#BernieOrBust + #NeverHillary = #ElectTrump

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Donald Trump is now the leader of the Republican Party. It's real – he is one step away from the White House. Here's what else is real: Trump has built his campaign on racism, sexism, and xenophobia. There's more enthusiasm for him among leaders of the KKK than leaders of the political party he now controls. He incites supporters to violence, praises Putin, and, according to a columnist who recently interviewed him, is "cool with being called an authoritarian" and doesn't mind associations with history's worst dictators. He attacks veterans like John McCain who were captured and puts our servicemembers at risk by cheerleading illegal torture. In a world with ISIS militants and leaders like North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Un conducting nuclear tests, he surrounds himself with a foreign policy team that has been called a "collection of charlatans," and puts out contradictory and nonsensical national security ideas one expert recently called "incoherent" and "truly bizarre." What happens next will test the character for all of us – Republican, Democrat, and Independent. It will determine whether we move forward as one nation or splinter at the hands of one man's narcissism and divisiveness. I know which side I'm on, and I’m going to fight my heart out to make sure Donald Trump’s toxic stew of hatred and insecurity never reaches the White House.

Elizabeth Warren

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Donald Trump, the now-presumptive Republican nominee, and his hateful and bigoted rhetoric are not only a political threat but a clear and present danger to the very fabric of our nation. Trump’s campaign has been fueled by racist, bigoted, xenophobic, misogynistic and violent rhetoric that not only divides our nation but also makes us less secure. The fact that Trump is now the presumptive nominee is a sad but telling statement about the current Republican Party. And for those in the Republican Party who take solace in the notion that Trump can shift to being more so-called ‘presidential’ or that those in vulnerable races can run away from him, we have news for you—the record of Trump’s outrageous, offensive and outright un-American comments and actions is a mile long and he, and you, will not be able to run from it. While we will continue our work in support of the Sanders campaign, which MoveOn members launched with an endorsement vote in January, and work for every vote in the upcoming Democratic contests, it is clear that we must be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. Given this, tonight we are announcing that we are committed to running a multimillion-dollar campaign to keep the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, out of the White House and to ensure the country rejects his hateful and dangerous rhetoric. Our nation is better than this.

Statement of Ilya Sheyman, Executive Director of MoveOn.org Political Action

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Chomsky: I'd 'absolutely' vote for Hillary Clinton

"Oh absolutely…my vote would be against the Republican candidate."

“Oh absolutely…my vote would be against the Republican candidate,” Chomsky told Al Jazeera English’s Mehdi Hasan in a two-part interview — part of which will air Friday on “UpFront.”

Chomsky cited “enormous differences” between the two major political parties. “Every Republican candidate is either a climate change denier or a skeptic who says we can’t do it,” Chomsky said. “What they are saying is, ‘Let’s destroy the world.’ Is that worth voting against? Yeah.”

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Patton Oswalt: ‘You’re A F**king Child’ If You Don’t Vote Because You Hate Hillary

“I will vote for whoever the Democrats nominate against either of those two psychopaths."

“I will vote for whoever the Democrats nominate against either of those two psychopaths,” he said. “I think they’re both equally dangerous and backward-facing for this country.”

Asked what he would say to a Bernie supporter who would rather not vote than cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton in the November general election, Oswalt replied, “Well, then you’re a fucking child.”

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...and while I incur the wrath of certain Sanders supporters for my post a little while ago (referring to the math mythology and hallucinatory notion...

I didn't even say what that should be, except that supporting a 3rd party run by Sanders would be asinine because that would guarantee a Trump victory (again, because I can count). It's one thing to say you won't vote for Clinton out of principle. I can respect that decision, even if I think it might be the wrong one, because in all likelihood the numbers of people doing that wouldn't be enough to hand the election to Trump, though it would send a message to the Democrats that they ought not take shit for granted. But to take an action that will ensure a Trump victory seems outrageously reactionary to me. It's the equivalent of a temper tantrum. It's like saying, "if Clinton can't earn my vote I'll show her and that whole party by helping hand the country to a fascist, and that'll learn 'em!" No, it will simply hand the country to a fascist. Not in the "everyone to to the right of Bernie Sanders is a fascist" sense of that word, but in the real sense of that word. And nothing good will come of it. Nothing. Everything bad Clinton would do he will also do, and then some ... But doing things that would embolden the most reactionary forces in this country (who I beg to remind you are not by and large Clinton supporters but Trump supporters), is a betrayal. And when Senator Sanders says the same thing, as I suspect he certainly will, what will you say then? That he's a sell-out?”

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George Takei on Twitter

“This is a message from me, to all who voted or will vote in the Democratic primary. #RespectandCivility”