Turns out there's another trending Twitter hashtag: #WhereIsBernie

[MineralMan]

https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhereIsBernie

I found him. He's in Vermont. Odd place for a Senator to be right now, when the Senate is working on legislation to deal with COVID-19.

[samnsara]

1. i thought all the Senate was ordered to stay in wash to work on this..

..maybe hes not on the committee needed? Hunkering down in the midst of all this is OK with me...

[MineralMan]

4. Surely the Senate needs his leadership, right?

[George II]

2. C-SPAN2 at this moment, the Senate is in session:

[BidenBacker]

6. Hey, those 2 ladies on the left are only about 4 feet apart

and they're supposed to be at least 6'.

Apparently only the lady on the right listens to the CDC.

[NCProgressive]

8. It proves that the senate can work fine without Bernie

He is not needed for anything.

[MineralMan]

3. Has Bernie Disappeared?

[totodeinhere]

5. Now is not the time for political infighting. I trust Senator Sanders to do what he thinks is

most prudent under the circumstances. We should be trying to come together and we should stop taking political potshots at each other.

[MineralMan]

7. Well, see, it turns out that the #WhereIsBiden hashtag

is being spread by Bernie supporters, see. So, look to your own friends for the infighting thing.

Where is Bernie, anyhow? The Senate is in session. Shouldn't he be there, I mean, with these important COVID-19 reaction funding bills being pushed through he Senate? Doesn't his vote matter?

[totodeinhere]

11. I didn't say that "you" should stop the infighting. I said that "we" should so obviously that

applies to everybody.

I hope that both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, both at high risk due to age, will do whatever they consider prudent under the circumstances. If Bernie has not been anywhere near Rand Paul I am gratified and if that means staying away from the Senate chamber then so be it. The Senate rules need to be changed immediately to allow virtual sessions to take place via video conferencing. I am trying to save Bernie's life while you seem more interested in taking pot shots at him. And it's just as bad when Bernie supporters take shots at Joe Biden and you won't see me doing that.

[MineralMan]

12. Well, with Bernie being, you know, "prudent,"

he'll be in an ideal position in the horrible event that something bad should happen to Joe Biden. Good thinking, Bernie. You stay in Vermont...

[The Magistrate]

34. He Hoped Mrs. Clinton Might Be Indicted In 2016, Sir

He has form, and people remember.

"Your attitude is noticed! Oh yes, it is noticed!"

[LanternWaste]

33. I get it... "they did it too" is a most firm and logical argument to make.

[MineralMan]

35. ..

[cwydro]

37. Ditto.

[NCProgressive]

9. Being in the senate is his job. He should show up.

I am not leaving it to "trust" and blind faith.

[MineralMan]

10. "Wouldn't be prudent at this juncture"

Who said that? But, then, Bernie's being "prudent," it seems, and being at the Senate apparently isn't "prudent" for the Senator from Vermont. But, he can rail at the Senate from his house in Vermont. He just won't be voting in the Senate.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. If he's tested positive for cv or has symptoms of it he should stay away, but

he should also tell the public. He is at serious risk if he's got it. Otherwise he should haul ass back to DC and do his job.

[Thekaspervote]

20. Oh so staying in VT doing online music videos and a stump speech is the right thing?

The right thing for who?!

[Gothmog]

36. Did sanders' rally flop?

Link to tweet

?s=20

[SiliconValley_Dem]

21. Sanders needs to GET to DC and do his fucking job!!

Warren is in Washington, Kamala Harris is in Washington. Sanders is the other side of the Trump coin

[Hortensis]

22. The anger is very deep, and no one should expect it to

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just go away when he's continued the same devastating behaviors right up to today and as we are living with their dreadful and unforgivable consequences.

Btw, the average age on this forum is rather high. Dying of this disease, and surviving a bad case, is like drowning -- for hours and days. The plus to those who don't get hospital care is that the agony will be shortened.

We don't know how many of us, of all ages, will die and/or lose people we love before election day, but maybe it'd be best to back off on the "let's all just blow it off" wishfulness. Tragically too late to for those Sanders convinced not to vote by his insistence that Democrats and Republicans are "Tweedledum and Tweedledee." This would not be happening if Hillary was president and Schumer and Pelosi were leading Democratic majority caucuses.

[Wellstone ruled]

13. Understand they might be using a

secure communications system to cast votes or log on in order to be present.

[MineralMan]

14. Not that I've heard. It's a long, long tradition that

members of Congress and Senators must vote in person on the floor of their house's chamber. It would take a major rule change to alter that. I think we would have heard about that.

[SunSeeker]

15. I bet they'll be changing that rule after Rand tested positive for Covid-19.

[MineralMan]

16. Maybe. Tradition is a powerful thing in Congress.

[Wellstone ruled]

17. Moscow Mitch was working with his so called

leadership Group to figure out some type of system as of late Friday.

[Salviati]

23. They should absolutely change that, or at least get the mechanism rolling so that it can be changed

... at the drop of a hat, at the leaders discretion. Just like we should be making preparations for the November elections to be conducted completely by mail. Let's actually try to learn the lesson that this event is trying so desperately to teach us, and prepare for the worst case outcome.

[mcar]

18. Why isn't he dealing with the "fcking crisis"

as he said he was? Other senators are in DC trying to help the American people (Democrats are, anyway).

[MineralMan]

19. I heard he was complaining about it from one of his homes in Vermont,

so maybe that's OK. It wouldn't be "prudent" for him to travel to DC. COVID-19, you know.

[NurseJackie]

24. Because he's afraid of getting it, or spreading it?

We deserve to know the truth. Has he been tested? If not, why not? If so, what were the results? These are fair and legitimate questions.

[mcar]

25. I'm glad our Democratic Senators are fighting for us

[Gothmog]

30. That was a strange event

How do you do a round table on COVID 19 with no medical experts?

Link to tweet

[Cetacea]

26. Moscow slammed the doors on Dems last night.

AT least Bernie isn't pretending that we are going to get a good plan. That is as likely as a retroactive impeachment conviction.

[betsuni]

28. K&R

[Gothmog]

29. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

?s=20

[NurseJackie]

31. This was interesting to me...

Link to tweet

[MineralMan]

32. All GOOPers, except for Bernie Sanders

No Democrats on the Did Not Vote list at all. I find that telling, actually.