https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/18/bernie-sanders-2020-president-912082
Just read parts of how this is unintentionally hilarious.
Politico is usually an okay outlet but man do they really have it out for Bernie. They do a hit piece on him at least once a week.
Plus, he’s a white man who would turn 80 in his first year as president, who’d be trying to lead a diverse party fueled by the energy of young voters, women and people of color.
"Hey, thanks for energizing the progressive movement in America and helping shift the Democratic platform further left but-- you're just not gay, black or a woman enough to run.. sorry!"
Well with Warren shooting herself in the foot over the DNA debacle and Bernie doubts, it is no wonder that Beto is not sharing his $40+ million dollars worth of donations.
He will likely try to run if he loses the Texas race.
The DNC don't got much without Bernie. Just Biden basically.
I’m laughing harder than Father Grigori after dropping a car on some zombies
Biden is just as out of touch as anyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8NUetxciqw
The Dem's need to find someone that minimizes identity politics and understands (through personal experience ideally) the BS our generation is going through
Your description is oddly satisfying yet also adequately informing
I can kinda get having a problem with him running for an election due to his old age, but his race/gender/sexuality should absolutely not be a basis on whether he'd be a good candidate or not under any circumstances. His progressive stances and the things he's done to help people out should be all that matter.
i miss 2007
Politico, Vice, Vox, Vulture and MSNBC in a nutshell.
Beto is considering a run for president? I like him and would love for him to unseat Definitely-A-Human-Ted-Cruz but he feels like way too much of an amateur right now. I don't think he'd be very successful in a run for president.
Are we really giving up on Warren because of something tiny like that when Trump literally has a massive scandal every week?
It's this type of shit that energized the working class white voter to go for Trump.
When did Warren shoot herself in the foot? She released docs that agreed with her assertion that she has native ancestor(s).
I've said it before, and I'll repeat it. Run Sanders/Warren, but run them with equal speech time at rallies, etc. Explain to voters that they are voting for both of them, just in case Bernie has to duck out for health/age reasons. Be transparent about it.
I don't get why these people keep digging their own graves with their obsession of superficial stuff like skin colour and what gender you're attracted to. You can fight for the right of ethnic minorities and gays while still working to help working class whites having a better life. These new leftists seem to have forgotten that class used to be a big factor into their kind of politics and now it's just about the colour of your skin.
Go look at headlines and reactions to Warren besides what people are saying on here.
Also no, please do not tag Warren with Sanders. She is Palin-tier of derp.
Literally no, Warren is extremely smart. She is extremely qualified. I love Bernie but he's just a politician, Warren is super well versed in law and policy. This dna shit will blow over because she directly addressed it instead of letting it fester like Obama's birth certificate.
Are you suggesting headlines are a good way to judge generally held opinions? No one but hard trumpets care about Warren's new DNA developments, because everyone else believed her when she said she had a Native American ancestor, and lookie there! She most likely did!
Bernie 2020 is the political equivalent of Terminator 2, or Aliens.
Yeah we do have it rough. Just wait til austerity measures kick in when we fail to pay our ever growing debt.
From everything I've heard her say, she isn't trying to claim membership of a tribal nation, she's just claiming to have native blood in her ancestry, which appears to be true. I know I was a absolutist by saying "no one." That was hyperbolic and I'll own that mistake. But it really seems like they're taking a defensive stance on something she isn't even claiming.
He's only 5 years older than Trump and, frankly, seems to be in much better health. He might bear a passing resemblance to the Crypt-Keeper but at least he has a chin and doesn't need specially tailored clothes to hide a corpulent, failing body. I don't think concerns about Sanders' age are legitimate tbh.
The point is no matter what she says now, she looks stupid and having tried to claim (listed herself as native american on Harvard law registry, doing native american cookbooks, bringing up stories all the time) something she really wasn't.
Maybe not you to you that matters, but to the mainstream, and certainly the right, she looks like a complete derp for taking a DNA test and making an ad campaign out of it.
The blood is worthless without the citizenship.
I'm around 60% of German heritage but I would never claim myself to be German. I don't have the culture, I don't have the attire, I don't speak the language. Neither does she.
Unless she actively participates in the tribes, she's not an Amerindian, regardless of whats in her DNA. It's just a publicity stunt as far as I'm concerned, one of which backfired horrendously and honestly it's insulting for a white person to claim to be a minority like that just for identity politics votes.
I never understood why age is such an issue, as long as the person seems mentally fit obviously. But whats the worry, he's going to die? Wouldn't that just mean the vice takes over? If that persons fit for the job that should be fine, and if they aren't then they shouldn't be the VP anyway right?
please, do elaborate on the comparison
More importantly, if she can't even show humility and apologize for a minor mistake she made years ago, I shudder to think of how she'll handle an actual controversy. Because you know the Republicans aren't going to stop there. They'll find something worse, and regardless of whether its complete bullshit or not, I am seriously doubtful she will be able to handle a response with grace and care. This was just a softball, and she completely struck out.
Bernie/Harris or Bernie/Gabbard, Sanders has such unique appeal to working class whites that the DNC is retarded for not listening to him, and Harris/Gabbard for the more liberal.
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