BERNIE SANDERS, WEIRDO IN CHIEF

[Wilikon]

[alyssa85]

Have people seen the following article?

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/bernie-sanders-campaign-last-days-224041

Bernie's campaign staff are throwing him under a bus...

[Nxtblg]

Have people seen the following article?

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/bernie-sanders-campaign-last-days-224041

Bernie's campaign staff are throwing him under a bus...

So it looks like we're gonna miss the big show in July:

https://youtu.be/QFE4N57ibUQ?t=2m37s

Awww, shucksters.

[Nxtblg]

Inside the bitter last days of Bernie's revolution

There’s no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on. At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders.

It was the Vermont senator who personally rewrote his campaign manager’s shorter statement after the chaos at the Nevada state party convention and blamed the political establishment for inciting the violence.

He was the one who made the choice to go after Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz after his wife read him a transcript of her blasting him on television.

He chose the knife fight over calling Clinton unqualified, which aides blame for pulling the bottom out of any hopes they had of winning in New York and their last real chance of turning a losing primary run around.

And when Jimmy Kimmel’s producers asked Sanders’ campaign for a question to ask Donald Trump, Sanders himself wrote the one challenging the Republican nominee to a debate.

There are many divisions within the Sanders campaign—between the dead-enders and the work-it-out crowds, between the younger aides who think he got off message while the consultants got rich and obsessed with Beltway-style superdelegate math, and between the more experienced staffers who think the kids got way too high on their sense of the difference between a movement and an actual campaign.

But more than any of them, Sanders is himself filled with resentment, on edge, feeling like he gets no respect -- all while holding on in his head to the enticing but remote chance that Clinton may be indicted before the convention.

Campaign manager Jeff Weaver, who’s been enjoying himself in near constant TV appearances, and the candidate’s wife Jane Sanders, are fully on board. But convinced since his surprise Michigan win that he could actually win the nomination, Sanders has been on email and the phone, directing elements of the campaign right down to his city-by-city schedule in California. He wants it. He thinks it should be his.

“Bernie’s been at the helm of this campaign from the beginning,” said Weaver, “and the overall message of this campaign and the direction of the campaign and the strategy, has been driven by Bernie.”

Convinced as Sanders is that he’s realizing his lifelong dream of being the catalyst for remaking American politics—aides say he takes credit for a Harvard Kennedy School study in April showing young people getting more liberal, and he takes personal offense every time Clinton just dismisses the possibility of picking him as her running mate—his guiding principle under attack has basically boiled down to a feeling that multiple aides sum up as: “Screw me? No, screw you."...

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/bernie-sanders-campaign-last-days-224041#ixzz4B2xjO1Wn

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In other words, the tone of the Sanders campaign has been set by a mysterious little-known fellow named Bernie Sanders.

[Wilikon]

https://youtu.be/FZsr3hRx-4Y

 

[Wilikon]

The berniebots reprogramming has begun...

[Wilikon]

LA gay pride parade shooter is a strong Bernie Sanders supporter.



[...]
Political Beliefs

The apparent Facebook page of the man is full of pictures of himself with his car and includes a number of political posts. But it shows no enmity for gays or membership in any movement.

The man in the Facebook page appears to be the same James Wesley Howell in a picture released by police, and the page includes several pictures of a white Acura sedan like the one Howell was arrested in on Sunday.

The page’s most recent public post, from June 3, shows a photo comparing Adolf Hitler to Hillary Clinton. An anti-Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders photo was posted in February.


http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/indiana-man-arrested-explosives-la-pride-100362/



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Berniebotnator?

[Wilikon]

Bernie Sanders vows to work with Hillary Clinton as Democrats move toward party unity

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/09/politics/bernie-sanders-washington/

berniebots rapped by their own leader, the weirdo in chief


 

[Wilikon]

Sanders Not Paying Interns a ‘Living Wage’











Bernie Sanders encouraged millennials to apply for a Senate internship with his office this fall, offering a $12 per hour stipend, an amount that falls below his demands for a $15 minimum wage.

    Looking for a paid internship with Sen. Bernie Sanders this fall? Apply by Friday: https://t.co/sDkh08lWE2

    — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) June 20, 2016

Roll Call reported Tuesday that Twitter users were quick to criticize the Vermont senator for paying interns below what he called a “living wage.”

    @SenSanders So “Fight For 15” doesn’t apply to your interns.

    — Spidey (@AnarchyArachnid) June 20, 2016

    Bernie sanders: everyone in the US should make a livable wage of 15 an hour. Unless you’re my intern then in that case you make 12 an hour

    — Jacob Clavesilla (@Clavesilla21) February 28, 2016


Sanders has repeatedly condemned Hillary Clinton for favoring a $12-an-hour federal minimum minimum wage, claiming at an April Democratic presidential debate that the rate is “not good enough.”

He said the rate must be raised to $15 per hour to provide workers with a “living wage,” despite paying his interns and campaign staff less.

Still, Sanders is the only presidential candidate among the initial sixteen contenders who pays interns.

Clinton relies on free labor for her campaign internships, though she established a paid fellowship last year after The Guardian reported she had brought on experienced organizers as unpaid interns.


http://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-pays-interns-below-his-definition-of-living-wage/

[BADecker]

Watch Bernie TOTALLY SELL OUT at the DNC:
"Suspend the Procedural Rules"...

The moment when Bernie threw the election to Hillary last night at the DNC:

"Madame Chair, I move that the convention suspend the procedural rules. I move that all votes, all votes cast by delegates, be reflected in the official record. And I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States."

It's sad that the only way Hillary can become the Democratic nominee for president is by "superdelegates," lying, cheating, corruption, fraud, and essentially rigging the entire process.

It's only fitting she ends up with the nomination after Bernie's symbolic suspension of rules, and finally, getting "selected" instead of "elected"…

Since the rules were basically suspended the entire time anyway, that is.

Bernie Sanders surprises crowd, moves to nominate Clinton by voice vote at the 2016 DNC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9tMnZKsRPY


Read more at http://www.thedailysheeple.com/watch-bernie-totally-sell-out-at-the-dnc-suspend-the-procedural-rules-and-select-hillary-clinton_072016.

[BADecker]

Bernie Sanders threatened with loss of Senate committee position if he didn't endorse Hillary

Watching Sen. Bernie Sanders hoarsely shouting his praises of Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention — and knowing that the hacked emails of the corrupt Democratic National Committee (DNC) reveal its machinations to undermine Bernie's campaign — did you wonder as I did why Bernie would be so servile? The Yiddish words schmuck and schlemiel come to mind.

I thought that Hillary probably bought Bernie off with promises of some plum assignment in her administration. But I should know better because the Clintons are nasty pieces of work who wouldn't use the carrot when the stick is so much cheaper and more effective.

Reporting from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, independent investigative journalist Wayne Madsen says Bernie Sanders was threatened with the loss of his ranking position on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee if he did not endorse Hillary with enthusiasm.

Read more at http://www.dcclothesline.com/2016/07/28/bernie-sanders-threatened-with-loss-of-senate-committee-position-if-he-didnt-endorse-hillary/.

[BADecker]

Bernie Sanders Leaves the Democratic Party

Sanders, who considers himself, officially, an Independent in Congress because his views lean further left than the Democratic party's platform, caucuses with Democrats. But until declaring an intention to run for the presidency in 2015, he had rarely, if ever, identified as a member of the Democratic Party (he's been in politics since 1979).

And now, despite pleading with his base to support Hillary, even though they're concerned that she's too moderate, Sanders will return to Vermont and to his seat in the Senate, and he'll do it with no official party affiliation.

The nomination was barely sealed up at the Democratic National Convention before Bernie Sanders, who had campaigned against Hillary Clinton for the party's nod, went back to being an Independent.

Sanders, who considers himself, officially, an Independent in Congress because his views lean further left than the Democratic party's platform, caucuses with Democrats. But until declaring an intention to run for the presidency in 2015, he had rarely, if ever, identified as a member of the Democratic Party (he's been in politics since 1979).

And now, despite pleading with his base to support Hillary, even though they're concerned that she's too moderate, Sanders will return to Vermont and to his seat in the Senate, and he'll do it with no official party affiliation.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was forced to resign as Chairwoman of the DNC after leaked emails revealed she'd tried to keep Sanders from challenging Clinton for the party's nomination, might even be vindicated—sort of.

Sanders has struggled all along with whether to call himself a Democrat, even ducking the question of his party affiliation, raised by local Vermont media, just days after he declared. He later tried to reinforce that he was, indeed, a Democrat. But Sanders certainly wasn't a party player—and that's exactly the concern Wasserman Schultz voiced in the Wikileaks document dump.

In an April 24 email she received with an article describing the ways Sanders felt the DNC was undermining his campaign, she wrote back, "Spoken like someone who has never been a member of the Democratic Party and has no understanding of what we do."

Read more at http://heatst.com/politics/bernie-sanders-leaves-the-democratic-party/.