This is what Democracy looked like in Nevada tonight.

[madfloridian]

[BlueNoMatterWho]

1. WTF?

This election cycle is getting more out of control by the day. And it's only May.

[TheBlackAdder]

65. It's almost like they knew some chicanery was afoot and shit would hit the fan.

[procon]

2. Is Bernie gonna congratulate his supporters for all these cool press photos? nt

[senz]

6. Is Hill going to stand a chance, pulling stunts like this?

I have a feeling she's going to tank.

[Corporate666]

10. What stunt?

I don't remember reading any reports that HRC was in NV tonight. Or does everything go back to her, whether she was involved or not?

What about the BS supporters who were yelling and screaming at children, and the one who physically attacked an older man? Or is BS only responsible for what he personally does?

No double standards there, eh?


As for NV... she won the state 53 to 47 right? So procedural delegate issues aside... do you agree she should get more delegates going to the convention than BS? In other words, you want her to get more delegates - but are just unhappy with some procedural issues, right?

[procon]

11. It's a Party Convention; what were you expecting?

Sorry, there was no stunt, and like it or not, the Party leaders are in charge of the Party's events and they can make any rules they want, that the rule. Bernie and company seems to have missed the chapter that explained our entire political system is based on the Party system. That would be the Democratic Party, not the Democratic Socialist Party, or the Independent Party.

[silvershadow]

14. Not Bonnie and Clyde's Great Coast to Coast Delegate Robbery. nt

[Adrahil]

49. Ironic, considering the Sandernista attempts to overturn the Feb caucus results.

If Hillary supports had done the same, we'd never hear the end of complaints about trying to overturn the will of the people (remember she won by 5%) and cheating. In short, Sanders upporters would complain no matter what. Only their candidate winning is legitimate.

[cui bono]

18. What are you talking about? Are you really still trying to use the Bernie's not a Dem meme?

And you really think that pic is a good look for democracy in a (supposedly) free country? I don't care who got the law to stand in there like that, it made my jaw drop.

.

[nadinbrzezinski]

41. It chilled me actually

I expect those images in known police states

[riversedge]

54. It is Bernies tank that is going down. Shame on those Bernie fans who created the violence.

[AzDar]

3. Video Of Roberta Lange (Chair) Gavelling, and FLEEING... @ approx. 11:45

https://www.periscope.tv/_luvlei_zaynah/1OyKAnmXrkaGb

[NewImproved Deal]

7. Horrible woman. The Ideal Clinton Machine hack...

[dreamnightwind]

59. Wow, that was amazing

The motion to close followed by the phony voice vote being called for Aye is around 11:30 in. If that's the establishment's idea of Democracy, I want no part of it.

People leaving after the event were chanting things like "Labor Party" and "Bernie or Bust". Those are sounding like intelligent responses to treatment like this by the powers that be.

Thanks for posting the link.

[Marr]

66. +1, I'm becoming convinced that it would actually be counterproductive to support

the party in it's current state.

That was openly anti-democratic and corrupt.

[wundermaus]

4. Gee, that looks sorta familiar, doesn't it?

[riversedge]

60. Posting pics of Nazi Party and equating it with the Democratic Party is SO WRONG!

[wundermaus]

64. Who the cap fits, let them wear it.

The Democratic party is corrupt.
If you were a democrat you would know this.
The larger question is - Why are so many members ignorant of this?
Answer - They are not, you are.

[NewImproved Deal]

5. Thanks, Clinton Machine! Thanks, "New Democrats"...

What would Oligarchy do without the shield of Fascism?

[link:|

[Uncle Joe]

8. We have come a long way since 2000.

Thanks for the thread, madfloridian.

[Fawke Em]

9. I'd go up to them and tell them how they're only hurting themselves.

I do that to my cop friends on FB.

Some of them are learning.

[Binkie The Clown]

12. Looks like a Trump rally, with brown shirts "keeping order". n/t

[tokenlib]

13. Machine politics are back in a big way...

Police keeping delegates out, police keeping delegates away from party hacks suppressing motions and preventing. votes and arrogant enough to do it right out in the open.. Bully tactics .and for what?

[nadinbrzezinski]

42. That is exactly what is happening

[kiva]

15. Yes. It was ugly.

All so that Roberta Lange could slip out the back door.

[Fairgo]

17. Oh look, Brown shirts

They look like the preatorian guard. The eagle is a nice touch too. Thank god they are all armed to the teeth. Good to know my democracy is safely cordoned off.

[truebrit71]

44. I thought the same thing...the irony...

The fact that is alleged "democrats" pulling this shit blows my mind...

Must protect the Chosen One at all costs...

[Vinca]

19. That's disturbing. It looks like a Trump event.

[dana_b]

20. so they KNEW that what they were doing was wrong if they had

to have the Sherrifs come in and escort them out. Chickenshit assholes. They STEAL votes, take away democracy and slither out the back door.

[dana_b]

21. The NV Dems fearful leader:

[Joob]

27. Watched it live, the only faith I have in this party is if Bernie wins.

[nadinbrzezinski]

43. Nope, that is the new version of Roberts

some will need it

[Tarc]

22. Non-Democrats don't get to be Democratic delegates. How hard is this to comprehend?

[TBF]

24. Fine, no independent votes for the general -

you are on your own.

[Tarc]

25. One-half of one-percent. That will be the sum of the "bernie or bust" brigade

Once the dust settles.

Most Sanders people are sensible, i.e. you and fellow DU'ers are not representative of the whole. Not by a long shot.

[TBF]

35. Good luck. nt

[CorkySt.Clair]

40. You are the comptroller of Indy votes?

[TBF]

45. Say hi to Brock for me

[bigtree]

23. not only were Sanders jackasses rushing that stage, they were threatening the speakers

...not just threatening and hollering at folks like Barbara Boxer, but even their own representatives like Nina Turner. Many participants were truly frightened by the disruption.

Funny thing is, Sanders lost the state, so why is there the expectation of receiving more delegates than Hillary?

You don't want cops guarding the speaker's platform? Collect the idiots who treated the convention like a Trump rally.

[JoePhilly]

34. + 1

[uponit7771]

55. Sanders had a greeting with the pope so shouldn't he get more delegates than Clinton!?!??!

/sarcasm

[djean111]

26. Yeah, like I am gonna fall in line and unite with that.

Not happening.

[LiberalArkie]

28. One day maybe the mafia can be kicked out of the Democratic party

[kgnu_fan]

29. oh no....

[yourpaljoey]

30. wow

[pinebox]

31. But Hillary has momentum!

[progressoid]

58. Ouch.

[Demsrule86]

32. Shame on you Bernie supporters

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

[Hiraeth]

33. The original brownshirts (for comparison)

Brown·shirt.
NOUN
1.a member of an early Nazi militia founded by Hitler in Munich in 1921, with brown uniforms resembling that of Mussolini's Blackshirts. They aided Hitler's rise to power, but were eclipsed by the SS after the “night of the long knives” in June 1934. Also called storm troops or Sturmabteilung.

The Sturmabteilung; literally Storm Department) functioned as the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

It played a significant role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Their primary purposes were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties, especially the Red Front Fighters League (Rotfrontkämpferbund) of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and intimidating Slavic and Romani citizens, unionists, and Jews – for instance, during the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses.

The SA have been known in contemporary times as "Brownshirts" (Braunhemden) from the color of their uniform shirts, similar to Benito Mussolini's blackshirts. The SA developed pseudo-military titles for its members. The SA ranks were adopted by several other Nazi Party groups, chief amongst them the Schutzstaffel (SS), which originated as a branch of the SA before being separated. Brown-coloured shirts were chosen as the SA uniform because a large batch of them were cheaply available after World War I, having originally been ordered during the war for colonial troops posted to Germany's former African colonies.[1]

The SA became disempowered after Adolf Hitler ordered the "blood purge" of 1934. This event became known as the Night of the Long Knives (die Nacht der langen Messer). The SA was effectively superseded by the SS, although it was not formally dissolved until after the Third Reich's final capitulation to the Allied powers in 1945.

more at link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

[Lizzie Poppet]

36. Looks like they were worried people might storm the podium after the blatant cheating.

Such an appropriate shirt color...

[JEB]

37. Take that you fucking peons.

And if you don't accept it we'll call in the thugs.

[Duppers]

38. !!! A picture of things to come!!!

Across the country.

[CorkySt.Clair]

39. Didn't Bernie lose Nevada back in Feb?

[mooseprime]

46. the clinton campaign has now had a "birdie" moment of its own

i hope this image can be incorporated into her campaign materials and redesigned presidential logo. it'll always be a fond moment in my memory.

[riversedge]

52. Sanders supporters rushing the stage and throwing chairs--YUP. Good optics for Bernie.

[amborin]

47. Shock troops

[Waiting For Everyman]

48. "Winning" by force.

Check. Just like 1968.

[KauaiK]

50. Now who is looking like a fascist with her brown shirts.

[Renew Deal]

51. Seems like a small price to pay for Revolution®

[Silver_Witch]

53. I worry for the Democratic Party.

Does this mean we go the same way as the republicans. Where free speech is so frightening to the party leaders that they much bring in the militia? That booing of is such a horrible act that the Police must guard against that expression?

I fear for my party and all our freedom.

[HooptieWagon]

56. Hillary's brown-shirts.

Protecting the establishment while they cheat and steal.

[riversedge]

61. The Sanders fans were getting violent. Shame on them.

[HooptieWagon]

62. Brown shirts protect the cheaters.

Establishment fears the people.

[lindysalsagal]

57. Lots of rule breaking in hrc's favor. Follow link.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511969321

This is not sour grapes: Bernie's being pushed aside by cheating.

[bobthedrummer]

63. K&R#90 + "But it is not a normal charity, in its resources or its functions."

What The Clinton Foundation Is Costing Hillary (Amy Davidson February 26, 2015)
http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/what-the-clinton-foundation-is-costing-hillary

[Marr]

67. You can steal a primary with a rigged party system, but you can't steal a

general election with it.

I guess we'll see if the corporate stooges are correct, and you actually can disregard the left and still win.