Every idea ever noted by man was Bernie's idea. No one has ever had ideas other than Bernie Sanders.

[TwilightZone]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141448913

(and about five hundred other posts)

[Walk away]

1. I think he stole most of his ideas from Karl Marx!

[workinclasszero]

10. LOL

[Cha]

2. burnie's not real.. he's a figment.

[workinclasszero]

7. Bernies a day late and a dollar short....again

[workinclasszero]

3. Count Every Vote Act of 2005.....Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 02/17/2005)

Count Every Vote Act of 2005
109th Congress (2005-2006)


Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 02/17/2005)
Committees: Senate - Rules and Administration

Introduced in Senate (02/17/2005)

Count Every Vote Act of 2005 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 with respect to: (1) requirements for voter verification and manual audit capacity; (2) accessibiliity of the voting system for language minority individuals in a manner that provides the same opportunity for access, participation, inspection, and verification as for other voters; (3) prohibition of the use of undisclosed software and of wireless communication devices in voting systems; (4) certification of software and hardware used in electronic voting systems; (5) security standards for manufacturers of voting systems used in Federal elections; (6) mandatory recounts; (7) study, testing, and development of best practices to enhance accessibility and voter verification mechanisms for disabled voters; (8) voter verification and audit capacity funding; (9) security consultation services; (10) casting and counting of provisional ballots; (11) minimum required voting systems, poll workers, and election resources; (12) remedial plans for States with excessive voter wait times; (13) absentee voting; (14) public reports on Federal elections; (15) training of election officials; (16) impartial administration of elections; (17) standards for purging voters; (18) election day registration and early voting; (19) voter registration and identification; (20) prohibition of certain campaign activities; (21) voting rights of individuals convicted of criminal offenses; (22) election day as a public holiday; and (23) the Election Assistance Commission.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/450

[LisaM]

5. This + 10,000!

Take that, Bernie. I hope you added it to the thread?

[workinclasszero]

8. You know I did!

[LisaM]

12. Yay!

[TwilightZone]

6. Nice. Conyers also had a bill the same year, as someone noted in the thread.

This is nothing new, of course. Sanders supporters sometimes act like the world began when he announced for president.

[workinclasszero]

9. IKR?

Bernie has done jack in his long political career and I'm sure we would get more of the same with President Birdie.

[LisaM]

4. Snort!

DU is waking up a little, I think, though. Lots of people jumped on that (and the one a couple of days ago suggesting Bernie tried to end apartheid while Hillary failed single-handedly to stop it while she was First Lady of Arkansas).

[TwilightZone]

15. That apartheid thread reminded me of the old (old, old) DU.

When people could engage in a little critical thinking and when mocking nonsense was still kind of the norm.

[Walk away]

18. That would mean mocking 90% of the main forums!

That's a full time job! Lucky that we are all paid operatives. We could make a fortune in "nonsense mocking" overtime!

[TwilightZone]

21. The "paid operative" stuff is just about the laziest excuse for avoiding discussion I've ever seen.

It's right up there with "nuh uh!"

[jmowreader]

54. You mean, you haven't been drawing nonsense-mocking overtime all this time?

Jeeze dude, where have you been? File form 1369-BP to get reimbursed!

[LisaM]

20. Me too! (I've been here since 2001)

It inspired me to go look up an old favorite:




http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5330132

[TwilightZone]

26. "No, I may not consume thy comestibles nor thy potables! BEGONE!""

I hardly ever use this term unless I'm being sarcastic, but OMG, that's hilarious!

I somehow missed that one. It was probably during one of my various self-imposed exiles from DU.

I'm not sure how many different ways something can be explained to someone, but DU tried them all in that thread. Too funny.

[LisaM]

28. I don't drink with YOU!!!

Last edited Fri May 13, 2016, 04:10 PM - Edit history (1)

I laughed myself silly over that yesterday and I've re-read that danged thing half a dozen times.

[sufrommich]

39. One of the most hilarious DU threads ever.

I remember it well.

[Quayblue]

40. Lol!

I am literally lmao @ my desk.

[mcar]

47. That thread is a classic!

It should be in the DU hall of fame (or shame).

[Agnosticsherbet]

11. Pyramids, yes, they were his idea.

Clintonian Pharaohs stole them.

[Agnosticsherbet]

13. And don't get me started about Stonehenge and Clintonian druids.

[Walk away]

19. Bernie was the first one to paint his face Blue!!!!

[Agnosticsherbet]

31. LOL

[livetohike]

14. I think this thread needs some photoshopping!

Thanks for the laughs everyone. I need them today.

[George II]

16. Among others:

"Mr. Watson — Come here — I want you."

"I have not yet begun to fight"

"Give me liberty or give me death"

"Four score and seven years ago....."

"Ask not what your country can do for you...."

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself"

And one of the more disturbing:

"I shall return"

[okasha]

51. "It was a Russian inwention."

[Starry Messenger]

17. Like the post office banking.

Widely touted to be Bernie's idea--except Elizabeth Warren talked about it years ago. http://www.thenation.com/article/why-we-need-bank-post-office/

[LisaM]

22. Gad, he's a piece of work

For one thing, you can actually already buy money orders at the Post Office and transact business through a P.O. box, so it's hardly even a reach.

[Starry Messenger]

25. He just came out against Prop 13 in CA, which made me laugh myself sick.

Progressives have been working on reforming that piece of law for ages and Mr. Bandwagon just figures this out a month before our primary. Gee, thanks, Mister!

[workinclasszero]

60. Wow

I guess when you spend decades in Congress with nothing to show for it....

Well Mr Progressive did protect big gun manufacturers from lawsuits and voted down the Brady bill 5 times, can't forget that crap.

...you and your followers just have to invent your progressive credentials.

[savalez]

23. LOL

[SunSeeker]

24. LOL Exactly what I thought when I saw that pathetic post!

[savalez]

27. Following Sanders lead,

Abe Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

[shenmue]

29. Worship the Sanders

[Cha]

57. Don't @ your own peril

[workinclasszero]

62. Woe to you unbelievers!

[liberal N proud]

30. Didn't you hear, he was given Sainthood when he saw the Pope in the papal urinal

[Koinos]

33. Ah yes... Bernie Sanders, the patron saint of those the pope says need a psychiatrist.

[Cha]

58. I think mr & mrs BS were trying to push that but by then everybody had just about had

it with burnie and his search for the Pope.. including the Pope.

[Koinos]

32. Does he own the really dumb ideas too?

The problem with cults is that their "perfect world" happens to be a very small world. Everyone else lives somewhere else.

[TwilightZone]

34. Or the ones that clearly contradict the "message", like supporting the F35 and regime change in Iraq

Nah, nothing to see here. Move along.

[Koinos]

37. If you put on your Bernie-colored glasses, those ideas just disappear.

Like 639 pages of FEC violations:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/5/11/1525428/-FEC-releases-damning-639-pages-of-violations-by-Bernie-Sanders-campaign

Being a saint is one heck of a free pass.

[mcar]

35. Oh brother!

[sufrommich]

36. That may be one of the dumbest things I've seen in LBN.

I remember when LBN used to actually be late breaking news,now opinion sites Common Dreams are allowed. The forum hosts need to do their job and restore LBN to news only.

[Koinos]

38. "Common Dreams" should be renamed "Bernie Daydreams."

That site has left the realm of logical discourse.

[LisaM]

41. Yes, they were always a little fantasyland, but I liked the site

It's long since departed the reality train, though.

[TwilightZone]

42. There are a lot of websites I liked a lot more before this election season....

Crooks and Liars, Salon, etc. They've all been swarmed by the same crowd as DU. A lot of the posters are even the same.

[Koinos]

43. I'm disappointed that a number of progressive sites I like have chosen to drink the Bernie kool-aid.

Bernie has done a lot of harm to what is genuinely valuable about the progressive movement.

In my very humble opinion, Martin O'Malley, a life-long Democrat, was a better messenger for progressive ideas. He was not anger-driven.

But we go on, as best we can.

[LisaM]

44. Bernie has really poisoned the water.

I suppose he was always like that and we just never noticed it before. What I don't get is the total fanaticism of his supporters, who ignore that many good progressives have been fighting for the same ideas for decades. They seem absolutely frantic about the election as being a last hope.

[TwilightZone]

45. A lot of them are political neophytes.

That's one explanation. I've had conversations with Sanders supporters who didn't know that there's a Congressional Progressive Caucus in Congress - with, shocker!; real, live, actual progressives - even though Sanders is himself a member. Those that do know it exists don't realize that those aren't the only progressives in Congress. There are a lot of them. Just not enough.

A lot of his supporters are independents (as they will never stop reminding everyone) that are so impressed with their independent status that they haven't ever bothered to learn anything about politics, politicians, or political history. And, yet, they know it all.

[BootinUp]

49. Bernie is their perfect candidate, details? Don't worry just be angry! nt

[okasha]

46. Have a look at the Bernie at Pine Ridge thread

Not one of the Bernsters knows what happened there 43 years ago, or why it's important. (One thinks it had to do with cannabis, which is just pathetic.)

They don't know a damn thing about the history of civil rights conflicts unless they can fit BS into it.

[TwilightZone]

50. Or what life has been like there in the four decades since.

I spent some time in my 'formative' years in and around Pine Ridge and the other reservations in central/western SD. My grandfather had a job that required a lot of travel and interaction in that part of the state, and I often went with him. I was already predisposed to being a liberal at a very young age, but those experiences further shaped my views.

Anyone who believes the ridiculous stereotypes about Native Americans (or, perhaps worse, knows nothing about the history, how they got there, and why many of them stay) should go live there for a month, assuming they'd make it that long. I think it would fundamentally change how they view poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and myriad other issues. We can start with the Libertarians.

[okasha]

52. I swear to Coyote,

I have trouble telling the Bernies from the Bundys.

I wish Bernie and his minions would just go back to ignoring us NDNs as they've done for the last forty years.

[NurseJackie]

48. And he coined the phrase "Love Trumps Hate™"

It's his! All his! Nobody else can use it without giving proper credit and attribution.

[Whimsey]

53. Hillarycare

And of course Bernie voted against Hillarycare back in the 90's when he was a representative, because it was not universal care. Twenty years later he votes for Obamacare - guess he finally realized universal care would only be achieved in babysteps. But still did not care that he set the movement back twenty years.

Now he wants to get credit for implementing universal care even though real democrats have been working on it for decades! Give that credit to Hillary - she was the forerunner of the movement!

Give me pragmatism any day!

[fleabiscuit]

55. I'm never going to forgive Sanders

For cutting away from the last 65 seconds of the '68 Raiders / Jets game to show Heidi!

[Cha]

56. lol

[charlyvi]

59. There was no Big Bang.......it was the Burnie Bang!

Created all the voters in the universe!

[TwilightZone]

61. Just the independent ones.

haha

[savalez]

63. The wheel?

Yep, that was Sanders.

[skylucy]

65. savalez...After reading the link and all the BSers comments, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Then I found your cartoon and comment. Thanks!

[savalez]

66. That's my job here. :)

Comedic relief and the occasional intelligent discourse (and I do mean occasional!).

[wisteria]

64. LOL, so like them.