Your next 2020 Democratic presidential primary thread: Now we're serious

If I understood the one article correctly that I read on the topic, isn't one of the "houses" they're attributing to Sanders is his DC condo that he has to have to work in DC? And which anyone who gets elected to a position in DC needs to have?

is it one of those ones where a bunch of senators all live together, like Alpha House?

yeah, he has a place in DC. he also has 2 30 year mortgages. such a stupid attack line.

Y'all trending #BeardedButtigieg ?

When #beardedklobuchar exists? pic.twitter.com/34o36QwWi8

— Genie thee grifter (@californalovers) February 21, 2020

jfc

CNN: The Nevada State Democratic Party is asking site leaders to sign non-disclosure agreements, according to one volunteer who had planned to help with Saturday’s caucuses but quit because he didn’t want to sign the document.

— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) February 21, 2020

what happens in vegas, stays in vegas

can we tell Elizabeth Warren to yell at the NS Democratic Party too

Aimless, it was a dum joke

has anyone proposed limiting, by law, the use or reach of NDAs?

Something something freely entered contracts or whatever

If I understood the one article correctly that I read on the topic, isn't one of the "houses" they're attributing to Sanders is his DC condo that he has to have to work in DC? And which anyone who gets elected to a position in DC needs to have?

Yeah, a single family home in Burlington, a 1bdrm row house in DC, and a small bungalow cottage. The most expensive of them is $500k iirc.

Ask those congressmen who sleep in their offices

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/us/politics/russia-sanders-trump.html

if anyone notices a new wave of sanders supporters being nice and agreeable instead of calling people they don't like rats, it's most likely a sophisticated russian trolling campaign

god, this fuckin guy https://theweek.com/speedreads/897493/recurring-biden-campaign-story-about-being-arrested-south-africa-full-inconsistencies

great, this will definitely inform some good faith discourse over the next weeks and months xp

Sanders tells reporters he learned about Russian interference in his campaign about a month ago.

But asked why it came out now, Sanders points to the fact that the NV caucuses are a day away. And adds sarcastically, "Washington Post? Good friends."

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) February 21, 2020

That’s the kind of cantankerous bullshit that endears him to assholes and reinforces horseshoe theory assholes’ arguments. Stay above lashing out at the press, Bernie, that’s the shit he does

If I think it sorta owns does that make me an asshole

no

the press helped Donald Trump's campaign every step of the way, fuck 'em

no

Just bro-adjacent

The fact that it annoys me doesn’t make me a centrist, but it probably does make me morning-joe-adjacent, ugh

“the press”

broad brushes are the best!

hey he did say that they were "good friends"

"The news" is not a public good honestly, it's a bad product increasingly sold by oligarchs

bad for yr health

The seem to be pushing “the olds” lately, heyoo

Stay above lashing out at the press, Bernie

I haven't seen any video, but his remarking "Washington Post? Good friends" seems to me to fall well below the threshold of 'lashing out', a phrase which to my mind implies far more than two dismissive words.

it's not like he threatened to revoke anyone's broadcast licenses, after all

the mainstream press in this country is bad and they should be told they're bad

yes

Yes. And the occasional presence of good journalists doing good journalism under those mastheads doesn't make them any less bad. The state of Big News Media is fucking atrocious rn.

"Washington Post? Good friends"

"Jeff Bezos asked Michael Bloomberg months ago if he’d consider running for president"

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/11/9/20956153/mike-bloomberg-president-2020-jeff-bezos-phone-call-amazon-hq2

the non-mainstream press is also pretty shitty to be fair

Yeah, this is not quite "enemy of the people". xps

clearly I lack the nuanced communication skills required to criticize bernie without tripping over the heightened contradictions or whatever

it's not that you lack those skills, ET. but you don't always use them

I'm no Captain Save-a-Bernie, but I'll give him a thumbs up for throwing featherweight shade at the clix-4-bux media for treating the erosion of democracy like a Big Brother liveblog.

I’d rather people aspiring to knock off our big wet incumbent answer questions about Russian election interference with something like “it’s probably true the the Russians are trying to disrupt this race and sow discord among the American people in a scary number of ways. That’s why we need a President who will listen to his advisors and work to secure all of us against misinformation, unlike Trump, who is completely incapable of doing either.”

Instead we got “lol fuckin’ newspapers amirite”

“He never has changed his attack because of pressure from the outside or when he felt the wind was blowing another way. He stuck with who he is and what he believes." –Dick Van Dyke pic.twitter.com/j8bKHBlCkT

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 22, 2020

The irony here is I remember taking hot angry shits all over the NYT not that long ago and k3vin K would be like “nope they still do valuable work, rage against the fourth estate at your peril”

I’d rather people aspiring to knock off our big wet incumbent answer questions about Russian election interference with something like “it’s probably true the the Russians are trying to disrupt this race and sow discord among the American people in a scary number of ways. That’s why we need a President who will listen to his advisors and work to secure all of us against misinformation, unlike Trump, who is completely incapable of doing either.”

Instead we got “lol fuckin’ newspapers amirite”

You know we got both, right? Sanders made a full statement that was a lot more than four words long.

FWIW Tombot I want the same. I doubt that this is all he has to say on the issue, but I guess we'll see. At any rate, leave us not pretend that the media dropping this bomb when they did wasn't just more theatre. I can't fault him for reacting (very mildly) to that fact in particular.

I’d rather people aspiring to knock off our big wet incumbent answer questions about Russian election interference with something like “it’s probably true the the Russians are trying to disrupt this race and sow discord among the American people in a scary number of ways. That’s why we need a President who will listen to his advisors and work to secure all of us against misinformation, unlike Trump, who is completely incapable of doing either.”

how about something like

“Unlike Donald Trump, I do not consider Vladimir Putin a good friend. He is an autocratic thug who is attempting to destroy democracy and crush dissent in Russia. Let’s be clear, the Russians want to undermine American democracy by dividing us up and, unlike the current president, I stand firmly against their efforts, and any other foreign power that wants to interfere in our election.

“I don’t care, frankly, who Putin wants to be president. My message to Putin is clear: stay out of American elections, and as president I will make sure that you do.

“In 2016, Russia used internet propaganda to sow division in our country, and my understanding is that they are doing it again in 2020. Some of the ugly stuff on the internet attributed to our campaign may well not be coming from real supporters.

“In my view, because of our extraordinary grassroots organization, because of our grassroots fundraising and because of our agenda that speaks to the needs of working class people, we are the strongest campaign to defeat Donald Trump and that is exactly what we will do.”

I was all 'the NYT do valuable work' for a long while too until I couldn't take any more of Haberman edging Trump or their 'rural diner in OH' shit and unsubfuckinscribed, and no I'm not resubscribing no matter how how many 'last chance! super sweet offer!' emails you send me, NYT.

I doubt that this is all he has to say on the issue, but I guess we'll see.

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How predictable that I would get owned by sic

look if anything this just suggests that you're a sock for Bernie

Thank u for your light sic, I no longer have my NYT or WaPo subscriptions so I am merely stumbling through the darkness.

That’s the kind of cantankerous bullshit that endears him to assholes and reinforces horseshoe theory assholes’ arguments. Stay above lashing out at the press, Bernie, that’s the shit he does

― El Tomboto, Friday, February 21, 2020 6:39 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

if trump wished you a happy birthday would you stop celebrating your birthday

I’m past forty, I just endure my birthday