Last edited by Jack Dracula; 03-27-2020 at 10:42 AM.
The Cover Contest Weekly Winners ThreadSo much winning!!
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
“It’s your party and you can cry if you want to.” - Captain Europe
I thought you were a leftist. Sounding pretty Centrist to me.
TYT's Cenk was wrong about the Russia thing. It went nowhere. He was wrong about Trump dropping out, he was also wrong about entrenched corruption is in the Democratic party.
I learned that Sanders should have gone harder and negative and not called any of those people his friend.
I've learned to fight entrenched Establishment types even harder. Keep factual information, but fight even stronger and to keep supporting true progressive agendas.
That help?
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
We feel he is entitled to the vote. Literally what I said. But I guess now that you say it. It's okay? Lol.
Young voters get demoralized easier when the party and candidates don't care about their issues above lip service. Then when they feel if a system is rigged. They stop giving a fuck.
You make it sound so simplistic. It's not.
It was working. He crushed Nevada and was predicted to win the majority of states on Super Tuesday. But then the great Centrist coalition formed that Monday and most voters according to exit polls, made up their minds that day.
Going negative doesn't mean personal attacks. Bernie is too nice for that. He could have focused more heavily on Bidens record stop calling him his friend, run more aggressive ads. Defended his supporters from media attacks, not take the Bernie Bros bait. Etc.
Because after Bernie the next Progressives to challenge power will suddenly have Bros too.
The Cover Contest Weekly Winners ThreadSo much winning!!
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
“It’s your party and you can cry if you want to.” - Captain Europe
I’m going to push back on this.
You brought up Kavanaugh. Exactly 3 people had allegations against him.
1. Was Ford. She is universally considered the most credible. She allegedly never brought it up until around 2011 when his name was floated around as a possible SC pick. She doesn’t have anybody at the time who backs her story up. She is unable to recall the date or location of the alleged attempted assault.
So for posterity the most credible person against Kavanaugh has no recollection of anything surrounding the incident besides it happened and only said he attempted to sexually assault her, and the first instance of her speaking about it was when he was already an accomplished judge who was primed to be in a position of power.
Reade is accusing Biden of an actual sexual assault that supposedly occurred and multiple people back up that she’s been trying to get the story out
2. Ramirez who the extent of that was that at a drunken party in full view party pulled his penis out in her face. She initially said she wasn’t sure who did it. And nobody was found who gave a first hand account. New York Times determines she could not be certain it was even Kavanaugh who did it.
3. Swetnick who never accused him of anything besides being at a party where other people allegedly raped her.
*there is also one other person who accused him of rape but she later said it a false report.
I have no interest in either defending Kavanaugh or smearing Biden. But I don’t think this is a great example of “well we took this seriously because we were prudent with multiple credible accusers”. No there was one accuser who was remotely credible, didn’t accuse him of nearly anything as serious as what Biden is accused of and can’t tell you when or where the allegation occurred.
It just feels selective.
Also plenty of married and/or successful men committed sexual assaults. Trump is someone who is accused of multiple while married. Weinstein wasn’t married but he was rich beyond belief and didn’t need to assault anyone. And Bill Cosby has been married since 1964 and we know how that went.
I don’t think the “oh well he was married and why would he need to anyways” is a great counter argument either. It’s just never been a real deterrent and it’s not about access to sex. It’s a power thing.
Anyways I’m not condemning Biden. But it’s beneficial to nobody to be selective on this because this isn’t a whole lot less credible then other instances we took seriously, and the Republicans won’t be giving him a pass so you might want to know if this will hurt him
It is simple -- if they want real change then they need to get up and vote instead of sitting around complaining on message forums.
And you need to stop attacking and misrepresenting others to try to make up for Sanders' poltical shortcomings.
If the man could actually win primaries then you wouldn't have to spend all day here fighting with people.
Your words aren't going to prove anything -- only votes can do that.
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Mnuchin is saying that most American's should get their checks in about 3 weeks, which is sooner than some estimates I've been hearing, but worrisome for those who haven't been working and need that money to pay bills and buy food.