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#DropOutHillary is trending - Really? (Original Post) runaway hero May 2016 OP
Why ask why when you can read the answers? IdaBriggs May 2016 #1
"Clinton Foundation paid Female Executives 38% less than Male Executives" vintx May 2016 #3
Google is only giving me right wing sources, but there appear IdaBriggs May 2016 #11
Guess what Google gives me with "Bernie" and "concede"? Hortensis May 2016 #15
Because it is long overdue - and because Clinton has a history of taking a VERY long time to read Betty Karlson May 2016 #2
Ha!! :-D NurseJackie May 2016 #4
One thing has been proven this election cycle. We need more mental health workers...STAT! grossproffit May 2016 #6
Bernie busters are having a sad. grossproffit May 2016 #5
It's embarrassing. runaway hero May 2016 #7
Indeed it is. grossproffit May 2016 #9
We can't go to the convention like this. runaway hero May 2016 #13
And that's not all. Check this out ... NurseJackie May 2016 #8
At the same time his supporters are coming over to HRC Iliyah May 2016 #10
You need to check your sources... Yurovsky May 2016 #14
Clinton Trolls on a roll today. NewImproved Deal May 2016 #26
You said it. ChairmanAgnostic May 2016 #30
She's running out of money . . . . . there's more in the 99% than the 1% pdsimdars May 2016 #19
to save the Democratic Party grasswire May 2016 #12
I just saw one I didn't know about pdsimdars May 2016 #16
You can buy followers very easily. basselope May 2016 #20
Twitter is for morons CorkySt.Clair May 2016 #17
Populism is for morons? vintx May 2016 #33
These DropOut OPS are so pathetic. Just let the freakin' thing play out like any other election. nt TheBlackAdder May 2016 #18
I think the Clinton one is more a wink wink TimPlo May 2016 #21
It's seeing the incessant OPs for SBS and now HRC (I get the spoof) to drop out. So lame to read! TheBlackAdder May 2016 #22
LOL farleftlib May 2016 #23
Here's a cute one pdsimdars May 2016 #24
Hateful Bernie people and Republicans colluding to help Trump Demsrule86 May 2016 #25
Because the kids have too much time on their hands? Beacool May 2016 #27
Right because everyone who uses social media is a kid. pinebox May 2016 #32
It's what they do instead of phonebanking, so... Starry Messenger May 2016 #28
Calling on a candidate who is winning the popular vote by 3,000,000 to drop out? iandhr May 2016 #29
Why do this now? pinebox May 2016 #31
Is this Bernie guy still playing? nolawarlock May 2016 #34
 

IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
1. Why ask why when you can read the answers?
Wed May 4, 2016, 11:22 AM
May 2016

I like this one: https://mobile.twitter.com/JaniceH69833417/status/727870718432661504/photo/1

And I also learned something - "Clinton Foundation paid Female Executives 38% less than Male Executives" ---

 

vintx

(1,748 posts)
3. "Clinton Foundation paid Female Executives 38% less than Male Executives"
Wed May 4, 2016, 11:24 AM
May 2016

Seriously?!

I really hope that's not true.

 

IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
11. Google is only giving me right wing sources, but there appear
Wed May 4, 2016, 11:39 AM
May 2016

to be a lot of them -- female staffers making $15k less than male staffers when she was a Senator, and the traditional discounted rates for the Executive staff at Clinton Foundation.

It is also noted she supported the "Lily Ledbetter Equal Pay Act" but she is being called a hypocrite for her behavior (but the numbers are being pulled from the tax records/may not reflect titles and/or experience?).

I am sure we will learn more as the election progressed. It showed up on Twitter, and she can disprove it or not.

I wouldn't be surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
15. Guess what Google gives me with "Bernie" and "concede"?
Wed May 4, 2016, 11:54 AM
May 2016

A screenful of sites calling for HILLARY to concede. After she has already locked up the nomination. A HufPost "Hillary concede" article from several days ago has been locked at the top of my search screen for at least 2 days.

Somebody has invested a bunch of money in stacking these search results. But the "Hillary concede" stuff? It could be on Bernie's behalf, but my guess is that this is a Right Wing smear machine attack squarely on all of us as Democrats and our nominee.

 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
2. Because it is long overdue - and because Clinton has a history of taking a VERY long time to read
Wed May 4, 2016, 11:22 AM
May 2016

the writing on the wall (compare her position-shifting on gay marriage, the TPP, TTIP, at alii):

the 20th century is over. Party like it's 1999 is not a good platform for the Democratic Party of 2016.

That's pretty much the gist of the writing on the wall.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
8. And that's not all. Check this out ...
Wed May 4, 2016, 11:34 AM
May 2016

From the looks of things, when it comes to Bernie's actual chances, the HillaryHaters are living in a fantasy world.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/sanders-campaign-indiana-offers-good-news-and-bad

If Sanders won each of the remaining primaries and caucuses by 30 points each – an improbable task, to be sure – he’d still come up short. That’s how significant his current deficit it. None of this, by the way, factors superdelegates into the equation. I’m referring only to pledged delegates, earned exclusively through nominating contests decided by rank-and-file voters.

Unfortunately for his ardent fans, this equation includes Indiana, where he prevailed last night with a six-point victory, but where he needed a win that was vastly larger if he intends to catch up to the rival he trails. It may seem counter-intuitive, but a modest win in Indiana actually leaves Sanders worse off than he was 24 hours ago – it was not only too narrow a victory, it also shrinks the number of remaining opportunities he’ll have to close the gap.

Yurovsky

(2,064 posts)
14. You need to check your sources...
Wed May 4, 2016, 11:53 AM
May 2016

sure, some may come over. But any progressive truly dedicated to economic justice and AGAINST corporatism will not vote for a candidate who is nothing more than a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs. Maybe you're comfortable rubbing elbows with the same forces that walk all over poor & working class Americans EVERY DAY, but millions of progressives are not, and we can't be shamed or threatened or extorted into voting for a 3rd Way corporatist. It ain't happening.

IF she's the nominee she'll just have to find enough pro-choice corporatist Independents and Republicans to make up for the millions of progressive votes she WON'T be getting.

Good luck with that...

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
12. to save the Democratic Party
Wed May 4, 2016, 11:39 AM
May 2016

When the hammer comes down on her in weeks it will be much worse for our party.

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
16. I just saw one I didn't know about
Wed May 4, 2016, 11:57 AM
May 2016

Clinton has highest percentage of fake followers

An audit of Hillary Clinton's main Twitter feed, @HillaryClinton, shows that 41 percent of her followers are not real people, a far higher percentage of fake followers than all other Republican or Democratic candidates.

 

TimPlo

(443 posts)
21. I think the Clinton one is more a wink wink
Wed May 4, 2016, 12:12 PM
May 2016

Thing because of BernieDropOut. If that had never been around I don't think the ClintonDrop out would be.

TheBlackAdder

(28,209 posts)
22. It's seeing the incessant OPs for SBS and now HRC (I get the spoof) to drop out. So lame to read!
Wed May 4, 2016, 12:16 PM
May 2016

.


Even my 13-year-old doesn't post stuff like this, much less over and over.


.

 

farleftlib

(2,125 posts)
23. LOL
Wed May 4, 2016, 12:18 PM
May 2016

Love this one:

Reynaldo Amaya
?@Rey4Realll
#DropOutHillary because your history is dirtier than the one in my web browser.

 

pinebox

(5,761 posts)
32. Right because everyone who uses social media is a kid.
Wed May 4, 2016, 01:57 PM
May 2016

Hi, 1986 called, it wants its Atari back

iandhr

(6,852 posts)
29. Calling on a candidate who is winning the popular vote by 3,000,000 to drop out?
Wed May 4, 2016, 01:51 PM
May 2016

I thought the "political revolution" was allegedly about the "will of the people?"


 

pinebox

(5,761 posts)
31. Why do this now?
Wed May 4, 2016, 01:55 PM
May 2016

Because there's a trend. Cruz. Kasich. And now, people are going after Hillary.
America wants Trump vs Sanders.

nolawarlock

(1,729 posts)
34. Is this Bernie guy still playing?
Wed May 4, 2016, 02:05 PM
May 2016

I think it is better to drop out than be kicked out. I'm surprised Bernie hasn't learned this.

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