OK, Boomers! The Sandernista protesters are stealing our chants

[MineralMan]

from the 1960s. Now, it's "HEY HEY, HO HO, Joe Biden Has got to Go!" I remember that chant, but it had "LBJ" in it, instead.

Link to tweet

Retro Homage to the Boomers! Respect is being paid.

[TwilightZone]

1. There was a NY Times article in 2004 titled "Hey Hey Ho Ho, Those Old Protest Tactics Have to Go"

That seems kind of apropos to the conversation. haha

Seems the chant dates to at least the 1950s, often used in sports in the "early" days.

The Ramones are unavailable for comment.

[NurseJackie]

2. "This stupid chant has got to go!"

[brush]

17. It figures. Sanders himself still uses the tired, old 60s' campus radical...

phrase, "fighting the establishment", all the time.

[NurseJackie]

18. I like: Fired-up... FIRED UP! Ready to go... READY TO GO!!

[brush]

20. That's more like it...from O himself.

[Igel]

24. Still strikes me better

than reducing a crowd to a PA system, where one dictator speaks and the auditors echo, demonstrating their rage and individuality by mindlessly obeying and repeating. (It's a useful skill early in interpreter training, but after that not so much.)

At least in the zombie church services with statement/response portions to their services the larger group doesn't just echo, even if it does just mindlessly read the responses.

[IADEMO2004]

30. The Ramones are unavailable for comment. Thank you needed a laugh

[Butterflylady]

3. Biden asked if they were with donald trump!

Priceless.

[wyldwolf]

4. because, in a way, they are.

[MineralMan]

5. It's all pretty funny, if you look at it from a historical perspective.

The current crop of protesters mocks Boomers, but then copies their protest strategies without even realizing that they're just doing the same thing we were doing over 50 years ago.

I suppose every generation believes they are the first to do something. That is rarely true.

[TwilightZone]

8. The following applies to some, but not all Sanders supporters:

Many of them are new to politics and new to everything that goes with that, including the history of politics, the history of Democrats, and the history of the Democratic Party. Some of them seem to insist (intentionally or otherwise) that political history began in 2015, when one Bernard Sanders started a five-year voyage for the presidency.

That's part of it, of course. They don't have a frame of reference outside of the past five years, except for a few isolated incidents and/or vague references. FDR, a vehement anti-socialist, is perceived as the ultimate socialist. And, Bernie got arrested once. And he never called himself a socialist without the "democratic" modifier. Right.

As such, they don't see what we political junkies who've lived through decades of this stuff see - everything's a cycle and just about everything's been done before.

[MineralMan]

10. Yup. You're right.

On the other hand, back in the late 1960s, we sort of did the same thing. A lot of the techniques we used originated in the labor protests of the 1920s. I remember a resurgences of Woody Guthrie songs of that era.

Nothing is ever really new, it seems. We look back for clues on what to do now.

[brush]

19. Well said. We also have the historical knowledge to know the coutry will not...

elect a self-avowed socialist, even though he has re-labeled himself a democratic socialist to use the party to run for president.

[TwilightZone]

21. It was always going to be a challenge.

His campaign, to their credit, understood that and tried to plan accordingly (the 30% plan), but as we've seen in two consecutive cycles, his support has a hard cap, and that's just on the Democratic side.

[brush]

23. Yep, and in what campaign in recent history have all the lagging candidates stayed...

in to the convention and allowed a 30-percenter to win?

That was never going to happen. Sanders and his brain trust need to fire themselves.

[FailureToCommunicate]

11. This classic by singer Charlie King gives that notion a good sendup...

"Vaguely Reminiscent of the '60's"

[pampango]

14. 'You are with me or you are with the terrorists (Trump)' or something like that.

There is no middle ground for dissent within the party. Doesn't Donald, every time a republican strays from the Trump-path (it does not happen often), accuse the 'offender' of siding with the 'evil Democrats'.

[Sloumeau]

6. I worry when people like Symone Sanders get whacked...

because of protesters. Some people need to calm down a little bit.

[George II]

7. Nothing they do is original or their own idea.

[BlueIdaho]

9. So THIS is the face of the "revolution?"

Count me out.

[dawg day]

12. Gimme an F!

Of course, we used to chant the rest as U-C-.....

[MineralMan]

15. Great video! Brings a lot of things back.

Not all of them are terrific. There's a certain irony in those blonde girls smiling broadly and dancing to that song.

Contradictions aplenty.

I remember a couple of very large anti-war protests in the DC area in 1968-9. If there was music, it resulted in bigger crowds, but a lot of people were smiling and dancing. I thought at the time that it took something away from the reasons we were there, actually. On the other hand, all that celebrating led to all sorts of fun activities later, so...

[dawg day]

16. Whoopee! We all gonna die!

Oops. maybe not a good song for a pandemic.

[LanternWaste]

13. I sang Happy Birthday to my nephew last week by stealing from The Hardboiled Generation.

My retro-respect to Dos Passos and Hammett.









(this is what happens when we reach so far down, we end up reflecting the very thing we oppose)

[BidenBacker]

22. They'll have a tougher time stealing this one since it won't rhyme with Joe

"Hey, hey, LBJ...how many kids did you kill today?"

It's a shame LBJ got himself sucked into the quagmire of Vietnam...he was one of the most progressive Presidents we ever had but a lot of his accomplishments don't really get recognized because of that damn war.

That was back when we had a pretty radical left wing...not like today. But ol' Bernie's working on it!

[iwannaknow]

25. Please stop calling Sanders supporters "Sandernistas"

At some point we're going to have to pull together to defeat Trump, and this kind of post will make it much more difficult.

[LizBeth]

28. In a thread talking about a group being disruptive to the point of one of ours getting pushed to the

ground. Tell me, why is it only the Sanders people that keep insisting we Democrats play nice smack in the middle of their dirty? I suppose this is me not playing nice, begging for a vote to save our nation and the future of our youth?

[left-of-center2012]

26. "OK, Boomers!"

Good thread, but as a 'boomer' I really hate that phrase 'OK, Boomers'.

[LaurenOlimina]

27. Yeah, those have NEVER gone away.

[Historic NY]

29. Sanders My Revolution is stuck with reruns...

of the 60s and he wonder why people tire of his BS because we've heard it all before. He wants to do a rewrite of the 1960's.

[msongs]

31. at least the rewrite is not hiding behind a mimeograph machine while others get gassed and clubbed n

[greatauntoftriplets]

32. I always preferred:

Nixon, pull out like your father should've.