All purpose news and politics thread part v: The quickening

[aja_christopher]

Essay Bernie wrote in 1972 talks about women fantasizing about being repeatedly raped by 3 men while having sex with her partner. I'm beginning to understand why Bernie Bros have latched onto Saint Bernard.

I think it's enough to question Sanders on his policies without having to resort to the same tactics many of his followers employ.

It seems to be a more effective method of addressing his shortcomings regardless.

[PaulBullion]

Julian Assange says he was promised a Trump pardon if he would lie about Russia’s DNC hacking

Consider the source, of course. Assange is not the most honest individual. But this still would make headlines in a normal century:

Assange said that the pardon was conditional on him publicly announcing that Russia had nothing to do with the attack on the 2016 election.

[MacrossPlus]

It’s pretty fucked up that the media has pretty much erased Elisabeth Warren from the polls

[PaulBullion]

New details on an old Sanders story in The Atlantic today: Bernie Sanders was so close to running a primary against Obama for re-election that Harry Reid had to step in to stop him

It took Reid two conversations over the summer of 2011 to get Sanders to scrap the idea, according to multiple people who remember the incident, which has not been previously reported.

That summer, Sanders privately discussed a potential primary challenge to Obama with several people, including Patrick Leahy, his fellow Vermont senator. Leahy, alarmed, warned Jim Messina, Obama’s presidential reelection-campaign manager. Obama’s campaign team was “absolutely panicked” by Leahy’s report, Messina told me, since “every president who has gotten a real primary has lost a general [election].”

David Plouffe, another Obama strategist, confirmed Messina’s account, as did another person familiar with what happened.

[SquirrelMan]

Julian Assange says he was promised a Trump pardon if he would lie about Russia’s DNC hacking

Consider the source, of course. Assange is not the most honest individual. But this still would make headlines in a normal century:

This is going to lead to adorable brain gymnastics by the usual MAGA subjects.

As some of you may remember, I have a lot of suspicious Trump supporting twitter accounts bookmarked and keep reporting their worst TOS violations. Assange has been an utterly messianic figure to them. They considered everything he said the complete truth (like claiming torture or denying the rape allegations against him) and see Wikileaks as the only Whistleblower the world needs.

Having him throw Trump under the bus like this is ...
<chef's kiss>

[Tami]

2020-02-19 Briahna Joy Gray on Twitter realDonaldTrump is right The dems pushed the Russia did t.jpg

Twitter Link

Bernie Sanders Press Secretary. Wonder if she still feels this way.

[SquirrelMan]

My god, it's all pieces of the same puzzle.

Briahna covered up for Putin.

Briahna proudly voted for Jill Stein in the general election 2016 and encouraged others to do so.

Briahna now trying very hard to make Trup face Sanders.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

https://apple.news/A33qyRIUzOQCIqU5B7pZXKg

Yale Study.

Medicare For All would save US 450billion and prevent 70000 deaths. But taxes tho

[BeastieRunner]

https://apple.news/A33qyRIUzOQCIqU5B7pZXKg

Yale Study.

Medicare For All would save US 450billion and prevent 70000 deaths. But taxes tho

And it's still mostly using the taxes correctly, not a total raise for everyone (just the high yield).

[MacrossPlus]

Why would she push it tho?

[Celgress]

[PaulBullion]

John Rood—the Pentagon's top policy official who raised concern about withholding $250M in security assistance just hours after Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—has reportedly been asked for his resignation.

[Kieran_Frost]

George Zimmerman sues Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg for defamation, seeks $265 million
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...on/4808184002/

I... I don't know if Zimmerman understands this is GOOD press for them???

Why is it always the centrist supporters that are cool with Republicans winning like all the Dems who voted McCain in 2008?

That's... why they're centralists? They can go either way?

Also the BBC are fairly legit with foreign news, they just swing a bit right on uk based politics.

I honestly can't work out what the BBC is... I hear the right say "classic left win BBC" and the left saying "right wing BBC". It often seems it's anytime the BBC say anything negative about one side of the other, it's because they secretly favour the other side. Maybe it's just them being impartial?

I am not calling you a liar, but of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.

This is my favourite thing I've heard all week. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can I steal this and use it? It's hilarious as a phrase!

[Mister Mets]

New details on an old Sanders story in The Atlantic today: Bernie Sanders was so close to running a primary against Obama for re-election that Harry Reid had to step in to stop him

It seems Sanders did two things the left agrees with: he recognized that Obama was much too centrist, but he also didn't go so far as to take steps to damage the party. He considered something but opted not to do it when informed what the potential consequences are.

[SquirrelMan]

Why would she push it tho?

Calling it now:

Briahna Joy Gray is a Russian asset.