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2020 Democratic Presidential Primary | OT | Hickenlooper makes it to the debate
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I can look past politicians paying lip service to the token "moderate" Republican to get elected. If they start budding up with loonies or people like Ted Cruz I'll raise an eye brow. Beto is already pretty much disqualified for me for endorsing a Republican.
Not really. Optics are what moves needles. Twitter and forums are overwhelmingly negative on the whole and represent nothing in the grand scheme of things.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ny...ics/beto-orourke-democrats-president.amp.html
Looks like he technically didn't endorse Will but he did elevate him.
Castro's is just vaguely racist.
Where's Yang? Assuming it would be boring to have two racist skits. Guess it was covered from Castro's. bit.
You're right, most of the rest of the GOP didn't personally go overseas and bomb civilian factories like he did, so he's worse than them
We had this already, there is a homophobic joke in it. Let's move on.
And there's no bird sitting on his shoulder either. Failure!
Mom Nature does not support Beto! He is #cancelled.
Btw where's Kirblar? I miss antagonizing with him :(
Bring him back!
Never vote of spite, but I assume your joking. However unlike the McCain comments the crime bill does have more nuance. Though I wouldn't fault those who still criticize him for it since outcome is the same.
I've seen a lot of Bernie supporters criticize his comments on McCain.
So you're disqualifying a candidate based on misinformation that you read via a tweet.
Not sure if you're joking or not but assuming you aren't...
I'm not a Beto fan (not even a little) but everybody starts somewhere. His campaign may or may not pick up more steam going forward, but personally I think it's petty to compare his crowd size at this point against anyone else. I mean maybe against Harris, but other than that we have people like Biden and Sanders etc that are pretty well known while Beto at this point doesn't have that same recognition yet.
yeah a lot of Bernie supporters were upset that he had nice things to say about Bush and McCain. Like the amount of people that wanted Bernie to criticize George Bush the day he died is pretty amazing. to the point of being ridiculous, honestly. so... I guess you're just not following the right people if you missed those takes.
Wasn't there some beef between Sirota and Politico? Lol. It's getting ugly!
Evans himself says he's not judging the Sirota of today on this. It was a shitty thing of Sirota to do when he did it TWENTY years ago.
Please keep attacking Sirota though, as if it's going to have any effect on, or means anything for Bernie Sanders.
thank goodness sanders fans never criticize his opponents for stuff they did twenty years ago
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-n...sia-report/h_f30923d53a8a1493bdcbd1c9e1248327
Many of the Dem candidates are calling for the now finished Mueller investigation report to be made public. Hopefully Biden, Buttigieg etc get in on this as well.
Many of the Dem candidates are calling for the now finished Mueller investigation report to be made public. Hopefully Biden, Buttigieg etc get in on this as well.
Ok fixed. CNN just being CNN and ignoring him maybe. If he tweeted it isnt there at the link.
That's fair enough. Everybody does it.
Why would any Democratic candidate NOT call for it to be made public? This is a pretty low bar as far as litmus tests go.
LOL yeah if it was a litmus test that's about as low as it could go. I was more just trying to put the news out there that the investigation is over and ALL OF THEM should be calling for it's release. I'd certainly expect they will.
What tweet? I remembered him helping a republican incumbent win over a historic candidate in a tight race and it turns out it wasn't because he endorsed the candidate but because he abstained due to a false sense of bipartisanship, still bad just not as bad.
Going by the time line Sirota would be 23 meaning he should have known better by then to race bait regardless of pressures he may have recieved. That tactic is way too common in politics and I hope he truly has changed, but I'll with hold judgement for a while given the earlier hatchet job. Seems everyone's gunning for him.
This makes it appear he's only claiming remorse because he's caught and in the spotlight.
Brutal.
It looks like he was working for Sanders in a senior position around that time.
Agreed. This new news is pretty fucked up. He knew what he was doing.
Sirota is yet another beautiful example of why Sanders will eventually implode. There was no reason to hire him. Any rational candidate would make a quick cost-benefit analysis and figure out in about 2min that this was going to be a shit show. He's not there because he's going to be his speech writer, he's there because Bernie and Jane like him and want him on the team. If i had to bet, I would bet this was mostly Jane's idea. If you go on her twitter she retweets a lot of his stuff and even tweeted support at him when he got criticized for his Beto articles. This tells me that either people around Bernie aren't giving him good advice, or they are and he's flat out ignoring it. I think Jane has a lot of power in his campaign and I think she's going to destroy his campaign. Like someone else said, I think Jane actually did do his a lot of his taxes and that scares the shit out of me. She's in Bernie's ear 24/7, giving him advice... That's... Horrifying.
I think the distinction is with a lot of the Bernie criticisms it's along the lines of "well I'm disappointed by what he said" but then with any other candidate you get this "HE IS WHO WE THOUGHT HE WAS" shit.
Of course it does, Bernie's the man at the he'd of his campaign and what his staff do reflects on him. Obama fired some of his own campaign staff for less. The base may not care, but its going to be more difficult building a coalition with people who do down the road.
It's true. Don't confuse us defending him and wanting more from other candidates as having an inability to criticize him. His supporters criticized him over his Venezuela comments if you remember that.
Are you kidding? More of the time it's just circling the wagons against any and all criticism from outside your circle. But you disagreed with him on something once so it's all equal now. lol
It's kind of hard to disagree with him on issues, I'll admit. How is that our fault? Maybe if I supported Biden I could pass the standard you want from supporters as then I could disagree with him more often.
edit: I actually disagree with Bernie on the free college bit. Think I agreed with Yang in regards to UBI to channel people into non-university things like vocational school or starting a business.
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