"If I can't have it, you can't either," mentality that he pulled in 2016.

If not him, no one. and he projects that sentiment to his supporters.

I wonder if a democratic challenger in the senate primaries could beat him? I wonder how deep his support is in Vermont.

BS doesn't really mean this.. because if bowing out gracefully would help defeat trump.. he's not going to do it. Even with a Global Pandemic Lethal Virus enveloping the World.

N/t

...for the way he sat in the stands at OUR 2016 convention with a look on his face like he was smelling the shit that was in his depends.

Back Bench Bernie is all about HIM. While he has an oft expressed disdain for the Democratic Party, if he really were a patriot he would take his collection of $27 checks and shuffle his crusty & wrinkled old ass off to Vermont o that ex VP Joe could turn his focus to Dolt45.

RESIST

A voice of truth!

As posted in another thread, here's my comment to the DNC. We need to bombard them and force them to take action.

"The Bernie Sanders campaign is circulating rape and abuse stories about Joe Biden. They have been going too far in sabotaging Biden and broadcasting lies about him for this entire campaign.

I am imploring the DNC to contact Sanders and his campaign surrogates and, in no uncertain terms, tell them to back off and start supporting Joe Biden for President.

We don't need another four years of Trump because a sore loser tried to bring the house down on his way out. We've already been through that, and the devastation we are living with today is the result."

It's time to flood the DNC and let them know they've got to put a stop to this, now.

https://democrats.org/contact-us/

for expulsion. BS knew full well the kind of people he was hiring, and I have no doubt, it was by design.

scorched earth Backfired!

nail on the head but you've outdone yourself this time. It's brilliant!

At this unique juncture in American history, it seems that if Sen Sanders dropped out of the race NOW, and initiated a full-throated and robust support of VP Biden and the Democratic Party, that THIS would be what Rump and the Rumpers MOST fear for this electoral cycle.

But the facts remain that day by day, he steadfastly refuses to do so, and that day by day, his surrogates engage further in bashing the presumptive candidate.

It therefore seems clearer every day that one could have good reason to think that Sen Sanders is not interested in helping the party, that he so blithely appropriates for his personal gain and aggrandization, defeat the most clear and present menace to our country and our world.

The true character of the great man

K&R

What he doesn't seem to understand is that the delegates would then align behind someone else, not behind Sanders.

We can’t forget, Bernie is not a Democrat by choice and his behavior has been detrimental to the Democratic Party.

and even have been at times incompatible with the principles of democracy. We the people elect some among us to power; his attempt to take a presidential nomination against the will of the people should always have permanently disqualified him from consideration. A huge red flag among many in a seeker of power..

After witnessing Sanders' presidential campaigns, once again abetted by Russia, I'm greatly relieved that Democrats have early on chosen to retire him back to the senate, where as 1 out of 100 potential for misuse of power is comparatively very weak.

The man is just pathetic & disgraceful now.

both deliberately and by association, and those who haven't changed their minds by now that he's the best "we" have to offer certainly aren't going to, so if that were all...

As it is, we'll just have to deal with whatever he and his big backers attempt before he finally leaves our party stage and renounces his membership again. I'm glad those paying attention (Sanders generated a lot of alarm around the planet) have once again had a chance to see all the honorable liberal progressive Democrats who made us proud and how strikingly different they are in very important ways.

The party has been way too soft, walking on eggshells about Bernie, and should've gone in hard on him a long time ago.

His hardcore voters hate Dems and will never vote Dem; it doesn't matter if we kiss their asses or not, it's not going to work, and it only emboldens them to keep damaging Biden and the party like they did to Hillary.

The consolidation of rank-and-file Dem voters behind Biden IMO has as much to do with the Bloomberg camp and James Carville 'going hard' on Bernie during the week leading up to SC and Super Tuesday - as it had to do with Clyburn/Pete/Amy endorsements.

After the FL/AZ/IL primaries gave Biden an insurmountable lead, the party should've gone to Bernie and told him to drop out and endorse Biden, and if he failed to do this and instead wanted to make trouble then the party would have no choice but to unleash the oppo book (largely unused) against him and his wife.

Dems have been too soft and it's coming back to bite us - again.

if Bernie is not the nominee.

I am not able to conceive of what leads to that kind of thinking.

But there are some people who find government chaos exhilarating. And then there are those of us who want to see a competently run government of people who are able to effectively govern. The ideology of destruction of our system is dangerous. Yes, there are things that need to be changed -- healthcare, for example -- but it can be done without burning down the entire structure.

It's his decision and he can't just say its some supporters who are out of control.

Sanders had a choice: Statesman or Spoiler. Unfortunately, he chose the latter, be it ego, stubbornness, whatever. He's failed to control his surrogates on social media and frankly, the excuses have always been lame, particularly when the biggest lies and smears come from his own senior management team.

Kicking Trump and his odious enablers to the curb in November is the only thing that matters. Has been from the start. Anyone who hampers the effort is not working for the benefit of the American public, let alone the Democratic Party.

This is one of those 'you're either with us or agin us' moments. There's no in-between.

His enmity toward Democrats is lifelong, the Republicans seemingly existing mainly to him as a means of insulting Democrats through comparison and blaming them for everything the Republicans do. As one of the lifelong liberal Democrat he despises, I do believe his attitudes are bizarre and irrational, and I seriously doubt he could change if he wanted to. He never has.

But in addition to his grand visions of saving the nation from us, the day Sanders genuinely conceded would be the day his base turned on him -- as they did when he pretend-endorsed HRC in 2016, but worse -- and then abandoned him. The media spotlight on him would be turned off. Russia, well I don't know what they'd do, but at very least they'd decide he was no longer a useful asset and turn off their assistance. And he'd return to the self-created backwater of his senatorial office to finish out his last term, where he himself has said he believes he's already wasted over 28 years.

Reason enough for a demagogue with, I believe, delusions of being the only person he's ever known who's right, to cling to the national stage all by itself.