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Remember the election of 2008? The Democratic Party knew that Hillary could not defeat McCain and so Harry Reid hand picked Obama for the sole purpose of preventing a McCain presidency. Trump is way the fuck more popular than old-man McCain was. The superdelegates will be fools to vote for her.

Dan8267 says

It's one thing to reluctantly choose Hillary over Trump because Sanders loses. It's quite another to ridicule those who do support Sanders. It demonstrates exactly the ideological differences that motivate Sanders supporters to not support Hillary. You can call them the irreconcilable differences that are the reason the Democratic Party is going through a divorce right now.

Good summary.

Sanders lost.

He's down 4-2 in a best-of-seven playoff, and demands they play the last game.

When we vote in November, the choice is Hillary for 8 years or Trump maybe for 2 or 3. You have to keep that in mind.

Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses says

which prevented a genocide in Kosovo.

No it didn't, as the Kosovar Serbs will tell you.

tr6 says

It's one thing to reluctantly choose Hillary over Trump because Sanders loses. It's quite another to ridicule those who do support Sanders. It demonstrates exactly the ideological differences that motivate Sanders supporters to not support Hillary. You can call them the irreconcilable differences that are the reason the Democratic Party is going through a divorce right now.

Good summary.

Not really.

a spoiled entitled little milleneal cunt whining about his candidate, who is down several million total votes. Berniebutts were in favor of caucauses when he won them, then they became unfair when he lost them. etc. etc. the math is what it is.

I voted for Bernie in my state primary you silly little shit. But anyone voting for Trump for any of the reasons you quote, "make it worse now to make it better... cause then everyone will see it needs to get better... name one country and one time when that ever worked out... of course you can't, because reality doesn't work that way.

Dan8267 says

thunderlips11 says

Dan8267 says

I actually don't fear a Trump presidency too much if the Democrats sweep the house and senate.

This is an ideal outcome, second only to a Bernie Victory and a Democrat Congressional sweep. BOTH the Clintonista and McConnell-Ryan Wings of both parties will be chasened, and real Democrats like Alan Grayson could work with Trump on H1-B Reform and Unfair Trade Issues.

Exactly my thinking.

Thunderlips, Bernie or Bust advocates, and I aren't the only ones thinking along these lines. On the Republican side, conservative propagandist, er writer, George F. Will, yes that George Will, says If Trump is nominated, the GOP must keep him out of the White House in the New York Post of all rags,

Donald Trump’s damage to the Republican Party, although already extensive, has barely begun. Republican quislings will multiply, slinking into support of the most anti-conservative presidential aspirant in their party’s history. These collaborationists will render themselves ineligible to participate in the party’s reconstruction.

Trump would be the most unpopular nominee ever, unable to even come close to Mitt Romney’s insufficient support among women, minorities and young people. In losing disastrously, Trump probably would create down-ballot carnage sufficient to end even Republican control of the House.

Were he to be nominated, conservatives would have two tasks. One would be to help him lose 50 states — condign punishment for his comprehensive disdain for conservative essentials, including the manners and grace that should lubricate the nation’s civic life. Second, conservatives can try to save from the anti-Trump undertow as many senators, representatives, governors and state legislators as possible.

If Clinton gives her party its first 12 consecutive White House years since 1945, Republicans can help Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, or someone else who has honorably recoiled from Trump, confine her to a single term.

George Will understands that sometimes you must deliberately lose a battle to win a war. He is outright stating that for conservatives it would be better if Trump lost and Hillary became a one-term president than to allow Trump to become president and destroy the Republican Party and lose both chambers of Congress.

So I state again,

6. Every fuck up that Trump will make as president -- and there will be lots of these -- will put another nail in the coffin of the Republican Party. Trump heralds the end of the GOP dominance in our country and the success of Richard Nixon's evil Southern Strategy.

7. Quite frankly, the races in the Senate and House are far more important than the White House. I'd much rather see the Democrats take the House and Senate than the White House. It will add to Trump's failures and hasten the demise of the conservative movement and the Republican Party. Hillary is a life-line for conservatism.

8. The Democratic establishment must get the message that nepotism will not be rewarded and that they will lose elections if they ignore all the liberals and independents. Even the fucked-up right can no longer win elections by appealing only to its base. The Democratic tent is far bigger and has to include liberals and independents, not just leftists.

DieBankOfAmericaPhukkingDie says

What happens when IHLlary releases the Dworkin Golem?

www.youtube.com/embed/d-sALU_hveA

Dan8267 says

6. Every fuck up that Trump will make as president -- and there will be lots of these -- will put another nail in the coffin of the Republican Party.

OR possible a nail in the coffin of the USA. You know, overreact to some threat from China, get us in a war while in a depression due to multiple trade wars at the same time, lose our allies in europe.

Your entire philosophy is just so fucking stupid. Vote for Cesar because after the terrible leader, we'll bring back a better democracy and Rome will be even better. OOPS. 4000 years and still waiting!

Vote for hitler, and then people will get tired of nazism. Oops, we just got bombed to shit and occupied.

Vote for Chavez in Venezuela, and then people will realize that we need more democracy, not less. Oops, the whole country, which was one of the nicest places I've ever personally lived, went right down the toilet.

I'm still waiting for your example of a country electing someone as unfit for leadership as trump ever getting better later....

Maybe Russia with Putin? you know, just wait another few years or a hundred?

Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses, which superpac is paying you to be on this forum?

tr6 says

which superpac is paying you to be on this forum?

Whichever it is, they're not getting their money's worth. It might be a false flag of some sort:

Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses says

Vote for Cesar because after the terrible leader, we'll bring back a better democracy and Rome will be even better. OOPS. 4000 years and still waiting!

I had no idea the Bell-Beaker people elected "Cesar," whoever that was, but if they're still alive after 4,000 years I would definitely like to meet them.

Bernie must stay in it until the end. Every vote he earns sends a message not only to Ratched but to powers that be in corporate america. Hopefully he does well in Cali as it does not represent the state that he would typically do well in from demographics standpoint. Too many coke or chevron for life voters around here...

dublin hillz says

coke or chevron for life voters

I haven't seen that phrase before. What does it mean?

curious2 says

I haven't seen that phrase before. What does it mean?

Some consumers only stick to certain brands and don't ever buy alternatives, just like some voters will only vote for politicians that they are familiar with.

Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses says

OR possible a nail in the coffin of the USA. You know, overreact to some threat from China, get us in a war while in a depression due to multiple trade wars at the same time, lose our allies in europe.

Let's consider this. China wants to make the South China Sea it's Gulf of Mexico They don't want foreign powers in the South China Sea anymore than the US permits foreign powers to operate in the Gulf of Mexico. It's not up for debate, it's a geopolitical fact. China overawes every entity in the region.

So, we should continue to outsource high tech manufacturing, including processors and GPS systems, to China? Not only do we lose the jobs, we give a potential competitor dual use technologies. One day if there is a limited war over the South China Sea, a missile might sink a US Ship with a hundred sailors, thanks to FoxConn being the subcontractor on an Apple or Samsung technology.

Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses says

Your entire philosophy is just so fucking stupid. Vote for Cesar because after the terrible leader, we'll bring back a better democracy and Rome will be even better. OOPS. 4000 years and still waiting!

Democracy wasn't in great shape when Caesar took power, and he was forced into it. There was a guy called Sulla, he was the first Dictator for Life, just a few years before Caesar, and he acted for the wealthy. Caesar had to either install himself dictator or be executed on trumped up charges by asshole optimates Cicero the Slumlord and Cato the thief of Veteran's farmland.

Voting for Hillary continues the anti-democratic Globalist Neoliberalism bent. A recent study looking over the last few decades of US Policy and Congress found the preferences of the top 10% are implemented over majority opposition, but policies supported by the majority are seldom implemented. Support among the 10% for a policy or treaty was the single best indicator that a policy would pass, and it usually benefited their class at the expense of everybody else.

The big myth is that outsourcing and globalization was just an accident. It has been continuously driven by the 1% since the end of the Cold War, with armies of lobbyists, MBAs, CEOs, lawyers, and brought out politicians in NY, DC, and LA pushing it hard through a variety of big funded think tanks, their control of the media, and of course Congress, supported by billions over the years.

Even back in the early 90s, Perot pointed out Mexico spent a small fortune lobbying for NAFTA.

dublin hillz says

curious2 says

I haven't seen that phrase before. What does it mean?

Some consumers only stick to certain brands and don't ever buy alternatives, just like some voters will only vote for politicians that they are familiar with.

Oh. I think you meant "Coke or Pepsi" instead of coke (a fuel derived from coal) or chevron (the insignia worn by Lance Corporals in the Marines, among others).

thunderlips11 says

It has been continuously driven by the 1% since the end of the Cold War

Very likely because after soviet union imploded there was no longer a need for prosperous middle class in the battle for hearts and minds of the citizens.

Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses says

Vote for Cesar because after the terrible leader, we'll bring back a better democracy and Rome will be even better. OOPS. 4000 years and still waiting!

Not OOPS: as a matter of fact, Rome grew more powerful and rich after Cesar.
Americans should remember the fall of the republic and the fall of Rome was not exactly the same thing.

Dan8267 says

I know full well the dangers of a Trump presidency.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2016/05/donald-trump-and-supreme-court

neplusultra57 says

Dan8267 says

I know full well the dangers of a Trump presidency.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2016/05/donald-trump-and-supreme-court

Another reason to demand the superdelegates choose Bernie. All those independents who could not vote in closed primaries aren't going to vote for Hillary. The superdelegates should do their sole job, which is to choose the will of the people in the general election over the will of the much smaller group of people who can and choose to vote in the primary. That's the only purpose of even having superdelegates.