While thinking, It’s so much worse than you think, Joy. This Bernie thing, it’s a bunch of fucking nazis!!
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Bloomberg on MSNBC this evening
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Yeah. When they actually admit in public that they’d rather lose the general to Trump than lose the party machine to Sanders, and that “blue no matter who” was always just a lie for the rubes, you know they’re getting rattled.
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Listen to Pete’s accent in this:
He’s literally trying to imitate Obama.
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Well, it’s looking like Sanders is going to take the lead firmly. If he keeps this up on Super Tuesday, he might build an unassailable lead.
Not going to lie, I’m not a huge Sanders fan, mostly because I’m frustrated with his political fandom, and I was hoping for Warren. But he’s going to make a good, competent, sane president, and that’s huge after Trump.
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I couldn’t finish watching it.
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My choice going into the primaries was the candidate strongest on climate who can also beat Trump. Since I can’t tell who can beat Trump (yes I’ve heard several arguments) that leaves climate and the GND.
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Keep in mind who made a comeback from that and became America’s Darling and who… did not.
If you wanted some hope.
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Since the neo-McCarthyism doesn’t appear to be working, I’m betting that they’re going to haul out another dose of Classic™️ McCarthyism.
https://twitter.com/connorsouthard/status/1231463881706373120?s=21
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Well - he needs to win the delegates if he doesn’t have a majority. Those are the rules every candidate agreed to when they signed up to run. That could just as easily be someone withdrawing and their delegates now being released to vote as they wish going to another candidate and him getting those and some superdelegates just as any candidate would need to do.
And he would presumably vote for himself as a superdelegate as would a number of other superdelegates who already support him and some will obviously vote for the highest vote getter on a second ballot.
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Maybe I am just feeling a little depressed tonight, but I can’t help but wonder if we’ll know. If he gets the nod, but Trump keeps the White House, was Bernie unelectable, or was it a set-up? I am reminded of the line from Leverage’s “The San Lorenzo Job” where he says “We ran an American-style campaign. We declared victory at the start and never wavered from the message.” Part of doing so was to flood people’s inboxes/social media with a victory announcement before the traditional media could announce the results, with just enough time to make it plausible that votes were counted but not actually caring about the results. As long as enough people believed it, it wouldn’t matter what the actual results showed, because any difference would look like an attempt to rig the ballot to the “winner’s” supporters, and possibly outside observers. Cheating the election doesn’t require rigging the actual votes. It just means rigging the system enough so enough people believe the result you want them to, and the votes don’t matter.
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As some wag wrote after the Iowa Caucus,
By coming in second (however distant), and comfortably first among African-Americans, Biden at least has a chance next round of taking the votes Bloomberg was hoping for, and keeping the latter out of the race. That probably helps Bernie, so I still don’t see a clear path forward for anyone except him.
Not going to lie, I’m not a huge Sanders fan, mostly because I’m frustrated with his political fandom, and I was hoping for Warren.
I continue to be a Sanders fan, but like last cycle it is despite the fandom. However, I was surprised Warren didn’t do better than she did after the last debate, and hope that she hangs on for a while.
Absolutely right. Even in the worst of situations, the supers can’t “award the nomination” to someone, all they can do is boost a candidate from 35% to 50%, and that requires an extremely unlikely 100% agreement. It isn’t like 1968, where because the two progressive candidates were bickering HHH was awarded the nomination despite no popular support.
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Keep in mind that many of the votes were cast before that debate.
Nevada, where early voting had wrapped up a day earlier with 75,000 votes already cast
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The problem with Carville’s analysis that Sanders can’t be elected based upon the theory of increased turnout not being supported by the data is that he’s winning by getting broad support from the existing electorate. Which is what Carville said wasn’t happening.
Of course - he supported a guy who didn’t break 1% in the primaries he was in. So it would be nice if he applied his own standards to himself.
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I can’t believe how upset the right wing of the Democratic Party are over someone who is FDR for the 21st century. Bernie isn’t actually that left wing, he’s just a massive improvement over the last 40 years.
Whatever happened to Vote Blue No Matter Who? The second that we find a successful candidate that we like who is running as a D they start talking about letting Trump win and waiting four years. If they don’t stop their purity testing and get behind Bernie if he wins the nomination then the next four years are going to be really bad, and they will be bad for everyone.
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You want absolute, smoking gun proof that Russian agents are helping Bernie? Here you go!
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I’ve been finding Trump’s support for Sanders weird, but I guess he’s using it as a chance to dump on Dems in general. And maybe he thinks the Dem establishment really will take it away from Sanders again, in which case he can say Toldja so!
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