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"content": "Moot considering the Dems will probably retake the Senate.",
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"content": "SCOTUS nominees can be filibustered.",
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"content": "I'm hoping that, if the Dems take the Senate, they will have the balls to change the rules so that a filibuster has to entail someone actually standing for hours on end and not just stating that they are filibustering with no physical effort required. This would at least cut down on the frequency with which filibusters are used.",
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"content": "This. Filibusters are a critical minority right, but they should only be for important things, not requiring 60 votes to do *anything*.",
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"content": "The difficulty there is that Senate rule changes are themselves subject to filibuster.",
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"content": "I don't believe this is true at the opening of the new senate when the rules for the new senate are being adopted.",
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"content": "You could be right, I'm not sure about that.",
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"content": "Is it really true that Senate rules don't require physically standings and talking anymore? I could've sworn Ted Cruz stood the whole time he did his filibuster but I may be wrong.",
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"content": "No, you are remembering correctly. I can't recall the exact details around that but iirc it was a meaningless gesture on Cruz's part -- essentially grandstanding.",
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"content": "Yeah, I don't fully understand the Senate rules and, as such, I'm confused by what OP had insinuated. \n\nI just did a quick search and noticed that Ted Cruz's filibuster in 2013 stands as the 5th longest in history. Rand Paul had one in 2013 that at the time was the 9th longest filibuster in history. Also, let's not forget about Chris Murphy's filibuster just earlier this year regarding gun control (currently the 9th longest ever).",
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"content": "This is good news. Let the voters know this so they know what to so. ",
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"content": "Yeah, the Democratic Party has really made them pay for the unprecedented blocking of Obama's vacancy....",
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"content": "There's an election three weeks away where we can change the balance of power. ",
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"content": "Yeah, but the fact there has been no outrage means the precedent has been set. ",
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"content": "Hasn't been an election since the seat was open. ",
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"content": "No, but it's far outside the minds of voters. The DNC has failed to make them pay for it.",
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"content": "The DNC? \n\nIt's up to the voters. If the voters don't make the GOP pay, then any consequence is the fault of the voters. ",
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"content": "The DNC is responsible for advocating for the democrats. You have to campaign and call out the other sides when they do these shenanigans. Yeah voters should care, but they need to make voters care. The DNC is a bunch of dolts IMHO. \n\n",
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"content": "Then that shows you how inept and careless the public is.",
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"content": "I think it's more a reflection on terrible democratic leadership. They ate terrible strategists that seem incapable of reading the public our shaping a narrative. Only the sheer ignorance of the right keeps then from getting blown out.",
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"content": "No, it's you get the government you deserve. Not the one you feel you are entitled to. ",
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"content": "You think the DNC has done a good job in pushing that issue? Because I think they havent. ",
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"content": "I didn't say they did a good job or not. You are moving goalposts. ",
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"content": "Im not moving any goalposts. Ive consistently said that the DNC bears responsibility for not keeping the narrative on the judge blocking. It would be great if the public was that involved, but the GOP does a much better job keeping things like this in the public eye. ",
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"content": "If only we had a fat old guy blubbering on and on about it everyday on AM radio.",
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"content": "Id settle for a gray haired comedian reminding people once in a while. Or Hillary, preferably at a debate. Just 20 seconds. Just a reminder of the lack of precedent. ",
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"content": "Keep looking to blame our representatives instead of their constituents. That's how we lose elections. ",
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"content": "Im blaming the democratic party leadership. Yeah I can blame them for not running the party well. Its literally their job. Do you think they ahve done their job well? They have ignored state governments while the GOP focused on them like lasers. This let them gerrymander the House for a decade. They have poorly advocated for democratic values. As a Democrat, do you honestly believe the party leadership has been as effective as the GOPs? They are fucking running Donald Trump and are within a few points! That should tell you how terrible the management is. You cant magically make the population see things your way. Blaming them is foolish and useless. But the leadership in the party can be fixed.",
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"content": "Uh, that is why it's the voters' fault. They are representatives not monarchs.\n\nDon't like them? Replace them with an election. They fail? Replace them. ",
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"content": "Ok, but not all of the democratic party is run by politicians. Its much larger institution and I beleive ti to be poorly run. I gues you can make an argument to elect leader who will change that culture within the party, but first the issue has to be called out, which is what I am doing.",
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"content": "Really though, If this were a normal election that would be constantly brought up. It's probably been tough to bring it up when Touchy Littlehands is running a crazy campaign. ",
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"content": "Fair point....",
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"content": "We CAN do that we just have to vote the fuckers out in three weeks.",
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"content": "Even if we do, everyone will know its not about the judicial block. There is no outrage. Voters arent mad about it, they got away with it. Hillary hasnt brought it up to my knowledge. The DNC hasnt pushed the issue. Not surprised, just disappointed. Same party leadership that thought a Hillary candidacy would be wise... In an anti-establishment environment we run the poster child of the establishment. The DNC needs to clean house.",
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"content": "We need term limits on every office and publicly funded elections with absolutely no paid political speech within 3 months of an election.\n\nLet them duke it out in real substantive televised debates, dozens of them with enough time to actually state policies and debate their merits. \n\nWe need real journalists back, ones that aren't afraid to hold a candidates feet to the fire till they answer the questions.\n\nCandidates should fear not getting access to the press, not the other way around. \n",
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"content": "Also, the judicial block is just one of an ocean of things that the republicans have blocked since day one of Obama's presidency.",
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"content": "True, but its a very big, obvious, and unprecedented one. And its gone unchallenged. id be shocked if any president got a justice through in their last year.",
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"content": "This simply must be a call to arms for all dems. I don't care if you hate Hillary and can't bring yourself to vote for her, at least go vote downticket and let's get the Senate back! In two years, we can get the house back.",
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"content": "Yes, that's how it works. \n\nIf we fail again in 2018, like we did in 2010 and 2014, then we deserve what we get. \n\nThis election should teach everyone in all parties a lesson.",
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"content": "EXACTLY! We are great at blaming the other side, but WE did this to ourselves! We are just as much to blame. Even when we had both houses, we couldn't get along or agree on anything. It has to stop. ",
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"content": "The conservatives have been such a disgrace that we have not had enough self-criticism. \n\nThe left acted shamefully towards one another this election and we get surprised when the GOP makes gains. \n",
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"content": "They did. What the DNC did to Bernie was beyond the pale! What they did to VOTERS to keep them from voting was disgusting! I do believe Bernie was threatened with losing his committee seat or something even worse if he didn't get on board. The rumor was that in 2008, the NY Democratic Party told Hillary that if she did not get behind Obama, she had no more career in politics. ",
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"content": "It wasn't beyond the pale. It was actually pretty tame as compared to other primaries. \n\nNY has a shitty election system but there is no proof anyone removed from the registry was for Hillary or Bernie. Both candidates got screwed and Bernie supporters got on board too late and didn't register as Dems.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ",
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"content": "What to do, rather. ",
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"content": "Don't they realize the dangerous precedent this creates? It is a little shocking coming from Mr. \"work across the aisle\" McCain. Oh well, I'm a constituent- and I'm voting Anne Kirkpatrick this cycle. Overall, I have been pretty pleased with McCain as a Senator, as far as Republicans go, but between his support of Trump and comments like this- I can't and won't vote for him.",
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"content": "Doesn't surprise me…McCain is nothing but an opportunist. Always has been out for himself and his own best interests rather than the interests of the American people or his constituents. \n\nProof is in the pudding…he has flip-flopped on issues for year, disavowed Trump, supported him, then disavowed him again because he was trying to cover his own ass and win his own election. \n\nNo concern for the country, only for his career and paycheck and opportunities to make himself more wealthy. And yes, many other senators are the same way but it's worth noting the ones who are particularly obvious and bad at it. \n\nWhatever respect I had for him because of his service (and his POW status) is long, long gone.",
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"content": "> Don't they realize the dangerous precedent this creates?\n\n...they said to the party that nominated Donald Trump.",
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"content": "They don't care. We are the only ones who can change this by voting downticket. We have to stop being so lackadaisical in our voting habits. We need to get out for every election and vote them out and KEEP them out!",
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"content": "F**king Already! Haven't even got through the election and the b*st*ards are threating another 4-8 years of do-nothing politics. They had their chance. ",
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"content": "Expletives are allowed in the internet, especially in situations such as this.",
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"content": "Seriously, sick of these idiot politicians. ",
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"content": "I wish this guy would make up his mind and decide once and for all whether he's a good guy or a bad guy. Every time he does something half-decent he turns around and says things like this",
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"content": "Is it somehow their secret goal to force some type of Constitutional crisis? Like... just slowly kill the Judicial Branch by simply refusing to allow seats to be filled?\n\n\"Hey guys, we technically have the power to make this whole system just fall apart, let's see what happens when we do.\"",
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"content": "There is no other explanation, unless they are simply clueless about how to govern, and are trying to hide that fact... which is what I think is really happening.\n",
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"content": "It's starting to look like the differences between Republicans and Democrats can't be resolved in the usual ways. This is turning into a fight that one side or the other will have to overwhelmingly win. \n\nIf the GOP isn't willing to play ball, there are two options. Stalemate for years on end, or forcing through rules and laws that strip the GOP of its ability to obstruct. The former option will simply harden the divide, creating instability and potentially domestic terrorism as the rage at dysfunction that is fueling Trump worsens, while the latter option will cause an immediate backlash and fundamentally change the US political system, creating a centralized one where the winner basically takes all.",
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"content": "Right, option two is super messy.",
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"content": "I'm sure the remaining 8 justices are jumping up and down for joy at this prospect, but it's not surprising. Afte 8 years of obstructing Obama, this has just become a habit with Republicans.\n\nMakes it all the more critical to flip Congress.",
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"content": "I believe they don't know how to govern, and are covering that up by acting like they are deliberately fucking the process.",
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"content": "I had so much respect for him...",
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"content": "...and this is how you invite martial law, when the Congress fails to perform its duties, as the lawfulness of the operation of the government is no longer respected.",
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"content": "Time to replace the lot of 'em. ",
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"content": "Eight years of this \"Party of 'No'\" bullshit is what helped create the conditions for Trump to run. Some people never bother to learn from history.",
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"content": "So he screwed up, but come 2020 Clinton will not defeat Ryan. Democrats better find some outstanding young blood for the next race. All they have is old people.",
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"content": "At this rate Ryan will be long gone by 2020.\n\n",
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"content": "We can only hope",
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"content": "Even at Ryan's peak he was polling far behind Clinton. Furthermore, it's hard to beat a president. Lately it seems like most people get two terms. In the past 5 presidents, 4 got a second term. \n\nNow about the we don't have any young candidate accusation. \n\nCorey Booker\n\nTom Perez\n\nJulian Castro\n\nMichelle Obama\n\nWatch these names they're gonna blow up in the next four years. We actually have more young blood than the Republicans right now IMO.",
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"content": "Michelle will never run for an office. I'm pretty sure that she has said that outright. However she is a great campaign resource to rile up voters and get them to the polls. ",
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"content": "Yeah well see about that .",
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"content": "Add Jason Kander and Tulsi Gabbard to the list of young candidates. She's only 35.\n\nThen there's Russ Feingold. He's not young, but if he wins his Senate race in Wisconsin, which seems likely, I think he might run for president in 2024. ",
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"content": "All the republicans have is a broken party that might splinter into two.",
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"content": "Yeah what use are old people what with their knowledge & years of experience. ",
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"content": "I highly doubt they would give Bernie Sanders that position. I've already seen from the corporatist wing of the democratic party that they want Chuck Schumer to be the budget committee chairman",
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"content": "The Shoe will be majority leader, silly. ",
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"content": "He's the ranking member on Budget.\n\nI saw the quote you're talking about, though. It implied that Schumer is reluctant about Bernie chairing Budget, but it also said that Bernie will be chairing an important committee of some type. It's also not entirely up to Schumer. Bernie can negotiate; he can drive a hard bargain.\n\nThey're going to want to keep Bernie happy because the Democrats need to improve their midterm turnout if they're going to have a prayer of holding the Senate in 2018, when the Dems are defending far more seats than the Republicans. Bernie is one of their best hopes of getting a decent number of Millennials to the polls.\n\nAnd even though many Senate events get ignored by the public, they'll realize that anything that happens to Bernie - whether good or bad - will make headlines and affect the party's image.",
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"content": "When you put it that way it sounds pretty likely that it will happen, but i aint holding my breath. The Clinton campaign so far has shown zero good faith in appealing to Bernie voters so far, touting endorsements of war criminals like John Negroponte and what not",
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"content": "I've never understood the argument that \"touting endorsements\" somehow matters more than concrete policy proposals and long-term changes to the entire party platform.",
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"content": "Socialism would ruin \"pissing down on the poor economics\"!",
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"content": "So the fact that Hillary brags about being friends with a monster like Henry Kissinger doesn't bother you at all?",
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"content": "She brags about a lot of friends. \n\nThere is no other choice at this point. But we really need the House and Senate.",
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"content": "So Trump is a bad person because David Duke likes him, but it's ok for Hillary to associate with and take the advice from a man who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people? I understand that she's going to be the next president, but Henry Kissinger having her ear should put the fear of God into you.",
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"content": "Takes advice from?\n\n",
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"content": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG9GFzM7zc4",
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"content": "Meh. I think it was just smoke to form the hawkish distinction from Sanders.\n\nI would think Madeline Albright would have far more influence. ",
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"content": "whatever helps you sleep at night http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/hillary-clinton-kissinger-vacation-dominican-republic-de-la-renta\n\nJust remember, our democratic president is helping Saudi Arabia bomb kids in Yemen because they give us oil. You have no idea what monsters these people take advice from.",
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"content": "The kids give us oil? \n\nGet off your high horse. If you don't like that then take back Congress. Instead of complaining about Clinton. ",
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"content": "Uh, we actually get hardly any oil from SA. \n\nAnd Clinton has no loyalty to SA. ",
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"content": "> Uh, we actually get hardly any oil from SA.\n\n[Looks like about 1/11 from this source.](https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_epc0_im0_mbblpd_a.htm) If that's nothing then I'm Mickey Mouse.",
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"content": "Who said nothing?",
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"content": "If you actually wanted to have an honest discussion, at this point you would either:\n\n* Claim that 1/11 qualifies as \"hardly nothing\" to you even though it might not qualify as \"hardly nothing\" to me.\n* Claim my source has some issue.\n\nMy years of experience on the internet though are telling me to abandon this conversation as pointless. I foresee short, snarky and evasive answers from now on. Emphasis on short.",
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"content": "Only you care about what your experience tells you. I certainly don't care. \n\nAnd 1/11 would be t same as 9.1%. A small fraction. Or, hardly anything. ",
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"content": "I read every word of that long, long post and as a progressive and a Sanders supporter let me say this, fuck you. Your post is whiny as fuck, every complaint you make is do to your own doing. We had shit to do with your establishment bullshit. Y'all have the flawed candidate who's popular with African americans because of her husband. You have the attackable candidate who IS politically expedient and is guilty of about everything but Benghazi. \n\nNot all of us are Democrats or believe the DNC is worthwhile. Some of us believe the 2 party system is half the problem.\n\nI'm not loyal to your baby boomer dominated, corporate friendly establishment. I believe in term limits and finance reform. I don't brag about working with lobbyists. I am a member of the largest generation in our society. I am a \"millenial\" and I want no part of the bullshit you're peddling here. \n\nHillary Clinton is NOT my hero, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, and MLK are my heroes. Hillary Clinton was elected to one position then appointed as secretary of state as some sort of compromise for losing the nomination. The only thing Hillary is is better than Trump. She's polished and she can't do worse than Trump. That's the best I can say about her. \n\nTl;Dr: Fuck your whiny rant, your candidate and your organization are shady and always were way before Sanders came around. ",
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"content": "Seems like you're the only whiney crybaby here. \n\nAnyone who thinks Trump can do no worse is at worst a total moron and at best not a progressive at all. ",
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"content": "Also, there are two generations between baby boomer and \"millennial\".\n\nGet a clue. ",
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"content": "I didn't see anything that said there wasn't. They just said they weren't part of the baby boomers and then said what generation they were a part of. \nDid I miss something?",
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"content": "It was absurd hostility to an entire generation of people, neglecting there are far more others that may disagree with you. That's democracy. Coalition building and compromise. Not lashing out when things don't go your specific way. \n\nIronic, considering the millennials are criticized as not only the self-entitled generation, but the electorate that has among the lowest voting rates. \n\nThen they want the world to change with one election for one person.",
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"content": "I don't disagree, but they still didn't suggest that the two generations were congruent. \nOr are you suggesting that the generations between the two mentioned are in the mix also, so to blame any one generation is flawed. \nI can see that point.",
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"content": "Yes, basically. He's trying to find a specific group to lash out at. We are all in this shit together and if we stick together I know we can start getting progressive change. We only lose when we fall apart. ",
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"content": "Agreed.",
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"content": "We need to stop fucking complaining about Hillary Clinton. If we get the Senate and House it's game on.",
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"content": "All I care about are the house and the Senate. My response was to the post and OP, and any other establishment person that wants to blame Sanders. I'm a true progressive, Clinton and the DNC as is currently are pure establishment and part of the reason we are where we are. \n\nIn response to my baby boomer comment, they WERE the largest group of voters and have had a majority within our society for a long time. Now millenials are the largest group of voters and we have grqon up in a different era than baby boomers, we have different beliefs than establishment democrats because we don't trust them or corporations or politicians. A large part of the younger millenials are apathetic because they see all the ridiculousness of the past 15 years and rightly blame the voters that allowed these things to happen.\n\nEither you respect us as fellow liberals or you don't, but respect goes both ways. We're all adults now, we should be treated that way... ",
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"content": "> and any other establishment person that wants to blame Sanders\n\nSanders IS to blame for the failures of his campaign. He failed to win over minority voters. \n\n>Clinton and the DNC as is currently are pure establishment and part of the reason we are where we are.\n\nLeading by a large number in the polls? About to retake the Senate? About to win the Presidency? About to win the Supreme Court? Where we are right now is pretty good bro... \n\n>Either you respect us as fellow liberals or you don't, but respect goes both ways. We're all adults now, we should be treated that way...\n\nI just wrote a very respectful post that detailed my feelings, and you showed me no respect back. Maybe you are trolling, idk... but its something you could work on. ",
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"content": "No you wrote a whiny post that blamed your candidates weakness on us. Don't be a revisionist, you wrote it, own it. ",
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"content": "> blamed your candidates weakness on us\n\nlmao dude quit trolling. I know for a fact you didn't read it because I don't believe my candidate is weak. Btw, she is kicking ass in both the primaries and in the general. ",
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"content": "Comprehension level's a little low for my liking bro. Stop cherry picking. You can't write that you tried to stop Sanders supporters from attacking Hillary and the dnc as rigged and then complain when Trump says the same thing, you blamed us but your candidate has her weaknesses. You didn't claim that your candidate was vulnerable, but she wouldn't be susceptible to attack and have such a high dislike level if she didn't have weaknesses. ",
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"content": "Mmhhhmmm. Well when you stop being mad go to a meeting and get involved. Only way to make progress is if you quit bitching and actually do something. Best of luck friend.",
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"content": "They are not the largest group of voters.\n\nThey are the largest group of eligible voters.\n\nAnd don't get sanctimonious about respect when you start off disrespecting people who enabled you to have The Internets and a mobile phone that makes fart noises.\n",
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"content": "Who exactly enabled me to have the internet? Because unless you were involved with the Darpa net project or the Cern laboratory in the late 60s you and OP didnt enable me for shit. ",
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"content": "The baby boomers did, son \n\n",
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"content": "Actually most of the scientists in those projects were of the greatest generation. Do you know what you're writing about or do you just vomit out of your fingers? ",
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"content": "And who got it from the 60s to the 90s?\n\nYou? ",
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"content": "ARE YOU CLAIMING THAT BABY BOOMERS CAUSED TIME TO MOVE FORWARD? That is right in line with the level of intelligence you've displayed so far.. \n\nAfter the 60s to the 90s are the problem. You voters fell asleep at the wheel and allowed trickle down, allowed the decontruction of Glass Steagall and voted in Reagan and both Bushs. If we still had the same minimum wage as the 60s we'd have a robust economy, if we had continued the manufacturing and union core of our workforce we'd have a huge middle class. \n\nInstead we have both parents working full time for shit wages and benefits because the adults of that era were comfortable and let politicians screw us over. \n\nYour generation voted for all this not mine, we're trying to fix your mess. So excuse me if I don't bow to your knowledge and age.",
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"content": "I am not a boomer, son. I am generation x. ",
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"content": "I never said anything about how many generations are between the two, comprehend clear sentences better.",
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"content": "Yes, you were singling out a particular group for hostility. \n\nIn other words, bigotry. ",
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"content": "Shifting the goalposts?? Really? I singled out the largest group of voters because they voted for for all that caused us to fall. I have to dig out of a hole and a recession because baby boomers decided that trickle down would work and that Reagan was the best thing ever and that another Bush is a good idea. That generation enjoyed the best time in modern US history and now they want to attack us or tell ua how it should be? Hell no.. I'm not blindly against all baby boomers Im against the ones that act as if they had no role in us getting to this point... \n\n",
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"content": "Right. Bigotry.\n\nAs if there were no boomers who did more for progressive before you were even born, \n\nGet a clue. Stop whining about others and get to work. \n\n",
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"content": "Damn that is a dumb statement. That's not bigotry. Bigotry is disliking a whole group without cause. I work, and I work with baby boomers, the average age in my profession is over 45. You don't know me, you don't know logical fallacies and apparently you don't understamd the concepr of bigotry either. At least you can spell properly. ",
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"content": "You singled out a group to project hostility towards, \n\nThat's bigotry, \n\n",
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"content": "You dont know the definition of bigotry and you keep repeating the wrong definition. You look stupid stop it. ",
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"content": "Singling out one group for hostility is bigotry. ",
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"content": "Found the Jill Stein voter.",
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"content": "Not a Jill Stein voter, sorry. ",
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"content": "You are still angry, but maybe one day you will see what I am saying is the truth. ",
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"content": "Get off your pedestal, and figure this out; there's a whole generation of liberals and progressives that don't identify with your establishment. I am one of them. I don't need or want your condolences, I won't stand by and silently watch as you whine because your candidate is susceptible to defeat. If things didn't look and feel rigged people wouldnt say it is. \n\nYou (Dem Party) wrote those emails that were leaked not me. \n\nDon't launch into 10k word dissertations about how this is someone else's fault. I'm a vet, I don't have time for your excuses. If your candidate is the best candidate she'll win, if not that's YOUR fault, not ours. .",
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"content": "Lol the more you comment the more it makes you think you didn't read my post at all. Maybe you need to read it again with an open mind? Either way, I do not think my candidate is susceptible to defeat, so maybe you should try reading it with that context in mind. \n\nI am writing it because I fight for the same issues you fight, and I want people to fight with me. It has nothing to do with being on a pedestal, whining, condoling you, changing your mind, or trying to assign fault, or out of concern that we will lose the election. Accusing me of such is actually quite baffling. I assume you are just saying this to lash out of anger, in which case I don't really mind. \n\nLook, the reality is this. We are not going away. Every single day we are reaching out and gaining strength in more and more liberal and progressive communities, mostly because they are already our friends on the ground level. I am a progressive, there are tons of us in this party. If you are interested in making change in this party and country it will never happen unless you get involved. Such is life. ",
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"content": "Progressives are not Clinton supporters, establishment and older democrats are. \n\nYou start off your whole, lengthy post with an albi for the leaked dnc emails, then you go into how you all told us not to make a commotion about the shadiness of the nomination race and the dnc's behavior. That is not an olive branch, that's whining. \n\nI'm fighting my own fight for true peogressive values. Not a continuation of the wall st centric, establishment presidency of Obama. I don't want more favors for the rich at the expense of the rest of us. Clinton is AT BEST another term of Obama, and I guess some of us feel like that's not good enough... ",
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"content": "> Progressives are not Clinton supporters\n\nWrong buddy. You are wrong. One day you will learn. Until then the rest of us progressives will be making real change. You will be welcome to join us when you figure it out.",
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"content": "Civil rights, 70s & 80s progressives dont count your \"progressive\" is tame. ",
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"content": "Great post, thanks for highlighting it for me!",
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"content": "Thank you! ",
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"content": "No thank you! In really just a pretty well informed and impassioned spectator (maybe a little less informed now that I have an infant...) it's cool to hear from people who are found the real work! Keep it up, please!",
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"content": "The primaries are over. \n\nIt's not like 2016 was unique. 2008 was a rough primary, too. We need to get over these divisions, just like Obama and Hillary did, and like Bernie and Hillary have. Bernie's supporters are valuable members of the party.",
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"content": "Finally waking up to reality.",
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"content": "These are Donald's supporters. Reality might be a little much to wish for.",
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"content": "Maybe they believe the election is 'rigged'?",
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"content": "Get off our board ",
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"content": "The DNC simply did NOT stop anybody from voting. A majority of Secretaries of State are GOP. Musing (that never came to fruition) about his religion, or lack there of, did zero to stop people from voting. I've never seen a shred of proof of actual obstruction. The DNC has no power over state elections",
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"content": "Nothing was rigged. 3 million fewer people voted for him...and withowithout undemocratic caucuses he would have lost by even more",
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"content": "The blowback because of petty emails. There was nothing procedurally done, from the DNC, that I've seen to lead to less people voting",
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"content": "Then stop throwing around inflammatory words without substantial evidence. Btw, I am not proud of the DNC. Us Dems have lost far too many elections with the old staff...maybe we can do better now :)",
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"content": "She's certainly been accused of it, yes. I'm guessing mostly or at least somewhat by the sort of people who look at their friends, see that they're all Bernie supporters, and conclude that that's true of everyone else",
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"content": "Like always, they will blame those damn riggers.",
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"content": "The only way to know if someone who believes Trump will lose isn't buying in to the rigged election conspiracy theory isn't if they give me up the red hat. ",
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"content": "That idea is going reduce his turnout bigly. Hopefully have a huge down ballot effect.",
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"content": "It shows the true character. A family of douchebags. ",
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"content": "I... I don't.",
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"content": "Cheap pieces of shit do this.",
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"content": "Cheapskate. Confirmation. ",
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"content": "Is that Ice-T",
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"content": "His grandpa didn't get rich by paying for things, and he's another chip off that block.",
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"content": "Eric's the one who was dropped on his head as a baby, right?",
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"content": "C'mon. Seriously? Do we really care about this? Why is this news?",
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"content": "i think everyone is well aware that in the grand scheme of things, what he is doing wont destroy the world. the reason people are interested in it is because it shows his character. the dude is a millionaire and he cant even pay a dollar for lemonade. its like a metaphor for his whole family: take advantage of everyone you possibly can. ",
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"content": "Certainly some (a lot?) of credit goes to Hillary, but I think a more accurate title is \"Donald Trump’s 3 Presidential Debate Performances Left The Trump Campaign In Ruins\"",
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"content": "It will be because of both, and that's good enough. \n\nShe has ran a gauntlet this season, and won each time. \n\nShe will earn her fucking title. ",
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"content": "The primary wasn't rigged. Millions mor voted for Clinton and she won far more states. She beat Sanders further than Obama beat her. Still, Sanders had a lot of support. \n\nShe earned her spot. \n\nShe has fought the GOP machine for decades. Beat them. \n\nShe has been hound by eight or nine BeenCheezi investigations. Beat them. \n\nHounded by email investigations. Beat them. \n\nRunning again the most vile GOP candidate in maybe 100 years. Who will stoop to no level. May beat him. \n\nThe Russia intel services actively are releasing private information, thousands and thousands of documents. \n\nWikileaks, who are actively opposing her with zero accountability. \n\nAnd finally, her own base. Some of whom have became self-entitled and spiteful. \n\nPlus, not to mention the many double standards that apply to her because she's a woman. And yes, they exist. \n\nSo yeah, a fucking gauntlet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Oh please. Look at the witchhunts against Obama. Same thing. \n\nStill, she has beaten them all. Tough lady. ",
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"content": "Like I said, you are partly correct. \n\nYou have to remember, any Dem starts with 40%x ",
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"content": "Rigged! Ha. She won in a walk with like 4 million more votes and did it all without alienating the people voting for Sanders. \n\nShe's about to win the general election with a historic landslide that will flip the senate. \n\nThis all after a 40 year career as one of the most powerful and inspiring people on earth. \n\nFor some reason, no matter what she achieves, some people feel the need to downgrade, explain away, or belittle her accomplishments. What could possibly be causing this? It is a mystery. ",
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"content": "She wasn't \"selected from the beginning.\" She won more people's votes. Mostly because people of color and women favored Clinton. \n\nSanders was never all that popular with anyone but white dudes and young people, and they're aren't that many of them. And It wasn't even *close.* This \"rigged\" idea is such horseshit. \n\nThey said the same stupid shit at the beginning of the last primary, but Clinton lost that one to Obama. And that primary was actually a close. This one wasn't. \n\nA few salty personal emails from people within the DNC isn't evidence of a primary being rigged. It's evidence that Sanders was kind of a cockbag. Dude's publicly calling the party corrupt and a few people within it wrote emails saying \"lookit this asshole!\" Oh no. Get my fainting couch. Democracy is dead.\n\nAnd I'm positive she didn't alienate a significant portion of people who voted for Sanders. Look at the polls. \n\nHopefully she *did* alienate the weird fringe people voting for Stein or whatever. No one needs or wants those kind of extremists and I hope they stay far far away from the Democratic Party in the future. \n\nWhat failings are you talking about? Imaginary ones? In real life, she's only succeeding. \n\nWhy are you hanging around a sub for Democrats if you hate the head of the Democratic Party so much? \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "It's totally amazing that someone in a sub for Democrats likes the head of the Democratic Party. \n\nGet out of your weird Reddit echo chamber and you'll find that the majority of democrats favor Clinton over Sanders. There was a whole election about it few months ago. ",
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"content": "Hopefully she'll succeed in keeping people like you from participating in the Democratic Party too. ",
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"content": "The goal of the Clinton campaign was to win the primaries and then the general. \n\nAlienating extremists is a nice bonus in terms of long term viability for the party, though. ",
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"content": "Sure, man. You'll totally show everyone by staying home on Election Day. You should hold your breath until you turn blue and throw your chicken nuggets on the floor too. \n\nNo one cares what you do on Election Day, i promise. No one needs your support and everyone is done coddling the fringe. \n",
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"content": "I'm sorry, but she got under his skin and ripped him into incoherent pieces each time. Credit for that is all on her. ",
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"content": "Totally true... but it was his inability to keep it together that screwed him over. ",
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"content": "But thats still a pretty low bar to achieve. Getting under the Donald's skin isn't exactly hard to do. She could have just called him a smelly doodoohead and had pretty much had the same effect.",
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"content": "It's worth noting that this tactic didn't work for any of the 16 other republicans in the primary process. ",
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"content": "A big stage with a large field of contenders is a different setting than one on one debates. In the Primaries he was able to take pot shots and quip one liners while others debated policy and it got him his first swelling of support. All you have to do to get enough attention is be the biggest asshole in the room, which he can easily do. By the time he got down to three or four contenders they were too fatigued to keep going. \n\nIf you had put him one on one against Cruz or even possibly Rubio earlier on he would have been torn apart.",
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"content": "Are comments allowed here?",
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"content": "Yes. ",
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"content": "could you provide sources to back these up?",
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"content": "For every single thing? Google is your friend",
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"content": "You know I always supported Hillary but the email thing stirred my bucket, but after reading this no harm done",
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"content": "There have so far been no charges against Hillary... she's only under investigation. Anyone can be under investigation for anything, at any time. Just because you are under investigation, does not necessarily make you guilty... how do people not understand this?",
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"content": "I completely understand, but with all of this email talk it did get me thinking, but after recent events there really is nothing in those emails that are damning",
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"content": "Bush deleted millions of emails. Condoleezza rice had a private email server. It is a nothing scandal made big by the right wing. #witchunt",
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"content": "I guess they are scared of Hillary ",
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"content": "If you questioned the email thing then read about this - http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/george-w-bush-white-house-lost-22-million-emails-497373.html ",
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"content": "Upvote this shit, people! ",
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"content": "Just vote for Hillary. :D",
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"content": "No early voting here. It's grueling. ",
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"content": "I'm living for Tuesday. Have to work all day but will do it before I eat dinner. Then I sit back and watch Hillary kick butt!",
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"content": "I want to bathe in their tears. Sorry, I know that's wrong. But that's what it takes. It's what they understand best. ",
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"content": "I just want a fair election and Hillary to win. After that happens then I can say what I really want to do. :D",
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"content": "Yeah, let's do this democracy thing. ",
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"content": "Yea I have to be dignified as a mod. But Wednesday I will be my old vile self again. :D",
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"content": "Oh, I see. I try to be dignified but I am not an idealist, I am a cynical realist.\n\nIt's time to call the bouncer and get this guy out of here. ",
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"content": "I have just gone through this for almost a year. There is a lot of release waiting to happen. :O",
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"content": "In June 2010, as the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) notes, Secretary Clinton’s State Department began allowing transgender people to change passport gender markers with a physician’s certification that they had received “appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition.” For the first time, sex reassignment surgery (SRS) was not required to make the correction.\n",
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"content": "Not sure how Bayh is a tossup according to Cook, he's up like 6.",
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"content": "He's [actually down](http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/senate/indiana/).",
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"content": "Not a week ago when I posted that comment lol.",
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"content": "I live out in CO, Bennet is hammering Glenn out here, not even close. GOP primary voters gave Bennet an easy win choosing this guy. http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/senate/colorado/",
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"content": "I really don't think Florida is a tossup. Rubio is leading in the polls, has more money, and far more name recognition.\n\nIn my opinion, PA, NV, and NH will be the most competitive races. Tough to see the Democrats winning back the Senate this cycle, but it's definitely within reach.",
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"content": "What about IL?",
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"content": "The DNC massively dropped the ball by pulling funding from Murphy. If you want to win, you have to try.",
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"content": "I hope Pat Toomey loses. The man has no spine & doesn't bother to answer my emails with anything of any substance. It's always stupid stuff like \"ISIS BAD WE NEED TO STOP ISIS\" great, dude. How does that have anything to do with the heroin epidemic, though? \n\n He's not endorsing or disavowing Trump. He's a fence sitter. I hope he gets thrown to the wolves for it, too. ",
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"content": "The Senate has slipped away because of this stupid email non-story. Hillary needs to get out of Arizona as well, as that won't go our way. She needs to work on holding down the swing states because I am guessing many are going to start slipping away.",
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"content": "Keep calm and get out the vote. It's a nonstory, but the media is bored. A lot can happen in a week.\n\n",
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"content": "Stickland (D-OH) is in no way competitive with Portman (R-OH) according to RCP.",
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"content": "But it's dems who rig the elections, though. ",
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"content": "It could be both",
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"content": "I guess anything is possible, but I have yet to see any proof of dems doing any voter suppression at all. \n\nCertainly nothing like what Republicans are doing. \n",
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"content": "Jesus Christ North Carolina, can you really stop fucking up so much? I've become more and more ashamed of living here over the last year.",
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"content": "Salty as hell LOL",
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"content": "What an asinine comment. ",
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"content": "What an asinine comment. No where in that article did it say that it benefitted Hillary Clinton. It did say something about NY voter laws being messed up, though. \n\nBut i guess it wouldn't be a Hillary Clinton election without a few thousand baseless accusations. ",
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"content": "You're lack of understanding of what happens in elections is astounding. You've twisted facts to suit your needs. I can't tell if your far left or far right. They both have used this tactic of distorting reality, and it's not healthy. \n\n1) Republicans made that law where people were ineligible to vote. \n\n2) Where's your proof that polling places were limited?\n\n3) you have to be a democrat to vote in our primaries. Why would we let people who do not belong to our party vote for the person we want to be the nominee? We'd be allowing people who aren't Democrats to decide the fate of our party. How is that a good idea? Is it because that's what you want? Because that's not a good enough reason. \n\n\n4) she's not a \"manufactured candidate\". You all have manufactured outrage about her. ",
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"content": "I love this argument from the left! I'm the base & you want me to leave my own party because all of a sudden the massive amount of progress we've made over the past 20 years isn't good enough for you guys. All my hard work and sacrifice to make the world better for you, the younger generation gets shit on because I couldn't control everything and the world isn't prefect. You shit on progress when you've never made any yourself. When you have no clue how to actually change things. \n\nWe let Bernie in & it was a huge mistake. One we will not be making again. \n\nWe shouldn't let people who are not Democrats decide who our nominee is. We will not let anyone hijack our party because you really really want to tap into our huge voting base. If we did, then Republicans could vote in our primaries and we could have whoever they want as the nominee\n\nAs for Hillary being a Republican, shut the fuck up. Seriously, you're embarrassing yourself. She's more progressive than Obama. \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Oh, and here's another comment of mine for you to downvote. Maybe you'll feel like you're actually accomplishing something for once in your life. ",
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"content": "Oh, honey. I didn't even bother to read what you wrote. Your opinions do not matter to me. \n\nHave fun trying to get anything accomplished, politically speaking. I'm sure it'll be years of frustration and heartache for nothing ;) ",
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"content": "why didn't we elect Bernie?????????????",
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"content": "He didn't appeal to minorities. What he proposed amounted to white paternalism which a lot of people are weary of.",
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"content": "can you please explain \"white paternalism\" ",
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"content": "Because as soon as he said \"yes I'll raise taxes\" he became unelectable ",
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"content": "Most of his platform that raised taxes is now the official Democratic Party platform.",
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"content": "I have no problem with what Sanders ment. But swing voters don't look at context. ",
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"content": "Because he's soft. ",
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"content": "We really fucked this one up, didn't we guys?",
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"content": "Yeup. Seems like it. Hopefully something good comes out soon. ",
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"content": "I'm ready for a Tim Kaine Presidency.",
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"content": "I'm really not. He's good and all, but I'd rather not if we don't have to.",
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"content": "That doesn't even make sense. \n\nWhere did Bernie earn his money?",
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"content": "He isn't rich, she sold the country for her wealth. ",
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"content": "Who says he isn't rich?\n\nAnd no proof on your latter.\n\nAnd I like Bernie, but quit your bullshit. Bernie's entire career was money earned in politics. Nothing wrong with that. \n\nUnless you are trying to make a phony comparison to Trump to smear Clinton. \n\nI could list out ways Trump is far worse than anything even the rest of the GOP could do. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Clinton's are rich..... Because of selling access to government, its in the emails. Bernie makes around $200k from working long and hard in public service (amendment king). Clinton deserves everything that is happening to her. \n\nWish we had Bernie back.",
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"content": "No, it's not. \n\nAnd we have no clue what Bernie has earned in the past or what his investments have been. Nor looked at any of his emails. \n\nAnd he didn't go anywhere. He just didn't cop out like a lot of his supporters did. He is fighting every day.\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "So am I. Good luck with crooked :). Even if she wins she's hamstrung",
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"content": "You are not fighting if you are undermining something Bernie is a part of. ",
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"content": "He ran against her for a reason.",
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"content": "Because they were apart on 10% of the issues. \n\nThat 10% wasn't enough for him to turn tail and run to sabotage the big picture. ",
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"content": "She sabotaged herself. The only reason he backs her is so he can run the senate and push his agenda. Hillary IS NOT a victim.",
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"content": "So now you are saying Bernie sold out? \n\n",
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"content": "No. He's steering his boat through Hillary's river of shit",
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"content": "As you said, for his own self interests. \n\nOr are you saying he's doing it for the greater good? ",
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"content": "His self interest is the greater good",
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"content": "Sorry to just jump into your discussion here but Hillary has a long history of working for the greater good, as a Children's Defense Fund lawyer, First Lady of Arkansas and America, Senator and Secretary of State. All those positions were public service. Plus, the Clintons actually were pretty broke when they left the White House, and made all their money in the 2000's. I know Hillary was in office then, but still there's no evidence of Pay to Play. They restructured the Clinton Foundation when she became SoS and Bill has said they'll do it again if she's President. Do you have some evidence of it being Pay to Play etc?",
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"content": "Then, trust him for the greater good. \n\nBecause he and we need a strong coalition to make it happen. ",
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"content": "34 percent of likely voters think Obama isn't a American citizen.",
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"content": "Exactly. This makes me more likely to vote for her (although it was already close to 100%). I am not a big fan, but in a reality-based world, she is by far the superior pick among people running who have an actual chance of winning. The extremism on the right has gone too far. This is a pure stunt by a government official trying to sway an election and save his legacy among the morons making up most of the right. ",
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"content": "Even with a push poll, that's still 37% to whom the FBI \"review\" *does* matter in their vote for Clinton. That's damaging.",
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"content": "Trump's floor is 37%.",
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"content": "This would be more useful if they polled undecideds...",
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"content": "There are almost no actual undecideds. If a person is still undecided they are so stupid and so uninformed polling them is a waste of money. They could see a new cloud formation tomorrow and their decision would change\n",
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"content": "That means this poll is totally worthless then. If say this \"controversy\" makes 30% voters less likely to support Clinton... we don't know if those are Republicans, Democrats are undecideds!",
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"content": "People who don't like to share who they are voting for very often ID as undecided in polls. ",
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"content": "Headline for us glass-is-half-empty types:\n\n\"One out of three Americans say FBI review effects their vote for Clinton.\"",
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"content": "Exactly…if they're trying to calm people own, this headline isn't working.",
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"content": "Isn't that just the Trump supporters though? They would be likely to choose the most negative response for Clinton no matter what",
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"content": "Barbara Boxer continues to be full of shit.",
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"content": "^ point proven",
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"content": "NV where the Sanders folk lost the vote because 400 Sanders delegates didn't show up. And so they blame everyone else. ",
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"content": "With an attitude like that how can you lose? ",
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"content": "even if youre a clinton supporter you should be against her saying this. Its not helping in any way shape or form. ",
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"content": "How is it at all unreasonable? The new Sanders position seems to be we ha Ave to be so very nice to them and pretend they won. ",
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"content": "So don't be honest and push back against the delusional smears from Sanders supporters?\n\n",
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"content": "Whats the harm? He is likely to loose anyway, let him run and be done with it. ",
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"content": "Well that is 6 more days so why not?",
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"content": "Stay in until the primaries are over. \n\nNot stay in until the convention and attempt to usurp the will of voters and install himself as nominee. \n\nThere is a vast difference. ",
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"content": "No, now he is saying until the convention to convince the superdelegates to flip to him. He is and always will be a tool. #feeltheberningturd",
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"content": "Well, the OP doesn't make that distinction, nor does it offer any info on methodology or the questions asked.\n\nThis article is just propaganda, trying to excuse Sanders undermining the nominee. ",
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"content": "Well there is one upside to his futile attempts to convert superdelegates -- his minions keep getting poorer.",
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"content": "Why is that an upside?",
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"content": "No, he is staying in because Clinton is somewhere between weeks to a couple months before she is indicted. The DNC would be crazy to nominate a candidate that is the subject of an FBI investigation. Once the weight of the investigation, and then indictment grows enough it becomes very convenient for major media outlets to actually report it as a criminal investigation. We will eventually get to a point where even CNN is referring to it as something more than a nothing-burger. \n\nIf we nominate Clinton it will be bad. It will be the first time in history to have someone charged with a crime while running for president. We really have no precedent for that, no clue how it would turn out. Not sure if we'd have Trump running against just third part candidates or if the DNC would scramble for a replacement. \n\nI'm sorry that you and millions of others have voted for her and you feel that your voted are being threatened right now. That sucks and I empathize with you. Regardless, nominating Clinton would a disastrous choice that would result in 4 years of Trump. Between withdrawing is from the Paris agreement and delegating SCOTUS nominees to the heritage foundation It will set us back decades. ",
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"content": "> No, he is staying in because Clinton is somewhere between weeks to a couple months before she is indicted\n\nSanders supporters regurgitating right wing electoral fantasies again.\n\nAnd lol no. Clinton is not going to be indicted. Even if she is, that doesn't disqualify her from running for office. \n\n\n> The DNC would be crazy to nominate a candidate that is the subject of an FBI investigation.\n\nDemocratic _voters_ are nominating Clinton. Believing the DNC would give their stamp of approval to a candidate that had a real chance of being indicted is a far crazier theory. \n\n> I'm sorry that you and millions of others have voted for her and you feel that your voted are being threatened right now.\n\nI didn't vote for her, but this is some incredibly smug bullshit.",
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"content": "[Sorry your president seems to have gotten word from his AG that might not be so.](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/obama-clinton-democratic-nominee-223805) I can't think of one time he has predicted wrong. Can you? When he makes his endorsement next week, you will know for sure. That is when BBs' prayers everywhere will finally be crushed.",
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"content": "Where in those five tiny paragraphs do you read anything about Eric Holder saying anything about the investigation?\nEdit for grammar. ",
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"content": "Where do see an indictment is coming?",
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"content": "It is clear that Obama has gotten the word from Lynch that there will not be an indictment. ",
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"content": "[When I talk about the President's AG, why would I be talking about Eric Holder?](http://i.imgur.com/iWKad22.jpg)",
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"content": "Because AG stands for Attorney General for one, and the link you gave said nothing other than who the \"Politico staff\" are really certain who Obama will endorse.\n\nAlso because i forgot Loretta Lynch was now the Attorney General. ",
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"content": "Well, the Obama says this and the Clinton campaign says that Obama is going to endorse her next week and the Washington Post has reported that Elizabeth Warren is going to endorse Clinton after DC, one can begin to fathom these things. Obama would not be sticking his neck out if he had not heard sweet nothings from his AG, even if it was shake your head or tap your fingers if you have any concerns about me doing this. This is the no drama president as he likes to be known as that does not make wrong predictions. But then that was always the most likely scenario anyway since proving that Clinton intentionally and purposely let out classified information was always a reach as in why would she have ever wanted to do that? What would have even been the motive? ",
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"content": "\"purposely let out classified information\" \n\nNo one is saying that, she did however blatantly mishandle controlled information and knowingly skirted around the most basic OPSEC requirements. She has repeatedly caught in lies, excuse me misspeaks, about this and clearly has no regard for rules she deems inconvenient. \n\n\nIn my opinion she is in no way qualified to act as Sec of State or any high office, let alone POTUS. However that is beside the point, she is the subject of a criminal investigation that is clearly racing towards an indictment. There is no scenario here where Clinton is out next president. ",
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"content": "You don't get it do you? Unless it was purposeful with intent, there is no crime. And that is incredibly hard to prove without motive. I guarantee Obama has already played tap your pen with Lynch if he should be concerned. Your BB prayers will not be answered as your gods have forsaken you. Obama and Warren will be endorsing within 2 weeks. Guarantee. The only Superdelegates that will be switching will be in the same direction that they have already -- from Sanders to Clinton.",
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"content": "It is not clearly racing towards an indictment because that requires her to have knowingly and purposely to have let out classified information. Get that through your head. And Obama would not be endorsing her if Lynch indicated that would be happening. Get that through your head too. The odds of her being indicted were always extremely low. What would have been her motive for purposely and knowingly letting out classified information? because without meeting that hurdle, there is no crime. Get that through your head.",
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"content": "So where was Loretta Lynch mentioned? Or is this your usual \"proof\" by random links?",
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"content": "She isn't but you are jumping into the middle of a discussion. See article on Obama saying things will be settled next week. See article that Obama will endorse Clinton next week. See article that Warren will endorse Clinton within 2 weeks. Obama doesn't make bad predictions ever. That is a fact. If he is saying the nominee will be settled next week, then there is only one possibility for whom that might be. If he is sticking his neck out like that, then the no drama president as he calls himself surely made sure that his AG gave at least a silent signal that there would be no reason for him not to say this. This man is too smart not to make this mistake. Or do you really think he is? Do you underestimate him politically after 7.5 years?",
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"content": "And yet, nothing about Loretta Lynch saying anything. Good job trying to throw up a smokescreen to hide the fact that you were pulling shit out of your ass.",
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"content": "I really hope he tries going into the general as an independent",
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"content": "Yes and hand the election to Trump. \n\nNot going to happen. Bernie is not an utter fool. \n\nOnly way that would happen is if Johnson gets to 20-25%. Then Sanders could win. ",
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"content": "Evidently if he bites the superdelegates on the neck and sucks their blood they will become one of his evil minions.",
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"content": "Johnson is pulling more votes from Hillary than Trump according to the most recent poll.",
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"content": "> the most recent poll.\n\nWhich one?",
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"content": "http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/1/hillary-clinton-has-narrow-lead-over-donald-trump-/",
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"content": "Prove that. ",
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"content": "OK\n\nhttp://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/1/hillary-clinton-has-narrow-lead-over-donald-trump-/\n\nJust Trump and Hillary, Hillary has a 4.5% lead over Trump. When you add Johnson to the mix you have a 4% lead for Clinton over Trump.\n\nGoogle is fucking hard, right? Also, enjoy the mobile link. ",
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"content": "That is not the way polls work. \n\nYou are trying to assert Johnson takes more and you were referring to a half point difference in one state poll using 600 people? ",
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"content": "In that poll, that's what it indicated. Even with the margin of error, it shows that Johnson isn't a spoiler for Trump like people are claiming.",
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"content": "The difference is one half of a percent.\n\nSo how could that also take into consideration the margin of error which would be 2-3%? ",
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"content": "I'm sure if you just sit down and think really really really hard for a few more hours, the answer will become clear.",
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"content": "Troll, troll, troll your boat.",
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"content": "It's what the poll indicates when you look at the two and three way poll done in Michigan. Clinton lost a higher percentage to Johnson than Trump, likely due to disaffected Sanders supporters who agree with Johnson on social issues. ",
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"content": "Really, the poll shows who loses percentage and to whom?\n\n",
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"content": "Found the Trump supporter.",
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"content": "Eh, try again. Trump is the last person I would vote for this cycle.",
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"content": "My favorite part was when they said his chances were waning. In fact, they have been steady throughout. Sanders odds have hovered around 5% since voting started. ",
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"content": "Kinda fishy that that pollster hides its methodology behind a paywall. How do we know they didn't just pull the numbers out of thin air?",
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"content": "Kinda of fishy is kinda of being nice. Obama says it is over next week. Obama will be endorsing Clinton next week. Nuff said.",
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"content": "Sorry, but a bad poll is a bad poll, even if it tells you what you want to hear. And I'm not sure what a presidential endorsement of Hillary has to do with this poll on Bernie staying in the race, that was presumably conducted prior to June 7th.",
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"content": "I am agreeing with you. It is more than kind of fishing. Obama endorsing is just some additional good news that says screw the poll anyway.",
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"content": "Apparently the super delegates are there to help pick the best candidate going into the general, which is indeed Bernie. He's polling higher than Clinton v Trump. So maybe he's holding on to that? ",
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"content": "How is he the best when even most Dems did not vote for him?",
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"content": "Because if you constantly look at polls with him v Trump and Clinton v Trump he's the stronger candidate?\n\nAnd it's unfair to say \"most\" dems didn't vote for the guy. He's 200pts behind in pledged delegates and that's it. Most democratic voters are going to stay democratic voters no matter who our party's pick is. \n\nIt's *completely* ridiculous for you to say most people did not vote for Bernie when realistically if he were the nominee Hillary supporters would vote for him because he also embodies their ideals. Bernie supporters may not vote for Hillary because she dent embody their ideals. But voting for Trump in the general would most certainly be a betrayal to Bernie's ideological platform.\n\nEither way, it's unfair to say he's so far behind when really he's just under even with Clinton. \n\nOn another note, out of the two candidates the democratic party has I'm honestly shocked at how hostile this subreddit is to Bernie supporters. \n\nWe have two of the best candidates in this race yet constantly this subreddit either bashes Bernie or bashes Hillary. Over legitimate issues on both sides of course however some of the comments on this post are honestly just plain rude.\n\nI'd be happy with either Bernie or Hillary as candidates in this election season and I think our party lucked out on missing the crazy train. ",
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"content": "Then your argument is that political parties should nominate their candidates based on general election polls months before the election instead of actual voting from party members. \n\n> Because if you constantly look at polls with him v Trump and Clinton v Trump he's the stronger candidate?\n\nGeneral election polls this early are not reliable. If you follow this logic this early in the election, Kerry and Romney should have won.\n\n> Bernie supporters may not vote for Hillary because she dent embody their ideals.\n\n[A wide majority of Sander supporters would support Clinton.](http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article70202867.html) Same goes with Clinton supporters voting for Sanders. The rest of your comment that \"we're all Democrats and will vote for a Democrat\" is contradictory. \n\n> Either way, it's unfair to say he's so far behind when really he's just under even with Clinton.\n\nIf by \"just under even\" [you mean three million votes.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/19/yes-hillary-clinton-is-winning-the-popular-vote-by-a-wide-margin/)\n\nSuggesting Sanders abuse the superdelegate system he and his supporters have criticized for so long to usurp the vote of the Democratic party is incredibly hypocritical. \n",
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"content": "I did not bash Bernie, I don't think. \n\nI said he lost. And he has. It's not close. \n\nOver-ruling the majority of primary voters would tear the party apart. With good reason. ",
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"content": "Superdelegates should vote based on:\n\n~~-their perspective of who is the best candidate~~\n\n~~-who won the most pledged delegates~~\n\n~~-who won the popular vote~~\n\n~~-who won the most states~~\n\n-**who won the most white men**",
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"content": "Being 200 delegates behind in June is a shit ton of delegates.",
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"content": "When there's ~3,600 delegates?\n\nDespite the voting numbers, people don't vote in primaries. I'm not saying it could be closer. But he is a contender either way and a very good candidate. The sub doesn't seem to understand that you can have two good candidates to choose from. ",
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"content": "The time has come and gone for choosing.\n\nSanders lost. \n\n",
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"content": "Yes. It's proportional. He's down 270. Basic math here. His \"big win\" in WI netted him TEN!!!",
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"content": "There's ~700 state delegates left to be awarded... and almost all of them are awarded on Tuesday.\n\n\nBut I know this won't change your mind. I just hope that Bernie drops out before the electoral college decides it for Trump or Clinton. That would be classy. Then he go back to accomplishing nothing in the Senate.",
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"content": "I'd honestly say that *some* didn't vote for him. He has gotten, what, 44% of the delegates so far? *Most* people didn't vote for Ted Cruz. ",
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"content": "TIL 55% (the percent of pledged delegates Clinton has) isn't \"most.\"",
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"content": "Ugh my god can you people read more than 2 lines into a comment? \n\nIf you look at my comments I've said \"most\" sounds a lot more like Ted Cruz vs Trump delegate count than Hillary vs Sanders. \n\nYes she has the most but a lot of people are saying \"most by far\" when really it's not that big of a gap. He probably can't come back on the delegate count but give the man some damn credit. \n\nHe has nearly half of the democratic party voting for him and that's a base that can't be ignored by the likes of DWS and Clinton. We need a unified party going into the convention with both Sanders and Hillary supporters welcomed. We have two great candidates, let's be proud and show them off. ",
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"content": "You literally challenged the use of the word \"most\" in describing Clinton's lead in the delegate count. You got called out for it. Now you're blathering at me about how some people (not me) are saying \"most by far\" when you feel like they shouldn't. Then you add in a bunch of blather about what HRC and DWS supposedly can't ignore. Oh please.\n\nGive it up, kid. You posted a dumb comment. We all do sometimes. You only end up looking ridiculous when double down on the stupidity instead of correcting it.",
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"content": "Oooh calling me a kid. Sooo nice of you. You're getting legitimately upset over a comment on the internet. Get over your pathetic self. And let's not forget that the original comment was me asking a pseudo question about why he's in the race. TL;DR'ed \"He's hoping the super delegates will switch to him because polls suggest he will do better in the general right?\" \n\nThat's what his game plan is at this point. Even I said it was a long shot.\n\nRelevant: https://xkcd.com/386/",
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"content": "I didn't realize I was upset until you told me I was. Thanks for diagnosing my emotional state for me.\n\nI responded to your ludicrous claim that it was improper to say that Clinton is winning most of the delegates despite her winning 55% of them. I have no idea why you're bringing up that other point. Perhaps you meant to respond to someone else who questioned your thinking about Sanders's superdelegate strategy. \n\nKid, if you're going to discuss politics, you're going to be challenged. Don't take it so personally. And let facts be your friend. The fact is that, right now, Clinton has won the majority of delegates. Denying that fact doesn't make you look committed to your cause. It makes you look like you don't understand basic arithmetic. It's fine to discuss alternate pathways to the nomination, but try to do so without denying reality.",
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"content": "Numero uno Superdelegate President Obama has already said it is ver next week and plans on endorsing Hillary Clinton next week. Obviously he has gotten word from his AG that there are no risks in doing that. Elizabeth Warren will be doing the same. Your BB prayers are not to be answered. The only Superdelegate switching will be from Sanders to Clinton. Which of course is the only switching that has happened so far.",
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"content": "I'm sorry that you took it as being smug, but this isn't some conspiracy theorist nonsense. It is clear that she has been lying through her teeth about this and has clearly broke the law. Also my point was, not that it disqualifies her, that it is clearly unprecedented. As it stands I can't see her being able to stay in and expect to win going through a fucking criminal trial. \n\nWhich brings me to the other point, that it's voters nominating her. While yes the primaries have evolved since the McGovern Frasier convention into a pseudo pre election, you still have the super delegates as a check against the popular vote. They are in place for the sole purpose of acting as an abort button. I can only think of a few reasons for them to push that button but the presumed nominee having looming indictment is certainly one. \n\n\nAgain I'm not trying to be an Ass. It really is a fucking shite situation Clinton has put the nation in. ",
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"content": "Nate has proven himself a sad bias in his reporting lately. ",
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"content": "https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/738118407804047360\n\nSuperdelegates should vote based on:\n\n~~-their perspective of who is the best candidate~~\n\n~~-who won the most pledged delegates~~\n\n~~-who won the popular vote~~\n\n~~-who won the most states~~\n\n-**who won the most white men**",
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"content": "This isn't the first biased article or editorialized lines coming from his office. It's poor form as an analyst to be editorializing in this manner. ",
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"content": "This is not editorializing. It's pointing out a logic fail. ",
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"content": "Logic says you don't dismiss the majority of people who voted to install the person they obviously did not choose. \n\nIf the roles were reversed, Sanders supporters would be agreeing. ",
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"content": "Logic doesn't *say* anything. Logic is a rhetorical concept.",
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"content": "Uh, logic does say something. Logic dictates. \n\nAs in \"If You Don't Get The Majority of Votes, Then You Did Not Win The Election.\"\n\n",
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"content": "No. Logic is a tool. It doesn't say or dictate anything, and it is no more powerful than any of the other two components of rhetoric.",
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"content": "Logic is not a tool. \n\nLogic is a set of laws. \n\nOtherwise you could have different conclusions depending on how you used a tool.\n\nLogic is math-like. Proofs don't change. \n\n\n",
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"content": "Wow. Not only do you have a fundamental misunderstanding of logic, but also of the fields of law and mathematics.",
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"content": "Okay, attack me instead of refuting me. ",
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"content": "Logic is a tool. It's a concept that can be applied and misapplied (just like Law and Mathematics). I'm about to blow your mind right now: *Something can be completely illogical and still happen.*\n\nLaw isn't entirely objective, a lot of the discussion is about the subjective context of the situation. A good lawyer will argue based on facts, based on the law, and based on policy.\n\nMath is always growing and changing. It's not a set of immutable truths, but a language that can be used to describe natural phenomenon.\n\nIf you're the one who insist that logic \"says\" and \"dictates\" please tell me how it \"says\" and \"dictates.\"",
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"content": "It's a set of principles. If those principles are discarded then of course you can have a different result. \n\nIf those principles are followed, then there is only one result. ",
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"content": "That's not really true. People can make perfectly logical decisions in the same context and come to entirely different results based on the weight they give specific evidence or facts.",
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"content": "If they are all given the same facts and evidence, then logically there is only one conclusion. \n\nWhen people make decisions that are not logical it is usually because either emotion or external rules prevent it. \n\nAs in when someone stills thinks a candidate should win even after they got less votes. That's called rationalizing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "> That's called rationalizing.\n\nSort of like what you're doing to convince yourself that your personal definition of logic is accurate to the wider concept of logic.\n\nYou still haven't told me how logic \"says\" or \"dictates\" anything. Do you have to bust out a Ouija Board? Or has the god Shamash descended from the heavens to present you with a universal set of rules by divine mandate?",
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"content": "No, they are principles for sound reasoning. \n\nDo you not know the definition of logic? Have you ever taken Boolean algebra? Or proved a postulate? \n",
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"content": "Ever studied *rhetoric*? *Philosophy*? What about *persuasion* or *debate*? *Law*?\n\nBoolean algebra involves the underlying logic of mathematics in which a given is either on or off, true or false. While certainly it would give you some insight into logic, I doubt that it would provide you with much exposure the wider spectrum of logic as it applies in other contexts and fields. And especially not fields in which something might be somewhat true and somewhat false simultaneously.\n\nAgain, math and science are both languages used to describe natural phenomenon. They are always being adjusted, with exceptions, with corrections, with improved measurements, to better reflect natural phenomenon.\n\nEver considered taking a course on *semantics* or *linguistics*?\n\n",
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"content": "Again, what is the definition of logic?\n\nA set of principles to make sound judgement. ",
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"content": "[Presumably you have access to Wikipedia as much as anyone.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic)\n\nI feel that the google dictionary definition you have provided lacks important context needed to understand logic. Logic means something entirely different in a mathematical context as opposed to a legal context or a rhetorical context.",
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"content": "No one said legal context.\n\nNate Silver, being a mathematician, is simply making a logical point. \n\nIf you did not get the majority of votes, how can you make a case for being the nominee when the nominee is the one who gets the most votes, according to the rules. You can't. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "> No one said legal context.\n\nI was making a point about the way logic is used. Logic isn't simply \"yes or no\" the way you portray it. At least not in a variety of very important contexts.\n\n> Nate Silver, being a mathematician, is simply making a logical point.\n\nNo, Nate Silver isn't discussing the math of the situation. He's criticizing Clinton's supporters for allowing Sanders' supporters to put pressure on super delegates without returning that pressure.\n\n> If you did not get the majority of votes, how can you make a case for being the nominee when the nominee is the one who gets the most votes, according to the rules. You can't.\n\nWe aren't talking about pledged delegates. We are talking about unpledged superdelegates. They have a responsibility to vote in the best interest of the party. The question isn't about the rules, it's about which candidate presents a bigger party liability.\n\nIn 2008, Obama won despite not receiving the popular vote.",
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"content": "Obama still got the majority of delegates. Which is the main point because that represents the will of the process more than the popular vote or super delegates. \n\nIf the Super Delegates were to over rule the will of the pledged delegate voters, and popular vote, and most states, it would destroy the party. Similar to the GOP handing the nomination to Ted Cruz. Sanders is far more popular, but that's irrelevant to the reality and logic of the situation. \n\nSanders has NO right to the nomination as long as Clinton can run. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Nate Silver isn't a reporter ",
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"content": "An analyst makes reports. He reports his findings. \n\nI never once called him a reporter. ",
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"content": "His only hope is Hillary being indicted/forced to withdraw. There is no chance that he gets the nomination through the delegate process. Don't see that happening, not over e-mails at least. ",
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"content": "What a bullshit article. The super delegates don't vote until the convention so they aren't counted until then. Neither of them are going to get to the magic number before the convention. ",
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"content": "> The super delegates don't vote until the convention so they aren't counted until then.\n\nSays who? You? Where is that written in official Democratic Party policy and procedures?\n\nAnswer: nowhere. It's a silly fantasy.\n\nIn reality, you don't commit as a super delegate unless you promise to vote for the person you've endorsed. You won't ruin your political future by being known as someone who breaks his or her promise.\n\nAlmost all super delegates supporting Hillary Clinton are also elected officials who have endorsed her. These people are senators, representatives, governors, state legislators, and elected party officials who are running on the same ballot as her in their states. She's fundraised alongside them, endorsed them, and will continue to do so.\n\nSo why would hundreds of them en mass betray her, break their promises, and instead back the candidate who is millions of votes behind her in popular vote and hundreds of pledged delegates behind her?\n\n**In short, why would they break their promise and abandon the candidate who has won Democratic nomination to back the person who lost it?**\n\nThey will not do it. Historically they have never abandoned the winner en mass. They didn't do it in 2008. They didn't do it in 2004. They didn't do it in 2000. They didn't do it in 1992.\n\n**Politics is not a fairy story with a magical ending.**",
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"content": " \"Part of the “super” in superdelegates is that they’re not bound to support any particular candidate, and are free to shift their allegiance – or refrain from committing to anyone – right up to the convention’s roll-call vote on the nomination.\" http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/05/05/who-are-the-democratic-superdelegates/",
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"content": "Yes, they *could* do that, but as history has demonstrated, and this year as the super delegates have repeatedly verified, that rarely happens.\n\nSanders would need almost 500 super delegates to change sides -- nearly already of the ones who have endorsed Hillary and publicly pledged to vote for her. If you think that will happen, then I have a bridge to sell you.\n\nFor the record, the link you provided is not official Democratic Party policy or procedure. It's you trying to extrapolate a fairy tale out of reportage.",
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"content": "https://twitter.com/DavidShuster/status/738412975111974912 Historically there has never been an election like this and it's not over until the convention. ",
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"content": "Because some unemployed former journalist says something on Twitter is irrelevant. Career politicians will not drop their support for the winner, Hillary Clinton, and jump ship to the loser, Bernie Sanders, simply because you wish that will happen.\n\n",
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"content": "Sure, what ever you say.. Keep on ignoring everything going in. ",
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"content": "What's that supposed to mean? Who is \"ignoring everything going in\"?\n\nHillary Clinton won millions more popular votes, more states, more pledged delegates, and more super delegates. Winner takes all. End of story. For every winner in politics, there is at least one loser.",
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"content": "Yeah, it's called being the presumptive nominee, or alternatively the person who got the most pledged delegates. In this case the person who also won the popular vote, more battleground states, more big states, and already has the vast majority of super delegates endorsing them. \n\nSo yeah, it's over. ",
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"content": "You mean to tell me that somebody lied about Hillary Clinton *on the Internet??* Next you'll be telling me that the Sanders campaign pays for online content! ",
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"content": "Facebook this. You're republican friends will be shocked. ",
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"content": "Like I'm going to say something pro-Hillary on facebook. No thanks, I don't need death and rape threats from my friends who support the clean, 100% not-a-cult campaign of Bernie Sanders. ",
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"content": "This picture [sums it up](http://myfunnymemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Hank-Hill-Helps-Luanne-Get-Out-Of-a-Cult-On-King-Of-The-Hill.jpg)",
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"content": "So good. The sad thing is that as someone who actively campaigned for Sanders for about 5 months, I witnessed the change from political campaign for the greater good to self-destructive cult status. It's still somewhat sad to me because there was so much potential and now it's just a left wing version of the Tea Party. And just because they don't have corporate money doesn't make them any less evil; a lot of these people are more than willing to actively work for Trump to win in order to 'teach everyone a lesson.' \n\nWhen you have hit that rock bottom, you know that you're brainwashed. ",
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"content": "Actually I would appreciate if you take your corporatist, anti-intellectual garbage worldview back to the Facebook shit show where it belongs.\n\n",
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"content": "See what I mean? Bunch of fuckin' brownshirts, these people. ",
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"content": "Point proven.",
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"content": "I don't particularly agree with the sarcasm of 'OMG SOMEONE LIED ON THE INTERNET' because to me, it just sounds like you're justifying it. It's bullshit either way, whether it started online or whether it started on TV. It warrants pointing out and it warrants calling it out as bullshit and it also should never be tolerated. ",
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"content": "I haven't heard that about Sanders. \nBut, Trump. Yeah.",
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"content": "Starting a new rumor?\n\nI heard it was Trump, the whole r\\trump is fully paid shills...\n",
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"content": "The nutcases just won't quit with this one. Idiots. \n\nShe literally helped her husband run for president *twice* and this is the *second* time she's done it. Are people *really* stupid enough to think she would make a mistake like this?\n\nApparently they are. I wish people would quit with the, 'OMG SOMEONE LIED ON THE INTERNETZ' because all that does is make it sound justifiable. That's just as idiotic.",
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"content": "You do realize that 99% of the questions people ask her are pre-vetted, right? Oh, probably not. You're voting for make-believe...",
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"content": "Prove it.",
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"content": "She doesn't have to pay anyone. Everything is vetted and double-checked before she knows anything. This is entry-level shit.",
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"content": "Sticky?",
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"content": "Okie doke",
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"content": "Should the state primaries be scheduled in order of size starting with the smallest? ",
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"content": "I think they should be in some sort of rotating order. Being from California, it kind of sucks to never have a say. ",
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"content": "> Being from California, it kind of sucks to never have a say.\n\nHuh? Apparently you've missed the 8,237 articles in the last week about how California will decide the race yada yada yada.",
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"content": "The race was decided months ago. This will just be the fat lady singing really loudly. Loud enough that Bernie may finally hear her.",
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"content": "Technically, it's still possible for Bernie to win the majority of the pledged delegates and popular vote, which would give him a good argument for flipping the super-delegates. This would require him to win around 70% of the vote in California and New Jersey, but the odds are like 0.01%. It's like a basketball game where one side is up by 40 points with 5 minutes left. It's still technically possible to come back, but so unlikely as to be meaningless.",
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"content": "So basically it was over after Super Tuesday. ",
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"content": "No, Bernie still had plenty of time to catch up after Super Tuesday since the majority of the country hadn't voted. The March 15 voting when Hillary swept 5 large states is what made it almost impossible for Bernie to catch up, and the Northeastern states at the end of April really sealed it.",
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"content": "True enough.",
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"content": "No article said CA will decide the race. ",
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"content": "\"Never?\" \"Some sort of rotating order?\" Like in 2008 when California voted in February? ",
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"content": "They can say whatever the hell they want but nothing is official until the DNC convention vote. ",
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"content": "LOL…\"Officially.\"\n\n If she gets the number of delegates necessary to clinch the nomination, she will be the *official* democratic nominee. I'm sorry reality doesn't coincide with your opinions but that's a fact. \n\nJust like whoever gets enough votes to win the election in November is officially the winner but they don't get sworn in until a few months later. \n\nJust because the official ceremony isn't until 6 weeks out from the primaries doesn't mean someone isn't the official winner. The convention is nothing but an event to get democrats rallying. The nominee is chosen whenever that person has secured the number of delegates required to win the nomination. It's that simple. \n\nHem and haw about super delegates (that's right, you guys are *against* the idea of super delegates, right?) they're bad because they give so-and-so too much power but they're good because they can change their votes all the way up until the convention. \n\nFace it: Nothing is going to get Bernie that nomination at this point. It's just not going to happen. We can call it for Hillary right now and it would be accurate.",
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"content": "Neither candidate will have the required number of pledged delegates after California or even DC votes. The only way to reach the required number is through super delegates and they don't vote until the convention. Hem and haw all you want but that's how this works. Super delegates don't count until they vote PERIOD. \n\nNow take your long winded BS Elsewhere. I have better things to do",
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"content": "That means Bernardo doesn't get to speak at the convention then since he will still be in the race until they vote. Excellent. See how that works? Or doesn't actually. Is that how it worked for Obama in 2008 btw? ",
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"content": "> Super delegates don't count until they vote PERIOD.\n\nI responded to that fantasy that has no basis in reality [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/4m9gyk/bernie_sanderss_factually_incorrect_delegate_math/d3tt521).",
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"content": "Tradition and facts are two different things. The only fantasy is your inability to concider super delegates have free will and literally nothing keeping them from changing their minds.",
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"content": "You're conflating something that has an extremely unlikely chance of happening with an absolute certainty. That's like you arguing you will definitely win the lottery because you have a one in a billion chance of winning.\n\n",
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"content": "Nothing keeping them?\n\nWhat about the fact that MORE PEOPLE VOTED FOR CLINTON? \n\n",
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"content": "It realistically doesn't matter according to the DNC's own rules. The super delegates can vote however they want by design. The idea here is that it's a stop gap measure to protect the party from the public nomination of a Bad candidate. I'm not a fan of how the DNC rules are setup either (for different reasons mind you) but that's what we have to work with.",
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"content": "It does matter. Pay attention. \n\nThe super delegates are not going to install the losing candidate and dismiss most of the popular vote, pledged delegates, most states, most big states, most battleground states and most of the super delegates. \n\nStop spreading your delusion. Sanders has lost and has no case for the nomination. \n\nDo you understand this? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "What I understand is Clinton's general election polling numbers SUCK, she is being investigated by numerous organizations and there's more than a few instances of Hillary outright lying to the the american people. This is of course in addition to her evolving positions on issues and her futile attempts at rebranding herself as a progressive. In addition to this, Hillary supporters seem to be unwilling to support the idea that the nomination process should be respected (even if you don't like it) and that the numerous Bernie supporters that they seem to enjoy belittling are going to have to be convinced to vote for Hillary in order for her to win. So far all Hillary supporters are doing is proving (in Bernie supporters eyes) that Hillary is NOT a candidate who is worthy of supporting if for no other reason than the way in which Hillary supporters think it's ok to treat a huge number of fellow democrats like complete utter shit. The reality of this situation is if Hillary supporters continue down this path of dismissiveness and disrespect there WILL be a split in the party much like the Tea Party and Democrats Will loose elections as a result. If you are ok with this, I am too but I think for the moment we at least have to agree that electing (really giving the election to) Donald Trump is NOT the direction we want to go. ",
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"content": "What are talking about?\n\nPolls show her beating Trump in the general, they don't suck. \n\nAnd we are not disrespecting you or dismissing you. We are telling you the truth. It's delusional to think you are entitled to the nomination when you lost. \n\nTed Cruz may have been a better candidate for the GOP, too. That's too bad. He lost. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Here's Clinton's head to head numbers: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html\n\nHere's sanders numbers for comparison: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-5565.html\n\n\nI never said we were entitled, What I said is the process and his supporters should be respected and they are not. \nIf Hillary wins the nomination at the convention, fine but until then please be respectful of my right to say no one has earned the required number of delegates yet and no one likely will until the unbound super delegates vote at the convention because it is the truth. ",
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"content": "You can say that part. \nWhat you cannot say is that Sanders can win. Because he cannot. \n\nWhat you can't say is he has a case in over turning the will of primary voters, because he does not. \n\nIf you say either of those things, you are disrespecting the majority of us, and respect goes both ways. \n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "> You can say that part. What you cannot say is that Sanders can win. Because he cannot.\n\nUnbound superdelegates can vote however they want. Traditionally Yes thy have voted inline with the primary winner but they don't have to by design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdelegate I suggest reading the origin section in particular. \n\n> What you can't say is he has a case in over turning the will of primary voters, because he does not.\n\nBernie doesn't but the super delegates can do whatever the hell they want and can overturn the \"will of the primary voters\". We don't live in a direct democracy and the political parties have their own rules which they can change whenever they want. Hell if they wanted to they could completely ignore the primaries and insert any random person they want as the general election candidate if they really wanted to. \n\n> If you say either of those things, you are disrespecting the majority of us, and respect goes both ways.\n\nWhat I'm trying to tell you our primary votes are nothing more than an opinion poll and the party can ultimately do whatever the hell it wants. \n",
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"content": "Primary votes are not an opinion. \n\nStop making up stuff. It's a vote to endorse a candidate and send representatives to the convention. \n\nSanders has zero case and the super delegates, being party officials, are not going to destroy the party because Sanders is unhappy he lost. \n\nIt's over. You don't have the right to your own facts. \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "I'm not making this stuff up. This is how it works for better or worse. \n\n-------------------\n\n\nLook it's pretty clear at this point that we disagree and neither one is going to convince the other so lets just call this done and move on. ",
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"content": "I am not trying to convince you. I am stating fact. \n\nAnd no, this is not the way it works. The loser does not get the nomination . ",
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"content": "Nothing would be worse than telling the majority of voters that their choice is being ignored. Look how pissed off some Sanders people are and their candidate lost the vote. ",
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"content": "Everyone has free will. Pledged delegates can violate their pledge. But it ain't happen.all that is keeping the delegates from voting for Sanders is that they don't want to. Maybe Sanders should have tried a different approach of he wanted support from corporate Democratic whores. ",
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"content": ">literally nothing\n\nYes there is something -- it's called people who made a promise. They gave their word that they will vote for Hillary Clinton. They are honorable people who have put their reputation on the line and their careers on the line to both endorse her and pledge to vote for her. They're not going to break their promises.\n\nThat's all that you die-hard Sanders supporters have left -- they're hoping that hundreds of people who gave their word will break that promise simply because you want it to happen.\n\n",
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"content": "No delegates vote until the convention. You can hold open to your anti-democratic dream but I hope you don't get the rent in it. ",
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"content": "Yep. Just like Obama was not the official nominee in 2012 until the convention vote. He was the *presumptive* nominee before that. She will certainly be the presumptive nominee by most accounts on Tuesday. I'm sorry but there is no miracle in the wings,there is no sudden realization by the super delegates that they should ignore the voters. ",
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"content": "http://www.huffpost.com/us/entry/clinton-in-2008-opposed-e_b_10245288.html",
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"content": "Read the letter, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/clintons-closing-argument-to-superdelegates/53314/\n\nThat is not what the Huffpost claims it to be. It is a long ramble begging the Superdelegates to switch to her. In that case she actually led in the popular votes over Obama and the delegate count was closer. Neither of these things are true this time. The popular vote isn't even close and delegate count is over double in distance. Bernardo can't make one argument that she makes in that letter except polls say. Well we see how that turned out.",
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"content": "Really? I see nothing but authoritarianism from the left. From attacks on free speech, behavioral economics from not getting a large pop, to outright mob attacks on bystanders and conference attendees. The left wants outright control of people's lives. ",
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"content": "And yet the GOP chose the Orange Fuhrer, a whiney toad of a man with thin skin who will attack the media, industries and anyone who dared threaten his delicate ego. \n\nPlus the whole support of killing innocents and thinks we are okay as long as we are not as bad as ISIS, which he has no plan to fight. \n\nThe right has become an ignorant, stupid, bigoted ideology. ",
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"content": "So Obama kills innocents and Americans oversees and lies about it and that's okay with you? ",
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"content": "He didn't lie about anything and Trump lies in every sentence, \n\nHe would get more American soldiers killed overseas with his incoherent foreign policy. \n\nAmazing how far the rightwing has fallen. They would install this authoritarian bigot to CiC. It will never happen. \n",
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"content": "So Obama didn't lie about people being able to keep there health insurance? They have his speech writer on tape laughing about how they came up with this bogus statement that Obama repeated over 20 times. I suggest you look at more than Comedy Central and msnbc for your news. Broaden your horizons to formulate an educated opinion. ",
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"content": "Notice how you are trying to be a moving target so your bullshit is erratic, just like your Orangutan Messiah. \n\nTrump supports expanded torture and issue unlawful orders to the military. Not to mention turn America into a fascist state by rounding up people and banning religions, two things inherently unAmerica and something even the Founders were consider disgusting. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "No one will be rounding up illegals. And Obama already put a temporary ban on certain countries from coming to America who happen to have a large Muslim majority. \n\nWould enforcing the current laws and not allowing sanctuary cities and states be bad? What about the Muslims that tried to cross the southern border illegally? \nAgain, get your facts straight and not from satire news agencies. ",
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"content": "Trump himself has said he would deport all undocumented, so yes he would be rounding people while also persecuting people here legally if they \"appear\" to be illegal. Like his smearing of an American judge because of his heritage. \n\nAnd banning immigration from certain countries is not banning religions as whole because you can verify where someone comes from but you have no way of confirming a religion, nor is it an American value to ban religions as out country was founded on freedom from persecution just for religion. \n\nSo yeah, you are full of it as your Mussolini is. \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "It's physically impossible to round up all illegals, some who've been here for 50 years. (He was just arrested for impersonating a dead soldier to get VA benefits.)\n\n\nAnd again read trumps exact quote when it comes to what he said about limiting Muslim travel to the US. Don't listen to sound bytes from the MSM. \n\n\n",
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"content": "I saw his statement live. \n\nStop twisting like a pretzel. ",
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"content": "Suggest you learn how to spell \"their \" before you engage in higher intellectual endeavours like writing fantasy novels.",
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"content": "Wow. I can't believe I'm living in such an age of higher learning where people continue to degrade others over the Internet on the uses of words. Sorry my spell check changed the word, or maybe I'm a ESL person. Maybe my Spanish is my first language. You'd love me right, maybe I came from Peru or maybe Paraguay? I snuck across the border and I can get citizenship in a year then apply for my family of 11 to come too. \n\nWhy can't work visas be okay for the left? Why do trains full of people imported to this country seem like a good idea to anybody. It's to bad you weren't a trump supporter getting his head kicked in. Maybe you'd grow a pair and work with the law and not against it. \n\nEdit: just realized Disney is abusing the visa policies and hiring temporary foreign workers below market price. And forcing the current workers to train them. \n\nSo what the fuck can we do besides deride someone for misusing a word? Hire a socialist to raise taxes across the board to expand the government even more? WTF? Give amnesty to people with no background checks or application processes? I want to love to another country. I can't fucking do that without extensive checks. What the hell man. ",
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"content": "Nothing ",
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"content": "She both stomped on Trump and pushed Bernie to the side. \n\nThe presumptive nominee is just warming up. ",
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"content": "Riiiight... Ok, cheerleader. We'll see what happens next week. ",
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"content": "And if Bernie the Wizard loses next week you'll be here saying he still should get the nom. ",
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"content": "I'll be saying he should run as an independent... ",
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"content": "Yes, because you want Trump to win out of spite. We get it. ",
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"content": "No, I never said that... But, neither of them get my vote. \n\nI'm more anti-Hillary than I am pro-Bernie.. You can't shame people to vote for people they despise. When it comes to the lesser of two evils I vote None of the Above. ",
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"content": "Well... bye. \n\n",
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"content": "Peace out... Go shame someone else. ",
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"content": "Go start your own party, I will be here with the adults. \n\nYou should be ashamed. That's on you not me. ",
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"content": "I can't think of a single reason to vote for Hillary... Sorry, anyone but Trump isn't good enough. I know that what she's banking on, and it could work. I don't think that it will. \n\nIs my vote ungettable? Maybe...\n\nAmerica will recover, she always does. Our people I believe in. Our power hungry establishment, I do not. The beauty of our government is the three branches. A terrible president won't do irreparable harm, they never have before. I don't think Hillary will appoint a SCOTUS that agrees with everything I want, I have no idea what Trump will do.. \n\nHe's a wild card. ",
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"content": "Not if he appoints 2 to 3 Supreme Court judges that will be on the bench for 30 years. ACA and anything like it will be ruled unconstitutional, as will the EPAs ability to regulate greenhouse gases, any ability to control corporate spending in politics, complete evisceration of a woman's right to choose, and elimination of the voting rights act assuring Republican domination in the south and the House forever. And that is just for starters. Your progressive revolution won't happen in your life-time.",
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"content": "Maybe... Maybe not. None of these hypotheticals work, because I don't want Hillary's corporation approved appointees either. \n\nI'm used to drudging along while society drags its feet.\n\n",
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"content": "You're dragging your feet too... \n\n\nLearn to accept 3rd & 4th parties. ",
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"content": "You still here?",
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"content": "Yes troll. Nothing to add? ",
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"content": "I thought you had copped out. ",
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"content": "I don't think you know what that word means ",
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"content": "Yes, it's what you are claiming to do to be oh so edgy. ",
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"content": "Having beliefs is edgy? ",
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"content": "If it results in you being lazy, spiteful, self-entitled and short-sighted, yes. ",
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"content": "And... How am I those things?",
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"content": "Because you use principles as an excuse not to participate so you can feel above the fray and better, when really you are doing nothing. \n\nYou think you are the first? ",
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"content": "The first person with integrity? The first to not consider them self a cheerleader for the red or blue team? No. \n\nHopefully I'm not the last. \n\nThe beauty of democracy, sometimes you have to accept being the minority. Hillary doesn't share my ideals, Bernie &amp; Stein do. Gary Johnson is closer to me than Hillary is. \n\nI'll vote with my conscience and see how many Americans agree with me. \n\nI've got plenty of options. ",
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"content": "No, you don't. You are either supporting Trump or aren't. \n\nVoting green is just a cop-out. And does nothing. \n\nSanders will endorse Clinton anyways, as their positions are 90% the same. \n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Well, because she's learning it's politically smart to take 90% of his positions... Lots of conveniently timed pivots. \n\nNo, only people who are voting for Trump are voting for Trump... ",
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"content": "No one even heard of Sanders before 2008.\n\nIf anything HE has co-opted the Democrat party.",
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"content": "That's the dumbest thing posted on Reddit in months. Congratulations ",
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"content": "It's true. No one knew who he was and he was not even a Dem. \n\n",
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"content": "I think they'll both do things I don't want them to do.. \n\nThey will both, most certainly, \"Spread democracy\" and expand the industrial military complex... I think they'll both be beholden to special interests and deregulate where they shouldn't. I think they'll both take similar stances on various domestic social issues... \n\nThe real gamble, in my mind, with a Trump presidency is what he'll do to the economy. It'll be turbulent, which will likely guarantee a single term. Unless he surprises me (and the rest of the world) by doing a good job. \n\nPresidents don't really have the authority to nuke whomever they damn well please.. I'm pretty sure there will be a lot of turnover down ballot and in the midterm elections. So, America will get through it. \n\nHopefuly this election is the death throes of the status quo. ",
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"content": "I thought you left?",
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"content": "Is that a question? \n\nI don't know what, or if, you think. ",
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"content": "Well, you say you won't support the Democrat presumptive nominee, so why are you still here wasting you time whining? ",
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"content": "You aren't even good at trolling. I'll do you a favor & pretend this never happened. \n\nGo think of something better and come back in 20 min. ",
"role": "user"
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"content": "And yet you are still here. ",
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"content": "You're really desperate.\n\nYour insult game is weak. ",
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"content": "I am not insulting you. \n\nI am wondering why you are still here and responding. ",
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"content": "The sand reason you are. \n\nEvery time you think it's a good idea to slide your sausage fingers across the keyboard, you're in my messages... Mixed with people who don't suck at life. ",
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"content": "Most states prohibit anyone that ran in a party primary from being on the ballot as an independent. So he might be able to run as an independent in about 10 states or so. Not Virginia for one. Good luck with that though. Talk about low information.",
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"content": "I fail to see how that changes my opinion that he should run as an independent..... Maybe he'll steal votes from both in those 10 states, helping a 3rd party candidate. \n\nI'm anxious to see the 2 party system crumble ",
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"content": "If Hillary the witch wins she'll get destroyed in the general. ",
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"content": "Yea, really looks that way so far. First she has won and second she is looking pretty good compared to comrade bernardo.",
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"content": "She's already won. And she will win in November. Thanks. ",
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"content": "http://www.politicususa.com/2016/06/03/hillary-clinton-surges-11-point-lead-trump-support-trump-crashes.html",
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"content": "November is a long way away... ",
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"content": "Good for Jake.",
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"content": "What?\n\nHe is saying the judge is bias because he is of Mexican dissent. \n\nThat is bigotry. Bigotry. ",
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"content": "You speak for those persons?\n\nDidn't think so. \n\nOr are you just deflecting from your bigoted candidate? \n\nNo one condones violent behavior. Except for Trump. ",
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"content": "Actually as a person whi watched it with other persons. Yes I do. I am in that group.",
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"content": "What? Speaka de English? ",
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"content": "\"Cultural change?\" The point that concerns Trump supporters is \"those fucking Mexicans.\" ",
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"content": "Trump is saying this federal judge can't do his job impartially because he is Hispanic. (FWIW the judge was born in Indiana.) Don't cloud the issue. How is that not racist?",
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"content": "Thank you. this is a good question. Is it that Trump thinks somehow the Judge will do his job too well, being sophisticated enough to promote his personal demographic issues into a case given the defendants prior public statements or is it other? Remember the Popular expresident of Mexico cussd this man on national tv. Its unreal in some ways. Personaly I think stressing judges with examination by public review is not a bad thing. The rest? hoo boy.",
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"content": "The man is from Indiana. He was a prosecutor, and now he's a federal judge. But apparently the most important thing is where his family emigrated from?\n\nHe's Hispanic. I'm Irish. We're both equally American. Anyone who thinks anything else is something awful.",
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"content": "Im gonna go with fake account astroturfing. ",
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"content": "Note to self: don't watch videos of Donald Trump while on the toilet. You may end up wanting to shit on your phone/laptop. ",
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"content": "The only way to stop Trump is to support HRC!?! No thank you.",
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"content": "Then you are supporting Trump in effect. ",
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"content": "No, Clinton has no chance of beating Trump in the general with a criminal investigation hanging over her head. Nominating Clinton at this point will basically hand Trump the presidency on an orange platter. ",
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"content": "Uh, she will be the presumptive nominee on Tuesday night. \n\nYou saying \"no chance\" is about as meaningless as some Republicans saying Trump has \"no chance\" to beat Clinton. \n\nThere are only two choices to support. \n",
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"content": "Seriously? Regardless of your political stances you can't seriously act like Sanders isn't still in the race. Fact is with a possible criminal trial pending Clinton should have already dropped out and if she has any integrity at all she will soon. ",
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"content": "Uh, no. Sanders is not in this race. \n\nBeing investigated /= being charged\n\nSanders lost in nearly every facet of this primary and if he did not have a unique fundraising structure he would have already dropped out. He has no claim on the nomination. \n\nHe is not in this race people have to stop pretending he is. \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Except for the part where he is still running and the part where she is under an investigation that is clearly heading toward indictment. Right now we are seriously considering nomination someone who very well may be in a massively high profile criminal court case in a few months. If we nominate Clinton, we will hand Trump the White House. Trump is not going to play soft ball with Clinton and ignore this whole issue. Every time that orange face is on TV the nation will get reminded of her fucking criminal investigation. She is already hated by most of the damn country, how well do you expect her to perform when she is facing the trial of the century. ",
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"content": "She is not hated by most of the country. Most Liberals support her and even most Sanders supporters already are willing to support her. \n\nJust because he is running does not mean he is in the race. It means he is not quitting until the clock runs out. \n\nLike garbage time in the NBA.\n\nHe has not been in this race since Super Tuesday. NY/PA/OH finished him. CA will make it official. \n\nAnything else you said is speculation. Clinton is the presumptive nominee. She has beaten Bernie in nearly every facet of this primary. \n\nHe has no claim to the nomination, nor does he deserve the nomination. \n\nHe deserves concessions and I wholeheartedly agree he should get them. Right after he drops out. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "This is an insane gamble to take, honestly what happens when the DOJ pushes for indictment as the general election heats up?",
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"content": "You said \"when\".",
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"content": "Then we have a VP candidate who takes over the time kettle if it ever gets that far. Bit I have no idea why wed pick a candidate who's losing to Hillary Clinton as backup",
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"content": "Better than someone who did not even run? Honestly how does that make a lick of sense?",
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"content": "Because it doesn't make sense to hand the nomination to someone a majority of voters rejected",
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"content": "So it goes to someone no one voted for at all? ",
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"content": "Well, the idea is the delegates would choose",
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"content": "Well yes, and I can't imagine them risking the party imploding by choosing someone who neglected to even run. ",
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"content": "I mean, picking Biden for instance would not make the party implode",
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"content": "So you're not part of the reality-based community?",
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"content": "She is facing criminal charges, seriously not that crazy to think that will effect her campaigning.",
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"content": "She is not facing criminal charges",
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"content": "Yes, yes she is......",
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"content": "No, she's not. She hasn't been charged, she's not even under criminal investigation",
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"content": "Yes she is, seriously are you just ignoring everything happening right now? Literally under the lenses of a FBI criminal investigation. She could face up to ten years in federal prison if it turns up any foreign entities got into her private sever. Which in and of itself is a reason she should never be allowed the White House. Imagine, a sitting president who may very well be in position to be black mailed by Moscow or Beijing because of what they have on her. ",
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"content": "Literally not true. It's an inquiry, and there's no evidence of criminal intent. It's not a criminal imvestigation.\n\nhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jan/14/jeb-bush/heres-whats-wrong-jeb-bush-saying-hillary-clinton-/",
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"content": "http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/may/12/fbis-investigation-hillary-clintons-emails-recap/\n\n\nAnd maybe not criminal intent but surely is criminal negligence. \n\nhttp://www.factcheck.org/2016/05/ig-report-on-clintons-emails/\n\n\nSorry but the narrative was easy to spin back in January. Less so now. Clinton may be willing to bring everything down to earn herself her POTUS spot but it doesn't mean we should let it happen. ",
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"content": "So again, not criminal negligence. There is an investigation or inquiry going on to determine whether anyone did anything wrong. If it's determined that there likely was criminal wrongdoing or negligence or intent, then a criminal investigation occurs following an indictment or accusation of guilt. We're not at that stage yet. We're probably not going to get to that stage. If we do, that's one thing - but as of now, the only people using the word criminal are people with a vested political interest in tearing Hillary down.",
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"content": "1st, yes she was criminally negligent. \n\nSecond this is the investigation, the FBI is currently deciding if they have enough for the DOJ to push an indictment. Pagliano isn't receiving immunity because the FBI is \"just doing a security review\". \n\n",
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"content": "Again, she wasnt. She hasn't been held criminally liable for anything yet. Had it been so cut and dry, there'd be an indictment already. Your second statement is repeating what I said. They are deciding whether there is enough there to undergo a criminal investigation.",
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"content": "Except that the IG report said she was clearly breaking rules by having her private server, and that she broke FOIA rules by not turning them over immediately. The FBI have given immunity to an IT specialist who set up her server. They do not do that for security reviews. The FBI simply know that Clinton is powerful and corrupt, pushing this before every duck is in order would be career suicide. On the flip side I doubt it would have come this far had there been nothing illegal done. \n\n\nSo again, my point is that with the threat of real federal charges hanging over her head. There is no reason why we should risk it and nominate her. Sanders, Biden, Dean, or fucking Warren I don't care. Can we just fucking nominate someone who isn't threatened by a possible federal court case. ",
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"content": "Let's wait and see if there's actual substance to it first",
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"content": "Again, the FBI doesn't make a habit of giving immunity from prosecution for nothing. ",
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"content": "And again, it may be that they didn't see the man as likely of any wrongdoing, so that was a lenient thing. Or it could be that he has information that's vital one way or the other, and they're just being as thorough as possible. Right now, the FBI is seeing if there was evidence of criminal wrongdoing or not. They obviously want to be as thorough as possible, so they can be confident with whatever their final decision is on such a high profile case",
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"content": "So you don't have the slightest fucking clue what you're talking about?",
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"content": "So you're not part of the reality-based community?",
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"content": "She is not facing a single charge. ",
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"content": "Actually if her private server that she illicitly set up was hacked by foreign government entities then she could face up to ten years. ",
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"content": "You just said above she is facing charges, now you insert an \"if\". \n\n",
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"content": "Because that is just part of it. Regardless of that she was still criminally negligent in flaunting OPSEC regulations like that. She put our nations security at risk and possibly has opened herself up to blackmail by doing that. This whole controversy at least shows she is entirely unqualified to be president. ",
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"content": "You said above she is facing charges. \n\nIs that true or jot? ",
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"content": "Yes",
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"content": "No, it's not. \n\nWhy are you lying again?",
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"content": "I'm not, Jesus how are you this dense. She is looking at federal charges, the FBI is doting every I and crossing every T but it is heading to indictment. The FBI didn't give Bryan Pagliano immunity from prosecution for fucking nothing. \n\nClinton is a sinking ship, we can either bale water the whole election campaign and hope it doesn't sink before November or we can jump ship to someone else. \n\n",
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"content": "Yeah, that again just sounds like speculative bed-wetting. ",
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"content": "Name call and scoff all you want man. I assume you're a Clinton employee the way you systematically attack anything Bernie or anti Hilary. If so then kudos, you do your job well. However it doesn't change anything. The Clinton campaign is the wrong horse to bet on if we want to keep the White House. ",
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"content": "If you are being dishonest, then that's on you. Don't claim victimhood when you are the one here smearing. \n\nClinton is the presumptive nominee. ",
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"content": "TIL mentioning facts and pointing out real world ramifications is smearing. I guess in the Clinton camp that is the case. ",
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"content": "You said she is facing charges.\n\nThat is not fact. ",
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"content": "Yes sorry, she has not been charged yet because the FBI knows Clinton has mafia levels of power. Sorry you backed one of the most corrupt political horses in American history, but arguing nomenclature semantics will not change anything. \n\nClinton has a major investigation breathing down her neck and could be facing up to a decade in federal prison. I cannot fathom how you can sit there and justify her candidacy at this point. ",
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"content": "So you admit you were wrong. \n\nAnd an investigation is not a charge. Obama was under investigation in 2012. Didn't phase me because I am not a baby. \n\nDon't blame me because your candidate failed. ",
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"content": "She doesn't have a criminal investigation hanging over her head",
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"content": "No. I'm not helping anyone. I support both shit candidates equally. ",
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"content": "Which is a net gain for Turnip. Since it means you are copping out. \n\nThat's called math. ",
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"content": "By that fundamentalist logic, I am supporting HRC since I'm not supporting Drumpf.",
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"content": "Not if you lean left, you aren't. You are giving a 1/2 to Turnip. ",
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"content": "Check your entitlement. You gotta earn my vote, same as the other guy.",
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"content": "And you have to compromise as well. \n\nOtherwise no one would ever vote. \n\nAnd in the end, a disaster awaits with the neo-fascist. ",
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"content": "Vote Sanders because [multiple polls](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html) state he beats Trump by a wider margin than Clinton.",
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"content": "We already voted and Sanders lost. ",
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"content": "Paranoid like Nixon.",
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"content": "Pfftt…these people make Nixon look like a well-adjusted, innocent angel.",
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"content": "I would vote for Nixon over Trump without hesitation. Gave us the EPA, tried to give us Universal Health Care, how about that everybody, bet you didn't know that? Why didn't it happen? Because our great Tip O'Neil hated Nixon so much (and I loved Tip) that he didn't want him to get credit. Remember, as paranoid as Nixon was, today he would be a full-fledged RINO.",
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"content": "Well Sanders supporters are claiming that since prisoners are allowed to vote in Puerto Rico, they are being threatened with being shot if they vote for Sanders.",
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"content": "Sanders supporters say a lot of things but after they started posting Fox News links on twitter and FB, I completely disregarded them. ",
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"content": "It is possible. If you type in \"Bill Clinton Rap\" into google it doesn't auto complete \"Bill Clinton Rapist\" like Bing and duck duck go do. Try it. ",
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"content": "LOL…the same group who thinks vaccines cause autism, global warming is a hoax, there's no such thing as racism in current day American…think that Google is rigging the autocomplete. \n\nsounds about right.\n\nLet's be honest: These are the least educated people in America (in the *world* in some cases), anything they have to say should be 100% disregarded completely by those who are informed/educated.",
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"content": ">LOL…the same group who thinks vaccines cause autism,\n\nPrimarily Democrats, but make sure to feel unjustifiably smug.",
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"content": "At least I'll admit that, but anti-vaxxers won't bring about the end of the world like climate change deniers will. I read that in Two Corinthians. ",
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"content": "Anti-GMO propaganda killed a hell of a lot more people through starvation than climate change denial ever did.",
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"content": "Source?",
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"content": "And when global warming goes unchecked, what happens then? Oh yea, gonna get hard to grow food in a lot more places",
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"content": "> Her record as Secretary of State was one of the worst in modern US history\n\nSomeone has been drinking the Kool Aid.",
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"content": "Care to back that up with proof most of the middle east is now falling apart. Her violations in terms of security alone are atrocious. I find it extremely hard to justify supporting someone who despite being told to not bring an unsecured blackberry into a secured location did so numerous times. She was blatantly told that it could be turned into a listening device thus compromising our national security. Evidently her convenience and stylistic needs outweigh the needs of the rest of us.",
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"content": "this is the dumbest thing ive ever read. its fair to be critical of some of her hawkishness but this is hilariously stupid. Delete your account.",
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"content": "You first.",
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"content": "On second thought are you actually disputing the thing with her bringing an unsecured blackberry into a highly sensitive location, because that is documented fact. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-clintons-email-scandal-took-root/2016/03/27/ee301168-e162-11e5-846c-10191d1fc4ec_story.html\nYou really need to educate yourself on this subject.",
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"content": "And the impact of doing that has been?",
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"content": "It doesn't matter that the security vulnerability was never exploited what matters is that it could have.",
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"content": "It does matter because no harm still means no harm. Yes it shouldn't happen again, but no one was harmed. Well he could have been killed but he is fine doesn't get you put in jail. ",
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"content": "Yes in fact it does it's called reckless endangerment. If you were to shoot a gun into the air in a city you would still be arrested even if no one was killed. She did that on a massive scale for months despite being told repeatedly that her actions endangered all of us. I used to work for the federal government. I took security very seriously the fact that she showed this kind of disregard is insulting to all of us that not only abide by the rules but go out of our way to point out security vunerabilitys.",
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"content": "OK, well you find the charge that doesn't exist and go make your citizen's arrest.",
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"content": "I am sure the FBI will do that for me if there is something there.",
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"content": "The word of all clear has already been passed to the president, thus his endorsement this week.",
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"content": "Do you have any proof of that, or is that your idle speculation.",
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"content": "Nothing idle now!",
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"content": "delete your account.",
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"content": "Did you even read the article or did that just twitch out of your fingers. Do you even think about what you are saying?",
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"content": "The Middle East falling apart, nice hyperbole as I am sure the Israelis and Jordanians at minimum would beg to differ, is Clinton's fault how? I am just amazed how it can come down to a Secretary of State. Assuming this was even possible, are we assuming Obama was asleep for the last 8 years?",
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"content": "Calm down. Sanders lost. ",
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"content": "Not yet he didn't",
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"content": "Yes. Yes, he did. ",
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"content": "See you at the convention. We cant afford the tremendous risk of a Trump presidency. Clinton is almost as unpopular as Trump. That is pathetic.",
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"content": "1) She is not almost anything next to Trump.\n\n2) Sanders will suspend his campaign after the primaries are over and before the convention or he will get jacksquat. ",
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"content": "You are going to be in for a very rough ride over the next few months. I almost feel bad for you. Anyway we still have #BlackFridayStrike coming up. If Clinton looses we will stop Trump by refusing to work for one week starting black Friday. If Clinton does win, and doesn't start doing good by the country once she is in we can hold her accountable that way. Either way the people are going to take back the power from the plutocrats.",
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"content": "Good luck with that general strike. That is something of dreams. Highly unlikely. \n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Why is it unlikely it depends on the democratic will of the people. We do have the internet you know. If the people decide that they want something we will have it. It's time for some direct democracy using a decentralized union of the american people.",
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"content": "The Internet is not reality. ",
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"content": "No it is a way to communicate and organize one of the most powerful tools ever developed. You'r argument misses the point entirely.",
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"content": "People griping on the Internet is far different than a general strike. \n\nBut good luck. It would be fascinating to watch. ",
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"content": " #BlackFridayStrike? Haven't seen that one in the Bernie Bro echo chambers here. Just some nonsense about an event in Chicago they think Sanders will go to in June. Now that Obama is endorsing Clinton this week, that will mean Biden and Warren too. Oh, if somehow Trump did win, I am sure he would be trembling in his boots. [What you don't realize is that you are already working for the Trump campaign.](http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2016/06/roger-rock-meets-bernie-bros.html) ",
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"content": "No it is not an event in Chicago it is a nationwide event starting this black Friday, or maybe the next black Friday. I don't know if you are aware of this or not but the vast majority of trades on the stock market are done via high frequency trading algorithms. This allows the plutocrats of this country to siphon off vast amounts of capital in a relatively risk free fashion. What is beautiful about this is if you tried to add some code to deal with a week long decentralized strike they would no longer be fast enough to do there job. Of course these same algorithms will amplify the economic effect of one week with very little revenue coming in nationally. To get some idea of how big this could get look and see how many people work in the service sector. Of course any health care providers like doctors or nurses would be exempt as well as police or fire fighters. Our voices will be heard.",
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"content": "So, she's finally caught up to where Sanders has been for over a year. ",
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"content": "So, is Bernie going to finally accept mathematical defeat and drop out of the race since it's impossible for him to win the nomination and has been for the past few months?",
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"content": "Why does the party have a six month primary process if candidates are expected to drop out when polls make it reasonably clear they cannot win? I'm glad Bernie is fighting to the bitter end. He's highlighting how absurd this primary system is. The system seems designed to encourage this sort of behavior, and I think we should shorten the primary season if we want candidates to behave differently from what Bernie is doing. ",
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"content": "Because sometimes it's actually really close up to the end. Hillary was much, much closer to Obama in '08 than Bernie is now, which is why she made her rock-star style endorsement of Obama **AT** the convention, instead of dropping out. \n\nSanders is much, much further behind than Hillary was against Obama, and not only is he not dropping out like all the losing Republicans and Democratic presidential candidates would do at a point like this—he's threatening to contest the convention—not endorse at it. \n\nBernie did a good thing running and pushing a progressive agenda (and even almost made it a real horserace to the end), but it's not a horserace and he is throwing away all the good he did by either acting on bad advice, or letting the campaign go to his head. ",
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"content": "If you're going to use terms like \"mathematical defeat\" and \"impossible\", you should learn what they mean. Sanders is not mathematically defeated and it's not impossible. Sanders is not mathematically defeated until Clinton has 2,383 *pledged* delegates or 2,383 total delegates (which doesn't happen until super delegates officially vote at the convention), which ever comes first. \n\n\"Impossible\" and \"Mathematically eliminated\" are precise and objective terms that aren't subject to your interpretation. \n\nIt's extremely improbable that Sanders will defeat Clinton, but it's not impossible, nor is he mathematically defeated. It was also highly improbable that Clinton would win in '08, yet she stayed in past the last vote being cast, and didn't concede until she stuck a deal with Obama for SoS. Sanders staying in the race to extract as many political concessions as he can is literally no different than what Clinton did in '08. ",
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"content": "Then he should drop out after CA. Just like Clinton did. ",
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"content": "Clinton didn't drop out until she made a deal with Obama. Prior to that she was threatening to take it to the convention and raising all kinds of chaos like forcing a live broadcasted committee meeting to change the rules after the fact regarding the fate of the MI and FL delegates. \n\nUsing Clinton as a precedent Sanders has a right to stay in the race to strike whatever deals he's looking for. Clinton wanted a position to set herself up for a presidential run in '16. Clinton should be entering talks with Sanders (and it's perfectly fine to do this behind closed doors like it was done on '08) to find out what it would take for him to concede. \n\nThere is nothing Sanders is currently doing that isn't analogous to what Clinton did in '08. ",
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"content": "Clinton never threatened to take it to the convention. \n\nStop lying. ",
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"content": "Of course she did. She was going to continue to work the Super Delegates and do everything she could. She thought by \"winning the popular vote\" (which isn't a very good metric in a primary with so much deviation in how votes are cast) that she was entitled to the super delegates handing her the nomination. \n\nAnd as it stands, she is as about as unlikely to win the nomination straight out with pledged delegates as Sanders is to overtake her. \n\nLike it or not, under the rules of the party, Sanders is fully entitled to leverage his delegates as he sees fit. If Clinton wants a concession to drive unification, then she take a page from Obama and find a way to cut a deal. ",
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"content": "No, she did not. Please cite where Clinton threatened a contested convention. \n\nSecondly, she owes Sanders very little and he has a responsibility here, too. \n\nIt's quite absurd to watch Sanders and his supporters constantly demand things and switch positions in their quest to get all what they want, while still refusing to compromise on anything. \n\nThey did lose, you know. Badly. \n\nAnd he loses leverage every day. \n\nThis week she is the presumptive nominee. \n\nSanders then needs to drop out. He can take his delegates to the convention and get concessions. \n\nIf he wants anything else he better go out of his way to campaign for and support Clinton and down ticket Dems. \n\nThat is the way it's going to go down. Not Clinton better hurry up and give Sanders what he wants. He lost. That means he is humble. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "> No, she did not.\n\nYes, of course she did. Why would Obama cut a deal to make her SoS of she was just going to drop out anyway? [ Plus she even tried to call a roll call vote at the convention instead of the customary acclimation vote](http://www.thenation.com/article/the-2008-democratic-primary-was-far-nastier-than-2016s/). So Obama and Clinton were cutting deals all the way to the convention. Like it or not Sanders has earned that right as well. \n\n> It's quite absurd to watch Sanders and his supporters constantly demand things and switch positions in their quest to get all what they want, while still refusing to compromise on anything.\n\nExactly how Clinton and her supporters acted in '08. '08 was not all sunshine and lollipops, as there was plenty of race baiting coming from Clinton and her supporters (see above link which recaps some of it). \n\n> They did lose, you know. Badly.\n\nThis is objectively false. Under no definition of \"badly\" can you include a scenario in which she fails to win outright with pledge delegates alone. \n\n> That is the way it's going to go down.\n\nSays who? Neither you nor Clinton are entitled to expect that. That's the consequence of failing to secure enough pledged delegates to clinch outright. And quite frankly, if this is how Clinton is going to handle her first test as the presumptive leader of the party, then she's not the practical problem solver she claims she is. Especially when Sanders has said the goal is to defeat Trump and the GOP and nothing he's done suggests he means otherwise. \n\nHe absolutely has enough political and financial support to go third party if he wanted to, *which is a big piece of leverage Clinton did not enjoy in '08 as she was $25 million in debt*. If he wanted to play spoiler, it would be ridiculously easy for him to do so. He's been signalling he wants concessions in the party platform. *These are stupid easy to give* because they are rarely followed. It's a lot easier to give that then it is a cabinet position like SoS, considering Sanders would be subject to Senate approval.\n\nIf Clinton can't cut what appears to be an easy deal, then she's failed he first test at executive leadership before she even win the nomination officially. Not a good way to start things off. ",
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"content": "All of your statements are speculation presented as fact.\n\nShe did NOT contes the convention.\n\nShe dropped out after CA. \n\nAnd she was closer in votes to Obama than Sanders is to her. \n\nIf he does not drop out he will lose leverage and look pathetic. Damaging his legacy for change. Looking like Ralph Nader.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "> All of your statements are speculation presented as fact.\n\nI've presented many facts, facts that your hate for Sanders seems to keep you from accepting. \n\nClinton didn't officially concede until a deal was cut with Obama, several days after the last primary. Obama did this because he realized the political ramifications. He could've shut the door on her (as you are suggesting Clinton do to Sanders) and offered nothing. But he didn't. Hell, he even helped pay the remainder of her creditors as a parting gift when she resigned from SoS.\n\n> Looking like Ralph Nader.\n\nThe only way to reasonably make that argument is if he went independent, something he's refused to do under no uncertain circumstances. The fact that he decided to run within the the Democratic Party and not go independent puts him far above Nader, and should be a massive sign that it should be easy to cut a deal. \n\n\n",
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"content": "You just said above she threatened to contest the convention. \n\nConsidering you ran from that, we will assume that was lie. \n\nDon't deflect and then claim victimhood - \"waaaah! You hate Sanders!\"\n\nYou lied and got busted. \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "You're incredibly uninformed.\n \n[Polls Say Bernie Is More Electable Than Hillary. Don’t Believe Them.\nWhat they really show is a candidate who hasn’t been attacked](http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/04/polls_say_bernie_is_more_electable_than_hillary_don_t_believe_them.html)",
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"content": "This argument reminds me of the \"Hillary is dishonest\" argument. When you fact check, Bernie is 1% more honest, and he's been scrutinized 1/3-1/2 as much. It must be nice to have that argument when you don't have to put up with the ravages of being the leader. I'd love to see Sanders lead for a week and see what happens then.",
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"content": "I love Bernie, but he hasn't been attacked by the republicans for being a communist yet (I know he's not a goddamn communist!). The republicans would have laid into him sometime around August and it would have been game over. Sad but true. ",
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"content": "O Senor Trump has said he 's a communist several times.\n",
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"content": "No ads, major speeches, and RNC attacks. Just saying it doesn't make it resonate. ",
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"content": "She's the one who's the presumptive nominee. ",
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"content": "Shhhh…you're supposed to buy into the Sanders' narrative that he's the only person capable of beating Trump. \n\nLike it matters whether a democrat beats a republican by 5% or 9% (particularly with the +/- margin of error for these polls). ",
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"content": "Drop out Hillary, so our electability argument makes sense.\n",
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"content": "Yes, satisfy the self-entitlement of the loser. ",
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"content": "It matters a great deal in terms of Congress and local races where people tend to vote down-the-ballot for the same party.",
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"content": "Then maybe sanders should join a party",
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"content": "That you want to kick him out doesn't change the fact that he did join this party.",
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"content": "Is he an independent Senator that votes Democratic for leadership votes or has he declared himself as a Democratic Senator from Vermont?",
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"content": "Never registered as a democrat. ",
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"content": "All of Puerto Rico's Superdelegates now support Clinton. They may call for Clinton at anytime I am hearing. ",
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"content": "S4P says that prisoners whom are allowed to vote were told they would be shot if they voted for Sanders.",
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"content": "Hilarious. ",
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"content": "This one is going to Clinton for sure. ",
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"content": "You two timers just like me :-)",
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"content": "It may be over before I even get to vote.",
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"content": "Looks that way unless you mailed it in.",
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"content": "Nope. Voted in person in every election for the last 40 years!",
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"content": "Damn, you just said you are older than me by a couple of years!",
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"content": "I didn't say which couple of years.",
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"content": "You are young at heart too. Did you see this? \n\nhttps://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/739581677039714304",
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"content": "Young at heart. Old at running.\n\nThat is is an amazing statistic. ",
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"content": "Forget about it. My daughter and me, thanks to her, both have a sore throat. They are too slow down there. I am going to lie down awhile and check back in. Let us know if you hear about any prisoners being shot.",
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"content": "Sleep. When you awake you may have an official nominee. \n\nSo far the prisoners are safe though. :D",
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"content": "I salute you. ",
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"content": ":D",
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"content": "[Clinton's leads because of big wins that didn't always get big coverage. A big Clinton win in PR would be emblematic](https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/739548858250887168)",
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"content": "It's big because it might be the one!",
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"content": "Ugggghhh!\n\nStill stuck at 3% of the vote almost five hours after the polls closed.",
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"content": "Clinton at 69%",
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"content": "Been that way for hours. No new votes have come in for almost 5 hours now. Only 3% in. She will take most of the delegates there today though.",
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"content": "PBS calls it for Hillary!\n\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/puerto-rico-votes-as-clinton-closes-in-on-nomination/",
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"content": "I have been a loyal democrat for years. The actions and behavior of Clinton and the democratic establishment have made me think about becoming an indy. I have a very long list of problems with the way this primary has been run. From the very start with the Super Delegates all pledging for Clinton before the American people had any chance to vote, and then the press started acting like Clinton was inevitable due to the super delegate advantage.To the very stated purpose of super delegates of suppressing grassroots candidates. The list goes on and on. At this point I am strongly considering voting for Jill Stein.",
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"content": "We've had the superdelegate system in place for over thirty years and you'd ditch the party because your candidate lost a primary election one cycle? \"Loyal Democrat\" indeed.",
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"content": "http://m.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/15/457181/-",
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"content": "The final line from the article: \n\"Super delegates should uphold both our rules and our values by ratifying the popular will. That is as simple as I can make it.\"\n\nHillary leads by more than 3 million votes and she'd still lead in pledged delegates no matter how the States apportioned them. If you hate Hillary enough to abandon the Party, just say so; don't try and make this about the \"will of the people.\"",
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"content": "[Actually I think it is more of the will of this guy](http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2016/06/roger-rock-meets-bernie-bros.html)",
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"content": "They have never done something like this in recent history. I personally think having these individuals having the equivilant power as 10000 voters is fundamentally unamerican.",
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"content": "Apparently, you've been fine with whatever \"this\" is \"for years,\" as a \"loyal Democrat.\" Getting rid of superdelegates in the nomination process is one thing; jumping ship for some Green Party joke is what costs Democrats elections. Nader helped usher in 8 years of George W. Bullshit and Stein is playing the spoiler this year. ",
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"content": "Its my duty as a citizen to vote for whomever I think is the best canidate. Right now that is Sanders. If he doesn't get the nomination it will be Stein. I have never been disgusted by the Democratic party before. The actions of Clinton, Schultz, and so many of Clintons supporters is possibly going to push me possibly out.",
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"content": "Bernie's not getting the nomination, so you can plan on it. Don't let the dictionary hit you on the way out \"loyal\" Democrat.",
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"content": "Hey if you guys are so desperate to loose you should just drop out. You don't win elections by alienating a large part of your base.",
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"content": "Something like what? They haven't done anything different this year. \n\nAnd Sanders lost by millions of votes and hundreds of pledged delegates. \n\n",
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"content": "They announced there support of Clinton before anyone voted. They also made sure the media pushed the narative that she was unbeatable from the start. They are still counting super delegates on national media even now.",
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"content": "They did the same thing in 2008.\n\nHow old are you? ",
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"content": "Ive voted dem in every election since 2000. They may have backed Obama in 2008 but for some odd reason no 1 made a big deal out of it.",
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"content": "Oh boy. Well I have been at it much longer than that. You would have been really whining with Mondale and Hart then.",
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"content": "No, they backed Clinton in 2008 at the start. \n\nThey switched to Obama because he got the most pledged delegates. \n\nThe super delegates are not why Sanders lost. ",
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"content": "And you don't think that Sanders getting very close, and being the candidate with no legal issues might change there mind. Sanders is also statistically the candidate of the millennials which like it or not is the future of the democratic party. Unless of course we all decide to go green.",
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"content": "Then he can run again in 2024 if he's the future.\n\nAnd no, he is not getting close. ",
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"content": "Are you trying to be obtuse. I said millennials are the future of this party if it has a future. We might just back the green party. I am reminded of David vs. Goliath for some reason. You people treat us like we have no say at all. I also wonder if the race is so settled why this happened. http://sourceplanet.net/politics/the-netas-threatened-to-kill-those-who-vote-for-sanders/\nSeems like a pretty desperate move for something that is so certain.",
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"content": "Gimme a break, dude. \n\n",
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"content": "That is your response to voters having there lives threatened?\n\n“The Ñetas who did not vote for Hillary do so at risk of death penalty because that’s how they work them and that the federal charges they received just two months ago is proof that this is how it works in prisons in Puerto Rico.\n\nHe said the net “negotiates with politicians in exchange for benefits and even financial contributions because lots of money gets into prisons and somehow that money has to come out. This money leaves the prisons by politicians who are also lawyers”.\n\nI get you are rooting for Hillary, but this seems like a very pyrrhic victory",
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"content": "Why do you believe such drivel?\n\nBy the way, Clinton just clinched. She is now the presumptive nominee. ",
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"content": "I know I saw that she clinched it with the Super Delegates. I am sure all the voters in California and all the other states will be thrilled that there voices don't matter. I am sure that people will not call this what it is a very transparent attempt to suppress voter turnout.",
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"content": "She will still win of course. She wins all the big states. Except for Michigan. \n\nAnd if Sanders contests the convention, he is saying the majority of voters don't matter. \n\n",
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"content": "*approved*",
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"content": "https://youtu.be/7UIVkF1C21s",
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"content": "Thus ends my relationship with the Democratic party.",
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"content": "See ya. \n\nI'm not being smug. I mean that. And that goes to *all* the *independents* who didn't realize they were independents until this election.\n\nGlad you finally came around. Sorry it took this specific election to alert you to the fact that you're an independent, but better late than never, I suppose. \n\nNo go re-register and make it official. ASAP.",
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"content": "> I'm not being smug...\n\nyou kinda are.",
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"content": "I thought I was a Democrat, I've come to the conclusion that I'm simply not a Republican and like some Democratic candidates.",
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"content": "I was not an independent. I have voted Democratic down the line since I was 18 years old. I organized, donated, rallied, and canvased for local, state, and nation election every 2 years in every election since Al Gore. Watching this coronation and listening to the condescending garbage of the middle-right establishment in this party was enough to sour me on the Dems. This party had once had the values of FDR and the new deal. Now, it is rotten to the core. I, and many of the young (ish) voters this party needs are not will to sacrifice our future, and our children's future, on the alter of inevitability. The lesser of two evils will not suffice for someone who wants a better life for their children. I look forward to working and organizing in my swing state to berning this party to the ground. ",
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"content": "So, in other words. The party spoke, you didn't get your way and now you are filled with hate and are going to act like a spoiled brat for not getting your way.\n\nHell, I've been an independent since the late 90s and have always voted Dem in the presidential election because even though lesser of two evils is a shitty choice. Sometimes you have to realize that strategic voting is not the worst thing in the world. I would rather strategically vote for a candidate who is closer to what I think, especially this time around, instead of one who will give us a conservative supreme court for the next few decades.\n\nBut that's just my opinion.",
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"content": "Isn't this the very best thing!",
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"content": "Seems a little odd for this to break right before the CA voters chime in...",
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"content": "Some people will definitely stay at home tomorrow because they think it's over but I think this is going to hurt Clinton more then Sanders. Clinton voters are generally older and not on the internet as much while Sanders voters will still be seeing a push online for them to vote. ",
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"content": "Not just odd...election manipulation. Someone is trying to bag it for Hillary, tell those Bernie voters to not even bother going to the polls.\n\nI cannot possibly vote for this woman.",
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"content": "They can give you something for paranoia. There are also subedits where you can feed off of each other talking about how AP has been bought by the Clinton campaign though no one once questioned how the Clinton campaign came up with that kind of money, got away with buying them in secret, why AP would take a chance of ruining their business forever and going out of business, and do something that will be verifiable by every other news organization out there and if they had not gotten this out there first, someone else would have within an hour.\n\nOr you can call some ethics hotline like they are publishing on FB ignoring the fact that we have freedom of press in this country. Beyond that, I can offer you nothing else.",
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"content": "1. [The DNC has explicitly stated to not count superdelegates in counts.](http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/04/28/dnc-responds-to-delegate-criticism-lead-luis-miranda-live.cnn)\n2. Superdelegate votes can change up until the convention.\n3. It's no accident that this false story was released in force the night before the largest primary in the country, a primary Hillary needs to win in order to not limp into the convention.\n4. There's little consequence for the AP to run such a story.\n\nYou have nothing at all to offer other than more excuses as to why democracy shouldn't take an unfettered course. There will seriously be people who don't show up at the polls, either because they are Hillary fans who think it's no longer necessary to vote, or Bernie fans who don't see the point because they have read this false story.\n\nPublishing this rubbish is completely irresponsible and tantamount to election tampering.",
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"content": "https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/739990283769794560",
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"content": "Not only is that misleading, that is irrelevant.\n\nIt's misleading because Nate Silver's numbers don't include the caucus states, as there were no official voting numbers taken for those states because that's not how caucuses work. A lot of Bernie's support was from caucus states.\n\nIt's irrelevant because AP prematurely calling the nomination has nothing to do with what Nate Silver has to say. Until a candidate secures the required number of *pledged delegates*, statements like the APs are incorrect and irresponsible.\n\nAs we've been told *repeatedly* by Democratic party leadership, given the way the Democratic race works, the number of votes cast for any candidate *is irrelevant*. What matters are the delegates. The system sucks.\n\nThe way they run the contest isn't representative of the will of the people, but to cherry pick and move the goal posts when it suits your narrative is disingenuous. The nominee is determined by delegates, and not a single one has voted yet. There are situations where even the pledged delegates don't have to vote according to how they were selected.",
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"content": "The caucuses, the most undemocratic way of selecting a candidate. Let's compare the Washington State results, shall we?",
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"content": "That's how the game works. The whole process is corrupt, but there are rules we must follow until DWS suspends them to help Hillary like she did with the campaign financing rules from government contractors. As long as we have rules though, we have to use them. And the rules say Hillary isn't the nominee yet, despite the pack of lies the AP is reporting.",
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"content": "You need to get to anger. Every other media site seems to have joined in this conspiracy despite the opportunity of say Fox to bring down Clinton by showing the numbers to be wrong. Or Reuters or whomever. Oh they must all be paid off. Where is all this money coming from? The trilateral commision? How much money would take? So many people that have to be paid more than they could make by exposing the lies. It has to be in the billions. Who is funding it do you think?",
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"content": "Why do you have to act like this?\n\nEntrenched interests have a vested interest in the status quo. The Clintons have spent the last 20 years exchanging favors and selling influence. Bernie wants to shake some things up, it makes some people uncomfortable.",
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"content": "Oh, I see, they are scared that Bernardo single handedly can do that. Right. And newspapers like the NY Times that say that should happen are just a front. Right. Your conspiracy theories will twist you up so much you will end up like DeNiro in Taxi Driver. Then what?",
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"content": "Here's part of your \"conspiracy\" fun.\n\nhttps://a.hrc.onl/imageman/2016_Q2-Email/20160605_hfa_graphic/secret-win-V2-060416c_02.png\n\nIt's interesting how Hillary has a copy of this image dated on Saturday (\"060416\"), when the AP released it on Monday, declaring her \"winner\" or \"secret-win-V2\". Even the folder containing the image is dated a day before (\"20160605_hfa_graphic\") the AP makes this bold declaration.\n\nhttps://twitter.com/AP/status/739975278483656705\n\nWhen you are in politics as long as the Clintons have been, you make friends, and friends help friends.",
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"content": "How so?",
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"content": "Trying to get those UVs? Well I just deleted mine, so enjoy. Umph, there it is, umpf, there it is. No more arguments, here comes Obama's endorsement, here comes Biden's endorsement, here comes Warren's endorsement.",
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"content": "Here comes voter rage as millions of people are told they don't matter, because of super delegates. See the super delegate is a super human creature who has the wisdom and intelligence of 10,000 of us mere mortals. I mean it's not like they created them just to make sure we had less of a voice... Ohh wait that is exactly why they were created. It's not like the AP calling this is a clear attempt to suppress the vote oh wait it is.",
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"content": "Lol, have you not realized nobody gives a fuck about the guy who renamed a post office?",
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"content": "At least 39% of the voters so far do. Good luck pulling it off without us. It is that sort of attitude that will make this election too close with Trump. If he gets the genius idea to tamper with the very vulnerable voting machines we are in for one rough ride.",
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"content": "Let me correct the record. Two post offices, dumping nuclear waste on Sierra Blanca, Texas and after he finally woke up as chairman of the VA committee, and he did admit to falling asleep at the wheel, a bill to fix the VA. Now there is 25 years of service in the Congress for you. Just don't compare that to Barney Frank or Henry Waxman, please.",
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"content": "But what about his cheek bones?",
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"content": "Ahh. Theres that civility they must be talking about in the sub rules. ",
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"content": "I'm sorry. That old man who has been on the government dole for 40 years and achieved nothing? \nHe and his socialist agenda was repudiated today. \nGone. Dead. ",
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"content": "> Here comes voter rage as millions of people are told they don't matter\n\nNo one is saying that. If Clinton and Sanders were effectively tied in the actual vote count, then that might be an issue. But millions more voted for Clinton than did for Sanders. That makes her the winner. There can only be one Democratic nominee. It just wasn't Sanders's year.\n\nIn a democracy, not everyone who runs for office is a winner. That doesn't negate the importance of the voters for other candidates who did not win. The winner will represent all voters.\n\nIt's time for all of us to join together in supporting our nominee, because the alternative, a President Trump, is the last thing we want and need.",
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"content": "There are millions of voters in California alone. I find the fact that the AP did this the day before they got the chance to vote almost criminal. If you read the article it is once again based off of super delegates. In terms of Trump v. Clinton this all seems like good cop bad cop to me. Then Sanders came in and offered ideas and stances that people loved, which threw the whole equation out the window. Also please do not pander to me I took A.P. US History back in 98 in high school. I do understand how elections work. Well enough to know that something horribly wrong is happening here.",
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"content": "The media has always called the winner once they cross the line with supers. Are you saying they were wrong to do it for Kerry when he crossed the line in March because not everyone had voted yet? She crossed the line when she crossed the line. ",
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"content": "> the AP did this the day before they got the chance to vote almost criminal.\n\nWe have something called free speech and freedom of the press.\n\nThe fact that someone would call a free press \"criminal\" is extremely troubling.",
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"content": ">But millions more voted for Clinton than did for Sanders. That makes her the winner.\n\nThat makes her in the lead, the race isn't over yet.",
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"content": "So if she is in the lead when the primaries end Sanders should concede, right??\n\nBecause Sanders supporters change standards like underwear. ",
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"content": "Yes, if she's in the lead with pledged delegates when the primary is over, Bernie should concede.",
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"content": "Thank you so much. ",
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"content": "Just *once*….just *once* I wish people would do just a *bit* of research before they start sounding like Alex Jones in regard to how elections occur in this country. Super delegates have been around longer than you have been alive (likely…I'm guessing because most of the people who don't understand the role they play are typically *younger*) and it's the same system that gave us Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton (who is considered by most to be the most effective, successful living president) and Obama. \n\nSo it works when you agree with the results, right? It's only \"broken\" and the voters \"don't matter\" whenever the candidate that *you* support isn't winning. \n\nIsn't that what this all comes down to? Because I supported Sanders. I voted for him. I was stumping for him on Facebook and locally (yep, went door to door for 3 weekends straight) but the truth of the matter is that this is the DEMOCRATIC party and Clinton is a LIFELONG democrat who had the backing of the other ESTABLISHED democrats. \n\nBernie is a lifelong independent and he ran on the ticket for a party that he has claimed he has nothing in common with in the past. And people are surprised that he wouldn't end up with that party's nomination? \n\nHOW? \n\nIt's not a matter of qualified…if it is, Clinton bests him across the board. She's been involved with things he hasn't. It's that simple. And those are important things and people realize it. They feel that she is more qualified and ready, plain and simple. \n\nYou cannot pretend to be a visionary and then get upset whenever your message doesn't become the most popular message. That's how 'visionaries' work. Their ideas are a bit ahead of their time and it's likely going to be a while before Americans are going to back a democratic socialist to the point where he or she is electable. \n\nSo no…there is nothing wrong with the nomination process or the democratic party or the super delegates. Those are the whinings of a sore loser who is just angry that *your* candidate of choice didn't win. \n\nSame thing the republicans do every 4 years whenever their candidate of choice doesn't win. What's the first thing they do? Make sure that *everyone* knows they're not going to 'stand' for it and they're not going to support the president in any way, shape or form. \n\nSore losers. Malcontents. Miserablists. Just angry that the majority of people don't agree with them and they're all intent on 'teaching everyone a lesson.' \n\nGet over it. Get on board or just put a Trump sign in your front yard. Those are your choices. And knowing some of the Sanders' fans, I expect nothing less from them. And again, I will maintain that these are people who are angry and upset who don't understand the process, sadly. \n\nAnd, in part, a generation of people who have had everything handed to them who absolutely cannot wrap their minds around not getting exactly what they want and being wholly incapable of compromise. ",
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"content": "Neither do the pledge delegates. She has won. You are going to have to face it eventually. We have let you imagine the super delegates don't exist. They do. And even with out them she still wins.\n\nIf they don't exist, then she only only needs 2026 to get a majority. She has that easily tomorrow. ",
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"content": "They do exist but they flip often...and even the DNC said don't count them until they vote. If she's indicted they'll flip, if he wins big tomorrow they might flip, if they actually want to beat Trump, they'll flip.",
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"content": "Not one has changed for Bernie in 13 months. Why would they change now that she has won. Yea there will be no indictment. I know that's your biggest wet dream but it's not going to happen.",
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"content": "Someone changed the other day.. like literally 1 or 2 days ago... and she hasn't won yet, that count includes super delegates which haven't voted yet. And do you have info from the FBI that no one else does? Because she did something she wasn't supposed to and the state department even said it...",
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"content": "No one has voted yet but they are committed. Yes someone changed the other day. From Bernie to Hillary.",
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"content": "...someone just changed from Hillary to Bernie, probably because they don't want to risk a Trump presidency like any sane person would.",
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"content": "Not true. It was the other way around. No super delegate has changed from Hillary to Bernie in the 13 months since the campaign began.",
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"content": "That's a lie man, I can't find the name of who it was but it hasn't been 13 months, I don't know what cnn told you but it's not true this is from March... http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/bernie-sanders-alaska-superdelegate-221291",
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"content": "**Your own link says nothing about any superdelegate switching from Sanders to Clinton.**\n\nAnd why is it people like you don't think it's undemocratic when a superdelegate supports Sanders but is some crime against humanity when a superdelegate supports Clinton. Clinton is the popular vote winner. It's **democratic** for a superdelegate to support her, not the loser.",
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"content": "Uncommitted committed to him. None changed. Big difference. This is the same situation as in 2008, 1984, 1988.",
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"content": "They flipped because Obama had the most delegates and states won. That is something Sanders does not have. He doesn't have the most states, delegates or primaries won. He doesn't have the most big states won. He doesn't have the most states that look like the Democratic party won. He hasn't won any primaries in a swing state. He has only won in states that are white except for Michigan and he barely won there. The only demographic he owns is white male. That is the demographic that votes Republican. So based on this, what possible claim does he have?",
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"content": "So Hawaii is white? Cmon man I know you know better Hawaii is the most diverse. He wins with independents which are so so so so so important In a general. He wins with the youth which is good, she's under FBI investigation. And she loses to Trump. Here's a poll from Arizona (a swing state) which shows Bernie winning just in case you don't believe me. He has a very legitimate chance of winning in California. \nhttp://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/polls/ppp-d-24504",
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"content": "Hawaii was a caucus, the most undemocratic form of selecting delegates. Arizona is not a swing state. Arizona will not be blue. Dream on. When is the last time Arizona selected a Democrat? And how was that poll taken? Eligible voters most likely to vote? And of a candidate that is not even going to get the nomination is meaningless.",
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"content": "Why are you making so many excuses? Give the guy credit he went from 3% to 46% and growing against a political machine. People want change. People are hurting right now and need some help. No one is helping. I want you to try to grow up with a single mother having to raise 2 kids and live paycheck to paycheck and then say no change, and free public college and universal healthcare are too much. Think about other people. That's why we want Bernie ",
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"content": "Explains why he got 2 million less votes. It was rigged. What an insult. I didn't see any rigging where I live. I did see Tim Kaine campaigning for Hillary Clinton though. In four states where voting issues hurt Clinton, you didn't hear her campaign whining like cats in heat. You heard that from the Sanders campaign as if it would have helped them there when in fact they would have lost even more votes. In fact, every place they claimed was rigged, they would have lost by more. ",
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"content": "> but they flip often\n\nThat is fiction. They rarely flip -- less than 4% of the time.",
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"content": "How is a free press announcing that one candidate has all the necessary delegates to win the nomination a \"corrupt\" act?\n\nThe Sanders campaign throws around the word \"corrupt\" and \"establishment\" so much they've lost any context.\n\nYour candidate lost. It's over. Hillary Clinton is our nominee.",
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"content": "You must not be a democrat.. because then you would know the super delegates don't vote until the end of July... and they have a complete bias towards establishment candidates and hate Sanders cause he'll actually change things. ",
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"content": ">You must not be a democrat\n\nI am a lifetime registered Democrat, unlike some other people who only *recently* became Democrats.\n\n> know the super delegates don't vote until the end of July\n\nNo delegates do. However, enough super delegates have pledged and promised to vote for Hillary Clinton to put her over the top when added to her pledged delegates she's won. That does the trick. The race is over. This is how it's been done in presidential politics ever since primaries came along.\n\n>they have a complete bias towards establishment candidates\n\nPlease spare me the paint-by-numbers rhetoric.\n\n>Sanders cause he'll actually change things.\n\nNo he won't change anything, because it is now *statistically impossible* for him to be the nominee. He will return to the Senate.",
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"content": "Super delegates flip all the time... They flipped for Obama. 400 super delegates chose Clinton before anyone else was in the race and before anyone voted which frankly is undemocratic and rigged. It's not statistically impossible.. They're going to a contested convention..",
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"content": "> They flipped for Obama.\n\nNot many did. Only about twenty, certainly not the 500+ that Sanders would need.\n\n>400 super delegates chose Clinton before anyone else was in the race and before anyone voted which frankly is undemocratic and rigged. \n\nBullsh!t. Superdelegates are free to chose whomever they wished at any point in this race. It has been that way since they came into being.\n\nSanders supported this system in 2008 and endorsed early before any states had voted.",
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"content": "Earth is pretty far away, isn't it?",
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"content": "So you love Trump?",
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"content": "Of course not. It's why I supported Clinton. \n\nShe will fry him like the chicken he is. ",
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"content": "That's why she's losing in polls and Bernie beats him by 15, establishment politics isn't gonna work this time around.",
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"content": "She's not losing the polls that matter. \n\nIt's time you faced reality. ",
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"content": "She is losing the polls, you tell Bernie supporters to learn math but can't read numbers.",
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"content": "The numbers say most pledged delegates, most states, and most popular votes. \n\nLearn math. ",
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"content": "I made it to calculus, I'm pretty sure I know math. Bernie is 15 ahead of Trump, it's not even something to be mad about, that's a good thing that a real progressive is beating him and that people are done with corrupt establishment politics.",
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"content": "No, he's not. Sanders has never ran against Trump. You are talking about media polls. \n\nActual votes say Sanders lost badly to Clinton. Deal with it. Or don't. Sanders will not be the nominee. He actually lost weeks ago. The delusion is astounding. ",
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"content": "Dude he hasn't lost, if you're going to debate at least be truthful. And the polls show him beating Trump and her losing to Trump. Both of us don't want Trump, and Hillary isn't beating him. ",
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"content": "It's over. Stop the nonsense. \n\nNo matter what anyone tells you, there is zero chance Sanders will be the nominee. ",
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"content": "This isn't nonsense, this is the next leader of the free world. It's important we get this right, and as of right now the most disliked candidates in history are winning, a corrupt flawed candidate and a 7 year old. There's a good case sanders can make to super delegates of how he does better against Trump, about how he does with independents, and how there's 12 guys from the FBI investigating her, pretty solid case of you ask me. And you just go to saying sanders can't win. Accept the truth that he beats Trump.",
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"content": "Stop it. Not ever ever ever gonna happen. \n\nStop setting yourself up for failure. ",
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"content": "[You are the one working for Trump now.](http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2016/06/roger-rock-meets-bernie-bros.html)",
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"content": "Voting for Hillary in the primary is voting for Trump in the general, she is losing to him man, we both don't want Trump, we can both read numbers, Bernie does better against Trump you cannot deny that.",
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"content": "Not according to the most accurate polling at this time, the Electronic Futures Markets. You GE polling does not do state by state of eligible voters most likely to vote. Go away.",
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"content": "Here you go, here's a state poll of Arizona. http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/polls/ppp-d-24504\nI'm not even being rude I'm just telling the truth so do you not like it?",
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"content": "Yea, well you didn't hear Clinton whining about how it impacted this county that she won and mainly her voters. So she lost some voters that would have even given her a bigger edge on Sanders. Working people that were voting late. Working people that were older and Hispanic. Clinton voters that is.",
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"content": "You cherrypicked one state poll from one polling organization as proof of a national trend. Perhaps you convinced yourself with such a ludicrous attempt at logic, but anyone with common sense is likely not so easily fooled.",
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"content": ">And they say Bernie supporters are violent....yet your trying to insult me..\n\nWhat are you talking about?\n\n>And in general election match ups Bernie beats Trump and Hillary is losing\n\nFlat out wrong.\n\n>but the rest of the country doesn't like her.\n\nShe has millions more votes than Bernie. She has more votes than Trump. She has won more votes than any candidate running in the 2016 presidential race.\n\nI can't help it that you have on blinders, but don't expect others to join you.\n",
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"content": "Bernard does better than Trump in Arizona but we decided to vote for her in the primary over Bernard because the more conservative Republicans want Bernard over Clinton is the logic the BBs are spewing everywhere. But, in a few days it will go away. It will certainly be going away from this subedit for a fact.",
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"content": "[Axelrod: Clinton will clinch nomination \"before the polls close\" in Calif.](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/axelrod-clinton-will-clinch-nomination-before-the-polls-close-in-california/)\n \n\nSanders, then, \"is in the ironic position of turning to these superdelegates\" to try and \"overturn the verdict of voters\". In the past, Sanders has slammed the Democratic primary process as unfair because of its inclusion of superdelegates, party and state officials that are free to throw their support to either candidate.\n\"That's a very awkward position to be if you're trying to lead a political revolution,\" Axelrod said.",
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"content": "She would have a point if election fraud hasn't occurred in at least 10 states. She has nothing to say to the millions of disenfranchised voters.",
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"content": "Sure thing kiddo. ",
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"content": "Conveniently only where she won. Get out of the echo chamber. You all are left-wing Rush Limbaughs. You have no evidence for any of this. ",
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"content": "If she bothered to commit fraud I would hope she would make it look like she won. Get off your propaganda network and do your research. The truth is out there if you aren't too resistant to facts.",
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"content": "Yes, the lizard men helped her. ",
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"content": "Or rather the corrupt chairs of the Democratic Parties.",
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"content": "Yes, there is always some conspiracy as to why the self-entitled don't get what they want. The Tea Party has been running thaf excuse for years. \n\nSanders lost. Badly. It's time to face reality. ",
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"content": "You people disgust me with willful ignorance and gas lighting.",
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"content": "Because reality and math have a Clinton bias. ",
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"content": "And no one can find this fraud. Couldn't keep Watergate a secret, there is Pulitzer Prize out there for finding it, fame, glory, money, but everybody is in on it because, we are getting paid off so much money.",
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"content": "Lets for a second pretend Hillary cheated. If thats the case, than Bernie has NO case that HRC is a weak general election candidate since she'll cheat and theres an 100% chance she'll win. Goodbye.",
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"content": "> Conveniently only where she won\n\nI mean thats not really evidence.... To me there just isnt evidence of much more than is probably seen every election, but without an echo chamber to upvote every incident.",
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"content": "Sanders has not once won a national poll of Democrats against Hillary.",
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"content": "I can't tell is this is satire. ",
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"content": "If the win is dependant on the Superdelegates, then it's not really the will of the people, is it? Obviously, the Superdelegates would have to fall in line if Bernie had the majority of pledged delegates. ",
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"content": "Well that *IS* what super delegates exist for. And I think there is a decent case here. She is so hated. The DNC needs to be liquidated (fired) and replaced with people that have some goddamn sense or even a rudimentary sense of the general public. They suck at advocating democratic positions, grooming candidates and winning state elections.",
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"content": "Yes, she got over 2 million more votes, more delegates, won every large state primary but Michigan which she barely lost, won every state primary that was predominantly white but Michigan which she barely lost, dominated in the primaries, won ever demographic group but white males and therefore they should vote for Sanders. Because. ",
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"content": "Well, Is Hillary Clinton then ready to offer that if the majority of citizens want bernie, she would willingly let go of any super delegate to ensure the will of the people is heard, and not the will of the party backers? \n\nBecause with just the announcement, it would seem as if she says, \"Super delegates are forced to represent the will of the people\" and not the much more correct \"Super delegates are only beholden to themself and have no true relation to the will of the people\". \n\nIt is easy to ask for the ladders your opponent climbs up to be kicked away, when you are sure your ladder is much more stable and \"deserves to be there\". \n\nIt would be harder to call for an opponent to loose a tool, and to voluntarily not touch the same tool yourself. \n\nI would believe Hillary clinton if she stated publically she would step away from the presidency if the super delegates were used to overturn the will of the people. If not, shit.... Same procedure as every year. ",
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"content": "How can a man expect to be elected President when he's alienated (read pissed off) women, Hispanic Americans, Asians Americans, African Americans, the LGBT community, Veterans (although some seem to have drunk the kool aid)), and others. You simply can not win that way. Plus, I believe that he really is mentally ill, but that's for another post.",
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"content": "I have no idea what 'anti-hispanic' rhetoric you think Trump has however..\n\nLegal Hispanic Immigrants have good reason to have come out in huge numbers for Trump in the primaries. He won the Hispanic vote almost always, everywhere, every time and sometimes in huge margins. \n\nIt shouldn't be too surprising. Trump has harsh anti-illegal hispanic rhetoric. Especially very very harsh anti-criminal and anti-hispanic gang member rhetoric. (also anti-cartel rhetoric). This appeals to legal hispanic immigrants as well as 2nd, 3rd generation hispanic Americans (often identified as being 'part of the same group as those, illegals, hispanic gangs etc). \n\nHispanic Americans tend to be the ones most brutally and directly affected by illegal hispanics too. Not only the kidnapping, the murders, the robbery, the intimidation or for that matter having their kids targeted for recruitment BUT ALSO the very serious matter of wages, jobs and small businesses. It's not unusual to find legal Mexican (and other Hispanic) immigrants who have to start from the beginning, work their way back up, often they do so by starting small businesses. Painting companies, 1-man cleanup crews, gardening, landscaping. They, being legal immigrants must obey all laws, follow the regulations, pay fees, do all the proper bookkeeping, files taxes, pay taxes, pay significantly for insurance, transportation regulations, safety gear etc etc and can be fined and punished and sued and totally held accountable. So they have no choice but to charge reasonable fees. \n\nThey are simply annihilated by illegal hispanics who simply walk in and have almost zero accountability and further more aren't paying any taxes, following rules, environmental policies, taxes, labor laws, minimum wage to their employees (often way way less than minimum wage) AND if caught or make a mistake they can simply vanish without a trace and do it again. \n\nThis absolutely kills the dreams of so many Hispanic Americans who are only trying to work very hard to earn reasonably decent minimum lifestyles of success and security. \n\nand then just from a social PoV, generally speaking, Hispanic Americans tend to be very entrepreneurial and very much active in the world of small independent business and they aren't known to love a lot of regulations and taxes so they are 'natural fiscal Trump type conservatives'. They generally tend to be more religious (Catholic or Evangelical) with more conservative types of family values. They tend to be very family-orientated and probably more than any other groups. Hispanic families tend to even live together with 3 and 4 generations sharing responsibilities, they tend to be serious about marriage. So they are natural 'social conservatives'.\n\nSo, the Hispanic Americans paying attention to the Primaries (and therefore definitely to Trump who was nearly the single biggest central story) they most definitely went for Trump.\n\nI can't really see why they won't in the General.",
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"content": "Maybe because you are only referring to the primaries, where the Hispanic vote was tiny compared to the general. \n\nHispanics are keen to vote against Trump more than any other candidate in the past 40 years. \n\nYou are simply parroting rightwing nonsense.\n\nShow me the numbers of Hispanics who voted for Trump in the primaries compared to the national voting population and polls.\n\nTrump is a bigot. Not someone who just wants to stop illegal immigration but someone who plays on the hostility. Bigotry.\n\nHim attacking a federal judge was point proven. \n\nHispanics will crush Trump and the GOP this November especially in the South and Southwest. ",
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"content": "> Maybe because you are only referring to the primaries, where the Hispanic vote was tiny compared to the general. \n\nRight but the 'tiny size' thing is our problem everywhere in all polls surveys, the primaries and there's nothing we can do but use it compared to previous results. \n\n>Hispanics are keen to vote against Trump more than any other candidate in the past 40 years. \n\nI can't imagine how you know that? Was there a 'keen survey' and what is 'voting against Trump' anyways? You mean the ones who will vote Democrat. \n\n>You are simply parroting rightwing nonsense.\n\nThat very sentence was 'parroting' left-wing nonsense and doesn't apply to anything I told you. Its almost like a 'cut and paste' you just add like a standard. \n\n>Show me the numbers of Hispanics who voted for Trump in the primaries compared to the national voting population and polls.\n\nI'd like to do that. He's either doing better with Hispanics than any other previous GOP candidate (topping Romney and up to 1/3rd of Hispanics) OR he's behind Romney and down to 22% and that's because nobody can decide which polls indicate what:\nhttp://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-hispanic-voters-223845\n\n>Trump is a bigot.\n\nSo far you've done absolutely nothing but 'wave off' positive indicators and now shout 'Bigot'. Which is meaningless. I can call you a bigot. Hillary is a bigot. Everyone is a 'bigot' now.\n\n>Not someone who just wants to stop illegal immigration \n\nHillary says she wants to stop illegal immigration and plays on the hostility. A bigot. Everyone is a bigot.\n\n>Him attacking a federal judge was point proven. \n\nHim questioning a federal judge who belong to a white-american group called The Nation and a member of the White Judges group. Trump questioned whether or not he has a racial bias. The Judge proudly is a member of several White organizations representing pride in the White Race. \n\nProving Trump is an anti-Racist. \n\n>Hispanics will crush Trump and the GOP this November especially in the South and Southwest. \n\nAt this point its just you 'announcing it' but based on nothing. Just saying it 'out loud'. \n\nBut keeping in mind, if Trump got none of the Hispanic vote it would barely make a difference anyways. Either way. \n",
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"content": "Nice try, Trump plant, \n\nHilarious watching you spin in defense of your orange fuhrer. \n\nEven your own party are calling his statements racist. People are saying they are ashamed of him. His pathetic attempt last night to sound non-stupid made him look worse. \n\nThey will crush him and I can't wait for how sweet it will be. \n\nNot to mention women, blacks, young people and anyone else who isn't an inadequate white bigoted male. \n",
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"content": "> Hilarious watching you spin in defense of your orange fuhrer. \n\nbut you don't think I'm 'spinning in defense'. I have stated that facts as we know them and that is: Trump most definitely won the Hispanic vote among the GOP Primaries. By landslides. \n\nSurveys are controversial but nationally Trump is getting either the largest Hispanic support of any GOP candidate in history OR the lowest. What pollsters usually do is aim towards some 'average' which would show Trump 'averaging' around Romney with 25%.\n\nNone of this is spin. It 'is what it is'. \n\n>They will crush him and I can't wait for how sweet it will be. \n\nYou can 'declare it' with sneers however.. the problem is this. Hispanics (typically) don't vote much. They have a relatively low turnout. Yes, the evidence indicates pro-Trump Hispanics (maybe 25%) are very 'keen' on Trump HOWEVER... \n\nIf that is just a tiny fraction of Hispanics that actually go out to vote it doesn't make a big difference either way. Win or lose. \n\n>Not to mention women, blacks, young people \n\nThose are other categories but so far we haven't seen any special problems with women or blacks other than Trump doing especially well among blacks. \n\nThe youth category is doing very well as you know Trump is a big deal on campuses and his rallies and events skew young. \n\n>anyone else who isn't an inadequate white bigoted male. \n\nIn the most recent national polls and surveys Trump is rising and maintaining a 'tie' and even leading in some. ",
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"content": "You've been drinking the orange kool aid. \n\nYour orangutan messiah has historically high negatives across the spectrum of blacks, hispanics, women, young people, even Asians. \n\nIt will be the greatest disaster for the GOP since Richard Nixon, and may cost them the House and Senate. \n\nPlus, you will be losing to Hillary. \n\nNow scurry back to your safe space before you are triggered. ",
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"content": "> has historically have negatives across the spectrum of blacks, hispanics, women, young people, even Asians. \n\nWhat you mean is that GOP candidates have historically had low votes from those categories. That is correct. Trump doesn't even need to do better with those demographics HOWEVER so far he has been. \n\n>It will be the greatest disaster for the GOP since Richard Nixon, \n\nRichard Nixon won. He was President. Carter happened and then what? Republicans for quite a while after that. \n",
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"content": "No, I am referring to HIS high negatives right now. \n\nEven herpes has higher approval ratings than your festering cyst of a candidate. ",
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"content": "> No, I am referring to HIS high negatives right now. \n\nOh, no you aren't. He doesn't have especially high negatives in those categories. Again, compared with any other GOP candidate. But since the topic is about Hispanics you are left with this we do know:\n\nAmong GOP Primary voters - Trump most definitely had the Hispanic vote. He won with Hispanics constantly, everywhere. \n\nAmong national polls he's averaging around the same as other recent GOP candidates. Romney had something like 25% of the hispanic votes. Trump is about the same when polls and surveys are averaged out.\n\nSo why bother keep coming back 'announcing the opposite' just because you feel it 'sounds rad!' but based on nothing but some feelings you want to make happen?",
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"content": "Bullshit. I am citing his high negatives. Which are historically high among all those demographics. The only place where he does well are inadequate impotent white men who resent everyone because they are inadequate impotent white men. \n",
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"content": "> I am citing his high negatives.\n\nbut you aren't. You are just freaking out in some rage because Trump is stronger than you, has a hot young wife and young kids and somehow inside that makes you.. grrrrrrrrrrr!!!\n\nBut you aren't citing anything. I've even had to do that for you. I even showed you where one survey had Trump with lower Hispanic approval and then another showing especially high hispanic approval. \n\nbut you haven't been citing anything. ",
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"content": "Yes I have. Try all you want to troll. An orange cult follower has no power here. ",
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"content": "No, you really haven't 'cited' anything. You are just announcing 'the opposite' or denouncing wildly.\n\nIt's because you're very very angry a Trump movement is destroying so much of what you hoped for and shouting 'racist' isn't working at all. \n\nAwwww :(\n\n>An orange cult follower has no power here. \n\nYour racist skin-color insults are one thing but you need to understand:\n\nThis is where I have the most power. Especially over you :D",
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"content": "http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/charles-koch-trump-judge-attack-224103",
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"content": "I'm not sure why anyone would care what Charles Koch thinks as filtered through Politico however..\n\nOne might expect liberal types to oppose racism, dislike systematic racism much like the racism this judge is involved with. \n\nOne would think liberals would side with Trump in questioning racism, calling out racists and making racist accusations like Trump has suggested?\n\nI see liberals constantly calling out, questioning and accusing judges of racial bias or possible ties to racist orgs. \n\nIn this case, Judge Curiel really is a racist. Trump was very right to call him out on racism, racial bias and question the judges racists beliefs. \n\nThe Judge considers himself a unique race, is a member of several race-based organizations, is part of a group just for his race actually called 'The Race'. \n\nSo wouldn't liberals be all for questioning that, asking about racial bias from a judge who's explicitly involved in a racial group, racial identity groups and organizations that promote his own race?\n\n",
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"content": "Hot off the presses - a big new poll finds Trump on the rise with Hispanics:\n**Big data reports Latino support for Trump on the rise at 37%**\nhttp://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2016/06/07/opinion-big-data-reports-latino-support-for-trump-on-rise-at-37/\n\nOne of the more intriguing parts of this survey:\n\n-Surprisingly, the candidates tie in negative sentiment across Hispanics at 38 percent, discounting the fact that Latinos default as Democrats or are completely turned off by Trump’s off-color comments. After all, over 50 percent of Latinos identify as political independents.\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "The Clinton people had nothing to do with the AP people calling her the presumptive nominee. Also it is not over.\n\nIt's not enough to beat Bernie by 3 million, we need every vote to be tallied. That way, we can get an even clearer understanding of how many more people are with Hillary than Bernie.\n\nLet democracy run its course? That is what is happening!",
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"content": "> The Clinton people had nothing to do with the AP people calling her the presumptive nominee. \n\nThe AP spoke privately to a group of 20 superdelegates whose identity is being concealed --this was clearly a coordinated effort timed to coincide with the last primary to tip the scales of the last contests by convincing everyone that the outcome is inevitable. I find it extremely unlikely that the Clinton campaign wasn't involved.",
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"content": "Conventional wisdom says that the Clinton camp did not want that to be reported last night. Clinton does not want voter turnout to be affected, because people think it is over. That could very easily turn into Clinton loosing because too many of her supporters don't see the need to go out an vote for someone that already won.",
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"content": "It's possible that that might have an (incredibly small) effect.\n\nFar more likely however, is that the relentless call for \"unity\" is going to use this announcement as leverage to say \"well, she's going to be the nominee, so voting for anyone else is just weakening her against Trump\".\n\nOf course, the Clinton camp can't be _seen_ to be doing this directly, so they're playing it coy and acting like they'd rather AP not make this kind of announcement early and ruin their fun.\n\nIn fact, the best part of this all is that if Bernie wins despite all this BS, then Clinton gets to use the exact line of argument you just presented as an excuse to invalidate the contests (\"well, I _would have won_, but my people didn't show up because it had already been decided....\"), so it's a win-win either way for her campaign.\n\nIt's cutting off the democratic process either way, and it just fucking wreaks of dishonesty and corruption. ",
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"content": "You made up the entire story here, you realize that right?",
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"content": "what specifically was 'made up'? the story in AP is clear, and I'm describing how the Clinton campaign will get to use this announcement to spin the outcome of the contests regardless of how the primary unfolds.",
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"content": "You are assuming how the Clinton camp will spin this, that is made up. Saying the democratic process is being cut off, is made up. Claiming dishonesty and corruption is made up, especially since your arguments in favor of this, are based on the fiction that you have woven around a single fact (the AP called it for Hillary).",
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"content": "I'm drawing obvious logical conclusions from the information available.\n\nAre you seriously trying to claim that 20 superdelegates, completely independently, all decided simultaneously -by sheer coincidence- to talk to the AP at the same time, which -by further sheer coincidence- was the day before the final primaries and ask that their names be held confidential, without any external influence or organization?\n\nyeah, ok. _I'm_ the one wearing the tinfoil hat here.",
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"content": "I am not claiming anything regarding information that we do not yet posses. Who the delegates were, how they were contacted, etc.\n\n> I'm drawing obvious logical conclusions from the information available.\n\nThis was my point, you are drawing conclusions, you are . . . you.",
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"content": "great job providing an alternative plausible explanation for the established facts I outlined.\n\n> you are drawing conclusions, you are . . . you.\n\nah, ok. well allright then, you got me there. I'm me, and I'm someone who made a sincere effort to go over to /r/hillaryclinton and talk to people and try to establish some common ground. So much for that. \n\nGood luck in November. ",
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"content": "Great job not establishing facts.\n\n> Good luck in November.\n\nAs I learned on /r/enoughsandersspam/ recently, ideas are bulletproof. So, in November when Hillary is locking down the Presidential race, enjoy the idea of The Great 2nd Place Revolution.",
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"content": "> Great job not establishing facts.\n\nIf there's a single fact I wrote above that isn't accurate, state what it is.\n\nOut of curiosity, if Trump wins, are you planning on blaming people like me for being \"spoilers\", or are you going to take some responsibility for alienating half of your party's base.",
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"content": "I already gave you this information.\n\nTrump is not going to win, because people like you are only a small fraction of the electorate. \n\nAlso, no one is alienating you. You draw a line in the sand - - you alienate yourself.",
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"content": "RemindMe! November 9, 2016 \"So how did this strategy work out for you?\"\n\n",
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"content": "K, I'll also make sure to hit you up when I drop my market driven strategy to defeat anything resembling the Sander's platform in 2018 and beyond.\n\nBecause that is the strategy I'll be focused on.",
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"content": "You know, it's moments, like these when I have to step outside of the internet slap-fight and remind myself that the random faceless person I'm encountering on a forum isn't a perfect representative of the group that they happen to be representing at that moment. \n\nI mean, you, personally, are an ungracious douche-bag, but I'm sure that there are a lot of reasonable, decent Clinton supporters out there who are actually supporting their candidate based on some set of principles that they'll tell me about rather than whatever personal spite motivates you. My involvement in the campaign and future party will hinge on conversations with them. This one with you serves no further purpose.",
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"content": "You led us down this path, so don't blame me for us being here. You drew conclusions based on guesswork as opposed to facts. You started threatening support in November.\n\nA big part of the problem with some of you Sanders supporters and the reason why many of us want nothing to do with you, is your childish manners. Name calling because you can't win an argument with the fiction you created, is childish. Threatening to not support Hillary because you did not get your way, is childish. You want to stand by our side, then grow up.\n\nTo the future we go!",
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"content": "Poll open/close times:\n\nCalifornia: Open: 7 a.m. Close: 8 p.m. PDT\n\nMontana: Open: 7 a.m. Close: 8 pm. MDT\n\nNew Jersey: Open 6 a.m. Close: 8 pm. EDT\n\nNew Mexico: Open: 7 a.m. Close: 7 p.m. MDT\n\nNorth Dakota: shares CST and MDT Open: Varies; no earlier than 7 a.m., no later than 9 a.m.; Close: No earlier than 7 p.m., no later than 9 p.m.\n\nSouth Dakota: Open: 7 a.m.; Close: 7 p.m. shares CST and MDT",
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"content": "Nothing personal, but only morbid curiosity now. Only CA in doubt. Except for CA, don't all the other ones combined add up to less than NJ?",
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"content": "I believe the four non-California/non-New Jersey states total 83 pledged delegates. New Jersey totals 126 pledged delegates.\n\nhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/democratic_delegate_count.html\n",
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"content": "Fox has called NJ for Clinton and Trump. Clearly rigged. :-) NM will also be rigged I predict but as far as California being rigged, we will have to see who wins to make that determination. No other facts will be necessary beyond who wins of course.",
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"content": "I voted in a church in California today. Very smooth. There was even a gay flag on the outside.",
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"content": "538 has now gone full out anti-Sanders now that Clinton has clinched, pretty funny. Guess they got tired of data has a Clinton bias.",
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"content": "I think everyone has. We have been polite up to now. No longer.",
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"content": "Serious update on NJ\n\nhttps://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/740345039205879808\n\nWe need the /r/hillaryclinton bot that turns the tweets into text here. Add that to your requirements list please. Actually we need a central requirements/idea list",
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"content": "Re-read my edited comment /u/backpackwayne above.",
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"content": "https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/740341506855305216",
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"content": "CNN called it for Clinton.",
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"content": "Yippeee! \n\n1 down five to go. :D",
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"content": "Winning in SD, NM and NJ",
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"content": "Won in NJ big, should win in NM. Silver thought SD might be close. CA he has no idea because of Latino turnout, Asian turnout, and of course Clinton winning impact.",
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"content": "California would shut it all down big time. Please shut it down tonight. I don't want to hear this stuff for another month.",
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"content": "[Remember, New Jersey has a ton of delegates at 126, which is ninth most in all the primaries. Fact: Clinton wins states with lots of voters.\n](https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/740347071019024384)",
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"content": "She sure does. :D",
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"content": "[Trump says recent polls show him beating Hillary Clinton. Which ones? The ones taken in his house? Clinton has led in last 10 national polls](https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/740350046101745664)",
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"content": "https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/740350537959415814",
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"content": "Not a good week for Trump. Hoping this is just the beginning of the hard fall to the bottom.",
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"content": "The Clinton campaign is doing what Obama's campaign did early in the 2012 race -- setting the message about the GOP before the Republicans have a chance to do so themselves. That way, the GOP nominee is constantly on the defensive and unable to go on the offensive with his message. This has been happening for the last three weeks now, and every week has been worse for Trump. Romney was better at countering Obama than Trump is; he's a mess and the Clinton campaign just keeps punching. Given how good the Clintons have always been with opposition research, I imagine they have a lot more damaging crap in the bag to use against the Donald in coming weeks and months.",
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"content": "She is handling this brilliantly. You are correct. No time for GOP offense. Great strategy.",
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"content": "His speech tonight was a mess. ",
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"content": "I just can't listen to him anymore. I just wait to hear the \"highlights\" late.",
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"content": "He is unable to read from a teleprompter. He only knows his schtick. \n\nIt was on teleprompter because he is unable to stay on message otherwise. \n",
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"content": "i know. It hilarious isn't it?",
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"content": "That is a critical flaw. \n\nI am wary of how bad he is being bashed. The guy comes back like gout. \n\nI would prefer it be closer now and have these things happen later. \n\nPeople have short memories. ",
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"content": "I am too. But it is a good start. I am pretty confident that Donald will supply plenty more to bash. And if he doesn't, he is just a boring teleprompter speaker which no one likes.",
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"content": "https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/740351249720217601",
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"content": "https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/740352153525555200",
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"content": "[The results tonight seemed to be indicating that it's Clinton not Sanders outperforming demographic expectations.](https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/740355400961249280)",
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"content": "Yes Sanders seems to win more contests where the process involves shouting.",
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"content": "https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/740359483797471232",
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"content": "Montana to start coming in less than 30 minutes. Then the big one an hour later.",
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"content": "Yes!\n\nhttps://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/740362978285981696",
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"content": "Ahead in Montana too.",
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"content": "https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/740367057624170496",
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"content": "NM called for Clinton. SD may hold up for Clinton. That right there would be a real smoke.",
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"content": "California polls closing now.",
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"content": "Clinton now has majority of pledged delegates.",
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"content": "Early California result 61% - 37% (only 1% reporting)",
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"content": "Napa County. You know, Clinton crowd :-)",
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"content": "But we got the pledge delegate majority now. There is nothing anyone can say anymore.",
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"content": "And votes and overall delegates. Need some reddit math, there must be a way.",
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"content": "Give me some time. I am sure they will figure something oput.",
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"content": "And only getting more.",
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"content": "[Clinton has won a majority of votes, pledged delegates, and overall delegates. Sanders has no path to the nomination at this time.](https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/740379937404821504)",
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"content": "[Seems that the mummers that internal polls had Clinton up outside the MOE in CA may (along with demographic projections) be correct.](https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/740382805335678977)",
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"content": "7% in. Clinton is winning!",
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"content": "[If the early votes from CA (very strong even anticipating good #s for her) hold, Clinton wins 7 biggest pledged del prizes and 10 of top 11.](https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/740384024015835137)",
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"content": "Clinton up 66-33 in the Los Angeles County early vote. That's 225k votes.",
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"content": "One of those votes is mine.",
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"content": "The early vote was expected to be good for Clinton--but there weren't many polls showing Clinton ahead by this sort of margin in the EV.",
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"content": "[We're now nearing a million votes counted in California, Clinton up 63-36. Very hard for Bernie to make this up.](https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/740387818678157313)",
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"content": "[Clinton's crushing it tonight. Democrats want this thing to be over with.](https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/740387265617219584)",
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"content": "I think it is.",
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"content": "Sanders lied like NY Enten is saying. His polling showed he wasn't going to win in CA. Rallies aren't votes. He set them up again with BS promises he knew couldn't be met. Spent way more money than Clinton did there. Kept that spigot flowing with his lies even though his polling was telling him different and now we will be listening to how it was rigged, voter suppression, AP's fault, etc. They call Hillary Clinton the liar but this is now twice he has lied to keep the money flowing. What a piece of work.",
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"content": "[Nate Cohn on Twitter: \"Clinton is the apparent winner in South Dakota, NBC News projects. That's something of an upset\"](https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/740390873557524481)",
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"content": "The night is an all around upset.",
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"content": "Yes, not carrying about Montana. So far the great one has won a caucus. So much for momentum.",
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"content": "She is winning big in San Francisco. Bernie was suppose to win there. Huge upset!",
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"content": "After they slammed that real famous gay guy claiming he was on the take of that pharmaceutical company? Old Trevor was defending him and I was like, fine, blow the vote in downtown SF. There was already suspicion that the Asian vote was going to go huge with Clinton. They played dirty with him just like they did with Krugman and others. Refused to talk to the guy after the false accusations. Oh well.\n\nSo Bernie goes back to Washington on Thursday to the White House. His president has summoned him. I believe this will be what we call in business a come to jesus meeting. \"Bernie, settle down or I will spank your heinie.\" I am the man and you are not the man.",
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"content": "He is about to speak in a few minutes. This should be interesting.",
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"content": "I am wrapping up. I am so pissed at him. Silver thinks Clinton wins CA by 14%! He had to know that. Yet once again he spends twice as much as Clinton taking their money while they max out credit cards in S4P. I am disgusted. Yea, no big money, but playing them for suckers is disgusting when you know you have no chance. Was just deluding himself?\n\nAnyway, enjoy this:\n\nhttp://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/statement-released-by-president-obama",
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"content": "The Fat lady is singing",
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"content": "And sucking at it.",
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"content": ">@realDonaldTrump\n\n>Bad performance by Crooked Hillary Clinton! Reading poorly from the telepromter! She doesn't even look presidential!\n\n>12:18 PM - 2 Jun 2016\n\nNo one is worse than Trump at reading from a telepromter.",
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"content": "Well, he's obviously THE BEST at reading from a teleprompter. And he has the best teleprompters, let me tell you. ",
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"content": "It's no surprise Trump mocks teleprompters. They combine two things he hates: reading and being prepared.",
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"content": "So... is like Trump from an bizzaro universe? He constantly contradicts himself, he lives in an bubble of contradiction.",
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"content": "You can't be serious. As if DJT doesn't skip over the content of his opponents' speeches in favor of name calling. He makes fun of TelePrompTer use, says they shouldn't be used in presidential campaigns, then on maybe the biggest night of the campaign he reads a lame speech off a TelePrompTer! And his army of drones comes out in force to defend him. Sad. Really, really sad. ",
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"content": "Spoiler alert, it isn't. ",
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"content": "Come on man. What a ridiculous argument to make. I honestly can't decide if Trump supporters like you are sincere or just fucking around. I mean forget propaganda, forget \"the media,\" forget all that shit. You're going to call Clinton, former elected senator from NY, loved by her constituents, former SecState who was effective as hell, \"crooked,\" where Donald Trump, is what, clean? Donald Trump, NY and NJ real estate developer? Are you kidding me?\n\nCome on, I'm from New York! I've been forced to watch this asshole for my whole life! He's crooked as hell! The guy has mob ties going back 40 years! Hello, Atlantic City? Jesus Christ, talk about selective ignorance, you Donald worshippers are worse than my eight year old. This man who scammed people out of 35k for bullshit real estate advice, who markets garbage products made overseas, who lies about his net worth and his fucking hair, who's blatantly racist and thinks everything is about winning and losing and how much money he has? You don't think he's crooked? You don't think he's going to lose that court case? He's getting sued for fraud in three states, and your talking about Hillary's shitty email practices, or some shit from the nineties that's already been litigated? \n\nYou know what, I call bullshit. You don't give a fuck about crooked politicians. You care about \"cucks\" and \"sjws\", and all that silly nonsense. You think Trump is some great guy who \"tells it like it is.\" Snap out of it! Wake up! He's fucking conning you! You're just another fucking mark! Maybe you should lie about your income, get a higher credit limit so you can donate 35k to his fucking yacht fund too! Oh I mean, donate to his \"self funded\" campaign. Oh wait, that's bullshit too? Oh he \"loaned\" 35 million to his campaign? I'm sure he won't pay himself back... \n\nGod the list of semi-legal shit he gets into is endless, and you call Hillary crooked. You guys are all marks getting played. Sad. Really, really sad.",
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"content": "I believe him making that teleprompter remark was his response to Hilary attacking Trump on lack of a stance on foreign policy or maybe his Trump U swindle. Don't remember exactly but that was the best retort he came up with was that she read from a teleprompter",
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"content": "It is not fair to call Trump a hypocrite just because he says one thing and does another. He either doesn't remember what he said or he didn't mean it and therefore cannott be held responsible. He's the Dunning-Kruger candidate.",
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"content": "Well unless Sanders pulls out Montana with its 3 EVs, the only thing he wins tonight is a caucus which of course he would not have won the state if it had been a primary, but hey, who like suppressing democracy?",
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"content": "Bernie wins open primaries (i.e., those with Democratic-leaning independents). If all primaries were inclusive, then Bernie would have a lead so far. This is why Bernie is beating Trump by a much, much larger margin in polls than Hillary Clinton. He's winning independents who lean left or who are moderate.",
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"content": "Wrong. Bernie lost most of the open primaries, including CA. ",
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"content": "Not true, Vega. Sanders wins independents by huge margins in open primaries (such as New Hampshire) but not in closed primaries (such as New York). He consistently wins independents, the largest voting \"party\" in the United States, by about 70%. This is why he beats Trump consistently but Clinton does not. ",
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"content": "Notice how you just moved the goalpost from \"wins open primaries\" to \"wins independents\" in open primaries. ",
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"content": "Which is false too. ",
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"content": "False. Sanders only wins small states with almost all white voters. Only Michigan is the exception and he barely won that. Give me the exception. I am waiting.",
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"content": "And tonight was a perfect example of that except he couldn't even win South Dakota.",
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"content": "That's because it's a southern state. *South* Dakota.",
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"content": "Caucuses don't have voting machines that can be tampered with.",
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"content": "You have a point with your snarky comment?",
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"content": "My comment isn't snarky, Mike. I'm simply making an observation. You do know that electronic voting machines can be hacked, or did you not know that.",
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"content": "So are you accusing the Sanders campaign of doing this? I have seen know of evidence of them or any campaign doing this.",
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"content": "Are you high? I'm accusing Hillary's campaign OR those who have a vested interest in a Hillary victory of tampering with election results. Did you hear about the latest lawsuit filed alleging just that? Here's a link in case you missed it.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IAJ5fAm3Cs",
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"content": "Accusations on youtube. Maybe I can do one too.",
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"content": "Considering she is one. ",
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"content": "Sorry, i posted this for thinking adults in the room, forgot to mention that",
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"content": "Well I am a thinking adult so thanks for posting for me. I'll refer you to my comment for my reaction to the news Clinton is going after the right wing vote. Just as we knew she would and abandon all principles as soon as she could get away with it. \n\nBut like I said she's a Republican ",
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"content": "By encouraging republicans to vote for her? if i have to explain that basic principle then you are not being intellectually honest, something kids haven't grasped, i can think you are here for 2 reasons\n\n1 - attention\n\n2- detract from the core of the article\n\nLOL, i am a democrat, but not one of those that sweat and wet the bed everytime a right winger says boo, move along buddy move along",
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"content": "How about you don't tell me what to do. \n\nShe isn't trying to win progressives because she can't and isn't one. That's the point I'm making. ",
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"content": "Most progressives, including most Sanders supporters, have already said they would support her. \n\nSo maybe it's just you. ",
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"content": "Nope ",
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"content": "Then are you saying the majority of Sanders supporters are sell-outs?\n\n",
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"content": "Nope just we have a Republican running against a fascist, they are choosing a Republican woman. ",
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"content": "Why would Sanders supporters choose a Republican woman? ",
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"content": "That's Clinton. Of course you knew that. ",
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"content": "Why would Sanders supporters vote for Clinton if what you say is correct? ",
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"content": "Because Trump is a fascist. It's a different less worse evil. ",
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"content": "And? Doesn't that make sense to you? \n\nSanders will be endorsing her soon as well. ",
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"content": "You can suspend your campaign and keep your delegates. That's why people suspend rather than withdraw outright. \n\nAnd if that's what he's banking on, he could at least ask his supporters to stop harassing supers everywhere.",
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"content": "His campaign is bringing up ideas that, for a long time, have been laughed at or thought impractical - ideas like free access to universities and free health care for all. Further, Bernie's campaign highlights that a large fraction of the US want these things. He may not get the nomination, and under normal circumstances, he should step down given the current delegate count, but the more I look into his campaign, the more I see that becoming president is really just icing on the cake. His true goal is to fight for these and other progressive ideas - ideas that even mainstream Democrats don't pursue. \n\nThe result is that a large number of people have been talking about these points for about a year now, and more people are demanding these things. In that sense, his campaign has been wildly successful, especially when you consider that, once it's over, he, and others like him, are not going away. In his speech from last night, he talks of political revolution. If his campaign sparks a revolution, then he would have accomplished everything he set out to do.\n\nThe article talks of the majority of voters supporting Hillary; that she won the popular vote. According to [this website](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/democratic_vote_count.html), Clinton is only up by 3.6 million votes, far from winning by a landslide, and definitely enough to lead her opposition to continue fighting for super-delegates without looking like a hyprocrite. However, in our election system, the popular vote doesn't count - only the delegate vote. In this, Hillary outgamed Bernie, as they're playing two separate games - Hillary played to be president, while Bernie played to include as many people in his revolution as possible. ",
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"content": "> According to this website, Clinton is only up by 3.6 million votes,\n\n\"only\" lol. She got 56.5% of the votes.",
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"content": "The language in your comment made me think that you are saying that winning by 56.5% is a lot so I looked up the history of democratic presidential primaries and, relatively speaking, the 2016 primary seems to be a fairly close margin. Did I understand you correctly?",
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"content": "Well, most candidates drop out when they have no clear path to victory. Sanders wants to stay in to, as is his calling in life, make some point, usually about how great he is. Any reasonable candidate would have dropped out weeks ago. But no, Sanders and sons kept pushing to goal posts: we need 55% to win! We need 60% to win! We need 70% to win! We need to flip super delegates to win (even though we were bashing them and saying they should uphold the will of the people weeks ago)! On and on, this zombie campaign has lurched on, stumbling from state to state, refusing to acknowledge what any reasonable person would, that this campaign is dead and should be buried. But no, Sanders want \"to make a point,\" because that's how politics works, keep infighting with someone with basically the same values as you (although different policies) and thereby risk weakening your movement against a candidate with terrible and redically different values than the ones you claim to honor. Sanders would have ended a long time ago if he truly believed in progress, and not just himself.",
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"content": "How do you spin her winning more delegates, more states, more popular votes, and more superdelegates as Sanders being , more inclusive? ",
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"content": "Caucuses favored Bernie by a wide margin. Closed primaries did favor Hillary, that much is truth. Super delegates haven't voted yet (at least that's the Berners' arguments, not mine) and so far they serve as glorified endorsements. Bernie is not leading in the polls over Clinton by a landslide, the average of weighted polls for likely voters still favor Hillary. In short I don't get why you need to leave logic behind.\n\nI mean it's ok to think Hillary isn't exactly a likeable candidate. But don't let your dislike of a candidate blind you to actual facts. Clinton actually was projected to win by a larger margin if every state had open primaries (she has won more open primaries than Bernie, in some states having open primaries favors her more than Bernie). [Five Thirty Eight](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-system-isnt-rigged-against-sanders/) shows that having all open primaries doesn't support Bernie, although keeping caucuses and changing states favorable to Bernie to open primaries might help (although that, in your definition, is rigging). \n\nAlso by the way, Bernie himself defended caucuses, which contributed a lot to my declining respect for him.\n\nQuote was \"And what caucuses do do – you're right, it does take time to come to a caucus and to argue with your neighbor about which candidate is the better candidate. But you know what? I kind of like that. You know, I understand there are negatives to it. But I do like the idea of the American people becoming more engaged in the political process. Yes, you`re spending a – a few hours on a Saturday afternoon. But this is – you are helping to determine the future of America.\" And this coming from a man who said Arizona primaries were disenfranchising because people had to wait for a few hours to vote.",
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"content": ">Because he's leading in the polls nationally over Clinton by a landslide. \n\nIf the situation was reversed, you know damn well you wouldn't argue this. \"Yah, Sanders is winning by every metric but polls, and I think supers should go with that over the will of the people.\" If you say that's true, I don't believe you for half a second. \n\n> Because he's pulling in voters by the thousands that never would have bothered to vote in primaries if it was just Shillary\n\nAnd these voters are more important than me because they *don't ever vote*?????? Clinton voters is a number higher than Sanders voters. You.lost.deal.with.it. \n\n>Because if you eliminate the super delegates, eliminate the caucuses, and eliminate closed primaries Bernie would have beaten Shillary.\n\nBut she got a higher pop vote as well. She won by every metric. You just chose a metric that landed on states YOU like. \n\n>Because Shillary has negative ratings unheard of in any candidate, save Trump.\n\nYou mean, her opponent? Ok...so what? \n\n>Because Shillary won't release her Wall Street speeches\n\nWell she did at least release her tax returns, unlike Sanders or Trump. Got something to hide? That's your insinuation on Clinton, she's hiding her speeches because it must have bad stuff in them. Well isn't that true about Sanders? \n\n",
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"content": "> if you eliminate the super delegates, eliminate the caucuses, and eliminate closed primaries Bernie would have beaten Shillary.\n\nLet's eliminate everything so that Bernie can win.",
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"content": "I suppose, the rules were changed in the middle of the game. Oh, know, you are asking the rules to be changed during the game. You can always vote for Donald Trump; that is your prerogative. But Watch how Mrs. Clinton will route Trump. Bernie wouldn't have a prayer after they swiftboat him as a commie. Meanwhile, Hillary is still standing after decades of relentless onslaught. Remember, you heard it from me: Hillary will eviscerate Trump!",
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"content": "The longer he drags out the campaign though the more he's going to increase the division within the party. That's more harmful to his causes than helpful. \n\nHe did a fantastic job of raising important issues that truly do impact every American, he planted the seeds for more stubstanial movements. While maybe too radical now, moving forward he's given more credibility towards some of the notion of higher taxes, increased education funding, further healthcare reforms, student loan debt.\n\nHe will not win the nomination, but he really did win. He managed to shift the debate and issues to more important ones rather than the rare terrorist attack and other petty things that don't really impact most Americans.",
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"content": "That depends on what's more important to you: advocating for the people, or advocating for the party.",
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"content": "Except it isn't really a revolution. He didn't win, and he didn't alter any power structures or change anything.\n\nHe's just a guy who gave the same speech a few thousand times and packed some arenas with young people. He got some votes and won some caucuses, but he didn't come close to winning.",
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"content": "But he didn't, and he didn't, and his crusade failed.",
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"content": "Nah, you won't. People who carry around that kind of childish snark never give it up, especially when they can continue to gleefully type it out on cesspit websites like Reddit and feel like they're notching some tiny victory for the little guy.\n\nSecretary Clinton is this party's presumptive nominee now, and if you can't bring yourself to accept that reality, or accept the fact that millions more Americans voted for her than voted for your guy in legitimate and non-\"stolen\" primaries and caucuses, then you're going to be very lonesome and embittered over the next five months.",
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"content": "Disenfranchised? By what definition?\n\nThere's a huge difference between \"disillusioned\" and \"disenfranchised.\" Go look it up, and lay off the hyperbole. It didn't do Bernie any good, did it?",
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"content": "I'm not sure what your point is. Were you under the impression the word only applies to voting or something?\n\nWhen one of the primary political ideologies in the country is systematically driven out by corporate interests, leaving millions of Americans without a party to represent them, they have been disenfranchised. \n\nThis isn't about Sanders, it's about finding an avenue for the advocacy of non-corporatist policy. I would contend that such an avenue is opening up, and people like you that push to suppress it are only making people more resolute in opposing your side.",
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"content": "\"Disenfranchisement\" refers to the act of forcibly revoking someone's right to vote.\n\nJust because the party does things that piss people off, and those people choose to walk away, does not mean anyone's right to vote has been restricted or revoked. People are free to vote in November, for whoever the hell they want. Also, voting in partisan political primaries is not a constitutionally-guaranteed civil right. The parties are private organizations, and can have whatever rules they want. No one's civil rights are being violated by not being permitted to vote in a party's mominating process.\n\nYou're not being suppressed, or censored, or crushed. Grow up.",
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"content": "> Disenfranchisement\" refers to the act of forcibly revoking someone's right to vote.\n\n[No, it doesn't:](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/disenfranchise)\n\n>(as adjective disenfranchised) Deprived of power; marginalized\n\n\nWhen traditional political ideologies have been replaced with corporatism, we have all been disenfranchised to an extent.\n\n",
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"content": "Wow, someone's been reading their Chomsky.\n\nYou don't have an inalienable right to access the power of a private organization. They can amass power and accept or reject people however they see fit. If you don't like it, don't join. But nothing has been stolen from you.",
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"content": "I do believe his message slightly dissipated along the way when his campaign started making various gaffes, but his principles overall still stand for the most part in the remainder of his campaign. He lost my support somewhere, but I'm still overall glad that he ran.\n\nAlso I don't think Bernie really has the popular vote. He does produce more dedicated voters, as shown by his caucus results.",
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"content": "\"While Mr. Sanders noticeably ignored Mrs. Clinton’s triumph, only crediting “her victories tonight,” she lavished praise on him earlier at her Brooklyn rally. She said their “vigorous debate” had been “very good for the Democratic Party and America.”\"",
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"content": "Clinton did not recognize Obama's historical triumph until she officially conceded the race, 5 days after the last primary was over. The double standards from Hillary supporters right now are getting out of hand.",
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"content": "Of course he didn't concede - revolutions don't lie down and die simply because they're not mathematically capable of winning within a system they aim to change. That's not how revolutions work. ",
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"content": "Like it or not, you don't vote for a revolution. You vote for a candidate.",
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"content": "What revolution? This is not a revolution, it is a movement. \n\nA revolution has effect, a movement can fade away. What is important is what happens next to bring the party together in a mega coalition to get mandates. \n\nOtherwise this is traveling roadshow. ",
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"content": "[\"And before we start the \"Oh the AP depressed turnout\" stuff explaining CA, Clinton's lead in the early vote was FAR larger than anticipated.\"](https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/740523137331277824)",
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"content": "What a petulant child. If he's only interested in affecting the platform, conceding without releasing his delegates would still allow that. If he's holding out, hope against hope, for an indictment, conceding without releasing his delegates would still allow that. \n\nThere is only one result of refusing to concede after losing to Ms. Clinton in every single measure; dividing the party. Fuck Bernie Sanders.",
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"content": "I think his meeting at the White House tomorrow will straighten things out. I don't believe he will be leaving without a firm \"Yes sir Mr. President.\"",
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"content": "Voters don't want Bernie Sanders. They have spoken time and time again, and he LOST. That's fucking *democracy*. Get over it and get over yourself. \n\nFucking millennials throwing a temper tantrum.",
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"content": "Which voters? ",
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"content": "Yeah, okay. Check back in November.",
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"content": "Personal attacks like this are out of line and prohibited both by the /r/democrats rules and also Reddit's rules. Please familiarize yourself with this subreddit's rules:\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/42p2d2/important_all_subscribers_please_read/",
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"content": "It seem a lot of people need a recap of 2008.\n\n**Last primary with more than 100 delegates at stake in 2008: May 6th.**\n\nClinton was effectively eliminated by this point. For the next month it would be a long string of small state voting. Because 2008's schedule featured a huge front loading of large states, she had no real opportunities to come back after Feb 5th. And this is why, despite 2008 being closer, it was determined a full month earlier, due to lack of any large delegate hauls still available. \n\nUnlike 2016, there were many large states voting late in the primary season in 2008, including CA and NJ, both which were scheduled on Feb 5th. \n\n**Last Primary in 2008: June 3rd**:\n\n2008 was both front loaded and shorter than 2016. So those making date by date comparisons between 2016 and 2008 need to take this into account. \n\nLet's put this another way. Last night there were 694 delegates up for grabs. In terms of 2008, March 11th was the last time more than 690 delegates were left in the entire rest of the pirmary. That's a difference of *3 months*! \n\nClinton did not concede on Jun 3rd. She didn't conceded until Jun 7th. She didn't recognize the historical significance of a black man winning the nomination until Jun 7th, and continually vied for ways to recognize her own history up until the convention. She even pushed for roll call vote at the convention instead of the conventional acclimation vote, but eventually a deal was struck between Obama and Clinton to let her announce the NY vote on the convention floor. \n\nClinton had many supporters who harassed reporters at the time, became unruly at meetings and even spewed straight up racist crap. [They were called PUMAs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeGPzk8Oca8). So before so many of you go off on \"Bernie Bros\", be mindful your own ranks (including a lot of antisemitic baiting by stressing Sanders Jewish heritage in a familiar *Hussein* kind of way) are not so clean. \n\nIt's time people start taking some time to reflect and back off. Clinton was given a lot of room to come down from the campaign and opportunity to save face. \n\n",
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"content": "Keep telling us what to do.\n\n Time to start fund raising for a primary challenge in 4 years. ",
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"content": "Yep. You may also want to consider running someone as an independent instead of taking a lifelong independent and just slapping him on the democratic ticket to run against a lifelong democrat who was married to one of the most celebrated democrat presidents of our lifetimes.\n\nThat will help.",
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"content": "Who gives a fuck about party. We want the best person for the job. \n\nSorry he didn't bribe the right people along the way. ",
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"content": "Sorry your guy got blown out by votes, states, minorities and pledged delegates. \n\nObviously he wasn't the best person for the job.",
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"content": "Because voters ALWAYS choose the best person, Bush. ",
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"content": "More people voted for Al Gore. \n\n",
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"content": "He won the second time with the popular vote and let's go with Regan if you prefer a landslide of stupid. ",
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"content": "So an election 36 years ago is your refutation?\n",
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"content": "Yes. ",
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"content": "No. ",
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"content": "Except it was. ",
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"content": "No, it was not. Different era. ",
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"content": "Sanders says we are going to the convention. I am going to the convention with Bernie.\n\nI haven't disagreed with him in 30 years. Why should I stop now?",
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"content": "I agree it's his right to do it and your right to support him. I also fear that this will make him a pariah in the senate and make him a less effective, less supported leader from the post he already has. \n\nAt some time, the point of diminishing returns is going to kick in and many people who have supported him and voted for him (people like me) who preferred him will decide that he is simply trying to be a spoiler and (like us) realize that mathematically he cannot possibly get enough delegates to win him the nomination. \n\nSo again I say do what you have to do, Bernie. If it ends up damaging an amazing political career, that's something he will have to deal with. ",
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"content": "If he were to give up now, the DNC would take that as a message that his movement is over.\n\nThis movement cannot end. It must carry on.",
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"content": "He should be hiding from his poverty \"plan\". Making it harder for people to receive aid when they need it, will never reduce poverty.",
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"content": "He's a sad little thing.",
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"content": "Hillary has not had a conference since the year 2015.\n\nI don't support Paul Ryan but u/michaelconfoy's posts are ridiculous.",
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"content": "Clinton speaks to reporters every day. \n\nShe was on NBC today. ",
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"content": "That's not the same thing as a press conference and you know it.\n\nShe very much controls the media and their questions to her.",
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"content": "Bull. She has faced tough questions from the media all throughout. \n\n",
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"content": "They've moved on from this FBI criminal investigation pretty quickly, if you ask me.",
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"content": "What do you mean they have moved on? On Sunday she was asked if she is worried about an indictment and she said nope. \n\nWhat else do you want them to ask? Unless the FBI says something, there is no news there or any information you could ask. ",
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"content": "I would have called her and her campaign out on her lies that came from the IG's report.",
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"content": "Not a fan of his policies whatsoever. I kind of feel bad for him though. His in a position where he can't win. He does not like Trump it's pretty obvious. He can't support Hilary because he's the face and chair of the RNC. \n\nHe understands Trump isn't going to just lose the WH he's going to take down everyone with him. What can he do? Being speaker of the house has to be the least enviable job in Washington at least for the most 5-6 years.\n\nBoehner couldn't get an ounce of compromise from Tea Party reps which resulted in a shutdown that got blamed on the GOP. Which they deserve heavy blame for it but if Boehner could have even gotten an inch of compromise the whole crises would've been avoid and gone under the radar. \n\nHe'll probably be blamed for some the consequences of a Trump candidacy.",
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"content": "Well when #feelthebern says I #feelthehill then what? All that love for him in S4P, what happens then? ",
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"content": "If my grandmother grew wheels would she be a bicycle?",
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"content": "Betrayed? What, exactly, do you people think you're owed by this party? Who do you think you are, and who do you think you're dealing with?\n\nThe Democratic Party doesn't owe you jack squat. They're a member-serving organization, and one based on principles of majority rule. Registered Democrats voted for Clinton. A massive majority of elected Democrats and party elders support Clinton. This is who the party is, and this is the candidate they have chosen. If you're not a Democrat, or if you're in the shrinking minority of Democrats who just can't support Secretary Clinton, that doesn't mean you've been betrayed. It just means your side lost.\n\nWas the City of New York \"betrayed\" by the MLB at the last World Series when the Kansas City Royals won? Was Annette Bening \"betrayed\" by AMPAS when she didn't win an Oscar a few years ago? No. Losing is not betrayal. It's just losing. The galling selfishness on display from petulant Bernie-or-busters has gone from amusing to just pitiful to watch. You think you're owed this nomination because it's what you think is best? Because you believe your guy deserves it? That's not how democracy works.",
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"content": "Sorry Mr. President. The people who voted for me can't back Clinton. They feel cheated by the DNC. They're telling me to run as independent and that's what I will do. For better or worse. ",
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"content": "Sanders is not running as an independent. Too many sore loser law states plus he would be done in the Senate plus he would not be attending the convention then.",
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"content": "No one is on the November ballot yet. Bernie has such a huge following that a\"Loser Law\" will not stop it. States would look really really dumb if he decides to run independent and not put him on the ballot. They will not risk looking like they fixed the election. He could also jump on the Green Party ticket and run with Jill Stein. ",
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"content": "I will bet you Reddit gold he does not run as an independent or runs with Stein",
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"content": "Oh here it comes. The useless and stupid bets. HA Goodman was saying he gets them all the time. I've given up trying to understand Clinton supporters. They just don't make any sense to me. I just don't understand how they can vote for someone who is a criminal and will get indicted at some point. I just can't vote for a criminal. \n\nI will assure you that Sanders will be on my ballot come November. I'll write him in if I have to. ",
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"content": "The bets aren't stupid. You claim he'll be on the ballet, I bet you and then you backtrack in that last paragraph claiming he'll be on MY ballot. cmon man",
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"content": "Come Hell, high water, natural disaster or nuclear war. Sanders will be on my Ballot in November 2016.",
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"content": "That's fine but you completely recanted on your claim that Bernie will be on there as an I or GP",
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"content": "Yeah, Bernie said if he lost the nomination that he would back Hillary, not run as an independent. So he either ends up a liar, or doesn't run.",
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"content": "I support Sanders, he's not running independant or on the Green Party. He's said this unequivocally on countless occasions. Contrary to some of the ignorant opinions from many of the insufferable Clinton supporters here who've spent months circlejerking themselves to death about how his policies are some pie in the sky dreaming (despite most of them being rather uncontroversial, mainstream policies in the rest of the western world), he's not a crazy kook, he's not a Ralph Nader spoiler. \n\nAt this point it's pretty clear all he wants is some recognition of the movement he put together is not some fringe, in the form of some platform changes. He wants to nudge the party leftward, and he and his supporters have certainly earned that. Politics has never been a winner-take-all situation despite many illusions that it is. You don't pull in 12 million votes in the second closest primary in modern history and then be told to go sit in a corner and shut up. That's not how this works. \n\nChances are after everyone has had a chance to decompress from a long and very emotional primary season, Clinton and Sanders will sit down and cut a deal, much like what happened in 2008. For the same reason he was a key 60th vote in the Senate for the Dems in 2008 despite not completely agreeing with every policy (he wanted single payer vs the ACA) he knows the alternative (Trump) would be disastrous. \n\nI'm not telling you how to vote, I'm just telling you how it is. Try not to get too wrapped up with the fools on reddit who aren't doing Clinton any favors by running around spiking the ball and essentially treating you like you're in a hostage situation (vote for her *or else!*). \n",
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"content": "As I said, I'm telling you how it is. Clinton's chances of getting indicted are about as likely as Sanders getting the nom. It's not impossible, but highly unlikely. General Petraeus literally handed top secret information to his biographer who was writing a book to be published and the most he got was a misdemeanor because the Justice Department didn't want to risk a high profile case and walk away with nothing. \n\nClinton's email server is more about gross negligence and avoiding FOIA (the FOIA part isn't criminal). I agree, much like the Iraq War, it exposes serious flaws in judgement. And the OIG report exposes some serious flaws in her leadership style, IMO. \n\nYou can vote how you see fit, but unfortunately it is what it is. The RNC is, amazingly, far more incompetent and criminal. This is the problem with having one party go off the deep end, the other can do a lot of stupid shit and not really get punished for it. It's a sad time really (even if Sanders won). \n\n",
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"content": "It's sad time mostly because the GOP has gone off the deepend. A Sanders presidency would not change the fact that nothing was going to get done. Clinton isn't getting anything done either, contrary to popular belief she possesses no more ability than Obama that would allow her to break their blockade in congress. \n\n> Maybe we need a Trump presidency to show ourselves how stupid we have been.\n\nIf the GOP didn't learn from the massive failure of GW Bush, they aren't going to learn from Trump. In fact a Trump presidency would validate their belief they really did need to double down on crazy to finally win the presidency. \n\nThey might learn from getting trounced now that they finally got their crazy candidate. ",
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"content": "> No, but the American people will. \n\nI'm talking about the American people. Who do you think voted Trump in? Certainly not the GOP establishment. \"The People\" aren't some monolithic block of rational thinking individuals. Trump is the final result of a crazy popular uprising in the GOP ranks that's been going on for at least two decades. It took them three primaries to finally push a True Conservative^(TM) that wasn't going to back down to anyone's crap and \"tell it like it is\" and they finally got it. Losing the last two primaries to McCain and Romney which went on to lose to Obama emboldened them *more*. That's how we got Trump. If Trump wins, they'll be further emboldened and take over the entire party. \n\n> New political parties will come out of this because of Bernie.\n\nUnfortunately one of the big mistakes of our founders, who many wanted to avoid political parties all together, ended up creating an election system that all but guaranteed we'd have a two party system. The supposedly partyless system lasted one, *maybe* two elections. In less than 20 years after ratification, we had a two party system and never looked back. \n\nThe way you effect change is in the primary system, and it truly starts locally. This is what the Tea Party did, and they've been highly effective. ",
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"content": "> Our country is way strong because of these events.\n\nThere was also an enormous amount of suffering and death. We've had just as significant changes without suffering as well, the one that comes to mind is Teddy Roosevelt becoming president. He pretty much ended the Gilded Era and without a major catastrophe. \n\nWe also starring at a potential Great Depression II if the GOP wins. The 2008 recession was sparked by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. What do you think would happen if an institution 10x it's size defaulted and no one around to bail us out? The GOP seems to think nothing bad will happen if the US defaults, and they just nominated a bankruptcy specialist for POTUS. \n\n> The Tea Party has only been around since 2002.\n\nThey've been around for longer. Really the origin of the Tea Party really happened when the GOP courted Evangelicals into their coalition. Either way, they proved you can pull parties left or right without resorting to Great Depressions and World Wars. ",
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"content": "Teddy Roosevelt wasn't suppose to be president. McKinley was assassinated and Teddy was his VP. He was a fluke. Another thing is you don't see presidents like the Roosevelts these days. Those are the guys who really made positive history and are ranked as the top presidents of all time. These days presidents don't really care where they rank. Its like the presidents these days don't strive to be the best president of all time. They are just happy to be president. It's kinda sad. \n\nI'm not worried about Great Depression II. The country has gone through one already the second one should be easier. This country has even gone through a Civil War. The country will be just fine. I also think that we've strayed so far off that its time we do go through a major event.\n\n\n",
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"content": "Teddy was hardly a fluke. He was put in the VP spot in a desperate attempt to isolate his influence, because he was the immensely popular Governor of New York. The only thing the McKinley assassination did was speed up his arrival, because he was definitely going to be running for president and likely as a heavy favorite after McKinley was done.\n\nPlus it's still possible to ge presidents like him, the main problem is the country is polarized, and polarized in such a way that the GOP will almost certainly maintain the power of the filibuster given the geography of the Senate (which if you hate Gerrymandering, the representation of the Senate is 70x worse, literally). People forget that big presidents like Abe Lincoln, Teddy, FDR, Kennedy, and LBJ enjoyed *massive* support in Congress, especially FDR. They weren't creators of social movements, they were products of them. \n\n> I'm not worried about Great Depression II. \n\nYou should be. It would effect the entire world, not just the US. Given the current rise of right wing, nationalist parties in Europe, GDII could topple some of the Social Democracies in Europe, which provide a model of whatwe are trying to achieve here. That would definitely set us back. ",
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"content": "> About the future. Whatever happens is exactly what is suppose to happen. So if Great Depression II comes then that was exactly what was suppose to happen.\n\nSorry, I'm not a Calvinist. I put no stock whatsoever into predetermination. ",
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"content": "That's means you are supporting Trump. \n\nLearn math. ",
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"content": "you are not the victim in this. Those are the people who would see their families ripped apart by Trump, you are the one who tacitly supports that by not taking a stand against Trump.",
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"content": "Yeah she voted for the Iraq war, condemned her vote and recognized her mistake the a few years later.\n\nTrump wanted to specifically target civilians as his anti-terrorism policy.\n\nThe center piece of his campaign is an attack in immigrants and a deportation of undocumented immigrants. AGAIN the center piece of his campaign is the destruction of those families.\n\nWrite Bernie in, but do not pretend to occupy some sort of moral high ground or maintain loyalty to progressive ideals by doing it.",
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"content": "That's not shoving anything. It's called math. \n\nYou can give support to Turnip if you want to. ",
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"content": "I've already heard that response today. What did you do? cut and paste?",
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"content": "If she wants an easy win it will be SANDERS. ",
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"content": "It's never going to be someone who undermines the President. So no. ",
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"content": "It's gonna be Brown, ",
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"content": "Frankly, I have no clue.",
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"content": "Brown is the only one who satisfies all the requirements; demographics (white male), geography (OH), politics (progressive), and loyalty to Clinton. \n\n",
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"content": "What about the fact that he gets replaced by an R?",
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"content": "That can be worked out. \n\nI wanted Deval Patrick but he went to work for Bain Capital, \n\nThe others choices are weak. ",
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"content": "How can it be worked out? Why are other choices weak? You afraid of the Sanders supporters? ",
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"content": "I think we would sacrifice the seat if necessary to get it back later. \n\nI think Brown is good and meets the criteria if it's not Patrick. Otherwise, it will have to be Kaine who at least speaks Spanish. \n\nBiden, MacCauliffe, Castro, would be no good. \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Kaine is where I was heading.",
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"content": "Kaine is the safe bet. White male, experienced, Virginian and speaks fluent Spanish. \n\nHe will get the die hard Sanders fans upset, but such is life. ",
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"content": "He has challenged Congress on not authorizing war in the Middle East. He was head of the DNC with a successful run. Anti death penalty. Clean background. Well liked, swing state, unslimable. Catholic. ",
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"content": "Yes, he is good. \n\nI would prefer someone with more fire and personality is all. \n\nTo make up for her shortcomings. ",
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"content": "Honestly, I'd kind of like to see Biden stick around. He's very likable and got that good guy vibe which contrasts with Hilary. Biden is a very adept negotiator, If required to step in as president He'd probably do just fine. \n\nWe'd get more hilarious Joe moments as well.\n\nIf I remember correctly, when I researched some VP candidates Cory Booker continuously popped up. I do like him and think he's got a bright future in politics. However I do believe he received donations from Trump and has some connections to him. Also he ruffled feathers when he criticized the Obama campaign in 2012 for it continuously attacking venture capital firms.(which doesn't bother me, but going against talking points as a surrogate isn't taken well by the party.)",
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"content": "I pick [Tom Perez](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/tom-perez-veep-cabinet-220704) :)\n\n>He’s spent years working at the Justice Department on voting rights, civil rights and police misconduct, right in the center of issues that have exploded among African-Americans and progressive Democrats. He’s adored in the White House, where he’s been a main player in crafting the Obama second-term domestic agenda, and he’s got a knack for a fiery stump speech. Also, he’s Dominican. And unlike Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, the other Latino Cabinet secretary and more frequent subject of VP speculation (to whom nearly every conversation about Perez becomes at least an implicit comparison), Perez speaks fluent Spanish.\n",
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"content": "Except she doesn't have the required number of pledged delegates. She is 180 short. Right now Bernie is 560 short. There are only 112 delegates left. So neither candidate can get the nomination without the supers. Now is it likely that she is gonna be the nominee, probably. Does that mean that I'm gonna vote for her, more than likely. Am I happy about that, no. You seem to get very pissy about Bernie supporters feeling \"entitled\" that Hillary should still try to earn their votes. But the whole unity thing goes both ways. We are gonna have to make concessions on a lot of policy positions. I think that she should move a little more left. It's not much to ask for and wouldn't be a bad thing for her. Alienating people just because you hate that they want something more from your candidate and saying that the party doesn't need their vote anyway is the wrong way to approach the situation and will drive more away. ",
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"content": "Likely? No, certain. As it has always been. Without exception. And after Sanders meets with his president, he will be endorsing her and campaigning for her.",
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"content": "Just because he is scheduled to meet with Obama does not mean that he's gonna bend over for her and bow his head and fall in line. I'd say it's much more likely that he'll work against Trump than he will work for her. ",
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"content": "Obama his head of the party. Obama will get Hillary Clinton elected as he has made that perfectly clear. Sanders wants to keep that D and all the privileges that go with that in Philadelphia, he can try and muscle President Obama but he is going to find himself losing bad on that one. You think I guy that has dealt with Republican turds for 8 years is going to be intimidated by a newbee Democrat that didn't give Clinton half the race Clinton gave him, you are thinking wrong. This is a guy that has been punching out terrorists with drones without blinking. This is a man that may go down as our greatest Democratic president since FDR. But I doubt it comes down to that. Joe will be there too and Bernie sure doesn't want to be lonely the rest of his time in the Senate with no chairs, etc. with the Democrats back in the majority as that would certainly be the penalty for defying this president at minimum.",
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"content": "You're pretending Sanders has no political capital at all. [That's simply false](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-hidden-importance-of-the-bernie-sanders-voter/). While Sanders isn't going to get the nomination, attempting to strong arm him into compliance as you suggest would be gross political incompetence of the highest order.\n\nObama is not incompetent, and [he's been through this before](http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/the-obama-clinton-meeting/?_r=0). \n\nObama is going to do what he always does. He's going to treat everyone in the room with dignity, try to ease emotions and attempt to facilitate a win-win deal for everyone. ",
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"content": "Are we sure it's not because of the significant political klout and cultural capital that Hillary Clinton brought to the race?",
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"content": "> What he failed to do was offer a plausible explanation as to how he would get any of his ideas enacted, especially if one or both houses are controlled by Republicans.\n\nNeither has Clinton. I've asked this many times, and not a single person has answered this beyond vague meaningless throwaway lines like \"she has more experience\". Clinton will not get anything done domestically. The Democrats will not have a 60 seat filibuster proof majority in the Senate and the GOP obstructionism knows no bounds (except the TPP and massive government giveaways to the top 1% at the expense of the poor and middle class). \n\nSo since not a single one of Clinton's documented positions is either of those two things there are only two options:\n\n1. Clinton's ideas are every bit political fantasy as Sanders due to foreseeable continued extremism in the GOP.\n\n2. She actually plans to pass massive tax cuts for the rich as a bargaining chip. \n\nAt this point, I really really really hope it's not #2, because that would be an economic catastrophe. The Bush Tax cuts took us from a heavy surplus to massive deficits overnight and letting most of them expire is a huge reason the deficit has come way down while also not hurting the recovery. We simply cannot afford useless, massive giveaways to people who already have tons of money.\n\n",
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"content": "> She actually plans to pass massive tax cuts for the rich as a bargaining chip.\n\nSource?\n",
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"content": "You should make a habit of reading comments. That wasn't a statement of fact. ",
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"content": "In other words you are making it up. Just like Sanders platform was. It will fade in time, trust me.",
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"content": "> In other words you are making it up. \n\nSource?",
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"content": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Age 83\n\nAnthony Kennedy Age 79\n\nStephen Breyer Age 77 ",
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"content": "Yes. Those are people and those numbers are their respective ages. ",
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"content": "2008, Hillary loses: It's her job to unite the party!\n\n2016, Hillary wins: It's her job to unite the party!",
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"content": "She tried to call the election before a vote was cast this time around. Claiming a large delegate lead before any votes is a huge slant to the democratic process. Disrespecting that many voters places the burden on her to bring the opposition back. Losing is one thing but consistently being told that your vote wont matter because its already been decided is another.",
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"content": "> She tried to call the election before a vote was cast this time around.\n\nRight, that's why she decided not to campaign at all. \n\n>Losing is one thing but consistently being told that your vote wont matter because its already been decided is another.\n\nNobody told you this. You told yourselves this.",
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"content": "She began this campaign with nearly 100% name recognition and hasnt really campaigned at all. She was in my city but I couldnt attend her events because I couldn't afford a ticket. She debates as little as possible but she claims to be the most transparent candidate yet she wont release her goldman sachs transcripts and refuses to hold press conferences. \n\nThe best way for her to get my vote is to add Bernie or, more likely, Elizabeth Warren/Sherrod Brown to her ticket. At least this way if she does get indicted I'll have someone I like in office.",
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"content": "> It's her job to unite the party!\n\nIs that supposed to be what /u/Methodical_Clip said in 2008? If not, it's completely irrelevant.",
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"content": "No, it's your job as a voter to keep the shit from hitting the fan to the extent possible.\n\nThis election isn't about you and what strokes your ego. It's about the outcomes it's going to have for millions of real living breathing human beings.",
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"content": "Yes. This election is about me. All elections are about me and all elections are about you. I am responsible to vote for my interests and you are responsible to vote for your interests. My interest is to not vote a corrupt politician into office. If that means voting for Jill Stein or writing in a vote so be it.",
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"content": "Yeah, like the millions of real living breathing human beings in Syria, Iraq, and Libya.",
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"content": "Except they're fucked under Clinton or Trump, so as shitty as it is that's a wash in terms of deciding which is the best of the actually possible outcomes.",
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"content": "Except voting for someone else won't actually result in a different outcome, since Clinton and Trump are the only ones who can actually win. All we can do is choose the least bad among the two. It's far from ideal, but this is the real world where things rarely are.",
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"content": "> Bernie Sanders is talking about something bigger.\n\nHe's also not going to win in November. He's not even going to be in the ballot in November. Frankly, even though I agree with him more than I do with Clinton, I don't even want him to be President anymore because over the last month and a half he has shown that he has the temperament to get precisely zero things he supports done. Clinton will at least be able to get some of the things that she and Sanders both support done, which is more than zero. That's why I voted for her Tuesday, even though I would have felt better voting for Sanders.\n\nBecause my vote doesn't belong to me. It's a public trust, to be used for the good of all of us. And given that I'm fairly certain Clinton would be able to make more progress on a positive progressive agenda than Sanders would, that means it's my duty to the public to vote for her, however much I might dislike it.",
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"content": ">This election isn't about you...\n\n\"Your vote doesn't belong to you!\"",
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"content": "An open letter to Bernie Sanders from a Bernie Sanders supporter: \"We need to unite now, Bernie. Our country depends on it.\"",
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"content": "The issue with this is that Sanders supporters are expected to give tons of ground while Clinton supports get to keep things the way they are.",
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"content": "Really? How so? Loser dictates terms? Or reasonable accommodations with full support to candidate?",
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"content": "You mean like I did 8 years ago? ",
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"content": "It ain't over till the fat lady sings and the stage is a month away. ",
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"content": "She sang in NY. \n\nIf you can't make it there, you can't make it everywhere. ",
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"content": "And that is why I am sitting this one out. \n",
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"content": "Evidently not.",
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"content": "My goodness you really rekt me. ",
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"content": "Dear Hillary,\n\nI know, ma'am. It sucks. I get it, believe me. I was really holding out hope that you would somehow come to realize that what's good for the nation is good for the Party. But I guess this Party just isn't ready to let you go yet, like it arguably was ready to let you go eight years ago. Progress is slow. Still, you did a fantastic job at getting people motivated and getting some more folks thinking about what is wrong with this country. That being said, there is a larger threat now, and we need to unite against it.\n\nAt best, Trump would make us the laughingstock of the civilized world (he already kind of has, but we can still be redeemed, at this point), and at worst, and perhaps most likely, he will destroy us as a country. It's like he forgot that the word \"United\" is even in the name of this place. But you haven't.\n\nWe need to unite now, Hillary. Our country depends on it.\n\nYou ran an amazing campaign, and you went all the way from being a shoe-in for President to being just as likely to win or lose as the other party's candidate in this race. I know that you feel as though you have already won, Hillary. Others were saying this prematurely, but now I think most of us are pretty split on this point. I'm sorry.\n\nI understand wanting to take it to the convention, believe me. I'm one of those people who always has to have the last word in an argument, too. And I'm stubborn as hell, especially when I know that I'm right. So I'm asking you, as one passionate, hard-headed person to another, please think about the greater good, now. (And, if that's not enough, consider the looming evil.)\n\nLove,\n\ntheninetyninthstraw",
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"content": "Mike, I know you feel like a real progressive hero but you really need to face facts. Hillary is going to lose to an orange ape and we all know it. I wish it weren't so just as much as the next liberal but we really ought to stop propping up these third-way Democrats and focus on winning in November. ",
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"content": "This is hilarious. She won. When she lost 8 years ago, she did the right thing. Now it's Bernies turn. ",
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"content": "It is going to be one hell of a ride. What really concerns me is if they don't fix the election machines Trump could easily commit election fraud on a wide scale. They have known about this issue for years and have done nothing to address the issue. They could have easily used the vulnerabilities to push back when the GOP was pushing for voter ID. This makes me conclude that party leaders are either inept or complacent when it comes to one of the biggest threats to the legitimacy of our democracy. If the government does not rule by the mandate of the people, then by what right are we governed. I can only see one path forward if our political system is no longer valid, and that is to organize a #BlackFridayStrike. For one week we remind the plutocrats that they need our participation if the economy is to function. We have enough time to not only organize this event, but to collectively come up with our requests. The truly powerful aspect of this comes from high frequency trading. The algorithms that are used to conduct high frequency trades have to be relatively simple. Any attempt to program them to ignore 1 week of lost revenue would make them too slow to be effective. At that point there only option would be to shut down the stock market during the strike. We can do this. We must do this if we are to avert a possible civil war. Which due to numerous factors we are doomed to loose. Or they could cede power back to the people. The choice is theirs.",
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"content": "I can understand not conceding until the last primary next Tuesday. That's understandable. You finish the marathon even though you know you cannot win.\n\nThe linked op-ed, however, is surreal to the point of being bizarre. No, Bernie Sanders cannot still win. It's over for him this year. The author of the piece is the absurdly laughable HA Goodman, whose connect with reality was long ago lost. He insisted Bernie Sanders would sweep Super Tuesday. He insisted Bernie Sanders would be so far ahead that Hillary Clinton would drop out half way through the race. He insisted Bernie Sanders would sweep New York in a landslide. He insisted Bernie Sanders would sweep California in a landslide. Ever single solitary prediction by HA Goodman turned out to be astoundingly wrong.\n\nGoodman is the op-ed columnist who cried wolf.",
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"content": "Yah....k. What's he going to say? \"Well we already checked, nothing is coming, so it doesn't matter.\" ? I doubt it. It was a good answer to a good question. ",
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"content": "Yah he took a laptop of shit to Russia and China and purposefully disclosed about 5 NSA top secret programs, destroying decades of time spent building a technological edge in intelligence. ",
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"content": "Ask yourself if you would want Trump to have that sort of power, and you will see why he was such a hero. I for one am far more worried about dying in a car accident, or from cancer, or almost anything else besides terrorism. We over reacted mostly due to a complete failure of leadership from the Bush administration. We played right into the terrorists hands with the creation of these programs. Fuck terrorism fuck how it has shown so many in the home of the brave to be utter cowards. I will be forever grateful to Snowden, because in the end the price of freedom is forever vigilance.",
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"content": "I wouldn't want trump to run the goddam park service, doesn't mean I don't want parks. ",
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"content": "I feel like you are missing the point. Those programs could have easily given us a totalitarian state. We still might be headed down that path, but he put a dent in it. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/23/bloomberg_report_nsa_employees_have_deliberately_abused_their_power.html\nWhat happens when the wrong people get access to these programs. At that point no one is safe. We are all at the whim of those who can know everything about us. ",
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"content": "These are valid objections. But how do we track terrorists and their networks? How do we track our enemies? How do we spy on our opponents? How can we let our spy agencies be held accountable to a single man who stole tons of shit? We CANNOT set that precedent or every pseudo-hero with an axe to grind will hollow out our capabilities. ",
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"content": "This is actually really relieving. I think Sanders wants to make sure the campaigns stick to the issues he's worked really, really hard to bring to the spotlight. \n\nHe could stay in the raise, promote ideas that allow Hilary to seem moderate and even give flexibility without attacking her. He kept the discussion to the issues, he was an adult, as was Hilary. There were never cheap shots, there was nothing about personal life aside from the things Bill has done, which is relevant if she plans on using some of his former staff and has him involved. \n\nI really do appreciate how the democrats have presented themselves and acted in this race. No need to beat a dead horse with emails or Benghazi. Not that they're unimportant issues, but they're not the pressing issues that are preventing America from reaching its potential. \n\nIf democrats can continue to act like adults while just letting the GOP and Trump continue their infighting and letting Trump, there's no need to even challenge or attack him, he's his own worst enemy. If he keeps it up Democrats should be able to win pretty handedly not just the WH but a lot of congress seats as well.",
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"content": "Get a grip. ",
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"content": "That's all you've got? Why bother commenting if you can't defend your master?",
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"content": "Defend her to whom? \n\nA sore loser Sanders supporter who uses coffee shop buzzwords? So edgy. ",
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"content": "Your first statement was an ad hominem. ",
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"content": "k. \n\nHere's a tissue for your tears. ",
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"content": "You just smeared people older than you and didn't tow your line as \"uninformed boomers\".\n\nSo stop whining about insults when you are insulting people. \n\n",
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"content": "There are two options left. \n\nHis type of whiney attitude is why we have the quality of candidates we do. \n\nAnd no, Sanders was not quality. ",
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"content": "You may not have agreed with his policies but he is far and beyond a better candidate than Clinton. There are a lot of reasons why he lost but none are because he isn't a good choice. ",
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"content": "And yet, he lost. I don't dislike Sanders. I liked Sanders before most of his supporters ever heard of him. And I would have voted for him if he got the nomination. ",
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"content": "Here's the thing: Back when he was convinced he would win, he actively joined the democratic party (after being a lifelong independent) SPECIFICALLY to NOT split the liberal vote. That's what he said. Those were his words.\n\nAs it got to a point where Hillary was ahead and it was clear that she had an easier path to the nomination, that tune changed. So everyone wants to suggest that Sanders still has chance when it's clear that he *doesn't* at this point. And now, he just seems like he's doing specifically what he didn't want to do, which is split the liberal vote.\n\nIt's good to see him come around and commit to this but like I've said since the beginning of this process, it's a shame that so many of Sanders' supporters aren't as smart as he is. ",
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"content": "The liberal vote. \n\nAs proven by California. An open primary. ",
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"content": "Lovely prose, but I can't begin to imagine your point.",
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"content": "Meaning you know jacksquat about the liberal vote. Bernie was rejected all throughout the country by liberals. ",
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"content": "Wrong. First past the post, combined with corporate media and fear mongering decided the nomination, not ideologicy. Your candidate is no liberal, and an ever-growing group of informed citizens know this. ",
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"content": "You will get over it or get an ulcer from stewing in your hatred. ",
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"content": "I hate no one, I'm simply passionate about progressive politics, a concept entirely foreign to you. I'm actually enjoying watching the table being set for the demise of party leadership that clings to antiquated corporatist nonsense.\n\n\nAs for \"gettin over it\", that's what someone with no ideology of their own does. I actually have an agenda beyond the horse race, and my side is growing in popularity as yours dies off. \n\nWe're just getting started. Drink an extra ensure and try to keep up...",
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"content": "\"First past the post\"? You mean the rules for years?\n\nLook for excuses all you want. It's typical of the self-entitled. ",
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"content": "So you're saying you advocate that system? That's actually hilarious. Why don't you promote Jim Crow while you're at it. \n\nYou're doing nothing but helping people decide to leave the party. Advocating disenfranchisement is a new low, though. Kudos. Thanks for doing my job for me.",
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"content": "Comparing first past the post to Jim Crow?\n\nI am reminded every day as to why Sanders lost and why people find his supporters so offensive. ",
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"content": "An outrageous stance?\n\nLike comparing first past the post to Jim Crow laws?? \n\n",
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"content": "What about this comparison are you attempting to criticize? They are both universally accepted to be completely unethical and indefensible, yet you apparently wish to imply support for such a system, presumably because it got you the result you wanted this time.\n\nThis is incredibly offensive, shortsighted, and misguided at best.",
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"content": "It's false equivalence.\n",
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"content": "Susan Collins makes me proud to be from Maine!!!",
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"content": "Fuckin christ can this sub get any more anti Sanders? This place is just getting so toxic to be in. With all the reposting of the same damn pro Hillary articles from the same handful of people and the constant sore winner attitude and just plain hateful bashing. This sub is a fuckin mess. ",
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"content": "Post a positive article on Sanders working to defeat Trump. /u/notmathrock has to come in and start with the negative. If he had stuck with comments that pertained to what was in the article, it would have never gone anti-Sanders. We have a nominee. There is no excuse for him to be doing that. Eventually this will be ending here. The article wasn't titled Sanders vs. Clinton, who is best or Sanders sucks. He is lucky his comments haven't been pulled. He had a nasty, snarky response to an excellent comment by /u/SirJohnny/ and another to /u/gloomdoom/ who was a Sanders supporter. People like him need to ask themselves. Is this what Bernie Sanders expects of his supporters going forward? Am I suppose to start tossing grenades at the party while he works with the party? If I send him an email with that question, what do I think his response would be? I liked Sanders' vision though I saw nothing on his implementation. I know if Trump gets elected, his vision won't be happening in my lifetime.",
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"content": "Pretty sure that was at least one of the purposes for the President Obama/Senator Sanders meeting- to let him now that he would be endorsing Clinton",
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"content": "Sanders called that meeting.",
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"content": "Not unless he was offering something. You just don't call a meeting with the president.",
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"content": "It was confirmed, and this wouldn't be the first time he's called for a meeting with him.",
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"content": "What? You think he was on the fence about it? If not for formality, he probably would have endorsed her the day she announced. \n\nI heard a guy say at the gym this morning when the news mentioned the President and Sen. Sanders were meeting today....\"God, wouldn't it be awesome if he endorsed Bernie Sanders?!\"\n\nYou Sanders people are fucking delusional. ",
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"content": "What difference does it make? Was Sanders going to change his mind just like he changed California 's mind? Or was that race rigged too?",
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"content": "Anyone going around calling Hillary Clinton a criminal clearly is capable of making judgements without evidence that are highly biased and not based on facts. Do you really think the President would be doing this without having heard through his AG that the investigation was leading to nothing? Do you really think so low of this president who may well turn out to be the best president since FDR, that he would not find that out first? You really underestimate this president even after almost 8 years in the job.",
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"content": "Cry all day. Your smears against our liberal President will be dismissed. \n\nHe is still President so that ranking is high for anyone who knows history. ",
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"content": "Just because he's president doesn't mean he's a good or bad president. If you're a president you should be striving to be the best president you can be which I'm sure Obama tried to do. His best is 17 out of 44. Most people give Obama a grade of B-. Like I said Second Rate President. ",
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"content": "A) Who is \"most people\"?\n\nB) Ratings for Presidents rise after office so it will go up. \n\nC) Why are you smearing Obama? Is it from Bernie's failure? ",
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"content": "A. From the wiki page it reads \"A 2013 History News Network poll of 203 American historians, when asked to rate Barack Obama's presidency on an A–F scale, gave him a B- grade. Obama, whom historians graded using 15 separate measures plus an overall grade, was rated most highly in the categories of communication ability, integrity, and crisis management, and most poorly for his relationship with Congress, transparency, and accountability.[21]\"\n\nB. You can't predict the future. George W. Bush's rankings have gone from down. \n\nC. I actually like most of Obama's decisions. But there's a few that I really hate. 1. His vote for the Iraq War. 2. His Vote for bailing out the banks and car companies. 3. Endorsing Clinton. \n\nThat's why I'm pissed and I'm not voting for Clinton. Obama doesn't have the right to be recommending anyone in my opinion because he is ok with someone who broke the rules when she worked for him and the FBI now has to spend a lot of time and energy figuring out just how bad she broke the rules. And he's trying to say this person is fit to be president. NO WAY!!! I will never agree. ",
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"content": "Ah so you want Trump to win. You don't really support what Bernie Sanders is all about then. That is a shame.",
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"content": "Is that what Bernie Sanders prefers that you do? Doesn't sound like it from this morning? In fact, it is the opposite of what he is about. It shows that you have learned nothing from him and are engaging in nihilism at its best. The very opposite of working together to assure a better future. You would help destroy everything he wants to happen out of some misplaced anger. Why don't you send him an email and see if he agrees with you? ",
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"content": "Math says if you split the vote, it gives support to Trump. \n\nYou can like as many people as you want. But the number of votes matter. ",
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"content": "I get that. So do the rest of the folks not voting for either the presumptive Republican or the presumptive Democrat. There are those of us who vote based on our individual morality and those who vote strategically and sometimes those votes go to 3rd party or independant candidates or none at all. Point is that the Democrat doesn't get my vote simply because they have a D next to their name on the ballot.",
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"content": "No one ever said that. Stop promoting that someone is out to get you or forcing you. \n\nIf you split the vote, it's support for Trump. That's math. Do whatever you want. That's freedom. \n\nBut don't pretend you are helping the liberal cause. Because that's hurting it. That's reality. ",
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"content": "No one is trying to force me to do anything, not yet at least. I just take issue with those who say a vote for so and so is actually a vote for you know who. \n\nLike blaming Nader voters for George Bush as opposed to realizing that maybe Gore was a crummy candidate. Or proping up a deeply flawed candidate and expecting everyone to get on board because the boogie man (Republican) will win otherwise.\n\nHow about we as voters actually work towards getting decent candidates and force the legislatures to write the rules in a way that benefits the voters instead of the two parties and big money.\n\nHas less to do with a liberal cause and more to do with voting ones conscience. I would take an election not ruled by corporate interests any day over most liberal ideals if those ideals come at the cost of fair election. My biggest issue is to get big money out of politics and I don't see either of the presumptive candidates doing that therefore I'm not voting for either one of them.\n\nI don't believe that Trump will do any more damage that the two parties have done over the course of the last 50 years or so.",
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"content": "Well, splitting the vote gives support to Trump. Again, that is math. \n\nAnd you have no clue if you think Trump isn't the worst thing for this country in 50 years. In every possible facet. Utter delusion. A maniacal racist ego trip whiney bitch for POTUS who wants to stomp on anyone media who questions him and uses threats to manage people. \n\nNo clue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "I suppose that's a matter of perspective. I don't believe any president in my life time has done anything but serve themselves and those who paid them. You obviously see things differently. I don't see how Trump will be any different. ",
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"content": "You betray Bernie Sanders and his vision of the future then. I stand by that vision. For his grandchildren and for mine. I will not betray it. It is a good vision. Not to be just discarded as casually as worn out jeans in a self-righteous fit of vanity.",
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"content": "By not voting D no matter what?",
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"content": "Obama wasn't in Senate office when the AUMF for Iraq was voted on. \n\nSo maybe you are confused as to what you are pissed at. ",
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"content": "You'd prefer Reagan?",
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"content": "No. But according to the wiki poll Reagan is better than Obama. ",
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"content": "Wiki poll. Where one goes to not have a referenceable source.",
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"content": "Best president since FDR? Dude, Truman.",
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"content": "Sure, the guy that completely misjudged the Soviets, assumed a world-wide Communist conspiracy, couldn't understand what was happening in China, signaled to the North Koreans and Soviets that we would not protect South Korea, let McArthur go out of control in South Korea, never got a grip that Tito wasn't a Stalinist stooge, etc.\n\nNot to say he wasn't a good president but when it came to dealing with communist countries? Fail.",
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"content": "I think this is most excellent. Does the job quite well.",
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"content": "You don't get what you want if you wanted what Sanders wanted by engaging in nihilism that causes the election of an abomination like Donald Trump. You end up losing everything you wanted for generations and violating everything Bernie Sanders wanted you to do.",
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"content": "1. The person didn't mention Sanders.\n\n2. People who support Sanders don't have the creepy cult-follower mentality that your comment suggests about trying to do \"everything Bernie Sanders wanted you to do\".\n\n3. Assuming they did support Sanders, they might have disagreed with him on some things and the area they agree might not be something that Clinton is good at.\n\n4. If you want 1 cat and somebody offers you 1/2 of a cat, that's not closer to what you want than 0 cats, that's roadkill. Sometimes the next CLOSEST thing isn't the next BEST thing.\n\nIn a democracy, people should vote for candidates that support their views. It sounds like that user should probably vote third party. It'd be a rather autocratic system if they were scolded for voting for what they believe in.",
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"content": "Cutting your nose to spite your face for the next 30 plus years is a form of insanity.",
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"content": "There is no spite. Just supporting things you believe in and not those that you don't.",
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"content": "No, this is garbage that the mods will be removing.",
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"content": "Wow. I guess no discussion is good discussion.",
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"content": "I guess [this ad wasn't about anyone in particular](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEv5zSF11q4)?",
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"content": "Except make secure a conservative Supreme Court for decades to come.",
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"content": "I am okay with that. 2A or bust bro!",
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"content": "So you are okay with all progress made in the next 20 years getting overturned by the court? The ones who have the final say. Things like Citizen's United, gutting the 1964 Civil Rights act. That is okay with you?",
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"content": "Citizens United was passed by the Current Court (Sans Scalia because he is not on the current Court)... within the last 20 years. If the court revisits every single case it has ruled on because the party that controls it deems it against its political nature... well fuck that. \n",
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"content": "> So you are okay with all progress made in the next 20 years getting overturned by the court? The ones who have the final say. Things like Citizen's United, gutting the 1964 Civil Rights act.\n\nWait, are you trying to say Citizen's United *shouldn't* be overturned?",
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"content": "No. I'm saying decisions like Citizen's United this will be a common place for decades if a republican wins the presidency. It will take a frickin' constitutional amendment to get rid of the atrocity the Scalia court inflicted us on. Do you really want 2 or 3 more Scalias on the court for decades to come?",
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"content": "Don't be naive; Hillary *loves* Citizens United. Without it she would have had no chance to keep up with Bernie's fundraising. ",
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"content": "It is obvious you are just here to troll. She has vowed to get it over-turned. If you want to ignore that and just spout crap from your orifices, I have no time to waste with you.",
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"content": "If you believe the words coming out of her mouth then I pity you.\n\nUse what intelligence you possess -- Bernie said he was going to overturn CU and refused to collect ANY superpac money. Hillary said she was going to overturn CU and then goes on to collect nearly THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS that would have otherwise been unavailable if CU was overturned. You think she wants to give up $300M? Don't be a fool. ",
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"content": "Uh, well staying a senator will give a chance to overturn as long as he gets with the program and endorses after the DC primary beatdown which he appears ready to do. If he doesn't, then he won't have much to do in his final years in the senate.",
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"content": "That would be the fundraising where his own internal polling told him he was going to lose bad in NY and CA but kept telling people he was certain to win there to keep the spigot of money flowing? How do you feel about being lied to in order to get more money out of you?",
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"content": "https://np.reddit.com/r/twinks/comments/4n76dr/am_i_a_cute_boy_r8_me_pls_19/d41pe7n\n\nlol WHAT THE FUCK",
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"content": "I am proud of what i am. You have a problem with gay people? ",
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"content": "Nope, because the Senate will flip to the Dems and thus SCOTUS.",
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"content": "See the checks here are the fact that both sides have to agree on the court. So either way it will be a moderate, just depends which way they lean a bit. Not worried.",
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"content": "Obama!",
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"content": "Here we go again. Not sure why it isn't obvious.\n\nRuth Bader Ginsburg Age 83\n\nAnthony Kennedy Age 79\n\nStephen Breyer Age 77 ",
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"content": "Warren's ideals align so much more closely with Bernie than with Hillary. I just don't get why she didn't endorse him. She must have her reasons, but I'd really like to know what they are. At any rate, I've always liked her but I'll never forgive her for not helping the only candidate that would make the changes she claims to want. My guess is she feared retaliation from Hillary if she won. Pretty damn cynical if you ask me.",
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"content": "Elizabeth Warren doesn't fear retaliation from anyone. She knows if Trump is elected there is no future for progressive politics in this country for the next 30 plus years. She knows that Senator Sanders' vision dies if that happens.",
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"content": "Well of course she doesn't want Trump elected. I fully understand why she's supporting Clinton now. What sane person doesn't support her against Trump? But, why didn't she support Bernie when he had a chance? She could have been what tipped him to the lead. You can't deny that she has much more in common with Bernie than with Hillary.",
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"content": "You will have to ask her.",
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"content": "Haha I'd like to!",
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"content": "Because Sanders couldn't prove himself viable. He never expanded his supporters outside of young, idealistic, mostly white people. Sanders, beliefs aside, is not a great candidate or campaigner. He never substantially \"shook up\" the primary to the extent he needed to. \n\nWarren didn't want to make a high-risk bet, so she sat out the primary. ",
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"content": "30 years? Wow, the fear mongering intensifies every day in here. ",
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"content": "How long will Alito be a Supreme Court justice?",
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"content": "I have no way of knowing. If his retirement under a Republican be a national disaster, maybe he should retire now.",
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"content": "Like the majority of voters Warren made the clear headed decision Sanders can't deliver what he was promising. Senior economists have shown his policies would have destroyed the economy. It's not a coincidence he wasn't endorsed by any of his colleagues. Anyone with a modicum of understanding how elections work knows Sanders would have been demolished in the general. Warren endorsed the best candidate, one of the most qualified to ever run for office, with a strong progressive record of actually getting things done. If anyone is cynical, it's you.",
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"content": "Publicly available facts don't need a budget.",
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"content": "To think that america can't accomplish what every other advanced country has accomplished . .THAT'S what's cynical. There are economists who support his ideas too. But regardless of that, all you have to do is look at the rest of the world. Nothing will change under Hillary. Which is good if you consider the devastation Trump could cause, but sad when you consider what Bernie MIGHT have accomplished. And to say Hillary would do better in the general against Trump than Bernie is just willful ignorance.",
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"content": "You have no clue what you're talking about, the epitome of willful ignorance:\n\nFrom the Rolling Stone [interview:](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bernie-sanders-fights-on-the-rolling-stone-interview-20160531?page=4)\n\n>RS: Many people say you're right as rain on the policy and the objectives, but \"Boy, I just don't think he can do it.\"\n...So how do you do it? What are the specifics that allow you to—\n\n\n>BS: What are the specifics about how I, personally, all by myself, do what nobody in American history has done? And I'm being criticized? Why don't you do it? Why doesn't the editor of Rolling Stone do it? Look. You know. With all due respect, that's an absurd question. \n\n\n[Fiscal FactCheck: Adding Up Senator Sanders’s Campaign Proposals So Far:](http://fiscalfactcheck.crfb.org/adding-up-senator-sanderss-campaign-proposals-so-far/)\n \n\"Based on our estimates, Senator Sanders’ proposals would raise both spending and revenue to far beyond any previous levels in the United States over the last half century. Assuming lower health costs, spending (including net interest) will average 30 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the decade, and assuming higher health costs, spending will average 35 percent.\"\n \n[NYT: Left-Leaning Economists Question Cost of Bernie Sanders’s Plans](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/us/politics/left-leaning-economists-question-cost-of-bernie-sanderss-plans.html).\n \n\"Sanders’s health plan would cost $27 trillion, not $14 trillion, which would put total spending for all of his initiatives above $30 trillion through 2026.\" \n \n\n**An Open Letter from Past CEA Chairs to Senator Sanders**\nPosted on February 17, 2016\n\n \nDear Senator Sanders\n \n\nWe are former Chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers for Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. For many years, we have worked to make the Democratic Party the party of evidence-based economic policy. When Republicans have proposed large tax cuts for the wealthy and asserted that those tax cuts would pay for themselves, for example, we have shown that the economic facts do not support these fantastical claims. We have applied the same rigor to proposals by Democrats, and worked to ensure that forecasts of the effects of proposed economic policies, from investment in infrastructure, to education and training, to health care reforms, are grounded in economic evidence. Largely as a result of efforts like these, the Democratic party has rightfully earned a reputation for responsibly estimating the effects of economic policies.\n\nWe are concerned to see the Sanders campaign citing extreme claims by Gerald Friedman about the effect of Senator Sanders’s economic plan—claims that cannot be supported by the economic evidence. Friedman asserts that your plan will have huge beneficial impacts on growth rates, income and employment that exceed even the most grandiose predictions by Republicans about the impact of their tax cut proposals.\n\nAs much as we wish it were so, **no credible economic research supports economic impacts of these magnitudes. Making such promises runs against our party’s best traditions of evidence-based policy making and undermines our reputation as the party of responsible arithmetic.** These claims undermine the credibility of the progressive economic agenda and make it that much more difficult to challenge the unrealistic claims made by Republican candidates.\n\nSincerely,\n\nAlan Krueger, Princeton University\n\nChair, Council of Economic Advisers, 2011-2013\n\nAustan Goolsbee, University of Chicago Booth School\n\nChair, Council of Economic Advisers, 2010-2011\n\nChristina Romer, University of California at Berkeley\n\nChair, Council of Economic Advisers, 2009-2010\n\nLaura D’Andrea Tyson, University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business\n\nChair, Council of Economic Advisers, 1993-1995",
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"content": "OK, you already said that some economists don't agree with Bernie's proposals. Huge surprise that Obama's/Clinton's advisers would be among them. But you haven't countered anything I said. Particularly that some economists agree with him, and that he would fair better than Hillary against Trump. Tell me why his ideas are possible in most of the civilized world but impossible here. Isn't that cynicism?",
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"content": "Obviously you think basic math is a conspiracy. Thanks for confirming you're in complete denial.",
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"content": "She's endorsing Hillary Clinton because she's the nominee of her Warren's party, and she doesn't want Trump elected. If it had anything to do with Hillary's positive qualities, she wouldn't have held out until there were no other options.",
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"content": "Actually, she stated that she doesn't believe superdelegates should sway elections. She endorsed now because Bernie lost. ",
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"content": "Which is exactly what I said.",
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"content": "That's not what you said. ",
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"content": "A:\n> She's endorsing Hillary Clinton because she's the nominee of her Warren's party\n\nB:\n> She endorsed now because Bernie lost.",
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"content": "You were asserting that it was only because she is the party's nominee and not because of Clinton's policies. \n\nShe endorsed now because Bernie lost, but she likes the policies of both candidates. \n\nSo no, it was not what you said. ",
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"content": "Hillary winning is the same as Bernie losing, in a two-person race. Of course Warren is going to endorse her party's nominee, that means nothing. ",
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"content": "Your first statement assumed she doesn't like Clinton's policies. \n\nThat is where you are still incorrect, as Warren is on the record as endorsing Clinton's policies. ",
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"content": "That same exact argument would have implied she didn't like Bernie if Bernie had won and Warren endorsed Bernie now. Warren likes both of them.",
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"content": "I think that Warren is smart, and knew that Bernie wasn't likely to win the nomination. She did make a lot of statements in support of Bernie throughout his campaign. ",
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"content": "Yeah she likes Bernie. She has also said positive things about Hillary. It is pretty evident she likes both of them.",
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"content": "That's not going to last long.",
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"content": "Said all sane people. \n\n\n\"constitutional carry \" has never made any sense, legally, historically or practically. ",
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"content": "Well the second amendment says that we have the right to bear arms, it does not specify that you can only do it in your own home.",
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"content": "It also says \"A well regulated militia\" but I know gun nuts hate that. \n\nThat doesn't mean we can't regulate at all and historically that's not been the case. ",
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"content": "This is a poor argument. \nIt's two separate statements. \n>A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. \n \nThe first statement: \n>A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State \n \nTranslation: We know we need a militia. \n \nThe second statement: \n>the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. \n \nTranslation: The peoples right to own weapons will not be taken away. \n \nFull statement: We know we need a militia so people are allowed to have guns. \n \nBoth sides try to make it something else but it's really simply stated. \n\nEdit: you don't have to like it, but when you put forward a weak argument, you strengthen the argument of the other side.",
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"content": "> **well-regulated** militia...",
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"content": "Yup. \n\"We need a well regulated melitia\" \n\"Well regulated\" applies to \"melitia\" and only \"melitia\". \nBecause we need a well regulated melitia, our people are allowed to have guns.",
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"content": "It means \"in order\" not \"under control\". ",
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"content": "Our \"well regulated militia\" is the National Guard. Since the federal government decided to commandeer our young men and women for use in corporate agenda based foreign wars, we no longer have a *well regulated* militia, but a standing army. Which is never good. The Guard proved useful for the ruling class during the labor wars and the protests of the sixties and seventies. Well regulated my ass. Well owned. \n\nOne of my best friends almost lost his ass and definitely lost his buddies fighting for Haliburton and Bush Clinton International in 2003. Don't talk about a well regulated militia as if it has something to do with the right to defend yourself. \n\nTry separating the 2nd amendment from the vast majority of states who maintain castle doctrine laws. Just try. ",
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"content": "Phantom responded to your first statement pretty well so I'll leave that alone. \n\nAs for regulation, what's the point of preventing law abiding gun owners from carrying concealed? It won't prevent criminals from doing it because I guarantee that they aren't going to the classes and getting the necessary licenses to carry concealed in the first place. All it does is prevent good guys from being able to defend themselves in public, the criminals will still carry guns and other weapons.",
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"content": "> All it does is prevent good guys from being able to defend themselves in public\n\n[In 2012 there were 259 gun deaths ruled justifiable.](https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expandhomicidemain) 232,000 guns were stolen by criminals from law abiding citizens to be used in crimes, 8,342 were killings. 20,666 people committed suicide with their guns. and 548 people were accidentally shot.\n\nThat's over 2x as many accidental deaths than successful use of a gun in self defense. And orders of magnitude more criminals got guns because of the prevalence of lawful gun owners.\n\nSo please, stop acting like you're just protecting yourself. You're endangering those around you, and yourself included.",
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"content": "Those are two different clauses, and yes we do have \"a well regulated militia\". It's called the National Guard. As much as I support the federal government, I do not support the use of those troops in foreign wars. ",
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"content": "That's not true and is a fairly new legal. Theory and wasn't way the founders intended ",
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"content": "Source? It's convenient speaking on behalf of dead people isn't it? ",
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"content": "Indeed. Banning conceal-carry weapons when we have the right to bear arms is like banning public whispering when we have the right to free speech.",
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"content": "Never? \nWhat about when we were pushing west? \nOr colonizing. \nThat's still part of \"never\". \nI think you mean \"recently\" or \"in my lifetime\" maybe? \nEdit: I see downvotes but no discussion. \nAre the time periods I mentioned not part of \"historically\"? \nCare to make a mature argument?",
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"content": "Most of the supporting cases are from that time period, in fact. ",
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"content": "Exactly, which is because it did make sense when there were wolves and bears trying to eat you in your log cabin. \nNot to mention the human reasons. (There were more than a few bad characters out in the old west)",
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"content": "It's a false argument. There was a ton of gun control back then ",
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"content": "The two are not mutually exclusive. \nThough they *can* conflict with one another, they can also coexist. ",
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"content": "People who would murder you and rape your family. Winters were long and Kindles few. ",
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"content": "Good thing there are no longer bad people who wish to do harm to innocents and could have access to guns legal and otherwise. ",
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"content": "I'm not sure of your point. \nWe aren't talking about now, we are talking about the past.",
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"content": "They're very different from one another aren't they? ",
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"content": "That was my point, yes. \nHe said \"never\" and \"historically\".",
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"content": "You realize that you're arguing with someone who most likely agrees with you. As a rural Democrat, I still retain the right to support gun rights. ",
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"content": "I'm not arguing. \nI'll be happy to discuss current gun rights. \nI am a Democrat and a gun owner and support gun rights also. \nI was simply discussing the implications of \"never\" and \"historically\".",
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"content": "Maybe those were not concealed weapons?",
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"content": "I don't think they differentiated between concealed and open carry back then.",
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"content": "So that could mean the law either way applied today is not relevant? ",
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"content": "So that could mean the law either way applied today is not relevant? ",
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"content": "It means it's open to interpretation, at least in my view.",
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"content": "Well, these days, I think open-carry is more controversial than concealed carry, even if both are controversial.",
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"content": "Absolutely. Someone will always push the law to its extent and open carrying an AR-15 in suburbia is just ridiculous ",
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"content": "It must be where I grew up, but open carry has never bothered me. It concealed that makes me nervous. If I see a dude walking down the street with rifle, or a holstered gun it wouldnt cross my mind to be bothered. \n\nWe had guns in our house growing up. There was a gun rack above my grandfathers kitchen table. My friends family stored their guns in the living room leaning aganst the wall with the umbrellas. My (rich) uncle had a lighted gun safe in the entertainment room.",
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"content": "Holstered pistol okay, I might raise an eyebrow but I'll let it pass. Guy with a rifle, no, I'm calling the cops, the only reason you need a rifle in a residential area is if you're with SWAT or something. If I see a guy walking around my neighborhood with a rifle I'm going to assume he's out to kill someone.",
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"content": "I'm thinking of the times activist brought rifles into Walmart ",
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"content": "I'm honestly more comfortable with *concealed carry* than *open carry*. \n\nMy state now has both. *Conceal carry* was fine with me because it requires a reasonable amount of training and regardless of what a person does, I can tell when they're carrying a firearm. \n\nTo me, *open carry* is an open sign of aggression. I don't like it at all. \n\nSome may think this is silly, but I've been around firearms all of my life. Literally since I was a toddler. They're not toys. You don't brandish a firearm in goodwill. You don't show your firearm when you want people to trust you. If you're dumb enough to carry a firearm then people will rightfully distrust you. \n\nOpen carry is open intimidation to all. It's senseless. There's absolutely no need. I was disturbed to hear this law passed in my state. So far I've not seen anyone practicing this, and I hope to god I don't. \n\nThat said. I support the ownership of semiautomatic pistols and rifles, and yes I'm a progressive liberal Democrat. Firearms and marksmanship are a vital part of American Heritage. I oppose prohibition of most things as prohibition is always a failure. What prohibition does is to ensure that only \"criminals\" will have access to a material, compound, or whatnot. Of course there are some things that are easily regulated like nuclear material, but firearms are not. All prohibition would do is ensure that law abiding citizens would not have access to the same equipment that criminals will use against them. ",
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"content": "I think you misread what I said because it seems we were agreeing? Unless you just meant to expand on my point.\n\nI also agree with your last paragraph as well. I'm a Libertarian and in a two party system I tend toward democrats for social liberty reasons, but am always a bit turned off when candidates proudly talk anti-gun. To me, gun rights are obvious for the same reason that the freedom of speech or of religion is or my belief that drugs should be legalized.",
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"content": "When we pushed West guns were banned in town and in the 1700s Boston passed gun control laws. I'll stick with never. \n\nhttp://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/956035.html\n\nPoint 4\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-gun-control/2012/12/21/6ffe0ae8-49fd-11e2-820e-17eefac2f939_story.html",
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"content": "Those don't support \"never\", they support \"sometimes\".",
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"content": "Yes they do. Constitutional carry wasn't even accepted by the founding fathers or in the wild west. It's a new idea and has no basis in rational thought. ",
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"content": ">Constitutional carry wasn't even accepted by the founding fathers or in the wild west. \n \nThat doesn't mean that it wouldn't have made sense. \nEspecially in a time where we weren't as connected as we are now. \nAny corruption in a locality could be cause for the need for an honest law abiding man to defend himself or his family. \nThere were lynch mobs for fucks sake.\n \n>has no basis in rational thought. \n \nThis is an opinion.",
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"content": "Say that when your wagons are being circled m'kay. Do you think there was adequate police coverage back then? Fuck , just being brown and free could mean a violent death. White man a bit too friendly with the inguns? Gut em. How easily people forget. ",
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"content": "It's an argument against the legal theory of \"constitutional carry\" that's it \n\n\nOf course sometimes guns are helpful. You're just thick. ",
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"content": "You like tacking on baseless/pointless opinions to the end of your comments, don't you? ",
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"content": "I do. ",
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"content": ">Yes they do. Constitutional carry wasn't even accepted by the founding fathers or in the wild west. It's a new idea and has no basis in rational thought. \n\nSources? \n\nThere are a few American politicians and presidents whose records would disagree with that claim. Especially those who liked to duel. \n\nIs it just carry that you disagree with or is it also ownership? ",
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"content": "Pushing West meant spending almost no time 'in town \"",
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"content": "This case has nothing to do with constitutional carry.\n\nIt is about a state where open carry is banned, and concealed carry requires a permit with approval of the sheriff. The sheriff in San deigo is corrupt and only issues permits to his campaign donors and friends, and people who are politically connected. The plaintiffs in this case are not allowed to bear arms at all in any way because they cannot get this elusive permit.",
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"content": "So to be clear, the title of the article is more an assertion of state/local regulation, something already established for this sort of situation?",
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"content": "Hey, Dianne Feinstein is allowed to carry a concealed automatic pistol in the state of California, so all is good with the world. ",
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"content": "She used to have one in San francisco, but she let it expire many years ago. Now she just relies on bodyguards to carry guns for her.",
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"content": "Source? ",
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"content": "http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/273989-feinstein-doesnt-have-concealed-carry-permit-anymore",
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"content": "I guess we'll all just have to hire bodyguards then. ",
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"content": "Not really. I like to think I'm sane. If states ban conceal carry and open carry, that's pretty much banning guns. ",
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"content": "That's not true. \n\nI'm not talking about conceal carry. I'm talking about the legal theory of \"constitutional carry\" which has never been correct and was pulled out of someone's ass. \n\n",
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"content": "Ok...so if there is no right to carry a concealed weapon, is there a right to carry an un-concealed weapon, i.e. open carry? ",
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"content": "No. ",
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"content": "Ok so what exactly does the 2nd amendment protect then? Also, gotta love the downvote for asking a question. ",
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"content": "Owning a weapon and following all applicable laws to so so. ",
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"content": "So it would be legal for the government to say: \"You have the right to a firearm, but only a bolt action .22 made by approved companies and you have to keep it locked up with a 2ft thick steel safe, and you can't ever take it out of your home.\" ?",
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"content": "There are reasonable limits in both directions. You're just moving it to absurd examples. \n\nI would personally be OK with limiting guns to bolt action rifles but I'm sure the Constitution prevents that. \n\nTo reverse the question should I be allowed to open carry an M240B into a high school? \n\nHopefully you'd say no. The limit is somewhere in between. \n\n",
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"content": "I wasn't accusing you of holding those views, I was trying to figure out what you were saying. Personally, I'm where things are, but I wish a lot of NFA stuff was gone. The difficulty in getting suppressors and short-barreled-rifles is silly. My line is I want the American people able to revolt should the need arise. I think semi-auto rifles are a part of that equation. \n\nAnd I don't want to debate if \"we could win\" I just ..don't. ",
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"content": "I used to fix Abrams tanks for the Army. We absolutely could not win. ",
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"content": "Wow...you used to fix tanks, so you know about armed insurrection? I can't even. ",
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"content": "I know no fucking rifle you have is going through a tank so unless you're talking about high explosives rights you couldn't do shit. ",
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"content": "This is why the US won Vietnam and had no problems in Iraq and Afghanistan. \n\nHow do I fight a tank? Eventually the tankman has to get out of the tank. The tank needs fuel. The tank needs ammo. I'm not going to stand across a field and shoot at it. ",
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"content": "Source? ",
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"content": "Illinois banned both until quite recently, yet my father and grandfather have owned guns there for many years...",
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"content": "And what could they do with them? Look at them on the wall? ",
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"content": "Keep them for home defense, transport them appropriately to other locations (locked in the trunk), and hunt wherever hunting's allowed.",
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"content": "I just don't see anything wrong with carrying. People with carry licenses commit extremely few crimes. It honestly feels like people hate guns, want to attack gun owners (not known for their liberal feelings or votes), or simply don't care about the rights of a people they aren't a part of; sort of \"hey, if it saves one life I'll ban all the guns in the country!\" type of thinking. Ah well. ",
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"content": "I don't disagree, though I vehemently disagree with open carry. ",
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"content": "True if you only look 100 years back. ",
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"content": "Or to Boston right after the Constitution was passed. Kinda nukes that legal theory. ",
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"content": "Finally",
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"content": "How was this ever in question. I wear my revolver on my hip, and it's only for intimidation. I'm useless against a gangsta Glock ",
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"content": "The problem is when they take our guns away, but they consistently fail at taking guns from criminals. \n\nLet me ask you something... \n\nHow successful has zero tolerance been with cannabis? \n\nHow about our national policy of zero tolerance with alcohol? \n\nHow about cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, methadone, oxycontin, and Adderall? Oh, wait, those last three are legal and sanctioned. \n\nWhat do you expect to happen when the government decides that no one can have a gun? Only criminals will have guns and everyone who has a gun will be a criminal. In the meanwhile, people who choose to obey the law will be sitting ducks. People who choose to defy the law for the sake of their safety and that of their loved ones will be forced into criminality. It's a dumb idea. It may work in some places but not in the United States where there are more guns than people. \n\nI'm more liberal than almost everyone on this sub, but I'm not stupid. This gun fight is just going to result in the sales of more guns. Don't believe me? Look it up. Ineffectual people talk about ineffectual gun control policies and gun sales sky rocket every time. ",
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"content": "Another win for the gun industry since they can re-foam-up the nuts and sell more guns before confiscation or something (mumble, mumble) . . . Obama!",
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"content": "NBD. If I can't carry open, I'll carry concealed no matter what the law. If it's properly concealed, no one will ever know. I would rather be alive facing charges than dead with no way back.",
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"content": "I hope you don't have to break the law to conceal carry. That being said, whether it's legal or not, I'll know.",
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"content": "But after the Dems enacted the '64 Civil Rights Act, the racists became republican.",
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"content": "What does that have to do with anything? ",
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"content": "If I gotta 'splain it, then you're a tard /",
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"content": "Very civil!",
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"content": "Funny how Republicans always have to go back decades in an attempt to prove they are not racist today.",
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"content": "I was making an argument about musical quality. Typical democrats always trying to turn everything into a racial issue.",
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"content": "Then not sure why you posted this in /r/democrats? ",
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"content": "To prove that republicans have better taste in music than democrats.",
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"content": "So edgy, bro. ",
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"content": "What does music quality have to do with being a Republican? ",
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"content": "The fact that republicans have better musical tastes.",
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"content": "Didn't a lot of Democrats love James Brown's music? ",
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"content": "Don't feed the troll, man, just downvote and move on. ",
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"content": "> The fact that republicans have better musical tastes.\n\nYou find *one* musical performer who was a Republican decades ago. In no way, shape, or form does that come anywhere close to proving that \"Republicans have better musical tastes.\"",
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"content": "Wow. James Brown isn't just \"one\" performer. He was *the* performer.",
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"content": "I feel good!",
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"content": "Yup. Meth's a hell of a drug, huh?",
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"content": "I prefer cocaine.",
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"content": "Not only will Warren lose a lot of the influence she has in the Senate, but she'll most likely be replaced by a Republican. ",
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"content": "A Charlie Baker Republican, which is basically like appointing a Democrat anyway. \n\nAnd it would only be for a few months. If she wanted to be tactical about it, she could resign from the Senate at the convention, and the state would schedule a special election for November, giving Baker's appointee only a few months in the seat and ensuring the seat goes back to the Democrats as soon as the November winner is certified.",
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"content": "Harry Reid has a workaround. I don't remember the exact details but something about she wouldn't step down from her seat once elected as veep, but then she'd resign on a certain day and that would block the Repub governor from naming her replacement. The details are linked on PoliticalWire, if you follow that site.",
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"content": "There are many ways to work it to the Democrats' advantage. She would, by law, have to resign from the Senate before being sworn in as vice president. But beyond that, she can stay or go whenever she wants.\n\nThe big idea being kicked around is that Senator Warren could send a letter to Governor Baker and the Secretary of the Commonwealth announcing her intent to resign the Senate effective at the conclusion of the current Congress (around Christmas, give or take). With the letter and the date in hand, the Secretary could then schedule a special election to fill out the remaining two years of Warren's term, and given the timing, would almost certainly schedule the election to take place on the same day as the November presidential election, with the winner being sworn in as soon as Warren's resignation date passes and the Secretary certifies the election result. It happened in Oklahoma in 2014, when Senator Coburn wanted to leave office two years early. They scheduled it for November, and his successor was sworn in in January with the other new senators. Saved the state a lot of money and hassle.\n\nGovernor Baker could try to sue, but given his temperament and aversion to entering fights he can't win, he won't put up much of a fight. Besides, the Massachusetts GOP has no bench outside jokers like Kerry Healey or Richard Tisei, so we won't get Brown-ed again.",
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"content": "I do not like his work around. I am not sure that her constituents will like it either by and large.",
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"content": "I would 2 to 1 rather see her as chairman of the banking committee. ",
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"content": "This guy gets it.",
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"content": "She's nowhere near senior enough to get that slot. But Sherrod Brown will get it, and he's kind of a stealthier, more gruff version of Warren.",
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"content": "If it wasn't that he is needed for control of the senate he would be my choice for VP. but as they would lose that seat if he left I doubt it.",
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"content": "No no, I meant Brown will chair the Banking Committee if the Democrats retake the Senate.",
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"content": "I want him as VP, but don't think he will get the nod because they need him in the senate seat.",
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"content": "He's good on paper, and he has a wry sense of humor, but his gravelly voice would be a little odd on the stump. \n\nWould progressives be satisfied with Al Franken? He's not a longtime politico, but he's a serious legislator with a calmly populist message and an unmatched sense of humor. The only real vulnerability there is people mocking the Clinton-Franken ticket as being one big joke, but that insult wouldn't have much traction given the joke that is the Trump campaign.",
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"content": "[**(((Harry Enten))) on Twitter: \"How can they call the race with so many ballots to count? How the heck can they run a blood test without draining all your blood?\"**](https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/741480147795234816)",
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"content": "Sander's people refusing to admit defeat reminds me of when Karl Rove freaked out on Fox News over Romney losing Ohio in 2012. He knew that if Romney lost Ohio that would be it for his campaign. In the Republican bubble they knew that Romney was going to beat Obama, they just knew, everyone they knew was voting for Romney, they didn't know a single person voting for Obama, how in the world could he win? Yet there it was. \nit's the same with the Sanders people. They live in a bubble where everyone sees things exactly as they do and reinforces their worldview. They can't comprehend that anyone would vote another way. Yet there it is. The end of the road has arrived folks. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TwuR0jCavk",
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"content": "We're not fighting for one man. It's a movement, and the struggle continues. I guess you would tell black people to give up after the civil war, or gay people to stop fighting when Bill Clinton made lgbt soldiers shut up. \nAnd when it comes to elections, you seem to suggest the elections process is great and undue any complaint.",
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"content": "Comparing a presidential run to the struggles of minorities makes Bern Victims look worse than they already do. ",
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"content": "Comparing a movement to a movement. If you can't compare movements for the purpose of example simply because one involves the social construct of race, then that's on you. What a small minded viewpoint. ",
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"content": "What does that have to do with the California vote?",
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"content": "The California vote was not the end of the road. I was commenting on the comment above which suggests that because Bernie lost California that \"the road is ended\". It most certainly is not. I'm in Oregon where he won, and the fight will continue through the general with down ticket votes and throughout the next several decades.",
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"content": "That can only be successful as long as Trump doesn't win.",
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"content": "You do realize the important part of \"don't ask, don't tell\" was the \"don't ask\" part, right? Gay soldiers were already not telling; the \"don't ask\" was put in place to prevent witch hunts against them.",
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"content": "Nope. It was to silence gays and lesbians who were speaking out about their authentic selves to protect hate against gays and lesbians. Nice rewrite, but that'd be like telling a Jewish person to just lie about their faith because that'd be a better plan for them. I don't think you understand what don't tell means to a person that has to lie about themselves. ",
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"content": "You weren't even alive back then, were you?\n\nPrior to DADT, you could be pressured by superiors to reveal your sexual orientation. The military police was sometimes tasked with investigating a person to see if they could find evidence of homosexuality. That's right, they actually had \"is he a gay?\" investigations. Soldiers who were uncovered through these investigations were then dismissed because it was against military policy to be gay and in the military. \n\nIt was a relaxation of anti-LBGT policy, written back when Sanders himself was anti-gay marriage. There is more time between DADT and today than there was between Sanders' rape apologetics and DADT, to give you some perspective.",
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"content": "I was a member of Queer Nation and Act Up at the time. ",
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"content": "That really makes me think less of Act Up, honestly. At least they had the good sense to disavow the SF branch for its AIDS denialism...",
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"content": "I was simply point out that I wasn't a young person as the previous comment suggested. The Portland branch was fairly quiet - mainly lots of stickers of other people's property so I left. I wasn't condoning anyone's behavior, just showing my age. ",
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"content": "I'm bi and trans, and I have a gay cousin who served most of a quarter-century career in the USAF under DADT, so yeah, I think I do understand. And your understanding of the history is completely wrong. While LGBT service members still had to remain closeted, DADT insured that no one would come knocking, and that the simple fact of being gay didn't get you the Big Chicken Dinner. While it was a far cry from open service, it was a huge step forward from what existed before. I strongly suspect President Gore would have gotten rid of it, but we had to wait through Dubya. ",
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"content": "You have the talking points down well. I'm sorry, but it was crap legislation then and it was when we ended it. That's why we ended it. I suppose you would have supported Jim Crow laws too? ",
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"content": "Er, no. Jim Crow laws should have been ruled unconstitutional from the moment they were passed. That was an actual step backwards for civil rights, but instead we got Plessy v Ferguson. You do understand the difference between a half-step forward and a full step backwards, right?",
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"content": "In the 90s we passed legislation that caused the mass incarceration of people of color - more than any time in history. 1990s. You think Jim Crow laws are dead? \"Superpredators.\" I fully understand progress and have been fighting for LGBT rights for 3 decades. I don't think you understand that any step backward isn't OK - do you get what you're suggesting? I really don't think you have a clue. ",
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"content": "In fact, the more they count the more the vote doesn't change.",
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"content": "Damn, Mitt finds some passion. He loathes this guy. ",
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"content": "He's going to run and split the conservative vote",
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"content": "Run how? He can't get on the ballot as an independent this late and the Libertarians have already had their convention (not that he would run as Libertarian). Unless he hijacks the Constitution Party (have they had their primary yet?) he can't do anything besides maybe endorse Johnson. And no party besides Libertarian will be on the ballot in all 50 states.",
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"content": "It's too late for an independent to get on the ballot?",
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"content": "In a lot of states, yeah.",
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"content": "I'm guess he doesn't want to disclose his tax returns, because he doesn't want people to know he's not a billionaire, and so it doesn't get exposed for not donating anything to veteran organizations. ",
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"content": "I mean, you know it's bad when Mitt Romney is calling for your tax returns. ",
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"content": "No honor among 1%ers I guess.",
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"content": "Makes me think ol Mitt wouldn't have been so bad. At least he has some balls, standing up to Trump.",
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"content": "Maybe, but it's a lot easier for these guys with no political future (Mitt, the Bushes) to stand up to Trump than the guys who want to win the nomination in 4 years. It's no excuse for them though. Rubio, and Ryan have lost my respect forever. ",
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"content": "It's not too late for Ryan, Rubio is lost forever. Very, very sad.",
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"content": "Why is it not too late for Ryan? Honestly, either of them could make a comeback in my eyes if they rescinded their endorsements and said \"I cannot vote for this man\". ",
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"content": "A few GOP politicians have rescinded their endorsements, and I wouldn't be surprised if Ryan pulled his as well if Trump keeps saying racist shit. Ryan's been lukewarm at best with his support this whole time. If he continues to support Trump then yes, he lost my respect. I'm sure he'd be devastated to know that a liberal from the Pacific Northwest doesn't respect him.",
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"content": "Mitt looks like an angel compared to Trump.",
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"content": "Mitt Romney should know about unsavory sources of income. ",
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"content": "Says the guy who wouldn't release his tax returns when he ran for president and then when he finally did, it was found that he basically didn't pay taxes and got his income from unsavory sources...Trump is an asshole, but seriously Mitt?",
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"content": "If Mitt can't get away with it, Trump certainly shouldn't.",
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"content": "The funny thing to me is that people think he's hiding that he didn't pay taxes. He would be so proud of that! \n\nHe would say \"I use the corrupt laws of this country to make more money for me, do I know how to change the laws\". He wouldn't care at all about that. \n\nI wonder if he has more debt than cash. If releasing his taxes could be a huge blow to his wealth if creditors found out the emperor has no clothes and to his Presidential dreams. ",
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"content": "We know that huh? And how do we know that?",
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"content": "And wins the nomination in a dominating fashion. Don't forget that one.",
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"content": "This has nothing to do with anything I said. If you want to attack people based on nothing, there are plenty of places to do so. This sub is ostensibly to discuss the Democratic party.",
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"content": "So you originally comment attacking the presumptive nominee on issues totally unrelated to the actual article and then get defense and criticize someone else for being off topic...? ",
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"content": "\"Attack people based on nothing\"???\n\nThat's your M.O.",
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"content": "Where in this comment did you address hawkish foreign policy, corporate influence in government, or anything of substance?\n\nYour rhetoric is empty. ",
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"content": "I addressed your ridiculous hypocrisy. \n\nAll you do is smear, not our fault your candidate failed and you want Trump to win so you can vindicate that same failed candidate. ",
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"content": "Empty.",
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"content": "You're clueless.",
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"content": "I think what notmathrock is trying to say [and I could be wrong], is that while reproductive rights are very important, it's not going to win over the auto worker in Detroit, or a farmer in the Midwest.\n\nPeople need to hear what her plans are for the future, and how is she going to implement them. Not the constant \"I'm a woman.\" and \"I'm not Donald Trump.\" so you have to vote for me, tripe over and over.",
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"content": "It was a speech at Planned Parenthood, for Pete's sake. \n\nnotmathrock hates Clinton. There is nothing he is looking for her to say. ",
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"content": "Actually, her approval rating as SOS was very high - she historically has very high approval ratings while ON the job. Her ratings tank, however, whenever she runs for a new position. They were low the last time she ran for President. They were low when she ran for Senator, too.\n\nDamned uppity woman. Running for things.",
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"content": "If you make a claim, the onus is on you to back it up. That's how it works in a court of law. ",
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"content": "Yep, anything to keep the focus off the fact that we live in society designed by the elite for the elite. The more discord that can be sewn amongst regular Americans over social politics, the easier it is to continue the charade that is the American corporate\\government complex. ",
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"content": "Is \"reproductive justice\" the new euphemism for abortion? Ugh. If you can't call it by its real name, you should know it isn't worth defending.",
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"content": "Uh, it's not just abortion, but the right to make the decision and also contraception. \n\nGet a clue. ",
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"content": "The \"right to choose\" is my favorite euphemism. It's always the right to choose abortion. \n\nIt reminds me of how confederate apologists talk of \"states rights\". It always refers to the right to own slavery. They're both euphemisms to mask your unsavory beliefs.",
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"content": "Bullshit. More women choose to not have an abortion, first of all.\n\nSecondly, abortion rates are down. For years.\n\nThirdly, so is teen pregnancy. \n\nThis is all due to a woman's right to choose.\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Isn't this the same rationale as banning all Muslims from entering the country until we get our shit figured out?\n\nIt's an action to make us feel better but in the end will do jack shit so let's not politicize this tragedy just yet.",
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"content": "Isn't what the same rational?",
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"content": "Banning guns until we get our shit sorted. ",
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"content": "No absolutely not. ",
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"content": "To be fair to Trump, he is one of the few politicians not engaging in anti-LGBT propaganda. But then he is not about to admit that this might have been sparked by that from his fellow Republicans.",
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"content": "Both involve the \"adjusting\" of rights.\n\nBoth try to address the same issue.\n\nNeither will work. Banning Muslims won't work due to the logistics and it's inherently reprehensible nature\n\nBanning guns won't work because illegally obtained firearms are still a thing. We don't even know if this shitstain of a person obtained his forearms legally yet and we're already jumping on the regulation bandwagon. Just need to point out that gun control didn't work for Brussels or Paris \n\nIt's not to much to ask to not politicize this event one way or the other is it?",
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"content": "No one..., and I mean **NO ONE** is calling for a ban on all guns. ",
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"content": "Did you read the article?\n\n\" We need to stop being scared to propose the idea that all guns need to go\"",
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"content": "Did you read the article?\n\n\" We need to stop being scared to propose the idea that all guns need to go\"\n\nStraight from it",
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"content": "There's a gigantic legal and logical flaw in your argument. A human being has constitutional rights. An inanimate object does not.",
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"content": "You're right of course. Inanimate objects don't have rights. The people that own them do. \n\nSo that raises the question, do we infringe on the rights of our own citizens until we get this problem sorted? Or do we prevent non citizens from entering the country based on religion? Whose rights are more important? That's a valid discussion for another time, should our own government protect citizen rights more than the desire of non citizens to move here.\n\nBoth are absolutely retarded and won't stop the core issue. Which is why I'm imploring people not to politicize this tragedy for their own benefits. How about we don't ban anything until we have all of the facts, and then come up with a solution that works instead of employing a blanket 'solution' across the board whether it be guns or immigrants. And try to be decent human beings and not use the deaths of innocents to our own advantage. \n\nThat sound fair?",
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"content": "> Which is why I'm imploring people not to politicize this tragedy\n\nThat's the NRA canned response after every mass shooting. That's garbage. Politics is about enacting solutions to problems. Mass shootings are a lethal problem. A political solution is drastically needed and far overdue.\n\n>How about we don't ban anything until we have all of the facts\n\nHow many mass shootings do we need before \"we have all the facts\"? [More than a million Americans have been killed in the last four decades by firearms](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jan/18/mark-shields/pbs-commentator-mark-shields-says-more-killed-guns/). How many thousand more must be killed before \"we have all the facts\"?\n\n>That sound fair?\n\nNope. You're putting the \"right\" of someone to own an unlimited number of combat weapons above all other rights.",
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"content": "No, an NRA response would say that it's Islamic terrorism.\n\nBut you have your agenda and will stick to it. So this is pointless",
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"content": "> we infringe on the rights of our own citizens\n\nYou're presuming people have the right to own a combat weapon without any training, licensing, or background checks. Such presumption is mistakenly couched in the belief that the Second Amendment is without limitations. The Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld reasonable limitations on the Second Amendment.\n\n> should our own government protect citizen rights more than the desire of non citizens\n\nThe Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed since the early 19th century that the Constitution does not limit the rights therein only to US citizens.\n\n",
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"content": "And what do you propose this training should be? Government sponsored training? How would that work? A national registration of firearms? That no doubt makes people uneasy, for very legitimate reasons. Limitations are on firearms yes. And they are reasonable. No one legally owns a fully automatic rifle. No one legally owns an assault rifle. These are labels that are applied to firearms that simply look the part. People are against further limitations due to the implications. \n\nRights apply to anyone on US soil yes, but it does not apply to people outside US territory. Which could involve immigration. If someone is not in US territory or is not a US citizen, the US government doesn't owe them anything outside of goodwill. So banning immigrants isn't outside the realm of reason, it's just not something that would at all work.",
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"content": "> And what do you propose this training should be?\n\nLicensing and training systems have been in force for decades for many aspects of life, like motor vehicles, aircraft, etc. Weapons licensing and training would be much the same.\n\n>A national registration of firearms? \n\nYep. Every firearm must be registered. Failure to register would result in permanent forfeiture any time a weapon was removed from private property, much like a motor vehicle is forfeited if it is not registered and not on private property.\n\n>That no doubt makes people uneasy, for very legitimate reasons.\n\nBecause some people are unreasonably paranoid and crippled by conspiracy theories is irrelevant.\n\n>but it does not apply to people outside US territory.\n\nNot so. The constitution applies in many extra-territorial situations.",
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"content": ">Licensing and training systems have been in force for decades for many aspects of life, like motor vehicles, aircraft, etc. Weapons licensing and training would be much the same.\n\nThe difference with motor vehicles, aircraft etc. is that you are not being licensed to actually use the vehicle, you are being licensed to use that vehicle on public facilities, and to ensure you follow the rules of the public road. This is fair enough, if you want to race speed, whatever that is perfectly acceptable, so long as it done on your own property. So if someone buys a handgun/rifle w/e, to keep in their own house for home defense, licensing would require a government involvement in private matters. However for people who open carry? that's a state-state issue, some allow it, some don't, and that's the state's discretion. Concealed carry? that is something I am fairly certain requires licensing in all 50 states. So that's a check. Even Texas, which is considered a gun loving state requires licensing for concealed carry, and you can only open carry if you are already a licensed to conceal carry. That is very reasonable. You have a right to own a gun in your private residence, and if you want to carry it in public and in public facilities, you must be licensed. Not unlike getting a drivers license.\n\n>Yep. Every firearm must be registered. Failure to register would result in permanent forfeiture any time a weapon was removed from private property, much like a motor vehicle is forfeited if it is not registered and not on private property.\n\nThere are many problems with that, as registration is often the first step in confiscation. Anti-gun supporters naturally see this as a good thing. But to many gun owners who own one for home defense or self defense, it is seen as a government involvement in private affairs. This is not unreasonable either. There are a plethora of other reasons, both legitimate and batshit, why people are against a registration act. \n\n>Because some people are unreasonably paranoid and crippled by conspiracy theories is irrelevant.\n\nYou see it as unreasonably paranoid, but the fact is most people are against the NSA conducting mass surveillance on us and collecting our personal data. This seems to be an opinion that is relatively bipartisan. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you are also against the collecting of private data by the alphabet soup of agencies, correct me if I'm wrong. A gun registration act is seen as an action that would involve the collection of private data. It is not outside the realm of reason that a database like this could be used for the wrong reasons. It is also something that could very easily be abused, as we're already seeing some disturbing trends with the NSA, and I believe the FBI is in the process of trying to acquire some new powers, (I can find a source later, but that's a different discussion). So no, it is not paranoia if it's a behavior that's already happening. \n\n>Not so. The constitution applies in many extra-territorial situations.\n\nOkay this I am actually interested in. A US citizen obviously is still constitutionally protected by the US government even if overseas, but are liable to the laws of where ever they are, and ultimately the US can only provide a consul and maybe try to work out something with the host nation. With the exception of green card holders, what instances has the constitution applied to non citizens in extra-territorial situations? Do you have any examples? Because that's interesting, I don't see why the US would provided constitutional rights to a non-citizen outside the US. ",
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"content": "If sandy hook got no response, you think this will? ",
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"content": "Who said ban guns until we figure it out? ",
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"content": "Read the article ",
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"content": "Just assault rifles and Donald Trump.",
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"content": "I read the article. \n\nIt does not say that. It says more regulation in an attempt to stop or hinder these types of mass killings, ",
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"content": "It says that verbatim. Literally word for word",
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"content": "Quote it then.",
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"content": "\"We’re all too scared to publicly put forth the idea that the answer to our gun problem in the States might not be to “regulate” — it might be to ban every single gun within U.S. borders until we get our fucking problems figured out. \"\n\nIt's towards the end of the article, when the huff post author keeps using \"enough is enough\" as a form of rhetoric. Granted this isn't exactly a legitimate news site and is only an opinion piece. Which is why I'm assuming that OP posted it, because they're all for banning \"all guns\" as the article very literally states.",
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"content": "I'll just leave this here\n\n\"We’re all too scared to publicly put forth the idea that the answer to our gun problem in the States might not be to “regulate” — it might be to ban every single gun within U.S. borders until we get our fucking problems figured out. \" \n\nIt literally proposes the solution might not be to \"regulate\" it might be to ban every single gun within US Borders. It literally says that. So stop arguing it doesn't. ",
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"content": "Fair enough. ",
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"content": "hey, I do have to tip my fedora to you, takes a big person to admit to a mistake. I like you!",
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"content": "Common sense is common sense. \n\nWe need to profile the buyer, not the gun. ",
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"content": "YES! Tools are interchangeable. The person behind them is not.",
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"content": "Exactly, so there is no reason to block such a flag system and include those who are unstable. \n\nThe police speak to these people but cannot charge them, but should be notified if they make certain moves. ",
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"content": "I agree. But it is an issue that needs to be discussed, because then someone has to decide who is unstable and who isn't. And where the line needs to be drawn so law abiding citizens don't have their rights ignored. And people who may commit these heinous acts, still have rights.\n\nIt's a topic that needs further discussion, and we can't just pass blanket laws that cover the whole spectrum, when it's just a few outstanding issues.",
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"content": "The topic has been discussed for years. What \"gun rights\" folks want to do is dismiss the discussion and either do nothing, make it even easier for the suspects to obtain the weaponry necessary to inflict as much damage as possible quicker. \n\nDon'r deny them the right to buy, but damn well be sure to follow up on potential killers. The same way free speech is a right but if I start talking to Rakka, Syria for months I would attract some attention from the authorities. ",
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"content": "while i dont agree with either, its is at least better than the Orlando Strong ribbons and tshirt tsunami that is coming. ",
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"content": "You just did politicize it. This isn't some one off thing, gun violence and mass shootings are an every day, chronic occurrence. Saying don't politicize this tragedy is saying you don't ever want to talk about it, because there's *always a tragedy*. It's saying you support the status quo, that let's just hope yet another horrific shooting blows over without anything being done.. again.\n\nBesides, large, chronic problems that plague this country everyday is precisely the thing we *should* be politicizing. \n\nEnough is enough. \n",
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"content": "More people die in car crashes. How many more need to die before we realize cars are dangerous? \n\nEnough is enough. \n\nI'm asking people to hold off onbringing the gun control topic into this because would that have stopped this shooter? Unlikely. It didn't work in Brussels and it didn't work in Paris. I'm also asking people to hold off on the immigration topic because that's unlikely to work either. \n\nBut I'm realizing this thread has its agenda. So I'm wasting time",
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"content": "> More people die in car crashes. How many more need to die before we realize cars are dangerous?\n \nYou do realize that we've regulated the fuck out of cars, drivers, and roads in the name of saving lives, right? This includes traffic laws, signaling/signs/lane markers, licensing, registration, driving tests, vision tests, insurance, mandatory safety features and tests, and road/bridge construction standards. Every inch of your car, every foot of road, and every second you operate your vehicle is subject to 100 years of safety regulations and restrictions. \n\n[The results speak for themselves.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/USA_annual_VMT_vs_deaths_per_VMT.png/1024px-USA_annual_VMT_vs_deaths_per_VMT.png) Cars are literally the shining example of how a public health model approach to injury prevention can save thousands of lives. \n\nYou couldn't have picked a better example of how little you know about this topic. \n\n> But I'm realizing this thread has its agenda.\n\nAh the 'ol, \"I clearly don't know how to defend my own agenda, so I'll toss out a thoughtless bulshit talking point and accuse you of having an agenda\" bit. Favorite tool of the willfully ignorant. ",
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"content": "The licensing behind cars is for public roads. You know if you wanted to race a car, speed, whatever that is perfectly legal to do on your own property. So these regulations are in place for use in public facilities. Let's apply that to a firearm. Most people own one for home defense/self defense. It's their own property. the argument can be made that it's not the governments business to dictate what you own on your own property. Now as far as carrying a firearm in public, that is an issue that varies state to state, some allow it period. Some don't. But if you wan't to conceal carry you must be licensed (makes sense). Even Texas, you can only open carry if you already have been licensed in conceal carry. That's reasonable, licensing for public carry, but private ownership on private property is no ones business. Same rules apply to cars. It is interesting that Texas, the gun loving, cowboy state had far more reasonable laws than others. I believe California, you used to be able to open carry regardless, but I think that's changed now.\n\n>Ah the 'ol, \"I clearly don't know how to defend my own agenda, so I'll toss out a thoughtless bulshit talking point and accuse you of having an agenda\" bit. Favorite tool of the willfully ignorant.\n\nActually I was on mobile earlier, and didn't see what subreddit this was until I got on my computer. Whoops. With that being said, maybe I am stereotyping, but Democrats tend to be for stricter gun laws, or an all out ban, whereas Republicans tend to be against such actions. And when those two argue, they each push their own agenda and ignore the others. Now I stated this thread has an agenda, am I wrong? Or are actual discussions allowed where we can entertain each others opinions even if we don't agree with them? Or you could just continue to shut me down claiming I'm willfully ignorant, despite my attempts to open dialogue, and then pretend you're morally superior. You just jumped to the \"Ah the 'ol, \"I clearlly don't know blah blah blah\"' spiel without trying to disprove my statement, or correct me, which I welcome.",
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"content": "> The licensing behind cars is for public roads.\n\n99.99999% of cars are operated on public roads, and good luck buying a car without crumple zones, airbags, seat belts, turn signals, brakes, etc. So even if you're on a private road, you're still likely driving a car that's been built with all the benefits of decades of safety manufacturing research - including race cars. So this is nothing but red herring. \n\n> It's their own property. the argument can be made that it's not the governments business to dictate what you own on your own property.\n\nThe moment cars can be ballistically propelled instantly to 400 mph, travelling unguided for several thousand feet to miles by a toddler, you'd see them regulated on private property too. \n\nThe argument can be made, but it's not a good one. \n",
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"content": "Cars with crumple zones, airbags, 3 point seat belts etc, were built for a target audience that utilizes public roads. The reason those features were put in place is irrelevant to whether someone buys a car to, say drive around their farm or race around on their own private track, whatever. You say it's a red herring, I say it's a point that's irrelevant to the discussion. \n\nYou say cars don't need to be licensed on private property because they can't be ballistically launched, but you ignore the fact that despite all of those safety features you've listed that were made for public roads (maybe not so irrelevant) despite all of those cars still kill more people than guns. That's not even including the statistics involved with firearm related deaths, last figure I saw was 60% were suicide. Unfortunate, but those deaths would have happened, if someone wants to take their own life, theyre going to find a means to it. Japan has shown that strict gun control does not prevent suicide. So that's over half of gun related deaths right there\n\nOf the remaining gun related deaths you have accidents and homicides. As far as homicides go, a staggering 80% is gang related. Gang violence is an issue, and certainly needs to be addressed, but cannot be used in support of gun regulation, due to the simple fact that these typically are not legally obtained firearms. I know this is rhetoric but it's got a point to it, putting stricter gun laws in place won't do much to deter criminals, since the law is something they don't listen to anyways. Orlando is an exception to this rule however, due to the fact these firearms were purchased legally. Seems logical that strict gun laws would have prevented him from obtaining the firearms to commit this massacre. No guns no crime right? Well then consider the motive, when someone is committed to a cause such as that, they're not going to be deterred. Whether they obtain illegal firearms which are easily accessible, or by manufacturing a car bomb which is not to far fetched a thought, they act will still be done. If it had been a car bomb and he drove it through the front door, I doubt anyone would have walked out. But admittedly the car bomb spiel of mine is speculation. I'm not saying he should have had easy access considering he was previously under watch, and a flag should have been raised, but flat out regulation would not have prevented something like this. The tool of the crime is easily changed, the person and the motive is the same.\n\nOf the remaining gun related deaths, 20% of homicides are not gang related, but due to various other reasons. The final part are accidents. I believe accidents account for approximately 30% of gun related deaths, and some steps can certainly be made to prevent those, a loaded indicator, child locks and simple basic safety training that should be done by the state, not the federal government.(that's my opinion) so of those deaths, accidental and the 20% of homicides, that encompasses far fewer deaths than cars.\n\nYou claim that it's conspiracy nuts who are the only ones worried about government abuse of power. Normally I might agree with you. But consider some relatively recent events. The government flat out permitted the legal sale of firearms to illegal buyers to send across the border. Yes this was an attempt at a sting operation that failed miraculously. Some of these guns have been relocated at crime scenes along the border states, and one caused the death of a border patrol agent. Try to understand that, people are made uncomfortable by the fact their government knowingly provided weapons to cartels, but then if the same government restricts the ability of its own citizens, it naturally raised a few eyebrows.\n\nThese are legitimate concerns that should be discussed and taken into account by law makers. You claim they're not good reasons for an argument to be made, but it seems more that you just don't want to have it. Blissful ignorance to views that aren't your own.\n\nIt's fine that you don't agree with those reasons. But try to at least entertain them, because that tends to be how understanding works. I do my best to think through why people are for gun control and the reasons behind them, I understand them but the decision I've arrived it is that it simply wouldn't work.\n\nBut since you have previously failed to try that understanding, and simply say \"it's just not a very good argument\" without providing reasons for it. \n\nSince I've explained my view on the matter, and why I think that, yet you don't and simply throw out claims that you fail to back up \"it's just not a very good one\" or using circumstantial examples at best with your toddler example, I can only hope you can one day exercise different thoughts that don't meet your narrative. \n\nGood day",
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"content": "Here are the per capita homicide rates by firearms in the G7 countries:\nFrance .21 (2012); Germany .07 (2012); Italy .35 (2010); Japan .oo (2008); United Kingdom .06 (2011); Canada .38 (2013); **United States 3.43**(2014). **Anything stand out**?",
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"content": "FBI statistics. [do we ban knives?](https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_8_murder_victims_by_weapon_2009-2013.xls#disablemobile) ",
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"content": "- who said ban?\n\n- knives is lower on that list\n\n- stop using NRA brain diarrhea logic",
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"content": "Knives is not lower than rifles on that list. It's common sense logic. I don't support the NRA. ",
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"content": "Noticed how you moved the goalpost to only \"rifles\". \n\nAny other brain diarrhea gun logic fails you want to use? \n\nMaybe \"we shouldn't pass a law unless criminals obey it?\"\n\nOr, \"more laws never work\".\n\nOr, \"if those dancing people in the nightclub had guns this would not have happened\"?\n\nOr, \"any tiny little law that would prevent a maniac from getting a gun hurts my fweelings\"\n\nWhich one is next?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "You are one angry individual. Incapable of having a logical discussion without spewing anger. I didn't move anything. The fbi's own statistics on this page group assault rifles with rifles. Because guess what-they are rifles. I'd be interested in your plans. There are already plenty of laws on the books. Guess what. Still happened. He could've killed 50 people with a bomb. It doesn't matter.",
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"content": "It does matter. That's why full auto firearms cannot be sold without a special permit. \n\nIt's why we FFLs have to run a background check for felons buying firearms. \n\nIf it doesn't matter then why have these checks at all? Why have laws against rape when rape still happen even with the strict laws against rape?\n\nSo it does matter. I am not angry at all. I just know how to destroy these same pathetic arguments you make. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "What pathetic arguments am I making? What would you do differently? The guy had never committed a crime before this. He obtained a firearm through the legal means. It was a semi-auto rifle. \n\nHe was questioned 3 times that we know of for radical statements. FBI didn't have enough to keep him because people like you would cry how unfair and how he is being racially discriminated against. What else do you want? He passed all background checks. It still happened. You can't prevent crazy. But you can look more closely at Islam and what it teaches it's members. ",
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"content": "Cry how unfair? Stop trying to blame us for this. \n\nIf we had a red flag go up when someone who the FBI has suspicions of buys a firearm, then they may have caught him when he bought a bunch of guns. \n\nOtherwise, why have a background check when a suspected terrorist can walk in a buy an arsenal. \n\nWho opposes such measures? The NRA blood pimps and their fellaters in Congress. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Probably so. For bullying a minority based on his skin color. \n\nPeople convicted of a felony can't buy guys. He didn't have a felony. People would cry civil liberties violations for a flag going up on someone. It's not politically correct. \n\nHe had 1-2 guns, not an arsenal. \n\nHe passed all background checks.\n\nNRA had nothing to do with anything. ",
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"content": "I didn't say block him. \n\nI said notify the FBI. Which is not a violation of any right. \n\nNotice how you can't make an argument against that, because it makes perfect sense. \n\nBut you will still oppose it because you are so programmed to oppose anything to do with guns. \n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "People have notified the FBI and police on suspicion before. It didn't check out. They were labeled racists. Look it up. In San Bernardino someone said they were afraid to notify police because they would be labeled racist-political correctness which is a direct result of people like you. \n\nI'd say you are programmed to oppose anything to do with guns, not me. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. ",
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"content": "Oh god. \n\nI never said anything hateful about guns. \n\nIf someone was under suspicion and known to be in contact with ISIS, and they happen to but a bunch of weapons, I think it's both reasonable and Constitutional for the FBI to check on him. \n \n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "That's good to hear. I would totally agree with that. ",
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"content": "Then you are in opposition to the GOP and NRA. ",
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"content": "And you are totally misinformed. ",
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"content": "Nope. The GOP and the NRA have stood in the way of such measures as being an infringement. \n\nIf I am wrong, them the GOP should be bringing a bill to the House floor rectifying it. \n\nRight? ",
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"content": "And what measures are you demanding? Full auto weapons are not obtainable. He had a semi auto rifle. He passed govt background check. What exactly is your solution? The NRA isn't standing in the way of anything. It's a private organization. Stop blaming the damn NRA on everything. ",
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"content": "I just explained what measures I want above. \n\nRemember? You agreed with it. \n\nThen when I say the GOP/NRA opposes it, you denied it. \n\nSo again, the GOP controls both the House and Senate so they should be taking these steps right???\n\nOr will they do nothing? \n",
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"content": "Measures? You had 1 suggestion-notify the FBI. While its a decent one. They can't respond to every single tip off. Sorry but it's time to let this go. You lost. ",
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"content": "Nope. \n\nAnd it's not a tip off, it's something that could have prevented this mass murder. \n\nSo deflecting from the failure of the GOP and paranoid gun owners who can't think sensibly. ",
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"content": "Again. Without credible proof to arrest the guy. There would have been a lawsuit for violation of civil rights of this young middle eastern man. What the hell do \"paranoid\"gun overs have to do with the fact a Muslim man shot up a gay club? ",
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"content": "Who said arrest him either?\n\nNo one. Once again you are moving goalposts in an attempt to do nothing to stop this. \n\nA simple follow up could have discovered his plan. A simple follow up could have resulted in arrest depending on evidence they found. \n\nIt does have to do with paranoid gun owners because they are standing in the way of preventing mass murders. \n\n",
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"content": "That's what you implied. If no arrest, then how do you propose to stop him? Ask him to please not carry out his plans? You're beginning to contradict yourself. They followed up 3 times over 2 years. \n\nTell me how law abiding gun owners are standing in the way of preventing mass murder. You keep saying paranoid gun owners. What does that even mean?",
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"content": "I just told you my idea. \n\nYou said you agreed. \n\nI then said the NRA opposes this. \n\nYou don't know what the FBI could have done but at least they could have follow-up or placed surveillance. \n\nYour alternative is given the same situation again, you would prefer the mass murder as opposed to a law that alerted the FBI if a suspected terrorist, who had contact with ISIS. \n\n\n \n\n\n",
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"content": "You don't seem to understand that the FBI brought this guy in for questioning 3 separate times over 2-3 years. They did follow up. Multiple times. He was cleared by the FBI after several different investigations. Again people like you cry civil rights violations if more is done about these people. Then wonder what else could've been done differently. ",
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"content": "They should have gotten an alert when he purchased arms. \n\n",
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"content": "Probably so. But flagging a middle eastern man is a civil rights violation based on racial profiling, right? ",
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"content": "Nope. It's behavioral profiling since they knew he was in contact with ISIS in Syria, \n\nThe authorities would have reasonable cause but not enough for arrest. \n\nBut warrants maybe. ",
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"content": "Sure. Write your congressman about it. Maybe that will help. ",
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"content": "Not when the GOP and NRA oppose it and enable these murders. ",
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"content": "Your getting so off topic it's ridiculous. A man explicitly shot up a gay club because of his religious beliefs. I would be getting frustrated as a liberal. Finger pointing by people I've been supporting towards people like the NRA that had absolutely nothing to do with this. It was a militant Islamist. Specifically targeting gay people because of his religious beliefs. Stick to the original topic. ",
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"content": "Yeah, the NRA enabled that Muslim man to murder nearly 50 people. \n\nI'll keep saying it. \n\n",
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"content": "Ok keep telling yourself that. The world will be happy to accept you back when you get out of la la land. ",
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"content": "You said you agreed with my idea, the same idea that the NRA opposes. \n\nI will keep saying it. ",
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"content": " How does it feel that in the social order of the democrat party that Islam is above gay? The finger pointing away from Islam to places like the NRA has got to be frustrating. ",
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"content": "Not to me, because that's not happening. \n\nHow does it feel that the GOP has more in common with ISIS than they do with the majority of Americans? ",
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"content": "It most definitely is happening. Wake up. More in common with ISIS? That is laughable. As are you. ",
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"content": "Nope. Sorry, ",
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"content": "This guy literally had something in common with Isis. Oh and guess what? A registered democrat. ",
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"content": "Oh so now a party affiliation makes us to blame but the GOP opposing laws that would prevent mass murder bear no blame? \n\nYou keep failing but keep trying. ",
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"content": "You've mentioned no laws. You've made 1 suggestion. And France doesn't have an NRA type of private organization. What happened there? You keep failing to realize facts. ",
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"content": "This is not France. \n\nA law could have prevented this and the NRA stood in the way. \n\nSorry to keep repeating the truth. ",
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"content": "Sorry to keep repeating myself-your totally wrong. Quit blame shifting. ",
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"content": "You are the one twisting like a pretzel. ",
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"content": "Nope. You are. ",
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"content": "He was a democrat. Yet you attack the GOP. He was Muslim. Yet you attack Christians. It was a gun free zone. Yet you want more gun control. Typical liberal. I'm moving on. Waste of time here. ",
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"content": "Now you are deflecting from the point I made, \n\nPoint proven. ",
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"content": "Not deflecting. And your point wasn't proven. You have basically fallen this entire time on those 3 truths. You've proven my point. Thanks for making it easy. ",
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"content": "The point was that you would spin and make phony arguments as excuses to do absolutely nothing to stop mass murders. \n\nAnd it was proven.\n\n",
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"content": "Not spinning anything. Your the one spinning. Classic deflection. Afraid to deal with the facts. You proved nothing. ",
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"content": "You even agreed with my proposal and then ran from it because it would mean something would be done. \n\nBut of course, typical paranoid gun arguments always have to advocate doing nothing. ",
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"content": "I agreed with your proposal yes. I didn't advocate doing nothing. I'm saying there is plenty of gun control laws already on the books. You people keep wanting more more more. ",
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"content": "So you are advocating doing nothing or not?\n\nBecause doing something is more. ",
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"content": "I'm advocating more needs to be done. The guy should've been locked up after his initial investigations. So with that being said, something needs to be done in order to make sure radical Islamist pledging allegiance to terrorist organizations don't walk free for making threats. Lawsuit happy lawyers looking for civil rights violations are partly to blame for this. Not the NRA or \"paranoid\" gun owners. ",
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"content": "The NRA stands in the way of alerting the FBI, so yeah they have a responsibility here. ",
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"content": "The NRA does not stand in the way of the FBI, give me a break. ",
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"content": "Yes, it does. It prevents them from getting that intel. ",
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"content": "So your telling me a private organization prevents the FBI from getting the intelligence they needed to prevent this? LOL. ",
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"content": "Yes, their lobby blocks the legislation. \n\nYou do know how lobbying works right? \n\nSo don't be intentionally obtuse. ",
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"content": "Of course I know how lobbying works. Quit intentionally shifting the blame away from what actually happened and who is actually responsible. The democrats arnt going to do anything to stop this either. ",
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"content": "The NRA lobbies to oppose those laws. \n\nThey enable these types of mass murders. ",
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"content": "The NRA enabling mass murderers is a stretch at best. At worst-delusional. ",
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"content": "Well, at least if you say it's a stretch it means they do bear some responsibility. \n\nThank you for making that concession. ",
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"content": "Boy you are desperate. Jumping to that conclusion is quite amateur. ",
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"content": "You said it would be a stretch, those are your words. ",
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"content": "I did. Do you know the meaning of that phrase? It means a stretch. As in exaggeration of truth. False. Etc. ",
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"content": "False is not a stretch. \n\nYou said it. It was a Freudian slip. ",
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"content": "And you know what I meant. But if you want to get all hung up on word choices go right ahead. ",
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"content": "They were your own words. ",
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"content": "Oh were they? Thank you for informing me. Your so far off the original topic now. Dragging in everything from the NRA to the Old Testament to try and justify why a man specifically targeted gay people because of his religious beliefs. It had nothing to do with the NRA. More laws couldn't have stopped this. Look at Europe. They have some of the strictest gun laws on the planet. And no NRA. It still happened in France. It will continue to happen. Radical Islam is now officially higher up in the democrat party agenda than gay people. Because we can't call it what it is-we must blame the NRA. ",
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"content": "The NRA does have a responsibility since they enable mass murderers. That's just a fact, ",
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"content": "Riiiiight. Keep telling yourself that. ",
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"content": "Facts are facts. ",
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"content": "I can't believe anyone takes this guy seriously. \n\nScratch that, I can believe people take him seriously. I just can't believe there are enough of those people that he won the nomination. ",
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"content": "I can't believe no one has shot him yet. ",
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"content": "If they did he would be a martyr. I hope no one does. I want to see him breakdown when he looses in a landslide. Even better if it was Sanders or Stein.",
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"content": "Winning the GOP primary and winning the general are two different things he doesn't stand a chance.",
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"content": "I believe that, too. ",
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"content": "This is a good thing. ",
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"content": "This isn't surprising. He's just saying what many Republicans have been implying for years. That's why the Republican base supports him. I've heard it said that he uses a bullhorn while others in his party use dogwhistles. Scott Walker and Ted Cruz were asked whether they thought President Obama was a Christian and they refused to answer. Rudy Guiliani said Obama was raised differently and \"doesn't love America\". Mike Huckabee said that President Obama \"pretends to be a Christian\". When pressed the politicians can say \"I've never had a conversation with the President about his religion so I don't want to speak for him\" or 'I don't know what's in his heart, so I don't want to say one way or another\". Trump cuts through that bullshit and says straight up \"I think he has Muslim extremist sympathies\". ",
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"content": "This is seriously crazy. He is accusing the President of the United States of treason without a shred of proof. Obama is not even his opponent. This is just a vile smear hoping some will get on Clinton.\nYou cannot get lower. Trump is the stuff under the pond scum ln the bottom of the pond. He is a psychiatric case called Narcissistic Personality Disorder in DSM 4 or 5.\nGod help the US and its allies if this nutcase gets elected or foments a rebellion in trailer home parks across the country.\n",
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"content": "You're reading too much into this. Obama's made Trump look a complete fool for almost 8 years, including [humilating him very publicly at a White House Correspondents dinner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8TwRmX6zs4). \n\nThis is nothing more than Trump's over inflated ego, thin skin, and impulsiveness getting the best of him. This is just a simple, straight up, personal vendetta, not a campaign strategy. ",
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"content": "When Trump made a big deal about sending a team down to Hawaii to investigate the birth certificate conspiracy and them finding something 'absolutely unbelievable' then Obama finally releasing his long form. Then a few days later announcing Osama bin Laden had been killed in an military operation ordered by Obama, and in between those two dates was the correspondents dinner where Obama brutally roasts Trump. \n\nYeah, when you don't release that 'absolutely unbelievable' findings, your conspiracy theory gets very publicly refuted and proven wrong, you get absolutely humiliated as a result, and then while you had been causing a ruse over some rather fringe, irrelevant, beliefs and issues, the guy it's all pointed at announces his role and responsibility in accomplishing something that 99.9% of the world was relieved to hear and that had been a goal for the past decade of the country. It's just embarrassing.\n\nEdit: finally got to rewatch the video, Trump gets completely humiliated and you actually see his hatred for Obama just boil over. It was in fact in that same week.",
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"content": "Ah it was only a matter of time before Trump released his inner stormtroofer. Can't keep the the anti-vax, birther locked up forever. ",
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"content": "You know who's really empowering terrorists? The NRA",
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"content": "Well, it's pretty obvious that Trump doesn't want to be president. He's saying only things that 20% of population think, just enough to keep his show going, while guaranteeing that the rest of the population doesn't vote for him. That's my conspiracy theory.",
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"content": "I'm still trying to convince myself that Trump is acting entirely as a democratic plant in the Republican party, working in accordance with the Clintons",
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"content": "It might not be in coordination at all. It is something he saw as an opportunity and went for it. Coordinating would be very obvious and easy to, either, uncover or find. If true, he might only admit it years later. It is all a physiological game that he's playing, something he has learned through his reality shows and his beauty-pageants events.\n\nHe might have a whole list of things that he has to talk about. Might have a huge \"season finale\" type of an event closer to November.\n\n:-)",
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"content": " You can't have every square in the diversity quilt. Having the gay square next to the Muslim square isn't a good long term bet.",
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"content": "Or having the rightwing square next to anyone. ",
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"content": "Who said anything about right wing? All I'm saying is I don't know how we are all supposed to \"coexist\" with one another when the worlds largest \"religion\" wants to kill gay people, non-believers, and whoever else don't explicitly agree with their ideology. ",
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"content": "The world's largest religion doesn't want to do that.\n\nVirtually all of then just want to live in peace. And nearly all of them here in the US are perfectly fine Americans. \n\nNo bigotry against the entire religion won't work. On the contrary, ISIS wants us to be more bigoted towards Muslims and Islam to fit their worldview. \n\n",
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"content": "I know most all of them are peaceful. What is frustrating is that massive majority doesn't really seem to want to speak up and do anything about the radical few. ",
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"content": "The majority speaks up all the time. \n\nAs a matter of fact they wage war against them constantly, since most of the people the jihadists kill are Muslim not Westerners. \n\nAnd if you want that to build and more help from them then the first thing you should do is stop smearing the entire religion. \n",
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"content": "It's not that simple. I'm not smearing the entire religion. Just speaking facts. ",
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"content": "You first said it was the religion then you said it was some of them. \n\nThose are not facts if you are shifting that way. \n\n",
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"content": "The facts are people need to wake up to what the true ideals of the religion are. Peace loving Muslims or not. It's in the Quran. ",
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"content": "So you're saying it is the entire religion?\n\nAnd how is persecuting the peaceful muslims in the U.S. improve the situation? ",
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"content": "Stop saying what I'm not. The entire religion follows the Quran. It states in the Quran that gays are to be killed. \n\nI didn't say anything about persecuting peaceful Muslims. ",
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"content": "Does the entire Christian religion follow the Bible?\n\nBecause the Old Testament says the same thing. \n\nYou see the problem with your logic?",
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"content": "There is no problem with my logic because the Christian religion says the Old Testament no longer applies. They look at the New Testament. Islam says all of the Quran applies. Big difference. ",
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"content": "No, the Christian religion does not say the Old Testament no longer applies. \n\nThat is why Christians are still intolerant of gays. Even passing laws or refusing to obey laws due to religious objection. \n\nSo maybe you are confused about both religions. \n\nFundamentalists of both religions hate gays. And the fundamentalist Muslims are more violent about it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Yes it does. The specific laws laid out in Leviticus and other Old Testament books that have old laws such as killing gay people and what not no longer apply. The New Testament teachings of Jesus Christ are what take precedent now. \n\nAnd I know plenty of Christians who are tolerant of gays. Stop generalizing the entire religion. The teachings of Jesus say to love your neighbor as yourself-those who are intolerant of and hate gays are in the wrong. \n\nSo maybe you are the one who is misinformed and confused. \n\n",
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"content": "LMAO.\n\nDid you just say \"Stop generalizing the whole religion\"???? ",
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"content": "Yep. With statements like \"Christians are intolerant of gays\". That is indeed, generalizing the whole religion. ",
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"content": "Yes, and you did the same regarding Muslims. \n\nBoom. ",
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"content": "Well regarding the issue of homosexuality, as what this topic has been about, Muslims and homosexuality, the generalization is true, according to the holy Quran.\n\nSo, boom. ",
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"content": "So you could say the same about the Bible. \n\nThe problem is violent fundamentalists, and Islam just has a higher percentage. \n\n",
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"content": "I said it already, I'll say it again. Christians now look to the New Testament and the teachings of Jesus Christ as opposed to the Old Testament. They don't take the Old Testament laws literally anymore. ",
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"content": "Yeah, they do. It's why there is a virulent homophobic strain in America. \n\nThe New Testament does not mention gays. ",
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"content": "as a gay man living in the USA, I do not fear Muslims or their religion. When I came out in the mid 1980's all I heard about from Christians and Republicans is that AIDS is gods justice. That Gay men are sick. That we shouldn't allowed to be able to teach. That employers should be able to fire us. What we are security risks in the military or federal government. That we kill ourselves because we know deep down that we are evil and wrong. That we shouldn't be able to adopt or foster kids, that we are pedophiles, that we could not have civil unions, that we should not marry and now it is all about bathrooms. \n\nEven with ISIS killing gays and the shooter in Orlando, the muslim religion has a long way to go before it even comes close to inflicting the kind of damage that has been done by the Christian religion and those whose who practice it. ",
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"content": "Oh, and I mentioned the rightwing because in the USA, the most intolerant demographic is the conservative white Christian male. \n\nNot the Muslim. ",
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"content": "Not because of the NRA, because of the constitution. \nYou can't just take away rights given by the constitution with a list. \nFlying is not a right given by the constitution or it's amendments. \nThe right to own a firearm is. \nIf you want to take away their second amendment rights, just charge them with something. ",
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"content": ">Flying is not a right \n\n[Freedom of movement is a constitutional right.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_United_States_law)\n\n> The right to own a firearm is.\n\nThe Second Amendment is not a blanket right allowing someone to possess any and all firearms. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the Second Amendment is subject to reasonable limitations.",
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"content": "Taking away their due process rights because they went to a website is reasonable?\n\nImagine President Trump pushing for this to be used on Hillary supporters. How would you feel?",
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"content": "Website? Due process? What are you talking about? I think you responded to the wrong comment.",
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"content": "I think he skipped a few steps in his reasoning. \nYou can end up on the no fly list because of the websites you have visited. \nSo if you ended up on the list and had your 2nd amendment rights taken away as a result, you would have effectively had them taken away because of your website history. \n(Disclaimer, I'm totally guessing that is what he meant)",
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"content": "The President and leading Democrats are calling for people on \"watchlists\" to not be able to buy guns. A watchlist is not a trial, nor is it a conviction. There are no published standards for what gets you on a watchlist - it can be something as easy as browsing & commenting on jihadi websites. There's no ready way of being taken off the watchlists. There's no transparency and damned little oversight.\n\nThat's straight up subverting due process.\n\nThe President is calling for this as if it's a \"reasonable limitation\" on the Second Amendment. This is why gun owners are suspicious of people saying \"reasonable\" limitations and restrictions need to be made.",
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"content": ">The President and leading Democrats are calling for people on \"watchlists\"\n\nThe President talked specifically about the No Fly List. That is not the same thing as the Terrorist Watch List.\n\n>it can be something as easy as browsing & commenting on jihadi websites\n\nThat is an urban legend.\n\n",
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"content": "Oh ok. By all means, please cite and show for us the \"standards\" for getting on a watchlist, the process for being removed, and why exactly we should be encouraging government removal of civil rights based on a \"list\"?",
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"content": "Yes, I agree. \nAnd the no fly list (which is easy to end up on even if you are no threat at all) isn't one of them.",
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"content": "A list can raise a red flag that notifies the FBI though. \n\nNo Constitutional right to that under reasonable suspicion. \n\n",
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"content": "Suspicion alone is not enough to deny any other constitutional rights. \nIn fact, several of our rights are designed to *protect us further* while under suspicion. (The 5th for example ) ",
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"content": "You wouldn't be denying them. He could still walk out with the guns.\n\nHe has no freedom from letting the FBI know that he bought the guns, though. ",
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"content": "And I have no problem with that. \nIf someone on the no fly list buys a firearm, I wouldn't have any issue with the FBI getting a heads up. \nThat's not the point I take issue with.",
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"content": "Then the compromise is obvious. \n\n",
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"content": ">You wouldn't be denying them. \n \nWell this is the line I find troubling : \n \n>we’re allowed to put them on the no-fly list when it comes to airlines, but because of the National Rifle Association, I cannot prohibit those people from buying a gun.",
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"content": "He should take that position, so there is a middle ground. ",
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"content": "Agreed. \nAnd that's coming from a gun owner and supporter of gun rights. \nThis this the problem I have with *both sides* of this issue. \nThey both want to have all or nothing with no compromise at all.",
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"content": "No, that's not a problem with our side. \n\nThe Sandy Hook bill was widely supported by the public and had a majority of votes in the Senate and still failed. And yes, that was a compromise. And yes, the NRA and the GOP and a few punkass Dems blocked it. \n\nThe \"gun rights\" side is the side which is far worse.\n\nYou will see that they will refuse your position and say that it won't work or that we should only pass laws that criminals will follow.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "I humbly disagree. \nMany gun control laws get poisoned by one push too far and then they can't get passed. \nThe proposal you just made for example would likely pass, but I doubt it will ever be proposed. \nIf it were proposed, it would most likely get stuck with some other provision that would derail the entire bill. \nAdd to it that both sides are spewing silly amounts of disinformation and it would have no chance. \nThe right just screams about how the left wants to take their guns and the left does things like counting suicides in over all gun deaths. \nAll the while screaming about \"sensible regulations\" from both sides.",
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"content": "Don't make the equivalency, because it's not there. \n\nThe Sandy Hook bill proved it. \n\n",
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"content": "I didn't say they were equal. \nI said both sides bother me with the way they try to get things done. \nThat's not the same as saying they are equal.",
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"content": "Well, our side did the right thing, the sensible thing, after Sandy Hook. \n\nTheir side did not. \n\nThat means one side is far more wrong. And it's time liberals stood up and stop being wimps in the face of the NRA. \n\nNot that you are being one, I mean in general. ",
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"content": "Well, you're probably not going to like this, but after Sandy Hook they tried to ban AR-15s and I'm against that. \nI know it's the big scary black rifle that everyone trembles in fear of, but it's no different than any other semi auto rifle. \nAlso, that jackass stole it in the first place so it was illegal from the start. \nThat's an example (in my mind) of one push too hard. \nIf sensible gun control is going to happen, it should be one small push at a time so that fine tuning can be achieved. \nThat way we avoid trying to pass 10 things where 2 are great and 7 are okay but one is the rotten apple that spoils the bunch. \nHaving said that, I do feel compelled to say how much I absolutely *loath* the NRA. \nI was raised an a part of the country were firearms were an everyday item and people knew how to care for and handle them safely. Even in my youth the NRA just pissed me off.",
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"content": "Well, that's good to hear that you dislike the NRA. I appreciate that. \n\nI don't believe in banning models or features either, for the sake of logic. \n\nHowever, the GOP and the NRA disgraced themselves on the Sandy Hook bill specifically, which showed that liberals are much more reasonable on the issue, and are much more in tune with where the population is. Specifically referring to background checks, which profile the user not the firearm. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Flying is not the only possible \"movement\" and that is why the no fly list is in compliance with the constitution. \nEven if you are on the no fly list, you can drive anywhere in the county. ",
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"content": "The Constitution didn't give people the right to a gun for the first 200 years, there's no need to reinterpret it today. We already have a well-regulated militia, the National Guard. Freedom isn't guns. Plenty of free countries regulate guns just as plenty of free countries regulate TNT.",
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"content": ">We already have a well-regulated militia, the National Guard. \n \nIt's two separate statements.\n\n >A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.\n\nThe first statement:\n\n>A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State\n\nTranslation: We know we need a militia.\n\nThe second statement:\n\n>the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.\n\nTranslation: The peoples right to own weapons will not be taken away.\n\nFull statement: We know we need a militia, people are allowed to have guns.\n\nBoth sides try to make it something else but it's really simply stated. \nThe presence of the National Guard has nothing with an individuals right to own a firearm. \n>Freedom isn't guns. Plenty of free countries regulate guns just as plenty of free countries regulate TNT. \n \nThat's a bit of a straw man as nobody as argued differently. \nIn fact, I even sited explosives as an example. ",
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"content": "Pretty much. ",
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"content": "It's obvious he wrote that speech himself. It was just awful!!! The lgbt spokes person already came out against it!",
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"content": "It was a great speech! He gives the best speeches. People love him. Women love him. Gays love him. It was the best speech.",
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"content": "Only white men love him! Who are you kidding the guys a hack!",
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"content": "Woosh.",
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"content": "He has a few tokens out there that support him. Disgusting!",
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"content": "Some people use more than two sounds in a word. Not Trump! He has the best words! Losers use three or more sounds per word to show off. Sad!",
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"content": "http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/stephen-hawking-angers-trump-supporters-with-baffling-array-of-long-words",
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"content": "I want to hit him with a rolled up newspaper.",
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"content": "make sure the newspaper is The Washington Post ",
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"content": "The Washington times for irony. ",
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"content": "Or, you know, a metal bar. A baseball bat. Something along those lines",
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"content": "Obama knows *exactly* what he's doing. -- Marco Rubio.",
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"content": "I don't think anyone is going to be swayed either way by his statement. Anyone who would take offense to it is already not voting for Trump, and any of his supporters probably agree with him.",
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"content": "So his supporters are idiots? Because Obama signs the FING drone strikes again Muslim terrorist ",
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"content": ">So his supporters are idiots?\n\nYes, obviously. \n\nI've challenged people to find me even a single counter-example, a single Trump supporter who is not a goddamned moron. So far nobody has come up with any names.",
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"content": "Nah. independents who lean middle and Republicans who have some self respect are cringing.",
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"content": "[If You Still Vote For Trump After You Realize He Has Baby Carrot Fingers: Fuck You](http://i.imgur.com/s4quW26.jpg)",
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"content": "Lol",
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"content": "I'm sorry, but I'd rather have Trump than have a criminal in office.",
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"content": "Trump is a just as much of a criminal. Check out the libertarian candidate. ",
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"content": "no he's not. he's not dealing with an FBI investigation. Either way I won't be voting for either. I will only be voting for Bernie Sanders. I'll write him in if I have to. ",
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"content": "So the FBI has to be involved for him to be a criminal? Financial fraud isn't a crime? I mean, do a little research... ",
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"content": "... and \"fuck you\" wasn't the default response to Trump voters before this? So this is a change? TIL!",
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"content": "At this point, he's just fueling the Trump train. ",
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"content": "Trump's on a roll. Donald couldn't have gotten more mileage out of the attack if he bought the guns himself. I wonder if Trump's plane flew a couple missions to Saudi Arabia during the past couple years ... just wondering, not saying anything.",
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"content": "F_ck the Trump train. Obama shouldn't dance to that buffoon's tune. A racist POS birther. \n\nObama does what he wants. He's not a punk like Trump. ",
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"content": "You mean a self-hating homophobic psycho? The guy was gay. He hated himself and took it out on others. This was not an ISIS attack.",
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"content": "> ou mean a self-hating homophobic psycho? The guy was gay. He hated himself and took it out on others. \n\nThe only thing we know *For sure* is that he pledged allegiance to ISIS. You are in denial. \n\nISIS called for attacks during Ramadan, and this guy answered. \n",
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"content": "So if i pledge allegiance to the United States of America and went out and killed people does that make it an American attack?\n\nThis is a classic homophobic case. He had no contact with ISIS. He did this on his own. He was gay himself. He was on Grinder, he went to the night club dozens of times. He had sex with men. \n\n",
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"content": "It does if America called for the attacks and you answered. That's how our courts of law work too, btw. In case you don't know. The person or organisation stirring the pot is just as culpable. \n\n>He had sex with men. \n\nHow could you *possibly* know that? \n\nSo far the responses in this thread are by people who make wild assumptions and ignore the only tangible fact: ISIS called for attacks during Ramadan, and this guy answered. It really is that simple. ",
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"content": "Classmate have already come out and said he was gay. ",
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"content": "That is hearsay. lol. That is not a *fact*. Jesus. You're basing your interpretation of this event not on facts, but on hearsay. This is very sad, and this is why Trump is going to win. ",
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"content": "Okie dokie",
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"content": "Fact: the guy had gay hook-up apps on his phone and frequented the gay club. \n\nStop trying to make this about Obama. ",
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"content": "He also pledged allegiance to an anti-ISIS Syrian terrorist group.\n\nhttp://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/murkier-still\n\nhttp://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/283218-orlando-shooters-imam-is-pro-trump\n\nhttp://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/at-police-academy-fellow-students-thought-mateen-was-gay\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national/former-classmates-recall-orlando-shooters-bizarre-reaction-on-911/2016/06/13/f08b2950-3187-11e6-95c0-2a6873031302_story.html",
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"content": "Organic fertilizer, fermented. Even according to his father he was not a practicing Muslim. He claimed allegiance to both Hezbollah and ISIL at the same time - about the same as claiming to be a Jewish Catholic with Muslim tendencies. In short he was throwing crap. Wouldn't surprise me to find out he claimed membership in the KKK. The only reason ISIL is now claiming him is because Americans are dead.\n",
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"content": "You mean psychotic gun owners? ",
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"content": "It's not Clinton eating away at his lead. It's the fact Trump is a wackjob and over time more people figure that out. There's absolutely nothing about Hillary to attract voters, she's just not crazy. It's pretty sad when that's the best selling point for a candidate:(",
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"content": "Really? She attracted enough voters to crush Sanders in the primaries. ",
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"content": "Are you stupid? She has the worst, most negative approval ratings of any blue nominee in 50 years.",
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"content": "She had approvals in the 70s just a few years ago. She goes in cycles. \n\nAnd watch your mouth. \n\n",
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"content": "Watch my mouth? You gonna report me for asking if you're stupid?\n\nThose approval ratings pre-dated the revelations about her Wall Street connections, Saudi money ties, and her lifting of the ban on corporate lobbyist money. Those are directly responsible for her drop in approval, and it's not going to recover. The election this time around is simply a choice between one bad candidate and a second even worse candidate. Anyone excited about Hillary simply hasn't done their homework or they're too blinded by the fact she has a vagina to care about her horrible corporate ties.\n\n",
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"content": "Aw, cry some more. \n\nHer approval rating was high enough to smoke Sanders and her lead over Trump is increasing. \n\nI don't care if she has a vagina, I care she has bigger balls than Bernie. ",
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"content": "Again, I don't much care about Sanders, but you seem fixated on Sanders. I didn't mention him at all. Her approval rating is garbage and she deserves it.",
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"content": "Right. You're just someone who thinks Trump is the same as Clinton. \n\nWhich is all anyone has to know.",
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"content": "What is wrong with you? Are you off your meds? You keep accusing me of random crap and not even reading what I post. \n\nI've quite clearly stated that Clinton is better than Trump. I've also clearly stated that her approval rating is the lowest of any blue nominee in decades, which is a fact (whether you like it or not). I've also clearly stated she is only looking good because Trump is so very bad, which is also a fact. I've also highlighted very BLATANT and EASY to understand reasons why Clinton is so very bad (whether you like it or not). \n\nI know it makes you angry that your candidate is a Wall Street shill, but she is, so I suggest you accept that fact or stop supporting her. You sound like you're in denial and angry to have to be making excuses. Maybe you should admit to yourself that she won't release her speeches because they would irreparably damage her campaign.\n\nI suggest you go back on your meds. You quite clearly can't handle even trivial political discussion.",
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"content": "Your comment history betrays you, sir. \n\nYou had said if Trump gets elected, so be it. \n\nQuit your bullshit. Her favorables will increase as they always have. \n\n\"Wall Street shill\" - get a grip. She is no more a shill than Obama is. \n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "From the very article:\n>Mateen was removed from the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database.\n\n[From the ACLU](https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/watchlists)\n>The U.S. government maintains a massive watchlist system that risks stigmatizing hundreds of thousands of people—including U.S. citizens—as terrorism suspects based on vague, overbroad, and often secret standards and evidence.\n\n>The consequences of being placed on a government watchlist can be far-reaching. They can include questioning, harassment, or detention by authorities, or even an indefinite ban on air travel. And while the government keeps the evidence it uses to blacklist people in this manner secret, government watchdogs have found that as many as 35 percent of the nominations to the network of watchlists are outdated and tens of thousands of names were placed on lists without an adequate factual basis. To make matters worse, the government denies watchlisted individuals any meaningful way to correct errors and clear their names.",
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"content": "Sssoooooo?",
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"content": "So for example, you have Omar Mateen looking at ISIS beheading videos as reported [here.](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/orlando-gunman-omar-mateen-searched-for-videos-of-isis-beheadings-a7081686.html) Perhaps you aren't aware of this but there are subreddits totaling hundreds of thousands of subscribers that link to such content and there is the very real danger of guilt by association with no transparency.",
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"content": "So?\n\nNot all those people are spoken to the FBI twice are were on a terror watch list at some point, \n\nYou don't have to deny them the ability to purchase, but you can send a red flag alert to the FBI (the same alert the FBI would get of the person was still on the watch list)\n\nThat way no rights are denied but we can still follow up. ",
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"content": "Alright, but that isn't what is being suggested. [The law is binary.](https://www.atf.gov/firearms/identify-prohibited-persons) You can either buy/possess a firearm or you can't. In order to not be able to, there has to have been due process involved. A no-buy list that supersedes that dissolves due process.",
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"content": "Again, that is not what I am proposing. \n\nSo I assume the GOP would make the choice that makes the most sense, right?\n\nOr will they do nothing?",
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"content": "Sorry, where do you see your proposal being proposed? I'm just seeing calls for the no-fly being turned into a no-buy. ",
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"content": "That is one idea. \n\nWhy isn't the GOP making an alternate idea?\n\nOr are the Dems the only ones with any common sense ideas? ",
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"content": "Uh, but going back to my OP, that isn't a common sense idea per due process, guilt by association, etc. It's the exact kind of poorly conceived Patriot Act style legislation we got after 9/11 that included what books you checked out at the library being profiled.",
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"content": "Okay so I am sure the GOP has an alternative idea? Or maybe some liberals do?\n\nAre you advocating that anything be done? Or are you one of the propagandists for doing nothing? ",
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"content": "Seems the NRA is now fine with it: http://qz.com/708149/nra-gun-sales-to-anyone-on-a-terror-watch-list-should-be-investigated-delayed/",
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"content": "The NRA is now fine with a violation of due process? \n\n",
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"content": "This is pure garbage. Source links to youtube videos, a broken link, a webpage where a guy claims he can prove that there was a conspiracy to assassinate JFK through a mathematical model, that same Ohio video where they keep promising to file a lawsuit as soon as people give them enough money, that bozo in New York with his magic box voting device. I sent this to Nate Silver so the 538 gang could have a good laugh like I did. This is simply embarrassing that anybody would put this out and call it a study. \n\nSome people have just gotten themselves so twisted up in beliefs of conspiracies that they are being taken advantage of by every huckster out there and they have lost all sense of the idea that world is not some vast conspiracy that only a few are aware of.",
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"content": "You do realize that conspiracy is in fact a legal term. Conspiracys happen all the time. They don't have to be massive to be effective. Maybe we could analyze the paper trail left by all the voters. Ohh wait many states don't have a paper trail due to electronic voting. I wonder why the establishmemt dems haven't pushed back against voter id with our horribly insecure and unaccountable election machines. I am left to conclude they are either incompetant or culpable.",
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"content": "Did you ever wonder why Bernie Sanders himself or Jeff Weaver has never said a word about this nonsense? Because they want to stay employable going forward instead of being considered certifiable. Everything in this document circles back to itself with the same bogus claim that exit polls are off means the voting results must be wrong ignoring the key consideration that they people that do the exit polls tell you not to use them for that which is no where to be found in the document. Keep posting stuff like this. Show the world.",
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"content": "I know one thing there has been voter suppresion. There has been an institutional advantage given to Clinton from the word go. Exit polls are used by the UN to gauge if fraud is going on in other countries. So I am left to ask are we just that bad at democracy and statistics that we are incapable of conducting valid polling. Are we really that stupid? Also why was the exit polling cancled for the remaining races. Why did the AP magically decide to declare Clinton the winner by asking establishment elites the day before a major election. If our system has all of these gaps isn't it possible that Trump will exploit these vunerabilitys. Also you are aware the the lawsuit regarding systematic election fraud has in fact been filed. These same people stopped Karl Rove from stealing the election from Obama and giving it to Romney. This happened on national TV. I remember seeing Rove freak out when it didn't work.",
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"content": "Exit polls are used in other countries because places like Rwanda vote 93% for their president. Exit polls are voluntary, if ten people vote and the only one of the supporters of A talk to the exit poll people but all three B voters talk then what does the exit poll say there? It says that B should win by 75% even though A won 70%. How do you factor in early voting and mail in voting? What happens if you can't properly poll all precincts? Precinct A votes heavily for A and Precinct B votes heavily for B; what if you only poll B? You get bad results.\n\nExit polls aren't to be trusted.",
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"content": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/22/how-exit-polls-work-explained/\nSo for some mysterious reason Rwanda can do a reliable poll with far more people involved, and somehow we can't?\nhttp://electiondefensealliance.org/frequently_asked_questions_about_exit_polls\n",
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"content": "It's not reliable, it's just a good indicator that something is up. You can't use exit polls to determine if the guy got 49.8% of the vote or 49.9%. But you can use it to figure out that only 40% of the voters said Kagame should remain president even if the government claims its 88%. You can figure out that if there's a significant margin off then maybe something is off.\n\nThe current polls don't really determine much. Over sampling, enthusiasm on one side, poor polling all can be factors that would explain an discrepancy.",
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"content": "Time and again the exit polls have been way off by far greater than the margin of error. This is especially true in areas that use electronic voting with no paper trail. http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/16/clinton-does-best-where-voting-machines-flunk-hacking-tests-hillary-clinton-vs-bernie-sanders-election-fraud-allegations/\nI still can't figure out a legitimate reason why we are still using these machines.",
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"content": "Exit polls aren't reliable. They're good for **broad indication** but you can use it to find out specific percentages, and they have a well documented history of misrepresenting demographics. Unless you believe that every election in the modern world is fraud, then ignoring the irregularities in most exit polls taken before this election but then using them to claim fraud in this one is inconsistent.\n\nhttp://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/upshot/exit-polls-why-they-so-often-mislead.html",
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"content": "If we were talking about one or two polls I would say you might have a point. However we are talking about many exit polls threw out this whole process. That coupled with things like poll workers being told to hand out the wrong ballets to independent voters trying to vote for Sanders in California. This is looking like a pattern, and a pattern says there is something worth investigating. This whole election is filled with examples where the scales were tipped in Clinton's favor. Also the fact that the GOP exit polls were oddly spot on, and the democrats were off.",
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"content": "The GOP is an more homogenous voter group. Mostly the same age and race. Polling an single demographic is easier than polling across different groups whom may vote differently and turnout differently like the Democrats have. Not to mention that Dems are pretty lazy voters, we don't show up in midterms where as the GOP manages to vote for some of the worst people consistently.\n\nUltimately, yes things are worth being looked into, but there's plenty of explanations for the exit polls. They've been off for other elections, and in large margins too. In 2000, and 2004, 2012 and 2014 were all off often. So no, 2016 is not irregular despite accuracy among Republicans.\n\nAs the election fraud conspiracist says, they always have an 8% margin of error. Anything with that large of a margin of error to me doesn't ring as something that's accurate. This means an poorly done poll might be off by 20%.",
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"content": "[For once and for all](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ten-reasons-why-you-should-ignore-exit/) No one is going to take this to court. All they are going to do is continue to take rubes money. They have been promising to take this case to court in Ohio for months not, but they need more donations. One day they won't be around anymore. \n\n**Here is his second source: Oops! That page can’t be found.**\n\nThe third one is owned by these Ohio clowns owned by a group out of California whose parent organization is evidently into anti-flouridation:\n\nhttp://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20151112/NEWS/151119931\n\nThe parent org is also known as \"CELEBRATIONS OF LOVE\" where they teach Tantric love:\n\nhttp://www.buzzfile.com/business/CELEBRATIONS-OF-LOVE-415-924-7824\n\n**Russia Today on Election Fraud? Well I guess the Kremlin and Putin are experts on it.**\n\nAnd finally this joke:\n\nhttps://richardcharnin.wordpress.com/category/2016-election/\n\nNote the JFK menu item and select that. This nut case provides some of his key evidence except he provides nothing.\n\n**There is nothing here but charts that say nothing. You post an article that sounds nice and fancy but is just a bunch of garbage to separate a fool and their money. So except for the fact that some exit polls were not that accurate, which everyone knows can occur as has been documented by Nate Silver in 2008, is there anything here of any possible meaning?**",
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"content": "So ignore the polls unless they say something I like pretty much.",
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"content": "He is aging faster by the day. ",
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"content": "Every picture I've seen of Ryan for the last month looks like he's run out of tears.",
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"content": "He looks more and more like [Robert from Guess Who](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/20/f1/eb/20f1eb5d77b0ca3b4d5a62406f853694.jpg).",
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"content": "We are at war with the twin terrors of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism. ",
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"content": "Regretting that endorsement yet, Mr. Ryan?",
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"content": "You should read up on his \"endorsement.\" He initially refused to endorse Trump. It took the party nearly a month to strong arm him into the most reluctant \"endorsement\" I have ever seen. Ryan still hasn't expressed any real faith or support for Trump, I doubt he ever will. ",
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"content": "I actually know all about that, I don't need to \"read up\" on it. I have been following the news of this election, and Ryan's refusal to initially endorse trump is not exactly obscure.",
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"content": "Whoah, i just upvoted something Paul Ryan said.\n\nI feel dirty now -_-",
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"content": "Just wait til Hillary \"pragmatically compromises\" with him on his plans to cut Social Security and privatize Medicare during one of our bi-annual fiscal cliff hostage scenarios.",
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"content": "And you base that on what? Which Democrat has ever done that? Stupid talk.",
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"content": "That's the main reason her supporters gave for why she should be nominated instead of Sanders. Because \"she would pragmatically compromise with House Republicans to get things done\". I thought it was pretty stupid myself, but then most of the reasons they gave didn't make sense.",
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"content": "That does not equal cutting SS. No Democrat has. No Democrat will. No Democrat has even suggested it. You are just making things up.",
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"content": "I guess you don't remember when they compromised to let $8.7 billion be cut from food stamps: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/congress-passes-farm-bill-food-stamp-cuts\n\n> No Democrat has even suggested it.\n\nActually when Obama tried to sneak Chained CPI through as a way to cut Social Security: http://www.businessinsider.com/chained-cpi-social-security-cuts-obama-budget-liberals-2013-4\n\nAnd now we've got Hillary (who mocked Obama back in 2007 by saying he was too liberal) promising to compromise even more than Obama did: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/255380-hillary-says-shell-work-across-aisle-and-some-in-gop-agree",
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"content": "I guess it would be better to use magic Vermont fairy dust to get the entire progressive agenda through.",
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"content": "Sorry but these facts, and HRC's platform, remain. Regardless of whether Sanders would have ran or not. Taking cheap shots at Bernie won't change what is coming.",
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"content": "What about HRC's platform?",
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"content": "I'm sure he thought his position would be glorious obstructionism and Reagan worship, not picking up the pieces of his defunct party as a lunatic drives it into the ground.",
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"content": "Obama (and Clinton) avoid saying the phrase \"at war with radical Islam\" because if you remove the word \"radical\" we're at war with Islam. That distinction can easily get lost to the international audience, and responsible politicians are aware of how their words might affect people in different countries. ISIS and their ilk want a binary choice, the West is at war with Islam, so either you abandon Islam or you join us. Trump et al don't understand this, they are playing right into the terrorists' hands with this nonsense. All for domestic political gain.",
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"content": "The GOP uses \"radical Islam\" to create negative word association with Islam, just as they do with \"illegal immigrants.\" They still need you to fear brown people. There's a reason they focus on immigrants and Muslims, even though they're not remotely the biggest killers or threats to Americans.\n\nBut when Trump just says \"Mexicans\" and \"Muslims,\" they're all \"Hey, man, attack them *this* way, with *these* words!\" Which is exactly what Ryan is doing here.\n\nThe Republicans fostered the hate that led to Trump. They just hate that Trump's being so direct about it.",
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"content": "No. Only she can find the long form for Grandpa Donald...",
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"content": "Haha:) Word on the street is that Grandpa Donald's form isn't all that long. HEY-YO!!!",
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"content": "But then compact parking spaces are hard to find...usually only newer models can fit.",
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"content": "Are you implying he needs a newer penis? Haha oh wait...no...I get your meaning. Still in support of any NEW PENIS OPERATIONS he may want to have. Live and let live. Penis.",
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"content": "If Melania gets sent home, he may have some serious competition for young trophy wives from younger erm...guys.",
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"content": "\"Slovenia gives us so much penis. We have plentiful penis in our country. I wanted to marry a RICH PENIS, and I have, but I do miss all the many penis back home. Such beautiful Slovic penis we have there.\" *Melania sheds tear as she writes her letters home...\n\nThese jokes used to be beneath me, but after Trump's performance the past few days: all bets are off. ",
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"content": " The minute he gave us his [Guarantee ^^TM](http://youtu.be/nALb4lEbSbA) on National TV, during a political debate, it became Fair Game^^TM",
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"content": "BEST.PENISSTEAK.EVAH.",
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"content": "Be careful. Trump might get mad and wall off Slovenia. Because their ~~penises~~...erm Guarantees^^TM might end up taking ~~his wife~~ our jobs.",
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"content": "Best. Steak. Ever. \n\nBut seriously folks: I'm just waiting for Trump to say the n-word out loud, in public, and hopefully this fucking fiasco would finally be over. Hopefully he'll wait until after the RNC convention, so the party will surely sink with that ship. Trump supporters are quite blind to modern racism, but many have personally told me that if it got to the point where he said the n-word in a negative, clearly racist sense, they'd bail. Fingers crossed. Republicans need to own that their racist, isolationist, homophobic, misogynist, poor-punishing, rich-baiting, nra-sucking bullshit is no longer what America should stand for in this day and age. Conservative Govt vs Liberal Govt? Makes sense, these are valid debates. But the antiquated moralistic and 1%wealth-serving neocon bullshit has got.ta.go. ",
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"content": "BEST.PENISSTEAK.EVAH. ",
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"content": "I don't support trump but this is pretty dumb. Slovenia is probably one of the most \"anti-islam\" countries in europe and has a really really small population of muslims, so that whore has nothing to do with it",
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"content": "I know - I was just being sarcastic. Trump is ridiculous and I was being ridiculous in response:)",
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"content": "Why are you assuming that this is insulting Sanders supporters? This is /r/democrats not /r/independents which doesn't exist btw.",
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"content": "It's not an insult so much as a splash of cold water to the face. This is the choice they made, and this is the consequence of that choice. And he's right to point out there is no good reason to not register for a party, doing so has no negative consequences or implications. It only means you are assured a say in their primary.",
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"content": "Should the parties be a special club you have to join to have representation in government, or should they have to earn membership through a platform?\n\nThis person is arguing the former, and I find that viewpoint reprehensible, if however conventional. ",
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"content": "That is literally what they are. A club. Our Constitution does not mention parties and you don't have to be a member of one to get elected. In theory. In practice you usually do, but only because they have the infrastructure in place to run the campaign. They help fund their candidates, provide support, etc. But ultimately they are clubs that put forward candidates for office and that's all.\n\nRoss Perot ran without the support of a party and did fairly well. Other parties exist and run, they just are too incompetent to see any real success (they struggle to get on the ballot in all 50 states, they never run anyone for Congress, etc). But the two major parties have no actual monopoly on the process, it's just that they are the ones that take it seriously enough to do it right.\n\nJust because the two major parties are successful enough to run the board doesn't mean that you have to be a member to take part in government. And it also doesn't mean people who don't want to join the party have any type of right to choose their candidate. It's a private organization. \n\nAnd besides, to repeat, there is *literally no benefit at all* to registering NPA. None. You have no obligation to register with any party, but that doesn't make it a meaningful or beneficial choice to make. And registering with a party is simple and free. \n\nSo like the author says, if you insist on choosing to register NPA to keep your political purity, that's great. Pointless, but if it makes you feel better, good for you. But choices have consequences.\n",
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"content": "It's seems the base is quite fine with the current nominee. ",
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"content": "So voting for Clinton means we are uniformed? Its so weird we don't want to cater to arrogant sore losers. ",
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"content": "They don't charge a fee. You can leave at anytime. They don't brand you or anything.",
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"content": "Nice rant. Now give one good reason why there should be open primaries that allow Republicans to come and vote for the candidate they find to be weaker? Just one reason.",
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"content": "So you can't actually give a good reason. I agree it should not be a pain like in NY and I should be able to change my registration when I go to vote in the primaries knowing that if a runoff occurs that I can't change for that, but there is no reason beyond that. Zero.",
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"content": "*regressive",
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"content": "Personal attacks are whining. \n\n",
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"content": "So it's your contention that private organizations aren't entitled to limit their internal processes to only members?",
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"content": "Lol. No, it isn't. Is it your contention that a free society should be limited to two political parties, and if one disagrees with both they should be forced into a life without representation in government? Because that's our present system, and unless you hate freedom, you should advocate for people to have a say in how the government works.\n\nA two party, first past the post system is designed *specifically* to avoid allowing common people to have representation in government. Is that really what you want to publicly advocate as a supposed democrat? \n\n",
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"content": "That's not out present system since you can vote for whomever you want or write in a candidate. \n\n",
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"content": "The \"progressive independents\" aren't left without a voice in the current system. They could join the party and work from the inside to win people over.",
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"content": "The only reason that this argument flies during this election is because the Republican nominee is so bad. This policy will bite the Dems in the ass the next time there's a viable Republican for independents to choose if they don't feel represented by the Democrats. ",
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"content": "Awesome!\n\nThank you Senators.",
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"content": "Too bad one Democratic senator didn't see fit to participate :-)",
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"content": "He was even in town. He better get his ass there to vote when the time comes.",
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"content": "Really?",
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"content": "As a liberal I'm excited to see my fellow American's rights taken away. We have militarized police now. Who needs the right to defend themselves?",
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"content": "If you look at the original 2nd as written by James Madison, before it was shortened for brevity, there is no doubt that any \"originalist\" would know it was only in the context of a militia. President Clinton's Supreme Court picks are sure to not be activist justices when it comes to that.",
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"content": "Stop pretending you are a progressive or liberal. ",
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"content": "I know the words I'm using. \n\nUniversal background checks don't infringe on anyone's rights.\n\nReal progressives and liberals understand that. ",
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"content": "Wow, did you just have a coherent moment?\n\nOkay, fair enough. \n\nBut I want the universal checks, period. \n\nForget the buy banning for people on the watch list. \n\nThe important thing is put the GOP on the defensive. And it has worked. \n\nWe ask for more than we want and walk away with UBCs and a win over the NRA. \n\nAnd a smug grin. No rights infringed. \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Billionaire endorses multi-millionaire in bid for election in \"democratic society\".\n\nWhat a time to be a \"liberal\".",
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"content": "> Billionaire endorses \n\nShe's a black female self-made billionaire, born to an unmarried teenage mother in Mississippi who was a housemaid.\n\nIn a democratic society, everyone has an equal chance at the bat. Oprah Winfrey is an outstanding example of that success.\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "I'm glad you enjoy billionaires so much. Some of us care about people that aren't billionaires. That's why we aren't voting for corporatists like Clinton.",
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"content": "Yea that's \"we\" aren't voting for Hillary. \n\nOh by-the-way, Hillary nor Bill are billionaires. So I guess you can vote for her now.",
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"content": "Since when is the Democratic Party against industry and business? Entrepreneurship is an essential part of democracy. Only an idiot would start a business and not incorporate, because then you're personally liable.\n\nThis \"corporatist\" crap belongs on /r/KarlMarx, not here.",
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"content": "Okay now you just sound like a Trump plant trolling. ",
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"content": "I sound like a \"Trump plant\" for criticizing the idea of super-wealthy business people holding public office?\n\nI don't follow your logic.",
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"content": "Oprah is not running for President. \n\n",
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"content": "So why is her opinion on the matter being reported as news?",
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"content": "Because she is influential and an inspiration to millions of people. \n\n",
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"content": "She's a pop culture figurehead used to sell cheap consumer goods to housewives. ",
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"content": "Too bad he wouldn't let her make him a better candidate for black people.",
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"content": "Not getting the support of a particular community does not mean that a politicians proposals and ideas didn't appeal to or wouldn't have benefited that community.\n\nEveryone's sick of you continuing to peddle your low grade narrative that Sanders was somehow racist. Cool it, gurl.",
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"content": "If we are going to put out calls to stop peddling narratives, then how about we stop peddling the narrative that Bernie is somehow leading Hillary from behind.\n\n",
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"content": "Sure. We'll stop peddling that narrative when it stops being true to a degree.\n\nIn all honesty, I'm surprised to see so many people claiming to be longtime Clinton supporters simultaneously claiming that Sanders hasn't significantly shaped the orientation of her campaign.",
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"content": "Bernie Sanders had zero impact on Hillary's support for the LGBT community. Even if he did not exist, it would still be a cornerstone of her campaign.",
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"content": "It's really not a \"cornerstone\" of her campaign now, and it hasn't been. She's paid us lip service.",
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"content": "Can you define your usage of homophobe and provide some evidence to substantiate your last claim?",
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"content": "There are some members of the LGBT community who also had this belief at one point in their past.\n\nI would still like you to do the following, can you define your usage of homophobe and provide some evidence to substantiate your last claim?",
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"content": "That's not true to any degree. \n\nPlus, the narrative that Hillary is a criminal, a shill, a corporatist and no better than Trump. \n\nThe things we hear about Hillary now are the same things we heard about Obama, who led the most progressive changes for the gay community in history. \n\n",
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"content": "> That's not true to any degree.\n\nI wouldn't expect you to agree. You're very much a this or that person, so you'll never buy into the complexity of the situation. To a degree it is true, even if no one wants to admit it publicly.\n\n> Plus, the narrative that Hillary is a criminal, a shill, a corporatist and no better than Trump.\n\nI don't see how this relates to anything that was being said, but OK. The idea that the Clinton's are crooked as politicians predates the current primaries. And it's no secret they've built a family business out of influence peddling and political power.\n\n> The things we hear about Hillary now are the same things we heard about Obama, who led the most progressive changes for the gay community in history.\n\nObama didn't lead on these issues. The LGBT community lead itself. Obama reacted after we'd already set the stage. Nor, really, have many of those things been said about Obama (at least not on the left).",
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"content": "Oh, so the LGBT led itself but somehow Sanders should get some credit? \n\nSanders has barely done anything for progressive movement in 30 years, let alone the gay rights movement.\n\nBecause Sanders is not a progressive. \n\nWhat's tired is Sanders co-opting every single progressive issue, when Hillary was doing more as First Lady than he did as an elected official for 30 years. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Veggie, I don't really care about your opinions so I'm not going to get into a lengthy argument with you.\n\nThis article was written by a member of the LGBT community for one of the largest LGBT specific media outlets and posted in this subreddit by a member of the LGBT community. If you don't want to listen to LGBT voices, that's fine.",
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"content": "Those voices are just opinions like any other from the gay community. I respect their perspective on gay issues, but they are inaccurate and the article plays out like a pro-Sanders ad, while slighting Hillary. An op-ed.\n\nAnd yes, I have been involved in progressive and liberal causes for nearly 25 years, including gay rights. And never heard of Bernie Sanders doing anything for gay rights before 2008. This is a co-opt. Like single-payer and free public college. \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "uh, that's not being a massive homophobe. No more than Obama. \n\nAnd no, I am a grown male. ",
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"content": "This is already partly the case but I feel like it would be wonderful for /r/Democrats to have as much of a focus on down ballot elections as on the Presidential race. The Senate and even the House are seemingly in contention, there are some interesting gubernatorial races, as well as local races and measures, which we can focus on. If it can be about the party and its members as a whole I think it could be a great resource for channeling all of our different passions.\n\nI think it would be great for this to be a pro-Democrat subreddit rather than an anti-Trump subreddit, as you say. He's interesting and easy to hate but I feel like there are plenty of reasons to actually support and vote for Democrats apart from being disgusted by Trump.\n\nPerhaps some weekly threads could help build up a sense of community. We could talk about why we support Democrats, what we've been doing to help elect them, issues we're interested in, things like that.",
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"content": "Agree",
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"content": "> Perhaps some weekly threads\n\nI like this idea. A weekly topic sticky thread.",
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"content": "That would be cool. I like that idea.",
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"content": "/r/Democrats should be focused on strategy and facts with discussion. \n\nAnyone interested in issues related to the party platform should be able to come here to find links of they need to present them anywhere. \n\nFact checking when it comes to the candidates and the parties' platforms/candidates. \n\nLocal information on as where people may need help around the country in close races, no matter what kind of support they are looking for. And with that, big picture perspectives on how those local races can impact the broader goals of taking back state and national legislators in this election and in 2018.\n\nThe only other thing I could think of are resources for rules and procedures in the party, which may be a bigger deal once the convention comes and some people are upset at certain results. ",
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"content": "Agree",
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"content": "* We should incorporate that tweet bot /r/hillaryclinton uses to change tweets to text automatically.\n* Let's try letting users flair their posts for things like Presidential, Senate, House, etc. Those don't have to be the categories, but something like that to incorporate /u/barology which I was thinking of myself.\n* We should have a list of sites that can be updated as to where to get additional information on House and Senate races. For example, an easy one might be the Richmond paper as Virginia is suppose to add two Democratic Reps thanks to court ordered redistricting. \n* Perhaps also there, we should list the states that are in play where Democrats have a chance to convert in the Senate? e.g., NH?\n* Really want to make /r/democrats all things Democrats, not just presidential in my opinion.\n",
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"content": "Would this be something you might be willing to help create?",
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"content": "That's it. Come up with the idea and end up with the work. Yes.",
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"content": "Yea I'm a little stinker. My work load is heavy lately but I love your ideas. Just don't have the time to create them. :D",
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"content": "Is that pro-democrat as in less \"Trump is evil, scary, horrible\" spam? Or pro-democrat as in \"DNC unity\"? Or something else?\n\nI don't get much from this sub anymore other than Trump fearmongering and Sanders bashing. Which is sad considering I've been a staunch supporter of the DNC for years. Now I'm seen as a \"radical leftist\" for clinging to what the DNC told me to support all these years.\n\nI guess I don't really want to see anything. There's a time and a season for all things. My season with the DNC got cancelled this year, evidently.\n",
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"content": "There are other votes besides the current Presidential election. Just because someone chooses not to support Hillary doesn't mean that they won't support Democratic senators, governors and local politicians. The \"fuck off, tow the line\" attitude that you're displaying is likely to drive people to feel less like they're being represented, and more like they're propping up a self-serving institution. ",
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"content": "I think that this framing is fundamentally flawed. Recognizing her flaws as a candidate is not the same as expressing dislike, and shouldn't be discouraged.\n\nWe should be encouraging in-depth and nuanced discussion. People here are all, for the most part, Democrats. We shouldn't be afraid to have discussions about our candidates and issues simply because it's not in line with a forced narrative.",
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"content": "Big difference between discussing flaws and whining about how she's an evil harpy.",
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"content": "Recognizing flaws /= demagoguery ",
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"content": "You can't just call everything you disagree with demagoguery.",
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"content": "That's not what I did.\n\nI have had debates online with people I disagree with for more than a decade, including the ultra-right. \n\nIt's about basic respect and not rambling on using the same buzzwords over and over without really making an argument, \n\nThat is demagoguery. ",
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"content": "Whatever you say. I just think it's really interesting that you made the jump between what I said and ranting about demagoguery.",
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"content": "It wasn't a jump. You were comparing honest criticism of our nominee (for example, she needs to focus more on the minimum wage, or change her position on Syria), to smearing the candidate (war criminal, oligarchs, corporatist, same as Trump, etc,)\n\nWe don't have to indulge the latter and welcome the former. That is the difference. ",
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"content": "No, you get caught up in the language used rather than the underlying criticism of Clinton or our wider political system. \n\nSo you're dismissing real concerns about Clinton's fundraising and corporate ties because someone used the word corporatist. Or you're dismissing real concerns about our political system because someone uses the word oligarch.\n\n\nThat doesn't mitigate the real criticism.",
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"content": "Yeah, it does.\n\nLol... \"caught up in the words\"\n\nIf I said Sanders was a communist sympathizer and do-nothing for 30 years...\n\nIs that addressing an underlying criticism, or a smear? \n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "What would the underlying criticism be?\n\nI'd be happy to discuss that criticism. If it's ridiculous, it's easy to point out the flaws in the underlying logic. If it's not ridiculous, then it's something worth consideration.",
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"content": "The underlying criticism would be he is too far left for the public, even though most of his platform is just left.\n\nThat he doesn't truly believe in Wall Street/capitalism at all, not that he just wants to regulate it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "> The underlying criticism would be he is too far left for the public, *even though most of his platform is just left.*\n\nFirst of all I would point out that your statement is conditional and seems to imply a public perception rather than policy based on the italicized clause. Then I would suggest that he got widespread support in terms of volunteer efforts, small-scale donations, and even votes in the primaries. This is even true of independents where they are able to participate. Finally, I'd draw attention to the opinion polls in which he is cited as the most trustworthy presidential candidate and the highest rated sitting Senator by his constituency because these are also significant factors that create his public persona.\n\n> That he doesn't truly believe in Wall Street/capitalism at all, not that he just wants to regulate it.\n\nFirst I would emphasize that we have no way of truly knowing what any candidates feel about anything, so speculation doesn't do anyone any good. We can only really argue based on what the candidates say and their political history. Then I would suggest that Sanders has been consistent and clear in his position that our financial system requires additional regulation to help prioritizing the competing interests that they naturally have to balance in a capitalist economy. After that, I would point out that Wall Street is not synonymous with capitalism. There are businesses outside of the financial sector that would greatly benefit from many of his proposals. Then, I would suggest that even if this were the case the president doesn't act in a vacuum. With the legislative bodies filtering his policies, I'm confident that it wouldn't matter even if he didn't truly believe in Wall Street/Capitalism. Finally, I would point out that those who believe Sanders is too far left and communistic generally feel the same way about Hillary Clinton. You're never going to convince the far right that anything but their extreme views are acceptable.",
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"content": "Funny, since that is the attitude that's been coming from Sanders supporters for months. \n\nNow they want niceties. ",
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"content": "Well, like I've always said - if you don't need their votes, in the Presidential or local elections, then feel free to tell them to \"fuck off.\" If you think that you may need their votes, then you shouldn't let your hurt feelings over what was a very mild primary fight cause you to alienate them. ",
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"content": "I wouldn't tell them to f*ck off. I am more respective then they are. \n\nAnd we are not the ones who caused alienation. We didn't call Bernie Sanders a shill, or criminal or \"corporatist\" (which is a made up word).\n\nBut they have always played the victim card, always smearing Clinton but then claiming offense when someone presents the truth to them. ",
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"content": "Bernie Bros, Bernouts, broke students, etc. Yes, there were plenty of insults slung by both sides. ",
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"content": "That is different than calling someone a murderer, war criminal and \"the same\" as Trump.\n\nHow many times have you told Sanders supporters to stop that and bring the party together? \n",
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"content": "Wait, you're complaining about people describing the *candidate* in a negative light? These are all mild compared to what you can expect to see in the General, grow thicker skin.\n\nAnd no, I wasn't pushing for party unity previously to the Sanders or Clinton camp, since neither had won. ",
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"content": "I'm not complaining. I am saying Sanders supporters are the ones who dish it out and then claim victimhood when the same is applied to them. \n\n",
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"content": "No, this person has a point. Sanders' supporters have largely focused on the candidate, which Clinton's supporters have taken outrage to. In response, many Clinton supporters have focused on attacking Sanders supporters ...",
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"content": "So? When you smear the candidate, spam social media, call anyone not towing your line a sell-out and think this election is an indictment of capitalism, then don't claim victimhood when you receive criticism. \n\n",
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"content": "I've not done any of that. The problem is that you assume everyone who doesn't agree with you has.\n\nAnd, I'd also like to point out that every candidate has supporters who smear, spam, and insult. So stop exaggerating in a effort to claim a large stake in moral outrage.",
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"content": "I didn't say you did. I have said before that you are reasonable. \n\nAnd no, that is not my problem because I have had tons of debates with people who disagree with me far more. \n\nIt's the attitude and delusion. I don't give birthers any quarter, for example. \n\nAnd no, Clinton supporters are no way comparable to Sanders supporters.\n\nTo this day they are bloviating on social media and attacking Clinton using the same smears.\n\nI have never heard anyone ever call Clinton supporters annoying, yet I know people who don't even follow politics saying Sanders supporters have been the most intolerant and irrational supporters they have ever seen. \n\nAnd you still the vitriol at a high level on /r/progressive and /r/SFP. \n\nYou don't see that level of vitriol on /r/hillaryclinton or /r/democrats. ",
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"content": "I've seen plenty of vitriol here, and I've received plenty of hostile and aggressive responses from Clinton supporters on several social media platforms.\n\nI mean, seriously, try posting a single article that says something positive about Sanders and nothing about Clinton here. See what the response is.",
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"content": "Go ahead. Try it. Post something positive about Sanders. About how he is focused on unity the party and supporting Clinton. \n",
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"content": "I've done it. I've posted articles that solely discussed something positive about Sanders. It's downvoted to shit before anyone can see it, and the only comments on it are several regular users here bitching about Sanders or occasionally attacking me for posting.\n\nThat's one of the reasons I don't participate in this sub nearly as much as I did when active discussion was encouraged and r/HillaryClinton kept to itself.\n\nAnother reason being that some users post a shit ton of content on the same thing. So even content that doesn't relate to the election but does relate to Democrat policy gets drowned out. I feel as if that particular user does it with the intention of stifling conversations.",
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"content": "I have not seen that. I upvote your posts, so do you have an example? What was your last post voted down to shit? ",
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"content": "I'm not talking about victimhood. Go back and look at the origins of this thread - I'm talking about saying \"fuck off\" to Bernie supporters - i.e., excluding them from the discussion and refusing to represent them. That policy may work for Hillary, since she may have enough votes to win without them, solely due to how bad Trump is. That won't work for all of the many local elections where viable third party or viable republican candidates will be more than happy to have their votes. ",
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"content": "Who is excluding them? \n\nWhere is this happening?\n\nThey are excluding themselves. \n\n",
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"content": "Can you make self posts or just links? ",
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"content": "We have always and will continue to allow both, as long as they follow the rules.",
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"content": "This is the opposite of what this sub should do, and it's part of the reason this sub became such a toxic place for the past couple of months. This is the time when we should be working toward party unity, and we can do that by sitting down and having the hard conversations that Clinton supporters have been trying to shut down for months.\n\nIf Sanders' supporters don't feel welcome here, it's a loss for us as a sub and as a party.",
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"content": "If Sanders supporters don't feel welcome here, we lose nothing.",
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"content": "Sanders supporters should grow up and stop smearing the candidate then. \n\nHave the same words for Sanders supporters",
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"content": "I see what happens when Sanders supporters go all twisted in other subs. It is almost as bad as /r/The_Donald.",
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"content": "And look. The negativity that has plagued this sub for months now manifests itself in response to even the most reasonable observations... This is not what healthy discussion about the Democratic party looks like. This is what a giant circle jerk without much critical analysis looks like.",
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"content": "Because hypocrisy is annoying. ",
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"content": "That is fine as far as I am concerned. But speaking in coded terms that generalize, stereotype and therefore label Clinton, her supporters, the DNC or Democrats in general should not happen either. Such as \"The Establishment\" whatever that means. Or MSM. Or Wall Street. Labeling of things like that as some monolithic concern immediately polarizes any conversation. You don't see any serious writers use terms like that. It is stuff that has been dredged up from /r/conspiracy.",
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"content": "That is fine as far as I am concerned. But speaking in coded terms that generalize, stereotype and therefore label Clinton, her supporters, the DNC or Democrats in general should not happen either. Such as \"The Establishment\" whatever that means. Or MSM. Or Wall Street. Labeling of things like that as some monolithic concern immediately polarizes any conversation. You don't see any serious writers use terms like that. It is stuff that has been dredged up from /r/conspiracy.",
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"content": "As I've noted elsewhere in this thread, if it's truly a conspiracy or grasping at straws, it's easy to have a conversation and point out the flaws and misinformation. If you're more interested in dismissing other people because you're too lazy to put in the minimal amount of effort required to refute what they say, then you're part of the problem with this sub.",
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"content": "I'm pretty sure I've seen Paul Krugman refer to \"Bernie Bro's\", and Nate Silver as well. I pretty much wrote them off as serious writers as a result of that kind of talk, which is a shame, because a decade ago they were pretty much the best the USA had to offer. \n\nSomewhat mystifying. Never quite managed to make sense of it. \n\nIt might just be my own biases in action. The problem with this theory being that I'm always always willing to change my mind when presented with good evidence and/or good arguments, so my biases are pretty obscure and hard to pin down. \n\nOne of them might be that I reflexively respect people who are punching up as opposed to kicking down, and when Nate and Paul got to the top of their profession there was literally nobody left above them to punch, so being naturally pugnacious in their writing style, and the only available opponents for them to be *pugnacious towards* being Bernie and his supporters, they (arguably rather unwisely) started kicking.\n\nThey could win me back by showing a decent dose of self awareness, humility, regret and contrition, but I'm not sure if their pugnacious egos are ever going to allow them to get there, particularly if their friends, co-workers and sycophants are regularly thanking them for standing up to all those \"stupid misogynistic Bernie Bro's\". \n\nTo be fair, I'm sure there are hundreds of Trump-friendly trolls out there, some of them actually paid, pretending to be \"stupid misogynistic Bernie Bro's\", and people like David Brock are probably compiling lists of tweets from these horrid folks and thus smearing all Bernie Supporters as supposedly being like them (I used to love David Brock as much as I loved Krugman and Silver ... it's been a funny year ... ), so it's possible they are just falling prey to a combination of disinformation and confirmation bias, but I really did expect better of them. \n\nBTW, is it /r/conspiracy talk to suggest that an awful lot of these idiots are being paid to create more idiots just like them? That Infowars and an awful lot of those sites have the twin missions of making money off ads for survivalist kits, tiny gold bars, etc, *and* generating anti-government anti-Democrat paranoia? IIRC Alex Jones claims that Bernie is some kind of NWO deep cover agent ... I've no idea what he thinks about Hillary ... anyway, I'm of the opinion that it's not paranoia to suspect that the process of generating more paranoid people in America is not an entirely endogenous cycle of mass delusion, but in fact has some highly sinister folks in the background making nudges with ulterior motives. ",
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"content": "This guy is a trump supporter trolling.",
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"content": ">This guy is a trump supporter trolling.\n\nEither that's a self-referential comment right there, or you have absolutely *zero* troll-smelling ability right now. Your troll-smelling nose is either blocked, or you never had one.\n\nI mean, exactly what have I said that could possibly be interpreted as 'trolling' or 'supporting Trump' ? I'm sure you could find a sentence here and there, but when read in context, I'm pretty much the opposite of those things approximately 99% of the time. \n\nEvery now and then I do backhandidly complement Trump for essentially trampling all over the GOP establishment playbook and *hopefully* handing Democrats a huge win in November (so long we don't find a way to screw that up by way of far too much ugly and counter-productive infighting) but I think that's pretty much it when it comes to me somehow 'supporting' Trump. \n\nAs to my \"trolling\" well I'd love to know by what bizarre line of reasoning you've arrived at *that* conclusion. I mean, I'm glad that you acknowledge that *some* ostensible Bernie supporters are in fact not as they appear, but *me* trolling? Seriously? \n\nDoes forcing people to think about the optics or potential consequences of their words and deeds count as 'trolling' in your neck of the woods? Now I know 'trolling' is a very poorly defined and often abused word, so I really would *love* to hear how you've managed to interpret it such that *I* might somehow qualify ... ",
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"content": "> the hard conversations \n\nAnd those conversations are what? Hillary Clinton is our nominee now. Re-litigating past battles would be a waste of time.",
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"content": "That doesn't mean that by default her policy agenda should be accepted as our wider platform. What many of the most argumentative and abusive users of this sub want to talk about is the latest opinion piece by someone they agree with. They never seem to want to dig into discussion about policy, rules or strategy. In part because they would have to actually think for themselves to have that discussion.\n\nAdditionally, Clinton is not currently our nominee. Although she is most likely to be the nominee, it's inaccurate and disrespectful to jump the gun.",
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"content": "Are you looking for an echo chamber, or is discussion about how to improve the party still welcome? ",
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"content": "Who said anything about an echo chamber? \n\n",
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"content": "That would be /r/DemocratsUnbiased, /r/SandersForPresident, /r/Kossacks_for_Sanders, /r/HillaryForPrison etc., But evidently people think that it is cool to post things here from Russia Today which is owned by the Kremlin and controlled by Putin, Right-wing rags that are out to destroy the Democrats like the Washington Examiner or NY Post, or that newly posted video on the Guccifer documents where a breathless announcer talks about the blood on Clinton's hands with no context because she recommended bringing hell down on Assad (they same thing John Kerry is doing today along with 50 plus ambassadors). No that is not discussion, that is pure propaganda and shouldn't be here. Or things from the usual junk heap of /r/Kossacks_for_Sanders. There are plenty of sites with good journalism, and I am not really interested in hearing any of this MSM conspiracy junk because it is junk, that debate issues about policy and candidates. ",
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"content": "Yes, indeed. Discussion is great and welcome but rants smearing Clinton should be treated like Trumpkins. ",
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"content": "Today's WaPo has an article that hits Hillary Clinton for not having press conferences. I personally, not sure if mods do, see nothing wrong with posting this. It is not inflammatory and it is by a WaPo guy that will say good and bad things about both sides as deserved. I think it is very appropriate for discussion as it is truthful, fact based and provable.\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/21/hillary-clinton-hit-a-milestone-today-and-it-wasnt-a-good-one/",
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"content": "I fail to understand why the press conference business is an issue. Hillary Clinton gives one-on-one media interviews literally every day of her campaign. They allow her to focus much more attention on important issues than the shout-down gaggle of a press conference. She communicates better by these more focused press events.\n\nPress conferences traditionally were a *response* to a *specific event*. A campaign, however, is an ongoing event. Once she is President, of course she will give press conferences, but those will be in *response* to a *specific event*.\n\nEdited to add: [She meets the press like this all the time on the campaign trail.](http://i.imgur.com/8xkOe9p.jpg)",
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"content": "Exactly. Point out issues that could help her. Not tear her down. The primary is over. ",
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"content": "I didn't say that anyone said anything about an echo chamber. I asked. ",
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"content": "I would like to see some of the moderators give up their position. I feel like the moderation wasn't on point during the primaries, and it allowed this sub to become really toxic. The moderation wasn't well done, favored a particular vocal minority of this subs community, and the most recent iteration of the rules weren't carefully thought out and included some targeted clauses that the moderators hid behind to stifle legitimate discussion, the moderators refused to advise on the application of the rules and similarly refused advice and suggestions.\n\nI would also recommend post limits. Sometimes specific topics get undue focus because a couple of people post 8 articles about the same topic over the course of two hours. So someone who posts one article about a different topic is at a disadvantage when it comes to getting the wider community of this sub to consider and discuss.",
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"content": "I'm not a good fit for a position as a moderator. I really don't know how, and I'm too busy to commit to learning it and doing well.",
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"content": "Oh well. I figured I might as well throw it out there. I'm sure they could find some suitable folks if they decided to put their minds to it. ",
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"content": "I agree with those suggesting a greater focus on the downballot. The presidential race is all well and good, but there also are plenty of congressional and gubernatorial contests.",
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"content": "How is this not upvoted? \n\n",
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"content": "It just got one. Bunch of dead enders I guess.",
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"content": "Bullshit. She is continuing Obama's legacy. \n",
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"content": "Because self-confirmation bias. \n\nLook up Muslim President and Obama shows up. \n\nIf that's how you educate yourself, no wonder you are confused. ",
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"content": "Yeah, it's horseshit. You know how many movies there have been smearing Obama?\n\nYou're depending on Google and movies to educate yourself. Try actual facts and education. It's a sign of naiveté. \n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Oh you mean two students wrote something based on exit polls? \n\nYeah.... no. \n\nSanders never won any demographic except for the young. \n\nSo that is why he got blown out. \n\nGet over it. \n\n",
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"content": "Exit polls are just polls.\n\nSanders never captured the support of minorities, people who have vote in more than two POTUS elections and the battleground states. \n\nYou are believing in myths because you are in a state of denial. \n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Yeah the only way he wins is if we don't fix the electronic voting machines.",
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"content": "Best thing I've read all day.",
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"content": "One thing that shouldn't be ignored though is a lot of people voting this party. Johnson and stein have way more support overall. Trump may be polling in the 30s but Clinton barely breaks 40 in a lot of polls too. Not to mention it ignores how close the race is in various swing states.",
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"content": "Johnson and Stein's numbers are in the low single digits. They will win a percentage of the popular vote but that will have zero effect on the electoral college vote, which is where this race matters.\n\nhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html#polls",
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"content": "Yeah, but the article didnt mention the electoral college. The article mentioned trump's poor numbers on a national level. \n\nHeck, one of my arguments against this article is that the numbers in various swing states should make HRC and her supporters...uncomfortable. ",
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"content": "To be fair though I literally just got done researching and writing an article on my blog about this and it turned out that the article is right here. The odds of trump actually winning seems...unlikely.\n\nhttp://jonsblog.blog.com/2016/06/19/is-donald-trump-really-screwed/\n\nIm actually surprised, since this is a huge shift in tone from what I said earlier today. I had no idea clinton had that much of an edge. But yeah, even fairly optimistic scenarios (for trump) have clinton still winning. ",
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"content": "Yeah I ws reluctant to even count georgia as a swing state but just followed RCP's lead there. It could be that GA won't go for a rank and file dem but will support bernie though. Who knows. ",
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"content": "Lots of minority voters becoming active, is the long and short of it. Only reason the Reublicans hold the South so tightly is that minorities historically don't vote.",
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"content": "I wouldn't say that they will have \"zero effect\" on the electoral college. It could very well be another situation like in 2000 when Ralph Nader's few percentage points in Florida (and other states) could very well have given Gore the election had they not existed.\n\nI know you probably meant that they won't get any electoral college votes themselves, but saying \"zero effect\" isn't quite accurate.",
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"content": "> Not to mention it ignores how close the race is in various swing states.\n\nBut it's not particularly close in the swing states that matter. You're not even acknowledging that many democrats haven't accepted that Clinton is the nominee of the party. We *know* that Trump is the nominee for the GOP.\n\nAfter it's official, a lot of people will warm up to Clinton…that's not my opinion, that's what always happens after someone is named the nominee…they get a surge. \n\nIf you think that Ohio and Florida are going to vote for Trump, I'd say you're very, very wrong. \n\nBut don't take my word for it (as if you would)…when Clinton is officially named the nominee, her numbers will surge. The same thing happened in every election in my lifetime. Most recently, after Obama was nominated (he had less support from Clinton supporters than Clinton has of Sanders supporters) his numbers surged and Hillary's will too.\n\nAnd the bottom line is when it sinks in that Trump is officially going to be on the ballot as the nominee of the GOP, there will be a *lot* of people jump over to Clinton out of panic. \n\nSo you can make all of the excuses you want, but none of them hold water. And after Democratic National Convention, you'll see what I'm talking about is fact rather than opinion.",
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"content": "Please read the rest of the thread before telling me something I already know because I did post a whole blog article in which I inviestigated the matter. As it turns out Trump could win Florida and Ohio and STILL lose. \n\nBeyond that, I think you need to stop your arrogant condescending about what you think the facts are and this belief that bernie supporters will warm up to hillary....I think a lot of bernie supporters are looking into voting third party. Not that it'll matter, lots of republicans will vote for johnson anyway and the data suggests Clinton has a large lead that would be hard to overcome. ",
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"content": "I hopes he votes liberal. ",
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"content": "I hope he votes for the bills expanding background checks, and against the bills expanding the terrorist watch lists. \n\nI don't really have a problem with a secret list of people who can't buy guns, but the existing secret extrajudicial list of people who can't travel by plane is disgusting.",
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"content": "I would rather the universal checks of course. \n\nI know Bernie will vote the right way, I was just joking. \n\nAll four bills will fail, which is even more important. Setting the stage for a price to be paid in November. \n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "^ downvoted for supporting liberalism? ",
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"content": "Your statement was downvoted because liberalism is a hopelessly vague word, you've basically said nothing. Obviously, we're all liberals here, but not libertarians. That said, I like to think most of us do not support secret government watch-lists which basically allow the FBI to ban Muslims from flying without being accused of racial profiling.",
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"content": "Well, I didn't say any of that. \n\nThe key is the background checks. The no fly, no buy is to put people on the defensive. \n\nAll four bills will fail, and then maybe that will contribute to a wave election when we can get some sensible gun law reform. \n\n",
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"content": "I think for a lot of people this farce mostly served to reinforce that Obama thinks the no-fly list is great. They're keeping quiet out of respect for the dead, but every time I hear a Democrat say \"ban terrorists from buying guns\" I wince a bit because what they really mean is \"ban Muslims from buying guns.\"",
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"content": "Eh, I wouldn't go that far. ",
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"content": "This vote was not going to happen and everyone knew that. The point was to embarrass the Republicans when they have Trump saying he supports this. Maybe they can get them, well just maybe, to support something reasonable. One thing for sure, with a new judges in the Supreme Court, the nonsense of Heller that the \"originalist except when I don't want to be\" Scalia decision will be gone.",
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"content": "Nice of him to show up. ",
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"content": "Oh, hey man, coulda used you a week ago but okay.",
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"content": "$175,000 salary, and he as missed half a year of work. ",
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"content": "Sanders has been out talking and speaking to constituents and other US citizens daily since January. We need to stop this stupid argument that politicians are only doing their job when they're in the statehouse. \n\nPretty much all of the real work goes on in committees, and when bills hit the floor the result is already a foregone conclusion and hardly worth congresspeople's time to show up. ",
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"content": "Except when Rand Paul decides to filibuster the renewal of mass data collection. We should all be glad he bothered to show up to work that day.",
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"content": "Rand Paul might as well have simply been doing a campaign rally rather than costing taxpayers thousands of dollars an hour to pay security and support staff overtime. \n\nBut again, saying \"showed up to work\" only in the context of the Capitol building is dumb. Holding a campaign rally for a presidential campaign is working too. Which one is a question of tactics, not whether or not they're actually working.",
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"content": "Why? ",
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"content": "Because warrantless mass data collection is a violation of our 4th amendment rights.\n\n It was also an expensive mess that never did anything. according to the people that ran the programs. \n\nPlus it actually makes it harder to find the real terrorists and criminals. As the amount of information to be analyzed is too big.",
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"content": "Yeah, but his filibuster was absolutely meaningless. \n",
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"content": "Only because they passed the \"freedom\" act the next week. Which rand tried to filibuster too",
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"content": "So it was meaningless. A stunt. ",
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"content": "Rand Paul hasn't done jacksquat really in his time in the Senate. And was not authentic enough to even do better than his dad did in the primaries. He also had that phony filibuster about domestic drone attacks, which was already policy.\n\nHis entire career is based off his father's coattails. \n\nPresident Obama achieved more before he got to the Senate than Paul has achieved his entire political career. \n\nNot to mention Clinton, who gets more done in the morning that Paul does all year. \n\nLol @ \"Obummer\". Cry some more. ",
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"content": "What? Obama was known nationally after his convention speech in 2004. \n\nHe also organized and was a lawyer and professor. \n\nPaul had to create his own board to be certified.\n\nHis father gets respect. He gets nothing. He's soft. \n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Sorry, I forgot which sub I was in considering \"Trump\" wasn't in the title. Refreshing content!",
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"content": "Pretty sure Trump is the Republican nominee in our two party system?",
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"content": "This is the reason that Tulsi Gabbard suddenly left the DNC and became a Sanders \"progressive\" because she knew she would be primaried. Most people in her district have not bought into her sudden change into I am no longer homophobic and I never meant what I said when I went on Fox News and condemned my president for not being tough enough on ISIS (despite the number he has taken out with drones) and saying he needs to start saying Islamic Terrorists. Given that the president is pretty popular in Hawaii, and Hillary Clinton would have probably won a primary there, her chances may be pretty good.",
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"content": "When Tulsi stepped down from her neutral DNC co-chair position to back Bernie because he would end the disastrous US policy of regime-change wars, she was questioned about being worried what the Clintons would do. Tulsi stated on TV that she \"isn't afraid of the Clintons,\" so the preposterous notion that Tulsi is afraid of a self-promoting, small-time challenger trying to make a name for herself so she can sell more books, and who lies about and distorts Tulsi's record and motives, is ludicrous.\n\nIn Hawaii, Tulsi's extremely popular and her support is very strong, so you definitely don't speak for 'most people' in her district - MY district. \n\nTulsi said she went through honest change and [deploying to war](http://www.expression808.com/home/2012/7/5/tulsi-gabbards-moment-of-truth.html) cemented it. She's made good on her promise to 100% [support equality and LGBTQ issues](https://www.votetulsi.com/vision#equality) and we thank her for that.\n\nArguing foreign policy with you is probably futile, but suffice it to say that the US is split in its purpose and is waging in two wars in Syria, [one of which isn't legal and is counter-productive](http://gabbard.house.gov/index.php/press-releases/520-reps-tulsi-gabbard-austin-scott-introduce-legislation-to-end-illegal-u-s-war-to-overthrow-syrian-government-of-assad), and which Tulsi has spoken of ending many times. It is one of the rare areas of disagreement between she and Pres. Obama. Two others are TPP (NAFTA on steroids), and not making a clear and needed distinction between the religion Islam, which most Muslims practice peacefully, and political totalitarian Islamism, which is practiced by a tiny minority of Muslims and which fuels groups like ISIS, al Qaeda, al Nusra or BokoHaram, etc. Many interviews on that as well.\n\nSpeaking truth to power is laudable. There is no such thing as \"D\" or \"R\" truth, nor should is there a restriction on where it should be spoken. Our own Patsy Mink famously spoke out against the sitting president, Democrat LB Johnson, on the Americanization and funding of the disastrous Vietnam war, and that did not diminish her popularity in Hawaii. She was posthumously elected to office after her untimely demise.",
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"content": "Her Fox TV interview was while she was in Congress, not after she served. So self-serving. You can justify it all you want, but her competition is more progressive than her and this what she knew what was coming and that exact reason she bolted just like that clown in Florida. Perhaps you can explain to us what it was that suddenly made her see the light on these issues one day? Since it was before the coming of St. Bernard of Vermont, it wasn't his words. When the most likely thing is out of step with your district and facing primary challenge, which is what has happened, then that is the most likely thing. She can take her Fox News interview and explain that to her progressive friends. Oh I was a warmonger then but now I am not. You see, I saw the light. The light of a primary that is.",
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"content": "It's responses like this that make me wonder if some ostensible Hillary supporters are in fact working for Karl Rove and friends. Can you explain why you ignored everything that /u/ducphat said and proceeded directly to the Republican style talking point slander approach to political 'discourse' ? /u/ducphat makes a highly informed, clearly credible and intelligent comment, you reply with this nonsense ... it's not a good look I tell you. ",
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"content": "I am sorry, but her primary candidate is running as more progressive than her. Is there anything that I said that was not factually correct? \n\nTry reading about her opponent and tell me whom is the better progressive. The one who has always been or the one who became one out of political convenience? \n\nhttp://mauitime.com/news/politics/maui-democratic-party-activist-shay-chan-hodges-says-shes-running-against-u-s-rep-tulsi-gabbard/",
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"content": "Shay is running a campaign of lies and hate, there is nothing progressive about that. She doesn't make her campaign about the issues. Instead, she does these hateful attacks and then demands Tulsi debate her. I say to Tulsi, don't waste your time on a hater like Shay. Use your time for fighting beside Bernie trying to make real change in the democratic party. ",
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"content": "Source? Is she calling out Gabbard for being the true homophobe she is? Or the Islamophobe she is? Or how she went on Fox News and said her president wasn't be tough enough on ISIS in Syria and need to do more? In other words, be more of a war mongerer? Are those the attacks? Because if they are they are all true.",
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"content": "Before she sees the light of progressivism, she goes on Fox News and rips her president for not being a warmonger. Real nice.\n\nhttp://video.foxnews.com/v/4035947540001/rep-tulsi-gabbard-on-ignoring-ideology-in-the-war-on-terror/?#sp=show-clips",
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"content": "Shhhh.... ",
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"content": "But Donald Trump will be the greatest President. I mean, very terrific and tremendous, because he is an accomplished organizer, a tremendous builder, a fantastic delegator who will surround himself with the best and brightest. ",
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"content": "And we're still a month away from the convention",
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"content": "There's still time. There's still a path for him to cause some serious waves. Republicans in elections are known for coming in with a massive bucket of money and effectively spending it in a short time to devastating effect. The clock has been running for them to do that, so we'll see if they rally to the candidate. ",
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"content": "You guys better be careful. After all that work to push the Republicans to pick a right wing loon, you might push so hard that they oust him and go for someone that HRC won't be able to walk all over.\n\nhttps://guccifer2.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/2.doc\n\nI know one of the delegates going to the Republican convention. He claims there is a very real chance of them dumping Trump -- they even have the legal justification worked out. Without the threat of Trump you won't be able to get progressives to vote for HRC.\n\nSounds like it's time to lay off Trump until August.",
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"content": "This is nonsense. Please don't think you speak for progressives. ",
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"content": ">> This is nonsense.\n\nWhich part?\n\n>> Please don't think you speak for progressives.\n\nI just speak for myself, but I do find many people agree with me.",
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"content": "The part that asserts the GOP has any reap shot of replacing Trump, and the fantasy that they could find a viable alternative that would do any better. \n\nSecondly, you mentioned something about \"you won't get progressives to vote for Hillary\".\n\nMost progressives have already voted for Hillary. It's why she's the nominee. \n",
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"content": ">> Most progressives have already voted for Hillary. It's why she's the nominee.\n\nThat's fine. I don't want to get bogged down in semantics. There is a group of people who will vote for HRC only to stop Trump but otherwise consider her too right wing. I will call those people by whatever term you decide is best. They are the group I meant when I said progressives.\n\nThe point is that without Trump or similar you lose those votes.\n\nAs for Trump being replaced, I meant what I said. I know a republican delegate. He is pledged to Trump. He told me, personally, that he is involved with an effort to dump Trump. \n\n",
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"content": "It's not even his campaign as much as it is the party.\n\nThe GOP as we know it is gone, and what we have now is a Traditionalist Conservative party versus a Far Right Nationalist party. \n\nI didn't think I'd ever see a far right nationalist party appear in the U.S., but here it is. ",
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"content": "Is this a good thing?",
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"content": "Yes. \n\nShe has to spend a lot of it before a deadline because it's left over from the primaries. ",
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"content": "Can she not use that money in the future?",
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"content": "Good question. I believe she can, but why wait? Trump is not bringing in anything, his numbers are falling and there is work to do for other Democratic candidates too.",
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"content": "I believe she has $17 million that has to be spent by the convention date.\n",
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"content": "Can she not use the money raised now in the future? ",
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"content": "I really hope never trump fails. Unless it enrages even more people...",
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"content": "Cleveland is my city so I really hope it doesn't totally hit the fan. At least we got a championship before we burned.",
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"content": "Oooooh, that's how the universe is going to balance that shit out. Cleveland is going to burn next month...",
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"content": "I hope it fails too. Trump is the best thing to happen to Democrats since Ross Perot. ",
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"content": "This is true.",
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"content": "Okay, this sounds good in theory, but what I have not seen from any of these delegates is who exactly they'd put in Trump's place. ",
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"content": "They don't need a replacement candidate in hand. An open convention means delegates on the floor nominate candidates, then all delegates vote for their choice. If any candidate garners a majority of votes, then that is the nominee. In the pre-TV age, this is how many nominees were selected. In 1924, for instance, the Democratic delegates had to vote more than 100 times before they finally selected a candidate (then it was 2/3rds of delegates needed, not just a majority). That convention lasted more than two weeks.",
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"content": "An insurgence without a leader is sure to fail. \n",
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"content": "I think we're all banking on this failing, although a new candidate could prove either successful OR unsuccessful",
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"content": "Honestly, I would expect kicking Trump off the Republican ticket would probably pull 5-10 points away from whoever replaces him. I'm strongly guessing that Trump wouldn't put up too much of a fight though, simply because he never entered this thing with any expectation of winning the nomination, and I imagine he'll take an exit ramp if it is offered to him without hesitation. But still, Trump's core supporters will most certainly not vote for whoever replaces Trump.",
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"content": "This may happen. Bad news.",
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"content": "See this? This is why the Washington Post is banned from Trump events. Sad. Really, really sad.",
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"content": "Actually they are banned for reporting Trump implied Obama was involved in the Orlando shooting, which he did say, then after the backlash he lied and said he didn't say it, then he tweeted out a breitbart article \"proving\" he was right to imply Obama was involved. \n\nSo he said something, then lied and said he didn't say it, then banned the Washington Post for saying he said what he said, then said he was right when he said the thing that he said he did not say. TRUMP!",
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"content": "Well having the Washington Post after you at full throttle shouldn't be a problem, right Richard Nixon?",
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"content": "Accused is one thing. Every rock star with money has been accused.",
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"content": "Lol... I don't think we want to start an \"accusation war\".",
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"content": "He already did. ",
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"content": "Yes, we've heard Sanders supporters repeating rightwing smears.\n",
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"content": "You are smearing someone that was assigned to a case by a judge? You really are a nasty person.",
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"content": "I hope it is not true. And after 22 years we are not going to get any relevant evidence.",
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"content": "Why are you being downvote for hoping that someone wasn't actually raped? ",
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"content": "Because I'd rather see 1000 little girls raped than see that man In the whitehouse\n\n/s",
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"content": "Because many people will read this as \"Criminal charges against Trump\" not \"Woman says she was raped at 13\". ",
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"content": "Report today says almost no chance this goes anywhere. As I noted, this is most likely rockstar syndrome.",
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"content": "I'm not going to accuse Donald Trump of being a child rapist but people are saying it, folks. I hear people say it all the time. Good people, smart people, some of the best people are saying that Donald Trump is a child rapist. ",
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"content": "Fight for what's right!",
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"content": "I am getting annoyed by the politics being played regarding gun control. I am honestly confused about why Democrats voted down 2 of the 4 amendments that would have expanded background checks this past Monday.\n\nWas there a downside to those two amendments? Honest question, it is very possible that I just don't know the entirety of the amendments... ",
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"content": "Were these bills released to the public? It's possible there were \"bill riders\" in them.",
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"content": "I don't believe they were in full.",
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"content": "They were amendments to an existing bill, and yes they are public. ",
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"content": "> Was there a downside to those two amendments?\n\nI thought the Cornyn amendment was a good start, but there are two criticisms there: \n\n1) it gives a 3 day requirement for the FBI/court to determine if a person shouldn't purchase a gun. That's pretty quick.\n\n2) the legislation was effectively meaningless in the sense that with the amount of proof the FBI would need to keep someone from purchasing a gun, they would have enough to just go ahead and arrest the individual anyway.",
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"content": "But isn't that better than what we have right now? Is incremental change not good enough to start with? ",
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"content": "One would think. If I were a Senator I would have voted against it for the reasons above, but I would have at least attempted to amend the bill to address those criticisms, and there's nothing that seems to suggest anybody did.",
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"content": "I just don't understand it. Their rhetoric afterwards is as if there wasn't any movement on the republican side. When they're actually moving nobody wants to work with them. It's just frustrating. ",
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"content": "There was some movement in the Senate, and that's why Susan Collins put forward a compromise. That said, it's unlikely any such bill will get through Ryan's House.",
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"content": "I actually liked Susan Collins' amendment. I might have proposed it myself if I were in Congress, and I'm really anti-civilian gun ownership.\n\n(Of course, I don't support the no-fly list in any form, I want it gone, except as punishment for being convicted of a crime.)",
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"content": "3 is the standard that should be used ",
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"content": "I just hope it actually does some good!",
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"content": "What a load of shit. These people are members of the US House of Representatives, not some college or high school",
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"content": "More like pre schoolers throwing a temper tantrum.",
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"content": "maybe they should vote on the ACA again. Much more grown up and stuff.\n",
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"content": "This is a pointless publicity stunt and virtue signaling. \n\n",
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"content": "A publicity grab is about the strongest statement the House minority can make. They don't have the votes to post Ryan or pass legislation, so they sit-in.\n\nIf I recall, the GOP did the same thing in 2008.",
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"content": "Wasn't talking about the events in the Senate, though I could if you want. The point is that Democrats in the House are also dissatisfied, but the chamber's rules don't allow for filibusters.",
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"content": "Civil rights veteran leads sit-in against civil rights.",
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"content": "> Civil rights veteran leads sit-in against civil ~~rights~~ liberties.\n\nRegardless of semantics I would hope that a man put on a secret FBI list would realize the irony of advocating people be put on secret FBI lists\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "I think we all no the difference. My version was funnier.",
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"content": "Guns are not a right. Guns are tools of oppression that have no place in a free society.\n\nPro-gun = anti-freedom.",
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"content": "So what's your take on militarized police and having biggest military force on earth? \n\nI'll be first in line to advocate a complete weapons ban when the people in charge demilitarize our police and significantly reduce our military budget...",
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"content": "> I'll be first in line to advocate a complete weapons ban when the people in charge demilitarize our police and significantly reduce our military budget...\n\nI really like the sound of that. ",
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"content": "That's what *every* progressive needs to say when confronted with gun legislation. We, the people, constantly make concessions, many of which are made without our consent.\n\nAny time they want to take away our civil liberties, we need to *demand* concessions on their part. \n\nWho kills more Americans citizens, lone gunmen or police? Who kills more people, lone gunmen or drones engaging in *war crimes*?\n\nIf we want *anything* out of government, the last thing we want to do is just hand over our bargaining chips.",
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"content": ">Guns are not a right. \n\nTIL the second ammendment doesn't real. \n\nRegardless of how much you like the law, there is absolutely no argument that it is not a protected right in the United States. \n",
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"content": "Read the original second amendment as written by Madison before it was shortened for brevity and then let us know what you think. Scalia the originalist read it then twisted himself into the shape of a pretzel when he ignored in the Heller decision.",
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"content": "It wasn't just scallia it was a majority of the Supreme court. ",
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"content": "It is absolutely insane that the only way to watch the sit-in is on Periscope. Too many people are trying to watch and I keep getting bumped. Super frustrating.",
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"content": "So are there any Democratic voters in the VA/DC/MD area that are going to march on the Capitol tonite or tomorrow? It would be pretty cool to gather a few thousand people on the steps in support. I wish I lived in the area. ",
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"content": "Ryan just called the House into recess until August. We would march into nothing. ",
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"content": "the Dems need to go further. Enough is enough with these ammosexuals. The NRA has to be outlawed and we need a national gun turn in month. Anyone that doen't turn them in gets a friendly visit from the local swat officer with either a taste of their own medicine or 50 years in prison, no parol. Have that happen a couple of times and you'll sure a shit see the red states falling into line and actually helping end gun volience by removing guns from our country. ",
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"content": "This is the kind of issue that will ultimately lead states like Texas to pull out of the union. ",
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"content": "We can only hope.\n",
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"content": "The federal government would bulldoze through the lone star state by sunrise if they tried that shit. Dont kid yourself.",
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"content": "Not if they find some refined uranium first ;). Nukes are the ultimate argument. \n\nBut to be clear, I don't think it will actually happen. ",
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"content": "As someone who supported Bernie and voted for him in the primaries, this is going to do nothing but hurt his reputation and his effectiveness in the Senate. There was a point where he had a lot of influence and respect among democrats but those people see him as a spoiler now (and in some respects, rightly so) and I imagine many question his decision making skills. \n\nIt's not that people fault him for staying in, it's that people fault him for not listening to the common sense and basic math of the situation. \n\nIf we were talking about republicans and people were chiding Cruz for staying in *well* beyond the time period when it was possible for him to get the nomination, liberals would e saying the same thing about him…that it's a sign of desperation, an inability to be rational, purposely trying to spoil the process by refusing to bow out. \n\nBut this all rests on basic math…this isn't a philosophical question to be answered; this is just working through very simple addition and subtraction. And ironically, the super delegates, which most Sanders' supporters claim to hate and claim is some kind of control measure, is the variable that they're clinging to now…that super delegates can change their vote up until the convention (which is very true but we also know that most of the super delegates have already made their vote known and they're not going to change it, particularly when they sense that Sanders A) Didn't win the popular vote during the nomination process and B) he is, in the eyes of some, simply being stubborn by staying in a race where he mathematically cannot be the winner. \n\nSo I hate to see this…it would be 100% different if he had a legitimate chance or if he had won the popular vote or if he had won a bigger slice of the demographics (if, for instance, he won the black vote by a large margin and the hispanic vote or the gay vote or the women's vote)…he didn't win *any* of those demographics, which makes him a bad risk for super delegates to get behind.\n\nWe saw this in 2008 with Obama and Hillary…A lot of super delegates switch to Obama in the final month *specifically* because it was obvious that he was winning a larger demographic where Clinton was really only doing well in one demographic, which was women. \n\nThat clearly would have made her a much less sound nominee against McCain and they did the right thing by switching to Obama. \n\nThere *are* no legitimate reasons for Super delegates to switch to Sanders beyond the purely hypothetical ones…this idea that he would draw in republicans or enough independents to counter the massive draw that Hillary has with the aforementioned demographics. \n\nAnd still, that would effectively nullify the popular vote in almost every state where Clinton won, which is something that Sanders' fans shouldn't really support, should they? I mean, isn't that why they are against the very idea of the super delegate? The fact that those people could potentially nullify the popular vote of the primaries? \n\nRegardless, I hope Sanders makes it out with less damage as possible. We saw something similar in 2008 with Ron Paul and the right and he was seen as a spoiler and he never recovered. \n\nSo it's worth noting.",
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"content": "In reality the biggest point of difference between Bernie's supporters and Hillary's would have to be one of \"mainstream news followers\" vs all the \"mainstream news avoiders\" and \"mainstream news detractors\". The next biggest split would no doubt be based on age groups, which is well established across pretty much every kind of election polling, but I would say that well established demographic difference is almost entirely a product of the less-polled but well known generational difference in approaches to information consumption and sharing. \n\nAs most folks here will no doubt be aware, Bernie was a huge star in the 'alternative' internet based news and so called 'social media' from almost the beginning of his campaign, whereas the establishment / mainstream news pretty much ignored him until late January or February, at which point they started to mention him more often, but never without some sort of aside alluding to the 'fact' or at least expert consensus, that he could never actually win. \n\nI've also [read](https://twitter.com/skyfishgoo/status/743892692812259329)\nthat the Democratic turnout in South Carolina was 2% under 24 and 32% over 65, which effectively explains the huge win that Hillary had there - and presumably similar splits occurred in all the states where there's been mass voter suppression by Republicans doing their best to prevent black voters from actually getting onto the rolls, let alone making it to the polls. \n\nThere are also those of us who feel that it's a little odd that the exit polls in South Carolina *originally* said 7% of the voters were under 24 and 19% were over 65, but apparently this can be explained away with some kind of special context-specific \"exit-poll math\", leaving us with the quite plausible alternative theory that Hillary's blow-out wins in the ex-confederacy were actually a result of the well known, systematic, long-term, and almost undeniably racist voter suppression policies of the GOP, which only accelerated after the Supreme Court recently removed federal supervision from the process. \n\nIrregardless, it would be a huge shame if the Democrats in the southern states refused to make a big deal about these odd incongruities for fear that it might make it look as if Bernie should have gotten a few more votes. They should complain, complain loudly, get into the media, into the courts, and divert as much as possible the Berniecrats' entirely reasonable suspicions to where they belong - onto the unacceptable forms of \"democracy\" practiced in many of those currently GOP controlled states - hopefully in time to prevent the GOP from stealing [1] most if not all of the contestable down-ballot elections in those states come November, and also to prevent a worrying number of Berniecrats in pretty much every state from advocating a \"Vote Green, Write in Bernie, or Stay Home\" strategy in response to an apparent lack of support for democracy within the Democratic party. \n\n[1] See additional comment I'm about to add below... ",
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"content": "Or most likely, black people mistrust a white person asking about whom they voted for in the south and didn't participate in exit polling to a large extent and is another reason 538 says to quit using exit polling for reliability despite those in the Sanders' fringe camp that think they are going to have a RICO suit in Ohio but are actually contributing money to groups of people that smelled suckers and so they make videos and write a few articles telling them what they want to hear and take their money knowing there will be no day in court. And all the while they never stop and ask themselves, why hasn't Senator Sanders ever brought any of this up? Answer, because Senator Sanders has both feet on the ground when it comes to this kind of nonsense. He knew before people even voted in each state whether or not he would win or lose and by how much. Guaranteed. The word is that his state polling data was dead on.",
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"content": "So you'd agree that it's entirely plausible that only 2% of the voters in South Carolina were in fact under 24? Fine, then there's nothing to fear from a court case that does sufficient discovery to definitely prove that there was in fact no election day vote stealing actually going on there, and/or in similar states. Doing such would furthermore help to remind everyone just how bad the repression of voter registration has been among the young and particularly young people of color in those states, force SCOTUS to reconsider their unwise attack on the Voting Rights Act, unify the party around Hillary and help Democratic candidates up and down the ballot in every state win in November. What's not to like? ",
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"content": "Who is filing the court case? There will be no reconsideration of the Voting Rights Act case if Trump wins. And why would there be Republican interference in the Democratic primary?",
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"content": "I honestly cannot imagine this happening, but I'm suggesting that the DNC could bring a case, inviting some senior Bernie affiliates to participate, with the expectation of losing it, but also of reassuring Berniecrats that either (a) there was no election fraud, or (b) if there was, that Democrats had nothing to do with it. \n\nAssuming that there was no fraud, and this 2% figure is correct, that draws attention to the Southern States' efforts to demoralize and disenfranchise young black voters. \n\nMy theory was that this case *could* be a cathartic and unifying endeavor for the Bernie and Hillary wings of the party. I fully expect there to be many others who would disagree with that ... and having thought about it a little more, it really might be quite difficult to restrict the discussion of electoral integrity to the GOP controlled ex-confederacy, so I can see how there's a can of worms there that very few would really want to open. I really don't know enough to say whether there's a case to be made on a risk/reward basis, I imagine not, but I thought I'd at least raise the possibility. \n\nAs to the motivations of GOP-affiliated operatives, who could be operating entirely independently of the RNC, but obviously would have to have the means and the opportunity as well as the motive ...all three of which could vary for various people involved in what could be several different groups...but wouldn't need to involve anyone in the media, the RNC, the DNC, and certainly not the exit polling company or the pre-polling companies who in the South at least were predicting Bernie got a lot more votes than he did ... \n\nSo the motivations in those early races for these people would be (a) they didn't want to risk a President Sanders under any circumstances, and (b) 20 years of fear-mongering and disinformation work on their side, would be useless and perhaps even counterproductive if it turned out that Hillary wasn't the opposition. Some were saying Hillary was really the only thing holding the GOP coalition together, and that seemed a lot more reasonable back in February and March, before Trump had won and the neoconservatives started jumping ship to endorse Hillary! \n\nWhat a mad, mad year it's been. Anything seems possible. I've never put this entirely inchoate \"plan\" into *words* before, let alone really thought through the implications. Having done so it doesn't seem terribly viable. Oh well. \n\nAs you know there's a group of lawyers intending to bring a case without any establishment co-operation. Not sure if it's considered polite to link to them from here? They look reasonably serious, but many say they will never get anywhere. I guess I can see the motivation to pretend they're not there until something actually happens.",
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"content": "Those lawyers and their \"RICO Ohio case\" are taking their money and won't be bringing anything. They recycle variations of the same videos and come up with excuses as to why the case hasn't happened yet while begging for more money. I would file a complaint to the FTC if I actually cared about it.",
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"content": "I'm a Mississippian. Everyone knows black people vote Democrat. That's deeply unsurprising here. That I, a white southern male, does, is eyebrow raising. Hell, many white people I know use \"Democrats\" as a term for black people, e.g. \"That neighborhood is full of Democrats.\"",
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"content": "... and by \"stealing\" I mean whether by way of rigged voting machines, which they are claiming is a nonsensical conspiracy theory, or by way of many and various kinds of voter suppression, which incidentally includes both the creation of the conditions under which suspicions of election rigging will inevitably arise (eg: using voting machines and tabulation firms owned by deeply partisan GOP leaders), and *also* attempting to suppress suspicion of any election fraud by calling everyone who suggests it a conspiracy theorist, thus increasing the overall level of suspicion. Why Democrats would choose to aid them in this latter form of voter suppression is a bit beyond me, so maybe somebody here can help explain it to me? I'm sure it all makes sense somehow. ",
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"content": "Pretty sure Democrats know how to test voting machines and they also know how to have independent authorities there to validate that the testing was done. Do you have any bit of evidence that this isn't true? Given that neither candidate has indicated this not to be true, nor the party in South Carolina, nor any media in South Carolina, why are you putting all this typing down here without a single source, let alone, a viable source? /r/conspiracy ",
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"content": "Lol. \"Irregardless\" ",
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"content": "Is this what passes as some form of on-line communication in your neck of the woods? Consider this reply my entirely nonplussed shrug in your general direction. ",
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"content": "I wouldn't trust your views on communication much seeing as Irregardless isn't proper English. ",
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"content": "Diddums. Did I not use proper English? Well I guess you won't have reason to respond to any of my substantive points then.\n\nOr you could act like an adult. Your call. ",
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"content": "You're the one insulting people and spreading conspiracy theories but it's okay. I don't really care. It's okay. Just keep it to /r/s4p because I'm done. ",
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"content": "Is it really a conspiracy theory to suggest that the GOP are doing whatever they can to suppress new voters from registering, particularly young voters of color, in the states they control? I actually offered this up as a counter-conspiracy theory, in that it does rather effectively explain away what so many people have presumed is evidence of genuine vote stealing by shadowy republican operatives ... \n\nI made a number of points in my comment. Do you find any of them to be untrue or unreasonable? Was the way I strung them together insufficiently coherent for your liking?\n\nIf the fact that I inadvertently used the archaic form of \"regardless\" is really the only point of dispute that you have, should I presume that you more or less agree with everything else I had to say? \n\nOr should I infer that you are incapable of substantive discussion? My apologies for leaping to that conclusion should such not be the case. ",
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"content": "The GOP was not involved in the Democratic primary in South Carolina. That I can promise you. If there had been too many white faces around, people would have been yelling awfully loud.",
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"content": "Trump's evilness doesn't somehow make Clinton's evilness vanish ",
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"content": "Meaningless comment. \n\nTrump's evilness doesn't make Jesus's evil vanish either. ",
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"content": "But that is the premise of the article -- that calling HRC the lesser of two evils is wrong because Look How Evil Trump Is! That's the whole idea of why she is the lesser evil.\n\nSo, entirely relevant comment and poor article. ",
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"content": "Uh, no. The article explains that while she is not perfect, she is not evil at all. \n\n\"Lesser of two evils\" is a cop-out from people upset they couldn't get their way. \n\nIt means voting for a candidate who is not 100% in agreement with you but is much closer than the other candidate. That's not a lesser evil. It's picking the best choice of what's available and to stop the opposition from taking control. \n\n\"Lesser of two evils\" is a canard for lazy people looking to be spiteful, not people who are actually engaged and understand how politics work. ",
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"content": "Do you read these articles before commenting? This one talks about Trump a lot more than it talks about Clinton. That is my point.\n\nAn article that wants to convince people Clinton is not evil would not need to mention Trump at all. It would simply address the claims that she is evil.\n\nFor instance, I contend that taking millions of dollars from Wall Street while claiming she will reign them in is an evil. Possible a lesser one than Trump, but definitely evil.\n\nRespond to that, not some irrelevant BS.",
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"content": "Uh, no. This article dissects the canard. And shows absurd the comparison is. \n\nAnd if Clinton is evil for Wall St donations then so is Obama. And I would vote for Obama again in a heartbeat. \n\nSo there's your argument. \n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Bullshit. All corporations are evil? So Obama is evil too?\n\nGrow up. \n\nHillary is 90% in line with Sanders. So Sanders is only 90% evil?\n\nNo wonder your candidate failed. \n\n\n",
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"content": "Wha? Calm down and focus.\n\nGoldman Sachs is not evil. They may be careless and greedy but not evil. \n\nBush invaded Iraq \n\n90% in line means their record is exactly the same up to 90%.\n\nSo no, Clinton is not anymore evil than Obama. \n\nPeople have been soaking up rhetoric for years is all. \n\nTrump is a disaster. The GOP is a disaster.\n\nClinton is no where nears that. Not evil at all. Shifty and arrogant, yes. Not evil or certainly the far better choice to Trump or Sanders (who had no coherent policy).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "We'll never be able to agree on wall street being evil or not, but I did spend seven years on wall street so I'm pretty comfortable calling them evil.\n\nMy point is still that this was a low value, fear mongering, article.",
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"content": "So now it's the entirety of Wall Street that's evil? \n\nIt's not about disagreeing. You are wrong. ",
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"content": "Do you think that is how critical thinking works? Its not.\n\nHere, I have a link for you. Admittedly I was just reading this and can't verify its correctness. This is just an example of how a corporation can be evil and damaging to our society. Its possible that google is being slandered here\n\nhttp://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-06-22/google-is-the-worlds-biggest-censor-and-its-power-must-be-regulated",
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"content": "Uh, yes it how critical thinking works.\n\nAnd no, even if Google does that, it does not mean they are \"evil\". \n\nIt may mean their greed is harmful to our society or they must be regulated to ensure healthy competition. \n\nBut if Wall Street were evil, it would mean they must be destroyed. \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Source for \"evilness\" or get out.",
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"content": "Still no talk about the 4th amendment issues. Due process is a liberal value. Using secret watch lists to curtail the legal activity of Americans, any activity, that is unacceptable. ",
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"content": "We already have had that for years. And yes, it has restricted free movement. \n\nThe GOP can very easily present a bill that expands backgrounds and just notifies the FBI when someone on the watch list buys an arm. \n\nBut they won't do that. What about conservative values of not enabling murderers? ",
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"content": "I'm a liberal. I believe Americans shouldn't be on a secret watch list for most of the time legal behavior. \n\nThis doesn't matter if they ate flying or buying a gun. \n\nMy party is looking to dump the 4th and no one is saying shit ",
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"content": "Then change the law. Make a new law. \n\nParticipate. Offer ideas. Instead of just resisting and offering nothing. ",
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"content": "I'm not in Congress. People have proposed alternatives. \n\nI don't need alternatives to stripping due process from Americans. The alternative is to try people for crimes when you have evidence. ",
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"content": "No, you need universal checks to prevent people from buying for specified reasons and a notif system to just alert the FBI (letting them but the gun) while the FBI either follows up or continues it's investigation. \n\n",
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"content": "That has nothing to do with it. Not going to pass. Less show that 50 plus House votes repealing ACA for certain. The Republicans did that for pure show. In this case, the Republicans have not offered, have never offered, and have no plans of offering anything to deal with the problem. So given that, they can be called out for a vote just so names can be recorded. It is for optics, but so what? It is a game the Republicans invented and play all the time. They let Ted Cruz shutdown the government for how long for what was it again? Their causes have never even been righteous. This is at least righteous. And if you are worried about constitutional aspects, then that is for the courts and for the Senate to get the missing Supreme Court Justice in place blocked by the Republicans. It is about time the Democrats stand up and say, \"You want to do nothing in the most do nothing Congress in history? Fine, let's talk about important things then.\"",
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"content": "To be fair the GOP proposed a bill that would have been weaker but still help close the gun show loop hole and other things. It's a shame the Dems didn't take that and try to amended it. \n\n\nAlso the 4th amendment has everything to do with this. My party is proposing using a secret watch list to curtail Americans lawful activity without any due process. Also you can be put on the list for legal behavior. \n\n",
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"content": "Why not apply that standard to flying, which is free movement?",
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"content": "I do and we should. We should be eliminating the No Fly list not expanding it's use. ",
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"content": "Fair enough, if you are consistent.\n\nThe problem is some of those people are actually connected in some way and are internationally banned from flying. \n\nI do agree we need some sort of system. Like a judge signing off and an appeal process once you are denied to fly. \n",
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"content": "Except we shouldn't not allow people to fly unless we are prepared to arrest them. \n\nYou're not a criminal till they convict you. ",
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"content": "No, you don't have a right to fly. The government can indeed put suspected terrorists on no-fly lists. Especially internationally. ",
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"content": "They do they shouldn't. Freedom of movement is a basic human right. In this era that means being able to fly \n\nI'm not saying that can't put regulations in place but those mist apply generally. The government should not restrict any individuals activity, any activity, because they are on a secret list ",
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"content": "I respect that opinion, but that same freedom is exploited by killers. Internationally it would just not work. \n\nI do think we need an appeal process so there is recourse. ",
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"content": "Every freedom is exploited by killers. We don't get rid of those freedoms to solve the problem. \n\nThe watch list is not accurate, racially biased and illegal. \n\n\nNot to mention the killer wasn't even on the watch list so it wouldn't have helped Orlando. ",
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"content": "He was at one point, though. \n\nAnd the watch list is different than the no-fly. \n\nI just think the FBI should have gotten a follow-up notif. ",
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"content": "That a man who has committed no crime was doing something legal? ",
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"content": "Yes, that is Constitutional. \n\n",
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"content": "That's not if it's a requirement. Also it's beside the point. \n\n",
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"content": "The Due Process Clause is applicable through the 5th Amendment here not the 4th, but I agree.",
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"content": "5th is self incrimination, speedy trial and the like. 4th is warrants and due process. \n\nEither way unconstitutional ",
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"content": "I can understand their confusion. It is a rare case to see Democrats actually do politics...It is refreshing but some confusion is to be expected.",
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"content": "This is dumb. We're pushing useless bills that don't accomplish the stated goals. I realize it's been working for the Republicans politically, but it hasn't actually been working for them, and it won't for us either.",
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"content": "You are missing the entire point of this. The point is to get Republicans on record voting against these bills before November. In the mean time it draws much need light to this isuue. There will be no meaningful action on gun safety until after January.\n\nBut this puts both houses of congress and the presidential candidate on the side of a gun bill....Mandate. If the GOP take a real ass whipping in November then you will see reform. This is politics I am impressed.\n\n++EDIT++++++++\n\nOh don't get me wrong there will be no vote taken on this now. There is no way Ryan can be seen backing down. No way he can allow a protest to have any effect...and he is right about that. This is an illegal act and the Democrats have to stop. It will be interesting to see how they bring this in for a landing. ",
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"content": "As a Democrat, this mostly served to reinforce a couple facts for me:\n\n* Obama, Pelosi, and many other Democrats support the new McCarthyism (The terrorist watch-list.)\n* There are Republicans like Susan Collins who are better friends of the ACLU than the Democratic leadership. \n\nThere are swing voters drawing the same lessons. ",
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"content": "And instead the Congress that has done the least amount in history, for a fact, would be doing what instead? In the House, trying to pass Ryan's new debacle of a health care bill? Sound better?",
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"content": "Sounds exactly the same. Congress working to pass bills I don't agree with. Only in that case I'm on the same side as our party leadership.\n\nI would be thrilled if Congress were pushing gun control bans. I'm for a complete ban on civilian gun ownership. But these bills are useless and they actually hurt us because they're obviously bad ideas, much like when the Republicans tried to repeal an already-implemented Obamacare with no transition plan. Even if you're a hardcore libertarian, you can agree that Republicans were pushing bad ideas. Even as a hardcore anti-gun activist, these are bad ideas.",
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"content": "Well, to be fair there was already a vote in the Senate on the bill and it was rejected. What would be the point in voting for it in the House if it won't go anywhere? That's just playing politics... ",
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"content": "Playing politics, politicians, hmm.",
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"content": "> playing politics\n\nYou mean like voting for defunding of a healthcare bill 60 times?\n\nI'm pretty sure they weren't playing at all..it was real politics.\n\n",
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"content": "Of course it's a stunt. They've got no power at all in the house thanks to the Republicans, so to raise awareness for their issue they are reduced to doing a sit in. I support their stunt 100%, and hope it works. They'll lose the vote anyway, but at least now people are paying attention.",
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"content": "So edgy, bro.",
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"content": "I'll give you 10-1 odds on Hillary being the nominee. ",
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"content": "You asked if we were secure in our win. I put my money where my mouth is. I voted for Hillary in 08 and I'm stoked she's the nominee now. ",
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"content": "Ok. Then why are you in this sub? ",
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"content": "I think I just explained myself. I'm obviously a Democrat. I just don't care for Hillary Clinton. ",
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"content": "That's like saying you're a Patriots fan who hates Tom Brady. I mean, whatever. ",
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"content": "I know it's not a game, I used a literary device called an analogy. \n\nObama and Clinton and Sanders agree on about 90% of all issues. Hillary is a stalwart progressive and has been for 30 years.",
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"content": "I'm going out on a bit of a limb here but, the Democrats in the Senate and the House are screwing the pooch on this. They've pulled out all the stops like a filibuster, sit ins, and lengthy debates. Yet, the result is weak propositions, a rejection of a legitimate compromise, and generally, no real leadership on the issue.\n\nInstead of doing this for much more comprehensive issues, they're focusing on the \"no fly, no gun\" mantra, but then reject an amendment to protect civil liberties. How about pushing right back and demanding the amendment be for 30 days instead of 3? \n\nThis whole thing is looking like a much more political battle than a battle for the safety of Americans.",
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"content": "It is a political battle. This is what's needed to make the changes needed. ",
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"content": "Are you under the impression that we need more Republicans in the house and senate? Because we don't. But things like this are going to make that happen. \n\nGun control is a toxic issue for Democrats. ",
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"content": "The bills are not extreme at all and there is room for compromise. \n\nI think the assault weapons ban is toxic, though. ",
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"content": "> The bills are not extreme at all\n\nOne of the bills wasn't extreme. Grassley's bill would have been a genuine improvement, but the Democrats shot it down. \n\nThe ACLU says Feinstein's and Cornyn's are unconstitutional because they're based on entirely arbitrary lists. Those are clearly toxic to democratic interests. \n\nThe last is yet another UBC proposal that will do nothing but bury law-abiding gun owners in red tape and establish a de facto registry. Clearly, that one is also going to hurt democrats more than help anyone. Gun control is the Democratic equivalent of repealing Obamacare. ",
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"content": "Feinstein's and Cornyn's died. ",
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"content": "They all died. Democrats killed the only good one. ",
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"content": "No, they all did not die. Stop blaming Democrats. They are in the minority. ",
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"content": "The only good bill of the four was proposed by Senator Grassley. That bill would have expanded NICS, giving private sellers the ability to conduct background checks directly instead of having to go through a licensed third party FFL dealer.\n\nThat bill would have actually improved safety. It would have set the new standard for private, arms-length transactions without interfering with transfers between long-time friends and family. Ultimately, the courts would have been able to enforce the prohibition on selling to felons more strictly: with the reasonable availability of a background check, a seller in an arms-length transaction would not be exercising due care in the transaction if it turned out the buyer was a prohibited person. \n\nGrassley's bill would eventually accomplish everything Democrats **say** they wanted from UBCs, but without the red tape for law-abiding gun owners. It was a considerable improvement over the status quo, but only two democrats supported it. It won a simple majority from all but two republicans, but it was still 7 votes away from cloture. \n\nI'm blaming Senate Democrats because the vote count on the Grassley bill shows that Senate Democrats don't want meaningful gun reform **UNLESS** it places a substantial burden on gun ownership. They don't want to help gun owners improve the safety and security of the private gun market. They want to eliminate the market by casting FUD on private transfers. \n\nI stand by my assertion. Reasonable gun control is dead and Democrats killed it. ",
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"content": "\"Only\" bill?\n\nThey can write bills every day. ",
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"content": "Now you're just being obtuse. I clearly specified \"of the four\". And this was the second time the Grassley bill was put up, the last time in 2013. \n\nWhen will I be allowed to perform a background check on my buyers?",
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"content": "Dude, we don't but this one has been polled out nicely. Not going to happen and has high support. Hate to be cynical, but this is like a many Trump thing. No one is talking about taking guns away from good Americans. Just the ones \"we have to watch\". You think the Dumpsters are going to scream big about this when they are talking about kicking out Muslims? All this is about is for commercials in September. So and so thinks it is OK for terrorists on the no fly list to buy guns. Dark music playing. Democrats have let the Republicans play this weak on terrorism game too long. Screw them.",
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"content": "When a Democrat in 2016 makes gun control a major plank in their platform, someone isn't doing their homework on voter demographics. This shit might work in New York and California, but it kills Democratic candidates in the swing states. These little stunts weren't thought through very well. \n\n>Democrats have let the Republicans play this weak on terrorism game too long.\n\nIf they wanted to appear strong on terrorism after Orlando, they'd propose a 50-state concealed carry reciprocity bill to help enable the general public to respond effectively. As it is, Democrats don't appear strong on terrorism. They appear to be milking a terrorist attack to promote an anti-gun agenda.",
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"content": "Yeah, and we're losing the political battle. Like epically so. As most battles, it's about winning the middle and the GOP turned this on us so easily it's almost as though we weren't even trying.\n\nIt went from the ball being in our court with \"sensible gun reform\" to the GOP now painting this as a racist, civil rights-infringing, cash grab by the Dems. The worst part about it is that it's working. \n\nModerates in America are looking at this and a perplexed by it, brushing it off as nothing more than a stunt. Shoot, I'm a full-on Dem and even I feel like the GOP has made good points; I could only imagine what my independent friends are saying about this.",
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"content": "Let them. Moderates are all for it. 78% poll for it. This is great stuff for commercials. You don't support throwing out Muslims but say people on the watch list are cool to buy guns at the same time. That is what this plays against. Can't have it both ways. Because when people think about who is on the watch list, what do they think of? Yes it is dirty like Republicans. Too bad. They have framed the Democrats as weak on fighting terrorists for too long. Obama has shown them the way. Screw them. ",
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"content": "\"Lete them\" do what? I'm saying moderates aren't falling for this stunt and are likely being turned off by it. I see this action as largely hurting the Democratic party moving forward more than it would help.",
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"content": "Let the GOP say whatever they want. Polls show moderates are all for it. You say moderates aren't falling for it despite all polls showing the opposite. The Democrats picked this battle because they saw that. This would have been a winning battle for Trump which is why he went to meet with the NRA on it. Nobody loses, realistic or not, saying he voted to let suspected terrorists buy guns. That is sound bite politics that the Republicans have played so well. Not this time. The Democrats knew this was going nowhere but it played well so they did it. If they had gone the route of what we once had of stiffening laws, banning assault weapons, tracking ammos sells, that was the loser to the moderates. That gives the Republicans sound bites. Watch.",
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"content": "I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm not saying the fight is bad. I'm saying the tactic of the filibuster and then shooting down rational compromise measures (like the 3 day mandate to prove someone isn't a terrorist) makes Democrats look like they don't actually want to change anything and just keep saying they do.\n\nThis is what moderates won't like. That Democrats stood on the soap box to get traction but then when it got time to actually get legislation passed, they fucked it up.",
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"content": "I don't think anyone noticed. I barely saw it in the newspaper. It was buried. Certainly was dead in the House was the main reason.",
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"content": "Okay, what is he offering in return?",
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"content": "Did you not read the article? He is offering all of us a much more healthy, sane, and productive country. He is offering us a future beyond the next 100 years, because at this rate climate change seriously makes that doubtful. Clinton is in essence offering more of the exact same. Which is honestly unacceptable anymore.",
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"content": "How is he offering us that? Be specific. ",
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"content": "No read the bloody article. Go to his website and see exactly what he plans to do. I am not going to hold your hand, and walk you threw all of this.",
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"content": "I have been to his website. There are no specifics there. ",
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"content": "You are completely full of it. https://berniesanders.com/issues/\n\nJust one example from the website, because I know you are not going to bother clicking that link.\n\n\n\"ISSUES\nIt’s Time to Make College Tuition Free and Debt Free\nIn a highly competitive global economy, we need the best-educated workforce in the world. It is insane and counter-productive to the best interests of our country and our future, that hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go to college, and that millions of others leave school with a mountain of debt that burdens them for decades. That shortsighted path to the future must end.\n\nAs President, Bernie Sanders will fight to make sure that every American who studies hard in school can go to college regardless of how much money their parents make and without going deeply into debt.\n\nHERE ARE THE SIX STEPS THAT BERNIE WILL TAKE AS PRESIDENT TO MAKE COLLEGE DEBT FREE:\nMAKE TUITION FREE AT PUBLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.\nThis is not a radical idea. Last year, Germany eliminated tuition because they believed that charging students $1,300 per year was discouraging Germans from going to college. Next year, Chile will do the same. Finland, Norway, Sweden and many other countries around the world also offer free college to all of their citizens. If other countries can take this action, so can the United States of America.\n\nIn fact, it’s what many of our colleges and universities used to do. The University of California system offered free tuition at its schools until the 1980s. In 1965, average tuition at a four-year public university was just $243 and many of the best colleges – including the City University of New York – did not charge any tuition at all. The Sanders plan would make tuition free at public colleges and universities throughout the country.\n\nSTOP THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FROM MAKING A PROFIT ON STUDENT LOANS.\nOver the next decade, it has been estimated that the federal government will make a profit of over $110 billion on student loan programs. This is morally wrong and it is bad economics. As President, Sen. Sanders will prevent the federal government from profiteering on the backs of college students and use this money instead to significantly lower student loan interest rates.\n\nSUBSTANTIALLY CUT STUDENT LOAN INTEREST RATES.\nUnder the Sanders plan, the formula for setting student loan interest rates would go back to where it was in 2006. If this plan were in effect today, interest rates on undergraduate loans would drop from 4.29% to just 2.37%.\n\nALLOW AMERICANS TO REFINANCE STUDENT LOANS AT TODAY’S LOW INTEREST RATES.\nIt makes no sense that you can get an auto loan today with an interest rate of 2.5%, but millions of college graduates are forced to pay interest rates of 5-7% or more for decades. Under the Sanders plan, Americans would be able to refinance their student loans at today’s low interest rates.\n\nALLOW STUDENTS TO USE NEED-BASED FINANCIAL AID AND WORK STUDY PROGRAMS TO MAKE COLLEGE DEBT FREE.\nThe Sanders plan would require public colleges and universities to meet 100% of the financial needs of the lowest-income students. Low-income students would be able to use federal, state and college financial aid to cover room and board, books and living expenses. And Sanders would more than triple the federal work study program to build valuable career experience that will help them after they graduate.\n\nFULLY PAID FOR BY IMPOSING A TAX ON WALL STREET SPECULATORS.\nThe cost of this $75 billion a year plan is fully paid for by imposing a tax of a fraction of a percent on Wall Street speculators who nearly destroyed the economy seven years ago. More than 1,000 economists have endorsed a tax on Wall Street speculation and today some 40 countries throughout the world have imposed a similar tax including Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, and China. If the taxpayers of this country could bailout Wall Street in 2008, we can make public colleges and universities tuition free and debt free throughout the country.\"",
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"content": "All of that Congress does. ",
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"content": "Yes and we are already starting the process of taking those legislative entity's back. I will not allow my country to be ripped from our arms by the plutocrats. One way or another there time is done. Worst case scenario there is already #BlackFridayStrike we can and will crash the economy if we are stopped politically.",
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"content": "I don't want to hear about labels such as plutocrats, Wall Street, etc. I want to see an action plan. Talk is cheap. Talk of crashing the economy is first silly, second self-defeating, third won't ever gain support and not supported by Sanders and never will be.",
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"content": "http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36599316\nWhen the IMF is telling us we need to get our shit together regarding education. It is not time to take half ass measures.",
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"content": "Still, Congress does that. \n\nSo what does Bernie bring? ",
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"content": "He brings leadership and direction.",
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"content": "To whom? \n\n",
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"content": "So, what about all of those public university workers who will loose their jobs when their university can no longer employ them because there is nobody paying tuition, and every public university in this country is fighting over the same hedge fund taxes? ",
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"content": "As more people graduate from college our tax base will increase. It's kind of like trickle down, but it would actually work.",
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"content": "You of course have some evidence to support that?",
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"content": "How are we going to get it? I know what he wants. If that was all there was to it, I would have supported him. What I still haven't gotten is how do we get it? In fact, on reddit, there are way to many nihilists still encouraged by his actions/lack of actions that believe that somehow Trump winning will cause what he wants to somehow happen which I do not believe Sanders could possibly believe. But I have not heard from anyone but \"revolution\" without specifics. I have not seen the any plan besides high-level hooey about turning the House blue. And until that happens, it is all just talk.",
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"content": "The Ambassador was part of a special intel mission, I think that is obvious now. It's why he had only locals and was at an annex. ",
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"content": "They we're trying to stay low key that's why there was only 4 people at the embassy and a dozen troops down the road. People need to move on from this shit, he died from smoke, 2 soldiers died from a mortar at the beginning of the battle at the soldiers compound 1 of which was backup flown in that just arrived, and we killed something like 100ish attackers. Who gives a shit if Hillary wasn't able to stay up for 4 days... People go to sleep what the hell? That's why there are 24/7 staff in the government. ",
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"content": "Why are people still talking about Benghazi?",
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"content": "Trump brought up Vince Foster.\n\nBecause he's throwing everything out there and hoping people believe it.",
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"content": "Just wait until the first debate. She's going to destroy him when he brings up stupid shit.",
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"content": "Because Trump is getting desperate. His campaign is in shambles at a critical time, his fundraising is a meme, and he cannot for the life of him solicit any demographic outside of angsty white males.",
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"content": "Because Trump.",
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"content": "6 Congressional inquires produced nothing except wasted taxpayer monies /",
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"content": "Not proven to be illegal, but keep trying Donald. ",
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"content": "Suggest you get up to speed on new rules pronto.",
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"content": "To quote Senator Sanders, \"The American people are tired of hearing about your damn emails.\"",
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"content": "I hope it shatters in October so we're just stuck with Trump.",
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"content": "He just says what he wants to be true, not what is actually true",
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"content": "I'm glad even Republicans are leaning about halfway to accepting it's debunked. Even for those who get hyperbolic about the e-mail scandal, I see most of them make a connecting argument to the Clinton Foundation than Benghazi (even though an investigation into the latter incidentally led to the first thing.)",
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"content": "How about actually supporting your party's nominee? ",
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"content": "[He is](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/06/24/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-vote/86327816/). In addition to marshaling resources to HRC, the DNC, down ballot races, and Democratic SuperPACs, he is working with HRC and her policy team to come up with compromises on policy (education, economic equality, etc) in order to help her attract more of his supporters. ",
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"content": "Marshaling resources to HRC? That's news to me. By down ballot races, I assume you mean the handful that pass the purity test. He isn't supporting down ballot Democrats in a significant way. From my perspective he seems to be continuing to make demands and is more worried about maintaining leverage on the platform than strengthening the Democrat's nominee to the best of his ability. ",
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"content": "\"What we’re doing now is marshaling our resources to make sure that … we defeat Donald Trump and we defeat him badly.\" \n\nIt's literally the second sentence in the article. Aside from that, they most assuredly are. Former Sanderspersonnel are being hired by HRC in all 50 states. \n\nEDIT: I work on campaigns and myself, as well as a vast majority of operatives that I know in other areas (including HRC), have received stacks of resumes from the Sanders campaign to assist us in staffing up. \n\nEDIT^2: It's also in the fucking headline! ",
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"content": "No mention of HRC in that statement. ",
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"content": "That quote is completely irrelevant as it doesn't mention HRC. How about providing evidence of him marshaling resources towards HRC? Oh yeah, there is none because he isn't. \n\nAlso, staffers who have been let go from Sanders campaign are applying for jobs with the Clinton campaign. Bernie doesn't deserve credit for that. Those are former staffers that he fired once he lost. ",
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"content": ">That quote is completely irrelevant as it doesn't mention HRC. How about providing evidence of him marshaling resources towards HRC? Oh yeah, there is none because he isn't. \n\n>Also, staffers who have been let go from Sanders campaign are applying for jobs with the Clinton campaign. Bernie doesn't deserve credit for that. Those are former staffers that he fired once he lost. \n\nWell you're absolutely wrong on both points there. As I mentioned, my inbox is full of resumes I've gotten from the Sanders staffers and operations personnel; I've spent the last 10 days sorting through them. To clarify, these aren't just one off applications, I'm receiving emails with 10-15 resumes attached in bulk. About 1/3 of the folks that I gave reached out to have already accepted positions throughout the country with HRC. \n\nBut I certainly appreciate the fact that you apparently know the contents of my inbox, from where it's derived, and where I'm getting the resumes from better than myself!",
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"content": "I couldn't care less about your inbox and once again your statement is completely irrelevant to the fact that neither Sanders nor anyone currently on his payroll are working in any capacity for HRC. Ex-staffers don't count, but apparently that's a tough concept for you to grasp. ",
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"content": ">I couldn't care less about your inbox and once again your statement is completely irrelevant to the fact that neither Sanders nor anyone currently on his payroll are working in any capacity for HRC. Ex-staffers don't count, but apparently that's a tough concept for you to grasp. \n\nYes, because it is an FEC violation for anyone on his current payroll to work for another candidate. Weird how that works! \n\nTypically you leave one job before you start another in any industry, right? Well same thing in politics except if you're caught double dipping, you and your respective candidate(s) can and will be fined in the tens of thousands of dollars. There are also prison terms associated with it. Super weird that people might want to end employment with one candidate before starting with another, right? \n\nApparently federal election laws are a difficult concept for you to grasp. ",
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"content": "So then the argument stands that Sanders is not supporting Hillary, and that his former staffers applying for jobs are no longer doing so at the behest of Sanders. I feel like you have lost sight of the point. ",
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"content": "Nah. He's very well aware that he lost and the state level senior staff has been passing along resumes to various campaigns (including HRC), PACs, and SuperPACs. \n\nPoint being, as in the OP, he is marshaling out his staff to progressive organizations and campaigns in order that his message is more effectively delivered to Congress. Likewise, he is working with HRC to attract more voters. \n\nI feel like your tinfoil hat fell off.",
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"content": "Tin foil hat? Hmm, not sure how you interpreted my argument as some sort of conspiracy. Bizarre comment. \n\nMy point, and perhaps the source of disagreement, is that people who formerly worked for Sanders sending their resumes to different campaigns and political organizations is not equivalent to Sanders marshaling resources. Its standard practice that when campaigns fold their staff look for new jobs, and this is not evidence of Sanders marshaling anything. ",
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"content": "Your point misses the mark. Feel free to reread event response that I gave. ",
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"content": "Sigh.. I can't continue this",
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"content": "People applying for jobs /= Sanders marshaling his resources in support of Clinton. ",
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"content": "The resumes that I am receiving are in bulk from Sanders-affiliated operatives and staffers. ",
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"content": "So, people from a campaign that is over, are trying to get jobs with the campaign that is still running? ",
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"content": "> So people from a campaign that is over are being referred to jobs with a campaign that is still running. \n\nftfy\n\nhonestly not sure why you're arguing with me here since you don't really have any understanding of how things work / people get jobs on campaigns. same thing happened in 2008 -- HRC's campaign folded into OFA after she realized she'd lost the nomination. it's how it happens every primary cycle. Bernie is doing the same as Hillary in '08 and every primary candidate has done once they've lost for the last 40 years.",
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"content": "Okay, so again all you are saying is that the Sanders campaign knows it's over. \n\nI have yet to see any evidence of Sanders \"marshaling resources\" in support of Clinton. \n\nHe needs to concede and endorse. Then campaign for Clinton, including handing his donor list over. That is marshaling resources. \n\nI know how campaigns work, thank you. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "You clearly don't. His \"donor list\" is public record and reported quarterly to the FEC. The Clinton Campaign already has it.\n\nSending staffers to HRC as opposed to farming them out to 3rd party candidates or PACs that do not support HRC is \"marshaling resources\" to her campaign. I've given you evidence of it, you are choosing not to believe it.\n\nHe would like to ensure that his message is carried over to the general and that some changes are made that resonate with his base. Also not uncommon.",
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"content": "Donor list means the contact information, as in opening the list to Clinton. \n\nAnd sending job hunters over is not marshaling resources. Marshaling resources is putting his resources (including himself and his donors) to work in electing Clinton. \n\nThat is NOT presently occurring. He refuses to even concede and endorse. \n\nIt doesn't work that way and he is actually losing leverage by playing this game. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Please stop trying to explain my job to me, you're making it more and more clear how ignorant you are.\n\nContact information is in the database operated by the state Democratic Parties (remember the VAN controversy? there is a fundraising side in the same database called NGP). The proprietary information is owned and operated by the Democratic Party; so while the national party has control over it, the DSCC, the DCCC, and obviously state and local race can all have a shot at it for the right price. It is operated on a state, not national level (for the most part).\n\nThe resumes are not coming from job hunters, you insolent twit. They are coming from people from the Sanders' campaign. Not sure how I can spell that out more clearly than that. \n\nHis campaign *is* farming out their resources to other progressive organizations, including HRC. \n\nIt doesn't work what way? It doesn't work the way that someone who works campaigns is telling you it does? Sounds good champ. You're an ignorant twat who just can't bear to hear that Bernie might be doing something for the Party. Gotcha.\n\nAgain, I have not been, at any point, affiliated with the Sanders Campaign. In fact, I didn't vote for him in the primaries. You are just so far off mark that you need to stop dawning your tinfoil hat and just shroud yourself in tinfoil. \n\n",
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"content": "Sanders' donor list is managed in a cloud by Blue State Digital. The Clinton campaign does not have access to it until he officially endorses. \n\n\"But Sanders, still a White House candidate facing an uphill battle for the Democratic nomination, has all the leverage and control. So for now, any talk about his data trove takes place behind closed doors among Democrats eager not to offend him. Those close to his campaign recognize that if he started sharing his list now, he runs the risk of watering down his own fundraising potential as he focuses on defeating Hillary Clinton.\nDemocrats of all stripes also know that another, bigger, question looms: how — or even if —Clinton’s campaign will get any access to Sanders’ roster of young liberals, the group she’s struggled to reach for months.\n\nSanders staffers are routinely peppered with queries from like-minded activists and party types about the list’s fate — “everybody and their brothers,” said one person close to Sanders’ White House bid. Sanders’ recent move to share some of the love by sending three fundraising emails for House candidates in early April sparked a new rush of interest in the data — assembled by Revolution Messaging, the Democratic digital firm founded by Scott Goodstein, an alum of Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. The email list is managed in a cloud constructed with tools from Blue State Digital, another firm with deep ties to Obama.\"\n\nRead more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/bernie-sanders-fundraising-list-222342#ixzz4CZ94capO \n\nSo... Uh... Yeah....Your personal attacks shows how full of it are.\n\n\n\n\nAnd like I said, the Sanders campaign needs to concede, endorse and campaign for. \n\nThen he can say he is \"marshaling resources\" and doing \"everything\" he can to defeat Trump.\n",
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"content": "You're citing an article from April.\n\nThat's how you expect to prove your point? Wow.",
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"content": "Okay, so I await your citation that refutes it. ",
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"content": "I've given you my evidence, and I am not going to be posting resumes online to prove a point. \n\nSorry that I won't doxx anyone for ya.",
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"content": "You didn't provide any evidence. \n\nShould be pretty easy. ",
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"content": "Not posting resumes online. Sorry. ",
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"content": "No said to do that, because resumes are not proof of anything except one campaign knows it's over. \n\n",
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"content": "**(Å)** there ya go! that should protect you from loads of lizard people things.",
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"content": "So you have no proof or citation?\n\nThat is what I figured. ",
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"content": "Not posting resumes online. ",
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"content": "No one said to do that, now you are deflecting and running. \n\nHave a nice day. ",
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"content": "You're literally asking me to doxx people. ",
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"content": "No, no one asked you to do that. Stop lying. ",
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"content": "> His \"donor list\" is public record and reported quarterly to the FEC.\n\nOnly part of the list is public record: those with aggregate contributions about $200. However, that list does not include contact information, best time to contact, whether the donor needs to be contacted to donate or is self-motivated, relevant information about personal hot-button issues, etc.",
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"content": "Your link does not support your statement. \n\nStop using words like \"marshaling\".\n\nIt's \"endorsing\" and \"campaigning for\". ",
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"content": "No, she doesn't have any bonafides except being a veteran. ",
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"content": "I agree with the OP and heartily disagree with VegaThePunisher. If you knew anything about Tulsi at all, you'd know that she champions clean energy, early education, Veteran's issues, STEM, equality & women's rights, etc. She has held a variety of local offices since she was 21 years old - from state representative, city councilwoman, and currently Congresswoman (2nd term). Tulsi's a great role-model and servant-leader, and she's more than qualified to be VP. Visit her [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/RepTulsiGabbard) or [website](http://gabbard.house.gov) to see what she's up to in Hawaii. ",
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"content": "I didn't say she wasn't nice or not on the ride side of the issues (though she is a hawk similar to Clinton). \n\nWhat I am saying is she is not ready to step in and be President. The only reason anyone is even talking about her is because she was one of the few outspoken surrogates of Bernie Sanders. ",
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"content": "You're mischaracterizing Tulsi's position on war. Saying we need to defeat ISIS & al Qaeda does not make one a warmonger. Tulsi has been strongly and repeatedly making the case for LESS war - even less than Pres. Obama. Clinton is to the right of Pres. Obama on the war in Syria, wanting to establish a no-fly zone putting us in potentially direct conflict with Russia, Assad's ally. \nMaybe you haven't heard of her until now, but that has no bearing on her readiness for higher office. How many of us heard of Obama before he ran? I sure hadn't - yet here he is.",
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"content": "What is Gabbard's position on Syria then?\n\nAnd Obama actually ran for POTUS and was a star beforehand. \n",
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"content": "About her interview on Fox slamming President Obama for not being tough enough on ISIS and not saying Islamic Terrorist? What stroke of light made her change her mind on that? Could it have been fear of being primaried? About her change of spots on homophobia? About how she became a follower of Bernard after she knew she was going to be primaried which she is and may not win?",
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"content": "I don't troll your posts. I look at all posts in this sub. Don't think so highly of yourself.",
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"content": "If you plan on trolling my comments and posing the same lies, you're going to get the same response, Hopefully a moderator can see what you're doing and put a stop to it. Otherwise I will block you myself.\n\nWhen Tulsi stepped down from her neutral DNC co-chair position to back Bernie because he would end the disastrous US policy of regime-change wars, she was questioned about being worried what the Clintons would do. Tulsi stated on TV that she \"isn't afraid of the Clintons,\" so the preposterous notion that Tulsi is afraid of a self-promoting, small-time challenger trying to make a name for herself so she can sell more books after August, and who lies about and distorts Tulsi's record and motives, is ludicrous. In Hawaii, Tulsi's extremely popular and her support is very strong, so you definitely don't speak for 'most people' in her district - MY district.\n\nTulsi went through honest change and [deploying to war](http://www.expression808.com/home/2012/7/5/tulsi-gabbards-moment-of-truth.html) cemented it. She's made good on her promise to 100% [support equality and LGBTQ issues](https://www.votetulsi.com/vision#equality) and we thank her for that.\n\nArguing foreign policy with you is probably futile, but suffice it to say that the US is split in its purpose and is waging in two wars in Syria, one of which is [illegal and counter-productive](http://gabbard.house.gov/index.php/press-releases/520-reps-tulsi-gabbard-austin-scott-introduce-legislation-to-end-illegal-u-s-war-to-overthrow-syrian-government-of-assad), and which Tulsi has spoken of ending many times. It is one of the rare areas of disagreement between she and Pres. Obama. Two others are TPP (NAFTA on steroids), and not making a clear and needed distinction between the religion Islam, which most Muslims practice peacefully, and political totalitarian Islamism, which is practiced by a tiny minority of Muslims and which fuels groups like ISIS, al Qaeda, al Nusra or BokoHaram, etc. Many interviews on that as well.\n\nSpeaking truth to power is laudable. There is no such thing as \"D\" or \"R\" truth, nor should is there a restriction on where it should be spoken. Our own Patsy Mink famously spoke out against the sitting president, Democrat LB Johnson, on the Americanization and funding of the disastrous Vietnam war, and that did not diminish her popularity in Hawaii. She was posthumously elected to office after her untimely demise.",
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"content": "Explain the Fox video slamming Obama for not being hardcore enough against ISIS and \"Islamic Militants\"? You keep dancing around that. And explain how she turned non-homophobic. Was it a sudden light from the sky? Her father is still the same way. After all, the berniecrats hit Hillary Clinton on changing positions all the time. And feel free to block me. She changed her positions from radical homophobic, Islamophobic, pro-war, to this, overnight. You may believe, that's great. But she has no future in the party because no one else buys it.",
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"content": "Tulsi would make an amazing VP!!! ",
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"content": "Looks unbelievably good. I am so impressed.",
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"content": "Awesome. I think we got all the links for the down ballot stuff so you may not need to do anything. If you have anything worthy of adding, feel free to send it though.\n\nGood luck with your surgery.",
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"content": "Thanks for all the work in pulling this together. Really looks sharp. Love it!",
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"content": "I came here to read about democrats and liberal and progressive ideology and *nearly* every post is about republicans? lol ",
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"content": "That's mostly the reason I commented with my suggestion below. I would love a democrat positive subreddit, especially considering all the republican attack pieces on /r/politics.",
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"content": "so is this a pro-Hilary only sub?",
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"content": "This is a pro-Democrat subreddit. We support all democratic candidates. Hillary Clinton is the party's Democratic candidate for President, and there are many other candidates running for other offices, too -- the US Senate, the US House, as well as state and local races.",
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"content": "No..., it is a pro democrat sub. Civil discussion is still welcome. But if all you want to do is smear democratic candidates with Benghazi and email rhetoric, it will be removed.",
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"content": "Wow things have really changed since the last time I've been on. It looks so cool!",
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"content": "Thank you. :D",
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"content": "I have one question and one suggestion. If a mod could just shoot me a quick response to this, that would be great. Thanks! \n\nQuestion: when I click on more info for races around the country, I find nothing for NY23 with John Plumb contesting incumbent Tom Reed's (R-NY) seat. Would love to see something on that. We're working hard over here!\n\nSuggestion: Less negativity towards republicans and more positivity and discussion about how to get Dems elected. We should leave the Republican bashing to /r/politics, there's plenty of that there. I'd love to see discussions on specific races and candidates but all I see is how bad Trump and his surrogates are. We don't need to hear about that any more than we need to hear about Benghazi. Let's focus on the issues and get our brains thinking together. ",
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"content": "They're already doing it, too. I was looking for YouTube clips of Xavier Becerra, a member of Sanders' Progressive Caucus, and noticed that America Rising, one of the [GOP groups pretending to be pro-Sanders](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/us/politics/the-right-aims-at-democrats-on-social-media-to-hit-clinton.html), had posted a [weird, edited YouTube clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqv4Wm0i5y8) that they claimed made it look like he was disrespectful of Sanders.",
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"content": "[This describes the GOP plans for this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgzssDOTMXs)",
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"content": "not gonna work anyone where this would would work on hates her and will never vote for her anyway. ",
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"content": "So you're saying they've already been manipulated by Fox News and other right wing media so this extra step isn't necessary? \n\nGotcha. Sounds accurate enough to me.",
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"content": "Thats actually exactly what I was saying haha. If you didnt like Hillary but decided to vote for her, her VP candidate wasnt going to be the \"last straw\". Or if you werent going to vote for her this isnt gonna make a difference either.",
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"content": "You think so?\n\nWait until you see the meltdown on social media if she picks Kaine instead of Warren. ",
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"content": "on social media yeah. But how big is s4p, 250,000 people? Lets pretend 100% of them are bernie or bust and not bots, or duplicate accounts. Thats 250,000 people who are Bernie or bust. Out of 10,000,000 that voted for him. If reddit and social media was indicative of actual voting President Ron Paul would be running for his 2nd term right now. ",
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"content": "Polls say it could be as high as 20% who sat they would vote Trump.\n\n",
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"content": "I saw that poll as well thats not quite what it says but its misleading on purpose. its the people who STILL support sanders 20% of them will vote for Trump. In actually the people that VOTED for Sanders or supported Sanders are 8% Trump 80% Hillary. The bloomberg article is about people who still support sanders for the dem nomination.....after he already lost.",
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"content": "So almost one out of ten Bernie Busters would vote for Trump out of spite? Is that what you are saying?",
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"content": "pretty much. But consider the fact thats also true for democrats in general. and its even bigger on the republican side.",
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"content": "Well, they've fallen for everything else the right has concocted for them, I have no doubt they will fall for this too. Or, conversely, they can just keep posting links to Fox News stories about Benghazi and stories about her email server. \n\nEdit: Let's be honest: When the right is trying to get elected, they look for the weakest link to break in order to get an upper hand. Without *any* doubt, the Sanders supporters *are* the weakest link in this election: the most easily led and manipulated, the most emotional…of course they're going to be the target of the right. They're idiots but they're not altogether stupid. They know who to exploit in order to get the upper hand.",
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"content": "First, they should try to figure out which gender Sherrod Brown is. ",
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"content": "This is the polar opposite demo to the kind of people that let VPs affect their vote for POTUS. Sanders' supporters have a policy-driven agenda. Election gimmicks are for wedge issue voters and fanboys. If people still think Sanders' broad appeal has been the result of one issue, they're kidding themselves. \n\nYou can disagree with the policies they advocate, but you can't deny that they have an agenda. No one with a serious agenda cares about the selection of the VP vis a vis the policies of the executive branch.\n\nSo, why this article? Because it neutralizes backlash if she chooses a more right-leaning VP, which is obviously the more pragmatic choice. Republicans jumping ship and independents are more important to her campaign than Sanders supporters right now.\n\n",
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"content": ">Sanders' supporters have a policy-driven agenda.\n\n[Not really](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/opinion/campaign-stops/do-sanders-supporters-favor-his-policies.html)",
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"content": "Wow, you found an *opinion* editorial that supports your position. We're all so impressed.",
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"content": "I'm not citing the opinion, I'm citing a study used within:\n\n>More detailed evidence casts further doubt on the notion that support for Mr. Sanders reflects a shift to the left in the policy preferences of Democrats. In a survey conducted for the [American National Election Studies](http://www.electionstudies.org/studypages/anes_pilot_2016/anes_pilot_2016.htm) in late January, supporters of Mr. Sanders were more pessimistic than Mrs. Clinton’s supporters about “opportunity in America today for the average person to get ahead” and more likely to say that economic inequality had increased.\n\n>**However, they were less likely than Mrs. Clinton’s supporters to favor concrete policies that Mr. Sanders has offered as remedies for these ills, including a higher minimum wage, increasing government spending on health care and an expansion of government services financed by higher taxes.** It is quite a stretch to view these people as the vanguard of a new, social-democratic-trending Democratic Party.",
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"content": "If that is the case, then the argument that political candidates are primarily an expression of self-concept applies just as fully to any of the candidates. The data that you are citing itself would even seem to indicate this, assuming of course that the results of an opt-in online panel with a sample size of roughly 1200 is accurate to a more general population. In fact, considering the method of collecting the data, it's likely that this is actually *more* true of Clinton's supporters (given that many aren't necessarily likely to participate in an online panel).",
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"content": "Yes, most voters are irrational and not public-policy inclined. ",
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"content": "Remember when the Republicans were the party of business and economic facts? (or at least people believed they were?) Well they're losing that now too. ",
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"content": "I don't think so. I think we are pretty stable as a nation, and if things start going downhill (in a possible) Trump presidency people would be putting more pressure on him to reverse course than ever. Terrorism cannot be stopped by media pressure or a congressional hearing.",
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"content": "Nice try, Trump plant. ",
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"content": "So it's actually you, Donald?\n\nI know your poll numbers are in the toilet and only herpes polls lower than you do, but trolling reddit ain't gonna help you. \n\nIt's time you dropped out and go back to just being a real estate orangutan. ",
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"content": "It should scare you that all the polls so far have been wrong..\n",
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"content": "Which ones are those? \n\nAnd no one is scared of the Orange Fuhrer or his acolytes. ",
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"content": "All the polls said there was no way Trump would win the nomination. All the polls said there was no way Britain would secede from the UK.\nAll the polls say Clinton is leading by a large majority? We shall see. I'm a Hispanic in Arizona and even my legal Mexican family side hates Clinton. Realistically, the silent majority is often unrepresented in polls.",
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"content": "Polls always showed Trump in the lead in the primaries. Because he appeals to the base hatred of the GOP. \n\nThe American public is repulsed by him. I can't wait for the beating the GOP will get this Fall and then it's on to the Supreme Court being liberal for at least a generation. \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "All things considered, yes. \n\nLight years better than Bush. \n\nAnother reality from the mouth-breathing Turnip. ",
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"content": "Are we losing 700k jobs a month?\n\nTroops dying every day in a misguided war?\n\nThe markets losing 50% of their value?\n\nYou voted for Obama. Bullshit. \n\n\n\nAnd Trump only contributes to racial strife. That's why the KKK loves him. He even retweets their memes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "A debt is accumulated by Congress. Not the President. And who has controlled Congress since 2010?\n\nYou guys are out-witted anywhere except your safe spaces. ",
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"content": "And what is considered broadband? 1mbps? 10? 100? 1000? ",
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"content": "Send them a tweet or email.",
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"content": "Why not take care of peoples need for food, healthcare, and a living wage before we talk about internet? People are dying in our country from preventable problems because you people are worried about this bullshit. Thanks, society really appreciates it. ",
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"content": "It's times like these I'm really thankful that most politicians are able to talk about more than one issue at once. \n\nYou do understand that she's mentioned things like the living wage and healthcare access every other speech, right?",
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"content": "Her and her delegates aren't in line on the fight for 15 or Universal healthcare. ",
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"content": "> aren't in line on the fight for 15 \n\nThat's because [a national $15 minimum wage is straight up stupid](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-08-06/national-15-minimum-wage-is-trouble)\n\n>Universal healthcare. \n\nShe mentions this almost every speech. She just doesn't support single payer as the way to getting it done. Single payer is universal healthcare, but universal healthcare doesn't always have to be single payer. There are different means to the same end.",
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"content": "Cool story, bro. ",
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"content": "Stand back and watch us eat the rich then.",
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"content": "You guys couldn't even win a California primary, so I am not too concerned. ",
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"content": "Lots of excuses. \n\nRevolutions don't have excuses. \n\nRevolutions won't happen with hashtags and angry FB screeds. \n\nIf you couldn't even mobilize your own voters then stop with this nonsense. \n\n",
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"content": "The \"documents\" are horseshit. \n\nTens of thousands of people /= millions of votes \n\nClinton crushed him in nearly every facet. \n\nThat's not a rigged election, that's a failed candidacy, \n\nAmazing how people think when a socialist from the 80s who did nothing in office for 30 years loses to one of the most qualified people to run for the office, it's somehow rigged. \n\nSanders never led in national polls, never won a big state except for Michigan and never won the minority. \n\nGet a grip on reality. This is why Sanders lost. Because you need objective perspective in a campaign in order to adapt.\n\nHe lost. Not because of any rigging but because 4 million people did not vote for him. ",
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"content": "Universal yes, single payer no.",
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"content": "> food, healthcare, and a living wage before we talk about internet?\n\nWhere will that internet come from? Magic pixies installing it overnight?\n\nNo, people will install it. People will maintain the system. That means new, higher-wage jobs.\n\nInfrastructure investment increases employment. Employed people spend money. That increases community prosperity and in turn generates more jobs. This is all Econ 101 stuff.",
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"content": "OK Mr. hillary for Prison and /r/conspiracy, ever heard of the concept of teaching people to fish? Poorer people are at a huge educational disadvantage because of lack of broadband and you want to keep them there by treating the symptoms instead of addressing things systematically? Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour doesn't do me any good if my kids are falling behind because they can't keep up with the other kids educationally. Pretty short-term thinking there. But who wants the revolution again?",
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"content": "Thank you for voting. The only way your vote is wasted is if you don't vote.",
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"content": "Thanks for that serriously!! I wish more people were like you on that note.",
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"content": "No, if you vote for Mickey Mouse, your vote is wasted. \n\nVoting is a responsibility. Not a selfie on Facebook. ",
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"content": "Still don't get it?\n\nVoting to just vote, and thinking \"the only way your vote is wasted is if you don't vote\" is self-congratulating claptrap. \n\nVoting is wasted when they don't matter. \n\nWriting in Homer Simpson and thinking you did okay because at least you voted is the most irresponsible thing you can do. \n\nVoting is not self-indulgent. It's not romantic. \n\nIt's a responsibility to your country and community. ",
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"content": "Jill Stein is the Mickey Mouse. \n\nA wasted vote. Not even on all the state ballots. \n\nSo anyone voting for her is only doing so for feels and self-congratulations. \n\nNot because of the issues, because they are working against those issues by voting for a third party psuedo-progressive. \n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "No one is threatening you, you are a Trump supporter. That is not a threat. ",
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"content": "How are they a Trump supporter? Because they don't want to vote for Clinton? Voting for the candidate that best represents your ideals is better than voting against a candidate that represents your ideals the least. At least with the former, you can say that you went with your ideals rather than being strong armed into voting for someone you don't agree with because you disagree with someone else more.",
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"content": "They are a Trump supporter because math. Splitting the liberal vote benefits Trump. \n\nNot my fault. Blame math. ",
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"content": "Why don't you go ahead and walk us through the math?",
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"content": "Liberals who vote third party take away votes that should go towards opposing the orange peril. \n\nLiberals who are voting third party are doing so out of spite and protest towards the DNC.\n\nSo yeah, it's net support for the Turnip. \n\n",
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"content": "Explain the math behind what you just said, because I still don't get how you equate that as a \"net support for Trump (let's not insult turnips).\"",
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"content": "Because voting third party left idealist (if you can even consider Stein that, when she is not) when you have a center left candidate that would prevent a disaster for this country, does not cancel out one of his disaster votes. \n\nMath. Splitting the vote is not a hard concept. \n\nIf that's what they want to do, then that's their choice. It's a free country.\n\nBut we are going to call it what it is. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "And what evidence do you have that that disproportionately benefits Trump?\n\nSee, you can keep saying \"math\" as an explanation but I'm a little concerned that you can't break it down and show your work.",
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"content": "I just explained that. Have you ever heard of the phrase \"splitting the vote\"?",
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"content": "Just saying \"splitting the vote\" doesn't explain it. So actually take the time to outline exactly what you're saying happens when a left-leaning individual doesn't vote Democrat.\n\nI will admit, so far it seems as if you just want to throw out words but don't have an understanding of the issue that you are suggesting exists.",
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"content": "I just did. How many ways would you like it explained? ",
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"content": "You only said that it doesn't cancel out one of his votes. That's not a real explanation. We can even use hypothetical numbers if you'd like.\n\nIf Hillary Clinton gets 54 percent of the vote in Washington state, Donald Trump gets 44 percent, and Jill Stein gets 2 percent of the vote ... Who gets the delegates for the state? Well, Washington state is winner take all (as far as I know). So all 12 general election delegates would be awarded to Clinton.\n\nSo please explain to me what math you are using to suggest that a vote for Jill Stein hurts Clinton or helps Trump. Especially considering that 2 percent of the vote would be very generous for Stein, even in Washington.",
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"content": "If you really seriously want to know, and you haven't researched the spoiler effect on your own by now, I suggest you take a look at [this](https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo) video. The spoiler effect part starts around 5 minutes in, but the lead up discusses first past the post voting systems - albeit in a slightly simplified way - which is the system we have, and the reason for the spoiler effect being a thing in the first place. I highly recommend you watch the whole thing.\n\nIf you're still unclear on where the math comes in, I can try to expand on it a bit. Also, feel free to view Grey's other election/politics videos. They're pretty good and also fairly comprehensive.",
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"content": "Don't be patronizing. I know what we're talking about. The issue with most of the mathematic models that are used to help describe our political landscape is that here is a limited data set, and that natural phenomenon aren't easily described. I mean, we're talking about human behavior in a way that's only seen every 8 years, with a different electorate and candidates each time.\n\nNow, the math itself likely describes a couple of elections quite accurately. But this doesn't inherently indicate the type of relationship that people are claiming. Additionally, there are likely several elections that simply defy this relationship, as well as this mathematical description.\n\nEssentially, your making an argument based on evidence with questionable applicability.",
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"content": "Uh, because if it's Trump 49.5%, Clinton 49% and Stein 1.5% it means Stein voters split the votes and handed the state to Trump. \n\nThat's called math. \n",
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"content": "That means that Clinton wasn't able to claim those votes. They aren't owed to her, and they likely wouldn't have voted if they didn't register a protest vote regardless. The only people responsible for Clinton's campaign and its efficiency is the Clinton campaign.",
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"content": "No one said they were owed to her, and no one said her campaign is the responsibly of the voters.\n\nOnce again, you are mischaracterizing what was said. \n\nWhat I said is they are Trump supporters because the result is the same. \n\nThat's fine. It's their choice. But we are going to call it what it is. \n\n \n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "No, not erratic at all. Actually pretty consistent and clear. \n\nAre you sure you know what the term \"splitting the vote\" means? Seriously. ",
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"content": "look up spoiler effect and it does exist. Its a split electorate and when a reliable member of the voting bloc doesnt participate they lose. If you dont believe this, youre a moron.",
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"content": "Ever heard of Ralph Nader?",
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"content": "Obviously I have. What I've never heard is a solid argument as to why we should blame his campaign for Gore's loss in '00 rather than a host of other factors such as an uninspired campaign on Gore's part, years of Clinton scandals souring the public on Democrats, an electoral system that really wasn't built to honor voters, jiggery-pokery ballet issues, and a Supreme Court decision that willfully ignored the will of the voters.",
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"content": "Liberals who vote 3rd party in this election aren't liberals.",
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"content": "Everything you said was correct except your first paragraph. \n\nVoting fringe (Stein) is a fringe candidate because you believe it's standing up is misguided. \n\nYou do damage to their beliefs you supposedly care about. \n\nIt's much better to deal with the \"lesser of evils\" because politics is attrition and constant. Not one vote for President. \n\nThat is why Bernie Busters tend to be younger. Because they have a sense of instant gratification. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "> Everything you said was correct except your first paragraph.\n\nI don't understand what you mean...The other two paragraphs support the first.\n\n> You do damage to their beliefs you supposedly care about.\n\nHow so?\n\n> That is why Bernie Busters tend to be younger. Because they have a sense of instant gratification.\n\nThat sounds insulting. Maybe the items Bernie talked about relates to younger people more, like free community college, free health care, and higher minimum wage. Maybe the glacial rate of change didn't pan out, as the country is moving to the right more and more each day, and larger strides need to be taken to move the country in a leftward direction again? There are many reasons why young people vote for Bernie, not all of them having to do with their reportedly short attention span and lack of resolve.",
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"content": "- No, they do not. Because when you cop out by voting for a fringe third party, it's not standing up for your beliefs. It's standing up for your delicate ego. \n\n- \"How so?\" - It's the act of taking three steps back (by splitting the vote) all because your feelings were hurt because you didn't get your three-steps-ahead you wanted. Instead of just settling for the one step ahead, \n\n- I didn't say Sanders supporters, I said Bernie Busters. Most Sanders supporters have already came over because these issues are important to them and they would far more prefer Clinton than splitting the vote and working against those interests.",
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"content": "> No, they do not. Because when you cop out by voting for a fringe third party, it's not standing up for your beliefs. It's standing up for your delicate ego.\n\nRight...and totally not because that third party candidate might represent them better. The OP was closer to the mark when they said:\n\n>Liberals who vote 3rd party in this election aren't liberals.\n\nSome Sanders supporters were conservatives who didn't like what their party was offering, and were using Sanders as a protest vote. Some Sanders supporters are socialists who saw Sanders as a step in that direction, especially with Sanders' commitment to supporting worker co-ops, a libertarian socialist style of running a business. Still other supporters are progressives, which from what I'm told isn't entirely in line with liberalism, but have some differences. Not everyone voting for Sanders were liberals in the first place.\n\n>I didn't say Sanders supporters, I said Bernie Busters. Most Sanders supporters have already came over because these issues are important to them and they would far more prefer Clinton than splitting the vote and working against those interests.\n\nYou should define your terms sometime. I don't know what your lingo means, dude - speak plainly. From what I understand, only half of all Sanders supporters now support Clinton, not the majority like you claim. Not all Sanders supporters believe that Clinton supports their interests. Some supporters simply want change, which is an asinine reason, but whatever. Some supporters want more social programs put in place, like single payer healthcare - social programs Clinton is hesitant to implement, and in the case of single payer healthcare, outright said no to. Still other supporters are looking for the US to shift from capitalism to socialism (like I mentioned above), and see Sanders as a step in that direction. For the second and third groups of people, voting for a third party candidate represents their interests more than Clinton, especially if they're tired of the \"lesser of two evils\" game. It doesn't always have to do with their \"delicate ego,\" a trait you seem to possess, since you seem oddly put off by the idea that the liberal/conservative dichotomy is false, and that there are other ideas out there pushed by passionate people who want to make a change in the country.",
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"content": "The same Jill Stein who sided with Trump on Brexit? ",
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"content": "Do you mean this??? http://www.jill2016.com/stein_calls_britain_vote_a_wake_up_call\nI wouldn't say that is exactly the same as Trumps stance. Where he openly says that the racists in the UK are right.",
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"content": "The same Stein who thinks vaccines cause autism? ",
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"content": "They didn't need to. Clinton's base, excluding those now joining out of necessity, is not policy-oriented. All they care about is beating Trump and having the first female president. They consider progressive policy a burden imposed on them by petulant Sanders fans, whom they deride for having the unmitigated gall to ask.",
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"content": "holy projection batman. Maybe Hillary Clinton has policies you just didnt bother to look up on her own website and has a senate voting history that doesnt necessarily agree with your feelings on her.",
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"content": "Dafuq are you stilling doing here then?\n\nWe are not policy-oriented?\n\nYou have dim-witted Sanders supporters who don't even know their registration day, think Presidents can break up banks, and even think Sanders can be considered for VP while he is still running for President. \n\nROTFLMAO",
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