Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" - Oliver Cromwell

Sanders has two choices:

1 - Join the team
2 - Contribute to the demise of the USA and our world

Join the freaking team!

to get even with all those nasty Biden folk, and the country and planet be damned.

Thank you for being so honest.

That kind of negative behavior?

oath of office again? And, I have always believed that Sanders failure to help Clinton sufficiently in the General was part of the reason Trump was elected. If our positions were reversed, Biden would have dropped out and thrown his support behind Sanders...you know, I voted for Bernie in 16 in Ohio,but I have come to despise him.

guy isn't the nominee. Unbelievable.

It is why I hate Bernie almost as much as I hate Trump and I revile most of his supporters nearly as much as well.

I do not approve of the attacks on Sen. Sanders we see on DU. Nevertheless, bad behavior by some Biden supporters is no excuse of actions by Sen. Sanders acting contrary to his stated goal of defeating Trump.

That's rich, considering his bad behavior, the bad behavior of the idiot squad he calls a staff, and the bad behavior of the hordes of Bernie Bros is what's caused all this bad blood. You're something else. Seriously.

behavior,” doctoring videos, unleashing the likes of Nina Turner and David Sirota on Biden, failing to denounce Russian help, failing to reign in malicious, rowdy mobs—that’s some mighty negative behavior for you and it’s on Bernie.

Isn’t that precious.

Tell us how you ( and I ) really feel.

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It's totally legitimate to point out that Biden doesn't support Medicare for All, even though most Democrats (and also most Americans period) do. That's not a smear. And progressives are going to keep fighting for M4A regardless of Biden being the nominee.

....the several plans that have been introduced - Warren's, Buttigieg's, Biden's, or Sanders'.

The Sanders campaign has falsely lumped all of them together and given the aggregate the label "medicare for all", which is absolutely NOT true.

What that text message contains IS negative crap.

The subtext is: Biden is afraid to challenge the status quo. Biden is weak on healthcare and doesn't have a good plan.

Sanders gives two reasons not to vote Biden in November. How can you not see a problem with this?

division. Dan, you side is playing with fire and will reelect Trump...so not worth it.

twice failed Presidential campaign.

Obamacare is a policy. Biden supports that, so why would he support Bernie’s failed campaign?? Time to face facts. No more excuses.

Aside from being infuriating... it's embarrassing to watch.

Sad to see that this will be his final legacy. This is what he'll be remembered and ridiculed for... for all eternity.

pronto. stat. immediately. forthwith.

Now is the time for everyone to come together and support a single candidate. Perhaps the DNC can step in and just declare Biden the winner so we don't have to waste all this time and money on primaries.

The time for debate and disagreement is after the election, when the politicians don't have to pay attention because they won't need our votes again for a while.

It's over. We're not republicans who are easily fooled.

why are we bothering to hold primaries in the remaining states?

Bernie doesn't want to get out of the limelight. That's why.

If the DNC steps in and declares Joe the winner, it will only give Bernie and his followers and excuse to bay at the moon some more about how the system is fixed against him. I guess it was fixed against him the entire time he's been in Congress, because he never got a damn thing done. Oh, sorry. He did manage to get 2 Post Offices named.

Sorry, but politics is about compromise...you can't always get what you want. He says himself he doesn't like that stuff. Medicare for All is a great selling point, but it's just not going to get through. Not yet. It takes something like 50 years for politicians to catch up with the public. For example, NORML was founded in 1970. Colorado & Washington went legal for recreational use in 2012. Do the math.

Bernie could have lectured all he wanted on Socialism vs. Communism, and it wouldn't have made any difference. Trump would have branded him a communist, photo shopped him into an old May Day Red Square photo, shown pictures of little old ladies in babuskas sweeping the streets and waiting in lines for bread, and cleaned his clock. We would have 4 more years of Trump, and the death knell of Democracy.

It's time to get over it and get behind Biden, as I'm sure the Bernie Bros would have demanded from the entire Democratic Party had he been the nominee.

Biden is the presumptive nominee...time for Sanders to go, and who cares about his 'issues'....we all know his 'issues'...absolutely no interest in Sanders.

He doesn't care about the nation. It's all about him.

A big Bernie fan just today posted on FB a really horrible attack on Biden. I reminded her that at this point the only candidate she's helping put in the White House is Trump. The sooner Sanders admits reality the sooner his minions will stop damaging our chances of regaining the White House.

I'm a Sanders supporter. I voted for Hillary in 2016, I will vote for Biden in 2020. Do you think trashing Bernie Sanders and insulting me helps?

Was all-in for Warren this time. I'm sorry you took offense at "minion" but I honestly don't understand what anyone posting what are basically personal attacks on Biden thinks they are doing at this stage. The folks I'm referring to were spreading old video of girls recoiling from Biden's attention. If "minion" has a negative connotation they have certainly earned it.

I don't think I "trashed" Sanders or those who have supported him; I'd rather see him in the White House than Biden. But it's over. The sooner Sanders can acknowledge that publicly the less damage his less discerning supporters will do.

was because you made a blanket statement implying that Bernie Sanders supporters are minions. Thats why I took offense.

"A minion is nothing more than a yes-man, a nameless faceless servant. It is a negative term implying that your only importance is from the person who orders you around. "



As fas as you saying "but I honestly don't understand what anyone posting what are basically personal attacks on Biden thinks they are doing at this stage."

I feel the same way about the Bernie Bashing threads on this site.


Maybe we should stop the infighting. We need to Unite and focus on ousting the Orange Shitstain!

And applause for common sense.

How can people expect us not to be angry when we have a presumptive nominee, continued primaries will endanger and even kill the vulnerable among our populace, and we've finally got a chance to remove this orange buffoon from office?

Every lame excuse Bernie and his minions have for keeping him in as some sort of leverage or spoiler can be countered by the overwhelming need we have to balance out trump.

And many of them are not telling the truth about their positions. See them on JPR, Twitter, or Facebook, and they'll say what they can't say here, that they think that Biden and Trump are the same and that either will support the corporate elite and nothing will change. I mean seriously, what about the Supreme Court? What about children in cages? I spend so much time wondering how anyone could actually support this awful president, but lately, I've had to allot part of that time to wonder how so many of these Berners can be willing to risk another four years of Trump and the damage that will cause.

I thought 2016 was the year that proved horseshoe political theory. 2020 really takes that honor now.

If Biden supporters continue to trash Sanders and his supporters.

So what you're telling us is we all should have sat home if Bernie was the nom, because the Berners went scorched earth both before and after the primaries of 2016 and they're doing the same thing now.

The absolute entitlement and, worse, the sheer double standards of nearly every Bernie supporter I've ever encountered on any platform, digital or not has been utterly nauseating.

I can say the same thing about Biden supporters

The media needs to call him out on it.

to continue to solicit donations. Money left over from any campaign can be used in future campaigns. That may be why some other candidates stayed in as long as they did.

This Bernie bashing is getting a little out of hand here. Thank you for a rational post.

but imagine the advantage of knowing your next campaign is already funded and you don't have to spend time on fundraising, you can focus 100% on the job.

Bernie has moved the Dem party in a progressive direction which I like. That being said, I am ready to get behind Biden and get rid of the Orange Shitstain! Although I support Sanders, I liked just about all the Dem candidates. Let's unite and take back the Presidency and Senate!

asking for donations to his favorite charities. Or yours, if you prefer.

No mention is made if he gets a cut from the donations made through his site, but while this is an unusual way to end a campaign, many losers ask for donations because of campaign debt.

Where's the beef?

They actually believe the bull shit that he is peddling. Just like the crap that he was in agreement with Trump on tariffs and trade agreements. Oh, remember how Trump promised that the had a plan that would provide affordable medial coverage for all. Oh, and how has those trade agreements worked out. They sure made the Chinese happy as the have been given a clear field to dominate the Asia trade. Sanders is a loser with a dismal track record in the legislature.

Biden is full of crap! He needs to just go away! All of his policies are bullshit! He is the worst politician ever!
Now vote for Bernie Sanders!






Don't like what I said about Biden? We don't like it either! These were all things said about Sanders in this and other threads.

and Biden was lagging way behind, would you be so forgiving of Biden staying in the race, running questionable ads about BS and his lack of legislative achievement, or misrepresenting his stand on gun control, or his lack of any real plan to get what he wants done through congress? I doubt it. But hey, roll on BS, roll on.

be on DU posting Biden bashing threads! Saying that all his policies are bullshit!

see here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287681606#post41

Just because you think Bernie Sanders is peddling Bullshit, doesn't mean it's a fact. Stay safe!

"Turn out the lights.... The party's over"

is leveraging for as much policy as he can push for at the convention. For all of us. He will campaign for Biden for sure. But if you think that the 'rump' people don't already have their negative adds in the queue and ready to launch, then I don't know where you have been for the past three-plus years. Bernie's campaign is asking for donations to charities and for down-ballot elections. We WILL and should vote for Biden when he wins. That is a no brainer. Bernie is out there helping us all. As he has done for decades.

Yet these Bernie bashing threads will continue. They just don't get it.

Platform planks that no one reads or gives a plugged nickel for?

Rules changes he hopes might make the field easier for his next run, despite his being twice soundly rejected by Democratic primary votes?

Perhaps promoting some angry demonstrations by the wreckers who stand as his delegates, to make sure Democrats are sorry for rejecting 'Bernie' yet again?

Do, please, enlighten us....





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

But he's in Vermont. That's a problem.

That was 100% on Bernie and his ego trip. If Bernie wants to help, he should drop out and endorse Biden. Sanders is literally putting lives at risk by going forward with a hopeless campaign.

Platform planks emerging from a convention mean nothing. They mean less than nothing. They are mere pious noise. They do not bind any administration in office, or drive its policies. These will be based the apparent political realities facing officeholders once sworn in. It has been ages since a party platform meant anything, the civil rights plank of the Democratic convention in 1948 being about the most recent instance that comes to mind. The claim Sanders stays in the contest to influence the platform may well be true, but if it is, the man is an idiot, the sort who would step out his door with his shoes on his head and his feet in his hat.




"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

and brutally honest. Don't go changin', The Magistrate!

Getting a couple of post offices named doesn't seem to have had much of an affect. I can propose asinine legislation that has the same chance of passing as the future of a snowball in hell. Sorry, but that just isn't the way a democracy works. Democracy requires compromise a quality that the Republicans are especially short of but the other extreme is just as much a failure.

Unfortunately, there is only one solution for the present stalemate and that is the defeat of the Republican Party that will force it to address their policies of endorsement of radical segments of the populous to gain their support. This includes religious factions that have no regard for the religious liberty and whose desire is to effectively create a theocracy little different than those that are responsible for much of the blood shed throughout Middle East. The Republican Party's candidates thinly veiled support of racists and attacks on voting rights is a disgrace that would have been met without right condemnation by previous party leaders. The party has drifted so far into the depths of darkness that it is doubtful that it even has the ability for resurrection for the grave it has dug. They must be forced into a position in which their voice of support of outright evilness is forever silenced and rejected as antithetical to noble bases upon which this nation was founded.

he wants people to continue to think about/talk about the issues that are important to him.

if he gets out now he's just going to fall by the wayside because the virus is such pressing news and changing daily

i'm thinking he will exit the race but he's going to wait to do it until this virus "levels off"

This place is sounding more and more like a cult. It's still primary season. Let the man have his say. Everyone gets their chance. Isn't that what we believe in? Sanders even said the person with the most votes should win the nomination. Do you believe this rhetoric really helps us. There are arguments that said it was this kind of thing that helped trump to win. The important thing is to be united when the nomination is finally secured. Until then, shit post like this doesn't help.

The Biden supporters need to slow down. The process isn’t over until the final vote is tallied at the Convention. Until then, Sen Sanders has every right to stay in the race until HE decides to suspend his campaign. Those claiming Bernie’s staying in is helping Trump, must not have as much faith in Biden as their bluster indicates. If his candidacy is solid, he will win regardless.

spending more time and effort attacking Biden than he does attacking Trump. Where is his sense of decency or loyalty? He shows more loyalty to Trump than he does to Joe Biden.

at this point. He may run for the Senate in 24...he filed as an independent and should not be allowed to run in the Democratic primary. Let's elect a Democrat in Vermont. After all, he has called for many to be primaryed including Pres. Obama. This election is going to be tough for fundraising and getting our message out. We need as much time as possible. Thus the primary must end and Biden begin the general... get out Sanders.

... For his campaign and surrogates to continue their scorched Earth philosophy in an effort to kneecap Biden and weaken him and divide the party on advance of the general election.

They didn't in 2016, and they don't now. It's all about their revolution, and the rest of us be damned.

He is making his points. He has every right too. He is doing nothing that every Democrat politician has done before. It is only March, let him have his say. We owe him and every body, their right to do so. Now if he loses the nomination and continues, then yeah he needs to shut up. Until then

his say and it was soundly rejected...time for him to go. And no Democrat stays in when the primary is over...no one ever has except for Sanders...but then he is not a Democrat. IMHO, no independent should ever run as a Democrat in any race.

to do it.

Biden c as n well step up now with statements oh compassion and diifferentate himself from Trump.

He could ask for compassion for homeless people and workers without cars who can't even get emergency cell phones charged because they cannot access restaurants anymore and libraries are closed.

When restaurants are doing drive thru only and supermarkets are now closed from 8pm to 8am how do homeless people relieve themselves?

If they get sick and have a dead cell phone they can't even call for help.

Biden can speak up now for all of these people . It won't hurt him in the general.

If you are a Biden operative press him to speak out now. You just make him seem weak when you say Sanders has to drop out before Biden can address our present reality.

These Bernie bashing threads only hurt our chances in November!

no matter whether it helps them or not or is popular or not, are the cult.

Uh huh...

Folks who have supported Democrats and the party their entire lives, they are the cult...uh huh

Damn


Cult...sigh

Let's not forget who the real enemy is here, the 'orange puss-filled anal blister on our democracy'. Let's stop with the circular firing squad, please.

So difficult to respond to such unintelligent commentary. I thought this site would be full of unbiased critical thinkers, with Democratic principles.

Generally as a result of unbiased and critical examination of the man's career and character....



"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

I don't know what you hope to accomplish with your post, but I hope you realize it will not possibly influence Sanders behavior.
It may, however, influence the attitude and behavior of the hundreds (thousands?) of Sanders supporters who will read it here, and that may negatively impact our campaign and the November election.

Decency and respect for the opinions of others is rarely a bad thing.

Is meaningless ranting at others not a form of narcissism?

Stress will do that

I am trying to remain calm cause nothing is in my control.

Yes I am stayin in. I am washings hands. Scrubbing things down. But beyond that not much more I can do. So I am trying not to fret too much.

them to make stuff, not FORCING them which he could do.

He kills more of us each hour he doesnt do his job, and each hour the GOP dont remove him are guilty of voluntary manslaughter.

No. I think it's best for him to stay in with nearly half of Democrats yet to cast their ballot.

up. That isn't going to happen.

Sanders could be talking to the Biden people to force in some of his policy ideas before dropping out, but they don't seem to be doing that, the Sanders campaign is still sending out negative and factually wrong information about Biden.

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he won't stop. We have to learn to ignore him. Once the attention goes, he'll return to whatever he used to do for Vermont or maybe he'll retire.

like he has to keep coming up with episodes.

He’s been beaten at the ballot box, so anything else is just for his show. Lights out, Bernie.

You did the best you could with the numbers you had but it just wasn't enough so time to concede to the one left standing.

You pushed for some policies that unfortunately our country just isn't quite ready for yet or cannot afford at this time. But if you moved the nation just a little in the right direction then you will have accomplished something and made a valuable contribution to American society. We will try to implement some other of your ideas that are financially feasible and that we have the political clout to enact. That's the best we can promise and the best you can hope for. Please don't fuck this up, Bernie...we have too much on the line this election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1440

Attack democrats ? Or does that only apply to one candidate?

I hope you do that before serving on a jury...oh wait.

Do you need them explained to you?

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