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

A year ago I blasted a Fineman column on Twitter. The next morning I saw a Twitter PM he'd written, apologizing if I'd written something that offended him. Unaccustomed to this gesture from million-dollar Beltway eminences, I explained in a couple sentences why I objected to his kind of horse race politics. We exchanged five or six messages; he never once lost his temper.

I unofficially decided I wouldn't criticize him anymore b/c he was such a gent. I can't imagine Chris Matthews or Chuck Todd taking the time to politely understand why a stranger disliked his reporting.

He may be a great guy, but isn't the goal of any candidate to get as many delegates as possible? Sanders has to run up the score to avoid a stupid brokered convention situation.

No, Fineman's being stupid.

Man how condescending would bernie sound if he said "we're not competing there, Amy and liz can have a little home state delegates, as a treat"

If I had a vote I would have sent in a ballot for Warren. But if she can't win a seriously contested primary in her home state she pretty obviously shouldn't be the party's nominee.

— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) February 29, 2020

Fineman's being stupid.

Yes, it is very stupid. Yet, this seems to be a talking point that's making the rounds among the political commentariat that doesn't like Bernie. Any candidate who wants to win campaigns to win as many votes/delegates as possible, including in the home states of other candidates. Especially since he's got the volunteers and resources to do it. That's not mean-spirited, it's practical politics.

Total nonshocker that staunch Dem naysayers would use the acquisitiveness built in to the numbskull game-show apparatus of the primary system in order to undermine the high road Bernie consistently tries to take

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ER-mxEsWkAEsHWC?format=jpg&name=small

JUST IN: @berniesanders announces he raised $46.5M in February from more than 2.2M donations, including contributions from more than 350,000 people who donated to the campaign for the first time. Saturday he raised $4.5M, the best one-day haul since the launch of the campaign.

— Ed O'Keefe (@edokeefe) March 1, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6qy_9E0rY

Public Enemy has fired Flavor Flav, one of hip-hop's most memorable hypemen, after 37 years https://t.co/R9XRyHEgFN

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) March 2, 2020

omg I can't believe Flavor Flav didn't actually want to Fight The Power

the Elephant 6 endorsement has been secured

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/jeff-mangum-bernie-sanders-endorsement/

"My dream candidate don't exist..."

wow nice Olivia Tremor Control erasure

Friends went to high school with Robert Schneider of Apples in Stereo, I should get them to pester him for an endorsement.

Once I voted Sanders in a president's primary
Now I'm a man, there's a wound at the heart of me
And I wish I'd receive high-quality treatment there
Whoever is it that is All for Medicare?

There's a meme running rampant, of Bernie Bros
But everybody's votin', Bernie Sanders

I, Timmy Thick have decided to officially endorse Bernie Sanders. Bernie is the ONLY candidate that can unite us all and start changing the system from the inside out. Biden is a continuation of the status quo.

— TIMMY THICK 🅙 (@timmythick) March 3, 2020

Bernie 2020 , this is my point blank endorsement . please vote

— laura les and The Tree of Clues (@xxlaura_lesxx) March 2, 2020

you talk a lotta ground game for someone with just a single vote

bernie owns a sword pic.twitter.com/dl42TNYnFj

— Tony Tulathimutte (@tonytula) March 1, 2020

All time:

Every jazz department faculty be lookin like pic.twitter.com/QE3LSvT5Tz

— tame simpala (@ogrods) March 3, 2020

lol!

perfect weather for voting today

Not in Nashville!

I voted for Bernard Sanders in Nashville today.

Also according to FiveThirtyEight his chances of winning a plurality of delegates have plummeted :(

feel like today might be the start of the end, broskies:’(

many ends

otoh a couple guys could drop dead by June

are there results yet

no. otoh polling's been pretty accurate for much of this cycle. otooh stfu and keep it together for like 6-10 more hours

^^^^^

I'm losing my shit for various unrelated reasons this morning and I feel terrible anyway because I ate beans yesterday despite a lot of evidence that I'm allergic to beans now and guess what still allergic

won't it be more like 48-72 hours, if the apps work?

it's idiot Oscar blogger Jeff Wells' country, we just live in it

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2020/03/national-depression-day/#disqus_thread

otooh stfu and keep it together for like 6-10 more hours

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, March 3, 2020 1:00 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

haha ok

good luck usa

indeed.

proud of all you guys and bernard and his bros and gals no matter what happens

Once more into the bro-ach, dear friends

Oh, that reminds me. Of course: pic.twitter.com/roztoQPlKj

— Alex Cruikshanks (@alexcruik) March 3, 2020

feeliing queasy

Holy shit lol pic.twitter.com/RNXDSdNmz6

— Eric (@Gargamelsh) March 3, 2020

thank you I needed that

aaaaaannnnd here we go

Legit just created an entire Twitter account to tell the world @BernieSanders isn’t even on the first page of the ballot. You have to look for an icon located at the far bottom of the page then scroll to find his name #BernieBallot pic.twitter.com/kEeTCcDwKg

— J. (@waterdiaries) March 3, 2020

who is Mark Greenstein?

At my polling location the machine wouldn’t let you cast a vote until you had scrolled through all candidates.

ah well that's good

levers or paper, please

A rando with the $5k filing fee to get his name on the ballot for funsies.

also read somewhere (on ~intnert~) that that "sanders on the second page" thing is a product of randomization, hence these nobodies ending up higher on the list than not just sanders