Why am I not surprised...Bernie is endorsed by and/or hired two guys who basically spout the same racist right wing shit. What the fuck is wrong with him.

And welcome to DU!

I'd thought relevance was implicit. I guess it need to be explained as such. "IMO"

Good luck!

Went ahead and put article in it's own OP. You are welcome to share your thoughts as always. Have a good one if I don't see you.

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They'll come for you on their trundleboards.



Bernie Rides Bike Fastest Goes Wheeee -





How Bernie Bros and Trumpistas See Their Guys Is Really Weird to the Rest of Us - Obviously Not Jacobin

"If we've learned anything over the past 20 or so years, it's that politics is capable of destroying everything it touches. When it comes to the most ardent supporters of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, it shouldn't be surprising that politics completely shreds their artistic judgement."

https://reason.com/2019/11/21/how-bernie-bros-and-trumpistas-see-their-guys-is-really-weird-to-the-rest-of-us/

To be disturbing. Trumpets do a lot of that too with him riding a giant eagle carrying a machine gun etc. it’s totally Batshit.

Some of the Bernie stuff is so over the top it's almost satire. Is this where they hook them? With comics? Insidious.

I always thought it was the “free everything” that was the hook but maybe the ludicrous propaganda infused imagery plays a bigger role than first thought.

Someone needs to nail down the animated rights. He could end up being the most popular villain in the MCU.

A take on the most liked/shared picture of a misdemeanor arrest ever.

Also, which 80 year old man are you referring to?

Lived like a spark burning fast and bright I guess

with that thread yet. Thank you!

call bullshit...Bernie should be ashamed and so should those who defend this vile man-including but not limited to Jane Sanders...he is a God damn right winger...he was showing the left's supposed media manipulation...ask his buddy Sean Hannity.

I agree, they shouldn't have thrown him under the bus. Glad they learned to ignore the faux-woke outrage from anti-Bernie twitter and from corporate-funded think tanks when it came to the Rogan endorsement.

about MLK...just away to cover his sorry ass and judging from Twitter, he failed. Oh, I am sure his buddy Hannity just loved it.

Like, you seriously think that he wasn't actually making a parody video to show how manipulation works? Really? Like he secretly actually hates MLK, but the way he expresses that hatred is by pretending to make a parody video that is actually a non-parody...

I mean, for starters, if that were true, why would he make the other video praising MLK?

an excuse...it is disgusting to do that to a martyred American hero. This POS (and he isn't funny either) should have nothing to do with Sander's campaign...your wrong about this and Rogan- DanTex...it is a BFD to many people. Oh did you watch the 'retarded' video...what a guy...so funny...

and was one of the subjects of that whole episode of demeaning sexism and harassment that Bernie staffers finally revealed a couple years ago.

edit:
https://www.latinorebels.com/2017/04/01/californias-34th-congressional-district-election-gets-ugly-and-public-with-allegations-of-sexual-harassment/
"The rest of the post provides a very detailed account of Mendieta’s working experience in the Sanders campaign, and how, according to Mendieta, Carmona was protected by other make Sanders campaign officials. Near the end of the post, Mendieta wrote this:
We all knew Arturo would book flights back home to California using the campaign travel agency despite it being against policy. We all know that the immigration policy he keeps touting as his pièce de résistance was actually the work of Erika Andiola and Cesar Vargas. In fact, we all wrote the policy memos. I can’t think of one he did himself while I was there. We all saw how he would demean the female staff, treat us like his personal assistants fetching things for him and doing his errands, while he never asked male staff with the same titles to do any of that. I remember being told by a Latino staffer that the first question Arturo asked when he hired me was: “Is she cute?” When I looked horrified, he clarified: “He asks that about all the women he hires""

It's a sign of an opportunist more than a good leader. His quick fix was only because this was exposed -- perfectly titled piece:

Be Your Own Hero Because Bernie Is Not It.

Then he sits there and lets the treacly squish out and ooze over him...

Link to tweet

Sexual violence, sex discrimination, and a pervasive predatory culture...

And it feels like nothing has changed. No wonder Symone Sanders jumped ship.

primary list as in never never and never ...did I say never? only in the general...and I have never said this abut any candidate in my life, but I will be holding my nose. I hope to God he is not the nominee.

Through The Whole running for President video.

But I thought it merited mentioning that he supported a public option.

Let's see, they're attacking Bernie because his wife retweeted a video from some other guy who a long time ago made a video titled "Media Manipulation 101", distorting MLK's speech in order to show how video and audio can be manipulated.

Whatever will the come up with next?!?!

That's my guess as to "they came up with next..." It serves Bernie's faux-oppression and faux-martyrdom routines so very well.

Bernie has won the battle over the issues that people care about ...So now the Bernie-phobes are reduced to resorting to this pathetic nonsense …. Bernie is a sexist ...No , he is a secret racist , ...No , Bernie is a Communist ...No , Bernie is secret Capitalist - he's hiding a fortune …. ...The Reality : Bernie offers real solutions to the real problems facing most Americans.. He is far from perfect ..He's flawed like the rest of us ….But Bernie , warts and all , has been fighting for the "Little Man/ Woman his entire adult life .. We have the receipts ….The Establishment knows he's The Real Deal ....That is why they hate him so

Link to tweet

the corporate-backed think tanks attacking him aren't actually super-woke, they just don't want him to be president.

....that put out a disgusting video (several, but one in particular) that mimicked MLK and used his image/speech to promote a pornographic idea.

You can fall back on that ol' "corporate back" if you want, but that doesn't make it true or even relevant.

at making videos. But when they found that old parody video they let him go, to satisfy the faux-woke centrists that all pretended to be offended by it. Like, isn't that what you wanted him to do? Shouldn't you be applauding him for that?

The video guy is obviously progressive, obviously not racist, whether MLK should be used to show how media can be manipulated is arguable, but no voters who don't already hate Bernie are going to care about that.

You know, she didn't even praise the guy, she praised the Bernie video. Which was, in fact, a great video.

But whatever, the point is, who do you think this sways? Why would this make anyone less likely to want Bernie as President?

Haven't I seen angst over any reference to Bernie being Jewish? What "faux-woke" category would that fall into? What about Jane's appearance -- fair game? Which "voters" will care about those insults?

They also spend 99% of their time attacking the Democratic Party:

https://medium.com/@0rf/trump-is-not-the-problem-9708d12c473f

on MLK...sex, drugs etc.

Any attempt to twist that into something else is, frankly, appalling to me.

and( Jane even praised this guy)who made the most vile attack video on MLK I have ever seen and who celebrated the endorsement of a vile hate merchant- Joe Rogan. You can't make this right. I predict that if Sanders is the nominee...AA won't turn out for him in the numbers we need and his Rogan buddies were always going to vote for Trump in the General. Sanders will lose the general.

Sure I hold my nose and vote for Sanders in a General...I have always voted for the Democratic nominee..but you are kidding yourself if you believe some who truly dislike the way Sander's has conducted his campaign and his hires etc won't stay home...not people here of course but enough to throw the election to Trump. What some don't understand is the our reclaiming the blue wall states is only possible with a large AA turnout...and Sanders blew it with them. There is no going back. If he is the nominee, he loses and we lose as a party and a country. The progressive movement is gone. I sincerely hope Sanders will not be the nominee and I don't see any surge so maybe we get through this and have a nominee like Biden or even Warren with the right VP who can win.

I mean, 99% of the people who view that video will understand that it's a parody showing how media can be manipulated. Just by the title.

Beyond that, 99% of people will never see that video because they don't really care what videos people who made videos retweeted by Bernie's wife made ten years ago. (Even explaining the "scandal" is a mouthful lol)

Like Joe Rogan said, if you take any person and highlight the very worst thing they ever did, you can make them look bad. Again, 99% of people will agree with Rogan on this.

But this isn't even something Bernie did. It's not something his wife did. It's something that a guy who made a video that was retweeted by Bernie's wife did.

Who cares!

can work across the aisle and praised Republicans whom he has come to know throughout his career. WHO CARES, right?

So glad to see how flippancy can dispel all the recent months of hair pulling over Biden. Double standards are cool!

I mean, I'm sure some people do, that's a whole different thing than some random parody video from ten years ago. Those segregationists were actually racist, they didn't just make a parody video. And Biden described them as good friends, it's not just like his wife retweeted one of their videos.

But I don't recall saying that Biden being close friends with segregationists is a huge deal.

instead of, for instance, speaking at someone's funeral 20 years ago. If you make a video, then that's cool. You can mock, insult, ridicule -- the whole shebang -- because you are really just a cool video maker.

segregationists if videos what you care about.

Especially taking things out of context, that seems to be a big thing. Recently mocking MLK, though, that gets a pass, because cool cat video makers are off the hook. The double standards are never ending.

Whataboutism...

The point is not to bash Biden or Bernie or anyone. The point is how absurd playing the guilt-by-association purity test game is, because nobody wins. We need to defeat Trump.

Link to tweet

guy is...I can't deal with this at all. I am really angry about this...because this guy also has attacked handicapped people...he is a bad guy. Does Sanders vet no one? And is he really still working for the campaign?

Here is the bottom line for me. I don't trust Sanders on social justice issues period. Early in the campaign he was my second choice..but not any more. He gets my vote in a general. And as an aside...those who are highest paid are men. I am just done with this.

He has a brother with special needs. Perhaps we should ask his brother how he feels about being called "handicapped".

The guy loves the word 'retard' ...and he uses it in a vile way too.

Yeah, I agree. Excellent point.

.. what?!

Matt....scum.

He literally said that in the description of the video that everyone is faux-outraged about.



https://medium.com/@0rf/my-first-day-in-politics-bcd93ff7f53c

his way of having his cake and eating it too...cracked him up sure.

....but is still making videos for them.

but was still writing hit pieces for them.

the 'auditions' never end.

This idiot is a racist and no campaign should be associated with him. In addition, no campaign should be associated with a liar like Sirota and no Democratic campaign should be staffed by Jill Stein supporters. A vote for Jill stein was a vote for trump

One knows candidates by the company they keep and who they put in positions of influence.

nominee.

What she did to the college she lead was horrific. Tons of people lost their jobs, including a friend who is 52 and still underemployed in retail after teaching for 20 plus years.

No use for her.

and walked away. The entire faculty and staff wanted her investigated.

many ways he will come after Sanders...even if what she did isn't illegal...they will trash her.

"There were no problems when I left. It was great." "...had I stayed, that it would have been wonderful."

for being the phony progressive that he is. If his first choice is Bernie, his second choice is Trump, and I'm not so sure that's the order.

To see his name juxtaposed aside the leading lights of the left is hilarious. They have become one.

Better yet, they can allow him unlimited visits with them at their Vermont home.