We told you. We warned you.
Some of us actually BEGGED you not to support this awful half-a-man.
But you voted for him anyway. We said he’d get us all killed. You voted for him anyway. At every awful turn you supported his ignorant horseshit and some of you (you know who you are) found ways to blame democrats for things Trump clearly did on his own that fucked with your paycheck.
We need a real leader right now. You don’t want the blame for something Trump has clearly, demonstrably, incontrovertibly made a million times worse (and he’s still doing it) then you need to loudly drop support for this garbage RIGHT NOW because this is no longer left vs right.
This is life and death. Y’all like to call yourselves “pro life” no?
And a note to you ‘bernie or bust’ idiots:
We don’t need you.
Your boy’s candidates crapped out in the midterms and he’s losing AGAIN. If this pandemic isn’t enough to make you think of what happens when you put yourself first then really who gives a shit what you think on any topic?
White non-college educated voters have jumped away from Bernie to Biden and Biden is winning by increasingly huge margins. The people have spoken in crystal clear terms.
The youth revolution didn’t even turn up with old people death in the mix.
This thing is over. Bernie has the delegates to help move the platform but he *will not* be the nominee. If you cared about what he fought for then help us move Biden left and send Trump home (and then to jail hopefully). If you only care about yourself and your personal wish list and you spend the next 8 months spreading conspiracy theories about the DNC then you’re no better than a MAGA Trumpist.
I will tell you this: You spent your tantrum allowance in 2016 and won’t be humoring you dildos a second time.
If you were truly as progressive and “revolutionary” as you pretend to be you’d be using your admittedly substantial bloc to move the platform of the winning candidate to the left. But pulling this “I’m taking my toys and going home” shit isn’t gonna work this year like it did in 2016.
We flipped the House without you. We will take on Trump without you.
Also I really really REALLY want to reiterate how much I hate being in this position. I’m not jazzed about Biden. I was a Kamala guy then a Liz guy. I would love to be able to congratulate Bernie on a valiant run and give his supporters the Last Crusade “ya lost today kid, but ya don’t have to like it”.
But the toxicity in 2016 and this time is just too much and you cannot convince me his not taking the hint and his peoples tantrum in 2016 didn’t plunge us all into literal hell. Seriously.
This week feels like a nightmare I can’t wake up from and it will be months of it IF I’m lucky enough to survive it. And I’m pissed off that this personality cult is willing to pout and plunge us 4 years deeper into more nightmares. Every other candidates people took it in stride and moved on but with Berners it’s all a god damned conspiracy because they only know 12 people in Portland and they all support Bernie so that’s everybody right? Ughhhhhhhh.
In more positive news, I designed this poster for Chris McDonald and the people at headcount.org and these are gonna be gorgeous prints available to help get the vote out in Texas and maybe even turn it blue.
“We’ll be raffling off these beauties at Headcount events in summer!”
—Chris McDonald
And If you read nothing else today:
“We will not be the same country when this is over. We can’t be. We shouldn’t be. Right now, the focus is, as it must be, on the immediate crisis at hand. It looms over us with a darkness that stretches forth without a horizon in sight.
“These will be sad and scary times. People will suffer, and many will die. It will reach into everyone’s life. For some, the loss will be marked in the passing of friends and loved ones, close and personal. Others might escape such an immediate toll, but the economic pain will be widespread. Here too, it will be uneven, inflicting the greatest cost on the poorest, most vulnerable, and most desperate. It will also strike some industries much deeper than others.
“I can’t help but reflect on other moments of hardship, anxiety and suffering. I was born into the Great Depression, and the images of abject poverty among my neighbors, the hopelessness of job searches, the ache of empty bellies, are etched in my consciousness. So too are memories of the war that soon followed. The very real sense that the world might end with a triumph of evil. The fathers who went off to battle and never returned. The dawning of the atomic era that ended the conflict. In the course of my work I have seen many other moments like these, where fear and tragedy raged, although most were more localized.
“What I have also seen is that from crisis can emerge opportunity. We humans tend not to be good at anticipating problems. We seem to think good times will continue, even as we make decisions that leave ourselves vulnerable. But we are good at fixing things. We are capable of great energy, ingenuity, and that most important quality, empathy.
“This nation, and the larger world, long have been broken in ways that have too often gone unaddressed. This is a wake-up call to our economic and healthcare insecurity. It is a reminder of why we must work with other nations to fix global problems. It is evidence that competency and truth-telling in government are paramount for the security of the United States. It is a rallying cry to strengthen the common bonds of our humanity.
“We are being tested. In part, it is because we have let ourselves get to this point. That is where we are. We cannot change the past. But we can work our might on the present, and then resolve to fix our weaknesses going forward.
“It is easy to blame leadership. They deserve the blame they are getting. But the rot that led to this moment is more systemic. When we emerge from this crisis, and we surely will, we must follow a path of renewal and improvement of how we structure our society, its economy, its health, its social obligations, and its politics. We are seeing the cost of failure. We have no choice but to forge ahead. And forging into a better, more just future, has been the American way. I, for one, continue to believe with all my heart, it will be that way yet again.”
—Dan Rather, real journalist, 14 March 2020
—jason malmberg
Flommist Jason Malmberg is a simple man who believes in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art sometimes. Copyright © 2020 Jason Malmberg. Fotos: Dan Rather in his old job, Trump in his old job, Bernie in his old job, Biden in his old job, Portland, recent picture.
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