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

vodka >>>>>>> aquavit

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, February 22, 2020 5:46 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i won't let this stand. aquavit is great. vodka is pointless.

Well, gin.

wyoming annexed to russia (this has been putin's play all along)

Bernie Sanders caucus supporter April from Las Vegas gives the most passionate, emotional, and truthful realignment speech I’ve ever witnessed. #NevadaCaucus #NevadaForBernie #BernieBeatsTrump pic.twitter.com/qVP8KN3W21

— Chris Barrett (@ChrisBarrett) February 22, 2020

FDR homage

FDR hommage

I welcome the hatred of the crooks who destroyed our economy. https://t.co/aZcdCFpeqt

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 21, 2020

we’re gonna fuckin win

Demi rules so much

https://youtu.be/eevmdDdDle4

Bernie's odds now 1/2 on 538. Nice.

See? This is where the Never Trump crowd goes off the rails. This was not an unusual opinion at all in the 1970’s. Daniel Patrick Moynihan believed the same thing. Hell, after Bay of Pigs, in 196-goddamn-2, JFK said he wanted to scatter the CIA “to the four winds." https://t.co/IINTycrWDb

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) February 23, 2020

Bernie killing it on Fox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iobSUmdbgo

and look at those positive comments from Fox viewers (although maybe they're Bernie people not Fox people!)

In 1974 the most recent operations of the CIA to come to light was running a huge covert army and air force in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia - secretly and off the books, so that at its height Congress and the public knew nothing about it apart from a few dark rumors. A few years later the Church Committee hearings exposed all kinds of illegal CIA activity in the previous three decades.

WALLACE: 'larry summers, NOT a right-wing conservative…'

wellllllll

Not linking but I really enjoy that US politics also has a Tom Watson and he’s also an accomplished centrist wrecker and they’re friends. And he’s losing it over Bernie.

After having reasoned political conversations that are tiring, I appreciate that this thread exists so I can simply say:
Bernie. Sanders.

We're still keeping it weird down here. Bernie is in town and got the one endorsement that truly matters.

“Surprise guest” and native Texan Marianne Williamson endorses Bernie Sanders for president at his rally in Austin, TX pic.twitter.com/wpBb2MK4iM

— Emma Kinery (@EmmaKinery) February 23, 2020

One with the Orb

Now this is an endorsement lol.

To be honest, a Sanders administration would probably leave center-left policy wonks like me out in the cold, at least initially. But this is no time for self-indulgence and ego trips. Freedom is on the line 5/

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) February 23, 2020

the replies are really something

I just finished my first shift of canvassing for Tío Bernie!!

good 4u cg

it's always time for self-indulgence and ego trips

exactly! I’ll be patting my back to a peaceful slumber tonight

Toody approved! Stickers, 3 for $5 delivered, and all the cash goes to the Bernie campaign. #BernieSanders2020 #DeadMoon

By Dan Cronin with lettering by Shelby Menzel.https://t.co/DmdMABqfrX pic.twitter.com/JlV6HT7Bxh

— Backroad to Nowhere (@thumphreypdx) February 4, 2020

bernie stickders

Exposed by Anderson Cooper and trending on Twitter. Bernie is done:

Bernie Sanders defends his 1980s comments about Fidel Castro in an interview on 60 Minutes. https://t.co/ySqvQKoiBU pic.twitter.com/lTwuXWp9sA

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 24, 2020

this stuff hurts sanders in florida, but who gives a shit beyond that.

lol love how this would-be gotcha moment becomes a classic bernie pivot into attack on trump

He probably will lose Florida, but Hillary also lost Florida, so did Kerry, and we know what happened with Gore.

He is literally making excuses for a communist murderer, Twitter will have you know. xps

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/fl/florida_trump_vs_sanders-6842.html

i mean maybe but the sanders v trump polls rn in fl are competitive

xp

But yeah, m bison OTM.xp

i think what most impresses me abt bern as a candidate is his ability to stay on message. its frustrating at times when ppl ask for something more granular or detailed, but it makes it where people who dont pay much attention to politics can understand his platform in a relatively short pd of time. and he can draw contrasts b/w him and his opponents while doing so.

My parents and relatives weren't voting for a Democrat anyway.

I did confront several squeamish Dems anticipating comments from their parents and relatives.

I reminded them we'd been called Commies and fellow travelers most of our lives anyway.

Fidel Castro is dead. Raul is nearly so. The world moves on. Any comments made 35 year ago should be considered mummified and studied as dead artifacts. If someone wants to know what Bernie thinks is appropriate policy toward Cuba, they should ask him. He'll tell you.

Someone should have stepped in before this headline went up on the Washington Post site. https://t.co/h5bBoMiNgH pic.twitter.com/pChEjB3hIG

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) February 24, 2020

Democracy Dies In Darkness is more of a goal than a warning.

I reminded them we'd been called Commies and fellow travelers most of our lives anyway.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 February 2020 03:34 (one hour ago) link

One of my theories about why the "commie" stuff isn't getting more traction is that the GOP has really boy-who-cried-wolfed that one by now, not least with Obama (all his ties to "radicals" and the like). Another is just that there's a growing part of the electorate who was either born after the cold war or doesn't really remember any of it, let alone the scary parts, and a shrinking part of the electorate who does.

wapo's about to go beast mode this is just the beginning

Can we do a poll to determine what percentage of ILX (in 2019) really remembers the Cold War firsthand? Because I don’t - I was born in late 1982 and I literally have no memory of the Berlin Wall falling or the collapse of the Soviet Union. The first international news story I can recall, for some reason, was the capture of Manuel Noriega. I have absolutely no memory of the fall of the Berlin Wall (a month before Noriega’s capture) and the dissolution of the USSR (two full years later) - none.

11 years ago, but...

The ILX user age average Poll

It was definitely talked about in my Grade 6 class. Iirc, a kid who always sat quietly at the back of the room whispered "the wall is falling now but you will all live to one day see socialism come to America".

I was born in '81 but I was a giant nerd so I remember some of the '89-'90 Cold War stuff on TV and then I got hooked on news about the '91 Soviet coup and dissolution.

I was born in 79 and I vaguely remember the wall falling, "perestroika" etc. I also absorbed a lot through pop culture stuff like Spies Like Us

78 and I remember all of those things but I didn't feel the anxiety at all. You're a kid, you don't understand the stakes. Scorpions! Wind of Change!

I was also really into the movie White Nights because it was played on cable over and over and over.

I remember the wall falling but didnt understand it (I was 4/5 at the time). I remember also thinking that the Soviet union was a nautical state because I thought the hammer and sickle was an anchor and in the news and popular culture youd often see their submarines and battleships pictured

^ lock thread

I learned from seeing The Hunt For Red October with my dad that they had a way better national anthem.

I went to the Soviet Union in '88 when I was in high school.

I was born in ‘82 and I definitely remember the Berlin Wall coming down. I’m sure this is mostly due to being an army brat—we had lived in what was then West Germany just a few years before.

My dad has some interesting Cold War stories. He was stationed with NATO in Italy (where I was born) in the midst of the Nuclear Able Archer ‘83 exercise and the Soviet Nuclear False Alarm Incident. He also survived a Baader-Meinhof bombing in Germany during the mid-70s.