This should give some sense of how large this Bernie protest at the #DNCinPHL is (sped up 10x): pic.twitter.com/ehPshqOOS2
— Jim Dalrymple II (@JimDalrympleII) July 25, 2016
These sweet dears:
The day started early for a group of about 100 people who gathered outside City Hall to rally on behalf of the Equality Coalition, many carrying placards supporting Sanders or slamming the Democratic National Committee.
Cory James, 22, of Flint, Mich., said that while he hadn’t yet given up hope that Sanders could pull a convention “surprise,” he said he could never vote for presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton.
“The Democratic Party doesn’t represent me anymore,” James said. “It represents corporate interests, that’s all.”
Joel Bradshaw, 39, bused down from New York on Friday carrying his “Bernie flag,” anxious to lend his voice to the downtown demonstration.
“If Hillary wants to be queen, we’ll bring the guillotine,” he said.
Bradshaw said he was not advocating violence, only a “loud voice.”
Almost as soon as the Equality Coalition left City Hall on its long march down Broad Street, another large group took its place.
A mix of Sanders supporters, opponents of the U.S. drug war and anti-media activists, the crowd joined in a thunderous chant of “Feel the Bern!” At one point their voices drowned out traffic cop whistles and car horns along the busy traffic circle.
It’s like a less organized Phish concert.
Baud
Good. Fewer distractions.
Kwame
We want Socialism now!
Keith G
It’s not a bad thing. It was so exciting that CNN cut away to cover Boys to Men.
Let them have their fun. That is what the first days of a Democratic Convention is about. It’s not stupidity. It is the animal spirits of an open democratic process.
It will all work out
@Kwame: Wow, I wish I thought of that.
Kwame
Stand up all victims of oppression
For the tyrants fear your might
Don’t cling so hard to your possessions
For you have nothing if you have no rights
Let racist ignorance be ended
For respect makes the empires fall
Freedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and all
So come brothers and sisters
For the struggle carries on
The internationale
Unites the world in song
So comrades come rally
For this is the time and place
The international ideal
Unites the human race
lamh36
Still pissed about the TPP chanters during Elijah Cummings speech…bastards.
JPL
Bqhatevwr
I heard that Jill Stein’s rally was rained out.. Sad
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
This looks like the photos in my high school yearbook of “spirit week”.
for some, their emotional maturity is arrested. Sad!
Trentrunner
@JPL: That wasn’t rain. It was Berniebro tears flowing through the streets.
Baud
@JPL: The Revolution has been delayed by weather.
James E Powell
There is no talking to people like the Bernie or Bust/Never Hillary people. I went head to head with several hundred of these type of people during the 2000 election. They are not interested in politics as a means of making the world better, they do not want electoral or legislative victories or even progress. They want something like validation or an emotional moment of expression. Talking with them about politics is a complete waste of time.
Davis X. Machina
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch: I’m not sure, but none of those buildings look like the Smonly Institut.
lamh36
Wow, Propane Jane called today’s mess months ago!
@docrocktex26
Mnemosyne
In case nobody saw, Kwame was quoting Freddie de Boer the other night, so we now know exactly how seriously to take his schtick.
ThresherK
@Keith G: Aren’t they “Men” yet? They must be in the mid-late 30s-early 40s.
Unless they simply get replaced, like members of Boys for Now.
PsiFighter37
Still plenty of dead-enders chanting Bernie’s name after each speaker at the DNC. Classless. What the fuck do these people even stand for? They booed their own messiah this morning.
Lolis
We have rain in Austin too. I’m imaging the raindrops are the tears of Berniacs.
ThresherK
@Kwame: Damn. I gotta get my hands on the Director’s Cut of Les Miz. I don’t know that one!
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
MSNBC has already interviewed a couple of Sanders’s supporters saying the same thing: ie the nomination fight isn’t over.
childish tantrums are is so annoying.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
somebody explain to me the Peter Pan hats to me again? Why are Sander supporters advertising that they’re like the fictional character who never grew up?
Iowa Old Lady
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch: How delusional do you have to be to believe that? Do they still believe in Santa?
Major Major Major Major
Just gonna repeat this.
Pogonip
What is a Berniebro?
delphinium
@James E Powell: Yep, they are 24-hour pouty people.
agorabum
The revolution is a party. The establishment is full of squares. With their fucking suits and committee meetings. In conclusion, the only way forward is through a leaderless council of the proletariat.
I don’t mind the kids being excited for this. But anyone over 35 who was around to vote for Bush v Gore should be ashamed.
Keith G
@ThresherK: Prolonged adolescence?
BR
Didn’t notice the new thread — dumb question — when do they officially nominate Clinton and Kaine?
Cacti
Cole, I’ve never asked that anyone get booted from BJ.
But I’m making an exception in the case of our right wing blackface troll.
Kick that loser to the curb.
ThresherK
I’m handing out bonus points for Bernsters who don’t know what a “convention bounce” is.
BR
@agorabum:
Eerie that this is where we’re at…from the John Rogers classic:
JMG
@BR: Wednesday.
Kwame
Let no one build walls to divide us
Walls of hatred nor walls of stone
Come greet the dawn and stand beside us
We’ll live together or we’ll die alone
In our world poisoned by exploitation
Those who have taken now they must give
And end the vanity of nations
We’ve but one earth on which to live
And so begins the final drama
In the streets and in the fields
We stand unbowed before their armor
We defy their guns and shields
When we fight provoked by their aggression
Let us be inspired by like and love
For though they offer us concessions
Change will not come from above
Let no one build walls to divide us
Walls of hatred nor walls of stone
Come greet the dawn and stand beside us
We’ll live together or we’ll die alone
In our world poisoned by exploitation
Those who have taken now they must give
And end the vanity of nations
We’ve but one earth on which to live
And so begins the final drama
In the streets and in the fields
We stand unbowed before their armor
We defy their guns and shields
When we fight provoked by their aggression
Let us be inspired by like and love
For though they offer us concessions
Change will not come from above
The fit for Bernie isn’t over, there will be a #FloorFight!
James E Powell
@delphinium:
Shamelessly stealing that one.
BR
@JMG:
Sigh. Too bad it’s not over with today because I think they’re going to keep this up until the nomination is official.
MomSense
@lamh36:
Me too. Fuckers.
Boudica
Corey James, 22. “The Democratic Party doesn’t represent me anymore,” James said. “It represents corporate interests, that’s all.”
So, this is his second presidential election he’s eligible to vote in and is already leaving the party. Somehow, I don’t think he was a yellow dog Dem. Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out.
John Cole
@Cacti: Kwame?
Keith G
Demi Lavato…Yay
jacy
@BR:
Why would they stop when the nomination is official? Idiots.
NR
@Boudica: It’s okay, I’m sure his vote had cooties and Hillary is better off without it.
Trentrunner
This Demi Lovato person has some serious pipes and presence. Noice!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
He’s twenty-two, he’s sort of saying he’s been a Democrat, but Hillary Clinton’s pledge to build on and continue the work of the last eight years means the party has left him?
Amir Khalid
@ThresherK:
I think those were the original lyrics to On My Own. From before the concept album.
So, is the petulant Bernista toddlers’ protest fizzling out? Not a moment too soon, if so. This whole affair has served only to highlight Bernie’s many weaknesses as a person, a politician and a leader, which make him so ill-prepared to be president. His fans might not like hearing this, but the Democratic party did in the end choose the much stronger candidate.
Keith G
What is wrong with being confident?
Roger Moore
@PsiFighter37:
They stand for everything that’s just and good about the Democratic party, unlike all the people who actually make up the party and do the dirty work of running the thing.
Omnes Omnibus
@Keith G: @Trentrunner: Isn’t she a former Disney princess who grew up?
Davebo
Workers of the World Unite!
Wait, George Carling is dead.. Never mind.
ThresherK
@Kwame: Yes, the FIT goes on and on for BernieBros.
You got that right.
MomSense
@Trentrunner:
She performed at the White House tribute to Ray Charles and held her own with some impressive singers.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Asked and answered.
RSR
Oh, FFS. There’s always lots of marches at these events. Looks to me that the press is going out of the way to find cranky BernieBros.
But I personally know others marching today–teachers. Philadelphia public school teachers. They’re now over 1000 days without a contract here in Philadelphia. And they’ve been screwed over by members on both sides of the aisle.
Some of these teachers are former Obama organizers. Some are nurses who left traditional roles for public schools. Some are former Philly Police detectives. Some–like my wife–are careers teachers who had the spine to step up and challenge their ineffective union leadership.
These marchers, these teachers, are going to be there in November for Hillary and Tim. And they’d have been there for whomever the Dem nominee was–as will I.
Here are Eileen and Kelly–two of my wife’s colleagues–marching today: https://twitter.com/CaucusofWE/status/757595470260736000
Elmo
Buddy of mine from college is in the thick of this nonsense. He’s an old-school hippie, lives in a commune in Oregon, depended on the kindness of strangers to get him to Philly. He was part of a cross-country march for climate action last year. He’s all in for “Dr Stein” now.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
and getting legislation passed and actually stopping Republicans from implementing policies that would destroy everything the preening frauds pretend to care bout as they put on a show for their own egos
nastybrutishntall
Go Lee Saunders! Or was that Lewis Black? Love it.
Iowa Old Lady
@Boudica: Think about it. This guy was 14 when Obama was elected. He thinks Obama is the norm or maybe the least that can be expected. He has no real memory of the Bush years or the Great Recession or the Iraq invasion. He has no idea how bad a president can be.
BR
@lamh36:
If they boo Michelle Obama right before he comes on, I think it’d be good for him to apologize to her on their behalf into the mic — maybe that’d get them to realize that they’ve become an embarrassment to him.
Dog Dawg Damn
At what point do the rabble-rousers get their credentials taken away?
Also, why is the mic feed so fucking noisey? It’s difficult to hear what the speakers are saying, and it is really muddying the message.
dmsilev
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Truth in advertising laws.
Davebo
@BR: They don’t care.
Remember, Bernie betrayed them too.
dmsilev
@BR: They booed _Sanders_ to his face this morning. At this point, I’m not sure what the dead-enders want. Well, OK, they want Hillary’s head on a pike, and I’m not even sure that’s metaphorical any more, but beyond that?
celticdragonchick
So a bunch of college students and recent grads are on the street carrying honest to God Soviet flags and red revolution banners to their dreadlocked white boy drum circle..
Fucking amazing. I am supposed to take them seriously…why? These are the people who are going to convince the average American voter that Bernie is a great leader?
Baud
@Iowa Old Lady: Yeah, 22 is pretty young.
Keith G
@Omnes Omnibus: The purple dinosaur. Then the mouse. Now she tours cities with pro basketball arenas and makes good bank. Good singer, great presence.
She does a hell of a lot for a variety of liberal political causes.
Mike J
BR
@Elmo:
Ask him how the Green party (and Sanders) square their belief in (and requirement for, if their budget numbers are to be believed) economic growth with their climate policy. Sanders folks claim that he was the best on climate policy, and I pointed out to them that his healthcare plan and other plans assume that through magic Bernie would create 5% economic growth. And that sort of growth has never done anything other than massively worsen climate change (through increased emissions). They of course had no response.
PsiFighter37
Merkley stomping on the TPP and the crowd loves it. I’m sure PBO really appreciates that…
Trentrunner
Just a reminder to white-knuckle poll-watchers:
The BEST likely scenario is for the nationwide (i.e., meaningless) polls to be relatively close all the way through November 8.
This, while the fundamentals of the electoral college map show a clear Hillary victory (like 2008 and 2012), as they have from the beginning and likely will by Labor Day.
This will keep complacency at bay. We need our people to be afraid enough that Trump will win to actually vote and to help mobilize the vote. (And of course, he might actually win, though it’s unlikely.)
That is all.
lamh36
Demi Lovato has also been in the public eye due to her being open and honest about her mental health struggles with eating disorders and bipolar disorder I believe.
Which is why she talked about mental healthcare….and of course she’s one of the few Disney stars with actual singing ability, and not autotuned or Radio Disney enhancement.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
White people suck, and as a white person i know what I’m talking about.
Omnes Omnibus
@Keith G:
Good for her.
Pogonip
My question got overlooked, probably because I didn’t word it correctly IAW Balloon Juice norms. Mea culpa. Allow me to rephrase:
What the fuckity fucking fuck is a fucking Berniebro?
Mike J
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: You’re one of the good ones.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mike J: ZOMG THEY”RE TIED!
oh, in Georgia?
Never mind.
@PsiFighter37: well, I suspect Merkley at least knows what’s in it, I suspect that’s not the case with many people waving signs.
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
@Iowa Old Lady: Ignorant and immature, no way to go through life.
RSR
@daveweigel
Mnemosyne
@Keith G:
She has apparently become quite the spokesperson for mental health since she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder a few years ago. She is a young lady who has had some very hard times with her mental health (including an eating disorder and addiction issues along with the bipolar) but she seems to be doing really well now.
(All of the above courtesy of the American Airlines in-flight magazine that I ended up being stuck reading while sitting on the Tarmac last week.)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@nastybrutishntall: I noticed that as well. I was waiting to hear
JonTrevor at the end.CaseyL
@celticdragonchick:
OMG. Seriously? That’s… beyond parody. The USSR is no more, FFS. It never really was a Workers’ Paradise; Putin isn’t bringing back the Dictatorship of the Proletariat; he’s an oligarchist through and through.
it’s one with the Peter Pan get-ups. They have no more sense of history than my cats and less sense of solidarity.
It’s all cosplay. FFS.
Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enough to Be Andy K Again)
Giant puppets and drum circles? Is thgat it? Where in the fuck are the mimes and stilt-walkers?!?!
Keith G
A bit of a funk interlude. I hope they tried to book Al Green for some interstitial music on Wednesday
JMG
When I was young in 1968 (not old enough to vote at that time) many people and myself didn’t see much difference between Humphrey and Nixon. We were wrong, but the Vietnam War was a big deal. Friends of mine got killed in it. What do these young folks think is so existential in 2016 that Clinton is evil incarnate. As for the older Sanders folks, they are just the perennial lefty losers who want to lose so they can feel pure at heart.
Omnes Omnibus
Nice little tearjerker on immigration.
Truegster
Kwame, do you really truly think that once someone sees your name that they are then going to read the lengthy poetry that follows…or just start scrolling until it ends? Know your audience.
I’m start to laugh out loud at the concept that Kwame thought up and wrote poetry for us. It’s like a meta-meta-waste of time.
Baud
This current segment is really sweet.
Omnes Omnibus
@Pogonip: Bernie dead-enders.
ThresherK
@Amir Khalid: For you from the essential Forbidden Broadway.
Schlemazel Khan
@Kwame:
Mnemosyne
@Pogonip:
Those people on the convention floor who keep chanting “Bernie! Bernie!” when other people are trying to talk.
mike in dc
http://switchtobernie.com/
This is their “secret plan”. They are full on nutter at this point. When this fails to shift more than one or two delegates, what will they do? Hopefully pipe down a bit.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Mike J:
I know a few others, for what that’s worth. I’m discovering, at the age of 60, how whiteness works, and has always worked. It’s an infection.
gogol's wife
@RSR:
I watched 5 minutes of it. There was noise in the background and a little chanting, but nothing too striking. I guess the test will be when Michelle speaks.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mnemosyne: the people who have taped their own mouths shut because they think that their votes don’t count more than other people’s means they’ve been “silenced”
msdc
Hold on a second:
The video is 16 seconds long. So the whole protest passed by in 160 seconds, also known as “2 minutes and 40 seconds.”
But the people are on their side!
chopper
@Kwame:
so RtR decided to come back and pretend to be an AA bernie supporter. come on, guys, ban this shit already.
different-church-lady
@Mike J: Georgia’s in play? During the RNC bounce period? I’ll take that.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I like the short “Trump, in his own words” shorts.
Mnemosyne
@Truegster:
I think they’re show tunes, actually.
gogol's wife
@Truegster:
It’s the Internationale.
MJS
I’m hoping that if we survive these self-inflicted wounds, one lesson is taken to heart – stop with the f&$!ing emails and texts! I’m hoping that for the entire 8 years of the Clinton administration, putting anything in an email or text that could even remotely embarrass the administration will result in immediate termination, no warnings.
rikyrah
@Kwame:
Go home troll.
Trentrunner
@Mnemosyne: It’s actually a bit more specific: It’s the white dudes, 20-50 y.o., oblivious to their privilege, insulting women and minorities as they scream about losing their privilege to get what they want. Also, tend to be rapists.
Iowa Old Lady
@Pogonip: Well now that you have the terminology right!
Here’s Wikipedia on Berniebros.
gogol's wife
@Kwame:
Ooh, do you know this one?
Kommunisty poimali mal’chishku . . .
gogol's wife
@MJS:
Yeah, that’s real enforceable.
Keith G
The video design and production team of the DNC should get an Emmy nomination. The video clips about Trump are amazing and great TV.
Jeffro
@Trentrunner: yup…she’ll pop up to 51% nationally next week and will likely never give that up, with Trump hovering between 42-44%.
We still need to “run scared” all the way through November 8, that’s for sure
MisterForkbeard
@dmsilev: I think that’s all they really wanted. About 2/3rds of the hard-core bernie supporters I know never realized how much overlap there was between Hillary and Bernie’s position, and denied it as “fake” when told otherwise. Likewise, they’re convinced that literally everything Hillary does is evil and she’s the worst person ever and totally bought out by corporations, etc. And their posts go in a 5:1 ratio of “Hating Hillary” vs “Supporting Bernie”.
They can’t prove any of it. They can’t even point to circumstantial evidence for most of it. But they’re always been less interested in Bernie and the revolution than shitting on Hillary Clinton. That’s just who they are.
celticdragonchick
@Pogonip:
A college student or relatively recent graduate who overwhelmingly tend to be an opinionated and very loud white male who is a fashionably hip socialist without actually understanding what socialism is or means beyond free stuff for me!. Generally lacks empathy for women, African Americans and anybody he is not drinking beer with at that moment.
Also see: Glibitarian, “bros before ho’s”
JPL
@Baud: So are you watching CSPAN, also?
MJS
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It brings to mind Kramer’s protest against the U.S. Postal Service, with the dummy with a bucket on its head.
msdc
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: What’s the over/under that he voted for Stein in 2012?
different-church-lady
@Kwame: Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed
And then one day he was shooting at some food
And up from the ground came a bubbling crude
…oil, that is. “Black gold.” “Texas Tea.”
Now the first thing you know, ol’ Jed’s a millionare
The kinfolk said, “Jed, move away from there!”
They said, “California’s the place you ought to be!”
So they loaded up the truck and they moved to Beverly
…Hills, that is. Swimming pools. Movie stars.
Davebo
@Pogonip:
A PUMA with a PENIS 8 years later?
Karen in SoCal
@celticdragonchick: I hope they all get a heatstroke.
hovercraft
I watched pretty much all of the RNC last week, but I’m not sure I can watch this hostage video that this convention seems to be. Listening to these douche bags demand that they want runner up trophies, and a pony and a unicorn, to get them to accept the fact that they lost. No matter what they get they want more, enough already. Just bring on the speeches and stop interviewing them, they make me want to hit something.
BR
@Keith G:
Do you know if there’s someplace we can watch them online? I can’t watch the convention live but would like to watch little clips.
Mnemosyne
@gogol’s wife:
Silly me, I mistook it for this number.
gogol's wife
@hovercraft:
Watch CSpan. It’s the only way.
Baud
@JPL: Yes. Much nicer than dealing with the MSNBC folks.
MJS
@gogol’s wife: Why do you believe it’s not enforceable?
Mnemosyne
@MJS:
It’s 2016. You … can’t really operate without electronic communications.
divF
@Schlemazel Khan: A little too much Dr. Demento ?
Davebo
@different-church-lady:
Come and listen to a story about a man named Abdul
A poor desert man barely kept his camel full
And then one day he was shooting at some Jews
And up from the ground came a bubbling crude
…oil, that is. “Saudi Soda.” “Kuwait Cola.”
Anya
https://twitter.com/AthertonKD/status/757723743816998916
WTF is C*cking?
Mnemosyne
@Jeffro:
I’m not running scared. I’m running at top speed across the volleyball court so I can spike the ball in Trump’s face at top speed. And I hate playing volleyball.
celticdragonchick
@CaseyL:
Yeah, I was stunned when I saw that on MSNBC this afternoon. You can see one of the idiots carrying the Soviet flag along with some of the red banner carriers up above on one of the linked tweets Cole put on his comment.
Anya
I guess I used a bad word, my comment is in moderation.
lol chikinburd
There are Red Army Choir discs in two slots of my CD changer and I think these kids are pathetic.
“Nas k torchestvu kommunizma vedyot!”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@different-church-lady: We could see the Beverly Hillbillies house from our dorm in college.
mike in dc
@Anya:
I put a link in mine. I think that’s why it’s in moderation.
Omnes Omnibus
Gutierrez is rolling.
hovercraft
@MisterForkbeard:
This morning some were repeating the lock her up chants, and that she belongs in jail over the server. Remember these are democrats who believe that Obama is a sellout and he conspired to keep her out of jail where she belongs.
NR
@Trentrunner: Also, they stab babies. Also, all of them are literally Hitler.
Keith G
@BR: Live stream here
Segments will be posted later and searchable, I bet. eg “Michele Obama DNC 2016”
edit Oh, and at the same link (C-SPAN) you can watch the whole thing from the beginning whenever you want.
Mnemosyne
@Keith G:
The video introducing Hillary is going to be Oscar-worthy, especially if they got to hire the White House’s crew. The “intro” videos for Carla Hayden and Merrick Garland were top-notch.
lamh36
Betty Cracker
Gutierrez did well!
hovercraft
Gotta love the liberal msnbc chyron:
BREAKING NEWS
SANDERS TO SPEAK AFTER A CHAOTIC DAY AT THE DNC
eclare
Seriously, those are Peter Pan hats? I couldn’t figure out what those green hats were. That says a lot.
Davis X. Machina
@msdc:
(And “people” should be uppercase. )
The woke ones are. The rest are still suffering from false consciousness, and are unable to recognize their true class interest.
The People may be misled, temporarily, but cannot be mistaken.
dmsilev
@Keith G: YouTube stream (just in case C-SPAN isn’t working)
hovercraft
@Betty Cracker:
And he actually got a positive reception, as BW said, maybe they are getting tired of booing since they’ve been at it all day.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@hovercraft:
There should have actually been a participation trophy ceremony, with Bernie handing out plastic pink unicorns to his delegates on stage one by one, with a signed copy of his stump speech.
Baud
The Collins duo is cool.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I accidentally clicked over to MSNBC and saw Chuck Todd bloviating; if I watched that for 5 hours, I’d start drinking again.
Emma
@lol chikinburd: They are one of the goddamned best choirs in the world. I love them.
raven
@Davis X. Machina: the people are revolting
MJS
@Mnemosyne: If it came across as “don’t ever use email or text”, that wasn’t my intent. But it has to be assumed in 2016 that everything put in writing will at some point be leaked, forwarded, etc. So my recommendation that putting embarrassing information in email or texts should be a firing offense from day one still stands, because you can bet the investigations from the House will be starting on day one.
Trentrunner
Haven’t heard any Hillary boos or idiotic “TPP” chants for a few hours now.
Have I missed them?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Betty Cracker: yeah, glad to hear somebody mention Planned Parenthood (which others may have, I just didn’t hear it).
I never knew Jason Collins had a twin brother, he was good, too. Before I knew he was introducing his brother, I thought: This guy’s running for office someday.
Baud
Screw the Bros. These speeches are great.
ThresherK
@different-church-lady: From “Less Miserable”(the only way I can stand it):
At the end of the play we’re another year older.
And we’re often exhausted from playing the poor.
Randy Graf fell in the band,
And the turntable’s making us dizzy,
‘Til the man yells a command,
And it’s throwing us all in a tizzy,
And there’s gonna be hell to pay…
At the end of the play.
At the end of the play see the audience smolder
Sitting flat on their butts for three hours or more
They can’t wait to get back home
And to read the libretto in bed
And decipher what everyone’s on
And what we said
Better read the synopsis
At the end of the play
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Kwame:
“How do we get there?”
“Don’t ask us!”
Mnemosyne
For you non-film majors, there is a documentary about Soviet musicals called “East Side Story”. Maybe the Berniebros can pick up a few new songs from it.
different-church-lady
@eclare:
I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up
Not me,
Not I,
Not me!
So there!
Never gonna be a man,
I won’t!
Like to see somebody try
And make me.
Anyone who wants to try
And make me turn into a man,
Catch me if you can.
Kay
I was sympathetic to the Bernie supporters all thru the primary and I still believe in primaries as a process, but how “liberals” could feed this in good conscience is beyond me. The hate directed toward this woman is fucked up and sick. That’s just true and if you’re joining it you’re part of it.
Betty Cracker
Wow, President Obama cut an endorsement for Patrick Murphy, a congressman who is seeking to unseat smarmy crapweasel Marco Rubio.
dmsilev
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Where are we going?
Planet 10!
When?
Real Soon!
raven
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: They played at Stanford.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Amen.
Mnemosyne
@MJS:
Ah, okay. It was unclear.
Given that there are now reports that some of the DNC emails are altered or fake, though, I think there needs to be some kind of process to make sure the person actually wrote what they’re being punished for. Nobody wants another ACORN fiasco, at least not on the left.
SenyorDave
@BR: Sanders folks claim that he was the best on climate policy, and I pointed out to them that his healthcare plan and other plans assume that through magic Bernie would create 5% economic growth.
When I saw the 5% long term growth number I realized that Bernie’s plan was garbage. The US hasn’t had a 5-year period of 5% growth since the 1940’s (I looked it up), and hasn’t had a 4% 5-year period in four decades. It will never happen again in our lifetime. The rest of the world has caught up, and too many things have changed. His growth number is as unrealistic as Paul Ryan’s 3% unemployment number (which economists have said is actually impossible long-term and would hurt the economy).
What pisses me off most about many Sanders supporters is they aren’t the ones who will lose health insurance if ACA is repealed, or have to worry about interactions with the police, or other problems that Bernie seemed to downplay or ignore. I would ask his supporters how come it doesn’t matter to them that Bernie never seemed to connect with people of color?
Baud
@Kay: Agree completely, Kay.
different-church-lady
@celticdragonchick:
I can’t understand what’s delaying those giant puppets…
Omnes Omnibus
Hey, an actual successful businessman.
dmsilev
@Mnemosyne: ACORN is one example. So is what happened to Shirley Sherrod.
Not one of the Obama administration’s finer moments, sad to say.
Keith G
@Trentrunner: You know how youngsters are. Shot their wad (a firearms term) early, to little effect. Got nothing now.
Baud
@Betty Cracker: Has the primary occurred?
Schlemazel Khan
Watching the convention on PBS. Things are going very well as far as I can tell. But the assholes on PBS are interviewing one dick after another who says they will not vote for Clinton.
ThresherK
@different-church-lady: From “Less Miserable”
At the end of the play we’re another year older.
And we’re often exhausted from playing the poor.
Randy Graf fell in the band, And the turntable’s making us dizzy,
‘Til the man yells a command, And it’s throwing us all in a tizzy,
And there’s gonna be hell to pay…
At the end of the play.
At the end of the play see the audience smolder
Sitting flat on their butts for three hours or more
They can’t wait to get back home And to read the libretto in bed
And decipher what everyone’s on, And what we said
Better read the synopsis
At the end of the play
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I think if “manos poquitos” becomes a thing, as the kids say, Trump would have a meltdown, a huge, tremendous meltdown, believe me
Mnemosyne
@different-church-lady:
That lyric gets even weirder when you remember that Peter Pan is traditionally played by an adult woman on stage.
ThresherK
Hey, can one of the FPers un-moderafy my lyric quote from Forbidden Broadway? Thanx.
ETA: Okay, it’s there.
eclare
@different-church-lady: That honestly just never occurred to me. Do we also have people there in onesies? Thanks for the info!
Baud
The video tapas are really good.
MisterForkbeard
@hovercraft: Yeah. That’s not exactly giving them any credibility in my mind. They hate Hillary so much that anyone that thinks she might be a good president is automatically and obviously corrupt.
It’s unreasoning hatred. I don’t know what you can do about it.
Emma
@Mnemosyne: I’m just amused that Kwame assumed we would be shocked, SHOCKED, by the Internationale. One of my great-uncles was a funding member of the Cuban Communist party, back when it actually meant something, and he used to sing me to sleep with it.
gogol's wife
@hovercraft:
CSPAN CSPAN CSPAN
lamh36
Nancy Smash…on MSNBC…smashing up talking GOP pointts! Love her!
#DemsInPhilly
SenyorDave
I think the worst part of this whole Bernie shitshow is that it has overshadowed what should be one of the biggest stories of the year – Trump’s financial ties to Putin! The man who would be POTUS is apparently indebted to Putin financially. I’m assuming that Hillary will spend whatever it takes to uncover the ties, and assuming they are true, make it one of the centerpieces of her campaign.
MisterForkbeard
@Mnemosyne: Are there reports of those emails being faked or doctored somehow? It wouldn’t surprise me in the least, but I haven’t heard anything about that from the media. Or anywhere else.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Next month — Murphy vs Grayson.
Gravenstone
@MJS: So, you’re suggesting hand written notes, with wax seals to ensure security en route to the intended recipient? Yeah, like that will help.
Mark B
@dmsilev: It’s really sad to watch Bernie’s former supporters dance to a tune played by Trump and Putin.
Mnemosyne
@Emma:
I used to work with a guy at Weight Watchers who was an honest-to-God Red Diaper Baby. His family used to spend summers in Castro’s Cuba and his parents would swear him to secrecy because it would be bad for his classmates in the US to know that he was spending his summers in a communist country.
He, of course, spoke fluent Spanish, though he was a tall blond guy who looked very European, so people didn’t expect it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
@MisterForkbeard: Linky.
lamh36
Nevada State Senator Pat Spearman #DNCinPHL
I liked her!
msdc
@Davis X. Machina: And if they are, well, The Cause cannot fail, only be failed.
Mnemosyne
@MisterForkbeard:
Somebody linked to a tweet earlier, but I’m on my phone and can’t find it, so don’t take it as gospel yet.
Baud
Goolsby!!!
Oh it’s on.
eclare
Another great video!
Omnes Omnibus
@Gravenstone: Owls.
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
@Schlemazel Khan: yup. same on msnbc. they’re not interviewing any clinton supporters. funny that.
El Caganer
@eclare: I thought they were Robin Hood. Shows what I know.
dmsilev
@Baud: Will candidate Baud commit to jumping out of a car naked?
Gin & Tonic
@MisterForkbeard: I’ve posted before about my fear of an October Surprise, where a faked e-mail from HRC’s server is leaked, wherein US intelligence assets in Russia or Ukraine are named, and then somebody ends up very publicly dead in London or Geneva, like Litvinenko. HRC and PBO deny that the e-mail is real, but it doesn’t matter, because people have already made up their minds based on a quarter-century of Fox News conditioning. Hello, President Trump.
Mnemosyne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Most people can’t keep up a chant for 10+ hours. After awhile, boredom sets in.
WaterGirl
@Baud: So great! I’ve always liked Goolsby, this is really well done.
raven
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch: That’s not even true.
Emma
@Mnemosyne: That’s fantastic. I’d forgotten the vacationing communists. Well, I lived one hell of a long way from the places where they went.
PsiFighter37
Going to work out – should be done in time to watch Warren, FLOTUS, and the cranky old fuckwad who hopefully disappears after tonight.
lamh36
Oh…please, Go Away…
WaterGirl
I told you, we’re not doing that. So good.
eclare
@El Caganer: I have no idea, maybe a journo could ask one…I know, I’m dreamin’.
Aimai
@JPL: i heard it wasnt rain. Just tears.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’d also suggest, “Alleged billionaire”
Anya
@Schlemazel Khan: I guess it’s blessing that CNN is fond of its own talking heads
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Now I’ve seen everything, an Economist doing stand-up(OK, he was more of the straight man).
geg6
@Schlemazel Khan:
CSPAN is your friend.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dmsilev: Of course, nakid his Baud’s natural state.
dmsilev
@Aimai: Like tears in the rain?
I had no idea Dr. Stein was a replicant.
Baud
@dmsilev: What are we? Libertarians?
delphinium
@Omnes Omnibus: LOL
Matt McIrvin
@CaseyL: I’ve noticed that there’s a lot of Soviet nostalgia in Russia that has 0% to do with Communism and 100%, understandably, to do with Russia being the core of a superpower astride the globe like a colossus. I think that’s pretty much what it always was.
Tim C.
@SenyorDave: Yeah, the 5% Underpants Gnome GDP Growth factor was where I switched from being a Bernie voter to a Hillary supporter. I’ll happily raise my taxes to pay for things that are worth having (Free higher ed and all the rest), but saying it’s all going to happen through some kind of magic…… no.
Omnes Omnibus
@geg6: Exactly.
Iowa Old Lady
@Gravenstone: I’d suggest something more practical. Companies know that both electronic and paper communication can be subpoenaed, and what sensible ones do is train their engineers to do follow up. That is, if they express a concern about product safety (which you want them to do during development), they should follow up on whether the safety issue existed and what they did about it, and put that in writing too. The DNC should have explicitly rejected the idea that an issue be made of Sanders’ atheism and, I’d say, reprimanded in writing the person who suggested it. If you behave honorably, you try to keep some things confidential, but you still want it all on the record if you need it.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: It’s my preternatural state too.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@geg6: Streaming get’s a little jumpy when I refresh Balloon Juice.
lamh36
Finally a good segment on MSNBC.
they had the former Russian Ambassador to discuss Putin and the fact that he does indeed favor Trump over Clinton
He also said, Putin has personal vendetta against HRC since after his election in 2011, she criticized Russian election procedures and they emboldened protesters to go out and protest his re-election…
NR
Hillary Clinton’s image is at its lowest point in two decades.
Quick, someone here trash Bernie Sanders again. I’m sure that will fix everything.
Roger Moore
@Anya:
It’s short for cuckolding. There is apparently a whole cuckold sub-genre of porn where a (usually white) “husband” directs a (usually black) man having sex with his “wife”. Racist “alt-right” types have turned this idea into a taunt of “cuckservative” aimed at anyone they think is too prone to compromise with Obama.
lamh36
I heard about this elsewhere…ugh…FUQ you John King.
@SteveGuest
CNN Anchor Mocks Black Lives Matter With ‘Irish Lives Matter’ Comment [VIDEO]
Kay
So is anyone going to ask Donald Trump how far in hock he is to Russian oligarchs? I ask because we just spent a year discussing the national security risk posed by Hillary Clinton’s server. They might want to find out how much Trump Enterprises owes, and who he owes it to. I realize he put this issue to bed with a “tweetstorm” but that’s never been considered sufficient with any other candidate.
Also- he is now hinting that he found all kinds of dirt on the Republicans he vetted for VP. It reads like a threat. I don’t know why else he is saying it unless it’s to intimidate any possible political opponents in the GOP.
Mike J
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
@James E Powell: Yeah, this is spot on. These people are pissed off that all the rest of us don’t recognize their wisdom, and that we persist in this maddening habit of making our own minds up, rather than just going along with whatever they say we should do. These people really don’t have a whole lot more respect for democracy or majority rule than Republicans do. If everybody does what they want, then elections are great! If not, then, well, we dumbfucks who didn’t get with the program should just get out of the way and let them do what they do, since they know better.
ThresherK
@Matt McIrvin: Why don’t they just get some Romanov DNA and replicate one o’ them? Too many bad memories of the Russo-Japanese war?
lamh36
Omnes Omnibus
@NR: And here is proof that things are going well during the convention.
Matt McIrvin
@JMG:
It’s not getting drafted to get your head blown off, but: The economy. Just like with Occupy. It’s really worse for them than for just about anyone else. Top-line unemployment may be low but they still can’t find jobs, and a lot of them are saddled with a huge chunk of college debt. Obama hasn’t really helped them with that, and they see Clinton as same-old, same-old.
Baud
@Mike J: The Russian Connection is not going away.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
@Kay: Well, see, Trump’s connections to Putin altogether different from Clinton’s e-mails, and the e-mails are much, much worse, see, because, uh, well, shut up, that’s why!
JPL
@Roger Moore: Glad I decided not to google that one.
Cat48
@BR:
Do you think that they can boo Michelle & live thru it? I’m sure she has more friends on the floor than protesters. They may get their hair snatched out. Lots of folks love her.
JMG
Nate Silver’s live blog on 538 is very measured and calm. Your mileage, etc.
raven
Another interview on MSNBC with non-Hillary supporter Claire McCaskill.
Oh wait. . .
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
@NR: Yeah, well a 25 year campaign dedicated to trashing somebody’s reputation will do that, you know?
dww44
@Mike J: As a Georgian, that poll pleases me because I didn’t think the race was that close here. I’ve been staying away from the tv and the internet for a couple of days.
Other demands on my time, i.e. like an onslaught of starving humming birds. Been feeding them for years, but this year I think last year’s visitors came back with their just hatched offspring and possibly even some cousins. As I make my own nectar and also provide flowers for them, I really am busy, but it’s a good busy.
eclare
@Kay: The only journos who might research who Trump owes and how much are Samantha Bee and John Oliver, unfortunately. I would love MSM to pick this up and run with it, but I would be surprised if they did.
Mike J
@lamh36:
DNC has not yet combined nae nae teams Dems in disarray.
Emma
@dww44: That’s wonderful. Do you have pics?
lamh36
Someone on twitter said, this is likely the first time some of these Bernie delegates have ever heard GOOD things about HRC on a repetitive scale…so maybe SOME of it will sink in
JMG
I will repeat my belief that if the Russian spooks keep leaking pro-Trump stuff, real or fake, the US spooks, who loathe Trump, will retaliate. The Washington press corps kneels in awe before out “intelligence community.”
Baud
@lamh36:
That’ll appeal to the BDSM community.
BR
@Gin & Tonic:
You might send that scenario to someone who might be ready to protect against it. If nothing else, send it to Josh Marshall at TPM at this address and a few others like him.
jenn
@lamh36: Hey thanks for linking her – I hadn’t seen her before!
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Uh, that guy has heard of Belfast, right? Y’know, Irish Catholics being beaten and jailed for trying to get civil rights for themselves, which was the origin of The Troubles that have only just started being healed?
Christ, what an asshole.
Baud
Franken!
Omnes Omnibus
Al Franken, Yea!
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: Good. I know several people who have gone to Philadelphia to spend all of their time talking up this issue with media folks, and are doing exactly that.
Betty Cracker
Al Franken!!!
debit
@NR: My heart weeps for the cuts and lacerations on your sensitive and delicate feelings. How can you even find the strength to go on?
Aimai
@hovercraft: Hovercraft–if you dont have anything nice to say…you just come here and sit right by me!
gogol's wife
FRANKEN IS HILARIOUS
?BillinGlendaleCA
Sen. Franken is being funny.
Anya
I never hear Bernie Bros mention Al Franken as a respected “progressive”? Is he not pure enough!
Franken is giving a comedy rebuttal to Trump.
Omnes Omnibus
Al is killing it.
SiubhanDuinne
Al Franken’s old comedy chops are serving him well. Refreshing!
Mnemosyne
@NR:
Hmm. I wonder why that could be. It must have just happened completely out of nowhere. It certainly couldn’t have had anything to do with both the Trump and Sanders campaigns hammering on her, because we know public statements by public figures never, even influence what the public thinks. They always come to these conclusions in a total vacuum.
dww44
@Emma: I was afraid someone would mention that. I’m not good with that stuff, but i will try, because, all things being equal, a goodly number of them will be around for a couple of more months.
Gin & Tonic
@eclare: I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re scared. I believe it was lamh36, earlier today, who linked to a Michael Isikoff article about a woman who was freelancing for the DNC researching some of Manafort’s connections (lots of people in Ukraine know a lot about his business) and had her personal e-mail account likely hacked by what Yahoo! referred to as “state actors.”
While I hope these stories are pursued aggressively, I wouldn’t blame journos for remembering Anna Politkovskaya.
Roger Moore
@Iowa Old Lady:
That works when you’re dealing with a court of law, where you get to show the full context of stuff, but it doesn’t necessarily help when your email server has been compromised by an enemy who is leaking its contents. At the very least, the leaks are going to show the very worst stuff (e.g. what they said about Bernie) and leave any mitigation (e.g. the hypothetical reprimand) for diligent researchers to find. But as has already been suggested, there’s no guarantee that the emails haven’t been tampered with, and that tampering could as easily include deleting exculpatory conversations as fabricating incriminating ones. In practice, it’s probably a lot easier to delete exculpatory stuff than to credibly falsify incriminating stuff.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Franken calling on people to get out and organize and volunteer. That’s fantastic.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Oh, hey, since you’re the queen of GIFs, do you happen to have one of somebody making the “jerk-off” motion with his or her hand? If you have brothers or work with a lot of guys, you know which one I mean.
debbie
@Omnes Omnibus:
I bet Trump’s thin skin exploded before the second joke.
Kay
@eclare:
It’s a real question. It’s probably part of the reason private sector people haven;t run before. They would assume their financial dealings would be examined. How wrong they were, as it turns out.
dmsilev
@debbie: I think his kids managed to get his phone away from him again; the most recent tweet was 3 hours ago.
Emma
@dww44: It’s almost impossible to photograph hummingbirds. If I were to try it, I’d look for something meant for sports photography — fast shutter to stop the action.
Iowa Old Lady
@Roger Moore: I thought of that after I posted. Really, if that email is worst the hackers could find, the DNC wasn’t doing too badly.
debbie
@debbie:
In fact, I’d bet an anti-Franken PAC is being set up at this moment.
eclare
@Gin & Tonic: Good point. I need to remember that. It really could be dangerous.
hcarthagen
Watching the convention online at 3am here in Netherlands
Baud
Mook is on MSNBC talking about Russian Connection.
Anya
My grandmother: What time will Michelle Obama speak ?
She asked me three times. Her royal waspyness is not impress with the speeches.
lamh36
@Mnemosyne: @Mnemosyne: my go to political one is this one with Santorum…someone made
Santorum
SFAW
Maybe this has been discussed at length elsewhere, but: given the (apparently FSB) attempt to put their fist on the scale for Trump, what’s the likelihood of Anonymous getting Trump’s financials out there into the “public domain” (so to speak)? I think it would be interesting, were that to happen.
Might find out he’s a
millionairethousandaire after all.dmsilev
@Anya: Sometime after 10 Eastern; not sure of the exact time.
Baud
This is really good also.
Mike J
@Baud: Mook to be on Charlie Rose tonight too.
debit
@Mnemosyne: Like this? http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/23400000/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-gifs-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-23448027-240-180.gif
slag
This lady’s killin’ it. “I actually feel sorry for anyone with that much hate in their heart”. Kick ass, lady!
raven
@Emma: JefferyW does.
Anya
CNN’s resident racist and Trump apologist, Jeffrey Lord seems deflated tonight. I expected him to harp on “Democrats in disarray” message. What gives?
Baud
@Mike J: He’s good.
debit
Sigh. In moderation.
stinger
I don’t have cable/satellite dish and NPR is killing me. Anybody know where I can watch online? Not a C-SPAN subscriber, either.
raven
@slag: She is awesome.
MJS
@Gravenstone: Yes, that’s exactly what I’m suggesting. Exactly what part of “embarrassing” do you not get? No, no, you’re right. Because it is SOP in today’s world, beginning on Jan. 20, 2017, all communications in the Clinton Whitehouse should be done via text AND email. With courtesy copies to Ryan and Assange, to save time.
Anya
@dmsilev: thanks! I thought she was speaking after EW?
Baud
Sarah Silverman is coming up
slag
@stinger: The YouTubes. Remember to upvote.
dmsilev
@Emma: I managed to take a hummingbird photo with just an ordinary iPhone, but it was a special case, because the bird wasn’t flying. It was in fact perched in the palm of someone’s hand (it flew into our building at work, and my coworker fed it some sugar water and made a friend…).
Omnes Omnibus
Sarah Silverman next. Oh boy!
lamh36
raven
Anastasia Somoza
“Anastasia was born and raised in New York City, is fluent in both English and Spanish, and has been a disability rights advocate and human rights defender since the age of nine. Currently she works as a consultant with the Shield Institute, an organization that enables people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live full, meaningful lives. To see how it all began, click on the video below of her asking President Bill Clinton to help mainstream her twin sister Alba into the New York City public school system.”
Ian
@Trentrunner:
You have been running this meme all day. You shouldn’t. It is offensive, Sexual assault is a real problem in this country that many people are victims of. When you throw that accusation around in a blindly tribalistic way you are demeaning the victims of rape as much as you demean the people you intend to offend.
lamh36
@Anya: I’d like to think even the GOP are a bit taken aback about the idea that Russia back Trump.
Especially since for years…GOP go to baddy was Russia
dmsilev
@Anya: I think that’s right. The headliner speakers start at 10 Eastern; that’s when the broadcast networks start their live feeds. Tonight, it’s Elizabeth Warren, Michelle Obama, and Bernie Sanders. I know Sanders is closing out the hour, and I think you’re right that Warren is first. So, Michelle should be on at ~10:20.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: She may have a hard time after Sen. Franken.
Emma
@raven: Jeffery is immensely talented (in many areas) and I’m sure he works at it. For casual photographers it can be a very difficult job.
@dmsilev: That’s the best way to get them. Give them food. If you want one of those “wings beating” photos it gets more complicated.
rikyrah
Smooth Kobra @smoothkobra
That’s what all the anger is about. That an overwhelmingly white Sanders base couldn’t decide the nominee. That minorities chose.
slag
@raven: Seriously inspiring. I wonder if she might run for office some day. She’d easily be better than any sitting Republican.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@lamh36: The right wingers love Putin, especially without a shirt.
Schlemazel Khan
@geg6:
Thanks, thts much nicer
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
@Baud: or an appeal to Devo tribute bands.
Anne Laurie
New post above, for anyone not determined to make the TBogg unit.
Roger Moore
@Emma:
It’s actually not that hard to photograph hummingbirds, as long as you don’t mind getting some feeder in the photograph. They come to a predictable location and obligingly hover there. All you have to do is set up your camera so it’s aimed and focused at the perfect spot and wait for the bird to get in the frame. Fast shutter speed is important if you want to get the perfect frozen wings, but if you are OK with blurry wings- which do show how fast they move- you can get away with a slower speed.
lamh36
@?BillinGlendaleCA: oh yeah…they love to talk about his manliness.
BUT alot of these folks are older folks so the idea of a candidate being a pawn of Russia still gives them pause…even if they love shirtless Putin.
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA: @?BillinGlendaleCA:
You must not be familiar with Sarah Silverman.
lamh36
Ugh…I do NOT like Sarah Silverman…ya’ll have to tell me what she says..bleh.
LAC
@rikyrah: but it is super important that every media village idiot is tripping over themselves to find every bearded white guy with a Sanders t shirt to talk to.
Keith G
Love, love, love Sarah Silvermen
Quinerly
@debbie:
She looks fantastic. Great start on her speech!
Keith G
@lamh36: Don’t hate. Have an open heart.
Baud
@lamh36: She’s doing great.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Great crossover person.
hueyplong
Pretty good job by S Silverman.
Emma
@Roger Moore: OK, OK, you’ve all convinced me. I guess I’m too picky when it comes to my own images.
Baud
Holy cow!!!
Gravenstone
@MJS: Yeah, I saw your clarification downthread. But clearly your original post was not … clear.
Betty Cracker
Go Silverman!
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
Silverman: “to the Bernie or Bust people, you’re being ridiculous”
Quinerly
“You are being ridiculous” Sarah Silverman to the Bernie or Bust people.
Matt McIrvin
Wait, Sarah Silverman? She was so all in for Bernie, I expected her to be one of the Busters in the street. That’s a good sign.
BruceFromOhio
@different-church-lady:
Now the first thing you know, ol’ Jed’s a millionare
The kinfolk said, “Jed, move away from there!”
They said, “North Sahara’s the place you ought to be!”
So they loaded up the truck and they moved to Tripoli
…Libya, that is. Sand dunes. Smugglers.
THE TRIPOLI HILLBILLIES
Keith G
I want Al and Sarah to take over as M.C.s for the rest of the convention.
LAC
Fucking bernietards.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@LAC: ? What’d they do now?
Keith G
@Matt McIrvin:
See what a lack of imagination gets ya?
Omnes Omnibus
Quick shot of Susan Saradon looking shell-shocked.
Quinerly
What? No GE Smith. Sad!
?
debbie
Is there a house band like there was in Cleveland? Anyone good?
Roger Moore
@MJS:
It won’t work for two reasons that should be obvious to anyone:
1) Anything that’s on a computer at all is still potentially subject to hacking, even if it’s stealing spreadsheets and word processor files. Just try to run a modern organization exclusively with hand- and type-written messages. It would die of inefficiency.
2) The moment anyone found out about such an eccentric way of doing things, that process alone would turn into a scandal. You know the Republicans would claim the only reason she was refusing to use computers is because she was doing something nefarious and was worried about getting caught.
Keith G
So we have a mortician’s prop trying to sing. Good move DNC. One of these moments he will actually find one of those fucking notes.
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
@Omnes Omnibus: what outlet are you watching?
scottinnj
I expect to hear the Bernie supporters start yelling ‘garfunkle, garfunkle’ soo
Quinerly
@Omnes Omnibus:
Damn, I looked away for a split second.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: I loved ‘The Sarah Silverman Show’.
Roger Moore
@slag:
So would most of the corpses in my local cemetery; at least they wouldn’t be actively making things worse.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
aw, damn, I hope somebody caught it.
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
sarah silverman treading on twitter
#Boss
Roger Moore
@Emma:
I think the trick the serious hummingbird photographers use is flash. That’s how you freeze the motion in their wings.
Quinerly
@Matt McIrvin:
And her killer line “you are being ridiculous” was adlibbed. It will be played over and over. Happy!
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
If you missed Sarah Silverman’s smackdown – here’s the video (clip)
Quinerly
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch:
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karen marie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: If I were his parent, I’d want to slap him but instead would spend sleepless nights trying to understand how I raised such a dumbass.
BruceFromOhio
Eva Longoria introducing Corey Booker, and calling out the dumpster fire. Nicely done.
chopper
@lamh36:
I wonder if at some point or another bernie actually stopped and said “oh, shit”.
Marc McKenzie
@CaseyL:
It’s all cosplay. FFS.
And it sucks, to be honest. I’d rather go with the cosplay from Comic-Con; much nicer. :)
Marc McKenzie
@chopper:
Probably.
And guess what–he can’t blame this on the millionaires and the billionaires and Wall Street. It’s all on him.
Marc McKenzie
@Jeffro:
Exactly. Strangely enough, I think the person who’s treating the election as a cakewalk…is Trump. Hillary sure as hell isn’t taking this lightly, not one bit.
workworkwork
@MJS: When I was a consultant, they sent new hires to “consulting boot camp”.
The first lesson we all learned was “Email is discoverable.”
Later expanded to “Don’t put anything in an email that you wouldn’t want opposing council to read back to you in court.”
No One You Know
The woman calling in to complain about the DNC not uniting people, other than the ones who went to Philadelphia, because “Bernie united the country”—-seems be saying that we can’t trust Hillary because emails, wikileaks, etc.
I’m dumbfounded. How does she “know”? Does Spokane have a wormhole into NSA, or something?