2/14 TGIF – TPW Valentine’s Evening & Open Thread

Birdies – it’s Friday, which calls for a TGIF post and cocktails/mocktails!

LD is on route to Mesquite, TX (southern suburb of Dallas) to catch Bernie at his first Texas rally!

Bernie Sanders holds rally in Mesquite Friday night

Democratic presidential frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders will hold a rally in North Texas Friday to talk with supporters, as a new Texas poll puts him slightly on top.
Voters arrived early to the event in Mesquite. It’s set to start at 7 p.m., but lines started to form earlier than that.
Of all the candidates in the Democratic primary this year, it’s Sanders who usually attracts the biggest and most enthusiastic crowds. He’ll be at the Mesquite Arena, a venue with a seating capacity of 5,500.
Sanders is currently the Democratic front-runner. That fact is a source of concern for many in the party establishment who worry how a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist would fare against President Donald Trump in November.
But there is more good news for Sanders’ campaign that was just released Friday morning. The latest polls from the University of Texas and the Texas Tribune show he is the favorite among likely Democratic voters to win the Texas primary on March 3.

We’re looking forward to getting on the ground reports!

NEW: NYC Mayor @BilldeBlasio has endorsed @BernieSanders campaign for President.
First to @CNN, Sanders responds to DeBlasio's support. pic.twitter.com/G4m2aMSnPL
— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) February 14, 2020

Bill de Blasio: "I have spent literally six years undoing what Michael Bloomberg did."
He's going to be a great ally in our effort to shed light on @MikeBloomberg's horrible record.#BloombergIsARacist https://t.co/NSYyjDEgnj
— NY For Sanders #Bernie2020 (@NYforSanders) February 14, 2020

We celebrate love at our Nest since that’s what the campaign is mainly about.

Best Bernie Sanders Valentine’s Memes & Cards for 2020

I’m just linking to the article; it’s more visual than text. However, here’s one of the memes from twitter:

master post of my Bernie valentines, you're welcome xoxo pic.twitter.com/Hs6nD7SBKJ
— Isabella (@isbellarosa) February 6, 2020

Bar is open; drinks on the house, courtesy of all of us! Join us in the comments section below with your tweets, videos, music, articles, etc.

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Tips for the Bernie Love Train!

Today is TYT’s 18th anniversary of being on the Internet Media. Here’s a YT link if you wish to watch their show while having a cocktail at the bar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0zJDUs-R4U

TYT has over 12B views in 18 years. Over 12M members.

North Carolina said “unelectable my ass” lmao #BernieInNC pic.twitter.com/tZdQ45VWnY
— cam 🌹 (@yhfncmkdken) February 14, 2020

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has now officially endorsed Bernie Sanders for president.
In a statement, he makes the case for Bernie's electability vis-a-vis Trump.
“Bernie is the candidate to take him on and take him down." pic.twitter.com/9twRN7vbYv
— Daniel Marans (@danielmarans) February 14, 2020

This was posted yesterday, but the picture is very good of Bernie.

Bernie Sanders leads the pack in donations from big tech employees — and among Amazon workers who list their occupation as "slave" in FEC filings. @SamAugustDean reports: https://t.co/7QvltkGFHl
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) February 13, 2020

LieparDestin

made it to the line

jcitybone

👏👏👏

Way to Go! You’ll probably get in just in time. I wonder if Hightower is meeting Bernie there.

wi64

👍👍👍!!!!!!

Boom-cha love!

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2020/02/bernie-sanders-systemic-change-durham-auditorium-north-carolina

A nearly 16,000-square-foot ballroom couldn’t fit all of Bernie Sanders’ supporters at the Durham Convention Center Friday.
The room got so packed that the fire marshal pushed hundreds of the 3,100 in attendance to an overflow room that was larger than a football field, which practically filled up too. The Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont senator spoke to the overflow room first.
“The good news is we had a standing-room crowd,” Sanders said. “The bad news is you could not get in.”
Ahead of the March 3 N.C. primary, electric enthusiasm filled the air for Sanders in Durham, a progressive stronghold in a key Super Tuesday state that Sanders sees as crucial to winning the nomination. In front of a jubilant crowd that danced to Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World,” the avowed Democratic socialist railed against the establishment and President Donald Trump as he touted his signature social programs.

This song and the Disturb video Sounds of Silence always remind me of Bernie.

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Neil Young just became an American citizen and is looking forward to voting. Because of pot he had to apply twice.

On Thursday, Young announced on Instagram that he had finally obtained his dual Canadian-American citizenship. His post featured a picture of himself saluting next to an American flag and a sign proclaiming, “Democrats, register to vote.”

He said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that the government’s inaction on climate change was his primary motivation to start voting.

But while Young said he initially passed the citizenship test, he was asked to apply again because he didn’t have “Good Moral Character,” he wrote on his website in November.
Young referenced an April 2019 policy addition, which states that, “An applicant who is involved in certain marijuana related activities may lack GMC (Good Moral Character) if found to have violated federal law, even if such activity is not unlawful under applicable state or foreign laws.”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/24/entertainment/neil-young-us-citizen-trnd/index.html

‘Homegrown’s alright with me
Homegrown is the way it should be’

🙂

Here’s more of the martini music:

Perhaps Bernie isn’t the candidate with the hard ceiling of support after all. So surprised. 😜 https://t.co/FptzNR5rBT
— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) February 14, 2020

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Please don't add an emoji. It may open the gates of hell.
— It's the #PelosiSquad (@RMpodol) February 14, 2020

Rashida Tlaib detained by police during protest against low wages at Detroit airport https://t.co/7MqaMTNDwB pic.twitter.com/vsrdvljeSk— The Hill (@thehill) February 14, 2020

Resist!

These workers are suffering and living under unimaginable conditions all because Delta wants to make more profits on the backs of the poor. https://t.co/njM6UQbjPu
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) February 14, 2020

They are The University of California’s Largest Employee Union, representing more than 25,000 Service and Patient Care Technical workers.

BREAKING | Yesterday, our Executive Board voted overwhelmingly to endorse Senator @BernieSanders for President for the California March 3rd Primary! pic.twitter.com/aqBEpA3aJa
— AFSCME Local 3299 (@AFSCMELocal3299) February 14, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/13/medicare-for-all-isnt-whats-holding-elizabeth-warren-back-heres-what-is/?utm_source=reddit.com

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has avoided many of these traps, for any number of reasons. But perhaps most important is that his two signature issues — health care and education — are the kitchen-table topics that continue to keep Americans up at night. It’s also true that he has held elected office for four decades, and thus has a better instinctive sense of when to pounce and when to stay silent. It was Sanders who seized the initiative on Social Security, successfully using former vice president Joe Biden’s longtime support for benefit cuts to chip away at his support. Warren, who could and should have been a leader on this — many attribute the push to raise Social Security benefits to her work in the Senate during the Obama administration — was reduced to following in Sanders’s lead on the issue. And because Warren’s signature issue is corruption and how it impacts both political parties, when she suddenly pivoted and campaigned as a “unity” candidate who could work with the establishment, it came across as both intellectually incoherent and a little bit, well, desperate.

orlbucfan

Hope this is successful. Happy Heart’s Day you all.

Tried to link “Strut” by Bob Seger. Failed. 🙁

Made it in but still a while before anything starts.

Admittedly I am a bit frustrated as I had brought a group of posters/etc to give away and as I entered a man came up to me and asked if I had posters and assumed he wanted one so I showed him the group. After looking through them he said that he was with the campaign and that I could not give away the posters and only Bernie placards are allowed, and that if he saw them around he would track me down. He was shady and rude.

It put me on the verge of walking out.

Wow…I think I would DM Chris DeLeon about that.

Benny is right, LD. Raise some written h3ll. That’s the problem between 2016 and now. Bernie’s campaign is 2X as big, and no telling what kind of lowlife ‘security’ is on the payroll.

Hi Benny, you have any contact info

Just his tweety one..@ChrisDeLeon. There is a DM link.

Chris’s response:

Hi there, I’m so sorry to hear that. Our advance team can be a bit stressed out, I apologize for that

TY for sharing! Bernie cares!

That’s great🤗

Very frustrating but these things are very theatrical. No reason for him to be nasty. Being nice gets better results.

Ive been to a ton of Bernie events and watched even more, I see homemade signs, bammers, etc all the time and have gifted them before. This was a first encounter of the kind Ive ever had.

But yes mostly I dont appreciate the way he pretended to be an interested party and then later revealed himself to be part of the campaign and the whole ‘track you down’ thing.

I would contact the campaign as well, since you’ve been to numerous events and this is the first time it might be one overzealous person being in charge of something and it went to his head. Don’t let it spoil the evening for the both of you.

I saw some pissed off and very disappointed people get told they couldn’t bring in their homemade signs at the Bernie’s Back rally (we were also only allowed the official Bernie placards). I felt bad for those people.

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2/14 TGIF – TPW Valentine’s Evening & Open Thread