Bernie Sanders For President

[Cylnar]

And Bernie got screwed again in four out of five states last night. The system is working as it was rigged to.

And get a load of this from yesterday:

Hillary Clinton Trolls Shut Down Pro-Bernie Sanders Facebook Groups
by Amanda Girard
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
http://usuncut.com/politics/bernie-facebook-groups-trolled/

Some of the biggest pro-Bernie Sanders groups on Facebook were briefly taken down Monday evening in a targeted attack by Hillary Clinton supporters.

The groups Bernie Sanders Activists, Bernie Believers, BERNIE OR BUST, Bernie Sanders Revolutionaries, Bay Area for Bernie, Bernie Sanders 2016 — Ideas Welcome, Bernie Sanders is my HERO, and Bernie Sanders for President 2016 were all taken down in the attack. The pages in question were reported to be down for about three hours, from 9 p.m. to midnight Monday night.

Collectively, these groups are home to more than a quarter million Bernie Sanders supporters, and some have been in existence for nearly a year, having been launched shortly after the Vermont senator declared his intent to run for president in 2015.

The groups were targeted by online trolls, who posted pornographic images and reported the groups to Facebook admins. Some legitimate Bernie supporters even reported seeing images containing pedophilia, according to reporting from Heavy.com.

Erica Libenow, a Sanders supporter and member of one of the pro-Bernie groups, said, "We had what looked like a kiddie porn posted in one of our groups today. I reported that one. Seriously made me want to vomit."

There is at least one culprit to be found in Facebook user Casey Champagne, who bragged about taking down the pages in the pro-Hillary Clinton group BROS 4 HILLARY – #GiveEmHill — the pro-Clinton page was briefly taken down, but was restored on Tuesday.

Other Hillary Clinton fans were cheering on Champagne's trolling, encouraging him to try to take down Bernie Sanders' official Facebook page. Another Facebook user openly admitted that her husband frequently reported pro-Sanders posts on Facebook in hopes that they would be taken down, saying his success rate was "about 50/50 on a good day."

Facebook user Robert Olivarez told Champagne, "You know they all can see this post?" Champagne cavalierly responded, "You know I don't care?"

Champagne, and possibly other Clinton supporters, essentially mass-reported content in these pro-Sanders Facebook groups claiming the content was graphically violent, pornographic, or abusive — including the reprehensible content posted by Clinton supporters themselves. Facebook's automated systems take note of how many individuals report a particular post, and if the post is reported enough, it will be taken down. This same process applies to groups, pages, and individual user accounts.

Bros 4 Hillary (B4H) sent US Uncut this statement on Tuesday morning:

   Last night, a former member by the name of Casey Champagne decided to engage in harassing behavior toward Facebook groups of Bernie Sanders and posted about it in the B4H Facebook group.  As stated above, this was not promoted or supported by the leadership of B4H, nor were we immediately aware of this conduct. We removed the offending posts and member as soon as possible. While our leadership team of administrators tries to catch every questionable post and comment, with over 7,000 members and on a 24-hour posting cycle, some fall through the cracks. We rely on members to "flag and report" harmful, offensive, or trolling behavior, and apologize to the groups that were affected. This member acted on his own authority, is not apart of our leadership team, and does not represent our ideals or our opinions.

Casey Champagne did not immediately respond to interview requests from US Uncut.

It's still unclear if these gutter tactics are tied to Correct the Record, the pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC that openly declared last week that it would launch a sophisticated social media campaign aimed at Bernie Sanders supporters. Correct the Record earmarked $1 million for the effort, named "Barrier Breakers 2016," which aims to "correct" Sanders supporters who criticize Hillary Clinton on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram. However, some of Casey Champagne's recent likes are Correct the Record, Barrier Breakers, and an anti-Sanders page called "Pragmatic Progressives."

The shutdown of pro-Sanders groups comes just one day before a crucial string of primaries in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, where 384 pledged delegates are at stake.

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Fucking shills.

[Tessera]

It's all over.

Once again, the Establishment has profited from the apathy and the gullibility of the American people sheeple.

[Ratcatcher]

I'm seriously considering moving farther north. 

[Tessera]

America... is this REALLY what you people want..?



...

At this point, I'm hoping that the FBI indicts Hillary for her numerous crimes, prior to the Dem. Convention.

Sanders needs to stay in this fight... to the bitter end. Forcing a contested convention should be his next plan.

Win or lose, Bernie Sanders has the support of the American people. And that statement needs to be pushed.


PS -- C'mon, Wikileaks..!!! Assange..? Where the hell are you people..?! We all need you... badly.

[Drazgar]

Ouchy.

Aren't these eyes from the Christopher Lee's portrayal of Dracula? They suit her well given her pursuits, I should think...

[Tessera]

LOL... I hadn't even thought about it until you mentioned it. The only thing I changed in that photo was her teeth, and I added a trickle of blood from her mouth. The rest of it is 100% the real Hillary.

But now that you bring it up, yeah... if you took Christopher Lee's face from one of his Dracula portrayals, and then just tack Hillary's hair on top of Lee's face... and wow, it's almost a perfect match.




PS -- best movie Dracula EVER, BTW.

[Tessera]

Lately, the media seems to be trying to encourage Bernie Sanders to endorse Hillary Clinton.

You wanna know what I think..?

Endorsing Hillary Clinton would be the worst thing that Sanders could possibly do. For many reasons -- but I'm gonna focus on one reason in particular.

Just imagine this, for a moment: Hillary Clinton's criminal past finally sees the light of day, and she is indicted. Possibly jailed. Possibly forced to resign, if she happens to be the President at the time. Then do you know what that means for Sanders..? He goes down in history as the guy who, in the 11th hour, endorsed a criminal for President.

No way, Bernie... don't even go there. Just keep your distance.

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Lately, the media seems to be trying to encourage Bernie Sanders to endorse Hillary Clinton.

You wanna know what I think..?

Endorsing Hillary Clinton would be the worst thing that Sanders could possibly do. For many reasons -- but I'm gonna focus on one reason in particular.

Just imagine this, for a moment: Hillary Clinton's criminal past finally sees the light of day, and she is indicted. Possibly jailed. Possibly forced to resign, if she happens to be the President at the time. Then do you know what that means for Sanders..? He goes down in history as the guy who, in the 11th hour, endorsed a criminal for President.

No way, Bernie... don't even go there. Just keep your distance.

Not to mention that would be bad for the party as a whole.

[Tessera]

Oh man... SCREW the party. The Democrats are nothing but slimy corporate boot-lickers these days... same as the Republicans.

Bernie should go back to being an Independent... or maybe join the party that I belong to (the Green Party).

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Oh man... SCREW the party. The Democrats are nothing but slimy corporate boot-lickers these days... same as the Republicans.

Bernie should go back to being an Independent... or maybe join the party that I belong to (the Green Party).

Yea maybe a implosion in one of the main parties will finally get the people to go 3rd party for once.

Going independent is what Bernie should do if he doesn't get picked.

[Orsalak]

I would love for him to make an independent run, but I just don't see it happening.

[perez007usa]

This is a chance to see all the GOP and the DEM are really made of, and you know what I mean.

[Cylnar]

Sanders expected to endorse Clinton on Tuesday: New York Times
Reuters
Thursday, July 7, 2016
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/sanders-expected-to-endorse-clinton-on-tuesday-new-york-times/

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders is expected to endorse Democrat Hillary Clinton for president on Tuesday at a campaign event in New Hampshire, the New York Times reported on Thursday.

Citing three Democrats who have been involved in the planning, the Times said the endorsement was partly the result of daily talks between the two candidates' campaign managers about bringing together the two rivals and advancing Sanders' policy priorities.

[Tessera]

No comment.

Except to say that I'm utterly disgusted.

[Tessera]

No comment.

Except to say that I'm utterly disgusted.

After watching some highlights from the 2016 Democratic Convention, I'm even more disgusted than I was before.

I'm so disgusted, in fact, that I am now going to advise everyone who supported Bernie Sanders to do one of the following two things:

(1) Vote for Donald Trump in November... or...

(2) Don't vote at all.


Sounds crazy, eh..?

No -- it isn't as crazy as it sounds. A vote for Hillary Clinton will amount to our tacit approval of the ILLEGAL activities conducted by Clinton's staff, as well as by the Democratic National Committee in general. These revolting oligarchs do not deserve to be rewarded for tampering with voter registrations, locking enormous numbers of voters out of the primaries, and deliberately doing everything that they could do to torpedo the Sanders campaign.

Voting for Donald Trump sounds horrible, I know. There is no question, so far as I am concerned, that a Trump presidency will be ruinous for America. But you know what..? I think that might just be what has to happen at this point: America needs to be ruined. The American sheeple are still far too brainwashed, complacent and obedient to stand up for themselves and tear apart the corrupt ruling class. Americans have been bought off, so far, with cheap electronic toys, inexpensive and inferior Chinese-made disposable products, brainless and mind-numbing TV shows, and gimmicks, propaganda and rhetoric, and a crapload of disinformation. So maybe the only way to shock these people back to their senses is to deliberately keep voting for vicious right-wing lunatics (like Trump) until finally... FINALLY... everyone is hurting SO BAD that they are ready to actively... even militantly, if need be... take this country back.

In any dilemma that seems unsolvable, it is often helpful to change any variable and then step back and re-examine the problem. I am suggesting that we change one of those variables -- by electing people that we know will be absolutely terrible choices. It may sound counter-intuitive, but I don't think it is. I see it as being more of a way to nudge the dilemma towards the point of critical mass, so to speak. If trying to elect good people like Sanders didn't work, for whatever reason, then let's try changing a different variable: let's elect nothing but bad people. This will introduce a change (albeit a negative one) into the dilemma and then, we can all step back and re-examine the problem.

Of course, I realize that the thought of voting for a psychotic douchebag like Trump is simply too horrifying for most true lefties to bear. So to them I say: then simply DO NOT VOTE AT ALL. The ruling class is going to get their way, regardless of who you vote for. Clearly, the entire "democratic process" has been rigged. So you may as well sleep with a clear conscience... and refuse to participate in a faux democracy that has been usurped by the ultra-rich.  

As for myself, I haven't yet decided what to do. Probably not vote at all, since there is absolutely nothing to be lost by abstaining.

I predict that voter turnout in November will be the lowest of all time. And by a large margin.

[perez007usa]

You are not the only one who might do this. It;s going to get worse before it gets better, or maybe not.

[Cylnar]

I switched my party affiliation to Green the day after Bernie endorsed Hillary (I had switched previously from independent to Democrat to vote for Bernie). I'm planning to vote for Dr. Stein (as I did in the last election).