Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumFacebook has weighed in: Coordinated attack on Bernie Supporter Pages
This is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen in campaign history.
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According to eyewitness reports, the pages were flooded with pornographic images in what appeared to be coordinated fashion and then flagged for obscene content, prompting Facebook to remove them.
"We had what looked like a kiddie porn posted in one of our groups today, said Sanders supporter Erica Libenow, according to Heavy.com. "I reported that one. Seriously made me want to vomit.
A Facebook spokesman confirmed to The Hill that a number of pro-Sanders groups as well as other pages "were inaccessible for a brief period" due to the company's automated policies being "applied incorrectly."
"We corrected the problem within hours and are working to improve our tools," the spokesman said.
At least one Facebook user linked to the pro-Hillary Clinton group Bros 4 Hillary was reported to have participated in the attacks.
More at link.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/277657-hillary-supporters-take-down-bernie-fb-pages-in-coordinated
northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)It seems like the HRC group is ok with so many dirty corrupt tactics. It seems our party has lost is soul and no one cares.
emsimon33
(3,128 posts)northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)Every tine they said that line about Bernie all I could see was Karl Rove on the other side of the keyboard typing while eating pizza because of how negative they were being at the same time. If some one removed the emocon options from the threads, it would reduce the HRC post text content by 80%.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)Not one person as of yet has said anything against the troll superpac. You are the very first person who has said it. All the posts today were ones just saying we were crazy and it was a coincidence (like all of the voting issues).
Oh and this...
His picture with Hillary
greymouse
(872 posts)It just reinforces my view that Hillary, DWS, DNC, the Democratic party except for us is rotten and corrupt and needs to be put in the garbage where it belongs, and either a clean version or a new party has to take its place.
northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)But we definitely need them to clear house. The good thing about this election we have seen a few shining stars above corruption, sadly I don't think I will vote for any current incumbent in our state that is a HRC delegate.
highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)his supporters?
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)Kittycat
(10,493 posts)Popegate? Now they've graduated to posting kiddie porn on Bernie pages. And that's nothing to laugh about - I mean, holy shit, what the fuck that's messed up, I sincerely hope everyone involved with that goes to jail like yesterday for it. But the depths of depravity those involved went to. There's no end to it.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)find that kind of stuff to post.
Kittycat
(10,493 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)greymouse
(872 posts)That was one of my thoughts - what kind of person knows where to find that kind of stuff.
Rockyj
(538 posts)...DARK SIDE. Hillary camp is so desperate and corrupt they all need to be in jail.
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)by trying to cheat us. Reeks of D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-I-O-N. Most of all it's just
Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)Will Hillary denounce this attack?
Kittycat
(10,493 posts)I doubt it, and this is the worst of the worst.
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Hillary clinton has absolutely no concept of responsibility. Everything, absolutely everything is someone else's fault. Unless they make an accomplishment, then it's her accomplishment.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Yeah, like that $15/hour minimum wage law in New York.
Response to Cassiopeia (Reply #6)
LAS14 This message was self-deleted by its author.
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)Deadly serious here:
If this is what the Democratic Party is about, are we sure Progressives belong here....?
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)ARE the party now... at least the leadership and most of the national membership...
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)This IS the party. What happened to FB matches what the paid trolls who quit have been saying, although this is taking it further. What Trump said about Mexicans is really bad, but Hillary is doing her best to catch up to him.
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)And we're all gonna lose.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)It is giving me a whole new way to look at my elected officials. Thumbs down.
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)It's a structural and systematic problem
Kittycat
(10,493 posts)This is not what ANYONE should be about, end of that discussion. There had better be some big, bold condemnation of this coming out from the Clinton camp on this, fast and furious-like.
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)that that ain't coming...
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)She'll pretend to give a shit when people en mass start questioning these tactics. It'll be something like, "The Hilary Campaign does not condone these actions of a very few bad apples," or some such shit.
Bernin4U
(812 posts)Not that it will ever be pinned on anyone having anything to do with her, but even if it ever could be...? Three words.
"Corporate Democratic whores."
jwirr
(39,215 posts)attacking your opponent with the use of porn. Al?
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)(longstanding I might add) TO UNAFFILIATED without my consent, nor any notification, I still have my card with the now meaningless D on it.
OK, so they don't want me in the party anymore? Then I accept being fired, but that frees me up to vote for each slot of the ticket according to what they stand for and I shall vote the closest to my values in each.
I now, or should I say I will be, continuing to vet furiously ALL options for all slots local, I also know that since the party threw me out I am under no obligation anymore to go with my third choice in the GE and endure the sulfuric stench yet again for the somewhat lesser evil of the more demonic ideologies (Neo-con and Neo-Lib Are demonic politically).
So far, My first Preference is Bernie Sanders, My second Green (because the platform is closer to my values than) my third choice, a Neo-Con - Neo-Liberal combination that is Hillary Clinton, No Republican at all is in the running regarding voting my values.
All that being said, more simply stated, if I can't vote for Sanders, I will then vote Green, if I can't vote Green, I will leave that slot blank.
I didn't quit the party, the party quite literally fired me and kicked me out against my will. So they maybe should have thought twice before doing that because had I had my say in my primary choice, I likely would have voted lesser of two evils as usual. Until I was cast out, I was caught in a seemingly recursive time-loop of voting evil (how ever minor the demon may have been).
They kicked me out of the party, but they also freed me from this delusion of lesser evilism that has led to voting after so many times , each with a further rightward shift, that now it appears doing so is voting for Republican policies cloaked in Democratic wording by Republicans cloaked as Democrats.
It was a slow boil, but Hillary is far to the right of the first Republican I voted against so many years ago.
dgibby
(9,474 posts)that this could cost HRC the election in Nov. if she wins the Primaries. I don't think David Brock and his ilk have done her any favors. Hopefully she'll speak out against these types of dirty tricks.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)Hillary's tactics have been absolutely horrible, this just being the latest and admittedly, it's bad. But geeze, there's so much material for attack ads against her, it's stunning. E-mail on an unsecure server with national secrets, child porn to silence Bernie, fuck, what else?
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)If it costs her the election, tough luck. She and the DNC have made so many mistakes the way this was all set up. I can only hope people see this and vote accordingly.
MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)or a dirty candidate, no matter what letter is plastered after his/her name. Not going to happen.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)think
(11,641 posts)Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)Maybe they could just expand their investigation into Clinton's insecure, private email server and her pay-to-play with the Clinton Foundation as $ecretary of $tate, to include any ties of the Clinton campaign and its $uperpac "dirty tricksters" to servers possessing the child pornography that was used.
We are talking about a CRIME more than likely committed by someone in Clinton's camp, or with ties to Clinton's camp. And, goddammit, if the FBI is not serious about Clinton-caused threats to national security and gross Clinton malfeasance in taking millions of dollars from woman-hating SOBs like the Saudis and turning around and approving their arms deals, maybe they'll get serious about THIS: the possession and use of child pornography to destroy her opponent's on-line presence on the eve of multiple primaries!
I don't know that the FBI is not serious about the rest of it. But it is certainly a possibility that they are covering up rather than investigating Clinton's private server and pay-to-plays, since the rich and powerful have proven to be exempt from the consequences of their crimes, most notably Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld, et al. ("We need to look forward not backward" on the crimes of the rich and powerful. They teach that at Harvard Law School.) Clinton is now among the rich and powerful, thanks to Wall Street and various Arab woman-haters, among others. So, natch, she's at least a candidate for the FBI's help with her 'little problem' with the RW morons in Congress.
We'll see if anything moves them.
Kittycat
(10,493 posts)And they cheered this guy on
ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...must be brought IMO. Obviously for the kiddie porn image, but also for the attacks. That is beyond the pale.
And they have the goddamned nerve to smear Bernie's supporters.
xloadiex
(628 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Did I get that right?
dana_b
(11,546 posts)"Bullies, cowards and sleaze!!" - yep! That is exactly what David, Hillary and their paid, low life minions are. I do not CARE if I get hidden for this. There is a direct connection to David and therefore Hillary on this. All crap flows downstream - the fish stinks from the head - etc., etc....
How ANYONE could support her after knowing this (some don't know), I do not know and do NOT want to understand. This is indefensible.
I am a part of two of those FB groups and I am revolted by this.
#BernieorBust #StillSanders #NeverHillary #HillNo
http://heavy.com/news/2016/04/bernie-sanders-facebook-groups-removed-banned-deleted-why-hillary-clinton-attack-censorship-which/
Some members of the Facebook groups reported that trolls had infiltrated the groups and were posting pornographic photos, some possibly even with pedophilia. Facebook user Dorian Gray posted to a different Facebook group, concerned that he had been banned for telling the administrators about the posts. But it turns out, it was the groups themselves that were banned. He said that he only saw two groups that had the pornographic posts before they were taken down: Bernie Sanders Is My Hero and Bernie or Bust 2016. Admins of the group removed the troll posters and all the pornographic-related posts. Its unclear if the groups were later taken down because of those posts, since not all the Bernie groups had reported having such posts.
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)Disgusting, I hope they and the candidate they support pay a heavy price for this.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)literally, right? Unfair to Hills Bros. Coffee.
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)I joke, but shouldn't, some things in this campaign are just so over-the-top bizarre that I reflexively look for comic relief.
Ugliest campaign I can ever remember by a Democrat, and against someone to their left.
NowSam
(1,252 posts)It is going to be an ugly ugly term.
Thirties Child
(543 posts)I intend to sit November out. I live in a red state, which means my vote won't matter anyway, but I CANNOT, absolutely cannot, support HRC, even while holding my nose. I've always held Bush the Elder responsible for Willie Horton, and this is on the same level.
Lee Atwater would be pleased.
Kittycat
(10,493 posts)And local seats to worry about. But this one, not happening if she somehow manages to get the nomination through the shitstorm she brings with her.
Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)Thank you Hillary Clinton, thank you David Brock.
You've made me SOOOO proud today.
Bjornsdotter
(6,123 posts)...bragging about reporting a Bernie page.
Kittycat
(10,493 posts)That should be reported to the media (because I doubt the State DNC or Hillary camp will do anything about it)
Bjornsdotter
(6,123 posts)Bernin4U
(812 posts)Three types of voters:
1. Those paying attention.
2. Those not paying attention.
3. Those paying attention who have a reason not to support Bernie.
Which one is this supposed to affect?
2banon
(7,321 posts)HRC must really be feeling desperate.
Karma13612
(4,552 posts)OK, only kidding.
but, really.
this is just horrid.
If Bernie doesn't get the nomination, I won't surprised if the general election is a 3 way split between dems for Clinton, repubs for Trump and Green/Indies for Stein.
If Bernie shared a ticket with Stein, I believe it would be qute a different story.
This is a ground breaking history making election year.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)No way do I associate this with the CTR initiative. That be nuts to announce their plans and then resort to pornography.
emsimon33
(3,128 posts)Joob
(1,065 posts)so it's a irregularity. ( to be caught) (and yeah, not one person)