To all the people trying to shit on this: Hill is who the people voted for.

Yeah, conspiracy this, conspiracy that. The people voted for Hillary. By a big margin. The first female major party nominee ever. Odds are, favorite to be the first woman president. It's not "rigged," it's not a conspiracy, it's the people who voted.

Don't look back on this day and think "I was still talking about idiotic conspiracy theories." And don't look back and think "I was really hoping superdelegates would override the democratic will of voters and deny her the nomination."

It's been a great campaign. Time to smash the orange orangutan.

Hill is KILLING IT. P.R.E.S.I.D.E.N.T.I.A.L. Trump, you're toast!

Congrats to Hillary, hats off to Bernie, let's go beat the crap out of Trump.

Dems fighting and all, it gets a little intense, but it's been an epic campaign. Who'd have thought Bernie would come this close to knocking out Hillary. Bernie, democratic socialist from Vermont, getting huge crowds all over the country. Go Bernie! It's a great sign for the future of progressive politics, and will wake a lot of Dem politicians up that there's a lot of enthusiastic support further left. Move on over left, Dems! Even though he didn't win this campaign will have influence for years to come, it could be a new turning point for the party, back left from the moderation of the 90s.

Hillary, as always, warrior, smartest person in every room she's ever been in, making history. Yeah, she voted for Iraq, but she's always been a liberal, and she's so qualified to be president it's ridiculous.

Then there's Trump the racist asshole egomaniac.

Good day to be a Democrat. Now on to the general election!

Gotta credit Bernie for one thing for sure. The man barnstormed the #*!% out of California.

All over the state. His energy and passion is impressive.

You know how when a team wins the Super Bowl, the second the game ends

somehow the winning team are suddenly wearing hats that say "Super Bowl champions" on them with that team's logo?

Like ONE SECOND after the final whistle, they have HATS with the TEAM's LOGO ALREADY ON THEM. How did those hats get made so fast? Must be a conspiracy!!!!!!!

Wake up, people!!! The oligarchs are EVERYWHERE!

The media are just reporting the facts. I don't like it either. But Hillary did just clinch.

I would like them to wait until tomorrow, call it when Hillary clinches the pledged delegates, the total delegates, and the popular vote. Then nobody can complain.

This is obviously going to give rise to a bunch more conspiracy theories from conspiracy people. Neither campaign wanted this. But the AP isn't going to sit on the story just because the dramatic effect would be better for Hillary's campaign if they held off until tomorrow. If the AP didn't report it then someone else would have, they all want to be first.

The whole superdelegate system is dumb. But that's the system, and according to that system, Hillary is now the presumptive nominee. The good news is that by tomorrow Hillary will have won by any possible method anyone could think of, so the superdelegates didn't affect the outcome.

In my opinion, she becomes the presumptive nominee when she gets the pledged delegate

majority, which happens tomorrow night. I don't think calling it today is meaningful or helpful. We all know she is going to win, but we should wait until she actually wins before calling her the presumptive nominee.

MSNBC just now: Obama to endorse Clinton as early as this week, spoke to Bernie this weekend

Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands wiped out all of Bernie's May delegate gains.

So much for "momentum". And after tomorrow, Hillary's pledged delegate lead is going to back above 300. In less than 48 hours she will clinch the majority of pledged delegates, the majority of total delegates, and the majority of popular votes. And none of them will be close, the margins will be huge.

Endorsements will roll in, starting with Elizabeth Warren, then Biden and Obama. The undecided superdelegates are going to go for Hillary, not Bernie, because unlike Bernie they believe in democracy.

This is going to be over pretty quick now.

The Atlantic talks to a Bernie or Buster thinking about voting for Trump.

I do think a sort of “white” tribalization has something to do with it, though it isn’t all tribalization; class appeals are part of it as well. I can remember the first time I was spat on in an activist meeting, sometime after Occupy. I hadn’t said much of anything, but I have always been an independent thinker and follow my own analysis, something of an idiosyncratic Marxism typically, and it was just for being white and male and not agreeing with whatever the speaker had said. I was “privileged.”

I didn’t make too much of it at the time, as there are always some unpleasant people you end up dealing with while doing activism, but I started noticing more and more of this over the next few years. I was not the only one. Most of my old circle of activist contacts dropped out one by one. Then I dropped out, quit Facebook and social media. It felt like such a relief; things had become so toxic.

Since then, I have been extensively re-evaluating my politics, and I know there are many others doing the same thing. A left which is focused on issues of identity and excludes issues of class (it was class issues which drew me to the left years ago) is no friend of mine, and it is no friend of the working class. And if it is all going to be tribal politics, then well, I guess you have to go with your own tribe—if not for your sake, then for the sake of your kids.

http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/05/why-one-bernie-sanders-supporter-is-tempted-to-vote-donald-trump/484841/

Very insightful. I can't grasp why anyone progressive would want to flush the country down the toilet by letting Trump win, but I think the key point is "if it is all going to be tribal politics, then well, I guess you have to go with your own tribe." It's not pretty.