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Election 2020 The 2020 Candidates: Right, Left and Center!

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I don't know much (anything) about American politics, but this excerpt from a Joe Biden speech is worth sharing.



What the fuck, Bloomberg, this guy... are there any competent candidates??
 
media bias against Bernie is real

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'He's Just...Erased': PBS 2020 Segment Finds Time for Klobuchar, Sestak, and Bullock—But Completely Ignores Bernie Sanders

It was like watching "manufacturing consent in action,' said Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson.
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A Monday night PBS NewsHour segment on the state of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary highlighted Sen. Amy Klobuchar's new ad campaign in Iowa, the departure of marginal candidates Steve Bullock and Joe Sestak, a tender campaign moment with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden's "No Malarkey" bus tour—but did not once even mention Sen. Bernie Sanders despite recent key endorsements and a surge in the polls.

Sanders' presidential campaign has repeatedly accused the corporate media of ignoring the senator from Vermont, a phenomenon Sanders supporters have dubbed the "Bernie blackout."

The PBS segment, led by NewsHour correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, offered "a real taste of what Bernie is talking about," Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson wrote Tuesday.

"Remember that Sanders has been #1 in two out of three recent New Hampshire polls, and is currently second in Iowa, ahead of 'frontrunner' Joe Biden," Robinson noted. "Alcindor found time to talk about Joe Sestak and Steve Bullock, plus plenty of candidates struggling to get out of single-digit poll numbers. And yet: not even a photo of Bernie Sanders. Incredible. He's just... erased. He's gone. Bernie who?"

Robinson described the NewsHour segment as an example of "manufacturing consent in action":

Political commentator David Pakman recently asked, looking at Pete Buttigieg's rising poll numbers, 'What do you think is behind Pete's rise?' My own answer to that is simple: the manufacture of consent by a media apparatus invested in selling a candidate that will not disrupt the economic status quo.

So much of our understanding of the world and what matters is filtered through the media, because that's how we get access to things that are not in our direct experience. If nobody talks about Bernie Sanders' campaign, how are you supposed to learn about it unless Bernie people come and knock on your door?
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The NewsHour segment came just weeks after a detailed analysis of MSNBC's coverage of Sanders by In These Times found that the Vermont senator received both the least frequent and most negative coverage of the top 2020 Democratic presidential contenders.

"The corporate media's war against Bernie Sanders is very real," Jacobin's Luke Savage wrote last month.

"MSNBC, of course, is hardly the only culprit," Savage noted. "As Katie Halper documented a few months ago, the New York Times reporter assigned to cover his campaign 'consistently paints a negative picture of Sanders' temperament, history, policies, and political prospects.' The Washington Post once famously ran sixteen negative stories about Sanders in the same number of hours."

Sanders' lack of corporate media coverage compared to his 2020 rivals does not appear to have dampened his campaign's momentum. Last week, Sanders regained the number two spot behind Biden in RealClearPolitics' national polling average and came out on top in an Emerson New Hampshire poll.

As Common Dreams reported, Sanders on Monday netted the endorsement of the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI) Action Fund, the largest progressive organization in the key early voting state.

"Some 2020 presidential candidates have been embracing or acknowledging movement politics. But only one of them has been doing it for decades," the group said in a statement. "That's why Iowa CCI Action is endorsing Bernie Sanders. We're standing with Bernie because Bernie stands with us."
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mal3volent said:
Who do you think Kamala's 3% will go to? Mayo Pete?
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Given how negative and petty Senator Harris' debate performances showed her to be, it could even be Trump for that matter . . . then again, given how disjointed and bizarre her performance was, I suppose either that or staying home on Election Day with a Thermos full of Everclear . . . in view of how her advisors put apparently helped her with debate preparation . . . they all probably are master debaters of course . . .
 
Good lord, Biden is a dumpster fire. 8(

tathra said:
Bernie
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Yes indeed, Bernie is an exciting candidate and certainly my top choice, in 2016 and still today. He speaks plainly and clearly and I agree with him on almost all of his positions. Basically he is advocating for proper taxation the way it was intended... for our taxes to benefit society and the people as a whole instead of corporations and the wealthy. He is interested in rebuilding the middle class and using our taxes to provide us the same basic rights and services that the rest of the civilized world assumes their citizens should have (except poor Britain who, in escaping the terrible yoke of the European Union's regulations against privatization, are experiencing their NHS being bought up by American for-profit health care giants). He identifies the ways in which our society is broken and what we need to do to fix it, and he doesn't mince words or use political double-speak. He's had a long political career and has been involved in fighting for the little guy and civil rights the whole time. he doesn't take any money from wealthy or corporate interests and never has. he is a millionaire now but it only happened recently and it was because he wrote a book that sold well. His net worth is only a couple of million from it. His critics like to claim it makes him a hypocrite but that's nonsense.
 
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i'm so sorry, i must be stoned
 
Infernal said:
You don't know me so what makes you assume that I come to this from a position of jealousy, a position of poverty, or a position of obscurity? I'm honestly curious.

Let me answer your question with a scenario. Do you work for someone or do you work for yourself? And if you work for yourself have you ever worked for someone else?

If you feel its necessary to erase your thread, by all means but my points about Bloomberg are deeply relevant to why I don't think he's qualified to be anything close to a position that will represent the populace of the United States.
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I only said that because you wrote at the end that you’d rather just take his money. So Im not exactly sure what you meant by that . I agree that Bloomberg has no place in this race . He’s just a big a asshole as trump is . I live in New York and when he was mayor I was not a fan at all .
I see nothing wrong with a wealthy person being president . Wether you hate trump or not or not you can’t deny that the economy has bin booming since he was elected . So I wouldn’t be surprised if it stood the course if Bloomberg won aswell. These guys are business men that know how to make deals . and to me that’s the most important thing . So to say take there money you’re saying let the government decide what to do it and that doesn’t make sense to me .
I have said this before in other threads and I will say it again . I am a bit buyist with my vote because I am Israeli and my vote would go to a president that will be a friend to Israel and not a foe . Sanders is a self hating Jew but Bloomberg is pro Israel . I am American but I still care for my country .
I’m not sure why you asked if I work for someone or not but the answer is no I work for myself . I flip houses for a living . Also no I haven’t worked for someone else because I grew up working with my fathers business until I went my own way into real estate .
 
Oof. A self-hating jew because he recognizes that Israel, at best, has a hugely questionable set of ethics when it comes to imperialist expansion?
 
Infernal said:
Oof. A self-hating jew because he recognizes that Israel, at best, has a hugely questionable set of ethics when it comes to imperialist expansion?
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I don’t believe that question is relative to this thread so I will not answer it .
 
totach said:
Shall I recommend the next mod that reads this to erase my thread so they can start it and I can actually read some of your opinions on Bloomberg joining the race .
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I’ll merge your thread with the 2020 candidates thread.
As for Bloomberg entering, he has a VERY narrow path to the nomination because he’s skipping so many primaries.
And when you start your campaign apologizing for things like your policy of stop and frisk and calling Cory Booker “well-spoken” (he’s black), you’re fairly screwed already.

Edit: thread merged.
 
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