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Ken Simpler would still be Delaware's Treasurer if he had a portion of Ammon Bundy's integrity.

Ammon Bundy, the rancher at the center of a 2016 standoff with the government at an Oregon wildlife preserve, said he is leaving the militia movement after criticizing President Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Bundy shut down his social media accounts and announced that he was stepping away from “patriot groups,” BuzzFeed News reported Thursday.

He said the decision comes after he faced fierce backlash for opposing Trump’s attacks on a caravan of migrants.

"It's like being in a room full of people in here, trying to teach, and no one is listening," he told the outlet. "The vast majority seemed to hang on to what seemed like hate, and fear, and almost warmongering, and I don't want to associate myself with warmongers."

Bundy said it was “incorrect” for Trump to characterize the group of Central American migrants traveling toward the U.S. as “all criminal.”

"To group them all up like, frankly, our president has done — you know, trying to speak respectfully — he has basically called them all criminals and said they’re not coming in here. ... It seems that there’s been this group stereotype,” Bundy said in a video posted to Facebook.

If these convicted Wilm Trust criminals had been caught with $5.00 of weed on them while being black, they'd be headed to jail for sure.

There's no guarantee that four former executives of the only financial institution to be criminally charged in connection with the federal bank bailout program will be sentenced to prison for fraud. But even if a judge orders prison time for the former Wilmington Trust officials at their sentencings later this month, they won't be led away in handcuffs.

In collaboration with DelawareLiberal.net, Tino G the sound guru and an unnamed patron operating in deep undercover behind enemy lines, I will be producing a podcast for you folks. Temporarily called In the Belly of the Beast, an episode will drop once a week beginning in the New Year. Political talk mostly, also some cultural and local art stuff. Conservation will focus on a wide variety of progressive and leftist commentators and activists. The goal is really to support solidarity in this state among all groups standing against the fascist and the corporate and the dumb. (If you think we'll be trashing you personally by name, you're right. We will be doing that.) As this is a DIY/Gonzo type effort I wanted to extend a request should someone want to get involved in this venture. So...

This is an important insight from Alby.

If that’s where Wall Street puts its money, (Joe Biden) be a contender. I’d say the odds are against it, but it’s not impossible. If he catches fire with the public, they’ll back him. Who else have they got? Gillibrand and Booker. Maybe Harris. They’re not going to sit it out.

For the past few cycles, we have had two money races. These races define the nominating contest even in the absence of any candidates. One is the race for Wall Street money described above by Alby. The other is the race for small donor money. Howard Dean was the first to identify small donors as a possible route to the nomination. Wall Street identified the threat and used the media to execute an effective takedown. Obama knitted the two funding sources together, but only after he beat Clinton. Clinton won the Wall Street money race before the starter's pistol fired but left small donors colder than cold. To win the Democratic nomination and the Presidency, we'll need a candidate that wins the small donor money race, thereby creating an actual base of voters, and manages to neutralize or co-opt the Wall Street money.