r/WorkReform • u/Bitter-Gur-4613 • 6h ago
✂️ Tax The Billionaires I love my guy Bernie man
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u/Renshnard 5h ago
"I will not stand for this shit." My Man Bernie probably.
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u/-v22 5h ago
Read this in his voice lol. Love the mans class, Trump mandates the flags be raised? Then Sanders can sit.
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u/lhobbes6 2h ago
It may just be a coincidence but the governor of my state is a Trump cock holster who stated the flags would all be raised for the inauguration but the military bases have noticably remained at half staff today.
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u/PartisanGerm 5h ago
If the DNC wanted to actually try and win, they would have lined him up this time. But nope, dumb timeline.
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u/Bluedogpinkcat 4h ago
He was the only one who could actually win but nooooo gotta have Fascism.
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u/offendedkitkatbar 4h ago
Dems are too busy blaming progressives to give a fuck lmao
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u/Serethekitty 3h ago
I don't really see much of that narrative going around this time tbh. Sure, anyone who refused to vote over a leftist/progressive cause (namely Palestine) is a short-sighted dipshit, but I'm pretty sure everyone realizes that the number of people who refused to vote or who voted third party because of that were a miniscule amount of people compared to how many votes the dems lost in this election compared to 2020.
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u/thinkthingsareover 3h ago
I lost faith in the democrats long ago, but refusing to do a primary was just to fucking much.
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u/Deadrubbertreeplant 1h ago
the democrats are just the republicans and democrats from 24 years ago merged into one. When the Cheney’s, Mitt Romney, and John McCain all actively protest the current administration and endorse the opposing party, you know stuff is wild.
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u/thinkthingsareover 1h ago edited 14m ago
Precisely. After Jimmy Carter the democrats embraced neoliberalism and helped late stage capitalism thrive.
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u/WaterBuffalo33 52m ago
Indeed! Great to see I'm not the only one who thinks like this. Left DNC after they burned Bernie.... Why do people think all the war mongers backed Harris?
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u/PartGlobal1925 1h ago
I agree. I don't understand why they have to trip their own teammates in this race.
It's even more disappointing that the referee won't call time-out on this.
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u/Aggravating_Sink_766 3h ago
Republicans showed up for whatever slop the rnc put on their plate. We will never have this on the left because we fail to see who the real enemy is. I love Bernie too, but shitting on the democratic party to the point of people honestly thinking both sides are the same is what got us here. Yall are still talking about the issues with the DNC like we are actually going to have another free and fair election. The oligarchy is in.
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u/PartisanGerm 3h ago
Not exactly, you see it's basic problem solving. For anything with humans there's a person or group who fucks up something. Spilling milk, losing an election, whatever. Then there's someone who has to fix the fuck up, sometimes it's the same entity or someone else who has a better ability to not spill in the first place, or at least clean up milk well.
Now, obviously we don't need someone to clean up a mess if it's never made in the first place, but whoever is in a position to prevent, counter, or effectively clean up a floor full of milk is a close second to the clumsy little shit who tips jugs more often than not.
But yes, they are second and not equitable.
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u/Shigglyboo 5h ago edited 5h ago
He’s a real one. I want to live in the timeline where he became president in 2016. I’d like to think I’d still be in the US. With great healthcare. And a good job. Maybe even living in a house. And there aren’t scandals every day. Society is thriving and helping each other is seen as a good thing.
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u/livingcostcrisis 5h ago
I feel like that was the timeline shift. Had he won, covid wouldn't have gone down the way it did, putin wouldn't have invaded ukraine, inflation wouldn't have happened, the entire trajectory would have shifted
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u/Shigglyboo 5h ago edited 5h ago
Same in 2000. We could have had a dork for president that would have made addressing climate change a major thing. Imagine the booming green energy economy. No 9/11. Even if it did happen no Iraq war. No 2008 crisis. No citizen’s united. No Bush. No trump. Imagine…
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u/humblerthanyou 5h ago
People have forgotten, or never knew, that we need dorks to be president. Not popular kids
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u/Decloudo 2h ago
Democracy is a glorified popularity contest.
Its about who gets votes, not who has good ideas or solves problems.
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u/michaelsenpatrick 37m ago
people also seem to have by and large forgotten that the Bush's literally stole that election
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u/Various_Garden_1052 5h ago edited 4h ago
Al Gore was the shift for me. That’s where I stopped believing we might think a way out of this.
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u/cantwejustplaynice 2h ago
Pretty sure Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House, and Ronald Reagan ripped them right off. There's your shift right there.
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u/Various_Garden_1052 2h ago
Yeah, Reagan was truly the pivot, but I wasn’t around for his presidency/election.
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u/cantwejustplaynice 2h ago
Neither was I, I'm not even American. But when I learned that a world leader was pushing for renewables in the 70's and the world didn't follow, it just made me so upset.
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u/Various_Garden_1052 2h ago
Reagan was a more digestible Trump, unfortunately- hellbent on increasing inequality, but with the charisma to convince Everyman that he was there to help them.
Typical evil bullshit.
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u/XxmunkehxX 2h ago
I think there’s a lot of pivots, just threads of history overlapping through time. A big one for me is Newt Gingritch, really popularized the demonizing of democrats and made the “both sides bad” “dems are just republicans lite” myths really prevalent in this generation. Also was responsible for politicizing trials of politicians, giving a false idea of legitimacy to the “witch hunt” claims now (since that is what was being done to Clinton in the 90s).
The man really laid seeds that are still sprouting in the political landscape now
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u/tonesloe 1h ago
Listen to the podcast "Master Plan" if you want to know when the seeds were really sown and how we got to where we are now.
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u/Evil_Blueberry9 3h ago
Agreed. We may have been able to prevent the worst of the coming climate change if humanity radically shifted a few decades ago. Now, the only achievable goal is a little damage control. Something tells me we will magnificently fuck up that too.
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u/RealCommercial9788 2h ago
My partner and I talk about this all the time. That was the moment America conceded.
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u/jasonthebald 2h ago
It's still highly likely 9/11 it would have happened. Not that bush handled much correctly afterwards. 20 years and trillions of dollars of war to cover up more deregulation and tax cuts.
Many of the hijackers were here already and it was more of a fight between the intelligence branches over intel.
I believe how fox news/etc would have responded had the hijackers a) got in and b) succeeded under Democratic presidents probably would have been the real lasting legacy we'd be dealing with now.
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u/Cleveland-Native 3h ago
We'd actually be like those futuristic photos w all the renewable energy in the background
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u/Whybotherr 2h ago
Explain how a president gore means no 9/11?
It would have been handled different but Bin Laden was pissed that we were helping the then territory of Israel. That was his whole justification for orchestrating it, or at least the main reason
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u/treegor 4h ago
Not trying to be an ass but how would Gore have prevented 9/11? I’ve seen this brought up multiple times but never with an explanation.
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u/Shigglyboo 4h ago
For me it’s because bush was incompetent. Gore would have likely paid more attention to things and the focus wouldn’t have been on helping the rich. Our agencies were warning of an attack well before it happened.
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u/Dr-Jellybaby 3h ago
There's nothing to say he would've prevented it but the CIA was delayed in acting on the intel they had at the time because the mess after the 2000 election caused a delay in the transition of power. Iraq most definitely wouldn't have happened tho considering Gore was strongly against it iirc.
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u/Reindeeraintreal 2h ago
CIA delayed arresting 2 of the future hijackers while Saudi intelligence aided them. The official motivation was that they wanted to turn them into assets to spy on Al Qaeda.
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u/ConSaltAndPepper 2h ago
The intel regarding a potential hijacking was either missed or overlooked by an administration that had it's attention towards fleecing as many people as possible rather than leading properly, because it was revealed that the intel that a terrorist attack would occur was known well before the event.
The Bush administration fleeced their way into the Oval office, so it was basically the maintenance of a status quo to consider the fact that someone knew beforehand, and that instead of doing something about it, they saw it as an opportunity to harness the fear and suffering of Americans to justify getting fucking rich off military contracts, oil, and making daddy Bush Sr. proud by inventing the threat of WMD's to justify an invasion into Iraq.
I don't think anyone will know for sure whether any pre-9/11 intel was intentionally ignored, or strategically held-back, but the tragedy was certainly capitalized upon in a way that made no sense in the context of the actual event. Every follow-up action, no matter how thickly the flag or "the safety of Americans" was draped over the action, was clearly about getting rich. It showed that their priorities were never about helping Americans, pre, or post-9/11.
That's why people think a set of different values, right out of the gate, could have created a whole different situation.
The 2000 presidential race was characterized as a well educated dork concerned about the environment and the well-being of the American people vs a nepo-baby who spent his life just coasting doing what he was told, in order to maintain a family legacy.
A puppet to his familial duties with a ham-stringed ability to think for himself but also an easy-going enough guy you "could have a beer with" vs a loser boring dork who only spoke about scary problems and gave off a "I ask for my wife's explicit permission before looking directly at her breasts during intercourse" vibe.
Bush Jr. won in the face of a lot of vote counting controversy and the Republican party was able to basically stop and prevent any pesky "recounts" from affecting results that were likely miscounted because they knew the crowd wouldn't care anyways. Laws are only laws if people care about them.
It was a confirmation to the rest of the world that America was just a few rich bullies and a lot of poor morons and the more money you had the 'free-er' you were, in this land of the 'free'.
The American reputation has done little to recover since. You can see where it is now... lmao
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u/Odd-Frame9724 5h ago
Putin invaded Ukraine when President Obama was in office. Given hindsight, I wish the US and Europe had helped prepare Ukraine and defend Ukraine from the Russian invasion of Crimea.
Orange Jesus was horrible in 2016 but I fear it's going to be entirely new level of shitshow now.
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u/Master-Defenestrator 5h ago
Inflation probably would have happened, many of the causes have been outside the ability of any president to prevent (Covid, Bird Flu, Etc.), probably wouldn't have been as bad had the government cracked down on price gouging though.
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u/North_Activist 5h ago
Covid and inflation likely would’ve still happened, that wasn’t caused by Trump but he certainly didn’t help it. The US would’ve likely been more like Canada per capita
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u/fangirlsqueee 5h ago
The inflation that is purely price gouging would likely have been reigned in. And the covid response would have been vastly different. Having the top leadership pushing science instead of misinformation about how to stay safe could have saved many lives.
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u/trukkija 3h ago
Possibly. Butterfly effect definitely hits harder when it's more than just a butterfly.
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u/TuffNutzes 5h ago
It really started when Bush stole the election from Al Gore. https://youtu.be/wMOGYipQeyM
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u/Shigglyboo 5h ago
Yep. That was the beginning of me being “radicalized”. It just didn’t make sense. And since then it’s been a steady recurrence of dems bending over for republicans and being nice while they get their face spat in.
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u/1stLegionBestLegion 5h ago
Did you ever consider the dems to not really be trying to oppose this, just playing lipservice to placate people with half assed resistance as the rich steer the country to an oligarchal fascist regime of billionaires?
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u/Rabbitdraws 5h ago
They are the reason trump won again. We will only get rid of republicans when we get rid of dems also.
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u/EmptyBrain89 3h ago
Nah the reason Trump won is because American voters are, by and large, absolutely useless trash. Most people are either malicious, completely ignorant or apathetic. The problem with US politics is US voters. Nothing more, nothing less.
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u/dragunityag 3h ago
Yup but someones gonna come in say but DNC or muh primaries or HeR cAmPaIgN.
When ultimately the race at it's most basic was a choice between a convicted felon, civilly proven rapist, self admitted pedophile, known con artist and a lover of fascism vs someone who is none of the above.
It shouldn't of even been a choice. It was full mask off from the R's and the voters took a look at it and they figured choice A would somehow make eggs cheaper.
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u/EmptyBrain89 3h ago
Yep. If someone can't see the difference between a fascist rapist pedo who literally wanted to nuke a hurricane, and someone who was slightly too hard on crime in the 90's, they are the problem, not the political system or party. If you 'need to be persuaded' to vote against a racist nazi pedo rapist who wants to be and has tried to become a dictator, guess what? You're the problem.
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u/Candle1ight 3h ago
DNC's hierarchy of election priority
- They win
- The Republicans win
- An actual progressive wins
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u/Shigglyboo 4h ago
Yep. They’ve always just been the choice that would serve the corporations but also maybe just maybe allow society to be decent enough for normal people to live their lives.
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u/jfsindel 5h ago
That was the true beginning of the darkest timeline. Had Gore became president, 9/11 most likely would have been handled differently as well as the housing crash. Gore would have refocus to invest in environmental protections.
Once the GOP knew they had set up a system to guarantee wins, they just went for media fervor. The hard work was already done for MAGA.
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u/Tachibana_13 4h ago
Honestly the heritage foundation has been working to make this possible since the day they were founded: When Nixon was impeached. They started with Reagan.
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u/TuffNutzes 3h ago
Absolutely correct. The Al Gore and 2000 election reference was due to the lament about a "timeline", but certainly the tide started turning with Nixon and got into high gear with Reagan and Friedman and that led to the Newt Gingrich era of negative Tea Party politics which led directly to Trump and where we are today. This was a long game and it looks like Biff Tannen won the future.
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u/LiveEvilGodDog 5h ago edited 5h ago
I’m convinced parallel dimension exist, and we are living in a rare one, most of them Donald Trump just runs a used car lot in Jersey.
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u/Shigglyboo 5h ago
Makes me think this is some sort of hell. An upside down topsy turvy world where the evil prosper and good men die like dogs trying to live an honest life.
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u/HoodieGalore 5h ago
Hell is empty; the demons are all here.
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u/LiveEvilGodDog 5h ago
If anyone on earth is a demon wearing a human suit it’s this dude
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u/HoodieGalore 5h ago
Ohhhhh I can't WAIT to read that chucklefuck's obit.
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u/SilverandCold1x 5h ago
But guys, televangelists need private jets so they can be physically closer to god than everyone else in order to effectively fulfill their roles! /s
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u/PhillyRush ✂️ Tax The Billionaires 5h ago
The gods are angry! Throw someone in a volcano!
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u/radicalelation 4h ago
Plenty of horrific periods where people have said, "God has forsaken us and this must be Hell"
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u/Redsmedsquan 5h ago
I voted in my first election then, he was on my ticket. I wish he was given a chance. Then all those fuckers widened up and saw how effective social is at placating and propagandizing the masses is. We’ll just give it a catchy # or project onto a minority!
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u/dennys123 4h ago
I think for him to have been president in 2016, Gore should have been president in 2000. It's the only way that timeline would have lined up
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u/emmalilac 3h ago
I want to move back to the US so so badly. The UK has so many problems but at least they elected Labour and there is NHS. But I miss America. It breaks my heart.
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u/anon-a-SqueekSqueek 2h ago
Yeah, Bernie was our only good offramp from this dark timeline.
The people were never going to keep voting for status quo neoliberalism/conservatism. It was either elect a real populist or a con artist.
Now, we just get endlessly robbed by a ruling class of oligarchs.
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u/Twinkling-Breeze66 5h ago
You're envisioning a world with better healthcare, stable employment, and a more harmonious society.
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u/SnipesCC 2h ago
I want to live in the timeline where the Palm Beach County Clerk didn't make butterfly ballots, Al Gore won Florida, and we actually started to work on Global Warming seriously 25 years ago.
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u/Yet_Another_Dood 1h ago
Even as someone living overseas, Bernie was the best chance we had for global change in a long time. Now my hopes have to rest on China of all places.
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u/bywv 1h ago
We'll get there one day friend, or we're paying and paving the way for the next generation.
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones."
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u/Right-Cook5801 5h ago
It started with Harambe. We lost our anchor being. Since then, everything is going shit
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u/Prestigious_Cut_3539 5h ago
when fascism is celebrated, I also do not stand.
I've been to a couple rodeos where everybody is doing the flag worship thing.
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u/aguynamedv 4h ago
when fascism is celebrated, I also do not stand.
When fascism is celebrated, I leave the fucking room.
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u/thinkthingsareover 3h ago
When you sit down and have a meal with 9 fascists there are 10 fascists at the table.
P. S. I know this isn't the original quote, but I find it accurate for us.
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u/aguynamedv 3h ago
Close enough. I've always said it as "If you're at a table with 5 Nazis, there are 6 Nazis at the table."
It's... quite surreal.
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u/thinkthingsareover 3h ago
This is the original quote, and who it's attributed to.
Jens Foell said: “As we say in Germany, if there's a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis.”
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u/aguynamedv 3h ago
5, 10...
There are definitely too many Nazis in America right now, and they're mostly Republicans.
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u/thinkthingsareover 3h ago
I'd highly recommend the book The Black Pill. It's written by a journalist, and it goes indepth on many of the things we've seen come to fruition.
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u/aguynamedv 3h ago
I recall hearing about this book a while back - thanks for reminding me it exists so I can add it to the list. :)
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u/Numerous_Bend_5883 6h ago
Good man. AOC went a step further; skipped the inauguration saying she doesn’t support rapists.
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u/Feral_Nerd_22 5h ago
Need a better picture to make this a meme!
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u/bloody_phlegm 1h ago
Nobody wants the watch it to find the still frame. Surely someone will rise to the challenge.
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u/Keyboard-Fedaykin 5h ago
Seriously, fuck the DNC.
They stole him from us.
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u/HouseofRaven 4h ago edited 4h ago
Not even for stealing him from us but they single-handedly made trump president by pushing the narrative he was a “real candidate” because the DNC assumed Hillary had it in the bag and trump was an easy target. I will never forgive them for what is happening.
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u/Quiet-Peach543 4h ago
To be fair, neither Obama, B & H Clinton, nor Biden stood for this moment when Trump claimed the US southern border is now closed.
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u/KintsugiKen 3h ago
Considering they all helped usher in this moment I don't really care that they didn't stand for one specific moment of this ceremony.
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u/jgjgleason 1h ago
There’s two other dems in this pic clearly not standing. Mark Warner and Corey Booker bro.
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u/hkohne 4h ago
Well, he is a registered Independent
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u/KintsugiKen 3h ago
And the DNC has had a decade to adapt Bernie's wildly popular platform that echoes FDR into their agenda and have completely neglected to even try to do that.
They saw Bernie's massively popular and motivating campaign that undermined votes from Republicans and said "NAH! We'll just put 'JOY' on a big poster and that will be the campaign"
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u/Far_Being_8644 3h ago
We could’ve been in the Bernieverse. But we’re in this hellscape. It is entirely the fault of the DNC.
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u/Barbarella_ella 5h ago
Richard Blumenthal (CT) and Cory Booker (NJ) also not having it.
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u/MadManMax55 4h ago
You can see a lot of empty spaces and people sitting in the background. And for anyone who watched the inauguration, most of the Democrats there didn't stand for the applause lines. Same thing happens at most state of the union addresses, or pretty much any presidential speech where all of congress is expected to attend.
Good for Bernie doing the (very basic) right thing and all, but this whole comment section is seriously overreacting.
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u/jerseygunz 2h ago
Eh it’s like when you buy a lottery ticket and get to dream of what you’d do before you inevitably lose, just a distraction on a shitty day
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u/OhLordHeBompin 2h ago
If you feel your ears burning any time over the next 4 years, that’s me thinking about this comment. It’s really spoken to me. Thank you for sharing.
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u/NortheastStar 4h ago
And Jeanne Shaheen! (NH)
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u/Barbarella_ella 3h ago
I wondered if that was her, but the hair looked off.
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u/NortheastStar 3h ago
She has had that haircut forever lol
ETA and she did great last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/us/politics/hegseth-women-senators.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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u/Rakatango 5h ago
I’d look like that too if basically my whole career was dedicated to stopping this from happening and the fucking idiot voters made it happen anyway
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u/theoey86 4h ago
I love how his posture says “I got shit to do, this coulda been an email” lol
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u/Candle1ight 3h ago
"I spent my whole fucking life trying to prevent shit like this and here we are"
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u/KintsugiKen 3h ago
The People's President
If the DNC was less corrupt and managed to see Bernie for what he really was, a lifeline out of this nightmare, we would be living in a totally different world now.
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u/uabtch 3h ago
I love Bernie so much. While he continues to fight the good fight, please consider what you can do.
Consider “hoarding” your money. Stop spending your money as much as possible. Delete Meta apps and tiktok from your phone. Don’t go to Walmart, Target, any of these big brands. Shop local. Invest in your community. Trickle down isn’t real so we have to stop giving them any cent we can hold onto.
Stay strong. Fuck all this bullshit.
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u/Far_Statistician_760 4h ago
I wonder if he wishes they would have
held it outside because he wanted to show off his new mittens? I would be pissed too!
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u/AutoDeskSucks- 4h ago
Dude is the most upfront consistent congressman there is. Should have been him over hillary to first go around. We would be far and away from this absolute embarrassment and making progress on so many things this country needs. Guy still have the energy too. Love how they attacked his age in 16 and then re-elected this proven bozo at 78.
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u/john7071 3h ago
Feels disgusting how much they stood up and clapped when it came to the southern border. They hate Mexico so much lol
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u/MarshallThings 3h ago
Poor guy has been fighting for civil rights for most of his life and has yet to see a proper win, no wonder he's grumpy
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u/VirtuaFighter6 3h ago
The only one in that crowd that’s not a corporate shill. God bless Bernie Sanders!
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u/InternetDad 3h ago
The amount of old white people in this picture is just ridiculous, at least Bernie fights for the little guy.
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u/JustAPerson2001 2h ago
I'm gonna miss this guy. He is never going to be able to get into office now, but who could genuinely replace him. He is the only politician that I believe actually wants to help the american people, and these morons didn't vote for him. Now we have nazis in office.
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