Greetings. Its a great list this week, plenty of things to do for Valentines Day whether with a special someone or single. I'll probably throw in a list to do for Monday February 18 since that is Presidents Day and a lot of people are off work.
Top picks from do 214
Editor's Pick from Guide Live
D Magazine Critics Pick Concerts happening in Dallas
ONGOING EVENTS
Rainbow Vomit until Feb 17 at Rainbow Vomit
Dinosaurs Live until Feb 17 at Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary
Incognito until Feb 23 at Bryant Hall
Ella Enchanted: The Musical until Feb 24 at Dallas Children's Theater / Rosewood Center for Family Arts
Amaluna by Cirque du Soleil until Mar 3 at Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie
Bless Me, Ultima until Mar 3 at Latino Cultural Center
THIS WEEK North American Reptile Breeders Conference and Trade Show from Saturday Feb 16 to Sunday Feb 17 at Arlington Convention Center
Falsettos from Tuesday Feb 12 to Sunday Feb 17 at Winspear Opera House
Jersey Boys from Tuesday Feb 12 to Sunday Feb 17 at Bass Performance Hall
Put Your Love On Top from Wednesday Feb 13 until Sunday Feb 17 at Reunion Tower at Hyatt Regency Dallas
Dark Hour presents Fever from Thursday Feb 14 until Saturday Feb 16 at Dark Hour Haunted House
Moxley Manor Valentine's Day Haunted House from Friday Feb 15 until Saturday Feb 16 at Moxley Manor Haunted House
50 Shades of Fear from Friday Feb 15 until Saturday Feb 16 at Hangman's House of Horrors
The Flame Foundation: 88 Keys Unlock Joan Miro's Flamenco Dancer's Heart from Thursday Feb 14 until Saturday Feb 16 at Winspear Opera House
ConDFW 18 from Friday Feb 15 until Sunday Feb 17 at Radisson Hotel Fort Worth North-Fossil Creek
Dallas AutoRama from Friday Feb 15 until Sunday Feb 17 at Dallas Market Hall
I Do! I Do! from Friday Feb 15 until Sunday Feb 17 at Majestic Theatre
My Funny Valentine from Friday Feb 15 until Saturday Feb 16 at Eisemann Center
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11 (High 61 Low 39, Showers)
Eagle Mountain - Saginaw ISD Fine Arts Showcase at Bass Performance Hall
Bachelor Nation Watching Party at Steam Theory Brewing Company
Arts & Letters Live: Ida O'Keefe Letters at Dallas Museum of Art
Cursive at Trees
DaniLeigh at House of Blues
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 (High 58 Low 36, Sunny)
The Singapore Slingers' Sweethearts Revue at Pocket Sandwich Theatre
Cupid's Corner at Watters Creek at Montgomery Farm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 (High 62 Low 51, Mostly Cloudy)
Cannoli Pop-Up at Ginger Man (Uptown)
Anti-Valentine's Event for Singles at Dallas Fish Market
Movie Night: 10 Things I Hate About You at Box Garden at Legacy Hall
Mason Adams Project at Sundown at Granada
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14 (High 74 Low 44, Mostly Cloudy/Windy)
Be Our Valentine at Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
Second Thursdays with a Twist: Bad Romance at Dallas Museum of Art
Love is in the Air at Texas Discovery Gardens
Singles Awareness Day party at Rustic
Downtown Plano Single's Awareness Day at Urban Rio
Valentine's Day Stoplight Party at Bishop Cidercade
Singles Awareness Day: Shred Your Ex at Bowl and Barrel
Valentine's Day Cupcake and Beer Pairing Flight at LUCK
Casablanca at Angelika Film Center (Plano)
Beer Dinner No. 3 at White Rock Alehouse and Brewery
Beyonce Ballet and Rose: All the Single Ladies Night at Arts Mission Oak Cliff
Champagne, Chocolates and Comedy Valentine's Day Celebration at Backdoor Comedy
Vegan Valentines Dinner at Mudhen Meat and Greens
BJ Barham at Kessler Theater
Brent Cobb and Them at Trees
Marc Anthony at American Airlines Center
Ricki Derek at Granada Theater
The Kooks at House of Blues
Valentine's Day Simon and Garfunkel Tribute at Opening Bell Coffee
Golden Girls Party at Industry Alley
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 (High 52 Low 34, Partly Cloudy)
Disco Kids at It'll Do Dallas
'til Midnight at the Nasher at Nasher Sculpture Center
Dallas Fuel Official Watch Party - OWL2019 Season Opener at Esports Stadium Arlington
Slothrust at Club Dada
BJ Thomas at Arlington Music Hall
Shelley Carrol Quartet at Allen Public Library
Gilby Clarke at Gas Monkey Bar and Grill
Justin Nozuka at House of Blues
Dallas Burlesque Festival at Don't Tell Supper Club
Cody Bryan Band at Sundown at Granada
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 (High 53 Low 36, Partly Cloudy)
Taste of Deep Ellum Walking Tour at Pecan Lodge
DevFest DFW at Capital One Conference Center
Monster Energy AMA Supercross at AT&T Stadium
World's Largest Daytona 500 Watch Party at Texas Motor Speedway
DFW-Siingapore CNY Dinner at Kirin Court Restaurant
Dollar Chili Day at Traders Village
Space Jam + Air Jordan After Party at Texas Theatre
Willie Nelson & Family at The Bomb Factory
Petty Theft - The Music of Tom Petty at Lava Cantina
Dead Presidents Party at Longhorn Harley-Davidson
Blaze of Glory at The Reservoir Frisco
Mardi Gras & Crawfish Boil at Oak Highlands Brewing
Assassination City Roller Derby: Season Opener at Thunderbird Roller Rink
Kid Fishing Day at Mike Lewis Park
2Cellos at Toyota Music Factory
Poetry in the Park at Klyde Warren Park
Gaybingo at Station 4
Texas A&M Singing Cadets Concert at Lovers Lane United Methodist Church
Jazz Series: Love, Jazz and Romance at McFarlin Memorial Auditorium
CRUSH Dallas at South Side Ballroom
Cirque du Burlesque at Viva's Lounge
Dallas Burlesque Festival at House of Blues
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 (High 54 Low 44, Cloudy)
Keep Denton Thrashing 2019 at Oak St. Drafthouse
Armadillo & Friends Pizza Palooza at Armadillo Ale Works
Dallas Tweed Ride 2019 at Dallas Farmers Market
Black History Month Festival at Southeast Arlington Branch Library
Opus 100: Organ Recital Series at Meyerson Symphony Center
Plano Art Fair at Celebration Event Center
Lunar New Year Performance at Eisemann Center
An Evening with George Winston at Kessler Theater
Courtney Barnett at Bomb Factory
I do realize that I sometimes use Facebook event links and some Redditors do not use Facebook. If there's any events you'd like more details on that's a Facebook link I'll be happy to help out. I try and avoid using Facebook links and go straight to the source but some venues strictly use Facebook for their events.
If I missed anything or would like to showcase an event, feel free to comment below.
From
Godzoozles Hi everyone, I came across a Medium post titled 46 Reasons to Not Vote for Bernie Sanders. This digs up a lot of weird, rare stuff. It's mostly all easily debunkable but I want to save everyone time by compiling all the resources into one place, so here's the
original piece I'm replying to. A number of these claims came up in 2015 and you can believe that they'll come up again this time. Don't let gullible friends fall for it! I'll copy the original points, but not the URLs in the original points from the Medium post. (
archived, in case this disingenuous person decides to take it down)
1) He’s not the most progressive — Kamala, Warren, Booker, and Gillibrand are all more progressive than him on crucial votes. What on earth is this page the guy links? Sherrod Brown is more progressive than Bernie, but leans Republican? Look, Bernie's campaign shifted the overton window towards the left when it has been on full retreat towards the right for decades with his last presidential campaign. Universal single-payer healthcare was not even a talking point until he pushed it forward. Beto O'Rourke adopted Sanders' model of not taking PAC money because Sanders proved he could rake in donations this way and fund a real, viable campaign. It worked for Beto, too.
Sanders champions working class issues, hasn't fallen for the total BS line that "politics is downstream from culture," understands that too big to fail means too big to exist, helped push Amazon to a $15 min wage, supports the Fight for 15 more broadly, wants to end money bail, and doesn't take corporate money. Quick summary of Sanders' positions:
https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1097831093959577601 And I know Sanders won't retreat on these issues, he won't dilute Medicare for All with "access to healthcare" or some other cheap qualifier, he won't compromise Green New Deal, and he certainly won't promise something if he cannot fight for it.
He's not like Kamala Harris whose aides have to go backpedal on her Medicare for All stance (
https://nypost.com/2019/02/01/what-kamala-harris-backtrack-means-for-medicare-for-all/)
He's not like Cory Booker who worked with none other than Betsy DeVos on eliminting public school and promoting school choice, a favorite right-wing point (
https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/02/booker_and_devos_served_together_now_he_voted_agai.html)
He's not like Amy Klobuchar who just thinks GND and M4A are "unrealistic" and offers up nothing in return. "Pragmatic" is not a policy.
He's not like Joe Biden who was paid $200k to give a speech on the behalf of a Republican, who then went on to win (
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/us/politics/biden-speech-fred-upton.html)
He's the Bernie Sanders who is rightfully proud that he's not friends with that ghoul Henry Kissinger (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCjQbTEuoDU).
2) He’s not a guaranteed win against Trump — Kamala and Booker are far more likely to take NV, FL, and NC than Bernie. And Klobuchar is more likely to take the Midwest. Is anybody guaranteed to win an election two years before it takes place? These are amazingly bold predictions for someone who didn't bother citing even a single poll, and it's so premature, so why even bother making the claim?
3) Bernie is the second richest person running (google candidate names followed by “net worth”) No. Straight lie. Do in fact as the original Medium author says and google the term to find nothing like he suggests. Consider:
https://www.rollcall.com/wealth-of-congress 4) He’s the only one who won’t release his taxes (well and Trump). No.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/bernie-sanders-tax-return-222041 (note the time stamp on the Politifact check and the time stamp on the Politico article. It's a completely dishonest claim to make in retrospect in 2019)
5) He’s the establishment — he’s been a politician for 39 years (longer than anyone else running). A vote for Bernie is emphasizing that we shouldn’t ever have “new blood” or term limits. The independent senator from Vermont is the establishment? Also why does his time as an independent tiny town mayor in Vermont count against him being a political insider?
6) He’s not accomplished. In 29 years (the house and senate) Bernie has only gotten 220 bills/amendments passed into law and most weren’t big deals — like renaming a post office. Whereas Elizabeth Warren has passed 45 bills/amendments into law in 6 years, Gillibrand has passed 92 in 12 years, and Klobuchar 125 in 12 years. So, he’s the least accomplished running. I guess they call him the roll call amendment king for nothing. Let's pretend that "bills/amendments passed" without any consideration of their content is a good metric of anything. Let's do some math. First of all, Bernie's been in the House and Senate for 28 years, not 29, so that's already misleading (I'll take the other numbers as given).
Sanders: 220/28 = 7.86 Bills&Amendments per year Warren: 45/6 = 7.5 Gillibrand 92/12 = 7.66 Klobuchar 125/12 = 10.41
What does this information tell us? Well the author sets up Warren and Gillibrand as if they do so much more than Bernie, which they don't. But the real answer to this question is it tells us absolutely nothing, other than these Congresspeople do work. So again, this is a complete non-point.
(slightly dated) List of significant bills Bernie brought forward 7) He doesn’t have a progressive voting history on the most important issues such as voting against the brady bill and other anti gun legislation multiple times. He literally does have a progressive voting history. To focus on a single aspect where he's more ambivalent than on other issues (guns) and to then take that and make it out like he's not progressive is just false. The
NRA has often rated Bernie as an F on guns (a ringing endorsement!) But as I mentioned, Sanders has shifted the overton window back toward the left. We owe him for a renewed national dialogue!
An alternative view on this is that Bernie is being even more progressive and left than this viewpoint would let on.
Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary 8) He voted for the Commodity Futures Modernization Act in 2000 (easing regulations on Wall Street) which caused the Great Recession. Super disingenuous to bring that up but not bring up his vote against Gramm–Leach–Bliley, which repealed Glass Steagall and deregulated investment vs commercial banking. Bernie voted against TARP, and he is against banks as institutions that can become too big to fail.
http://fortune.com/2018/10/03/bernie-sanders-bill-big-banks/ 9) He voted to end the 3–10 year ban on immigrants who overstayed their Visa by supporting the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Look at this 750 page omnibus bill. Anyway, following the house vote link from here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_Immigration_Reform_and_Immigrant_Responsibility_Act_of_1996 it actually says he voted against it, so...
10) He’s a war hawk: Sanders supported the war on Serbia in the 90’s, and voted for the 2001 Authorization Unilateral Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF), allowing Bush to wage war wherever he wanted. Yes, Bernie Sanders the war hawk who voted against the Iraq War. More recently he was a sponsor of a bill to end US support for war in Yemen, which passed the Senate. I am not in full support of Bernie's foreign policy stances, strong criticisms of him can be made here, but the term "war hawk" has meaning, and it does not apply to Bernie Sanders.
Also, good point, when literally everyone else voted in reaction to Sept. 11 to go to endless war, Rep. Barbara Lee did the most courageous thing to do in that immediate fury reaction and alone voted NO. So to blame Bernie specifically for something that literally any of the other leading Dems would've done is to not indict Bernie, but to indict the whole country (a very important point to think about!) Bless Barbara Lee, though. She had true courage far above anybody else in Congress, and her nay vote was heroic.
11) He voted in favor of the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998. The bill stated: “It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime.” Good criticism, finally. This one is new to me, and I find this vote regrettable. Though it's time to take note that all these things from the 90s were mostly signed in by Bill Clinton and supported by Dems broadly.
12) “Later that same year, he backed a resolution that stated: ‘Congress reaffirms that it should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic. government to replace that regime.’ These measures gave congressional backing for the CIA’s covert plan to overthrow the Hussein regime in Baghdad, as well as the tightening of an economic sanctions regime that may have killed as many as 500,000 Iraqi children. The resolution also gave the green light to Operation Desert Fox, a four-day long bombing campaign striking 100 targets throughout Iraq.” This guy really has to pad out points, 10, 11, and 12 should go together under one point. FP was a weak point for Bernie overall, I agree. BTW, Sanders didn't vote to authorize the Iraq War. Then-senator Clinton did, though!
13) He voted for the crime bill in the 90’s he blamed Hillary for — even though she wasn’t a senator. Very misleading. Sanders was not for the tough-on-crime parts of the bill, but he said "I have a number of serious problems with the crime bill, but one part of it that I vigorously support is the Violence Against Women Act. We urgently need the $1.8 billion in this bill to combat the epidemic of violence against women on the streets and in the homes of America." Read this for much more.
https://www.vox.com/2016/2/26/11116412/bernie-sanders-mass-incarceration. Also, gotta love that the Clintons used prison slave labor in the Arkansas governor's mansion, and she casually just talks about it in her book and sees no problem with that. But I digress.
14) He said Trump voters aren’t “racist, sexist, or homophobes” essentially defending trump and his bigotry. Sanders knows that Trump tapped into genuine anger and resentment of the status quo, because you know what? Productivity has massively increased but wages haven't matched it. We live in deeply unequal times, economically, and Trump used that to his advantage by using proto-fascist talking points of blaming minorities and others, scapegoating those who are most vulnerable. But that doesn't mean Bernie Sanders defends Trump, or thinks Trump is anything but a racist, misogynist liar.
https://twitter.com/berniesanders/status/1060589573653311488?lang=en 15) He voted against Russia sanctions twice. Good. We've really overblown Russian meddling in our society. They influenced our elections, our country, our beliefs? Hardly.
https://www.salon.com/2018/04/07/mainstream-media-sees-russian-bots-everywhere-its-a-lazy-and-largely-false-narrative/ Let me give you a more salient example of foreign influence in our country. What about when Republicans secretly worked with Israelis to bring Netanyahu to speak to Congress in 2015, without informing the White House? They literally invited foreign influence.
Also consider what
u/Textor44 added to this point 16) He voted against the amber alert. Really grasping here. The article the Medium author linked says Sanders voted against the bill because he thought this part of the bill was too much and unconstitutional: "Among the add-ons placed on the bill by House Republicans was one restricting the discretion of federal judges in crafting sentences for a range of crimes."
Basically the bill had a tacked-on provision to auto define sentencing, Sanders opposed this provision in particular.
17) He first got elected to Congress because of NRA support and money. Don't be misled, the NRA is no fan of Bernie Sanders, though in my view I'd prefer him to have a tougher stance on guns. Other lefties disagree with me on this, but let's deal with the claim. Pretending the NRA and Sanders are bedfellows is wrong. The only reason the NRA initially (but never again) supported Sanders is because Sanders' opponent explicitly flipped on the NRA. Consider this:
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-metestatements/2016/ap14/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-has-been-largely-ve/ 18) He didn’t condemn his supporters for throwing chairs in Nevada or sending out super delegate “hit lists.” In fact, he supported them. Just a perpetrating a lie. Consider:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-sanders-supporters-throw-chairs-at-nevada-democratic-convention/ Consider:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/18/the-faux-fracas-in-nevada-how-a-reporters-pack-of-lies-ran-riot-in-the-fact-averse-media/ 19) He voted to dump nuclear waste from several states on LatinX communities. Here is some abbreviated remarks, it really is worth paying attention to what he is saying so this is my longest response to the Medium post. (I quote at length from:
https://www.c-span.org/congress/bills/billAction/?print/1410681)
Let me address it from the perspective of someone who is an opponent of nuclear power, who opposes the construction of power plants and, if he had his way, would shut down the existing nuclear power plants as quickly and as safely as we could.
One of the reasons that many of us oppose nuclear power plants is that when this technology was developed, there was not a lot of thought given as to how we dispose of the nuclear waste. Neither the industry nor the Government, in my view, did the right thing by allowing the construction of the plants and not figuring out how we get rid of the waste.
But the issue we are debating here today is not that issue. The reality, as others have already pointed out, is that the waste is here. We cannot wish it away. It exists in power plants in Maine and Vermont, it exists in hospitals, it is here.
No reputable scientist or environmentalist believes that the geology of Vermont or Maine would be a good place for this waste. In the humid climate of Vermont and Maine, it is more likely that groundwater will come in contact with that waste and carry off radioactive elements to the accessible environment.
There is widespread scientific evidence to suggest, on the other hand, that locations in Texas, some of which receive less than 12 inches of rainfall a year, a region where the groundwater table is more than 700 feet below the surface, is a far better location for this waste.
This is not a political assertion, it is a geological and environmental reality. Furthermore, even if this compact is not approved, it is likely that Texas, which has a great deal of low-level radioactive waste, and we should make the point that 80 percent of the waste is coming from Texas, 10 percent from Vermont, 10 percent from Maine, the reality is that Texas will go forward with or without this compact in building a facility to dispose of their low-level radioactive waste.
20) He praised trump the day after the election and said he looked forward to working with him. This is what Sanders said right after the election: "To the degree that Mr. Trump is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in this country, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him, to the degree that he pursues racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-environment policies, we will vigorously oppose him.”
It's a completely banal statement that you make about trying to work toward solutions. I'm certain most top politicians made statements of the sort after the election. Note how the author of the Medium piece neglected to include the second half of this quote.
Also, this is what Sanders said in his announce video about Trump on Youtube for 2020: "We are living in a pivotal and dangerous moment in American history. We are running against a president who is a pathological liar, a fraud, a racist, a sexist, a xenophobe, and someone who was undermining American democracy as he leads us in an authoritarian direction." Some praise!
21) He had an absurd amount of FEC violations (639 pages worth). This largely stems from supporters donating more than they're legally allowed, not from Sanders being a serious bad-faith actor. He paid the FEC fines, too. Overblown issue.
22) He voted against rapists having to reveal their HIV status to their victims. I can't find much on this other than
https://prospect.org/article/his-own-worst-enemy which I'll quote: "...or on a measure giving rape victims the right to find out if their attackers had HIV/AIDS. Yes, Sanders voted against those bills, in some cases because they were attached to other provisions he opposed, in some cases because he voted for other measures that accomplished similar goals, and perhaps in some cases because, as Tarrant told me, "he too often takes the side of criminals' rights."
To that very last part, I take issue with Tarrant, Sanders' then political opponent, on claiming that Sanders takes the side of criminals. Sanders is on the side of the American people, and he's as principled as he is honest. Moving along.
23) He said identity politics shouldn’t matter. He literally did not. He essentially said gender is not a sufficient reason to vote, your politics matter as well as your identity. Read more here.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/12/bernie-sanders-nailed-it-on-identity-politics-and.html 24) He saw a bunch of very qualified women, people of color, and a gay man running and decided he’s better for the job than any of them. Ok, what the fuck? By this rationale is it also simply anti-Semitic to not vote for Sanders? The votes reside with the people who will decide who is right for the job (ignoring for a moment that superdelegates exist). Total non-point.
25) He campaigned against several marginalized progressive candidates in the midterm elections who are women in favor of white men, like Sharice Davids for example. This is the kind of statement made by the people who derided Taylor Swift for not supporting Marsha Blackburn. "Oh, a woman isn't supporting a woman!? L O L!" That isn't insightful, that's just dumb.
AOC also supported Brent Welder over Sharice Davids. So what? I had to do some investigation into this one.
Welder's positions: Fight for 15, M4A full-stop, equality for women & LGBTQ.
Davids supports "access" to care, and "access" to higher education.
You can compare their stances here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181107092454/https://www.brentwelder.com/issues/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181005201751/https://www.shariceforcongress.com/priorities It really is no surprise that Sanders supported Brent Welder. It's about the policies, not just the person. Refer to my link in 23)
26) His campaign hacked DNC data. Is this just a flat, unsubstantiated lie? This appears to be just a flat, unsubstantiated lie.
27) His wife is under FBI investigation. Sorry, try again.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/416476-adviser-bernie-sanderss-wife-cleared-in-land-deal-investigation 28) He didn’t pay his female staffers equally. Pay gap claims are new to me for the Sanders campaign. So just another lie made up, I guess.
29) He did nothing about the rampant sexual harassment that occurred within his campaign in 2016. Sexual harassment from men is not unique to the staffers on Bernie's campaign payroll. And at least he didn't didn't personally intervene like Hillary Clinton did on the behalf of Burns Strider, who KNEW about the harassment (
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/us/politics/hillary-clinton-chose-to-shield-a-top-adviser-accused-of-harassment-in-2008.html). This is such an overreach of a claim. We can read more here:
https://www.gq.com/story/sexism-problem-sanders-campaign I should also take a moment to note that the night Bernie announced he interviewed on TYT. He agreed that his campaign was overall too white, too male. He wants to fix these problems. He met with former campaign staffers about sexism (
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/politics/bernie-sanders-sexual-harassment-campaign-meeting-2020/index.html). He promises that his new campaign will have better safeguards as lessons learned from last time. He's certainly not idle or deaf to the problems.
30) He wrote an essay that says women fantasize about being raped. Okay, this one's really been pulled outta the archives. The essay does not say women fantasize about being raped, it's really not the point of the essay at all. Some backdrop per MotherJones:
"In 1963, as a junior, he waged a crusade for sexual freedom, assailing the school’s leaders for forcing their puritan views on undergraduates—and ruining their students’ sex lives.
In doing so, Sanders made national news. This crusade was emblematic of the way Sanders conducted himself in Hyde Park and throughout his political career—firm in his beliefs, fiery in his rhetoric, and unafraid of confrontation.
It began with a 2,000-word, ALL-CAPS-laced manifesto in the Maroon, the daily student newspaper, outlining the intellectual case for sexual freedom. Titled “Sex and the Single Girl—Part Two” (a nod to Helen Gurley Brown’s feminist treatise), Sanders attacked the university’s strict student housing guidelines—which prohibited women from living off-campus and restricted visiting access for persons of the opposite sex—with the kind of fire he’d later reserve for capitalists and war hawks."
So read the "rape" essay for yourself, see how it doesn't comport with Bernie saying that women fantasize about rape.
https://i.imgur.com/hJVDNT5.png Totally misleading claim.
31) He called Planned Parenthood and the Human Rights Campaign the establishment. Because they are. Take for example that PP's union-busting efforts last year (
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/21237/planned_parenthood_union_busting_trump_labor and
https://www.newsweek.com/planned-parenthood-asks-trump-administration-help-tackle-trade-union-946084)
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/09/the-human-rights-campaign-has-totally-betrayed-its-constituents These organizations are political.
32) He used the anniversary of MLK’s assassination to take jabs at Obama. Knighted and Sainted Obama is above reproach and criticism. More at 10:00PM. Just kidding! This claim is just overblown. It's deceptive to pretend Sanders took the whole day to exclusively jab at Obama, but while we're on the topic of Obama:
https://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/obama-foreclosure-crisis-wealth-inequality 33) His campaign was incredibly hurtful to HIV/AIDS activists and refused to apologize. It is disappointing that that happened, this is a good point. One counterpoint I'll offer is this was truly in the major swing of things during primary season, so if the scheduling was tight it's not a great surprise. But does this mean he literally doesn't give a shit about HIV/AIDS? (tip: answer's no. Side note: Medicare for All would help people avoid contracting HIV, and those who need antivirals would not go bankrupt trying to afford them!)
34) Two words: “democratic whore.” Sanders did not say these words. He condemned them, however.
35) Instead of supporting the LGBTQ march on Washington, he held the People’s Summit in Chicago — giving no mention to the lgbtq and having no lgbtq speakers. Not much to say about this, it's just not a strong or interesting point. He was at another conference at the time.
36) He called Hillary unqualified — someone who has served for decades, was SOS and a New York Senator. So actually he was saying women are not qualified. To paraphrase the Medium post author, "Bernie Sanders didn't say this thing, so instead I'll offer up a strawman and claim that he did in fact say and mean this thing I just made up." Don't let people make claims like this and deceive you. Ok, next.
37) He didn’t condemn his supporters for attacking Dolores Huerta. I'm not sure what this is specifically referring to, and "attacked" is such a strong word for me to not be able to find good context for this. I did find this:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sanders-english-only-huerta/ Also refer back to my point 18.
38) He’s old. Really old. Yes this could be called ageism but men’s life expectancy is younger than women’s. They don’t live as long. Bernie is past the average age for men. We elect people with hopes of 8 years, making Bernie 85 by the time he’s done. In all honesty, do you know a single 85 year old who could handle the job as well as someone 10, 20, or 30 years younger? No. No you don’t. Bernie's old, yeah. I, too, wish he were younger. At least he's younger than Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, RBG, and is only one year older than Joe Biden. And Bernie can still ball (for an old guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OK82c5y2jE)
39) He generally only employs straight white men for high up positions. Faiz Shakir. Analilia Mejia. Carmen Yulin Cruz. Ro Khanna. Sarah Badawi. Nina Turner. The claim he only employs straight white men for high up positions is thoroughly false.
This claim wasn't even true in 2016.
40) He praised Castro Presented as if this is ipso facto a bad thing. Doesn't cite what Bernie actually said. Anyway, yeah Castro successfully resisted US imperial efforts. They have great healthcare, great education. Think about Nicaragua, El Salvador, Haiti, Guatemala and how US intervention has horribly damaged those nations. Cuba would just be another victim of US imperial might.
Elliott Abrams being brought back out from his crypt to is a perfect reminder of this. 41) He praised Daniel Ortega. Presented as if this is ipso facto a bad thing. Doesn't cite what Bernie actually said. Anyway, Reagan was basically funding right-wing death squads at this time, so...
42) He praised Hugo Chavez and Venezuela, even though his policies are literally starving people to death. Sanders did call Chavez a "dead communist dictator." So this point is just wrong, and I could stop writing here, but I'll take a moment to mention Chavez was democratically elected (and survived a US-backed coup). Poverty was significantly reduced in Venezuela under Chavez's presidency. So Bernie is poor on this point, but not for the reason described.
http://cepr.net/documents/publications/venezuela-2009-02.pdf Also consider:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/chavez-venezuela-bolivarian-revolution-bernie/ 43) He supported getting discount oil from Venezuela — capitalizing on their poverty and not chastising their government for their treatment of their people. The linked article is from when Chavez was alive and president. During this time Venezuela was successfully reducing its poverty rates. I'm trying to imagine how we could reframe this issue in other ways, like... "He did not support getting a good price on oil from Venezuela, wasting US dollars." "Bernie Sanders topples OPEC with his oil negotiating tactics." Come off it, already. (Just in case you missed it the first time from point 42, this was during a time when poverty was significantly decreasing in Venezuela:
https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/poverty-reduction-venezuela)
44) His support of military actions in the 1999 Kosovo War was so bad it caused one of his advisers to quit. Identical to point from #10 (original author even linked the specific letter of resignation in 10). So this point's redundant.
45) In 1999 anti war activists stormed Sanders office because his pro war policies were so bad… you know how he preaches against overpolicing and giving people a right to vote? He had all of the protestors arrested. Will Miller wrote about his experiences with this in 1999. Yes, Sanders needed to clarify his FP. Perhaps he'll be stronger on the point this election than last time. But this doesn't condemn everything Bernie stands for, so it's just again a really flaccid point.
46) There’s a difference between supporting equality and fighting for equality. The truth is, Bernie has never focused on passing legislation to help marginalized groups. It’s not his focus. Just plainly not true. Look at him protest segregation.
http://www.trbimg.com/img-56cca0aa/turbine/ct-bernie-sanders-arrested-20160219 He voted against DOMA.
Check out more here:
http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-lgbtq-rights/ (which includes that great video of Sanders not allowing another rep to insult gay troops on the basis of their sexual orientation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDS1n8xIybc)
Here is a bonus smear that is brought up on Twitter often:
Bernie Sanders does not poll well with women and minorities Alright, so what's Bernie's "Favoribility" among Americans? If everyone hates him so much, why did he clobber Kamala Harris's first 24 hours of fundraising, pulling in 4x as much?
Sorry, but the polling data does not hold on this claim.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/329404-poll-bernie-sanders-countrys-most-popular-active-politician Among women Bernie is 58% favorable. African Americans polled him at 73% favorable.
Another look at the polls. Seems like minorities favor Sanders more.
https://twitter.com/SethAckerman/status/1078043620501057536 If you need more we can defer yet again to the excellent Katie Halper:
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/12/17/how-come-so-many-bernie-bros-are-women-and-people-color And just in case someone tries to claim that Bernie's supports are all rich white bros, and that's how he earned his record first round fundraising, ask them why the average donation was $27 with 223,000 donors. Yeah, all these rich guys just dropping $27, because they're so rich they cannot afford more.
Second bonus: Bernie Sanders will be vetted this time! We will really get him! Just read this while keeping in the back of your mind that it was written almost three years ago:
https://fair.org/home/the-myth-that-sanders-hasnt-been-criticized-wont-go-away/ I guess the myth really won't go away!
Okay, since you've made it this far, here's some good reading in support of Bernie. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/06/there-is-still-only-one-clear-way-to-get-rid-of-trump https://jacobinmag.com/2019/01/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-democratic-primary-baffler-amber-frost https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/19/why-bernie-sanders-is-still-the-most-progressive-choice-for-president https://external-preview.redd.it/wrJbVU-Q2n1VXEQB9Avdd0u4DMdK79qZq-v32qg21n4.jpg?auto=webp&s=ff744aa3880998d3791cfe07778d74356122c91a - U.S. unemployment dropped to a half-century low in September and job growth continued at a modest pace, signs the economy is holding up despite a broader global slowdown. The jobless rate dropped to 3.5% in September from 3.7% in August, marking the lowest rate since December 1969 when it also logged in at 3.5%. Employers added 136,000 jobs in September, and payrolls for August and July were revised up, the Labor Department reported Friday.
2. Imagine a world where wage growth was truly stagnant only for workers in high-wage industries, such as medicine and consulting. Imagine a labor market where earnings growth for low-wage workers, such as those who work in retail and restaurants, had doubled in the past five years. Imagine an economy where wages for the poorest Americans were rising twice as fast as hourly earnings for high-wage earners. It turns out that
all three of those things are happening right now.
3.
The U.S. trade gap widened in August as American consumers bought more cellphones and other goods from abroad while businesses exported more oil and autos, a sign of the economy’s resilience amid a global economic slowdown. The trade deficit in goods and services increased 1.6% from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted $54.9 billion in August, the Commerce Department said Friday. The report offered a reassuring sign about the overall health of the U.S. economy and the willingness of Americans to spend despite a spate of weak manufacturing data, cooling global growth and uncertainty around the U.S.-China trade war.
- The U.S. economy faces some risks to growth but remains in a good place overall, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said on Friday. “Our job is to keep it there as long as possible,” Mr. Powell said in opening remarks set for delivery Friday at a conference at the central bank’s headquarters in Washington. This year, the Fed has cut its benchmark rate twice—most recently last month to the current target range of 1.75% to 2%—to guard against the risk of a sharper-than-expected slowdown amid weaker global growth and rising trade and geopolitical uncertainty.
5. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York will
extend its intervention in the repo market into November, it said on Friday, soothing concerns about a re-emergence of the cash crunch that sent short-term interest rates soaring in September. The New York Fed first stepped into the repo market, where banks and investors borrow cash in exchange for Treasuries and other high-quality collateral, after the cost of borrowing money overnight quadrupled to 10 per cent last month.
6. The Social Security debate has
moved left. That shift, evidenced by presidential candidates’ plans and a bill backed by nearly 90% of House Democrats, departs from years of conversations about an elusive bipartisan compromise where Democrats agree to lower promised benefits and Republicans accept higher taxes. Instead, President Trump has ruled out cuts to future benefits. Democrats have lined up behind larger benefits and higher taxes.
- Social Security's costs are projected to exceed income next year for the first time since 1982, forcing the program to dip into its nearly $3 trillion trust fund, built up when payroll taxes exceeded benefits. Unless Congress acts, that trust fund will be depleted in 2034 and benefits would be automatically cut by more than 20%. Congress could fill the gap by raising payroll taxes or diverting general-fund revenue. Less disruptive changes now could close the shortfall, but lawmakers have little incentive to move. Make benefits richer, and the trust fund runs out sooner. Raise taxes, increase the retirement age or slow benefit increases, and the program stays solvent longer.
- The White House issued a presidential proclamation on Friday night requiring many future immigrant visa applicants to show they can afford health care, a move that could make it harder for poor migrants to enter the U.S. The action, which is set to take effect in 30 days, would require applicants, including people with ties to family members in the U.S., to show they have health insurance or prove their financial ability to pay for medical care before being issued a visa that could lead to a green card.
- Beijing flexed its muscles on Tuesday with one of the country's biggest-ever military parades to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic of China. The array of new weaponry showcased in the extravaganza reflects China's "war plan," which is aimed at realizing the military annexation of Taiwan by 2049 -- the centennial of Communist Party rule -- while preventing intervention by the U.S.
10. Street battles
raged across Hong Kong and the city’s subway operator suspended its entire network late Friday as the government’s move to invoke emergency measures and ban people from wearing masks at protests triggered a backlash. The city’s leader, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, invoked the British colonial-era law for the first time in 52 years, saying it was a deterrent to social unrest that posed a serious public danger. The ban on people wearing masks at public gatherings and unlawful assemblies would be punishable by as much as one year in prison. Chinese authorities have
hit out at US, British and European Union officials, accusing them of siding with “black mobs” during one of the most violent days since Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty.
- Hunter Biden, the son of former United States vice-president Joe Biden, is listed as a director of a state-backed equity fund in China, but public records do not appear to support claims by US President Donald Trump that he used his father’s connections to secure Chinese capital for his investments. Trump on Thursday called on China to investigate Biden, now a leading Democratic presidential candidate, and his son, alleging the younger Biden used his position of influence to secure US$1.5 billion in funding from the government-owned Bank of China for a private equity firm he was involved in and made millions in the process. The best reported story I've seen on Hunter Biden was published by The New Yorker in its July 1st (2019) edition. You can access that article by clicking here.
- Democrats pursuing the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump have served the White House with a subpoena, in an effort to obtain documents related to the investigation that the Trump administration has refused to give to House panels leading the probe. “We deeply regret that President Trump has put us — and the nation — in this position, but his actions have left us with no choice but to issue this subpoena,” said Elijah Cummings, the Democratic chair of the House oversight committee, explaining a move that was joined by the heads of both the intelligence and foreign affairs committees.
13. A second intelligence official who was alarmed by President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine is
weighing whether to file his own formal whistle-blower complaint and testify to Congress, according to two people briefed on the matter. The official has more direct information about the events than the first whistle-blower, whose complaint that Mr. Trump was using his power to get Ukraine to investigate his political rivals touched off an impeachment inquiry. The second official is among those interviewed by the intelligence community inspector general to corroborate the allegations of the original whistle-blower, one of the people said.
14. A Republican senator said he was told by an American diplomat in August that
the release of U.S. aid to Ukraine was contingent on an investigation desired by President Trump and his allies, but Mr. Trump denied pursuing any such proposal when the lawmaker pressed him on it. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said that Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, had described to him a quid pro quo involving a commitment by Kyiv to probe matters related to U.S. elections and the status of nearly $400 million in U.S. aid to Ukraine that the president had ordered to be held up in July.
15. After years of growing hostility and competition for influence,
Saudi Arabia and Iran have taken steps toward indirect talks to try to reduce the tensions that have brought the Middle East to the brink of war, according to officials from several countries involved in the efforts. Even the prospect of such talks represents a remarkable turnaround, coming only a few weeks after a coordinated attack on Saudi oil installations led to bellicose threats in the Persian Gulf. Any reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran could have far-reaching consequences for conflicts across the region.
16.
Taliban officials have met in Pakistan with the top American diplomat who recently led peace negotiations with the insurgent group, current and former members of the Taliban said on Saturday, the first time representatives from both sides had met since President Trump called off the talks last month.
- Boris Johnson’s Brexit plans look to be falling apart as the European commission said there are no grounds to accept a request from the UK for intensive weekend negotiations two weeks before an EU summit. EU sources said there was no basis for such discussions, given the British prime minister’s insistence on there being a customs border on the island of Ireland.
- Mr. Johnson’s most senior adviser warned last night that Britain would leave the European Union without a deal if Brussels refused to compromise, Dominic Cummings told government advisers that the prime minister would not repeat the mistakes of his predecessor and delay Brexit. “Next week we are going to know how things turn out,” he said. “If the EU says no then we are not going to do what the last lot did and change our negotiating position. If we don’t get anything next week, we are gone.”
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