US PoliEra 2019 |OT9| I'm really glad I'm not on Twitter nearly enough to understand all the references
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Everyone hated my bomb of a title.
The movie performed about as well.
Could do without all the irony.
What I'm saying is that Pete, having been involved in multiple campaigns before enlisting, might have done it to pad his resume for future elections.
No, he didn't do it for the State Treasurer. He has higher ambitions.
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I don't have firsthand knowledge but it doesn't sound like he was in any real danger while he was 'training' state side. Naval Intelligence sounds more like spy and translation work.
He didn't actually deploy until 2014 when he was already Mayor.
It also feels like it should be relevant that the war in Afghanistan is a pointless quagmire that we should've stopped sending troops to.
I understand the philosophical underpinnings of "hate the war, respect the troops" but it probably needs an asterisk for wars that have been going on for two decades. And for people who had no financial pressure to serve and did so anyway. Pete probably cannot claim he didn't know he would go to Afghanistan.
I understand the philosophical underpinnings of "hate the war, respect the troops" but it probably needs an asterisk for wars that have been going on for two decades. And for people who had no financial pressure to serve and did so anyway. Pete probably cannot claim he didn't know he would go to Afghanistan.
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Elizabeth Warren @ewarrenI'm always happy to meet with people, even if we have different views. @BillGates, if we get the chance, I'd love to explain exactly how much you'd pay under my wealth tax. (I promise it's not $100 billion.) https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status/1192188119417704448 …
7:30 PM - Nov 6, 2019
Why do billionaires apparently see Warren as more anti-billionaire than Bernie? Doesn't Bernie's tax-plan hit them much harder? Yet all I hear is them whining about Forma.
They can't be scrubbed off his platform because I just read them on his website.
Not sure if you read what you quoted there but this
doesn't sound to me like something lacking in any real danger.
Because they rightfully see her as more of a threat of actually winning.
They (correctly) see her as more likely to become the nominee.
Hot take: Because they know she is competent enough to actually do it.
Because they think she actually has a shot in winning.
Yup. I'm sorry but Bernie can't win a general unless trump gets impeached and removed. The red scare that would fall upon would be insane
Well, probably because they don't think Bernie will win the primary. Notice that no billionaire was whining about Warren when she was at 8%.
it's either all an establishment conspiracy to boost warren and siphon away progressive-minded folks from sanders, or it's because she gained momentum in the polls over the past months and is viewed as a credible threat
I've seen it suggested that it's literally sexism.
Bernie is a man from the political class, and that is someone they instinctively feel isn't a real threat. Surely they can "cut a deal" and find a way to weasel out of having to really change their ways.
With Warren they're scared they can't play boys club with her. That if she says she's fundamentally changing things, she actually means it. (Even if Bernie, himself, does also actually mean it.)
I guess that makes sense. I feel sexism is playing role with shit like "She HATES us rich guys! Personally!" I don't see where they get that from the way she campaigns.
Bernie I'd get lol
Bernie I'd get lol
I'm kind of confused on why people are saying that Pete has changed his positions on some things. He has always talked about MFAHWI (at least since January), and when it comes to restructuring the supreme court his proposal has always been to have 10 judges elected the normal way, and 5 more chosen by the original 10.
Harris was a cop, she's also a woman of color which, because people are shitty puts her at a disadvantage to some folks' small idiotic minds. She's also run a really, really shitty campaign, and, to be honest, has barely been less flippy floppy on some things than Pete.
Klobuchar is a woman who throws things at people. (Which I'm kinda here for tbh, but I get why some people don't like it.) Plus, like...personality wise....she's kinda awkward mom. Which has a place/appeal to some people. She's one who I thought would be doing better though.
Gillibrand flamed out so early for so many reasons.
Booker...I don't know why he didn't catch on more than he did. He's kinda nerdy but I'm here for that. But he does have some ties to Wall Street that would probably bug some people. (Don't bother me at all.)
Like, say what you will about Pete...a young, moderately attractive man running for President, from the midwest, former military, married, gay, has pull with the big money donors and Hollywood Elite, is well spoken, seems to have a knack for retail politics, is willing to not run as far to the left as humanely possible to fight for an ounce of support in a crowded lane? It makes sense why he's doing well in Iowa.
The real hot take here is that Bernie is personally unpopular with the Democratic establishment and has a record of pragmatic political compromises and so the billionaires aren't worried about him really enacting policy that affects them.
Warren, by contrast, has the political capital among Democrats to convince them to support her, and a political history of directly dressing down and publicly humiliating rich people. A Warren presidency is going to be one in which the president gets on Twitter and personally calls Bill Gates a greedy leech. Obviously Bill Gates really hates that idea.
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Wow, if Kasich makes love to his food, then Buttigieg grudge-fucks it.
This-these people are upset because Warren's way of leadership and how she talks about getting things done reminds them of the people that they hired in the past for their own business.
Lindsay is regressing back to denial. Now thinks "Sonderland" changed his testimony because he's colluding with the Dems.
This is getting hilarious.
I mean, Yglesias and I have a lot of opinions in common, but Bouie is actually the guy who talks about how it's really personal for the billionaires when it comes to Warren.
She said this back in 2011. It's definitely personal for these rich folk.
"My 'I Broke No Laws' news conference has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my news conference."
Just remembering when Clinton and Lynch's talk on the tarmac was a horrible sign of the DoJ being in the bag and incapable of being impartial...
He probably just hasn't found time amidst his globetrotting effort to drum up a conspiracy theory before Thanksgiving
boy does he love kissing trumps ass
legit surprised he didn't do it
Probably thought it would worsen the situation for Trump.
You know Trump has to be livid that his attorney wouldn't represent him like that. Lawyers are what keeps him afloat all his life, so having one that doesn't do what he says to do? Might explain why he's exiled from DC.
I read it here on PoliEra that it had been scrubbed, but you're right.
Looks like I might have been a victim of bad Twitter/PoliEra information. The article from just last week references an interview where he still touts Supreme Court reform.
https://www.vox.com/2019/10/30/20930662/pete-buttigieg-court-packing-anthony-kennedy-citizens-united
It's just in that interview Booty said he wanted more judges like Anthony Kennedy, which got the most attention on social media, and it got lost that he's still in favor of SC reform.
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