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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders and O'Malley were ambushed [View all]RiverLover
(7,830 posts)33. You really think what #BLM did will help get Bernie elected? Wow.
This past wkd, btw, would have been an excellent time for #BLM to have an actual dialogue with Bernie & O'M. You know, tell them "what specific ideas (they want them) to work on ending police violence and sending police who do murder and brutalize to prison."
But instead they just screamed & allowed the press to portray OUR candidates as racists.
NN planned ambush was an epic fail.
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Paid trolls? Anything? I hope it's a strange thing that will pass in the light of Monday.
bravenak
Jul 2015
#17
"ratfuck Bernie with the black community" is what #BLM did, despite the fact he's in their corner.
RiverLover
Jul 2015
#22
I support ANY effort that gets more voters to tell ANY politician that votes have to be EARNED.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jul 2015
#26
Puhleeze! He shoud have hire some black staff. Like I have said a jillion times.
bravenak
Jul 2015
#27
And a complete lack of understanding of who the protestors are, and what they're protesting. nt
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jul 2015
#101
+1 ... There is not a lot that we agree on; but, here, we are in complete agreement! n/t
1StrongBlackMan
Jul 2015
#130
Hillary Hillary Hillary!! She does not control black people!! We are not robots!!! Damn!
bravenak
Jul 2015
#29
Hillary did it from Arkansas! Are they nuts?! Don't they have a clue that Tia Oso and the
Cha
Jul 2015
#119
That reminds me of AngryBlackLady's tweet that is said to have started the #berniesoblack hashtag..
Cha
Jul 2015
#106
This from the anonymous poster who advocated racial rioting, looting, and violence
brentspeak
Jul 2015
#140
The ones on Twitter ding this resulted in #blacktwitter going with #berniesoblack
MohRokTah
Jul 2015
#142
But how can you expect a Presidential candidate to be able to roll with the punches? It's not fair!!
stevenleser
Jul 2015
#172
To me, it just points out nobody even wastes their times with those RW bozos. nt
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jul 2015
#21
and then when those RW bozos end up in office, everybody cries about them. nt
magical thyme
Jul 2015
#40
That bitter threat is not helping. Let US ignore you or the republicans will beat you.
bravenak
Jul 2015
#42
that wasn't a bitter threat. it was a fact. O'Malley and Bernie haven't ignored anybody
magical thyme
Jul 2015
#51
Fact is, you NEED black voters. Might be a good idea to stop trying to piss them off.
bravenak
Jul 2015
#56
I'm not trying to piss anybody off. If you're getting pissed off, that's your issue not mine.
magical thyme
Jul 2015
#59
They don't want to hear what black people think. Why do you think there are so FEW here?
bravenak
Jul 2015
#86
"We don't like your TONE" is really not a good argument to make in this circumstance. nt
MADem
Jul 2015
#113
Tone arguments do not fly when they're used to stifle appropriate indignation and frustration.
MADem
Jul 2015
#126
And this is the key. You don't care about their issue, you care that they affronted your candidate
stevenleser
Jul 2015
#167
Yes, I do, because it comes out in your writing. You're dismissing the BLM folks because they
stevenleser
Jul 2015
#170
I agree 1,000% with what BLM is trying to do. I don't agree with how they did it at Netroots Nation
magical thyme
Jul 2015
#72
#blacklivesmatter would get closer to their goals shouting at a brick wall than they would
MohRokTah
Jul 2015
#145
it is very hard to hear on the tapes. I listened & couldn't understand more than 50% of their words
magical thyme
Jul 2015
#63
I believe BLM is partially funded by George Soros, who is quite adept at having demonstrations
djean111
Jul 2015
#6
I have NEVER seen the like!! This is just about as bad as it gets. Oh the humanity!!!
bravenak
Jul 2015
#24
Yeah, totally preposterous. Because nobody ever attempted to manipulate public opinion. Coo-coo for
GoneFishin
Jul 2015
#97
You are repeating a WASHINGTON TIMES conspiracy that has been de-bunked by SNOPES.
MADem
Jul 2015
#123
Wrong. Snopes found true that Soros Foundation is funding Black Activist groups...
HooptieWagon
Jul 2015
#151
WRONG--Snopes found FALSE that he was funding PROTESTS, and that's what you are insinuating, here.
MADem
Jul 2015
#153
This is as spot-on as Mr. Sanders analysis of the systemic injustice in our economy. n/t
Betty Karlson
Jul 2015
#38
I suspect he already has specific ideas to work on ending police violence, but I'm glad it's early
magical thyme
Jul 2015
#44
It won't matter a whit in the long run. Bernie's message is consistent as is his ...
Scuba
Jul 2015
#50
I agree with everything you wrote; I didn't mean to imply that the BLM issue didn't matter ...
Scuba
Jul 2015
#156
You have to understand no one outside the campaigns is interested in what they really have to say.
mmonk
Jul 2015
#53
I agree but for me it's a chicken or the egg question. In this country money = power....sadly.
yourout
Jul 2015
#137
chicken or egg is a loser for us. We've got to turn it into walk and chew gum.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jul 2015
#141
I love white people lecturing about Dr. king. It's damn irritating but they swear they NEED to do it
bravenak
Jul 2015
#79
It seems a better approach would have been to point out the things Obama has done to deal
jalan48
Jul 2015
#82
It's not the protest that is the problem, it's the cooptation by those who use the event
Maedhros
Jul 2015
#191
Thank you. This is the first time I've heard a reasonable, do-able answer to what #BLM wants.
RiverLover
Jul 2015
#197