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Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

zen death robot posted:

You're seeing things again Baloogan

its a reference to hamlet!

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Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

Error 404 posted:

And flights of f35s sing thee to thy rest

Baloogan posted:

Why are those 'refugee' hordes approaching?

The Bard posted:

Horatio
Now a noble heart is breaking. Good night, sweet prince. May hosts of angels sing you thy rest.
Why are those drums approaching?

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar
To Bernie or not to Bernie, that is the question

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar
Dude I know you're mad, but graffiti?


You need to really just breath. No excuse to make the poorer communities look like garbage because you hate the man.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Matt yglesias is a dumb poo poo head and I will destroy his advocates on sight now.

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/13/12159000/mike-pence-sorry

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

Nonsense posted:

Matt yglesias is a dumb poo poo head and I will destroy his advocates on sight now.

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/13/12159000/mike-pence-sorry

:agreed:

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
Q. Why did Bernie endorse Hillary now?

A. They threatened to completey shut him out of the convention if he didn't.

Q. Couldn't he have said screw them and go and fight at the convention anyway?

A. No. Hillary has more delegates, Superdelegates, and supporters on the DNC rules committee. They would have voted down every one of our platforms, denied Bernie the opportunity to speak, and basically shut him out of the entire process. All the leverage he has gained up to this point would be gone.

Q. So wait, Bernie DIDN'T quit today?

A. No. He had to say she won the primary, he endorses her and will help the party defeat Trump, yadda yadda but he DID NOT concede. There is a very big and important difference. Had he conceded, all of his delegates would go to Hillary and he would no longer be an option for nominee.

Q. So Bernie can actually still win??

A. YES. And if he wasn't still TRYING to win, he would have conceded. The ONLY option he had to get to the convention with his delegates behind him and have a chance to still win was to do what he did today. He is not a traitor. He didn't sell us out. He did the only possible thing he could have done to keep fighting for the nomination.

Q. So how can Bernie still win if he's losing the delegate count and he just said he will help Hillary win the election?

A. By far the most important thing to the DNC, even more important than making sure Hillary beats Bernie, is making sure the Democratic nominee beats the Republicans in November. They scrutinize every poll, every opinion of the public, every event to judge whether a candidate is strong enough to win in November. There are A LOT of things going on right now that show how weak of a general election candidate Hillary Clinton is:

-66% of the country sees her as untrustworthy

-60% thinks she should have been indicted for the email scandal

-A lot of Bernie supporters won't vote for her

-Congress has requested the Department of Justice investigate her for lying under oath about the email scandal

-There's a possibility more emails will be leaked by wikileaks or hackers further proving her guilt

-Many believe the FBI is secretly investigating the Clinton Foundation

-Her "wins" during the primary have been tainted with accusations of fraud, suppression, lawsuits, and investigations

And then there's Bernie. An honest candidate people trust and whose approval rating and trustworthy rating crushes Clinton's. This is the argument Bernie will make at the convention. With all his 1,900 delegates inside arguing this case and 100,000 supporters outside arguing this case, we hope the DNC realizes he's the only choice. He CAN win the convention, but he has to get there first. That's why he endorsed her today.

Q. So it's still important that all of his delegates go to the convention and we all still March on it like we planned?

A. It's more important now than it ever was before.

Q. What if the DNC still refuses to nominate him at the convention? Can he still run third party now that he endorsed her?

A. Yes. In fact, running third party has never been an option until AFTER the convention. We need to stick with Bernie and see this through to the convention. He's led us this far. Do not abandon him now.

Q. What if he loses at the convention and doesn't run third party, but instead endorses Hillary 100% and asks us to vote for her?

A. Then our revolution continues without him and we continue to fight against Hillary Clinton and the DNC all the way up to November and beyond by voting for someone like Jill Stein or writing Bernie in. But the time for that is NOT here yet.

Q. So what did Bernie accomplish with this move?

A. Backed into a corner, facing the entire political pressure of the Democratic Party and the DNC, robbed of a right to claim he should be winning if not for a rigged process, and faced with the threat of being shut out of the convention completely Bernie:

1. Managed to stay in the race and secure a prime speaking slot at a contested convention which he can turn into a floor fight

2. Kept all of his delegates to use as leverage in that floor fight

3. Got tens of thousands of people to "Like" and "follow" Green Party candidate Jill Stein on social media

4. Amplified the #NeverHilliary screams of his supporters for all the media and Superdelegates to see 12 days before the convention.

Anyone trashing Bernie today needs to wake up and respect the masterful chess move he just made.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
why did they let him wait until after the platform stuff to endorse if that was the leverage...

Was this HA HA Good-Man?

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

Tatum Girlparts posted:

why did they let him wait until after the platform stuff to endorse if that was the leverage...

Was this HA HA Good-Man?
It's not about letting him wait.
It's making them wait until they gave some ground before he would even.


Endorsing ain't a privilege.
It's a privilege to be endorsed.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

ThndrShk2k posted:

It's not about letting him wait.
It's making them wait until they gave some ground before he would even.


Endorsing ain't a privilege.
It's a privilege to be endorsed.

that's not how that deal works, though?

GonadTheBallbarian
Jul 23, 2007


Sanders gets primetime speaking slot at convention

Strangelet Wave
Nov 6, 2004

Surely you're joking!

Tatum Girlparts posted:

that's not how that deal works, though?

Sure it could. None of us knows exactly what deal the camps worked out behind closed doors, but an endorsement after the first platform committee seems like a very plausible element of that deal.

What's got you confused?

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

NumberLast posted:

I'm beginning to think some people don't know what trolling is.

your stupid

ha trolled :haw:

i like this thing more than u and this makes me better than u bc u r dum for even thinkin opposite of me

ha trolled :haw:

Despera
Jun 6, 2011

Lastgirl posted:

your stupid

ha trolled :haw:

i like this thing more than u and this makes me better than u bc u r dum for even thinkin opposite of me

ha trolled :haw:

Getting the old reactor warmed up? Remember what comes up must go down.

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

Tatum Girlparts posted:

that's not how that deal works, though?
But isn't it how it did?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm





Welp turns out they adopted positions and made a goodwill attempt to appease Sanders, and Sanders gave the endorsement

Checks out. Sry m8.
Maybe another temporal string, but not this one.

Donovan Trip
Jan 6, 2007
Bernie supporters think this is GOT lol

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Despera posted:

Getting the old reactor warmed up? Remember what comes up must go down.

:mmmhmm:

etalian
Mar 20, 2006


Bending the knee paid off

snakeandbake
Aug 21, 2012

by exmarx

echronorian posted:

Bernie supporters think this is GOT lol

Yes it's Bernie supporters that support the candidate well known for playing political games, like voting for the Iraq war in exchange for money to rebuild a city, or slamming an opponent for not supporting a bailout bill to "save the auto industry" despite that opponent repeatedly explaining the motivations for their vote - not wanting to bail out the banking sector that was primarily responsible for the economic crisis in the first place.


To say nothing of the Clinton's history of political bullshit.


Lmao

snakeandbake
Aug 21, 2012

by exmarx
Damnit I got trolled

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
BAD loving CANADIAN

snakeandbake
Aug 21, 2012

by exmarx
Still better than most Americans

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://twitter.com/EmoNegro1/status/753969959999528960
https://twitter.com/EmoNegro1/status/753971152519827456
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https://twitter.com/EmoNegro1/status/753972396470796288
https://twitter.com/EmoNegro1/status/753973490722738176
https://twitter.com/EmoNegro1/status/753974015388254208
https://twitter.com/EmoNegro1/status/753974652821733376
https://twitter.com/EmoNegro1/status/753979907215134721

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
"There are no black community leaders"

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

snakeandbake posted:

Still better than most Americans

also like all BAD cnaadians shake and bake is racist and antiamerican

snakeandbake
Aug 21, 2012

by exmarx

Baloogan posted:

also like all BAD cnaadians shake and bake is racist and antiamerican

Can't argue with that. I am hella racist, it's true.

The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015


How could Cornel West's mom possibly have been alive in 2008??

The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015


Kinda seems like stdh tbh

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

snakeandbake posted:

Can't argue with that. I am hella racist, it's true.

poo poo same

but seriously dont be anti american
canadaamerica is the best country in the world

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

The Kingfish posted:

How could Cornel West's mom possibly have been alive in 2008??

I don't know about his mom but West did famously blow up about not getting last minute tickets, it was a thing for a bit.

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

The Kingfish posted:

How could Cornel West's mom possibly have been alive in 2008??

good question!

(she would have been, what, in her 70s? maybe early 80s?)

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

The Kingfish posted:

How could Cornel West's mom possibly have been alive in 2008??

The real question is Cornell had enough tickets for himself and such, why did he stay in the hotel?

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
Cornel West is a cool dude and very good.

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

lol that story sounds completely made up

Error 404
Jul 17, 2009


MAGE CURES PLOT

Karl Barks posted:

lol that story sounds completely made up

This is something a bro would say.

GonadTheBallbarian
Jul 23, 2007


Error 404 posted:

This is something a bro would say.

No I wouldn't :mad:

Error 404
Jul 17, 2009


MAGE CURES PLOT

Probably Magic
Oct 9, 2012

Looking cute, feeling cute.

Now that bellhop works at Nintendo.

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Error 404
Jul 17, 2009


MAGE CURES PLOT

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.-- John Galbraith

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