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

i'm amazed that ppl find dressing for the weather so disrespectful

"monochromatic ensembles of pure power"? has this person never seen how Louis XIV dressed, or just about every monarch or potentate since time began?

"monochromatic ensembles of pure power"

excellent Information Society song

I think there are people who genuinely and earnestly conflate wokeness with having a multiethnic ruling class. Stealing attention from Kamala getting to be a boss in her power outfit (and also the same old white guy we've had for decades getting to be a bigger boss) is a high crime, even if it's not the doing of the person stealing the attention.

Thing is

The hyperattn paid to bernie memes for two days after does seem noteworthy in some ways

Just not in this way

noteworthy in part to the extent that the typical high-church trappings/fanfare of the inauguration this year seemed more obviously putting lipstick on a pig...that image of Bernie p neatly pointed that up

i'm not getting dressed up for this horseshit

Not reading the SF Chronicle op ed. Sounds bad.

That's wise. If you told me it was a parody I'd believe you

he was dressed up though! he had on black pants, socks and shoes. just not a cashmere overcoat or w/e. "it is unfathomably powerful to wear sensible clothing that is not too showy" is just insane and sort of betrays the hand of "i love to do whatever it takes to appear powerful for i will always feel like i never have enough of it."

I don’t feel represented unless someone is wearing Dior Nikes.

Even putting aside the fact that Bernie was arguably the most proactive among Dem leaders in having helped GOTV to beat the republicans in this last election, the last thing we need are think pieces about how he dresses or w/e with everything going on right now.

*among the most proactive

otm, seems especially unnecessarily DIVISIVE (that word the center hates) at a time when Bernie memes are actually BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER and helping us HEAL

these people only understand semiotics, and that barely. anything real--like the fact that people are suffering and they want a shot at a decent life for themselves and their family--just flies over their heads, which is why bernie always mystified them.

i thought the pt of the bernie memes was that he looked cute

agree with that. the first one i saw, with just the original photo and "disdainful rescue greyhound" as the caption, is still my favorite.

a disdainful rescue greyhound pic.twitter.com/UvmMDPaAkN

— Liz Crash (@AsFarce) January 20, 2021

my greyhound does fold his paws exactly like that

How much are op-ed sections just attempting to fund themselves thru hateclicks from promoting the most clueless professional-class courtier-wannabes anybody can find?

a not insignifcant portion for sure. jia tolentino really nails this in her book, mostly talking about bari weiss and other professional trolls but the same can apply to any belief system

bernie is a fucking cop

My amendment to #BackTheBlue and defend, not defund, the police passed the Senate overwhelmingly tonight by vote of 100-0

— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) February 5, 2021

how are you going to have a socialist police state without police?

what was the amendment? i can’t find anything about it.

https://www.congress.gov/amendment/117th-congress/senate-amendment/558

Bernie was making the jerking off motion when he voted aye so it doesn't count.

Left can you explain to us what this means To establish a deficit-neutral fund relating to funding the police.

some right wing bullshit

anyone care to defend this

maybe just read the thread title and take it up somewhere else

He’s not in favor of police abolition. I think this became known during his recent presidential campaign.

exactly. bernie's never talked about abolition, and i'm not sure he's ever said "defund"? (correct me if i'm wrong)

and that's why he was my compromise candidate

Bernie being to the right of the people most invested in the ‘Bernie project’ on a variety of issues is not news.

Wait til you find out about defense budget votes!!!

Or this bad non-vote.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/bernie-sanders-absent-as-anti-surveillance-senate-amendment-fails.html

social democrats fucking love cops. in the UK we just had half a decade of the leftmost opposition leader ever instigating a pig-funding arms race with the far right. I sympathise with critical support to some extent but it rarely seems to be critical enough

He spoke on police abolition but it was conflated with defunding in the way the question was framed to him. But there are activists who drew a distinction between the two things and others who who didn’t. However the way he talked about “redefining” what the job is though went further than the way possibilities of reform are usually discussed by politicians at that level.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/bernie-sanders-is-not-done-fighting

i've learned so much today. sounds like this bernie sanders guy is never going to be president unless he shapes up.

Isn’t this amendment just trolling bullshit designed to either enable attack ads or sow division on the left? Isn’t almost all defund the police activism focused on local governments and city councils? What is this amendment even going to do?

#defundthecapitolpolice

Most right-wing riots can be resolved with social workers

Or psychiatrists. "Is Antifa here in the room with us now, Bill?"

all the senate amendments from last night were meaningless:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/senate-covid-relief-bill-budget-vote-a-rama.html

.@SenSanders on the Senate floor saying we must crush Covid-19 so that young people can start dating again (among a long list of other reasons).

— Tara Golshan (@taragolshan) March 5, 2021

Sanders otm

https://i.imgflip.com/50jxn9.jpg

That's right

https://www.dollskill.com/trickz-n-treatz-chairman-meme-costume.html

BREAKING: Moderna says it will keep its Covid vaccine free for all people in the U.S.—reversing course on its planned 400% price increase—one day after Bernie Sanders said he would force the CEO to testify.

— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) February 15, 2023

fuck that's rad

Niiiiiice