All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!

[mojotastic]

I'm trying to figure out why I should support her?

What exactly has she done to make me say , "HOT DAYUM!!! She's the one!"

It's almost like the Democrats need to not push who THEY want onto us.

It's almost like the need to actually COURT our vote. Instead of telling me I need to for her, because she's black and has a vagina.

Nina Turner is black, Progressive, and has a Vagina. Why aren't the DNC promoting her?


Cori Bush is black, progressive, and has a vagina also...



Tulsi Gabbard is Hawaiian, and has a vagina...



Not sayin, just sayin.

Can you expand on those 3 ladies and what exacly make them special, specially Ms Gabbard, i have heard of heard and that she take no money from corporations.

[Tendrin]

Anyone who thinks Gabbard is one of the good ones isn't digging deep enough.

[numberthirty]

Hey, well. if Nina Turner wants to be useful, she can run for something and actually win a seat. After all, she should be able to if her message is exactly what we all need, right?

If she runs, I'll root for her.

She could surely pull out the loss Ossoff did. Probably do it for less money, too.

[Tazirai]

Hey, well. if Nina Turner wants to be useful, she can run for something and actually win a seat. After all, she should be able to if her message is exactly what we all need, right?

If she runs, I'll root for her.

She was state Senator, does that count?

I think, personally, she should run for Governor and not POTUS.

[Tendrin]

She was state Senator, does that count?

I think, personally, she should run for Governor and not POTUS.

Last time she ran for a state wide office, she ran against John Husted and lost by 20 points. That was before her 'Our Revolution' makeover, however.

She could surely pull out the loss Ossoff did. Probably do it for less money, too.

Her last run had her lose by a much wider margin than Ossoff. Hard to say about the cost but comparing it to the most expensive special election is prolly a little silly anyway.

[numberthirty]

Her last run had her lose by a much wider margin than Ossoff. Hard to say about the cost but comparing it to the most expensive special election is prolly a little silly anyway.

She lost by a wider margin in an election where The Democratic Party was not trying to buy her a seat? Sounds like a tall tale.

[Tendrin]

She lost by a wider margin in an election where The Democratic Party was not trying to buy her a seat? Sounds like a tall tale.

Well, hey. I'd say she was endorsed by Bill Clinton but you'd probably just say that's why she lost.

[Kevinroc]

I'm trying to figure out why I should support her?

What exactly has she done to make me say , "HOT DAYUM!!! She's the one!"

It's almost like the Democrats need to not push who THEY want onto us.

It's almost like the need to actually COURT our vote. Instead of telling me I need to for her, because she's black and has a vagina.

Nina Turner is black, Progressive, and has a Vagina. Why aren't the DNC promoting her?


Cori Bush is black, progressive, and has a vagina also...



Tulsi Gabbard is Hawaiian, and has a vagina...



Not sayin, just sayin.

Tulsi Gabbard? You're not to be taken seriously if you actually hold her up as having any kind of value.

[Malvolio]

Sigh. We're doomed. It's one thing to disagree about who the best Democratic candidate for a given office is. But can we please stop with the flame-warring and name calling? Aren't we all on the same side here?

[Dalak]

Sigh. We're doomed. It's one thing to disagree about who the best Democratic candidate for a given office is. But can we please stop with the flame-warring and name calling? Aren't we all on the same side here?

Pretty much. I'm sick of it from all sides really. People too quick to jump to calls of their particular chosen buzzwords rather than being willing to find what unites us, and they invariably focus on the tiny bits that divide us instead. An interesting article about that exact self-sabotage.

There is only one way to break the money power that's corrupted our politics and intensified the performance aspects of them, and that's to elect enough members of the national legislature to overturn CU and return sanity to what is now a rigged casino gone mad. Or, you can elect a president who will appoint judges who will revisit the issue with a critical eye. Is there anyone who thinks Kamala Harris wouldn't do that? Or Cory Booker? Or Deval Patrick, who's the current punching bag for the leftier-than-thous?

This also requires that you restock the farm system in the states. There's already more talk about the 2020 presidential campaign than there is concerning the hundreds of state-level races this year and the next. Those races require (marginally) less money and, if you want to birth a generation of non-corporate Democrats, that's the place to start. But, for the love of George McGovern, stop fighting over things over which you have no control. Stop wrestling over the gun that your party can use to shoot itself in the foot. Circumstances are too dire for that now.

[Carabas]

She was state Senator, does that count?

I think, personally, she should run for Governor and not POTUS.

Does she actually even want to run for something like that?

[Carabas]

Sigh. We're doomed. It's one thing to disagree about who the best Democratic candidate for a given office is. But can we please stop with the flame-warring and name calling? Aren't we all on the same side here?

It is increasingly evident that we are not actually on the same side, and that there is a not insignificant faction that would rather have the world burn than to vote for anything less than a saint.

[SquirrelMan]

Ossoff was in a race where record amounts of money wound up being spent.

What did he wind up winning?

"One side always loses" in races where both sides spend huge amounts of money is not a proof that races can be won in the current system without any corporate
money.

It simply does not follow. At all.

[SquirrelMan]

I'm trying to figure out why I should support her?

What exactly has she done to make me say , "HOT DAYUM!!! She's the one!"

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She has a strong progressive record, is tough and charismatic and gained a national profile by not standing down when pressured by Republicans. She knows how to win an election. And she doesn't pall around with war criminals and dictators.

[PaulBullion]

So apparently American Nationalist Hero and Fox News employee Eric Bolling sent pics of his bolling to several female colleagues.