What a shitshow. Man, it sure feels like Trump getting a second term is all but guaranteed at this point. The democrats out here looking like a joke. Beyond ridiculous. It's really starting to feel hopeless.
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Democratic Presidential Primary |February OT| It Can't be Worse than Iowa, Right? (Discussion Guidelines in OP)
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There will be no blowback, twitter is an echochamber of nothingness, hashtags trending means less than nothing, and those people were not voting for him in the primary regardless (they are likely Bernie supporters)
Lol brah, it's the first caucus, we still have like 5 viable candidates. Relax.
That's way overdramatic. The results will still be legitimate
I hoped to wake up this morning and see who won Iowa, but it actually looks like things have gotten worse since I went to sleep?
What a clusterfuck. Trump is going to capitalize on this hard, and really who could blame him.
After the shit the DNC pulled in 2016 against Bernie you really have to wonder if any of this is because he seemed to be leading? Like if Biden was clearly the frontrunner I wonder if any of this shitshow would have happened? What a mess.
What a clusterfuck. Trump is going to capitalize on this hard, and really who could blame him.
After the shit the DNC pulled in 2016 against Bernie you really have to wonder if any of this is because he seemed to be leading? Like if Biden was clearly the frontrunner I wonder if any of this shitshow would have happened? What a mess.
Impeachment trial on the precipice of failing. Iowas caucus an absolute failure.
Are we the idiots?
Are we the idiots?
The Republicans are favored to win the White House. It doesnt have to necessarily have to go completely perfect for the dems to overcome but you have to avoid major screw ups. Last night may have been one.
Ultimately the DNC leadership last time was seen as grossly incompetent and potentially corrupt. This just gives an out to completely carry on that narrative and for everyone to yell out nothing has changed.
I went to bed hearing there were some issues with the caucus, get up and based on new stories and comments the world has ended due to the results being delayed by like..a day.
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Is the fuck up the first and trying to hide the fact that Bernie was leading?
CBSN is covering the Iowa Caucus but they didn't show any results
CBSN is covering the Iowa Caucus but they didn't show any results
I'm not ready to get all tinfoil hat with it, I think it's just incompetence. It's pretty on brand for the Democrats to take something that's easy and straightforward like counting up 100 people in a high school gym and then overcomplicating it for no reason to make a complete mess of everything.
There is way too much hyperbole all over the place with politics on here. This is a marathon primary followed by a marathon general, and at the end of the day what happened in Iowa is going to mean little to nothing in the primary and nothing in the general. Like the VAST majority of political stories, this will blow over in a media cycle or two
This whole ordeal reminds me of the series finale of Silicon Valley where the insider tech bros realize Bernie is going to win and rather than let the results proceed they intentionally crash the app to avoid a perceived worse result. Lol what is even going on?
As per the Wiki page:
States:
- Iowa
- Nevada
- North Dakota
- Wyoming
Territories:
- American Samoa
- Guam
- Northern Mariana Islands
- United States Virgin Islands
Can we stop with the conspiracy theories?
Yes the app was shit but this really doesn't change anything. The results are only delayed around 12 hours (for now) and nothing has been lost.
Yes the app was shit but this really doesn't change anything. The results are only delayed around 12 hours (for now) and nothing has been lost.
Exactly that is where I am at. The twitter world and those obsessed with the day to day politics are blowing this way out of proportion. Cause they kind of have to. But months from now none of this will mean anything.
It would help if some of the Bernie folk would stop parroting the conspiracy theory nonsense that the Trump kids and the right-wing are peddling. All I see from the Bernie team on a day to day basis are conspiracy theories about media bias and now the DNC rigging everything against him again. Obviously it is not all Bernie supporters or Bernie himself, but it is out there enough and amplified by both the far left and the right-wing nuts and ppl take it as gospel.
They said it would be today. They only indicated the need for an additional 24 hours.
State party announced earlier today they're releasing results later today.
The Iowa Democratic party gave aid to Trump and fascism last night. They failed the country and should be ashamed of themselves.
It might of CNN lets it fade. They're already harping it up and giving trump his free airtime.
Iowa will be absolutely forgotten come the General. Like it won't even register in our memories after Trump does some other crazy thing. Imo as someone who wasn't following these caucus results as rabidly like I've done in the past, this result only helps two people Biden and Bloomberg. It just shows Iowa doesn't really matter because the results are going to come in super late and then they've lost the news cycle peak with the SOTU and upcoming debate. Bernie will win NH, Biden likely wins South Carolina then it's game on from there.
I don't know why every election in this fucking dumb ass country has to be the same choice between outright evil or utter incompetence.
There was literally a mod post in this topic warning about doing so, and everyone is just dropping by to do a drive by conspiracy theory post.
Historical fun fact
Feeling like it doesn't matter how much tech we throw at it, Caucuses simply become unwieldy as engagement grows.
Feeling like it doesn't matter how much tech we throw at it, Caucuses simply become unwieldy as engagement grows.
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Fervent bernie supporters continue to be the worst. We even had one in this thread earlier threatening to sit out the general if he didn't get the nomination. Like, damn. How dumb can you be?
Or was it buying some bad piece of technology that wasn't needed as a favor?
Yeah my last post was a bit of an overreaction, my bad. Was such a disheartening feeling to wake up and see this embarrassment all over the news and seeing president fuckface and his supporters gloating once again. I'm just fed up with this nonsense
Everyone needs to get a fucking grip. People being slow to count votes using a new polling process is not the end of the world.
Like others have said, I don't think using Twitter hashtags to measure blowback is wise... but also those hashtags aren't really about him declaring himself winner but rather conspiracy theories around the app that were going to happen the moment the app became the story
The eyes of the world were on them and they fell flat on their face. It's embarrassing and inexcusable.
There is a SOTU tonight, Trump gets acquitted tomorrow, and there is a primary next week, this will pass
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