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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
It helps that Bill's story is genuinely funny. Especially the part with the house.
And still more nonsense
. "Our voices weren't heard." Your voices were heard. You just didn't convince anyone you were right. That's how this little thing called democracy works.
edited 26th Jul '16 7:36:44 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar
Repeating unsolicited advice: Find a better narrative than lesser-evilism. Talk about the unique opportunity to move congress to the left. Hell, start agitating for an anti-citizens united constitutional amendment.
If you want to persuade people to vote for Hillary, talk about Hillary, not Trump, not Bernie.
Ban any word construction that is Bernie-anything from your tongue, because what follows is always an insult. Insults do not persuade people. They simply make them angry and make them dig in. Either the group of people you want to talk about is going to hold their noses and vote your way, or they are not. Insulting them will not magically make them see the error of their ways, so do not do it, and the resulting internal mudslinging also does not look good to the people on your right flank. IE: Undecideds.
That's what Bill is doing right now, it's actually what Bernie himself has been doing.
Personally I still don't think that the anti-Clinton lot should be called Bernie supporters, they've no interest in Bernie or his ideas, they're Green Party members and similar.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
They're members of the Unicorn Brigade. Unfortunately when I use that term, most people don't know what I'm talking about.
Politico is ignoring almost all the speeches and is instead running five or six different articles on "Sanders delegates stage walkout." I think I'm done with them for a while. When there's a dozen reporters for every "protestor" it's a pretty pathetic protest. In fact, I think that might be the thing that annoys me most about the Sanders "protests". There's no effort put into them and yet they get all this attention anyway because of the desire to create a horse race where none existed.
EDIT: Bill's doing pretty good.
edited 26th Jul '16 7:45:22 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar
I think the better thing would be to talk up the many progressive things that Hillary has done in her life up to this moment. Certainly, Michelle, Bernie and Bill as well as the variety of women vouching for Hillary have been better at convincing me that Hillary is the best choice as President than Hillary herself has during the election.
Wizard Needs Food BadlyUm...yeah. They're the ones who threw the election to Bush in 2000.
To be fair, that was back when he was pretending to be "compassionate" and the parties were much, much, much less polarized.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayI guess it was before the GOP became a shit show.
Is Bush responsible for GOP being a shit show?
Non Indicative UsernameAaaaand my Facebook feed is being spammed with Bernie or Bust nonsense, even moreso than usual- which is saying something. It's really aggravating.
I'm not sure if this point has been brought up yet or not, but I think one of the main reasons these people don't want to vote for Hillary is because in their eyes, it represents a surrender to the corporate-sellout candidate system we've had for...well, ever. They're hoping that if people vote third party (or choose not to vote at all), it will send a message to the Democratic Party that they aren't representing the will of the people, and they will be forced to float more progressive candidates or risk losing further elections.
The problems with this logic are obvious. First, holding the Party to ransom like that is a long shot, especially when most people may well forget about all this by next year. But more importantly, the numbers just don't add up. Hillary won the primary by a wide margin, so obviously, she does represent the will of the people. The Bernie crowd, while quite large, never had the manpower in the first place, so what chance do they have to make any kind of statement at this point?
These are people who are angry for a lot of legitimate reasons (hell, I voted for Bernie in the primaries), but who can't face facts and realize that you can't have everything.
Edit:
No, they started down that road when they adopted the Southern Strategy in the 60s and started appealing to poor, uneducated, religious, racist whites.
edited 26th Jul '16 7:58:16 PM by BrainSewage
How dare you disrupt the sanctity of my soliloquy?Here are the highlights:
- $15-an-hour minimum wage.
- A specific expansion of the Earned income tax credit (EITC) to "low wage workers who don’t have children and to workers age 21 and older."
- Marijuana legalization: The platform called for a "reasoned pathway to future legalization" of marijuana
- Federal reserve reform: The new platform says the party will fight against allowing bank executives to sit on Federal Reserve boards.
- Eradication of the death penalty.
- Carbon pricing.
- Bernie Sanders and his allies failed to get the DNC to outright condemn the TPP and Fracking in their new platform.
It should be noted that just like the RNC's platform, the DNC's platform is non-binding.
edited 26th Jul '16 8:16:12 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.Honestly, I think Fox News and the radical right are responsible for the GOP being a shitshow. The Tea Party has primaried reasonable Republicans in Congress to death, and now the crazies are running the party. And I think it's because Fox News convinced them that their country had been taken away from them by a Kenyan Muslim socialist and that any willingness to compromise with the opposing party is a sign of weakness or surrender to an enemy.
edited 26th Jul '16 8:03:11 PM by Lennik
That's right, boys. Mondo cool.With the proposed increase in minimum wage I'm wondering if we'll ever see a rebalancing of the federal poverty level. Right now it's at $11,000 per year for individuals which isn't even enough to survive on in the cheapest states unless you're not paying for shelter, and with it so low it means you have to practically be homeless and jobless to see any medicaid in non-expansion states.
edited 26th Jul '16 8:07:27 PM by carbon-mantis
Hillary won the primary by a wide margin, so obviously, she does represent the will of the people. The Bernie crowd, while quite large, never had the manpower in the first place, so what chance do they have to make any kind of statement at this point?
Inside the Bernie Filter Bubble, Hillary supporters don't actually exist. She only won because the election was rigged.
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To expand on that.
On education, Democrats committed to tuition-free education at in-state public colleges and universities for all those making under $125,000 a year. Sanders praised the Clinton shift as a “very bold initiative,” even if it didn’t embrace his call for making college free for all.[1]
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The "I kept asking her to marry me and she finally gave in" story is probably not going down as well as it used to, still it seems to be going down reasonable well.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran