After days in Central Valley, @BernieSanders asked again about water, says he still hasn't studied

[Cha]

David Siders
✔ ??@davidsiders
After days in Central Valley, @BernieSanders asked again about water, says he still hasn't studied issue
7:52 AM - 31 May 2016 · Emeryville, CA, United States
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meta ??@metaquest
Wait, so you're going to spend a lot of time in California and you don't have time to "study" one of our most pressing issues? NOPE.
9:37 AM - 31 May 2016
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meta ??@metaquest
Water scarcity is going to have a tremendous impact on our lives so maybe climb out of your one-issue campaign and get it together.
9:38 AM - 31 May 2016
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meta ??@metaquest
So, no, I don't view Sanders coming to California for votes & not being conversant on our devastating drought as legit. #CaliforniaVotes
9:48 AM - 31 May 2016
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meta ??@metaquest
Yeah, you'd be hard-pressed to find a bigger insult to President Obama than Cornel West. So Bernie Sanders, NOPE. #CaliforniaVotes
9:34 AM - 31 May 2016
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https://theobamadiary.com/2016/05/31/chat-away-829/

#I'mWithHer ~Hillary's

[beachbum bob]

1. drought not about bernie so why would sanders care??

[tonyt53]

3. Sums it up well.

[beachbum bob]

11. its all ego now....and he has no desire to walk away from the mic in front of him

he has shown what happens when a small man is given national exposure....he is so over his head....and has been from day 1....

[Cha]

10. Doesn't come under the purview of his one issue.

[beachbum bob]

12. he can't rant and rave against the rain gods, thats right!!!

[Cha]

15. He better not call the rain gods #establishment!

[otohara]

29. Same w/Guns - Vermont

doesn't have mass shootings or white or white crime problem in white state.

Meh...

[tonyt53]

2. He clearly doesn't give a shit about the voters, he just wants their votes.

Also, another way to look at it that the people that are impacted the most, as with any natural disaster, are the lowest income people. The same goes for the drought in CA. Most Bernie-ites do not fall into that category.

[puffy socks]

13. Right!

All he has are his standard talking points.
Every question asked since his campaign began has been directed back to the talking points
When asked about the failures of socialist countries
When asked about releasing taxes
When asked about CA drought

He's a broken record.

[Cha]

20. He just wants to shout @ them... Whine about what he thinks is wrong.. he doesn't give a shite

about their problems.

[BlueCaliDem]

60. That's how autocrats act, Cha - it's all about them and *only* them. eom

[Iliyah]

4. You want to win California but does not know one of the important issues to date.

Chow

[Happyhippychick]

5. Didn't Trump say that there isn't a drought?

Maybe people actually believe that. They don't live in California!

[TwilightZone]

25. Yes, he did.

Trump claimed it was all a liberal, hippie, environmentalist plot.

[Happyhippychick]

34. Too bad he isn't taking it seriously either.

[workinclasszero]

6. Its all about Bernie's giant ego

Who cares about the little peoples problems?

[SaschaHM]

7. If only there was a trendy movement for him to latch on to...

that seems to be Civil Rights and Wage Icon Bernie's thing.

[stopbush]

8. Californians have set an example for conserving water during this drought.

We have made a real difference. If anying, you'd think a candidate would know that and score a few easy points by offering some praise to the voters who have made it happen.

[Cha]

14. You'd think but obviously we'd be wrong.. you're so right, stop.. just a few points..

including praise for Californians conserving their water.

Instead of .. "I haven't studied that yet.." like it would be off script to say something that showed he gave a hoot? Shades of the NYDN interview.

Props to you all for dealing with your water crisis! Not being there I wasn't thinking about that until I read these tweets.

[stopbush]

43. We've cut water use about 25% over the past year or so.

That's pretty significant.

[Cha]

46. Yes it is! Wow! Good on you guys~

[displacedtexan]

48. That's the same answer he gave the Univision reporter about Latin America's serious issues.

Truly heavy sigh.

[Cha]

51. Oh yes, I remember something about him not knowing zip about Latin America.. awesome

when Presidential candidates have qualifications.. like Obama and Hillary.. they know things.

[Walk away]

9. Bernie will be giving away BILLIONS of Bottles of Water!!!!

He will go right into the homes of Billionaires and Oligarchs, open their refrigerators and take 90% of their Poland Springs stashes and redistribute it to free college students and over the hill Hippies all over the country (except in those Southern States that don't count)!

[teamster633]

37. perfect

[SunSeeker]

16. Sanders may be clueless on purpose.

What to do about CA's water shortage is really controversial -- each of the potential solutions has winners, and loses who are fighting it. Sanders is campaigning in the very red Central Valley, which hates the fair solutions Gov. Brown (or any Dem) has offered.

[Cha]

40. Could be.. seems to be a pattern with

him, though.. and it sure doesn't make a good impression that he had nothing to say except he hadn't studied it..

Good Luck to all you Californian on your water crisis, SunSeeker.. Nice steady Rain would be good.

[Starry Messenger]

17. What amazes me is this should have been right in his wheelhouse.

He could have mentioned Nestle! Millionaire water wasters in rich neighborhoods! Climate change affecting the weather patterns! Shit, I have his speech memorized and I can think of three clear places he could have plugged it into his answer on our drought!

Hillary brought up the drought crisis as one of her reasons to keep campaigning in CA this week, on Chris Hayes, which might have been a slightly backhanded comment on Bernie's miss on this question.

[brer cat]

21. Right. Either he is very dense

or his handlers are doing a very poor job. It is a no-brainer to talk about the drought and climate change in CA! But we have seen every step of this campaign how out of touch he is.

[Starry Messenger]

24. He really is.

I noticed he did this a few years ago in Richmond, CA, talked about Wall Street, but didn't mention the direct impact of Chevron on the town. He might have mentioned they were trying to affect the election, but didn't really connect to local ongoing issues.

It's very myopic.

[Cha]

59. Thank you for that, Starry! Where's burnie's head at? Certainly not

where it should be.

And, Hillary.. right on top of things as usual. What a contrast.

[Koinos]

18. He hasn't studied anything.

That showed in the NYDN interview.

He is a low information broken record.

[SharonClark]

19. Maybe that is why Hillary won the endorsement of the environmental group a few days ago.

She knows the issues.

Sanders obviously doesn't. All he has are the same keywords he's been talking about for 40 years - billionaires, millionaires, establishment, corrupt, rigged, warhawks, neoliberals, and oligarchy. He may be superficially correct on some of these issues but he is the wrong person to create positive change about any of them.

[shenmue]

22. Yes!

[sarae]

66. Exactly!

That's one thing you can't accuse Hillary of – not knowing the issues. She puts the other candidates to shame.

[sheshe2]

23. I haven't studied that....

followed by "stump speech". He is tone deaf, Cha.

[Cha]

26. Yeah, he's tone deaf and a few other things that led to failure...

Insulting everyone who endorses Hillary was a real winning strategy.. lol

Mahalo,she

[sheshe2]

31. Truth indeed, Cha!

[LisaM]

27. This is so completely opposite of 2004

I went to hear John Kerry in Seattle and he spent the whole time talking about nothing but issues relevant to the PNW. It was impressive and of course much of it focused on the environment. Local news reported where he ate dinner for his wedding anniversary. Anyway, he was so prepared and yet couldn't capture people's imagination.

[sheshe2]

32. Yet...

free stuff does.

[displacedtexan]

49. KRON4 news here in SF talked to a few BSers in Palo Alto this morning.

They were college students arriving for the Bernie rally. One of them actually said that she was voting for BS because her textbooks were too expensive. I kid you not.

[sarae]

54. OMG

[Cha]

64. I knew it! I knew it was that simplistic.

thanks for confirmation.

[caquillo]

68. I believe it

In in MA, and early in the primary season, I would engage in some discussion with some college kids at my gym. Naturally, they were for Sanders. But the more I talked with them, I realized how simplistic their worldview is. They honestly believed that once Sanders was in office, he would single-handedly provide free college, universal healthcare, and $15 minimum wage. I tried to explain that it's not that simple, but they don't seem to have a grasp on how our government works.

Also, a couple of the girls thought that Sanders was endearing. They compared him to Carl Fredricksen from Up. Apparently, grumpiness in a little, old man is 'cute.'

[Agnosticsherbet]

28. As the world heats up, water will be a critical issue of national survival. California, and the

rest of the west's water woes are a "canary in the coal mine."

[savalez]

30. He doesn't seem to know anything.

meta ??@metaquest
Wait, so you're going to spend a lot of time in California and you don't have time to "study" one of our most pressing issues? NOPE.
9:37 AM - 31 May 2016
23 23 Retweets 21 21 likes

meta ??@metaquest
Water scarcity is going to have a tremendous impact on our lives so maybe climb out of your one-issue campaign and get it together.
9:38 AM - 31 May 2016
24 24 Retweets 26 26 likes

meta ??@metaquest
So, no, I don't view Sanders coming to California for votes & not being conversant on our devastating drought as legit. #CaliforniaVotes
9:48 AM - 31 May 2016
20 20 Retweets 16 16 likes

meta ??@metaquest
Yeah, you'd be hard-pressed to find a bigger insult to President Obama than Cornel West. So Bernie Sanders, NOPE. #CaliforniaVotes
9:34 AM - 31 May 2016
36 36 Retweets 49 49 likes

Maybe he'll stick that finger into the ground and strike water.

[Cha]

33. He had time to go to the Warriors game but not study up on the California

water crisis issue.. Ah well it doesn't matter.. he's not getting anywhere near the White House.

Now he's just showing us how lucky we got.

savalez~

[savalez]

35. Yep. He's a fraud.

[BobbyDrake]

39. The Tao of Bernie: Warriors game > Water crisis nt

[pandr32]

36. He has such narrow focus

...and has had for decades. He really isn't interested in growing anything more than his own power and money, and of course his ego.

He has tunnel vision and really, the only change he has made are two: he now uses the billionaires instead of the millionaires he has used for decades in his monologue; and he has added sharp attacks of Hillary Clinton to what has been a more general foe--the Democrat Party. He has shown no interest in the great world beyond his usual rant.

Bernie is a broken record.

Aloha Cha!

[BobbyDrake]

38. LOL, because you can't blame a drought on a bank or billionaires! Duh! nt

[justiceischeap]

41. Not necessarily true. Nestle has a huge bottling plant in CA

which many following this issue wishes could be shut down (the bottling plant).

Since Nestle is part of Wall St. he should know the answer to that question.

[NastyRiffraff]

42. Not interested

That's Bernie. He has no curiosity, no interest, no willingness to learn, about anything that's not related to his one issue, or to himself and his campaign.

The first rule of politics: talk about issues local people care about. Right now, water is high on California's list of crucial issues. And Bernie can't bother to learn ANYTHING about it?

I've said it before: Bernie says he cares about "the people" but doesn't give a shit about real, individual people with their own concerns.

[Cha]

44. He's the exact opposite of what's required to be POTUS

and yet he's whining all over the country how he was robbed... eh, rigged.

And, that he should be the anointed one because the can beat trump.. talk about bad salesmen.. his wife is no better.

burnie must think nobody notices that all he knows is his stump speech.. he knows his fans don't care as long as he keeps yelling #wallstreet @ them..Lucky for America.. there's not enough votes in that.

California Water~

Riff~

[displacedtexan]

52. My SF neighborhood is jumping for joy

because the fog is returning after a two year absence. That may sound ridiculous, but the fog keeps plants thriving without tons of watering, and it cools off the scorching hot pavement.

[Cha]

57. Good to know.. thank you, displacedtexan.. in San Francisco!

[Her Sister]

45. Homework is hard work! Listening is hard work!

Understanding is hard work! Explaining how to do something is hard work!

Especially if you're a one issue type of person

and especially when you can't even explain that one FREAKING ONE ISSUE!

Thanks Cha!!! We chose the right candidate! So Good! So great!

[Cha]

63. there was no question of choosing BS to me my candidate.. ugh.. don't want him

in our White House after President Obama.. we need someone just as excellent to carry on his work and bring her own excellence there..

That wouldn't be burnie.. he's out on the trail dissing President Obama.. burnie hasn't done anything for our country and he disses the President who has.

[book_worm]

47. Jeez Sanders if you're going to be campaigning in the Central Valley you better have something...

to say about water.

[DemonGoddess]

50. CA has been in severe drought for a long time

this is an issue which affects EVERYONE in the state.

[Cha]

65. burnie's like.. "..haven't studied.." "blah.." "blah.." "blah" ".. can't be bothered"

DemonGoddess~

[livetohike]

53. He is so ignorant and has a one track mind. Thankfully, this incurious

idiot will not be President. I have just had it today. He's a worthless, whiny egomaniac. Not interested in the least in people and their issues.

[mercuryblues]

55. At least the

republicans tried to teach Palin that Africa is a continent, not a country. IOW even Palin tried to learn the answers, even if she had to write them on her hand.

Sanders, doesn't even care what the question is if the answer isn't income equality.

[wysi]

56. Yet another important issue...

... that he doesn't know shit about. Great job Bernie.

[Hekate]

58. LA Times had a front pager a couple of days ago on BS in the Central Valley....

On the one hand, he does pick up info a great deal faster than Teflon Don; on the other hand, it was truly a Brave New World for Bernie. That area produces 25% of the food in the US, it's several times bigger than Vermont, and he had no idea it was there, really. He was pretty upfront about how impressed he was with this new vista.

SIGH.

According to some new poll, he's doing well among California Latinos.

[Lucinda]

61. His usual schtick. He can't be bothered.

[Cha]

62. He thinks his stump sppeech is enough to get him to inauguration day.. he's constantly

insulting the intelligence of the American People.

We'll show him who's smarter.

Mahalo, Lucinda~

[Blue Idaho]

67. Exactly!

Bernie has exactly one stump speech. He also lacks the intellectual curiosity to dig into issues beyond his usual pseudosocialist pap. He is paper thin on so many issues - including those that are supposedly near and dear to his heart. He is at best a mediocre primary candidate.

Let me put it this way - every day he shows us a new way to fail the "Commander and Chief" test.

[Cha]

69. Well said, Blue Idaho..

Thank you!