Bernie Sanders is a loser

He's been a US Senator for 30 years and is one of the most broadly popular American politicians around. He has a decent shot at becoming president. So, who's the loser?

That's so funny we forgot to laugh, Mr. Trump.

But he proclaims socialism, which is appealing to those that have nothing, and yet he has three fabulous houses. Some are more equal than others?

I wouldn't be so sure about the "broadly popular" part. It's true primarily with respect to part of the Democratic base.

Here's the actual article, if you aren't just a retarded headline reader:

The leader of Britain’s Labour Party credited U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) with some of his social democratic campaign planks, telling the writer Naomi Klein that he embraced comparisons with the Vermont senator.

“Bernie called me the day after our election here,” Jeremy Corbyn said in an interview published Thursday by the Intercept. “I was half-asleep watching something on television. And Bernie comes on to say, well done on the campaign, and I was interested in your campaigning ideas. Where did you get them from? And I said, well, you, actually.”

Corbyn, who won the leadership of the Labour Party in 2015 and held it after a 2016 challenge, has frequently been cited by Sanders as an example of how left politics can win. This year, a snap election that began with predictions about Corbyn driving Labour into the wilderness ended with a series of surprise gains, and Prime Minister Theresa May clinging to power in a controversial deal with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party. According to a post-election analysis by Ipsos Mori, over half of eligible British voters under age 30 turned out — double the youth turnout rate in some American elections. That led to surprising Labour gains in cities with large universities, with student turnout overturning large Conservative majorities.

“There’s a lesson to be learned from what Corbyn did in the U.K.,” said Sanders in a recent interview with The Washington Post. “The remarkable thing about his election — and he did better than I did — was that among younger people, the voter turnout was as high as it was among the general population. That was unprecedented.”

In recent elections, Democrats have succeeded in pushing up youth turnout just twice — when Barack Obama was on the ballot. In 2010 and 2014, youth turnout plunged. And in this year’s special elections, youth turnout edged up only slightly. In Jon Ossoff’s near-miss bid for Georgia’s 6th congressional district, 17.2 percent of the electorate consisted of millennials. That was up from 14 percent in the race’s April primary — but millennials made up 25 percent of all eligible voters.

“If we can take the voter turnout in this country from 60 percent to 70 percent, which is where it was in the U.K., and bring young people into the electoral process, Democrats would win a landslide victory,” said Sanders.

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[quote] He's been a US Senator for 30 years and is one of the most broadly popular American politicians around.

That’s why his negatives are sky high with the majority of Americans? lmao

Whatever negatives he has are nothing compared to your boyfriend Donald.

R1, Bernie is a lazy mediocre old fraud who's all talk, whining, kvetching, and being a gadfly, but not actually ever accomplishing much of anything.

And it's hilarious you keep pushing that 'most popular politician' bullshit when he lost the primary in 2016 in a landslide of 4 million popular votes, and he's routinely polling 2nd, 3rd, and even 4th in this primary.

You dumb shits are so gullible, and have such an inability to actually do your homework and understand what's really going on.

Bernie is a loser. A SORE loser at that. Just like his supporters.

Bernie's favorability rating among the general populace is about 44/44, which is the same as Biden's and well ahead of Trump's. The only politicians who have higher favorability ratings are Obama and Bush and Bill Clinton, who are all retired. So.....fuck off R8!

Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite

Did he get that idea from Bernie as well?

He has a really high unfavorable ratings, and it's very well earned and well deserved.

There's some jackhole on Twitter running for the CA-25 seat that is wishing cancer on Obama for passing the ACA... this is the kind of toxic asshole that Bernie attracts.

Bernie is a fucking disaster. Bernie helped give us Trump, and he's looking to do it again.

According to Politifact, Sanders was the primary sponsor of seven pieces of legislation that were enacted, according to records:

H.J.Res. 132 (102nd): To designate March 4, 1991, as "Vermont Bicentennial Day."

H.R. 1353 (102nd): Entitled the "Taconic Mountains Protection Act of 1991."

H.J.Res. 129 (104th): Granting the consent of Congress to the Vermont-New Hampshire Interstate Public Water Supply Compact.

H.R. 5245 (109th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1 Marble Street in Fair Haven, Vermont, as the "Matthew Lyon Post Office Building."

S. 893 (113th): Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013.

S. 2782 (113th): A bill to amend title 36, United States Code, to improve the Federal charter for the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.

S. 885 (113th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 35 Park Street in Danville, Vermont, as the "Thaddeus Stevens Post Office."

So, 1. Name a holiday; 2. Makes a National Forest in Vermont larger. 3. Gives permission for Vermont and New Hampshire to maintain water facilities jointly. 4. name a post office, 5. Bill to provide a cost of living adjustment to disabled veterans, after years of no adjustment, passed unanimously, 6. Changes the VFW charter to say veterans instead of men and surviving spouses instead of widows. 7. Name a post office.

These bills were totally uncontroversial, safe bills. Who’s going to vote against disabled veterans? Back then, nobody. Enlarging a forest or maintaining water facilities isn’t going to be fought against by anybody, especially anybody outside of those states. Nobody else would care. Nobody’s going to fight against naming post offices. These bills are only about Vermont, except for the veterans’ bills which could have been brought by anybody. The change from “men” to “veterans” is nice, again, who’s going to fight it?

None of these bills require fighting, negotiating, arguing, or any type diplomatic skill to pass. Compare this with Teddy Kennedy passing COBRA, or child health insurance, against active opposition, and you can see the difference between an effective leader and someone who was fed a couple of easy to pass bills by friends so it looks like he’s doing something.

7??! He’s been in Congress a hundred years. Lazy fuck.

[quote] Did he get that idea from Bernie as well?

Pretty much. Breadline Bernie hates Israel.

There is a huge contrast between BernieBros claiming Bernie is going to give away free college and healthcare, and the actual facts at R12, which show a lack of any previously passed bills on these subjects, or indeed a lack of any focused purpose or coordinated effort with others in Congress on difficult or controversial issues. If you look at the facts coldly and unemotionally, he’s not an achiever.

There’s literally not a bill he has passed that has national significance, that was controversial or received any pushback at all. And the bills he did get passed, have nothing to do with his campaign promises about healthcare or education.

And this guy is promising people that he’s going to get Congress to pass bills he doesn’t have the votes to pass. Look at the facts above. When did he get Congress to pass a controversial bill about anything? Never.

Do any of his followers understand how Congress works? You have to get enough votes to pass bills. You can’t do it all by yourself. You can’t do it at all if Mitch McConnell is still there to stop you. And McConnell is from a very red state and the best bet to get rid of him is getting enough seats in the Senate that we get a Democratic Majority Leader. He’ll probably still be sitting in his seat, no matter how unpopular he is in every other state.

The whole structure of the American Constitution is based on ruling by consensus. If you can’t do that, you can’t do anything at all. And Bernie has no skills in getting bills passed by consensus in Congress. Look at the facts.

There are more exaggerated legends about Bernie’s capabilities than are backed up by the facts.