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They're similar to hyenas. They're weak individuals, but can punch above their weight in a group when singling out a poor helpless reporter or old man.

A pack of hyenas can take down a lion by sheer numbers. That's what we see here with the soy boys.

I'm sure you're cool with it though. Beating up people who disagree with you in the name of "anti Facisim". Truly remarkable stuffs.
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I think Bernie doesnt really want to become president, he just wants to get his message out there. Note how almost the entire (relevant part of the) Democratic field has adopted his vital policy positions like mediare for all.

And that's probably smart, strategically: he's too old to get through a term of this very stressful job, let alone two terms; and he has too few support within the Democratic Party to actually enact his policies. When establishment candidates like Biden, Booker or Harris promise those policies, they will have a much harder time backpedaling from them, and the DNC and the party donors will have a harder time stopping it when it comes from one of them instead of the "outsider" Bernie.


The frightening thing was when they all raised their hands during the Democrat debates for ludicrous shit like open border policies. Not one of them dared to stand out and be a leader. Instead they all came off as followers willing to do anything to virtue signal for a few extra votes.
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The frightening thing was when they all raised their hands during the Democrat debates for ludicrous shit like open border policies. Not one of them dared to stand out and be a leader. Instead they all came off as followers willing to do anything to virtue signal for a few extra votes.


It's insane that universal single payer healthcare is more controversial than free healthcare for noncitizens.
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It's insane that universal single payer healthcare is more controversial than free healthcare for noncitizens.


I agree. Somehow healthcare reform for all American taxpaying citizens is more controversial than literally decriminalizing illegal border crossings and providing tax funded healthcare to foreign nationals. Weird world we're living in. Political hysteria.
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The frightening thing was when they all raised their hands during the Democrat debates for ludicrous shit like open border policies. Not one of them dared to stand out and be a leader. Instead they all came off as followers willing to do anything to virtue signal for a few extra votes.


What I don't understand is why, in a pool of 24 democrats, we don't see one candidate who bucks the trend and openly chastises the others to differentiate themselves and simply disavow the far-left.
Hickenlooper is pussyfooting around rebuking socialism while Klobuchar is simply staying mum. There are 24 democrats who are all pandering to the far-left or true believers

Imagine a single one of them gets up and challenges the others and stakes out a position as a sensible centrist. If they just write off all the conventional wisdom of going far let in the primary. It might be exactly the kind of breakout moment it takes to shock the system. Look at Trump, he didn't win by abiding the conventional republican primary wisdom. For fucks sake, he's probably paid for more abortions than number of delegates that voted for Jeb Bush, and Trump spent half his life as a democrat.

If you're in a pack of 24 and not sitting in the top 3, you aren't going to win by meekly submitting to every far-left whim. If at the next debate Amy Klobuchar did a hard face-turn-heel and called out democrats for not speaking out against the antifa attack on Andy Ngo, denounced healthcare for illegal aliens, said we need smart border security, etc etc- she'd instantly seize an entire block of the moderate democratic electorate. Just not the coastal radicals. Could she win the primaries anyway? Well, Hillary Clinton did, and she's indistinguishable from George W. Bush.
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What I don't understand is why, in a pool of 24 democrats, we don't see one candidate who bucks the trend and openly chastises the others to differentiate themselves and simply disavow the far-left.
Hickenlooper is pussyfooting around rebuking socialism while Klobuchar is simply staying mum. There are 24 democrats who are all pandering to the far-left or true believers

Imagine a single one of them gets up and challenges the others and stakes out a position as a sensible centrist. If they just write off all the conventional wisdom of going far let in the primary. It might be exactly the kind of breakout moment it takes to shock the system. Look at Trump, he didn't win by abiding the conventional republican primary wisdom. For fucks sake, he's probably paid for more abortions than number of delegates that voted for Jeb Bush, and Trump spent half his life as a democrat.

If you're in a pack of 24 and not sitting in the top 3, you aren't going to win by meekly submitting to every far-left whim. If at the next debate Amy Klobuchar did a hard face-turn-heel and called out democrats for not speaking out against the antifa attack on Andy Ngo, denounced healthcare for illegal aliens, said we need smart border security, etc etc- she'd instantly seize an entire block of the moderate democratic electorate. Just not the coastal radicals. Could she win the primaries anyway? Well, Hillary Clinton did, and she's indistinguishable from George W. Bush.


And get who? Trump has the Tim pool audience they wont leave him for a mild robot anti left Democrat that sorta talks shit about the left

This is america they want it super sized and loud

This post was edited by Beowulf on Jul 3 2019 03:38pm
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