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Yep. Which is why anyone pushing the “it was rigged” nonsense disqualifies themselves. I’m not voting anyone into office who‘s stupid enough to be duped by, or actively willing to trash other Dems with the words Russia and/or the GOP put in their mouths.
Warren says DNC system was rigged in Clinton's favor

I have my issues with Warren, but I wouldn't say she is a Russian/GOP mouthpiece or I wouldn't just throw the country to Trump if she's the nominee.
But that's just me.

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They were socialists in name only -and only because it was part of what was popular at the time. As you said -what was on the label did not match what was in the tin.

We do need a truth in advertising clause for politics -that way we'd know when folks were only pretending to be left and that they were going to veer center at the first sign of trouble.

It'd save a lot of headache!
They did coopt a name but that is only part of the problem: political labels shift over time. Both Ds and Rs would not recognize their own parties of even 50 years ago, and 100 is barely the same species.

Whenever Rs say they are 'the party of Lincoln' I just roll my eyes. If his policies were suggested now without his name they would be against every single one of them.
 

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He's in a much different position now than he was against her, as he's much better known now, thanks to the fact that he's been pretty much campaigning ever since the last cycle. He's the only candidate that has more donors than Trump and of the Democrats, he's the only one with over 1M individual donors. In the polls, he's the candidate people trust the most on a number of issues. Why are those not indicators that he can beat Trump? Because neoliberals say so? Because the sore loser who won't take responsibility for her loss says so?



which links to: Detailed Maps of the Donors Powering the 2020 Democratic Campaigns

You have to take him out to see where the rest of the field was, and he was nearly double his closest competitor (Warren). Why are those facts meaningless?
Is that map even right? Warren is not even on it plus both her and Bernie probably have more donors on the east coast than in the middle of the country.
 

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Is that map even right? Warren is not even on it plus both her and Bernie probably have more donors on the east coast than in the middle of the country.
Yes the map is right. If you go to the linked article and look at the other maps that they have included then you can see where she shows up. And this is old information, several months old when he only had a bit above 750k donors, and led her by 300k+ donors. I did say that you had to take him out in order to see where the majority of the rest of the candidates were.
 
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Whenever Rs say they are 'the party of Lincoln' I just roll my eyes. If his policies were suggested now without his name they would be against every single one of them.
Yep, yep. That or the whole "nazis were really left wing you can tell because they called themselves socialists" bit of intellectual dishonesty are when I usually roll my eyes and mentally check out of the conversation...
 

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Warren says DNC system was rigged in Clinton's favor

I have my issues with Warren, but I wouldn't say she is a Russian/GOP mouthpiece or I wouldn't just throw the country to Trump if she's the nominee.
But that's just me.

PAGING JOLENE........ We need a cleanup in aisle 5.
Of course she had to walk it back later on, to please the people promoting the fiction that Tulsi quitting the DNC, DWS leaving in disgrace and the stuff in Donna Brazile's book didn't happen.
 

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Of course she had to walk it back later on, to please the people promoting the fiction that Tulsi quitting the DNC, DWS leaving in disgrace and the stuff in Donna Brazile's book didn't happen.
Yes, but a respected Law Professor and US Senator would never publicly make such claims without firmly arriving to that conclusion. It's not an acceptable boo-boo. She really can't put on a Michele Bachmann wig and stay believable on this.
 

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Yep. Which is why anyone pushing the “it was rigged” nonsense disqualifies themselves. I’m not voting anyone into office who‘s stupid enough to be duped by, or actively willing to trash other Dems with the words Russia and/or the GOP put in their mouths.
This is a thing that actually happened. HRC paid the DNC $20M, getting them out of the debt Obama left them in from 2012, in exchange for control over staffing, message and funding during the primary. During the fucking primary. Additionally, no matter where you think the "hacked" emails came from, they document what was already clear to those who weren't HRC sycophants: the DNC, under DWS, HRC's former campaign chair, sabotaged the Sanders campaign. Two of the participants in those email exchanges apologized for their role, not at all suggesting the emails were fake. Additionally, there was this, in which the Hillary Victory Fund PAC and other "bundlers" were used to route contributions in excess of legal limits back to the DNC for use in support of HRC's campaign, instead of ending up with the state parties. 99.5% of monies intended for state parties were routed back to the DNC. Ninety nine point five percent.

These are things that actually happened. Your continued insistence that this is Russian propaganda tells me that it is you who are compromised by propaganda. American plutocratic propaganda comes from accent-less pretty heads on tee vee, so we like American plutocratic propaganda. :rolleyes:

I can almost respect not wanting to come to terms with these things in light of other things being very wrong with 2016, but FFS if you're going to throw around charges of being Russian stooges, learn the whole damned story.
 

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Not just Russian, fyi.

I'd suggest following /r/activemeasures /r/trollfare /r/digital_manipulation and /r/disinformationwatch if you're interested in the subject.
Any mention of New Knowledge and the Alabama election they meddled in?
 

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Any mention of New Knowledge and the Alabama election they meddled in?
You mean the people who got banned from Facebook for inventing Russian bots, the same "source" the media are using to say that Tulsi Gabbard is being supported by the Russians?
 
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You mean the people who got banned from Facebook for inventing Russian bots, the same "source" the media are using to say that Tulsi Gabbard is being supported by the Russians?
Yeah, them. Trusted by congress to provide intelligence on Russian meddling, too.
 

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This is a thing that actually happened. HRC paid the DNC $20M, getting them out of the debt Obama left them in from 2012, in exchange for control over staffing, message and funding during the primary. During the fucking primary. Additionally, no matter where you think the "hacked" emails came from, they document what was already clear to those who weren't HRC sycophants: the DNC, under DWS, HRC's former campaign chair, sabotaged the Sanders campaign. Two of the participants in those email exchanges apologized for their role, not at all suggesting the emails were fake. Additionally, there was this, in which the Hillary Victory Fund PAC and other "bundlers" were used to route contributions in excess of legal limits back to the DNC for use in support of HRC's campaign, instead of ending up with the state parties. 99.5% of monies intended for state parties were routed back to the DNC. Ninety nine point five percent.

These are things that actually happened. Your continued insistence that this is Russian propaganda tells me that it is you who are compromised by propaganda. American plutocratic propaganda comes from accent-less pretty heads on tee vee, so we like American plutocratic propaganda. :rolleyes:

I can almost respect not wanting to come to terms with these things in light of other things being very wrong with 2016, but FFS if you're going to throw around charges of being Russian stooges, learn the whole damned story.
Jesus fucking Christ you people are exhausting.

As I told you in 2016 when you and the other fruit loops were being ridiculous about all this nonsense, nothing in any of this blather you keep repeating is proof of rigging or even damning corruption. This is TCP report level corruption and it‘s mind-numbing that you keep pretending it has any significance. The scandals you all cling to in order to swallow Russian and GOP narratives is that *gasp* people support candidates who contribute to the party and form coalitions within their political networks and *bigger gasp* don’t put in the extra effort for people who sabotage the party, do nothing to help others, and refuse to join it. Stop the fucking presses.

The DNC did not then (and does not now) have the power to sabotage a campaign and it’s embarrassing that you feckless morons (1) don’t know that and (2) keep pretending it does to fulfill your fantasies of having some big bad Dems to fight. Sanders was not sabotaged by the DNC. Sanders made himself a non-starter because he ignored the black vote, dismissed their importance in the South, and made a number of huge missteps with their concerns he‘s done little to correct since. He has only 20% support of the black vote now and he’s been running continuously since 2016. The DNC didn’t do that. He did. And while polls since have shown black voters will accept him if they have to (I know pragmatism is a dirty word for y’all, but you’ll take it when it benefits you, I’ll bet) the only enthusiastic support he has is within younger demographics which are less numerous and traditionally do not turn out to vote.

I pointed all of this out when I was still supporting Sanders before he went full chaos agent grifter, and you know it, so all your attempts to paint me as some Clinton-loving stooge are both deliberate lies and painfully stupid. The only difference between my views and education levels between 2016 and now is I’ve stopped giving any space in my head to white dudebro media and their fauxgressive left counterparts. Now I focus more on getting my information from boots-on-the-ground activists and organizers who get shit done. Spoiler alert: these are largely black women and other WOC who drive Dem engagement. But please keep posting your Ken Vogel articles and acting like you’re the one with the greater understanding lol.

The *actual* modern rigging has been going on by the GOP since 2000 and is now being aided by Putin without the GOP or Sanders giving much of a fuck. The technology-driven gerrymandering. The purging of POC names off voting rolls. The taking over of the courts to undermine voting protections. The back door funding and advertising of chaos agents and useful idiots. The racist attacks on the votes of the most passionate and influential segment of Democratic voters has been happening for two decades. But the collective Mommy issues of the people who hate Clinton turned that narrative into the old white dude with no accomplishments being the real victim. Not that black voters rejected him. Not that he doesn't bother to even act like he gives a shit about racial or gendered justice. Nope. The fact that Dems want to elect other Dems is the *real* evil. Meanwhile, the fact that Bernie rigs (and has for years rigged) his own elections with the Dem party by y’all’s definition to hold his own seat flies over your fucking heads. Because you’re the enlightened ones. Saints wept.

I read all the leaked emails. When they came out. I’ve read every silly article you and those like you keep pointing at with damning certainty and the details are always so mundane it amazes me anyone is dumb enough to keep falling for it. But then here ya’ll sit defending Tulsi and insisting the real enemies are the Dem base and not the GOP or the hostile foreign actors interfering in our elections and I understand exactly how we got here.
 
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Yup. Notice the experience of this thread.

Now imagine the experience of Joe or Jill Average Murican Citizen at a Trump rally, where everything is simple and clear, and you get to feel so right about your ignorance you wear adorable matching t-shirts that say Fuck the Libtards and other important policy stuff and get applauded for it.

Imma take a wild-ass guess Joe and Jill go to the rally and the rest of the country goes deeper in the shitter in 2020.

Since it's football season: The game's starting, we're playing the Oakland Raiders (not the now "We're going to Vegas" Raiders, the 70's bad-to-the-bone Raiders) and we're still in the locker room in our skivvies having a slapfight about who stole whose jockstrap four years ago.
 
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Jesus fucking Christ you people are exhausting.

As I told you in 2016 when you and the other fruit loops were being ridiculous about all this nonsense, nothing in any of this blather you keep repeating is proof of rigging or even damning corruption. This is TCP report level corruption and it‘s mind-numbing that you keep pretending it has any significance. The scandals you all cling to in order to swallow Russian and GOP narratives is that *gasp* people support candidates who contribute to the party and form coalitions within their political networks and *bigger gasp* don’t put in the extra effort for people who sabotage the party, do nothing to help others, and refuse to join it. Stop the fucking presses.

The DNC did not then (and does not now) have the power to sabotage a campaign and it’s embarrassing that you feckless morons (1) don’t know that and (2) keep pretending it does to fulfill your fantasies of having some big bad Dems to fight. Sanders was not sabotaged by the DNC. Sanders made himself a non-starter because he ignored the black vote, dismissed their importance in the South, and made a number of huge missteps with their concerns he‘s done little to correct since. He has only 20% support of the black vote now and he’s been running continuously since 2016. The DNC didn’t do that. He did. And while polls since have shown black voters will accept him if they have to (I know pragmatism is a dirty word for y’all, but you’ll take it when it benefits you, I’ll bet) the only enthusiastic support he has is within younger demographics which are less numerous and traditionally do not turn out to vote.

I pointed all of this out when I was still supporting Sanders before he went full chaos agent grifter, and you know it, so all your attempts to paint me as some Clinton-loving stooge are both deliberate lies and painfully stupid. The only difference between my views and education levels between 2016 and now is I’ve stopped giving any space in my head to white dudebro media and their fauxgressive left counterparts. Now I focus more on getting my information from boots-on-the-ground activists and organizers who get shit done. Spoiler alert: these are largely black women and other WOC who drive Dem engagement. But please keep posting your Ken Vogel articles and acting like you’re the one with the greater understanding lol.

The *actual* modern rigging has been going on by the GOP since 2000 and is now being aided by Putin without the GOP or Sanders giving much of a fuck. The technology-driven gerrymandering. The purging of POC names off voting rolls. The taking over of the courts to undermine voting protections. The back door funding and advertising of chaos agents and useful idiots. The racist attacks on the votes of the most passionate and influential segment of Democratic voters has been happening for two decades. But the collective Mommy issues of the people who hate Clinton turned that narrative into the old white dude with no accomplishments being the real victim. Not that black voters rejected him. Not that he doesn't bother to even act like he gives a shit about racial or gendered justice. Nope. The fact that Dems want to elect other Dems is the *real* evil. Meanwhile, the fact that Bernie rigs (and has for years rigged) his own elections with the Dem party by y’all’s definition to hold his own seat flies over your fucking heads. Because you’re the enlightened ones. Saints wept.

I read all the leaked emails. When they came out. I’ve read every silly article you and those like you keep pointing at with damning certainty and the details are always so mundane it amazes me anyone is dumb enough to keep falling for it. But then here ya’ll sit defending Tulsi and insisting the real enemies are the Dem base and not the GOP or the hostile foreign actors interfering in our elections and I understand exactly how we got here.
So I take it you're not a big Cynthia McKinney fan?
 

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So I take it you're not a big Cynthia McKinney fan?
I respect her activism, especially regarding hurricane victims and I‘m not going to engage you in what is clearly an attempt to engage in racist “my POC individual negates your points about broader norms” tokenism bait. Go fuck yourself.
 
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