2020 US Presidential Election Thread

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Pesky Buttigieg is touting his religiosity left and right, but someone needs to ask him if taking bribes from donors is immoral.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-...b0f7a84a73681d

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By coming across as religious and devout Christian, Pesky Buttigieg is thinking he can claim some evangelical Christian republican voters. WRONG.

Mark my word. He will get nothing from them except Big, Beautiful BAMBOO!

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The positive side of an election cycle that is almost two years long:

Now that centrism is no longer palatable, it is really difficult to walk a tightrope between donors and voters without being specific about your policy positions. You can only last a month or so with you personality charm. Thereafter, pressure will mount on you like dot balls to clarify your position on issues. If you don't come clean, you fade.

Beto faded. Kamala faded. Booker faded. Buttigieg will fade too.

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Trump is correct. CNN is FAKE NEWS indeed.

In both the town halls CNN organized for Bernie Sanders, they did not give him a single fair question. All the questions were incredibly smug and intellectually dishonest, lobbed at him with only one aim: gather soundbites that could be used to smear him.

Bernie Sanders was also not at his best. He needs to master the art of how to demolish and obliterate such unfair questions.

Fox News was more fair in their questioning to Bernie in their townhall. CNN came across as worse than Fox. They gave Bernie no chance to explain himself or his policies - they forced him into defense from the get go.

CNN is a DISGRACE - ZERO credibility.

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Meghan McCain is going crazy over Bernie Sander's proposal to allow felons to vote.

If anyone says to me that meritocracy is working, I need to point at one person only: Meghan McCain.

She is the ultimate example what privilege can buy for you even if you are the dumbest and the most annoying person on earth.

Jimmy Dore perfectly summed up Megan McCain: Her biggest achievement is being the sperm of a well known war criminal.

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My Summary of CNN's marathon 5 hours townhall.

Amy Klobuchar: Who cares? It was an insult to other candidates to give her a townhall. She is barely polling at 1% and her campaign is gaining no traction. She is irreverent.

Elizabeth Warren: She is a professor who knows her subject, but she just does not have it politically. Period. You simply cannot learn charisma or that political thing. Either you have it or don't have it. Plus she is too wordy in her answers - often wanders off from the main point.

Bernie Sanders: Not at his best. Sanders was usual Sanders. He should always expect insanely hostile and atrociously ignorant questions and be ready to annihilate them without giving any soundbite. Still the best performer of the night.

Kamala Harris: Demon Devi understood that her demon persona was getting exposed, and she was therefore ready to put a better mask. She succeeded in that regard. Despite polling low, she remains a threat to Bernie.

Pete Buttigieg: FAIL. No charisma. No homework. Put that smirk across his face throughout the townhall like how Hillary used to do during her debates and townhalls. That smirk - no one likes it except for the mainstream media. Also too many comical hand gestures. To sum up: EXPOSED as FAKE.

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Truth is often plain and simple, and very people articulate it better than Noam Chomsky:

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/no...2020-election/

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BTW, CNNs effort to smear Bernie in a way is playing into Bernie's hand. The more they hammer Bernie's socialism and prisoner voting issue as outrageous, the more press Bernie gets and the more media oxygen he sucks out.

As Trump says - any publicity is good publicity, even if it is negative. In Trump age, the tactic should be to say one outrageous thing after another to frame, control, and dominate the media narrative and tire it out. In Bernie's case, he is saying innocuous things, but the lunatic and foolish media frames them as outrageous, and inadvertently, it is benefitting Bernie

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Originally Posted by ToBeFair
Truth is often plain and simple, and very people articulate it better than Noam Chomsky:

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/no...2020-election/

big fan of Noam Chomsky. In the age of Idiocracy, one of the few remaining true honest intellectuals of this world

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Pesky Buttigiegggggggg thinks Bernie cannot beat Trump because Bernie has lost the novelty factor.

"People were refreshed by the novelty of that boldness" of Sanders' far-left policies in 2016, Buttigieg said in the interview, published on Wednesday.

"I have a hard time seeing the coalition ultimately coming together there," Buttigieg told the Times.

Dear Mayor Pete: Bernie might not win the primary or beat Trump, but at least he has sustained his campaign and revolution for nearly four years. You better first sustain your novelty for another month before making arrogant and dismissive statement about a guy who is four decades older than you and has a combined political activism and governing experience of half a century.

#PATHETIC BIG MOUTH SPOILED BRAT

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/24/p...nyt/index.html

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A balanced (but still somewhat biased) article about Bernie Sanders from Vox

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...liberals-chill

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Establishment has for months contained their or**sm over Gropin' Joe, proven two time LOSER but inexplicably the frontrunner in 2020, and they will finally get relief as Biden will announce his run on Thursday.

Here is a superb reality check article on PHONY Joe Biden.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2...fery-vs-record

Meanwhile, for well over four decades—while corporate media preened his image as “Lunch Bucket Joe” fighting for the middle class—Biden continued his assist for strengthening oligarchy as a powerful champion of legalizing corporate plunder on a mind-boggling scale.
Now, Joe Biden has arrived as a presidential candidate to rescue the Democratic Party from Bernie Sanders.

Urgency is in the media air. Last week, the New York Times told readers that “Stop Sanders” Democrats were “agonizing over his momentum.” The story was front-page news. At the Washington Post, a two-sentence headline appeared just above a nice photo of Biden: “Far-Left Policies Will Drive a 2020 Defeat, Centrist Democrats Fear. So They’re Floating Alternatives.”



Biden is the most reliable alternative for corporate America. He has what Sanders completely lacks—vast experience as an elected official serving the interests of credit-card companies, big banks, insurance firms and other parts of the financial services industry. His alignment with corporate interests has been comprehensive. It was a fulcrum of his entire political career when, in 1993, Sen. Biden voted yes while most Democrats in Congress voted against NAFTA.

In recent months, from his pro-corporate vantage point, Biden has been taking potshots at the progressive populism of Bernie Sanders. At a gathering in Alabama last fall, Biden said: “Guys, the wealthy are as patriotic as the poor. I know Bernie doesn’t like me saying that, but they are.” Later, Biden elaborated on the theme when he told an audience at the Brookings Institution, “I don’t think five hundred billionaires are the reason we’re in trouble. The folks at the top aren’t bad guys.”

Overall, in sharp contrast to the longstanding and continuing negative coverage of Sanders, mainstream media treatment of Biden often borders on reverential. The affection from so many high-profile political journalists toward Biden emerged yet again a few weeks ago during the uproar about his persistent pattern of intrusively touching women and girls. During one cable news show after another, reporters and pundits were at pains to emphasize his essential decency and fine qualities.

But lately, some independent-minded journalists have been exhuming what “Lunch Bucket Joe” is eager to keep buried. For instance:

But lately, some independent-minded journalists have been exhuming what “Lunch Bucket Joe” is eager to keep buried. For instance:

• Libby Watson, Splinter News: “Joe Biden is telling striking workers he’s their friend while taking money from, and therefore being beholden to, the class of people oppressing them. According to Axios, Biden’s first fundraiser will be with David Cohen, the executive vice president of and principal lobbyist for Comcast. Comcast is one of America’s most hated companies, and for good reason. It represents everything that sucks for the modern consumer-citizen, for whom things like internet or TV access are extremely basic necessities, but who are usually given the option of purchasing it from just one or two companies.” What’s more, Comcast supports such policies as “ending net neutrality and repealing broadband privacy protections. . . . And Joe Biden is going to kick off his presidential campaign by begging for their money.”

• Ryan Cooper, The Week: “As a loyal toady of the large corporations (especially finance, insurance, and credit cards) that put their headquarters in Delaware because its suborned government allows them to evade regulations in other states, Biden voted for repeated rounds of deregulation in multiple areas and helped roll back anti-trust policy -- often siding with Republicans in the process. He was a key architect of the infamous 2005 bankruptcy reform bill which made means tests much more strict and near-impossible to discharge student loans in bankruptcy.”

• Paul Waldman, The American Prospect: “Joe Biden, we are told over and over, is the one who can speak to the disaffected white men angry at the loss of their primacy. He's the one who doesn’t like abortion, but is willing to let the ladies have them. He’s the one who tells white people to be nice to immigrants, even as he mirrors their xenophobia (‘You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent,’ he said in 2006). He’s the one who validates their racism and sexism while gently trying to assure them that they're still welcome in the Democratic Party. . . . It’s not yet clear what policy agenda Biden will propose, though it’s likely to be pretty standard Democratic fare that rejects some of the more ambitious goals other candidates have embraced. But Biden represents something more fundamental: a link to the politics and political style of the past.”

• Rebecca Traister, The Cut: “Much of what Democrats blame Republicans for was enabled, quite literally, by Biden: Justices whose confirmation to the Supreme Court he rubber-stamped worked to disembowel affirmative action, collective bargaining rights, reproductive rights, voting rights. . . . In his years in power, Biden and his party (elected thanks to a nonwhite base enfranchised in the 1960s) built the carceral state that disproportionately imprisons and disenfranchises people of color, as part of what Michelle Alexander has described as the New Jim Crow. With his failure to treat seriously claims of sexual harassment made against powerful men on their way to accruing more power (claims rooted in prohibitions that emerged from the feminist and civil-rights movements of the 1970s), Biden created a precedent that surely made it easier for accused harassers, including Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh, to nonetheless ascend. Economic chasms and racial wealth gaps have yawned open, in part thanks to Joe Biden’s defenses of credit card companies, his support of that odious welfare-reform bill, his eagerness to support the repeal of Glass-Steagall.”

One of Biden’s illuminating actions came last year in Michigan when he gave a speech—for a fee of $200,000 including “travel allowance”—that praised the local Republican congressman, Fred Upton, just three weeks before the mid-term election. From the podium, the former vice president lauded Upton as “one of the finest guys I’ve ever worked with.” For good measure, Biden refused to endorse Upton’s Democratic opponent, who went on to lose by less than 5 percent.

"Indications of being a 'moderate' and a 'centrist' play well with the Washington press corps and corporate media, but amount to a surefire way to undermine enthusiasm and voter turnout from the base of the Democratic Party."

Biden likes to present himself as a protector of the elderly. Campaigning for Sen. Bill Nelson in Florida last autumn, Biden denounced Republicans for aiming to “cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.” Yet five months earlier, speaking to the Brookings Institution on May 8, Biden spoke favorably of means testing that would go a long way toward damaging political support for Social Security and Medicare and smoothing the way for such cuts.

Indications of being a “moderate” and a “centrist” play well with the Washington press corps and corporate media, but amount to a surefire way to undermine enthusiasm and voter turnout from the base of the Democratic Party. The consequences have been catastrophic, and the danger of the party’s deference to corporate power looms ahead. Much touted by the same kind of insular punditry that insisted Hillary Clinton was an ideal candidate to defeat Donald Trump, the ostensible “electability” of Joe Biden has been refuted by careful analysis of data.

As a former Sanders delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention and a current coordinator of the relaunched independent Bernie Delegates Network for 2019, I remain convinced that the media meme about choosing between strong progressive commitments and capacity to defeat Trump is a false choice. On the contrary, Biden exemplifies a disastrous approach of jettisoning progressive principles and failing to provide a progressive populist alternative to right-wing populism. That’s the history of 2016. It should not be repeated.

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Look at establishment self-contradiction:

Joe Biden's 'inappropriate touching' sure hasn't hurt his support among women

and then -

'Racism and sexism': Women of color slam white male tilt of Dem primary

Conclusion: Old white male is only an issue when the candidate is Bernie Sanders

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Joe Biden launches his presidential campaign with multiple gaffes

Gaffe 1. World leaders were begging Joe to run, to save America and the world

“I get calls from people all over the world — world leaders are calling me — and they’re almost begging me to do this, to save the country, save the world,” Biden said.

Gaffe 2. Despite running for President twice and being a vice president, he does not have the balls to announce his candidacy live in a rally or in a radio show. He does it with a video

Gaffe 3. Before appearing to his voters and constituents. he will first appear on The View . So presidential - hopefully he does not kiss, sniff, and grope

Gaffe 4. Immediately after announcing, Biden says he asked his former boss not to endorse him

“I asked President Obama not to endorse and he doesn’t want to,” Biden told reporters at a Wilmington, Del., train station that is named for him. “Whoever wins this nomination should win it on their own merits.”

Gaffe 5. His logo was another disaster. Why did he omit for? Is he already president?



Keeping going Joe

#Living Parody

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Biden entry rejuvenated Trump

Trump fundraising email calls Biden a "talking parrot for Obama." pic.twitter.com/E43Vda01hJ

— David Martosko (@dmartosko) April 26, 2019

Trump campaign blasts out an email with subject line "Sleepy Joe" seeking to hang Obama around Biden's neck: If Biden wins, campaign says, "We’d go from putting America First back to handing bags of cash to Iran!"

— Eliana Johnson (@elianayjohnson) April 26, 2019

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Former Vice President Joe Biden said that he was “ready to prostitute” himself to big donors during his first United States Senate campaign and compared himself to a “token black” during a discussion about campaign finance in 1974.


The Washington Free Beacon uncovered video of Biden’s comments that “came during an appearance on The Advocates, a weekly debate program that aired on PBS in the 1970s.”
The moderator pointed out to Biden that his service in the Senate up until that point was not “reflective of any particular concern for the larger contributors.”

“Well, the fortunate thing is I didn’t have many larger contributors,” Biden said. “And the only reason – see, I went to the big guys for the money. I was ready to prostitute myself, in the manner in which I talk about it, but what happened was they said, ‘Come back when you’re 40, son.'”

And the first thing Biden does after launching his 2020 bid is doing a fundraising, aka prostituting himself (in Biden's own words), with Comcast.

#Prostitute Biden

https://ntknetwork.com/flashback-bid...to-big-donors/

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Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel, who is 88, is also running for president. He is the most progressive in the race. He is running not to actually compete in the race, but to move the Democrats further left.

He believes that people do not the know the truth about 9/11. Here is his interview on this topic with David Pakman.



Here is his campaign website:

https://www.mikegravel.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_G...ntial_campaign

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Tim Black obliterates Pesky Pete

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Biden's interview at The View: TOTAL WASTE OF TIME. TOTALLY UNPRESIDENTIAL.

Incoherent babbling, no policy discussion, no apology for his inappropriate behavior with Anita Hill, full blown display of his oversized sense of self worth.

SAD and OUTRAGEOUS how mainstream media is pushing such a failed candidate again like they did in 2016.

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We live at a time when falsehood is truth, truth is falsehood, devil is angel, and angel is devil.

Joe Biden: An Imperial Corporatist Wrapped in the Bloody Flag of Charlottesville

The 10 Worst Things Joe Biden Has Done in His Political Career

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Trump speaks the truth:

“The Democratic National Committee, sometimes referred to as the DNC, is again working its magic in its quest to destroy Crazy Bernie Sanders....,” the president began, following those remarks with: “....for the more traditional, but not very bright, Sleepy Joe Biden. Here we go again Bernie, but this time please show a little more anger and indignation when you get screwed!“

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...-biden-1291377