https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...le-over-who-will-best-protect-social-security
People in glass houses...
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Bernie Sanders called for adjustments to Social Security in past (same language he is criticizing Biden for)
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...le-over-who-will-best-protect-social-security
People in glass houses...
This is running for election 101. When you compete against someone, they are trash. When you endorse that some person later on, they are the most qualified person and you support them. /shrugs
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Okay, Bernard has to be a Russian asset at this point, the American Jeremy Corbyn.
Open your eyes
Open your eyes
I'm so shocked a politician who's been in the game for like forty years has made a statement in the past that's inconvenient for his current narrative.
This whole tit-for-tat is stupid. Yes, I know Obama and Biden offered up SS cuts at one point in exchange for stimulus spending, but it ultimately didn't happen and both candidates are running on expanding the program.
Please get back to the important issues like who would win in a push-up contest
This whole tit-for-tat is stupid. Yes, I know Obama and Biden offered up SS cuts at one point in exchange for stimulus spending, but it ultimately didn't happen and both candidates are running on expanding the program.
Please get back to the important issues like who would win in a push-up contest
Got 'em!!
Imagine the utter dunce that would go "Wow he said what once? I guess he and Biden are actually the same then, huh?"
Imagine the utter dunce that would go "Wow he said what once? I guess he and Biden are actually the same then, huh?"
*scrolls a little further down*
"Sanders' record shows he supported increasing funding for Social Security and opposed benefit cuts throughout his political career. In 1995, he warned that the Balanced Budget Amendment, which Biden supported, would lead to "the destruction of the Social Security system as we know it." He also introduced and sponsored legislation throughout the 1990s to protect and increase Americans' Social Security checks."
Oh ok.
"Sanders' record shows he supported increasing funding for Social Security and opposed benefit cuts throughout his political career. In 1995, he warned that the Balanced Budget Amendment, which Biden supported, would lead to "the destruction of the Social Security system as we know it." He also introduced and sponsored legislation throughout the 1990s to protect and increase Americans' Social Security checks."
Oh ok.
Politics is a fun game. "adjust" is now a tainted word. We all know where Bernard stands on social security.
Lmao...and primary season has only just started.
Fuck me.
Lmao...and primary season has only just started.
Fuck me.
Not to be pointlessly skeptical, but are there any other outlets running this story other than Bloomberg. It's difficult for me to take criticism of candidates seriously there considering, uh, Michael Bloomberg.
"Sanders' record shows he supported increasing funding for Social Security and opposed benefit cuts throughout his political career. In 1995, he warned that the Balanced Budget Amendment, which Biden supported, would lead to "the destruction of the Social Security system as we know it." He also introduced and sponsored legislation throughout the 1990s to protect and increase Americans' Social Security checks."
Nice thread OP
Nice thread OP
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does that matter to PoliERA?
OP
OP
Same thing could be said for Biden... why does one standard apply for Biden and another for Bernie?
Yeah why would he die on the hill of not wanting social security cuts by pointing out that another candidate constantly wanted to cut social security, an easily proveable fact that is a major issue in a primary and with the voters Bernie cares about
what a mystery
on the topic of social security, i have a feeling that the word "adjustments" coming from bernie has the same meaning as it would have coming from biden
feels like some amount of projection is going on here
feels like some amount of projection is going on here
Seriously we're just sourcing things literally from someone's direct competitor now?
Like I said earlier, beyond parody.
??? These two statements don't match when the Tories are the Russian asset (assuming this isn't bait because it's literally impossible to tell now).
He said "adjustments" in the context of social security in 1996. Why must you be so obtuse XP
I suppose there are some people out there who can't parse the difference between a socialist saying "social security isn't working" and a centrist/right winger saying the exact same thing. Biden's shtick as a union booster was always about knocking the safety net because working joes had to support scroungers through their taxes. Not a million miles away from Reagan's welfare queen routine tbh
Still, GOTCHA BERNIE!
I suppose there are some people out there who can't parse the difference between a socialist saying "social security isn't working" and a centrist/right winger saying the exact same thing. Biden's shtick as a union booster was always about knocking the safety net because working joes had to support scroungers through their taxes. Not a million miles away from Reagan's welfare queen routine tbh
Still, GOTCHA BERNIE!
The first part was "it was adjusted before," so the clear context is cuts.
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