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[NNadir]

138. Like I said, I couldn't care less. Write in the fool's name if you wish. Like Ms. Clinton...

...I'm focusing on Trump.

But for the record, I was once a hippie myself, but I grew up. I'm not proud of it though I found my "hippiedom" to have been a real waste of time, a time in an insipid herd of iconoclast wannabees who were, in fact, less iconoclastic than they assumed they were. I should have used that time more usefully.

Onn that note, I will say this, I'm real fond of that commentary that asked whether Bernie Sanders reminded you of your stoner roommate in college. Is Bernie Sanders your stoner college roommate? After he fumbles his way through a Daily News interview, there seems to be far less to the socialist populist than meets the eye

Remember that guy who lived in your college dorm, always wore a Che Guevara t-shirt, and ranted about “the system?” That’s basically Bernie Sanders.

Throughout this presidential campaign, a fulsome narrative has sprouted up around the Vermont socialist: That whatever one thinks of his far-left political views, Sanders is undoubtedly bookish, erudite and extremely knowledgeable about the issues.

A highly revealing interview with the Daily News Editorial Board last week, however, shows that claim to be utter rubbish.

Now let's turn to your views on your right to speak for the impoverished, because you "were not rich."

For the record, my father was a laborer with an 8th grade education whose pension disappeared with Jimmy Hoffa, but so what? I had a few episodes of sleeping on other people's couches, and counting cups of rice until the next pay check; this doesn't make me an ennobled expert on other people's poverty

You think that Bernie Sanders supporters were all uniformly disadvantaged and know better about poverty than anyone else? Sanders is an expert on poverty and racial equality? In Vermont? It's a resort state for white people. I know; I've been there enough.

Sanders is nothing more than a self indulgent baby boomer who whined like hell whenever he wasn't the center of attention for his whole damn life, this with an air of superciliousness that was not appropriate for his accomplishments, which are, by the way, few. If there's any group here at DU that has felt the need to lecture everyone on how everyone should be like them, it's not Clinton supporters.

If you're really, really, really interested in real poverty, by the way, you ought to take a look at the UN's Global Millennium Development Goals report. I did and wrote about it in an effort to confront insipid ideas in energy like those rather dubious ideas that Sanders and his supporters think passes for an energy and climate policy, those that are currently failing at a grotesque rate.

The UN report, (with a convenient link) reflecting on the percentage of people on this planet who live on less than $1.25 a day, is the 4th reference among 68 in my following work:

Current World Energy Demand, Ethical World Energy Demand, Depleted Uranium and the Centuries to Come

Really. You can keep your smug hippie attitude about poverty to yourself. You're hardly the expert you think you are. I'm not, in any case, interested in Sanders platitudes; I'm interested in what he actually knows, and what he's actually done, which in my opinion, in both cases, is not much.

Sanders supporters can take their balls and go home if I'm required to listen to their tiresome statements about how the Democratic Party needs to change in order for them to behave like adults and grant it their august "stamp of approval." Why do we need to indulge them? One feels that nothing will satisfy them, as one can see at looking at the titles of some posts in this space. I couldn't care less about what they do at this point. My impression is that they have been, and in many cases, remain vicious. I'm not a Methodist, but I am familiar with the biblical verse about living and dying by the sword. So let it be with Sanders supporters.

Ms. Clinton is leading the Trump asshole by a satisfying and growing margin, and I expect, given her wonderful, intelligent, and appropriately confrontational speech the other day, that the lead will widen significantly, with or without Sanders and his supporters. She drew the issues in appropriately stark terms.

If someone doesn't understand those terms at this point, I really can't help them.

Give my regards to Susan Sarandon.

Have a nice evening.