Not to mention, notice how steeply the plane is already banking to the left. Going left would almost certainly be safer since that’s where the plane is already heading.
My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball. But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
It equates trying to achieve a slightly less crushing neoliberal policy (going "left") with literal 9/11. Like, the most lukewarm socdem policies are as damaging as blowing up the twin towers. And it makes no attempts at justifying this comparison; the comic just makes the comparison and expects it to be taken at face value. It's so juvenile that it got a laugh out of me.
It's one step away from saying "you're a doodoo head if you like your guy; my guy is way better and cool ;)"
It bothers me that bernie is on the right side in this photo, saying to go lwft, and that barack is holding up a sign to go right, but that it's his left.