Assuming it is The Right Thing, I have a hard time begrudging some taking a neutral path in the face of both considerable personal cost in doing so and an at best infinitesimal chance of changing things for the better. I also am not convinced that a protracted, bitter, and contentious fight to the nomination where ultimately Bernie prevails against the entire apparatus he’d need to support him in the general election is actually all that likely to beat Trump, now that the “Bernie sweeps Super Tuesday en route to the nomination, despite the grumblings of the DNC” narrative is off the table.
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…Ok, that’s fair… Except the bold perplexes me. What would that even be, and how isn’t that a fight she’d want to have?
Also:
Well, is Warren a better advocate for liberal policy in the Senate, or out on the street?
Wait, are we saying she’d get primaried/lose supporrt if she doesn’t toe the line?
I hadn’t even considered that, honestly. I guess there’s no bottom.
She’s probably doomed to lose support either way
Lol’ed:
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I’m not in the room where it happens, but it would seem to be a very real possibility. It seems to be the case that the DNC considers this over, and they want it to just be an anointing from here on out. Perhaps not so harsh a punishment as funding a primary challenge, but losing choice committee seats, underfunding re-election, etc. are all on the table.
I dig it but at the risk of semantikesing, I’m not feeling like that rises to the level of “considerable personal cost”, not remotely. Warren should be ecstatic to have the chance to take on this fight now, with the lack of personal cost and her seat up in 2024.
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Do you think less of AOC because she said Warren/McKinnon was “legendary”?
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Wait, isn’t ‘she’s just a standard cynical politician who puts her own interests above her supposed principles’ our argument? Did you judo flip me?
Yes but it’s a rounding error.
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The gaslighting is so effective because we’re all multiple degrees removed from the center. MrW himself is on a distant orbit just trying to make sense of the world.
quoted by mizz purnell and retweeted by mister leslie but I’m not sure if they’re Actual Blacks
https://twitter.com/dereckapurnell/status/1237040784530120709
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I guess Elizabeth Warren is a job-killer.
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He definitely did during his re-election campaign. People noticed. Didn’t matter.
This also strikes me as a bit presumptive. Bernie’s black outreach failed, and that is the biggest reason why he has lost, much moreso than Warren.
when i think “considerable personal cost” i think bodily harm, or going on the streets, or not having healthcare
i don’t really think about a politician worth 12 million dollars who will all of a sudden lose out on a little earning potential
considerable personal cost is the people without insurance that could use someone like elizabeth warren fighting for them at this moment
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