THE Super Tuesday Mega-Gameday Sweat

[JackBando]

Why does this sound familiar? Right. 2016. Cant hammer him too hard on rape, your husband’s right there.

[vaya1]

At least we’ll always have the look on Chasten’s face when Pete said he wishes he wasn’t gay

[microbet]

The deal was done. Amy and Pete have to fight to the death. Amy gets a stapler.

[anon38180840]

@AllTheCheese

I’m watching TYT coverage. They have Ben Mankiewicz on, and he always makes good points. He said that Bernie has to make a move to assure voters that he’s not scary. Fear is the generator of Biden’s success. Ben brought up Obama in 08 putting Biden on the ticket, to send the message to voters that yes it’s okay, you can vote for a black guy with the middle name Hussein.

Telling a majority comfortable-ish population (definitely majority comfortable electorate) “God damn right I’m a Democratic Socialist, and the revolution starts now bitches!” isn’t going to get him across the finish line even if it revs up the base. I’m not sure what exactly he should do, and he shouldn’t change any policies (well a couple I think are bad, but it’s not the policies that matter here), but some kind of stylistic shift from his current lectern pounding.

Yeah the progressive wing ultimately lost this primary when Warren heel turned on M4A, voluntarily and moronically tanking her chances and opening up the progressive lane for Bernie. Problem is they were never going to let Bernie win, they might have let Warren win.

[anon38180840]

That’s out of line.

[skydiver8]

you know he meant in the past.

here, watch a couple great speeches from an inspirational person and maybe get your head out of your ass

Mayor Pete Buttigieg Speaks at 2019 HRC Las Vegas Dinner

Mayor Pete Buttigieg at LGBTQ Victory Fund National Champagne Brunch 2019

[Lawnmower_Man]

What % of Biden voters could name a single policy position of his?

[simplicitus]

Weekend at Bernies indeed.

[skydiver8]

Obama gave speeches about being gay? Musta missed them.

[6ix]

@Yuv

I hope not to get screamed at but i don’t get the whole ratfucking thing here. It seems fair game to convince Klob and Pete to dropout.

If the democratic voters actually pick Biden over Bernie then thats what they deserve. At least this way I can hate on everyone and not just the DNC.

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@6ix

It was rhetorical.

@6ix

@d10

Trying to understand the rat fucking complaints here… Sanders and Biden are currently roughly tied with an insignificant number of delegates. The rest of the race will be between Sanders, Biden, Bloomberg, and Warren. Progressive Warren supporters abandoned her for Bernie weeks ago so her remaining support is all centrist scum, but at the same time she’s going to be to blame if Bernie doesn’t crack 50%. Even though her support is so insignificant at this point it’s unlikely they reach 50% combined. So posters are beginning to realize that Bernie’s cap is <50% no matter how the rest of the field plays out, and by definition then can only win if 2+ centrist candidates split votes. Bernie is “rat fucked” if the centrists split but one of them is chosen at a contested convention anyway, and he’s also “rat fucked” if the centrists consolidate behind a single candidate early enough to win outright.

This forum should be renamed to Unhinged Politics

Do you really want to understand it? Because I can explain it.

I’ve said before, maybe a half dozen times over the years, that American Liberalism is supposed to be the most left of all the liberalisms the world over, past and present. That’s not meant as a purity test, it’s strictly semantics. It’s just how the etymology shook out over the years. There’s not supposed to be this great divide between liberalism, even Third Way, and progressivism. Perhaps you could employ a ‘pragmatism metric’ and say pre-campaign Liz is liberal and Bernie is progressive, or something similar.

Now, the point is that liberals know this, so they pay lip-service to the broad ideas, that social justice requires economic justice, that capitalism should as be ethical as possible, that FDR wasn’t a fringe lunatic, etc. I mean, the audacity of hope and change, right? In practice though, not so much, but they’ve never had their bluff called. Even Obama showing that yeah, um, maybe it was audacious to have hope, still left enough plausible deniability. Even including Bernie in 2016, there’s never been a hand strong enough to call the bluff, until now. This is it. The curtain is pulled all the way back.

Obviously, we’re not naive spring chickens. Even the least jaded and cynical could easily, trivially say that various people, most people, have been filled with various amounts of shit for quite awhile. What’s shocking now is being conclusively shown that so many people are so full of shit. Bernie’s movement called the bluff and the contrast is fucking stark and glaring.

So, maybe it’s not ratfucking. Maybe it’s something orders of magnitude worse and it needs a new word. Regardless, there are people dealing with being told that they were thoroughly lied to their entire lives and I think that would make anybody, at least temporarily, unhinged.

[Yuv]

@Lawnmower_Man

What % of Biden voters could name a single policy position of his?

What % of Biden can name a single policy position of his?

[Rivaldo]

twas ever thus

people deciding who to vote for, literally hours prior to the actual act of voting lmao.

this country accepts the wealth disparity, and couldn’t care less.

[skydiver8]

lol CNN saying the only endorsements that mattered were Clyburn and Klob. Gimme a fucking break. Klob was polling below 5% in a ton of these states. Pete, on the other hand…

https://twitter.com/indigogeek/status/1235064319395549187?s=20

I’m still gonna defend Pete from erasure and bad narratives, no matter what happens. I just wish he wouldn’t have endorsed, and let the race play out as it would. I think a lot more of his supporters would have gone to Bernie or Warren.

[Galerider]

I’m a LOL Canadian but why is this done like this! , could someone explain ? Just seems to me that a lot of voters will just vote for who is most likely to win or are popular at the moment as in the media , I’d say a lot of people vote based on not voting for a loser but maybe that’s just me.

Why wouldn’t they just vote across on the same day is what I’m getting at for a level playing field

[WichitaDM]

Bernie is winning TX. All the latino areas are still pending and he is down by a fraction. Fuck Nate, I think it’s happening.

[skydiver8]

Well, I hope so. Beto and Pete made it a lot closer than it should have been.

[joltinjake]

Yeah, this is essentially what I was getting at earlier. But it’s way too late. May have been too late before the campaign even started. The socialist label was always going to be scary.

[skydiver8]

If we all voted on the same day, it would only be the mega rich people or the people with name recognition that would be viable anywh…oh wait.

Fuck.

Nah, I still don’t think it should all be the same day, unless we go all out and do publicly funded elections with a 6 week campaign. Rotate the first states, though.

[WichitaDM]

Pete handing the election to Biden and ultimately to trump is not something to be proud of. Pete himself or really anyone outside of Bloomberg would be massively better. Even politically it is a huge risk if Biden loses the nom or general.

[WichitaDM]

Not a lot of the results make any sense based on the polling.