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hrmjustin
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Don't return fire. Correct their mistakes and point out their rude language.
They'll end up shooting themselves in the foot.
It's pretty obvious that we've got people here with an agenda that is not consonant with the goals of the DNC, and who haven't read the TOS either. They get joy out of causing upset--don't give 'em the thrill, I say.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)room to be snarky.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Cha
(319,076 posts)by with it too.. because the site is inundated with them.
Good Advice, I think.. what I've been doing. Nothing like you though.. you're brilliant.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Positive HRC thread get attacked, followed by many threads positive towards their candidate which obviously gets clicks to get to the GD, meanwhile negative ones against HRC and Pres O is non-stop.
Nevertheless, HRC and her supporters will survive - LOL
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)sheshe2
(97,627 posts)I am with you on this, though I would say their posts are not just negative about Hillary and Obama. They are down right ugly.
I support Hillary...yet I still am focusing on Obama. I love the man, I love our President. Not ready to let go yet.
When she starts really campaigning, I will have more to post here. Lol~ for now I have mostly posted pictures, ya gotta know what some here think of my pics.
On that note~



hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)sheshe2
(97,627 posts)Yes, he has been treated with so much disrespect.
Our first African American President. Boggers have been ridiculed for years. We are called bogscum and more. Yes, it has been ugly. You are seeing it as well with Hillary. It will get worse.
I will be here for you.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)And you are always welcome.
juajen
(8,515 posts)I do not find it hard in the least to support her, whenever I can.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Keep giving them hell!
Cha
(319,076 posts)Screaming against ACA/AKA/Obamacare.
It was just the most Horrible thing ever! You couldn't talk to them reasonably. And, they're still whining and posting propaganda about it.. "Single Payer!"
He got what he could.. we were very fortunate to get that.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Just heartbreaking.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)But we will be the majority when we get Hillary the nomination and the presidency!
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Glad to have you here.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Thinkingabout
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MADem
(135,425 posts)If you happen to notice the same crew swarming a thread, and it's the same few, always together, always turning up, like clockwork, at the same time, that's not serendipity--that's someone operating several devices working a shift. Similar punctuation, similar misspellings, and sometimes, they'll answer for one another because they forget which persona they were using--oopsie!
If your radar starts pinging, there's a reason for it.
I can't imagine anyone taking money--probably paid poorly, too--or acting as a "political volunteer"--or even doing extra duty as a political staffer--feeling good about engaging in that kind of conduct. It takes "true believer"-ship a bit too far. It's a soul-selling exercise, I should think. And really, it's the behavior of a losing team, when people have to be paid to "catapult the propaganda."
Then, too, there are always the loser trolls, like that nasty looking cretin on reddit who used to publish the upskirt pictures and would drool over 'barely legal' material. When he was finally 'outed' he whined and cried and sobbed and went on about his sick wife and how he lost his job, blah, blah, blah...and what did people say to him? They said "Fuck you, ya PIG!" He'd spent too many years being a total asshole, trolling, baiting, being a nasty-ass, disgusting jerk...and he reaped what he sowed.
I like to think what goes around eventually comes around. Mean, stupid, spitting and nasty is no way to go through life!
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MADem
(135,425 posts)Some people can't help but show their true colors, as well.
I've found that, whenever I see an oddball topic rearing its ugly head here--for no real rhyme or reason, it's always a good idea to Google that topic and see what one can learn. It's amazing how many "non-DU-friendly" sites will pop up, and sometimes, comments seen here look just like comments at places a respectable DUer wouldn't be caught dead!
We know them by their works, I guess.
okasha
(11,573 posts)in GD. There are a number of truly awesome Hillary people doing some schooling there.
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I love The Alan Parsons Project! "Eye In The Sky" too. Used to play that one frequently on my radio show in college.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)brer cat
(27,587 posts)If they get me feeling that way, I will have not been true to myself." I need to frame this and put it by my computer. Wise words, freshwest. Thanks!
freshwest
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workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Cha
(319,076 posts)a lot of times I just ignore them. Talking to brick walls has never been my forte.
brer cat
(27,587 posts)there are a few prolific posters here who never miss an opportunity to post negative comments about PBO no matter what the subject is. Whatever he has done is either wrong, a "lie", or dismissed because it is not enough. They are taking shots at Hillary in the same manner. I rarely engage them, but they do get under my skin. I need to do better about letting it roll off.
Cha
(319,076 posts)lot of them on ignore. They had their chance.. but, years of the same ol thing gets deadly boring after so long and it's like .. C-Ya!

Cha
(319,076 posts)MaggieD
(7,393 posts)To post positive OPs about HRC in GD. Wear out the attackers if nothing else.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)there wouldn't be room for anything else!!!
You can't stop positivity! Keep up your great work, please!
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)the way his fans behave on DU he would be appalled. The anti Hillary brigade here is a perfect example of:

MADem
(135,425 posts)I can say with confidence that at least some of the "Bernie!!!" supporters don't support him in the slightest. They are not genuine "fans."
You can tell by the way they trash Clinton. Real Sanders supporters would take their cue from their favorite, and not diss, trash, insult or lie about opponents, particularly ones with whom Sanders has had a friendship for a quarter century, and one who donated to his Senate campaign.
These troll-sock-disruptors are trying to drive a wedge between Democrats--and they are counting on people who are not too discerning, who are overly enthusiastic, and who have an aggressive and over-developed sense of team epirit de corps to "catapult their propaganda," repeat the bullshit, take up a hostile and confrontational "tone," and leave the website in dissarray.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Ready For Someone Else! types. It has been nothing but a search for ANY anti-HRC candidate, not caring what the person is really about. They fail to acknowledge that Sanders is neither anti-Obama nor is he anti-HRC, that would be bad for the mantra. It's the echo chamber at work.
I've followed Sanders with interest for a dozen years, but never thought he planned to run for POTUS. Then suddenly his long lost lovers come out of the woodwork, huh?
They clearly didn't know this, as it destroys their anti-Democratic Party fantasies. Their love is not credible. Enjoy this, from the Democratic Socialists of America:

Q. Aren't you a party that's in competition with the Democratic Party for votes and support?
A:No, we are not a separate party. Like our friends and allies in the feminist, labor, civil rights, religious, and community organizing movements, many of us have been active in the Democratic Party. We work with those movements to strengthen the partys left wing, represented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
The process and structure of American elections seriously hurts third party efforts. Winner-take-all elections instead of proportional representation, rigorous party qualification requirements that vary from state to state, a presidential instead of a parliamentary system, and the two-party monopoly on political power have doomed third party efforts. We hope that at some point in the future, in coalition with our allies, an alternative national party will be viable. For now, we will continue to support progressives who have a real chance at winning elections, which usually means left-wing Democrats.
http://www.dsausa.org/
That's how Bernie identifies himself.
Bernie Sanders Is Proudly Defending His Democratic Socialism From Ignorant Attacks
By Jason Easley - May, 4th, 2015
STEPHANOPOULOS: I can hear the Republican attack ad right now. He wants American to look more like Scandinavia.
SANDERS: Thats right. Thats right. And whats wrong with that? Whats wrong when you have more income and wealth equality? Whats wrong when they have a stronger middle class in many ways than we do, higher minimum wage than we do, and they are stronger on the environment than we do? Look, the fact of the matter is, we do a lot in our country, which is good, but we can learn from other countries. We have, George, the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on earth, at the same time as we are seeing a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires. Frankly, I dont think that is sustainable. I dont think thats what America is about.
According to the Democratic Socialists Of America,
Democratic Socialism does not mean government control of the economy, Democratic socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democraticallyto meet public needs, not to make profits for a few. To achieve a more just society, many structures of our government and economy must be radically transformed through greater economic and social democracy so that ordinary Americans can participate in the many decisions that affect our lives.
The problem is that Republicans have defined everything that isnt trickle-down economics as socialism. Republicans define liberalism as socialism. Republicans think progressivism is socialism when in reality, they have no idea what socialism is.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/05/04/bernie-sanders-proudly-defending-democratic-socialism-ignorant-attacks.html
No one is going to find HRC against any of that! Her record does not show it. Nor does her rhetoric. Really, what is a more useful pursuit than Equality? Why dedicate years of one's life to the offal spewing from the GOP and Libertarians?
She doesn't, and neither should we spend our time that way. Make no mistake, wholesale denigradation of the Democratic Party and every single member such as that spewed, is not about getting a Democratic Socialist, a liberal or progressive in office.
It's just about destroying the organizing mechanism of our party to create change, and leaving a vacuum for the Koch brothers to fill up with more Libertarianism. Who's kidding who here?
Supporting Bernie does not mean destroying the Democratic Party as a whole/ refusing to vote for any Democrat/ or attaching oneself to another brand in an act of self-righteous rebellion. Or posting how much the Democratic Party betrayed one or how one will never vote Democratic again, etc. Pull my other finger. No, really. Do it.
Barney Frank was once admired on DU for his accomplishments, but is now maligned, after he ran against the media mold and said this:
Understand that the more deeply you hold your ideals, the more you are morally obligated to be pragmatic...
Idealism without pragmatism is just a way to flatter your ego.
With 'friends' such as those who toss good Democrats under the bus for every media generated poutrage, who needs enemies? And does anyone remember this from Barney?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/17/barney-frank-elizabeth-warren_n_6886862.html
And from Warren herself?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/31/elizabeth-warren-hillary-clinton_n_6977466.html
*sound of bus approaching*
How quickly she was discarded and now is forgotten. You were really onto something when you said they weren't really Sanders supporters. They just put on the robe for the time being. Sad, isn't it?
Some places are not about the people they claim to be in love with, those people are being used as tools for another plan. They're anti-HRC groups doing opposition research for the GOP. They are manufacturing media consent for what a GOP stolen election in 2016. After all, if the Democrats hate them, they can say we didn't show up to vote, thus their guy really did win. And if they get a lot of hits here, that 'proves it' and these posts are being spread like the POS thread on RW sites to 'prove even Democrats are not supporting their Party.' And the polls are attacked saying otherwise. Gotta keep up the meme, oh, yeah.
Bernie and Obama called out CU and the Koch brothers, as did Reid, Hartmann and other figures that have the public ear. The voices have become more insistent since Obama defied them in 2009 and said that a grass roots movement to pass a Constitutional amendment was required as soon as CU crippled fair elections thanks to:

Which has some real corporatists, not what HRC/ Obama/ Democrats are called here, richly enough, by those who follow the ultimate in corporatism, Libertarianism.
How Freedom Became Tyranny
By George Monbiot - 19th December 2011
Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a noble impulse, become synonymous with injustice?
In the name of freedom freedom from regulation the banks were permitted to wreck the economy. In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers lobby Congress to thwart effective public healthcare; the government rips up our planning laws(1); big business trashes the biosphere. This is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor.
Right-wing libertarianism recognises few legitimate constraints on the power to act, regardless of the impact on the lives of others. In the UK it is forcefully promoted by groups like the TaxPayers Alliance, the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Policy Exchange(2). Their conception of freedom looks to me like nothing but a justification for greed.
So why have we been been so slow to challenge this concept of liberty? I believe that one of the reasons is as follows. The great political conflict of our age between neocons and the millionaires and corporations they support on one side and social justice campaigners and environmentalists on the other has been mischaracterised as a clash between negative and positive freedoms...
Article really goes into depth after that and is worth reading:
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/12/19/how-freedom-became-tyranny/

MADem
(135,425 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Use 'DU' for 'you' and that's it.
I spend more time here than I should, really,
But there are some interesting folks, still...
greatlaurel
(2,020 posts)Bernie is really helping Hillary by focusing on the issues. It has got the news media in a real snit, because their tactic of focusing on ridiculous issues is being hijacked by Bernie and Hillary. Those two are really smart. A great team.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I think he knows what he's doing, and I think she knows, too. Of course, we won't know until the song is sung!
okasha
(11,573 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)It's not about taking a position so much as it is articulating a consensus, speaking for the group as a whole, as well as herding cats, placating hurt feelings, making deals, and using parliamentary tricks to outwit and outlast the other side. Also, that's an elected position, and the entire Dem crew has to vote for their choice--I don't think Sanders has the seniority (he is new to the Senate) or has put in the time as an "officer" (whip, caucus leader, assistant enforcer, or what-have-you) to get the votes from his fellow senators. The job does come with a big office and extra staff--but you need them, because the workload more than doubles.
In any event, I think the new guy has already been all but named to replace Harry.
haydukelives
(1,237 posts)A great President.
Gothmog
(179,869 posts)She has the most expierence and will be a truly great POTUS
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Gamecock Lefty
(708 posts)I just put a Hillary sticker on my car - right near my Darwin fish!
Gamecock Lefty
(708 posts)our side is talking issues, meeting with the people to hear their concerns, yet the Repubs are talking about well, Hillary!
Theyve been trashing her for years and are now stepping it up a notch because they are running scared. They are going to get their asses kicked by a girl and this guy will love every minute of it!
okasha
(11,573 posts)Huckabee committed political suicide today, and it wasn't a pretty sight.
murielm99
(32,988 posts)Thank you for speaking up in the face of many, many insults.
It is amazing how many DUers are doing the right-wing's work for them.
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fbc
(1,668 posts)It's kind of important, isn't it?
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)As host i ask you to self delete.
fbc
(1,668 posts)in the Hillary Clinton room?
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)That is what gd is for.
Please delete your posts.
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Cha
(319,076 posts)Obama Presidency.. one of these months I will make a choice.
I didn't choose Obama until late December of '07.. and then less than a year later..
Good Luck to Hillary.. I see the whole forest.. not a one issue person. Say like the TPP.
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aquart
(69,014 posts)because nothing Hillary has done deserves the outright viciousness I've seen posted here.
The woman awes me, to keep her ambition so clear and bright knowing what she knows about campaigns and the presidency itself? My God, what courage. What energy. What an apprenticeship.
They try to make sins of her strengths just like Karl taught them. I'm not buying it. Glad none of you do, either.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)northoftheborder
(7,637 posts)SunSeeker
(58,283 posts)When you put someone on ignore, you can't be on their jury. So the very people we really need on these juries are excluded. That is why it is getting increasing vicious around here; hides are harder with such a jury.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)SunSeeker
(58,283 posts)I just checked (see above link) and this is what the rules say:
For those who are interested, this sections provides a detailed breakdown of the Jury selection process.
Immediately after a Community Standards alert is sent our software begins to seat a Jury by randomly flagging members who are currently browsing DU. Members are excluded from serving if:
they have their "Willingness to serve on a DU Jury" option set to "Unwilling"
they are ignoring the alerted member
they are blocking DU mail from the alerted member
they have replied to the alerted member within the last 24 hours
they have alerted on the alerted member within the last 24 hours
they have posted in the thread which contains the alerted post
they are on the alerted member's Jury Blacklist
...
However, I notice at the link it says it was last updated 7/23/13.
Do you have a link to the notice of the change?
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)He addressed this in ata a whike back.
When i used ignore this year i still sat on a jury for a member i had on ignore.
SunSeeker
(58,283 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Unless they are clearly breaking the TOS or flaming, they have nothing to fear from me being on their Jury. I can be impartial even if I find most of their posts galling.
However, that is not the case with some, I've seen Jurors comment that they will or will not leave a post based on the poster in question or the one who is assumed to be under attack. I wish there was an option for outright lying and distrortion, but that is not in the TOS, and even hiding for RW sources, outrageous ones, is not against the rules.
More things like that go to the Hosts (no mods anymore) and some of them won't hide things that match their ideological bent. At least I've been told that. I have no interest in being involved with that.
I look at the list of Hosts and can tell which way they are likely to go on anything, sad to say. Many things have been locked that don't violate forum SOPs. Things have been getting out of hand here.
Very much looking forward to volunteering.
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hrmjustin
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Sometimes they don't realize it.
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)There is always someone to nit pick at us.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)AndreaCG
(2,331 posts)It's the repeating of republican talking points that's annoying. And worse, the declaration that they won't support Hillary if she's the nominee. Why not just go to the voting booth and pull the lever (ok fill in the oval) for Jeb or Scotty or Paul the younger or whichever nasty idiot runs on the R line? Like these people weren't around in 2000 to remember Florida. And frankly, dumb as W was, these creeps are way worse. It makes me nuts.
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)very much sounds like RWers. On RWer sites everyone must toll the line, if not, you're kick out and ban for life.
DU represents progressive and democratic ideals, civil pro and con, civil agree to disagree. That won't change. Maybe veer off a bit, but I do see signs of the DU waking up and not liking what has transpired this past month. To suggest that HRC supporters get it means a whole lot!
hrmjustin, keep up the good fight, you are never alone.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)I do feel a little more hated of late but i will be ok.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)After Ireland became the first country to vote for marriage equality, Hillary tweeted:
Well done, Ireland. -H
I'm sure the Republicans and our friends on GD have a spin for this!