" Clinton delegates feel the Bern — hey, 'b---h,' switch your vote" Superdelegates supporting Hilary Clinton are getting angry, abusive phone calls and emails from Bernie Sanders' backers demanding they switch sides.
The pressure is intense, say Clinton superdelgates from states won by Sanders. Superdelegates are not "pledged" to the state victor and can vote whichever way they want.
That's leading to a torrent of unpleasantness.
Maine Democratic National Committee member Maggie Allen began screening her calls after the state's March 5 caucuses.
"It got really bad," Allen, a Clinton supporter, told the Washington Examiner. "I got drunken calls saying I was a bitch. I was basically being called an elitist, unfair, an undemocratic person."
She receives 25 calls or more emails or voice messages like this a day.
As an unpledged delegate, Allen is one of the hundreds of wildcard votes that could decide who gets the Democratic nomination. She supports Clinton, but her state went for Sanders by nearly 30 points. And the Vermont socialist senator's backers are unhappy with Allen's choice of Clinton.... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-delegates-feel-the-bern-hey-b-h-switch-your-vote/article/2587489EDIT: To give the Sanders campaign their due, they've taken a step or two over and above the ritual disavowal. "In an effort to calm down supporters, the Sanders campaign removed a portal from their website that allows supporters to connect with superdelegates. Instead they are encouraging Sanders fans to work on competing for pledged delegates and zero in on the remaining states." Why is this abuse not a scandal on national TV? Berniebots are always given a pass. |
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NYU students who back Trump afraid to show their facesNYU’s pro-Trump students fear for their safety — and grades. They may be flooding caucus rooms across the country, but Donald Trump supporters at NYU keep their heads down, mouths shut and their correspondence secret. Lying in class about their political beliefs and keeping online conversations strictly private are typical precautions taken by The Donald’s badly outnumbered followers on campus. “Supporters generally try to keep it hidden from the rest of the student body,” said junior Dylan Perera, 22. “They’re afraid of losing friends, being ridiculed in class, getting worse grades and are even afraid of being assaulted and physically hurt.” The computer-science major from LA said he was verbally accosted by a student who had asked about his affiliation. “She freaked out and started yelling and screaming in my face, calling me a racist and a fascist. It was impossible to even have a conversation,” he said. Another student was so concerned about being outed as a Trump supporter that he reserved a private room on campus — for “security reasons” — to speak to a Post reporter. He recalled being ostracized by his “radical social-justice warrior” roommates. “Their hatred towards me started escalating after we had a few political discussions,” he said. As Trump spoke during a televised GOP debate he was watching, his roommates drowned out the candidate by playing an anti-Trump video on their computer at maximum volume. “Either you’re on their side or you’re a racist f–k, in their eyes,” the student said. “I’ve learned just to bottle up [my response]” to such antagonizing. The anonymous, 21-year-old Princeton, NJ, native said he was unmasked as a Trump supporter by a professor Friday, even after he had specifically asked in an e-mail that the teacher not bring up his political views. “He was explaining what platitudes are to the class, and he brought up Trump as an example. How him saying, ‘I’m great,’ is a platitude,” he recalled. “It got a big laugh from the class and then he looked right at me and said, ‘Sorry, I had to get one in.’” The singled-out student said he was “ freaking out and trying to play it cool and then said something like, ‘What are you looking at me for?’” He said he fears being “shunned or attacked,” calling both “equally degrading.” Disaffected Trumpers on the famously liberal 57,000-student campus have begun to gather in undetectable ways, through Facebook and in one-on-one meet-ups. ‘[Trump supporters are] afraid of losing friends, being ridiculed in class, getting worse grades and are even afraid of being assaulted and physically hurt’ - Dylan Perera, student “It’s really decentralized” because “most people are too afraid to start an official group,” explained Perera of the “word-of-mouth network.” He estimates there are about 30 unofficial “members” of the Trump underground. Another junior, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, said she typically steers clear of public debates that will reveal her pro-Trump beliefs. “It can get hostile,” she said, recalling recent political spats between students on Facebook. “They’ll usually throw around words like ‘racist’ or ‘bigot’ about Trump and then call the students trying to defend him ‘delusional.’” She recently was emboldened enough to “like” a student’s post that bravely defended the GOP front-runner in a Facebook thread. Yet many are still firmly in the campaign closet. “I’ve been too smart to paint a target on my head and take that kind of heat,” said one anonymous student. “It’s just not worth it.” http://nypost.com/2016/04/02/nyu-students-who-back-trump-fear-for-their-safety-on-campus/----------------------------- Freedom is always worth it.
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^^^ It is interesting to note that Trump is still putting his effort and money in Wisconsin, although various opinion polls have shown him trailing behind Ted Cruz in that state. BTW... I am not a firm supporter of the opinion polls. They predicted a Ted Cruz victory in Missouri. And in the end, Trump won that state and got most of the delegates.
Everyone is protecting him, so he can keep TRUMP from winning, then everyone will get rid of him once he is useless... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi8K77BtNCg&app=desktop |
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What it takes to see Donald TrumpWAUSAU, Wis. — Donald Trump took his campaign Saturday to central and western Wisconsin, the parts of the state where he is most popular. On a day that alternated between sunshine and snow, Trump and opening act Sarah Palin filled the Central Wisconsin Convention & Expo Center just outside Wausau. The line to go through security and enter the rally was long, and blessedly indoors as the temperature outside fell below freezing. Below, a look at the experience of trying to get into a Trump rally. (When this video was taken, the room was already about half full, and some would be turned away.) http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-what-it-takes-to-see-donald-trump/article/2587523 |
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Greece on brink of chaos as refugees riot over forced return to TurkeyThe Greek government is bracing itself for violence ahead of the European Union implementing a landmark deal that, from Monday, will see Syrian refugees and migrants being deported back to Turkey en masse. Related: EU-Turkey refugee plan could be illegal, says UN official Rioting and rebellion by thousands of entrapped refugees across Greece has triggered mounting fears in Athens over the practicality of enforcing an agreement already marred by growing concerns over its legality. Islands have become flashpoints, with as many as 800 people breaking out of a detention centre on Chios on Friday. Some 750 migrants are set to be sent back between Monday and Wednesday from the island of Lesbos to the Turkish port of Dikili. “We are expecting violence. People in despair tend to be violent,” the leftist-led government’s migration spokesman, Giorgos Kyritsis, told the Observer. “The whole philosophy of the deal is to deter human trafficking [into Europe] from the Turkish coast, but it is going to be difficult and we are trying to use a soft approach. These are people have fled war. They are not criminals.” Barely 24 hours ahead of the pact coming into force, it emerged that Frontex, the EU border agency, had not dispatched the appropriate personnel to oversee the operation. Eight Frontex boats will transport men, women and children, who are detained on Greek islands and have been selected for deportation, back across the Aegean following fast-track asylum hearings. But of the 2,300 officials the EU has promised to send Greece only 200 have so far arrived, Kyritsis admitted. “We are still waiting for the legal experts and translators they said they would send,” he added. “Even Frontex personnel haven’t got here yet.” Humanitarian aid also earmarked for Greece had similarly been held up, with the result that the bankrupt country was managing the crisis – and continued refugee flows – on very limited funds from the state budget. On Saturday overstretched resources were evident in the chaos on Chios where detainees, fearing imminent deportation, had not only run amok, breaking through razorwire enclosing a holding centre on the island, but in despair had marched on the town’s port. In the stampede three refugees were stabbed as riot police tried to control the crowds with stun guns and teargas. The camp, a former recycling factory, had been ransacked, with cabins and even fingerprint equipment smashed. “If they make me go back to Turkey I’ll throw myself and my family into the sea,” said Mustafa, a Syrian waiting with his wife and children at the port of Chios told Agence France-Presse. “We went from hell to hell.” “This is what happens when you have 30 policemen guarding 1,600 refugees determined to get out,” said Benjamin Julian, an Icelandic volunteer speaking from the island. “I witnessed it all and I know that all the time they were chanting ‘freedom, freedom, freedom’ and ‘no Torkia [Turkey], no Torkia’. That is what they want and are determined to get.” In the mayhem that had ensued, panic-stricken local authorities had been forced to divert the daily ferry connecting the island with the mainland for fear it would be stormed. Similar outbreaks of violence had also occurred in Piraeus, Athens’ port city, where eight young men had been taken to hospital after riots erupted between rival ethnic groups on Wednesday. With tensions on the rise in Lesbos, the Aegean island that has borne the brunt of the flows, and in Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonia frontier where around 11,000 have massed since the border’s closure, NGOs warned of a timebomb in the making. Hopes of numbers decreasing following the announcement of the EU-Turkey deal have been dispelled by a renewed surge in arrivals with the onset of spring. Official figures showed that 52,147 refugees and migrants were stranded in the country at the weekend, with 6,129 registered on Aegean islands that had been almost completely evacuated after the accord was reached on 20 March.. Last year, more than 1.1 million irregular migrants streamed into Europe with over 850,000 pouring into the continent through Greece. Pleas from Athens to fellow EU member states to reopen the Balkan route have fallen on deaf ears. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/02/greece-violence-refugees-riot-forced-return-to-turkey
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^^^ It is quite understandable. All the other potential POTUS candidates (Hitlery Clinton, Ted Cruz, and John Kasich) are warmongers, and they want to invade more and more third world countries. The servicemen will not be benefiting from any of these invasions. A large number of them will end up as either dead or handicapped.
... Or slowly dying while on the VA's waiting list... http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-veteran-suicide-20150115-story.html |
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Crossing Mexico's Other Border Published on Mar 29, 2013 When traveling from Central America to the United States through Mexico, immigrants are forced to battle drug cartels, corrupt police officers, and human traffickers, all before they even come close to the US border. People tend to assume that the immigrants crossing the US--Mexico border are all Mexican. The reality is that a large percentage of them come from Central America, and their journey north is grueling. To get to the US, they first have to pass through Mexico, an ordeal that often ends up being even more difficult than getting into the United States. Most migrants cross into Mexico on rafts, via the Suchiate River. After that, they need to protect themselves from corrupt Mexican police, drug cartels like the infamous Zetas, and even fellow migrants. They often travel by foot and by pubic transit, but many of them ride on top of "the Beast," the freight trains that travel from the south to the north of Mexico. While the majority of the migrants are young men, a small percentage of them are women who endure hardships like the possibility of being raped by basically anyone they come across. Some of them are forced to stay in the border state of Chiapas and work as prostitutes because they are too weak to keep going, need to save some money to continue their journey, or, if they decide to stay , so they can travel back and forth between Mexico and their home countries to visit their kids[NJ1] . In this episode of Fringes, we followed Yoana, a young girl from Guatemala who has been living in the small town of Huixtla, Chiapas, working as a prostitute to make money to help her two sons. We tagged along with a special unit from the state government that is in charge of protecting migrants as they travel through Chiapas. We then hopped on board the Beast with more than 400 other migrants traveling from Arriaga to Ixtepec, Oaxaca, to try to understand the hardships they go through and why they leave their homes in the first place. ------------------------------------------------- From prostitution to 0bamacare...
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#SignsYoureABernieSupporter You would have killed the Super Collider and Space Station. This must be during the Reagan administration when he talks about star wars.
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Charity is incompatible with a centralized, controlled society. The politburo and its food department does not want competition. |
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Poll: The Military Wants Trump To Be PresidentA new survey of U.S. military servicemembers reveals troops have one candidate in mind for president: Donald Trump. The poll of 931 servicemembers, conducted from March 9-14, spans from active-duty troops to reservists and National Guard members, although the findings are not scientific, Military Times reports. Of survey respondents, 64 percent were enlisted and 36 percent said they were officers. In total, 27 percent of troops listed GOP front-runner Donald Trump as their preferred candidate, with Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders following closely behind at 22 percent. GOP Sen. Ted Cruz gained 17 percent of support, while the next in line is former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at 11. 17 percent. The data seems to indicate that the GOP national security establishment’s attempt to discredit Trump’s foreign policy credibility has failed — at least as far as servicemembers are concerned. Trump’s hardline stances on national security issues appear to have attracted dedicated support from members of the military, though several military officials have complained about his aggressive statements on torture and the killing of terrorists’ families, which Trump had to walk back. Officers surveyed still favor Trump, albeit by a smaller margin than regular enlisted troops. Officers ranked Trump first with 21 percent support and Cruz second with 18 percent. And even though Sanders has also been perceived as weak on foreign policy, that fact hasn’t hurt his polling numbers among servicemembers. Despite Sen. Marco Rubio ’s attempts to prioritize foreign policy in his platform and despite the Republican national security establishment essentially throwing all of its might behind his campaign, he ranks second to last in the survey. The numbers change slightly when broken down by service. The Army and Marine Corps exhibit the highest levels of support for Trump, 30.95 percent and 30.70 percent. In the Navy, however, Sanders takes the lead at 29.25 percent to Trump’s 23.58 percent. The same pattern holds true for the Air Force, where Sanders brought in 24.71 percent and Trump 22.35 percent. http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/15/poll-the-military-wants-trump-to-be-president/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social#ixzz42zc4ASiZ
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Trump Victory will be hard... Everybody is against him, and some republicans can change to Hillary side next. What do you think?
The whole planet, from Pope Francis to the GOP, is against him. Pope Francis want to flood the United States with Hispanic immigrants and Europe with Muslim immigrants. This guy is having well defined long-term plans to destroy both these nations. The first part can still be justified, as a majority of the Hispanics are Catholic. But I don't understand his enthusiasm for Muslim immigrants from Syria and Iraq. Maybe he wants to be remembered as the last Pope. I think there is reasonable evidence that Bergdiddlio fantasizes about this significantly. I don't recall where I ran across it (this board or elsewhere) but the statements from the most recent Popes (one in pre-Pope stage) about the book Lord of the World at the end of the linked Wikipedia article are quite interesting. ...
In a sermon in November, 2013, Pope Francis praised Lord of the World as depicting, "the spirit of the world which leads to apostasy almost as if it were a prophecy."[2]
In early 2015, Pope Francis further revealed Benson's influence upon his thinking by telling a plane load of reporters. At first apologizing for making "a commercial", Pope Francis further praised Lord of the World, despite its being "a bit heavy at the beginning". Pope Francis elaborated, "It is a book that, at that time, the writer had seen this drama of ideological colonization and wrote that book... I advise you to read it. Reading it, you'll understand well what I mean by ideological colonization."
Contrasting the thoughts of Ratzinger and Pope Benedict XV with those of Bergdiddlio makes one wonder if they are even from the same religion. I also wonder about the details of Ratzinger stepping down to make way for the current douchebag. I always thought that Ratzinger was a nazi pedo-protector because that is what I heard from the left-wing sources. In looking into things more, mostly because of his stance on the book and the new-world-order-ish thing described there-in, it seems like the guy might not have been that bad on these fronts after all. This Pope, Francis. I never figured him out. The Pope switch? Very strange. I believe Benedict said it was because of health issues. He is still alive, doing whatever. I was making a joke about him wanting to be the ultimate martyr but there is, maybe, a bit of truth in it. I've read that one morning, francis went by the door and saw a guard. He asked him if he spent the whole night by his door. The guard said yes. Francis called his superior and, either fired him or told him to never do this again. Not sure about the details but... This is an old tradition and those guards are soldiers, or if not, the church has the ultimate trust in them. This is a big, yuuuge honor. Standing awake for hours is a classic exercise in the army. I hope this anecdote is not true. Strange Pope. Telling he can't have an opinion on gay marriage on one hand, but ready to excommunicate any christian willing to build a wall, even if that christian is not catholic, on the other. |
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Bernie: "People standing in lines for government food rations is a good thing."[imhttps://i.sli.mg/0pdUOm.png[/img] ---------------------- Not just weird. I'll defend the guy a bit only because I was/am pissed about Trump's abortion stuff being taken out of context. It is a legitimate (not necessarily equal to 'correct') argument that it is better in times of famine for a government to have it together enough to keep people alive. Even Bernie would probably prefer that people's nutritional needs are met adequately without such a construct. Perhaps not however. Austerity seems to be a common feature of collectivist societies. The benefits are that the population develops a reliance on the collective, and more specifically on the organizers of the collective which helps the organizers control them. In a corporate owned collective, which is the path the world is on at the moment, the owners of the means of production can extract more reward for less product. What's not to love if you have a lock on the product being rationed (fossil fuel reserves are a prime example.) If you have a link of the full interview I want to hear him talk about this, the crisis specifically. In the US/europe if you are rich and you have a heart you can give and pay for food directly, give to the church, let them organized, have government help, start an online movement, individual participation, or all of the above. In a centralized system, if the food department has a bug in its logistic, everything stops. Millions die. That is why Bitcoin refuses to be centralized. Yes the abortion loop with TRUMP is stupid but they need to stop him so they can push their own puppet. Too much to lose for them. |
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The birds have spoken  The birds have spoken?  |
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Trump Victory will be hard... Everybody is against him, and some republicans can change to Hillary side next. What do you think?
The whole planet, from Pope Francis to the GOP, is against him. Pope Francis want to flood the United States with Hispanic immigrants and Europe with Muslim immigrants. This guy is having well defined long-term plans to destroy both these nations. The first part can still be justified, as a majority of the Hispanics are Catholic. But I don't understand his enthusiasm for Muslim immigrants from Syria and Iraq. Maybe he wants to be remembered as the last Pope. |
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Bernie: "People standing in lines for government food rations is a good thing."---------------------- Not just weird.  |
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