Unprecedented Times Require An Unprecedented Response

[sandensea]

[George II]

1. Did he record that today?

[TheRickles]

2. A very powerful reminder of what our priorities should, and can, be.

[George II]

3. Just a reminder. The Senate was in session yesterday and today.

[TheRickles]

4. I'm not sure what you're implying here.

But if you mean to say that Bernie should have been at work in the Senate instead of filming videos, consider that it probably took him all of a half hour to read this speech - probably from his office, against a green screen view of that street scene. And then he went back to doing what he was apparently supposed to be doing.

Is that what you meant, or did I miss the boat here?

[George II]

5. I wouldn't say you missed the boat, but there were votes on the floor of the Senate....

....yesterday and today.

[TheRickles]

9. And did he miss those votes?

That's an important piece of information to include, if you're going to make implications/assertions like this.

[George II]

12. You can check here:

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/votes_new.htm

[TheRickles]

13. Thanks for the link.

But why didn't you just say so when I asked, instead of hinting and implying? You had the evidence to back up your assertion all along. Anyway, thanks - it's a good link to know about.

[George II]

15. Well, some here have taken umbrage (and more) when I point out the obvious, so I try not to be...

....too specific sometimes.

I'm glad you were able to find the answer to your question.

[George II]

17. By the way, there were six more votes today in the Senate.

[George II]

18. Double post, sorry. DU system is acting up these days.

[George II]

7. And?

[betsuni]

8. He should do his job.

[TheRickles]

10. So which important votes did he miss while he was filming this clip?

Surely you wouldn't be making an assertion like this without having some data to back it up....

[betsuni]

11. Where's the data to back up this:

"It wasn't that Donald Trump won the election, it was that the Democratic Party lost the election. We need a Democratic Party that is not a liberal elite but of the working class of this country; we need a party that is a grassroots party where candidates are talking to working people, not spending their time raising money for the wealthy and powerful."

"The business model, if you will, of the Democratic Party for the last 15 years or so has been a failure. Over the last 30 or 40 years the Democratic Party has transformed itself from the party of the working class ... to a party significantly controlled by a liberal elite which has moved very far away from the needs of the working families of this country."

"My own feeling is that the Democratic Party is ideologically bankrupt."

Etc.

[TheRickles]

14. This isn't the kind of data I was asking about.

George II provided the link to get this information in Response #12, above.

[betsuni]

16. And?