As the Orange Goon continues to show no sign of recognizing his folly of appearing in public at sports events the indignities continue to pile up on to this wholly undignified boor.

After getting booed again at Madison Sq Garden (following the World Series appearance), Drumpf had to watch as a noted supporter, UFC champion Gregor Gillespie, got knocked out so hard he was flat on his back.

Though I'm not a fan at all of this brutal sport this fighter Kevin Lee interests me at the moment. It happened to be a black challenger who floored the undefeated white guy Gillespie in the first round. And one who's shown signs in the past of willing to accept a more public role critical of RW politics.

Trump got loudly booed last night when he attended a UFC event. After the fight, the winner, Kevin Lee, posted this shot with the caption: "BERNIE SANDERS YOU BASTARDS" - @MoTownPhenom pic.twitter.com/NhcHB5H2TK — People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) November 3, 2019

It may be hyperbolic to say but Lee's triumphant bellow at Trump supporters is reminiscent of Joe Louis decking Max Shmelling. Ideologically, though, it's not that different.

Two years ago he was here:

“For somebody like Lebron James that’s been there and done that—the man has $1 billion dollars," Lee said at a UFC 216 media luncheon in Las Vegas, per MMAjunkie. "He’s got enough money to run a country, and for him to stand up for the little folks, I really have to take my hat off to him." Lee, who faces Tony Ferguson for the interim title Saturday, said he was hoping to gain a wider platform of his own should he win the championship and if so would use it to address sensitive issues as James has. “It’s just a big inspiration for me, especially as a black athlete. For some reason, everybody wants to shy away from it," Lee said. “I just wish that my voice was a little bigger. I think with that gold belt around my waist, it will be.”

His voice just got pretty big.

As Bernie continues his Back In Black leg of the tour the surge in electricity going back and forth between he and audience has been more compelling than ever. Not just that he's been introduced consecutively across the country at three stops by arguably the three most visible Congressional officers in the country, not just that choice musical guests are coming out to play for his rallies (Jack White in Detroit, Prince's New Power Generation). But most impressively, his message continues to evolve in an ever more, unabashedly radical direction. In the past couple of weeks he's been suggesting more, straight up radical things, such as that we give Israeli military aid money to the Palestinians for humanitarian help.

At the Minnesota rally with Ilan Omar the two loudest applause line were for, get this, erasing college debt and challenging Western imperialism.

Western imperialism? Abso-fucking-lutely. Bernie's rhetoric is becoming a lot more Marxist in its socialism. He's been talking a lot lately about a globally united worker's movement. Think about that...That's a whole different ballgame than anything we've seen. I think he's been leading up to this praxis for a long time. It's just that now the world is right there with him. Witness Chile, Lebanon, Spain, France, Hong Kong, Ecudaor, Haiti - all in the midst of massive public uprisings against Neoliberalism and the 1%.

Beirut tonight. Can’t get over these protests.

pic.twitter.com/kVdVj232Vz — Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) November 3, 2019

What presidential candidate would dare march behind this banner?

.@BernieSanders leading the March Against Corporate Greed tonight in Des Moines. pic.twitter.com/hrRKJxo7K5 — Nick Martin (@lancnick) November 2, 2019

Maybe because the unvarnished and focused philosophy he's carried with him for over 50 years that renders him the most authentic, genuine and believable voice in elected office by far is starting to make its way through the country. Get a load of this:

Oklahoma voted to commute the prison sentences of 527 low-level criminal offenders on Monday, the largest single-day commutation in US history. Executive director of the Education and Employment Ministry Kris Steele joins In Question to discuss (5:21)

And this,

In America, Occupy was 8 years ago, BlackLivesMatter only about 6, and Bernie's presidential campaign debuting in 2015 as an extension or an electoral political manifestation of these grievances.

In NYC this past weekend young activists showed up en masse to protest an NYPD edict to station more cops at turnstiles, effectively criminalizing being poor.

People protest NYPD policing the MTA by mass hopping the turnstiles pic.twitter.com/Roli76gPMX — barely informed with elad (@elaadeliahu) November 2, 2019

Let's not forget this fact. Even WaPo couldn't brush over this, noting that in 2016 "More young people voted for Bernie Sanders than Trump and Clinton combined — by a lot."



Good thing the campaign has taken seriously the responsibility to collect evidence of media malfeasance and collusion against Bernie. To what end this will matter I'm not sure. But it can't be a bad thing to have such a repository.

Here's the latest missive from David Sirota, BERN NOTICE: The Bernie Surge -- And The Media's Attempt to Ignore & Derail It

THE ACTUAL POLLS: "Sanders has surged since he returned to the campaign trail" Before we review The Media’s Manufactured Narrative, let’s first take a look at some key polling data from the last week that proves what The Hill had the guts to accurately report: Bernie “has surged in the polls since he returned to the campaign trail.” •BERNIE LEADS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: The new CNN New Hampshire poll shows Bernie leading the field in the first-in-the-nation primary state. That includes big leads among self-described conservative Democrats, independents, and Democratic voters who did not vote in 2016. The poll also shows Bernie is seen as the most likable candidate in the field. • BERNIE IS SURGING IN IOWA: The New York Times’ new Iowa poll shows Bernie in a statistical tie for first place. That poll shows Bernie’s support is the most robust: 55% of his Iowa supporters say their minds are made up — by far the highest percentage of any candidate. • BERNIE IS SURGING IN MICHIGAN: Emerson’s new Michigan poll shows Bernie gaining 5 points since March, and now in a strong second-place position behind Biden, who plummeted 10 points in the same time period. • BERNIE IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE BEATING TRUMP IN 3 KEY STATES: The New York Times’ polling data shows Bernie is the only candidate beating Trump in the three previously Democratic states — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — that delivered Trump the 2016 election. • BERNIE SHOWS STRONG SIGNS IN NATIONAL POLLS: The new ABC/WashPost national poll shows Bernie in a statistical tie for second place, and shows that the largest segment of voters see him as “the most honest and trustworthy” candidate as well as the candidate who “best understands the problems of people like you.” The NBC/WSJ national poll shows Bernie gaining 5 points since September — the largest gain of any candidate.

THE MEDIA’S MANUFACTURED NARRATIVE: Misreported polls and the Bernie Blackout Despite all this data, many in the national press corps continued to both inaccurately report the polling results — and also pretend Bernie doesn’t exist. Misreported Polls In a report about its own poll showing Bernie in first place in New Hampshire, CNN put an inaccurate graphic up showing Bernie in second place. In a story on the Iowa poll showing Bernie in second place, CNN wrongly reported that Bernie was in third place. In promoting a story about its own Iowa poll showing Bernie ahead of Pete Buttigieg, the New York Times insisted Buttigieg has “eclipsed” Bernie. Bernie Blackout The Intercept’s Ryan Grim reported that “CNN has five articles up about its new NH poll that shows Sanders in front, yet none of the five say that in the headline.” In a headline about its own poll showing Bernie in a statistical tie for second place, the Washington Post didn’t mention Bernie and instead touted Pete Buttigieg’s “rise” — even though Buttigieg has less than half the support of Bernie and was a distant 4th place in their own poll. In promoting its Iowa poll showing Bernie in second place, the New York Times blasted out a news alert mentioning every top-tier candidate — except for Bernie. In its report about the Iowa poll showing Bernie in a close second place, CNN’s chyron was “Iowa Poll: Biden & Buttigieg Within Striking Distance of Warren.”

As far as I'm seeing it this is about the difference in a fundamental change in how we view and interact with society. And the difference between Bernie and the rest of the entire political and media establishment, both Right and Left (including Liz "Capitalist to her bones" Warren, and obviously the DNC) is not comparable. Bernie's vision is resonating this time again to more and more people because they recognize on varying levels subconsciously or consciosly that the whole conformist consumerism of Capitalism, American Exceptionalism and individualism is a Lie, as is the whole media delivery system of the "news."

Bernie's laying down all the cards on the table with a choice: An uber capitalist society of he-man individualism and aspiring to get rich quick, or one based on the mutual aid of socialism that recognizes empathy and compassion are the true twin engines of society.

I want you all to take a look around and find someone you don’t know, maybe somebody who doesn’t look kind of like you, who might be of a different religion, maybe who come from a different country. My question now to you is, are you willing to fight for that person who you don’t even know as much as you’re willing to fight for yourself? Are you willing to stand together and fight for those people who are struggling economically in this country? Are you willing to fight for young people drowning in student debt, even if you are not? Are you willing to fight to ensure that every American has health care as a human right, even if you have good health care? Are you willing to fight for frightened immigrant neighbors, even if you are native born? Are you willing to fight for a future for generations of people who have not yet even been born, but are entitled to live on a planet that is healthy and habitable? Because if you are willing to do that, if you are willing to fight for a government of compassion and justice and decency, if you are willing to stand up to Trump’s desire to divide us up, if you are prepared to stand up to the greed and corruption of the corporate elite, if you and millions of others are prepared to do that, there is no doubt in my mind that not only will we win this election, but together we will transform this country.

As Bernie has also been saying a lot lately, quoting the great Nelson Mandela, "Everything seems impossible until it's done."