The dem platform last time and i bet this time shows he pushed the party left and made some progressive ideas more palatable. He also made it easier for other progressives to get elected.
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Probably the most blatant example of using identity as a shield against more left wing politics
Don’t quite know how to break the news to Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, Robert F. Smith, David Steward and Shawn Carter, a.k.a. Jay-Z. But if Bernie Sanders makes it to the White House, they had better pack their bags and head for the hills.
That’s because Winfrey, Jordan, Smith, Steward and Jay-Z, the five richest black people in America, are among the 607 Americans who landed on Forbes’s annual billionaires list.
The very thought of that list seems to sicken Sanders. “There should be no billionaires,” he flatly declared in [a tweet last fall]
As best I can tell, America’s black billionaires didn’t reach Forbes’s list because of inherited money. They also didn’t amass their net worth through marriage. Winfrey, Jordan, Smith, Steward and Jay-Z built their fortunes. No matter. Sanders wants to tax it away.
I’m acquainted with Marillyn Hewson, the chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, and Rosalind Brewer, Starbucks’s chief operating officer. These female executives never struck me as tax-riggers or market-killers.
This is the first time I heard that Merck chairman and CEO Kenneth Frazier, TIAA President and CEO Roger Ferguson, and Lowe’s CEO Marvin Ellison — three African American business leaders — might be crushing communities across the nation.
And I wonder where an institution such as the Howard University School of Business, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary — and, for that matter, all business schools across the country — fit in a Bernie Sanders world.
I know there are those out there who buy the notion that America consists of a small class of privileged, rapacious super-rich lording over throngs of oppressed, capitalist-exploited workers. You can see it in poll numbers showing the share of Americans who prefer socialism to capitalism inching upward. Sanders would probably count that as success
But most folks across the color, religious and social spectra who want to reduce deprivation and retain or improve their own economic status are not thirsting for a Sanders “revolution.”
In 2008 both candidates had to pretend to be in favor of universal health coverage, but neither had any intention of actually achieving it.
In 2016 Hillary came in with the same message - universal coverage, no single payer. Again, still no intention to achieve it.
In 2020 the majority of candidates had to pretend to be in favor of single payer, even though the mask slipped the longer the campaign went on. Only Bernie and maybe Liz had any intention of achieving it, but that’s a big swing in how healthcare is talked about in this country and it’s reflected in the fact that every state that’s voted so far has said they’d prefer to abolish private insurance entirely and move to a single payer system.
Now, some people might say it’s Bernie’s fault that his wildly popular message (again, it shifted the landscape of the dem electorate in 4 years) didn’t catch on earlier. Or, you might say it’s because every presidential candidate and 99% of congress creatures have actively campaigned against it for the last 40 years even as Bernie has given speeches on the floor of the house and senate in favor of it.
One of those two things is fucking idiotic.
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My posts on the topic the past few were building up to that one but yeah…
Holy shit, right?
p.s.
Like, that piece dropped Friday morning and I think it went ignored as that was the pinnacle of gloom-and-doom. In fact I gauged the g-and-d on the non-response it garnered.
We all knew this endorsement was coming:
Lol Liz was on SNL and joked about endorsing both candidates like the NYT.
These people don’t care about anyone but themselves.
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Fuck you you fucking pig.
What sounds better? ACAB? F the P?
Oh Merciful Allah please do not watch that actual video.
If you think there is some awful thing in that video you have completely lost all perspective and are so deep into your cult of personality there is no coming back.
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Friendly reminder: she refused to release prisoners, even after being ordered to by the Federal Gov, because she said they made a great source of free labor.
Please proceed.
p.s. I posted right above as you were posting. Does that clarify things?
So he did accidentally leak the Kamala endorsement. Heh heh heh
Has Joe Biden expressed a political position on anything during his campaign?
I wonder what some people would do if there really was rank order voting. Their heads would explode having to concede more than one candidate could be ok.
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Me seeing Harris in the news:
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I must have fell asleep during that part of the video.
Or do you mean she has done something you don’t agree with, something even objectively bad, therefore anything she ever says on any topic ever, no matter how objectively positive and in alignment with your worldview, is a thing to be derided?
Nobody will ever pass this test. Nobody.
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https://twitter.com/tmavuram/status/1236474370090024960?s=19
Some solid tweetin’ right there
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Kamala has said and done many awful things though. Iirc she didn’t have a single Stan on this board, not that it matters much. She’s a turd.
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I know I know…
Bloomberg awful. Check
Biden awful. Check
Buttigieg awful. Check
Warren awful. Check
Harris awful. Check
Clinton awful. Check
Klobachar awful. Check
Yang awful. Check
Steyer awful. Check
Etc
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