I remember that guy and his Bernie delusions... he mentioned that he dumped something around $ 10 000 into that bet
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Quote: (02-16-2016 08:51 AM)Samseau Wrote:
Too bad Hillary is going to cheat Sanders out of the nomination.
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Quote: (02-16-2016 09:54 AM)VolandoVengoVolandoVoy Wrote:
That wouldn't surprise me at all Samseau. The Clintons are corrupt as fuck, powerful, wealthy, and capable of anything.
But I can't imagine how she would pull it off. If Sanders is clearly and consistently ahead in most states, I don't think it is politically feasible for HRC to use super delegates to steal the nomination. It is technically possible. But it would tear the democratic party apart. At the very least many millions of Sanders supporters would absolutely refuse to vote for HRC, and it is also possible that Sanders would then try to mount an independent candidacy or be a write in option if he couldn't meet the criteria for that in time.
This is what I am banking on, and why I think Trump ultimately wins. A narrow Democratic primary loss creates bitter feelings, and if it comes down to shenanigans at the convention that gives it to either Sanders or Hillary, you can bet your ass they will not vote for the other side out of spite.
The worst case scenario for Trump is if the democratic nominee comes out ahead with a clear majority, such as with Obama, which gives that nominee a clear mandate and will rally the base to vote.
The best case scenario for Trump is if there is a close to 50/50 vote split that is decided by a SuperPAC, which will piss off tons of democratic voters. This could easily result in liberal northeast states which are normally Democrat to become Republican (such as NYC, Penn, and Ohio).
What I saw in Iowa, with Clinton winning 6 coin tosses and shit like this, leads me to believe things will be a disaster for the Democrats this year.
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The subreddit, one of the largest concentrations of Sanders fans on the internet, will stay open until the end of the Convention, but many of the sub’s users were upset with this decision, allegedly sending threats to the mods of the subreddit forcing them to lock the comments section of their announcement thread.
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Bernie Sanders on Tuesday warned his supporters against flocking to the Green Party in protest of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has repeatedly called on Sanders supporters to join her movement in the hopes of framing herself, not Clinton, as the leader who will carry the Sanders “revolution” to the finish line.
“I don't know the leadership of the Green Party, but I respect what they're trying to do,” Sanders said at a Bloomberg event in Philadelphia, according to The Washington Post.
“They're focusing on very, very important issues. But I think right now — what is it, three, four months before an election — you're gonna end up having a choice. Either Hillary Clinton is going to become president, or [GOP nominee] Donald Trump.”
He reasoned that unlike in a parliamentary system, the choice is binary, so supporters of the Vermont senator will only be hurting their cause if they flee the Democratic Party.
“If we were in Europe right now, in Germany or elsewhere, the idea of coalition politics of different parties coming together — you've got a left party, you've got a center-left party, coming together against the center-right party. That's not unusual,” he said.
“We don't have that. We have and have had [two parties] for a very long period of time — and I know a little bit about this, as the longest serving independent member of Congress.”
Despite the eagerness from Stein and Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson, the two-party system makes it all but impossible for an outside party to win a state, let alone a presidential election.
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So now Bernie is telling people that if you vote your beliefs it is wrong, that is amazing.
Quote: (08-08-2016 03:11 PM)spokepoker Wrote:
So, did you get the bang or not?
Quote: (08-08-2016 01:07 PM)Samseau Wrote:
a 24 fresh out of college grad, a young career slut
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is the proud new owner of a summer home in the Champlain Islands, Seven Days has confirmed.
The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a lakefront camp in North Hero.
Sanders’ new crib has four bedrooms and 500 feet of Lake Champlain beachfront on the east side of the island — facing Vermont, not New York. The Bern will keep his home in Burlington and use the new camp seasonally.
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New York University economics Professor Edward Wolff, a specialist in real estate statistics, said 4.48 percent of American households owned three or more residential properties in 1998, compared with fewer than 1 percent in the early '90s.
http://m.sfgate.com/business/article/Ric...777678.php
Quote: (08-10-2016 02:08 PM)komatiite Wrote:
^Wish I could spend 600K on a third piece of lakeside property but I also don't make 175K a year as a politician railing about wealth inequality...