Beto endorsed Biden tonight.
Clearly Super Tuesday and the rest of the primary is going to be an acid test of the “party decides” theory. It’s hard to think of another election which has been so evenly poised and where the party has swung so decisively behind one candidate.
Biden’s speech tonight at the rally in Texas where Klobochar and Beto endorsed him, that may be the best political speech he has ever given.
Super Tuesday will be a landmark day in this primary season, maybe it goes Sanders, maybe it goes Biden.
And I got the feeling Amy was auditioning for VP and did a pretty damn good job.
YMMV
Good way to sum it up. I kept hoping against hope that the party would do something…and they did! I’m pinching myself.
Now, as you say, we’ll see if it works. But no matter what, at least they tried instead of being paralyzed by indecision like the GOP in 2016.
I fully expect Bernie to do well tomorrow. California is prime Bernie and he’ll rack up delegates. Early voting is gonna hurt. There are no flexible Bernie voters, they’d vote for him if he was being buried tomorrow.
I can only hope that tonight’s Superfriends helps take some of the sting away. There’s still time to stop Bernie. My biggest hope is that Biden, Warren, and Bloomberg are viable in CA to help keep Bernie from all those delegates. Bernie showing his racism was a despicable thing to do on Sunday, but if it helps him win tons of CA delegates then it helps his messianic revolution and was the right thing to do politically.
I like how you insult literally all Bernie voters here, on top of the evidence-free “racist” slander against Bernie himself. Not that interested in a unified party, I take it?
Biden and Mitch McConnell wrote a deal to extend Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, Bernie spoke for hours aginst it.
There’s so many more examples. We arent splitting hairs here.
Must we? I mean, I’m not a Bernie fan but democracy is democracy.
Not **all **Bernie voters. Just the deplorable ones. 
That said, the Bernie supporters among my Facebook friends have all gone into full irrational froth mode, although the fact that two candidates abruptly dropped out at the same time and immediately endorsed Biden does suggest they have some justification for their persecution complexes and that the DNC are ham-handedly at it again.
Ah well. It was a nice country while it lasted.
So the rich will continue to get richer. The poor will get poorer. Millions of Americans will continue to go without healthcare. And that’s best case scenario, if Biden can somehow magically beat Trump.
Yep. Nice country while it lasted.
Assuming the eventual Democratic nominee wins, their first priority will have to be undoing all the damage inflicted on the country in the previous four years - putting together a functional government, economy, infrastructure, legal system, electoral system and so forth. We’ve seen lots of vague and/or aspirational bumf from all the candidates; none of the candidates have really come out with a solid plan to fix the actual, material mess we’re in. Rather than acknowledging the new political paradigm, they’re playing silly games sniping at each other and tacking up their Christmas lists of policies they’d like to have because they’ve been really good this year, honest!
And none of them - not Bernie, not Joe, not the others, and not the DNC - show any sign of acquiring a fucking clue any time soon.
There’s some font of leftist senators that are champing at the bit to enact Bernie’s agenda should he win? Or if they prove to be more centrist and do not pass to Bernie anything more than what Biden would have asked for, how is Bernie going to save the country? Executive orders? Nice country while it lasted, indeed.
People like me AGREE with you that we SHOULD do things to address inequalities, etc. (I was just teaching my students last week about how the US lags behind other rich countries on several fronts, most notably incarceration rates). We share the same dreams as you and Bernie, and we will fight and persuade and work just as hard as you to make them come true. We’re just more REALISTIC about what’s possible in the near term…and what MUST be done first, to repair the damage of the last three years.
I grew up in a liberal bubble, but I’ve lived in a small city in Wisconsin for five years. Maybe that’s why I get this.
EXACTLY. Two men DID something, while the third one SPOKE.
I’m not saying Biden is perfect, or that every compromise is a step in the right direction. But you unwittingly hit the nail on the head. DO versus SPEAK.
Speaking against a bad compromise is better than doing a bad compromise, IMO.
Hmmm. Well, you just spoke out, so good on you. It had just about the same effect as Bernie speaking out.
(I get the power of speech … I’m as moved by that famous “was it just words when X said Y?” sermon as anyone… but I hope you see my point, as it relates to the present circumstances).
As a Warren supporter, Harry Reid’s endorsement is the one that stings the most, because I think Josh Marshall is right:
And Harry Reid’s political instincts are about as good as they come.
I think I’ve moved past denial and anger, and skipped past bargaining, right into depression. Assuming Bloomberg figures out he’s a spoiler and pulls out, we’re down to a 2-man race, and I don’t see how either one of them will do anything but fuck 2021 up royally.
Sorry, Firebug, but we’re not going to do anything about global warming in time. Your generation will pay the price. 
But if it was a bad compromise, then criticizing it is about all that Bernie (and I) can do. I suppose I could take some sort of action, like maybe trying to mobilize lots of voters and run for higher office - that might be appropriate and even admirable in the face of a corrupt system. 
I feel you. I agree, we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
It’s just incredible.
Even given that he was right about these things, and given that the current political alternative is the people who were actively wrong about them, we’ll still act like it’s some kind of high-minded “both sides” concession to acknowledge that he was right. He gets a participation trophy for not wanting to, e.g., blow up a bunch of school kids halfway across the world, or cause a bunch of poor people to die. Of course, he’s still a loser, because the actually actively bad decisions still got made. We support winners and leaders in the Democratic party, like the people who made all the terrible decisions. There were more of them, so they must have been right when they were wrong!
So Joe Biden will get trounced by Donald Trump, extremely obviously because not even a single fucking Democrat actually thinks he’s any good, and we’ll have our pat denunciations of Bernie Bros ready when that happens, which is apparently the world we want to live in. “Thanks for helping Donald Trump, hyuk hyuk.”
I agree. that was one of the best speeches I heard from biden. klobuchar would be a good vp pick.