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Henhouse

Henhouse's Journal
Henhouse's Journal
May 8, 2016

SAC on Scene - #Feel the BS

https://medium.com/sac-media/feelthebs-9d33a5d453d#.4ly90dkco

OPINION: #FeelTheBS

Your favorite anti-establishment hero won’t call off his dogs.

After the rally ended, my colleague and I went outside and saw the protesters. They weren’t scary, they were horrifying....

This is where I saw the key difference. Despite the clean, fatherly image of Bernie Sanders, his supporters are vile, villainous, and downright hateful.
I know not all Berners are like that, but I can now honestly say that the ones I saw, are. Nowhere have we — and I mean the media — seen Clinton supporters act like this. To frighten a child is wrong, inhumane, and malicious.....


Claims that Clinton supporters are just as bad as Sanders supporters have yet to be verified. I have seen nothing, not a single shred of evidence, that Clinton supporters are that aggressive. We keep hearing how great Sanders is, how wonderful he will be in office, but if this is true, why does he allow his supporters to behave like this? Why has he not asked that they behave with some civility? And why does he put out rhetoric that fuels this fire?...


I get that this is a protest, but scaring children and disabled people? Calling people names? Where is the kind Bernie Sanders who made friends with a bird? How is he protecting them from the establishment?
May 7, 2016

Bernie Sanders Says It's "Absolutely Appropriate" For Fans to Scream at Hillary Supporters

The Daily Banter

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Bernie Sanders Says It's "Absolutely Appropriate" For Fans to Scream at Hillary Supporters http://thedailybanter.com//2016/05/bernie-sanders-says-its-absolutely-appropriate-for-fans-to-scream-at-hillary-supporters/

Bernie Sanders fans forced Hillary Clinton to end a speech early this week, which Bernie is not a fan of, but when he was specifically asked if he was okay with his fans screaming at Hillary's supporters outside the event, as they also did this week, at children, his response was an emphatic "Absolutely. That's absolutely appropriate."
May 7, 2016

#Breaking: Hillary has won the Guam Democratic caucuses

POLITICO ?@politico 10s10 seconds ago
#Breaking: Hillary has won the Guam Democratic caucuses http://politi.co/24AU4kJ

May 7, 2016

Artist whose painting of nude Trump went viral gives her account of being the target of his campaign

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/07/donald-trump-penis-painting-ilma-gore

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Illma Gore: 'If anyone is going to be threatened by a small penis, it's Trump'
Artist whose painting of nude Trump went viral gives her account of being the target of his campaign’s hate machine and being physically attacked in LA
Artist threatened with lawsuits if she sells nude Donald Trump painting
April 10, 2016

Fact Checker Is Hillary Clinton really ahead of Bernie Sanders by 2.5 million votes? UPDATE w/WY.

By Glenn Kessler April 6

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/04/06/is-hillary-clinton-really-ahead-of-bernie-sanders-by-2-5-million-votes/

Fact Checker
Is Hillary Clinton really ahead of Bernie Sanders by 2.5 million votes?


Update: Unofficial results indicate that Sanders reduced the vote margin by about 130,000 votes with his victory in Wisconsin.

The Pinocchio Test

Despite the suspicions of the Sanders supporter, the fact that caucus results are not included in the popular vote tally does not appear to make much of a difference in the final result. Despite overwhelming victories in caucus states such as Washington and Maine, Sanders gains only about 130,000 votes. That means Clinton is ahead by 2.4 million votes, rather than 2.5 million votes. Given rounding — and the fact that caucus numbers are only estimates — the difference is slight enough that Clinton’s claim, made before the Wisconsin vote, earns a rare Geppetto Checkmark.

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