::Bernie Sanders is 14 months Joe Biden’s senior and still sharp as a goddamned tack. I don’t know the answers to the questions I pose, but I know, in my heart, that things would be different. Bernie Sanders gave the U.S. a chance; a once in a lifetime chance.::
That's the Bernie Sanders thing that most "Hillary Liberals"* HATE him for—that he WAS a uniting figure, whereas both Hillary and Trump were divisive. When I heard my Libertarian Right kid brother tell me he wanted to vote for Bernie Sanders because "I don't agree with a lot of his solutions, but he knows what the problems are, he's genuinely honest and, unlike either of the others, he'll actually LISTEN to my concerns"? That's when I thought maybe it wasn't just me who was a "Bernie Bro"....
I watched him talking to coal miners in West Virginia (as Red a Red State as you can get) and telling them that while coal jobs weren't coming back (remembers Barack Obama talking about "Clean Coal" as a candidate! 😮💨), if they would work with him together they would do everything possible to revitalize industrial labor there and in other states. He didn't promise miracles, he didn't say what HE would do—he talked about what all of us could do, working together—while Trump made empty boasts and Hillary waved policy questions off with "Read my Website!"
He would have changed the dynamics of not just the country, but the globe. The tragedy is THAT is exactly why he was politically neutered. And, now, my children face a world more dangerous than any before it.
"They" did it again with the quasi-nomination of Kamala Harris and I know, exactly, what they are up yo. Which is miles away from the average person's radar.
::Please don’t approach me with that duopolistic, “you’re just throwing your vote away” bullshit. Because I’m throwing it away anyway if I were to vote for either of the duopoly candidates as nothing will change under them for those that look like me.::
I am the LAST person to tell anyone they're "throwing away their vote"! I've voted Third Party most of my adult life because, while I haven't lived your life, I also feel like both sides are letting me down big-time. (I honestly wonder if there's anybody with a net worth under tens of millions of dollars they're NOT letting down, truth be told.)
I'll be voting for Kamala Harris because...She's Not Donald Trump, which is a pretty low bar to clear, admittedly! But Trump post-2020 is so foul even I feel the need to eradicate him politically—which is a shame because otherwise? Kamala Harris wouldn't have been my first or even second choice.
Anybody who took a hard line on marijuana in California in the 1990s, when it was misdemeanor with a $100 fine for an ounce or less, to say nothing of anybody who let Trump's Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin off the hook for foreclosing on "underwater" mortgages (many of whom were Black and other minority families), then took...generous campaign contributions from him? For that matter, anybody who was even THINKING of arresting single mothers for their children's Truancy??? Has at least two-and-a-half strikes against her out the gate!
It would be three if she wasn't using the line "I'm a former Prosecutor who went after crooked businessmen and sexual predators, so I know Donald Trump's type REALLY well...." as a campaign smackdown. That's worth a half-strike off to Harris at least.... 😂
But...at the end of the day, you have to vote your conscience, not team colors.
I disagree with you a lot, and I agree with you a lot.
On Bernie — from someone who lives in Vermont, near Burlington, knows a lot about Bernie by reputation and watching him up close and personal — you have his number. Nobody is perfect, but with Bernie, he is the real deal. What you see, what he says, is what you get. I wish to high heaven {and I don’t believe in heaven} that the Dems had not been such idiots, giving the nod to Hillary {like it was “her turn” or something} and shooting Bernie down.
Damn. All those “what ifs…”. Let’s try not to lose our minds.
::Bernie Sanders is 14 months Joe Biden’s senior and still sharp as a goddamned tack. I don’t know the answers to the questions I pose, but I know, in my heart, that things would be different. Bernie Sanders gave the U.S. a chance; a once in a lifetime chance.::
That's the Bernie Sanders thing that most "Hillary Liberals"* HATE him for—that he WAS a uniting figure, whereas both Hillary and Trump were divisive. When I heard my Libertarian Right kid brother tell me he wanted to vote for Bernie Sanders because "I don't agree with a lot of his solutions, but he knows what the problems are, he's genuinely honest and, unlike either of the others, he'll actually LISTEN to my concerns"? That's when I thought maybe it wasn't just me who was a "Bernie Bro"....
I watched him talking to coal miners in West Virginia (as Red a Red State as you can get) and telling them that while coal jobs weren't coming back (remembers Barack Obama talking about "Clean Coal" as a candidate! 😮💨), if they would work with him together they would do everything possible to revitalize industrial labor there and in other states. He didn't promise miracles, he didn't say what HE would do—he talked about what all of us could do, working together—while Trump made empty boasts and Hillary waved policy questions off with "Read my Website!"
You have met your "like" quota for the day, Sir.
I constantly wonder what If?!?!
He was squashed like a bug even though his crowds were HUGE everywhere he went!
Yet Hillary’s were held in small groups of BIG money givers.
It seemed OBVIOUS who should have faced Trump!
But the DNC had decided it was HER turn.
It’s not hard to imagine how different OUR lives would have been now. Sadly
He would have changed the dynamics of not just the country, but the globe. The tragedy is THAT is exactly why he was politically neutered. And, now, my children face a world more dangerous than any before it.
Sublime, Elizabeth.
And let us not forget that Sanders was squashed not once, but a second time in 2020. Thank you, Rep. Slyburn.
Yep.
Slyburn sycophant slave sucker.
They did it twice.
NOT NICE!!
(Does anyone remember the hilarious 2017 Comedy Central series, “The President Show”?)
"They" did it again with the quasi-nomination of Kamala Harris and I know, exactly, what they are up yo. Which is miles away from the average person's radar.
Hope I live to tell.
that would require reading comprehension. exactly what is not high on American
::Please don’t approach me with that duopolistic, “you’re just throwing your vote away” bullshit. Because I’m throwing it away anyway if I were to vote for either of the duopoly candidates as nothing will change under them for those that look like me.::
I am the LAST person to tell anyone they're "throwing away their vote"! I've voted Third Party most of my adult life because, while I haven't lived your life, I also feel like both sides are letting me down big-time. (I honestly wonder if there's anybody with a net worth under tens of millions of dollars they're NOT letting down, truth be told.)
I'll be voting for Kamala Harris because...She's Not Donald Trump, which is a pretty low bar to clear, admittedly! But Trump post-2020 is so foul even I feel the need to eradicate him politically—which is a shame because otherwise? Kamala Harris wouldn't have been my first or even second choice.
Anybody who took a hard line on marijuana in California in the 1990s, when it was misdemeanor with a $100 fine for an ounce or less, to say nothing of anybody who let Trump's Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin off the hook for foreclosing on "underwater" mortgages (many of whom were Black and other minority families), then took...generous campaign contributions from him? For that matter, anybody who was even THINKING of arresting single mothers for their children's Truancy??? Has at least two-and-a-half strikes against her out the gate!
It would be three if she wasn't using the line "I'm a former Prosecutor who went after crooked businessmen and sexual predators, so I know Donald Trump's type REALLY well...." as a campaign smackdown. That's worth a half-strike off to Harris at least.... 😂
But...at the end of the day, you have to vote your conscience, not team colors.
Gnyahahahaha!
What folly makes you think I have a conscience, mate?
You wouldn't fight so hard if you didn't, mate! 😉
You canna fool me—there ain't no Sanity Clause!
You have exceeded your daily "like" quota.
Further, am I really that shallow?
No, Rohn, you just wear your heart on your sleeve.
I'd be the last person to criticize you for that, too! 😀
Perhaps...
But you might be cautious about assuming whether of not that is my "heart" or some other anatomical part for forewarned is, indeed, forearmed.
That's a fair cop.
"That is why he was sabotaged." & "rigged" is blood relative, hope & change distant cousins you rarely see.
Word, my brother.
Word.
And you know what happens when cousins fornicate.
It's unfortunate we missed the "What if" window, Him is truly! a PROGRESSIVE. 👈
passing exams, and oh fuck it.
LMAO!
Thanks!
I disagree with you a lot, and I agree with you a lot.
On Bernie — from someone who lives in Vermont, near Burlington, knows a lot about Bernie by reputation and watching him up close and personal — you have his number. Nobody is perfect, but with Bernie, he is the real deal. What you see, what he says, is what you get. I wish to high heaven {and I don’t believe in heaven} that the Dems had not been such idiots, giving the nod to Hillary {like it was “her turn” or something} and shooting Bernie down.
Damn. All those “what ifs…”. Let’s try not to lose our minds.
I appreciate your perspective.
Thank you.
i did. now i enjoy letting substack smarty pants summarize them and know all is not lost on the island.
time to choose my chosen oracles stop blabbering start showing up with fungible love.
Not sure what you are responding to.
Has Bernie Sanders endorsed Kamala Harris? 2016 or 2024?
Very good question which I am unable to answer.
Something Greg Olear discussed in 2016.
Velshi’s interview of Sanders didn’t reveal a reason either.
Hmmm.
My guess is he, ultimately will, because Bernie is a good soldier.
To his undoing.
"moving to a European style democracy"
Uh, okie dokie.
South Africa.
Kenya.
Tunisia.
Algeria.
Nigeria.
Egypt.
Singapore.
Japan.
South Korea.
Taiwan and China; might take exception to The Gardeners from "Europe."
The paternalistic hubris never ceases to amaze me. Perhaps you folks ought read newspapers other than your own.
Just a suggestion.