Bernie Sanders Discussion Thread

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Originally posted by reaverfan:

In 1963, Bernie Sanders participated in MLK’s Civil Rights March. One of only 2 sitting US Senators to have heard MLK’s “I have a Dream Speech” in person in the march on Washington, DC.

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I just picked this one accomplishment at random. And what did I find? Click: www.snopes.com/sanders-mlk-selma-march/

You found that, according to Snopes, reaverfan was right?

www.snopes.com/sanders-mlk-selma-march/

Origin: On 20 January 2016, the web site Democratic Underground posted a photograph purportedly showing Bernie Sanders participating in a 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery (Alabama) with Martin Luther King, Jr. The web site identified the man standing "behind Coretta King, just right of Old Glory in the glasses, white 't' shirt, open collar and dark jacket" as the future United States senator and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate.

Even Sanders himself hasn't claimed he took part in the march

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However, according to Snopes, he did say he participated in the event where MLK gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech, and was very active in the Chicago Civil Rights Movement.

For the record the March on Washington, where MLK gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech (1963) and which Sanders says he participated in, was a different event in a different year than the march from Selma to Montgomery (1965). It was the march from Selma that the Democratic Underground claimed Sanders participated in, but which Sanders himself never claimed.

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If Hillary Clinton wins in November, it won’t happen because America has gotten over sexism or because the Democrats have forged a pathway to the future. It will be because she was nominated by the party that is dying slowly and somewhat politely, rather than the one that just blew itself up in public with a suicide vest.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:

However, according to Snopes, he did say he participated in the event where MLK gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech, and was very active in the Chicago Civil Rights Movement.

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I am impressed with Bernie for seeing and hearing that speech and I am equally impressed by the millions who saw the speech on youtube, without seeing the back of the head of the people standing in front of Bernie in the crowd. Those millions should also tell everybody, constantly, that they, too, heard and saw MLK Jr. more clearly than Bernie ever could.

Did Bernie notice that MLK Jr. talked in the language of money? Checks and Promissory notes? That wasn't completely allegorical, either. It was send cash, please, the only language Americans of all colors really understand.
www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2016/04/19

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Bernie Sanders is (still) the Future of the Democratic Party
by Matthew Yglesias on April 20, 2016, 7:00 a.m. ET

Even in defeat in New York and most likely in the overall quest for the 2016 Democratic nomination, he's already won in another, perhaps more important way: His brand of politics is the future of the Democratic Party.

Sanders is the overwhelming choice of young voters, scoring 67 percent of voters under 30 in New York even while losing overall amidst a set of election rules that were highly unfavorable to his cause. National Reuters polls now show him with a large 56-38 edge over Clinton with voters below the age of 40.

The votes of old people count just as much, of course, but any young and ambitious Democrat looking at the demographics of the party and the demographics of Sanders supporters has to conclude that his brand of politics is extremely promising for the future. There are racial and demographic gaps between Clinton and Sanders supporters, but the overwhelming reality is that for all groups, the young people are feeling the Bern.

Much more at www.vox.com/2016/4/20/11466376/bernie-sanders-future-democrats

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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He got slaughtered in NY. Not really surprising, given the byzantine rules for registering to vote and changing party well before even the first debate. His voters largely couldn't.



There might be some investigations, but AZ showed us that nothing will change.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1PRFE_e
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GET YOUR CRYING TOWELS HEEEERREEE!!!

Boo Hoo! Bernie runs home to sulk and then to spew venom over ass whupping.

That's how we do in NY!!!!!


SGG

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Originally posted by reaverfan:
He got slaughtered in NY. Not really surprising, given the byzantine rules for registering to vote and changing party well before even the first debate. His voters largely couldn't.



There might be some investigations, but AZ showed us that nothing will change.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1PRFE_e
nUS672US672&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=voters%20disappeared%20brooklyn

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
GET YOUR CRYING TOWELS HEEEERREEE!!!

Boo Hoo! Bernie runs home to sulk and then to spew venom over ass whupping.

That's how we do in NY!!!!!


SGG

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Originally posted by reaverfan:
He got slaughtered in NY. Not really surprising, given the byzantine rules for registering to vote and changing party well before even the first debate. His voters largely couldn't.



There might be some investigations, but AZ showed us that nothing will change.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1PRFE_e
nUS672US672&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=voters%20disappeared%20brooklyn

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You are in NY? I guess that explains a lot.

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"The sea was angry that day my friend, like Bernie Sanders trying to return soup in a deli."

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That's how we do in NY!!!!!

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Indeed [/snark]

Additional Evidence Of Mind-Boggling Fraud Emerges from The New York Primary

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For the past week or so, I’ve been warning readers that the supposedly “liberal” state of New York has some of the most repressive voting laws in the country. Before reading the rest of this post, I suggest refreshing your memory on just how undemocratic New York is by checking out the following:

Published April 13th: Hillary Clinton Will Win New York, Because New York is Running a Banana Republic Primary

Published yesterday: As Expected, New York’s Primary is Already a Pathetic Mess

As such, two things were obvious going into the New York primary: 1) Hillary Clinton would win. 2) There would be an enormous amount of voter suppression and fraud.

Well the results are in, and the state of the state in New York is very, very bad.

The Daily Beast reports:

Alba Guerrero was dumbfounded. She’d arrived at her polling place in Ozone Park, Queens only to be told that she had been registered as a Republican since 2004.

That was news to her. She remembers registering to vote for the first time as a Democrat so she could vote for Barack Obama in the general election in 2008. When she recently moved from Manhattan to Ozone Park, in Queens, she re-registered at the DMV, she says, and even checked online on March 9th to be sure she was registered at her new address.

But when she showed up to vote for Bernie Sanders at PS63 on Tuesday, she says she was told she couldn’t. New York is a closed primary, where only registered Democrats can vote in the Democratic Primary—and voters had to be registered by last October. She was told—very politely, she wants to make clear—by poll workers to take it up with a judge. She was given a court order in nearby Forest Hills.

Guerrero drove to the Queens County Board of Elections and pled her case, but Judge Ira Margulis initially turned her away.

“The judge tells me, ‘No, that’s it—2004.’ He shows me, I’m registered as a Republican. He says there’s nothing we can do,” she said.

But on her way out she saw a Board of Elections worker holding something with her name on it. It was her 2004 voter registration, replete, she remembers, with her name, her social security number, her birthday—and someone else’s signature.

“I said, ‘Excuse me, that’s not my signature,’” she said. “It’s not my handwriting. It showed completely different signatures.”

Sure enough, the signatures are strikingly different. Next to a box checked “Republican,” her 2004 signature is written in clear, deliberate, legible cursive and includes her middle name. Her more recent signature is a loopy, illegible scrawl. She insists she’s never changed it in her life, and says she can produce old tax forms to prove it.

So Guerrero went back to to Judge Margulis and showed him the discrepancy.

“He allowed me to change for that day,“ she said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who tweeted at 11:50 a.m., “There’s nothing more punk rock than voting. #GetOutAndVote”, had to change his tune by the end of the day. WNYC reported this morning that 126,000 Brooklyn Democrats had been removed from the voting rolls since last fall.

What a fake liberal clown.

“It has been reported to us from voters and voting rights monitors that the voting lists in Brooklyn contain numerous errors, including the purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters from the voting lists,” he said in a statement released after 5 p.m. on Election Day. “I am calling on the Board of Election to reverse that purge and update the lists again using Central, not Brooklyn borough, Board of Election staff.”

A spokesperson for New York Attorney Eric Schneiderman told the New York Daily News that his office received “by far the largest volume of complaints we have received for an election since Attorney General Schneiderman took office in 2011.”

Some polling sites did not open on time, citing too few election workers. Others

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