Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign megathread v2 (pg 77 - declares victory in Iowa)

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are we really this stupid

Kass generally is, yes. He's been phoning it in recently. Still, much more interesting — and closer to the truth — than his next dozen columns about why the minorities need to pull up their pants.

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Why did Bernie lie about the first vote he cast?

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1219377168284897281?s=20

This is funny after a week of calling Warren a pathological liar.

John F. Kennedy, the only Kennedy to ever run for President.

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Well he already said he never voted until he was on the ballot so either way he’s lying. I’ve never heard Kennedy used to describe anyone but JFK when talking about the others people always say Bobby or Ted Kennedy or RFK but that’s neither here nor there as Sanders (this alleged staunch activist who has been in the trenches of activism for a half century) has stated in the past he never cared about voting until it benefited him personally.

He's said he didn't vote until he was in his 30s (the mid-70s). It doesn't seem unreasonable to think that his first vote for president was for Ted Kennedy. You seem very upset about this.

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Disgusting.
This man is a full blown sociopath.
This is a kamikaze ad and is honestly highly flawed as several posters have already mentioned. Shame on him, for once I was starting to feel okay with this guy after his ignoring of Hillary, but he pissed it away.

How is it a "kamikaze ad"? The goal is to get more people to vote for Bernie, not to immolate both campaigns

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The phrase "wage slavery" has a long history in the labor movement, especially in the radical wing — might seem like an offensive comparison now, but it was a common phrase among union leaders at the time. Odd that this context wasn't included in the article...

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I've held it in for so long….But it's time to come out with my story of a traumatic experience with Bernie Sanders. Warning: the following is disturbing and could be highly upsetting.

I saw Bernie Sanders at a grocery store in Burlington last year. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now, you establishment hack?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh corporatists, huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Ben and Jerry's ice cream cups in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be busy reading his medicare for all plan, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the cups and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electoral infetterence, as that plays into the game of the millionaires and billionaires”, and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each cup and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by saying "not me, us" really loudly.

Is this a bad attempt at a troll

No it's real, I was there and saw it all go down

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Another great in-kind donation to the campaign. Thank you Hillary!

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Supporters of the #resistance twitter account "The Hoarse Wisperer" have raised nearly $50,000 for Bernie through hoarsewisperer.com. Great!

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And the Bernie Sanders closing argument is to get a man who proudly voted for Jill Stein and called Obama "the first n-rized president" to say "don't vote for Elizabeth Warren, she'll be corrupt just like Obama was!"

Very cool, Bernie!

Bernie's "closing argument" in the Iowa caucuses, delivered in Cambridge, Massachusetts?

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The last thing they need is to be made the target of a conspiracy theory smear campaign by the Sanders people about a secret plot to rig the election in Buttigieg's favor.

If your process is so convoluted and dysfunctional that it becomes this easy to spin a conspiracy theory out of it, you really don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.