Bernie is missing from the filibuster, but he has had time to tweet

[Renew Deal]

Here are all of his tweets since the filibuster started. Lots of political revolution fantasies, but not a single tweet to support our Democratic senators that are working hard on a life and death issue. Not only is he MIA, but he's not nothing to say.

Bernie Sanders ?@BernieSanders · 1h1 hour ago

The future of our political revolution depends on you. Will you join us for a live online, video address?

Bernie Sanders ?@BernieSanders · 3h3 hours ago

This movement is sending a message to the billionaire class: You can’t have it all. This is our country too.

Bernie Sanders ?@BernieSanders · 7h7 hours ago

In my view, every worker in America should be guaranteed at least twelve weeks of paid family and medical leave.

Bernie Sanders ?@BernieSanders · 11h11 hours ago

We need real reform within the Democratic Party. And that means open primaries.

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders

[bravenak]

1. So? Nothing to help us out then?

Just fundraising for a ghost of a campaign...

[TheBlackAdder]

63. These petty and silly OPs are quite revealing, adding 11 to the scale of 1-10.

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There were already senate speakers, who were successful in their filibuster.

I guess Sanders should have told one of them to stand down, because he needed the floor more.



http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/orlando-nightclub-massacre/filibuster-ends-after-gop-agrees-allow-gun-control-votes-senator-n593396


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[aikoaiko]

2. I'm Ok with Bernie focusing on the closing issues of the primary.

Doing so may help more people than the filibuster in the long run.

[Renew Deal]

7. wow

30,000 people die per year from guns, but we need to reform the party.

[aikoaiko]

16. Yes. Closing "the terror gap" for FFL checks, the focus of the filibuster, is nice, but...

...I don't think we know of a single case where someone who was on the terror watch list actually bought a gun from an FFL and used it in a homicide or even another violent crime.

Mateen, the Pulse club shooter, wasn't on the list when he bought his firearms per Director Comey.

[Renew Deal]

17. So we need to wait for another 50+ people to die before you are convinced we should do something?

[aikoaiko]

21. No, I think we can close the "terror gap" ethically if we add some due process.

But the moment for Bernie to impact the party is a brief window and I want him to focus on that so that we have a better party in the future.

[Renew Deal]

23. The window has closed

The election is over. Democrats chose a different path than Bernie's. This debate matters. Figuring out how many super-delegates in 2020 doesn't.

[aikoaiko]

24. Only time will tell.

[KingFlorez]

11. What primary? The primary is over

With all due respect, open primaries are not going solve the problem of gun violence.

[rhett o rick]

36. And supporting the Big Corporations isn't going to solve the problem of gun violence either.

In fact it will make it worse. The Big Money billionaires that run our government love the disruption of terrorist attacks. It allows them to clamp down harder on our rights. Those that support Big Corporations don't support Democracy.

And I know you guys are really worried but the primary isn't over until the vote at the convention. Save your gloating until then.

[Hoyt]

40. But, you are pro-gun. Kick the problem down the road preserves your access to more gunz.

[aikoaiko]

42. I'm pretty sure whether Bernie shows up for the filibuster or not, the same outcome will occur.

Which is to say not much will happen in terms of reducing gun violence.

[Live and Learn]

46. Me too. nt

[arcane1]

3. You'll be so sad when you can no longer make up stupid shit to complain about

[Renew Deal]

9. Which part is made up?

[arcane1]

12. Your sincerity n/t

[Renew Deal]

13. Ahhh yes, and you accuse me of making things up.

[dgauss]

30. No kidding. What was the point here?

To portray Sanders as someone who is not very concerned about mass killings? He is too self absorbed in some self serving political fantasy?

What a very cheap and false thing.

[midnight]

4. Thank you for sharing these tweets.

[msanthrope]

5. His live, online video address should he from the Senate floor. nt

[Rose Siding]

27. Think it's illegal to campaign on the Senate floor

He almost announced there but had to be rushed outside when his camp realized it.

[tallahasseedem]

6. The revolution cannot interfere with bedtime.

Doncha know?

[Eric J in MN]

56. Sanders did a zillion campaign events over the past year

...marched in a vigil in VT for the Orlando victims on Monday, and met with HRC in DC on Tuesday.

He's in VT and tweeted in support of the filibuster yesterday from his Senate account.

[KingFlorez]

8. He should be there

But instead he's going "me, me, me".

[swhisper1]

14. he has a speech to prepare

[Demsrule86]

10. Hey Bernie is worried about banks...why guns don't matter

they are a distraction like abortion...go Bernie...please go anywhere ....but here.

[swhisper1]

15. gunsvotes in congress is futile theater

[marble falls]

48. Sad and true. There's been any number of bills put up regularly that Congress ignores and dithers...

over in conflict of the public's interest and the majority's wishes. The best way to get change is to change congress. We need to roll out the vote and quit counting on our currently out manned Democrats and progressives (at least on this issue). The Congressional and Senate elections are the ones we really need to be working on. Roll the bastards out and put the people's Congress in.

[Autumn]

18. .

[Renew Deal]

20. Is that the update from Burlington?

[Autumn]

25. In this mostly symbolic theater I applaud his absence. nt

[workinclasszero]

19. Here is a chance for Bernie to really do something great

for his fellow Americans and also a great time to help out other democrats and hes...MIA!

FAIL!

[redstateblues]

22. Bernie's solution to every problem? Break Up The Big Banks!

[Txbluedog]

26. Very one trick pony, that one isn't he?

[rhett o rick]

37. And the corporate wing of our party wants to combine the big banks into one big bank.

Monopolies uber alles.

[scscholar]

28. The most important thing in two generations for the Senate...

is happening now, and he is AWOL!

[AntiBank]

39. most important in 2 generarions??? give me a break

[R0ckyRac00n]

29. not true he tweeted this on his Senate account.

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/743126762121486336

[Petrushka]

51. Why do you want to confuse the issue with facts?

Thanks for the link.

[cloudythescribbler]

31. WHY OH WHY are the HRC backers CONTINUING to trash Bernie & supporters.....?

When after a very bitter primary season (recently I read a post suggesting that 2007-08 was worse on DU than this cycle, which as I remember is is not implausible) we Obama backers NEVER did anything like this to trash Hillary Clinton after he became the presumptive nominee. Sure there was the PUMA stuff, but it never gained traction, in part as the PUMAs were never given much to latch on to. It was simply political common sense -- and BELIEVE ME, there was plenty to be resentful about concerning the HRC 07-08 campaign for anyone who wanted to keep pouring salt into those wounds. But Obama and his backers were out to win. This time I'm not so sure when it comes to Hillary surrogates & supporters.

Both on DU and in other contexts, I see the need to put down Bernie (often as here there is the unavoidable suspicion that the target is really the (relatively) progressive wing of the Democratic Party and its agenda) and upbraid Bernie for what? For not dropping out? For TWEETING for God's sake? What Bernie is doing is crucial for the longer term goals of his campaign, which may seem like a perverse or presumably self-serving concern -- but HRC backers should be interested -- if seeking to really win in the general -- not in all this "so there" stuff at Bernie as in carefully setting the strategy for winning over the highest percentage of Bernie backers possible. This kind of crap, writ large, is worse than merely counterproductive -- it is toxic

I have supported Bernie since day 1 and continue to back him until he decides to end his campaign, which may very well not be till the Convention, for strategic reasons. I support that decision, if that is what he decides. He has also said he will support the Democratic ticket, though not definitively enough to satisfy some. I plan to vote for the Democratic presidential ticket in November whether or not Bernie is at the top of the ticket, and to urge at least those Bernie backers in swing states to do the same. But the approach of folks urging Bernie to drop out, or shut up, or 'tone it down' or whatever, when since March 16 they should have been thinkng strategically -- how NOT to alienate any more Bernie backers than necessary, but no. And it seems after trashing Bernie and his base, the stage is set for blaming the Left for any victory of Trump and the GOP in November, just like in 2000, though even less plausibly this time around

All the anti-Sanderista sentiment continuing to pour out can ONLY tend to alienate Bernie's base and help Trump -- and THAT IS OBVIOUS

[840high]

34. ...!100++++

[dgauss]

35. Excellent and thank you.

[rhett o rick]

38. I think they have nothing but bitterness. They deep down know that the Progressive Wing

stands up to the Big Money they've grown comfortable with so they lash out.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

41. They won't have to worry about the Progressive Wing for much longer - well except...

...during future election cycles. They'll worry then.

[Arazi]

45. +10000 eom

[marble falls]

49. Bang on. Without some unity and a new Congress a President Hillary will do no better than a ...

President Obama has done on more than just getting stupid weapons out of the hands of the murderous.

[peace13]

60. Hill supporters carry resentment, feelings of entitlement and dejection from 2008.

For eight long years it has festered. There is nothing that Bernie could do to please them. There are zero words that we can say to help them see who their candidate is. One can see it on the surface of so many posts. Anger can not be reasoned with.

[CorkySt.Clair]

32. ...

[Chan790]

47. He tweeted his support almost 13 hours ago.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2191406

[LexVegas]

33. Bernie knows where a lot of his support comes from. nt

[azurnoir]

43. Bit of a double standard where's Senator Boxer CA or Senator Leahy VT ?

or Senator Klobuchar MN?

[Number23]

44. The only thing better than the smackdown you gave to Sanders and his "RevoLUtion!11" is the

absolutely astonishing amount of floor stomping and temper trantruming you caused.

Mr. "Let's Change the Democratic Party by letting people who aren't Dems vote in its Primaries" can't even be bothered to show up for an incredibly crucial vote that Americans are screaming for, far more than those screaming to break up the banks. How very, very telling.

[Eric J in MN]

53. If HRC were still a US Senator

...and she were home yesterday, you'd say the same thing?

[auntpurl]

57. She absolutely would have been there.

Sensible gun reform is a top priority in her campaign. There is no doubt in my mind Hillary would have shown up for this historic and much-needed event.

[Eric J in MN]

58. In the extremely unlikely

...and extremely uncharacteristic hypothetical in which she were still a Senator and after a long presidential primary campaign she were at home in NY during this filibuster, would you criticize her for that?

[auntpurl]

59. If she'd lost her presidential bid and had no reason to be currently campaigning?

ABSOLUTELY, yes. Yes. In that event, she would be doing her JOB.

[Number23]

66. Look, it's obvious you're upset but posts like this are beneath everyone here.

There are alot of wise expressions about people constantly running around spouting "ifs" at people. My favorite is "if grandma had balls, she'd be grandpa." One of my favorite friends in college learned that from her grandmother and I can't even remember that girls' name but I still remember that phrase, that's how much of an impact it had on me.

If your entire argument is a bunch of "ifs" just save yourself the trouble. None of this is about Hillary. This is about Sanders and his sweeping proclamations of changing the world -- starting with the Dem primaries of course -- but who somehow can't be bothered to show up for important votes in his current (and future) job as a Senator.

[obamanut2012]

50. He voted against the Brady Bill several times

He refuses to suspend his campaign like Hillary did with Obama. Why is anyone surprised he isn't part of this bipartisan filibuster about gun violence and gun control?

[Eric J in MN]

52. Wrong. He has two Twitter accounts.

This is what he tweeted on his Senate Twitter account:

I stand with @ChrisMurphyCT to demand common sense gun safety. We can't allow guns to fall into the hands of people who shouldn't have them.

What sense does it make for people to be able to purchase military-style weapons designed to kill people? #Enough

If there is any silver lining to the terrible tragedy in Orlando, it is for us to bring people together to prevent violence of all kinds.


The weapon used in Orlando was legally purchased after a background check. Assault weapons like it should be outright banned.

https://twitter.com/sensanders/status/743245745994752000

[azurnoir]

54. Hillary 'supporter' Rebecca Traister tweets criticism of Bernie for NOT tweeting

https://twitter.com/rtraister

only goes to show......

[B Calm]

55. Thanks for posting. I agree with every Bernie tweet you posted!

[workinclasszero]

61. That's a pathetic failure of leadership on his part

[BobbyDrake]

62. Bernie is an embarrassment to progressivism. A one-trick pony with zero

care or concern for anyone outside of his core constituency. He needs to go away now.

[GeorgeGist]

64. Why so bitter?

Do you think it helps Hillary?

[brooklynite]

65. Just remembered: Sanders tried to get Murphy dropped from the Convention Leadership...

I hope this wasn't personal pique.