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Go Barney! (Original Post) Tavarious Jackson May 2016 OP
Post removed Post removed May 2016 #1
what are you accusing Barney Frank of? still_one May 2016 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author silvershadow May 2016 #8
You mad? Tavarious Jackson May 2016 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author silvershadow May 2016 #11
Your reality may vary...YRMV Surya Gayatri May 2016 #22
This message was self-deleted by its author silvershadow May 2016 #25
The only reason I was asking was because "Lolita" has some other conotations still_one May 2016 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author silvershadow May 2016 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author silvershadow May 2016 #14
I wasn't being sarcastic, or snarkey still_one May 2016 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author silvershadow May 2016 #17
Honestly, I wasn't even debating the OP with you. I believe you already answered still_one May 2016 #19
Post removed Post removed May 2016 #20
Sorry, I don't follow a lot of that crap, but I don't want to pursue this further still_one May 2016 #21
This message was self-deleted by its author silvershadow May 2016 #24
Your posts are disgusting and am glad they are hidden. riversedge May 2016 #106
Tsk tsk Demsrule86 May 2016 #43
You should be ashamed of yourself that you made that homophobic and disgraceful hrmjustin May 2016 #46
"I'm of certain renown for...." Bobbie Jo May 2016 #92
One guess - +10 840high May 2016 #99
Financial Industry hack Greensburg724 May 2016 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author silvershadow May 2016 #26
Holy shit! That guy is having a meltdown! Tavarious Jackson May 2016 #28
...!100++++ 840high May 2016 #100
Of being a pedophlle. Starry Messenger May 2016 #33
Thanks. I didn't want to pursue any more dialog with that poster still_one May 2016 #35
I just read this thread and I am infuriated. hrmjustin May 2016 #45
That poster should be banned. Starry Messenger May 2016 #63
+1...nt SidDithers May 2016 #68
That poster has a "goodbye cruel world" post up NastyRiffraff May 2016 #72
where? The poster is disgusting MariaThinks May 2016 #78
Here NastyRiffraff May 2016 #89
thanks. What a whiny little piece the poster posted. MariaThinks May 2016 #117
Gross, homophobic, hateful, conspiracy-theory peddling waste of bandwidth Maru Kitteh May 2016 #112
Can't find it, or I'd bid him farewell personally. Starry Messenger May 2016 #82
All of my thoughts in one beautiful statement. RandySF May 2016 #2
Yes. I love it Tavarious Jackson May 2016 #3
Yes, Rep. Frank nailed it excellently. But then he has known Hortensis May 2016 #93
EXCELLENT!!! DrDan May 2016 #5
+1 GreydeeThos May 2016 #6
k&r bigtree May 2016 #7
Barney Frank is a champion! Tavarious Jackson May 2016 #10
Post removed Post removed May 2016 #18
You might be on a list too Demsrule86 May 2016 #44
silvershadows transparency is filled with vile, filthy comments. BTW - he/she is a trump fan. MariaThinks May 2016 #80
I have never looked Demsrule86 May 2016 #119
K&R baldguy May 2016 #23
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2016 #27
Wow, what a stupid and ugly statement. Vattel May 2016 #29
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2016 #30
Trashing Divisive Thread B Calm May 2016 #31
Bernie had that coming to him BeyondGeography May 2016 #32
So did you also oppose extending protections to the transgender community under ENDA as Bluenorthwest May 2016 #42
Fuck that shill Sky Masterson May 2016 #34
Congratulations #307 corkhead May 2016 #36
OH. SNAP. Tarc May 2016 #37
Barney Frank? The guy who serves on a bank board? pinebox May 2016 #38
i hope you're not a hypocrite and use the banks for anything. MariaThinks May 2016 #83
This message was self-deleted by its author TM99 May 2016 #102
I use a credit union XD Have a nice day :) pinebox May 2016 #110
I stand with Barney Frank Gothmog May 2016 #39
Go barney ... coco77 May 2016 #40
Barney is not very popular with many of us in the LGBT community due to his disrepect for the Bluenorthwest May 2016 #41
Thanks for posting this. It's the first thing I think of whenever I see his name. m-lekktor May 2016 #57
Thank you. QC May 2016 #70
Thanks. I didn't know this. nt SusanCalvin May 2016 #79
.+1 840high May 2016 #101
Yup, the group think about Barney Frank likes to gloss over his bad shit riderinthestorm May 2016 #111
Barney, working hard to be a good advocate for the the money lenders. -nt- NorthCarolina May 2016 #47
Yes! Just GO Barney. Pack your 3rd Way bags and GO. Tierra_y_Libertad May 2016 #48
Got it in one Barney (Nailed it!) rock May 2016 #49
Dems should ignore what Barney Frank said at their own Peril. Sanders supporters take note. hollowdweller May 2016 #50
Well said. appalachiablue May 2016 #61
+1 Dems to Win May 2016 #64
What a fancy paint job... dchill May 2016 #51
From the above responses puffy socks May 2016 #52
I see many straight folks claiming to stand with the guy who put a knife in the back of the Bluenorthwest May 2016 #54
I love being told that I dont know anything about these issues or Barney Frank and why I "dig him". puffy socks May 2016 #60
A fake quote isn't the truth. NT Eric J in MN May 2016 #58
No, Barney, you're NOT getting it right. Lizzie Poppet May 2016 #53
Fake quote. Eric J in MN May 2016 #55
You are correct. Fake quote Dems to Win May 2016 #65
Yes, I thought so.. mountain grammy May 2016 #87
Yay Barney!! workinclasszero May 2016 #56
Barney has gone the Faux pas May 2016 #59
He's not a sell out. He's just a rich yankee hollowdweller May 2016 #66
We use that same phrase over in the Bernie Sanders group catnhatnh May 2016 #62
Oh really? NOT surprised. Tavarious Jackson May 2016 #67
No one says that in the Bernie Group Art_from_Ark May 2016 #115
DU rec to expose the homophobic meltdown up thread...nt SidDithers May 2016 #69
The bus is being thrown under Barney tandem5 May 2016 #71
No, Barney Frank, you're wrong. aikoaiko May 2016 #73
Is there an actual link to this quote? frylock May 2016 #74
Fake quote. NT Eric J in MN May 2016 #75
I'm shocked that Hillary Supporter would make something like this up. frylock May 2016 #91
Very well put. MariaThinks May 2016 #76
Disgusting. Can't believe you posted that drivel. nt Live and Learn May 2016 #77
So....nothing about the policies and positions of that party? vi5 May 2016 #81
Wow!! That's fantastic!! Bleacher Creature May 2016 #84
DAYUM!! Is this for real?? I was saying just yesterday that considering that Frank nailed Sanders to Number23 May 2016 #85
YES!! Tavarious Jackson May 2016 #86
The quote is fake. NT Eric J in MN May 2016 #94
Thanks. Even if it is, the sentiments expressed are true as all get out. Number23 May 2016 #105
If Burlington, VT is too white Eric J in MN May 2016 #108
Umm... okay. Number23 May 2016 #114
Barney called that one right. BainsBane May 2016 #88
This is fake as fuck. bunnies May 2016 #90
Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo Eric J in MN May 2016 #95
This poster doesn't seem to give a shit about truth. bunnies May 2016 #98
Reads like a "social experiment" to test critical thinking skills, or lack thereof. SMC22307 May 2016 #96
Now, y'all stop badmouthing Barney. He's the unofficial HRC mascot... Buns_of_Fire May 2016 #97
OK... that's a DUzy, if ever there was! opiate69 May 2016 #103
If that is a real quote... deathrind May 2016 #104
It was written by a random Clinton supporter Eric J in MN May 2016 #109
Now I get it. bunnies May 2016 #107
Nailed it! Sparkly May 2016 #113
Feel the Barn!! nt anotherproletariat May 2016 #116
The races/genders/etc. of all those people don't matter one whit if their policies suck. hellofromreddit May 2016 #118

Response to Tavarious Jackson (Original post)

Response to still_one (Reply #4)

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Response to Surya Gayatri (Reply #22)

still_one

(92,219 posts)
12. The only reason I was asking was because "Lolita" has some other conotations
Mon May 30, 2016, 06:03 AM
May 2016

which imply a "robbing the cradle inference"



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still_one

(92,219 posts)
19. Honestly, I wasn't even debating the OP with you. I believe you already answered
Mon May 30, 2016, 06:22 AM
May 2016

my question, that the connotation had nothing to do with "robbing the cradle"



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Demsrule86

(68,586 posts)
43. Tsk tsk
Mon May 30, 2016, 10:43 AM
May 2016

Nasty and spiteful...towards a guy who has been an inspiration in many ways...because he can't grasp how 'special ' the Bern is.

 

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
46. You should be ashamed of yourself that you made that homophobic and disgraceful
Mon May 30, 2016, 10:59 AM
May 2016

comment above.

Shame on you.

Bobbie Jo

(14,341 posts)
92. "I'm of certain renown for...."
Mon May 30, 2016, 06:58 PM
May 2016

Do what?

Around here, or what? My, my aren't we impressed with ourselves?

eta: Now your transperency page, THAT's impressive.



Response to Greensburg724 (Reply #15)

Starry Messenger

(32,342 posts)
33. Of being a pedophlle.
Mon May 30, 2016, 07:11 AM
May 2016

God, I cannot wait until 6/7.

And where are all the voices of selective outrage over this posters disgusting homophobic assertions?

still_one

(92,219 posts)
35. Thanks. I didn't want to pursue any more dialog with that poster
Mon May 30, 2016, 07:16 AM
May 2016

after I realized where he was coming from

9 more days



Maru Kitteh

(28,340 posts)
112. Gross, homophobic, hateful, conspiracy-theory peddling waste of bandwidth
Tue May 31, 2016, 12:36 AM
May 2016

just 1s and 0s. Emphasis on the zeros.

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BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)
32. Bernie had that coming to him
Mon May 30, 2016, 07:10 AM
May 2016

Presumptuous Bernie has been calling for the party to "open up" while he's been staying away of his own volition his whole career. Obnoxious and tone deaf runs into a haymaker from Barney Frank, who can and will throw a punch.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
42. So did you also oppose extending protections to the transgender community under ENDA as
Mon May 30, 2016, 10:24 AM
May 2016

the esteemed Mr Frank did? Do you even know that Barney wanted a non inclusive ENDA, which would have left the transgender community without protections when they are really the most vulnerable part of what is one large community even if Barney does not understand that fully. And he does not.

I stand with the transgender community, which means I am a critic of Barney Frank.

 

pinebox

(5,761 posts)
38. Barney Frank? The guy who serves on a bank board?
Mon May 30, 2016, 09:14 AM
May 2016

Cats and dogs living together. He showed his true colors after he stepped down when he join New York-based Signature Bank.
No wonder he dislikes Bernie. He's another politician who was in cahoots with lobbyists from Wall Street.

Here's your idol who is trashes Bernie.



<snip>
The pseudo-research of Fox News and friends, and their obsession with Fannie and Freddie -- hardly the root of all economic troubles -- have distracted from a core reality of Frank’s recent career in Congress. Since becoming the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee seven years ago, he has built a formidable Wall Street donor base, even by Washington’s standards; as the housing bubble grew, so too did his fundraising purse and his stature, in Congress and beyond.

In the course of this Wall Street-fueled fundraising blitz, Frank developed a web of relationships, alliances, and attachments to financial elites that have repeatedly undermined his independence on everything from bailout negotiations to the financial reform legislation that he recently shepherded through the House. And his friends in finance continue to extend -- and collect on -- their investment.

<snip>

Meanwhile, Frank supported Wall Street and the hedge funds on at least two points where they lost out. He opposed an amendment offered by Brad Sherman that forces hedge funds to pay into a systemic risk fund; it passed with the overwhelming support of the committee, 52-17. A bipartisan measure to audit the Federal Reserve also passed without Frank’s support.

The final bill was barely out of the House before Frank was on CNBC, claiming victory but cautioning that the Fed provision -- the most celebrated populist measure in the bill -- threatened the institution’s “independence.”

http://www.alternet.org/story/144454/how_wall_street_bought_barney_frank

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Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
41. Barney is not very popular with many of us in the LGBT community due to his disrepect for the
Mon May 30, 2016, 10:03 AM
May 2016

transgender community over the years. He supported the non-inclusive ENDA, and that was the end for me and Barney.

Op-ed: What Barney Frank Still Gets Wrong on ENDA
Former congressman Barney Frank is sticking by the decision to exclude transgender workers from protection under ENDA in 2007. Here's why that's still problematic.
http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/10/01/op-ed-what-barney-frank-still-gets-wrong-enda


Here is a less gentle version:
Let’s be Frank About Barney Frank and ENDA
Babs | Oct 13, 2014

Early Fall 2014, the LGBT political community seems to be getting its inclusive act together, gay Republican marriage equality donors have been pushing for an inclusive ENDA and HRC’s new president Chad Griffin makes a historic apology to the transgender community over the ENDA Debacle of 2007 speaking at the Southern Comfort Conference in September 2014, and backs his apology with HRC’s encouraging actions to accompany their words of transgender inclusion, Barney Frank comes out of his retirement to throw grease on a long burning fire that had cooled down below a simmer.
http://www.tgforum.com/wordpress/index.php/lets-be-frank-about-barney-frank-and-enda/

 

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)
111. Yup, the group think about Barney Frank likes to gloss over his bad shit
Mon May 30, 2016, 11:49 PM
May 2016

Gets in the way of high fiving and all...

 

hollowdweller

(4,229 posts)
50. Dems should ignore what Barney Frank said at their own Peril. Sanders supporters take note.
Mon May 30, 2016, 11:12 AM
May 2016

Notice that the entire content of his ideas of accomplishments of the democratic party have to do with minority rights.

While those are good accomplishments Barney's wing of the party wants us to totally ignore the faltering middle class and all economic issues, which is why Trump could beat Hillary if she's not careful and why Bernie draws in more non democrats and beats Trump.

His statement shows the total blindness to what is happening to the working people of this country. I'm fine with the dems being the party of gay rights, womens rights non discrimination and think it's great. However if we are not the party of the WORKING PEOPLE as well then we will never have the strength that we had, when in the past we were!
 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
54. I see many straight folks claiming to stand with the guy who put a knife in the back of the
Mon May 30, 2016, 11:30 AM
May 2016

transgender community. It's an exploitation fest by the posters who specialize in that sort of thing. They are uninformed and when information is offered to them which does inform them they don't bother to discuss it. Why? Because they don't know a single thing about any of these issues nor about Barney that is not directly involved in their own political agenda, so they don't know that Barney is not the Beloved of the LGBT. He's the oft criticized, semi-tolerated elder mixed bag of the LGBT community. He was first! And that's about it. The last few years he's been far too willing to capitulate.

I don't dig the guy because of the way he was willing to treat my transgender brothers and sisters. You dig him because he favors Clinton. If he favored Bernie, I'd still be critical of Barney. Because the one thing does not erase the other. That's not how it works if you have any ethics.

 

puffy socks

(1,473 posts)
60. I love being told that I dont know anything about these issues or Barney Frank and why I "dig him".
Mon May 30, 2016, 11:58 AM
May 2016

This is a big part of why Bernie lost and people are shutting their ears to his supporters.
Your post is a perfect example of the OP.

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
53. No, Barney, you're NOT getting it right.
Mon May 30, 2016, 11:26 AM
May 2016

And fuck your antiquated identity politics, too. The 90's want their paradigm back.

 

hollowdweller

(4,229 posts)
66. He's not a sell out. He's just a rich yankee
Mon May 30, 2016, 02:00 PM
May 2016

He just hasn't had a lot of exposure to poor people. He's got money so in his mind the most pressing issue is non economic equality for all.

I think he did the country a great favor with Dodd Frank too.

But the area he represented would be more concerned with financial regulation and equality, rich democrats. So he's sort of blind to the pressing issues somebody in rural Ohio, or PA, or Alabama might be experiencing.

catnhatnh

(8,976 posts)
62. We use that same phrase over in the Bernie Sanders group
Mon May 30, 2016, 12:38 PM
May 2016

When we kid around or someone angers us we say "Go Barney yourself!".

Number23

(24,544 posts)
85. DAYUM!! Is this for real?? I was saying just yesterday that considering that Frank nailed Sanders to
Mon May 30, 2016, 06:12 PM
May 2016

the wall with his ON POINT comments about him in 1991, that I couldn't wait for his response to Sanders trying to have him kicked off the DNC Committee.

If this is real, Frank brought the pain once again.

Eric J in MN

(35,619 posts)
108. If Burlington, VT is too white
Mon May 30, 2016, 09:39 PM
May 2016

...then so is Newton, MA where Barney Frank lives, and Chappaqua, NY where Hillary Clinton lives.

Eric J in MN

(35,619 posts)
95. Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo
Mon May 30, 2016, 07:10 PM
May 2016

...re-tweeted it. After multiple people pointed out that it was fake, he retweeted a couple of them.

 

bunnies

(15,859 posts)
98. This poster doesn't seem to give a shit about truth.
Mon May 30, 2016, 07:19 PM
May 2016

All it took was a ten second Google search to find out this is bullshit. Even the Hillary redditers are telling people to stop posting it. Not on DU though. Nope.


Edit: typo

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
96. Reads like a "social experiment" to test critical thinking skills, or lack thereof.
Mon May 30, 2016, 07:10 PM
May 2016

Dumbasses believing that's an actual Frank quote.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,181 posts)
97. Now, y'all stop badmouthing Barney. He's the unofficial HRC mascot...
Mon May 30, 2016, 07:15 PM
May 2016


(Unfortunately, he/she/it went feral shortly after the director yelled "Cut!" and ate all the children. But he/she/it has admitted that it was a mistake and is trying hard to evolve.)

deathrind

(1,786 posts)
104. If that is a real quote...
Mon May 30, 2016, 08:39 PM
May 2016

By Mr. Frank it is very telling.

Not one word about competence, position on any issues, experience, qualifications etc for the candidate he is supporting. Just more of the "glass ceiling" "history making" meme with a dash of religion and race tossed in.



Eric J in MN

(35,619 posts)
109. It was written by a random Clinton supporter
Mon May 30, 2016, 09:42 PM
May 2016

...and then misattributed to Barney Frank by another random Clinton supporter.

 

hellofromreddit

(1,182 posts)
118. The races/genders/etc. of all those people don't matter one whit if their policies suck.
Tue May 31, 2016, 10:44 AM
May 2016

Identity politics is bullshit. The claims of lawsuits and violence are also bullshit. Par for Barney.

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