The democratic nominee
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Joe is the best. Outspent 7:1 by Bernie and still works him
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@FarmerJayhawk holy smokes.
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Did you y’all see the video of Joe saying he was dropping out and then endorsing himself. The Ron Burgundy of politics, what an idiot.
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@kjayhawks said in The democratic nominee:
Did you y’all see the video of Joe saying he was dropping out and then endorsing himself. The Ron Burgundy of politics, what an idiot.
I think that was a joke site
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@approxinfinity I pay little attention lol but they did amazing job of editing it, he’s still a nut case either way.
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Liz Warren is out. Fun fact: Tulsi Gabbard is now the only woman of color in the race.
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It’s Biden.
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https://twitter.com/david_j_roth/status/1242996206046978049?s=21
Still don’t understand why people dismiss this guy as “crazy Bernie” seems like he’s pretty focused on helping working class folks. Doesn’t really matter to him if they are R or D or if they vote or not.
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@benshawks08 said in The democratic nominee:
https://twitter.com/david_j_roth/status/1242996206046978049?s=21
Still don’t understand why people dismiss this guy as “crazy Bernie” seems like he’s pretty focused on helping working class folks. Doesn’t really matter to him if they are R or D or if they vote or not.
Because he wants to spend 60% of every dollar earned in America on government. $60 trillion over the next 10 years is A LOT of money and he’s railing on 1.7% of that in tax cuts.
To his point, there’s definitely moral hazard in paying more for folks to not work than work. If UI is larger than wages, employers have every incentive to lay people off and move on with their lives. There won’t be the big recovery we’re all counting on at the end.
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@FarmerJayhawk The goal is to get people to stay home and provide much needed financial assistance in a crisis. Who needs that more, people with money and jobs? Or people without money and jobs?
Pretty sure everyone is going to want to go back to work after this shelter in place, social distancing is over. I’m admittedly a homebody and I’m already stir crazy! Maybe if I spent less time fighting on the internet…
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@BShark the Democrats haven’t help themselves either with the passing of the stimulus that gives congress a 46k a year raise. National emergency, people are dying! We need to make more money… what a joke both parties are at this point.
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@kjayhawks said in The democratic nominee:
@BShark the Democrats haven’t help themselves either with the passing of the stimulus that gives congress a 46k a year raise. National emergency, people are dying! We need to make more money… what a joke both parties are at this point.
Members didn’t get a raise. It was money for (very underpaid) staff to get additional resources to be able to work remotely while maintaining security.
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@FarmerJayhawk that could be true but I don’t trust it
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@kjayhawks When you don’t trust anything in the news, consider yourself a trophy for the far right, which started campaigning against the news media as a political strategy in the 80s and 90s. In 2016, a few traditional conservatives (fiscal restraint, strict ethical rules, less dependence on govt, etc) lamenting the rise of Trump wrote about their regret that they had convinced a huge segment of the country not to believe what the media told them because they realized the media was needed to correct the idiocies being bandied about.
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@mayjay If they weren’t wrong all the time, I’d be more likely to believe. The media runs with what they can sell watch Richard Jewel or read the book. Watch ESPN 30 for 30 fantastic lies. The Walter Cronkite’s of the world are gone. I don’t care which outlet you like, they twist stuff, add and take out words in speeches to fit their narrative. I do t know how many times I’ve seen guys quoted and then watched the interview and it’s been twisted. Call me crazy I don’t not trust media or the government. CBS just got in trouble for showing old footage of an Italian hospital claiming it was New York. Whatever actor it was in Chicago that claimed to be a target of racial abuse, that media ran with as hard as they could with no factual evidence. Trust is earned, neither have earned any from me in the past decade or so.
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@kjayhawks said in The democratic nominee:
If they weren’t wrong all the time
You need to read more. Most importantly, don’t let the sensationalist cases color the entire picture. There are thousands of reliable news stories every day. Mistakes happen, but usually get corrected.
Blatant falsehoods and malpractice happen in medicine, too, but I don’t enter every medical office telling them I expect them to lie.
I am not saying that everything has to be accepted as gospel truth, just that you need some discretion and the ability to check things out if something seems fishy. I am on a cruise forum and am constantly trying to correct the crap people post from Facebook (you know, had dinner with someone whose uncle is Chinese with a master’s degree, and he gave us all this great info about the coronavirus…).
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@mayjay the trouble for me isn’t necessarily mistakes but rather running a story with little to no facts, no witnesses and one non trustworthy source. Then there are other stories that should be huge that hardly get mentioned a lala Michigan State rape ordeal, school shootings not involving assault type weapons.
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@kjayhawks part of the problem there is actually the decline in news coverage. With less reporters working stories, there’s less coverage.
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@approxinfinity that make sense as to why we don’t hear as much but it does make me question on some of the stuff we do hear. We can argue all day no one is going to make me trust them at this point. It will take years of actuate coverage and no bias to do that.
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I’d give up guys.
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@FarmerJayhawk seemed like a formality. Can Trump Lite beat Trump?
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Now, will he be stupid and pick someone like Harris, from Calif, or Duckworth from Illinois, both of which are solidly blue? Or safe, and pick someone like Kobluchar who is from usually safe Minn? Or be clever, and pick the governor of Michigan, a usually blue state the Dems lost in 2016?
Ignoring all factors here except the Electoral College.
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@BShark said in The democratic nominee:
@FarmerJayhawk seemed like a formality. Can Trump Lite beat Trump?
Biden as Trump lite is a new one. But I get your point that everyone to the right of Castro is moderate.
And yes, Biden needs about 100,000 more black voters in PA, MI, and WI to get the win. 250,000 to be very safe. All numbers Obama got in 12.
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It’s America. The white guy with a groping problem prevailed over the Asian, the Woman, and the Jew. Shocks you to see it.
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@BShark said in The democratic nominee:
It’s America. The white guy with a groping problem prevailed over the Asian, the Woman, and the Jew. Shocks you to see it.
Based on overwhelming popularity among checks notes black people.
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@FarmerJayhawk I think it’s foolish to just assume that non white people will vote for Biden. I sure hope more people vote tho.
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@kjayhawks said in The democratic nominee:
@FarmerJayhawk I think it’s foolish to just assume that non white people will vote for Biden. I sure hope more people vote tho.
Biden will get bare minimum 85% of the black vote (probably closer to 90+) and 65% of the Hispanic vote (probably closer to 70%). I do think turnout will be higher in 20 than 16. Biden is about 15 points higher on net favorability than Hillary was at the same point in the election.
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@BShark said in The democratic nominee:
It’s America. The white guy with a groping problem prevailed over the Asian, the Woman, and the Jew. Shocks you to see it.
Not sure if you missed it, but a white guy who proudly announced his sexual groping of far more people was elected president.
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@mayjay Maybe they will have a groping contest instead of a debate.
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@FarmerJayhawk This election will determine if Biden’s do-over of his choice in 2016 came too late. Fortunately for him, the same Republican is running, so the age issue is not a huge problem.
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@mayjay said in The democratic nominee:
@FarmerJayhawk This election will determine if Biden’s do-over of his choice in 2016 came too late. Fortunately for him, the same Republican is running, so the age issue is not a huge problem.
We’ll see! The one advantage he does have is 2020 is a referendum on Trump, not a binary choice per se. And he has a very straight path to 270: 3 of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Arizona.
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@BShark And everyone thought 2016 was bitterly fought. An election with literally no holds barred! Maybe we can replace the Electoral College with WWF refs!
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I’d be shocked if trump doesn’t win by miles. People are scared of change, Trump is fool but people know what to expect. With the the talks of socialism and what not it’s a huge guess to what Biden does good or bad.
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@kjayhawks said in The democratic nominee:
I’d be shocked if trump doesn’t win by miles. People are scared of change, Trump is fool but people know what to expect. With the the talks of socialism and what not it’s a huge guess to what Biden does good or bad.
I think The Demo’s are screwed as far as this election goes. - I think he walks in to
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The question isnt “who will everyone else will vote for?” The question is “who will you vote for?” Everyone will try to sell you on an air of inevitability. Don’t let it sway you. Vote for the guy who you think will do more good, or less bad for the country.
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@approxinfinity So what you are saying is don’t vote. I’ll be voting but I’ll leave the presidential vote blank.
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@BShark said in The democratic nominee:
@approxinfinity So what you are saying is don’t vote. I’ll be voting but I’ll leave the presidential vote blank.
you can’t not vote. - - Everyone that can needs to vote no matter who it is. We have that right - - - we need to EXCERISE that right. Does people not realize how many people around this Earth would love to be able to be given the chance to vote?
The way I look at it is , you have the chance to cast your nominee and you don’t vote - - but yet you wanna bitch? - -Ummm no. - you don’t vote then you have no right to say squat. - -your vote COULD be the difference, so everybody needs to vote , one way or another.
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@BShark Biden is not ideal by any stretch but surely he’s a few tics better than the alternative.
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@approxinfinity said in The democratic nominee:
The question isnt “who will everyone else will vote for?” The question is “who will you vote for?” Everyone will try to sell you on an air of inevitability. Don’t let it sway you. Vote for the guy who you think will do more good, or less bad for the country.
Exactly
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@jayballer73 Right on. We may not agree all the time, but the “my guy/gal didn’t win the nomination so now I won’t vote for president” is a stance I just can’t agree with. I know your stance on Biden but for me he is no savior but will at least “lead” and represent the country better than Trump. Just my opinion (which of course I think is definitely the right one).
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We obviously can’t see it happen but I believe that whether Biden or Trump wins, the next four years will play out exactly the same.
This about sums it up
Two privately owned political parties choose two candidates with nearly identical policies and then voters try to guess which will be slightly less shitty. Both parties hold primary votes, but neither is under any legal obligation to uphold the results if they want to go with someone else. There’s no preferential voting, the system is designed to give a third party candidate the longest odds possible. They use easily rigged electronic voting machines. The political and capitalist classes hold near complete control over mass media and have no reservations about lying or burying stories they don’t like. On top of all of that, there is quite a lot of outright fraud in manufacturing fake votes and suppressing or destroying legitimate ones.
So I guess I’m just getting more and more disillusioned with the process and THE SHOW.
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Not voting if you really don’t care is at least a choice, albeit in my mind a poor one because apathy leads to the triumph of extremism.
Not voting because you think there is no difference between candidates and parties suggests an inability to think either critically or objectively about the issues and how those issues have been dealt with over time.
Not voting because it will not make a difference due to living in a hopelessly one-sided state (I know something of this, being in the State of Traitors…um, I mean, South Cackalackee) makes some sense at first glance: why bother?
But the answer to me is I will always vote, no matter how hopeless the cause, to express my voice. I will not let the idiots think they represent everyone.
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil…” is the epitaph of those backers of the Democratic progressive movement who sat out 2016.
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I’m still voting on other things to be clear. I just can’t bring myself to vote for POTUS this time.
@mayjay fair enough.
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@BShark said in The democratic nominee:
I’m still voting on other things to be clear. I just can’t bring myself to vote for POTUS this time.
Well, I am sorry you are depriving the country of your voice, one I have come to respect and admire, on the single most critical election. If the “good people” marching with the Nazis, KKK, and other white supremacists prevail, it will be because they exercised the franchise that their forebears deprived millions of people of, the right that many died to obtain.
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@BShark said in The democratic nominee:
We obviously can’t see it happen but I believe that whether Biden or Trump wins, the next four years will play out exactly the same.
This about sums it up
Two privately owned political parties choose two candidates with nearly identical policies and then voters try to guess which will be slightly less shitty. Both parties hold primary votes, but neither is under any legal obligation to uphold the results if they want to go with someone else. There’s no preferential voting, the system is designed to give a third party candidate the longest odds possible. They use easily rigged electronic voting machines. The political and capitalist classes hold near complete control over mass media and have no reservations about lying or burying stories they don’t like. On top of all of that, there is quite a lot of outright fraud in manufacturing fake votes and suppressing or destroying legitimate ones.
So I guess I’m just getting more and more disillusioned with the process and THE SHOW.
Not sure about the voter fraud stuff as most of what I’ve read indicates reports of fraud are generally overblown. The two party system definitely has it’s limitations and I’m not really sure what it’s great benefits are either (maybe someone could enlighten me here).
I’d argue the bigger problem is voter suppression/voting accessibility. Seems to me the idea of democracy should be to get as many people to vote as possible yet many find it necessary to make it more difficult and put up more barriers because they know the more people that vote, the less likely they win.
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@BShark said in The democratic nominee:
We obviously can’t see it happen but I believe that whether Biden or Trump wins, the next four years will play out exactly the same.
This about sums it up
Two privately owned political parties choose two candidates with nearly identical policies and then voters try to guess which will be slightly less shitty. Both parties hold primary votes, but neither is under any legal obligation to uphold the results if they want to go with someone else. There’s no preferential voting, the system is designed to give a third party candidate the longest odds possible. They use easily rigged electronic voting machines. The political and capitalist classes hold near complete control over mass media and have no reservations about lying or burying stories they don’t like. On top of all of that, there is quite a lot of outright fraud in manufacturing fake votes and suppressing or destroying legitimate ones.
So I guess I’m just getting more and more disillusioned with the process and THE SHOW.
Parties are undemocratic because they’re private actors with one job: win elections. We have very weak parties in this country, much to our detriment IMO. Our first past the post and single member district system ensures there are only 2 viable candidates per district 99% of the time. Weird races like Kansas governor in 18 notwithstanding.
We don’t rig ballots. It’s a 100% no go zone for political operatives. I’ve been on U.S. Senate all the way down to state legislative campaigns and it’s just not done. There is honor among thieves in that regard. There are some isolated cases of bad apples but you’ll find more often than not bad apple gets thrown out by their own party. We’ll fight like hell to get our people out and draw the district lines to our advantage but we don’t mess with the ballots. There was a ballot harvesting case in a district in NC in 18 and the NRCC cut the candidate. No room for it in this business.
Bernie had no shot because he and his platform just are not that popular with voters. He got the exact process he wanted for 2020 after packing the DNC with his folks and still couldn’t beat Biden. At some point it’s not the system, it’s the candidates.
I’m definitely voting for Biden, but a little birdie told me today there might be a fairly strong independent/libertarian candidate, Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI). He’s been dancing around the subject for awhile, but he’s taken some steps recently that point that direction. I respect him, and probably would vote for him if I still lived in Kansas as a protest vote, but not in a purple state.
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I think my least (or is it most) favorite thing right now is the people that decried Kavanaugh but are now saying we shouldn’t jump to conclusions with Biden. At least be consistent. But no, it’s purely and only about party lines.
@mayjay I’ve been at this point before but end up always voting, fwiw. Just gotta get this bitching out of my system.
@benshawks08 Voter suppression is one of the absolute biggest problems. There is way too much to want to get into and unpack it all. Black people in Texas having to wait literally all day for the chance to vote is an issue. Many people can’t afford to take a day off of work to vote. Other people don’t realize things like this happen because their own experience is walking in, voting and being done in 5 minutes.
Wisconsin just this week was still holding primary elections with in person voting. Disturbing.
The benefit of the two party system is to make things easy for the ruling class to ensure who they want wins. I’m sure they would manage but boy would it be messy if they had to account for the possibility of anyone winning.
@FarmerJayhawk No need to rig ballots I would imagine, but it does seem easy to do if needed. Things like the Illinois primary results being put out on TV over a day in advance do give pause however. If I didn’t actually see that when it happened and then the results later, I probably wouldn’t have believed it. But is seems even easier still to just control the nominees, pump out the information you want for brainwashing via the TV and now the internet.
I agree Bernie was never winning, I’ve been saying that since he announced his candidacy. Much smarter people than me predicted Biden would get the nomination.
If this Amash guy is old enough to run for POTUS he is probably too old to still be in the Libertarian phase.
