Yoda rage.
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I don’t know. I actually do think that he will do what’s best for the general election and for the country. The stakes are too high this time.
But what do I know? Like I said, I never expected that we would be where we are now.
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This is beginning to sound like some B-grade disaster flick from the '70s.
Which befits Trump, I suppose.
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You mentioned ‘training’. I wonder what form that would take beyond actually running and taking your lumps and learning from it. And you know me well enough to know I also see money as the great black smudge on the system. But point a way out from under it without simply abandoning the field to the opposition who surely will resist any meaningful change. They like it fine just the way it is.
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Again, I don’t know. I don’t believe that “leadership” put it’s thumb on the scale for a 37 year old gay mayor of a small Midwestern city. Even though he didn’t make it, he did very well anyways.
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Michigan seems like a dream to me now…
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He was a very strong candidate.
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The Democratic Party can have some say in how to fund its own primary elections. It can also decide how else to help even things out for less … established candidates.
Or are you referring to “the opposition” within the party? (I may have been, too.)
That’s what I figured, yes.
Thanks.
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I had a couple of comments on Bernie on SM yesterday, as follows, in the context of the Harris endorsement yesterday:
Actually, he was not the presumptive nominee, crazty bernie was and there was no way quid pro joe could catch him except for these others to drop out and give their delegates to him.
Crazy bernie has been screwed again, he’ll probably get another mansion or two for it though.
Yes rally around Trump, cause you will have him another 4 yrs snowflake…
Sure, quid pro joe won last week, but counting just the delegates that he won, compared to the ones that crazy bernie had already amassed, quid pro joe could not catch him. It was little petey and koklabear releasing theirs to him along with the ones he won, that did it for him. Had those two not dropped out, he would not be the presumptive nominee, crazy bernie still would.
AND, as for did I vote for crazy bernie, HELL NO, I have NEVER voted for ANY dim-0, and never will.
And this is out of blue State Connecticut, for g-d’s sake…
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This seems like a surefire way to bring charges of ‘fixing’ the electoral process. The solution, it seems to me, can only be a complete refutation of Citizens United and a much more stringent limit on campaign spending. This would require Democratic control of both Houses and the Oval Office and the political will to force the issue. I don’t see it happening in the near term. Our plate is full (understatement).
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I’m afraid you would still encounter resistance from SCOTUS, which will be in this configuration for a very long time. Citizens United was a judicial decision, not a legislative action. Any law the President signs would subsequently have to work its way through the courts all the way to SCOTUS and probably be on hold until such time as it was finally adjudicated.
I don’t see this going away quite so easily.
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Crazy is everywhere — it’s just some places are more heavily infested than others…
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This seems like a surefire way to bring charges of ‘fixing’ the electoral process.
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So you do think the way we fund our primary elections was handed down to Moses on unerasable stone tablets, after all?
Waiting for that is … part of what got us two octogenarians.
As Voltaire said, this inaction looks like making the perfect the enemy of the good.
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Not what I said or meant, of course.
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Even though he didn’t make it, he did very well anyways.
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Yes, he did fine, until the money ran out.
PS: I still think he was intellectually dishonest, so there!
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Biden forecasted winner by FiveThirtyEight…
And lifelong Republican endorses Biden in Sterling Heights = Michigan Mayor Michael Taylor
Addendum:
3rd Party Former Candidate and Putin’s dinner guest Jill Stein tweeted about Biden:
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Both Sanders and Trump attract people who need a Cult of Personality. For both men, their minions are voting for the man far more than any policy.
That makes it much more powerful and there is something else that I picked up from a film about Arturo Sandoval:
Sandoval’s girlfriend: “WHY do you think my father adores Castro? I’ll tell you! It’s because he BELIEVES in him. Don’t you see?”
Sandoval: "NO!! The reason he follows Castro is because following Castro is all your father has left…Because if he ADMITS that Castro was the wrong man, then he will have to admit to himself that his allegiance to Castro was a lie AND THAT HE WASTED HIS TIME ON THE WRONG THING".
People who fall in love with the man as opposed to the policy (or a set of rational precepts) have a great deal of difficulty in going back and/or admitting that they were wrong.
Pete lovers? Amy lovers? Harris lovers?
They are not bound by the hero-worship as much. The latter are simply candidates, not god-like Saviors.
So…Bernie Bots, have at me. Unleash that venom.
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Not altogether satisfied with this exchange. It has the odor of intellectual dishonesty. Not sure if it’s you or me.
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A headLINE only a Kinney couLD LOVe.
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My hate for bernie would transcend that of the dotard if that’s what he does. I could see him pairing up with Jill Stein in one last act of narcissistic revenge.
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Campaign finance laws would be a key reform. All Dems running are for it.
Not just Bernie.
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