The Clinton Victory Thread

[laklak]

Bernie will NEVER back down! He'll go into the convention and if 265 improbable things happen he'll be the PRESIDENT! He's a man of PRINCIPLE! He's NEVER sold out, not once in his entire career!


Oh wait. Never mind.


HILLARY! HILLARY! HILLARY!

Lol.

[Byron]

Some of Sanders' more enthusiastic fans may've said that, but the man himself is a pragmatist, and knows full and well that with the primaries over, it's a choice between Clinton and Trump. Still, good to know we've averted an endorsement of the Donald, was worried for a microsecond there.

[quas]

Some of Sanders' more enthusiastic fans may've said that, but the man himself is a pragmatist, and knows full and well that with the primaries over, it's a choice between Clinton and Trump. Still, good to know we've averted an endorsement of the Donald, was worried for a microsecond there.

Who's to say Donald's not a pragmatist, like all other politicians are?

[Sendraks]

So the Sandman endorsed Clintor.

Glad that formality's out the way (and with it, all the third party talk). Now, for pity's sake, hurry up and Veep him.

This would surely be a winning ticket. But, it really depends on the extent to which Clinton and Sanders differences inhibit them from working together.

But, it'd be a nice outcome.

[Wilbur]

But, it'd be a nice outcome.

I don't know about "nice" but it'd be fitting - a bought in sould out shit who threw all his people over teaming up with a degenerate establishment bruja that can't fuck over the rest of us hard enough fast enough. The Ghoul and Turd 2016 ticket must really warm the cockles of the cuckolded heart.


Fuck Bernie.

[Sendraks]

Uh huh

[Mike_L]

* 'Bernie is a sellout': Sanders supporters blast him for endorsing Hillary Clinton

* Trump: Sanders 'has totally sold out' with Clinton endorsement

[Wilbur]

[Wilbur]

#NEVERHILLARY #FUCKTRUMP #FUCKBERNIE

[DarthHelmet86]

It would seem to make the most logical sense to VP Bernie. If they can work together would be the sticking point I would think. Still it would be a nice compromise to those who wanted Bernie to win.

[Wilbur]

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

[quas]

So the Sandman endorsed Clintor.

Glad that formality's out the way (and with it, all the third party talk). Now, for pity's sake, hurry up and Veep him.

Hillary Sanders? If you want a good cop bad cop dynamic duo, why not Trump Sanders instead?

[quas]

#NEVERHILLARY #FUCKTRUMP #FUCKBERNIE

#THISELECTIONDAYSCREWYOUGUYSIAMGOINGHOME

[proudfootz]

I'd rather some of Sanders' proposals and programs get a chance than have Sanders in the VP slot.

[Rachel Bronwyn]

Me too. I think he'd be wasted as VP and can do more good as a senator. I'm sure over the next few years Clinton will have no trouble eeking out a worthy position in the white house for Sanders but VP isn't it.

I just hope, in addition to doing everything he can to ensure Clinton becomes president, he persistently, firmly nudges her towards progressive reform.

[Mike_L]

#NEVERHILLARY #FUCKTRUMP #FUCKBERNIE

#THISELECTIONDAYSCREWYOUGUYSIAMGOINGHOME

is probably the best course of action that disenchanted Americans can take. Don't vote at all. Or spoil the ballot. Or offer someone less objectionable than Trump/Clinton as a write-in candidate.

Ideally, there should be an eyebrow-raising low turnout on election day.
According to Wikipedia voter turnout in the U.S. presidential election (since the mid-2000s) has been around 55%.
Imagine if turnout for the 2016 election dropped way below 20%. That would send an unmistakable message that the system as it stands is no longer representative of the will of the American people.

[Briton]

I would only vote for Clinton (actually against Trump) if i lived in a swing state. Do they count spoiled papers in the states?

[Mike_L]

Do they count spoiled papers in the states?

Not sure. This suggests they keep some sort of tally...

The total number of spoilt votes in a United States election has been called the residual vote.

Vote Mickey or Bugs, I says...

In the United States, cartoon and other fictitious characters are typically used as protest votes; as Mickey Mouse is the most well-known and well-recognized character in the United States, his name is frequently selected for this purpose as with Norman Evans. Other popular selections include Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny. The earliest known mention of Mickey Mouse as a write-in candidate dates back to the 1932 New York City mayoral elections, in which Mickey and Al Capone received one vote each.

Protest vote

[Teague]

Spastic continues to mean someone who's physically disabled. I'm assuming everyone here is thus in agreement that he should change his name?

Common, current usage, both in medicine and where I live, belies this assertion.

Yep, most North Americans have no idea spastic is a slur for someone with CP elsewhere. Here it's a word used to describe irregular behaviour like irritable bowels or spontaneous muscle spasm. It doesn't refer to people except colloquially to call someone hyper.

Mong is just a slur that refers to people with Down's like retard. There is no cultural context in which it's benign. The people using it are using it as a slur with full knowledge it's a reference to people with Down's because it's used as such in the countries they originate from.

Old SS on the other hand used spastic to refer to his own energy levels and originates from somewhere it's not used as a slur hence he didn't even know.

Aaah so a case of special pleading then. Just because it means something different to you (like I originally argued but that wasn't good enough), it's ok then. I'll keep using the term "mong" then as they never heard about it in a few area in south america and greenland.

[Teague]

Sander's, by staying in the race has managed to secure a $15 minumum wage and Clinton is now adopting his education plan so you can thank him later for that.

Only a fool would think he wasn't going to endorse Clinton and, like he always said he would, he backed Clinton after losing the race so there's no big surprise there. Which bunch of fuckwits forgot that then?

Now Sander's needs to join the revolution and I believe he has plans to work on that so he's not done yet. What he should do is join wolf-pac and go for a convention. Get behind that movement could be massive. He'd have an army of supporters in every state willing to push through change after change.