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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 December 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
Chris Evans is part of the "K-Hive," which manages to do worse than treat politics as sport by treating it as a fandom.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Thursday, 10 December 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
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."
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 December 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
If he'd gotten on the mass incarceration and pervasive national security train with the centrists, he could have put his name on way more laws.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Thursday, 10 December 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link
Or an important anti-flag-burning bill like Biden
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 December 2020 04:12 (three years ago) link
Hey that was his big environmental push
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 December 2020 04:17 (three years ago) link
fp’ing carne for putting that tweet and, worse, its garbage replies into my head. Need a trigger warning man
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 10 December 2020 04:25 (three years ago) link
I guess if I had to live inside that guy’s head I’d be FUcKINg SCREAMInG too.always good to be reminded how many people on the “left” (including 98.9% of MSNBC idiots) could really not give a fuck if poor people die
― i am become boomer, destroyer of entitlements (will), Thursday, 10 December 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
*ahem* FACT CHECKhttps://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/mar/24/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-was-roll-call-amendment-king-1995-2/
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 December 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
https://twitter.com/jackcalifano/status/1337141766525431808?s=20
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Thursday, 10 December 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
2/3rds of the way through and it's a good round-up.
Great piece by @gabrielwinant on the US left which hammers home the lesson that electoralism without working-class organising is trying to build socialism on sand, while highlighting the challenges of cohering a socialist, antiracist left. 1/2https://t.co/HOArvj3636— labour transformed (@LabTransformed) December 13, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 13 December 2020 12:02 (three years ago) link
I like Bernie Sanders, a lovely old man who says nice things that make sense. Do you? You do? Great! Now, you must also listen to these two dozen insane Youtubers and podcasters, who are constantly in fights with one another for some reason,— Waikiki Wanda (@bulkUSBchargers) December 31, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 31 December 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
Waikiki is a really great account. Knowledgeable about a lot beyond politics stuff too.
― “Big” Don Abernathy, Thursday, 31 December 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
whether you like him or not everyone can agree that bernie’s message discipline is incredible pic.twitter.com/kC264MZU1h— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) January 8, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 8 January 2021 11:56 (three years ago) link
king
― k3vin k., Friday, 8 January 2021 13:55 (three years ago) link
Soon to be chair of the budget committee!!!
― Fetchboy, Friday, 8 January 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
woooooooooooo i hope joe manchin can't fuck that one up too
― dean bad (map), Friday, 8 January 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
I think Bernie should get a little adrenochrome as a treat.especially with the likes of Joe Manchin out here showing his ass today jfc
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Friday, 8 January 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link
lol xpost
still blows me away that there are so many bernie haters. they are abSURD
― dean bad (map), Friday, 8 January 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link
when you think misogyny is being poor
― dean bad (map), Friday, 8 January 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link
oh yeah saw that live and was fired up watching it
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 8 January 2021 19:29 (three years ago) link
🙌
― dean bad (map), Friday, 8 January 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link
― dean bad (map), Friday, January 8, 2021 2:26 PM (nine minutes ago)
well there were podcasters and people were being mean on twitter
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Friday, 8 January 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
i doubt a single one of them makes under 50k a year!
― dean bad (map), Friday, 8 January 2021 19:39 (three years ago) link
in that clip bernie is 100% otm. joe manchin had better not become the 2021 reincarnation of joe lieberman from 2009-10.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Friday, 8 January 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link
Bernie and Biden were probably the only candidates who could have won, as head to head polls indicated throughout.
― “Big” Don Abernathy, Friday, 8 January 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
my unprovable suspicion is that a whole lot of people who are not named Clinton could have beaten him tbh
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, 8 January 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
anyone smart enough to sit back and mostly so the "let him trip on his own dick" campaign approach would have had a decent shot
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, 8 January 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
I used to think that. I feel like we have to reconsider the “layup election” talking point though
― “Big” Don Abernathy, Friday, 8 January 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
a disdainful rescue greyhound pic.twitter.com/UvmMDPaAkN— Liz Crash (@AsFarce) January 20, 2021
― satanist of size (map), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
awww
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
I want to give him some soup.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
https://t.co/nIBet0PdMW pic.twitter.com/FF20zGINhm— DanCase (@Dan_Case) January 20, 2021
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:57 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/fsSqLn17XY— matt apodACAB (@mattapodaca) January 20, 2021
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
Not gonna stink up the politics or biden threads, but how can anyone not wish he was president instead of Biden?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 21 January 2021 04:33 (three years ago) link
how can anyone not wish he was president instead of Biden?
anyone? I hear there are millions of people who wish Trump was president so fervently that they have mistaken their wishing for truth. I'd be surprised if all those people secretly preferred Bernie to Trump. or do they not count as people?
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Thursday, 21 January 2021 04:38 (three years ago) link
great question
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 21 January 2021 04:40 (three years ago) link
Also I like Jamelle Bouie but fuck that entire thread full of jaded political dorks and fuck the fact that all he can muster in response to the need to address widespread hunger in this country is "well, ya gotta admit, good message discipline." He is a good guy but the political journ-o-twitter-sphere is so annoyingly jaded in the most uncool way.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 21 January 2021 04:43 (three years ago) link
2nd day of the Biden presidency = 2nd day of rt-ing Bernie merch meme I will never log off
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
god how i wish you would
― satanist of size (map), Thursday, 21 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
i know this is vapid as hell but i think the bernie meme has resonance less like "he's so punk let's put him in fugazi" (my least favorite iteration so far) and more like "this is what i've shown up to work looking like for the past 3 months where's my coronavirus money you stupid flouncy assholes-in-charge". the ones that obliquely capture the spirit of the times are my favorite. bernie on an empty bus etc. bernie in that shot from "holy mountain" is also good because of the frisson between his attitude and the psycho-sexual energy of the mise en scene.
― satanist of size (map), Thursday, 21 January 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
bernie in the red room is also good
― satanist of size (map), Thursday, 21 January 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
im already sick of the meme but bernie out in front of berghain was my favourite
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 January 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link
Jesus Christ
Is this too far? pic.twitter.com/YNZ0tKVuma— melissa “cancel student debt” byrne (@mcbyrne) January 21, 2021
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
I am not at all sick of the meme because there are two distinct strains. Maybe three, actually. There is putting Bernie in weird places, incorporating him into iconic images, and then last (and maybe the best) are all the Jewish grandpa memes, which are very specific in their appeal and impact.
My general faves have been the cover of "Pretzel Logic" but also working an art fair stall selling Native American inspired art.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
One reason I love this place: y'all are the only other group to shit on Williamson's shit take. Three libs I know in the last hour have shared it and said, "You can't believe what NRO published!"
― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
oops wrong thread haha.
I love this thread too.
I get why everybody is either already sick of these or about to be, but how bout
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1631eIbRwVuxbCYDo74ZcPI32vZNHKS1S/view?usp=sharing
― zydecovid (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link
nah, never mind, not worth it