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3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007


Only one of those is still supporting socialists.

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3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

JBP posted:

Is this why it was off on Trump? Like lack of political history, offices, own party hated him, etc?

538 said Trump would beat Clinton approximately 1 out of 3 times. I don't believe they were off last time. They gave Trump a better chance than almost anyone else.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-fivethirtyeight-gave-trump-a-better-chance-than-almost-anyone-else/

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

TulliusCicero posted:

I somewhat agree, but I will also say that black boomers can be just as indoctrinated in the Establishment as white ones

Look at Trump supporting hispanics in Texas

Bernie supporters really need to get away from any echo's of the last primary's "low information voter" complaints about black voters who frequently do spend time getting information even if it is not the progressive information you like.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Also he sent soldiers to Korea(?) to handle the quarantine or w/e and then flew them back on commercial flights with no screening.
Not to Korea.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/27/coronavirus-fear-united-states-joint-military-exercises-south-korea-asia-trump-cdc/

Kinda the opposite happened.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Right, but ultimately that probably introduced the virus to the West Coast.

But he didn't send Soldiers to Korea to help with quarantine.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Didn’t Perot do this but for an entire hour?

This seems like it fills a complete commercial slot instead of a programming slot.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

You cannot be the candidate of healthcare for all when you have surrogates who blatantly and repeatedly deny foundations of modern medicine and you cannot be the candidate of the environment when you are anti-nuclear.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Nairbo posted:

Just stop. It’s been 8 pages of this poo poo
So is this all just fine with you then?

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

WampaLord posted:

Yup, it's 100% fine with me. Bernie is the compromise candidate, no candidate is literally perfect. Are you somehow claiming that Joe Biden is a better healthcare/environment candidate than Bernie?

Yes, because Biden will build on the ACA. Sanders is siding with Marianne is against animal testing which is obviously needed for vaccine trials. I also believe nuclear power needs to be a part of fighting climate change along with more government support for renewable energy.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1234536483224248320

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

SgtSteel91 posted:

Has there been any legislation put forward that specifically helped black people?

Yes. https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Data/Constitutional-Amendments-and-Legislation/

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Nonsense posted:

I think Virgil's feeling on Virginia is off. Northern Virginia is where many of these succlib accounts on twitter all live, like a poo poo load of them.

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1234693241292967942

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Rainbow Knight posted:

eeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhh something about this seems off. I'm not letting my optimism go crazy, but a poll released at the end of the day that says "Oh wow looks like after SC people thought "Hey maybe Biden is a viable candidate guess I like him more than Sanders"" is a little unbelievable. I'm going to call bullshit

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1234694072918474756 Another poll heavily favoring Biden in VA

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

I think you all are over-estimating how well Bernie sounds when he talks and also are too terminally online to notice that the vast majority of the time Biden is very articulate, much more aware of his surroundings, and able to react to what is going on around him compared to Bernie saying the same rehearsed thing over and over again. Biden will do fine and Bernie wasn't as good as you imagined.

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3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Tatsuta Age posted:

This is such a wrong post lol

Except it's not. Go out and talk to people and try to watch the debates with an open mind.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Anybody who thinks that Sanders would beat Trump would be in for a very, very rude awakening when the media hands the keys over to Trump and pivots non-stop to talking about Sanders drooling all over himself at every given opportunity, the rape stories, believing cancer is caused by lack of orgasms, the only accomplishments being post offices, the one civil rights march he did decades ago, his supporters DMing rape and death threats at Warren, the anti-vax and anti-vax testing on animals, etc.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Lumpy posted:

If Trump isn't president any more, they can't make a living trashing him.

He's not going away even if he loses the presidency. They aren't worried about that. He'll finally be able to get sued again and it'll be like constant OJ Simpson trials.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Unoriginal Name posted:

oh yeah, Biden has strong plans on climate change? Love to hear them

He's not anti-nuclear, which is better than Bernie, wants to rejoin the Paris Accord, supported money for clean energy projects, and promised to go after polluters especially in poor and minority areas.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007


Based on the dates of the poll, it was before South Carolina. We don't know how many of those polled there ended up switching already to Biden or Bernie on Super Tuesday and also the polls after South Carolina. That percentage could go either way.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Gyges posted:

The only explanation that works, this side of mind control, is that voters were convinced that Biden is the best positioned to win against Donny. Nothing else makes any sense, especially since every single exit polls shows Bernie's ideas winning by huge percentages while Bernie remains the most popular politician in the country.
There are much more reasonable explanations. While Bernie's ideas may have sometimes won, people saw a lot of evidence that Bernie would not be able to implement anything as president in both the two post office names meme and that Justice Democrats did very poorly in 2018.

Bernie did not come off as more charismatic than Biden to a lot of people.

People also felt that Bernie blew off concerns about a transition to M4A. A public option first makes sense to a lot of people. Even people who love the ACA know that there was a rough initial transition period.

Also Bernie is not the most popular politician in the country, and is only 5% ahead of Biden.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Gyges posted:

Which politicians are more popular than Bernie?
Obama by 10%
https://today.yougov.com/ratings/politics/popularity/politicians/all

Now you can say that you were talking about current politicians but Biden is the guy who kept talking about trying to continue Obama's presidency.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Majorian posted:

Evidently that can only get Biden so far.

Well, he is polling better against Trump than Bernie.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-6250.html

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Majorian posted:

That's not what we're talking about, though. You said this:

Yeah and I already linked to those polls in a previous post.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Majorian posted:

I'm not sure what point you think you're making, but it's not a very good one.

In any case, would you please back up the following claims you made with actual evidence and not just speculation?

1. I corrected a false, baseless claim.

2. Just a couple of articles on how some of the cost claims were incorrect. Whether or not you agree with these, other people did read them and others like them.

https://khn.org/news/bernie-sanders-embraces-a-new-study-that-lowers-medicare-for-alls-price-tag-but-skepticism-abounds/

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/2/26/21153775/democratic-debate-bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-yale-study

It is speculation, but people do remember that ACA took almost 2 years to pass with a much more friendly senate and Obama got along with Democrats much better than Sanders.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Oh Snapple! posted:

People who just turned out en masse to kill their children and grandchildren so they can stop paying attention to the news are not allies lol

I'm not on the death celebration train but I'm not going to pretend that these old fucks didn't vote to loving doom us
How did they vote to doom you?

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Majorian posted:

No you didn't. You made the claim that "people saw a lot of evidence that Bernie would not be able to implement anything as president in both the two post office names meme and that Justice Democrats did very poorly in 2018," without providing any evidence yourself.
You keep ignoring the post to which I was originally responding

Majorian posted:

Nothing that you've posted here suggests that a significant amount of primary voters voted for Biden because "Bernie blew off concerns about a transition to M4A."


You acknowledge that it's speculation, and then go on to engage in...baseless speculation. Do you really not see the irony here?
Bernie never explained how to fully pay for or transition to M4A. Do you really believe that want a concern? Especially after it hurt Warren after she actually explained how to pay for her plans? There is no irony.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

No he didn't since he is disingenuous about the costs. It's also unrealistic that doctors will take significant pay cuts. The bill doesn't pay for everything.

https://khn.org/news/bernie-sanders-embraces-a-new-study-that-lowers-medicare-for-alls-price-tag-but-skepticism-abounds/

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

This has really become Trump criticizes Trump twitter where many people here are deflecting from the issue that Bernie is not doing anything in the senate to address this issue and acting like it's leadership.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Cpt_Obvious posted:

He's doing more sitting at home and raising money than he could do in the Senate.
Yeah, that's the point. He's always been ineffective legislatively.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Cpt_Obvious posted:

Jesus, OK. What legislation, in the past 40 years, do you wish he had been part of? What has the Senate, as a whole accomplished in 4 decades that you could point to and say "See? Why didn't Bernie do something like this?"

That entire body is designed to do absolutely nothing, to drag progress to a halt. The problem isn't the people within the system, it is the system itself.

At minimum, ignoring the civil rights legislation is really filling the Bernie Bro stereotype.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Joe Gillian posted:

I know it didn't. Media coverage did.

Source?

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Doctor Jeep posted:

hey bro, don't forget to answer this simple question:
What Leon said.

I thought people were trolling so I ignored that.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Mar 23, 2020

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

I believe Tara despite the Russia stuff. But if you are wondering why the DNC may someone else, maybe the next best choice after a rapist isn't a rape fantasy writer who gets off on abused women.

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3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

misadventurous posted:

It was a slightly clunky second wave feminist essay not his loving diary!! I hate this dumbass smear

It doesn't come off that way at all, it comes off as very creepy just like Biden's touching.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

joepinetree posted:

Imagine being such a dispshit that you equate an essay with actual unwanted touching.

Imagine defending a rape fetish writer.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

kidkissinger posted:

Why pretend that you've even read it?

I have read it. It's very clear.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

joepinetree posted:

As opposed to defending the rapist?

I said Biden is a rapist. No one should vote for him.

3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Why do people believe that a complete rejection of nuclear power can be a part of fighting climate change?

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3rdEyeDeuteranopia
Sep 12, 2007

Falstaff posted:

There was this anonymous accusation that floated a while back.

https://theologycorner.net/blog/uncategorized/do-i-have-to-vote-for-a-rapist-if-i-live-in-a-swing-state/

And another anonymous accusation (or maybe the same? impossible to say) that was floated in this tweet.

https://twitter.com/_nalexander/status/1255708175711510530

Given how Reade's been treated so far, despite trying to tell her story for years, I can't imagine any other victims are too eager to throw themselves in the firing range. (Kinda like how things were before #MeToo, funny that.)
Christine O'Donnell is not a witch.

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