Sure that’s clever, but real useful elected officials and public servants don’t end up on cable news, and cable news is not a place where people go to solve problems. It turns civics into circus and is a major reason why we’re in the mess we are right now with Trump and the endless sideshow of shitty people in his orbit.
The problem now is that we live in a soundbite culture. Anything longer loses attention and doesn't get the message across, so we have to do what we can to be attention-grabbing. We can lament otherwise, but we can't change it and have to adapt.
Id agree if this was the 70s pre social media. I know people who voted for trump solely because hes anti abortion. I think sanders doing this is a good way for soundbites of him to spread and get his word out there. Its also nice seeing a democrat do something.
Bernie having soundbites on cable news is much different than a cringey strawman MSNBC show called "No BS with Bernie Sanders" which is what I was calling out.
Look at headlines related to Trump and any person who they think could be moderately litigious and you'll see immediately why anybody with real conviction wouldn't last long in news media.
Ok. So let our elected officials keep doing things in their respective chambers and be guests on various media platforms. Then go find the most shrewd left-leaning media personality you can. Get an attack dog, the next Hannity or Tucker Carlson for the Left. Build the media apparatus that the Right has been building for decades in record time and fight back.
That's what I thought in 2015, but I caucused for him anyway because I believed so strongly in his message. Looking at how energetic and vital he continues to be, 9 years later, shows me that I was wrong to make that judgement then, and really makes me wonder how different our lives would be today if he'd had a chance.
Between two old dudes. Where I, your guest a millennial, bring average Republican voters, politicians and leaders to have a conversation with the commentary on my sides from my two old dudes.
How long can my guests lie before my two old dudes manage to ridicule them off stage? Join me next week as we find out!
this just shows how much performative redditors are on their politics like literally no principles Bernie probably hates the MSNBC charlatan like motherfucker were literally doing anti-trans propaganda the movement Kamala lost and saying how she didn't capitulated to the right enough
Or it just shows the sad state of cable news in America when said MSNBC charlatans are the ones most associated with a liberal alignment when they have no real attachment to those liberal values.
You see, that's the problem. These news channels are doing their served duty of aligning themselves with the liberal values of corporate takeover and their dictation of how the movement should look like, and then manufacturing consent on it. They don't even have the integrity of doing their journalistic duties as long as their corporate donors and shareholders are happy, and if these news anchors live in their comfortable bubble, they will be complacent to fascism, just like how liberals have shown themselves to be in the rise of fascism. No further should someone look at Nazi Germany and see how the liberals were happy that the Nazis were massacring communists and minorities. Even at some point before Hitler got into power, even the Jews were for him. Like, look it up, stuff like "Jews for Hitler" existed during the Weimar Republic.
I hope not for his sake, he’s decades into retirement age already and has even had a heart attack. But he is probably one of the few people who will be cheered on as he literally spends his final days in office.
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u/CADreamn Jan 31 '25
I love Bernie. He takes no BS.