Hillary really wanted to join Sanders in the Vatican, but she has bills to pay...

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

She is hosting a fundraiser with Gary Gensler the champion of the legislation CFMA which nearly destroyed our economy... How nauseating.



edit: for those unfamiliar with the CFMA and Gensler here is an article about Sanders attempts to block Obama nominating Gensler to regulatory body.

http://prospect.org/article/whats-problem-gary-gensler

The controversy plaguing the White House's choice to lead the CFTC, Gary Gensler, began last month when Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont blocked a floor vote on the nomination and suggested Gensler was not the "independent leader" needed to "create a new culture in the financial marketplace." Gensler's biggest sin, for Sanders, was helping to pass the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA) of 2000, a bill that kept the derivatives market out of regulators' reach.

After retiring at age 39 from Goldman Sachs, the derivatives-mad firm that has profited nicely from the government's multiple financial bailouts, Gensler came to the Clinton Treasury Department. There he worked on CFMA, the bill that allowed the derivatives market to metastasize into a hotbed of financial risk with an estimated value -- before last fall's financial crash -- exceeding the world's real financial holdings.

[Agschmid]

1. This is a post I'll skp.

[FSogol]

5. Skp it in a NY minute!

[demmiblue]

13. Honestly, if you think this poster is a banned zombie, make your case to the admins.

So far, I have seen him/her referenced as Manny, WillyT, BBI... and now NYC_SKP (thanks to you).

Good grief.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

15. I made a ask the admin post about these idiots following me around...

Hopefully admins can do something about it.

They also said something about someone with Pub in there name... Do you know what user that refers to?

They follow me around say stuff like, "Did you hear that at the pub?", etc. I just figured they were calling me a republican.

[Agschmid]

17. It would be nice if you didn't call us "idiots"...

[Agschmid]

16. What makes you think I haven't?

[demmiblue]

19. I'm sure the admins appreciate your help in making DU more toxic by bringing it into the forums.

I have no opinion either way regarding this poster.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

20. They also harass me via PM

[Agschmid]

22. Yeah I wasn't sure who you were... You could have just answered but you didn't.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

23. Responding to baseless harassment just escalates it.

You and many of your other ilk I have on ignore follow me around constantly accusing me of being a republican or being other members... But I've contacted the admin so that is all I have to say on the subject...

[Agschmid]

24. Yah well just FYI, me and my "ilk" probably all picked up on something.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

25. Keep playing the victim...

The admins will vindicate me.

[Agschmid]

28. Where did I play the victim?

Because I'm not, and neither are you.

[roguevalley]

34. following someone around like this is bullshit and needs to stop. Let the mods know about the pm

stuff. Someone did that to me and I put them on ignore. Hugs, GeorgiaPeanuts

[Agschmid]

21. Oh please...

As if I am solely to blame for the toxicity around here, just me alone. Not the returning malicious intruders, not the people who feel the need to berate long term members, not the people who vote in juries just based on which candidate they support.

You as a DU member are just as guilty as I am.

[demmiblue]

27. Go get your drama fix elsewhere.

If I don't think I can judge a post fairly, I decline jury service.

[pinebox]

2. Why do her supporters keep giving her passes?

Just like she recently held a fundraiser with a prominent NRA lobbyist.
Wake up people!

[riderinthestorm]

10. But they won’t influence her no sirree...nt

[MisterP]

33. that's the strategy for shrinking the party into the twenties percentagewise

break any promise, go against every principle you've run on, and stand for absolutely nothing and get praised through the roof by serried ranks of sycophants and hall monitors--and you'd still have unconditionals who'll literally say that they don't care what a candidate pushes because they love the candidate so much

anyone who didn't like it would still have the same old choices--and, above all, since Sanders is left of Kucinich he ought to be doing worse, right?

[KPN]

3. Night and day!

[pdsimdars]

4. Now me, I LIKE this kind of OP

You don't have to do much reading to get the WHOLE message, the CLEAR distinction between the 2 candidates, which candidate stands for what. Absolutely PERFECT!

[Gregorian]

6. She'll find a way to cheat. They better draw the blinds.

Now imagine a photoshopped image of the pope and Bernie with Her Heinous peeping in.

[CentralCoaster]

7. CFMA: a

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization_Act_of_2000

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

11. Also further detail regarding the hatred it created in Sanders for Gary Gensler...

http://prospect.org/article/whats-problem-gary-gensler

The controversy plaguing the White House's choice to lead the CFTC, Gary Gensler, began last month when Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont blocked a floor vote on the nomination and suggested Gensler was not the "independent leader" needed to "create a new culture in the financial marketplace." Gensler's biggest sin, for Sanders, was helping to pass the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA) of 2000, a bill that kept the derivatives market out of regulators' reach.

[Avalux]

8. Contrasting the upcoming events of the two candidates on 4/15 -

couldnt' be a bigger gap. Hillary is on the wrong side of things.

I'm not religious, but Bernie's Vatican speech will have an impact I don't think any of us can foresee. Especially in light of the Panama Papers.

[Qutzupalotl]

9. She wants to be that champion.

[IdaBriggs]

12. Plus the Pope didn't invite her - she got dissed by the Pope!

[Land of Enchantment]

18. Not a religious person but I LOVE this Pope. nt

[jehop61]

14. Ha, looks

like Bernie is conceding NY. Flying overseas 4days before the primary. Better than facing the humiliation.

[tex-wyo-dem]

26. He will get enormous exposure in giving...

A speech at the Vatican, much more than having a couple more rallies in NY. This is an amazing opportunity!

[bkkyosemite]

29. You really think that...think again.........lots of Italians in NY....I'm Italian and guess what

happened to me as a child...hint white dress white veil..yep......

[riderinthestorm]

31. Highest percentage of Catholics in the US are in NY

33% of all Catholics are in NY.

I think this is brilliant optics.

While Bernie is speaking at the Vatican on a moral economy, Hillary will be schmoozing with the 1% at George Clooney's $300k/plate fundraiser.

[stillwaiting]

30. Her true friends are the super predators that's for sure.

Which speaks a lot for who she ultimately is as a person as well.

[Nyan]

32. So...when Bernie's hanging out with the Pope, Hillary will be hanging out with this guy?

Oh my. The disparity is astounding. Wow.

(32 replies and I only see 13 of them. Hillary supporters must be really butt-hurt over this)