All purpose news and politics thread part v: The quickening

[Mister Mets]

This new astronaut seems to have a very superhero background.

Congratulations! Dr. @JonnyYKim, former enlisted #NavySEAL member, math degree holder @uofsandiego, & @harvardmed alumnus, for becoming the 1st Korean-American @NASA astronaut to embark on assignments to the @Space_Station, Artemis missions to the Moon, and potentially Mars!

He should avoid strange ruins and cosmic rays.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Democrats voice concerns over Sanders

Given he’ll be 79 in September, Bernie knows this is his last shot at the White House, so he’s pulling out all the stops, and that includes stepping on toes and perhaps, alienating the party. I suspect he probably doesn’t care, it’s damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

[Tami]

This new astronaut seems to have a very superhero background.



He should avoid strange ruins and cosmic rays.

Actually, this world could use some superheroes.

[Theleviathan]

So this fake news was posted here as well

What is your basis for calling it fake?

[Billy Batson]

What is your basis for calling it fake?

The timing
Going against Bernie's past actions and opinions (about his opinions about non-white men running for office and him pushing Warren to run in 2016)

The description of that meeting is based on the accounts of four people: two people Warren spoke with directly soon after the encounter, and two people familiar with the meeting.

Based on the accounts of four people who weren't in the room.



Sad smear campaign from the Warren team

[Superbat]

I don't usually associate CNN with 'fake news'. Still, there is room for discussion.

Why did you leave out Bernie's response?

Sanders denied the characterization of the meeting in a statement to CNN.

"It is ludicrous to believe that at the same meeting where Elizabeth Warren told me she was going to run for president, I would tell her that a woman couldn't win," Sanders said. "It's sad that, three weeks before the Iowa caucus and a year after that private conversation, staff who weren't in the room are lying about what happened. What I did say that night was that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could. Do I believe a woman can win in 2020? Of course! After all, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 3 million votes in 2016."

Warren's getting desperate.

Her campaign's circling the drain and it's over for her if she doesn't make the top 3 in Iowa.

Their meeting was reported in 2018 and there was no mention of Bernie saying a woman couldn't win.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/u...ders-2020.html

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Bernie is on video saying he believes a woman could be President of the United States....... in 1988

Funny now that they realize he can win it’s getting vicious

[Superbat]

These are the people calling Bernie sexist.

[SquirrelMan]

Meanwhile, outside the arena of Democrats (and non-Democrats running in the Democratic primaries) bashing each others' heads in, Republicans are still the worst people in the world.

Karyn Turk, a former Mrs. Florida pageant winner turned conservative commentator who sometimes appeared wearing a “Roger Stone Did Nothing Wrong” shirt, was just sentenced to federal prison for stealing social security checks from her elderly mother.

[Theleviathan]

The timing
Going against Bernie's past actions and opinions (about his opinions about non-white men running for office and him pushing Warren to run in 2016)

Based on the accounts of four people who weren't in the room.



Sad smear campaign from the Warren team

I mean, if it is a smear from Warren.....Sanders' campaign sorta invited it with his own BS right?

Or it could be something that burned her, she swallowed it, and now that Sanders isn't playing fair she decided to let that one float out there.

[Scott Taylor]

Yah, don't mess with the Old White Men (TM)!

[Superbat]

I mean, if it is a smear from Warren.....Sanders' campaign sorta invited it with his own BS right?

Or it could be something that burned her, she swallowed it, and now that Sanders isn't playing fair she decided to let that one float out there.

Bernie didn't smear Warren.

Everything said was 100% on the mark. Her base is college educated and more affluent than Bernie's.

Yah, don't mess with the Old White Men (TM)!

Bernie has the most diverse base of anyone running.

We support him because he won't advance the interests of old white men.

[Theleviathan]

Bernie didn't smear Warren.

Everything said was 100% on the mark. Her base is college educated and more affluent than Bernie's.



Bernie has the most diverse base of anyone running.

We support him because he won't advance the interests of old white men.

Are you being facetious? You know damn well that was below the belt.

[Billy Batson]

I mean, if it is a smear from Warren.....Sanders' campaign sorta invited it with his own BS right?

Or it could be something that burned her, she swallowed it, and now that Sanders isn't playing fair she decided to let that one float out there.

News cycle began with some fake document from someone in Bernieland with talking points that offer a mild strategic contrast with Warren. It is ending with Warren's camp smearing Sanders as sexist and echoing HRC's charge that he divided the party in '16. This is gross and desperate.

[Superbat]

Are you being facetious? You know damn well that was below the belt.

Don't call it a smear and say it's the same thing as making up a story about Bernie.

You can say it was in poor taste but it wasn't a lie. It wasn't a smear.