Bernie live stream from Raleigh

[BernieforPres2016]

Tulsi Gabbard just finished the introduction. Bernie is about to start.

[marions ghost]

1. thanks!

"a few THOUSAND people are outside!" he says

thanking Tulsi

[daleanime]

2. Thanks....

[marions ghost]

3. We're gonna win here in NC if the voters get out

Let us honor our veterans, Defend Democracy--come out and vote on Tuesday!

Born in Brooklyn and my family didn't have money. We lived in an apt, making careful decisions about money. It is a lesson I will never forget.

We have a corrupt campaign finance system.

[BernieforPres2016]

4. I will be voting for Bernie on Tuesday in NC

Bernie is changing up the stump speech. He's going into the contrast with Hillary Clinton in the first 10 minutes.

[marions ghost]

6. Yeah I SEE that!

fighting words

[marions ghost]

5. You cannot be an agent of change

when you take money from huge corporations--re Hillary super PACS. $15 million from Wall Street

Trade agreements--NAFTA--textile industry destroyed in North Carolina

[cwydro]

7. Charlotte is the biggest city in NC, and it also has more AA voters.

Interesting Bernie chose to appear in a smaller, whiter city.

I think Hillary will win NC.

[marions ghost]

9. Well if you want to count races

NC:
70% white
20% AA
10% Hispanic NA & other

Also Unaffiliated is the largest voter identification now.

Bernie chose to appear in the state capital, not so much the banking capital. Good move!

[cwydro]

26. I know the demographics of NC as a whole.

However, Charlotte is a huge voting block, and the demographics are very different.

Raleigh is a smallish city in NC.

[marions ghost]

30. But I don't think you really know NC, do ya?

This sums it up:

Charlotte is one city; Raleigh is one of anywhere between three and a dozen, depending on who’s counting. Both regions have the same two-million-or-so people, but Charlotte gets to focus on a single downtown, which means one stadium and one arena and one each of venues of various descriptions and a transit system that makes sense.

Raleigh has to play nicely with Durham and Chapel Hill and Cary and the Research Triangle Park and Carrboro and don’t even get me started. Charlotte is like an only child, the apple of its corporate helicopter parents’ eye: It has everything it needs, and often a little bit more, and if it has a fault it may be that when other children get recognition it can occasionally get a little snippy.

[zazen]

27. Raleigh is a "smaller, whiter city"--are you friggin' serious?

"interesting," indeed. The Triangle is the nexus of a lot of international outsourcing issues, student loan debt, juxtaposition of wealth and extreme poverty, and more centrally located for service people to attend.

[cwydro]

28. Google is your friend.

Charlotte is far more diverse.

[zazen]

31. Your definition of "diversity" is flawed, and I live here. Good bye! n/t

[marions ghost]

32. Let me second that!

[cwydro]

33. The demographics are clearly researchable.

I live in NC, in Charlotte, when I'm not out in the country.

So it is not MY definition of diversity. It is in the US census stats.

Sorry that bothers you.

I've noticed Bernie supporters have difficulty grasping facts.

That's a shame. Both are great candidates, imo.

[marions ghost]

34. The Triangle is diverse

which includes Raleigh.

Why do you want to be deliberately misleading about this and only use stats about Raleigh when you know that the Triangle = Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Cary, Hillsborough and other small towns --are essentially one metro area?

What's the agenda with this?

[aidbo]

8. The Kid on the left (Bernie's right) is all in for the rebel alliance!

[BernieforPres2016]

10. Bernie just referred to "Wall Street Crooks"

I am loving it. Call them what they are. Quit pretending they are elite members of our society.

[marions ghost]

11. Wall St got their bailout, now help the Middle Class

Think outside the box!

[BernieforPres2016]

12. "I hope that every man here will stand with women in the fight for equal pay"

He says it in every stump speech. Not sure how that fits with the sexist Bernie supporters narrative the Hillary shills are trying to advance.

[marions ghost]

14. Can't believe these are all a bunch of sexists--

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...it's all the opposition's got I guess....

[marions ghost]

13. Broken criminal justice system

private prisons

WE MUST DEMILITARIZE local police departments!

[marions ghost]

15. Shout out to Native Americans

--many in North Carolina.

I am a member of the US Senate Committee on the environment. The debate is over. Climate change is caused by human activity, causing devastating problems around the world. We have a small window to prevent a bad situation by the end of the century-- planet will be 5-10 degrees warmer. Listing all the consequences. We have GOT to get our act together.

[marions ghost]

16. Family values

woman's right to control her own body. Gay right to marriage.

Paid family and medical leave. Three months in case of childbirth.

[marions ghost]

17. Health care is a right!

He says "people say I think too big"---

somebody yells "Fuggedabout it"

"I have forgotten about it."

Flint Michigan, infrastructure

We can put 13 million people back to work and we pay for that by ending Corporate welfare
and tax havens in the Caymans, not paying a nickle of taxes.

My ideas are too radical!!!

Clean drinking water -- a radical idea.
Imagine making corporations ACTUALLY pay taxes--a radical idea.

Health Care--every major country on earth provides health care for their people except us.
ACA has done some good things and I thank Pres O for his leadership --has ended this obscenity called "pre-existing conditions", ensured 17 million to insurance, and ended higher premiums for women. Despite the gains of the ACA 29 million have no health insurance and more are under-insured. Drug company charges the highest prices in the world. ONE in FIVE people in AMerican cannot afford to fill the prescriptions their doctors write.

[marions ghost]

18. America is not about racism or sexism

100 years ago today women did not have the right to vote. Some stood up and said, "women will not be treated as second-class citizens in America."

Gains of the gay community--BIG applause! Talking about change...

Minimum wage -- $15
Fast food workers--can't make it, we need a union

Out west--states are passing $15 an hour minimum wage

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"When people have the courage to stand up and fight back there is nothing we cannot accomplish."

[marions ghost]

19. Nobody asked me for my birth certificate

because my father was born in Poland.

All the religions have taught us--LOVE TRUMPS HATRED!

On Tuesday--North Carolina can help lead this country forward

Let's have A YUUUUUUUUUUGE turnout on Tuesday!!!

----------EXIT

[thereismore]

21. Good report ghost! Bernie is clearly high on something - that something is the support he gets from

people. He sure talks like a winner!

[marions ghost]

24. He knows he's bringing it

everything he's got from a lifetime of the same unwavering convictions. Bernie's rhetoric is backed by action. People see this clearly and support it. So they give back! GOTV North Carolina!

Yeah this was really inspiring. I hope to see nominee Sanders back in NC this year!

[thereismore]

20. Biggest applause line: Love Trumps Hatred!

I think maybe Bernie found his "Yes We Can."

[marions ghost]

22. Love Trumps Hatred

sounds like a winner to me...

[ChickenGuru]

23. Fired up, ready to go! nt

[marions ghost]

25. I hear ya

fired up and feeling the Bern today!

[flamingdem]

29. "What a radical idea!" - this is a great meme that shows just how logical Bernie's

ideas are - in fact they are doable and achievable and logical.

Not too radical at all.

[Uncle Joe]

35. That was outstanding!

and the people of Raleigh absolutely rocked!

Thanks for thread, BernieforPres2016.