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Bernie Sanders And Danny DeVito Are Best Friends In Real Life And It’s So Cute My Heart Hurts A Bit

OLD MAN HUGS.

by Alex McKinnon  14 March 2016

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Regardless of what you think of Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ politics, the fact that he’s an adorable old man who looks like he just woke up after a long nap on a Vinnies couch is indisputable. Larry David devotes an inordinate amount of time to impersonating him; he runs for the train like an agitated turtle; he played a cranky rabbi in some long-forgotten ’90s B-movie, for cryin’ out loud.

But the best adorable old duffers always come in pairs — think Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, Statler and Waldorf, the Grumpy Old Men franchise. Now Bernie joins that hallowed list, with actor and fellow tiny old man Danny DeVito as his partner in crime. DeVito, a vocal Sanders supporter, volunteered to introduce a Sanders rally in St Louis last night, and the Sanders campaign has just posted footage of their meeting backstage. If you don’t enjoy two scruffy old men joyously giving each other bearhugs, don’t watch the video below. Also, you are not welcome on this website anymore, what is the matter with you.

Excuse me while I pick up the slivers of my exploded heart off the carpet. I want a sitcom where they live in a loft in Brooklyn together and get into wacky scrapes each week, and I want it immediately.

If Sanders doesn’t secure the Democratic nomination, at least he can look forward to a blissful future riding around America having adventures and solving myseries with Danny DeVito on a pair of matching mobility scooters.