https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1236003388002914307?s=20
Before Obama, I think Rahm was best known as being the model for Josh Lyman on The West Wing, but that was probably a fact known mostly to people like me (political science majors who got together to watch the show with their roommates)
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This argument annoys me so much. You were never pretending you were on the same team, neither was Bernie, he refuses to join the Democratic Party for fuck’s sake! And now you act shocked that Bernie faces hostility from some Dems and want to wine and take your ball and go home because the Democratic Party isn’t willing to give up and swear fealty to an outsider from a tiny weird state who has racked up virtually zero major legislative Accomplishments over thirty years In Congress and who offers nothing? He wins the first three primaries getting barely a quarter of the vote in two and almost(!) half in Nevada, and what, he’s supposed to have a mandate and everyone is supposed to fall in line? That’s horseshit. It certainly doesn’t mean that they are all unethical or hopelessly compromised if they have the temerity to disagree with your opinion of the relative electability between Biden and Sanders.
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Holy shit can we stop with the circular electability reasoning?
I can’t vote for Bernie, he’s not electable! If I voted for him, he’d be electable, but I can’t because he’s not.
Yeah. Great. Ok.
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The renewal packet came yesterday for our company policy. I get to tell everyone that premiums went up another 10% this year for the Silver level plans. They went up 15% last year and 20% the year before that.
Obamacare doing work.
Of course, this was the plan all along. Make the existing plans more and more unaffordable each year until we have no choice but to roll the dice on universal single-payer system. Doesn’t look like 2020 is the year for that, but 2024 isn’t too far off.
Lol
Healthcare was so much more affordable before the ACA!
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LOL “roll the dice”.
You are aware that it works in dozens of other countries, right?
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For the 99%, yes, yes it was.
Hey stop pointing out facts and stuff. The yelling man on TEEVEE who is manipulated by pharma and insurance companies tells me it can’t work in USA #1. Even if I can’t afford care I still want to choose my doc and then die instead of going.
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I still feel like one of the things Bernie is bad at is actually explaining his ideas. In that video I posted that analyzed his speaking style, he did a pretty good job explaining M4A to Colbert. But - and maybe I’m wrong - he normally just takes the shots from the middle and the right about “how you gonna pay for it” or “socialism sucks” and just responds with “fuck you, I know better.”
And he does know better, but it seems like he rarely show how he knows better. No, he’ll never get the far right/Trumpkins to vote for him, but he could probably get moderates on board if he’d just explain things better.
It’s not easy, for sure, especially because you can’t lead with “yeah, your taxes will go up…” but sometimes I think he’s just too combative. Now, I like combative. I like Bernie and think he’s right. But moderates don’t like combative, so maybe he needs to massage his messaging at times, depending on his target audience.
I don’t know. Just me babbling.
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I mean that wasn’t the plan. Ironically the plan was Obama accepting the argument put out by “conservatives/neoliberals/etc” that people didn’t have enough ‘skin in the game’ and deductibles (and premiums eventually for other reasons) needed to go up in order to make people more conscientious of their healthcare decisions
Insoooooooo00000000000000
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playing the hits
He was running against two much more obvious frauds in Hillary Clinton and John Edwards.
Sorry, I thought you put those images up in response to someone saying that no one was energizing young voters.
My main point was that whatever energy it feels like he is generating didn’t show up for him on ST. And the young, as far as I can tell from reading around, which were supposed to be the bulk of his surge, just haven’t come out in the numbers he needs.
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He was a young, ambitious guy who had leadership roles and was seen as a potential future Speaker of the House. He was one of the more vocal opponents of Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy.
Maybe he knows better. Look where trying to explain how to pay for it got Warren.
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TIL only 1% of Americans have preexisting conditions.
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