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YouDig's Journal"Presumptive" versus "official" nominee.
There won't be an official nominee until the convention. This is true for Democrats and for Republicans. Trump is not the official Republican nominee yet.
There will be a presumptive Democratic nominee on Tuesday. We get a presumptive nominee when one candidate, in this case Hillary, clinches a majority of delegates through a combination of pledged delegates and superdelegate commitments.
One's there's a presumptive nominee, for practical purposes, the primary is over. It's true, something weird could happen so that either Trump doesn't end up being the GOP nominee or Hillary doesn't end up being the Dem nominee. They could get struck by lightning. Or maybe it will be revealed that Hillary and Bernie are jointly operating a heroin ring. That would mean a chaotic convention.
But in real life, once someone secures the majority of delegates, they are the party's nominee. Even though technically pledged or superdelegates can switch sides, that's not going to happen. And there won't be a lightning strike either.
I always figured Trump's crazy man thing was mostly an act.
He knew the GOP base was nuts, and they'd like it. But once he got the nomination, he would start to act normal.
But now he's acting just as crazy as ever. Is he actually a crazy man? Well, yeah, he is, but is he actually a real crazy crazy man?
Kinda sad the way the Bernie candidacy is ending.
It started out with really worthy goals. Working people in America just wanting a fair economy, more pay, healthcare, education, less income inequality and the 1% taking all the wealth.
And now in its waning days Berners are devolving into a competition to see who can come up with the craziest email conspiracy theory.
How to credibly attack Hillary on the emails.
Post a link to something that you wrote saying that Colin Powell should be indicted for using private non-government email, and also having retroactively classified info in his aol account. That way people will believe that you actually think people should be indicted over private emails, you're not just trying to find something to pin on Hillary.
If you can do that, then you're credible when going after Hillary. If not, you're just trolling. That goes not just for people on DU, but also for the any pundit writing on WSJ or TownHall or any of the other right-wing websites that the Berners like to post email articles from.
Big credit goes to Bernie for not diving down into the email gutter.
He's not my candidate, but credit is due here. And I'm sure he's got advisors telling him he should really go after Hillary on the emails, but he's stood by his word, he realizes they are irrelevant, and even though the press keeps trying to bait him, he hasn't gone for it.
It's been a bad few days for Bernie or Bust aka Bernie or Trump.
On the Bernie side, he lost the Jerry Brown endorsement he so desperately wanted, and then pouted like a teenager stood up at prom. The email fairy prayers keep going unanswered, as it has become clear that the only actual rules broken were red tape technicalities and that unlike previous SoSs with private emails, Hillary actually kept all her records. And although Bernie or Trump people keep talking about them, nobody else is.
On the Trump side, he fake donated to a Vets charity and then attacked the media for reporting it. And after that documents about Trump U were revealed, detailing it as the fraud everyone knew it was.
Things are looking good. No Bernie and no Bust (Trump).
Is Trump even rich? Why would he fake donate to a Vets charity?
Did he think nobody would find out? Or was this an elaborate stunt for him to then be able to attack the media?
It also looks like his campaign is broke and he's not going to be putting any more of his own money (which he hasn't put very much in at all so far), instead he's going to use the RNC and go groveling to (actual) billionaires like Sheldon Adelson.
If you're Bernie or Bust, then arguing "we need Bernie to beat Trump" is disingenuous.
Even if you are dumb enough to believe that the polls showing Bernie leading Trump by more than Hillary mean anything at this stage, it's still totally disingenuous. Bernie or Bust (aka Bernie or Trump) means if you don't get Bernie, you're willing to let Trump win. Because stopping Trump is not very important to you.
Bernie or Bust people obviously don't care about stopping Trump, they only care about the one great savior Bernie. That's why it's called Bernie or Bust. If it's not Bernie, then it's Bust. Stopping Trump doesn't matter, only Bernie matters.
So you can stop pretending to care about stopping Trump, nobody believes you.
You know what? Compared to the whole world, I'm a far left pinko commie.
I mean, I'm on the left side of almost every political argument I have in real life. With Dems, with GOPs, whoever. Then I come here, and I'm some kind of corporate apologist. This place is not the real world. I mean, not at all. It's not even the Democratic world. It's not even the liberal wing of the Democratic world.
I come here and say something like, yeah, fracking is dirty, but natural gas is a cleaner source of energy than coal, and until we build up renewable infrastructure, it's coal or nat gas. This is just a plain fact. And suddenly I'm a right-winger! Unreal.
Literally people want to burn more coal and emit more CO2, not to mention the damage that strip mining does, simply because of the word "fracking". I guess we're supposed to just pretend that we have 100% renewable electricity, even though we obviously don't and won't for a long time. And not living in that fantasy world is selling out to the oligarchs or whatever. Because there are no coal oligarchs, only natural gas oligarchs.
And that's not the only issue, just the one that happened recently. It's eye-opening, and maybe encouraging in a weird way. Now I'm like, OK, there are crazy people on the right, we knew that, all of them are really, but boy there are some on the left too. I'm like the reasonable moderate.
It may not seem like it now, but Bernie's going to look like a real ass when
all the pledged delegates have been elected and he's trailing by between 200 and 300 of them, if he still insists that he should be the nominee.
For now he can get by with his Forrest Gump impression when anyone asks him about delegate math, but once Hillary hits the mark, no more. He's going to have to own the fact that he's trying to overturn the voters by using superdelegates, trying to get establishment insiders to push him up against the will of the people.
There's no way to do that without looking like a total ass.
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