Bernie reminds me of a mad magzine cartoon decades back

[brettdale]

They show a politician whos not going to concede even though he is five million votes
behind, because his Uncle in Ohio promised to vote for him.

[Trust Buster]

1. The time has arrived to extend an olive branch to the Sanders supporters. This is not helpful.

[upaloopa]

2. I'll give them an olive tree if they stop attacking us and Hillary

till then forgetaboutit

[Trust Buster]

6. They've invested much passion this past year. Allow them some breathing space.

[upaloopa]

9. They have been vile and nasty toward us and Hillary.

When they stop I'll stop

I am not a gracious winner I am an angry winner

[Trust Buster]

10. We have achieved the first of two goals. They will want to vent. That's why Skinner set a

"call date" of June 16. That does not mean that we cannot seize the initiative and start cooling things down despite the backlash we will be facing in the week ahead.

[upaloopa]

15. LIke I said, they can stop now if they want. They can be good losers

But you and I know they are not capable of it. Their whole world was built on delusion and trying to manufacture a reality that didn't exist. So now they pout and whine because they have to wake up and face the true reality.

The ball is in their court. I have no love to give them.


Let Bernie drop out, let them acknowledge Hillary as the nominee and pledge to help defeat Trump. Those are my demands.

[Ford F-150]

20. Your demands

[rock]

30. They are now supporting an irrelevant candidate

That makes them irrelevant. They can easily change that if they want to support the Democratic candidate. If they don't what are they doing on DU? Way to go Upaloopa!

[Joe the Revelator]

11. What exactly did YOU win?

You run a 5k this morning?

[upaloopa]

13. I won what YOU lost, the 2016 primary election

get use to it.

[Joe the Revelator]

14. Ah I see. I didn't know you were on the ballot.

You do understand that there is another election coming up in a few months. One that actually matters more. Your 'angry' winning is in direct competition of what you need to do to win THAT election.

Good luck to you.

[upaloopa]

16. You are responcible for your vote in a few months not me. Take responcibility for yourself

and stop blaming everything on somebody else. Frankly I don't give a god damn if you vote or not.

[Joe the Revelator]

17. Oh honey...

I've taken complete responsibility for my vote. I know what I'm doing with mine, but not everyone is as staunch as me. I am a lost cause, I freely admit that. But you can't win a national election on your own. You need to mend fences with those who will help mend them.


Being an 'angry' winner just means that you don't understand what comes next.

[slipslidingaway]

18. Two years ago on DU there was a post that the old, white males needed to be silent ...

now I am not an old white male, maybe a 60 + white female but the idea of dividing people by race, age, gender and color began way back then.

And it continued and spiraled down once the primary season began.

It was wrong then and it has continued to be wrong, we had pictures posted that basically said 'count the non-white people' at Sanders rallies.

That is some seriously sick thinking, so I agree those attacks were vile and nasty.

But tomorrow we are supposed to hold hands with many supporters of a candidate that did everything to divide people by race, age and gender?

I am not a sore loser, but I am not easily inclined to align myself with those who seek to divide others in a devious manner.

[think]

28. Is it acceptable to break govt rules and lie about it?

[Jester Messiah]

31. Yeah, about what I expected. Schoolyard rules. n/t

[baldguy]

19. +1000

If they position themselves as the enemy, take them at their word & treat them as such.

[BobbyDrake]

29. "When someone shows you who they are, believe them."

I believe Maya Angelou said that.

[msongs]

8. today in bernie-land: clinton rigged/stole the election by making ABC release the supers

tally in a desperate attempt to cancel tomorrow's primaries, costing bernie the election because he already has all the delegates he needs to put him over the top and now he won't.

[NurseJackie]

33. They don't care. They'll never stop attacking Hillary.

It won't make a bit of difference what we do.

[NanceGreggs]

3. I keep picturing Bernie ...

... (a la Rupert Pupkin in "The King of Comedy&quot , creating a faux Oval Office in his basement, where he will spend the rest of his days pretending to have meetings with his Cabinet, giving instructions to his staff, and delivering SOTU speeches that no one will ever hear.

[mac56]

22. ---

[PepperHarlan]

7. Awesome reference!

I bet there aren't many millennials here that would get it!

[Major Hogwash]

4. Sort of ironic, isn't it?

Because I was just thinking of Don Martin the other day.
He'd vote for Bernie.

[brettdale]

12. Sandersd is not getting the nomination

and he will either run as a third party or not help Hillary.

So forgive me if I kinda angry that he isnt doing the right thing now.

[mac56]

23. ---

[pdsimdars]

24. Wait just a minute, Hillary has been saying she doesn't need our help. That isn't Bernie

saying that, it was Hillary. So, if we don't support her, well, that's just what she called for. All she needs is her money and her machine. F* the voters.

[BernieforPres2016]

25. I'm not going to forgive you. I'm going to Ignore you.

Backing a lying criminal war monger isn't doing the right thing.

[DLevine]

21. Bernie fights the good fight.

He's the only candidate who truly gives a fuck about improving the lives of poor people, people like me.

[Califonz]

26. But she was Obama's Secretary of State

and that was enough. :/

[dchill]

27. +1

[Orsino]

32. More recently, however, Sanders pledged to continue to the convention no matter what.

His goal is party commitment to progressive change, and he got to name five members of the platform committe precisrly because he was still in the race.

I don't know why so many refuse to understand how much more is at stake than a magic number of delegates. Sanders is fighting for influence.