In case some of you are wondering about the Great Bernie Bro Civil War of 2020, let me break it down for you.

#ForceTheVote is yet another temper tantrum over the pony Bernie promised them that they didn't get.

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Jimmy Dore, a Bernie activist with a podcast, is encouraging AOC and her Squad to threaten to withhold their votes for Nancy and make McCarthy Speaker if Nancy doesn't promise to hold a vote on M4A.

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Other Bernie Bold Face Names like Cenk Uygur say it won't work and it's a waste of political capital and that would make The Squad and the Bernie Left look weak and ineffective, and even if it works, the vote will fail. (All true.)

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Dore says it SO TOTALLY WILL work, and even if the vote fails, it "starts a conversation" and all the Members who vote No will lose in 2022 because reasons, and that Cenk and anyone who doesn't agree to blackmail Nancy and the Democrats is a neoliberal corporate whore.

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There, now you're caught up. Sit back, pop some popcorn, and enjoy the show.

Here's a thread I wrote the other day about how that vote for Speaker would go.

5/ https://twitter.com/SilentAmuse/status/1338480589859590144

Here's a follow up thread about AOC and her latest declaration that Nancy needs to GO.

6/ https://twitter.com/SilentAmuse/status/1339228639502749696