So here we are on the first night of the convention. I know some things have already happened earlier today so feel free to post and talk about them here as well.
Like this chanting of Bernie's name earlier in the evening.
Or this reaction when Sanders attempted to talk to his supporters earlier in the day:Chants of "Bernie, Bernie, Bernie" on the convention floor #DemsInPhilly pic.twitter.com/gf9EKV02Lz— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) July 25, 2016
Sanders, speaking later to his delegates in Philadelphia, was booed when he urged supporters to block Trump in the Nov. 8 election by backing Clinton and her vice presidential running mate, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia.
"Brothers and sisters, this is the real world that we live in," he said, adding, "Trump is a bully and a demagogue."
Members of the crowd screamed back: “So is Hillary.” "She stole the election!" someone else shouted.
Some people are having a serious problem dealing with reality right now.
As for the rest of the night, well grab your popcorn and your beverage of choice and let's allow the democracy to wash over us and remove the stench of last week's RNC convention from our pores.
Update: The Sanders supporters even heckled Elijah Cummings!
Courtesy of Think Progress:
Loudly and angrily chanting “no TPP,” Bernie Sanders supporters drowned out Democratic National Convention platform chair Elijah Cummings (D-MD) as he spoke on Monday night about the platform that he and many Democrats call the most progressive in history.
Opponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and fracking, supporters of Palestine, and others frustrated with portions of the Democratic platform — dozens of people in the Wells Fargo Arena — chanted together as Cummings spoke from the convention stage. Many of those same delegates later shouted “nay” when convention leaders put the platform up for a vote.
I am so fucking done with these Bernie Bros I cannot even see straight at this point.
That is fucking Elijah Cummings! The man is a mainstay of Democratic politics and has been fighting the Republicans in the House, and defending the progressive agenda, since 1995.
He is a goddamn hero!
Update 2: This was my favorite speech of the night so far.
(I plan to post the entire thing tomorrow.)
Update 3:
You tell them Sarah!Sarah Silverman: "To the Bernie or bust people, you're being ridiculous." #DemsInPhilly #Decision2016 https://t.co/s6K8ObmItV— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 26, 2016
Update 4: And then at the end of the night.
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) July 26, 2016Finally.
Some of the Bernie supporters are truly delusional. They are as bad as the Trumpanzees.
ReplyDeleteThe Bernit Bots are worse- because they know better.
DeleteNo one has broken the news to them yet that exactly ZERO cogs in the DNC machine require their vote to win.
DeleteSuch a bunch of tits, just go home now because you hippies are stinkin' up the place!
The DLC and DNC Hijacked the Democratic party far to the Right in the 1980s led by the Clintons and Gore and their ilk.
DeleteNOT all Democrats like where the party's been since--doing Wall Street's and corporate bidding at the expense of the middle and working classes. Even the Republicans want to put back the Glass Steagal Act --the last banking firewall from the New Deal Democrats that was repealed by Bill Clinton and helped take down the world economy. But Hillary and the "centrists" oppose putting it back and with Kaine they've moved right back into Wall Streets' corner and far from Sanders' supporters and agenda.
Good luck to this country with both parties sold out and or demolished from within and without. So blame the "hippies" and other protesters for being angry their country has been sold off to the bankers.
And in case you're wondering I come from generations of Democrats and have been voting longer than many of you have been alive. I can tell you succinctly the Democratic party was SOLD out as above. Read what Elizabeth Warren really has to say about the the political morass that the Clinton Democrats and the Republicans preside over in Washington, or read Willaim Black the bank examiner.
At least understand why many Democrats (and others) are angry with the takeover of the party by DLC Democrats (beholden to Wall St.)and the subsequent wrecking of the economy because it's not going to stop until REAL economic reform comes to the country and that won't come from Trump or Hillary.
Not a word about civil rights, 6:09. Not a word about fighting against sexism and racism. Not a word about consistent and die hard support for reproductive rights. Not a word about making things better for the GLBT community. The singular focus on the economy is a large part of why Sanders didn't get more votes.
DeleteAnon 6:09: I bet I have been voting as long as you, if not longer. I have never been one to vote strict party lines until 2012. I suspect that many of the Bernie or Bust peeps, are Trump antagonist, and it was apparent when they turned on Bernie. The Democratic Party may have gone center right but, the Republicans have gone off shit cliff.
DeleteDLC?
DeleteYou sound very much like a sane person wanting the best for our Nation. Perhaps it was bernie that sold you a bill of goods. In no way shape or form was bernie ever in a million years and eons stacked on top of that ever going to be president. That bernieites were hornswaggled by bernie is a horrendous thing to wrap one's mind around so, I suggest you get started on that.
Delete8:28 I never thought Bernie would be president. Third party movements bring change and fresh ideas into the mainstream as did T. Roosevelt's Progressive party usher in the way for the later New Deal reforms that brought the US economic justice and a middle class after the era of the robber barons in the 1800s had created the kind of wealth disparity we have now. Perhaps it's time for some new political parties that are responsive to the people not corporations.
DeleteIf you look back to the neoliberal economics that replaced the New Deal policies (starting in the 1970s) you can trace the downward economic spiral not just for the US but for the world--and the Clinton Democrats are part of that--the bankers and other unelected groups are calling the shots. This is well-documented and by no means is Sanders the only person who has seen it and called it out.
@7:35 Bernie actually marched in the 1960s which was Civil Rights movement when people were killed for doing so. Whereas Hillary and Bill Clinton (signed) and supported crime legislation that was passed in the 1990s that has disproportionately locked up people of color.
DeletePatti: I agree the Republican party has imploded. The Dem leadership is in the pocket of the corporations so little effective change will happen if Hillary gets the WH. We need deep political reform in our country. You may be right about Repub agitators at the convention but but the anger against the status quo candidates is real and protests are inevitable given the way much of the populations feels.
@8:14 DLC--Democratic Leadership Council--thye group of conservative Southern Democrats that took over the Dem party in the 1980s and steered it to the right by courting Big Money. No0 longer exists but its prime members like Clintons and Gore are still running the party.
All this rancor is getting me down as much as I want to watch.
ReplyDeleteWell if you want to miss out on the most exciting DNC ever it's a free world!
DeleteAt this point, these people are not Bernie supporters. They're just people who don't want to leave this cliquey club they've started. I am a REAL Bernie supporter- and I am SUPPORTING my candidate by doing what he has beseeched the American people to do- block the constitutional, ecological, and funancial un-lubed buttfuck that a trump win would be for us all, and GET OUT THE VOTE FOR HILLARY. It may not be what I first wanted, but I first wanted Sanders' views and his view on saving this nation is having us all vote for Clinton. Period. Fîn.
ReplyDeleteI left work early because I knew traffic will be hell, and there were Bernie Supporters demanding a recount, from what I heard, he was pretty gracious and called for peace, and they even boo'ed him???? What do they want? Seriously, it's all over but the shouting, and they're out there shouting.
DeleteYeah, they were rude to Elizabeth Warren and ruined her concentration at least twice. At that point, I expected that they'd do the same to Bernie.
DeleteJust spotted this on Garry Kasparov's Twitter page:
ReplyDeleteKremlin troll master Konstanin Rykov registered "Trump2016.ru" in August, 2015.
It was no accident that Sanders never controlled his angry mobs in the past. His refusal to address the ugliness in his following was the reason I never considered voting for him.
ReplyDeleteNow the old man finds himself completely unable to control his angry mobs and we are reaping what he sowed.
Sanders was never presidential material, any adult could see it.
And meanwhile you clintonbots wasted time bashing Bernie bros instead of countering the rightwing rumor/ hate machine.
Delete5:19 - absurd. Who is not displaying unity and shouting down the speakers at the convention? I counter RW slop every time I can. It's not like any individual can shut down the entire RW propaganda machine. If Bernie Bots don't want to be criticized, don't act like petulant children.
DeleteYou must not be watching the same speakers that I am - 5:19 PM. Check out Booker who is speaking right now!
DeleteYou are basically full of shit with your comment!
We need the Bernie voters. I will welcome them.
DeleteFor months (previous and future) you people bash bernie supporters' hopes and ideas, yet you're surprised that they're angry?
DeleteIf you mean bashing their hopes and ideas by voting for Clinton, that's life.
DeleteBecause the majority of us here actually support most of Bernie's goals, just not the way he planned to go about reaching them (mainly because there was no real, rational plan).
Great point, 6:47.
Delete6:20
Delete"bashing bernie supporters' hopes and ideas"
Actually, no. That is not what has been happening.
It was just too bad that Bernie & Jane got the "Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!' chant syndrome. His loss.
DeleteWhat many of Bernie's supporters do not understand that his "hopes and ideas" have been at the forefront of Democratic platforms for decades. Beaglemom
DeleteAndrew Sullivan live-blogs:
ReplyDeletehttp://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/andrew-sullivan-liveblogs-the-dnc-night-1.html
Nate Silver reality check:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/democratic-convention-live-coverage-of-day-one/#livepress-update-23921631
I usually enjoy Andrew Sullivan (for his vocabulary if nothing else) but he seems really cranky tonight. All those diverse speakers? That's not pandering, that IS the Democratic party.
DeleteIn the last six months or so of his blog he sounded really tired and the Clinton chip on his shoulder he has always had started to come to the fore.
DeleteNow he sounds like an angry old man yelling at people to get of his lawn.
The Democratic Convention is always far more diverse than the GOP one. And this year, since the GOP convention was totally focussed on Trump, anything remotely different must surprise a lot of people. I love the diversity among Democrats.
DeleteBeaglemom
The biggest mistake Deb made was not forcing criminal charges against the Bernie campaign workers that hacked the DNC.
ReplyDeleteBury the hatchet.
DeleteTroll.
DeleteLOL Deb was in bed with Putin?
DeleteNot so sure I trust her version of events on that.
DeleteSo looking forward to hearing FLOTUS speak. What will she say? Will it be something like
ReplyDelete"Let me say how delighted I am to be speaking at the..... Democratic, convention"
or will she say something hilarious? You can bet she's going to drop the mic and I can't wait.
I heard she was going to redo her 2008 DNC speech but then Melanoma tRump already stole it for this year.
DeleteShe SHOULD read Melania's speech verbatim. Donald's head would explode!! Oh please please please, Michelle, just this once,
DeleteCory Booker just blew the rafters out. WE WILL RISE!!
DeleteMichelle Obama gave an impassioned speech about how this election matters so much for the future of the country's children. Nothing smarmy or tacky. First class First Lady all the way.
DeleteBeaglemom
You're thinking of Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, who was on the bridge in Selma during the civil rights movement. Cummings is quite a bit younger. He was the one who had to do battle against that asshole Daryl Issa on Benghazi.
ReplyDeleteYou are right, I got those two mixed up.
DeleteHowever Cummings is still a Democratic hero so I changed the post a little to reflect that.
Hmm, lotsa people called me a troll saying that HRC was romancing disenfranchised GOP with her Kaine pick and kicking Bernie bots to the curb...think a lot of activities today proves that.
ReplyDeleteBernie Bros can just go home now, no one cares, no one needs your votes, no one needs your petulance.
Buh Bye!
We need their votes. We want their votes. We want to save the country from Trump!
DeleteWe need their votes. We want their votes. We want to save the country from Trump!
DeleteWhy must you continue kicking sand in the faces of the Bernie supporters? You're being a bully.
Bully? Grow up. Seriously.
DeleteYou don't know what you're talking about. How is picking a super duper pro-choice, pro-gun control VP trolling for GOP voters.
DeleteYou need their votes you fucking imbecile.
DeleteKeep it up, and you'll end up with Trump running your life.
Things are looking terrible.
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/#now
You are ridiculous. Is it so hard to believe that HRC wants to unify the party and is ligitimately trying to make peace with Bernie supporters? Not that they they are meeting her half way, but at least she is being the adult in the room. And to give him his due, now so is Bernie.
DeleteI'm so, so glad Gryphen has posted Elijah Cummings' moment. I saw it on CNN. MSNBC had the longest commercial break ever and they missed the whole thing. It was incredible. And incredibly lame of MSNBC not to make things work out with their commercial timing.
ReplyDeleteAnd I must hand it to all the speakers who have been on all day. They have done a very good job at unifying little by little.
And the music's been great too. Anyone who's just watching at night: try watching during the day too online or on C-SPAN!
Do NOT watch CNN and MSNBC. I honestly don't know how Rachel Maddow keeps working for that cable network. She would be placed and shown better somewhere else!
DeleteThey have done a shit job covering the Democratic Convention.
Why doesn't Nicole Wallace just join the Democratic party? She was very complimentary to Sarah Silverman's speech.
DeleteSarah Silverman was great, Anon at 6:06 pm.
DeleteBeaglemom
Al Franken is striking Trump out of the ballpark.... too funny! Franken picked Madoff University over Trump U. He's ripping him a new one, bill o' reilly, Rush et all. Damn he's good.
ReplyDeleteOff for more popcorn!
Watch it on C-SPAN so you don't miss any of the speakers. Cable networks have way too many commenters & commercials interrupting!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the suggestion.
DeleteIf you don't have cable, watch it on PBS, no commercials.
DeleteRep. Marcia Fudge, convention chair, confirmed on PBS just now what Andrew Sullivan wrote: that the boos of Clinton are coming mostly from two delegations: California and Michigan.
ReplyDeleteI feel ashamed if any of it is coming from Michigan delegates. We have a long, liberal tradition here. It did not get invented by Bernie Sanders.
DeleteBeaglemom
Sarah Silverman to the Bernie or Bust crowd:
ReplyDelete"You're being ridiculous!"
Based on how rude the bernie or bust followers are, I can see why some of them want to vote for drumpf, they have the same maturity level.
DeleteAC from NJ
+1000
DeleteWell maybe by the end of the evening some of them will be re-thinking and do the grown-up thing. I'm pissed at Bernie for waiting until the very last possible minute to get his followers with the program.
DeleteTelling it like it is.
DeleteI'm not voting for Hillary, I'm voting for Trump
Boo Fuc_ing Hoo Bernie or bust.
I posted from the get-go on here that Sanders never put anything successful together and was not a leader but a lazy talker all his life. Vermont tends to re-elect whoever is in office regardless of their record. BS spent his time trying to remake the Democratic party, and was too lazy to run as an Independent because who could he attack if he was an Independent? All he accomplished was stirring up the same old mud he has done all his life and then exit when the real work needed to be done - son out of wedlock, kicked out of commune for not carrying his share of the menial duties, now has no control over the mob he promised impossible "gifts" to from the government. He is a real loser and so are his out of control, disrespectful followers who have not the courtesy to allow speakers to be heard. Cretins all!
DeleteWhy would 5:35 vote for a man with narcissistic personality disorder? A racist, mysogynist, self-aggrandizing person who might as well have "me, me, me" tattoed on his forhead?
DeleteI saw Susan Sarandon there. She must be with the California delegation.
DeleteLOL where is the Sarandon cam?
DeleteAs a Californian, I am utterly disgusted and embarrassed by our delegation, at least the idiotic, childish Bernie-bots who plan on ripping up the unity signs they will be given. Grow up. I realize this is your big moment in the spotlight, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pretend you're part of something earth-shattering, but you're not, so STFU and sit down. You're embarrassing us all. Perhaps some day, with some maturity and distance, you'll realize how completely asinine you're being at this moment. May the realization of your disgrace BERN!
ReplyDeleteOkay, Paul Simon did not exactly hit it out of the park there…
ReplyDeleteHe's 74.
DeleteIt was a Clint Eastwood empty chair vocalization, but the band and the crowd played it well.
DeleteI'd rather hear my 94 year old grandmother sing something from her heart than...well than anything else!
DeleteAnonymous5:35 PM,
DeleteYou are a fuckin' child and probably never were a Sanders supporter - just anti-Hillary.
The song is beautiful and I think it's purpose was to bring people together and to remind the older, more experienced people in the auditorium of what brought us all along on this political journey of the past sixty or so years. Many of us who listened remembered back when . . . and were grateful to hear it sung.
DeleteBeaglemom
Congressman Elijah Cummings D-Md, has seen a lot and done a lot. What a sad day, the man is giving a speech and Sanders' people just would not let the man speak.
ReplyDeleteThey are so fucking rude!!!!!
DeleteIt makes me sick.
"Some people are having a serious problem dealing with reality right now."
ReplyDeleteBecause was Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC Leadership did was NOT reality?
And you have the nerve to suggest we allow the "democracy" to wash over us? What democracy would that be? A fixed primary? A corrupt Democratic Leadership?
This has to be addressed. Not just dismissed because it's a done deal and the chosen one seemingly won.
There is a corruption problem. There is a trust problem.
And continuing to call Bernie Supporters assholes because they won't just ignore it, shut up and allow it to continue isn't healing anything. Nor is continuing to insult them and blame them for holding the DNC's feet to the fire over it. The house needs to be cleaned before it falls down and you're blaming those that are pointing out the dirt.
Please volunteer to run for political office. You can make a difference. Work to fix the party from inside. I value you and I want you to vote for the Democratic nominee, please.
Delete@5:30PM The problem is that it works both ways. I liked both candidates, went with Clinton. Even though my candidate lost hugely to Sanders in my state, I ended up volunteering to help put on the State Democratic Convention. Bernie supporters decided to chant and be rude to our INVITED speakers, and the whole thing ended up being so stressful for me that I haven't volunteered for the local Democrats since.
DeleteThe Bernie supporters love to threaten us older folks with their abandonment of the Democratic Party if they don't get everything that their losing candidate (as in he had a lot less votes, superdelegates NOT included) wanted. However, the incredibly immature and rude behavior is a major turn off to my generation. Have you ever considered that you may alienate US from the liberal cause?
As far as I can tell, the time is past for the Bernie people to make their points with chanting, rudeness, and threats. We need to come together and defeat Trump. Then you guys can put Bernie forward again next time, or find someone new. And you'll hopefully have been involved all along instead of showing up at the last second complaining about the rules, and you will maybe have helped change the rules in a meaningful, thoughtful and civilized manner, instead of alienating all of us old fart liberals (50 & 60 yr. olds) whom you certainly cannot get single payer health insurance, etc. without our votes.
Keep in mind that a Trump presidency could fuck up the Supreme Court for twenty years (Citizens United, reproductive rights, etc.)...........so this is not the time to vote "the fascist" in just to save face.
Unity is the only reasonable approach for liberals at this point, whether we like each other or not!
Get off your ass and run for local election and work your way up through the ranks of whatever party you choose to support. And stop your damed whining.
DeleteHello, did you get the part about this is Bernie's first Democratic convention, why?
DeleteBECAUSE HE IS NOT A DEMOCRAT !!!
Also did you not get his memo asking his supporters to act like adults and not embarrass his campaign?
Anon at 7:00 pm. Keep in mind that a fairly large proportion of Bernie supporters are not now and have never been Democrats. There have been lots of trouble-making libertarians in that mix. If his supporters want to prove their Democratic credentials, they should get on board and act like Democrats once the roll call is over. My only fear is that so many of them are totally clueless about American history and party politics. They seem to think it's all corrupt if it isn't going 100% their way.
DeleteBeaglemom
Paul Simon was singing Bridge Over Trouble Waters and they had to show Susan Sarandon's old sour pus.
ReplyDeleteSave it. You're not helping. We need every vote if we are going to defeat Donald Trump.
DeleteFYI Susan Sarandon is NOT on board. She's Bernie or Bust...at least that's what I gather from her tweets.
DeleteI don't know why bernie expected the bots to act classy - he didn't.
ReplyDeleteGeorgiaPeach
Sen Cory Booker
ReplyDeleteWhat a great speaker
Totally. Cory Booker was fantastic. You should see what Trump tweeted (I don't remember it verbatim), which was an insult and also, it sounded like, one of his veiled threats, like when he made one toward Bernie's wife and spilling the beans. He said something about CB being terrible and the party won't survive if he is what is the Dems' future. He also said--the seeming threat--that he knows Booker better than Booker knows himself. What 70-year-old talks like that?!! Trump has the nomination and here he is tweeting all night with his asinine 5th-grader mobster wannabe vocabulary.
DeleteAfter the bad taste Donald's reality show left in everyones' mouth last week this convention is like a breath of fresh air! Look at the audience for one - all colors! The only minorities the RNC had were Donald's tokens to be showed off on stage.
ReplyDeleteNotice something Sarah? Unlike you and Donald there is no hate speech. You might want to learn something from that. But too late you've thrown all your chips in on a losing team.
When I watched the crowd do what they did to Cummings, I was furious. I seriously doubt that many of those in the crowd knew the history of the outstanding man before them!
ReplyDeleteI'd like to have stood the crowd up - in lines - where each had to parade themselves in front of the cameras and state their names, city and state!
Fuck them! Wish I could say what I'd really like to do to each one of them. They showed themselves to be just as bad as Donald Trump and don't have a fucking clue!
They are NOT welcome to even be sitting in that hall as far as I'm concerned. Hope their bleachers fall out from under their sorry asses before the night is over...they are still doing their anti stuff - even to Booker! Loved how he kept talking over them and raised his voice substantially!
Agree!
DeleteMaybe that's exactly why the GOP dept. of education are so against history & civics classes for children.
DeleteI know what you mean. It was sad, very sad, but what a great short speech by EC. The rudeness started when the reverend was doing the invocation. I mean, so what if they're not religious or are atheist (I am). You don't show such complete disrespect to a room of people who are praying and talk over--yell over, and do it forever--the person there to say the prayer aloud. Geez, that was so low. I'm surprised they didn't yell down the young woman in the wheelchair who talked about Hillary.
DeleteSome day Sen Cory Booker should run for president
ReplyDeleteThat man is gonna BE president some day for sure.
DeleteAnd then there's Trump's Twitter response (LOL) -
Delete"If Cory Booker is the future of the Democratic Party, they have no future! I know more about Cory than he knows about himself."
Just goes to show money can't buy class LOL
Trumpy is scared. He always shows his fear in his tweets. Orange pussy!
DeleteBlah, blah, blah! Go back under your rock. Cory has my vote!
Delete6:18, thanks. I saw the tweet earlier but couldn't recall the exact words and just couldn't bring myself to go back to Trump's Twitter. I mean, who talks like that???!! And oh, so now, what, if CB runs for a higher office Trump will have some beans to spill, like he said he did on Heidi Cruz (I mistakenly said this was a threat on Bernie's wife in another post)?
DeletePreach it brother
ReplyDeleteSen Cory Booker
Bernie Bros are being rude to another African-American
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering if they aren't Trump plants.
DeleteThey booed Nancy Pelosi. They booed Barbara Lee.
DeleteThey are fucking idiots.
Sen Booker's speech impressed President Clinton
ReplyDeleteI thought Cory Booker's speech was wonderful. A good, old fashioned style Democratic Convention speech - something the world needed to hear.
DeleteBeaglemom
Sanders cheer, clap, smile or do something Bernie the Grouch.
ReplyDeleteSen Booker - Now that was a speech!
ha ha Trump lovers are already citing how the DNC has broken government law/code by having the undocumented mother from Mexido there.
ReplyDeleteGrypen, I am pissed with you. Trump was just gloating. He knew this would happen, almost like he planted it. It made my stomach turn that he and Putin are laughing all the way to the bank. I would look into those people chanting "lock her up". Honestly, I think they are not democrats. Sounds too Republican to me.
ReplyDeleteWell let's do something about it shall we? Questions are being asked already left & right concerning Trump's relationship with Putin. Look into THAT!
DeleteCheryl Lanford
ReplyDeleteThe lady after Sen Booker who is telling her story about how she used her husband's soldier's death benefits to try to make a life for herself and like others, Trump and Trump University conned them.
First Lady Michelle Obama is speaking. Her speech sounds a lot like Melania Trump's speech.
ReplyDeleteJust kidding
ot, but: John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood)
ReplyDelete1 hour ago - View on Twitter
Trump, in NC, on gender gap: "50% of our country is men. We’re doing very well. The women, I don’t know what’s going on w/the women here"
Michelle Obama, 2020...
ReplyDeleteMichelle Obama is killing it!
ReplyDeleteShe brought the AWESOME - as usual!
DeleteM from MD
Holy mother of all liberal gods, what a speech.
DeleteAnd what a night.
I'm ready to get to work.
She's amazing!
DeleteAC from NJ
oops, Michelle Obama, 2024...
ReplyDelete+1000
DeleteGetting goosebumps from First Lady Michelle Obama's speech. Will miss her when she leaves the White House.
ReplyDeleteMe too.
DeleteLiz following.
DeleteStill whining, $arahbitch?
If you've proved anything, it's how to milk people. What kind of man? What kind of a woman? Set your kids and DUH up to do the same. There are no words for you nor your family. Work it, babies, it is who you are.
Except for how Rep Elijah Cummings was treated, this has been a memorable great opening day for the Democrats and America.
ReplyDeleteI spoke to soon, there's a group right now disrespecting Sen. Elizabeth Warren's speech.
Ahh loved Michelle Obama!!!!
ReplyDeleteShame on Bernie Sanders for creating his disrespectful followers. Oh but when Sanders starts to speak at the DNC they will be peeing all over each other in excitement. But will they turn on Sanders when he tells them to vote for Hillary?
ReplyDeleteAnybody who boos Bernie while he speaks is NOT a Bernie follower.
DeleteI think only Trump's children spoke kindly about Trump at the RNC.
ReplyDeleteSpeaker after speaker at the DNC are saying great things about Secretary Clinton.
Warren and now Ellison. An All-Star night, ain't it?
ReplyDeletem from md
And it's just the 1st night!!
DeleteDonald don't fuc_ with Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
ReplyDeleteI've waited a week in anticipation just to see Michelle Obama, to see how she responds to Melanija Knavs Trump's plagiarism of her 2008 speech.
ReplyDeleteShe responded with "Who?" Perfect.
I joined WJC in a good cackle about her oblique reference to Trump's cheap tweets, and wondered for how many more years she will remain the most respected woman in the United States... because we can't lose her now.
difference in numbers between RNC and DNC:
ReplyDelete2,472 delegates to the GOP National Convention...
4,765 delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
per Politico
Bernie as usual....milking the applause. Just wait till he says he's with Hillary. Poor Bernie bots in the audience crying. Ridiculous like Silverman said.
ReplyDeleteMilking the applause! Really? I don't think he had much option other than to wait for it to die down and he did try several times to start. You guys are just unbelievable. I suppose you think every Bernie supporter there was a "petulant child" too. Why can't you give the man his dues? He came out and unequivocably gave his support to Hilary. What more do you want? So sick of this alienating attitude Hilary supporters like you guys have. Whether you like it or not, you are going to need the Bernie votes.
DeleteDid Elvis Presley die? Sanders is on stage, what are they crying about?
ReplyDeleteIf they are crying now, they will cry even harder if Trump is elected POTUS.
Delete7:51pm
DeleteYou are correct. Life's gonna be really different for these types of folks under Trump. Could be fun to watch :-)
That was weird, why were all those women crying for Bernie?
DeleteHave they been brained washed?
Why does Bernie use his hand like a puppet? I mean he points with his finger every syllable. On c-span they're showing all his fans actually crying.
ReplyDeleteHero worship. It's not healthy behavior.
DeletePeople acted like that with Obama too, I don't get it. Some people are just emotionally weak I guess.
DeletePeople do pour their hearts and souls into things they believe in. They are not "emotionally weak"; listening to the young disabled woman made me tear up, as it did many people in the audience.
DeleteConvention week is an emotional week. Only once every four years do Democrats get to gather together, have center stage and address the nation about the issues they really care about. It's exciting and it's meant to inspire all Democrats to action in the coming months and to welcome outsiders in.
Beaglemom
Here we go, can we say it together
ReplyDelete$27
Political revolution
Why does Bernie have to yell. If he would talk conversationally he would be easier to listen to.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many people in attendance unlike the RNC. Can't wait for days 2, 3, and 4.
DeleteCompare this all star lineup tonight to Chachi and the Young and The Restless Avacado Goddess! How can people even seriously consider voting Republican.
ReplyDeleteEverybody gave great motivational speeches tonight. Except for Bernie Sanders. His speech is his stump speech. You lost old man, go eat your oatmeal and deposit your leftover campaign money into Jane's bank account
ReplyDeleteHis speech seemed purposefully prolonged to enjoy the applause given him.
DeleteI felt his speech the same old one that has grown extremely boring to me. Hillary had to include him tonight and that made me angry too!
His supporters were rude and nasty. They were not Democrats representing me at all!
I thought Bernie's speech was quite good. Doesn't matter if it was his stump speech. I was not able to go to any of his rallies so I enjoyed how he at least laid out what the Democratic party is going to do for people. I couldn't get any answers to solutions from listening to Trump.
DeleteI thought his speech was very good, although at one point toward the end my attention wandered. Then it came back. I know we're hearing that some Bernie people are no way moved toward closure, but I thought all the materiel today was as good as it could get in handling all the issues. It was a day that filled me with a lot of pride. And I loved that Bernie got the kind of class act handling he got. Things led up to his speech so well, and I was very glad to see Rep. Ellison introduce him.
DeleteI thought the entire day was amazing
Actually I thought Bernie's speech was very good and I am not one of his crying supporters.
DeleteIn fact, I was more inspired to vote for Hillary after his speech than Warren's.
Why did Bernie tell everybody to vote for him tomorrow? Isn't the election over and Bernie lost? I thought they were all there to nominate the Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton?
ReplyDeleteDid he say that? If he did then maybe that is a message to his bots that they can vote for him by voting for Hillary.
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DeleteThat is NOT what Bernie said at all.
I could be wrong but here's what I think will happen:
DeleteI think that the Democrats are going to have a roll call vote tomorrow. It might shut up the attention-seekers with their mouths taped shut with blue duct tape that said "silenced". The Bernie supporters will get their vote and then when he falls short it will all be over.
Please correct me (anyone) if that is not right.
By agreement of the two campaigns, there's going to be a roll call vote tomorrow night, not a nomination by acclamation. They'll go through all the states and each state delegation will cast its vote the old-fashioned way. The Sanders delegates who came to vote for Sanders will get to vote for Sanders. This is a good thing.
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DeleteThat's a good think, Alaska's regular delegates went heavily (13/3 Sanders/Clinton) for Sanders so I know they, even though most will vote for Hillary in the general, will feel good having their votes recognized.
Thanks 7:37. Then 7:12 is wrong.
DeleteThat is normal protocol, they have a roll call and the delegates vote.
DeleteIf you had watched pasted conventions they have always done this.
It is not a message to tell the bots to shut up.
I do not think that anyone ever expected a nomination by acclamation. This isn't about a second term; this has been a hard fought primary campaign. Democrats are smarter than Republicans. My hope is that the Bernie delegates will finally accept reality and choose to work for progress and not for fascism. This is not an election to sit out.
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ReplyDeleteI have to say Bernie has made The Dems more progressive and he's trying his best to point this out to his fans. The Bernie or Busters who are going to sit it out are not & never were loyal to him.
ReplyDeleteTrue and it's both disconcerting and disheartening that so many of his supporters refuse to listen to him even when he lays out the very real peril that is trump.
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Can this be real? http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-dnc-hack-friends-in-russia
ReplyDeleteI'm pumped - let's do it again tomorrow night!
ReplyDeleteFor all of you who are telling Bernie supporters that you don't need them.
ReplyDeleteKnock it off, you have to stop alienating voters, because every single vote is needed.
This is a wake-up call.
NOTHING is in the bag.
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/#now
They'll never stop. They enjoy it way too much. Not to mention the encouragement they get between the "we don't need them" and "they deserve it".
DeleteA better wake up call is Michael Moore's five reasons Donald Trump will win.
They are playing right into Trump's hands by alienating Bernie's Supporters
He did his job. He did as much as he could to bring them over to Hillary. But it's human nature to react negatively to being called a fucking child, denigrated and vilified. They're being insulted on the one hand and then being ordered to vote for Hillary or else. Oh, and if Trump wins it's all their fault.
Is it any wonder they are saying "screw you" and turning their backs on the entire process?
And still the haters won't shut the fuck up.
You folks will crap yourselves tomorrow night when they do the roll call vote and there's more Bernie love.
ReplyDeleteThat is what he is hoping for
DeleteI have no problem with Bernie Love. I do have a problem with delusion. . . .
DeleteI don't see why we would care. Sure, some people will never be swayed and they will vote for Bernie, everyone realizes that.
DeleteThere aren't nearly enough of them to influence the outcome of the election so they'll just have to be satisfied by taking shit on Hillary's parade. Little dears must prove whatever point it is they are trying to make so please, carry on with your juvenile tirades; the world is watching, and laughing.
You're crapping yourself tonight. Give it up.
DeleteYou crapped yourself weeks ago,time for a shower.
DeleteWhat? Bernie bots are planning another "revolution" on the floor of the DNC after Bernie all but told them to stop it? Geeze his fans give him no respect!
DeleteI'm confused. Sanders said this election is not about him, Hillary or Trump.
ReplyDeleteThen why did Sanders and his campaign fight for a roll call tomorrow at the DNC to count how many delegates he received?
Sanders lost against Hillary. Is this election about him? Sanders wants to hear his name, votes and cheers for him one more time at the DNC?
Wants to show everybody it was a close election? Is he bitter?
Why a roll call? I will admit that Sanders' followers are more vocal than Hillary's followers. Is it important for him to hear loud cheers for him?
IMO Bernie wants it both ways. He & Jane can't get over their stardom. That comes first obviously.
DeleteAcclimation spits in Sanders face and insults all of those that voted for him.
DeleteHillary didn't win by acclimation. It was a long fight and Saunders should be respected for what he accomplished and be given his due by having his votes counted on the first round. The delegates representing the people who voted for him should have their voices heard. Otherwise their votes are meaningless. It would be the final insult to ignore them and that's bad considering we are trying to unite the party right now. Sanders did his part in his speech. Let the votes be counted. Otherwise it would undo everything and it will only get worse.
I might also add....what are you afraid of? Why do you want to deny people their votes?
The Democrats usually have a full roll call. It's a tradition.
DeleteI only hope that the Bernie supporters quiet down today so that speakers can be heard. Their rudeness, which I think comes from the fact that many of them haven't got a clue about just how liberal and progressive Democrats have been through the decades. They showed no respect to people who brought this country civil rights and who guided this country through very troubled times. Their behavior was disturbing to this old Democrat whose parents fought for people like themselves, working class Americans. I hope they paid some attention to the Mario Cuomo clips from 1984 - lots of very liberal beliefs, even back then. Just imagine - before many of them had been born.
Hopefully, the Bernie supporters have gotten it out of their systems now and will begin to focus on defeating the GOP and keeping the White House and regaining the Senate and House and as many state and local offices as possible. Nothing happens if people simply pout and whine. Let's hope the pouting and whining are over so the real work can begin.
Beaglemom
i just watched Michelle Obama's speech and you know she will be critized for saying the White House was built by slaves.
ReplyDeleteIt was an impassioned speech showing hope an optimism. America is now great it has never , ever, lost it's greatness or resolve.
While Trump portrays America as weak because we are willing to listen, because we are willing to work things out instead of going full blown war.Trump is that kind of idiot mistakes power as a trigger on a gun.
You can kill a Country by wars depleting it's resources. War is an option but never ever go into it unless it is the last option. Negotiations are not weak they are a sign of strength.
As Queen Elizabeth the first said, war is expensive and the outcome is uncertain. Is Trump willing to nuke? No way am i willing to let an ego maniac like Trump represent the United States Of America! He is way to thin skinned he does not possess the tough metal needed.
Good God look at his tweets, nick names that's all he has.
I want policy. I know we live in the age of Kardashion's and Palin's and Trump who base their lives on looks. Here's reality folks real people are struggling, real people want a job that pays a living wage. And while we see so many people look at TRUMP AS SOME KIND OF CHAMPION all the while having his clothes made in China saying he will bring jobs back! It's enough to make you puke.
Pick your poison but pick it carefully because this is the United States Of America on the line not a reality tv show.
Of course she'll be criticized by the right. After all they've been calling her a silver-back ape for the last 8 years. It's on the internet. F O R E V E R.
DeleteThose aren't nicknames.
DeleteIt's called branding.
It is designed to burn a negative image into your mind so that whenever you hear Hillary you automatically put the Crooked in front of it. Likewise Lyin' Ted. etc.
It can be quite effective and very hard to defend against.
I thought Michelle Obama's speech was wonderful.
DeleteRecently I watched the PBS history of the White House and learned a lot about its occupants and came away in awe of its history. I particularly like the fact that Harry Truman, during whose presidency the building had to be rebuilt, did not want the exterior touched, although it had been advised that it be demolished. I think he wanted to preserve all of the house's history including the fact that slave labor was instrumental in building this beautiful house, the largest in the fledgling United States. I am also proud that he visited the site every day, intent that no unnecessary changes be made. Again, I think he was honoring all that went into its initial construction. Thank you, Harry Truman.
Beaglemom
Follow the lead of your candidate. From LA Times:
ReplyDelete"Clinton Press Secretary Brian Fallon said Clinton welcomed a full roll call vote on the nomination Tuesday.
'It is exactly in keeping with our philosophy that every vote should be counted. And that means every delegate being counted on the floor of the convention,' he said."
It was written in a previous comment above that Sanders asked for them to vote for him tomorrow at the DNC roll call.
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That is NOT what Bernie said at all.
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NPR:
"READ: Bernie Sanders' Speech At The Democratic Convention"
....And delegates: thank you for being here, and thank you for all the work you have done. I look forward to your votes during the roll call on Tuesday tomorrow night....
http://www.npr.org/2016/07/25/487426056/read-bernie-sanders-prepared-remarks-at-the-dnc
Nobody's saying that Bernie's run wasn't legit and that votes from his people aren't needed. We're saying that we're sick of the friggin' arrogance and refusal or inability to think beyond believing that Hillary would actually make Kaine step down so that Bernie could be the veep pick and even that Bernie is supposed to be installed at the very top. I heard this stuff tonight and heard such idiocy coming out of the mouths of some people. I mean, man, some talked so ridiculously in interviews that afterward the MSNBC anchors couldn't help but make jokes--they couldn't just believe their ears.
ReplyDeleteActually that is exactly what you're saying, telling the Bernie supporters in the most insulting terms that their votes aren't needed is exactly what has been said for weeks. Months even. Along with much worse.
DeletePersonally, I'm tired of the continued bashing. Even after Bernie's speech tonight, when he gave everyone exactly what they wanted, he's still being criticized and his supporters are still being attacked. "It will be your fault if Trump wins". "We're sick of your friggin' arrogance." Yeah, that's a great way to mend fences and woo votes.
It's all on the Hillary panty sniffers now. If they want to continue to get their jollies by bullying and insulting Bernie's supporters then they have only themselves to blame if Bernie's supporters react as any human being would and say fuck you and stay home.
(And you don't think MSNBC only used the most crazy interviews to push their Bernie's people are crazy meme? Since when did you start believing everything you see on TV?)
As far as I'm concerned, after tonight, if Hillary loses, it's on her, her supporters and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/lewiston-auburn/0001/11/30/jay-teen-excited-take-part-democratic-convention/1964476
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Bernie loved his personal Secret Service detail.
ReplyDeleteHe loved it when they ran through red-lights with their sirens and flashing lights from their motorcade.
He loved it when the Secret Service followed him around at the Capitol.
Bernie loved the attention so much that even though he knew he lost the election, Bernie would not give up his Secret Service detail and motorcade whisking him and Jane around at $38,000 a day.
Now Sanders wants to hear the cheers as roll call is made tomorrow at the DNC.
I guess anything to make an old man happy.
Will he be re-playing videos of his glory days much like Gloria Swanson & Sarah Palin? ha ha maybe that's why Sarah invested in worthless property in Arizona with a huge theater. Guess she'll have to make do with whatever Fox gave her to set up a studio in her garage.
DeleteYou're a fucking idiot!
DeleteYou're as bad as the Bernie-bros. Let it go already. It's over.
DeleteBernie fanned the flames and spread the hate.
ReplyDeleteOh baloney. He was everything Ted Cruz was not, just like Michelle was every Melania was not (but not for lack of trying), and just like Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama will be everything that Bush 1 and Bush 2 would have been if either had bothered to show up.
DeleteIt was reported last night on PBS that Bernie sent a text to his supporters telling them to act like adults and not disrupt the convention and embarrass his campaign.
DeleteAs much as I am sick of hearing about his revolution I thought he gave a very good speech and gave all the reasons why his supporters need to get it together and vote for Hillary.
Bernie had his night, now it is time for Bernie bots to move on and get with the agenda to defeat Trump.
If he does what he said he would, Bernie is on board with Hillary.
I am so tired of the meanness in our country. I thought we were working toward respect for each other, as evidenced by the speakers yesterday, and the party of everybody working together to get things done -- not part of the Ugly Americans in the eyes of the rest of the world..... please, let's try very hard not to sink to the new Republican level.
ReplyDeleteJane: It was fun while it lasted. Do I have to go out and get a job now?
ReplyDeleteBernie: No! You are still on the Sanders' campaign payroll as the Senior Campaign Advisor until all the $27s are laundered.
Jane: So that means I'm like the Sarah Palin of Vermont?
Give it up.
DeleteThis morning, Bernie announces he will return to the Senate as an Independent:
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