hesusingthespiritbomb

That's actually exactly what I mean. Eight years ago is "almost a decade". Since his defeat in the 2016 democratic primaries:

• Bernie sanders was named a member of the Senate democratic leadership
• Members of Bernie's 2016 run were incorporated into the demo
• Bernie sanders was runner up in the 2020 democratic primaries, winning a several states and beating out more establishment candidates.
• Joe Biden agreed to adopt several progressive policies as recongnition to the movements power within the party
• Bernie Sanders endorsed Biden, and acted as a campaign surrogate in a way he was never asked for for Hillary
• Bernie Sanders declined to endorse or encourage a challenger in the 2024 democratic primaries
• Bernie Sanders took the establishment position of backing up Biden after his absolutely disastrous debate.

Dude has had massive political and social pull for a long time now, and has very little to show for it.

God if this doesn't summarize Bernie's career in a nutshell; A viral empowering moment that feels amazing on first glance, but in reality it's just a virtue signal. Absolutely nothing of consequence was accomplished, and absolutely nothing meaningful changes.

This man has been in Congress for longer than I have been alive. He's had serious pull in the democratic party for almost a full decade now. At some point platitudes don't cut it.

Dude should have just added comments indicating that the code was part of some security test but was unfinished and extremely dangerous.

Change a few file names, add a comment how it will never run under normal circumstances, and you've got plausible deniability.

Just to be clear, your solution to saving democracy would be for the military to usurp a president who received the majority of the vote less than six months ago?