that she slept her way to the top, a lie that they hope will take hold. A very consistent slur against women that have had career success and got to a high position. No one ever accuses a man of sleeping his way to the top.

[Docreed2003]

58. Lmmfao.....

[PunkinPi]

61. It has to do with the her relationship with former Mayor Willie Brown...

the implication is that she slept with him to advance her career.

Just posted an article about this...https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211748886

From the article -->

...

Though never divorced, Willie Brown and his wife—by their own accounting—had been separated for over two decades by the time the former San Francisco mayor dated Harris. The May-December relationship was no secret, given the couple’s predilection for appearing arm-in-arm at star-studded events. For their part, the Browns never reconciled and now that separation has extended over five decades. That’s common knowledge for anybody who wants to know it.

...

It should be difficult to imagine Democrats slut-shaming an African-American woman. That is, if we didn’t know any better. Today, black women are the dominant force—if not the deciding factor—in national Democratic politics. Our rise exposes and jeopardizes their white privilege—which one does not lose based on ideology. For all of our increased political heft, there was always the assumption that they would remain “in charge.” Just as Barack Obama was and continues to be assailed by some of the left’s most prominent voices, Harris will face more of the same. It appears virulent misogyny is not beneath them.

Progressive activist and Sanders backer Lauren Steiner went after Harris on Twitter. Harris, Steiner wrote, was not with Brown because of “love or physical attraction.” After a torrent of pushback the YouTube talk show host deleted the tweet, but did not directly apologize. Instead, Steiner claimed she did not want to hurt Sanders’ chances in the primary. People like Steiner want us to believe that Harris’s cavalcade of professional achievements was earned on her back rather than on her feet. They want us to believe that it was the curl and sway of her hips rather than the agility and force of her intellect.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/whos-afraid-of-kamala-harris?ref=home?ref=home?ref=home

[RhodeIslandOne]

67. The Jackass Radicals even quoting FUX SNOOZE story on it over there

Half of them are Trump supporting alt-righties and the other half are fucking morons.

[George II]

66. Apparently she dated a man who had been separated from his wife for 10 years but...

....at the time wasn't yet divorced, and it was a long time ago. Not sure, but that might have something to do with it. It's a story that Tomi Lahren loves to hype on twitter.

To me, who gives a crap? It's her private life and has nothing to do with her politics or career.

[betsuni]

36. She's the new Hillary Clinton.

We at DU "worshipped the one Lord & Savior until a few days ago" (Hillary) and now we mindlessly worship Kamala.

She's the "most dangerous corporate threat ... for obvious reasons of race and gender. ... Harris can be effectively neutralized from the Left as being even more pro-mass incarceration than Hillary Clinton, who never personally put anyone in prison." They think her jokes and speaking style is worse than Hillary's. There's a new Satan in town! They are very happy.

Already conspiracy theories about her grassroots funding. Because nobody knows her, her funding must be from PACs funneling money through the Internet to "Harris' coffers," or 556 people giving the maximum amount. And of course everybody at her rally were paid.

[Cha]

49. Rofl.. Look who's

talking.

[betsuni]

50. They have no idea how ironic it is.

[Cha]

51. Not one freaking iota

of a clue.

[Gothmog]

40. Who is surprised by this?

[Apollyonus]

48. JPR is a cesspool

One has to be one or more of stupid, irrational, angry, devious, racist, right-winger or demented to post there. Some there can check five or more of those attributes.

[Adrahil]

60. "Barack Obama in a dress" Yes, Please!!!! LOL NT

[Maru Kitteh]

65. I'm willing to bet a few of those "neighbors" eat a lot of Piorgi

I've seen a few of those "neighbors" here too.

The difference is - we don't give trolls the keys to the store here. Those fucking idiots have never met a nutball conspiracy theory they didn't swear allegiance to and follow off the end of their flat Earth.

[IronLionZion]

68. I'm not even Greek

I wonder about the African American comment and DNA test. What is that all about? People can't be mixed race? They tried the same nonsense with Obama.

[Apollyonus]

71. Wasn't there a spoof of JPR

called jackassradicals.com ?

That site was hilarious

[Mike Nelson]

76. Well, this means...

… she's the front runner!