So, let me get this straight: The DNC is rigging the system against Bernie by ... helping Bloomberg?

[Drunken Irishman]

Shouldn't it be Biden who's the most upset here? How is this rigging the system against Bernie when the DNC lifting its donor requirements is going to put up a moderate Bloomberg on stage - literally Biden's biggest moderate threat?

I mean, this is bat-shit conspiracy stuff, folks. Or it's Bernie just whining for whining sake, because having Bloomberg on stage actually HELPS him, since the two aren't likely going after the same voter demographics.

But whatever. I guess anything to complain about a rigged system in a party you don't even claim to be a member of.

[judeling]

1. Bernie needs to rage against the establishment

But every Candidate remaining after NH will want to be able to confront Bloomberg without having to Spend $100,000,000.

[TomCADem]

24. NBC - Donald Trump's 'Rigged Election' Claims Raise Historical Alarms

It seems like Bernie is still copying Trump's playbook. Talking about favorable polls. Attack Democrats. Complain about media bias. Complain that the election process is rigged.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-s-rigged-election-claims-raise-historical-alarms-n667831

As Donald Trump's campaign falters, his warnings that the presidential contest will be rigged have become a focus of his pitch to voters.

Historians say Trump's sustained effort to call the process into question has no close parallel in past elections. And some are increasingly worried that his claims — for which he's offered no real evidence — could leave many of his supporters unwilling to accept the election results, potentially triggering violence and dangerously undermining faith in American democracy.

Day after day — at rallies, in interviews and on Twitter — Trump and several top backers have hammered the message that a victory for Hillary Clinton would be illegitimate. Trump has frequently suggested that widespread voter fraud will swing the election, and he has urged his supporters to closely monitor the voting process.

In a tweet Monday, he declared that there's "large-scale voter fraud happening on and before election day." In fact, numerous studies have shown that in-person voter fraud is vanishingly rare.

[Mike Nelson]

2. The early and very important advantage goes to...

... Bernie. We saw this last time. Some early states, like IA and NH favor him... he does well in caucus states because his supporters are some of the most passionate. The DNC knew this from last time... and, yes, Bloomberg is going after Biden voters, not Bernie voters!

[DanTex]

3. It's not about whether it helps or hurts Bernie, it's the principle he's talking about.

Whether it helps or hurts Bernie is arguable, but that's not the point. When other candidates like Booker and Tulsi asked for debate rule changes so they could appear, the DNC said no. But now they change the rules for a billionaire who supported George W Bush.

[squirecam]

11. This is true.

There were no exceptions earlier.

Bloomberg could have dropped 20 million into New Hampshire and won a single delegate, which would have got him into the debates. Instead, he spent $ in the Super Tuesday states. That was his decision.

Bloomberg should not get special rules just for him.

[Horizens]

4. sanders

isn't a democrat and should STFU re party internal matters.

[JudyM]

17. He's a member of party leadership.

[Horizens]

25. More Nonsense

He can't be a member of the party leadership if he's not a democrat. And he's simply and obviously not a democrat.

FYI: Pelosi and Schumer are the party leaders.

[JudyM]

26. Can't argue that a fact isn't a fact. He's a member of the Dem leadership team.

[Horizens]

28. Now

i feel like I'm talking to a republican who doesn't know what he/she is talking about so just makes shite up.

The Dem leadership team is something, a phrase, you just made up.

[treestar]

35. + 1

[thesquanderer]

5. He didn't say DNC was rigging the system against him.

You're right, Bloomberg's presence hurts Biden more than it hurts Sanders.

I suppose the reason Sanders is against changing the rules so a billionaire can compete is simply because (being Bernie) he just thinks it's wrong. Not every position someone takes must be out of personal self-interest. He's against people buying their way onto the stage, that's who he is, and he'll complain about it, even if he'd be the beneficiary of it.

[highplainsdem]

9. You're accusing Bloomberg of bribery, and DNC officials of taking bribes?

[Baclava]

13. Why would they do this for him and not Booker or Castro?

[highplainsdem]

14. Well, it wouldn't be because of bribery. What a horrible accusation to make.

[Baclava]

15. So why is it? Changing the rules in the middle of the game for a billionaire, tell me

"The DNC didn't change the rules to ensure good, diverse candidates could remain on the debate stage. They shouldn't change the rules to let a billionaire on. Billionaires shouldn't be allowed to play by different rules"- Elizabeth Warren

[JudyM]

19. This principle should mean more to the people here who are just quick to jump on Sanders instead

of seeing any problem.

[Scurrilous]

33. Bernie cooks up rules to benefit himself all he time.

The individual contribution limit is $2,700 per election. Bernie has drawn up a pledge (ROFL) which he is demanding other candidates sign, limiting persons working in wide swaths of healthcare industry to $200.00. He knows he isn't going to get shit from them, he's trying to take away their jobs. And you know they're going to fight him for their jobs and contribute to his opponents. So he tries to make his own rules to benefit himself. Whither that principle here?

Manbun mob descends dancing to the tune of Bernie's principal flute: "Why ACA Biden take filthy lucre of evil for-profit?" "Hypothetical M4A the true way."

Link to tweet

[betsuni]

34. +1

[Cha]

16. Not for the reason you gave.

[msongs]

7. ppl who blame everyone else for their failures frequently play victim nt

[Blue_true]

8. Bernie just wants to get the notion that the DNC is corrupt out there.

It will get worse if he starts falling behind on delegate counts. I can't say that I trust him motives in our primary, though he would be far superior to Trump as President.

[betsuni]

10. +1

[Scurrilous]

30. Yes, yes, and more yes. Trump is feeding this too.

Fall back position after he loses (again), exalted leader of the rigged DNC derps.

Remember how they claimed DWS used her leadership position at the DNC to rig the Florida primaries in 2016 for Hillary? In a state long infused with Republicans at every political level.

DWS is no longer leadership, Bernie third in Florida polls. LOL

[Blue_true]

41. The Florida primary is state run, not party run like some states.

Also, voters can't cross over in some states, only democrats can vote in our part of the prinary, only Republican's can vote in theirs. Even in this republican led state, there is no need for leaders to fiddle with the primaries.

[Cha]

36. +2

[Gothmog]

12. I want to hear from Bloomberg

sanders latest charge is really sad and silly

[JudyM]

18. Principles matter. The principle is about changing the rules for Bloomberg but not for the others.

Bernie standing up for others has been his M.O. for decades.

[NYMinute]

21. No one else complained or whined nor did anyone ask Bernie to whine on their behalf

Bloomberg meets all the other criteria and because he will not accept donations at all, a revision had to be made.

It is not like Boomberg was accepting donations and was falling short so rules were amended.

Special circumstances which are unique and exceptional.

[Drunken Irishman]

22. Good point.

[NYMinute]

20. ...

#BernieLogic to go with #Berniemath

[Scurrilous]

31. #BernieCivics #BernieHistory #BernieRules #BerniePledges #BernieReality #BernieSoBlack

I think that last one is real.

[Cha]

38. Yep.. and I could add my own

list but I better not.

[Scurrilous]

39. Tragedy. The 'I better nots' are usually bitingly best.

#Overthere you don't have that one cyclically suddenly popular canon that I've had to impanel for so many times during the most recent primaries.

[Cha]

40. lol.. i actually understood what

you're talking about.

[dustyscamp]

23. We really should have sorted this divisiveness years ago

Disheartened Dems and obviously Rightwing scum are using this as an opening to destroy the party from the inside. They are all over social media right now trying to stoke even more distrust at the DNC and Democrats in general. We better stop this now or I don't see us winning America back.

[aeromanKC]

27. If it takes Bloomberg's billions to defeat Trump, so be it!!

I've enjoyed Bloomberg 's anti-Trump commercials so far!! All $200 million of them!! I would enthusiastically vote for him in November.

[Cha]

32. lol

[octoberlib]

29. #DNCRigging is being boosted on Twitter by

Russian trolls big time. And , omg, the conspiracy theories.

[Squinch]

37. It's always all about Bernie. And something rigged against him. He's very persecuted.

[mitch96]

42. I think the "moneyed elIte" of both parties will back Bloomberg

He's one of "them" and see Warren and Saunders as a threat to their way of life...
Birds of a feather kinda thing... JUst my opinion....
m

[UniteFightBack]

43. The Bernie clan just likes to use the word RIGGING whenever they can. nt