Glad to see they’re finally able to start moving forward while we in the US keep teetering backwards. 

She conflated it for sure. Anyone not a political junkie would have made that connection and she knew it, but not as much as Bernie knows it. Just how much has Bernie actually fought for m4a or universal healthcare before the last election? What does “fighting for” even mean to him? Because he’s done fuck-all but get…

She lost, please get over it. Worst candidate in history, lost to the 2nd worst candidate in history.

I really wish that people would do their research on Sanders; he has in fact not consistently held the same positions through out his career. If you are going to demand a purity test that a candidate must be woke from birth, apply that standard to Sanders as well.

AOC is a democratic socialist for one. I know that is a label that is really semantics, but that is part of it. But I also think she is genuinely greatful to Sanders for being part of the movement that lifted her out of a dead end job to a position of prominence and power.

Nah, dude, you’re not getting it: Sanders is getting the participation trophy. He attended history while other people made it. Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy wrote, redrafted, argued, broke arms, and won for S-CHIP - which was basically the first program to guarantee universal health care for all children. (S-CHIP…

Honestly, I think that’s one of her main strengths! She’s shown that she can consider new ideas and come to a different conclusion/idea when that is what is best supported by the evidence. I see a kindred spirit in her. I grew up fundamentalist/pro-life/religious right, and came to my atheism and liberal ideology as…

We all know exactly how the Sanders folks will act when their boy loses again. Just prepare for it. It’s coming. 

All I know is that AOC has demonstrated an incredible lack of good judgement by endorsing a 78-year-old man who just had a fucking heart attack. Yea, I know, we’re supposed to love everything she does. But this is pretty wild. I don’t care how beholden she feels to him. That’s poor judgement. 

This is what it means to build a movement: Not only rejecting the don’t go too far, don’t go too fast politics that have dominated Democratic thinking for decades, but also refusing to be so committed to past reforms to the point of inaction.

If we are going to demand Elizabeth Warren address problematic surrogates then we sure as hell better deman Bernie address his own problematic history when it comes to race. 

I understand, but things can get nasty on the campaign trail, and I just remember one sourpuss Bernie face at Hillary’s nomination event.  Wasn’t a great look, and not one I’d like to see repeated because some people didn’t get their way again.

I think you’re being kinda unkind to Tanden. What she’s saying is that it’s weird for AOC to credit Bernie with CHIP - the program AOC says she specifically benefited from - when CHIP’s passage is really due to Hillary, who worked harder on defining both the actual radical content of the bill and on ensuring it had…

Dickbags like this love to describe themselves as ‘Funny’ and whenever they say something douchey and people don’t react with laughter or godforbid, take issue with it, they get super defensive and snap “It’s just a joke!”

...time to start forcibly taping mouths shut.

some human skin tag decided to interrupt her in the middle of a speech about gratitude, shouting “Take your top off,” with another adding, helpfully, “You cute, though.”

It’s like being released from a spell.

Your brevity packs a punch. Looked and it was like “wham”

I once saved a turtle once that was trying to cross Ashland Ave. in Chicago (just north of Irving) in Saturday afternoon Cubbies traffic. Pulled the car over, ran through traffic and grabbed the poor little fellow, put him in my car and drove right to the emergency vet who declared him fit as a fiddle and it just…

My father was a narcissist, fortunately not a malignant narcissist, and they really mess with your head.