Bill Clinton Mocks Berniecrats: 'Shoot Every Third Person on Wall Street'

[leftcoastmountains]

Bill Clinton took aim at Bernie Sanders supporters on Friday. "I think it's fine that all these young students have been so enthusiastic for her opponent, and it sounds so good, just shoot every third person on Wall Street and everything will be fine," Clinton told NBC News, according to reporter Brad Jaffy. Clinton later said that "that's a joke, it's a total joke."

Bernie Sanders hit back at Clinton on Friday, tweeting an earlier version of this article. "We should be encouraging young people to get involved in politics, not disparaging them. This seems to be a pattern," Sanders tweeted.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/04/15/bill-mocks-sanders-young-students.html

[DetroitSocialist83]

1. Wow

Way to deflect from what is really being advocated for. Go home Bill.

[Duval]

6. How cute! (sarcasm)

And please shut up, Bill!

[roguevalley]

40. he's a total bumbling fool. Hanging out with banksters and pedophiles has cost him his soul

[grasswire]

2. keep it up, Clintons

Bill is sounding more and more like Grumpy McCain.

Way to alienate voters under 40!

[appalachiablue]

12. Where's his leash, the good one?

[Peregrine Took]

32. The blue extension leash?

I think they save it for going to the park.

[appalachiablue]

33. No saving for the Park, it's needed daily now, plus the hi tech GPS monitor 24/7. Brock's slipping..

[Fawke Em]

28. Hell, I'm 46 and it alienated me.

And my Mom, who is 67.

[enlightenment]

3. I'm starting to think

Bill wants Bernie to win the nod - because every time he opens his mouth, he drives more people away from his wife.

[Scootaloo]

13. Hillary's support stems mostly from people who have a livid HATRED of sanders

So what she or bill or anyone else does, doesn't matter at all to them.

[Bernin4U]

21. I don't know if it's so much with Bernie himself

...as that they're simply infatuated with the Clintons.

And can't fathom the idea that anyone would dare stand in the way of her getting her turn.

[roguevalley]

41. the people that hate bernie hate that their money will be put to good use.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

19. he will be on a short leash as first whatever

he can not be happy

[redruddyred]

34. seems bill is too often the albatross around poor hillary's neck

she chose him, i guess. and then Stood By Her Man

[RepubliCON-Watch]

4. GO HOME, You're Drunk you rat bastard!

Freakin' disgrace he is.

[brewens]

5. It'd be a good start!

[Politicalboi]

7. What a loser he is

I bet he and her NEED this to pay back all the favors they owe. They both are disgusting. Pissed off the younger voters like Bernie. Too bad asshole, they've done their homework and they know who is the better choice.

[arcane1]

8. "This seems to be a pattern". Indeed it does, Bernie.

Indeed it does.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

9. no - it's "jump you fuckers"

anybody got that pic?

[abelenkpe]

16. Here you go:

[SoLeftIAmRight]

18. Many Many Thanks

...

[redruddyred]

36. is this from OWS?

i thought those dangerous signpoles were banned anymore, almost like some assault weapons

[abelenkpe]

45. Think it's from OWS

Here's a link to ahttp://weknowmemes.com/2011/10/30-more-signs-from-occupywallstreet/rticle:

[Scootaloo]

10. Something is fucking wrong with him.

[Actor]

11. Bill comes from the hard knocks world originally but has been associated with

power and money for so long he has forgotten just how hard it is to spend your entire life worried about money.

I dont think he is nearly as bad as any republican in this regard, he or Hillary, but he has forgotten what it is like.

[Scootaloo]

15. I think they're worse

With a Republican, you k now they're a Republican.

With a Clinton, you have something that walks like a Republican, talks like a Republican, acts like a Republican, thinks like a Republican, votes like a republican, campaigns like a Republican, but is somehow on a democratic party ticket.

[Actor]

17. Hillary is worse than Cruz or Trump? Wow...i took a wrong turn somewhere.

[Bernin4U]

22. "Acting like a Republican" = "worse than Trump or Cruz"?

Some cute logic.

[Actor]

26. That person said Hillary is worse than a republican, not me.

[Scootaloo]

24. Getting betrayed by a false friend hurts worse than getting punched by an avowed enemy.

[Actor]

27. So you do think it would be better to have Trump or Cruz as president than Hillary?

[Scootaloo]

29. I think attempting to cram words into my mouth is a fine way to get bitten

[roguevalley]

42. bill grew up in the south during Jim Crow. I think he's reverting to some of the kinds of entitled

white condescension he grew up in.

[Scootaloo]

43. To revert implies he ever "got better"

[roguevalley]

44. true that.

[appalachiablue]

52. +1. I don't do deception & betrayal well, especially of the working and middle classes,

traditional Democratic constituents 'with no place else to go' abandoned after Reagan by the DLC, New, Third Way Dems. in their alliance with WS and the banks, Silicon Valley, the Biotech Industry- 'the creative, Ivy League, professional class', as writer Thomas Frank emphasizes in his revealing new book, 'Listen, Liberal!'
And yes, a person who behaves, thinks and talks like a conservative Republican is one, no label can dispute the reality.

[TM99]

14. Bill has always been a dick.

Old age and health problems is just meaning less self-censoring and persona management.

This is the Bill Clinton I have always loathed since Arkansas.

[redruddyred]

35. who needs a dick?

when a cigar will do?

[TM99]

37. Clever.

I always enjoy a good reverse Freudianism!

[redruddyred]

38. sometimes a cigar...

...is not just a cigar

how u like that?

[TM99]

39. I'll take either.

[Half-Century Man]

20. While I admire Bill's enthusiasm,

He could dial it back a bit.

[TheCowsCameHome]

23. Early signs of .....

what Ronald Reagan had.

[LiberalElite]

25. They really don't want our vote do they nt

[retrowire]

30. i hear a victim complex out of that line

shoot every third person on Wall Street?? no Bill we just want them to stop dodging taxes.

Grow the fuck up Bill.

[TexasBushwhacker]

46. Shooting every 3rd one works better than

"Cut it out!"

[Matt_in_STL]

31. Is he still angry that we won't sleep with him?

Nothing worse than a jilted lover.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

47. We don't need another Joker in the White House

[dana_b]

48. He really needs to just go away

that is some slimy shit there. And they expect that if she wins the nom that we will actually vote for her after all of this disgusting behavior?

[JDPriestly]

49. That comment proves to me that Bill Clinton is not fit to be in the White House.

He really does not understand why so many of us want reform on Wall Street.

He is rich, so he thinks everything is OK.

He wasn't paying attention when Americans were losing their homes, the banks were extorting money out of Congress, and hard working people were losing their jobs and incomes, many their businesses.

The Clintons are out of touch. Really out of touch.

Our financial sector is out of proportion with the rest of our economy. As Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet's good friend and colleague, was quoted as saying earlier this week, Americans are gambling too much. That is especially true of Wall Street, and many of us are sick and tired of it. It's our money and our society they are gambling with.

Charlie Munger is a Republican, but he said that he agrees with Bernie and Elizabeth Warren about the problems with Wall Street:

The truth of the matter is that . . . Elizabeth Warren doesn’t agree with me on many subjects, and I wouldn’t agree with her on many subjects, but she is basically right when she says that American finance is out of control and that it isn’t good for the rest of us. Both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are not two of my favorite people on earth, but they are absolutely right [about finance].

You all see what goes on in finance: the craziness, the promotions, the fuzzy accounting, the crazy trading cultures…. It’s very bad for all of us that we have this huge overdevelopment of finance. And yet it’s very hard to do anything about it.

What happened: if you look back to, say, Edwardian England or the First World War, maybe 300 people, males, owned half the land in England. They had nothing to do. I mean, their under-butlers had under-butlers. What did they do, they went down to the clubs in London and sat around the card tables and gambled with one another for high stakes. That’s what human nature does when people have a lot of leisure. Fade in, fade out, and multiply the wealth per capita of the world by 30 or so and now we got all kinds of people who are like the lords of England who had all that time to play cards against one another and enjoy the thrills and things of gambling.

So we have a vast gambling culture, and people have made it respectable. Instead of betting on horses or prizefights, we can bet on the price of securities or the price of derivatives relating to securities, and we can bet on athletic contests. We have a huge amount of legalized gambling. And of course the public market, which operates every day with transactions, is an ideal casino. And there are a whole bunch of people who want to own a casino and make a lot of money without losing money on inventories or credit . . . and many other irritating parts of business. Just to sit there every night and go higher and higher. Who doesn’t want to be croupier in a casino? And very respectable people get drawn into it. They see other people getting rich.

http://www.businessinsider.com/charlie-munger-warns-about-american-finance-2016-4

I hope all DUers read all of Charlie Munger's statements.

Bill Clinton also needs to read Munger's remarks.

[slipslidingaway]

50. Hillary "I feel sorry sometimes for the young people who, you know, believe this. They don't do...

their own research. And I'm glad that we now can point to reliable, independent analysis to say, "No, it's just not true."

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-april-3-2016-n549916


Why are they trying to marginalize young voters?


"HILLARY CLINTON:

I do not have--I have money from people who work for fossil fuel companies. I am so sick--I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me. I'm sick of it.

(END TAPE)

CHUCK TODD:

Madame Secretary, I know you couldn't see the clip, but you probably heard it. You were caught saying, "I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about my record." What are they lying about?

HILLARY CLINTON:

Well, let me first say that, you know, I'm used to criticism. I've been taking it for a very long time. But I care passionately about climate change. And I have been working to try to move us away from fossil fuels for many years. When I was in the Senate, I introduced legislation to take away the subsidies.

I voted against Dick Cheney's energy bill in 2005. And I could go on and on. When I got to be secretary of state, I was at the original meeting in 2009 with President Obama, where we were trying to convince China and India and others to come on board with accepting some restrictions that would lead to what finally occurred with the Paris agreement.

So when people make these kinds of claims, which now I think I have been debunked; actually The Washington Post said three Pinocchios, The New York Times also analyzed it, and other independent analysts have said that they are misrepresenting my record. I'm just not going to, I feel sorry sometimes for the young people who, you know, believe this. They don't do their own research. And I'm glad that we now can point to reliable, independent analysis to say, "No, it's just not true."

[840high]

51. Something is not right with Bill.

[eridani]

53. OK Bill--when do we start? n/t