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BeetPress Satire – 2 Feb 20
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Headline: Adlai E. Stevenson Eyes 2020 Run To Stop Sanders
(Except Stevenson would have endorsed Sanders.)
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I like Sweary Kerry better.
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Apparently yes. Good for him!
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While we’re on the topic of antique Presidential candidates:
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Such is the incompetence and tone-deafness of the DNC establishment that I wouldn’t have been surprised if this wasn’t satire.
As for Kerry, I’m sure we’re all shocked by the news that a wealthy white male Boomer is supporting Biden. If cold fish in a state of rigor mortis could vote, this endorsement would make Uncle Joe’s nomination a sure thing.
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To be fair, the DNC leadership cut their deal with the wealthy back in 1992. Since then they’ve just been raising the table stakes, and now here we are with Bloomberg buying his way into the game.
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Can we stop it with the gratuitous ageism?
I mean - he’s younger than your candidate.
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No matter the outcome today - I think it’s obvious that this Iowa first nonsense needs to stop.
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And so does this stupid and discriminatory caucus system. Let the GOP be the party of empty tradition and nostalgia. The Dems need to be the party of fairness and standards.
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Start in a state which is more demographically representative of the party voters. Rotation among those types of states - add in some battleground states that fit that description.
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FDR was still more than a distant memory then.
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I’m fine with random choices, maybe 3-5 states every weekend (y’know, so working people can vote) starting in Feb., with a standardised and secure secret ballot system for all states.
Group the random states regionally, perhaps, so that the candidates can reduce travel (especially on donors’ private jets).
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Yes - weekends or a holiday on primary and election days.
And my state needs vote by mail.
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I don’t know if you’ve worked in a bureaucracy, but it is amazing how much the role seems to determine and how little the person does. Now and then you get someone who really brings something different to a job, but a lot of the time someone who you thought was crazy leaves a position and someone you think it better takes it and the new person acts exactly like the old person.
What is blowing my mind about that image is it’s offering free college, free healthcare and $15/hr jobs. I get that there are tons of American working for less (much less) than that who would be thrilled to get a $15/hr job, but is someone really going to compare seeking a $15/hr wage with asking for a free pony like Clinton did with healthcare?
To put that in perspective, a Greek historian was told it took 20 years for 100,000 slaves to build the great pyramid. Michael Bloomberg could, using current personal wealth only, hire 100,000 people at $15/hr for 20 years to build a great pyramid in the same style. Even at $15/hr American oligarchs would still be richer than fucking pharaohs.
Healthcare and college are investments in the future that a country as wealthy as America can afford to make. A living wage is something that must be demanded by all people in all places in the world, rich or poor. There was another recent thread on people with low income and debt where it was said, “If you are born in debt and you work your whole life and you die in debt you weren’t an employee, you were a serf.” It’s the 21st century, it’s time to overthrow the feudal lords already.
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By the way, this is my new tax plan. If you are rich enough to build a pyramid then the government takes your money, builds one, and buries you in it. Jobs, jobs, jobs.
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Most of my life. The difference here is that the DNC staff in 2016 was clearly trying to bias the process, for clear political reasons of their own. They left pretty much in disgrace. None of the prior DNCs, in my experience, were anywhere near as cynically abusive of their trust, until you get back to the 1960s. The current bunch were doing OK in that regard until this decision, which still seems inexplicable to me.
(Even if you are a tin-foiler who believes that the DNC is a tool of robber barons, it is hard to see how the decision to change the rules helps their cause. Bloomberg’s presence in the race only hurts the other two ‘B’ candidates, and his presence on the stage will make Warren and Sanders look like geniuses by contrast, plus give Steyer another chance to air his anti-billionaire views.)
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A quick check up on Yang for a second
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In case you were even remotely concerned that the sham impeachment trial in the Senate has dampened Biden’s enthusiasm for capitulating to Republicans on day 0, fear not.
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