Pussy Riot Planning Tribute to Bernie — and a Song for ‘Dickhead’ Trump

[Jefferson23]

One of Pussy Riot's lead members, Nadya Tolokno, visited Washington, D.C. to schmooze with Bernie Sanders staffers and tease her upcoming song.


Almost immediately after the leader of Pussy Riot arrived in Washington, DC, to headline an annual libertarian gathering on Friday, she was already DMing on Twitter with the Bernie Sanders campaign.

“I will have fun tonight with Bernie Sanders’s office, we will have drinks tonight,” Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (also known as "Nadya Tolokno&quot told The Daily Beast, as she was wrapping up her evening at the International Students for Liberty Conference. “I am going to hang out with Bernie Sanders’s team.”

Tolokonnikova, who describes herself as a social democrat and was a supporter of Occupy Wall Street, is a leading member of Pussy Riot, the anti-Putin, feminist punk-rock collective based in Moscow. (It goes without saying that she is well to the left of many of the libertarian activists and students who she addressed at the Q&A session on Friday.) In 2012, she was famously convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" in Russia.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/27/pussy-riot-planning-tribute-to-bernie-and-a-song-for-dickhead-trump.html

[Vattel]

1. sweet!

[brooklynite]

2. Who is Pussy Riot going to convince that isn't already in Sanders' corner?

[Jefferson23]

3. What do you care? n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

4. +1

[brooklynite]

5. This is a politics forum...we discuss politics.

If you don't want your post discussed, perhaps you can post it in the safe cocoon of the Bernie Sanders group?

[Jefferson23]

7. I post here and wherever I like and respond as I believe appropriate...that includes

responding to what I deem disingenuous questions. Yours being one example.

[floppyboo]

6. Or, who is Pussy Riot going to convince to get out to vote?

Bernie has the popular vote, although it's getting slim I imagine after SC - anyone have the new number on that? - despite the younger demographic not coming out. Maybe Pussy Riot can help with this?

[rjsquirrel]

9. Bernie has the popular vote?

Says who? Isn't that decided by elections?

Voters who don't turn out aren't voters at all.

[floppyboo]

11. I meant to date in the primaries. so yes, decided by election nt

[rjsquirrel]

13. Oh to date sorry

If that's even true and I'm not sure it is.

[floppyboo]

20. ya, not up to date since SC, but those #'s are so low...

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the spectre of any of the Republicans will light a fire under some asses for the GE. Just a little concerned that the dem nominee fight is providing a bit TOO much gasoline

[rjsquirrel]

21. Completely agree

We need all hands on deck this time.

[rjsquirrel]

8. That's gonna go over

real well.

[Jefferson23]

10. Not for neoliberals, no..they'll not approve. n/t

[rjsquirrel]

12. Insults

I guess that's what you get after last night's drubbing.

Bernie needs older minority voters not emo college kids who won't vote anyway. Ask a church full of African Americans how they like Pussy Riot.

Lol. Wishful thinking. Anyone who even knows who PR is is either voting for Bernie or given up on electoral politics.

[Jefferson23]

14. What insult? You came into this thread stating..that'll go over well. Who do you think you're

fooling? Pussy Riot is offering a tribute to Sanders, and she should be told to
forget it? No one asked her from the Sanders campaign...she stands in solidarity.

If anyone finds Pussy Riot offensive for trying to push back on Putin and his
regime it is not likely they want to vote for Bernie.

[rjsquirrel]

16. Pussy Riot is not a "she"

Lol whatever.

[Jefferson23]

18. Pussy Riot has a SHE representative and your semantics game is obvious.

Your concern for their cause and Bernie is duly noted.

[rjsquirrel]

22. It's "they"

And "neoliberal" is an insult.

It's ok, Hillary's got this now, we can be friends when the butthurt is over,

[Jefferson23]

23. SHE, since there is ONE representative in this venue..but keep up your same semantics game.

You won last night but came into the thread to show your deep concern for Bernie and
and Pussy Riot. lol Your first comment was quite clear...you're not fooling anyone.

Neoliberal's are not likely to support Pussy Riot but they are likely to
mock and show "concern" when they are supporting Bernie.

[rjsquirrel]

25. Whatever

It's a band. If only one is supporting Bernie then it's not the band supporting him. Have cake. Or eat it. Your choice.

[Jefferson23]

27. Yea, all known and yet you needed to focus on that b/c it mattered so much.

Just like your sincere concern for Bernie and Pussy Riot, their cause and getting votes for him. lol

[Lizzie Poppet]

24. "who won't vote anyway" They will if not lied to and convinced Bernie can't win.

Besides, how are older minority voters in deeply red states, which constitute a significant portion of Hillary's minority vote advantage, any more valuable than non-voting "emo college kids" (insipid ageist insult duly noted) once the GE rolls around? Neither is going to matter one bit in the GE. Hillary's strategy is a classic "win the primary, get crushed in November" cock-up. She's alienated the only demographic that can make up for the huge boost in turnout her candidacy will create among far-right voters.

If Hillary were actually a progressive I wanted anywhere near the Oval Office, I'd be furious, since I think it's a loser in November. As it is, I'm just depressed that it may well turn out that the Democratic choice is just another slightly-less-toxic, pro-corporate conservative.

[rjsquirrel]

26. Pretty weak voters then

If they can be dissuaded from supporting their candidate because someone tells them he can't win.

They can make it otherwise. The burden is on his supporters to vote. We shall see.

To be clear I love Bernie. Love him. I just don't see him winning.

[PeaceNikki]

15. That's pretty cool. They're badasses.

[Jefferson23]

19. Totally...thank you. n/t

[Lizzie Poppet]

17. Just in case you didn't already love them enough!

[virgogal]

28. Bernie will be elated to find that Pussy Riot is on his side.

[Jefferson23]

29. More concern for Bernie. lol

Thanks for stopping by.

[Jenny_92808]

30. "It is safe to assume that Trump will not be using any Pussy Riot songs at his rallies this year. "

[Jefferson23]

31. ha ha a safe bet, I agree. n/t