I'm staying out of GDP again

[dlwickham]

You can literally say anything about Hillary on this website but Gods forbid you say anything about Sanders

[yallerdawg]

1. I know!

There isn't a shred of credibility left in the Bernie/Hillary Hate wing of the independent party.

It'll be over in a couple weeks!

[fun n serious]

2. I don't have to say anything critical of Bernie.

Saying something positive about Hillary with no mention of Sanders is enough to get crowd bullied.

[DesertRat]

3. True

[wildeyed]

4. It's depressing.

Can't decide if it is because I am really sick today, or if the forum is more off the rails than usual.... Imma eat some soup and try to read or watch TV instead

[taught_me_patience]

6. It's not just you

last night (town hall) and today have been crazy over there. Sit back, listen to some JJ Cale, and enjoy life!

[Lucinda]

7. Caucus is tomorrow...it always gets worse right before - and right after too!

I hope you feel better. Rough day for me today too!

[okasha]

12. Not entirely.

Some of it's actually rather amusing. There's one thread with a few knowlegable souls trying to explain to the Bros why "one wo/man, one vote" is both a democratic and an ethical principle. (They think Republicans are entitled to more than a single vote apiece.)

[Cary]

5. More off the rails

Clearly

[Lucinda]

8. I'm wandering in and out...but not posting anything too substantive today

No point in it. It's pre-caucus jitters, I think.

[kstewart33]

29. Lucinda, I have enjoyed reading your comments at GDP.

I just discovered this Hillary Clinton group tonight after getting so fed up with all the personal attacks and Hillary hate there. I've been a DU member since 2001 and I have never seen it so bad. Quite a mob going on.

[Lucinda]

30. Thank you! That's very kind of you to say. I'm glad you found the group! Mob is a good word for it!

They DO come in here, and have shut down perfectly good posts with alerts and jury votes, but for the most part, it's a great haven from the chaos.

I thought 2008 was bad, but it was a picnic compared to this. I've trashed and untrashed GDP soooo many times lately...Everyone has been pretty kind to me in GDP, but it gets so frustrating to see all the attacks happening on good people. And also seeing all the right wing hit pieces that never would have been allowed to stand before, just makes me sick. I'm always thinking about what a new voter coming here for information and fellowship must think of this place.

I was posting not too long ago about how great DU used to be. Working together, calling our congress critters when something needed to be done...now there is so much rancor. I wish i'd been here in the beginning with you and the others! It must have been both heartbreaking, and yet exciting to grow a community after the (s)election happened. I didnt find DU until 2004.

[Loki]

9. I asked someone to tell me honestly

if they had ever in their life told a lie. They are insufferable egomaniacs that think they are perfect, and life in their perfect little Bernie world where only Hillary or people who support her have ever told a lie and can admit to it. I did, I have, and don't know a person who hasn't. They live in a bubble. Honest to God, they really have become the left's Tea Party Idiots.

[Kath1]

16. That was very eloquently stated and so true.

I have lied, cheated and done even worse in my life. I admit to it. I am very far from perfect. I am really turned off by the holier than thou in both religion and politics. The Sanders cult of perfection is life in a bubble and totally divorced from the real world.

[Loki]

10. I never give up on a good fight.

They like to sit behind their keyboards and make childish statements and act like Free Republic rats, then let em. They don't keep me from having an opinion and I will speak my mind.

[mainstreetonce]

11. They must know he is losing

They are panic ugly.

[okasha]

13. Exactly.

Cornered--critters of your choice.

[Thinkingabout]

14. I like to stick to the Hillary group

[Treant]

15. I've been out of it for quite a while

...and didn't say much there before that point anyway.

On the up side, the more hysterical they get, the worse the situation probably is for Sanders. And the more hysterical in real life, the more they turn off voters.

So I'm not seeing the down side here.

[Kath1]

17. They seem to be in hysterical panic mode.

I'll take it as a good sign.

I'm still positive about this!

[Treant]

19. There's every reason to be positive!

Sanders came late to NV with a ton of baggage, but let's assume he pulls a win. It won't be much of a win, <5%, but let's run with it.

That gives him a touch of momentum for about a week, tempered by the fact that Republican crossovers will be suspected and talked about in the media.

It doesn't really matter because then he absolutely, positively gets clobbered in SC by a large, large margin. Clinton +10 would be my pessimistic floor for SC.

So much for those comeback optics. Then we move into Super Tuesday, where Clinton is favored in 9 of 12 states, reasonably competitive in 1, and definitely loses 2.

Er, what comeback optics? That's immediately followed by yet more states where Clinton is favored...

[Kath1]

20. Agree 100%

I feel very positive over this. It will all be over soon.

Love your attitude!

[Treant]

21. Actually, I'm a pessimist

and tend to shoot numbers well under the projections (which I do tend to feel are a bit too rosy). I don't see the final delegate wins for Clinton until May or early June when California votes.

And you'll notice that even I, the pessimist, don't see a realistic path for Sanders the way things are going.

If I did, Clinton group or no (since I'm a very firm supporter of hers and have been for ages) I'd say so and see if we could crowd-source a solution for Clinton.

[Kath1]

23. We will be fine.

I am depressive and pessimistic by nature but I think we we will win this. May take longer than I think but it will happen.

[Kath1]

18. Agreed.

I get enough stress at work.

Good for them. They can have there their nice little Bernie party over there. I live in the real world and I think most of you do, too.

[workinclasszero]

22. We must never blaspheme the name of St Sanders

On the Bernie Underground it's a bannable offense

[Kath1]

24. Oh, yes!

Then drag me to hell for blasphemy!

[workinclasszero]

26. The little tiny shread of the democratic party that's left

On DU...the Hillary group...will find relief soon I hope!

[DawgHouse]

25. It's sad but it has happened before.

[Agnosticsherbet]

27. It is called tyranny of the majority.

There is nothing Democratic about this place.

[NBachers]

28. I should have known this would happen -

[Coolest Ranger]

31. The momet

I noticed the site transforming into all things Bernie, I trashed GDP and that is where it shall remain. I also trashed any key word dealing with Bernie. Too bad I can't stop his name from appearing in the now trending so I don't even go to the front page.

The ones posting the same crap over and over again, I'm adding them to my ignore list until we have a nominee.

[Fla Dem]

32. A good example of this is 2 recent jury decisions against a Hillary supporter

Both of the hides in one thread on Boston Bean were for what under normal circumstances would have passed as "give and take". But the Bernie Bros are out for blood. They work to silence any prominent DU'er supporting and defending Hillary against the onslaught of outrageous and venomous attacks against her.


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