fwiw though I do think Bernie would be the guy Trump would have the most trouble with; he's not "establishment", he's not boring, he doesn't have ties to the Clintons, not to mention that Trump, the guy who promises everything under the sun, is gonna have difficulty with the "better things aren't possible" line
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
Pres Keyes is right about the line they should use, let's not tell them, tho
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
too late
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
drat!!!
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
Give Joe Walsh credit for consistency:
This isn’t complicated. “Never Trump,” “never-Trump” or, if you prefer, #NeverTrump has always been a straightforward concept — the word “never” is right there in the name. But with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) moving ahead of the pack as the clear front-runner in this year’s Democratic presidential primaries, some of my Republican and ex-Republican brethren have started implying that what never-Trump actually meant was something more like: fingers-crossed-I-really-really-hope-not-Trump-but-I-guess-sometimes-Trump if Democrats wind up nominating a self-described democratic socialist. But that’s not how this works.
I mean, I get it. They’re chafing at the thought of voting for a guy who calls his movement a “political revolution,” talks nonstop about Medicare-for-All (but talks a lot less about how he’ll pay for it) and who said “it’s unfair to simply say everything is bad” about Fidel Castro — not in a stray comment back in his radical heyday, but in a “60 Minutes” interview earlier this week. And I sympathize: My congressional career was short-lived, but I came in with the original tea party wave. If it were up to me, Sanders isn’t the guy I’d put in charge.
But when I finally came around to saying, “never Trump,” I meant it. And if you’re a Republican who claimed the never-Trump label as a badge of honor during the last few years, to prove to the world that you’re a principled conservative, and not a Trump dupe, then you should have meant it, too.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
for those who can't read it:
In 2016, sadly, I supported Trump. I freely admit that I’m a second-wave never-Trumper. But once I got here, it was always my plan to stay. Because, for me, the ways in which Trump threatens this country go beyond left-right ideology. He lies constantly. He grants pardons to toadies. He conflates America’s financial interests with his own. He uses his bully pulpit to air a never-ending, year-round list of Festivus grievances.
He surrounds himself with lackeys and purges staff who won’t do his bidding. He’s an authoritarian who once said, with a straight face, “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want.” That’s a bigger threat to America than free college, a $15-per-hour minimum wage and Glass-Steagall part deux. Yes, I’m a fiscal conservative who still worries about the national debt. But not as much as I worry about Trump wrecking my country.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
Narrator: ...
― Expart of Languidge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
If we win I'll send Joe Walsh a copy of Prison Notebooks.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
If Bernie wrote all that bad shit 50 years ago, imagine what he wrote 100 years ago.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
talks nonstop about Medicare-for-All (but talks a lot less about how he’ll pay for it)
maybe we can use a portion of the money we save from eliminating the significantly more expensive healthcare plans we have now
Yes, I’m a fiscal conservative who still worries about the national debt.
well then perhaps you should stop voting for the party that explodes it every time they get into office
i'm glad these people aren't voting Trump but jfc they're still dumb as rocks
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
Idk how Bernie did in the debates but I just donated $27. First donation to the campaign
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 04:27 (four years ago) link
Poll of Democratic Debate Watchers nationwide:Sanders was seen as the candidate who made the best case he could beat Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/eFjGKK09jg— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) February 26, 2020
I'll fkin take it, sounds like it was a waste of an evening (even moreso than usual)
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 04:33 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgCfJxpqhd0&feature=youtu.be
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 04:52 (four years ago) link
oh ffs
"(Drunk and Shirtless) Bernie Sanders sings "This Land is Your Land" with Soviets 1988"
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 04:53 (four years ago) link
hot
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 05:00 (four years ago) link
Another already-circulated video.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 05:10 (four years ago) link
The fact that Bloomie has essentially unlimited resources and absolutely nothing new has shown up once again suggests to me that the well is dry.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 05:13 (four years ago) link
Bloomberg being anywhere near Warren in polls just pisses me off
― avellano medio Inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 05:20 (four years ago) link
xp for sure, just wanted to appreciate it
a friend commented (and I agree) "basically, this just makes him look cooler"
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 05:30 (four years ago) link
i though babies have to wear diapers at the beach because poop just falls out of them?
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 05:59 (four years ago) link
A disgrace. https://t.co/O4G9u0xfDr— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 26, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:32 (four years ago) link
Lol
Looking forward to hearing more enthusiastic support from my opponents tonight. pic.twitter.com/ZmuYx6qPyC— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 26, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link
good ad from the Unity Candidate, Bernard Sanders
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 12:39 (four years ago) link
Bernard Samners.
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
I feel so extroardinaryBernie's got a hold on me
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
Is Seth Meyers.... good? https://t.co/sDZWq7Ht9X— Nando (@nandorvila) February 26, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
very good
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
Sir Ne Banders
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
Banners Reside
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:19 (four years ago) link
How is it possible that I can’t go get a sixer of Bernie Brews?
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:24 (four years ago) link
Sandie Berners
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:24 (four years ago) link
sad knee burners
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
and ive had my share lemme tellya
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link
I’m stoked about President Bernie.
― treeship., Wednesday, 26 February 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
If he is elected, though, it will show the bipolar nature of America, swerving from mr moneybags monopoly gordon gekko man to a democratic socialist who seems actually disgusted, on a moral and aesthetic level, with greed and excess
― treeship., Wednesday, 26 February 2020 23:38 (four years ago) link
can anybody point me to a nytimes or wapo story from the sticks of nevada talking to a bunch of galoots in a diner about why they like bernie sanders?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERv5KewW4AEmr_V?format=jpg&name=medium
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 27 February 2020 03:13 (four years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 February 2020 03:14 (four years ago) link
"Biden, was a hero to most..."
― nickn, Thursday, 27 February 2020 03:48 (four years ago) link
Bern Hollywood Bern
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 27 February 2020 04:23 (four years ago) link
oooh nice
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Thursday, 27 February 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
Looking forward to the October music festival road show of Bernie endorsers
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 27 February 2020 04:30 (four years ago) link
bernie public and sanders enemy
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Thursday, 27 February 2020 04:35 (four years ago) link
just PE and RTJ would make a pretty good tour tbf
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Thursday, 27 February 2020 04:35 (four years ago) link
Judgement Night soundtrack pairing of rock and rap acts feeling the Bern - Parquet Courts have already worked with Bun B, PE + Kim Gordon, Cardi B + Soccer Mommy
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 27 February 2020 04:44 (four years ago) link
when the whole squad is on point
pic.twitter.com/IJAYbnmDRb— Cursed Boomer Images (@WeWuzBoomers) February 27, 2020
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 February 2020 14:21 (four years ago) link
wonder if Rob Reiner will live long enough to film The Death of Bernie
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 February 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
so NYT has a story today that superdelegates are burnin' to stop Bern if he enters the con w/ a mere plurality
who'll be watching the world burn then?
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 February 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
By revealing their plans, the quoted superdelegates (only a tenth of them!) showed what a buncha maroons they were; they couldn't march down the street for coffee, much less destroy Sanders. Plus, they haven't rallied around anyone. As I told a FB friend, the NYT couldn't not assign and publish this story because it loves "[X] IN DISARRAY" stories. I'm not sure what power Nancy Pelosi exerts over superdelegates, but she already said yesterday that she'll support Sanders if he's the nominee. Look at it more closely: the reporters spoke to a tenth of the super delegates whose consensus opinion is: Sanders shouldn't automatically get the nomination merely because he has a plurality. They don't seem to be saying that they are committed to voting against him in that scenario. But, again, it's political reporting commissioned by the NYT, which often is indistinguishable from POLITICO.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 February 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
haven't read the story, so it figures
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 February 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link