https://twitter.com/cancel_sam/status/1226607764727791621?s=21
https://twitter.com/cancel_sam/status/1226620243168067585?s=21
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Now they’re scrambling to claim that she was never going to be involved in the primary. Whether that’s true or not (her CV scrubbing indicates “not”), what’s clear is that the Dem establishment would bungle the optics on a Viewmaster. It’s like Perez wants young progressives to stay at home in November.
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Funny (in a terrible way) how so many people vote Democratic because they think Republicans are the lying cheaters.
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Because he does. It’s obvious enough now that the Dem establishment would rather lose the general to Trump than lose the party machine to Sanders. They just can’t come out and admit it because not all the rank and file they depend on are as venal as they are.
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https://twitter.com/YahooNews/status/1226883687049986048
The point Biden was making is that he wrote legislation in the U.S. Senate to protect women from domestic abuse, the Violence Against Women Act. But it was hard to make out the connection between Biden’s detour into the Middle Ages with his argument that domestic violence is a modern sign of cultural decay.
“We have to change the culture,” he told an audience of a few hundred people inside a hotel ballroom in this seaside town. “You all know what the phrase ‘rule of thumb’ means, the derivation of it?”
“So many women were dying at the hands of their husbands beating them, that English common law, in the late 1300s … 1390 or something like that, changed the law and said you could no longer beat your wife with a rod thicker than the circumference of your thumb,” Biden said. “But you could beat her. … We have a serious cultural problem in this country. But we can change it. That’s why I wrote the legislation.”
Biden then melded together a reminiscence of his work on domestic violence in the Senate and as vice president for eight years under President Obama, when the White House started a movement to raise awareness about sexual assault.
But it was a disjointed trip down memory lane.
“When I wrote [VAWA], I got criticized for it. I said, ‘Imagine all the women suffering from post-traumatic stress, just like men on the battlefield and women on the battlefield. You’re worried your husband gets home and you’re eating dinner at the table and he smacks your head against the wall. What happens? What do we do? What do we do?’” Biden said. “That’s why I started the ‘It’s On Us’ campaign … inside the vice president’s office. What happened was I wanted to know the progress we were making.”
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I also don’t see any evidence that it will decrease federal debt. Like, what country has that actually worked in?
Austerity reminds me of something an accountant friend once said to me: When a company sells their credit card division, they are about to go bankrupt. When you start cutting from education, infrastructure and health (your money-makers) to pay down debt you are going into a downward spiral.
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In other news, Joe Walsh has ended his primary run against Trump (and is now saying he will back any Democrat), Qanon thinks the Iowa caucus messup was an intentional deepstate plot, and there’s a guy, Matthew Lusk, running unopposed for a congressional seat in Florida, who is reported to have said,
I do believe there is a group in Brussels, Belgium, that do eat aborted babies.
Unopposed.
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In either case it made me think of “The Second Coming,” except not written by a misanthrope.
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The deficit is all about revenue. The US has been cutting revenue for 40 years. Anyone who actually cares about the deficit needs to raise taxes. Full stop.
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The early strength of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the liberal stalwart who has vowed to upend American healthcare and go after corporations and the wealthy, has some voters worried that Democrats will blow their chance to unseat an unpopular president if the party veers too far
to the left.from two feet to the left of the Republicans.
fixed it for them. (“some voters”, oligarchs are voters, yes.)
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The only way they could have made it worse would have been to call it VoteRight.
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If you look at a video clip of that, it’s obvious that Biden’s making a (possibly bad) joke, and everyone present gets it’s a joke, including the woman he’s speaking to. It’s weird but it’s an absolute non-issue.
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The most charitable read is that they are so thrown for a loop by their losses to crazier and crazier Republicans that they are too paralyzed to try any play but the one that got them a touchdown last time, so they are trying to recreate an Obama-like to win the general.
Buttigieg pretty much is the Gaybama: young, untainted by a long career in politics, smooth and confident speaker, more oratory than content, and NOT warren (too Clinton-y?) and NOT Sanders (too Sanders-y?) and embodies a more diverse politics rather than actually pushing radical equality.
Why would anone extend such costly charity, I don’t know. Time for something more sustainable…
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Maybe she should run. Or at least be on the secret service detail.
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