The word "desperate" gets thrown around a lot by Bernistas. Odd.

[DanTex]

Far be it from me to speculate, but it seems that desperation is a term most fitting for the candidate behind in polls, betting markets, endorsements, fundraising, and everything else. You know, the one who's latest stunt to woo AA voters is campaigning with a guy who uses terms line "N-erized" and "blackface" to describe president Obama.

[SunSeeker]

1. K & R

[mhatrw]

108. Desperate not to have any issues discussed.

This applies to Clinton as well as to all of her supporters.

[SunSeeker]

109. Desperate is attacking a "K & R"

Your broad brush insult of a post is plainly wrong, both about Hillary and about me.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcripts-september-20-clinton-and-paul/

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-84486610/

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/hillary-clinton-unveils-her-masterplan-to-make-us-clean-energy-superpower?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=622618

[virtualobserver]

2. “Jesus, Tom, I was just speculating about a hypothesis. I know I don't know nothing.”

my favorite line from Miller's Crossing

[Bonobo]

72. I will forever love you for that reference and THAT line in particular.

Do I know you??

[virtualobserver]

79. Apparently you do know me on some level

I am very glad that you enjoyed the reference. It seemed a fitting response.

I love the Coen brothers, but I am in awe of them for that movie.

[Bonobo]

85. It's my favorite movie.

I will not trade quotes with you for I have walked that road many times before and there is no end.

[virtualobserver]

98. Just one...

Verna
Leo's got the right idea. I like him, he's
honest and he's got a heart.

Tom
Then its true what they say. Opposites attract.

Verna
Do me a favor and mind your own business.

Tom
This is my business. Intimidating helpless women is
part of what I do.

Verna
Then find one and intimidate her.

[nichomachus]

3. They calls 'em as they sees 'em

Camp Hillary is getting nasty and ugly -- which usually means the Clinton gang is getting desperate.

[Cali_Democrat]

8. How is the Clinton campaign getting nasty and ugly?

I seems to me that, overall, both campaigns have been pretty respectful of one another.

[jeff47]

31. You must've not gone to their other, "friendlier" site. (nt)

[Cali_Democrat]

34. Hillary's campaign website doesn't attack Bernie Sanders. nt

[jeff47]

37. Not the one I'm referring to.

Managed to miss Wednesday's 500-reply, 180-rec thread then?

[Cali_Democrat]

40. I rarely read all the replies in a thread that large. Which Hillary campaign website? nt

[jeff47]

46. Your reply in that thread is #505.

But thanks for the playing dumb and continuous addition of qualifiers, in order to try and exclude it.

[Cali_Democrat]

47. I replied to a post listing jury results. I don't read all replies in a thread that large. nt

[PosterChild]

90. Oh for crying out loud....

... just tell us what the site is. I will even say thanks!

[jeff47]

102. Missed this thread?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251616648

hillaryclintonsupporters.com shows up about 1/3rd of the way down.

[roguevalley]

86. your forum for one thing where you call out

people here while mocking the crap out of them. that doesn't count the 'venting' room you have to sign into to enter. That one.

[Cali_Democrat]

93. What r u talking about? Can you provide a link to where I call out and mock people here? nt

[Thinkingabout]

4. Or "they" better not steal this election, good conspiracy and fund raiser thoughts.

[Blus4u]

5. You must be a masochist.

You sure do post a lot of flamebait.

Eom

[DanTex]

6. Funny that obvious facts are describes as "flamebait". Says a lot about how loopy things

have been getting.

[Blus4u]

9. You aren't posting facts,

you admit to speculation and "it seems to me" quotes, and no links.

[beam me up scottie]

7. ...

https://m.

[Jesus Malverde]

70. Bummer that didn't work out...nt

[beam me up scottie]

74. It's a darned shame.

[Jesus Malverde]

76. .

Lulz

What a train wreck. Full speed ahead.

[Juicy_Bellows]

10. Not sure what a Bernista is but we are desperate.

Desperate for change - real change. You go right on ahead screaming at your erection. We will watch and occasionally chime in.

Cheers!

[beam me up scottie]

11. *snort*

I literally lol!

[Fawke Em]

100. I did, too.

I'm crying and need to blow my nose.

That line is a 2016 primary classic: "keep screaming at your erection..."

[Juicy_Bellows]

111. Haha! Most excellent. Nt.

[beam me up scottie]

114. "keep screaming at your erection..."

Someone needs to make a meme so we can just post that in the op's threads.

Some people gaze at their navels and others scream at their erections...

GDP has plenty of both.

[jkbRN]

17. Lol the OP is only showing herself to be desperate with these SAD attempts to bring Sanders down

What the OP fails to realize is that these pathetic attempts only make his fans stronger and drive people further away from voting for HRC or voting for her as a second choice in the primaries.

This will backfire for HRC fans--once again.

[upaloopa]

28. I use to go to Freerepublic just to read their

bull shit and it struck me that if you leave out all references to party or political beliefs, what we said about them and what they said about us was pretty much the same thing.
Now I see the very same thing here only between Betnie and Hillary supporters

[grasswire]

71. Someone has apparently swiped your user name

...and is posting over there with it.

[upaloopa]

81. No that is me. It is just the paradigm you see the election through. To you we are the nasty ones

and to us you are the nasty ones. I got to that site by being alert stalked two times. That's how we all got there by being given a DU vacation by Bernie supporters. That's how you got invited to post there. So some of your side did that so I would blame them.

[delrem]

101. Did you get like 4 posts hidden in a day

for doing things like calling Bernie's supporters, his crowds, scary white ass white supremacist racists? Did you then cry that you were a picked on martyr when your posts got hidden? For THAT?

Because I applaud juries that hide those kind of hate filled despicable posts. I generally vote to "leave" and only vote to hide when it's extreme, MIRT level stuff. "Free speech" and all, and to work for progress in the political sphere requires head to head debate and thick skin. But I think those kind of hate filled despicable posts are or should be MIRT level and I shudder at how those posters are going to resume their act when they finish serving their well-deserved time-outs -- because apparently they not only haven't learned a thing, at their off-site haven of like minded people they are treated like heros and martyrs, and there's no comprehension shown whatsoever that the tactic of branding Bernie Sanders and supporters as racists is disgusting Rovian crap of the worst kind.

[upaloopa]

103. People told me they thought my hides were bogus

[delrem]

104. That's nice for you.

Most of *my* hides were for being intemperate and thoughtless.
So I learned something from them.
One was for forgetting to add a "sarcasm" alert - while letting out my inner Colbert.

eta: and THANK YOU for this
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251622449

It was so thoughtful and sweet.
Providing *three* sources for the identical meme, all at once.
And they say that money can't buy happiness...

[restorefreedom]

21. lol had to wipe my ipad off

worth it!

[Cheese Sandwich]

43. omg wat LOL

[840high]

65. hehehehee

[bobbobbins01]

12. Desperation comes from people in power on the way down.

Not from a political movement on the rise. This is Hillary's last hurrah and she knows it. She expected a nice breezy trip to the white house and instead she's seeing her campaign come crashing down around her. I am expecting as things go further south for her things are going to get incredibly vicious.

[DianeK]

75. it really is sad

i have always likes both hillary and bill clinton..i always supported bill clinton...i think he was a brilliant president...these are different times...if anyone other than bernie gets the nomination i will of course fall in line because anyone will be better than allowing the republicans into the executive office...but my heart and passion is for bernie and until the decision has been made i will fight like hell for bernie to get that nomination

[m-lekktor]

13. speaking of the Cornel comments you refer to, I learned long ago it was not my place

as a white guy to have a judgemental opinion on what black men refer to each other as. I stopped that after giving my opinion on rap lyrics long ago.

[Hiraeth]

96. ^^^ amen to this. ^^^

[jkbRN]

14. This is just as pathetic as the people you are demonizing

Rise above the b/s, don't take part.

This is the epitome of desperate, which is, by definition, the "feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with."

This post does seem as if your are hopeless, and impossible to deal with in light of the fact that you are using desperate attempts to bring down a democratic opponent of the person you want to vote for.

Sick, sad, and by all means, pathetic.

[longship]

15. Petty politics == rhetoric arguments.

All sides do it. Amazing that few candidates do it, only their advocates, er eh, cough trolls.

Argument is an intellectual process. One stoops to such things as rhetorical argument when one has no argument. That is, nothing intelligent to say.

My regards.

[AgingAmerican]

16. More projection

Another in a long line of linkless, factless OPs.

[OnyxCollie]

18. Like LocoZollo without the charm.

Or polls.

[restorefreedom]

20. i get that people have different opinions

on the israel palestine situation, but this is in a whole other sphere.

are you sure you didn't find this at fr?

[beam me up scottie]

23. You should have seen the posts they scrubbed when other DUers started linking to them.

Several DUers from there are still insisting that accusing Bernie of being funded by Israel isn't anti-Semitic.

[restorefreedom]

24. a rarity for me.....

speechless.

[840high]

66. I have. Wanted to vomit.

[beam me up scottie]

67. Hypocrisy, it's what's for dinner!

[Motown_Johnny]

22. Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

Bernie isn't desperate because he has already done much better then anyone expected.

Hillary is desperate because she is doing much worse than anyone expected.

It is just that simple.

[aidbo]

26. You said it much more succinctly than me.

[Motown_Johnny]

30. I can't take the credit, it was Janice. n/t

[HooptieWagon]

53. Actually Kris Kristofferson.

Janis covered it.

[Vattel]

77. I did not know that. Thx.

[aidbo]

25. One could look at the big picture between Hillary & Bernie as a battle of narratives.

Hillary's campaign positioned her as the presumptive nominee. Or they at least let the MSM frame it that way.

Bernie is seen as the unelectable underdog.

Bernie can speak truth to power and is seen to be for the people. He can attack the system and he's seen as punching up (Fighting the power, so to speak). Yes he is technically part of that system, but at the same time has always been dismissed as 'fringe'. But he connects with people who have also felt marginalized by that system.

Hillary is widely seen as part of that system, and so cannot directly attack Bernie because she would be seen as punching down. So her campaign tried being dismissive of him. When that didn't work, they try to say he's ineffectual or unliked by his peers. They are trying to find a way to fight him without alienating his fervent supporters.

They still haven't quite figured it out, and her polling numbers are spooking her donors. Hence the image that her campaign is getting desperate.

[dreamnightwind]

27. How does this OP in any way help us get to solutions that help the people?

???

[jeff47]

33. You mistakenly believe the OP cares about such a goal. (nt)

[beam me up scottie]

29. Desperate? Like alert stalking cali into a time out like these HC supporters did?:

[jeff47]

35. Gotta love a MIRT member deliberately causing shit on DU. (nt)

[beam me up scottie]

36. Just when you think it can't get any worse.

[azurnoir]

38. There's more than one in that mess but you have to go over there and take a look around

[beam me up scottie]

41. 3 in that screenshot alone.

[840high]

68. Some of them must be

members of that Hillary site that made me sick.

[matt819]

32. What are you going on about?

Your post makes no sense.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

39. You've opted to go down with the ship.

Good luck.

[azurnoir]

42. if Bernie's supporters are so "desperate" why do Hillary supporters need

their very own hate site to post trash and bigotry about DUers and Bernie Sanders? BTW there isn't a corresponding Bernie Sanders site

[murielm99]

50. I keep hearing about this site.

The Bernie supporters hate it. I think they hate it because it is one of the few places on the Internet where they cannot get in, cannot bully and take over. I am loving it.

Hate? Go look in the mirror.

[roguevalley]

88. actually they hate it because its psychotic.

[murielm99]

99. See post 52.

We know what we have been experiencing here. No amount of denial by bernistas is going to change that.

[SMC22307]

105. We *love* it the way we *love* Sarah Palin.

Or at least I do.

[beam me up scottie]

112. It's a hate site, full of anti-Semitism and Cave like commentary on other DUers.

I wouldn't be bragging about loving it there, all the screen shots posted recently show exactly whose supporters are bigots and bullies who target others for hides.

[upaloopa]

52. You know why there isn't a corresponding Bernie site

It's because everyone of us was alert stalked by Bernie supporters and put on a DU vacation. That's how we got invited to join the site
One of us was sent a hate letter through the USPS.

[Fumesucker]

62. I know a USPS inspector quite well, I asked, sending threats through the mail is a federal crime

Has anyone moved to have the letter to bravenak investigated by the USPS?

[Warren Stupidity]

64. Now there's a great question.

[grasswire]

73. did you tell your postal inspector friend...

....that said "threat" was simply a notice that bravenak would be banned from a political message board if she continued her political speech?

Did you tell him/her that?

[Fumesucker]

78. You seem to be implying the letter to bravenak was no big deal..

I've had posters let me know they have found my identity, both here on DU and on Discussionist when I was posting there for a while, it was a fairly creepy feeling. That kind of gave me a personal connection with what happened to bravenak.

Of course subsequent events have shown that there are some rather subterranean agendas on DU these days.

[grasswire]

80. it may be creepy...

....but there are legal definitions of "threat" and being warned of being banned from a political message board is never going to meet the standard.

[Fumesucker]

83. OK, you win

The bravenak letter was no big deal and the entire incident was a tempest in a teapot, no laws were broken.

[upaloopa]

94. I wonder if any of them saw the letter

It was more than a letter of warning

[delrem]

107. I've had such things done to me, too. Creepy is too moderate a word, for what it was. nt

[upaloopa]

92. I am not involved enough to do anything

[upaloopa]

89. You need to ask her I am not privy to that

[Warren Stupidity]

63. Oddly enough the owner of this site, a huge Clinton supporter, disagrees with your analysis.

Explain.

Alert stalking, fact or urban myth?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12598712

We see no evidence that this is happening.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12598712#post1

[Jesus Malverde]

69. Conspiracy eh?

All happening on a site where the admins are 110% on your team.

Stalkers! Loll loll

[Gothmog]

44. Predictwise still has Biden well ahead of Sanders

[bvf]

56. Wait! Is Biden running?

When did that happen?

Good lord! This changes everything!

Stop the presses!

[Vinca]

45. You mean the BLACK guy he was campaigning with?

[GeorgeGist]

48. I remember when you rec'd his candidacy.

"If I'm a Hillary Clinton person, this is what I want. I want someone like Bernie Sanders in the race, ... It gives her the opportunity to address the issues that he and his supporters want to hear about."

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1251421783

[Capt. Obvious]

49. This poster isn't getting the usual 7 course meal

That's progress. Good job guys.

[haikugal]

51. So insightful...do you have a point?

No, no you don't.

Brother West has done exceptional work in his life and you and I disagree on his value. I stand with Bernie and welcome him into our revolution. Bernie will become known to everyone, and everyone will decide who to vote for....and Bernie will do it with grace and dignity.

[bvf]

54. The French have a term for it:

Le mot juste.

[HooptieWagon]

60. So do the Romans:

Nerda taurorum animas conturbit.

[MindfulOne]

55. "Bernistas"! There's another dollar in my Bernie Donations Jar!

I'll pop another dollar in the jar every time I see that word on DU.

I love it.

Bernistas!

Thank you, DanTex!

[Indepatriot]

57. Bernistas Bernistas Bernistas Bernistas Bernistas Bernistas Bernistas Bernistas Bernistas Benistas!.

sorry, I'm a Sanders supporter currently a little tight on funds so I thought I'd do a lil' fundraiser.....

[MindfulOne]

58. Done!

Yours and the OP make an even tenner!

[Indepatriot]

61. Thanks MO! I'll return the favor in November!

[cherokeeprogressive]

59. Wait for it. Wait for it...

How apropos is it that this clip comes from a movie called "The Money Pit"?

[whatchamacallit]

82. The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round, 'round and 'round, 'round and 'round...

Constantly posting shitty, catty insults kinda seems desperate to me.

[Comrade Grumpy]

84. Who lives under a bridge?

[OnyxCollie]

87. !

[beam me up scottie]

91. Even your dog is laughing!

He/she is beautiful, btw.

[pinstikfartherin]

95. Yay! Another thread to the trash!

Man, cleaning up around here is so easy!

[slipslidingaway]

97. Link/links??? n/t

[cyberswede]

106. Then why do you spend so much time and energy blowing smoke up our asses about Sanders?

Seems like you wouldn't need to do that if you were confident that Hillary is a lock.

[Art_from_Ark]

110. You know what's REALLY desperate?

Posting 4 OPs on the front GDP page in a desperate effort to tear down a good man.

[Katashi_itto]

113. Meth is a horrible drug.