BNR Breaking: Sanders Endorses Biden, Secures $15 Wage Min Support
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1vOxwoAjQVVxB
It’s pretty evident Bernie is concerned about the strong reaction Berners have had to support Biden, and those two camps have talking over the weekend. The camps are now called defacto “task forces” in dealing with the pandemic.
sorry bernie, i was r*ped when i was 14 and im not voting for a r*pist at the age of 26. https://t.co/IRnJfr67tT
— chubby black girl (they/she) (@jmsxn) April 13, 2020
Biden says we can’t go back to where we were, we need to build a 21st-century safety net (insulting term, very neoliberal) and infrastructure.
It all sounds phony but it proves that Bernie sticks to his word.
Once a transcript can be located that will be posted here.
I support the sentiment of Chubby Black Girl. My family was raped by Banksters. The type that Biden works for. I WILL NOT SUPPORT BIDEN UNDER ANY CONDITIONS.
Vote for the Greens. Somebody. Anybody. Write Bernie in. But vote… to not vote is to do exactly what the fascists want.
The way I see it is sometimes my vote does the greatest good helping to grow a different party. Gotta start somewhere.
Vote for you local elections, vote for your ballot initiatives. Not voting is what leads to the lack of oversight that has robbed us blind the last 40 years.
But I’m not telling anybody what to do with their vote for President, the way things are currently shaping up.
I am getting angrier and angrier with Bernie as this day wears on. I want my 2800$ back. And I want the many hours I put into supporting his/our campaign back. I did not give 2800$ to Bernie to have him endorse someone who stands against everything that Bernie and I stand for. I did not give hours of my time to have Bernie support someone who stands against everything that he and I stood for. Had he just conceded and quit I would have been disappointed. But to have endorsed Biden? MAN, I AM PEEVED!
I wonder if you can get a refund? Warren apparently returned donations upon request.
At this point, I’d like my money back, too. Seems I bought a defective item.
I pooled quite a bit with the Nest so I won’t be requesting any refunds. Speaking for myself, Bernie was worth what few resources I could expend.
Feeling a lot of good vibes and solidarity with the non-endorsers. Strange to find positivity in such a negative moment, but here we are.
🤜🤛
Today is the day that Bernie ceased being the leader of the movement that he started. The question is where will it go and who will lead it into the future?
I agree.
Instead of endorsing Biden, Penn for Bernie will form a new on-campus progressive coalition
https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/04/penn-for-bernie-sanders-biden-election
Not me, Us. We will.
Bernie has taken us as far as he can but at least his decision today clarifies the situation. The movement is now split between those who want to follow Bernie to Biden and those who don’t. Will those who favor options other than Biden unify around a single option? It will be interesting to see what happens to Bernie’s surrogates and staffers. Will they all go to Biden? A new leader may emerge from those who don’t go. Interesting times.
Still want people to vote for him in the primary if for nothing else than to show everyone else the strength of his policies and that we care about the man
That ‘endorsement’ was something… there’s Bernie, talking about beating Trump, and then there’s Biden, actively tearing up everything Bernie stands for. Maybe Bernie had an agreement to support the Chosen One, I do not.
Actually he did. He signed it from week 1.
They will do that, anyway. Deja Vu.
yup. Could’ve stayed with us and fought
Easy solution: never let dumb dumb centrists mean anything to you.
Way it I see it at present, it’s all on Biden now.
But I agree with Shaun King:
It looked rehearsed on Team Biden.
BAM!!! Thank you BrieBrie.
Tearing up Bernie’s program and calling it a concession.
And Bernie accepting his conversation partner reading from a Teleprompter? Wow I am trying really really hard to understand what’s going on I’m feeling betrayed again. I didn’t last time because he waited and he got a whole lot more support. I think he’s being older really does blind him to some things
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/politics/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-endorsement.html
@jcitybone Tell the TPR group that I’m not allowed to send any kosmails. I’m not bojo’d nor TO’d, but its clear the mods are reading the kosmails.
I don’t see any ‘securing’ $15/hr. Did Joe say that he would immediately implement it???
Needs to pass Congress so the Senate needs To switch hands and Biden will advocate supposedly to get the reluctant Dens on board. Oh yes, and the filibuster needs to go. More individual states can pass it though
The filibuster protects the minority party in the Senate. Think about it. I back it for that reason.
I agree. The filibuster has to stay for now. But if the Senate flips (which is not likely sorry to say) along with winning the WH, then it can be reconsidered.
And I’ve said many times I’m for the same filibuster that Bernie is for make them fight it out on the floor night after night the public will get behind the person who’s right
The one question Bernie asked was supporting the increase of minimum wage to $15. But I didn’t hear a complete yes. I see it as “we’ll raise it” but I put that in the headline because we need to hold everyone’s feet to the fire on it.
I’m not but this is a good suggestion
I’m not annoyed, I’m crushed.
Jcb, you disagree. Any reasons why when Bernie has often said it’s not about him?
Disagree about the endorsement? It was definitely coming. I’m sure Bernie got the best deal.
Bernie recognizes that there are plenty of bad things that will happen under Trump that won’t happen under Biden. Let’s just look back to that tax abomination passed by a Republican Congress and signed into law by a Republican President. Not one Dem voted for it. Also Supreme Court justices are supremely important not to mention all the other horrible judges that Trump and the Republican Senate has appointed. Progressives will have some leverage over Dems by pressuring them and threatening to vote them out (or hopefully actually voting them out). Republicans have no fear of progressives and are completely unresponsive. They don’t depend on their support.
In the end outside of our little bubble here and Twitter, a huge majority of Sanders primary voters will vote for Biden. I would bet at an even higher rate than voted for Clinton.
I’m upset enough to repost all of the items I just posted on the last thread actually:
‘I must admit that I’m upset at this.
Mostly because I don’t see what Bernie ‘got’ for this. Did he ‘get’ anything at all???’
Bernie Sanders endorses Joe Biden for president
If Bernie doesn’t get anything for this capitulation there will be hell to pay.
This won’t be enough imo:
For one thing we all know that Biden would probably want to phase it in incrementally like Hillary wanted to do. Not good enough.
Not good enough for me and not good enough, yet at least, to do much to drive turnout.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/13/politics/bernie-sanders-endorses-joe-biden/index.html
I’m Sure whatever agreements have been worked out behind the scenes. Whatever, they are they satisfied Bernie and I believe that he has certainly earned some trust.
So behind the scenes that even Bernie’s top team members weren’t informed???
It appears as if he has thrown members of his old team under the bus.
I like Briahna but I would not put her in the top team. Really the top team is Bernie, Jane, Jeff Weaver, and a possibly a few others.
Jeff Weaver…..bunch of curse words….
I wouldn’t put Jeff Weaver in it either. But Faiz and some others, yes. Brie or David, no. But they are so gifted as writers I suspect they will find employment either at TYT or some other progressive outlet.
In the end it really comes down to Bernie and Jane
Jeff Weaver?? Puleeeze.
are you sure she wasn’t told?
I’m with you mags. I’m shocked part furious part heart broken, but I know my body can’t go through a lot more right this minute.
so i’m “calm. “
I was that way last week. But not today.
The timing of Bernie’s endorsement couldn’t have come at a worst time.
With new coverage like this.
No, I would argue this is exactly why Bernie did this. Not what I would have done, but I’m not in his shoes either.
There’s another one, unvetted, as yet
The overwhelming majority will though like last time. Leftist Bernie voters supported Clinton at a higher % than moderate/conservative Bernie voters. But it’s not a cult, everybody will make their own decisions. Bernie, however, will be arguing that voting for Biden is what we should do.
Unless Trump is found to have conducted torture on someone, I don’t think anyone can catch him. Joe has no indies on his side.
Mr. Hi-tech who is a yellow dawg Democrat to his core says I’m a lunatic cos I don’t support the DINOs. So, I do what I’ve done for decades–blow him off (in a nice way).
It will all come down to what the economy and pandemic looks like in the fall
and machines