The point is, they’re arrogating to themselves the right to make choices personally that we ought to be making as a democracy.
Like I said, to the extent that they want to keep it that way, they’re the enemy. It’s one thing if they’re saying, “we’re giving away our money and we’re also lobbying for laws that would redistribute wealth downward,” but if they’re fine with how things are, it doesn’t matter how much they’re giving away. They’re still in favor of our being a society where an overclass makes all the big decisions. If they’re against small-d democracy itself, they’re the enemy.
He doesn’t have to “go on the record” for anything. All he has to do is blame some staffer for “making a mistake” about posting the video and move on. Doubling down on a proven lie just makes him a damn liar. Isn’t that what we’re trying to get out of the WH?
Another Sanders supporter lying again. A "Freeze’ on increasing all of the Federal budget, which includes SocSec, and Military and Congress pay and Foreign aid and everything else- is not a 'cut" to anything.
A freeze is not a cut, never has been never will be.
Joe has never advocated cutting SocSec.
This attack on Biden by Sanders and his Berniebros is scurrilous.
And can we assume by your use of Trump’s chosen “nickname” for Joe Biden that you’re on Team Trump if it comes down to Biden vs. Trump? I mean, you’re doing Trump’s work for him by misrepresenting Biden’s record after all.
And seriously, the only people who use “Sleepy Joe” are Trump and the mooks who blindly follow him. Way to carry out Trump’s messaging.
The only thing I’m taking away from this is that these candidates are really shitty candidates if TRUMP’S derisive nicknames for them are sticking with DEMOCRATIC voters. No, this guy is obviously not on Team Trump. But Biden is so unlikable that even Democrats want to call him names.
I personally wouldn’t call him “sleepy Joe” because he doesn’t seem sleepy to me; he seems like a combination of senile and manic.
If anything the failure to do that is a lost opportunity for Sanders to reinforce his brand, the same brand that couldn’t give a damn about Clinton’s e-mails.
The timing of it also couldn’t be worse for him, while he and Warren are on hot mics each complaining about how the other is calling them a liar.
The one consistent strength Sanders has always had is how people perceive him as someone who is honest, who speaks truth to power. His strength as a primary candidate has included that he didn’t try to claim that his M4A would not mean more taxes (but did mean less net overall costs for most). Playing loose with the truth in a dirty pool way, even allowing your staff to do so without your repudiation, is off brand at a time when that brand is already under attack as some are already concluding that you are lying about what you said to Warren in private.
It is also a really bad look to be wearing as the impeachment trial starts … really don’t need to have it pointed out how D senators lie for political gain and deny it right now.
I am 100% sure that if Trump had gotten Ukraine to announce an investigation, supporters of D candidates other than Biden would have been all over it. And if Warren was on top there would be some Ds all over whatever oppo research Trump and Putin had to dump on her.
The circular firing squad is reliable.
The top four and several not in that group are all fine D candidates. The knee jerk “gloves off” of trying to tear down the ones above your choice rather than elevate your favorite by their merits is a shame, and while those who do that may not be officially Team Trump they do serve as Team Trump assets.
Right now I would vote for Yang. If he drops out I would vote for anyone but Biden. Possibly Warren. If it’s Biden vs. Trump I would hold my nose and vote Biden. Of course I would vote for dead Charles Manson over Trump.
This is exactly what the GOP and the Kremlin want you to believe.
Bijou Drains is clearly a Sanders fan and they are fed with nonstop lies from the Kremlin, the GOP and yes- Bernie himself.
Yet there are billionaires who value a democratic and equitable society and there are coal miners who vote against their own interests and fall in love with kleptocrats. Judge the billionaire not by his wealth but by his positions and actions.
FDR came from the socioeconomic elite and yet he was arguably a man of the people, as was most of the Kennedy clan. You can be rich and value equality, just as you can be poor and value inequality.
Should I post screen shots of my donations to Yang? Not worth the trouble. Maybe you can find posts where I said I was a Sanders guy? I posted I was a Yang guy at least once.
Just because DSeid elides it out when he’s quoting me, doesn’t unsay it. It’s still there.
Yet here you are, believing you’re taking issue with what I said by saying something that’s largely in agreement with what I’ve said. If we diverge on anything, it’s that you appear to regard the assholishness of poor people and billionaires as being of equal consequence - but I don’t believe you actually believe that.
if you go back to the 1800s some of those guys like John D. Rockefeller were actually richer, based on share of GDP, than Gates , Buffet, etc. today. Based on inflation adjusted dollars Gates would be richer than Rockefeller.
Bloomberg might be ‘buying’ the nomination but it needs to be said that he’s the only candidate - the only one - who’s actually putting out attack ads against Trump. He’s the only one fighting the propaganda war that needs to be fought. I don’t care how ‘pure’ the Dems are: if they’re not waging information warfare against the republicans, they lose. And we can’t afford to lose again.
