To: Bernie Sanders Supporters From: The Establishment DNC

[babylonsister]

Ouch! Makes me want to vote for Bernie even more.

https://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/01/1455773/-To-Bernie-Sanders-Supporters-From-The-Establishment-DNC





To: Bernie Sanders Supporters From: The Establishment DNC
Dec 01, 2015 3:45pm EST by Relevant Rhino

Dear Naïve Children Spoily McSpoilersons Idealistic Morons Fellow Democrats,

It has come to our attention that a few of you have been wandering outside of our giant, multicultural, comfortable tent. This comes as a complete surprise to us, because we have done everything imaginable to keep you complacent open our hearts and minds to your concerns and build a corporate funded oligarchy nationwide coalition of status quo responsible Democrats. Which is why it's so troubling that a smattering of you would disobey exercise your personal choice in selecting a candidate stray so far afield when we’ve always been here for you. So now we need to talk.

Listen up you know-nothing college kids, aging hippies, OPOL, and amazingly large portions of the voting populace that are sick and fucking tired of a never-ending war machine and continuous cycle of oligarchs that step on your necks to keep us in power, we have a message for you: We Run This Shit. It’s ours. Our success has been bought and paid for, and we’ll change our views faster than a Kama Sutra flipbook in order to keep it that way. We might compromise our principles and our souls, but we pay our debts. Besides, Goldman Sachs has a lot of people from Blackwater working for them, and those muthafuckas are serious.

So viddy well, you smarmy little bastards. We have a really good thing going here at the DNC. We wait for a candidate with actual integrity to come along, adopt all of their positions during the primary, and turn our backs on the constituency once elected because, well, we already cashed the checks. Senator Obama was right in 2004 when he said there isn’t a Red or Blue America. There’s only a money fucking green America, and we have most of it. At least, on “our” side, we have most of it.

It’s time for you people to grow the hell up and face facts. No one is going to vote for some really, really, really old socialist Jew from a state that doesn’t even have a professional football team. Political revolution by raising awareness and the general collective consciousness of the American people goes over like a fart in church when facing a well-established...erm...establishment. Besides, you don’t want Ted Cruz or Mark Rubio picking the Supreme Court, do you? Because that’s literally the only valid reason you should abandon your principles during the primary. You know what? Go ahead and make your calls. Write your diaries. Talk to your friends and neighbors. Attend rallies. While you’re out there working your asses off, we’re still cashing checks and rigging both the media and the terms of the debates. Remember? We own this shit.

And we’re literally banking on Bernie Sanders losing the primary so you’ll become just as jaded as we are. Best Wishes,

Hillary Clinton and the DNC*

* This message paid for by CitiGroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan & Chase, DLA Piper, Time Warner, Morgan Stanley, and actual, responsible Americans that know when to shut the fuck up and hold their noses

[NurseJackie]

1. LOL

[think]

2. Would you be laughing if you were one of the people screwed by the banks that own Clinton?

[NurseJackie]

5. I'm laughing at the hysteria and overreactions,

... and the desperate attempts to demonize Hillary. Now, if you don't mind... I have some more laughing to do!

[think]

8. How much money has Hillary taken from Wall Street banks in paid income and donations?

[NurseJackie]

10. This does not matter to me.

[think]

11. Obviously

[NurseJackie]

12. Then why ask?

[think]

13. Just in case you might actually care about corporate influence on politicians. But you don't.

[NurseJackie]

14. LOL

[SmittynMo]

27. It seems to me that NurseJ

is really HRC, undercover. It sounds just like her. She don't care about the things that matter to most of us.

[NurseJackie]

34. Oh, please, stop! My sides ache!

[retrowire]

35. and we're the ones being hysterical?

this is an odd reaction to something that satirically but accurately portrays the DNC.

oh well, your laughter shows your nerves.

[NurseJackie]

44. HA! There's more to laugh at than the satire!

That you think my amusement is "odd" or that it indicates "nerves" adds to my enjoyment!

Oh em gee! This is KILLING me!

[retrowire]

50. My you ARE amusing...

please continue.

[NurseJackie]

53. :-)

Thanks! As soon as I see something else that amuses me, I will.

This is a fast paced forum, so it probably won't be too long before someone posts something cute or amusing.

[retrowire]

56. Excellent, I look forward to your next performance. :) nt

[NurseJackie]

57. :-)

[daleanime]

18. Nope, definitely doesn't care.....

but gets very upset about the fact that many of us do care.

[Trajan]

37. And this is why ...

You, as a tacit supporter of the anti-worker/anti-family/pro-banker status quo, need to go ...

Relegated to the DU dustbin ...

[NurseJackie]

46. Oh, you don't mean that, do you?

[MynameisBlarney]

43. This is why we can't have nice things.

Because too many people don't care.

[Bluenorthwest]

15. Did you miss that it is mostly about the style and form of her ardent supporters and not really

about Hillary? And it is what is called 'satire'. So it is mockery aimed at the extreme and often bigotry laced tropes of the hyper aggressive anti Bernie brigade, which is not the same as just Clinton supporters. DU has some who support Clinton but the shit is stirred not by supporters of either but by opponents of each.

You might also want to know that Betty White has been saying all sorts of nice and funny things in support of Bernie.

[NurseJackie]

16. So you assume I'm to dislike Betty White because she made humorous comments about Bernie?

Well, that's weird!

Even if she were to come right out and bluntly state "Vote for Bernie!" you assume I'd throw her under the bus? This may be the common thing for Bernie fans to do with those individuals they feel have "betrayed" Bernie, but c'mon... seriously? I mean who doesn't love Betty White? She's BETTY WHITE for chrissakes! What's not to love?!

Did you miss that it is mostly about the style... blah blah blah

That's why I was laughing! IT'S FUNNY!!

What exactly were you expecting? What would be the appropriate response to please you?

[kenfrequed]

45. No...

But using her likeness as part of your pro-Hillary objective is kind of wrong if she is a supporter of Bernie Sanders.

[NurseJackie]

47. What a weird thing to be upset about.

[kenfrequed]

48. No stranger than your reaction to the OP

It is almost as though you are trying to use emotes and dismissive laughter to anger people.

But that is completely absurd, isn't it.

[NurseJackie]

49. A similar argument could be made about the motives of the OP or the content at the link.

[George II]

29. You do realize if a similar post appeared here about Sanders it would be hidden in an NY minute.

[NurseJackie]

42. Your observation has merit.

I've come to accept the fact that (for now) within the walls of the DU fortress, it has become a refuge for Bernie supporters with percentages that do not accurately reflect those in the real world. Random jury pools are likely to have the same mix. You get what you get. It is what it is. I'm not being critical of the process that's currently in place (apparently that qualifies as "meta" complaining and likely to also be deleted). Instead, I'm just acknowledging and how it is, and the most reasonable explanation of why it is.

[George II]

54. Even the founder of this site has acknowledged that the mix of Sanders/Clinton supporters is...

....roughly 85/15.

[NurseJackie]

55. I'd not seen that ... but based on what I can observe, that seems to be a reasonable estimate. n/t

[Buzz Clik]

39. "Demonize". That word is usually used incorrectly here. Not in this case. n/t

[nc4bo]

3. Huh-huh. That about sums it up. nt

[JaneyVee]

4. The Pity Party.

[merrily]

6. This entire Harper's Bazaar article from 2014, posted by is so worth reading.

An excerpt:

Why does this tailing behind an increasingly right-of-center Democratic Party persist in the absence of any apparent payoff? There has nearly always been a qualifying excuse: Republicans control the White House; they control Congress; they’re strong enough to block progressive initiatives even if they don’t control either the executive or the legislative branch. Thus have the faithful been able to take comfort in the circular self-evidence of their conviction. Each undesirable act by a Republican administration is eo ipso evidence that if the Democratic candidate had won, things would have been much better. When Democrats have been in office, the imagined omnipresent threat from the Republican bugbear remains a fatal constraint on action and a pretext for suppressing criticism from the left.


.............

Most telling, though, is the reinvention of the Clinton Administration as a halcyon time of progressive success. Bill Clinton’s record demonstrates, if anything, the extent of Reaganism’s victory in defining the terms of political debate and the limits of political practice. A recap of some of his administration’s greatest hits should suffice to break through the social amnesia. Clinton ran partly on a pledge of “ending welfare as we know it”; in office he both presided over the termination of the federal government’s sixty-year commitment to provide income support for the poor and effectively ended direct federal provision of low-income housing. In both cases his approach was to transfer federal subsidies — when not simply eliminating them — from impoverished people to employers of low-wage labor, real estate developers, and landlords. He signed into law repressive crime bills that increased the number of federal capital offenses, flooded the prisons, and upheld unjustified and racially discriminatory sentencing disparities for crack and powder cocaine. He pushed NAFTA through over strenuous objections from labor and many congressional Democrats. He temporized on his campaign pledge to pursue labor-law reform that would tilt the playing field back toward workers, until the Republican takeover of Congress in 1995 gave him an excuse not to pursue it at all. He undertook the privatization of Sallie Mae, the Student Loan Marketing Association, thereby fueling the student-debt crisis.

Notwithstanding his administration’s Orwellian folderol about “reinventing government,” his commitment to deficit reduction led to, among other things, extending privatization of the federal meat-inspection program, which shifted responsibility to the meat industry — a reinvention that must have pleased his former Arkansas patron, Tyson Foods, and arguably has left its legacy in the sporadic outbreaks and recalls that suggest deeper, endemic problems of food safety in the United States. His approach to health-care reform, like Barack Obama’s, was built around placating the insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and its failure only intensified the blitzkrieg of for-profit medicine.

In foreign policy, he was no less inclined than Reagan or George H. W. Bush to engage in military interventionism. Indeed, counting his portion of the Somali operation, he conducted nearly as many discrete military interventions as his two predecessors combined, and in four fewer years. Moreover, the Clinton Administration initiated the “extraordinary rendition” policy, under which the United States claims the right to apprehend individuals without charges or public accounting so that they can be imprisoned anywhere in the world (and which the Obama Administration has explicitly refused to repudiate). Clinton also increased American use of “privatized military services” — that is, mercenaries.

- See more at: http://harpers.org/archive/2014/03/nothing-left-2/?single=1#sthash.rGTdOzxY.KBZSwDIU.dpuf

Huge hattip to eridani for posting about the above-excerpted article at this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/127710299

[Scuba]

64. /\_/\_This right here_/\_/\

Please consider making this an OP, merrily.

[merrily]

65. Thanks, Scuba. eridani already did make it an OP. Link is in my post.

[Scuba]

66. Thanks merrily!

[merrily]

67. My pleasure.

[LWolf]

7. The relevant rhino

must be reading DU.

[Aerows]

9. I have never in my life reacted well

when told what to do.

I suspect I never will.

[daleanime]

20. +1

[Proserpina]

17. Nice to find out the truth early, before 60 years have passed

Satire is American news--we look like the old USSR nowadays.
Truth can only be revealed under the cover of "humor".
Facts get handed out on zeroxed paper or private emails, because it will never hit the MSM.

And there ain't anything funny about it, unfortunately.

[Gamecock Lefty]

19. Save Your Breath, Nurse Jackie . . .

Bernie supporters are becoming an edgy and angry bunch (like Bernie himself!). The Dems are solidifying behind Hillary, the debates have shown Hillary’s leadership, polls are turning in our favor and the Berniebots are back to name calling and making excuses.

Stay calm and carry on.

[daleanime]

22. You just keep telling yourself that....

I'm sure it helps you sleep better.

[jalan48]

21. Meh

So we we get eight years of Hillary and then the Republicans can claim it's their turn after 16 years of a Democratic White House. The public will buy it because they believe in taking turns too. The RNC will set it up for Bush because it will be his turn and anybody else will just hand it to the Democrats once again. Clinton and Bush, America's best ruling parties!

[Hiraeth]

23. I don't doubt it, at all.

[colsohlibgal]

24. Funny But Sad

The Hillaryites will never pay too much attention to any of this. They don't care and it is obvious with their retorts, always short of any legitimate rebuttal to any of what is said in this satirical outline of the truth.

They are annoyed we bring up any of this. They love Hillary so don't rain on their parade with any sobering details.

[Amimnoch]

28. Pardon mois if I don't take a spoof as seriously as you do.

[George II]

31. Considering there's no substance to pay attention to, probably not.

[GoneFishin]

25. Bernie can hop on board the DLC gravy train in 3 easy steps :

1) Make vague and liberal sounding remarks publicly about inequality, fairness, and accountability.

2) Meet privately with your biggest and wealthiest donors to explain that contrary to your public statements that you will not actually hold them accountable.

3) After being elected, if asked about your campaign statements :
a) Shrug shoulders, and
b) repeat the following : "But Republicans".

[Amimnoch]

26. ROFLMAO.. a spoof article that is supposedly written by someone who doesn't even exist

is making you want to vote for Mr. Burns even more?

Do you even realize that this isn't actually written by "the Establishment DNC"??

[cascadiance]

30. Yep!

More people have the glasses now to see that "they live" though!

[HomerRamone]

32. What does Hank Williams have to do with this?

I have seen other Hank Williams "Obey" references from Googling but no explanation...

[Hiraeth]

40. I wonder the same thing. Hank and Obey ... ?

wondering if Hank ever sang the old hymn: Trust and Obey ... ?

In 1887, just following an evangelistic meeting held by Dwight L. Moody, a young man stood to share his story in an after-service testimony meeting. As he was speaking, it became clear to many that he knew little about the Bible or acceptable Christian doctrine. His closing lines, however, spoke volumes to seasoned and new believers alike: I'm not quite sure. But I'm going to trust, and I'm going to obey.

Hillary Supporters theme song ... ?

[winter is coming]

68. Makes me think of the song, "Why don't you love me, like you used to do?" n/t

[Betty Karlson]

33. Delightful satire.

Thanks for brightening the day.

[Hiraeth]

36. K&R, for the funny truth of the matter.

Attitude, They have it.

[Buzz Clik]

38. You're damned skippy! Bernie is our ONLY hope to stick it to the man.

We are screaming Truth to Power!
Flying in the face of The Establishment!
Defying the Military-Industrial Complex!
Saying "NO!" to the 1% who won't be happy until they destroy the world.
Power to the People!

Hillary is their slave, and Bernie will lead us out of the darkness!!!!!!111

[MaggieD]

41. LMAO!

Okey dokey.

[SoapBox]

51. Yup.

The Entrenched "We were the 1980's and now that we are fabulously wealthy and getting old, we want to be in power to use our Third Way policies that we've been hiding" Establishment.

I've been amazed at the people that have been coming out for her...it certainly has spoke more than volumes about exactly why she should NOT be President.

[marym625]

52. "we’ll change our views faster than a Kama Sutra flipbook"

Great article from Daily Kos! Thanks for the post

[Babel_17]

58. Pretty much

It's like we're moving to our government being an appendage of business. An arm created so that workers and consumers can get to work, and consume.

[Uncle Joe]

59. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

[Faux pas]

60. Kickin'

[CharlotteVale]

61. K&R

[Major Hogwash]

62. "There’s only a money fucking green America, and we have most of it."

Boy, that says it all, right there.

[jwirr]

63. Thank you for the great bedtime story - tonight I can go to

bed laughing.