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TomCADem

(17,719 posts)
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 01:42 PM Mar 2020

Bernie campaign slams Warren as candidate of the elite - BS Always Goes Negative

I see a lot of threads that seem to buy into this BS talking point that BS may continue to campaign because he wants to promote his issues. We heard this talking point before. It is based on this idea that BS is running a campaign based on the issues.

Yet, what have actually seen? BS and his surrogates repeatedly attack the "establishment" and push this false equivalency between Democrats and the Republicans. Bernie's MO is to attack the character of his opponents. There is no question. BS is going to stay in race and do his best to undermine Democratic chances in the general election while pretending that his campaign is based on the issues. Even in the midst of catastrophe, his campaign will side with Trump against Democrats:


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As Bernie Surrogate Susan Sarandon, explained by worsening the results under Trump, this will help plant the seeds for a revolution: "Some people feel that Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately, if he gets in. Then things will really, you know, explode," Sarandon said, referring to the political "revolution" Sanders preaches about on the trail.

Don't fall for BS's supposed struggle as to whether he will remain in the race. He will and he is just pretending to struggle so that he can be the center of attention. In the end, BS is going to stay in, and do his best to hurt our chances of winning the Presidency and taking back Congress, because if Democrats win, the people might actually be happy with a competent government.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/11/bernie-quietly-goes-negative-on-warren-097594

DES MOINES, Iowa — The nonaggression pact between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren is seriously fraying.

Sanders’ campaign has begun stealthily attacking Warren as a candidate of the upper crust who could not expand the Democratic base in a general election, according to talking points his campaign is using to sway voters and obtained by POLITICO.

The script instructs Sanders volunteers to tell voters leaning toward the Massachusetts senator that the “people who support her are highly-educated, more affluent people who are going to show up and vote Democratic no matter what” and that “she's bringing no new bases into the Democratic Party.”

“I like Elizabeth Warren. [optional]” the script begins. “In fact, she’s my second choice. But here’s my concern about her.” It then pivots to the criticisms of Warren.
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Bernie campaign slams Warren as candidate of the elite - BS Always Goes Negative (Original Post) TomCADem Mar 2020 OP
What a clown. wyldwolf Mar 2020 #1
She seems nice. bluedye33139 Mar 2020 #2
Haaaaaa! NurseJackie Mar 2020 #3
ROFL Sloumeau Mar 2020 #11
Well Briahna. Dems pushed the Russia did the hacking because MontanaMama Mar 2020 #4
Bernie dosent have a campaign evertonfc Mar 2020 #5
It Is Not Just His Surrogates. BS Picked Them. They Are a Reflection of Him TomCADem Mar 2020 #6
re: "BS attracts and hires people who trash the Democratic party" thesquanderer Mar 2020 #10
The Article You Link Is Not Accurate, It Is Just Propaganda About BS TomCADem Mar 2020 #14
re: "The Article You Link Is Not Accurate, It Is Just Propaganda About BS" thesquanderer Mar 2020 #18
This indeed! eom BlueMTexpat Mar 2020 #22
Thank you! Cha Mar 2020 #24
Isn't that his goal? That has always been his goal, imo. apcalc Mar 2020 #7
BS and Supporters Seek to Sharpen the Contradictions per Karl Marx TomCADem Mar 2020 #8
Very good. Thank you. apcalc Mar 2020 #23
Grievance politics eilen Mar 2020 #9
Yes. One of the first alarming signals from the Sanders campaign, MineralMan Mar 2020 #12
Here is David Sirota Today Using Pandemic To Attack Bernie's Critics TomCADem Mar 2020 #17
Ugh! MineralMan Mar 2020 #19
This is from January. Ztolkins Mar 2020 #13
Sanders needs to get his crap together and Wellstone ruled Mar 2020 #15
He's grasping at straws now. He knows she's not going to back him, C Moon Mar 2020 #16
I can't even put into words how I feel about that guy!! Thekaspervote Mar 2020 #20
Sirota is too toxic to travel with the sanders Gothmog Mar 2020 #21
All they have is name calling like this. Cha Mar 2020 #25
And Sen Warren dropped out of the race after Super Tuesday. ms liberty Mar 2020 #26
 

MontanaMama

(23,952 posts)
4. Well Briahna. Dems pushed the Russia did the hacking because
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 01:46 PM
Mar 2020

THEY ACTUALLY DID THE HACKING. She is really an obnoxious surrogate as are most of those who speak for him.

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evertonfc

(1,713 posts)
5. Bernie dosent have a campaign
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 01:47 PM
Mar 2020

He's had his ass kicked across America. His surrogate are one reason. They are very unsavory characters. As someone who supported him in 2016- he's an afterthought anymore

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TomCADem

(17,719 posts)
6. It Is Not Just His Surrogates. BS Picked Them. They Are a Reflection of Him
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 01:51 PM
Mar 2020

You can't make this up. BS attracts and hires people who trash the Democratic party, because he himself believes that there is no difference between the parties, and he actively promotes this idea:


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thesquanderer

(12,300 posts)
10. re: "BS attracts and hires people who trash the Democratic party"
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 02:15 PM
Mar 2020

and "They Are a Reflection of Him'

I haven't like his hires either. But there was conflict within the campaign about this kind of stuff, well described at

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/how-it-all-came-apart-for-bernie-sanders/ar-BB11uW8I?ocid=msedgdhp

Though honestly, at this point, I don't see any benefit of posting negative stuff from January as you did here, especially paired with a deceptive headline that implies this is something new. Sanders is not going to be our nominee. Why continue to bash him? Do you think this is going to change anyone's mind about Sanders at this point? Don't post like this more likely just continue to turn off Sanders supporters who we want to become our allies?

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TomCADem

(17,719 posts)
14. The Article You Link Is Not Accurate, It Is Just Propaganda About BS
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 02:59 PM
Mar 2020

Lets not repeat past mistakes thinking that Bernie is really going through some soul searching at the moment or that he will really put the interests of the people above his own. He will not, because he thinks that his interests and the pursuit of his own personal political aspirations serve the people even to the extent that it causes them harm.

Lets make no mistake that Bernie's continued campaign and his negative attacks on Biden are going to harm the people. That is why we cannot ignore what is motivating Bernie. Yet, you still see a lot of will he or won't he posts. Bernie himself likes tease with a 24/7 drama of whether or not he will drop out.

There is no conflict in Bernie's campaign. That is class BS pushing this fantasy that BS does not go negative and that he focuses on the issues. That is why I posted the story in the OP, because it demonstrates that BS has gone negative. There is no internal debate in the BS camp regarding what they are going to do. They have already gone scorched earth, and they will continue to do so.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-attacks-biden-media-super-tuesday-losses-2020-3

Bernie Sanders goes into attack mode, skewering Joe Biden and the media after a string of crushing defeats on Super Tuesday

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont went on the attack Wednesday following a string of disappointing losses in the Super Tuesday Democratic presidential elections.

He kicked things off at a press conference by skewering the "corporate media," which he accused of adopting an adversarial stance against his campaign.

Sanders said he had dealt with "venom" from some in the media, mentioning that his campaign had been compared to the novel coronavirus as well as the Nazi occupation of France during World War II.

"As we come into the last several months of this campaign, what I hope very much is that what we can focus on is an issue-oriented campaign which deals with the concerns of the American people," he said.
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thesquanderer

(12,300 posts)
18. re: "The Article You Link Is Not Accurate, It Is Just Propaganda About BS"
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 03:37 PM
Mar 2020

Some sites and columnists definitely have that bias, and I try to be cognizant of that. But this one is a "real article" from the NY Times, so I don't know why you would think it is propaganda, other than that your own biases lead you to not want to believe it...?

Here's the actual NYT link, if you prefer:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democrats-2020.html

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Cha

(304,720 posts)
24. Thank you!
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 04:12 AM
Mar 2020

StaySafe, evertonfc

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apcalc

(4,502 posts)
7. Isn't that his goal? That has always been his goal, imo.
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 01:52 PM
Mar 2020

Attack Democrats from the left... stay in, cause dissension...enough so that ppl won’t vote for the Dem.

He has every opportunity to me wrong. Let’s see.

Wanna bet ?

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TomCADem

(17,719 posts)
8. BS and Supporters Seek to Sharpen the Contradictions per Karl Marx
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 01:57 PM
Mar 2020

The American people are seeking competence and rule of law under Biden. Nonetheless, expect BS surrogates like Cornell West and Susan Sarandon to double down in calling for an end to the Democratic party as an obstacle to revolution. Afterall, if the lives of Americans improve under Joe Biden, they may not desire the radical revolution that Bernie is hoping to sell.

Instead, if BS cannot seize power, then as Susan Sarandon explained the silver lining is that the chaos of a Trump presidency might help undermine the status quo.

https://www.beaconjournal.com/akron/editorial/cass-r-sunstein-trump-disrupts-so-did-marx

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.: Karl Marx and his followers argued that revolutionaries should disrupt capitalist societies by “heightening the contradictions.” Russia used a version of that Marxist idea in its efforts to disrupt the 2016 presidential campaign. It should come as no surprise that the most powerful nation from the former Soviet Union, whose leaders were schooled in the Marxist tradition, is borrowing directly from that tradition in its efforts today.

What is more surprising, and far more important for American politics, is that President Donald Trump is drawn to a similar strategy.

Marx contended that as the conditions of workers started to improve, they would cease to be content with their lot, or to regard their alienation as inevitable. Lenin seized on this idea and transformed it into a revolutionary strategy.

Lenin urged that as capitalism developed, workers would see, or could be made to see, the contradictions between the official story of universal freedom and their actual inability to have real control over their own lives. The job of the communist revolutionary was to “heighten” or “accelerate” those contradictions.
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apcalc

(4,502 posts)
23. Very good. Thank you.
Wed Mar 25, 2020, 06:21 AM
Mar 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
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eilen

(4,950 posts)
9. Grievance politics
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 02:10 PM
Mar 2020

so boring and scowling loses elections.

One of the reasons we were attracted to Obama's campaign was his positive messaging-- and it won x2.

I think because his campaign appealed to our better natures. He also smiled a lot.



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MineralMan

(147,334 posts)
12. Yes. One of the first alarming signals from the Sanders campaign,
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 02:27 PM
Mar 2020

was his hiring of non-Democrats to fill major roles on his staff. And by non-Democrats, I mean advocates of some sort of "revolutionary" change. His staffers' rhetoric was divisive from the very beginning of the campaign, and prior to it, even.

Fortunately, Democratic voters understood and voted for Biden, once he had shown that he could win a state with a serious margin. Once that happened, a number of other moderate candidates dropped out and endorsed Joe. Then, the voters responded in an unmistakable way in the ensuing primaries.

Now, as the primary season continues, Sanders has an opportunity to lead his supporters to support Biden. If he will do that, victory in November is certain. If he will not, it is less certain.

His staff, however, will continue follow its "revolutionary" path. More's the pity.

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TomCADem

(17,719 posts)
17. Here is David Sirota Today Using Pandemic To Attack Bernie's Critics
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 03:26 PM
Mar 2020

You can't make this up. Here is Bernie's Senior Advisor, David Sirota, using the COVID-19 pandemic to attack critics of Bernie Sanders saying, "12 days ago, as a lethal pandemic enveloped the planet, the “raging controversy” dominating American politics and political media was about whether or not some tweets and emojis were too mean." In so doing, he also takes a thinly veiled shot at complaints about Bernie supporters using snake emojis to refer to Elizabeth Warren:


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Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
15. Sanders needs to get his crap together and
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 03:06 PM
Mar 2020

join in with Biden and set up a shadow Democratic Administration with people who can hit the ground running after January 1st. He sure as hell is not bettering his case,only digging himself a deeper hole.

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C Moon

(12,525 posts)
16. He's grasping at straws now. He knows she's not going to back him,
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 03:23 PM
Mar 2020

so he's lashing out like a rabid animal.
Remember when his camp said Sanders would consider Warren for the VP spot.
What changed?

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Thekaspervote

(34,411 posts)
20. I can't even put into words how I feel about that guy!!
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 03:58 PM
Mar 2020

What a total waste

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Gothmog

(153,882 posts)
21. Sirota is too toxic to travel with the sanders
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:54 PM
Mar 2020
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Cha

(304,720 posts)
25. All they have is name calling like this.
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 04:02 PM
Mar 2020
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ms liberty

(9,788 posts)
26. And Sen Warren dropped out of the race after Super Tuesday.
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 04:28 PM
Mar 2020

Why repeating old news?

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