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Seems like they took Biden out of context in this case, unfortunately, but he did say something about “adjustments,” and has been open to it in other interviews, I believe.https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2020/jan/09/bernie-sanders/did-biden-laud-paul-ryan-proposal-cut-social-secur/

This is what Biden said about Ryan:

“Paul…

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Reduced to pushing pseudoscience. Body language expert? No psychics or astrologers were available?

Finally, after remaining silent for so long and shunning the spotlight, we’ll get to hear Her side of the story!

Normally I would agree that he should be more aggressive with these people, but he seems to have already won this one by looking like the better person, so he may come off as a bitter winner of sorts if he overplays his hand here.

It would be like if she charged him with a sword, but tripped on a rock, fell over, and stabbed herself in the heart,…[Read more]

From what I’ve read about it, the consensus seems to be that it’s a small improvement over NAFTA, but still pretty bad. Even that’s surprising. I always feared that Trump’s opposition to the TPP, NAFTA, etc., was that they weren’t terrible enough. There was never any chance the Trump administration would negotiate trade deals which are…[Read more]

For the Jezebel crowd and similar types, a lot of them just want a female president instead of a male president, and many of them just don’t don’t think too highly of men as a group in general. It’s not as if they really try to hide this.

The ‘Sanders is a sexist stuff’ coming from that direction is straightforward psychological projection a lot…[Read more]

He’s ignorant and uneducated to a comical degree, but he’s hardly stupid, kind of like the distinction between book smarts and street smarts. An idiot wouldn’t be capable of creating and leading a cult consisting of at least a third of the population of a world superpower; an idiot wouldn’t be able to take over a major political party in that…[Read more]

They tried this in 2016 too. It might not be one of their greatest hits, but they do play this one occasionally with slight tonal variations.

I remember one of the reporters/shills at a Sanders press conference who asked Bernie if he thought it was appropriate for a white male to be working to stop Hillary Clinton from securing the nomination and…[Read more]

I think you covered most of it.

I’d only add that Sanders is the other candidate who beats Trump in the polls head to head (yea I know, but those voters do exist). Biden’s one and only selling point is that he’s the only one who does, but that’s not true; remove that advantage, and what does he have left (heh)? The Sanders campaign should be…[Read more]

Warren won. She also proved she’s a master strategist. She didn’t let Sanders get away with denying he’s sexist Tuesday night. Instead, she checkmated him into proving it.

I…just can’t with this one…This is so wildly deluded that I think it might actually help Sanders. She should write more of these, imo.

@twilightsporkle

Of course, but it’s doesn’t seem to be the nepotism and elitist nature of Hollywood that they are objecting to, but rather the superficial characteristics of the lucky few who are members of the club. So, if we had a few more Spike Lees to replace the Tarentinos/Scorseses, we’d be all good.

What I’ve always found funny about this is how they seem to be implying that if you only give awards to the best of the best then the awards will only go to terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, white men.

“The award should go to the best screenplay.”

“No, we value diversity! It should go to a woman or a person of color.”

hmmm…

@ohiobarbarian

And if you want to really get caught up in pedantry, class politics are technically a form of identity politics, but are rarely, if ever, discussed as such. Besides, there is no single, set in stone, definition of “identity politics.”  There are variations in how different theorists define and conceptualize the term.

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But the goal was just to get this out there into the public conscience. She already accomplished that, so of course she scurries off now. The media will take it from here…

However, HRC overplayed the “wealthy white woman as perpetual victim who can’t catch a break in a man’s world despite having a privileged existence that contradicts each…[Read more]

No, it’s on Warren.

The media may be exploiting it, but this obviously came from the Warren campaign, and is her doing and her doing alone. She even doubled down with her official statement, removing any possible doubt. What does she have do? Jump up and down shouting, “Bernie is a misogynist,” at the top of her lungs?

Based on past actions I didn’t think she was better than this, not even close. However, I thought she might be smarter than this. She’s doing a copy/paste of hillbot crybully tactics, complete with the, ” First, I’m going to accuse you of what I’m about to do to you so I can play victim.” Pure sleaze.

I didn’t expect her to emulate 2016 HRC, not…[Read more]

Sanders expressed frustration at what he saw as a growing focus among Democrats on identity politics

Focus? It’s an all consuming pathological obsession which will lead to their ruin…

Warren has grown increasingly vocal over the past few months on the role of sexism and gender inequality in politics

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Do you really think he would do something that? Just brazenly tell lies to the American people?

Basically, he needs to win Iowa and New Hampshire bigly, and then not get blown out completely in South Carolina. Very realistic, but it all rests on the assumption that his support, and only his support, is underestimated.

He is not an unknown insurgent this time, so I’m not absolutely convinced that the polls are as wildly inaccurate as is…[Read more]

She also warned about the impact of “factionalism” that she said impacted the 2016 presidential election.

“Let’s be clear: As a party, and as a country, we can’t afford to repeat the factionalism of the 2016 primary,” the email fundraising said. “To win in November, we need a nominee who can unite a broad coalition of Democrats — who will excite…

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