My laugh for the day: "Sanders sounds like a guy who at least considered cooking a toilet fish"

[steve2470]

referring to this:

Bernie Sanders cannot understand why anyone is interested in Bernie Sanders. Sure, he has learned to toss a paragraph of biography into his presidential campaign speeches, but he gives that section less passion than any other. He mumbles something about growing up with an immigrant father in a tenement with three and a half rooms. When asked privately what this “half room” is, Sanders looks as if he’s never considered it. “Probably the foyer,” he says. “It had a kitchen, a living room, a bedroom, and foyer. They threw in a bathroom as well, but I didn’t count it. You know, my memory of my bathroom is that one time a fish actually came up through a toilet.” He pauses. “We did not cook it.”

at: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-bernie-sanders-fundraising/

The subject line is by the author of that piece in that same article referenced above.

Yes, I'm voting for Senator Sanders in the Florida primary, and for the Democratic nominee in November. I just found that funny.

[daleanime]

1. ........

[wendylaroux]

2. Love this guy,

my kind of human.

[monmouth4]

3. He does have a wonderful dry wit...n/t

[bobbobbins01]

4. I found that amusing too.

Throw in a little rum ham and you got a party.

[wendylaroux]

8. RUM HAM!!!! COME BACK!!!

[Glamrock]

5. Great article

That line cracked me up too. Also liked this line: "His speeches are salted with the casual “bulls---”s, “damn”s, and “crap”s that you’d expect from a cranky old liberal." But, it made me realize i am turning into a cranky old liberal.

[passiveporcupine]

17. But, it made me realize i am turning into a cranky old liberal.

Me too. I say the f word way too often. And I'm an old lady. I don't think we are supposed to use that word.

[Glamrock]

21. Oh man

I love hearing old ladies drop the f-bomb. Cracks me up because, as you said, old ladies aren't supposed to use that word. Always takes me by surprise. So, in the spirit of things, have a nice fucking evening!

[azmom]

6. I love everything about Sanders.

I'm so happy he will be our next president.

[Scuba]

7. I'm not that impressed with Bernie Sanders.

But I absolutely love his policy positions.

[demwing]

9. Toilet Fish!

Amazing what you can find on Google

[steve2470]

10. haha! nt

[Tab]

11. I'm glad he described the fish coming up into the toilet

Otherwise I was dreading what a "toilet fish" might be.

[Uncle Joe]

12. I thought it was funny too and I'm also voting for Bernie

Thanks for the thread. steve.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. The Bernie Sanders Parody account "@berniethoughts" is pretty funny.

https://twitter.com/berniethoughts

And Sanders himself follows it, because he can actually laugh at himself, apparently.

[left-of-center2012]

14. "a toilet fish"

Not what I was imaging ---- thank God!

[Ed Suspicious]

15. Bernie Sanders isn't particularly interested in Bernie Sanders. He is interested in fair elections.

He's interested in informative, probing, relevant media. He's interested showing people that our neighbors are not the enemy even if skin color doesn't match or they look to the east when they pray (I don't really know what direction people look when they pray so sorry if I referred to that wrongly). He's interested in pointing to the out of balance nature of the power held by people vs the power held by people with money. Bernie's bio? Not so interesting to Bernie.

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. +1000000

[Sophiegirl]

18. I could use your help.

My daughter and son-in-law live in Florida. They both support Bernie, but for some reason, don't want to register as Dems in order to vote for him in the primaries. Makes no sense to me. But she can be quirky in many ways. What can I say to her that will convince her that registering as a Dem is not some kind of betrayal of her Independent roots?

[steve2470]

19. she can register Democratic and then UN-register after the election if she wants to

I don't know what the deadline is for registering to vote in her county, of course.

http://dos.elections.myflorida.com/supervisors/supervisor_elections.asp

That's the link for Supervisors of Elections, who do the registering. You might want to find out the registration deadline for her county and suggest to her my strategy.

Of course, just registering Democratic doesn't mean you are a card-carrying, dyed-in-the-wool-forever-permanent Democrat. It just means you can vote in that primary. She can vote for Republicans (ugh god forbid) and non-partisan candidates and even write in her own choices.

I think once she understands that she MUST register Democratic to vote for Bernie in the primary, then she will just bite the bullet and do it. If Bernie doesn't win the primaries, of course, per his declaration he will not be in the General Election.

Hope that helped.

[Sophiegirl]

20. Thanks

She's pretty bull-headed. I have no idea where she gets that from.

I'll give it another go. Wish me luck.