Tag Archives: Bernie Sanders

Bernie was right. (Wake up, Dems!)

Posted on November 11, 2024 by oddmanout215

My neighbor Swamp Rabbit took a moment to read the quote-out on my laptop, from an interview with PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novelist Joseph O’Neill: My sense is that, in this era of the Internet, there are millions more fascists in this … Continue reading →

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High Court sides with usurers, not students. Shocking.

Posted on July 8, 2023 by oddmanout215

Last week, to no one’s surprise, the reactionaries on the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Joe Biden’s $400 billion program to reduce student loan debt anywhere from $10,000 to $20,000 per student. Equally unsurprising was Bernie Sanders’ response to their ruling: … Continue reading →

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OK, it’s Biden, if he still has a pulse

Posted on April 11, 2020 by oddmanout215

.@BernieSanders bowed to the math in acknowledging that @JoeBiden will be the nominee. He used the time today to laud his movement. But if his goal is to defeat @realDonaldTrump, he’ll have to make a more affirmative case for Biden … Continue reading →

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Big day for the ‘anybody but Bernie’ mob

Posted on March 4, 2020 by oddmanout215

The “anybody but Bernie” movement shifted into high gear Monday when two underperforming presidential hopefuls, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, quit the race and endorsed good soldier Joe Biden, the ultimate establishment Democrat. The announcements moved Swamp Rabbit to get … Continue reading →

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The Bernie dilemma spelled out

Posted on February 28, 2020 by oddmanout215

After the South Carolina debate I cautioned Swamp Rabbit against getting into a “Bernie Sanders or nobody” state of mind, because establishment Democrats are determined to sink Bernie’s candidacy and we might have to settle for a “centrist” Dem to … Continue reading →

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The anti-Bernie blitzkrieg

Posted on February 26, 2020 by oddmanout215

https://twitter.com/NicholasIvanoff/status/1231781040211013632 We were talking about last night’s so-called debate, which was like last week’s debate but even nastier. A bunch of wrinkled old hustlers (except for young hustler Pete Buttigieg) shouting each other down, desperate to sell themselves in South … Continue reading →

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Battle royale in Vegas

Posted on February 20, 2020 by oddmanout215

Warren came out SWINGING at Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/3D8bnvvm4m — Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) February 20, 2020 Swamp Rabbit dropped by my shack last night toting a couple of stolen TV dinners with the brand name DEVOUR. Fittingly, we ate them while … Continue reading →

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An American ‘Parasite’? That’ll be the day.

Posted on February 11, 2020 by oddmanout215

I was urging Swamp Rabbit to go see the Academy Award-winning Parasite, a dark satire that should appeal to Bernie Sanders fans everywhere. He rolled his eyes and asked what a foreign-language movie directed by a guy named Bong Joon-ho … Continue reading →

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NYT to readers: Vote for both of them

Posted on January 22, 2020 by oddmanout215

“This is pathetic,” I said after reading the editorial twice. “What’s going on at the New York Times?” Swamp Rabbit looked confused. “How would I know? I ain’t no Manhattan neolib. I live in a shack in Tinicum swamp, just … Continue reading →

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Magnanimous she ain’t

Posted on January 21, 2020 by oddmanout215

HRC on Bernie Sanders: "He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I … Continue reading →

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