“Because of the shutdown… we went out and we ordered American fast food paid for by me,” he told reporters.

Of course it’s fucking American, the nearest different country is 500 miles away.

Tbf to trump its maybe the only thing in the world I agree with him on, burgers are brilliant

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wrong thread :man_facepalming:

Politicians trying to appropriate out of date cultural phenomena that they clearly don’t watch/care about is one of my favourite things.

Again very thick of it

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bernie is almost certainly running. awesome. he really is the only hope.

Last week’s Daily Kos poll:

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He failed to win the 2016 Democratic nomination. What has changed?

i wasn’t talking about that, i was talking about his politics. but regardless, i imagine all that will change again by next week, and once campaigning starts in earnest, and for instance kamala harris support of death penalty/quasi-slavery/punishing poor parents comes to wider attention. like it always does. people said labour were going to get stomped at the last election, for example. things change. once people see how little the others have to offer, and adding in 4 years worth of new voters since 2016 who loved bernie but were too young to vote, i think we’ll see a shift. i hope so anyway, for all our sakes.

Is that a national poll? Or a specific state? I imagine a lot of the polling at the moment is based on name recognition anyway (plus Warren gets a boost as she’s already officially entered the running)

i take your point tho, i think we tend to forget much of the democrat base are very conservative. hopefully people are more clued up this time around, better able to spot the grift and weasel words, etc.

Beto O’Rourke is confirmed evil now right?

Voted by 35,000 users of popular liberal website Daily Kos.

Oh, so totally worthless then

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he’s…okay. he’s just kind of empty. better than clinton i suppose. as i recall the oil and gas thing was wildly overblown. where does he stand on healthcare? iirc he was flirting with supporting universal healthcare.

healthcare will be a massive litmus test this time around, i think.

He’s very Obama 2, in that he’s put out a lot of widescreen stuff about progressiveness without naming many if any firm policy goals. He might be tractable towards the left, but more likely if he goes the distance business lobbyists will fill in his agenda for him.

Also think optics-wise running a guy who lost to Ted chuffing Cruz and is literally called Beto is a bit of an own goal, as unfair as that is.

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He’s called Robert his dad called him Beto from a very young age because it would be beneficial in Hispanic areas for his future political career. He was literally named as a child to be a politician, people like that shouldn’t be allowed in politics

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Trump’s going to come up with childish/racist insults for whoever the Democrat candidate is anyway

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You are Ted Cruz and I claim my $5

Cruz’s Dad believes that Ted has been sent from god to lead so he shouldn’t be allowed in politics either