Democratic National Convention **live commentary thread**

[Devout Centrist]

Thankfully Schultz isn't gaveling in the convention.

[Devout Centrist]

That choir gives me a little hope tonight won't be a disaster. Also imagine if DWS just showed up... would be a very bad look to start with boos.

She isn't showing up. Tonight won't be a disaster at all.

[Devout Centrist]

Protestors having a sit-in trying to stop delegates to entering the hall.

You know, the left keeps wondering why its ideas never seem to expand to a larger audience...this is why.

[Devout Centrist]

These stupid f-ckers are going to hand the election to Trump. I am furious. Hillary is so decent. She came way closer in 2008 and we saw none of this garbage. When will they get it through their thick skulls that they f-cking LOST.

The left loves doing this, especially to the center left. It's why they never gain traction. They've been pulling this kind of Bs since George McGovern.

[Devout Centrist]

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

They will, unless you give everyone life in prison.

[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.

[Devout Centrist]

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?

People committing crimes or people who have done their time?

I've got no problem with people who have paid their debt to society.

[Devout Centrist]

https://vine.co/v/5m3jwAEMjQq

what

It's the same with Cruz. He will be on the ballot, but he won't win.

[Devout Centrist]

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?

People committing crimes or people who have done their time?

I've got no problem with people who have paid their debt to society.

People who commit crimes. I don't trust serial killers. Democrats need to be careful with this death penalty crap, it could cost them in the suburbs of America.

Getting rid of the death penalty doesn't mean you get to go back home if you're a serial killer.

There is such a term as "life in prison".

[Devout Centrist]

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?

People committing crimes or people who have done their time?

I've got no problem with people who have paid their debt to society.

People who commit crimes. I don't trust serial killers. Democrats need to be careful with this death penalty crap, it could cost them in the suburbs of America.

Wait, so do you think that if the death penalty were abolished that everybody on death row would just be let out of prison? What are you talking about?

Um, yes. That's what President Obama has been doing since 2015. Releasing people like that,  it's not safe.

Nonviolent offenders aren't serial killers.

Stick to Facebook threads.

[Devout Centrist]

Everybody needs to take a chill pill. At least give Bernie a chance to smooth things over with his speech, then let's see where things stand tomorrow.

I'm afraid Bernie's own delegates are gonna boo him if he even mentions supporting Hillary.

Seems like most of the boos occur when Sanders supporters who now support Hillary speak.

Ouroboros.

[Devout Centrist]

I wish Ann Richards was still alive.

The Democratic Party of the 90's is gone, for better or worse.

[Devout Centrist]

Haven't seen much on this thread, other than the usual Hillary hacks freaking out blaming everything on Bernie, and the Republican hacks rubbing their hands.

What is neglected is the fundamentals that the Democratic Party is deeply divided regarding foreign and economic policy, over decades of poor decisions going back to the early 1990s and the time of the DLC.

We saw NAFTA rammed down our throat supported by a Democratic President, where the vast majority our Senators and Reps voted against.

Personally, I saw (500) jobs disappear virtually overnight in a (9,000 employee) manufacturing facility of a Fortune 500 company where I worked, where the starting pay was $11.50-13.50/Hour (DOE) back in the mid '90s, including two friends that worked on those lines. Subsequently, the same company shut down virtually all manufacturing lines and relocated them to Ireland, Puerto Rico, and Singapore, and several thousand more high paying manufacturing jobs (Including management, engineers, sales and marketing, etc...) in order to take advantage of corporate tax loopholes.

These stories exist across America, and yes the Democratic Party at senior levels was responsible for that trade agreement.

Is it any wonder that Donald Trump has made this a major issue, when it appears for many Democratic voters that the Party is so much in favor of "Free Trade" without providing "Fair Trade" that actually provides the labor and environmental protections, job retraining and education policies that were promised when the Democratic Party DLC (Now thankfully retired) chose to go that route???

I know many posters on this forum, including a huge number of red avatars, don't actually remember what happened because they are too young, nor saw friends, family, and even communities impacted by the destruction caused by a Neo-Corporatist vision as part of a giant "race to the bottom" based upon a Globalist vision that appears to care more about Wall Street investors where everything is Profit/Loss and not about investing in America Inc....

Don't blame Bernie for actually speaking the truth when it comes to the collusion of *both* political parties in the selling out of America to the highest bidder.

No, I contest the idea that anecdotes should be taken as facts, especially on free trade.

[Devout Centrist]

Rep Sanchez: "Trump is bad, he is a meanie, and I don't like him."

Replace Trump with minorities and you just summed up Trump's campaign in a sentence. Well done.

[Devout Centrist]

If they boo at a child, then that's really bad optics.

[Devout Centrist]

Speak English we are in America. The average person doesn't speak Spanish

Are you literally a meme?

[Devout Centrist]

Speak English we are in America. The average person doesn't speak Spanish

Are you literally a meme?

No

Then you're just ignorant?

[Devout Centrist]

Speak English we are in America. The average person doesn't speak Spanish

... you really are unpleasant. Hopefully you'll grow out of it.

He may have a point. I speak Spanish. I don't know if that will play well with swing voters.

Unless it's entirely in Spanish, there's not going to be a problem.

[Devout Centrist]

Speak English we are in America. The average person doesn't speak Spanish

Are you literally a meme?

No

Then you're just ignorant?

I guess supporting assimilation and speaking English in an English speaking country is now ignorant. Sad

Hmm, no, though thanks for throwing straw at me.

[Devout Centrist]

Speak English we are in America. The average person doesn't speak Spanish

Honestly you're being quite rude. There was Spanish at the RNC too, you know.

Open borders and "live and let live", are anathema to authoritarians.

[Devout Centrist]

Sooooo many people falling for Classic Conservative's bait. Sad!

I offered him the chance to become a living meme. He declined.

[Devout Centrist]

The exploitation of the Hispanic girl's story was a bit much. Trump is terrible on immigration, but that doesn't justify stuff like that.

Compared to the mother of a man killed at Benghazi, that's hardly exploitation.

[Devout Centrist]

I can't believe it took identity politics to shut up the Green Tea Party crowd.

These people are driven by it. We are talking about people who tend to fit the bill as SJW's.

[Devout Centrist]

Sooooo many people falling for Classic Conservative's bait. Sad!

I offered him the chance to become a living meme. He declined.

That's not something you're offered everyday. Can't imagine why he declined.

Presumably, because he's serious.

[Devout Centrist]

The exploitation of the Hispanic girl's story was a bit much. Trump is terrible on immigration, but that doesn't justify stuff like that.

Compared to the mother of a man killed at Benghazi, that's hardly exploitation.

Why do you need to compare this to the RNC? Exploitation is exploitation.

I'm comparing exploitation to exploitation. If you want, I could use Superfly as an example instead.