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Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com)
It's official. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday endorsed former presidential rival Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee ahead of the party's July convention. Sanders said Clinton will make an outstanding president and that he is proud to stand with her. "Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty," Sanders added. CNN reports: "I have come here to make it as clear as possible why I am endorsing Hillary Clinton and why she must become our next president," Sanders said at a joint rally here. "Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nomination and I congratulate her for that." The 74-year-old self-described democratic socialist, who has been a thorn in Clinton's side over the last year, pledged his support to his former rival: "I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States." Clinton, speaking after Sanders, declared: "We are joining forces to defeat Donald Trump!" "I can't help but say how much more enjoyable this election is going to be when we are on the same side," she said. "You know what? We are stronger together!" Full remarks of Sanders can be found on this blog post.
Lets trump TRUMP!
The Corporate Overlords want Clinton. Resistance if futile. Anyone who votes for Clinton is enabling more of the same, ad infinitum.
A brain is a terrible thing to waste... Mind? That's debatable.
Or stuff that matters?
What's next, dribble about who the AARP is endorsing for president? Why stop there... let's discuss what sports figures Nike is endorsing.
Sorry, I know you hate people who put content in the subject, and I know we're looking for insightful commentary here, but... that's just all I've got at this point.
Because I cannot vote for the R and D candidates.
Still not voting for her.... nor Trump.
It's Stein or Johnson for me... Leaning toward Johnson right now.
Translated:
"Bernie says he will gladly accept whatever bones Queen Hillary tosses him in return for not being sent to gitmo following her coronation."
"Hillary says she is glad Bernie came to his senses because she was beginning to think she'd have to have him put down for being a rabid dog."
Not that this should surprise anyone. While the imminent blood bath is sure to provide some moments of dark humor, sadly we will be voting on which candidate will continue the rise in executive power.
National elections, where the populace of mice decide whether they would prefer to be eaten by a tabby or a calico.
I'm so excited for the reasoned and intelligent discussion that will now proceed.
In 3...2...
See subject.
works for apk.....
If not for Trump, Sanders would still be opposing Hillary?
I've got some cousins who are pretty hard core Sanders supporters who believe all the nut job stuff going around in the supporters' circle for Sanders. For example, did you know that Sanders apparently won California and possibly almost every other state yet was denied victory by cheating conspirators aligned with Clinton who simply threw out votes for Sanders? Yeah, me either. But my cousins buy this one hook, line and sinker. Another thing going around among his supporters is the idea that nothing will ever change if they vote for Clinton or Trump so to make a point a large number of them are threatening to sit out the election. Of course if this happens, it may just simply make Trump the president as despite some vocal anti-Trump stands by various people, the reality is that Republican voters are going to suck it up and vote for him in the fall no matter what. If enough Sanders supporters refuse to vote, it could be very bad for Clinton. We'll see if this endorsement does anything to stop his supporters from sitting out the November election.
Knew Bern would eventually cave in to Clinton. The DNC wanted Clinton and Bernie never stood a chance. Even though I didn't agree on everything with him I would have preferred him over Clinton.
This is like the Bush v. Gore but I am not sure which is the lesser of two evils now :(
There is now "News" here and it's not anything real geeks want to hear or know about. This presidential race is a Douche Vs. A Turnd Sandwich. Both candidates are almost equally awful and devoid of any real understanding of any of the issues that face real people.
Why bother reporting this? It's not even news. We've known all along that he'd get pressured into it.
I'm sure he just loves endorsing the one who pulled so many dirty tricks against his campaign...
I'm not voting for her or Trump. I'd rather write in my dog.
I would too if I were him.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Trump is of course utterly unacceptable, and the Democratic Party has shown itself to be controlled by an unaccountable politburo that fixed the nomination. I wont be a part of either of these criminals' rise to power.
Im moving on from Feeling the Bern to Feeling the Johnson.
This ought to be a huge wakeup call for low-information millennials. Bernie was never for you. He's just another party politician like the rest of them. Unprincipled, undedicated, and completely lacking in character and integrity, just like his buddy Hillary Clinton.
Have fun staying home on election day.
...as if millions of progressives suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
This election has some of the worst prospects for the average voter since Nixon v. Humphrey
Hilary is owned by the same people who are outsourcing our jobs. My question is if Bernie was bought or threatened.
flipped them into supporting a warmongering, corporatist, Wall Street shill.
Um, no.
source on #1?
1) He gets to keep the left-over money, and since he'll likely be retiring soon he won't even have to hide it in his wife's name like he does the rest of his assets.
I thought there were strict limits on what campaign contributions could be spent on. Do you have any information to the contrary that would corroborate your claim?
Chuuch. Preach. Tabernacle.
The most accurate polling analysis in the two most recent presidential cycles has been done by http://projects.fivethirtyeigh... They carefully look at all polls on a state by state basis and then build a national electoral model based on that data. It's updated every few days as new polls come out. Right now, Hillary is winning the electoral college by 338 to 199 with 1 vote for Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party. Of course things can change, but that's a pretty big lead for this point in the race.
And note that Bernie did not walk away empty handed. He has already moved Hillary to his positions on free college and universal health care.
"He took a duck in the face at 250 knots." -- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
When are the people of the United States going to stop grasping so tightly the idea that a new president is going to change the course that everyone is on? I am sick and tired of people rooting for a president like they do a fucking football team. 'GO HILLARY!' 'WE MUST DEFEAT TRUMP!' Like any one person, even the supposed "leader", will somehow make the necessary change to purge the bowels of a rotten political and federal government system.
"WE THE PEOPLE" must make the change. I don't mean voting (though it doesn't hurt), I mean CHANGE. The people of the United States must remember that it is they themselves that are the superpower, not the few that hold the keys to the kingdom. The people must organize and steer their ship in the direction of positive change, of prosperity, of justice and freedom. Only then will USA again be chanted across the world instead of cursed.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
some are outraged that Sanders has decided to endorse her, but it bears remembering: Al gore once campaigned on the open rejection of the policy that US GDP will increase by 30% in the wake of americas addiction to overconsumption of carbon-heavy resources. A few months later, once appointed to the winning candidates office, he approved a massive trade agreement with china.
I suspect sanders sees the writing on the walls. Its not relevant anymore what elected leaders are told to do by the gilded elite. Massive routine civil unrest in the past 4 years from occupy to blm, combined with unsustainable levels of incarceration and blanket surveillance have galvanised most public opinion ubiquitously against the elite. It frankly doesnt matter what Hillary does, from nationalized healthcare to free college she faces no repercussion from a ruling corporate class that have no other party to turn to.
However if you dont like the party or the candidate, the largest act of protest you can engage in is failure to spend and buy. After 9/11 George Bush didnt tell us to brainstorm more effective foreign policy, or invest in alternative energy, he told us to go out to the malls and shop.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Sanders was an outsider taking on the elites and the political establishment. Hillary is the establishment, she is the perennial insider candidate. It will be interesting to see how many of Sanders supporters stay true to their ideals and refuse to vote for the women they spent months campaigning against. /do Bernie Sanders fans care about corruption?
Ma Theresa's joined the mob, and happy with her full time job. Do, do, diddy-do-do, Do, do, diddy-do-do, doooo....
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
After being so unpleasant for so long.
I don't think he flipped anybody. I think Hillary would look like a much better option right now if Bernie never existed. Bernie did more damage to the democratic party than anyone else, it just wasn't quite enough to stop the nomination of Hillary, and now it would be time to damage the republicans if they weren't already dying in a dumpster.
All the leftover campaign contributions go to the DNC. I wonder how many Bernie bros know their donations will be funding Hillary's campaign!
>> Sanders said Clinton will make an outstanding president
Which is a whole lot different to what he was saying last week.
Everybody knows if you -1 a comment it gets more scrutiny. This comment was immediately modded to -1.
Watch for the -1's folks. It is what they want to hide.
What happened to "she's not fit" for the office? In the time since he said that about her, she's been shown to have been either wildly incompetent or ever more deceitful in her relationship with both her job and her supporters. What's she got on you, Bernie?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Now expect the front page of Slashdot to fill with a full page of extra-long-summary new stories.
It's official. Slashdot commentator irrational_design on Tuesday endorsed U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders as the write-in presidential nominee ahead of the Democrat's July convention. irrational_design said Sanders will make an outstanding president and that he is proud to stand with him. "Bernie Sanders understands that if someone in America works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty," irrational_design added.
Bernie Quotes: “I don’t think you are qualified if you get $15 million from Wall Street. I don’t think you are qualified if you voted for the disastrous war in Iraq. I don’t think she is qualified,” Sanders said in April. During the primary, Sanders described Clinton’s policy positions and rhetoric variously as “nonsense,” “horrific,” “unfair,” “nasty,” “disastrous,” and “obscene.” “Secretary Clinton owes us an apology,” Sanders told a Wisconsin crowd in April. http://freebeacon.com/politics... So now he's going to endorse someone who he knows is an unqualified liar? What does that say about Bernie? It says that he's the same as every other politician and you fell for it. Vote for our liar because they're better than the other liar.
I was hoping against hope that Bernie would leverage last-week's bullshit non-indictment of Hillary into one last push for his Campaign before the Convention.
But noooooo! Bernie has proven that he is nothing more than (yet another) spineless politician who is more than willing to "Go along to get along."
Sorry, Bernie. You blew it.
Yeah I get it, it has influence even on the lives of techies, but I can get this sort of new from ANY site, that's not what I come here for. Lay off the general political news please editors, unless you can draw a clear singular tech connection. Kthanks
Time to #FeelTheJohnson
Thoughts?
It was "Join Hillary Clinton" or "Join Vince Foster".
They got jewed. Check out the dailystormer for independent news.
Don't you all see? We are being taken for a ride of biblical proportions. These two sworn enemies have now taken up refuge in each other, united for their common nefarious purposes. This is the hallmark of deceit and betrayal worthy of Judas.
When Jesus knew His end was near, He communicated one more commandment to the people, and that was to love each other as they loved Him. We're supposed to be lifting each other up, not putting each other down. We're supposed to help people out of poverty, despair, and hopelessness, and into His light.
I saw a beautiful sight today in the news when protesters who started out in opposition took each other in God's embrace and put aside their differences. Even if just for that moment, His light shone upon the Earth and there was peace.
We need to reach out to each other with His word and instead of condemnation, exchange hope. We need to talk to each other about how we can walk together along the path He has laid out for us instead of shouting bitterness. We need to cleanse ourselves of these sinners but also pray for their salvation.
In His name I pray for everyone.
Glad you added the last line, when you say
a warmongering, corporatist, Wall Street shill.
without a qualifier, it's hard to tell who your talking about.
Apocalypse Cancelled, Sorry, No Ticket Refunds
Our country's two-party system gave us the following two choices to be the next President of the United States: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.
Does anybody else see a problem here?
But credit where credit due: the 350 or so million dumbed-down 'Murikuns will get one of them come November 8. And they will have earned the right.
And I think you misspelled "Sheldon Aldeson". He and the billionaires get to vet the candidates. Yeah, it sucks. But you don't change something like that overnight. Hilary is a compromise between the working class and the 1%. Vote left. Keep voting for the most left leaning candidate who's viable. It took 40 years to get us into this mess, you won't fix it overnight.
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There are other choices out there. Honest.
He sounds like a bitter old man who lost his one shot. How long it took to endorse her confirms it.
It was obvious from the beginning that he didn't want to win the Primary, or the presidency. Anyone who was paying attention could see that. I voted for him to send a message to the DNC that I would not support Hillary in the general election, and I had faith my fellow malcontents could handle the GOP primary without my assistance.
I voted for Gary Johnson in 2008 at Ron Paul's direction, Barrack Obama in 2012(entirely out of spite against the GOP's coronation of Mitt Romney), and I'll be voting for Donald Trump in 2016 out of spite for the rigged Democrat primary(courtesy of Debbie Wasserman Schultz), and also as payback to the GOP for the rigged 2012 primary nomination of Mitt Romney.
Watching the GOP and DNC self-destruct giving birth to a new age of populist anti-candidate carnival barkers is the greatest gift I can give to the ruling class. I only pray that Donald Trump can secure the necessary votes in the 5-6 swing states to win the electoral college, as my contribution to the popular vote will ultimately prove irrelevant.
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign reminds me of the movie Zoolander 2(when the 2x "has-been" male models from the 1990s are on-stage wearing Dr. Seuss "Thing 1" and "Thing 2" outfits.).
The unfortunate reality is, although Donald Trump has secured the vote of uninformed blue-collar whites, Hillary Clinton has secured 2x very important key demographics: elderly women, and uninformed minorities.
Many educated and affluent minority voters are leaning towards Donald Trump simply because his tax policies are consistent with their financial interests, and because they don't feel any particular solidarity with the unwashed masses described by Mitt Romney as "the 47%".
The key question is: what percent of likely voters in the swing states fall in to these demographics?
Voters who don't matter:
-The #NeverTrump and #NeverHillary voters who are planning on voting for a third party candidate effectively cancel each other out.
-The #NeverTrump and #NeverHillary voters who are planning on spite-voting for the other party effectively cancel each other out.
Hillary Clinton is still pandering to the demographics she has already got in the bag. ->She wants to energize her base to maximize voter turnout.
Donald Trump is doing the opposite and romancing liberals. ->He seems to be trying to pick up #NeverHillary voters.
Donald Trump could effectively swear an allegiance to Charles Manson on-stage and I would still vote for him. For the most part: the same goes for Hillary Clinton and the old-ladies who caucused for her.
Of the two candidates: I think Hillary has a much more stressful several months ahead of her. Aloof dismissal isn't going to work on Donald Trump, and he's saving his best ammunition/bribery skeletons for much closer to election day. Once the presidential debates start, Donald Trump is going to have a small army of NAACP and Black Caucus endorsements lined up, while he can abuse Hillary Clinton with her record on the Clinton Crime bill and Bill Clinton accusers to demoralize her feminist and minority supports to the point of voting green party or staying home on election day.
Meanwhile:
-Donald Trump's perception as a "loose-canon" can be managed with Ivanka's help, and a cabinet line-up/SCOTUS appointments which scream "pragmatic decision-maker".
-Donald Trump's completely enigmatic political beliefs allow him to shore up his position in the swing states by pandering to whatever interest group is most valuable to him at the end of October, before Hillary Clinton can prepare a successful counter-attack and pivot her stance to dilute the message.
November 2016 is going to be an amazing spectacle. I can hardly wait! No matter what the outcome: the DNC and GOP go home crying. It's going to be fantastic!
Otherwise, so what?
I have a mixed reaction to this. On the one hand, while I didn't like a lot of his economic policies, I thought Bernie at least had integrity and meant well. Also, there was a pretty good chance he wouldn't have been able to do most of the stuff I didn't like, since it would have required a lot of Congressional cooperation. On the other hand, he already wasn't going to win (unless the DNC threw Hillary under the bus, and that wouldn't have happened), and it will be amusing, at least, to see some of his more rabid fans freak out.
Examine even your most deeply held beliefs. Nobody is always right.
So much for Bernie's political revolution.
Vote for Johnson. Even if you think he can't win (so why bother) if he gets just 15% of the vote the Libertarian Party will earn the right of equal footing with the Democrat and Republican parties.
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is that the summary didn't have the tag "democrats"... at least the last time i checked. it had a tag donaldtrump, clintons, politics, but not democrats. Given how anything every involving a Republican gets a "republicans" tag right away, this is quite a fit. The fact that he endorsed her right after FBI stated that she clearly and knowingly lied to Congress is quite something, too. I don't think many Bernie supporters expected him to do that under such circumstances.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
The Queen stayed by her man thru thick and thin. You your wife do the same?
Alas the Green Party is only on the ballot in 26 states, but I'm still going to Vote Green as a signal of my displeasure with the Republicrats.
Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT THAT IS BEING SOLD.
Bernie and his beatnik supporters are nothing but big cunts.
Many of us pointed out that the Democrats rigged their 2016 primary back in the summer of 2015. It was part of the deal that ushered-in Obama that the DNC put itself into Hillary's hands and would serve her when it became "her turn". That check was cashed last summer when the rules for 2016 were set, including things like the setup of Democrat debates that would only occur on days/channels/times when nobody would watch them. All the non-Hillary candidates were put on-notice that they would not get funding through traditional Democrat funding streams, and Democrats who made any attack on Hillary that might politically wound her were warned there would be consequences.
Bernie never even tried to win; THAT is why he refused to attack her on her completely dishonest and illegal e-mail situation which was her weak spot and which exposed her complete lack of honesty and her life-long refusal to live by the laws that apply to everybody else. The weak point any actual candidate would have poked to weaken such an opponent was dismissed by Bernie in the very first faux-debate.
Even though Bernie had no intention of winning, he kept conning his liberal followers to believe in his supposed cause and send-in their money. Many fell for it even though they were repeatedly warned. The guy even kept denying he was pretending - while he kept refusing to actually land any damaging blow on Hillary.
WHY?
Hillary is possibly the most corrupt candidate the Democrats have supported in at least a century. She became rich pocketing money from Wall Street bankers as "speaking fees", sometimes wile also drawing a paycheck from the taxpayers as SecState. Nobody in the history of planet Earth has taken more from those Wall St firms. She's no great orator, so it's not like they wanted to hear her soaring rhetoric or her dulcet tones; It must therefore be the content of her speeches that were worth tens of thousands of dollars per minute. You'll never know, because she will not release the transcripts. This all leads to a big problem: Young and liberal voters who dislike Wall Street would normally and rightfully not support her. The solution is to get somebody else to work-up the base of the party and energize them for a year leading-up to the party convention and then put his blessing onto Hillary and hand the dupes over to her for support in the November general election. Bernie was a critical component of the scam, the energizer of the liberal base. George Soros, the former NAZI collaborator and super-funder of many left-leaning entities in Europe and the US, is also funding Black Lives Matter for a similar reason: to energize the black vote and keep them agitated for November. Without young liberals and blacks Hillary goes down and Wall Street loses big on its investment.
My biggest hope is that Johnson gets very close to 30%, and wrecks the idea that the president (Clinton / Trump) has any sort of mandate to do anything.
Not going to happen.
People may be particularly afraid of supporting a potential spoiler. It may mean voting for someone they're not crazy about, but a voter who really hates the other party would be more likely to do that, if it means stopping the other team from winning.
Americans Really Dislike Trump, Clinton. So Why Aren't Third Parties Doing Better?
Bernie is better off not being part of a Clinton administration. After the election he can attack President Clinton if she doesn't deliver on policy. Meanwhile he can campaign for Clinton from now until the election, selling his policies to the voters, and setting the agenda for the Democratic party. He can raise money and help get progressive down-ticket candidates elected. Clinton has not addressed a lot of the progressive issues, and Bernie is filling that vacuum with policies which most of the party can get on board with. This gives cover for state and local Democratic party members to push the party to move to the left on many issues, and defy Clinton on issues like TPP.
And thinking he should have endorsed Trump. After all, which psycho-muppet should one endorse? Clinton or the "fun" choice, Trump?
The president can call out all companies abusing H1-B (and tax laws, etc.) in a public statement.
Hey, Americans - don't patronize these companies. They are traitors.
Of course no president would actually do that as she would be assassinated. But it could very well work. Just the threat of populist economic uprising could work (see FDR)
You think multinational corporations are going to be swayed by somebody hollering at them?
Now you make a good point.
You are welcome on my lawn.
You're a fucking ignorant tool - Gore would've lost Florida regardless. And the courts were the responsible crowd for handing the election to Bush, not some amorphous bunch of Nader voters.
Wuss! Hillary has conned you, too?! SHE should concede to BERNIE! Bernie is the candidate with concrete, workable plans for bettering all lives!
And given that she's for gun control...a dog that won't hunt!
I'll be here all night folks, try the veal, it's GREAT!