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

Boots on Bern

I have never voted for a candidate in my life.

But I will be voting for Bernie Sanders in the democratic primary and the general election. If I’m doing that, there are probably tens of millions in that same position.
Let me explain why I’m doing this now:

— Boots Riley (@BootsRiley) February 19, 2020

chris matthews continues his endlessly entertaining series of on-air breakdowns

.@HardballChris w/ @ninaturner just said @BernieSanders is "buying the election" like @mikebloomberg.

His rationale: Sanders proposing cancelling student debt/free public college is same as Bloomberg spending $350 million on television ads.

Matthews makes $5 million annually. pic.twitter.com/JC2QBmaWwm

— Jordan (@JordanChariton) February 20, 2020

Holy shit, y’all: Chris Matthews has a podcast. Who dares listen?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/so-you-wanna-be-president-with-chris-matthews/id1495409616

time for bernie to step down, this is too epic

Trump 2020 MUST open his campaign with an event in front of Bernie's lake house.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 20, 2020

lmao at the actual house pic. good work ben you slimy fuck

That house looks like it's all too easily DESTROYED and DEMOLISHED.

LMAO at anyone who believes Trump can shame someone for owning too many houses

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.

xp

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