Disagree...I think there are plenty of midwest/rust belt centrists who while not evangelical, can be negatively swayed by this sort of spin.
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I don't disagree...but I think the spin on this can lose her some independent votes.
Disagree...I think there are plenty of midwest/rust belt centrists who while not evangelical, can be negatively swayed by this sort of spin.
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I don't disagree...but I think the spin on this can lose her some independent votes.
Rubio said her response "vividly captures the condescension of elites & their incessant ridicule of Americans with traditional values".
The "traditional values", in this case, are the bigoted suppression of basic human rights and decency out of hatred and religious oppression.
Fuck every single person who supports that abusive bullshit. Warren was far too kind. This is right up there with "slavery" and "segregation" for "traditional values that have no value and are rooted only in a desire to increase human suffering". They deserve condemnation and censure. Ridicule is, if anything, less than what they deserve.
Anyone taking issue with Warren over this is a far-right extremist who was never going to vote for Warren in the first place, so she loses nothing.
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The Bernie campaign has managed to outdo Trump in hiring only the best. 10 hours is a new record!!
https://twitter.com/alexi/status/1183540688769769472
This thing? The guy doesn't even seem like he was hired.
Or if he was, it was probationary pending their review of that person's record, which they clearly state hadn't yet been completed. So really, what's the issue, here? Guy was found to have a terrible record of posting pretty execrable things, and whether he resigned or was fired, he was off the team basically before he did any real work for them.
I mean, if we're talking about records and take it seriously, it's not even a record. Mooch has everyone beat by being fired 10 days before he started.
But largely, I agree. Surprising he made it that far in the process before that garbage was discovered, but it was still discovered and this is pretty routine shit. Campaigns end up passing on candidates for positions due to shit like this all the time. It just usually happens earlier in the process.
Scandalous.
I'm enjoying the ginormous impeachment coverage going front and center to keep the spotlight off the Dem Debates. Not sure some of these talking points should ever see the light of day.
It's not. These stupid comments are pretty much all that conservative media is focusing on when they're not trying to dismiss/deflect impeachment criticisms. It just gives them something easy to write about since they don't have to do mental gymnastics.
I'm fully expecting tons of ads this coming election with Beto's guns/church tax comments front and center even if he's not (and he won't be) the nominee. It's not going to go away.
Thanks Beto, go back to livestreaming your teeth cleaning.
Anyone else getting the definite feeling that Tulsi Gabbard is going to be running as an independent/third party candidate? I am not sure who is bankrolling her, but I think I am all for it. She is going to take a lot more republican votes then Democratic ones.
Doubtful. I view the conservative support of her (and others like Yang) as bad-faith acting rather than anything serious. They're boosting the fringe/low tier candidates that are most out of step with the rest of the field to try to gum up the primary, not because they actually support those candidates.
She's got 0 chance. She's literally the 4chan candidate.
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I mean, if we're honest, the USA has a massive issue with gun crime, relative to other developed nations. Pretending the 2nd Amendment isn't a contributor to that is . . . willful blindness.
The question really does boil down to "do you want the 2nd Amendment and fairly broad access to weaponry for all, or do you want to address the incredibly high rates of gun crime in the USA?" Because you can't really feasibly address the latter without addressing the former. It's the lynchpin behind the mess the USA is in, and being unwilling to address that is like being unwilling to address the parts of the Constitution that supported slavery, because of the chaos that would cause.
If you're not willing to address the factors that go into the high rates of gun crime, then you're tacitly saying you're okay with the level of gun violence in the USA; it's a price you deem worth paying. The idea that Beto's going to torpedo his career, but those arguing in favor of high levels of gun violence won't, is pretty frickin' crazy.
Zero chance of winning, not zero chance of running. I despise Gabbard, and I am quite confident we are going to find out some illegal shit about her campaign before this is over. Her whole act is incredibly suspicious, and she is getting a ton of funding from somewhere. I see her adds everywhere, and that is just weird for someone polling like she is.