from:joyannreid Bernie

Jesse Jackson was my very first vote, in the 1988 primaries, for all the reasons you mention in this thread. And people forget how wildly popular he was, in 1984 as well. For young Black people, he was Bernie way before Bernie.

Also wondering what impact the public outcry by Democratic lawmakers had incl. @BernieSanders, @AOC and others putting the $700 billion-plus military aid to Israel on the table, and the resulting "impatience" of the Biden White House. The U.S. does have leverage when we want to.

In which I entirely agree with @BernieSanders on what he's saying about Israel-Palestine, as well as what he has said about Americans having a right to decent pay -- if these employers want folks to go back to work: PAY THEM. Be blessed, Twitter!

Welp, Trump's lawyers must want to keep their law licenses, as poorly used as those licenses are in their hands. They are refusing to answer @BernieSanders question of whether Trump perpetrated The Big Lie, or actually "won the election by a landslide." They're getting fired.

The defense counsel is now refusing to answer the @BernieSanders question, i.e., whether Trump actually won the election or whether he told the Big Lie.

.@BernieSanders plays the Trump card, so to speak, asking whether Trump really told The Big Lie, or in their view, did he really win the election. I only wish that question had been to the defense counsel. Would have been "fun" to use Caster's weird parlance, to watch the wriggle

Amen

Well some of them hate-follow but fair point...

As he objects to @BernieSanders attempt to bring the House-passed bill to the floor it should now be crystal clear to every American that @senatemajldr “Moscow Mitch” McConnell is the SINGLE BIGGEST BARRIER to Americans getting $2,000 covid relief checks instead of a paltry $600.

Not mad at this move by @BernieSanders ... make Mitch bring the $2,000 covid checks to the floor. #mitchbetterhavemymoneyhttps://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1343694040722776065 …

Lordy...

Gonna go ahead and agree with @BernieSanders here. This Senate compromise bill as described by @JoeManchinWV and others so far, is completely inadequate. Doesn’t meet the moment at all. $600 one time is not enough. Individuals, restaurants, states etc need much more help and now.

And then die hard Sanders voters would support them? I highly doubt that. It would be a matter of time before something about them required they step down and that Bernie be given the nomination. This is just a thing at this point.

Bernie or Bust voters were NEVER going to vote for Biden. For the really hardcore Busters it was always Bernie, Trump, Stein or stay home. That's just reality.

And the "Bernie or Bust" people were never going to vote for Biden (or Warren or Kamala or Jesus The Christ) anyway and if Team Biden is putting them into their turnout calculations they are insane and going to lose anyway. They'll get like 85% or so of the Sanders vote like HRC.

It didn't bite him because by the time SC happened it was basically down to him and Bernie (Bloomberg wasn't on the ballot). In that zero sum game, with pragmatic black voters it was never a mystery what would happen. And primary and general electorates are not the same.

Wrong. I am not nor was I ever required to back your candidate. That is YOUR choice and last time I checked, I am free to make mine. I wanted a woman candidate. So I didn't get what I wanted either.

Neither JFK not LBJ were particularly liberal. They were politicians who could be moved, by the arc of history and events and by determined movements. The relentless push of movements is what made these imperfect men enact civil rights and voting rights. Bernie clearly gets that.