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sibelian

(7,804 posts)
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 07:41 PM Aug 2015

Bernie Sanders: All Round Nasty Guy and Bad Sort that you don't want to vote for, guys.

Last edited Fri Aug 28, 2015, 02:43 PM - Edit history (2)

Bernie Sanders - WHAT A TERRIBLE PERSON.

Paedophile. Draft Dodger. Racist. Out of Touch. Unelectable. SOCIALIST. White. Male.

SO, so many bad things.

He is only interested in his own opinion. He is Captain Obvious. All his supporters are white males who drive Volvos. He hates black people. Black people hate him, except the nasty black people who don't hate him.

He can't win.

Marxists don't like him.

Also, I don't know if you've noticed, but he's kinda funny-lookin'.

I also hear that he's Jewish NOT THAT I HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THAT.

He's old. He's angry. He's a socialist. And he's white. And he's male. And he can't win.

How could anyone vote for him?

And he dodged the draft. And he's a silent warmongerer. He says almost NOTHING about foreign policy. How secretly aggressive is that?!?!?!?! Kinda scary. And hypocritical.

He's got funny glasses. And his voice is weird. And I hear he doesn't have any congressional endorsements, so everyone in Congress hates him, too! He's a troublemaker. He's a maverick.

He has boxes in his garage. Strange boxes. In his garage. Containing mysterious things. Can we doubt that the contents of these strange boxes are sinister?

He has a drink problem. And he's a womaniser. And he probably has a huge bank account somewhere with lots of stolen money in it. And he projects his own faults onto others. And he has a pole-dancing girlfriend. And one of his friends is a rapist.

And...

he's...

a...





N A R C I S S I S T !!!!!!!


YES! A NARCISSIST! And he's pals with Glenn Greenwald! And he's in cahoots with Julian Assange! And he's having sex with Angela Merkel! And when he stands next to spindly trees he looks sinister! And if he coughs, the spittle lands on your cheek! And his socks are mis-matched! And he's UNAMERICAN!!!! And he doesn't drink beer!!! And he hangs out with freaky people! And his mind is a twisty turny labyrinth of darkness!

He's a NARCISSIST!!! OMG, how is it that no-one else can SEE this? Are they all blind? Is this like an episode of the Twilight Zone? He's going to drive us all over the edge of a cliff!

His face is slightly assymetrical! And he's JEWISH, NOT THAT I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.

And he's jealous! Jealous, jealous, jealous of everyone else's power! HE ONLY WANTS POWER! POWER only for HIMSELF! And he hasn't got any money, except in the huge bank account with stolen money! And he's hypnotising you, YES, hypnotising you with his old world liberal fuddy-duddiness, his faux common decency and his imaginary principles! He's taking you for a ride! DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE.

And he wants to spend YOUR money. And he wants to spend YOUR money. And he wants to spend YOUR money. And he wants to spend it on DRIVING YOU OVER THE EDGE OF A CLIFF.

And he hates Hillary Clinton. And he hates Barack Obama. And he hates Bill Clinton. And he hates Joe Biden.

And he can't win. And he's unelectable. And he's white. And he's male. And he's a NARCISS-

WAIT, WAIT, I thought of something else, he's a MANIPULATOR! He's MANIPULATIVE!

And he's Jewish, NOT THAT I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.

And he's an ideological purist. And he can't negotiate. And no-one in Congress likes him. And he doesn't have any friends.

He's a NERD.

He's a political NERD.

He's a nerdy, Jewish (not that I have ANY problem with that) NARCISSIST.

And he's a paedophile. And he can't win. Aaaaannnd...




JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, I DON'T DON'T GIVE A SHIT ANYMORE. WHEN ARE YOU ASSHOLES GONNA FUCKING GEDDIT???!!!!

THAT GODDAMN PRESIDENCY IS OURS. OURS, YOU STUPID PIECES OF SHIT. OURS. IT BELONGS TO US. WE'VE WORKED FOR IT FOR DECADES. AND YOU'RE TELLING US THAT THAT STUPID, PETTY LITTLE NERD IS A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE TO US? THAT FUCKING FREAK? THAT STUPID HIPPY? THAT ANNOYING LITTLE ASSHOLE THAT WON'T SHUT UP AND PLAY BALL? THAT STUPID LITTLE JERK WITH HIS CRAPPY PRINCIPLES, OH SURE, HOW'S HE GOING TO GET ANYTHING DONE? HOW'S HE GOING TO GET ANYTHING DONE WITHOUT ANY MONEY OR INVITING ANYONE TO DINNER? ABOLISHING PRIVATE PRISONS, ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? THAT'S CAMPAIGN MONEY DOWN THE FUCKING SEWER!!!

YOU BELONG TO US, ASSHOLES. WE BUY YOU, YOU OWE US, AND WE TELL YOU HOW IT WORKS. YOU ARE OUR PROPERTY AND YOUR VOTES ARE OWED TO US, THE GUYS WHO TELL YOU WHAT YOU'RE ALLOWED TO VOTE FOR. YOU WANNA LOSE, BUDDY? SURE, GO AHEAD, VOTE FOR THE FREAK.

IT'S NOT FAIR!!! IT'S NOT FUCKING FAIR!!! WE'VE WORKED FOR THIS FOR DECADES!!! WE OWN THAT GODDAMN PRESIDENCY, AND YOU OWE IT TO US!!!

YOU OWE US.

YOU OWE US.

YOU. OWE. US!

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Bernie Sanders: All Round Nasty Guy and Bad Sort that you don't want to vote for, guys. (Original Post) sibelian Aug 2015 OP
This should be interesting. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2015 #1
Yup, I'll get the popcorn Kilgore Aug 2015 #33
Scoot over! Bubzer Aug 2015 #52
I made special popcorn with yuiyoshida Aug 2015 #217
oooOOOOOoooooo! Yes please! Bubzer Aug 2015 #218
Made plenty, my special secret ingrediant yuiyoshida Aug 2015 #220
That sounds soooo tasty! Bubzer Aug 2015 #224
PAGIN NADIN! Who promised to call out "DIVISIVE SHIT". SonderWoman Aug 2015 #214
Divisive! sibelian Aug 2015 #254
And posted the pedophile video too. beam me up scottie Aug 2015 #256
Oh, that's just smearing. We're supposed to go... ooooh, he's a paedophile sibelian Aug 2015 #258
"And he's white. And he's male. And he can't win." Cali_Democrat Aug 2015 #2
Your grasp of how grammar works... matches your grasp of everything else. nt MannyGoldstein Aug 2015 #65
You like to be on the winning side so badly that you will sell your soul to rhett o rick Aug 2015 #73
Fact. sheshe2 Aug 2015 #85
No worries, sheshe.... Cali_Democrat Aug 2015 #89
Hey you. sheshe2 Aug 2015 #93
Hey look at what was missed: ismnotwasm Aug 2015 #98
Yup, saw it. sheshe2 Aug 2015 #102
Why the contempt? Jimmy Diblanet Aug 2015 #199
Why the contempt? They have nothing else. hifiguy Aug 2015 #219
What a very strange post. My post had nothing to do with race but you think you need to rhett o rick Aug 2015 #91
Well you did respond to a Black poster. Cali Democrat is indeed black. sheshe2 Aug 2015 #94
I had no idea she is black and find it very strange that you continually point it out and rhett o rick Aug 2015 #118
+1 Bubzer Aug 2015 #122
It is a great danger for the Democratic Party ... earthside Aug 2015 #132
We need to wrest control of the Party leadership from the Oligarch puppets. nm rhett o rick Aug 2015 #142
shame on you passiveporcupine Aug 2015 #209
No sarcasm tag needed. I found the post to be very strange. My comment was not race related. nm rhett o rick Aug 2015 #216
Sorry, the sarcasm note was not intended for you passiveporcupine Aug 2015 #222
I posted an OP about that. rhett o rick Aug 2015 #226
Thanks for the link passiveporcupine Aug 2015 #228
+1 nt Live and Learn Aug 2015 #261
Privileged white libertarian males (some Women too), simply dont have a clue what a Black person randys1 Aug 2015 #150
Uhm kenfrequed Aug 2015 #157
Hell no, I am a Bernie supporter. Not all are libertarians, but many here on DU are randys1 Aug 2015 #158
Find me one. kenfrequed Aug 2015 #160
They are everywhere, especially the ones who lecture Black people about why they randys1 Aug 2015 #162
soo... no specifics kenfrequed Aug 2015 #168
No specifics, you telling me you havent seen poster after poster lecture the AfAm community about randys1 Aug 2015 #170
Yeah kenfrequed Aug 2015 #173
I dont want to argue with you if you are going to vote for whoever the Dem candidate is randys1 Aug 2015 #174
You must be clairvoyant. There is no other way you could know this. passiveporcupine Aug 2015 #212
Really? Gee, I thought this forum was for Democrats.. whathehell Aug 2015 #179
Let me see if I can guess, Bernie isnt a Democrat? randys1 Aug 2015 #200
Um, he's a democratic socialist and that is whathehell Aug 2015 #202
Oh hell yes, I never said bErnie was a libertarian, no, he is a democratic socialist like me randys1 Aug 2015 #204
Okay, then whathehell Aug 2015 #211
Well you did respond to a Black poster. Cali Democrat is indeed black. Elmer S. E. Dump Aug 2015 #205
You have entered .... TheFarS1de Aug 2015 #95
What does this have to do 840high Aug 2015 #97
42% of those on death row are black, and their lives don't matter eridani Aug 2015 #114
I dont understand how you could find anything in that excerpt to be insulting. Bubzer Aug 2015 #123
Why are you AGAIN trying to bring race into a Sanders thread when it has nothing to do with anything cui bono Aug 2015 #251
Fact. This one single post in response to rhett o rick''s comment that you highlighted Autumn Aug 2015 #262
???? ismnotwasm Aug 2015 #100
It's very clear that H. Clinton's first allegiance is to Wall Street. She is very rhett o rick Aug 2015 #117
I know Hillary cares about children especially all the Iraqi children Dragonfli Aug 2015 #207
I think you are exaggerating a bit Eko Aug 2015 #221
Her voting record shows this Dragonfli Aug 2015 #227
How in any way Eko Aug 2015 #229
Because that was the focus of the legislation she voted against Dragonfli Aug 2015 #231
I like Bernie Sanders, Eko Aug 2015 #233
He voted for the Assault Weapons Ban in 2013: Dragonfli Aug 2015 #235
I have never said Eko Aug 2015 #237
And the assault weapons ban Eko Aug 2015 #238
It covered more Dragonfli Aug 2015 #239
Can you show me where it Eko Aug 2015 #241
The Assault weapons ban also Eko Aug 2015 #242
Sanders represesents the people of Vermont so sometimes he has to vote according to what cui bono Aug 2015 #252
So according to your logic Eko Aug 2015 #257
No, what you said has nothing to do with what I said. cui bono Aug 2015 #259
Sorry, Eko Aug 2015 #260
What is so amazing to me Eko Aug 2015 #234
Wrong, but your agenda is showing. /nt Dragonfli Aug 2015 #236
I would say educate me on my agenda, Eko Aug 2015 #240
I marched against wars and needless deaths Dragonfli Aug 2015 #244
I have yet to present an Eko Aug 2015 #245
To shorten the argument Eko Aug 2015 #246
And it is usually someone Eko Aug 2015 #243
Lol! sabrina 1 Aug 2015 #80
Ageed: Hillary is the best chocie lewebley3 Aug 2015 #125
I think there are "better" ones on campus Dragonfli Aug 2015 #232
Can I have the popcorn concession on this one? Armstead Aug 2015 #3
Oh My, Scootch Over NikolaC Aug 2015 #51
Why bother posting this crap bjobotts Aug 2015 #66
Om nom nom Bubzer Aug 2015 #124
TLDR timesup Aug 2015 #4
Too short. Can't figure out why I should give a fuck. Ed Suspicious Aug 2015 #12
If you'll hang on Aerows Aug 2015 #103
I have two you can have ... TheFarS1de Aug 2015 #104
Let's not get hasty Aerows Aug 2015 #106
If it'll help things along Doc Holliday Aug 2015 #161
Fantastic! Aerows Aug 2015 #198
LOL! lunatica Aug 2015 #187
This is...something. Metric System Aug 2015 #5
I think it is one for my trash bin. leftofcool Aug 2015 #7
too close for comfort? n/t MoveIt Aug 2015 #24
gasp NJCher Aug 2015 #92
Oh, poots. I wrote it with you in mind specifically! sibelian Aug 2015 #164
I'd be a little surprised if there wasn't somthing like it for Hillary. Bubzer Aug 2015 #126
That's certainly an accurate description of it. sibelian Aug 2015 #133
Well done (and I don't have a problem with that.)....lol...n/t monmouth4 Aug 2015 #6
Were you just really bored? RichVRichV Aug 2015 #8
Oh, totally! sibelian Aug 2015 #131
A lot of this is not too far from some of the crap I've read on this site for real corkhead Aug 2015 #9
I can imagine more than one poster copy/pasting this, thinking it's gold arcane1 Aug 2015 #28
I didn't know he had boxes in his garage. zeemike Aug 2015 #55
"boxes in his garage"? Did someone actually raise this as an issue? really?? jonno99 Aug 2015 #76
Probably not. zeemike Aug 2015 #87
. . . Not that I have any problem with that. Ed Suspicious Aug 2015 #10
Is it just me or does that scream meme gold? Bubzer Aug 2015 #54
Amazing .... TheFarS1de Aug 2015 #11
At least somebody gets it. Scuba Aug 2015 #20
How did you get access to their script?!?!? MoveIt Aug 2015 #13
Clinton plays hardball, but if Bernie wins the primary and becomes the nominee, PatrickforO Aug 2015 #14
The Oligarchy would rather see a Republicon win the general than a progressive. rhett o rick Aug 2015 #72
Well, there's a real way to win hearts and minds frazzled Aug 2015 #15
Yeah because we are all cos-playing MoveIt Aug 2015 #16
I do not think there are many hearts and minds left to win here. Ed Suspicious Aug 2015 #17
Hearts and minds were most probably decided before anyone even started campaigning Bubzer Aug 2015 #57
I'm not campaigning for Sanders. I don't even live in the States. sibelian Aug 2015 #136
Yep, just shut up and sit politely in the back of the bus. Jester Messiah Aug 2015 #146
Headline: Bernie supporter accused of plagiarism virtualobserver Aug 2015 #18
+1 Bubzer Aug 2015 #129
Hahaha... cui bono Aug 2015 #253
And the Volvos Sibelian. Don't forget the Volvos. pa28 Aug 2015 #19
Ya know who sometimes rides in Volvo's? Half-Century Man Aug 2015 #25
Volvos? Please, Dr. Albright, we barely know each other! MisterP Aug 2015 #34
Whaaaat? It's blue, not red. pa28 Aug 2015 #43
TMI! Aerows Aug 2015 #90
"Your wife was just showing us her Klimt" Warren DeMontague Aug 2015 #62
May they be accursed everlastingly. sibelian Aug 2015 #180
The boldface is merely the translation of what I have hifiguy Aug 2015 #21
"boldface" is apt sibelian Aug 2015 #185
The cult of personality on their side baffles me hifiguy Aug 2015 #195
Oh Good God! hrmjustin Aug 2015 #22
Oh good God, I got tricked into coming here. This is just trying too hard. I'm gone. n/t freshwest Aug 2015 #23
Agree this is trying way too hard. hrmjustin Aug 2015 #26
it is a comprehensive compilation.... virtualobserver Aug 2015 #27
But you have to admire the Brit spelling. okasha Aug 2015 #69
Hmf! sibelian Aug 2015 #138
Embracing the Inner Sassenach, are you? okasha Aug 2015 #184
Well I AM half-English, actually. sibelian Aug 2015 #194
well, somebody is. truebluegreen Aug 2015 #107
Well, for heaven's sake. sibelian Aug 2015 #140
Other problems HassleCat Aug 2015 #29
Awesome. Nothingcleverjustray Aug 2015 #30
OK.... quickesst Aug 2015 #31
You sure spent a lot of time writing this SCantiGOP Aug 2015 #32
Oh, dear. sibelian Aug 2015 #141
tl;dr Bobbie Jo Aug 2015 #35
Looks like I found Mag's sock, I knew it was in the drawer somewhere Dragonfli Aug 2015 #36
righteous rant. right on. recommend. Hiraeth Aug 2015 #37
So, you're feelin the Bern a little? hootinholler Aug 2015 #38
They pull it out of thin air and their hifiguy Aug 2015 #58
Facts mean nothing to them LondonReign2 Aug 2015 #163
Glad to see you've finally come around, sibelian! Zorra Aug 2015 #39
- L0oniX Aug 2015 #40
Brilliant! in_cog_ni_to Aug 2015 #41
BERNIE FTW!!! Puzzledtraveller Aug 2015 #42
Did you distill JackInGreen Aug 2015 #44
Jack, my friend... sibelian Aug 2015 #175
Recommended. AtomicKitten Aug 2015 #45
....... LovingA2andMI Aug 2015 #46
... Bubzer Aug 2015 #137
Damn it!!! It's the HAIR... Sancho Aug 2015 #47
:D C Moon Aug 2015 #48
Hahahaha! tavernier Aug 2015 #71
That album has some great music. C Moon Aug 2015 #108
Manny is pissed that you beat him to it. Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2015 #49
Hm, I think Manny's the scalpel sibelian Aug 2015 #183
I guess it beats being a battle axe. Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2015 #192
Ooh,,,,, hifiguy Aug 2015 #197
It's from the Koch Brothers! randomelement Aug 2015 #50
Really. This is silly. juajen Aug 2015 #53
You're absolutely right. sibelian Aug 2015 #144
''It's perfectly ludicrous.'' wendylaroux Aug 2015 #203
The weird thing is that rant was just a summary of a Day on DU leveymg Aug 2015 #56
and I just have to say in the best humbled_opinion Aug 2015 #59
Well done! NRaleighLiberal Aug 2015 #60
Its not his "turn", dammit. Warren DeMontague Aug 2015 #61
The Confederate battle flag was modelled on the St Andrews Cross. HereSince1628 Aug 2015 #63
Well, I can go further than that. sibelian Aug 2015 #193
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2015 #64
Beautiful, a Hillary supporter lecturing about idolatry. Indepatriot Aug 2015 #70
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2015 #81
I watched then, and it still stinks just as bad. Indepatriot Aug 2015 #82
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2015 #96
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2015 #83
Welcome to DU. LuvLoogie Aug 2015 #111
Don't you mean Goodbye? BeanMusical Aug 2015 #115
This was a very well written perspective into the mind of the powers that be. retrowire Aug 2015 #67
He's all like, EW! short circuit Aug 2015 #68
!!! OnyxCollie Aug 2015 #74
Love Bernie. Voting for Bernie... but can we please stop this? Please? phleshdef Aug 2015 #75
Oh, alright then. sibelian Aug 2015 #145
Nice Shot! Hydra Aug 2015 #77
The thing I find truly insulting is that they can't even be bothered to do it WELL. sibelian Aug 2015 #156
So true. hifiguy Aug 2015 #167
I'm surprised someone hasn't started a new meme passiveporcupine Aug 2015 #215
K&R + 1,000,000,000,000 (I can't rec this enough) LiberalElite Aug 2015 #78
Out of the ballpark! Rec'd n/t Catherina Aug 2015 #79
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Aug 2015 #84
So you think call out Hillary supporters as "assholes" is a good thing, huh? still_one Aug 2015 #130
You misinterpreted the OP's, sarcasm and the target of "assholes." Uncle Joe Aug 2015 #134
ok, thanks for the clarification still_one Aug 2015 #139
I'll say this much Aerows Aug 2015 #86
I can't imagine she will be terribly pleased, no. sibelian Aug 2015 #152
I didn't know he'd been having sex with Angela Merkel! senz Aug 2015 #88
Bestest post EVAH. truebluegreen Aug 2015 #99
Beware those Jewish boxes. hifiguy Aug 2015 #171
Hey, I've seen Raiders of the Lost Ark nxylas Aug 2015 #181
!!! hifiguy Aug 2015 #182
Seconded! n/t Hydra Aug 2015 #189
Amen! truebluegreen Aug 2015 #210
big rec 840high Aug 2015 #101
HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!! WillyT Aug 2015 #105
This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Aug 2015 #109
Well at least we can all agree that Bernie's not a Freeper! chknltl Aug 2015 #110
HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Luminous Animal Aug 2015 #112
Silly hyperbole. Ugh. eom BlueCaliDem Aug 2015 #113
Sadly it is all poo that Team Hillary has actually been flinging LondonReign2 Aug 2015 #165
K&R nt raouldukelives Aug 2015 #116
Also the Pope agrees with Bernie on the issues of economic injustice and climate change, so Uncle Joe Aug 2015 #119
I just find it hilarious that the woo lovers and their constant insults R B Garr Aug 2015 #120
Are you kidding me? blackspade Aug 2015 #121
I don't think you've been paying attention... StandingInLeftField Aug 2015 #135
Oh, I've been paying attention. blackspade Aug 2015 #143
Post them, by all means, blackspade. sibelian Aug 2015 #154
Post what exactly? blackspade Aug 2015 #155
The issues you think are more important. As threads in their own right. sibelian Aug 2015 #169
Yes, I somewhat anticipated "please self-delete"... sibelian Aug 2015 #151
Your choice. blackspade Aug 2015 #153
...wilt... sibelian Aug 2015 #172
I have, and I'm sick them as well. blackspade Aug 2015 #190
Hm! Well I suppose I can only say you're a better person than me! sibelian Aug 2015 #191
Welcome! MannyGoldstein Aug 2015 #127
Thank you, Mr Manny, sir! sibelian Aug 2015 #149
Who are you calling "assholes"? still_one Aug 2015 #128
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2015 #147
It's obvious Cheap_Trick Aug 2015 #148
Well-played! Roland99 Aug 2015 #159
And GUNZ! Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #166
Not only is he Jewish ... staggerleem Aug 2015 #176
Another thing you forgot was ymetca Aug 2015 #177
This message was self-deleted by its author Corruption Inc Aug 2015 #178
Way too much time on your hands... NotHardly Aug 2015 #186
Well, I'm properly chastened there, and no mistake. sibelian Aug 2015 #247
Nay, get thee hence to the Oxford English Dictionary MoveIt Aug 2015 #248
I obeyed your instructions. sibelian Aug 2015 #250
. lunatica Aug 2015 #188
This is a Deal Breaker! bvar22 Aug 2015 #196
sibelian, thank you, laughter is the best saidsimplesimon Aug 2015 #201
We certainly don't need a person like that "Bernie" ensconced at 1600 Pa Avenue Peregrine Took Aug 2015 #206
K&R Gothmog Aug 2015 #208
Also Bernie is a "racist white privileged elitist" as are all the rest of us Bernie supporters... Dont call me Shirley Aug 2015 #213
I had some twit accuse me of being "financially comfortable"! sibelian Aug 2015 #249
I have no doubt that sometime in the next six months on this forum... robertpaulsen Aug 2015 #223
Did you forget this? Dyedinthewoolliberal Aug 2015 #225
I was sort of hoping it wasn't necessary. sibelian Aug 2015 #255
Dontchya mean...,Guys...and Gals? ErikJ Aug 2015 #230
Rec especially for the subthread in which a Hillary backer gets his/her ass handed to him/her. Scuba Sep 2015 #263
This is a thing of beauty Cheese Sandwich Sep 2015 #264
Thread that keeps on giving, dude. sibelian Sep 2015 #265

yuiyoshida

(41,736 posts)
220. Made plenty, my special secret ingrediant
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 06:18 PM
Aug 2015

a dab of Japanese soy sauce, the good kind. (They make it like wine, special blending)

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
258. Oh, that's just smearing. We're supposed to go... ooooh, he's a paedophile
Sat Aug 29, 2015, 08:19 AM
Aug 2015

not object. That would be divisive.
 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
2. "And he's white. And he's male. And he can't win."
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 07:45 PM
Aug 2015

Exactly.

We've never had white males elected to the presidency before.

Bernie has a real uphill battle.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
73. You like to be on the winning side so badly that you will sell your soul to
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 10:37 PM
Aug 2015

side with the billionaires. If you think they will show you gratitude you are a fool. They don't love you.

Smell the roses and join the 99%. Think of the children in poverty. Goldman-Sachs don't care about them, do you?

sheshe2

(83,138 posts)
85. Fact.
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 11:57 PM
Aug 2015

Cali Democrat is Black.

Your post was insulting.

Smell the roses and join the 99%. Think of the children in poverty. Goldman-Sachs don't care about them, do you?


Fact. They are very well aware of children in poverty, theirs are, Fact! They are well aware that they are being murdered by police. Fact! They are unarmed and profiled for their skin color.

They are being stalked, shot and killed at an alarming rate. Here you are telling Cali Dem HE DOES NOT CARE! You are showing your privilege here.

Guess what, their lives matter.

 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
89. No worries, sheshe....
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:06 AM
Aug 2015

The condescending nature of their posts is quite revealing.

They will never understand my life experiences and what I've gone through.

Being lectured by these people online makes me just want to chuckle.

sheshe2

(83,138 posts)
93. Hey you.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:21 AM
Aug 2015

There are times, when I am tired it makes me want to cry. This is one of them.

Revealing? Yes it is every damn time. They expose themselves.

I am so very sorry.

ismnotwasm

(41,885 posts)
98. Hey look at what was missed:
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:54 AM
Aug 2015

Sanders is also (apparently) a prophet, a savior, a feminist hero and the reincarnation of MLK.




Jimmy Diblanet

(2 posts)
199. Why the contempt?
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 04:05 PM
Aug 2015

This is from Time Magazine about Sanders as a student:

He became leaders of an NAACP ally called the Congress of Racial Equality at a time when most civil rights activists were black. He was arrested while demonstrating for desegregated public schools in Chicago. (No big deal, says Sanders: “You can go outside and get arrested, too!” he jokes. “It’s not that hard if you put your mind to it.”) He once walked around Chicago putting up fliers protesting police brutality. After half an hour, he realized a police car was following him, taking down every paper he’d up, one by one. “Are these yours?” he remembers the officer telling him, holding up the stack of the fliers.

In his second year at college, Sanders made national news. On a frigid Tuesday afternoon in January, 1962 the 20-year-old from Brooklyn stood on the steps of University of Chicago administration building and railed in the wind against the college’s housing segregation policy. “We feel it is an intolerable situation, when Negro and white students of the university cannot live together in university owned apartments,” the young bespectacled student told the few-dozen classmates gathered there. Then he led them into the building in protest, and camped the night outside the president’s office. It was Chicago’s first civil rights sit-in.
***************

So at 20, he made national news leading a civil rights sit-in against segregation. Not to be rude, but did you do as much when you were 20? Sanders fight against racial inequality has continued his entire life. During the Clinton years, when Democrats started to behave more like moderate Republicans and decided "reform" welfare, Sanders voted against it. He wrote this: "The bill, which combines an assault on the poor, women and children, minorities, and immigrants is the grand slam of scapegoating legislation, and appeals to the frustrations and ignorance of the American people along a wide spectrum of prejudices."

Alternet published "20 Examples of Bernie Sanders' Powerful Record on Civil and Human Rights Since the 1950s" http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/20-examples-bernie-sanders-powerful-record-civil-and-human-rights-1950s

I think what's troubling for some Sanders' supporters is that somehow a narrative was developed that Sanders doesn't care. In fact, there's not a single candidate who would do more to fight racial injustice. If you want to learn about Sanders' positions, go to http://www.feelthebern.org.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
219. Why the contempt? They have nothing else.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 06:17 PM
Aug 2015
NOTHING. No policy-based arguments, no skeletons in Bernie's closet. nothing. Every pne of their attempts at smearing Bernie have been completely debunked. They are enrolled in a cult of personality, and dog knows why it's HRH they are following. What the Clintons are is apparent to anyone whose eyes are open.

This shit-slinging started a couple of days before he even announced his candidacy and it is nothing but lies and bullshit flung again and again, but it can't and won't stick. Bernie is THe Real Deal, not a Turd Way sellout interested only in self-advancement by any means available to put to the task, fair or foul.
 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
91. What a very strange post. My post had nothing to do with race but you think you need to
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:14 AM
Aug 2015

interject it. Very strange. There are two side to this class war and I can't understand what anyone that claims to be a Democrat would choose to side with the 1%. If you think they will appreciate you, you are wrong.

sheshe2

(83,138 posts)
94. Well you did respond to a Black poster. Cali Democrat is indeed black.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:40 AM
Aug 2015

So not strange at all.

You like to be on the winning side so badly that you will sell your soul to

side with the billionaires. If you think they will show you gratitude you are a fool. They don't love you.

Smell the roses and join the 99%. Think of the children in poverty. Goldman-Sachs don't care about them, do you?


Who the hell are you accusing of standing for the 1%? Those that chose Hillary? What a joke.

She stands for women and there very basic rights to chose. We have been fighting for our lives for a hundred plus years. We got to vote, yet our vote never seems to get us our rights. Don't condescend to me rhett. I am so tired of hearing OLIGARCHS as a mantra.

Try a new one. Women's rights, Voting rights, the Right not to be shot dead in the street unarmed. Profiled shot and killed and the cop, the perp goes free.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
118. I had no idea she is black and find it very strange that you continually point it out and
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 11:09 AM
Aug 2015

think that I should treat her differently than anyone else.

My comment is one that I often use to point out to Clinton supporters that they are siding with the 1% and not the 99%. H. Clinton is a member of the 1% club. She regularly visits with Goldman-Sachs and other Wall Street friends. Her campaign is anticipating that they will raise between 1 and 2 billion dollars FROM THE 0.01% to buy her the WH thanks to Citizens United.

Ironic how Citizens United is now her friend.

earthside

(6,960 posts)
132. It is a great danger for the Democratic Party ...
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:30 PM
Aug 2015

Radical 'Identity Politics' will drive the Democratic Party into the Tea Party kind of craziness that is wrecking the Repuglican Party.

For some reason, Hillary Clinton brings out this kind of fanaticism in her supporters based on 'identity'. We saw that eight years ago and we are seeing is again.

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
209. shame on you
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 04:57 PM
Aug 2015

you are supposed to know what race and what sex and what religion and what income bracket every member of DU is. Didn't you know that?












Do I really need the sarcasm tag? Yep...for some posters, I probably do.

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
222. Sorry, the sarcasm note was not intended for you
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 06:26 PM
Aug 2015

but for the other DU members who might take it seriously.

Yes, it was strange, but some people have to make everything about race or feminism here. And I mean EVERYTHING!

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
228. Thanks for the link
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 06:46 PM
Aug 2015

I had not seen that. It is accurate. The inevitable response from hijackers is very tiresome.

randys1

(16,286 posts)
150. Privileged white libertarian males (some Women too), simply dont have a clue what a Black person
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:16 PM
Aug 2015

is talking about, we simply dont.

I say we but I am NOT a libertarian, but many here are.

AT first I thought it cute or funny that privileged white libertarian males on DU would repeatedly lecture Black people about their own experiences, something they know absolutely nothing about, but it is getting tiring now.

kenfrequed

(7,865 posts)
157. Uhm
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:23 PM
Aug 2015

Never met a modern libertarian that was so fixated on raising taxes on the wealthy, taxing Wallstreet, going after large corporations, raising taxes, raising the minimum wage, increasing social security, increasing funding for education, raising taxes (yeah I said it again), etc.


Your attempt to label Bernie supporters as libertarians has failed.


Please try again. Or don't, since it doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

randys1

(16,286 posts)
162. They are everywhere, especially the ones who lecture Black people about why they
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:39 PM
Aug 2015

need to respect and support Bernie.

A better example couldnt be written by the best Hollywood script writer.

Many of them here.

I really dont care anymore, I have seen so many people here smear Hillary that all I care about now is making sure people can vote and the republican doesnt win.

kenfrequed

(7,865 posts)
168. soo... no specifics
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:52 PM
Aug 2015

And lecturing too.

I am sorry, but Hillary is a deeply flawed candidate that has done nothing for the African American community. Her continual support of capital punishment, President Clinton's Omnibus crime bill, and business as usual politics is abhorant to me.

I will go with the most progressive of candidates running and tell the rest of the candidates to take a flying leap.

randys1

(16,286 posts)
170. No specifics, you telling me you havent seen poster after poster lecture the AfAm community about
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:54 PM
Aug 2015

why they should support Bernie

like YOU just DID right HERE

kenfrequed

(7,865 posts)
173. Yeah
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:59 PM
Aug 2015

Because pointing out specific policy is somehow the definition of "lecturing"

People come to me with any number of reasons I shouldn't vote for one candidate or another based on my ethnicity, my economic status, my occupation, my religious affiliation, and every other aspect of who I am.

Do I accuse them of "lecturing?"

No.

I point out why I accept or do not accept their arguments.

Basically the information system you are creating is one where no one can ever give you any data about what a politician did or did not do or what they do or do not support.

randys1

(16,286 posts)
174. I dont want to argue with you if you are going to vote for whoever the Dem candidate is
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 02:02 PM
Aug 2015

in Nov 2016, if you are then we have no reason to argue.

If you are and we are arguing, it is because I am tired of all the smears of Hillary, because the more that goes on the more likely she will be at risk if she is the candidate.

I hope Bernie is, but if he isnt she likely will be

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
212. You must be clairvoyant. There is no other way you could know this.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 05:10 PM
Aug 2015


They are everywhere, especially the ones who lecture Black people about why they need to respect and support Bernie.


Are you confusing Independent with Libertarian?

Libertarian is the exact opposite of Sanders. Libertarians are Ayn Randians and support Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.

 

Elmer S. E. Dump

(5,751 posts)
205. Well you did respond to a Black poster. Cali Democrat is indeed black.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 04:35 PM
Aug 2015

Well, good for her. I'm white. And yes, those that choose Hillary choose the 1%. That's the whole thing in a nutshell. Why do you think we are so against her?

eridani

(51,907 posts)
114. 42% of those on death row are black, and their lives don't matter
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 03:42 AM
Aug 2015

Not to a candidate who supports the death penalty. NOT Sanders, BTW

Bubzer

(4,211 posts)
123. I dont understand how you could find anything in that excerpt to be insulting.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:16 PM
Aug 2015

Even were we to consider Cali Democrat's ethnicity, I don't see it.

What I do see is rhett o rick addressing Hillary supporters. If you were responding to that, I could see a reaction being legitimate... but as your comment stands now, in this context, it seems somewhat artificial.

cui bono

(19,926 posts)
251. Why are you AGAIN trying to bring race into a Sanders thread when it has nothing to do with anything
Sat Aug 29, 2015, 03:11 AM
Aug 2015

???

When are you going to try to stop smearing Sanders and his supporters with racial shit? Everyone knows racism is not over and enough IS enough. Get it?

Everyone else gets what you are doing. You can be seen too. And seen through. Quite easily.


Autumn

(44,686 posts)
262. Fact. This one single post in response to rhett o rick''s comment that you highlighted
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 10:16 AM
Aug 2015

Last edited Mon Aug 31, 2015, 12:09 PM - Edit history (1)

makes your whole agenda clear. It is insulting that you demand all people be aware of everyone's race. I can't see the color of yours or anyone's skin through my lap top screen any more than you can see the color of mine.

Smell the roses and join the 99%. Think of the children in poverty. Goldman-Sachs don't care about them, do you?


Guess what, in this case all lives matter.

ismnotwasm

(41,885 posts)
100. ????
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:56 AM
Aug 2015

What Billionaires? What's this about Goldman-Sachs? I'm completely confused.

Think of the children? That's exactly why I support Hillary Clinton.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
117. It's very clear that H. Clinton's first allegiance is to Wall Street. She is very
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 11:03 AM
Aug 2015

good friends with Goldman-Sachs, one of the worst of the crooked banks. Clinton may honestly want to reduce poverty but she will only at the expense of the middle class. IMO she will never do anything to reduce the growing profits of Goldman-Sachs and the Wall Street Gangsters.

Dragonfli

(10,622 posts)
207. I know Hillary cares about children especially all the Iraqi children
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 04:37 PM
Aug 2015

She is also fond of the practice of leaving brown kids toys to play with via the fun high tech pinatas known as cluster bombs. Those are expensive little toys those things spread around for children to play with, it takes a special kinda person to do whatever they can to make sure there will not be less of them to play with.

Arabic speaking children require special love and Hillary by far has shown them so much of that special love.

Eko

(7,131 posts)
221. I think you are exaggerating a bit
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 06:24 PM
Aug 2015

"fond of the practice of leaving brown kids toys to play with via the fun high tech pinatas known as cluster bombs." Can you please show where she is fond of this?

Eko

(7,131 posts)
229. How in any way
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 06:55 PM
Aug 2015

does that show she is fond of kids playing with cluster bombs? That is like saying Sanders is fond of kids playing with guns because he wont vote to outlaw them.

Dragonfli

(10,622 posts)
231. Because that was the focus of the legislation she voted against
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 07:14 PM
Aug 2015

You might have had a point if there was a vote to outlaw guns and we could see who did not vote to outlaw them along with all the republicans which would be the only way to draw a comparison. but no such vote has yet to be taken, the cluster bomb vote was.

"The absolute majority of patients are women and children, victims of shrapnel, and most of all, fragments of cluster bombs." Reporting from a hospital in Hillah, The Mirror, a British newspaper, became graphic: "Shrapnel peppered their bodies. Blackened the skin. Smashed heads. Tore limbs. A doctor reports that 'all the injuries you see were caused by cluster bombs. The majority of the victims were children who died because they were outside.'"

Even after wars subside, after treaties are signed, after belligerents return home, cluster bombs wreak havoc on civilian life. Up to 20 percent of the bomblets fail to detonate on the first round, only to become landmines that later explode on playgrounds and farmlands. Children are drawn to cluster bomb canisters, the deadly duds that look like beer cans or toys before they explode.


I suppose you can tell me why she opposed the international communities efforts to address this, other than she has a fondness for cluster bombs that are known largely for exactly what they are known for?

Is it instead "to appear tough"
"to get financial support from the munitions industry"
"for no particular reason at all, just plain didn't bother to listen when the effects were explained in detail to her and the rest of the voting body"?

I do not think I overstated it one bit, anyone defending her fondness for such munitions to me are either just as fond of such carnage or simply just as cold when it comes to such gruesome matters that involve the effects of children playing with the "toys" left by them.

Eko

(7,131 posts)
233. I like Bernie Sanders,
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 09:09 PM
Aug 2015

I really really do. I hope he becomes president. I will vote for him. I am just amazed at the lengths some people will go to paint Clinton as some kind of monster. So, here I go, I am sure I will be attacked for this, but,,,,,Sanders voted against the Brady bill in 1993. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/103-1993/h614. We are just talking abut background checks here and restricting felons access to guns, not even banning guns, but keeping them out of the hands of criminals and the insane and it would be really easy for me to say that he has a fondness for criminals and the insane to have guns based on your logic. That is faulty logic, dishonest logic, and downright despicable. So, stop. You are not helping anyone at all.

Dragonfli

(10,622 posts)
235. He voted for the Assault Weapons Ban in 2013:
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 09:33 PM
Aug 2015
Sanders Votes for Background Checks, Assault Weapons Ban

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

WASHINGTON, April 17 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today voted for expanded background checks on gun buyers and for a ban on assault weapons but the Senate rejected those central planks of legislation inspired by the shootings of 20 first-grade students and six teachers in Newtown, Conn.

“Nobody believes that gun control by itself is going to end the horrors we have seen in Newtown, Conn., Aurora, Colo., Blacksburg, Va., Tucson, Ariz. and other American communities,” Sanders said. “There is a growing consensus, however, in Vermont and across America that we have got to do as much as we can to end the cold-blooded, mass murders of innocent people. I believe very strongly that we also have got to address the mental health crisis in our country and make certain that help is available for people who may be a danger to themselves and others,” Sanders added.

The amendment on expanded background checks needed 60 votes to pass but only 54 senators voted for it. “To my mind it makes common sense to keep these weapons out of the hands of people with criminal records or mental health histories,” Sanders said....

Source:
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-votes-for-background-checks-assault-weapons-ban


Description of the Assault Weapons Ban:

Summaries for Assault Weapons Ban of 2013

The legislation bans the sale, transfer, manufacturing and importation of:

All semiautomatic rifles that can accept a detachable magazine and have at least one military feature (e.g. pistol grip, detachable stock, grenade launcher).

All semiautomatic pistols that can accept a detachable magazine and have at least one military feature (e.g. threaded barrel, a semiautomatic version of an automatic firearm).

All semiautomatic rifles and handguns that have a fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds.

All semiautomatic shotguns that have a folding, telescoping, or detachable stock; pistol grip; fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 5 rounds; ability to accept a detachable magazine; forward grip; grenade launcher or rocket launcher; or shotgun with a revolving cylinder.

All ammunition feeding devices (magazines, strips, and drums) capable of accepting more than 10 rounds.
157 specifically-named firearms.

Source:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s150/summary


I don't get why you are defending cluster bombs or denying the fact that their use is monstrous, but it appears you have an agenda

Eko

(7,131 posts)
237. I have never said
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 09:34 PM
Aug 2015

anything about what I think about cluster bombs, so you are putting words in my mouth. I expected it of you. Thanks for proving me correct.

Eko

(7,131 posts)
241. Can you show me where it
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 09:42 PM
Aug 2015

mandated background checks on someone buying a handgun? edited, changed is to it.

Eko

(7,131 posts)
242. The Assault weapons ban also
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 09:54 PM
Aug 2015

"Requires a background check on all sales or transfers of a grandfathered assault weapon." and not "background checks be conducted on individuals before a firearm may be purchased from a federally licensed dealer, manufacturer or importer" as the brady bill does. Big difference. Not sure if you can see it though.

cui bono

(19,926 posts)
252. Sanders represesents the people of Vermont so sometimes he has to vote according to what
Sat Aug 29, 2015, 03:22 AM
Aug 2015

they believe, and Vermont is a state that likes its guns to a degree.

I do not believe that Hillary was representing the interests of her constituents when she voted for cluster bombs.

Eko

(7,131 posts)
257. So according to your logic
Sat Aug 29, 2015, 07:01 AM
Aug 2015

Sanders and Vermont have a fondness for felons and the insane to have guns, and somehow that makes it right because Vermont agrees with him. Once again this is using your logic and is expressly not something I believe, I believe the exact opposite, just using your logic.

cui bono

(19,926 posts)
259. No, what you said has nothing to do with what I said.
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 03:26 AM
Aug 2015

But you go ahead and keep up that pretzel logic of your own.

Eko

(7,131 posts)
260. Sorry,
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 04:41 AM
Aug 2015

I thought that was dragonfli responding. I would ask that you clarify that neither has a fondness for cluster bombs or guns.

Eko

(7,131 posts)
234. What is so amazing to me
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 09:30 PM
Aug 2015

is that you either probably did not know this or you just shrugged it off. Either one shows a lack of critical thinking that is sorely missed in today's politics. Instead you used language that is vitriolic and dishonest against the person you are against. How does that make you any different than the other side? If you have to cheat and smear someone then you are no better than the tea party, and actually more damaging to our side because the other side is not dumb no matter what you want to think and you give them ammunition. If you did not know then you are blindly following a candidate without really knowing that candidate. With friends like you, I don't need any enemies. I wonder how long before this post is hidden? Whatever.

Eko

(7,131 posts)
240. I would say educate me on my agenda,
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 09:39 PM
Aug 2015

but I know what you will say. It takes a dishonest man to imply a stance someone has not taken.

Dragonfli

(10,622 posts)
244. I marched against wars and needless deaths
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 10:42 PM
Aug 2015

Your apologia over not only a pro war individual, but your lack of concern over the effects of cluster-bombs on civilians tells me all I need to know about you. If you do not condemn such needless death your stance need not be spoken out loud.

I also have a real problem with hybrid democrats that may make fine allies on social issues but have sold us out and joined the right on fiscal matters that have made my neighborhood poor and placed many I know in homeless situations.

I have no patience or forgiveness for such Democratic hybrids and speak openly about how I consider such the enemy of my class.

I wrote clearly about these types in an OP: New Democrats, The DLC and the Third Way.

If you really want to know anything about me before deciding wrongly what I think is important just read my journal. It is not long,
I have been here over ten years but do not post often but post honestly, it is not a long read.

Eko

(7,131 posts)
245. I have yet to present an
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 10:56 PM
Aug 2015

apology over anything, once again you put words in my mouth and confirm everything I believe about you. If you want to know my viewpoints on war or cluster bombs you are welcome to ask although they present nothing towards the argument we are having. I have yet to present a defense to anyone at all, including Clinton of Sanders. Once again you accuse me of something I have not done and expose your dishonest line of attack.

Eko

(7,131 posts)
246. To shorten the argument
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 11:09 PM
Aug 2015

I will say I do not support Clintons cluster bomb stance, I also think there should be a mandatory background check on all firearms purchased so I do not support Sanders on this. I can easily say Clinton is as fond of children playing with cluster bombs as Sanders is as fond of felons and the insane having guns seeing as how both voted against these and be logically sound on both issues, you cant. I am sure you wont get it, as you have a definite agenda and will probably ascribe some other viewpoint I have not stated or do not hold to further your argument. Like I said , I don't need enemies with you around. If you change your mind, by all means join us in the rational court, otherwise, smear, lie, tell me what I have said when I have not said it, and ascribe positions I dont carry to further your agenda. Thanks.

Eko

(7,131 posts)
243. And it is usually someone
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 10:10 PM
Aug 2015

that is loosing an argument that implies the other has a stance they have not taken. Thanks for playing. Like I have said, I dont need any enemies if you are on my side. You are more than enough. Logic is something I recommend you study.

timesup

(88 posts)
4. TLDR
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 07:47 PM
Aug 2015

What the....

Off your meds?

Much too long for sarcasm, shorter next time please. 8)

I'm not on here much, nuances.....

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
103. If you'll hang on
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:00 AM
Aug 2015

I'll look in the garage and see if I have any fucks to give you. Bunch of boxes and poles around here, though, so it may take me a while to locate the fucks I can give.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
106. Let's not get hasty
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:08 AM
Aug 2015

I'm sure I have one around here somewhere, I just haven't located it yet.

Too dusty in here with all the boxes and poles, though, so I guess right now I don't have a fuck to give.

Maybe tomorrow?

Doc Holliday

(719 posts)
161. If it'll help things along
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:37 PM
Aug 2015

I have a couple of rat's asses around here somewhere that I'll be happy to donate to the cause.

NJCher

(35,342 posts)
92. gasp
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:20 AM
Aug 2015
I think it is one for my trash bin.

You gotta' be kidding me. I was laughing so hard as I scrolled through this post. It was so damn funny that I had tears, yeah, really, tears rolling out of my eyes.


Cher

corkhead

(6,119 posts)
9. A lot of this is not too far from some of the crap I've read on this site for real
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 07:50 PM
Aug 2015

I bet I could name some of the DUers that served as inspiration for this rant, but so could everyone else.


I didn't know he hated Joe Biden.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
87. Probably not.
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 11:59 PM
Aug 2015

I think that was poking fun at the Snowden haters and comparing the silliness of some of the objections.

TheFarS1de

(1,017 posts)
11. Amazing ....
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 07:51 PM
Aug 2015

All the attacks condensed into one great mega attack , do you think maybe people are noticing the trend

PatrickforO

(14,479 posts)
14. Clinton plays hardball, but if Bernie wins the primary and becomes the nominee,
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 07:53 PM
Aug 2015

the 'ratfucking' he will take from the establishment will be swift, thorough, cruel, untruthful, and unrelenting. We knew this going in, people. Yet, Bernie is more of a Democrat than the Democrats and what he's talking about is nothing less than another less racially biased New Deal.

No one, and I mean no one, in the establishment wants Bernie in the general election, and if he does get there, the throbbing corporate-owned propaganda organ we call the media will black him out - they will use the word 'socialist' over and over and over and over, but they won't once talk about what Bernie says on the issues.

Maybe it is foolish, but I'm an idealist by nature, and I'm tilting at this windmill one more time, because I really hate how politicians who supposedly represent my interests don't even think about any of us after we've elected them.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
72. The Oligarchy would rather see a Republicon win the general than a progressive.
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 10:34 PM
Aug 2015

The Democratic Party Elites are puppets for the Oligarchy. They did it in 2000 and they will do it again in 2016. They just won't have Nader to blame. Asshats.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
15. Well, there's a real way to win hearts and minds
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 07:53 PM
Aug 2015

I'd suggest you let Sen. Sanders handle his campaign messaging. You're not particularly helping him. Honest: anger doesn't work.

 

MoveIt

(399 posts)
16. Yeah because we are all cos-playing
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 07:55 PM
Aug 2015

Yeah because we are all cos-playing political consultants developing our candidates message with our posts here at DU!

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
136. I'm not campaigning for Sanders. I don't even live in the States.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:33 PM
Aug 2015

He doesn't need MY help, that's for sure.

I just like to post things.

cui bono

(19,926 posts)
253. Hahaha...
Sat Aug 29, 2015, 03:28 AM
Aug 2015


So much funnier because I can believe it would actually happen after the shit I've read on DU.

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)
25. Ya know who sometimes rides in Volvo's?
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 08:09 PM
Aug 2015

Hitchhikers.....He might be a vagrant masquerading as a US senator. Or he might be stupid enough to offer some disadvantaged person a ride.
Either way.....






On a completely unrelated side note; did you know that many new decaffeinated blends are quite tasty?

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
21. The boldface is merely the translation of what I have
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 08:01 PM
Aug 2015

seen on DU countless times, just as Trumpese is the translation of what Republicans really think. One-to-one. And I am sick to the teeth of reading it over and over again from the same cadre.

Bravo. sir!

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
185. "boldface" is apt
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 03:16 PM
Aug 2015

It is the bold-facedness of their attitude that I find so contemptible.

The disgusting cynicism of trying to whip up bogus drivel about Bernie supporters... I could sort of understand their smearing of Bernie himself, as there is the (utterly soul-dead) concept of "fair game" in some political circles but the sheer recklessness of alienating a whole chunk of the Democratic base just to get the right candidate would be unforgivable to me if I were American. It shows a paucity of good judgement that would lose elections big time if anyone tried it in my little country. I don't make that statement idly - they did attempt to smear the Scots and they paid for it.

Their candidate might still win, of course, but the games being played here will not be forgotten and they do not understand what they are doing.

How they can possibly expect anyone to believe that there's anything even vaguely alarming at this stage about the possibility of a Republican administration is completely indecipherable to me, that carnival of nonsense is dead in the water. We need moderates to see them off? EXCREMENT.

The "wrong candidate" story is one thing - "you're all elitists" is what I'd expect from Glen Beck, not Democrats.

FOUL.

Thank you, sir.
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
195. The cult of personality on their side baffles me
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 03:58 PM
Aug 2015

A double-talking, self-serving, war-mongering politician who pals around with some of the vilest and most despicable people on earth (Blankfein. Kissinger and Murdoch just for starters) and they seem to think she's the pope, Mandela, Gandhi and the Dalai Lama all rolled together and topped with a sprinkling of saints. I have never in my adult life - Ford was president when I turned 18 - seen such nauseating and delusional behavior from Democrats. Ever.

I support Bernie so strongly because of what he stands for. If Liz Warren were running instead of him I'd support her for exactly the same reason.

No Clinton has EVER had one more principle than self-advancement by whatever means are around to be put to that purpose.

Ye be doin' good work from Scotland, och aye!

okasha

(11,573 posts)
69. But you have to admire the Brit spelling.
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 10:12 PM
Aug 2015

Duty, Honour, Empire, and all that.

It's indisputable that the English-speaking Western Hemisphere has gone entirely to hell since dropping the a out of"pedophile."

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
138. Hmf!
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:36 PM
Aug 2015

I can't be bothered learning the other way. It would take ages and feel phoney!

Anyway, I am from Scotland, which is in the UK, which is the actual proper source of the English language so my way is the proper way and all other ways are stoopidicus, so there, ner.

okasha

(11,573 posts)
184. Embracing the Inner Sassenach, are you?
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 03:07 PM
Aug 2015

Perhaps you could adopt Bernie once he's out of the Dem primary. He probably shouldn't wear a kilt, though.

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
194. Well I AM half-English, actually.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 03:45 PM
Aug 2015




My mother's from London.

Bernie has a brother Larry in the UK already. He ran as a Green party candidate.

Bernie may wear a kilt if he swears undying loyalty to my clan. Otherwise NEVER!!!

A characteristic of the Highland clan system was that clansmen felt loyalty only to God, their monarch, and their Chief. The Jacobite Risings demonstrated the dangers to central government of such warrior Highland clans, and as part of a series of measures the government of King George II imposed the "Dress Act" in 1746, outlawing all items of Highland dress including kilts (although an exception was made for the Highland Regiments) with the intent of suppressing highland culture. The penalties were severe; six months' imprisonment for the first offense and seven years' transportation for the second. The ban remained in effect for 35 years.

Thus, with the exception of the Army, the kilt went out of use in the Scottish Highlands, but during those years it became fashionable for Scottish romantics to wear kilts as a form of protest against the ban. This was an age that romanticized "primitive" peoples, which is how Highlanders were viewed. Most Lowlanders had viewed Highlanders with fear before 1745, but many identified with them after their power was broken. The kilt, along with other features of Gaelic culture, had become identified with Jacobitism, and now that this had ceased to be a real danger it was viewed with romantic nostalgia.

Once the ban was lifted in 1782, Highland landowners set up Highland Societies with aims including "Improvements" (which others would call the Highland clearances) and promoting "the general use of the ancient Highland dress". The Celtic Society of Edinburgh, chaired by Walter Scott, encouraged lowlanders to join this antiquarian enthusiasm. Also in Ireland, any form of Gaelic customs was outlawed by the Penal laws.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_kilt
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
29. Other problems
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 08:15 PM
Aug 2015

I hear he wears clothing, eats food, talks out of his mouth... there's more, but I'm so creeped out I can't continue.

SCantiGOP

(13,841 posts)
32. You sure spent a lot of time writing this
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 08:17 PM
Aug 2015

Hate to tell you how little I read.
When are you going to "fucking geddit"?
A lot of us on DU don't like being lectured to like children 15 months before the election. Chill out.

Dragonfli

(10,622 posts)
36. Looks like I found Mag's sock, I knew it was in the drawer somewhere
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 08:25 PM
Aug 2015

You forgot the part where he is a White Supremacist suspender wearing skinhead completely funded by the NRA and has a stash of AK 47s in those boxes right below his Nazi flag.



 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
58. They pull it out of thin air and their
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 09:36 PM
Aug 2015

own asses. It's getting beyond pathetic. Facts mean nothing to them BECAUSE IT'S THEIR TURN GODDAMN IT!!!

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
175. Jack, my friend...
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 02:04 PM
Aug 2015

If there's any more of that crap I'm going to need to smoke an entire conveyor belt of bowls...

Sancho

(9,063 posts)
47. Damn it!!! It's the HAIR...
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 09:03 PM
Aug 2015

We could overlook everything else, but he needs a GD haircut!!! Buy a comb!!

Jeez...some people just don't get what's important! Trump has cool hair. Hillary sports a cool do!

You just can't expect to be President with that mop top!





C Moon

(12,182 posts)
48. :D
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 09:10 PM
Aug 2015

"He has boxes in his garage. Strange boxes. In his garage. Containing mysterious things. Can we doubt that the contents of these strange boxes are sinister?"

Reminds me of this:

randomelement

(128 posts)
50. It's from the Koch Brothers!
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 09:17 PM
Aug 2015

They must be getting desperate - all that money and they're still not getting their way!

Nice find sibelian

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
56. The weird thing is that rant was just a summary of a Day on DU
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 09:27 PM
Aug 2015

Not even our master's voice, but an echo of ourselves. This place needs to chill.

humbled_opinion

(4,423 posts)
59. and I just have to say in the best
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 09:38 PM
Aug 2015

Sweet Brown imitation that I can muster up...........

"Ain't Nobody Got Time for That"

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
63. The Confederate battle flag was modelled on the St Andrews Cross.
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 09:59 PM
Aug 2015

Scots are genetically pro-slavers and play Amazing Grace as a cover.


or sumin like dat, Bruce.



sibelian

(7,804 posts)
193. Well, I can go further than that.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 03:37 PM
Aug 2015

The Klu Klux Klan was founded by....

SCOTTISH HORSE-WHISPERERS.

Apparently...

http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/whisper-it-kkk-roots-are-scottish-1-653986



Might be true, I suppose... I had always thought the KKK was originally a thing that grew out of chunks of the Scottish Cavalry...

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Indepatriot

(1,253 posts)
70. Beautiful, a Hillary supporter lecturing about idolatry.
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 10:17 PM
Aug 2015

Idolatry is supporting a person who voted to give GWB the go-ahead to massacre 200,000 people, and give the bill to us.
Whether she did this out of stupidity, (I don't buy that for a minute) or cold. calculating political expediency, this vote alone makes her unfit to lead our nation. I won't bother getting into the whole "owned by Wall Street" thing..... Idolatry, indeed.

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Indepatriot

(1,253 posts)
82. I watched then, and it still stinks just as bad.
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 11:27 PM
Aug 2015

Hillary represents just exactly how bad things have gotten in this country, and most importantly HOW they've gotten this bad. If you want to rationalize support for that sorta thing go right ahead. I have young children who must live in this country for a long time and I refuse to do anything less than my best to stop those responsible for its sorry state from continuing to wreak their destruction. Hillary No Bueno.

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LuvLoogie

(6,823 posts)
111. Welcome to DU.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:46 AM
Aug 2015

Thank you for posting Hillary's comments regarding her Iraq vote. Anyone, and I mean ANYONE, who posts here claiming that her Iraq vote is some kind of deal breaker-- that she is some kind of war monger who supported the death of hundreds of thousands of people-- is exactly as you can plainly see.

But that's OK. It's an insular few that find validation in every right-wing meme ever flung at Hillary. And who now are martyred because their champion of the season now enjoys a bit of national campaign scrutiny.

retrowire

(10,345 posts)
67. This was a very well written perspective into the mind of the powers that be.
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 10:06 PM
Aug 2015

Very good read, seriously.

Also...

He's jewish, NOT THAT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT

That recurring joke killed me. LMAO

Hydra

(14,459 posts)
77. Nice Shot!
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 10:51 PM
Aug 2015

As someone else pointed out, all you missed was "Gun Lover" and "Neo Nazi"...and whatever else they come up with this week.

I wish we had a hall of fame or a sticky we could vote this in for- it's a perfect sum up of everything Team Hillary has tried to "achieve" here, all perfectly framed in one post.

Congrats Team Hillary- this is your work. Who and what you have done in the name of your candidate. Who knows what you will be asked to do tomorrow? Or what you'll simply come up with yourselves.

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
156. The thing I find truly insulting is that they can't even be bothered to do it WELL.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:23 PM
Aug 2015

Someone posted something yesterday about Bernie being a secret warmonger because he hadn't said anything in particular on foreign policy.

I stared.
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
167. So true.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:51 PM
Aug 2015

Your post, on the other hand, was nearly Swiftian in its breadth, depth and sheer savage truth.

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
215. I'm surprised someone hasn't started a new meme
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 05:46 PM
Aug 2015

With a picture of Bernie with his hair shaved off and a swastika on his armband.

At least that would fix his hair problem.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
86. I'll say this much
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 11:58 PM
Aug 2015

If I was a Hillary Clinton supporter and know that the Joe Biden running for President trial balloon is being floated? And this late in the game after everybody else has declared their intentions?

I wouldn't get nervous. I'd try to figure out how to get my campaign donations back.

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
152. I can't imagine she will be terribly pleased, no.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:19 PM
Aug 2015

I'd be spitting tacks at the family dog, myself.
 

senz

(11,945 posts)
88. I didn't know he'd been having sex with Angela Merkel!
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:00 AM
Aug 2015

The rest of the stuff I'd already heard here and there but mainly here.

Nice job, sibelian!

 

truebluegreen

(9,033 posts)
99. Bestest post EVAH.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:54 AM
Aug 2015

My face hurts from laughing, both at your magnificent effort and, alas, some of the responses to it...but waddayagonnado?

I salute you! and I am so saving this.


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p.s. we need a mic drop smilie
p.p.s those are probably Jewish boxes
p.p.p.s not that I have any problem with that!

ah, me

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LondonReign2

(5,213 posts)
165. Sadly it is all poo that Team Hillary has actually been flinging
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:48 PM
Aug 2015

Now tell us again how Hillary just HAD to vote to invade a country that hadn't attacked us, resulting in the death of a million people, because otherwise she wouldn't look good.

Uncle Joe

(58,029 posts)
119. Also the Pope agrees with Bernie on the issues of economic injustice and climate change, so
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 11:14 AM
Aug 2015

as the Catholic Church doesn't support LGBT rights, is behind the times insofar as women's rights are concerned and the Catholic Church is wealthy, the issues of economic injustice, great disparities in wealth and global warming climate change must all be false as well.

Therefor Bernie is a liar, Bad Bernie, not to mention all those silly scientists.

Thanks for the thread, sibelian.

R B Garr

(16,914 posts)
120. I just find it hilarious that the woo lovers and their constant insults
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 11:35 AM
Aug 2015

against anyone who doesn't bow down to Bernie without question, and their constant labeling and condescending and sanctimonious name-calling towards other good Democrats have such epic meltdowns such as this when the shoe is on the other foot.

blackspade

(10,056 posts)
121. Are you kidding me?
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 11:51 AM
Aug 2015

You actually wasted the time to write all of this?
What is the point of continuing this divisive shit just when everything was calming down around here (or at least merely simmering)?

Consider a self delete on this one.

135. I don't think you've been paying attention...
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:33 PM
Aug 2015

...although I admit the anti-Bernie screeds have been sounding a little desperate and....ahem...."out there" as of late.

blackspade

(10,056 posts)
143. Oh, I've been paying attention.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:40 PM
Aug 2015

I'm just sick of giving all of the attacks legs around DU by continuing posts like this one.
Most of the attacks are bullshit, so recycling them over and over achieves nothing.
Everyone around here is aware of what's what, so it's time to get back to actual issues rather than these distractions.

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
169. The issues you think are more important. As threads in their own right.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:54 PM
Aug 2015

I'm not being facetious, I am sure you really ARE better informed than me.

Post them! I think it's a good idea.

blackspade

(10,056 posts)
153. Your choice.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:20 PM
Aug 2015

But your doing more damage than good by helping make DU a toxic stew of recrimination and anger.

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
172. ...wilt...
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:58 PM
Aug 2015

blackspade, if you're serious about that accusation, I invite you to go and re-read some of the threads that have been posted in earnest about Bernie Sanders and his supporters. I assume you've read them.

Pete's sake.

I do not see that I can be held any more responsible than anyone making those silly threads.

blackspade

(10,056 posts)
190. I have, and I'm sick them as well.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 03:27 PM
Aug 2015

The devicivness is getting out of hand.
I haven't been as strident vs Clinton supporters because that is not the group that I affiliate with.
What I do care about is the messaging and potential damage about and to my chosen candidate from within our group.
All of the vitriol and alert stalking has to stop somewhere, and it seems to me that if our candidate best represents the people then it should start with us.
I have not been perfect by any stretch, but I'm working to make both my candidate more attractive to undecided folks and DU the haven against M$M bullshit that it was at one time.

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
191. Hm! Well I suppose I can only say you're a better person than me!
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 03:32 PM
Aug 2015

I'm not being flippant about that either, I promise.

Anyhow, I've told pleshdef, who is also fed up with poking from both sides, further upthread, that I'll be chillin'. So take heart from that...
 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
127. Welcome!
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:26 PM
Aug 2015

We should probably talk a little about toning things down a bit so the Proles don't get confused and agitated, but it's great that you've joined the winning team.

Warmest regards,

TWM

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staggerleem

(469 posts)
176. Not only is he Jewish ...
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 02:12 PM
Aug 2015

... (not that I have a problem with that, either (hell, I'm, culturally Jewish myself)), but he put himself through college in a woodworking shop. That makes him a JEWISH CARPENTER, and we KNOW those guys are troublemakers! And Socialists, too!

ymetca

(1,182 posts)
177. Another thing you forgot was
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 02:22 PM
Aug 2015

you can see Bernie's alien face when you put on the special sun glasses...

Oh, wait, that was Donald Trump.

Never mind!

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NotHardly

(1,062 posts)
186. Way too much time on your hands...
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 03:19 PM
Aug 2015

"... get up, back away slowly from the computer..." and while you are at it, get a dictionary as your continued use of tired old profanities could use some refreshing.

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
250. I obeyed your instructions.
Sat Aug 29, 2015, 02:53 AM
Aug 2015

Forthwith is still in the dictionary.

By Jove, a tattered Union Jack still flutters over the blighted waste of the Inernet, I tell you, sir!

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
196. This is a Deal Breaker!
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 04:00 PM
Aug 2015
"And when he stands next to spindly trees he looks sinister!"


How can I possibly vote for Bernie now?

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
201. sibelian, thank you, laughter is the best
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 04:24 PM
Aug 2015

medicine, as you know.

That doesn't equate with giving the enemy any quarter. Go get'em sweet pea

Peregrine Took

(7,407 posts)
206. We certainly don't need a person like that "Bernie" ensconced at 1600 Pa Avenue
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 04:35 PM
Aug 2015

With his white hair (WTF?) and blue, buttoned down shirt (elitest snob!) and that gruff "my way or the highway" manner. No way, Don Jose Bluster!



robertpaulsen

(8,632 posts)
223. I have no doubt that sometime in the next six months on this forum...
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 06:28 PM
Aug 2015

...there will be a serious OP questioning the strange, mysterious, sinister contents of the boxes in Bernie Sanders' garage.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
263. Rec especially for the subthread in which a Hillary backer gets his/her ass handed to him/her.
Fri Sep 18, 2015, 08:16 AM
Sep 2015
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