American Politics

[SasaS]

25 minutes ago, moof said:

Tough day for Bloomy. The stop and frisk stuff and his profoundly racist record always had the potential to kill his run stone dead. How can anybody in good conscience vote for a man who thinks walking around while black is criminal behaviour?

What happened?

[TheHowieLama]

Some dude sent out audio from a few years ago where he tries to defend stop/frisk. Badly. Looks like a chump.

Trumpie Bear then tweeted he was a racist. Then deleted it.

[SasaS]

11 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Some dude sent out audio from a few years ago where he tries to defend stop/frisk. Badly. Looks like a chump.

Trumpie Bear then tweeted he was a racist. Then deleted it.

 

So Bloomberg can now go after the racist vote.

[Duff Man]

This stuff isn't great, either:

 

https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2012/02/bloomberg-blasts-questions-from-the-yale-president-and-reporters-on-the-nypds-muslim-student-surveillance-000000

[TheHowieLama]

We are fucked like Torres was.

 

These useless fucknuts are going to continue to go through the motions that started in 1950's Chicago - we will end up with Sanders either being the contested nominee or worse. And Trump is going to steamroll us in a beating second only to that which was doled out to Corbyn recently.

[moof]

Get on board howie. Sanders can beat trump. I expect you to be out there canvassing for votes with the rest of the Bernard brothers 

[Scooby Dudek]

4 hours ago, SasaS said:

What happened?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51466036

 

Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg said police should focus on minority neighbourhoods "because that's where all the crime is", according to audio from 2015 that has resurfaced.

The former New York City mayor also told a think-tank that male minorities perpetrate "the real crime".

 

 

[Jose Jones]

1 hour ago, moof said:

Get on board howie. Sanders can beat trump. I expect you to be out there canvassing for votes with the rest of the Bernard brothers 

I reckon the moment has passed for Bernie's left populism, same as with Corbyn in the UK.

Sanders would have beaten Trump last time - and Corbyn gave Theresa May a little bit of a run.

But the white blue collar support is still enamoured of the "blame the foreigners" pitch and will take a another election or two to win back over.  The centre right, educated people who have mainly voted Republican, but also may have voted for Bill Clinton and Obama are the floating voters now.  Pick someone too left and they will hold their nose and vote Republican, same as what happened with Johnson and the Tories in the UK.

 

Hope I'm wrong.  

 

[moof]

I don’t think it has passed. The American public isn’t as supine and cowardly as the British public. He can take on trump and win on merit 

[Red Phoenix]

 

Fuck CNN.

[Jose Jones]

34 minutes ago, moof said:

I don’t think it has passed. The American public isn’t as supine and cowardly as the British public. He can take on trump and win on merit 

I guess we'll see.

Unless it's a brokered convention and the delegates and DNC bigwigs manage to squeeze him out.

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

On 09/02/2020 at 05:40, Red Phoenix said:

 

Oh ffs not her. Better than Butthead though I guess haha.

 

Homophobia will be used too, it'll be the same as it would've been with sexism if Bernie's main rival was a woman. Anything to deflect from how bad he'd actually be. If there's no natural homophobia or little of it, they'll probably manufacture some too for the headlines if Bernie's doing well enough.

 

I guess you meant Beto too who dropped out? Just had to google him to remember his name. He once played in a punk band though and at least gave up early on, so I have a bit of respect there.

Beto was also a

member of one of the best hacking “crews” - cult of the dead cow, the influence they have had on the CyberSecurity industry is immense.

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

On 08/02/2020 at 23:01, sir roger said:

Buttegieg could single-handedly revive the ' Corporate ' thread we used to have on here.

 

He sounds like every bullshitter sent from Head Office to lecture us with soundbites and gobbledegook when I was in finance.

 

On 10/02/2020 at 08:43, Red Phoenix said:

From NY Times :

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/us/politics/iowa-caucuses-democrats.html

Correcting math = personal opinion.

Rigged.

Rigged.

Rigged.

And this is just Iowa. By the time this is done if you gathered together everything only an insane or completely dishonest person would deny it. You could say that's already the case if you just gathered together everything from Iowa.

It's rigged to protect the clowns in the Democratic Party, right wingers, crony capitalists, billionaires, corporations, military industrial complex from having a dem socialist president.

 

But yeah if you don't like Sanders or dem socialism then this is fine.

From 2007 to 2010, he worked as a consultant at the management consulting firm McKinsey.

He took a part in the restructuring of the health insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

McKinsey, come in and restructure, everyone loves a restructure yeah? Generally means more work for everyone (except the poor bastards that are restructured out of the company).

Buttigieg is just another corporate clone, they are just letting a gay one get ahead to distract everyone that they will continue to dominate the system.

[Red Phoenix]

1 hour ago, Jim Spartacus said:

Beto was also a

member of one of the best hacking “crews” - cult of the dead cow, the influence they have had on the CyberSecurity industry is immense.

 

Can remember seeing that too. Don't know anything about them but might have a read on them at some point, thanks for reminding.

[Red Phoenix]

NBC excluded Bernie from this poll, they're rigging too :

 

 

 

[polymerpunkah]

Klobuchar making an appearance in New Hampshire.

 

She looks like she could become a factor in this race.

[Jose Jones]

1 hour ago, Red Phoenix said:

 

Can remember seeing that too. Don't know anything about them but might have a read on them at some point, thanks for reminding.

He was a big Minor Threat and Fugazi guy Beto.  Definitely the most Gen X President there could have been.  I guess Obama was Gen X probably, but he was too smooth and ambitious to be a proper Gen Xer. 

When Beto wasn't polling well, he just said "fuck this I'm going home to listen to some tunes and smoke weed". 

[Red Phoenix]

 

[Red Phoenix]

 

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

5 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

 

Can remember seeing that too. Don't know anything about them but might have a read on them at some point, thanks for reminding.

You not listening to Rumble with Michael Moore?

[Red Phoenix]

1 hour ago, Jim Spartacus said:

You not listening to Rumble with Michael Moore?

 

Nope, don't really listen to podcasts. Rarely listen to anything at the moment apart from bits of music here and there and when I'm hammering my eardrums making music/playing synths.

[Scooby Dudek]

So Sanders won NH but he didn't win by enough for it to be a good night for him. 

No agenda and nothing to do with the post Iowa bump that Pete got for "winning" Iowa, it is a shame Bernie didn't win Iowa as the narrative would have obviously been about how Sanders won the first to votes and is in prime position. 

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

58 minutes ago, Scooby Dudek said:

So Sanders won NH but he didn't win by enough for it to be a good night for him. 

No agenda and nothing to do with the post Iowa bump that Pete got for "winning" Iowa, it is a shame Bernie didn't win Iowa as the narrative would have obviously been about how Sanders won the first to votes and is in prime position. 

Hmm Scooby dudek... SD... are you stronts’ non-evil lefty twin.

[sir roger]

Interesting result. Most of the analysis has centred around the moderates' polling and Bloomberg entering the mix , but Warren's ship seems to be listing and if she was not there surely most of her support would go to Sanders.

 

Does Tulsi's 3% polling mean she gets onto the next debate ?

[Scooby Dudek]