Epic anti-Bernie diary

[cali]

There's this jaw dropper:

The constant targeting of the so-called “millionaire and billionaire class” in this campaign is equally wrong and distasteful. This is no more acceptable than if any other minority groups had been targeted as evil doers responsible for everything that is wrong with the country. This is class warfare at its worst, and it must be denounced.

And this:

Breaking up banks is a really scary idea. The American economy is based on a system of capitalism and a free market. The problem is that America’s capitalist economy has been left to run amok, and various powerful groups with greed as their core principle have taken full advantage of it. Failing banks should be left by the government to fall under their own weights. However, the idea that the government will get into the business of breaking up banks is a communist concept.


The diarist doesn't have a clue about social security:

Social Security cannot be expanded without increasing the Social Security tax withholding on workers or raising taxes at a much higher rate on both the rich and working people. This is true even if the program were to be expanded by lowering the age for collecting benefits by only two years, from 65 years old as it stands now to 63 years old. Social Security and Medicare are not free programs. They are participatory endeavors in which workers invest through payroll deductions, although Republicans would have everyone believes that they are handouts, “entitlements.”

Or anything else. But for pure bashing of all things Bernie, especially his supporters, she can't be beat.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/17/1485989/-Here-Comes-the-Rain-on-the-Parade-of-the-Bernie-Sanders-Progressive-Crowd

[H2O Man]

1. Wow!

Maybe that first paragraph is comic genius?

[cali]

4. It is really a doozy.

Or a DUzy.

[roguevalley]

16. all i can think of is that guy with the sign when wall street last melted down: Jump you fuckers!

[cyberswede]

2. Millionnaires and Billionnaires are a "minority group?"

That would be laughable, if it weren't so offensive.

[Dragonfli]

10. I finally understand why Hillary is branded and sold as the minority candidate.

At first I thought it was just a bullshit campaign that completely ignored the facts that not only has she not historically (by her record) done anything to further minorities in their endeavors but rather had actually been quite active in harming most minority communities by pushing to have them locked up (or deported to a place they would be murdered or worse in the case of certain brown children).

Now that I realize that Millionaires and billionaires are the minorities she has consistently supported and whose goals she furthered, I finally get it!

She has been working for minorities her entire career, it's just that I missed that the minorities that were her top priority were the fortune 500 crowd (oh the oppression they have faced! I am so glad these minorities have an ally and a voice in Hillary)

[nilram]

13. Affirmative action, it's why their kids get into exclusive schools so easily

[MisterP]

3. there you have it: Clintonism means we have Tom Perkins Dems now

[Vincardog]

5. Why isn't it class warfare when they pass "trade agreements" making US workers compete with slaves

[noiretextatique]

6. lost me at millionaires and billionaires

are "minority groups." c-l-u-e-l-e-s-s.

[noiretextatique]

7. is there a smart bernie critic...anywhere?

i haven't met one yet.

[Jefferson23]

21. I've been waiting for them too.

The communist label for breaking up banks was one for the books.

[noiretextatique]

28. millionaires and billionaires are "minority groups" too!

i guess this what you have to do when your candidate sucks!

[Jefferson23]

29. It read like satire..I say SNL should steal it and have some laughs.

Clinton has many in the establishment running interference for her,
the latest from former economic advisers of Bill and Obama.

They are not happy and I see that as a good sign Bernie is getting closer,
more kitchen sinks to come..or maybe toilets! ha ha

[noiretextatique]

30. total desparation

this would be great for SNL.

[jillan]

8. When I read this & that bs that came out of the NYT today, all I can think is

they're afraid.

And they should be! We've had enough of their shit.

[whatchamacallit]

9. The party has been overrun by assholes too dumb to know they're republicans

[nichomachus]

11. By this reasoning, Southern slave owners were a "minority group." n/t

[Waiting For Everyman]

12. LOL at targeting the millionaires and billionaires "minority group"

That is TOO funny!!! OMG! Now I've seen it all!

I think they'll just have to learn to toughen up and take it.

I can't even get past that to the rest of it. Was this written by sombody over 15, I wonder?

Thanks for the comedy break, cali.

[cali]

15. You are very welcome. Pure comedy gold.

[grntuscarora]

14. Fascinating.

So the billionaire class sees itself as a minority class in need of protection?

Just, wow.

[MisterP]

17. no, some DKos noob who doubtless makes well under $50K thinks so

and that's the scariest part

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

18. Impressive.

It's rare to see (at least on a left-leaning website) such a long post where nearly every sentence demonstrates such a profound level of cluelessness.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

19. "super packs"

[Fawke Em]

23. Now this is a Super Pack

[Karma13612]

24. LOL!! good one!! eom

[DefenseLawyer]

26. Marco Rubio promised me a backpack in the last Republican debate.

I hope it's a super pack.

[Jefferson23]

20. Where does one even begin to address the worst of the worst thus far. Breaking up the

banks is a method utilized by, wait for it..COMMUNISTS. LOL

Dumb and blind doesn't even begin to cover this horse shit.

WTF does this person mean, the so called millionaire and billionaire class, they don't exist? LOL

[mhatrw]

22. All of this ra$i$m and $ek$i$m is di$gu$ting! nt

[noiretextatique]

31. duly noted

but your candiate is all to eager to throw minorities and women under the bus. the twisted logic of clinton supporters is baffling.

[DefenseLawyer]

25. I remember a time not that long ago when the Fox News "class warfare" line had some juice

Those days are gone.

[dragonfly301]

27. Don't forget to read the comments

a lot of great comments there.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

32. The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. Lord Acton