US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1248835492717699072

we really don't deserve bern dawg 

This is such bullshit. He would’ve dragged it out as long as he possibly could no matter who was the clear front-runner. Warren and her nine delegates wouldn’t have done shit for him and certainly wouldn’t have tipped people towards him in the numbers he would’ve needed to beat me.

He spent more money and lost. He had more rallies and lost. He had an entire previous campaign of data to build off of and lost. Him and his staff can point the fingers at everyone else all they want. He had the momentum from the day after Hilary lost and he didn’t do enough to shore up support with those that aren’t lock step with him all the way. That’s why he lost. Again.

It’s honestly pretty embarrassing for him and his team that an (expected) endorsement from Obama got me more sway with voters than Bernie could muster with all his rallies, fundraising, and groundwork he has laid for the last four plus years.

There are no trophies for those who were morally right and couldn’t get it done. You get to be a footnote in a history book. The individual that comes after you, who is able to actually get it done, gets all the glory.

I look forward to eating Fig Newtons in the Oval Office again next year.

Took the post out of my fingers.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/dgoold/status/1248589957939302401

[Nintex]

This nightmare never ends Shosta

https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanine/status/1248789702007836672

[Cauliflower Of Love]

She'll be drunk to be about 275K worth of funds for being relief information.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1249149564600410114

 

[curly]

Death to wonks

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Feels like we’re a few weeks away form Sander’s staff calling the most popular democrat in American history an Uncle Tom.

imagine being a joke character trying to hold moral ground, when the player in play is that senator in you were never there.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1249152785293205506

[Trent Dole]

[team filler]

[Tasty]

All Biden has to do to get me to vote for him is straight up look to the camera and say "the La li lu le lo are in control of everything"

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/ContentedIndie/status/1249184097857134592

https://twitter.com/ContentedIndie/status/1249184463592009729

 

[VomKriege]

Death to wonks

I think it was Dijkstra who said that computer science was filled with people who found out they weren't smart enough to do pure mathematics... in the same way, the kind of people who end up as "wonks" are probably just bad at everything else they've ever tried

Watching for a second time I’m realizing I don’t understand why the ambitious, resentment-fueled guy who went to Harvard couldn’t come up with anything more lucrative than media pundit as his backup plan, "Political strategist" is one of the best paying job on the East Coast.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

hold the wall said coral

just hold it

[Cauliflower Of Love]

a third party landslide is coming

[Tasty]

a third party landslide is coming

More like mudslide.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

a third party landslide is coming

More like mudslide.

youd like that

[Cauliflower Of Love]

why aren't reporters talking about the funneling of resources to "red" states?

fact check: there is nothing wrong with funneling resources to specific states, but how they are decided is the issues.  /mandark

[Nintex]

Et tu Fauci! 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

what happens when fauci dies?

-stop fucking about
-option 1

[Nintex]

what happens when fauci dies?

-stop fucking about
-option 1

Blame China

For his next trick Trump pardons Michael Flynn has him form a private army with Eric Prince and sends them on their way to Iran and China.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

dont quote me bitch.

[Nintex]

dont quote me bitch.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/super-ignore-for-the-bore/gmjhadkapjdfmmfgefdkeachnngnmkjj

[Cauliflower Of Love]

tasty needs to update the extension to hide likes.


just saying

[Nintex]

 

[FStop7]

Personally, I love being gaslit by the New York Times.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1249365361939660802

 

[Coffee Dog]

i almost thought they got hacked at first 

[Nintex]

i almost thought they got hacked at first 

You mean "Hacked" 

[OnlyRegret]

gretchen or tammy please, I've never heard of them before

[BlueTsunami]

That's bout as wonder bread as it gets

[BlueTsunami]

These crackers are making me thirsty!

[Cauliflower Of Love]

wait, the biden co doesn't know who the acting member will be still?

[VomKriege]

Biden - Amy sounds like it would be insufferable.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/shasimss/status/1249154700970201088

[Nintex]

 

[El Babua]

Klobuchar would threaten to choke Pence out during the debates so her pls

[TakingBackSunday]

It should be Stacey Abrams

[thisismyusername]

harris is the only real choice because any of the other candidates would potentially cause a lost senate seat or governorship

i mean come on

You're not even American. Why are you stanning Kopmala and the Smiler?

[Nintex]

harris is the only real choice because any of the other candidates would potentially cause a lost senate seat or governorship

i mean come on

come on, live a little, take a risk 

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1249424452477235200

[Tripon]

Traditionally, the vice president pick is somebody that can guaranteed votes or is popular with a voting demographic.

Kamala Harris is none of those.

[Nintex]

None of the seats are safe in the year of our lord 2020.

A seat might look safe, but then the nominee is someone who turns out to have cooked corona babies in their basement while doing drugs with the Mossad according to Facebook and suddenly the state flip flops.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Imagine President Harris in twenty months.

[Nintex]

I think the VP slot is where Mayo Pete comes to collect.

Biden needs a song and he needs someone who understands young people.
Couldn't think of a better choice.

At least the VP can run a campaign, we only hear or see Biden when Trump trashes him now, when the media tries to ignore the rapes or on a podcast that no one listens to lmao.

[BlueTsunami]

Imagine President Harris in twenty months.

Stop and Frisk for everybody 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Imagine President Harris in twenty months.

Stop and Frisk for everybody 

but biden would be in capacitated.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

because he's a fucking creep.

[Joe Molotov]

harris is the only real choice because any of the other candidates would potentially cause a lost senate seat or governorship

i mean come on

come on, live a little, take a risk 

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1249424452477235200

https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-bashes-fox-news-weekend-coverage-as-total-waste-of-time-minutes-after-hard-hitting-report-on-equipment-shortages-rising-deaths-at-va-hospitals/

[Cauliflower Of Love]

that trump tweet is like me when i drink

[Nintex]

Joe Lives!
https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1249460284051333121

This is the start of many "first pic of [...] wearing a face mask" reports.

[benjipwns]

If this thread devolves into normie discussion of who the optimal vp choice is for a senile rapist I will lose my goddamn mind

That's NYTimes endorsed for President AMY FOR AMERICA to you pal.

[VomKriege]

[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/DemSocialists/status/1249351571831435269

[Pissy F Benny]

Dang, I was really looking forward to the Jazz Hands For Joe campaign 

[Transhuman]

Joe Lives!
https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1249460284051333121

This is the start of many "first pic of [...] wearing a face mask" reports.

He used dogs to help him find them? Once a cheater always a cheater I suppose.

[benjipwns]

Mr. Biden maintains a lead in national polls, but that may be a measure of familiarity as much as voter intention. His central pitch to voters is that he can beat Donald Trump. His agenda tinkers at the edges of issues like health care and climate, and he emphasizes returning the country to where things were before the Trump era. But merely restoring the status quo will not get America where it needs to go as a society. What’s more, Mr. Biden is 77. It is time for him to pass the torch to a new generation of political leaders.

Good news, then, that Amy Klobuchar has emerged as a standard-bearer for the Democratic center. Her vision goes beyond the incremental. Given the polarization in Washington and beyond, the best chance to enact many progressive plans could be under a Klobuchar administration.

The senator from Minnesota is the very definition of Midwestern charisma, grit and sticktoitiveness. Her lengthy tenure in the Senate and bipartisan credentials would make her a deal maker (a real one) and uniter for the wings of the party — and perhaps the nation.

She promises to put the country on the path — through huge investments in green infrastructure and legislation to lower emissions — to achieve 100 percent net-zero emissions no later than 2050. She pledges to cut childhood poverty in half in a decade by expanding the earned-income and child care tax credits. She also wants to expand food stamps and overhaul housing policy and has developed the field’s most detailed plan for treating addiction and mental illness. And this is all in addition to pushing for a robust public option in health care, free community college and a federal minimum wage of $15 an hour.

Ms. Klobuchar speaks about issues like climate change, the narrowing middle class, gun safety and trade with an empathy that connects to voters’ lived experiences, especially in the middle of the country. The senator talks, often with self-deprecating humor, about growing up the daughter of two union workers, her Uncle Dick’s deer stand, her father’s struggles with alcoholism and her Christian faith.

Ms. Klobuchar promises a foreign policy based on leading by example, instead of by threat-via-tweet. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, she serves on the subcommittees responsible for oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, as well as the nation’s borders and its immigration, citizenship and refugee laws. In 13 years as a senator, she has sponsored and voted on dozens of national defense measures, including military action in Libya and Syria. Her record shows that she is confident and thoughtful, and she reacts to data — what you’d want in a crisis.

All have helped Ms. Klobuchar to be the most productive senator among the Democratic field in terms of bills passed with bipartisan support, according to a recent study for the Center for Effective Lawmaking. When she arrived in the Senate in 2007, Ms. Klobuchar was part of a bipartisan group of lawmakers that proposed comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to citizenship for 12 million undocumented immigrants, before conservative pundits made it political poison. Her more recent legislative accomplishments are narrower but meaningful to those affected, especially the legislation aimed at helping crime victims. This is not surprising given her background as the chief prosecutor in Minnesota’s most populous county. For example, one measure she wrote helped provide funds to reduce a nationwide backlog of rape kits for investigating sexual assaults.

Reports of how Senator Klobuchar treats her staff give us pause. They raise serious questions about her ability to attract and hire talented people. Surrounding the president with a team of seasoned, reasoned leaders is critical to the success of an administration, not doing so is often the downfall of presidencies. Ms. Klobuchar has acknowledged she’s a tough boss and pledged to do better. (To be fair, Bill Clinton and Mr. Trump — not to mention former Vice President Biden — also have reputations for sometimes berating their staffs, and it is rarely mentioned as a political liability.)

Ms. Klobuchar doesn’t have the polished veneer and smooth delivery that comes from a lifetime spent in the national spotlight, and she has struggled to gain traction on the campaign trail. In Minnesota, however, she is enormously popular. She has won all three of her Senate elections by double digits. In 2016, Hillary Clinton carried nine of Minnesota’s 87 counties. Ms. Klobuchar carried 51 in 2018. And it’s far too early to count Ms. Klobuchar out — Senator John Kerry, the eventual Democratic nominee in 2004, was also polling in the single digits at this point in the race.

Amy Klobuchar is the one Democrat who checks all the essential boxes. She is seasoned (13 years in the U.S. Senate, lead Democratic sponsor on more than 100 passed bills) with a history of winning Republican strongholds and solid on the party’s baseline issues while pragmatic enough to avoid the promises (free four-year college regardless of income, erasing all college debt) that are easy to make and impossible to fulfill.

For Democrats, that person is Amy Klobuchar, the third-term senator from Minnesota.

Said to be surging after her head-turning third-place finish in New Hampshire, Klobuchar, 59, the daughter of an elementary teacher and newspaperman, had been dismissed by some as a milquetoast, midwestern moderate who couldn’t hold a candle to the burn of Bernie Sanders’ revolution or the ambition of Elizabeth Warren’s fully foot-noted vision.

“Being a progressive, the last time I checked, meant that you should make progress,” Klobuchar says.

It’s time for Democrats to look beyond fiery speeches, beyond big ticket promises devoid of price tags, and if possible, beyond the cinematic beckoning of that billionaire button-down Messiah stalking your smartphone, and ask: Who can really get things done?

Who can get proposals past the gauntlets of the federal judiciary and congressional gridlock? In the current field only Klobuchar and Joe Biden have a track record of bipartisan effectiveness in Washington. Biden, in his third bid for president, hasn’t articulated the fresh vision needed.

Klobuchar is among the most effective lawmakers in Congress, according to the Center for Effective Lawmaking. She boasts passing more than 100 bills, “every one of them bipartisan.”

If there is to be any realistic challenge to Trump in November, the Democratic nominee needs to have a proven and substantial record of accomplishment across party lines, an ability to unite rather than divide, and the strength and stamina to go toe-to-toe with the Tweeter-in-Chief.

That would be U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. She is sharp and witty, with a commanding understanding of both history and the inner workings of Capitol Hill.

Trump doesn’t want to face her. He is hoping for Bernie, Biden, Buttigieg or Warren. Each has weaknesses, whether of age, inexperience or a far-left agenda that thrills some liberals but is ripe for exploitation in a mainstream general election.

Sen. Klobuchar has none of those weaknesses and the incumbent needs to be presented a challenger who is not easily dismissed. Her work in Washington has led to the passage of an impressive number of substantive bills, even as the partisan divide has deepened. In 2018 she won reelection, taking back dozens of conservative-leaning counties that had gone for Trump two years earlier, when Hillary Clinton barely beat him in Minnesota. In fact, Sen. Klobuchar, a former prosecutor, has never lost an election.

Time for Joe Biden to join the consensus and endorse Amy for America for President by picking her as his running mate!

[Nintex]

Good news, then, that Amy Klobuchar has emerged as a standard-bearer for the Democratic center.

 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Joe Lives!
https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1249460284051333121

This is the start of many "first pic of [...] wearing a face mask" reports.

He used dogs to help him find them? Once a cheater always a cheater I suppose.

imagine having your wife kneel down with the dogs for a photop

[Akala]

apparently Mark Cuban realizing this would be a free presidency.