🔥 BERNIE RALLY IN DETROIT

[Donkees]

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON: You can’t change a corrupt system by taking its money. Our campaign is proudly by the working class and I will be a president for the working class. Live from Detroit with Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Dr. Cornel West and more:

[NurseJackie]

1. The Farewell Tour

[Thekaspervote]

4. Ouch!

[we can do it]

7. 😂😹😂😹😂😹

[tishaLA]

12. And like every one of Cher's farewell tours

It will go on forever.

[honest.abe]

15. +1!!!

[NYMinute]

16. Adios, Au revoir, Sayonara, Dasvidaniya, Auf wiedersehen, Ciao bello

Joe/Kamala or Biden/Harris 2020!!
Either way they are stronger together & can't be bought!!!
Jump on the Biden Bandwagon & abandon the revolution!!

[George II]

21. Прощай

[NYMinute]

22. Это тоже!

[cwydro]

27. Ooh.

Well played.

[Me.]

52. Good One NJ

[George II]

2. I was looking forward to watching the rally in Jackson, Mississippi. Did I miss it already?

[NurseJackie]

5. Cancelled due to lack of interest.

[George II]

8. Not on the part of the people in Mississippi.

[NurseJackie]

9. Bingo!

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

3. So it comes to "you are with us or against us"

The Bernie torch fades.

[George II]

6. Wasn't that a george bushism? "You're either with us or you're against us."

[Donkees]

10. 📸

[George II]

25. I thought he went to Detroit to woo the black vote? Where are they?

[Blue_true]

32. You didn't see that one young Black guy?

How many fingers am I holding up?

[zackymilly]

11. How else is Bernie going to get rid of all those shirts he had printed? n/t

[lapucelle]

13. "Which side are you on"? ...

The Democratic side, of course.

[NurseJackie]

14. Thank you. I'm a loyal Democrat. I'm not a Socialist.

[NYMinute]

17. It is beneath even Bernie to call his opponent corrupt and America's system corrupt

The system runs on rules and regulations - Bernie changed those many of those rules to suit himself over and over and how dare he call the system "corrupt?"

[NurseJackie]

19. It's disgusting.

THIS is what is costing him votes. THIS is why he's losing. THIS is why he won't be our party's nominee. THIS is why he won't be President.

You can fool some of the people... but he can't fool ALL of the people, and he certainly can't fool me.

I've had enough.

[NYMinute]

20. Not one but two former Democratic governors of Vermont

said "Bernie plays dirty" and I can see why they said that.

[PatSeg]

28. Once again

Bernie wasn't vetted in 2016.

[TomCADem]

18. Sadly Due to Coronavirus Concerns I Didn't See Warren's California Primary Rallies...

...and now that she has dropped out of the race, I missed my chance.

[pink]

23. Sadly, Bernie comes across as a cranky old Independent from Vermont n/t

[Moderateguy]

24. Does anyone find it odd

That his rally is a sea of white faces in DETROIT

[George II]

26. Based on past performances, no. He held a rally at a BLACK church in South Carolina....

....and the attendees were a sea of white.

[PatSeg]

29. Oh, ouch!

[Blue_true]

34. He could hold a rally in a Black person's home and the

crowd would be a sea of White people. The guy is just tone deaf to what affects the lives of everyday African Americans. He thinks that having Black crackpots like Cornell West backing him, he is speaking to rank and file African Americans.

[Historic NY]

54. Oh that was simply rich.

[AlexSFCA]

30. a rally during coronavirus outbreak??

[Blue_true]

31. That picture points out the problem that Sanders has.

I didn't see a single Black person in the part of the crowd that was visible. Detroit is a majority Black city.

[showblue22]

33. How is that Detroit?

It looks like Iowa.

Link to tweet

[Blue_true]

35. Looks like the woman sitting down on the stage is African American. nt

[showblue22]

36. One person in DETROIT.

They likely got bused in or are from neighboring areas.

[Blue_true]

48. Yeah, they likely would have been too anal to park in Detroit.

I saw two African Americans total. There was a youngish Black guy in one of the photos. But yes, a Biden crowd would have been loaded with African American rally goers. But Sanders' crowd says a lot about who his ideas appeal to, people that don't have to worry about job discrimination much (unless they are female), who think about their kids going to college because they have properly funded PreK-12 schools, who can hate the big banks because they actually have access to enough money to set up checking and savings accounts, people that don't have to worry about gun violence every day - so they can afford to support a man who has been stout against controlling guns in society.

[former9thward]

51. Maybe you can post a picture of a Biden rally.

The size of any of Sanders.

[Blue_true]

53. Size doesn't matter, that should be clear by now.

Biden has his rallies at voting booths, and he is beating Sanders because of that fact.

[Maru Kitteh]

37. . . i . .see . .. . . white people . . .. .

[betsuni]

38. But Bernie says his "multigenerational, multiracial coalition" is sweeping the country!

[musicblind]

39. I've gotta admit, that crowd is impressive.

He may or may not win the nomination, but he's won a lot of hearts.

[Recursion]

41. That's the thing with rallies, though

A big rally is 20,000 people, or 3% of the population of Detroit. Even huge rally numbers are dwarfed by voting numbers.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

42. Respect.

[NurseJackie]

43. Is it representative of Detroit? (Fair question.)

Detroit Demographics

Black or African American: 78.64%
White: 14.55%
Other race: 2.92%
Two or more races: 1.95%
Asian: 1.57%
Native American: 0.34%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.03%

[George II]

45. The crowd looks similar to that at his rally in South Carolina at an all-black church.

[Gothmog]

46. That is a very white crowd

[NurseJackie]

47. People be like... where the black-folk at?

[George II]

57. Remember that rally in Queens at Queensbridge Park, right across the street from North America's....

....largest public housing development, Queensbridge Houses? It's 60% black but the Sanders campaign didn't even consult with the tenants' association and never invited them to the rally RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET!!

It seems that they go out of their way to avoid dealing with African Americans.

[NurseJackie]

62. The campaign *said* there were flyers... but could not produce an example of the flyer. Curious, no?

https://patch.com/new-york/astoria-long-island-city/queensbridge-residents-say-they-didnt-know-sanders-rally

According to the president of the Queensbridge Tenants Association, the campaign contacted the association just a day before the rally. The people at the rally weren't from the community, looked like tourists, and were attending what was a "pretty white" event that "wasn't for us", local community leaders told the local news media.

That might be an important detail, because as the New York Times notes, the rally was held at "a gentrifying slice of Queens". Like many neighborhoods that once boasted ethnic and economic diversity now facing the displacement of longtime poor and predominantly black and brown people, the residents of Queensbridge has been facing rising challenges from gentrification for years. While the issues that combine to create gentrification - housing affordability, migration, wage gaps, devaluation of non-tech work - are big and complex, high-income, largely white millennials are a key constituency for Sanders.

The Sanders campaign hit back against the accusations that they did not involve the community, saying that they tried to contact the Tenants Association and posted flyers. When asked by local media for a copy of the flyer, though, the campaign went silent. The campaign also wouldn't say just where those flyers were posted.

Some might say there were no flyers.

[Gothmog]

58. I and others are wondering about this also

Link to tweet

[NurseJackie]

61. Again... WHERE THE BLACK FOLKS AT?

Detroit is Black or African American: 78.64% and White: 14.55%. Metro/Suburban Detroit is 22.8% African American.

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[musicblind]

65. I said it was impressive.

I didn't say it was representative.

Obviously, it is a self-selecting sample, and it is an example of supporter depth, not supporter breadth. Breadth is what's needed to win elections, and a lack of supporter breadth is why Sanders cannot win a large majority.

It's still an impressive picture, though.

[NurseJackie]

66. If it was representative, THAT would have been impressive.

I'm not impressed.

[Recursion]

40. I wonder what would happen if Sanders spent this rally money on GOTV

[George II]

44. I remember a time when Sanders' people were complaining that the DNC wasn't registering voters....

....at his rallies.

[Blue_true]

50. But hasn't that been the outstanding hallmark of Sanders' political career?

Talk about what the problem is, let someone else try to fix it.

[Blue_true]

49. His campaign seems to be really disorganized.

But that is what happens when people come together only because they dislike something.

[Uncle Joe]

55. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Donkees.

[MineralMan]

56. Cornell West is still following Bernie around?

[Uncle Joe]

59. Mayor of Jackson Mississippi Chokwe Antar Lumumba speaks at about the 1:15 mark,

I didn't know he was a native of Detroit.

[Uncle Joe]

60. Damn, he's good!

[PETRUS]

64. Yes, he was.

My wife and I watched it last night. We were impressed by all of the speakers.

[George II]

63. That's interesting, he was able to get to Detroit from Jackson, but Sanders couldn't get to Jackson.