Itās hard to treat people with respect if theyāre throwing chairs at you.
I have no intention of getting into arguments about his supporters anymore, but that fucking statement this motherfucker issued about this shitshow was the last straw for me.
The Democratic Party has a choice. It can open its doors and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change ā people who are willing to take on Wall Street, corporate greed and a fossil fuel industry which is destroying this planet. Or the party can choose to maintain its status quo structure, remain dependent on big-money campaign contributions and be a party with limited participation and limited energy.
Well fuck you, Bernie. Fuck you and all your deluded diehard cultish supporters. How dare you? The suggestion that you, and only you, and your True Progressiver Than Thou Unicorn Mounted Warriors for Purity are opposed to those things is so deeply, profoundly offensive that I just donāt have the words to express my disgust. But the balls it takes to demand that people you are condemning as tools of all thatās evil and corrupt treat you āfairly,ā and then to ladle an extra helping of offensive irony onto the shit sandwich by echoing Trumpās favorite word, used in Trumpās sense of āI demand special treatmentā is just the last goddamn straw.
This sounds almost exactly like something the Trump campaign would say.
Iām becoming more and more concerned that Sanders is going to do the full Nader on us.
Remember, Bernie can not fail, he can only be failed.
BTW if you want to get an idea of what B.S. supporters are like, read the comments on places like Salon, which has morphed into Hillary-is-evil headquarters. Vile, misogynistic, literally parroting Fox News talking points, and always threatening to take their marbles and go home, either not voting in November or writing in St. Bernieās name because the nomination is being STOLEN!!!1! by evil Hillary and her puppet Debbie Wasserman Shultz.
Ok, she has 3 million more votes than him, but somehow itās being stolen.
Oy.
The Loser Who Lost Nevada because the voters chose Hillary over him is mad because he couldnāt steal it at the delegate convention.
Yep, there were no wrongdoings by the Bernie Bros throwing chairs. Clearly these female victims of violence were āasking for itā.
This is what happens when āmovementā voters get involved in a campaign for the first time. They donāt know the rules or procedures and then cry foul when they arenāt allowed to get their own way.
Go to Salon? Please, donāt make me.
Geriatric Trump piece of shit, I canāt believe I used to like this egotistical nightmare.
And texting death threats.
The 4-year-old grandson of the state partyās chairwoman obviously was just asking for it. Hey, the little tyke has to learn life is tough in the revolution.
Jesus. This chucklehead is going to deliver the presidency to Trump!
Trump is going to have his finger on The Button. Couple that with an equally nutty and narcissistic Putin, and we have a recipe for nuclear annihilation. Huzzah.
Thanks, Bernie.
I posted this in another thread, but it is appropriate here as well;
https://twitter.com/RalstonReports/status/732569408510382080
Tom Gallagher, the former Caesars CEO and congressional candidate, said that his sonās tavern, the Porchlight Grille, began receiving threats shortly after the convention ended in chaos Saturday. [NV Dem Chairwoman Roberta] Lange is the day operations manager there.
āBeginning about 3am on Sunday morning our bartenders at Porchlight Grille began getting non-stop phone threats from Bernie partisans,ā Gallagher told me via email. āThe level of threats including death threats and vitriol was astonishing. One of our bartenders was actually a Bernie supporter and was stunned at the threats he was hearing on the phone. He began to respond telling people that he was just trying to do his job and pay off his student loans and their tactics were harming his livelihood. It made no difference to the callers. Their goal was to harass and as became clearā¦to shut down the business and Robertaās job with it.ā
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āAt one point on Sunday before we unplugged the phones, I took a turn at answering and experienced such a nasty call that a Metro officer who happened to be in the tavern as a customer picked up the call and attempted to encourage the woman to stop, explaining that what she was doing was unlawful harassment,ā Gallagher told me. āIt made no difference. She actually responded that it was her right of free speech.ā
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From Gallagher: āThe Porchlight website and Facebook page were similarly attacked with threats, including by someone who set up a fake āRoberta Langeā ID on Facebook and then posted on the Porchlight Facebook page incredibly slanderous attacks against both Roberta and her husband Ken, including a post by the so-called āRoberta Langeā that accused her husband Ken of crimes against children!ā
Gallagher then said people began posting negative reviews of the business on Yelp "claiming all kind of bad experiences. On the Google site for the tavern someone posted that it was āpermanently closedā!
from Ralston Reports
This in addition to vandalizing the NV Dem headquarters, throwing chairs at the convention, yes, Bernie, your supporters are violent. Someone is going to get hurt, and it will be on you. Get control over your campaign.
The actions of the Democratic Chair are just going to feed into the Trump narrative of āCorrupt Hilary.ā Regardless of the merits of the situation, the optics are terrible for Hilary.
What you saidā¦Couldnāt agree more!
Same here. I want the five bucks I donated to his campaign in the early running back. Except, as far as I am concerned, it is tainted money and I would feel compelled to burn it in a voodoo ritual to rid the world of the Sanders Stench clinging to it.
So if Hilary loses who will be blamed?
The Bernie Bros. remind me of the Corbynistas in the UK. Criticism of True Leader is forbidden and critics attacked. Both also seem to think that their opinions are the only ones that matter, and that people in opposition are stupid. Then wonder why their party took a drubbing in the election. āIf only the press and establishment hadnāt silenced our voicesā¦ā
I guess all those Bernie supporters and Democrats who were wondering yesterday why Sanders hadnāt stood up and denounced what happened in Nevada now have their answer. Maybe his definition of āviolenceā is different from mine. Delegates storming stage, throwing chairs, calling female speakers C**ts, including our wonderful progressive Senator Boxer, posting home address and cell phone number of convention chair and then leaving (recorded BTW) hundreds of threatening messages, including those directed to her children and grandchildren? Whatever moral compass Senator Sanders may have once had ā it is long gone. The Democrat party needs to cut him loose. No speaking platform, no committee seats, no money, no help paying off his inevitable campaign debts. His desire to destroy the Democratic party - at the cost of the nation and a Trump presidency is out in the open now. Does he really think that California Democrats and super delegates have not seen the chaos ā and his lack of response ā all over our airways? Whatever respect I may have had for him is long gone. Go home Bernie, where they still love you - or did. I understand Al Giordano is running as a Democrat in 2016 against you.Wonder who the DNC will support.