AFSCME Forum in Las Vegas
19 candidates are expected to answer questions by AFSCME members and moderators Amanda Turkle and Jon Ralston.
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Elizabeth Warren is just finishing up her closing remarks. Most of them are borrowed from Bernie Sanders.
Seth Moulton is up next. He’s introducing himself since most people don’t know him outside of his district. He’s careful not to attack ACA but praising Obama. He also says Medicare may not be the best agency. He uses the VA system as example that he was given the wrong medicine by the VA doctors.
Is that the guy up now? I just tuned in. He sounds very right wing.
He’s probably a means tester too.
That said, he’s right about transportation. There needs to be better infrastructure to build around affordable housing in the bedroom communities in order for people to get to their jobs.
yeah i swear, half these candidates are there just to keep pounding in the center right Neil live kind of you. And I’m sure it’s working, to some extent.
ty, benny. 🌸
lol neolibcon point of view.
He also says that getting rid of private insurance is akin to eliminating UPS and FedEX.
Medicare for All is NOT starting all over. The program has been in place for 54 years (much longer than the ACA) so has already been proven to work and work much better than the ACA.
Booker is on now, and talking about the importance of organizing against corporate power.
He’s asked about his support for charter schools, something public school teachers are fighting against as they take away resources from public schools. He softens it by calling them magnet schools. He also claims he favors high salaries for public school teachers, and funding special needs programs.
Biden: We can do anything!* We are the United States of America. When we set our mind to do something, we can get it done.*
*Except for universal health care, student debt, free college, increased wages or anything not corporate sanctioned.
I wonder if Biden is more of a late morning person when it comes to biorhythms. He’s more lucid in his answers today than he was on Wed.
Possible. He showed more energy and did not stumble through his responses quite as much, BUT he still did not answer questions and he still responds as a Republican.
I do wonder about his inability to face the audience. He spent a great deal of time with his back turned to the people.
Biden just claimed that he was against the Vietnam War. (At least he managed to avoid fighting in that war.) Fine, many were, but how does that square with his refusal to help the Vietnamese who assisted the US?
‘The US has no obligation’: Biden fought to keep Vietnamese refugees out of the US
just another cold, murderous grifter.
I know that “murderous“ is a strong word, but I’m starting to apply it to those that so easily turn a blind eye to people dying in wars and conflicts that they have approved of. Or in this case, that his country approved of and he was in a position to help.
“Murderous” is accurate. Not allowing the people who assisted the US a way out left those people in a situation where they were most likely killed for that collaboration. Then there is his Iraq vote. And, in case, people have forgotten, he cam out in favor of invading Venezuela.
Under the Obama/Biden regime, the US went from being at war in two countries to, by the end, being at war in seven countries with a great expansion of troops being stationed in dozens of other countries.
Wow! Love it! To Delaney:
John: Aren’t you running in the wrong primary?
LOL
Has Bernie been on? I had to go out for awhile. I see that Tulsi is on at present.
Yes, he was the first speaker after their lunch break. Standing ovation.
YAY!!!!
I knew I had heard Harris use the 3 AM phrase before (pretty sure she used it at the last debate). This is the same fear tactic that HRC used in 2016. I didn’t like it then, and I like it even less now.
T and R, Benny!! Off-topic: major assault weapon slaughter at an El Paso shopping mall/Wal-Mart. This gun garbage needs to be sliced off at its corrupt head. The celebration of bloody violence and war in the culture needs to end ASAP! Don’t get me started on the role of the Religious Far Right. Hypocrisy to the max! 🙁
It’s awful that we have domestic terrorism in the US. How in the blazes did this young person obtain a AK-47.
Spoiler: They are not that hard to get. Hell, even I have fired an AK-47 and that was something like 20 years ago.
Beto announced it when he was introduced and discussed it a bit. Some used their one minute intro to say something about the shootings, and it came up in the questions. And most of Pete’s time was taken up on the topic of gun violence.