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YouDig's JournalBernie had the most advantages in the primary, and still lost.
He had the advantage of undemocratic caucuses, which favored his smaller-but-more-enthusiastic constituency.
He had the advantage of the GOP going after Hillary while leaving him alone or in some cases even helping him.
He had the advantage of decades of scandal-mongering by Hillary's GOP opponents. The GOP created multiple Benghazi investigations for the sole purpose of attacking her poll numbers. Imagine if the entire GOP devoted government resources to destroying Bernie.
He had the advantage of the media wanting to make it a horserace, and obsessing about every little Clinton "scandal" or misstep.
And probably the biggest advantage of all: he never had to worry about running in a general election, because he's been out of it since March. Hillary had to worry about not alienating Bernie supporters, because she needs them in the GE. Bernie doesn't care who he alienates because he knows he won't be running in the GE.
Bernie can afford to propose things that he can't possibly pay for and don't add up because he knows they will never get any real scrutiny like they would in a general. Hillary knows that what she says and campaigns on in the primary will have to hold up for a general as well.
Basically, Hillary has defeated Bernie with just one hand, using the other hand to fight off the GOP. Bernie used both hands, and still lost by a big margin.
Big corruption in little Vermont.
How funny would it be if after all the Berner noise about emails, it ends up being Bernie who gets indicted, for arranging that loan that Jane used to crash Burlington College into the ground and then cash out with her golden parachute.
http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2016/05/26/gop-official-levels-burlington-college-related-allegation-against-sanders
A little reality check.
In less than two weeks Hillary will clinch the nomination.
The emails continue to be a non-scandal, no matter how much noise the Berners make about it.
Trump isn't debating Bernie because Bernie is an irrelevant sideshow, not because he's afraid.
Bernie's not going to get Barney Frank or anyone else kicked off the platform committee. When you pick a guy who called Obama the n-word, your ability to call out other people for unfair criticism is gone.
Hope you've had your fun Berners, because there's 3 minutes to go and you're down by five touchdowns. I predict that the next two weeks will be the ugliest yet from the Berners, a grand finale of angry Dem-bashing, lots of conspiracy theories, lots of vengeful gloom predictions of a Trump presidency (accompanied with much irony by Bernie-or-Bust statements), caps lock keys ground to dust, and many more links to right-wing media that seem to become increasingly prevalent as Bernie's hopes drop to zero.
And then we get to move on to the General, Hillary versus Trump!
Turns out Hillary didn't file her TPS reports. Outrage!
Of course, neither of the two SoSes before her did either, and a bunch of other State employees didn't either. But never mind that.
I wonder what other bureaucratic red tape she violated. Did she move her desk around herself rather than scheduling a desk movement appointment and having the union guys do it? Did she have a couple more personal items in her office than the rules allowed?
There's so much more ground to explore here. Maybe she even used office equipment to print invitations to a birthday party!
"To stop Trump" is a really really great reason to vote for Hillary.
A lot of people don't want to hear this. I keep seeing "tell me why to vote for Hillary, but don't say stopping Trump." This is like saying "why should I step off the train tracks, but don't talk about getting hit by a train."
Maybe you don't care about the minimum wage or abortion or global warming or whatever. Fine, everyone cares about different things. But even so, "not Trump" is about as good as a reason to vote for someone that I can possibly imagine.
Berners threatening to avenge his primary loss by voting Trump or third party.
I'm sure it feels good, and some of you might actually go through with it, but I can tell you one thing for sure, it's not going to get Bernie the nomination.
The Democratic superdelegates are not going to snub the voters and install him as nominee because some of his supporters are crazy enough to help Trump become president.
Not gonna happen.
So Bernie wants to go on Fox and team up with Hannity and O'Reilly to attack Hillary.
No thanks. If he wants to make a campaign issue out of it, good luck.
It's 3 million votes and 270 delegates to make up, and he's losing in both CA and NJ polls. Bye bye Bernie!
Trade wars are a really bad idea.
I see that brooklynite started a thread about Trump starting trade wars, and the Bernie people here's response is "yay trade wars!" No.
What Trump is talking about is violating agreements that the US has signed. That's a bad idea. Global economic turmoil might sound like fun, but it's not. And loss of credibility of the US holding up agreements would cause that. And Trump doesn't care, a few weeks ago he threatened to default on the debt, like US government bonds are like some money he borrowed to build a casino and he can get away from by screwing creditors. This stuff is not a joke, a US default would be catastrophic.
Never mind that's it's also economically stupid. Take China out of the supply chain, watch havoc be wreaked.
What Trump wants is dictatorial power of the economy. He wants to personally slap tariffs on individual businesses to throw his ego around. That's very bad. And don't pretend he has the American worker in mind. Look at his own business record if you believe that.
Trump is corrupt and fascist. He will do nothing to help wages. He will violate international law to help people who back him politically. He's not a friend of working people.
You know what? I kinda like Bernie's platform poeple.
Cornel West is kinda pushing it but Bill McKibben is great. James Zogby, pro-Palestinian activist, don't know too much about him but I agree that US policy towards Isreal and Palestine has been a bit one-sided towards Israel. Keith Ellison I like. I don't know too much about Deborah Parker.
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