US Election 2020

[pErvinalia]

No one will do well if he gets re-elected. Not least America.

[Cunt]

Poor Tero, I don't think he will do well when Trump gets reelected.

He is a large part of the Trump campaign! I'm not sure if he is willing, but that almost doesn't matter.

[Tero]

Malaika Jabali: ‘Sanders instills confidence, unlike Buttigieg’
This Democratic primary season will likely be defined by how the candidates fought to rhetorically out-progressive each other. An election cycle ago, we may have never imagined a billionaire like Tom Steyer talking about systemic racism and arguing for reparations on a major debate stage. As the debates and elections advance, the candidates will continue to sound relatively left-leaning. Yet, few candidates instill confidence that their positions will move beyond campaign talking points into policies they will actually fight for once in office. Sanders is one of those few.

Despite questions about socialism and the viability of Medicare for All, Sanders was steady and commanding. While candidates talked about uniting the party, no other frontrunner can claim to have the economic, ethnic, and ideological diversity as Sanders, who has the most people of color and lowest income constituency in his donor base and success attracting Independents.

Contrasting Buttigieg, who seems to believe billionaires are mere constituents and not a part of a power structure that siphons wealth from everyday Americans, Sanders staked his allegiance assertively with the working class. He warned that none of the progressive policies being promoted can pass if corporate and billionaire donors have undue influence on candidates, and he is the only candidate who doesn’t have billionaire financing in his campaign coffers. Talk is cheap, and few but Sanders seem like they will prioritize people over billionaire patrons when it’s time to deliver.

Malaika Jabali is a public policy attorney, writer, and activist

[Svartalf]

Iz funny, we're having town council elections next month, and in Paris, the race is hard, but the socialist mayor and the mainline right candidate seem to have a plot together to refuse all debates with each other or with other candidates... personally, I don't know whom I might vote for as all candidates I know about disgust me.

[Cunt]

No-one in my local area appeals as well. Sorry to hear that about your area. I hope you find good reason to vote.

[Tero]

“You got to show up and do better,” she said. “I can’t give up 12 hours of my time — I’m a busy person myself — if he doesn’t think it’ll make a difference.”

Biden once predicted he’d win the state but, in recent months, began lowering expectations. At the outset of Friday night’s debate in Manchester he said, “I took a hit in Iowa and I’ll probably take one here.”

Meanwhile, a new poll of the first-in-the-nation primary showed the former vice president slipping to a distant third in the race with Bernie Sanders as the frontrunner and Pete Buttigieg in between.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/0 ... ire-112545

[Cunt]

this might be what Tyrranical meant by 'downfall of Biden'. Or he might have meant Hunter. Or James...

[pErvinalia]

Why don't you educate yourself instead of forever guessing?

[Cunt]

Why don't you educate yourself instead of forever guessing?

I do, just differently than you.

I'm just here to chit-chat anyway. Why don't you get serious with someone else. I'm just enjoying the freakshow that is the Dem cage-fight.

[pErvinalia]

It doesn't look like a freak show to me. Seems pretty vanilla. If you want to talk about a freak show let's talk about the Repubs in 2016. That was cringe-worthy.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Smug declaration of Biden's failure and/or predictions of same may be premature. He's still in the lead in most national polls.

[L'Emmerdeur]

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[Cunt]

It doesn't look like a freak show to me. Seems pretty vanilla. If you want to talk about a freak show let's talk about the Repubs in 2016. That was cringe-worthy.

Yeah, Romney might still be sore about that.

The real cringe though, was the Dems cheating Bernie out of the primaries, and then him declining to defend himself. I like the guy (when he has time to speak for himself) but not for president.

This time, it could be good, but it will be entertaining watching them realize they have to attack each other.

So who do you think it will be? I like Yang best, but he hasn't got a hope. I think it will be someone 'as yet undeclared', and it will be dramatic.

Though it could just keep being a clown car. Maybe they'll give up going for a leader, and turn to consensus government instead...

[pErvinalia]

Yebut he didn't win one of the fifty-odd on offer.

(I don't actually know how many there are,... Assuming there's one per state.)

[pErvinalia]

I think it will be Bernie, if he doesn't die first.