January 28, 2020

Bernie Sanders 2020 Makes $2.5M TV Buy in California and Texas

January 28, 2020

Jamie Dimon Is Fine with Corporate Socialism

Jan 28, 2020

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan, says socialism will lead to an "eroding society." That's funny. I didn't hear him complain about corporate socialism when his bank got a $416 billion bailout from American taxpayers.

January 28, 2020

Bernie vs. Biden on the Green New Deal

Jan 28, 2020

My good friend Joe Biden said, and I quote, "not a single solitary scientist," agrees with our Green New Deal plan. Well, Joe, you're wrong.

January 28, 2020

Bernie Sanders grabs lead in California presidential primary

By DAVID LAUTER WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF
JAN. 28, 2020 4:27 AM

Excerpt:

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders, consolidating support from voters on the left, has taken a clear lead in the race for California’s huge trove of Democratic convention delegates as the presidential campaign moves toward a critical month of primary contests.

Sanders has been propelled to the top in California by growing support from voters who label themselves “very liberal”... That very liberal group makes up about one in three Democratic primary voters in the state.

Along with strong backing among Latinos and young voters, backing on the left is enough to give the Vermont senator support from 26% of voters likely to take part in the state’s March 3 Democratic primary, according to the latest UC Berkeley Institute for Governmental Studies poll, conducted for the Los Angeles Times. His gains in the state come as several polls in Iowa and New Hampshire — the states with the first contests of the primary season — also show Sanders gaining ground.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-01-28/bernie-sanders-grabs-lead-in-california-presidential-primary

January 28, 2020

A week away from the #IowaCaucus: Here is the RCP Iowa poll average Sanders: 25%

https://twitter.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1222027976562311168

January 28, 2020

Sanders' rise shows voters want someone with courage, principles and the right priorities.

https://twitter.com/rekhabasu/status/1221907255295000576

January 28, 2020

For All (Nevada Ad) Bernie Sanders

Huge tax breaks for the rich, while the middle-class continues to struggle. That's what happens when billionaires are able to control the political system. Bernie Sanders' campaign is funded by the working people of this country, and those are the people that he will represent as president.

January 27, 2020

Sanders scores highest on green group's voter guide

https://twitter.com/CBD_Action_Fund/status/1221907658195656706

https://twitter.com/BitterWaterBlue/status/1221872045354516480

January 27, 2020

Sanders scores highest on green group's voter guide

https://twitter.com/CBD_Action_Fund/status/1221907658195656706

https://twitter.com/BitterWaterBlue/status/1221872045354516480

January 27, 2020

'The People's Perfume' Sprays Cold Water on the Bernie Bro Narrative

Eau de Bernard, anyone?
By Ken KlippensteinTwitter

Along with a diverse group of volunteers, Schaefer, whose previous work includes directing TV series, shorts, and actual commercials for firms like Geico, created a glossy, hilarious spoof of a perfume commercial for a fragrance that’s all the rage this campaign season: Bérnié.

Schaefer, who is not formally affiliated with Senator Bernie Sanders’s campaign, produced the ad as a labor of love for a candidate she believes in.

vimeo.com/386865427

The ad begins with the text, “Bérnié—the people’s perfume,” and features a diverse, mostly female cast on a sun-kissed beach and several allusions to the Sanders campaign. Sanders’s gruff voice echoes in the background, barking out his signature policy: “Medicare for All!”

In another reference to Medicare for All, an actor tears up a health insurance invoice for some $4,000. Another actor flips open a Zippo lighter and sets fire to a $67,000 student loan bill, an allusion to Sanders’s student debt forgiveness plan.

But Schaefer says that in making the video, she also just wanted to have some fun. “I think Bernie’s campaign has this jubilance, this joy, this optimism to it; I wanted to create something that felt kind of lighthearted and fun,” Schaefer said.

Frequently derided as humorless or overly “woke” by pundits to their right, the rising generation of leftists in the United States and abroad are embracing this sense of fun to draw in new supporters and engage the ones they already have. For instance, during the 2016 primary, the hashtag #BernieMadeMeWhite began trending as a sardonic way for Sanders’s minority supporters to push back against the stereotype that Sanders supporters are overwhelmingly white. As one black supporter named Leslie Lee tweeted at the time, “Ever since I voted for Bernie, I’ve been bingewatching Friends. #BernieMadeMeWhite.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/bernie-bro-comedy/