the reaction was "yay the commies stayed away from Warren"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 October 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
From whom?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 October 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
Hillary
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 October 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
I honestly thought AOC would’ve waited until it became clear which one of the two was going to be the nominee, or at least which one would be the clear alternative to the “pragmatic” centrist choice.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 21 October 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
almost like she's trying to help bernie succeed in those goals
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Monday, 21 October 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
yes, he is the clear alternative to Warren
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 October 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, October 21, 2019
It makes more sense now: it boosts at the right moment, steels their own progressive cred ahead of her own reelection campaign, and reminds audiences what's at stake.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 October 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
yeah, why wait til later when it wouldn't matter at all?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 October 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
anyway, the way he’s covered (or not covered at all) by the media is ludicrous.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 21 October 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
He got an unsurprising endorsement and had a big rally in Brooklyn. None of that is proof of anything, he needs better polling to claim a comeback. Hopefully he gets it, it was a really good speech! Having them both in the race is really good.
― Frederik B, Monday, 21 October 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
I never thought I would say this, but . . . Dennis Perrin OTM. **swallows rat poison**
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Monday, 21 October 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
I honestly thought AOC would’ve waited until it became clear which one of the two was going to be the nominee
This is vmic for AOC. If she is closer to Bernie politically (and she is), I don't see how her waiting to endorse would be a pragmatic move. If Bernie withdraws or releases his delegates, then AOC would be free to endorse an alternative to Bernie. I've no doubt she will work for and with whoever the eventual nominee is.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 21 October 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
Yes, and she'd probably be delighted to work for and with Warren. There's no hypocrisy or gameplaying in endorsing the candidate that you're more closely aligned with, nor in endorsing the one you're next most closely aligned with, nor in honestly doing the best work you can do within a party framework.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 21 October 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
it's a primary! it's a contest!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 02:16 (four years ago) link
I hope to god it doesn’t come to fruition but I wonder if Biden is the nominee whether he would exactly welcome any support from the Squad. I know Bernie campaigned for HRC in 2016 but this dynamic feels different, AOC is the emergent satan to the Fox News set that Biden probably thinks he needs to at least partly court.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
Unlike any simulacrum of a Democratic "resistance" of my lifetime, I don't doubt AOC, Pressley, etc have sat down with advisers to map out how a Dem-controlled House with Biden as president would look like, not to mention the other plausible scenarios.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 02:50 (four years ago) link
and had a big rally in Brooklyn
nice try
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
everyone will know come january
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 05:25 (four years ago) link
https://theintercept.com/2019/11/01/bernie-sanders-palestine-aid-hamas/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
I need everyone outside of Minnesota to know how fuckin cool it is that @BernieSanders has New Power Generation opening for him tomorrow.— Ian 🌹 (@mr_ian) November 2, 2019
― flappy bird, Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
my man
― gbx, Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
they want to change the worldthe only thing that's in our way is u
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4ZAJL4Hgdh/
BERNIE SANDERS YOU BASTARDS
― anvil, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link
There's no comparison here. There's one person in this race worth supporting. pic.twitter.com/jTZ7xvvi1T— Tum Tum (@ActionDonson) November 7, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
That Warren tweet is really disgusting.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
Why?
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
because Liz sucks nowand everything she says or does is icky
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
she's always sucked tbh
― ت (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
was probably worse when she was a republican
it is crucially important that we make harsh moral judgments of candidates based on their positions on hypothetical scenarios that have 0% bearing on reality
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
What makes this discussion stupid id that Bernie does not intend to tax Bill Gates $100 billion any more than Warren does.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
yeah but chumming up with epstein adjacent eugenicist billionaires is its own reward
― ت (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
Warren clearly wants to be besties.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
both of those seem like good campaigning to me
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
chumming up with epstein adjacent eugenicist billionaires
I suppose you realize that if you were trying to win a hypothetical election to any position of public trust by expressing yourself in such terms, you would not only lose, but never come close enough to winning for anyone to take you seriously. otoh, warren is already in the midst of trying to win a real election, and so may be pardoned if she doesn't emulate your approach.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
it's true. bill gates has so many divisions
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
i don't think there is a political cost to antagonizing billionaires.
― treeship., Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
if you lost the vote of every american billionaire, you would lose 607 votes, many of them in safe blue states like new york and california.
― treeship., Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, November 7, 2019 10:15 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
well neither one of us will ever be president of the united states so we have that in common
― ت (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
and you do realize that ilx and public facing social media accounts of politicians are different things, and i am obviously aware of that?
― ت (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
xps - ah, but one must antagonize them without sounding like an angry fool. especially if you aren't given a free pass as a white male.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
oh aimless is drawing for the idpol now? o tempora, o mores
― ت (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
Lol is 'free pass as a white male' bcos u remembered Trump
― Camille Paglia is on my partner's NextDoor (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
do you deny that warren's rhetoric will be judged by a somewhat different standard because she is a woman, only because I said it?
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
Trump certainly sounds like an angry fool, but he doesn't aim it at billionaires. just immigrants.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
We've been over this, but Sanders will also be judged (well, smeared) by a different standard thanks to his Jewishness!
― Simon H., Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
"chumming up" with plutocrats in Warren parlance would be "turn them to chum based on proposed tax rates," which for some reason frighten them.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
I suspect the main reason Warren's rhetoric isn't as antagonistic towards Gates is because she doesn't want it to be / it's not her style. It's not more complicated than that.
― Simon H., Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Thursday, 7 November 2019 bookmarkflaglink
To get onside with people like Gates/entrepreneurs who have media access to bitch about things they don't like Warren is prepared let him have input in her tax plans?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
I saw Warren's tweet as a polite "You don't know what you're talking about" but I guess she was chumming it up with Bill because BERNIE!!!
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link