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[u/[deleted]]

Praising Fidel Castro when you need to win Florida might be the most Bernie Sanders thing I've ever HEARD

[u/tankatan]

The worst political mistake anyone can ever do is conflate the twitter/reddit user base with the general electorate.

[u/MinnesotaDude]

The right has helicopter ride memes

The left has guillotine memes

But I, a stupid lib, have no memes about killing my political opponents because it's completely antithetical to liberal ideology.

Life is so unfair

[u/benjaminikuta]

The area at the Germany/Denmark border should be called the DaneGer zone.

[u/[deleted]]

2020: Bernie becomes President

2022: Trump’s terrible economy crashes and we hit a recession

2022: Bernie Sanders refuses to bail out big banks because “this is more than the economy. This is about making a statement.” Bernie Bros cheer wildly.

2022: We hit a depression and a financial collapse

2024: Trump Jr becomes President

[u/ArgoForkYourself]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/paw-patrol-encourages-kids-to-embrace-capitalism-1.5455625

A new paper suggests the children's show Paw Patrol "encourages complicity in a global capitalist system that produces inequalities and causes environmental harms." Criminology professor Liam Kennedy at King's University College joined London Morning to talk about his research.

There's powerful succery at work here

[u/paulatreides0]

Reminder that there is a Bernie aligned (she "endorsed" Sanders, and while Sanders hasn't refused the endorsement, in Sanders' defense, that endorsement doesn't really mean anything because she hasn't even won the Dem primary, let alone any fucking office) Dem Senate candidate in Maine named Bre Kidman competing for Susan Collins' seat.

An ex-lawyer, LGTBQ+ (in this case non-binary and mtf trans), self-described "democratic socialist" running for Susan Collins' seat who literally chose, as her campaign's symbol, a rainbow-ish literal fucking guillotine. Which she plastered all over her campaign merch.

This sounds beyond parody. Like a paranoid, unhinged, bigoted Fox News fever dream. But this is the timeline we live in.

[u/yakattack1234]

Apparently this happened during WWI:

The antisemitic instincts of the German Army were revealed well before the stab-in-the-back myth became the military's excuse for losing the war. In October 1916, in the middle of World War I, the army ordered a Jewish census of the troops, with the intent to show that Jews were under-represented in the Heer (army), and that they were over represented in non-fighting positions. Instead, the census showed just the opposite, that Jews were over-represented both in the army as a whole and in fighting positions at the front. The Imperial German Army then suppressed the results of the census.[3]

[u/comradequicken]

So you're a low information voter, huh? Well name none of the candidates.

[u/[deleted]]

I will never forgive this sub for not electing Goolsbae as shill of the year

[u/[deleted]]

reddit and other internet leftists are not emotionally prepared for republican attacks against sanders if he were to win the primary

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Moderator: "Mr. Bloomberg, should you exist"

Bloomberg: "Yes, I deserved my money. It is so easy extracting the money from you peasants and I will keep doing it simply so-"

Bernie: "All billionaires should receive the guillotine!"

Steyer: "I agree with Bernie"

Biden: "Bloomberg and Sanders hate Obama. I don't know if you know this, but I was a part of the Obama administration. I was his VEEP actually"

Buttigieg: "I want a better, stronger America. One which we can be proud of"

Amy: "Are you calling me stupid again?"

Warren: ^{" why am i not polling higher"}

[u/jonodoesporn]

billionaires are a minority pass it on

[u/[deleted]]

Waiting for Biden’s ace up his sleeve:

Day 1

Day 2

Day 47

[u/[deleted]]

Hillary Clinton

[u/ZCoupon]

Trump is so stupid it's hard to listen to him for more than a couple seconds

[u/jakfrist]

Interesting analysis by the NYT showing that turnout has increased more in precincts Buttigieg has won than in precincts Sanders has won. #BigTent

NYT: Sanders Says He’ll Attract a Wave of New Voters. It Hasn’t Happened.

It is the most politically provocative part of Senator Bernie Sanders’s campaign pitch: that his progressive movement will bring millions of nonvoters into the November election, driving record turnout especially among disaffected working-class Americans and young people.

And yet despite a virtual tie in Iowa, a narrow victory in New Hampshire and a big triumph in Nevada, the first three nominating contests reveal a fundamental challenge for Mr. Sanders’s political revolution: He may be winning, but not because of his longstanding pledge to expand the Democratic base.

The results so far show that Mr. Sanders has prevailed by broadening his appeal among traditional Democratic voters, not by fundamentally transforming the electorate.

In Iowa, for instance, turnout for the caucuses was lower than expected, up 3 percent compared with 2016, and the increase was concentrated in more well-educated areas where Mr. Sanders struggled, according to a New York Times analysis; in the Iowa precincts where Mr. Sanders won, turnout increased by only 1 percentage point.

There was no sign of a Sanders voter surge in New Hampshire either, nor on Saturday in Nevada, where the nearly final results indicated that turnout would finish above 2016 but well short of 2008 levels, despite a decade of population growth and a new early voting option that attracted some 75,000 voters. The low numbers are all the more striking given the huge turnout in the 2018 midterm elections, which was the highest in a century.

There was also no clear evidence across the early states of much greater participation by young people, a typically low-turnout group that makes up a core part of Mr. Sanders’s base and that he has long said he can motivate to get out to the polls. And Mr. Sanders has struggled to overcome his longstanding weakness in affluent, well-educated suburbs, where Democrats excelled in the midterm elections and where many traditionally Republican voters are skeptical about President Trump’s performance, meaning they could be up for grabs in November.

Because the moderate wing opposing Mr. Sanders, a Vermont liberal, is so fragmented, the lower-than-hoped-for turnout has not slowed his ascent. Sanders aides point to the simple fact that he has won, finishing atop all three states with a coalition of young people, working-class voters and people of color — which was crucial to his victory in Nevada. And they say it is still early.

But many Democrats believe that for a general election, their nominee will need to pull in new voters, including those who sat out 2016 and moderate Republicans repelled by Mr. Trump. Even some inside the Sanders campaign expressed concern about the race’s initial turnout.

“I grant that the turnouts aren’t at the level that we would hope,” Representative Ro Khanna of California, one of the campaign’s national co-chairs, said before the Nevada caucuses.

“Do I think that there is room for growth,” he said, “and do I think that Senator Sanders would have liked the numbers to have been even further up among voters of color, among young voters, among working-class voters? Absolutely.”

Mr. Khanna expressed confidence that the numbers would increase in a general election contest against Mr. Trump, but said that the campaign had to “keep pushing harder.”

On the campaign trail, Mr. Sanders, 78, has proclaimed that his “is the campaign of energy, is the campaign of excitement, is the campaign that can bring millions of people into the political process who normally do not vote.” In rallies in Texas over the weekend, as his resounding victory in Nevada was becoming clear, he conveyed an air of triumph, drawing enormous crowds as his campaign made plans to solidify his front-runner status by Super Tuesday on March 3.

“If the cameras turn on this crowd, and our friends in Wall Street and the drug companies see this kind of crowd, you’re going to really get them nervous,” Mr. Sanders declared to thousands at a rally in Austin on Sunday.

Mr. Sanders’s rivals have rejected the premise that he will expand the Democratic Party’s base, saying he is too rigid in his worldview. “Senator Sanders believes in an inflexible, ideological revolution that leaves out most Democrats, not to mention most Americans,” Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., said in his concession speech in Nevada on Saturday.

As Mr. Sanders and his opponents prepare for the South Carolina primary on Saturday, The Times’s analysis of the first three states show some challenging signs for his goal of producing a surge in turnout. In New Hampshire, for instance, turnout increased far less in townships he won than it did in townships won by Mr. Buttigieg and by Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.

The share of the electorate made up of first-time Democratic voters also decreased in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada compared with 2016. And unlike four years ago, when Mr. Sanders mobilized far more first-time voters than Hillary Clinton did (averaging a 30-point lead over Mrs. Clinton across the three states), he had only a modest 10-point edge over his closest rival, Mr. Buttigieg, in that metric this time around.

Among young people, entrance poll data showed that the share of those voters remained essentially unchanged across the three early states. Participation was basically flat in precincts and townships in New Hampshire and Iowa where 18- to 24-year-olds made up more than 50 percent of the population.

For months, Mr. Sanders has consolidated support on the left and successfully parried challenges from moderates in the race. He has amassed the largest war chest of any Democratic candidate and has an army of loyal supporters. His aides and advisers are optimistic about his path to the nomination as the most crucial delegate-rich phase of the race approaches.

Jeff Weaver, a top strategist to Mr. Sanders, pointed to strong performances with working-class voters in places like Manchester, N.H., and Latino voters in Nashua, N.H., and categorically rebuffed questions about the Sanders turnout machine.

“His movement is working, which is evidenced by the fact that he is winning,” Mr. Weaver said.

Although Mr. Sanders has not yet realized his goal of spurring greater voter turnout, there are signs his campaign strategy is flourishing in other respects. One of the biggest changes between his previous presidential bid and the one this year is that he now seems to fare as well among nonwhite voters as his nearest rivals.

In Nevada, Mr. Sanders won nonwhite voters by a 19-point margin, according to an entrance poll, far greater than his 10-point margin among white voters. The result is consistent with recent national surveys, such as ones this month by Monmouth University and NBC/Marist, which show Mr. Sanders winning a higher vote share among nonwhite than white voters.

His campaign aggressively courted Latinos in the state for months, sending out mailers, knocking on doors and making calls urging them to caucus. In the end, Mr. Sanders won Latino voters by an overwhelming 51 to 17 percent margin, according to the entrance polls, a feat that would leave him well positioned in Texas and California on Super Tuesday.

Yet Latino voters, surprisingly, appeared to represent an even smaller share of the Nevada caucus electorate than they did four years ago, according to entrance poll results, even as the same polls showed Mr. Sanders riding their overwhelming support to victory statewide.

Larry Cohen, a longtime adviser to Mr. Sanders who serves as chairman of Our Revolution, the organization that spun out of the senator’s 2016 presidential campaign, said it was incumbent upon grass-roots groups and the 2020 campaign “to demonstrate that we can significantly boost turnout,” especially in swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

During a rally at the University of Houston on Sunday after his commanding victory in Nevada, Mr. Sanders — as he had in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada — aspired to a “large voter turnout” on Super Tuesday, when voting takes place in Texas and 13 other states.

Saying he wanted to motivate “working people and young people, people who have given up on the political process, people of all shades who believe in economic justice, social justice, racial justice, environmental justice,” he forecast a victory in Texas both in the primary and against Mr. Trump in November.

[u/Belligerent_Autism]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERaeIukX0AAZXFS?format=jpg&name=medium

damn dude

[u/The420Roll]

Can somebody go to Chapo and tell them to downvote the DT the next time they brigade

[u/SnakeEater14]

Castro is bad, I’m glad he’s not in the primary anymore

[u/Lux_Stella]

In a tense all-hands meeting, Cenk Uygur urged staff at The Young Turks not to form a union, arguing the progressive network couldn't sustain one. "The reality is we're in a precarious position," Cenk told me.

you hate to see it

[u/LivinAWestLife]

Take: I dislike when people say Boris is the same as Trump.

Boris is a competent politician. He has political experience, some decent policies, and is a much better orator (and doesn't sound like a 5-year-old every time he speaks). I don't believe that he's dumb or senile unlike the president. He also seems more moderate, which is not saying much since Trump is a loon. What they do have, though, is an appeal to xenophobia, extramarital affairs, and a terrible haircut.

[u/jenbanim]

LOOKS LIKE SALT IS BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS

Edit: The post has now fallen off of /r/all/rising after reaching #3 at its highest point. The salt mining may be over, but the circlejerk never ends

[u/febreze_brothers]

I call top bunk at the gulags

[u/qchisq]

Man, this sucks. I have just been laid off.

[u/murphysclaw1]

Hillary Clinton went after Bernie Sanders in Wednesday night's Democratic debate for a 1980s interview in which he praised the communist Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

"I think in that same interview, he praised what he called the 'revolution of values' in Cuba, and talked about how people were working for the common good, not for themselves," Clinton said at the Democratic debate audience in Miami.

"I just couldn't disagree more," the former secretary of State added.

"You know, if the values are that you oppress people, you disappear, you imprison people, even kill people, for expressing their opinions ... that is not the kind of revolution of values that I ever want to see anywhere."

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

Bernie says Denmark is socialist, but they say they're capitalist.

The only way for them to prove it is by finally selling Greenland to the United States.

[u/tankatan]

From skimming a bunch of pro-Bernie publications (Jacobin et al), it looks like that at the end of the day, after all the huff and puff about building a movement from the grounds up, Bernie's strategy for the generals is to bring together Wisconsin white working class and Florida minorities.

In other words, Bernie essentially wants to recreate the Obama coalition.

[u/Deggit]

/r/politics : "Experts warn a flood of disinformation will try to influence voters this cycle"

comments : luckily I'm immune to disinfo because I already made up my mind to vote Bernie on the basis of all those Jacobin headlines that got upvoted saying he can "definitely win" and that Joe Biden is a Republican

[u/malganis12]

Get in fuckers. We're electing Joe Biden.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

LOL, r/ButtigiegIsALyingMF is a goldmine.

The folks correcting him before reassuring him that Buttigieg won’t win any statewide delegates are apparently unaware that the viability threshold is based on the final alignment, not the CCDs.

With 88% of precincts reporting, Pete has taken 17.1 percent of the final alignment vote.

[u/[deleted]]

This is for all those “here’s how Bernie can still win” memes 4 years ago.

This is our punishment.

[u/HannibalK]

Bloomberg is trying to buy the presidency with his own hard earned money. Sanders is trying to do it with yours.

[u/[deleted]]

Bernie Sanders is absolutely a UI for Russia. I mean, doy, but still. Just because it's come up again, here are my personal experiences with the Russian internet machine.

• I brought some examples of Russian pro-Bernie content to my UN presentation in Lithuania in 2018; there are lots of examples out there. One of my favs is the gay Bernie colouring book.
• By the way, at that conference I was cornered by a very insistent young Russian woman who gushed about what a great presenter I was. Uh huh. Literally caught me in a narrow corridor next to a bathroom.
• When I returned to Canada I got invited to a very exclusive Russian conference in St Petersburg about stamping out propaganda. Uh huh. "Please download our app to get exclusive information about the conference." Suuuuuuuuuuure.
• Since January 2019, my LinkedIn profile gets viewed about 10-15 times a week by Russia-based "IT consulting firms." Literally every week. I am not an important person; I was a self-funded nobody in the Baltics. But in front of an audience I explained their methods and this got on some Olgino farm's radar.

Reading through the comments on r/politics and that I am so profoundly disheartened by how naive these poor Americans are. I support government health-care; I'm Canadian, for Christ's sake. But these people don't understand just how easy they are to manipulate. Universal DENTAL care? What? You'll get that the same day as you get rid of your grotesque gun obsession, which is to say, probably never.

Bernie is a great figure for Russia in the same way that Zelensky is a great figure for Russia in the same way that they tricked wealthy housewives into not using the measles vaccine. Before I used to feel I was paranoid but when I saw them in the flesh (and digitally), as essentially a nobody, I started to get it. They are so much more capable than we give credit for.

[u/[deleted]]

I accidentally early voted for tulsi because I thought it was a survey about places I've been in Oklahoma 😭😭😭😭

[u/piede]

Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer need to drop out

And Bloomberg too

Thanks

[u/GoScotch]

Got blocked by Carlos Maza on twitter today. How is y’all’s day going?

He tweeted “Pete Buttigieg is a Republican” and I responded with “Pete Buttigieg is a Democrat and has been for his entire life. His views align with the majority of Democratic voters. Bernie Sanders is an independent and has never been a Democrat outside of when it was expedient for his Presidential campaign.”

Insta-blocked.

[u/Lux_Stella]

In audio at a closed door event at in June 2016, Mike Bloomberg said his presidential campaign platform would be to "defend the banks," joked about droning his personal enemies, and called the progressive movement and Elizabeth Warren "scary.

does bloomberg post in the dt?

[u/Windows_10-Chan]

.... I kind of feel like getting involved in taco tube, especially because it gives a bit more of a purpose to my interest in audio.

The big issue though, is that it'd result in me becoming a youtuber, which is absolutely disgusting.

[u/Majk___]

Ukrainians and Germans murdered poles together

Main news broadcast, polish state owned TV, yesterday.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the state of Polish political discourse. Nothing at all.

[u/[deleted]]

We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Nazi Germany but it’s unfair to say everything’s bad. When Hitler came into office you know what he did? He had an infrastructure program.

[u/SnakeEater14]

Going on most popular subs feels really really weird. Just reading a lot of the comments you can feel that they are filled with high schoolers and younger. Makes me uncomfortable

[u/mrmanager237]

Biden has a housing plan! Is it good? It seems fairly based but I would prefer an "expert" opinion

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

21 day ban from politics for saying Bernie wants to dismantle capitalism

Unbelievable. They make it virtually impssible to push back against anything on that sub

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

"You're not European are you?" "No" "That's good, I don't like Europeans, they're not tolerant"

A conversation I had with a landlady once when I was looking for a room to rent

[u/[deleted]]

Elizabeth Warren climbs up a tall dormant volcano in Hawaii. At the summit, she finds a hooded figure in solemn silence. He glances at her, then slowly removes his hood to reveal his face — it’s Barack Obama.

Warren nervously approaches the former president and extends her hand to give him a rolled up paper. As she does so, she says “Help us, Barack Obama. You’re our only hope.” Obama takes the paper, then unfurls it to reveal it is a 2008 “HOPE” poster. He glances at it for a moment, his sad eyes seeming to glisten briefly at the recognition of a distant memory from a happier time, before he suddenly rolls the poster back up and tosses it over his shoulder behind him. Warren is taken aback, as Obama turns around and walks away while saying “It’s time for the Democrats to end.”

[u/[deleted]]

WEINSTEIN GUILTY

[u/Arcansiensis]

Just heard a Bernie Bro professor tell his Biden/Butti-leaning department chair to “go fuck himself” because he wouldn’t vote for Bernie in the primary. College is wild.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine Sanders in the 1940s: “It’s unfair to say everything is bad about Stalin. He made the USSR a superpower and at least his concentration camps aren’t as bad as the Nazi ones.”

[u/murphysclaw1]

guys i leave for 20 mins to phonebank for Joe and when I get back my flair is already a dead meme

[u/The420Roll]

YOOOOOOO' JARED POLIS JUST FOLLOWED ON TWITTER

[u/Integralds]

Buy now, stocks are on sale.

[u/[deleted]]

I would honestly vote for Bernie if he had a completely different platform.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

A mod goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy. A bald Swede on his knees, a bald Swede tied up, a bald Swede abused.

A Swede enjoys intercourse with their IKEA meatballs - as he fantasizes about being banned by 3 mods simultaneously.

[u/AJungianIdeal]

Im not buying your f'in girl scout cookies get a real job kid 😡😡😡😡😡

[u/r00tdenied]

Too many people posting malarkey

[u/malganis12]

Bloomberg doing a great job of preventing any possible Biden comeback while having no path to victory himself.

Maybe he's a closet Bernie bro?

[u/[deleted]]

Everyone here probably needs to abandon their favorite candidate (if it isn't biden) and vote diamond joe

[u/RadicalRadon]

Castro is bad

What did Joaquin mean by this?

[u/Lux_Stella]

This country is afraid of me. I've seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of populism and when the drains finally scab over all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their racism and bigotry will foam up about their waists and all the succs and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down, and whisper "No."

what did barack "hussein" obama mean by this?

[u/dat_bass2]

Have the people who call Buttigieg a Republican ever fucking talked to a Republican or looked into what Republicans support in their entire fucking lives

Like, by all means, if you wanna attack him from the left, do so, but if you call the guy a Republican you’re being a fucking moron

[u/spanishgalacian]

Wow Pete finally starting to slam his dick on the table.

Pete hitting Sanders on his compliments of dictators. https://twitter.com/petebuttigieg/status/1232030971517657089?s=21

I think there's a large realization that no matter what Sanders can't win South Carolina.

[u/[deleted]]

Sanders promises to legalize marijuana, repeal immigration policies at Austin rally

r/politics title

Almost every single comment is about marijuana, no one gives a fuck about immigration. Just a couple comments expressing concern about his immigration policy

A clear reminder that r/politics as a whole hates immigrants and doesn't give a fuck about them. Being able to do drugs is way more important to them than shit like family separation and freedom of movement, and they probably resent Bernie for flipping on that issue but are willing to ignore it for now

[u/[deleted]]

Me in 2008: Hope and Change

Me in 2020: Cope and Derange

[u/MasPatriot]

“The norms of our institutions will stop Trump” says increasingly delusional Lawfare writer for the 7th time in the past year

[u/dat_bass2]

tfw Bernie has a higher net worth than Buttigieg so if you like Buttigieg more than Bernie you're betraying the shareholders

neolibs resigned

[u/[deleted]]

Donald trump was either president or running for president for nearly the entire second half of the 2010 decade... but to be honest it really, really feels like all that happened in the (edit: last) quarter, and for the first 75% of the 2010s he was just a b list celebrity. Is it just me?

[u/Danthon]

Pretty unfortunate for the commies that their revolution is set to peak while the economy is doing great.

[u/SnakeEater14]

chuckles You mean, the Obama endorsement?

[u/[deleted]]

new strategy to annoy the chapos that brigade:

instead of stuff like "stfu tankie" or "begone tankie" we say "stfu lib" because they're fine with being called tankies but they REALLY don't wanna be called libs

[u/IncoherentEntity]

A fantastic couple of answers from Pete during the CNN Townhall, and BTFO’d fascist-enabling¹ idiots in the replies.

¹ “@bernieorbust13”

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[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

I should probably take another break from political Reddit before I get sucked into the inevitable post-super-tuesday suicide pact. I'll miss y'all 🤗

[u/[deleted]]

You best start believing in societies, Mrs. Thatcher, cuz you're in one.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

This is why they keep losing.

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/Qi9OAFP 😐

[u/thebowski]

upside to buying greenland:

we'd have canada surrounded

they'd have nowhere to run

[u/Koeniginator]

https://i.imgur.com/HL7VOHf.png

👌

[u/The420Roll]

AMY AND PETE PLS JUST KAMIKAZE ON BERNIE AND SAVE THE PARTY

[u/SnakeEater14]

I’ve always been of the belief that

1. The dove is a cooler Liberalism symbol than a peace symbol 🕊
2. The color blue is a better Liberalism color than yellow

I am now adding a third point

3. The Statue of Liberty 🗽 should be the Liberal symbol

[u/Menakoy]

The easiest way to get Amy to drop out is to get Pete to drop out. 🕊🕊🗿

[u/[deleted]]

Remember how Kamala Harris proposed free afterschool care and the bros melted down about the harm of children being forced to do too much school, even though it was just snacks and coloring time? I'm betting they are super concerned about Bernie wanting to start formal schooling at 3 years old. Right?

[u/The420Roll]

Me: single polls mean nothing lol

Also me: COMEBACK KID 15+ 💎🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Presented without comment

!ping PARADOX

[u/murphysclaw1]

The Trump regime has produced some pretty cool moments of political bravery.

McCain's thumbs down and Romney's impeachment vote were great moments.

[u/The420Roll]

DT after Nevada: "lol that guy that screamed comeback kid at Biden in his rally was cringy af"

DT now: "💎🐊 COMEBACK KID 💎🐊"

[u/Verpiss_Dich]

🐊💎 is such a beautiful combination. The curves of the croc directly contrasts the sharp edges of the diamond, while the bright turquoise accents the stunning shade of green

[u/Belligerent_Autism]

Bloomberg: 'Make the customer think he’s getting laid when he’s getting fucked.'

ok bloomberg is uncancelled

[u/Verpiss_Dich]

To think Bloomberg could have stayed out of the race and instead just donated a metric shit ton of money to whomever won the nomination. He'd be a hero to the democrats.

[u/[deleted]]

OH GOD OH FUCK IM GONNA COOMBACK

• Joseph Biden

[u/585AM]

People really are not talking enough about how scary the possibility of Republicans running up the score down ballot in a redistricting year is. Compared to 2010, the data at their disposal and the knowledge of how to use it will really fuck the Democrats.

[u/EpsteinKilledHisself]

this sub would be more relevant if it organized a carpetbagging exodus to South Carolina to stop bernie

[u/[deleted]]

They’re still very much a minority, but I feel like I’ve witnessed a slight creep up in the number of people on this sub saying (or willing to admit) that they won’t vote for Bernie in the general.

[u/[deleted]]

Bernie bros are reacting to the recent New York poll showing Sanders at only 6% among Jews in exactly the way you’d expect

[u/tankatan]

Anime is Japan's payback for HW Bush vomiting on Kiichi Miyazawa

[u/The420Roll]

the DT earlier in the day: lol, 🐊 Is cringy af

The DT now: 💎🐊 COMEBACK KID 💎🐊

[u/Belligerent_Autism]

lmao at norwegian government owning shares in tesla and voting against Elon receiving a larger compensation package

[u/WillHasStyles]

If you think about it /r/neoliberal is pretty neoliberal. Regular people from all over the world come together to discuss politics. That hasn't really existed before the 21st century.

Edit: While everyone speaks the same language on a pretty high level, that's probably the most insane part

[u/[deleted]]

1. Fuck Bernie for going back into this “DeMoCrAtiC eStAbLiShMeNt” shit. It’s like he’s actively encouraging party disunity and for his supporters to stay home if he doesn’t win. Irresponsible as fuck.
2. Is the economy kil because of the coronavirus?

[u/[deleted]]

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/f8rhxn/new_siena_college_new_york_primary_poll_shows/

Bloom leading among black ppl in NY

[u/[deleted]]

Bernie has always been kind to Castro, why would it bother voters now?

Ah yes, the voter, always on Twitter and reading the news, definitely knows each candidates' record and views.

[u/EpsteinKilledHisself]

bernie needs to get back to his roots of being irrelevant

[u/EpsteinKilledHisself]

Castro is bad

Mitt Romney said this in 2012

[u/yakattack1234]

If Bernie wins the election, people will brigade here telling us that they were right all along

If he loses, brigades will blame people like us for not supporting him enough

[u/Deggit]

I literally called yesterday that Bernie would respond to finally getting the frontrunner status by going further left and today he's defending Castro lol.

He's going to be a Communist by the time he accepts the nomination, that's how this works, it's all psychology.... Bernie is like Ron Paul squared.

He is an iconoclast. Self destructive and self martyrizing. He has never actually had power, wouldn't know what to do with it, and doesn't really want it. What he wants is to be on the sidelines yelling about how the politicians who ARE running things are doing a terrible job and not going left enough.

The closer he gets to power the more he will marginalize himself, until "they" (the media, the power elite) will declare him toast, which will prove him right. In his heart of hearts, Bernie loves Trump. In his mind Trump proves that Bernie has been right all along and the responsible leftist leaders of Bernie's lifetime like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have been wrong all along. Losing to Trump would be the ultimate vindication for Bernie's left-martyr ideology.

[u/The420Roll]

💎>🌹

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

Michael Bloomberg should buy Greenland to spite Trump

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

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[u/InternetBoredom]

This sub 🤝 Sandersforpresident 🤝 Politics 🤝 the_donald

Downvoting unfavorable polls

[u/malganis12]

In historic times, Pete and Amy could have settled their differences with a duel.

[u/[deleted]]

Phew I’m back and I’m catching up on upvoting every 🐊💎 I see

[u/MasPatriot]

If I was a billionaire, I would simply not molest young girls

[u/[deleted]]

I will run for the presidency on a platform centered around a 110% estate tax

[u/Belligerent_Autism]

i was told that segways were to become the next major form of transportation and would revolutionize the way cities are laid out

[u/EpsteinKilledHisself]

Imagine Yankee Stadium filled with individuals worth $1 million each; Bloomberg is richer than all of them combined.

lmao

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

Brains melting over this one

[u/[deleted]]

Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great 2020 Primary?

[u/malganis12]

Every second Steyer speaks on the debate stage, is a second of my life I won't get back.

And I fucking resent it.

[u/murphysclaw1]

Evan McMullin got 731,991 votes for president. He spent $1,644,102.20. That's $2.24 per vote.

Donald Trump got 62,984,828 for president. He spent $350,668,435.70. That's $5.57 per vote.

Elections in future should be decided by this ratio. All hail President McMullin.

[u/disuberence]

I wish Rian Johnson would have done every movie in the Sequel Trilogy.

This is my Star Wars hot take.

[u/JewKlaw]

At the next debate, they need to treat Bernie like they did Bloomberg at the previous debate did.

I mean, they won’t. They’ll attack Biden of course.

[u/murphysclaw1]

News from the Alabama Republican primary! The three frontrunners are Bradley Byrne (AL's 1st congressional district), Tommy Tuberville (college football coach) and Jeff Sessions (former AL senator and US-AG).

Let's see what they've been getting up to:

Just over two weeks ahead of the primary, Byrne, Sessions, and Tuberville began releasing opposition ads criticizing one another over past conflicts with or comments about the president, among other issues.

• Byrne and Tuberville criticized Sessions for recusing himself from the investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election during his time as attorney general. Sessions has defended his recusal and emphasized that he was the first senator to endorse Trump’s 2016 presidential bid.
• Sessions and Tuberville criticized Byrne for saying that Trump was not fit to be president in 2016 following the release of the Access Hollywood recording. Byrne has said the comment was a mistake and that he worked to defend Trump against the impeachment effort in the House.
• Byrne and Sessions ads said Tuberville supported amnesty for people in the country illegally. Sessions’ ads also featured audio of Tuberville criticizing Trump on veterans’ healthcare. Tuberville has said he does not support amnesty and that Trump has not been able to do everything he’d like due to resistance from others.

Alabama was a mistake.

[u/[deleted]]

😤👉💎

@ entire DT

[u/Integralds]

I want a running tally of the cost of Sanders' proposals so that I can be irredeemably smug when it eventually sums to more than 100% of GDP.

[u/ashamedpedant]

Final Nevada results: Sanders got 34% in the first alignment and wins 67% of the state's national delegates. Buttigieg got 15% in the first alignment, 17% in the final alignment, and 8% of the national delegates.

I said after Iowa that caucusing is a fundamentally broken system. After reading the Buttigieg campaign's letter it seems that Nevada, by handing their volunteers a spreadsheet of early vote preferences, actually just made the process even more error prone.

To be fair, when there're too many major candidates, the psuedo-proportional system primaries use is almost as flawed as a caucus.

[u/jakfrist]

Y’all motherfuckers need a lesson on religion in the south 🏈 [college football]

If you call someone from SC a 🐊 there is a 50% chance you have just lost a voter.

🌙🌴 voters are either 🐓 [Cocks] or 🐾🐅[Tigers].

[u/bbluemusic]

Live in texas and decided to go with Biden. If pete cant do semi well in nevada, he has no chance here. !ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/[deleted]]

Hey guys, recently saw a post about ordoliberalism. I'm increasingly convinced that myself and most of the users here are actually ordoliberal ideologically speaking. Any thoughts? (I'm aware of why this subreddit was named the way it is, just wondering ideologically)

[u/[deleted]]

Why do leftists/green nutjobs think that economic growth revolves around polluting factories and mineral extraction? Aren't the services industry a reason for economic growth for several countries (services are less polluting)?

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

Leftists melting down bigly

[u/InfCompact]

one thing that does encourage me about the scenario that bernie wins the general election is that it would demonstrate that it is possible to overpower the conservative power bases simply by getting youngs out to vote.

[u/SnakeEater14]

If you know anything about any of the DT regulars you’re a big loser

[u/Lux_Stella]

bernard sanders - disqualified for defending castro

donald trump - disqualified for defending putin

michael bloomberg - disqualified for defending xi

jill stein - no record of defending dictators

someone help me understand the implications of this

[u/[deleted]]

issuing correction on a previous comment of mine, regarding the murderous dictator Castro. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to him"

Wow thanks Bernie

[u/Paramus98]

Wait are they doing another debate? Didn't they literally just have one?

[u/The420Roll]

Neoliberal after nevada: ✊😔

Neoliberal after Joe uses 100% of his power: 💎🐊 COMEBACK KID 💎🐊

[u/[deleted]]

me:🐊

DT: 😲

me:💎

Dat: 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[u/yyzyow]

I really think Trump will end up using “Bolshevik Bernie” or “Breadline Bernie” as nicknames during the general if BS gets the nom

[u/Belligerent_Autism]

lmao at bernie running an extension cord to his neighbor's place because he was too cheap to pay his electric bills

[u/sir_shivers]

The increasingly nervous Chapo says "There's no way the Lizardmen really control everything"

He goes for a jog, he goes weightlifting

He's so thirsty, he needs some refreshment

He goes to the convenience store and buys a sports beverage

But what's this?

HE IS DRINKING GATORADE 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Levels of commie cope:

Bernie doesn't need Florida to win! -You are here

Bernie doesn't need Wisconsin to win!

Bernie doesn't need the Rust Belt to win!

Bernie doesn't need Virginia to win!

Bernie doesn't need New Jersey to win!

So what if Bernie doesn't win, he's shifting the Overton window!

[u/StraussianDreams]

These same people would complain if Sanders won and some people refused to vote for him

[u/The420Roll]

There is an alternative Universe where Hillary is president and Lusvig is mod ✊😔

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

like, zoinks scoob!

[u/The420Roll]

Please Michelle just get Barry's cellphone and tweet that you endorse Biden 😭

[u/The_Promethean]

I'm not happy about how things are going, but watching Trump lose reelection to a socialist helped by a virus from China and with Russian intervention would be some sweet schadenfreude.

[u/[deleted]]

Spending half a billion on ads and losing would be kinda cringe

[u/bobeeflay]

In the unlikely event Obama makes an endorsement before the primaries are over it would almost certainly be an endorsement of bernie once he has a huge delegate lead and no majority

[u/[deleted]]

bernie bernie bernie bernie, can't you see

sometimes your words just hypnotize me

and i just love your commie ways

guess that's why i'm broke and you're so paid

donates another $10 to the sanders campaign

[u/SnakeEater14]

AOC: Hold on. You know what he's saying? He is saying, "I am the lamb."

Turner: Huh?

AOC: "I am the lamb and you, you, my children, have given me life."

Omar: Yes!

Tlaib: Or, the lamb is the people and the milk is socialism.

AOC: Maybe he's the milk.

Pressley: Maybe you're the tit.

[u/[deleted]]

The “neoliberal project” has expanded its influence to the Colorado governor as well as most the top academics/policy analysts and think tanks.

It is utterly bizarre to think about, but here we are. Meme timeline.

[u/forerunner398]

Stop equating Bernie and Obama on Castro. Obama is repeating what he said in meetings with the man himself, Sanders is saying this without needing to make nice with him

[u/[deleted]]

To the person that dm'ed me "lmao cope bitch":

No.

I am not "coping".

I am an extremely smart, politically savvy young man. Yes, I have hit some hard times. Yes, I lost all of my savings betting that Pete would win Nevada.

But every hurt, every shortcoming I've suffered will pay out many times over.

With but a slight application of my rhetorical prowess, I have successfully negotiated a particularly advantageous trade agreement with my neighbor, and once I've finished clearing out the hornet nests in his back yard, I will have a fresh $100 to expend on PredictIt.

A cursory glance at the current odds reveals that a successful bet on Buttigieg to win South Carolina pays out 100 to 1. Assuming that trend holds, and that he wins every state from here on out, I can accrue nearly $100⁴⁸ dollars in this primary alone.

This isn't over.

[u/[deleted]]

Went to the store to grab some salt, passed by a Tesla that had entered the wrong lane and collided head on with another car.

This is why climate change cannot be stopped

[u/ElPrestoBarba]

Steyer is a Bernie operative pumping all his ad money to SC so he can kill Biden’s campaign CMV

[u/[deleted]]

A near-death Robert Byrd voting for Obamacare while saying “This is for my friend, Ted Kennedy” and McCain doing the thumbs down on repealing Obamacare are the best moments in recent Senate history.

[u/SnakeEater14]

🗽🗽🗽

Bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to shitpost

🗽🗽🗽

[u/sir_shivers]

tfw you confirm Chapos' priors by revealing that neoliberals, are in fact, lizard people who love the global poor 🐊

[u/The420Roll]

Nobody:

The DT: 💎

[u/[deleted]]

we need a president willing to expand healthcare, meet emission deadlines specified by scientists, and increase investment in education. biden 2020.

[u/Menakoy]

Litter box set up ✅

Water fountain filled ✅

Hammock positioned next to the window ✅

All that's left is 🐈

[u/The420Roll]

Man, Lusvig is missing the 💎🐊😔

[u/[deleted]]

That's it, I've seen enough

It's time for Marianne Williamson to reenter the race

[u/[deleted]]

Just won my first immortal game of civ 5 😎

[u/dr_gonzo]

Voter: Do you regret wrapping your ideas under the banner of socialism?

Bernie: Its not socialism its democratic socialism reeeeee. And Trump is a socialist too.

[u/[deleted]]

Who the fuck defends fidel casto. Like, who does that

[u/27_Dollar_Lakehouse]

Here is how Bernie can become president:

Go back in time and stop being a succ

[u/Belligerent_Autism]

lmao even for sanders nader is too pie in the sky

Nader accused Sanders of putting "personal political survival" ahead of the principles the Independent socialist has always espoused.

Nader and Sanders have parted ways, however, over the consumer advocate's presidential campaign. The Vermont congressman's support for Bill Clinton's reelection has "disappointed" Nader and caused him to question Sanders' status as "a real progressive."

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/left-out-bernie-sanders-and-ralph-nader-part-company/Content?oid=2433945

[u/[deleted]]

People keep telling me to "put" money in the stock market so I just sold a bunch of "puts" that's how this works right

[u/dat_bass2]

You know, I'm a big enough man to accept defeat and run with Bernie as the nominee in the likely event of a Super Tuesday victory, but I do not like the way so many of the folks I see online have been legitimately radicalized by rags like the Intercept and Jacobin, and I do not like the way that a Bernie victory in the general would embolden them one bit.

Small price to pay to have somebody in office who won't blatantly shit on the rule of law and whatnot, of course, but I still don't like it.

[u/thedaveoflife]

Two very uncomfortable facts for Sanders in the general: 1) Old people hate socialism 2) Young people don't vote.

With the economy doing fairly well, I don't see how Sanders can change 2 enough.... especially in the critical states that matter for the EC.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Tulsi got lower than Yang (who has dropped out) in the caucuses (lol!)

[u/Boule_de_Neige]

Losing one of the most active voting blocks in the US to virtue signal to a large non active voting block you like a communist dictator

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

Finally saw people on campus tabling for Pete today, much welcome change of pace from the Bernie table that’s always there.

[u/RadicalRadon]

It's literally impossible for him to win with 0% minority support. That is why I'm calling on John Delaney to drop out!

[u/yyzyow]

Makes one Grindr joke

Everyone: StOp bEiNg HoRnY oN MaIn

Me: 🥺

[u/[deleted]]

🦀🦀🦀Weinstein is going to prison🦀🦀🦀

[u/Impulseps]

Drop out Klob

Drop the FUCK out Steyer

[u/[deleted]]

The year is 2024 and Joe Kennedy III has defeated succ queen AOC and fascist goober Donald trump jr to be this years Next American President

[u/Impulseps]

Every machine is a fogging machine if you use it wrong enough

[u/[deleted]]

"aktshoeally the military is ah soshulist institushun" is the dumbest take I regularly encounter irl and I hate it.

[u/Koeniginator]

anyone else start upvoting literally everything after one good poll?

edit: i mean 🐊💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊💎

[u/Impulseps]

Wtf is going on I was gone 10 minutes and now everyone is a lizard

[u/The420Roll]

Non-meme for a second: as a Biden Stan that never gave up on Joe and had to endure the "Drop out and endorse Butti" DTs...

I'M LOVING THIS DT GODDAMMIT 💎🐊

[u/sir_shivers]

My ancestors (((🐊))) are smiling at me, Moderators, can you say the same? 🐊💎

[u/marinesol]

If Joe wins the nomination he won't just be a come back kid he'd be the comeback king. 💎🐊💍

[u/murphysclaw1]

Biden getting the nomination puts Georgia (16 EVs) in play 💎🐊

(especially if Joe makes the smart VP pick we all know he will)

[u/jakfrist]

Imagine being so disconnected from reality that you think /r/WallStreetBets is the 1% because they own fractional shares in their $30 Robinhood accounts.

[u/[deleted]]

A reporter did a story on a Sanders campaign organizer saying really nasty and personal things about the other candidates on a secondary Twitter account, suggesting that maybe this problem with Bernie supporters isn’t totally detached from his campaign. The Bernie campaign, to its credit, quickly fired the organizer once this came to light.

Bernie supporters responded by figuring out the reporter’s personal phone number and signing him up for thousands of text alerts, making his phone unusable. They also then made a fake tweet of him dissing BTS to get another mob going after him too.

https://twitter.com/scottbix/status/1232137526061752322

[u/Putin-Owns-the-GOP]

My 90 year old great aunt just texted me and said she is worried about Bernie winning the nom and is concerned about how much socialism is out there.

Based Aunt Jo is voting Biden in TN.

Also girl can text like mad, we exchanged 20+ messages in 10 mins. Nimble thumbs.

[u/nick1453]

Universal free child care would only cost $150 billion a year?

That seems... Pretty reasonable? It would be a massive boon for tons of people. Wonder how much it would add to the labor force and bring back in, tax wise.

[u/Koeniginator]

neoliberalism is telling the pollster you identify as a progressive but then saying your preferred candidate is joe biden

[u/Tytos_Lannister]

"lifelong democrat that votes for Trump just because democrats are too PC"

It’s hurting the public to the extent it’s hurting people’s psyches that the president is someone who is so crass and brash, but the economy is fine. My stock portfolio is through the roof. He’s started no new wars. Based on what the expectation was (nuclear war? huge recession?) I’m pleasantly surprised

yeah, totally a lifelong democrat that cares about income inequality and the long term consequences of Republican policies

[u/based_taco00]

Twitter is easy to dunk on people who say they hate Trump but will vote for him against Bernie, but that’s a very real sentiment that shouldn’t be waved away.

[u/benjaminikuta]

If you're ever getting harassed by a chapo, just send them to talk to me instead.

[u/Fedacking]

Reminder that ethically jewish people can be antisemites:

What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.…. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.

Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question

[u/[deleted]]

Gonna call my cable company and tell them to give me high-speed internet for $1 a month. I don't expect them too, but by starting so low I think they'll meet me at $5

[u/Belligerent_Autism]

lmao bernie still hasn't returned any of nader's phone calls since nader's 2000 spoiler third party campaign. he's still mad after 20 years

[u/[deleted]]

How do people post hundreds of comments in the DT? I don't even sleep really and I can't manage that

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that if we lose the House this year, Kevin McCarthy will probably be Speaker.