Bernie donates couch to Central Party, retires to dacha

PurpleThrobber

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1155156

GrundleStiltzkin

Huh. I thought he'd stick around. Wonder what's going on.

RaceBannon

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Huh. I thought he'd stick around. Wonder what's going on.

GreenRiverGatorz

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Huh. I thought he'd stick around. Wonder what's going on.

He's calling it when his stock can't go any higher. He'll have more leverage now to push Biden and the DNC further left. Waiting until more primary votes further eliminate him would only diminish that negotiating power.

Kaepsknee

GreenRiverGatorz said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Huh. I thought he'd stick around. Wonder what's going on.

He's calling it when his stock can't go any higher. He'll have more leverage now to push Biden and the DNC further left. Waiting until more primary votes further eliminate him would only diminish that negotiating power.

I have to respectfully disagree. The DNC made a deliberate, conscious decision to run away from Bernie and the SDA after Super Tuesday. He will have little to no influence from here.

In the last 3 weeks his name has barely come up, for anything. His ideals were an all or nothing revolution. And when it gets snuffed, there's nothing left. The DNC didn't pick Joe because He's a good candidate. They did it to run away from the Socialist wing of their party. Now with Bernie gone, they can let Hillary slide into the spotlight.

GreenRiverGatorz

salemcoog said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Huh. I thought he'd stick around. Wonder what's going on.

He's calling it when his stock can't go any higher. He'll have more leverage now to push Biden and the DNC further left. Waiting until more primary votes further eliminate him would only diminish that negotiating power.

I have to respectfully disagree. The DNC made a deliberate, conscious decision to run away from Bernie and the SDA after Super Tuesday. He will have little to no influence from here.

In the last 3 weeks his name has barely come up, for anything. His ideals were an all or nothing revolution. And when it gets snuffed, there's nothing left. The DNC didn't pick Joe because He's a good candidate. They did it to run away from the Socialist wing of their party. Now with Bernie gone, they can let Hillary slide into the spotlight.

Could be. I think most people are rooting for @dnc to not move further left. If they think they have the leverage to ignore Bernie and his radical platform, then all the more power to em. I just don't think that's the calculus they've made and that they're going to make concessions to get the "Bernie or bust" bros inboard.

Kaepsknee

GreenRiverGatorz said:

salemcoog said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Huh. I thought he'd stick around. Wonder what's going on.

He's calling it when his stock can't go any higher. He'll have more leverage now to push Biden and the DNC further left. Waiting until more primary votes further eliminate him would only diminish that negotiating power.

I have to respectfully disagree. The DNC made a deliberate, conscious decision to run away from Bernie and the SDA after Super Tuesday. He will have little to no influence from here.

In the last 3 weeks his name has barely come up, for anything. His ideals were an all or nothing revolution. And when it gets snuffed, there's nothing left. The DNC didn't pick Joe because He's a good candidate. They did it to run away from the Socialist wing of their party. Now with Bernie gone, they can let Hillary slide into the spotlight.

Could be. I think most people are rooting for @dnc to not move further left. If they think they have the leverage to ignore Bernie and his radical platform, then all the more power to em. I just don't think that's the calculus they've made and that they're going to make concessions to get the "Bernie or bust" bros inboard.

If the Dems were facing a normal candidate, I'd agree that they would need to open up the tent and reserve a corner of it for Berner policy. But there isn't a Berner alive who would vote for Trump. The DNC doesnt have to worry about the Berners jumping the fence to the Trump bbq.

MelloDawg

salemcoog said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

salemcoog said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Huh. I thought he'd stick around. Wonder what's going on.

He's calling it when his stock can't go any higher. He'll have more leverage now to push Biden and the DNC further left. Waiting until more primary votes further eliminate him would only diminish that negotiating power.

I have to respectfully disagree. The DNC made a deliberate, conscious decision to run away from Bernie and the SDA after Super Tuesday. He will have little to no influence from here.

In the last 3 weeks his name has barely come up, for anything. His ideals were an all or nothing revolution. And when it gets snuffed, there's nothing left. The DNC didn't pick Joe because He's a good candidate. They did it to run away from the Socialist wing of their party. Now with Bernie gone, they can let Hillary slide into the spotlight.

Could be. I think most people are rooting for @dnc to not move further left. If they think they have the leverage to ignore Bernie and his radical platform, then all the more power to em. I just don't think that's the calculus they've made and that they're going to make concessions to get the "Bernie or bust" bros inboard.

If the Dems were facing a normal candidate, I'd agree that they would need to open up the tent and reserve a corner of it for Berner policy. But there isn't a Berner alive who would vote for Trump. The DNC doesnt have to worry about the Berners jumping the fence to the Trump bbq.

I always thought Biden supporters would be more likely to vote for Bernie if Biden had dropped out than Bernie supporters would be to vote for Biden in the opposite. That said, Biden’s base is more likely to vote overall than Bernie’s, the latter being more prone to sit out or vote for the Green Party.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

Trump in a landslide

GrundleStiltzkin

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

Trump in a landslide

Not sure about a landslide.

SFGbob

I thought that Ace's analysis of Bernie was spot on:

A friend of mine says that Bernie is just "controlled opposition" -- a Socialist alternative who is controlled by the Democrat Establishment to make sure that Socialists remain in the party.

That's why Bernie Sanders refuses to ever damage a Democrat front-runner.

And that's why, my friend says, Alexandria Donkey-Chompers stopped supporting him a month and a half ago -- she got upset at his relentless unwillingness to ever take a shot at the Democrat establishment.

Sounds like a good theory -- except that part about Alexandria Donkey-Chompers figuring something out.

That's preposterous.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

Trump in a landslide

Not sure about a landslide.

SLow Joe can't put three coherent sentences together. Of course, a lot of idiots still voted for him so maybe you're right.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

Pitchfork51

Turns out picking college kids and elementary school teachers for your base is not a winner

RaceBannon

Pitchfork51 said:

Turns out picking college kids and elementary school teachers for your base is not a winner

Or people that can't figure out how to vote

LebamDawg

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

Trump in a landslide

Not sure about a landslide.

Trump will say its a landslide even if its a nail-biter. The press would call it a nail-biter even if it is a landslide.




Edit: either way the press/media will cry

RaceBannon

LebamDawg said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

Trump in a landslide

Not sure about a landslide.

Trump will say its a landslide even if its a nail-biter. The press would call it a nail-biter even if it is a landslide.




Edit: either way the press/media will cry

Its going to come down to the size of the inauguration crowd

Groundhog Day

Kaepsknee

MelloDawg said:

salemcoog said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

salemcoog said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Huh. I thought he'd stick around. Wonder what's going on.

He's calling it when his stock can't go any higher. He'll have more leverage now to push Biden and the DNC further left. Waiting until more primary votes further eliminate him would only diminish that negotiating power.

I have to respectfully disagree. The DNC made a deliberate, conscious decision to run away from Bernie and the SDA after Super Tuesday. He will have little to no influence from here.

In the last 3 weeks his name has barely come up, for anything. His ideals were an all or nothing revolution. And when it gets snuffed, there's nothing left. The DNC didn't pick Joe because He's a good candidate. They did it to run away from the Socialist wing of their party. Now with Bernie gone, they can let Hillary slide into the spotlight.

Could be. I think most people are rooting for @dnc to not move further left. If they think they have the leverage to ignore Bernie and his radical platform, then all the more power to em. I just don't think that's the calculus they've made and that they're going to make concessions to get the "Bernie or bust" bros inboard.

If the Dems were facing a normal candidate, I'd agree that they would need to open up the tent and reserve a corner of it for Berner policy. But there isn't a Berner alive who would vote for Trump. The DNC doesnt have to worry about the Berners jumping the fence to the Trump bbq.

I always thought Biden supporters would be more likely to vote for Bernie if Biden had dropped out than Bernie supporters would be to vote for Biden in the opposite. That said, Biden’s base is more likely to vote overall than Bernie’s, the latter being more prone to sit out or vote for the Green Party.

I'm pretty sure Jill Stein laid waste to Berners going green.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

PurpleThrobber

Pitchfork51 said:

Turns out picking college kids and elementary school teachers for your base is not a winner

Isn't that sorta your target market at the bars for some naked snake dancing?

Pitchfork51

PurpleThrobber said:

Pitchfork51 said:

Turns out picking college kids and elementary school teachers for your base is not a winner

Isn't that sorta your target market at the bars for some naked snake dancing?

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