Thread by @liviapolise

Welcome to my TedTalk.

The title is "I Can't Fucking Believe I Have to Do This Shit Again".

Buckle up: it's gonna be a long ride.

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First of all, let me start with my own positionality. I am a woman.

And, as I woman, I think that this should be more than enough to send Bernie plummeting into the dark abyss of #MeToo Hell.

Here is the entire text for your reading [dis]pleasure:

Dr. Sanders documented some very, um, unique views regarding the etiology of breast cancer in women.

Professor Sanders also expressed very strong, broad, and notably gendered critiques of teachers.

Bernie has a long history of employing sexist double standards and rhetoric as campaign strategies.

motherjones.com/politics/2016/…

There are numerous and credible accounts of gender-based harassment and pay inequities in his 2016 campaign.

nytimes.com/2019/01/02/us/…

nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Bernie's priorities are clear in his dismissive assertion that he was "too busy running around the country trying to make the case" to pay attention to little things like, say, women being groped, demeaned, and devalued within his own organization.

theguardian.com/us-news/2019/j…

Bernie has taken up the tone-deaf mantle of white male privilege in eschewing "identity politics" at the expense of PoC, women, and the LGBTQ community.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

mic.com/articles/12434…

Let's not forget that Sanders voted "yes" on the controversial 1994 Crime Bill which heralded a new age of neo-slavery.

yahoo.com/news/sanders-n…

His engagement with the LGBTQ community is, well, complicated.

slate.com/human-interest…

c-span.org/video/?c455075…

nytimes.com/2015/11/28/us/…

Bernie's dismissal of structural racism, misogyny, & homophobia permeates the rhetoric embraced by his followers.

rewire.news/ablc/2015/07/2…

washingtonpost.com/posteverything…

Sanders' racially-charged & muddy history on gun violence is antithetical to progressivism. Period.

washingtonpost.com/politics/how-t…

salon.com/2015/11/04/ber…

slate.com/news-and-polit…

In 2000, Sanders voted for the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, a landmark bill that blocked federal agencies from regulating credit default swaps -- the complex contracts at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis.

huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-s…

Yes, Mr. Independent Progressive (or is it Progressive Independent?) voted for the 2000 legislation that deregulated derivatives, credit default swaps and other exotic financial instruments that tanked the economy eight years later.

crooksandliars.com/2015/12/surpri…

There are many resources for vetting Bernie, such as this excellent series from shakesville.com.

shakesville.com/2015/07/lookin…

Bernie is, once again, trying to opportunistically use OUR Democratic Party to dismantle & destroy the party from within. No doubt, his minions will be descending like a plague of locusts. Let's be ready this time.

Thank you for watching my Ted Talk.

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