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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
All the evidence we have indicates that the Bernie or Bust movement does not exist in any substantial way, his voters showed normal levels of crossover to Clinton in 2016 and polling had 87% of Bernie’s primary voters going to Biden back in July, with more likely to have come onboard since then. That’s more crossover to Biden than either Bloomberg’s supporters or Klobuchar’s.
The Bernie or Bust movement isn’t a thing of substance, it’s a combination of a vocal minority (which happens to include some people who worked on Bernie’s campaign), twitter trolls, Russian bots and Trump supporters who never backed Bernie.
From a political force perspective it doesn’t exist.
Also if a person’s political ideology is defined as “dislike of Joe Biden” and they oppose harm reduction I seriously question how they’re left wing, even if they genuinely think they are.
Edited by Silasw on Sep 17th 2020 at 9:38:34 AM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranTrump: The US Covid response is excellent if you just take out all the blue states.
I love these reminders of how little he cares about our lives.
Pretty much. I assume it's going to be about sugar-coating historical events and playing America Saves the Day Up To Eleven.
Frankly this '"patriotic education' would have probably been more effective at indoctrinating students when Trump first took office at the beginning,as it is this is a desperation move that serves no real purpose other then intimidation,and I dont think anyone is going to wind up actually teaching it
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverWhile Trump would pretty much complain about everything Biden would do if he's elected president, how would he react if he did these in particular?
- Biden reentering the Iran Nuclear Deal
- Biden imposing banking sanctions on Russia for interfering in American elections (Possibly followed by supporting a movement that gets Putin ousted from the Kremlin)
- Biden re-entering the Paris Climate Agreement
- Biden imposing stronger gun control. And if protests against it get too unruly, he sends federal officers to subdue the protesters.
- And of course, Biden issuing an executive order that renders all of Trump's policies on immigration and environment null and void.
Edited by superboy313 on Sep 17th 2020 at 3:35:39 AM
I can imagine his rants being entertaining, but no different than, say, his rants against the ACA.
This.
Conservatives aren't against most of the very important regulations that protect public health. If you sit them down and explain to them that XYZ regulation prevents waste from being dumped in their drinking water, they'll say yeah, that's one of the good ones. What they're concerned about is all the unnecessary regulations.
What, exactly, are the unnecessary regulations? Fuck if they know. But they're there, and they're a problem, and we must vote for Republicans because only Republicans will slash them. Republican voters are convinced that for every regulation that actually impacts public health, there are ten more regulations that read,
"Plastic isn't allowed to be used anymore. Why? BECAUSE I SAID SO, THAT'S WHY! Plastic's banned forever LOL!"
The "Unnecessary Regulations" bogeyman is 100% a Windmill argument.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.There's no agenda anymore because the Republicans know its pointless to defend its positions of Kill the Poor.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.If it's what I think it is, it's something we're already doing. Trump is trying to draw a line in the sand to defend the historical revisionism we've been teaching in our schools since before I was born.
- Pilgrims arrived on this continent and became besties with the Native Americans, even though they were uneducated savages who ate their own dung. We gave them education and tools and lifted up their society and they, in turn, helped us survive the hostile winters.
- The American Revolution was a populist revolt against the tyranny of unjust British taxes, led by Everyman commonfolk like you or me using their Second Amendment rights to soundly and unambiguously DESTROY the might of the once insurmountable British Empire.
- We DO NOT speak of the Native American genocides. That did not happen.
- We DO NOT speak of Northerners, including our Founding Fathers, owning slaves. Slavery was exclusively a practice in the Confederate States, which Northern Whites valiantly extinguished.
- We DO NOT speak of the War of 1812, where the Brits kicked our asses out of Canada. Didn't happen. Britain never recovered from the stomping we gave them in the American Revolution, and certainly would never dare fight us again.
- WWI existed but it wasn't important and nothing actually happened. It was just a brief skirmish that acted as a prelude to....
- WWII, where the whole world was getting slaughtered by Germany until America RODE IN ON A SHINING HORSE and stuffed the Nazis' faces up their own assholes. And then also beat the shit out of Japan for good measure.
- Then, in 1964, Martin Luther King made a passionate speech about how protests should always be peaceful and violence is never an acceptable form of civil unrest. As a result, the Civil Rights Act was signed and all racism was ended forever.
- At some point in the 70's, feminism happened briefly and then all sexism was ended forever as well. From then on, the United States was a completely egalitarian country and nobody was ever oppressed or disenfranchised ever again.
- Vietnam sucked. No, I'm not going to explain what happened. Just know that it sucked, and that it was the last American war until terrorists made us invade Iraq.
This is American history according to our education system. The 1619 project that Trump's reacting to with his "defend patriotic history" bullshit is a re-examination of the effects and experiences of American slaves during the establishing and founding centuries of this country's history.
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Edited by Medinoc on Sep 17th 2020 at 11:29:39 AM
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