Mon Sep 18, 2017, 04:12 PM

Short Term Memory Loss is Epidemic on DU

I often wonder what it is like to wake up every day and be struck afresh by the fact that a certain Senator who is very progressive and works hard with the Democrats for progressive policies is not actually a member of the Democratic party.

Like Drew Barrymore in 50 First Dates, they awake this to factoid every day, and are so gobsmacked by it, they feel they need to post it whenever the Senator is mentioned. And sometimes when he is not!

The best we can do for our afflicted friends is to gently remind them that we all already know this fact, and that even though it seems like it is of paramount importance, the rest of us don't actually give a shit.

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Short Term Memory Loss is Epidemic on DU (Original post)	ProfessorPlum	Sep 2017	OP
Auto trash by keyword works well for me.	Kaleva	Sep 2017	#1
I've used more of a "ignore this amnesiac" approach, which has quieted down much	ProfessorPlum	Sep 2017	#4
I've done that since DU came back up after the election	Warpy	Sep 2017	#15
a good rule	ProfessorPlum	Sep 2017	#17
Apparently there's a lot of Hillary vs. Bernie fighting going on	Kaleva	Sep 2017	#78
What is FFR and PPR? NT	EllieBC	Sep 2017	#107
Flagged for Review and Posting Privileges Revoked	Warpy	Sep 2017	#108
Thanks!	EllieBC	Sep 2017	#109
Yes it does work rather well	tymorial	Sep 2017	#51
The memory will come back if a certain someone thinks he'll get to run as...	brush	Sep 2017	#98
+1000	stonecutter357	Sep 2017	#116
Thank You!	Leith	Sep 2017	#2
Those are the only two explanations I can think of	ProfessorPlum	Sep 2017	#3
3)	Skittles	Sep 2017	#10
the point is proven	ProfessorPlum	Sep 2017	#16
you are not fooling anyone	Skittles	Sep 2017	#23
Would you have preferred he run as an independent in the general?	tomp	Sep 2017	#114
Yep N/T	tiredtoo	Sep 2017	#55
THIS!	bettyellen	Sep 2017	#27
Post removed	Post removed	Sep 2017	#28
###	NurseJackie	Sep 2017	#31
Only when convenient	CherokeeFiddle	Sep 2017	#61
Tribalism.	snort	Sep 2017	#93
I'm Not Any More Enlightened Than Anyone Else Here	Leith	Sep 2017	#106
Well said	Catch2.2	Sep 2017	#95
If you don't properly understand the issue, just come out and say so...	Blue_Tires	Sep 2017	#5
I think I more than understand it	ProfessorPlum	Sep 2017	#7
Unlike you, I do not lounge in its cushions.	Jim Lane	Sep 2017	#42
How very...poetic	NastyRiffraff	Sep 2017	#129
.	Lisa0825	Sep 2017	#6
I soooo agree with you	world wide wally	Sep 2017	#13
+1000	onecaliberal	Sep 2017	#74
I agree...	yuiyoshida	Sep 2017	#103
LOL	Skittles	Sep 2017	#8
LOL	ProfessorPlum	Sep 2017	#9
No, but the ones he is referring to can't figure it out. LOL. n/t	USALiberal	Sep 2017	#35
We've forgotten about all those attack ads Bernie ran about Hillary's emails.	Jim Lane	Sep 2017	#44
It was a primary, they aren't supposed to be nicey nicey	CherokeeFiddle	Sep 2017	#62
Post removed	Post removed	Sep 2017	#65
brilliant	ProfessorPlum	Sep 2017	#130
I gently suggest, you listen to his comments about the Democratic Party on the Sunday shows.	Demsrule86	Sep 2017	#11
I would say this, I saw the Connecticut Yankee Post and for you to use this is really a horrible	Demsrule86	Sep 2017	#12
Well, you know, there IS precedent	DFW	Sep 2017	#36
Accidental or unconscious, it is indeed in bad taste. Decency would indicate a self-delete.	ucrdem	Sep 2017	#105
You ask much. n/t	DFW	Sep 2017	#112
It makes me sick that another DUer would do this to one of our own...use her	Demsrule86	Sep 2017	#117
I was more than a little blown off my seat, too.	DFW	Sep 2017	#128
Or they're paid disruptors. They were used very effectively by Russian intel in 2016	Arazi	Sep 2017	#14
Bingo!	FuzzyRabbit	Sep 2017	#20
That's really the only explanation.	Ken Burch	Sep 2017	#24
I respectfully disagree. I apply Hanlon's Law.	Jim Lane	Sep 2017	#45
This.	Dave Starsky	Sep 2017	#26
You mean like creating this thread?	yardwork	Sep 2017	#64
People at TYT also remind people of it all the time. I see that you like them a lot.	Madam45for2923	Sep 2017	#18
Dear god, when will people figure this shit OUT!	Eliot Rosewater	Sep 2017	#29
All that unity! Ooooh... it tingles me!	NurseJackie	Sep 2017	#30
Today's fact?	MFM008	Sep 2017	#125
That certain Senator probably awakes with the very same gobsmacked reaction! "WTH am I not a	WinkyDink	Sep 2017	#19
This made me laugh	ProfessorPlum	Sep 2017	#33
Have you tried asking Bernie?	beastie boy	Sep 2017	#21
Which is more important,	FuzzyRabbit	Sep 2017	#22
Yup, when it comes to his voting record	TexasBushwhacker	Sep 2017	#79
I really don't give a shit what letter follows his name.	Mr. Evil	Sep 2017	#25
I like Bernie as a guy and as a progressive	packman	Sep 2017	#32
Divide and conquer is what the republicans and russians want. You are playing into it.	mucifer	Sep 2017	#34
Yes, fighting against the dividers	ProfessorPlum	Sep 2017	#37
Huh? I'm saying we should work together for common goals. The democrats, the democratic socialists	mucifer	Sep 2017	#88
LOL!!!	NanceGreggs	Sep 2017	#38
Not so funny, Nance. If only Ralph Nader HAD RUN and lost as a Dem in the 2000 primary	vkkv	Sep 2017	#56
Which has what to do ...	NanceGreggs	Sep 2017	#68
""had Bernie run as an independent, there wouldn't have been the huge rallies and the media	vkkv	Sep 2017	#72
Yes, I DO know that.	NanceGreggs	Sep 2017	#77
Sanders also helps the Democratic party	ProfessorPlum	Sep 2017	#59
Good points. nt	vkkv	Sep 2017	#63
Post removed	Post removed	Sep 2017	#70
Post removed	Post removed	Sep 2017	#76
The Democratic Party was already behind progressive policies	mcar	Sep 2017	#84
He's the "leader" of the party, according to some	mcar	Sep 2017	#67
Thanks professor	LiberalLovinLug	Sep 2017	#39
"the rest of us don't actually give a shit"	left-of-center2012	Sep 2017	#40
Post removed	Post removed	Sep 2017	#41
Bernie was NEVER a D	Omaha Steve	Sep 2017	#53
Because he said he was.	lapucelle	Sep 2017	#71
Be sure EVERY single time some DUer says he was never a D you post this	Omaha Steve	Sep 2017	#80
He told Chris Hayes in May 2017 that he is no longer a Democrat.	lapucelle	Sep 2017	#85
But then again his campaign told Bloomberg News	lapucelle	Sep 2017	#86
And then he told Chuck Todd yesterday that he is both	lapucelle	Sep 2017	#87
A Democratic Socialist with an Independent streak caucuses with Ds	Omaha Steve	Sep 2017	#89
He forgot the "democratic socialist" part	lapucelle	Sep 2017	#94
See below	Omaha Steve	Sep 2017	#96
You remembered it.	lapucelle	Sep 2017	#100
I think I figured it out.	lapucelle	Sep 2017	#91
He declared as a Democrat on an FEC	lapucelle	Sep 2017	#73
He also said the same thing to George Stephanopolis	lapucelle	Sep 2017	#75
Thanks for eliciting another manifestation of the circular firing squad	Blue Ridge Virginia	Sep 2017	#43
Up until Bernie	MuseRider	Sep 2017	#54
Post removed	Post removed	Sep 2017	#66
Amen.	BlueWI	Sep 2017	#83
Double Amen eom	Arazi	Sep 2017	#97
He was mean to Sec. Clinton.	Iggo	Sep 2017	#46
Funny! But true.. the primarys ARE OVER! We have more important things to AGREE on and	vkkv	Sep 2017	#48
Post removed	Post removed	Sep 2017	#50
True dat and a major source of current discord	Arazi	Sep 2017	#99
Здравствуйте	George II	Sep 2017	#104
Why are you so worried about...	Podkayne K	Sep 2017	#47
Short term memory problems? Blame it on the Kush consumed by DU members.	alfredo	Sep 2017	#49
Smarmy much?	Scurrilous	Sep 2017	#52
More like total amnesia.	democratisphere	Sep 2017	#57
Maybe Democrats would not have put forward a single payer health	applegrove	Sep 2017	#58
he's just a minor leader	heaven05	Sep 2017	#60
I will second all that you said. A Rec isn't enough to show my appreciation.	Curmudgeoness	Sep 2017	#69
I don't give a damn what Sanders calls himself.	NYC Liberal	Sep 2017	#81
Oh Brother!	ProfessorGAC	Sep 2017	#123
That is how I saw it, see it.	Eliot Rosewater	Sep 2017	#132
A couple of things about what you said:	George II	Sep 2017	#133
Great post	Gothmog	Sep 2017	#134
To the max	RandomAccess	Sep 2017	#82
Thank you Professor. nt	zentrum	Sep 2017	#90
Could it be because he's the loudest voice of a party he's not even a member of?!	UTUSN	Sep 2017	#92
Well, I don't give a shit that you don't give a shit ....	Persondem	Sep 2017	#101
This message was self-deleted by its author	LudwigPastorius	Sep 2017	#102
I like Bernie.	chwaliszewski	Sep 2017	#110
Teehee...	a la izquierda	Sep 2017	#111
yep	Warren DeMontague	Sep 2017	#113
Yes!	Raster	Sep 2017	#115
Stop being so defensive. nt	Trumpocalypse	Sep 2017	#118
fuck putin......	stonecutter357	Sep 2017	#119
When will someone remind us Trump used to be a Democrat?	IronLionZion	Sep 2017	#120
Until he is tried, convicted and sentenced for the crime of primarying Clinton...	Orsino	Sep 2017	#121
K&R..	disillusioned73	Sep 2017	#122
Short term memory is effective for up to 10 minutes.	Act_of_Reparation	Sep 2017	#124
Lots of passive agressive flamebaiting going on, too.	ehrnst	Sep 2017	#126
LOL	flamingdem	Sep 2017	#127
As I began to read this I thought not this shit again	LostinRed	Sep 2017	#131
A coping technique. They thought an orange, daughter lusting, sexually assaulting	LittleBlue	Sep 2017	#135
good advice	ProfessorPlum	Sep 2017	#136

Response to ProfessorPlum (Original post)

Mon Sep 18, 2017, 04:14 PM

Kaleva (34,008 posts)

1. Auto trash by keyword works well for me.

When the key words are in the OP.

Short Term Memory Loss is Epidemic on DU

1. Auto trash by keyword works well for me.

4. I've used more of a "ignore this amnesiac" approach, which has quieted down much

15. I've done that since DU came back up after the election

17. a good rule

78. Apparently there's a lot of Hillary vs. Bernie fighting going on

107. What is FFR and PPR? NT

108. Flagged for Review and Posting Privileges Revoked

109. Thanks!

51. Yes it does work rather well

98. The memory will come back if a certain someone thinks he'll get to run as...

116. +1000

2. Thank You!

3. Those are the only two explanations I can think of

10. 3)

16. the point is proven

23. you are not fooling anyone

114. Would you have preferred he run as an independent in the general?

55. Yep N/T

27. THIS!

31. ###

61. Only when convenient

93. Tribalism.

106. I'm Not Any More Enlightened Than Anyone Else Here

95. Well said

5. If you don't properly understand the issue, just come out and say so...

7. I think I more than understand it

42. Unlike you, I do not lounge in its cushions.

129. How very...poetic

6. .

13. I soooo agree with you

74. +1000

103. I agree...

8. LOL

9. LOL

35. No, but the ones he is referring to can't figure it out. LOL. n/t

44. We've forgotten about all those attack ads Bernie ran about Hillary's emails.

62. It was a primary, they aren't supposed to be nicey nicey

130. brilliant

11. I gently suggest, you listen to his comments about the Democratic Party on the Sunday shows.

12. I would say this, I saw the Connecticut Yankee Post and for you to use this is really a horrible

36. Well, you know, there IS precedent

105. Accidental or unconscious, it is indeed in bad taste. Decency would indicate a self-delete.

112. You ask much. n/t

117. It makes me sick that another DUer would do this to one of our own...use her

128. I was more than a little blown off my seat, too.

14. Or they're paid disruptors. They were used very effectively by Russian intel in 2016

20. Bingo!

24. That's really the only explanation.

45. I respectfully disagree. I apply Hanlon's Law.

26. This.

64. You mean like creating this thread?

18. People at TYT also remind people of it all the time. I see that you like them a lot.

29. Dear god, when will people figure this shit OUT!

30. All that unity! Ooooh... it tingles me!

125. Today's fact?

19. That certain Senator probably awakes with the very same gobsmacked reaction! "WTH am I not a

33. This made me laugh

21. Have you tried asking Bernie?

22. Which is more important,

79. Yup, when it comes to his voting record

25. I really don't give a shit what letter follows his name.

32. I like Bernie as a guy and as a progressive

34. Divide and conquer is what the republicans and russians want. You are playing into it.

37. Yes, fighting against the dividers

88. Huh? I'm saying we should work together for common goals. The democrats, the democratic socialists

38. LOL!!!

56. Not so funny, Nance. If only Ralph Nader HAD RUN and lost as a Dem in the 2000 primary

68. Which has what to do ...

72. ""had Bernie run as an independent, there wouldn't have been the huge rallies and the media

77. Yes, I DO know that.

59. Sanders also helps the Democratic party

63. Good points. nt

84. The Democratic Party was already behind progressive policies

67. He's the "leader" of the party, according to some

39. Thanks professor

40. "the rest of us don't actually give a shit"

53. Bernie was NEVER a D

71. Because he said he was.

80. Be sure EVERY single time some DUer says he was never a D you post this