2020

https://www.newsweek.com/sanders-campaign-battles-staff-demanding-15-hourly-pay-which-candidate-says-should-federal-1450103

Sanders Campaign Battles With Staff Demanding $15 Hourly Pay - Which Candidate Says Should Be Federal Minimum

By Donica Phifer On 7/18/19 at 9:52 PM EDT

[i]Campaign workers for Bernie Sanders have taken aim at one of the senator's key policies in his 2020 presidential run — raising the federal minimum wage.
According to The Washington Post, some members of Sanders' campaign team have been lobbying to raise their wages so that they make the $15 hourly rate that the Vermont senator has frequently called for both on the campaign trail and in Washington D.C.
The Post obtained a draft of a letter that the campaign's union planned to send to Sanders' campaign manager Faiz Shakir which read in part that workers "cannot be expected to build the largest grassroots organizing program in American history while making poverty wages. Given our campaign's commitment to fighting for a living wage of at least $15.00 an hour, we believe it is only fair that the campaign would carry through this commitment to its own field team."
The letter states that field organizers are working at least 60 hours a week, which lowers the average per hour pay to $13 an hour.[/]

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This campaign season is starting out to be a riot, and I can only see it becoming sillier by the day.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/booker-my-testosterone-sometimes-makes-me-want-to-feel-like-punching-trump/

Booker: ‘My Testosterone Sometimes Makes Me Want To Feel Like Punching’ Trump
The senator wants 'love' to be a major focus of his campaign

Cameron Cawthorne - July 23, 2019 10:20 AM

Democratic presidential candidate and Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) on Tuesday said his testosterone sometimes makes him want to "feel like punching" President Donald Trump.
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"Donald Trump is a guy who you understand he hurts you and my testosterone sometimes makes me want to feel like punching him, which would be bad for this elderly, out-of-shape man that he is if I did that," Booker said. "This physically weak specimen—but you see what I'm talking about here?"
"That's his tactics and you don't beat a bully like him fighting him on his tactics on his terms, using his turf. He's the body shamer. He's the guy that tries to drag people in the gutter. This is a moral moment in America," Booker continued.


Not only is it "a moral moment in America" - it is beginning to look more and more as if it will also become an "I am Spartacus" moment if Cory challenges the Donald to meet him behind the Colosseum after last period.

https://apnews.com/7a6f72f6e8404562867722ce14db8edb

O’Rourke debate guests are black men who kneeled for anthem

By ERRIN HAINES WHACK

When Democrat Beto O’Rourke takes the stage in the second round of presidential primary debates on Tuesday, three young black men from Michigan who were inspired by ex-NFL player Colin Kaepernick to kneel during the national anthem before their high school football games will be in the audience as guests of the former Texas congressman.
O’Rourke reached out to ex-Lansing Catholic High School football players Michael Lynn III, Matthew Abdullah and RoJe Williams and spoke with them by phone last week. Teammate Kabbalah Richards is away at college and unable to attend the debate but also was on the call.

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Don't stop.
Please don't stop.

happy jack wrote:

I haven't had the time, the patience, nor the stomach to watch the Democrat debates in their entirety, but I have listened to the 'highlights' (for lack of a better term).
You guys are apparently hellbent on 4 more years of Trump, aren't you?

Yeah. Well it's certainly no worse than the circus that the GOP put on the last time... There's a fight going on between the progressive and establishment wings of the Democratic party. The field will shrink a bit going forward, and then I guess we'll see what happens...

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/elizabeth-warrens-ferguson-lie/

5 years ago Michael Brown was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael was unarmed yet he was shot 6 times. I stand with activists and organizers who continue the fight for justice for Michael. We must confront systemic racism and police violence head on.

-Elizabeth Warren

Let's make our next president a lying fake Indian twat!!!!
Elizabeth Warren in 2020!!!!
Yayyyyyhhhh!!!!

happy jack wrote:

Good job, Democrats - good job.
You had one candidate who wasn't demonstrably crazy, and you sent her to the back of the bus.
See you in 2020.

Man, this is rich, coming from a Republican... since your 2020 guy is, without a doubt, "demonstrably crazy."

https://babylonbee.com/news/elizabeth-warren-admits-to-wearing-paleface-at-college-costume-party

Elizabeth Warren Admits To Wearing Paleface At College Costume Party

February 6th, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Senator Elizabeth Warren is embroiled in controversy once again, this time after she admitted to wearing racially offensive "paleface" at a costume party back in her college days.
"As a proud Native American woman, I now realize that dressing as a white woman at that party all those years ago was insensitive and offensive," she said in a heartfelt apology video. "It was wrong of me to culturally appropriate white culture, as I am only 1023/1024th white European colonizer."
"I only hope that my constituents can forgive me for who I was back in my college days," she added.
Warren was also photographed with a friend dressed as a KKK member, but she refused to distance herself from that photograph, calling the KKK "an important part of the history of abortion rights in America, for which I have fought my whole career."

https://tammybruce.com/2019/10/warren-doubles-down-on-debunked-im-victim-of-sexist-discrimination-story.html

Warren Doubles Down On Debunked ‘Victim of Discrimination’ Story

by Shifra on October 8, 2019

For a smarty-pants Harvard law prof, this is a really dumb move. How about “I’m sorry I misspoke” ? Then we would not be talking about yet another of her invented stories.
Or maybe she could just explain that she was only 1/1,024th discriminated against.
Via Daily Caller.
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren doubled down on her claim that she was fired from a teaching job for being pregnant Monday.
The Massachusetts senator said Monday in an exclusive interview with CBS News that she stands by her previous statements that she was pushed out for being pregnant in 1971….
However, Warren recounted the same story in 2007 but said she did not have the proper credentials to continue teaching at the time….
Documents also show that Warren resigned from her job. The Riverdale Board of Education in New Jersey extended Warren’s teaching contract for a second year in April 1971, according to meeting minutes the Washington Free Beacon obtained. The board accepted Warren’s resignation “with regret” in June 1971, records indicate….



Squaw face-um discrimination for carrying papoose.
Heap big unfair!!!!

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hillary-clinton-says-tulsi-gabbard-is-a-russian-asset-groomed-to-ensure-trump-re-election

Hillary Clinton says Tulsi Gabbard is a 'Russian asset' groomed to ensure Trump reelection

by Tim Pearce
October 18, 2019 11:35 AM

The former secretary of state pushed the theory on Campaign HQ podcast hosted by David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s campaign manager in 2008.
Plouffe and Clinton discussed hurdles the Democratic nominee would face and compared the 2020 race to Clinton’s loss to Trump in 2016. Plouffe asked Clinton about the part third-party candidates, such as Jill Stein of the Green Party, played in 2016, allowing Trump to secure key states.
"They are also going to do third party again," Clinton, 71, said. "I'm not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate," Clinton said, referring to Gabbard, without mentioning the Hawaii representative by name.
"She is a favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far. That's assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she is also a Russian asset.

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Paranoid?
(Russia!)
Who,(Russia!) me?
Whadaya mean, (Russia!) paranoid?

Bernie in '20!!!!

https://babylonbee.com/news/socialist-steps-on-another-rake-insisting-that-79-previous-attempts-werent-real-stepping-on-a-rake

Socialist Steps On Another Rake Insisting That 79 Previous Attempts Weren't REAL Stepping On A Rake

January 22nd, 2020

LOS ANGELES, CA—Local socialist man Brandon Paul was doing some gardening in his front yard this morning when he had a really good idea: to step on a rake.
He'd previously stepped on 79 other rakes, each time resulting in the gardening implement smacking him in the face. But those times weren't "real stepping on a rake," he insisted.
"Yes, it hasn't been done well in the past," he said, his face bandaged from the dozens of failed attempts. "There have been some implementation problems, I'll be the first to admit. But with the right attitude and maybe just the right kind of rake, it would result in a blissful experience."
Paul stepped on the rake, and sure enough, the handle came flying up and conked him on the face.
"Ah, another attempt that wasn't real stepping on a rake. Next time will do the trick, for sure."
At publishing time, Paul had decided he would try democratic stepping on a rake, where his friends all vote on whether he steps on the rake, and then he steps on it and smacks his face.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/24/dems_cant_take_the_chance_of_voters_deciding_2020_election.html

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“The president's misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box,” Schiff said, “for we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won.”

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Stupidest (and most unintentionally honest and telling) quote of 2020.
And January is not even over.

Do you fully understand why Trump has been impeached?

happy jack wrote:

Scorpion wrote:

Do you fully understand why Trump has been impeached?

Yes.
All the right people could not handle the results of the 2016 election.
(Please pay particular attention to the date of the below editorial.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-to-remove-trump-from-office/2017/01/09/e119cc36-d698-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html

So you're saying that, because there were people that wanted him removed before he was even sworn in, then it doesn't matter what Trump has done since?  

Is that really your position?

Sounds an awful lot like this...

happy jack wrote:

No, my position is that, from even before Day One, this has been a case of 'Show me the man and I'll show you the crime.
And no matter which sections of the Constitution I have read, I have yet to find anything declaring that a President may be impeached for being an unlikable asshole.

Yeah... Well Trump wasn't impeached for being an asshole.  If the charges were baseless, then you would have a valid point.  

Based on the evidence, I think it's clear that he should also be removed from office.  I know that you don't care if the Republican party acts in a corrupt manner... you've made that clear in the past... they are your party, right or wrong.

I guess that's the difference between us, Jack.  Because if a Democratic President did the stuff that Trump has done in this Ukrainian matter, I'd be calling for his head.

Scorpion wrote:

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Because if a Democratic President did the stuff that Trump has done in this Ukrainian matter, I'd be calling for his head.

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When you have a 'crime' in which even the supposed victim is sticking up for the supposed perpetrator, I think that you're on rather thin ice.



https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-10-10/ukraine-zelensky-trump-impeachment

Ukraine president says there was no ‘blackmail’ in Trump phone conversation

Oct. 10, 2019 3:56 PM

KYIV, Ukraine —  The Ukrainian president said Thursday that there was no pressure from the White House during his now-infamous July phone call with President Trump, who had asked him to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden as well as a theory that Ukraine had interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
“There was no pressure or blackmail from the U.S.,” Volodymyr Zelensky said during a 14-hour series of meetings with Ukrainian and international journalists that were broadcast live from Kyiv on social media and several television channels.
“This call influenced only one thing. We needed to secure a meeting, that it was necessary to meet with the president,” he said. “I wanted to show him our team, our young team. I wanted to get him into Ukraine.”
Zelensky said that he had no evidence to say whether Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election but that it was in his country’s best interest to conduct a thorough investigation.

“It is very important for us, because we will never interfere in the elections of any country in the future,” he said.
The news conference did little to clarify whether the Ukrainian government would investigate Biden or his son Hunter, who sat on the board of the gas company Burisma in 2014. The country’s top prosecutor has said he plans to reopen an investigation into the company, but he has not detailed the focus of that inquiry.

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happy jack wrote:

Scorpion wrote:

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Because if a Democratic President did the stuff that Trump has done in this Ukrainian matter, I'd be calling for his head.

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When you have a 'crime' in which even the supposed victim is sticking up for the supposed perpetrator, I think that you're on rather thin ice.

Ukraine president says there was no ‘blackmail’ in Trump phone conversation

This "argument" is laughable.  Zelensky is responsible for the future of Ukraine.  Ukraine is in a war with Russia.  

Ukraine is heavily dependent on the United States for support.  The last thing he wants to do is say anything at all that would anger Trump. If he did, he could lose everything, including his country.  

I really shouldn't have to point this out... it is (or should be)  frickin' obvious.  If you haven't been following the story, then just admit it.

For instance:

https://apnews.com/839e32a108154d0293fd1647d913d244

Quote :

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview Monday that he didn’t speak with President Donald Trump “from the position of a quid pro quo” last summer. Zelenskiy says, “That’s not my thing. … I don’t want us to look like beggars.”

Trump later claimed Zelenskiy had said Trump had done nothing wrong. But Zelenskiy didn’t go that far.

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"Look I never talked to the president from the position of a quid pro quo,” Zelenskiy said. “But you have to understand. We’re at war. If you’re our strategic partner, then you can’t go blocking anything for us. I think that’s just about fairness. It’s not about a quid pro quo.”

Trump later told reporters as he departed Monday for London for the NATO summit that Zelenskiy’s comments should be “case closed,” mischaracterizing the interview by saying that Zelenskiy had come out and said “very strongly that President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong.”

Can't cite Zelensky if you're OK with the illegal withholding of aid.  He can publicly call it whatever the fuck he wants, but everyone involved knew exactly what it was, and those that were willing testified to it. Which is why the GOP has been trying to block all witnesses and documents.

There's a more thorough fisking of that line of bullshit here:

https://www.businessinsider.com/zelensky-didnt-feel-pressured-by-trump-bogus-defense-impeachment-2019-11