Who's "nervous"?

[SHRED]

Link to tweet

[Me.]

1. Not Me.

[brush]

23. Me neither. Sanders just got booed at the "She the People" forum.

The person with women of color booing him at a presidential forum should be the one worried.

[Hortensis]

24. Me neither. The firefighters' union just declined to endorse him.

Before decamping to Trump's populism in the GE, most who voted in the primary chose the male populist over the liberal woman. This time there are lots of men to choose from, and they weren't impressed with Sanders's wooing.

[brush]

31. Yeah, I just saw the firefighter's union chief endorse Biden. And Biden's PA rally is...

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packed. This is starting to look more and more like a Biden/Harris ticket.

[Hortensis]

35. Long, bumpy road ahead. And Harris might have other

ideas. But I have to confess I like the pairing also; a lot of people fasten on her job as a prosecutor, but a progressive activist group evaluated her to be the most progressive senator by votes and achievements. Too bad Elizabeth Warren is white and a northeasterner.

Who'd have thought a one-color male-female ticket would lack a desirable degree of diversity so soon, though? We (amazingly!) haven't elected a woman of any color president yet, but at least minority men can be said to have made substantial progress, with the traditional assumed trickle-down benefits to their "womenfolk."

Oh, my. I just remembered way back when militant black activists called on black women to contribute to the revolution by producing more black babies. Did NOT go over well!

[brush]

38. Things do seem to be moving quickly. Warren is very strong but might be a victim...

of circumstances with Biden getting in and who pairs best with him.

[MineralMan]

2. Nervous? Not me.

But, then again, I'm not Trump. I'm not corporate America, and I'm not the Democratic establishment. I'm just one Democratic voter who wants very, very badly to:

VOTE HIM OUT!

[DownriverDem]

11. Why

did you name the Democratic Establishment? I'm a proud member of the Democratic Party and many like me consider ourselves to be part of the Democratic Establishment. Do you like Dems?

[MineralMan]

12. Because it was in the original tweet.

I'm a Democrat, and an active one. But I am a single person, not an Establishment, as Senator Sanders describes it. I'm just using his phrase. Please see the original tweet.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Not nervous about Bernie, TBS...

[bearsfootball516]

4. Nope.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Not me. Trump is obviously nervous, but

Bernie overestimates the nervousness of the so-called "establishment." And exactly what is that, anyhow? Isn't a career politician who's been in government for most of his adult life, who drifts into the Democratic party every four years when it's advantageous, equally a member of the "establishment"?

[W_HAMILTON]

6. LOL

[progressoid]

7. " 'Stop Sanders' Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum"

April 16, 2019

WASHINGTON — When Leah Daughtry, a former Democratic Party official, addressed a closed-door gathering of about 100 wealthy liberal donors in San Francisco last month, all it took was a review of the 2020 primary rules to throw a scare in them.

Democrats are likely to go into their convention next summer without having settled on a presidential nominee, said Ms. Daughtry, who ran her party’s conventions in 2008 and 2016, the last two times the nomination was contested. And Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is well positioned to be one of the last candidates standing, she noted.

“I think I freaked them out,” Ms. Daughtry recalled with a chuckle, an assessment that was confirmed by three other attendees. They are hardly alone...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democratic-party.html

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. Yep. Obvious.

[BlueFlorida]

32. Momentum?

[dalton99a]

8. They are shaking in fear. Psych them out some more, Bernie

[Mr Tibbs]

20. Bernie is calling for policies that help people

If the powers-that-be see that as a threat, then we know where the real problem lies

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

27. Right again Mr. Tibbs!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[BlueFlorida]

33. No one sees Bernie as a threat

He has ZERO chance of winning.

[Mr Tibbs]

46. He is the front runner because people want his policies to be enacted

Both establishments see him as a threat. That's because he is driving the political system back to the left where is should be.

[JI7]

56. Biden is the frontrunner

[Mr Tibbs]

58. I don't believe Biden can win the nomination

If Biden clings to the center, it might haunt him later. Right now, Sanders is driving the party to the left ideologically.

[JI7]

60. why isn't Sanders doing better than Biden ?

[BlueFlorida]

64. ...

[UniteFightBack]

9. Who are the 'Democratic establishment' that is getting nervous? Who is that Bernie...the same party

that he's in though right?

I'm just really really turned off and it took a lot to for me to get there....but I am officially there.

[Me.]

39. Isn't He The DEm Establishment?

He's a sitting US Senator who says he's a Dem. That says "Establishment" to me.

[nolabear]

42. Only when convenient.

I’ve had enough of that.

[Mr Tibbs]

48. He isn't pure enough?

Yet he is the front runner?

Sounds like a dilemma.

[NYMinute]

67. He is a front runner only in cuckooland

In the world of reality, he is barely second and dropping fast.

[Mr Tibbs]

47. The centrist wing is the establishment

[UniteFightBack]

50. And that's not divisive? nt

[Mr Tibbs]

57. There have always been factions within the party

That's how politics work.

[Cha]

74. The Democratic Canidates aren't

"centrists". If BS would pay attention.

[Cha]

71. I've been there since 2012..

Link to tweet

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the article SHRED.

[yaesu]

13. I always wonder if some of his tweets are done by some overzealous assistant, Democratic anything

should never be put in the same boat as tRump, I like Bernie but the Democratic establishment, which has never been perfect, is all we have to work with right now, they will be running our parties election, it is not a them vs us thing.

[Renew Deal]

15. He lumps Democrats in with Trump.

Anyway, Democrats aren't worried that he's going to win. That's not going to happen. Democrats are worried that he's going to cost Democrats the election with his behavior.

[Cha]

16. BS is "taking himself down".. with

these kinds of non answers.

Bernie has a rough time at She the People conference

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=86745

[brewens]

17. Good sign. When the ACA was being worked on, I was watching for medical insurance company stocks

to tank. Maybe I was thinking wrong, but I felt that would mean we were onto something.

[NurseJackie]

18. "Democratic establishment" gmafb.

[Cha]

75. BS can't quit that buzzword.

[betsuni]

19. He should add "And you're ugly, too" to these tweets.

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If you're going to run an insult comedy campaign.

[BlueFlorida]

30. Or "I'm rubber and they're glue" nt

[Cha]

73. BS insults canape, too..

Link to tweet

I bet sirota came up with "canapés".

[mcar]

21. Looks like he took Dotard's bait

[LongtimeAZDem]

22. Once again, I renew my call to the DNC Chair to revoke his candidacy on the basis that he fails

to meet the qualification of a "bona-fide Democrat" whose:

"public writings and/or public statements affirmatively demonstrates that he or she is faithful to the interests, welfare and success of the Democratic Party of the United States, and will participate in the Convention in good faith."

I'm not nervous, I'm disgusted.

[BlueFlorida]

29. +1000 nt

[NYMinute]

68. I completely agree.

I think Perez should write a public letter stating "either stop the attacks on Democrats or pack your bags."

[treestar]

25. Dotard was supposed to take down the Establishment

And as a result, we learned that The Establishment is not so evil after all.

[greatauntoftriplets]

26. Not me, but Spanky certainly seems out of sorts since Joe Biden announced his candidacy.

[BlueFlorida]

28. Laughable

[redstatebluegirl]

34. Sorry Bernie, not me.

[Runningdawg]

36. I won't breathe easy for a while - even after the election

I don't believe he will leave the WH peacefully and I believe the blowback from the MAGAts is going to be epic.

[saljr1]

37. I am not nervous but I know that Trump is nervous about two Democratic candidates just by the

way he criticizes them all the time. Biden and Warren.

[Trenzalore]

40. He has peaked

He's well known, he doesn't have Hillary Clinton to kick around, and there are 19 other people to talk about his record this time.

Nobody is scared.

[Mr Tibbs]

59. His record is awesome

He is driving politics in the Democratic party right now. He is the most influential politician within the Democratic party right now, and he is consistently the most popular politician in the country.

These things make the powers that be within the party very nervous.

[NYMinute]

70. In thirty years

his biggest accomplishment was naming two post offices in Vermont.

[Trenzalore]

80. Time will tell

I think he has a peak of 25% once the debates start.

He has sharp elbows and doesn't play nice so he should not be surprised when he takes a few in the coming months.

I'd vote for him over Trump. Wouldn't vote for him in any primary though.

[namahage]

84. Again with "the most popular politician in the country"?

And from which poll do you get that?

The one with only 16 choices, where Biden--and a bunch of others--weren't included, and where Warren loses to both Trump and Pence?

Or the one where Vermont's constituents approve of him in high proportions? That's like saying SPAM is the most popular food in the country since it is overwhelmingly popular with Hawaiians.

It clearly can't be current polling, where Biden leads Bernie in a vast majority of the cases, often by double digits.

[Skittles]

41. Bernie is

[Afromania]

44. Why should we be nervous? I mean, idologically aren't you on our side Bernie?

You are right? I mean that's why you are trying to win the "Democratic" nomination? See, I'm not so sure you should win "our" nomination if you are about something that would make us "nervous". The fact that you think so is what actually makes me "nervous".

[betsuni]

51. A comment from the tweet thread illustrates Bernie's ideology.

The Democratic establishment is "worried the country is ready to return to the New Deal policies they've spent 50 years destroying."

That's right, it was the Democrats, not Republicans, trying to destroy New Deal policies this whole time! I've seen it explained: after McGovern's loss the Democratic Party decided New Deal policies would not win elections for them ever again, began shifting Right. By the time Bill Clinton ran for president the unions didn't have any power or money so he turned to Wall St., abandoning unions and the working/middle classes for the 1%. When progressive legislature is attempted and fails, they are secretly relieved -- they only pretend to support progressive legislature, never fight for it, hate and fear it. (What the Republicans are doing during all of this, they do not say.)

That's why Bernie thinks the Democratic Party is ideologically bankrupt and nobody talked about any progressive issues until he ran for president. It is why only he can save the people from the Democratic establishment.

The End.

[NYMinute]

66. Bernie needs to drop out

[Honeycombe8]

79. He has his own agenda.

I thought so all along. Sometimes it coincides with other Democrats, but sometimes it doesn't. And that's okay with him. As long as his agenda gets pushed further along.

I don't know what to think about him. He's good at politicking, though.

[ecstatic]

45. Wow. Wtf? Why is he still attacking our party??? nt

[crazytown]

53. 'We burnt down the village in order to save it'

[Honeycombe8]

77. I was wondering that, too. An interesting strategy. nt

[Mr Tibbs]

49. They try to tear him down, but it only increases his popularity in the primaries

And decreases his chances in a general election. The exact opposite of what they believe they are doing.

[NYMinute]

72. lmao

[Nuggets]

52. I can't take him seriously when

he tries to smear Democrats as “the establishment”.
That tired old line has been used since the 60s and is just as ridiculous now as it was then.

Plus I think he has as much chance of winning the Democratic primary, let alone the GE as America has of hearing a truthful statement from Trump.

[WeekiWater]

54. Is this for real?

[Sparkly]

55. It's an effort to stay positioned as an underdog.

With no connections, no money, no political machinery, etc.

[NYMinute]

65. It was an effort to stay relevant

Biden took the oxygen out of Bernie's media presence so he had to pull this stunt.

"Look at me!!! I'm still here."

[Cha]

76. And, still saying "establishment!".. lol

[Cha]

78. To make sure everyone knows he's

still divisive.

[JI7]

61. seems almost coordinated

[Blue_true]

62. I can't wait for the primary in my state.

But, maybe by then Bernie would have quit the race.

[JI7]

63. Every Single one of the Democrats running would help move this country

in the right direction as soon as they take office.

[NYMinute]

81. I would add a couple of exceptions nt

[Cha]

69. Does Joe Biden look "nervous"?

Link to tweet

[NYMinute]

82. It was a projection on Bernie's part

HE is the one who is getting nervous.

[Cha]

83. No doubt.