There is no difference between Bernie supporters demanding Hillary’s speech transcripts and congressional republicans demanding her emails. Or Trump demanding Obama’s college transcripts.
And it’s not really even that far from Trump asking for Obama’s birth certificate, in that it’s an absurd demeaning request that requires Hillary to be publicly shamed by having to provide something nobody else has ever been asked to provide to prove her decency and all so that supporters of her political opponent can fish for something to their candidate’s advantage.
And of course, the accusations that there is a smoking gun are already being thrown around, because she didn’t immediately offer to release the transcripts in the debate.
I thought Bernie struggled a bit on foreign policy tonight, but he did fantastic otherwise. He’s getting better and better each day. I feel myself pulled toward him each time I hear him speak with such conviction and focus.
But I am so fucking angry about Bernie supporters leaping to this disgusting attack on Hillary, despite Bernie explicitly communicating that he did not want his campaign to go there, that Bernie has lost me forever as a potential supporter.
Not because I don’t love Bernie, because I have and I do.
But because I don’t want to be associated with people who would treat Hillary the same way the right has treated her and Obama.
I am disgusted. And I don’t give a goddamn fuck if they are just getting too excited and going over the top and this doesn’t seem like that big of a deal to them. Fuck that. I have fucking morals. I don’t compromise them for a goddamn election. Fuck this election.
What the right has done to Hillary over her emails and Obama over… fucking everything… has ended friendships I have had for a very long time. I won’t be friends with people who treat people like shit. Especially if they excuse doing it for fucking political reasons.
I think those of you who are behaving like Tray Gowdy should be ashamed of yourselves.
And Bernie. I love you man, but your supporters? They are like being home for thanksgiving with my conservative family listening to them shit all over Democrats. I’ll vote for you in the general, if you are the nominee, but I am not working with these people to help you in other states. You lost me forever in that regard. You can thank your supporters.
Friday, Feb 5, 2016 · 6:29:06 PM +00:00
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AntonBursch
I published this last night, but due to how late it was, it actually got on the rec list. I don’t think it belongs there, so, I pulled it. But I want it in my list of diaries, because I mean every word of it. I probably shouldn’t have told a couple of people to fuck off in the comments, but I don’t have a lot of patience for being told I am mental. Still, while I don’t want this on the rec list, I want it on the record, because I think this kind of Tray Gowdy tactic is shamefully wrong.
Friday, Feb 5, 2016 · 8:30:36 PM +00:00
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AntonBursch
For the record, I know it was rude to tell someone to fuck off, but I am sensitive to mentally ill insults, because my older brother who lives with me has autism, my younger brother has epilepsy and his medication slows his cognitive abilities, my older brother and I were taken away from our parents when I was a baby because our mother had a mental illness and i spent my childhood having my adopted parents get away with child abuse and neglect by telling everyone the kids suffered from mental illness. So, yes, when I get ganged up on by a bunch of people and they all start calling me mental, it upsets me enough to tell the to fuck off.