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June 3, 2016

Who hired the protesters for the Trump rally?


Protesters beating a man while chanting "Bernie Bernie Bernie"

They really expect us to believe that?

That is completely absurd, kinda like saying chairs were thrown at the Nevada convention or that Barbara Boxer was scared.

Sounds like someone hired them to do this and the corporate media is just running with it.

June 3, 2016

Obama Wanted to Cut Social Security. Then Bernie Sanders Happened.

“We can’t afford to weaken Social Security,” he said during a speech on economic policy in Elkhart, Indiana. “We should be strengthening Social Security. And not only do we need to strengthen its long-term health, it’s time we finally made Social Security more generous, and increased its benefits so that today’s retirees and future generations get the dignified retirement that they’ve earned.”

The increased benefits, he said, could be paid for “by asking the wealthiest Americans to contribute a little bit more. They can afford it. I can afford it.”...

This was a far cry from Obama’s position on the program in late 2012, when his administration argued for reducing Social Security benefits by recalculating the way cost of living adjustments are made.

This idea became a central theme in Sanders’s presidential campaign. In the speech announcing his candidacy, the senator said that “instead of cutting Social Security, we’re going to expand Social Security benefits.”

“It has become impossible for elected officials to ignore the simple fact that Social Security is a solution and not a problem, and that the only thing wrong with it are that benefits are too low,” Lawson said.

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/02/obama-wanted-to-cut-social-security-then-bernie-sanders-happened/

June 3, 2016

Sanders is beating Obama’s 2008 youth vote record. And the primary’s not even over.

Bernie Sanders has gotten more votes from young people than Barack Obama did in 2008, according to a new analysis. Bernie Sanders isn't just winning the youth vote — he's crushing it.

A new analysis from Tufts University shows that Sanders has now surpassed Barack Obama's 2008 Democratic primary totals among young people in the 25 states where we can draw a comparison — whether you count by raw vote total or percentage of the overall vote share.

In 2008, the press marveled that Obama beat Hillary Clinton by 60 to 35 points among voters under 30, racking up around 2.2 million young votes throughout the primary. Now Sanders is beating Clinton by a 71-to-28 margin, receiving more than 2.4 million votes from young voters in the 25 states we can compare, according to numbers compiled by Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts.

"The energy that young voters have kept up throughout the primary has been incredible," Kawashima-Ginsberg says in an interview. "It's been amazing to see." Sanders's insurgency is being powered by young people, who are thrilling to his message in what looks like historic numbers.

http://www.vox.com/2016/6/2/11818320/bernie-sanders-barack-obama-2008

June 1, 2016

Trump 2012 on Hillary “I just like her. I like her and I like her husband.”

Trump endorses Hillary Clinton



Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton Will Run In 2016 (Article from 2012)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/29/donald-trump-hillary-clinton_n_1387680.html

"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she won’t be running for president again and will, in fact, make her current role in the administration her “last public position.” Billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump apparently disagrees."

“I don’t want to get into this because I’ll get myself into trouble,” said Trump, who left the GOP last year and registered as an independent. “I just like her. I like her and I like her husband.”




I think that Hillary's confidence in this election is based on the fact this whole thing was a set up. Trump is just playing a role, probably because he is out of cash and the Clintons will share their ill gotten wealth with him as payment.

We have been set up people. Hillary camp controls this entire election, and Trump really is acting like an idiot on purpose.

This performance art is Trump attempting to channel Colbert, making fun of the GOP and they don't even get it.

I thought something was up for a long time, but when Trump offered to debate Bernie and Hillary people kept saying "that is not going to happen!"....

How did they know that? Because Hillary controls trump and called him to let him know that was not going to happen if he wanted his payment for running a fake candidacy.

June 1, 2016

Bill Clinton Gave a Six-Figure Speech to a “Vulture” Fund Accused of Preying on Low-Income Homebuyer

Bill Clinton Gave a Six-Figure Speech to a “Vulture” Fund Accused of Preying on Low-Income Homebuyers: Hillary recently said her husband would be "in charge of revitalizing the economy"

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/bill-clinton-gave-six-figure-speech-vulture-fund-apollo

What a great team to lead America!

May 31, 2016

Democratic Underground was founded after the stolen election in 2000



Do Hillary supporters realize that election fraud has taken place in this country?

Either Hillary supporters were not Democrats in 2000 and 2004, or they were not paying attention?

Or is it that the hired posters are from other countries and do not really understand what has been going on in our elections?

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