Nice Prop, Bernie

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Parker Molloy ‏@ParkerMolloy 7m7 minutes ago
That's a pretty great prop Bernie brought with him. 😂

[JHan]

1. 10/10....ahahahaaa

[democrank]

2. This is how we do it.

Fight back, every chance we get.

[eleny]

3. It's right up there with Alan Grayson's "DIE QUICKLY"

[Bradical79]

17. That's pretty good too

Though the nice thing about Sanders' sign is he didn't even need to summarize. Anything Trump says that's remotely comprehensible is already 140 characters or less :-D

Makes me sad though. Grayson would be great if he wasn't so self destrucrive.

[eleny]

18. Regardless of how anyone feels about Grayson - that sign lives on in truth

[Bradical79]

23. That is true

Now that I think about it, I've come across people since that moment use that exact phrase who probably have no clue who Grayson is. I can't deny it was effective.

[eleny]

31. Maybe we can apply the broken clock theory to him?

But I think he's been right more than he's been a bonehead.

[nikto]

40. You mean opposing TPP was self-destructive? That was the main thing to the DNC

No wonder they trashed him.

[nikto]

39. Yeah, is that why Obama supported Grayson's Primary opponent, and helped defeat him?

Sorry.

I was a Grayson fan.

Kind of ironic now that feistyness such as Grayson's is now appreciated?

Grayson was one of the real fighters we had, and The Party screwed him.
We could use him now.

Maybe he shouldn't have had the nerve to so vocally oppose TPP, eh?

[eleny]

48. I always liked him

I can't recall the issue that got him in trouble with libs on the radio. But I figured there had to be some spin around it.

Meantime, his flat out telling it like it is about Republican's health care vision still lives on as another inconvenient truth.

[nikto]

50. He didn't fit-in with the more Conservative mainstream Democratic Party

TPP was a big disagreement, and there were surely others.

[alarimer]

4. Brilliant!

Call him out whenever and wherever and make the Republicans own it.

[Fast Walker 52]

5. too bad Drump has no shame or care about lying

[11 Bravo]

10. Exactly. Pence will explain how that's not what he meant, and the dumbasses ...

who voted for him will buy it.

[Fast Walker 52]

26. Pence makes me so sick, that stupid smirk when he has to explain away some Trump BS

he's truly a man without any soul, a wretched person.

[El Mimbreno]

45. cat box

Looked to me like pence spent most of the campaign trying to bury trump's crap. The digging continues.

[calimary]

47. Welcome to DU, El Mimbreno!

When I look at Mike Pence, I have to start laughing (before the grimacing starts, of course).

My first impression of him, when trump chose him as a running mate, was "WOW, now there's a human dog-whistle. trump is so adamant, sneaky, and devious, at signaling, subliminal messaging, and telegraphing what he means. What I interpreted about that choice in particular was trump telegraphing to all his brainless bots was - "there won't be ANY of those (cough!) Black people in the White House! And I can PROVE it! Look here: I've even found the whitest white guy on the planet as my #2 (that number chosen as MY OWN telegraphing, btw). Couldn't 't find any albinos but this guy Pence is as close as you can get! Central casting and all that!"

Then, as I watch Pence, especially when he and trump are together, I can't help but notice the eyebrow thing. Ever notice how he cocks his head (kinda like the coquettish Jodyanne Jerkmeoff - OOPS, I meant Kellyanne Conway - that's what my husband calls her and it's kinda become a habit )? First off, that's body language for disarming you. You don't look at someone straight on. You cock your head at an angle to signal, with cuteness: "awwww... little ol' MEEEE????? Awwww... I'm HARMLESS!!!"

Not like this:
| (- head)
| (- neck)

Like this:
/ (- head)
| (- neck)

Kellyanne does that head-cock thing on camera to look cute, coquettish, almost flirty, and definitely disarming. "See, I'm just a cute little thing! I won't hurt a flea! Go ahead and come hither!"

But when Pence does it, especially when he's with trump, he cocks his head toward trump and gazes at him with almost moony dreamy eyes. As though he's got a big fat man-crush on trump. And therein lies the eyebrow thing.

Like this:
/
o o

(hmmm... trying to use that reverse slash punctuation mark and it won't show here. But it slants the opposite way toward the backslash. So the effect: )

^
o o (not just over one eye as it shows here. I was trying to make it so that the symbol is in the middle above the eyes. The idea being - the eyebrows go up in the middle, as opposed to going down in the middle, as a frown.)

Reagan used to do this. It's a way to signal, among other things, harmlessness. Innocence. Wide-eyed innocence and guilelessness. Sincerity - phony or MAYBE otherwise. Kindly old Uncle Dutch - amiable and harmless as all-get-out. Wouldn't hurt a flea! And BOOM! You're disarmed. You no longer are suspicious and cautious. This guy's a sweetheart! See? He wouldn't do anything to hurt you! Utterly harmless! Such a sweet, dear old man! And you drop your guard. And then he goes ahead with what he was gonna do in the first place, that WILL hurt you and there'll be no "sweetheart" about how it adversely affects you and your family and your community.

Mike Pence strikes that same sickly-sweet, nauseating, saccharine, phony-ass facial expression whenever he's around trump when he directs his gaze toward his "lord" and "master". You could see it in their appearances during the campaign, their sit-down interviews together, any time they're together, next to each other or near each other. Whenever he looks over at trump, Pence looks like he's in love with the guy. That moony, almost love-lorn look takes over his face. Eyebrows up, a love-lorn longing in his eyes. Nauseating. It's a new kind of "worshipful gaze," which Nancy Reagan made famous when she'd gaze at her husband while they were standing together or she was seated near him while he made some speech. It used to be written about - that moony-eyed, love-lorn "worshipful gaze" almost to the point of ridiculousness. Eventually she eased up on it because it became "a thing," and people smirked and snickered about it and it became a joke.

Now we have Mike "Nancy Reagan" Pence. I bet trump - um - "excites" him even more than his wife does.

(Sorry about all the edits. I could not figure out how to get the symbols/punctuation marks to work.)

[El Mimbreno]

51. The picture I can't stand

You've probably seen it. trump and ryan (neither worthy of capitalization) with matching smarmy smirks that say it all: "We fooled 'em, now we screw 'em."

[gratuitous]

11. True, and he's not about to grow a conscience

But by continually throwing these lies out in front of the popular media, it's just possible they might start to ask some questions about it. Ignoring Trump's prior statements is a sure-fire path to ignominy. Keep it up, Democrats!

[Fast Walker 52]

25. yeah, it certainly doesn't hurt to put trump's statements out there, just not sure how much it will

do...

[Wounded Bear]

15. "That statement was obviously taken out of context"....

That's the usual canard they throw out.

[spanone]

6. K&R...

[forgotmylogin]

7. This is probably what will become known as a "Trump appearance".

I'm fine if he holes up in a vault and tries to govern in 140 char or less and we never have to look at him.

[japple]

8. But he will have to reorganize, amend, reconfigure, restructure and it

will still be called by those names. Maybe he just meant that he wouldn't change the names of those programs.

[Equinox Moon]

9. Yes, Nice Prop!

So funny Bernie. Keep it up Bern-man!

Here is what Bernie's prop says:

"I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me."

[pangaia]

12. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sic 'em, Bernard!!!

[LittleGirl]

13. This is how it's done

Feel The Bern.

Teach 'em Bernie. Teach every last one of them.

[HassleCat]

14. Bernie sees an advantage.

Trump is careless aboitvwhat he says. His statements can be used against him.

[Bradical79]

16. Yeah, should be one of these at every meeting.

Trump has said a lot of stuff we agree with over the years as he's tried to suck up to various people. It's time to dig up every single liberal thing he has said or tweeted in his life, and put it front and center (literally) as he and the other Reublicans are in the act of fucking us over.

[Achilleaze]

43. Needs to be T-shirts and baseball caps with it as a logo

[demmiblue]

19. K&R

[lpbk2713]

20. That's the thing about social networking.

And Trump has yet to learn it.

What you post will be there to haunt you long after you have turned to dust.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. But he thought only applied to e-mail servers

[lpbk2713]

24. ... and that only Russians could successfully attack them.

...

[Skittles]

21. nice

MAKE IT BIGGER, BERNIE

SHOVE IT IN THEIR FACES

[Angry Dragon]

27. R100 plus KICK

[Bigredhunk]

28. Classic!

That's about the only kind of prop you can use with Twitler. Tweeting is all he ever does.

[wryter2000]

29. Nice going

Hold the Orange Abomination to it.

[FailureToCommunicate]

30. Keep their feet to the fire Bernie!

[klook]

32. LOL - "Huckabee copied me."

... as if that's something to brag about! And now Drumpf's reversing course anyway, big surprise.

Nice job, Senator Sanders. Hold this lying scumbag's feet to the fire -- only a candle will be required, assuming they're as tiny as his hands.

[Maru Kitteh]

41. That was the part that cracked me up too.

"Excuse me Mrs. Teacher but I don't know if you know this but Mike was copying my paper." "I'm only saying 'cause it's no fair."

[Scurrilous]

33. K & R

[LiberalLovinLug]

34. thats great. I wish more guests would bring in props to news interviews

I always thought that Democrat or liberal guests on news talk shows should bring with them props of graphs showing the facts, say, of the economic drop off under Republican administrations and how under Obama indicators improved greatly. Because these so-called news shows will never inform American viewers of positive news in regards to Democrats, especially economic stuff.

It would work better than what turns into a shouting match between the two sides with the ignorant host throwing their hands up, and saying "who knows who is right?". At least viewers would have the facts along with the credible source, right in front of their face.

[Warren DeMontague]

35. K&R

[mopinko]

36. i hope this is what the war room is cranking out.

if 8 years of obama taught us anything, it is that the president w/o the congress is a teeny job at times.

nail those suckers to big daddies words. make THEM keep the promises.
this could be a thing. a big thing.

[Beartracks]

37. We'll, sure -- Trump "stated" that. But was it a true statement?

"Pfft! True??” says Trump. "Who cares? What difference would it make? I just said it because it made me look good and sound smart!"

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[dae]

38. Brilliant!

[Achilleaze]

42. Excellent

keep this kicked through the year 2020 and beyond...

[VOX]

44. Transformed a Drumpf brain-fart into a mini-billboard...

Which has volume, etc. and FEELS a hell of a lot sturdier and *permanent* than a tweet.

[wolfie001]

46. I hope these tweet-easels become a regular thing!

[Initech]

49. Hey GOP!! This is what flip flopping looks like!