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ConservativeDemocrat

(2,720 posts)
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 02:04 AM Dec 2015

A glorious thread in Fark describing the behavior of Sander's supporters

Note: Not mine, but in Fark's discussion group, there are the same sort of petulant children like you see all over the DU. Like everywhere on the net it seems, too many Sanderistas pretend their childishness are all highbrow policy disagreements, when it's really just trying to be annoying as possible, and user "amiable" pegged them to a T:

Well let's take some choice quotes from you from this very thread:

"If Hillary wins, it just means the US will not have a good president. That's all it means."

"If I'm FORCED to vote for her pandering ass"

"She will still be a trickle-down corporate/banking sell-out. She'll simply be a pro-choice, anti-gun corporate/banking sell-out."

Those don't sound like honest policy disagreements they are not couched as policy, platform or record disagreements. It would be like me saying: "Bernie Sanders would still be a communist ass-clown" and then claiming that type of talk represented me having a "legitimate policy disagreement" with him. I'm sorry but I just don't see any Hillary supporters saying those kind of things about Bernie Sanders.

We get, this is going to be you guys if Clinton wins the nomination:

Too true!



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A glorious thread in Fark describing the behavior of Sander's supporters (Original Post) ConservativeDemocrat Dec 2015 OP
Could you add a link to the page in question? nt MADem Dec 2015 #1
Here you go... ConservativeDemocrat Dec 2015 #5
hahahahahahahahaha cosmicone Dec 2015 #2
They never discuss how Bernie workinclasszero Dec 2015 #3
Tens of TRILLIONS actually n/t cosmicone Dec 2015 #4
Right workinclasszero Dec 2015 #8
They want to tax the middle class. I had a chat on a thread the other day.... Walk away Dec 2015 #12
Well no wonder Bernie and his followers workinclasszero Dec 2015 #13
Middle Class Dems are voting with their hearts... Walk away Dec 2015 #14
An even less frequent discussion is how Bernie would ever get his programs passed! charlyvi Dec 2015 #7
And giant pots of public money Ellen Forradalom Dec 2015 #9
If you can't talk about your candidate being qualified and why without making these remarks, Thinkingabout Dec 2015 #6
Post removed Post removed Dec 2015 #10
My eyes rolled around my head when I saw the gaslighting thread Politicub Dec 2015 #11
Your post cracked me up, Politicub.. Cha Dec 2015 #15
I had to look up "gas lighting".. omz! they're projecting again! Cha Dec 2015 #16
 

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)
2. hahahahahahahahaha
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 09:57 AM
Dec 2015

They don't want to pay any attention to the biggest elephant in the room

S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-T who will tax people at 90% according to his own words.

They think that it will have no effect on the electorate -- in fact, more people will vote for him because he is a socialist!

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
3. They never discuss how Bernie
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 10:19 AM
Dec 2015

is gonna pay for all the things he promises and it would be in the hundreds billions or more.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
8. Right
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 01:26 PM
Dec 2015

I was lowballin the numbers no doubt.

Not a word from Bernie how all this money is going to be raised.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
12. They want to tax the middle class. I had a chat on a thread the other day....
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 09:55 PM
Dec 2015

I tried to explain to a few of them that, in my state, a police officer and a tenured teacher make about $200,000 a year. The cost of living is very high here and, if you have kids in college and a mortgage you are just making a living. You are already paying $60,000 or more a year in Federal tax.
This group of Berniacs think those folk need to cough up some more bucks because.....the Middle Class isn't getting screwed enough!
They seem to hate anyone who makes more money than they do. Apparently, it's bad to pay your way and everybody else's.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
13. Well no wonder Bernie and his followers
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 11:27 PM
Dec 2015

never talk about paying for his fantastic world.

It's way easier to be a big sugar daddy and promise people the world for nothing instead of telling them their taxes are going to skyrocket to pay for it all lol

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
14. Middle Class Dems are voting with their hearts...
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 11:39 PM
Dec 2015

Their tax dollars are basically paying the bulk of the taxes that run this country. They are not going to vote for a Socialist. They DID vote for President Obama and they will vote for Hillary. But if a moderate republican ran against Bernie....they would switch parties at the drop of a hat. It would be financial suicide for them to vote to elect him.
As I said to one Sanders Supporter, these are the Millennial's parents who are paying for college and supporting them.

charlyvi

(6,537 posts)
7. An even less frequent discussion is how Bernie would ever get his programs passed!
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 01:24 PM
Dec 2015

The President is not a king......even Bernie. And Congress is not subservient to the Executive branch. Just because Bernie wants it, Congress does not have to pass it. As we have seen over the last two Democratic presidential terms. But somehow Bernie supporters think that if he is elected, partisanship will disappear and all of Bernie's agenda will be enacted while we all sing Kumbaya. It is a naive pipe dream and Bernie folks simply will not wake up and smell the coffee. They are making the same mistake that all those people made who voted for the right wing nut jobs in the 2014 midterms.......they figured if they could just capture the Senate and House, their entire agenda would be passed, giving no thought at all to any other branch of government. So much like Bernie's supporters.

Ellen Forradalom

(16,160 posts)
9. And giant pots of public money
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 01:48 PM
Dec 2015

tend to attract the worst sharks in humanity. I like some of Bernie's policy positions but greatly fear the potential for corruption.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
6. If you can't talk about your candidate being qualified and why without making these remarks,
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 11:28 AM
Dec 2015

then maybe your candidate has not got a record which can match Hillary. Name calling is admitting defeat.

Response to ConservativeDemocrat (Original post)

Politicub

(12,165 posts)
11. My eyes rolled around my head when I saw the gaslighting thread
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 06:36 PM
Dec 2015

The chosen have learned a new term and, of course, use it to bash Hillary and her supporters.

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