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Showing Original Post only (View all)Great piece by Charles Pierce [View all]
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a31153751/bernie-sanders-democratic-convention-plurality-delegates/From the article: "Only one campaign has people who disrupted the national convention in 2016. Only one campaign has people threatening to primary other progressive Democrats. And that campaign is the one pushing a candidate who isnt really a Democrat anyway."
And I can't help it, I love his term "juicebox revolutionaries." Go ahead and OKBOOMER me.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Beloved progressive columnist Charles Pierce goes under the Bernie Bus in 1...2...3...
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2020
#1
Would be nice if instead of just bashing Bernie supporters, he would at least try to make
DanTex
Feb 2020
#4
Yes. Something inaccurate about that story? Or you just don't like left-leaning media?
DanTex
Feb 2020
#6
LOL. OK, so you don't like the Intercept. Is there anything inaccurate about the story?
DanTex
Feb 2020
#12
Prove it. Link it. You might not like Greenwald, but Jeremy Scahill's journalism is solid.
ancianita
Feb 2020
#28
Yes, I'm criticizing Pierce for attacking Bernie supporters and ignoring the fact that corporate
DanTex
Feb 2020
#17
No problem, not at all. I love America and the fact that you have the right to criticize.
blue-wave
Feb 2020
#23
Bernie himself is a superdelegate. The lobbyist in question is a member of the DNC
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2020
#13
So it's good for GOP-donating corporate lobbyists to be superdelegates because....?
DanTex
Feb 2020
#15
Not my circus, not my monkeys - it's Bernie's circus and Bernie's monkeys.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2020
#18
It's not up to me. If the DNC has reasons for allowing this person to be a superdelegate,
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2020
#20
It's not up to me either, but it's obviously not a good thing for GOP-donating lobbyists to
DanTex
Feb 2020
#24
Is it good to have Nina Turner, who voted for Jill Stein, as a superdelegate?
SharonClark
Feb 2020
#42
While you're here, do you think Bernie supporters could actually handle a moderate on the ticket?
BeyondGeography
Feb 2020
#14
It still sounds like middle school to me. Just kids who can't get their way.
juxtaposed
Feb 2020
#37