Just need to thank this group for being a light of sanity and hope in a sea of DNC despair.

[intheflow]

The indoctrinated DNC on here and elsewhere online are sucking the life out of me. Trying to hold Clinton accountable for anything she's done or supported in the last 35 years equals insulting a demigod to them, they go into immediate attack mode. I've been censored. I've been verbally abused. My Democratic loyalties are called into question. I've been called rude for posting civil dissent. It's walk in lockstep with them or STFU.

Anyway.

Deep breathe.

I'm glad you folks are here. You are my tribe.

[VulgarPoet]

1. Don't worry. I don't feel welcome in the AA group, the Pagan group is basically dead

and I'm persona non grata to the Clintonistas for compiling a list of Hillary's egregious misbehaviors.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. I got the yellow DNC fundraising/survey in the mail a few days ago.

I took the survey - and in the other comments space, just put "I am voting for Bernie - Fire DWS" and pledged....zero.

[intheflow]

9. This is why you are my hero.

Well, that and the tomatoes.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. .

[a2liberal]

30. I'll second the tomatoes

Well that, and the survey thing too!

I'm sorry I wasn't good about getting you updates during the season last season... I'll try to do better this year. FYI, the one plant that looked stunted in shipping (I forget which variety it was... Sun Gold I think but not sure) stayed that way for quite a while (neither getting better nor worse while its "siblings" grew steadily) and then one day it was like it just suddenly decided to "wake up" and start growing like crazy and catch up :-D

[NRaleighLiberal]

33. Yay! You can't keep Sun Gold down for long.

No worries - my plate is so full at the moment I am losing it! But my, am I having fun!

[a2liberal]

36. Just saw your new website

Sad that you won't be selling seedlings anymore (right after getting me hooked too :-D) but I understand wanting a change! Best of luck in your new endeavors! I hope it's still ok to e-mail you to maybe see if you have suggestions for other sources?

[Blue_In_AK]

21. Yes, the tomatoes. :)

I'll be starting mine here in a couple weeks in the Garden in the crawl space where the other things are growing.

[NRaleighLiberal]

34. and another of my tomato pals!

My seedlings are up - I have to start thinking of transplanting.

I am working on getting up to Alaska for a speaking gig - a long shot, may take until next year...but working on it!

[intheflow]

52. I remember that space well!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

41. Your post got alerted on because you advocated firing DWS,

which the alerter considered to be tantamount to not supporting the Democratic Party. If you ask me getting rid of Derpy Wasserman Schultz is one of the best things that could happen to the party.

Update: the alert was an epic, 0-7 fail.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Why alert this?
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No, seriously:
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: This is a disingenuous alert at the minimum, a totally dishonest alert at the maximum. I happen to agree with NRaleighLiberal: Fire DWS.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Ridiculous alert. DWS is not the embodiment of the Democratic Party - or at least, she shouldn't be thought of as such, though some apparently do. Firing DWS is probably the best thing that could happen to the DNC.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Please.Poster is addressing primary votes not GE.
Hillary supporters need to stop trolling the Bernie group and vice versa.

Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given

[NRaleighLiberal]

43. You've got to be kidding me!

Maybe I will finally earn my badge of honor - one of the 600 plus who are no longer allowed in "the other place"!

[McKim]

46. Took My Red Marker and Told Them Everything

I got one too. I basically wrote in all my own comments, blasting from the Left on all the little crumbs they were offering.
I told them I was voting for Bernie and that I would not give them any money because they might spend it on warmonger
congress members. I told them no more wars. I told them they shouldn't be supporting only one presidential candidate. They paid for the postage.

[NRaleighLiberal]

47. watch out - you will now be alerted on too!

[davidpdx]

56. I got a call from the DNC for fundraising today

Which is really strange. Other than the Sanders campaign no one has my number. It is a Skype phone number that rings on my computer here in South Korea.

In the call they mentioned Pelosi and I told the guy I was sick of the shit she and DWS were pulling and that I supported Sanders. Then I told him to take me off their list.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

3. You can tell a lot about a person by how they behave when they're winning

The Ignore button has been a good friend lately.

[jillan]

5. Hillary campaign & her supporters remind me of that old saying....

lol - actually it was Be careful how you treat people on the way up because you may meet them again on your way down.

[Raster]

32. Be careful of the toes you step on the way up the ladder...

...for they may be connected to the ass you may have to kiss on the way back down.

[HubertHeaver]

39. Tommy Lasorda had a similar story for his ballplayers, minor and major league.

[jillan]

4. Agreed! Thanks to everyone that participates in the Bernie group! Because it's damn ugly out there.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. My Ignore list is growing daily

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I've been a member of this forum practically ever since it was started back in January 2001. Until last year, my Ignore list never had more than 2 or 3 people in it, and they would often end up getting the boot by MIRT or whoever. But the constant taunts, lies, insults, swarm attacks and passive-aggressive nonsense from "Sir Taunts-a-lot", "Lady Not-good-enough-bernie" and other members of Team Weathervane/Slytherin have made me realize that there is nothing to be gained by engaging with these people.

[intheflow]

8. I hate putting people on ignore.

I'd rather just ignore their posts. And after 12 years on here I'm pretty good at avoiding content I don't want to engage with. But I seem to be having problems with discernment of the loonies on other sites. They seemed normal when I started to engage with them, before primary season.

[Art_from_Ark]

15. I can understand that, and I've tried to just passively ignore a lot of them

But the ones who post videos or other material that takes up a lot of bandwidth slow down my computer, which is seriously out of date, and the videos also consume a lot of battery power. So the most obnoxious ones, the ones who are as bad as harpies when it comes to trashing Bernie, get the official boot, and voila! pages load faster, my battery lasts longer, and I don't have to waste time scrolling down post after post of Bernie bashers high-fiving each other.

[yourout]

12. I add an average of 5 to 10 each day to my ignore list. Keeps my blood pressure down.

[VulgarPoet]

26. 30 deep, thirty feet from the boulevard, and all that... :/

[yourout]

59. Easy getting my 10 ignores tonight.

It's nice when they have the big h. Instant ignore.

[Old Codger]

14. Sometimes even

The heading is disgusting so I have many of them , in fact almost all of them on ignore, don't miss them at all

[cantbeserious]

16. My Ignore List - Over 250

eom

[Art_from_Ark]

18. My list has only 33

I'm sure it will get much bigger on Wednesday morning

[cantbeserious]

19. Chuckles

eom

[2banon]

28. Lol! I have counted the number on my list, but I've wondered if there's a limited cap

on the number of ignores we could have at any given time.

[NRaleighLiberal]

44. I am just over 200.

[davidpdx]

57. How can you ignore that many?

I thought there was a limit.

[cantbeserious]

58. Limit On Jury Blacklist - Not Ignore

eom

[babylonsister]

7. I just quit arguing this year.

It's exhausting to listen to and read all of this, nevermind argue. And then there are the rethugs in a class of their own, all so damned low. My fellow Americans continue to disappoint.

#BernieSanders

[intheflow]

11. You are a better woman than I, Sister Babylon.

[abelenkpe]

13. +1000

There's no point in arguing. This whole election cycle makes me want to give up in disgust. But this group is s nice haven though.

[KGB Commie Bastard]

17. You don't know me....

but I know you, and I love you, and want to give you a hug. You're one of my favorites. We have met once years ago at a mutual event.

[intheflow]

53. I'm sure I do know you, then.

I remember almost everyone I meet in real life. Thanks for saying hi.

[Blue_In_AK]

20. I hear ya, ITF.

I feel that way, too. And honestly I don't know what I'm going to do if Hill ends up being the nominee. In Alaska my vote isn't going to make much difference anyway, so I could withhold or vote Green or write Bernie in. Or I could just bite it and vote for her even though I don't like her at all. Even if she entirely adopted Bernie's platform during the campaign, I wouldn't trust her to follow through. What to do?

[Mira]

25. It will be the first time in my long life

(my first vote was for McGovern) to not vote.
I will write in Bernie if she is nominated. But I could not live with myself to vote for Hillary Clinton while sober or not sedated.

[classykaren]

45. Me too.

[intheflow]

54. I have been voting party tickets all my life even as I've watched them move ever-rightward.

The DNC are bullies. Clinton idolizes a war criminal. She sat on the Board of the single corporation that's responsible for the death of local businesses in America. She has the balls to say America has always been great the very same week she has a BLM activist removed from one of her events - that the activist paid to get into! How can anyone think this woman represents the best the Democratic party has to offer??

[litlbilly]

22. Hang in there intheflow, we are all in the same boat, and it's a huge boat:)

[litlbilly]

23. almost 45mil in feb, OMG, that's gotta shake their boots a bit.

[Live and Learn]

24. Head up, you are not alone and more importantly, we are correct. nt

[SHRED]

27. Back at ya

[warrprayer]

29. Don't let 'em get to ya!

[retrowire]

31. It's getting rough.

My personal life got dragged into this mess. As this carries on, I'm being more careful.

[zentrum]

35. Same here.

Thanks for saying it.

[SoapBox]

37. When I think of the Clintons...

I cannot help but be reminded of a nickname...Teflon Ron.

Nothing could ever be made to stick.

No...More...Clintons.

[swilton]

50. Well what is coming to mind now is 'Slick Willy'

It's no longer the policies, but now it's also the lies and dirty tricks.

[Jed28]

38. At the end of the day.....

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

[AZ Progressive]

40. You can't let them get to you, you have to thrive not hide in such an environment

You won't get anything you want if you can't take the heat. Are you ok with the aggressive people getting whatever they want and you not? Are you ok with them taking the party for themselves and leaving the 99% in the dust?

Nothing significant in this country is won without a big fight.

[intheflow]

55. I've been fighting for my entire adult life.

Been voting in presidential elections since 1984. I've lost track of how many times I've marched on Washington and with local justice movements throughout the country. I've never seen the vitriol from people purporting to be the left toward me. I am always civil, and have been rewarded in the past for my civility, but this year, it's like 90% of the DNC has thrown in with war criminals and corporate interests unto not even being able to debate policy within the party. I understand the long haul, but I also understand the value of allies in the struggle. That's what my opening post was about.

[bbgrunt]

42. You'll never know how many friends you have here who don't post much but appreciate

each and every contribution that you all make to this board. I mostly just recommend and kick items because I get overwhelmed at the futility of dealing with the onslaught of people who have no grace or logic and just want to dance with the devil instead of work towards a better world. But I do believe that your efforts help give hope and keep many, many people sane. So thank you to members of this group who keep fighting the good fight in the face of all the adversity--you do more good than you know.

[JonLeibowitz]

48. Dancing with the devil -- what an excellent term for a certain group of so-called Democrats.

[LiberalElite]

60. ^^^^THIS^^^^

[swilton]

49. I'll second that!

[corbettkroehler]

51. Guerrilla Journalism At Its Best

When I need to filter through the noise, I often land here and assess the facts critically. DU is a fabulous resource!