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Tip jar for the usual baristas…

Zomg just saw this https://t.co/l9n2rzcAsF pic.twitter.com/zpWhNStFXz— Michelle C. Funk 💗💜💙 (@michellecohrene) January 31, 2020

orlbucfan

…and the usual excellent TPW suspects!! 🙂 🙂

Of course! Drinks on the House…courtesy of all of us!

Billionaire Bloomberg just bought the @DNC. #PayToPlay #StandWithTulsi
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) January 31, 2020

How to Buy An Election*
✅Skip early voting states
✅Spend millions $$$ in ad buys
✅Avoid scrutiny of actively campaigning
✅DNC changes rules to give you a stage alongside other candidates who did it the right way.
*This process expires after Bernie wins the presidency.
— Stacey Walker (@swalker06) January 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/just_jenna/status/1223327670085341185

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
After Castro, Harris, and Booker are all wiped off the stage, the rules are changed for Bloomberg? https://t.co/OqAGfkqwDN
— Emily J. Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) January 31, 2020

and who knows what else he’s donated. i know he seems to be buying a lot of mayors.
— Corporate Socialist Raking It In (@genofthesea) January 31, 2020

Aint Supposed to Die A Natural Death

I hope all of the other debate participants go after him with a vengeance. But I doubt that Amy would do that. She’d love to be his vp.

Ohhh, I never thought of that! Amy with Mike, yikes! A centrist dream. We can do a lot better than that for sure.

I can only imagine some of the headlines with Bloomberg on the stage with Bernie..

Take out the trash by Trump

Trump is expanding his controversial travel ban, placing immigration restrictions on half a dozen new countries, including Nigeriahttps://t.co/Sy8s9cnyRX
— POLITICO (@politico) January 31, 2020

It will be interesting to see what Ana and John say on TYT today.

i wish Bernie’s crew would’ve confirmed, but i’m sooo glad Bernie didn’t back down.

and im with Rogan on the mma fighter.

Even the most conservative think tanks who HATE single payer healthcare say that it would cost about $4 trillion less than our current system.
This cannot go on. The for-profit insurance system is an assault on working people in Maine and across the country. #MedicareForAll pic.twitter.com/Gup0kiK2l3
— Betsy Sweet (@BetsySweetME) January 31, 2020

Congresswomen @IlhanMN & @RashidaTlaib stumping for @BernieSanders at the two largest mosques in central Iowa. #AmoBernie pic.twitter.com/WXO6b1e7Bh
— Abshir Omar (@AbshirDSM) January 31, 2020

orlbucfan

T and R, Benny!! Saw 2 Bernie stickers on cars today. 🙂

My yard sign came in today! Putting it up once I reposition my security cameras to point towards it 😀

Lol, let us know how that all works out!

I’m not sure if I’ll put one up yet, the hood very conservative. But they all like me, so maybe it’d give them pause. 😉

My Bernie sign has been out this week. But it keeps slipping off the frame.

I also have been wearing my Bernie 2020 winter hat, which I bought through the campaign, and I’ve had 3 people tell me that they liked my hat!

How fun! Totally worth it to get three positive interactions.

I have two placards from the Bernie’s Back rally. Of course now I’m wishing that I’d gathered more of them up, lol. By the time it was to head back after the rally I was still clutching my original placard that I’d been so happy to get when I got through security on the way in. I waved it plenty up front. 😉

I got plenty of looks along the way home with my two precious Bernie signs under my arm, first on the subway, then on the Metro-North line. But not bad looks, more curious looks. At the end of my journey a woman asked me about them and I told her about how it’d been the very first time I’d ever gone to a political rally! We had a chat. She seemed sort of conservative, sort of liberal. She was very open to hearing about my reasons for going to the trouble of trekking to a rally. It was good.

If I get brave I’ll rig one of them up and place it strategically before the CT primary. That’s THE important event of course! The primary.

If Bernie wins the CT primary he’ll totally win CT in the general.

But the political establishment here is all in on Biden. He’s been pulling all his chits.

It’ll be interesting-all about energy and turnout just like the other states.

wi64

Same here in my hood, but gotta wait for a thaw as the frame bent went I tried sticking it in the ground.

Yes! This time of year weather an issue. We have some precip coming in soon.

jcitybone

Just before jumping into the race, @MikeBloomberg gave $325,000 to the DNC, on top of the gobs he spent on ads this month. Totally normal system. pic.twitter.com/u4JDelWb7H
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) January 31, 2020

wi64

I was wondering how much he paid to get on the debate stage. Pocket change for him.

That’s the exact phrase that came to my mind when I heard this, pocket change for him.

wi64

Well we always knew that the real battle for Bernie would be beating the DNC, Beating Trumpcorp will be easier.

^^^^This^^^

When @CoryBooker led an effort to change the debate thresholds, the DNC refused—saying they couldn’t benefit any candidate.
It seems the only candidate they’re willing to benefit is a billionaire who’s buying his way into the race. Total mess. https://t.co/mw0MhdyjBr
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) January 31, 2020

I’m glad Castro spoke up. It IS a total mess. I’d be surprised if Trump’s campaign doesn’t find a way to use this against the eventual nominee. In fact, now that I think of it, the only candidate who would have for shield to this would be Bernie.

I'm honored to be endorsed by @zerohourmvmt. The young people of this country have incredible power when they speak up and get involved. Together we are going to avert the climate crisis and ensure a sustainable future for all. pic.twitter.com/HdFKRoudia
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) January 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/colinkalmbacher/status/1223366338233753600

Bernie Sanders’s Surge Owes a Lot to Voters of Color

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/us/politics/latest-democratic-polls.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

It’s not just happening in Texas and California, and Latinos are not the only voters of color supporting Mr. Sanders to a significant degree. A national CNN poll released last week found Mr. Sanders pulling 30 percent of all nonwhite voters to Mr. Biden’s 27 percent.

The Democratic Party’s white electorate has grown markedly more liberal over the past two decades, but African-American and Hispanic Democrats — who now make up roughly two-fifths of the party’s membership — still tend to identify as moderate or conservative, according to years of Gallup data.
This would seem to present a challenge for Mr. Sanders, whose policy proposals favor an expansive agenda to fight poverty and climate change, and who draws some of his most solid support from voters who identify as very liberal.
Mr. Biden has struck a moderate tone in his appeals to black voters especially, while promising to restore the legacy of President Barack Obama. Mr. Sanders, meanwhile, has been more willing to criticize some of Mr. Obama’s policies for not having gone far enough.
But when asked which candidate best understood the problems facing people like them, nonwhite voters were nine points more likely to name Mr. Sanders than Mr. Biden, the CNN poll found.
Among black and Latino voters, Mr. Sanders’s ideologically driven approach may find a particular resonance. The Pew survey found that by two to one, white Democrats were more likely to say they preferred a candidate who would compromise with Republicans if needed than to want one who insisted on Democratic policy positions.

Black Democrats are considerably less likely to feel this way. And Hispanic Democrats are even more open to an ideological purist.

wth

… https://t.co/Oo6jouE96w pic.twitter.com/rwRaJ7qRLU
— austerity is theft (@wideofthepost) January 31, 2020

The guy who has been in the tank for Warren?

Spit Take GIF from Spit GIFs

The new narrative is that Warren did want this, along with Amy. They claim they’d rather debate him then compete harder to get TV Ad buys.

giving him the stage will give him more cred. imho

Remember the old lawyers credo. Don’t ask a question if you don’t know the answer.

I think he should be held accountable for his views though.

if that can happen.

Aint Supposed to Die A Natural Death

I just went to Act Blue to cancel my recurring contribution to this organization. It was only $3 per month but I’ve been sending it since this dude used to come on the Ed Schultz show on msnbc way back in the day. He used to be a progressive.

“he used to be progressive” – I used to follow his group PCCC on twitter, obviously not nearly the same as sending him money, but eventually I became aware of the group’s Warren bias, looked into it, and found that Adam has been a Warren operative going way back. He is a very deceptive man.

If I had to guess, it’s possible that Green’s actions were as a proxy for Warren to signal to the DNC that Warren would be okay with the DNC continuing to accept Bloomberg’s money (and influence). Pretty sure that Green would no have done that without Warren’s blessing.

"Oh I'd take a bullet for Bernie. Not in the heart, that's for momma, but over here… That's the Bernie zone!"
Find out about @CornelWest's Bernie zone and the Future of Left Politics, watch the full video here-
Panel 1: https://t.co/URFukZ4swl
Panel 2: https://t.co/8f69OMvcpe pic.twitter.com/SvUVvJOCKt
— Harvard Students for Bernie (@Harvard4Bernie) January 31, 2020

‘Definition of a rigged system:’ Sanders campaign rips DNC changing debate rules for Mike Bloomberg

“DNC changing the rules to benefit a billionaire.”
After debate rules were changed in favor of allowing billionaire Mike Bloomberg to join the candidates onstage vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign hit back, calling the decision emblematic of the corrupt political system the Vermont senator has centered his run for the White House on defeating.
“To now change the rules in the middle of the game to accommodate Mike Bloomberg, who is trying to buy his way into the Democratic nomination, is wrong,” Sanders senior adviser Jeff Weaver told Politico. “That’s the definition of a rigged system.”