One would think you’d be quicker to detect when you’re being trolled
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 03:51 (four years ago) link
The left block's votes should be for sale and Biden should be able to buy them with policy that the left wants this is how politics works.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 04:18 (four years ago) link
I agree and it's really just a Catch 22 applied to anyone to the left of John Kerry.
If the desire is framed as a need for Democrats to be better of their own volition, leftists are silly children for not recognizing the ways of the world and the fait accompli of moderation, here's three tweets from Matt Yglesias about why better things aren't possible.
If the desire is framed as a calculation that the left is needed for Democrats to win and should be encouraged to shrug off the emotional abuse of their singular culpability for the losses of Democrats now and in the future, leftists are silly brats for not accepting the fait accompli of moderation so they can be inside the room to complain when Biden's entitlement reform grand bargain is hammered out with Mitch McConnell. Biden bargained him down so that hedge fund CEOs are only allowed to harvest the skin of one person on Medicaid every quarter instead of two - how can you be mad at that?!
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 06:36 (four years ago) link
Old dog tomboto learning new tricks here is another shitty tweet:
wisconsin, which just held an in person election, has the same population size, density, and demographics as minnesota. practically identical.they also have twice as many confirmed COVID cases and deaths.wonder what that's about.— isi breen (its pronounced ‘izzy’) (@isaiah_kb) April 15, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 07:05 (four years ago) link
Well shit, Uncle Joe said the magic words. Clearly he has embraced progressive policy after decades of opposition, the Overton Window is permanently shifted hallelujah hallelujah
lmao pic.twitter.com/Alh5hxqtmB— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) April 13, 2020
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 08:57 (four years ago) link
I guess "the left" can only be "a block of votes for sale" through organization is the thing. DSA sort of does this, but they spread their endorsements and resources judiciously in a way that I think totally makes sense for an organization of their relatively limited size and reach. I think what I am objecting to is more the sort of atomized, individualized sense of "Oh my personal disgust at Biden! The Democratic party will never get MY vote!" as though the Democratic Party is going to count up people on twitter who say that and give a shit. What I guess could be more effective is, e.g., the Bernie campaign organization agreeing to actually put manpower behind Biden in exchange for concessions, which may already be happening.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
i think it is happening
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
I'm sure they're thrilled
― Fleetwood Machiavelli (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
No one can have a reaction but 'they'll never get MY vote,' that's the only one you get to cast.
(Unless you're in Chicago.)
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
And, as above, Bernie can do whatever he wants but he (literally) can't guarantee all of those individual votes for Biden. He can push Biden to make the policy concessions that will bring all of those individual votes and voters into the fold.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
Khsama Sawant('s byline(?)) on the end: https://www.socialistalternative.org/2020/04/09/sanders-suspends-campaign-working-people-need-our-own-party/
― silby, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
SERIES PITCH: Well-meaning social democrat befriends a pro-segregationist accused of sexual assault, sharing the wackiest townhouse in DC. The thing writes itself. pic.twitter.com/a6eAwsnvyI— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) April 16, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 April 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
well, Perrin does to no audience.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link
lolol
Bernie Sanders, the liberal figure best positioned to push for concessions from Biden, so far has declined to support Elizabeth Warren as VP despite their ideological alliance, according to three people familiar with his conversations with Biden. https://t.co/fezwkouZgz— Matt Viser (@mviser) May 5, 2020
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 02:54 (four years ago) link
don’t Biden and Warren hate each other?
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 02:57 (four years ago) link
I looove Beltway stories!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:01 (four years ago) link
Hard to say if Bernie has enough leverage to strongly influence Biden's veep choice. I'd doubt he has much pull there. Policy concessions can be set aside after an election, but a veep is forever. plus, most prez nominees like to think their veep choices are a big factor in a winning election strategy, so Bernie could only 'win' by agreeing with Biden's personal choice.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:03 (four years ago) link
Joe calls Michelle once a week to ask her to be VP forgetting she turned him down the first three times and now she just lets it go to voicemail.
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:17 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/XIm1PMC.png
NPG and the red hot chili peppers
― porlockian solicitor (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
we wanna change the world, the only thing that's in our way is anthony kiedes
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
😭😭😭
The richest 400 Americans sit on $3 trillion—the size of the entire UK economy. The billionaire class now pays a lower tax rate than people living paycheck to paycheck. The looting of America has been going on for over 40 years—and the culprits are the ultra-rich.— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) June 1, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 June 2020 11:12 (four years ago) link
and I oooop
Can we all just admit this: The transformational changes that covid, the economic crisis, police brutality and racial turbulence will force are precisely some of the things Bernie Sanders was talking about but may have sounded too extreme to some just months ago.— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) June 8, 2020
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 8 June 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link
The first response is from a Warren cultist, who have become the most predictable people on Earth.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 8 June 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
this is the first response I saw:
I don’t recall Bernie discussing police brutality as systemic in the black community. In fact, he had racial blind spots and wanted to pivot to economic vs race...and oh btw, Seth Rogan. So, I don’t see it.— zzmama1 (@ZZMAMA1) June 8, 2020
― fatuous salad (symsymsym), Monday, 8 June 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
(shh, don't tell him, it's funnier)
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 8 June 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
Idg the Rogen digI don't think there's any question Bernie would not have done the "shoot em in the leg" bit but police violence wasn't in the forefront of the zeitgeist like it is now.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 8 June 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link
This was the idiot in the lead before, instead of that idiot.
No. Bernie never discussed race as a specific issue. Bernie's entire philosophy is about economic class issues. That was his fix for everything. Warren was better at incorporating both issues.— Anita Paul (@apawlh) June 8, 2020
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 8 June 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
the commenter had the wrong rogen/rogan
― fatuous salad (symsymsym), Monday, 8 June 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
Criminal justice reform was a big part of his platform. Police brutality itself was touched on in the "racial justice" section of his platform (which def existed and is still viewable: https://berniesanders.com/issues/racial-justice/) but in v broad terms. He also talked about it with Cardi B here, ha, mostly coming down to: police depts should look like the communities they serve, Dept of Justice should investigate police killings, scale back militarization of policehttps://youtu.be/p1ubTsrZFBU?t=84
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 8 June 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
xp yes, I think everyone noticed
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 8 June 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
Not as much to do with Bernie as the protests, but I'll put this here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/jamaal-bowman-blm-booker-protests/613432/
Really good to see.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 25 June 2020 11:25 (three years ago) link
The numbers are coming in.What’s going on in Kentucky, you ask???Something big.#ShockTheWorld pic.twitter.com/RD7kVaXzgQ— Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) June 25, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 25 June 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
Bill Clinton explicitly thanks James Clyburn "for ending, with a stroke of his hand," the Sanders campaign.pic.twitter.com/6lxMoeN0pH— Thomas Neuburger's errant politics (@Gaius_Publius) July 31, 2020
primary = "intra-family fight"
fuck this guy and the pedo-shuttle he flew in on
― singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 2 August 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
God bless our democracy
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 August 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
Clyburn's endorsement of Biden earned him some very big chits he can redeem later on. I hope he calls them in wisely in the service of obtaining real benefits for his constituency and beyond.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Sunday, 2 August 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
either that or Obama/Biden were redeeming their own chits
― singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 2 August 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
very normal eulogy material
― rob, Sunday, 2 August 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
I hope he calls them in wisely in the service of obtaining real benefits for his constituency and beyond.
By constituency you mean his donors in the pharmaceutical industry, presumably.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 2 August 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
nah. they didn't compel his endorsement, so they don't have a claim to the spoils.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Sunday, 2 August 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
lol thou art so innocent
reminds me of a recently deceased congressman saying he "didn't see (Bernie) down South" in the '60s
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 August 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
(that was in 2016)
bernie bros be hate-watching bill clinton speeches LOL
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Sunday, 2 August 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
just building a dossier vs a likely sex criminal
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 August 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
xp just a thirty second clip coming over the transom tbh
― singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 2 August 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Sunday, August 2, 2020 2:08 PM (fifty-four minutes ago)
my friend...
― k3vin k., Sunday, 2 August 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
reminder that the first major NY Times headline about Bernie Sanders accused him of being in the pocket of Big Poor pic.twitter.com/6HhHpisJCN— David Sirota (@davidsirota) November 11, 2020
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Thursday, 12 November 2020 08:17 (three years ago) link
Back when I was working on Bernie’s campaign, I remember suggesting to him that we send every working family seasonably scented candles (while avoiding the gauche, like pumpkin pie), and he turned to me and said, and I quote, “I fucking love your energy bitch”— gal debored (@ckayerawlings) November 14, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 14 November 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
I AM FUCKING SCREAMING!!!!!pic.twitter.com/MsX6bW4IBE— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) December 9, 2020
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
fuck these people so hard. just absolute dogshit
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
the same one who got mad when joe biden said something not even negative about "park avenue," like "but why wouldn't you want to represent people like me who live on park avenue." how divisive!!!11
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link