Several people here will arrive shortly to tell you not to believe your lying eyes about the Sanders blackout. Trust the DNC establishment and corporate media, and defer to their authority.
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I’m no Bernie Bro, but what gets to me is that in 2015 and 2016 they gave Trump virtually unlimited air time to spout his hate speech to the nation all the way to his electoral college win.
But Bernie Sanders is a bridge so far they have to pretend he doesn’t even exist?
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I support Sanders and Warren, but I’m not a BernieBro either (there’s another group here that wants to pretend that bunch of brocialists doesn’t exist, too).
The corporate media always gives Republicans a free pass on their bigotry, despite the MSM’s so-called “liberal bias”. In addition, Biff knew how much they love sensationalism and big outrageous personalities and gave them what they wanted.
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Three paragraphs?
ETA: I tracked down the video behind the stupid CNN graphic (currently available here), the actual story is pretty strong on Sanders; for example, while showing this graphic he says that Biden’s lead is statistically insignificant:
And the LA Times story, besides correcting the headline, near the top on the front page has this poll:
The evidence that the Times or CNN are intentionally trying to suppress Sanders does not stand up to looking past the tweets at the actual stories.
It’s hard to see with all the gaslight.
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The media bias was screamingly obvious in 2015, and it has not increased in subtlety since then.
At this point, anyone denying the clear bias in corporate media is either (a) gaslighting, or (b) so hopelessly naive that their political opinions are best ignored.
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No no no, why in the world would billionaires and their media-owning conglomerates do anything to suppress a candidate who’s so openly against the rapacious doings of billionaires and their media-owning conglomerates?
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But Iowa has 6 electoral votes and New Hampshire has a whole 4.
California doesn’t really matter at 55 electoral votes - there’s no sense in devoting any coverage to such small potatoes. Apologies to Idaho’s 4.
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Pete, for ten months, a collective group of myself, my doctor’s billing department, and my insurance company couldn’t figure out why my primary care physician wasn’t counted as a primary care physician, resulting in a doubling of my co-pay. The only reason it’s resolved is because I changed insurers.
I can’t figure out shit, and I shouldn’t fucking have to.
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Peter - I trust you to repair your own campaign’s jets engines.
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Last week, Harry Shearer described the POTUS’s entire platform as “made ya look.”
https://harryshearer.com/le-shows/december-08-2019/
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What a piece of work.
There are no shortage of examples of Uygur’s disparaging remarks about women.
“Obviously, the genes of women are flawed,” he wrote in a 1999 post online.“They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.”
“There must be orgasm by the fifth date,” Uygur said in a 2002 post about the “rules of dating.”
I’m still smarting from the last election when Sanders said that anti-choice votes should be courted. This is super dissapointing 
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Former online talk show host?
I hope he’s learned that’s not acceptable…
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Which, while both ethically shitty and a tactical error, put him squarely in the Democratic mainstream.
It’s notable that Sanders’ greatest failings are those areas where he does not differentiate himself sufficiently from the DNC norm.
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Jesus - the guy was just wrong. All by himself.
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In 2018 Sanders endorsed someone in my district who was simply terrible. Bernie (or his staffers) don’t seem to look to deeply at the people he endorses. I don’t hold it against him, he can’t be expected to know this kind of detail, and if a candidate’s stated positions are mainly consistent with yours then endorsements are really just another way of telling people what you yourself stand for.
Anyone good running in the primary yet in the CA 25th?
Yes he was. It was a serious error, both ethically and tactically, and the online left made this very clear to him at the time.
If you want use it as an argument for why the entire Democratic party is crap, go for it. I’ll be there with you.
But using that incident to argue in favour of an establishment Dem ahead of Sanders makes no sense. “Opposition to abortion is not a litmus test” is long-standing and still active Democratic Party orthodoxy, although I’d be glad to see that change.
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