Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "This Is Not A Time To Take Our Foot Off The Gas Pedal." video.

It's almost like we should've just made this guy president. He actually sounds like he has a plan & knows what he's doing.
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@PRIVATE I know some people have short-term memories, but Bernie was set to win the primary originally. He carved out a massive bloc of the Democratic base for himself despite 9+ candidates running in an overcrowded primary (many of whom trying to copy Bernie or present themselves as a "more practical" Bernie Sanders). The Main REASON he lost was because the entire makeup & dynamic of the election, that had been established through 10 debates & over an entire year, was completely changed at the last second in one single night before the Super Tuesday vote - the neoliberal "centrists" basically flipped the game board over because they knew they couldn't win Super Tuesday without all of them teaming up against Bernie & likely ensuring the candidates who were supposed to be Bernie's ideological allies (Warren mainly) didn't back him once the board was flipped. It's unheard of in American politics for a candidate to win the popular vote in the first 3 states & then go on to lose the primary, especially in the way that occurred considering it wasn't even close by the end & even Bernie had drop out before the convention. Once that game board had been flipped & no other candidates came to Bernie's aid (aside from Williamson), there was strategically no chance. The DNC & Party might as well have just stole the nomination from Bernie at the convention, it would've made little difference in how they manipulated the primary to get a result that was desired by the Dem elites & party insiders that despise Bernie & the Left.
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Establishment Shill-Troll It's perfectly okay to disagree & criticize Sanders on his strategy, but smearing his intentions as a "sellout" is disingenuous & makes you sound like a Qanon nutjob, who has less than no evidence Sanders has ever taken a dime from lobbyists, corporate interests, or embezzled money from his campaign funds, yet still push the insane notion that he sold out so he could buy his 7th house & lambo. I'm unhappy he didn't make public demands either for the endorsement, but the reality is it was either Trump or Biden & the Biden team knew all the candidates had no choice but to support him in the general considering how dangerous his opponent was. There is also no such thing as "demands" or "guarantees". I didn't trust Hillary Clinton to carry out her promises to Bernie in 2016 & I wouldn't trust Joe Biden just as much. For all you know, the Labor Secretary position was offered to Bernie behind the scenes as motivation to give his endorsement when he did. If that was a "demand", then you can already see how that turned out. Bernie could've demanded free college, no more trade deals, & lower drug prices be added to Biden's platform (just as was done for Hillary), but Joe Biden literally had a $15 minimum wage & a public option in his own platform & look what happened with that - he barely talks about either anymore & at most they're going to do tweaks to Obamacare (if we're lucky). If Biden ignores his own policy goals, how well do you think he would've pursued Bernie's "demands"? The truth is there is no such thing as assurances with Hillary, Biden, or any neoliberal corporatist & the only way to win on those issues is to WIN the election, otherwise you lose everything & you'll have 2 years of people infighting & calling each other sellouts when they're ideological allies.
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Establishment Shill-Troll I didn't say you were one, I said it makes you sound like one. Just blanketly calling him a "sellout" doesn't even fit in with the general Leftist criticism about leveraging the endorsement. It just sounds like hyperbole in the context you're giving unless you have some type of proof that he dropped out for his own personal financial benefit rather than for a strategic one you simply disagree with. Like I said before, it's perfectly fine to disagree with Bernie & push him to make better strategic decisions, but throwing out baseless hyperbole is neither accurate nor productive in the least. Also, I'm not sure how anyone can call an endorsement of Biden as "Faustian" when his opponent is literally Donald Trump a neofascist authoritarian who was doing everything in his power to undermine American democracy. Polls proved to us that the majority of people that voted Biden did so because they thought Trump was a disaster not because Biden was a good candidate, but somehow you fault only Bernie for employing this logic. Additionally you also knew Bernie endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 to try to thwart Trump's chances to do endless tax cuts for the rich, ramp up drone strikes by 500%, & potentially kill 275,000 if a crisis occurred in his tenure, so why are you suddenly "betrayed" by a totally predictable decision he made & warned you about 1,000 times during the debates & primary he was going to make if he lost the race. You're being incredibly silly with your logic, or you're just being deliberately obtuse to stay angry about something that happened nearly a year ago.
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Establishment Shill-Troll Okay, once you start throwing out the "Trump might be better than Biden" nonsense (and still claim you're a leftist to the left of Bernie), you just sound like an idiot. There is no amount of pretzel tying in the world to ever make this argument sound reasonable from a Leftist point of view. 500% more bombs being dropped, assassinating an Iranian general who was basically their Vice President (a potential World War scenario given Iran's allies), likely orchestrating a CIA attempt at a coup in Venezuela, vetoing a bipartisan bill that could've stopped a literal genocide in Yemen & you're here saying "He didn't actually successfully start any new wars" despite all his efforts to do just that but failing. This is especially true in regards to Iran, which very easily could've been Trump's Iraq War 2.0 at any moment Iran decided to stop incessantly & reluctantly tolerating Trump's constant human rights abuses & casual violations of international law - most notably stopping the importation of life saving medication into the country just because.. & this is just his foreign policy, which is miraculously somehow less shit than his domestic policy & especially his ability to govern at all - evidence being the 275,000 dead Americans from COVID where we now have 100,000 new cases a day, while Australia have 0 new cases a day currently. Not to mention that Trump has put the wealth inequality problem/crisis on steroids & was basically the second-coming of Ronald Reagan on the issue of trickle down bullshit. I'm not quite sure why I'm even entertaining this ridiculous argument, but every single serious Leftist political scientist, analyst, pundit, or commentator has agreed on the basic fact that Trump is worse & utterly terrible as a point of simply common sense. Noam Chomsky has gone as far to say voting for Biden to remove Trump is common sense, a point I don't even totally agree with but it shows you just how wrong & misguided you are & still claim to call yourself a Leftist. Did I even mention how Trump was literally trying to subvert the results of a Democratic election by throwing out every single mail-in vote in the states he lost or how that was his plan since Day 1 to delegitimize mail-in-voting during a fucking pandemic so he could try to claim fraud when there was inevitably & predictably a Red mirage on election night. He's an authoritarian goon & conman drunk on power and you couldn't get any more clear about that reality unless Jair Bolsonoro was our president, another authoritarian neofascist who utterly failed to respond to the COVID pandemic.
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@JB-bc2ry If Bernie doesn't run (which it doesn't seem like he will), we should all put our support behind Turner & elevate her to be Bernie's successor in his fight.
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Establishment Shill-Troll Knowing that Trump is terrible & the greater evil doesn't require being "woke", it's just basic common sense if you are in fact a Lefty. I could lay out all the examples of Joe Biden shilling for the establishment & corporate interests or his objectionable to offensive career as a moderate Republican & status quo manager, but it still wouldn't come anywhere near close to competing with the long list of Trump's awful decisions, neofascist authoritarian tendencies, corrupt deals (many unconstitutional & illegal), anti-science dogmatism that's already lead us down a dark path full of American fatalities, a Massive increase in military hawkishness & number of dropped bombs (this is the guy who dropped a MOAB in the first 3 months of his presidency), blatant war crimes that he himself ordered & carried out, blatant war crimes & murders that he helped cover up for other authoritarian regimes (Saudi Arabia & Israel come to mind), his actions that massively exacerbated wealth inequality to the levels of pre-Great Depression era, & his constant efforts to destroy American democracy & shift 35 to 40% of the country towards an authoritarian & dangerous amount of zealotry. If you don't recognize anything I'm alluding to, then maybe you should do some research or at the very least stop evoking "woke" culture B.S. as if you were Dave Rubin himself in an attempt to ignore or belittle the very real issues I've laid out in plenty. Instead you deflect to Democratic inaction as if this is somehow equal to neofascist far-right extremism, gaslight me for saying something as reasonable & obvious as "Trump is a disaster, & then try to pin personal responsibility on me for "the last 40 years" despite 1. not knowing me or who I am, 2. the fact that individual contribution only goes so far in solving real-world problems on a macro-scale (especially in a gov't that prioritizes elites & the wealthy over average concerned citizens), & also the fact that I'm only in my mid-20s & haven't even had the right to vote for just one decade yet. If this is how you feel about individual contribution then maybe you should look in the mirror & ask yourself that question.
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dood poop Bernie literally never said that & if he did, me & the entire rest of his base would turn against him. You are lying or woefully misinformed. He may not always have the best political strategy, but he's extremely principled in his policy beliefs & long history of anti-corruption & corporate money in politics.
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@Sharonformation There is no link. This guy is either lying or he's just an idiot repeating lies.
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@factsoverfiction7826 What people now refer to as "Bloody Monday" in the last primary. Pete Buttigieg was in 2nd place in the primary, while Amy Klobuchar was in 4th place. Both of them dropped out all at the same time & then immediately endorsed Joe Biden, who had come in 4th & then 5th place in the first two primary states. This all happened literally the night before the Super Tuesday vote, the election that would decide the Democratic Primary. The DNC even got Beto O'Rourke to come out of the woods to endorse with Buttigieg and Klobuchar since Texas was a battle ground state between Bernie & Joe Biden & was looking like Bernie was going to crush there. This sudden burst of backroom deals propelled a 3rd place candidate into first place & it's literally the first time in American political history that the person who won the popular vote in the first three primaries did not go on to win the primary election. The DNC & Obama team interfered & colluded with the Biden team to ensure the entire makeup of the Democratic primary was rearranged entirely in their favor just one night before the election that would decide everything. This was a primary that had multiple people debating over many ideas for over an entire year for the benefit of people knowing who they wanted to vote for & the DNC & party leaders just decided to get angry & flip the game board when they didn't like the results of the actual game. Except this isn't a game, it's the American peoples lives & in many cases it's life or death for them. The DNC & old Obama era goons continue to do a disservice to Democracy & the American people. I imagine this is going to be the reaction from here on out whenever it looks like an outsider is about to win the Democratic Primary. They might as well have just stole the nomination at the convention, something they likely would've tried if Bloody Monday had failed.
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