… Bernie who again? I seem to have already forgotten this very old curmudgeon.
Didn’t he thoroughly lose in a political campaign or something and then cling pathetically to the bitter end in a desperate gasp at relevancy?
I’m sorry, but were we supposed to remember who he was after his 15 minutes were up?
Sidenote: It’s amazing how only a few weeks after CA, Bernie’s truly becoming a footnote in history. A speedbump, if you will. One which most of the US is already tuning out. I’ve read that even the Hillary campaign has done analysis and believes that around 10-15% of Bernie’s followers, the ones who haven’t come around to support her, were not Democrats to begin with and were never going to vote for a “Democrat” other than Bernie.
“I am going to vote for Sec Clinton in the Fall. but I am not endorsing her!”
I do not want to hear one Sanders supporter to say he is a straight shooter, yada yada yada. The never ending Sanders campaign has become a campaign about nothing.
I thought the high sparrow was gone.
Sanders: No, I’m Not Ready To Endorse Clinton Yet
Democrats: Yes, We’ve Had Enough Of His Sh^t.
jw1
BeattyCat’s Response: “I’m sorry … who … said this?”
Still a candidate for President, and still reneging on his promise to release his tax returns (other than 2014).
Life is good.
Criminy, stop being a jerk, Bernie.
Oh for fucks sake Bernie , go away. It’s over. Go back to Vermont and become the footnote you richly deserve.
Looks like the only thing that will keep Sanders away from TV interviews is when there is a recent mass shooting.
Sorry Bernie, your 15 minutes are up.
When will this loser realize he has thoroughly discredited himself. TPM don’t waste time with this guy. If you feel the need to do a piece on the “burned out” go with this: "Bernie has still not returned home.Vermonters don’t miss him. "
Seems that’s a feature, not a bug, eh?
Bernie is starting to be the weird Uncle…
Sanders is being an asshat. No question, and no surprise. High Sparrow indeed.
At the same time, Hillary needs to go better at inspiring young voters and at accounting for the leftward populist tilt of emerging constituencies. She has shown herself to be tone deaf to the anger at establishment coziness with pernicious special interests. This is making the race closer than it should be, and could suppress liberal turnout in Senate battlegrounds like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa.
Campaigning with Sen. Warren is an invigorating start, but it’s only symbolic. There are some areas where Bernie’s positions would be truly harmful to the party and the country, IMO. But there are plenty of potentially popular political and policy reforms worth pursuing: Reduce the number of superdelegates (not eliminate them). Tie trade deals more closely to climate change commitments. Figure out a way for Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to “voluntarily” step aside after the convention. Make it clear on the trail that raising the minimum wage and eliminating Wall Street tax loopholes will be legislative priorities. Etc. It might even be good to stress with a bit more passion that she’s committed eventually to get to universal healthcare.
The other day, a pro-Bernie friend of mine wanted me to tell him what issues Hillary would agree with him on. Of course, in typically Bernie-bot fashion, he went nattering on about something else once I started rattling the laundry list. But he has certain hot-button issues. For the most part, Bernie’s supports back decent policy ideas. And in many cases those policy positions are indeed popular.
Why does Hayes keep having this doof on his program? Kucinich too busy?
Let me do something I haven’t done in a while and take Bernie at his word.
He says two things: 1) He will do everything in his power to prevent Donald Trump from being elected; 2) He wants to negotiate to get the leftmost possible platform, even if his tactics risk fracturing the Democratic coalition.
The only way that I can make these two positions jibe together so both are true is if he thinks making a populist appeal to Donald Trump’s supporters is the surest way to defeat him. That is, that Trump’s profoundly racist supporters will join the Obama coalition, join with the Latinos that they blame for everything, if only someone explains that it’s in their economic interests (aka, the Eternal fucking Dream).
If this is what he’s thinking, then it is as willfully naïve as Trump’s plan to peel Sanders supporters away by throwing shade at the TPP is stupidly cynical. This plan has been proven not to work, time and again, for decades. Look at Kansas, for heaven’s sake. Look at the existence of Jim Webb and Catfish Saunders. Economic self-interest isn’t enough to sell wingnuts. They just hate brown people.
This is as charitable a read as I can give Bernie’s actions. Either way, I’m glad he and his ex-Paultard dead-enders are irrelevant. Not to beat a dead horse, but it’s his bad judgment that led me not to trust him in the first place.
Bernie I have never seen anyone squander political capital as fast as you have. You have truly reached the point, in record time I might add, of who the hell cares what you do.
He’ll endorse Hillary when she is sworn in on January 20th, 2017. I guess that’s what it will take to make this egotistical fart realize he lost long ago. He has frittered away his influence, and now he is starting to become a joke. The more Trump speaks, the more people realize what the choice is really about in November. It is not about the “lesser of two evils”; it is about sanity vs. a madman. Fuck Bernie and his hardcore followers if they think burning down the country is better than trying to save it.
Fuck you, Bernie. And keep dreaming about that speaking spot in Philly, because it ain’t coming without an endorsement. Maybe you can still give a speech to Susan Sarandon in the hallway, if that’ll make you feel better.
I wish a big motherfucking bird would fly over and take a bodacious dump on his head. That would be a fitting finish to his already dead campaign. “Birdie”, my ass!