they were deciding on was so time consuming. Unhappiness and irritation at the question are understandable, of course. Can't help wonder if that's grandiosity though.

no one else gets it...

So I take it that means he's not conceding yet

He tweeted about it today.

Bullet dodged.

I think we would all like to understand.

Because talk isn't do.

is important.

C’mon Bernie, show us what you’re made of.

Sarcasm of course.

n/t

I think he is trying to figure out how to break the news to his followers, most want him to go all the way to the bitter end.

More proof that he lacks the temperament and demeanor for the job. We don't need another... well... never mind. People who know me will understand my train of thought without having to spell it out.

too stressful.

right?

Bernie is just as unqualified As Trump. He doesn't have the patience or the temperament to be president

It's how he's always dealt with the press back to when he was mayor. 'The big issues becloud my brain please cease with your nattering.'

An exchange w/ Politico after Bernie's aide admitted Bernie had lied for years about his son's mother:

'The last question I had sent him was whether there was anything else he thought I should know.

“Yes,” Briggs said.

“The middle class is collapsing. Income and wealth inequality is greater now than it has been at any point since before the Great Depression. The American people are working longer hours for lower wages, and they’re angry. Those kinds of things, you should know.”

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-119927

That's how they sidestepped questions, pretending to be concerned about big stuff. Real big stuff.

JFC this guy. You are getting swept and we need to focus on beating trump. Go do the thing you CAN do right now which is dealing with the crisis and let Joe Biden who is going to win the nom anyway deal with running for president. This fucking guy.

attend, he has assignments to six, but he's kind of behind on their saving-the-world curves. At least he can sit quietly without being bothered about what he'll be doing next, and he has my sympathy for that.

confronted the jerk who accused him of wanting to get rid of the second amendment, and he responded, “you are full of shit”, I recall some who were so upset with the language used when he was setting the jerk straight

one issue at a time. Definitely not presidential

Thanks George

the globe.

Was damned near the first thing he's done in his career made me like him a bit. He has never been a favorite, and I could recite many reasons why. None of them matter in the crisis we face, and he is the man the times have summoned. He has my unreserved support.

It's good to see you back, Sir.

but it needed to be said & should have been said by someone a long time ago!!

Those guys always think any reasonable legislation on limiting guns or ammunition is a slippery slope to 'they're coming for your guns'! When that has never been the goal of anyone seeking sensible gun regulations!

No one is coming for their guns, we just want to make it a little more difficult for someone to randomly shoot innocent people in a large crowd!

Haven't known Joe Biden.

The guy from Scranton. Yeah, they're renowned for eschewing rough language and behavior there.

Scranton might as well be the birthplace of every blue collar hardass, ever.

take care of the people.

This is BS

Jesus wept....

not a presidential sounding reply..

lead.

n/t

I totally get it! I'd say something similar, I'm sure! I'd like to think I'd say "we," but my evil twin who would be taking over by now if I were in Bernie's shoes would say something just as dumb, and I'd probably be crying, too. On camera.

Bernie, go home. Go private. Get yourself grounded.

The crisis he was talking about was his fucking campaign!

Cold but fair.

does he think he's the only one who has to deal with this crap? Maybe that's the only thing he could think of!

I guess trying to rationalize why he should continue to fight a losing campaign occurring in the midst of a pandemic is a difficult thing to explain.

or that he was the only one equipped to help in any way.

Man, there's a lot of snark on this forum today.

Case in point.

Sen. Sanders should be able to do his job and answer questions about his campaign. If he can't, he is not suited for the job.

Dude lacks people skills.

There are a great many good people who have supported Sanders, and can be relied to support Mr. Biden, and down-ticket Democrats, wholeheartedly, from genuine concern for our country.

posting on DU. Oh, how I have missed you!

I just think that was a weak defense of Sanders.

Which is all the more reason to leave it pass. Better targets are Sanders himself, his campaign spokescritters, and purblind deadenders.

In one sentence, he confirmed what many of us have always understood about his "movement". It's not about "us". It's about the center of the movement, Bernie Sanders. It seems that it always has been.

Who else would look at the situation and say something like that? His very first thought was "I'm dealing with a fucking global crisis"?

Seriously?

Is there anything he could ever say that you'd take exception with or try to wave off?

"I'm dealing with a fucking global crisis. You know, we're dealing with."

Since the underlying question to him was "Why are you not providing us with a further update on the future status of your campaign?" a response that starts with "I'm" is absolutely appropriate. And he then said "we're dealing with", so there is your demanded bloody "us".

Before that? June 28, more than six months earlier. From June to January (7 months) he missed 244 consecutive votes.

The hell to pay for that one resulted in epic threads of pretense and melodrama. But thankfully, no snark...

.... just sayin'...

he's not going to get the nomination anyway, it provides one bit certainty in a sea of unknowns, and he would be free to go deal this fucking thing. So admitting his loss is a win-win.

why does he need the stress of a losing campaign on top of this fucking global crisis?

There are hundreds probably thousands of individuals who have more responsibility than Sanders in dealing with this "f'king global crisis".

What an ego this man has.

And the Independent Senator from Vermont curses like a sailor. One wonders on what other way the Independent Senator from Vermont character is not as marketed.

isn't he.

We are all dealing with it in our small ways.

For instance, if you are at a grocery store and you see a senior citizen who is dressed way way down and looks stressed, would it be ok/ not cause harm to go behind them and drop a couple if 20$s and say
Oh sir you dropped something

And walk on?

They dressed like they had since the 40’s. Overalls for papaw and prairie dress for my grandmother. And hated crowds. But they were worth hundreds of thousands in the 80’s. But looked like paupers

You stereotype them and offer my grandfather a few twenties like he needs charity you could expect to get your ass kicked by a 70 something year old. And he could still do it. If you are a guy. If a lady you could expect my grandmother to set into you. Papaw never hit a girl. He spanked the boys would not raise a hand to his daughter.

Offering charity to someone without being asked can be very insulting.

We have a lot of poor elderly here in the islands.

There are obviously other major cultural differences.

For instance I don’t think anyone here would give you cracks for trying to help them or making a mistake and thinking they might need a hand. Might laugh at you though. And with you.

Maybe you haven’t come across these people at Costco.

Two weeks ago I was at Palama Market on a rainy evening enjoying a smoking hot cast iron bowl of bubbling kimchee soup. I forgot that you get a big box of two scoops rice, pickled veggies and (yuck) Mac salad. I saw an (apparently) very poor senior Japanese lady who had finished her food a while ago and appeared to be keeping busy tidying up her bags to stay out of the rain.

I spoke with her a bit in Japanese, apologized for interrupting her and explained that they’d given me so much rice but I don’t need it, could she use it?

I used very polite Japanese. Arigato gozaimashita.

She started to cry, thanked me and gave me a hug.

I’m glad your grandparents weren’t hungry.

They aren’t the only proud ones.

Bye now

That's a bit much. It's also a bit much to assume that they would automatically beat and defeat a poster that you know nothing about. No offense though, I respect everyone. I just got pissy because I HATE violence.

Wow.

My grandparents were very dignified, didn’t have a lot of money but had all they needed, could certainly more than handle themselves but I can’t put them in that picture at all.

They had humor and wit and that would more than serve. Imagine a grandma throwing blows if you thought she needed help? Mercy.

Grew up in rural Arkansas in the early 1900s. And thought fighting was a proper response to an insult.

I am nothing like him in that way.

He was a proud man with little formal education.

Joe too. It’s all a lot. I feel fondness and respect for both of them.

It is unfortunate that there are people here so desperate to bash Bernie and one wing of the Democratic party they even read the word "we" out of the quote so they can claim that a quote is egocentric.

Unity is so needed and unfortunately threads like this which invent an issue to bash on, are very unfortunate for those who would rather a win against Trump rather than have fun bashing others. The election is really secondary to most of us at the moment if we have family and are facing lockdowns and an unforeseen future. My wish is that one day I would log on to the Democratic Underground and just once not not see on the Greatest Page such posts.

Especially a POTUS.

Thanks for confirming that you're not up to the job, you self-serving fraud.

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just too busy dealing with the effing global crisis to talk about running for president.

in the Fall of 2008 when the economy was crashing and jobs were shedding at an alarming rate. I remember McCain announcing he was suspending campaigning in order to deal with it-- right before the big Senate vote in which all the Republicans panned the Bailout.

So, if Bernie wants no distractions from our epochal crisis, maybe he should announce he needs to suspend this campaign so he can properly attend to his.. you know.. his day job.

in the 3rd person - we are doing this, our campaign is doing that, etc.*

But now it's "I'm" dealing with the crisis. Not we.

Interesting.

*I am well aware that politicians speak in the 3rd person plural while campaigning. I have been struck, though, by how often Bernie does it vis a vis others.

Because "Not Me, Us" -- we're supposed to think it's unique ("Yes, We Can" and "Stronger Together" isn't the same because one must always assume all Democrats are corrupt and only care about money and power).

That damn crisis forced him to return to work.

Thank God they'll condemn this language as unfit for the unity of the party and reaching out to cross-over voters...

Or maybe they'll simply rationalize it and simply hold themselves to lower standards they hold others to.