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  • Here’s the thing: I’m not jazzed about Pete or Biden or Bloomberg.  But if the various Dem factions are going to demand perfection from their candidate, then we’re going to lose again to a Republican

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Today is the first day since Donald Trump was elected that I've felt his chances of winning in November are better than his chances of losing and a lot of it has to do with Democratic  Party incompetence. 

26 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

 Asked to elaborate, she said she liked that Trump "put America first." She was tired of government money helping the poor in other countries, and I guess she was so glad that was being taken away she was willing to take it out of her own pocket too. She liked that Trump was gettin' tuff with China on trade

 

Nevermind the known results of the China trade war was to create a market in Putin's Russia that didn't previously exist, doubled Russian farm exports?, while American farmers suffered tremendously.

Nevermind, Trump's most controversial moves always seem to somehow benefit Putin and Russia.

Yet another frustrating conversation to have with Trump supporters...who can never really explain why they are Trump supporters 

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2 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Today is the first day since Donald Trump was elected that I've felt his chances of winning in November are better than his chances of losing and a lot of it has to do with Democratic  Party incompetence. 

don't sleep on trump going trump in the sotu tonight.

2 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

don't sleep on trump going trump in the sotu tonight.

Yeah, I'm wishing like a motherfucker that he goes off script and starts threatening to imprison those behind the impeachment.

6 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Today is the first day since Donald Trump was elected that I've felt his chances of winning in November are better than his chances of losing and a lot of it has to do with Democratic  Party incompetence. 

Really? I feel like most of us have felt that was for a couple years now. He'll win without winning the popular vote again.

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

He stayed on the prompter last time, IIRC.

Nothing more lively and rhythmic than Trump on a teleprompter. 

1 hour ago, TXSG8R said:

I think thats very true.  A large chunk of Rs vote that straight party because of abortion or guns, and they could give a shit less what flaws their candidates have as long as they will uphold those pillars.  Christian conservatives were clutching their pearls about Trump during the nomination, but they love him now because hes pumping out right-leaning judges as fast as he possibly can.  I dont think the democrats really have that same absolute allegiance to issues like that.  

Many D's probably do, actually. On abortion and guns, of all things. 

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

He stayed on the prompter last time, IIRC.

he wasn't impeached last time, though. and the house impeached the president, so i reckon he'll be sorely tempted to snark and braggadocio 

Just now, Hank Kingsley said:

Nothing more lively and rhythmic than Trump on a teleprompter. 

*sniff!*

Just now, SimonBolivar said:

Really? I feel like most of us have felt that was for a couple years now. He'll win without winning the popular vote again.

He's so unpopular and his margin of victory was so small, I thought it would be a gimme. 

Then the Democratic Party did its thing.

Just save the full results for Wednesday evening. Make it a big production.


They’ll make asses of themselves by copying the college football playoff countdown format.
2 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

Bloomberg's doubling his ad buys, exploiting the chaos.

That's smart.

Joe Biden's campaign is in big, big trouble.

Just now, longhornmatt said:

Lol.  They literally don’t give a shit about his betrayals on policy and will vote for him anyway.  That is the most certain thing in all of this.

because he's "sticking it to the libs." that's the clearest thing out of this whole situation. they are willing to give their pint of blood in the big effort to stick it to the libs.

4 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

Dems should just hand these out to all candidates and move on to NH

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We understand the problem - and it has plagued the Party for some time now. 

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It’s not hard to see the Iowa fiasco as an illustration of an even more deeply-seated pathology: elite incompetence. Too many people with the right resumes get to fail upwards or at worst sideways. And remember, unlike our older WASP-y leaders who were a combination of people from the right clubs and self-made men, our current crop of people in charge pride themselves on being the end products of a meritocratic system, as in their claim to legitimacy stems from the claim that they are more talented (gah) than mere mortals and therefore obviously should be in the top slots because they’ll do oh so much better than everyone else.

And it’s the Democratic party, as the representative of the 10% professional managerial classes, that really owns this disease. Recall in Thomas Frank’s Listen Liberal how he set forth, without irony, a conference that was treacly with the self-regard, with the way every participant was lavished with embarrassing exaggerations of their accomplishments. No one had the slightest sense of how narcissistic and pampered they seemed. And it wasn’t hard to imagine they’d all collapse in a heap if presented with a real challenge, like suddenly becoming destitute or being dumped in a remote area with neither a water bottle nor GPS.

And we keep seeing this leadership class succeed in rent extraction and not much else.

Go down the list: The post-crisis failure to reform the banks or even go through the motions by incarcerating a few execs and turfing out some board members. Our grossly over-priced, underperforming health care system. Our student-impoverishing higher education system. The F-35. The botched Obamacare rollout. Our Middle-East nation-breaking, which has scored geopolitical own goals like destabilizing Europe, facilitating Russia asserting itself a geopolitical power despite having an economy the size of South Korea and in the face of our economic sanctions, and making us deservedly disliked around the world. Hillary Clinton losing to of all people Donald Trump despite spending twice as much as his campaign spend because her team was enamored of Robby Mook’s models and somehow forgot about the Electoral College. 

And if you believe, as Team Dem does, that every problem can be solved with better PR, the corollary is you never admit to failure, you never do post mortems, and you keep incompetents around who you allow to fail and fail again. 

 

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/02/iowa-democrats-and-elite-incompetence.html

 

Just now, David Dennison said:

That's smart.

Joe Biden's campaign is in big, big trouble.

I wish that old fucker would decide to sacrifice himself in one act of good, make a deal for the VP spot again, and act as a Kingmaker of sorts to one of the other candidates. You'd think creating a lasting, positive legacy that would live beyond his lifetime is something that old people near death would value, but apparently not in today's politics. 

Just now, hayden_horn said:

because he's "sticking it to the libs." that's the clearest thing out of this whole situation. they are willing to give their pint of blood in the big effort to stick it to the libs.

I think a lot of people are going to go into the booth and think to themselves that things aren't all that bad and vote for the incumbent, especially older voters who remember the chaos of the '60s. This is nothing compared to that. Plus, there's the news of a strongish economy.

2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I wish that old fucker would decide to sacrifice himself in one act of good, make a deal for the VP spot again, and act as a Kingmaker of sorts to one of the other candidates. You'd think creating a lasting, positive legacy that would live beyond his lifetime is something that old people near death would value, but apparently not in today's politics. 

The annoying part is he really didn't WANT to run. Enough people got in his ear and convinced him he was the savior needed to beat Trump. It's so fucking stupid. 

 

12 minutes ago, StruggleBus said:

Many D's probably do, actually. On abortion and guns, of all things. 

Well I guess Bloomberg will be the litmus test there.  

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Feeling despair that the DNC is going to screw this up?

DO SOMETHING

Pick a nationally-viable candidate and volunteer. Phonebank. Canvas. Donate. Go to their website and see what they want.

The party doesn't matter. The candidates decide whether or not Trump wins.

 

 

22 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Today is the first day since Donald Trump was elected that I've felt his chances of winning in November are better than his chances of losing and a lot of it has to do with Democratic  Party incompetence. 

I was there when the Democratic party's platform for 2020 was/is: "defeat Trump"

The minute they made this election about Trump the person they lost.

 

Just now, MonkeyDoughnut said:

I was there when the Democratic party's platform for 2020 was/is: "defeat Trump"

The minute they made this election about Trump the person they lost.

 

The national mood shift really occurred right when all of those "the powerful Democratic donors are not pleased with the field and are trying to get candidate X/Y/Z to enter the race."  I don't have data to back it up, but it sure feels like that was the moment polls went from "5+ people will destroy Trump" to "Trump is probably going to win again."

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The idea of being a kingmaker doesn't actually make much sense. He'd be an AWFUL surrogate on the road and he has no real voter base to try and persuade over.

Thinking more about Biden's possibly low number of 13-14% in Iowa...imagine how shitty that number would be if he wasn't considered the "favorite" by punditry and national polls. 

His whole candidacy is perceived electability. And he's going to finish a distant 4th (maybe 5th) in Iowa. The guy has been a complete campaigning disaster in his previous presidential runs as well. 

What the fuck are we doing? 

1 minute ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Thinking more about Biden's possibly low number of 13-14% in Iowa...imagine how shitty that number would be if he wasn't considered the "favorite" by punditry and national polls. 

His whole candidacy is perceived electability. And he's going to finish a distant 4th (maybe 5th) in Iowa. The guy has been a complete campaigning disaster in his previous presidential runs as well. 

What the fuck are we doing? 

allowing (figuratively) ANYBODY to run for office instead of having, oh I dunno, minor rules and guidelines to help weed out a not viable candidates

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Just now, Hank Kingsley said:

What the fuck are we doing? 

Watching the inevitable.

Just now, MaybeACoordinator said:

Headline I saw in passing: "Mayor Pete was the kinda kid who unplugged the Sega when he was losing."

That was always fun.  Sitting there for a few seconds waiting for your buddy to figure out his controller wasn't working.

Mysteriously, 6th street has yet to appear today.

The idea of being a kingmaker doesn't actually make much sense. He'd be an AWFUL surrogate on the road and he has no real voter base to try and persuade over.
Biden's brain is mush and he still thinks it's 1997. He needs to sit down, shut up, and take the occasional round of applause at various D events he lends his visible support to.
4 hours ago, Js1 said:

White people are why Trump is president. 

Well, being the majority of the population this result doesn’t necessarily surprise me. 

2 minutes ago, Eastwood said:
17 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:
The idea of being a kingmaker doesn't actually make much sense. He'd be an AWFUL surrogate on the road and he has no real voter base to try and persuade over.

Biden's brain is mush and he still thinks it's 1997. He needs to sit down, shut up, and take the occasional round of applause at various D events he lends his visible support to.

and stop being so touchy and kissy

10 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Good lord Iowa, you had one fucking job. I hope the Mississippi River overflows its banks and wipes out that turd of a state. 

It is hard to transition to this new techno stuff when you are used to Morse code.

lol Bloomberg is already second to Bernie in the betting markets for the Dem nom.  It most likely come down to Bernie versus an oligarch trying to outright buy the nomination.  

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Just now, Fozzz said:

lol Bloomberg is already second to Bernie in the betting markets for the Dem nom.  It most likely come down to Bernie versus an oligarch trying to outright buy the nomination.  

I'm not going to name names, but there are a few here who will convince themselves Bloomberg makes sense

(I think Bozo is already there?)

and stop being so touchy and kissy
Apparently, being "a little rapey" gets you a boost in the polls these days.
Just now, bad_teammate said:

I'm not going to name names, but there are a few here who will convince themselves Bloomberg makes sense

(I think Bozo is already there?)

I'll vote for Bernie, but if it comes down to Bloomberg and Bernie before the convention, things aren't looking good for Bernie.

1 minute ago, bad_teammate said:

I'm not going to name names, but there are a few here who will convince themselves Bloomberg makes sense

(I think Bozo is already there?)

I don't see any reason why the "it's a republic, not a democracy" folks would have any issue with someone buying a nomination.  

2 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Sand/berg 2020 

 

 

Nope.  Another billionaire.

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Pretty certain Bloomberg's whole goal is to not necessarily win the nomination but suck up enough delegates to prevent Bernie from outright winning it.

Out of curiosity, and as someone who hasn't paid attention to Bloomberg, why exactly would he be such a laughably bad candidate? You know, in the world of "Anyone But Trump" I fail to see how a (hopefully, I haven't been paying attention) less evil and vile version of a successful Billionaire with potentially strong business and economic ties would be the worst thing in the world if he happens to match up well against Trump. Someone kindly inform me. 

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Just now, SydneyCarton said:

Out of curiosity, and as someone who hasn't paid attention to Bloomberg, why exactly would he be such a laughably bad candidate? You know, in the world of "Anyone But Trump" I fail to see how a (hopefully, I haven't been paying attention) less evil and vile version of a successful Billionaire with potentially strong business and economic ties would be the worst thing in the world if he happens to match up well against Trump. Someone kindly inform me. 

I'm going to answer in the Bloomberg thread!

Just now, GSU&UT said:

Pretty certain Bloomberg's whole goal is to not necessarily win the nomination but suck up enough delegates to prevent Bernie from outright winning it.

Maybe, but on the surface it makes zero sense. 

Bloomberg is pulling polling percentage points from moderates. He is an alternative to Joe. Think it helps a Bernie/Warren coalition more than anything else. 

Just now, Hank Kingsley said:

Maybe, but on the surface it makes zero sense. 

Bloomberg is pulling polling percentage points from moderates. He is an alternative to Joe. Think it helps a Bernie/Warren coalition more than anything else. 

I thought so too at first but if Biden is cratering Bloomberg being there to suck up so much ad time may hurt Warren and Bernie. We'll see, I really don't think he's in it to win, it'd be an insane result.

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