Bernie is making me more angry than ever before.

It's one thing for Bernie to endorse Hillary, but it is unconscionable that he's working with the Clinton campaign as we speak to shut his supporters up.

He's got "ambassadors" on the coronation floor now trying to make sure his delegates don't boo when Hillary's name is mentioned.

He's jumped the shark. He wanted his delegates to come to Philly to vote for him (at great cost on their own ), but now he's trying to shut them up.

Nina Turner, who was just interviewed, isn't throwing them under the bus. Good for her.

If you want a political revolution, you can't then just say, "Be quiet. "

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"AMBASSADORS" - trying to keep US from speaking?

WTF??????

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Just using this spot to ask for linkies, please?

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Complicity to Believe In is apparently Bernie's new theme.

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Probably going to skip his speech, I just can't bear the thought of him endorsing Clinton and her new pet monkey, what's his name, Kaine -- gak!

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Hell is empty and all the devils are here. William Shakespeare

elenacarlena's picture

really Hill people claiming to be Bern ambASSadors?

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Then my electric went out due to a storm.

Luckily for me, I have grandfathered in unlimited data so I'm able to get a good feed through Twitch. Unlucky for me, I'm forced to watch the continued exploitation of several people by Hillary.

Plus, I'm really hot. I know... first world problems.

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elenacarlena's picture

campaign. I suspect moles everywhere. They have pretended to be who they're not all the time. Why would they stop at the convention?

Power outages suck, even if they are first-world problems. Hope you're restored and recovered soon!

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Or more DNC moles working from within to discredit/damage Bernie. Wouldn't surprise me one little bit.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

And he handed it over to a monster.

Sad seeing a man commit ethical suicide on national television. Even sadder seeing him do it in front of a DNC that despises him, for the sake of a candidate who knifed him in the back.

She came. She saw. He punked.

SMDH.

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“If there is no justice for the people, may there be no peace for the government.”

lotlizard's picture

http://www.japansociety.org/event/the-47-loyal-ronin

Chushingura means “loyalty,” and that potent Japanese theme runs throughout this stately samurai epic that is often called the Gone with the Wind of Japanese cinema. While that may be a fitting cultural parallel, it gives an inaccurate impression of the film, based on one of Japan’s most often interpreted historical events. Set during the Tokugawa shogunate in 1701, it centers on 47 loyal samurai who seek vengeance against the arrogant elder statesman who caused their master’s ritual suicide.

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As I recall, they had a scrupulous sense of honor, bold courage, and did not fear to use the power they possessed to accomplish their goal.

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“If there is no justice for the people, may there be no peace for the government.”

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exactly what you would have him do right now. I am genuinely curious what you think he can accomplish on their turf? Right now?

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“If there is no justice for the people, may there be no peace for the government.”

27 times would be more appropriate.

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Szaephod's picture

My fellow Americans,

I have a very short but important message.

For the good of America,

For the good of the world,

I ask you to stand, and walk with me

In support of Dr. Jill Stein and the Green Party!

Good night!

(Before they can cut his mike.)

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The spirit of party serves to enfeeble the Public Administration,
agitates with Jealousies and false alarms, and opens the door to corruption,
which finds access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.
George Washington

elenacarlena's picture

is indicted and cannot continue to run, then Bern would step in, and that may be what he's waiting for.

Does anyone know if this is true? Is there any rule that the nom then would have to go to the #2 vote getter? Or would they just continue with Kaine?

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No, he really is endorsing her. He really is abandoning his purported principles to do so. I am now wondering if his campaigning wasn't meant to keep progressives within the democratic fold and to stop them from creating a third party.

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Or the Sheep.

The result is the same.

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“If there is no justice for the people, may there be no peace for the government.”

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(I assume you're talking about that result!)

Diablo

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

elenacarlena's picture

in case something happens to her, can't he?

If that was the plan, it has failed spectacularly! I have been a Dem for decades and there's a better than even chance that I'll go Green.

Bernie's campaign exposed the machinations of Hill and her cronies. The smears have been sickening. He and we fought hard, which showed how far they will go to push back, keeping power for power's sake.

Whether Bern knows something we don't or is just tired, I don't know at this point. But no, I don't see how it could have been a plan to keep progressives in the Dem party. That would only happen by giving Bern the nom. Also, if they were going to do that, they would have picked a more physically attractive candidate, younger, more groomed. O'Malley maybe. I think Bernie's popularity shocked them.

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I'll bet Bernie has a plan and is staying in for a darned good reason. And that won't be to help place corruption in office.

Some of the people posting here clearly have little actual knowledge of Bernie or of what he's pulled off in apparently impossible situations for the people in the past, and so they underestimate him. But I'll bet corporate team Clinton is very nervous.

Been trying to post this for ages, guess the site was down?

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

lotlizard's picture

said plan the (momentary, in this phase of developments) rejection and revilement of his course by the movement he started.

In other words, if he is playing a part in accordance with a farsighted plan, then the whole “condemning Bernie as a sellout” phenomenon is also a part which enough of us must play if his plan is to be realized.

If Bernie is indeed acting in accord with some kind of Hari Seldon gambit here, then condemnation as a sellout at this stage doesn’t hurt his feelings at all — on the contrary, it’s something his plan expects and is counting on.

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it failed. Bernie awakened a sleeping giant [with apologies to some Japanese officer]. The giant, the movement, is awake now and it is alive and it is a living animal. And it has a mind of its own.

We are not property. We will not be bought, sold, or given away.

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Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.

thanatokephaloides's picture

Bernie awakened a sleeping giant [with apologies to some Japanese officer]. The giant, the movement, is awake now and it is alive and it is a living animal. And it has a mind of its own.

The "sleeping giant" quote is attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, but there is no direct evidence he ever said it.

Nevertheless, the saying, whithersoever it came, applies here. Bernie has now discovered that he has indeed "awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve", and that his selling out to Hillary Clinton and Company has deprived him of any control over that giant. No matter what Barney Frank, Sarah Silverman, or anyone else says, we're still here, we're awake and we're pissed, and we're not going to eat their proffered caca sandwiches any more, even if Bernie himself does so on national TV.

Jill Stein 2016: because fuck this shit!

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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

RDSVermont's picture

BERNedict Arnold!

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Our village and town are so small that we don't have a village idiot or a town drunk. Nope, we all take turns.

ABC = Anyone But Clinton
Should Trump and Clinton be neck-and-neck come election day, Donald's getting my vote, but Jill will get my support for 2020. Jill can't get enough (name recognition, organizational structure, money, or state ballot slots) by November to prevail. That's just magical thinking. But by 2020, it's very feasible. In the next four years, however, if the Clintons (it's a two-fer deal) get back to the White House, we'll NEVER be free of them. Always being in a position of power to grant favors for cash is their meal ticket and they've got very powerful "friends". Trump, on the other hand, will be a lesser-evil placeholder for Jill in 2020.

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in order to have a large block of people who would reliably vote against the interests of the poor and working classes.

Now that global capital doesn't need them, we see the twisted face of the political establishment as it firmly throws them, along with the working classes, to the sharks.

Personal freedom and meaningful culture are long, long gone. Until Europe and North America wake up and bring global capital to its knees, we will be murdered, you and me and everyone else. Slowly. And no one in this big universe is going to care and there will be no cheap Hollywood salvation. None.

Peace and love be with you, reader.

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