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The Ultimate Bernie Sanders 'Mittens Meme' Patterns Round-Up For Makers, Knitters & Crocheters - Dolls, Mittens, Sweaters, Charts & More: 馃憠 https://buff.ly/2Yb2r7y
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Okay, looking at it again, this particular one is pretty damn funny
Tron and Bernie look so much alike!
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I miss when bernie sanders mittens
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while i may not have seen taylor this week, i did ride in an elevator with bernie sanders
#it was a lovely surprise#he was wearing the same coat that he did on Election Day#no mittens though#he was wearing a mask#and he is surprisingly tall#he said hi to everyone#Bernie sanders
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I took a nap today and had a vision. This was that vision. Scarecrow posed as mittens Bernie Sanders. He is once again asking you to donate your body for his experiments.
#my art#illustration#digital art#artists on tumblr#dc fanart#comic books#comics#jonathan crane#the scarecrow#i am once again asking#Jonathan does not care for politics but he likes mittens#once again I can only draw scarecrow doing silly things#scarecrow dc#he is masked both for covid and fear toxin!#also help I can鈥檛 keep to a consistent art style if it killed me
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Me n some friends rewatched lotr so have some commentary from nerdy gay teens in no particular order
*Aragorn sulking in the corner, staring at the hobbit gang*
Friend 1: he does various activities in his spare time
Friend 2: like fucking?
Friend 1: yup
Friend 3: unfortunately not me :/
Friend 4: the Nazguls are having a toddler tantrum bro
Friend 2: they're going to see the elves!
Friend 1: Legolas.... *dreamily*
Friend 4: shhh it's okay
Friend 5: Sam look-
Everyone: DONT INSULT THE BABY
Friend 2: shh everyone shut up the memes
*all intently watch them argue about second breakfast*
*stops movie to show Friend 5 potato song*
*Legolas and Glimli walk in*
*Everyone chanting "ONE OF US" in snyc*
Friend 1: when Saruman sits like that he looks like that one Bernie sanders picture with the mittens
Friend 3: JUST TAKE THE RING OFF FRODO
Friend 2: it's for PLOT REASONS
Friend 4: this is a terrible plan boys
Friend 2: yeah but they're boys
Friend 2: I hate Arwen in this movie she's a bitch
Friend 3: but she's pretty so it doesn't matter
*a lil later*
Friend 3: okay it matters
*stop movie to show Friend 5 the "taking the hobits to Isengard" song*
#im back on my bullshit#the vibes are immaculate#teen stuff#lotr#legolas#legolas and gimli#aragorn#saruman#lotr movies#lotr memes#frodo baggins#my commentary
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tag game:聽pick stuff from your room and have people vote on which one they want to take home.
Tagged by the very beautiful, very powerful @andordean; beloved mutual of several years who I don't believe I've spoken with (of course, lol). I'm running off with your NYC pizza guide journal because I am hungry, but the moomin mug is a close second and the embroidery scissors sound delightful.
Most of what I have to take home is house plants (I have 50+) but I'll narrow those down to two options maximum
Tagging: @silken-scarves, @printerwizard, @blazingsnark, @doggendoodle, @ezrakeshet, @tranfalgarlaw, @thenexusofrealities, @pestisly, @hauntedestablishments, and @defectivegembrain Feel no pressure my beloveds, a lack of response will not hurt my feelings
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The Best Bernie Sanders Doll Pattern, Yes, That One, The One With The Mittens! 馃憠 https://buff.ly/3pfxLxJ
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The Best Bernie Sanders Doll Pattern, Yes, That One, The One With The Mittens! 馃憠 https://buff.ly/3pfxLxJ
#artists on tumblr#bernie sanders#knitting#crochet#lol#meme#yarnblr#yarn#handmade#diy projects#infinite craft
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I'm going to hell for this
Blame my boredom
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Was Sander's Robbed in 2020?
Ok so lets walk to the past for a bit. Its 2020, the Democratic primary is getting heated. Biden keeps leading in all the polls, but after three primary elections, he has been coming off short. Moderates are panicking and it looks like Bernie Sanders might be able to get the nomination after all. He was counted out after the heart attack, and yet he kept on going.
So Sanders going in 2020 had two options for how to run his campaign. About 30% of the party loved him, about 20% of the party absolutely hated him, and 55% were mixed more ambivalent about him. He could either
Try to win over the parts of the party that aren't already supporting him, in particular the black community (Sanders does this a bit with the Latino democrats, his latino outreach very impressive and very underreported in the Democratic party
Try to hold unto your 25-30% of the party and hope rest of the vote is split between all the different moderates, so he can win with a plurality of the vote. due to the weirdness of the Democratic primary rules he can still win the nomination even without the majority, the winner only needs a plurality. if the moderate votes are split between Biden, Mayor Pete, Bloomberg, and Klobuchar, then Sanders could squeak in a victory with less than a third of the party.
Biden is the frontrunner, is polling ahead of everybody else, particular among the all important African-American segment of the democratic electorate. However he isn't beloved and there are a ton of Moderates running against him, and all of them are focused on attacking Biden in the hopes that they could take his place.
Sanders too option 2, which was risky. Winning with a plurality rather than a majority always leaves a lot of sore feelings, and had Sanders won the 2020 primary he would have to have dealt with the 70% of the electorate who didn't vote for him feeling sore, but maybe he could have handled it, we will never know. The advantage of his plan is that he just needed to hold unto his base, who already loved him. The danger is that if the moderates ever managed to rally around a single candidate, suddenly he is very outnumbered. Risky play but he did it. This is the same plan that trump use to win the Republican primary in 2016 (to be clear, that isn't a moral judgement on sanders, Trump isn't bad because he won with a plurality, he is bad because he is a fascist). There is one key difference though the Republican primary uses a winner takes all approach, so who ever wins the state gets all of the points, which allowed Trump to expand his lead. This is because Republicans don't believe in democracy.
Those are some great mittens
So far this plan has been working well for Sanders. The moderates have split the vote, Sanders won Nevada, New Hampshire and either won Iowa or it was so close that he basically won Iowa. Biden has yet to do well in any of the first three states.
But Then, South Carolina, the first state with a large black electorate. Biden secures a key endorsement from US Representative and Civil Rights activist Jim Clyburn. The results were a pretty stunning turnaround for Biden, who won 49% of the votes and got 39 of the delegates. Sanders came in second, with 20% of the vote and 15 of the delegates. Buttigieg, Warren, Steyer, and Klobuchar didn't get a high enough percentage of the vote to get any delegates.
Biden almost won more than the rest combined.
So lets take a moment to talk about the US primary system, because it is both illogical and needlessly complicated. Rather than have all the states vote at once like a normal fucking country, each individual state plus the territories plus DC hold there own primary, most of which are not in order. So for example, the great state of NY, fourth largest state in the country and the center of the global economy, has its primary at the literal end of the process. So yeah, I've never in my lifetime gotten to have any effect on a presidential primary, because the race is already over by the time it gets to NY. So who wins a primary is not necessarily the most popular person with the party, its who ever can stay in the race longest, its a marathon. A super popular candidate could still drop out if they aren't popular in the first few state. Maybe Elizabeth warren was super popular in New York and if she had been able to hold unto those state she would have won, but we will never know. this system sucks, and I hate it.
So the way the primary goes down is that you have 4 elections from individual states. Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina. Then you have something called Super Tuesday, where Virginia, North Carolina, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, California, Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, Alabama, Arkansas, and Utah all go at once. So basically you go from 4 individual states to a fuck tone of state (including the two largest) all at once).
So another critical thing about the democratic party is demographics. While the republican party is a white Christianity identity party, the democratic party is a diverse coalition. The most important part of that is the African American vote, who have steadily become the deciding vote in the Democratic party since the 60s. About 90% of African American voters are democratic, and African Americans make up just over a quarter of the Democratic party. They are also by far the most organized and proactive voters, due to years of having to fight against voter suppression (especially in the South). The black electorate in the democratic party is one of the parties greatest advantages, and it also why the party has become steadily less racist every year (Obama really accelerated this process). To be clear this is a good thing, the Democratic party is better for it.
For a series of very complicated reasons I could get into another time, Sanders had never done particularly well with African American voters and Biden has. This isn't universal, the African American community is not a monolith and has a diversity of views but that is how the demographics played out generally in the primary. Most importantly, apart from Biden was the only candidate, moderate or progressive, who seemed to excite the African American voting bloc.
The reason why this matters is that Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada don't have very large black populations, Iowa and new Hampshire are lily white, and Nevada is less than 10% African American. Despite being more than a fourth of the party, the first three states are not representative of the African American vote (maybe we should have one nation wide election eh?)
So once biden won South Carolina, it became obvious that A) Biden's defeats in the first three states were not affecting his popularity in the larger states B) none of the other moderates had any real African American support. This is what leads to the supposed "betrayal"
The Day before Super Tuesday, Obama called up the remaining moderates, and convinced most of them to drop out and endorse Biden. They did so, and it basically shattered Sander's chance of winning. With most of the moderates unified, Biden won 10 states to Sander's 4, wracking up 726 delegates to sanders 505. Biden got 286065 votes to sanders 74,755. Not only was this a great victory for Biden, after super Tuesday all of the other moderates withdrew, allowing him to crush Sanders going forward. Biden had 2709 Delegates to Sanders 1,113, but more importantly Biden won 51% of the votes, with sanders getting 26%. Some Sanders fans have blamed Elizabeth Warren for not dropping out, but even if Warren had and every one of her votes had gone to standers (and there is a lot of evidence to suggest a third of her votes would have gone to Biden), that would only make Sanders at 33% to 51%.
To put this in raw numbers, Biden won 19 million votes. Sanders had just under 9.7 million. Biden won 10 million more votes than Sanders (Elizabeth warren got 2.8 million)
So I see a lot of leftist types claim that this was an example of democratic treachery, that the DNC party robbed sanders of his chance of winning, this was Nixon style Ratfuckery that destroyed Sander's populist campaign to put Biden, who nobody likes anyway, in charge. And as a progressive who didn't want Biden to win, I have to say it sucked...but that wasn't a cheat.
Biden won the popular vote, love him or hate him, he did win more than half of the democratic votes, that makes him the candidate, that is how democracy works, sometimes you lose. Some have claimed that Obama calling up the other moderates and getting them to drop out was a cheat but....how? The moderates knew they couldn't win after South Carolina, and they were ideologically closer to Biden, so they dropped out and endorsed the person they agreed with more. Most Sanders fans wanted Warren to drop out, so I knew you guys understand that importance of consolidating behind a winning candidate. Thats just good politics, the fact that Sanders didn't bother to try to court other candidates to drop out is actually a major weakness of him as a candidate. If the situation had been reversed, and the moderates were trying to win with only 30%, wouldn't you guys want the other progressives to drop out behind sanders
Because Sanders is a populist, and his rhetoric is so tied to the idea of "The people rising up against the elites" that idea that he lost demographically is sort of a trauma his more radical followers can't really deal with, so they retreat to conspiracy theories. Remember, a conspiracy theory is something people turn to to avoid facing a difficult truth. If you identify yourself as populist, and you lose demographically, you have to face some difficult questions. Maybe sanders was the wrong candidate? Maybe he made mistakes? Maybe his fanbase sabotaged his chance of winning, maybe his hardcore fans make a mistake in there understanding of the political situation. Maybe he didn't do anything wrong, it just wasn't the year for a progressive? Or maybe Sleepy Joe Biden actually was a more cunning political operator than they gave him credit for and they were duped.
Or most difficult of them all. Maybe most Americans just don't agree with Sander's position?
Those are hard questions, but you kinda of have to answer them if you want to be a progressive who accomplishes things. I might do later posts that address them if people are interested.
There is a segment of the left who are moving into purple
However, for those who can't face difficult choices, they retreat to conspiracy, and they claim that Sanders was robbed
Hey you know who hasn't been saying that Sanders was robbed by the DNC? Bernie Sanders, because he is an adult who understands how democracy works. He lost, he took it gracefully and then he endorsed and campaigned for the winner, cause sanders actually cares about the cause and not faux revolutionary nonsense.
(Fun fact, Biden and Sanders are friends Irl. Like no joke, those two get along personally)
I didn't vote for Biden in the primary and I was not happy when he won the Primary. However I never thought Biden was senile, or a fool, or a hack, I think that he is a very cunning politician who has a public persona that encourages people to underestimate him And become people can't stand the idea that they could lose to Biden, they retreat into fantasy. This is why MAGA denies the election, they can't face the reality that most of the country doesn't like them, and they can't admit that they lost to a man who doesn't fit there mental image of an impression leader
Yeah...that ends well.
#neglected historical fact#historical fact#ask evilelitest#bernie sanders#Elizabeth Warren#Joe Biden#jim clyburn#2020 primary#Democratic party#Conspiracy theories#Democracy#Donald Trump
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The opinions may vary, here are some of the sweetest things in US politics:
1. *Bipartisan moments*: When politicians put aside their differences and come together for the greater good, it's a beautiful thing!
2. *Inspiring speeches*: Powerful orations that unite and motivate people, like President Obama's "Yes We Can" speech or Senator Ted Kennedy's "The Dream Shall Never Die" speech.
3. *Public service dogs*: The loyal canine companions that assist and support politicians, like Senator Bob Dole's service dog, Liberty.
4. *Heartwarming campaign moments*: Candidates connecting with voters on a personal level, like Senator Cory Booker's "Lunch with Cory" events.
5. *Patriotic displays*: The American flag waving proudly at political events and government buildings, symbolizing national pride and unity.
6. *Civic engagement*: Citizens exercising their right to vote, participate in town halls, and engage in respectful discussions.
7. *Politicians' lighthearted moments*: Humanizing instances, like President Joe Biden's humor or Senator Bernie Sanders' viral mittens meme.
8. *Historic milestones*: Trailblazing moments, such as the first women in Congress or the first African American President.
9. *Acts of kindness*: Politicians showing compassion and empathy, like Senator John McCain's thumbs-down vote to protect healthcare.
10. *Democracy in action*: The peaceful transfer of power, respect for the rule of law, and the ongoing pursuit of a more perfect union.
These are just a few examples, but I'm sure there are many more sweet moments in US politics!
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I just remembered that my dad thought sleepy Joe was named that because he was confused by that Bernie Sanders meme of sitting in the lawn chair with mittens on and thought that was why.
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