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lady-raziel · 2 months

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Going to give some of my thoughts on the overall situation in the Democratic party and pre-empt this by saying that the intention is NOT to say "don't vote" or give up, before people in the notes claim that anyway. Not voting doesn't help, but also thinking that voting once will solve systemic problems instantly is setting people up to become disillusioned with everything when it doesn't happen like that. Anyway.

What's happening in the Democratic party is a tragedy, because I think due to their own faults, including allowing elites to cling to power and refusing change, the party might have signed their death warrant. And in a moment where the US has long been a two-party system and the only way to pose a challenge to the other party is to unify behind a candidate and participate in the system as it exists...if the Democratic party suffers such a severe crisis of confidence and credibility that it cannot pose a challenge, then it becomes significantly harder to oppose Republicans in any meaningful way.

I've spoken before about the Democrats' history of preferring one of their own elites as a presidential candidate and their history of suppressing changes to the status quo. Joe Biden is the product of all this. In a better world, he might have been convinced not to try for re-election early in his term and the party could have prioritized elevating alternative candidates so that there was a base of awareness and rapport by the time 2024 happened. But that didn't happen, and Biden chose to run again.

When his candidacy faced questions about his age and capability for duty from the start, it would have been a challenge even if those concerns weren't seemingly confirmed in increasing incidences over the past few weeks (but the debate particularly). The resulting crisis of confidence has brought questions of Biden stepping down to the forefront, and it seems like now that Biden has been diagnosed with COVID, compounded with events on the Trump side of things, it's becoming more likely that he'll listen.

I think all of this highlights how stuck the Democratic party is, and how they've maneuvered themselves into a very tricky corner. In all honesty, it was likely a mistake to pick Biden as nominee in 2020 because I think it was more anger with Trump than genuine belief in Biden that caused that result-- I don't believe that Joe Biden and Joe Biden alone is the factor that caused Trump to lose then. In retrospect, it would have been much wiser to prioritize a candidate who wouldn't have been at risk for the natural challenges age poses and would have been sure to be able to defend the presidency in 2024. But the Democrats didn't do that, and the seeds of all this might have been in place even then.

Because if Biden chose not to run again, it would have meant the Democrats had backed someone who couldn't "finish the job" and running someone else after a single term would cast doubt. Just like if Biden backs out now that the Democratic establishment has been backing him, cleared the field so no other candidate could run against him, it's an admission they chose wrong. That's part of the degradation of credibility I'm talking about-- why would anyone trust a party that doesn't know what it's doing? It erodes confidence. It erodes already-strained faith.

The terrible thing is that even if Biden bows out, the Democratic party is still very, very stuck. I'll tell you why, after spending some time examining the rules the party has established around its nominating process. Parties can write their own rules about how candidates can get chosen, and the way the Democrats have structured their system, surprise surprise, gives enormous power to their elites-- the "superdelegates."

Democratic superdelegates are existing and former high-ranking elected officials, members of the DNC, etc.--basically the ruling class of the party. And they have the power to independently vote for whichever candidate they want to be the nominee. This makes up a large portion of the Democratic delegates-- a nominee is chosen when the majority of all delegates agree on a candidate.

The rest of the delegates are chosen from states, and most operate with the assumption that they will use their vote to back the winner of their states' primary or caucus.

Here is the critical problem-- the primaries and caucuses have already happened, and Biden won all of them. The people in those states (even given that there were, by design, not many alternatives) CHOSE Biden. If Biden drops out, there is not time to redo every primary. The delegates would, independent of their now-void state results, have to vote for someone else.

The new nominee would be selected by the Democratic establishment elites and delegates who had really just been intended to rubber-stamp the states' results. The magnitude of this needs to be spelled out explicitly-- the candidate option for millions of people, the only chance in the current system for defeating Trump, would be chosen without ANY input from the common people. The Democratic party, with democracy in the very name, would choose a nominee openly and publicly in a very non-democratic way.

And yeah, in the end it would be the people's choice in the general election, but if there are only a limited number of choices and one of the two who even have a shot of winning was picked without input of the people, is that really a totally democratic choice?

Whatever the Democrats decide, they lose credibility-- either by pushing forward with a struggling candidate and ignoring signs of crisis or by pulling out and choosing someone new undemocratically. It looks bad for them in any scenario from a long-term viability standpoint. Lose because they refused the signs and refused to change, or possibly win but severely cripple their ability to claim their own NAME?

It would be bad at any time. It's especially bad when the other main party is having a moment of power, and the US isn't set up for a coalitionary system of government if the Democrats were to splinter into smaller ideological faction parties. To pick a president, a coalition would still have to pick one leader from one of their parties--and I don't know how likely that would be to happen in short amounts of time.

Here is my best-case scenario outcome-- rally progressives to back the Biden-replacement candidate with the knowledge that the common people didn't pick that person, and then use that as leverage to demand massive overhauls of the Democratic party top to bottom on both policy and process. Win with 2024's Democratic candidate, outlast and overcome Republican backlash claims of election fraud, and relentlessly force the Democrats to reform. Because otherwise they will not wake up to their mistakes, would use winning the presidency as a mandate to continue with business as usual, and continue to fuck over everyone who doesn't want a conservative future.

It's a hard path to accomplish. But it's one of the only ones that mitigates the destructive effects of a second Trump term and forces the Democrats to change to ACTUALLY be all the things they claim to be, including, you know, democratic.

#us politics #politics tw #can't wait to see the notes on this post and learn that in fact it is ME that is wrong with both america and the world

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cin-cant-donate-blood · 10 months

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"Weh, I just can't bring myself to vote for a candidate I'm not 100% on board, with, even if there is literally nothing I prefer about the opponent."

What, like ever? At all? If it was Joe Biden versus Adolf Hitler's reanimated corpse, would you refuse to vote because you don't like Biden? What's the limit here?

"But Biden didn't condemn Israel."

Yeah and fuck him for it. What do you think his opponent would have done better?

"We need to primary someone else."

Less than one year before the election? Who? Cenk Uygur? I mean, you can try if you want, make the biggest fuss in the world in the DNC if you like. What are you doing when Biden gets the nomination, though?

"But Biden is a weak candidate."

Yes he is. Will you vote for a weak democrat to keep a strong fascist out of office?

"No. I am a princess with tuberculosis. My dainty hands were not built to put a ballot in a box. It's a whole hour of my life out of every four years: that's an hour I could spend talking about IRL organizing on the internet! I don't get enough of those as it is."

That's certainly a perspective.

"And Biden isn't that different from Trump, anyway."

Really? Would Biden have appointed several crypto-fascists to the supreme court to revoke the right to bodily autonomy for 50% of the country?

"Weh, abortion rights are just a distraction from the class struggle anyway."

Fuck off.

#mini essay #takes #politics #joe biden

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whitehotharlots · 4 years

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Previewing the 2024 Democrat Primary

Within a couple weeks of his being sworn in, just about every person on earth will wish Joe Biden was no longer president. Sure, the few surviving John B. Anderson voters will be thrilled to see 4 years of crushing austerity and half-assed attempts at Keynesian stimulus. But most people will begin dreaming about a brighter future.

Good news! The 2024 Democratic primary field is going to contain dozens of options. Bad news! They are all going to be disgusting piles of shit.

The “top tier”

While it’s too early to do any handicapping, these are the candidates the media will treat as having the most realistic chances of securing the nomination.

Kamala Harris

Kamala did not win a single primary delegate in 2020. This is because she dropped out before the first primary, and that was because no one likes her. She has no base beyond a few thousand of twitter’s most violent psychos. Her disingenuousness approaches John Edwards levels: any halfway incredulous person can see immediately beyond her bullshit. She has no principles whatsoever, and while that may be par for the course for Democrats, she lacks even the basic politician’s ability to intuit anything that might, hypothetically, constitute a principle.

Even better: she is an awful public speaker. She sounds like how a talking dog would speak if he were just caught stealing people food off the kitchen table. She communicates in weird grunts and faux sassy squeaks, which is how she imagines real black women sound like, but something about her is unable to sell the bit. She begins her sentences in halfhearted AAVE, stops and panics halfway through as she realizes that maybe this sounds fake and offensive, and then reminds herself oh wait, no, this is okay since I’m black. This doesn’t happen once or twice per speech. This is how every single sentence sounds.

Kamala is like Nancy Pelosi in that no sketch show will ever impersonate her correctly, because anything that came close to authenticity would be considered far too cruel. This might benefit her in the primaries, as she exists in the minds of Democrats as someone and something she absolutely is not in reality. Nominating her would be like allowing your child’s imaginary friend to attempt to drive you to the store.

Andrew Cuomo

Easily one of the 50 worst people alive, Cuomo has a solid chance because Democrats, same as Republicans, are unable to differentiate between electability and self-serving ruthlessness. Cuomo used the deadliest public health crisis in American history as a pretext for cutting Medicaid and firing 5,000 MTA workers, and his approval rating increased. New York Dems are little piggies who love eating shit. If we assume that the political media will continue their habit of refusing to discuss the legislative history of right wing Democrats, Cuomo might well cruise to the nomination and then lose to literally any human being the GOP nominates by an historic margin.

Joe Biden

The party loves him because he is a right wing racist. “Progressives” tolerate him because black primary voters over 40 supported him, and their opinion is supposedly a magic window into god’s truth. Everyone else can tell he is manifestly senile. I don’t put it above the DNC to pick a candidate who is in horrible health, dying, or even dead--whatever the financial sector wants, they’ll get. But I would be shocked if his approval rating is above 39% by mid-2023, and by that point deep fake technology will be advanced enough they’ll put out a very lifelike video in which the Max Headroom version of Joe explains he’s proud of his accomplishments--that budget’s almost balanced already--but, man, I gotta abd--I gotta abdica--, uhh, I gotta, I, uhh, I gotta move down, man.

Wild Cards

These candidates would have all have a chance if they ran, but they could all much more easily retire to Little Saint James off of kickbacks they’ve gotten from Citibank and I.G. Farben.

Rahm Emanuel

Rahm is going to receive some hugely influential post in the Biden administration. Let’s say he becomes Secretary of Education. His signature achievement will be replacing all elementary school teachers with Amazon’s Alexa, which saved the taxpayers so much money we were able to quadruple the number of armed police officers we put into high schools. This will give him several thousand positive profiles on network news programs and the near-universal support of the Silicon Valley vampires who will own 99% of the country by the time Biden’s term ends. They will use their fancy mind control devices to convince geriatic primary voters that Rahm’s the one who will bring Decency back to the white house. His candidacy will be the paragon of wokeness, as expressing concern toward the fact that he covered up the police murder of a black guy will get you called a racist.

Rahm has a bonus in that Jewish men are now Schrodeniger’s PoC. When they are decent human beings, they are basic, cis white men who are stealing attention from disabled trans candidates of color. When they love austerity and apartheid, they become the most vulnerable people of color on earth and criticizing them in any way is genocide. No one will be able to mention a single thing Rahm has ever done or said without opening themselves to accusations of antisemitism, and that gives him a strong edge against the rest of the field. The good news is that an Emmanuel candidacy would result in over 50% of black voters choosing the GOP candidate--which, I guess that’s not really good but it would certainly be funny.

Gavin Newsom

Newsom is every bit as feckless as Cuomo, but he doesn’t put off the same “bad guy in an early Steven Segal movie” vibes. He will mention climate change 50 times per speech and no one will bother to mention how he keeps signing fracking contracts even though his state is now on fire 11 months of the year. If anything, this will be spun into an argument about how he’s actually the candidate best suited to handle all the water refugees gathering on the southern border. Look for his plan to curb emissions by 10% by the year 2150 to get high marks from Sierra Club nerds. He’s also a celebate librarian’s idea of what constitutes a handsome man, so he’ll have some support from the type of women who claim to hate all men.

Larry Summers

I mean, why not? Larry, like most members of the Obama administration, has politics that are eerily similar to those of Jordan Peterson. In normal circumstances, this makes a person a dangerous fascist who should not be platformed. But if that person has a D next to their name this makes them a realistic pragmatist who has what it takes to bring suburban bankers into our tent. If current trends in Woke Phrenology continue apace, Larry’s belief that women are inherently bad at STEM will be liberal orthodoxy by 2023, and his dedication to the Laffer Curve could see him rake in massive donations. Seriously, I’m not kidding: cultural liberalism is now fully dedicated to identity essentialism and balanced budgets. Larry is their ideal candidate. If he were black and/or a woman, I’d put him in the very top tier.

Jay Inslee

Unlike Newsom, Inslee’s attempt to crown himself the King of Global Warming won’t be immediately derailed, since his state is only on fire because of protestors. This, however, poses a different problem. He’s going to be a good test case for the Democrat’s uneasy peace with the ever increasing share of the electorate who become catatonic upon hearing a pronoun. On the one hand, you need to take their votes for granted. On the other hand, they’re not like black people or regular gays: most voters actively, consciously despise wokies, and associating yourself with them will ruin a campaign even in deep blue areas. There’s still gonna be riots in a year. Biden’s gonna announce the sale of all our nation’s potable water to the good folks at Nestle and some trans freak named Sasha-Malia DeBalzac is going to use that as an opportunity to sell their new pamphlet about how it’s fascist to not burn down small businesses. No matter what Inslee does in response, it’ll end his career.

AOC

I’m not one of those “AOC is a secret conservative” weirdos, but I am aware enough of basic reality to know she has zero chance of coming close to the nomination. The right and the center both regard her as a literal demon. The party is already blaming her for the fact that a handful of faceless Reagan acolytes failed to flip their suburban districts even though they ran on sensible pragmatic proposals like euthanizing the homeless. The recriminations will only get more unhinged when the Dems eat shit in the 2022 midterms. She will be a Russian, she will be white male, she will be a communist, she will be a homophobe: any insult or conspiracy theory you can name, MSNBC will spend hours discussing. Her house seat challenger will receive a record amount of support from the DNC in 2024 and it’ll be all she can do to remain in congress.

Larry Hogan

Don’t be dissuaded by the fact that he’s a Republican. Larry is the DNC’s ideal candidate: a physically repulsive conservative who owes his entire career to appealing to the most spiteful desires of suburban white people. He’s an open racist in a material sense--if you’re old-school enough to think racism is a matter of beliefs and actions, rather than the presence of cultural signifiers--but his is the beloved “never Trump” style of racism that Dems covet. He’s also a Proven Leader who thinks the role of government should be to finance the construction of investment property and give police the resources they need to run successful drug trafficking operations. Few people embody the Democrat worldview more than Larry.

The Losers Bracket

These people will have at least a small chance due solely to the fact that the Democrats love losing. They have lost in the past, and in the Democrat Mind that makes them especially qualified.

Joe Kennedy

The man looks like a mushroom-human hybrid from a JRPG. Trump proved that physical hideousness need not doom a presidential bid, but a candidate still needs some kind of charm or oratorical abilities or, god forbid, a decent platform. Joe aggressively lacks all of these things. A vanity campaign would be a good way to raise money and perhaps secure an MSNBC gig, so Joe might still run.

Mayor Pete

I am 100% convinced that Pete’s 2020 run was a CIA plot meant to prevent working class Americans from ever having a chance of living decent lives. I am also 100% aware that Democrats are dumb enough to enthusiastically support a CIA plot meant to prevent working class Americans from ever having a chance of living decent lives. If we have some sort of military or terror disaster between now and 2023 the Dems are sure to want a TROOP, and wait wait wait you’re telling me this one is a gay troop? Holy hell there’s no way that could lose!

Stacy Abrams

Never underestimate the power of white guilt. She lost the gubernatorial race to Gomer Pyle’s grandson, and her spiritual guidance of the Dems saw the party lose black voters in Georgia in 2020. Nonetheless, she is regarded as a magic font of fierceness within the DNC. She might stand a chance if she can establish herself as the most conservative non-white candidate in the field, but there’s going to be stiff competition for that honor.

Elizabeth Warren

Liz is probably angry that the party so shamelessly sold her out even after she was a good little girl and sabatoged Bernie’s campaign for them--yet another example of high ranking US government officials reneging on their promises to the Native American community. Smdh. The fact that this woman hasn’t been bankrupted a dozen times over by various Wallet Inspectors genuinely astounds me. So Liz is probably going to run again, and her campaign will be even sadder the second time around.

It might surprise you to hear this if you don’t work at a college or NGO, but Liz diehards actually do exist. She’ll get even less support this time because there will be no viable leftist in the field for her to spoil, but she’ll still hang in long enough to make sure the very worst possible candidate beats out the second worst possible candidate. Maybe she’ll fabricate a rape accusation against Sherrod Brown. Maybe she’ll spend her entire allotted debate time doing a land acknowledgment. With Liz, anything is possible--so long as it ends in failure.

Amy Klobuchar

Amy was the most bloodthirsty of the 2020 also rans. She will double down on the unpopular failures of the Biden administration, explaining that if you weren’t such a selfish idiot you’d love the higher social security retirement age and oh my god are so such a moron you think you shouldn’t go bankrupt to get a COVID vaccine? There’s a non-unsubstantial segment of the Democratic base that’s self-hating enough to find this appealing, but it won’t be enough to make her viable.

Martha Coakley

She lost Ted Kennedy’s senate seat to a retarded man who was pretending to be even more retarded than he actually was. Then she lost a gubernatorial race to a guy who openly promised Massachusetts voters that he would punish them for electing him. Her record of failure is unparalleled, making her perhaps the ideal Democrat standard bearer for the twenty twenties.

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vettingsanders · 5 years

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He Did Nothing For Years

The Bernie Sanders Story

I was going to title this post something that more adequately expresses my rage, like “Bernie Sanders is a Grifting Fuck and a Garbage Human,” but then I decided to be classy and paraphrase a quote from Evita instead. But I’m also petty so consider the subtitle of this rant to be “A Grifting Fuck and a Garbage Human.”

I was going to wait to post this until the primaries are over because if by some unholy hell miracle Sanders wins the nomination, obviously we all have to unite behind even the shittiest, most doomed to fail candidate, but fuck it. Vote blue no matter who, that goes without being said, but Sanders is the worst possible choice and was even when there were a dozen plus horses in this race, and now y’all are going to hear all the reasons why.

The Early Years: Sanders the Deadbeat

Sanders graduated from the university of Chicago in 1964 with a BA in Political Science and chose not to work until he was elected mayor of Burlington in 1981

I say “chose not to work” because he was fully capable but preferred being a bum. He had no student debt, he had no health conditions that prevented him from working, and the 1960s were characterized by rapid growth of the workforce, with three out of four college graduates holding high level positions by 1970

Sanders occasionally did some freelance writing and carpentry during these years, according to his resume, probably so he could claim he was trying to work in order to collect unemployment. Let’s take a look at some of his writings:

At age 28, he wrote an article for alternative newspaper The Vermont Freeman entitled “Cancer, Disease, and Society.” In the article, he argues that sexual repression can cause cancer, and women who are virgins, have fewer orgasms than their peers, or simply don’t enjoy sex are more likely to develop cancer. The article includes statements such as “the manner in which you bring up your daughter with regard to sexual attitudes may very well determine whether or not she will develop breast cancer, among other things” and “How much guilt, nervousness have you imbued in your daughter with regard to sex? If she is 16, 3 years beyond puberty and the time which nature set forth for child-bearing, and spent a night out with her boyfriend, what is your reaction? Do you take her to a psychiatrist because she is “maladjusted” or a “prostitute,” or are you happy that she has found someone with whom she can share love?” He also argues that the education system contributes to cancer, as does having “an old bitch of a teacher (and there are many of them).” https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2157403-sanders-cancer.html

In 1969, in another article for The Vermont Freeman, he wrote, “In Vermont, at a state beach, a mother is reprimanded by Authority for allowing her 6 month old daughter to go about without her diapers on. Now, if children go around naked, they are liable to see each others sexual organs, and maybe even touch them. Terrible thing! If we [raise] children up like this it will probably ruin the whole pornography business, not to mention the large segment of the general economy which makes its money by playing on peoples sexual frustrations.” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-freeman-sexual-freedom-fluoride/

His resume, incidentally, also lists him as a freelance youth counselor during his period of unemployment, which is just great. The man who thinks thirteen year olds should be getting pregnant and children should touch each other’s genitals, counseling your kids. Fantastic.

In the 1970s, Sanders stole electricity from his neighbors rather than paying his own bill. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-119927

He stole food from the refrigerator of The Vermont Freeman’s publishers https://newrepublic.com/article/122005/he-was-presidential-candidate-bernie-sanders-was-radical

He was asked to leave a hippie commune in 1971 due to sitting around engaging in “endless political discussion” rather than working. Let me repeat, he was too lazy for a hippie commune. https://freebeacon.com/politics/bernie-sanders-asked-leave-hippie-commune/

Now, all of this apart from the theft is arguably okay. It’s his own life, and if he wants to squander it publishing poorly written essays and doing jack shit, whatever. Except it wasn’t just his life, because he had a son, Levi. And he was a deadbeat, paying no child support and causing Levi’s mother, Susan Mott, to rely on welfare, which made her face discrimination when trying to find housing. https://twitter.com/m_mendozaferrer/status/1093295853907922946

Bernie Sanders is a deadbeat dad. No respect.

Failing Upwards: Sanders the Politician

In 1971, Sanders joined the Vermont Liberty Union Party, a socialist political group. From 1971 to 1977, Sanders was the party chief and habitually ran for office, failing every time. He left the group in 1977, stating that they did not do enough to fight banks and corporations during non-election years. This is just one example of Sanders decrying everyone else as too impure for him.

In 2016, the Vermont Liberty Union Party voted to brand Sanders as a war criminal. Their general secretary, Peter Diamondstone, said of Sanders, “ He never was a socialist!" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bnjby3/the-vermont-political-party-bernie-sanders-founded-isnt-into-him-anymore This is just one example in the long list of Sanders alienating his allies.

He finally won the mayoral election for Burlington in 1981, by only ten votes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Burlington_mayoral_election

Sanders was only elected to the US House of Representatives in 1990 because he had the support of the National Rifle Association. The incumbent Congressman, Republican Peter Smith, advocated for an assault weapons ban, so the NRA flooded Sanders with money. https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/stickin-to-his-guns-the-nra-helped-elect-bernie-sanders-to-congress-now-hes-telling-a-different-story/Content?oid=27816693

In 2006, 2012, and 2018, when running for the Senate, Sanders ran as a Democrat in the state primaries, then declined the Democratic nomination, and ran as an independent in the general. This made it basically impossible for any Democrat to run against him. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/bernie-sanders-democrat-independent-vermont-601844

After a landslide loss to Secretary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary, Sanders demanded changes to the DNC primary structure that would make the process easier for him to win with just a plurality of delegates instead of a majority. These rule changes were the reason the 2020 Iowa caucus was such a clusterfuck. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bernie-sanders-iowa-caucus-winner-trump-democrats-a9317761.html

Despite all his talk of getting out the youth vote and inspiring disenfranchised voters, Sanders planned all along to squeak by with only thirty percent of the delegates in the 2020 primary by provoking infighting among other candidates to split the moderate vote. The supposed movement he claimed to lead is a sham. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/bernie-sanders-thinking-he-will-win-it-all-2020/587326/

“I Never Saw Him”: Sanders and Civil Rights

Sanders touts his participation in the March on Washington in 1963 as proof of his devotion to civil rights activism. He loves to remind people that he marched with MLK, as seen during the She the People 2019 forum where he repeated that old chestnut for the millionth time and was booed by the attendees. https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-met-with-boos-after-name-dropping-martin-luther-king-at-she-the-people-summit

In actuality, Sanders was one of 250,000 people at the march, along with Mitch McConnell, who is clearly no champion for civil rights. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/7-things-know-about-sen-mitch-mcconnell-r-ky-part-flna6C10621413

Representative John Lewis, an actual civil rights hero who worked with Dr. King and whose skull was fractured by police on Bloody Sunday, said that he “never saw [Bernie Sanders]. I never met him,” during the movement. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2016/02/11/john-lewis-never-saw-bernie-sanders-during-civil-rights-era/80263450/

Sanders was charged with resisting arrest during a segregation protest in Chicago in 1963, and was charged $25. He later white flighted to Vermont, one of the whitest states in the country. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/bernie-sanders-core-university-chicago/

Sanders never bothered to vote during the Civil Rights movement, only putting forth the effort when he himself was running. https://imgur.com/gallery/mmS40Gq#460q6bS

During his speech in Jacksonville on the 50th anniversary of MLK’s death, Sanders rewrote history and tried to claim that King’s real focus was economic justice and not civil rights. "All of us know where he was when he was assassinated 50 years ago today. He was in Memphis to stand with low-income sanitation workers who were being exploited ruthlessly, whose wages were abysmally low, and who were trying to create a union. That’s where he was. Because as the mayor just indicated, what he believed — and where he was a real threat to the establishment — is that of course we need civil rights in this country, but we also need economic justice.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rubycramer/bernie-sanders-revolution-needs-black-voters-to-win-but-can

In thirty years in Congress, Sanders has not sponsored any bills pertaining to civil rights: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse?sponsor=400357#current_status[]=28&enacted_ex=on

Sanders voted for the 1994 crime bill https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-has-dodged-criticism-crime-bill-vote-while-others-n1020726

In 1994, he praised the bill and stated that the US needed more jails. https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1221468426855755776

He touted his vote for the crime bill on his website at least until 2006, as proof he was “tough on crime” and “strong on the cops” https://web.archive.org/web/20061018180921/http:/www.bernie.org/truth/crime.html

In 2015, during a meeting with police reform activist group Campaign Zero, Sanders responded to being asked why he thought a disproportionate amount of people of color were incarcerated for nonviolent drug offenses with “Aren’t most of the people who sell the drugs African-American?” Those present at the meeting stated, “Even confronted with figures and data to the contrary, Sanders appeared to have still struggled to grasp that he had made an error.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rubycramer/bernie-sanders-revolution-needs-black-voters-to-win-but-can

In 2018, fifteen racial and social justice leaders in Vermont, including multiple NAACP branch presidents, ACLU organizers, and BLM activists, sent an open letter to Sanders and the Sanders Institute to complain that they were “excluded” from the “national progressive movement that Senator Bernie Sanders is trying to foster.” The letter asks “how could Senator Sanders host what is supposed to be an intersectional, progressive event without inviting the very people whom he serves?” http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/vpr/files/201812/sanders-letter-2018.pdf

Curtiss Reed, Executive Director of the Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity, stated that the exclusion of Vermont POC from the Sanders Institute’s event was “a catastrophic failure of his sort of tone deafness to marginalized communities in the state of Vermont” and added “I’m tempted to say this is no longer a question of benign neglect on the part of the senator, but willful ignorance on his part not to include marginalized voices in this national conversation on the progressive movement.” https://www.vpr.org/post/we-find-ourselves-excluded-racial-justice-leaders-ask-bernie-sanders-get-program#stream/0

Vermont Black leaders stated they were “invisible” to Sanders, and that the senator “was just really dismissive of anything that had to do with race and racism, saying that they didn’t have anything to do with the issues of income inequality. He just always kept coming back to income inequality as a response, as if talking about income inequality would somehow make issues of racism go away.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/vermonts-black-leaders-we-were-invisible-to-bernie-sanders

In his 1998 autobiography, Sanders repeatedly and needlessly used the n-word. He chose to keep the word in the text when republishing the book in 2015. https://www.inquisitr.com/5620596/bernie-sanders-under-fire-for-use-of-n-word-in-2015-book-clip-from-audiobook-version-goes-viral-friday/

“I Will Not Make It a Major Priority”: Sanders the Ally

During an interview as mayor of Burlington, Sanders said LGBTQ rights were not a “major priority” for him and he would “probably not” support a bill to protect gays from job discrimination. https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/10/bernie-sanders-on-marriage-equality-hes-no-longtime-champion.html

Also during his time as mayor, Sanders signed a resolution affirming that marriage is between “husband and wife.” https://www.washingtonblade.com/2016/02/06/clinton-surrogates-pounce-on-sanders-over-82-marriage-resolution/

Sanders and his wife stated in 1996 that they opposed the Defense of Marriage Act simply because it would weaken states’ rights. Only later did he claim his opposition was due to support for same-sex marriage. https://time.com/4089946/bernie-sanders-gay-marriage/

Sanders argued same-sex marriage was a states’ rights issue in 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=kej9QAsS3uI&feature=emb_logo

In that same year, after same-sex civil unions had been legal in Vermont since 2000, he responded to a reporter asking if same-sex marriage should be legalized in Vermont with “Not right now,” after the “very divisive debate” preceding the civil union legislation. https://web.archive.org/web/20160407064606/http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060607/NEWS/606070302/1003/NEWS02

In thirty years in Congress, Sanders has not sponsored any bills pertaining to LGBTQ rights: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse?sponsor=400357#current_status[]=28&enacted_ex=on

Sanders the Warmonger

Sanders loves to tout his opposition to the Iraq War as proof of his moral superiority. But in 1998, he voted for the Iraq Liberation Act, which states that “it should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.” He also supported Clinton’s airstrike on Iraq. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/105-1998/h482

In 1999, Sanders had anti-war protesters at his office arrested. https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/27/bernie-sanders-savior-or-seducer-of-the-anti-war-left/

The Iraq War Bill that Sanders voted against required Bush to first try diplomatic efforts and abide by UN rules of military conduct. It also required transparency and progress reports. https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-joint-resolution/114/text

The Authorization for Use of Military Force Act (AUMF), which Sanders did vote for, required none of that and is the reason the Afghanistan War was so much of a clusterfuck. Bush would have used the AUMF to invade Iraq even if Congress had voted down the Iraq Liberation Act. The only person to vote against the AUMF was Representative Barbara Lee. Sanders voted in favor of it. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/107/sjres23/text

Sanders claims to oppose the defense industry. But he brought Lockheed Martin and their 1.2 trillion dollar, over budget, outdated stealth fighters to Vermont. https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-loves-this-dollar1-trillion-war-machine

During his tenure as mayor of Burlington, he fired the assistant city treasurer when she was jailed for an anti-war protest. https://academic.oup.com/publius/article-abstract/21/2/131/1917641?redirectedFrom=PDF

Sanders the Healthcare Crusader

Sanders was chairman of the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee during a 2014 scandal when dozens of veterans died while waiting for medical care. During his tenure, Sanders only held seven hearings on VA Oversight, as opposed to the House committee’s forty-two hearings. Veterans argue that Sanders was too invested in the idea of the VA as a shining example of government healthcare to address its failings. Despite the scandal and tragedy, Sanders as recently as 2017 bragged that he was involved with “the most comprehensive VA health care bill in this country.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-veterans-scandal-on-bernie-sanderss-watch

He voted against the Clinton plan for universal healthcare in 1993. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/14/1501210/-Where-Was-Sanders-on-Health-Care-in-93-and-94-Against-the-Clintons

Sanders also voted against CHIP, the children’s health insurance program that AOC relied on to see a doctor in her youth: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/105-1997/h345

Despite campaigning on Medicare for All since 2015, Sanders was unable to explain how much the program would cost during a 2020 60 Minutes interview. https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/24/politics/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-2020/index.html

When Senator Warren did the math for him and released her detailed M4A plan, Sanders attacked her, calling his plan “more progressive” and saying hers would “have a very negative impact on creating jobs.” https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/03/politics/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-health-care-plan/index.html

Sanders claims that his healthcare plan is standard in other countries. But his M4A plan would ban private insurance, which is not done in any country but Canada. In the Scandinavian countries Sanders loves to hold up as an example of government healthcare, the market for private insurance is growing. https://aapsonline.org/no-bernie-other-countries-do-not-ban-private-care/

“Too Brassy, Too Bitchy”: Sanders the Feminist

In his autobiography, Sanders quoted an article calling his 1996 primary opponent Susan Sweetser “too brassy, too bitchy.” https://books.google.com/books?id=_2YjBm2_JGUC&pg=PA173&lpg=PA173&dq=sanders+too+brassy+too+bitchy&source=bl&ots=SWrIR5Xa8m&sig=ACfU3U2-Hj1-UXIOM0Zz274h6_Nu8juoBg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjHhtObq6LmAhWvUt8KHc8mDVUQ6AEwA3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=sanders%20too%20brassy%20too%20bitchy&f=false

In his Vermont Freeman article “Cancer, Disease, and Society,” Sanders called teachers “old bitch[es]” and blamed them for men developing cancer. He also said women developed cancer due to sexual repression. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2157403-sanders-cancer.html

Referring to their 1986 governor race, his opponent Madeleine Kuhn stated, “When Sanders was my opponent he focused like a laser beam on “class analysis,” in which “women’s issues” were essentially a distraction from more important issues. He urged voters not to vote for me just because I was a woman. That would be a “sexist position,” he declared.” https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/04/when-bernie-sanders-ran-against-vermont/kNP6xUupbQ3Qbg9UUelvVM/story.html

Sanders called Planned Parenthood “a part of the establishment” because they endorsed Secretary Clinton for president. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/planned-parenthood-bernie-sanders-218026

Sanders called Hillary Rodham Clinton, former law firm partner, former First Lady, former Senator, and former Secretary of State, unqualified to be president. https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/politics/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-qualified/index.html

In January 2020, leaked phone banking scripts from the Sanders campaign called Warren a candidate of the affluent who wouldn’t bring any new voters to the Democratic base. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/11/bernie-quietly-goes-negative-on-warren-097594

In response, members of Warren’s campaign leaked information that, at a dinner in 2018, Sanders had told Warren he did not think a woman could win the presidency. Sanders and his supporters decried this as a lie, even though reporters knew of the dinner and had been asking Warren if Sanders had discussed women’s electability there for over a year. https://twitter.com/mlcalderone/status/1104477933886935040?s=19

Sanders supporters then flooded Elizabeth Warren and her supporters’ Twitter mentions with snake emojis.

Sanders said of Secretary Clinton, “It is not good enough for someone to say, ‘I’m a woman! Vote for me!” https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/21/13699956/sanders-clinton-democratic-party

Bending the Knee: Sanders the Dictatorship Fanboy

During a 2020 60 Minutes interview, Sanders inexplicably decided it would be a good idea to start praising Fidel Castro’s genocidal regime, stating, “We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba, but, you know, it’s unfair to simply say everything is bad. When Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing, even though Fidel Castro did it?” https://www.vox.com/2020/2/24/21147388/bernie-sanders-cuba-60-minutes-nicaragua

He doubled down on this praise at the next debate, whining, “Really? Really?” when the crowd booed him. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article240627047.html

In 2014, Sanders visited Cuban prisoner Alan Gross, who lost over 100 pounds and five teeth during his captivity. During the meeting, Gross recalls Sanders telling him, “I don't know what's so wrong with this country.” https://www.npr.org/2020/03/04/811729200/former-prisoner-recalls-sanders-saying-i-don-t-know-what-s-so-wrong-with-cuba

In 1985, Sanders praised bread lines and food rationing. “American journalists talk about how bad a country is because people are lining up for food. That's a good thing. In other countries people don't line up for food. The rich get the food, and the poor starve to death." https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/21/1920767/-Time-to-switch-out-from-Bernie-he-praised-nations-with-bread-lines-that-s-a-good-thing-Danger

Sanders hung a USSR flag in his office as mayor of Burlington. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/24/bernie-sanders-reveals-his-radical-inclinations-ov/

He honeymooned in the USSR, and praised the state of the Soviet Union. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-bernie-sanderss-1988-10-day-honeymoon-in-the-soviet-union/2019/05/02/db543e18-6a9c-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html

In the 1980s, Sanders attended a Sandinista rally in Nicaragua where the attendees chanted, “Here, there, everywhere, the Yankee will die.” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/bernie-sanders-pro-sandinista-past-problem.html

Sanders recently praised China, saying that it has made "more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization." https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/458976-sanders-china-had-done-more-to-address-extreme-poverty-than-any-country-in-the

“They Can’t Stop Us”: Sanders the Conspiracy Theorist

Despite conceding the 2016 primary and stating that “Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nomination and I congratulate her for that” (https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/11/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders/index.html), he later made the Trump-esque statement “Some people say that if maybe that system was not rigged against me, I would have won the nomination and defeated Donald Trump.” https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-defeat-donald-trump-2016-rigged-primary-dnc-nbc-kasie-hunt-1446116

On February 21, Sanders tweeted, “I've got news for the Republican establishment. I've got news for the Democratic establishment. They can't stop us.” https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1231021453270769664

After Super Tuesday, Sanders stated that Buttigieg and Klobuchar were pressed to drop out as part of an establishment plot to defeat him. https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/486503-sanders-klobuchar-and-buttigieg-ended-campaigns-under-great-deal

Sanders has repeatedly attacked the press as “paid by the corporations and billionaires who own the media.” He’s promoted the conspiracy theory that Jeff Bezos makes The Washington Post write negative articles about him. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/27/bernie-sanders-attacks-media-press-fair-or-trump-2020-democrats

During the Nicaraguan conflict, Sanders accused American reporters of ignoring the truth and told a CBS reporter, “you are worms.” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/bernie-sanders-pro-sandinista-past-problem.html

Sanders accused The Washington Post of trying to harm him in the Nevada caucus by reporting on Russia’s attempts to boost his campaign. https://www.mediaite.com/tv/bernie-sanders-takes-a-shot-at-washington-post-good-friends-when-asked-about-timing-of-russia-report/

“We Support Them”: Sanders the Spoiler

Robert Mueller’s investigation found that Russian interference sought to boost both Sanders and Trump’s 2016 campaigns, stating “we support them.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/17/indictment-russians-also-tried-help-bernie-sanders-jill-stein-presidential-campaigns/348051002/

Sanders was well aware of the Russian efforts, stating “What we knew is–well, of course we knew that. And of course we knew that they were trying to cause divisiveness within the Democratic party. Uh, that’s no great secret.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDYbHult0Do

When The Washington Post reported on Russia’s efforts to boost Sanders in 2020, Sanders had already known for weeks and said nothing. After the report came out, he attacked the Post and accused them of trying to tank his performance in the Nevada caucus, stating “I’ll let you guess, about one day before the Nevada caucus. Why do you think it came out? It was The Washington Post? Good friends.” https://www.mediaite.com/tv/bernie-sanders-takes-a-shot-at-washington-post-good-friends-when-asked-about-timing-of-russia-report/

The Fish Rots from the Head: The Sanders Campaign

The 2016 campaign breached the Clinton campaign’s voter data and harvested and stored voter information https://time.com/4155185/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-data/

The 2016 campaign received a 645 page letter from the FEC detailing the campaign’s finance violations (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/the-bernie-sanders-donors-who-are-giving-too-much/482418/) and had to pay a $14.5 K fine to the FEC after receiving donations from non-citizens. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/376373-sanders-campaign-pays-145k-fine-to-settle-fec-complaint

The 2016 Nevada campaign director sought to rig the state’s caucus by urging staffers to buy double-sided coins for tie-breaking coin tosses http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sanderss-nevada-director-floated-two-sided-coins-for-tiebreaks-report/ar-AAhHiAI?getstaticpage=true&automatedTracking=staticview

The 2016 campaign initially decried superdelegates as “undemocratic” (https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/23/opinions/superdelegates-democratic-party-kohn/) before attempting to persuade them to go against the primary’s outcome and back Sanders instead of Clinton https://www.npr.org/2016/05/19/478705022/sanders-campaign-now-says-superdelegates-are-key-to-winning-nomination

The 2016 campaign was accused by staffers of sexual harassment, demeaning treatment toward women, and pay disparity by gender https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/us/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-sexism.html

Weeks before the 2016 general election, Jane Sanders retweeted a video from an April town hall of her husband telling an attendee to “make these decisions yourself” regarding whether or not to vote third party if Secretary Clinton won the primary https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/26/retweet-bernie-sanders-wife-jane-raises-questions/91140254/

The 2020 Sanders campaign appointed Russian interference denier and Jill Stein 2016 voter Briahna Joy Gray as the campaign’s National Press Secretary https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/888555665865814017?lang=en

Following promises to run a civil campaign, Sanders hired David Sirota, a man who’d spent months attacking other primary contenders online, as a speech writer. The campaign also confirmed that Sirota had already been serving in an advisory role prior to his official hiring https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/sanders-promised-civility-hired-twitter-attack-dog/585259/

Press Secretary Briahna Joy Gray called for the doxing of a Sanders critic on Twitter. If there was any repercussion for this behavior, it has never been made public. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/14/1879124/-Bernie-Sanders-s-Campaign-Doxed-a-Critic-on-Twitter

The 2020 campaign hired and fired YouTuber Matt Orfalea within 24 hours after being alerted of his sexist, racist, homophobic, and ableist content, suggesting he was not vetted before his hiring https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/bernie-sanders-matt-orfalea-mlk-youtube-video/

Despite his firing and the campaign decrying his behavior in October 2019, in January 2020 Jane Sanders was still retweeting and praising Orfalea. https://twitter.com/Rob_Flaherty/status/1236861997398048768

In March 2020, Orfalea posed as a Biden volunteer and made calls to voters claiming that Biden has dementia. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgeanp/a-man-fired-from-sanders-campaign-is-calling-biden-voters-and-saying-he-has-dementia

They hired and fired Darius Khalil Gordon after two days after being alerted of his sexist, racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and ableist Tweets https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/12/bernie-sanders-new-head-organizer-called-people-fgs-bhes/

The campaign also hired former Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour as a campaign surrogate. The Women’s March cut ties with Sarsour following anti-Semitic statements. https://nypost.com/2018/11/20/womens-march-founder-calls-on-current-leadership-to-step-down/

Sarsour was also condemned by the Anti-Defamation League for the statement that “a state like Israel that is based on supremacy, that is built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everyone else.” https://forward.com/news/national/435964/bernie-sanders-linda-sarsour-jewish-voters/

Sanders National Campaign Co-Chair Nina Turner claimed that Biden’s strong support among Black voters is due to the voters’ “short memories” and “not a true understanding of the history” https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/473161-top-sanders-officials-hits-biden-over-riding-on-obamas-coattails

The 2020 campaign paid staffers working 60 hours a week an average of 13 dollars per hour despite Sanders campaigning on a 15 dollar per hour minimum wage https://www.vox.com/2019/7/20/20700841/bernie-sanders-minimum-wage-staff-pay

Bernie Bros attacked Biden’s Detroit rally on 3/9/20, striking senior aide Symone Sanders in the head with an iPad and knocking her down. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/10/joe-biden-detroit-protests-sanders-124874

“Nobody Likes Him”: Sanders Himself

In 1996, Congressman Barney Frank said of Sanders, “Bernie alienates his natural allies. His holier-than-thou attitude—saying in a very loud voice he is smarter than everyone else and purer than everyone else—really undercuts his effectiveness.” https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2016/04/11/history-barney-frank-bernie-sanders-criticize

In her recent Hulu documentary series, Hillary Rodham Clinton briefly spoke about Sanders, saying “He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.” https://twitter.com/Burkmc/status/1235863901813661697?s=09

A former campaign staffer called Sanders “unbelievably abusive.” Another campaign insider called him an asshole, and a former Senate staffer recounted, "He yelled in meetings all the time.” https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/anger-management-sanders-fights-for-employees-except-his-own/Content?oid=2834657

One aide stated that Sanders “never makes you feel like you’re good enough to be in the room with him.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/us/politics/bernie-sanders-image.html

Sanders voted in favor of dumping nuclear waste on the poor and predominantly Latinx community of Sierra Blanca, Texas https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/28/Sanders-Nuclear-Waste-Votes-Divide-Texas-Activists/

When asked if he would visit the site in Sierra Blanca, Sanders answered “Absolutely not.” https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1998/09/11#page=11

Sanders voted five times against the Brady Act which required universal background checks and a waiting period to buy firearms. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/13/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-voted-against-brady/o

He also voted against the AMBER Alert System. http://archive.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2006/09/21/sanders_vote_on_amber_alert_emerges_as_key_campaign_issue/

He wanted to primary Obama in the 2012 election cycle. https://www.thenation.com/article/yes-bernie-sanders-wanted-obama-primaried-in-2012-heres-why/

After saying millionaire senators are immoral (https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/24/politics/bernie-millionaire-senators-immoral/index.html) and railing against millionaires and billionaires in his 2016 campaign, Sanders responded to criticism of his millionaire senator status by saying “if you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.” His stump speech now only rants about billionaires. https://theweek.com/speedreads/834228/bernie-sanders-says-millionaire-like-write-bestselling-book

Upheld a ban on rock concerts as mayor of Burlington like a Footloose villain https://i.redd.it/atpybo1rcwa31.jpg

Despite running on forgiving student loan debt since 2015, when pressed for specifics during an interview with Dana Bash, Sanders responded, “I don't have the plan in my pocket right now,” because, you know, why on Earth should he know the details of his key campaign promises? https://mobile.twitter.com/DanaBashCNN/status/1137779734467792897

Two days before the 2016 general election, Sanders tweeted “I do not believe that most of the people who are thinking about voting for Mr. Trump are racist or sexist.” https://twitter.com/berniesanders/status/794941635931099136?lang=en

Sanders had a heart attack at age 78, making his continued life expectancy 3.1 years. https://www.cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/acute-coronary-syndrome/study-65-older-mi-patients-die-within-8-years

He could have dropped out of the race after his heart attack and endorsed Warren, and she could have spent the primary building coalitions with the demographics where she was the weakest, and could well have been the front runner by now. Instead, he selfishly stayed in the race, screwing her over and knowing full well the odds are against him living through a single term. He continued to do the only thing he’s good at: fucking everyone over.

Say whatever you want about Biden, it’s not like there aren’t things to say. But I’ve seen so many posts about how “Sure, Biden’s the worst EVER, but he is EVER SO SLIGHTLY less worse than Trump,” and excuse me, fuck off. Biden horribly lost his wife and daughter before his 1972 Senate term even started, and instead of dropping out, he continued to serve his constituents while commuting home two hours every night to raise his sons. Meanwhile, in 1972, Sanders was a deadbeat bum stealing electricity. There’s no comparison.

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President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are well on their way to facing off in November, but this hasn’t stopped the new coronavirus from casting a pall of uncertainty over the campaign. Numerous primaries have been postponed and the Democrats have already delayed their convention. In fact, there’s a decent chance that neither party will be able to hold one in person, possibly necessitating the first virtual convention in U.S. history. There’s also a real question mark around the general election, as it may fall in the midst of a resurgence of the virus.

But if we’re going to entertain doomsday scenarios, let’s consider one that’s always lurking but may be disturbingly relevant in 2020: the death or incapacitation of a presidential nominee. How would the parties — and the public — respond to such a tragic event?

We know this is macabre, but Trump and Biden are both in their 70s (Trump turns 74 in June, and Biden is 77), making them the oldest major-party nominees in American history.

And on top of the reality that the elderly simply have a greater chance of dying, COVID-19 is particularly dangerous for those 65 and over. So if there were ever an election cycle to worry about this morbid hypothetical, it’s this one.

If something were to happen to the presumptive nominee before the convention, the parties have a plan — they’d proceed as normal and use the convention to pick the nominee. And if something happened after the convention but before the election, there’s a plan for that, too — national party committees would step in. After the election, though, things get murkier, as it’s uncertain how the result would work out in the Electoral College.

Let’s tackle that first scenario — something happens to either Biden or Trump before their respective conventions. In the case of the Democratric nomination, that would all of a sudden open up the race, according to Lara Brown, director of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University. The delayed primaries would become far more relevant, and this could create a free-for-all with Sen. Bernie Sanders and the other candidates. “Let’s face it, none of the candidates have officially withdrawn,” said Brown. “They’ve all just suspended [their campaigns].”

But if tragedy didn’t strike until the convention, Biden delegates would have to choose someone else to support.1 Richard Pildes, a constitutional law professor at the New York University School of Law, stressed, however, that even under normal circumstances, the Democratic delegates are technically free “on the first ballot to vote their conscience.” As for the GOP convention rules, Pildes told me they specifically bind the delegates, and as Trump is the only candidate who will really have delegates, the party might need to issue an “interpretation” of the rules or even vote to change them to deal with this unforeseen situation.

Brown and Pildes said it wouldn’t necessarily prevent a drawn-out convention battle, but if Biden had picked a running mate, that might go a long way in limiting the intraparty fighting because Democrats would already have someone to rally around rather than being split among a host of alternatives. On the other hand, Vice President Pence would automatically ascend to the presidency should something happen to Trump, giving the Republicans a pretty straightforward pick if disaster struck before their August convention.

If something happened after the conventions but before the election, the national party committees would pick another nominee. Under Republican rules, the Republican National Committee could reconvene the national convention, although Pildes told me it’s hard to imagine that being feasible. So in both parties, national committee members would vote to elect a new nominee.2 Pence would once again be the obvious choice for Republicans, although the GOP would also have to pick a new vice presidential nominee (as would the Democrats if this situation arose for them). And while Democrats could try to back a former candidate or an outsider who didn’t run — say, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — Brown said a crisis like this would likely push the Democratic National Committee to put the vice presidential nominee at the top of the ticket. “I assume that the Democrats would attempt to follow that same pattern [as the GOP],” she said.

Neither party has ever had to replace someone at the top of the ticket, but Democrats do have some experience with replacing someone in the No. 2 spot. In 1972, the national convention nominated Missouri Sen. Thomas Eagleton to be George McGovern’s running mate, but after reports surfaced that Eagleton had received electroconvulsive therapy for depression, he withdrew, and the DNC chose Sargent Shriver to fill the vacancy. Brown cautioned me not to read too much into how this worked, though, because she argued that the process would work differently if someone died. “It’s different with a death because a death is unexpected,” said Brown. “Whereas by the time you get to Eagleton withdrawing at McGovern’s request, the whole party is kind of on board with that already.”

And what if something happens very close to Election Day? It’d probably be really hard to pick a replacement in time to update ballots, as most deadlines to certify state ballots would have passed by early October — not to mention other logistical hurdles that could pose problems, such as mailing ballots for overseas military service members in time, or making last-minute adjustments to absentee ballots. It’s entirely possible that if the candidate died only a few days before Nov. 3, voters might not know who the party’s nominee was when they go to the polls.

Again, neither party has experienced this at the top of the ticket, but Republicans did have this happen to a vice presidential candidate in 1912, when sitting Vice President James Sherman died on Oct. 30, just days before the election. This left insufficient time for the RNC to meet and nominate a replacement to join President William Howard Taft on the GOP ticket, but it was also largely a moot point as Taft lost to Woodrow Wilson. The RNC still chose a replacement, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, who received all eight of Sherman’s electoral votes, but it’s unclear whether a new presidential pick would receive the electoral votes intended for the original nominee today.

That’s because, unlike in 1912, more than half the states have laws that attempt to bind electors to a state’s vote. In fact, there’s an ongoing case in front of the Supreme Court about whether members of the Electoral College are free to vote for whomever they want or whether state laws can require them to vote a certain way. And depending on how the court rules, that could affect the ability of individual states to adjust for the unexpected death of a presidential nominee. For instance, Michigan’s law requires an elector to vote for the ticket named on the ballot whereas Florida’s rules say that an elector is to “vote for the candidates of the party that he or she was nominated to represent.”

Finally, if the nominee was incapacitated after Election Day, a lot might depend on whether he is considered the “president-elect.” If he is, it’s actually pretty straightforward — the 20th Amendment says the vice president-elect shall become president. But if it all happened before the Electoral College votes on Dec. 14 or even before Congress counts the electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021, it’s not clear what would happen next, as he might not be considered the president-elect. There is one instance of this happening — in 1872, Horace Greeley died on Nov. 29, just before the Electoral College’s Dec. 4 gathering and most of his 66 electoral votes were split among four alternate candidates (including Greeley’s vice presidential nominee, Benjamin Gratz Brown), but this example is largely academic, too, as Greeley had already lost to Republican President Ulysses S. Grant.

It’s hard to know what exactly might unfold, but none of these timelines would leave much time for the near-certain legal wrangling over the fallout from a candidate’s death, a problem that we haven’t adjusted for even after the messy recount in the 2000 presidential election. Pildes put it bluntly: “We’ve been lucky. We have actually had some presidents who have died shortly after taking office but not somebody who died either between the convention and the election, or after being elected and becoming the president-elect.” And if that were to happen this year, it would likely create intraparty division, uncertainty among voters or a tidal wave of litigation. Let’s hope that the country’s luck doesn’t run out in 2020.

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Why don't you like Bernie Sanders?

He's a whiny manipulative old man who kept his hands clean in the senate by refusing to do the kind of work that gets actual legistlation passed, thereby keeping the pretense of a moral high ground by abandoning any effort to actually help the people he claims to be working for.

He blames everybody else when things go wrong, notably claiming that the Democratic establishment rigged the election for Hillary, and they always hated him, and wah, poor Bernie. He went into areas where the local head of the DNC was a supporter, and then when said supporter didn't fall at his feet and instead did their job and played fair, holding events for both candidates, he would claim persecution and unfair treatment. Suddenly that local party leader was no longer a supporter. I wonder why. When Russian hackers released emails from the DNC where Debbie Wasserman-Schultz called him a liar (which he is) and where she told some lower party flunkies talking about how they could swing the election for Hillary that they needed to knock it off, Bernie claimed this was proof of a grand DNC conspiracy to crown Hillary as a candidate against the will of the voters.

He accused the party of voter suppression to keep him from winning when polling places in high minority districts were cut, leading to horrific lines. These were decisions made by state officials, and ironically, those districts were overwhelmingly pro-Hillary.

He refuses to give information on specific details of his platform and policy goals, falling back on ideology and and moral indignation. It is not a crime to demand specifics from polititions, and indeed, we deserve them as voters. Any politician who won't give them either doesn't have a plan to deliver on his promises, or doesn't want you to know the specifics because he doesn't think the voters will like his plan. Both are very bad and very dangerous.

And he claimed that his loss in Florida was because of the "blue hairs," in other words the elderly and often Jewish women retirees of South Florida. I never trust a Jewish man who disrespects the Bubbes.

Most of all, I hate the way he paints the world in black and white and encourages his followers to view politics as a game of moral purity and absolutism. This is toxic in the messy world of real politics in a democracy. His brand of moral absolutism and demagoguery has captured the hearts of a lot of young voters, and he is teaching them to believe that if he loses, it's because someone cheated, and you shouldn't vote for the cheater. Not only is this obnoxious by itself, but it's especially dangerous given that Trump is currently being impeached for an actual attempt to rig an election, and because we have the evidence to prove the Russians did interfere substantially in the election in his favor, interference that Bernie benefited from during the primary. This encourages a whole generation to believe any politician except him is as bad as a wannabe dictator who colluded with an actual dictator to get into office. He is a corrosive presense in American political discourse and I feel nothing but contempt for him. If he does get the nomination, I will cringe with revulsion as I vote for him in the general.

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Why I will not vote for Biden or Trump.

“BUT BERNIE SAID!”

In order for Bernie to run for president as a democrat, he had to pledge to support the eventual nominee. Bernie is a man of his word. He has done more to spread the progressive agenda than anyone else in recent memory. I honor him for that. That doesn’t obligate me to vote for the democrat. I made no pledge.

“BUT THE SUPREME COURT!”

Joe Biden helped Clarence Thomas get appointed while degrading Anita Hill. He also voted for Antonin Scalia. In 1993, Joe Biden said that we should nominate judges from the other party.

“THEN YOU ARE VOTING FOR TRUMP”

That isn’t how elections work. Only a vote for Trump is a vote for Trump. By that logic, my non vote for Trump is actually a vote for Biden.

“BIDEN IS THE MOST ELECTABLE”

This is simply not true. I can’t imagine a worse candidate than Biden. He offends so many democrats for so many reasons. There is a rape allegation against him! He said he would veto Medicare for all. He authored the crime bill and he championed the war on drugs. He voted for the Iraq war and supported it long afterward. He has pushed cuts to social security and Medicare. He voted for the anti-gay DOMA law to outlaw gay marriage. He voted to deregulate the banks. He is more like a republican than a democrat. People don’t get excited about Biden. They say he is not as bad as Trump. What a low bar! Trump hate will only take us so far. A democratic candidate NEEDS to have a vision that inspires people. Excitement gets people out to the polls. And democrats need a high voter turnout to win. Many voters see two crooks who want to be president. This isn’t the sort of thing that moves people to get out and vote.

"VOTING GREEN / THIRD PARTY / BERNIE IS A WASTED VOTE."

That is a matter of opinion. The Democrats have been giving us mediocre or awful candidates for decades. They don’t represent me anymore than the republicans do. Bernie showed us that there are a LOT of progressives! Neither party represents us. Voting Green / third party / writing in Bernie is no more a wasted vote than a vote for Biden. I would like to see the Green party become a viable third party. If nothing else it would motivate the DNC to take our views into account.

"DON’T TRY TO VOTE SHAME ME."

I accept your right to vote your conscience. It is my right to vote mine. I get it that you worry that we will get another 4 years of Trump. I worry that we have not had a decent candidate for decades. If the DNC refuses to offer us a decent candidate, I will take my vote and my contributions elsewhere. Don’t blame me that Trump is president. It is the democratic party’s responsibility to offer us a candidate that people choose to vote for. It is not our job to vote for a bad candidate! Democratic nominees and the democratic party are so bad that far too many people see Trump and the republicans as the lesser of two evils! I refuse to vote for either of them.

“WE DON’T NEED YOUR VOTE”

Then why are you guys so angry at us? Stop complaining and get those never Trumpers you think he appeals to. Too many of you are looking for someone to blame for Biden’s loss instead of being excited and putting in the work needed to get him elected. This is on YOU now. You said Biden could win without us...good luck!

BETTER GET TO WORK BIDEN LOVERS!

Many of us “Bernie Bros” have given up on the democratic party. I no longer am a democrat. Depending on which poll you believe 22 to 51% of us will not vote for Biden. This is a huge hit. It also affects down ballot senate and house races. Of course the democrats could choose to run someone better.

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The Vintage Joshifer Series: End of Love—Chapter 18

End of Love by hutchhitched

A kazillion years ago, I started posting this story. I never intended for it to drag on this long in between updates, but life happens and so does writer’s block. I know there’s little readership in the Joshifer fandom anymore, but I needed to finish it. If you’re still around to read it, thank you. If you want to dive in, I’d appreciate it. You definitely don’t have to be a Joshifer fan to read it since Josh and Jen’s characters are historical actors and not versions of their modern selves. There are three more chapters after this one, all of which will be posted this month (fifty years after the events that take place in the final chapter).

Historical events in this chapter include the following:

The Democratic National Convention took place in Chicago in August 1968. Bobby Kennedy’s assassination (see Chapter 16) threw the convention into chaos since there was no longer a clear front runner. LBJ’s vice president eventually won the nomination, but the real story was outside the convention in the streets where members of the New Left protested—including the Yippies, who nominated a pig for president (3:38). Riots broke out in the streets, and protestors, police, and journalists were all injured.

Not long after the DNC, there was a protest at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, NJ, led by those who were supporters of women’s liberation. The New York Radical Women (NYRW) and National Organization of Women (NOW), and members of consciousness raising groups all participated. Gloria Steinem, who helped found Ms. magazine and just recently toured the country promoting her new book, was one of the founders of NOW.

Shout out to @xerxia31 for drawing my attention to the quote, “The version of me you created in your mind is not my responsibility.”

Chicago, Illinois, August 1968

“Jen, are you working again today?” Amy shouted through the closed bedroom door. When there was no answer, she rapped loudly on the wood.

Half asleep, Jennifer stretched and rubbed sleep from her eyes. She rolled over and slipped her arm over Josh’s naked torso and yelled in a sleep-choked voice, “Yeah, I have to be there at noon. Sleeping in.”

“I’ll be home late tonight. Be careful.”

“Thanks, Amy,” she replied and nestled her head into Josh’s shoulder.

“Yeah, be careful,” he grunted and shifted onto his side. “Someone might try to take advantage of you or something.”

“Mmm… Good morning,” she breathed as he traced her collar bone with the tip of his tongue.

“Good morning to you. Signs point to it being very, very good.”

Jen spread her legs and sighed as he settled between them. His mouth greeted her as if they’d been separated for months, even though they’d spent the majority of the night before high and trying new positions from the Kama Sutra he’d scored from one of his friends at work.

“I’m not going to be able to walk today if you don’t stop that,” she teased in between sharp intakes of breath. She twisted her fingers in his hair as she approached her climax and tugged hard.

“Don’t gripe, doll,” he said as he tore his mouth from her. “You know you love this.”

Wrapping her arms around him, she tugged him against her and welcomed him inside. His long strokes drove her over the edge quickly, and he plunged into her as she gripped and rippled around him.

When they were finished, he tugged on a pair of bellbottoms with frayed denim hems and walked to the bathroom. He returned a few minutes later, dropped a kiss on her forehead, and left with only a brief farewell tossed over his shoulder as he walked down the hall. Stunned, she sat up and stared after him, but he didn’t return.

“Something’s still off,” she muttered before shrugging and dressing for work.

She’d only been at her new job for a few weeks. Once she’d decided to take Jack’s advice, things had moved quickly. She interviewed and got the job within a few days, allowing her to leave her job at the Tribune and take a reporter position at the local NBC affiliate. It had taken a bit to readjust to reporting news on camera instead of typing it, but she had no regrets. Her boss at the TV station was a saint compared to Mr. Murrow, and she enjoyed the new relationships she’d developed with her co-workers, most of whom were incredibly good-looking and closer to her age. The field was an entirely different world than the newsroom, and Josh seemed amused by her stories.

“Not sure what’s wrong with him today,” she mused as she made her way to work to receive her assignment and camera operator for the day.

“Jennifer,” her boss called from his office and motioned her inside. “I want you on the DNC this week. I know you usually work weekends, but Chicago doesn’t get the convention every year. You’ve got today and tomorrow to prep, and then you’re on until Thursday. I need you at the top of your game. These things are notoriously dull, so you’ll need to create some interest through interviews. Get people’s ideas.”

“On the convention floor?”

“No, you’re outside. I’ve got another team inside the convention itself,” he explained. “I need you to report on the mood outside the event.”

“Is anybody going to be hanging around outside? If people can’t get in, why would they be there?”

“I put in a call Daley’s office. The good mayor seems to think there might be trouble. Police are expecting some more radical groups to be in the streets.”

“Radical groups,” she murmured. She’d ask Josh what he’d heard when she got home. He knew more than she did about who would be there.

****

But Josh wasn’t at home when she got there. She stayed up late, studying and prepping for her assignment, but he didn’t come back. His clothes still hung in her closet, so she knew he hadn’t bailed on her and would return eventually. Still, his absence grated on her, especially when he didn’t return the next day either.

She woke early on Wednesday to featherlight kisses on her forehead. Josh settled onto her, pressing her into the mattress and winding his fingers in her hair.

“I missed you,” he whispered and wiggled his crotch between her legs.

Grouchy from lack of sleep and even more frustrated he’d been missing for the past two days without any sort of explanation, she snapped, “Where have you been, asshole?”

She almost smacked him when he chuckled, but she forgave him quickly enough when he explained he’d been planning a demonstration for the day at the DNC. He kissed her softly, lovingly, and she relented. She closed her eyes, let him inside, and moaned when he moved inside her. His political pillow talk excited him more than anything else lately, and he eventually came with a long, guttural growl in her ear. He pulled out quickly and dropped his head between her legs. His mouth worked magic on her. When he kissed her afterwards, she tasted both of them in his mouth. She wasn’t sure why that turned her on so much, but it drove her to beg for another round before she left for her shift.

****

Jen was met by a throng of protestors and twice as many police as she stationed herself outside the convention and attempted to interview as many people in the crowd as would talk to her. She wrangled a conversation with a woman named Katie, who proudly proclaimed herself a member of the Youth International Party.

“Katie, can you tell us a little bit about why you’re protesting today?” Jen yelled into the microphone and turned it toward the other woman. She bumped into the other woman when someone jostled her, and she strained to hear the answer.

Katie screamed at the top of her lungs, “Fuck the pigs! The Yippies are here to show how corrupt the police and government are. They support the military industrial complex, sending our boys to die in ’Nam while they wallow in filth in D.C. We’re here to nominate our own candidate, Pigasus the Immortal, because even a pig could run this country better than that asshole in the White House.”

Jen’s eyes widened imperceptibly, but she schooled her features as best she could. No matter what her interviewees said, she needed to remain neutral and report the news. No matter how radical or extreme, no matter if she agreed with the sentiment or not, her job was to present the facts and share what was unfolding in Grant Park to the rest of the nation.

As the crowd around her shouted, “Pigs are whores,” she marveled at the irony of nominating a pig for president while simultaneously slandering the police as whores. Tension crackled in the air, and she wondered briefly if Josh was actually somewhere in the crowd like he was supposed to be. Admittedly, while her political bent was less radical than his, she still agreed with a lot of his ideas. This, though, seemed more like it could burst into a riot immediately and not stay just a protest.

Hours passed, and she kept interviewing, kept side-stepping potential problems, and kept doing her job. As darkness fell, the crowd’s energy ticked higher. Something was going to happen. She could feel it. Thousands of police and national guard and military surrounded the protestors, and all it would take was one spark for the area to erupt.

Three minutes later it did. Someone threw a rock, the police retaliated, and a full-scale riot broke out in front of her. A Molotov cocktail whizzed over her head, and she motioned to her cameraman to start rolling. She had no idea if the station would pick up her report, but she wasn’t letting this opportunity go. This was a career-maker.

“As you can see, violence has broken out at the protests outside the Democratic National Convention here in Chicago. It’s 11:00 pm, and city ordinance says that all public parks must be closed at this hour. That hasn’t fazed the protestors, mainly members of the Youth International Party and others of the New Left, who demand an end to American involvement in Vietnam and a rehauling of the federal government.

“Chicago mayor, Richard Daley, has consistently declared that he will see law and order maintained, and he’s backed up that assertion with over 12,000 police, 5,000 national guard members, and 12,000 regular army troops, according to reports from the mayor’s office itself.

“Earlier today, Yippies, members of the Youth International Party, nominated a pig for president as a statement about the state of the government. Tonight, the establishment is fighting back. Expect more—”

Something struck her in the side of the head, and she saw stars. She focused enough to see her cameraman swivel the camera to capture the events, so she could gather herself.

“Fuck,” she muttered under her breath, careful to keep her voice low in case her microphone was broadcasting. She pressed her fingers to her forehead and grunted at the pain. When she pulled her hand back, she was stunned to find it covered in blood.

The crowd jostled her, and she realized she needed to get out of harm’s way. Her head hurt, and she swayed when she tried to take a step. Dizzy and confused, she staggered to her left. A few seconds later, she collapsed.

****

“Wake up, Jennifer.”

The voice was insistent and familiar, and she tried to listen. It hurt too much. Too tired to care, she slid back into darkness.

“Jennifer Shrader Lawrence. Wake up!”

“No. Ow. Sleep. Sleep now.”

“Come on, doll. Wake up. Right now.”

With a growl, she nudged into the hand cupping her jaw and opened her eyes. The light from a single lamp made her head explode, and she whimpered in pain. It took several seconds for her to focus. When she did, she sighed, “Josh.”

“You know, you shouldn’t get a bottle thrown at your head. You’re too pretty to carry off a scar on your forehead.” His eyes were filled with concern and a hint of anger, but his lips curved into a gentle smile that made her want to kiss him.

“Good thing I have bangs,” she joked quietly in an attempt to keep her head from swirling. “How’d we get back here? What time is it?”

“A buddy of mine gave us a ride. I saw you get hit, and I managed to pick you up before you got trampled. Also, don’t black out in the middle of a riot. That’s just common knowledge.”

She frowned. “I was working.”

“You were,” he agreed before adding forcefully. “Now, you’re not. You take a bottle to the head and bleed all over yourself, you’re in no shape to be on TV. And it’s almost 4:00 am. You’ve been out for a while.”

“I took you away from the protest.”

Josh didn’t answer. Instead, he put a bag of ice on her forehead where the bottle had hit her right over her right temple. Indicating she should take it from him, he grabbed a bottle of aspirin off the bedside table, popped three into his hand, and put them on her tongue when she opened her mouth.

“You’re going to be laid up for a few days. You should call your boss when it’s a reasonable hour. He can call in a replacement.”

“Josh, I need to work.”

“What you need to do,” he snapped, “is get well. I’m going to sleep. I have to be back out there tomorrow.”

“You’re going back?” she yelped. “Why? So you can get hurt? There are thousands of police out there and the army and Daley doesn’t give a shit about any of you.”

“Which is exactly why we’re protesting, Jennifer.”

“Doesn’t make it smart.”

“I never said I was smart.”

Before she could say another word, he flipped off the light and headed to the living room.

“Where are you going?” she demanded, her anger barely contained.

“I’ll be on the couch tonight. Go to sleep.”

“Jackass,” she muttered, but she wasn’t in any shape to drag him back to bed. Instead, she closed her eyes and drifted to sleep. When she woke up the next morning, he was gone.

****

“There you are. I thought you weren’t going to make it home before I left.”

Josh stood in the hallway, his expression unreadable, and Jen zipped her suitcase closed. She rose and crossed to him, but he didn’t reach out for her or return her tentative smile. She really shouldn’t be leaving town when their relationship was on the rocks, but her boss insisted they needed her presence in Atlantic City, that her coverage of the riots not quite two weeks prior had shot her to superstardom—at least as much as a local news correspondent could be. She was the trusted face of news in Chicago and covering the Miss USA pageant would give her a softer side that would solidify her image of being able to report everything in the news cycle. She thought it was bullshit, but she wasn’t really in the position to argue.

“This isn’t exactly the farewell I was hoping for when I asked you to make sure to say goodbye to me.”

“You shouldn’t be going,” Josh grumbled, and anger flooded through her.

“I don’t exactly have a choice, do I?” she snapped. “Not if I want to keep my job. Besides, it’s a beauty pageant. It’s not like I’m going to get hurt again. I’m not covering a riot.”

“Jennifer, there are consciousness raising groups all over the country headed to Atlantic City. They’re planning all sorts of protests against this—this—this travesty that likens females to cattle. I can’t believe you’re willing to cover something that makes other women look like pieces of meat.”

He threw up his hands, and she pursed her lips. “It’s my job.”

“Get a new one, then. You’re supporting the establishment. I thought you were against all the shit—”

“I’m a journalist, Josh. A journalist, not an activist. That’s your job.”

He glared at her before whispering, “Maybe you’re not who I thought you were.”

“The version of me you created in your mind is not my responsibility,” she said, her voice frigid. “I’m leaving. I have a flight to catch.”

He didn’t stop her when she grabbed her suitcase and stalked past him. She was down the stairs and into the cab before tears spilled over and wet her cheeks.

****

Atlantic City proved to be a lot more than Jennifer expected, and it made her furious that Josh was right. Of course, she was always mad when Josh was right and she’d argued against him. He liked to gloat, and she had no desire to go back to Chicago and hear him snicker.

Worse than that, she had an aching fear in her gut that she’d fly home, and he’d be gone. She didn’t know why, but she hadn’t been able to shake that he was planning to leave for months. It seemed only a matter of time. How could she tame Josh Hutcherson, activist and rebel and total playboy?

Why hadn’t they managed to have a discussion about their relationship in the year they’d been living together? They’d never promised to be exclusive, never had the conversation, and Jen had a sinking feeling that he was just biding time until he went back to his former life—floating from place to place and woman to woman, following the fight for the causes he supported and relationships be damned. Andre and Jackson were his only close friends, and he hadn’t seen either of them in months either.

Something wasn’t right, and she was terrified of eventually discovering what it was.

She shook herself as her mind drifted to Josh for the hundredth time in fifteen minutes. The action behind her on the pier ramped up as the pre-pageant sessions dragged on. She’d interviewed dozens of protestors, asking them their views on the women’s movement and women’s liberation. Several members of the New York Radical Women were there leading the protests, and Jen thought she’d go insane if she heard the words “consciousness raising” again.

Jen directed her attention to what she thought would provide the clearest portrayal of what the protestors were attempting to accomplish. She interviewed women carrying signs of females marked up as cuts of meat; she directed her crew to record the Freedom Trash Can as women threw in high heels and tweezers and bras and pantyhose; she heard the term bra burner and twirled to spot a fire until the woman she was interviewing explained that they’d decided not to set the trash can on fire because they feared the wooden boardwalk would go up in flames. Finally, she took copious notes during the pageant itself until protestors in the balcony unfurled a large banner and simultaneously set off a smoke bomb that drove everyone from the auditorium.

In short, she realized later when she was back in her hotel room and reviewing her notes, she’d done everything she could possibly do to both keep her job and work against the establishment Josh seemed to want to insist she supported. If she was honest, her work that day was a giant middle finger to both her boss and her whatever-the-hell he was to her because Josh sure hadn’t promised her anything.

She was fuming by the time she landed in Chicago the following evening, ready to return to her apartment and find him and his belongings missing. If she could stay mad until she found out for sure that he was gone, maybe she’d be able to survive the loss.

When she walked in the door, she had a string of curse words waiting on the tip of her tongue to fall, to distract her from the pain she knew was coming.

“Hey, doll. I missed you.”

Tears pricked her eyes, and she dropped her suitcase. She took three giant steps and threw herself into his arms. He tried to ask her what was wrong a million times, but she shut him up with her mouth every time.

“Take me to bed,” she begged, and he obliged. She was well into her third orgasm before she believed he was really there.

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I have a question for you. If Biden or someone else does get the nomination then will you vote for them?? Hopefully that won't happen but on the off chance it does. Also sorry, if you've been asked this before!!!

hey anon, don’t worry i haven’t been asked this before. this is honestly a question i’ve been mulling over for the last year, and it’s something i still kinda struggle with. because i accepted as soon as i could vote that i would almost always be voting for the “lesser of two evils,” but this time around, i’ve moved so far left that sanders feels like the lesser of two evils. 2016 being my first election shaped me in a lot of ways, but i think one of the more overarching ways was the deep distrust of electoral politics it gave me. and it’s hard for me to view candidates as a lesser evil when their track records indicate they are anything but. and it’s hard for me to trust democrats the more i learn and grow.

i think if it comes down to it, i’ll vote blue even if it’s not sanders. i’ll vote for warren even though i don’t trust her and know she’s not the progressive she claims she is. i’ll probably vote for biden even though he’s an old racist with brain worms. i’d probably vote for bloomberg, even though he’s also an old racist piece of shit pedophile. i’m not a “bernie or buster” in the sense that i’m a rabid fan of sanders who’ll throw a tantrum if he’s not the nominee. i have plenty of criticisms for sanders! but despite his flaws, sanders is the most progressive of any of the candidates by a wide margin (warren stans can bite me), and he’s also the most consistent. he’s made some gaffes, but his record is a lot cleaner and more reliable than, say, the woman who was a registered republican until 1995, or the man who worked with segregationists during jim crow, or the guy who terrorized communities of color during his time as mayor.

i’ll probably vote blue just so i don’t have to hear the DNC blame me when their centrist candidate loses. i’ll vote blue because i’m tired of being afraid that every white person in a red hat is gonna spit on me and call me a beaner. (not that they won’t do that anyway, but they won’t have a central authority to rally behind) but i’m also gonna continue to fight for the things i think are important. with sanders, i feel like i could get somewhere. he listens, and again, he’s as far left as they come in DC. but with the other neoliberal hacks, i’m not sure it’ll matter. and that’s a shitty feeling.

so yeah! i’m voting for sanders tomorrow, but in the case that he isn’t the nominee in november, i’ll probably still vote blue even if those chucklefucks don’t deserve my vote. but i’d rather not have to do that! because it’s a terrible feeling! the distinct difference between the optimism and enthusiasm i felt voting in the 2016 primaries was so different than the dejected hopelessness i felt in the generals, and i really don’t want to repeat that process again.

#the ask and the answer #this is long winded sorry im on adderall and im Mad #not at u anon obv just at The System #We Truly Live In A Society and it sucks #anonymous #hope this gives some insight into why im so pro sanders #im not a part of the cult of personality im not caucasian enoigh for that #sanders is just the only candidate that makes me feel like i can make a differencw without burning the entire system down #and also itll b a lot easier to fight othwr battles if i have healthcare lol

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angrybell · 6 years

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Another Woman Steps Forward

So a second woman steps forward with a charge against Kavanaugh. It’s in the New Yorker, I’m too lazy to link to it.

She claims he exposed himself to her at a party. During a drinking game. Where she was so drunk that when she initially came forward, she wasn’t sure of her story. It was only after the reception of the story from the Democratic staffers and the journalists that she suddenly became sure.

What am I supposed to say?

It’s been more than three decades. Suddenly now, it’s the time she wants to tell the world she saw his penis and, possibly by accident, touched it.

On the one hand, it’s a second allegation. On the other hand, it’s a less serious one. There was no force involved. If we believe he’s a sexual predator, would it not make sense that his predations would increase and he would become more bold as he gets away with them?

Look, I have daughters. G-d forbid anything happen to them that would be in the category of sexual assault. I would want them to be reported immediately. Probably to me and not my wife because she would get caught after killing the offender because she would make mistakes in her rage.

I remember the Anita Hill allegations. Yes, it was handled differently but that’s because the circumstances were difficult. Everything alleged by Ms Hill happened in a federal context, giving the FBI clear jurisdiction to investigate. What’s more, Ms. Hill’s claims were not ancient nor were they ones which could not be substantiated. I believed most of what Hill alleged (I remember there was this thing about a Coke can that just never made sense to me). What’s more, Hill came out and testified. There was no evasion like Ford.

Now, could that be because Hill is made of sterner stuff than Ford? Perhaps. Different people react to things differently and perhaps it is unfair to judge Ford by Hill. But that is my opinion.

But how are we to judge these allegations? Some people, people like the top sex crimes prosecutor in New York, have said it’s not uncommon for allegations to not be made for a long time, if ever, for women in certain age groups. That when they come out in therapy, it’s not uncommon.

So I accept that can be the case for many women. But at what point should confessions made for therapeutic purposes be used as the basis to deny someone confirmation? These claims are old. They are hard, if not impossible, to prove or disprove.

And then there’s the timing. These were not made at the outset of the confirmation hearings. They were not made during the confirmation hearings when Kavanaugh was confirmed to the DC Court of Appeals. They were made only after the Democrats took their best shot at him, twice really, with allegations ranging from lying about whether he knew he was being sent stolen documents or whether his views were too “extreme” or whether there was something hidden in the Bush documents.

It was only after those failed to gain traction that the smears started. Andntheir invidious because we are told that if we do not believe Ford and the latest accuser, then we are promoting rape culture and betraying all women, and abetting sexual predators, like those named William Jefferson Clinton and Harvey Weinstein.

At the same time, the Democrats scream that we should ignore the claims of Ms. Karen Monohan. She claims that Keith Ellison (Congressman from Minnesota, number 2 at the DNC, and current candidate for Attorney General of Minnesota) committed acts of domestic violence against her as recently as two years ago. Claims she revealed contemporaneously tonher doctors and which her son she knows about. Why is her claim treated differently by the Democrats, even though based on the reports in the news and the documents Ms. Monohan has released on twitter? Why do they say we should not believe her but we should believe those making claims against Kavanaugh?

As Harry Bosch would say, everyone matters or no one matters. And the Democrats are making it clear that no one matters if it threatens their drive for power.

So we are left with a man as he is today. We have no evidence that the man who currently sits on the bench of DC Circuit is anything other than a conservative minded judge who believes the constitution has meaning and is not subject to whatever modern interpretation we would like to assign it. We have no allegations that he is a philanderer. No one has stepped forward and claims he has installed a button to lock the door of his office to trap women in his chambers. We have not heard of him abusing staff. No one has claimed that he has sent nude pictures of himself over the Internet the minors.

We have allegations of a teenager that have no corroboration. We have allegations of a college freshman at a party exposing himself. For the sake of argument, let’s say the last one is true. Do we say that everything a person does that is in poor taste as a teenager should be used to forever tarnish them? Are we to confirm a person based solely on the mistakes they made decades ago?

Because the argument since the Clinton administration is that we’re not supposed to disqualify people for youthful indiscretions. (Yes, there was a time when smoking marijuana was considered a disqualification from holding office. That’s how old I am.) Hell, we’re even told that supporting racists and antisemitism panding people when you’re an adult is not something to be held against a person as long as it was before they were elected. Yes, I’m referring to Obama’s preacher and Ellison’s hero.

My sense is, at the end of the day, this is a cynical attempt by the Democrats to leverage the #MeToo atmosphere to defeat a judicial nomination. Absent proof of some sort, how else is a reasonable person supposed to judge the person Kavanaugh is today?

Confirm Kavanaugh.

#kavanaugh #supreme court #confirmkavanaughnow

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yesjustcallmewes · 6 years

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Vote for Us

Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Kirsten Gillibrand each spent their holiday attacking President Trump in speeches and, increasingly, in tweets.

These three far, farther, and farthest lefties each seem to think they're going to be the next president of these un-United States and apparently think that tweeting like the president so skillfully does is going to make their delusion come true. At least I hope it's a delusion, because we're all in trouble - and I do mean all of us, even the Dems in this country - if any one of the three of them does become president. That would truly be the beginning of the end.

Sen. Harris warned her followers that Trump will absolutely nominate someone to overturn Roe v. Wade because she knows the President just wants to "punish women for desiring to control their bodies, their lives, and their futures." The fact that this is all nonsense matters little to her - just say it loudly and often enough and more and more people will believe it.

For her part, Pocahontas Warren tweeted to her followers and to fellow Native Americans everywhere that Trump's short list of Supreme Court nominees was hand-picked by right-wing extremists who want to criminalize abortions. There she goes again, selling crap to her rabid followers and any uninformed idiot(s) who will fall in line.

And Sen. Gillibrand just echoes the others and mad socialist Bernie Sanders, hitting the president for strictly enforcing immigration laws, calling him a racist and a bigot over and over again. She has nothing else to offer but scurrilous anti-Trump diatribes.

No word on what CNN pundit-in-training Stormy Daniels or her delusional lawyer, who says he also might run for President because he's so much smarter than anyone else tweeted, probably because she's still touring the senior strip-club circuit and he's watching breathlessly from back-stage.

The Democrats are in deep trouble with these three stalwarts and they know it. As Trump is only getting stronger, wilier and more popular, Democrats will only get more desperate and stupid and lean ever-further to the left, each vying to be left-most.

When Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement last week, the thought of President Trump naming his successor sent Democrats into a complete meltdown, and Defcon One was signaled immediately.

The mental state of the typical diehard Democrat or any MSNBC or CNN host is now somewhere between simply terrified and that of crazy congresswoman Mad Maxine Waters, who by the way could land on the Presidential Ticket with one of these losers.

The bosses of the Democratic Party have concluded that the only way they're going to capture the House this fall and take the White House away from President Trump in 2020 is to out-Bernie Bernie and out-tweet Trump.

Here's the entirety of the vacuous Democrat platform so far, according to Michael Reagan - let me know what you think. Would YOU vote for this bunch of malarky? Do you think any rational American would?

"IF YOU WANT TO SEE TRUMP IMPEACHED, VOTE FOR US ON NOVEMBER 6.

"IF YOU WANT NANCY PELOSI IN CHARGE OF THE HOUSE AGAIN, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU WANT SOCIALISM FOR AMERICA LIKE THEY JUST VOTED FOR IN NEW YORK, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU WANT TO ELIMINATE BORDERS, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU WANT TO SEE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ALLOWED TO VOTE, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU WANT A WEAK MILITARY, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR FEDERAL INCOME TAX CUT, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU WANT MORE ABORTIONS, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU WANT TO TURN THE USA INTO KALIFORNIA, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU DON'T LIKE AMERICA'S OIL AND GAS BOOM, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU THINK THE IRAN DEAL WAS GOLDEN, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU THINK CRYIN' CHUCK SCHUMER WOULD MAKE A WONDERFUL VICE PRESIDENT, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU THINK KIM JONG ILL WITH NUKES WILL KEEP US SAFE, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU THINK BORDERS ARE FOR SISSIES, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU THINK CUBA IS OUR FRIEND, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU THINK ISRAEL IS AT FAULT IN THE MIDDLE EAST, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU THINK RUSSIA IS ON OUR SIDE IN SYRIA, VOTE FOR US.

“IF YOU THINK RUSSIA IS ON OUR SIDE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, VOTE FOR US”

"IF YOU THINK SOCIALISM IS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE, VOTE FOR US."

And the list goes on. The truth is, they've dropped their masks and are showing us their true socialist faces.

Maybe they can get help from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the avowed socialist from the Bronx who knocked off 10-term incumbent House member Joe Crowley in a Democrat primary last week. He's a liberal who thought just being a liberal guaranteed him an easy win in NY. He was as wrong about that as he was about everything else in his undistinguished 20 years in Congress.

She's only 28, but I hear some people think she's the future of the Democratic Party. So says Tom Perez, head of the DNC, with an ironic (or is that demonic?) smile.

If that's really true, and I hope it is, then that's good news for Republicans. The only thing we'll have to worry about now is who we should pick to succeed President Trump in 2024.

Just sayn'

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Today is our prize of liberty

I want to discuss what is on the table for American-conservatism heading into tomorrow's election. Sure, we all know that this nation cannot be led by liberals like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and the socialist puppet masters pulling strings from behind the scenes. That's right, what the DNC doesn't want the American people to know is that under a Biden Administration, Bolshevic Bernie Sanders will be over policy, Elizabeth Warren will be over education. AOC and Beto O'Rourke will be instrumental in creating domestic policy, including the most restrictive measures in gun rights and energy. Just imagine the lunacy on display during the Democratic nomination process - a literal-liberal "Who's Who" of communistic thought. The thoughts and actions of free this and free will become a reality should Biden defeat Trump - and guess who will be on the hook for all of this? That's right, you, me, and every other working American! Democrats in this country have a plan, ladies and gentlemen. The goal is this - destroy our democratic republic and make every living and breathing American wholly dependent on the government for everything! We all need to be aware of what is on the liberal-agenda. From healthcare to energy, packing the court to the domestic and international policies that will weaken our nation here and abroad, today's liberals have a master plan - and defeating Trump is just the beginning. Biden's campaign manager has already stated that under no circumstances will Trump win - what does that tell you? What that should tell you is that the Democrats will not ever concede - and that they have a far more sinister plan in place to guarantee that under no circumstances will Trump lead this nation again. Why else do you think that the left was against ABC to the Supreme Court? I want all of you listening to know that the fight, this fight, exceeds far broader reaches than just who occupies the Oval after Tuesday. Yes, reelecting Donald Trump again as President is vital; however, we must ensure that Republicans maintain control of the United States Senate. And that is the fight that our nation cannot afford to lose. Across this nation, local, state, and federal offices are up for grabs - none more crucial than for the U.S. Senate. Those offices against incumbent and Republican leaders such as S.C. Sen. Lindsay Graham, M.E. Sen. Susan Collins, and N.C. Sen. Thom Tillis cannot be afforded the liberal-cause. South Carolina Democrat Jaime Harrison has shattered congressional fundraising records, bringing in $57 million in the final quarter for his U.S. Senate campaign against Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham. Ladies and gentlemen, this should be an eye-opener to you - the left in this country want to ensure that they unseat Republican leadership, especially those like Sen. Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. There are a little over 5 million people that live in the state of S.C. If you equate the 57 million dollars that the DNC and their left-winged financers have pushed into that state to upset Graham, the citizens of S.C. could have received $11,000 each - not per family, instead, each citizen, man, woman, and child in the state of S.C. Do not for one second believe that Democrats are against big money and its influence. Here in North Carolina, Senate candidate Cal Cunningham is still being endorsed by the left - no mind that he was caught and has since refused to answer questions about cheating on his wife with various women, including military personnel wives. Cunningham, an enlisted officer himself, prided himself and his campaign on honesty and trust - a man of family values. But now, the story got yet again buried by the left-wing media, because for them, a philandering, dishonest, and cheating punk like Cunningham is acceptable - and the loss is the people of my state of North Carolina. For Democrats, and those who voted for someone like Cunningham, their vote means nothing - for all of the crap they blasted Trump on, means nothing. The real question is this, where do you see yourself and this country in 48-hours? The left has made their anti-liberty list well-known - in fact, they have not attempted to hide it anyway, shape, or form. Like sheep to the slaughter, many in this nation have taken the bait - bought into the Bolschivism blunders that killed every country before them. The left is scared, ladies and gentlemen. If you haven't read the reports, the U.S. Secret Service, under President Trump's direction, erected a non-scalable fence in front of The White House ahead of today's election. Do you think this is to keep Trump supporters from scaling the wall to protest his reelection? No, no, it is because when every vote is counted, and undeniable proof develops that America is no in favor of the Democratic Party-direction, the left's approach will burn everything to the ground. Unfortunately, in liberal-led cities and towns, lives will be lost. And why? Because the left does not care about freedom - they do not care for law and order. Instead, they care about one thing - anything against Donald Trump and those who support them. Progressive thought was built to push our nation into the past tense - that is what they want - and they will stop at nothing to get it. But luckily for you, for me, and everyone in this country that doesn't have a voice or had their's stolen at the hands of socialistic-thought and action, you have me, and you have those people who never failed, never wavered, and have cast their vote for continued liberty.

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sinrau · 4 years

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Donald Trump during CNN debate (Photo: Screen capture via video )

The Republican Convention would normally have many meetings among party loyalists and state chairs working on updates to the GOP platform. But this year, there won’t be a Republican Party platform. The new platform is supporting Trump, the party said in a press release.

What they have done, however, is copy and paste the platform from 2016, which trashes the current administration. They meant for it to be an attack on former President Barack Obama, but it doesn’t say the name.

Because the GOP moved their convention from Charlotte, North Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida, back to Charlotte and then ultimately virtually and at the White House, it didn’t give enough time to conduct an actual national convention. Instead, the GOP convention will be just be all about Donald Trump.

It was something that made Twitter politicos note how emblematic it is of a Republican Party that has no real policies or plans than of Donald Trump.

You can see the mockery in the tweets below:

https://twitter.com/JWLmageditor/status/1297721089150169088

Nobody paying attention to what has been happening the last 3-plus years should be surprised that the Republican Party has no platform other than saluting and normalizing the whims of their divisive and mercurial leader.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) August 24, 2020

The GOP just announced that there is no 2020 platform this year other than to reassert “the Party’s strong support for President Donald Trump and his Administration.” pic.twitter.com/0wEF2Dnco3

— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) August 24, 2020

Amazingly this is not a parody. pic.twitter.com/GtxS1l1uWC

— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) August 24, 2020

Makes perfect sense. No agenda, no principles, no convictions, no ideology. Stand for nothing other than adoring the leader. https://t.co/NxP0ILzYoj

— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) August 24, 2020

This is dry language, so let me translate:

“There will be no Republican Party platform this year, only support for Trump.”

Really. pic.twitter.com/kIOgA73iPZ

— Joshua A. Geltzer (@jgeltzer) August 24, 2020

The GOP announces that there will be no substantive republican platform. It simply is to support Donald Trump. That, folks, is a hallmark of fascism.

— A Worried Citizen (@ThePubliusUSA) August 24, 2020

Over time parties taken over by authoritarians lose identity apart from the leader- their resources and time are monopolized by the need to defend him no matter what he says or does. https://t.co/s33CslP0tW

— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) August 24, 2020

I remember a @GOP lawyer once telling me how much the Republican Party cared about its platform. That regardless of the nominee, the GOP rank and file cared about the individual policies in it.

Apparently that was complete bullshit. [^PartyOfTrump](https://twitter.com/hashtag/PartyOfTrump?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) https://t.co/xX0LtK6xN4

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) August 24, 2020

Both hilariously pathetic and terrifying, but also if Trump proposed a modest progressive tax increase or nominated a judge the Federalist Society didn’t like, we’d be quickly reminded that the Republican Party has a platform that even Trump can’t override. https://t.co/jdoXWUu5d8

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) August 24, 2020

Trump’s Plan for 2nd Term: There is no planTrump’s Health Care Plan to replace ACA: There is no planTrump’s Response to the COVID-19 Crisis: There is no planRepublican Party Platform for 2020:

There is no plan

— Max Zeppelin (@zeppelin_max) August 24, 2020

Remember when all the very serious political journalists were concern trolling how ‘light on policy’ the DNC was? The Republican party literally stands for nothing other than as a personality cult for Trump (and a lot of racism). That’s it. https://t.co/vjVrwzLAzf

— Centrism Fan Acct

(@Wilson__Valdez) August 24, 2020

John did you notice the Republican Platform now consists of nothing but blind obedience to Donald? And did you see the RNC schedule? I did and you’re not even invited.

You’re a sucker, John. We are all laughing at you pic.twitter.com/8K6Q9o8U4V

— Pissed off Dad in Texas (@pissed_off_dad) August 24, 2020

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) August 24, 2020

With the RNC deciding to nuke its platform, and fully endorse Trumpism, there is no longer the excuse of being a Republican even though you disagree with Trump.

There is no Republican party anymore, it’s 100% the Trump Party.

— Godless Iowan says 72 days! (@GodlessIowan) August 24, 2020

So, I guess the GOP just announced that the 2020 Republican platform will be whatever fascist policies that Donny comes up with.

Certainly makes the stakes clear on November 3rd.

— Wallis Weaver (@wallisweaver) August 24, 2020

Anyone who doesn’t think the United States is heading down the same Autobahn Nazi Germany used better look at this.

No Republican platform. Just whatever Trump wants. https://t.co/rh8dc5a7Ms

— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) August 24, 2020

Most of this was written as though someone else has been president for four years, but Rube Nation will love it. https://t.co/upZ9DofFs4

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 24, 2020

Full cult. https://t.co/HLMaQmbhqB

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 24, 2020

Party platforms have never counted for a ton with me, but we now are headed into a GOP Convention that will be 75% the President or his family members, and has no platform attached just a “whatever the fuck Trump says is fine with us.”

— Liz Mair (@LizMair) August 24, 2020

The Republican party will not release a platform during the 2020 RNC convention.

Their resolution is to follow and support whatever Donald Trump says the party should do, and to resolve that the media should be nicer to them.

This should be a fun week. pic.twitter.com/GJN0Dm14wv

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) August 24, 2020

The latest reminder that in just four years one of America’s two major political parties was quite easily overtaken by a demagogue/con man and became a cult. https://t.co/hwVoN8yBvL

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) August 24, 2020

Party dogma is Comrade Stalin‘s personal affair and it’s none of our business, comrade https://t.co/dXrWCDo11q

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 24, 2020

How’s this for Christian Values? @JerryFalwellJr used to have his biz partner have sex with his wife @BeckiFalwell so he could watch!

A panel of MSNBC commentators and political analysts couldn’t help but ridicule President Donald Trump for his new claim that he has done more in his first term than he promised, touting the “Space Force.”

“I would strengthen what we have done and do new things,” Trump told Fox News’ Steve Hilton in a Sunday interview. “Space Force, as an example, I have done more — I have an interesting distinction, and actually sort of a bad person in terms of doesn’t like Republicans or me said Trump is whether you like him or not, he’s done more than he said he was going to do, like, I never mentioned Space Force, that campaign, and we did Space Force, and I never mentioned a lot of things.”

On Monday, Republican Voters Against Trump dropped a new ad featuring Miles Taylor, a former Homeland Security chief of staff in the Trump administration who recently came out in support of Joe Biden.

“I served as the chief of staff of the Department of Homeland Security under the Donald Trump administration, and it was my job to help the Department of Homeland Security to keep our country safe,” said Taylor. “What we saw was terrifying.”

“The president told us to stop giving money to people whose houses had burned down because California didn’t support him,” said Taylor. “He said he wanted to have a deliberate policy of ripping children away from their parents. He was unfocused, undisciplined. I have to support Joe Biden for president.”

Republicans ridiculed for not having a platform and just being a ‘cult’: ‘Hilariously pathetic and terrifying’

#IFTTT #WordPress

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