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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)John Lauritis: Sanderistas, Unite! The Truth Is Coming (Part II) [View all]
https://johnlaurits.com/2016/06/10/sanderistas-unite-the-truth-is-coming-part-ii/
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The #LameStreamMedia wants you to believe that you are isolated, that you are alone, that there is nothing left to fight for do not believe a word of it!
You are not alone, you are not isolated,
& there is everything left to fight for!
Now, lets get into some numbers!
We Must Transform Our Strategy
When I first wrote to you all, it was about the delegate math and how it showed that we would be heading into a contested convention I wrote it because no one else was writing it & because . Despite the tricks, the medias manipulation, & everything that they could throw at us, that is still true but barely! I was worried for a moment but, just as I said in that first article, Hillary Clinton does not have the 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the nomination & we are going to Philadelphia on July 25th.
But things are going to be very different than we first thought in the beginning, I had envisioned us fighting our way to 2,026 delegates (the majority) and going into July, that way. We would have made the argument to the super-delegates that they must respect the majoritys will and, by drawing publicity to our cause, we would have publicly pressured them into joining our revolution we would have gone on to the general election and defeated Trump easily to uproarious applause !
We would have but that has all changed.
My delegate math worked so long as the race was fair and, by fair, I mean less rigged than it obviously is. But the DNC, the corporate-media, & the Clinton-Machine have been far more cunning & dishonest (& probably far more criminal) than I had anticipated there is still a way through but first we must
UNITE! ... more at link...
lauritis goes over the unsettling and disruption of the sandernista path. he points to the fact hillary does not have enough delegates, the dnc's behavior, and suggests bernie can still win at the convention....
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John Lauritis: Sanderistas, Unite! The Truth Is Coming (Part II) [View all]
hopemountain
Jun 2016
OP
How can any reasonable person read this drivel and not see it for what it is - batshit crazy.
Metric System
Jun 2016
#1
because 2.5 MILLION VOTES REMAIN UNCOUNTED IN CALIFORNIA, You know the state
roguevalley
Jun 2016
#17
I disagree, after Bernie endorses Hillary he'll be called a sellout by the likes of Lauritis.
Lord Magus
Jun 2016
#12
Sanders' endorsement of Clinton is certainly going to test the limits of the "sellout" label.
TwilightZone
Jun 2016
#14
Somehow I think that Bernie, and his supporters, will manage to keep going, without
djean111
Jun 2016
#18
Channeling Sarah Palin with "lamestream media", I see. Congratulations on your tragedy.
randome
Jun 2016
#6
I think the public will be very surprised by the FBI's counter terrorism unit report.
underthematrix
Jun 2016
#30
Corporations terrorize nations. There would be no reason for us to be in
underthematrix
Jun 2016
#34
If this doesn't open the eyes of Sanders supporters to the fact that they have been brainwashed,
eastwestdem
Jun 2016
#26