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@rotated said in US Politics:
The establishment republican party clearly wanted to coalesce against Trump but at first lacked the urgency and then lacked sufficient time/mechanisms to do so.
I hear this guff a lot. Oh, my horse would have won the race, if the distance was longer. Oh, my team deserved to win the game, but the clock ran out, and we kept shooting bricks while the other team was hitting nothing but net. It’s loserthink.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
@rotated said in US Politics:
The establishment republican party clearly wanted to coalesce against Trump but at first lacked the urgency and then lacked sufficient time/mechanisms to do so.
I hear this guff a lot. Oh, my horse would have won the race, if the distance was longer. Oh, my team deserved to win the game, but the clock ran out, and we kept shooting bricks while the other team was hitting nothing but net. It’s loserthink.
You continue to miss my point. I'm making no point about whether it would of worked or not (nor if Bernie would have won without DNC interference for that matter). I'm just simply saying that the RNC didn't rig the deck against Trump sooner and more effectively out of hubiris and disorganization; not because of any moral purity as you seem to think as shown by the 2000 primary.
At least Republicans did not resort to such nefarious means when Trump was surging It would not have been tolerated
They tolerated Cruz taking a run at him at the convention though, if the Bernie wins the nomination and a sitting Dem Senator is allowed to do that there will rightly be an outcry from Dems.
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Democrats really don’t want Bernie
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/01/31/dnc-superdelegates-110083?__twitter_impression=true
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@jegga can you blame them? He has a really small, super dedicated core - and zero ability to attract voters outside of that.
To give a personal perspective, I HATE Trump. I think he is a cnt , unfit for office. A completely narcissistic piston wristed gibbon.
But, if I had a vote between him and Bernie, if I was an American, I'd vote Trump 11 times out of 10.
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@voodoo said in US Politics:
@jegga can you blame them? He has a really small, super dedicated core - and zero ability to attract voters outside of that.
To give a personal perspective, I HATE Trump. I think he is a cnt , unfit for office. A completely narcissistic piston wristed gibbon.
But, if I had a vote between him and Bernie, if I was an American, I'd vote Trump 11 times out of 10.
I think Sanders is a joke who probably wouldn’t live long enough to see his term out .
As said before anyone so lacking in judgement that they have Linda Sarsour as a campaign surrogate is unfit for office .Weird thing is his fanboys claim with some justification the media are harsh on him but they haven’t highlighted the fact he is campaigning with someone who advocates for sharia law on Twitter and mocked a fgm survivor by telling her she didn’t deserve a vagina .
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@voodoo said in US Politics:
@jegga can you blame them? He has a really small, super dedicated core - and zero ability to attract voters outside of that.
I disagree but even an enthusiastic base might make all the difference - Hillary lost largely because her support was a mile wide and an inch deep. As @Salacious-Crumb pointed out earlier irregardless of the candidate it is ongoing to come down to the same swing states if he can get maximum anti-Trump turn out in those states he will win.
Also I back Bernie's ability to swing some of the disaffected rural voters who voted for Trump more than I back Trump's ability to swing economically conservative, social liberals who voted against him last time on the basis of incumbancy/economy. But I may well be wrong on that.
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NEW DETAILS SHOW HOW DEEPLY IOWA CAUCUS APP DEVELOPER WAS EMBEDDED IN DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT
Dem group behind Shadow distanced itself from the Iowa caucus developer. But they share office space, briefings & resources. The team is made up of former Hillary campaign staff tied to Mayor Pete and have privately expressed hostility to Bernie.
Yup, Robby Mook, the super-genius campaign director for Hillary 2016, keeps on-keeping on.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
NEW DETAILS SHOW HOW DEEPLY IOWA CAUCUS APP DEVELOPER WAS EMBEDDED IN DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT
Dem group behind Shadow distanced itself from the Iowa caucus developer. But they share office space, briefings & resources. The team is made up of former Hillary campaign staff tied to Mayor Pete and have privately expressed hostility to Bernie.
Yup, Robby Mook, the super-genius campaign director for Hillary 2016, keeps on-keeping on.
I reckon it is just a coding error. But the democrats never show anyone else any leeway ever.. so fuck them.
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From hacker news on the Iowa app maker:
3uclid 21 hours ago | unvote [-]
Checked their LinkedIn and the employees who work there. The founder is non-technical and there are two developers: one who is a "back-end intern" and the other is a front-end developer (both are fresh from bootcamps).
...Yikes.
replythedance 18 hours ago | unvote [-]
The career path of prep cook -> software certification mill -> wrecking american democracy is the best thing I've ever seen
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
“Trump indicated that tonight’s speech will run to one-and-a-half hours, and he planned to mention but spend little time talking about the ongoing impeachment proceedings. That, he said, will be reserved for the barn-burner he plans to deliver on Wednesday after the Senate acquits him.”
Really looking forward to this one.
Ugh, keeping us in suspense. If he’s taking an extra day for a Victory Lap, better make it a good one!
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
Yup, Robby Mook, the super-genius campaign director for Hillary 2016, keeps on-keeping on.
Deporable, I tell you. Deplorable
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
They’ve never seen anything like it. And I’m not just talking Donald snubbing Pelosi’s handshake. Dems look small, bitter, petty and weak. Nancy ripped up the speech. They’ve lost the plot.
They look like they prefer playing student politics to governing, and stamp their feet like spoil kids whose parent have said "no".
I'm the last person to like Trump, but jeez, the Democrats are in real bad way, aren't they?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
I'm the last person to like Trump, but jeez, the Democrats are in real bad way, aren't they?
The past twelve months has been frankly a bizzare showing from the left. The Australian and UK Labor parties staring down the barrel of their third and fourth terms in opposition respectively turning out inept campaigns and now the Democrats kneecapping themselves.
I can understand why the conservative side of politics is generally more pragmatic, but in many cases it doesn't even seem like they are trying to win at all.
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