Happy New Year.

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You're Welcome.

Heaven help us all.

is beyond Toxic.

Not putting up with it.

Jackie!

I think I understand the cynical motivation of those who attack the Democratic party, but I'll never fully comprehend those who encourage that type of destructive and negative behavior. I've literally seen people cheering and high-fiving the smears and attacks on Democrats and the Democratic party.

Aloha , Cha!

in the House.. they must be so sad.

Aloha, Jackie

Here's an excerpt from his message.

I saw this term in that fundraising email and have a question. What was this price? I have some theories as to what this price was

Important to whom??

"Wall Street Democrats"

His fundraising emails violate our site rules, but he STILL somehow enjoys protected status here.

...aimed at the Democrats and not the GOP, and I really don't get his fixation on the Dems. It seems counterproductive, to say the least.

It appears he's still running against Hillary and still raising money on it. That's unfortunate.

Only I can fix things.

Where have we heard that before?

denotes.. BS and his insulting buzzwords against the Democratic Party.

It's working out so well against Beto. lol

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I thought that was, like, you know, politics. Remember: ALWAYS blame Democrats!

Not more of this victim stuff again......

Is he is asking for donations by saying " Make them pay a price for their attacks." Yet in the next sentence he says "if we run again", not when we run again. Why should people donate money to him, if he doesn't even know if he will run? What will happen to all the "donations" he gets if he does not run, will he return that money to those who donated to him?

... that time he was personally invited to the Vatican by the Pope - except that he wasn't?

....and his entourage in the lobby of his residence at 6:00 AM as the Pope was leaving for a trip to the island of Lesbos in Greece.

No more kid gloves, those notebooks filled with oppo will be opened and tax returns will be demanded not to mention the fact that he's not a DEm and that will be a real issue this time around. It will be put up or get out time.

but that's the only race he was in that year.

had the kitchen sink(the M$M, Russia and their enablers, stein's LIES, FB SHIT, Voter Suppression, Comey.. ).. thrown at her and still got 3 Million more votes than the Russian agent.

He won't know what hit him

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and this time around he'll have to find another banner to run under, after all, to quote him, he says he's not a DEm.

an independent instead of hijacking our party and giving Trumper the White House. He will never stand the scrutiny of being the nominee. He would have to go in the attic in Vermont and find those tax returns.

after all, this isn't going to be a Senate run in Vermont where he did exactly that

makes no sense, and then criticizing the party again as has been posted here about his emails....

I would view attacks on President Obama very negatively

many BS fans pushing disinformation on President Obama. They seem to think it's their ticket to something.

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to BS.

This does not mean I agree with them, but he did and still does inspire an almost fanatic following in some, and of the "I could shoot someone in broad daylight in downtown Burlington" type.

Call it a cult, call it a following, call it whatever you want, but those people are out there, they think he can say and do no wrong, and there are still plenty of them. Do not look for them to fade away or be quiet, because they will do neither.

But that wasn't their first and foremost consideration anyway.

His run was a fake out?

In the summer of 2016, I was with my wife here in the States. She is German, but pretty dialed in politically. She said after two weeks, "your (i.e. USA) media is reporting on nothing but Trump and Sanders--you had better watch it, because somebody wants Trump to win."

She said this in July 2016. How many of us thought Trump had a chance in July 2016? And yet a German saw the danger signs right away while we were all celebrating prematurely.

Weird scenes inside the gold mine..........

In a 3 person race where the 3rd person got no traction and the #1 person is one of the most controversial political figures of the past 20 years he finished 2nd.

He came and campaigned for a congressional candidate in my district during a primary. The candidate finished 3rd.

He has fanatical followers. They aren't enough to piece together a nomination.

The spell is broken.

My wife voted for him. She says she won't this time.

Lots of younger voters are looking elsewhere too. It's why some prominent Bernie supporters are taking potshots at Beto.

But he might still run (looks like he will) and he will seriously damage the party.... again.

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The base of our party in many of our states are African Americans, especially women.

We in the south have a unique take on self claimed progressive. Especially those that focus on the grievances of the white working class. Cause that historically does not work out well for people of color.

And the gloves will be off in 2020. An ad or 2 of his supporters booing John Lewis will be the nail in the coffin.

Cindy Hyde-Smith down in Mississippi?? Cause that didn't go so well..

Maybe the "base" in the "south" should focus on the real enemies for a change??..

especially Mississippi.

I was a Clinton delegate to the National Convention and was warned by my whip that there was a planned stunt by the sanders delegates of booing Congressman John Lewis about 20 to 30 minutes before this stunt. My whip told me that sanders was asked to stop this stunt and he declined.

The Texas delegation shared a bus ride with the Georgia delegation from the hotel to the convention site. There were some upset people on the bus from that delegation.

My whip is or was working for the DNC. There are a ton of people who can be in such an ad.

Because he didn’t really think he could win.

I wonder how the parallel universe where President Sanders resides is doing. This one certainly sucks.

They are just preaching to their already owned audience..

but the thing is, folks are onto them.. and most corporate owned media.. it's why they want to control even the social media aspects so that their collective message can't be disputed with facts..

it is time for him, as well as the other old folks, to step aside for new energy and progressive enthusiasm. I say this as a 70-year-old. We need candidates who can draw the next generation in under the tent and give them a place to work and be heard. As Swedish teen Greta Thunberg recently reminded us all, our generation has completely failed the next.

...yesterday, "bashing Democrats around"?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=525655

I tend to agree with him that Wall Street Democrats do get in the way of a strong, progressive platform which I support.

when he bashes Dems around.

Sanders teases possible 2020 White House bid, tears into 'Wall Street Democrats'

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/423055-sanders-tears-into-wall-street-democrats-campaigning-against-his

You know the Dems that took back the House in our Brilliant Blue Wave at Midterms.. those Dems from all over our Country.. so we have the House Majority now.

with playing kingmaker, because he isn't going to be the nominee.

The same Tad Devine who worked with Paul Manafort to elect a pro-Russian in Ukraine. Devine's foray into the Russian swamp has caught Bob Mueller's eye, but will Bernie care if he thinks Devine can help him? We'll see.

....came up a number of times in Manafort's documents and was mentioned in some of the court filings by Mueller's office.

Here is another interesting article speculating on the issues that may arise for the 2020 race http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/six-reasons-bernie-sanders-has-lost-his-2016-mojo.html