END TO END BERNERS: The Official Bernie Sanders 2020 Crew thread

it's fine when trump does it because he's a rugged capitalist but when bernie does it, it makes a mockery of his motivating belief that true socialism means that everyone must share their toothbrushes

this is great

Bernie’s video team is so damn good, it’s incredible. pic.twitter.com/df1TF8kDyg

— Bhaskar Sunkara (@sunraysunray) February 20, 2020

The trick to staving off hypocrisy is having no ethical principles whatsoever.

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that video absolutely fuckin' rules

does Shitpiro know the Trump2020 campaign began in 2017?

The Lake House stands as a devastating critique of Senator Sanders. Yes, Trump may be a compulsive liar, a sexual predator, a racist who embraces neo-Nazis, a dangerously ignorant braggart and a bully, who regularly stiffed his workers, hired undocumented aliens, defaulted on his debts, ran a fraudulent university and fraudulent charity, and seems to be in love with every dictator he ever met.

But, my friends, Bernie is a HYPOCRITE!!

all Dem candidates must live in lean-to shacks

love too elide the distinction between personal and private property, as well as the vast gulf in wealth between millionaires and billionaires, for cynical political purposes

Bernie talks about ending student debt..

but his wife worked at a college...

a college that charged money...

to students

He has spent money once even though he believes everyone is entitled to free stuff.

Solzenitshyn thought Communism was pretty bad but where did that fur hat come from, hm?

lol i swear at the end of the video i thought i started hearing bill murray's caddyshack bit

The pictures of the three houses here are a bit lol in context of the framing: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/politics/lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-socialist-bernie-sanders-has-3-houses-makes-millions.amp

He owns a SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE in a small city in the state he represents and a ONE BEDROOM ROW HOUSE in the capital where he works. ALSO A BUNGALOW COTTAGE. Who does he think he is to favour single payer health care and a $15 minimum wage?? (Btw, he has one of the lowest net worths of anyone in Congress.)

and I'm left to assume it would be straight up the lowest if it weren't for the book

We ignore Bernie Sanders' growing wealth at our peril. One more house and he can trade them in for a much higher rent hotel.

— Sridhar Ramesh (@RadishHarmers) February 20, 2020

also he's been in Congress for almost 30 years, Congressmen get paid very well! Of course he has some money

someone on twitter clutched pearls over the fact that bernie never visited solzenitshyn even tho he also lived in vermont

tbf a lot of people in vermont live there because they don't want people bothering them

Cant believe Bernie wouldn’t meet an antisemite, surely this proves Bernard Sanders is...(1/7898)

i love how when you see pictures of his lake house it is really pretty humble, and was bought with proceeds from a property his wife inherited and sold. like i often have $12.34 or thereabouts in my bank account the day before payday but i'd be able to buy a lake house in vermont if one of my relatives whose will I'm in dies and i inherit property

oligarch

i mean it would be more like a shack but still !

i love burlington, but hanging out in a cottage in the hills is sort of the whole point of vermont.

surely even a socialist is entitled to his dacha

Between the start and the end of last night's debate, Bloomberg made Bernie's entire net worth just in interest. https://t.co/ecRf61O3QQ

— adam hrabik (@ahrabik) February 20, 2020

goddamn bernie should mention that at the next debate just to get the fact checkers' pulses up

Just Berned one, felt good

I feel like there should be a name for the particular kind of failed political meme that the “three houses” thing is — attacks that make zero difference to nearly anyone likely to actually vote for a candidate but futilely satisfy the candidate’s opponents that the candidate is a “hypocrite.”

i kept hearing 3 houses out of context and it just occurred to me it means three homes owned by sanders & is not some weird reference to the latest fire emblem game by Nintendo

Little pinko houses for you and me

lol

"three houses" is an echo of the complaint that Occupy activists were using Apple products

You think poverty is bad yet you are not poor

Fun thread for the responses

sanders supporters need to match warren supporters' harry potter shit with a bunch of forced DS9 references. she's kai winn the false prophet and he's sisko. sirota is odo. buttigieg is bashir. all podcasters are jake and rom. we can make this work

— lauren l. walker (@LLW902) February 21, 2020

i always want to scream at the tv that he has the amount you responsible savings ppl want someone to have saved at his age and you are still mad. it's like when they posted pictures of AOC's mom's house.

i say the tv but i mean twitter

yeah, i mentioned in the other thread that if you are a 70something year old that has worked steadily throughout a booming time, it would actually be a very bad look if you did not have assets worth a million.

and part of it is inheritance, and not his!

tbh the middle/upper-middle class of the upper midwest having a lake house thing isn't as common these days, but I have a couple coworkers with parents/in-laws who have that situation. the lake house property is worth less than the Sanders Vermont one, but you could completely chalk that up to the fact midwest property costs a lot less. Vermont... sparse but less sparse and definitely more expensive

yeah, i have some maine friends that all talk about going to camp/their parents' lakehouse. Having multiple homes is such a common thing for that demo.

He’s living large like a retired cop

they're less prissy about it in some areas. I remember an episode of one of Anthony Bourdain's shows where they went to Maine, and visited a cabin up in the woods that his cinematographer's (?) dad had, and it was a pretty nice shack that he'd built himself by hauling materials up the stream

occasionally you can get the Vermont/New Hampshire/Maine people to reveal their judgments of the other neighboring states and it's pretty funny

Friends of ours whose parents were teachers had a lake house in P.A. It cost them $50,000

xxp ugh that reminds me of the entire retired cop from California demographic that moves to Wyoming/Idaho and.. they're an entirely different thing

Not to mention that it is a completely irrelevant criticism, made solely because any half-ass negative criticism they can throw at him (or at any candidate, when you get down to it) will have some effect. The important thing is to keep up a constant negative drumbeat, no matter how little substance there is in it. It erodes support, so that's how the game is played.

i think it's good for people who are already financially secure to be pushing for more safety nets that benefit others. I have two homes, no kids, no debts but I too want EVERYTHING TO BE FREE FOR EVERYONE.

like seriously, people who would directly benefit from or who are already ridiculously rich who don't endorse affordable healthcare and education are bonkers to me.

yet again you flex in my direction

did we ever post the BERNO story to this thread because I love it

posting it, possibly again, because lol

People who knew Sanders when he was in his thirties tend to share stories about how broke and frugal he was. Rader told me that when Sanders first bought land in Vermont, and was still living part time in New York, he sometimes camped out in the new property’s only shelter: a maple-sugar shack. He had devised his own equivalent of Sterno, which his friends dubbed Berno. “It was a roll of toilet paper soaked in lighter fluid inside a coffee can,” Rader said. “He’d cook over that.”

My observation is that people who've lived a fair number of years with "the wolf at the door", who then rise to a position of comfort, power and status seem either to become fierce advocates for the poor, understanding how little they are responsible for their own poverty, or else hugely resentful, even fearful, of any effort to aid the poor that takes one dollar out of their own pocket. They rarely turn out to be mushy moderates, of the sort who vacillate between sentimental desires to 'lend a hand to the unfortunate' and fretting that they may not be able to afford that [insert middle class aspirational luxury here] if society really tries anything that radically alters the status quo.

Both Sanders and Warren, of the remaining candidates, feel to me like they fit the fierce advocate mold. Buttigeig and Klobuchar find their natural affinity among the sentimentalists who will shy away the moment things get too real.

otoh, Biden did taste the dregs of poverty for a short time early in life, but not strongly enough to overcome his swift rise into the Senate, so that his more than four decades of rock-solid wealth and privilege has attenuated his instincts down to anecdotes he's told thousands of times, but he no longer feels the raw truth of. His feel for poverty has transformed into a weak, faded ghost of a feeling that has no power left to move him.