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

i went through my whole childhood hearing my dad call innocuous midwestern university towns havens for 'communists', so, thanks for debasing that one, pops

That video triggered an unironic rendition of 'America, Fuck Yeah!' in my head. Although it's probably more than a little utopian to hope that the broader establishment will follow that one dude's lead re: curiosity and self-reflection.

xxpost I don't have anything more than anecdotal data points, but my mom (for example), went hard Democrat post-Trump - she used to consider herself an "independent" - and now she is firmly "blue no matter who." Still, talking to her she does seem to have some misgivings with the term "socialist," which ... yeah, she's borne the brunt of propaganda for *decades,* it takes a bit to get past that, despite being very smart and very educated. She told me she has friends who are anti-Trump but *also* anti-Sanders, threatening to stay home and not vote if he gets the nomination, and she apparently pushed back at them, reminding them that getting rid of Trump remains the top priority. Hopefully she doesn't let them get away with inaction.

I have another friend who is a financial advisor, and she has been telling clients, per the guidance of managers above her, that Sanders *or* Warren getting elected is predicted to knock 30% off the stock market. For what that's worth (literally and figuratively). So, yeah,

The challenge for the Sanders campaign will be fighting the perception that he's too big a risk in a time of a "healthy economic climate"; it's up to him and the campaign to show that those measures don't mean squat for most people.

That Vox piece above did an OK job explaining that Sanders is ultimately just another politician who behaves like normal politicians, but that's a double edged sword. Sanders generates a lot of energy from his occasional bomb throwing rhetoric, so it's a risk to amplify the more mundane aspects of his political record. If he makes himself appear *less* radical, does it cost him support? If he gets the nom, will he attempt at all to mainstream? Does he need to? I have no idea. As always it all comes down to turnout, and that, historically, has been erratic.

So let us imagine President Sanders, whose cheering crowds holler, “Lock them all up!” Let’s imagine an attorney general specifically tasked with prosecuting (not merely investigating) every senior member of the Trump administration. https://t.co/O576o1Ws13

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) February 24, 2020

i'm imagining it

it sounds fuckin' lit tbh

lol @ the responses

Having ceded executive power and, in effect, erased the impeachment clause, there may be little or no brake on what a Sanders administration might do. And, in one sense, who could blame the left for adopting the playbook the right wrote?

I do not know if a Sanders administration would engage in such actions, but if it is as radical as Republicans imagine, they should expect nothing less. Perhaps then it will dawn on them that setting fire to our institutions and eradicating accountability for the president was a fatal error — fatal to democracy and to the rule of law. By then, of course, it will be too late.

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But how will we ever reconcile as a country! Wither civility!?!

The current president has been nothing but civil, and see how successfully he unified his base? We need a uniter, not a divider!

The room is on fire. In one corner is a living child, in the other is a pile of norms. Which do you choose to save?

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"Nice knowing you ... "

I like how the punditry acknowledges that the Republicans have destroyed government institutions and trampled on the US Constitution and this has created a horrifyingly dangerous situation for the nation as a whole... from an imaginary Sanders administration!

in effect, erased the impeachment clause just as an side, this is a bad take, and one I hear from liberals a lot as well. The impeachment clause is vague and subjective. Failing to impeach a president does not "erase the impeachment clause." There is no mandatory impeachment in the Constitution.

it sounds fuckin' lit tbh

otm

lol @ the responses

otm

Jeet Heer's latest is a good companion to the Anand Giridharadas video, framing MSNBC in the Trump era as an "ancien regime resistance" that united centrist liberals and Never Trumpers, and which is now in danger of collapse: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/msnbc-sanders-freak-out

Bernie winning is basically 9/11pic.twitter.com/picXYeSpTB

— Samuel D. Finkelstein II (@CANCEL_SAM) February 24, 2020

Won't somebody please think of the airline owners?!

it really is happening

we really do live in a society after all

Bernie has some interesting views on Castro, but what does he think of other famous despots?
We don't know, but here are some guesses:#BernieOnDespots https://t.co/l7isoNAdPd

— Team Bloomberg (@Mike2020) February 24, 2020

frikkin YIKES

that thread is reallllll embarrassing

mike you’re posting cringe bro

Homophobia AND pointless line breaks, what a thread

this is like a single poster joke thread

Okay, I might have to get back on Twitter just to follow that account. It's like watching a livecam of someone vandalizing their asshole CEO's mansion.

not endearing himself to the LGBTQ demo lately

gonna be a crazy week 💛💛 pic.twitter.com/n7hWeSF2Ui

— julian powell (@julianmpowell) February 23, 2020

Need a We Are The World track with all the Bernie endorsers

The point of that thread isn't to craft a single joke, it's to make sure people hear from their older relatives that Bernie once praised Idi Amin or whatever.

sorry your grandpa lost his slaves miami cubans but people here need some help

— raandy (@randygdub) February 24, 2020

eh that's a dumb tweet

when you have people complaining that their grandfather owned an entire town and now his house is a library it's hard to work up tears

xyz's specialty from what I hear
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when you have people who fled who were the class whom Sanders most want to woo and who played by the United States' goddamn rules in Cuba and died or were imprisoned anyway, I'll give you a hankie.

"Cuba" reduces people on every gradation on the spectrum into fools, hence my avoiding it. All I'll say is that it wasn't merely burghers and oligarchs who left.

There's nothing Sanders could do to woo them in meaningful numbers, so it's not like it matters.

idk that’s overly reductive to me.

and also idk i would probably listen to alfred on this topic

As a voting group Florida Cubans are only slightly less Republican than white evangelicals. In a landslide midterm they voted for Ron DeSantis 2:1 and I don't think it's because Andrew Gillum was sending out fliers praising Che.

Ironically, another reason Bernie is probably going to lose Florida is old retired Jews. But, as I previously noted, Hillary also lost Florida and I don't think there's a candidate who could win it but not do worse everywhere else.

Florida has voted for a non-incumbent Democrat once in the last 40 years, it should maybe not be a linchpin regardless.

Calm down Texas is purple now or something

President Obama: “I said this to President Castro...you've made great progress in educating young people....Medical care, the life expectancy of Cubans is equivalent to the United States...That's a huge achievement. They should be congratulated."pic.twitter.com/3HTJw2Ek08 https://t.co/XWTneqIFHd

— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) February 24, 2020

dear Booty, if you were a POTUS who didn't suck up to dictators, youd be the first in 120 years

I hope to write a post about South Florida and its ethnic paradoxes soon.

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From their tweets to God's ears

The private Twitter account of a newly promoted campaign staffer indicates that despite his condemnation of online harassment, some of Bernie Sanders’ most toxic support is coming from inside the house.

My latest: https://t.co/PRmITbU4zk

— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) February 25, 2020

get this guy a pulitzer stat

😩 CHRIS MATTHEWS IS NOT DOING WELL 😩#ChrisMatthews final recorded message after the #Bernie2020 revolution defeats #msnbc ... leaked to Ep41 of @TheUnderculture! pic.twitter.com/pBNufzPLRP

— James Adomian (@JAdomian) February 23, 2020

i don't want to get all south park but every person involved in this scott bixby thing on both sides are acting incredibly annoying. dumbest day on twitter in a long time

I for one appreciate the courageous journalism required to publish private social media content

these people with locked accounts...damn!!! you just know theyre hiding all the good posts in there

— wint (@dril) November 2, 2015