Is Sanders Retarded or Insane?

[Cecilie1200]

I am actually asking this question specifically in reference to a quote that's been ALL THE RAGE amongst my more liberal acquaintances and just makes me shake my head.

"The Republican debates are over. Not one word about income and wealth inequality, climate change, Citizens United, or student debt. That's why the Republicans are so out of touch with the American people. What I heard was more tax breaks for the rich, more people losing health insurance, and more talk about war. That's not what we need."

Speaking of being out of touch. Exactly how clueless and narcissistic is ol' Liver Spots not to realize that a Republican debate is going to be about issues that matter to REPUBLICANS, which are not chosen and defined by liberals and their buzzwords and memes? Why in the Hell does he think there are two major and multiple minor political parties in the country in the first place? Did he actually think reality consisted of the liberal socialist echo chamber? He certainly appears to believe that "the American people" consists only of people who agree with him. Seems to be quite a rude shock for him to find out that there are large numbers of people in this country who don't give the fat, furry crack of a rat's ass about his talking points, and that there are politicians out there who agree with those people and relate to THEM.

So what's the source of Bernie Boy's tunnel vision and oblivion? Is he a nut, or just not real swift on the uptake?

 

[Obiwan]

Sanders is a distraction that might beat Hillary, then lose the general.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Sanders is a distraction that might beat Hillary, then lose the general.

Probably, but I am still really puzzled by his apparent waking up in a brand-new world where - SURPRISE!!! - there are people other than leftists. I mean, I get that he would never sully himself by actually speaking to such a person, but didn't any of his handlers and advisers bother to tell him we existed?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"Is Sanders Retarded or Insane?"

One of those idiotic loaded question fallacies from the right.

Well done.

 

[Obiwan]

Sanders is a distraction that might beat Hillary, then lose the general.

Probably, but I am still really puzzled by his apparent waking up in a brand-new world where - SURPRISE!!! - there are people other than leftists. I mean, I get that he would never sully himself by actually speaking to such a person, but didn't any of his handlers and advisers bother to tell him we existed?

Sanders is entertaining, but the mainstream left is backing the Hildabeast.
Once she goes down, all the Dims have left is an unelectable candidate following a failed President.

 

[initforme]

Bernie actually thinks the average working person is worth something. Tell me one other candidate from either party that is and I call you a liar and you frankly are and you know it. American politics is all about big money and it is beyond tainted and therefore I have zero good to say about my country's system. Zippo. Its all about the rich who do zero for the nation.

 

[browsing deer]

For the liberal echo chamber these are what matters. Bernie has a better handle on it. Prepare yourself, this is what the press will be talking about all next year, and Bernie will be th nominee

 

[Socialist]

Bernie is someone who actually cares for working people, who isn't bought off, who has stood firm for decades without flip flopping, he may not be an actual socialist, but he is a social democrat like those in europe, and I applaud him. He's not retarded or insane, he's someone who appeals to working people, veterans..

 

[Socialist]

I am actually asking this question specifically in reference to a quote that's been ALL THE RAGE amongst my more liberal acquaintances and just makes me shake my head.

"The Republican debates are over. Not one word about income and wealth inequality, climate change, Citizens United, or student debt. That's why the Republicans are so out of touch with the American people. What I heard was more tax breaks for the rich, more people losing health insurance, and more talk about war. That's not what we need."

Speaking of being out of touch. Exactly how clueless and narcissistic is ol' Liver Spots not to realize that a Republican debate is going to be about issues that matter to REPUBLICANS, which are not chosen and defined by liberals and their buzzwords and memes? Why in the Hell does he think there are two major and multiple minor political parties in the country in the first place? Did he actually think reality consisted of the liberal socialist echo chamber? He certainly appears to believe that "the American people" consists only of people who agree with him. Seems to be quite a rude shock for him to find out that there are large numbers of people in this country who don't give the fat, furry crack of a rat's ass about his talking points, and that there are politicians out there who agree with those people and relate to THEM.

So what's the source of Bernie Boy's tunnel vision and oblivion? Is he a nut, or just not real swift on the uptake?

Bernie's point was that the issues that he talks about matter more to american people then the joke of a debate. I mean, the debate was horrific. A reddit commentor sums it up:

• The preshow: if you drank for every mention of “Trump”, you’d be through at leasttwo beers by this point.
  
  
• Fiorina must have paid someone off at Fox News, because you’d think she reduced the entire B-team debate to tears. All I remember is her calling Clinton a liar several times.
  
  
• “Good evening, I’m Megyn Kelly, you may know me as that pretty blonde announcer in a post-apocalyptic movie you vaguely recall.”
  
  
• Trump gets overwhelming applause, which helps drown out the unexplainable and vaguely occult sound of children screaming in the distance.
  
  
• Hand Raise Q for everyone (but mainly directed at Trump): “Raise your hand if you won’t fall in line and run third party.” Trump raises his hand and tells the crowd to fuck themselves.
  
  
• RAND PAUL WITH THE FIRST ATTACK. “Maybe Trump loves the Clintons and wants to kiss them and make them president again.”
  
  
• Sounding like Obama at a Klan meeting here. BOOOO
  
  
• Ben Carson gets the first non-Trump, thanks-for-being-a-minority-and-on-stage question.
  
  
• Rubio is looking like a handsome, young, illegitimate child of JFK tonight. “I grew up in a van down by the river and had student loans.”
  
  
• Jeb! gets grilled on having the last name Bush. “True Hearts, Clear Eyes, Can’t Lose” or whateverthechrist the saying goes. He then immediately pivots to some campaign lines about vetoing and other covers for how well he did as a governor during a bubble who got out right before it burst.
  
  
• Trump just slammed Rosie O’Donnell and got like 5 more points in the polls, Trump doesn’t give a fuck
  
  
• Trump replies to the charges of being a blatant misogynist: “The nation should be less politically correct. America needs my swinging balls to be better again.”
  
  
• Ted Cruz gets called out for being a demagogue, and the audience cheers because they crave electrolytes and aren’t fags.
  
  
• Chris Christie, rotund politician famous for his blood feud with bridges, gets called out for being in charge of New Jersey. He states a bunch of figures about how much he’s vetoed and the taxes he’s cut, and comes in under the dinger. Gets mild applause.
  
  
• Q to Walker: “Would you let a mother die rather than get an abortion?” Walker pivots the question to attack Clinton and Planned Parenthood. If he walked back the whole “let women die” thing, I didn’t hear it.
  
  
• Huckabee: “I will twist the Constitution to undo Roe v Wade, and use the 5th and 14th Amendments to defy the Supreme Court.” Swear to Christ, I didn’t make any of that up.
  
  
• Rand Paul: ISIS will go away if we stop supporting the Iraqi government with hardware, that way ISIS can’t get their hands on it and Iraq won’t collapse at all.
  
  
• Kasich defiantly and proudly proclaims that he’s actually used government money to improve the health of the poorest citizens of his state. The hometown audience applauds, we’ll see how the national polls react.
  
  
• Jeb! is in favor of a pathway to immigration but still emphasizes that he’ll raid Latino enclaves for deportation.
  
  
• Trump gets attacked about his Mexicans-are-rapists statements. “If it weren’t for me we wouldn’t be talking about this, plus reporters got it wrong and are out to get me because I’m the smartest and richest person ever.” Gets grilled on the evidence for his statements. Trumps response: “I talked to some Border Patrol dudes, also all politicians are idiots and Mexicans are brilliant”
  
  
• Scott Walker Q: why did you change your opinion on a pathway to citizenship: “Blah, blah blah, I decided to run for president and the South don’t take kindly to Mexicans, so what are you going to do?”
  
  
• Rubio: I may be the son of an immigrant but Obama is in favor of “fundamentally changing the country” which is Kenyan for “makin’ Ohio look like Tijuana’s Donkey Show District”
  
  
• Chris Christie: “Hey remember 9/11? I do. I was around then too.”
  
  
• Rand Paul: “FOUNDING FATHERS!”
  
  
• Chris Christie: “Fuck the 4th Amendment, the NSA needs to read more people’s emails. They aren’t psychic you know, they need omniscience access to all the net”
  
  
• CHRISTIE JUST RESPONDED TO A JAB ABOUT HUGGING OBAMA BY TALKING ABOUT HUGGING 9/11 VICTIMS
  
  
• “How can you defeat ISIS in 90 days?” asked the idiot on facebook. Cruz: “We need to blame Islam.”
  
  
• Jeb! walks back his spasms about Iraq. He blames Obama for ISIS for not keeping troops in Iraq until the fucking Judgment Day.
  
  
• Dr. Ben Carson is a neurosurgeon, and he wants you to know that we aren’t killing enough people because of political correctness. And if we just let the military brass go apeshit on the region, the whole place will be a nice peaceful parking lot by Christmas.
  
  
• Trump talks up single payer overseas, says it won’t work here because of insurance companies and politicians. Rand Paul calls him out, Trump says “Fuck you, you hard-of-hearing fuck, you aren’t doing well tonight.” (The last half of that quote is true.)
  
  
• Trump talks about how he spent gobs of money in donations to get Hillary to his wedding.
  
  
• Huckabee: mandates for things like “Air quality” and “Water quality” and “Limiting lead in our children’s food” are a federal overstep
  
  
• Ben Carson also in favor of a flat tax. Good luck middle class if a Republican wins the election!
  
  
• Ben Carson hints that Clinton won’t be the Democratic candidate (what?) and says she would be a “useful idiot”. He then goes on to say that Clinton will destroy our military and leave us at the mercy of Canada or whatever if we only spend as much as all the military budgets of the world combined.
  
  
• Obama’s welfare recipient numbers keep getting thrown around with the words “recession” or “George W. Bush” brought up once.
  
  
• Scott Walker gets called out for his shitty economic numbers. “I’m popular and I am high, let’s not talk ‘numbers’ and ‘facts’ here.”
  
  
• Christie with more percentages and figures. But let’s not emphasize how “We” are all leading longer lives. I don’t see the Governor withdrawing from Social Security into his 80s for some rotund reason.
  
  
• Huckabee attacks Social Security because he thinks it’s better for everyone to have a bit more money in their pockets if it means having to step over the corpses of our impoverished elderly on the way to work every morning.
  
  
• Trump Q about his businesses’ bankruptcy: “I’ve taken advantage of the laws of this country; I’m not going to name names to embarrass them.” Moderator pushes a specific example, Trump declares he alone can solve the problem of Atlantic City.
  
  
• Cruz declares that Dodd Frank is attacking small businesses, high on ether, I assume
  
  
• Scott Walker digs up the memories of a hostage situation older than half the country, invokes the “Obama-Clinton” meme again.
  
  
• Rape pregnancy question for Cruz: he doubles down on the “No exception for rape and incest” thing.
  
  
• Trump time, yehaw! “When did you become a Republican?” Trump invokes Reagan’s name, drink. Trump talks up a nearly-aborted kid he knew who is now a superstar or something, pivots to attack Jeb!, runs out of time.
  
  
• Jeb! is baited to attack Trump, pivots to attack Clinton and talk up his successes during an economic bubble (please ignore what happened after it burst).
  
  
• Trump gets a rebuttal and says he shouldn’t be polite when ISIS is cutting off heads. This echoes FDR’s defense of calling his opponents “douchebags” in 1938 because Hitler was gassing Jews.
  
  
• The candidates all love gays but don’t want them to get married because Jesus.
  
  
• Rand Paul ducks out of the question and says that marriages shouldn’t be a legal matter. Then talks about “resisting” the government(?)
  
  
• Ben Carson says that since we don’t have as many dinghies as we did in 1917, the Navy is weak. Forget that we have more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world combined, we need more dinghies.
  
  
• Clinton emails, lol.
  
  
• Huckabee is against trans people, gasp.
  
  
• Rand Paul is against foreign aid, including Israel. Good for him for having the balls not to make that exception.
  
  
• Christie response: We need to spend even more on our military, more dinghies, more airplanes of any kind (drones don’t count), fund Israel because Obama was mean to them.
  

 

[Obiwan]

Bernie is someone who actually cares for working people, who isn't bought off, who has stood firm for decades without flip flopping, he may not be an actual socialist, but he is a social democrat like those in europe, and I applaud him. He's not retarded or insane, he's someone who appeals to working people, veterans..

And is unelectable by the general population . Good luck.

 

[Sunni Man]

 

[Socialist]

Bernie is someone who actually cares for working people, who isn't bought off, who has stood firm for decades without flip flopping, he may not be an actual socialist, but he is a social democrat like those in europe, and I applaud him. He's not retarded or insane, he's someone who appeals to working people, veterans..

And is unelectable by the general population . Good luck.

How is he unelectable? His main problem is the lack of media covering him.

 

[Socialist]

Oh look, another stupid picture from a holocaust denier.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Most positions Bernie Sanders holds are supported by most Americans. Our system however does not allow that reality to rule.

 

[Obiwan]

Oh look, another stupid picture from a holocaust denier.

Face it... Working people don't want to support deadbeats.

 

[Socialist]

Oh look, another stupid picture from a holocaust denier.

Face it... Working people don't want to support deadbeats.

How is bernie a dead beat? He's a politican who has decades of experience fighting for working people.

 

[Sunni Man]

 

[Socialist]

What the hell? Bernie doesn't even talk about these issues, he was against vietnam though.

 

[bodecea]

I am actually asking this question specifically in reference to a quote that's been ALL THE RAGE amongst my more liberal acquaintances and just makes me shake my head.

"The Republican debates are over. Not one word about income and wealth inequality, climate change, Citizens United, or student debt. That's why the Republicans are so out of touch with the American people. What I heard was more tax breaks for the rich, more people losing health insurance, and more talk about war. That's not what we need."

Speaking of being out of touch. Exactly how clueless and narcissistic is ol' Liver Spots not to realize that a Republican debate is going to be about issues that matter to REPUBLICANS, which are not chosen and defined by liberals and their buzzwords and memes? Why in the Hell does he think there are two major and multiple minor political parties in the country in the first place? Did he actually think reality consisted of the liberal socialist echo chamber? He certainly appears to believe that "the American people" consists only of people who agree with him. Seems to be quite a rude shock for him to find out that there are large numbers of people in this country who don't give the fat, furry crack of a rat's ass about his talking points, and that there are politicians out there who agree with those people and relate to THEM.

So what's the source of Bernie Boy's tunnel vision and oblivion? Is he a nut, or just not real swift on the uptake?

You just made his point for him.

 

[Obiwan]

What the hell? Bernie doesn't even talk about these issues, he was against vietnam though.

Face it, people like their paycheck....

Fuck having the government take it away and give it out for votes.