Bernie Sanders Brings Tweets to the Senate

Bernie Sanders Brings Tweets to the Senate

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Bernie Sanders Brings Tweets to the Senate refers to a series of photoshops of an image of Bernie Sanders bringing a large, printed tweet of Donald Trump to the United States Senate while making an argument in favor of Obamacare. In the photoshops, Trump's tweet is replaced with various tweets and humorous images.

Origin

On January 4th, 2017, Bernie Sanders spoke to the United States Senate arguing in favor of keeping Obamacare, which Republicans had been working to repeal. In his argument, he brought a printout of a tweet made by Donald Trump that reads, "I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me,"[1] illustrating that on the campaign trail, Trump promised to keep benefits promised by Obamacare. The image of Bernie standing next to the tweet, shown below, inspired photoshops.


LIVE 3:01 pm ET Donald Trump I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security. Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me. U.S. SENATE SEN. BERNIE SANDERS I-Vermont Budget Committee Ranking Member BUDGET &START OF HEALTH CARE LAW REPEA CSPAN2 C-span.org

Spread

The image first drew commentary on how people found it strange that tweets were being brought to the Senate floor. The person who brought the poster tweeted that Ted Cruz chuckled at him as he carried it to the Senate.[2] This inspired Twitter user @HapaxLegoman[4] to tweet an image of Sanders standing next to an awkward Ted Cruz tweet about his daugher's love of butter (shown below).


LIVE 3:01 pm ET Ted Cruz 17todoruz , a Aug 2014 Wow, a caw made of butter. My girls would love it In fact, the firat sentence Carairte ever aaid was l ike butter -e--, US. SENATE UEEEMST BUDGET &START OF HEALTH CARE LAW REPEAL SEN. BERNIE SANDERS I-Vermont Budget Committee Ranking Member GSPAN2 C-span.org

As that image and several other photoshops began spreading on Twitter, Gizmodo invited its readers to create photoshops of it, asking "What Large Poster Should Bernie Have Brought to the Senate Floor?"[3] SelectAll[5] covered the spread of the jokes on January 4th, 2017, and the tweets made Twitter Moments[6] the following day.

Various Examples


LIVE 3:01 pm ET MONO ONE RAILRAIL U.S. SENATE BUDGET &START OF HEALTH CARE LAW REPEAL SEN. BERNIE SANDERS I-Vermont Budget Committee Ranking Member CSPAN2 C-span.org LIVE 12:01 pm PT U.S. SENATE BUDGET&START OF HEALTH CARE LAW REPEAL SEN. BERNIE SANDERS I-Vermont Budget Committee Ranking Member CSPAN2 C-span.org LIVE 12:01 pm PT Cecil and Harambe fighting in heaven they are enemies al 0:4G PM-7 Jun 2010 U.S. SENATE BUDGET &START OF HEALTH CARE LAW REPEAL SEN. BERNIE SANDERS I-Vermont Budget Committee Ranking Member CSPAN2 C-span.org LIVE 3:01 pm ET U.S. SENATE BUDGET &START OF HEALTH CARE LAW REPEAL SEN. BERNIE SANDERS -Vermont GSPAN2 C-span.org Budget Committee Ranking Member LIVE 3:01 pm ET wint another day volunteering at the betsy ross museum. everyone keeps asking me if they can f--- the flag. buddy, they wont even let me f--- it 8,068 15,529璽 127 PM-19 Fob 2012 U.S. SENATE BUDGET &START OF HEALTH CARE LAW REPEAL SEN. BERNIE SANDERS I-Vermont Budget Committee Ranking Member GSPAN2 C-span.org LIVE 3:01 pm ET Breakfast Haver weedguy420boner Follow Martin omalley you got a children's book ass name. You sound like the mailman in a town where everyone's a bear RETWEETS LIKES 6,640 14.489 3 41 PM-17 Jan 2016 ::to U.S. SENATE BUDGET &START OF HEALTH CARE LAW REPEAL SEN. BERNIE SANDERS I-Vermont Budget Committee Ranking Member GSPAN2 C-span.org

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Except we know from past experience that that isn't what happens. Insurance companies just silently agree to not compete with each other so they each get their own monopolies and can charge ludicrous amounts for terrible coverage. It's literally the exact same problem as with our internet service providers, a problem that doesn't exist in most other modern countries because they smartly use government control to protect their citizens from predatory monopolies and as a result have far better internet speeds for far less and have better health coverage for far less as well.

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