Essential "The Real Truth Is Wall Street Regulates Congress": The Offical Bernie Sanders CircleJerk Thread

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ineedsleep212 said:
I just gave him props and fukking Ro Khanna endorsed Crowley over Ocasio-Cortez. Gillibrand did as well exposing her fauxgressivism that we all knew anyway.
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wtf rho khanna ? arent they both "justice democrats"? i swear you cant trust anybody. I knew Gillenbrand was a fraud thats not surprising but khanna was like the quintessential progressive so far and he endorses that pos , its really disgusting that the dems literally bow down to repubs on every turn and dont even ethically try to challenge them let alone unethically. but let a progressive even make a noise in the primary and they pull out all the stops to shut them down. really makes it hard to vote for them even with scumbag republicans on the other side.
 
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I had totally given up on politics, i still followed it just to keep up with how bad we are getting fukked, but then bernie ran and did well and i was like oh ok the people actually would vote for someone if they ran on real issues. but any momentum gained is fought off by the dems, the repubs dont even have to get involved, it makes me want to say fukk it again. im holding out hope bernie somehow ends up in the general in 2020 for president, outside of that, im not excited, even warren, yes shes way better than anyone not named bernie but she just voted for the military increase and shes voted for some wack corporate shyt in the past, also she didnt endorse bernie over hilary, it may not have made a difference but it just shows to me shes more of a careerist than a progressive. i feel like bernie literally doesnt give a shyt, hes just out there fighting for causes. hes a little soft on isreal. thats my biggest criticism and back in the day he voted for the prison bill, though he seems to be committed to criminal justice reform, whether its cause he feels guilty. or he just has that opinion or both i dont care, as long as hes fighting for it. thats the thing he isnt perfect but hes at least doing his job which is more than i can say for literally any other major politician.
 
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wtfyomom said:
wtf rho khanna ? arent they both "justice democrats"? i swear you cant trust anybody. I knew Gillenbrand was a fraud thats not surprising but khanna was like the quintessential progressive so far and he endorses that pos , its really disgusting that the dems literally bow down to repubs on every turn and dont even ethically try to challenge them let alone unethically. but let a progressive even make a noise in the primary and they pull out all the stops to shut them down. really makes it hard to vote for them even with scumbag republicans on the other side.
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I just hope to god she wins. The man's been talking the right talk but what the fukk man.
 
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ineedsleep212 said:
I just hope to god she wins. The man's been talking the right talk but what the fukk man.
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i hope but i have a bad feeling, this dude is one of the big fund raisers crowley. i heard he asked for a debate. who knows what kind of fukkery is planned, he will prob have the debate questions ahead of time like hilary.
 
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i hope but i have a bad feeling, this dude is one of the big fund raisers crowley. i heard he asked for a debate. who knows what kind of fukkery is planned, he will prob have the debate questions ahead of time like hilary.
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Yea I know. It's happening on Friday. I don't know her campaign people but I hope she's getting all of the right people around her cuz I'm 100% expecting slimeball fukkery. The man tried to act like people were shaming him for being white.
 
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but but white bernie bros :damn:
 
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https://theintercept.com/2018/06/14/bernie-sanders-criminal-justice-reform/

It's a long read, I only quote a snippet below, but read it all. Bernie still wasn't perfect but King praises him as someone who acknowledges that he is still learning and is showing that he truly is listening. It's a really good read.

In July 2015, Black Lives Matter activists bravely interrupted a town hall with Sanders at a liberal political event, demanding that he center structural racism in his message. The following month, Black Lives Matter activists in Seattle again interrupted a speech from Sanders — demanding that he center the struggle for black lives in his campaign. In both instances, much of Sanders’s white liberal base struggled to understand why such interruptions were necessary.

A few weeks later, in the wake of those two moments, Sanders met privately with another group of black activists to discuss criminal justice reforms. I spoke directly with many of the attendees that day, including DeRay Mckesson, and was told that the meeting didn’t go well – that attendees sensed very little emotional connection from Sanders and that some wondered if he truly even wanted to be there.

So, three years later, to be willing to co-host a public event in front of over 4,000 people, alongside six radical women of color, without ever asking what they would be talking about or knowing if they would plan on calling him out publicly yet again, was a pretty big deal.

Backstage, I met privately with Sanders, and was immediately struck by his vastly improved mastery of core issues around criminal justice reform. But it wasn’t just his newfound fluency on these issues that surprised me — it was his emotion.

“It’s disgusting, Shaun, that our country is basically criminalizing poverty. I’ll be honest with you. I really didn’t know this was happening. I had no idea hundreds of thousands of Americans, particularly African-Americans, were being held in jail, for months or years, even though they’ve never been convicted of a crime, simply because they can’t afford bail,” Sanders told me in a tiny dressing room backstage before the event.


“I’ve learned a lot,” he continued. “I see the racial disparities clearer than ever. I want to help – just tell me how I can best help and we’ll do it.” I was touched. He wasn’t reading from a script. He was admitting to me, as he soon would from the stage, in front of thousands of people, that he hasn’t always gotten this quite right.

Moments later, Sanders met with Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter and a brilliant organizer around justice reform in Los Angeles. When she told him that the city was planning on spending $2.5 billion on constructing a new jail, Sanders was instantly appalled. “What a waste. Imagine if that was spent on education and job training,” he quipped.

Cullors then welcomed to the room the most amazing, fierce, experienced group of activists in Los Angeles – all black and Latina women – who immediately communicated to Sanders how essential it was to have him firmly speak out against the construction of the jail and the horrible use of cash bail as a tool of oppression throughout the city. When Sanders asked about the impact of cash bail on families in Los Angeles, organizer Ivette Ale immediately interjected, “Not only are people losing their jobs because they can’t afford the bail for a crime they haven’t even been convicted of, they are often losing their homes, and even their children. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. If a single mom is arrested — she could be completely innocent — but if she can’t afford bail, her kids are going to be home on their own and sometimes become wards of the state.”

Sanders was clearly listening to Cullors and Ale. In his speech just a few moments later, he skillfully integrated their very thoughts on the outrageous cost of the proposed jail and the horrible consequences of cash bail right into his message.

Sanders is primarily known for speaking about how unfair and unequal the nation’s economy is, but his critics have frequently said that he has communicated this message at the expense of race and racism in America. I’d tend to agree with them and have said so publicly. This was not the case at our event in Los Angeles. Backstage and before the audience, Sanders openly identified race and bigotry as essential primary factors in why two very different justice systems exist in this country.

He clearly and definitively spoke on how essential it was to hold the worst cops in our country accountable for their abuse and brutality. He railed at how outrageous it is for Wall Street bankers who’ve stolen millions of dollars to never spend a day in jail, while black children across the country are sent to prison for stealing a pair of shoes or possessing weed.
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