Notices tagged with bernie
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Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2020 08:30:58 UTC 
Matthew Davidson
I don't understand why people expect that when "capitalist to my bones" Warren drops out she will endorse #Bernie. She didn't endorse him in 2016. She's a pro-regulation Clinton Democrat (i.e. a moderate Republican). She's trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt, not New Deal FDR. She has a plan to fix every little thing that's wrong with the status quo and get it back on the road again before you know it. Revolutions, however modest, are not her bag, baby. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/34501 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2019 11:45:34 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"Anybody can have a rumpled suit, but there is a real art to the rumple." #q #Bernie Sanders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5avtfMXeh40 -
bob (smithums)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 01:38:10 UTC 
bob
#Bernie & #DSA style leftists have been conspicuously quiet about trade policy since #Trump's win. Shows how politically dangerous it is to be even remotely associated w/him. Pre-2016 election, the left was vocal in its opposition to Free trade & support of policies like tariffs.
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Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 14:04:34 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@smithums Nope. Despite having Stephanie Kelton on his campaign team, and therefore knowing better, #Bernie has (like Jeremy #Corbyn) to date publicly remained a staunch money-grows-on-rich-people fiscal conservative. So full employment isn't possible until we make wealthy people wealthy enough to a) employ the unemployed, or b) be taxed, the (false) prerequisite for the government employing the unemployed. Hopefully #AOC has just administered a helpful kick up the backside. #JG #MMT -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Feb-2019 13:11:21 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@strypey This is so revolting it could have been published in the Guardian. The idea that we should yearn for Blairite/Clintonite "moderates" is absurd, given that the alleged left-wing extremists are themselves so neoliberal. #Bernie is an avowed fiscal hawk, #Corbyn and McDonnell long ago committed themselves, in the event of #Brexit, to effectively pretend that they are still bound by the austerity shackles of Maastricht and the Stability and Growth Pact, and #AOC is currently championing that most neoliberal of dehumanising abstractions, "human capital". The new school is still too old school for the problems we face. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Feb-2019 07:02:25 UTC
Matthew Davidson
A world with elected representatives who were intelligent, articulate, well-meaning, but often disappointing, would be a huge step up for us as a species. Huge. Imagine #Bernie in the #US, #Corbyn in the #UK, and in #AU, erm… ah… let me get back to you. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Feb-2019 06:56:21 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Years ago I read an article quoting someone who had moved to Vermont, not in order to be able to vote for #Bernie Sanders, but in order to live in a place where the people voted for someone like him. I would like to live on a planet where the citizens of the most powerful nation voted for someone like him. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 06-Oct-2018 13:45:51 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#Bernie leading from the grassroots: “We changed the office around to a television station, Sanders Broadcasting. You know, we do our agitation and we rally people.” http://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/19146 https://www.youtube.com/user/SenatorSanders/videos #US #2020 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 01-Oct-2018 07:21:12 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#Liz Warren would be an excellent veep to #Bernie as president - would actually bring some sense of purpose to the job for once, but she disqualified herself as too centrist to be president when she endorsed #Clinton in 2016. ("She's a fighter!" Yeah, well that's kind of a minimum requirement for a politician; I think you're setting the bar a bit low there.) The last thing the #US needs is #Obama II. http://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/18968 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 06-Sep-2018 08:23:50 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#LOL: "Bernie Sanders has introduced the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (STOP BEZOS) Act, which will force any corporation with more than 500 employees to reimburse the government for any workers whose wages are so low that they end up on food stamps, national school lunch/breakfast programs, Section 8 housing or Medicaid." Sounds like @rms is ghost writing #Bernie's backronyms. https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/stop-bezos.html http://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/18097 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2017 03:25:33 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#DNC tell-all book reveals #Clinton campaign rigged primaries against #Bernie, surprising precisely nobody. http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/elizabeth-warren-dnc-rigged/index.html (via #BoingBoing)
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