Golly, you’re right. Let’s hand her the 2024 Presidential nomination, because shes black, female and almost won. Solid. It’s really a shame there aren’t any black females who have a better claim to the top slot.
*As the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders continues to crash and burn, the socialist’s most hard-core supporters are vowing they will never vote for Joe Biden at the ballot box — even if that means handing Trump a second term.
“We will never – NEVER boost or support Joe Biden or defend his abysmal record and terrible policy positions,” Henry Williams, executive director of The Gravel Institute, told The Post. “We will tell people, as we always have, to vote their conscience and to make decisions based on the interests of all the world’s oppressed people … I do expect a massive exodus from the Democratic Party.”*
They wont accept the will of the people, the voters, and are gonna take their ball and go home- because they lost , fairly and squarely. This isnt democracy, it’s extortion. But it wont and cant work. It’s over, and threats like this will only make sure Sanders gets nothing.
*The grumbling from Sanders die-hards is no idle threat. A whopping 12% of them voted for Trump in 2016, according to an analysis by Cooperative Congressional Election Study. That added up to roughly 216,000 voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, exit polls showed. Trump’s combined margin of victory in those states was 77,744.
An untold number of additional Sanders fans almost certainly stayed home or voted third party in 2016 in an election plagued by low turnout on both sides. Green Party candidate Jill Stein earned more votes in each rust-belt battleground than the margin separating Trump from Hillary Clinton. One of those Jill Stein voters was Briahna Joy Gray — Sanders’ current campaign spokesperson.*
I tend to think that the Bernie-or-Busters are more loud and pissed off than they are an actual political force. But there’s on question that they have the potential to impact the race: they’ll vote for Yang, Gabbard, or not at all, which is why I believe Trump can win despite having the worst approval rating of any president in modern history. If his approval ratings hit the low 40s, he still has a chance to win the EV. If his approval rating is 45-48%, I think he almost certainly wins.
My general opinion is that, yes, they’re really loud and really assholish but they’re not much of a force. They tend to make a lot of noise on social media, I had to mute a guy from church who posts the most ridiculous Sanders and anti-Biden shit on Facebook every 5 minutes.
And, most of them are the most unreliable voters and they tend to be clustered in deep blue areas anyway.
While Kerry lost in 2004, his loss wasn’t due to 3rd party protests or low turnout.
In my state, which votes Tuesday, virtually all political ads for the past week have been Sanders ads—he’s spending very big, here. The two I’m seeing most often: the ‘fake Obama endorsement’ one with sound bites of Obama saying nice things about Bernie, and one with scary music and graphics that asserts that Biden will DEFINITELY WITHOUT ANY DOUBT Take Away Your Social Security and Medicare.
Both are screamingly dishonest. But they are playing in such heavy rotation that I suppose they’ll convince at least some voters to either vote for Sanders, or (more likely) use the unpleasantness as an excuse not to go out and vote. (And of course the c-virus will contribute to people staying away from the polls, too.)
Vote-by-mail and early voting may end up being in Biden’s favor, which would undercut the Sanders strategy.
I don’t know what the Bernie-or-bust holdouts think they’re going to accomplish. If they screw Joe out of an election, do they think we’re going to vote for a bitch-ass socialist in 2024? I would commit the rest of my life to finishing off the communist element, purifying the progressive movement first. I mean if the country’s going to end up in fascist hands anyway, fuck it - crush the traitors in your own ranks first. I would work with Trump voters to do this - jail the M4a people and what not.
Scumbag Bernie Bro “man of the people” Mayor DeBlasio won’t even close schools, exposing his teachers and students to COVID despite the fact there’s a state of emergency.
Wow, even after being called on his Bullshit about Biden and Socsec, Bernie is still running with that Big Lie? Amazing. That man has no shame and no ethics or morals.
Biden is generally distrusted about his commitment to mainstream popular ideas like maintaining social security and providing Medicare for all because he has been weak on these issues.
Why not show Bernie has a different, more popular and elecable record on those issues.
He won’t steal the nomination from Biden. He won’t be elected US President. CoViD-19 is his friend. After the fever sweeps away enough GOP senators, Dem survivors elect the old guy as President Pro Tempore. Then when the virus disincorporates the current Prez, Veep, and Madame Speaker, Bernie succeeds… while he lasts.
Not sure what that all means Rio, but surely in this crisis, a leader who actually identifies problems and elucidates solutions is better than free market wafflers like Trump and Biden.
The difference is stark. Woukd you want to be K E of Biden’s 10 millions uninsured right now?