Exactly - but like Obama, she fronts well, wants nothing but fame, and will do anything - hence the perfect politician for 'our time' - if you're a self-described 'feminist' and easing past 50.
Exactly - but like Obama, she fronts well, wants nothing but fame, and will do anything - hence the perfect politician for 'our time' - if you're a self-described 'feminist' and easing past 50.
The snide comments on this site aimed at older women, especially college-educated older women, and 'feminists' (whatever the hell the quotes signify) are beyond tiresome. I am over 50 and am a feminist (if by that you mean I believe in equal pay for equal work and the right to do whatever I want with my body without being overruled by the government or some religious freak), and I am not a fan of AOC or Obama. I am and always will be a Bernie supporter because, aside from being a very decent human being, he understands that all that liberal blathering counts for nothing if we don't push for a fair economic system.
Even if you check it out in a source that doesn't particularly like him (Forbes), they give a reasonable account of his net worth based on salary, book sales, social security, and pensions and annuities. Given how long he has been in Congress, and especially when you compare him to his cohorts, he hasn't done all that well.
тАЬтАжthe right to do whatever I want with my body without being overruled by the government тАжтАЭ as in the right to turn down a govt imposed vaccine? Oh wait, you might get firedтАж
Not sure where I called someone a тАЬnameтАЭ? And yes I do understand stand what a right is. IтАЩm just saying that what they are advocating (killing babies) is really worse than demanding we take a vaccination and how thatтАЩs kind of ironicтАжтАж
you sorta have more CHOICE to "catch a baby" than you do to get COVID. You can CHOSE NOT to do the thing that gets you pregnant... can't get pregnant by walking around the grocery where as you can get any virus by doing that...
BernieтАЩs great contribution was to have student loans nationalized which has continued with policies that led to college gouging and horrendous abuses
Sorry, but unlike AOC at her age and given the state of the educational system she was subject to, Bernie should certainly have known better, at *his* age and given the educational system *he* had available.
Bernie "Hillary will make a great president!" Sanders went right along with a bunch of woke stuff, such as nixing his original "all lives matter" in the face of BLM, and abandoning his early claim that illegal immigration hurts native workers. This ex-Bernie supporter now realizes that the idea of him leading an *actual* "Our Revolution" against TPTB destroying our country is a howler.
In the last ten years, this long-time, self-styled "independent" has thoroughly revealed himself to be a shepherd for DNC, nothing more. His function is to get the angry to, ineffectively, dissipate steam (much as Substack's function is ;) Unlike AOC though, Bernie is too old to still be be unwitting. So he's now simply up to new tricks doing more of the same. What does he actually get out of it, cosplay thrills? Maybe the Right is correct; in his oncoming dotage, he wanted little more than a summer home.
When this current stealth DNC dog-and-pony show gets "co-opted" around late 2027, their population of the country's latest generation of duped Angry Young Leftists will, of course, merge with the Democrats for an astro-turfed Frankenstein's-monster "majority" in time to deliver the same-old same-old "Leftist" Trojan-horse totalitarian puppets, now led by AOC, just in time for the 2028 election. How convenient. At least AOC still has time to get to a McNamara-esque come-to-Jesus moment -- hopefully a lot earlier.
I quit expecting politicians to be perfect about 30 years ago. I was disappointed he campaigned for Hillary, especially after the crap she pulled, but he saw Trump as a greater threat (I'm not so sure he was wrong given the current state of affairs). Realizing that "all lives matter" is a limpdick response to the justifiable rage people felt after the Zimmerman acquittal and trying to strike a balance between humane immigration policies and protecting the wages of American workers is not being "woke" but decent. (While I don't care for the use of "woke" by either side, I think the rightwing hysteria over "wokeness" is equivalent to three-year-olds having tantrums because they have to share their toys.) And if Bernie was in cahoots with the DNC, as you suggest, I suspect that he would have a lot more power and money than he currently has (think Nancy Pelosi, the Clintons, and the Obamas). I never heard of him getting a six-figure payout for a speech, did you? He also isn't anywhere in the list of top stock traders in Congress. As to AOC, I think she got swept away by the flood of attention and never got to solid ground. But, you may be right, she still has time.
"I quit expecting politicians to be perfect about 30 years ago."
No, but some politicians are willing to fall on their swords. Tulsi Gabbard (despite her resurrection in the Trump admin) did this in the Democratic Party with her public takedown of Hillary's warmongering, with no Trump quid pro quo at the time yet come to light, to my knowledge.
Bernie did nothing of the sort. What IMO he should have said was something like, "Per my campaign statements, I cannot endorse Hillary, but I greatly prefer to her to Trump." And pretty much leave it at that. Because he was (apparently just pretending to be) much different.
"Realizing that 'all lives matter' is a limpdick response to the justifiable rage people felt after the Zimmerman acquittal"
First of all, let me repeat, *Bernie* said 'all lives matter', until he was apparently told not to. And no, it is not a "limpdick" response. IMHO, if you believe this, you really need to read up more. It was an acknowledgement that the stats show that Whites (in fact, more, by sheer numbers) are being killed by errant cops, too; meanwhile, many more Blacks are being killed by uncontrolled illegal guns (usually in crime-ridden neighborhoods) than in encounters with police. But we can't talk about these just-as-real problems, because TPTB declare it taboo and against the dominant narrative whose real purpose is to divide-and-conquer us. The biggest opponents of "Defund the police" were often Blacks in crime-ridden zones. (I live in near one in NYC, and my own is notably worse than average.)
" trying to strike a balance between humane immigration policies and protecting the wages of American workers is not being 'woke' but decent. "
Agreed. But the DNC, and then Bernie falling into line behind them, shut up about it. I don't find that part 'decent'.
"if Bernie was in cahoots with the DNC, as you suggest, I suspect that he would have a lot more power and money than he currently has"
He has a stage image to protect. Otherwise, his life would get far less comfortable. (Bernie at my age had a more wealth than I do, and he has not lived in the inner city as I do for a long time.)
"I think the rightwing hysteria over 'wokeness' is equivalent to three-year-olds having tantrums because they have to share their toys."
I fear your media diet is not very broad. There are plenty of serious complaints out there, if you care to explore them. And no, I am not right-wing, despite modern Dem pols insistence on calling all their non-conformists such.
As a woman over 50 that is not a feminist please keep the snide comments about what a pain in the ass college educated feminists are! Feel free to mention that they have absolutely no sense of humor- ever.
Well, he is a sick old man now. In medical terms, he is "the old old." Like it or not. What would it be like to have another dude in the White House whose brain is largely white out?
I don't mention women in my comment, do I? I employ "self-described feminists" (without any gender reference) in quotes to make clear my comment is about frauds of all stripes: men and women who pretend to care about women's rights.
As for your support for Bernie, I'm not in the least surprised. Have a better one.
She is nothing like Obama, in my opinion. He was a pragmatic and brilliant man who was dead center. Most if not all of the radical left's platform is complaints. Whining all the time about the same tired inflammatory lies. No manageable plans to address the issues the country grapples with. The real issues.
Drone Strike was and is the perfect tool of vested interests, an amoral hack, and manipulative con man. Snowden demolishes the fiction that Drone Strke had a shred of integrity and interest in civil liberties; he expanded and cemented the Cheney-Bush security state. 'Closing Gitmo on day one, if you like your doctor, Libya, ISIS expansion, and destroying the black middle-class are just a few of President Peace Prize's broken promises and failures. The moment he left office the first thing he and his equally cynical and self-interested wife did was cash in big - 400,000 speaking fees, how smart was that? He was the ultimate DEI hire well out of his depth who pursued his passions for golf and handicapping sports while pretending to care about America. Ramming through the ACA and TARP did the impossible and transformed the moribund corpse of the GOP into the Tea Party and ultimately two terms of DJT in less than 24 months. Not only did the Dems get killed in the 2010 federal elections in 2010, they got wiped out at the state and local level, leaving only the most corrupt and entrenched political hacks and no new blood.
Ukraine, COVID and Russia-Russia are the children of Obama's feckless rule. When he left office, he was less popular in the ME than Bush. He possessed a killer smile and was just smart enough to know when to shut-up. When he didn't, the press covered his face plants until he couldn't rescue Biden, Harris. Scolding the 'brothers' confirmed what many minorities woke up to long ago - he's a know-it-all dunce without an original thought in his head. In retrospect my opinion of him has improved - I'm now convinced that HRC would have led us into war with Iran and/or Russia. So there's that.
Agree with most of what you have written here...would add his Feds raided medical marijuana clinics in CA and there was a ban on journalists accessing and writing about BP oil spill in the gulf, then there was support of Syrian rebels. We can criticize every US President and every administration endlessly. He took office during a most difficult economic time, had a steep learning curve, reigned in the budget, created US good will world-wide, deported more illegal aliens than any other President, and accomplished more in his first 100 days than most. The ACA is so far from perfect, but $500,000 life-time benefit maximum and no coverage for pe-existing conditions is history.
It is easy to forget the unholy mess he walked into. Millions lost their homes and jobs, Iraq war fiasco when the terrorist bombing was committed by residents from another country altogether, worldwide recession bordering on depression, bankruptcies and US deficits at record high in US...all caused by George Bush., Cheney and Rumsfeld. They certainly enriched themselves tho! People who lived through it and historians agree Bush was the worst US President in history.
Exactly - but like Obama, she fronts well, wants nothing but fame, and will do anything - hence the perfect politician for 'our time' - if you're a self-described 'feminist' and easing past 50.
The snide comments on this site aimed at older women, especially college-educated older women, and 'feminists' (whatever the hell the quotes signify) are beyond tiresome. I am over 50 and am a feminist (if by that you mean I believe in equal pay for equal work and the right to do whatever I want with my body without being overruled by the government or some religious freak), and I am not a fan of AOC or Obama. I am and always will be a Bernie supporter because, aside from being a very decent human being, he understands that all that liberal blathering counts for nothing if we don't push for a fair economic system.
Bernie has done very well for himself considering his only paid employment has been in government.
Even if you check it out in a source that doesn't particularly like him (Forbes), they give a reasonable account of his net worth based on salary, book sales, social security, and pensions and annuities. Given how long he has been in Congress, and especially when you compare him to his cohorts, he hasn't done all that well.
тАЬтАжthe right to do whatever I want with my body without being overruled by the government тАжтАЭ as in the right to turn down a govt imposed vaccine? Oh wait, you might get firedтАж
JL, Amazing how you anti-vaxxers can't see the difference between a pregnancy and a contagious disease.
Yea but you treat pregnancy LIKE it is a disease instead of a human life. ThatтАЩs your right but at least admit itтАж
"you anti-vaxxers" Is that like a Ross Perot "you people"?
So on top of calling people names, apparently you don't understand what a "right" is.
Not sure where I called someone a тАЬnameтАЭ? And yes I do understand stand what a right is. IтАЩm just saying that what they are advocating (killing babies) is really worse than demanding we take a vaccination and how thatтАЩs kind of ironicтАжтАж
My reply wasn't to your comment
Do you тАЬcatch a babyтАЭ like you тАЬcatch CovidтАЭ?
you sorta have more CHOICE to "catch a baby" than you do to get COVID. You can CHOSE NOT to do the thing that gets you pregnant... can't get pregnant by walking around the grocery where as you can get any virus by doing that...
Well thatтАЩs precisely my point.
I know IтАЩm just trying to amplify your comment!
YouтАЩre really not helping make the case, here.
https://youtu.be/Q0z_DYA4Jp0?si=iUBX1Nb30d4hYBKd
BernieтАЩs great contribution was to have student loans nationalized which has continued with policies that led to college gouging and horrendous abuses
Not to mention 80k a year now andтАж.oh wait thatтАЩs ok all that debt goes to either the government or the banks!!!! Win-win for the dems!!
"I am and always will be a Bernie supporter"
Sorry, but unlike AOC at her age and given the state of the educational system she was subject to, Bernie should certainly have known better, at *his* age and given the educational system *he* had available.
Bernie "Hillary will make a great president!" Sanders went right along with a bunch of woke stuff, such as nixing his original "all lives matter" in the face of BLM, and abandoning his early claim that illegal immigration hurts native workers. This ex-Bernie supporter now realizes that the idea of him leading an *actual* "Our Revolution" against TPTB destroying our country is a howler.
In the last ten years, this long-time, self-styled "independent" has thoroughly revealed himself to be a shepherd for DNC, nothing more. His function is to get the angry to, ineffectively, dissipate steam (much as Substack's function is ;) Unlike AOC though, Bernie is too old to still be be unwitting. So he's now simply up to new tricks doing more of the same. What does he actually get out of it, cosplay thrills? Maybe the Right is correct; in his oncoming dotage, he wanted little more than a summer home.
When this current stealth DNC dog-and-pony show gets "co-opted" around late 2027, their population of the country's latest generation of duped Angry Young Leftists will, of course, merge with the Democrats for an astro-turfed Frankenstein's-monster "majority" in time to deliver the same-old same-old "Leftist" Trojan-horse totalitarian puppets, now led by AOC, just in time for the 2028 election. How convenient. At least AOC still has time to get to a McNamara-esque come-to-Jesus moment -- hopefully a lot earlier.
Anti-Hip,
I quit expecting politicians to be perfect about 30 years ago. I was disappointed he campaigned for Hillary, especially after the crap she pulled, but he saw Trump as a greater threat (I'm not so sure he was wrong given the current state of affairs). Realizing that "all lives matter" is a limpdick response to the justifiable rage people felt after the Zimmerman acquittal and trying to strike a balance between humane immigration policies and protecting the wages of American workers is not being "woke" but decent. (While I don't care for the use of "woke" by either side, I think the rightwing hysteria over "wokeness" is equivalent to three-year-olds having tantrums because they have to share their toys.) And if Bernie was in cahoots with the DNC, as you suggest, I suspect that he would have a lot more power and money than he currently has (think Nancy Pelosi, the Clintons, and the Obamas). I never heard of him getting a six-figure payout for a speech, did you? He also isn't anywhere in the list of top stock traders in Congress. As to AOC, I think she got swept away by the flood of attention and never got to solid ground. But, you may be right, she still has time.
"I quit expecting politicians to be perfect about 30 years ago."
No, but some politicians are willing to fall on their swords. Tulsi Gabbard (despite her resurrection in the Trump admin) did this in the Democratic Party with her public takedown of Hillary's warmongering, with no Trump quid pro quo at the time yet come to light, to my knowledge.
Bernie did nothing of the sort. What IMO he should have said was something like, "Per my campaign statements, I cannot endorse Hillary, but I greatly prefer to her to Trump." And pretty much leave it at that. Because he was (apparently just pretending to be) much different.
"Realizing that 'all lives matter' is a limpdick response to the justifiable rage people felt after the Zimmerman acquittal"
First of all, let me repeat, *Bernie* said 'all lives matter', until he was apparently told not to. And no, it is not a "limpdick" response. IMHO, if you believe this, you really need to read up more. It was an acknowledgement that the stats show that Whites (in fact, more, by sheer numbers) are being killed by errant cops, too; meanwhile, many more Blacks are being killed by uncontrolled illegal guns (usually in crime-ridden neighborhoods) than in encounters with police. But we can't talk about these just-as-real problems, because TPTB declare it taboo and against the dominant narrative whose real purpose is to divide-and-conquer us. The biggest opponents of "Defund the police" were often Blacks in crime-ridden zones. (I live in near one in NYC, and my own is notably worse than average.)
" trying to strike a balance between humane immigration policies and protecting the wages of American workers is not being 'woke' but decent. "
Agreed. But the DNC, and then Bernie falling into line behind them, shut up about it. I don't find that part 'decent'.
"if Bernie was in cahoots with the DNC, as you suggest, I suspect that he would have a lot more power and money than he currently has"
He has a stage image to protect. Otherwise, his life would get far less comfortable. (Bernie at my age had a more wealth than I do, and he has not lived in the inner city as I do for a long time.)
"I think the rightwing hysteria over 'wokeness' is equivalent to three-year-olds having tantrums because they have to share their toys."
I fear your media diet is not very broad. There are plenty of serious complaints out there, if you care to explore them. And no, I am not right-wing, despite modern Dem pols insistence on calling all their non-conformists such.
Your comments are very interesting. Thanks.
тАЬI believe in equal pay for equal work and the right to do whatever I want with my body without being overruled by the governmentтАЭ
Where were you when the government was mandating that we put vaccines in our bodies?
Which Bernie ? There a lots of BernieтАЩs .
All occupying the same body, apparently.
As a woman over 50 that is not a feminist please keep the snide comments about what a pain in the ass college educated feminists are! Feel free to mention that they have absolutely no sense of humor- ever.
IтАЩm sure we disagree on most issues, but major props for sticking to your guns.
Well, he is a sick old man now. In medical terms, he is "the old old." Like it or not. What would it be like to have another dude in the White House whose brain is largely white out?
Neither was either brain notable in its prime.
At least Bernie wasn't creepy. Reminds me of an eccentrically blustering grandfather, more cute than dangerous, no longer useful, never my dish.
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I don't mention women in my comment, do I? I employ "self-described feminists" (without any gender reference) in quotes to make clear my comment is about frauds of all stripes: men and women who pretend to care about women's rights.
As for your support for Bernie, I'm not in the least surprised. Have a better one.
She is nothing like Obama, in my opinion. He was a pragmatic and brilliant man who was dead center. Most if not all of the radical left's platform is complaints. Whining all the time about the same tired inflammatory lies. No manageable plans to address the issues the country grapples with. The real issues.
Drone Strike was and is the perfect tool of vested interests, an amoral hack, and manipulative con man. Snowden demolishes the fiction that Drone Strke had a shred of integrity and interest in civil liberties; he expanded and cemented the Cheney-Bush security state. 'Closing Gitmo on day one, if you like your doctor, Libya, ISIS expansion, and destroying the black middle-class are just a few of President Peace Prize's broken promises and failures. The moment he left office the first thing he and his equally cynical and self-interested wife did was cash in big - 400,000 speaking fees, how smart was that? He was the ultimate DEI hire well out of his depth who pursued his passions for golf and handicapping sports while pretending to care about America. Ramming through the ACA and TARP did the impossible and transformed the moribund corpse of the GOP into the Tea Party and ultimately two terms of DJT in less than 24 months. Not only did the Dems get killed in the 2010 federal elections in 2010, they got wiped out at the state and local level, leaving only the most corrupt and entrenched political hacks and no new blood.
Ukraine, COVID and Russia-Russia are the children of Obama's feckless rule. When he left office, he was less popular in the ME than Bush. He possessed a killer smile and was just smart enough to know when to shut-up. When he didn't, the press covered his face plants until he couldn't rescue Biden, Harris. Scolding the 'brothers' confirmed what many minorities woke up to long ago - he's a know-it-all dunce without an original thought in his head. In retrospect my opinion of him has improved - I'm now convinced that HRC would have led us into war with Iran and/or Russia. So there's that.
Agree with most of what you have written here...would add his Feds raided medical marijuana clinics in CA and there was a ban on journalists accessing and writing about BP oil spill in the gulf, then there was support of Syrian rebels. We can criticize every US President and every administration endlessly. He took office during a most difficult economic time, had a steep learning curve, reigned in the budget, created US good will world-wide, deported more illegal aliens than any other President, and accomplished more in his first 100 days than most. The ACA is so far from perfect, but $500,000 life-time benefit maximum and no coverage for pe-existing conditions is history.
Fair enough. Cheers!
Brilliant man? Alrighty then.....
It is easy to forget the unholy mess he walked into. Millions lost their homes and jobs, Iraq war fiasco when the terrorist bombing was committed by residents from another country altogether, worldwide recession bordering on depression, bankruptcies and US deficits at record high in US...all caused by George Bush., Cheney and Rumsfeld. They certainly enriched themselves tho! People who lived through it and historians agree Bush was the worst US President in history.
Snicker
Nothing more pragmatic than a "kill-list" is there?
Yes, they front well. She is equally photogenic but not half as clever.