@allyn Ditto. I will work for and vote for any democratic nominee. Any one of them. Even the most flawed are generally decent and moral people, and they're all sane. I just hope whoever gets the nomination doesn't blow it.
@deetoo, I hear you loud and clear. We cannot buy into the false narrative that one of our candidates can’t win. Any one of them can win hands down against trump. I hear that in in the community where I live and I just laugh. I continually encourage people to check the facts. I’m tired of being afraid. I’m all in for whoever our candidate is. We also need to be all in for those running down ballot. We will need a majority in the house, senate, governors to get anything done.
I remember well what happened 12 yrs ago! A small group of people brought our financial system to its knees and they got golden parachutes! So they can save their “Socialist” speech.
@lynnventura
I agree that Trump thinks Bernie is most beatable, and that his campaign against Trump would polarize the US the most. Trump, however, has a brain that is solely reactive and instinctive, ie you speak.badly of him and he retaliates without ever thinking even minutes ahead of the current situation. Bernie blasted Trump a lot recently and for Trump to defend him after that is 100% out of character. The only way Trump would do something strategic(like boost Bernie for an easier path to victory) is if he was told to by his puppet master. There was a time where I really thought he was just a useful idiot being manipulated by Russia, but this move fully convinced me beyond any doubt that he is taking direct orders from the Kremlin
Any one of the Dems running now can win.
Any one of the Dems running now can lose.
VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!
@mas1581 I completely agree. I would add that the "Bernie is the most beatable" may just be psych ops that Russia has injected into our system through social media propaganda, which, as you've pointed out, trump is in on. Yesterday I was talking to my partner and we asked ourselves, are we really doomed if Bernie gets the nomination? Or is this Russian propaganda?
David Plouffe, who worked on Obama's 2008 campaign and co-hosts Pod Save America, tweeted yesterday that there is no evidence that Bernie can't win the general election. I like to think of myself as pretty discerning, and I think many other people are as well, but psych ops are powerful because they can work on anyone. So, going forward, I am going to questions my every conclusion about this election even more that I would normally. Question the conventional wisdom. Can Bernie win the general? Sure, why not? Would be be a good president? As Jeanne has pointed out, he's squeaky clean. He's moral. He's decent. Is he perfect? No one is, certainly not the degenerate sitting in the white house.
DO NOT WORRY. DO NOT PANIC. That will only cause confusion and weaken us. Yes, be proactive and do what feels right to you (e.g. speak the truth, pray, send light energy, send donations, work for whichever candidate you support etc.), but let this thing play out.
Thank you for this! We're in an emotionally turbulent mercury retrograde, so the fear that is churning, being stirred up by the media, the Russians, the failed impeachment is extra powerful right now. Don't listen to the lies that fear is spinning in your mind. We are here because we're interested in predicting the future, and most of those predictions show things turning around, and as Jeanne's prophecy states, "our democracy will take a beating but will survive." It is hard to not get pulled into the pain and fear while we're in the peak of this "beating" but have hope that it will not last. Change is coming. And "be the change you want to see"--like deetoo said, send out energy, thought, action, money, whatever you can do toward the outcome you want. While there is no guarantee that we'll get the exact candidate we want, we can and will save our democracy. Please take care of yourselves to stay healthy (mentally & physically) and take a break from the fear-mongering media if needed.
@mas1581 I wish I could agree with you about this video showing T's clear mental decline, but it just looks like he couldn’t remember a hard-to-remember name and just spurted out what he remembered. Given how his mind works, which is that he isn’t good with names, it doesn’t seem like a sign of definite impending decline to me. I’m not saying that he isn’t declining, he may be. I’m just saying that this video doesn’t show it to me. My read on T is that decline would come if he felt truly cornered where his enablers turned against him.
I think that the Republican playbook against Bernie can be summed up as "capitalism versus socialism". While this will play pretty well with the top 20%, they were going to vote Republican regardless. The problem for Republicans is two fold. First, capitalism isn't working so well for many people. The gig economy without benefits is all they have to look forward to and it isn't all that appealing. The other problem the Republicans have is that the Cold War is a distant memory - "socialism" doesn't carry all of the same "godless communist" baggage that it used to.
I still have faith that Trump will continue to spin more and more out of control and people are just getting tired of the same old act.
My two cents.
It is disheartening to watch the Dems "eat each other" as I think Joy Behar put it. Although Warren sticking it to Bloomberg was awesome to see, as his buying of a podium was, to me, very unethical. Leapfrogging past the actual process. If he had anything good to contribute, it might have been tolerable. I came away with a bad taste in my mouth as the revelations about him were unsavory.
In general though, I feel they need to go after Trump, not each other. And talk about policy that will uplift our Democracy. Calling Bernie a "socialist' is doing the Republicans dirty work. When Mayor Pete said he was the only Demcrat on the stage, my heart sank.
The message needs to be that they are united and will support the eventual nominee, whoever it might be, to remove and replace Trump.
Also super tired of the media breaking down Bernie Sanders. He's the front runner and deserves positive press. I miss the days when news reporters were unbiased. Even though I agree with their bias most times , it still feels wrong for them to be so openly biased. What does Bernie have to do to get respect? The whole Bernie Bros. thing is unsettling, feels like a false equivalency to the Maga heads.
@deetoo and in the run up to the 2016 election I recall the republicans were divided, ridiculing and tearing each other down and the man who won the nomination had received the most searing criticism of all from his colleagues. Still once the nomination was decided they changed their tune and supported him. While it would be nice to see more unity right now, it will come once the nominee is picked.
Hi, I am new here, have been lurking for awhile and finally registered this evening. On my way to sleep the other night, not thinking about DT consciously, all of a sudden I saw him in my mind's eye, and it was the month of March, and he was in a tight enclosed space like very large clam shell plastic packaging that was olive drab green. Like he was a captive.
Hi @amyv. This is very similar to what I've seen and posted about:
The Orange Nightmare is in India. Over 100,000 people showed up to a "rally" there at their stadium. They gave him a big warm welcome (YUK) He's there to sell arms or something I think. I also just feel he's there for hidden reasons too. He doesn't do these things unless there's something in it for him. He can stay in India! ?
Additional Side note: everytime he is out of the country something damming comes out about him...hmmmmm
I'm surprised he is traveling overseas right now. With the news of the coronavirus spread, anyone who comes in contact with him could be a potential carrier of the virus (Remember, many people who contract the coronavirus may have minimum or no symptoms. Therefore, they do not know they are infected and can spread the disease).
On the other hand, if Trump could get sick for a bit, that wouldn't be too bad. Not deathly ill or anything like that (I rather he drown in scandal or a blue wave in November). But a few weeks of him being quaranteened and silenced in the White House would be like a vacation for the rest of us from the evil he inflicts. No Trump rallying his supporters with threats and violence. No Trump to use Twitter to shock the nation with insights into his lack of empathy and depths of cruelty. No Trump for several glorious, peaceful weeks.
Again, I don't want his death or severe illness. But I think it would be highly ironic if he caught the virus, came home, spread it to his followers, and yet still maintain that everything is "under control."
It will show karma at work, in any case. And hopefully keep him away from the news and our lives while we recover a bit from his evil.
A prescient and hopeful photo I took at the September 2014 Climate March in NYC. Notice the Trump Tower is in the background. I think it is both prescient and hopeful.
Has anyone looked at the impact coronavirus will have on Trump in regard to the economy (as well as his mental state)?
@besoulinspired If we end up with a recession in 2020, then it will hurt Trump. If elections go as they have in the past, people vote against the incumbent party if there is an economic downturn in the 8 months prior to the election.
That's why Trump and the GOP, including FOX, have been downplaying the threat of the virus even though the Centers for Disease control is saying we should expect it will spread here.
I just watched Trump on MSNBC where he did 180 from yesterday. Yesterday his people said there was very little chance of the virus causing big problem in the US. Trump removed all the protections in 2018 that Obama put in place to handle pandemics. Today he says that the government is ready for what ever the coronavirus has to throw at us. It seems he only began to take notice when the stock market took a major fall. This may be the straw that broke the camels back for Trump. We can hope.
In today's press conference T also contradicted what the CDC said, commenting he didn't think it's inevitable that the virus will spread here. @laurie, I agree about T being concerned only when the stock market takes a hit, and how that might affect his election. But then, he also partly blamed the stock market plunge on last night's democratic debate. Trying to wrap your head around that one will make your brain explode.