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Liberals still hating on Bernie supporters and refusing to accept the idea that voters wanted a shake up of the system, rather than a female version of the status quo establishment left?
...so now we're stuck with a right wing shake up to the system instead.
They’re going to keep pissing on others like this and continue to be surprised when their candidates don’t get elected. It will always be someone else’s fault.
If Bernie was so popular why couldn't he beat Hillary Clinton or Biden in the Primaries?
Or was that someone else's fault?
Because the DNC put their thumbs on the scales and did everything they could to lock him out of the process while doing the opposite for Clinton.
If the chosen, status quo DNC candidates are so popular, why do they keep losing or nearly losing all their elections?
The media HEAVILY favored Hilary for that whole cycle and basically made Bernie look like a joke. He had his "we will need to raise taxes" and that's when everything shifted. DNC was never going to let him be the candidate
remember the totally innocent time the people managing the contest had a visit with Bill Clinton on the fucking tarmac? yeah, DNC, message received, you don't even care about how bad that looks...
Because the DNC put their thumbs on the scales and did everything they could to lock him out of the process while doing the opposite for Clinton.
Source? The way I remember it Bernie didn’t get enough votes.
If the chosen, status quo DNC candidates are so popular, why do they keep losing or nearly losing all their elections?
Out of the last 5 elections they won 3.
The DNC was out of money and severely in debt after Obamas 2012 campaign. They conspired with Hillary because she paid off 80% of the debt and was funding the DNC. She had control of their finances and decisions because the DNC would go under without her
Wow I’ve never heard that. Do you have a source where I can verify?
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/
Donna Brazile is the former interim chair of the Democratic National Committee
The Saturday morning after the convention in July, I called Gary Gensler, the chief financial officer of Hillary’s campaign. He wasted no words. He told me the Democratic Party was broke and $2 million in debt.
“What?” I screamed. “I am an officer of the party and they’ve been telling us everything is fine and they were raising money with no problems.”
That wasn’t true, he said. Officials from Hillary’s campaign had taken a look at the DNC’s books. Obama left the party $24 million in debt—$15 million in bank debt and more than $8 million owed to vendors after the 2012 campaign—and had been paying that off very slowly. Obama’s campaign was not scheduled to pay it off until 2016. Hillary for America (the campaign) and the Hillary Victory Fund (its joint fundraising vehicle with the DNC) had taken care of 80 percent of the remaining debt in 2016, about $10 million, and had placed the party on an allowance.
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“Wait,” I said. “That victory fund was supposed to be for whoever was the nominee, and the state party races. You’re telling me that Hillary has been controlling it since before she got the nomination?”
Gary said the campaign had to do it or the party would collapse.
“That was the deal that Robby struck with Debbie,” he explained, referring to campaign manager Robby Mook. “It was to sustain the DNC. We sent the party nearly $20 million from September until the convention, and more to prepare for the election.”
Lies and statistics. Out of the last 7 elections they also won 3. And out of the last 3 they only won 1. Really it's a pretty even split so far this century, and counting this last election Republicans have had the edge. So sure the dnc isn't losing all of their elections, but ffs sake they should be doing a lot better than this.
Did they take his name off the ballot?
Did they change the vote totals?
Did they forbid him from campaigning?
They just 'put their thumbs on the scales'? What does that even mean? They did 'everything they could to lock him out of the process' while letting him campaign and participate in the process? All your examples are vague as fuck, bro.
"I'ma be disrespectful to you, but I expect you to teach me!"
This ain't a debate. lol. If you want people to share their knowledge with you, come correct. Most people would be happy to share information. When you act all dishonest it makes no one want to even talk to you unless they agree with you
The man is out here talking shit and won't show you evidence of why he's right because it's not his job to be a teacher and also you are disrespectful in your challenging of his assertions, am I following you correctly?
The reason for no evidence is because there is no evidence, the reason for my disrespect is because i know he has no evidence. Don't try to pretend like if i came at this from a different angle he'd suddenly be opening the library of Alexandria for us.
If I say, the earth isn't a perfect sphere and that actually it's a bit oval/elliptical (or whatever or supposedly is) and then someone answers all pissy and asking me to prove it, do you really think I'm likely to help them understand my position if I find them rude and annoying? Most people that genuinely want to understand others' point of view don't say things like "or was that someone else's fault?" They say things like"can you explain why you think that?" or maybe "I've been thinking xyz, why is it you think abc instead?"
What does that even mean?
Sigh... Go read about superdelegates. Then read about reporting. Then read about social engineering. Then look at the mob mentality of wanting to vote for the likely winner. Then apply all of that knowledge to the events as they happened during Bernie's campaigns.
Edit: there, I typed it out since obviously nobody will actually go learn something on their own.
Did they change the vote totals?:
Yes. Every running candidate next to Bernie pulled out, dedicating their votes to Clinton instead. It was blatant and out in the open. Hell, Bloomberg even "entered" the race late in caucusing and pulled out shortly after an insane ad spend dedicating his votes to Clinton as well. That's "putting their 👍 on the scale".
Do you not remember every media outlet showing all the superdelegates as voting for Clinton even before their votes had been cast making it look like Sanders stood no chance?
Ƿen Y do'n vot ėgenſt ð fæciſtſ, Ðm gœıŋ ȯn t d fæciſt cit z Yṙ fȯlt.
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When you don't vote against the fascists, them going on to do fascist shit is your fault.
More friendly fire. I did vote against the fascists. And you continuing to laud blame on everyone else instead of introspecting on how you can make “not fascism” a more attractive message only hurts the cause.
You’re doing harm instead of good. That’s the point.
You're requiring the entire American populace to have the same level of being informed as yourself in order for this plan to work. In the real world, lots of people are incredibly ignorant of the actual political situation in the US. The democrats need to adjust their messaging to get those who aren't politically engaged but vote. That means speaking on the material reality for the average person and discussing how to solve those issues. That means EMBRACING MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICIES.
Yeah, if you know a leftist who stayed home because Harris wasn't left enough, shame the fuck out of them. But that isn't the same as saying Harris lost because she didn't embrace the left. Most Americans don't know they're left-leaning because anything "socialist" must be evil.
If people won’t vote in their own best interest we get facsism.
Ƿantid t ceık u̇p ð ſiſtim ſ mu̇tc ðeı did'n paṙtiſipeıt i it lıdıŋ t Bernie luzıŋ boþ pruımeırız?
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Wanted to shake up the system so much they didn't participate in it leading to Bernie losing both primaries?
Am I too un-USAmerican to understand this joke?
In the 2020 primaries, Bernie Sanders was rapidly gaining support. Based on the number of candidates and how they were splitting the vote, he stood the best chance of winning.
Then, the call went out. I'm not sure how else to describe it. All the competing candidates were in one day, and then most of them withdrew the next day and cleared the moderate field for Biden. It was a coordinated choice by a donor group or DNC or something that catapulted a mid popularity Biden to the top of the pack.
Hence the calls of 'DNC sabotaged Bernie'
He kinda got fucked in 2016 when the DNC was all Vote for Hillary or lose your funding
Thank you. Seems like the DNC brought upon Trump by themselves.
OP could've added that context to the comic. We don't all follow the news from abroad.
There was something similar that happened in 2016 as well.
The way I remember it Bernie didn’t have enough votes before everyone dropped out.
no, he had just won two primaries in a row. Everyone but Biden, Bernie, and Warren dropped out. Warren was just as beholden to the DNC as the rest of them, but she stayed in specifically to split the progressive vote, in order to catapult the flailing Biden into pole position. It was clear as day, a coordinated effort to stop Bernie from being the Democratic candidate.
Warren played Marcus Brutus to Sanders' Caesar, live on National television.
She's a wretch. She also falsely claimed native american heritage, which was an out and out lie.
Remember when she called Bernie "anti-woman" and made some claim that he had said a woman can't be president? I lost all respect for her after that.
Don't forget the part where everyone dropping out endorsed Biden right after. Another funny case was Buttigieg, who was doing well after the first few primaries, even won some, but then just decided to drop out.
It was a calculated decision to win the election and Biden won the election. It was a decision made by the individual candidates. Not the DNC.
I would vote for Bernie but America has more moderate voters than far left or far right. That needs to be considered when deciding the next candidate.
That's literally just politics. Apply the same logic to the recent french elections where competing left-wing candidates dropped out to not split the vote.
Nothing was stopping Bernie from making a deal with Amy and Pete to stay in the race to keep the centrist vote split
If it was biden making a deal then that's one thing. I don't think that's what happened. I think the DNC power players or donors said 'we don't want Bernie' and the rest of the group fell in line.
If that was the case then Buttigege would have just been threatend funding wise and wouldn't have needed to be offered a cabinet position, which only Biden had the power to give.
That's literally just politics.
This gives the same energy as saying "it's just business" after doing some heinous shit.
That’s literally just politics.
And see, that's the problem people complain about. They are doing bad politics by ganging up to the candidate that's gaining support from the people who are looking for someone different. Those people end up in Trump's camp when the Ds can only offer more corporate elites.
But why are they still talking about in in 2100 in the comic? I don't get whether it's shitting on the Bernie supporters for not moving on, or taking the piss out of the democratic party not getting its shit together.
Post-democracy autopsy of how it all went wrong