2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)This election cycle is getting more out of control by the day. And it's only May.
TheBlackAdder
(28,160 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)I have a feeling she's going to tank.
Corporate666
(587 posts)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
(15,805 posts)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
(10,336 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)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
(19,926 posts)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.
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nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I expect those images in known police states
riversedge
(70,047 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)NewImproved Deal
(534 posts)dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)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
(20,317 posts)the party in it's current state.
That was openly anti-democratic and corrupt.
wundermaus
(1,673 posts)riversedge
(70,047 posts)wundermaus
(1,673 posts)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
(534 posts)What would Oligarchy do without the shield of Fascism?
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Uncle Joe
(58,269 posts)Thanks for the thread, madfloridian.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)I do that to my cop friends on FB.
Some of them are learning.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)tokenlib
(4,186 posts)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
(154,021 posts)kiva
(4,373 posts)All so that Roberta Lange could slip out the back door.
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Fairgo
(1,571 posts)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
(20,805 posts)The fact that is alleged "democrats" pulling this shit blows my mind...
Must protect the Chosen One at all costs...
Vinca
(50,236 posts)dana_b
(11,546 posts)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
(11,546 posts)Joob
(1,065 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Tarc
(10,472 posts)TBF
(32,000 posts)you are on your own.
Tarc
(10,472 posts)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.
CorkySt.Clair
(1,507 posts)TBF
(32,000 posts)bigtree
(85,971 posts)...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.
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)/sarcasm
djean111
(14,255 posts)Not happening.
LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)pinebox
(5,761 posts)progressoid
(49,929 posts)Demsrule86
(68,455 posts)Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)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
(10,164 posts)Such an appropriate shirt color...
JEB
(4,748 posts)And if you don't accept it we'll call in the thugs.
Duppers
(28,117 posts)Across the country.
CorkySt.Clair
(1,507 posts)mooseprime
(474 posts)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
(70,047 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)Check. Just like 1968.
KauaiK
(544 posts)Renew Deal
(81,843 posts)Silver_Witch
(1,820 posts)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
(17,064 posts)Protecting the establishment while they cheat and steal.
riversedge
(70,047 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Establishment fears the people.
lindysalsagal
(20,564 posts)This is not sour grapes: Bernie's being pushed aside by cheating.
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)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
(20,317 posts)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.