2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races

[Uno Venova]

Should have nuked him out the gate. Instead the party went after Warren and let him skate.

Nuked him on what issues?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I’ve seen the rape essay. I didn’t know about the other comments. Well it’s good for Bernie to get tested now. We know Trump won’t hold back.

5 years and yall havent seen the REAL oppo-research

 

[Serious]

1 shot every time bernie says billionaire
1 shot every time warren says plan
1 shot every time biden says heres the truth or the fact of the matter is
1 shot every time pete says coalition
1 shot every time amy says "red district"
1 shot every time bloomberg...idk

I gotta work tomorrow though

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Need proof. Bloomberg and his people are known liars

How Bernie Sanders learned to be a real politician

Bernie Sanders 1969 Essay Claiming Cervical Cancer Is Caused By Women’s Inability To Achieve Orgasm Resurfaces

 

[Serious]

I'm saying i called it at the townhall a couple weeks back.

Dude is trying be obama lite with the mannerism.

 

[Miles Davis]

1 shot every time bernie says billionaire
1 shot every time warren says plan
1 shot every time biden says heres the truth or the fact of the matter is
1 shot every time pete says coalition
1 shot every time amy says "red district"
1 shot every time bloomberg...idk

Change that to 1 shot every time klob make a lame ass joke. I would say every time her hair shakes but I don’t wanna kill no one.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Someone should ask if Bernie or other dem candidates will lift the embargo against Cuba.

Obama tried

 

[A.R.$]

Their end goals are the same. The difference is that Warren is being forthright with people and acknowledging the actual structural impediments to getting them passed, so she's crafting plans with those in mind. Bernie is handwaving away those impediments and saying a revolution will melt them away. I'm not even mad at Bernie for that, it's the superior political strategy. Warren is acting like she's already governing whereas Bernie is smartly acting like we're still in campaign season...because we are.

Agreed. I like both Warren and Bernie but I think Liz would be a much better president. However Bernie have proven that he is a much better campaigner. I love the way Liz is campaigning now. She should of been this aggressive from the beginning. I blame her advisors for not letting Liz be Liz.

 

[Conan]

If you're speaking about private industry being more "efficient" than government when it comes to healthcare then you're being disingenuous at best.

Private ownership is all about profit. And fair enough they do that pretty well. In no way is that compatible with the target of making sure all citizens have affordable healthcare.

Someone said they don't trust the government to administer healthcare. Have you seen how the private sector treats people it can't make a buck off of? They'll administer it well for you if you don't lean too much on them.

I was in the UK this last weekend, and in conversations with the bluds there, they were flabbergasted at the idea that they would have to pay at the point of healthcare. And they have plenty of gripes with the NHS, but at the heart of it they've seen what privatization has done to their housing stock, trains, infrastructure... No way they let that happen to healthcare.

 

[wire28]

1 shot every time bernie says billionaire
1 shot every time warren says plan
1 shot every time biden says heres the truth or the fact of the matter is
1 shot every time pete says coalition
1 shot every time amy says "red district"
1 shot every time bloomberg...idk

Double shot when Biden says “I’m about to run out of time”

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

@FAH1223 I told you that your boy is an idiot...

 

[King Kreole]

let me try to make sense of your terrible argument

canada pays for healthcare for all by taxing the middle class. does america have to do the same thing, with 10 times the population?

and if warren can accomplish that without taxing the middle class, why doesnt canada do that right now?

My god man, no one is advocating abolishing current taxes that fund federal spending on healthcare. The argument is whether or not to RAISE middle-class taxes to pay for this new system

Right now, America’s total bill for health care is projected to be $52 trillion for the next ten years. That money will come from four places: the federal government, state governments, employers, and individuals who need care. Under my approach to Medicare for All, most of these funding sources will remain the same, too.

• Existing federal spending on Medicare and Medicaid will help fund Medicare for All.
  
  
• Existing state spending on health insurance will continue in the form of payments to Medicare – but states would be better off because they’d have more long-term predictability, and they’d pay less over time because these costs will grow more slowly than they do today.
  
  
• Existing total private sector employer contributions to health insurance will continue in the form of contributions to Medicare – but employers would be better off because under the design of my plan, they’d pay less than they would have otherwise.
  

Here’s the main difference: Individual health care spending.

Over the next ten years, individuals will spend $11 trillion on health care in the form of premiums, deductibles, copays, and out-of-pocket costs. Under my Medicare for All plan, that amount will drop from $11 trillion to practically zero.

I asked top experts – Mark Zandi, the Chief Economist of Moody’s Analytics; Betsey Stevenson, the former Chief Economist for the Obama Labor Department; and Simon Johnson – to examine options for how we can make up that $11 trillion difference. They conclude that it can be done largely with new taxes on financial firms, giant corporations, and the top 1% – and making sure the rich stop evading the taxes we already have.

That’s right: We don’t need to raise taxes on the middle class by one penny to finance Medicare for All.

Honestly, you have to read up before you jump into a discussion

 

[dtownreppin214]

Should have nuked him out the gate. Instead the party went after Warren and let him skate.

I'm so pissed about this bro.

 

[Cheddar Biscuits]

dap if you scrolled straight down past that giant spam post

 

[Pressure]

let me try to make sense of your terrible argument

canada pays for healthcare for all by taxing the middle class. does america have to do the same thing, with 10 times the population?

and if warren can accomplish that without taxing the middle class, why doesnt canada do that right now?

Isn't the argument that the middle class are adequately taxes therefore we should get the money from elsewhere?