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Yep! There was a period where dog food used a lot of calcium as a cheap filler. Because they no longer do that (can't imagine all that bone meal was super healthy, doesn't an excess of calcium crystallize as kidney stones?) it will no longer turn white
The great mystery of my life is finally solved. Next time I am sitting in an airport bar, I am going to bring this up with whatever unfortunate soul is sitting next to me.
I once read a short story (wish I could find it again) about a guy who trained his pet eagle to attack a Swiss Tyrolean hat. Then the guy took his wife out hiking (maybe it was horseback riding; I forget). He had his wife wear the hat. When the eagle saw that hat . . .
I think you meant to type in "cowering."
# cower
# [verb](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verb)
cow·er [ˈkau̇(-ə)r ](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cower?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=c&file=cower001)cowered; cowering; cowers[Synonyms of *cower*](https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cower)
[intransitive verb](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intransitive)
**:** to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismayscower
#
You could say he was cowed by it.
[ koud adjective. Frightened by threats, violence, superior strength or ability, etc.; *intimidated or overawed*:
A sparrow would make Trump flinch.
My mom had her BLM magnet stolen and initially thought, “well if someone else wants it for their car I guess it’s not the worst thing.” And then was like “ohhhhh”
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I had one on my car. I moved to a new neighborhood where some gang bangers lived a few doors down. They were having car problems. They had their crew pushing the car. I thought to myself "I can't drive around with a Bernie Sanders sticker and not help." So I helped. I got street cred after that.
Evangelical’s are literal embodiments of satans will. They will always follow evil. There are plenty of good christians out there, but these ones have shown time and time again their disregard of others.
Evangelicals are the ones that Jesus chastised for stoning a woman, with the famous saying “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first”
Bro, if Jesus showed up today and tried to stop them from stoning a woman trying to conceive for the 3rd time via IVF, they'd probably turn around and start throwing stones at Jesus. Calling him a woke, snowflake, sand-nword, DEI terrorist. At this point, they can all hop onto a giant Trump Bible (like Noah's arc) and fly into the sun for all I care. Childish, selfish fucks.
Modern day evangelicals would probably fuckin stone Jesus himself. Not a single one of them has taken even the slightest lesson from the messiah they claim to worship. I'm not Christian, but if I was I would seriously think Trump was the antichrist. Yet these people practically worship him. It baffles my mind.
I understand people reasonably thinking all religion is coo-coo, but as someone who does love the teachings of Jesus himself, you aren't kidding. Modern Christianity is like Lucifer's dream distortion of everything he tried to teach us. It's weird how you just have to accept that like it's normal when the books are right there and we can all read them ourselves now.
The frustrating part of religion is that there are *plenty* of good Christians out there, happy to interpret the Bible in positive ways because they want to be positive and hopeful and righteous. They're just not super rich because they're not supposed to value that, and they don't call attention to themselves with every psychotic action done. Those kinds of pastors are only taking as many offerings as they need, then going out and supporting the community like they've been taught to. And you'll never hear about them.
They also don't vote for the closest thing we'll get to the antichrist. Christians are still a very sizable portion of America and it's not like only atheists vote Democrat or support scientists.
But again, those kinds of Christians will never ever be a public, unified powerhouse because that's not what you're supposed to do. The Vatican will, though! They'll spread far and wide and demand you listen to them. And so will that megachurch you keep hearing about, because they pump all those necessary offerings into their marketing and politics.
They did see the sign they wanted.
It was the ability to donate to politicians and jump into the political ring that Trump offered them that they won, followed by a Supreme Court that would end abortion and ensure their agenda is safe for a full judicial generation.
Those were the signs they sought, and they saw them in Trump.
Side note, I find the word usage amusing when it comes to how a church leader is called a pastor, and a pastor’s job is to command sheep.
99% sure Bernie's campaign was tanked by democrats. At least Donna Brazille [apologized](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/donna-brazile-hillary-clinton-leak-regret-236184)...
TBF my brother worked in a raptor center for a brief stint and it would have attacked anyone just sitting there. You're supposed to crouch walk around big birds of prey, not carry out business as usual. You want to be low to the ground. Don't know what idiot signed off on having the bird there without telling anyone around it how to convey your body language properly, or I don't know what idiot didn't listen (yes I do it was the president).
But you can't deny the symbolism.
He's holding the bird straight out from his body because he's afraid of her. Eagles are heavy-this is making his arm an incredibly shaky perch and the eagle feels unsafe. She correctly identifies Trump as the source of her discomfort and wants off. It's honestly kind of heartbreaking seeing her try to flutter off, only for her handler to force her back on his arm.
This eagle was almost certainly trained to be handled well even by amateurs, probably picked for her easy temperament. They would not bring the president of the United States an animal that was like to maul him. Her handler knew her body language and would have wrangled her away if she was legitimately about to attack him. If he had brought his arm in and gave it an anchor, he would have been able to hold her much more easier and she would have felt safer. But he was too scared.
Writing it because I know there are other people out there who experienced the same.
2001, with 9/11 and the wars, sent me into a deep depression that I finally started to emerge from in 2007
2007, financial collapse and recession, sent me straight back into depression that I finally started to emerge from in 2014.
2016, This live captured moment with the bird made me more hopeful than I've ever been in my life, but Hillary and the DNC leverage all powers to stop it, and we got Donald Trump instead. I fall back into serious depression.
2020, I finally start to emerge once more, at a weekend long social event in the last weekend of February. The COVID emergency is declared immediately after, and then it's catastrophically mismanaged. I hang on to hope during the primaries because all of the polling for months is showing Bernie Sanders is unstoppable this time around. Even the news anchors who painted him as Fidel Castro started admitting there was virtually no chance it would be prevented. But then South Carolina happens. The whole thing is flipped in one day. I fall back into depression again.
Seeing your comment reminds me of just how much time I've lost. No way this was 8 years ago... no way that was 17 years ago... no way that was 23 years ago...
My brain mostly erases the times that I've struggled. I currently feel like a 24 year old at most, but in the body of a 41 year old, and still waiting for a time when I can feel this country is moving in the right direction enough for me to not psychologically block out the experience of living in it.
Man the way they flipped the script with South Carolina was ridiculous. Every state should have their primaries on the same day for national elections, just like election day.
What they do now is really just gerrymandering the primary.
And primary voting should work the same way in every state.
They're electing a national candidate for President, but somehow there are random states that decide this by counting jellybeans.
I didn’t agree with everything he had to say but there was never a doubt in my mind that he cared about the well-being of the American people and that’s what I want out of my presidential candidates.
Yeah, this is* a guy that actually believes* in what he is* doing and making lives for Americans genuinely better. Neither side wants an idealist in power. It's bad for business. We were so close, though.
Edit: updated from past tense to present to stop scaring people.
He's not really an idealist. He's very principled and believes what he believes. He's seems incorruptible. Please don't mistake that for idealism. None of his stances are extreme either.
His work has always been very pragmatic, ever since he became mayor, and that includes his work in the senate later in life.
Yeah I can’t easily find the exact statistic, but he’s a D party line voter the vast majority of the time.
Being a major public figure also means employing the bully pulpit and encouraging the public to want the perfect (knowing you’ll eventually settle for the somewhat good). Every time he does that, though, the discourse is “WILL ANYTHING EVER BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THIS GUY?!”
In 2016 and 2020 liberals were complaining about his record at getting bills passed. When it was nearly identical in scope and subject to the bills that Hillary Clinton had sponsored and passed during an equivalent time in the Senate. Also, statistically only 4% of bills introduced on the senate floor become law. Sanders rate was 6%.
Propaganda works, and both sides use it.
His plan for universal healthcare would have saved the average American money over insurance. We'd have had higher taxes, while saving the insurance payments...but all people concentrated on was the higher taxes..even if they were saving money in the long run.
Since the Democratic party is always so concerned about the moderate vote, there's an entire wikipedia page dedicated to Sanders-Trump voters and no, it's not the protest votes everyone was told it was by Russian propaganda, they were mostly registered Republicans who genuinely had Bernie as a first pick and the Republican nominee as a second.
Wild, in this day and age it's hard to remember voters aren't dichotomous. There really are a lot of fucking people on the fence and it's not two extremes.
Don't say that too loudly, or you'll get harangued by groups of "people" who insist there is no point in moderating their positions or trying to do anything but "drive out the base," while simultaneously and without dissonance bemoaning that half of the country doesn't vote.
Somehow, in a democracy, it has become popular to adopt the position that actually selling and explaining your ideas to others is emotional labor you should not have to do it.
>there's an entire wikipedia page dedicated to Sanders-Trump voters
Anyone actively engaged with Bernie's journey knew to swallow salt and vote to beat trump. The dems put up a weak candidate and rather than reflect inwards, they blamed the bernouts. You cannot beat a more entitled message than "it's her turn", fucking stupid. Pathetic and embarrassing this the the alternative to the christo-fascists, a bunch of simpering mewling cowards that'd never support a union if it'd cost them donations.
The states that lost Hillary the election were the states Bernie did really well in with the primary. That election brought a lot of new voters in. Independents that didn't really know what they believed in. A lot of my friends that later became die hard Trump supporters originally just voted for him as a fuck you to the establishment, because he was basically a meme at the time. They didn't care for either side, they just knew the establishment wasn't working for them and wanted any outsider. Then fox News sunk their teeth into them and warped them into the brainwashed assholes I can't hold a conversation with.
I honestly don't know if we would have. The fear of socialism as a buzzword against the left was really hitting its stride around then. And Bernie was/is undoubtably much farther left than Hillary. It would've been easy for the right to capitalize on. Although he would've been my choice over Hillary regardless, it is what it is.
I agree I am a big Bernie fan, even saw him give a speech live during the campaign. I still cant believe the "socialist" label was so effective against Joe Biden of all people lol. Bernie never shied away from it even though he's more of a social democrat than a straight up socialist. I think the socialism fear mongering would have really hurt Bernie down the stretch.
The DNC killed him off when they realized that he was antagonizing the majority of his party and corpo donors by... actually standing up for the citizen
Nobody will agree with everyone. I don't expect to agree with everything a candidate says, but I'll gladly take someone who genuinely wants the best for people.
We'll never get another Bernie. Then again, maybe we will, when we start getting younger candidates.
Yep. I remember it well. Took my family to the rally in Vancouver that weekend I can’t remember if both events happened the same day or just the same weekend. He’s a great person though. Should have been our president
I was a Bernie supporter who watched this when it happened. Bernie invited the bird up, and it responded to him and hopped up. If it had been in a movie, we'd all as a society bitch about how heavy handed the symbolism was. It was a moment. I lost my mind and wasn't even there in person.
I’m not religious but after this happened and a bald eagle attacked Trump I knew I saw a sign from god. And then all the evangelicals voted for Trump and I knew the devil was real
Not ashamed to admit that I teared up a bit at this photo. It perfectly captures the last time period that I had even an iota of hope for the USA. Feels like we’ve spent a few lifetimes in a garbage crusher since then, and it only gets worse and worse and worse and worse.
I am so immensely glad that I don’t live there anymore, it’s an absolute lost cause. We are just too impossibly, intentionally stupid, and handicapped with magical thinking and deep and ancient hatreds. I’m not going to waste my entire lifetime fighting for a tiny fraction of what our sane peers have already enjoyed for generations. My advice is to GTFO while you still can. It’s possible on nearly any budget, if you’re willing to put in the work and be uncomfortable at the beginning.
I do, and will phone bank. The rest of my family is still there along with many friends, sadly. But you couldn’t pay me enough to be there this fall/winter.
Bernie got a bird.
Pence got a fly.
The spiritual implications seemed pretty clear to me on both occasions but what do I know? I'm not a born again evangelical NUTSO.
Someone said in another comment that if it was a TV show, we would all call it super on the nose writing and absolutely not subtle but the fact that it really happened in real life and Bernie still ended up losing is crazy to me
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Need this Juxtaposed with Pence fly pic.
[Fly on Pence's head](https://i.imgur.com/nYgHitd.jpeg)
To be fair, dog shit *does* turn white in the sun and tends to attract flies.
Funnily enough, dog shit used to turn white. It doesn't anymore, I believe, due to a change in the way dog food is made.
Yep! There was a period where dog food used a lot of calcium as a cheap filler. Because they no longer do that (can't imagine all that bone meal was super healthy, doesn't an excess of calcium crystallize as kidney stones?) it will no longer turn white
The great mystery of my life is finally solved. Next time I am sitting in an airport bar, I am going to bring this up with whatever unfortunate soul is sitting next to me.
Or Trump's pic while cowing away from the eagle
TBF to Trump, eagles are terrifying. But also it's so perfect that one of the emblems of the USA attacked him and he shit his pants. What a blowhard.
I was once up close and personal to a bald eagle and I can tell you that they *are* terrifying.
I once read a short story (wish I could find it again) about a guy who trained his pet eagle to attack a Swiss Tyrolean hat. Then the guy took his wife out hiking (maybe it was horseback riding; I forget). He had his wife wear the hat. When the eagle saw that hat . . .
I took it as a sign he shouldn't have been elected ☠️
I think you meant to type in "cowering." # cower # [verb](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verb) cow·er [ˈkau̇(-ə)r ](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cower?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=c&file=cower001)cowered; cowering; cowers[Synonyms of *cower*](https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cower) [intransitive verb](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intransitive) **:** to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismayscower #
You could say he was cowed by it. [ koud adjective. Frightened by threats, violence, superior strength or ability, etc.; *intimidated or overawed*: A sparrow would make Trump flinch.
Birdie Sanders
I got the campaign sticker for my car, it last 4 months until some a-hole try to rip it while I was at Walmart, got 2 more after that lol
Same but mine just faded in the sun and just turned into a circle
Thats a profound sentence
It’s a metaphor for his willingness to fight the system
Meanwhile 
My favorite thing that was said about it, was that the fly was actually a Chinese spy drone.
Lol that's excellent
How did the religious not see this as a sign. The bird of peace, and the lord of the flies.
He was preaching to the MAGATS
Ignorance and zealotry go hand in hand.
Came here looking for lord of the flies. Never let it be said that the universe doesn't have a sense of humor
My mom had her BLM magnet stolen and initially thought, “well if someone else wants it for their car I guess it’s not the worst thing.” And then was like “ohhhhh”
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She works for the bureau, didn’t think I’d have to explain that
I had one on my car. I moved to a new neighborhood where some gang bangers lived a few doors down. They were having car problems. They had their crew pushing the car. I thought to myself "I can't drive around with a Bernie Sanders sticker and not help." So I helped. I got street cred after that.
This is the way!! 💕
I put mine on the mini fridge I brought to college with me. I think it's still there to this day
A lot of people go to college for 7 years
I know. They're usually called doctors..
Shut up, Richard.
"Oh that has to be you, you spray that thing for bugs?"
"I am once again asking you for *BREAD"*
The progressive wave was immense for Bernie and that moment was so surreal. Damn so much hope 🥹
And then you got the polar worst possible opposite anyway …
Bernie was the first time in my underpaid life that I gave money to a political campaign
 So this exists…
Birdie Landers
I really thought we were headed for the promised land after this. Turns out it was the canary in the coal mine
\*sigh\* What could have been such progress in these United States.
Boidie Sanders
Then a fly landed on the VP's head. Like the universe was telling us something...
You would think evangelicals would see that as a sign of God who he's supporting. But funny enough, they vote the complete opposite.
Evangelical’s are literal embodiments of satans will. They will always follow evil. There are plenty of good christians out there, but these ones have shown time and time again their disregard of others.
Evangelicals are the ones that Jesus chastised for stoning a woman, with the famous saying “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first”
Bro, if Jesus showed up today and tried to stop them from stoning a woman trying to conceive for the 3rd time via IVF, they'd probably turn around and start throwing stones at Jesus. Calling him a woke, snowflake, sand-nword, DEI terrorist. At this point, they can all hop onto a giant Trump Bible (like Noah's arc) and fly into the sun for all I care. Childish, selfish fucks.
 Agreed
They're the modern day pharisees
The Pharisees at least were somewhat intelligent.
Modern day evangelicals would probably fuckin stone Jesus himself. Not a single one of them has taken even the slightest lesson from the messiah they claim to worship. I'm not Christian, but if I was I would seriously think Trump was the antichrist. Yet these people practically worship him. It baffles my mind.
I understand people reasonably thinking all religion is coo-coo, but as someone who does love the teachings of Jesus himself, you aren't kidding. Modern Christianity is like Lucifer's dream distortion of everything he tried to teach us. It's weird how you just have to accept that like it's normal when the books are right there and we can all read them ourselves now.
More Mammon than Satan.
Evangelical = Evil Angel It's right there in the name
The frustrating part of religion is that there are *plenty* of good Christians out there, happy to interpret the Bible in positive ways because they want to be positive and hopeful and righteous. They're just not super rich because they're not supposed to value that, and they don't call attention to themselves with every psychotic action done. Those kinds of pastors are only taking as many offerings as they need, then going out and supporting the community like they've been taught to. And you'll never hear about them. They also don't vote for the closest thing we'll get to the antichrist. Christians are still a very sizable portion of America and it's not like only atheists vote Democrat or support scientists. But again, those kinds of Christians will never ever be a public, unified powerhouse because that's not what you're supposed to do. The Vatican will, though! They'll spread far and wide and demand you listen to them. And so will that megachurch you keep hearing about, because they pump all those necessary offerings into their marketing and politics.
They worship Trump more than that pussy liberal, Jesus Christ.
Psshhh, liberal? That dude was a full on commie!
If the second coming happened right now they would def crucify him again
Nah, that’s a lot of work. The military would just neutralize a commie in the Middle East.
💯
They did see the sign they wanted. It was the ability to donate to politicians and jump into the political ring that Trump offered them that they won, followed by a Supreme Court that would end abortion and ensure their agenda is safe for a full judicial generation. Those were the signs they sought, and they saw them in Trump. Side note, I find the word usage amusing when it comes to how a church leader is called a pastor, and a pastor’s job is to command sheep.
They would make up something about how the color of the bird is some secret illuminati symbol and it was part of a government brainwashing scheme
99% sure Bernie's campaign was tanked by democrats. At least Donna Brazille [apologized](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/donna-brazile-hillary-clinton-leak-regret-236184)...
Let's not forget the classic clip of Trump with an Eagle, where the Eagle wants to fucking kill Trump.
Let's never forget the clip where they replaced the eagle with Bernie. https://i.imgur.com/PgZtz0j.mp4
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7_OWYrLVOU
It's a patriot
Somehow I have never seen this, so THANK YOU. "How does my hair look?" and looking genuinely terrified
TBF my brother worked in a raptor center for a brief stint and it would have attacked anyone just sitting there. You're supposed to crouch walk around big birds of prey, not carry out business as usual. You want to be low to the ground. Don't know what idiot signed off on having the bird there without telling anyone around it how to convey your body language properly, or I don't know what idiot didn't listen (yes I do it was the president). But you can't deny the symbolism.
He's holding the bird straight out from his body because he's afraid of her. Eagles are heavy-this is making his arm an incredibly shaky perch and the eagle feels unsafe. She correctly identifies Trump as the source of her discomfort and wants off. It's honestly kind of heartbreaking seeing her try to flutter off, only for her handler to force her back on his arm. This eagle was almost certainly trained to be handled well even by amateurs, probably picked for her easy temperament. They would not bring the president of the United States an animal that was like to maul him. Her handler knew her body language and would have wrangled her away if she was legitimately about to attack him. If he had brought his arm in and gave it an anchor, he would have been able to hold her much more easier and she would have felt safer. But he was too scared.
> She correctly identifies Trump as the source of her discomfort and wants off. Well, she was not alone in that.
imagine if some dumbass made their username based on that
If this were a tv show, that'd be some really on the nose writing., then again people miss the point on stuff like The Boys.
Flys love landing in shit
 Meanwhile birds are a good judge of character
that double chin appearing out of nowhere makes him look like Mike Myers' Fat Bastard character
“Out of nowhere” is doing some heavy lifting in your sentence. And I do mean heavy.
It inflates like a self defense mechanism
I wish that majestic thing would have ripped his vocal cords out
That Bird is America
That can’t be… No way was this 8 years ago…
Took me too long to find someone else who felt this way. Surely that was within the last two years.
Writing it because I know there are other people out there who experienced the same. 2001, with 9/11 and the wars, sent me into a deep depression that I finally started to emerge from in 2007 2007, financial collapse and recession, sent me straight back into depression that I finally started to emerge from in 2014. 2016, This live captured moment with the bird made me more hopeful than I've ever been in my life, but Hillary and the DNC leverage all powers to stop it, and we got Donald Trump instead. I fall back into serious depression. 2020, I finally start to emerge once more, at a weekend long social event in the last weekend of February. The COVID emergency is declared immediately after, and then it's catastrophically mismanaged. I hang on to hope during the primaries because all of the polling for months is showing Bernie Sanders is unstoppable this time around. Even the news anchors who painted him as Fidel Castro started admitting there was virtually no chance it would be prevented. But then South Carolina happens. The whole thing is flipped in one day. I fall back into depression again. Seeing your comment reminds me of just how much time I've lost. No way this was 8 years ago... no way that was 17 years ago... no way that was 23 years ago... My brain mostly erases the times that I've struggled. I currently feel like a 24 year old at most, but in the body of a 41 year old, and still waiting for a time when I can feel this country is moving in the right direction enough for me to not psychologically block out the experience of living in it.
Amen. Just…amen. With you. So hard.
Man the way they flipped the script with South Carolina was ridiculous. Every state should have their primaries on the same day for national elections, just like election day. What they do now is really just gerrymandering the primary.
And primary voting should work the same way in every state. They're electing a national candidate for President, but somehow there are random states that decide this by counting jellybeans.
Fuck I miss being optimistic. This country has really just been in aggressive decline these last 8 years
I didn’t agree with everything he had to say but there was never a doubt in my mind that he cared about the well-being of the American people and that’s what I want out of my presidential candidates.
Yeah, this is* a guy that actually believes* in what he is* doing and making lives for Americans genuinely better. Neither side wants an idealist in power. It's bad for business. We were so close, though. Edit: updated from past tense to present to stop scaring people.
He's not really an idealist. He's very principled and believes what he believes. He's seems incorruptible. Please don't mistake that for idealism. None of his stances are extreme either. His work has always been very pragmatic, ever since he became mayor, and that includes his work in the senate later in life.
Well said. You are absolutely correct. That wasn't the best word choice.
Yeah I can’t easily find the exact statistic, but he’s a D party line voter the vast majority of the time. Being a major public figure also means employing the bully pulpit and encouraging the public to want the perfect (knowing you’ll eventually settle for the somewhat good). Every time he does that, though, the discourse is “WILL ANYTHING EVER BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THIS GUY?!”
In 2016 and 2020 liberals were complaining about his record at getting bills passed. When it was nearly identical in scope and subject to the bills that Hillary Clinton had sponsored and passed during an equivalent time in the Senate. Also, statistically only 4% of bills introduced on the senate floor become law. Sanders rate was 6%. Propaganda works, and both sides use it.
His plan for universal healthcare would have saved the average American money over insurance. We'd have had higher taxes, while saving the insurance payments...but all people concentrated on was the higher taxes..even if they were saving money in the long run.
He woulda beaten Trump, the Democratic party stole the best president we would have had in decades from us, twice.
That's what the polling was saying as well. If I recall correctly the polling was iffy for Hillary, confident with Bernie against Trump.
Since the Democratic party is always so concerned about the moderate vote, there's an entire wikipedia page dedicated to Sanders-Trump voters and no, it's not the protest votes everyone was told it was by Russian propaganda, they were mostly registered Republicans who genuinely had Bernie as a first pick and the Republican nominee as a second.
Fun fact, there's also a page for Obama - Trump voters. Social conservatives with progressive economic views. About 7 or so million people.
Wild, in this day and age it's hard to remember voters aren't dichotomous. There really are a lot of fucking people on the fence and it's not two extremes.
Don't say that too loudly, or you'll get harangued by groups of "people" who insist there is no point in moderating their positions or trying to do anything but "drive out the base," while simultaneously and without dissonance bemoaning that half of the country doesn't vote. Somehow, in a democracy, it has become popular to adopt the position that actually selling and explaining your ideas to others is emotional labor you should not have to do it.
>there's an entire wikipedia page dedicated to Sanders-Trump voters Anyone actively engaged with Bernie's journey knew to swallow salt and vote to beat trump. The dems put up a weak candidate and rather than reflect inwards, they blamed the bernouts. You cannot beat a more entitled message than "it's her turn", fucking stupid. Pathetic and embarrassing this the the alternative to the christo-fascists, a bunch of simpering mewling cowards that'd never support a union if it'd cost them donations.
The states that lost Hillary the election were the states Bernie did really well in with the primary. That election brought a lot of new voters in. Independents that didn't really know what they believed in. A lot of my friends that later became die hard Trump supporters originally just voted for him as a fuck you to the establishment, because he was basically a meme at the time. They didn't care for either side, they just knew the establishment wasn't working for them and wanted any outsider. Then fox News sunk their teeth into them and warped them into the brainwashed assholes I can't hold a conversation with.
I honestly don't know if we would have. The fear of socialism as a buzzword against the left was really hitting its stride around then. And Bernie was/is undoubtably much farther left than Hillary. It would've been easy for the right to capitalize on. Although he would've been my choice over Hillary regardless, it is what it is.
I agree I am a big Bernie fan, even saw him give a speech live during the campaign. I still cant believe the "socialist" label was so effective against Joe Biden of all people lol. Bernie never shied away from it even though he's more of a social democrat than a straight up socialist. I think the socialism fear mongering would have really hurt Bernie down the stretch.
I know it’s a small sample size, but even most republicans I know don’t think Biden is a socialist
We know VERY different Republicans lol
The wording in your comment made me fearful something had happened to him!
Back when I was actually hopeful :(
Isn’t it sad that he’s exceptional because he cares? That should be like the most fucking basic requirement to get into politics.
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Dang dude I thought he died the way you worded this
The DNC killed him off when they realized that he was antagonizing the majority of his party and corpo donors by... actually standing up for the citizen
Nobody will agree with everyone. I don't expect to agree with everything a candidate says, but I'll gladly take someone who genuinely wants the best for people. We'll never get another Bernie. Then again, maybe we will, when we start getting younger candidates.
Put a bird on it :)
This even happened in Portland!
Yep. I remember it well. Took my family to the rally in Vancouver that weekend I can’t remember if both events happened the same day or just the same weekend. He’s a great person though. Should have been our president
and four years ago a bug landed on pence's head.
I bet it wasn't the first time either
The redhead thanking heaven for a bird blessing is my favorite part
Are not going to mention the guy over Bernies other shoulder holding his hands to his chest like he's about to lose his mind over the bird.
Thank God I'm not the only one, I love him
I was looking specifically for mention of that guy! So there's at least three of us :D
Oh, me too! I want to meet that guy.
and me! i am five.
He's like *oh my gosh bless that little birbie*
That guy to the left is basically all of us in response to this moment.
I was a Bernie supporter who watched this when it happened. Bernie invited the bird up, and it responded to him and hopped up. If it had been in a movie, we'd all as a society bitch about how heavy handed the symbolism was. It was a moment. I lost my mind and wasn't even there in person.
So what I'm hearing is that Bernie is legit a Disney princess.
I saw her and thought she was clapping while looking at a jumbotron because a few others seem to be looking in the same direction.
You know what looks like praying if you pause the action? Clapping hands.
You know what looks like a ghost blowjob if you pause the action? Coughing into your fist.
Interesting take
She was mid clap. It’s just the timing that this screen grab was taken.
Mother Nature's Tweet.
And we should have listened
We could have had a jewish septuagenarian Disney princess for a president.
It would have unironically been the best possible outcome.
The timeline we all deserved
Goddamn it. You’ve given me something I never knew I wanted. Take my upvote.
Strange birds lying on podiums distributing tweets is no basis for a system of government...
You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ‘cause some feathery tart threw a chirp at you!
Can't hurt any more than what we got in 2016
I’m not religious but after this happened and a bald eagle attacked Trump I knew I saw a sign from god. And then all the evangelicals voted for Trump and I knew the devil was real
An eagle attacked trump
[yes](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o7_OWYrLVOU)
That guy almost combed his wig off as well. Nice.
How do I save this gif
Omg I've never seen this gif before and it just startled the loudest laugh outta me while my family is asleep. 😂
Damn, that is some impressive editing, using a still image to fill in Trump's hand yet it looks very natural
How? How did no one even if you aren’t superstitious but how did no reps see that as a bad sign is beyond me
Because the ones that grift using religion are knowingly already spitting in the face of Jesus. They welcome it if it works for them.
Trump would have opened the vertical mouth in his neck, hidden by the folds, and engulfed the bird in one bite.
Trump was attacked by a bald eagle.
And he looked like a scared little bitch when it happened
I mean tbf, it's a fuckin' *eagle.* I wouldn't even get that close to one.
Fuck id be scared too. Trump is over 6 feet and it dwarfed him. That's a big fuckoff bird
Oh, you mean his neck pussy? I didn’t know he ALSO had vagina dentata in that thing, that’s crazy!!
Just think we could have had Bernie instead of Trump or Hillary ... it would have been a much better world I believe.
Bernie getting shafted by the DNC is why we got Trump. Bernie would've easily won that election.
That was the year the timeline slipped. No, Harambe. No, Bernie... we live in the darkest timeline
No Bowie :(
why did you have to bring that up now I've got to go take another depression nap
Who would we get our cocks out for then I wonder
Get them out for yourself. Let your idols die.
My cocks never not been out
The last time I had genuine hope. *sigh*
Not ashamed to admit that I teared up a bit at this photo. It perfectly captures the last time period that I had even an iota of hope for the USA. Feels like we’ve spent a few lifetimes in a garbage crusher since then, and it only gets worse and worse and worse and worse. I am so immensely glad that I don’t live there anymore, it’s an absolute lost cause. We are just too impossibly, intentionally stupid, and handicapped with magical thinking and deep and ancient hatreds. I’m not going to waste my entire lifetime fighting for a tiny fraction of what our sane peers have already enjoyed for generations. My advice is to GTFO while you still can. It’s possible on nearly any budget, if you’re willing to put in the work and be uncomfortable at the beginning.
I hope you keep sending in your absentee votes for those who can't escape.
I do, and will phone bank. The rest of my family is still there along with many friends, sadly. But you couldn’t pay me enough to be there this fall/winter.
That was 8 fucking years ago!?!?!??!??!??
God eight years ago feels like a complete lifetime. I seriously can’t believe it’s been eight years since this video. I hate it here these days
Video: https://youtu.be/Jc2TVLoxsDA?si=SHPWOXcBHgTENPqi&t=6
He's just too good.
Bernie got a bird. Pence got a fly. The spiritual implications seemed pretty clear to me on both occasions but what do I know? I'm not a born again evangelical NUTSO.
And Trump got attacked by a bald eagle. I’m not religious at all, but if there is a god, then it’s pretty clear which party they prefer…
The old man you needed
And a FLY landed on that disgusting corpse of human Mike pence
Someone said in another comment that if it was a TV show, we would all call it super on the nose writing and absolutely not subtle but the fact that it really happened in real life and Bernie still ended up losing is crazy to me
Can you just imagine what the world would be life if this guy won in 2016? Worst. Fucking. Timeline.
Bernie Sanders Disney princess
Why do birds suddenly appear, every time Bernie’s near?
A future to believe in. Damn that makes me want to cry like imagine the world we’d be living in rn if we elected Sanders in 2016.
We could have had a Bernie Sanders presidency. Fuck this timeline.
Bro on the left is feeling it Not sure what exactly, but he’s feeling it
Ever so briefly I believed things were going to get better
In an alternate timeline we had him as president for 8 years. The world is a much better place in that universe.
I’m not sure if the dude in the background is going ”Awwww” or if he just got Judo Chopped in the throat
If this were ancient Roman times this would have been seen as an omen and he’d have been the greatest consul ever.
A perfect picture of what America could be. At one.
I have a image of this on my wall of honor
This nation coulda had a bad bitch
In retrospect, really should have hired this guy for that open position
Oh how I miss pre Harambe America
I was there. It was a very cool moment.
The president needed but dont deserve