I agree that is what she is doing.
I'm not sure why she thinks it's a good idea to support him in light of the fact he's old and in poor health, but he certainly matches her platform the best.
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US PoliEra 2019 |OT9| I'm really glad I'm not on Twitter nearly enough to understand all the references
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I'm not sure why she thinks it's a good idea to support him in light of the fact he's old and in poor health, but he certainly matches her platform the best.
Warren dodging the health care tax question feels like nothing compared to all the fuck-ups everyone else is doing.
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it's hard to see Bernie succeeding here if the endorsement doesn't take a reasonable chunk out of warren's lead. because that has to be the target demo, right? wavering lefties. i'm curious to see what the polling shows over the next few weeks.
(granted, i'm well behind on where warren's lead has been coming from -- it looked like Bernie's slump was pretty cleanly mapping to warren's rise, but maybe when you drill down that's totally not the case.)
(granted, i'm well behind on where warren's lead has been coming from -- it looked like Bernie's slump was pretty cleanly mapping to warren's rise, but maybe when you drill down that's totally not the case.)
I don't agree, I don't think Beto's statement moves the needle at all. IMO this dust up does nothing but elevate Gabbard, best to placate her and move on since I'm a week it'll be forgotten.
Socialists gotta stick together.
Also, she cares very much about putting the working class front and center and that's Bernie's shtick and not Warren's. Also his foreign policy is better.
If bernie wins a lot of his promises would be blocked by the senate, even if democrats somehow take control ofthe senate I suspect a lot of bernies ideas would still meet resistance. Ultimately my prediction would be assuming trump is voted OUT of office in 2020 and not forced out.. but if bernie were to win he'd get very little done then when 2024 rolls around trump would run for office again and pull off a disasterous win in the wake of "the do nothing dems getting nothing done"
Plus bernie would REALLY be too old for a 2nd term (same goes for biden to be honest) I wish people would consider how the winning candidate will influence the outcome of 2024.
Plus bernie would REALLY be too old for a 2nd term (same goes for biden to be honest) I wish people would consider how the winning candidate will influence the outcome of 2024.
It doesn't move anything because Beto is no longer relevant in the race. It's unlikely Tootsie or Beto will make November.
It's just amusing that at this point, EVERYONE has a beef with Beto about SOMETHING.
I simply think her heart was always with Bernie, he is the reason she got into politics after all, and the heart attack pushed her to take an active role in his campaign.
His friendships with Tootsie and Kathleen Rice always gave me pause.
You keep saying that, but it's your framing that you are ascribing to everyone. Being in the top 3 throughout isn't my definition of DOA, either. For examples of DOA, see Klobuchar, Gabbard, Harris, O'Rourke, etc
AOC doesn't have wildly different ideas from Sanders, because he's very consistent about what he intends to change and such an early endorsement having very different ideas from him would just muddy the waters of his message in a time when it's good to be clear about your goals to differentiate yourself. Instead, she's on board because she's a good communicator that excites people, and has modern first hand experience with the inequity of modern society. This is the time to get your message out there, and she's a good person to help him do that. You can read that as desperation if you want, but I see it as a good ally joining the campaign.
Such is the fate all straight white men must endure, I assume.
That's enough politics for the day. Tulsi is a trash human being, and anyone that defends her is suspect as far as I'm concerned.
Is there another analogy for Beto? Someone who was so hyped and was the favorite of the betting markets and delivered such a pathetic campaign? Rick Perry in 2012, perhaps?
Beto doesn't have the excuse of being trapped in Ohio
He wishes.
I think he looks hideous. I don't get the allure of him AT ALL.
(well not hideous...but he's SO not my type. My thighs remain uncramped)
He looks like an unattractive Kennedy....and a lot of the Kennedys are unattractive Kennedys.
Everyone's fave werking that natural hair.
Crazy to me she had to actually go 8 years not wearing her hair natural ever not once :(Everyone's fave werking that natural hair.
The use of "weakness" there proves the editor knows what they're doing.
Aint that the truth. "Here, I know yall've figured out Hillary is old news so we brought you another Security Blankie to fixate on instead of governing!"
I dont usually like to go futurist when the adminsitration is melting down and people are dying from what's greasing those wheels, but am I alone in thinking she's headed for House leadership given this and her getting into the weeds of legislating and the chamber's workings?
That's funny you said that because I always thought that Beto O'Rourke looked liked Christopher Lawford, an actual Kennedy.
Man, it was like 2 days ago that i actually googled some things about Yang and was excited that someone was campaigning on Universal Basic Income and Nuclear Energy, but then he goes and says a bunch of dumb shit and backs up Tulsi.
Welcome to how controlled appearances are for politics. Her wearing that airstyle would have been a talking point. As insane as it is in the real world.
Yangs interview with Maddow when she asked him how we meddled in other countries political processes and he didn't name anything I couldn't tell if he didn't actually know or because he's running for POTUS didn't want to specifically name a bunch of recent presidents and call them war criminals or say "Yo Rach you just did a whole thing about Iran Contra like come on"Man, it was like 2 days ago that i actually googled some things about Yang and was excited that someone was campaigning on Universal Basic Income and Nuclear Energy, but then he goes and says a bunch of dumb shit and backs up Tulsi.
His UBI implementation plan is also quite bad.Man, it was like 2 days ago that i actually googled some things about Yang and was excited that someone was campaigning on Universal Basic Income and Nuclear Energy, but then he goes and says a bunch of dumb shit and backs up Tulsi.
I was a young apolitical teen back in the long long ago of 2005 but did Kerry receive even half the hate and vitriol Hillary does for losing to Bush back then? Did everytime Kerry opened his mouth to speak on something was there any entire contingent of people going "ughh why won't you just GO AWAY FOREVER" and things like that? Maybe there were idk but I certainly don't remember it.
Difficult to compare, since he was still a senator afterward. Mitt Romney would be closer example, since after losing he was not in a political office (at least not for several years). Also Al Gore.
The only thing I can think of is when the right got angry when he made this joke:
You know the answer.
At least you've started managing your expectations!
Speaking as a millennial who is terribly underinformed, I do have a much higher appreciation for AOC than Bernie. She won't make me vote for Bernie in the primary but I really appreciate that she voices her opinion on so many things that fucks up my generation. I think in a few years her political instincts will be demonstrably better than Bernie's.
I remember my conservative dad criticizing Kerry because his wife owned Heinz ketchup or something so he was compromised by business conflicts...LOL
On the stupid-to-evil scale Bolton definitely sits on the evil side. We're lucky that such an ineffective and back-biting administration picked him up compared to someone at all willing to listen to their subordinates or... function at all.
Well tbh had he won she would have needed to divest or sell off her control of the company or it would be compromising.
Making Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm was also the correct decision
We've just fallen so far that normal anti corruption ethical moves seem silly and unnecessary
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