He didn't even sell out well either. He could have gotten a lot more than enough cash to buy a lake house in Vermont.

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of course it does. As I originally stated, abstentions from voting turned this election. You are arguing percentages of voters. I am arguing volume.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

But how do you know the protesters didn't vote?

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DOLPHIN, HOW DO YOU KNOW THE PROTESTERS DIDN'T VOTE?

Someone put up a pic of that black guy who yells at deaf people.

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Like I said, abstentstions from voting were a direct result of Hillary's campaign. Blame her. Don't blame people for not acting like "brand loyal" sheep. You're better than that.

You're critiquing protestors for not voting even though you have no idea the number(percentage or volume) of protestors who didn't vote. You're mad at the entire country, or the left wing of it anyway, for not turning out to vote and projecting that anger on to a small number of protestors who most likely voted anyway. Your anger is directed at the wrong group in this thread. Like I said in my earlier post, it's probably why you kept ignoring TMs question regarding this.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

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50% of the population did not vote. Wrangle them up, and protest those people.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I'll make sure to address every question and comment directed at me at this place to your satisfaction no matter if it is hidden within another question or appears within a fast moving thread.

Obama voters abstained from this election and it looked to me like the protestors fit the youngish and diverse demographic of otherwise absent voters Obama had brought to the polls. Did you expect an in depth study?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I expected at least some type of evidence supporting calling these protestors douchebags. I'm not surprised you weren't able to provide any. It's ok to acknowledge you made a baseless nomination because you're upset about the election results. These protestors you're insulting are just as unhappy. I'm guessing if they took the time to protest most of them took the time to vote. Either way, both of us are just guessing.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Mad or drunk?

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like I told the homeless guy yesterday, I'm mad.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

They are lucky to have a defender like you. God's work.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

What I find particularly inneresting is that a few weeks ago people were up in arms about Trump hemming and hawing about whether he would accept the election results, implying of course would he be able to handle his impending defeat.

Now that the election is over, and he won said election in the same fashion as virtually all prior elections in this country have been determined, it would appear the very same people that gave him shovel-fulls of shit for suggesting even the remotest possibility that he might not accept the election results are .... refusing to accept the election results.

It was very en vogue to make fun of the rubes that were pro-Trump for whatever reason(s) ... now we bear witness to the other side of the very same idiot coin.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I'm better today. As white males, we'll be fine. Say a prayer for our brothers of color.

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So where's your evidence that the money for Bernie's house came from some kind of payoff?

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You know me like that.

I think there's an obvious difference between a major party presidential candidate questioning the legitimacy of the election process in which he is participating and a group of ordinary people protesting the results of that election because they oppose the winner's intentionally divisive campaign rhetoric. Trump deliberately ran a polarizing campaign, so it's hardly surprising to find that the public is polarized as a result of his victory.

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Now look.

I have little doubt that our politics are in any real way significantly different, excepting of course that yours is a FAR more informed opinion, which is no more of an admission to a fact than it is to 'admit' today is Thursday.

That said, to suggest that Trump led a divisive campaign but to not concurrently explicitly impugn Hillary of doing the same thing in a different way is a gross mischaracterization of the facts.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

TM has always been a Hillary apologist. What do you expect?

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OK, then explain the facts to me.

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No, you're right, calling his voters "deplorables" was a phenomenal way to bridge the gap between the two candidates and their differences. I am not going to make out an exhaustive list of which candidate did what divisive dumbassery and see where the scales finally end up.

Just take the heartfelt compliment along with my relatively small critique and leave it sit ... no reason to jeopardize the 'more informed' plaudit.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Dude, you're all over the place, claiming to compliment me at the same time you're being condescending and insulting. It's more than a little strange that you often respond to disagreements with your ideas by making personal attacks.

Clinton obviously made polarizing remarks--that's the way elections typically work. But much of her campaign was built around figuratively isolating Trump from the political class and the American public--identifying him as an anomaly rather than the norm. Tactically, she ran to the center and tried to win the moderate Republican vote by arguing that she better represented their ideas and values than Trump did. This approach starkly contrasts with that of Trump, whose entire political raison d'etre was to pit whites against nonwhites..

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Exactly. Taking to the streets in an unorganized protest, with no clear message isn't going to do shit. Neither is going nuts on social media.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

I don't think most of the protestors are Trump's usual brand buyers anyway.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Don't focus on the clothing line. The larger point is that protesting with no clear message, AFTER the election, will achieve little, if anything.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Bernie's 3rd house came from money he was paid for a book advance to chronicle his campaign for President fighting for the 1% of the population who have trouble affording their rent each month. After selling out and backing the great defender of Wall St, Hillary Clinton.

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So are you saying that the book advance had something to do with his support for Hillary? If so, please provide evidence. If not, why bring it up? And if you aren't implying a connection, then how exactly did Sanders sell out? Are you suggesting that his support for Hillary was a sellout? Why? It's a pretty common belief that Trump is a lot worse than Hillary.

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