It's Official: Bernie Backs Biden

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1. About fucking time.
   Now, where is Mike Bloomberg and all his promised money?

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   1. Bloomberg was/is a lying perv.

      It had better be a big check.

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2. Bernie’s a class act, as always. Good for him. It’s worthwhile posting what Joe Zemek posted on Facebook –  Helpful advice for those who feel compelled to shame and scold Sanders supporters as their own backasswards way of promoting Democratic Unity:

    Joe Zemek
   April 9 at 9:03 AM ·
   OK, this is for the Biden supporting and/or Unity Now! folks.
   Shhhhhhh.
   Just take a break from talking to Bernie people about November. For like, at least April/May; consider maybe through August.
   Does anyone have November ballots *now? No. Will anyone have one before October? No. Is this really an issue for right now? Not really, no.
   And a lot is going to happen that we do not know, and cannot predict, without regard to how we feel or what we think today.
   It's fine to be freaked out, anxious, nervous, scared, etc. about November. Add the pandemic to what is already ultra high stakes, and it's even more fine to feel this way.
   But – and I am speaking now as a political professional, whose literal salaried job it is to maximize Dem-inclined turnout in November – it is harmful to talk to or otherwise engage people in any way that is coercive, bullying, browbeating, voter-shaming, accusatory, or pre-blaming for a bad outcome.
   It is HARMFUL, and your feelings do not in any way justify it.
   Like Bernie folks, you may have strong opinions that are a mix of hard truth, softer interpreted truth, and unexamined, uncorrected falsities, from 2016 through today. Engaging now may seem like you're doing something helpful by "encouraging" unity ASAP as beneficial for November 3, but that is often not the case at all. More often, it's far more about assuaging one's own anxiety and fear than it is doing work that is demonstrably helpful with regard to November 3 success. It's your own ego demanding satisfaction, and arrogantly believing that your words are special mind-changers, if only those fools will listen to you.
   Again, this is very harmful, and it's what so many do without even realizing it. The only person who can change their mind is them. And if we are going to be helpful in this process, the method that works is to *Listen*, not to *Tell*. I have tens of thousands of my own knocked doors backing this up, as well as the peer- reviewed experience of all the other multi-ten-thousand door knockers. This is the time to quiet our anxieties, listen, allow others to vent, be gentle in correcting untruths, but refraining from judgment, etc.
   This is good advice generally, but please, let's make a conscious effort to catch ourselves in greater awareness of what we are truly feeling, and if you're worried about November, reset that awareness from someone else's behavior to your own.
   Thanks.

   Now, with Bernie endorsing Biden, this rings even more true. The candidates themselves have spoken. Most Bernie supporters (90%) will vote Dem for all the obvious reasons. My Facebook feed is full of women who are upset about the latest sex assault allegations against Biden. And you don’t have any right to tell us not to feel what we feel about it. 
   We’re not idiots; we understand that $rump is an existential threat, and we’ll vote blue in November. Against $rump if not for Biden. 
   So follow Joe Z’s good advice: Listen, don’t preach. 

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   1. "allegations……"  The Times does give the full story. Many former Biden female staffers recall nothing like Ms. Reade alleges. And Ms. Reade apparently has a history of admiration for Vladimir Putin.

      Yes, kwtree, you have every right to believe and feel the way you want. But it's a two way street. You have no right to criticize others who don't share your feelings.

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      1. This one's been around the interwebz and bears repeating for anyone butthurt about how the Democratic primary race came out:

         We'll be choosing who will pick RBG's successor.

          

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3. CHB- perhaps you can point out where I “criticized others who don’t share your feelings”. “Listen, don’t tell” does go two ways. You are free to disregard Zemek’s advice, and probably will. 
    

   I really hope that Reade will be proven to be on Putin’s payroll, and her accusation to be  untrue- the timing, at least, is suspect-  but it probably will continue to poison the dialogue until November. We’re never going to know the truth.

   The trolls and bots will promote it and other anti-Biden stories non-stop, as they did in 2016.

   What I’m trying to do is to recommend sensitivity in dealing with survivors  of sexual assault— which at least 1/3 of women, and 1/7 men  are. You can say, as you did, that It’s not proven, not corroborated by office contemporaries.

   Stick to known facts, not speculation about the accuser. Or about my (assumed) motives in posting the story.

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   1. No need for self-deprecation kw.  You don't "poison" the dialogue in the least.  I always find your posts well thought out and inflammatory in a progressive way.  Please continue to articulate your concerns and we'll continue to verbally joust with you in a congenial way.

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      1. Gee, G G….”Inflammatory in a progressive way.” That may be the nicest thing anyone’s ever said about my writing on this blog. 😊

         I’ll take it – thanks.

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         1. Your welcome!  Now let us work to remove the corrupt sexual predator from our government payrolls.

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         2. How about “progressive in a strident, Ride of the Valkyries” way?

            . As for examples, how about your repeated assaults on itolduso for the sin of disagreeing with you?

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4. Sanders supporting Biden is a big deal.  The two must have achieved some kind of meeting of the minds.  Oh wait it simpler than that.  They both want to remove the orange cancer from the White House.

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