Someone just told me I will never understand why she loves Bernie because SHE is a MOM. When I said I was offended she told me that moms have thicker skin.
Didn’t think it was possible to hate Bernie supporters anymore than I already did.
Holy shit! That’s seriously fucked up to think or say. And WTF does it mean? Being a parent has little to no bearing on my politics, and certainly wouldn’t push me towards Bernie in particular.
Tweet showing percentage of Dem voters who will/will not vote for their candidate if that person is not the nominee. Not surprisingly, Bernie's supporters are only at 54% who will vote for whoever the nominee is.
So, basically, it's not showing me that we need to nominate Bernie. It's showing me that people who won't vote for anyone but Bernie are compete and utter twatwaffles who a huge amount of entitlement and no sense of empathy for anyone outside their little fucking sphere.
seeyalater52, also wanted to put a shoutout to you - fuck that woman. You are amazing and she's a bitch.
Someone just told me I will never understand why she loves Bernie because SHE is a MOM. When I said I was offended she told me that moms have thicker skin.
Didn’t think it was possible to hate Bernie supporters anymore than I already did.
Someone just told me I will never understand why she loves Bernie because SHE is a MOM. When I said I was offended she told me that moms have thicker skin.
Didn’t think it was possible to hate Bernie supporters anymore than I already did.
This makes zero sense for so many reasons. But thicker skin? What the fuck does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
Someone just told me I will never understand why she loves Bernie because SHE is a MOM. When I said I was offended she told me that moms have thicker skin.
Didn’t think it was possible to hate Bernie supporters anymore than I already did.
This makes zero sense for so many reasons. But thicker skin? What the fuck does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
It was meant as a dig against me for saying that her statements were hurtful to me as someone who hasn’t been able to have children. Because moms of course are stronger than the rest of us. (No offense - I’m sure people who have living kids are plenty strong but... so the fuck am I !)
This makes zero sense for so many reasons. But thicker skin? What the fuck does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
It was meant as a dig against me for saying that her statements were hurtful to me as someone who hasn’t been able to have children. Because moms of course are stronger than the rest of us. (No offense - I’m sure people who have living kids are plenty strong but... so the fuck am I !)
"You'll never understand why I support Bernie because you can't possibly comprehend how much of an asshole I am."
It was meant as a dig against me for saying that her statements were hurtful to me as someone who hasn’t been able to have children. Because moms of course are stronger than the rest of us. (No offense - I’m sure people who have living kids are plenty strong but... so the fuck am I !)
"You'll never understand why I support Bernie because you can't possibly comprehend how much of an asshole I am."
This is the most accurate translation of her hurtful utter nonsense. I'm so sorry she treated you like that seeyalater52. Fuck her, in the not-fun way.
I legit don't get what this means. I mean, I am a mom and I am unaware of any special deeper political understanding that comes from it.
I feel like it would be similar to me saying that my political opinion is superior in some way because I’ve had infertility and loss. Yes, we all have different experiences, but claiming one is inherently “better” than the other or provides special insight that no one else could possibly have seems pointless. I’m the biggest proponent out there for policies that enrich the lives of parents and children, especially mothers. Hell, I rely on those policies a lot of the time in my own situation (paid medical leave for example.)
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I've had infertility, loss, and am a mom therefore I'm super qualified to say that woman needs to be kicked in the crotch. What a sanctimonious twat. I'm hate that you had that encounter - I know what a gut punch that can be. Fuck her.
seeyalater52, she's less strong than anyone who has dealt with the deep disappointment/trauma of IF and pregnancy loss because she's probably never dealt with ANY disappointment in her life.
Post by mrsukyankee on Jan 26, 2020 4:02:36 GMT -5
I just had a white male friend post about the fact that Bernie is not a misogynist because he's stood up for women and done things for women over the ages. Ugh. I clearly responded with a few examples of what I saw as misogyny and that you can be both a misogynist and still do some good things at times.
Post by downtoearth on Jan 27, 2020 15:53:36 GMT -5
seeyalater52 , F-her! Sorry you had to hear that and I'm sorry she is such a douche - I think this article that I read today probably is her... left, but not woke. And that is SOOOOO Sander's brand.
“Left but not woke” is the Bernie Sanders brand. If anybody failed to recognize it before, nobody can miss it now. Last week, the mega-podcaster Joe Rogan endorsed Sanders. The Sanders campaign tweeted a video of the Rogan endorsement from Sanders’s own account. That tweet then triggered an avalanche of disapproval from other voices in the Democratic coalition.
But Sanders is a Marxist of the old school of dialectical materialism, from the land that time forgot. Class relations are foundational; everything else is epiphenomenal. Sanders may have outgrown the revolutionary socialism of his youth. He seems to think in terms of ameliorating bourgeois hegemony rather than overthrowing it. He is not necessarily hostile to transgender claims. He has co-sponsored the current version of the Equality Act, which includes transgender people in the classes to be provided equal public accommodation and to be protected from job discrimination. But Sanders certainly does seem to think that such concerns are secondary. Compare and contrast the answers that he and Elizabeth Warren gave at the December 19 Democratic debate in Los Angeles.
Yamiche Alcindor of PBS asked:
Senator Sanders, at least 22 transgender people were killed in the United States this year, [most] of them transgender women of color. Each of you has said you would push for the passage of the Equality Act, a comprehensive LGBTQ civil-rights bill. But if elected, what more would you do to stop violence against transgender people?
Sanders’s answer quickly pivoted away from the cultural to the material.
We need moral leadership in the White House. We need a president who will do everything humanly possible to end all forms of discrimination against the transgender community, against the African American community, against the Latino community, and against all minorities in this country.
But above and beyond providing the moral leadership of trying to bring our people together, what we also need for the transgender community is to make sure that health care is available to every person in this country, regardless of their sexual orientation or their needs.
And that is why I strongly support and have helped lead the effort for a Medicare for All single-payer program, which will provide comprehensive health care to all people, including, certainly, the transgender community.
The question went next to Warren. She plunged directly into the question of identity.
The transgender community has been marginalized in every way possible. And one thing that the president of the United States can do is lift up attention, lift up their voices, lift up their lives.
Here’s a promise I make. I will go to the Rose Garden once every year to read the names of transgender women, of people of color, who have been killed in the past year. I will make sure that we read their names so that as a nation we are forced to address the particular vulnerability on homelessness. I will change the rules now that put people in prison based on their birth sex identification rather than their current identification. I will do everything I can to make sure that we are an America that leaves no one behind.
Sanders checked a box of support for the identity issue, then returned to regular programming. For Warren, the identity issue was the regular programming.
As for Sanders himself, if there is one thing that the political world has learned about him by now, it is this: He does not cope well with criticism. He does not cope well with interruption.
It’s a testament to the power of the Sanders approach to politics that it has elevated as irascible and negligible a person as Bernie Sanders to the top of the Democratic pack. If the Oval Office is to be cleansed of Donald Trump, it will not suffice to defeat Sanders’s candidacy. The ultimate winner will have to plagiarize from his campaign, copying not Sanders’s literal ideas, but his themes: the practical over the theoretical, the universal over the particular.
Trump campaigned in 2016 as a different kind of Republican. He has governed as a cartoon of a bloated monopoly capitalist.
His tax cut delivered little for ordinary people, and almost all of that little has been devoured by his tariffs. Despite the rising economy, fewer Americans are covered by health insurance today than were covered when Trump took office.
He has delivered lavish benefits to rich cronies, while breaking faith on his promise to build new roads, bridges, and airports.
Now Trump seems to be plotting cuts to Medicare and Social Security if reelected.
Those are the points of vulnerability. Listing them is easy. Pressing them is hard—because to press them successfully, candidates must first establish an emotional connection with the voters they hope to sway. Suburban women and African Americans are two of the groups least impressed by Sanders—and the two groups whose greater or lesser enthusiasm will make the difference for a Trump challenger in November. African Americans will show up if inspired; they did in 2008 and 2012. Suburban women almost always show up. Joe Rogan listeners? They are a longer-odds bet.
The same CNN poll that showed Sanders tied with Biden among Democrats showed that Biden still leads Sanders 45–24 on electability. That seems a shrewd intuition. If Biden falters, Democrats have other options available: Michael Bloomberg and Pete Buttigieg, who are also exploring the left-but-not-woke terrain blazed by Sanders.