Kaine is the only person i think would be decent
I cannot even agree with you here. He's milktoast. Another horrible Dem VP pick. Up there with Leiberman. Why in the holy
fuck didn't they give her someone brown? Either a Latino or a brother. Shitloads of Latino's in congress to pick from. Deval Patrick
or Corey Booker would have been good choices as far as African Americans go.
No, I don't expect you guys to like the idea but I truly believe a better VP could have impacted the outcome.
I cannot even agree with you here. He's milktoast. Another horrible Dem VP pick. Up there with Leiberman. Why in the holy
fuck didn't they give her someone brown? Either a Latino or a brother. Shitloads of Latino's in congress to pick from. Deval Patrick
or Corey Booker would have been good choices as far as African Americans go.
No, I don't expect you guys to like the idea but I truly believe a better VP could have impacted the outcome.
Not exactly a star-studded lineup.
Top 15 Democratic presidential candidates in 2020
BY NIALL STANAGE - 12/27/16
Democrats grappling with the shock of Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump are also beginning to turn their attention to 2020, and pondering who could defeat Trump as he vies for reelection.
Here are The Hill’s initial rankings of where the potential candidates stand.
1. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.)
How would the 2016 election have panned out had Warren challenged Clinton in the primary? That’s one of the great unknowables of Democratic politics. But now, there is little doubt that the Massachusetts senator is the leading contender for the 2020 nomination.
Warren, a former Harvard Law School professor, has been beloved by the left throughout her late-blooming political career, largely because of her no-punches-pulled attacks on banks and the financial industry. She got under Trump’s skin via Twitter during the 2016 campaign too.
The recent news that Warren will join the Senate Armed Services Committee in January has stoked speculation that she is looking to bolster her foreign policy and national security credentials in advance of a presidential run. Warren would be 71 by the time of the next election, but she is three years younger than Trump.
2. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
Sanders came from semi-obscurity in the Senate to give Clinton a serious run for her money in the battle for the Democratic nomination this year.
He won 23 contests and amassed more than 13 million votes. He also fired the enthusiasm of young voters and progressives, two pillars of the Democratic base that Clinton struggled to charm.
The Vermonter’s focus on income inequality and his broader point that the system is rigged against working Americans resonated. Sanders’s main problem when it comes to a 2020 run could be his age. He will be 79 next Election Day. Still, Sanders might well be tempted to try one more time — especially if Warren stood aside.
3. Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.)
Booker raised eyebrows earlier this month when it emerged that he would join the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when the new Congress convenes. As with Warren and the Armed Services panel, his decision was interpreted as an effort to burnish his resume for a potential presidential run.
Booker is just 47, and he is one of only two African-Americans in the Senate for now. (That number will rise to three in January when California’s Kamala Harris will be sworn in.)
He is also one of the most media-savvy members in the upper chamber — a trait that has been apparent since the start of his career, when his first, failed bid to become mayor of Newark was captured in a sympathetic documentary, “Street Fight.”
Booker is far from the most liberal member of the caucus. During the 2012 presidential campaign, he criticized an Obama campaign ad that hit Mitt Romney’s business record, insisting on NBC's "Meet the Press", “I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity.”
An optimistic view is that he could bridge the gap between the progressive and center-left strands of the party. Skeptics will question whether he is a little too corporate-friendly for the tastes of Democratic primary voters.
4. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.)
Klobuchar has already appeared on several shortlists of likely contenders for the nomination, and it’s not hard to see why.
The New Yorker called her, “popular, practical, appealing [and] progressive.” She is from a state where the currents of labor and progressivism run strong. But the no-nonsense, affable Klobuchar could also plausibly appeal to Rust Belt voters whom her party needs to win over.
One issue for Klobuchar right now is that she does not have a high profile outside of her native state and the Beltway. There is plenty of time to change that if she wants to run and win in 2020. But she could be eclipsed by higher-wattage candidates.
5. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y)
Gillibrand followed in Clinton’s footsteps when she replaced her as a New York senator in 2009. Could she do the same at the presidential level — but actually win the White House?
It’s certainly possible. Gillibrand’s profile has risen in tandem with her making the prevention of sexual assaults in the military a signature issue. Representing New York, she has easy access to the national media and to powerful Democratic fundraising networks.
But Gillibrand’s similarities with Clinton, superficial though they may be, could go against her. It’s just not clear Democrats would roll the dice again, as soon as 2020, on another prominent female nominee from New York.
Critics also charge that Gillibrand emphasized more centrist positions as a congresswoman from a somewhat conservative district than she does as a senator from a liberal state.
6. First lady Michelle Obama
If the first lady exhibited even a slight inclination to run, she would be ranked near the top of this list.
There is no figure in public life, with the possible exception of her husband, who has so strong a hold on liberal hearts and minds.
Obama has become more comfortable with her public role over the years. Her two major speeches during the 2016 campaign — one at the Democratic convention, another excoriating Trump for “hurtful, hateful language about women” — were among the most powerful delivered during the cycle.
The first lady insists that she won’t run, citing the effect such an effort would have on her two daughters among other factors. But Malia and Sasha Obama will be 22 and 19, respectively, by the time of the next election. When it comes to the first lady’s future plans, many Democrats still cling to the audacity of hope.
7. Gov. John Hickenlooper (Colo.)
Hickenlooper presides over a state that is considered a key battleground, even though it has become more solidly Democratic in recent years. Colorado has gone for the Democratic nominee in the past three presidential elections and Clinton won the state by five points.
Hickenlooper, who has a politically effective down-to-earth persona, could potentially boost the party’s appeal in the heartlands. He has enjoyed solid approval ratings during his time in office.
One problem? While his chances are talked up among Beltway pundits, he is almost unknown in the nation at large.
8. Sen. Chris Murphy (Conn.)
Murphy has come to the fore on the issue of gun control. He can speak with moral authority on the issue: In his state, a gunman killed 20 young children, as well as six adults, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012. President Obama has called that moment the worst day of his presidency.
Politically speaking, Murphy would need to display more policy breadth and heighten his national profile if he is to be a genuine contender. For the moment, he’s one to watch.
9. Vice President Joe Biden
The vice president could have definitively ruled himself out of the running, but hasn’t. He joked with reporters about the possibility earlier this month, and then sought to clarify by saying he had “no intention” of running.
Biden would clearly have loved to run in 2016, were it not for the fact that he was still grieving the loss of his son, Beau. Biden’s age is a real issue, however. He would be 77 by next Election Day. If he won, he would turn 78 before being inaugurated.
For all his political skills, his two previous runs for the presidency, in 1988 and 2008, ended in failure.
10. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (N.Y.)
On paper, Cuomo looks like a strong candidate. He is the governor of a huge, liberal state and hails from a well-established political family. Cuomo’s late father, Mario, served as governor of the Empire State for three terms.
No one doubts the younger Cuomo’s ambition, but whether he is the right fit for the times is a tougher question. In a party where the left is ascendant, he has positioned himself as a centrist foil to New York City’s liberal mayor, Bill de Blasio. It’s not clear what Cuomo’s power base would be for a primary fight.
11. Sen.-elect Kamala Harris (Calif.)
Harris is one of the bright spots for Democrats who are dismayed by their failure to retake the Senate. She will succeed the retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer in January.
Harris has been seen as a rising star in the party for some time, her fans including President Obama, who once praised her in imprudent terms.
Harris, a leading lawyer before shifting into politics, is the daughter of an Indian-American mother and a Jamaican-American father. It’s not clear she has any presidential ambitions and, if she ran in 2020, she would face criticism about her relative lack of political experience. But she would be as experienced as then-Sen. Obama was when he began his 2008 White House run.
12. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Could she run again? It’s possible. Many people thought Clinton’s electoral ambitions had ended in 2008, with her devastating loss to Obama in the Democratic primary. That turned out not to be the case.
There is still a large, wealthy circle of Clinton loyalists, who would back any future run. But, even if she had the appetite for a 2020 bid, she would have enormous hurdles to overcome.
One of the biggest would be the question of how she lost the presidency to Donald Trump. Beyond the hardline Clintonistas, there aren’t many Democratic insiders who were wowed by her campaign. In a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released earlier this month, 62 percent of Democrats and independents said Clinton should not run again.
13. Former Gov. Deval Patrick (Mass.)
Patrick has considerable political skills and was once talked up as a potential inheritor of President Obama’s mantle. David Axelrod, one of the aides closest to Obama, worked with Patrick as well, and both Patrick and Obama adopted “Yes We Can!” as a campaign slogan.
But Patrick left office in 2015, and it’s just not clear whether he could — or would want to — come off the sidelines for 2020. He also joined Bain Capital, which is hardly the ideal launching pad for a quest to win over liberal activists.
14. Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.)
Kaine achieved a new national prominence when Clinton named him as her 2016 running mate. But his performance was a mixed bag.
The Virginia senator gave some energetic speeches on the campaign trail, defying his reputation for dullness. On the other hand, his showing in his sole debate with his counterpart, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, was uneven at best.
15. Oprah Winfrey
Trump proved how powerful a currency celebrity can be — and there may be no more trusted celebrity in America than Oprah. Having steered largely clear of partisan politics for most of her career, Winfrey became an enthusiastic backer of Obama when he looked a long shot to beat Hillary Clinton to the 2008 nomination.
Winfrey has said she “couldn’t breathe” after Trump won in November. She softened her stance later, but could she be tempted into a race to defeat the president-elect?
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/311436-top-15-democratic-presidential-candidates-in-2020
I cannot even agree with you here. He's milktoast. Another horrible Dem VP pick. Up there with Leiberman. Why in the holyMore identity politics? That's why trump was so popular bc you've had years and years of identity politics. Given I don't know much about him but having seen the debate he seems more center and a person capable of talking about issues competently.
fuck didn't they give her someone brown? Either a Latino or a brother. Shitloads of Latino's in congress to pick from. Deval Patrick
or Corey Booker would have been good choices as far as African Americans go.
No, I don't expect you guys to like the idea but I truly believe a better VP could have impacted the outcome.
Please let it be Elizabeth Warren. Please if there is a god. Please.
U.S. News: Kamala Harris ‘Inevitable’ 2020 Democratic Nominee
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Kamala Harris (Jose Luis Magana / Associated Press)Jose Luis Magana / Associated Press
by JOEL B. POLLAK
1 Dec 2017
U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is the “inevitable” Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 2020, according to U.S. News & World Report senior politics writer David Catanese, citing political oddsmakers.
The first-term junior Senator, Catanese writes, is the “female Obama”:
At a time when the Democratic Party remains adrift in the political wilderness, still painfully sorting out its last national election loss while simultaneously trying to turn the page anew, Harris has vaulted over a fleet of venerable talent to bear the torch of former President Barack Obama’s legacy for the next generation.
In his lengthy profile, Catenese also highlights one facet of Harris’s biography that is relevant to the current debate over sex and politics: she once dated then-California State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, who gave her a car and also helped her gain a foothold in California politics. As the SF Weekly noted in 2003: “Harris acknowledges that she benefited from her relationship with Brown, but insists there was nothing improper about it.”
Since then, Harris has moved up through the ranks, fighting a tough election to become the state’s Attorney General, and facing somewhat easier contest for the U.S. Senate seat, when the state’s Bay Area liberal establishment and Barack Obama himself backed her campaign against the upstart, Southern California-based, Latino-focused effort of then- U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA).
Since arriving Washington, Harris has used her confrontations with Republicans — usually triggered by her refusal to let witnesses speak at committee hearings — to create viral YouTube videos that help drive fundraising. She is known to be tapping into Hillary Clinton’s donor network, has also become an big fundraiser for other candidates.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/12/01/u-s-news-kamala-harris-inevitable-2020-democratic-nominee/
Probably has a stinky pussy.
Looks like another four years for Trump before he even started his first term..lol
Not exactly a star-studded lineup.
Top 15 Democratic presidential candidates in 2020
BY NIALL STANAGE - 12/27/16
Democrats grappling with the shock of Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump are also beginning to turn their attention to 2020, and pondering who could defeat Trump as he vies for reelection.
Here are The Hill’s initial rankings of where the potential candidates stand.
1. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.)
How would the 2016 election have panned out had Warren challenged Clinton in the primary? That’s one of the great unknowables of Democratic politics. But now, there is little doubt that the Massachusetts senator is the leading contender for the 2020 nomination.
Warren, a former Harvard Law School professor, has been beloved by the left throughout her late-blooming political career, largely because of her no-punches-pulled attacks on banks and the financial industry. She got under Trump’s skin via Twitter during the 2016 campaign too.
The recent news that Warren will join the Senate Armed Services Committee in January has stoked speculation that she is looking to bolster her foreign policy and national security credentials in advance of a presidential run. Warren would be 71 by the time of the next election, but she is three years younger than Trump.
2. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
Sanders came from semi-obscurity in the Senate to give Clinton a serious run for her money in the battle for the Democratic nomination this year.
He won 23 contests and amassed more than 13 million votes. He also fired the enthusiasm of young voters and progressives, two pillars of the Democratic base that Clinton struggled to charm.
The Vermonter’s focus on income inequality and his broader point that the system is rigged against working Americans resonated. Sanders’s main problem when it comes to a 2020 run could be his age. He will be 79 next Election Day. Still, Sanders might well be tempted to try one more time — especially if Warren stood aside.
3. Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.)
Booker raised eyebrows earlier this month when it emerged that he would join the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when the new Congress convenes. As with Warren and the Armed Services panel, his decision was interpreted as an effort to burnish his resume for a potential presidential run.
Booker is just 47, and he is one of only two African-Americans in the Senate for now. (That number will rise to three in January when California’s Kamala Harris will be sworn in.)
He is also one of the most media-savvy members in the upper chamber — a trait that has been apparent since the start of his career, when his first, failed bid to become mayor of Newark was captured in a sympathetic documentary, “Street Fight.”
Booker is far from the most liberal member of the caucus. During the 2012 presidential campaign, he criticized an Obama campaign ad that hit Mitt Romney’s business record, insisting on NBC's "Meet the Press", “I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity.”
An optimistic view is that he could bridge the gap between the progressive and center-left strands of the party. Skeptics will question whether he is a little too corporate-friendly for the tastes of Democratic primary voters.
4. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.)
Klobuchar has already appeared on several shortlists of likely contenders for the nomination, and it’s not hard to see why.
The New Yorker called her, “popular, practical, appealing [and] progressive.” She is from a state where the currents of labor and progressivism run strong. But the no-nonsense, affable Klobuchar could also plausibly appeal to Rust Belt voters whom her party needs to win over.
One issue for Klobuchar right now is that she does not have a high profile outside of her native state and the Beltway. There is plenty of time to change that if she wants to run and win in 2020. But she could be eclipsed by higher-wattage candidates.
5. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y)
Gillibrand followed in Clinton’s footsteps when she replaced her as a New York senator in 2009. Could she do the same at the presidential level — but actually win the White House?
It’s certainly possible. Gillibrand’s profile has risen in tandem with her making the prevention of sexual assaults in the military a signature issue. Representing New York, she has easy access to the national media and to powerful Democratic fundraising networks.
But Gillibrand’s similarities with Clinton, superficial though they may be, could go against her. It’s just not clear Democrats would roll the dice again, as soon as 2020, on another prominent female nominee from New York.
Critics also charge that Gillibrand emphasized more centrist positions as a congresswoman from a somewhat conservative district than she does as a senator from a liberal state.
6. First lady Michelle Obama
If the first lady exhibited even a slight inclination to run, she would be ranked near the top of this list.
There is no figure in public life, with the possible exception of her husband, who has so strong a hold on liberal hearts and minds.
Obama has become more comfortable with her public role over the years. Her two major speeches during the 2016 campaign — one at the Democratic convention, another excoriating Trump for “hurtful, hateful language about women” — were among the most powerful delivered during the cycle.
The first lady insists that she won’t run, citing the effect such an effort would have on her two daughters among other factors. But Malia and Sasha Obama will be 22 and 19, respectively, by the time of the next election. When it comes to the first lady’s future plans, many Democrats still cling to the audacity of hope.
7. Gov. John Hickenlooper (Colo.)
Hickenlooper presides over a state that is considered a key battleground, even though it has become more solidly Democratic in recent years. Colorado has gone for the Democratic nominee in the past three presidential elections and Clinton won the state by five points.
Hickenlooper, who has a politically effective down-to-earth persona, could potentially boost the party’s appeal in the heartlands. He has enjoyed solid approval ratings during his time in office.
One problem? While his chances are talked up among Beltway pundits, he is almost unknown in the nation at large.
8. Sen. Chris Murphy (Conn.)
Murphy has come to the fore on the issue of gun control. He can speak with moral authority on the issue: In his state, a gunman killed 20 young children, as well as six adults, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012. President Obama has called that moment the worst day of his presidency.
Politically speaking, Murphy would need to display more policy breadth and heighten his national profile if he is to be a genuine contender. For the moment, he’s one to watch.
9. Vice President Joe Biden
The vice president could have definitively ruled himself out of the running, but hasn’t. He joked with reporters about the possibility earlier this month, and then sought to clarify by saying he had “no intention” of running.
Biden would clearly have loved to run in 2016, were it not for the fact that he was still grieving the loss of his son, Beau. Biden’s age is a real issue, however. He would be 77 by next Election Day. If he won, he would turn 78 before being inaugurated.
For all his political skills, his two previous runs for the presidency, in 1988 and 2008, ended in failure.
10. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (N.Y.)
On paper, Cuomo looks like a strong candidate. He is the governor of a huge, liberal state and hails from a well-established political family. Cuomo’s late father, Mario, served as governor of the Empire State for three terms.
No one doubts the younger Cuomo’s ambition, but whether he is the right fit for the times is a tougher question. In a party where the left is ascendant, he has positioned himself as a centrist foil to New York City’s liberal mayor, Bill de Blasio. It’s not clear what Cuomo’s power base would be for a primary fight.
11. Sen.-elect Kamala Harris (Calif.)
Harris is one of the bright spots for Democrats who are dismayed by their failure to retake the Senate. She will succeed the retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer in January.
Harris has been seen as a rising star in the party for some time, her fans including President Obama, who once praised her in imprudent terms.
Harris, a leading lawyer before shifting into politics, is the daughter of an Indian-American mother and a Jamaican-American father. It’s not clear she has any presidential ambitions and, if she ran in 2020, she would face criticism about her relative lack of political experience. But she would be as experienced as then-Sen. Obama was when he began his 2008 White House run.
12. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Could she run again? It’s possible. Many people thought Clinton’s electoral ambitions had ended in 2008, with her devastating loss to Obama in the Democratic primary. That turned out not to be the case.
There is still a large, wealthy circle of Clinton loyalists, who would back any future run. But, even if she had the appetite for a 2020 bid, she would have enormous hurdles to overcome.
One of the biggest would be the question of how she lost the presidency to Donald Trump. Beyond the hardline Clintonistas, there aren’t many Democratic insiders who were wowed by her campaign. In a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released earlier this month, 62 percent of Democrats and independents said Clinton should not run again.
13. Former Gov. Deval Patrick (Mass.)
Patrick has considerable political skills and was once talked up as a potential inheritor of President Obama’s mantle. David Axelrod, one of the aides closest to Obama, worked with Patrick as well, and both Patrick and Obama adopted “Yes We Can!” as a campaign slogan.
But Patrick left office in 2015, and it’s just not clear whether he could — or would want to — come off the sidelines for 2020. He also joined Bain Capital, which is hardly the ideal launching pad for a quest to win over liberal activists.
14. Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.)
Kaine achieved a new national prominence when Clinton named him as her 2016 running mate. But his performance was a mixed bag.
The Virginia senator gave some energetic speeches on the campaign trail, defying his reputation for dullness. On the other hand, his showing in his sole debate with his counterpart, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, was uneven at best.
15. Oprah Winfrey
Trump proved how powerful a currency celebrity can be — and there may be no more trusted celebrity in America than Oprah. Having steered largely clear of partisan politics for most of her career, Winfrey became an enthusiastic backer of Obama when he looked a long shot to beat Hillary Clinton to the 2008 nomination.
Winfrey has said she “couldn’t breathe” after Trump won in November. She softened her stance later, but could she be tempted into a race to defeat the president-elect?
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/311436-top-15-democratic-presidential-candidates-in-2020
Most of them white, rich, old people, from the party of the poor, young minorities.
I am not a big Corey Booker fan, but put him on the ticket and the black, latino and young person turnout increases and favors Hillary. Corey Booker has the ability
to connect with voters unlike Hillary and Kaine.
Cherokee genealogist casts doubt on Elizabeth Warren's story of parents' elopement
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/14/cherokee-genealogist-casts-doubt-on-elizabeth-warrens-story-parents-elopement.html
But The Washington Times reported that Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes wrote in a 2016 blog that the story doesn't make sense. Barnes, who has researched Warren's family and found no evidence of Native American ancestry, researched the marriage of Pauline Reed and Donald Herring and found it appeared to be an ordinary wedding.
“The problem with Warren’s story is that none of the evidence supports it,” Barnes wrote. “Her genealogy shows no indication of Cherokee ancestry. Her parents’ wedding doesn’t resemble an elopement. And additional evidence doesn’t show any indication of her Herring grandparents being Indian haters.”
The wedding was performed by a prominent Methodist clergyman, not a justice of the peace, Barnes found. She also noted that a detailed wedding announcement was posted in the local newspaper in Wetumka, Oklahoma.
“If Ms. Warren’s parents eloped due to her mother being ‘Cherokee and Delaware’ and it was such a disgrace, why did they rush back to Wetumka the same day they were married and proudly announce it to everyone?” asked Ms. Barnes. “If there was shame associated with the marriage and it caused so many problems, why was it happily announced in the local paper?”
What the Democrats need is Oprah to run. We've already learned a lesson about discounting a TV personality due to lack of qualifications. In todays America, Honey Boo Boo would garner more votes than Bernie Sanders.
What the Democrats need is Oprah to run. We've already learned a lesson about discounting a TV personality due to lack of qualifications. In todays America, Honey Boo Boo would garner more votes than Bernie Sanders.There is truth in what you say. Sad.
A fat black broad who dates white guys who is an emotional wreck. Yeah just the latest rescue to the Democrat shithole of a party.
A fat black broad who dates white guys who is an emotional wreck. Yeah just the latest rescue to the Democrat shithole of a party.
And her net worth is peanuts at $2.7 billion. Stedman Graham, Oprah's partner for the last 30 years is African American.
And her net worth is peanuts at $2.7 billion. Stedman Graham, Oprah's partner for the last 30 years is African American.
My bad - she is still an emotional land whale who can't diet
My bad - she is still an emotional land whale who can't diet
I see nothing bad here. Rumors about her relationships have been around forever. She's a public figure. Although IMO she makes too big a deal about dieting when it is impossible to hide the failures and there's been a few.
Oprah 1998 Vogue cover photo:
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Twenty years later:
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Selective use of pictures. She has been obese for much of her life.
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Not sure what you mean here. I selected these two photos as examples of her thin and not-so-thin.
She's clearly obese in this photo, 'Oprah Winfrey admits to tipping the scales at 200 Lbs' in 2008. In 1990, she weighed 237
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All her yo-yo weight gains and losses cannot be healthy.
I prefer fat Oprah. Makes my dick harder than the blazes. I'd probably drop a load by merely sucking her tits. Wonder what kind of nipples she's packing?
So far, a steady stream of duds.
Eric Holder says he's interested in being president. And he thinks he has what it takes
CNN Digital Expansion 2017
By Dan Merica, CNN
Sun July 29, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/28/politics/eric-holder-interested-in-being-president/index.html
This hack wants to be president? Please.
Cory Booker Asks Pompeo About ‘Gay Sex’ Three Times During Hearing
Mike Pompeo, Cory BookerAP Photos
by KRISTINA WONG
12 Apr 2018
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Thursday made news after repeatedly demanding to know CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s views on gay sex at his confirmation hearing to become Secretary of State.
Booker cited a speech Pompeo gave as a congressman in 2015 at a church, in which he quoted words a pastor had once delivered before the Kansas State Legislature.
“America had worshipped other Gods and called it multiculturalism. We’d endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle,” Pompeo had said.
Booker then repeatedly asked Pompeo: “Is being gay a perversion?”
Pompeo responded that as a politician he had a “very clear view” on whether it was appropriate for two same sex persons to get married. “I stand by that,” he said.
“So you do not think it is appropriate for two gay people to marry?” Booker said.
Pompeo responded, “Senator, I continue to hold that view.”
Booker then suggested that Pompeo’s views would be a problem, saying that he had met people at the State Department in Africa who were in same-sex marriages.
“We have married gay couples at the CIA, you should know, I treated them with the exact same set of rights — ,” Pompeo said before being cut off by Booker repeatedly.
“You believe gay sex is a perversion, yes or no?” Booker demanded, and Pompeo tried to answer. “Yes or no, do you believe that gay sex is a perversion? … Yes or no, do you believe gay sex is a perversion?”
Pompeo said he was going to give him the same answer. “My respect for every individual regardless of their sexual orientation is the same,” he said.
Booker said that as Secretary of State he would be representing America at a time “hate acts” were increasing in the U.S.
The Huffington Post published a story in 2013 that seemed to question Booker’s sexual orientation, citing an interview he gave to the Washington Post:
“Booker, who recently won the Democratic primary for a special upcoming Senate election, is 44 and unmarried and does not speak publicly about his personal life. But, the mayor tells the Washington Post that he doesn’t mind the gay rumors that have bubbled up from time to time during his political career:
“…People who think I’m gay, some part of me thinks it’s wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I’m gay, and I say, ‘So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I’m straight.’ ”
“This isn’t the first time ‘gay’ and Booker’s name have appeared in the same sentence,” the Huffington Post wrote.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/12/cory-booker-asks-pompeo-gay-sex-three-times-hearing/
Pompeo's personal views on gay marriage shouldn't be at issue because in 2015 the US Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage is legal nationwide. If Pompeo discriminates against gay married folks or CIA employees who are in same sex marriages, he'd be breaking the law.
2020 is still a ways off. Nominations for President should start to jell once the primaries are closer. However, this could happen sooner since Trump is currently putting a lot of his time and energy into campaigning for reelection. I believe all politicians should concentrate on doing their jobs at this point. If this puts incumbents at a disadvantage, so be it. Turnover in government can be a positive thing. Currently incumbents are much more likely to win reelection than new nominees.
His views on gay marriage are not at issue because they don't have squat to do with his job as Secretary of State.
Pompeo's personal views on gay marriage shouldn't be at issue because in 2015 the US Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage is legal nationwide. If Pompeo discriminates against gay married folks or CIA employees who are in same sex marriages, he'd be breaking the law.
The secretary organizes and supervises the entire department and its staff. Which includes 13,000 Foreign Service employees. Should the Secretary of State discriminate against any of these folk because they are gay and/or in a gay marriage. He'll be breaking federal law. -Never said or implied this would happen. He has a right to his personal views and should not be questioned about them at this point.
Sometimes the laws are wrong.
I’d support him in discriminating.
I discriminate all the time if I don’t like certain types of people
And truth is likely almost everyone does to some extent.
I’m aware that I’m & friends are discriminated against that’s just
The way of the world.
Deal with it - move on.
I don't think there is anything immoral or wrong about anti-discrimination laws. I'm not a libertarian. We have rightfully decided as a society that we will not allow certain forms of discrimination in the marketplace (employment, housing, and public accommodations). That's a good thing. The problem is we have expanded those protections to things that should not be regulated by the government.
Yes I’d have to say I generally agree with what you said.
My point is People have / do & will continue to discriminate
In one way or another illegal or not they find ways around it.
It’s human nature.
So what? The Homeland Security Director (and every other department head) supervises an enormous staff. Their jobs have zero to do with gay marriage. It was a ridiculous issue for Booker to bring up. He's a partisan drama queen. Thank God he will never sniff the White House.
Any person in a supervisory position, be it in public or private employment, has the responsibility to obey the law. In this case, a law which legalized gay marriage. I've already shared my opinion on Booker's questioning any appointees' position on gay matters. It is wrong, unless he has direct knowledge that Pompeo has acted against the law since it was passed and would therefore be likely to disregard it in the future. Pompeo's personal beliefs should not be an issue.
I will not respond further on this matter because you and I are now 'beating a dead horse.'
Frankly you're not making a whole lot of sense on this subject. Not everyone in a "supervisory position" deals with gay marriage. It's a non-issue in most contexts and definitely as it relates to Pompeo's job as Secretary of State.
And just to clarify, Booker was not asking about Pompeo's "personal beliefs," he was asking about Pompeo's religious beliefs, which is unconstitutional.
Civil war can't come soon enough.
Logic is not the province of polesmokers.
Civil war can't come soon enough.
Dead horse.
Dead from the AIDS
Do horses get AIDS?
Only the gay ones.
So, are you the new Shizzo?
Only the gay ones.
So, are you the new Shizzo?
For example, I think the GOP and Trump have lost college educated suburban woman for a looooooong time .No
2+ yrs is an eternity in politics.
To Trump's credit he was able to thread the voter needle in the rustbelt states and Penn. to win in 2016.
BUT, when you add it up, it was a small % of votes that did it in only a few key states.
I seriously doubt he can hold that same coalition together for a 2020 win.
For example, I think the GOP and Trump have lost college educated suburban woman for a looooooong time .
For example, I think the GOP and Trump have lost college educated suburban woman for a looooooong time .
The historical imperative is that incumbent presidents are reelected unless challenged in the primary.
imperative?
The term is "Historical imperative," meaning, history points to Trump's reelection. As a prediction, it's low-hanging fruit. But let's see if someone challenges Trump in the primaries and, if so, how much of the feared "dark money" goes to the challenger.
Thanks for the clarification of the term(s). Not sure I agree, but then I thought Clinton would be our President...so, what do I know? ::)
The two candidates running for state office in my district are both women. The Republican incumbent has been our house representative for many terms, but she's a bit of a renegade who makes decisions which rile her own party as well as it does the Democrats. I support her challenger. What I've noticed is that more than in any previous election, the Democratic party is pouring a lot of support into getting their candidate elected. It would not surprise me if we have a new representative in the House come November 6th. Yeah!
And this dude is a presidential contender?? Holy smokes. :-\
Joaquin Castro accuses Kushner of orchestrating killing of Khashoggi
BY OWEN DAUGHERTY - 10/19/18
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) on Friday accused senior White House adviser Jared Kushner of orchestrating the killing of Saudi-born Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
Castro, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, told CNN he did not have substantial evidence to support his claim, but repeatedly cited media reports on the subject.
Castro cited unspecified reporting “that Jared Kushner may have, with U.S. intelligence, delivered a hit list, an enemies list, to the crown prince, to MBS, in Saudi Arabia and that the prince may have acted on that.”
CNN host Poppy Harlow attempted to clarify what reporting Castro was referring to, saying CNN had not reported on that accusation.
Castro continued, saying “I’ve seen reporting to that effect … That needs to be investigated.”
Castro later clarified his comments, tweeting that he did not intend to accuse Kushner of orchestrating the killing and noting he meant to express that he wants Congress to open an investigation into whether U.S. intelligence was shared with Saudi Arabia that may have led to Khashoggi's death.
He also linked media reporting that highlighted ties between the Trump administration and Saudi Arabia.
“To be clear, I did not intend to accuse @jaredkushner of orchestrating anything,” Castro tweeted. “Based on press reporting, I’m asking for Congress to open an investigation of whether any US Intelligence was shared with Saudi Arabia that led to political persecution or killing of #Khashoggi.”
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later condemned Castro's remarks, calling the allegation "outrageous" and "slanderous."
".@JoaquinCastrotx’s allegation is an outrageous slanderous lie without a shred of proof, it’s reprehensible for a sitting Congressman and supposed 'news' outlets to continue citing an article that used unnamed sources and was completely debunked," Sanders tweeted Friday afternoon.
Khashoggi has been missing for more than two weeks and was last seen entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
Kushner, the son-in-law of President Trump, and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have a well-documented relationship, though no one before Castro has accused Kushner of having any involvement in the death of Khashoggi.
On Thursday, Trump took his strongest stance against Saudi Arabia, threatening "very severe" consequences if the country is found to be responsible for the killing.
Until Thursday, Trump and his top aides had been reluctant to criticize the Saudis over Khashoggi's disappearance and the president even floated the possibility that “rogue killers” were responsible for the alleged attack.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/412249-joaquin-castro-accuses-jared-kushner-of-orchestrating-killing-of
Taking a play right out of the Trump book. Page 63. Accuse Ted Cruz' dad of assisting in killing JFK
I think a new dem challenger will emerge long AFTER the dust settles from 2018 midterms.
If the dems take back and the house and Pelosi is speaker, expect the usual suspects to emerge in 2020.
For example, Joe Biden could emerge as a the defacto dem leader and run as a 1 term POTUS.
In this scenario look for the GOP to run Gov J Kasich or Romney to challenge Trump in 2020.
BUT, if the dems install a new speaker OR ( don't win the house or senate) expect a new direction for dems.
I don't see it happening, but if the dems lose big in 2018, expect the GOP to show even more loyalty and support around Trump.
2020 is about to be a blast!
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I think a new dem challenger will emerge long AFTER the dust settles from 2018 midterms.
If the dems take back and the house and Pelosi is speaker, expect the usual suspects to emerge in 2020.
For example, Joe Biden could emerge as a the defacto dem leader and run as a 1 term POTUS.
In this scenario look for the GOP to run Gov J Kasich or Romney to challenge Trump in 2020.
BUT, if the dems install a new speaker OR ( don't win the house or senate) expect a new direction for dems.
I don't see it happening, but if the dems lose big in 2018, expect the GOP to show even more loyalty and support around Trump.
This would be bad for Trump. He'll win every state Hillary won and take back Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and probably Ohio.
I think a new dem challenger will emerge long AFTER the dust settles from 2018 midterms.Who, this guy?
If the dems take back and the house and Pelosi is speaker, expect the usual suspects to emerge in 2020.
For example, Joe Biden could emerge as a the defacto dem leader and run as a 1 term POTUS.
In this scenario look for the GOP to run Gov J Kasich or Romney to challenge Trump in 2020.
BUT, if the dems install a new speaker OR ( don't win the house or senate) expect a new direction for dems.
I don't see it happening, but if the dems lose big in 2018, expect the GOP to show even more loyalty and support around Trump.
It hurts my brain to think about what's going to happen 2 years from now when we elect the president. Trump was a surprise to many. There's probably more surprises to come.It's going to depend in large part on how Republicans vote next month whether Trump gets 4 more years in 2020. We stood squarely behind him over Brett Kavanaugh and we'll do it again next month, but how much exactly remains to be seen. Midterms are historically tough for sitting presidents. But the Left's doom & gloom predictions in November 2016 proved to be unfounded. Two years later, he's decimated a significant portion of the old guard that was resisting him in his own party and has remained in contact with the people who elected him by cleverly rallying again all over the country, something no President has done in America history in non-election years. He's 72 years old and has health problems with an average of 4hrs of sleep and one of the most stressful jobs in the world plus the entire media sitting on his neck, can't be easy. Men half his age would be burned out by now.
It hurts my brain to think about what's going to happen 2 years from now when we elect the president. Trump was a surprise to many. There's probably more surprises to come.Creepy uncle Joe going to get exposed and blasted if he even thinks about it.
Creepy uncle Joe going to get exposed and blasted if he even thinks about it.He fondles and touches women inappropriately, and it's all on tape. He's also made prejudicial statements about blacks and did it when he was running against Obama. He's a shitbag. This is who the Left sees as the best and brightest patron saint.
He fondles and touches women inappropriately, and it's all on tape. He's also made prejudicial statements about blacks and did it when he was running against Obama. He's a shitbag. This is who the Left sees as the best and brightest patron saint.
And he is STILL better than the current Dufus
He fondles and touches women inappropriately, and it's all on tape. He's also made prejudicial statements about blacks and did it when he was running against Obama. He's a shitbag. This is who the Left sees as the best and brightest patron saint.There must be hundreds of pics/vids of him touching, grabbing, kissing on young girls. It's actually amazing he hasn't been called out, even by the liberal media.
And he is STILL better than the current Dufus
And he is STILL better than the current Dufus
And he is STILL better than the current Dufus
Hilarious. Both Biden and ofagget never worked a real job in their lives
Maybe not blue collar jobs. With an advanced education at Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School, where he got his J.D., magna cum laude, why would he?
He's running. She's running. Everyone's running.
Damon Linker
December 5, 2018
https://theweek.com/articles/810783/hes-running-running-everyones-running
Maybe not blue collar jobs. With an advanced education at Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School, Obama got his J.D., magna cum laude, why would he need to? He did briefly work as a civil rights attorney.Civil rights attorney ::)
Biden also has a law degree and began working as an attorney immediately following graduation.
You're an attorney. Do you not think it's a real job? Perhaps it isn't if you have no clients. ;)
Civil rights attorney ::)
He probably didn't make as much as a corporate attorney, but the risks weren't anything as compared to being one of Trump's corporate attorneys where the risk is substantial, as we've witnessed these past couple of years.And we'll keep witnessing until 2024 when Trump leaves office. :-*
Civil rights attorney ::)
Here is your 2020 candidate:
O-BUM was never a real lawyer. He has always been a ghetto bum and street hustler.
Senior attorneys at the small firm where he worked say he was a strong writer and researcher, but was involved in relatively few cases -- about 30 -- and spent only four years as a full-time lawyer before entering politics.
Obama arrived in Chicago in 1993 with a degree from Harvard Law School and was hired as a junior lawyer at the firm then known as Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Gallard. He helped represent clients in civil and voting rights matters and wrongful firings, argued a case before a federal appellate court, and took the lead in writing a suit to expand voter registration.
Whats a real lawyer?
Senior attorneys at the small firm where he worked say he was a strong writer and researcher, but was involved in relatively few cases -- about 30 -- and spent only four years as a full-time lawyer before entering politics.
Obama arrived in Chicago in 1993 with a degree from Harvard Law School and was hired as a junior lawyer at the firm then known as Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Gallard. He helped represent clients in civil and voting rights matters and wrongful firings, argued a case before a federal appellate court, and took the lead in writing a suit to expand voter registration.
Whats a real lawyer?
O-BUM was never a real lawyer. He has always been a ghetto bum and street hustler.
What do you mean by this? He graduated Havard Law J.D. magna cum laude. He passed the bar and worked as a civil rights attorney at Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland for 11 years. He was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years. -Seems pretty real to me.
Do you have similar credentials? If so, do you consider yourself a real lawyer?
What do you mean by this? He graduated Havard Law J.D. magna cum laude. He passed the bar and worked as a civil rights attorney at Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland for 11 years. He was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years. -Seems pretty real to me.
Do you have similar credentials? If so, do you consider yourself a real lawyer?
He never even tried a case. He has less experience as a lawyer than a dude who handled traffic tickets -
Jacoby and Meyers would never hire him even in the mail room. That you voted for him as potus - that is your stain and burden to bear. Not mine. Otwink is a joke.
He never even tried a case. He has less experience as a lawyer than a dude who handled traffic tickets -
Jacoby and Meyers would never hire him even in the mail room. That you voted for him as potus - that is your stain and burden to bear. Not mine. Otwink is a joke.
Not that it matters, but you are possibly and technically mistaken. He argued a case before a federal appellate court.
Note, we are discussing Obama's qualifications or lack there of as a real lawyer. We are not discussing who either you or I voted for in 2008, probably because it isn't relevant.
Sorry can't help myself, but how many cases have you tried? I know, I know it isn't pertinent to our discussion, but I felt compelled to ask. You don't have to answer and you probably won't based on your previous ignorance of my questions to you about your profession.
He didn't file for bankruptcy multiple times or brag about groping {sexually assaulting) women... so get off that friggin Walmart store front quarter a ride high horse of yours.
He didn't file for bankruptcy multiple times or brag about groping {sexually assaulting) women... so get off that friggin Walmart store front quarter a ride high horse of yours.
Absolutely horrible slate of candidates.
Q-Poll: Biden Tops List of Dem Presidential Hopefuls
By Jeffrey Rodack | Wednesday, 19 December 2018
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/quinnipiac-university-joe-biden-democrats-presidential/2018/12/19/id/895138/
Biden is a nightmare for Trump because as an old white man himself he will siphon old, white votes from Trump. Not too mention Biden all but guarantees that Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin all return to the Democratic column. Also puts Ohio and Florida back in play. With all that being said, I'd prefer a younger, more progressive choice than Biden but will be much happier voting for Biden than I was voting for Clinton.Those Biden kissing and touching kids pics will be everywhere, I can't wait!
Biden is a nightmare for Trump because as an old white man himself he will siphon old, white votes from Trump. Not too mention Biden all but guarantees that Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin all return to the Democratic column. Also puts Ohio and Florida back in play. With all that being said, I'd prefer a younger, more progressive choice than Biden but will be much happier voting for Biden than I was voting for Clinton.
Obama the clown was frequently broke and in credit card debt.
Tulsi Gabbard to run for president
By DANIEL STRAUSS 01/11/2019
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said Friday that she is running for president.
“I have decided to run and will be making a formal announcement within the next week,” she said during an interview on CNN's "The Van Jones Show."
Gabbard, a 37-year old combat veteran, has done little to hide her presidential ambitions. She recently made stops in both Iowa and New Hampshire and looked into hiring digital staff and speechwriters. She has also authored a memoir set to be released in May.
Late Friday, in a fundraising email, Gabbard said the reason she was running "has to do with an issue that is central to the rest — war and peace."
She also cited healthcare, immigration reform, clean water and air, criminal justice and special interest influence in Washington.
The Hawaii Democrat's entrance into the presidential primary field comes before an expected wave of similar announcements from higher profile candidates.
A recent Democracy for America survey of the liberal group's members found that about 2 percent said Gabbard should run, behind better known potential 2020 contenders like Sen. Bernie Sanders or former Vice President Joe Biden.
Within her party, the three-term congresswoman is viewed as a maverick with a penchant for bucking party orthodoxy. During the 2016 presidential election, Gabbard stepped down from her post as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee so she could endorse Sanders, making her one of the few House Democrats to back the Vermont senator over Hillary Clinton during the primary. She has since been associated with the Sanders movement — in her 2018 reelection campaign, she was endorsed by the Sanders-aligned Our Revolution outside group.
Former Massachusetts Sen. Paul G. Kirk, who was a Sanders surrogate alongside Gabbard in 2016, said it’s likely several candidates who backed Sanders in 2016 will join the field.
"From my point of view her running has less to do than who she supported in 2016 than how she feels about the country and what direction and vision she has and how she can make a difference," Kirk said. Kirk added that he would be surprised if "there aren't others who may have supported Sanders that think they have a pretty good opportunity."
During the presidential transition period in 2016, the Hawaii Democrat met with then-President-elect Donald Trump, drawing condemnation from fellow Democrats. She also received widespread criticism in 2017 for meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.
"There are a lot of reasons for me to make this decision,” Gabbard told Jones. “There are a lot of challenges that are facing the American people that I'm concerned about and that I want to help solve." She pointed to access to health care, criminal justice reform and climate change.
"There is one main issue that is central to the rest, and that is the issue of war and peace," she said. "I look forward to being able to get into this and to talk about it in depth when we make our announcement."
Gabbard will join a field that already includes former Rep. John Delaney of Maryland. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who will be in New Hampshire this weekend, announced on New Year’s Eve the formation of a presidential exploratory committee. Julian Castro, the former San Antonio mayor and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary, has also formed an exploratory committee. He has an event scheduled for Saturday in his hometown, where he is expected to formally announce his candidacy.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/11/tulsi-gabbard-2020-president-run-1098629
It'll be Beto.
It'll be Beto.
I think he certainly has to be considered a front runner at this point. Young, tall guy with a decent look. Catchy name, speaks Spanish and has social media appeal.
The problem will be when Beto gets on stage with Trump. He looked flustered and awkward versus Cruz. In the words of Mickey from Rocky "What's going to happen when you face the Champ?"
Trump would bury this guy in front of the entire world.
Head to head versus Trump, I think the Don easily takes Texas, Arizona, Florida, Ohio. Strong favorite in Wisconsin and likely takes Pennsylvania yet again.
:D
It'll be Beto.
Good bet, given the obscene amount of money he raised in Texas.
He flubbed a bit today when asked about immigration.
He made the point about many illegals just being overstayed visas. When asked how to correct it, he said "I don't know".
I didn't see the interview, so I don't have the context / body language around how he answered. Sometimes, a straightforward "I don't know" is a good answer, rather than trying to make up some bullshit.
But if it's a stuttering, "uh, I don't know" it means he's caught off guard, and doesn't have an alternative to the wall he's bitching about.
He flubbed a bit today when asked about immigration.
He made the point about many illegals just being overstayed visas. When asked how to correct it, he said "I don't know".
I didn't see the interview, so I don't have the context / body language around how he answered. Sometimes, a straightforward "I don't know" is a good answer, rather than trying to make up some bullshit.
But if it's a stuttering, "uh, I don't know" it means he's caught off guard, and doesn't have an alternative to the wall he's bitching about.
Pure genius
Good video, funny guy.
Hillary Clinton has not ruled out running for president in 2020, a new report claims.
January 28, 2019
The former US senator and secretary of state has told friends that she is "not closing the doors" on her Oval Office ambitions.
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https://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-apos-still-considering-154721924.html
Nudes, please.
Top Democrats fear Howard Schultz is a Perot or Nader who could help re-elect Trump
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/top-democrats-fear-howard-schultz-is-a-perot-or-nader-who-could-help-re-elect-trump
Top Democrats fear Howard Schultz is a Perot or Nader who could help re-elect Trump
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/top-democrats-fear-howard-schultz-is-a-perot-or-nader-who-could-help-re-elect-trump
This guy stepped down when the heat was turned up on his stores. A reverse Perot would be a delight in 2020.
But Democrats, honing in on President Trump’s personal unpopolarity, apparently mistake the public rejection of Trump’s personal foibles for public warmth toward full-scale Leftism. There’s simply no evidence of that. That’s why Democrats are panicking over the possibility of a third party candidate like Howard Schultz, former Starbucks CEO, who could siphon off many anti-Trump votes by not running as a complete loony. There’s room for an anti-Trump centrist in this electorate – and that running space has been created by a Democratic Party beholden to its radical base.
That’s why it will be fascinating to see how Vice President Joe Biden fares in Democratic primaries. Should he lose to someone more in line with the base – a Warren or a Sanders or a Harris – Democrats may face the possibility that Trump’s popularity ratings matter less to the general public than Democrats’ extremism. Democrats see Trump’s 2020 re-election race as a golden opportunity to move further to the Left. But they may find out the hard way that when forced to choose between a vulgarian who doesn’t want to take away their health insurance and a media darling who does, the American people aren’t sure to choose the latter.
This kind of aligns with my thoughts on why the Democratic primary is going to be a complete circus.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/42796/democrats-have-serious-radicalism-problem-and-ben-shapiro
I agree. Good point.
The Dems are going to nominate a communist end of dstory
This kind of aligns with my thoughts on why the Democratic primary is going to be a complete circus.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/42796/democrats-have-serious-radicalism-problem-and-ben-shapiro
The Dems are going to nominate a communist end of dstory
What are we up to, 20, 25 libtards "announcing" their intentions to run for president? ::)
about 6..
about 6..So it's actually 8 "official" (done some exploratory BS required) and 15 or so publicly "considering" and up to a dozen more that the demoncratic party is "keeping an eye on"
What are we up to, 20, 25 libtards "announcing" their intentions to run for president? ::)
It's like finding a needle in a haystack and you don't get to play because you are in the wrong field.;D You'd think all these Democratic and Independent hopefuls would make you happy. At this point you're picking from a field of one....how could you lose?I'll be happy when they move closer to the center. ;)
Is Killary included in them ?
no
Spartacus is in! Perfect.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/politics/cory-booker-announces-presidential-run-2020/index.html
Ohh - Is She likey to be do you think ?
I'd be surprised if HRC ran for president again. IMO, the Democratic party is looking at people who fit a different demographic than she does. I imagine you'll see middle-class, female, younger folks with just enough political experience to know what they're doing, but not so much that it can be deeply scrutinized for negative actions. It wouldn't hurt if they were more tech savvy and didn't have the whole dynasty thing going on. I suspect the voters are done with the Clintons....you just never know.
Seeing as how she gave it her best shot... and lost she shouldn't try again. If you couldn't beat Trump then, you don't deserve a second chance
Seeing as how she gave it her best shot... and lost she shouldn't try again. If you couldn't beat Trump then, you don't deserve a second chanceLots of people not deserving a second chance
When Howard Schultz and Bloomberg are too moderate to get DNC backing you know the party is just going to run somebody too radical to win. Seriously, look at this lineup of weirdos and imagine any of them in a debate against Trump.
Warren was bashing Schultz, saying billionaires can't buy the nomination....meanwhile Hillary rigging the primary last time over Bernie is okay.
Just a cesspool of ambition and inauthenticity to choose from if you are a Dem voter.
T-Bone!
YAS QUEEEEEEEEN!!!!
All of these Democratic candidates have the same general message.
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OH BOY!!!!! This time it will be different, I swear! In all honesty, Bernie should run as an Independent and really screw over the Demon-Rats since they were so kind to him last time.
Not only is everything going to be free...
His agenda list is in the wrong order, but ended right. If he started his POTUS agend with "Dream" the list would have been done. His chances are a dream, and nothing more.
lol
65 People Line Up for Beto O’Rourke — 22,000 Line Up to See Trump in TEXAS (VIDEO)
by Jim Hoft February 11, 2019
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/65-people-line-up-for-beto-orourke-22000-line-up-to-see-trump-in-texas-video/
You have to admit Beto O'Rourke has a catchy name. The U.S. has had a number of presidents, both democrat and republican, with Irish heritage. Beto has a smile similar to JFK's. O'Rourk is 47 years old. JFK was age 42 when he became president. Both O'Rouke and JFK have slim builds.His name is Robert
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Wish more photo/video proof was put out consistently regarding what MSM is telling us vs. truth.
Trump killed Beto's chances in under 5 minutes last night when he mocked him in El Paso.
You have to admit Beto O'Rourke has a catchy name. The U.S. has had a number of presidents, both democrat and republican, with Irish heritage. Beto has a smile similar to JFK's. O'Rourk is 47 years old. JFK was age 42 when he became president. Both O'Rouke and JFK have slim builds.
What Americans who aren't a fan of Trump need is an independent to rise up in the next year... the Democrats so far are disappointing. I am with many of the Trump supporters in that what America needs is someone who isn't a career politician, and who doesn't give a crap about special interest. Where i am separated from them is on my belief we don't need an egotistical self absorbed pathological lying sociopath.Pretty much a requirement to run for president. ;)
You have to admit Beto O'Rourke has a catchy name. The U.S. has had a number of presidents, both democrat and republican, with Irish heritage. Beto has a smile similar to JFK's. O'Rourk is 47 years old. JFK was age 42 when he became president. Both O'Rouke and JFK have slim builds.
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What Americans who aren't a fan of Trump need is an independent to rise up in the next year... the Democrats so far are disappointing. I am with many of the Trump supporters in that what America needs is someone who isn't a career politician, and who doesn't give a crap about special interest. Where i am separated from them is on my belief we don't need an egotistical self absorbed pathological lying sociopath.
o comments.
Amy Klobuchar reportedly ordered staffer to clean comb after she used it to eat salad
Fox News ^ | 22 Feb 19 | Brooke Singman
Posted on 2/22/2019, 8:26:02 PM by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar on Friday faced fresh accusations of belittling staffers, with a new report relaying a bizarre allegation that she'd berated a staff member for failing to bring her a fork with her salad.
The alleged confrontation, as reported by The New York Times, got weird.
According to the newspaper, the aide who neglected to get plastic utensils for Senator Klobuchar, D-Minn., committed the affront at an airport while traveling to South Carolina in 2008. Klobuchar not only chastised the aide, but reportedly proceeded to eat the salad using a comb from her bag -- then handed the comb to the aide and told him to clean it.
The anecdote swiftly became social media fodder late Friday, but also added to the many claims of Klobuchar demeaning staff members over the course of her Senate career.
A spokesperson for Klobuchar did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment on the Times article, which contained other accounts of the senator tearing into staff.
According to the report, former aides said she was "not just demanding, but often dehumanizing."
Another recent report said Klobuchar often criticized staffers and directed them to “only speak when spoken to” at events. The Huffington Post reported that the conduct got to a point that then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told her to change her behavior.
During an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier last week, though, Klobuchar said she spoke with Reid, and “he doesn’t remember that and I don’t remember that either.”
But according to a Buzzfeed News report, numerous staffers said Klobuchar routinely sent late-night emails and berated subordinates over minor details and missteps.
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Pretty much a requirement to run for president. ;)
I don't see any evidence of Trump being a sociopath. Jussie Smollet is a sociopath....there is no real comparison of these two personalities other than ego, narcissism, lying (one now holds the world record of all lies), and being self-absorbed.
I think we can all agree that an inflated ego, and an enormous amount of self-importance are two pre-reqs for running for POTUS. I think we can all agree also that none of us has ever in our lives; met someone with those traits that did not speak in a grandiose manner, and who we thought was not a bit of an asshole/bitch and full of shit to some extent...can we not???
Great...now we finally have some common ground in this thread!!! 8)
So, if we are all in agreement on that...and if we're all being 100% honest, I think we should be.......I ask where shall we find this unicorn you'd like to see run for POTUS? ???
No suggestion? Shocking! ::)
By the way.....I'll narrow your search. That person is not mentioned in the story quoted below. >:(
that would be your problem
That would be shame on us.. right?Let me know when you find a politician that doesn't fit that criteria.
His name is Robert
It is Robert Francis O'Rouke, to be exact. Like you and I, he has a handle which in this case is also his nickname. The public knows him as Beto. I'll give you this, in the political arena, Chaos is better than Primemuscle. In fact, it would be a great handle for your boy Trump because that's what he creates. ;)
Beto O'Rourke Announces His Run For President In 2020
March 14, 2019
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/676803365/beto-orourke-announces-his-run-for-president-in-2020
Beto O'Rourke Announces His Run For President In 2020
March 14, 2019
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/676803365/beto-orourke-announces-his-run-for-president-in-2020
I don't see any evidence of Trump being a sociopath. Jussie Smollet is a sociopath....there is no real comparison of these two personalities other than ego, narcissism, lying (one now holds the world record of all lies), and being self-absorbed.
I think we can all agree that an inflated ego, and an enormous amount of self-importance are two pre-reqs for running for POTUS. Think Jimmy Carter, George Bush Jr I think we can all agree also that none of us has ever in our lives; met someone with those traits that did not speak in a grandiose manner, and who we thought was not a bit of an asshole/bitch and full of shit to some extent...can we not???
Great...now we finally have some common ground in this thread!!! 8)
So, if we are all in agreement on that...and if we're all being 100% honest, I think we should be.......I ask where shall we find this unicorn you'd like to see run for POTUS? ???
No suggestion? Shocking! ::)
By the way.....I'll narrow your search. That person is not mentioned in the story quoted below. >:(
I can't wait for that guy and all his flaws to be exposed in front of the entire world.
A total empty suit whose only claim to fame is some stupid nickname.
Even as weak as the Democratic field is, they will still make mincemeat out of Robert Francis.
Same as the Gay Muslim then...but actually born in USA ?
Same as the Gay Muslim then...but actually born in USA ?
Same as the Gay Muslim then...but actually born in USA ?
Let's pretend Beta has even a remote chance of winning the primary. Last three candidates of the dem would be.
Black Man - even wears dad pants too high
Woman - wears suit pants
Beta boy - wears mom jeans
Seems like the candidates mirror the confusion of the party, and it's voters.
We all know if BO becomes any type of threat, especially if he gets to debate Trump.....Trump is going to mispronounce his name, and pretend like he couldn't hear the correction multiple times. It will rile up the base that have had enough of this fucking apologizing for being a man bullshit
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Watch the video
Ask Hillary how running while not being yourself works out. Of course she had no other option being horribly cold and unlikeable than to fix the primary against Bernie.
In that current lineup Biden is much more moderate(in comparison) and experienced it's not even funny:
Sanders is one notch above Dennis Kucinich on the nut scale. 40 years in office and didn't do anything really. His supporters - both poor and rich/overeducated/underworked - are voting for freebies.
Warren is an unlikable elitist liar like Hillary. Just listen to her talk...terribly awkward and has the gift of gaffe.
Harris is making radical policy promises to increase her stock. Opportunist. She speaks well though and could fix Biden's ticket as veep.
O'Rourke couldn't beat Cruz....nuff said. He's going nowhere. He's not that bright to boot.
Booker. Just why?
I can't wait for that guy and all his flaws to be exposed in front of the entire world.
A total empty suit whose only claim to fame is some stupid nickname.
Even as weak as the Democratic field is, they will still make mincemeat out of Robert Francis.
Except, and I know this is hard for you to swallow, Obama wasn't and isn't Muslim and likely not gay, and he was born in the USA. The sooner you accept that, the sooner we can start reading your posts again
Are you certain you want to use the phrase "hard for you to swallow" in the same sentences a "Obama"? Especially since it is a rebuke to claims of his being a schmOebama...
You're probably trying to be funny. In reality, you just can't seem to get your mind off gay sex. Wonder why?
I mostly agree with your assessment. Here's the thing, if O'Rourke gets enough support from the populous, he stands a chance of being nominated. Unlike HRC, he doesn't come off aloof and unlikeable, he doesn't appear like a grouch like Sanders does and he doesn't have "one foot in the grave" like the current democratic front runner, VP Biden.
2020 Democratic Primary Odds: Beto O’Rourke, Kamala Harris Lead Field
https://www.actionnetwork.com/politics/beto-orourke-kamala-harris-julian-castro-running-president-odds-democratic-primary-2020
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Thing is, the media loves O'Rourke so he's getting a lot of attention from them....some of it negative. Heck, the guy spontaneously jumps up on a bar and informally talks/campaigns to people while waving his arms around. He may lack substance, but then Trump knew/knows nothing about politics, the U.S. constitution, or how things work in government, etc. and he got elected.
So you are saying Trumps inability to pronounce a name is enough to rile up the right? seems a bit sad don't you think? Are they that easily led?
I didn't know he was an actor? Bottom pic is from the gay porno "Coyote Snuggly"?
I'm saying Trump will intentionally clown him, and yes it will rile people up and it will also convince the left that Beta is just that and would have no chance of going toe to toe with Iran, Putin, China, Pocket Rocket, or even that dumb bitch from NZ.
I seriously think that if he made it to the general election Trump would likely be able to get him to cry. Not even exaggerating a little. 8)
Kirsten Gillibrand officially jumps into 2020 race, teases speech at Trump hotel in New York
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(CNN) Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand officially jumped in the 2020 presidential race on Sunday by declaring her Democratic candidacy with a campaign video titled "Brave Wins."
"Brave doesn't pit people against one another. Brave doesn't put money over lives. Brave doesn't spread hate, cloud truth, build a wall. That's what fear does," Gillibrand says over news footage, including of President Donald Trump.
The New York Democrat launched an exploratory campaign in January, announcing it on CBS' "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," and has spent the past two months traveling to key states.
Toward the end of the more than two-minute long video released on Sunday, Gillibrand, speaking directly to the camera, announces she's running for president.
The video ends with an invitation to join Gillibrand at the Trump International Hotel on March 24, where she plans to deliver "her positive, brave vision of restoring America's moral integrity straight to President Trump's doorstep," her campaign said in an announcement accompanying the video.
"We need to remember what it feels like to be brave," she says. "We launched ourselves into space and landed on the moon. If we can do that, we can definitely achieve universal health care. We can provide paid family leave for all, end gun violence, pass a Green New Deal, get money out of politics and take back our democracy. None of this is impossible."
"Americans are brave every day. ... And its these brave choices that inspire me to take on the fights others won't," Gillibrand says.
She'll begin her official campaign with a trip to Michigan, a once solidly blue state that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton lost to Trump.
Her first week as a declared candidate will include a visit to the early voting states of Iowa and Nevada, and culminate with her speech on March 24 in front of the Trump International Hotel.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/03/17/politics/kirsten-gillibrand-presidential-campaign-2020/index.html
O'Rourke has stated he wants to tear down texas borders.
That should easily be used against him.
Also, if you google "Beto O'Rourke open borders" you get drastically different results on google an duckduckgo.
The google ones have quick hits about how he absolutely doesn't want open borders. The ddg one shows all his comments about tearing down the texas walls.
Is that Beto O’Rourke to the left? And why is he wearing a dress?
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Is that Beto O’Rourke to the left? And why is he wearing a dress?
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Unfortunately that’s not even the worst pic of him that has surfaced.
beto O’Rourke Apologizes For Writing Fictional Fantasies About Plowing Over Children With A Car
dailycaller.com ^ | 3/15/2019 | Chris White
Posted on 3/16/2019, 1:59:24 PM by rktman
Beto O’Rourke apologized Friday night for writings the former Texas representative made as a teenager describing fantasies about running over children with a vehicle.
“I’m mortified to read it now, incredibly embarrassed, but I have to take ownership of my words,” the Democratic presidential candidate said during a taping of the “Political Party Live” podcast in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “Whatever my intention was as a teenager doesn’t matter, I have to look long and hard at my actions, at the language I have used, and I have to constantly try to do better.”
His comments come after a report Friday revealed O’Rourke wrote prose when he was a teenager describing a scenario in which he would accelerate a car into a group of children while hearing them scream. The report also showed he was a secret member of a hacking group called the “Cult of the Dead Cow,” which focused on showing people how to hack Microsoft computers.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conse
Worse than wearing a dress?
SF meets Andrew Yang, a presidential candidate who’s attracting support from Millennials
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The unlikely presidential run of Andrew Yang, who is proposing a $1,000-a-month “freedom dividend” to every adult in America, rolled Friday into San Francisco, where some 3,000 supporters listened to the New York tech entrepreneur warn about how artificial intelligence and robotics are taking jobs.
The 44-year-old son of Taiwanese immigrants who met each other at UC Berkeley has already surpassed expectations — virtually nonexistent when he got into the race — by inspiring enough donations to qualify for the Democratic primary debate in June.
Yang outlined his idea for guaranteed universal income to a young, exuberant crowd of mostly Millennials at an outdoor soccer field lined with food trucks on Mission Bay Boulevard North.
Many also held placards and chanted the word “Math,” which has become a campaign mantra for Yang, who founded Venture for America, a fellowship program for entrepreneurs.
More than 66,000 donors have contributed over $350,000 to the campaign this month, an impressive performance for a candidate who seemingly came out of nowhere. Only about 1 percent of Democratic voters have expressed support for the resident of New York City in recent polls, but that’s no worse than his intrastate rival Kirsten Gillibrand and his popularity on social media has been soaring
He said the idea has not only had wide historical support — including from founding father Thomas Paine, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman — but it has already been implemented in Alaska, which uses oil revenue to fund it.
“What they are doing with oil money in Alaska, we can do for all of us around the country with advancing technology,” Yang told the crowd, many of whom waved “Yang Gang” and “Humanity First” signs.
Many also held placards and chanted the word “Math,” which has become a campaign mantra for Yang, who founded Venture for America, a fellowship program for entrepreneurs.
Most of his supporters said they were new to politics and were intrigued by Yang when they heard him speaking on podcasts.
“I was immediately taken with him. I really appreciate how clearly he articulates his policies, his platforms, without grandstanding,” said Aissa Le, 29, of San Francisco. “He’s a straight shooter.”
Yang’s growing grassroots popularity during his first-ever campaign is remarkable considering how his main platform, universal basic income — also known as the freedom dividend — involves taxing tech companies to pay all adult U.S. citizens $1,000 per month.
His idea, which he calls human-centered capitalism, is to offset impending job losses caused by robotics and artificial intelligence. In the next few decades, he said, self-driving vehicles will take over the trucking business and automation will make thousands of other blue-collar jobs obsolete.
The transformation, he said, has already had a profound effect, leaving much of Middle America feeling worthless, a situation that has contributed to drug addiction, a growing suicide rate and lowered life expectancy.
“We’re in the third inning of the greatest technological and economic transformation in the history of the world,” he said. “It is technology that is moving our economy to a point where a lot of Americans are struggling to get by.”
As a result, he said, there is a pervasive feeling among white working-class Americans that their lives aren’t valued. Yang said there is a direct connection between the adoption of industrial robots and the election of Donald Trump.
“He is not the disease, he is the symptom,” said Yang, who fears that if nothing is done to address the problem communities could face mass protests, civil disobedience and even riots.
His plan, he said, would give the 68 percent of Americans who don’t have college degrees — the ones most likely to become unemployed — a basic income that would help boost spending and the economy while the country invests in technical and vocational training for them.
“The money is not a solution. The money sets the stage for the solution,” he told Joe Rogan during a podcast that has been credited with helping Yang’s popularity to soar on social media. “We need to reconstitute meaning for many, many Americans. ... This is very much about human empowerment.”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SF-meets-Andrew-Yang-a-presidential-candidate-13693316.php#photo-17080141
What Americans who aren't a fan of Trump need is an independent to rise up in the next year... the Democrats so far are disappointing. I am with many of the Trump supporters in that what America needs is someone who isn't a career politician, and who doesn't give a crap about special interest. Where i am separated from them is on my belief we don't need an egotistical self absorbed pathological lying sociopath.
He would be 90 years old in 2020!!!!
Mike Gravel, an 88-Year-Old Dark Horse 2020 Candidate Who’s a Hit With the Teens
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Andrew Yang isn’t the only potential 2020 presidential candidate with notable support from the very young. There’s a very old politician (88 to be precise) who is the unlikely subject of a teen-led draft effort that has operated (with his consent) through his once-neglected Twitter account.
Splinter explained how this all happened:
[David] Oks, a high school senior who has previously run for mayor of his small New York town, told Splinter that he and several friends are avid listeners of the Chapo Trap House podcast, which mentioned Gravel in a recent episode. About a week ago, he and a couple friends reached out to Gravel and asked if he would consider making another run for president. Their pitch was clear. “My friends and I were encouraging him to consider running for president with the idea being that he would not try to contest any primaries, he would just try to get into the Democratic debates,” he said.
Oks and his friends were clearly inspired by Gravel’s performance in the 2008 debates, where he delivered a searing indictment of the vast majority of his fellow candidates for their support of the Iraq war and their continued commitment to American interventionism in the Middle East.
Indeed, most everyone outside Alaska (which he represented in the U.S. Senate from 1969 until 1981) who has heard of Gravel probably remembers his virtually unfunded 2008 Democratic presidential candidacy, which, thanks to his Senate background, succeeded in getting him into early debates where he served as a bit of an antiwar gadfly. His hostility to U.S. interventionism, however, dated back to a much earlier moment of national notoriety, in 1971, when, as Dan Froomkin explained, Gravel “entered 4,000 pages of the Pentagon Papers into the congressional record just before the U.S. Supreme Court lifted an injunction on publishing them in the press.” The papers, a collection of internal DoD memos and other materials documenting the planning and execution of the Vietnam War, offered a searing indictment of U.S. foreign policy, which is why the Nixon administration battled unsuccessfully to keep them secret.
The dramatics of Gravel’s maneuver were typical of his Senate career, which showed considerable courage but also generated charges of showboating and insufficient attention to routine duties. His hostility to U.S. interventionism abroad has been his most consistent position (his own edition of the Pentagon Papers was edited and annotated by lefty anti-imperialist stalwarts Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn), but he annoyed progressives in Alaska by his steady support for development interests. In the end, his Senate career was perfectly bookended: He first won statewide office in 1968 by narrowly defeating Alaska icon Ernest Gruening (best known nationally as one of just two senators who voted against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution used by LBJ as authorization for the Vietnam War) in a primary campaign that was about generational change rather than issues, and then lost a 1980 primary to Gruening’s grandson. He was ultimately replaced in the Senate by Frank Murkowski, father of current Alaska GOP senator Lisa Murkowski).
So there’s a lot of ancient history associated with Gravel’s career, and a lot of what is generally called “eccentricity.” After his 2008 Democratic campaign sputtered to an end, he switched parties and unsuccessfully sought the Libertarian presidential nomination. Back in 1972, he drew attention to himself by openly campaigning to become his party’s vice-presidential nominee (which might not have been a bad idea given George McGovern’s disastrous choice of Thomas Eagleton, later forced from the ticket for undisclosed drunk driving charges and mental health treatments).
In the broad context of this man’s career, being drafted by teenagers into what sounds like an extended flame war against Democratic candidates for insufficient anti-imperialism fits right in. Rolling Stone records some early heat from the Gravel twitter account:
The account has also fired off several scathing attacks of Gravel’s prospective opponents, including Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who “kept innocent men on death row”; Joe Biden, who “voted for the Iraq War”; Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who likes to “abuse American workers”; and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who “invented a drug dealer friend (and voted with Big Pharma).” The account also attacked Booker’s “melodramatic” performance during Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing last year while touting Gravel reading the Pentagon Papers into the congressional record in 1971. Meanwhile, the account seems to favor Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), candidates it wants push “toward more sensible views on political reform and foreign policy through the debate.”
Gravel’s apparent goal of recapitulating his 2008 debate performances could run into the clear objective requirements the DNC has set out for the first 2020 debate, limiting total participation to 20 candidates and setting minimum thresholds for poll showings or national fundraising ability. So his teen legions had better get a move on if they want to develop enough of a cult following to trump the Democratic field’s septuagenarians with a debater who will turn 90 in 2020.
https://www.google.com/amp/nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/03/mike-gravel-the-88-year-old-pol-with-a-teen-following.html
I’d think a 90yr old won’t have much of a chance of being elected
But with the Loony Democraps Who knows.
Team Biden Reportedly Debating Adding Stacey Abrams to His Old White Guy Ticket Right AwayHow is that loser still in the media spotlight?
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Former Vice President Joe Biden’s long, long-awaited presidential campaign announcement should be coming any time now, and what better way to distinguish himself from all the other old white male candidates in the race than by announcing Stacey Abrams as his VP pick from the start?
Lol jk, there are plenty of better ways of doing this! But the fact that Team Biden sees immediately partnering with a black woman who narrowly lost the election for Georgia governor after running an energizing campaign as a strategy that will somehow distract voters from Biden himself is telling.
Biden’s advisers are reportedly debating packaging his announcement with a pledge to pick Abrams as his running mate, Axios reported Thursday, which a source said would show he “isn’t just another old white guy.”
The debate is apparently in the early stages among Bidens’ advisers. The site reported some staffers opposed the strategy (smart)—but because Biden might be asked during a Democratic debate why no one on stage is worthy of being picked as his running mate (dumb). It’s also not known how Biden feels about the matter. We’ve reached out to Biden’s campaign for comment and will update if we hear back.
Selecting an early running mate is something Biden himself has had in mind, though a senior Democrat told CNN earlier this week that it could backfire by coming off with an “air of inevitability.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/splinternews.com/team-biden-reportedly-debating-adding-stacey-abrams-to-1833460332/amp
Democrat Contender John Hickenlooper Confirms Watching Porno With Mother
www.dailywire.com ^ | March 21, 2019 | By Ryan Saavedra
Posted on 3/21/2019, 1:35:30 PM by Red Badger
Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper confirmed Wednesday night during his CNN town hall event that he took his mother to watch an X-rated pornographic movie when he was younger and that the two stayed for the entire movie.
Hickenlooper confirmed that the incident, which he wrote about in his memoir, happened when he returned home from college to visit his mother for Thanksgiving. Hickenlooper's dad died when he was 8-years-old, and he said that he didn't realize that his mother was lonely until he returned home from college.
"I promised, I called a friend in Philadelphia — and ... we didn't know what an X-movie was," Hickenlooper claimed. "We thought it was a little naughty, but we didn't think it was that bad. You've gotta understand, I was 18 years old."
"I said, 'I promised Jed that we'd go to the movie theater and see this new movie, you want to come?' And it's an X-movie, and I was sure she wouldn't say no. I made a mistake," Hickenlooper continued. "And she said, 'I'd love to go' because she didn't want to be left alone in the house again. So I took my mother to see 'Deep Throat.'"
"And to her credit, the first scene is ... my mother was, I'm sure she was mortified, and I said repeatedly that 'I think we should leave,' 'I think we would should go,'" Hickenlooper claimed. "And my mother was the kind of person who rarely went to a movie. She thought almost every movie would get on TV. Obviously not this one. When she paid, she was going to stay."
"And at the end, she knew I was humiliated," Hickenlooper added. "And as we drove home and — you know how the dashboard in the old cars had a kind of green light, and I asked her, I said, 'That was some experience.' And she goes, 'I thought the lighting was very good in the movie.' I thought I saw a little grin in that green light."
Hickenlooper's presidential bid is a long shot to put it mildly, as he is only polling at 1% in the latest Real Clear Politics average and CNN does not even have him ranked in their top 10 power rankings.
This isn't the first time strange behavior by Hickenlooper has made headlines. In 2013, Hickenlooper admitted that he drank a glass of fracking fluid produced by Halliburton.
"You can drink it. We did drink it around the table, almost rituallike, in a funny way," Hickenlooper told the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. "It was a demonstration. … they’ve invested millions of dollars in what is a benign fluid in every sense."
Hickenlooper is also on record saying that he supports 99% of socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's far-left "Green New Deal," which has been projected to cost up to $93 trillion.
Hickenlooper's endorsement of the radical environmentalist plan clashes with his record; an ethics complaint was recently filed against him for taking approximately 100 flights across the world on private planes "owned by wealthy benefactors and then not disclosing the gifts as the law requires," The Denver Post reported.
Democrat Contender John Hickenlooper Confirms Watching Porno With Mother
www.dailywire.com ^ | March 21, 2019 | By Ryan Saavedra
Posted on 3/21/2019, 1:35:30 PM by Red Badger
Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper confirmed Wednesday night during his CNN town hall event that he took his mother to watch an X-rated pornographic movie when he was younger and that the two stayed for the entire movie.
Hickenlooper confirmed that the incident, which he wrote about in his memoir, happened when he returned home from college to visit his mother for Thanksgiving. Hickenlooper's dad died when he was 8-years-old, and he said that he didn't realize that his mother was lonely until he returned home from college.
"I promised, I called a friend in Philadelphia — and ... we didn't know what an X-movie was," Hickenlooper claimed. "We thought it was a little naughty, but we didn't think it was that bad. You've gotta understand, I was 18 years old."
"I said, 'I promised Jed that we'd go to the movie theater and see this new movie, you want to come?' And it's an X-movie, and I was sure she wouldn't say no. I made a mistake," Hickenlooper continued. "And she said, 'I'd love to go' because she didn't want to be left alone in the house again. So I took my mother to see 'Deep Throat.'"
"And to her credit, the first scene is ... my mother was, I'm sure she was mortified, and I said repeatedly that 'I think we should leave,' 'I think we would should go,'" Hickenlooper claimed. "And my mother was the kind of person who rarely went to a movie. She thought almost every movie would get on TV. Obviously not this one. When she paid, she was going to stay."
"And at the end, she knew I was humiliated," Hickenlooper added. "And as we drove home and — you know how the dashboard in the old cars had a kind of green light, and I asked her, I said, 'That was some experience.' And she goes, 'I thought the lighting was very good in the movie.' I thought I saw a little grin in that green light."
Hickenlooper's presidential bid is a long shot to put it mildly, as he is only polling at 1% in the latest Real Clear Politics average and CNN does not even have him ranked in their top 10 power rankings.
This isn't the first time strange behavior by Hickenlooper has made headlines. In 2013, Hickenlooper admitted that he drank a glass of fracking fluid produced by Halliburton.
"You can drink it. We did drink it around the table, almost rituallike, in a funny way," Hickenlooper told the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. "It was a demonstration. … they’ve invested millions of dollars in what is a benign fluid in every sense."
Hickenlooper is also on record saying that he supports 99% of socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's far-left "Green New Deal," which has been projected to cost up to $93 trillion.
Hickenlooper's endorsement of the radical environmentalist plan clashes with his record; an ethics complaint was recently filed against him for taking approximately 100 flights across the world on private planes "owned by wealthy benefactors and then not disclosing the gifts as the law requires," The Denver Post reported.
Team Biden Reportedly Debating Adding Stacey Abrams to His Old White Guy Ticket Right Away
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Former Vice President Joe Biden’s long, long-awaited presidential campaign announcement should be coming any time now, and what better way to distinguish himself from all the other old white male candidates in the race than by announcing Stacey Abrams as his VP pick from the start?
Lol jk, there are plenty of better ways of doing this! But the fact that Team Biden sees immediately partnering with a black woman who narrowly lost the election for Georgia governor after running an energizing campaign as a strategy that will somehow distract voters from Biden himself is telling.
Biden’s advisers are reportedly debating packaging his announcement with a pledge to pick Abrams as his running mate, Axios reported Thursday, which a source said would show he “isn’t just another old white guy.”
The debate is apparently in the early stages among Bidens’ advisers. The site reported some staffers opposed the strategy (smart)—but because Biden might be asked during a Democratic debate why no one on stage is worthy of being picked as his running mate (dumb). It’s also not known how Biden feels about the matter. We’ve reached out to Biden’s campaign for comment and will update if we hear back.
Selecting an early running mate is something Biden himself has had in mind, though a senior Democrat told CNN earlier this week that it could backfire by coming off with an “air of inevitability.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/splinternews.com/team-biden-reportedly-debating-adding-stacey-abrams-to-1833460332/amp
Team Biden Reportedly Debating Adding Stacey Abrams to His Old White Guy Ticket Right Away
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/splinternews.com/team-biden-reportedly-debating-adding-stacey-abrams-to-1833460332/amp
Democrat Contender John Hickenlooper Confirms Watching Porno With Mother
www.dailywire.com ^ | March 21, 2019 | By Ryan Saavedra
Posted on 3/21/2019, 1:35:30 PM by Red Badger
Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper confirmed Wednesday night during his CNN town hall event that he took his mother to watch an X-rated pornographic movie when he was younger and that the two stayed for the entire movie.
Hickenlooper confirmed that the incident, which he wrote about in his memoir, happened when he returned home from college to visit his mother for Thanksgiving. Hickenlooper's dad died when he was 8-years-old, and he said that he didn't realize that his mother was lonely until he returned home from college.
"I promised, I called a friend in Philadelphia — and ... we didn't know what an X-movie was," Hickenlooper claimed. "We thought it was a little naughty, but we didn't think it was that bad. You've gotta understand, I was 18 years old."
"I said, 'I promised Jed that we'd go to the movie theater and see this new movie, you want to come?' And it's an X-movie, and I was sure she wouldn't say no. I made a mistake," Hickenlooper continued. "And she said, 'I'd love to go' because she didn't want to be left alone in the house again. So I took my mother to see 'Deep Throat.'"
"And to her credit, the first scene is ... my mother was, I'm sure she was mortified, and I said repeatedly that 'I think we should leave,' 'I think we would should go,'" Hickenlooper claimed. "And my mother was the kind of person who rarely went to a movie. She thought almost every movie would get on TV. Obviously not this one. When she paid, she was going to stay."
"And at the end, she knew I was humiliated," Hickenlooper added. "And as we drove home and — you know how the dashboard in the old cars had a kind of green light, and I asked her, I said, 'That was some experience.' And she goes, 'I thought the lighting was very good in the movie.' I thought I saw a little grin in that green light."
Hickenlooper's presidential bid is a long shot to put it mildly, as he is only polling at 1% in the latest Real Clear Politics average and CNN does not even have him ranked in their top 10 power rankings.
This isn't the first time strange behavior by Hickenlooper has made headlines. In 2013, Hickenlooper admitted that he drank a glass of fracking fluid produced by Halliburton.
"You can drink it. We did drink it around the table, almost rituallike, in a funny way," Hickenlooper told the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. "It was a demonstration. … they’ve invested millions of dollars in what is a benign fluid in every sense."
Hickenlooper is also on record saying that he supports 99% of socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's far-left "Green New Deal," which has been projected to cost up to $93 trillion.
Hickenlooper's endorsement of the radical environmentalist plan clashes with his record; an ethics complaint was recently filed against him for taking approximately 100 flights across the world on private planes "owned by wealthy benefactors and then not disclosing the gifts as the law requires," The Denver Post reported.
Why are soooooo many people on the left soooooooooo creepy, awkward, and demented sexually?
Should I trot out a list of Republican lawmakers that were caught in sex scandals?Please do. Post them side by side, including the ones that used tax dollars to pay off their victims.
They make a good team. They did well together in Return of the Jedi.
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Should I trot out a list of Republican lawmakers that were caught in sex scandals?
Only on GB would such an obscure reference be found that is actually a pretty accurate visual representation.
I salute you on this one Senor Loco! 8)
Let's just start with the ones that went to see "Deep Throat" with their mom to get her out of the house, and show her a good time. If they happened to reminisce about the smirk on their mom's face, and glimmer in her eyes reflecting off the dashboard lights that'd be great too
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jul-09-na-ensign9-story.html
John Ensign is a good one to start with .
Not his mom, but he did throw his wife under the bus.
Ok, I first mentioned here when I posted about thinking of her when I voted in 2016.
I regret sharing that bit of deeply personal information on this forum.
I'd be grateful if you left her out going fwd and just ripped on me and dems.
Thanks
I'm just another poster and in no position to demand anything.
It's just a request , motivated by a need for common decency.
I thought you might understand . Thanks.
oh well, at least I tried.
When I was kid they called everyone that tried and lost an "almost winner" on Bozo :D
For the 99th time.
I didn't vote for Hillary because of my Mom.
I couldn't vote for Trump because he's a childish buffoon .
I reflected back briefly on my mom when I was voting.
Indiana mayor, presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg gains with crowds, TV spots and campaign cash
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg is riding in the back of a rented minivan to his last event of the day in South Carolina, munching on cold french fries and critiquing his stage performance so far.
The enthusiastic crowds of hundreds who've packed his first two stops have been much larger than the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and his team expected. It's "wonderful," he says, but the cheering and prolonged applause are messing with his delivery. Sometimes he neglects to pause, and his next words are drowned out. Other times people start clapping when he doesn't expect it.
"I need to relearn the timing of my stump speech," Buttigieg says. "I've been used to a format where I go in, there's 50 people, I do my little spiel and then we have some Q&A and hopefully they walk away impressed. Now every one of these things we put on the calendar as a meet and greet is turning out to be a rally."
Buttigieg, a veteran and Rhodes scholar, was the longest of long shots when he announced a presidential exploratory committee in January. No mayor has ever been elected president, much less one from a community of roughly 100,000 people in the middle of America, and Buttigieg is barely old enough to be eligible for the job.
But his underdog bid is gaining momentum, and the clean-cut guy known to most people as "Mayor Pete" can feel it. Now he has to figure out how to turn one of the first surprises of the nascent race for the Democratic nomination into a full-fledged presidential campaign — and one that isn't remembered as a mere quirk.
"The buzz helps," Buttigieg says. "But you want to make sure that you have enough substance and enough organization that any kind of flavor-of-the-month period is something you can outlive."
Besides the crowds and the cheering, Buttigieg has seen increasing national media attention, from Fox News to MSNBC and his second appearance on ABC's "The View." After a breakout performance in a CNN town hall earlier this month, Buttigieg's team says he raised roughly $600,000 from 22,000 donors in just over 24 hours. He has now received enough individual contributions to qualify for a spot on the Democratic debate stage this summer.
But there's still plenty of work to do, starting with raising money and hiring staff. Buttigieg said his goal early on was to raise $1 million by the end of the first quarter on March 31, adding, "We're definitely there." He's fairly confident they'll have the funds needed for a healthy operation, at least in the early stages. But he also wants to "show well" when all candidates' first-quarter totals become public — the first time this cycle that campaigns are required to file campaign finance reports.
"I think we benefit from the fact that it's graded on a curve," Buttigieg said. "No one is expecting us to raise as though I were a senator from Florida or from a big city. But we've got to show that we can compete at this level."
Buttigieg also plans to double the size of his roughly 20-person team in the new few weeks, in preparation for an official campaign launch. He doesn't have an advance team - those campaign staffers who coordinate events on-site before the candidate arrives, hang campaign signs and ensure someone is capturing emails and phone numbers for every person who walks in the door.
Volunteers and local Democratic officials handled most of those duties during Buttigieg's swing Saturday through South Carolina, site of the South's first primary. Instead of professionally printed banners, someone hung poster boards with messages handwritten in black marker urging attendees to tweet photos and video using several different hashtags and Twitter handles. When Buttigieg took questions from the crowd in Rock Hill, there were no microphones for people in the audience, forcing him to ask a woman at the back of the gymnasium to shout her question — twice — so he could hear.
None of that seemed to bother voters. After his event in Columbia, Christina Goodwin, 32, called Buttigieg "exciting" and said he'd moved into her top three list, along with Sens. Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand, despite her misgivings about supporting another white man for president in 2020.
Goodwin, like other voters, said she's been picking up bits of intriguing information about Buttigieg through social media that have piqued her interest. That he learned to speak Norwegian, for instance, so he could read more books by a Norwegian author, Erlend Loe. Buttigieg, who speaks seven languages, demonstrated some of his language skills when a Norwegian media crew showed up to ask questions after the Columbia event. (He also speaks French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Dari and Maltese, the language of his father's home country.)
https://www.wdrb.com/news/indiana-mayor-presidential-hopeful-pete-buttigieg-gains-with-crowds-tv/article_7d634290-8604-5236-b424-1eb8bf93c2e7.html
Can a debate moderator pronounce his name without giggling?
Beto O’Rourke, Pete Buttigieg rise in new 2020 national poll
A new national poll provides more evidence that White House contenders Beto O’Rourke of Texas and Pete Buttigieg of Indiana are on the rise in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
O’Rourke, the former three-term congressman who grabbed national attention after coming close to defeating GOP Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2018 midterm elections, ranked third at 12 percent among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents in a new Quinnipiac University national poll.
O’Rourke announced his candidacy two weeks ago and attracted large crowds and lots of media buzz as he campaigned in all four of the early voting primary and caucus states. He also raised an eye-popping $6 million in his first 24 hours as a candidate.
Buttigieg comes in at 4 percent in the survey, several slots behind the leaders but still representing a pickup in the polls. The South Bend, Indiana mayor and Afghanistan War veteran was considered an extreme long shot for the nomination when he launched his presidential exploratory committee in January. But he's seen his star rise in recent weeks, attracting larger crowds on the campaign trail and plenty of positive coverage on the cable news networks and political media.
Topping the poll is former Vice President Joe Biden, who stands at 29 percent. Biden is likely to announce his candidacy for the White House in the coming weeks. Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who’s making his second straight bid for the Democratic nomination, is in second in the survey, at 19 percent.
Biden and Sanders have topped almost every national and early voting state poll in the 2020 Democratic race, including a Fox News poll released a few days ago. Their strong standing is fueled in part by their widespread name recognition. Name ID heavily influences horserace polls in the early parts of a cycle.
Sen. Kamala Harris of California came in fourth in the poll, at 8 percent, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts at 4 percent alongside Buttigieg. Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota stood at 2 percent. The rest of the large field of Democratic contenders registered at 1 percent or less.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/politics/orourke-buttigieg-numbers-pop-in-new-2020-national-poll.amp
I guess I need to figure out who this Buttigieg guy is, but does anyone else find O'Rourke extremely unimpressive? He comes across as socially awkward and sounds like he isn't very bright. Lacks substance. Why are they giving him so much money?
Don't get the Beto thing at all. He's just this "guy" saying stupid shit. Does not seem like a leader with any true experience at anything.
Agree.
Don't get the Beto thing at all. He's just this "guy" saying stupid shit. Does not seem like a leader with any true experience at anything.Definite "go with the flow" type of guy. Apologizing for complimenting his wife? Pretty sad that he felt the need to do that due to the pressure of the "mother is a deragotary term" crowd.
I learned in a marketing class , if you don't "get" the ad , you aren't the target demographic.
I think Beto sounds smart with a passion for issues that I relate to.
I always thought Trump sounded like a moronic buffoon .
Guess who we each voted for ...? ;)
You have to remember... Beto is kind of the lefts Trump. Says shit that doesn't make sense, or makes sense but can never be implemented, but people are so tired of the status quo they are willing to take a shot.
Don't get the Beto thing at all. He's just this "guy" saying stupid shit. Does not seem like a leader with any true experience at anything.
You have to remember... Beto is kind of the lefts Trump. Says shit that doesn't make sense, or makes sense but can never be implemented, but people are so tired of the status quo they are willing to take a shot.
Lucy Flores: Joe Biden Can’t Recall Kissing Incident Because He’s ‘So Used to Behaving’ That WayKiss on the head? I thought it was the neck?
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Lucy Flores was getting ready to deliver a speech as the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada in 2014, when she alleges that former Vice President Joe Biden, who had come to campaign on her behalf, kissed her on the back of her head without her consent.
Now she has a message for the potential 2020 contender after a spokesperson said he couldn’t recall the incident.
“I would say I hope you recognize how your behavior made women feel,” Flores told The Daily Beast on Friday night. “I hope you are empathetic to how your behavior makes a lasting impression on women.”
Flores said the unwanted attention stung even more in light of Biden’s status at the time.
“To me, he no longer had a name,” Flores said. “That was not Joe Biden. To me, that was the vice president of the United States of America. The second most powerful man in the country. And we have no prior relationship. We’re not friends. There’s no relationship whatsoever. And then he begins to not only touch me but get really inappropriately close. And then lean in, and smell my hair and kiss my head.”
Flores, who first wrote about the alleged incident in a piece for “The Cut,” part of New York Magazine, described the situation, which she said occurred as she was prepared to walk onstage, as “shocking.”
“I just froze. I didn’t know what to do,” she continued. “Because again the only thing that you’re processing is that there is a very powerful man standing next to you. That person is there to campaign on your behalf and you just don’t know how to respond. I mean that’s how I felt. I literally just didn’t even know what to do other than just wish the moment away.”
Biden’s camp has said that while he respects Flores and does not deny her right to tell her story, he can recall no such incident.
“Vice President Biden was pleased to support Lucy Flores’s candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada in 2014 and to speak on her behalf at a well-attended public event,” Bill Russo, a spokesperson for Biden said. “Neither then, nor in the years since, did he or the staff with him at the time have an inkling that Ms. Flores had been at any time uncomfortable, nor do they recall what she describes.”
But Flores, 39, has stuck by her account. In her piece for “The Cut,” she said that she told a few members of her staff what had taken place after the event. However, she said that she did not have permission to share personal information about them. The Daily Beast was able to view correspondence between Flores and another individual discussing the alleged incident in Nevada years prior to the New York Magazine article. The exchange gives credence to Flores’ claim to the extent that it shows it was an incident she talked about before going public this Friday.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lucy-flores-joe-biden-cant-recall-kissing-incident-because-hes-so-used-to-behaving-that-way?ref=scroll
You have to remember... Beto is kind of the lefts Trump. Says shit that doesn't make sense, or makes sense but can never be implemented, but people are so tired of the status quo they are willing to take a shot.
If Trump could get elected with zero experience, anyone could. I doubt Beto would stoop to the level of calling people childish name's like "pencil neck" in public as Trump recently did when talking about Nunes.Trump would never besmirch Nunes like that.
Lucy Flores: Joe Biden Can’t Recall Kissing Incident Because He’s ‘So Used to Behaving’ That Way
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Lucy Flores was getting ready to deliver a speech as the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada in 2014, when she alleges that former Vice President Joe Biden, who had come to campaign on her behalf, kissed her on the back of her head without her consent.
Now she has a message for the potential 2020 contender after a spokesperson said he couldn’t recall the incident.
“I would say I hope you recognize how your behavior made women feel,” Flores told The Daily Beast on Friday night. “I hope you are empathetic to how your behavior makes a lasting impression on women.”
Flores said the unwanted attention stung even more in light of Biden’s status at the time.
“To me, he no longer had a name,” Flores said. “That was not Joe Biden. To me, that was the vice president of the United States of America. The second most powerful man in the country. And we have no prior relationship. We’re not friends. There’s no relationship whatsoever. And then he begins to not only touch me but get really inappropriately close. And then lean in, and smell my hair and kiss my head.”
Flores, who first wrote about the alleged incident in a piece for “The Cut,” part of New York Magazine, described the situation, which she said occurred as she was prepared to walk onstage, as “shocking.”
“I just froze. I didn’t know what to do,” she continued. “Because again the only thing that you’re processing is that there is a very powerful man standing next to you. That person is there to campaign on your behalf and you just don’t know how to respond. I mean that’s how I felt. I literally just didn’t even know what to do other than just wish the moment away.”
Biden’s camp has said that while he respects Flores and does not deny her right to tell her story, he can recall no such incident.
“Vice President Biden was pleased to support Lucy Flores’s candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada in 2014 and to speak on her behalf at a well-attended public event,” Bill Russo, a spokesperson for Biden said. “Neither then, nor in the years since, did he or the staff with him at the time have an inkling that Ms. Flores had been at any time uncomfortable, nor do they recall what she describes.”
But Flores, 39, has stuck by her account. In her piece for “The Cut,” she said that she told a few members of her staff what had taken place after the event. However, she said that she did not have permission to share personal information about them. The Daily Beast was able to view correspondence between Flores and another individual discussing the alleged incident in Nevada years prior to the New York Magazine article. The exchange gives credence to Flores’ claim to the extent that it shows it was an incident she talked about before going public this Friday.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lucy-flores-joe-biden-cant-recall-kissing-incident-because-hes-so-used-to-behaving-that-way?ref=scroll
:Dlol
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Oooo ahhh ooo ahhh oooo ahhhh.....
This song will play at every Trump rally if Biden is the dem nominee......bank on it!!!
This stuff has been known and discussed for practically all of Obama's administration.
Now Democrats are recognizing it?
LOL please - this is their way to get the old white guy off the ticket without saying it, since he polls well vs the other Democrats.
Seems like the liberal media is turning their backs on him. I wonder who they’re going to push.
This stuff has been known and discussed for practically all of Obama's administration.
Now Democrats are recognizing it?
LOL please - this is their way to get the old white guy off the ticket without saying it, since he polls well vs the other Democrats.
Seems like the liberal media is turning their backs on him. I wonder who they’re going to push.
Harris.
Yep. The Democrats and the media are obviously trying to get rid of him and make sure he isn't the nominee in 2020.
Joe Biden has been doing this kind of shit on camera for many years. Now all of a sudden they have an issue with it. Now accusers are coming out of the woodwork.
I also find it interesting that the coverage of this has focus solely on adult women and they aren't making an issue of his behavior with children. Even Hannity is avoiding that for some reason.
Makes sense. She’s the youngest of the top contenders and she’s a multi ethnic woman. They probably see her as a female Obama,
Bernie Sanders Q1 Fundraising Haul: $18.2 Million
JOEL B. POLLAK 2 Apr 2019
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/02/bernie-sanders-q1-fundraising-haul-18-2-million-41-days/
Bernie Sanders will be wearing adult diapers by 2020. Senile old prick. Almost 80 years old and never worked a real job.
If he still at least somewhat coherent, he’s going to be hard to deny. Say what you want, but the guy has been campaigning since the 1970s. He knows what he’s doing, and this time there’s here’s no Hillary machine blocking him.
I’m actually rooting for the decrepit old fuck. I’d like to see the 2020 election as a referendum on socialism.
Me too, but the thing that scares me is that we have social media now and the 18-25 year olds...especially those in school, are more concerned about what's trending than what's true and right. They have the attention span of a gnat, and they have no understanding of the real world. When you're facing college tuition debt "free college for everyone" sounds really cool. When you think about everything that would come with that (which they won't) you realize it's not a great thing at all. It is actually very uncool.
I know you get it, but for those that don't; one of the first questions they should sit and think through is....
If everyone's degree is free, what's YOUR degree worth? (This is where it would be nice if Teh Ron added some new emoji's.....specifically, a turd pile with flies swarming)
Bernie Sanders Q1 Fundraising Haul: $18.2 Million
JOEL B. POLLAK 2 Apr 2019
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/02/bernie-sanders-q1-fundraising-haul-18-2-million-41-days/
Still don't understand the logic of people donating what now is $18M+ to an old man that claims he will help the poor IF elected. Seems much more logical to go walking up and down skid rows across America or to the local homeless shelter to make a donation. Chances are they would also be much more grateful than that mean little bastard as well.That would take more effort than just clicking the Donate button on a website.
That would take more effort than just clicking the Donate button on a website.
From what I’ve seen, a few years in the real world, paying real bills usually cures these kids of their delusions.
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I just don't get it
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I just don't get it
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Trump would never besmirch Nunes like that.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! ;D
Eric Swalwell Is Running for President on Gun Safety
The California congressman is partnering with a Parkland student and says he isn’t afraid of the NRA.
EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE
J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE / ASSOCIATED PRESS
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/eric-swalwell-says-gun-safety-must-be-top-2020-issue/586483/
Eric Swallowswell can fuck off and die.
Why would anyone be afraid of the NRA ??? They've never hurt anyone or caused harm to any group of people.BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! ;D
Eric Swalwell Is Running for President on Gun Safety
The California congressman is partnering with a Parkland student and says he isn’t afraid of the NRA.
EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE
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J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE / ASSOCIATED PRESS
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/eric-swalwell-says-gun-safety-must-be-top-2020-issue/586483/
Hands down one of the dumbest members of Congress. He calls Trump a Russian agent. Tinfoil hat dummy. lol
Why would anyone be afraid of the NRA ??? They've never hurt anyone or caused harm to any group of people.
Why would anyone be afraid of the NRA ??? They've never hurt anyone or caused harm to any group of people.
Seems plausible. :)
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Your post is great! -Just curious, what happens if we find out Trump is truly a Russian agent? Who wears the tinfoil hat then?
Your post is great! -Just curious, what happens if we find out Trump is truly a Russian agent? Who wears the tinfoil hat then?
Are you fucking kidding me? hahaha. You are as bad as a Flat Earther.
What happens if we find out we faked the moon landing? Same caliber of question.
Yep. :-\
Hypothetical remarks are so much fun.
It’s hilarious someone that old is still so gullible.
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Pete Buttigieg's not-so-secret weapon is his husband, Chasten
wral.com ^ | 4/6/19 | Kate Bennett, CNN
Posted on 4/6/2019, 5:42:27 AM by madprof98
CNN — There are now 17 hopefuls vying for the Democratic vote to become President of the United States, but there's only one whose spouse has become a talker.
If Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, is having a moment, so is his husband, 29-year-old Chasten Buttigieg. His sense of humor and revealing honesty about his feelings have been a hit on social media, boosting his followers by the tens of thousands in recent weeks and helping put "Mayor Pete" on the millennial radar.
"The thing I love about him, and maybe the thing you love about him, too, is he is the same person whether we are at home folding laundry together, or if he's in front of a room like this, full of supporters. He's the exact same person," said Buttigieg on Thursday night at a Washington fundraiser for his husband.
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At the Thursday fundraiser, Chasten Buttigieg discussed the couple's first date, four years ago, a few weeks after they met, virtually, on the dating app Hinge.
"I really could tell on our first date when we were walking the streets of South Bend, we went to see a South Bend Cubs game, the way he interacts with people, the way he cares about people, that call to service," Buttigieg said. "He is consistently staying up late and thinking and talking to himself and thinking about 'how can I change the world, how can I make it a better place?'"
The couple married in June of last year; at the wedding reception there were arcade games, the claw-grabber (Pete's favorite) and skeeball (Chasten's favorite).
(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...
What an amazing platform and set of policies to run on.
I love how he digs right into the things Americans are concerned with.
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Pete Buttigieg's not-so-secret weapon is his husband, Chasten
wral.com ^ | 4/6/19 | Kate Bennett, CNN
Posted on 4/6/2019, 5:42:27 AM by madprof98
CNN — There are now 17 hopefuls vying for the Democratic vote to become President of the United States, but there's only one whose spouse has become a talker.
If Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, is having a moment, so is his husband, 29-year-old Chasten Buttigieg. His sense of humor and revealing honesty about his feelings have been a hit on social media, boosting his followers by the tens of thousands in recent weeks and helping put "Mayor Pete" on the millennial radar.
"The thing I love about him, and maybe the thing you love about him, too, is he is the same person whether we are at home folding laundry together, or if he's in front of a room like this, full of supporters. He's the exact same person," said Buttigieg on Thursday night at a Washington fundraiser for his husband.
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At the Thursday fundraiser, Chasten Buttigieg discussed the couple's first date, four years ago, a few weeks after they met, virtually, on the dating app Hinge.
"I really could tell on our first date when we were walking the streets of South Bend, we went to see a South Bend Cubs game, the way he interacts with people, the way he cares about people, that call to service," Buttigieg said. "He is consistently staying up late and thinking and talking to himself and thinking about 'how can I change the world, how can I make it a better place?'"
The couple married in June of last year; at the wedding reception there were arcade games, the claw-grabber (Pete's favorite) and skeeball (Chasten's favorite).
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His "husband". lol.
Peter Butt-peg, you can't make this shit up. Good luck in 2020 bro.
His "husband". lol.
Peter Butt-peg, you can't make this shit up. Good luck in 2020 bro.
I love how they try to make them a "normal" couple by including their favorite arcade games at the end. I'm sure a few skeeball nerds will now support him.
How did they decide who was going to take the other's last name? That'd be an interesting story to read......"head"s or "tail"s? LMFAO...what a world.
Can you imagine how the world would view us if we had a "first man" in the WH? I understand the whole gay pride thing, but even they need to think about that before casting their vote. They're not going to be able to go down on each other when beheadings become a thing here to send a message.
Peter Buttigieg does not hide being gay. He is out and proud. At this time, he has 2.3 rating in the polls, which is not enough to get nominated much less elected. Assuming you are not gay, why expend energy discussing his candidacy?Why is he proud?
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Cause he takes it in the rear. A proud moment for liberals
Peter Buttigieg does not hide being gay. He is out and proud. At this time, he has 2.3 rating in the polls, which is not enough to get nominated much less elected. Assuming you are not gay, why expend energy discussing his candidacy?
So brave, so so brave.
Why is he proud?
He's proud rather than ashamed of being gay. Get used to it. Hardly anyone is still hiding in the closet. He's also proud of his accomplishments.Being proud of sexual orientation? I thought fags were born that way? Why would you be proud of something you had no control of? Like proud of being white, brown, black.....?
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is an American war veteran, politician and the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He previously served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy Reserve. He was a consultant at McKinsey and Company, a management strategy consulting firm, from 2007 through 2010. Wikipedia
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Being proud of sexual orientation? I thought fags were born that way? Why would you be proud of something you had no control of? Like proud of being white, brown, black.....?
Right. And most successful Bodybuilder's aren't proud of their genetically gifted physiques. It seems you'd rather people be ashamed of their sexual orientation, race, ethnicity and color if it doesn't match yours.
Right. And most successful Bodybuilder's aren't proud of their genetically gifted physiques. It seems you'd rather people be ashamed of their sexual orientation, race, ethnicity and color if it doesn't match yours.No need to be ashamed but no need to flaunt it either, nobody is screaming "look at me, look at how straight I am" ::)
No need to be ashamed but no need to flaunt it either, nobody is screaming "look at me, look at how straight I am" ::)
Since when did respectable public photos with your partner or saying you're married become flaunting?
Is this couple 'flaunting' their relationship?
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Right. And most successful Bodybuilder's aren't proud of their genetically gifted physiques. It seems you'd rather people be ashamed of their sexual orientation, race, ethnicity and color if it doesn't match yours.PS: Their bodies require drugs, weights and dieting, being gay requires no effort. I think you might need a break, your posts aren't making any sense lately.
Are they adamantly declaring their straightness on daytime talk shows, and nightly left wing cable "news" programs all week?
You rolling your eyes at any of that just shows what a fucking clueless closet homo you are.
You're really delusional enough to think that those fuckers in Dearborne, MI that openly stoned Christians in front of cops with nothing being done to them wouldn't be sending a message to our government?
You really think China who is obsessed tradition and family, Putin who is obsessed with being manly, and Iran which fucking hates America and wants to spread Sharia law would take us seriously? Really???
If so you're even dumber, and more willfully ignorant than I thought,....and I had you at a solid 8 and 9.8 respectively for each already.
No one is saying they need to be ashamed. At the same time do you seeing us throwing straight parades? How fucking nonsensical would that be? Makes about as much sense as parading down the street in ass-less chaps, and chanting "we're queer, we're here" and expecting to be taken seriously, right?
Probably not, unless they are celebrities or politicians. Public figures need lots of exposure to be known and to be successful in their careers. While I've not seen talk shows Buttigieg has been a guest on (actually I don't watch or listen to talk shows), it's generally the host who asks the questions rather than the guest randomly volunteering information about their personal lives.
You rolling your eyes at any of that just shows what a fucking clueless closet homo you are.
You're really delusional enough to think that those fuckers in Dearborne, MI that openly stoned Christians in front of cops with nothing being done to them wouldn't be sending a message to our government?
You really think China who is obsessed tradition and family, Putin who is obsessed with being manly, and Iran which fucking hates America and wants to spread Sharia law would take us seriously? Really???
If so you're even dumber, and more willfully ignorant than I thought,....and I had you at a solid 8 and 9.8 respectively for each already.
Unlike you, I do watch and listen to opposing views to learn what they have to say. When they announce a candidate is going to be on the view I usually watch it if I'm able to. I've seen him on there twice, and he loves talking about teh gay. Also, you apparently don't understand how talk shows work. They are essentially scripted with some ad lib. Why are the there, what's new, what are they pushing, heard a funny story...tell me about that, or comment on some controversy to help them get past it. Haven't you noticed that's how they all go down by now? It's been that way since at least Letterman came into the picture. Leno took it to a new level, and it's just kept progressing into a show like Colbert's which is completely an agenda driven show.
Carson was the last conversation talk show host we'll ever see. :'(
And you are even crazier than I thought.
I'm so out of touch that I neither care nor do I know who is going to be a guest on The View. In fact, I almost never watch daytime TV. Having said this, I also don't watch late night talk shows. If this is how you get your information, it is no wonder that you are completely fucked up.
That's you're fucking problem, and the reason you're so clueless. Instead of taking the time to just go to YT, and watch full un-edited clips you take what CNN and MSNBC shove down your throat in a condensed and dumbed-down version that your brain can handle.
I don't watch late night talk shows at all, and the only reason I know who's on the view is that I get up at 9, take the dog out, do cardio, and then turn on the t.v. right around 10 while I have my protein shake which is when it comes on. If they say they're going to have a candidate on, I'll flip to TPIR to hopefully see some titties bounce as they "come on down" and check back to see if they're done ranting and interviewing the person.....or, I just search it on YT later on in the day.
Fuck, you are a retard. So you're sitting on here promoting all these democRatic hopefuls, and you haven't even bothered to listen to them in unedited format to know what the fuck the stand for?
You seriously need to have your voting rights taken away. You're too much of a damn imbecile, lazy, willfully ignorant, brain washed, and a follower to be trusted with the power of an individual's vote one way or the other at this point.
In Iowa, Bernie Sanders says states should allow felons to vote from behind bars
MUSCATINE, Ia. — While Iowa struggles on whether to restore voting rights to felons who have completed their prison sentences, Sen. Bernie Sanders said people convicted of felonies should never lose access to the ballot box in the first place.
At a town hall meeting in Muscatine’s West Middle School gymnasium Saturday, the Vermont senator was asked whether the imprisoned should have the right to vote. Only his home state and Maine allow felons to vote from behind bars.
"I think that is absolutely the direction we should go," he said.
While most states disenfranchise felons, Sanders said the convicted still have a right to participate in elections.
"In my state, what we do is separate. You’re paying a price, you committed a crime, you’re in jail. That's bad," he said. "But you’re still living in American society and you have a right to vote. I believe in that, yes, I do.”
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/04/06/bernie-sanders-says-states-should-felon-voting-rights-election-2020-iowa-caucus/3388679002/
-Seems like a better idea than releasing them so they can vote at the polls. ;) I disagree with Sanders comment about incarcerated felons living in American society. Prisoners are living in an alternative society as opposed to mainstream American society.
Beto O'Rourke hits ground truth in Iowa as enthusiasm flags
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IOWA CITY, Iowa — Beto O’Rourke saw firsthand what it's like to be just another presidential candidate during a sleepy town hall event Sunday afternoon as the enthusiasm and star power he sought to generate hit ground truth in Iowa.
O'Rourke, 46, a former Texas congressman, started 30 minutes late, and the University of Iowa student union ballroom remained less than half-filled as the candidate gave his pitch to fewer than 120 students, families, and retirees before taking questions. Many of those were not committed to O'Rourke.
A number of attendees remarked to the Washington Examiner that O’Rourke’s crowd was smaller than they anticipated, particularly in a city of 75,000 with a major university. The crowd was less than half the size of audiences drawn by O'Rourke's rival Sen. Bernie Sanders at similar events in smaller towns.
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Some high school students appeared to have ulterior motives for being there. Julian Wallace, 18, was clad in O'Rourke garb but told the Examiner that he was only wearing it as proof for an extra-credit assignment. His friend Aaron, 17, seemed to be sizing up the competition for his preferred candidate, saying he thought O'Rourke lacked the "big ideas" of former tech executive Andrew Yang.
Spectators noted that O’Rourke’s campaign seemed to struggle getting out information about the event, which was awkwardly timed on a Sunday afternoon when students are attending religious services, participating in extracurricular activities, or nursing a hangover.
Others in attendance said they were there just to hear the perspective of other candidates. One woman in the audience asked O'Rourke how he planned to define himself from all the others in the race.
"We're shopping, we're open to other candidates. Wanted to see Beto in person," a woman named Kelly, who was in the crowd with her husband, told the Examiner.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/beto-orourke-fails-to-fill-auditorium-in-iowa-city
Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg lead 2020 Democrats in new Iowa pollThat's really going to fuck up the democrats push for a minority/woman ticket.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who is reportedly in the final stages of announcing a White House bid, leads all Democratic presidential candidates in support among likely caucus-goers in Iowa, according to a new poll. Biden is trailed by Sen. Bernie Sanders and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
In the survey, conducted by Monmouth University, Biden leads a field of 24 announced and potential Democratic presidential candidates with 27 percent support among Iowa voters likely to attend the state's Democratic caucuses, which will take place in February 2020. The former Vice President and longtime Delaware senator leads Sanders, who is backed by 16 percent of the potential caucus-goers; Buttigieg, supported by 9 percent of likely voters; Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, who both enjoy 7 percent support from surveyed voters; and former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, backed by 6 percent of likely voters.
Who's running for president? The 2020 Contenders
The rest of the presidential candidates and potential contenders — including Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand — all polled below 5 percent in support among likely Iowa voters. The surveyed voters picked Biden, Harris and Warren as their top three second choices.
The poll also asked likely voters about the top issues they want candidates to discuss on the campaign trail. According to the survey, more than half of them said health care should be the foremost priority, while 17 percent indicated environmental issues are important to them. The next four issues were immigration, education, job creation and thwarting President Trump's reelection bid.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrat-president-candidates-2020-poll-joe-biden-bernie-sanders-pete-buttigieg-lead-2020-democrats-in-new-iowa-poll/
That's really going to fuck up the democrats push for a minority/woman ticket.
I think they are really going to try to push this guy. Ultimately Trump would wreck him though.
‘Mayor Pete’ joins 2020 Dem race as face of new generation
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Pete Buttigieg, the little-known Indiana mayor who has risen to prominence in the early stages of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, made his official campaign entrance Sunday by claiming the mantle of a youthful generation ready to reshape the country.
“I recognize the audacity of doing this as a Midwestern millennial mayor,” he said to cheers of “Pete, Pete, Pete” from an audience assembled in a former Studebaker auto plant. “More than a little bold, at age 37, to seek the highest office in the land.”
The South Bend mayor, a Rhodes scholar and Afghanistan War veteran who has been essentially campaigning since January, has joined a dozen-plus rivals vying to take on President Donald Trump.
“The forces of change in our country today are tectonic,” he said. “Forces that help to explain what made this current presidency even possible. That’s why, this time, it’s not just about winning an election — it’s about winning an era.”
Buttigieg will return this week to Iowa and New Hampshire, which hold the nation’s first nominating contests, to campaign as a full-fledged candidate now being taken more seriously.
Over the past few months, Buttigieg has appeared frequently on national TV news and talk shows and developed a strong social media following with his message that the country needs “a new generation of leadership.”
Buttigieg’s poll numbers have climbed. Some polls put him behind only Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who sought the party’s nomination in 2016, and former Vice President Joe Biden, who has not yet said he’s running.
Buttigieg’s campaign has raised more than $7 million in the first three months of this year, a total eclipsed by Sanders’ leading $18 million but more than Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Cory Booker of New Jersey.
https://apnews.com/5ed6605da2a149618d6ecd1a4b0f3da2
I think they are really going to try to push this guy. Ultimately Trump would wreck him though.
‘Mayor Pete’ joins 2020 Dem race as face of new generation
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Pete Buttigieg, the little-known Indiana mayor who has risen to prominence in the early stages of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, made his official campaign entrance Sunday by claiming the mantle of a youthful generation ready to reshape the country.
“I recognize the audacity of doing this as a Midwestern millennial mayor,” he said to cheers of “Pete, Pete, Pete” from an audience assembled in a former Studebaker auto plant. “More than a little bold, at age 37, to seek the highest office in the land.”
The South Bend mayor, a Rhodes scholar and Afghanistan War veteran who has been essentially campaigning since January, has joined a dozen-plus rivals vying to take on President Donald Trump.
“The forces of change in our country today are tectonic,” he said. “Forces that help to explain what made this current presidency even possible. That’s why, this time, it’s not just about winning an election — it’s about winning an era.”
Buttigieg will return this week to Iowa and New Hampshire, which hold the nation’s first nominating contests, to campaign as a full-fledged candidate now being taken more seriously.
Over the past few months, Buttigieg has appeared frequently on national TV news and talk shows and developed a strong social media following with his message that the country needs “a new generation of leadership.”
Buttigieg’s poll numbers have climbed. Some polls put him behind only Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who sought the party’s nomination in 2016, and former Vice President Joe Biden, who has not yet said he’s running.
Buttigieg’s campaign has raised more than $7 million in the first three months of this year, a total eclipsed by Sanders’ leading $18 million but more than Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Cory Booker of New Jersey.
https://apnews.com/5ed6605da2a149618d6ecd1a4b0f3da2
I think they are really going to try to push this guy. Ultimately Trump would wreck him though.
‘Mayor Pete’ joins 2020 Dem race as face of new generation
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Pete Buttigieg, the little-known Indiana mayor who has risen to prominence in the early stages of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, made his official campaign entrance Sunday by claiming the mantle of a youthful generation ready to reshape the country.
“I recognize the audacity of doing this as a Midwestern millennial mayor,” he said to cheers of “Pete, Pete, Pete” from an audience assembled in a former Studebaker auto plant. “More than a little bold, at age 37, to seek the highest office in the land.”
The South Bend mayor, a Rhodes scholar and Afghanistan War veteran who has been essentially campaigning since January, has joined a dozen-plus rivals vying to take on President Donald Trump.
“The forces of change in our country today are tectonic,” he said. “Forces that help to explain what made this current presidency even possible. That’s why, this time, it’s not just about winning an election — it’s about winning an era.”
Buttigieg will return this week to Iowa and New Hampshire, which hold the nation’s first nominating contests, to campaign as a full-fledged candidate now being taken more seriously.
Over the past few months, Buttigieg has appeared frequently on national TV news and talk shows and developed a strong social media following with his message that the country needs “a new generation of leadership.”
Buttigieg’s poll numbers have climbed. Some polls put him behind only Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who sought the party’s nomination in 2016, and former Vice President Joe Biden, who has not yet said he’s running.
Buttigieg’s campaign has raised more than $7 million in the first three months of this year, a total eclipsed by Sanders’ leading $18 million but more than Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Cory Booker of New Jersey.
https://apnews.com/5ed6605da2a149618d6ecd1a4b0f3da2
They who? The party's choice for a democratic candidate will be whoever has the best chance of winning the election.
Bernie Sanders And Beto O’Rourke Give Almost Nothing To Charity
Bernie Sanders (who is now a millionaire) and his wife gave 3.4 percent of their income to charity. Beto O'Rourke and his wife gave less than 1 percent.
Liz Wolfe By Liz Wolfe
APRIL 16, 2019
Last night, The Washington Post reported that Beto O’Rourke released his tax returns for the past ten years. Of course, the feel-good, inevitably government-expanding presidential contender should probably have been more hesitant to release his returns because it doesn’t take much sleuthing to figure out from them that the O’Rourkes made $370,412 in 2017 while giving a measly $1,166 of that income to charity. As The Post noted, this makes Beto’s charitable giving less than one-third of 1 percent of his household income.
Other candidates who claim conservatives are the true greedy ones and deserve to be smited for their fiscal sins don’t stack up much better. Bernie Sanders and his wife gave roughly 3 percent of their astonishingly large $566,000 income to charity in 2017. Interestingly, Sanders recently talked about his impressive sum of book earnings, and Reason’s Peter Suderman pointed out that the socialist is indeed a millionaire:
I think it’s genuinely great that Bernie Sanders is a millionaire, and that in becoming a millionaire, our nation’s most well-known democratic socialist politician has, however inadvertently, started defending one of the core tenets of capitalism—that if you come up with an idea for a product, make that product a reality in the world, and sell it to lots of willing buyers, it’s perfectly just and reasonable for you to earn a lot of money as a result.
He’s exactly right. None of these impressively wealthy Democratic presidential contenders should be scorned for making heaps, providing it’s from creating value that people want to benefit from.
Kamala Harris (and her husband) made nearly $2 million in 2018, giving 1.4 percent to charity (which totals out to about $27,000); Elizabeth Warren (and her husband) made just shy of $1 million (donating an improved 5.5 percent to charity in 2018). They should, however, be thoroughly criticized for demonizing millionaires and billionaires, branding them the no good, very bad, super icky ultra-wealthy, when they are some of the wealthiest people in America.
Of course, many super-wealthy people don’t think of themselves that way. A YouGov poll from earlier this year found that almost 90 percent of respondents who make $90,000 or more annually consider themselves neither rich nor poor. There’s nothing wrong with abundance, but it is odd that people would be not more self-aware about where they stand compared to the groups many routinely demonize.
Charitable giving should transcend political affiliation. It would be bad for our broader societal health if generosity were grossly weaponized to score political points, because then giving becomes more of a manipulative political ploy than it already is (to recipients, the intention behind giving probably doesn’t make a difference).
There’s something to be said for giving credit where due and recognizing when our political opponents do genuine good. Still, Arthur Brooks wrote on broader charitable giving habits in his 2015 book “The Conservative Heart,” noting:
Households headed by a ‘conservative’ give, on average, 30 percent more dollars to charity than households headed by a ‘liberal.’ This discrepancy is not an artifact of income differences. On the contrary, the average liberal family earns an average of 6 percent more per year than the average conservative family, yet still gives less away.
Later on, he notes that there’s a collective action problem as well:
Consider that the total that Americans give annually to human service organizations to assist the vulnerable comes to about $40 billion. Now suppose that we could spread that sum across the 46.5 million Americans receiving food assistance, with zero overhead and complete effectiveness. It would come to just $860 per person per year.
As much as it fits a convenient narrative, it’s awfully weaselly for liberals with political aspirations to claim conservatives are the stingy ones when those same liberals give miserly amounts of money to the people they purportedly care about.
The Betos and Bernies of the world would probably counter that by saying: 1) poverty is a collective action problem that can only be solved by taxing everybody (one person can only make a tiny dent, so why bother?), 2) the ultra-ultra-rich deserve to be taxed (like, the Koch brothers. Not normal millionaires! Extra big millionaires! Billionaires! Those ones! Trump!), or 3) really this wealth should be harnessed via taxes that way nobody can be exempt. The fact that some can accumulate so much means our system must be fixed (by them—supposedly disinterested third parties).
These points are varying degrees of wrong. 1) Lack of adequate provisions for the poor is absolutely a collective action problem. But it is also one that would probably be helped, on some level, with an extra $300,000 from the Sanders family if they would spare it.
2) If the ultra-rich were the only ones taxed, even if taxed at an insanely high rate, the additional revenue generated would not be enough to cover the hefty price tag of the various social programs that progressives want to institute. There simply aren’t anywhere close to enough Koch-level people in this country. We would also probably have a hard time safeguarding against capital flight, as any sane wealthy person would be wise to get his or her money out of the country as quick as possible.
3) The idea that progressive politicians, people who are emblematic of this very problem, would be God’s gift to man, able to fix poverty and wealth inequality despite being wealth-hoarders themselves is completely goofy. People like Sanders and O’Rourke would have more credibility if they didn’t engage in such hypocritical practices, condemning the big, bad rich people whose greed they want to harness for their own allegedly benevolent bidding.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/16/bernie-sanders-beto-orourke-give-almost-nothing-charity/
Bernie Sanders And Beto O’Rourke Give Almost Nothing To Charity
The good news is that it is fairly unlikely they are artificially inflating their charitable deduction amount. Of course, we have no idea what Trump gave to charity, because he refuses to release his tax returns. It's probably a good idea to have all the details before making these types of comparisons. ;)
The good news is that it is fairly unlikely they are artificially inflating their charitable deduction amount. Of course, we have no idea what Trump gave to charity, because he refuses to release his tax returns. It's probably a good idea to have all the details before making these types of comparisons. ;)What does this have to do with Trump? The comparison is being made to their own words/standards/desires of other people and those of a more conservative viewpoint.
The good news is that it is fairly unlikely they are artificially inflating their charitable deduction amount. Of course, we have no idea what Trump gave to charity, because he refuses to release his tax returns. It's probably a good idea to have all the details before making these types of comparisons. ;)
Seriously? There is no way to spin donating 1 percent to charity when your entire mantra is about class warfare. Bernie is a monstrous hypocrite.
You have not answered the question regarding what percentage of his income Trump gives to charity. If what one candidate donates to charity considered relevant to their candidacy, then what every candidate gives to charity should be reviewed.
Personally, what any candidates gives is not an issue I considered particularly important. What I do believe is relevant, is them lying about it.
Cuckled americans have no need to know President Trumps income nor his charitable contributions. They do however want to know. Why?
Because they are jealous and bitter. Cucks desire, no...theY DEMAND equality but only with those that they consider their superiors.
It's the same with these cuck legislators. Scum. I hope Portland turns into a haven for shitizens and they crap all over cuck yards despite cucks having paid an additional tax to house their worthless, soulless shells. Next up for Portland. Needles.
And none of them are in a haystack.
Portland ranked as one of the best places to live in U.S. FOX News 12, April 12, 2018
"Portland was the only U.S. city to rank on Monocle’s 2015 Quality-of-Life survey, a list of the 25 best cities in the world to live in. Monocle, a London-based lifestyle and culture magazine, ranked Portland as having the 25th best quality-of-life, a higher ranking than any other U.S. city, East Coast or West."
U.S. News analyzed 125 metro areas in the United States to find the best places to live based on quality of life and the job market in each metro area, as well as the value of living there and people's desire to live there.
Portland, Oregon is ranked:
#8 in Best Places to Live
#20 in Best Places to Retire
"Portland Ranked
#6 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children" Sperling’s BestPlaces
Portland Ranked 6th Best Place To Live In US: Report | Portland, OR ...
https://patch.com/oregon/portland/portland-ranked-6th-best-place-live-us-report
Apr 10, 2018 - By Travis Loose, Patch Staff | Apr 10, 2018 1:45 pm ET ... PORTLAND, OR — Affordability, the availability of jobs and quality of life are all ... U.S. News & World Report's 2018 Best Places to Live in the United States shows ...
I could post tons more accolades about the quality of life in Portland, OR, but the above should give you a pretty clear picture of where Portland stands.
Please explain what you think anyone would have to be jealous of regarding Trump, thanks.
Portland ranked as one of the best places to live in U.S. FOX News 12, April 12, 2018So tell us again how you could possibly understand what it's like to have illegal immigrants chasing your truck around the parking lot at Home Depot or the homeless shitting in your streets and leaving their needles everywhere like San Francisco?
"Portland was the only U.S. city to rank on Monocle’s 2015 Quality-of-Life survey, a list of the 25 best cities in the world to live in. Monocle, a London-based lifestyle and culture magazine, ranked Portland as having the 25th best quality-of-life, a higher ranking than any other U.S. city, East Coast or West."
U.S. News analyzed 125 metro areas in the United States to find the best places to live based on quality of life and the job market in each metro area, as well as the value of living there and people's desire to live there.
Portland, Oregon is ranked:
#8 in Best Places to Live
#20 in Best Places to Retire
"Portland Ranked
#6 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children" Sperling’s BestPlaces
Portland Ranked 6th Best Place To Live In US: Report | Portland, OR ...
https://patch.com/oregon/portland/portland-ranked-6th-best-place-live-us-report
Apr 10, 2018 - By Travis Loose, Patch Staff | Apr 10, 2018 1:45 pm ET ... PORTLAND, OR — Affordability, the availability of jobs and quality of life are all ... U.S. News & World Report's 2018 Best Places to Live in the United States shows ...
I could post tons more accolades about the quality of life in Portland, OR, but the above should give you a pretty clear picture of where Portland stands.
Please explain what you think anyone would have to be jealous of regarding Trump, thanks.
Kamala Harris backs putting third gender option on federal ID
The Hills ^ | - 04/23/19 04:57 PM EDT | TAL AXELROD
Posted on 4/23/2019, 6:18:04 PM
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris said she supports having a third gender option on federal ID forms as she continues to campaign heavily on social justice issues.
The California Democrat was asked about the issue during an event at Keene State College in New Hampshire on Tuesday. “Sure,” she replied, according to multiple media reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Kamala Harris backs putting third gender option on federal IDThis dumb cunt said she'd revoke the 2nd in her first 100 days. You want to start a civil war?
The Hills ^ | - 04/23/19 04:57 PM EDT | TAL AXELROD
Posted on 4/23/2019, 6:18:04 PM
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris said she supports having a third gender option on federal ID forms as she continues to campaign heavily on social justice issues.
The California Democrat was asked about the issue during an event at Keene State College in New Hampshire on Tuesday. “Sure,” she replied, according to multiple media reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Still sounds kind of iffy to me.
De Blasio expected to announce 2020 presidential run next week: sources
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Mayor de Blasio is expected to announce he’s running for president next week, according to four sources with knowledge of the plans.
The 2020 announcement could come as early as de Blasio’s birthday on Wednesday, when he’ll turn 58, two sources said. The kickoff was initially expected this week but pushed back, according to another source.
De Blasio’s federal political action committee, Fairness PAC, recently polled Iowa voters. The PAC also bankrolled the mayor’s recent travel to key early voting primary states, including trips to Nevada, Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Fairness PAC spokesman Mike Casca — who took an unpaid leave of absence from City Hall last month to work for the committee – said “no decision” has been made yet and wouldn’t explicitly deny that de Blasio was announcing a campaign next week.
“Very hard to announce something without a decision – nearly impossible, some might say,” Casca said in a text message on Friday.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-de-blasio-2020-president-white-house-campaign-announcement-20190503-xsjuocb7zfhqxhh5vmoi3dup5q-story.html
HILLARY HITS NEW HAMPSHIRE: Fresh off speaking tour, Clinton heads to first primary state
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Is Hillary Clinton running a non-campaign campaign for president?
The twice-failed Democrat presidential candidate isn’t interested in discussing an endorsement for 2020, and sources close to Clinton have repeatedly said she hasn’t closed the door on a rematch with President Trump.
Then on Wednesday, just days after wrapping up a national speaking tour with husband and former president Bill Clinton, Obama’s secretary of state headed to the first 2020 primary state of New Hampshire to lecture about her decades of experience in world affairs as a career politician.
Clinton boasted about her role in brokering the Iran Nuclear Deal to about 900 students and faculty at Dartmouth College in Hanover, and insinuated that President Trump is instigating a confrontation with the country, WFFF reports.
“I don’t think we can, unfortunately, rule that out,” she said. “And there is always, always the threat of miscalculation. Somebody makes a mistake. Somebody on our side, somebody on the Iranian side.”
Clinton’s comments follow decades of experience making a lot of mistakes and miscalculations during her tenure as a U.S. senator and secretary of state. Clinton voted for the Iraq War and pushed to overthrow governments friendly to the U.S., such as Egypt, which contributed to the rise of ISIS and increased conflicts in Iraq, Syria and other places.
She also helped negotiate military intervention in Libya that led to the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi and the country’s ruin at the hands of Islamic militants. There was also the murder of Americans including Ambassador Christopher Stevens on a U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi in 2012, and Clinton’s inability to prevent North Korea from developing nuclear weapons or Russia’s involvement in Ukraine, according to The National Interest.
But Clinton didn’t discuss her failures at Dartmouth, of course, focusing instead on her favorite topic of conversation: Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
“The idea that our election is being trifled with, being impacted, and maybe being determined by Putin … that should give us heartburn,” Clinton said.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/hillary-hits-new-hampshire-fresh-off-speaking-tour-clinton-heads-to-first-primary-state/
HILLARY HITS NEW HAMPSHIRE: Fresh off speaking tour, Clinton heads to first primary state
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Is Hillary Clinton running a non-campaign campaign for president?
The twice-failed Democrat presidential candidate isn’t interested in discussing an endorsement for 2020, and sources close to Clinton have repeatedly said she hasn’t closed the door on a rematch with President Trump.
Then on Wednesday, just days after wrapping up a national speaking tour with husband and former president Bill Clinton, Obama’s secretary of state headed to the first 2020 primary state of New Hampshire to lecture about her decades of experience in world affairs as a career politician.
Clinton boasted about her role in brokering the Iran Nuclear Deal to about 900 students and faculty at Dartmouth College in Hanover, and insinuated that President Trump is instigating a confrontation with the country, WFFF reports.
“I don’t think we can, unfortunately, rule that out,” she said. “And there is always, always the threat of miscalculation. Somebody makes a mistake. Somebody on our side, somebody on the Iranian side.”
Clinton’s comments follow decades of experience making a lot of mistakes and miscalculations during her tenure as a U.S. senator and secretary of state. Clinton voted for the Iraq War and pushed to overthrow governments friendly to the U.S., such as Egypt, which contributed to the rise of ISIS and increased conflicts in Iraq, Syria and other places.
She also helped negotiate military intervention in Libya that led to the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi and the country’s ruin at the hands of Islamic militants. There was also the murder of Americans including Ambassador Christopher Stevens on a U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi in 2012, and Clinton’s inability to prevent North Korea from developing nuclear weapons or Russia’s involvement in Ukraine, according to The National Interest.
But Clinton didn’t discuss her failures at Dartmouth, of course, focusing instead on her favorite topic of conversation: Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
“The idea that our election is being trifled with, being impacted, and maybe being determined by Putin … that should give us heartburn,” Clinton said.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/hillary-hits-new-hampshire-fresh-off-speaking-tour-clinton-heads-to-first-primary-state/
Like most men, the Democratic party now has a butt and a wiener.
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Like most men, the Democratic party now has a butt and a wiener.
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Pocahontas never had a snowball's chance, but this is the nail in the coffin.
Elizabeth Warren Turns Down Fox News Town Hall, Calling the Network a ‘Hate-for-Profit Racket’
The Democratic candidate said that she does not want to encourage additional ad dollars for the network.
Gideon Resnick
05.14.19
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is declining to participate in a Fox News town hall, a move that comes after a number of her fellow 2020 Democratic competitors have agreed to engage with the network’s audience.
“I love town halls. I’ve done more than 70 since January, and I’m glad to have a television audience be a part of them. Fox News has invited me to do a town hall, but I’m turning them down—here’s why,” she wrote Tuesday morning in a series of tweets. “Fox News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists—it’s designed to turn us against each other, risking life & death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that’s rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class.”
Warren charged that the network “balances a mix of bigotry, racism, and outright lies with enough legit journalism to make the claim to advertisers that it’s a reputable news outlet.” She said that participation in a town hall on the network sends a signal that it is appropriate to still buy ads on the cable channel, which hosts a primetime lineup of overtly pro-Trump hosts who engage in bigoted and conspiratorial rhetoric—something she doesn’t want to encourage.
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“A Democratic town hall gives the Fox News sales team a way to tell potential sponsors it’s safe to buy ads on Fox—no harm to their brand or reputation (spoiler: it’s not),” she said.
Throughout her time on the trail thus far, Warren noted that she has held town halls in 17 states and Puerto Rico, with press and voter questions at each.
“I’ve done 57 media avails and 131 interviews, taking over 1,100 questions from press just since January,” she said. “Fox News is welcome to come to my events just like any other outlet. But a Fox News town hall adds money to the hate-for-profit machine. To which I say: hard pass.”
In mid-April, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) participated in a Fox town hall in Pennsylvania, which was a ratings success and an opportunity to showcase how some of his staple issues like Medicare for All resonated with an audience in a state President Trump narrowly captured in 2016.
Following his appearance, a number of 2020 candidates eager for their own hour of free air time have been in talks with the network about doing their own town halls. Already Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has been featured in one of her own, and Fox has scheduled events with South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).
Democrats have been grappling with how to best handle the large audience Fox commands with some thinking it is essential to directly engage. In 2018, Warren appeared on the network three times, primarily to discuss legislative work and the introduction of new bills.
The Democratic National Committee banned Fox from hosting one of its primary debates—after a New Yorker article revealed the network’s cozy relationship with President Trump—but signaled early on that it was up to the individual campaigns as to how they wanted to execute their own media strategies. The view from Warren's camp is that all the campaigns will make their own choices on when and how to engage.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elizabeth-warren-turns-down-fox-news-town-hall-calling-the-network-a-hate-for-profit-racket/
Poll: Biden leads Dems by 18 points, followed by Sanders and Warren
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Former Vice President Joe Biden maintains a comfortable lead over the other candidates in the Democratic Party's 2020 primary field, according to a new poll.
A Fox News poll released Thursday found that Biden enjoys an 18-point lead over his closest challenger, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sitting in third place.
Biden was supported by 35 percent of likely Democratic primary voters in the poll, up from 31 percent in March, while Sanders sat at 17 percent, a slight dip from March when he registered support from 23 percent of voters.
Warren, meanwhile, has yet to break double digits even as she has seen her support in the poll surge from 4 percent in March to 9 percent in the most recent poll.
Also having notable shifts in support in the poll were Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who saw her support dip from 8 percent to 5 percent, and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D), who has climbed to fourth place at 6 percent after previously registering just 1 percent support in March.
Defeating President Trump remains the top priority of Democratic primary voters, according to the poll, which found that 73 percent listed a victory in November 2020 as their top priority over policy decisions.
51 percent want to see someone who shares their views take office by comparison, and 47 percent want someone with "new ideas" to take office.
The Fox News poll was conducted between May 11-14 and contacted 469 registered Democratic voters nationwide. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/444215-poll-biden-leads-dems-by-18-points-followed-by-sanders-and-warren
How many times have we seen this kind of mistake? Bob Dole, John McCain, Hillary Clinton: people who hung around long enough to get their party's nomination, only to get crushed in the general election. Biden is no different.Truth bomb
He is terrible. He's not smart. He hasn't accomplished anything. He's a weirdo. He is constantly putting his foot in his mouth. He previously dropped out of the race when his plagiarism was exposed. He lied about his academic record. He's not a good debater. And most importantly, his political views are just garden variety failed liberalism.
Other than that he is an outstanding candidate.
The Beto balloon bursts
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Washington(CNN) Give Donald Trump this: He's a pretty decent political handicapper.
Take his riff on Beto O'Rourke during an "official" White House event in Louisiana on Tuesday night:
"Beto. Beto's falling fast, what the hell happened? Remember about four weeks ago he said, 'I was made for it.' He was made for it! He was made to fall like a rock."
It's a pretty decent summation of the arc -- downward -- that the former Texas congressman's presidential campaign has been on since, well, he got into the race. As Harry Enten wrote recently:
"In an average of national polls taken since Biden entered the race, O'Rourke has fallen to just below 5% support. That's the lowest he has been since at least December.
"But it's not just that O'Rourke has seen his numbers decline nationally -- it's that his polls look even worse in the early caucus and primary states. I could not find a single poll in Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina conducted after Biden entered in which O'Rourke polled above 3%."
O'Rourke, in a desperate attempt to get his buzz back, livestreamed his haircut Wednesday.
The idea that a candidate who formally entered the presidential race March 14 is already pressing the reset button is BIG trouble. It's only been 62 days! What this sort of recalibration so early in a candidacy suggests is that the candidate may not really know who he is or how he wants to run.
Resets can work -- see John McCain during the 2008 presidential primary campaign -- but they are usually a return to the more authentic version of the politician. In O'Rourke's case, he seemed to have spent his first 60 days in the race being the person who caught fire in the Texas Senate race: Light on policy, more of a listener than a talker and, above all, cool and charismatic.
Unfortunately for him, that profile isn't playing -- like, at all -- in the presidential race.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/15/politics/beto-orourke-2020-campaign-reset/index.html
The Beto balloon bursts
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Washington(CNN) Give Donald Trump this: He's a pretty decent political handicapper.
Take his riff on Beto O'Rourke during an "official" White House event in Louisiana on Tuesday night:
"Beto. Beto's falling fast, what the hell happened? Remember about four weeks ago he said, 'I was made for it.' He was made for it! He was made to fall like a rock."
It's a pretty decent summation of the arc -- downward -- that the former Texas congressman's presidential campaign has been on since, well, he got into the race. As Harry Enten wrote recently:
"In an average of national polls taken since Biden entered the race, O'Rourke has fallen to just below 5% support. That's the lowest he has been since at least December.
"But it's not just that O'Rourke has seen his numbers decline nationally -- it's that his polls look even worse in the early caucus and primary states. I could not find a single poll in Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina conducted after Biden entered in which O'Rourke polled above 3%."
O'Rourke, in a desperate attempt to get his buzz back, livestreamed his haircut Wednesday.
The idea that a candidate who formally entered the presidential race March 14 is already pressing the reset button is BIG trouble. It's only been 62 days! What this sort of recalibration so early in a candidacy suggests is that the candidate may not really know who he is or how he wants to run.
Resets can work -- see John McCain during the 2008 presidential primary campaign -- but they are usually a return to the more authentic version of the politician. In O'Rourke's case, he seemed to have spent his first 60 days in the race being the person who caught fire in the Texas Senate race: Light on policy, more of a listener than a talker and, above all, cool and charismatic.
Unfortunately for him, that profile isn't playing -- like, at all -- in the presidential race.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/15/politics/beto-orourke-2020-campaign-reset/index.html
And this is why you don't let socialists anywhere near the legislative process. This is retarded, on many levels.
Kamala Harris Offers Sweeping Plan To Dock Companies That Don’t Pay Women Equally
The proposal would levy fines on businesses who don’t prove that their pay practices are fair.
By Igor Bobic
POLITICS 05/20/2019
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) on Monday unveiled the second major proposal of her presidential campaign: a comprehensive plan designed to punish corporations that don’t provide equal pay for female employees.
Female employees usually bear the burden of suing for relief from pay discrimination in the U.S., often risking retaliation from their bosses by coming forward.
Harris’ proposal, which her campaign called “the most aggressive equal pay proposal in history,” seeks to flip that system on its head. Instead of relying on employees to prove they were discriminated against, corporations would be required to prove that their pay practices are fair. The plan is modeled after a similar first-of-its-kind law that went into effect in Iceland last year.
“It should not be on a working woman to prove it. It should instead be on that large corporation to prove they’re paying people for equal work equally,” Harris said in an interview that aired Monday on CNN.
Under Harris’ plan, companies would be required to obtain an “equal pay certification” from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prove they pay women equally. They would be required to disclose whether they received that certification on their website’s homepage and to prospective employees.
To meet certification requirements, companies would have to “demonstrate they have eliminated pay disparities between women and men who are doing work of equal value,” per Harris’ campaign. “To the extent pay disparities do exist for similar jobs, companies will be required to show the gap is based on merit, performance, or seniority ― not gender.”
The plan does not stipulate exactly how pay disparities at companies would be assessed, but her campaign pointed to a 2016 payroll data analysis done by Glassdoor of its own workforce. The plan also calls for providing technical assistance to support companies so they can assess and address their pay gaps.
Under Harris’ plan, companies with 100 or more employees would be required to obtain certification within three years of law’s enactment and every two years thereafter (smaller businesses get a pass). Companies with 500 or more employees would have two years from the law’s enactment to certify, and then comply with the two-year recertification rule.
If companies fail to gain EEOC certification, they would face fines for every 1% pay gap that exists in their workforce. The fines would vary, for each pay-gap percentage point, a business would have to pay 1% of its average daily profits during the previous fiscal year.
Harris’ campaign estimated the scheme would, at least initially, generate about $180 billion over 10 years ― funds she supports investing to help finance a national paid family and medical leave program. The U.S. has no such national programs, though many firms have their own.
Harris’ plan also includes provisions seeking to boost transparency about worker pay and the role of women within a company. It would require, for example, that companies report statistics on the percentage of women in leadership positions and the percentage who are among their top earners.
Vicki Shabo, a senior fellow at nonpartisan think tank New America, called Harris’ equal pay plan “exciting” and “long overdue.”
“Closing the wage gap would mean tens of millions for women and their families,” she said. “It could wipe out student loan debt, give relief to homeowners, and literally put food on the table. It’s something that can help stimulate the economy.”
The standard wage gap measure put out annually by the Census Bureau currently shows that women make 80 cents for every male dollar earned. (Earnings are even lower for women of color.)
House Democrats easily passed a bill earlier this year to make sure women and men are paid equally. The legislation, known as the Paycheck Fairness Act, aims to eliminate gender-based pay inequality by altering language in the Fair Labor Standards Act.
But the measure has effectively stalled due to GOP opposition in the Senate, where is unlikely to even receive a vote. Republicans have long argued that such bills would heighten the risks of lawsuits for businesses, and Harris’ proposal would likely face similar GOP opposition if she managed to win the White House in 2020.
“We don’t need to strap new regulations, burdens, or fines on businesses to create opportunities for women, and President Trump’s economic record is a testament to that,” Republican National Committee spokeswoman Blair Ellis said in a statement, noting the rate of women’s unemployment currently stands at a 50-year low.
But Harris’ campaign said she won’t be waiting on Congress to act to enact pay equity. If elected, she vowed to take executive action to implement her plan for federal contractors ― who would then be required to attain certification within two years of her taking office.
Harris’ first major policy proposal, unveiled in March, focused on drastically increasing teachers’ pay around the country.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/equal-pay-kamala-harris_n_5ce18f8de4b09e0578061ac4
"Beto. Beto's falling fast, what the hell happened? Remember about four weeks ago he said, 'I was made for it.' He was made for it! He was made to fall like a rock."
Gold. Just gold. Man things are going to be boring after 2024.
Two dozen running might amount to a free-for-all, leaving the established pols gasping in the
wake of a...I don't know...populist?. The DNC will do what they can to protect their entrenched
candidates.
I heard a Democrat strategist say last night that he was confident the nominee would be a moderate/centrist Democrat. I laughed out loud at that.
Joe Biden says 'we're gonna cure cancer' if he's elected president
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WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden says that he'll cure cancer if he's elected president.
Speaking at a campaign stop in Ottumwa, Iowa, on Tuesday he discussed losing loved ones before making his promise.
"A lot of you understand what loss is and when loss occurs, you know that people come up to you and tell you 'I understand' if you lose a husband, a wife, a son, a daughter, a family member," he said. "That's why I've worked so hard in my career to make sure that — I promise you if I'm elected president, you're going to see the single most important thing that changes America, we're gonna cure cancer."
The statement drew applause from the audience.
Biden has taken the lead on cancer issues before. He lost his eldest son, Beau Biden, to brain cancer, in 2015. The former vice president was tasked with leading President Barack Obama's "Cancer Moonshot" initiative to find a cure for cancer in the last year of the Obama administration.
After leaving office, Biden helped lead the Biden Cancer initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, which aims to "develop and drive implementation of solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, research, and care, and to reduce disparities in cancer outcomes." He left that role when he announced his bid for president.
After his comments, Biden was heckled by a protestor. The audience booed the man, but Biden responded calmly.
"No, no, that’s OK. No, no, no," Biden said. "This is not a Trump rally. Let him go."
The former vice president had been going through Iowa on several campaign stops at the same time as President Donald Trump. Biden called Trump an "existential threat" to the United States. Trump, for his part, criticized Biden for his age and for being "weak mentally."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1429287001
Joe Biden says 'we're gonna cure cancer' if he's elected presidentHe is going to plagiarize form Israel now?
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WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden says that he'll cure cancer if he's elected president.
Speaking at a campaign stop in Ottumwa, Iowa, on Tuesday he discussed losing loved ones before making his promise.
"A lot of you understand what loss is and when loss occurs, you know that people come up to you and tell you 'I understand' if you lose a husband, a wife, a son, a daughter, a family member," he said. "That's why I've worked so hard in my career to make sure that — I promise you if I'm elected president, you're going to see the single most important thing that changes America, we're gonna cure cancer."
The statement drew applause from the audience.
Biden has taken the lead on cancer issues before. He lost his eldest son, Beau Biden, to brain cancer, in 2015. The former vice president was tasked with leading President Barack Obama's "Cancer Moonshot" initiative to find a cure for cancer in the last year of the Obama administration.
After leaving office, Biden helped lead the Biden Cancer initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, which aims to "develop and drive implementation of solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, research, and care, and to reduce disparities in cancer outcomes." He left that role when he announced his bid for president.
After his comments, Biden was heckled by a protestor. The audience booed the man, but Biden responded calmly.
"No, no, that’s OK. No, no, no," Biden said. "This is not a Trump rally. Let him go."
The former vice president had been going through Iowa on several campaign stops at the same time as President Donald Trump. Biden called Trump an "existential threat" to the United States. Trump, for his part, criticized Biden for his age and for being "weak mentally."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1429287001
Warren rises to second in California poll
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Former Vice President Joe Biden has a small lead over the field of Democratic contenders in California, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is hot on his heels and has edged past Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) into second place, according to a new poll.
The survey from UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies finds Biden at 22 percent support. Warren and Sanders are in a statistical tie, at 18 percent and 17 percent, respectively.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who will need a strong showing in her home state to compete, is in fourth place with 13 percent, followed by South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 10 percent.
California Democrats will cast ballots earlier than in previous cycles, making the most delegate-rich state in the contest a huge prize for the contenders. Voters will cast ballots on Super Tuesday, on March 3.
The UC Berkeley survey is the latest poll to find Warren rising as she seeks to overtake Sanders in the race to be the party's progressive standard bearer.
A Monmouth University survey released Wednesday of Nevada, which is the third state to vote, found Warren with a clear lead over Sanders, 19 to 13 percent. That was the first public opinion poll to find her ahead of Sanders.
Also on Wednesday, the latest straw poll from the progressive website Daily Kos found Warren surging past Sanders to open up a 34 to 25 percent lead. While that poll is not scientific, it is generally considered an indicator of where the enthusiasm lies with the liberal base.
The new UC Berkeley survey of California found that Harris is the top second choice among California voters, with 21 percent, followed by Warren at 17 percent and Biden and Sanders at 12 percent.
When you combine Warren's support among voters who called her their first or second choice, she has the most support in the entire field, followed closely by Biden, Harris and Sanders.
https://www.thehill.com/homenews/campaign/448330-warren-rises-to-second-in-california-poll%3famp
Just my opinion here but unless someone the caliber of Oprah throws her hat in the ring, Trump will win. America is dumbed down to reality TV. Very few fact check, will accept any information as true if it matches their beliefs. Will discard any as fake news if it doesn't. The Democrats don't have any strong personalities running, the front runner is Washington career politician in his 70's. Oprah would excite the Democrats as someone they recognize from TV. She could campaign on becoming a billionaire without the help of Daddy and give the same type resume as Trump but without the baggage. I think Americans have moved into a phase of voting along the lines of American Idol, rather than issues. But short of an Oprah the Democrats will get their clock cleaned
She will never sniff the White House.
Just my opinion here but unless someone the caliber of Oprah throws her hat in the ring, Trump will win. America is dumbed down to reality TV. Very few fact check, will accept any information as true if it matches their beliefs. Will discard any as fake news if it doesn't. The Democrats don't have any strong personalities running, the front runner is Washington career politician in his 70's. Oprah would excite the Democrats as someone they recognize from TV. She could campaign on becoming a billionaire without the help of Daddy and give the same type resume as Trump but without the baggage. I think Americans have moved into a phase of voting along the lines of American Idol, rather than issues. But short of an Oprah the Democrats will get their clock cleanedOprah? "without the baggage"? LMAO!! ;D
Oprah is too smart to get involved with this insane asylum.
Maybe Tom Hanks will run. He won the Medal of Honor and also saved Private Ryan after all.
A black lesbian for a Democratic US presidential candidate? Promising, but she'd still lose because she's not a Muslim.
Dems will lose because they are stupid, not the public.
They can't even simply denounce right and wrong anymore. They should have easily said Cortez was wrong for drawing the ridiculous parallels of border camps to concentration camps. But no.
They need a moderate who is pro-America, strong on defense, liberal enough on social issues, pushing realistic education and healthcare reform.
Instead, they're pushing infanticide, socialism, reparations, calling racism, sexism, nazis, confiscating guns, etc...….not going to win over the country as a whole, or even the necessary majority.
I understand the idea of running a celebrity because this current crop is just a train wreck but at the end of the day he or she must get on stage in front of the entire world with a very confrontational alpha male who also happens to be the incumbent and has a very solid 4 year track record.
He has prosperity and peace on his side and they have some goofy tv show or Hollywood career?
And I can think of so many examples where Republicans should have called Trump out and didn't so we are back to realizing your opinion is just that. And there are many with opposing views and great examples that are just as valid as opinions
Happened 3 years ago... could happen again all except the incumbent part and that could be detrimental as there are many examples the challenger could draw on to make a case Trump is incompetent in many regards
Yeah I think Trump buries her easily in the general election but I wouldn't be surprised if she makes a push at the nomination or at the very least begins to really close the gap.
Gaffe-prone Biden is already being attacked for his past record and the Democratic establishment wants nothing to do with Bernie. Plus Sanders just looks really tired and old now.
If Joe messes the bed too much I could see a scenario where they get behind Warren to avoid a Bernie nomination. Far fetched but possible.
Dems will lose because they are stupid, not the public.
They can't even simply denounce right and wrong anymore. They should have easily said Cortez was wrong for drawing the ridiculous parallels of border camps to concentration camps. But no.
They need a moderate who is pro-America, strong on defense, liberal enough on social issues, pushing realistic education and healthcare reform.
Instead, they're pushing infanticide, socialism, reparations, calling racism, sexism, nazis, confiscating guns, etc...….not going to win over the country as a whole, or even the necessary majority.
Elizabeth Warren promises reparations for gay couples
by Ellie Bufkin
June 23, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., reintroduced a bill on the campaign trail this week, which could mean $57 million in tax refunds for married LGBT couples.
The Refund Equality Act, which was originally introduced in 2017, would allow LGBT couples who were married prior to the 2013 Supreme Court strike-down of the Defense of Marriage Act in U.S. v. Windsor to amend tax returns from the time that they were married. Prior to 2013, 10 states had legalized same-sex marriage, but were required to file their federal taxes as individuals.
Following the 2013 Supreme Court's decision, married same sex couples from those 10 states were permitted to change their previous tax returns from individual to joint, which entitled them to some federal tax relief. However, the tax return amendments were only permitted for the previous three years. The Refund Equality Act would remove those time limits.
According to a report released this week from the Joint Committee on Taxation, same sex couples married prior to 2013 could potentially be eligible for $57 million if permitted to file jointly from the time they were married.
In a statement regarding the reintroduction of the Refund Equality Act, Warren said, "The federal government forced legally married same-sex couples in Massachusetts to file as individuals and pay more in taxes for almost a decade. It is only right that we change this tax code to make it fairer for all."
Democratic Rep. Judy Chu, Calif., introduced companion legislation last week called the PRIDE Act of 2019 which would alter the federal tax code that currently prevents married couples from amending their returns beyond the previous three years. The change would apply only to same sex couples married prior to U.S. v. Wind.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/elizabeth-warren-promises-reparations-for-gay-couples
Looks like the Democratic candidates are trying to one-up each other for handouts to "special" groups. So far we have heard about reparations for black people, paying back or eliminating student debt and now reparations for gay couples. What other group are they going to discover that they think should receive gifts or reparations?
Looks like the Democratic candidates are trying to one-up each other for handouts to "special" groups. So far we have heard about reparations for black people, paying back or eliminating student debt and now reparations for gay couples. What other group are they going to discover that they think should receive gifts or reparations?
Seriously the Dems are trying to lose. This is crazy. Reparations of any kind...buying votes by promising to forego student loans(a dog whistle for socialist revolution btw)...just crazy.
Dems won't help you afford your unsubsidized Obamacare policy, but eleven 2020 Democrats back FREE health care for illegal aliens.
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Here are the 2020 Democrats that backed health care for illegal immigrants:
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) said, “Undocumented immigrants should have the option of purchasing health insurance on the exchange.”
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said:
Access to quality, affordable health care is a human right. We need to make our health care system more effective and efficient, and we must pass comprehensive immigration reform that creates a pathway to citizenship for those already living in the United States.
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said, “Undocumented immigrants should be able to buy coverage through the public option.”
Julian Castro said yes, explaining:
Undocumented immigrants pay taxes and are contributing members of our communities. I believe they should be eligible for government health care support and put on a pathway to citizenship. I look forward to putting forward a health care plan that addresses the health care gap for undocumented families.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said yes, explaining, “I support the process outlined in the Medicare for All bill, which ensures universal coverage.”
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said yes, explaining:
They would be allowed to buy into my public option. Under current law, hospitals in the U.S. cannot refuse to treat patients who need care. Therefore, our system already pays for health care for undocumented immigrants — usually through emergency rooms, which are the most expensive form of care.
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) campaign said yes, explaining, “Medicare for All means just that: all. Bernie’s plan would provide coverage to all U.S. residents, regardless of immigration status.”
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said yes, explaining, “It is in society’s interest to have everyone be as healthy as possible, and that’s achieved through access to affordable health care for everyone.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said yes, explaining that “Health care is a basic human right.”
Marianne Williamson said yes.
Businessman Andrew Yang said yes, explaining, “I believe in a pathway to citizenship for all undocumented immigrants. Anyone who applied for that pathway would be eligible to buy into the Medicare for All system.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/23/eleven-2020-democrats-back-health-care-illegal-immigrants/
Dems won't help you afford your unsubsidized Obamacare policy, but eleven 2020 Democrats back FREE health care for illegal aliens.
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Here are the 2020 Democrats that backed health care for illegal immigrants:
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) said, “Undocumented immigrants should have the option of purchasing health insurance on the exchange.”
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said:
Access to quality, affordable health care is a human right. We need to make our health care system more effective and efficient, and we must pass comprehensive immigration reform that creates a pathway to citizenship for those already living in the United States.
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said, “Undocumented immigrants should be able to buy coverage through the public option.”
Julian Castro said yes, explaining:
Undocumented immigrants pay taxes and are contributing members of our communities. I believe they should be eligible for government health care support and put on a pathway to citizenship. I look forward to putting forward a health care plan that addresses the health care gap for undocumented families.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said yes, explaining, “I support the process outlined in the Medicare for All bill, which ensures universal coverage.”
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said yes, explaining:
They would be allowed to buy into my public option. Under current law, hospitals in the U.S. cannot refuse to treat patients who need care. Therefore, our system already pays for health care for undocumented immigrants — usually through emergency rooms, which are the most expensive form of care.
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) campaign said yes, explaining, “Medicare for All means just that: all. Bernie’s plan would provide coverage to all U.S. residents, regardless of immigration status.”
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said yes, explaining, “It is in society’s interest to have everyone be as healthy as possible, and that’s achieved through access to affordable health care for everyone.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said yes, explaining that “Health care is a basic human right.”
Marianne Williamson said yes.
Businessman Andrew Yang said yes, explaining, “I believe in a pathway to citizenship for all undocumented immigrants. Anyone who applied for that pathway would be eligible to buy into the Medicare for All system.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/23/eleven-2020-democrats-back-health-care-illegal-immigrants/
Got my popcorn ready for this 2 day Democratic party debate lined up for next week. Some early thoughts.
The Good - I think Andrew Yang and Tulsi Gabbard likely solidify their loyal followings with a good showing. Again, the Democratic establishment want little to nothing to do with either but in a field this large they will find their little niche to stand out. Both strike me as principled and steadfast/non wishy-washy in their beliefs(does that still count for something in 2019?) Particularly interested in seeing where Yang stands in a few weeks with his Universal Basic Income message. He is a bit of a dark horse, imo.
The Bad - The cheesy empty platitudes of Beto and Booker in a race to achieve ultimate cringe-worthiness.
The Ugly - Anything associated with Bill de Blasio and his bitter, pretentious, played out anti-America rants.
The Forgettable - The John Hick-a-something guy from Colorado who said socialism wasn't the answer a few weeks ago and was practically booed off stage.
Damn I'm good.
First poll has Tulsi Gabbard as the shock winner of the first Democratic debate and Beto O'Rourke as the clear loser
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Tulsi Gabbard is the winner of the first Democratic debate in Miami on Wednesday, according to a Drudge Report poll.
The popular news aggregation internet site took a poll of users which asked who won the 10-candidate debate.
Surprisingly, nearly 40 per cent of those who took the survey chose the 38-year-old congresswoman from Hawaii as the runaway winner.
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts came in second with 12.26 per cent of the vote.
John Delaney, the former congressman from Maryland, was in third place while New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio came in fourth.
House Rep. Tim Ryan, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Governor Jay Inslee, former Housing Secretary Julian Castro, former House Rep. Beto O’Rourke, and Senator Cory Booker rounded out the list.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7186581/Internet-poll-shows-Tulsi-Gabbard-hands-winner-Democratic-debate.html
Swoop in? Why not surf in? ;D
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Not the best facial skin, but the hottest body on stage tonight. :D
The Democratic machine will start pulling the knives out on her in short order if she begins to rise. Too much of a wild card and doesn't kiss the right(DNC approved) asses.
You know it.
Tom Perez with his hair in rollers, smoking a cigarette, with Tulsi wondering,
"Where is the water coming from?"
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How about Beto busting out the high school Spanish right off the bat?
How about Beto busting out the high school Spanish right off the bat?
His Spanish is awful. He should stop doing that. It's embarrassing.
You don't need to speak Spanish, just talk slower and louder.
"HOW...MUCH...TO...MOW... MY...LAWN?"
How about Beto busting out the high school Spanish right off the bat?
Has he been accused of cultural appropriation yet?
Question: Did Andrew Yang bust out the Chinese?
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Real name Robert Francis O'Rourke....sounds like an Irish priest from Boston, haha.
I'm not a conspiracy guy or anything but something does appear to be wrong with his mic from this angleI think he says "excuse me" which you can faintly hear, then he just raises his hand, not sure this proves his mic wasn't on.
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On Friday morning, Harris’s campaign website was selling a black T-shirt with an imprint of the candidate as a school girl (ranging in price from $29.99 to $32.99).
Yang's $1,000/mo idea is the future actually.
After robots take over most jobs it will have to be done.
Most people will think he is crazy though at this time. They are just not aware of what is happening with automation.
Yang's $1,000/mo idea is the future actually.
After robots take over most jobs it will have to be done.
Most people will think he is crazy though at this time. They are just not aware of what is happening with automation.
Trump and GOP Report $105 Million Haul in Second Quarter
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President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee raised $105 million during the second quarter of the year and had $100 million cash on hand, Trump’s campaign manager said Tuesday, an ominous sign for Democrats in a crowded field of contenders seeking to challenge him in the general election.
“Eye-popping numbers,” the campaign’s communications director Tim Murtaugh said in a tweet. “Shows the incredible strength of support for the President, his policies and successes.”
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-gop-report-105-million-120252727.html
Democrats’ Leftward Turn Was a Reaction to Hillary Clinton
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It wasn’t so much that Trump was the one person who could beat Clinton, but that she was the one candidate he could beat. In other words, it was only thanks to the fact that she was so unpopular that Trump had a chance. Trump-reluctant Republicans and independents could be persuaded that he was better than Clinton — when presented with a binary choice.
The latter seems vastly more plausible for the simple reason that Trump didn’t have to convince those voters that Clinton was unlikable and a little scary; he simply had to exploit their pre-existing opinion of her. Indeed, Trump’s continued obsession with bashing Clinton points to how central she is to his identity.
This has consequences for 2020 because the White House’s entire strategy boils down to making Trump’s opponent more unlikable than he is. If Trump wasn’t responsible for Hillary’s unfavorable numbers in the first place, it remains to be seen whether he can Hillaryize another Democrat.
It may not be all that hard, though, because the Democrats are doing everything they can to keep the Flight 93 panic alive on the right. They’re doing this by running so far to the left that many Trump-skeptical Republicans feel as if they have no choice but to vote for him again. (I hear this from my fellow conservatives every day.) Democratic candidates have openly praised socialism, the Green New Deal, the abolition of private insurance, voting rights for incarcerated felons, federal funding of abortion late into pregnancy, confiscatory “wealth taxes,” and even the right to sex-change operations paid for by taxpayers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-leftward-turn-reaction-hillary-103019537.html
And the mean IQ of the remaining candidates increases by about 50 points.
Eric Swalwell Becomes First Democrat to Drop Out of Presidential Race
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“Today ends our campaign,” Rep. Eric Swalwell says at an afternoon presser in California. Exactly three months to after he launched his campaign back in April.
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“Being honest with ourselves, we had to look at how much money we were raising, where we were in the polls,” Swalwell said at his campaign headquarters, before claiming that he “moved the needle on the debate stage with an issue I was very passionate about.”
“So we’ve achieved that,’” he said in reference to gun control measures. “But we have to be honest about our own candidacy’s viability.”
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Swalwell’s pro-gun control platform failed to gain traction, despite several aggressive policy promises, including a ban on AR-15s. The California Democrat’s repeated attacks on the National Rifle Association (NRA), though cheered by gun control activists, did little to boost his lagging candidacy.
“On the issue of gun violence, I am the champion who is saying enough is enough, and that has to be a top priority. We can’t just respond to the last mass shooting. I want to challenge our candidates to make it a priority too,” Swalwell told The Hill in an interview last month.
Throughout the course of his short-lived campaign, the congressman also attempted to position himself as a young alternative to ex-Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), urging the former to “pass the torch” during the first round of Democrat debates in Miami, Flordia.
“If we are going to solve the issue, pass the torch. If we are going to solve climate chaos, pass the torch. If we want to end gun violence and solve student debt, pass the torch,” said Swalwell to a collective gasp from the audience.
A defiant Biden hit back at the lawmaker, declaring: “I’m holding onto that torch. I want to make it clear.”
Swalwell will run for re-election for his congressional seat in the 15th District of California but faces a potentially fierce primary fight from Hayward councilmember Aisha Wahab.
The lawmaker’s departure from the race comes amid reports that left-wing billionaire and climate change crusader Tom Steyer is readying a campaign of his own.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/08/eric-swalwell-becomes-first-democrat-to-drop-out-of-presidential-race/
“And the mean IQ of the remaining candidates increases by about 50 points”
Can you prove that ?
Please post evidence of that
And What does IQ have to do with Anything ?
;)
Joe Biden Isn’t The Overwhelming 2020 Democratic Front-Runner Anymore
The former vice president still leads in the polls, but he’s increasingly challenged by a trio of other top-tier candidates.
By Ariel Edwards-Levy
POLITICS 07/09/2019
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-2020-polls-front-runner_n_5d2508eee4b07e698c42435a
:)
tongue-in-cheek adjective
Definition of tongue-in-cheek (Entry 1 of 2)
: characterized by insincerity, irony, or whimsical exaggeration
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tongue-in-cheek
This is good news for the Donald. Biden is his biggest threat. Bernie would still be my choice but he said a really stupid thing about prisoners voting which will negate his chances among old white men.You're not concerned with having to pay off someone else's college degree if Bernie wins? Prisoners voting is the stupid thing?
Weak answer
So your not able to provide the proof / evidence ::)
I thought so.
Yet you’re quick to ask it of Myself
Apply you’re own rules to yourself
Otherwise you become a hypocrite
Post More - I’m waiting
;D
If you cannot understand tongue in cheek, even after I posted the definition and a link for further reading, then I cannot help you.
The Last thing I need is Help from You.
No worries I’ll keep an eye out that you’ve got all the correct facts
And can Back up what you say with the relevant statistical breakdown when required
& you’re able to Post it as it’s only what you Expect of others.
This is good news for the Donald. Biden is his biggest threat. Bernie would still be my choice but he said a really stupid thing about prisoners voting which will negate his chances among old white men.
Pretty much everything Bernie says is stupid.
The Last thing I need is Help from You.
No worries I’ll keep an eye out that you’ve got all the correct facts
And can Back up what you say with the relevant statistical breakdown when required
& you’re able to Post it as it’s only what you Expect of others.
"Pass the torch! Pass the torch!"
Douchebag.
BIDEN SUPPORT SLIPS BELOW 30 PERCENT IN NEW POLLBiden/Sanders 2020?
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Former Vice President Joe Biden's support in the latest Hill-HarrisX poll of Democratic voters has fallen below 30 percent, his lowest mark in the survey so far.
The poll, released on Monday, found that 29 percent of likely Democratic primary voters support Biden as their first choice for president, while 16 percent back Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
This marks a 4-point drop for Biden from an identical poll conducted two weeks ago and immediately following the first 2020 Democratic debates. It also represents a 17-point drop from when same poll was first conducted in May, a month after Biden formally launched his campaign bid.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) retained their spots, with Harris getting 11 percent and Warren trailing close behind at 9 percent.
South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who ranked as high as third place at one earlier poll, slipped to sixth place, garnering just 1 percent of support.
Former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke, who has been lagging in national polls over the last few months, notched up 2 points to 3 percent.
A large number of respondents, 17 percent, were undecided.
The poll can be viewed as another setback for Biden, whose campaign has been grappling with attacks on his civil rights record in recent weeks.
Harris and Biden went head-to-head last month on the second night of the first Democratic presidential debates, where she confronted him on his past comments about working with segregationists senators and his past opposition to school busing.
The California senator saw a bump in a number of polls — including the Hill’s own Hill-HarrisX survey — following the confrontation.
Yet the poll continues to show Biden with a double digit lead over Sanders, and he has more than twice the support of Harris and more than three times the support of Warren to this point.
https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/453142-biden-slips-below-30-percent-among-2020-democrats
BIDEN SUPPORT SLIPS BELOW 30 PERCENT IN NEW POLL
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Former Vice President Joe Biden's support in the latest Hill-HarrisX poll of Democratic voters has fallen below 30 percent, his lowest mark in the survey so far.
The poll, released on Monday, found that 29 percent of likely Democratic primary voters support Biden as their first choice for president, while 16 percent back Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
This marks a 4-point drop for Biden from an identical poll conducted two weeks ago and immediately following the first 2020 Democratic debates. It also represents a 17-point drop from when same poll was first conducted in May, a month after Biden formally launched his campaign bid.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) retained their spots, with Harris getting 11 percent and Warren trailing close behind at 9 percent.
South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who ranked as high as third place at one earlier poll, slipped to sixth place, garnering just 1 percent of support.
Former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke, who has been lagging in national polls over the last few months, notched up 2 points to 3 percent.
A large number of respondents, 17 percent, were undecided.
The poll can be viewed as another setback for Biden, whose campaign has been grappling with attacks on his civil rights record in recent weeks.
Harris and Biden went head-to-head last month on the second night of the first Democratic presidential debates, where she confronted him on his past comments about working with segregationists senators and his past opposition to school busing.
The California senator saw a bump in a number of polls — including the Hill’s own Hill-HarrisX survey — following the confrontation.
Yet the poll continues to show Biden with a double digit lead over Sanders, and he has more than twice the support of Harris and more than three times the support of Warren to this point.
https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/453142-biden-slips-below-30-percent-among-2020-democrats
Cory Booker on Donald Trump: 'My testosterone sometimes makes me want to feel like punching him'How many liberals have now threatened the President?
By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times - Tuesday, July 23, 2019
White House hopeful Sen Cory Booker described President Trump on Monday as an “elderly, out of shape man” and “physically weak specimen” who he occasionally feels like assaulting.
Mr. Booker, New Jersey Democrat, made the remarks while speaking about civility in politics with “Late Night” host Seth Meyers on NBC.
Recalling a recent campaign event in Iowa, Mr. Booker said that he spoke with a former football player who had encouraged him to hit the president.
“He’s a big guy, he puts his arm around me and goes, ‘Dude, I want you to punch Donald Trump in the face,’” Mr. Booker said. “And I stop in my tracks and I go, ‘Dude, that’s a felony, man.’”
“Donald Trump is a guy who you understand he hurts you, and my testosterone sometimes makes me want to feel like punching him, which would be bad for this elderly out-of-shape man that he is if I did that,” Mr. Booker said with a smile as studio audience members started applauding. “This physically weak specimen.”
Mr. Booker quickly changed course and said he would not stoop to bullying the president, however.
“That’s his tactics,” said Mr. Booker. “And you don’t beat a bully like him fighting him on his tactics, on his terms, using his turf. He’s the body-shamer, he’s the guy that tries to drag people in the gutter.”
“We will not beat Donald Trump by trying to be more likely him, but by showing that we are not like him. We are not weak morally. We are not weak mentally. We are a strong nation,” said Mr. Booker.
The mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013, Mr. Booker has represented New Jersey on Capitol Hill for nearly six years and is among a handful of senators currently vying for the Democratic Party nomination to compete against Mr. Trump in 2020.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/23/cory-booker-on-donald-trump-my-testosterone-someti/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork
How many liberals have now threatened the President?
Almost no coverage of the primary. Snoozefest.
The earliest primary elections begin in March 2020. Although candidates are campaigning already, it's a crap shoot for awhile yet.
Biden 'looked frail' during Miami debate, Obama's former doctor says
A doctor who served former President Obama for more than 20 years before his presidency said this week he thought former Vice President Joe Biden "looked frail" during the first Democratic debate in Miami, when he was attacked by Sen. Kamala Harris.
Dr. David Scheiner told the Washington Examiner that Biden's appearance during the debate made him nervous.
"Harris started attacking him and he looked frail to me," Scheiner said. "I sort of got the feeling he wasn’t very strong. It was similar to the feeling I got when Republicans started attacking Mueller so fiercely."
"Harris started attacking him and he looked frail to me. I sort of got the feeling he wasn’t very strong. It was similar to the feeling I got when Republicans started attacking Mueller so fiercely."
— Dr. David Scheiner, former physician of Barack Obama
Scheiner, who said he would support the 76-year-old Biden or any other Democratic nominee in the 2020 presidential election, told the Examiner he also has concerns about President Trump’s health.
He said Trump’s weight, diet and lack of exercise are all causes for concern. "He garbles,” the doctor said of the 73-year-old president. “That is a really critical issue. This is not trivial. [Late-night host] Seth Meyers jokes about it but it's not a joke. The guy just can't find the words. He's having difficulty."
The Examiner interviewed Scheiner about new research from the American Federation for Aging Research that found all of the major candidates would likely survive at least one term in office.
Meanwhile, Biden, who was widely panned in his first debate performance, said he won’t be as “polite” in the second debate next week in Detroit.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obamas-former-doctor-thinks-biden-looks-frail
The only thing the Democrats seem to have going for them in 2020 is Trump
The only thing the Democrats seem to have going for them in 2020 is TrumpI haven't seen or heard anything from a democrat that would actually help this country, improve our daily living or restore rights taken from us by liberal states. I think Trump takes this election in a landslide.
The only thing the Democrats seem to have going for them in 2020 is Trump
I haven't seen or heard anything from a democrat that would actually help this country, improve our daily living or restore rights taken from us by liberal states. I think Trump takes this election in a landslide.
You’re a astute reasoned Man - Take the Silly Trump Calling Business out,
Do you Really think the Dems have a chance - they seem to be either fighting
Among themselves or endlessly promising the world to the lowest common
Denominations.
I’ve not heard much of any real substance from them.
They've just started to fight each other.
Warren is promising reparations, loan forgiveness, open borders, etc......
They can't win on all this, and the moderates know it.
Sadly enough, Warren still stands a somewhat decent shot of winning the primary with that message. That goes to show you just how much the Democratic party has shifted, or at the very least has been influenced by the fervent far left bloc within their party.
The probably with her primary strategy is that President Trump is sitting back, watching this and taking notes of her statements and when she ultimately tries to shift back to the center during a presidential debate he will have plenty of ammunition to humiliate her and question her delusional, fairy tale policies in front of the entire world.
I mean let's be honest...who is better in that very situation than Donald Trump? And I can't think of anyone on the Democratic side who is more easily rattled than Elizabeth Warren.
BTW, I think Drudge really nailed it with it's recent headline...the knives will surely be coming out for Joe Biden tonight.
I think that perception is changing.
It's taken people time to get past the tweets, the fake racism and virtue signaling, and they're realizing we're in a good economy, and the President is trying to make good on all his promises......stuff like the Canadian perscription drug access, if real, will only help him more.
You’re a astute reasoned Man - Take the Silly Trump Calling Business out,
Do you Really think the Dems have a chance - they seem to be either fighting
Among themselves or endlessly promising the world to the lowest common
Denominations.
I’ve not heard much of any real substance from them.
I agree in part. If the number one issue for you is stock market or jobs.. the trend that started before Trump is certainly continuing. My bank account has never been the source of my morals.
I agree in part. If the number one issue for you is stock market or jobs.. the trend that started before Trump is certainly continuing. My bank account has never been the source of my morals.
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My takeaways from the past 2 days.
First off, none of these people have even close to the political savvy of a Hillary Clinton, must less Obama or Bill Clinton. It is just painful to sit through this dumpster fire.
Joe Biden - reminds me of that boxer who is way ahead on the cards but is starting to take some hard shots(some self inflicted) and is just trying to last until the final bell for a decision win. He has the built in DNC machine behind him(at this point, could change). The moderate crowd as well. The strikes against him are he is a white male within a party that is increasingly hostile towards white men. When he speaks he barely resembles the guy from 6 years ago much less from his old Senate days. Age is really starting to set in with him and it's painfully obvious. He keeps going back to the "I worked with Obama" well and seems completely miffed why large portions of his party see that as a negative. The party has shifted that much in just a few short years.
Elizabeth Warren - As I stated earlier, she is actually playing pretty smart SHORT term by playing both sides of the fence and weaving in moderate and progressive ideas. The problem is she will have to defend these same progressive ideas in front of the entire world and Donald Trump. And he will not let her weasel her way out of it and gives zero fucks how she feels about it. I don't think there is anyone more that he wants to face than her. I said for the longest time the funnest matchup would be Trump-Hillary 2 but I find myself savoring Trump v. Pocahontas even more.
Kamala - really got exposed badly. A complete paper tiger. Can throw a punch but can't take one. If a young, inexperienced club fighter like Tulsi can rattle her that easy, what is the 1988 version of Mike Tyson(Trump) gonna do when they square off? I would actually feel sorry for her in such a scenario. Well kinda haha.
Bernie - his ship has sailed. Candidates are running to the left of him so that just snatched away all of his progressive mojo from 2016. Just a loud angry old man at this point.
Tulsi - the big winner. Squared up against Kamala and won rather easily. Short term it doesn't really matter but she has set her self up rather nicely for 2024 and beyond. It will be interesting to see how much the mainstream media and DNC attack her going forward.
Yang - needs to expand past the Universal Basic Income message and diversity his platform a bit. Looked decent but not sure what his political aspirations are past 2020 though.
Booker - his outrage schtick is getting played out and tedious.
Beto - Who cares?
The purple state moderate candidates - increasingly ignored or even mocked within their own political party. They same sort of message that took Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all the way to the White House just doesn't seem to be the priority for the Democratic party in 2019.
My takeaways from the past 2 days.
Kamala - really got exposed badly. A complete paper tiger. Can throw a punch but can't take one. If a young, inexperienced club fighter like Tulsi can rattle her that easy, what is the 1988 version of Mike Tyson(Trump) gonna do when they square off? I would actually feel sorry for her in such a scenario. Well kinda haha.
Tulsi - the big winner. Squared up against Kamala and won rather easily. Short term it doesn't really matter but she has set her self up rather nicely for 2024 and beyond. It will be interesting to see how much the mainstream media and DNC attack her going forward.
Gabbard was right to expose the corrupt Horizontal Harris and she's is now being branded an "Assad sympathizer" and "supported by Russia".. Harris must be quite desperate. I think Gabbard's half minute intro to the debate was the best one.
Someone posted this and it's quite funny:
https://twitter.com/JayIronHook/status/1156739449235091456
Kamala tells Tulsi "I challenge you to make decisions under fire"
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When a woman is pregnant she can feel a new life gestating within her. We are collectively pregnant now, the consciousness of humanity a womb wherein is forming a new state of being. As with any pregnancy there are uncomfortable moments, but the miracle of new life is on the way.
Marianne Williamson
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The Goddess doesn't just dance under the moon on the night of a Solstice. She fiercely protects the children of the earth, and so should we.
Marianne Williamson
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Any time any of us move from fear to love, we participate in the morphic field out of which will emerge new possibilities for life on earth.
Marianne Williamson
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@marwilliamson
Your body is merely your space station from whence you beam your love to the universe.Don't just relate to the station; relate to the beams.
Marianne Williamson
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Everyone feels on some level like an alien in this world, because we ARE. We come from another realm of consciousness, and long for home.
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Calling all goddess types: this a perfect time to do ritualistic nature ceremonies invoking divine alignment between humanity and nature.
Gabbard was right to expose the corrupt Horizontal Harris and she's is now being branded an "Assad sympathizer" and "supported by Russia".. Harris must be quite desperate. I think Gabbard's half minute intro to the debate was the best one.
Someone posted this and it's quite funny:
https://twitter.com/JayIronHook/status/1156739449235091456
Kamala tells Tulsi "I challenge you to make decisions under fire"
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My takeaways from the past 2 days.
First off, none of these people have even close to the political savvy of a Hillary Clinton, must less Obama or Bill Clinton. It is just painful to sit through this dumpster fire.
Joe Biden - reminds me of that boxer who is way ahead on the cards but is starting to take some hard shots(some self inflicted) and is just trying to last until the final bell for a decision win. He has the built in DNC machine behind him(at this point, could change). The moderate crowd as well. The strikes against him are he is a white male within a party that is increasingly hostile towards white men. When he speaks he barely resembles the guy from 6 years ago much less from his old Senate days. Age is really starting to set in with him and it's painfully obvious. He keeps going back to the "I worked with Obama" well and seems completely miffed why large portions of his party see that as a negative. The party has shifted that much in just a few short years.
Elizabeth Warren - As I stated earlier, she is actually playing pretty smart SHORT term by playing both sides of the fence and weaving in moderate and progressive ideas. The problem is she will have to defend these same progressive ideas in front of the entire world and Donald Trump. And he will not let her weasel her way out of it and gives zero fucks how she feels about it. I don't think there is anyone more that he wants to face than her. I said for the longest time the funnest matchup would be Trump-Hillary 2 but I find myself savoring Trump v. Pocahontas even more.
Kamala - really got exposed badly. A complete paper tiger. Can throw a punch but can't take one. If a young, inexperienced club fighter like Tulsi can rattle her that easy, what is the 1988 version of Mike Tyson(Trump) gonna do when they square off? I would actually feel sorry for her in such a scenario. Well kinda haha.
Bernie - his ship has sailed. Candidates are running to the left of him so that just snatched away all of his progressive mojo from 2016. Just a loud angry old man at this point.
Tulsi - the big winner. Squared up against Kamala and won rather easily. Short term it doesn't really matter but she has set her self up rather nicely for 2024 and beyond. It will be interesting to see how much the mainstream media and DNC attack her going forward.
Yang - needs to expand past the Universal Basic Income message and diversity his platform a bit. Looked decent but not sure what his political aspirations are past 2020 though.
Booker - his outrage schtick is getting played out and tedious.
Beto - Who cares?
The purple state moderate candidates - increasingly ignored or even mocked within their own political party. They same sort of message that took Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all the way to the White House just doesn't seem to be the priority for the Democratic party in 2019.
Marianne Williamson
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@marwilliamson
The way to get over someone having broken your heart is to visualize yourself pouring buckets of divine love all over them.
Marianne Williamson
✔
@marwilliamson
When a woman is pregnant she can feel a new life gestating within her. We are collectively pregnant now, the consciousness of humanity a womb wherein is forming a new state of being. As with any pregnancy there are uncomfortable moments, but the miracle of new life is on the way.
Marianne Williamson
✔
@marwilliamson
The Goddess doesn't just dance under the moon on the night of a Solstice. She fiercely protects the children of the earth, and so should we.
Marianne Williamson
✔
@marwilliamson
Any time any of us move from fear to love, we participate in the morphic field out of which will emerge new possibilities for life on earth.
Marianne Williamson
✔
@marwilliamson
Your body is merely your space station from whence you beam your love to the universe.Don't just relate to the station; relate to the beams.
Marianne Williamson
✔
@marwilliamson
Everyone feels on some level like an alien in this world, because we ARE. We come from another realm of consciousness, and long for home.
Marianne Williamson
✔
@marwilliamson
Calling all goddess types: this a perfect time to do ritualistic nature ceremonies invoking divine alignment between humanity and nature.
Solid analysis.
I saw a car yesterday with a couple Beto 2020 stickers on it.
I didn't even know such things existed.
I was just thinking, I know the Democrat lineup is pretty underwhelming this cycle but out of all the candidates available you picked THAT guy??
Let's just go with
President Buttplug
Tushi Grabber's family is conservative and she's a vet. The dems think she's a plant that only runs as dem because in Hawaii there isn't an option to run GOP.
Butt-man actually seems one of the sanest of the bunch.
She has a brain and somewhat sensible. The rest are a bunch of psychotics
Yang is pretty sensible as well.
I don't like a lot of his policies, but he's really smart, and means well.
Can you imagine having that damn finger pointing at you for 4 years ::)
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My impression on both of them is that they are still wacky with a lot of their policies/ideas but they are sensible in that they don't want to essentially completely shut down talk on the other side like the others.
The guy that said we need to run to the hills because of rising seas? That guy? HAHAHAHA
Can you imagine having that damn finger pointing at you for 4 years ::)
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Can you imagine having that damn finger pointing at you for 4 years ::)
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It's hard to tell if Biden is weaker than Kerry or if his party has gone so radical that he doesn't even fit in. In that respect Kerry was a stronger candidate because the party and his line were the same.
Interesting read and the similarities between the parties and circumstances are there although I think Kerry was a stronger candidate than Biden and Trump is a stronger candidate than 2004 Bush.
Will 2020 Be a Repeat of 2004 for Democrats?
By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
August 8, 2019 6:30 AM
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/will-2020-election-be-repeat-of-2004-for-democrats/
How do they determine who qualifies for next round of debates?
How do they determine who qualifies for next round of debates?
How do they determine who qualifies for next round of debates?
Biden = dementia.Trump + tryrant
Trump + tryrant
The only media allowed when he was recently in El Paso was the media representatives the White house brought with them on this visit. Victims of the shooting still in hospital, declined to be visited upon by Trump. Trump says he was warmly welcomed. Who's lying?
University Medical Center spokesman Ryan Mielke said the hospital had reached out to the Anchondo family and other discharged patients on Tuesday, the day before the president’s visit, after it became clear that none of the hospitalized shooting victims would meet him.
Trump took other thumbs-up photos at the hospital, too, the official said, noting that other such pictures have concerned White House aides who have encouraged him to strike a more empathetic tone.
August 8, 2019 Washington Post
You do realize that the attitude you display here will be responsible for the demise of Portland? Ultimately, the police will not be allowed to protect you from that which you now so eagerly feed. You should know better but if your kind keeps this up, you will know worse and all because of your hatred of all that is good and just in the name of "fairness".
I have a relative in Portland. The place is going to become another San Francisco. Another Los Angeles. Another shit hole. When cucks finally call for a plumber the plumber ain't showing up. Did it to yourselves.
You risk becoming the boy who called "racist".
You got all that from my post? Not even sure how you made the connection to Portland. What I posted is simply what is in today's Oregonian and the Washington Post.
I got that you agreed with that dross. If I am wrong, then I am ecstatic. If I am not, just say as much. Portland is where you reside or thereabouts, is it not? I have a relative there. Simple. The attitude of liberals will destroy Portland.
Trump + tryrantYes, who's lying?
The only media allowed when he was recently in El Paso was the media representatives the White house brought with them on this visit. Victims of the shooting still in hospital, declined to be visited upon by Trump. Trump says he was warmly welcomed. Who's lying?
University Medical Center spokesman Ryan Mielke said the hospital had reached out to the Anchondo family and other discharged patients on Tuesday, the day before the president’s visit, after it became clear that none of the hospitalized shooting victims would meet him.
Trump took other thumbs-up photos at the hospital, too, the official said, noting that other such pictures have concerned White House aides who have encouraged him to strike a more empathetic tone.
August 8, 2019 Washington Post
The president did not meet with any of the eight survivors still convalescing at UMC, the El Paso Times reported Wednesday, Aug. 7.
Three of the eight survivors were unable to meet Trump because they were in too poor condition or because of a Spanish language barrier, Henry Gallardo, UMC’s chair of the hospital board of managers, said.
Five declined the offer.
The President did meet with family members of three survivors in the hospital waiting room for nearly two hours
Yes, who's lying?
There were eight victims total in hospital when Trump visited. Five declined his visit and three still were too critical for visitation. Trump claims he got a warm welcome. If not a lie, at least there are inconsistent views of the success of this event as reported.You missed this part?
too poor condition or because of a Spanish language barrier
The President did meet with family members of three survivors in the hospital waiting room for nearly two hours
You missed this part?
or this one?
Either way, he was there. I know you're trying desperately to push the msm agenda of "everyone hates Trump" but that's just not true.
I missed nothing there were 8 total hospitalized victims and for various reasons Trump was unable to meet with any of them. One reason being that 5 declined to meet with him.You asked "who's lying", inferring that Trump lied saying he recieved a warm welcome, can you show us where he did NOT?
I am simply posting what's been reported in the news and said by Trump. Obviously, everyone doesn't hate Trump. He got elected didn't he?
You asked "who's lying", inferring that Trump lied saying he recieved a warm welcome, can you show us where he did NOT?
Polling right about 1% nationally, presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke turned up the heat on his connection to the working class by posting a video of himself changing a tire — without any assistance from the folks at AAA.
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http://news.valubit.org/im-just-like-you-beto-orourke-changes-a-tire/
You asked "who's lying", inferring that Trump lied saying he recieved a warm welcome, can you show us where he did NOT?
Just getting ready for a future career changing tires.
Kamala Harris: Trump Didn’t Pull the Trigger in El Paso — But He Tweeted Out the Ammunition
PAM KEY
12 Aug 2019
Sunday in an interview with The Des Moines Register, 2020 presidential candidates Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said President Donald Trump did not “pull the trigger,” at the mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas but he has been “tweeting out the ammunition.”
Harris said, “I, as a prosecutor, I prosecuted hate crimes. As the Attorney General of California, where I ran the second largest Department Justice in the United States, I on an annual basis published the Hate Crime Report. So I will tell you this stuff is not new in our country. It certainly predates the election of Donald Trump, but it has also increased under Donald Trump. He has been fueling the flames of hate. I said recently on the issue of El Paso, you know, no, when people ask me is he responsible for these killings? Well no he obviously didn’t pull the trigger but he sure been tweeting out the ammunition.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/08/12/kamala-harris-trump-didnt-pull-the-trigger-in-el-paso-but-he-tweeted-out-the-ammunition/
On Ferguson, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris Told a Terrible Lie
By DAVID FRENCH
August 12, 2019
Their falsehoods were immoral, divisive, and quite possibly unlawful.
On Friday afternoon, two of the leading contenders in the Democratic presidential primary lied. There’s no other fair way to put it. They flat-out spread fiction, libeled an innocent man, and stoked American divisions — all for political gain.
Five years ago, a Ferguson, Mo., police officer named Darren Wilson shot a young black man named Michael Brown to death after an altercation in the street. False rumors about Brown’s death — namely that he was shot in cold blood while trying to surrender with his hands in the air — ignited violent protests in Missouri and revulsion across the United States.
“Hands up, don’t shoot” became a national rallying cry — until the Obama Department of Justice comprehensively and thoroughly debunked it in a lengthy report published on March 4, 2015. Writing in December of the same year, the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler called the slogan one of “the biggest Pinocchios of the year.”
But Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren ignored the Obama DOJ. They blew straight through the facts of the case and published these accusations:
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Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America. His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement. We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.
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5 years ago Michael Brown was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael was unarmed yet he was shot 6 times. I stand with activists and organizers who continue the fight for justice for Michael. We must confront systemic racism and police violence head on.
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To demonstrate just how preposterous it is to accuse Wilson of murder, it’s worth revisiting the actual facts of the case, according to the best evidence available to the investigators. On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown and a friend were walking in the middle of the street shortly after Brown had stolen cigarillos from a local market and shoved away the store clerk when he tried to intervene.
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When Wilson first spotted Brown and his friend, he told them to walk on the sidewalk. He then realized that they matched the description of the theft suspects and blocked their path with his vehicle.
Wilson tried to open his door, but it either bounced off Brown or Brown slammed it shut. Brown then reached into the vehicle and started punching Wilson. As Wilson fended off the blows, he reached for his gun. Brown allegedly tried to take the gun from Wilson, and Wilson managed to get a shot off, injuring Brown in the hand. Eyewitnesses corroborated Wilson’s claims that Brown was reaching in the car, and these claims were further corroborated by “bruising on Wilson’s jaw and scratches on his neck, the presence of Brown’s DNA on Wilson’s collar, shirt, and pants, and Wilson’s DNA on Brown’s palm.”
Brown then started to run away. After a brief pause Wilson pursued, ordering Brown to stop. Brown then turned back to Wilson and started running toward him. According to the report, “several witnesses stated that Brown appeared to pose a physical threat to Wilson as he moved toward Wilson.” Wilson fired again, striking Brown several times, yet Brown kept moving toward Wilson until the final shot hit him in the head, killing him.
The report’s conclusion was crystal clear:
Given that Wilson’s account is corroborated by physical evidence and that his perception of a threat posed by Brown is corroborated by other eyewitnesses, to include aspects of the testimony of [Brown’s friend], there is no credible evidence that Wilson willfully shot Brown as he was attempting to surrender or was otherwise not posing a threat. [Emphasis added.]
The report flatly declared that Wilson “did not act with the requisite criminal intent.”
“No credible evidence” is a powerful statement, but if you read the report, it’s a powerful statement based not just on extensive forensic evidence but also on the courageous testimony of witnesses who feared reprisal for speaking the truth. One witness, a 58-year-old black male, told prosecutors that there were signs in the neighborhood that said “Snitches get stitches.” Yet he spoke the truth anyway. Other witnesses overcame their fears and spoke the truth.
How do we have confidence that they spoke the truth? Because, as the report notes, their statements “have been materially consistent, are consistent with the physical evidence, and . . . are mutually corroborative.”
To be sure, there were other witnesses. Some neither incriminated him nor fully corroborated him. And there was an entire category of witnesses whose accounts were “inconsistent with the physical and forensic evidence,” the report noted, adding:
Some of those accounts are materially inconsistent with that witness’s own prior statements with no explanation, credible [or] otherwise, as to why those accounts changed over time. Certain other witnesses who originally stated Brown had his hands up in surrender recanted their original accounts, admitting that they did not witness the shooting or parts of it, despite what they initially reported either to federal or local law enforcement or to the media.
There are few more fraught issues in American public life than the question of police shootings — especially police shootings of black men. I’ve written about the issue time and time again and have come to believe not only that too many American police officers resort to deadly force too quickly but also that there is an unacceptable pro-police bias in our criminal-justice system. There is also evidence that race plays a more malignant role in policing than many of us hoped.
Indeed, while we must of course remember the DOJ’s report exonerating Darren Wilson, we should also remember that there was a second DOJ report in 2015 that found systematic misconduct at the Ferguson Police Department, misconduct that disproportionately affected Ferguson’s black citizens. I urge you to read both reports, and if you read the second report with an open mind, you’ll almost certainly come to believe that Ferguson’s black residents possessed legitimate grievances against their police department.
That’s the complicated nation we inhabit, but the complexity does not mean there aren’t simple obligations that attach to every politician, activist, and member of the media. And the simplest of those obligations is a commitment to the truth. We know that lies and falsehoods can cause riots. They can cause city blocks to burn. They can destroy a man’s life. At the very least, they can further embitter an already toxic public discourse. When issues are most fraught, the obligation of courageous, honest leadership is most imperative.
But Warren and Harris’s failure is more than a failure of leadership. The publication of a false accusation of a crime like murder is libelous under American law. In other words, their lies may well have been illegal. Democrats — especially Democrats who seek to address the very real challenges surrounding police violence in the United States — should demand better. Harris and Warren should do better. They should correct and retract their false statements. There is no excuse for their inflammatory lies.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/elizabeth-warren-kamala-harris-ferguson-michael-brown/
Depends on what you consider a warm welcome. If you go to a an event and only a couple of people will talk to you, it just doesn't seem like that warm a welcome. I guess you could argue that if the few he actually got to speak with warmly welcomed him this is somewhat redeeming. Honestly, I wouldn't expect Trump or any other politician for that matter to acknowledge when such a visit is a failure. It's just that Trump so often sees things through rose colored glasses when it suits him.Seems there are plenty of pics of Trump at the hospital surrounded by smiling, happy people.
Depends on what you consider a warm welcome. If you go to a an event and only a couple of people will talk to you, it just doesn't seem like that warm a welcome. I guess you could argue that if the few he actually got to speak with warmly welcomed him this is somewhat redeeming. Honestly, I wouldn't expect Trump or any other politician for that matter to acknowledge when such a visit is a failure. It's just that Trump so often sees things through rose colored glasses when it suits him.
This is crazy and dangerous use of a political platform. I guess if fake news can't get the job done get it straight from the appaloosa's mouth.
It’s not an “event” like a social event you moron, it’s a hospital visit to wounded shooting victims. Stick your warmly welcomed up your cock-ridden ass.
It is unbelievable that a complete lying retard like you would ever criticize someone for seeing the world through rose colored glasses. You are so far detached from reality and normal thought that you really should be put out of your misery. I cannot begin to understand why Ron even allows you to still have an account here, between your stupidity, non-sequiters, and your open trolling for cock.
I am feel sorrow and shame for your ex-wife. A day is coming soon where you will pay the piper for your deviant behavior.
JustPlainInsane
True about Trump as well. His recklessness on Twitter and his rallies can be dangerous.What about when Madonna says she wants to blow up the white house? Or when Maxine waters encourages her supporters to harass Trump supporters at restaurants and run them out of town, or when Robert dinero says he wants to punch Trump in the face? There's a ton of other examples I could give of left wing politicians, actors, musicians, etc promoting violence against Trump, his family and his supporters so spare me with your bullshit "recklessness on Twitter" ::)
What about when Madonna says she wants to blow up the white house? Or when Maxine waters encourages her supporters to harass Trump supporters at restaurants and run them out of town, or when Robert dinero says he wants to punch Trump in the face? There's a ton of other examples I could give of left wing politicians, actors, musicians, etc promoting violence against Trump, his family and his supporters so spare me with your bullshit "recklessness on Twitter" ::)
I wish I could overnight mail you brain cancer.
Your AIDS is taking way too long to kill you.
True about Trump as well. His recklessness on Twitter and his rallies can be dangerous.
U will die before I.
Old white guys.
Biden got a face lift and now looks 100. What does this guy offer the average AOC voter?
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Old white guys.
Biden got a face lift and now looks 100. What does this guy offer the average AOC voter?
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The average AOC voter is statistically irrelevant, based on the numbers who voted her in.
And her approval ratings are awful.
Then why do a majority of the candidates parrot her ideas?
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery...”- Winston Churchill
Equal misery for all underlings is what the Dimocraps desire. Fuck Their Noise.
Jay Who?
Jay Inslee, the climate candidate of 2020, is ending his campaign
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is officially out of the Democratic race for president, he told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Wednesday night. But he’s still intent on keeping climate change at the forefront of the national conversation.
“It’s become clear that I’m not going to be carrying the ball, I’m not going to be the president,” Inslee told Maddow Wednesday night. “I’m withdrawing from the race, but I’ve been fighting climate change for 25 years, and I’ve never been so confident of the ability of America now to reach critical mass to move the ball.”
http://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2019/8/21/20706159/jay-inslee-ends-campaign-for-president-climate
Poll: Bernie, Warren surge to tie Biden atop Democratic field
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Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have surged to tie with Joe Biden atop the Democratic presidential field, according to a poll that suggests the three are solidifying their status as the top tier in the massive field.
The Monmouth University poll, released Monday, shows Sanders and Warren deadlocked among Democratic voters at 20 percent, with Biden a point behind, at 19 percent. No other candidate cracks double digits: Kamala Harris is in fourth place, at 8 percent.
Compared with the Monmouth poll in June, Sanders has ticked up 6 points, and Warren 5 points. Biden dropped 13 points, from 32 percent in June.
The poll shows Biden’s slippage coming across the Democratic electorate, rather than from a specific demographic or ideological group. He is down 14 points among white and nonwhite voters. He’s down 14 points among men, and 13 points among women. He’s down 15 points among voters younger than 50 years old, and 9 percent among voters 50 and older.
Biden also slipped 18 points among Democratic voters who described themselves as moderate or conservative, and 9 points among self-identified liberals.
“The main takeaway from this poll is that the Democratic race has become volatile,” said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. “Liberal voters are starting to cast about for a candidate they can identify with. Moderate voters, who have been paying less attention, seem to be expressing doubts about Biden. But they are swinging more toward one of the left-leaning contenders with high name recognition rather than toward a lesser known candidate who might be more in line with them politically.”
The Monmouth poll is the first major national poll all year to show a candidate other than Biden in the lead. It differs from some surveys conducted over similar time periods. A CNN/SSRS national poll, conducted Aug. 15-18, showed Biden at 29 percent, significantly ahead of Sanders (15 percent) and Warren (14 percent).
The Monmouth poll, which was conducted Aug. 16-20, surveyed 298 Democratic voters. The margin of error is plus or minus 5.7 percentage points.
http://www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/08/26/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-joe-biden-poll-1475440
If I had to bat now, I would still go with Biden.
Might want to take "chef Beto" with a grain of salt:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/beto-orourke-reportedly-put-childs-turd-in-a-bowl-and-told-his-wife-it-was-an-avocado
;D
Honestly, the dumb crap the media publishes should be ignored, even if true.Quoted for relevance.
You might also want to take this article in The Washington Examiner with a grain of salt. Honestly, the dumb crap the media publishes should be ignored, even if true. There is no relevance between this supposed prank and Beto running for president. Maybe the media can find some questionable women he's paid hush money to as well. ::)
Would you like me to post the same story from multiple other sources or are we just covering our ears when we hear something we don't like now?
Here no evil if that makes you happy.I like to hear a little evil from time to time.
I like to hear a little evil from time to time.
Beto is/was a flash in the pan douche.
Where’s Tulsi?
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wooooosh
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wooooosh
Did she actually date him or is this just speculation with no proof?
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wooooosh
Who cares?
Who cares?
Her sphincter strongly objected to the dick pounding it received
That gold digger of a Whore Certainly doesn’t care.
Just another Pocahontas type bitch doing anything to
Get herself ahead.
Good luck to them,
Only Not the type of whores I’d want in charge that’s for sure.
Hate women in power much? Most men will also do anything to get themselves ahead. Do you fault them as well? Most folks don't. What's good for the gander isn't usually acceptable for the goose....right?
Hate women in power much? Most men will also do anything to get themselves ahead. Do you fault them as well? Most folks don't. What's good for the gander isn't usually acceptable for the goose....right?
Hate women in power much? Most men will also do anything to get themselves ahead. Do you fault them as well? Most folks don't. What's good for the gander isn't usually acceptable for the goose....right?
Yes pretty much I do.
It’s a Patriarchal Made society & Has Been that way since day one
Now that we have many Women in positions of What were Male Roles
Things are Turning Bad Very Quickly - Look at most Female run Countries.
By Nature Men & Women have Very Different Roles & Mentalities- Fact.
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz formally announces he won't run in 2020
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Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced in a letter to his supporters on Friday that he is formally forgoing an independent presidential run in 2020.
"I have concluded that an independent campaign for the White House is not how I can best serve our country at this time," Schultz writes in a letter to supporters posted on his website.
In the three-page letter, the businessman lays out why he's abandoning a presidential run -- acknowledging the risk that if he ran his name would appear on general election ballots "even if a moderate Democrat wins the nomination" and back issues stemming from April led him to decide not to launch an independent bid.
Critics of Schultz are sure to breathe a sigh of relief, as some Democrat's viewed the former CEO's potential independent candidacy as a sure-way to reelect President Donald Trump—an argument the billionaire now seems to side with after defending his potential candidacy throughout 2019.
The former CEO's never-fully-realized campaign was hinged on the idea that voters were looking for a moderate voice amid growing polarization but often faced criticem for playing both sides of issues without offering substantive plans forward. And in announcing he would not run on Friday, Schultz bemoaned that Americans weren't supportive of independent candidates.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-formally-announces-run-2020/story%3fid=65427175
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'You need to ask first': Iowa teacher blasts Biden for grabbing her hands when she asked him a question
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by Naomi Lim
| September 06, 2019 12:19 PM
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Joe Biden left an Iowa teacher unimpressed with his canned response to her question about collective bargaining, but what she resented more was how he abruptly seized her hands and clung onto them.
Jessica Roman, 41, had stopped Biden, 76, as he greeted voters on Monday during the Hawkeye Area Labor Council's Labor Day picnic in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The North Liberty preschool teacher, who works with special needs children, was pressing the former vice president on his plans to help unionized members of her profession under recent changes to Iowa's collective bargaining laws when he reached for her hands.
"I think that he means well but, you know, he grabbed my hands right away and that was really uncomfortable," she told the Washington Examiner. "He was very close and, in my mind, I'm like, this is part of our problem: Not recognizing that you need to ask first, or can I shake your hand? Not just grab your hands and hang onto them. That bothers me."
The interaction was witnessed by the Washington Examiner and captured on video from two different angles.
Roman, who is leaning toward caucusing for California Sen. Kamala Harris or Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, wanted a more detailed answer to her question about collective bargaining in Iowa, which has a restrictive framework similar to Wisconsin. It was "a very well rehearsed list" that "didn't really speak" to her inquiry, she said.
Biden has been accused by at least eight women of touching them without permission. Amid a furor over the allegations, he said that he accepted that "social norms are changing," adding: "I will be more mindful about respecting personal space in the future. That’s my responsibility, and I will meet it." His wife Jill said that his unwanted contact "won't happen again." Days after his vow to change, however, Biden joked about the allegations.
Despite repeated advice from his staff, Biden still routinely touches women and children at events, whether they like it or not. A spokesman for the campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Roman told the Washington Examiner she had major doubts about Biden's candidacy, his third bid for the White House. "I wouldn't say it's something that I didn't like but, you know, I'm in my 40s, I'm raising a teenager, I work with very young families, and he's not relevant," she said.
"It's been too long since he's raised a family, too long since he's lived on a normal paycheck. I want somebody that actually gets it, that understands what it is to live on the paychecks that we live on, the housing crisis that we have, all of the ways that those things affect us."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/you-need-to-ask-first-iowa-teacher-blasts-biden-for-grabbing-her-hands-when-she-asked-him-a-question
A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost.
She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below.
She shouts to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man consults his portable GPS and replies, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
She rolls her eyes and says, "You must be a Republican!" "I am," replies the man. "How did you know?" "Well," answers the balloonist, "everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with
your information, and I'm still lost.
Frankly, you're not much help to me." The man smiles and responds, "You must be a Democrat." "I am, replies the balloonist.
"How did you know?" "Well," says the man, "You don't know where you are or where you're going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air.
You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem.
You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it's my fault."
My prediction is Biden. Not because he is the best, but because Democrats feel his is the safest. But his rambling answers cause some concern. I long for the days I was a child and never felt smarter than the sitting President or the potential next President. Those days are long gone.
Absolutely. I still can't get any of the hardcore, democratic, anti-Trumpers here to explain a positive policy that would improve America, it's all about hate Trump.
Overall, it's a pile of "meh".
Absolutely. I still can't get any of the hardcore, democratic, anti-Trumpers here to explain a positive policy that would improve America, it's all about hate Trump.
If I had the answer to what your asking and the means to deliver on my promise, I'd run for office and win. -Problem is, folks can't agree on what policies would be an improvement. You cannot please everyone. It is a no win situation.
I think that NO current Democratic candidate:
Will improve the econony (mind you, I don't generally believe the President controls this, they are either unlucky or lucky based on the timing of their election with the current economic cycle. However in Trump's case, I DO believe he inspires confidence in the market)
Will keep our military stong.
Will secure our borders.
Will take the chances to actually try to fix things - NK, China, etc.
So those are the things I'm pretty sure about.
I do believe healthcare, education costs, and our ability to care for our eldery without going broke are all things that need to be fixed, and I won't slam the door on the Democrats in this context. However, free healthcare for all isn't feasible. Outside of the cost, i'd have serious concerns around wait times, innovation in this area slowing down, and giving the gov't full control of everything.
Warren continues to gain on Joe.
NBC/WSJ poll: Biden leads Dem 2020 field, Warren's support grows
While Biden dominates among more moderate Democrats and black voters, Warren overperforms among whites and liberals.
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Sept. 17, 2019, 3:59 PM CDT / Updated Sept. 17, 2019, 4:04 PM CDT
By Mark Murray
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., continue to top the Democratic 2020 presidential field after last week’s debate — in a race for the nomination that breaks along ideological and racial lines, according to a national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Tuesday.
The survey also shows that Warren has the advantage in enthusiasm, and that she gets the most second-choice support.
Biden leads the overall horserace with backing from 31 percent of Democratic primary voters (up 5 points since July), while Warren gets 25 percent (up 6 points).
They’re followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., at 14 percent (up 1 point), South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is at 7 percent (unchanged) and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., at 5 percent (down 8 points).
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang gets support from 4 percent of Democratic primary voters, and Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., both get 2 percent.
No other Democratic presidential candidate gets more than 1 percent support in the poll, which was conducted Sept. 13-16 — immediately after Thursday’s debate in Houston.
So despite all of the debates and all the campaigning, the candidates who gained ground since July were the Top 3 of Biden, Warren and Sanders, says Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted this survey with Democratic pollster Peter Hart and his firm.
“The race is more solid for the front-runners than it was in July,” McInturff said.
Important, however, only 9 percent of all Democratic respondents say their minds are definitely made up.
As a result, these numbers could very well change between now and next year’s early nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.
“What we see in September isn’t what we see in December,” said Hart, the Democratic pollster.“There is going to be a change.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/nbc-wsj-poll-biden-leads-dem-2020-field-warren-s-n1055511
If Trump proved anything, it was that running for high office is more about branding and feelings then policy details.
People often vote for who they LIKE, not the one with the most knowledge.
Politics is very different from most other "contests".
In sports, the most skilled and talented tends to win.
In academics the smartest tend to get the best grades on tests.
We want to get operated on by the most skilled surgeon or our taxes prepared by the most knowledgeable CPA.
For example, I was a strong supporter of Ron Paul in a previous election.
Here was an MD with over 20 yrs in congress who served as an Air Force doc in Viet Nam.
His knowledge base , character and experience was outstanding.
BUT he was short and lacked the charisma of a front runner for President.
So, he never had a real shot at the GOP nomination.
The most experienced and knowledgeable candidates rarely gain traction with the masses.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday made the incredible claim that his proposed child tax credit would "put 720 million women back in the workforce."
https://freebeacon.com/politics/biden-child-tax-credit-will-put-720-million-women-back-in-the-workforce/
If Trump proved anything, it was that running for high office is more about branding and feelings then policy details.
People often vote for who they LIKE, not the one with the most knowledge.
Thanks.
My wife and I used to be very involved in the libertarian party.
I considered running for state office as a libertarian once.
At a candidate workshop , they told us the number 1 thing was to be liked by voters.
After that experience, I gave up even thinking of running for any office.
Of course when you're liked by some , the others will dislike you.
They key is to get the number of likes to be a bit bigger . ;)
John McCain proved in 2000 , you can't be 100% candid and honest to be elected with his straight talk express.
People want to be told, what they want to hear...even if they know it's bullshit.
For example, " Mexico will pay for the wall" , was always total fiction.
BUT, most of the Trump supporters cheered wildly when he said it.
Thank you for now taking two paragraphs to explain to us that people vote for people they like.
If Trump proved anything, it was that running for high office is more about branding and feelings then policy details.
People often vote for who they LIKE, not the one with the most knowledge.
Politics is very different from most other "contests".
In sports, the most skilled and talented tends to win.
In academics the smartest tend to get the best grades on tests.
We want to get operated on by the most skilled surgeon or our taxes prepared by the most knowledgeable CPA.
For example, I was a strong supporter of Ron Paul in a previous election.
Here was an MD with over 20 yrs in congress who served as an Air Force doc in Viet Nam.
His knowledge base , character and experience was outstanding.
BUT he was short and lacked the charisma of a front runner for President.
So, he never had a real shot at the GOP nomination.
The most experienced and knowledgeable candidates rarely gain traction with the masses.
Your dream girl Hillary ran on what issues ?
HRC has a lifetime of having people "suicided"
HRC has a lifetime of political experience.So does Biden, Harris, etc and that's part of the problem. They've all been in politics forever and want to blame a guy that's only been in politics for 3 years. :D
So does Biden, Harris, etc and that's part of the problem. They've all been in politics forever and want to blame a guy that's only been in politics for 3 years. :D
Poor Trump, he should have studied more before making the leap. Poor U.S. citizens, they have a President in training. Like with anything, you hire someone with no experience and you get someone who has no idea how to do the job they were hired to do. Sometimes you get lucky because the new hire is a quick study. Sometimes you don't because the new hire already thinks they know it all are refuses any expert advice.Poor Trump ??? He's proving that a lifetime of experience in politics isn't any better than coming in cold. I 100% support term limits, lifetime politicians are a drain on taxpayers and useless to society.
There must be a happy middle ground somewhere between a career politician who time has passed and a total newbie who has no idea what they are doing and refuses any assistance.
Poor Trump, he should have studied more before making the leap. Poor U.S. citizens, they have a President in training. Like with anything, you hire someone with no experience and you get someone who has no idea how to do the job they were hired to do. Sometimes you get lucky because the new hire is a quick study. Sometimes you don't because the new hire already thinks they know it all are refuses any expert advice.
There must be a happy middle ground somewhere between a career politician who time has passed and a total newbie who has no idea what they are doing and refuses any assistance.
Although I must admit it will be entertaining to watch Howard defend this poor old man who is clearly losing his mind over the coming months.
Poor Trump ??? He's proving that a lifetime of experience in politics isn't any better than coming in cold. I 100% support term limits, lifetime politicians are a drain on taxpayers and useless to society.
Poor Trump ??? He's proving that a lifetime of experience in politics isn't any better than coming in cold. I 100% support term limits, lifetime politicians are a drain on taxpayers and useless to society.
Good call GA. His funding is drying up.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/15/beto-orourke-fundraising-second-quarter-1416486
Ah - didn't know that part.He said Texans wanted to give up their guns..... :D :D ;D ;D
He's also been polling at 0% for a long time. Or close to it.
"Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren identifies as a capitalist, which makes sense, given her estimated $12 million fortune.
She and her husband, Bruce Mann, both longtime law professors, hold much of their wealth in retirement accounts. Their TIAA and CREF accounts—available to educators and nonprofit employees—are worth at least $4 million. They also own 5 FIVE homes: a $3 million Victorian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an $800,000 condo in Washington, D.C." A LARGE WIGWAM & 2 TEEPEES ON VARIOUS RESERVATIONS
FIXED IT
WTF?????
How does someone working as a teacher and US Senator amass a fortune that some estimate is over 12 million dollars.
If I knew education and being a politician paid so well I would have run for office decades ago.
WTF??
25 Democrat candidates and they end up with the same old 4.
Social Bernie, Pocahontas, Biden and the other one.
Fixed It
Just added the Properties They Forgot to Mention.
"National Mandatory Service to Combat Climate Change"
Say that with a straight face.
And we on here who lean right in this current political climate are considered the crazy ones?
Marianne Williamson wants a national mandatory service for people ages 18-26 to combat climate change
At a presidential climate change forum on Thursday, author and Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson floated the idea of a national mandatory year of service for young adults to tackle climate change.
"I would like to ask your opinion, I think during the 'season of repair,' we should have a mandatory national service, one year, for people between 18 and 26 because we need you," Williamson said. "We need to fix this climate. We need to fix this country."
MSNBC's Ali Velshi asked the audience, which consisted mainly of students, to raise their hands if they liked the idea. "A few, alright."
Williamson smirked at the crowd's reaction.
"To save the country. It's not just the climate," she said.
The climate forum was hosted by MSNBC and Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service, giving college students the opportunity to ask candidates questions. This is not the first time Williamson has mentioned of national service for young people. Her campaign website includes an outline of a program that would "be a way that every American citizen spends one year of their youth in service to the repair of our nation."
She lists service projects including helping in small businesses, schools, hospitals, the military, the Peace Corps and work on sustainability and to "combat the climate crisis."
The paid service she details on her website, however, appears to be voluntary: Williamson's administration would start a program where young adults "can perform one year of National Service."
She said at the climate forum that Americans need to come together in a "World War II mass mobilization."
She later added, "During World War II, it wasn't Democrats vs. Republicans, left vs. right. We are all Americans. And we are going to mobilize."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/2376414001
I'm all for this. ;D First let's try and take their phones and social media away for a day or two before you get them to give 8 YEARS of their lives away. Hahahahahahahahaha.
Bernie is just there to keep the attention of the socialist crowd until the final ticket of Warren/Biden is announced. If Bernie falls off now, the hand out crowd starts looking around early and possibly move towards common sense Trump. Kind of funny though that the two richest, whitest democrats would be nominated to represent the poorest people. ;D
It will be Warren / Castro or something....doubtful Biden goes for another VP run.
Watched some CNN to get the party line. Seems like they’re still behind Biden but are hedging their bet with Warren in case the Ukraine deal blows up. They’re also trying to make the Ukraine scandal about Trump and not Biden.
It’s one year of service, between the ages of 18 - 26
Gosh, I hadn't considered things beyond Warren getting the nomination.
Castro as VP makes the most sense to me. The first minority VP fits the Democrat's agenda perfectly.
The meat-hating single guy is not relatable to the average American.
Democrats spent more than two years keeping Miguel Estrada on the sidelines, lest Bush nominate him to the
Federal court, and then possibly to the SCOTUS. Recall that Obama's first nominee to the SCOTUS was Hispanic.
Good prediction.
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Yamcha, where have you been?
Biden
Sanders
Warren
Harris
Are all running on handout platforms that have a cost to taxpayers of over $10 TRILLION dollars.
When I drop my vote for President Donald Trump in the ballot box I’m going to say “fuck you little Bobby DeNiro.”
Do you think he will hear you? If so, do you believe he cares what you say?
Speaking of costs to taxpayers, is the enormous increase in our national debt under Trump over the last three years not a concern? Maybe, like Trump has done a few times over, the U.S. can file bankruptcy then borrow money from a foreign bank because they are the only place offering a bail out.
Do you think he will hear you? If so, do you believe he cares what you say?
Speaking of costs to taxpayers, is the enormous increase in our national debt under Trump over the last three years not a concern? Maybe, like Trump has done a few times over, the U.S. can file bankruptcy then borrow money from a foreign bank because they are the only place offering a bail out.
Fuck off you senile old disgusting queer.
You rode up and down on the cocks of strangers while your wife was at home dying.
Don’t respond to my posts you sickening deviant, your filth and stupidity might be contagious
Your responses to my posts are beyond pathetic.
Just so you know, the only reason I bother with your ridiculous comments is because I know it riles you up. And you keep taking the bait. Not to worry though, I'll soon tire of your one note samba.
Fuck off
Die
The party of Tolerance. A real warrior for The First Amendment.
Kamala Harris says Trump's Twitter account should be suspended
Washington(CNN)Sen. Kamala Harris said on Monday that President Donald Trump's Twitter account should be suspended following his tweets about the whistleblower whose complaint is at the center of the Ukraine scandal.
"The President's tweets and his behaviors about this are just further evidence of the fact that he uses his power in a way that is designed to beat people down instead of lift people up," the California Democrat and 2020 presidential candidate told CNN's Anderson Cooper on "Anderson Cooper 360."
"Frankly, when you look at what he's been tweeting today directed at the whistleblower, directed at so many people, you know, I, frankly, think that based on this and all we've seen him do before, including attacking members of Congress, that he, frankly, should be -- his Twitter account should be suspended. I think there is plenty of now evidence to suggest that he is irresponsible with his words in a way that could result in harm to other people. And so the privilege of using those words in that way should probably be taken from him."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/09/30/politics/kamala-harris-trump-twitter-cnntv/index.html
This woman clearly sucked and fucked to get where she’s at. She’s incompetent on every level.
This woman clearly sucked and fucked to get where she’s at. She’s incompetent on every level.
I agree. Really unfortunate that Democrats keep elevating people who simply aren't that bright.
I agree. Really unfortunate that Democrats keep elevating people who simply aren't that bright.
Quote from: Thin Lizzy on October 01, 2019, 10:09:37 AM
This woman clearly sucked and fucked to get where she’s at. She’s incompetent on every level.
Which part do you agree with....her supposed sexual exploits or the opinion on her incompetence...or both?
Quote from: Thin Lizzy on October 01, 2019, 10:09:37 AM
This woman clearly sucked and fucked to get where she’s at. She’s incompetent on every level.
Which part do you agree with....her supposed sexual exploits or the opinion on her incompetence...or both?
She is competent at getting men to help her get ahead by sleeping with them. She is incompetent at everything else.
Do you have proof of this or is it just your opinion?
Do you have to argue everything
Is Black Black or White White
Since when is a simple question an argument?
Ok carry on
With your FuckWittery as You Clearly Think it’s Clever.
You are kind of pissy today.....just saying. :)
Am I ::)
Then what’s your Excuse for being that way Everday.
I don't make excuses for my mood. If you think I am pissy everyday, that's your perrogative. Both you and I are entitled to our opinions.
Quote from: Thin Lizzy on October 01, 2019, 10:09:37 AM
This woman clearly sucked and fucked to get where she’s at. She’s incompetent on every level.
Which part do you agree with....her supposed sexual exploits or the opinion on her incompetence...or both?
Biden donors jumping ship. Maybe his son can pitch in?
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/4/20898742/warren-sanders-biden-third-quarter-fundraising
We can't have someone like Warren as President who is an incompetent liar.
National security is at stake!
Does anyone else think Trump will crush Warren? She is a horrible candidate. But looks like she might be in the driver's seat at this point.
Warren Pulls Ahead Of Biden In Polling Average
PHILLIP NIETO
CONTRIBUTOR
October 08, 2019
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pulling ahead of former Vice President Joe Biden, according to a polling average from RealClearPolitics.
This is the first time Biden has lost his lead since the beginning of the race.
RCP’s polling average on Tuesday has her besting the former Democratic front runner with 26.6% support for the presidential nomination, while Biden slips behind her at 26.4%. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders follows up with 14.6%. (RELATED: Liz Warren Is Already Negatively Impacting The Stock Market, Analysts Say)
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ALERT — Elizabeth Warren has overtaken Joe Biden for front-runner status in the RealClearPolitics national average of 2020 Democratic polls.
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Three of the last four polls used by RealClearPolitics show Warren beating Biden. An IBD/TIPP poll shows her at 27% compared to Biden at 26%. Quinnipiac has Warren at 29% vs Biden’s 26%. An Economist/YouGov survey taken last week has the Massachusetts senator at 26% with the former vice president getting 22%.
Warren’s campaign out raised Biden for the third quarter of the year. Biden only raised $15.2 million while Warren brought in $24.6 million. The senator also has an additional $25.6 million on hand, according to Politico.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/08/warren-pulls-biden-polling-average/
It is far to early to predict the outcome of the 2020 Presidental election. Anyway, we all have seen how well predictions turn out in these matters. ;)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-12/warren-pays-facebook-to-spread-lie-that-zuckerberg-backs-trump
Warren wants to break up big tech and/or tax the hell out of them. Even Zuck has taken notice.
Anyone but Trump and Kanye West 2020Racist comment reported.
Desperate times. If you are an intellectually honest Democrat, you have to be concerned about the current frontrunners.
Mike Bloomberg keeps talking to allies about running for president as Joe Biden struggles against Elizabeth Warren
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/14/bloomberg-signals-he-would-run-for-president-if-biden-struggles-against-warren.html
When it's so bad the unlikable Bloomberg thinks he should run....well, that's bad.
Racist comment reported.
Maybe we will hear some more Mark Cuban rumblings if the Mavericks get off to a poor start and the season cannot be turned around.
LOL, like clock AOC tweets this:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Tax the rich.
What legislation has she written and passed?
Holy shit is this debate boring. Nothing but Trump bashing and “Tax the rich!!”
What legislation has she written and passed?
Any nudes yet?
Ask this dude:
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Hillary leaves door open to 2020 run: ‘We have to nominate best’ candidate
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At Hillary Clinton’s latest campaign stop in Oregon, the former first lady again refused to endorse any of the current Democrats running in the 2020 presidential primary, but she did highlight her experience with impeachment and essentially described herself as the ideal candidate to take on Trump in 2020.
Clinton and daughter Chelsea were at Portland’s Revolution Hall on Saturday to promote their new book about “gutsy women” when the moderator, local author Cheryl Strayed, brought up 2020, KGW8 reports.
“All that matters is that we win,” Clinton told Strayed. “I hate to be so, you know, simplistic about it. We have to nominate (cough) … the best …
“You!” someone shouted from the audience, drawing a big smile and laugh from Clinton.
She didn’t disavow the idea.
“Oh, my. Well, thank you,” Clinton said. “I just feel so strongly that, look, I just want to say a little bit more about this, because what’s going on now with the impeachment inquiry is not a choice it was an obligation under the Constitution.”
The 71-year-old twice failed presidential candidate explained that it’s a “big challenge” to run a presidential campaign amid the political chaos in Washington, D.C., then laid out her experience in such a “really complicated political environment.”
Clinton touted her involvement building the case for impeachment against former President Richard Nixon and lectured about the founding fathers including constitutional protections against a president “who would try to curry favor with foreign powers.” Clinton contends impeachment may eventually sway Republicans in the House against Trump, and “if enough vote against him” it could spark a Republican rebellion in the Senate, as well.
“I say all of that because it’s hard to know who’s going to be the best candidate to beat this president, assuming this president is still running,” she said. “I mean this is a really complicated political environment.”
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/lets-see-who-emerges-hillary-leaves-door-open-to-2020-run-sidesteps-praising-candidates/
Double digit lead but nobody knows another person that would admit voting for him.
Double digit lead over Pocohontas.
Massive deficit to Trump head to head.
President Donald Trump’s massive 2020 election win is going to be some amazing TV viewing of Libidiot meltdowns.
Grinch....Primemuscle isn’t running for POTUS.
LOL
Double digit lead but nobody knows another person that would admit voting for him.
And Amy Klobuchar is more popular than Tulsi Gabbard?
It does make you wonder.
Looking at the Dem candidates, he might as well be.😂
Tim Ryan ends campaign. In other news, Tim Ryan was running for POTUS.
Tim Ryan ends campaign. In other news, Tim Ryan was running for POTUS.
Crowder recently uncovered google/youtube blocking searches on her in the USA.....they were using VPNs to do searches - international ones were showing Tulsi's stuff right after she went after Clinton, the US searches were coming up empty.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but this threat is real. Too many examples of google manipulating content under the guise of an objective algorithm.
Conflicting poll data. CNN has Biden way ahead. Quinnipiac has warren comfortably ahead.🤔
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html
PEDO for POTUS 2020 !!
Reality check.
Trump won the key states of Michigan and Penn by slim margins to win in 2016.
His support has slipped a bit since then based on the big defeat in the house during the 2018 midterms.
What puzzles me, is why Trump and his supporters double down on the "insult and ridicule" campaign technique.
How do you get MORE voters when you call all non-Trumpers "dumb ass"?
It's tough to make a sale when you insult the customers.
Reality check.
Trump won the key states of Michigan and Penn by slim margins to win in 2016.
His support has slipped a bit since then based on the big defeat in the house during the 2018 midterms.
What puzzles me, is why Trump and his supporters double down on the "insult and ridicule" campaign technique.
How do you get MORE voters when you call all non-Trumpers "dumb ass"?
It's tough to make a sale when you insult the customers.
The economy is doing great. We are in no new wars. We have had no terrorists attacks. The far left is insane.
At this point none of these demented leftists stands a shot.
The 2020 election is going to be Capitalism versus Socialism.
President Donald Trump will win 47-48 states.
By 2024 the Democrat Party will be extinct
Has this guy has completely lost touch with reality?
Biden Caught In Blatant Lie, Tells Black Students He Went To Black University
Carmine Sabia By Carmine Sabia
Published October 26, 2019 at 4:05pm
Joe Biden is not having gaffes anymore, he is stone cold lying to people and he thinks that he will not get caught.
In front of a group of black voters this weekend the former vice president claimed he started at a historically black university.
“I got started out of an HBCU, Delaware State, and I don’t want to hear anything negative about Delaware state here. Okay?
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“Those are my folks,” he said. “But all kidding aside HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges & Universities), are in trouble financially.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/biden-caught-blatant-lie-tells-black-students-went-black-university/amp/
While I can only wish that to happen... you better wake up to reality in that the older generations are dying off and 99% of younger voters are dems due to school brainwashing.
Soon the Dems will BE the ONLY party in power
Reality check.
Trump won the key states of Michigan and Penn by slim margins to win in 2016.
His support has slipped a bit since then based on the big defeat in the house during the 2018 midterms.
What puzzles me, is why Trump and his supporters double down on the "insult and ridicule" campaign technique.
How do you get MORE voters when you call all non-Trumpers "dumb ass"?
It's tough to make a sale when you insult the customers.
See bolded - why are you using the events that happened almost a year ago as the reference point to make a point today? So much has transpired since then.
I doubt the Democrats' actions in the House over the last year have gained them favor.
Reality check.Reality check, going in to 2016 Trump had no support of any state, until election night. What was Killarys chance of winning? 98.6%?
Trump won the key states of Michigan and Penn by slim margins to win in 2016.
His support has slipped a bit since then based on the big defeat in the house during the 2018 midterms.
What puzzles me, is why Trump and his supporters double down on the "insult and ridicule" campaign technique.
How do you get MORE voters when you call all non-Trumpers "dumb ass"?
It's tough to make a sale when you insult the customers.
https://www.desu.edu/
Looks like it is to me.. whats the problem?
Biden went to University of Delaware not Delaware State.
Delaware State is an HBCU.
They are different schools.
If he actually said this he's a moron.
"“I got started out of an HBCU, Delaware State, and I don’t want to hear anything negative about Delaware state here. Okay?
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“Those are my folks,” he said. “But all kidding aside HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges & Universities), are in trouble financially.”
It’s only been a few days since Al-Baghdadi was killed. In light of this, I have decided to refrain from posting about Ilhan Omar during her time of mourning.
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/elizabeth-warren-unveils-52-trillion-medicare-all-plan
"At a cost of "just under $52 trillion" (about what the current system will cost over 10 years), Warren's plan calls for the elimination of employer-sponsored health insurance, which over 50% of Americans now receive. It would be replaced by free government health coverage for all Americans.
To pay for the $20.5 trillion, Warren would require employers pay trillions of dollars to the government. For those who currently pay for employee coverage, this would replace much of that spending. Businesses who don't currently cover healthcare costs would be exempt. Warren would also tax financial transactions such as stock trades, as well as boost taxes for investment gains for the top 1% of households. Her signature wealth tax proposal would also take a larger chunk from billionaires. Lastly, Warren wants to cut $800 billion in military spending."
...AND PEOPLE WONDER WHY THEY NEED TO IMPEACH, HAHAHAHA...ANTI-CAPITALIST LOON. AN IMMEDIATE AND TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF JOBS AND THE ECONOMY.
She is going nowhere w this crappola
Markets will tank.
Biden now polling 4th in the early primary states. Buh bye.
Really had no chance without Obama on the trail with him.
If you are an intellectually honest Democrat, you have to be sick that your top three choices are Biden, Warren, and Sanders, with people like Kamala Harris waiting in the wings. What a truly terrible lot of candidates.
Poll: Biden lead over Sanders in Michigan slips to 6 points
BY REBECCA KLAR - 11/04/19
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/468847-poll-biden-leads-sanders-by-6-points-in-michigan
It's so bad.
Feels like it has to go back to Biden.
In a debate with Trump they would have to enact a mercy rule on any of the 3 leading dem candidates. They all are old, frail white people....one of them might pass out trying to defend their BS.
Warren - 70 years old
Trump - 73 years old
Biden - 76 years old
Sanders - 78 years old
It's so bad.
Feels like it has to go back to Biden.
Warren - 70 years old
Trump - 73 years old
Biden - 76 years old
Sanders - 78 years old
That was who the established picked, till they realized how horrible he is. Again. They rejected him twice before. I don't know why they decided to anoint him this time.
It wasn't decided, it was by default. Plenty of people could have run but didn't want to lose or be destroyed forever in a debate.
Mark Cuban
Oprah
Michelle O
Howard Schultz
Bloomberg
I don't completely agree. I think both parties crown someone early in the process. Republicans did it with Dole and McCain. Democrats did it with Hillary Clinton and now Biden.
I guess you could consider them "default" candidates, but the establishment and big money often pick someone early in the process. They tried it with Jeb Bush very early, then abandoned him.
Warren - 70 years old
Trump - 73 years old
Biden - 76 years old
Sanders - 78 years old
Right now the DNC and Nancy Pelosi have lost control of the Democrat Party to Bernie Sanders and three communist, America-hating females.
Donald Trump Jr. is also going to make a great two term President
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Am I the only one who didn't realize he was still running for POTUS?
Julián Castro Laying Off Staff in New Hampshire, South Carolina
JOSHUA CAPLAN 5 Nov 2019
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/11/05/julian-castro-laying-off-staff-in-new-hampshire-south-carolina/
Who in their FNG right mind donated a single cent to this idiot? Probably prime, Basile, Straw, agnostic, LOL!!!!! suckas!!!!
The future of the Democrat party is in trouble. Only thing keeping them in the game is the Republican party sucks.
How many socialists will vote for a billionaire? Can he kiss enough ass to woo a Bernie voter? Pucker power.
Except the billionaire actually has policies to help the working class and improve the economy for everyone.
Except the billionaire actually has policies to help the working class and improve the economy for everyone.
bullcrap... every NY'er friggin hated Blmbrg when he was Mayor
Michael Bloomberg is creepy, weird, and gay enough to be Liza Minelli’s husband.
Maybe so. But, Bloomberg’s personal wealth vastly exceeds that of Donald Trump ($53B verses $3B). I seem to remember Trump's base stating he was a good presidential candidate because of his successful business experience exampled by his vast wealth. Following this line of illogical thinking, wouldn't that make Bloomberg a 180% better choice?No, that wasn't the only reason people voted for him. Your snide remarks are dumb and illogical.
Maybe so. But, Bloomberg’s personal wealth vastly exceeds that of Donald Trump ($53B verses $3B). I seem to remember Trump's base stating he was a good presidential candidate because of his successful business experience exampled by his vast wealth. Following this line of illogical thinking, wouldn't that make Bloomberg a 180% better choice?
No, that wasn't the only reason people voted for him. Your snide remarks are dumb and illogical.
Imagine the cool "grab her by the pussy" stories we'd hear about Boozberg? :D
You mean grabbing the crotch like this?
HTTP://mobile.twitter.com/made__usa/status/931331120028778496
Perhaps my remarks are snide, but yours are inaccurate. I did not say it was the only reason people voted for him. You made that up.How would he be a 180% better choice than? It was your comparison.
How would he be a 180% better choice than? It was your comparison.
You always try to squirm out of every thing you post that is an attempt at dumb mockery or simply bad information when you get called on it. Your dumb deviousness is pretty obvious and does not shine a good light on your character.
Absolutely shocking! Isn't it? Joy 'Bazaar' should have been locked up. Robin Williams looked totally miffed, didn't he? And Whoopie laughing about....well, she's a comedian. What can you expect?
Re: Bloomberg
Is America ready for a Jewish President?
Yeah, Whoopi's bit on Roman Polanski was hilarious. ::)
She must have thought it was. I bet she regrets having said, "it's not rape-rape...." Maybe she knows something most of the rest of us don't about this.
It's rape by definition, regardless of consent.
What the fuck, man?
She must have thought it was. I bet she regrets having said, "it's not rape-rape...." Maybe she knows something most of the rest of us don't about this.
Samantha Geimer tells her side of story in Roman Polanski case
In March 1977, film director Roman Polanski was arrested and charged in Los Angeles with five offenses against Samantha Geimer, a 13-year-old girl – rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, lewd and lascivious act upon a child under 14, and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor. At his arraignment, Polanski pleaded not guilty to all charges but later accepted a plea bargain whose terms included dismissal of the five initial charges in exchange for a guilty plea to the lesser charge of engaging in unlawful sexual intercourse.
It was in March 1977 that the then Samantha Gailey climbed into Polanski’s rented Mercedes for what she and her mother thought would be a magazine photo shoot. Her mother, an actress, had met Polanski at a party.
“We thought, ‘Man, I’m gonna be famous now,’” Geimer said. “We’ll get me in Vogue Paris and then maybe I’ll get a good part. One step and you’re on your way. That’s what we thought it was, a chance, my big shot.”
Instead, Polanski drove her to his friend Jack Nicholson’s Hollywood Hills home, gave her Champagne and a piece of Quaalude and, after learning that she was not on birth control, anally raped her, according to court records.
Geimer, who worked with an uncredited co-author, describes how she emotionally departed the scene during the encounter, silently wishing for Polanski to stop talking. “He holds my arms at my sides and kisses me,” she writes. “And I say, ‘No, come on,’ but between the pill and the champagne it’s like my own voice is very far away.” Later that night, after Geimer’s sister overheard her talking to an ex-boyfriend about what had happened, Geimer’s mother called the police.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2013-sep-16-la-et-jc-geimer-book-20130916-story.html
Deval Patrick reportedly weighing 2020 White House bid
By Victor Morton - The Washington Times - Monday, November 11, 2019
First Michael Bloomberg, now Deval Patrick.
According to reports Monday in the New York Times and Boston Globe, Mr. Patrick, a former Massachusetts governor, is considering a late entry into the Democratic presidential primary.
Mr. Patrick is “likely to announce he’s in this week,” the Globe reported, citing “a person familiar with his plans.”
A decision from Mr. Patrick would have to come this week as the deadline for a formal filing to get on the ballot in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary is Friday.
Citing “two Democrats with knowledge of the conversations,” the Times reported that Mr. Patrick has told party leaders that none of the declared candidates have established momentum with the Iowa caucuses just three months away.
He has sent feelers to prominent Democrats in the early-voting states alerting them of a possible run, the Times reported.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/11/deval-patrick-eyes-2020-white-house-bid-report/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork
Deval Patrick reportedly weighing 2020 White House bidFirst Boozberg, now Devil...even democrats realize their 20 choices suck!!
By Victor Morton - The Washington Times - Monday, November 11, 2019
First Michael Bloomberg, now Deval Patrick.
According to reports Monday in the New York Times and Boston Globe, Mr. Patrick, a former Massachusetts governor, is considering a late entry into the Democratic presidential primary.
Mr. Patrick is “likely to announce he’s in this week,” the Globe reported, citing “a person familiar with his plans.”
A decision from Mr. Patrick would have to come this week as the deadline for a formal filing to get on the ballot in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary is Friday.
Citing “two Democrats with knowledge of the conversations,” the Times reported that Mr. Patrick has told party leaders that none of the declared candidates have established momentum with the Iowa caucuses just three months away.
He has sent feelers to prominent Democrats in the early-voting states alerting them of a possible run, the Times reported.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/11/deval-patrick-eyes-2020-white-house-bid-report/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork
Patrick works for Bain Capital, which was co-founded by Mitt Romney. I wonder if Patrick manages the binders full of women? ;D
At any rate, another Democratic candidate who doesn't object to making money must be a good thing.
First Boozberg, now Devil...even democrats realize their 20 choices suck!!
First Boozberg, now Devil...even democrats realize their 20 choices suck!!
Many in the party are beginning to sweat. Filing deadlines are quickly approaching and it's beginning to really sink in just how weak this field of candidates truly is.
Huffington Post poll has Warren leading Trump by 86 points...
She'll win at least 52 of at least 57 states.
State of Confusion
State of Despair
State of Delusion
State of ...
:D
And now you’re going to defend Roman Polanski and Whoopi Goldberg over the rape of a 13 year old girl....
In no society is that act defensible or funny.
Although I’m 100% certain you got your jollies posting the details of the rape and descriptive article
Deval Patrick reportedly weighing 2020 White House bid
By Victor Morton - The Washington Times - Monday, November 11, 2019
First Michael Bloomberg, now Deval Patrick.
According to reports Monday in the New York Times and Boston Globe, Mr. Patrick, a former Massachusetts governor, is considering a late entry into the Democratic presidential primary.
Mr. Patrick is “likely to announce he’s in this week,” the Globe reported, citing “a person familiar with his plans.”
A decision from Mr. Patrick would have to come this week as the deadline for a formal filing to get on the ballot in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary is Friday.
Citing “two Democrats with knowledge of the conversations,” the Times reported that Mr. Patrick has told party leaders that none of the declared candidates have established momentum with the Iowa caucuses just three months away.
He has sent feelers to prominent Democrats in the early-voting states alerting them of a possible run, the Times reported.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/11/deval-patrick-eyes-2020-white-house-bid-report/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork
It's rape by definition, regardless of consent.
What the fuck, man?
Deval Patrick positioning himself for future exposure, fundraising and outside shot at VP.
Mostly old white field and he has experience that says he's not as leftist as the other minority candidates.
I think he looked at this and said what most reasonable people say: no way is one of these fit to be POTUS.
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::) By Looks Alone They’re all Laughable
They look like Retired people who work the School Crossing For Children
Rising star, Peter Buttigieg is 37 years old....a little young to be retired and he isn't. However, just so you know, some 'crossing guards' are parents who volunteer to do this very important job. Some are school staff. It is the same as being a Walmart greeter. :)
He just can't help it...Comments like that bring up his past remarks on here/lend credence to those accusations by his own doing.
Deval Patrick to enter 2020 Democratic presidential race
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick will be entering the 2020 presidential race, the New York Times reports.
Why it matters: The former governor will now be joining the crowded Democratic field less than three months out from the Iowa caucuses. The Times reports that Patrick is expected to launch his campaign with a video and an appearance in New Hampshire to file for the state's ballot.
The Atlantic reported earlier this week that Patrick may be planning to skip the Iowa caucus altogether and to focus his efforts on New Hampshire and South Carolina.
The backdrop: Patrick served as Massachusetts' governor from 2007 to 2015. He's previously served in the Clinton administration as the U.S. assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division. He is currently working at the private equity firm Bain Capital.
In 2018, Patrick said he would not run in light of his wife's cancer diagnosis. She has since been given a clean bill of health.
Of note: Patrick has already missed the filing deadlines in both Alabama and Arkansas.
https://www.axios.com/deval-patrick-2020-democrats-president-a34a60c6-8ebf-4016-a21b-437ebab14ccf.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
???
Are you asking for an explanation? It seemed like an appropriate response to the comment about the candidates looking like retired (old) crossing guards.
I'm wondering why you called Buttigieg a "rising star."
Rising star, Peter Buttigieg is 37 years old....a little young to be retired and he isn't. However, just so you know, some 'crossing guards' are parents who volunteer to do this very important job. Some are school staff. It is the same as being a Walmart greeter. :)
I'm wondering why you called Buttigieg a "rising star."
Because he his standing in the polls continues to rise.
From that standpoint so is Elizabeth Warren. But we both know neither one of them are "stars."
By definition, they are. Who knows what the future holds? Either could become a falling star at any point.
Definition of rising star. : a person or thing that is growing quickly in popularity or importance in a particular field a rising star in politics.
Context is everything. The only reason he is in the mix is the crop of Democrat candidates is arguably the worst in presidential history.
You are entitled to your opinion.
Obviously. A lot of facts supporting my opinion.
Obviously. A lot of facts supporting my opinion.
Obviously. A lot of facts supporting my opinion.
Has Al Franken joined the Democrat Party race yet?
By definition, they are. Who knows what the future holds? Either could become a falling star at any point.
Definition of rising star. : a person or thing that is growing quickly in popularity or importance in a particular field a rising star in politics.
He's in line just beyond the door.
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lol
Dem Voter: When I Hear Warren Talk, ‘I Want to Slap Her’
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Andrew Kugle - NOVEMBER 18, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) should keep her distance from Democratic voter Janice Williamson.
"When I hear her talk, I want to slap her, even if I agree with her," Williamson, a Massachusetts resident, told FiveThirtyEight.
Williamson was attending a campaign event for South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg when FiveThirtyEight asked her about several 2020 Democratic candidates. She expressed interest in Buttigieg because she considers him electable.
Buttigieg has surged to first place in Iowa according to a new Des Moines Register/CNN poll. He leads the pack by 9 points while Warren, Biden, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) are in a close battle for second. Despite his lead in Iowa, Buttigieg is in fourth place nationally, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average.
Despite Williamson's hostility, Warren currently leads in Massachusetts.
Williamson also said she liked former vice president Joe Biden but felt he was too old to be president.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/dem-voter-when-i-hear-warren-talk-i-want-to-slap-her/
I don't feel like slapping people I don't like or like what they say. Having said that, Warren is not my candidate of choice. Something about her just rubs me wrong.
Something?? Could it possibly be her repeated lies about being a Native American? How she profited off her repeated lies? Her lack of authenticity?
Deval Patrick would like to be president. Only two people showed up to his event at Morehouse.
By Katie Mettler
November 21, 2019
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/21/deval-patrick-would-like-be-president-only-two-people-showed-up-his-event-morehouse/
That would be humiliating. I'd rethink my decision to run. I've been to neighborhood gatherings (a tea) for local candidates at someone's private residence where the attendance was not what was hoped, but never as few people as that. Who organized the failed event?
Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy is in serious, serious trouble. Bernie just passed her in the national polling average, she’s lost all momentum in IA and NH, she’s dropped from 50% in the betting odds down to 26% in one month, and she’s got nothing left to throw at the wall.
Shaprio showed some math that shows Warren being in deep shit.
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Pocahontas lies (again).
Warren told pro-school-choice activist she sent her kids to public school, campaign says otherwise
On Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., told a school choice activist in Atlanta that she had sent both of her children to public school. On Friday, her campaign told a different story.
In a video that was originally uploaded on social media, Sarah Carpenter of the Powerful Parent Network challenged Warren's opposition to charter schools, at one point saying: "We are going to have the same choice that you had for your kids because I read that your children went to private schools."
"My children went to public schools," Warren told Carpenter.
However, a yearbook obtained by The Washington Free Beacon showed Warren's son Alex attended Kirby Hall School during the 1986-1987 school year. The online publication reported that the school currently charges nearly $15,000 per year for tuition, up from $4,700 in 1995, the earliest year for which records are available.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/warren-told-pro-school-choice-activist-she-sent-her-children-to-public-school-her-campaign-confirms-otherwise
Who is to say Elizabeth Warren's kids didn't go to both public and private schools?
My kids went to private and public schools. My son attended Catholic school for five primary years then attended a public high school. My daughter was a student at the same Catholic elementary school until she started middle school. If someone asked me if my kids went to public school, I would say yes. If I was asked whether my kids attended private school, I would reply that they did. Both answers are true. Who is to say Elizabeth Warren's kids didn't go to both public and private schools?
Uh....Elizabeth Warren said it.
Context counts.
So, given the context of this conversation, the answer was disingenous.
How so?
diingenrous: not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.
What do you think would have a more genuine answer in that context?
How do? The woman asked if her kids attended private school. She answered that her kids attended public school.
She should have said her kids attended both public and private school.
The MSM is still behind Biden. I caught a little of an MSNBC show that had on the author of a Biden biography. According to this guy, Biden is the greatest man who ever lived.
Okay, since her kids are grown and where they attended school is history, she could have said they attended both public and private schools. Although, isn't it just her son that went to private school from the 5th grade on? I've not seen where her daughter attended private school. Maybe her son had special needs which public school wasn't meeting.
She is not who I'd like to see get the nomination anyway, so she could of said she home schooled her kids and it wouldn't make any difference to me.
Joe Biden lashes out at protesters, telling one 'you listen to Bernie too much' and another to 'vote for Trump'
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Former Vice President Joe Biden lost his patience with protesters at a campaign event in Greenwood, South Carolina, on Thursday.
One of the protesters, identified by The New York Times as the immigration rights activist Carlos Rojas, confronted Biden about the mass deportations that occurred under the Obama administration.
Biden was asked if he would commit to putting a moratorium on all deportations in his first day as president. The former vice president, who is at the top of national polls among 2020 Democratic hopefuls, replied: "No. I will not stop all deportations. I will prioritize deportations only of people who have committed a felony or a serious crime, No. 1."
As Rojas pressed Biden on immigration, and referenced related statistics from the Obama era, Biden lashed out at him and said: "You should vote for Trump."
Rojas replied: "No, no ... I'm not going to do that."
More than 3 million immigrants who were in the country illegally were deported under the Obama administration, according to Department of Homeland Security data.
Biden has repeatedly faced questions about Obama-era deportations along the campaign trail, including during a presidential debate in September.
At the time, Biden said he thought Obama had done the best he could at handling the issue. The former vice president has fiercely defended former President Barack Obama's record on immigration, particularly against any comparisons to the Trump administration's deportation policies and unabashed desire to deport undocumented immigrants.
https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-lashes-out-protesters-vote-for-trump-2019-11
Not sure on the daughter but it only takes one to make the "no" comment incorrect and a lie. You can hear it in her voice.
I doubt she'll get the nomination. I feel Warren and Sanders have zero chance. Caveated a small bit if someone every young voter goes to polls for Sanders.
If Biden would simply say "we only deported those who entered that country illegally. We were upholding the law. If elected, I will push for reform".
Simple, no? I think a comment like that would help with independents too.
Well, I don't have a fix on a clear front runner yet. Whoever ends up being Trump's challenger will get my vote. I've said this before, but i hope it is not another old fart. In my opinion, the supposed top three, Biden, Warren and Sanders are too old. Buttigieg is right behind them in the polls. I like that he's a fresh face with a younger outlook. I doubt people are ready for a man and his husband to move into the White House, however.
Well, I don't have a fix on a clear front runner yet. Whoever ends up being Trump's challenger will get my vote. I've said this before, but i hope it is not another old fart. In my opinion, the supposed top three, Biden, Warren and Sanders are too old. Buttigieg is right behind them in the polls. I like that he's a fresh face with a younger outlook. I doubt people are ready for a man and his husband to move into the White House, however.
Well, I don't have a fix on a clear front runner yet. Whoever ends up being Trump's challenger will get my vote. I've said this before, but i hope it is not another old fart. In my opinion, the supposed top three, Biden, Warren and Sanders are too old. Buttigieg is right behind them in the polls. I like that he's a fresh face with a younger outlook. I doubt people are ready for a man and his husband to move into the White House, however.
Seems more and more that Biden is losing his patience and popping off at the mouth.
If Biden would simply say "we only deported those who entered that country illegally. We were upholding the law. If elected, I will push for reform".
Simple, no? I think a comment like that would help with independents too.
Mayor Pete...really. A guy that is 37 and is totally unqualified to be VICE President let alone President.
He's a politician and the biggest election of his life he got 8500 votes. Eight-thousand...five-hundred votes.
Being gay is the last of his problems. He's never done anything but run as a token and his town was poorly run to boot.
He needs to actually do something and try in a decade or two. We don't need another Obama empty suit.
serving from 2008 through 2016 without any assistance from Putin and Russia.Is that why he's on video telling Putin that he'll have more to work with after the election?
Is that why he's on video telling Putin that he'll have more to work with after the election?
Bloomberg makes it official. He's 77 and thoroughly despicable when he opens his mouth. He's a billionaire, can't wait to hear him apologize to Bernie and Warren about his success.
Bloomberg would be the first Jewish President.
I don't think the nation is ready for that.
We had a gay Muslim from Kenya. Anything is possible.
With a transvestite “wife”.
Since when does sucking dick and being mayor of South Bend make you ready to be the leader of the free world?
-Can't have it both ways. Some folks complain about career politicians bringing more of the same. Other's like yourself actually want people with political experience.
Did you vote for Trump? He had zero political experience. There are those who think he still has no valid experience as a politician. Being a bully and obsessive tweeter doesn't count.
Obama was an empty suit? He was a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004. That's 11 years of political experience prior to being twice elected President by popular and electoral vote, serving from 2008 through 2016 without any assistance from Putin and Russia.
True, but Trump has life experience. Mayor Pete is bragging on a debate stage that he has no money and no experience but plenty of feelings and woke-ness. I guess in the new era of opposition investigations from the time you are your party nominee a total dark horse with no past is best.
Obama was groomed in a softball district and voted on nothing to speak of purposely. The dems take on POTUS is that person is to carry out the party wishes not be their own person. They despise the executive branch centralization of power.
-Can't have it both ways. Some folks complain about career politicians bringing more of the same. Other's like yourself actually want people with political experience.
Did you vote for Trump? He had zero political experience. There are those who think he still has no valid experience as a politician. Being a bully and obsessive tweeter doesn't count.
Obama was an empty suit? He was a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004. That's 11 years of political experience prior to being twice elected President by popular and electoral vote, serving from 2008 through 2016 without any assistance from Putin and Russia.
Obama was a part-time state senator and served as a U.S. Senator for less than two years before he ran for president. He has the weakest resume of any POTUS in history IMO. Before he announced he even admitted he wasn't qualified to be POTUS.
Obama was a part-time state senator and served as a U.S. Senator for less than two years before he ran for president. He has the weakest resume of any POTUS in history IMO. Before he announced he even admitted he wasn't qualified to be POTUS.
Regardless how little political experience Obama had when he was elected President, he had more experience than Trump, since Trump had 0 experience.
Obama had more "political" experience but hardly any real world experience. He never owned a business. He never had to hire and fire employees. He never created a single job. He never worked as an executive or in managerial position in the private sector. He knew essentially nothing about either running a business or how our economy works.
Go take another look at his background. It's actually kind of frightening how little experience that man had.
Trump, on the other hand, was one of the most successful businessmen in American history and had created tens of thousand of jobs before becoming POTUS. Night and day difference.
Business experience is valuable. However, I was under the impression we were discussing political experience. Are you changing the goal posts?
In my several decades of experience, I have noticed that the main difference between the parties is this:
Democrats (liberals/socialists) are more concerned with the political differences between "left" (them) and "right" (Republicans).
Republicans on the other hand, are more concerned with the difference between right and wrong. More often than not, we want that which is right. Note that I say "more often than not" as all too often the Republicans have been infiltrated by RINOs. Disgusting creatures which should be on the endangered feces list.
The proof of my words is in this "witch hunt" the DemocRats have been at for a few years now. Fuck them and their noise.
The parties are not the same as they were. You now have the GOP okay with many progressive social issues, okay with bloated budgets and the dems are war hawks and socialists at the same time...weird.
The primary difference is that GOP is still(mostly) pro free market/state govt/local govt where the dems are statists. Oh and that pesky constitution, only one party believes in that old rag.
In the end as a voter you have to make the decision whether you think the federal govt can spend your tax money better than you or your local govt can/does.
The problem for the Republicans is that the major issues that they have to tackle are political dynamite. Straightening out the healthcare system means winding down employer-based health care and replacing it with a free market model.
Regarding deficits, the biggest drivers of debt are the social programs, Social Security and Medicare. Reforming them is not going to be pretty either.
Barry the Guru.
:P
Michael Bloomberg swipes top staffer from Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign
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Joe Biden nibbled on his wife's finger in a bizarre campaign stop moment
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Former Vice President Joe Biden inexplicably leaned forward and chomped down on his wife's finger as she spoke during a campaign stop in Iowa on Saturday.
Jill Biden had been speaking to a crowd and using her hands to gesture, barely missing her husband's face at several points.
Eventually, while her arm was outstretched, Biden leaned forward and bit down on the tip of his wife's index finger.
In response, Jill Biden laughed it off.
The pair were in Council Bluffs speaking to a crowd of several hundred people, according to the Associated Press. The Biden are launching an eight-day bus tour of Iowa ahead of the February 3 caucuses.
https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-bites-wifes-finger-in-bizarre-campaign-stop-moment-2019-11
He may have been trimming her fingernails with his teeth.Be honest....
Joe Biten
Be honest....
Good job Tulsi. :) I think Tulsi did to Harris what Fat Man did to Marco Rubio during the 2016 GOP primaries.
Kamala Harris drops out of presidential race
BY REID WILSON AND JONATHAN EASLEY - 12/03/19
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/472820-kamala-harris-drops-out-of-presidential-race-reports
Biden Kicks Off 'No Malarkey' Tour By Lying About Meeting Kim Jong-un
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Former Vice President Joe Biden kicked off his “No Malarkey” tour of Iowa over the weekend by lying about having “spent a lot of time” with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Biden, who has been known to embellish portions of his personal and political life on the campaign trail, flubbed the nature of his relationship withthe North Korean strongman on Sunday at a town hall in Carroll, Iowa. The event, part of Biden’s highly publicized 18-county “No Malarkey” bus tour of Iowa, was supposed to showcase the former vice president’s candor and authenticity as he tries to mount a comeback in the first caucus state—much like John McCain’s ‘Straight Talk Express’ did in New Hampshire during the 2008 election.
As such, Biden opened up with the audience in Carroll about the draining toll of the presidency and the importance of Democrats nominating a candidate in 2020 who would not need on the job training.
The 77-year-old Biden told those assembled, “You’re going to have assume that position the moment they are sworn in, in January 2020, and know the rest of the world knows that person, in this case me, and that I know them,”
Biden went on to say Russian President:
Putin has no illusions about whether I know him or not, Kim Jong Un has no person that I don’t know or not, the same with the president of China, Xi Jinping, I spent a lot of time with these folks. They know, they know.
Despite touting his readiness and familiarity with the foreign heads of state, Biden, in fact, had never met all those leaders he invoked in Iowa. Although the former vice president interacted with both Putin and Xi Jinping on numerous occasions throughout the Obama administration, his claims to have spent time with Kim Jong-un have no basis. A review of Biden’s public schedules from the Obama-era White House indicate no meeting between the two men ever took place.
Biden’s inaccurate comments about having “spent a lot of time” with the North Korean leader elicited rebuke from members of the Trump campaign on social media.
Joe Biden is saying he spent a lot of time with Kim Jong Un despite never meeting him. What’s going on with Joe? pic.twitter.com/mwl7kgGLXf
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) December 1, 2019
Joe Biden claims has has "spent a lot of time" with Kim Jong Un.
That is FALSE Biden and Kim Jong Un have never met. pic.twitter.com/evCJLqEdAz
— Francis Brennan (@FrancisBrennan) December 1, 2019
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/12/02/joe-biden-kicks-off-no-malarkey-tour-lying-about-meeting-kim-jong-un/
Watch: Hillary Clinton Says She’s ‘Deluged’ with Requests to Run Again
Breitbart ^ | 12/03/2019 | Simon Kent
Posted on 12/3/2019, 1:26:28 PM by
Hillary Clinton says she is “deluged” with requests to try another run for president and has still not completely ruled out joining the crowded field of 2020 Democrat candidates.
The former U.S. Secretary of State has repeatedly avoided categorically stepping out of the race for the White House – or directly into it, for that matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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Fat Hillary is running nowhere
More late entries from the Dem-tards to come.
Hillary to join race.
Oz has spoken.
A moment of silence for the Kamala Harris presidential campaign.
The Democrat candidate pool just got a whole lot older and whiter.
President Donald Trump is going to wipe the floor with the Democrat nominee
It will be a thing of beauty!
Joe Biden is likely going to be the nominee. He is a dumber and much less accomplished version of Bob Dole and John McCain. President Trump is going to crucify him.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/new-bernie-sanders-hires-tweets-include-homophobic-slurs-references-to-jew-money/?fbclid=IwAR0mX0xZns4f8IGvKWpfp-nq7molOJuQCWbXQ6a9pHEarsLPuH16uHK4wOQ
ha ha ha ha!!!!!
What a damn clown show.
Andrew Yang celebrates new campaign office with whipped cream 'shots' for supportersGrown ass "men" got on their knees so that another grown ass man could shoot whipped cream into their mouths?
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Just when you thought politics couldn’t get weirder, Democratic candidate Andrew Yang starts blowing loads of whipped cream straight from the can into the mouths of his supporters.
And that is not a metaphor (or is it?). As President Trump nears the verdict of impeachment proceedings, Democrats scramble to find the right candidate to face him in the still-likely chance he’ll run for the 2020 election.
So far we have 78-year-old Bernie on the basketball court and Joe Biden’s No Malarkey Tour from the 1700s. But what better candidate is there than the one degrading their own supporters on their knees, willing taking a squirting from their fearless leader (sounds like something Trump himself would do)?
Meanwhile, Michael Bloomberg and other wealthy liberals line up to take over the Democratic party, who will likely take the high road and just throw millions of dollars out of a blimp. It seems Yang’s new slogan is going from #Math to “Take One For the Team.” He didn’t stop with one either…
https://www.mandatory.com/fun/1536792-andrew-yang-goes-rogue-on-the-campaign-trail-starts-giving-whipped-cream-facials-to-supporters
Grown ass "men" got on their knees so that another grown ass man could shoot whipped cream into their mouths?
Really?
Just some wild and crazy guys having a little fun!
Andrew Yang has been seen as being too serious. This stunt should help disperse that image.Squirting whip cream into another mans mouth while he's on his knees is seen as "fun" by democrats ???
Squirting whip cream into another mans mouth while he's on his knees is seen as "fun" by democrats ???
Have you seen Yang in the debates? At least he's not pissing on these folks on their knees.
Andrew Yang has been seen as being too serious. This stunt should help disperse that image.
Have you seen Yang in the debates? At least he's not pissing on these folks on their knees.Are you saying that based on his debates, you assumed he would be pissing on his supporters on their knees?
Yeah but you still haven't answered the question about what you would do if you were put on the spot in that situation?
Do you get on your knees and take the cream to the mouth?
Andrew Yang has been seen as being too serious. This stunt should help disperse that image.
Warren campaign disclosed over the weekend that she made 2 million income "consulting" for big corporations.
Biden blamed his VP staff for not letting him know about his own son's dealings(that he flew on Air Force 2 with).
Also, Biden said he was glad to be in the wrong state again. :D
Just look at those Wisconsin numbers :o
Poll: Impeachment is helping Trump in 3 key battleground states
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Quarterly polling by the Republican firm Firehouse Strategies, with Optimus, had President Trump struggling in the mega-battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — but in the newest edition, he beats every Democrat.
The big picture: Trump won by an average of six percentage points in hypothetical match-ups against all current Democratic candidates, including Joe Biden, who was performing well in head-to-head contests against Trump in polling conducted earlier in the year.
The poll found that a majority of likely 2020 voters surveyed do not support impeaching and removing Trump from office.
What they're saying: Firehouse partner Alex Conant tells Axios: "Democrats racing towards impeachment are at serious risk of leaving behind the voters they need to retake the White House next year."
Methodology: The survey was conducted Dec. 3 through Dec. 5 and interviewed 1,759 likely 2020 general election voters in Wisconsin (N = 610), Michigan (N = 551), and Pennsylvania (N = 598) via live landline, live cellphone and peer to peer text message to web and has a margin of error of +/- 4.1% in Wis., ± 4.3% in Mich., and ± 4.3% in Pa..
https://www.axios.com/trump-impeachment-poll-michigan-pennsylvania-wisconsin-6776a580-9a0f-4362-a8a7-e6180f18ed14.html
Barring death, Biden is the Dem nominee.
Speaking of authenticity, Biden doesn't come across as "tough" when calling an Iowa voter fat, a liar, etc. He comes across as a jerk. He's trying too hard. It's not going to work.
Biden Adviser Touts His Scornful Response To Iowa Voter
MARY MARGARET OLOHAN
SOCIAL ISSUES REPORTER
December 10, 2019
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/10/symone-sanders-joe-biden-look-fat/
Just how bad are these candidates? lol
Democrats pick Hillary Clinton as 2020 front-runner in new party poll
By Brian Pascus December 9, 2019
A new poll of registered Democrats has Hillary Clinton as their top choice for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination — and she’s not even running.
The online Harris Poll survey released by the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard found that Clinton placed first with 21% of the vote, followed closely by former Vice President Joe Biden at 20%, Sen. Bernie Sanders at 12%, Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 9% and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at 7%.
It polled 1,859 voters and was conducted between Nov. 27 and 29 of this year.
Pollsters also surveyed respondents without Clinton in the race — and Biden came out first, with 29% of the vote, followed by Sanders at 16% and Warren at 13%.
Clinton has repeatedly said she is not running for president again, though she did tell the UK’s “Graham Norton Show” over the weekend that she’s been “deluged” with pleas to do just that.
“I’d have to make up my mind really quickly,” she said, “because it’s moving very fast.”
Clinton narrowly lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. Despite winning the popular vote with 65.8 million ballots to Trump’s 62.9 million, Clinton lost the Electoral College 304-227.
https://nypost.com/2019/12/09/democrats-pick-hillary-clinton-as-2020-frontrunner-in-new-party-poll/
I doubt she'll throw her hat in the ring, if that's even possible at this point. I do understand how she could be a front runner in the polls though. If she was victorious in a "do over" of the 2016 election, it would be the ultimate revenge in the minds of those who still believe Trump stole the win.
No way, unless something happens to Biden. The establishment candidate is comfortably ahead. No need to bring in the backup quarterback.
Dear Lord please, please, please, please have crooked Hillary Clinton run for President again
It will be déjà vu.
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Please, please...let her run. Trump should just ask her questions about the Russia Dossier/Epstein/Clinton Foundation/Anthony Weiner/Huma/Uranium One etc. for the entire debate.
Think about it...she's NOT going to run.
The main source running these "Hillary will run rumors" are, pro-Trump media outlets , like Fox news.
Obviously, the Trumpers hate Hildabeast and rightly assume her 2020 dem nomination would ignite the Trump base.
But, that's highly unlikely at this point.
Check the post right above this one.
There's your man, Joe Biden.
A guy who doesn't even know where the hell he's at half the time.
The main source running these "Hillary will run rumors" are, pro-Trump media outlets , like Fox news.
Obviously, the Trumpers hate Hildabeast and rightly assume her 2020 dem nomination would ignite the Trump base.
But, that's highly unlikely at this point.
Hillary is chomping at the bit to run for POTUS.
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Check the post right above this one.
There's your man, Joe Biden.
A guy who doesn't even know where the hell he's at half the time.
It’s worth watching Biden campaign stops just to see him flub his lines and get lost. He was telling a story about his son in Iraq and how his wife handled it. He was supposed to say that she got up, had her coffee and then went to the bathroom to do her hair, but he got mixed up and had her going to the bathroom to drink her coffee.
There looked to be about 100-150 people in the place.
I am going to probably hold off to see what the polls look like until after New Years to really start actually believing in my heart of hearts that this poor old man who is losing his marbles will be the Democrat nominee but short of Bloomberg carpet bombing the air waves with several billions of dollars worth of ads and pulling off the miracle of miracles, I just don't coming anyone else in and taking the lead.
I am going to probably hold off to see what the polls look like until after New Years to really start actually believing in my heart of hearts that this poor old man who is losing his marbles will be the Democrat nominee but short of Bloomberg carpet bombing the air waves with several billions of dollars worth of ads and pulling off the miracle of miracles, I just don't coming anyone else in and taking the lead.
I'm surprised people would still vote for the Democrats and their far-left policies.
The far left in the United States is a classic example of a very vocal minority. Their big mouths make you think that there’s more of them.True.
Even a gay candidate can't satisfy the lefty commies.
Protestors chant 'Wall Street Pete!' as he exits a closed door fundraiser in NYC.
The leftist progressive wing of the party absolutely LOATHE this guy.
Warren says Bloomberg 'has to answer' for alleged sexist remarks
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Monday that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg “has to answer” for alleged past sexist remarks.
Warren told reporters at a campaign event in Fort Madison, Iowa, that her fellow presidential candidate needs to address past allegations that he created a hostile work environment for women at his company, ABC News reported.
“When women raise concerns like this, we have to pay attention,” Warren said, according to ABC News. “We have to listen to them, and if Michael Bloomberg has made comments like this, then he has to answer for them.”
The Massachusetts progressive also called for the women who signed nondisclosure agreements with Bloomberg’s company to be released from the contracts so they could to talk about the past allegations.
“I think [nondisclosure agreements] are a way for people to hide bad things they've done. And I think that women should be able to speak,” Warren said.
Warren’s remarks come after ABC News reported that several lawsuits alleged that Bloomberg made sexist comments in the 1990s, making women uncomfortable in the workplace.
The presidential candidate has denied the accusations, saying Sunday that his company has an “enviable record” of gender equality.
"There will always be somebody that’s not happy, but we are -- we do very well in terms of attracting men and women to come to work in the company, and the retention rate with both of them is good as I think any real company," Bloomberg said, according to ABC News. "So, I’m very proud of what we do."
The Hill reached out to Bloomberg’s campaign and company for comment.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/474814-warren-says-bloomberg-has-to-answer-for-alleged-sexist-remarks
Warren says Bloomberg 'has to answer' for alleged sexist remarks
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Monday that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg “has to answer” for alleged past sexist remarks.
Warren told reporters at a campaign event in Fort Madison, Iowa, that her fellow presidential candidate needs to address past allegations that he created a hostile work environment for women at his company, ABC News reported.
“When women raise concerns like this, we have to pay attention,” Warren said, according to ABC News. “We have to listen to them, and if Michael Bloomberg has made comments like this, then he has to answer for them.”
The Massachusetts progressive also called for the women who signed nondisclosure agreements with Bloomberg’s company to be released from the contracts so they could to talk about the past allegations.
“I think [nondisclosure agreements] are a way for people to hide bad things they've done. And I think that women should be able to speak,” Warren said.
Warren’s remarks come after ABC News reported that several lawsuits alleged that Bloomberg made sexist comments in the 1990s, making women uncomfortable in the workplace.
The presidential candidate has denied the accusations, saying Sunday that his company has an “enviable record” of gender equality.
"There will always be somebody that’s not happy, but we are -- we do very well in terms of attracting men and women to come to work in the company, and the retention rate with both of them is good as I think any real company," Bloomberg said, according to ABC News. "So, I’m very proud of what we do."
The Hill reached out to Bloomberg’s campaign and company for comment.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/474814-warren-says-bloomberg-has-to-answer-for-alleged-sexist-remarks
If Warren becomes President she will make all cigarettes duty free.;D
Parking will be free at casinos too.
Warren's smear campaign seems to be in full swing.
"American Indian" what a dumb, lying, scamming kuntt...
I don't think any dems are trying to get your vote?
No - they are appealing to the broke bums and layabouts and do-nothings who want free stuff from others.
I actually agree with that and can't deny it's a consistent part of the democratic message.
However, the millitary industrail complex wastes 100x as much of our tax $$.
Plus, the absurd tax loopholes for big multi-national corporations and it's clear where the biggest give-aways go.
For me, it's a simple matter of picking the party and policy that promotes :
worker rights ( unions), fair pay, retirement bennifts and health care.
Over the past 30 yrs, we've had retirement pensions gradually disapear as
corperations make record profits. Today, most companies only help provide access to a 401K plan that YOU pay into.
Meanwhile the top executives retire rich making their $$ off the backs the workers.
Please know, I applaud anyone getting rich . I just think the workers need to get a fair deal in the process.
I actually agree with that and can't deny it's a consistent part of the democratic message.
However, the millitary industrail complex wastes 100x as much of our tax $$.
Plus, the absurd tax loopholes for big multi-national corporations and it's clear where the biggest give-aways go.
For me, it's a simple matter of picking the party and policy that promotes :
worker rights ( unions), fair pay, retirement bennifts and health care.
Over the past 30 yrs, we've had retirement pensions gradually disapear as
corperations make record profits. Today, most companies only help provide access to a 401K plan that YOU pay into.
Meanwhile the top executives retire rich making their $$ off the backs the workers.
Please know, I applaud anyone getting rich . I just think the workers need to get a fair deal in the process.
On THAT point we agree.
Please know, I don't agree with every detail on either side.
College loan forgivness for a 300k liberal arts degree is nuts!
BUT the republican health care and retirement pension plan is " You're on your own"
Ironic how neither party seems to base policy on the middle 80% of us.
On THAT point we agree.
Please know, I don't agree with every detail on either side.
College loan forgivness for a 300k liberal arts degree is nuts!
BUT the republican health care and retirement pension plan is " You're on your own"
Ironic how neither party seems to base policy on the middle 80% of us.
So shortsighted and naive.
You make it sound like savings accounts and investments are only available to Wall Street CEOs.
When you should be questioning work ethic, career choices, laziness, government handouts, and libidiots taking out $300,000 in student loans for a liberal arts degree.
-So shortsighted....as if some liberals were the only folks who have questionable work ethics, make poor career choices, are prone to laziness, qualify for government handouts, and take out student loans to pay for degrees they will probably never need. News flash, there are just as many conservative leaning folks making some these same choices.
-So shortsighted....as if some liberals were the only folks who have questionable work ethics, make poor career choices, are prone to laziness, qualify for government handouts, and take out student loans to pay for degrees they will probably never need. News flash, there are just as many conservative leaning folks making some these same choices.
Joe Biden: "We should unionize McDonald's"
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Joe Biden is the latest Democratic presidential candidate to target McDonald's in a bid to signal his concern for low-wage workers.
Describing McDonald’s as a “multibillion-dollar corporation” that exerts control over the work and rules at its restaurants, Biden described the demands for better pay and working conditions as “a fight for your dignity — it’s not just the numbers.”
Joe Biden: "We should unionize McDonald's"
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Joe Biden is the latest Democratic presidential candidate to target McDonald's in a bid to signal his concern for low-wage workers.
Joe Biden: "We should unionize McDonald's"
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Joe Biden is the latest Democratic presidential candidate to target McDonald's in a bid to signal his concern for low-wage workers.
"We should unionize McDonald's," the former vice president told a gathering of McDonald's workers in Los Angeles on Thursday organized by Fight for $15, a union-backed group that pushes for a higher minimum wage. "I promise you, if I'm your next president, you'll never have had a better friend in the White House for working people and for unions than Joe Biden."
Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have all called on McDonald's to require its franchisees to do more to protect workers from harassment, while Cory Booker and former presidential contenders Kamala Harris and Beto O'Rourke this summer joined McDonald's workers rallying for higher pay in Las Vegas.
Describing McDonald’s as a “multibillion-dollar corporation” that exerts control over the work and rules at its restaurants, Biden described the demands for better pay and working conditions as “a fight for your dignity — it’s not just the numbers.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-says-mcdonalds-workers-should-unionize/
Fricking genius...
Somewhere the people in the company that make the burger making robot are giving high fives all around.
I don't think any dems are trying to get your vote?They should be. Instead they are pandering to a base that is already too stupid to realize they are being fucked.
With the economy booming, success with the military, keeping many of his promises, Russia hoax, the impeachment fiasco, and Biden coming across like a creepy, senile old man, I'm starting to think Trump v. Biden will be a blowout win for Trump. But it's still early.
[WATCH] Only 98 Turn Out for Biden Town Hall in Iowa; Protester Takes Microphone
BY MATT MARGOLIS DECEMBER 22, 2019
https://pjmedia.com/election/watch-only-98-turn-out-for-biden-town-hall-in-iowa-protester-takes-microphone/
I watched one of these. They’re so dead that Biden has to bring his own little cheering section to stand behind him and make some noise when there should be applause from the crowd. It’s a truly lifeless campaign.
“The United States is evolving into fascism.”
—- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Well there goes senile old Bernie Sanders’ lame campaign !
At least Bernie draws a crowd. By all rights he should be the Dem candidate but it looks like he’s gonna get the shaft just like in 2016.
At least Bernie draws a crowd. By all rights he should be the Dem candidate but it looks like he’s gonna get the shaft just like in 2016.
They think this kind of stuff will energize the base. What it does is just get already deranged people even more deranged.
No offense, Straw😉
There are three things that don’t work in America:
(1) Socialism
(2) Fascism
(3) Black people
Bernie Sanders is a senile socialist fool, and the only difference between him and Joe Biden is that at least Bernie’s hair is real.
Michael Bloomberg has spent $120 million on ads since jumping into 2020 race last month: report
Shira Tarlo
December 26, 2019 9:39PM (UTC)
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has reportedly spent about $120 million on digital and television advertising since jumping into race for the Democratic presidential nomination late last month.
In the three weeks since he entered the content, Bloomberg has spent more than $120 million on television and digital advertising, according to Politico. The candidate has focused on Super Tuesday states like California and Texas instead of the early nominating states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. He has also reportedly poured cash into Florida, which votes one week after Super Tuesday and has 219 delegates up for grabs.
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Bloomberg has reportedly outspent all of his competitors, including Tom Steyer, the other billionaire in the 15-member Democratic primary field. Steyer, for his part, has spent roughly $83 million on ads since throwing his hat in the ring in July, Politico reports. Unlike Bloomberg, Steyer has focused on targeting the four early-nominating states.
The next higher spender in the 2020 contest is South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a non-billionaire. Buttigieg has reportedly spent $19 million.
Several 2020 Democrats have lamented Bloomberg's and Steyer's early access to campaign cash. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., for one, took aim at Bloomberg's ad spending with a spot on Bloomberg TV, which the former mayor owns.
https://www.salon.com/2019/12/26/michael-bloomberg-has-spent-120-million-on-ads-since-jumping-into-2020-race-last-month-report/
Michael Bloomberg has spent $120 million on ads since jumping into 2020 race last month: report
Shira Tarlo
December 26, 2019 9:39PM (UTC)
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has reportedly spent about $120 million on digital and television advertising since jumping into race for the Democratic presidential nomination late last month.
In the three weeks since he entered the content, Bloomberg has spent more than $120 million on television and digital advertising, according to Politico. The candidate has focused on Super Tuesday states like California and Texas instead of the early nominating states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. He has also reportedly poured cash into Florida, which votes one week after Super Tuesday and has 219 delegates up for grabs.
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Bloomberg has reportedly outspent all of his competitors, including Tom Steyer, the other billionaire in the 15-member Democratic primary field. Steyer, for his part, has spent roughly $83 million on ads since throwing his hat in the ring in July, Politico reports. Unlike Bloomberg, Steyer has focused on targeting the four early-nominating states.
The next higher spender in the 2020 contest is South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a non-billionaire. Buttigieg has reportedly spent $19 million.
Several 2020 Democrats have lamented Bloomberg's and Steyer's early access to campaign cash. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., for one, took aim at Bloomberg's ad spending with a spot on Bloomberg TV, which the former mayor owns.
https://www.salon.com/2019/12/26/michael-bloomberg-has-spent-120-million-on-ads-since-jumping-into-2020-race-last-month-report/
That's pretty racist.
Statistics don’t lie.
In a time of historical prosperity for the black community, brought about by the Republican Party, they still chain themselves to the Democrat Party plantation politics
Statistics don't say that blacks (or any ethnic group) don't work.
Another obtuse assmunch.
No, there are a few black folks who work. Somewhere, I suppose.
Yet even with record breaking low levels of unemployment, blacks still have double the unemployment rate of Whites. And the one common element during high or low periods of unemployment is that the Democrat Party continues to do nothing to help minorities.
The black unemployment rate is 5.5 percent. The white unemployment rate is 3.2 percent. In other words, about 94 percent of blacks are working and about 97 percent of whites are working.
Now, this is the point where you prove you are not a racist troll and just own up to a gross overstatement, I give you props for doing so, and then I leave you alone.
Stick your “props” where your daddy used to ride you.
You just made my exact point. In an economy where black unemployment could basically be close to zero, twice as many of blacks as Whites still refuse to work. You still haven’t addressed the blacks still indentured to Democrat plantation politics.
It is almost without fail how often stupid people throw around the word racist. So feel free to apologize and I will give you props for go fuck yourself, idiot.
I see. So you say all blacks are not working and claim statistics don't lie. Then say the black unemployment rate is twice that of whites. But then you are provided with the actual statistics that show (1) your statement that all blacks don't work is a lie and (2) the fact the white unemployment rate is lower than the black unemployment rate is meaningless, because both races are almost at full employment. And you still cling to this crap. I mean how friggin stupid are you??
I gave you a chance. You didn't take it. You just demonstrated that you are a racist troll. And a dumb one at that.
And you get no props for pointing out that blacks are indeed slaves to the Democrat party, because I've made that point myself on this board.
In any event, you're just an idiot, like all racist folks are.
The black unemployment rate is 5.5 percent. The white unemployment rate is 3.2 percent. In other words, about 94 percent of blacks are working and about 97 percent of whites are working.
Now, this is the point where you prove you are not a racist troll and just own up to a gross overstatement, I give you props for doing so, and then I leave you alone.
Stick your “props” where your daddy used to ride you.
You just made my exact point. In an economy where black unemployment could basically be close to zero, twice as many of blacks as Whites still refuse to work. You still haven’t addressed the blacks still indentured to Democrat plantation politics.
It is almost without fail how often stupid people throw around the word racist. So feel free to apologize and I will give you props for go fuck yourself, idiot.
Still sticking with the obtuse angle of “absolutely” zero blacks work? What kind of an immature child follows that line of logic unless they’re pulling a Primeasshole stunt? Is that part of you giving your almighty “props”?
LOL....how juvenile and moronic. Take your chance and stick it up your “hatred of White success” ass, racist.
I’ve already said there are some black folks who work, probably hard, and are decent people, I’d assume.
Yet in a record breaking economy you still want to play the White Knight and childishly defend blacks who refuse to work, are still unemployed at twice the rate as Whites, and are too lazy or afraid to leave the Democrat Party because they worship at the government gravy train.
Childish, all to try to prove you’re the racism hall monitor. Hahaha nice little temper tantrum, sophomoric knob.
Like you, I am waiting for the answer.
Sometimes, you amaze me in a very good way.
To be fair the "official" employment numbers are total BS as they are calculated differently....post-1994 excluding those not looking, out of the system, etc. Current U-6 is 6.90%.
Additionally, if a certain demographic is disproportionately absent the job market long term - then there is a good probability that the number for that demo is much higher than stated under this "new" way of measure.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
"The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers."
Look you ignorant, racist troll, we have nearly full employment. Both blacks and whites are nearly at full employment. So even your "some black folks who work" comment is not factual. What the heck are you a Stormfront disciple or something? You really are a special kind of stupid.
LOL......what a childish hissy fit. What are you boy, six years old? It’s no wonder once you got done stomping your feet and holding your breath that all you had left was your juvenile racism accusation. Did Santa not bring you a new set of diapers for Christmas?
I thought you were only giving me one chance to earn your almighty “props”? Since you obviously missed it the first time, take your chance and props and stick them up your ass, crybaby. What a weak lame troll, your parents should have done us all a favor and practiced infanticide.
As you have so stupidly shown and proven my points in doing so:
Black unemployment is 100% higher than White unemployment.
Blacks are twice as likely to be unemployed than Whites in this record setting economy.
Blacks still chain themselves to the Democrat Party when in fact the Democrats do very little to nothing for them.
You’re mentally handicapped and incredibly immature.
Suck on that, hall monitor !
::) STFU Adolf. You're boring me.
Mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I don't like the influence money has in politics. On the other hand, I don't fault someone for spending their own money.
Awwww, the dauntless defender of the ghetto black welfare culture is going to cry and take his ball home.
Boo hoo.....now I totally understand why you defend Primeasshole.
Go get your fucking shinebox, troll.
The whole Michael Bloomberg angle fascinates me.
He waits until the last minute, throws oodles of money on ads yet seemingly doesn't care much to debate or focus on the early states.
I suppose when you are almost 80 years old and worth tens of billions of dollars you can act that way ???
You still here? And I thought the Village Idiot was the only person on here with no friends. :'(
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“You have one chance to earn my props....whaaa, whaaa !”
Bruh I call things as I see them. Sometimes you will like what I say, sometimes not. I follow the facts.
You follow what you believe to be the facts. Most of us do.
The whole Michael Bloomberg angle fascinates me.Is this a tax write off for him ??? He hasn't made a dent in Bidens lead of candidates.
He waits until the last minute, throws oodles of money on ads yet seemingly doesn't care much to debate or focus on the early states.
I suppose when you are almost 80 years old and worth tens of billions of dollars you can act that way ???
Is this a tax write off for him ??? He hasn't made a dent in Bidens lead of candidates.
Bloomberg is the only one at least who ever did anything both in business and govt successfully. The rest are a damn joke
At this point, he shouldn’t even be a Democrat. He’s a businessman in the anti-business party.
He's almost a RINO wearing a dress. Fuck him and put him on the Endangered Feces List. He is evile.
Ukraine again?
Who'd have thunk that Trumpers would use Borat's neighboring country as their political weapon of choice ?
High 5 for all you Tryumpers
You’re doing nothing to dispel the stereotype of liberals projecting and having a lack of self-awareness. The whole fucking impeachment was aboutFixedUkrainetrying to smear Trumps name and campaign for the 2020 election because the democrats know they don't have a single candidate that can beat Trump.
Fixed
This seems to telegraph that there isn’t gonna be a trial:
Biden Changes Course on Potential Trump Impeachment Subpoena | Time
https://time.com/5756251/biden-trump-impeachment-iowa-subpoena/
"“The reason I wouldn’t is because it’s all designed to deal with Trump doing what he’s done his whole life: trying to take the focus off him. The issue is not what I did,” Biden said..."
https://time.com/5756251/biden-trump-impeachment-iowa-subpoena/
Projection.
Everybody is onto the Democratic stunt of trying to blame others for what they do themselves.
"“The reason I wouldn’t is because it’s all designed to deal with Trump doing what he’s done his whole life: trying to take the focus off him. The issue is not what I did,” Biden said..."If Biden hadn't done what he did, Trump wouldn't have had anything to ask about.
https://time.com/5756251/biden-trump-impeachment-iowa-subpoena/
Would love to see Bloomberg on a debate stage with Trump. He's about a foot shorter so would be comical.
Yeah but he’s richer. If he really wanted to set Trump off he could pull that card, but I’m not sure he’d stoop to that level.
Yeah but he’s richer. If he really wanted to set Trump off he could pull that card, but I’m not sure he’d stoop to that level.
It’s not about stooping - all Democrats do is slam the rich, so bragging about it wouldn’t be the brightest move.
If Biden hadn't done what he did, Trump wouldn't have had anything to ask about.
Then he would have manufactured something to discredit Biden. That's what he does.
LOL
Like the “Steele Dossier”?
If you want to believe that, that's your right.
The Inside Story of Christopher Steele’s Trump Dossier
In a new book, the founders of the firm that compiled it defend their work.
In “Crime in Progress,” the Fusion GPS co-founders Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch present a mountain of evidence on Trump’s dealings with corrupt foreign players.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-inside-story-of-christopher-steeles-trump-dossier
Hahaha
Even the Washington post Rolling Stone have admitted that the steel dossier is a joke.
Rachel Maddow rooted for the Steele dossier to be true. Then it fell apart. - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/26/rachel-maddow-rooted-steele-dossier-be-true-then-it-fell-apart/
Hahaha
Even the Washington post Rolling Stone have admitted that the steel dossier is a joke.
Rachel Maddow rooted for the Steele dossier to be true. Then it fell apart. - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/26/rachel-maddow-rooted-steele-dossier-be-true-then-it-fell-apart/
Joe Biden Says He’d Be Open to Picking a Republican Running Mate
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden declared on Monday that he’d be open to a Republican as his running mate should he win the nomination, though he was unable to come up with a specific name.
During a campaign stop in New Hampshire, the 77-year-old former vice president—who has been running on a platform that he can bridge the nation’s partisan divide—was asked by one woman about the possibility that he could lead a bipartisan ticket.
“Our 21-year-old son said the other night, ‘I wonder if Joe Biden would consider choosing a Republican as a running mate,’” the New Hampshire voter wondered.
“The answer is I would, but I can’t think of one now,” Biden answered, adding: “You know, there’s some really decent Republicans that are out there still, but here’s the problem right now, with the well-known ones—they’ve got to step up.”
Biden, who has previously said he’d prefer to pick a woman and/or a person of color as his veep, went on to point out that there are “a lot of qualified women” and African-Americans to choose from.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-says-hed-be-open-to-picking-a-republican-running-mate
Whoever he picks, it had better not be former Governor of Alaska and John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin. Was that ever the biggest mistake a Presidential candidate has ever made? Whopper!
Whoever he picks, it had better not be former Governor of Alaska and John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin. Was that ever the biggest mistake a Presidential candidate has ever made? Whopper!palin had nothing to do w McCain losing.
DNC rejects Andrew Yang's request to commission polls to increase diversity at January debate
The Democratic National Committee on Monday rejected a request by presidential candidate Andrew Yang to commission additional polls that would help candidates qualify for the January debate stage in an effort to increase diversity at the event.
In a letter written earlier this month and reported by The Daily Beast on Monday, Yang said requirements for the Des Moines, Iowa, debate in January should include four commissioned early state polls before the Jan. 10 deadline.
"With the upcoming holidays and meager number of polls currently out in the field, a diverse set of candidates might be absent from the stage in Des Moines for reasons out of anyone's control," Yang wrote to DNC Chairman Tom Perez in the letter dated Dec. 21.
A DNC spokesperson said in a statement to USA TODAY that it has been "more than inclusive throughout this entire process," and cited 26 qualifying polls for the December debate.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/12/30/election-2020-andrew-yang-asks-dnc-more-polls-diversify-debate/2775509001/
palin had nothing to do w McCain losing.
palin had nothing to do w McCain losing.
That wasn't my point.
Correct. She helped him. Plus people vote the top of the ticket in presidential elections.
You don't think McCain would have done better with Kay Bailey Hutchinson as his running mate than the Mayor of Wasila?
He would have never picked her because she is pro choice. Same reason Linda Lingle (who would have been better than Palin IMO) didn't get serious consideration. It's a litmus test for GOP VP nominees.
I think it's wrong, because people vote the top of the ticket, but that's the way it is.
https://trib.al/bJIyb0YHe'll be the VP choice if Warren is the candidate.
Castro is done. See ya
He'll be the VP choice if Warren is the candidate.
Because they will not choose on the basis of their issues, but based on race and gender.
Are you certain of this?
+6 rise :o
Does the old saying still ring true in reference to Bloomberg v. Warren...
Money talks and bullshit walks?
Bloomberg rises to third place alongside Warren in national poll
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg saw a 6-point bump in the latest Hill.TV survey of the Democratic presidential primary.
The nationwide poll, which was released Friday, shows Bloomberg up from 5 percent to 11 percent support for the nomination nationally. The former New York City mayor is now in a dead heat for third place with top-tier candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who also received 11 percent support.
Biden, meanwhile, continues to lead the Democratic field with 28 percent followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at 16 percent.
Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg saw another slight dip, after slipping 4 percentage points in mid-December. In the latest survey, he now has 6 percent support, down from 5 percent from the Dec. 13-14 poll.
Bloomberg’s rise in the latest Hill-HarrisX survey comes in spite of his late entry into the 2020 race and the fact that he hasn’t appeared in any of the Democratic primary debates.
Bloomberg has chosen an unorthodox campaign strategy, making the decision not to raise money and instead deciding to fund his own campaign. This has disqualified him from taking the debate stage under rules from the Democratic National Convention.
Under DNC rules, candidates must reach certain polling and fundraising thresholds.
However, prior to announcing his bid in November, Bloomberg launched an ad buy totaling roughly $19.4 million over 90 local markets across the country. After making his campaign official, he also rolled out a 60-second spot as part of his $31.5 million media blitz.
Bloomberg's multimillion-dollar ad expenditure has made him a prime target for his fellow rivals.
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/476689-bloomberg-rises-to-third-place-alongside-warren-in-national-poll
+6 rise :o
Does the old saying still ring true in reference to Bloomberg v. Warren...
Money talks and bullshit walks?
Bloomberg rises to third place alongside Warren in national poll
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg saw a 6-point bump in the latest Hill.TV survey of the Democratic presidential primary.
The nationwide poll, which was released Friday, shows Bloomberg up from 5 percent to 11 percent support for the nomination nationally. The former New York City mayor is now in a dead heat for third place with top-tier candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who also received 11 percent support.
Biden, meanwhile, continues to lead the Democratic field with 28 percent followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at 16 percent.
Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg saw another slight dip, after slipping 4 percentage points in mid-December. In the latest survey, he now has 6 percent support, down from 5 percent from the Dec. 13-14 poll.
Bloomberg’s rise in the latest Hill-HarrisX survey comes in spite of his late entry into the 2020 race and the fact that he hasn’t appeared in any of the Democratic primary debates.
Bloomberg has chosen an unorthodox campaign strategy, making the decision not to raise money and instead deciding to fund his own campaign. This has disqualified him from taking the debate stage under rules from the Democratic National Convention.
Under DNC rules, candidates must reach certain polling and fundraising thresholds.
However, prior to announcing his bid in November, Bloomberg launched an ad buy totaling roughly $19.4 million over 90 local markets across the country. After making his campaign official, he also rolled out a 60-second spot as part of his $31.5 million media blitz.
Bloomberg's multimillion-dollar ad expenditure has made him a prime target for his fellow rivals.
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/476689-bloomberg-rises-to-third-place-alongside-warren-in-national-poll
Could we end up having a contested convention where the superdelegates push Warren over the finish line? She seems to be the establishment choice.
Julián Castro endorses Elizabeth Warren for the White House
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Just days after ending his own White House bid, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro is endorsing Sen. Elizabeth Warren for president.
Castro, who suspended his campaign on January 2, announced his decision to back the Massachusetts Democrat in a video released Monday morning. “There’s one candidate I see who’s unafraid to fight like hell to make sure America’s promise will be there for everyone,” Castro says. “Who will make sure that no matter where you live in America or where your family came from in the world, you have a path to opportunity too. That’s why I’m proud to endorse Elizabeth Warren for President.”
The video features the pair speaking with one another in Warren’s kitchen at her Massachusetts home as her dog, Bailey, looks on.
“You know, I started my campaign off, and we lived true to the idea that we want an America where everyone counts,” Castro says. “It’s the same vision that I see in you, in your campaign, in the America that you would help bring about.”
Today I'm proud to endorse @ewarren for president.
Elizabeth and I share a vision of America where everyone counts. An America where people—not the wealthy or well-connected—are put first. I'm proud to join her in the fight for big, structural change. pic.twitter.com/xDvMEKqpF3
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) January 6, 2020
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/6/21051628/julian-castro-endorsement-twitter-elizabeth-warren-democrat
He'll be the VP choice if Warren is the candidate.
Because they will not choose on the basis of their issues, but based on race and gender.
Could we end up having a contested convention where the superdelegates push Warren over the finish line? She seems to be the establishment choice.
Julián Castro endorses Elizabeth Warren for the White House
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Just days after ending his own White House bid, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro is endorsing Sen. Elizabeth Warren for president.
Castro, who suspended his campaign on January 2, announced his decision to back the Massachusetts Democrat in a video released Monday morning. “There’s one candidate I see who’s unafraid to fight like hell to make sure America’s promise will be there for everyone,” Castro says. “Who will make sure that no matter where you live in America or where your family came from in the world, you have a path to opportunity too. That’s why I’m proud to endorse Elizabeth Warren for President.”
The video features the pair speaking with one another in Warren’s kitchen at her Massachusetts home as her dog, Bailey, looks on.
“You know, I started my campaign off, and we lived true to the idea that we want an America where everyone counts,” Castro says. “It’s the same vision that I see in you, in your campaign, in the America that you would help bring about.”
Today I'm proud to endorse @ewarren for president.
Elizabeth and I share a vision of America where everyone counts. An America where people—not the wealthy or well-connected—are put first. I'm proud to join her in the fight for big, structural change. pic.twitter.com/xDvMEKqpF3
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) January 6, 2020
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/6/21051628/julian-castro-endorsement-twitter-elizabeth-warren-democrat
Called it:
Called it:
Gosh, I hadn't considered things beyond Warren getting the nomination.
Castro as VP makes the most sense to me. The first minority VP fits the Democrat's agenda perfectly.
The meat-hating single guy is not relatable to the average American.
Democrats spent more than two years keeping Miguel Estrada on the sidelines, lest Bush nominate him to the
Federal court, and then possibly to the SCOTUS. Recall that Obama's first nominee to the SCOTUS was Hispanic.
Good prediction.
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I think she’s the back up quarterback in case Biden has to bow out for health reasons, something that seems like a good possibility.
Biden IS showing signs of dementia. He's be a puppet for the party at best and would never make it a full term. Can you impeach for senility?
This is true. He really does sound like a senile old man.
If you ever watch his town halls he’s always saying things in the wrong order eg. I shaved and then I woke up.
Reverse this with a Dem Prez and a bumbling Repub candidate and the media would be having a field, but as it stands they pretend it’s not happening.
That's one of the dynamics I love about this race going forward.
The media pretends it's not happening but the rest of the internet openly mocks it and puts together all sorts of hilarious videos and memes.
It will be interesting to see who has the greater influence in the coming months. We have to take into account all the normies out there who are not really connected to that side of the internet but I feel like that group is becoming smaller and smaller at a relatively steady pace.
It's funny though, out of all the Dem candidate, I feel Biden would be the least disastrous, provided he's not in bad mental health.
Warren / Sanders would tank the markets.
Biden would be "meh", and the progressive wing would be attacking constantly.
It's funny though, out of all the Dem candidate, I feel Biden would be the least disastrous, provided he's not in bad mental health.
Warren / Sanders would tank the markets.
Biden would be "meh", and the progressive wing would be attacking constantly.
Spartacus is gone.
https://www.axios.com/cory-booker-drops-out-2020-presidential-race-a8fa2940-9555-4129-9e5a-eea5eceb60d1.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100&fbclid=IwAR3Gjc8aT2aDyYC2SJU2EYlE4cJXMMT3YnLMqXR0cwUim1seFhcoLMMVVP0
Project Veritas: Sanders staffer says 'cities burn' if Trump reelected, predicts violence at DNC
A Project Veritas video released Tuesday showed a man identified as a campaign organizer for Sen. Bernard Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate, saying “cities burn” if President Trump wins reelection and predicting violence against police at the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee.
Asked what would happen if Mr. Trump is reelected, the man described as Sanders campaign field organizer Kyle Jurek said, “F–ing cities burn,” adding, “I mean, we don’t have a lot of time left, we have to save f–ing human civilization.”
In the undercover video, the first in the Project Veritas #Expose2020 series, he also expressed support for reeducating Trump voters and compared them to Nazis; praised Soviet-style gulags, and predicted police would be “beaten” in riots at the party convention.
“We’re going to make 1978 [1968] look like a f–ing Girl Scout f–ing cookout,” he said, adding, “The cops are going to be the ones that are getting f–ing beaten in Milwaukee. They’re going to call out the National Guard for that s—t. I promise you that.”
He was apparently referring to the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where police famously clashed with protesters.
“If Bernie doesn’t get the nomination, or it goes to the second round at the DNC convention, f–ing Milwaukee will burn,” Mr. Jurek said. “It’ll start in Milwaukee, and then when the police push back on that, other cities will just f–ing (explosion sound).”
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/14/project-veritas-sanders-staffer-says-cities-burn-i/
Any comments from our Sage & Reasoned 🤣😂🤣 Leftists on here
We’re Waiting...........
He is basically stating what some of us on here have suspected...if things do not go Sanders' way at the end of a long primary, there is a good chance we are going to see some level of backlash by the far-left Bernie crowd.
Regardless, I expect this content to be weaponized by the Biden campaign, the mainstream media in general and of course, some good old fashioned Trump Twitter counter-punches.
The video was labeled as Part One so it appears James O'Keefe has more content in the can.
I really thought he was out already.
If Sanders doesn't get the nomination, his psycho followers will divide the party again.
He's a disgrace sticking with the democrats though, after what they did last primary season.
Elizabeth Warren went all cun't on him last night. Fuck her.
She truly represents everything wrong with a modern leftist rolled up into one wrinkly, privileged, stark white papoose.
Elizabeth Warren went all cun't on him last night. Fuck her.
Not going to elaborate here, but Warren is not someone I find easy to support. Something about her rubs me wrong. Hope she doesn't end up the nominee. If the Democratic nominee is a woman, Amy Klobuchar is who I'd rather it be.
Not going to elaborate here, but Warren is not someone I find easy to support. Something about her rubs me wrong. Hope she doesn't end up the nominee. If the Democratic nominee is a woman, Amy Klobuchar is who I'd rather it be.
No, I just think she's being corrupted by the Waserman Schultz/Clintonian wing of the party. Bernie, whether love him or hate him is the genuine article. He's my Ron Paul. Rand is a piece of shit.
I'd much prefer Warren to Klobuchar.
Well, Klobuchar has a long ways to go before she is a contender in this election. Warren and Sanders could end up splitting the vote. Biden trips over his words so often, I'm beginning to think he has diminished capacity. Buttigieg is intelligent and speaks well. But, he lacks experience. I like Tom Steyer. He could be a one trick pony though. I can't wait for the primaries to begin. This should shake out the possible winners from the losers.
If Bernie was genuine, he'd have run independent after the Democrats rigged the primary. He got in line.
He's just a politician.
Who, I believe, has authored a total of three things that have passed the floor in 29 years, one being the renaming of a post office.
The conspiracy theory that's floating around is that Biden and Warren came to some sort of agreement to snipe Bernie's campaign with this allegation a few days before Iowa.
Basically Warrren realized she wasn't going to win the nomination and was angling for a VP spot on Biden's ticket.
This sounds right.
I think I finally can see what Bloomberg is thinking. He’s just setting up a ground game and subsequently will hand it over to Biden once the latter gets the nomination. Frankly, I’m not sure how this works as far as campaign finance rules go but it seems like a backdoor way to make a massive donation to the Democratic Party.
These asspuppets are the swine of Orwell's "Animal Farm". And they want us to be their plow horses.
Fuck That Noise.
Plus you have the impeachment thing in the background and Warren and Bernie are both senators so there is that factor as well. They potentially find themselves tied up to some extent with that whole cluster-f.
But man, what a way to just rub dog sh*t in the faces of the Bernie supporters. You take this cold blooded angle to sink his campaign and then reward the person who did it with a VP spot. And then you expect them to show up and vote with her on the ticket?
Just ruthless.
It speaks volumes about politics and politicians in general. They provide no good or service so they are left with coming up with schemes to keep themselves in power and extract money from the taxpayers.
Plus you have the impeachment thing in the background and Warren and Bernie are both senators so there is that factor as well. They potentially find themselves tied up to some extent with that whole cluster-f.
But man, what a way to just rub dog sh*t in the faces of the Bernie supporters. You take this cold blooded angle to sink his campaign and then reward the person who did it with a VP spot. And then you expect them to show up and vote with her on the ticket?
Just ruthless.
It blew up in their faces in 2016 and if this scenario plays out, will probably do so again. I've been a Bernie guy since he was an unknown congressman but I'll do what I consider the right thing and still vote who I think best represents what I believe. I won't sit it out if he gets fucked over again.
If you had a 401k that is now. 802k and vote for bernie you have rocks in your head.
My 401K continues do well. Much as it has since Sotero fixed the economy back in say 2010ish. It would be nice if more than barely half of the country could reap the same benefits.
My 401K continues do well. Much as it has since Sotero fixed the economy back in say 2010ish. It would be nice if more than barely half of the country could reap the same benefits.
Now THIS is hilarious. You CAN send the govt MORE tax money if you wish so that those who do not have what you have soon will....or maybe you'll just end up with nothing like those who don't do what you do for a income. To say what you just said is totally absent of reality of this world we live in.
Do you really think that people who don't work and invest like you do should have what you do?
45% of the country doesn't have 401K's and I'd guess at a minimum, 92% of the 45% work. Our govt should reward people that work. All people that work. Our bloated as fuck military budget could be better spent on the subject at hand.Is it the governments responsibility to provide for people in retirement beyond SS that is already taken from our wages?
Is it the governments responsibility to provide for people in retirement beyond SS that is already taken from our wages?
45% of the country doesn't have 401K's and I'd guess at a minimum, 92% of the 45% work.
I mean this is just pulled out of your ass right? Haha.
Of that 45% that don't have investments....I'd bet it's closer to 8% actually work than 92%.
It's interesting that about 45% in the USA are also not paying ANY income tax, yet those of us paying the most tax are also saving the most.
Simply put, there will be a close correlation between those that work and those that save/invest. If you apply victimhood to this you are likely a socialist.
45% of the country doesn't have 401K's and I'd guess at a minimum, 92% of the 45% work. Our govt should reward people that work. All people that work. Our bloated as fuck military budget could be better spent on the subject at hand.
Definitely send in extra money to the IRS so they can distribute it to those in need. What's stopping you? Walk the walk. Live your Socialist philosophy.
On the subject of building wealth...
Get a job. Get two jobs. Whatever.
Live cheap.
If your employer doesn't have a 401k you can still open an IRA and contribute up to $6,000 per year ($7,000 for those 50 and over).
You can also still save and invest in tax efficient index funds if you have even more to invest.
Or you could buy rental real estate and make money that way.
Chinese immigrants come to America and sleep on rice sacks while building a business and become wealthy.
No excuses for lazy people who want Uncle Sugar to support them.
Give up the smartphone and 500 channel cable package and direct it to investment. Put a TV antenna on the roof for $25.
Instead of a $200 cable/phone bill I have internet for $55/mo, a Tracfone for $8/mo and $25 TV antenna one time cost from eBay.
$63 vs. $200.
There's $130/mo or so there to save and invest.
Skip takeout and make beans and rice at home. Make your own coffee in a $10 drip machine instead of buying at Dunkin.
Make some sacrifices today for a better tomorrow.
Read books on investing by John Bogle. Go to Bogelheads.org.
Definitely send in extra money to the IRS so they can distribute it to those in need. What's stopping you? Walk the walk. Live your Socialist philosophy.
On the subject of building wealth...
Get a job. Get two jobs. Whatever.
Live cheap.
If your employer doesn't have a 401k you can still open an IRA and contribute up to $6,000 per year ($7,000 for those 50 and over).
You can also still save and invest in tax efficient index funds if you have even more to invest.
Or you could buy rental real estate and make money that way.
Chinese immigrants come to America and sleep on rice sacks while building a business and become wealthy.
No excuses for lazy people who want Uncle Sugar to support them.
Give up the smartphone and 500 channel cable package and direct it to investment. Put a TV antenna on the roof for $25.
Instead of a $200 cable/phone bill I have internet for $55/mo, a Tracfone for $8/mo and $25 TV antenna one time cost from eBay.
$63 vs. $200.
There's $130/mo or so there to save and invest.
Skip takeout and make beans and rice at home. Make your own coffee in a $10 drip machine instead of buying at Dunkin.
Make some sacrifices today for a better tomorrow.
Read books on investing by John Bogle. Go to Bogelheads.org.
Not entirely. Employers (specifically large corporations) should do their part as well. As the decades go by, they pay less and less in taxes and share revenues less and less with employees. Don't forget that one day you will be receiving a SS check as well. Spare me the "there won't be SS by the time I retire" argument.You try so hard to sound condescending it's funny.
You try so hard to sound condescending it's funny.
I don't agree with the government (my tax dollars) taking care of people in old age, there something about personal responsibility that I can't get over. I do agree about corporations doing their part to support their employees.
Not condescending. You're insecure. The old people that you are taking care of have paid into the system. Just like you'll be taken care of one day. You try so hard to sound like a cold hearted prick that it's funny considering you wear a skirt.
Definitely send in extra money to the IRS so they can distribute it to those in need. What's stopping you? Walk the walk. Live your Socialist philosophy.
On the subject of building wealth...
Get a job. Get two jobs. Whatever.
Live cheap.
If your employer doesn't have a 401k you can still open an IRA and contribute up to $6,000 per year ($7,000 for those 50 and over).
You can also still save and invest in tax efficient index funds if you have even more to invest.
Or you could buy rental real estate and make money that way.
Chinese immigrants come to America and sleep on rice sacks while building a business and become wealthy.
No excuses for lazy people who want Uncle Sugar to support them.
Give up the smartphone and 500 channel cable package and direct it to investment. Put a TV antenna on the roof for $25.
Instead of a $200 cable/phone bill I have internet for $55/mo, a Tracfone for $8/mo and $25 TV antenna one time cost from eBay.
$63 vs. $200.
There's $130/mo or so there to save and invest.
Skip takeout and make beans and rice at home. Make your own coffee in a $10 drip machine instead of buying at Dunkin.
Make some sacrifices today for a better tomorrow.
Read books on investing by John Bogle. Go to Bogelheads.org.
Not condescending. You're insecure. .LMFAO!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Not condescending. You're insecure. The old people that you are taking care of have paid into the system. Just like you'll be taken care of one day. You try so hard to sound like a cold hearted prick that it's funny considering you wear a skirt.Those pics were for his eyes only!
An employees’ best protection is having the ability to go somewhere else. This requires a dynamic economy with minimal government intervention.
Not true.
Wouldn’t an employee’s best protection be that they’re the hardest working and lowest paid in their office ?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/hillary-clinton-full-a-fiery-new-documentary-trump-regrets-harsh-words-bernie-1271551
Hillary trashed ole Bernie.
;)
Hillary saying “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him“ and accusing Bernie of being a career politician... Has she looked in the mirror?
Seems like it’s all hands on deck to harpoon Bernie.
Seems like it’s all hands on deck to harpoon Bernie.
They want to kick out old man Bernie to make way for the youth like Biden and Warren.
Another Bernie organizer is on tape talking about gulags and taking the rich to guillotines.
Hillary saying “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him“ and accusing Bernie of being a career politician... Has she looked in the mirror?
They know Trump would absolutely blaster bernie like its Reagan Mondale
It would be much closer than you are willing to admit. In 2016, Bernie would have done better than Hilary. Michigan, Wisconsin & Pennsylvania may have looked differently.
I think not. I cannot imagine there are that many morons in our Nation. That many lazy, fucked up on drugs, worthless twatlings that are eligible to vote. No one really THINKS that the cucktard Dems are worthy of leading our Nation. Some may FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEL that way, but that is not thinking.
Fuck That Noise.
So you think it would be 49-1 Trump over Bernie? You are smarter than that.
Were did you read me saying that?
Soulcrusher predicted a Reagan v Mondale type outcome. I merely stated it would be closer than you are willing to admit with which you vehemently disagreed. If Bernie were to merely win to states it would be closer than Reagan v Mondale.
I think my team may have missed their opportunity in 2016 by running Hilary. I do believe Bernie would have done better than her in Wisc, Mich & Penn. Bernie v Trump in 2020 I'd give slight edge to the pussy grabber but think it would be closer than 2016 with Hilary.
In other words, I didn't say that. Did I? Nope. ;D
No hard feelings, brother.
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"CNN poll: Bernie Sanders surges to join Biden atop Democratic presidential pack"
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/22/politics/cnn-poll-sanders-biden-january-national/index.html
Bernie’s ground game is strong. I’ve seen people on the street campaigning for him.
Mainstream media ignoring the Veritas stuff is just wrong.
It will get more traction should he be the nominee.
Bernie’s ground game is strong. I’ve seen people on the street campaigning for him.
Bernie’s ground game is strong. I’ve seen people on the street campaigning for him.
Is this what you're referring to?
https://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/project-veritas-sanders-organizer-if-bernie-loses-milwaukee-will-burn-126215/
Is that before or after they poop on the sidewalk? ;D
Not only is President Trump unbeatable on the Republican side, he has steered the Democrats so far left that they have lost control of the party to Bernie Sanders and AOC.I see democrats splitting the party up, the moderates will separate themselves from the socialists soon.
President Trump will steer Bernie Sanders into the nomination and then crush him in November.
Bernie will realize he’s unelectable and turn the party and his supporters over to AOC. The DNC will be extinct and the party will become full blown socialists
I see democrats splitting the party up, the moderates will separate themselves from the socialists soon.
The thing is...the liberal socialists outnumber the moderates.
The Democrat Party has become the party of hypocrisy and stupidity
If you think about it the dem/left is usually a labor based party....what kind of party is it when there is not the usual amount of labor people to vote?
Bernie and AOC have ushered in the age of the neo-liberal AKA a socialist party of freaks and have nots and those too stupid to understand how to vote in their own interests.
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Bernie Sanders, stuck in Trump's trial, leans on star power of 'AOC'
I have An0maly on my twitter follow - he's a younger guy, rapper, and conservative.
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"Star Power", hysterical. Look how demented libtards are, need some sort of "SJW Superhero" to lead t hem into ruins.
Trump's a 'grumpy, fly off the cuff' kind of tard who makes them melt down hard, which is also comical.
Bernie, an aged, crazed old geezer, who never worked in his life, only sucked off the system, yeah, a true country leader. ::)
33386 I know you are loving this headline ;D
Hillary Clinton admits she feels an ‘urge’ to run against Trump again
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Nearly four years after President Trump defeated her in the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton said she has an “urge” to run again because she thinks she can win this time.
The former secretary of state was asked during an interview with Variety if she ever thought “I could beat Donald Trump if I were running.”
“Yeah. I certainly feel the urge because I feel the 2016 election was a really odd time and an odd outcome,” she told the magazine in an interview published online Monday.
“And the more we learn, the more that seems to be the case. But I’m going to support the people who are running now and do everything I can to help elect the Democratic nominee.”
The interview took place in Park City, Utah, where the former senator from New York is promoting a documentary, “Hillary,” that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.
In a separate interview, Clinton said a lot has changed since 2016 when Trump won the presidency despite being a political novice.
“I think there’s a story now to be told. Before he was a blank slate. He was a guy that people saw on their TVs. As you know, he was a reality TV star,” Clinton said, according to the Associated Press. “Now I think there’s a record that he’s going to have to be held accountable for.”
Clinton topped Trump in the popular vote by nearly 3 million, but he won the Electoral College vote 304-227.
She said “the person who gets the most votes should win” and supports abolishing the Electoral College.
“The Electoral College is an anachronism that foils the rights of the majority of Americans to choose our leaders.”
In the Variety interview, Clinton also responded to the criticism she received when a clip from the documentary showed her saying she wouldn’t endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders if he wins the Democratic nomination this year.
https://nypost.com/2020/01/28/hillary-clinton-admits-she-feels-an-urge-to-run-against-trump-again/
Sanders supporters fume as Clinton allies named to key Dem convention committees
FOX ^ | 1-28-18 | Paul Steinhauser
Posted on 1/28/2020, 12:27:08
Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders' White House bid and some Democratic National Committee members are frustrated with some initial appointments made by DNC Chairman Tom Perez to the crucial committees that will oversee the rules and party platform at this summer’s presidential nominating convention in Milwaukee, Wis.
Their frustration comes after Perez named former Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts – who was a surrogate for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign -- as co-chair of the convention’s Rules Committee. And Perez picked John Podesta – who served as Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager – to have a seat on the committee.
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Yeah I can vouch for An0maly, I used to listen to him quite a bit but haven't in quite some time. Only so much time in the day I guess.
That's why I question how much he really even wants to be President.
An 80 year old, post heart attack, lazy, life long socialist is all of the sudden going to be putting all the hours in and dealing with the stress that the presidency brings? I say it's a 50/50 proposition whether he would even make it out of his first term alive.
Aside from all that though...I think I read that you worked for UPS?
Those guys have some pretty good insurance I would imagine. How is that going to go over with the Union voting bloc when Bernie suggests switching their blue chip insurance with some government program bullshit?
And we are not even getting into the optics of Bernie on stage with Trump. Bernie backed down like a little bitch to Hillary and Joe Biden. What is Trump going to do to him on stage and during the course of the campaign??
Yup. Bernie is 5 years older than Trump. Every day counts when you get to be our age. ::)
The top Democrat candidate is actually a senile communist from Vermont !
You honestly can’t even make this shit up.
LOL
I thought Warren was from Massachusetts? ;D
Biden should just note his unique strength in this field....too entrenched and corrupt in the current system to be a socialist.
I thought Warren was from Massachusetts? ;D
Biden should just note his unique strength in this field....too entrenched and corrupt in the current system to be a socialist.
I thought Warren was from Massachusetts? ;D
Changing the rules this late into the process?
It appears to be a blatant attempt to screw Bernie out of the nomination if necessary.
DNC members discuss rules change to stop Sanders at convention
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By DAVID SIDERS
01/31/2020 05:31 PM EST
Updated: 01/31/2020 06:59 PM EST
DES MOINES, Iowa — A small group of Democratic National Committee members has privately begun gauging support for a plan to potentially weaken Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign and head off a brokered convention.
In conversations on the sidelines of a DNC executive committee meeting and in telephone calls and texts in recent days, about a half-dozen members have discussed the possibility of a policy reversal to ensure that so-called superdelegates can vote on the first ballot at the party’s national convention. Such a move would increase the influence of DNC members, members of Congress and other top party officials, who now must wait until the second ballot to have their say if the convention is contested.
“I do believe we should re-open the rules. I hear it from others as well,” one DNC member said in a text message last week to William Owen, a DNC member from Tennessee who does not support re-opening the rules.
Owen, who declined to identify the member, said the member added in a text that “It would be hard though. We could force a meeting or on the floor.”
Even proponents of the change acknowledge it is all but certain not to gain enough support to move past these initial conversations. But the talks reveal the extent of angst that many establishment Democrats are feeling on the eve of the Iowa caucuses.
Sanders is surging and Joe Biden has maintained his lead nationally, but at least three other candidates are widely seen as viable. The cluster raises the specter of a convention requiring a second ballot.
If Sanders wins the Iowa caucuses on Monday and continues to gain momentum, it is possible he could arrive at the convention with the most delegates — but without enough to win the nomination on the first ballot. It is also possible that he and Elizabeth Warren, a fellow progressive, could arrive at the convention in second and third place, but with more delegates combined than the frontrunner.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/31/dnc-superdelegates-110083
It’s 2016 again.
Bernie appealing to the youth and soy contingent.
Biden/Bloomberg appealing to those on the left who don't want to lose a large amount of money.
Warren just lying and pandering at every turn, probably hanging around hoping to get a VP slot.
Mayor Pete, Knob-lickahur, Yang just hanging around.
Although rumor has it Yang will outperform the polls significantly.
No idea who emerges, but I thought Biden originally, and would still pick, if I had to bet.
The Democrats are pushing Bloomberg as hard as they can now.Coincidence? The dummycrats are so financially inept they can't even manage their own party.
The DNC is bankrupt and know they have zero chance against the Trump war chest.
The Democrats are pushing Bloomberg as hard as they can now.
They know Joe Biden won’t survive an honest corruption investigation.
The DNC is bankrupt and know they have zero chance against the Trump war chest.
While Nancy Pelosi was fucking around with the Impeachment farce, Bernie Sanders and AOC have taken over the Democrat Party.
LOL !!!!
Wow what an incredible boost to the Democrat brand.
I wonder who he will be supporting in the primary?
Never Trump Republican Bill Kristol comes out of the 'political closet' and declares he's a Democrat for now
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When Bill Kristol swore he would never vote for President Donald Trump, he meant it. The longtime conservative commentator took to Facebook today to admit that he is a Democrat—for now.
In a tweet, the former editor-at-large of the now-defunct Weekly Standard, declared: "Not presumably forever; not perhaps for a day after Nov. 3, 2020; not on every issue or in every way until then. But for the time being one has to say: We are all Democrats now."
In his tweet, Kristol appeared to be reacting to the Senate's 51-49 vote to not call additional witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial. As the Daily Caller noted, two Republicans, Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) and Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), crossed party lines and voted with Democrats who were attempting to have former national security advisor John Bolton testify against the president.
The longtime #NeverTrump critic's tweet was blasted by conservative Trump supporters on Twitter. Among them was the DailyWire's Josh Hammer who said the declaration was "The tweet in which I finally unfollowed Bill Kristol." Meanwhile, conservative commentator Todd Starnes joked that Kristol had "finally came out of the political closet."
https://www.theblaze.com/news/bill_kristol_political_closet_democrat
Wow what an incredible boost to the Democrat brand.
I wonder who he will be supporting in the primary?
Never Trump Republican Bill Kristol comes out of the 'political closet' and declares he's a Democrat for now
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When Bill Kristol swore he would never vote for President Donald Trump, he meant it. The longtime conservative commentator took to Facebook today to admit that he is a Democrat—for now.
In a tweet, the former editor-at-large of the now-defunct Weekly Standard, declared: "Not presumably forever; not perhaps for a day after Nov. 3, 2020; not on every issue or in every way until then. But for the time being one has to say: We are all Democrats now."
In his tweet, Kristol appeared to be reacting to the Senate's 51-49 vote to not call additional witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial. As the Daily Caller noted, two Republicans, Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) and Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), crossed party lines and voted with Democrats who were attempting to have former national security advisor John Bolton testify against the president.
The longtime #NeverTrump critic's tweet was blasted by conservative Trump supporters on Twitter. Among them was the DailyWire's Josh Hammer who said the declaration was "The tweet in which I finally unfollowed Bill Kristol." Meanwhile, conservative commentator Todd Starnes joked that Kristol had "finally came out of the political closet."
https://www.theblaze.com/news/bill_kristol_political_closet_democrat
Joe Biden kisses his 19-year-old granddaughter on the lips during speech
Daily Mail ^ | 2-02-2020 | Emily Crane
Posted on 2/2/2020, 10:04:29 PM by ZagFan
Joe Biden gave his teen granddaughter a kiss on the lips while giving a speech at a campaign trail event ahead of the Iowa caucuses.
The former Vice President was spotted clutching 19-year-old Finnegan Biden's hand as they arrived at a campaign event at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa on Sunday.
The 77-year-old gave his granddaughter a peck on the lips as a crowd of supporters watched on.
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YUCK!!!
Didn't Biden's son have an affair with his brother's wife, while he was married to another woman? Entire family of degenerates.
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Didn't Biden's son have an affair with his brother's wife, while he was married to another woman? Entire family of degenerates.
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Joe Biden kisses his 19-year-old granddaughter on the lips during speech
Daily Mail ^ | 2-02-2020 | Emily Crane
Posted on 2/2/2020, 10:04:29 PM by ZagFan
Joe Biden gave his teen granddaughter a kiss on the lips while giving a speech at a campaign trail event ahead of the Iowa caucuses.
The former Vice President was spotted clutching 19-year-old Finnegan Biden's hand as they arrived at a campaign event at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa on Sunday.
The 77-year-old gave his granddaughter a peck on the lips as a crowd of supporters watched on.
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YUCK!!!
This would be considered yucky in my (WASP) family because it isn't part of our family culture. Showing public affection is normal in some families.
Im italian and even we dont do this creepy disgusting perverted stuff. Come on now.
Pocahontas wants to let transgendered kids determine who will be the next Secretary of Education.
Im italian and even we dont do this creepy disgusting perverted stuff. Come on now.
That's the Dem/Biden playbook. Even "metoo" loons like Alyssa Milano are trying to excuse Biden's creepiness as "cultural difference". Sick fucks.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/04/29/holy-hypocrisy-batman-alyssa-milano-defends-super-affectionate-joe-biden-confesses-to-some-problematic-behavior-of-her-own-video/
This would be considered yucky in my (WASP) family because it isn't part of our family culture. Showing public affection is normal in some families.
Im italian and even we dont do this creepy disgusting perverted stuff. Come on now.
Kissing your grandaughter on the lips is not normal in America.As much as it disgusts me, I see this happening fairly often nowadays. Seems to be actually growing with the younger parents and raising their children like it is normal to do that.
It's just not done. It's weird. It's incestuous. It's f*cked up.
Kissing your grandaughter on the lips is not normal in America.
It's just not done. It's weird. It's incestuous. It's f*cked up.
To say it is incestuous is taking it a bit far. A kiss on the lips is not sex. Incest is human sexual activity between family members or close relatives.
Must take time to fix the results. Dems don't believe in elections. This is all silly. If Biden is in the top 2 how is this not fixed? Nobody goes to his rallies just like Hillary.
I agree, although in the LEO community some might think, not feel, that a bit of grooming may well be going on. Joe Biden is a creepy guy, of that much the world of those that think can agree on.
Of course Agn007 is a supposed retired LEO but given he's a fucking lib I wouldn't trust him as far as you could throw him.
I know...you're wondering if Hades just froze over because I agreed with you. No. I am just honest.
You've come to your senses in the past. So, I know you have it in you. ;D
Anyway you are right, Joe Biden is creepy. Whether warranted or not, he's been called out for previous questionable behaviors. In his situation, no matter how innocent his kisses and hugs may be, they don't sit well with some people. He's supposedly trying to get the nomination. He won't do it by offending people who might otherwise vote for him. Regardless of what he does, he can't become younger and I think he's too old and probably somewhat mentally feeble for the position of President.
Does it bother you that we do not even know the results of this caucus the morning after?
When will we have a full account of this contest??
Too much secrecy and back room dealings for my tastes.
Prime, you are a dyed in the wool Democrat but can you even describe in a couple sentences what the Democratic agenda is going forward??
Does it bother you that we do not even know the results of this caucus the morning after?
When will we have a full account of this contest??
Too much secrecy and back room dealings for my tastes.
Prime, you are a dyed in the wool Democrat but can you even describe in a couple sentences what the Democratic agenda is going forward??
Socialism, transgender mania 24-7, banning guns, banning fun, taxing cow farts, etc.
Well, well....that’s gonna leave a mark.
Today the MSM is trying to smear icing on the Democrat Party shitcake.
Can you imagine a process so messed up that Pete Buttplug thinks he won?
LOL
FFS Shit Stabber ButtPlug as The Winner What sorta Fcuked up Agenda is That. 🙄🙄🙄 Crazy
I’m surprised Jimmy Carter hasn’t discussed throwing his hat into the ring.
John Kerry overheard discussing possible 2020 bid amid concern of 'Sanders taking down the Democratic Party'
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/john-kerry-overheard-discussing-possible-2020-bid-amid-concern-sanders-n1128476
Joe Biden flopped in Iowa. And so did the Democratic party's reputation
Well, one thing we can say confidently is that “frontrunner” Joe Biden flopped. There were places where Biden didn’t even meet the 15% threshold needed to maintain viability from the first round to the second round – at one caucus site, the attorney general of Iowa had to switch from Biden to Buttigieg when Biden was disqualified.
So what went wrong? It’s still not quite clear, though there were reports that a special app used to transmit vote totals had malfunctioned. Questions were immediately raised about who built the app and how it had been deployed. Ironically, it was introduced in order to “get results out to the public quicker” and had been “hastily put together” over the last two months. There had been security concerns from the start, and when NPR questioned the state party chairman, he “declined to provide more details about which company or companies designed the app, or about what specific measures have been put in place to guarantee the system’s security”. Ironically, it was apparently developed by a firm literally called “Shadow”, partly funded by the Pete Buttigieg campaign.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden-flopped-iowa-did-080020973.html
Yeah..."special app" of peace.
Have the Dems blamed Russia yet for this clusterfuck?
Does it bother you that we do not even know the results of this caucus the morning after?
When will we have a full account of this contest??
Too much secrecy and back room dealings for my tastes.
Prime, you are a dyed in the wool Democrat but can you even describe in a couple sentences what the Democratic agenda is going forward??
It doesn't bother me. There are more important things to think about....like, at what time do I want to hit the gym today. :)
Hopefully, not until everything is sorted out.
The voting process should not be this difficult. I hope it isn't a sign of things to come.
I'm not a dyed in the wool anything. I'll support whichever candidate I think will best serve and represent the people of the United States.
As for an agenda. I think that right now the only agenda Democrats have is all about the nomination and picking the most likely person to win the Presidency in November.
-Not an easy task, given the slate of candidates. Even I have no idea who might be able to cross the finish line first. What I do know is that I hope it is a candidate who is vibrant, intelligent, compassionate, diplomatic, sane and physically able to do the job.
I’d suggest having Bob Mueller investigate this fiasco.
Adam “Shirtlifter” Schiff has proof that President Trump screwed up the Democrat Party caucus
It doesn't bother me. There are more important things to think about....like, at what time do I want to hit the gym today. :)
Hopefully, not until everything is sorted out.
The voting process should not be this difficult. I hope it isn't a sign of things to come.
I'm not a dyed in the wool anything. I'll support whichever candidate I think will best serve and represent the people of the United States.
As for an agenda. I think that right now the only agenda Democrats have is all about the nomination and picking the most likely person to win the Presidency in November.
-Not an easy task, given the slate of candidates. Even I have no idea who might be able to cross the finish line first. What I do know is that I hope it is a candidate who is vibrant, intelligent, compassionate, diplomatic, sane and physically able to do the job.
He or she must also be sexual.
Absofuckinglutely!
I hope you live to 100 and continue to post daily. That being said, I think you should have your gravestone read:
Prime Muscle
1940-2040
Loving Husband, Father, Grandfather, Great Grandfather, Son, Brother and very Sexual.
;D
Early results puts South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg in first at 26.9 percent in the state delegate counts with just 62 percent of the results counted. Old man Bernie is right behind him,Faggotry!!!
It doesn't bother me. There are more important things to think about....like, at what time do I want to hit the gym today. :)
Hopefully, not until everything is sorted out.
The voting process should not be this difficult. I hope it isn't a sign of things to come.
I'm not a dyed in the wool anything. I'll support whichever candidate I think will best serve and represent the people of the United States.
As for an agenda. I think that right now the only agenda Democrats have is all about the nomination and picking the most likely person to win the Presidency in November.
-Not an easy task, given the slate of candidates. Even I have no idea who might be able to cross the finish line first. What I do know is that I hope it is a candidate who is vibrant, intelligent, compassionate, diplomatic, sane and physically able to do the job.
Early results puts South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg in first at 26.9 percent in the state delegate counts with just 62 percent of the results counted. Old man Bernie is right behind him,
Ha ha ha
Creepy Bernie is Now Behind ButtPlug - No doubt that’s Pleasing ButtPlug No End - Not Sure his husband 🙄 is so happy with this situation
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
IN 272 DAYS AMERICA WILL PUT A STOP TO NANCY PELOSI’S CHILDISH BULLSHIT !
by voting her in again? ???
In 272 days, President Donald Trump will be re-elected in a historic landslide.
He will basically end the political careers of Pelosi, Nadler, Schumer, Schiff, Biden, Sanders, and Warren all at the same time.
In 272 days, President Donald Trump will be re-elected in a historic landslide.
He will basically end the political careers of Pelosi, Nadler, Schumer, Schiff, Biden, Sanders, and Warren all at the same time.
Just like he mopped the floor with the Bush dynasty and then wiped his butt with the Clinton dynasty in 2016.
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I heard somebody claiming Biden will win in South Carolina....huh?
I heard somebody claiming Biden will win in South Carolina....huh?
Does anyone know if Ruth Bader Ginsburg was at the SOTU Address?
I’m seriously cheering for the grim reaper to come for Ginsburg soon
I saw only Roberts, Kagan, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
Six Women of Color Bolt Warren Campaign
NewsMax ^ | 06 February 2020 | Cathy Burke
Posted on 2/7/2020, 7:21:42 AM by Freeport
Six women of color have left the Nevada campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., ahead of the state's caucuses, complaining about a toxic environment, Politico reported.And the senator has apologized for what they say they experienced in her organization.
The staffers have left since November, with three saying they felt marginalized by the campaign, the news outlet reported.
"During the time I was employed with Nevada for Warren, there was definitely something wrong with the culture," Megan Lewis, a field organizer who joined the campaign in May and departed in December, told Politico.
"I filed a complaint with HR, but the follow-up I received left me feeling as though I needed to make myself smaller, or change who I was, to fit into the office culture."
Another field organizer, who did not want to be named, said she "felt like a problem — like I was there to literally bring color into the space, but not the knowledge and voice that comes with it."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
:D :D :D :D :D
So...Buttegieg wins Iowa
Bernie will win NH
Biden will win SC.....
So....is it going to be Bloomberg?
If Biden wins SC it's only because the fix is in. Who are his voters? Nobody knows.
In the Democrat debate every candidate screamed about systemic racism, lower wages, less chance of an education, higher poverty, higher incarceration rates, higher welfare rates, more drug use, more violence, and higher unemployment in the black community.
And every single candidate blamed white people completely for this.
When will an honest candidate finally hold the black community at least partially responsible for this? Jesus Christ Tom Steyer tried to buy votes with the old reparations bullshit.
In the Democrat debate every candidate screamed about systemic racism, lower wages, less chance of an education, higher poverty, higher incarceration rates, higher welfare rates, more drug use, more violence, and higher unemployment in the black community.
And every single candidate blamed white people completely for this.
When will an honest candidate finally hold the black community at least partially responsible for this? Jesus Christ Tom Steyer tried to buy votes with the old reparations bullshit.
Michael Bloomberg surges to 2nd place in betting marketsBullshit. There's all kinds of underhanded, shady shit going on in the democratic party HQ right now, they're in full blown panic mode.
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Americans may not be betting on Michael Bloomberg yet, but betting markets still think he's got a chance.
The former New York City mayor has totally leapfrogged former Vice President Joe Biden in an average of betting markets, RealClearPolitics' average shows. Bloomberg has a 19 percent chance of winning, per ElectionBettingOdds.com, while PredictIt's betting market gives Bloomberg a 23-cent "yes" price to Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) 43 cents.
Bloomberg's rise coincides with a major drop in Biden's betting chances, likely stemming from the former vice president's dismal performance in Monday's Iowa caucuses. Even former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has come close to surpassing Biden in RealClearPolitics' average, and he did so decisively on PredictIt. Still, ElectionBettingOdds.com has President Trump with the best chance of winning the whole election this fall, giving him a 59.5 percent chance to Sanders' 14.8 percent and Bloomberg's 10 percent.
The Biden drop was also good news for Sanders. He surpassed Biden on the betting markets in late January, and is now far and away the top candidate to win the Democratic nomination. Sanders, and according to RealClearPolitics' betting markets average, no top-ranking candidate has put that much space between themselves and second place since Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) bump in October of last year.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/894631/michael-bloomberg-surges-2nd-place-betting-markets
Bullshit. There's all kinds of underhanded, shady shit going on in the democratic party HQ right now, they're in full blown panic mode.
If Bernie did get the nomination, do you think he would win California in the general?Unfortunately I see more Bernie stickers out here than any other candidate. Although I would say 80% of the people I talk to are Trump supporters, most seem hesitant to say it or show it publicly since the law allows them to be assaulted and have their property damaged. :-\
Unfortunately I see more Bernie stickers out here than any other candidate. Although I would say 80% of the people I talk to are Trump supporters, most seem hesitant to say it or show it publicly since the law allows them to be assaulted and have their property damaged. :-\
I figured it was going to be Biden but I’m starting to have my doubts. He’s just a horrible candidate. With Warren also going down the toilet, looks like Bernie is in a strong position as he’s going to pick up a lot of her constituents.Bernie is in a strong position but it seems a lot of powerful demoncrats don't like him. Boozeburg has the powerful democrat support but not the people. Either way, I don't think they can beat Trump and in the mean time they seem content to eat each other alive and destroy their own party. Fuck 'em.
Bernie is in a strong position but it seems a lot of powerful demoncrats don't like him. Boozeburg has the powerful democrat support but not the people. Either way, I don't think they can beat Trump and in the mean time they seem content to eat each other alive and destroy their own party. Fuck 'em.
I figured it was going to be Biden but I’m starting to have my doubts. He’s just a horrible candidate. With Warren also going down the toilet, looks like Bernie is in a strong position as he’s going to pick up a lot of her constituents.
This fucking guy..embarrassment from hell:
"At a campaign event in Hampton, New Hampshire, on Sunday, presidential candidate Joe Biden jokingly referred to a young woman who asked him a question as a “lying, dog-faced pony soldier,” according to the Washington Post. There’s video of the incident, which began when 21-year-old student Madison Moore asked Biden to explain his poor showing in the Iowa caucuses"
https://slate.com/culture/2020/02/joe-biden-dog-faced-pony-soldier-john-wayne-tyrone-power.html
Carville just picked up a shirt at Goodwill and goes on TV or what? He used to be a snazzy dresser.
Looks like he's on call for the Clintons again to snipe Bernie when needed.
Progressive as f*ck.
Maybe he should have came out for 30 to 40 bucks an hour though... ???
Tom Steyer pledges $22 minimum wage if elected
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Democratic presidential hopeful Tom Steyer just vowed to raise the minimum wage to $22 per hour if he gets elected.
A Fox news article chronicled his announcement, originally made during a campaign block party on Sunday in South Carolina.
The current minimum wage is set at $7.25 per hour at a federal level, though many states have raised it to compete with higher costs of living.
Steyer, a billionaire whose campaign is focused on tackling environmental issues, joins other candidates like former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as they advocate a $15 per hour minimum wage.
Politico reports that Steyer has reportedly spent approximately $14 million in television and radio ads in South Carolina, and he sees the state as crucial to his campaign’s success as his fellow candidates focus on the New Hampshire primary.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/poverty/482346-tom-steyer-pledges-22-minimum-wage-if-elected
I've now listened to him speak several times. He doesn't sound very bright. And when he starts talking about Trump, he sounds like a lunatic.
A power hungry billionaire trying to bullshit his way into office.
If he could sign a piece of paper tomorrow to make $22 an hour minimum wage law go through he wouldn't do it.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/10/sanders-jumps-out-to-huge-lead-in-national-poll-as-biden-plummets/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=facebook_app&fbclid=IwAR15GW2mNVESF47ey0L4uWr-MYUPnLKxPGeCIBFjRuEtHBtCWerlJeGk3vU
Bernie vs Bloomberg.
Biden and Warren get zero delegates? OUCH.
This in in their backyard. TOAST.
Strawboy on suicide watch....
Wait what?
ButtBoy LOST the Iowa popular vote but won the delegate count.
Why is that not front page news?
Why are Democrats and the media not talking about the end of Democracy and freedom?
Tucker just said Tom Steyer has dropped out
I think they are saying Bidens strongpoint is more diverse areas. Ohia was 90% white I think. But yeah.. not what he was expecting
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/bidens-campaign-was-a-disaster-for-liberalism-and-his-party.html
BIDEN = FAIL
Looks like Tucker is wrong.
Tom Steyer: 'I'm not dropping out. That's ridiculous.'
Speaking to reporters in Reno, Nevada, Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer says he's not dropping out of the 2020 race and is looking forward to the Nevada caucuses.
Source: CNN
F bernie - he is a damn communist.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/12/former-goldman-ceo-blankfein-if-im-russian-i-go-with-sanders.html
Yup - Bernie is the worst of the worst - Stalin/Marx/Lenin/Mao/Castro/Chavez et al.
He will be brutally criticized for surrounding himself with Cortez/Tlaib/Omar if he gets the nomination.
Democrats will vote against him.
We all knew these attacks were coming if Sanders began to to gain traction.
Culinary Union says Bernie Sanders would end its health care
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(CNN)The influential Culinary Union distributed a flier that says Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders would "End Culinary Healthcare" if elected president of the United States.
The flier, obtained by CNN on Tuesday, outlines where the leading 2020 Democratic candidates stand on health care, immigration and "Good Jobs." It singles out Sanders as the candidate who will end the union's health care among the top six Democratic candidates, pointing to his "Medicare for All" plan.
The release of the flier by the union, which is a force in Nevada politics, comes just a week and a half away from the Nevada caucuses. The organization says it represents 60,000 hotel and casino workers in Nevada and provides health insurance coverage for more than 130,000 people. Its organizing abilities have helped deliver the state for Democrats for years. The union has not endorsed a candidate in the 2020 election.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/12/politics/culinary-union-bernie-sanders-health-care/index.html
James Carville embraces Sanders' 'political hack' label: 'At least I'm not a communist'
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Democratic strategist James Carville has said that he agrees with Sen. Bernie Sanders' assessment of him as a "political hack," adding that he'd rather be a hack than a "communist" like the senator from Vermont.
Carville's comments were the latest salvo in a feud that began over the weekend when he attacked Sanders' policies and said he was "scared to death" of his success in Iowa's Democratic caucuses. Sanders, I-Vt., responded by telling CNN: "Look, James, in all due respect, is a political hack who said very terrible things when he was working for Clinton against Barack Obama."
Vanity Fair contributor Peter Hamby tweeted Thursday that he had spoken on the phone with Carville, who told him: "Last night on CNN, Bernie called me a political hack. That's exactly who the f--k I am! I am a political hack!
"I am not an ideologue," Carville reportedly added. "I am not a purist. He thinks it's a pejorative. I kinda like it! At least I'm not a communist!"
In an interview with Vox published last week, Carville unleashed a scathing critique of his party.
"We just had an election in 2018. We did great. We talked about everything we needed to talk about and we won. And now it’s like we’re losing our damn minds. Someone’s got to step their game up here."
Carville added that he considered himself a "liberal" rather than a centrist -- but Democrats had gone too far to the left even for him.
"They’ve tacked off the damn radar screen," he said, before taking another shot at Sanders for saying that he wanted to expand voting rights for people like convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Sanders, Carville suggested, would be ineffective as president and wasn't representative of the Democratic Party.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/james-carville-bernie-sanders-hack-communist
Bloomberg Throws Money at Meme Accounts as Past Racist Policies Resurface
Bloomberg is paying popular influencers to run campaign memes as he faces criticism over his record on stop-and-frisk and his comments on redlining
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The seemingly endless flow of money that billionaire Michael Bloomberg is dedicating to his Democratic presidential run has now crossed over into meme culture.
Accounts with huge followings on social media started posting staged direct message conversations with the former New York City mayor Wednesday night, tagging them as real sponsored ads paid for by the candidate. @KaleSalad, which has 3.5 million followers, and @FuckJerry, with 14.9 million followers, are among some of the massive accounts being paid by Bloomberg’s campaign. In the captions, both accounts wrote “and yes this is really #sponsored by @mikebloomberg.”
Bloomberg’s newest tactic of using comedians, influencers, and meme accounts comes at the same time as his tenure as mayor is being scrutinized. An audio recording from 2015 of the candidate was recently resurfaced, in which he defends stop and frisk and racial profiling techniques used by cops.
Bloomberg claimed he inherited the NYPD’s policy of harassing minorities from his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani, but data provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union shows that the number of stops actually increased during his tenure as mayor by “more than seven-fold.”
Another clip resurfaced this week of Bloomberg suggesting the end of redlining caused the 2008 financial crisis. Redlining is the discriminatory practice wherein banks deny mortgages and loans to low-income and minority communities. In response, Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted, “I'm surprised that someone running for the Democratic nomination thinks the economy would be better off if we just let banks be more overtly racist. We need to confront the shameful legacy of discrimination, not lie about it like Mike Bloomberg has done.” She also posted a video to explain redlining.
The Fat Jewish, another popular (and controversial) meme personality, weighed in as a native New Yorker, saying, “From the subjugation of minorities through stop and frisk policies to his hardline anti-marijuana stance, dude is a total hoe.” He rejected Bloomberg’s request to post an ad on his meme account(s).
https://nowthisnews.com/news/bloomberg-throws-money-at-meme-accounts-as-racist-policies-resurface
Is his entire campaign one of the clearest examples of an attempt to buy an election that we have ever seen? And it's not going to work. He's a terrible candidate. Aside from the fact his policy positions suck, he has zero charisma. Trump will kill him on the debate stage.
And I have to say, as much as I don't like the nicknames, "Mini Mike" is pretty darn funny.
Mark Levin made a point to call Bloomberg an American oligarch. Truth.
I don't even watch that much television but it seems like every time I look up there is another one of his ads running.
I've read estimates of up to 2 billion that he is willing to shell out for this campaign.
Bad choice plus ensures he gets "Scalia'd". Who would want to be between her and the Presidency?
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Topless protester confronts Bernie Sanders, de Blasio at Nevada campaign rally
A topless protester disrupted Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign rally in Nevada on Sunday — moments after Mayor Bill de Blasio introduced the Democratic presidential candidate to the stage.
De Blasio had just introduced Sanders to the crowd in Carson City as the “next president of the United States,” when Sanders entered the stage with his wife as the song “Power to the People” played.
That’s when a fully clothed woman jumped up and tried to wrest the microphone out of the Vermont senator’s hand, before grabbing another one from the lectern, and started speaking about the candidate’s support for dairy farmers.
“Bernie, I’m your biggest supporter, and I’m here to ask you to stop pumping up the dairy industry and to stop pumping up animal agriculture,” she said. “I believe in you…” she continued, before the mic suddenly went dead and security moved toward her.
Sanders moved to the edge of the stage as a string of women then paraded across holding images of cows — followed by a topless woman, who gestured to Sanders as members of his security detail positioned themselves between the two.
“This is Nevada. There’s always a little excitement — at no extra cost. Except we have a lot of water on the stage,” he said as he returned to the stage.
The protesters were prompted by the senator’s support in 2018 for legislation that provided emergency financial support for dairy farmers across the country because of the falling price of milk.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/16/topless-protester-confronts-bernie-sanders-de-blasio-at-nevada-campaign-rally/
Just some dumb opinion piece but honestly this wouldn't surprise me.
Romney-Bloomberg: The Unity Ticket America Deserves
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In casting his singular vote to impeach and remove Donald Trump from office, Mitt Romney made history. Now it’s time for him to take a step further. For the good of the country, Senator Romney should run for president as an independent.
With the democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders now the Democratic frontrunner and the political arsonist Donald Trump as the Republican incumbent, there is a yawning chasm that has never before existed in American politics. By retreating to their poles, our two major parties have left tens of millions of independents and moderate Democrats and Republicans unrepresented.
Senator Romney’s entrance into the presidential race wouldn’t just give the vital center of the electorate a home—it would stand a chance to break a system that is stacked against independents and third party candidates. The last major third-party run was in 1992, when Ross Perot won 19 percent of the vote—and he accomplished this while running against two party centrists, in Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush. Against two polarizing fringe candidates with no claim to the middle of American politics, we have no idea what Romney’s ceiling might be. And as Emmanuel Macron showed in France, standing up a new party and winning a presidential election in one motion is not impossible.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thebulwark.com/romney-bloomberg-the-unity-ticket-america-deserves/%3famp
IMO, Senator Romney, age 72, is too old to run for President. Bloomberg is 78. Too old for VP. The median age of the total U.S. population is 38 years. Candidates who represent the majority makes better sense. One problem is that in 2018, among those age 65 and older, voter turnout was 65 percent for women and 68 percent for men. Younger folks must register and vote. They will be the most affected by the outcome of an election.
IMO, Senator Romney, age 72, is too old to run for President. Bloomberg is 78. Too old for VP. The median age of the total U.S. population is 38 years. Candidates who represent the majority makes better sense. One problem is that in 2018, among those age 65 and older, voter turnout was 65 percent for women and 68 percent for men. Younger folks must register and vote. They will be the most affected by the outcome of an election.
Prime, let's get serious here...there is no possible way they can nominate Bloomberg.
Bernie will go into the convention with the most delegates and these Bernie bros absolutely ABHOR Bloomberg in light of all the racist and sexist baggage that goes along with him.
I am watching the videos. I am reading the comments.
If they screw Bernie and give it to Bloomberg it will destroy the Democratic party.
Prime, let's get serious here...there is no possible way they can nominate Bloomberg.
Bernie will go into the convention with the most delegates and these Bernie bros absolutely ABHOR Bloomberg in light of all the racist and sexist baggage that goes along with him.
I am watching the videos. I am reading the comments.
If they screw Bernie and give it to Bloomberg it will destroy the Democratic party.
I'm already seeing some black friends of mine who are diehard RATS make excuses for bloomberg comments.
I'm calling it right now, there is your Democratic party nominee: Bernie Sanders.
It's like that line from the movie Giant - "Bick, you shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill."
The time to have stopped Bernie was 6 months and now he is simply too powerful.
Sanders surges to double-digit lead in new nationwide poll
Bernie Sanders' support has climbed 9 points to 31 percent since December, when the NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll last asked about candidate preferences.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders solidified his frontrunner status on Tuesday in the race to win the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, building a double-digit lead over the rest of the field in a poll released ahead of Saturday's Nevada caucuses.
It was Mike Bloomberg who seized many of the early headlines from the release of the NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, which qualified the billionaire self-funder for his first appearance at a Democratic presidential debate. But the former New York mayor finished second in the poll behind Sanders, who finished 12 percentage points clear of second-place Bloomberg.
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Sanders' support climbed 9 points to 31 percent from December, when the NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll last asked about candidate preferences, while Boomberg's support spiked by 15 points to 19 percent. The Vermont senator continued to lead among progressives and those under 45, the poll showed, but he also leads with women and college graduates as well as those without college degrees. He is second among black voters, within the margin of error, behind former Vice President Joe Biden.
Bloomberg led in the poll with moderates and voters over 45, was second with women and third among black voters.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/18/bernie-sanders-frontrunner-nationwide-poll-115753
I'm calling it right now, there is your Democratic party nominee: Bernie Sanders.
It's like that line from the movie Giant - "Bick, you shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill."
The time to have stopped Bernie was 6 months ago and now he is simply too powerful.
Sanders surges to double-digit lead in new nationwide poll
Bernie Sanders' support has climbed 9 points to 31 percent since December, when the NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll last asked about candidate preferences.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders solidified his frontrunner status on Tuesday in the race to win the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, building a double-digit lead over the rest of the field in a poll released ahead of Saturday's Nevada caucuses.
It was Mike Bloomberg who seized many of the early headlines from the release of the NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, which qualified the billionaire self-funder for his first appearance at a Democratic presidential debate. But the former New York mayor finished second in the poll behind Sanders, who finished 12 percentage points clear of second-place Bloomberg.
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Sanders' support climbed 9 points to 31 percent from December, when the NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll last asked about candidate preferences, while Boomberg's support spiked by 15 points to 19 percent. The Vermont senator continued to lead among progressives and those under 45, the poll showed, but he also leads with women and college graduates as well as those without college degrees. He is second among black voters, within the margin of error, behind former Vice President Joe Biden.
Bloomberg led in the poll with moderates and voters over 45, was second with women and third among black voters.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/18/bernie-sanders-frontrunner-nationwide-poll-115753
Landslide? New Poll Of Nevada Suggests Bernie Is Pulling Away
Hotair ^ | 02/18/2020 | AllahPundit
Posted on 2/18/2020, 4:25:53 PM
“Landslide” is a relative term, of course. Bernie’s not going to get so much as 50 percent of the vote in Nevada.
But given the photo finish in Iowa and the surprisingly tight margin in New Hampshire, a comfortable win would be impressive and potentially game-changing depending upon just how comfortable it is. Nevada’s apt to be the last state that’s hotly contested by the big four that have dominated the top tier for the past year. Warren will likely be done after the vote and Buttigieg and Klobuchar may be relegated to de facto also-ran status after their moment in the sun in New Hampshire. By his own admission, Biden needs a second-place finish in Nevada in order to build momentum before must-win South Carolina.
Let’s say he gets that — but that he also finishes 20 points behind Sanders on caucus night, a very distant, dismal second. “BERNIE’S FOR REAL,” the papers will scream the next day. South Carolinians may began shifting towards him. In one fell swoop, all of the competition except Bloomberg will have been marginalized: Warren gone, Pete and Amy dismissed as pretenders, Biden denied the good buzz he was counting on. Even Bloomberg, for all his resources, would begin to look small in the face of “Sanders might be unstoppable” narrative. Everyone’s preparing for Bernie to win Nevada, even rival campaigns, but I don’t know that anyone’s prepared for him to win Nevada going away.
Start preparing. New from the left-wing outfit Data for Progress:
Do we trust a progressive poll that has Bernie out to a big lead and the left’s second choice, Elizabeth Warren, conveniently in second place despite performing terribly in New Hampshire? Hmmmm. Data for Progress also finds Sanders taking 66 percent(!) of the Latino vote, which seems unlikely. This new Univision poll of Latino Democrats in Nevada finds his advantage among that group more modest — but still notable:
The last credible poll of Nevada, taken last week, had Sanders leading Biden 25/18, with Warren third at 13 percent. What if her support starts breaking down before Saturday and the lion’s share begins migrating towards Bernie? If you believe the lefty poll above, there’s more than enough of a Warren constituency to pad Sanders’s numbers impressively if they broke ranks. If Bernie wins this race with, say, 40 percent of the vote instead of 25 and ends up 20 points ahead of the second-place finisher, the “Berniemania!” storyline will dominate all the way up to South Carolina.
And then, if he wins there, up to Super Tuesday.
Nate Silver’s model of Nevada gives Sanders a 68 percent chance of winning the caucus, with Biden next at just 17 percent. Almost as notable as his lead in recent polling is the fact that most other candidates are either right around the 15 percent threshold for viability or below it. Nevada isn’t a delegate-rich state but a resounding Sanders win could further feed the “Berniemania” narrative by letting the media focus on just how few delegates went to his rivals, encouraging the perception that he’ll be difficult to catch after Super Tuesday. Silver, in fact, is already gaming out different scenarios for after Super Tuesday that show just how many ways a high-floor-possibly-low-ceiling candidate like Bernie could win the nomination. This one sounds familiar:
Even if the moderate lane consolidated to just one or two alternatives later on in the race — say, at some point in March or April — Sanders would still be in a pretty decent position. He would probably have a head start on the competition by having won a lot of delegates on Super Tuesday and in the first four states while the rest of the field sorted itself out. Contests up to and including Super Tuesday account for 38 percent of all pledged delegates, so this matters a lot…
Making slow-but-steady polling gains was roughly the path that Trump followed in 2016 to win the Republcian nomination, too. True, Trump had one major advantage that Sanders didn’t: the presence of winner-take-all states, especially later on in the race. (All Democratic states use proportional delegate allocation above the 15 percent threshold.) Still, Trump gained ground later in the race once Republican voters realized that they faced a choice between Trump and a contested convention (which might nonetheless have resulted in his nomination). Democratic voters might act similarly. Maybe a voter would prefer Buttigieg to Sanders in the abstract, but if a Buttigieg win would require a contested convention, while a Sanders win would not, she might feel differently.
There might be a runaway Bernie nomination or there might be a slow-and-steady Bernie nomination. There might even be a contested-convention Bernie nomination. But most roads lead to a Bernie nomination. Which path is chosen may be a pure matter of how much money Mike Bloomberg wants to spend.
Here’s Pelosi preaching unity in service to defeating Trump. We’ll see about that.
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It's a fundamental change within the Democratic party.
The alternative media is now more powerful than the traditional mainstream media.
The Old Guard simply cannot control the narrative anymore and I do not believe they have fully come to grips with that.
Now you have the AOC's and The Squad in power and the Cenk Uygur types knocking on the door looking to add to their political movement.
It's a completely different landscape from even 4 years ago.
All I see driving around is Feel the Bern bumper stickers..
Sanders is your next POTUS
When will you sheep learn that the election is rigged, the POTUS has already been chosen and your "election' is a farce.
HILDOG 2016
end of story...
you either revolt as a country or roll over and die
time to choose
TheGrinch, I really am tired of you moping around this forum with your defeatist, blackpill nonsense.
We have all seen your track record, you "settled" and predicted Hillary would win a few short days before the election. Just zero courage on your behalf. Taking the cozy, widely accepted, easy way out.
Meanwhile I was a champion. One of the first in the world to predict a Trump victory.
I want you to get excited about your life!
Pick up that dumbell.
Approach that gal who gives you those nice little tingles.
Step up to that boss and demand that promotion!
Other than that my dude, all I can say is it is painful to read your posts.
I bet you even hate ice cream or a nice sunny day don't you??
https://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=590768.0
Bloomberg referred to trans-women as ‘it’ and ‘some guy in a dress’ (billionaire nerd strikes again)
nypost.com ^ | 2/18/20 | Vincent Barone
Posted on 2/19/2020, 6:45:21 AM by Liz
After a campaign ad touted the ex-NYC mayor as “incredibly sensitive” to the LGBTQ community, a video resurfaced of Bloomberg referring to transgender people as “he, she or it” and “some guy in a dress” — the second time he’s been caught making such comments.
Bloomberg used the language to warn 2020 Democratic hopefuls against stressing transgender issues, arguing that they wouldn’t play well in middle America.
“If your conversation during a presidential election is about some guy wearing a dress and whether he, she, or it can go to the locker room with their daughter, that’s not a winning formula for most people,” he said at a Manhattan forum hosted by the Bermuda Development Agency. He delivered a similar remark about a “man wearing a dress” while making the same point at Oxford in 2016.
Despite the flippant language, his spokesperson said the candidate stands behind transgender rights and “understands the transgender community has been under attack for decades and the advance of rights has not been equal."
In April 2002, during his first year as mayor, Mike signed a sweeping transgender civil rights bill into law,” the spokesperson told the outlet. “His company provides comprehensive health care coverage for his transgender employees......adding, “as president, he has a comprehensive plan to secure rights for transgender Americans, including the Equality Act, ensuring transgender people have access to affirming health care, and working to end the crisis of violence against transgender women.”
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;D :D
Bloomberg referred to trans-women as ‘it’ and ‘some guy in a dress’ (billionaire nerd strikes again)
nypost.com ^ | 2/18/20 | Vincent Barone
Posted on 2/19/2020, 6:45:21 AM by Liz
After a campaign ad touted the ex-NYC mayor as “incredibly sensitive” to the LGBTQ community, a video resurfaced of Bloomberg referring to transgender people as “he, she or it” and “some guy in a dress” — the second time he’s been caught making such comments.
Bloomberg used the language to warn 2020 Democratic hopefuls against stressing transgender issues, arguing that they wouldn’t play well in middle America.
“If your conversation during a presidential election is about some guy wearing a dress and whether he, she, or it can go to the locker room with their daughter, that’s not a winning formula for most people,” he said at a Manhattan forum hosted by the Bermuda Development Agency. He delivered a similar remark about
;D :D
Unbelievable the way Biden has collapsed. Seems like the DNC knew this ahead of time too. That’s why they were so willing to throw him under the bus during the hearings.
RealClearPolitics - Election 2020 - 2020 Democratic Presidential Nomination
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html
Its amazing gaybama had him as his VP for 8 years and wont endorse him.
That was a tip off that his campaign was on shaky ground.
Regarding Bloomberg, he was just a shiny new toy but now you’re starting to see the cracks. Sure he’s got a shit load of money but he has no base and no enthusiasm and the left wing of the Democratic Party, which is currently steering the boat, hates him.
Its amazing gaybama had him as his VP for 8 years and wont endorse him.
Obama stated that he would not endorse anyone for President in the primaries. So, that he's not endorsed Biden isn't amazing at all.
That was a tip off that his campaign was on shaky ground.
Regarding Bloomberg, he was just a shiny new toy but now you’re starting to see the cracks. Sure he’s got a shit load of money but he has no base and no enthusiasm and the left wing of the Democratic Party, which is currently steering the boat, hates him.
lol my masters have me brainwashed with the sheeple :-)
They are going to be bringing the knives out for that guy in this next debate, you just watch.
He could spend 50 billion and I still don't think it would be enough. Like you said, too much baggage.
Bloomberg surpasses Warren in major endorsements after debate debut
NBC "News" ^ | February 20, 2020 | by Liz Brown-Kaiser
Posted on 2/20/2020, 3:28:05 PM
Mike Bloomberg has officially surpassed Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in presidential endorsements from members of Congress and governors after his debut on the debate stage Wednesday night.
With the Nevada caucuses set for Saturday, Warren still does not have any major endorsements from politicians in the Silver State. Bloomberg will not be on the ballot in Nevada.
Joe Biden is the sole Democratic candidate with formal support from a Nevadan. Rep. Steven Horsford, the Democratic member for NV-04, endorsed the former Vice President on February 14. Biden leads the pack with a whopping 49 official backings from members of the House and Senate, along with governors of several states.
Bloomberg picked up three endorsements Thursday following his first debate appearance, stealing Warren’s second place spot. The former New York City mayor has a total of 17 endorsements — 16 from U.S. Representatives and one from Rhode Island’s Democratic governor.
Warren now takes the bronze for endorsements with 14 in total.
Bloomberg’s latest endorsements came from Democratic Reps. Josh Gottheimer, Pete Aguilar, and Nita Lowey of New Jersey, California, and New York respectively.
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Sounds like people know the Democrats need a more moderate candidate in order to have any chance.
They don't have one.
Relatively speaking, of course.
Bloomberg was awful, but attacking him about his money is wrong.
His point about Bernie being a millionaire with 3 houses was strong.
Mayor Pete is the most well spoken and articulate and backs up his points. He's the only one saying "it's not about beating Trump, if the one who wins is equally divisive". He's right.
Warren just attacks and goes for "gotcha" moments.
Biden is meh, and I still think he has a shot.
Klobuchar always sounds like she's about to cry and is shaking when she debates.
None of them really inspire.
No, Bernie Sanders, most voters aren't comfortable with socialism
CNN ^ | February 20, 2020 | Zachary B. Wolf
Posted on 2/20/2020, 9:15:03 AM
This is the moment for the ultimate question of the Bernie Sanders movement: is the United States ready for a socialist President?
At Wednesday's Democratic presidential debate, Sanders defended himself as a socialist (he calls himself a democratic socialist) and then dismissed a recent poll that suggested Americans do not have a favorable view of socialism. Who was leading in that poll, he asked the debate moderator? He was, although the moderator didn't know it. The moment allowed Sanders to skate with the impression that it doesn't matter that Americans oppose socialism because clearly they like him.
Polling does suggest discomfort with a socialist President
It is true the Sanders was leading in the poll, conducted by the Wall Street Journal and NBC -- but only among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents when asked who they supported for the Democratic nomination. He had 27% support compared to Mike Bloomberg, Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, each with 14% support. And in a hypothetical matchup, he was narrowly ahead of President Donald Trump.
But two-thirds of all voters -- Democrats plus everyone else -- said they would be uncomfortable with a socialist President. Come November, it will be all Americans over the age of 18 who elect the Electoral College that picks the President. Those results and the questions they raise about whether the country would accept a socialist are repeated in an NPR / PBS News Hour Marist poll. In that poll, Sanders had even more support -- 31% in the Democratic primary compared to Michael Bloomberg, in second place with 19%. Take a look at the party breakdown regarding socialism. Fifty percent of Democrats have a favorable view of socialism compared to 46% who have a favorable view of capitalism.
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Warren Urges Arizona to Reject ‘Cruel’ Bill Banning Males from Competing in Female Sports
National Review ^ | February 20, 2020 | By MAIREAD MCARDLE
Posted on 2/20/2020, 4:32:36 PM by Oldeconomybuyer
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Thursday decried an Arizona bill that would prevent biological males from competing in girls sports, calling the legislation “cruel.”
“Trans athletes are not a threat,” Warren wrote in a tweet. “We need to protect trans kids - and all LGBTQ+ kids - and ensure they feel safe and welcomed at school. I urge the Arizona legislature to reject this cruel bill.”
The “Save Women’s Sports Act” would assign high-school students to interscholastic and intramural leagues by their “biological sex” rather than the gender with which they identify, grouping biological females together and likewise for biological males.
The bill, introduced by state representative Nancy Barto, a Phoenix Republican, and co-sponsored by 22 other GOP state legislators, is intended to protect female athletes from competing against athletes who possess an unfair advantage over them, Barto claims.
“Female student-athletes should not be forced to compete in a sport against biological males, who possess inherent physiological advantages. When this is allowed, it discourages female participation in athletics and, worse, it can result in women and girls being denied crucial educational and financial opportunities,” Barto said.
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I'm all for equal rights but how is this cruel?
As an “Indian American” who experienced decades of discrimination and hardship because of her race, she can empathize with people who claim to be something they are not.
I’ve read in a few places that Warren was an attack dog because she’s going to be Bernie’s VP.
They're essentially the same, so not sure.
Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders is too far left for Sweden's ruling Social Democrats, official says
The Week via Yahoo! News ^ | February 21, 2020 | by Peter Weber
Posted on 2/21/2020, 7:38:33 AM by Oldeconomybuyer
Johan Hassel, the international secretary for Sweden's ruling Social Democrats, visited Iowa before the caucuses, and he wasn't impressed with America's standard bearer for democratic socialism, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). "We were at a Sanders event, and it was like being at a Left Party meeting," he told Sweden's Svenska Dagbladet newspaper, according to one translation. "It was a mixture of very young people and old Marxists, who think they were right all along. There were no ordinary people there, simply."
Hassel was most "impressed" with Pete Buttigieg, though he also liked Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Some more context: The “Left Party” he talks about in there is the old Communist Party back home in Sweden. (They changed their name around 1990 or so -- wonder why.)
The Left/Communists have worked with the Social Democrats in minority parliaments, but never included in cabinet.
Why would a Swedish Social Democrat favor Buttigieg over Sanders? Well, democratic socialism is different than Sweden's social democracy - the "Nordic model" Sanders touts - "and, unfortunately, Sanders has contributed to this confusion," writes MIT political economist Daron Acemoglu. Democratic socialism seeks to fix the iniquities of the market economy by handing control of the means of production to a company's workers or "an administrative structure operated by the state," he explains. "European social democracy is a system for regulating the market economy, not for supplanting it."
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Bloomberg Knoxville, TN campaign office tagged with "Oligarch", "Classist", "Authoritarian" and "Fuck Bloomberg". ;D
Bloomberg camp blames Bernie supporters, calls on Bernie to condemn attack that "echoes his language".
https://www.wvlt.tv/content/news/Mike-Bloombergs-Knoxville-campaign-office-vandalized-568075621.html
Pete Buttigieg’s Same-Sex Husband: ‘It’s Time for Moral Leadership to be Restored to the White House’
CNS News ^ | February 21, 2020 | CNSNews.com Staff
Posted on 2/22/2020, 2:29:32 PM by kevcol
“And I think: It is time for moral leadership to be restored to the White House,” he said. “So when you are ready to share that deepest truth about yourself, when you are ready to step out of the closet you step out into something hopeful and inclusive, and you look up to Washington and you see a president who cares about you and loves you.”
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Lol. Primequeen and straw and Andreisafag must be salivating.
Looks like old man Bernie is kicking all those dummycrats asses. How is the establishment going to fuck him over this time?
Could you imagine if Bernie wins 90+ percent of these races and they STILL end up screwing him and giving it to 'Stop and Frisk' Mini-Mike Bloomberg in Milwaukee ???
And the sad thing is, I wouldn't put it past them to do such a thing!
Looks like old man Bernie is kicking all those dummycrats asses. How is the establishment going to fuck him over this time?
Anybody else notice how red Bernie’s face was when he was speaking in Texas? I won’t be surprised if he has some more health issues before the election.
You mean because he is 78 years old and recently had a heart attack which resulted in two stints being implanted? Most people wouldn't or shouldn't be surprised if he has additional health issues over the next 9 months.
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Bill de Blasio to Pete Buttigieg: ‘Try to Not Be So Smug When You Just Got Your Ass Kicked’
Breitbart ^ | 22 Feb 2020 | JOEL B. POLLAK
Posted on 2/23/2020, 12:42:08 PM by conservative98
.@PeteButtigieg, you clearly don’t understand the movement @BernieSanders has built. It reflects the true values + hope of working people in America. They simply want a country that puts working people first. Your critique tonight speaks for the American elite, not the majority— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) February 23, 2020
And hey @PeteButtigieg, try to not be so smug when you just got your ass kicked. You know how we form a winning coalition to beat Trump? With a true multi-racial coalition of working Americans: something @BernieSanders has proven he can do + you haven’t. Dude, show some humility— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) February 23, 2020
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Bloomberg is the same age but I didn’t notice the same condition. Look at Bernie’s grill. Does that look healthy?
Bernie Sanders claims victory in Nevada Democratic caucus
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/bernie-sanders-claims-victory-in-nevada-democratic-caucus-79243333585
Their only concern is "beating Trump", not the best interest of the American people.
Anybody else notice how red Bernie’s face was when he was speaking in Texas? I won’t be surprised if he has some more health issues before the election.
His supporters are slobbering all over themselves for him to name Nina Turner as his VP choice.
Could you imagine if he checks out a few weeks before the debates and she becomes the heir apparent to take his place? :)
The reason Bernie gets such traction on the healthcare issue is that people on the right are dishonest or ignorant as to how we got to this point. The defining feature of our healthcare system is employer based health insurance. It is in no way shape or form a product of the free market. It needs to go.
https://www.griffinbenefits.com/employeebenefitsblog/history-of-employer-sponsored-healthcare
To combat inflation, the 1942 Stabilization Act was passed. Designed to limit employers' freedom to raise wages and thus to compete on the basis of pay for scarce workers, the actual result of the act was that employers began to offer health benefits as incentives instead.
Suddenly, employers were in the health insurance business. Because health benefits could be considered part of compensation but did not count as income, workers did not have to pay income tax or payroll taxes on those benefits. Thus, by 1943, employers had an increased incentive to make health insurance arrangements for their workers, and the modern era of employer-sponsored health insurance began, a pivotal point in the History of Healthcare in America.
Ironically, I think healthcare via work was a free market response to FDR’s wage controls. Gov’t reaches
into the free market with one end in mind, but the market responds to controls and restrictions in unexpected ways.
Just imagine if in the 1940s employers offered to pay a portion of employees’ rent or mortgage. The median
home price would be about a million $ today.
To Bernie’s defense, some of the stuff Castro did, was good for the people. Much like some things Hitler did were good for his people.
It’s a great point. What it did was distort price incentives. Employees have no reason to shop for the cheapest healthcare options because their employer is paying for it. It’s kind a like when you go on a business trip with your employer picking up the tab.
This intervention was a big reason why Medicare was created as well. People retiring suddenly lost their employer based healthcare. The whole idea of your employer being in charge of your healthcare is absurd.
In 2017 employer-based insurance was the most common, covering 56.0 percent of the population for some or all of the calendar year. In 2017, 8.8 percent of people, or 28.5 million, did not have health insurance at any point during the year. Not all employers provide healthcare insurance and not all people take advantage of it when it is provided.
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2018/demo/p60-264.html
In 2017 employer-based insurance was the most common, covering 56.0 percent of the population for some or all of the calendar year. In 2017, 8.8 percent of people, or 28.5 million, did not have health insurance at any point during the year. Not all employers provide healthcare insurance and not all people take advantage of it when it is provided.
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2018/demo/p60-264.html
I am aware of this. My point is that it did not come from the free market but from a government intervention. So, for Bernie to point out high healthcare costs as a failure of capitalism is dishonest.
Sure, people who have employer based healthcare might like it but I can’t see why they would like the idea of losing that healthcare if they were separated from their job for whatever reason.
I had excellent family healthcare coverage through my employer for 30 years. The bargained contractual premium co-pay was nominal although it gradually increased as the cost of coverage skyrocketed. Since my wife also had very good healthcare coverage through her employer, we were well covered even when she became very ill.
So, I agree with you, those of us folks lucky enough to have 'Cadillac' healthcare plans would be idiots to give it up. Unfortunately, unless people retire with a 'golden parachute' that includes paid ongoing coverage under their employer provided plans, they are shit out of luck. When your employment ends, so does your healthcare coverage. COBRA allows you to keep that great insurance coverage for a time, but you the expensive premiums to have it.
Explain to me how you believe government intervention negatively affects healthcare insurance.
I had excellent family healthcare coverage through my employer for 30 years. The bargained contractual premium co-pay was nominal although it gradually increased as the cost of coverage skyrocketed. Since my wife also had very good healthcare coverage through her employer, we were well covered even when she became very ill.
So, I agree with you, those of us folks lucky enough to have 'Cadillac' healthcare plans would be idiots to give it up. Unfortunately, unless people retire with a 'golden parachute' that includes paid ongoing coverage under their employer provided plans, they are shit out of luck. When your employment ends, so does your healthcare coverage. COBRA allows you to keep that great insurance coverage for a time, but you the expensive premiums to have it.
Explain to me how you believe government intervention negatively affects healthcare insurance.
I had excellent family healthcare coverage through my employer for 30 years. The bargained contractual premium co-pay was nominal although it gradually increased as the cost of coverage skyrocketed. Since my wife also had very good healthcare coverage through her employer, we were well covered even when she became very ill.
So, I agree with you, those of us folks lucky enough to have 'Cadillac' healthcare plans would be idiots to give it up. Unfortunately, unless people retire with a 'golden parachute' that includes paid ongoing coverage under their employer provided plans, they are shit out of luck. When your employment ends, so does your healthcare coverage. COBRA allows you to keep that great insurance coverage for a time, but you the expensive premiums to have it.
Explain to me how you believe government intervention negatively affects healthcare insurance.
Nearly all pensions and insurance coverage like this are now bankrupt due to extended lifespans and ROIs based on perpetual growth.
Just check out CALPERS to see how mismanaged govt run systems like this work...
Leaked audio of billionaire and 2020 Democratic contender Michael Bloomberg shows him calling the progressive left and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mas., "scary" while also suggesting that Sen. Mitt Romney, R-UT, would have been a better president than former President Barack Obama.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/audio-bloomberg-slammed-warren-scary-023635538.html
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He is right.
He's right about a lot of stuff. Isn't he a former Republican, now buying his nomination as a Democrat?
He is economically conservative but socially liberal. He should be a republican.
Social issues don’t mean jack shit if you don’t have anything to eat.
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Bernie Sanders under scrutiny for backing Sandinistas in 1980s
New York Post ^ | February 24, 2020 | Carl Campanile
Posted on 2/24/2020, 7:20:31 PM by karpov
Bernie Sanders’ praise of Cuba and Fidel Castro on Sunday is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Democratic front-runner had a romance with the Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the 1980s and even honeymooned with wife Jane in the Soviet Union in 1988.
Hillary Clinton’s opposition research book on Sanders from 2016 — posted by WikiLeaks after the emails of her campaign chairman, John Podesta, were hacked — has a whole section on the then-Burlington, Vt., mayor’s trip to Nicaragua and chummy support of the Sandinistas in 1985.
“Sanders Was The Only Elected US Official To Attend Anniversary Of Sandinista Revolution In Managua,” one headline in the oppo book said.
“Sanders Supported The Socialist Sandinista Government In Nicaragua As It Fought A Proxy War Against The United States. …He used to be a ‘Sandernista,’” the Clinton campaign research book said, sourcing information from a May 28, 2015, MSNBC story.
Sanders even met with Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega.
In his own book “Outsider in the House,” Sanders called the trip to Nicaragua a “profoundly emotional experience” and praised Ortega.
Burlington and Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, became sister cities.
The Clinton oppo book also cited articles saying Sanders also tried to serve as an emissary to arrange a meeting between Ortega and then-President Ronald Reagan to resolve the conflict.
Sanders also criticized the Reagan administration’s efforts to overthrow the Sandinistas with the pro-US Contras, equating the policy to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. He also worried that the conflict could become a Vietnam-like quagmire.
Meanwhile, Sanders and his wife honeymooned in the then USSR’s Yaroslavl, which had a sister city relationship with Burlington when he was mayor.
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Democrats will not improve the country with the crop they have.
They need to regroup and rebuild.
Not around progressives either.
Government systems like what? I sited examples of the benefits of quality employer provided healthcare insurance, based on personal experience, which includes both public and private sector employee benefits. (CALPERS) was not a part of this conversation until you mentioned it.
Perhaps you'd like to share how you propose healthcare benefits be provided or not provided and if not provided, how people will receive medical attention when needed?
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World map of universal healthcare.
Countries with free and universal health care
Countries with universal healthcare
Countries with free but not universal healthcare
Countries without free or universal healthcare
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People rag on James Carville but I cannot disagree with anything the man has said.
The Democrats DID put together a solid, winning campaign during the 2018 midterms.
A solid moderate message and weak Republican turnout led them to take back the House.
I still believe the Senate is the ultimate prize because of the effects on the courts.
But it just seems that left progressive cancer has just grown too much. And they are too obnoxious and egotistical to organize the flanks and come together strong.
That "Bernie or 'Burn the sumbitch down' mentality is just so toxic overall for the Democratic party.
CNN's Camerota Shocked to Learn of Bernie's Bizarre Nude-Kid-Touching Suggestion
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 2/25/2020, 12:45:39 PM by governsleastgovernsbest
On CNN this morning, Alisyn Camerota proved in real-time a Bloomberg aide's allegation that the media has failed to properly vet Bernie Sanders.
On New Day, senior Bloomberg adviser Tim O'Brien said that Sanders had advocated that "toddlers should run around naked and touch each other's genitals to insulate themselves from porn."
"What?? What??!!," a shocked, astonished, and utterly gobsmacked Camerota exclaimed.
Get the rest of the story and view the video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Is fear of a Sanders presidency bern-ing markets?
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What’s pummeling financial markets this week?
Fears about the spread of coronavirus, to be sure. But a chorus of analysts also thinks concerns about Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic presidential nomination — and possibly even the presidency — are also contributing to jitters.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-fear-of-a-sanders-presidency-bern-ing-markets-2020-02-25
CNN's Camerota Shocked to Learn of Bernie's Bizarre Nude-Kid-Touching Suggestion
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 2/25/2020, 12:45:39 PM by governsleastgovernsbest
On CNN this morning, Alisyn Camerota proved in real-time a Bloomberg aide's allegation that the media has failed to properly vet Bernie Sanders.
On New Day, senior Bloomberg adviser Tim O'Brien said that Sanders had advocated that "toddlers should run around naked and touch each other's genitals to insulate themselves from porn."
"What?? What??!!," a shocked, astonished, and utterly gobsmacked Camerota exclaimed.
Get the rest of the story and view the video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Honestly, you come up with the weirdest shit.
Apparently here's what Sanders wrote in an essay many decades ago.
"Now, if children go around naked, they are liable to see each others sexual organs, and maybe even touch them. Terrible thing! If we [raise] children up like this it will probably ruin the whole pornography business, not to mention the large segment of the general economy which makes its money by playing on people’s sexual frustrations."
Ugh huh. This is Bernie
Own it lefty
https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/29/410606045/the-bernie-sanders-rape-fantasy-essay-explained
Honestly, you come up with the weirdest shit.
Apparently here's what Sanders wrote in an essay many decades ago.
"Now, if children go around naked, they are liable to see each others sexual organs, and maybe even touch them. Terrible thing! If we [raise] children up like this it will probably ruin the whole pornography business, not to mention the large segment of the general economy which makes its money by playing on people’s sexual frustrations."
Not just deranged socialist but a creepy pervert as well.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/stunner-watch-side-by-side-video-of-re-pete-buttigieg-and-obama-giving-the-same-speech/?fbclid=IwAR0rdG1eWjEjmpUSpfJ9z7jj1ksA-F2oK57RX9K-VhBMrPJ2EmMgJQY9jSg
Go figure
These two will make a great couple soon.
Michael Bloomberg accused of paying people to cheer for him at election debate
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/michael-bloomberg-accused-paying-people-144750272.html
He probably pays some broad to wash his dick everyday like Eddie Murphy in “Coming to America.”
Bernie is alpha as fuck and it scares my friends on the right something fierce.
Newly revealed letter highlights Sanders' complicated history on gun control
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https://www.yahoo.com/gma/newly-revealed-letter-highlights-sanders-complicated-history-gun-211500589.html
HuntingWhite Population is very big in northern Vermont and New York. They have a very strong White Population, almost nogun lawsBlack People there, yet very little gun violence. Go figure.🤔
you're dumb as fuck too.. socialism should scare every American.. cant wait to watch commie Bernie get smashed by your president in the debates... thats if he doesn't let the dnc fuck him and all his supporters in the asshole like in 2016... alfa as fuck huh?
Just sayin'
Democrats seem far more afraid of Bernie than Republicans were afraid of Trump.
Democratic Leaders Willing to Risk Party Damage to Stop Bernie Sanders
Dozens of interviews with Democratic establishment leaders this week show that they are not just worried about Sanders’ candidacy, but are also willing to risk intraparty damage to stop his nomination at the national convention in July if they get the chance.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democratic-leaders-willing-risk-party-200946646.html
Bloomberg suggests he wouldn’t send money to Sanders campaign if he is the nominee
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg said Thursday that he might not spend money to assist Bernie Sanders if Sanders is the Democratic presidential nominee, a walk back of previous comments that he would use his fortune to boost whoever faces President Donald Trump in November.
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/d65e75a8-a946-3007-b735-eeab4731e298/bloomberg-suggests-he.html
""If I don't get the nomination I'll be more than happy to fill the number two slot." -- Pete Buttigieg"
AOC warns a Bloomberg win would lead to a worse president than Trump
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that electing Mike Bloomberg in November would pave the way for another candidate who could be “even worse” than President Trump.
The freshman lawmaker said she thinks it’s “not a good idea” to put the former three-term New York mayor in the White House even if he is the candidate who could beat Trump.
“We obviously have to beat Trump,” she told “The Breakfast Club” show on Power 105.1 AM on Tuesday. “But if we beat Trump and go back to the same policies that we had before, a worse Trump is going to come. A Trump that’s more sophisticated, whose fascism is less obvious, is going to come and things could get even worse.”
Ocasio-Cortez, who has spoken at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign rallies, noted how Bloomberg’s controversial policies like stop-and-frisk and his comments about how ending the discriminatory practice of redlining contributed to the 2008 financial meltdown are coming attractions of a Bloomberg presidency.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/27/aoc-warns-a-bloomberg-win-would-lead-to-a-worse-president-than-trump/
It appears they are banking on Sleepy Joe.
Clear out all the other moderates who might take away from that Biden vote and try to prevent a Bernie nomination.
Perhaps Bloomberg has invested too much money and is in it unt the very end?
Pete Buttigieg dropping out of presidential race
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SOUTH BEND — Democrat Pete Buttigieg is ending his campaign for president.
Three people with knowledge of Buttigieg’s decision tell The Associated Press he is informing campaign staff. They were not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity.
His campaign says Buttigieg will speak Sunday night in South Bend, Ind.
Buttigieg rose to the field's top tier but failed to notch enough wins in the critical early states necessary to keep his bid moving forward.
The millennial, Afghan War veteran and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, defied expectations in a field of better-known candidates for months while becoming the first openly gay top contender for a major party nomination.
“Mayor Pete” burst onto the scene with a blitz of national media a year ago and impressive fundraising. He leaned hard into a next-generation message of urgency on pressing issues while preaching a message of hope and inclusion.
https://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/pete-buttigieg-dropping-out-of-presidential-race
Buttcrack will now run for Senator.
Buttcrack will now run for Senator.
It appears they are banking on Sleepy Joe.
Clear out all the other moderates who might take away from that Biden vote and try to prevent a Bernie nomination.
Perhaps Bloomberg has invested too much money and is in it unt the very end?
Pete Buttigieg dropping out of presidential race
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SOUTH BEND — Democrat Pete Buttigieg is ending his campaign for president.
Three people with knowledge of Buttigieg’s decision tell The Associated Press he is informing campaign staff. They were not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity.
His campaign says Buttigieg will speak Sunday night in South Bend, Ind.
Buttigieg rose to the field's top tier but failed to notch enough wins in the critical early states necessary to keep his bid moving forward.
The millennial, Afghan War veteran and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, defied expectations in a field of better-known candidates for months while becoming the first openly gay top contender for a major party nomination.
“Mayor Pete” burst onto the scene with a blitz of national media a year ago and impressive fundraising. He leaned hard into a next-generation message of urgency on pressing issues while preaching a message of hope and inclusion.
https://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/pete-buttigieg-dropping-out-of-presidential-race
Yeah I think they are definitely trying to stop Bernie at this point. They need to stop a socialist so Biden can win. What a horrible predicament for Democrats. I think Trump would crush Biden or Bernie.
Bernie is a damn communist!
Klobuchar will be next to drop out.
Klobuchar is ending her presidential bid, will endorse Biden
The Seattle Times ^ | March 2, 2020 | Sara Burnett
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar ended her Democratic presidential campaign on Monday and endorse rival Joe Biden in an effort to unify moderate voters behind the former vice president’s White House bid.
She is flying to Dallas and plans to join Biden at his rally Monday night.
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Klobuchar is ending her presidential bid, will endorse Biden
The Seattle Times ^ | March 2, 2020 | Sara Burnett
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar ended her Democratic presidential campaign on Monday and endorse rival Joe Biden in an effort to unify moderate voters behind the former vice president’s White House bid.
She is flying to Dallas and plans to join Biden at his rally Monday night.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
:-X
https://twitter.com/i/status/1234579299652554753
So let me get this straight.....the candidates from the “Party of diversity” are three old white guys ?
Liberals have taken stupidity to new heights.
Love how everyone drops out BEFORE super Tuesday.... must have got a phone call from Hildog hit squad
Exactly.
Basically told that they would have no future for themselves in the party if they didn't drop out and support Biden now.
Bloomberg drops out and endorses Biden, haha.
The billionaires, corporations and tech as big money donors are Democrats as a form of protection racket, they are not okay with socialism and would rather lose with Joe and keep their system in place.
Everyone except the one, Warren, who can take votes from Bernie.
The big winner, one again, Trump.
100%.
If she stays in after losing Massachusetts, we know the fix is in just to hurt Sanders.
I'm sensing some money will magically appear in her campaign to keep her going.
Liz Warren Is Finished After Her HUMILIATING Loss in Massachusetts (It's now down to Bernie vs. Biden)
PJ Media ^ | 03/04/2020 | Tyler O'Neil
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Not to be confused with Pocahontas) arguably should end her presidential campaign after an embarrassing third-place finish in her home state of Massachusetts.
As of 11 p.m. Eastern, former Vice President Joe Biden had won the state with 33 percent of the vote, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-USSR) behind him at 27 percent. Warren trailed at 22 percent, almost 100,000 votes behind Biden.
Decision Desk results for Massachusetts.
Not only did Warren lose her own state but she took third place, behind both the ostensible moderate Biden and the socialist Bernie Sanders.
If a presidential candidate cannot win her own state, how can she convince voters in other states to support her?
Before the 2020 race, Bernie Sanders reportedly told Warren that he would not enter the race if she decided to run. She did not get back to him. Sanders decided to run, but Warren also entered the race. The two share many dangerous extremist policies and have been competing over the same voters, but Bernie has enjoyed an edge from the beginning. Warren shot herself in the foot by accusing Bernie of telling her that a woman could not win the race.
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Would someone please PM Strawman the Suicide Prevention hotline phone number....
Seems like the DNC is just making it up as they go along. They thought Bloomberg might be the white knight but when he fizzled they realized they had to go back to Biden.
It doesn’t change anything. Biden is still an incoherent mess and a shitty candidate.
I was STUNNED last night watching the results.
Bravo to the powers to be in the Democratic party, if there was ever a way to cut the throat of a candidate, they pulled it off with their recent manuevers against Bernie.
Mayor Pete and Amy Klobuchar pull out and immediately endorse Biden. As does Beto.
Warren has run on a progressive type platform and she stays in to help syphon even more votes away from Sanders.
Now Bloomberg has dropped out as well, further helping Biden.
It's just the idea of Biden as the candidate. The man can barely string together a couple sentences and how much worse will the deterioration be by November?
It almost seems like they would rather have 4 more years of Trump versus a Sander's presidency.
Could they toss it to Hillary at a brokered convention??
I wouldn't put anything past these people at this point.
I was STUNNED last night watching the results.
Bravo to the powers to be in the Democratic party, if there was ever a way to cut the throat of a candidate, they pulled it off with their recent manuevers against Bernie.
Mayor Pete and Amy Klobuchar pull out and immediately endorse Biden. As does Beto.
Warren has run on a progressive type platform and she stays in to help syphon even more votes away from Sanders.
Now Bloomberg has dropped out as well, further helping Biden.
It's just the idea of Biden as the candidate. The man can barely string together a couple sentences and how much worse will the deterioration be by November?
It almost seems like they would rather have 4 more years of Trump versus a Sander's presidency.
Could they toss it to Hillary at a brokered convention??
I wouldn't put anything past these people at this point.
HRC could be VP.
Then, Biden backs out for health reasons.
Apparently, collusion isn’t so bad after all.😂😂
I think a lot of the Bernie disciples will either stay home or vote for Trump in November.
Biden is a train wreck.
Oh man some of these bigger progressive YouTube channels are coming unglued right now.
It's so glorious to watch.
Has StrawMan ever actually stated who he/she supports? I don't recall any strong support for one of these wonderful options.
And I thought I was a glutton for punishment! How do you even watch that garbage?
I just love the delusions of it all.
In some of their minds - Medicare for All, A New Green Deal, free college, college debt forgiveness, affordable housing, banning of fossil fuels(etc etc)....
To some of these people, those are CENTRIST ideas, popular with the vast majority of the country.
And if you just had SOMEONE... somebody with the balls to push that agenda, their side would win every single contest with the ease of a 1987 prime Mike Tyson going up against some undersized, unranked bum.
"We'd take Wyoming and Utah!!"
And although I disagree politically, I must admit that some of these people actually are pretty funny so when you mix that with the hard cold truth of reality slapping them dead across the face...it's makes for quite the delicious cocktail to ingest :)
Pathetic losers and freaks
The GREATEST and MOST IMPORTANT statistic from Super Tuesday is RECORD VOTER TURNOUT for Democrats! Just WAIT until November.
The GREATEST and MOST IMPORTANT statistic from Super Tuesday is RECORD VOTER TURNOUT for Democrats! Just WAIT until November.
“ While some in the media spent much of Super Tuesday reveling in Joe Biden's awakening from political death, they entirely missed the untold story of Super Tuesday: President Donald Trump's record-breaking vote counts and turnout.
Despite being an uncontested incumbent, President Trump managed to break several turnout and vote-count records in blue states and key swing states.
In Vermont and Minnesota, Trump's vote totals beat every past incumbent's total in the last four decades. In Maine, the president's vote total bested every primary candidate's total since before President Ronald Reagan. In Massachusetts, the story was similar, with Trump aggregating a higher vote total than past incumbent Republicans since before Reagan.”
The Hill - March 4, 2020
“ While some in the media spent much of Super Tuesday reveling in Joe Biden's awakening from political death, they entirely missed the untold story of Super Tuesday: President Donald Trump's record-breaking vote counts and turnout.
Despite being an uncontested incumbent, President Trump managed to break several turnout and vote-count records in blue states and key swing states.
In Vermont and Minnesota, Trump's vote totals beat every past incumbent's total in the last four decades. In Maine, the president's vote total bested every primary candidate's total since before President Ronald Reagan. In Massachusetts, the story was similar, with Trump aggregating a higher vote total than past incumbent Republicans since before Reagan.”
The Hill - March 4, 2020
Many long dead people awakening from death too just to vote for him. DNC necromancy at play here.
Skip to comments.
Elizabeth Warren ends presidential run
NBC ^
Posted on 03/05/2020 7:47:30 AM PST by outpostinmass2
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is suspending her presidential campaign, a source familiar with the decision tells NBC News, a bitter blow for a senator who was long seen by prominent Democrats as headed for the White House.
The decision ends a frantic year of campaigning for a candidate who branded herself as a progressive fighter from humble beginnings who was ready to take on a broken and corrupt system.
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Will someone please keep Strawphaggot away from sharp objects for a few days.
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Commentary: Democrats’ rejection of Elizabeth Warren shows misogyny is still rampant
Chicago Tribune ^ | 3/05/20 | EMILY L. HAUSER
Posted on 3/6/2020, 5:59:24 AM
**SNIP**
Anyone who hasn’t had those experiences, or known what it’s like to plan an entire day and an entire life around the possibility of sexual assault or harassment, or what it’s like to be the only one of your gender in a room marked by power, or what it’s like to have your reproductive freedom legislated by people with different reproductive organs - simply brings a different sensibility to the issues that shape the lives of 164 million Americans. It matters that women are so often absent from the halls of power, and it’s well past time for one to be in the White House.
But Warren’s campaign - for which I have canvassed across state lines, made calls, live-tweeted speeches and raised more than $10,000 - faltered and finally ended Thursday. Despite her wisdom, compassion and proven success in establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, unseating an incumbent Republican in Massachusetts and destroying the campaign of a billionaire with a history of sexual harassment complaints (bye, Mike Bloomberg) - Democrats, the ostensible party of progressive values, have decided they prefer one of two near-80-year-old men: Joe Biden, who oversaw the shameful railroading of Anita Hill in the 1991 Clarence Thomas hearings, or Bernie Sanders, a man who was unaware that his 2016 campaign had been roiled with complaints of sexual harassment and gender pay disparities and when later asked about it by Anderson Cooper, responded that he hadn’t known at the time because he was “a little bit busy running around the country.”
Of course, both men have also supported women: Biden introduced the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, and Sanders has since adopted a sexual harassment policy that he terms “the gold standard.” How wonderful that they have some notion that women, too, deserve full citizenship rights.
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Not true....Tulsi Gabbard is still in the race.
Not true....Tulsi Gabbard is still in the race.
Not true....Tulsi Gabbard is still in the race.
DNC gonna DNC
New standards eliminate Tulsi Gabbard from next Democratic debate
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday announced new qualifying standards for the
upcoming Arizona debate that will leave only the top two contenders on stage.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) did not meet the single qualifying factor: earning at least 20 percent
of the delegates awarded as of March 15.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Vice President Joe Biden are the only candidates who have
qualified for the debate, which will be hosted by CNN and Univision on March 15 in Phoenix.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/486348-new-standards-eliminate-tulsi-gabbard-from-next-democratic-debate
and Hildog won in 2016
Time for Hillary Clinton to drunkenly crawl out from under a rock to claim the candidacy at a brokered convention.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
An even scarier possibility is Biden wins and then checks out a few months later, leaving us with President Stacey Abrams.
An even scarier possibility is Biden wins and then checks out a few months later, leaving us with President Stacey Abrams.
Hope the democrats are mentally preparing themselves for another 4 years of Trump ;D
How does one do that? How do you prepare for a egomaniac who is also a liar and a cheat?
How does one do that? How do you prepare for a egomaniac who is also a liar and a cheat?
How does one do that? How do you prepare for a egomaniac who is also a liar and a cheat?You're a democrat, liars and cheaters are all you know how to vote for.
How does one do that? How do you prepare for a egomaniac who is also a liar and a cheat?
Press photo for the upcoming Sander v Biden debate.
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Sheesh...Calm down, tune into Netfux and re-watch "The Manholelorian".
FFS, you libs want to deny Americans the right to be Americans. To like what they like. To speak their mind rather than what you tell them to. To protect themselves, their families and their properties. To worship or not, as they see fit. To say FUCK islime and laugh at cuckolds and shame the shit out of all of you for your filthy libtard ways.
And yeah..."Manholelorian" was fuckin' funny. It takes wit to make sport of beings such as libs. It doesn't take much to offend one or all of you. You're not lemmings as lemmings just run off of cliffs.
You're a herd of gerbils. We all know where gerbils go.
DNC Changes Debate Rules So Biden Can Sit Down
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC), aided by CNN, appears to be changing the rules for the next Democratic presidential nominee debate again.
This time, apparently, so former vice president Joe Biden can sit down.
The most pertinent part of a POLITICO article about the Sanders and Biden camps clashing over the debate rules states:
The format for the next debate in Arizona — their first since Biden’s blowout Super Tuesday victories — would have the candidates seated for the first time this election cycle and take multiple questions from the audience. In the prior 10 debates, the candidates stood at lecterns and nearly all questions were asked by the professional moderators.
And while the Biden camp denies pressuring the DNC and CNN to allow Joe to take a load off, the Sanders camp outwardly objected to the rule change. Team Biden did not. Usually, in the murky world of backroom political deals, this means you’re in on it.
“Why does Joe Biden not want to stand toe-to-toe with Sen. Sanders on the debate stage March 15 and have an opportunity to defend his record and articulate his vision for the future?” quipped Jeff Weaver, Bernie Sanders’s senior adviser.
https://thenationalpulse.com/news/dnc-debate-rules-biden-sit-down/
Klobuchar seems to have slipped and insinuated that she is going to be VP.
Wow! It is so easy to get you going.
You want % 100 truths on the Democratic party and the fact that all of it is phony, fake and hypocritical?
Where are all the Women’s groups, all the dykes, all the so-called “true lefties” complaining about the DNC denying Tulsi Gabbard on the debate stage even though she met their standards?
A woman being excluded from debating two old white men?
One would think the outcry would be deafening.
Not a whisper.
Biden can't talk in intelligent sentences.
The look on his handler's faces says it all. Grandpa scares me when he gets angry.
It’s gotten to the point where you watch him speak just to see how he’s gonna fuck up.
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Is Bernie dropping out today? He makes an announcement at 1pm.
Watch - he'll get in line
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LOL....
I cannot wait for the President Trump versus Creepy, Sleepy Joe Biden debates !
Dem party wants to end the primary now without debates. They want ol' Joe as a DNC puppet just in case Trump would lose. Guy is an empty suit/empty brain.
Biden May Not Be Well Enough To Stand For Debate
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will be changing the format for the next debate to limit the amount of standing required by candidates on the stage.
The format change was announced on Friday and will go into effect for the next debate, scheduled for March 15 in Phoenix, Arizona. This comes at a time when many are questioning whether former Vice President Joe Biden is physically able to hold the office of the president.
Is the establishment trying to literally prop up Joe Biden?
https://newsradiowrva.radio.com/blogs/jeff-katz/dnc-changes-debate-rules-so-candidates-can-sit-down
My questions is....who actually contols the DNC? Where are the brains of the operation and the big donors?
EVERY large organization has quiet money and influence, it's just that the news doesn't report who these people are.
It's not Perez, Brazile, Biden, Bernie....there is a vacuum of talent but somebody pulled the strings to fix the primary against Bernie, to allow Bloomberg, to exclude Tushi...so...who is it?
It couldn't be more obvious that Biden is a vessel to impart some ideas but whose ideas are they?
WATCH: Joe Biden Walks Off Camera During Zoom Virtual Town Hall [VIDEO]
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Joe Biden tried to reach out to his voters and answer questions during a virtual town hall on Zoom today. He’s had to cancel a few events because of coronavirus concerns, so he’s looking for other ways to reach voters. But today’s event didn’t go too smoothly. At one point, Biden walked off camera while answering questions. Read on to see what happened and watch a video from the town hall.
Here’s the town hall video live right from Joe Biden’s page. He walks off camera around the two minute mark.
What’s interesting is that he actually seemed to be moving back to face the camera right when the video was taken down. Viewers couldn’t see what was happening after that.
The town hall had quite a few problems during its short life. First, it started two hours late. CNN noted that on the Zoom side, viewers saw the video cutting between alternating views of different people who were present, but the views didn’t always make sense. Sen. Dick Durbin opened the event but he wasn’t on camera while he talked, CNN reported. When Biden spoke at first, no one could understand him because of audio issues.
https://heavy.com/news/2020/03/watch-joe-biden-zoom-town-hall/
WATCH: Joe Biden Walks Off Camera During Zoom Virtual Town Hall [VIDEO]
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Joe Biden tried to reach out to his voters and answer questions during a virtual town hall on Zoom today. He’s had to cancel a few events because of coronavirus concerns, so he’s looking for other ways to reach voters. But today’s event didn’t go too smoothly. At one point, Biden walked off camera while answering questions. Read on to see what happened and watch a video from the town hall.
Here’s the town hall video live right from Joe Biden’s page. He walks off camera around the two minute mark.
What’s interesting is that he actually seemed to be moving back to face the camera right when the video was taken down. Viewers couldn’t see what was happening after that.
The town hall had quite a few problems during its short life. First, it started two hours late. CNN noted that on the Zoom side, viewers saw the video cutting between alternating views of different people who were present, but the views didn’t always make sense. Sen. Dick Durbin opened the event but he wasn’t on camera while he talked, CNN reported. When Biden spoke at first, no one could understand him because of audio issues.
https://heavy.com/news/2020/03/watch-joe-biden-zoom-town-hall/
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For fuck sakes dude. LMFAO.
I was merely paying homage to one of the all time great films, "Caddyshack". ;D
Keeping Joe in the campaign is elder abuse. He won't be fit for interviews in just a couple ofyearsweeks.
Joe Biden replaced by Andrew Cuomo? Not so far-fetched
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By Joe Battenfeld | joe.battenfeld@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
PUBLISHED: March 25, 2020 at 6:57 p.m. | UPDATED: March 25, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Democrats are coming down with a sudden case of buyers’ remorse.
While Joe Biden stumbles around to wrap up the Democratic nomination, it’s another Democratic pol — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who’s emerged as the No. 1 political star of the coronavirus era.
Cuomo is everything Biden is not — a strong orator who oozes leadership and decisiveness. He’s macho without being threatening or creepy.
The liberal New York governor’s daily press briefings have become appointment viewing on the national cable outlets like CNN and MSNBC — and even Fox News.
“Times have changed & we need Gov. Cuomo to be the nominee,” says a Draft Cuomo Twitter account that recently popped up. “Our next POTUS must be one w/an ability to lead through his crisis.”
But could it really happen? Will Democrats move to make Cuomo their nominee, bumping out Biden, who is quickly amassing enough delegates to secure the nomination?
Yes, it can happen — if the coronavirus crisis continues to worsen and Biden continues to flounder. It would take a series of seemingly unlikely series of events to make Cuomo the nominee.
Biden’s victories on Super Tuesday and Super Tuesday 2 put him on the path toward the nomination but the former vice president virtually disappeared when the crisis began to take a turn for the worse. He has struggled to become relevant in the past few weeks, appearing on soft shows like “The View” and delivering a strange livestream speech in his library that did not inspire optimism.
“We have to take care of the cure,” Biden said in another of his nonsensical ramblings. “That will make the problem worse no matter what.”
https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/03/25/joe-biden-replaced-by-andrew-cuomo-not-so-far-fetched/
Keeping Joe in the campaign is elder abuse. He won't be fit for interviews in just a couple of years.
"We have to take care of the cure that will make the problem worse no matter what."
Joe Biden’s Sexual Assault Accuser Breaks Silence With Graphic Allegations
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In April of last year, Tara Reade accused Joe Biden of inappropriate behavior when she worked at his Senate office in 1993. Now, she’s accusing the Democratic presidential nominee of sexual assault, according to a graphic interview with podcaster Katie Halper.
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When Reade initially came out about her experience with Biden, she told The Union that he did uncomfortable things like “put his hand on my shoulder and run his finger up my neck.” Reade also said that she cut ties with Biden’s office over an early 1993 staff argument. According to Reade, Biden wanted her to serve drinks because he liked her legs. Reade says she didn’t hear this directly from Biden but she learned of it during her argument with staff. Reade refused to serve the drinks, which she believes was a move that affected her career.
“My life was hell,” Reade said. “This was about power and control. I couldn’t get a job on the Hill.” She eventually left Biden’s office in August of 1993.
Now, Reade is speaking out even more with a sexual assault allegation against Biden. Katie Halper posted an excerpt from an interview done with Reade to Twitter around 2 a.m. on Wednesday, writing “This is a story that @ReadeAlexandra has been trying to tell since it happened in 1993. It’s a story about sexual assault, retaliation and silencing.
https://newsone.com/3917043/tara-reade-joe-biden-sexual-assault-accuser-breaks-silence/
Democrats are setting this up to get Cuomo to run. Biden is a loser and joke.
Joe Biden replaced by Andrew Cuomo? Not so far-fetched
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By Joe Battenfeld | joe.battenfeld@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
PUBLISHED: March 25, 2020 at 6:57 p.m. | UPDATED: March 25, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Democrats are coming down with a sudden case of buyers’ remorse.
While Joe Biden stumbles around to wrap up the Democratic nomination, it’s another Democratic pol — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who’s emerged as the No. 1 political star of the coronavirus era.
Cuomo is everything Biden is not — a strong orator who oozes leadership and decisiveness. He’s macho without being threatening or creepy.
The liberal New York governor’s daily press briefings have become appointment viewing on the national cable outlets like CNN and MSNBC — and even Fox News.
“Times have changed & we need Gov. Cuomo to be the nominee,” says a Draft Cuomo Twitter account that recently popped up. “Our next POTUS must be one w/an ability to lead through his crisis.”
But could it really happen? Will Democrats move to make Cuomo their nominee, bumping out Biden, who is quickly amassing enough delegates to secure the nomination?
Yes, it can happen — if the coronavirus crisis continues to worsen and Biden continues to flounder. It would take a series of seemingly unlikely series of events to make Cuomo the nominee.
Biden’s victories on Super Tuesday and Super Tuesday 2 put him on the path toward the nomination but the former vice president virtually disappeared when the crisis began to take a turn for the worse. He has struggled to become relevant in the past few weeks, appearing on soft shows like “The View” and delivering a strange livestream speech in his library that did not inspire optimism.
“We have to take care of the cure,” Biden said in another of his nonsensical ramblings. “That will make the problem worse no matter what.”
https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/03/25/joe-biden-replaced-by-andrew-cuomo-not-so-far-fetched/
Biden: 'I think we've had enough debates
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday said it's time for the Democratic primary to draw to a close and signaled a disinterest in participating in a final debate against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
"My focus is just dealing with this crisis right now," Biden said at a virtual press conference. "I haven't thought about any more debates. I think we've had enough debates. I think we should get on with this."
The remarks come a day after the Sanders campaign reiterated its intention to participate in the 12th debate of the primary cycle. Biden and Sanders are the only remaining candidates in the race.
"If there is a debate in April, he plans to be there," Sanders spokesman Mike Casca said.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) originally scheduled 12 debates and 11 have taken place so far. The DNC has not responded to a request for comment about the whether the final debate is still in the works.
The coronavirus has taken Biden and Sanders off the campaign trail and several states have postponed their primary elections.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/489482-biden-i-think-weve-had-enough-debates?amp
He's not in congress...does he know it? What is he doing exactly?
Democratic National Convention postponed until August due to coronavirus pandemic
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Posted on 4/2/2020, 12:09:19 PM by Ronaldus Magnus
MILWAUKEE -- The 2020 Democratic National Convention has officially been postponed until August due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Democratic Party announced Thursday.
The convention was originally scheduled for July 13-17. It will now be held the week of August 17.
“In our current climate of uncertainty, we believe the smartest approach is to take additional time to monitor how this situation unfolds so we can best position our party for a safe and successful convention," said Joe Solmonese, CEO of the Democratic National Convention Committee. "During this critical time, when the scope and scale of the pandemic and its impact remain unknown, we will continue to monitor the situation and follow the advice of health care professionals and emergency responders."
The move came following recent calls from major political players, including Democratic frontrunner for president Joe Biden, to postpone the convention.
So April, May, June, July...4 more months of cognitive decline for an old man who is already clearly going downhill very fast.
This should be very interesting.
Should give them plenty of time to figure out a way to get Cuomo installed as the candidate.
Where’s Bernie?
Cuomo said he doesn't want the position but we'll see what happens.
Bernie simply has zero fight within him. Zero guts. Zero courage.
Even if Biden were to check out with a major stroke or aneurysm, I doubt Bernie would even step up to take the mantle.
He is simply kicking back and lining his pockets at this stage.
Biden should court Tulsi if he wants a chance.
Someone polling <1% gives him a chance?
It's over!
Also...
I'm thinking Biden gets replaced for "health reasons" by whomever the DNC chooses.
At that point "your" choice was now chosen for you..lol
Screw voting.... and TPTB will tell you "here's your potus".. not shy any more about you not having a choice and pretty much telling you that to your face
F bernie - loser marxist fraud
People vote the top of the ticket but she would be a horrible selection. Actually, I doubt he's going to pick anyone good anyway. He's a mess.
Biden, at first virtual event as presumptive nominee, says he's 'coming for' Kamala Harris
By Gregg Re | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-virtual-town-hall-presumptive-nominee-coming-for-kamala-harris