Nah, Klobes is belting out “I will always love you” and Bernie is getting a bit verklempt.
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Looks more like „Don‘t cry for me, Minnesota“
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It’s definitely a yodel
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Yeah the thing is, after she advocated for the creation of the CFPB, Obama didn’t nominate her for leader largely because, quoting Wikipedia here, “financial institutions and Republican members of Congress strongly opposed her, believing she would be an overly zealous regulator”. Members of the Obama Administration don’t like her, essentially on the grounds that she was a troublemaker. She has fought people and made enemies. This is exactly the opposite of Pete’s resume, he is a Good Boy who has spent his life earning “Well Done!” stamps from teacher and talking about compromise.
This gets back into what I was saying a few weeks back about theory of change. It’s all very well to have a candidate with policies, but the US is a country completely beholden to the interests of capital. You need a theory of how change is going to happen. Bernie is advertising a completely outside-the-system theory of change, Warren a more inside-the-system theory, and Pete has wine cave fundraisers. That’s why that resonates, it’s because it’s so obvious there is no desire in him for any mud-wrestling or any real capability to take on entrenched interests. It’s clear to me Warren can and has taken on those interests, which is why I don’t care if she had fundraising dinners in the Senate. Neither Pete nor Warren’s fundraisers really matter in themselves, Pete’s just resonate because they illuminate what we already suspect about him as a candidate.
As you said though, you could more fairly worry about whether Warren is really a progressive in general or whether she just has a set of special policy interests which align with the progressive agenda in some areas.
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Side note, anyone remember ikes’ claim that Trump “wasn’t resonating” within the Republican party? That shit has only gotten more hilarious over time.
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Julian Castro for Bernie?
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Oh snappppp
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Bernie/Julian is a ticket I can get behind.
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Lets go!
Helps firm up Bernie on immigration where he’s a bit suspect.
Rather than holding asylum-seekers and migrants in facilities run by Customs and Border Protection, which includes Border Patrol, he called for creating new facilities run by HHS.
Wasn’t Obama releasing people with a court date? Like having asylum seekers held by HHS instead of ICE and CBP might be a victory in the Trump adminstration, but a court date and release for asylum seekers should be the minimum acceptable position for a Dem.
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Don’t care. He lost me at healthcare. I’m sure it’s awful.
It’s not too bad. He has the right general tenor to change the immigration narrative from criminal enforcement to social/economic justice.
Wiki on Trump Family Separation Policy:
Many religious groups also oppose the policy including many Christian organizations such as:
- The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
- The National Association of Evangelicals[235]
- The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America[236]
- Episcopal Church
- United Methodist Church
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Presbyterian Church
- Evangelical Lutheran Church
- United Church of Christ
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints[237]
In response to a criticism of the policy by a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the policy, citing the Bible.[238][239] On June 18, a group of more than 600 United Methodist Church clergy and laity announced that they were bringing church law charges against Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The members of the group accused Sessions of “child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination and dissemination of doctrines contrary to the standards of the doctrine of the United Methodist Church”.[240]The last charge refers to Sessions’ “misuse” of Romans 13, which he quoted to argue that secular law must always be obeyed.[241]
All four major denominations of American Judaism oppose the policy:
Islamic organizations also oppose the policy.[243]
Pope Francis supports statements by US Catholic Bishops who had called the policy “contrary to our Catholic values” and “immoral”, adding “It’s not easy, but populism is not the solution.”[244]
Evangelist Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham, called the practice “disgraceful” and said that “it’s terrible to see families ripped apart and I don’t support that one bit.” Graham did not, however, attach blame to Trump or his administration, but rather blamed “… the politicians for the last 20, 30 years that have allowed this to escalate to where it is today”.[[245]]
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Top headline on WaPo right now is
Warren embraced high-priced events for years — until just before 2020 race
While it’s a pretty shitty attack, I’m starting to feel like it’s GG Liz. Between that and the CNN poll shenanigans, media really doing a great job of setting up the Biden Buttigieg ticket to lose to Trump.
The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos and sometimes it really really shows IME. Then again the media has helped bury every left of center candidate in my lifetime. I’m ashamed to admit I bought their line for most of my life too. It took going to college for economics, actually running a business, and actually thinking about stuff for myself to break out of that. Basically I was a moderate until it became super super obvious to me that it was too late to fix a lot of our problems in an incremental way.
TBH a lot of our stuff probably CAN wait, decades if need be. From a historical perspective the median human on this planet has never had it so good… but for climate change coming at us like a sixty story tall tsunami.
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I’d be surprised if Castro wasn’t Bernie’s VP pick at this point. I think that ticket is pretty great.
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