Bernie supporters shower Hillary Clinton's motorcade with $1 dollar bills

[RATM435]

Sanders crowd showers Clinton car with dollar bills
A group of around 100 Bernie Sanders supporters showered Hillary Clinton's motorcade in 1,000 single-dollar bills as the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate drove to a fundraiser with George and Amal Clooney on Saturday.

[msongs]

1. gee those guys coulda given the $$ to downticket dems or homeless people. selfish act

[alfredo]

9. That's where the money from the fundraiser goes. Top of the ticket shares the wealth.

If you are stingy to fellow Dems, don't expect much help from the party.

[cprise]

11. A few handfuls of ones turned out to be some great publicity.

I don't think $50 worth of signs could have had the same impact in this case.

[JackRiddler]

38. No one should ever spend money for a political action.

Respectable politicians can spend millions on advertising, but no one should try to get media by spending $1000 in a clever action (actually, it seems they picked up the dollars at the end).

The faux-outrage is noted.

[Scootaloo]

69. Shut off your internet, use the money you save to run a soup kitchen.

You'll be making hte world a better place at both ends!

[pkdu]

2. And they picked every one of them back up again....How very satisfying

If you are a tenth grader.

[SDjack]

15. The cost of the money bomb was $0, and they got a movie of it that will be used

against HRC for the rest of her political career. Excellent ROI.

[roguevalley]

73. good thing the whiners about protests weren't around in the 60s

Or we'd still be in viet nam

[pkdu]

76. Sure thing skippy, it's playing 24/7 right now dontcha know. Er...not.

[FastLearner]

3. Clinton Counting on Wins in New York

[cprise]

14. A couple of Park Avenue chums using the country for their schemes.

[Gregorian]

4. But if they had thrown a quarter million she'd have stopped.

[chwaliszewski]

8. ^^ Funny ^^

[afertal]

40. At this point, even a quarter million would be unlikely to...

...get us the text of that speech!

[alfredo]

45. Your venom reminds me of some tea bagger, but there were no misspelled words.

[roguevalley]

74. oh snap. aren't you a piece of work

[alfredo]

79. I do my best;)

[forest444]

63. And given a speech.

Presumably with static noise generators around her.

[Nitram]

7. Thespian, that's a nasty slander. I hope you're proud of yourself.

[George II]

12. Not to worry.

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[LS_Editor]

22. And censorship reigns. Because that juried remark would have irreparably harmed Hillary Clinton...

And her presidential aspirations...

Right...

[George II]

26. I'd respond with something pithy, but it's Sunday night and I have to rearrange my SOCK drawer.

[LS_Editor]

47. I wonder why you responded at all.

[dflprincess]

57. Just to show us how little this means to him

and how very clever he thinks he is.

[LS_Editor]

19. I'll allow it.

[Nitram]

6. Well, isn't that nice.

Bernie-Supporters have
money to throw away.

[alfredo]

10. Yeah but very little goes to help down ticket candidates.

[pnwmom]

16. Wrong. All that goes to Hillary is $5k per couple. That means $14.5 million will be going to

help the party support downticket races.

[cprise]

18. Downticket DINOs, you mean.

[pnwmom]

20. Downticket candidates in all 50 states. But you probably consider ALL Dems to be DINO's. n/t

[cprise]

30. Have another helping of 2014 mid-terms.

And Republican governorships.

[pnwmom]

31. If Bernie is the nominee we can be certain of that. In Wisconsin, for example,

25% of Bernie supporters either left the rest of their ballot blank, or voted for a Republican.

[cprise]

36. Ah, that's right, only the establishment is allowed to win Republican hearts and minds

Thanks for reminding me about that scummy little double-standard (and the obsession with labels... "DINO" should have clued you in, but no.)

[brush]

53. Do you get it at all. That's what happens if down-ticket dems aren't supported

Sanders doesn't seem to get that either. His supporters like to brag of all the money he's raised from them but don't seem to get that if down-ticket Congresspersons and Senators don't get financial help from all the millions raised for him, he can't push any of his policies through.

Have you all not watch all the repug obstructionism Obama has had to deal with for nearly 8 years?

[cprise]

59. You just had your proof in 2014 of what oligarchy yields

This party-brand shit has to go. Its serving as a cover for high-finance corporate politics.

Sanders is willing to support downticket progressives. His candidacy is based on the question of whether the Democratic Party will field such candidates instead of the lame corporatists they usually do. Its no different than the conditions Sanders has placed on support of Clinton is she gets the party nomination.

FWIW, BOTH parties obstruct what Americans want. That's why Dems went to the superdelegate system, to smother disloyalty to the party brand (policies and principles be damned). Just look at DWS: She is a creature created by the Third Way establishment who would feel right at home in the Bush-era Republican party. She even ran some far-right Republicans against Democrats in Florida in a program designed to "welcome" the Right into the Democratic party.

[brush]

65. You're not making much sense

You say Bernie is willing to support progressive down-ticket candidates but the dem party is only promoting the lame corporatists they usually do.

Well why'd he join the Democratic Party and why the hell is he running at all.

He knew what the deal was when he threw his hat into the ring as a Democrat.

Everybody but you purist idealists know very well why? He joined the party opportunistically to get the national recognition on the TV debates under the Democratic Party brand he couldn't get running as an independent.

He's been an independent for forever but when he decides to run for president, all of a sudden he becomes a Democrat.

There's a word for that — user.

[cprise]

66. Its was the Clintons that made a deal with Rs to privatize social security.

The "New Democrats".

Its your response that makes no sense.

And, yes... Hillary has run on her husband's record. She still defends virtually every decision made at Bill's Oval Office.

[brush]

67. You're deflecting and changing the subject

WTH is Sanders running as a Dem if the dems aren't pure enough for him?

It's plain as day to everyone but the purists and idealists. He wanted the national recognition that the Democratic brand brings.

It has nothing to do with Hillary and Bill Clinton privatizing anything.

[cprise]

68. I gave you a concrete example.

The charge of purism is laughable when virtually everything was on the agenda for privatization and deregulation during the Clinton administration.

Its a really tired tactic. Actual purists would be trying to nationalize myriad different industries, not just health insurance and the central bank.

It is the moneyed interests that have committed ideological hubris, in fact "purism". Its why Clinton can't even bring herself to support a carbon tax, which is already recognized in climatology circles as absolutely necessary to tackle global warming. She hasn't thought of a way to twist a "carbon tax" into a "tax reform" that makes her fatcat friends even richer.

[brush]

71. No answer huh?

Sanders is an opportunist who is using the dem party for his presidential bid after years of being an independent and socialist.

He knows very well those two labels won't fly with the American electorate — ta-da, he's a Democrat.

[cprise]

72. Are you new to DU? Miss the whole Nader thing?

"Work within the party, or else....?!" All the speeches about how "spoilers" are unacceptable in a two-party system?

Miss the mass migration out of the party to Independent?

Did you forget the rest of us have to LIVE with the decisions Dems make?

Take your idiotic loaded question and shove it.

There's really no excuse here: Even the Democratic party has a program to attract non-Democratic candidates (and their supporters) into the party. But oddly enough, its always aimed at Republicans and they don't get asked these kinds of questions. The program was twisted into a run-some-rightwingers-against-our-own-moderates program.

The Democrats are a machine that claim one-half of the electoral potential in this country. They actually have no right to be so two-faced about the big tent policy. They tout this policy when doting over their corporate donors, while they install a delegate system that prevents any "takeover" from the grass roots.

IOW, they have transformed into the Anti-democratic Oligarch party.

So this primary race represents, more than anything else, a chance.

[alfredo]

77. Midterms always suck for the party holding power.

[alfredo]

29. Name calling really advances you argument.

[cprise]

37. LOL.. Did you even read the parent post?

[alfredo]

48. yes

[cprise]

52. Um, actually referring to other post calling Sanders supporters

"creeps".

[alfredo]

58. That was uncalled for too.

[cprise]

60. No. Really, DINO is a very apt term. Have a nice day.

[alfredo]

61. Clooney is a Staunch Democrat, so is his dad.

He's putting his money behind Democrats.

[alfredo]

35. I was talking about Sanders supporters. He has only helping three candidates.

And they was only after it was pointed out that zero of his money was shared with the party. When they complain that he is being treated poorly by the party, maybe it is because he is not helping the party.

[roguevalley]

75. keep going. your tears are delicious

[pnwmom]

13. Because it's SO TERRIBLE that she raised all that money for the 50 state parties.

That's why they're treating her like a stripper and tossing bills at her.

What a bunch of creeps.

Hillary will be helping other Dems to get elected. Bernie's barely lifting a finger, unless it's to wag it in a debate.

[cprise]

17. Her wealthy donors are the creeps, not the least the corporate media.

They have "donated" a stark deficit of face time to Sanders.

[alfredo]

43. State and local parties host fundraisers. To draw the deep pockets, they headline a big name.

Would they be creeps if they were Bernie supporters?

[cprise]

50. Mmmmmmmm! DEEP POCKETS!!!

[alfredo]

78. Until we have public funding for elections, that's the way it is.

We can't unilaterally disarm. We need to ban all private (corporate) money from elections, and bring back the fairness doctrine.

[LeFleur1]

64. So

All wealthy donors are creeps? Who is going to pay for all that free stuff Bernie is going to get for you?

[hueymahl]

21. How creepy is it that you mind went strait to the stripper analogy???

Weird.

[pnwmom]

23. It didn't. The analogy is being tweeted all over.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/04/17/joy_ann_reid_act_of_throwing_dollar_bills_at_a_woman_echoes_sexist_corporate_whore_attack.html

JOY ANN REID: Bernie Sanders supporters throwing dollar bills at the motorcade of Hillary Clinton as she was going to the George Clooney fund-raiser. We're going to roll that video in a second. Just the idea of that, and people went on twitter afterwards. You can see the video there. People throwing dollar bills as if in a strip club.

This coming on the heels of a Bernie Sanders surrogate having to apologize for using the term "democratic [corporate] whores" at the Washington Square Park rally.

That visual there, of throwing dollar bills at a woman as she's going by in her motorcade, has the Democratic race gone over the edge?

[hueymahl]

25. Yet you are the only poster that brought it up here.

[pnwmom]

27. So what? Millions of people saw this on MSNBC.

JOY ANN REID: Bernie Sanders supporters throwing dollar bills at the motorcade of Hillary Clinton as she was going to the George Clooney fund-raiser. We're going to roll that video in a second. Just the idea of that, and people went on twitter afterwards. You can see the video there. People throwing dollar bills as if in a strip club.

This coming on the heels of a Bernie Sanders surrogate having to apologize for using the term "democratic [corporate] whores" at the Washington Square Park rally.

That visual there, of throwing dollar bills at a woman as she's going by in her motorcade, has the Democratic race gone over the edge?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/04/17/joy_ann_reid_act_of_throwing_dollar_bills_at_a_woman_echoes_sexist_corporate_whore_attack.html

[hueymahl]

39. I think more likely 100's of thousands - this is MSNBC we are talking about!

Regardless, It is a pretty tortured analogy. But the Clinton campaign has never been shy about using racist or sexist metaphors when it suits their purpose.

[brush]

55. So that's cool to you, throwing money a woman dem candidate like she's a stripper?

[hueymahl]

56. This whole "stripper" meme is just the slander-of-the-day

They were throwing money at a candidate because the candidate has shown to do almost anything in her personal and public life to acquire a fortune, everything except raise it in substantial numbers from ordinary democratic voters.

You and your cohorts are the one pushing the sexist stripper meme.

[leftofcool]

34. Take it up with your fellow Bernie supporters

If Bernie doesn't like bad publicity then he should have stopped the crap a long time ago.

[hueymahl]

41. I am a supporter of the ultimate democratic nominee

I just hope whoever it is has not sold their soul to get there.

And for the record, I think it was a brilliant bit of political theater. Clearly it struck a nerve.

[PoliticalMalcontent]

54. Seems HRC supporters seem intent on making sexism stick even when there is none.

If a candidate isn't able to win using their political positions, are they worth supporting?

For what it is worth it feels like to me all of these shouts of sexism are trumped up just to tarnish Sanders' name.

Not an ounce of legitimacy to any of their claims, which really reflects poorly on Clinton herself for trying so dang hard to push that narrative.

[PoliticalMalcontent]

51. I'm sorry, but I disagree.

I believe this has much more to do with her perceived representation of the top 1% and throwing large fundraisers more than anything. It's similar to how highly paid sports free agents get treated by fans throwing around monopoly money. I'm disappointed that you'd play the gender card here and hope.

[SeattleVet]

24. This reminded of a past action...

In 1967, Abbie Hoffman and some Yippies! managed to halt all trading on the floor of the NY Stock Exchange by tossing dollar bills from the visitor's gallery onto the trading floor while yelling 'Free money!"

[bigmonkey]

32. They put in the bulletproof glass after that.

Or so the tourguides say.

[SeattleVet]

33. Yes, that's the reason that the gallery is glassed in now. nt

[beastie boy]

49. Ah, but that was the time when a dollar would buy you two subway rides and a slice of pizza

Today, all the money they threw at Hillary would hardly be enough to fill the tank of her SUV.

Cheap bastards!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

62. I love guerrilla theater.

[Darb]

28. Real classy.

The longer this goes the lower they get.

[Jack Rabbit]

42. Whose silly idea was that?

She gets a lot more than she worth from Legs Dimon and Pretty Boy Lloyd. She doesn't need any from The People.

[beastie boy]

44. That's nothing. Bernie threw $140 million at Hillary in Wisconsin!

[fbc]

46. LOL

[Geronimoe]

70. James Carville quote

"If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find."