The Biden Presidency

87 year old politicians, I just.. I don't want to sound ageist (Im sure that's a thing now), but for feck's sake, you've had yer run, move over.
 
KirkDuyt said:
87 year old politicians, I just.. I don't want to sound ageist (Im sure that's a thing now), but for feck's sake, you've had yer run, move over.
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It sure was four years ago, check out my tag!
 
berbatrick said:
Pelosi is actually the best option for the left, her potential replacements are well to her right. THe problem is that she is still the main Republican attack (I got more GOP fliers about the senate race with her and Schumer in the background, rather than the squad) and doesn't seem to be particularly good at her job, but I'm sure they'll find something to attack anyone with.
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No doubt she's a savvy political operator but she should be behind the scenes and someone a little less cringe in the speaker roll.
 
berbatrick said:
FROM DELAWARE WITH LOVE
STARRING
SEAN MCELWEE AS BLOFELD

(this took an embarrassingly long time to make, so here are all the failed attempts:
Dr. No Medicare For All
The man with the golden brain
You only live twice, jack
Centrists are forever)
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I expect you to die mr bond! Ah jeez I shouldn't have said that, I'm sorry.

berbatrick said:


@Sweet Square
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:lol:

"We don't really want what we think we desire"
 
I like graphs. Not sure there's a very consistent story in all of these put together, other not "probably not good."

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berbatrick said:
Pelosi is actually the best option for the left, her potential replacements are well to her right. THe problem is that she is still the main Republican attack (I got more GOP fliers about the senate race with her and Schumer in the background, rather than the squad) and doesn't seem to be particularly good at her job, but I'm sure they'll find something to attack anyone with.
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Yeah I have very little doubt Pelosi will remain as Speaker.
 
Clyburn is a useful puppet. Obviously he never knew Biden as he claimed he did.
 
Adisa said:
Read his quotes. Their headline is not that wide off the mark.
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I read the entire article. Seems like they are attempting to gin up a bit of controversy. Clyburn has zero leverage in any of this at this point.
 
Just read that Biden is hiring insane Hillary loyalist Neera Tanden. Short of Rahm Emanuel, this is the biggest open feck-you to the left he can give. All I hope is that Bernie and others undersand the message.
 
berbatrick said:
Just read that Biden is hiring insane Hillary loyalist Neera Tanden. Short of Rahm Emanuel, this is the biggest open feck-you to the left he can give. All I hope is that Bernie and others undersand the message.
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Agreed. She's terrible.
 
Gutted Kate Bedingfield never got the WH Press Secretary gig. She's so damn cute. :drool:
 
Good background article on Neera
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/politics/tanden-sanders-.html

In 2008, Neera Tanden, then a top aide on Hillary Clinton’s first presidential campaign, accompanied Mrs. Clinton to what was expected to be an easy interview at the Center for American Progress, the influential group founded by top Clinton aides. But Faiz Shakir, the chief editor of the think tank’s ThinkProgress website, asked Mrs. Clinton a question about the Iraq war, an issue dogging her candidacy because she had supported it.
Ms. Tanden responded by circling back to Mr. Shakir after the interview and, according to a person in the room, punching him in the chest.
“I didn’t slug him, I pushed him,” a still angry Ms. Tanden corrected in a recent interview.
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“Those Bernie brothers are attacking her all the time, but she lets them have it, too,” Maya Tanden said. “She says Sanders got a pass” in 2016, “but he’s not getting a pass this time.”
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Last week, the center held an off-record briefing and made follow-up contacts with reporters, picking apart the details of Mr. Sanders’s plan. In a fund-raising email to supporters on Sunday night, Mr. Sanders said the briefing was an effort by the think tank “to stop Medicare for All and our progressive agenda.”
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Its donor rolls overlap substantially with those of the Clintons’ campaigns and foundation. The think tank has taken in millions from interests often criticized by liberals, including Wall Street financiers, big banks, Silicon Valley titans, foreign governments, defense contractors and the health care industry. Individual donors can ask to remain anonymous.
“That’s what she does — she shows up at rich people’s places because she needs funds from them,” Ms. Tanden’s mother said. “That place runs on Neera Tanden.”
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In an email Ms. Tanden sent on the day of the Netanyahu visit, stolen and released by WikiLeaks, she told the think tank’s founder, John D. Podesta, that the “far left hates me” for hosting Mr. Netanyahu, but the invitation “may have sealed the deal with a new board member.” Ms. Tanden was wooing Mr. Lavine, a pro-Israel philanthropist.
The next month, Ms. Tanden wrote a jubilant email to Mr. Podesta, telling him Mr. Lavine was joining the board. “So Netanyahu was worth it,” she added, with a smiley face emoji. Mr. Lavine no longer sits on the center’s board, but his foundation remains a big donor.
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(For the last excerpt, I remember how Ilhan Omar was told that one of her many antisemitisms was to suggest that there are donations and contributions associated with the Israel lobby).


@Raoul after Kamala anybody who cares about Indian representation is happy. She's there because of the great work her organisation has done, they were the first to make a plausible-sounding alternative to Medicare For All (in 2017-18, preparing early for the primary, it was adopted by Kamala and Beto and Warren in different parts), privately briefed reporters very hard against it while outwardly staying neutral and getting called progressive by the media, and finally because she is a genuinely loyal and ideologically clear person.
 
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berbatrick said:
Good background article on Neera
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/politics/tanden-sanders-.html



(For the last excerpt, I remember how Ilhan Omar was told that one of her many antisemitisms was to suggest that there are donations and contributions associated with the Israel lobby)
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I have only seen on neera tanden on bill Maher and she has a voice like a spoon grating metal. But it's funny she reacted maniacally for a hostile question. Perhaps comparable to the rabid portion of Sanders fanbase spewing venom at Warren not quitting the race at a moment they liked
 
fishfingers15 said:
I have only seen on neera tanden on bill Maher and she has a voice like a spoon grating metal. But it's funny she reacted maniacally for a hostile question. Perhaps comparable to the rabid portion of Sanders fanbase spewing venom at Warren not quitting the race at a moment they liked
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oh stop i'm blushing.
 
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