2020 Democratic presidential primary thread, pt 3: life is very long

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dang this is the third time I've agreed with Morbs today, what is goin on

the only people still watching the bernie sanders variety show right now are the members of the fanclub. he has been rendered invisible by a global pandemic that isn't going anywhere.

i want bernie's solutions and think he's still the best candidate on positions. but if suppporters don't recognize what the fuck is up when a person runs twice for prez and has a dedicated base but STILL can't get over.... he cannot get over as he's doing it, at least yet.

i mean as a shit-opinionated observer who _is not popular in the real_, i can say that the best thing i ever came to comfort with (at about age 28) was "hunt3r, you will never be 'popular guy.' if you will succeed, you will need to learn just enough of suck-up to not compromise your core." this is not rocket science. every politician does this dance, tho some start at "quite popular."

it is true that being popular enough to win a prez nom is not the same as being "popular guy." but bernie is old as dirt. his ideas are correct. why is biden seeming more popular? is it _only_ the media? if it is only the media, should bernie work harder with the media without compromising his core? is that possible? what is wrong with his candidacy?

Iatee otm

Bernie Sanders was just on with Chris Hayes railing against the Reublicans' proposed bill and advocating, passionately and intelligently, for a package that benefits workers and low income families.

He was on TV because he's running for president.

Would you prefer this messaging just stops?

I think this rules, if that’s at me.

no, to shakey

I’m pretty sure Chris Hayes would still have Bernie on even if he wasn’t running for president

yes

Hayes has long been the outlier employed by MSNBC

He could have had Senarors Castro or Warren or Klobuchar or Booker or Harris.

He had Bernie on instead and the latter part of the interview was about his campaign for president.

punditry makes ilxors stoopid

Hayes has long been the outlier employed by MSNBC

if he had any integrity he'd have bounced long ago, is why I refuse to take him seriously. (Without much of a dock in pay if he played his cards right.)

But I get that being the least-shit-person at a shit institution has its unique temptations.

where should he have bounced to?

But I get that being the least-shit-person at a shit institution has its unique temptations.

where should he have bounced to?

I hear podcasting is pretty lucrative these days.

For them bennies is how i break it down basically

the only people still watching the bernie sanders variety show right now are the members of the fanclub. he has been rendered invisible by a global pandemic that isn't going anywhere.

― iatee, Monday, 23 March 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Not invisible to you.

he has been rendered invisible by a global pandemic a transparently corrupt media that isn't going anywhere.

― iatee, Monday, March 23, 2020 6:25 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

fixed

Thanks, Stephen Miller

hell, at least it wasn't "the DNC"

them too

Biden just blurted out a word salad

just decide who we're going to blame for the second term, if we live

Joe Blurt

Won't take any salad without balsamic vinegar and grated pecorino romano

Biden on Nicole Wallace's show.

my god

killin it pic.twitter.com/G8Qf1ZohUt

— Tristan Puig (@tristan_puig) March 24, 2020

if I could have any superpower it would be self induced one-year coma

no ventilators tho...

right, shit

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/01/human-hibernation-real-possibility/605071/

I think hibernation is mere torpor, not news-proof

Some rational group of Dems needs to go to Biden and tell him he's decided to drop out.

If you think there's a scintilla of a chance of him being elected, you are deranged.

Not even a scintilla?

Some rational group of Dems needs to go to Biden and tell him he's decided to drop out.

If you think there's a scintilla of a chance of him being elected, you are deranged.

There's a slim chance he drops out, I just put down 10 each on Harris and Klobuchar at 250/1 in case

Beginning in 2014, the agency funded research on long-term hibernation as a way to facilitate long-term space travel. Going to Mars, for example, is limited by the stubborn needs of astronauts to do things like eat and move around. But if their metabolic processes could be slowed to almost zero, they could theoretically travel much farther.

this turned out poorly in Star Trek IIRC

And Planet of the Apes.

https://i.imgur.com/4jNBIst.png

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hmm might bet another 10

consider the source but this seems Good imo

It appears that Bernie got his unemployment provision into the Senate Bill: 100% of salary for laid-off workers up to 75K/year, and benefits to include tipped and gig workers who are not usually covered.

— Kurt Hackbarth 🌹 (@KurtHackbarth) March 25, 2020

Is there any evidence? I don't doubt you, but I look at Red Rose's Twitter feed and it's a dumpster fire.

Choose your fighter pic.twitter.com/dOz3l6KMNG

— The Other Beth, who hates all of you (@BethLynch2020) March 24, 2020

ah yes beth lynch who retweeted threats of violence after bernie lost michigan etc good content xyz please leave

No

I wonder if the benefits are different for furloughed workers versus those permanently laid off

judging conduits on the webs: who gives a fuck

Comically unsuited for this moment I can’t believe this https://t.co/Gl7d0l3X5j

— nuanced opinion guy (@charles_kinbote) March 25, 2020