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Title: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 07:55:09 AM
July 25, 2016, 09:31 am
Wasserman Schultz booed off stage in Philadelphia
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Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was repeatedly interrupted and booed Monday as she sought to speak to Florida's convention delegation.

The Florida lawmaker, who will resign after the Democratic National Convention this week after leaked emails showed top members of the DNC working to boost Hillary Clinton's presidential primary bid, had to strain her voice to yell over the flurry of protestors who showed up to interrupt her speech.


"We need to make sure we move together in a unified way," she said over shouts from the crowd.

As she spoke, people stood on chairs holding up signs that said "emails," "No!" and "Thanks for the 'help,' Debbie."

Others repeatedly shouted: “Shame.”

The heckling didn't stop even as Wasserman Schultz mentioned last night's shooting in Fort Meyers, Fla., that left two dead and more than a dozen injured.

The Florida congresswoman was defiant, insisting delegates would see more of her.

"You will see me every day between now and Nov. 8 on the campaign trail, and we will lock arms and we will not stand down," she said.
 
She also took on those heckling her. 
"We know the voices in this room that are standing up and being disruptive, that’s not the Florida we know. The Florida we know is united, the Florida we know will continue to create jobs,” she said.

Yet the remarkable scene raised more questions about the wisdom of having Wasserman Schultz formally preside over the convention.

She has also said she plans to address the hall of delegates in Philadelphia. If she does, she will almost certainly be interrupted again by her opponents, but on a much larger scale.

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell on Monday said that were it up to him, Wasserman Schultz would not address the convention. 

“Debbie is very single-minded, very dedicated,” Rendell said.

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“She worked very hard, but she’s stubborn and she wants to see this thing through. I just think it’s wrong for her and it’s wrong for us.”

Emails posted by WikiLeaks appeared to show DNC officials looking for ways to tip the scales against Bernie Sanders during his race with Clinton for the party's presidential nomination. 

One email showed a top DNC official calling for someone to corner Sanders on his religious beliefs, arguing that he’s “skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage.” And another showed a press official talking about pitching a negative story about Sanders's organization.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 08:04:02 AM
Convention chaos already: DNC chair out, protesters storm Philly
nypost ^
Posted on 7/25/2016, 10:31:43 AM by ChicagoConservative27

Chaos reigned Sunday ahead of the Democratic National Convention, as the party’s head was forced to quit, thousands of protesters took to the streets and delegates threatened a walk-out over Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential pick.

On the eve of the four-day convention to nominate the county’s first female presidential candidate, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned in disgrace over the hack of emails that showed DNC staffers favoring Clinton over her then rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Meanwhile, throngs of Sanders supporters marched and pounded on drums, chanting “Hell no, DNC — we won’t vote for Hillary” in the sweltering heat during the first in an expected series of protests in Philadelphia.

A leading Sanders supporter, Norman Solomon, also said a “vast majority” of the socialist’s delegates were considering turning their backs — or even walking out of the Wells Fargo Center — during Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine’s acceptance speech to run as Clinton’s second-in-command.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 08:09:03 AM
Dems have become the neocons and their backers are too caught-up in their own bullshit to notice.  Fuck you, DNC.  You suck, and your backers are idiots.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Skeeter on July 25, 2016, 09:29:26 AM
 ;D This is pretty funny.

http://usuncut.com/politics/debbie-wasserman-schultz-booed/ (http://usuncut.com/politics/debbie-wasserman-schultz-booed/)



Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 10:02:28 AM
 :D
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Skeeter on July 25, 2016, 10:13:30 AM
 ;D ;D ;D


:D
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 11:02:30 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democratic-national-convention-warren-sanders-to-speak-tonight-as-party-tries-to-move-past-disarray/2016/07/25/93d4faba-5211-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_democrats-850a-lede:homepage/story&wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%252Bnation


 :D
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 11:17:43 AM
Andrea Mitchell: I’ve Never Seen Anything Like Scene Where DNC Chair Was Booed off the Stage
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 7/25/2016 | David Rutz
Posted on 7/25/2016, 12:05:53 PM by GilGil

MSNBC reporter Andrea Mitchell said Monday she had never seen anything like the chaotic scene at the Florida Democratic delegation breakfast where outgoing party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) was booed off the stage and escorted out by security.

Schultz was forced to yell her remarks Monday morning over jeers and shouting from angry Bernie Sanders supporters in the wake of the DNC email leak showing Democratic Party favoritism for Hillary Clinton. Schultz announced Sunday she would resign as party chair after this week’s convention, but she still tried to speak to her fellow Florida delegates, to no avail.

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 11:18:35 AM
Bernie needs to step aside and shut it, imo.  He failed to put up his dukes so he'd better retreat for now.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 11:22:16 AM
Hillary: There's The "Hillary Standard," And Then There Is One For Everybody Else (video)
Real ^ | July 25, 2016 | RealClearPolitics
Posted on 7/25/2016, 2:12:55 PM by i88schwartz

From 60 Minutes:

CLINTON: I often feel like there's the Hillary standard and then there's the standard for everybody else. And--

PELLEY: What's the Hillary standard?

CLINTON: Well, it-- it is-- you know, a lot of as you at the Republican convention-- unfounded, inaccurate, mean-spirited attacks with no basis in truth.

Video, transcript and more at link...

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 11:23:49 AM
Hillary: There's The "Hillary Standard," And Then There Is One For Everybody Else (video)
Real ^ | July 25, 2016 | RealClearPolitics
Posted on 7/25/2016, 2:12:55 PM by i88schwartz

From 60 Minutes:

CLINTON: I often feel like there's the Hillary standard and then there's the standard for everybody else. And--

PELLEY: What's the Hillary standard?

CLINTON: Well, it-- it is-- you know, a lot of as you at the Republican convention-- unfounded, inaccurate, mean-spirited attacks with no basis in truth.

Video, transcript and more at link...

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...

Lmao wtf
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 11:58:32 AM
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: I Will Not Gavel In Democratic Convention in Philadelphia
Breitbart ^ | July 25, 2016 | CHARLIE SPIERING
Posted on 7/25/2016, 2:34:19 PM by Hojczyk

245 Former Democratic National Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has announced that she will not gavel in the Democratic convention in Philadelphia today.

“I have decided that in the interest of making sure that we can start the Democratic convention on a high note that I am not going to gavel in the convention,” Wasserman Schultz said in an interview with the Florida Sun Sentinel.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 12:15:59 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/25/bernie-sanders-started-a-political-revolution-now-he-cant-stop-it


 :D
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: LurkerNoMore on July 25, 2016, 01:11:51 PM
Bernie needs to step aside and shut it, imo.  He failed to put up his dukes so he'd better retreat for now.

Exactly.  The cuck had his chance and didn't go for it.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 01:26:41 PM
Exactly.  The cuck had his chance and didn't go for it.

He made the mistake of believing we're a reasonable public.  You'd think a man of his age would've smartened up a bit.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: 240 is Back on July 25, 2016, 01:33:27 PM
bernie should get onstage and tell the supers its not too late.   hilary is a crook, wasserman had the fix in, and he has a good chance.

'pull a ted cruz', as the kids are calling it.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 01:36:39 PM
bernie should get onstage and tell the supers its not too late.   hilary is a crook, wasserman had the fix in, and he has a good chance.

'pull a ted cruz', as the kids are calling it.

Bernie wimped out big time. 
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: 240 is Back on July 25, 2016, 01:43:24 PM
Bernie wimped out big time. 

there are no good options in 2016.

I wonder how illegal it really is to just take a crap in the voting booth and wipe with the ballot.  Just a misdemeanor?
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 01:44:18 PM
there are no good options in 2016.

I wonder how illegal it really is to just take a crap in the voting booth and wipe with the ballot.  Just a misdemeanor?

I'm voting to end the clinton crime family dynasty. 
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 01:45:00 PM
Oh, well.  I like Bernie and respect him.  He should have went silently back to the woods, though.  Let Hillary dig herself out, seeing as how she had zero problem f'ing him over.  He certainly isn't helping the rest of us by helping her.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 06:55:52 PM
STFU booker.   Christ what a wondbag
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Dos Equis on July 25, 2016, 07:01:58 PM
They did a good job of making people forget about Melania's plagiarism and Cruz getting booed. 
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 07:09:15 PM
Michelle mentioned the birth certificate.   Lol. 
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 07:14:10 PM
Who is this crazy bitch on stage right now?
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 07:14:56 PM
Not sure if that's female.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 07:15:47 PM
Oh, it's first 'lady'.  Nevermind.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Princess L on July 25, 2016, 07:19:24 PM
Did she really just pull the slave card?
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 07:22:03 PM
Did she really just pull the slave card?

Why, but of course!
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 07:24:25 PM
I'm watching making of the mob on AMC now
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 07:25:05 PM
Scott Pelley and Norah O'Donnell should get their heads slammed together.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Dos Equis on July 25, 2016, 07:25:22 PM
Did she really just pull the slave card?

No idea.  I hit the mute button.  lol
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Dos Equis on July 25, 2016, 07:26:34 PM
Hit mute again when Pocahontas took the stage.   :)
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 07:29:49 PM
Michelle looks more like a man than Barack does.  Seriously, tell me that wasn't a drag queen of some sort.  I'm freaking out, here.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Princess L on July 25, 2016, 07:38:18 PM
Michelle looks more like a man than Barack does.  Seriously, tell me that wasn't a drag queen of some sort.  I'm freaking out, here.

I thought she actually looked better than usual tonight.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 07:40:16 PM
I thought she actually looked better than usual tonight.

I shudder to think, then.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 07:43:15 PM
She's like a 6' 7" chick with a dick, and then you have her husband swishing around, flipping his wrists and doing weird squats with a tiny pink dumbbell.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Dos Equis on July 25, 2016, 07:43:49 PM
I thought she actually looked better than usual tonight.

Me too.  Props to her makeup artist. 
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 07:45:47 PM
Me too.  Props to her makeup artist. 

And the hair.     But you see the size of her ass ?   Holy hell.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 07:49:09 PM
Hillary must be working triple-time to keep the real liberals as far away as possible before it's her turn to get up there and lie.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 07:50:33 PM
Leahy really sounds out of it.

Normal, in other words.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 07:52:04 PM
Notice the respect.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Dos Equis on July 25, 2016, 07:52:43 PM
And the hair.     But you see the size of her ass ?   Holy hell.

Yeah.  They did a remarkable job with her, but hard to hide all that junk in the trunk.  lol
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 07:53:48 PM
Careful, Bernie.  We're trying to respect you.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Dos Equis on July 25, 2016, 07:54:38 PM
It is flat out amazing that an avowed socialist is on the stage, and actually made a competitive run for the Democrat nomination.  
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Princess L on July 25, 2016, 07:56:56 PM
Is there something wrong with my TV or does he look orange?
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 07:58:43 PM
He's about to drive himself into the ground.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Dos Equis on July 25, 2016, 08:01:04 PM
Is there something wrong with my TV or does he look orange?

LOL!  Looks like a competitor with a bad tan. 
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 08:02:21 PM
Bernie looks unhinged
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 08:02:27 PM
Is there something wrong with my TV or does he look orange?

A little bit, yeah.

And everything he's saying sounds like he should refuse to make an endorsement IMO.  But of course he won't have the balls to do that.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 08:03:41 PM
Did you see that moron crying on tv?   Ha ha ha
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 08:06:07 PM
Uh-oh, I knew he was about to bury himself any moment now.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 08:06:59 PM
Did you see that moron crying on tv?   Ha ha ha

Who?  Bernie?
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Princess L on July 25, 2016, 08:07:08 PM
I sure hope they change that microphone cover before the next person gets up there.  He's spitting all over it  :-X
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 08:08:22 PM
Another ugly hipster chick crying.    Lmfao
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 08:10:00 PM
Sarah Silverman just ripped into fellow Bernie Sanders supporters: ‘You’re being ridiculous!’
The Washington Post's The Fix ^ | July 25, 2016 | Aaron Blake
Posted on July 25, 2016 at 10:59:31 PM EDT by 2ndDivisionVet

After a day full of tensions between Bernie Sanders supporters and the Democratic Party, the first few hours of the party's convention on Monday featured plenty of distractions, and things seemed to be moving forward.

Then Sarah Silverman showed up.

The comedian was a Sanders supporter in the primary, and she came to the stage with Clinton supporter and fellow "Saturday Night Live" alum, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.). It was a good idea in theory: Two comedians trying to bring some levity to the situation and defuse it with humor.

But feelings were still raw. Silverman argued for unity and gave a generally well-received speech, but Sanders supporters weren't happy, and they began making their voices heard.

Silverman tried to make jokes. She noted that Clinton, who was most recently secretary of state, "was a secretary, and now she's going to be president." The crowd got louder....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Dos Equis on July 25, 2016, 08:11:03 PM
The bulk of what these folks are saying can be summarized pretty simply:  "a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies."
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 08:11:58 PM
I sure hope they change that microphone cover before the next person gets up there.  He's spitting all over it  :-X

I saw something on one of the networks, and don't know if they were using tricks or what -- but it was Trump and he was clearly spitting like a madman.  They had the lighting and everything just so, and it looked terrible.  I couldn't believe it.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Princess L on July 25, 2016, 08:12:33 PM
Bernie just made a very good point why not to vote for Killary -  the people she will nominate for Supreme Court

And Obamcare
And who the F'k is going to pay for that free college education Bernie?
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 25, 2016, 08:14:05 PM
All these things he is complaining about - who the fuck has been in office for 8 years !
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 08:15:07 PM
Bernie probably shouldn't use the word 'fossil'.  Big no-no.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 08:16:21 PM
All these things he is complaining about - who the fuck has been in office for 8 years !

LMAO - and it's like we're supposed to miss the connection.

Um, yeah.  Mr. Wall Street is in office, you yo-yo.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 08:18:43 PM
Man, the utter worthlessness of it all.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Princess L on July 25, 2016, 08:19:24 PM
It's past your bedtime Bernie.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 08:21:28 PM
We have the 'persons of color' to thank for Hillary.

Sorry, but it is the truth.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 08:22:27 PM
Yeah, OK.  Thanks, Bernie.  You can bypass the bullshit.  Take a hike.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 25, 2016, 08:24:54 PM
You must admit, very interesting how he waited until the last few seconds to give Hillary a word.  And that was it.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 26, 2016, 03:56:25 AM
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/25/bernie-fans-claim-their-signs-are-being-seized-at-convention


LMFAO. 
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 26, 2016, 05:02:30 AM
THE DAY THE BERNIE DREAM DIED
Berniegeddon in Philly.
July 26, 2016  Daniel Greenfield  14



Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

Near Philadelphia’s City Hall, an obese woman wearing a marijuana leaf bikini was telling a television reporter why she supported Bernie Sanders. City Hall, once the tallest building in the world, is a gloriously magnificent edifice whose pillars are held up by representatives of all the races of the world and whose clock tower is topped by a 37-foot statue of William Penn, was besieged by Sandernistas.

The Democratic convention was underway. Bernie Sanders had endorsed Hillary Clinton. But his followers still believed. If not in Bernie, then in the radical movement that had coalesced around him.

A cheerful woman wearing a “Bernie or Bust” t-shirt told me that even if Bernie won, she would be voting for Jill Stein and the Green Party. It was unclear how Bernie Sanders could possibly win. Let alone how Jill Stein could win. But Bernie and Jill were against drones, banks and GMOs while Hillary Clinton was for them. And the mood grew uglier as the temperature approached one hundred degrees.

The crazier elements had converged around the historic Arch Street United Methodist Church which was “training” activists to protest non-violently. There were illegal aliens in green t-shirts laughing uproariously and scowling elderly Trotsky fan club members wearing BDS buttons surrounded by posters denouncing America for its “ongoing war” in Iraq (against ISIS) not to mention Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan and most of the rest of the world. The Revolutionary Communist party marched angrily past.

There were also “Bernie Peacekeepers” wearing plastic placards proclaiming that they do not support violence of any kind. If anyone doubted their seriousness, the placards had a rainbow peace sign.

But the core Bernie elements had gathered around City Hall. They had marched the day before when there was no convention. And they were going to march today. A giant banner denounced the “racist drug war”. The ragged crowd carrying it had clearly found themselves on the wrong end of that war. Younger fans wore Bernie t-shirts. Entire families with dreadlocks held up handmade signs.

There was something millenarian and apocalyptic about the scene. Everyone knew that Bernie was going to announce that the revolution was over. And no one wanted to go home.

Officially the Democrats were here to coronate Hillary. MSNBC had set up a giant stage outside the Independence Visitor Center where tickets were being distributed to Independence Hall and its recreations of the rooms where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed. MSNBC personalities leered at viewers from giant video monitors and NBC staffers had swamped the Independence Hall bathrooms. But on the ground, it was all Bernie, Bernie and more Bernie.

There were no Hillary shirts in the streets. It was all Bernie. Silhouettes of Bernie’s glasses, Bernie and his bird, Bernie as a strapping young socialist and Bernie speaking to the masses. He was their Stalin or Saddam. His image was on shirts, signs and banners. Meanwhile elderly DNC delegates wearing blue lanyards nervously shuttled between bars eagerly catering to delegates. The painted donkeys in the squares, a tired gimmick, mostly went ignored. Even an “I’m With Her” button was a rarity.

In a hushed voice, a DNC delegate told me that it was important to elect someone in the middle. But the message in the streets was dramatically different. It wasn’t even about Bernie anymore. Bernie Sanders had tried to address his supporters asking them to behave and they had booed him. And that made the booing of Hillary’s name at the convention inevitable. Bernie the politician had sold out. But the radical left had already created Bernie the character who would go on fighting even when the politician wouldn’t. Bernie could start the revolution. But he couldn’t stop it. Because it was never about him.

The most extreme Sandernistas had converged on Philly certain that they would win. And for all of Hillary’s elaborate organization, her networks of influential cronies, she couldn’t stop them from ruining her coronation. The DNC was on the run. Debbie Wasserman Schultz had resigned. And DNC delegates were outnumbered by angry radical leftists waving signs denouncing capitalism.

 
The radical left was trying to devour the Democratic Party ahead of schedule. And it wasn’t a pleasant sight. Sandernistas crowded the 30th Street Train Station holding forth on a rigged election. They had arrived on stuffy Amtrak trains clutching wadded up cardboard signs. There were angry grad students down from Yale upset about income inequality and anti-war activists from New York City toting models of drones and photos of crying children. Meanwhile the temperature kept on climbing.

Philly was an oven. The locals apologized for the weather as if they had somehow caused it. But the sullen unforgiving heat seemed to echo the mood of Sanders supporters. The hotter it got, the louder and crazier the chants became. At the heart of what was supposed to be a celebration of Hillary, a passionate portion of her party’s base was demanding that she be sent to jail. It was a secret wish that Bernie Sanders had been forced to swallow and abandon, but his supporters had not forgotten.

And they would not forget.

Even before Bernie Sanders could sell out his followers at the DNC, the rising tension reached a crescendo and broke. The heat that had been growing all day could continue no more. Torrents of rain gushed down from the sky. Lightning flashed past skyscraper scaffolding and thunder boomed louder than the loudspeakers. Furious gusts of wind blew rain past a handful of umbrellas that had been used as parasols against the sun. The MSNBC stage was quickly deserted. And the Sandernistas, like drowned rats, raised up their cardboard signs as makeshift umbrellas against the rain.

Hours later, the final betrayal took hold. Bernie Sanders spoke at the DNC and sold out his loyalists. But they too had been preparing for the end.

More than one Sandernista spoke wistfully to me of Jill Stein and the Green Party. One leftist messiah had failed them. Bernie Sanders had put the Democratic Party ahead of the radical left’s agenda. But there were always uncompromising leftist radicals who would never be practical no matter what.

Sanders’ own supporters booed him. They booed any mention of Hillary. And they rode Amtrak home clutching wet signs calling for socialized medicine and an end to capitalism. Whether it is the Soviet Union or the Sanders Union, the left never recognizes that its revolutions have failed. It never learns anything from history except how to hate harder.

The Democratic Party had allowed the left to take over. And the left has no sensible stopping point. It is an endless cycle of revolutions, of mad political agendas and madder personalities that will not stop. Leftists like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders unleash revolutions that they cannot control.

That is what always happens to the left. It is what happened at Berniegeddon in Philadelphia.

The Bernie dream is dead, but the dream of a totalitarian revolution of the left lives on. Next to the great historical monuments of America, the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, Benjamin Franklin’s grave and the Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier, the left vented its hatred for this country and its desire to erase its existence and its freedoms from the earth.






BINGO
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 26, 2016, 06:06:16 AM
We found the Democratic speakers made a few false and misleading claims on opening night.
factcheck.org ^ | 7/26/16 | Robert Farley
Posted on 7/26/2016, 8:43:11 AM by randita

PHILADELPHIA — The 2016 Democratic National Convention is underway, and the factual inaccuracies on the first night focused on income, college tuition and something the Republican ticket had said or done. Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey said Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “would cut taxes for the richest Americans at the expense of the middle class.” But all income levels would get some tax relief under Trump’s plan.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy wrongly claimed that Mike Pence, the GOP vice presidential nominee, “signed a law that would have forced women to hold funerals for fetuses.” The law said aborted or miscarried fetuses “must be cremated or interred” by the hospital or abortion facility.

Sen. Bernie Sanders said Hillary Clinton “will guarantee” free tuition at public colleges or universities for families with annual incomes of $125,000 or less. But free tuition is not guaranteed. States must put up matching funds for the students to receive free tuition.

Sens. Casey and Kirsten Gillibrand both claimed that Trump had said that wages are “too high.” Trump was specifically talking about a $15 minimum wage when he made that comment, not wages overall.

Sanders said the “top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent,” a statistic that has been questioned by economists at the Federal Reserve Board.

Sanders also said the “top 1 percent in recent years has earned 85 percent of all new income,” but economists whose work Sanders has cited put the figure at 52 percent for 1993 to 2015.

Rep. Joe Kennedy III said Americans’ wages “have not budged in 40 years,” and Sen. Elizabeth Warren said wages were “flat.” Wages plunged in the 1970s and 1980s, and more recently have showed strong growth.

This story was written with the help of the entire staff, including some of those based in Philadelphia who are at the convention site. As we did for the Republican National Convention, we intend to vet the major speeches at the Democratic National Convention for factual accuracy, applying the same standards to both.

Trump’s Tax Plan

Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey said Donald Trump “would cut taxes for the richest Americans at the expense of the middle class.” The wealthiest Americans would receive the largest tax cuts under Trump’s tax plan, but everyone would get some tax relief. Middle-income Americans would receive average tax cuts of about $2,700 in 2017 under Trump’s plan, according to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center.

Trump’s plan would, among other things, consolidate the current seven income tax brackets into four, with a top marginal rate of 25 percent (it’s currently 39.6 percent).

According to an analysis of the plan by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, Trump’s proposal would “reduce taxes throughout the income distribution.” Nonetheless, the biggest cuts would come for the wealthiest Americans, in both raw dollars and as a percentage of income, the Tax Policy Center found. The top 1 percent, for example, would get an average tax cut of more than $275,000 (about 17.5 percent of after-tax income) in 2017.

But middle-income people would see a tax cut, too. “Middle-income households would receive an average tax cut of about $2,700,or about 5 percent of after-tax income,” the Tax Policy Center concluded.

An analysis by the Tax Foundation reached a similar conclusion — the biggest gains in after-tax income would accrue to the wealthiest taxpayers under Trump’s proposal. But the plan “would cut taxes and lead to higher after-tax incomes for taxpayers at all levels of income.”

The Tax Foundation analyzed the plan’s impact with (dynamic) and without (static) taking into account the expected effect on the economy. On a static basis, middle-income taxpayers — between the 30th to 80th percentiles — would see an increase in their after-tax adjusted gross income of between 3 percent and 8.3 percent. Taking into account the positive effects on the economy that the tax cuts could be expected to stimulate, the Tax Foundation found middle-income taxpayers — between the 30th to 70th percentiles — would see a nearly 20 percent increase in after-tax adjusted gross income.

The Tax Foundation cautioned that the loss in revenue under Trump’s plan — even with expected benefits to the economy — would “increase the federal government’s deficit by over $10 trillion” over 10 years. One could argue that such large tax cuts might lead to spending cuts that disproportionately affect middle-income taxpayers. But Trump has not been specific about where he would begin making spending cuts.

Funerals for Miscarriages?

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy claimed that GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence “signed a law that would have forced women to hold funerals for fetuses, even in some cases, for a miscarriage.” That’s not so.

The controversial anti-abortion bill Malloy referred to, which Indiana Gov. Pence signed into law March 24, contained a provision stating that an aborted or miscarried fetus “must be cremated or interred,” and that the hospital or abortion facility (not the mother, as Malloy suggested) is responsible for the disposition.

Some have characterized this as fetuses receiving “what amounts to a funeral.” But that’s incorrect.

The word “funeral” refers to a ceremony, not to the burial or cremation that follows. For example, Dictionary.com defines “funeral” as “the ceremonies for a dead person prior to burial or cremation.” (Emphasis added is ours.)

And in fact, the Indiana law required no funeral ceremony. It even specified that the parents would not be required to provide a name for the fetus. A federal judge blocked the law from going into effect late last month. Clinton’s Tuition Plan

Sen. Bernie Sanders said Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton “will ​guarantee”​ free tuition at in-state public colleges or universities for families with incomes of $125,000 a year or less. But free tuition would not be guaranteed. States must put up matching funds for free tuition. Also, the free-tuition plan would be phased in and not available to families earning as much as $125,000 until 2021.

Sanders mentioned the free-tuition plan in his speech as an example of how Clinton has adopted some of his ideas for the general election in a show of unity after the contentious primary.

Sanders: During the primary campaign, Secretary Clinton and I both focused on [college debt] but with different approaches. Recently, however, we have come together on a proposal that will revolutionize higher education in America. It will guarantee that the children of any family in this country with an annual income of $125,000 a year or less – 83 percent of our population – will be able to go to a public college or university tuition free.

Clinton announced her plan on July 6, but her plan calls for states to “step up and invest in higher education.” The New York Times wrote that “the federal government would provide tuition grants to states that agree to put up some matching money.”

The paper noted that “some experts said details of the initiative — including exactly how it would work and be paid for — were sketchy, and raised concerns that some states would decline to contribute money.”

More recently, Times columnist Kevin Carey wrote, “States will be able to opt out of the Clinton plan, just as a significant number have chosen not to accept large federal subsidies to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.”

Also, free tuition would be gradually phased in, beginning with families earning $85,000 or less. “By 2021, families with income up to $125,000 will pay no tuition at in-state four-year public colleges and universities,” Clinton’s plan says.

So Sanders overstates the impact of Clinton’s plan when he says it “will ​guarantee”​ free tuition for families with incomes of $125,000 a year or less. Actually, the plan “could eventually provide free in-state tuition to eligible students,” as the Times writes.

Trump on Wages

Two speakers claimed that Trump had said that wages are “too high” in the United States. Not exactly. Trump said that in response to a question about raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Sen. Casey said that Trump said, “Wages in America, quote, are too high,” and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York repeated the talking point, saying, “Donald Trump actually stood on a debate stage and said that wages are ‘too high.’”

At a Nov. 10, 2015, debate hosted by Fox Business Network, Trump was asked if he was “sympathetic” to those who were calling for a $15 minimum wage. He responded that he “can’t be” because the country “is being beaten on every front economically.” He went on to say, “taxes too high, wages too high, we’re not going to be able to compete against the world. I hate to say it, but we have to leave it the way it is.” The “it” was the federal minimum wage.

Here’s the question and Trump’s full answer:

Fox News’ Neil Cavuto, Nov. 10, 2015: Mr. Trump, as the leading presidential candidate on this stage and one whose tax plan exempts couples making up to $50,000 a year from paying any federal income taxes at all, are you sympathetic to the protesters cause since a $15 wage works out to about $31,000 a year?

Trump: I can’t be Neil. And the and the reason I can’t be is that we are a country that is being beaten on every front economically, militarily. There is nothing that we do now to win. We don’t win anymore. Our taxes are too high. I’ve come up with a tax plan that many, many people like very much. It’s going to be a tremendous plan. I think it’ll make our country and our economy very dynamic.

But, taxes too high, wages too high, we’re not going to be able to compete against the world. I hate to say it, but we have to leave it the way it is. People have to go out, they have to work really hard and have to get into that upper stratum. But we can not do this if we are going to compete with the rest of the world. We just can’t do it.

Cavuto: So do not raise the minimum wage?

Trump: I would not do it.

Trump was criticized for the comment and was asked about it two days later on Fox News. Trump said, “And they said should we increase the minimum wage? And I’m saying that if we’re going to compete with other countries, we can’t do that because the wages would be too high. … The question was about the minimum wage. I’m not talking about wages being too high, I’m talking about minimum wage.”

Trump’s original statement may not have been clearly worded, but the context, and his explanation two days later, show he was talking about a $15 minimum wage being too high, not all wages in the U.S. in general. Sanders’ Wealth and Income Talking Point

Sanders continued to strain the facts about inequality of income and wealth, as he had done throughout his campaign.

Wealth: Sanders said the “top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.”

That’s a hotly debated claim. Sanders referred to a study by economists Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, and Gabriel Zucman of the London School of Economics and Political Science, first published in October 2014. Their study indeed concluded that as of 2012, the top 0.1 percent of American households held 22 percent of the nation’s personal wealth, while the bottom 90 percent held 23 percent.

However, as we reported last year, Saez and Zucman’s work has been criticized by economists at the Federal Reserve Board, which has conducted its own studies of the wealth held by U.S. households since the 1960s. The Fed’s survey data put the share of wealth held by the top 0.1 percent at 14 percent, not 22 percent, and the Fed said that group’s share had grown at only half the rate that the Saez-Zucman study stated.

Furthermore, in a paper published in 2015, four Fed economists argue that the Saez-Zucman methodology has an “upward bias.” It is based on inferring wealth from the income reported on federal tax returns, but the Fed economists argue that this fails to capture untaxed cash benefits to middle-income families, such as employer-paid health insurance and employer contributions to Social Security and Medicare.

Income: Sanders also said the “top 1 percent in recent years has earned 85 percent of all new income.” But that’s no longer so, even according to Saez and Zucman.

A June 2016 update by Saez now puts the percentage of income growth captured by the top 1 percent from 1993 to 2015 at 52 percent. That’s barely half — far below the 85 percent figure Sanders gave.

That same study also found “robust income growth for all groups” between 2013 and 2015, and said that for the bottom 99 percent, “incomes grew by 3.9% from 2014 to 2015, the best annual growth rate since 1999.”

So there is indeed evidence of large inequalities in the distribution of wealth and the growth of incomes. But Sanders exaggerates by using outdated or questionable data.

Roller-Coaster Wages

Rep. Joe Kennedy III said Americans’ wages “have not budged in 40 years,” and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, his former law professor, said wages were “flat.” In fact, wages have had a roller-coaster ride during that time, and have been rising for years.

Kennedy: [Elizabeth Warren] taught us that [the law’s] impact lay not in classrooms or textbooks, but in a society where wages have not budged in 40 years.

Wages have more than “budged,” plunging in the 1970s and 1980s, and more recently showing strong growth.

It’s true that real (inflation-adjusted) average weekly wages for rank-and-file, nonsupervisory workers were still 3.2 percent lower in June 2016 than they were 40 years earlier, in June 1976, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

But they were anything but stagnant in the interim, dropping 16.6 percent between January 1976 to the low point in January 1996.

Since then, weekly paychecks for nonsupervisory workers have regained nearly all that loss, and the upward trend continues.

Warren repeated Kennedy’s claim during her own speech, saying that “wages stay flat” in America.

Warren: I mean look around — Americans bust their tails, some working two or three jobs, but wages stay flat.

Actually, real average weekly earnings climbed 8.6 percent in the past eight years, and 4.5 percent in the past four years.

Kennedy and Warren are not the only politicians to have made this incorrect claim recently. “Flat wages” is also a Clinton claim, as we wrote previously here and here, and we flagged Trump on his statement that “wages have not been raised” here.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Skeeter on July 26, 2016, 08:15:25 AM
Man, and I thought the RNC was a shit show. It pales in comparison.  :o
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 26, 2016, 08:17:01 AM
Hillary’s Never-Ending Reintroductions (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

by RICH LOWRY   July 26, 2016 12:00 AM @RICHLOWRY

Democrats are still convinced America just doesn’t know the real Her. If only we could get to know the real Hillary Clinton. Unveiling the Hillary we supposedly don’t know has been the perpetual, elusive goal of Clinton’s handlers for decades, with the Democratic convention in Philadelphia the latest stab at it. On This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook hopefully maintained that a lot of Americans simply “don’t understand” Hillary’s devotion to others, and the convention aims to give them this “fuller picture.” Or as a CNN headline put it, “Hillary Clinton prepares to reintroduce herself to America.” Again. Hillary has made more reintroductions than should be allowed for a person who has never gone away. Political writer Jonathan Rauch has a 14-year rule that posits no one is elected president more than 14 years after winning election as a governor or senator (the traditional jumping-off points for the presidency).

Elected to the Senate from New York in 2000, Hillary is technically only a couple of years past this benchmark for staleness — except this doesn’t do justice to how long she has been around, and especially how long it feels she’s been around. Bill Clinton announced his campaign for president in October 1991.

Hillary has been with us ever since. During that campaign, Bill famously told us we’d get two for one. It’s been more than 14 years since she vouched for Bill Clinton on 60 Minutes after the allegations of an affair with Gennifer Flowers surfaced (1992), tried to remake American health care (1993), wrote the book It Takes a Village to soften her image (1996) and vouched for Bill in yet another sex scandal (1998). Over 25 years, the public surely has attained an accurate-enough picture of Hillary Clinton. It has been more than 14 years just from one Hillary scandal with a wholly implausible explanation (her amazingly lucrative cattle trades that were first reported in 1994) to another (her private server as secretary of state that was first reported in 2015).

This is not to make a fetish of Jonathan Rauch’s 14-year rule — such rules of thumb are made to be broken — but it speaks to how utterly, drearily, inescapably familiar Hillary Clinton is. A Washington Post article last year was titled “The making of Hillary 5.0: Marketing wizards help re-imagine Clinton brand,” and it may have under-counted Hillary’s attempted reboots. Her handlers are like Leftists insisting that socialism has never failed; it’s just never been tried. They want to believe that people don’t dislike Hillary; they just don’t know her. Even if this is true, not being able to project in public those qualities that make you appealing in private makes you by definition a poor politician.

No one ever had to say about Franklin Roosevelt, “You wouldn’t believe how buoyant he is — behind closed doors,” or about Ronald Reagan, “He’s very funny — when the cameras are off.” Over 25 years, the public surely has attained an accurate-enough picture of Hillary Clinton. They may not know all the details of her advocacy work as a young woman, but they have seen her smash-mouth partisanship, her grating insincerity, her gross money-grubbing, her serial dishonesties, her cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof caution, and her grind-out ambition that has lacked a light touch or any poetry. Hillary always points out how she is a target for attack, but the two controversies that have dogged her in the past year were entirely of her own doing.

No enemy of hers forced her to circumvent the rules to try to keep her official e-mails off the grid, or to take $675,000 from Goldman Sachs for three speeches. She did this to herself — because she thought she could get away with it. In a 60 Minutes interview, she complained that a different standard applies to her, a strange plaint after the FBI director gave her a pass on her e-mails. This suggests the problem isn’t that people don’t know her so much as that she lacks all self-awareness. — Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review.

He can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com. ©2016 King Features Syndicate

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438323/hillary-clinton-democratic-party-wont-stop-reintroducing-her
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Dos Equis on July 26, 2016, 03:17:11 PM
Democrats heckle preacher during opening prayer
By Todd Starnes 
Published July 26, 2016
FoxNews.com

Monday night in Philadelphia the Democrats opened their proceedings with a word of prayer -- from a Christian minister. Now that in and of itself was a miracle -- right up there with the water getting turned into wine.

But when the preacher offered a blessing upon Hillary Clinton, all you-know-what broke loose.

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“We have an opportunity, oh God, to give undeniable evidence to our commitment to justice and equality by nominating Hillary Rodham Clinton as our candidate for the highest office in the land, Rev. Cynthia Hale prayed.

They literally heckled the poor lady – booing and jeering right in the middle of her petition to the Almighty. At some point the jeers turned into chants for Bernie Sanders, “Bernie, Bernie…”

To be clear -- they were not chanting the name of Jesus Christ the Savior -- they were chanting the name of Bernie Sanders the socialist.

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They turned a moment of quiet meditation and reflection into UFC Fight Night.

Was it too much to assume the Democrats would show a little bit of reverence?

Then again -- I was at their convention in 2012 -- when they not only booed God -- but they tried to vote the Almighty out of their party platform.

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That’s not to say the Democrats are not religious.

I personally observed vendors in Charlotte selling Obama prayer shawls and artwork that depicted the president as Jesus Christ.

In other words, the DNC only had room for one deity – but their King of Kings was not the same one we worshipped on Sunday.

I also recall Charlotte being inundated with heavy thunderstorms not too long after their act of public sacrilege. The same thing happened Monday in Philadelphia.

I'm no theologian -- but it sounds like the Almighty might be trying to send a subtle message to the liberals.

So all you Democrats, listen up!

The next time you guys pray -- bow your heads, close your eyes -- and stop acting like a bunch of godforsaken, no-account heathens who don't have the sense God gave a goose.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/07/26/democrats-heckle-preacher-during-opening-prayer.html
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Las Vegas on July 26, 2016, 06:17:04 PM
Mr. NAFTA, Bill Clinton speaking tonight.  Too unbearable even for GBers!!   >:(
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Coach is Back! on July 26, 2016, 08:17:47 PM
And the hair.     But you see the size of her ass ?   Holy hell.

Legit Lmfao....
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 26, 2016, 08:31:15 PM
http://heatst.com/politics/take-it-to-the-streets-and-fk-the-police-protestors-rail-against-cops-at-dnc


Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: LurkerNoMore on July 28, 2016, 05:53:19 AM
I see two former and one current President speaking at the DNC.

How many speaking at the RNC?  Zero.

On the bright side, Michelle Obama made history by being the first person ever to give a speech at the RNC and DNC in the same year.  Even if the speech at the RNC was the one from 2008.  Then again, you can't expect Repubs to be living in current times. 
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 28, 2016, 06:56:37 AM
http://www.infowars.com/bernie-delegate-dnc-is-replacing-sanders-supporters-with-paid-seat-fillers-to-create-fake-unity


 :D
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: LurkerNoMore on July 28, 2016, 07:26:36 AM
http://www.infowars.com/bernie-delegate-dnc-is-replacing-sanders-supporters-with-paid-seat-fillers-to-create-fake-unity


 :D

Damn, another job that Bernie supporters couldn't get.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: 240 is Back on July 28, 2016, 08:24:03 AM
scott baio.    nuff said.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Dos Equis on July 28, 2016, 08:38:22 AM
Not surprised.

WATCH OBAMA REFER TO HIMSELF 119 TIMES DURING HILLARY NOMINATING SPEECH
‘I was so young that first time’
Jul 28, 2016 

Addressing the Democratic National Convention on its penultimate night to lay out the case for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, President Obama began by recalling his political debut at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He then described how his family has become so well known to America in the intervening years. He spoke of his time in office, how the presidency has physically aged him, but how his daughters euphemistically note he now looks more "mature."

He spoke of everything he is proud to have achieved --  passing ObamaCare, expanding clean energy production, reducing consumption of foreign oil, passing the Iran deal, bringing troops home, killing bin Laden.

He spoke of how inspired he's become meeting Americans of all stripes. He spoke of his optimism. He spoke of the values he imparted from his family. 
If it's starting to sound like Obama talked a lot about himself, that’s because he did.

In total, we counted 119 times Obama referred to himself during his speech ostensibly about Hillary Clinton.

Note that in arriving at this calculation, we included mentions of "we" when he was clearly including himself as part of the plural pronoun; the many uses of "we" in referring to America at large were not included. "Me," "myself," "our" and his third-person reference to "a half Kenyan grandson" were also included.

Did we miscount? Feel free to let us know in the comments section.

https://news.grabien.com/story-watch-obama-refer-himself-119-times-during-hillary-nominatin
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: andreisdaman on July 28, 2016, 11:52:52 AM
History will be very kind to Obama 8)
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 28, 2016, 12:25:28 PM
History will be very kind to Obama 8)

So will his BF
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: LurkerNoMore on July 28, 2016, 01:15:31 PM
So will his BF

Will that continue to haunt you?
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 28, 2016, 01:19:05 PM
Will that continue to haunt you?

No - i hope obama finds peace w his transition and re-assignment after leaving office. 
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 28, 2016, 01:20:37 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/these-vendors-at-the-democratic-convention-dont-see-much-enthusiasm-for-clinton/2016/07/28/feacaa96-54db-11e6-b652-315ae5d4d4dd_video.html



LOL!!!


Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!


LOSERS!!!!
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: LurkerNoMore on July 28, 2016, 01:22:55 PM
No - i hope obama finds peace w his transition and re-assignment after leaving office. 

The question is - will you?
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 28, 2016, 01:25:50 PM
The question is - will you?

I said yes - i hope it all goes well for her after office.  Once the divorce and bankruptcy are settled, all alimony and child support payments are wipe away the rest - maybe she can start a new chapter on a show on E! or something. 
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: LurkerNoMore on July 28, 2016, 02:05:49 PM
I said yes - i hope it all goes well for her after office.  Once the divorce and bankruptcy are settled, all alimony and child support payments are wipe away the rest - maybe she can start a new chapter on a show on E! or something. 

The question was - will YOU find peace with YOUR transition and reassignment after Obama leaves office?
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 28, 2016, 02:18:48 PM
The question was - will YOU find peace with YOUR transition and reassignment after Obama leaves office?

Oh me?   I'm doing great.  i have transitioned back into more Strength training and plan to reassign myself to a few endurance events in 2017 like Kokoro.   

Lifting and Training has been A+ for a long time now.  Been killing it in the gym unlike Zumbabama with his bs workouts.   
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: LurkerNoMore on July 28, 2016, 05:00:35 PM
Oh me?   I'm doing great.  i have transitioned back into more Strength training and plan to reassign myself to a few endurance events in 2017 like Kokoro.   

Lifting and Training has been A+ for a long time now.  Been killing it in the gym unlike Zumbabama with his bs workouts.   

That's nice.   But I was referring to your mental state.  Will you find peace with yourself after Obama's term is over?
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: 240 is Back on July 28, 2016, 05:52:57 PM
f
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 28, 2016, 06:31:48 PM
That's nice.   But I was referring to your mental state.  Will you find peace with yourself after Obama's term is over?

Im doing A+   

my training has been killing it for 3-4 years now.   In tip top shape 

F Obama
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 28, 2016, 07:10:35 PM
Pelosi says uneducated white men like Donald Trump because of ‘guns, gays and God.’ Is she right?
The Washington Post's The Fix ^ | July 28, 2016 | Amber Phillips and Emily Guskin
Posted on 7/28/2016, 2:38:49 PM by 2ndDivisionVet

And I think that, so many times, white — non-college-education — educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G’s, God being the woman’s right to choose. --House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to Judy Woodruff in an interview Wednesday

What Nancy Pelosi said isn't necessarily a new idea: the theory that white, working class men vote Republican because of social issues and -- from Democrats' perspective -- to the detriment of their economic interests.

But it is worth taking a closer look this year. Hillary Clinton is struggling mightily this campaign with white men, who, according to Washington Post-ABC News polling, are supporting Trump by higher margins than they did for Mitt Romney in 2012; 77 percent of them hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic nominee. And there's a possibility the presidential race will be played out in the Rust Belt and Midwest, where there is a higher concentration of white, working class men.

While we can't ask every white, non-college-educated man who they're voting for and why, we can get an idea of how strongly they feel about the three issues Pelosi pointed out. So let's do that.

Do non-white working men feel more strongly about...

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Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: WalterWhite on July 28, 2016, 07:35:50 PM
DNC is replacing delegates with paid seat fillers and added clapping machines to drown out any discord.

Can't make this shit up.

Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: 240 is Back on July 28, 2016, 08:26:41 PM
ugh, i listening for like 8 minutes.  her voice is so shrill.  It's like 2 sarah pailns in her belly trying to sing harmonies.  Screw this, i'm putting on Pandora.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 29, 2016, 02:56:03 AM
ugh, i listening for like 8 minutes.  her voice is so shrill.  It's like 2 sarah pailns in her belly trying to sing harmonies.  Screw this, i'm putting on Pandora.

I went to bed early
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: James on July 29, 2016, 07:13:09 AM
wtf?

(https://i.sli.mg/V4EMgo.gif)
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: 240 is Back on July 29, 2016, 07:20:34 AM
I went to bed early
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: James on July 29, 2016, 07:42:00 AM
DNC In Total Meltdown

Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: 240 is Back on July 29, 2016, 07:47:51 AM
Woah!   I distinctly remember Tucker Carlson mocking the 911 truthers while being an msnbc pundit for years.  Zero logic, refusing to look at chemical analysis showing things which shouldn't be there - just pure emotion.

now he's skyping with alex jones?    lol   love it!!!!!!!!!

the one good thing about a trump presidency... he's been called a 911 truther by the Bush white house... He's a self-proclaimed birther... he's all over the hillary vince foster BS.... he's letting sandy hook truthers have airtime at his convention... he accused others of JFK involvement...

Trump is a complete conspiracy theorist.  All the way around.   Love it.
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Dos Equis on July 29, 2016, 08:09:08 AM
Idiots.

Bernie Fans Boo Medal of Honor Recipient
TIMOTHY A. CLARY
(http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/cheats/2016/07/28/bernie-fans-boo-medal-of-honor-winner/jcr:content/image.img.707.jpg/48992909.cached.jpg)

Apparent Pro-Bernie supporters heckled war heroes endorsing Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention, shouting “No More Wars” as veterans spoke on stage.

Holding signs, many of the hecklers were wearing fluorescent yellow shirts, an idea developed by a member of the Colorado delegation to designate themselves as Sanders supporters who wanted to send a signal that they did not prefer Clinton.

As retired Four-Star Gen. John Allen and Medal of Honor recipient Florent Groberg endorsed Clinton, hecklers interrupted several times, only to be drowned out by shouts of “U-S-A!” from the vast majority of the crowd. Both Allen and Groberg spoke at length about how Clinton was imminently qualified to be president of the United States.

“Hillary Clinton has been preparing for this moment for decades,” Groberg said in his remarks. “As commander-in-chief she will defeat ISIS.”

Groberg earned a Medal of Honor in Afghanistan four years ago, after grabbing a suicide bomber and throwing him away from his troops. He lost a part of his leg in the incident.

“There were a couple hecklers… It’s America—freedom of speech!” Groberg told The Daily Beast following his speech Thursday night. He said that he was a registered Republican who decided to endorse Clinton in a speech after her campaign reached out about two weeks ago.

“She asked me to come, and she’s done a lot of things for our veterans,” Groberg said. “Our veterans are dying out there. She’s gone out there and tried to fix it. She’s got experience—as first lady and secretary of state.”

“I’ve never seen a single thing Donald Trump has done for veterans,” he continued.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/07/28/bernie-fans-boo-medal-of-honor-winner.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl
Title: Re: DNC Convention Thread
Post by: Dos Equis on July 29, 2016, 09:19:17 AM
Moment of silence for fallen cops marred by jeering at DNC convention
Published July 29, 2016 
FoxNews.com

A hard-won moment of silence for fallen police officers Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention was marred by chants from the crowd of “black lives matter!” in an ugly moment that angered law enforcement representatives and underscored the anti-cop climate that has gripped the nation.

After the mothers of black men who had been killed in racially charged incidents were welcomed onto the stage earlier in the week, Philadelphia’s Fraternal Order of Police chapter pressed the DNC to honor fallen cops. Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez was invited to speak about the five cops killed in her city July 7, and said she and her fellow officers took the job to "serve and protect, not to hate and discriminate."

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Many in the crowd cheered Valdez, but the jeers were audible, too. (Associated Press)

When Valdez asked the crowd to join her in a moment of silence for cops killed in the line of duty, jeers erupted from the crowd.

“Please help me to honor ALL of America's fallen officers with a moment of silence,” as the anti-police group’s namesake slogan echoed through the Wells Fargo Center.

Valdez ignored the jeers and introduced family members of fallen police officers, including the mother of Moses Walker, a 19-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department who was gunned down in 2012 hold a moment of silence.

"Moses didn't live long enough to give all of the gifts he had to give," Wayne Walker told the thousands of delegates. "While we're here, we must do the good we can. Absolutely we have to believe that we're stronger together."

Jennifer Loudon, widow of fallen Chicago police officer Thor Soderberg, also addressed the throng and drew cheers when she said police risk their lives to protect citizens.

"I know that in light of recent events, some of us have lost faith," she said.

While many in the crowd appeared moved by the presentation, the jeers did not sit well with law enforcement advocates.

“The comments that were made at the convention last night speak for themselves and I think any intelligent person is going to recognize them for what they are,” said Rich Roberts, spokesman for the International Union of Police Associations.

The Philadelphia chapter of Fraternal Order of Police had earlier blasted the DNC for hosting onstage the mothers of black men killed in racially charged incidents, including Michael Brown, who was killed in 2014 in a confrontation with a Ferguson, Mo., police officer who was later cleared by a Department of Justice investigation, and Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teen who was killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer.

The mothers of Eric Garner, who died while being arrested on Staten Island for selling cigarettes, and Sandra Bland, who hanged herself in a Waller County, Texas, jail after being pulled over for a traffic violation also addressed the convention Tuesday as a group called "Mothers of the Movement.”

The group aims to raise awareness about police brutality and gun violence.

Prior to Thursday night’s events, FOP Chapter President John McNesby praised the decision by the Clinton campaign and convention organizers to add family members of fallen officers to the speaking lineup.

"We want fairness to both sides," McNesby told the Philadelphia Daily News. "It seemed like we got the door slammed in our faces. I guess they listened, had a change of thought, change of heart."

McNesby did not immediately respond to a request for comment following the marred moment of silence. However, one retired Philadelphia police officer, who told FoxNews.com he has resumed carrying his gun in light of the growing anti-police climate, said he was disgusted.

“I don’t know what is wrong with people,” he said. “I just don’t understand it. They say they want unity, and then you get this.”

Even as the convention wound down, one San Diego police officer was killed and another wounded by a gunman stopped for a traffic violation. In addition to the five Dallas police officers killed July 7 by a sniper as they guarded Black Lives Matter protesters, three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers were targeted and killed by a gunman on July 16.

Statistics show the number of police officers killed in the line of duty had been on a downward trajectory since 1970. But this year, cop deaths are up more than 50 percent, and the victims in Dallas, Baton Rouge and other cases were targeted for assassination rather than killed in the process of confronting dangerous criminals.

According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, the number of officers fatally shot is already up 56 percent compared with last year.

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