All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[shooshoomanjoe]

Honestly, it's not even as complicated as that.

The way Trump dealt with the pandemic cost him the last election.

Depending on how the next two years unfold?

Same exact thing could cost Biden the next election.

trump fumbled more than just the pandemic. He was just a terrible president.

[Gray Lensman]

Bernie didn't have the email server scandal. He would also campaign in blue wall states.

Neither of those were the primary though. I probably should have clarified that Bernie wasn't going to win that in any event, even if it was 100% fair.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Bernie didn't have the email server scandal. He would also campaign in blue wall states.

No, but they probably would have hit him hard on being a 'socialist'. The GOP is good at making up crap and getting it to stick

[CaptainEurope]

...literally none of that is real. Come on man, why is it so hard to just say, "Damn, I guess there are slightly more people who didn't like my guy." ?

I sometimes wonder how much of this the people who post it really believe. I think part of it is repeating a lie over and over again in hopes that it would stick.

I am a little sad that the mods allow it, considering the aim is clearly to create a fascist state.

[Tendrin]

I sometimes wonder how much of this the people who post it really believe. I think part of it is repeating a lie over and over again in hopes that it would stick.

I am a little sad that the mods allow it, considering the aim is clearly to create a fascist state.

Given the repeated endorsement of violence, as well.

[Xheight]

trump fumbled more than just the pandemic. He was just a terrible president.

Snore, it is like a mantra the left keeps repeating hoping it will take as truth. Terrible perhaps to the establishment norms of conduct but that as you are aware is also part of his appeal. Basic fact, this country was not ready for a pandemic and structurally and behaviorally disjointed. The successes were many and the fails were in no small part due to congress not giving him the room to act.

[GindyPosts]

No, but they probably would have hit him hard on being a 'socialist'. The GOP is good at making up crap and getting it to stick

Established Democrats would also make life hell for him. Can't have anyone that isn't a moderate run for the presidency.

[Mister Mets]

I sometimes wonder how much of this the people who post it really believe. I think part of it is repeating a lie over and over again in hopes that it would stick.

I am a little sad that the mods allow it, considering the aim is clearly to create a fascist state.

What rule would you establish that you think the moderators should follow?

Andrew Yang tweeted a couple of statements today.

Andrew Yang:
"The fact is the Dems should have let Bernie and Hillary go at it fair and square in 2016, which Bernie probably wins. And Bernie probably beats Trump in ‘16. The Democratic Party sometimes has very anti-democratic impulses."


Andrew Yang:
"Do the failings of the Democratic Party have something to do with the rise of Trump? Sure. Will they change tacks in ‘24? Probably not."


Boy , was he right on the issue. Joe Biden won, because the swing voters got tired of the orange dude and are willing to vote for Joe Biden, even if they didn't care he was their least favorite democratic candidate.

Do we have any evidence of Bernie's electoral prowess?

Did Bernie-affiliated candidates outperform Biden in any election in 2020?

Snore, it is like a mantra the left keeps repeating hoping it will take as truth. Terrible perhaps to the establishment norms of conduct but that as you are aware is also part of his appeal. Basic fact, this country was not ready for a pandemic and structurally and behaviorally disjointed. The successes were many and the fails were in no small part due to congress not giving him the room to act.

How so?

[shooshoomanjoe]

Snore, it is like a mantra the left keeps repeating hoping it will take as truth. Terrible perhaps to the establishment norms of conduct but that as you are aware is also part of his appeal. Basic fact, this country was not ready for a pandemic and structurally and behaviorally disjointed. The successes were many and the fails were in no small part due to congress not giving him the room to act.

How did Congress blocked trump from helping Americans during the pandemic?

[worstblogever]

What rule would you establish that you think the moderators should follow?

Posting conspiracy theories and blatantly false information that's easily proven as such is not a welcoming community environment. It's the bare minimum that even Twitter enforces.

[worstblogever]

Andrew Yang tweeted a couple of statements today.

I'd sooner listen to the political opinions coming out of a conch shell.

[Kirby101]

To defend Xheight, (yes I am defending him ) He has been civil in his support of Trump and the lies that go with that. He hasn't used the blatant racism and prejudice that often goes hand in hand with Trump support. And he hasn't been derisive to other posters.(No more than what is normal here) I don't think the Mods should address something in this thread just because it is factually untrue.
What he says is usually so patently absurd that it is more an argument against the pro-Trump side that it does more harm than good for his argument.
We have had quite a few from the Right on this Thread who got themselves banned because the could not contain their hatred. Xheight has maintained his composure.

[Kirby101]

I'd sooner listen to the political opinions coming out of a conch shell.

Is that a "Lord of the Flies" reference?

[Jack Dracula]

Andrew Yang tweeted a couple of statements today.

Andrew Yang:
"The fact is the Dems should have let Bernie and Hillary go at it fair and square in 2016, which Bernie probably wins. And Bernie probably beats Trump in ‘16. The Democratic Party sometimes has very anti-democratic impulses."


Andrew Yang:
"Do the failings of the Democratic Party have something to do with the rise of Trump? Sure. Will they change tacks in ‘24? Probably not."


Boy , was he right on the issue. Joe Biden won, because the swing voters got tired of the orange dude and are willing to vote for Joe Biden, even if they didn't care he was their least favorite democratic candidate.

Unsolicited political opinions from a failed candidate.

[SquirrelMan]

Bernie didn't have the email server scandal. He would also campaign in blue wall states.

Bernie literally was kicked out of an armed, drug growing hippie commune.

He spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union, palling around with hardcore communists.

His wife had a major financing scandal with her school.

There is more. The reason we have not heard much about it is because he was not the candidate. All of those things would have been more easily weaponized than her e-mails. Sanders would have lost in a LANDSLIDE.