US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Coffee Dog]

Biden wants me to go to jail for weed brehs. 

I really fucking don't want Biden. Bernie or Warren would be ideal, but christ, Biden is just going to be holding down the fort for whatever the next version of Trump is to take over. Dems actually get someone in office and the message is "let's go back to simpler times"? Fuck

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https://twitter.com/prolepeach/status/1219091803334488064

[kingv]

Biden wants me to go to jail for weed brehs. 

I really fucking don't want Biden. Bernie or Warren would be ideal, but christ, Biden is just going to be holding down the fort for whatever the next version of Trump is to take over. Dems actually get someone in office and the message is "let's go back to simpler times"? Fuck

Biden is going to be a less eloquent, less cool Obama and he’s going to be shocked that his policies aren’t more popular.

Obama got a ton of mileage out of being “cool”, even though his policies and governing were often kind of bad.
Mass drone strikes, mass deportation, the grand bargain, and trying to pretend Republicans are actually awesome is not going to go over as well when the guy doing it can barely speak.

[Joe Molotov]

If the Biden Trump debates don't embolden every geopolitical "enemy" nothing ever will and we can safely wind up 75+% of the armed forces.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1219304652438675456

[james]

Nyt isn't good enough to start a fire with

It's going to be Joe. If you look at the polling in big states, it's a done deal unless we get a sudden surge from someone else. The race will be effectively over after Super Tuesday, though Bernard will likely pull the same shit and run a zombie campaign until June.

I don't even have a dog in this fight except Not Bernie, but that's what's going to happen.

You fucking imbecile bernie is going to win 3 of the 4 first states and you will be devastated

And Biden will likely have more aggregate delegates at that point, because he'll "lose" IA, NH and NV by a couple percentage points while winning SC by double digits.

Hell, Biden may actually win Iowa, as he's currently leading there, though I could see Bernie stans making the caucuses so unpleasant that Bald Man overperforms.

Lol. The caucuses are after bedtime for Biden supporters.

YOUTH POWER BITCHES

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1219094081093165057

So the NYT opinion editorial board filmed their interview and selection. Man, people are going to meme on this shit so hard. Like watching a bad late night skit.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1219094081093165057
https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1219101019591843840
https://twitter.com/Trevor_Gowan/status/1219298959879000066
https://twitter.com/banditelli/status/1219107600999960579
https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1219096601383202818
https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1219094228942196736
https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1219095357751058432
https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1219220526842945539

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[shosta]

You really are Peter Daou.

[james]

If Sanders can win, fuck it, let's do the damn thing.

All that matters is Orange Man Gone.

Glen, welcome to our revolution

[Nintex]

If Sanders can win, fuck it, let's do the damn thing.

All that matters is Orange Man Gone.

And if Sanders doesn't win, he gets all the blame.

There's no way to lose. 

[shosta]

Glen, welcome to our revolution

Wtf is this? We tolerate deadnaming here now?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Finally, Killer Mike is off the sidelines.

I was on the edge of my seat.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Future cabinet y'all

[ToxicAdam]

No one over 70 is getting my vote. No more walking corpses in office.

Boomers had their time.

[Lonewulfeus]

Not planning on voting this year eh?  Weird flex but ok

[nachobro]

if bernie isnt the nom i probably won't vote either tbh

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[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/gratefulsugaree/status/1219300276437471233
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1219354930567360512

 

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agrajagoff is ken klipperstain 

[Kara]

You really are Peter Daou.

The modern day Paul the Apostle.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/gratefulsugaree/status/1219300276437471233
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1219354930567360512

 

Fucking coward. Be a real father and do some investigative journalism.

https://cafe.com/the-dig-undercover-inside-a-bernie-bro-online-harassment-gang/

[shosta]

The modern day Paul the Apostle.

honestly... Peter Daou is such a beautiful human being

https://twitter.com/leeladaou/status/1201924301269676033

https://twitter.com/leeladaou/status/1201935237883797505

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1219283337266769920

We're in day 20 of the year 2020

[ToxicAdam]

Not planning on voting this year eh?  Weird flex but ok

I've only voted for a President twice in the past 30 years, so it's the norm for me. (Bush 92 and Obama 2012)

[nachobro]

that explains all the bloomberg and steyer ads during football games

[samir]

If B-dawg doesn't get the nom I'm either not voting or putting in a protest vote for Orange Man.

[nachobro]

i don't personally see a need to protest vote for trump cause that goes pretty opposite any bernie support i have but i'll either just not fill out the president bit or write bernie in.

nevada had a nice (but pointless) gesture of having "none of the above" on the ballot which would fit nicely.

[Joe Molotov]

You have a good chance of getting a B-Dawg, like perhaps Biden.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1219283337266769920

We're in day 20 of the year 2020

To think that Trump will undo millions in advertising by this one trick

[nachobro]

i'm in new mexico now, which may also be close, so who knows. most of the dem field seems pretty awful, but if i can vote for hillary i can vote for anyone.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1219310299720929288

 

[naff]

the most frustrating thing about bernie for me, and i think a lot of people, is not him or his campaign but a good bunch of his dumbass supporters saying shit like bernie or bust like anyone thinks it's cool or intimidating. fuck them.

[Pissy F Benny]

https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1219310299720929288

 

Have the deep state false flagged that march yet? Alex said they were planning on doing so 

[Trurl]

What are Bloomberg ads even like?  Is he actually selling himself or is he doing the right thing and just acting as an anti-Trump propaganda organisation.

[Great Rumbler]

What are Bloomberg ads even like?  Is he actually selling himself or is he doing the right thing and just acting as an anti-Trump propaganda organisation.

"Trump is bad! Bloomberg did some things that were good as mayor! Vote Bloomberg."

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that explains all the bloomberg and steyer ads during football games

I was surprised to see the nfl ad with anquan boldin during the game

https://twitter.com/AnquanBoldin/status/1218996416019697665

 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

If Bernie get's robbed again (i kid i kid), I would be okay with him running third party against pete.

YOLO Bernie, you ain't gonna be around for much longer.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/costareports/status/1219395444519862285

Do it 

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the dirty dems 

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[Cauliflower Of Love]

My one concern with Sanders is that this is the guy who ran a campaign so incompetent that he lost to the candidate who lost to the worst candidate in history. How do you fuck things up that badly? He'd need to do substantially better in the general.

That's always been a bad concern.  Considering he had a tiny pool to pull from in 2016 for campaign talent, it's rather impressive the margin he lost by was so small.  Let's not forget when he announced his running:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?325700-1/senator-bernie-sanders-i-vt-news-conference

He ran out to the garden to announce between floor votes.

He couldn't eve get a podium, hell he walked through the photographers in the back to leave.

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[TVC15]

(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)

I could hear the dialog

“Who could those other 33% be voting for?”
“Well, Tom Steyer had a very strong showing at the last debate.”

[Trurl]

I just realized how emotionally invested I've gotten in the Sanders campaign and how hard it's going to be if he loses Iowa. 

Bernie could really use Mandark's endorsement right about now.  :'-(

[naff]

My one concern with Sanders is that this is the guy who ran a campaign so incompetent that he lost to the candidate who lost to the worst candidate in history. How do you fuck things up that badly? He'd need to do substantially better in the general.

quick refresher

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/fact-check-did-the-dnc-illegally-steal-the-2016-primary-from-bernie-sanders

This portion of the DNC charter—article five, section four—states:

In the conduct and management of the affairs and procedures of the Democratic National Committee, particularly as they apply to the preparation and conduct of the Presidential nomination process, the Chairperson shall exercise impartiality and evenhandedness as between the Presidential candidates and campaigns.
“These governing documents,” the complaint argues, “expressly obligate the DNC to maintain a neutral posture with respect to candidates seeking the party’s nomination for President during the nominating process.”

According to Newsweek, in response to the lawsuit the DNC contended that “the organization's neutrality among Democratic campaigns during the primaries was merely a 'political promise,' and therefore it had no legal obligations to remain impartial throughout the process.”

And the court seems to have agreed with the DNC: The lawsuit was dismissed in late August.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774

Individuals who had maxed out their $2,700 contribution limit to the campaign could write an additional check for $353,400 to the Hillary Victory Fund—that figure represented $10,000 to each of the 32 states’ parties who were part of the Victory Fund agreement—$320,000—and $33,400 to the DNC. The money would be deposited in the states first, and transferred to the DNC shortly after that. Money in the battleground states usually stayed in that state, but all the other states funneled that money directly to the DNC, which quickly transferred the money to Brooklyn.

“Wait,” I said. “That victory fund was supposed to be for whoever was the nominee, and the state party races. You’re telling me that Hillary has been controlling it since before she got the nomination?”

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[Boredfrom]

Tolkien elves were boomers, though.

[Kara]

the most frustrating thing about bernie for me, and i think a lot of people, is not him or his campaign but a good bunch of his dumbass supporters saying shit like bernie or bust like anyone thinks it's cool or intimidating. fuck them.

I hate it as much as you do, but being an adult means holding your nose and casting votes that are an averaging of your misery instead of an expression of enthusiastic support.

If the reluctant social fascists are going to hold a litany of vulnerable minorities hostage with their purity politics then we have an obligation to ensure that their eldritch powers cannot bring folly on them, to be above the influence. 😔

[Transhuman]

I just realized how emotionally invested I've gotten in the Sanders campaign and how hard it's going to be if he loses Iowa. 

Bernie could really use Mandark's endorsement right about now.  :'-(

Imagine how sad you'l be if he wins the nomination but still doesn't win because he's too left for well-off Democrats to vote for, and resetera-types don't vote for him because of the "bernie bro" image he's been slandered with.

[james]

If Bernard is not president by year end none of you will be sad.

You'll all be dead. I guarantee it.

[TVC15]

If Bernard is not president by year end none of you will be sad.

You'll all be dead. I guarantee it.

If a Democrat doesn’t win, a foreign Bornean had better be willing to marry me so I can move to their country. I would’ve done it for them.

[naff]

what will you bring to the table tvc?

[shosta]

the most frustrating thing about bernie for me, and i think a lot of people, is not him or his campaign but a good bunch of his dumbass supporters saying shit like bernie or bust like anyone thinks it's cool or intimidating. fuck them.

For all the clout they have in The Discourse, you would think that a disgruntled minority like left-progressives would make multiparty democracy a big priority (so they don't have to resort to childish threats to stay home), but that camp seems to be really silent on this.

[TVC15]

what will you bring to the table tvc?

I make decent money and have a potential job offer to work entirely remotely (that I’m currently not interested in, but if I hear wedding bells...). I can bring my inflated Silicon Valley salary to whatever third-world shithole I’d be living in.

[shosta]

Australia

[shosta]

Stephanie Kelton? She's fine. Literally 100% of her time is just spent explaining that the debt doesn't matter and that given the US's trade situation the government should run a deficit.

[naff]

Australia

i live in nz though (just dating someone currently in aus)

[TVC15]

I can do NZ. Also sometimes when I have orgasms I get really light-headed and it’s like I’m about to pass out, but don’t worry I’m still alive. You have to give me a few minutes and do me a favor and shut my eyes.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Speaking of things Sanders supporters say did we ever talk about his economic advisor being an outspoken MMT advocate?

Good.

[shosta]

is this forum finally going to have the great Modern Meme Theory debate? is it ready for that?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Need EV.