Kansas Crimson

TDub wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 8:45 am Bernies people are nuts. But, im not sure Bernie doesnt like that.


Im sure getting tired of bloomberg commercials. I cant imagine how much worse thats going to get over the next few months.

Having such passionate followers is great, until the intensity of their enthusiasm serves to passionately piss off all your competitors followers, the people you're hoping to lure back in order to be successful. And while everyone can understand why Bernie and his Bros are trying to control rather than be victimized by the nominating process, again, they'd be wise to keep in mind that ultimately, politics is a game of addition, not subtraction.

defixione wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 10:17 am

TDub wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 8:45 am

Im sure getting tired of bloomberg commercials. I cant imagine how much worse thats going to get over the next few months.

Oh, the unknown joys of being cable and antenna free!!

Indeed. I try to be. But hear them constantly in thw work truck to and from jobsites.

Ive even paid for premium subscriptions to pandora and such to avoid ads, particularly political ads.

And...we're dead...

Not looking good for her. Maybe her best bet is to be a VP.

Our best bet for her is she just fades back to from where she came.

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 12:20 pm Our best bet for her is she just fades back to from where she came.

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 12:20 pm Our best bet for her is she just fades back to from where she came.

Seems like she's a pretty good advocate as a Senator.

Like I said, I'm a guy who doesn't pay that much attention and I wouldn't say I'm either Republican or Democrat. I'm honestly in the middle as much as one could be..

But I think Klobuchar has a good if not great chance to be the Dem nominee.

I think she's the most relatable candidate. She has a nice vibe to her, she's sweet and seems to be as close to the middle as a Dem could be. Took a different tone on abortion specifically. Trying to do a good job of connecting to pro-life democrats (Which are very popular in the South)

NewtonHawk11 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 1:18 pm Like I said, I'm a guy who doesn't pay that much attention and I wouldn't say I'm either Republican or Democrat. I'm honestly in the middle as much as one could be..

But I think Klobuchar has a good if not great chance to be the Dem nominee.

I think she's the most relatable candidate. She has a nice vibe to her, she's sweet and seems to be as close to the middle as a Dem could be. Took a different tone on abortion specifically. Trying to do a good job of connecting to pro-life democrats (Which are very popular in the South)

Amy is awesome and has experience. That's important, especially after seeing what no experience gets us.

As someone also firmly in the middle, she is appealing more than most of the remaining Dems.

Klobuchar is Hillary without the Clinton baggage. Imagine if she had Bloomberg riding shotgun attacking/distracting trump and paying for all the ads. A lot of Dems would like to see a radical bomb thrower in the WH. The majority of Americans would be satisfied with a stable rational grown up in the WH.

The pragmatist says get the nuclear football out of the hands of the infantile mangoloid who thinks he is God and then we can talk about what else is possible.

"Business as usual" was the reason people voted Trump in. They might win, I obviously cannot say for certain, but I wouldn't put my money on "business as usual".

lobster wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 2:49 pm "Business as usual" was the reason people voted Trump in. They might win, I obviously cannot say for certain, but I wouldn't put my money on "business as usual".

If you think the last three years of trump have been "business as usual" you must work in the circus.

japhy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 2:55 pm

lobster wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 2:49 pm "Business as usual" was the reason people voted Trump in. They might win, I obviously cannot say for certain, but I wouldn't put my money on "business as usual".

If you think the last three years of trump have been "business as usual" you must work in the circus.

I wasn't arguing that. I was saying that the Obama's, Clinton's, Romney's, Bloomberg -- all of them are business as usual. Nothing was changing in Washington, so that is why people rolled the dice on a wild card. I'm not so sure America wants to return to pre-Trump presidents.

japhy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 2:55 pm

lobster wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 2:49 pm "Business as usual" was the reason people voted Trump in. They might win, I obviously cannot say for certain, but I wouldn't put my money on "business as usual".

If you think the last three years of trump have been "business as usual" you must work in the circus.

Essentially it has been. Nothing going through Congress - lots of fighting and posturing and finger pointing, but nothing really changing.

Thread:

Yow.

Seems like a classic example of "How little the average journalist knows about politics."

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 2:59 pm

japhy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 2:55 pm

lobster wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 2:49 pm "Business as usual" was the reason people voted Trump in. They might win, I obviously cannot say for certain, but I wouldn't put my money on "business as usual".

If you think the last three years of trump have been "business as usual" you must work in the circus.

Essentially it has been. Nothing going through Congress - lots of fighting and posturing and finger pointing, but nothing really changing.

The president of the US just got investigated for colluding with Russian enemies, he sided with Putin over US intelligence agencies regarding Russian interference in our election, impeached for obstruction of justice, the National Security Council was purged for speaking out about requests for foreign investigations of political enemies and withholding of funding, the Department of Justice prosecutors resigned because of attempts to influence prosecution of a criminal and a judge and juror have been publicly tampered with by the WH, the former Chief of Staff is warning anyone who will listen that the CIC is a danger to our country.

Yup, business as usual……in a banana trumpublic.

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 3:26 pm Thread:

The problem with the innuendo strategy these days and the "everyone is a crook" approach is that now you are down to a lesser of two evils campaign again. But now trump isn't an unknown with regards to what he would do with power, now everyone knows. So now when trump calls Bloomberg a racist the public laughs and says, "really, you're gonna go there?" Now the election becomes a test to see how dark the soul of the American electorate has become in this corrosive environment. Putin has pulled off what so many others couldn't, and he did it without firing a shot. And the trumpublican party is welcoming him with open arms for the short term gains.

It's impressive if nothing else.