Thread: 2016 Democratic US Presidential Candidates

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Clinton, who as a candidate would not be able to coordinate with super PACs working on her behalf.

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Harry being that you are brighter than me, do you think that this could be read as "when she becomes a candidate she can not coordinate with the Super PAC's but as right now she is not a candidate, she can"?

Yes.

He is rather good.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

He is rather good.

He is beyond good. He is the uncorruptible politician.

If the American people can wake up he could be their savior.

Bernie Sanders - a flaming Socialist straight out of Stalin's definition of a ' useful idiot'.

Was under the impression that you thought of yourself as an Anarchist, Snubby...??


My vote would be yay for Congressman Sanders.
He challenges everyone, regardless of their make-believe political identities.

Kind of a throw-back. He represents the people.

Yup, one of the few brilliant people in politics in the US.

Hmm . . . Sanders/Warren ticket . . .

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Bernie Sanders - a flaming Socialist straight out of Stalin's definition of a ' useful idiot'.

Nothing wrong with being a true representative of the people.

https://www.opensecrets.org/politici...?cid=N00000528

Financed by the people.
Top 5 Contributors, 2009 - 2014, Campaign Cmte
Communications Workers of America $16,000 $0 $16,000


Cycle Source of Funds, 2009-2014, Campaign Cmte only


legend
legend Individual Contributions About Size of Contributions
- Small Individual Contributions
- Large Individual Contributions $7,516,483
$4,903,302 (61%)
$2,613,176 (32%) (93%)
legend PAC Contributions $509,561 (6%)
legend Candidate self-financing $0 (0%)
legend Other $61,388 (1%)


The vast majority of his funding come from individuals popping in a few bucks when they have it, believing he is doing a good job.

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Was under the impression that you thought of yourself as an Anarchist, Snubby..

In a perfect world yes I would prefer Social anarchism. However for any change to happen within the US we need to bring down the current government.

So for the time being I will keep pushing for people like Bernie to get into office. He is incorruptible, a tireless advocate for the poor and working class, and wants to smash the oligarchy.

What more could you ask for?

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Monday called out Wall Street for contributing to what he called a “grotesque and growing level of wealth and income inequality.”

In a speech to the Brookings Institute’s Center for Effective Public Management, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee said that the United States was experiencing a government that was “of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires.”

“This is a profound moral issue, it is an economic issue and it is a political issue,” he said. “Despite an explosion of technology, despite a huge increase in productivity, despite all of the benefits of the so-called global economy, millions of workers today are working longer hours for low wages, and we have more people living in poverty than almost any time in this history of our country.”

“Shamefully, we have by far the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth,” Sanders continued. “You hear a whole lot of discussion about family values from my Republican friends but nothing about the fact that almost 20 percent of our kids are living in poverty.”

And according to the Vermont senator, activists in the Occupy Wall Street movement “have every right to be angry” because the median male worker earns less today than he did 42 years ago, and the median female worker earns less than she did in 2007.

“The top 1 percent now own about 41 percent of the entire wealth of the United States, while the bottom 60 percent own less than 2 percent,” he pointed out. “The top 16,000 family own almost as much as the bottom 90 percent!”

Sanders observed that just six Wall Street firms had assets equalling 60 percent of the United States gross domestic product.

“If Teddy Roosevelt, a good Republican, were alive today, I know what he would say… It is time to break them up,” Sanders argued.

“Casino capitalism, runaway capitalism, which is what we are experiencing right now is a disaster,” he later told E.J. Dionne. “What we are talking about is in a democratic civilised society that, the basic necessities of life should be available to all people.”

“Wall Street, instead of being the grease for the economy — taking money in and getting it out to small businesses, medium-sized businesses — what Wall Street has become is an island unto itself,” the senator noted. “Its goal is to make as much money as it can in whatever way that it can do it.”

“I don’t want to try to be too dramatic here. I happen to believe that the business model of Wall Street is fraud and deception.”

Sanders’ speech begins at the 18 minute mark below. His remarks about Wall Street begin at the 59 minute mark.



Bernie Sanders rips ?casino capitalism?: ?The business model of Wall Street is fraud and deception?

One of his interesting points is that if he had 2,000,000 americans all donating $100 to his campaign it would still be only a quarter of the amount that the 2 Cock Brothers are planning to use. I would dare say that $100 bucks to the people who would benefit from Bernie would be a greater sacrifice to them financially than a billion to the Cock Brothers.

Clinton foundation received up to $81m from clients of controversial HSBC bank | US news | The Guardian

The charitable foundation run by Hillary Clinton and her family has received as much as $81m from wealthy international donors who were clients of HSBC’s controversial Swiss bank.

Leaked files from HSBC’s Swiss banking division reveal the identities of seven donors to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation with accounts in Geneva.

They include Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining magnate and one of the foundation’s biggest financial backers, and Richard Caring, the British retail magnate who, the bank’s internal records show, used his tax-free Geneva account to transfer $1m into the New York-based foundation.

Hillary Clinton has expressed concern over growing economic inequality in the US and is expected to make the issue a cornerstone of her widely anticipated presidential campaign in 2016. However, political observers are increasingly asking whether the former secretary of state’s focus on wealth inequality sits uncomfortably with the close relationships she and her husband have nurtured with some of the world’s richest individuals.

Another day, another insight into hypocrisy and lies.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

One of his interesting points is that if he had 2,000,000 americans all donating $100 to his campaign it would still be only a quarter of the amount that the 2 Cock Brothers are planning to use. I would dare say that $100 bucks to the people who would benefit from Bernie would be a greater sacrifice to them financially than a billion to the Cock Brothers.

Heh...as an unbiased observer of the American political scene there pseudo, how come you take the piss out of the Koch Brothers and not rail against the numerous left-wing billionares who contribute to moonbat causes, hmmm

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by pseudolus

One of his interesting points is that if he had 2,000,000 americans all donating $100 to his campaign it would still be only a quarter of the amount that the 2 Cock Brothers are planning to use. I would dare say that $100 bucks to the people who would benefit from Bernie would be a greater sacrifice to them financially than a billion to the Cock Brothers.

Heh...as an unbiased observer of the American political scene there pseudo, how come you take the piss out of the Koch Brothers and not rail against the numerous left-wing billionares who contribute to moonbat causes, hmmm

See the Hillary "Goldman Sachs" Clinton thread and you will note that I do.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by pseudolus

One of his interesting points is that if he had 2,000,000 americans all donating $100 to his campaign it would still be only a quarter of the amount that the 2 Cock Brothers are planning to use. I would dare say that $100 bucks to the people who would benefit from Bernie would be a greater sacrifice to them financially than a billion to the Cock Brothers.

Heh...as an unbiased observer of the American political scene there pseudo, how come you take the piss out of the Koch Brothers and not rail against the numerous left-wing billionares who contribute to moonbat causes, hmmm

See the Hillary "Goldman Sachs" Clinton thread and you will note that I do.

I saw that one although it seems like the poor 'ol Koch Brothers along with the owner of Chick A Fil receive more than their share of abuse.

The Cock Brothers are the same as Goldman. Same interests, same agenda. Nothing poor about either of them, and would be better labeled "Rich Old, poor populace creating, Cock Brothers"

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Well, for every alleged fault you heap on the Koch Brothers, George Soros on the extreme Left trumps them. To wit:

Soros Global Fascism Group Wants North American Passports To Replace U.S. Passport

The proponents of a North American Union have operated in plain view under the protections and at the behest of the Rockefeller supported Trilateral Commission since 1973. They use the derisive label of conspiracy theorist to minimize the public awareness deflect criticism about their plans to destroy American sovereignty. The creation of the European Union was a step along their path and now the United States and Canada find themselves squarely in the sights of the global fascists.

A group called “New America,” a George Soros-funded political organization, is taking an aggressive, anti-American posture in the furtherance of this destructive goal. The spawn of Soros, his son Jonathan Soros sits on the board of directors.

Soros Global Fascism Group Wants North American Passports To Replace U.S. Passport ? UFP NEWS

Bernie Sanders seen nodding in approval...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Well, for every alleged fault you heap on the Koch Brothers, George Soros on the extreme Left trumps them

Absolutely - I could not agree more. This is why people like Bernie, whose average campaign contribution is something like 40 bucks is actually different. He has contributions from real people in the street. Republicans and Democrats get their money from Bankers and Big Business. All work hand in hand all the time in industry and their demands from the bought and sold politicians is exactly the same no matter which colour flag they are waving.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

UFP NEWS

Cynthia McKinney is someone that one would hope would get back into politics seriously. Kicked out and replaced by a Democrat who thinks that Islands float ffs.



You really couldn't make it up. "Umm the island of Guam might get so over loaded it might flip over" ........

Give 'em more guns . . . because foreigners just don't have the brainpower to understand the US, according to some braindead flag-salutin', Star Spangled Banner-singin', bombs burstin' in air good ole boys

The sad thing is that the very people who could change this culture of licking the anuses of the wealthy depend on them to get elected.

Once they get used to slurping up the cash and getting drunk on the power and celebrity, they rarely want to give it up.

George Orwell wrote all about it in 1945.

Originally Posted by OckerRocker

Give 'em more guns . . . because foreigners just don't have the brainpower to understand the US, according to some braindead flag-salutin', Star Spangled Banner-singin', bombs burstin' in air good ole boys

More guns for Americans...
The only resolve.

^ excuses sHillary (the wife who is still covering up for her pedofile husband) for lying by rightly pointing out that reagan, who lets not forget was the puppet talking about "trickledown", was a lying scumbag as well.

Vote for sHillary! A liar with morals for sale, owned by Goldman Sachs, and the biggest mouthpiece for continued hegemonic murder around the world.

Well done Landreth

Recall when this Hildebeast claimed she was named after Sir. Edmund Hillery?

Only problem is, it's false. Check out the rest of her Whoppers!

The Whoppers of Hillary and Obama Dwarf Anything Brian Williams Has Said

The Whoppers of Hillary and Obama Dwarf Anything Brian Williams Has Said - The Rush Limbaugh Show