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Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Life or Death Issues

by Anne Laurie|  February 18, 20202:40 am| 17 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, Open Threads, Riveted By The Sociological Significance Of It All

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There isn’t a clearer summary of Bernies Campaign than this 20 second video pic.twitter.com/Xz8l59J7n2

— Luca?????? (@luca_vhc) February 17, 2020

Yes, I am a small & petty person. (Whose ancestors’ great saga was called The Cattle Raid of Coolan, so: biased across multiple axes.)

"I'm your biggest supporter," she said, shortly after snatching the microphone and passionately exhorting Mr. Sanders to "stop propping up the dairy industry." Mr. Sanders, dejected, walked to the side of the stage and briefly gazed at his shoes before slinking off, stage right. https://t.co/jQXOtceRFe

— An Antic Disposition ?? (@pavanvan) February 17, 2020

When @BernieSanders began his event in Carson City, female topless anti-dairy industry protesters stormed the stage.

After the women were taken off the stage, Sanders said, “this is Nevada, there's always a little bit of excitement at no extra cost.”

— Annie Grayer (@AnnieGrayerCNN) February 16, 2020

You're aware that Ben and Jerry's is headquartered in Vermont, yes? https://t.co/jDapSyeKgr

— An Antic Disposition ?? (@pavanvan) February 17, 2020

would be a lot more enthusiastic about the Bernie campaign if his supporters went to all-out war with the vegans after the mic snatching.

— The Online-Normie Complex (@canderaid) February 17, 2020


If the rest of us didn’t have to live in the aftermath, there’s be considerable entertainment value watching an all-out Sanders v. Trump campaign…

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  1. 1.

    hells littlest angel

    February 18, 2020 at 2:46 am

    Eh. Wake me up when the chair-throwing starts. Especially if it’s nude chair-throwing.

  2. 2.

    Baud

    February 18, 2020 at 2:52 am

    At Baud! 2020! events, our protestor-supporters are full frontal. #Don’tSettle

  3. 3.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 18, 2020 at 2:55 am

    If the rest of us didn’t have to live in the aftermath, there’s be considerable entertainment value watching an all-out Sanders v. Trump campaign…

    With Bloomberg paying for a stadium crowd to cheer for injuries (and then Mikey and Tommy fucking off)

  4. 4.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 18, 2020 at 2:57 am

    @hells littlest angel: I’ve got something for you – STOP THE CHAIRS

  5. 5.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 18, 2020 at 2:59 am

    @Baud: Sam Bee will be broadcasting her TBS show live from your rallies?

  6. 6.

    Jay

    February 18, 2020 at 3:05 am

    when you wake up but you're too comfy to go to get up so you go back to sleep with your donkey pic.twitter.com/drLivIIm7l— Ad Infinitum (@Ad_Inifinitum) February 17, 2020

  7. 7.

    Jay

    February 18, 2020 at 3:07 am

    Yeah baffling https://t.co/qloxzSJfSW pic.twitter.com/34v3QivAai— Karl Sharro (@KarlreMarks) February 16, 2020

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    February 18, 2020 at 3:25 am

    Sure, the better coast visitors get the Wilmer post.

    You do have a sadistic streak, AL.

    :)

  9. 9.

    Martin

    February 18, 2020 at 3:45 am

    Ok,  I figured out that the Democrats are too fucking spineless to run a primary the way it should be run. Caucuses out. Standard race to the pole out. The ballot should simply be:

    • Fuck
    • Marry
    • Kill

    And you indicate your choice. And this remains secret until the convention, where the results are dramatically released. Marry wins the nomination. Fuck gets the VP slot. Kill is barred from ever running for office as a Democrat.

  10. 10.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    February 18, 2020 at 4:28 am

    HHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

    Wilmer couldn’t help himself – he’s wagging his finger at the woman.

  11. 11.

    BlueDWarrior

    February 18, 2020 at 4:36 am

    This is what happens when your campaign is driven by unbridled zealotry, things tend to go sideways in unpredictable fashion.

    Also the fact that the Bernie campaign seems to attract the support of the cranks who would be on the left-half of the ol’ horseshoe isn’t lost on me.

  12. 12.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    February 18, 2020 at 4:36 am

    An 80 year old man trying to wrestle a microphone from some college kid – have some dignity.

    It reminds me of the ending of “Cotton Comes to Harlem” where the antagonist Deke O’Malley desperately tries to wrestle the microphone from some kids on the stage of The Apollo theater, prompting Grave Digger Jones to say, “he’ll hang himself”.

  13. 13.

    BlueDWarrior

    February 18, 2020 at 4:38 am

    @Martin: I mean I know why the process was opened up to the hoi poli in the middle of the last century, but I do wonder if we wouldn’t end up with less idiots and cranks as actual elected officials if we were to magically go back to smoke filled rooms.

     

    Then you could also say that trying to actually enact progressive change would be a bitch and a half to pull off, even more than it is now, so I guess it’s just trading one set of problems for another.

     

    No one ever said that governing was easy, did they?

  14. 14.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    February 18, 2020 at 4:47 am

    @Martin: Not sure a Kamala/Tulsi ticket is compatible.

  15. 15.

    Shalimar

    February 18, 2020 at 6:58 am

    I’m guessing Trump is now asking all his campaign people why he can’t have topless protesters at his rallies.

  16. 16.

    droog

    February 18, 2020 at 7:01 am

    “The great state of Vermont will not apologize for its cheese! “–Sen. Ortolan Finistirre (D(?) – VT)

  17. 17.

    satby

    February 18, 2020 at 7:10 am

    Just no. It wouldn’t be. It would be a vortex of hate.

    If the rest of us didn’t have to live in the aftermath, there’s be considerable entertainment value watching an all-out Sanders v. Trump campaign…

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