Thread: 2016 Democratic US Presidential Candidates

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Senator Bernie Sanders, Democrat/Socialist Candidate For President: All Men Dream Of Tying Up and Sexually Abusing Women, And All Women Fantasize of Being Raped By Three Men

MRC dug up Sanders' 1972 essay, "Men-and-Women." Why the headline has weird punctuation, you'd have to ask this old chicken-necked pervert.

Anyway, this fruity weirdo has some problematic notions of male/female sexuality. MRC quotes him:

"A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy," wrote Sanders. "A woman on her knees. A woman tied up. A woman abused."
Sanders didn't specify as to how he had gained such a deep understanding of the male psyche.

In terms of his understanding of female sexual fantasies, Sanders provided similar insight.

"A woman enjoys intercourse with her man--as she fantasizes about being raped by 3 men simultaneously."

Sen. Bernie Sanders' Essay: Women 'Fantasize About Being Raped' | MRCTV

Where do the Democrats come up with these Looney tunes?

You really are a filthy liar, Booner.
The examples he uses are there to illustrate the typical myths in men's magazine and the problems women have because of them. Read it.

According to the latest polling, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) presidential campaign has more support than the campaign of media favorites Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and every other Republican candidate.
The latest Quinnipiac Poll revealed that five Republicans are tied at the top of the Republican field. Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, and Mike Huckabee each were at 10%.
Do you know who is more popular than even the most popular 2016 Republicans? Sen. Bernie Sanders. In the same poll, Sanders was supported by 15% of Democrats for their party’s nomination. Sen. Sanders trailed Hillary Clinton 57%-15%, but his fifteen percent made him the second most popular presidential candidate in the country.
The media treats Republicans like Carly Fiorina (2%), Ted Cruz (6%), and Rand Paul (7%) like they are serious candidates, but Bernie Sanders has two to seven times more support than these three Republicans. Why does the media treat Sen. Sanders like he is token opposition to former Sec. of State Clinton instead of as the legitimately popular stand alone figure that he is?

The answer to this question is located in the media’s bias. The corporate press has convinced itself that the America is a conservative country. They believe that liberal views are not “in the mainstream.” However, recent polling shows that the country is moving left.
Politicians like Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, and Mike Huckabee are more out of the mainstream than Bernie Sanders. The media is perpetuating the myth of a horse race election between Democrats and Republicans when the facts are that the Democratic Party has the two most popular candidates. One of those candidates is extraordinarily popular (Hillary Clinton) while the other is more in touch with the sentiment among average Americans (Bernie Sanders) than any candidate on the Republican side.
Bernie Sanders is legitimately popular. The prism that the media is trying to force this election into doesn’t fit. Sen. Sanders has a larger base of support than any Republican hopeful, which is why it is time for the media to stop pumping up GOP pretenders and face the reality that Bernie Sanders is legit.






Bernie Sanders Has More Support Than Every 2016 Republican Candidate In New Poll

"The man who could save America" says bstub!

Bernie Sanders exposed! A shocking look at his views on rape and violence against women

A shocking 1972 essay was just the tip of the iceberg. Salon dives deeper.



Mother Jones senior reporter Tim Murphy has a profile out this week on Bernie Sanders’ “long, strange trip” from a “restless political activist” to mayor of Burlington, Vermont and now a presidential bid. It’s a fascinating read, not just as a document of Sanders’ earliest forays into politics but as a portrait of Sanders as a committed, cantankerous, deep freak member of the progressive movement and counterculture.

Along with other archival material, the piece included a 1972 essay published in the Vermont Freeman that Murphy described as Sanders’ “stream-of-consciousness essay on the nature of male-female sexual dynamics.” It’s an attempted critique of heteronormativity — a clumsy and weird-as-hell attempted critique of heteronormativity.

An excerpt:

A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy. A woman on her knees, a woman tied up, a woman abused.

A woman enjoys intercourse with her man — as she fantasizes being raped by 3 men simultaneously.

The man and woman get dressed up on Sunday — and go to Church, or maybe to their “revolutionary” political meeting.

Have you ever looked at the Stag, Man, Hero, Tough magazines on the shelf of your local bookstore? Do you know why the newspaper with the articles like “Girl 12 raped by 14 men” sell so well? To what in us are they appealing?

The man and woman have an argument, and the whole thing ends like this: “And they never again made love together (which they had each liked to do more than anything) or never ever saw each other one more time.”

In response to the article making the rounds, Sanders’ campaign spokesman Michael Briggs said it was a “dumb attempt at dark satire in an alternative publication” that “in no way reflects his views or record on women.”

“It was intended to attack gender stereotypes of the ’70s, but it looks as stupid today as it was then,” he told CNN.

But some people in conservative media, like respected anti-rape activists Bill Kristol and Erick Erickson, are very concerned about the article and what it may mean about Sanders’ views on rape. I decided to investigate, and it turns out that Bernie Sanders does, indeed, have a long record on the issue of violence against women.

Some of the more troubling recent highlights:

In 2003, Sanders was among 32 co-sponsors of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, a measure to “establish a zero-tolerance standard” for sexual violence in prison. (The measure passed unanimously, but enforcement has been weak in the last decade.)

In 2011, Sanders co-sponsored a measure to address the rape kit backlog. Here’s how Sen. Dianne Feinstein, another of the bill’s co-sponsors, explained the measure: ”Thousands of rape kits sit untested in police storage facilities nationwide. This is lost justice for rape victims. Testing DNA evidence in rape kits is a crucial tool to help law enforcement arrest and prosecute rapists. The Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault Act will make sure that victims are no longer denied the necessary tools for justice.”

In 2012, Sanders co-sponsored the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act. Here’s how he explained that vote: “The act has been extremely successful in Vermont and across the country. While we are reducing the incidence of domestic violence, much more has to be done. Too many girls and women are still suffering from domestic violence and sexual abuse and that must end.”

In 2013, he called on the Department of Veterans Affairs to “step up efforts to provide care and benefits for veterans who experienced sexual assault in the military“ so that they “receive the care and benefits needed to confront the emotional and physical consequences of this horrific experience.”

In 2014, Sanders voted for New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s proposal to move the system of reporting and prosecuting rape in the military outside the chain of command. When that bill failed, Sanders issued the following statement about rape:

An estimated 26,000 service members were sexually assaulted in 2012, a 37 percent increase in just one year, according to a recent Department of Defense study. I voted for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s bill because it would give servicemen and women an independent route outside the chain of command to report serious crimes, and I am disappointed that it was defeated… I also supported a separate measure by Sen. Claire McCaskill that includes some important reforms, but remain concerned that it does not go far enough. Victims of rape and sexual assault in the military deserve a fair and independent system outside the chain of command to report these types of crimes.

And just last month, Sanders balked at the GOP budget proposal because, among other programs put on the chopping block, it would slash funds for domestic violence service providers. He said at the time that “funding to help victims of domestic violence in Vermont could be slashed by more than $270,000, including funding for the STOP Violence Against Women Program that helps states provide support services for victims of domestic violence.”

The truth is out, and the public — aided by fearless women’s rights advocate Erick Erickson — will not rest until Sanders explains his record."

Bernie Sanders exposed! A shocking look at his views on rape and violence against women - Salon.com

Gonna save America one raped woman at a time!

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

A woman on her knees, a woman tied up, a woman abused.

Your fantasies are quite disturbing, BM . . . why would you want to rape women?

He ain't heavy, he's my mattress.

Oh, I'm sorry - was I misrepresenting what was written?

Boontard didn't read the whole article again.

You mean the part where "“It was intended to attack gender stereotypes of the ’70s, but it looks as stupid today as it was then,"?

Seen some lame Spin but that's the absolute lamest!

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Some of the more troubling recent highlights: In 2003, Sanders was among 32 co-sponsors of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, a measure to “establish a zero-tolerance standard” for sexual violence in prison. (The measure passed unanimously, but enforcement has been weak in the last decade.) In 2011, Sanders co-sponsored a measure to address the rape kit backlog. Here’s how Sen. Dianne Feinstein, another of the bill’s co-sponsors, explained the measure: ”Thousands of rape kits sit untested in police storage facilities nationwide. This is lost justice for rape victims. Testing DNA evidence in rape kits is a crucial tool to help law enforcement arrest and prosecute rapists. The Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault Act will make sure that victims are no longer denied the necessary tools for justice.” In 2012, Sanders co-sponsored the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act. Here’s how he explained that vote: “The act has been extremely successful in Vermont and across the country. While we are reducing the incidence of domestic violence, much more has to be done. Too many girls and women are still suffering from domestic violence and sexual abuse and that must end.” In 2013, he called on the Department of Veterans Affairs to “step up efforts to provide care and benefits for veterans who experienced sexual assault in the military“ so that they “receive the care and benefits needed to confront the emotional and physical consequences of this horrific experience.” In 2014, Sanders voted for New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s proposal to move the system of reporting and prosecuting rape in the military outside the chain of command. When that bill failed, Sanders issued the following statement about rape: An estimated 26,000 service members were sexually assaulted in 2012, a 37 percent increase in just one year, according to a recent Department of Defense study. I voted for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s bill because it would give servicemen and women an independent route outside the chain of command to report serious crimes, and I am disappointed that it was defeated… I also supported a separate measure by Sen. Claire McCaskill that includes some important reforms, but remain concerned that it does not go far enough. Victims of rape and sexual assault in the military deserve a fair and independent system outside the chain of command to report these types of crimes. And just last month, Sanders balked at the GOP budget proposal because, among other programs put on the chopping block, it would slash funds for domestic violence service providers. He said at the time that “funding to help victims of domestic violence in Vermont could be slashed by more than $270,000, including funding for the STOP Violence Against Women Program that helps states provide support services for victims of domestic violence.” The truth is out, and the public — aided by fearless women’s rights advocate Erick Erickson — will not rest until Sanders explains his record."

All of this part.

He is still polling higher then anyone in the clown car.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Boontard didn't read the whole article again.

which is th whole point - the demographic he is typical of will never read the whole article or crosscheck it , but they will envision themselves as well informed on the topic and having a deep understanding of the issues .

Well, it's pretty telling that both Mother Jones and Salon do hit pieces on poor 'ol Bernie, eh?

How Bernie Sanders Learned to Be a Real Politician | Mother Jones

Bernie Sanders exposed! A shocking look at his views on rape and violence against women - Salon.com

Neither are hit pieces especially not the salon piece. But we all know you don't read the articles anyway.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Neither are hit pieces especially not the salon piece. But we all know you don't read the articles anyway.

No.

We know you support a whacko-bird!

Originally Posted by bsnub

Why does the media treat Sen. Sanders like he is token opposition to former Sec. of State Clinton instead of as the legitimately popular stand alone figure that he is?

A horse race, even if invented, sells ink.

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by bsnub

Boontard didn't read the whole article again.

which is th whole point - the demographic he is typical of will never read the whole article or crosscheck it , but they will envision themselves as well informed on the topic and having a deep understanding of the issues .

He's a fookin' liar, full stop.

Originally Posted by MrG

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by bsnub

Boontard didn't read the whole article again.

which is th whole point - the demographic he is typical of will never read the whole article or crosscheck it , but they will envision themselves as well informed on the topic and having a deep understanding of the issues .

He's a fookin' liar, full stop.

Prove it or stfu

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by MrG

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by bsnub

Boontard didn't read the whole article again.

which is th whole point - the demographic he is typical of will never read the whole article or crosscheck it , but they will envision themselves as well informed on the topic and having a deep understanding of the issues .

He's a fookin' liar, full stop.

Prove it or stfu

Read the articles you post. They don't say what you say they do.

Definition of LIE
intransitive verb
to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive
to create a false or misleading impression

^^ The proof is all over SK. Its not hard to find. I have exposed your lies countless times.

^&^^

You two are living in an alternate universe from any objectivity known to man nor beast.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

alternate universe

That phrase is already trademarked and belongs to republitards. You can thank John Stewart for that. Seems like lots of people think so;

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-dru...ernate-reality

http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...ive-media-bias

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...h-the-children

http://www.alternet.org/story/155210..._is_terrifying

http://gawker.com/5383412/study-cons...ernate-reality

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew..._b_875483.html

http://www.chasingglennbeck.com/home...ing-style.html

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/09/...ty-bubble.html

Oh guess what happens when you google Left wing alternate reality? You get these;

Deconstructing the Right-Wing Alternate Reality | Mother Jones

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...h-the-children

Nice try though.

It really doesn't matter how much support he has he will never be POTUS. The people he is messing with are the people running the show.

He would change everything that is wrong with our Country and we cant have that now can we?