DRW50
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I've been avoiding any coverage but I keep seeing bits on Twitter. I thought I'd prepared myself for the worst with him but he keeps disturbing me all over again...I saw that he decided to use his press statement to tell people he'd told Pence that he the governor of Washington is a snake and not to be trusted.
This is the type of moment I was so terrified we would get during his Presidency. Even if he does lose, if we even have elections by November, the damage is irreversible.
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The truth is that Chapo is full of rich guys who profit off of the 'movement' always being out of power. They would never want Bernie to win. Other cultists even admitted yesterday that as soon as Bernie was elected they'd begin to hate him. Most of Bernie's main campaign people are also grifters and deadenders who are better off without him being in power.
I also read that beyond the Bernie people mentioned in the tweet, Ilhan Omar, who has pretty much ruined any career she could have had, is a big fan. No surprise there.
There are lots of struggling people who have been brainwashed into thinking these very rich con artists are the only viable political or social outlet, and will only further hurt their own cause. They will just slide into anarchy and apathy, which is what many on the far left prefer anyway. There's much more money in it.
Most of Bernie's voters will stay home or vote for Trump. Hopefully if Biden gets the nomination, they won't try to make any outreach. It's pointless. Let the Ron Paul of Vermont have his ever-diminishing fame, the way the GOP did, and move on.
(the only amusing part of all this is I saw "TV's Frank" talking about how he'd never heard of them and how unfunny they are)
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3 minutes ago, Mitch said:
I never knew why they didn't just write Frank out at that point...he was so popular,? Frankie D was such a great actor.? What is wrong with writing popular couples out when one leaves..if the shows were so geared towards super couples instead of writing "characters" who happen to be in a relationship...both should go. The Eleni recast was bland and Frank as a character faded into the woodwork.
Probably down to the Coopers still being a viable family at the time and the show already losing so many names.
I do think the recast was a decent actress who had her moments, but they probably shouldn't have bothered.
The exit of Eleni running off to California with some man was ludicrous. It would have been more believable if she'd just said she was tired of having to say "Frankie."
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3 minutes ago, Khan said:
Guess this means she won't be officially endorsing Bernie Sanders?
Unless Bernie turns things around I think she will go with Biden as it will be easier to get concessions, but Bernie does share more of her core beliefs than Biden does. The problem is it's clear that she is disgusted by much of his 'movement' and wants him to do something to address the toxicity, which he never really does. That's what happens when you don't have anyone at the top who is not a cultist. The only one I saw sort of trying to stop the bile was AOC, and rumor has it she has become somewhat distanced from his group as of late.
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1 minute ago, Khan said:
Yes, and it's precisely those double standards that continue making the Democrats look like pencil-necked geeks to the Republicans' bullying jocks.
I agree overall - it's just this particular instance is so easy to avoid and doesn't really do much good (the people who are most motivated on that type of talk despise Schumer and the "establishment"). Pelosi tends to be better at striking the balance, even if so much still ends up feeling pointless in the current climate. Either way, I agree he should have just stuck to his guns.
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13 minutes ago, Khan said:
It might have been stupid -- or, "inappropriate" and "dangerous," to quote the GOP -- but so were B**** K********'s words at his SCOTUS confirmation hearing, which I believed Schumer was echoing. (Especially the part about "reaping the whirlwind," or whatever). Yet, because it was a Democrat saying those things this time around, of course, the Republicans want to accuse him of making a deliberate threat on individual's lives. (And Schumer, like all purity-striving Democrats before him, caves almost immediately and apologizes, even though he did absolutely nothing wrong.)
Meanwhile, Donald Trump accuses the left-leaning justices of political bias on little more than his legendary golden gut, and John Roberts remains silent.
I agree. Sadly there are always double standards. The best solution is to thread the needle, if possible...I guess.
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8 hours ago, Khan said:By the way, has anyone else been following the back-and-forth between John Roberts and Chuck Schumer?
I have. It feels like Roberts, who is an old conservative strategist (and a good one, unlike many now) pushing buttons. I'm sure he genuinely cares about his safety and the safety of other justices, but he had much less to say about other threats. And of course many are lapping it up, and McConnell is exploiting it.
Frankly, it was a very stupid thing for Schumer to say, even if he clearly did not intend a violent threat. I could sort of understand at that point why some have been saying for years he's not that good a leader. He's lucky that the climate has been so numbed thanks to Trump that no one but those who are already voting hard right anyway will pay much mind.
In other news, former Congressman Aaron Schock, who has gone from splurging money on a Downton Abbey style office to showing his hole (I'm not kidding), has come out. And, not that he has a career in elected office in his future anywhere anyway, he is still up to his old tricks (no, not those tricks - well, maybe those too...).
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Looks like Warren is dropping out.
I've already said this too many times, but she and Kamala were the only ones I would have been happy to vote for and could have seen as being President. She made some mistakes, but so many were clearly waiting for her to fall.
She will be one hell of a force in a Cabinet if she gets the chance. I hope she gets that chance.
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22 minutes ago, Vee said:
Am I the only one who thinks Tlaib, etc. trading on Anita Hill's name in this primary will backfire? She is not a shrinking violet when it comes to being appropriated for coverage, not by Biden last year or I suspect anyone else.
I hope it does. If Anita Hill wanted to tell people to support Bernie, or Warren, she'd have every right, but for someone else to use her name, and in such a glib Q&A format, is incredibly crass and soulless. This isn't new for Tlaib either. It's part of the bubble Bernie and his supporters tend to be in.
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While I'm venting, I was also disgusted to see this earlier.
Last year, Maza was relentlessly bullied by a far right bigot/grifter and failed Arthur voice artist whose name isn't worth mentioning. Now he is ardently defending the same type of treatment that he received, as long as his cause benefits from that treatment. This is also the exact same line used to justify Trump votes. This tells us where the far left is and what they will be. And consider his fellow bros were so giddy about pushing homophobic bile against Buttigieg, the same used against him, he shows himself as an even more bankrupt, amoral figure.
The older I get, the more I realize that the people who fought against the hard left as much as they did against the hard right probably had good reason.
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10 hours ago, JaneAusten said:
So Bernie "Anti establishment" Sanders is now reaching out to the actual most popular politician in the US after tanking last night. What a con artist.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/03/04/sanders-obama-ad-super-tuesday-results-lead-vpx.cnn
The best part of that ad is this response from...weeks ago.
Meanwhile, Rashida Tlaib is on Twitter using Anita Hill to try to get people to not support Biden. As if Hill has not already been hounded enough by the media over the years, she's now being weaponized by a member of Congress? I know Hill has made statements about Biden as recently as January, but to me that's different than being thrown around on Twitter this way - it's just one more politician using her for their own gain. And given Bernie's past writings, is this really a good door to open??
So much of the Bernie support is tearing other people down and being divisive. I keep seeing his supporters sneer that it's very sad if you don't want health care/want people to die because someone is mean to you on Twitter, but beyond the refusal to see that many people just do not believe Bernie can help them get health care (unless he wants to sell one of his houses), the main question becomes - if fighting for health care is so important, then why do you compromise your cause by spending months or years harassing candidates and their supporters and posting bile about them? Once upon a time movements were taught to be civil and respectful as much as possible to get something accomplished, yet now you have all these so-called activists who do nothing but abuse and then say "it doesn't matter" or "I can say/do whatever I want because I'm not privileged" (you know like all the older black voters who have been trashed for supporting Biden). Not to mention that most of the toxic elements spearheading Bernie, like Jacobin and Chapo, are run by rich people. This is actually what one of Bernie's biggest supporters said yesterday:
Many of the people who are suffering and dying in this country never get any attention from her, or the Chapo guys, and sure as hell not from Bernie. I wish they would just admit their true feelings about how little they genuinely care. They have nothing left to lose now anyway - other than about 10 more primaries soon...
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9 hours ago, sivad40 said:Why are de Blasio and Reich all in with Bernie? @DRW50 I understand why a "revolutionary" like Shaun King who wants to burn down the system is with Bernie, but this these guys are seasoned politicians who should know better.
de Blasio is a longtime activist, as is his wife. They are the same 'movement' as Bernie in one way or another (including some of the ways that involve accusations of grifting...). Unfortunately de Blasio's very poor record as mayor undercuts anything he has to say.
I only know the basics about Reich, but I'm sure some well-meaning people do support Bernie. The problem is they aren't running his campaign. This is the type of person who is running his campaign:
Why the hell is this all about YOU, dumbass??? Why is this about people knowing how much you suck? What happened to all those people we're supposed to be having a revolution for? Say what you will about James Carville, I certainly have, but I didn't see him going on TV in the '92 primaries talking all about himself and how people are mean to him.
Berenie's campaign people are AWFUL, AWFUL, AWFUL. They have consistently guided him in the wrong directions, enabled the worst of his supporters, and made the wrong moves.
It was Rashida Tlaib deciding that two days before the Iowa caucuses was the best time to lead thousands of people (or however many were there) to boo Hillary (who wasn't even running!!!) that helped derail him in Iowa and started him hobbling onto the path where he is now.
He has the worst instincts and makes the worst choices about who should be on his side.
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I was reading this about Bernie's mistakes in treating the party as the enemy and see that Marianne Williamson called the primary results a "coup" until she deleted. I regret ever having anything positive to say about her.
https://www.vox.com/2020/3/4/21164091/sanders-biden-super-tuesday-endorsements-primary-2020
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In other news, I saw, through a Twitter account I probably won't share as it turns out it's a Trumper, clips of Cenk Uygur in tears and making a quick exit, live on air, over Bernie's tanking. More likely it was because his vanity Congressional race in California had gone down in flames (he was in fourth place). After he left, one of the other shills on The Young Turks was openly smug about telling viewers just how badly he had tanked.
If only this election could see all these fauxgressive con artists flushed down the toilet.
Insert Will Ferrell "we are laughing" gif.
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I saw that. And he's still going. Yesterday he was claiming that people told him how upset former Beto staffers were and that people told him Obama was meddling. No idea of who these people were, but of course many lapped it up.
I don't think Bernie is as bad as his supporters, but my goodness he has the absolute worst supporters outside of Cult 45. I just hope if Biden is the nominee he won't need these lunatics, because he isn't getting them. I saw them all over Twitter tonight talking about how young people will start killing because of Bernie not getting the nomination. And they were proud of this idea.
That was a very nice tribute to Warren. I had my ups and downs but I do wish she could have been the nominee. Other than Kamala she was the only one I ever really thought had the right spirit and could accomplish what we need to move forward.
In other news, other than one of Jeb's Trump-loving sons in Texas, the Bush dynasty continues to choke out.
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