Biden for President?

[theprestige]

I don't mean Trump and Sanders as individuals but as representative of those who support them. Thus my use of the plural "wingers".

I don't think even that is accurate.

Bernie's supporters are by definition a faction of revolutionary progressives.

Trump's supporters run the entire gamut of moderates, conservatives, and right-wing revolutionaries. Not all of them are the extreme right-wingers of your stereotype. And I think this goes right back to what they are as individuals.

 

[Stacyhs]

I don't think even that is accurate.

Bernie's supporters are by definition a faction of revolutionary progressives.

Trump's supporters run the entire gamut of moderates, conservatives, and right-wing revolutionaries. Not all of them are the extreme right-wingers of your stereotype. And I think this goes right back to what they are as individuals.

Okey dokey.

 

[Stacyhs]

Florida has been called for Biden.

 

[Mike!]

Illinois is heading that way too.

 

[wasapi]

Illinois is heading that way too.

And it did. The percentages in those states look bad for Sanders.

 

[d4m10n]

Not to mention AZ:

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1240112481479073794

 

[acbytesla]

This is so bizarre, a month ago, the pundits were saying the last rites on Joe and today he is the presumptive Democratic nominee.

 

[Elagabalus]

This is so bizarre, a month ago, the pundits were saying the last rites on Joe and today he is the presumptive Democratic nominee.

 

[Belz...]

Florida has been called for Biden.

And what did it say?

 

[theprestige]

And what did it say?

As it stood up from the uncomfortable plastic chair, Florida said nothing. It just waved its hand at the clerk in acknowledgement, strode across the waiting room floor, and entered Biden's office. What was said after that is between the two of them.

 

[dudalb]

Sanders is "assesing" his campaign. We all know what usually happens when a caindidate "assesees" his campaign.

 

[TragicMonkey]

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eta: Damn it, I posted that as a joke but I actually teared up, it's such a good song, and she had a lovely voice!

 

[Stacyhs]

Florida has been called for Biden.

And what did it say?

Bernie, you really shouldn't have praised anything that Castro did.

 

[Baylor]

The US also pays more into the healthcare industry from taxes - both per capita and as a percentage of GDP - than UK. I don't know about other countries with socialised medicine, but I imagine it's similar.

I also saw an article the other day, which I may look for a little later if I have the time and inclination, which gave the results of studies by several think tanks from both sides of the political spectrum, and they all came to the conclusion that socialised medicine in the US would cost less over all than the current model.

Once again

Nobody. *******. Cares.

Go tell all the black voters giving the nomination to Biden about GDP and healthcare and how white countries do it so much better. (I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that exchange.)

Then you might actually learn something about US politics for a change and maybe then you'll stop repeating stupid talking points for bug people.

 

[JoeMorgue]

God damn is anything not about race to you?

 

[Baylor]

God damn is anything not about race to you?

Plenty of things. But in an environment like this forum, where white people living in all white countries have no clue how mixed race countries work, you have to bring it up.

The Democratic primaries afford an excellent example. This is the one time in the election cycle where blacks assert themselves politically. And they gave the Democratic nomination for US president to Biden. Lo and behold the all white, "not racist" members hate what blacks are doing.

 

[Garrison]

Sanders is "assesing" his campaign. We all know what usually happens when a caindidate "assesees" his campaign.

Hopefully he will recognize the need to avoid another 2016 and remind his supporters that whatever the outcome of the primaries the real target is Trump.

 

[Distracted1]

If she is willing, Biden should immediately announce Liz Warren as his running mate.

Is there anyone else that seems more prepared to handle the crisis we find ourselves in?

 

[Segnosaur]

If she is willing, Biden should immediately announce Liz Warren as his running mate.

Is there anyone else that seems more prepared to handle the crisis we find ourselves in?

I am not saying Warren would not make a competent VP. However, I don't think the VP needs to be the one "handling" the crisis... I think Biden would do a good enough job making the 'big' decisions, and you would have plenty of minions (such as the CDC) making recommendations and handling the day-to-day stuff. So selecting Warren to be VP just because she could handle the Covid19 crisis would be a mistake.

Better to select someone younger, since they would (hopefully) become the next Democrat to become president after Biden is done.

 

[turingtest]

Once again

Nobody. *******. Cares.

Go tell all the black voters giving the nomination to Biden about GDP and healthcare and how white countries do it so much better. (I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that exchange.)

Then you might actually learn something about US politics for a change and maybe then you'll stop repeating stupid talking points for bug people.

Gotta admit- there's something almost endearingly funny about someone decrying other folks "repeating stupid talking points" in political discussions who continually blats "bug people" as if that's some sort of meaningful point instead of just a dismissive and simplistic meme.

Did I say "endearingly"? Ok, that may be the wrong word here- it's actually more like "disgusting" when it's from someone with an obvious bug up their ass about something who persists in pulling it out and insisting everyone else should look very closely at it.