US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[jakefromstatefarm]

the best case scenario being still 1200+ delegates away from 50%+1 after super tuesday cant be a good thing if youre trying to avoid a brokered convention right?

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/yesthatCarlo/status/1234275842626392065

Obama lost his first primary for federal office too

[benjipwns]

Now Pete can recharge, wait for Bernie to get the nomination, and then with Bloomberg's money run an independent bid to save the country.

[Joe Molotov]

Mayor Pete dropped out because they threatened to reveal his REAL birth certificate

The one that says "Straight" on it?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flavor-flav-bernie-sanders-public-enemy-rally-960218/

“While Chuck is certainly free to express his political view as he sees fit — his voice alone does not speak for Public Enemy,” the letter states. “The planned performance will only be Chuck D of Public Enemy, it will not be a performance by Public Enemy. Those who truly know what Public Enemy stands for know what time it is, there is no Public Enemy without Flavor Flav.”

In a handwritten note at the bottom of the cease-and-desist, Flavor Flav wrote to Sanders, “Hey Bernie, don’t do this.”

https://twitter.com/MrChuckD/status/1234168612560064513

[Mandark]

the best case scenario being still 1200+ delegates away from 50%+1 after super tuesday cant be a good thing if youre trying to avoid a brokered convention right?

jake you obviously haven't heard of "mass politics"

[benjipwns]

History of Iowa winners who also placed 2nd in New Hampshire:
1980 - George H.W. Bush, dropped out in May after Reagan clinched nomination, became VP and then President
1984 - Walter Mondale, won the nomination
1988 - Dick Gephardt, dropped out at end of March
1988 - Bob Dole, dropped out at end of March after Bush clinches nomination
1996 - Bob Dole, won the nomination
2008 - Barack Hussein Obama, won the presidency
2016 - Hillary Clinton, won the nomination
2020 - Pete Hussein Buttigieg, dropped out March 1st, two and a half weeks after NH and two days before Super Tuesday
 

[benjipwns]

this wasn't the ad I wanted to find, but dat music

[benjipwns]

https://tubedubber.com/?q=2BRUEN_6-vE:LBr7kECsjcQ:0:100:0:17:1

 

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https://tubedubber.com/?q=WXFmZqg8R6g:LBr7kECsjcQ:0:100:0:17:1

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[benjipwns]

https://tubedubber.com/?q=2BRUEN_6-vE:E3C18TmTUJs:0:100:0:38:1

okay i'm done i swear

i lied, volition demanded it

https://tubedubber.com/?q=2BRUEN_6-vE:L53gjP-TtGE:0:100:0:22:1

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[Cauliflower Of Love]

Pete's voters basically dissolved into every other candidate evenly.

https://morningconsult.com/2020/03/01/pete-buttigieg-second-choice-polling/




 

[EightBitNate]

Pete's voters basically dissolved into every other candidate evenly.

https://morningconsult.com/2020/03/01/pete-buttigieg-second-choice-polling/

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Bad for Bernie though. Guarantees candidates on the verge of viability delegates.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Bernie raises about $ 1K per minute.

[benjipwns]

wait, wait, wait, I know exactly what Bloomberg needs right now this very second: https://tubedubber.com/?q=2BRUEN_6-vE:IPXIgEAGe4U:0:100:0:169:1

[Cauliflower Of Love]

You know what time it is.

Public Enemy announced Sunday they are permanently “moving forward” without Flavor Flav, firing one of hip-hop’s most memorable hypemen after 37 years. The abrupt dismissal comes just two days after the rapper sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bernie Sanders over Chuck D’s concert at the campaign’s Los Angeles rally Sunday.

“Public Enemy and Public Enemy Radio will be moving forward without Flavor Flav,” the hip-hop legends said in a brief statement Sunday. “We thank him for his years of service and wish him well.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/public-enemy-flavor-flav-bernie-sanders-960272/

[benjipwns]

Rich white man Bernie putting another black man out of a job.

[benjipwns]

stost, if I tweet out these tubedubs how much will Mike send me, I want to join #Resistance Twitter

[Cauliflower Of Love]

friendship with killer mike ended



chuck d is my best friend

[benjipwns]

21st century mike bloomberg

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/roxannlovesu/status/1234276413164834816

All that potential Corona virus carriers. 

[bluemax]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/public-enemy-flavor-flav-bernie-sanders-960272/

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Bernie was the Yoko of public enemy. Sad

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How do I start a predict it bet for whether trump invites flavor flav to the white house?

[benjipwns]

my first tweet in almost three years!

https://twitter.com/benjipwns/status/1234319916225957889

[thisismyusername]

Rich white man Bernie putting another black man out of a job.

Not surprised though, Flav always has been... out there. So cutting him this many years later is probably a good thing for each of them.

[benjipwns]

wow already got a like, this is a movement people #FightThePower #FightTheElites #SuperTuesday #Mike2020

[Tripon]

my first tweet in almost three years!

https://twitter.com/benjipwns/status/1234319916225957889

https://twitter.com/benjipwns/status/923657829243899904

The neogafican cinematic universe is wild.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Now that generic vet #4 is out of the main stage, is it time to bring Tulsi back in to fight for america's troops?

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people getting riled up about "blue check marks" is so weird

Icons are the blue check marks of the bore 

[benjipwns]

Now that generic vet #4 is out of the main stage, is it time to bring Tulsi back in to fight for america's troops?

NEVER! she fought on the side of the Red Army in Afghanistan

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/FairfaxJustin/status/1234294479563128834

Some potential fuckery going to happen eventually?

[benjipwns]

Pretty sure the potential fuckery started when Northam wondered out loud if he should moonwalk to prove he did blackface once but not another time.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/EmersonPolling/status/1234342701585326080

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https://twitter.com/astradisastra/status/1234313534407892992

[Cauliflower Of Love]

[Joe Molotov]

Nice things like *checks notes* Flavor Flav in 2020.

[Great Rumbler]

You know what time it is.

Public Enemy announced Sunday they are permanently “moving forward” without Flavor Flav, firing one of hip-hop’s most memorable hypemen after 37 years. The abrupt dismissal comes just two days after the rapper sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bernie Sanders over Chuck D’s concert at the campaign’s Los Angeles rally Sunday.

“Public Enemy and Public Enemy Radio will be moving forward without Flavor Flav,” the hip-hop legends said in a brief statement Sunday. “We thank him for his years of service and wish him well.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/public-enemy-flavor-flav-bernie-sanders-960272/

BERNIE BROS AT IT AGAIN YOU HATE TO SEE IT

[OnlyRegret]

Bernard's America

https://twitter.com/MrChuckD/status/1234366481976057857

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#PeteToBernie

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Warren wants to break up big banks

Sanders is breaking up big raps

[Transhuman]

A guy I used to work with hung up on me in 2016 when I laughed at him when he started talking Pizzagate over the phone and how he thought Trump would make a better president. And we're both Australian! Who gets salty over politics that doesn't even effect them?

Anyway he got fired for smoking weed in the parking lot.

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smart people vape

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[FStop7]

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Is this Kirblar

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[D3RANG3D]

[Great Rumbler]

2028 President Ocasio-Cortez

[benjipwns]

https://thebulwark.com/the-simple-answer/

You are a normal American. You don’t like demagogues of the right or the left. You want competent, responsible governance somewhere in the vicinity of the broad center. You cherish American exceptionalism, and you know that means rejecting European-style demagoguery of the right and left that exploits people’s anxieties and seduces them with false promises. You dread a future featuring an authoritarian and illiberal party facing off against a socialist and illiberal party. And so you don’t want to face a choice–you don’t want the country to face a choice– between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in November.

What are you to do? Well, if you’re a Democrat and live in one of the 14 states voting Tuesday, you can of course participate in your state’s Democratic primary contest. If you live in Alabama, Arkansas, Minnesota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, or Virginia, you might be surprised to learn the Democratic contest is an open primary, and you can participate no matter your party registration or non-party registration. In some of the other remaining states, you can vote if you’re unaffiliated. So an awful lot of you can vote Tuesday. But for whom?

The American process of presidential selection is complex. The Democratic nominating process is complex. Super Tuesday, with 14 very different states operating under somewhat different rules, is complex. A multi-candidate field with proportional representation, but not exactly proportional representation—because there are thresholds at both the state and CD level—makes everything more complex. And so a voter, trying to cast a meaningful vote that will further an outcome he prefers—sane, moderate governance—can feel perplexed.

But though the situation is complex, the answer actually is simple. Whatever the substantive case for either Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, and despite the flashes of electoral strength each has shown, neither is going to be the nominee. And despite what once seemed a possible, though unconventional, path to the nomination, it’s not going to be Mike Bloomberg either. So it’s Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden. Which means, if you’re inclined toward American constitutional democracy, the rule of law, and a free economic order–as well as a liberal world order anchored by the United States–it’s Joe Biden.

And if you’re not, then it’s Bernie Sanders.

To be sure, there could be cases where, if you live in a particular congressional district with a particular distribution of the vote, you might—if you had perfect advance knowledge—engage in complex calculations that might make you think a vote for one of the other candidates would have more effect. But your calculations are as likely to be wrong as right. It’s much safer to vote your actual preference between the two candidates who have a realistic shot at the nomination, and who represent wildly different paths for the future: Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.

And that’s a simple choice.

William Kristol is editor-at-large of The Bulwark.

[nachobro]

2030 - Evil dictator AOC is overthrown and replaced with President Ivanka

[Great Rumbler]

2030 - Evil dictator AOC is overthrown and replaced with President Ivanka

FACT CHECK:

The Trump family will be first against the wall when AOC takes power.

[nachobro]

as if they wouldn't immediately be shuttled to safety in lou dobbs' secret underground bunker

[Great Rumbler]

Footage of Mayo Pete as a kid:

[jorma]

https://thebulwark.com/the-simple-answer/

You are a normal American. You don’t like demagogues of the right or the left. You want competent, responsible governance somewhere in the vicinity of the broad center. You cherish American exceptionalism, and you know that means rejecting European-style demagoguery of the right and left that exploits people’s anxieties and seduces them with false promises. You dread a future featuring an authoritarian and illiberal party facing off against a socialist and illiberal party. And so you don’t want to face a choice–you don’t want the country to face a choice– between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in November.

What are you to do? Well, if you’re a Democrat and live in one of the 14 states voting Tuesday, you can of course participate in your state’s Democratic primary contest. If you live in Alabama, Arkansas, Minnesota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, or Virginia, you might be surprised to learn the Democratic contest is an open primary, and you can participate no matter your party registration or non-party registration. In some of the other remaining states, you can vote if you’re unaffiliated. So an awful lot of you can vote Tuesday. But for whom?

The American process of presidential selection is complex. The Democratic nominating process is complex. Super Tuesday, with 14 very different states operating under somewhat different rules, is complex. A multi-candidate field with proportional representation, but not exactly proportional representation—because there are thresholds at both the state and CD level—makes everything more complex. And so a voter, trying to cast a meaningful vote that will further an outcome he prefers—sane, moderate governance—can feel perplexed.

But though the situation is complex, the answer actually is simple. Whatever the substantive case for either Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, and despite the flashes of electoral strength each has shown, neither is going to be the nominee. And despite what once seemed a possible, though unconventional, path to the nomination, it’s not going to be Mike Bloomberg either. So it’s Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden. Which means, if you’re inclined toward American constitutional democracy, the rule of law, and a free economic order–as well as a liberal world order anchored by the United States–it’s Joe Biden.

And if you’re not, then it’s Bernie Sanders.

To be sure, there could be cases where, if you live in a particular congressional district with a particular distribution of the vote, you might—if you had perfect advance knowledge—engage in complex calculations that might make you think a vote for one of the other candidates would have more effect. But your calculations are as likely to be wrong as right. It’s much safer to vote your actual preference between the two candidates who have a realistic shot at the nomination, and who represent wildly different paths for the future: Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.

And that’s a simple choice.

William Kristol is editor-at-large of The Bulwark.

TIL i'm a "normal american" because i absolutely do cherish all the exceptional people of 'murica! 

[Trurl]

I feel like Kristol and others are trying to recreate the world of VEEP. Even the part where you're never quite sure if the party in power is Republican or Democratic

[james]

Bernie should start the central park plan on Wednesday just to be safe

[Occam]

It's amazing that some people actually thought Buttigieg was a good candidate. A corporate tool with zero character whose slogans and speeches consisted of empty phrases and platitudes. At times he seemed like a robot pretending to be human.

[thisismyusername]

It's amazing that some people actually thought Buttigieg was a good candidate. A corporate tool with zero character whose slogans and speeches consisted of empty phrases and platitudes. At times he seemed like a robot pretending to be human.

Sounds par for the course for Doofy and Zuckerburg.

[Flannel Boy]

Bald King gonna end this all in under 48 hours

It will be clear that he's going to get a plurality, but it won't be over.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Biden is trying absorb Pete.

Please pick him for VP. It'll be even worse than Tim HablosEspanol.

Bernie's VP is gonna be like Time's Person of the Year.


Not me. US

"Who ever makes it to the oval office when I croak gets the position!"

[Joe Molotov]

Look, if we're going to let non-Nazis on the show, it's only fair that we let some Nazis on too to get both sides. Fair and balanced! Teach the controversy!

[Himu]

It's amazing that some people actually thought Buttigieg was a good candidate. A corporate tool with zero character whose slogans and speeches consisted of empty phrases and platitudes. At times he seemed like a robot pretending to be human.

Some people are vapid and are sold by similarly vapid speeches.

[EightBitNate]

It's amazing that some people actually thought Buttigieg was a good candidate. A corporate tool with zero character whose slogans and speeches consisted of empty phrases and platitudes. At times he seemed like a robot pretending to be human.

Had to have high high hopes for a living