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BeyondGeography

(39,367 posts)
Wed May 18, 2016, 01:55 PM May 2016

Post Nevada/Mealy-Mouthed Sanders Statement, Wonkette has made her decision

I am fucking sorry to endorse Hillary Clinton, and I mean it. The Democratic primary was a good, hard, fair race in which both candidates showed the nutballs at the Trump rallies how to run a clean campaign. I was proud of all of us. While some — including the president — were calling for supporters to unite behind Hillary, and for Bernie to drop out, I thought such calls were misguided. Hell, when does the 10 percent of the country that lives in California ever get to vote! More democracy is more gooderer!

But the Sanders campaign is now relying on Alex Jones-style conspiracies — if a Republican county clerk in Arizona shuts down a whole bunch of primary precincts because Hillary Clinton told her to, then Hillary Clinton is probably really good at getting shit done! — and flat out fucking lies to get its way. It hasn’t had any kind of intellectual consistency for months now as first it excoriated superdelegates as undemocratic even as they mirrored the popular vote, and then called for superdelegates to overthrow the will of the people by going for the candidate who has received fewer votes. (As one example, and they are legion.)

Enough of those intellectual flip-flops — and now victim-blaming the Nevada Democrats for dressing like that!

Look. These things happen. One side wins and one side loses. And barring Hillary starting a nuclear war with her emails, math says she’s going to be our nominee. And we’re real sad Bernie’s campaign is ending up this way, and as a person whose infant daughter endorsed Bernie YEARS ago before she was even in the womb, we respectfully ask Bernie to CUT THE SHIT and be the man we always gave him credit for being.

We’ll take our check now, thanks, Mr. Brock.

Read more at http://wonkette.com/601971/nice-grandpa-bernie-sanders-gonna-burn-your-sht-dowwwwwn#roFrzbb5QA7SD1UF.99
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Post Nevada/Mealy-Mouthed Sanders Statement, Wonkette has made her decision (Original Post) BeyondGeography May 2016 OP
I posted this too... MrWendel May 2016 #1
That's why I posted it BeyondGeography May 2016 #2
"I WANT... MrWendel May 2016 #7
That's so funny! They think their hides will make the article disappear lunamagica May 2016 #5
Phukette endorses Bernie! Fuddnik May 2016 #3
Hear, hear!!! Beacool May 2016 #4
K&R Starry Messenger May 2016 #6
kick -- everyone on this board needs to read this obamanut2012 May 2016 #8
I wonder how much she got paid? Skwmom May 2016 #9
Sadly, I'm only 80% certain you're joking. Donald Ian Rankin May 2016 #10

lunamagica

(9,967 posts)
5. That's so funny! They think their hides will make the article disappear
Wed May 18, 2016, 02:39 PM
May 2016

There is a saying in Spanish: "tapar el sol con un dedo", which means, "block the sun with one's thumb (or finger)". That's what they think they are doing, but, guess what? despite the hide, millions of people are reading Wonkette as you read this...millions! BUAHAHAHAHA

Beacool

(30,247 posts)
4. Hear, hear!!!
Wed May 18, 2016, 02:05 PM
May 2016

That's what happens when an Independent, democratic socialist, tries to take over the Democratic party. He's an ideologue who seems to care two figs about uniting the party and acting like a leader. A true leader would have tried to tamp down emotions and ask for calm. Instead, he released a half-assed statement at the urging of Reid that only served to rile his supporters even further.

At this point he sounds nothing more than a bitter man who, although he knows fully well that he's lost the nomination, is lying to his supporters. Yesterday he told them in CA that he could still make it to the convention with more pledged delegates than his opponent. Seriously???????

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