So now Berners start floating the idea of a Biden - Bernie ticket
Posted Mar 6, 2020, 11:06 AM UTC
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Just based on the numbers this would seem like a good idea. Biden and Bernie on a ticket = everyone happy? However, the "my way or the highway" approach of Bernie is indeed a real concern. He is universally disliked in the Senate, in his 30 years as a senator he still has barely any allies. I would not call that a professional politician. Plus, Sanders has repeatedly attacked Biden for various voting records. It would look terrible on Bernie if he suddenly up and endorses Biden, running as his VP. And it would look bad on Biden too, for having such an unlikeable extremist as his VP.
Bernie just needs to disappear from politics to make space for someone sane, before he ruins the ideas he championed for decades to come. But just like Jeremy Corbyn, he can't do that. His ideology won't permit it, and the country might pay a heavy price for it.
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"Compared to international standards".....minus every country outside the west
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In the west too. I'm so fucking tired of this stupid ignorant talking point. I grew up in Europe and only moved out less than 5 years ago. Sanders is far left anywhere in Europe. Fucking liars/idiots.
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I figured. I also hate how they lump all of europe as one entity. Sure you have the EU, but things like healthcare are ran different from country to country based on what their needs are. It's the blanket statements that irk me, because its intellectually lazy. It's like when people lump every African nation into one group
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Yup of course but Sanders would indeed be far left in every single European country - from Scandinavia to western to southern to eastern to central. Doesn't matter. Every single country. Sanders would be far left everywhere. That makes this stupid fucking talking point so incresibly annoying to me as an actual european.
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Oh I definitely agree with you there. I wouldnt be surprised if the further east you go, the more pushback there would be towards things like socialism or communism (especially socialism of the sanders variety)
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha stop this malarkey right now. Once sanders loses I never want to see or hear from him again.
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lol
i can't read it
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"BERNIE IS UNDERMINING BERNIE!"
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Oh, so Bernie wants a position where he will do nothing except pontificate? How original of him! /s
I’m aware VPs do a lot behind the scenes. But Bernie is a lazy fuck and always has been.
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Well, if we're gonna pick a left-wing VP, Warren is the significantly better choice: capable, pragmatic, younger, WOC.
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Nah its definitely critical that they choose Bernie so Vermont is in the bag!
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Tbf, I was actually wary of Warren, seeing as she's left-wing and all, but a bunch of threads here have warmed me up to her.
She seems a good choice for VP
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I think she would be decent, though honestly my fav for VP among everyone else that was running is Amy. She's feisty as shit.
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Oh, I totally forgot about Klobuchar, she seems great too! I took a quiz and my answers showed I agreed most with her, Biden, and Buttigieg.
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WOC
oooooooooooof
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Sanders is not extreme left, he's just left
Speaking from a standpoint of "international standards" -- Bernie isn't "just left"; he's extreme left. No "just left" wants to abolish private insurance, and tax millionaires and billionaires to the level that Bernie wants. That's extreme left.
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Yeah sure put two super old white guys, one of whom has recently had a heart attack, as POTUS and Veep. That's a fucking great idea.
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Ah, so we've reached the bargaining stage.
Lmaoooo