US Election 2020

[laklak]

Testing. They didn't do it.

[Sean Hayden]

Yeah, it's unbelievably dumb. I hate how everyone is assuring us it wasn't an attack, like we're supposed to be confident they know what they're talking about.

[laklak]

It's one of those never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity type of things.

[Sean Hayden]

Too bad we're unlikely to get a lot of detail about the "coding issue".

This piece is not too kind to the developers: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/us/p ... w-app.html

I think calling it a failure of the Democrats to match Republican use of technology is stupid and probably just a means of selling their story i.e. hook it into something more important. They're talking about Republican use of technology to campaign vs an app to get election results; two totally different fields I'd think...

[laklak]

What a clusterfuck.

[Scot Dutchy]

The Repugs use Russian technology; at least it works.

[Tero]

https://politics.theonion.com/the-onion ... 1841331219

Joe Biden

Birthplace: Middle Class, Swing State, USA

Electoral Strategy: Inertia

Greatest Liability: Prone to speaking publicly

Anticipated VP Pick: Stacey Abrams or the other one

Position On Iraq War: All of them

Campaign Bus: Desegregated during middle of 2008 run

Biggest Endorsement: “Hi, you’ve reached Barack’s voicemail”

click over there for the other candidates, but this was funny

Michael Bloomberg

Birthplace: Bloomberg Memorial Hospital, Bloombergsville, MA

Source Of Wealth: Extremely opportune bet on 1985 Chicago Bears

Campaign Slogan: “Who Do I Make This Out To?”

Plan For National Debt: 19 years of daily wire transfers (just under $10,000 each) traced to an offshore personal checking account

Unique Selling Point: Can act as bridge between Forbes 1-10 and 11-20 richest people in world

Biggest Hurdle: Convincing voters he exists outside television set

Number Of Media Companies He Owns Definitely Maintaining Journalistic Rigor In Regard To His Campaign: 1

Reason For Running As Democrat: Republicans already had a guy

[Tero]

more true than we imagine

[Tero]

My son in law is a libertarian. He showed some mild interest in democratic candidates who promised to pull out of military conflicts. On healthcare he is undecided. My daughter is on his plan. She has a lesser plan thru her employer if he should lose his job.

I think he could come around to tolarate Sanders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sa ... l_campaign
He is not a racist so that part of Trump bothered him a bit.

[Tero]

Michigan Democrat only made one good point in rebuttal to Trump:
And she observed, accurately, that despite the squabbling in the Democratic presidential primary, all the candidates’ health plans are directionally the same — offering Americans better, more robustly subsidized coverage — while Trump is suing to eliminate the Affordable Care Act.
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/2 ... ponse-text

[Tero]

MSNBC Flips Out After Bernie Adviser Nina Turner Calls Bloomberg an ‘Oligarch’

Trump a mere bottom billionaire
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... rats-20202

[laklak]

A libertarian who would be OK with Bernie?

That's a strange one.

[Seabass]

A libertarian who would be OK with Bernie?

That's a strange one.

Not as strange as a libertarian who's ok with Trump, who is the most authoritarian president we've ever had.

[Tero]

A libertarian who would be OK with Bernie?

That's a strange one.

He would be OK as far as "business as usual." Liberals ruled in his formative years so it was like me, more or less, under Reagan. I hated him, but not every single day as with Trump.

[Tero]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... eg/603619/