This quote from Neil Gaiman about political correctness has stuck with me:

Being a progressive means you hate Hillary? That’s news to me. I thought being progressive means fighting for progressive issues, not creating a purity test of which of those issues are necessary to be considered progressive.

It’s over dude. It’s over. The convention at this point is a FORMALITY. You know it. Bernie knows it. Either put up or shut up.

Agreed. We all have that one annoying friend on social media who continues to post lists of reasons why Clinton is the worst person ever to have walked the face of the earth, and pining Bernie4evah memes. I have at least two of those friends and I’m not American.

He’s a Dem candidate. He lost. If he wants to continue to run, then he needs to renounce the party he is a candidate for.

I was having a debate in step with this the other night. My main point is that it’s troubling that Sanders is continuing a campaign supposedly to exercise the will of the people, but the people have spoken and they didn’t pick him. To continue on with this just shows he’s not really that different from every other old…

I would pay to attend a Breitbart-Jezebel mixer.

You win today.

There’s a serious lack of critical thinking in her letter. I can’t spend the time refuting why she’s wrong because I doubt she’d even understand or accept it, but I so wish there were less people like her *and him* in the world. Gross.

I mean, look, OK — I can imagine that it might be shocking and very upsetting if a close friend or family member of yours whom you always thought was a great person was accused of such a thing. You might have a hard time believing it at first, and be in some denial. I guess that’s almost unavoidably human; it’s hard…

If Trump wins, I’m blaming this on Bernie supporters. It’s bad enough he’s losing because all he ever did was promise golden eggs to everyone, but that he’s continuing to cause a drift with democratic support is fucked up (pretty sure he would want all those Clinton voters later if he were ahead in the polls).
Unless…

There are two things about Sanders’ rhetoric lately that are really frustrating me and both center around the fact that he has openly talked about not being a Democrat and only running as a Democrat because it allows him to reach a broader base than running as an independent:

I’m fine with Bernie staying in the race to accumulate votes and show Democrats that there is broad, national support for a progressive agenda. I am not alright with him staying in the race in a desperate bid to win.

Does it honestly not bother you that Bernie supporters are sending death threats to a woman who, as far as I can tell, was just doing her job? I get wanting to have positive coverage of your preferred candidate, but any coverage of the event that leaves out the booing and death threats is still pretty slanted - it’s…

Lost me a long time ago, he has some good ideas, but you need WAY more than that to be an effective President.

I’m acquantainces with a die-hard Bernie supporter and am friends with him on Facebook. He was recently quoted in a Huffington Post article because he has a Facebook group trying to encourage people to march on the Dem convention to probably this exact end.

The lack of organizing has been the death of the Sanders campaign. They put all their money into huge rallies, TV ads, and internet presence. They trained no one. His supporters do not understand the process, so they’re all ready to believe whatever ridiculous conspiracy theory or imaginary delegate math scenarios…

“it goes without saying that I condemn any and all forms of violence, including the personal harassment of individuals.”

Also, Clinton won the NV primary election. Nothing was being stolen from these people. Blame the Sanders ground game for not having its delegates be prepared and follow the rules.

I somehow want these to be made into an advent calendar.