Whoever is studying CNN’s bias WRT Sanders needs to do a followup on these debate questions, cuz fuckin’ sheesh. Those question-summarizing chyrons tho…
ETA: and if we’re talking about Biden/stutter and accessibility of the electoral process, can we also get the candidates audio monitors so Bernie doesn’t have to cup his ear?
Yeah. I uh, “liked” how after Sanders roundly denied saying to Warren that a woman can’t get elected, the follow up question to her was, “senator Warren, what was your reaction when Senator Sanders told you a woman can’t be elected as president?” 
and the “how are you going to pay for this?” (with extra “and why are you lying to us” zest tonight) followed by detailed explanation as to how from Sanders, followed by: [centrist candidate], why won’t he tell us?
Also that chyron of “why does Elizabeth Warren want the government to make drugs when we all hate the government?” that was straight out of an oppo ad…
Thread from a national treasure:
Means testing is cruel. Means testing of kids based on what their parents can afford enables child abuse. Even beyond the obvious: where does a kid whose parents will only pay for Liberty U or BYU end up going, if the parents are judged too rich for assistance? What about a kid that wants to be a bio major, but their parents won’t let them because of “evilution”?
Insisting that rich kids should be the only ones who don’t get to attend public colleges for free really did seem like such a silly, petty thing to fixate on. I’m not worried about some billionaire’s kid getting the same free tuition at a taxpayer-funded college that all his peers get, I’m worried about the billionaire parent who isn’t paying a fair share in taxes to help fund that college.
Like Warren said, Pete is going after the small potatoes with that proposal.
Billionaires don’t send their kids to public colleges- they buy a wing and get unqualified Jared into Harvard. Or any of the college admissions scams we’ve just seen a few mere millionaires be convicted over.
As of Wednesday morning, the hashtag “#neverWarren” was trending as Bernie allies took to Twitter to attack the Massachusetts senator as a lying snake. (Not kidding; snake emojis were everywhere in the anti-Warren tweets.) “Lie or mischaracterize your ‘friend’s’ comments, double down, refuse to shake his hand,” tweeted Kyle Kulinski, a prominent liberal and YouTube host. "
Relatively speaking, there are so few billionaires or multi-millionaires to begin with, and those who send their kids to public schools are choosing from a maximum 20 elite ones (a third of which are in California’s UC system). They’re sending them there not because they’re low-cost but because their kids were able to get into highly selective schools (if the kid can’t get in, they’ll have a better chance of buying or cheating their way into private schools).
In any case, the point of Warren’s and Sanders’ programmes is universality. But Wall Street Pete can’t quit spouting 90s-vintage neoliberal-lite talking points about means testing (ones that, typically, ignore little things like local cost of living, the concept of marginal utility, and the market effects on price of single-payer systems).
But the BernieBros are a myth!
You’d think people would count themselves fortunate to have not one but two progressive front-runners in the Dem primaries, but for a loud-mouthed minority it looks like their petty bickering over personality cults is going to leave us with Uncle Joe as the nominee (which in turn likely means a second term for Biff).
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People keep saying this, and I wonder why? AFAIK, polling shows Biden beating Trump. (Also, IIRC, so do Warren and Sanders.)
Well, there is this:
If Trump is defending you, you may be in trouble.
Biden isn’t going to get young people and especially young women out to vote like Sanders or Warren will. Biden is also almost guaranteed to have at least one major screw-up or scandal after becoming the nominee that the GOP will use to its advantage.
After 2016, I’m not putting my faith in any polls that show an older, out-of-touch Third Way Dem establishment candidate beating Il Douche (actually beating him in the context of the broken Electoral College system). We can’t afford smug complacency or neoliberal-lite business as usual, and instead need an inspiring and progressive nominee who’ll treat this election as far from a sure thing.
I am actually getting pretty nervous about his stumbling over his words and getting confused on stage. Saw the same out of Klobuchar last night. Not claiming it is neurodegenerative or anything, but Il Douche will jump on it as a sign of weakness. We don’t need that.
One worry is that “but Hunter!” will be the “but her emails!” of 2020.
The split between the two groups of progressive supporters reminds me a bit of what 1968 was looking like before Bobby Kennedy was shot. Because the primary fights had been bitter, the Kennedy delegates threw themselves behind newcomer McGovern rather than supporting McCarthy, and thereby Humphrey ended up winning the nomination.
It’s tough to be up there, but he’s not as sharp as he used to be. Even when he was younger, he was always prone to gaffes and running his mouth in embarrassing ways. And that’s before you get to the warmed-over Clinton-era policies that no non-millionaire under age 55 thinks will help them going forward.
CNN’s coverage of that moment is way overblown. They look like they are talking seriously and disagreeing about something, but adults do that. It’s like CNN and other media outlets have been so mutated by the Trump presidency that they no longer know what a serious, adult discussion looks like.
And my biggest concern is that the whole thing was ginned up by CNN (or Bloomberg/Steyer) to create just the schism they are reporting on.
Interesting that the Republicans who once adopted the “#neverTrump” hashtag hated him because he stood in opposition to so many of the values they claimed to support, whereas the Democrats who have the most heated vitriol for Warren seem to hate her because her positions are so similar to those of their favorite candidate.
