I don’t blame you or anyone else at all for not wanting to wait 6 hours for BBQ. I’ve done Franklin 7 times now though, and had a blast every time.

Of course US tipping culture sucks, but it’s what’s in place right now, and not participating in it isn’t an interesting intellectual exercise or protest, it just makes you look like a prick.

Morality and legality are two separate things. Are you really an adult in 2019 and don’t understand this? Apologies if you’re actually 14.

If you can’t afford to tip 20% then you can’t afford to eat out.

But we currently inhabit the world where servers and other folks are not paid a decent wage, so...tip.

He’s the left’s Ron Paul, saying whatever his disillusioned base wants to hear without ever giving any specifics about how he’ll do it. All the while profitting from it in questionable ways. (I won’t even begin to consider him seriously until we see both his and his wife’s financials.) Not surprising that much of his…

He’s a person who envisions the “working class” as dads on the factory line, not single moms who are waitresses. And it’s painfully obvious.

Yeah I mean the same apparatus that was good enough for Barack was all of a sudden not good enough for Bernie. Fuck him and fuck all his whining Bros. When the writing was on the wall and it was obvious Barack was going to be the nominee, Hillary & Bill went to work getting him elected. What did this cranky old fuck…

I get worried when legitimate complaints of Bernie get handwaved away as: “Well you don’t have to like him to support him”. It reeks of the same double-standard Trump supporters use. With the field that exists today, we don’t need to hitch up to this wagon again.

I won’t vote for someone who won’t show his tax returns. I won’t vote for someone who hires Tad Devine to run his campaign. I won’t vote for someone who votes repeatedly to protect Russian oligarchs from accountability. 

Yeah, Sanders has a great record on healthcare and Wall Street regulation, and if those are your primary voting concerns, he is a great candidate for you. But he also has a mixed record on plenty of other things—gun control and immigration and criminal justice, to start—and there are other candidates who have been…

This is not a plan, and I won’t vote for some who can’t articulate how we can actually achieve any of his/her stated aims. He has not seriously engaged with the economics or politics of his proposals, and that’s a deal breaker for me when it comes to deciding who I actually want to run the country.

What makes me extremely nervous about Bernie is his pandering to the “white working class,” which is really pandering to whiteness. People of color are also working class, but he puts a divide down. For women and people of color, we don’t have “identity politics” - a phrase he’s used several times, it’s just politics.…

Look. I’ll vote for him if he wins the primary, just like I’ll grit my teeth and vote for Kamala (despite how much I hate her prosecutorial record) if she wins the primary because they are both not Trump. But I don’t not want to vote for him because I don’t like him. I don’t want to vote for him because I think he…

Yes, as I recall, Bernie Sanders was in fact the progressive visionary behind Hillarycare! And remember when he won the 2016 primaries?!?

It’s amazing that his positions galvanized a new generation of activism and have pushed the Democratic field to the left. He is demanding many things that we sorely need. I also agree that responsible adults must compartmentalize to some degree when it comes to political candidates - you won’t like EVERYTHING about…

Bernie has fought for progressive causes all his life.  Terrific.  Let him continue to do so from the Senate.  Or as an elder statesman in the private sector.  He shouldn’t be the Democratic Party candidate for president.

This article makes me feel like if I’m not supporting him then it must be because I just don’t “like” the guy. I’m not supporting him for the DEM2020 Primary for a whole bunch of reasons and “likability” is not one of them.

In 2016, Bernie was really the only game in town, regarding his brand of politics. For 2020, it’s clear that there will be other options that are potentially less annoying, less problematic, and lack his baggage. So why stick with him?

This is what happens when you hold serve in the Alps!