Bernie’s seen the memes, y’all, perhaps in between viewings of Melancholia on his iPad, but he’s not all that interested in speaking about them. “I was just sitting there trying to keep warm, and trying to pay attention to what was going on,” he told Seth Meyers on Thursday night, speaking, of course, of the wildly viral image of the Vermont senator and his magnificent mittens during Wednesday’s inauguration, the likes of which have been grafted onto just about every photo in existence. (Including a cozy sweatshirt that the Sanders camp is selling to raise money for Meals on Wheels Vermont.)
In a separate statement to CNN, he celebrates the meme’s virality for making people “aware that we make good mittens in Vermont.” That particular detail hasn’t gone unnoticed, with Vogue and other publications quickly sharing the essential details of said mittens. Jen Ellis, the Vermont resident and mitten-maker in question, even did an interview with Slate in which she reflected on the public’s sudden need for her mittens—”I think my Gmail has crashed now,” she says—and shared her preference for Vermont-specific Bernie memes.
Bernie gives a nod to Ellis during his Meyers interview, and also dispels the hectoring criticism of his “grumpiness” by noting that the inauguration left him “in tears.” Before long, he’s hammering home the points that he’s been making his entire career—that Democrats need to flex their power when they have it to provide healthcare and livable wages to Americans. You know, all that “radical” stuff.
Watch the Meyers interview in full below. Just don’t expect him to reveal the “top-secret” contents of that manila envelope.
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/read entire page in Bernie Sanders’ voice
Its a pre requisite.
Joe Don Baker IS Mittens…he’s a cop!
Oh it’s the Martha Mitchell story…
“This makes Driving Miss Daisy look like Bullitt!”
The headlight fixed itself. My all time favorite episode bar none, although there are a few runner ups.
“Johnny Mathis, alright! Get my gun!”
“Well it’s not often you see Johnny Mathis in the wild…”“Al Noga? No, still Johnny Mathis…”
“My mother doesn’t like you!”
“Well I don’t like your Mother…”Also Servo losing his shit in that scene is one of the all time great moments
“Word on the street is you’re a jerk!”
“Big buttery moon up there…sidewalk kinda looks like ice cream if you squint hard…”
That one might be my fave line.“This soup is cold! You’re a lousy butler!”
“Why would anyone want to do this with Mitchell, Joel?”
Linda Evans, before she had her face pulled taut.
I am NOT a lousy butler.
It’s Harold Pinter’s The Servant
Hot merging action!
Everything about him says “Is that a beer?”
“Our hero, ladies and gentlemen…”
“Wasn’t John Saxon in this movie?”
“The declining years of Lee Majors”
🎵 My, my, my, MY GOD, NO! 🎶
BABY OIL?!
Why would anyone want to do this with Mitchell, Joel?
Why would anyone want to that with Mitchell?
“Ma-ma-ma-ma-mittens …”
“They call me ‘Ma-ma-ma-ma-Mitchell! I’m always bustin’ heads; jumpin’ in ‘n outta beds!”
“Let’s rip off the last scene from Key Largo, Mitchell!”
“I’m Italian you know!”
“Nobody likes you Mitchell. In fact, I’m not that fond of you myself. Why is that?”“Perhaps our brief, but bitter affair.”
My only question is, doesn’t Bernie own any hats? Someone from Vermont should know to keep his head warm!
You’re welcome.
Someone from Vermont would know it wasn’t *that* cold.
Right, it’s Washington DC. If there’s no snow on the ground, you don’t need a hat.
Remember everybody, if you want nice mittens, talk to Jen Ellis.If you want help overthrowing a democratically elected government, talk to Jenna Ellis.
Lol, Jenna Ellis is actually the last person I would want helping me to overthrow a government.
Oh Bernie, what won’t you do next?Can’t believe he sat on a chair with warm clothing on. I cannot even!
We’re more than great coats ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Including a cozy sweatshirt that the Sanders camp is selling to raise money for Meals on Wheels Vermont. the thought that he would do or allow this is so Bernie. Goddamn I wish he could be president just for one year to see how things would change. How can a Jewish socialist be a better “Christian” than 99.9% of American Christians?
Yeah, it’s not like Jesus Christ was a Jewish Sociali- wait.
A Jewish socialite? Well, I bet he got invited to a lot of weddings.
I mean, anybody that self describe as christian but is not a socialist is actually not a christian.
Religious moron, yes, but followers of the teachings of Jesus Christ the gigantic socialist hippie, hell no ^^
today’s religious morons, like today’s Republicans/conservatives (and yes I know the Venn diagram of those 2 groups is a single circle), have had smoke blown up their ass from day one about how special and awesome they are, and when reality doesn’t support that, they turn to Christianity or other cults to get that “specialness” fix. None of them really believe that “help one another” bullshit because it requires empathy, compassion, humanity, i.e. stuff that they’re intellectually capable of, and that their political cult says only Democrats and pussies do.
I don’t care, I enjoy them:
BEHOLD: The Worst Take“I love Bernie, I really do, but sir: emotional labor is not beneath you. Not feeling it? Fucking pretend for a minute, like [most] women do every minute.”