#my favourite shows are cancelled and on hiatus mood
Bernie Sanders’ statement. He’s willing to normalize and empower Trump for his class war. Fuck him forever.
…wowwwwwwwww so I guess I know more about Sanders now.
Wow, how dare Sanders … acknowledge that we’ve elected a walking tire fire as President, and pledge to fight against racism, sexism, xenophobia and the rape of the environment while doing what he can to improve citizens’ lives?
Okay, I need you to back up about a thousand paces and preferably off a fucking cliff because are you fucking kidding me? Sanders would get no cookies for acknowledging that the future President of the United States will be a disaster - that is, if he’d actually done that, which he absolutely didn’t.
Plus, where was this guy during the goddamn general election? Bernie needed a fucking gift-wrapped perfect pure progressive DNC platform and a handjob before he would acknowledge that Hillary Clinton had won the primaries. He literally waited days before even admitting he’d lost, and then he spent the past FOUR MONTHS holding the most half-assed, luke-warm, temper-tantrum, bare-minimum rallies where he just said “we can’t let Trump win!” without, y’know, showing any enthusiasm or support for the actual candidate of his party. He never praised her policies except when he could claim that she’d done as he’d told her, he never acknowledged the millions of people who voted for her and what their votes meant.
But less than 24 hours after Trump squeaks out one of the narrowest victories in history, the second time where the next president has actually lost the popular vote, Bernie stands there and sweeps aside all of the racist, sexist, xenophobic things that Trump has already done in order to praise Trump’s message? And he has to lie about the message in order to do it! The ‘declining middle class’? Please. The middle class has been doing better, seeing more jobs, seeing more economic security. The poor in this country - who have yet to make the same gains - voted for Hillary Clinton. But Sanders’s argument is essentially that HRC was - what, for longer hours and shipping jobs overseas and protecting billionaires? What the fuck?
And he so he pledges himself and other progressives (whom I’m sure are thrilled that he’s decided to speak for him) to working with Trump without requiring any kind of apology or promise, without any acknowledgement of the people Trump has already hurt and endangered. Like, whoopee for him for promising to “vigorously oppose” racist policies! I kind of expected the Darling Of The Left to already do that, though. I kind of expected him to be just a smidge more angry on behalf of the people he claims to represent. I kind of expected to hear something more reassuring than that he will “vigorously oppose” things that he thinks are a distraction from class struggle. I kind of expected him, in short, not to be a fucking asshole and shit all over the millions of people who voted for Hillary Clinton by saying they weren’t voting for the right things.
Also, don’t ever use the word “rape” the way you did. Ever.
#god I hope Sanders steps on legos barefoot for the rest of his life #EVERY MORNING
in case anybody was still wondering why so many progressives voted for Hillary in the primaries; in case anybody was still wondering why so many nonwhite Democrats voted for Hillary in the primaries; in case anybody was still wondering why so many southern black voters especially picked Hillary and rejected Bernie: well. Here you go. This is who he is.
….and that? was a read.
Like it literally doesn’t matter if Trump can’t do any of the impossible, illegal things he’s promised. It doesn’t matter, because as soon as a platform built on hate is validated in this way, culture changes. Britain the morning after the Brexit vote was a different place. It wasn’t just the measurable rise in hate crimes and plummeting economy, it was people feeling free to say all the ugliest things they’d ever thought because they knew at least half the country was behind them.
In the coming days and months, please stay safe. Please never stop fighting for a better world. This won’t be forever.
“I hope you realize the irony of what she’s doing,” Paul Czisny, a Wisconsin delegate for Bernie, said, nodding his head backward at a young woman standing in the stands, a piece of white tape across her mouth that said in stark black letters SILENCED. Periodically, she stood up and photographers rushed over, camera shutters whirring, to snap her admittedly very dramatic portrait.
“She’s able to vote, she’s able to get elected as a delegate, she’s able to come here,” Czisny rolled his eyes. He’s as pissed off as anyone about the business of the DNC emails—“it just feeds the frustrations of the Bernie people”—but he was frustrated with people like that young woman. “Unfortunately, all they’re doing is aiding the Trump camp,” he said. “Virtually no one here”—meaning the Bernie delegates—“is going to vote for Trump, but will they stay home? Will they vote for Jill Stein [of the Green Party]? I find this maddening because we’ve seen this movie before, and if we think Bush was a disaster, Trump will be an even bigger disaster.”
Like the other Bernie supporters in the Wisconsin delegation, he doesn’t love Hillary, but he would do the adult thing and vote for her come November. “Because I’m not selfish,” says 22-year-old Bernie activist Hailey Storsved, who led the student movement for Sanders at her university. “It’s kind of like saying, ‘I’m taking my ball and going home.’”
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I’m not afraid of teenagers building clocks. I’m not afraid of women having economic empowerment or sexual freedom. I’m not afraid of weddings with two grooms/brides, trans folks using bathrooms, Latinos making a living or Black people wearing hoodies and playing music.
I’m afraid of an angry white dude with a gun who’s been told repeatedly that HIS country is dying and HE needs to take it back.
What makes you think Woody did it? There’s so much hate flying around the internet and a lot of misinformation, and I’m finding it really hard trying to figure out who’s more clear.
Are you fucking kidding me? When a seven year old girl confesses in graphic detail to being sexually assaulted...
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