TheValkyries
proudly reppin' 2 superbowl wins since DEFLATEGATE
Prosecutorial Discretion. That’s it. That’s the post.
Source? That sounds like a major reach.the police literally get told enforcement policy by the prosecutors because the prosecutors choose which cases to prosecute and how, i.e what counts as a crime
the whole last season of serial is about this...
I like his ideas on the Supreme Court. He’s off my list for public option instead of single payer and keeping himself open to wallstreet money—I've been doing a lot of reading about Mayor Pete after his recent CNN Town Hall and I have to see I really like the guy. Shout-out to the early voters in this thread poll who hopped on that train before it was cool. I just donated $20.20 to his campaign and hope he gets the time he deserves during the first primary debate.
Believe it or not, most people don't share your political opinions. Moderates and liberals still dominate the voting booths. Smogon and Twitter are not at all representative of the voter base, especially when young people have the lowest turnout rates (with older black women having the highest).Anyone who likes Beto, I really don’t see how Pete isn’t straight up a superior option.
Would you prefer if I wrote and/or instead of “and”?You'd have to hodgepodge together 4 or 5 different candidates platforms to reach this conclusion. If "progressives in the race" means "all the things I like about these candidates and none of the drawbacks" then sure progressives in the race want to do that.
Claiming higher paying jobs, stronger workers rights, and government funded childcare as progessive things is pretty hilarious too. Plenty of other democratic candidates want those things too.
Based on the political climate, based on Trump in the White House and AOC in the news, what do you think youth/progressive turn out for the 2020 primaries is going to look like?Believe it or not, most people don't share your political opinions. Moderates and liberals still dominate the voting booths. Smogon and Twitter are not at all representative of the voter base, especially when young people have the lowest turnout rates (with older black women having the highest).
That's why Pete, or any other candidate, isn't a "straight up superior option" to anyone.
Except for Tulsi Gabbard. She sucks.
if you must know, i am a communist and i stan beto o'rourke for 2020. so no, im not some kind of "berniebro" and you may feel free to cancel his pussy. im just pointing out a teeny tiny bit of potential hypocrisy on your partFor example, Robert Alfons insinuating I dgaf about civil rights issues because I dared to criticise Bernie's record on civil rights issues is childish as fuck. Meanwhile, I doubt he's ever criticised a bernie supporter for linking that one picture of bernie getting arrested, or calling minorities "low information voters" for not supporting him.
seeing as the 18-29 year old age group has had the lowest turnout in every presidential election since at least 1986 (not caring to look back further), still low. They're usually a bit over 10 points behind 30-44 in turnout and 45+ is considerably higher (with 60+ always the highest).Based on the political climate, based on Trump in the White House and AOC in the news, what do you think youth/progressive turn out for the 2020 primaries is going to look like?
And if young turnout increases, would you call that a good thing or a bad thing if your goal is beating Trump no matter what?
What matter is not what % turn out. What matters is what percent the turn out increases. And I think with the problem child of Trump and a beloved candidate like Bernie (as well as several other popular candidates), the turn out Obama got is going to be massively overwhelmed.seeing as the 18-29 year old age group has had the lowest turnout in every presidential election since at least 1986 (not caring to look back further), still low. They're usually a bit over 10 points behind 30-44 in turnout and 45+ is considerably higher (with 60+ always the highest).
The highest youth turnout ever was for Obama in 2008 and even then it was still under 50%.
Known stuffed poll where Bernie supporters gathered en masse to vote. Pretty certain Daily Kos acknowledged this at some point.We'll see-- they better hope that the youth doesn't come out, because when you ask the internet who it wants including all candidates, this is what happens:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/5/1839795/-Test-2-W-Poll?
1) Bernie Sanders 70% (17000 votes)
2) Andrew Yang 12% (3000 votes)
3) Tulsi Gabbard 7% (1800 votes)
4) Kamala Harris 3% (750 votes)
5) Warren / Inslee 2% (~500 votes)
6) Beto / Biden 1% (~200 votes)
Rest of them at 0%
I personally think this doesn't reflect reality, but it definitely illustrates what the mainstream media and pollsters aren't paying attention to.
People barely know Yang and Yanggang is already this fervent and growing this quickly. I definitely think he and Harris are the 2 biggest threats to Bernie.
I couldn’t agree more Valk. Voter shaming is stupid because it's never the onus of the voters to vote, it's always the responsibility of politicians to get voters to vote. The entitlement with which 3rd way democrat politics demands our votes is insane. I mean, Bill Clinton gained power by telling the unions "I'm going to side with Wallstreet but fuck you-- you got nowhere else to go."I’m hyper skeptical of Yang because of who the “yanggang” are.
And also I hate the discussion about turnout because it shifts the blame onto the voting populous when the republicans have only won 1 popular vote in the past 30 years.Thats 7 times out of 8!!! But sure it’s because the youth didn’t turn out last time that’s for SURE why Clinton lost.
The American electoral system is rigged as fuck and needs to be fixed but for some reason asking for or talking about policy that would do that is a Democratic taboo and I have no idea why?
I clicked because I've been straddling the line of supporting him should he run, but after watching it's painfully clear he should not be given serious consideration, except for maybe a criminal investigation.Also, how is all of this not immediately disqualifying for Biden, especially in #MeToo era??
Where are bernie's tax returns? He said they were coming 3 weeks ago... and also 3 years ago. What's he hiding?How many individual donors for Beto?
Oh wait... he didn’t release that...