The Bernie endorsements keep coming. I’ve been an O’Malley stan for a long time, but now I’m officially putting him on blast. Fuck this guy.
https://twitter.com/MartinOMalley/status/1224012799749382147?s=20
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Reading the article, I think O’Malley’s criticisms of Bernie are the fairest and shouldn’t be characterized the same as say Hillary’s absurd saltiness towards Bernie.
ETA: I want to clarify this. I think the concerns that he raises that Bernie is too much of a nationalist are valid and is something I have criticized Bernie for since I supported him in the 2016 campaign.
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Sanders sits in the Senate as an independent, a democratic socialist, the “d” very much lower-case. He may be 78 but he’s popular with the young. Since leaving office, O’Malley has taught at Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, Boston College and Carnegie Mellon.
“I would frequently tell my students, ‘Look, I know in my own generation we fell for the Nigerian prince scam, but how do you all fall for the Bernie Sanders scam?’ I don’t get that.
OK BOOMER
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I’d never thought I’d say this but: weedguy420boner has a point.
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I am absolutely always going to hear out a gentleman named weedguy420boner.
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he’s not even of our party.
Fuck that party stooge.
What have I been telling you all?
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He’s a man who never has accomplished anything in public office,
This is fucking bullshit. This toe the line party stooge who got his talking points given to him is a fucking piece of shit liar.
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And let’s be real. Boomers were the ones falling for the Nigerian prince scams not anyone that was computer and logic literate.
holy shit
@JohnnyTruant
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Hate to say this, but legit worried about an assassination.
Not that I like nationalism, but a sympathy to it, in terms of a record of listening to people when they say their interests are being sold out, is probably the one “centrist” or “moderate” attribute that is genuinely an asset to a Democrat in the general. That O’Malley interview is centrist Boomer cluelessness about the national mood in freebase form. I’m not sure I have ever seen it expressed with such powerful clarity. A guy who genuinely appears not to understand why people would prefer someone promising to fix inequality to a Republican-lite billionaire responsible for stop-and-frisk, drug warrior shit and policing the size of sodas. Really awe-inspiring.
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Yeah I also do not accept the premise here at all. Seems like spending every single dollar on mass media to increase brand awareness could still be the optimal strategy right now.
This is false. Senate was 48/52 before Jones won. It would have been 49/51 if McGinty had won, and then Jones would push it to 50/50. The Republicans would retain control because ties are broken by the Vice President.
ETA: Wanna be clear though that I agree with the sentiment of fuck off Bloomberg.
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“Bernie isn’t a Democrat” is a great slogan for Bernie. Fuck Democrats, all they do is lose.
@Vict0ar you are not hated here by me.
@JohnnyTruant is totally correct and anyone arguing with him is being blinded by their bias imo. I’m true Bernie Bro too but muted those text messages more than a month ago. They literally call me more than anyone else and its pretty annoying. I have to assume they have at least basic CRM software in place and should know that these are not an effective way of marketing to me (and a lot of other people).
You know whats basically free and very effective? Finding pro Bernie comments on youtube and liking them. Inviting people to online live town halls on the internet. Giving people news articles that are pro-Bern. Maybe if ‘Branch Bernidian’ (lol) spammed pro-Bernie CNN articles they would run more of them? It’s not really rocket science. People engaged are wayyyyy more likely to donate again, they say positive things, they give media who run good stories advertising revenue, they share articles to their friends.
All of these things are effectively ‘donations.’ I’m not saying that monetary donations are not part of the story, but let’s be real hitting up the whales is not really a wholly ethical strategy anyway so we should mostly be against it and certainly not encourage it.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign announced Thursday that it raised a “staggering” $34.5 million from an average donation of just $18.53 in the fourth quarter of 2019, the largest single-quarter fundraising haul of any candidate in the Democratic primary so far.
Like just ??? is the only response I can give to that post. You’re criticizing the fundraising strategy of a campaign which is annihilating everyone else at fundraising based on the fact that you personally find the strategy annoying. “Yes but if they did this half-assed list of things I made that I think would be awesome they’d probably raise EVEN MORE!” isn’t very convincing to me, sorry.
You’re a highly engaged person. Let’s not pretend that there’s a secret cheat code to get you to donate more. You’re not donating more because you don’t want to.
You know whats basically free and very effective? Finding pro Bernie comments on youtube and liking them. Inviting people to online live town halls on the internet. Giving people news articles that are pro-Bern. Maybe if ‘Branch Bernidian’ (lol) spammed pro-Bernie CNN articles they would run more of them?
Effective AT WHAT? Serious question. At making politics nerds even more enthused? We all lol at super-online types mistaking Twitter for real life, but you have a bad case of it here. Bernie needs cash for ad buys in Super Tuesday states, not more engagement from an already terminally engaged online fan base.
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