The Rediculous Smear of Bernie Sanders for Daring to Give SOTU Rebuttal
Bernie is racist and sexist, doncha know? Why? Because he's daring to speak on the very same day as a black woman.
Yep, that's all it takes to be "racist and sexist" these days.
Tuesday night, Bernie Sanders will be responding to Donald Trump’s State of the Union on his digital platforms—Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. A couple things to note:1. This will be his third straight year giving a response.
2. His speech, as usual, will come after the Democratic response, which will be delivered this year by Georgia’s Stacey Abrams, a black woman.
3. It’s not on TV, so you have to opt in and actually seek it out.
The bad faith actors are legion (see this), but here's a small taste.
#Resistance conspiracy theorist Louise Mensch was apoplectic on Twitter. "We already have to listen to one old white male traitor advance the Kremlin's interests, we don't need two," she wrote.Mensch, of course, does not speak for sane Democrats. But a more respected voice, MSNBC's Chris Hayes, predicted Sanders' commitment to doing the rebuttal—again, something he does every year—"will grate/alienate." It appears he was right: Many on social media dragged Sanders for daring to speak out of turn.
"Why is he talking over the black woman our party chose to speak for us?" asked the feminist author Amy Siskind. (Again, Sanders is not talking over anyone.) "This is disrespecting black women, the most important and reliable part of our base. He can speak another night. This is Stacey Abrams' night. She was the one the party chose. Nope. This is not his night!"
If this is "racist and sexist", then what does running against Kamala Harris do?
How dare a white man run for president!
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Just when you think
that the veal pen could not get any smaller, the Democratic party shrinks it even more. Every time I read the attacks upon liberals who refuse to toe the very narrow line that the neoliberals in the Democratic party have set for us, I become even more disgusted with the Democratic party.
The Democratic party has no real ideas or policies and has relied for years upon identity politics to carry it through elections. Now they are doubling down and using age, race and gender shaming to coerce us into supporting their very narrow and warped view of what we should adhere to. There is nothing democratic about the Democratic party. Stacey Abrams is a party insider of the neoliberal stripe. No thanks.
I prefer the old, white, Jewish man to give me the REAL rebuttal. Shame on me for refusing to be shamed into this latest neoliberal charade.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Stupid people gotta
do stupid shit. What else do you need to know? They ain't against BERNIE, they're against the IDEAS bernie talks about, classic kill the messenger(hopefully metaphorically!), pre-emptive maneuvering imo.
What I don't get is 'they' seem to be sending up flares calling More attention than he otherwise would get.
Are they Trying to drive the 'fuck you' tribe to Sanders? And Out of vision in doing so?
Like I said, it ain't gotta make sense. I guess.
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Ideas
seeing how they're still percolating since 2016, the dems see it's best to kill the messengers BEFORE they show up.
Ok, let's play IP
Ageism, racism, sexism and xenophobia all rolled into that comment. Quite a feat Louise.
DRINK!
again.
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
LMAO
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
OH, NOES!
STOP BERNIE AT ALL COSTS! HE'S TURNING US INTO A SOCIALIST COUNTRY! OH, NOES! RUN, HIDE, MOVE!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Ridiculous too
pedantic peeve
Stacey Abrams is one classic D-Values career politician, nothing says unity like corporate cashola:
What did she do with her scholarly knowledge? SOLD! Ka-ching goes the plutocrat every time ya crank it.
KA-CHING! The color of D-money is what counts, race is a sidetrack for the lizard brain. At least Bernie keeps the Overton window a little bit open, he should lead a party of defectors away from the corrupt Democrats now, that would be the honorable thing to do in my opinion. cheers
peace
White isn't a race
White isn't a race, so white people can be smeared, attacked and denied due process, office, voting and anything else the neolibs decide. But no one better ever do it to a person of color. They do belong to a race, and you will be a racist. Someone needs to tell the govt. to take caucasian off their forms.
Mary Poppins is now being accused of being racist. Apparently, a black face on a chimney sweep is a step too far.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
as i noted last week or the week before, the
makeup team for a recent local high school production of Mary Poppins were told to reduce the amount of soot on the sweeps' faces, after complaints from some families.
it's a very weird thing.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Uh...they got soot on their faces because
they were crawling inside chimneys all day. A rather horrendous job, and if I wanted to criticize Mary Poppins for something (which I really don't), it would be the transformation of people working a truly dreadful and dangerous job into a bunch of happy jigging Cockneys.
However, I'm willing to set my politics aside occasionally and enjoy the show. I don't think that the dancing and singing Cockneys Pamela Travers, or perhaps Disney, came up with, are what has stopped a Marxist revolution, so I feel fine about "stepping in time"
It occurs to me that if anybody should be pissed about this, maybe it *should* be Cockneys, who are the ones being portrayed as, well, goofy. Still, in a world of unmitigated crap, this seems like pretty small potatoes to be worried about, even for those that it's really talking about.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I wish Dick Van Dyke would say something about this.
But he's probably too smart to dive into that sewer of public discourse.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
look what's happening to Liam Neeson, because he made
the mistake, while reflecting on the insidious nature of racism, of recounting an emotional response that he had, decades ago.
this is the kind of public discourse that makes me crazy. it's the sort of cognitive-linguistic incompetence that Lakoff talks about, and even though Lakoff really pisses me off with his rather absolutist interpretations of his own experimental results, it's clear that he's nailed down the phenomenon of people responding irrationally to a few pre-primed phrases.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Speaking of Neeson
link
Looking forward to Listening to Sanders rebuttal
Won't watch the great orange clown blathering, but am interested in how Bernie will shift the narrative this time. The demon crats are all social psy-ops by now, so won't waste precious brain wave activity on that non-sense either. Give 'em hell Bern! Rooting for the sane team.
This is really a 'thing'?
Seriously?
I'm not planning to watch any of it, so I guess that makes me a racistsexistmisogynistageist of epic proportions.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Kamala to speak BEFORE the SOTU
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
The early bird
catches the worm?
/sn
Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!
Firesign Theater
Stop the War!
If any more proof was needed that she's the confirmed
candidate here it is. Putting her speech before the SOTU? Has that ever happened before?
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
After 2020 the D party will cease to exist
as it is currently constructed.
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Couldn't happen to a more deserving pack of knaves n/t
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Twitter blew up pretty early today.
Basically the Neera Tanden Botnet, radical centrists, a couple of lanyards, Donut Twitter, the Black MisLeadership Class, and those Resistance clowns engaged a deliberate bad faith argument about nothing.
Sanders has done this every year Il Duce has been in office. So he must be a racist and a sexist for making a rebuttal after the official Democratic rebuttal? GTFO.
This non-controversy kinda pissed me off today. Had to call Benjamin Dixon (who certainly should have known better) out on it on Twitter after it looked like he fell into the bullshit. So did a lot of his followers. The ratio was not kind. But he's always had a fetish for punching to the left for no reason on his old podcast, so I shouldn't have been surprised.
2016 never ended for a lot of people. It made people really stupid. And so, here we are, fighting a fight that should have been resolved ages ago. The anti-Sanders presence IRL is pretty small, but they're fantastically and annoyingly loud.
Yep, I made a rare visit to GOS just now
Following a TPW link to a @subir post "Why-we-still-need-Bernie-to-run-in-2020" since I appreciate his opinion.
I didn't do any page interactions, but read the post and scanned through the comments. I saw a great many with the BS that Senator Sanders was deliberately stepping-on Stacy Abram's rebuttal by scheduling his at the same time. There were sporadic defenses along the lines "he has been doing this every year" and "last year X, Y, and Z" also made rebuttals after the SOTU.
What I didn't see was anyone correcting the misapprehension that the two rebuttals were simultaneous. I guess that correction does not exist in their world since it is so effective stirring-up so much outrage against Sen. Sanders.
Hey there, cybrestrike
I have been seeing your uprates of tweets and they are the very same ones I recommend. Good to see you posting here too.
Hope all is well with you.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Wait. Wut?
Bernie is a "white man"?
/sn
Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!
Firesign Theater
Stop the War!
this Vox thing doesn't even mention Harris
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/5/18212254/stacey-abrams-...
because she's approved.
Stacey Abrams is on the CFR and joined CAP
So much for her being a progressive.
BTW. Bernie's winning a tweet poll on who are you most excited to watch tonight? 77%
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
funny twitter pict posted by Peter Douche's Assistant
Sanders with Harris, Kennedy 'shopped-in
Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.
While this stupid shit is being slung,
Pelosi is assuring Blue Cross Blue Shield executives that Democrats are not pushing Medicare for All, but will focus on making drugs more affordable.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Anything on exactly how Pelosi is going to lower drugs prices?
Without actual legislation forcing a price cap, which I can not see happening, ever, how are they planning to do that? Reminds me of Hillary saying she'd tell the banksters to 'cut it out'. Maybe that's their plan lol -- "Quit being poopie heads, BigPharma."