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

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

well, Perrin does to no audience.

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

don’t Biden and Warren hate each other?

I looove Beltway stories!

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.

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.

https://i.imgur.com/XIm1PMC.png

NPG and the red hot chili peppers

we wanna change the world, the only thing that's in our way is anthony kiedes

😭😭😭

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

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

The first response is from a Warren cultist, who have become the most predictable people on Earth.

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

(shh, don't tell him, it's funnier)

Idg the Rogen dig

I 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.

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

the commenter had the wrong rogen/rogan

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 police
https://youtu.be/p1ubTsrZFBU?t=84

xp yes, I think everyone noticed

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.

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

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

God bless our democracy

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.

either that or Obama/Biden were redeeming their own chits

very normal eulogy material

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.

nah. they didn't compel his endorsement, so they don't have a claim to the spoils.

lol thou art so innocent

reminds me of a recently deceased congressman saying he "didn't see (Bernie) down South" in the '60s

(that was in 2016)

bernie bros be hate-watching bill clinton speeches LOL

just building a dossier vs a likely sex criminal

xp just a thirty second clip coming over the transom tbh

bernie bros be hate-watching bill clinton speeches LOL

― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Sunday, August 2, 2020 2:08 PM (fifty-four minutes ago)

my friend...

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

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

I AM FUCKING SCREAMING!!!!!pic.twitter.com/MsX6bW4IBE

— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) December 9, 2020

fuck these people so hard. just absolute dogshit

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

how come when i first clicked the tweet i got this crap one, i must have clicked people tweeting about this

Bernie Sanders will never stop being a toxic cancer to the left and to women. He knows this by now. He purposefully chooses to insert himself into situations where he does not belong because he wants to aggravate and stifle women's voices, he thinks his is more important.

— femalepersuasion.net (@femalep) December 9, 2020

stephanie ruhle's voice deserves to be aggravated and stifled lol

femalep

I did too. I don't know this Chris Evans person, so I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be aggravated about.

for some godforsaken reason I was watching that MSNBC clip live this morning and my jaw dropped

does it get better before or afterward

well my jaw is fine thankfully

lol

I don't believe for a second that these meme-jiving "politics nerds" don't understand that most senators are lead sponsors of few bills that pass and the majority of them are either naming post offices or making very small incremental changes to an existing law. Although I do think they may really see politics as a kind of sport where your "record" in terms of "getting stuff passed" matters more than substantive policy. Because they don't really believe in anything *except* small tweaks to existing law, they have no political imagination and can't conceive that anything other than what we have now but tweaked a bit is possible.

Chris Evans is part of the "K-Hive," which manages to do worse than treat politics as sport by treating it as a fandom.

Also, I mean he's Bernie Fucking Sanders, and her suggestion to try a different "lane" or whatever basically amounts to "Maybe you should try not being Bernie Sanders" -- he is at the left edge of the party, and of course he's going to propose bills that don't get passed, because the democratic party doesn't support his agenda. "Why don't you try being a regular democrat and not achieving anything you want to achieve anyway."