Is there a real time site with delegate vote count?
Don't think so, since this is basically entirely a rah rah showpiece.
Ohh, I was lead to believe that Bernie had a chance. Dam Reddit misleading me.
I can't tell if you're serious or not. Delegates are bound to vote as their primaries dictated. Ergo, we've known the count since the end of the last state primary.
(An old friend of Hillary and her parents vote for Hillary for Illinois)
Hillary's mother's story is such a tragic and triumphant one, and makes this an even better story
Spoilering this because I posted it at the end of the last thread, but for anyone who missed it please click for a message from your dear friends in Ireland.
Hi there, Americans! I'm jumping into your election thread to pass on a quick message from your dear friends in Ireland.
It appears in the wake of your First Lady's speech (which was epic by the way) a storm of rage has been unleashed upon the internets. The main thrust of this collective teeth gnashing seems to be the following assertions:
1) The Irish built the White House
2) The Irish were kept as slaves as well as Black slaves (some say the Irish were enslaved first)
3) Irish slaves were treated far worse than Black slaves
As someone born, raised and currently living in Ireland who was taught Irish history in detail as part of our national school curriculum growing up and has kept on an interest in it in the years since, I would like to offer the following minor clarification on these points.
IRISH PEOPLE WERE NOT SLAVES!
EVER!
THAT IS BULLSHIT!
*cough* ...and alas, while we built many fine buildings in the US and other countries, we can't claim the White House as the fruits of our labour. It was indeed built primarily by Black labourers, some free, most not.
Now, I have no doubt that there are historical sources out there claiming that there was a slave trade in Irish slaves. I've come across a couple myself - always online, never in a library. Invariably, when these sources are examined in any detail, they turn out to be bullshit wildly inaccurate. This hasn't stopped a great many people mistakingly accepting the notion of "Irish Slaves" as historical fact. You might even, on occasion, come across a true born Irish person like myself who has read about it / heard about it and assumes it to be true.
There is a quick two second method for debunking this fact.
Ask them "What did your teacher tell you about it in school?"
Irish history is long, rich and varied and is taught to us from Primary School (I think you call it Middle School?) onwards. We don't shy away from any shitty things that have happened to us, and a more than a few shitty things have happened to us (not naming any Great Famines and not looking at any British people who have wandered into the thread) but I can promise you that you will NEVER find an Irish history textbook with a single chapter on Irish Slavery. Except possibly in Texas. But that's not our problem. Irish people weren't slaves.
We WERE slavers, however. I'm not just talking about the Irish emigrants who bought plantations and owned black slaves in the US, I'm talking early Irish history. Fun fact! Slavery is how we got our national Saint, our beloved Saint Patrick himself. He wasn't actually Irish. He was a Breton who was kidnapped by pirates and sold to an Irish farmer as a slave. You can read more about his whacky adventures as a slave in 5th century Ireland at your local library. He wrote quite a detailed account of it himself.
I'm bringing all this up because the collective wailing on Twitter has given birth to an #IrishLivesMatter hashtag.
No. I'm not kidding.
So, as an Irish person, my message is this: If you truly believe that Irish lives matter, please do not elect a man who is quite clearly stupid enough to nuke Ireland because he's mixed us up with Iran.
Thank you for your time, and please feel free to pass this post along to any racist idiots mistaken souls you may encounter online.
Getting way off topic, but...
There's actually one facinating way in which the Irish occaisionally did end up as slaves, and that's through the Barbary Slave trade. For example, the village of Baltimore in North Ireland was attacked in 1631, with over 100 settlers captured. The Barbary pirates made the mistake of attacking American ships - while America initially agreed to pay ransom for the taken men (the US paid out 10% of its budget in tribute to the Barbary pirates for over a decade), it led to the creation of the American navy, followed by the First Barbary War.
On an interesting note, one of the ships that America sent to the First Barbary War was the Enterprise - it won a battle against a 14-gun ship from Tripoli. The Constitution also fought in that war. The First Barbary War marked the first time that the American flag was raised in victory on foreign soil. The Barbary Coast pirates and slavers were bad dudes, who literally enslaved millions of people over the centuries. And it was basically America that put an end to them - though it took a second Barbary War to make it happen.
And of course, those Irish slaves would have ended up building the White House.
Seriously though, the First Barbary War is such a fascinating conflict that involved a young, scrappy and hungry nation kicking ass, it had evil pirate slavers, it had famous ships, exotic locations, Thomas Jefferson being played by a white guy, all sorts of crazy things like that.
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At least he's not just using the marker to draw dicks on the seating.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Crossing out "most" and writing in "least" rather than making a new sign is literally the least you can do.
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Context?
I can't tell if you're serious or not. Delegates are bound to vote as their primaries dictated. Ergo, we've known the count since the end of the last state primary.
Bernie's brother gave a speech through the Americans abroad delegation. Made Bernie cry.
Was Sanders' older brother giving the last vote for Sanders from Democrats Abroad.
Bernie's brother talking about their parents, as a part of the Democrats Abroad delegation. I didn't know he had a brother.
Yeah but I can imagine myself doing that 100%. Nerves.
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Penny Arcade Rockstar Social Club / This is why I despise cyclists
Trying to catch 'em all
Just as a courtesy!
Video of Bernie tearing up:
NNID: Hakkekage
I imagine it's also so loud in there that it's hard to hear when the secretary is done, too.
President speaks Wednesday. Same day as Kaine, I believe.
heyyyyyy
Just Bill I think
Just Bill. Biden, Barack, and Kaine tomorrow.
Bill yes, Obama no. Obama is tomorrow.
A little dusty in here...
Here's today's list.
https://www.demconvention.com/event-categories/july-26/
Hillary's mother's story is such a tragic and triumphant one, and makes this an even better story
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Getting way off topic, but...
On an interesting note, one of the ships that America sent to the First Barbary War was the Enterprise - it won a battle against a 14-gun ship from Tripoli. The Constitution also fought in that war. The First Barbary War marked the first time that the American flag was raised in victory on foreign soil. The Barbary Coast pirates and slavers were bad dudes, who literally enslaved millions of people over the centuries. And it was basically America that put an end to them - though it took a second Barbary War to make it happen.
And of course, those Irish slaves would have ended up building the White House.
Seriously though, the First Barbary War is such a fascinating conflict that involved a young, scrappy and hungry nation kicking ass, it had evil pirate slavers, it had famous ships, exotic locations, Thomas Jefferson being played by a white guy, all sorts of crazy things like that.
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for context, the big punchline was "Pence, you're fired"