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Corruption Inc

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This message was self-deleted by its author (Original Post) Corruption Inc Aug 2015 OP
? SamKnause Aug 2015 #1
I'm with you, huh? eom GitRDun Aug 2015 #27
See this thread Bryce Butler Aug 2015 #47
they have learned the art of projection from republicans well. nt bbgrunt Aug 2015 #54
Wasted time reading that. 840high Aug 2015 #66
Yes, it is a waste of time. Bryce Butler Aug 2015 #83
If it is those things-then do not repeat it. riversedge Aug 2015 #2
Which "front groups"? nt sufrommich Aug 2015 #3
yep it is azurnoir Aug 2015 #4
K and R. But...... relax. Smarmie Doofus Aug 2015 #5
My divorce papers are ready. I may end up with a trigger finger. mmonk Aug 2015 #6
I would agree but I thought that in 2008 marlakay Aug 2015 #8
With the republicans turning more into unelectable lunatics, Big Money needs somewhere safe to go. arcane1 Aug 2015 #31
Astute Observation! tea and oranges Aug 2015 #56
Bingo. hifiguy Aug 2015 #95
they need a winner and Hillary is in quicksand reddread Sep 2015 #122
seperate bathrooms for "liberal extremists" reddread Sep 2015 #121
I know what you mean - I think the vulgar term is 'rat fucking.' The unfortunate term... PatrickforO Aug 2015 #7
RFing is also Caltech slang hifiguy Aug 2015 #96
Yeah. BainsBane Aug 2015 #9
You mean like my local rally that was very ahem, mixed nadinbrzezinski Aug 2015 #28
a LOT of foxspeak among the hillarians Doctor_J Aug 2015 #10
The Christian Science Monitor is unacceptable now BainsBane Aug 2015 #11
The Ann Coulter thread has over 190 recs. sufrommich Aug 2015 #15
This place is a mess. Number23 Aug 2015 #22
a mess. it is all a mess. in hypocrisy and contradiction. i had to get confirmation i was seeing seabeyond Aug 2015 #60
It's unreal. Just yesterday people were applauding him saying he had "nothing to apologize for" Number23 Aug 2015 #61
Can you provide even a single example of a DUer MannyGoldstein Aug 2015 #65
You mean besides the post in this very forum that talks about how "right" she is that the GOP Number23 Aug 2015 #69
Is saying a person is right about something MannyGoldstein Aug 2015 #70
Ann Coulter never said what that OP said that she said. She said "let up on Hillary" and that OP Number23 Aug 2015 #71
Even if that were true (I haven't read that OP), it's a misinterpretation, not a high five. nt MannyGoldstein Aug 2015 #73
Tell that to the 190 souls that rec'd it. Number23 Aug 2015 #74
It could be 1000 MannyGoldstein Aug 2015 #75
I don't know why you're telling me this. I'm not the one who supported that OP Number23 Aug 2015 #100
Nobody said the CSM was unacceptable, did they? MannyGoldstein Aug 2015 #24
Sssh...still a lot more whining to be done....nt artislife Aug 2015 #38
A lot of whining among the non Hillarians non Omallerians non Webbians uponit7771 Aug 2015 #16
Yes, only. artislife Aug 2015 #40
"has Bernie apologized yet for being white and male?" NuclearDem Aug 2015 #17
Thanks for bring it over artislife Aug 2015 #42
Dumptruck loads of it. hifiguy Aug 2015 #97
have you noticed that neither Hillary nor any of her fans have disavowed the Doctor_J Aug 2015 #12
Nothing to disavow - that was NEVER said! The original comment by the BLM woman in Seattle... George II Aug 2015 #20
How about the Red Baiting from her supporters, McCaskill, Gutierrez eg? Bernie has so much class sabrina 1 Aug 2015 #89
So did all the reports get it wrong? ljm2002 Sep 2015 #123
You forgot the "... and not representative of what any GROUP is saying..." uponit7771 Aug 2015 #13
I have no idea what that means... Left coast liberal Aug 2015 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author in_cog_ni_to Aug 2015 #18
I'm still confused: why protest to "useless" people in order to make them... Beartracks Aug 2015 #23
I don't know why they chose to spew their hate in_cog_ni_to Aug 2015 #35
Did you really just write this: Cali_Democrat Aug 2015 #29
Yep. nt sufrommich Aug 2015 #33
And you think I care what you think? in_cog_ni_to Aug 2015 #36
This whole forum does nothing but prove the point of the #bernisoblack and the Van Jones, Hartmann Number23 Aug 2015 #39
This message was self-deleted by its author 840high Aug 2015 #67
"After all we've done for you people..." Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #46
There ya go again. Spewing more LIES. in_cog_ni_to Aug 2015 #53
Awww. Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #55
The kicker is that most of them are white. artislife Aug 2015 #43
Oh you noticed that too? ibegurpard Aug 2015 #64
Most of that is a bunch of self-congratulatory ego massaging, IMHO. stranger81 Aug 2015 #76
Yup nt artislife Aug 2015 #104
Most of DU is white. Most of America is white. Number23 Aug 2015 #101
Thank you! Farrakhan is vile. nt haikugal Aug 2015 #48
Well said. Duppers Aug 2015 #62
I'd almost feel schadenfreude at a Hillary win... SMC22307 Aug 2015 #72
Ugh. What an embarrassingly ugly post. Matariki Aug 2015 #77
Gee, I guess PoC know where they stand with Bernie supporters. leftofcool Aug 2015 #80
Yeah, wherever you tell them to, I guess. sibelian Aug 2015 #82
you've said NOTHING heaven05 Aug 2015 #93
"AA actions to protect ourselves" - bullshit. sibelian Aug 2015 #108
you've STILL said nothing of consequence, import or substance heaven05 Aug 2015 #109
You're at liberty to propose any value to my words that you wish, of course. sibelian Aug 2015 #110
thank you for permission heaven05 Aug 2015 #111
You're welcome. sibelian Aug 2015 #112
right heaven05 Aug 2015 #113
... then the only option open to me... sibelian Aug 2015 #114
NO GREAT LOSS, I am sure heaven05 Aug 2015 #115
Well, you've already decided I'm NOT one, so what do you expect me to do about it? sibelian Aug 2015 #116
REPULSIVE OP. bettyellen Sep 2015 #119
#bowdownbernie, #berniesoblack MannyGoldstein Aug 2015 #19
the bowdown shit was vile restorefreedom Aug 2015 #57
What could be more anti-equal human rights for all humans? merrily Aug 2015 #85
Gives me Spiro Agnew flashbacks. CharlotteVale Aug 2015 #21
So is knowing you could be murdered solely for the color of your skin, no matter what you do. jtuck004 Aug 2015 #25
This is true artislife Aug 2015 #44
Please self delete. blackspade Aug 2015 #26
+1 KMOD Aug 2015 #63
One need not be oppressed to call out things like that. merrily Aug 2015 #86
It's got nothing to do with "oppression" sibelian Aug 2015 #88
They're getting desperate, just leave them be. This is EXACTLY why Bernie, who is so far above that sabrina 1 Aug 2015 #30
a freakin men, sabrina. restorefreedom Aug 2015 #58
there's definitely a real "rise above" tendency: they say X, he DOES Y instead MisterP Aug 2015 #94
As usual, you hit the nail squarely on the head, sabrina. hifiguy Aug 2015 #98
Btw, when I first saw those particular words re Liberals 'volvo driving white elitists' etc, it was sabrina 1 Aug 2015 #32
.....! KoKo Aug 2015 #34
I should have added, when I used to post, back in 2001-3 on forums that were dominated by right sabrina 1 Aug 2015 #37
It's all the concoction of Hillary-sponsored PR firms brentspeak Aug 2015 #41
The anti-Bernie folks will never learn ... seveneyes Aug 2015 #45
LOL! leftofcool Aug 2015 #79
Post removed Post removed Aug 2015 #49
This message was self-deleted by its author PowerToThePeople Aug 2015 #50
The best part is a2liberal Aug 2015 #51
yep 840high Aug 2015 #68
You really ought to read post #18 leftofcool Aug 2015 #81
yup Skittles Aug 2015 #52
yep Roy Ellefson Aug 2015 #59
It's Nixon style ratfucking. Nothing more to it. NutmegYankee Aug 2015 #78
"Limousine liberals" are supposedly the majority of Bernie's supporters now? LMAO. merrily Aug 2015 #84
Who ARE all those millenials I see in pics of ANY Sanders rally? hifiguy Aug 2015 #99
It's funny Turin_C3PO Aug 2015 #105
Yep, it's funny. Hence, "LMAO." merrily Aug 2015 #106
Thank you. Turin_C3PO Aug 2015 #117
? I was agreeing with you, too. merrily Aug 2015 #118
Don't expect their cynicism to recede through your opposition to it. It's a feedback loop. sibelian Aug 2015 #87
This message was self-deleted by its author DonViejo Aug 2015 #90
The Southern Vermont GOP has been pushing the "racist Democrats" meme for several months Fred Friendlier Aug 2015 #91
As opposed to calling BLM "thugs?" n/t bobclark86 Aug 2015 #92
Among other things. nt Bobbie Jo Aug 2015 #103
Damn! I think someone is having a moment. hrmjustin Aug 2015 #102
I've said it before and I'm going to say it again. romanic Aug 2015 #107
southern strategists reddread Sep 2015 #120

SamKnause

(14,896 posts)
1. ?
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 06:47 PM
Aug 2015

GitRDun

(1,846 posts)
27. I'm with you, huh? eom
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:30 PM
Aug 2015

Bryce Butler

(338 posts)
47. See this thread
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:16 PM
Aug 2015

bbgrunt

(5,281 posts)
54. they have learned the art of projection from republicans well. nt
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:45 PM
Aug 2015
 

840high

(17,196 posts)
66. Wasted time reading that.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 01:06 AM
Aug 2015

Bryce Butler

(338 posts)
83. Yes, it is a waste of time.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 06:36 AM
Aug 2015

The sad thing is... all the Recs it received.

riversedge

(80,810 posts)
2. If it is those things-then do not repeat it.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 06:48 PM
Aug 2015

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
3. Which "front groups"? nt
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 06:50 PM
Aug 2015

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
4. yep it is
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 06:52 PM
Aug 2015
 

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
5. K and R. But...... relax.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 06:57 PM
Aug 2015

It's basically a super-minority of rigid, insistent, obsessive , mega-politically correct space-cases.

They've never understood how to communicate w. people --- let alone *persuade* them, have zero political accomplishments to show for it , and have to take their frustration out on someone.

It reminds me of seeing Angela Davis at the Left Forum in NYC a couple of years ago. Astonishing. Frozen in time. She hasn't grown a single neuron since 1971.

These people are a lot like Angela.

Be embarrassed for DU, but don't take it... or them... so *seriously.*

mmonk

(52,589 posts)
6. My divorce papers are ready. I may end up with a trigger finger.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 07:02 PM
Aug 2015

We have open primaries in my state so labels don't matter so much. But this election has the chance of a deeper split in the Democratic Party. Soon they may be able to test their rhetoric regarding progressives or the "too liberals" about having no where else to go.

marlakay

(13,282 posts)
8. I would agree but I thought that in 2008
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 07:10 PM
Aug 2015

I thought the Hillary people then would never come around to Obama after what happened with Bill saying stuff.

I am for Bernie but don't post often because of how bad it has got, I remember it was bad then too.

I think its worse here now because the internet as a whole has year after year got more disrespectful and rude.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
31. With the republicans turning more into unelectable lunatics, Big Money needs somewhere safe to go.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:39 PM
Aug 2015

Sadly, the Dems always seem to have a warm seat waiting.

tea and oranges

(396 posts)
56. Astute Observation!
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:54 PM
Aug 2015

Noticed just today that the top polling R's are Trump, Carson, Fiorina, none of whom happen to be pols. Even the R's are sick of their politicians.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
95. Bingo.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 07:24 PM
Aug 2015

And the Clintons very obligingly began selling the party piecemeal to the plutocracy back in the 1990s, with their bosom buddies at the DLC.

 

reddread

(6,896 posts)
122. they need a winner and Hillary is in quicksand
Sat Sep 12, 2015, 08:40 PM
Sep 2015

things are going to be crazier this election than EVER.
the people HAVE to step up this time and assert their interests.
stop the fleecing and slaughter.

 

reddread

(6,896 posts)
121. seperate bathrooms for "liberal extremists"
Sat Sep 12, 2015, 03:27 PM
Sep 2015

the real ugly at work here could put us back 70 years.
If it had any basis in reality.
desperate, overpaid and completely incompetent strategies.
Bill Clinton will bury his own legacy completely during this campaign.

PatrickforO

(15,426 posts)
7. I know what you mean - I think the vulgar term is 'rat fucking.' The unfortunate term...
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 07:06 PM
Aug 2015

"Ratfucking" was a term used by Richard Nixon's campaign insiders to describe electoral fraud and dirty tricks they used against their opponents. The term was coined by political operative Don Segretti, who claimed it had come from his college days when he stuffed ballot boxes for student government candidates. Segretti was hired by the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) to work his ratfucking magic for Nixon in the 1972 elections and funded by laundered money coming in through CREEP slush funds. Segretti and a number of other ratfuckers worked from CREEP to destroy the campaigns of Democratic opponents. Their methods included distributing faked letter and press releases, astroturfing "activists" and "protestors," disrupting political conferences using the old "order a hundred pizzas in someone else's name" trick, vote contracting (literally paying people for votes), espionage tactics, and general dickery. One of the ratfuckers happened to be Karl Rove, who was the head of the College Republicans at the time (they teach 'em early).

The most infamous incident related to the ratfucking techniques, besides the Watergate break-in itself, was the release of the "Muskie letters." CREEP members had gotten hold of Senator Edmund Muskie's letterhead and started "leaking" letters ostensibly addressed to other Democrats insulting various other Congressmen. One of the Muskie letters, called the "Canuck letter," implied that Muskie was bigoted toward Americans of French-Canadian descent (Muskie was from Maine). This FUD campaign reached its heights right in the middle of the 1972 primaries and Muskie's campaign imploded after his speech denying his authorship of the letters. The Muskie letters were ultimately the starting point that led Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward to begin to unravel the Nixon campaign's ratfucking methods and uncover the Watergate break-in.

Source: Rational Wiki

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
96. RFing is also Caltech slang
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 07:31 PM
Aug 2015

for elaborate pranks. Thirty years ago some Caltechers took over the scoreboard at the Rose Bowl, changing the school names to Caltech and MIT and the mascots to beavers on the video board, beavers being the mascots for both schools.

(I didn't go to Caltech but read it in a history of college pranks.)

BainsBane

(57,757 posts)
9. Yeah.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 07:16 PM
Aug 2015

They can't all drive Volvos.


The Dean pollster discussed in the Christian Science Monitor piece didn't make any charges of racism. He observed that Sanders support base is overwhelmingly white, which you had to have already known from going to rallies or seeing pictures of them.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
28. You mean like my local rally that was very ahem, mixed
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:31 PM
Aug 2015

Yup, have you gone to a rally? I doubt it.

Oh by the way, I don't support anyone, but the news vehicle is a Jeep Wrangler, the other vehicle is a Honda Civic Hybrid, and it is over 10 years old.

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
10. a LOT of foxspeak among the hillarians
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 07:17 PM
Aug 2015

BainsBane

(57,757 posts)
11. The Christian Science Monitor is unacceptable now
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 07:23 PM
Aug 2015

while Ann Coulter is an impeachable source. Who exactly is engaging in Fox speak?

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
15. The Ann Coulter thread has over 190 recs.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 07:31 PM
Aug 2015

The enemy of my enemy indeed.

Number23

(24,544 posts)
22. This place is a mess.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:19 PM
Aug 2015

People high fiving Ann Coulter when they're not sliming #BLM in every single possible conceivable way and no one is supposed to notice this?? Pretending that people want Bernie to apologize for being white and male? I haven't seen a Freeper yet that didn't make that same argument about their side, but when it's posted here on DU it's "principled protest" and that's okay?

Sliming and slamming Corey Booker FOR YEARS but the second he says something vaguely nice about Sanders, he's a helluva guy and no one is supposed to notice this? Being more butthurt about people stating the obvious -- that the VAST MAJORITY of Sanders support is from white people -- and calling that "racism" when it's nothing but an acknowledgement of reality?

The same crowd that hated Obama with all their might and called him a corpo-fascist right winger piece of shit Trojan horse are now screaming with glee that the members of the Obama coalition that are donating right now are giving alot of that money to Sanders??? I strongly suspect that the Obama coalition will not donate much to either candidate and that Hillary will get much of her money elsewhere.

The same folks who said that "Bernie had nothing to apologize for" are now using his tweet to set up a meeting with #BLM and the same apology that he said was done without his knowledge or consent as proof of his commitment to #BLM??

Bernie is all over the place right now. But even at his worst he will never be as inconsistent as his supporters. I don't know what to make of these people right now.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
60. a mess. it is all a mess. in hypocrisy and contradiction. i had to get confirmation i was seeing
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:56 PM
Aug 2015

correctly seeing

“I apologize it took our campaign so long to officially reach out,” Sanders’s African-American outreach director, Marcus Ferrell, said in an email to a group of activists obtained by Buzzfeed Saturday.


used in order to cheer sanders reaching out thru tweeter while just yesterday in a thread about sanders throwing him under the bus and the insistence no apology should be used.

one misstep after another.

Number23

(24,544 posts)
61. It's unreal. Just yesterday people were applauding him saying he had "nothing to apologize for"
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 10:16 PM
Aug 2015

it hasn't even been 24 damn hours and the same crowd applauding his non-apology is now applauding his decision to USE said non-apology in order to reach out to #BLM.

one misstep after another.

And the real show HASN'T EVEN STARTED YET. He better shake out all of these bugs before things get going properly.

 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
65. Can you provide even a single example of a DUer
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 12:53 AM
Aug 2015

"high fiving Ann Coulter"?

I doubt it, but perhaps I'll be surprised.

Number23

(24,544 posts)
69. You mean besides the post in this very forum that talks about how "right" she is that the GOP
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 01:31 AM
Aug 2015

doesn't want to go up against Bernie even though that's not even what that stupid woman said?

Why do I get the feeling that you have not only seen this post, you've probably posted in it, agreed with and more than likely even rec'd it?? Edit: Well, I'll be! You didn't rec that thread. I'm sure you'll want to rectify that asap.

 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
70. Is saying a person is right about something
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 01:36 AM
Aug 2015

the same as celebrating that person?

If I agree with Hermann Goering on the following, am I high-fiving him?

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

Of course not.

Number23

(24,544 posts)
71. Ann Coulter never said what that OP said that she said. She said "let up on Hillary" and that OP
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 01:40 AM
Aug 2015

took that and practically broke their ankle pivoting "let up on Hillary" to "they don't want to go against Bernie."

And I'm not sure why you decided to quote a Nazi to me. New tactics?

 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
73. Even if that were true (I haven't read that OP), it's a misinterpretation, not a high five. nt
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 01:51 AM
Aug 2015

Number23

(24,544 posts)
74. Tell that to the 190 souls that rec'd it.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 01:51 AM
Aug 2015
 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
75. It could be 1000
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 01:58 AM
Aug 2015

Doesn't matter.

Number23

(24,544 posts)
100. I don't know why you're telling me this. I'm not the one who supported that OP
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 07:54 PM
Aug 2015

and never would.

 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
24. Nobody said the CSM was unacceptable, did they?
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:23 PM
Aug 2015

I think you're misunderstanding something.

 

artislife

(9,497 posts)
38. Sssh...still a lot more whining to be done....nt
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:59 PM
Aug 2015

uponit7771

(93,532 posts)
16. A lot of whining among the non Hillarians non Omallerians non Webbians
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 07:31 PM
Aug 2015
 

artislife

(9,497 posts)
40. Yes, only.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:00 PM
Aug 2015
 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
17. "has Bernie apologized yet for being white and male?"
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 07:32 PM
Aug 2015
 

artislife

(9,497 posts)
42. Thanks for bring it over
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:01 PM
Aug 2015

I was without the internet ..only had 4 g and that is just too hard to scroll and read through everything



 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
97. Dumptruck loads of it.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 07:32 PM
Aug 2015

Mostly manure.

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
12. have you noticed that neither Hillary nor any of her fans have disavowed the
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 07:27 PM
Aug 2015

"Liberals are white supremacists" meme? Race baiting, or racist? Is there a difference?

George II

(67,782 posts)
20. Nothing to disavow - that was NEVER said! The original comment by the BLM woman in Seattle...
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:15 PM
Aug 2015

...has been misattributed, and you've gone one step further by CHANGING what she said for your purposes.

If that's what she said, can you provide a new source that contains THAT statement?

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
89. How about the Red Baiting from her supporters, McCaskill, Gutierrez eg? Bernie has so much class
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 09:54 AM
Aug 2015

and will not and never has run a negative ad or personally attacked, or allowed his representatives to red bait or race bait his opponents. And he keeps winning demonstrating how much people are sick of these kinds of politics.

He has defended Hillary Clinton from the attacks by AAs after her use of the phrase 'all lives matter'. He refused he said, 'to go along with attacks on her for using that phrase'. Has SHE done that? Actually no, her supporters continue to try to use those vile tactics, 'white supremicist'? A Jewish Senator whose own family were murdered by Hitler?

If this keeps up, these vicious tactics, even if Hillary were to win the primary, people will not forget them.

So in her own best interests she needs to reign in her supporters.

ljm2002

(10,751 posts)
123. So did all the reports get it wrong?
Sat Sep 12, 2015, 08:55 PM
Sep 2015
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/black-lives-matter-protesters-shut-down-bernie-sanders-rally/

Marissa Johnson, one of the protesters, shot back, “I was going to tell Bernie how racist this city is, filled with its progressives, but you did it for me,” accusing the audience of “white supremacist liberalism.


http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/08/08/22668466/black-lives-matter-activists-interrupt-bernie-sanders-at-social-security-rally

Johnson spoke through the heckling, welcoming Bernie to the town of Seattle, where "white supremacist liberalism" prevails.


http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Bernie-Sanders-unable-to-address-crowd-after-Black-Lives-Matter-activist-interrupt-Seattle-Westlake-rally-321146281.html

When the crowd asked the activists to allow Sanders to speak, one activist called the crowd "white supremacist liberals,"


I don't even disagree with Marissa Johnson on her points about Seattle -- clearly there are real issues there, including racism in the police department and in the education system where black students are routinely given harsher punishments than their white counterparts. But let's not pretend she did not come right out and call a bunch of liberals white supremacists. She did.

uponit7771

(93,532 posts)
13. You forgot the "... and not representative of what any GROUP is saying..."
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 07:30 PM
Aug 2015

Left coast liberal

(1,138 posts)
14. I have no idea what that means...
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 07:30 PM
Aug 2015

Response to Corruption Inc (Original post)

Beartracks

(14,591 posts)
23. I'm still confused: why protest to "useless" people in order to make them...
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:19 PM
Aug 2015

... use their bully pulpit to help you? I mean: are white progressives useful, or are they not? Make up your minds.

Anyhow, I'm of the opinion that the 15-minute-famer wannabes who trolled Bernie's mic in Seattle aren't necessarily representative of BLM supporters as a whole, who I presume (assume?) to be thoughtful, serious people. But then, I'm not really following them too closely after the Seattle faux pas, or the discussions here at DU. Every Hillary and Bernie thread degenerating into race-baiting and hurt feelings is simply too arduous and non-productive.

Is it still correct that BLM is not a group with a hierarchy or defined leadership? That makes them SO easy to co-opt and SO easy for, well, ANYONE to act in their name.

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in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)
35. I don't know why they chose to spew their hate
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:50 PM
Aug 2015

at a Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid rally where Bernie was speaking. And choosing to call him and his Progressive supporters "Useless, White Supremacist Liberals" was just them being rude, disgusting and hateful. From what I understand, the Seattle BLM Chapter is BLM. No one in BLM denounced their hateful words.

My response to this OP was mostly because another OP decided to call Bernie supporters "White Privileged Supremacists" again today. More if the same racist Third Way crap. They are the group fueling the racist meme, not Bernie or his supporters.

I don't know the make-up, hierarchy, organization of BLM and at this point, I couldn't give a Lily White rats ass what it is.

BowDownBernie

Have a nice evening.

 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
29. Did you really just write this:
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:38 PM
Aug 2015
If the AA community doesn't need or want the help of the Progressive community, so be it. Good luck with your RWers! I hope Bernie stops trying to jump through hoops for them because nothing he does will ever satisfy them.


You represent Sanders supporters so well!

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
33. Yep. nt
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:43 PM
Aug 2015

in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)
36. And you think I care what you think?
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:53 PM
Aug 2015

I don't.

Number23

(24,544 posts)
39. This whole forum does nothing but prove the point of the #bernisoblack and the Van Jones, Hartmann
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:59 PM
Aug 2015

Occupy, and too many others to count criticism of the man's supporters.

While they scream "ThaT's RACist!!1one" at people who do nothing but note that Bernie's support is overwhelmingly white (true) but become quiet as mice when their fellow supporters say things like "I hope Bernie stops trying to jump through hoops for them (black people) because nothing he does will ever satisfy them."

Curioser and curioser.

Response to Number23 (Reply #39)

Starry Messenger

(32,381 posts)
46. "After all we've done for you people..."
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:08 PM
Aug 2015

Pretty sad specimens in here.

in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)
53. There ya go again. Spewing more LIES.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:36 PM
Aug 2015

And you have the nerve to put quotations around it. No one in this thread said that. YOU DID

Starry Messenger

(32,381 posts)
55. Awww.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:46 PM
Aug 2015
Breathe deeply 10 times. In. Hold. Out. It works wonders.
 

artislife

(9,497 posts)
43. The kicker is that most of them are white.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:04 PM
Aug 2015


This Latina finds it ......let's say "amusing" but we can wink at that word.

ibegurpard

(17,081 posts)
64. Oh you noticed that too?
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 12:31 AM
Aug 2015

stranger81

(2,345 posts)
76. Most of that is a bunch of self-congratulatory ego massaging, IMHO.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 04:18 AM
Aug 2015

YMMV, of course.

 

artislife

(9,497 posts)
104. Yup nt
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 11:47 PM
Aug 2015

Number23

(24,544 posts)
101. Most of DU is white. Most of America is white.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 07:56 PM
Aug 2015

What's your point, exactly?

haikugal

(6,476 posts)
48. Thank you! Farrakhan is vile. nt
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:18 PM
Aug 2015

Duppers

(28,469 posts)
62. Well said.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 11:32 PM
Aug 2015

You should post more.

I'm wondering IF Bernie gets the nomination, will these people support him? ( I'd like to add another sentence here but it'd probably get this post hidden, given the current juries.)

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
72. I'd almost feel schadenfreude at a Hillary win...
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 01:46 AM
Aug 2015

status quo, nothing will improve for POC. But that's just for the Seattle #BLM and online loudmouths who think it's cute to hurl epithets like "white supremacist liberals." The stakes are too high, though, so I won't.

I'm enjoying the relative quiet and reduced divisiveness thanks to the two on time-outs. There may be a third... MaggieD is flagged for review.

Matariki

(18,775 posts)
77. Ugh. What an embarrassingly ugly post.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 04:53 AM
Aug 2015

you really should delete it.

leftofcool

(19,460 posts)
80. Gee, I guess PoC know where they stand with Bernie supporters.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 06:21 AM
Aug 2015

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
82. Yeah, wherever you tell them to, I guess.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 06:25 AM
Aug 2015

:/
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
93. you've said NOTHING
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 05:42 PM
Aug 2015

Last edited Tue Aug 18, 2015, 09:22 PM - Edit history (2)

of consequence or substance except continue the BS whining when it comes to having to deal with AA that will get in an alleged progressives' face and tell them, they we will not be quiet, we will not wait our turn, been waiting for 250 years, nothings happened, we will not listen to your advice as to when, to whom we may and how we speak to issues that affect us, fatally, everyday.......This lily white liberal, progressive whining from BS supporters is getting ludicrous.

The whining against AA actions to protect ourselves from a society that is racist, systemically and institutionally, and lethally violent as a culture toward POC, and then to have to raise hell to try to get attention AND ACTION to the murders and summary executions, of unarmed men, women and children, from our so called "allies" is getting to a point that it is known, "business as usual" and the status quo of the privileged will be maintained.

I laugh derisively at your whining, and understand this, Bernie and Hillary will need us(our vote) before we need someone like you as an "ally". So take your "Lily white ass", your quote, and the rest you said and drive on down the road. See Ya, won't miss ya! Don't need ya!

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
108. "AA actions to protect ourselves" - bullshit.
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 12:03 PM
Aug 2015

Nobody is protected from anything by interrupting Bernie Sanders in the middle of a speech.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
109. you've STILL said nothing of consequence, import or substance
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 12:10 PM
Aug 2015

but then I didn't expect you to be able to.......bye, don't need ya as an ally......

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
110. You're at liberty to propose any value to my words that you wish, of course.
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 12:17 PM
Aug 2015

As for allegiance, I don't believe you seek it.
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
111. thank you for permission
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 12:23 PM
Aug 2015
, as far as allegiance? Not yours, you're 100% correct or anyone like you. I wouldn't want you in my foxhole, looking out for my back. Hell no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
112. You're welcome.
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 12:31 PM
Aug 2015

And... you're not in much of a position to complain about not having any allies if you're openly stating disinterest in their support.
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
113. right
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 01:04 PM
Aug 2015

with "support" such as yours, well I said it in my first response to your............not complaining of having no allies, I have plenty, just assuring YOU, I don't need or desire "allies" like you. EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
114. ... then the only option open to me...
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 01:11 PM
Aug 2015

is to accept your disinterest and take your position at face value, which appears to consist of your releasing me of any responsibility towards you.

Just you, to be clear.

I'm not sure what else you think might happen?
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
115. NO GREAT LOSS, I am sure
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 01:18 PM
Aug 2015

please understand I am only speaking to "allies" such as YOU. That's just YOU, to be clear. I'm not sure myself how you would expect anyone to want YOU as an ally, your presumption is galling and is beyond me. You were never responsible toward me, with your original response as you wrote it, so I repeat, bye and bye and bye again.

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
116. Well, you've already decided I'm NOT one, so what do you expect me to do about it?
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 08:36 PM
Aug 2015

Feel guilty?

It's up to you.
 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
119. REPULSIVE OP.
Sat Sep 12, 2015, 03:21 PM
Sep 2015
 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
19. #bowdownbernie, #berniesoblack
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:10 PM
Aug 2015

What could be more appropriate for a person who's been consistently outspoken in furthering civil rights for decades?

restorefreedom

(12,655 posts)
57. the bowdown shit was vile
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:54 PM
Aug 2015

i hope it was confined to the seattle disruptors and a few of their supporters.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
85. What could be more anti-equal human rights for all humans?
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 08:31 AM
Aug 2015

Is it supposedly OK because a Jew whose family members died in the Holocaust is white?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_United_States

CharlotteVale

(2,717 posts)
21. Gives me Spiro Agnew flashbacks.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:17 PM
Aug 2015
 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
25. So is knowing you could be murdered solely for the color of your skin, no matter what you do.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:23 PM
Aug 2015

Most people come at this from a very different place, and it may be impossible for them ever to converge. Not good or bad places, but very different.

But the .01% are fucking all of us, and the planet is burning up while we use electricity for shit like this. Those protesters aren't our enemy no more than an angry child in the line at Wal Mart. They will learn and grow, and concentrate more on solving the problem than making themselves the center of attention. We have seen it before, so one can have reasonable hope.

So for those of us on this side, unless one is in this for their ego, they should concentrate their effort on the enemy, not the choir.

 

artislife

(9,497 posts)
44. This is true
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:05 PM
Aug 2015

But when you can score political points, it seems anything goes...

blackspade

(10,056 posts)
26. Please self delete.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:28 PM
Aug 2015

This comes off as yet another "boohoo" post about how oppressed White liberals are.
We are not an oppressed minority.
BLM and other "front groups" are pulling up a seat at the table.
So make room.

 

KMOD

(7,906 posts)
63. +1
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 12:27 AM
Aug 2015

merrily

(45,251 posts)
86. One need not be oppressed to call out things like that.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 08:44 AM
Aug 2015

If you believe white liberals are racist, why the hell are you a Democrat? Liberals of all hues standing for equal rights and even dying for them, was a major reason I wanted to be a Democrat.

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
88. It's got nothing to do with "oppression"
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 08:56 AM
Aug 2015

It's a reminder that one generally prefers to be interrogated on what one actually believes.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
30. They're getting desperate, just leave them be. This is EXACTLY why Bernie, who is so far above that
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:39 PM
Aug 2015

despicable Right Wing nasty, negative, NON ISSUES oriented campaign garbage, is soaring ahead and is going to WIN this election.

And I have to say, WITH THEIR HELP. I post their stuff to my social media accounts with the comment: THIS is all they've got! And it disgusts people.

So leave them to their negative campaigning, they obviously can't talk about issues, while Bernie does what the people want, he sticks to the ISSUES.

restorefreedom

(12,655 posts)
58. a freakin men, sabrina.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:55 PM
Aug 2015

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
94. there's definitely a real "rise above" tendency: they say X, he DOES Y instead
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 06:26 PM
Aug 2015

and since his stuff's all on YouTube the opponents always end up in the position of "just because he's consistently supported Y for decades doesn't mean he supports Y; N supports Y because she's an M even though she opposed Y for decades until it polled above 52%"

the claim of his backers being latte-drinking Portlandia types is restricted to the internet: everyone just stops and stares when one of them opens their mouth in meatspace after it's been stewing on Tumblr echo chambers from academese derived from a quarter or two of college courses

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
98. As usual, you hit the nail squarely on the head, sabrina.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 07:36 PM
Aug 2015

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
32. Btw, when I first saw those particular words re Liberals 'volvo driving white elitists' etc, it was
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:41 PM
Aug 2015

from Rush Limbaugh Ditto Heads.

You know there is desperation when they have to go to Limbaugh for talking points against Democratic Candidates and their supporters.

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
34. .....!
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:47 PM
Aug 2015

I think it was a sock puppet. Joined in 2001......

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
37. I should have added, when I used to post, back in 2001-3 on forums that were dominated by right
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:54 PM
Aug 2015

wingers, these are the same words they used to describe Democrats. Shame to see this forum sink to that level.

brentspeak

(18,290 posts)
41. It's all the concoction of Hillary-sponsored PR firms
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:00 PM
Aug 2015

Last edited Mon Aug 17, 2015, 11:36 PM - Edit history (1)

And possibly some GOP-employed operatives, as well.

 

seveneyes

(4,631 posts)
45. The anti-Bernie folks will never learn ...
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:07 PM
Aug 2015

leftofcool

(19,460 posts)
79. LOL!
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 06:18 AM
Aug 2015

Actually, we have learned more about him than we want to.

Response to Corruption Inc (Original post)

Response to Corruption Inc (Original post)

a2liberal

(1,524 posts)
51. The best part is
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:28 PM
Aug 2015

they go on to say WE'RE the nasty ones. The hypocrisy would be hilarious if it weren't so sad

 

840high

(17,196 posts)
68. yep
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 01:19 AM
Aug 2015

leftofcool

(19,460 posts)
81. You really ought to read post #18
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 06:22 AM
Aug 2015

Skittles

(171,713 posts)
52. yup
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:29 PM
Aug 2015

they detest stereotyping, then do it themselves

 

Roy Ellefson

(279 posts)
59. yep
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:56 PM
Aug 2015

the same crowd who shouted "Party Unity My Ass" when their candidate lost in 2008.

NutmegYankee

(16,478 posts)
78. It's Nixon style ratfucking. Nothing more to it.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 05:30 AM
Aug 2015

When someone says it or implies it, the only response required is DERP.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
84. "Limousine liberals" are supposedly the majority of Bernie's supporters now? LMAO.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 08:28 AM
Aug 2015
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
99. Who ARE all those millenials I see in pics of ANY Sanders rally?
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 07:38 PM
Aug 2015

I am confused.

Turin_C3PO

(16,385 posts)
105. It's funny
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 12:28 AM
Aug 2015

because, if I have to use the term, I would call many of Hillary's supporters "limousine liberals". Many appear to support social justice, which is awesome, but are happy with the current corporate pirate economic "system" that we have now. You gotta support both sides of the equation, both social justice AND economic justice.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
106. Yep, it's funny. Hence, "LMAO."
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 07:03 AM
Aug 2015

Welcome to DU.

Turin_C3PO

(16,385 posts)
117. Thank you.
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 10:19 PM
Aug 2015

I was agreeing with you, I just wanted to flesh out my own thoughts on the matter. I wasn't trying to lecture you or anything like that.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
118. ? I was agreeing with you, too.
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 10:20 PM
Aug 2015

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
87. Don't expect their cynicism to recede through your opposition to it. It's a feedback loop.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 08:54 AM
Aug 2015

The cynicism is self-reinforcing, it needs to be denied by external agents to survive.

Response to Corruption Inc (Original post)

 

Fred Friendlier

(81 posts)
91. The Southern Vermont GOP has been pushing the "racist Democrats" meme for several months
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 05:14 PM
Aug 2015

The idea is insane, as if a few Republicans voting for the Civil Rights Act in 1964 is going to fool anyone, but their base eats it up and in the general election it may play well all over the country.

So be prepared, our enemies are not stupid but they are unscrupulous and highly motivated.

bobclark86

(1,415 posts)
92. As opposed to calling BLM "thugs?" n/t
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 05:31 PM
Aug 2015

Bobbie Jo

(14,344 posts)
103. Among other things. nt
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 08:05 PM
Aug 2015
 

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
102. Damn! I think someone is having a moment.
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 07:57 PM
Aug 2015

romanic

(2,841 posts)
107. I've said it before and I'm going to say it again.
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 08:25 AM
Aug 2015

Some people here just want to be openly prejudiced against their white counterparts without any consequence.
[IMG][/IMG]

 

reddread

(6,896 posts)
120. southern strategists
Sat Sep 12, 2015, 03:24 PM
Sep 2015

it is the worst part of what they pretend to, and authentically, represent.

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