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stopbush

(24,630 posts)
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 06:54 PM Jun 2016

Hardball Panel Talking About Sanders' Ego-driven, Unrealistic Demands on Hillary

Just now on MSNBC.

"He's overplaying his hand."

"He doesn't have the leverage he and his supporters think he has."

"He's been in front of these cheering crowds of kids for a year. He's not ready to give that up. It's his ego."

"There's a Back-to-the-future sense about his policies. There's nothing new here (and there's a resemblance to Christopher Lloyd)."

"None of his policies are realistic or doable. You're going to give every family in America a government check that's more than anyone paid to the government."

"None of his demands will be adopted by Hillary."

They really beat him up pretty mercilessly.

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Hardball Panel Talking About Sanders' Ego-driven, Unrealistic Demands on Hillary (Original Post) stopbush Jun 2016 OP
What many here have been saying all along. His personality disorder is finally being eastwestdem Jun 2016 #1
About ******* TIME! Cha Jun 2016 #2
Yep. They also brought up the fact that most losers concede stopbush Jun 2016 #3
So many of us had his number a long time ago.. Cha Jun 2016 #6
Giving up after everyone is laughing at you doesn't mean much. CrowCityDem Jun 2016 #4
"He doesn't have the leverage he and his supporters think he has." Number23 Jun 2016 #5
I hope he stays in. We don't need him and he will be a pathetic afterthought by July!!! Walk away Jun 2016 #7
Exactly.. we don't need him.. he's not part of the solution so he just Cha Jun 2016 #11
this is why egotistical politicians drop out after they've been beaten geek tragedy Jun 2016 #8
Bernie has devolved into a full-blown messiah complex. teamster633 Jun 2016 #9
we'll have a better idea starting in 12 minutes, we'll see what he offers nt geek tragedy Jun 2016 #10
He should have just said "Bling, Blong" it would have gone over better! Walk away Jun 2016 #12
GOOD. Sorry I missed hardball tonight! Maru Kitteh Jun 2016 #13
Post removed Post removed Jun 2016 #14
Good discussion. Realpolitik 101. Sanders now believes in his own myth. Big mistake. Surya Gayatri Jun 2016 #15
Good we can quit defering to Sanders now workinclasszero Jun 2016 #16
Love that...there is another one that was posted recently...dont remember if it was a Lucinda Jun 2016 #17
LOL workinclasszero Jun 2016 #18
 

eastwestdem

(1,220 posts)
1. What many here have been saying all along. His personality disorder is finally being
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 06:57 PM
Jun 2016

discussed on national media. I agree that he has very little leverage left.

Cha

(305,118 posts)
2. About ******* TIME!
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 06:57 PM
Jun 2016

Couldn't happen to a more well deserving 2nd placer who won't admit he lost.

Thanks stop.. a lot!

Cha

(305,118 posts)
6. So many of us had his number a long time ago..
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 07:03 PM
Jun 2016

I hate being ******* right on this.

I appreciate you watching this and reporting back.. I may never have known that this panel sees the whole BS fiasco for what it is.

Number23

(24,544 posts)
5. "He doesn't have the leverage he and his supporters think he has."
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 07:02 PM
Jun 2016

That is the ENTIRE crux of the issue. Nothing else need even be mentioned.

He does not have the leverage, power, authority or whatever anyone wants to call it that he and his supporters think he has. He is the one who lost, nothing more or less, and I GENUINELY don't understand why he believes otherwise.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
7. I hope he stays in. We don't need him and he will be a pathetic afterthought by July!!!
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 07:04 PM
Jun 2016

Run Bernie Run!!!!!!

Cha

(305,118 posts)
11. Exactly.. we don't need him.. he's not part of the solution so he just
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 07:46 PM
Jun 2016

needs to get out of the way.

Can you imagine what Hillary thinks of him by now? If it's anything like what we're thinking.. ! lol

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
8. this is why egotistical politicians drop out after they've been beaten
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 07:05 PM
Jun 2016

not because they're team players, but because they turn into laughingstocks

teamster633

(2,032 posts)
9. Bernie has devolved into a full-blown messiah complex.
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 07:17 PM
Jun 2016

He is so sure of his moral rectitude that reality doesn't even register anymore. He sees himself as a martyr to his glorious cause...incapable of knowing shame because nothing that anyone else thinks matters at all to him.

Response to stopbush (Original post)

 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
15. Good discussion. Realpolitik 101. Sanders now believes in his own myth. Big mistake.
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 10:35 AM
Jun 2016

Base end to a positive beginning.

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)
17. Love that...there is another one that was posted recently...dont remember if it was a
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 12:35 PM
Jun 2016

photoshop thing or a cartoon, but Hillary was sitting behind the Resolute desk in the oval office and Bernie was smushed up against the window on the outside looking in.

Between the two, it sums up Bernie post election pretty well!

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