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silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
Wed May 18, 2016, 08:22 PM May 2016

Barbara Boxer's actions both during the Nevada convention and after can easily

be explained in my mind. She is not only furthering the meme coming out of Camp Clinton that she is winning and viable, but also is a direct gas lighting attempt at Sanders and his supporters.

It can easily be explained as: She fully expects to be one of the 50% Women appointed to Cabinet positions- along with DWS.

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Barbara Boxer's actions both during the Nevada convention and after can easily (Original Post) silvershadow May 2016 OP
I really don't care why she's done what she's done. winter is coming May 2016 #1
I did too. nt silvershadow May 2016 #6
me too. eom trudyco May 2016 #8
me2 840high May 2016 #14
heck, even the Boxer Rebellion in 2004-5 MisterP May 2016 #16
Now we know why she' retiring from the Senate. notadmblnd May 2016 #2
+1. nt silvershadow May 2016 #4
So clinton winning is just a "meme" now? StayFrosty May 2016 #3
Right Demsrule86 May 2016 #5
your mind reading skills did not reveal any facts to to support your claims nt msongs May 2016 #7
The delegate count lead is a "meme" lol PeaceNikki May 2016 #9
Shhh! Not good to attack the party apartchniks! truedelphi May 2016 #21
Her presence at the convention wasn't meant to be taunting as I've seen it described here. pa28 May 2016 #10
A very stupid decision larkrake May 2016 #12
I believe it would have worked in any other year. pa28 May 2016 #13
Well, it's hard to figure this as anything but deliberate provocation. Peace Patriot May 2016 #15
HEAR!HEAR! Great post. Pls consider making it an OP. snagglepuss May 2016 #17
+10000 eom Arazi May 2016 #19
Or, she's pissed about being treated like garbage by Bernie fans. CrowCityDem May 2016 #11
All the masks are slipping...and it ain't pretty. AzDar May 2016 #18
Well, she got her notariety and media attention. snowy owl May 2016 #20

winter is coming

(11,785 posts)
1. I really don't care why she's done what she's done.
Wed May 18, 2016, 08:24 PM
May 2016

I just find it kind of sad that it's happened. I used to respect her.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
16. heck, even the Boxer Rebellion in 2004-5
Wed May 18, 2016, 11:28 PM
May 2016

that's what Clintonism does: it makes good people do very, very bad things

notadmblnd

(23,720 posts)
2. Now we know why she' retiring from the Senate.
Wed May 18, 2016, 08:25 PM
May 2016

What will Hillary give me if I say I'll vote for her?

Make it good Hilly. Momma needs a new car. Cash will do too.

Demsrule86

(68,347 posts)
5. Right
Wed May 18, 2016, 08:26 PM
May 2016

She tricked those find upstanding citizens into calling her filthy names ...how dare she? Look the tape makes it clear...the first thing she says is if you are booing me you are booing Bernie...the BSSers really stepped in it this time...Wonkette had it right.

PeaceNikki

(27,985 posts)
9. The delegate count lead is a "meme" lol
Wed May 18, 2016, 08:28 PM
May 2016

Hilarious.

DU overuses/misuses that word a lot, but this is my favorite so far.

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
21. Shhh! Not good to attack the party apartchniks!
Fri May 20, 2016, 03:51 PM
May 2016

You will be for the party (and their memes) or you will regret it.

Soviet Russia was a picnic compared to what these folks have in mind for anyone asking questions and not falling in line.

Don't forget how much Hill loves that Surveillance Money, and all the Surveillance Programs!

pa28

(6,145 posts)
10. Her presence at the convention wasn't meant to be taunting as I've seen it described here.
Wed May 18, 2016, 08:31 PM
May 2016

IMO she knew the Democratic Party of Nevada was going to make a rule change to take back delegates without the consent of the convention and she was there with a speech to smooth things over. "Smile, we're all Democrats" was the best she had and it obviously wasn't enough.

It was a disaster and if that was their effort to build bridges and unify the party it seems to have backfired badly. Two delegates would not have mattered, they really should have let it go.

pa28

(6,145 posts)
13. I believe it would have worked in any other year.
Wed May 18, 2016, 08:54 PM
May 2016

The party dynamics are changing this year and they just don't get it. The bill will be paid in November.

Peace Patriot

(24,010 posts)
15. Well, it's hard to figure this as anything but deliberate provocation.
Wed May 18, 2016, 10:10 PM
May 2016

Of course they should have let it go! Only a couple of delegates were at issue. But they didn't. And guess where it went next? All over the Corrupt Media for the edification of the voters voting in KY and OR yesterday!

It was a Rovian-Brockian dirty trick, much like the one that John Lewis is implicated in (--the false caption of the Bernie Sanders civil rights photo, peddled to Time magazine, which had to print a retraction; meanwhile, Lewis is saying he never met Bernie in the civil rights movement; Bernie's activism is in fact very well-documented, as it turns out--and all this happening in the midst of the southern state primaries!). Same type of "swift-boating" operation, this time with Barbara Boxer as the establishment "name" to legitimize the crap that is going down.

No, I don't believe it was innocent on Boxer's part. Nor was John Lewis innocent. It is pathetic to see former heroes stoop to such depths. And I don't know where they fit into the web of Clinton money that has gotten sucked into the Clinton Foundation from sources like the woman-hating Saudis, and then spewed out over the land to net endorsers and super-delegates and surrogates and shills and Clintonbots on the internet, but it would not surprise me in the least if money was the heart of the matter.

We'd have to be super-sleuths numbering in the thousands, to track down every thread of the Clinton money web. It reaches into Haiti, into Honduras, into Russia, throughout the Middle East, and in many other places, as well as throughout this country. So we just have to pick up trends, you know, to figure out who we can trust. Trend no. 1, with the Clintons, is seeking money, laundering money and distributing money for the purposes of gaining more power. Boxer and Lewis are now suspects in the Clinton money game. We already know that Dolores Huerta is bought and paid for ($100,000 from the Clinton Foundation), to pay for her phony shit-fit at the NV caucus, where she LIED that Sanders' supporters shouted her down with "English only!" (It's on vid. She LIED.) She's also been peddling Clinton bullshit in media interviews. Bought. And. Paid. For.

Who else?

And I don't care who they are--nor how much I may have admired them in the past. If they do shit like this, they are heroes no more.

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