Was it just me, or was Paul Simon really off key? He sounded like me when I sing, and I can't carry a tune in a bucket. But maybe my being tone deaf means I can't appreciate good music either.

@2
No, but do think she called you a "cunt."

Love you Sarah... @2, your sexism is showing.
Oh, and there's Susan.. One of the oldies shouting Revolution! Revolution! Her beautician has done such a good job, she doesn't look anything like 70.

@4

How about Clinton's beautician? Does Clinton look 70?

Well I'm glad both sides are a shitshow now, it's not like they both didn't deserve it

@4 Did you really criticize Susan for being an old woman?

Who's being sexist?

Susan Sarandon could view the revolution from her home in Spain, or maybe one of the three apartments she owns in New York.

Cat fight! Cat fight!

#I'mwithSusanSarandon

Wow, Bernie, what a mensch! He succeeded too, in moving Hillary on TPP, free college, climate action and justice, livable wages. Bernie supporters can stand proud!

Silverman was recently hospitalized, really glad she's better!

The ridiculous Orange Dumpster wasted time going after Corey Booker, hinting he knows dark secrets! What a tool!

Actually, they can't fix it in post.

@13 they can stand proud for pissing away their Whole Foods paychecks to a spineless sellout.

Maybe Silverman's unknown in Australia.

I wonder if Trump will actually agree to participate in any debates. It's hard to imagine him in such a situation since they do involve actual issues.

@19,
Oh, he'll do the debates. It's just that half the time he'll be tossing schoolyard bully insults and the other half he'll just be talking about how great he thinks he is.

#16 - Thank you
Have fun voting for an actually corrupt candidate who only got her nod because of a corrupt nomination process. She's actually not a helluva lot lesser of an evil than Trump, notsorry to burst your collective bubble. How's that shit-sandwich taste?
I'm ready to #writeBerniein. I'm ready to vote for the candidate that I believe in, not play some bullshit political game. I'm ready for someone with fucking convictions for fucksake.
How many fucking videos did Sarah fucking Silverman make for Bernie? I'm pretty sure she's being ridiculous, expecting anyone to take HER seriously anymore. Fuck off

Seriously, has HRC inspired ANYTHING? Bernie has in fact changed the game. At least Trump could possibly inspire the biggest progressive backlash/revolution we've ever known.
The only reason HRC is still around is because the establishment has decided it so.

As right as Silverman was, giving a "smackdown" or telling a group they're being ridiculous is not a good way to change minds. Treating a group like children will make them dig in their heels. The Sanders speech was amazing though. He gave very solid, articulate reasons for his supporters to vote for Clinton.

@21

Grow up, you're never going to get everything you want. President Trump will do serious damage to all the things you care about. Trump must be defeated and defeated badly and the only way that happens is if Clinton wins the election. And the only way she wins the election is if you vote for her. Even if you are in the bluest of blue states still, he needs to be defeated by record margins to repudiate his ideology. Clinton is repulsive yes, but that's what you have.

But no, you want to be the cool kid. You're the kind of person who voted for Nader in 2000. Thanks for that. The people of Iraq and Afghanistan thank you for that, the people affected by SCOTUS's rulings thank you for that, because you know, Gore wasn't good enough for you. Thanks for that.

@24: 👍

@23,

If they're still pulling this idiocy at this point, and in spite of all the evidence that a DT presidency would be an unmitigated fucking disaster, it's pretty safe to say they're just digging in their heels in the name of sanctimonious, shit-brained stubbornness and there's absolutely nothing whatsoever that Sarah Silverman could've possibly said to sway them. They're sad and petulant children.

Speaking to people who behave like children as if they were children... might be bad? But it doesn't sound like the worst idea I've heard this week.

>that awkward chanting
>that panicky ad-libbing

You have to be some very special type of delusional if you think this was an effective act.

(Sorry if you saw this twice. I meant to post it here but posted it on the wrong slog entry.)

Here's why Bernie-or-Busters frustrate me. Please consider the following four scenarios.

Consider Amal, a bright 10 year-old boy who loves school and learning. Or I should say he did, until the other kids started bullying him and calling him a terrorist due to his brown skin, his unusual last name, and his mother's hijab. His parents don't dare raise the issue with the school principle, though. They know from painful experience that President Trump has set a new example for what is tolerated in America, and making too much noise only attracts unwanted attention from the authorities.

Consider 12-year-old Ana. She was born in Los Angeles and helps to take care of her younger brother Diego while her undocumented parents work four jobs between them. Her family has always struggled, but they've managed to eke out a life in America. Now, however, with the massive immigration sweeps that started 6 months ago, she's frightened and can't sleep. Two of her friends, along with their entire families, disappeared last week. She wonders if her family will be next.

Consider Cynthia, a 52-year old woman with rheumatoid arthritis who works at a local fabric shop. Her employer is small enough that it doesn't have to provide her with health insurance, but fortunately she can afford insurance through her state's health exchange. Or at least she could until Trump, with the Republican congress, repealed the Affordable Care Act. Now she fears she won't be able to obtain insurance due to her pre-existing condition, and she worries that she'll have to endure daily, agonizing pain.

Consider Madeleine, a 19-year old college student who just discovered she's pregnant but isn't ready to be a mother. Had it happened a year earlier she might have been able to obtain an abortion, but not now. That's no longer an option due to a recent Supreme Court decision. Trump's appointment of three justices shifted the court's balance, allowing it to outlaw nearly all abortions by a 6-3 decision.

All of these nightmare scenarios are shockingly easy to envision under a Trump presidency. Indeed, he's explicitly promised to realize them. They're equally impossible to imagine under a Clinton presidency.

Imagine what it's like to have a debilitating medical condition and no health insurance. Imagine what it's like to be a person of color in a country where casual bigotry now has the President's stamp of approval. Imagine what it's like to be an immigrant living in constant fear that your family could be torn apart at any moment. Imagine what it's like to have your reproductive rights torn from you. The consequences of a Trump presidency are going to be painfully real for millions of people in this country, and your inability to put yourself in their shoes reflects your selfish privilege.

@29 I come from a rust belt community. I know what the after effects of allowing a Hillary presidency is like. When jobs leave and income stays stagnant while costs and taxes constantly increase, whole communities suffer immensely. Wages have decreased when taking into account inflation and Cost of Living.

The ACA makes things worse because healthcare costs haven't stopped rising with it. Excepting a giant jump between '10-'11, health care premiums have gone up steadily for about fifteen years. In fact, iirc, as a whole amount. They've actually gone up a little faster post giant jump than before the ACA. And now people are legally tied to the system without options.

Hillary's plans exacerbates both of these (the former with the TPP/TTIP [you and I both know she's supports that shit], the latter with her ridiculously uneffective plan to "fix" the ACA).

And, should we get into Wall Street and her refusal to get involved with regulating them in any meaningful way? People lost their homes with predatory lending schemes, and little regulation followed. The moneyed interests are raising housing prices and rental costs at the same time in cities across America (it's not just Seattle, and it's not just tech money). 401Ks have been obliterated. Pension plans have been legally robbed by vulture capitalists (should I point at what happened to Hostess?). And there's no help in sight from Hillary.

If you can't imagine why people don't want her and are flocking to Trump who talks to that pressure, even if he has no plans to do anything about it, then you're just as selfish as Timmy Tokyo. Those pressures are real despite the White House's rose colored lenses about unemployment is down (but the number of people who aren't working is up) and the GDP is up and inflation is up. If you don't see the pressures, you need to get out of your privileged bubble.

Neither of these candidates are the answer. Trump actually speaks louder to it than Hillary does, but many can see that he's just in it for himself. Hillary tries to claim to be a politician for the people, but she helps in the smallest ways possible while hurting in the biggest ways possible (and, just in case you haven't looked, she takes money from for-profit prisons, Wall Street, and health insurance providers).

We can't afford another decade of this.

TheMisanthrope dear, I come from the rust belt as well. The problems there have as much to do with the representatives the "heartland" elects as who the president is. Bernie or Jill could be elected, and they'd still have to contend with the Steve Kings of the world, who would be twice as obstructive and contemptuous of them as they are of Obama, as Sanders and Stein would have no party allies in the Congress to curb their aggression.

If you want to make a difference in the country, you and every other progressive keyboard patriot need to pack it up and go back to the rust belt (and the south) and hit the streets, convincing - not haranguing - people to vote for the kind of representatives you feel we need.

Build a good Congress and you'll get a good President.

@31 Catalina, my dear, my parts of the rust belt did vote for Sanders. In most of the Midwest, the rust belt went for Sanders over Hillary except for the urban vote and the minority vote (which, in many parts of the northern midwest, are one and the same).

But, you'd think whole states went for Hillary the way you're talking.

It's fairly obvious that Sanders had no plans to go after the minority vote, a huge oversight on his and his campaign's part. He hardly tailored his message for the various crowds he hit. He didn't focus much on minority issues when talking to largely black or Hispanic audiences and it sucked. He didn't focus on LGBTQ issues in front of audiences with a high queer population. His whole campaign was holistic, a huge misstep that cost him a fair number of votes.

But, that's bad campaigning for you. That and having to deal with the DNC's corruption and violation of their own bylaws to smear him.

TheMisanthrope dear, re-read what I said. It's about the Congress as much as it is about the President. Until you fix the Congress, it doesn't matter who th President is. Obama's experience is a mild example of that.

@ 23, it's hardly like the Bernie or Bust crowd is ever reasonable themselves anymore.

@ 32, if you haven't copped to the idea that Bernie was running to change the platform and get the Democrats to acknowledge and shore up the base, and was not running for the presidency, knowing full well how much of America is still scared of the word "Socialist," it's time to figure that out now.

@34 He was running for both reasons. He's a politician first, and not an altogether altruistic one. Had the DNC not acted so skeezy during the presidential primary, they might have succeeded in changing the image people have of the party as a sleazy, image-centric, lip-service-only do-nothing party that caters to limousine liberals and the one percent. America isn't scared of the word socialist anymore. The Democrats just want you to believe that so you won't actually vote for one. If you haven't copped to that game...well, it's too late this year.

@35: "Had the DNC not acted so skeezy during the presidential primary, they might have succeeded in changing the image people have of the party as a sleazy, image-centric, lip-service-only do-nothing party that caters to limousine liberals and the one percent."
Bernie and his campaign were dead-set on painting the DNC as corrupt and criminal from day one, as evinced by the furious allegations of outright voter fraud every time Bernie lost a state.
"America isn't scared of the word socialist anymore"
Trump and Clinton literally have better favorable/unfavorable ratings than socialism. http://www.gallup.com/poll/191354/americ…

@36 Turns out there was a bunch of behind the scenes collusion and corruption that caused the chairwoman to get fired just before the convention (and rehired by Hillary). I wonder what else is in the emails about voter fraud... They say there is more to come.

Also, Socialism: 30% Hillary: 31%

Somehow, you think Hillary is going to get President but socialism never had a chance. K...*cuckoo cuckoo*