THAT BERNIE SANDERS is in the Senate generally pleases me, it used to really please me before he started running for president and screwing with Democratic politics. I like that he caucuses with the Democrats and I'm even glad that in consideration of that that he has been made the Chair of the Senate Budget Committee.
I am not exactly happy with him otherwise. I'm not happy that he is endorsing people who lose primaries within the Democratic Party and when Democratic voters in their districts choose another Democrat, Bernie Sanders divisively figures he, not a Democrat except when he's wanted to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, figures he can second-guess their choice.
I've heard a lot from the punditry as to why Nina Turner lost her race in Ohio. Well, maybe it had something to do with drug companies, Wall Street and the fossil fuel industry spending millions trying to defeat her. Is that the kind of Democratic Party we want? I don't think so.
That Nina Turner has trashed the Democrat who became president with the largest number of votes ever cast for a president as "like eating a shit sandwich" THAT JOE BIDEN IS LIKE EATING SHIT might, just might account for her loss to an experienced and mature Democrat, chosen by Democratic voters to represent them over Sanders' former campaign worker who, by the way, endorsed Jill Stein over Hillary Clinton in her race against Donald Trump. There is no reason for a Democrat to like her. That she had a rapper named Killer Mike who while campaigning for her slammed the eminent and accomplished Congressman James Clyburn, a member of the Democratic House Leadership as "incredibly stupid" for supporting Biden, lest anyone forget, THE CANDIDATE WHO WON THE ELECTION WITH MORE VOTES THAN ANYONE IN HISTORY is the kind of thing that would make anyone believe THAT is the reason she lost a Democratic nomination.
And as for Bernie Sanders' automatic response that the reason she lost to a genuine Democrat is big money interests, his candidate far out raised her opponent, so money doesn't seem to have been the decisive issue in her loss.
Perhaps Bernie Sanders should consider that her treachery towards Democrats who have won and led responsibly, even heroically and her idiotic "I'm the most lefty in the room" style may have been the reason that she lost a DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION just as he, twice, A DEMOCRAT ONLY WHEN IT'S CONVENIENT FOR HIM, lost A DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION. I don't know "Killer Mike" from Mike The Headless Chicken but if she's stupid enough to have such a jackass campaign for her, she would probably have lost the general election and been about as reliable a Democrat as another Jill Stein endorser, Krysten Sinema if she managed to win it.
I learned my lesson in this past election as a die-hard but not dead-headed supporter of Elizabeth Warren - someone who the play-lefties such as Sam Seder slammed on behalf of Bernie Sanders. In my ranked choice ballot, I put Elizabeth Warren first, Kamala Harris second and Joe Biden third. I had no confidence that Joe Biden could win or that he'd be an effective president if he managed to win but he proved me wrong. In his campaign having been revived by Black Voters in South Carolina on the advice of James Clyburn and watching him win the nomination hands down and go on to beat Trump I realized that the Black Voters of South Carolina, reportedly especially the Women among them were far wiser than I am, knowing the electability is the first and most important quality for a nominee to have and knowing who is electable is the most important component of wisdom in a voter during a primary.
As I saw in the tweets about Sanders' claim pointed out, Bernie Sanders doesn't seem to have that knack for picking winners or winning outside of Vermont. He may know his voters in Vermont, he doesn't seem to have much of an understanding of voters anywhere else. The play left doesn't even have as good a record as Sanders does.
Bernie Sanders should concentrate on his committee work and leave choosing Democratic nominees to real Democrats.
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Just to say, I read that Marjorie Taylor Green is planning on going to the Iowa State Fair, probably just to make money off of suckers but maybe to indicate she's thinking of running for president in 2024 (probably, again, to make money, not to really run).
Democrats should, right now, ban the use of caucuses in Democratic presidential nominations, declaring that any results from any state using caucuses will be invalid at the convention. Democrats should take over the nomination process and have a national, by-mail, tamper proof primary vote for the presidential nominee by DEMOCRATS ONLY, Iowa and New Hampshire not allowed to have the traditional, rural, small-state, lily white influence on the nomination they have enjoyed for the entire period of Republican-fascist ascendancy. State legislatures should not be able to screw with the Democratic Party nomination in the way they do when states set the calendar and the form of the nominations in their states.
This should have been done by now. Joe Biden owes neither Iowa nor New Hampshire his nomination, they should be demoted for the reasons above, the last few caucuses - which Bernie Sanders used so divisively in 2016 and which his supporters hoped to use that way last time - should be finally and totally abolished. Sanders should consider his dependence on that anti-democratic atrocity and learn the lesson of what that really meant in terms of actual voter support.
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