But...but there were supposed to be THOUSANDS!! Bernie Rally in SD is a dud!

[riversedge]

SLOW DAY FOR A RALLY IN SAN DIEGO FOR BERNIE FANS.



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FBG for HRC ?@feistybunnygirl 10h10 hours ago

But...but there were supposed to be THOUSANDS-maybe a few hundred if that per TV reporter


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https://twitter.com/feistybunnygirl/status/731881663622307841

[Vinca]

1. Considering Hillary is known for rallies consisting of 40 people, all over 60, I wouldn't crow.

(Don't bother accusing me of ageism. For starters, I'm old. Secondly, I'm stating the obvious.)

[J_J_]

7. I've been told Bernie wishes he could have small rallies with 'control' like Hillary

They have made so many silly excuses for why Hillary has no support and wants to have her small rallies...now they are making fun of Bernie.

Hillary supporters are the world's biggest hypocrites.

[MaeScott]

28. Well he wasn't there, so...more for when he isn't present than a certain someone who spends tons

Advertising

[KittyWampus]

32. She's known for Town Halls where she does questions & answers. Sanders WAS known

for huge rallies where he parroted the same damned thing over and over and never had to deal with individual voters or their questions.

See- Editorial Board meeting for what happens when Sanders has to answer questions.

[AtomicKitten]

41. Yep. The irony is lost on some.

[StayFrosty]

2. Normal Democrats are unifying and backing Hillary

[hobbit709]

3. You mean Corporatist Democrats don't you?

None of the normal people I know are minions of the banks, fracking, and the MIC.

[seabeyond]

14. Sanders is.

[morningfog]

19. That's too fucking funny.

[seabeyond]

30. He ha fundraised for banker dollar and has gotten donations from fracking. But, not being as popular

just not as much. Still the same, just not as successful. Hypocrisy

[hobbit709]

38. As usual, you're full of it.

[seabeyond]

40. Nu uh.

[MaeScott]

29. Absolutely corporate sellouts

[bahrbearian]

16. Corporations, Banks, and Arms Dealers can't vote.

[TCJ70]

4. For a second I thought you meant South Dakota and my first thought was...

..."Are there even thousands of people in South Dakota?"

[lagomorph777]

39. Me too!

Where the hell is Wall Drug?

[Prism]

5. You spend a lot of time on twitter

Might I recommend Reddit? Not the politics portions, which are the mutual monkey pit, but maybe something like r/space or r/books. You know, something vaguely useful.

Oh! So I was browsing last week and saw a post about Viet Thanh Nguyen giving a talk. So, I wandered over to Cal (He's a UCB alumni), and I watched him speak. He apparently won the Pulitzer Prize for his fiction novel The Sympathizer. As a Vietnamese American, he wanted to give voice about straddling two worlds. I nabbed it on Amazon Prime. So far, pretty good, and his talk was excellent. It about the Vietnam War, the fall of Saigon, and how people dealt afterwards, especially America vs re-education vs the current Vietnamese system. Incredible writing and characterization.

I'm so glad I was glancing the internet at random and found him.

You apparently surf the internet to find pointless candidate things to post.

Hrm.

Well, ok.

But it feels like a waste of resources.

[m-lekktor]

6. I have that book as well, but haven't read it yet. I am reading "Listen, Liberal" by Thomas Frank

plus a bio on Sal Mineo (i always read two at once, one on kindle and a real book usually) but I will get to it eventually. glad to see your positive comments about it!


and I still don't have a twitter acount! lol

[Prism]

8. I don't want to review it yet

I'm still early in, but his reading and talk was really, really good.

There was an interview with him in Daily Cal after his talk that I feel captured the essence of his remarks:

http://www.dailycal.org/2016/05/12/pulitzer-prize-winner-viet-thanh-nguyen-talks-representation-offers-advice/

I love authors who have a unique take on the minority American experience, and since a lot of my friends and boyfriend are Asian, I was eager to hear his experiences. He's a really perceptive man. He articulated what he was trying to accomplish very well. I couldn't say about the novel yet, but it's promising so far.

[m-lekktor]

17. Interesting interview.

His comment that minority writers often pander to a white audience to get published was interesting. I hate the whole American exceptionalism/ "anti-american" accusation thing.

I look forward to reading the novel. The Vietnam story is an interesting one to me!

[Prism]

18. He definitely has a point there

I mean, take any fantasy novel. I love, for example, Game of Thrones. But damn if it isn't white people in trouble. The only people of color are savages and exotics in court. I understand GRRM is trying to mimic the War of the Roses and medieval Europe, but every character of color suffers. All his heroes are the whitest white people who ever whited. Supernatural? Anne Rice was all about whichever vampire was whiter than the last white guy, and when she actually managed an Indian, he actually had a white soul. Dragonlance, from my adolescence, was just white folk. People of color were always exotic peoples.

But, push that genre aside. I used to read pointless John Grisham-esque shit, and it was just white middle class folks in trouble, with people of color chiming in for character interest.

So, I get where Nguyen is coming from. Look at any major series, even from the past 15 years, and there are white people in the center of it. There's a reason. You want your audience to relate. That's like Author 101. But he's saying, white audiences can relate to people of color. And while that's super obvious, it's not super obvious in the industry. I actually fault the publishers here.

Weirdly, gay fiction is way better at this. As if we instinctively know about outsiders. If I had a dollar for every gay novel I've read about the Latino who is trying to find his identity. Somehow, outsider authors captured outsiders in American culture.

[morningfog]

20. Don't begrudge someone for being gainfully employed!

Or for tending to their job duties.

[Prism]

22. I'm pretty internet savvy

But I have to say, I really don't get the "I saw it on Twitter!" people.

I literally don't have the time on my hands. Because I have, you know, a full time job, and a relationship, and friends, and hobbies.

I have no idea how anyone keeps up all day everyday.

God bless them.

[NCTraveler]

9. Many many really good Democrats were supporting him.

A clear minority but still large in numbers. While I expect him to still have large rallies the Democrats have come home to the party. We are really unified at this point. His independent supporters are something so many Democrats don't want to be a part of. Independents are failing with their attempts to divide the party. They are trying to put on a front like they are succeeding but let's be real, they are so far from reality that many still think they are going to get the nomination against the will of the people. Reading what they are writing and listening to what they are saying is damn near more painful than trying to make it through a HA HA Goodman piece. It's clear they have left policy behind and are now trying to weaken us. Just about all dems find it to be disgusting.

A friend who voted for Sanders in the primary in Florida wants him to find his way back to the senate and stop associating with these people. They never thought he would do this well and like me really liked the thought of him going back to the senate with clout for the first time in his political career. My neighbor no longer wants to be associated with him as he is attached to and even fostering the hate of these people.

We are the educated voters paying attention. The beauty and curse of being a solid Democrat. Knowledge and a solid grounding in reality.

[virtualobserver]

10. Bernie wasn't at a rally in San Diego.....However more people show up to Bernie rallies even when...

he isn't there, than show up to Hillary rallies when she or Bill ARE there.

...and that's a fact.

[cherokeeprogressive]

11. Condescension is SO unlike Hillary fans,,, or is it?

[livetohike]

12. There's so much more to do in San Diego than

sit still and listen to the tiresome boring stump speech of an ego driven relic from the 60's. You must sit and absorb his "wisdom" and make sure you walk away with the proper buzz words Establishment! Oligarchy! Capitalist! Corporatists!

Most depressing campaign ever when you have to brainwash people that everything is bad! Bash Obama, bash Hillary, bash Democrats, throw long time people who have accomplishments under the bus.

Thankfully the majority of voters aren't buying it.

[carburyme]

24. K N R

+1000000000.00

[JackRiddler]

34. Bernie Sanders was not present at this campaign event in San Diego.

Try again.

[frylock]

36. Shhhhh.. let them make themselves look like fucking idiots.

[quickesst]

13. the post-rally....

... keg party was cancelled?

[bobbobbins01]

15. Video of the event here...it was a march.

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/san-diego-ca-sanders-supporters-march-and-rally-in-news-footage/531762154

Looks like they decided to film for the news while everyone was out marching.

[workinclasszero]

21. When Bernie rallies fizzle in California

You know its over.

[riversedge]

25. The fizzle is going going going

[NurseJackie]

23. LOL@Me! I originally thought this was about a rally in South Dakota ...

[workinclasszero]

27. In your defense...it did say SD

Easy assumption to make.

[asuhornets]

26. Whaaaattttt?

The writing is on the wall...

[Bluenorthwest]

31. Cute how you imply Bernie was present....of course when he did speak in San Diego:

Sanders stokes big San Diego crowd
'Together we are going to change the national priorities of this country,' he says
San Diego — Bernie Sanders brought his campaign for the White House to San Diego Tuesday, electrifying more than 10,000 supporters who had stood for hours in a line a mile long to hear him speak.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/mar/22/bernie-sanders-rally-san-diego/

I despise the furtively dishonest.

[beedle]

33. IT was a voters registration event

http://www.meetup.com/San-Diego-For-Bernie-Sanders-2016/events/230873389/

Join Us Political Revolutionaries!
We march and rally in support of the Bernie Sanders #NotMeUs movement. Bernie has stood up for the kind of leadership that we want and need to create in this country. Its our turn to take a stand!

Meet us in Balboa Park(@6th and Juniper) at noon and march with us to beautiful Embarcadero Park South (behind the SD Convention Center) for a Rally at 3pm. We will hold the largest voter registration verification and registration event in California AND hear from inspiring speakers to include:
Christina Griffin (UNITE HERE)
Gretchen Newsome (IBEW)
Jose Caballero (City Council Dist 7 Candidate)
Jose Medina (Environmental Health Coalition)
Marshall Voit (Songleader and folksinger)
National Nurses United
Danza Azteca (San Diego Aztec Dancers)

When Bernie holds a rally and only a few hundred show up then maybe you'll have something.

I hear someone held a meet-up for Bernie in their living room and the turnout was so low it barely reached the 'Hillary rally' level.

[frylock]

35. Well this post was a Fistful of Fail

[imagine2015]

37. It wasn't a Bernie Rally. It was a voter registration meeting. Bernie wasn't at that meeting.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Bernie spoke to 10,000 at the San Diego campaign rally.