2020 Democratic presidential primary

your next democratic president, obv

Sanders on now blasting the network for distorting democratic socialism; now he's explaining it. This is something.

the audience whooped and clapped when he denounced Citizen's United

this on fox news?

Yep. On now.

Crowd whooped loudly for Medicare For All.

oh no kidding

awesome

Bret Baier just polled the Bernie Town Hall audience who would be willing to switch to #MedicareForAll. It backfired spectacularly. pic.twitter.com/dQJ9gfQ137

— jordan (@JordanUhl) April 15, 2019

yes!

Bernie is killing it. Nice that he has a very friendly crowd.

yeah, that moment clearly startled Baier.

raising his own hand was a nice touch

I was gonna say btwn this and getting his taxes out he had a good day, but he did bungle that CAP response pretty bad (I assume there's an apology forthcoming)

Hi @BernieSanders. 🙋🏻‍♀️ I'm Rebecca Nagle. I am a citizen of Cherokee Nation. I am also the subject of the third (and longest) paragraph of your angry letter to @amprog. And... I voted for you in 2016.https://t.co/kQb2gscm3f pic.twitter.com/iiwzt6bScA

— Rebecca Nagle (@rebeccanagle) April 14, 2019

nope

everyone was like "Bernie shouldnt go on Fox News" and now that he is the in-studio audience is literally booing the Fox News anchors

— jack allison (@jackallisonLOL) April 15, 2019

Like how Baier threw that cute "government assistance" line in there and the audience still went wild.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-takes-stage-at-fox-news-town-hall-after-emerging-as-apparent-dem-frontrunner

for just getting up there and not giving the hosts any oxygen and calling the president a "patholouical liar" on his own network A+

yeah this seems like a win to me

Private health insurance, even a good one through an employer, is all such a disaster that it's ridiculous to not want something universal across all states.

some people have been asking (reasonably so), and Bernie's camp has made clear that Fox picked the audience

Also a win for FOX, which can now credibly claim it's Fair and Balanced.

Xxp I have no idea how true this is but there’s at least tactical need to deal with the the fact that potential allies think it is true.

It's so important for M4A advocates to understand "actually your private insurance sucks and is garbage" applies to a lot of Americans but *not* to most union members who genuinely do have extremely good health insurance. https://t.co/s9C0eSd4vI

— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) April 15, 2019

Health insurance is a flawed premise, but the old “I’ve got the biggest turd in the waterpipe” logic is compelling when the alternative seems to be risky

Also a win for FOX, which can now credibly claim it's Fair and Balanced.

"credibly" doing a lot of work here, one segment vs. a 24/7 raft of shit won't mean much to anyone capable of grasping basic context

We're not talking about nose-breathing intelligence here -- I mean FOX viewers and especially editors.

i heard my man crushed it

watchin now. he's playin the hits.

He smashed it, right?

Thats why you go on FOX

Loved the highlights reel. He's so good! Even if I'd like Warren more I just don't know how she would fare in a campaign. With Bernie I just don't see a problem.

lol Soto, still trying to recover from Pelosi's "that's five people" blooper

I'm trying to recover? I'm trying to recover from three hours of sleep Sunday night.

On the GoT beat?

What works well about Bernie’s politics is that *precisely because* the word “socialism” polls so poorly it lures conservatives into a debate about economic policy that they normally know is losing ground for them.

It’s like a shrewd sacrifice in chess.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 16, 2019

I was wary of Bernie going on fox—happy to have been wrong!

Going on FOX doesn't become good because you get a white audience to applaud for a bill you're not going to pass anyway. Still wrong.

fred he did well and no one got hurt so it’s fine, stop concern-trolling about this

Even if I'd like Warren more I just don't know how she would fare in a campaign. With Bernie I just don't see a problem.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, April 16, 2019 12:25 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think this is stupid but i guess you’re right i’m much less worried about a man winning

Anything that makes Trump’s re-election even incrementally less likely—like almost literally anything—isn’t wrong xpost

fred is right, bernie shouldn't advocate for good things because good things never happen

fred, altho it's been said many times many ways stfu

I'm trying to recover from three hours of sleep Sunday night.

ah the price of trying to do karaoke "well"

The price of having our skies ruled by monopolies.

the best planes!

Anything that makes Trump’s re-election even incrementally less likely—like almost literally anything—isn’t wrong xpost

― Dan I., 16. april 2019 14:39 (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But it's not enough to defeat Trump and then think everything will go back to normal. Trump is a symptom, not the disease. Don't go on FOX.

"Why don't you voluntarily pay more in taxes right now?" - this has to be the dumbest line of questioning they could come up with. Idk what that's even supposed to prove.

The worst part of it is almost that the tax returns apparantly show that Sanders doesn't really claim all the tax credits he could. So he kinda IS paying more in taxes voluntarily.

But it's not enough to defeat Trump and then think everything will go back to normal. Trump is a symptom, not the disease. Don't go on FOX.

That is an impressive arrangement of unrelated “thoughts”

They don't seem unrelated to me at all.

"A moment like that calls for hopeful and audacious voices from communities like ours. And yes, it calls for a new generation of leadership in this country," Buttigieg said.

increasingly reading like an Obama text generator

a new generation of leadership drawn from the ranks of... wait, it says here afghanistan veterans and mckinsey acolytes wtf

Even if I'd like Warren more I just don't know how she would fare in a campaign. With Bernie I just don't see a problem.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, April 16, 2019 12:25 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think this is stupid but i guess you’re right i’m much less worried about a man winning

― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah that's right I'm worried about a woman winning, or something.