Did Bernie speak out against tRump speaking at the NRA?

[JCanete]

43. not sure why it matters. Democrats and liberals, all of them have criticized trump consistently for

just about everything he has done. Sanders has been a very vocal critic, and people who want to pretend that he has more bad things to say about democrats than Trump haven't actually been listening to him.

Trump is shitty. We kind of expect him to do shitty things. That doesn't mean we let off of him and let those things start to seem normal in the public domain, but by and large people in the public domain also know he's shitty, and nobody is letting up.

When it comes to trying to provide a different guideline or rule-book for politicians who we do like and do want to vote for, it matters to have a discussion about what that should look like. It matters that the public sees that we care about these things and we care about the appearance of propriety, AND that the voices of liberal ideals aren't just party hacks. If nobody has criticism for one's own side, especially when there are things worth criticizing that people know about, that just undercuts all credibility. People won't hear us if we do that. It can't be that not speaking ill of other democrats decisions is part of the bargain with a big tent, because that means that at some point, there is nothing we can speak ill of. That stops sounding like honesty...

and yes I know, the republicans have no problem doing this, but they have the advantage of corporate media, and they have the advantage of an entirely "differently" informed base weaned on the worst of that corporate media, and they have the advantage of us not offering a clear enough contrast -in the context of that corporate media of false equivalences----to make ourselves a clear beacon in that darkness. Because the playing field isn't even, we have to be far better, unimpeachably better, always.