2020 US Presidential Election Thread

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Originally Posted by Fazal
There’s a growing amount of evidence that Trump has a great shot of being reelected in 2020

• There's mounting evidence President Donald Trump has a strong chance of being reelected in 2020.
• Trump's approval rating is currently about 45%, according to Gallup, roughly equal to former President Barack Obama at the same point in his presidency prior to reelection.
• Trump is also way ahead of Democrats in terms of fundraising, raking in $30 million in the first quarter of 2019 — as much as the two top-fundraising Democrats combined.
• Meanwhile, most Americans approve of Trump's handling of the economy, which polls have shown is a top concern for voters.

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Do not believe this establishment piece. Trump can only win if Democrats nominate another establishment tool like Hillary, and he is secretly praying hard for that to happen. If democrats nominate Bernie, Trump will have no place to hide. It will be a coast to coast landslide for Bernie. Because against a progressive and a genuine populist, Trump will be left with his 35% lunatic deplorables, and remaining independents and crossover voters who voted for him in 2016 because he was the outsider, will go to Bernie.

You want evidence? Just check how successfully Bernie went to lion's den (i.e. fox) and ate its lunch And fox viewers vigorously cheered Bernie for that

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Even though Democratic field has over 20 candidates, Bernie has curved out a clear lane to nomination.

https://theweek.com/articles/835216/...tic-nomination

In my opinion - this clear lane is Sanders talking from his heart. People can see that honesty and thus connect with him.

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After seeing the writing on the wall, as I had predicted, a group similar to NeverTrump appeared to stop Bernie and deny him the nomination. The name of the group is STOP SANDERS

“There’s a growing realization that Sanders could end up winning this thing, or certainly that he stays in so long that he damages the actual winner,” said David Brock, the liberal organizer, who said he has had discussions with other operatives about an anti-Sanders campaign and believes it should commence “sooner rather than later.”

The party is in a dilemma now. They may deny Sanders nomination again, but such denial will probably mark the beginning of end for the democratic party.

R. T. Rybak, the former Minneapolis mayor who was vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 2016, complained bitterly about the party’s tilt toward Mrs. Clinton back then, and warned that it would backfire if his fellow mainstream Democrats “start with the idea that you’re trying to stop somebody.”

If the party fractures again, “or if we even have anybody raising an eyebrow of ‘I’m not happy about this,’ we’re going to lose and they’ll have this loss on their hands,” Mr. Rybak said of the anti-Sanders forces, pleading with them to not make him “a martyr.”

BTW, notice who is attending these smoke filled undisclosed (read secret) meetings to deny Bernie nomination? Can you now connect the dots about how an unknown mayor like BootyJudge suddenly rose to prominence?

The matter of What To Do About Bernie and the larger imperative of party unity has, for example, hovered over a series of previously undisclosed Democratic dinners in New York and Washington organized by the longtime party financier Bernard Schwartz. The gatherings have included scores from the moderate or center-left wing of the party, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California; Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader; former Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia; Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., himself a presidential candidate; and the president of the Center for American Progress, Neera Tanden.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/u...th=login-email

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BTW, Bernie campaign hit back. But they need to counter punch more aggressively.

The fundraising email included an image of the Times' headline, which read, "'Stop Sanders' Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum." Sanders' campaign manager Faiz Shakir wrote: "The Democratic establishment and high-dollar donors are already planning how to stop our campaign. They are terrified of our movement — as they should be."

"But we cannot underestimate what they will do to try to take us down," the email continued.

"This isn't just an attack on Bernie. It's an attack on all of us — on everything our movement stands for," it added.

In a separate email to supporters, Shakir addressed the Times' story, saying, "Here comes the kitchen sink."

"This is a serious threat to our campaign, and we need to treat it as such," he wrote.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...-email-n995066

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Bernie vs. Trump would make an EPIC viewing for political junkies and people who enjoy watching debates in general. it should be good entertainment if it ever comes down to that...

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Even after their most humiliating political loss in the history of American politics, the defeat to Donald Trump, former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina thinks Bernie can't beat Trump. Even though in 2016 exist polls, Bernie scored double digit lead over Trump.

Of course it is too lowly for Jim's boss Obama to come out and directly sabotage Bernie campaign. So he is sending out minions to do this job on his behalf.

The moral abyss of empty suit Obama, who packaged himself as change agent, is truly astonishing and remarkable to say the least. Eight years of fellating to Wall Street, Big Pharma, Big Oil, and the Military Industrial complex did not tire this guy, he is now glowingly continuing the same post presidency.

An unbelievably loathsome character!

Bernie Sanders can’t beat Donald Trump in 2020: Obama campaign manager Jim Messina

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Democratic elites are torn between denying Bernie nomination and pushback from Bernie or bust voters

“If Hillary had won we’d be going down the same incrementalism road,” she said. “It’s better to have a buffoon rather than a civilized smooth-talking charlatan.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...0?srnd=premium

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Proof of Bernie's appeal.

Fox Draws Nearly 2.6 Million Viewers for Sanders Town Hall

This is the most watched townhall ever - now wonder Trump is sulking

Another article from The Guardian:

How wide is Bernie Sanders' appeal? This cheering Fox News audience is a clue

Sanders fended off hard questions, about his age, and about whether his ideas were too radical, with appeals to a majoritarian commonsense that the United States should not wage foreign wars, that everyone deserves a living wage, healthcare, and protection in old age. While other candidates fumble with word salads calling for things like “affordable access” to social goods, Sanders speaks about social rights and the obligations that a state has to its citizens, and why we need to tax the income of the wealthy to pay for it.

Compare it with the message millions have been getting from elites over the years: struggling with addiction to opioids? You must be morally weak. Your plant closed down? Stop whining and take a coding class. Can’t afford to see a doctor? Why don’t you eat better and try some yoga. In other words, it’s your fault. And those working harder or with better habits are the ones getting ahead.

Trump spoke to some of this anger, but directed it at immigrants and others also looking for a better life. And once elected he’s used his office to further boost the wealth and power of the 1%. Against this, the reminder from Sanders is simple: it’s not your fault. You’re doing what you can, but you need help and the society that helps you will enable you to help yourself and others. “We are the wealthiest country in the history of the world … why should we be the major country with the highest rate of childhood poverty?” It’s a good question, one that Trump would never ask.

But it’s not simply enough to say that we all deserve nice things. Sanders was keen to remind the audience that we’d have to go up against a powerful political establishment, against big corporations and against the military-industrial complex to reshape the United States. He provided, in other words, an object of scorn, a proper place to direct anger – not other bullied people, but those benefiting from oppression and exploitation.

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BootyJudge is another empty suit Obama who is full of himself and nothing else.

Buttigieg is the Democrats' flavour of the month. Just don't ask what he stands for

But for all the buzz, an important question still hangs over Buttigieg: what, exactly does he stand for?

Himself, mostly. The New York Times says Buttigieg puts “storytelling first, policy details later”. Media coverage of Buttigieg dwells on what his favorite socks are or his dogs’ personalities. Pete is all about Pete: Buttigieg is frequently evasive about his actual substantive agenda, preferring rhetoric about “freedom”, “democracy” and “security”. His campaign’s branding and graphic design have been hailed as “radical”. As for his actual policies … he’s working on them.

In fact, that’s even how he pitches himself. Asked what sets him apart as a candidate, Buttigieg says:

“You have a handful of candidates from the middle of the country, but very few of them are young. You have a handful of young candidates, but very few of them are executives. We have a handful of executives but none of them are veterans, and so it’s a question of: what alignment of attributes do you want to have?”

In every profile of Buttigieg, you’ll inevitably hear the following facts: he went to Harvard, he was a Rhodes Scholar, he served in Afghanistan, he became a mayor before he was 30, he’s gay and he speaks half a dozen languages. These, along with some impressively well-constructed stump speech rhetoric, are s Buttigieg’s sole claims to deserving the presidency. As he puts it, he has the right “alignment of attributes”.

But politics shouldn’t be about people’s attributes, it should be about their values and actions. Buttigieg is a man with a lot of “gold stars” on his résumé, but why should anybody actually trust him to be on their side? (Amusingly enough, in his campaign book Shortest Way Home, Buttigieg describes an incident in which a voter asked him how he could prove that he wasn’t just another self-serving politician. Buttigieg couldn’t come up with an answer.) The available evidence of his character is thin. Has he spent a lifetime sticking up for working people? No, he worked at McKinsey before he entered politics. Has he taken courageous moral stands? No: while Gary, Indiana, declared itself a sanctuary city in response to Donald Trump’s immigration policies, Buttigieg’s city of South Bend did not.

In fact, for progressives there are very concerning signs about Buttigieg. After Israel massacred Palestinian protesters, Buttigieg appeared to pin the blame on Palestinians. He has professed himself “troubled” by the clemency Barack Obama granted to Chelsea Manning, even though Manning is a national hero who was tortured after blowing the whistle on US government crimes. He has called for “democratic capitalism”, the same phrase used by Bill Clinton and the Democratic Leadership Council in the 80s as a euphemism for corporate-friendly neoliberalism. When his words aren’t vacuous, they’re troubling.

Buttigieg’s pitch embodies what Luke Savage has called the “West Wing view” of politics: the idea that the best candidates for high office are the “smart” ones who went to elite schools and have a wonkish command of the facts. Indeed, Buttigieg loves the West Wing and has already recorded a parody of it as a campaign ad along with a video featuring “Josh Lyman” himself, the actor Bradley Whitford. But the presidency of Barack Obama should have showed us the flaws in this view. It leaves out the importance of vision and moral courage. It lacks a clear understanding of what’s right, what’s wrong and what’s worth fighting for.

Simply another deplorable loathsome sellout.

BTW, BootyJudge has something Hillary Clinton had - opposition unifying factor. Hillary was so despised by the right that a major portion among them showed up in the poll to vote against her. Same will happen if Booty-mia gets nomination. With Trump bombastically tapping into homophobia, Republicans will turn in droves to ensure that a gay is not elected as US president.

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First it was Crooked Kamla. Then she was ditched.

Then it was Beto. But people learned very soon that he is only good for hopping on counter tops. He got ditched too.

In came Buttigieg. He is now the flavor of the month. He looks more determined than Beto to get it.

But the Biden shadow is looming over all of them. He will be announcing next week. Why is he running? Because Gropin' Joe badly wants it. He has been wanting it since he first ran for senate in 1972.

He wants this. He really wants this. He’s wanted this since he was first elected to the Senate, in 1972, and he’s decided that he isn’t too old, isn’t too out of sync with the current energy in the Democratic Party, and certainly wasn’t going to be chased out by the women who accused him of making them feel uncomfortable or demeaned because of how he’d touched them.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...sident/587560/

The question: Will establishment ditch BootyJudge and favor Biden?

Might be - after fawning coverage for weeks, establishment recently published a critical article about BootyJudge. It could be a sign that the wind is moving towards Uncle Joe.

Pete Buttigieg Fired South Bend’s Black Police Chief. It Still Stings.

Democrats giggled at Republicans in 2016 about their civil war against Trump. But a never seen before spectacular civil war will be unfolded within the Democratic party in 2020.

First it will be among the corporatists. None of them are formidable like the Clinton Machine to make the competitors fall in line. Kamala, Pete, Beto, Biden - each of them has too big of an ego to surrender.

And if Bernie reaches convention with a majority but less than 50% of delegates, establishment will for sure crown a corporatist in the second ballot. This will very likely unleash a fight that will make 1968 DNC convention look like a peace conference.

Either way, democrats are done. If they deny Bernie in 2020, not even 10% of democratic voters will vote for their party, and it will be a coast to coast landslide for Trump.

Exciting times ahead for political junkies

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As I had predicted, Trump would love running against Pete B.

Donald Trump on Pete Buttigieg: ‘I’d Like Running Against Him’

For a Divider in Chief like Trump, tapping into homophobia will be the perfect tool to rile up his base and republicans. Divide and rule is the only way forward for the Republican party because they have no ideas aside from privatizing and deregulation.

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Beto is running for president but this guy does not have the balls to face a TV townhall. Classic Beta.

"We have held more town halls in the month and four days that we've been doing this than I think any other candidate, because meeting you eyeball to eyeball, to me, is so much more satisfying than being on cable TV and in a soundbite,” O'Rourke said.

“At some point, I may have to give in and be on your television set,” he added, “but right now I want to be with you in person.”

O’Rourke confronts cable TV drought

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The establishment wants to have their cake and eat it too. An article about the upcoming civil war in the Democratic party.

The Democratic Primary May Get Ugly, but It’s a Necessary Fight

The stakes are very large. Democrats are universally committed to evicting Donald Trump from the White House. At the same, however, they are in the midst of an historic debate about the party’s agenda, coalition, political strategy, and future. The party’s establishment is under siege. Its neoliberal policies have failed to work for most Americans. By 2016, its political strategy had cost the party control of the House, Senate, nearly a thousand state legislative seats, and, unimaginably, loss of the presidency to the most unpopular political candidate in the history of opinion polls.
Inspired by the Sanders insurgency in 2016, progressives now are driving the issues debate, and—aided by the provocations of the Orange Menace—fueling the party’s political resurgence. Now, in the presidential primaries, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren among others are mounting campaigns that directly challenge the policy agenda and the political strategy of the establishment.

It’s emblematic that CAP is entangled in this first spat. CAP, by far the best-funded think tank in the Democratic constellation, is, as described by The New York Times, “a legacy Clinton institution,” founded by John Podesta, Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff and Hillary’s campaign chair, and now led by Tanden, a close Clinton confidant. CAP is a big tent, with many talented progressives working there, but the center ring has always been center-liberal—socially liberal while reflecting more centrist perspectives on economics and foreign policy. What Neera Tanden scorns as “crazy, radical ideas”—Medicare for All, Tuition Free College, a $15-per-hour minimum wage, a Jobs Guarantee, the revolt against corporate trade deals, and more—have come at CAP, not from it. Its slap at Sanders reflects an establishment that feels threatened.

The party establishment—and the big money that pays for the party—isn’t about to cede control. The party’s elite mobilized to block Keith Ellison, then co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and a prominent Sanders supporter in the primaries, from becoming chair of the DNC. The new head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Cheri Bustos, has announced that the DCCC will cut off any campaign consultant who works with a challenger to a sitting Democrat, while filling the DCCC coffers with contributions from the rich and corporations.

The party establishment wants it both ways. It wants and needs the growing energy of the progressive activists and can’t afford to alienate them. It also wants control and is terrified that Sanders might actually win the nomination.

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There is no such thing as "far left" for progressives. That's the problem with conventional thinking. Issues are issues and there are so many neglected issues that Democratic leaders have not addressed. This isn't a game of two teams that don't care about rules. Solving problems is supposed to be for the people, but all the party establishment and the corporate media think about is money and winning - so little people get out of the way when the donkey and the elephant are fighting each other and don't care about crushing the "mice" constituents below them. That's what Russiagate was all about - when will the irrelevant donkey-**** stop, and address the needs of the people?

My personal pledge, though it must be understood in the context that I live in CA, which, barring some truly extraordinary occurrence, will be sendings its electoral college delegates to the national convention for the Democrat, so no matter who *I* vote for, my vote does not matter nearly as much as my advocacy:

(1) *IF* the DNC does not "put its thumb on the scale" like it did in 2016, I will vote for and actively support whichever Democrat Party nominee emerges from the convention, just like Sanders pledged to do and in fact did in 2016.

(2) If the DNC decides to mess with things again, I will not simply go third party (as I did before), I will gleefully, bitterly, viciously, comically vote Trump and pledge to not support any federal candidate from the Democrat Party in 2020. (Remember: I live in California.)

I have already been donating regularly to two of the Democratic presidential candidates and by the end of the month will have sent money to the campaigns of 4 others who I would like to see on the debate stage, with the hope they will bow out gracefully before the Convention.

However, if the R's win in 2020, there's always AOC in 2024!

Neera Tanden and the rest of the DNC neo-liberal establishment dogs will do just about anything to try and keep true progressives out of the White House. "Putting a thumb on the scale" is an extremely weak description for what the neo-liberal DNC establishment pulled in 2016 and they haven't stopped their purges and manipulations since.

The DNC establishment spews off on how real progressives are splitting the party but it is the opposite that is happening. They are willing to do whatever lying, cheating, stealing etc. to keep a real progressive out. We will see if they are willing to go too immoral, too unethical and too criminal again and give Trump another four years.

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Mama Tanden exposes daughter Neera Tanden - the corporate w*****

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/u...-sanders-.html

Still, Ms. Tanden’s mother, Maya Tanden, says that her daughter “can be very aggressive.”

“She’s not going to let anyone rule over her,” she said, “and she has loyalty to Hillary because Hillary is the one who made her.”

“Those Bernie brothers are attacking her all the time, but she lets them have it, too,” Maya Tanden said. “She says Sanders got a pass” in 2016, “but he’s not getting a pass this time.”

“That’s what she does — she shows up at rich people’s places because she needs funds from them,” Ms. Tanden’s mother said. “That place runs on Neera Tanden.”

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Divide and Rule

Inciting Hatred Is Trump’s 2020 Game Plan

Trump’s desperation will intensify as the 2020 election approaches. He will turn with increasing frequency to the playbook of racism and xenophobia that he has employed from the moment four years ago when he crept from reality TV onto the Republican debate stage. Trump confirmed his intentions in mid-April, when he began launching incendiary attacks on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar after she observed, regarding the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, that “some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”

No one who has paid attention to how Trump plays politics imagines that he sincerely thinks that Omar was slighting the horrors of 9/11. The president is deliberately inciting hatred against one of the first two Muslim women elected to the House as a gambit designed to divide Americans in general and Democrats in particular. Trump’s goal is to create enough chaos to maintain his viability as a candidate for reelection. He couldn’t care less about the long-term damage that comes from cleaving a country against itself or about the threats to Omar’s life that extend from his combustible campaigning.

Trump and his collaborators—trained in the dark arts of electoral exploitation by Steve Bannon and a cabal of right-wing populists—are always on the watch for openings that will rile up the base and divide the critics.

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Limousine liberal pesky Buttigieg takes a not so thinly veiled shot at Bernie Sanders and his supporters

“I think the sense of anger and disaffection that comes from seeing that the numbers are fine, like, unemployment is low, like GDP is growing,” Buttigieg told supporters, “and yet a lot of neighborhoods and families are living like this recovery never even happened. They are stuck.”

“It just kind of turns you against the system in general, and then you’re more likely to want to vote to blow up the system,” he continued, adding “Which could lead you to somebody like Bernie, and it could lead you to somebody like Trump. That’s how we got where we are.”

This is classic Republican elitist, capitalist attitude. Don't be angry. Don't question. The system is working fine. Suck it up. Don't be lazy. Work hard.

We have seen how this I-am-rich-and-cool and I-am-above-the-fray stare down attitude turned out for Hillary. It is failing with Cory Booker. It will fail with this dui diner boiragi bhatere koy onno Buttigieg too.

Mayor Pete Takes Shot at Bernie Sanders, Compares His Supporters to Trump’s

‘The Democratic base is angry as hell’: Cory Booker’s message of love falls flat

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A great article

Hope, neoliberalism and the future: What we talk about when we talk about Pete Buttigieg

For the moment, Buttigieg seems to have displaced Beto O’Rourke as the leader in the We Want Obama Back sweepstakes, at least pending the confusing entry of Obama’s former sidekick. (Or, as Biden was recently dubbed by Leslie Jones in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch, “Obama’s granddaddy.”) Whether this yearning for a “moderate” or “non-ideological” redeemer is actually constructive at this point in history, or likely to work in practical terms, is a difficult question to answer.

Look across the Atlantic at the endless turmoil in France, where Emmanuel Macron swept to victory on exactly that premise -- and was hailed as the urbane, enlightened neo-Obama who would lead the Western world’s resistance to Donald Trump. Once it became clear that Macron represented exactly the same neoliberal or “reformist” austerity policies as the previous failed government, but cloaked in ecclesiastical arrogance and a lot of business-school jargon, his popularity cratered to Trump-like levels, resulting in the Yellow Vest protests that paralyzed Paris for weeks. Macron is now trying to exploit the catastrophic fire in Notre Dame as a unifying event to restart his presidency, which can only be described as shameless misdirection.


Democrats who long to restore the Obama regime, in other words, should be careful what they wish for. On the question of Pete Buttigieg, we can only conclude that nothing is impossible these days, and the collective wisdom of the political class is worth no more than the paper it isn’t printed on. That said, it’s entirely likely that the Buttigieg bubble is nothing more than a collective flirtation or thought-experiment of the sort that almost always happens early in a presidential cycle. (See also: Fred Thompson, Jon Huntsman, Howard Dean, Paul Tsongas.)

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This is what Pete Buttigieg wrote about Bernie Sanders when he wrote an award winning essay:

A new attitude has swept American politics. Candidates have discovered that is easier to be elected by not offending anyone rather than by impressing the voters. Politicians are rushing for the center, careful not to stick their necks out on issues. Most Democrats shy away from the word “liberal” like a horrid accusation. Republican presidential hopeful George W. Bush uses the centrist rhetoric of “compassionate conservatism” while Pat Buchanan, once considered a mainstream Republican, has been driven off the ideological edge of the G.O.P. Just as film producers shoot different endings and let test audiences select the most pleasing, some candidates run “test platforms” through sample groups to see which is most likely to win before they speak out on major issue. This disturbing trend reveals cynicism, a double-sided problem, which is perhaps, the greatest threat to the continued success of the American political system.
Cynical candidates have developed an ability to outgrow their convictions in order to win power.

Cynical citizens have given up on the election process, going to the polls at one of the lowest rates in the democratic world. Such an atmosphere inevitably distances our society from its leadership and is thus a fundamental threat to the principles of democracy. It also calls into question what motivates a run for office – in many cases, apparently, only the desire to occupy it. Fortunately for the political process, there remain a number of committed individuals who are steadfast enough in their beliefs to run for office to benefit their fellow Americans. Such people are willing to eschew political and personal comfort and convenience because they believe they can make a difference. One outstanding and inspiring example of such integrity is the country’s only Independent Congressman, Vermont’s Bernie Sanders.

Sanders’ courage is evident in the first word he uses to describe himself: “Socialist”. In a country where Communism is still the dirtiest of ideological dirty words, in a climate where even liberalism is considered radical, and Socialism is immediately and perhaps willfully confused with Communism, a politician dares to call himself a socialist? He does indeed. Here is someone who has “looked into his own soul” and expressed an ideology, the endorsement of which, in today’s political atmosphere, is analogous to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Even though he has lived through a time in which an admitted socialist could not act in a film, let alone hold a Congressional seat, Sanders is not afraid to be candid about his political persuasion.

And yet when he became involved in politics and the lure of money, fame, and power was dangled before him, Buttigieg did not think twice before prostituting himself to donors and abandoning his ideals.

Today he is labeling Sanders as Trump. He is focusing on personality centric politics instead of an issue driven campaign.

Ro Khanna came to defend Sanders:

Come on ⁦@PeteButtigieg⁩. It is intellectually dishonest to compare Bernie to Trump. Bernie is for giving people healthcare, education, childcare, & more pay. He wants to blow up credentialed elitism — those who reject tuition free college for all. https://t.co/WmliyE8uDe
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) April 21, 2019

Buttigieg = FRAUD 101

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...ump-supporters

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Trump privately admires Bernie. Read he is scared of Bernie

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-...alls-him-crazy

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Here comes Please Clap moment

Presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar had her own “please clap” moment during a CNN town hall event on Tuesday night when she told an audience that they were “supposed to cheer.”

The Democratic senator from Minnesota was asked how she could win back supporters of President Trump from the heartland when she made the plea that recalled a moment from the 2016 Republican primaries when former Florida governor Jeb Bush asked an audience to “please clap.”

“And every single time I have won, I have won every single congressional district in my state — including Michele Bachmann’s, OK. That’s when you guys are supposed to cheer, OK?” Klobuchar told the crowd.

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A republican thinks US will become HOMOCRACY is Buttigieg is elected.

EW Jackson: US will become ‘homocracy’ if Buttigieg elected

A research had shown the Republicans are driven by fear and Democrats are driven by hope. If Pete is nominee, homophobia will drive Republican voters like crazy.

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Joe Biden campaign is failing even before it started. It has delayed/postponed planned Wednesday launch

Two reasons in my opinion:

- Like Hillary, Biden feels it is his turn. Like Hillary, he badly wants the presidency but he wants it without the hard work of campaigning it entails. This explains his hesitancy and being not sure about his off stump.

- Knowing his vulnerabilities, he is afraid that running and failing a third time WH run will obliterate whatever legacy he has, but establishment is pushing him hard to do it, because they see Biden and Buttigieg as required tools to split votes.

Even Biden insiders are giving up hope:

A former Biden aide also spoke with Time on Friday, with a level of candor that suggests they wouldn’t have been surprised by the shuffling of the announcement: “I’ve never seen anything so half-assed. They’re improvising and doing last-minute planning. The guy has been running for President since 1987 and can’t figure the basics out, like where to stand on his first day? This should make everyone very nervous.”

But another Biden insider who spoke to Time expects that Biden’s lead during his non-campaign will be harder to maintain post-announcement: “This guy’s best day is the day he announces. Everything after that gets worse.”

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/...ouncement.html

Politicians' need for self-aggrandizement is difficult to understand. Uncle Joe had eight years as the Vice President, second in command, of the United States, and yet he cannot sleep peacefully because he wants to be president. Yes, people make fun of the job of VP, but I don't get it. If I had a job of do nothing and just wait, and in return get a house, a personal plane, and other perks, I would love that job

Joe, you had a job that only a handful of people were fortunate to get hold of. You can let your aspiration of presidency go. Do not embarrass yourself. Truly enjoy the last few years of your life on earth, and be happy and be grateful.