The fact that Harris got heat for campaigning with Liz Cheney, while Sanders gets a pass for his constant assertion that Trump voters are not vile bigots, and are simply disillusioned with the class system, is very irritating.
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Bernie gets away w/ so much more than any Dem. In 2020, he lied about his heart attack & then didn’t release his medical records. The press barely covered it.
The amt. of money Jane grifted in the 2016 campaign & the $100K her son gets from The Sanders Fdn have never been covered.
It's frustrating because, what concessions did Harris make for Liz Cheney? I can't think of any. The entire reason the Liz Cheney campaigned for Harris was because she knew what sort of president Trump would be. She knew how dangerous he is.
What's left of the neocons unconditionally surrendered to the Harris campaign. It's only because the Harris campaign was defeated that they stand any chance of negotiating with the Democrats for anything, and even then, their incandescent rage at Trump has so far been the priority.
It is a little humorous to think about, but Liz Cheney, by sole virtue of campaigning for Harris, did more to advance the cause of trans-rights than most of the people piling on Sarah McBride.
I once said that the old ladies who still mix up their great-nephew's pronouns did more for trans rights by knocking doors for Dems then any very on-line trans anarchist and I stand by it.
People with opposing views uniting against a common enemy is nothing new. Churchill and Stalin sure as hell didn’t have similar political views, but they worked together against the Nazis.
Any reality-based approach to politics would endorse a united effort to defeat fascism, from everyone, from the left to the right, who cherishes democracy.
The pro-fascist leftists are just as batshit crazy as the MAGAs are, and just as devastating for democracy.
A non-trivial number of people who tear down Democrats believe Stalin was the positive influence and Churchill was the only ruiner in that relationship.
He is encouraging people to become independents like him to dismantle the Democratic Party so there can be a progressive party. This divisiveness gave us Trump. Twice.
All Democrats get heat for even slightly engaging with Republicans, but Bernie can come out and say Elon Musk and RFK Jr are smart and have good ideas, and he gets a complete pass for it, or even applauded. It drives me nuts!
Ok, but Elon Musk and RFK Jr. are clearly very stupid in addition to being dangerous as hell. Besides, RFK is himself an unhealthy person who was doing an interview while eating at a Steak n Shake a few weeks ago.
They may have horrible character and have had their brains addle over years by various means and are now drunk on power and will say outrageous things but outright stupid? Not a chance.
Here's some background on Tulsi Gabbard. She was a Sanders protege for years. He picked her to nominate him at the 2016 convention. He defended her long after it was clear that she was a Russian asset.
Did they ever actually work together? I was all-in on Bernie when her name started coming up, and it seemed pretty clear that a bunch of other Bernie people were just projecting onto her even though she sucked.
Yeah, Tulsi Gabbard was one of the original 11 founding fellows of the Sanders Institute. She remained a fellow there at least until 2022, when this article was written, even as she was speaking at CPAC. I'm not sure exactly when Sanders got around to scrubbing her.
It will never stop being infuriating that a religious (cultishly so!) war hawk became the Darling of the Left (ironic, derogatory) because too many people had one issue and it was (is) "antiestablishment" with no other qualifiers
Even when I supported Bernie, I never got any good vibes from Tulsi Gabbard, and I found it bizarre how so many Bernie supporters liked her and were rooting for her dumb lawsuit against Hillary.
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The amt. of money Jane grifted in the 2016 campaign & the $100K her son gets from The Sanders Fdn have never been covered.
The pro-fascist leftists are just as batshit crazy as the MAGAs are, and just as devastating for democracy.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bernie-sanders-says-elon-musk-194602101.html
We don’t have to counter every idea just cuz RFK Jr said it.
Acknowledging people are not stupid isn’t agreeing with them. It’s holding them accountable.
Worm brain... I'm not sure.
#Horseshoe
Meanwhile, this was Sanders at Liberty University, with Jerry Falwell Jr.
They don't hate Harris for being seen with Liz Cheney. They just hate Harris, and Democrats, period.
He's been an object and product of political hero-worship -- a dangerous intoxicant. Hope AOC learns to manage hers.
https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/rep-tulsi-gabbard-nominates-sen-bernie-sanders-at-2016-democratic-national-convention/653727
https://vtdigger.org/2019/10/22/sanders-first-of-top-tier-candidates-to-back-gabbard-in-war-of-words-with-clinton/
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4990621-tulsi-gabbard-trump-nomination/
https://thevpo.org/tag/tulsi-gabbard/