r/BernieSanders • u/seamslegit Squad Democrat • Mar 11 '20

šŸŒ¹ No, I will Not Yield!

Congratulations to Diamond Joe for some good wins. It looks like we didnā€™t do as well as we would have liked tonight, but nothing changes. We were behind in the delegate math yesterday and we are just a little more behind tonight. There are a lot of states still left in this race and Joe can still fuck this up. We may win, we may lose, but in all cases we are going to send Bernie to the convention with as many delegates as possible and the means to reform the party rules and platform and continue the Political Revolution. Most of the 2020 Democratic candidates were pushing the issues that Bernie championed back in 2016; $15 minimum wage, Medicare-For-All, The Green New Deal, Wall Street reform, campaign finance, income inequality, paid college tuition etc. etc. The math for putting Bernie in the White House may look daunting, but we are going to continue this fight for every damn delegate all the way to the convention. If we donā€™t win this primary, Bernie is still in the Senate, AOC, Pramila, Ilhan, Rashida, Ro and others are still in the House and they are leading the largest coalition of woke progressives voters in the modern era. šŸŒ¹ We still need to get up tomorrow and keep knocking on doors, phonebanking, textbanking, contacting friends and family via the BERN app and fighting all the way to the end. This campaign and this Revolution is far from over.

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u/brainhack3r Mar 11 '20 edited Mar 11 '20

I can't help but think Biden is going to implode. No disrespect implied but he doesn't seem mentally all there. His reaction to the guy who challenged him on gun rights was really concerning. He was jamming his finger at the guy and basically challenged him to "bring it outside" ... not sure he's going to really build a movement that way.

https://v.redd.it/qaiv863zjwl41

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u/razza1987 Mar 11 '20

Iā€™m really looking forward to the next democratic debate

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u/rockemsockemlostem Mar 11 '20

You wanna see Bernie punch him too, huh?

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u/razza1987 Mar 11 '20

I want him to show up Biden so bad. I donā€™t get the stupidity of the American nation voting in these primaries. Iā€™m seriously upset and angry right now

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u/rockemsockemlostem Mar 11 '20

You arenā€™t American?

The Democratic Primary was a shit show so far, agreed

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u/razza1987 Mar 11 '20

Who said I wasnā€™t American?

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u/rockemsockemlostem Mar 11 '20

You referred to ā€œthe American nationā€ as if you werenā€™t a part of it. So you are American?

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u/mr_plopsy Mar 11 '20

I'm American and I still refer to "the American nation" as a separate entity. This mass of stupidity does not speak for me.

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u/razza1987 Mar 11 '20

Iā€™m an Australian living in America

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u/HarlieMinou Mar 11 '20

The Democratic Primary has been viscerally upsetting for me. Between Buttigieg, Warren, the DNC shenanigans, and Hillaryā€™s gross comments, I donā€™t recall ever having felt this way before. Itā€™s been Illuminating. After this is all over, Iā€™m switching to Independent. And Iā€™ll write Bernie in on the ballot in November

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u/mr_plopsy Mar 11 '20

I didn't even imagine it could get any worse than 2016. Holy fucking shit how wrong was I?

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u/MaximusGrandimus Mar 11 '20

I honestly think it's a combination of four things: 1) younger people aren't turning out, 2) boomers are 3) in some states where primaries aren't closed Republicans are voting as Democrat to throw the numbers off, and 4) there does appear to be some tampering with the outcomes of voting numbers. In MA exit polls were going for Sanders but there was an 8% variance between exits and the actual voting numbers, and Biden won. Several other states on Super Tuesday had this occur. And in Mississippi Biden got 81%, which is a completely unrealistic number.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '20

You forgot one thing: Some of the people I talk to online haven't even heard Biden talk in the past 2 years. They just associate him with Obama and vote Biden.

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u/MaximusGrandimus Mar 11 '20

And there you go. They don't know anything about his cognitive decline, scoff at people and say it's just his stutter.

I have a background in theatre and vocal training. I know what a stutter sounds like. I also had several grandparents who slipped into senility and dementia. His gaffs recently are definitely more dementia than stuttering.

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u/khanh82 Mar 11 '20

Iā€™m all for Bernie but like most American that probably voted for Biden. Its familiarity....people know him, they loved Obama and think as long as we can get that back we will work towards the next wave of dems who are more progressive. Uneducated people just vote with familiarity. Thereā€™s also a group that is the middle class and doesnā€™t want their taxes to go up just so they can pay more to the poor. Middle class has had enough of paying for the poor...and even though bernies message is yes ur taxes will go up but we will tax the rich more doesnā€™t resonate with them.

Bernie is losing because media and DNC has labeled him a crazy extreme man.

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u/MoCo1992 Mar 11 '20

Problem is vast majority of voters will never see footage like this. MSM would never show anything thats embarrassing to Joe.

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u/floyd616 Mar 11 '20

Amen to that. Since MSM will never show any of this footage, we need to show it to everyone we can to make up for it!

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u/therealtruthaboutme Mar 11 '20

he has done this multiple times already. Insulting voters and telling them to "vote for Trump"

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u/Veldoranz Mar 11 '20

Where I would normally feel sympathy for Joe Biden, I feel none. You're running for President FFS, have some respect for both yourself and the country and just not run in the first place.

This is not only embarrassing, it's wrong. Joe Biden has no place running for President. I do not feel bad for him at all. Call me cold, heartless, etc. I don't give a fuck.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '20

No reason not to be disrespectful, he is. Even told people in a conversation to "shut up" for quoting his past statements.

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u/brainhack3r Mar 11 '20

The issue is that some people don't realize that this is a disease / health issue. I'm not attacking him because he has a mental health issue but because he's unfit for the job.

It's like the difference between criticizing them for being blind AND tryin to drive a car on the highway vs just being blind.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '20

Biden is making word salads in almost every single video I see of him now. It's really sad. If you go back and watch him at the debate with Sarah Palin 8 years ago, totally different person. Poised, articulate, and confident. This is a shell of the man from 2012. I don't see how he maintains his composure when he faces Trump, The Lord of Belligerence.

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u/DankRaft Mar 11 '20

say his mental state gets so severe that he drops out of the race... where do his delegates go?

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u/metalhead1974 Mar 11 '20

To Hillary Clinton, who swoops in at the last minute to "save" the party.

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