Mission Accomplished
_ Washington Post, "Hillary Clinton Said it. Black Lives Matter. No Hedge." July 20, 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/07/20/hillary-clinton-said-it-black-lives-matter-no-hedge/
- MSNBC, "Black Lives Protest Show Sanders' Weakness", July 20, 2015
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-vulnerability-seen-in-narrow-base-488290371988
- CNN, "Bernie Sanders, Netroots Nation, Democrats Lose Control of Event", July 19, 2015
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/18/politics/bernie-sanders-netroots-nation-black-lives-matter/
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and loathe.
She wasn't there. She saw what happened. She gets the heads up and a safe soft-ball question on FB. And she gets to come out smelling like roses because she was not caught off guard. She had two days to calculate her move with regards to BLM and what to say.
If I said what I really feel about this woman I would get a hide for sure!
Indeed, we get what we deserve. If my community is too blinded by marketing and catch-phrases to see that Clinton is using them for her own electoral advantage, then fuck it, there are going to be a lot more black men and women dead, destitute, in prison, and scared in the future.
I am heart broken!
Oh fuck me! I just finished the full article and the Washington Post spread the lie I first saw here on DU. Sanders never ever utter 'All lives matter'. Not once! He clearly said Black lives matter and then his next comments. I was right to be suspicious of what is happening. BLM and my minority community is being fucking used! I am frothing mad right now!
on MSNBC was zero to disappointing. I caught Ed Schultz who's Bernie's biggest ally as he was finishing a segment looking with disbelief when he had to ask about the 'event', and the scripted young woman went into Bernie's heavy economics focus as "Dr. Dyson just said", so Dyson, who was also on the screen must have just gone into all that too. Chris Hayes, Lawrence, Kornachi here,- none showed film of the super Bernie events, only mentioned large crowds briefly, then proceeded to the real meat- economics and how Bernie can't get the minority black and brown vote like Obama did. I feel sick, and livid- earlier read all those posts from Bernie supporters about how Bernie would have time to work on a BLM plan, he should attend black church suppers, one said he should have anticipated the protest. 
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- Bill Clinton says "I made criminal justice worse" at NAACP meeting in Philadelphia, July 15, 2015 -
- "Bill Clinton: I Made Criminal Justice 'Worse'", July 15, 2015. (Mea culpa on sentencing at NAACP meeting, July 15).
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/07/15/clinton-i-made-criminal-justice-worse.html
- "Bill Clinton: I Support Hillary's Efforts to Change My Criminal Justice Policies", HuffPo, May 6, 2015.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026987054
are not fooled.
Maybe we cannot change any minds here on DU but we can still post on social media and do other things to support Bernie.
I did read one post here in this group about Bernie asking for help to answer the issue of police violence and long lasting racism. That sounds very good. Maybe some of the black Bernie supporters could write with an answer.
There are things we can do.
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Not that it should come as a surprise.
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I'm desperately trying to find an upside to this. All I can come up with so far is the hope that this sort of crap (and it will undoubtedly continue) will produce enough of a grassroots backlash that the media will have no choice but to take notice.
It's early. Sanders (and his supporters) will have plenty of opportunities to set the record straight.
I quit cable. Now's as good a time as any to let MSNBC know that, while I had some misgivings about missing their evening line-up, that's no longer an issue.
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Great Job!... and OP and replies from others here are well worth the read.
I'm bookmarking whole Post/Thread because we will need it in the future to keep refuting the disinfo and outright lies that keep coming.
of S. at a fair type event, decent, semi-rural with cows, farmers was made an OP that spawned rolling posts of filthy, crude jokes about animal relations, cult worship, haw, haw, that went on and on despite one alert. It almost sent me around the bend. Fair is fair, and you know, I think I still have those links to funny campaign memorabilia items/buttons. 
event you will hate me for the NO, Cajun and Creole delights I'll post!).
Like French beignets donuts with coffee at Café du Monde on Sunday morning listening to jazz...
j/k 
But, if you don't stop showing me pictures of yummy stuff after midnight, there's going to be trouble.
I've never been to NOLA, but I've always wanted to go, especially for the beignets. I used to want to go for Mardi Gras, but not any more.
I've thought about trying to make beignets myself. Kings' Cake, too. But I don't like working with yeast. (Also the reason I don't make sticky buns, even though I am a sucker for a good home-baked sticky bun.)
When I was a newlywed, I tried to make French bread for my husband on Christmas Day and it was a disaster. In fact, everything I tried that day was a disaster,
LOL! I was such a fearless and ambitious cook that year! Picture this: Christmas Day, with my inlaws driving from Jersey to Boston, I tried, all for the first time, potato latkes, Beef Wellington, French bread and sweet potato pie. They don't even go well together.
Everything turned out inedible, except for the Beef Wellington, which was wonderful. (I made a mushroom-based filling, no liver. Had way too much of that as a kid.) In particular, the bread was a sodden mess, no matter how long I baked it. I was exhausted and traumatized. I never tried any of them again, even the Beef Wellington.
Maybe, one day, I'll bite the yeast bullet and do the beignets. Before midnight, though.
have lost the recipe though. Go to NO anytime, it exceeded my expectations. Amazing, did we do it up once. Oh my.. 
Been there since I was a child and didn't even know about bucket lists. Redwood Forest and Yellowstone, too. So many places in the USA, so far apart.
I've gotten to more "always wanted to go to" places overseas than in this country.
I'm also guilty of seeing much overseas; saw a lot here but I'm appreciating the US more with age, as happens. I started traveling young just naturally, with friends. When I showed up at my dad's house in Miami once at 17 he loved it, started teasing and calling me travel child sometimes.
Sanders 2016!!!
The MSM, who have a vested interested in a corporatist president winning, are trying to use BLM on Bernie the way they tried to use Rev. Wright on Obama...
rocktivity
It didn't do a thing to help fight against the police oppression & murder of black people. But it did help Hillary. The one person who will do the least to change things if elected. And it hurt Bernie, the one person who will do the most to change things if elected.
and their clueless followers have been lying their propagandizing asses on DU and other Democratic websites for months, doing whatever nasty shit was necessary to paint Bernie as a passive racist unconcerned about justice and equality for the African American Community.
All this time I'm thinking, what's the game here? This is some really filthy shit, they're up to no good with this, spreading lies and smearing a Democratic public servant, simply because they are desperate to get their 1% Third Way candidate elected.
Then Clinton skips the NN gig (do ya think maybe she might have been tipped off?), and the Democrats who attend are discussing immigration issues when #blm does their act. #blm is not there for discussion, they are their to co-opt the event, swiftboat Clinton's competition, and the thing that makes it all perfect is that any criticism of the protest will be construed as not listening to what #blm is trying to get across.
Then a truly ugly racist website, #bernieissoblack, gets posted at DU, more bullshit lies appear from the Third Way trolls, and the media has a field day dumping on Democrats.
Of course, immediately after this, Clinton performs the next step in the script, by going on facebook or whatever, (where she is immune to any criticism or interruption, of course), and engages #blm or whoever like she is miss innocent little Mother Bo Peep, so very concerned, pretending like she wouldn't sell the black community down the river in a hummingbird's heartbeat if the global banking community required her to do so in payment for dumping millions into her campaign to serve them in the White House.
I have to admit, the talent the Third Way employs to ensure that super wealthy white people maintain control of the US government and the people of the US, came up with a pretty clever, failsafe little maneuver here.
However, this whole thing has backfired for them to a great extent. It is not that I am unsympathetic to the purported goals of #blm, or am not acutely aware of the desperate state of the African American community, who have been victimized and slaughtered by imperialist white cops in this land and others for centuries. I've been beaten with batons, unjustly jailed twice. I've had cops handcuff me facedown behind my back, one cop beating me on the back with a baton while the other joyfully ground my face into the dirt. This was right after they shot at me, while I was unarmed, while running away from them. They did not know who I was. I heard the bullet whiz by my ear before I heard the gunshot. And this is not nearly all of it.
Despite the actions of the Third Way, and any agents or agency they employ, to knowingly or unknowingly do their nasty business for them in an effort to maintain and increase the control the wealthy white 1% and their botcops have over our government and our lives, I will continue to struggle to control and regulate the power of the 1% and their cops to abuse with impunity me, the black community, all other oppressed minorities, even straight white men.
From my point of view, one of the best ways for me to help achieve this goal is to elect Senator Sanders to the Presidency of the United States. His past actions and integrity prove to me that he understands my struggles and will work assiduously to address my grievances. Anybody can speak words. Words are for lies in politics.
I have always held my nose and voted for the lesser of two evils since 1992. It was a matter of conscience. I knew that any Democrat would be better than a republican, so I went to the polls to do my part to keep the fascists out of the WH.
But for the first time, there has come a point where the possible lesser of two evils has been a part of something so heinous that I cannot, in good conscience, ever vote for this person.
I could never, in good conscience, vote for anyone who would debase him or herself, for personal gain, by being part of a horrible smear/swiftboat campaign used to attempt to besmirch the reputation, and slander the integrity, of a person totally innocent of the insinuations leveled against them. I don't care if it's a homeless person, or the queen of the world, who they attempt to maliciously slander, I could never associate myself with, let alone vote to elect to the most powerful leadership position in the world, anyone who would knowingly be a part of these types of dirty deeds, either actively or passively. And I'm quite sure that I'm not the only one driven to this course of action by these unfortunate recent events.
To be clear, it is not my intention here to speak for Senator Sanders, or presume to "protect" him. A longtime democratic socialist Senator in the swamp of the conservative US Senate needs no protection from anyone or anything. I'm simply explaining why, if Hillary Clinton is nominated by the Democratic Party to be the Democratic party presidential nominee, this lifetime yellowdog Democrat won't be voting for the Democratic candidate for president for the first time in the almost five decades in which I have been eligible to vote.
Hanging out with war criminal Henry Kissinger ~
