Between this and supporting Lindsay Graham's resolution calling for the "end of Hamas in Gaza"--along with all the betrayals of the last 8 years--I don't know why anyone is still defending Bernie, yet I have a bunch of liberals in my replies engaging in hero worship when it comes to him and AOC. - ThreadSky

breakify.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Between this and supporting Lindsay Graham's resolution calling for the "end of Hamas in Gaza"--along with all the betrayals of the last 8 years--I don't know why anyone is still defending Bernie, yet I have a bunch of liberals in my replies engaging in hero worship when it comes to him and AOC.

Reposted from Sheryl Weikal (The Leftist Lawyer)

Hey @sanders.senate.gov quick question, WHAT THE FUCK?

www.mediaite.com/news/bernie-...

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mamabear23.bsky.social•7 days ago

I feel like they are all bought and paid for. The US needs to start from the ground up.

4thwallguide.bsky.social•7 days ago

I honestly hate the fact that he was never who we thought he was.

blackstarflame.bsky.social•7 days ago

And that's why libs love him and AOC now. They realized, they're not actually radicals who put principle above party. They're libs who put party over principles, with just more tiresome talk about billionaires & oligarchy thrown in.

junkwarrior97.bsky.social•6 days ago

So everything Biden and other establishment dems have done is perfect? They are corrupt as long as they take money from corporate doners and AIPAC money

sjoneswastaken.bsky.social•6 days ago

These are probably the same liberals who called people "racist Bernie Bros" in 2016 and 2020. And, it seems Bernie is getting his talking points from 3rd Way. Their recent "Comeback Retreat" (yeah, ironic name, huh?) concluded Democrats should be just like Republicans. ⬇️
https://bsky.app/profile/sjoneswastaken.bsky.social/post/3ll2w6oiats2g

belitsari.bsky.social•6 days ago

Since so few, here remember OUR working class party being sold, after Powell's Memo (he being a reactionary Democrat) & exactly HOW the Clintons reinvigorated Joe's Dixiecrat klaven of segregationists:

https://theintercept.com/2019/08/13/koch-brothers-third-way/

belitsari.bsky.social•6 days ago

Only ONE view has been permissable for DECADES & it's not DEMOCRATIC, it's boss, landlord & creditor paying reactionary kleptocrats to indenture us into EZ Credit, Paycheck Loans, 1099 gig serfdom & out into the streets. But we were called radical. Now, it's antisemetic?

https://prospect.org/features/dlc/

sjoneswastaken.bsky.social•5 days ago

And, ofc, there was this guy...the Democrats never recovered and trended ever more neoliberal afterward. At this point, it's just a giant front for corporatists.
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-01-02-jimmy-carters-economic-legacy/

belitsari.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thank you! I'd certainly add, Joe's Dixiecrat klaven pals (kicking Henry Wallace off the ticket in 1944 & crushing Ken Galbraith's incredible post war plans) basically Billionaire Putsch 2.0 turning New Deal into white-flight suburban reactionary ethnic cleansing of Black business & lefty advocacy.

rantsbydesign.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yes. It is a bit fucking rich, especially coming from liberals. Jfc.

andrewberg-tung.bsky.social•7 days ago

Bernie has always been protectionist/against free trade.

I don't need to agree with all his policies to like him.

In two party systems, you always vote for the "lesser of two evils" -third parties aren't relevant

Bernie is far less evil than President Musk.

vanlighet.bsky.social•7 days ago

And you’re personally doing what, exactly? Playing video games?

rafalehigh97.bsky.social•7 days ago

Appreciated that they are causing noise and raucous.
Bernie is the wrong horse, more of the broken past, more old.
AOC is a good voice and media savvy but not ready for prime time.

They are welcome to tour and push for noise, it is needed .. just don’t think they will be getting nominated

coffeesp00ns.bsky.social•7 days ago

At least it seems like AOC *tries*? I’m sure she’s not perfect.

hobojoe.bsky.social•7 days ago

She's rhetorically very talented. But if you look at her track record she immediately backs down from her rhetoric the moment dem leadership asks her to. She is very useful to them, making passionate speeches to motivate people to vote for democrats who continue the status quo

ebonrai.com•7 days ago

She's fucking evil. She's not trying. She's making the appearance of trying.

coffeesp00ns.bsky.social•7 days ago

Hey that’s fair I’ll be honest I haven’t kept up with her as much as I should have.

I’ll take the L on this one.

hobojoe.bsky.social•7 days ago

Once liberals are cheering for someone on the "left", you know that person isn't actually on the left

sjoneswastaken.bsky.social•6 days ago

Bernie and AOC were never on the left.
https://bsky.app/profile/sjoneswastaken.bsky.social/post/3ll3ltfw7wc2u

paulwalker44.bsky.social•6 days ago

Bernie won’t say the G-word and but he’ll say “Netanyahu” to cover up for what Israel is doing.

https://bsky.app/profile/paulwalker44.bsky.social/post/3ll536l6fc22x

workerseduleague.bsky.social•6 days ago

Well, yeah, they are liberals.
I keep trying to tell em, they were a compromise offered a decade ago, a possible course correction for the party n country THEN.

purpose they serve now is to awaken class consciousness in some liberals maybe, but this moment requires more agitation from further left

archvillain.bsky.social•6 days ago

Everyone is full of shit.

trixiebelden1015.bsky.social•7 days ago

Bernie's on a grift, cannot figure out what it is for yet. His answer when asked if AOC should run for Schumer's seat this morning was misogynistic at best.

ronmimnaugh.bsky.social•7 days ago

Bernie's time has past. I still like a lot of his ideas. I hope we get a politician one day that actually supports them as well

socal49ers.bsky.social•7 days ago

So you support Hamas? I’m confused.

jeanlucbacardi.bsky.social•6 days ago

Do oppressed people have a right to defend themselves from violent oppression?

alessandro1968.bsky.social•6 days ago

Even this man is considered too leftist to be allowed to be US Presidential Candidate. Real changes will never occur in that country!

tiredofthisshit.bsky.social•6 days ago

Nobody is a hero. Nobody is right on everything. However, Trump is an evil abomination from hell, and republicans are scum.

tyskully.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just like democrats.

skyinu.bsky.social•7 days ago

this seems more like a republican smear tactic to sow discord into democrats. everyone should just ignore misquoting and such trash

dangerouspenguin.bsky.social•7 days ago

He didn't say anything radically different. His approach wouldn't be the same I think he has made that clear on multiple occasions.
The best way to have less illegal immigration is make the system work more quickly. Not this authoritarian bullshit.

zdepthcharge.bsky.social•7 days ago

Bernie supports the "end of Gaza"?

PROVE IT.

Prove you are not just a propaganda spewing account.

#EndFascists #EndOligarchs #EndNeoliberals

vanlighet.bsky.social•7 days ago

🍿 👀

hobojoe.bsky.social•7 days ago

He supported the genocide in gaza for months and refused to call for a ceasefire or an arms embargo. You know, the genocide that leveled every building in gaza and killed hundreds of thousands of people

zdepthcharge.bsky.social•7 days ago

No he did not. He made the mistake of assuming the US was going to negotiate an end to the hostilities, so he acted as a POLITICIAN and did not interrupt what he assumed were well intended interactions between the Biden admin and the fascists in control of Israel. Once it was clear that the US was

hobojoe.bsky.social•7 days ago

Biden has been the most outspoken zionist in government for decades. Bernie is also a zionist, though much less aggressive about it. He knew Biden would continue to support Israel, and that's what he wanted to happen. Until it became an impossible position to hold without losing legitimacy.

hobojoe.bsky.social•7 days ago

Biden of course continued in his zionism because the only thing that made his old rotten brain feel anything was killing brown children, ideas about unpopular positions couldn't be held in his empty skull

zdepthcharge.bsky.social•7 days ago

Bernie had so much support in the 2020 election that Biden actually made concessions to Bernie in the early days of his presidency. Bernie hasn't spoken about this, but I think Bernie expected that to continue. But you can't trust a neolib. And since you are so utterly sure of what is in Bernie's

zdepthcharge.bsky.social•7 days ago

head, please explain why he voted against every bill he could that gave anything to israel? Bernie is not a zionist. If you're going to argue against Bernie, then do some basic research. Don't be like those fucking MAGAts that call him a Commie because they can't read.

zdepthcharge.bsky.social•7 days ago

not interested in stopping the genocide, Bernie called for a ceasefire. He acted like what he is, a politician. That is NOT the same thing as supporting the genocide and is quite the opposite. Bernie has spoke about this. Don't forget that as a politician he is not going come out sounding like some

zdepthcharge.bsky.social•7 days ago

sort of newly minted, anti-fascist, college Communist. He has trained himself into that weird realm of polite political speak. He does not sling insults or accusations he cannot back up. If you don't like that, then too bad. That is the language of politics and Bernie is good at it.

insurgentagitator.bsky.social•7 days ago

Do we care? Nah. We still riding with Bernie.

exp-symbiosis.bsky.social•7 days ago

Because it’s easier to believe someone in power is going to save them than to admit the situation is dire and we have to save ourselves. Some of them will still be blaming Trump voters in 50 years.

karamasaker.bsky.social•7 days ago

hi🫂❤️. I'm karam, medical student from Gaza.I lost everything.I lost my education and my home.Help me and my family to be able to live and pay for food, then get out and start a new life when Rafah crossing opens. I would be grateful if you donate or share on all social media.🫂

bbradley1979.bsky.social•7 days ago

weird. in the past few days i've seen a lot of supposed leftists shitting on aoc and bernie, extolling the virtues of romneycare, and other neoliberal garbage on this site

belitsari.bsky.social•6 days ago

Do you have any clue, some of us here, were calling out Koch's Romneycare nack when Hillary pushed it (we'd accurately called it "Dole Care" in 1992? You wouldn't know LEFT if you were aware of consensus reality?

coldwindandsnow.bsky.social•6 days ago

You ahead of me, I recall Romney Care but don’t remember any such policies from Bob Dole.

belitsari.bsky.social•6 days ago

GOD, I hate to cite Wikipedia, but elsewhere in here, I'm being castigated by a know-nothing DNC troll, who either can't be bothered to face up to the fact Hillary was David Koch's instrument to destroy Green Party's single-payer plan, even Jessie Jackson offered!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Equity_and_Access_Reform_Today_Act_of_1993

bbradley1979.bsky.social•6 days ago

aw, wikipedia is too right-wing for you now? nice try, sock puppet, you overplayed your hand

belitsari.bsky.social•6 days ago

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2013/nov/15/ellen-qualls/aca-gop-health-care-plan-1993/

belitsari.bsky.social•6 days ago

Good LUCK, trying to find anything these reactionary DNC folks will believe, if it's not on Comcast or WBD; but here's the basic answer from a sufficiently corporate source. The truth is likely still up at WSWS, Intercept, CounterPunch or KFF, but Google has SEOd most of this down it's memory hole:

belitsari.bsky.social•6 days ago

Of course they'll be far more likely to believe Forbes' version

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/10/20/how-a-conservative-think-tank-invented-the-individual-mandate/

belitsari.bsky.social•6 days ago

Could it be; they figured out, Bernie was indeed a schtick, sheep-dogging affluent white chilluns to LOTE-in Hillary (as he promised to take a dive, WAY before Debbie's fascist Philly smackdown). AOC was eager part of every betrayal, from Hunts Point, on? They're bit-part extras for Likud's duopoly.

bbradley1979.bsky.social•6 days ago

Nah
Bernie Bros were repackaged "Obama Boys" from 2008

Take your sock puppet account elsewhere, neocon

belitsari.bsky.social•6 days ago

Nope, I'm one of a couple million lifelong loyal actual blue-collar Pittsburgh Democrats, Schumer threw away for your white-flight suburbanite, reactionary raccist Weimar Republican takeover; Debbie Wasserman Schultz SNEERED about under oath. Nobody wanted TWO Republican parties?

bbradley1979.bsky.social•6 days ago

I don't necessarily disagree with anything in this post

It's just too convenient of a coincidence that SO MANY virtue signalers are coming out of the woodwork to splinter the left now that Bernie and AOC are becoming the popular front face of the dems

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