Cpt_Obvious posted:

I think it's important that we write in Bernie on the ballot. If he pulls enough votes, we can then say "You lost because you would not push a progressive agenda."

platzapS posted:

Please do not write-in Bernie without checking to see if your state records all write-ins. In many states you'll just be counted as "Write-in: Scattering" or something.

Writing in your vote? It might not get counted (2016)


EDIT: Unless I'm misreading, votes for Bernie in the 2016 general election were only recorded in California, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont

Code Jockey posted:

good call, I checked and looks like Washington state records it

still torn about Bernie vs. Hawkins, I want to see what Bernie does in the coming days / weeks

but above all, I was born a no-joe-er, and I will die a no-joe-er

Judge Dredd Scott posted:

https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1248318170328379392

lmao. gently caress.

xrunner posted:

I'm confused how student loan forgiveness for low and middle income earners even works? Like if I work in retail a couple years after graduating I get forgiveness and then go on to my high paying job? Or do I lose forgiveness? Or I make just over the threshold for forgiveness so I still have to pay but my buddy who makes $500 a year less than me gets forgiveness? I guess they're would be a phase out to handle that. Maybe? Article paywalled so maybe there's more details, but this sounds like something that you say to win points but never actually bother to pursue.

Rastor posted:

Jill Stein, the Green candidate in 2012 and 2016, has said less than brutally mean things to antivaxxers.

However she won't be the candidate this year. They haven't held their convention yet but it's expected to be eco-socialist Howie Hawkins

Jewel Repetition posted:

Vox Nihili posted:

https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1249099143638736896

Lmao

olives black posted:

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag please

Plastic Pal posted:

Joe Biden, a "Democrat", is bending over backwards to court Republicans & he's just gonna continue right-wing rule; there is no compelling reason to vote for that brainmelting imbecilic bought-and-paid-for sellout. lmao he's going to choose a Republican VP

Also he's a god drat rapist, holy poo poo. Democrats are a garbage party.

Squizzle posted:

good grief let me get that html sorted out for you

Squizzle posted:

in the queue. blink tags

PenguinKnight posted:

https://twitter.com/garygrumbach/status/1261275214845038594?s=21

they hosed around and now they’re finding out

cool dance moves posted:

Chaos ending: trump wins by one state and it turns out the people in charge of tallying the votes are connected to Pete Buttigieg

Some Guy TT posted:

someone help me keep track of the demographics biden has alienated i got

told young people they dont get anything
doubling down on antiasianism for his covid19 policy
saying that latino voters arent in the gameplan
announcing that black people who dont vote for him arent black by definition

trying to get an over under on when and how hes going to piss off the rest of the coalition

taking credit for gay marriage cant be the lgbt line hes already done that im gonna go with him comparing himself to gay people in terms of pedophilia accusations
promising to increase drone strikes would probably do it for the muslims kind of surprised he hasnt already done that really
for native americans he could either victim blame them for gambling or aggressor blame them for inventing casinos shortcut would just be warren as vp of course

Classon Ave. Robot posted:

Keep in mind that if the Greens get enough votes that Biden might have won if he got all those votes then the Democrats will throw the ultimate hilarious screaming meltdown and we'll get to watch. I think that alone is worth going out on election day.

Zvahl posted:

they blamed ralph nader for years for 2000 until 2016, you know because he made al gore lose to that president they pretended to hate

they'll be blaming bernie literally until we're dead

Skyarb posted:

Hey guys, just checking in, are you all voting for Joe Biden?

triple sulk posted:

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1275597508903747584

HOT drat, ANOTHER DAY OF NOT VOTING FOR JOE BIDEN

Bust Rodd posted:

hey I’m curious is there like a single video clip anywhere online of Joe Biden saying how he would, if elected
make anything better?

like does he have... policies?

has he literally proposed...anything?

I mean I felt very familiar with Warren and Sandler’s platforms even 3 months ago but even keeping up with the Biden campaigns absolutely glacial output I can’t find... I mean literally ANYTHING about what Joe plans to do RE COVID, homelessness, the economy, schools... like am I dumb or just not googling the right stuff or does the major democratic presidential candidate of 2020 not have any policy positions regarding our current national crisis?

oh wait I found one video saying he would give more money to police

Kitfox88 posted:

it’s gonna own how the dems will literally have nothing other than ‘he’s not trump’ because if they point to anything Biden actually has done it’s effortless for trump to make the tiny hop to how he’s just as bad a human

tangy yet delightful posted:

You haven't seen the social media posts about how it's actually 2 justices that are old plus other nebulous things?

They are absolutely prepping for RBG to not make it till Nov in centrist Dem twitter land.

Although truthfully I don't think that voting Bloc will matter come Nov 5. The corona Bloc seems like it will be the deciding factor.

Chris James 2 posted:

https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1285959242910859264

the_steve posted:

https://twitter.com/ProudSocialist/status/1287978759660814342?s=19

CubanMissile posted:

Last day to not vote for Joe in July.

0 rows returned posted:

Gene Hackman Fan posted:

also, spent the past couple of days impotently ranting at ppl on facebook (because this is what i do when i'm out of weed)

but in the course of that ranting, i noticed something: it's not just the usual brand of smugfucking insufferability we're seeing from libs this time around. there is something palpable and genuine coming through with these people, and it's fear. liberals are scared right now that trump may actually win, and it's completely understandable why they would be. with that in mind i would like to offer the following food for thought:

gently caress 'em.

this poo poo didn't happen overnight. if anything, they've been actively contributing to this whenever they've been at the levers of power themselves over the past forty years. they don't give a gently caress about trans ppl, nor the foreverwars, nor the shameless loving grift or even the lack of health care. they aren't afraid of what trump would do to the poor and downtrodden, they never have been! otherwise they would have called out the bullshit in their own loving party long before now, if they even do it then. they've doomed mine and future generations to a loving inhospitable planet all so that their donors could squeeze a little more wealth from people, before they jog merrily to their graves and they've done it with a smile and assurance this was for our own loving good.

no, the one thing they're afraid of is that they may actually suffer the conditions that millions of people in this rotten loving country and miserable loving planet have endured: an uncertain future, privation, misery.

it couldn't've happened to a more deserving lot.

Code Jockey posted:

e. ^^^ Ugh that sucks.


This. Vote for the platform and the kind of candidate the dems should've run, instead of chasing their addiction to donor money at the cost of the people they claim to represent.

It will not only bring the Greens - and their platform - one vote closer to a greater presence, in a system that has a dire need for a third party, it is one more vote - and one that will count - lost by the democrats thanks to their choices.

I'm voting for the Greens for their platform (and feeling like Hawkins may actually deliver it) primarily, but kicking the democrats in the teeth is a nice bonus.

MSDOS KAPITAL posted:

Technically the Democrats have access to my vote so that should be good enough for them I would assume.

Business Gorillas posted:

Liberals will get increasingly desperate as they realize they went all in on demented alleged rapist Joe Biden, a man who promises to fix none of our problems

They won't have any introspection or self-reflection, of course, they'll just scream into the void that the people they've actively told to gently caress off aren't as deluded about their candidate as they are

TeenageArchipelago posted:

the supreme court actually just ruled that states can freely replace unfaithful electors, so your good now! your vote for Howie matters! democracy is saved!

or at least, I remember them ruling something like that

Sydin posted:

Priority one was to stop Bernie at all costs, but I do think they are genuinely huffing their own farts about Biden being a slam dunk win. The vast majority of the DNC's powerbase are old as loving dirt career politicians, and their internal strategists are all lanyard folks who haven't experienced the world outside of the fancy part of DC since they got their gig. I don't think they're trying to throw the election, I think they're genuinely convinced that there's the untapped block of never-trump independents and republicans, and they're convinced that these are the people to target because the liberals and the left will always vote for them, particularly now since of course we are all in agreement that Orange Man is an existential threat. It also doesn't hurt that this means pulling the party platform center-right, which is where the DNC's most powerful elite want the party to ultimately sit.

The problem of course is that "independents" are just temporarily embarrassed Republicans who have consistently proven they will pull the lever for the R candidate even after hemming and hawing for the entire election, and trying to grab R voters is dumb because Trump has like a 90% approval with them. So the Cop & Feel ticket has done nothing so far but alienate the youth vote, the leftist vote, and a huge segment of the minority vote, all blocs the D's absolutely need to turn out in full force to win. Also the process can never fail, only be failed, so when this inevitably doesn't work again it's going to be the fault of Bernie/The Squad/young voters/leftists who didn't unify behind Biden.

Bust Rodd posted:

if you don’t think Bernie would have won, ask yourself why the entirety of the Democratic establishment worked harder to gently caress him than they did Trump.