I think we have officially crossed the line where, from here on out, we are fully entitled to assume that anyone who suggests using software to vote is doing it out of malice, not stupidity.
Similarly, if there’s anything remotely suspicious about a vote that was done with software, we get to, by default, assume it was rigged.
And?
Then the daylight-spooked Buttigieg Elector woman processes that she really isn’t going to pop out eggs anytime it’s called for and that Pete is fine, but Liz or Bernie is her wrasslin’ match, gets a full week wash of NYT Politics? Then she picks a plant protein and other gratitudes to call?
Well Sanders has more votes, and both Sanders and Buttigieg have 10 delegates, yet the media insist on reporting the % of state primary delegates to the tenth of a percent so they can list Buttigieg as in the lead.
Well I think Sanders is in the lead, so f-ck you media.
I believe the fear is that while you might vote for the spoiled turnip, most won’t. And if you’re dismissal of any of the candidates is persuasive enough, you could cost many more votes than your own, should a disfavoured candidate take the nomination.
So he need not believe your personal vote is in jeopardy to be concerned about your ability to harm the Democrat’s chances. And “catchy” nicknames is certainly one of the weapons used to such wars.
Now, I won’t hazard a guess as to whether his concerns will be borne out - there is way too much noise in the signal to take a guess. But to pretend no risk exists is to ignore a long history of leadership contests that became fratricidal wars. Hence the tendency towards kid-gloves in this contest.
Menopause, wrestling, NYTimes and plant protiens …
Maybe they should bury her a bit deeper.
Don’t bury it behind a screencap!
You’ve got cancer of the what?
Speaking of which…
https://twitter.com/disruptionary/status/1224877963528851456?s=21
https://twitter.com/bigkittenqueen/status/1224901096440844291?s=21
Specifically sword duels, naturally…
There are any number of wild beliefs and conspiracy theories about DNC, most of which fail the most elementary fact checks. I’ve seen a bunch of people frothing about how DNC has stolen the caucus away from Bernie, when the whole thing is run by the Iowa state party instead of DNC, and you can’t “steal” a caucus – it would be immediately obvious to everyone who participated.
Strap on… It’s gonna be a humpy ride.
I I’d live in the U.S. my vote would go to Warren or Sanders (in that order), because all the other candidates are shit one way or another. (Maybe Andrew Yang, don’t really know him but he said some sensible things).
As an outsider I could live with Buttigieg.
Warren ain’t going to win because she’s a woman. A woman with strong opinions is still a hard bargain apparently. We saw the amount of garbage that was poured over Clinton (a par for the course establishment politician).
Bernie ain’t going to win because he’s f*ckin old and looks frail.
Biden ain’t going to win because there will be plenty of sexual assault charges to be dug up. And for a democrat those will matter.
so maybe Buttigieg?
Anything better for the world as a whole than 4 more years of Trump
“Delegate equivalents” is a technical term they use in Iowa, and it is determined by allocating delegates to precincts proportionally to the number of people who voted in the precinct the last time (or maybe the last couple of times, I can’t remember). It is a reasonable attempt to avoid the distortion we get with the electoral college.
So what happened to their children and grandchildren? Some terrible plague or war hit Iowa to kill all but the elderly?
Obama ran as a center left Democrat against two center right Republicans. Both those races were won because of the expected massive black voter turnout combined with Obama’s personability (only Bill Clinton bests him on that score of all presidents since JFK in my opinion).
Sanders versus Trump is likely to be Corbyn versus Johnson, and that wasn’t exactly a nail biter.
I think that’s unfair both to Sanders, who seems far more capable and in touch with the times than Corbyn, and to Johnson, who is a lazy privileged slimeball, but actually charismatic and intelligent, unlike Trump.
“And he’s such a nice young man.”
