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Seems like youâd need more than just that dayâs schedule to pinocchio Biden there, though I wouldnât be the least bit surprised if he didnât support the creation of the CFPB. Obama apparently didnât really want it or at least not want Warren to head it, but was politically pushed hard to do it by Warren.
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The same reason the Trump threads have ~14,000 posts: itâs nice to shout into the void sometimes.
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Because people died for our right to have free speech and I am not going to spit in their faces by not exercising it.
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Right on man.
I want to talk about how the Broncos are going to win the Super Bowl this year, and how theyâll attract all that top free agent talent when they do that because everyone will know itâs a new era.
Or are the Clownboys a better example?
A better example would be the 49ers who currently have the best record in the league, but thereâs reason to believe they wonât continue to perform so well.
Something we finally agree on.
Lol, whatâs with white male olds lying by making up falsifiable bullshit stories? Remember Bidenâs made up stump speech story?
When it comes to M4A who want it Pete thinks it shouldnât matter if itâs taxes or premiums as long as the cost is down which makes his attacks on Warren even more annoying
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Heâs no better than Lindsey Graham or Tom Cotton. A shameless opportunist hungry for power.
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In 2016 40% of dem primary voters didnât get their first choice. This time around that number is going to be almost twice that. Some of those people are going to drop out or switch sides when their candidate loses.
I want to point out that when I brought up the messaging after the debate of single payer healthcare saving 1 trillion dollars per year over our current system, I hadnât really seen that argument pushed here before. Within 48 hours it became the dominant talking point from the side advocating for it.
This is what winning messaging looks like. Saying weâre going to permanently solve the healthcare crisis in this country while simultaneously putting an extra trillion dollars per year into the pockets of the American public is the winning message of this time and place in history.
So yes we can win while strongly staking out this position. And yes any supposedly liberal politician staking out the position of how are we gonna pay for it is doing damage to the cause and country for purely selfish reasons and should not be trusted.
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So the question becomes what is the best way to get that exact messaging to the Bernie/Warren camps? Who is the most accessible person that has one of their ears? AOC via Twitter? I feel like the community here must have some connection to somebody who can run this up the chain.
Also, Biden and Buttigjge are absolutely awful on this and are actively stymieing progress going forward. Fuck them both for that imo.
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Iâm not sure how âseriousâ he is, Politico, but an interesting article nonetheless.
That article just underscores why Bennet didnât make the cut - lamenting about what should be and failing to adjust what is.
What Bennet finds himself wondering these days is whether Democrats can winâmuch less governâby pledging to do merely the possible. Whether they will be rewarded for telling voters what they need to hear, instead of what they want to hear.
âBarack Obama tried to do that, and thatâs not ancient history,â Bennet says hopefully.
Isnât it?
He thinks for a moment, then practically leaps from his seat, as though a light bulb hasnât merely gone off but overheated and shattered inside of his brain. âMaybe it is. Maybe it is. Maybe it is. Because Barack Obama tried to do that, and he was rewarded with complete intransigence by the other side. He used to say when he was running for reelection that âthe fever will breakâ after he won reelection. But the fever has never broken. Not only has it not broken, Trumpâs now in charge,â he says. âI think the real question for our democracy is, can our exercise in pluralism really continue under these circumstances?â
Ya think? A man who really has his finger on the pulse, lol.
Just a bunch of whining, and concluding with âI got nothing.â
Yeah that article is amazing. Just no conception of the possibility of creating your own political reality, changing the political landscape, even though a fucking moron managed to do it on the Right last election cycle.
As the debate approaches the two-hour mark, Bennet goes silent, gazing emotionlessly at the television for a prolonged stretch. Finally, I ask whatâs on his mind. âIâm sitting here thinking, âWho can beat Trump?ââ he says. âCan any of these people beat Trump?â
You endorsed Clinton last time, you dunce, so spare me the handwringing about electability. Jesus Christ.
Responding to Bidenâs critique of the leftâs ability to defeat Trump, Sanders argued the 2020 election would be won by bringing in new voters. Bennet cannot stomach this assertion. âBut do you bring them in with false promises?â he asks. âIs there another way of exciting people and getting them involved besides making false promises? I donât know. But when you do make false promises, and they never get accomplished, it just breeds more cynicism. Thatâs how we got here.â
Again itâs just, this sort of politics isnât compatible with the current status quo, which is an unchanging, eternal firmament which cannot be altered, apart from this one time in 2016 when a drooling know-nothing managed to use pie-in-the-sky promises to create a durable political movement against the strenuous opposition of his own party and 90% of the media class.
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He seems like a pathetic man lamenting that things no longer works the way they used to (and maybe they never really did work that way) and not knowing his place in the new world order. Warren becoming president would probably cause a lot of cognitive dissonance. If that happens, he might drown himself in alcohol or he might move rightward out of some belief that he needs to shift to balance Warren.
I literally maintain a spreadsheet with all of the presidential candidates and Iâm forgetting who Bennet is. He wasnât he the guy who Warren and Sanders double-teamed in the first debate? Maybe Iâm thinking of Delaney? After checking, yes, that was Delaney. No clue who this Bennet guy is.