A Facebook post from my one Hillarian friend

[Blue_In_AK]

on learning that the Sanders campaign is seeking secret service protection: "And thus, you will no longer see Mr. Sanders in airports, train stations and the like. He is now part of "the establishment" that he hates so very much." Good grief...

[retrowire]

1. i feel like people who don't know what

the establishment is, have never heard a good punk song lol.

facepalm*

[Fawke Em]

23. I wonder if Johnny Rotten is a Bernie fan?

[retrowire]

24. I can wager that Ray Davies is certainly a fan. nt

[Fawke Em]

25. Well, they both have that front teeth gap thing going!

(BTW, my favorite type of rock is "mod." I'm a Who and Kinks fan, so I, naturally, have an affinity for punk.)

[retrowire]

26. My wife and I unanimously agree that The Kinks are the original punk band.

The whole against the establishment mentality, the thrashing and acting silly on stage.

The Beatles stole most of the Kinks credit in our opinion.

[Fawke Em]

28. I'd argue The Who is, but I'll accept a Kinks nod.

And the Beatles started out as the original boy band. LOL.

I do like their music, but, had I been a teenager (or even born - my parents were teens/early 20s in the 60s) when the Beatles came out, I probably would have given them the same affectionate pat as I do to One Direction (who I do listen to because I am the mother of an 8 year old teeny bopper who adores them).

[retrowire]

29. Oh I definitely can't knock what The Beatles did as a whole.

All great musicians. And I always keep my ears open for the new revolutionaries in the music scene.

[Fawke Em]

30. Speaking of (former) revolutionaires, I nearly fell out of my chair over Christmas

when I heard a Flaming Lips song in a Kmart commercial.

[LiberalElite]

2. I'm sure you know this but -

what she said makes no sense at all. (I imagined her clicking on "post" with a flourish and going off in a a huff. )

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Yes, she's quite angry.

I would say probably 3/4 of her political posts are attacks against Bernie, certainly more than her pro-Hillary posts. She's a Democratic Party purist, so Bernie's "socialism" is really upsetting to her. She had a fit here in Alaska last year when the Democratic nominee for governor joined up with the Independent nominee as a joint ticket, even though everyone knew that was the only way to defeat the horrible Sean Parnell (Sarah Palin's successor) who would have most certainly won in a three-way race. Sure, it would have been nice to have a Democratic governor instead of lieutenant governor, but this is Alaska, for heaven's sake. We can't always get what we want. Which is why I personally think Bernie will do much better here than Hillary.

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. If she's really a Democratic purist she should love Bernie

So many of the programs that Democrats support - Social Security, Medicare, SNAP benefits, jobs bills - are SOCIALIST programs. How could a Democratic purist support 3rd way DINO bullshit?

[Art_from_Ark]

16. I agree 100%

[SoapBox]

3. Uh, ya, right...

I doubt they can require him to travel by private luxury jet...

Sorry to say that the stupid in this country is thick.

[LiberalElite]

5. That image of thick stupid reminded me of this '50s horror movie -

[Enthusiast]

17. Because all you had to do was calmly walk away to escape sure death?

[LiberalElite]

19. Heh -

that thing spooked me when I was 8. I was looking behind me a lot.

Besides, that "indescribable" "indestructable" "nothing can stop it" applies to teh stoopid IMO.

[enigmatic]

6. Your post was alerted on

I was #7:


On Sat Jan 30, 2016, 08:17 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

A Facebook post from my one Hillarian friend
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280105082

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

"Hillarian"?

Somehow, this Bernie fan doubts very much that your friend self-identifies as such.

Please hide.



You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Sat Jan 30, 2016, 08:21 PM, and the Jury voted 0-7 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: This election can't get over soon enough. It has made the whole country stupid.
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Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: This does not meet the standards of an alert.

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

[Mufaddal]

7. #TheStruggleIsReal

And I can hear the waaaambulance from here.

Also, watch this post about the alert get alerted.

[Paulie]

9. Not by that alerter

A 0-7 leave means no alert privileges for 24 hours.

[Blue_In_AK]

10. Hillarian is worse than Sandernista?

Wow...

And in the protected Sanders group, at that. Touchy, touchy... I'm glad cooler heads prevailed.

[Enthusiast]

18. Only to Hillarians.

[PatrickforO]

34. Yeah not so much in other groups.

I'm banned from a protected group which shall be nameless. But blogs like this are supposed to represent freedom of speech and not everybody likes Bernie - though I personally can't imagine not liking the guy, and we have to respect that.

As long as we get rid of the obvious paid trolls and uphold rules against ad hominem attacks on the people posting here, then we're good.

[Ino]

12. Is the alerter a Bernie fan?

"this Bernie fan doubts"

[Blue_In_AK]

13. That raised my suspicion, as well,

unless one of our fellow Bernie fans is feeling a little morally superior. I don't ordinarily name-call, but Hillarian seems like such a perfect descriptor, like calling someone an Alaskan or Californian or vegetarian. I don't see why anyone would think of it as derogatory.

For that matter, isn't the term "Clintonian" in fairly common usage? Whatever...

[PatrickforO]

35. Well, we get called Berniebots and Bernistas and Sandernistas.

I'm cool with all of those. It's just our species' normal way to classify stuff.

[LiberalElite]

20. I doubted that "Bernie fan" part too. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

14. That's....

Hilarious.

[Contrary1]

11. And yet, Hillary has always been part of the establishment.

Her statement fails on so many levels. Perhaps not so much anger, as desperation? (maybe a bit of both)

Ask her why she is getting so riled up, since the Hillary bandwagon claims they can't possibly lose.

[LiberalElite]

21. It simply is nonsensical -

why does having SS protection mean you won't be seen traveling on trains, planes and automobiles? Sanders won't get Air Force One and a humongous motorcade just yet.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. Trying to find hypocrisy where there is none.

[LiberalElite]

22. That's all they got nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

31. What I laugh at is when fake outrage only causes outrage in the ones spreading it.

[PatrickforO]

27. Well, I am happy he now has Secret Service protection.

Seems like that's just in time. It is better than having some Bible-drugged, holy-rolling, homophobic, xenophobic, anti-abortion misogynistic, heavily armed right-wing crazy militia type hurt him in some way. I mean look at that whack job that went into the PP clinic in Colorado Springs. We don't know what is crawling around in some of these peoples' minds.

Again, I'm very glad he finally has this protection.

[Fawke Em]

32. Donning my tin foil hat here, but I think Bernie has more to fear from an establishment hit

than from any of the types you listed.

[PatrickforO]

33. Clearly. The minute he wins a couple of primaries, some of the elite capitalists will have

serious heartburn.

Enough said.