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YouDig

(2,280 posts)
Sat May 28, 2016, 08:51 AM May 2016

A little reality check.

In less than two weeks Hillary will clinch the nomination.

The emails continue to be a non-scandal, no matter how much noise the Berners make about it.

Trump isn't debating Bernie because Bernie is an irrelevant sideshow, not because he's afraid.

Bernie's not going to get Barney Frank or anyone else kicked off the platform committee. When you pick a guy who called Obama the n-word, your ability to call out other people for unfair criticism is gone.


Hope you've had your fun Berners, because there's 3 minutes to go and you're down by five touchdowns. I predict that the next two weeks will be the ugliest yet from the Berners, a grand finale of angry Dem-bashing, lots of conspiracy theories, lots of vengeful gloom predictions of a Trump presidency (accompanied with much irony by Bernie-or-Bust statements), caps lock keys ground to dust, and many more links to right-wing media that seem to become increasingly prevalent as Bernie's hopes drop to zero.

And then we get to move on to the General, Hillary versus Trump!

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oberliner

(58,724 posts)
4. Die-Hard Bernie Sanders Backers See F.B.I. as Answer to Their Prayers
Sat May 28, 2016, 08:58 AM
May 2016

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Senator Bernie Sanders may be trailing Hillary Clinton by hundreds of delegates, and Mrs. Clinton may be treating the Democratic nomination as hers, but Julie Crowell, a stay-at-home mother and a die-hard Sanders supporter, is holding out for an 11th-hour miracle: divine deliverance at the hands of the F.B.I.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/us/politics/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-fbi.html?_r=0

 

BobbyDrake

(2,542 posts)
3. Also worth mentioning: The media is stirring all this stuff up for ratings.
Sat May 28, 2016, 08:56 AM
May 2016

And reality is more often than not very different than what the media is reporting.

YouDig

(2,280 posts)
13. They've been doing that for months.
Sat May 28, 2016, 11:03 AM
May 2016

Trying to find ways to make the delegate math add up for Bernie even though it's been impossible since at least April, probably March.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
14. Irony deficiency: When someone who writes the "emails continue to be a non-scandal" suggests ...
Sun May 29, 2016, 09:02 AM
May 2016

... that others need a reality check.

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