2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races

[Matriarchy Refugee]

believe Jews who claim their broke brehs

if Bernie ain’t apart of Vermont then why run as a us senator for the state? You calling me dumb yet you don’t see he represent the people of the state of Vermont which means he has influence in the local politics of the state and can secure funding for projects..

You do know New York State has free undergrad tuition free college now right?

Damn you went full retard

Brought out a white nationalist talking point about Jews, and you don't know the difference between a state senator and a senator at the federal level.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Bernie's going to run 3rd party run after he doesn't secure enough delegates

 

[Pressure]

Hed have a chance of winning if bloomberg was the dem

Independent POTUS. This country could use it.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

He wasn't even a millionaire until fairly recently, and that was just the natural result of being a Senator earning a low 6-figure income and getting to retirement age without wasting his money. He bought two homes, his own place in Vermont and a small condo in DC, because he's a Senator and has to work both places. You would have preferred that he used his senator's salary to rent in DC for 30 years....why? So he prove that he's stupid with his cash?

Seriously, how would it be anything other than stupid for him to have spent his salary on rent instead of having an affordable home in both states that he has to work in?


Like I said, he only became a millionaire recently. Then in 2016 he signed a $800,000 book deal that dramatically increased his wealth. He used that money to buy a vacation home/investment property. Again, smart with his money, setting himself up for retirement when he sells his DC condo and leaves his Vermont home to his kids. Now his net worth is $2 million.

You believe that's disqualifying?

Until he left office, Joe Biden was one of the least wealthy senators:

Joe Biden Says He's 'the Poorest Man in Congress'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...1458a8-938d-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

If Bernie made the same amount /year as you do, would that make him more appealing to you? More likely to vote for him?

umm yeah obviously but he goes out of his way not to divulge the fact he’s a millionaire.. that little nugget takes the sting out of his MO of being common folk.. instead of telling folk yeah through smart investments and home ownership I became a millionaire.. Folk would respect it

 

[rapbeats]

Dap and rep... These mofos can’t even see the blatant hypocrisy in their faces that’s why I’m glad Bloomberg exposed him..

you're glad bloomberg exposed someone? I assume you're white and racist. cause if you're not you shouldnt be glad bloom is even on stage to expose anyone. if you care at all about your country falling into the hands of a select few ultra rich you should be mad as hell the Dnc changed their rules to put him in the race to begin with. Bloomberg is disqualified on so many grounds including being a billionaire. just like we have an age limit and a citizenship piece to being the pres. we need to have a financial limit. No one in their right mind should ever want a billi goat to run america. nor someone sitting on 50 to 100 million. its tooooo much money and too much power...too much influence. and no they are not so far from outside influence that they will do the people's bidding. they wont do anyones bidding but their own since they're all they have to answer to for the most part... and that last part is key, trump has to answer to russia for financial reasons, bloom has to answer to china for financial reasons. its not about the money when you get that rich its about the prestige of being top 10, top 20 in the world. its about hitting that billi goat list.

but yall are so silly yall cant even see that. talking about hypocrites.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

if Bernie ain’t apart of Vermont then why run as a us senator for the state? You calling me dumb yet you don’t see he represent the people of the state of Vermont which means he has influence in the local politics of the state and can secure funding for projects..

You do know New York State has free undergrad tuition free college now right?

You dumb fukk, it was BERNIE HIMSELF who helped bring tuition-free college to New York.

Cuomo enlists Bernie Sanders to unveil free public college proposal

Over chants of “Bernie! Bernie!,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined Sen. Bernie Sanders in Long Island City on Tuesday to roll out a proposal to make New York’s public universities tuition-free for students whose families earn less than $125,000 per year.

“Today, what Gov. Cuomo is proposing is a revolutionary idea for higher education, and it’s going to reverberate not only throughout the state of New York, but throughout this country,” Sanders told a crowd of students and elected officials at LaGuardia Community College.

Sanders won a devoted backing of young supporters during his surprisingly strong presidential campaign in 2016, in part on a platform of eliminating tuition for all students at public colleges and universities throughout the country.

Cuomo, who backed Hillary Clinton for president against Sanders last year, said the Vermont socialist “spoke to this issue of college affordability and was ahead of his time in doing it, and really awoke the nation to this crisis.”

NPR Choice page

New York state has passed legislation that would create the largest experiment in the country to offer free tuition at two- and four-year colleges. The Excelsior Scholarship, approved over the weekend as part of the state budget, would cover full-time students in the State University of New York system, which totals 64 campuses and 1.3 million students.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, appeared with Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and state education leaders in an event hailing the new program, which would begin this fall and is estimated to cost $163 million per year.

Students from families making up to $100,000 a year would be eligible in the program's first year, and by the third year that would increase to $125,000 a year.

It's a big step forward in a national trend: In the last decade, 85 states and municipalities have created similar scholarship programs, most of them for community college tuition. And the idea got plenty of airing in last year's presidential election, when it was championed first by Sanders and then Hillary Clinton.

You hold that L, trying to say Bernie had done nothing and brag about New York shyt when Bernie was literally responsible for what happened in New York.

 

[Pressure]

The country will get what it deserves one way or another.

 

[rapbeats]

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/article9008426.html

so biden aint got it like that. Ok, and yet biden sits up in delaware partying it up with the banks messing with the people's ability to file BR properly while giving all sorts of loopholes to the ultra rich and big companies to do it easily. stop it.

again yall sound crazy out here.

 

[duncanthetall]

This is a lot of words just to say yes, when Bernie was not the candidate with the most votes heading into the convention he believed the superdelegates should disregard the popular vote and give him the nomination anyway, and now that he's looking like the candidate most likely to have the most votes, he believes the rules shouldn't apply and he should automatically be given the nomination.

In fact, as you point out, the 2016 process was even more undemocratic than it is now, and Bernie was fully willing to play by those rules and appeal to superdelegates, but now he's angry that people are playing by the rules of this newer, more democratic process.

Y’all are so fukking phony. Lowkey done with y’all nikkas. The discussion in this forum is fukking terrible

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

stop it. you're making excuses to ignore the simple push for help for the working class. thats it and thats all. anything else you're talking about is extra nonsense that you're using as an excuse. stop it. either you rock with the working class or you dont. Your choice. You in or you out? if you say I'm out cause of bernie bros. I'll say you were never in to begin with. this ish is way more important than how you feel about some people who like the guy/policies.

a lot of yall are being super disingenuous.

Bernie never once said its anything wrong with being a millionaire. he said its something wrong when the country is geared towards the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. just because he lucks up with book sales and some real estate to slide into the 1% doesnt mean he's bloomberg and yall know this. it doesnt mean he's bezos. it doesnt mean he's Lori Laughton rich trying to lie to get his kids in a prestigious school .

3 million dollars is not enough to move the needle in politics.you may have enough to buy a plate and to sit down at rich people's politician donor dinner if thats what you wanted to do. but we know he doesnt. so thats out.

Bernie never said all of capitalism is evil and all of it needs to be thrown out. thats not what you heard him say these past few decades. you heard him talking about allowing capitalism to work only for the wealthy is unethical. and it is. you know it is. so why play these games? because you're disingenuous.

Bernie told Bloomberg to his face that his wealth is immoral even though Bloomberg started from the bottom to get to where he’s at...

Y’all Bernie bros being disingenuous

 

[Skeptic]

"healthcare is a human right" is absolute bullshyt its an embarrassing talking point from bernie

nothing that requires other people to go to school, or show up to work, is a human right

I agree. That's a poor way to word it.

However, for the vast majority of citizens, if they get diagnosed with cancer it's either:

Go into crippling debt Die

We should change that. It shouldn't be too hard to come up with a third option that's "better".

 

[Pressure]

You hold that L, trying to say Bernie had done nothing and brag about New York shyt when Bernie was literally responsible for what happened in New York.

Isn't the plan in NY state essentially what was offered by Hillary in 2016?

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Independent POTUS. This country could use it.

Im trying to think of the electoral map..would it even be possible to get to 270?

The house of representatives would then choose the president epic fukkery

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Bernie bro’s always making excuses just like the crime bill. Everyone that voted is guilty of murder except Bernie because reasons

AOC literally just pivoted on Medicare for all!