A leaked majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito shows the Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v Wade and all eyes are suddenly on Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Related: Susan Sarandon should maybe probably stay off Twitter today
While campaigning against Hillary Clinton for president in 2015, Sanders went on MSNBC’s The Ed Show to say that if Democrats really wanted to win over new voters they should focus less on protecting people’s civil rights and more on things that matter, like economic issues, since those are what truly bring people together.
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“These people are struggling and voting against their own interests,” Sanders said when speaking about white voters in the South. “Getting hung up on gay marriage, getting hung up on abortion. It’s time we start focussing on the economic issues that bring us together.”
Bernie Sanders on White voters:
“These people are struggling & voting against their own interests. Getting hung up on gay marriage, getting hung up on abortion. It’s time we start focussing on the economic issues that bring us together.” pic.twitter.com/L2UqLxY4a1
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) May 3, 2022
Now that Alito’s majority opinion has leaked, that clip of Sanders has begun recirculating on Twitter and folx are not happy with him.
Here’s what they’re saying…
I love receipts. Carry on
— IAintALiberalI’mBlackBitch! (@PurpleReign14) May 3, 2022
Reminder: Bernie Sanders called Planned Parenthood "the establishment."
— Kim Wexler's Ponytail (@MadisonKittay) May 3, 2022
Marriage and abortion are both issues with economic impacts. It’s insane to act like these issues and economics are two separate islands.
— Kells Bells (@kellymarie20209) May 3, 2022
Bernie Sanders is completely to blame for all of this.
And I will fight everyone about it.
— Amene (@Ange_Amene) May 3, 2022
Welp. There goes Roe v Wade. Thanks a lot, Susan Sarandon and Bernie Sanders. Is this your revolution?
— Trinity Stands with Ukraine ?? (@TrinityMustache) May 3, 2022
Good summary: pic.twitter.com/fpu5tDEgYm
— Edgeoforever 🖖 🐝🌻 (@edgeoforever) May 3, 2022
It will be very hard for me not to blame Bernie Sanders and all his media for this. I’m sorry.
Normally I like to stay a smidge above that, but in a time where we needed focus he unleashed a wave of distractions which ultimately led to this conclusion.
— Terry Watkins Jr. ???? (@TerryWatkinsJr1) May 3, 2022
Because those impacted by gay marriage and abortion laws don’t want to sell their rights for a better economy. It’s not a choice one should have to make.
— Lynx/El – Sometimes Hyena 🏳️🌈♓🐇 (@LowBlueFlame) May 3, 2022
Fuck Bernie Sanders
— 9Gen (@Tsiser45) May 3, 2022
Bernie Sanders is incredibly obsessed with “economic issues” for someone who hasn’t solved any economic issues in 40 years of being a congressman.
— Jay Madison (@JayMadIV) May 3, 2022
Remember when Bernie Sanders called abortion rights a “distraction” in 2016? I sure do.
— John R (@johnrennhack) May 3, 2022
Sanders responded to the leaked majority opinion last night by calling on Democrats to immediately end the filibuster and make abortion rights the law of the land.
“Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW,” he tweeted. “And if there aren’t 60 votes in the Senate to do it, and there are not, we must end the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes.”
Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW. And if there aren’t 60 votes in the Senate to do it, and there are not, we must end the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) May 3, 2022
Unfortunately, Sanders’ solution was dead in the water even before he suggested it. Eliminating the filibuster would require 51 votes and Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have already said they don’t support getting rid of it.
Here’s how folx responded to Sanders’ tweet…
This you?https://t.co/a4aiQXtSom
— China Kat Sunflower 🌻 (@ChinaKatSun) May 3, 2022
How can we end the filibuster with 2 Democrats voting against it?
— Sharon 🌊🌊🌊🇺🇲🐾🐎🤠🗽🌎🌈Resist #Vote Blue (@magicsands) May 3, 2022
Super glad you ran against Hilary Clinton and enabled this to happen. 👍👿
— kaylaria alpert (@kaylaalpert) May 3, 2022
Do it then. It’s weird to me when MEMBERS OF CONGRESS tweet stuff like this. If anyone can do it, it’s literally you. Do it.
— Heather Wylie (@unxpctdisvry) May 3, 2022
I agree with you on this but also remember when I was covering the 2016 election how you said Planned Parenthood was “Establishment” and also endorsed a couple of anti-choice candidates and claimed choice wasn’t the only issue, so…. there’s that.
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) May 3, 2022
Joe Manchin is pro-life, and I don’t see Susan Collins voting to end the filibuster.
— Seth Masket (@smotus) May 3, 2022
Talk to Manchin or help Dems pick up seats in the midterms. Everything else is just hot air.
— PCR RitesGood (@pcrritesgood) May 3, 2022
You’re in Congress. You can just go ahead and work on that, without announcing it to us.
— @joboomr44 (@joboomr44) May 3, 2022
I love ya Bernie but we don’t have 50 votes either.
— Jinborov Karnovski (@TheKarnov) May 3, 2022
If only you had encouraged your fan base to understand the 2016 vote was always about the courts.
— Pro-Choice Adoptee with a WHITEBOARD 🦂🖤🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@rebelledeb) May 3, 2022
shanek
Alito and Thomas have already called to overturn Obergefell.
At least while repugnicans are outlawing abortion, they are making it easier to get birth control and sex education, providing prenatal and post-natal care, voting to expand the safety net, voting to give parents paid time off, and making adoption easier OH WAIT THEY HAVEN’T DONE ANY OF THIS.
Polaro
I have repeated on this silly website so many times about needing to win elections and the leftist nonsense that hurts us. Never would have thought Bernie would agree with me. I sure hope they don’t come for us, but it seems inevitable now. This is the price of losing elections via smug far left-wing nonsense. How’s your pronouns doing today?
Eternal.Cowboy
My pronouns are great, thanks for asking. How’s your bigotry doing today?
Polaro
That’s cute, you don’t know what bigotry means. Example of why people hate us…a self centered cowboy.
Kangol2
Most people don’t vote on stuff like the “pronoun” issue; this is an issue that of concern only to the political far right and far left, as researchers like Jonathan Haidt (a centrist liberal who criticizes liberals, let’s be clear), and people like you amplify it.
The fact is that a MAJORITY of Americans have voted for the Democratic Presidential candidates in 7 of the last 8 elections. Obama won in 2008 by 9 million votes. Biden won in 2020 by 7 million votes. That is larger than entire US states. The Democratic Senators and Democratic House members represent a vast majority of the American populace compared to the GOP.
You keep believing that most people are thinking about “pronouns” when they vote, and if that makes you feel good, so be it. The bigger question is, why did White women vote against a White woman candidate who would have protected their rights and everyone else’s, particularly LGBTQ people? Instead we got stuck with an incompetent racist traitor, Don the Con, who put three far-right extremists on the Supreme Court, and that very same court is now poised to erase all kinds of hard-earned rights and equality, whatever your pronouns!
Eternal.Cowboy
Trans rights and pronoun usage were not issues in the 2016 election. That you are blaming the trans community for that loss is simply you exploiting the situation to demagogue against a marginalized group or people due to your own prejudice. Tell me more being selfish, bigot.
Polaro
I have no problem with trans people or their used of he or she pronouns. I have a problem with non-binary pronouns which are antagonistic attempts to drive a social dogma that is offensive to most people. Never said different. Stop making stuff up. If I had an issue with trans people I would have said that.
In fact, I believe the non-binary nonsense is a clear threat to the entire trans paradigm. If you don’t think the leftist woke nonsense, including pronouns and cancel culture isn’t driving votes to republicans, you are on another planet.
So…if I’m totally wrong, explain how the country voted for a fascist and after the fascist destroyed so many things, they shifted the house right by 12 seats with each seat representing the same number of Americans? The house does not have a population bias, so the fact that most senators come from small populations does not work as an excuse. Is it they really are fascists or they hate us so much? If they hate us so much, and I believe they do, why?
Fahd
Blaming Sanders for this is like blaming NATO for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In other words, f*cked in the head.
Polaro
Makes no sense.
dinard38
It just goes to show how ignorant people can be, on both sides.
cuteguy
I agree with one of the posts that blame Bernie Sanders and her high profile supporters like Susan Saradon. Bc of them, we may lose our basic right of marriage
Stefano
A wave of panic is setting in among gays in the United States…the Democratic party will watch helplessly as your rights are dismantled because they were not clever enough to prevent it. Republicans = 1 Democrats = 0. Oh…Say : ” Thank you Bernie !”
v6origal97
Bernie’s ego is why we got Trump. He wants to talk about how the left implodes, but he’s one reason we don’t have a more United liberal front. Republicans are disgusting, but at least they don’t cut their nose off to spite their faces. Democrats need to get their stuff together. Otherwise, they’ll continue to be outplayed by the right, and the world – not to mention the US as a whole – will continue to suffer.
Chrisk
We got trump because of the outdated electoral college, the russians, and an FBI head who came out with an investigation right before the election.
For Democrats to win it’s going to take a tsunami.
Kangol2
We may lose rights because of extremist RepubliQans, not Democrats. Don’t get it twisted and misplace blame. Instead, get out and vote and urge your friends and relatives not to vote for candidates who will not only strip away their rights but everyone else’s!
sfhairy
And Bernie is the reason we had tRump in office. Not a fan.
Mister P
Bernie and Sarandon are not the problem.
dinard38
I mean, isn’t that just effing ridiculous that these idiots are blaming Bernie and Susan??
Polaro
Susan said she’d vote for Trump. What alternative facts are you using? I won’t blame Bernie, but I can blame the Bernie bros who did not vote for Hillary because of their sour grapes after taste. Yeah. Losing elections has consequences.
MrMichaelJ
I am so sick of people trying to blame Sanders for having Trump. Hillary was NEVER out of the margin of error when it came to beating Trump but Sanders was. YOU guys refused to support the candidate who was more likely to win. Don’t bitch at anyone but yourself when YOUR horse, who was more likely to lose, actually lost.
And, WTF with this clip? People are taking this and making their own word salad out of it. Yes, both gay marriage and abortion are polarizing issues to both sides but the economy is not. You need to back the f8ck off when Sanders always supported our rights while Hillary only did when it was the popular opinion.