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SamKnause

(13,087 posts)
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 01:34 AM Mar 2016

Who won and who lost tonight ???

Winners;

Wall Street

The too big to fail banks

The military industrial complex

The millionaires and the billionaires

The global corporations

The health insurance industry

The pushers of 'free' trade

The fracking industry

The media


Losers;

The children

The elderly

College students

The poor

The working class

The unemployed

The underemployed

The underpaid

The disabled

The veterans

The unions

The teachers

The undocumented immigrants

Our country

Our planet


The United States has sold its soul to the highest bidders.

This country has no morals.

The country has no scruples.

I am ashamed and embarrassed of my fellow citizens.

You have squandered the greatest gift to be bestowed on this country in the last 53 years.











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Who won and who lost tonight ??? (Original Post) SamKnause Mar 2016 OP
Bernie is the greatest gift bestowed on the country in the last 53 years? Cali_Democrat Mar 2016 #1
Never underestimate the capacity of humans to make self-destructive decisions. Chan790 Mar 2016 #4
LOL. nt Cali_Democrat Mar 2016 #16
Bernie's not the gift. The gift is the opportunity. Ron Green Mar 2016 #5
Bernie has had a lot of media coverage. Cali_Democrat Mar 2016 #17
Oh, please. For 7 months Bernie had NO media coverage, and then Ron Green Mar 2016 #18
I like how you think only people who agree with you are Democrats Scootaloo Mar 2016 #15
You are 100% correct. Punkingal Mar 2016 #2
Youre ashamed and embarrassed of your fellow citizens... JaneyVee Mar 2016 #3
Because they fell for that charlatan. Chan790 Mar 2016 #8
The Clintons created 25 Million jobs... JaneyVee Mar 2016 #13
Rebuttals. Chan790 Mar 2016 #19
Oh Good God alcibiades_mystery Mar 2016 #6
oops - I missed one. n/t dana_b Mar 2016 #9
Well .............. possibly/probably, many more brown children you don't have to polly7 Mar 2016 #11
just take that anger dana_b Mar 2016 #7
^^This. Chan790 Mar 2016 #12
This would have been more effective with the violin music playing. -nt- Happenstance24 Mar 2016 #10
Hyperbole much? Beacool Mar 2016 #14
On your part perhaps? k8conant Mar 2016 #20
I'm not the one who post this over the top drivel. Beacool Mar 2016 #23
yup ibegurpard Mar 2016 #21
Oh for pity's sake. shadowandblossom Mar 2016 #22
Putting so many hopes on the shoulders of such a flawed candidate hack89 Mar 2016 #24
. geek tragedy Mar 2016 #25
I am a Latina disabled veteran & I don't feel like I lost anything. giftedgirl77 Mar 2016 #26
Wow. Thank you. Hoyt Mar 2016 #30
.... giftedgirl77 Mar 2016 #31
Oh FFS and LOL. livetohike Mar 2016 #27
I don't blame the citizens. They don't have the information to make an informed decision. nt/ Skwmom Mar 2016 #28
lol seabeyond Mar 2016 #33
A majority of people get their info from the MSM whose goal is to misinform the American Public. Skwmom Mar 2016 #34
Sanders was coddled on the news. I agree, a lot of people are ill informed. seabeyond Mar 2016 #37
The corporate media have either smeared on ignored Sanders. Oh, and by the way I believe single Skwmom Mar 2016 #38
Sanders has been all over, they have not ignored him. They smear Democrats. Clinton too. seabeyond Mar 2016 #39
Are you suggesting Hillary voters have no morals? taught_me_patience Mar 2016 #29
Evangelical Baptist Ministers have NOTHING ... JoePhilly Mar 2016 #36
Clinton Won.... Yea Clinton, kicked some ass. !!! Sanders the loser. seabeyond Mar 2016 #32
I second this statement UglyGreed Mar 2016 #35
 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
1. Bernie is the greatest gift bestowed on the country in the last 53 years?
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 01:35 AM
Mar 2016

Dems seem to disagree.

Go figure.

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
4. Never underestimate the capacity of humans to make self-destructive decisions.
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 01:38 AM
Mar 2016

Given a choice between a free cupcake and an electrical shock to the genitals...some portion of the population will always choose torture over reward.

Ron Green

(9,822 posts)
18. Oh, please. For 7 months Bernie had NO media coverage, and then
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 01:59 AM
Mar 2016

it was as a foil for Clinton (which it pretty much still is.) Most Democratic primary voters are dimly aware of him, or crossing over in open situations to vote for or against some Republican.

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
15. I like how you think only people who agree with you are Democrats
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 01:51 AM
Mar 2016

I've been a Democrat since I registered on my 18th birthday. I've voted in nearly every election - I actually missed 2006 due to moving to a new state at an awkward point.

I support Bernie.

Would you like to try again?

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
8. Because they fell for that charlatan.
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 01:41 AM
Mar 2016

Hillary support is simply inexplicable. I cannot conceive how any person in their right mind could support her. She's literally bad for everybody except Lloyd Blankfein...and yet people vote for her against their own interests and wellbeing.

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
13. The Clintons created 25 Million jobs...
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 01:47 AM
Mar 2016

Had the longest stretch of peacetime in US history. Lowest Af-American unemployment rate in Us history. Appointed the 2 most liberal justices in US history. Taxed the rich. Grew manufacturing. And even left a budget surplus.

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
19. Rebuttals.
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 02:00 AM
Mar 2016

Economists now concede that job-creation had nothing to do with Bill's policies and everything to do with the tech bubble. Absent that, Bill's NAFTA was a net job destroyer since month one.

Creating low-income jobs while doing nothing to address the underlying causes of poverty is worse than nothing.

The "liberal justices" thing is a flat-out lie that will not die no matter how many times it's rebutted...Bill Clinton did not appoint Thurgood Marshall or William Brennan...those are the two most liberal SCOTUS justices of the 20th century.

Failed to roll-back the Reagan tax-cuts. Didn't do enough to tax the rich. No credit awarded.

I'll give him credit for growing manufacturing...my family wealth comes from manufacturing.

A surplus he achieved, in part, through welfare "reform" (read: theft from deserving recipients) is not a virtue but a vice.

Considered all in balance, I'm not sure it's enough to declare William Jefferson Clinton better than a mediocre President. We'd have been better off if a real liberal like Mario Cuomo had jumped into that race in 1992 and taken Bill out.

polly7

(20,582 posts)
11. Well .............. possibly/probably, many more brown children you don't have to
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 01:43 AM
Mar 2016

worry about sometimes washing up on beaches. That's not parody. Has she apologized for a single one of them?

dana_b

(11,546 posts)
7. just take that anger
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 01:41 AM
Mar 2016

and keep pushing. Even if it seems hopeless, don't give up. If you've voted already, phone bank or face bank. If you haven't well then you have that to look forward to.

I'm very down but not out!!

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
12. ^^This.
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 01:44 AM
Mar 2016

We're not at the end of the revolution. We're at the beginning.

You'll know the end of the revolution when we get there because Americans lives will improve, Wall St will pay its fair share and there will be no more Clintons in the Democratic party.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
24. Putting so many hopes on the shoulders of such a flawed candidate
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 03:16 PM
Mar 2016

guaranteed a lot of disappointment.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
37. Sanders was coddled on the news. I agree, a lot of people are ill informed.
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 04:58 PM
Mar 2016

It is far from only the Clinton supporters. Further, to be a Clinton supporter, one almost has to be informed witht he two and a half decade smear job and lies from the RW and then the Sanders campaign. Now, you want to talk about the uniformed? Let me tell you, the number of people I have come up on that is clueless about Sanders, his history, and what he has been proposing and how effective his policies could possibly be.

Skwmom

(12,685 posts)
38. The corporate media have either smeared on ignored Sanders. Oh, and by the way I believe single
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 07:46 PM
Mar 2016

payer is the morally right and fiscally responsible thing to do. The current system is not fiscally sustainable. And I fully realize how the corporations have been allowed to feed at the public trough - and that both parties have allowed it.


 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
39. Sanders has been all over, they have not ignored him. They smear Democrats. Clinton too.
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 07:53 PM
Mar 2016

I know media has not vetted Sanders though.

 

taught_me_patience

(5,477 posts)
29. Are you suggesting Hillary voters have no morals?
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 03:24 PM
Mar 2016

This is the passive aggressive bullshit we've been taking for the last eight months.

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
36. Evangelical Baptist Ministers have NOTHING ...
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 04:33 PM
Mar 2016

... on some of these Bernie supporters.

The funny thing is ... a year ago, they were all trying to draft Elizabeth Warren to play the part of Savior in their little morality play.

She turned down the part, so Bernie decided to be her stand-in.

And so now, if you don't join them in thinking Bernie is "all that" ... you are a bad bad person.



UglyGreed

(7,661 posts)
35. I second this statement
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 04:29 PM
Mar 2016
I am ashamed and embarrassed of my fellow citizens.

You have squandered the greatest gift to be bestowed on this country in the last 53 years.


IMO media and propaganda is the cause.
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