BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Bernie Sanders is a fiscal capitalistic opportunist DTSTAMP:20250913T063741Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:504-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n I repeat\, Bernie Sanders is a fiscal capitalistic opport unist... who masquerades as a socialist or green or some extreme devout li beral when he functionally appears as a chaos agent no other than SChrumpf t in effectiveness.\n\n\n\n \n\n from PBS\n\n https://www.pbs.org/newshour /politics/nobody-likes-him-hillary-clinton-says-of-presidential-candidate- bernie-sanders\n\n\n\n WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton says “nobody likes” her former presidential rival Bernie Sanders\, even as the Vermon t senator remains entrenched among the front-runners in the Democratic rac e\, with the Iowa caucus beginning in less than two weeks.\n\nIn an interv iew with “The Hollywood Reporter” published Tuesday\, Clinton was aske d about a comment she makes in an upcoming documentary where she says Sand ers was “in Congress for years” but\, “Nobody likes him\, nobody wan ts to work with him\, he got nothing done.”\n\nClinton replied that the criticism still holds and refused to say she’d endorse him this cycle if he wins the party’s nomination\, adding: “It’s not only him\, it’ s the culture around him. It’s his leadership team. It’s his prominent supporters.”\nSanders’ campaign said Tuesday it didn’t have a comme nt about Clinton’s remarks.\n\nHer comments may ultimately energize Sand ers loyalists who believed the Democratic establishment rigged the 2016 pr imary in her favor. That could be especially helpful with this cycle’s I owa caucuses looming on Feb. 3. Many polls show Sanders among the leaders with former Vice President Joe Biden\, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg\, the former mayor of South Bend\, Indiana.\n\nBut Cli nton also blamed Sanders’ supporters for fostering a culture of sexism i n politics — a charge that is especially sensitive now\, given that Sand ers’ top progressive rival in the 2020 race\, Warren\, has accused him o f suggesting a woman couldn’t win the White House during a private meeti ng between the two in 2018.\n\nSanders has denied that\, but Warren refuse d to shake his outstretched hand after a debate last week in Iowa and both candidates accused the other of calling them “a liar.” Warren has ste adfastly denied to comment further\, but the 78-year-old Sanders said Sund ay that while sexism was a problem for candidates\, so were other factors\ , like advanced age — touching off another online firestorm.\n\nIn the i nterview\, Clinton attacked a cadre of online Sanders supporters known gen erally as the “Bernie Bros\,” many of whom were sharply critical of Cl inton’s 2016 campaign for their “relentless attacks on lots of his com petitors\, particularly the women. And I really hope people are paying att ention to that because it should be worrisome that he has permitted this c ulture.”\n\nClinton further suggested that Sanders was “very much supp orting it” and said\, “I don’t think we want to go down that road ag ain where you campaign by insult and attack and maybe you try to get some distance from it\, but you either don’t know what your campaign and supp orters are doing or you’re just giving them a wink.”\n\n“I think tha t that’s a pattern that people should take into account when they make t heir decisions\,” Clinton said.\nHis feud with Warren has overshadowed a series of clashes between Sanders and another 2020 rival\, Biden\, for an op-ed penned by one of the senator’s supporters suggesting that the for mer vice president was corrupt.\n\n“It is absolutely not my view that Jo e is corrupt in any way. And I’m sorry that that op-ed appeared\,” San ders told CBS.\n\nThe op-ed\, published in “The Guardian” newspaper by Fordham University law professor Zephyr Teachout\, claims Biden “has pe rfected the art of taking big contributions\, then representing his corpor ate donors at the cost of middle- and working-class Americans.”\n\n\n\n\ n\n\n It is a sad truth from Robert f Kennedy jr\, an excerpt\n\n \"Mitch McConnell &\; Bernie Sanders built careers in DC while America got sick er\, fatter\, and more dependent on Big Pharma. \n\n The longest-serving senators are also the biggest failures. \"\n\n https://x.com/RobertKennedy Jc/status/1965156222979784823\n\n\n\n IN AMENDMENT\n\n I repeat what I sai d elsewhere about Mandela... Bernie Sanders talks a good talk to the masse s of fiscally poor people who have time or are angry enough to listen. But \, his results are not good\, and when I look at Mamdani \, Ocasio Cortez. .. so many legislators are simply not good at leading or improving legisla tive bodies. That on the reverse side said legislatures only seem to reall y hurt the executive branch. No one may want to hear it but Bernie Sanders cost Hillary CLinton the election and I can't see how he thought he would beat her. At the end of the day\, Sanders has nothing to show for his tim e in Congress except being the far left rant guy. It is Mr. Smith lives in Washington. Every session\, for the past fifty years\,  he makes a sweat y tear eyed speech but it never leads to any legislation. \n\n IN AMENDME NT\n\n https://x.com/FranksBlueHot/status/1965050848633053363 referring t o a trveor jackson article\n\n\n\n I remember when Obama ran and won and I thought \, if he won\, he would have to succeed\, get results\, because i f he didn't no one after him could play the hope card and that is all the donkeys[party of Andrew Jackson ] have done since Obama. Biden was a hope president. Old PApa Joe\, remember. Biden didn't offer a plan. Biden offer ed the hope that he damage of the past\, some spurred by Schrumpt would be gone. Instead it got worse. Schrumpts presidencies were made by Obama + Bi den\, and it is funny how both in various ways\, alongside Bernie Sanders blocked Hillary Clinton\, who tried twice and never got the chance I think she should had. I still think what I said in the past was true. Clinton p resident\, Obama vice president \, gets eight years and then Obama \, mayb e biden vice president\, gets eight years. The donkeys gambled Obama first and messed it up. \n\n  \n\n\n\n Trevor Jackson article \n\n\n\n https ://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/09/25/how-to-blow-up-a-planet-abundance-k lein-thompson/\n\n\n\n excerpt\n\n\n\n What happened to the future? When d id we lose it\, and what has taken its place? Political scientists have fo und a continual decline in visions of a shared transformative future since the early 1980s. Around the world\, in party manifestos\, inaugural speec hes\, and programmatic policy documents\, principled statements about an o pen-ended future have given way to numerical targets like GDP growth achie ved\, emissions reduced\, or people deported. The political right has been more interested in returning to an imaginary glorious past\; consequently \, the change has been most pronounced on the left\, where the politics of an alternative liberatory future have ceded to the policies of technocrat ic governance and market discipline.\n\nThis story fits the interregnum of the 1990s and 2000s\, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the slide of social democratic parties into neoliberalism. When Francis Fukuyama de clared the “end of history\,” he was looking ahead to a melancholy tim e when we would be “jaded by the experience of history.” The conflict over the best way to organize human society had ended\, and liberal capita list democracy would remain triumphant\, but the future appeared to be an empty stretch\, without passion\, without struggle.\n\nThe financial crisi s of 2008 did not recover the future so much as reveal that its absence wa s an ideological project. Writing in the aftermath of the crash\, the radi cal cultural critic Mark Fisher diagnosed a phenomenon he called “capita list realism\,” meaning “the widespread sense that not only is capital ism the only viable political and economic system\, but also that it is no w impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it.” Elsewhere he wrote that the future had been “foreclosed\,” and the metaphor was ap t: we had been evicted from it\, and now it belonged to the banks.\n\nBut nothing has depleted the future quite like climate change. As target after target has been passed and promise after promise broken\, the time remain ing to avert global catastrophe has been squandered. There is no noncatast rophic future left\, and in fact it’s already here. How\, in conditions of runaway climatic disaster\, can the future be recovered? What visions o f a shared transformative future are possible\, and what happens to emanci patory politics\, and to democracy itself\, without them?\n\nAbundance\, b y two American journalists\, provides one answer. American liberals in pos itions of governance should commit to deregulation\, which the authors bel ieve will unleash the power of the market and of technology to provide che ap and plentiful housing\, energy\, and medicine. They define the “abund ance” they seek as a “state in which there is enough of what we need t o create lives better than what we have had\,” and they believe it is “important to imagine a just—even a delightful—future and work backw ard to the technological advances that would hasten its arrival.”\n\n\n\ n\n ...\n\n\n\n \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250913 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR