Democratic National Convention **live commentary thread**

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

anyways, to the people complaining about the ~horrible bernie-bros~ () ― that's what happens when you spend the entire primary season sh¡tting on both sanders and his supporters ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ

Two wrongs don't make one right.

oh, i'm not saying that. but it's hard to feel sorry for the likes of lief and jerry, or whoever

[Suburbia]

Ben Jealous for Maryland governor or Senate if Cardin retires in 2018?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

anyways, to the people complaining about the ~horrible bernie-bros~ () ― that's what happens when you spend the entire primary season sh¡tting on both sanders and his supporters ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ

Yes. Clinton supporters should stop playing saints, or abandon their entitlement mentality (zomgz how they dared oppose The Hillary?). I supported Sanders during primary, now I'm hoping for Clinton victory, but, God, some of your attitudes are making me sick. So yeah, continue to push them away, but don't complain later.

Why not push the people in this crowd away.  They are never going to vote for us.  They are nihilist assholes who want to burn down the system.  Nothing more.

5-10% of Sanders voters are like that, but the vast majority are ready to play with the team. Please see some distinction. Those are ones the party will need in November and in the future. They are not f**king enemies here.

[JerryArkansas]

anyways, to the people complaining about the ~horrible bernie-bros~ () ― that's what happens when you spend the entire primary season sh¡tting on both sanders and his supporters ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ

Yes. Clinton supporters should stop playing saints, or abandon their entitlement mentality (zomgz how they dared oppose The Hillary?). I supported Sanders during primary, now I'm hoping for Clinton victory, but, God, some of your attitudes are making me sick. So yeah, continue to push them away, but don't complain later.

Why not push the people in this crowd away.  They are never going to vote for us.  They are nihilist assholes who want to burn down the system.  Nothing more.

Nihilist? You're the dude who became a Democrat to piss his parents off, and you're calling Bernie supporters white nihilists?

Lol, where did you get that dumb idea?

[JerryArkansas]

anyways, to the people complaining about the ~horrible bernie-bros~ () ― that's what happens when you spend the entire primary season sh¡tting on both sanders and his supporters ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ

Yes. Clinton supporters should stop playing saints, or abandon their entitlement mentality (zomgz how they dared oppose The Hillary?). I supported Sanders during primary, now I'm hoping for Clinton victory, but, God, some of your attitudes are making me sick. So yeah, continue to push them away, but don't complain later.

Why not push the people in this crowd away.  They are never going to vote for us.  They are nihilist assholes who want to burn down the system.  Nothing more.

5-10% of Sanders voters are like that, but the vast majority are ready to play with the team. Please see some distinction. Those are ones the party will need in November and in the future. They are not f**king enemies here.

And we do, read the posts.  Only calling out the booing members.

[DrScholl]

So far, there have been more Sanders supporters on the stage than there were Cruz supporters on stage at the RNC.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

anyways, to the people complaining about the ~horrible bernie-bros~ () ― that's what happens when you spend the entire primary season sh¡tting on both sanders and his supporters ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ

Yes. Clinton supporters should stop playing saints, or abandon their entitlement mentality (zomgz how they dared oppose The Hillary?). I supported Sanders during primary, now I'm hoping for Clinton victory, but, God, some of your attitudes are making me sick. So yeah, continue to push them away, but don't complain later.

Why not push the people in this crowd away.  They are never going to vote for us.  They are nihilist assholes who want to burn down the system.  Nothing more.

Nihilist? You're the dude who became a Democrat to piss his parents off, and you're calling Bernie supporters white nihilists?

Lol, where did you get that dumb idea?

Probably where you got the idea that most Sanders delegates went to the 2012 RNC as Paul delegates?

[Suburbia]

Yeah abolish the death penalty, and criminals return in our towns and cities.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

anyways, to the people complaining about the ~horrible bernie-bros~ () ― that's what happens when you spend the entire primary season sh¡tting on both sanders and his supporters ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ

Yes. Clinton supporters should stop playing saints, or abandon their entitlement mentality (zomgz how they dared oppose The Hillary?). I supported Sanders during primary, now I'm hoping for Clinton victory, but, God, some of your attitudes are making me sick. So yeah, continue to push them away, but don't complain later.

Why not push the people in this crowd away.  They are never going to vote for us.  They are nihilist assholes who want to burn down the system.  Nothing more.

5-10% of Sanders voters are like that, but the vast majority are ready to play with the team. Please see some distinction. Those are ones the party will need in November and in the future. They are not f**king enemies here.

And we do, read the posts.  Only calling out the booing members.

OK, but I see too much generalization booing jerks = Sanders voters in this thread.

[JerryArkansas]

anyways, to the people complaining about the ~horrible bernie-bros~ () ― that's what happens when you spend the entire primary season sh¡tting on both sanders and his supporters ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ

Two wrongs don't make one right.

oh, i'm not saying that. but it's hard to feel sorry for the likes of lief and jerry, or whoever

Guess when Germany is invaded by Russia, I shouldn't feel sorry for them because of you?

[Devout Centrist]

Yeah abolish the death penalty, and criminals return in our towns and cities.

They will, unless you give everyone life in prison.

[afleitch]

anyways, to the people complaining about the ~horrible bernie-bros~ () ― that's what happens when you spend the entire primary season sh¡tting on both sanders and his supporters ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ

Yes. Clinton supporters should stop playing saints, or abandon their entitlement mentality (zomgz how they dared oppose The Hillary?). I supported Sanders during primary, now I'm hoping for Clinton victory, but, God, some of your attitudes are making me sick. So yeah, continue to push them away, but don't complain later.

Why not push the people in this crowd away.  They are never going to vote for us.  They are nihilist assholes who want to burn down the system.  Nothing more.

5-10% of Sanders voters are like that, but the vast majority are ready to play with the team. Please see some distinction. Those are ones the party will need in November and in the future. They are not f**king enemies here.

And we do, read the posts.  Only calling out the booing members.

OK, but I see too much generalization booing jerks = Sanders voters in this thread.

Who might they be then?

[JerryArkansas]

anyways, to the people complaining about the ~horrible bernie-bros~ () ― that's what happens when you spend the entire primary season sh¡tting on both sanders and his supporters ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ

Yes. Clinton supporters should stop playing saints, or abandon their entitlement mentality (zomgz how they dared oppose The Hillary?). I supported Sanders during primary, now I'm hoping for Clinton victory, but, God, some of your attitudes are making me sick. So yeah, continue to push them away, but don't complain later.

Why not push the people in this crowd away.  They are never going to vote for us.  They are nihilist assholes who want to burn down the system.  Nothing more.

Nihilist? You're the dude who became a Democrat to piss his parents off, and you're calling Bernie supporters white nihilists?

Lol, where did you get that dumb idea?

Probably where you got the idea that most Sanders delegates went to the 2012 RNC as Paul delegates?

I did not say that.  I said supporters.

[Suburbia]

Yes, I agree. End the War on Drugs. But I don't want a druggie near me at work. But them at rehab. Their trainwrecks.

[Gass3268]

Yeah abolish the death penalty, and criminals return in our towns and cities.

Lol, because the states with no death penalty are filled with criminals.

[SteveRogers]

Yeah abolish the death penalty, and criminals return in our towns and cities.

That's not how that works.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

anyways, to the people complaining about the ~horrible bernie-bros~ () ― that's what happens when you spend the entire primary season sh¡tting on both sanders and his supporters ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ

Two wrongs don't make one right.

oh, i'm not saying that. but it's hard to feel sorry for the likes of lief and jerry, or whoever

Guess when Germany is invaded by Russia, I shouldn't feel sorry for them because of you?

I'll certainly feel sorry for my American friends if Trump wins, even though at the same time I'd consider the mindless hacks getting what they deserved (albeit at very high cost).

[Devout Centrist]

Yes, I agree. End the War on Drugs. But I don't want a druggie near me at work. But them at rehab. Their trainwrecks.

I agree, lock up the people with terrible grammar. Send them to grammar rehab.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Ben Jealous sounds like a Simpsons character.

[Suburbia]

Yeah abolish the death penalty, and criminals return in our towns and cities.

They will, unless you give everyone life in prison.

I don't want criminals near me. Do you?

[Fusionmunster]

He was good.

[Bojack Horseman]

Someone's going to tell these hecklers to STFU in the middle of their speech and I'm going to laugh.

[Fusionmunster]

There's some unity.

[Boston Bread]

Yeah abolish the death penalty, and criminals return in our towns and cities.

They will, unless you give everyone life in prison.

I don't want criminals near me. Do you?

Consider moving to Canada then.

[NOVA Green]

We're witnessing the birth of the Green Tea Party.

Well Green Tea is legal where I live....

More seriously---- yes there is a large section of the core base of the Democratic Party that *voted* twice for Obama, and believes that he has brought significant progress to the country, followed through on almost all of his campaign promises, and as a President is man of integrity and conviction, whose progressive agenda was thwarted at every turn by Republicans in the House and Senate.

There is a deep yearning among 50% of the Democratic Party base to expand upon the Obama legacy, move it further with key economic policies, and is skeptical of Hillary's record on war and peace, trade policies, environmental record, as well as a perspective that the Party Establishment made up their minds back last Summer to back Hillary, regardless of *whomever* the challenger might be.

Reality is that the vast majority of Bernie supporters will vote Hillary come November, but yes there is something akin to a "Green Tea Party", or as some would say a "Watermelon" movement within the party that will not go away, regardless of how distracting it might be at this moment within the current election cycle.