Hillary Goes Trolling for Millennial Votes in New Hampshire

Hillary Clinton, with former nemesis and arch-rival Bernie Sanders in tow, made an appearance at the University of New Hampshire yesterday, in order to attempt to burnish her credentials with the all-important youth demographic.

In what some wags have dubbed the 4F* tour, the two former rivals touted plans - sure to be declared DOA by Congressional Republicans, and quickly shelved and forgotten by Hillary soon after her inauguration - to provide free public college tuition for working families, as well what Sanders described as a "significant proposal" to reduce student debt.

The stakes for Clinton clearly couldn't be any higher. As reported by Bloomberg:

New Hampshire is emblematic of a larger Clinton problem. The youth vote was one of the pillars of the Obama coalition. But thus far it's proven perhaps the most difficult one for Clinton to rebuild. Polls show the nominee failing to earn the confidence of young voters—only 33 percent of those between ages 18-29 told Gallup this month that they approved of her—and running far behind where she would hope to be against her Republican opponent. The polls also show Clinton currently winning under half their votes, while Obama got over three-fifths of that demographic in both of his campaigns.

Further bad news came in the form of a recent Quinnipiac poll, which showed Clinton garnering just 31 percent support from the 18-34 age group, with Libertarian Gary Johnson in second place with 29 percent, Trump in third place with 26 percent, and Jill Stein rounding out the field with 15 percent.

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[Hillary and Bernie share a tender moment prior to their appearance.]

Meanwhile, in an effort to put any lingering bitterness on the part of former Bernie supporters to rest, Hillary stated:

"I'm proud of the primary campaign that Bernie and I ran. We ran a campaign about issues, not insults. And when it was over, we began to work together to try to figure out how we could take the issues we agreed on and come together, knowing we are stronger together, to come up with specific policies in education, in health, and so much else. Thank you, Bernie. Thank you for your leadership, and thank you for your support in this campaign."

That Hillary! What a classy gal. She can always be counted on to be gracious - or at least she will be after she's done wiping her feet on your face.

"If there is hope, it lies in the proles."

So wrote George Orwell's doomed protagonist Winston Smith in the classic dystopian novel 1984. I would paraphrase that to say that if there's hope for America, it lies in the youth. Because despite the fact that apparently only about 1 out of 7 young voters is currently supporting the only sane and rational candidate in the race, the young people of today truly "get it" in a way that the great majority of their elders do not. And no doubt that is due to the fact that they have been well and truly screwed in a way that no other generation in memory ever has.

What they get is that the US of A has a closed, incredibly toxic and destructive political system that is completely indifferent to public sentiment, routinely embraces policies that damage and undermine the interests of the vast majority of citizens (particularly the young), and that contains no - that is, nada, zip, zero - self-correcting mechanisms of any kind. And that at the end of the day, giving your vote to any of the duopoly candidates only helps to strengthen, perpetuate and legitimize that system.

It really is just about that simple. And no amount of cynical pandering, no amount of hectoring by "progressive" surrogates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, is going to alter that reality or that perception one iota.

* Find 'em, Fool 'em, Fuck 'em, Forget 'em

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WoodsDweller's picture

I'll place much of Clinton's youth vote problem on Obama. He got it, then squandered it. Bernie got it, then had it stripped away. Clinton, agent of the status quo and tied to Obama except when she isn't, opponent of Sanders, doesn't have much of a chance with them. Of course, she fails even when she does try to reach out, that's her. Still, getting the youth vote as a Democrat in the post-Obama era is going to be rough.

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"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone

Yawn...
but glad, really glad I read the essay, so know I know what the 4F's are.
Brilliant.

I'm gonna need a new piece of paper if the list of the people I'm not listening to grows any longer:
Michelle, Barack, Bernie, Joe, Elizabeth Warren, Cent, Shaun,

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the "crossed to the dark side" people and places have been deleted from our daily check-ins.

I'm finally making progress on the bumper crop of garden goodies in the kitchen. Guess that makes it a progressive kitchen. Acute

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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti

Hillbilly Dem's picture

"I can't just sit here, you've got to make me do it." (Or words similar to that.) Then came his appointment of The Usual Suspects. Then came a series of disappointments. Then, over 5 years ago (has it been that long?) came Occupy Wall Street. That's when my suspicions were finally confirmed, there would be no "make me", only business as usual.

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"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey

It was a dare, not a plea for help. He was taunting us, not rallying us. It was a big middle finger to the people who worked hard to get him elected. I sent him some money late in the 2008 general campaign, but didn't lift a finger to help. That at least is some consolation.

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Wink's picture

to sit it out. They trust neither one of these candidates, have no dog (or party) in the fight.

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the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.

And many probably know better than to admit to supporting Jill in polls, knowing that she and they will definitely get electorally nobbled if the Hillary campaign views her and her supporters as a threat to Her Royal Coronation.

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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.

Amanda Matthews's picture

There were lots of issues he could have really hit her on, starting maybe with her emails which ARE a big deal and getting bigger by the day. Then it was the "taking it all the way to Philly" crap.

She won't get the young vote not even with that phony old man's help. They know as well as anybody paying attention that the old man sold them out. His 'revolution' was just a farce.

He can go back home after this, or to his new vacation home. The rest of us are screwed.

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

Shahryar's picture

"I don't care about getting an email from you"

and

"We'll take this all the way to Harrisburg"

and

"Our Revolution means we'll get some slimy consultant to run it as he sees fit, to help the status quo"

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Amanda Matthews's picture

socialist from the Senate says he's going to run because there's a 'Better Way' and trust him because he's gonna lead us to the promised land. He puts up no real fight. He ignores all the real issues, like the Clinton Foundation, arms sales, pay-to-play contributions, and then after receiving the most contributions (in volume) in history from the public, he fucking up and folds like a damn cheap suit and starts telling everyone who supported him to vote for the most disliked and corrupt candidates the 'Democrats' had planned for years to shove down our throats.

What was Sanders? An attempt at a 'guarantee' that the Democratic 'candidate' win? Was he in on it from the beginning? Was it worth it to throw his supporters, especially the young ones, to the wolves?

I don't care if he's treated like Typhoid Mary when things settle down after the election. He's got it coming.

Now he can give the old war whore another hug.

EDIT: Changed 'votes' to contributions (in volume)

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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

Phoebe Loosinhouse's picture

Why do they not get that they launched a scorched earth strategy and now they are walking on all the crunchy,burnt ground? The Bernie Bros are establishing camps outside the Dem perimeter or they are staying home.

Shouldn't she be hanging around Junior League meetings or the Chamber of Commerce?

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" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "

Just wow. I know, I should not be shocked at all by her lying and shilling but my God. No insults!!!??? She really is shameless, in every single way. Good thing I wasn't drinking coffee when I read that or I would have spit it all over the computer.

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Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur

How does any human being have the nerve, the chutzpah, the gall, to use that line when she knows what she, DWS, DNC, and all her sycophants under her orders did to destroy Bernie Sanders, and the hopes of the millions of people who were funding his campaign, volunteering, believed in Our Revolution.

She is worse than pond scum. At least frogs get to eat pond scum. Her Heinious has NO USE.
None.
Zip.
Nada.
She can create wars, have millions of innocent people killed, and make a lot of money for herself.
A.B.C. = Anybody But Clintons

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

is avoiding watching this three ring circus, thanks for risking your sanity.

Wink

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Anja Geitz's picture

I feel at the thought of THE BEST CANDIDATE EVER begging the "ignorant and unreliable youth" for votes is satisfying indeed. Here's hoping for the mother lode of schadenfreude: the Clinton machine and TPTB after she loses the election to The Hairball. Plug your ears, because the shriek of laughter will be deafening.

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

My God. Look at the pictures of Bernie's face at yesterday's rally and tell me he is acting freely. His eyes look like he has been crying for weeks.

My caption for your image above: "Get out there and get my f***ing numbers up or there'll be another f***ing finger in tomorrow's mail."

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WaterLily's picture

Look at his free arm in the photo above. That is by no means a willing, or warm, embrace.

(Actually, she's probably grabbing onto him so she doesn't drop like a sack of potatoes).

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To...My...Pod.

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"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"

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Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Azazello's picture

I wonder if she just got a selfie from sick Weiner.

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

Phoebe Loosinhouse's picture

"stronger together" unobtrusively into her statement?

Did you hear that boys and girls? Stronger together, stronger together, s t r on g e r t o g e t h e r , s. . .t. . .r. . .o. . .n. . .g. . .e. . .r t. . .o. . .g. . .e . . .t. . .h. . .e . . .r. . . . . .

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" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "

that if he started endorsing other candidates we shouldn't listen to him?

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They say that there's a broken light for every heart on Broadway
They say that life's a game and then they take the board away
They give you masks and costumes and an outline of the story
And leave you all to improvise their vicious cabaret-- A. Moore

mouselander's picture

Question: "... if you don't [win the nomination], will you encourage your supporters to vote for Secretary Clinton?"

Answer:"We're not a movement where I can snap my fingers and say to you or to anybody else what you should do. 'Cause you won't listen to me - you shouldn't. You make these decisions yourself."

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Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.

WaterLily's picture

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Amanda Matthews's picture

be that stupid to say something like that. But there's video.

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

He's been quoted as saying something on the lines of that if anyone ever hears him telling them to vote for someone, they shouldn't listen.

He knew that these psychopaths play really freaking dirty and have no problem with harming the innocent and vulnerable to assuage their greed for endless power and money.

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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.

edg's picture

Here's my entry: "Nice little grandson you got there. Be a real shame if something was to happen to him."

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Not Henry Kissinger's picture

and you shall receive.

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

featheredsprite's picture

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

However, if she's proud of political campaigns without insults, why has she been doing little more than insulting Trump?

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thanatokephaloides's picture

However, if she's proud of political dcampaigns without insults, why has she been doing little more than insulting Trump?

You can't insult Trump.

The bare, honest truth about Trump is more insult than any politician can stand, and Hillary knows it. The attacks write themselves.

The only problem Hillary has is that she's essentially the same as Donald is, but with better message control. Even so, anyone wanting to attack her candidacy still has plenty of ammunition -- and she's only got herself to blame.

Smile

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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

An attack that is richly deserved is still an attack, too. Moreover, Hillary certainly intends to insult Trump. So, no matter what, my point about her hypocrisy about campaigns that insult was valid.

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mouselander's picture

How about: "Bernie, I realize you find me utterly repulsive, but isn't this still a lot better than being lowered head first into a wood chipper?"

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WaterLily's picture

Good one!

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good one
you made me chuckle, and think of Fargo.
aay-yup

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Shahryar's picture

I think he's a politician who feels getting anything done in the future means he has to act like he's doing.

He said a lot of good things in the last year. I'm happy to remember those and ignore this, rather than have it be about Bernie, rather than what I consider to be making up scenarios.

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I believe we must understand what is happening now to squelch our nascent revolution in order to have any chance to succeed in the future.

I've spent years doing retail political activism. I've known that our voting system is compromised and that we arguably have not truly elected a president this century. I still have urged people to register and vote because I felt that if enough people clamored for reform, we could effect change within the system.

I have admired Bernie for years for his truth-telling, his refusal to be coopted, and his dogged determination to promote the common good. At the same time, I didn't want to see him run because I thought the country wouldn't go for unabashed democratic socialism, the physical demands of a presidential campaign would burn out a septuagenarian, and we need him in the senate.

This election season has upended my thinking. It has become clear that there really is a progressive groundswell among people who are NOT political junkies. When Bernie laid out the urgent need for change and for social and economic justice, people responded by the millions. It turned out that Bernie thrived on the insane schedule and was assembling a political juggernaut.

At the same time, it has become clear that our electoral process is completely, and perhaps irretrievably, broken. Moreover, all branches of our government are not only dysfunctional, they are swamps of corruption. There is no justice and no recourse.

So what do we do now? Obviously, we must do something, and quickly, or we face extinction. I would much rather have a peaceful political revolution but unless we understand what has gone wrong in this latest battle, we have no chance against the bloated monster that is consuming our world. We can't just say "Look forward, not back." If the PTB can chew up a wily old campaigner like Bernie, who has been the Immovable Object for the last thirty years, they will do so again and again. We need to have a different approach. It's getting too late for half a league onward....

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Mark from Queens's picture

This election season did reveal a ton, didn't it?

As you say (and Can'tStoptheSignal has been saying the same), there is way more support for real progressive social and economic change than ever expected.

Next stop for that manifesting somewhere? Hopefully in this election, when either folks don't show up at all, or vote Green Party. But frankly, I don't trust this vile electoral voting system, at all.

Bernie laid a potent, workable blueprint for us. That is, whoever next takes up the mantle must speak with the laser focus he did, on fundamental bread & butter economic issues (Healthcare For All, Free College Tuition) and hammer the fundamental causes of why we haven't been able to achieve that, Money In Politics and Wall St Criminality and Fraud. Only take small individual donations, while refusing any SuperPAC big money.

It can be done. He proved it by kicking the door in. The henchmen thugs inside slammed it hard in his face. Next time they might not be able to.

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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:

THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

Mark from Queens's picture

This election season did reveal a ton, didn't it?

As you say (and Can'tStoptheSignal has been saying the same), there is way more support for real progressive social and economic change than ever expected.

Next stop for that manifesting somewhere? Hopefully in this election, when either folks don't show up at all, or vote Green Party. But frankly, I don't trust this vile electoral voting system, at all.

Bernie laid a potent, workable blueprint for us. That is, whoever next takes up the mantle must speak with the laser focus he did, on fundamental bread & butter economic issues (Healthcare For All, Free College Tuition) and hammer the fundamental causes of why we haven't been able to achieve that, Money In Politics and Wall St Criminality and Fraud. Only take small individual donations, while refusing any SuperPAC big money.

It can be done. He proved it by kicking the door in. The henchmen thugs inside slammed it hard in his face. Next time they might not be able to.

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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:

THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

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but I forgive him and I still love him.

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

stayin' alive; stayin' alive." (Bee Gees)

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featheredsprite's picture

people by social media. Didja hear about the total number of hits on Jill's parallel debate? 15 million people! And yes, I know that doesn't mean they will all vote for her.

In 2012, 126 million voted in the presidential election. In a 4-way race, I think that about 40 million votes, well placed, could win the contest. I think that Trump is going to take Florida and Texas, along with some smaller states. So I don't really know where that 40 million votes is going to come from.

ETA: I rely on Trump Republicans to act as poll watchers. Sad state of affairs isn't it?

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

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Boston Herald ran an interesting piece today suggesting Hillary's target audience did not exactly flock to yesterday's rally.

Bernie Sanders Holdouts No-Show Hillary Clinton's N.H. Rally

From the article:

DURHAM, N.H. — Hillary Clinton — campaigning at a college here and hoping Bernie Sanders can help deliver critical millennial voters — instead drew a crowd largely of baby boomers, while hearing faint praise from her former rival that paled in comparison to the language President Obama has used on the trail.

“There is no group of Americans who have more at stake in this election than young Americans, because so much of what will happen will affect your lives, your jobs, the kind of country we are, the kind of future we want to build together,” Clinton told a sea of gray hair and bald-spots at the University of New Hampshire campus field house yesterday.

The younger voters, among an audience of more than 1,000, were placed on risers on either side of the stage, highly visible spots that could be captured by TV cameras.

I guess Bernie wearing a leash and collar is not quite as compelling a draw as the bold truth-teller who drew the under-thirty crowd in massive numbers during the primary season. Who could have possibly seen that coming?

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Phoebe Loosinhouse's picture

some guy on the cable news is talking about "Berniependents" (presumably Independents for Bernie) who could cement Hillary's position in small northern mostly white demographic states - I.e. Maine, New Hampshire, some parts of Michigan, etc. but for some odd reason, these voters have no interest in Hillary.

Gee, do you think it could be because she called this exact segment of voters racist Bernie Bros? Whose vote they didn't need? Except this guy is saying Hillary's campaign can't replace these votes because they are in areas with high voter turnout already and there is no replacement demographic for her to register and get to the polls. Ya think?

Whoever came up with the whole Bernie Bro meme is an a*hole who is reaping the harvest of divisive identity politics. Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

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" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "

Lenzabi's picture

LOL Berniependents are likely headed to vote Jill if they decide to vote as she really needs to have that 5% of the electorate at least to get fed money. Honestly I think they know they screwed up so bad that they fear the repercussions of us all voting massively for Jill who is so left of them, and their corporate handlers.

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So long, and thanks for all the fish

lunachickie's picture

Team Clinton lost a lot of support for Democrats, permanently, with their bullshit and shenanigans. Among many other indicators, they're probably just now getting wind of how many Democrats did the Demexit thing--and the Q3 fundraising will probably reflect it as well.

Expect to see the panic increasing, now that we're about to be in October...

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Oh I will, with some decent beverage and snacks to boot.

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So long, and thanks for all the fish

Wish I had popcorn for this, one of the few more enjoyable moments of this selection process!

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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.