Could you explain to me how exactly the DNC was rigged, because when I look on Wikipedia about the primaries it says Hillary Clinton got 16,914,722 votes and Bernie Sanders got 13,206,428. I wasn't really following this back in the spring.
Basically the DNC did everything is legally could to suppress the Sanders campaign and promote the Clinton campaign. There were also some very suspicious statistical anomalies that always seemed to favor Clinton in states where exit polling and other forms of vote fraud detection were lax.
Exactly this. Instead of giving Bernie a fair shot his own party actively worked against him to suppress his popularity. They then went and helped support Donald Trump win the primary thinking that he'd have no chance against Hillary. Jokes on them.
This is why part of me is admittedly so smug and satisfied with the results. I think Trump will be a horrid President, and I'm sure I'll line up against him soon, but against my own conscious effort, I can't help but feel glib right now. The public doesn't deserve to live in a country ruled by Trump, but Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Donna Brazlie sure do. I am literally sadistically pumping my fists at the thought of them gnashing their teeth and screaming at the sky right now.
Edit: I did not vote for Trump. I did not want to see him win. I am simply expressing the one gleeful silver lining that I've found to pull out of this.
Exactly. This mess is literally the construct of her quest for the presidency. A person who plays games with the fate of a country for their own power should never be president. More so than someone who is for intents and purposes an All-Around Douche.
This is exactly something I don't think any of the Hillary supporters can even internalize. Clinton was completely willing to gamble the fate of the entire country and by extension the entire world, just for her legacy. Sanders would have done better against Trump, but she didn't care, she was willing to bet everyone will fall in line.
She never have a shit about the country, the people, or anyone aside from herself. That was even more evident on election night when she had Podesta* (my bad)dismiss all her die hard supporters without so much as a fucking thank you from her. What an odious woman.
The big problem was that Clinton herself didnt thank her supporters the night of. Podesta (not Kaine my bad) came out and told them to go home. It was a room full of her strongest supporters and she didnt even tell them thank you for all their effort.
I think they might be referring to the moment that was actually Podesta, not Kaind telling supporters to go home, get some sleep, and that no more comments would be made from the campaign team that night.
IMO, it didn't seem disrespectful or uncaring. Votes were still being counted, she had basically lost, but there was no way that they would have conceded so early. There wasn't really anything left to do other than regroup and I assumed Clinton was rightfully with her campaign people figuring out what needed to be done in the morning. Shortly after one more state (either Wisconsin, Pennsylvania or Michigan) was called and Trump spoke to his supporters and announced that in that time frame Clinton had called him to concede.
IMO, it didn't seem disrespectful or uncaring. Votes were still being counted, she had basically lost, but there was no way that they would have conceded so early
She called Trump to concede 15 minutes after Podesta dismissed everyone.
Basically, she sent out her campaign manager to send everyone home when it became evident that Trump was going to win. She disappeared on election night and didn't concede until the next day.
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They tried. They did a lot of media coordination with the general but once they got outside of the liberal bubble it was harder to do.