US PoliERA 2018 |OT13| And now the fun starts
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Ah, the too overwhelmed defense. Looking forward to future fuck-ups, Bern Dog, whenever that shit catches up two years down the road.
"Eh, shit happened. Now that we're a couple miles down the road, and it's not in the rear-view, lets just try to ignore it ever happened, okay?"
Leaders of organizations that go bad are exempt from criticism or responsibility if they were busy.
It gives everyone in the article goofy titles - Biden is nicknamed "the Godfather". It's Vanity Fair, and it's fluff piece on how different politics are going to look in 2019 vs 2016 or even 2018.
His apology is even worse. I'm sorry you felt harassed doesn't cut it. What is his plan to do better? Be less busy this time?
The trolls are going to say Trump was too busy going around the country to know that his campaign was colluding with Russia
"Every Rally was an Inverse Treason, so he's negative three treasons by our calculus."
Romney is creepy in some ways, but Lou Dobbs is really the last person who should use that insult.
Really, all Bernie needed to say was, "Bros before Hos" and Bernie 2020 would've been sealed.
Lol ain't so easy when it isn't just adoring media looking to burn the Clintons to the ground, eh Bernard?
Re: Bernie
Is it that fucking hard to just say "yeah, I messed up... I know I have to do better in the future. I apologize for not recognizing this sooner and appropriately addressing these allegations".
Done. No controversy.
Maybe I should run for office? I can memorize his (singular) talking point.
Is it that fucking hard to just say "yeah, I messed up... I know I have to do better in the future. I apologize for not recognizing this sooner and appropriately addressing these allegations".
Done. No controversy.
Maybe I should run for office? I can memorize his (singular) talking point.
You mean an out-of-touch old white guy who took time out of the 70s to write about how women actually enjoy rape isn't doing great with this
I thought someone was excited that Pence would have to swear in a new Congressional member on the Koran (maybe Ilhan) but the VP only swears in new senators. The speaker (Pelosi) swears in new house members.
Lol.
But seriously he's trying to associate himself with Republicanism and against Trump. Guess he wants to position himself to be Senate leader.
How soon before his adoring fans handwave this away as not a big deal?
They've already preemptively done it I'm sure
something something "don't politicize this" while Bernie makes the exact same communication mistakes that cost him in 2016
Bernie Sanders has never been able to admit a mistake or a fault ever. Why in the world would anyone think he'd start now?
Plus, this was hard to spin into millionaires, billionaires, wall street.
I can't wait to hear how the next fifty gaffes are actually totally fine and how anyone who is upset is a neoliberal centrist.
AOC and Ilhan are much more fun Twitter follows than my actual rep Tim Ryan, who mostly tweets about football and the Lordstown plant.
He did say that.
"I am not going to sit here and tell you that we did everything right in terms of human resources, in terms of addressing the needs that I'm hearing from now that women felt disrespected, that there was sexual harassment which was not dealt with as effectively as possible."
He then talks about how his reelection campaign in 2018 had lots of measures, including mandatory training and a third party firm women could go to if they felt harassed (putting his later comment about women that felt disrespected into context) -- how he thinks his 2018 model is how he wants to go forward with. Then he apologizes and promises they'll do better if he runs in 2020.
Then Cooper asked him if he knew at the time and he said no and PoliEra ran with that out of context comment instead because of course.
Can see video here: https://www.axios.com/sanders-on-re...ime-c6881299-e710-4b7e-80dd-7e6b840b8b89.html
In a post #metoo and Kavaungh world these are words from someone that wants to be the democratic nominee
The author literally argues that boycotting a company because you disagree with their product offerings is "free market", but that boycotting them because you disagree with their personnel decisions or public statements or donations is a perversion of the concept. You are fucking over the company by giving them less freedom to behave as they please.
Students paying tuition should have no say on what countries their tuition supports, because their financial transaction is only with the university.
We should constantly bring up that conversatives and libertarians were livid at the boycotts against South Africa at the time. Naked capitalists do not like consumers exercising collective power over markets.
AOC has more followers than the senators who haven't ran for president as well.
Yeah it's telling when so-called conservative intellectuals don't even have a grasp on their own philosophies. I doubt the author even realizes that he's bent himself into a logical pretzel that essentially means any reduction in choice in the markets is not the free markets. So like, if Walmart made a deal with a company to not stock a competitor's products, that's not the free market. If one company bought another company and merged their product lines? Not free market. A company going out of business? Not free market.
Without realizing it, he's basically conflating "free market" with "strong market"
I followed Ilhan for over a month now and I just found out where she actually represents the other day lol
Being in congress and being famous has way outpaced being in congress and it mattering where you're from in terms of career trajectory. No one's fault really; it's just the result of our districting procedures. The UK does a pretty good job of geographically set areas for each district having an anchor of some sort.
It's a random coincidence that Pelosi is a crazy liberal lady from an extremely crazy liberal city.
So many old fucks around here are livid about her. It's great.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-ambassador-jo-song-gil-seeks-asylum-in-italy
Unlike Trump Mr Jo Song Gil apparently did not fall in love with Kim Jong-un.
He starts with 'felt disrespected' which is arguably even worse. But no. I'm sure just like every other time he put his foot in his mouth and said something tone dead we are the only ones to think so and it won't be echoed elsewhere.
Optics matter. You think those of us here who supported Clinton don't get that?
I was already thinking Minnesota would be a good place to live some day and when I found out I was like yoooo
I wish.
Let Mills appoint a Democrat.
I love the thought of Romney making her SEETHE.
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