I've tried to be positive on Bernie, but this latest tweet is shocking

[cherryinpa]

Dem establishment is NOT equal to GOP.

No way.

I urge him to delete this tweet.

If not, then tomorrow DNC must come out and disqualify Bernie (and do the same to Bloomberg while we’re there).

[apcalc]

1. Appalling imo

[madaboutharry]

2. It is very insulting.

[David__77]

3. The DNC "must?"

I guess people can protest against Tom Perez.

[Codeine]

4. I'm not shocked. nt

[the berner]

5. must cluch my pearls

[uponit7771]

7. Or he could denounce outside involvement helping his campaign the second he found out?

[wisteria]

26. Exactly.

[NJCher]

33. yeah, hot damn, we sure wouldn't want any outside interests competing with....

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...banker Roger Altman, chairman of Evercore and former a former Clinton administration official, and South Carolina lawmaker Dick Harpootlian, who each gave $250,000. Democratic megadonor Bernard Schwartz, chairman of BLS Investments and a top supporter of the Clintons, gave the PAC $100,000. Boston Red Sox chairman Thomas Werner gave $75,000, and financier Blair Effron, previously a major supporter of Kamala Harris, gave $50,000."

or this:

Nearly $1 million of DMFI's funds came from Stacy Schusterman, the chair of Samson Energy Company, while another half-million dollars came from Gary Lauder, a venture capitalist from the Lauder cosmetics family.
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Link.

[uponit7771]

35. False equivalence noted, those are super pacs and Biden's been honest. You go a point about someone

... being dishonest with SP but Biden's not shown himself to be that person.

CU was a SOB

[NJCher]

36. try to put a little less effort into your post

maybe you could just do one long acronym or initialism.

[uponit7771]

37. Yeah, you get the point ... not a good move for Sanders

[UniteFightBack]

9. Yeah you 'cluch' all you want because you got no defense of this. You like this. This is a place

for Democrats and their establishment.

[the berner]

10. I need no defense of this

I support Bernie. Is that a crime now?

[the berner]

14. ok have a good night

[Skittles]

20. they're so freaking obvious now

WTF

[Paka]

21. Here it is.

[wisteria]

25. If you cannot see the significance of this, you are no Democrat.

This is serious.

[uponit7771]

6. What is he thinking !??!

[Deero]

8. When it becomes more and more clear

That a candidate is going to need to get the support of super-delegates to reach a majority at the convention, why does it seem like a good idea to write a tweet about them like this?

[k2qb3]

11. Do you understand why Trump happened?

I mean the whole arc of his campaign? How he captured the nomination and then the presidency by presenting himself as something other than? I don't think he's equating the two.

This is actually a smart play from Sanders.

Who's going to fail to vote against Trump over this? Nobody.

There's a massive disenfranchised vote out there.

The middle isn't in the middle, it's equidistant and all over the map.

[StevieM]

15. No matter what people want to claim, Trump happened because of James Comey.

He dominated that election from start to finish.

[BigmanPigman]

23. Bingo!

[NJCher]

34. that's ridiculous

repeat: There's a massive disenfranchised vote out there.

They want to see the "establishment" toppled.

That is why they voted for Trump. Trump takes jabs at the institutions but he doesn't improve them.

Bernie will improve them.

[wisteria]

30. People don't want Bernie's Revolution

And, if he doesn’t like the party he is running to represent, he should not be it’s candidate.
Let him run as an Independent.

[kellytore]

13. Bernie has not changed. He has always been an opportunist.

[showblue22]

16. +1

[Cha]

17. not shocking to me..

[cwydro]

40. I think he wants to be president in the worst way.

And I don’t mean that as an expression of speech either.

[SunSeeker]

18. Yup. Bernie appears to have violated the pledge that allowed him to run in our primary.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-signs-dnc-loyalty-pledge-i-am-member-democratic-n979696

[EveHammond13]

29. this should be an OP

[MontanaMama]

19. +!

Get BS the fuck out. This is ridiculous hubris.

[EveHammond13]

28. +1

[RandySF]

22. Doesn't matter

All we can do at that point is to save our House majority.

[wisteria]

24. It is shocking, and angers me.

If he doesn’t explain this and apologize for the impression it leaves, he should not be a candidate in the Democrat Party.

[EveHammond13]

27. +1

[Ellen Forradalom]

31. Agreed. Is he out or in?

Make up your mind, Bernie.

[Warpy]

32. He didn't actually say they were

The Orange Blob was a monkey wrench into their entrenched party structure.

Sanders sees himself as a Molotov cocktail into ours.

When you look at the party over the last 40 years (and more), you notice the leadership took a definite jump to the right. While they weren't as crazy as the GOP at any stage of the game, they did make themselves far less attractive to most people. They also started and followed the insane policy of supporting candidates in the safer districts instead of backing people who might have had a shot at unseating some of the real crazies, had they enjoyed support.

Don't forget, Koch money was funding the conservative wing of the party.

Personally, I find this year's run a bit excessive, 2016 saw most of his policies adopted. I doubt Warren would have much of a chance had he not blazed that lefty trail. Also, Klobuchar isn't nearly as conservative as she comes across, her voting record is quite impressive.

Bottom line, don't waste your time on misreading tweets and hating candidates over them. It's self defeating.

Quote them as accurately as possible and remember, we're in for a wild ride of hacked accounts and Deep Fake videos this time. Putin will be up to his usual tricks and Farcebook wiill be chockablock full of deceptive bullshit.

[honest.abe]

38. Agreed. However I wonder what compelled him to write that.

Hes been doing well in most all the polling lately and appeared to be headed towards having a good shot at winning the nomination. He must have known it would unleash a shit storm. Why now when it seems things are going so well for him?

I’m thinking he must see some problems ahead and that he may have peaked and can’t get over that 30% barrier and needs to shake things up again. Unwittingly he may have woken the bear.

[Gothmog]

39. #BernieKnew

Link to tweet

[kcr]

41. That he still tweets shit like that after the news of Russian involvment broke

He either has spectacularly bad judgment or...