#bernie sanders

glibtannenbaum:

guerrillatech:

anythingbutwallflower-deactivat:

bernie in the wild(s)

Bernie was actually the other operative the whole time!

Watching tv with my mom, news segment talking about Bernie Sander’s new group movement called “Our Revolution”

First thing she says “that sounds very communist doesn’t it? eh comrade?”

And I just look at her very concern and say “our country was founded on revolution. I don’t understand what you’re talking about”

She quickly lost interest in the topic. This is someone who was neither for nor against Bernie. She knew I really liked him and voted for him and she didn’t try to talk me out of my views while she voted for a republican.

It’s a very odd feeling when your confronted by the propaganda your parents went through.

When I think of revolution, I think of the founding fathers. When she thinks of revolution in connection with Bernie she thinks of communist Russia.

Just goes to show the little, but important ways our generation is so different from our parents.

I will vote for neither Pete nor Bloomberg in a general election for the office of President of the United States of America. It would not matter anyway because I live in New York, but even if I were in a swing state, the same would be true.

I think the Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle skit on SNL the Saturday after the election of 2016 captures the essence of what Black people have been saying and feeling for decades, if not literal centuries about life in this country; and when I say literal centuries, I mean literal centuries of Black lives in the US.

The fact that a lot of you Hwite people just started to feel a slight draft of injustice in 2016 when Donald Trump was elected; the fact that you all were only incensed at something being so wrong at *that* time; the fact that you had to rise up and take action in the wake of the 2016 election… Where have you been?

You’ve been complacent and blind to the injustice that has surrounded you. Mike Brown was killed and his body laid out for hours in a street in 2014. Trayvon Martin was killed and George Zimmerman found not guilty prior to the election of 2016. HIV rates about Black and Brown communities have remained steady and in some cases have increased.

But “mission accomplished!” So much so that at one point, with regard to a certain national performing arts organization, we were asking the question “are our groups still relevant?” As if there weren’t any non hwite issues to be solved. Willfully blind, I tell you.

And now we have this “blue no matter who” foolishness.

I will abstain from voting if the person that Donald Trump’s opposition puts up has an awful track record with communities who represent *my* multiple identities. The parts of me that certain other marginalized communities have ignored *just* as much as the enemy.

Black and Brown folks: This is the attitude you need to take. If your hwite friends try to give you shit for having this stance, then they’re clearly not listening. Instead, they’re only centering their own agenda which has NOT centered people who look like you, for literal centuries.

Am I too late? He really did turn up and say

babsthegingerqueen:

ineffablebuddies:

lesbianshepard:

can not believe that a 70 year old senator actually uttered the phrase “ignorant slut” about bernie sanders on the senate floor.

So what actually happened was senator Kennedy said to Neera Tandem, “you basically called Bernie Sanders everything but an ignorant slut”

Which apparently is a reference to a SNL sketch from 1970s, which is odd but also not completely batshit crazy

But what is crazy is that senator Lindsey Graham in the background, who was not actively part of the conversation, then interrupting to respond with “well I wouldn’t say ignorant”

So whilst technically no senator referred to Bernie Sanders as an “ignorant slut”, senator Lindsey Graham did state quite firmly that he is in fact a slut, just a very knowledgable one

This is so hilarious