Look, responding in a defensive manner to the patently absurd claims being made right now against Sanders delegates (not supporters, but elected DELEGATES) in NV is the wrong tack to take. It legitimizes the MYTH that there was any violence at the NV convention, which there was not. The Casinos are all under 24-hour surveillance, for one thing. For another thing, there are thousands of eye-witness accounts and tons of videos that show nothing of the sort. Finally, no one was injured (including any chairs).

The Clinton people have obvious gain from passing this meme along. They have gain from US acting defensively too since again, it lends creedence to the spectre of "guilt." However, we are NOT GUILTY OF ANYTHING. So there is no need to act guilty. In fact, we know that Team Clinton has done something absolutely horrible, undemocratic, and frankly offensive and insane, and so over the line that we are ALL angry about it. There is such a thing as righteous anger, and they would like us to forget that and for other people to denounce that.

When Bernie Sanders protested segregated housing and was arrested, were people happy about it? Of course not. They thought he was a hooligan, a bad person, all kinds of stuff. The same was said about MLK Jr when he marched across the bridge at Selma. History now shows that these were good things, brave things, things done without a FUCKING SINGLE CONCERN for social approval. When Occupy happened, no one cared that it wasn't "sanctioned." I would be OFFENDED by the Sanders campaign if they were saying "Oh, we will just placate the powers that be by going along with what they consider acceptable behavior."

Acceptable behavior, as defined by the Clinton campaign, is murdering innocent people, is violating basic Democratic precepts and cheating in elections, is laundering money, is deporting children, is normalizing war, is saying it is okay for Wall Street to rip off people who engage in predatory lending so that people lose their housing and become homeless, is strangling human beings with global capitalism, is playing "victim" despite all of this, is lying whenever opportune, is giving billions of dollars to maintain the injustice in Israel, is sending US troops to fight on the ground with ISIS thus placing a target on the back of this nation in a whole new way, is saying there is no need for net neutrality at all and we own your thoughts, words, and the medium itself, is killing the earth and her trees and animals with global fracking and offshore oil drilling and deforestation of rain forests by sanctioning multinational corporations, is saying "corporations are people too," is saying "lobbyists are people too," but is saying "you are not people too -- you threw… an invisible chair… after sixteen hours of disenfranchisement… and even though that never happened, I am going to make you answer for it."

Don't. Don't answer for it. Reject it, and play offense, not defense.

Stop worrying.

She is every bit of a lying sack of shit that you thought.

Never vote for her or any of her people, anyone who has endorsed her and thus has enabled her. Ever. I don't care if they claim to be a "Progressive." Actions speak louder than words.

Refuse them and reject them.

And Clinton is trying to scare you out of going to Philly. Don't take THAT bait, no matter what you do. You want to go to Philly because you reject the things listed above, correct? Don't let the mythology of a single chair, unproved, be the thing that swift boats our movement, okay? That would be truly stupid. Please be more strategic and think carefully about what they want you to do, and refuse to do it, even if that means they reject you (of course they do; you reject them -- and so yes, it's a little war of sorts, fine! There is, again, such a thing as righteous indignation, and they are banking on the idea that you will get scared and CONFORM again to the expectations they set for you, like you are crazy -- CRAZY -- to think for yourself).

Fuck their framing. It's no different than Bosnian Sniper Fire.

And does she REALLY think this will hurt Bernie's unfavorables? I would think it would, if we lean back and keep telling the TRUTH about what happened with no concern for HER LIES, I would think it would be a much bigger stain on her. She looks like a damned fool for making such outrageous claims, and we all know it's because she wants to distract people from the overstep she made in Nevada where she chose to break rules, disenfranchise delegates, and make a mockery of Democracy and normal process so that I could have sworn I was looking at an election in Liberia… so please… don't argue with irrational people.

Counter them factually and firmly. Who cares what they say or think? YOU THINK THEY THINK WELL OF YOU ALREADY? They think you are a piece of very stupid piece of shit to be duped into a general election vote, basically. You can decide if you agree with that, I guess. I think more highly of my own insights however.

"Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences." -- Susan B. Anthony -- props to penelopepnortney

-- And hello to all here! It took a while to get over here, apologies, but you all know where to find me, where I am a busy bee. Cross-posted here by request from angstall.