Is Bernie Sanders your stoner college roommate?

[brooklynite]

New York Daily News:

Remember that guy who lived in your college dorm, always wore a Che Guevara t-shirt, and ranted about “the system?” That’s basically Bernie Sanders.

Throughout this presidential campaign, a fulsome narrative has sprouted up around the Vermont socialist: That whatever one thinks of his far-left political views, Sanders is undoubtedly bookish, erudite and extremely knowledgeable about the issues.

A highly revealing interview with the Daily News Editorial Board last week, however, shows that claim to be utter rubbish. Sanders is less Eugene Debs, the Socialist Party presidential candidate about whom he made a laudatory documentary, than Gene the Undergraduate Stoner, who, whenever interrupted amidst one of his interminable diatribes about the glories of socialist economics, complains about you harshing his buzz.

Take Sanders’ signature issue: wealth inequality. Despite railing endlessly on the stump about how American corporations are “destroying the national fabric,” Sanders was unable to name even three American businesses guilty of that grave charge. Similarly, while bemoaning how no Wall Street executive has been prosecuted for supposed crimes that sparked the financial crisis of 2008, he could not name any legal statute that they violated.

[Joe the Revelator]

1. Super edgy, dude.

[TheBlackAdder]

35. Is this the new meme being floated today? Yet, BHO blazing photos & WJC "did not inhale"!

[reformist2]

38. This is what you get when you have several hundred people on the meme-making payroll.

[roguevalley]

42. no, bernie is the roommate that sees someone getting abused and rushes to help them

unlike her.

[Segami]

2. UNREC.

Pulling on straws, are we?

[dchill]

3. Hillary's campaign: off the rails.

I'll bet those internal polls have her screaming at all and sundry.

[nichomachus]

16. And throwing stuff

Hillary is a thrower. Duck.

[dchill]

18. Is that an artful smear?

Never mind, doesn't matter.

[TheBlackAdder]

36. Like the creation of a galaxy, an unstoppable and exponentially gathering force of collective shit!

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Soon, it will compress into a black hole and start consuming itself.

For a poli-sci guy, this is where all the years of schooling are affirmed.


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[msongs]

4. is he is the grouchy guy who never had many friends for being so bossy and disagreeable?

[dchill]

19. Takes one to know one?

[delrem]

5. Why do Hillary's supporters piss all over Bernie's activist youth?

You go from "it was really Rappaport" to this kind of nonsense.

Are you that out of touch?

Do you remember how Kerry was swiftboated? It was by this kind of shit. The besmirching of his medals, first. Then the besmirching of his youthful ideals. It was a bad scene made even more awful because it worked. The population was that malleable, that out of touch.

[PATRICK]

32. Exactly

AWOL Bush, not the only GOP campaign to project on the Dem, got women mainly to call Kerry a coward. Goldwater girl Hillary, with a somewhat questionable foray later into civil rights, ridicules Sanders activism, especially toward the base she delivers little to.

Projection, right out of the Devil's own handbook.

[reformist2]

40. It's the equivalent of sour grapes. They are furious at young people, bordering on contempt.

[jfern]

6. Is the NY Daily News a joke site? Yes.

[onehandle]

7. Old politician yells at cloud after accomplishing nothing in political career. nt

[nichomachus]

17. Oh, I don't think she's that bad yet.

After all, she is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. She has that accomplishment.

[BeyondGeography]

8. Tough town

[HassleCat]

9. He wasn't the uptight RA.

Who always came around and hassled anyone playing Led Zeppelin too loud. The New Christie Minstrels were OK for full volume, however.

[CoffeeCat]

10. Here's the Clinton camp's "destroy" and "disqualify"

effort that we've been warned about.

I'm laughing so hard I can barely type.

Hillary and David Brock are turning out to be Kronk and Yzma from "Emperor's New Groove".

[frylock]

12. This is some weak sauce.

[Fumesucker]

22. Poifect!

[Barack_America]

24. Even Republicans realize going after "irresponsible hippie-types" is a dead tactic...

Please proceed, Hillary.

SNL should do a skit where she morphs not into Bernie, but into Dana Carveyms GHWB character.

Thousand points of light!

[Warren DeMontague]

39. HES DONE FOR, NOW!

derp

[Jitter65]

11. Hands over their eyes, fingers in their ears.... nt

[CentralMass]

13. Wow, what a steaming pile this is. I see a man who has great compassion for his fellow man and

and one who has great judgment on the critical issues .

Take the Iraq war. .
Casualties from the Iraq war are estimated to be about 500,000 civilians, some estimates are as high as 1 million. We lost about 5000 soldiers and had over 32,000 seriousely wounded due those who voted for the Iraq war. The war alson spawned. ISIS.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

14. That make Hillary a Democratic version of Ann Romney?

Nixon supporter

[jillan]

15. Nope. My stoner roommate in college wasn't out protesting.

Oh silly me - that's Bruce Rappaport!!1!!

[amborin]

20. desperate smear; one of my professors was a room mate w/Bernie and your OP is disgusting

[Surya Gayatri]

21. Enormous K & R. Thanks for posting.

Devastating proof that he's not ready for prime time.

LOL! The Bern's lacunae will be become ever more apparent...

[Barack_America]

23. Recycling the '92 GOP general election campaign against Bill Clinton?

How very revealing of the true difference between Bernie(D) and Hillary(R).

[killbotfactory]

25. Lol

This campaign is getting interesting.

[Kalidurga]

26. You should run that as an ad

It should be good for a 5 point uptick in the polls for Bernie.

[MFM008]

27. no

but today he has acted more like Rev. Jim Ignatowski....oh wait.

[ucrdem]

28. Hillary wants us to write a paper, Bernie wants us to stage a sit-in.

Same deal with Barack and the Assange-Snowden brigade. Some people like writing papers, some don't. Strange race.

[Fumesucker]

29. K&R for the Lulz

Bless your heart.

[Luminous Animal]

30. Agreed! K&R. I hope it gets 100+ recs.

[PATRICK]

31. Weirdly unconvincing

Seems more like Debbs after the dismissive rant. Debbs had a hand in building the progressive electorate that lead us to FDR rather than a dictator/fascist. So did the Bull Moose party. This is why some are saying the future holds and FDR revolution at least in the cards.

The last person I listened to who insisted no one had broken any finance laws was the slick spokesman for the British finance services hosting the "Panama" money fest with typical PR and lots of jovial plausible deniability. Other than Obama and Clinton I don't know the full list of druggies from the hipster past who should not be believed.

[Aerows]

33. The minutes I spent

in my dorm room consisted of changing clothes, sleeping like a dead person, and getting my 40 lbs. of books ready.

My room mate and I got our books mixed up one morning and I ended up with some history book, and she ended up with organic chemistry. Not fun at 7:30 in the morning.

Well, that and the fact that I also ended up in her underwear that day, but hey.

[snowy owl]

34. Actually, that's why we have a Justice Department - one that should have been doing the job.

Do you think Obama could answer those questions without consulting Justice? That's a very poor post and it probably convinces some people who lack critical thinking skills.

[Warren DeMontague]

37. From your article: "Now that New York State has approved a Sanders-backed $15 minimum wage

to be rolled out over the coming years, we may see the unemployment rate rise as companies fire all those employees whose labor is not worth $15 per hour. These people will, in turn, join the welfare rolls, something that should make a true socialist like Sanders happy."

...So I suppose parroting Ayn Rand, Club For Growth, Fuck The Poor Tripe like that is okay....


hey, at least it's better than being a "Stoner Roommate"

[rjsquirrel]

41. My stoner college roommate became a very rich man

and I, equally a stoner, became a tenured research scientist.

Cut the damn stereotypes.