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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I don't think he's trying to attract Trump voters. He's had enough "tone-deaf" moments to suggest he actually believes that. Sanders thinks we live in a post-racism world, that any talk of "identity politics" is a distraction from the real issues, and that classist sentiment is what's really keeping minorities down.
He believes that there is fundamentally no difference between an impoverished white person and an impoverished black person, and that a rising tide lifts all ships.
We already knew this. I have lost my ability to be surprised at the headline, "Bernie says something that's kinda x-ist," and I am not willing to spin it as something he's just saying to get elected.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Feb 26th 2019 at 8:06:05 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I wish I could say I look forward to the waves of Bernie Bros trying to justify their cult leader despite what he's said, but I don't. It's just tiring at this point, and depressing.
Edited by Fighteer on Feb 26th 2019 at 10:15:05 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Yeah.
So I watched Bernie's town hall yesterday. Overall, I was pretty impressed, to be honest. There was that instance where he makes the mistake of thinking Trump is the cause of the division, not the symptom. I don't think he's trying to appeal to Trump-voters, it's what he thinks.
He also just did not address one question from a college-aged girl about how he, in this time of a young, diverse Democratic party, he can really appeal (especially in light of the sexual harassment controversies in his previous campaign). His response was essentially "that really did hurt me, it won't happen again, and vote for me." Like... he didn't even try to answer the rest. And this was a scripted question.
I watched it with my wife who isn't informed of American politics and she was basically "he reminds me of my grandpa and is just sort of rambling and making promises that are good but I don't know if he can keep." Which I think encapsulates his appeal and his flaws.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Paul Manafort’s Lawyers Argue He Has Been Unfairly ‘Vilified’ Before Sentencing
In a sentencing memorandum to the federal judge who will decide his punishment next month for two felonies to which Mr. Manafort pleaded guilty last year, his legal team said his crimes did not warrant a substantial prison term, especially given his age. Mr. Manafort will turn 70 in early April.
Disputing the prosecutors’ damning characterization of Mr. Manafort in a court filing last week, his lawyers insisted that Mr. Manafort was not only deeply remorseful, but “has suffered almost unprecedented public shame” for what they called garden-variety offenses. The memos are previews of the oral arguments that both sides will make before Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, who will sentence Mr. Manafort for the two conspiracy charges on March 13.
Trump on brink of defeat on border emergency – Just one more Senate Republican is needed to block Trump’s emergency declaration, though even critics are reluctant to buck the president.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/25/trump-national-emergency-congress-1185589
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Monday night said he would join Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, along with 47 Senate Democrats to block Trump’s attempts to secure billions for his border wall after lawmakers effectively stiffed him. Now just one more GOP senator’s support for a resolution to block Trump's bid would send the measure to Trump’s desk and force a veto.
“Conservatives rightfully cried foul when President Barack Obama used executive action to completely bypass Congress,” Tillis said in a Washington Post op-ed on Monday night. “There is no intellectual honesty in now turning around and arguing that there’s an imaginary asterisk attached to executive overreach — that it’s acceptable for my party but not thy party.”
Still, there is clear reluctance in the GOP to bucking Trump.
Numerous Senate Republicans say that, like Tillis, they despise Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency to get additional funding for his wall. But most aren’t ready to say they will vote to block him from doing so.
Why Democrats are not afraid of gun control anymore – The House of Representatives this week is poised to pass its most significant gun control legislation since President Bill Clinton's first term — and in the process highlight a fundamental transformation in the Democratic Party's center of gravity.
Edited by sgamer82 on Feb 26th 2019 at 9:02:17 AM
Sensationalist click bait titles. Trump isn't on the brink of defeat, they need 17 Senate Republicans, not 1. They need one more to get it to his desk for the veto that he has said he would do (and shown every indication to do). Not to mention this last one is easily the hardest to get; the first 3 have much less riding on it since they're not the deciding vote.
Now, I would be ecstatic if they got that one. And I do think that if they do send it, and it gets vetoed, it would be easier for other Republicans to go "oh, gee, sorry but we need to override this veto. For constitutional reasons, you see," even if I don't see that getting the votes.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Tillis is up for his first attempt at reelection next year, I’m nto at all surprised that he’s the first confirmed break after the usual suspects of Collins (who still gets no credit from me) and Murkowski (who gets some credit from me, though I’m still annoyed at her over Kavanaugh, though not as much as I am at Collins).
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranI still find it amazing that the President is capable of vetoing a legislative bill whose explicit function is to tell the President to eat a dick.
That said, even if passing it does nothing but force Trump to veto it, it still forces Trump to veto it. It creates an official record that Congress strongly disapproves of what he's done here and that he is only able to do it by executive fiat. It affirms on permanent record that his "national emergency" is not condoned by the rest of the government, which will be important both to the lawsuits against him and to his upcoming re-election campaign.
It might not solve the problem, but it still adds value.
That said, I'm curious as to whether or not it can be filibustered. I ask this because of a different "doesn't do anything, but creates interesting optics for upcoming elections" moments I've been anticipating. Specifically: Mitch being forced to filibuster a bill despite holding a Senate Majority, demonstrating a fracture in that legendary GOP solidarity in the face of this hostile Presidency.
That is a headline that would be devastating to the Republicans' public image, given that they're under the microscope right now following two ineffectual years of total majority control in Washington. Career Republicans have been abandoning ship for years, and Mitch having to fall back on the filibuster to defend his agenda would be the last nail in the coffin for Republicans' perceived ability to legislate.
Mitch has been able to circumvent this outcome by simply refusing to bring bills and measures up for vote rather than spend time getting everyone on the same page with rejecting them, but he legally cannot do that with this one. His hands are tied. So I'm wondering: can he filibuster?
Edited by TobiasDrake on Feb 26th 2019 at 10:29:47 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Yes, Daines would have voted in favour.
The text of the law
does not explicitly disallow a filibuster, but it does say that it has to be voted on within a certain timeframe. Implying that one could interrupt a filibustering senator to call a vote, similar to how one can demand a cloture vote during a filibuster.
Edited by SeptimusHeap on Feb 26th 2019 at 6:46:35 PM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI find my sympathy well bottomed out in that instance. Like. I feel like if you're really determined to put a rapist on the Supreme Court, it should be an inconvenience to your life.
Like. You can attend your daughter's wedding, or you can advance the agenda of making your daughter submit to a culture that would rather see her hypothetical rapist (God forbid) given the Keys to the Kingdom than spend a day in jail. You can fight to defend rape's dominance over women exactly like your daughter. Or you can attend her wedding. Pick one.
Murkowski should have made him choose whether he, a representative of the "Party of Family Values", loves his daughter or rape culture more.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Feb 26th 2019 at 11:48:32 AM
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While I definitely see that (after all, "a personal fuck you" to someone who is dead set on voting in someone who is at the kindest wildly unqualified for the position due to party politics is pretty reasonable), it's also a "fuck you" to his family and daughter and that's... well, iffier.
Hasn't those conventions kinda been fucking the Democrats for the past ten years or so?
Edited by Larkmarn on Feb 26th 2019 at 1:51:19 PM
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Edited by sgamer82 on Feb 26th 2019 at 11:51:21 AM

I'm stunned he thinks it will attract Trump voters
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